Star Blazers - Space Battleship Yamato - Should I?

[SeerSGB]

* There are 3 series and 5 movies of the original Yamato anime.

What can cause some confusion is that the first movie (Space Battleship Yamato) is the first serie (Quest to Iscander) condensed in a two hour movie. And the second movie (Farewell Yamato) was later transformed in the second serie (The Comet Empire).

That are the chronological order:

1. Quest to Iscandar (26 episodes)

2. The Comet Empire (26 episodes) - in the end of farewell yamato, well, was a really end, so the history was rewrite. The Comet Empire serie is canon.

3. Television movie - Yamato The New Journey (not release in american tv).

4. Theatrical movie Be Forever Yamato (not release in american tv).

5. Bolar Wars (26 episodes) - was release in american tv, but with different voice cast.

6 Theatrical movie Final Yamato.

I have fond memories of Yamato anime. For a child in the 80s see that ship in space, with all that guns, the people with big hair fighting for the Earth, blow the shit out me.

And especially the first two series (Quest to Iscandar and Comet Empire) have a great history. Is like a Star Trek and Battleship Galactica together.

I have several videos of Starblazers in my youtube channel. What I most like is the openning of Bolar War and the final scene of Comet Empire.

You forgot the forthcoming: Yamato: Rebirth Film series.

Rebirth is set 21 years after the first Yamato story and 17 years after the story of the last film, "Final Yamato". The biggest theme of the new film will be environmental issues and how humans have treated the planet Earth. Out of the 1,860 cuts (shots) in the new film, 700 are being produced with computer graphics. In particular, the battle scenes will composite 3D sequences and computer graphics. Nishizaki established a new studio called Enagio last year just to produce this film. The Yamato's size will be mostly unchanged at 263 metres in length and 62,000 tons in mass. The Yamato's signature wave-motion gun, which can take out an entire fleet, but which then leaves the ship drained of power — and vulnerable, has been improved to optionally fire six smaller shots in succession.

Edit: My bad, I didn't see that you specified the "original" series. My goof for speed reading.

 

[stonester1]

I ate this up as a kid. Haven't watched it now as a 41 year old but plan to do so.

Did that with Robotech/Macross, and yes, weaknesses that past me by as a kid, but I tuned those out and was still amazed at the strengths, epic scope, growing, changing characters, and a war story that was really about war and it's consequences, not just an excuse for action pieces.

I suspect it will be the same for Starblazers, but I will enjoy it nonetheless.

And can't WAIT for the live action.

 

[RobertScorpio]

^ Yeah, Netflix has it, and I tried to watch, but couldn't make it pass disc 1.

I loved it when I was younger. Very "speed racer"ish....in the framing of the stories, but none-the-less, fun if taken in context of when it was made...

Rob