Space Battleship Yamato (1974)

Synopsis

Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime. Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Series Information

First Aired

1974

Last Aired

1981

Seasons

3

Episodes

77

Episode Length

30 min

Genre

Animation, Drama, Action & Adventure

Network

YTV

Status

Ended

Rating

7.8 / 10 (18 votes)

Top Cast

Kei Tomiyama

Susumu Kodai

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Gorō Naya

Juzo Okita

Shūsei Nakamura

Daisuke Shima

Yoko Asagami

Yuki Mori

Takeshi Aono

Shiro Sanada

Ichiro Nagai

Hikozaemon Tokugawa

Kenichi Ogata

Analyzer

Yoshito Yasuhara

Kenjiro Ota

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