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Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato

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Overview

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.

Created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Written by Yoshinobu Nishizaki
NetworksYTV

Top Cast

Kei Tomiyama

Kei Tomiyama

Susumu Kodai

Gorō Naya

Gorō Naya

Juzo Okita

Shūsei Nakamura

Shūsei Nakamura

Daisuke Shima

Yoko Asagami

Yoko Asagami

Yuki Mori

Takeshi Aono

Takeshi Aono

Shiro Sanada

Ichiro Nagai

Ichiro Nagai

Hikozaemon Tokugawa

Kenichi Ogata

Kenichi Ogata

Analyzer

Yoshito Yasuhara

Yoshito Yasuhara

Kenjiro Ota

Taichiro Hirokawa

Taichiro Hirokawa

Mamoru Kodai

Sachiko Chijimatsu

Sachiko Chijimatsu

Shima's Mother

Themes & Keywords

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About Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato is a animation, drama, action & adventure series that first aired in 1974 exploring themes of starship, space battle, yamato. Created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, it stars Kei Tomiyama, Gorō Naya, Shūsei Nakamura. 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.

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