Precision animation and backgrounds, strikingly deep visuals with variable use of colour, a curious blending of seafaring imagery with space, fanciful yet realistic landings on known planets of the Solar System, soul-stirring music, and, above all, likable characters on a continuing mission to preserve, to secure, humanity's future account for the enduring North American appeal of this Japanese opus.īelow is an episode guide to the first two series of Star Blazers. Star Blazers is essentially the epic story of the maturing of hero Derek Wildstar, who suffers the loss of his parents, overcomes his resentment of the Captain for whom his only brother is for a time believed to have died to protect, and rises from space battleship gunner and spaceship fighter leader to be Captain's deputy and eventually succeed the deceased Captain as commander of the Earth-defending Star Force, which, after sparing Earth from irradiated extinction by the planet-bombing aggressors of Gamilon, combats a galaxy-marauding empire with a fortress-headquarters situated in the nucleus of a seeming comet, then seeks a new beginning for the population of Earth when the Sun becomes unstable. WVII-TV showed only the first two series. The television programme is not strictly accurate scientifically, but what work of the science fiction/fantasy genre is? Three series of twenty-six episodes each were made, but only the first two of them were widely distributed for broadcast. Though its dialogue is juvenile in places, the concepts in Star Blazers are interesting. Atlantic Time on weekdays during that time period, and all cable television companies in Canada's eastern Maritimes received it. WVII-TV, in Bangor, Maine, aired Star Blazers at 5:30 P.M. Dubbed into English, of course, and packaged in episodic instalments, the Space Cruiser Yamato saga became known to Generation X in North America as Star Blazers, shown usually at times after school by American television stations in 1979-80. children's television's answer to Star Wars, Star Blazers is the American adaptation of a popular series of Japanese science fiction/fantasy films, titled Space Cruiser Yamato.
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