Space Battleship Yamato | |
Cover of the first volume of the manga adaptation from the seventies titled Cosmoship Yamato.
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宇宙戦艦ヤマト (Uchū Senkan Yamato) |
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Genre | Space opera, Military science fiction, Adventure |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Leiji Matsumoto |
Produced by | Yoshinobu Nishizaki |
Written by | Yoshinobu Nishizaki |
Music by | Hiroshi Miyagawa |
Studio | Academy Productions, Group TAC |
Original network | Yomiuri TV |
Original run | October 6, 1974 – March 30, 1975 |
Episodes | 26 |
Manga | |
Cosmoship Yamato | |
Written by | Leiji Matsumoto |
Published by | Akita Shoten |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Adventure King |
Original run | November 1974 – April 1975 |
Volumes | 3 |
Original video animation | |
Great Yamato No. Zero | |
Directed by | Tomoharu Katsumata |
Produced by | Leiji Matsumoto |
Written by | Leiji Matsumoto |
Music by | Hiroshi Miyagawa |
Studio | God Ship Company JCF Studio |
Released | March 31, 2004 – June 15, 2007 |
Runtime | 45 minutes (each) |
Episodes | 5 |
Sequels, Spin-Offs and Remakes | |
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Space Battleship Yamato (Japanese: 宇宙戦艦ヤマト Hepburn: Uchū Senkan Yamato?, also called Cosmoship 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 ("The Quest for Iscandar" and "The Comet Empire") of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981–82 as Διαστημόπλοιο ("Spaceship Argo"). 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 ("Star Patrol"), Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia ("Voyage to the Final Galaxy") or Astronave Intrepido ("Starship Intrepid") in Spain and Latin America, a version called Stjärnbrigaden ("Star Brigade") was released in Sweden, and Nusoor Al Fada'a ("Space Eagles") in the Arabic version.
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, Neon Genesis Evangelion or SDF Macross. Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime.