Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers): TV & Movie Episode Guides

Here's a few episode/synopses guides I put together for Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers). This is an awesome TV series which still holds up today. These synopses are based on the original Japanese versions, which differ just slightly from the American "Star Blazers" version. An analysis of the music for the first season's soundtrack can be found here.

These synopses are somewhat light on character arcs, since I feel that those elements are best experienced in the show itself. However I included all of the strategic and tactical elements, which I found to be one of the strongest and most unique parts of the show. Click each link for complete episode guides.


 Space Battleship Yamato: Season One (1974-1975) 

Novelization version written by Arashi Ishizu from a draft by Aritsune Toyota. 


 

 

Space Battleship Yamato: Season Two (1978-1979)    



 

Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage (1979)      




 

Be Forever Yamato (1980)      




 

Space Battleship Yamato: Season Three (1980-1981)



 

Final Yamato (1983)      


 Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection (2009) 



 

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2012-2013)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark (2014)



 

The best website on Space Battleship Yamato and all its iterations is indisputably CosmoDNA.
I'm quite fond of their sitemap as well...

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