Star Blazers consists of three television seasons. Each is an English-language adaption of its Japanese Space Battleship Yamato counterpart. The Japanese saga, however, entails more than just these three TV seasons, and part of this missing portion of the saga occurs between Seasons 2 and 3.
Season 1[]
Star Blazers Season 1 is a straight-forward English language adaption of the Japanese Yamato 1 television season. The plot opens in the year 2199, with planet Earth facing extinction within one year due to radioactive pollution caused by Gamilon planet bombs. A message arrives from Queen Starsha, of planet Iscandar, providing Earth with plans to build a superluminal engine and the promise that, if Earthlings can reach Iscandar, enduring what obstacles the Gamilons might put in their way, the Queen will give them a machine—the Cosmo DNA—that can neutralize the deadly radioactivity. But can the Star Force travel 148,000 light-years and back in just one Earth year? Not if the Gamilons can help it. They will do whatever it takes to take down Earth's only hope for survival!
Episodes[]
| Episode | Title | Original airdate | Production number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Battle at Pluto[1]" | ||
| 2 | "Carrier Attacks the Sleeping Yamato" | ||
| 3 | "Ultra-Menace Missile" | ||
| 4 | "Test Warp to Mars" | ||
| 5 | "Jupiter's Floating Continent" | ||
| 6 | "Paladin" | ||
| 7 | "The Reflex Gun, part I" | ||
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| 8 | "The Reflex Gun, part II" | ||
| 9 | "The Asteroid Ring" | ||
| 10 | ""We will Return"" | ||
| 11 | "Desslok Mines?" | ||
| 12 | "The Sea of Fire" | ||
| 13 | "The Gamilon Pilot" | ||
| 14 | "Octopus Star Storm" | ||
| 15 | "Galactic Whirlpool" | ||
| 16 | "Stop at Beeland" | ||
| 17 | "Balanosaurus" | ||
| 18 | "Magnetron Wave" | ||
| 19 | "Communication Satellite" | ||
| 20 | "The Artificial Sun" | ||
| 21 | "Challenge of the Rainbow Galaxy" | ||
| 22 | "The Battle of the Rainbow Galaxy" | ||
| 23 | "Dragged to Gamilon" | ||
| 24 | "The Battle of Gamilon" | ||
| 25 | "Iscandar" | ||
| 26 | "The Journey Home" | ||
Season 2[]
Like its predecessor, Star Blazers Season 2 is an adaption of the Japanese Yamato 2 television season. The plot opens in the year 2201, one year after the Star Force's successful mission to Iscandar. Earth, at peace and complacent, receives a mysterious, extraterrestrial radio signal from Trelaina of planet Telezart which turns out to be desperate warning of a new enemy, the Comet Empire. The Empire is mostly peopled by a race of green-skinned humanoids led by the evil Prince Zordar and his daughter, Princess Invidia. Their center of operations is a huge, mechanized fortress designed to resemble a giant comet. Cloaked in an enormous plasma field, the fortress is capable of obliterating entire planets by means of head-on collision, and it is quickly approaching Earth. Unknown to Earth, the Star Force's old enemy, Desslok of Gamilon, has joined forces with the Comet Empire, and is plotting his revenge. The Earth Defence Council (EDC) dismisses Trelaina's radio transmission, and the Star Force members, now assigned to other posts, are the only ones who believe there is a danger, and face the prospect of committing mutiny in order to defend Earth. Unknown to the Earthlings, Trelaina possesses strong telepathic and telekinetic powers that have enabled her to defy the Comet Empire. Only her conscience stands in the way using them to remove the menace.
Episodes[]
| Episode | Title[2] |
|---|---|
| 01. | Ambush at Jupiter |
| 02. | Blackout |
| 03. | Underground City |
| 04. | Battle Satellite |
| 05. | Crossing the Andromeda |
| 06. | At Planet Brumas |
| 07. | Sub-space Submarines |
| 08. | Time Trap |
| 09. | Mazor |
| 10. | Asteroid Ring Defense Revisited |
| 11. | Starflies |
| 12. | The Tunnel Satellite |
| 13. | The Conspirators Meet |
| 14. | Second Day at Telezart |
| 15. | Third Day at Telezart |
| 16. | Leaving Telezart |
| 17. | A Show of Force |
| 18. | Desslok's Escape |
| 19. | Memorial |
| 20. | The Carrier Fleet Battle |
| 21. | The Main Fleet Battle |
| 22. | Stop-over at Ganymede |
| 23. | Desslok's Victory |
| 24. | Desslok's Turning |
| 25. | The Final Battle |
| 26. | Argo, Make Us Proud! |
Season 3[]
Star Blazers Season 3 is an adaption of the Japanese Yamato III television season. The plot of Season 3 opens at an undisclosed date, but presumably in the year 2203 or later. It concerns the travails of Earth and its Star Force as they get drawn into a galaxy-wide war between two enormous empires—the Galmans (the re-formed Gamilon Empire) and the Bolar Federation. The plot modification arises from the fact that parts of the original script were rewritten to explain otherwise confusing flash-back footage taken from events in the Japanese film, Yamato: New Voyage. New Voyage and its companion film, Be Forever Yamato, occur between the Season 2 and Season 3 story lines, but were never aired in America, and never seen by most American fans. The films deal with the Gamilons and the Earthlings as they combine forces to fight the Dark Nebula Empire. The script of Season 3 was altered in those scenes to state (incorrectly) that the enemy being fought was a remnent of the Comet Empire.
Season 3 was adapted into English several years after the first two seasons, and uses a different voice cast. These two facts have caused it to be less popular with Star Blazers fans.
Episodes[]
| Episode | Title[3] |
|---|---|
| 01. | Solar System Faces Destruction |
| 02. | Great Battle in the Silver Stream (Milky Way) |
| 03. | Star Force Embarks at Dawn |
| 04. | Shoot for Planet Mars |
| 05. | S O S Legendra! |
| 06. | Great Battle Near Planet Brumas |
| 07. | The Rough Seas of Alpha Centauri |
| 08. | The Last Pioneer |
| 09. | Battle at Barnard's Star |
| 10. | Dagon's New Fleet Counter-attacks |
| 11. | Star Force Faces Danger at Cygnus |
| 12. | Stellar Prison Camp |
| 13. | Dreadful Bolar Federation |
| 14. | Subspace Submarine Captain: Galman Wolf |
| 15. | Star Force becomes a Prisoner |
| 16. | Festive Day for Desslok |
| 17. | Desslok's Empire in the Moment of Crisis |
| 18. | The Angry Sun |
| 19. | On the Way to Planet Phantom |
| 20. | Planet Phantom |
| 21. | Lost Hope |
| 22. | Farewell Planet Phantom |
| 23. | Battle at the Scalageck Star Cluster |
| 24. | The Secret of Planet Guardiana |
| 25. | Star Force, Shoot that Sun! |
References[]
- ↑ "Star Blazers Chronicles: Magazine Coverage Page" (PDF). StarBlazers.com. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
- ↑ "Wave Motion Web Page". www.desslok.com. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ↑ "Star Blazers Chronicles: Magazine Coverage Page" (PDF). StarBlazers.com. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
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