Space Battleship Yamato
Synopsis
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.
Star Blazers: The Quest For Iscandar Episodes
EP 1
Earth is losing to a superior foe, as the very survival of the planet lies within a message from a distant galax
EP 2
The hope of the Earth lies within an old battleship found at the bottom of what used to be the Great Eastern Sea.
EP 3
The Earth Defense force mission is clear - take the newly rebuilt Yamato 148,000 light years to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a machine …
EP 4
The Yamato tests out the Wave Motion Engine's warp capabilities, which will allow them to travel 148,000 light years to Iscandar and back i…
EP 5
The Yamato is trapped by Jupiter's gravity.
EP 6
The Yamato searches Saturn's moon, Titan, for a rare mineral.
EP 7
The Yamato faces disaster on the planet Pluto.
EP 8
The Yamato destroys the Reflective Satellite
EP 9
Limping along, the Yamato comes up with a new defensive strategy.
EP 10
The Yamato says goodbye to their families before leaving the solar system.
EP 11
Gamilas Supreme Commander Desslar unveils a trap that will destroy the Yamato: space mines. But these mines have a sinister function..
EP 12
Dessler prepares another trap for the Yamato: an energy net that captures them. The only way out is in the direction of a massive sun, as a…
EP 13
A Gamilas pilot is captured and the Yamato interrogates him, as Kodai personal tragedy comes into play.
EP 14
Tensions mount on the Yamato as she is trapped in a space storm.
EP 15
Desslar commissions Gamilas General and war hero Domel to defeat the Yamato. The Yamato travels near a galactic whirlpool, but as assist fr…
EP 16
Analyzer and Yuki fly down to a planet looking for food for the crew, but are captured by the inhabitants. Analyzer reveals a secret to Yuk…
EP 17
Gale, the general Domel replaced on Balan, devises a plan to destroy the Yamato. Captain Okita is critically ill, and Kodai steps into acti…
EP 18
The Yamato comes across a Gamilas fortress that emits Magnetron waves, which set vibrations into metals and rips them apart. Kodai and Sana…
EP 19
Chief Communcations Officer Aihara is worried about conditions on Earth. But what does he know that the crew doesn't?
EP 20
The Yamato reaches planet Balan, the halfway point in their mission to Iscandar. But Domel is waiting on his base there, and springs a trap…
EP 21
Gamilas General Domel, pardoned for his failure at Balan, challenges the Yamato to one final battle.
EP 22
The Yamato battles Domel for the last time.
EP 23
The Yamto finally arrives at the Magellanic Cloud and "Iscandar"... but have they found their hope for survival, or their enemy's haven?
EP 24
The Yamato fights on Gamilas, as the Yamato survival depends on wiping out an entire civilization.
EP 25
The Yamato finally arrives at Iscandar.
EP 26
The Yamato Returns Home! With the Cosmo Cleaner D, they are ready to save Earth. But one final battle may cost them a crew member closest t…
