This was the only show in my youth that I would run home from school and dared not miss. Weirdly I never knew until I was an adult many many years later that there was a season 3. Great memories.

My sister was at my house the other day. We haven't seen each other in about a year. All of a sudden the Star Blazers theme started playing. We both reached for our phones. That is how important this show was to us, we had independently set the theme as our ringtones! We both have a ton of memorabilia and a significant obsession!

I can still hear that announcer guy at the end of each episode saying "Hurry, Star Force! There's only (insert days here) left!"

Star Blazers was THE cartoon for me growing up. My dad tells stories of me waking up very early just to watch it while he would be eating breakfast before work. Then decades would pass and Star Blazers would turn into a fuzzy childhood memory. Only to be rekindled in my early 20's while talking to a coworker about cartoons we loved. Turns out he not only knew the name of the show I had long forgotten, but also had a few of the VHS tapes & let me borrow them. Memories came flooding back as the opening theme hit my ears and I was a kid again. Star Blazers & Battleship Yamato remain one of my favorite cartoons/anime of all time. Long Live the Star Force! Long Live the Yamato!

This and 'G-Force' opened-up the door when I was a kid, but "Robotech" cemented my love for anime. 😎

I loved this show so much. During the first season when they had a countdown, as a kid it was the greatest and most intense thing I had ever seen.

Star Blazers is the reason in January 1980 that I plunked down $1,200.00 for a VCR. Blank tapes were $26.00 each, but for me it was all worth it so I could record every episode of the series. It was the music that caught my attention first, then the characters along with the story line. I was use to Saturday morning cartoons and the cheap sounding music, so it was mind blowing for myself to hear this kind of music in a cartoon series. It was, and still is, magical beyond belief how Star Blazers changed my life.

You are not wrong about the timing. Channel 29 in Philadelphia it was on at 3 PM I believe. Had to run from the school bus stop to get home in time to see each episode. No VCR in our our house. HAD TO WATCH REAL TIME!! So great!

We'll keep peace alive with OUR STAR BLA-ZERS!!!

I can still remember my most youthful days in '79 and '80, running home from school to make sure I didn't miss the next episode of Star Blazers! I think my love for all things "geek culture" truly started with that show.

I was a little too young to fully grasp Star Blazers and Robotech when they were on TV, but they taught me that captains always had the biggest collars and best facial hair, and U.S. cartoons sugar-coated reality (I'm looking at you magical GI Joe parachutes).

Fun Fact: Takashi Nishiyama, the creator of the original Street Fighter, credited Space Battleship Yamato as the primary inspiration for Ryu & Ken's iconic Hadoken special attack. This inspiration is also reflected in the name of the special move, as Hadōken, which literally translates as "Wave Motion Fist" or "Surge Fist", is extremely similar to the original Japanese name for the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun, Hadōhō (Wave Motion Gun/Surge Cannon).

In first grade I used to record star blazers on cassette tape and listen to it later, like an audio book, lol.

Fun fact - The theme song is popular with marching bands in Japan to this day!

Star Blazers is what the original Battlestar Galactica could’ve been. Also: up there with Spider-Man as the best cartoon theme song ever.

That Wave Motion Bicycle is great.

I don't think I've seen a single episode since I was a child in the 70's. As soon as I clicked on this, EVERY. SINGLE. WORD of the theme came back to me! It was like some kind of magic spell! I started singing the theme out loud, and it blew my mind how I was able to recite EVERY. SINGLE. WORD! Hands down, "Star Blazers" is one of the BEST cartoon themes of the 70's!

This is the reason that me and my wife are now married and have been married for 23 years is this show we were at a party once and I had just met her and she asked me if I knew the words or the show what it was called and she hummed the opening theme and I told her I totally did and saying it to her and she told me she was going to marry me 15 years later she was proven correct

I've never seen Star Blazers, but it sound like the story of a cosmic Craigslist ad. "I've got this thing. You can have it, but you've gotta come pick it up."

I hit the "like" button before Dan could get three words out! This one of my favorite shows OF ALL TIME!!

The gateway drug to anine for me. Thank you so much for this!

I must confess, I geekgasmed the moment I saw this video. It was and still is my all-time favorite anime. I used to watch it religiously every morning before heading off to elementary school. Thank you Dan!

I was 6 years old living in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and would watch Star Blazers before going to school. I would doodle pictures of the Argo on my schoolwork. Before school it was Star Blazers, Speed Racer, and a fried bologna sandwich.

Interestingly when the 2012 remake of Yamato was made, they incorporated some things from Star Blazers into it. In Star Blazers they had changed some enemy soldiers in space suits into robots in order to reduce the amount of on-screen deaths, and that change actually got carried over into Yamato 2199, where the aliens use android soldiers. Also in Yamato 2199 the main character's brother refuses to retreat in the opening battle where Earth's fleet get destroyed in order to buy the admiral's flagship enough time to escape, which is originally from Star Blazers (in original Yamato his reason is that he'd rather die than live with the shame of defeat, but I guess the writers of the remake preferred the Stab Blazers versions as it seems more heroic).

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 is not only one of the best anime from the last 10 years but one of the best examples of how to do a remake period. You don't try to destroy or tarnish the original. You just take the skeleton of the story,iron out a few flaws (no more Analyzer lifting up girls skirts,no more hothead Kodai and better fleshed out villains) and have a love and respect for the original. With amazing character designs by Nobuteru Yuki and even Hidaki Anno helping out,fitting since all Gainax members loved Yamato,it all worked out great. If only Star Trek and Star Wars would get this kind of care and attention to detail over here.

As a kid who grew up with the usual Disney, Warner Bros. Hanna Barbara cartoons in the 80's. This show, plus the Force Five cartoons changed the idea of what animation could be for me. So many happy memories of watching them.

Back in 1977 I was reading the comic book (manga) version of Space Battleship Yamato on the airplane as I was immigrating to the US from Korea. I loved it. It was a fun read and had educational breakout panels scattered throughout about planets and other astronomy factoids. Imagine my surprise when I saw Star Blazers on TV around 1981. As a kid, I thought the comic book was the source material and had no clue that it was an anime series. Star Blazers was the only TV show where I recorded the audio on cassette recorder (didn’t have a VCR in the house). I replayed it and it was like my own private radio show. Mazinger Z and Star Blazers are the anime series that formed the foundation of my childhood anime experience. I’m in my 50s now but I am still a big fan of these shows.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, make sure to watch 2199. It’s a fantastic remake that is honestly one of the best space anime I’ve seen. Hopefully they make a third season

Wow! Everyone at Toy Galaxy! My name is Devin Cox. I wrote and produced the audio drama you mentioned “Sea of Stars: A Voyage of the Space Cruiser Argo” and I just want to say thank you so much for this video. Star Blazers (and Yamato in general) was far and away the most influential story of my youth, and you told it’s intricate story with panache and respect. The fan community for this show is small, but fervently loyal. Star Blazers was a story about young people coming together to save not just the world as it is, but more specifically the possibility of what it can be - a theme that resonates in much of current day media, forty-seven years later. It’s impact on science fiction (specifically military scifi) cannot be underrated. Stories persist to this day how it influenced films like Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and television series such as Babylon 5 and the Next Gen era of StarTrek. I’ve been a huge fan of Toy Galaxy for well over a year now and never miss and episode. Seeing this video absolutely made my day, if not my year. Hearing our work referenced made my decade. Once again, thank you for all the amazing stuff you do. Gratuitous plug! Our website is under reconstruction, but the audio drama Sea of Stars can be heard in chronological order and downloaded in its entirety at: forwardmomentumproductions.com/sos/pages/episodes.html

Thank you so much for this video! Born in '72, this toon, as well as Battle of the Planets was incredibly significant in shaping my boundless imagination. They helped me immediately appreciate imported content that was called Japanimation, with affection. You guys really knocked it outta that park! ❤️

When us 70s 80s kids finally saw Star-Blazers, Speed-Racer, Voltron, “Car” Voltron, Robotech, and Lupin; in both respective decades all within 5 years. Cartoons were never the same

This channel...this show...is a beacon of light in the black that is KZfaq.

I watched "Star Blazers" on the local channel before school mid 80's. This was the first anime I ever saw, and it hooked me reeeal good. That theme song is an ear-worm that has stuck with me ever since. Its up there with the top themes of the 80s. All those mega-meters, all of them!

Useless fact, for about 30 years the film Final Yamato was the longest animated film ever made.

So.... When I was working in Japan a few years ago, I heard a men's choir made up of mostly middle aged/older men sing the theme song for Space Battleship Yamato. They were good 👍

Between this (Star Blazers), Battle of the Planets and Ultraman, I used to break my neck to get home from school and in front of the t.v. set.

Funny how Glen Larson who did Battlestar Galactica told Lucas to go apologize to Roddenberry if space belongs to just one person when Lucas went after him.

Yamato is the most important anime ever made. Western anime fandom began from it and the entire Otaku community was born out of the Yamato generation. the fact it took until 2017 to finally get Yamato 2199 fully released and dubbed is criminal and everyone in the industry should be ashamed of that fact, but thanks to those of us who literally screamed at Funimation for years we corrected this mistake. Yamato is a masterpiece and its impact should never be forgotten.

When I entered Navy Boot Camp in Illinois in 1992 the entry processing barracks thing had a giant wall mural of the Yamato with the title FUTURE NAVY. The fact we know its the Yamato these days is hilarious to me.

About 2 weeks ago, I asked you to do Star Blazers, and here it is! When I was in 3rd grade, around 1982 or 83, I got an alarm clock for Christmas. I was excited to have the ability to wake myself up like a big kid, but I accidently set the alarm an hour too early. Unable to go back to sleep, I turned on the TV to watch some cartoons. The very first program to come on Channel 46 in Atlanta every weekday morning after the test pattern was none other than Star Blazers. I was in such shock, seeing people actually die in a cartoon. I was hooked, until it was quietly removed about 6 months later. It wasnt until KZfaq became mainstream that I was able to watch all of the episodes I missed. Thanks again for covering this :)

Grew up with Starblazers, every Thursday at 12h, Iconic, but space battleship yamato is the best!

This is the episode I have been waiting for.

I lived and died by this show when I was a kid. I didn't know about the remake of season 2 until you talked about it. Thanks for that. I just ordered it.

There was also a StarBlazer Space mini tactical miniature game. The rule book that was published ,but no minis, just paper cut outs.

I remember hunting down these VHS tapes at various anime collector stores.

Ah the memories! This was my intro to anime. I thought the Wave Motion Gun was the coolest weapon.

The massive influence Star Blazers/Yamato had on helping to create the first wave of anime fans in the west cannot be understated. Without Star Blazers, there'd probably be no anime conventions, no AMVs, no Robotech or Voltron and almost certainly no Toonami. It was the foundation for an entire industry and deserves all the respect it gets. Great video as always.

Space Battleship Yamato has the greatest cartoon themesong of all time. Great orchestral piece.

Star Blazers....I absolutely LOVED that show! I'm glad that I got to see the updated Space Battleship Yamato 2199 & 2202. It was an awesome story, and gave us plenty of ideas to explore with our action figures.

The Best Cartoon Ever. Used to watch this before I had to get to school for first grade... remember talking about it with 2 other kids in my class. I remember crying when the Captain dies of "radiation sickness" and crying when the Argo gets wrecked by the drill missile and crying when Sandor gets left behind on that asteroid... impacted my life to say the least. I also own all those original animation cell comics...

My cousin & I watched Star Blazers and loved it, when we were ~6-7 years old. We didn’t need to be older than that to appreciate it.

I saw the show when I was in 2nd grade. It changed everything for me. I had never had "cartoons" that actually had real stakes, and this series was a long story, and I watched it with the obsessiveness only the young have. No one else my age knew anything about it, my parents never watched it, and by junior high school I was beginning to wonder if I had dreamed it, having even forgotten the name. Once I was in high school in the early 1990s, the anime fans pointed me the right direction, and I was able to find it again.

Best cartoon of my childhood. I literally ran home from school every day to make sure I got to the TV in time before it started.

I remember watching it as a teen, during the mid 1980s on Philadelphia Ch. 29 WTAF. The first two seasons were broadcasted but not the third season.

Watched Star Blazers every day after school in the early 80s, still one of my all-time favorites.

While growing up outside Philadelphia I had watched cartoons… er… anime… like Gigantor and Tobor the 8th Man, and Prince Planet and Speed Racer and more… but Star Blazers was life-changing for me! I would skip high school in order to watch Star Blazers, which showed in my area around 9 AM. It was amazing. I learned to hack and program computers (to *fix* my high school attendance records! ;-) and became a systems engineer and automation and robotics specialist, because of Star Blazers. I went to work for 10 years in Silicon Valley, learned Japlish, worked in Japan, heartily (and very drunkenly) sang the Yamato theme (in Japanese!) with my Japanese friends and other fans in a karaoke bar in Sakata city, and raised my three children on a steady diet of anime… they even learned to read (as little children, in English :-) by reading anime subtitles… (because subs, not dubs!) and we went to cons, and my oldest son used the piano theme from Victorian Romance Emma at his wedding… all this happened because of my love of Star Blazers. And now I’m building a mech. All because of Star Blazers. Oh, …and I cried when Captain Avatar died. No shame to admit it. Thank you.

Starblazers was one of the first anime series I saw. It was one of the best series. The Quest for Iscandar remains a classic. Captain Avatar, Nova (one of anime’s best looking heroines), IQ-9 & Sandor and Leader Desslok were the best characters. Wish G. I. Joe had been this serious when it was done in animated form.

This was my first Anime when I was a kid...I grew up with Sar Blazers! It was s Cool!

Star Blazers ignited my love for anime by being the first episodic cartoon I had ever seen. It will always hold a place in my heart!

Nova (Yuki) was my first anime crush. I stayed home from school to see what I thought would be the last episode of season one and was upset when I released that it was the next to last episode. I couldn't miss another day of school.

I was literally going to request that you do this one! Sadly, we lost the Voice of Nova recently.

I was 4 or 5 when I first saw Starblazers and I was fascinated and frightened by it. The human race was driven underground by the planet bombs sent by the Gamilons. Man, it was depressing, especially the episode where they all take turns to communicate with their loved ones for the last time only to find out that Wildstar had no one to talk to. That episode gets me choked up. And the one where he finds out Alex, his brother, is still alive.

Star Blazers was a great show and a mind opener for me. Until this came out, I'd never thought of the concept of "Space Opera", and it has influnced my choices in Anime, Books, and general media ever since.

I was impressed by the remake. They updated the animation, but remained faithful to the original. Pretty rare that happens. I had a nerdgasm when I saw it for the first time! Just the opening brought back so many memories!

Great video. The 3 actual continuities that I based my action figures story growing up were Buck Rogers, Star Wars and Star Blazers. The Emperor used the Merkari Kyber Crystal to merge his galaxy with the Milky Way of The 25th Century. The Rebels and Federation (with Star Trek continuity) came together to stabilize the disastrous results of this intergalactic event. The Argo had to be recreated to lead the heroes to win the destabilized universe with Cylons chasing The Battlestar Galactica and the arrivals of The Daleks, Cybermen and a revamped Gammelon Empire. My Argo was a cardboard box looking as much like The Argo as it could, powered by my imagination and crewed by figures like Han Solo, Captain Kirk and Buck Rogers. Those were epic days growing up. Thank you for the video.

Growing up with it, this show has a special place in my heart (along with Battle of the Planets, Ultraman, and Johnny Sokko). Thanks for covering it! The 2010 live action movie wasn't that faithful to the original story and was a little slow, but had excellent production values. English dub is available on KZfaq!

I have a simple reason for the popularity of Starblazers - just about every episode they blew something up, artificial suns, planets, fleets of ships. How enduring is it? when pictures started coming in from Pluto I commented that Lord Desslock was not going to be pleased that we were spying on him and a lot of people got the reference. Now that my beard has almost entirely turned white, I need an EDF captain's uniform to cosplay as Captain Avatar.

I remember my dad getting a VCR and making tapes of the show. My sisters and i almost wrecked one of the tapes (from watching them over and over) and my dad was so PISSED! This was a brilliant show and fired my interest in science, astronomy and maths which was a little unusual for a girl in the 80s. Even to this day the theme song makes me want to stand up with my fist across my chest and belt out the song ❤

YYYEEESSS!!!! I’ve been requesting that you cover Starblazers aka Yamato for years! I’ve been obsessed with this series (new and old) since 1978.

I was half expecting to hear that Harmony Gold tried suing them..

You magnificent bastard, you finally covered Yamato. It was part of my childhood from the late 70s and with me to this day. Awesome!

I'm impressed that you mentioned the Reactor site. I was a Creative Director at Cartoon Network and that was my project.

Unfortunately Amy Howard passed away just a couple weeks ago. Rest in peace to the voice of Nova.

As a child of the 80's- I remember getting up at 5 am _on a school day_ just to catch the next episode of Star Blazers!! The local hobby shop used to carry Yamato model kits (imported from Japan), and I had several- but never the Yamato/Argo herself. Still revisit the series by watching it on YT (for now) about once a year- never seems to get old!

Thanks for showing Star Blazers and by extension, Yamato, some love. I loved this show as a kid; It led me to watch the original Japanese content it was based upon. From there I found Captain Harlock, and it started me down a path to a lot more Anime. Star Blazers was one of those anime that was key to my love for anime's formative years. BTW, that commercial for that Yamato bicycle was cool! Never knew such a thing existed!

Original sub is the way to go. For most anime from the 70's or 80's. I remember watching this as a kid. Thanks once again for the great memories, Dan & Greg. 👍😁

This is one of the best histories you've ever done, Toy Galaxy. Well done.

This is my all-time favorite cartoon, from just the first two seasons. I just found out the BOLAR WARS existed in 2020!

YES YES YES!!! I never thought this would get an episode. Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets were my favorite back in the day. I have the original series on DVD as well as the modern updated Yamato 2199 and 2202 on Blu Ray Fire the Wave Motion Gun!!!!

Frickin love this channel

I use to watch this when I was 5 to 7? Years old. I couldn't get any toys so I built an Argo out of Lego... it was crude but I filled out the rest with imagination.

Star Blazers was a major influence on my Sci-Fi series Amy the Astronaut. I loved this show as a kid, and I still do as an adult.

I was only 4 years old in 1979 and I LOVED this show...it invoked so many strong emotions for a child. I would laugh, cheer, & cry during any given episode, especially during battle scenes. I recall being absolutely transfixed on the storyline & couldn't wait to watch it every day.

Thanks Dan and company for this nostalgic trip down Star Blazers lane. This is still one of my beloved series brought to North America. Star Blazers had an overarching story line and you didn't want to miss the next episode. North America Cartoons were episodic and nothing really would happen that you couldn't miss an episode or two. I have the Bandai GX-57 Soul Of Chogokin Yamato and it plays the music themes and sound effects from the show. :) and fills me with waves of fuzzy nostalgia.

This episode was epic. Really awesome. I somehow never saw Battleship Yamato growing up, but I wish I had.

Possibly the greatest EVER sci fi series.

I was watching back when it originally aired. Loved the show. I’ve bought the 2199 and 2202 Yamato blu-rays during quarantine and it was great to see the story in such high quality after several decades away from the franchise. A big hit of nostalgia. Thanks for doing this one!

I watched this during my teens. The dubbing and porting to Western consumption was so flawless I had no idea it was of Japanese origin until my friend Sohail explained it to me, especially about the more naughty parts. It was an amazing series and yes, I hated season 3.

Wow. Never did I *dare* hope you'd tackle this one! But then you've already dismantled the confusing messes that were Battle of the Planets and Robotech, so this had to have been a breeze. Thanks, as always, for reminding us of why we loved these things in our lost youth.

My favorite anime of all time. I grew up with Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets, and it drove me crazy that there were no toys available. Some model kits would eventually make their way to the US, but by the time they showed up, my local UHF station wasn't even showing Star Blazers anymore. I bought everything I could afford, which wasn't much.

I've had the theme song for this show stuck in my head for like 40 years. Now that I know the English lyrics were written by the same mind behind "plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is!" ... it kinda makes sense. Amazing video as always!

This show and Speed Racer were my first experiences with Japanese anime and I still remember them fondly before Robotech and Sailor Moon popped over.

Wow! A really good overview of a timeless legend. Much appreciated.

Starblazers and Robotech were on TV from 7 to 8am where I lived when I was a kid, just before I had to leave for school. Many, many bus trips to school were spent talking about Starblazers and Robotech. It was serious talk.

As a kid of the 80's I loved the opening theme song for Stablazers! 💯

Not sure how KZfaq’s algorithm recommended this to me, but I’m not disappointed! I loved watching Star Blazers as a late teen, though I missed the third season due to military duty. Your video brought back a lot of fond memories of this series. And yes, I purchased the live action movie years ago, and really enjoyed it, though not the final scene. 😭 Long Live Space Battleship Yamato!

I'm from Japan and whenever my wife and go to karaoke she asks me to sing the theme to this show. Fun Fact: It's the same theme in Japanese as is in English. People go insane when i sing it. They ask, "How do you know that song so well?" Psssst, oh let me tell you a little story. There was a live action version made in Japan. It was awesome.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s and remember desperately watching the Saturday lineup of “kids” shows that my local networks provided hoping to catch this remarkable show. Unfortunately, they changed up what they showed each week at what seemed like a random schedule to a kid; so I grew up remembering only that there was this show that was he greatest thing I’d ever seen but no clear concept of the whole. I couldn’t remember the name, but never forgot it - that’s how strong the impact was. Many years later, once the Internet came along and progressed enough I was able to finally realize my hope of watching all of this amazing series. Thanks for your video; it was entertaining, interesting, and informative!

It would be difficult to overstate how much Star Blazers meant to me as a kid. 3:30 every afternoon on Channel 46 in Atlanta. They ran it in a revolving series; when the last episode aired, they would start over at episode 1 the next day and keep going. I was addicted. Not only did it scratch my science fiction itch (I was also a huge Star Wars and Battlestar fan, Space 1999, and everything else), but I always appreciated how it did not talk down to me as a kid. It respected my intelligence in a way that Saturday morning cartoons just didn't, so I grew to have a life-long respect for it that I didn't develop for those other cartoons. I rewatched the original series on DVD back in 2005 or so, and was impressed by how much it still held up (well, the characters and drama held up, if not always the aging animation and the super-sketchy science jargon it sometimes relied on :). I was nervous about 2199, but you know what? It's excellent. Really, really good. Maybe not quite perfect, but it actually improves on the original in a lot of key ways that make me feel like the creators have been paying attention to the show and to the fandom for the last 40+ years. So thanks for this, Toy Galaxy. I'm off to go get misty eyed listening to The Infinite Universe from the Yamato soundtrack (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ateWjK6Eq72XeGw.html). Yamato! Hasshin!

Star Blazers was an afternoon escape growing up. We had even gone as far to name our kittens at the time after the characters. Good ol Wildstar.