Comments on: 1970s animated SciFi show

Question: 1970s animated SciFi show

Meatbomb — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:57:42 -0800

Help me with an old manga-type kids show, from the '70s?

It was in the same era as "Speed Racer", was that the mid 70s? Anyway, it was a Japanese manga/anime-type animated series, about these spacefarers who flew in spaceships that looked very much like naval ships. The ships had big mother plasma cannons in the front, and there were always plenty of cool explosions. That's all I can remember about it.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

By: gnat

gnat — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:16:27 -0800

Was it Starblazers aka Space Cruiser Yamato?

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:36:01 -0800

Yo! That's exactly it, thank you gnat!

By: Fat Guy

Fat Guy — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:36:24 -0800

Damn, I was contemplating a FPP on Star Blazers recently. A documentary about Yamato/Star Blazers just came out, and the anniversary of the series premiere in Japan is October 6th.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:44:39 -0800

Why "damn"? Go for it, fat Guy!

By: Fat Guy

Fat Guy — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:37:12 -0800

Thanks for the encouragement meatbomb. There is going to be a episode of NOVA this Tuesday called Sinking the Supership about the Yamato, and I was going to tie the two together.

Damn because it seems like there are only a handful of Star Blazers sites, and the subject is esoteric.

By: tetsuo

tetsuo — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:45:00 -0800

Used to get up at the crack of dawn to watch Star Blazers when I was 8 or so. Good stuff, bring in on Fat Guy!

By: tetsuo

tetsuo — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:45:21 -0800

er, bring it on that is.

By: Fat Guy

Fat Guy — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:49:50 -0800

Oh, you might want to check eBay for "star blazers" and "yamato". I picked up a great schematic of Space Cruiser Yamato, and a great "Roman Album" which is like a technical manual. I'm not saying you're in the market for any stuff, but it would make you feel nostalgic.

By: Fat Guy

Fat Guy — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:56:04 -0800

Used to get up at the crack of dawn to watch Star Blazers when I was 8 or so.

In the Philly area, Star Blazers was on right after school at 3:30 PM on (I believe) Channel 29.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:21:41 -0800

I was contemplating a FPP on Star Blazers recently

Hell, you could put together a good FPP just about the theme song.

We MUUUUUUUUUST be strong and BRAAAAAAAVE...

By: mkultra

mkultra — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:54:27 -0800

the subject is esoteric

Really? Were you even allowed to be an American boy in the 80's and not watch it?

"Desslock! Desslock! Desslock!"

Oh man, now you've got me all nostalgic...

By: mwhybark

mwhybark — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:22:19 -0800

I saw a link to a Japanese photo album the other day that included pix of an 81-foor scale model of the Yamato, which is on display in the ship's home port, if I understood aright.

All the various Yamato stuff out there could make a kick-ass FPP, Fat Guy. Look more under "Yamato" and less under "StarBlazers." In looking for that link, for instance, I found blueprints of the United Federation of Planets' USS Yamato, a very-large-scale lego project on the battleship underway, and many fansites devoted to the ship as it appeeared on the show.

By: Fat Guy

Fat Guy — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:36:14 -0800

mwhybark, the Yamato in TNG was so named as a tribute to Space Cruiser Yamato. There are other anime references in TNG, all of which escape me presently.

By: nekton

nekton — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 16:47:32 -0800

You can rent all the episodes from Netflix. My husband and I just watched a bunch of them. I think there were some as part of our "On Demand" as well.

By: linux

linux — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:13:53 -0800

And remember: there's a reason why the humans in Starcraft have fleet ships with a Yamato cannon.

Wikipedia has a nice little writeup on the concept of the Wave Motion Gun.