Star Blazers, Season 1
(1979-1980)
Adapted from the Japanese anime Space Battleship Yamato (1974), Star Blazers remains much-beloved for its flared, 70s-style uniforms and incidental music, its blue-skinned alien adversaries, and a remarkable facility for evoking peril and near-despair… despite the all-encompassing disregard for logic and astrophysics!
Space Battleship Yamato
dir. Takashi Yamazaki (2010, Japanese cinematic release; 2014, American DVD, subtitled)
The 1970s anime series (known to the west as Star Blazers) is remade here as live action space- and soap opera, the alien Gamilas waiting their turn while Nova, Wildstar et al. go heart-to-heart. Well acted; nostalgically pleasing; visually and musically iconic.