Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

william-cermele I have been reading some of the comments and I too can still remember the opening song and other major elements of the series story even though its been 25 some years since I have seen any episodes. This series made going to school great because it helped pass the hours until the next episode. During the summer months, no matter how nice the weather was, we were always in front of the TV at 3:00 pm sharp for our daily dose. When I first went looking to re-watch and buy the show, I could find nothing but expensive and shoddy bootleg VHS versions of individual episodes however as I understand it, all 3 seasons have been out on DVD for a few years. I will buy them eventually, the lowest price I have seen has been on a famous internet auction site for $80 per season. For now I will be renting them because, guess what, they ARE available for rental at both major online movie rental houses. "will I get my copies of the best show on TV and enjoy them for a lifetime, tune in tomorrow and find out. Remember there are only 213 Earth days left.

revelinit At 12 years old, i WORSHIPPED this show. The plot was deep and interesting. I can, to this day, still sing the theme song. Very few of my friends recall this show. But, it was wonderful. I long for the day someone revives it. There was no greater excitement than when they finally reached Iscandar to save the earth.I spent hours drawing my own battleship based space ships. This show was inspiring and beautiful. The characters were three dimensional and you cared what happened to them. I loved the discovery of the wrecked battleship and the process of turning it into a space ship. The love story was fun as well. I was truly upset by the result when they finally reached their goal. I wish this series had carried on. Sadly, at 13, it just seemed to disappear. I have never seen it broadcast since. But, Star Blazers was the highlight of my afternoons when i was a kid. A great TV show, that I would love to see released on DVD. If you own this show, PLEASE RELEASE IT ON DVD!!! There are a LOT of closet fans out there. We are ready to pay $39.95 for the complete collection.If you can get hold of a copy, WATCH IT! (and tell me where you found it!) This is "Japan-imation" at it's best.

StlBlade I remember this series only too well. It was only slightly cut for American audiences, leaving out only the actual deaths of characters (Mostly redshirt types, excepting Captain Avatar) when they were shot, blown up, or other. The characters were exceedingly well realized with backstories and CHANGES to the characters as their characters developed. Compared to the pitifully slaughtered 'Battle of the Planets' (Gatchaman, later re-translated into G-Force which managed to be better) or anything American animated series were planning on doing (He-Man, Bravestarr, etc ad nauseum), this series really shone. Only the 'Robotech' series came close, and that one suffered from trying to combine 3 Japanime series into one.Looking at the coming attraction scenes made me realize that some editing was done in the last episode of the 1st season. In it, a Gamilon was rushing into the cargo bay where Nova was trying to activate the CosmoDNA (The Gamilon boarding party was using a radioactive gas) Starsha had given them and Sandor was protesting that it might not be safe. In the actual ep, Sandor and Nova both turn to see the Gamilon enter, but we never actually see him, and Nova ends up wounded for no readily apparant reason other than the aforementioned gas. I am certain that Sandor shot the encroaching Gamilon, but too late to prevent Nova from being hit.There were several episodes where bodies were seen, if not the causes for their deaths. This marked it apart from anything else being shown 'for children' at this point. Considering that American animation seemed to be following the same rules that American comics were following (No death, sex, excessive violence, excitement, things of interest, plot development, etc) it isn't really a surprise that so many of us rushed home to watch it. (While at a meeting for my high school band, I came across several of the 'cool kids' singing the theme song together.)In my area only the first 2 seasons were shown, but my wife reports that she not only got just the first, but it didn't include the final episode where they return to Earth, never mind the whole Comet Empire season. After hearing that, I didn't feel so bad about missing the 3rd season.Just as a clarifying point for my faithful readers, though one of the crewmembers reported that Sgt. Knox had returned in another fighter, it was dubbed in. He died destroying the power center on the Comet Ship (In fact, none of the Marines they brought aboard survived the season). According to a later movie, Orion the engineer also died in the final ep of the 2nd season (Much to my sadness, I liked him). Also the chief pilot, Conroy died fighting the Comet Empire, but was replaced by his identical younger brother in the 3rd Japanese series, though the American series considered him to be the same character. (Nevermind that he was using a urinal when he spotted the Andremeda coming after them in the 2nd season's 5th episode. I wouldn't expect American TV to show that).I hope that the various petitions are successful in returning Star Blazers to television. While there are several interesting animated shows, with the exception of Roughnecks; the Starship Troopers Chronicles, that are merely interesting, Star Blazers was actually engrossing.

Pro Jury Enthralled, simply enthralled watching this TV series for the first time 20 years ago. I have seen a fair number of Japanese cartoon series and no characters remain as vivid and real as the crew of the Argo.The story, the music, the space battles, the animation... the two words to describe Star Blazers is PURE FUN!Recently the original two hour SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO movie was shown at a local university. Watching it offered more questions than answers in pondering how the 120 minute movie was edited into the first STAR BLAZERS series. What stands to memory is that STAR BLAZERS had its storyline given more detail and enrichment. STAR BLAZERS is the version to watch.