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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.
Movie rating: 8.1 / 10 (629)
Season: #1 - #unclassified episodes
Directed by: Leiji Matsumoto - Yoshinobu Nishizaki - Eiichi Yamamoto
Writer credits: Leiji Matsumoto - Yoshinobu Nishizaki - Eiichi Yamamoto
Cast: Kei Tomiyama - Gorô Naya - Shûsei Nakamura - Shûsei Nakamura - Yôko Asagami
AKA: Space Cruiser Yamato, Star Blazers, Uchu senkan Yamato, Uchû senkan Yamato 2, Space Battleship Yamato
