[DVD5 ITA-JAP] Starblazers [Space Battleship Yamato] - S1 - Dvd 1/6 [CR-Bt]

Starblazers [Space Battleship Yamato] - Season 1 - Dvd 1



Lang : Italian 5.1 ** Japanese 2.0

Subs : Italian

Menu : Yes



Star Blazers (Corazzata Spaziale Yamato) è il primo anime di fantascienza di Leiji Matsumoto, nonché uno dei capisaldi del genere con all’attivo ben tre serie televisive, quattro film cinematografici ed uno speciale per la TV.



Fu trasmesso per la prima volta in italiano nel novembre 1980 dalla Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana, adattandola dalla versione prodotta e distribuita negli Stati Uniti, realizzata assemblando le prime due stagioni e modificando i nomi dei personaggi per adattarli all'inglese. Quindi con i membri ribattezzati con nomi occidentali (Derek Wildstar, Mark Venture o Alex Stardust), mentre l'astronave Yamato[1] venne ribattezzata Argo. Neanche due anni più tardi, fu trasmesso su Rete 4, con lo stesso titolo e adattamento, ma incorporando le avventure della terza serie. La serie è stata anche riproposta in Italia con il titolo I guerrieri delle stelle.



Prima serie (26 episodi, 1974): Corre l'anno 2199; la Terra, attaccata dagli abitanti del pianeta ostile Gamilon al comando del Supremo Desslock, è un deserto radioattivo e l'intera popolazione terrestre è costretta a rifugiarsi nel sottosuolo. L'unica speranza per l'umanità, consiste nel raggiungere il pianeta Iskandar e recuperare il Cosmo DNA, un meccanismo in grado di eliminare la radioattività. Come mezzo di trasporto per questo viaggio viene scelta la nave da battaglia della seconda guerra mondiale Yamato, che giace incagliata in un mare ormai prosciugato. La Yamato, ribattezzata Argo, viene trasformata, quindi, in una nave spaziale e dotata di un equipaggio di 117 uomini, guidati dall'esperto capitano Avatar.



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Space Battleship Yamato



The first season began airing in Japan in October 1974. Set in the year 2199, an alien race known as the "Gamilas" ("Gamilons" in the English Star Blazers dub) are raining radioactive bombs on Earth, rendering the planet's surface dead and uninhabitable. Humanity lives in refuges built deep underground, but the radioactivity is slowly infiltrating the underground cities too. Earth's space fleet is hopelessly outclassed by the Gamilas and all seems lost until a mysterious space probe is retrieved on Mars. Blueprints for a faster-than-light engine are discovered, and a message from Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar in the Large Magellanic Cloud says that she has a device, the Cosmo-Cleaner D (Cosmo DNA), which can cleanse Earth of its radiation damage.



The inhabitants of Earth secretly convert the ruins of the Japanese battleship Yamato into a massive spaceship, the Space Battleship Yamato for which the story is titled. Using Starsha's blueprints, they equip their new ship with a space warp drive, called the "wave motion engine", and a new, incredibly powerful weapon called the "wave motion gun" which fires from the bow.



In the English Star Blazers dub, the ship is noted as being the historical Yamato, but is then renamed the Argo (after the ship of Jason and the Argonauts). A small but intrepid crew of 114 departs for Iscandar in the Yamato to retrieve the radiation-removing device. Along the way, they discover the motives of their blue-skinned adversaries: the planet Gamilas, sister planet to Iscandar, is dying; and its leader, Lord Desslar ("Desslok" in the Star Blazers dub), is trying to irradiate Earth enough for his people to move there, at the expense of the "barbarians" he considers humanity to be.



The first season contained twenty-six episodes, following the Yamato's year-long voyage out of the Milky Way Galaxy and back again. A continuing story, it features the declining health of the determined captain Okita (Avatar in the Star Blazers dub), and the transformation of the brash young orphan Susumu Kodai (Derek Wildstar) into a mature and capable-acting captain, as well as his budding romance with female crewmember Yuki Mori (Nova). The foreign edits tend to play up the individual characters, while the Japanese original is often more focused on the ship itself.



The series was condensed into a ninety-minute theatrical movie by selecting a few key episodes, editing them heavily, and sticking them together; as a result, the first-season movie leaves large gaps and doesn't flow very well. Additional animation was created for the movie (such as the scenes on Iscandar) or recycled from the series' test footage (such as the opening sequence). The movie was edited down further and dubbed into English in 1978; entitled Space Cruiser Yamato or simply Space Cruiser, it was only given a limited theatrical release in Europe & Latin America (where it was called "Patrulha Estelar" [Star Patrol] or "Astronave Intrepido" [Starship Intrepid]), though it was later released on video in most countries.