It is his art direction, ship designs and unique style that accredit him in fans' eyes as the true creator of Space Battleship Yamato, even though Nishizaki retains legal rights to the work. When Leiji Matsumoto was brought onto the project, many of these concepts were discarded. The enemy aliens were originally called Rajendora. There was to be much discord among the crew many of them acting purely out of self-interest and for personal gain. Originally intended to be an outer-space variation on Lord of the Flies, the project at first was titled "Asteroid Ship Icarus" and had a multinational teenage crew journeying through space in a hollowed-out asteroid in search of the planet Iscandar. 2.9 Space Battleship Yamato (live action film)ĭevelopment File:SpaceBattleshipYamato.jpgĬonceived in 1973 by producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, the project underwent heavy revisions.2.2 Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato.2.1 Space Battleship Yamato (Original Series).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 ("Star Patrol").
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It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato an English- dubbed and partly edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. Space Battleship Yamato ( 宇宙戦艦ヤマト, Uchū Senkan Yamato ?) is a Japanese science fiction series in anime, manga, live action, and other media, centering on an eponymous spacecraft, the space battleship Yamato. For information about versions of the ship for which the franchise is named, see Yamato. This page covers the various series, movies, and other media comprising the Space Battleship Yamato franchise. Space opera, Military science fiction, Adventure