Yoshinobu Nishizaki, the executive producer of Space Battleship Yamato, suspected he had a tiger by the tail even when Japanese audiences at first seemed uninterested. Determined to learn once and for all if his creation had legs, he took it to the English-speaking world first as a little-known movie in 1976 called Space Cruiser Yamato and later in 1979 as the TV series that captivated a generation: Star Blazers!

This section of the website is all about a uniquely American incarnation of a uniquely Japanese story. Essentially an alternate view of the Yamato universe, Star Blazers has its own flavor, its own spirit, and its own pathway into the realm of science-fiction adventure. And yet, Star Blazers' roots made it almost inevitable that the Yamato phenomenon would be repeated. Before the series was released in the US, little was known about the strange world of Japanese cartoons. Clearly and unabashedly proud of its origins, Star Blazers trumpeted the arrival of this exciting medium and inspired English-speaking audiences to learn more about it.

Subsequent anime productions such as Gundam, Robotech, Akira, and Evangelion played vital roles in making anime a worldwide phenomenon, but it was Star Blazers that blazed the trail, and this section of starblazers.com is here to preserve that fact for all time.