Live-Action SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO trailer (aka "Star Blazers: The Movie")

YouTube ^ | 2010.01.01 | Yoshinobu Nishizaki

[B-Chan]

OH HELLS YEAH

[B-Chan]

For the video-impaired: it's the trailer for the upcoming live-action Space Battleship Yamato movie. Space Battleship Yamato in its animated form is better known in the U.S. as Star Blazers.

[gaijin]

YYYYYYYYYEEeeeeesssss....!!!

Goosebumps..!

[wastedyears]

Japanese Star Trek?

[DonaldC]

I remember watching that toon as a kid! woohoo!

[relictele]

Loved SB and remember having to painstakingly adjust roof aerial to get enough signal to watch at ungodly early hour.

[gaijin]

It was an EXTREMELY popular anime that ran for years in Japan. In the US, it had the name, “Starblazers”.

You would not BELIEVE what a loyal following it has in Japan.

People who are aged from like 35-50 will follow it, primarily men.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL..! I CANNOT WAIT.

When I was a boy, I would run around and almost WET MYSELF when it came on TV —all my buddies were into it.

When I saw the preview, I almost cried..!

[Gondring]

Wow...am I dreaming?

While I disagree with Michael Pinto’s political views, he runs a good site and I appreciate him putting this on YouTube!

[medscribe]

Uh no...much better. It was called Star Blazers here in the US. Epic cartoon series from the 80s.

[Nateman]

The last Battleship Yamato was sunk in WWII

[RandallFlagg]

Gatchaman

[Mr. Jazzy]

“All your battleship are belong to us!”

[wastedyears]

Loved SB and remember having to painstakingly adjust roof aerial to get enough signal to watch at ungodly early hour.I was like that with the later era of Sonic the Hedgehog on TV. Great, great show, but it was on at like 7 or 8am on Saturday.

[MrEdd]

Bookmarking for Ellie Mae’s cousin Annie.

[wastedyears]

I’m a big fan of Transformers, partly because it’s my generation.

I’m also a huge fan of GI Joe, but I refuse to watch the new movie. Also a huge fan of Dragonball Z, but I haven’t seen that new movie either.

[gaijin]

please ping the other crypto-Japan (and Korea) folks, since I always forget some..? Yoroshiku...!

[newnhdad]

Wow, I remember that Star Blazers show. This came out around the time I started getting interested in girls.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ensign Iwaguchi needs a haircut.

[omega4179]

NO WAY!!!! That ship looks awesome!

[omega4179]

Star Blazers was like Japanese Galactica. After years of losing a space war earth sends its last space ship filled with the most talented young people on the planet on a desperate mission to retrieve a technology that would remove the radiation that is poisoning the planet.

[relictele]

Derek Wildstar & Mark Venture

Two of the coolest character names ever!

(Even if they were cooked up for translation purposes)