Space Battleship Yamato III (宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII, Uchū Senkan Yamato Surī), also known as Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars,[5] is a Japanese military science fiction anime series produced by Academy Productions. It is the sequel to Be Forever Yamato created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Leiji Matsumoto. It aired on Yomiuri TV in Japan from October 11, 1980 to April 4, 1981. Elements of the series later got remade in 2024 as Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199.[6]
| Space Battleship Yamato III | |
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| 宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII (Uchū Senkan Yamato Surī) | |
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| Genre | Military sci-fi,[1] space opera[2] |
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| Written by | Hideaki Yamamoto Eiichi Yamamoto Keisuke Fujikawa |
| Music by | Hiroshi Miyagawa |
| Studio | Academy Productions[a] |
| Original network | NNS (YTV) |
| Original run | October 11, 1980 – April 4, 1981 |
| Episodes | 25 |
Plot
editThe plot centers about the drama which ensues when a stray proton missile, from a battle between the Galman Empire and the Bolar Federation, crashes into the Sun. It causes nuclear fusion to accelerate to unsafe levels. The Yamato and crew must then set out on a mission to look for a new world for the human race. They must do so in less than one year.
Over the course of the story, the Yamato and crew must complete their mission of finding a new home for Earthlings amidst the strife caused by the Galman-Bolar conflict. The Galmans, we learn, are the ancestral race from which the Gamilas came. After the battle with the Dark Nebula Empire ended, a battle which destroyed the planet Gamilas, Desler and his remaining forces set out to search for this ancestral homeland. They found Galman, enslaved by the cruel grey-skinned aliens known as the Bolars. They promptly liberated Galman, and a galaxy-wide war ensued.
The Yamato and crew eventually catch up with Desler, who is deeply remorseful that Earth has been dragged into this conflict. Desler dispatches a team of Gamilas-Galman scientists to attempt to restore the Sun. This effort ultimately fails.
During the course of the mission, the Yamato rescues Ruda, the exiled queen of the mysterious and hidden planet, Shalbart. It turns out that she is worshipped by peace-seeking factions within both the Galman and Bolar empires, and is wanted (preferably dead) by both governments which fear her influence. This puts a strain on the fragile alliance between Earth and the Galmans, and causes the Bolars to declare outright war against Earth.
Earth is finally saved when the Yamato brings Ruda to Shalbart, and she decides to give the Earthlings a device (the Hydro-Cosmogen Gun) that can restore the Sun's natural fusion balance. But even this only succeeds after some ultimate sacrifices on the part of some of Yamato's crew.
Cast
edit- Noriko Ohara as Sabera
- Kei Tomiyama as Susumu Kodai
- Yōko Asagami as Yuki Mori
- Akira Kamiya as Shirou Katou
- Goro Naya as Gustav
- Eiji Kanie
- Takeshi Aono
- Masatō Ibu Desler, Heikurō Tōdō
- Kouji Yada (General Talon)
- Kenichi Ogata (Analyzer)
- Keiko Han (Ruda Sharubāto)
- Kazuo Hayashi (Yasuo Nanbu)
- Hirotaka Suzuoki (Kojirou Ohta)
- Hideyuki Tanaka (Ryuusuke Damon)
- Junpei Takiguchi
- Kaneto Shiozawa
- Kôhei Miyauchi (Shalibart Elder)
- Mugihito as (Dagon)
- Shigeru Chiba
- Sumi Shimamoto
- Shōzō Iizuka
- Tesshō Genda
- Tohru Furuya as Daisuke Tokugawa
- Tomomichi Nishimura
- Toshio Furukawa as Takeshi Ageha
Notes
edit- ^ The studio went through numerous name changes, which are listed as follows for the sake of consistency with other articles listing the studio: Academy Productions (April 1973–July 1980); Tokyo Animation (July–August 1980); Office Academy (August–October 1980); Nishizaki Music & Video Corporation (October 1980–April 1983); West Cape Corporation (April 1983–August 1997).
References
edit- ^ Bernardin, Marc (December 14, 2012). "Watch 1st two minutes of new live-action Space Battleship Yamato". Syfy Wire. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
- ^ Ressler, Karen (November 14, 2017). "Seven Seas Licenses Leiji Matsumoto's Space Battleship Yamato Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
- ^ 宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII [Space Battleship Yamato III] (television series) (in Japanese). Event occurs at opening credits (1:05 of 1:16). 監督 - 山本暎一 [Director - Eiichi Yamamoto]
- ^ 宇宙戦艦ヤマトIII [Space Battleship Yamato III] (television series) (in Japanese). Event occurs at opening credits (0:57 of 1:16). アニメーション・ディレクター - 棚橋一徳 [Animation director - Kazunori Tanahashi]
- ^ "Star Blazers Chronicles: Westchester Films". StarBlazers.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved 2009-09-01.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 Now Available on Crunchyroll". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
External links
edit- Starblazers official website
- Space Battleship Yamato III (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Space Battleship Yamato III at IMDb