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is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as ''Space Cruiser Yamato''; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as ''Star Blazers''. The first two seasons ("The Quest for Iscandar" and "The Comet Empire") of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as ''Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ'' ("Spaceship Argo"). 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"), ''Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia'' ("Voyage to the Final Galaxy") or ''Astronave Intrepido'' ("Starship Intrepid") in Spain and Latin America, and ''Nusoor Al Fada'a'' ("Space Eagles") in the Arabic version. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' and ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'';〔"''Yamato'' also caused a paradigm shift in animation. Departing from the usual plot of "good vanquishes evil" so common in children’s programming, it acknowledged the enemy’s necessity in attacking Earth: the Gamilons must relocate, as their home planet is doomed to die. The highly realistic design of "mecha" (meka) - mechanical vessels and weapons - also set the standard for the genre of "mecha-robot anime". Without ''Yamato'' there would have been no ''Gundam'' or ''Evangelion'' (pls. 30, 33)." ("Space Battleship Yamato" ) entry in ''Little Boy'' 2005 ed. Takashi Murakami ISBN 0300102852〕 Hideaki Anno has ranked ''Yamato'' his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=252 )〕 ''Yamato'' was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the film ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' (1984). ==Development== Conceived in 1973 by producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, the project underwent heavy revisions. 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. There was to be much discord among the crew; many of them acting purely out of self-interest and for personal gain. The enemy aliens were originally called Rajendora. When Leiji Matsumoto was brought onto the project, many of these concepts were discarded. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Space Battleship Yamato」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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