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The Earth of Star Blazers is under siege from Gamilon, whose meteor attacks force the population underground. Battle of the Planets and Robotech repeated this show's basic formula, but there's something about a first love that sticks with you. ( Speed Racer was too earthbound and Gigantor, while great, didn't have the same punch.) Re-edited and dubbed from the popular Space Battleship Yamato, the color-coded space rangers, zooming ships, and rich laser blasts turned TV sets into a swirling mix of eye candy. Yeah, it sounds like a hodgepodge of 80s TV show clichés, but the show gelled into a fun interstellar A-Team for two seasons.įor many in the U.S., Star Blazers was the first hardcore science fiction Japanese animation we ever saw. Our heroes include a mystical astrophysicist with a touch of the action hero whose parents were killed in the first invasion, a by-the-book biologist, a paraplegic computer genius, and a conservative Native American military man. The aliens then possess the bodies of the terrorists and begin a plan to prepare the Earth for a full invasion and occupation by a massive fleet coming from Mor-Tax.Īn elite counterforce of mismatched souls is the only thing that can stop the rubbery E.T. That is, until a pesky leftist domestic-terrorist group accidentally irradiates the aliens and awakens them. The government hid them in secret facilities and a widespread disinformation campaign eventually led to people forgetting that the attacks actually happened. The invaders from Mars (switched to a distant planet Mor-Tax in this version) didn't just die out, but went into stasis.

While nothing could ever top Orson Welles at the Mercury Theatre in 1938, this TV version picks up where the other leaves off.

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