fanboy.com — Star Blazers was one of the early shows that introduced anime to the United States in the 70s, but sadly the franchise lost momentum in Japan by the mid-80s. After a long legal battle producer Nishizaki won the rights to make a new film, and now the trailer for it is out. The good news is nothing has changed, but that's also the bad news...
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kronos6948Jun 6, 2009
which, if you saw the cartoon, the real one became the space one.
kronos6948Jun 6, 2009
But here in the US we didn't get it until around 79 IIRC...and it was pretty big here until around 82/83, if memory serves.
thumper13Jun 6, 2009
You lost your fun somewhere along the way. You should try to find it.I feel sad for you.
xt0ph3rJun 6, 2009
Welcome to Digg. Enjoy your stay.
dmm219Jun 6, 2009
Not a fan at all of having this be a CGI film. Years and years ago they almost made a live action film (Sean Connery was slated to play caption avatar)...now THAT would have been awesome.I think Starblazers would work the best with a BSG type remake treatment...
ethergnatJun 6, 2009
Mother Earth will disappear
duamerthraxJun 6, 2009
Well more in the Japanese version than the American version, very uncut for it's time it still omitted much of the onscreen death. A few examples I remember was were Sandor wearing the wrong color uniform piloting a fighter for a recon mission gets blown away. The next scene he pips about how close of a call it was. Another was when Lysis brings his ship up underneath the Argo to attach a bomb and then you see the video of his approach get played in reverse to show his retreat.And last is the funeral episode completely omitted.ps: I using the US name to give context, I know the Japanese names.
spinducky08Jun 6, 2009
I, as well, would like to see more of a "live action" movie made of this. The current CGI rendition of the "Argo" (which is the name I knew the ship as) looks great! If only someone could just create a good storyline and find a producer that won't totally innialate the spirit of the show (ie, make it a COMEDY), I think they'd have a winner here. Is Lucas busy, by any chance?