I'm a avid reader of Ain't It Cool News, not necessarily for the reviews but for the news and rumors they leak out. Today, Harry posted up a video that got my inner 10 year old screaming. A live action Space Battleship Yamato, better known in the U.S. as Starblazers. This show, along with Battle of the Planets, fueled the sci fi superhero nerd inside of me, and fed the ravenous Star Wars beast that couldn't get enough space opera on a regular basis. They weren't my first exposure to Japanese animation, that would have been Speed Racer, but they were the ones that made me take notice. This was not my Saturday morning cartoons. The relatively adult themes, the episodic narrative, the somewhat graphic violence that resulted in occasional death were all unheard of in a cartoon then and while my underdeveloped brain didn't really understand the ramifications, it knew it was different and it liked it.
The shows only ran in tandem for about three years but they stuck with me and I've watched them in recent years and they don't really hold up but do at the same time. The cheese factor is, of course, increased but the drama and the wonder are still there underneath it all.
I'm hoping this live action version can hold it's own and be a fun adaptation of the source material.
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