, also known as ''Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars'', is a Japanese

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series produced by Academy Productions. It is the sequel to ''

Space Battleship Yamato II , also known as ''Star Blazers: The Comet Empire'' or ''Star Blazers II'', is a Japanese military science fiction anime series produced by Academy Productions. It is the sequel to ''Space Battleship Yamato'' and an adaptation of the movie '' A ...

'' created by

Yoshinobu Nishizaki was a Japanese film producer best known as one of the two co-creators of the anime series ''Space Battleship Yamato''. He was sometimes credited as ''Yoshinori Nishizaki''. He was born in 1934 and graduated from the Nihon University Art Departme ...

and

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. It aired on

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in Japan from October 11, 1980 to April 4, 1981.

Plot

The 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 causing 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

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as Sabera *

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* Yōko Asagami as Yuki Mori *

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as Shirou Katou * Goro Naya as Gustav *

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Desler, Heikurō Tōdō *

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(General Talon) * Kenichi Ogata (Analyzer) *

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(Ruda Sharubāto) *

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(Yasuo Nanbu) *

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(Kojirou Ohta) *

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(Ryuusuke Damon) *

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* Kaneto Shiozawa * Kôhei Miyauchi (Shalibart Elder) *

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as (Dagon) *

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* Sumi Shimamoto *

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as Daisuke Tokugawa * Tomomichi Nishimura *

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as Takeshi Ageha

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* * * {{Leiji Matsumoto 1980 anime television series debuts Animated space adventure television series Military science fiction television series Space opera anime and manga Space Battleship Yamato Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation original programming