"We know a round-trip space journey of 296,000 light years has never been attempted before. But, we also know planet Earth has never been in such danger before. WE WILL SUCCEED IN OUR MISSION! The Star Force cannot fail!"
YTV1: First Season - Original Japanese airing 1974. American airing 1978.
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"I cannot bear to see what has become of Earth.
Once green and growing with blue lakes and silver streams,
great rivers and mighty seas...
Now all gone. Only day and burning desert left. Radiation everywhere." |
 
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In the year 2199, life on Earth was threatened with extinction by the mysterious planet, Gamilon. In the middle of the twenty-first century, this mysterious stellar nation, from a planet far outside our solar system, declared war on Earth. They bombarded Earth with deadly planet bombs.
The surface of the Earth became uninhabitable, as the deadly radioactivity cause by the bombs covered the world. People could only survive my moving to underground cities, miles below the surface of the Earth.
The people of the world united against a common enemy. But, one-by-one, Earth's defense fleets were wiped out. There was no defense against the bombing.
The Gamilons would accept nothing less than total surrender. But the Earth Defense Command refused to yield. So the Gamilons continued their siege.
In one year's time, all life on Earth would become extinct as the deadly radiation sank deeper into the Earth.
One last, desparate battle is fought against the Gamilons at Pluto. Captain Avatar is the commander of the fleet, and his ship is the only one to survive the battle and make its way back to Earth.
From a far distant galaxy comes a message of hope from Queen Starsha, of planet Iscandar, 148,000 light-years away. She offers Cosmo DNA to Earth, a machine which can rid it of the deadly radioactivity.
So planet Iscandar must be reached. But, it is 148,000 light years away, in a time when man has never even ventured outside the limits of the Solar system. Is it possible to travel there and back, in just one Earth year?
The Episodes:
Star Blazers was aired without episode titles. The titles given above are fan-created. However, each episode guide lists the original Japanese titles as well, as translated by Ardith Carlton in Space Fanzine Yamato, 1982.
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