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From: mae@aplvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Star Blazers
Message-ID: <331@aplvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 18:00:07 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 18:00:07 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Sep-83 03:01:24 EDT
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Where has anyone out there seen the third season in English?
I didn't think any markets had picked it up yet, though I had
heard it was done. I've seen 23 out of 25 episodes but only in Japanese.
The animation is crude in the first series but gets better with
each season.  The movies are really spectacular - lots of multiplane
animation used in battle sequences.  But then even the crudest
recent Japanese animation looks good compared to what passes for
animation now for American tv.

To correct a bit of confusion -
The Empire in the second season of Star Blazers was the Comet Empire.
It had absolutely nothing to do with communism - Emperor Zwordar was
an absolute ruler, disregard the American version calling him a prince.
Comet refers to the fact that the city/military base
that housed the seat of government was built on an asteroid
and traveled surrounded by a white force field that streamed out
behind it.  This looked like a comet entering a planetary system
so the intended victims didn't know what was really coming until
too late.  It was referred to as either the White Comet or the
Comet Empire.

			Mary Anne Espenshade
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