In un lontano futuro, la guerra fra la razza umana e gli alieni conosciuti come Gamilons ha completamente distrutto la Terra. Asteroidi radioattivi hanno devastato il pianeta rendendo la sua atmosfera inabitabile. In un tentativo di salvare la Terra, la regina Starsha del pianeta Iscandar offre alle forze terrestri una tecnologia in grado di neutralizzare totalmente le radiazioni.

Per poter recuperare questa tecnologia, la corazzata spaziale Yamato, costruita sulla base dei resti di un relitto della seconda guerra mondiale, viene fatta partire per lo spazio in un viaggio verso un luogo distante 148.000 anni luce. L'equipaggio della Yamato ha un solo anno terrestre per giungere a Iscandar e tornare sulla Terra, o la razza umana si estinguerà.

La Yamato ed il suo equipaggio devono affrontare l'assalto dell'Impero Comet, una civiltà proveniente dalla galassia Andromeda che sta tentando di conquistare la Terra, guidata da Zwordar il Grande. la flotta terrestre è invece aiutata da una donna fatta di antimateria, Teresa di Telezart, mentre l'impero Comet ha fatto rinascere il più grande nemico della razza umana, il leader dei Gamilas, Desslar, in cerca di vendetta. Dopo una sanguinosa battaglia che vede ingenti perdite sia sul fronte terrestre che sul fronte Comet, sarà l'estremo sacrificio di Susumu Kodai a sconfiggere definitivamente Zwordar ed a salvare la razza umana.

Dopo aver combattuto contro l'Impero della Cometa bianca, la Yamato ritorna sulla Terra per le riparazioni e per imbarcare nuovi membri dell'equipaggio. Desler ritorna sul suo pianeta natale per rendere un ultimo omaggio, ma si imbatte nella flotta del Black Nebula Empire, il cui obiettivo successivo è Iscandar. Desler, con l'aiuto di Kodai e dell'equipaggio della Yamato, decide di partire in soccorso della regina Starscha.

L'impero della Nebulosa Nera (Black Nebula) attacca la Terra e minaccia di far saltare in aria il pianeta con una potentissima bomba se l'esercito terrestre dovesse contrattaccare. L'unica ed ultima speranza per la Terra è rappresentata dall'equipaggio della corazzata spaziale Yamato, che tenterà di disinnescare la bomba prima che sia troppo tardi.

L'avvicinarsi del pianeta acquatico Aquarius minaccia la Terra, che rischia di essere inondato e distrutto. Non si tratta però di una casualità: Aquarius è entrato in rotta di collisione con la Terra per via delle macchinazioni dei Dinguil, una malvagia razza aliena che ha perso la propria madre patria nello stesso modo. Per l'ennesima volta, l'unica speranza per la Terra è rappresentata dalla corazzata spaziale Yamato che dovrà deviare la rotta di Aquarius e scongiurare la collisione con la Terra.

La versione integrale del film termina con il matrimonio di Kodai con la sua innamorata storica Yuki, e la conseguente "consumazione" del matrimonio.

Three years ago, when we first decided to look into remastering

STAR BLAZERS™, we apprised the folks at Voyager of our efforts.

That was the FIRST time we remastered the Comet Empire story arc,

and our current efforts are based off of that original project.

Back then our resources weren't as snazzy as they are now, and

we had to yank all of our video with one of those good ol' "high

end" ATI video capture cards. We knew the prints weren't up to

commercial grade but sent copies of then to Voyager anyway,

hoping they'd take the hint. They apparently decided to stick

with those old, grainy, 16mm film prints for their DVDs for

obvious reasons -- hence our current effort.

At the same time we were redoing the Comet Empire, though, our

minds kept going back to the lone dubbed Yamato movie. You know,

the Streamline dub of FAREWELL TO SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO. Don't

knock it too badly, because it's actually a pretty good dub given

Streamline was the top anime dubbing outfit at the time. It's

just that it suffers from the same problem as does the Bolar Wars

story arc. It has the WRONG VOICES, if you know what we mean.

Why couldn't it be remixed with the Claster cast audio from the

series ... or better yet, a movie-length compilation from the

series itself? Sort of a "warp speed version" like those memorial

videos they used to release in Japan, back when releasing an

entire anime TV series on videotape or laserdisc was quite a pricey

prospect. Our pitch to Voyager was that they could release it as

a bargain alternative to buying the entire series, and so we made

warp speed versions of all three seasons of STAR BLAZERS™. They

said nary a word, but as you can guess our suggestion was never

officially taken. Oh, well. We can make a guess at why they

decided not to go with the idea and we understand. Even so, we

don't want our work to go missing on a dusty storage shelf

somewhere before it gets lost to disc rot.

Included in this archive is a slightly retooled version of our 2005

Comet Empire "warp speed version" movie. This was pulled directly

from our archive master print. We ask that you please forgive the

quality of the video and the frequent screen artifacts from time

to time. These resulted from the video capture card we were using

to generate our work prints back then. We also note that this

print was cropped in letterbox format to simulate a theatrical

release and with viewing on widescreen TVs and monitors in mind.

In retrospect this may not have been such a good idea, what with

the stink that the DRAGON BALL Z™ fans have raised over their own

show getting similar treatment. Perhaps we might redo it in the

future if enough fans show interest.

A word at this point about the way this is edited. The idea

behind the "warp speed version" was to edit each season down into

a three-hour movie. Our prints were keyed off of the original

Japanese movie edits for the first two seasons, and off of the

Bolar Wars TV movie compilation for the third season. This

required the reshuffling of certain scenes, as well as the

alteration of others, in order to provided a reasonable flow of

events. We couldn't include everything, but we tried as hard as

we could to include as many of the fans' favorite moments as

possible -- given the limitations of Claster's dub, that is.

It actually turned out a lot better than we expected, although

the lack of consistent quality audio sources was (and still is)

irritating. Oh, how we wish Voyager had remastered the Comet

Empire audio like they did for the Iscandar episodes!

Our only change was to redo all of title and credits cards. This

was for the sake of those whose names were listed and for obvious

reasons. This included both people on our team and at Voyager

back then -- including one fellow at Voyager in particular who

was a big help in our original effort. The key part he played,

although much appreciated at the time, must forever remain

anonymous per his wishes. This also goes for...

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A trailer for Disc 2 - short sequence from episodes 6-10.

Coming Attractions from Star Blazers Series I, Part III.

The next DVD release in the "Quest for Iscandar" series.

When Japan's mega-popular animated TV series "Space Battleship Yamato" was converted to "Star Blazers" in 1979, more than the name was altered for American viewers. Many scenes were edited from the animation to decrease the level of violence and several Asian cultural references. One of the most fascinating edits was this sequence, cut from episode 2, in which we look back at the sinking of the original battleship Yamato in 1944.

In the year 2201, a new and sinister enemy haunts the stars! Don't miss the debut of STAR BLAZERS Series 2:The Comet Empire, coming to DVD in October, 2001! See a sneak preview from episode 1!

Three years before it hit fame as Star Blazers, Space Battleship Yamato would receive its first, little known, English adaptation.

Un buco nero in espansione minaccia la Terra, e trecento milioni di persone partono per lo spazio nell'ambito di un progetto di migrazione cosmica. Le prime due flotte vengono annientate da un feroce e misterioso nemico, così la terza flotta viene scortata dalla rinata nave spaziale Yamato.