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Space Battleship Yamato

Every so often something pegs my geekometer straight into the red. Well, this broke the gauge all together.

Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers) was the first anime I totally got into. I watched it over and over and over again, and just adored it. I've heard the American version of this theme enough times that I'm pretty sure it's burned into genetic memory (We're off to outer space / To save the human race...). But this is the first time that I've ever heard it sung in the original Japanese, by the original singer. And his yellow blazer is just icing on the cake.

Posted by flargh on September 10, 2007 11:26 AM |

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I have the same thing for that show. I was deathly sick for about 3 weeks while I was a kid and was at home, bed-ridden. During that time, I watched it daily (which I couldn't usually do because I was at school). It was odd because I loved that show but none of my friends knew it.

Later in life when I started playing Starcraft, I noticed the "Yamato Gun" on the Battle Cruiser and spent a few days saying "Where do I know that from?" to myself. When the neurons connected and the memory came flooding back I nearly passed out.

Posted by: Corey [TypeKey Profile Page] | September 10, 2007 11:56 AM

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