I used to SPRINT home from school every day to catch this show. In America, it was called Star Blazers.
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As a kid, this show was my escape, my happy place.
As an adult, I now own all three seasons of it in Japanese, as well as several models of the Yamato, one of them a deluxe large scale working model with remote control sound and light effects that had to be shipped from Japan. Yeah, I'm a bit of a fan.