I absolutely adore the Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato remake series, and my 2022 overview of its first season was only the second article I had published on Anime News Network. You can read it via the link below.
Star Blazers 2205 is the long-awaited two-movie/eight-episode follow-up to Star Blazers 2202, itself a sequel to first reboot series Star Blazers 2199. It’s taken its sweet time to gain an English release — debuting in Japanese movie theatres as a duology of movies in 2021, it took three years for Crunchyroll to pick up the episodic version — after they’d already begun streaming sequel series 3199. The English-language release history of the Star Blazers remake series is an absolute mess, and it’s such a shame the show isn’t more popular than it is. It’s probably my favourite anime space opera. You can read my review of 2205 via the link below:
Subsequently, I’ve also reviewed the first six episodes of 3199, and I’ll drop a link to that soon.
Kevin Cormack is a Scottish medical doctor, husband, father, and lifelong anime obsessive. He writes as Doctorkev at https://medium.com/anitay-official and appears regularly on The Official AniTAY podcast. You can also find him on Twitter @Herrdoktorkev. His accent is real.
