Star Blazers - Season 0 Episode 6 Star Blazers The Comet Empire - Warp Speed Version
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...
Year: 2007
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama, Animation
Country:
Studio: NBC
Director: Leiji Matsumoto
Cast: Eddie Allen, Michael Bertolini, Amy Howard Wilson, Lydia Leeds, Kenneth Meseroll, Tom Tweedy
Crew:
First Air Date: Oct 01, 1979
Last Air date: Jan 01, 2007
Season: 3 Season
Episode: 77 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 8.20/10 by 13.00 users
Popularity: 13.921
Language: English
Keyword : space
Episode
Space Cruiser
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Yamato: The New Voyage
Be Forever Yamato
Final Yamato
Star Blazers The Comet Empire - Warp Speed Version
Rebirth Trailer
Comet Empire Teaser - original version
Season 2 Teaser
BONUS 01 - Remastered Main Titles
BONUS 02 - Remastered End Credits
BONUS 03 - Claster Main Titles
BONUS 04 - Claster End Titles
BONUS 05 - Krypt Reports to Desslok
BONUS 06 - Episode 1x06 original English ending
BONUS 07 - Remastered End Credits - version 2
BONUS 08 - The Visit to Iscandar (from Space Cruiser dubbed movie)
DIVERGENCES 01 - Episodes 1x01 to 1x05 (from the Central Anime fansubs)
DIVERGENCES 02 - Episodes 1x06 to 1x09 (from the Central Anime fansubs)
DIVERGENCES 03 - Episodes 1x10 to 1x13 (from the Central Anime fansubs)
DIVERGENCES 04 - Episodes 1x14 to 1x17 (from the Central Anime fansubs)
DIVERGENCES 05 - Episodes 1x18 to 1x22 (from the Central Anime fansubs)
DIVERGENCES 06 - Episodes 1x23 to 1x26 (from the Central Anime fansubs)
Season 2 BONUS 01 - Claster Main Titles
Season 2 BONUS 02 - Claster End Credits
Season 2 BONUS 03 - Remastered Main Titles v1
Season 2 BONUS 04 - Remastered End Credits v1
Season 2 BONUS 05 - Remastered Main Titles v2
Season 2 BONUS 06 - Remastered End Credits v2
DIVERGENCES - Episodes 2x01 to 2x05
DIVERGENCES - Episodes 2x06 to 2x09
DIVERGENCES - Episodes 2x10 to 2x12
DIVERGENCES - Episodes 2x13 to 2x17
DIVERGENCES - Episodes 2x18 to 2x21
DIVERGENCES - Episodes 2x22 to 2x26
Series 1 - Disc 1 - Trailer for Disc 2
Series 1 - Disc 2 - Trailer for Disc 3
Series 1 - Disc 2 - Bonus Scene - Sinking of the Yamato
Series 1 - Disc 6 - Trailer for Series 2
Space Cruiser Guardian of the Galaxy
Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection