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Star Blazers - Season 0 Episode 6 Star Blazers The Comet Empire - Warp Speed Version

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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...

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

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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