The Japanese version was listed as having 3 series of 26 episodes, and the U.S. version is listed as having 137 episodes. I don't think the U.S. made any original episodes, so how does the U.S. version have so many more episodes?
shareIt sounds like you have some bad information about the number of episodes in the U.S. version (Star Blazers). There weren't more than 78 episodes (26 per season).
shareThanks for clearing that up, someone ought to smack Wikipedia for their crap information.
shareTo be pedantic, there were 77 episodes. Series 1 and 2 had 26 each, Series 3 had 25 (cut down from a planned 52 episodes).
shareYes but Starblazers were first a movie, that was cut to be put into episodes. In japan, they continued the movies that were cut to episodes but not dubbed in english, there was "Be Forever Yamato", "Final Yamato" and "Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: In the Name of Love" each movie was 2 hours,except for Final Yamato that was 3 hours worth. Cut up for epsidoes and with filler, they equalled another 3 seasons, plus and the end of the final movie "Alex Wildstar and Nova" get married and they actually filmed their final scene of the two making love, and then that was end of the series. But it brought it up to the 137 episodes.
shareI have no idea where you are getting your information from, but that isn't remotely correct. The show was originally a 26 episode series that premiered in 1974, and was later cut down into a feature film version in 1977. A second movie, Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato (AKA Arrivederci, Yamato) had its storyline expanded into a second 26-episode series which reused a small amount of footage from the movie. The films New Voyage and Be Forever followed, and then the 25-episode third season, followed by Final Yamato. Season three was not an expansion of any of the movies, and none of the three post-"Farewell" movies were expanded into subsequent seasons. There were only ever three seasons of the show on TV. If anyone thinks they have any episodes between 78 and 137, I'd be sure interested in seeing them, since they never existed.
-There is no such word as "alot."