Was just interviewed by a fellow from DePaul University about old time anime fandom and how it differs from today. Among his first questions was "Why do you think Star Blazers had such a big impact?" I immediately told him that he basically just needed to watch this video to answer that question.
You and I were one of the lucky ones who got to see it in the 9 major markets that the show premiered on about a year before the rest of the country got to see it. Dallas TX here. Labor Day 1979 premiere. Replaced Battle Of the Planets, which I was initially upset about. But about halfway through the first episode I was like "G-Force WHO?" :D If you get a chance - look up Yamato 2199 and Yamato 2202. Modern retellings of the original first two stories (Iscandar Voyage and Comet Empire) done RIGHT!!!
How I miss our youth the world was still crazy but the information was not so readily available on a 10 second scroll. I now know how our parents and there parents felt when they'd say a simpler time. We were all born at this time for a reason I believe that but for what reason we have to watch this world destroy itself is beyond me. My old man rant is over back to my sad lonely life made by design.
What is going on in the cosmos/ your free time for us all to be lucky enough to get three recent Corn Pone uploads in such a short time? Matt thank you for all of your hard work and excellent original content. You're absolutely the coolest.
I should think that's obvious...I've been stymied on the actual next project for various reasons, so I'm stalling by re-uploading these remastered versions of old videos as placeholders.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Mr. Robot is the most boundary-breaking and creative show ever made, and I mean that. Some shows have amazing episodes that redefine what is possible in storytelling in the tv medium....Mr Robot does that *multiple times*. You'll have endless hours of analysis on that one.
You misunderstand...I'm not short on ideas; I've got too many. There's four different things I could do next, and the one I want to do the most is the one I actually can't do yet. Of the rest, I'm bouncing back and forth as to which I should focus on, plus I'm working on a few longer-term projects in the midst of all this. I'm really not a multi-tasker.
As the TPYTC resets from the Twin Perfect bomb that seems to have shut everyone else down, we return to an oldie but goodie review... I hope you all return to it once the radioactive fallout is at safe levels, but it's nice to see you putting some elbow grease into making the older ones better, hopefully leading to a new review of something at some point soon...
I'll hasten to add that I'd moved on from TP videos some time before that, though I do wish people would stop asking me if I've seen it. These remasters were done nearly a year ago when I was contemplating starting a new channel due to this one's stagnation...then I put out that Audrey video and suddenly it started growing after ten years. I've got three possible candidates for the next video (one of which would be my final Peaks video, which is the one I've not started in any capacity), which unfortunately leads to lots of dithering about what to work on.
Oh, wow . . . I loved this series so much. I had just moved to a new town right before it started, and something about Star Blazers and its melancholy tone suited the loneliness of living in a new place and having fewer friends to play with and other things to do after school. We must be about the same age, because I was in the 4th grade when it came out, and it seemed like a gift from the cosmos, arriving as it did in my lonely suburban home in north Texas. Decades later, around Y2K, I found the original series via the internet, and I remember noticing how much was cut to make the show age appropriate (which was typical of Sandy Frank's imports, as I learned--thank you, Mystery Science Theater). I wonder if Gen X's interest in anime would have been the same without Star Blazers' having been presented as such a regular, mainstream, after-school cartoon presentation. With just 3 major broadcast stations, 1 public, and a couple of syndicators, we were all watching and being shaped by the same programming. Nevertheless, I knew a lot of kids who thought Star Blazers was "weird" and just kind of ignored it or never really fell for it, and I always know I'm in good company when I find someone else who had a deep appreciation for it at a young age. I'm certain that it prepared us for the tone, complexity, dark themes, and Japanese influence of Blade Runner, which was released just a couple of years later--in fact, I think Star Blazers was in reruns was BR was in heavy rotation on cable (once we had that). Good times to be a sci-fi loving kid . . . Thanks for all your hard work. I just found your channel. I know these are older videos, but I hope you're doing something new(er) soon, because I'll be watching. The Twin Peaks series was really enjoyable, and this clinched it. You have a new fan!
At my school (I was in fifth grade when it came out here), it seemed pretty much everyone watched it. If you missed an episode, you could grab nearly anyone in the hall and ask what happened. By the way, Sandy Frank did Battle of the Planets, but had nothing to do with this series, which was imported by Claster, aka Hasbro. Sandy Frank's censorious nature was far, far worse.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I think you mentioned you started watching it in 79--same for me. So you were a year ahead of me in school, I think. At least a few of the kids at my school watched SB, like my best girlfriend--but she was new, too, and had moved to our neck of the woods from the unimaginably sophisticated city of Baltimore, where I guess children were encouraged to engage with good stuff like sci-f i and serial stories--or she just had good taste: she did pick me as a bestie, after all (heh). I remember that SF (and Claster, too?) brought Battle of the Planets to the US, (which I loved, too). I think I remember hearing or reading or seeing that it was edited, to some degree, as well, but less so than SB--probably because (I think) of its less substantial content. I know there's a story there, something about his having been to Japan and buying films and entertainment as a package deal, or forming a production company to import those films, or something like that? LIke I said, some of my information comes from watching Mystery Science theater a decade or so later . . . funny how things come back around . ..
@@biancachristie Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets were imported by totally different companies...they only thing they really shared was getting a boost from the new popularity of Star Wars. BOTP was much more heavily altered, with new animation cut in to make it look like a show about space travel, which it never was, and to add the Z-Zark-7 robot character, who they just made up as a narrator and obvious R2-D2 stand-in. Star Blazers was cut for time and some instances of violence, but the story remained the same as its original Japanese version.
well said. I'll remember those words whenever I think about cursing Carl Macek. Here I leave my thanks to him. Robotech was the first animation I chose to watch and I watched them all, at the time. All 20 episodes of it ;-) I tried to watch Star Blazers at a rerun but they aired it like you'd air Scooby Doo and made little to no sense. Damn local TV I'd be over a decade later that I managed to really watch it. And also discover that there were a little bit more than 20 episodes in Robotech
Saw it back in '95. It was fairly terrible, not least because it cut nearly an hour out of the film. We commented on it extensively in our old Bad American Dubbing series: vimeo.com/1033976
Of course. This is a remaster of a video I made back in 2010, well before the new series existed, hence the lack of mention. I wasn't overly fond of it, however.
Was just interviewed by a fellow from DePaul University about old time anime fandom and how it differs from today. Among his first questions was "Why do you think Star Blazers had such a big impact?" I immediately told him that he basically just needed to watch this video to answer that question.
It works.
Your video is still a favorite of mine. Star Blazers was DEEP for 8 year old me. 2199 and 2022 do them justice.
This show has had more influence over my life than anything. September 1979 Washington DC channel 20. Salute!
You and I were one of the lucky ones who got to see it in the 9 major markets that the show premiered on about a year before the rest of the country got to see it. Dallas TX here. Labor Day 1979 premiere. Replaced Battle Of the Planets, which I was initially upset about. But about halfway through the first episode I was like "G-Force WHO?" :D
If you get a chance - look up Yamato 2199 and Yamato 2202. Modern retellings of the original first two stories (Iscandar Voyage and Comet Empire) done RIGHT!!!
How I miss our youth the world was still crazy but the information was not so readily available on a 10 second scroll. I now know how our parents and there parents felt when they'd say a simpler time. We were all born at this time for a reason I believe that but for what reason we have to watch this world destroy itself is beyond me. My old man rant is over back to my sad lonely life made by design.
What is going on in the cosmos/ your free time for us all to be lucky enough to get three recent Corn Pone uploads in such a short time? Matt thank you for all of your hard work and excellent original content. You're absolutely the coolest.
I should think that's obvious...I've been stymied on the actual next project for various reasons, so I'm stalling by re-uploading these remastered versions of old videos as placeholders.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Mr. Robot is the most boundary-breaking and creative show ever made, and I mean that. Some shows have amazing episodes that redefine what is possible in storytelling in the tv medium....Mr Robot does that *multiple times*. You'll have endless hours of analysis on that one.
You misunderstand...I'm not short on ideas; I've got too many. There's four different things I could do next, and the one I want to do the most is the one I actually can't do yet. Of the rest, I'm bouncing back and forth as to which I should focus on, plus I'm working on a few longer-term projects in the midst of all this. I'm really not a multi-tasker.
As the TPYTC resets from the Twin Perfect bomb that seems to have shut everyone else down, we return to an oldie but goodie review... I hope you all return to it once the radioactive fallout is at safe levels, but it's nice to see you putting some elbow grease into making the older ones better, hopefully leading to a new review of something at some point soon...
I'll hasten to add that I'd moved on from TP videos some time before that, though I do wish people would stop asking me if I've seen it. These remasters were done nearly a year ago when I was contemplating starting a new channel due to this one's stagnation...then I put out that Audrey video and suddenly it started growing after ten years. I've got three possible candidates for the next video (one of which would be my final Peaks video, which is the one I've not started in any capacity), which unfortunately leads to lots of dithering about what to work on.
Oh, wow . . . I loved this series so much. I had just moved to a new town right before it started, and something about Star Blazers and its melancholy tone suited the loneliness of living in a new place and having fewer friends to play with and other things to do after school. We must be about the same age, because I was in the 4th grade when it came out, and it seemed like a gift from the cosmos, arriving as it did in my lonely suburban home in north Texas. Decades later, around Y2K, I found the original series via the internet, and I remember noticing how much was cut to make the show age appropriate (which was typical of Sandy Frank's imports, as I learned--thank you, Mystery Science Theater).
I wonder if Gen X's interest in anime would have been the same without Star Blazers' having been presented as such a regular, mainstream, after-school cartoon presentation. With just 3 major broadcast stations, 1 public, and a couple of syndicators, we were all watching and being shaped by the same programming. Nevertheless, I knew a lot of kids who thought Star Blazers was "weird" and just kind of ignored it or never really fell for it, and I always know I'm in good company when I find someone else who had a deep appreciation for it at a young age. I'm certain that it prepared us for the tone, complexity, dark themes, and Japanese influence of Blade Runner, which was released just a couple of years later--in fact, I think Star Blazers was in reruns was BR was in heavy rotation on cable (once we had that). Good times to be a sci-fi loving kid . . .
Thanks for all your hard work. I just found your channel. I know these are older videos, but I hope you're doing something new(er) soon, because I'll be watching. The Twin Peaks series was really enjoyable, and this clinched it. You have a new fan!
At my school (I was in fifth grade when it came out here), it seemed pretty much everyone watched it. If you missed an episode, you could grab nearly anyone in the hall and ask what happened. By the way, Sandy Frank did Battle of the Planets, but had nothing to do with this series, which was imported by Claster, aka Hasbro. Sandy Frank's censorious nature was far, far worse.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I think you mentioned you started watching it in 79--same for me. So you were a year ahead of me in school, I think. At least a few of the kids at my school watched SB, like my best girlfriend--but she was new, too, and had moved to our neck of the woods from the unimaginably sophisticated city of Baltimore, where I guess children were encouraged to engage with good stuff like sci-f i and serial stories--or she just had good taste: she did pick me as a bestie, after all (heh). I remember that SF (and Claster, too?) brought Battle of the Planets to the US, (which I loved, too). I think I remember hearing or reading or seeing that it was edited, to some degree, as well, but less so than SB--probably because (I think) of its less substantial content. I know there's a story there, something about his having been to Japan and buying films and entertainment as a package deal, or forming a production company to import those films, or something like that? LIke I said, some of my information comes from watching Mystery Science theater a decade or so later . . . funny how things come back around . ..
@@biancachristie Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets were imported by totally different companies...they only thing they really shared was getting a boost from the new popularity of Star Wars. BOTP was much more heavily altered, with new animation cut in to make it look like a show about space travel, which it never was, and to add the Z-Zark-7 robot character, who they just made up as a narrator and obvious R2-D2 stand-in. Star Blazers was cut for time and some instances of violence, but the story remained the same as its original Japanese version.
*singing* "Sandy Frank! Sandy Frank! He's the cause of all our pain!"
Sorry. Couldn't help myself at the mention of Sandy Frank.
I think grown men who never learned to stand comfortably at-ease with their hands in their pockets are adorable. Fucking A man, the coolest.
Glad to see this again.
Excellent! Thanks for the deep dive.
well said. I'll remember those words whenever I think about cursing Carl Macek. Here I leave my thanks to him.
Robotech was the first animation I chose to watch and I watched them all, at the time. All 20 episodes of it ;-)
I tried to watch Star Blazers at a rerun but they aired it like you'd air Scooby Doo and made little to no sense. Damn local TV
I'd be over a decade later that I managed to really watch it. And also discover that there were a little bit more than 20 episodes in Robotech
Yes!
That's SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO to you
No, it's that to YOU. To me, I will always remember it as Star Blazers first and foremost.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks It was and always will be Space Battleship Yamato. Just as Macross has and will always be Macross, not "Robotech."
You should watch the dub of farewell Yamato from 1978 at this time it’s on UA-cam
Saw it back in '95. It was fairly terrible, not least because it cut nearly an hour out of the film. We commented on it extensively in our old Bad American Dubbing series: vimeo.com/1033976
Corn Pone Flicks hey thanks I am a big fan of yours nice to see someone else talk about star blazers and Harlock thanks!!
Fantastic job for a fantastic series. You've heard of the reboot series, right?
Of course. This is a remaster of a video I made back in 2010, well before the new series existed, hence the lack of mention. I wasn't overly fond of it, however.
Here's an idea: Myst. Riven. Exile.
Is that one title or three?
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Three separate games all in the same story series (starting with Myst).
@@Rheinhard I'm not a gamer, so that would be for someone else to do.