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Title: Star blazers perfect album : based on Space battleship Yamato created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Leiji Matsumoto by Tim Eldred ISBN: 0-9652648-0-7 Publisher: Argo Press Pub. Date: 1996 Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully done adaptation
Comment: Star Blazers is the English title of the Japanese animated TV series "Space Battleship Yamato." Growing up, I was the world's biggest fan of the show, and deep down I still am.
It's high space opera, but the characters have a depth and the stories a level of thought and sophistication unmatched in 1970's era animation (heck, it was a good sight better than most live-action science fiction of that period--or of today). Even as an adult, I consider Desslok my favorite fictional villain, thanks largely to the depth he is given in this book. His final, redeeming moment in the series is captured here wonderfully.
This comic book adaptation summarizes the first two seasons' storylines (the 3rd was never broadcast in the U.S.), using two frame devices: first of Wildstar reading Captain Avatar's diary after the Argo has returned home, and then of Desslok ruminating on the changes he and his people have undergone in the course of their conflict with Earth. The book is loyal to its source (the dialogue is taken verbatim from the English TV scripts in most places), but also expands on it to give the characters greater depth and the story line greater internal consistency than they had before. The art is perfect, much better than in the comic books produced by Comico™ several years ago. Information about the show is given in a lengthy appendix at the back. Clearly a labor of love by people who enjoy Star Blazers as much as I do, and that's saying a lot. I wish that more "graphic novels" were as well done as this one.
My one reservation is that the adaptation covers a great deal of story in a short space (which is in the nature of such a project), and newcomers may find it difficult to follow. As a fan, that's hard for me to judge. I believe they will still enjoy it.
This book was intended as a launch for a new comic book series using these characters, but as memory serves that series only ran for a bit over a year (and I honestly didn't like it as well as this book). You can still find back issues of it in comic shops. And videotapes of the TV series are still commercially available, so far as I know.