Movies and TV shows like Star Blazers

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Star Blazers (1979)
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Star Blazers (1979)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Star Blazers is an American animated television series adaptation of the Japanese anime series, Space Battleship Yamato I, II, and III. Star Blazers was first broadcast in the United States in 1979. Significantly, it was the first popular English-translated anime that had an overarching plot and storyline that required the episodes to be shown in order. It dealt with somewhat more mature themes than other productions aimed at the same target audience at the time. As a result, it paved the way for future arc-based, plot-driven anime translations.
Style: anime, exciting, serious, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, vintage
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space, alien invasion, space opera, superhero, spaceship, space adventure, outer space, spacecraft, space wars, survival, heroes, space and aliens, space travel, battles, radiation, save the world, escapades, siege, danger, imaginary, evil alien, alien encounter, race against time, evil empire, heroic mission ...
Time: future, 22nd century

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Most similar movies to Star Blazers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, stylized, exciting and serious films and TV series with plots about space and aliens, heroes, escapades, outer space, rivalry, space wars and imaginary mostly in Animation, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato (1974), Battle of the Planets (1978), Robotech (1985), Space Cruiser Yamato 2 (1978), Heroic Age (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Space Battleship Yamato (1974)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from ...
Style: anime, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, spacecraft, space battle, save the world, outer space, space wars, battles, siege, radiation, escapades, imaginary ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: japan
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100%
Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross is an anime television series from 1982. According to story creator Shoji Kawamori, it depicts "a love triangle against the backdrop of great battles" during the first Human-alien war. It's the ...
Style: anime, mecha, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: robot, space wars, cloning, space and aliens, fighter plane, aviation, space opera, loss of friend, soldier, piloted giant robot, space, worldwide chaos ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2009 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Battle of the Planets (1978)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Battle of the Planets cast five young people as G-Force, consisting of Mark, Jason, Princess, Keyop, and Tiny. G-Force protects Earth from planet Spectra and other attacks from beyond space. The most prominent field commander of the Spectra forces ...
Style: anime, adult animation, semi serious, stylized, vintage
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: superhero, space travel, robot, alien, space, outer space, heroes, danger, escapades, good versus evil, rescue, youth ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Robotech (1985)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In the year 1999, an alien battle fortress crash lands on an island in the South Pacific. Over the next ten years, mankind repairs and refits this fortress, using the advanced "robotechnology" found aboard her to create fighter planes that ...
Style: anime, mecha, adult animation, adult anime, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: giant, space, robot, giant robot, alien invasion, space opera, apocalypse, fictional band, young adult, dystopian future, meme, spacecraft ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Space Cruiser Yamato 2 (1978)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious comet traveling to Earth's solar system is not what it seems. Without Captain Avatar, Derek Wildstar leads the Argo (Yamato) against a new enemy.
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: spacecraft, battles, escapades, against the rules, heroes, imaginary, evil alien, danger, save the world, space and aliens, heroic mission, evil empire ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Star Blazers 2199 (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Compilation of episodes 1-2 of the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 TV anime.
Style: exciting, futuristic, anime, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spacecraft, evil alien, alien encounter, battles, heroic mission, space and aliens, imaginary, escapades, mars, save the world, danger, struggle for survival ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Heroic Age (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: When the Golden Race invited other races to join them in the stars, three sentient races answered their call. The Goldens called them the Bronze, Silver and Heroic Tribes. Just before the Gold Tribe left to travel to another Universe, a fourth race ...
Style: anime, futuristic, tense, captivating, mecha ...
Audience: teens
Plot: outer space, heroic mission, save the world, space travel, heroes, rivalry, redemption, imaginary, escapades, space wars, obsessive quest, legends and myths ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Space Battleship Yamato (1977)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, save the world, alien invasion, battleship, spirit, galaxy, spacecraft, outer space, space wars, hopes, dystopian future, battles ...
Time: future, 70s, 22nd century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Banner of the Stars (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Now that three years has passed since their first adventure, Lafiel is now captain on a new ship and Jinto has just finished his training. They go out to complete a mission of defending the Laptic Gate.
Style: anime, captivating, serious, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, spacecraft, heroic mission, battles, good versus evil, evil empire, distant planet, benign alien, heroes, dishonesty, military, escapades ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Crest of the Stars (1999)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Jinto Lin's life changes forever when the Humankind Empire Abh takes over his home planet of Martine without firing a single shot. He is soon sent off to study the Abh language and culture and to prepare himself for his future as a nobleman - a ...
Style: anime, saga, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, space travel, military, betrayal, battles, outer space, space, surrender, rivalry, misfit, fall in love, good versus evil ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mobile Suit Gundam is a televised anime series, produced by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes. It was the ...
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: androids and robots, heroes, superhero, spacecraft, imaginary, chaos, space and aliens, heroic mission, man versus machine, dystopian future, robot, mobile suit gundam ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Galaxy Express 999 (1978)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In the distant future, people are able to take on artificial bodies and achieve immortality. A poor orphan, Tetsuro Hoshino, strives to obtain a mechanical body for the triple incentive of eternal life, of revenge (his mother was gunned down by ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, bleak, futuristic ...
Plot: space opera, space travel, outer space, train, space and aliens, imaginary, androids and robots, heroes, escapades, young heroes, rivalry, danger ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: After a drawn-out, viciously-fought war, the earth has been conquered by the alien Illumidus Empire. Harlock, a captain in earth's fleet, crashes his ship to prevent the Illumidus from using it, and flat-out refuses to join them. With the help ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: pirate, space opera, world war two, space and aliens, alien invasion, space, space adventure, spacecraft, heroes, space pirate, master warrior, imaginary ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers is an American animated Space Western television series created by Robert Mandell and Gaylord Entertainment Company. The series combines sci-fi stories with traditional wild west themes. It is one of the first ...
Style: retro, anime, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space travel, superhero, space, artificial intelligence, chaos, toys, tough heroes, allies, alien encounter, space wars, heroic mission, androids and robots ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Gundam 0080: A War in the Pocket (1989)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: In the final days of the One Year War, a Zeon special forces group infiltrates a colony to gather information on a new Gundam unit. Alfred Izuruha, a 10-year-old student, befriends Zeon rookie pilot Bernie Wiseman during a brief mobile suit combat. ...
Style: anime, mecha, serious, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space, child, mobile suit gundam, space opera, battles, terrorism, soldier, military, star crossed lovers, chaos and mayhem, space wars, heroic mission ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Return to the Planet of the Apes is a short-lived animated series, by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with 20th Century Fox Television, based upon Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel had previously inspired five films ...
Style: apocalyptic
Audience: kids
Plot: ape, planet of the apes, time travel, apocalypse, post apocalypse, end of the world, dystopia, astronaut, monkey, space adventure, chimpanzee, gorilla ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genesis Climber Mospeada (1983)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 625 min.
TV show
Story: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA is an anime science fiction series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma. The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan. MOSPEADA stands for Military Operation Soldier Protection ...
Style: anime, mecha, cult classic, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: giant robot, alien invasion, alien encounter, mars, space travel, heroic mission, space wars, technology gone awry, righting the wronged, chaos, battles, escapades ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Galaxy Railways (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The Galaxy Railways is a 26 episode science fiction anime series about flying trains set in the far reaches of space. It is licensed by Funimation Production Ltd. and produced by Leiji Matsumoto. It debuted on American TV in a syndicated FUNimation ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, stylized
Plot: supernatural, destiny, battles, supernatural ability, danger, escapades, evil alien, space travel, outer space, parents and children, asteroids and comets, alien encounter ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Gunbuster (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In the very near future, a race of huge, insectoid aliens are discovered traveling the galaxy. These aliens, which are known as the Uchuu Kaijuu, or Space Monsters, seem dedicated to the eradication of the human species as the latter takes its first ...
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: time dilation, androids and robots, underground, space opera, space, military, battles, chaos, heroes, hotshot hero, rivalry, imaginary ...
Time: future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Super Dimensional Cavalry: Southern Cross (1984)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross is a Japanese science fiction mecha anime TV series released in 1984.
Style: anime, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: aviation, battles, tough heroes, chaos, rivalry, space and aliens, androids and robots, escapades, survival, heroes, evil alien, imaginary ...
Time: future, 22nd century
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41%
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Peter Quill is Star-Lord, the brash adventurer who, to save the universe from its greatest threats, joins forces with a quartet of disparate misfits — fan-favorite Rocket Raccoon, a tree-like humanoid named Groot, the enigmatic, expert fighter ...
Style: captivating, exciting, humorous, semi serious, manga ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: space travel, superhero, outer space, imaginary, save the world, space wars, danger, good versus evil, hotshot hero, heroic mission, space, escapades ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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VanDread (2000)
Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Vandread is a Japanese anime series directed by Takeshi Mori and created by Gonzo and Media Factory animation studios. The series is composed of two seasons, each composed of thirteen episodes of twenty-five minutes. The first series is summarized ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: heroic mission, battle of the sexes, space travel, dystopian future, battles, escapades, imaginary, rivalry, danger, androids and robots, space and aliens, space opera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: U.C. 0123. After a generation of peace, the Earth Federation has begun to build new space colonies to house humanity's growing population. But a new force, the aristocratic Crossbone Vanguard, plans to seize the colonies of the newly ...
Style: anime, mecha, serious, stylized, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mobile suit gundam, androids and robots, space and aliens, evil alien, battles, dystopian future, escapades, superhero, imaginary, chaos, heroes, rivalry ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Knights of Sidonia (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: An alien race called Gauna has destroyed Earth. leaving humanity struggling to survive aboard the spaceship Sidonia. Even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose ...
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, manga ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: space battle, androids and robots, spacecraft, space travel, space and aliens, danger, escapades, heroes, military, rivalry, distopia, mature ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
UFO Robot Grendizer (1975)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Golodorak The Movie
Style: anime, grindhouse, mecha, serious, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: androids and robots, space and aliens, superhero, good versus evil, imaginary, rivalry, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, save the world, danger, battles ...
Time: future, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is an anime television series, the 11th incarnation of Sunrise studio's long-running Gundam franchise comprising two seasons. The series is set on a futuristic Earth and is centered on the exploits of the fictional ...
Style: anime, mecha, bleak, serious, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: androids and robots, space and aliens, battles, rivalry, space station, resentment, imaginary, danger, survival, invasion, chaos and mayhem, mobile suit gundam ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: For decades, the Galactic Empire has been locked in an interstellar war with the Free Planets Alliance, a conflict that involves thousands of spaceships and millions of soldiers on both sides. Two new commanders enter the conflict with great hopes: ...
Style: anime, mecha, contemplative, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space opera, outer space, military, political intrigue, space, space wars, politics, ambition, utopia, superior officer, space station, spacecraft ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Dragonaut: The Resonance (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: An asteroid is headed for Earth and in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the ISDA create the "Dragonaut" after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. This weapon's primary purpose is to destroy the asteroid when the ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Plot: man versus machine, heroic mission, space travel, save the world, heroes, technology gone awry, danger, apocalypse, androids and robots, escapades, rivalry, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Martian Successor Nadesico (1996)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Martian Successor Nadesico, known in Japan as Mobile Battleship Nadesico, is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga, published in English by CPM Manga, is significantly different from the ...
Style: anime, parody, exciting, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: outer space, robot, space adventure, space opera, space wars, mars, silly humor, artificial intelligence, save the day, heroes, evil alien, rivalry ...
Time: 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon (1992)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: U.C. 0083 - Three years after the end of the catastrophic One Year War, peace on Earth and the colonies is shattered by the presence of the Delaz Fleet, a rogue Zeon military group loyal to the ideals of the late dictator Gihren Zabi. Delaz ...
Style: anime, mecha, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, space wars, androids and robots, military, chaos, outer space, chess, space station, space and aliens, battle zone, survival ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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