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Space Cruiser Yamato 2 (1978)
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Space Cruiser Yamato 2 (1978)
Original name: Uchû senkan Yamato 2
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, exciting, serious, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: outer space, heroes, spacecraft, space and aliens, space travel, battles, space wars, save the world, escapades, danger, imaginary, evil alien, evil empire, against the rules, heroic mission, comet, battleship, honor, space, laser, fight back
Time: future, 23rd century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, exciting, stylized and serious films and TV series with plots about heroes, escapades, space and aliens, danger, rivalry, imaginary and space wars mostly in Animation, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Space Cruiser Yamato 2: Space Battleship Yamato (1974), Star Blazers (1979), Banner of the Stars (2000), Space Battleship Yamato (1977), Star Blazers 2199 (2012). 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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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 ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, captivating, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space, alien invasion, space opera, spaceship, space adventure, superhero, spacecraft, outer space, space wars, battles, siege, radiation ...
Time: future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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 ⇓
76%
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 ⇓
76%
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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 ⇓
76%
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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
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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 ⇓
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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 ⇓
67%
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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 ...
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Country: Japan
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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
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Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Glass Fleet (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A tyrannical Emperor has his grasp over the galaxy. The rebels outnumbered and outgunned try to locate the mythical Glass Fleet that once served the true ruler. They do find one of the royal descendants, now a space pirate.
Style: anime, exciting, stylized, serious, suspense
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
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Style: anime, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized ...
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Time: future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
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Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: future
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 30 min.
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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 ...
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Time: future
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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