Yeah, it sounds like a hodgepodge of 80s TV show clichés, but the show gelled into a fun interstellar A-Team for two seasons.įor many in the U.S., Star Blazers was the first hardcore science fiction Japanese animation we ever saw. Our heroes include a mystical astrophysicist with a touch of the action hero whose parents were killed in the first invasion, a by-the-book biologist, a paraplegic computer genius, and a conservative Native American military man. The aliens then possess the bodies of the terrorists and begin a plan to prepare the Earth for a full invasion and occupation by a massive fleet coming from Mor-Tax.Īn elite counterforce of mismatched souls is the only thing that can stop the rubbery E.T. That is, until a pesky leftist domestic-terrorist group accidentally irradiates the aliens and awakens them.
The government hid them in secret facilities and a widespread disinformation campaign eventually led to people forgetting that the attacks actually happened. The invaders from Mars (switched to a distant planet Mor-Tax in this version) didn't just die out, but went into stasis.
While nothing could ever top Orson Welles at the Mercury Theatre in 1938, this TV version picks up where the other leaves off.
