A 9 minutes video featuring intros of the most known 90’s cartoons. Batman, Bucky O’Hare, Animaniacs, Pokemon (anime) and The New Adventures of He-Man, Spider-Man, Superman, Beavis & Butthead, Dexters’ Lab, and Duckman among others.
This one was from the folks who created Kimba, The White Lion and the Astroboy, among others. It was the story of a vampire father and his daughter, and very boring for my taste, heh. But there was plenty of kids, specially the girls who loved it. What follows is some minutes of the first episode in portuguese.
This anime was all the rages in Brazil when it made its première in 1983. As it was broadcast by a new TV station at the time, all the children gathered to watch it in the houses where the signal of Manchete TV was available, as there was no cable broadcasters by them. I personally loved this anime and was lucky enough to receive the transmission in my home, so I didn’t miss a single episode. The first series, the fight against the evil empire of Iscandar and the radiation which was about to destroy the Earth if the Yamato (in the Brazilian and Greek versions, the Argo) didn’t return to earth in 365 days lasted for 26 anxiously waited episodes, heh. More details about the series on the Wikipedia.
The opening titles bellow is the very rare first intro from the japanese original. In Japanese, subbed in English.
And this was the English opening titles we also saw in Brazil:
The lyrics:
We’re off to outer space
We’re leaving Mother Earth
To save the human race
Our Star BlazersSearching for a distant star
Heading off to Iscandar
Leaving all we love behind
Who knows what danger we’ll find?We must be strong and brave
Our home we’ve got to save
If we don’t in just one year
Mother Earth will disappearFighting with the Gamilons
We won’t stop until we’ve won
Then we’ll return and when we arrive
The Earth will survive
With our Star Blazers
More Yamato to come, stay tuned.