Yamato 2199 is a VERY good remake of the original Star Blazers. One of the rare anime that’s super high quality and quite adult in content with an ongoing story. It’s true to the roots, follows the original story, the characters look and sound the same, but it’s animated at professional near-movie quality levels in 1080p with superb sound.
They even stick to using the original music and sound effects, but redone in a modern studio.
It’s blatantly made from the ground up to appeal to us middle age adults who watched the very roughly animated original as kids. I could not resist watching it since I was so addicted to it when I was very young.
Frankly, it’s good and episodic in a classic Star Trek way. Great stuff if you love science fiction.
It is completely unbelievable they remade the original in such high quality and detail considering that it must have been a near impossible sell from a marketing standpoint to current young audiences. Someone must have had a lot of pull and money to get this done.
There are other versions of this already that are live-action. Avoid them like the plague, they are terrible.
*for later*