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Time for yet again for another post. I figure time to go a little old school. What kind of animes did old geezers like me get into? We did, but may have not realized their origin. The first anime series I watched as a kid was Gigantor, known in Japan as Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō, (鉄人28号 literally "Iron Man #28"). The TV series first ran in Japan in 1963 and came to the United States in 1964. It was based on a 1956 manga with the same name written by Mitsuteru Yokoyama (横山 光輝 Yokoyama Mitsuteru).
Moving up to the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the United States, it was called Star Blazers. This one was heavily edited from its original Japanese version because of some cultural sensitivities. It's Japanese and original name was Space Battleship Yamato (宇宙戦艦ヤマト Uchū Senkan Yamato). In this space opera, Earth is being invaded by an extra terrestrial military. To save Earth, the World War Two Battleship was Yamato raised from the bottom of the ocean and retrofitted to be a space ship.
With their 18 inch main guns, the Yamato and her sister ship Musashi were the largest and heaviest armed battleships ever built. Both were sunk by American aircraft during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.