Product: Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar - Series One, Part 1 (Episodes 1-5) (1974)
Rating: 4.0
The nostalgia alone makes it worth it
The Star Blazers series was the first Japanese cartoon I really liked. It captured my young imagination. And it made me curse things like dentist appointments that forced me to miss episodes. I have never seen the entire series, so seeing this come out on DVD is very thrilling.The quality of the DVD however is nothing special. There are no extras on disc one, and the only optimization made is to not force the viewer to see closing credits after every episode. I also was not entirely thrilled with the price especially when you start to realize that a good 15% of every episode is spent recapping.But I digress, the series is so cool, especially for its time, that it is well worth adding to the collection. I can't wait to have all the episodes of the first series. No dentist appointment will prevent me from knowing what happens next.