YAT Untroubled Space Tours

* Season 1
* Season 2

**YAT Untroubled Space Tours** (YAT安心!宇宙旅行, *YAT Anshin! Uchu Ryokou*) is a Japanese anime created by Shinji Nishikawa and produced by Group TAC. It originally aired on NHK in Japan on October 5, 1996 to September 27, 1997 for the first season and the second season from April 11, 1998 to October 03, 1998. The show has also been aired in Thailand, Singapore, Spain, Mexico, Israel, Philippines, Indonesia and Peru, but despite its large fanbase as of 2008, there are no plans to release an English dub of the series.

## Plot

### 1st Season

In the 58th century, humanity has taken gigantic leaps to the galaxy and beyong though intergalactic voyage. This is all due to the innovation of the Dimensional Tunnels which progressed space travel through many milln. Centering on the planet Earth, an adolescent teenager named Goro Hoshiwatari approaches the feeble travel agency known as "Yamamoto Anshin Travel" to find the whereabouts of his father who disappeared fifteen years ago. Upon arriving, Goro meets the YAT staff and the president's daughter Katsura Tenjoin, whom he falls in love with. After getting inadvertently involved in an accident, Goro finds himself drafted into the agency to compensate for the damage. While Goro tours along to search for his missing father, his troubles turbulence from the president's various cash-making scams to enka-singing space pirates and escaping the romance attempts of the Cosmolord Agency's heiress.

### 2nd Season

Six months after the Mother Tunnel Haywire, the YAT crew resumed normal lives until they happily received news about Katsura's return. But the happy reunion does not lastwhen the YAT crew suddenly gets transported to an unknown universe. They soon discover the reason to be Professor Note, a scientist who was working on a Transportation Machine with his assistant, a cat-like girl with psychic powers named "Maron". Things get more wacky when the professor is targeted by the Ganon Empire, who plans to use his machine and Maron to rule the universe. As the journey gets tough with Yamamoto falling to the dark side, its up to the YAT crew to rescue their boss and the professor to find their way home.

## Cast

### YAT Crew

* Motoko Kumai as Goro Hoshiwatari
* Hekiru Shiina as Katsura Tenjoin
* Kiyoyuki Yanada as Kaoru Yamamoto
* Katsumi Suzuki as Ucchi
* Kappei Yamaguchi as Kanabi
* Yūko Mita as Bukki (Season 1)
* Yuki Masuda as Monica Francoise (Season 2)

### Season 1

* Kazuki Yao as Captain Rock
* Yūko Nagashima as Nanako
* Yuichi Nagashima as Hachibee
* Satomi Kōrogi as Kanea Marigold
* Atsuko Tanaka as Ann Marigold
* Wataru Takagi as Daniel
* Jūrōta Kosugi as Daigo Hoshiwatari
* Kumiko Watanabe as Haruka Hoshiwatari

### Season 2

* Sakura Tange as Maron
* Tomohisa Asou as Professor Note
* Norio Wakamoto as Ganon
* Nobuo Tobita as Baras
* Mari Mashiba as Dotsuku
* Kosuke Okano as Sagool
* Hideyuki Umezu as Surume

## Media Release

The anime was released on VHS, Laserdisc and CD by Sony Music Entertainment. The show has also aired towards Southern Asia such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Spain, Mexico, Israel, Philippines, Indonesia and Peru, though Taiwan never aired Season 2.

## Trivia

* The term **YAT** refers to the Japanese reading as **Yatto** (やっと), meaning "barely, narrowly, just by the skin of one's teeth", in according to the tardy nature of the protagonist crew.