Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar is a tV series anime that premiered in fall 1974, produced by Office Academy.

About the production: the story comes from an original script, there are 26 episodes of about 25 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, adventure, drama and sci-fi, with themes such as Space, Space Opera, Aliens and Military.

On AniList, Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar has an average score of 72%, a good score, and appears on 10,737 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2 and Saraba Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Ai no Senshitachi.

In the distant future, the war between the human race and the Gamilon has taken its toll on the planet Earth. Constant bombardment of radioactive asteroids has rendered the planet's atmosphere uninhabitable. As a means of relief aid, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutalize the radiation off the planet. For this task, the space battleship Yamato is launched from the remains of its World War II ancestor on a 148,000 light-year journey. However, the crew of the Yamato has only one Earth year to travel to Iscandar and back, or the human race will come to an end. (Source: Anime News Network)

Official synopsis from AniList.