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The eponymous spaceship of the Space Battleship Yamato appears in the Japanese science fiction anime series Space Battleship Yamato. It is also known as Space Cruiser Yamato to audiences that understand English. An English-dubbed and extensively edited version of the series was broadcast on television in North America and Australia under the name Star Blazers. This version's first two seasons were aired in Greece under the moniker "A" during the 1981–1982 television season. A Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and in Spain and Latin America it was known as either Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido. An Italian-language adaptation of the show was also broadcast in Italy and went by the name Star Blazers in that country. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato as his favorite anime, and he credits it with sparking his interest in anime. Yamato is a seminal series in the history of anime. The Seiun Award was not given out again for an anime series or movie again until 1985 for Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the award.