I no longer recommend watching 12 or 13 hours of Star Blazers from the link I posted yesterday. Trust me, I did it. By the end, your eyes get used to fuzziness and compression artifacts, and the real world looks strange for not having them. As I said, the DVDs are on Netflix.

These subtitled versions of Yamato are of such a higher visual quality that it would be a crime to do anything but pimp them instead:

http://www.youtube.com/user/sute7899
http://www.youtube.com/user/sute7988

I have not found the Japanese version of the actual TV series on Netflix, only the Japanese movies.