There were three series of that wernt there? I remember liking two of them and brushing off the third as being less teenage and more childish.
Star Blazers is getting a bit dated. It was from the middle ages of Japanimation , aka mid 70s. Its not nearly as smooth as the modern stuff is frameratewise... but the storylines, outside of a few individual episodes, is a wonderful story with a definitive start and finish. There were three or four full series for it. Only season one and two were ever done over here in the states.