I am really feeling sad tonight as a anime fan.....

 Hello All,                                                                                                                                                      So tonight's entry is one that is truly very much not really anything but a love letter to someone that I have never met but she did give a very beloved gift to us who are Anime and science fiction fans the world over when she voiced the character in the animated series from Japan known here in America or the United States as Star Blazers. In it's home country it was known as Space Cruiser Yamato and when it was brought to the states it was heavily edited of historical and certain types of violence that wouldn't have been understood by the very audiences it was aimed for of young children. I have to admit that the reason why I love cartoons of any kind is because of Star Blazers which of late I have been rewatching for the past few weeks with it's more recently reinvisioned updated version from a couple of years ago by the animation release company called FUNIMATION productions. So very soon here there will be a complete comparison of STAR BLAZERS vs STAR BLAZERS 2199 and STAR BLAZERS 2202, so be on the look out for it in the near future!                                                                                                                                     While I was watching a close out of a independent comic by Comicsgate called Alien Alamo by creator Graham Nolan who known best for illustrating the Batman villain called Bane in the 1990's in the Batman storyline "Knightfall" to rival Marvel's X-MEN " "Onslaught" or the company's mascot of Spider-Man with his storyline known simply as "Clone Saga" to run parallel to Decetevice comics mascot of Superman in a story simply called "Death of  Superman", anyway while watching the close out of Alien Alamo on YouTube I went looking around the internet for things that I had forgotten about doing today besides backing Alien Alamo when I was on my way to the bank after work at Albertson's. So the first thing I saw on Facebook was the passing of Amy Howard Wilson on my news feed... a tear came to me in my heart when I saw this!                                                   The character that Amy lent her voice to is Nova who started in Star Blazers as a nurse at the local hospital in one of the many underground cities on planet earth.                     

                                                                                Who to the two earth surveillance officers who have just returned from space duty on Mars looks very much like the possible alien woman they encountered a few weeks ago during one of earth's latest space battles in the far regions of our solar system. She joins them and many other people who volunteer to save the whole planet aboard a refitted earth battleship called the Yamato.                                                                                                   

   

Amy was able to show throughout the series of for what most Americans saw was fifty two episodes (there was a third season when Animes had a name in 1983 yet only one original voice actor returned from the original two), she was able to get across that women in the world can be just as strong in their decisions as men are. Her character grew from a hard worker at the radar station on the bridge to exploring planets and of course falling in love with Derek Wildstar without him being mostly unwear of it till the end of the first season while still fighting the enemy. 

In the very last episode of the first series her character's shows the greatest strength of love for the planet earth by scarfacing her love of existence to save her fellow crew members...with possibly facing death overall. 

Years later Amy took part with her voice actor costars at Anime cons giving talks about what it was like of recording sessions.  There happens to be a cos player who got a chance to talk about said things I have mentioned here on her YouTube channel called the NOVA Show. I am sure that she is very saddened to heat of Amy's passing. Amy passed away on the last day of last month as far as I can gather from her online obituary on Facebook she passed while sleeping in the night so she went peaceful and met God with ease. Here is a photo of her along with the character she gave life to. 

May heaven welcome this wonderful woman who was always kind to everyone she met in her time on earth. What's very interesting is that in the last episode of season one of Star Blazers Derek carries Nova from the mourge to go see Doctor Sane and in his thoughts besides talking about their whole year together he asks "God please let her wake up".... so why am I including this piece of dialog in Amy Howard Wilson's love letter is because it not only fits her entrance into heaven, it without any doubt showed growth of the translators being brave enough with the script  not to takes it out a moving moment in a show meant for children is so very right.  
                                                                                                                                                                      May God bless her loving husband David Wilson during these tiring times who was her Derek Wildstar in life!