A spinoff of the pivotal OUT magazine, Rendezvous Comic was a bi-monthly manga anthology that launched in the spring of ’78. The third issue was released in July and contained a thoughtful essay by Yoshinobu Nishizaki about the making of Farewell to Yamato.
From Kinejun magazine #740, (August 1978) the first mainstream magazine to devote its cover story to an anime film. Yoshinobu Nishizaki was interviewed at length, discussing aspects of the Yamato success story that hadn’t been reported before.
