An analysis of every episode in the Comet Empire series, as written by a viewer who watched them as a boy in Japan and now revisits them in his 60s. Episodes 1-4 added October 2026.
Until we find evidence to the contrary, the very first Yamato doujinshi appears to be Negal, the journal of Space Battleship Yamato F.C. [Fan Club]. To honor its position in history, the entire run of Negal is presented here in its own collection.
As we look into the early years of Yamato‘s legacy era, the first anime we run into is the most notorious of Yoshinobu Nishizaki’s post-Yamato projects: Odin. Released as a feature film in 1985, it turned into a box office bomb. How did it get there? This series will track it from start to finish and maybe find out.
August 2026 was the first of two “standby months” between the final chapters of 3199, and while animators toiled away in the shadows the rest of us celebrated in the usual manner with news flashes and chatter and everything else fans do in the waiting room. Here is what we did…
From the REBEL 3199 Chapter 6 program book: Nobuteru Yuuki discusses his tenure on the Yamato remake saga, describing his involvement in development, his approach to designing people, the responsibility of carrying a legacy, and Yamato‘s evolution over the last dozen years.
Posted on the RealSound website: An in-depth conversation with co-composers Akira Miyagawa and Shu Kanematsu about how the music for 3199 was conceived, what it means to inherit a musical legacy, and how the craft of composing soundtrack music changes with the generations.
At the dawn of its “legacy years”, the biggest project on the calendar was the Grand Symphony. Video releases went into overdrive and an unusual publishing project was underway (in English), but Yoshinobu Nishizaki had made it clear in ’83 that the Yamato story was over. Would he stick to that promise? Nope. He would not. [2 pages]
