Why would the December 1979 issue of Gallantmen come up on a Space Battleship Yamato website? Because it profiled Yoshinobu Nishizaki in a regular feature that examined the lifestyles of Japan’s rich and famous alpha males. As the richest and most successful producer of anime films, he definitely fit the bill.
The second month of Yamato‘s 50th year on planet Earth kept the party going with a nice mixture of live music, models, news flashes, and fan activity. Here’s all the info from February 2024…
As summer merged into fall, the world of Yamato was only getting bigger in the wake of The New Voyage, and Office Academy studio was only getting busier. The American premiere of Star Blazers and the Japanese premiere of Blue Noah were just part of the picture. Here’s everything that happened in these productive months.
No Yamato film outperformed Farewell in 1978, and no Yamato song outperformed the magnificent From Yamato With Love, which became hugely popular and made the pop music charts. Music researcher Toshiako Sato explores the making of the song with observations on the meaning of Yu Aku’s lyrics.
In the wake of The New Voyage, the popularity of Yamato‘s voice actors continued to grow in parallel with Yamato itself and the overall anime boom it helped to ignite. Here, those actors speak about their work in a pair of interviews, both published in September and October 1979.
