Voice actor Koichi Yamadera can make a singular claim when it comes to Yamato having played both Kodai AND Dessler on separate occasions. His return in Yamato 2202 Chapter 4 was hyped by four separate interviews that appeared in the media just before the January 2018 premiere. All four are presented here.
Published by Gigazine: Scriptwriter Hideki Oka describes what it took to keep up with Japanese TV as a kid in the 70s and discusses his “awakening” in the “sacred summer” of 1978 – which inspired him to quit school to watch Yamato 2.
How and when would the Wave-Motion Gun finally go off? From the official Yamato 2202 website: Series Writer Harutoshi Fukui, Scriptwriter Hideki Oka, and Director Nobuyoshi Habara discuss this and many other fine points of reshaping Farewell to Yamato and Yamato 2 for today’s audiences.
