Translated from the Yamato 2199 soundtrack CD booklets: three essays on composer Akira Miyagawa, sound supervisor Tomohiro Yoshida, and series director Yutaka Izubuchi – the key staff members who took on the heavy responsibility of remaking the greatest anime score of all time.
More songs were composed for Yamato 2199 than any previous Yamato production, and you can get to know them better here with complete translations of their lyrics. Also included are links to hear each one and a phonetic version for singalong purposes. Clear your schedule for this one!
Superfan Luis Cotovio brings you an episode-by-episode breakdown of every track heard in the series, an effort that reveals unreleased tracks, unused tracks, multiple uses of tracks, and other interesting details for the 2199 music connoisseur.
From Monthly Star Navi magazine comes this article by Professor Toshihiro Handa of the Kagoshima University Department of Science, who serves as Yamato 2199‘s astrophysics advisor. In it, he comments on the anime’s representation of real stellar objects just as he did in his earlier live lectures.
Episode 25 of Yamato 2199 was unique out of the entire series for having three different edits, each with progressively more footage added. This gave fans a way to extend their 2199 experience just a bit longer, and put this particular episode into a category all its own. How did each version differ? Found out here.
In part 6 of Yamato Lessons from the Past, Ryusuke Hikawa examines the effective use of music as a dramatic component in the original series and examines the phenomenon of creative inheritance from one Miyagawa to another, along with a look at how the depiction of mass destruction can tug at the heartstrings.
What happened when a ‘zine publisher found her way into the inner circle back in August 1977? Something that could never happen again – completely candid interviews with Yoshinobu Nishizaki and the main voice actors on the eve of super-stardom. That makes this issue of Yamato one for the history books.
Daniel George continues his 2-week travelogue across Japan with walking tours of Kyoto’s shrines and temples, the world’s biggest bowling alley, and a ninja museum. But he knows what you’re really dying to know – just how good is the kobe beef burger in Kyoto station? Find your answer here.
In this part, Daniel and Terry step from ancient history to modern fantasy with a visit to the Osamu Tezuka museum, then into a future filled with transforming Valkyries, idol singers, and super-dimensional fortresses. Named Macross. (In case you hadn’t guessed.)
Daniel and Terry move like lightning through the Battleship Yamato Museum and Leiji Matsumoto’s Gallery Zero in the port city of Kure, ponder the lessons one can only learn in Hiroshima, then dance with samurai swords in Kyoto as the first half of their epic journey concludes.
