From the Star Blazers/Yamato Premium Fan Club magazine, Vol. 16 (April 2023): Writer Harutoshi Fukui and Scriptwriter Hideki Oka break the long silence to update fans on the status of Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 and hint at the intrigue to come.
From the Star Blazers/Yamato Premium Fan Club magazine, Vol. 15 (October 2022): 2202 and 2205 scriptwriter Hideki Oka looks back at the progressive year 1980 and recounts his impressions as a fan in the “target generation” who closely watched Yamato in real time.
The month following the incredible box office success of Farewell to Yamato was both a victory lap and the beginning of a marathon. As new media coverage and publishing rolled out to feed a grateful public, production began on Yamato 2 and a major step was taken on the road to Star Blazers.
The Earth and Garmillas fleets, helpless in the face of Dezarium’s Autoplanet Goruba, decide to rescue everyone on Iscandar. However, Kodai, feeling guilty about using the Wave-Motion Gun, refuses to be dissuaded by Starsha. Dessler hurls words of contempt at her.
Yamato world held steady for another month with a new Yamaket fan gathering, another round of Hyuga parts, two live concerts, unexpected media blips and the next issue of the Premium Fan Club magazine with some fresh 3199 news. Let’s take it from the top…
After reaching Iscandar, Yamato and its two companion ships join Dessler’s fleet. In order to warp Iscandar further, Dezarium is targeting the planet Garmario in the Bolzon system as an energy resource. In order to block this strategy, Kodai decides to destroy Garmario with the Wave-Motion Gun…
This was the month when all the suspense finally broke. Farewell to Yamato destroyed all previous box office records for anime films (including that of Yamato itself) with a fresh, uncompromised, top-notch production. It was a moment no one could have foreseen four years earlier.
The “hidden story” behind the movie’s first TV broadcast is still one worth telling, because it represents both Yoshinobu Nishizaki at the peak of his power and Yamato at the peak of its popularity. Here that story is told in two 1978 news articles.
Junichiro Tamamori discusses the process of evolving the supply carrier Hyuga into the elaborate 1/350 Diecast Gimmick Model, and shares his thoughts on the next phase of mecha design for Be Forever Yamato, REBEL 3199.
