In the wake of 2205‘s emotional finale, rare interviews, music concerts, TV appearances, memoirs, and an avalanche of online activity marked Yamato‘s 48th year. [5 pages]
SF writer Haruka Takachiho is a founding member of the famous Studio Nue. In 2022, he took to Twitter to relate a previously-unknown account of his stint as negotiator for the design work of Farewell to Yamato in 1978. His opponent? Producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki. And it’s definitely a tale for the ages.
From Como le va magazine: Toei Pictures Chairman Noriyuki Tada shares his memories of the 1977 Yamato movie. As a young staff member of Toei at the time, he got hooked on the TV series before the movie came along, and his account fills in some interesting details in the Yamato success story.
In the year 2205, Dessler searches for a planet for the Garmillas people to emigrate to, and finds Galman. On Earth, the 65th escort squadron is born with Yamato as its flagship. Among the young crew members training before launch is Ryusuke Domon, a young man with his sharp glare trained on Yamato.
The final month of 2022 ticked up a bit with a flurry of live events and the triumphant return of Michio Murakawa’s Yamato 2199 manga, both online and on paper. Here’s a roundup of everything Yamato fans tuned into as they counted down to 2023.
The new year brought new products, the birth of the official fan club, continued media attention, and a trickle of news about Yamato Part 2 that only vaguely hinted at the rush of preproduction activity behind the scenes. Here is an extensive record for the busy first quarter of 1978.
