Activity in the 2199 sphere dipped again in September 2016, but even now there are still new things to see. The Battlefield Infinity mobile game brought a new villain into the fray, the first-ever 2199 Blu-ray box set was announced, Sega added another game to the growing tally, and Twitter action continued apace. See it all here.
The Faraway Promised Land
Before them lies a blue planet… A planet that will bring hope to their own home. But no people are to be found there, save for a lonely queen. And her words come as a surprise. She says…
Manga Shonen was one of the first Japanese magazines to chart the growth of anime on TV and in theaters. This collection brings together their Yamato coverage for the pivotal year of 1978, when everything leveled up.
A full-throated trumpeting in early September 2016 finally brought Yamato 2202 out of the shadows and into public view with the first in what we can expect to be a long line of live events. That historic day is covered here in full. (2 pages)
Yamato 2199 activity continued its steady decline into the month of August 2016, which is an inevitable sign of both age and the rise of Yamato 2202. Nevertheless, seeds that were planted last year continue to bloom this year in the form of online activity along with the biannual boost of new doujinshis at Comiket.
One Man’s War
The enemy unleashes the light of despair upon Yamato. Will Yamato be blown apart just as it reaches its destination? Overcome this deadly peril and advance, Yamato! Your goal is the enemy’s heart: Dessler’s Palace.
The purpose of the many Time Machine collections here is to chart the evolution of both Yamato and anime journalism. Manga Shonen was an early source for both, a hugely popular magazine that was there to chart Yamato‘s rise to greatness just as the word “anime” entered the pop culture lexicon for the first time.
Before Space Battleship Yamato, there was New Battleship Yamato, conceived by the prolific author Ikki Kajiwara and published as both a novella and a manga in the early 60s. Then it vanished into history…until the summer of 2016 when it was revived to fly again. What kind of Yamato flew first? Find out here. (2 pages)
The first – and so far, only – English translation of a Space Battleship Yamato novelization originally written and published in Japan. This story was first published during the premiere broadcast of Series 1 and takes familiar elements into territory never explored in anime form. You’ll have to read it to believe it!
