When Yamato III was infamously cut in half for Japanese TV, it resulted in a lot of abandoned material that, in all likelihood, would have made it a far better story. How was this material recovered and adapted into a webcomic? Read the first part of this tale here.
The true victims of the Yamato III cutback were the new characters, who lost their chance to be fully developed in the anime. When they got a new lease on life with the webcomic, it became necessary to create their backstories. Those notes are presented here.
In April 2015, some very lucky fans got to see the upgraded version of Ark of the Stars at special theatrical screenings of the “Blu-ray edition”, Yamaket 5 brought fans together for a day of celebration, and other interesting news flashes pointed the way to the future.
A World I Once Saw
Everyone lives with secret feelings. It takes courage to reflect on a horrible past and one’s own mistakes. But look toward to the future. Now is the time to go forward. Yamato advances on an unimaginably long journey.
Some serious book publishing began just after Final Yamato closed in theaters, which happened to coincide with the last of the monthly magazine coverage. This was the month when fans had their say about the film, and opinions ranged as widely then as they do now.
March 2015 was peppered with interesting developments on multiple fronts as the home video release of Ark of the Stars got another month closer. From Concert 2015 to several unique products and events, here’s everything that crossed the radar scope. [2 pages]
Graveyard of the Universe Yamato plunges through a dimensional gap, into a ship’s graveyard. A cruel space, devoid of life. And there, the shadow of an enemy ship appears. Will they work together or against one other? Will men be able to work together, rather than wait for death?
Now that the movie was released into the world, everyone had something to say about it both pro and con. The conversation was just beginning as this month’s wave of magazine, book, and music publishing hit the stores – and the very first arrival of Yamato on home video was right behind it.
On March 2, 2015, the Imperial Japanese Navy Battleship Musashi, a twin to Yamato, was found at the bottom of the Philippine Sibuyan Sea by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Naturally, someone in the media wondered what Leiji Matsumoto thinks about that…
