A complete overview of Series 2 via the galleries created as bonus features for the Comet Empire DVD series released by Voyager Entertainment in 2002. All the characters, ships, weapons, locations, maps, and more!
August 2015 was enlivened by news of upcoming products and punctuated by two reliable summer events: Comiket and Chara Hobby. Add in a revival of 2014’s traveling Art Exhibition and a historic SF award, and it starts to look like what we’ve all grown accustomed to over the past few years.
Point of No Return
In the vast space between galaxies, a trap is laid by a patient enemy. Yamato is surrounded. With hell ahead of them and hell behind, there’s no turning back. Yamato, escape this deadly trap!
From the Yamato 2199 Concert 2015 program book: music writer Ryozo Fuwa’s essay on the making of the 2199 music, culminating with Ark of the Stars. He reviews composer Akira Miyagawa’s personal achievements and examines the challenge of not only remaking, but surpassing his father’s work on the original saga.
From the Yamato 2199 Concert 2015 program book: Composer Akira Miyagawa followed in the footsteps of his father Hiroshi Miyagawa to create the music of Yamato 2199, and sound director Tomohiro Yoshida is a self-proclaimed Yamato fan. They talk about the music of both Yamato and Concert 2015.
When the first Star Blazers series came to DVD in 2001, they came with extensive galleries as bonus features that catalogued every aspect of the story: characters, ships, mecha, weapons, history, and more. Here you can examine each of those galleries in full and maybe even find something new.
Going into July 2015, it looked like very little was in store in terms of new activity. A new art book was promised for the end of the month, but there wasn’t much to bridge the gap. But as the month went on, things got progressively more interesting – and then a MASSIVE news flash made it a month we’d never forget.
From fan club magazine Ship’s Log, July 2015. When the curtain closed on Yamato 2199 in May 2015, it was the first time since 2009 that fans had no new production to look forward to. That uncertainty was broken two months later with this interview, containing the official announcement of the next big thing!
The Whisper of the Witch
A siren’s song lures ships to their doom. Snow falls in the emptiness of the void, where a shadow of evil prowls. Yamato is shipwrecked. And inside, no one is to be found. What will Kodai and the others see there?
Michio Murakawa’s adaptation of The Whisper of the Witch goes far beyond the anime, using dreamscapes to provide glimpses of the crew’s lives on Earth prior to the mission. Those sequences are described here so that non-Japanese readers can share Murakawa’s thoughtful passion for these characters.
From Dengeki Hobby Web: this interview with 2199 Mecha Director Masanori Nishii was published to mark the arrival of Yamato 2199 Hyper Mechanical Detail Artworks, the ultimate mecha art book on the series. He discusses the demands of creating Yamato mecha AND prepping it for the printed page.
This record encompasses everything from mooks and manga to novels and specialty publications that takes the 2199 experience beyond the screen. Use this as a checklist for your own library, find links to buy what you’re missing, and discover the real-world literature that plays a role of its own. [2 pages]
