{"id":13422,"date":"2014-02-13T07:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=13422"},"modified":"2014-04-15T05:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T05:08:04","slug":"836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/836\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Yamato<\/em> Time Machine, October 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This was was a good month for SF anime, seeing the debut of both Macross<\/em> and Endless Road SSX<\/em>, both of which were covered in anime magazines along with news of Final Yamato<\/em>‘s mecha and music. Plus, the Yamato<\/em> fan club magazine published a first-hand account of the momentous ten-year celebration party.<\/p>\n

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This was a month that would go down in history, not directly because of Space Battleship Yamato<\/em>, but indirectly because of its best-known progeny; Episode 1 of Super Dimensional Fortress Macross<\/em> hit the airwaves on October 3. It was the first new anime program to arrive since late August, and it was on a road to success that had been paved by Yamato<\/em> and Mobile Suit Gundam<\/em> before it. Whereas the first series of both those programs were cut short due to low ratings, Macross<\/em> was actually extended<\/em> because of miraculously high ratings. In other words, the SF anime audience had finally grown into a sustainable resource.<\/p>\n

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It was a particularly good month for SF anime on TV, also seeing the broadcast debut of the second Captain Harlock series, Endless Road SSX<\/em>, which was a sequel to the July blockbuster My Youth in Arcadia<\/em> (which, interestingly, inherited the production and release track at Toei Pictures that was originally slated for Final Yamato<\/em>.) Space Adventure Cobra<\/em> also appeared to make it a TV hat trick, and moviegoers could take in the grim Future War 198X<\/em> at the end of the month. On the horizon was a Godmars<\/em> feature film that would coincide with the end of the TV series.<\/p>\n

Because you’ve all been good little boys and girls, each magazine’s coverage for both Macross<\/em> and Endless Road SSX<\/em> is included in the links below.<\/p>\n

Final Yamato<\/em> rolled onward through another month of production, and each of the anime magazines delivered news on two of fans’ favorite subjects: mecha and music.<\/p>\n

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Animedia<\/em>, November issue<\/h3>\n

Gakken Marketing, October 10, 1982<\/em><\/p>\n

Macross<\/em> and SSX<\/em> lead this issue’s report on new shows, followed by a retrospective of Lupin III. Crusher Joe<\/em> and Harmagedon<\/em>, both being prepped for the same release month as Final Yamato<\/em>, also got their due.<\/p>\n

Yamato<\/em> actually got two articles this time. The first was a 5-page look back at Series 1 titled “Anime Theater,” and Final Yamato<\/em> got 4 pages with a Yoshinobu Nishizaki interview and comments from the design staff.<\/p>\n

Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Anime<\/em> Magazine #36<\/h3>\n

Kindai Movie Co., October 10, 1982<\/em><\/p>\n

A 7-page cover story on the Godmars<\/em> movie was followed by articles on new and forthcoming projects on both TV and the big screen. A bound-in insert examined how a TV robot anime series is developed, using a hypothetical show called Passion Robo Gunbal 5<\/em> – fully planned but never greenlit. Another substantial article examined the historical framework of a new WWII anime film about refugee children titled Tsushimamaru: Goodbye, Okinawa<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Final Yamato<\/em> article ran 4 pages, interviewing Nishizaki and other key staff members about the movie’s unprecedented ahead-full-on-all-fronts production model.<\/p>\n

Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My Anime<\/em>, November issue<\/h3>\n

Akita Shoten, October 10, 1982<\/em><\/p>\n

Endless Road SSX<\/em> got the cover position here. A 24-page bound-in booklet examined the career of Kaoru Shintani, who started out as a manga assistant to Leiji Matsumoto and went on to create the long-lived Area 88<\/em>. All the forthcoming feature films were profiled, along with TV programs and a live Urusei Yatsura<\/em> stage musical.<\/p>\n

Final Yamato<\/em> got a 6-page article that highlighted Yoshinori Kanada’s conceptual designs and reported on the songs being created for the film.<\/p>\n

Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Animage<\/em> Magazine #53<\/h3>\n

Tokuma Shoten, October 10, 1982<\/em><\/p>\n

Godmars<\/em> got the star treatment with 16 lavish pages and a bound-in booklet, followed by ample coverage of new and upcoming anime. Hayao Miyazaki had to take the month off from his Nausicaa<\/em> manga, but made up for it with a collection of design notes.<\/p>\n

The Final Yamato<\/em> article ran 5 pages that contained comments from staff members involved in both mecha design and song production. Tokuma Shoten was also readying the Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> Perfect Manuals for January, and advertised them for the first time in this issue.<\/p>\n

Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yamato<\/em> Fan Club Magazine Vol. 31<\/h3>\n

October 25, 1982<\/em><\/p>\n

This issue provided another example of the disconnect between official publishing date and actual content. The main article was about an opulent October 22 party to celebrate Yamato<\/em>‘s ten years on Earth, which makes the October 25 date on the magazine a bit questionable. Nevertheless, the event was described in detail and followed by an extensive collection of Dengil mecha designs.<\/p>\n

See the pages here<\/a><\/p>\n

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SF Future War Account: All Warships Launch!<\/em><\/h3>\n

Tokuma Shoten, December 1978<\/em><\/p>\n

This SF anthology may seem a bit out of place here, but it has an interesting connection to Final Yamato<\/em>. It was illustrated by members of Yamato<\/em>‘s original design house, Studio Nue – and the cover was painted by mecha master Kazutaka Miyatake.<\/p>\n

In a Yamatalk event with Miyatake held in September 2013 (reported here<\/a>), Yamato 2199<\/em> director Yutaka Izubuchi revealed that during his time as a mecha designer on Final Yamato<\/em>, he showed this cover art to Yoshinobu Nishizaki. His intention was to sell Nishizaki on this approach for the ship designs, but the producer instead zeroed in on the space-as-ocean symbolism. It is believed that this had a strong influence on the look of Final Yamato<\/em>‘s climax.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to see Studio Nue’s illustrations for this book.<\/p>\n

The End<\/h3>\n

Continue to November 1982<\/a>: My Anime<\/em> gives Final Yamato<\/em> its first cover story and reports extensively on the “Yamato<\/em> Decade.” The writers speak, Animedia<\/em> does a poster, The Anime<\/em> does a book, and Animage<\/em> instructs its readers in how to enjoy TV anime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-final-yamato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13422"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13995,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13422\/revisions\/13995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}