{"id":19191,"date":"2015-08-09T23:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T06:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=19191"},"modified":"2025-02-19T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T03:28:32","slug":"650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/650\/","title":{"rendered":"The “lost” Yamato III<\/em> manga by Hiroshi Aizawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After assisting Leiji Matsumoto on the Farewell to Yamato<\/em> manga, artist Hiroshi Aizawa brought his steady hand to Yamato III<\/em>. It was serialized in Adventure King<\/em>, but destined never to be reprinted. Here, for the first time since its initial publication, Hiroshi Aizawa\u2019s “lost” manga lives again!<\/span><\/p>\n

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As stated elsewhere, the mission of this website is to dig as deep as possible into the history of Star Blazers<\/em> and Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> so that every aspect of the phenomenon can be preserved for as long as there is an internet on Planet Earth. Therefore, there’s nothing we like more than bringing up treasure that was thought lost even in its home country. One such treasure was the “Lost” manga for Series 1 by Yuki Hijiri. (As presented here<\/a>) As of 1980, it was no longer in a category by itself.<\/p>\n

Akita Shoten’s monthly Bouken Oh [Adventure King]<\/em> magazine had an association with Yamato<\/em> that went all the way back to the beginning; it was the original home of Leiji Matsumoto’s first Yamato<\/em> manga<\/a> that ran concurrently with Series 1 in 1974-75. It then became the home of his Farewell to Yamato<\/em> strip<\/a> from July 1978 to December 1979. Thus, the magazine was aligned to embrace Yamato<\/em> again just under a year later when Series 3 got rolling on TV. Leiji Matsumoto was too busy with other projects, so the assignment fell into the capable hands of his former assistant, artist Hiroshi Aizawa.<\/p>\n

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After assisting Matsumoto on the Farewell<\/em> manga, he went on to do an adaptation of Captain Future<\/em>, then brought his steady hand and a strong Matsumoto-inspired storytelling approach to Yamato III<\/em>. (He later adapted the anime series Xabungle<\/em> as shown upper right.) Yamato III<\/em> shared the magazine with such titles as Tetsujin 28, Kamen Rider Super 1,<\/em> and Legendary Giant Ideon.<\/em> It ran for ten issues, outlasting the TV series itself by four months, and totaled over 160 pages.<\/p>\n

Here, for the first time since its initial publication, Hiroshi Aizawa’s “lost” manga lives again! It is presented in both unretouched Japanese and fully translated English using Star Blazers<\/em> nomenclature. As with all manga, pages read from right to left.<\/p>\n

Translations by Sword Takeda, Tim Eldred, and Neil Nadelman. Edited and lettered by Tim Eldred.<\/p>\n

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Chapter 1<\/h3>\n

16 pages, October, 1980
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Chapter 2<\/h3>\n

18 pages, December 1980
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Chapter 3<\/h3>\n

15 pages, January 1981
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Chapter 4<\/h3>\n

16 pages, February 1981
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Chapter 5<\/h3>\n

14 pages, February 1981
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Chapter 6<\/h3>\n

14 pages, March 1981
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Chapter 7<\/h3>\n

13 pages, April 1981
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Chapter 8<\/h3>\n

15 pages, May 1981
\nJapanese version<\/a>
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Chapter 9<\/h3>\n

13 pages, June 1981
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Chapter 10<\/h3>\n

12 pages, July 1981
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A two-page spread from the 1978\/79 Farewell to Yamato<\/em> manga. Matsumoto’s touch is evident on the drawings of Kodai, Sado, Tokugawa, and Analyzer, but all other characters were drawn by Aizawa.<\/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":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-series-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19191","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=19191"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39714,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19191\/revisions\/39714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}