{"id":21530,"date":"2016-07-14T12:33:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T19:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=21530"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:37:42","slug":"109a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/109a\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Battleship Yamato 2202<\/em> Report 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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News has been thin since Report 1 was published in April, but equally exciting with steady announcements of returning champions to the production staff. A new issue of Ship\u2019s Log<\/em> boosted the volume again at the end of June, and fans have been running wild with their own contributions.<\/p>\n

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Back up to Report 1<\/a> (April 2016)<\/p>\n

News has been thin since Report 1 was published in April, but equally exciting with steady announcements of returning champions to the production staff. A new issue of Ship\u2019s Log<\/em> boosted the volume again at the end of June, and fans have been running wild with their own contributions. Here\u2019s a roundup of news from May and June 2016\u2026<\/p>\n

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May 25: Website update<\/h3>\n

The category was mecha design, and three key participants were announced: Makoto Kobayashi on general concepts, Junichiro Tamamori on the Earth side, and Taiji Ishizu for Gatlantis. There were no commentaries from any of them, but their artwork spoke volumes.<\/p>\n


\nArt by designer Makoto Kobayashi<\/em><\/p>\n


\nArt by mecha designer Taiji Ishizu<\/em><\/p>\n


\nArt by mecha designer Junichiro Tamamori<\/em><\/p>\n

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May 28: Teaser goods<\/h3>\n

Job one for the Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> Production Committee is to generate funding, and they got off to an early start with a handful of lifestyle products for sale at the Yamato Crew website store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Five pieces were offered, making use of the first piece of key art by Makoto Kobayashi: a clear file, wall tapestry, postcard set, business card case, and a logo-only washcloth. For sale to Japanese addresses only, sorry.<\/p>\n

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June 23: Website update<\/h3>\n

This one brought some very welcome news indeed: the return of 2199<\/em> character designer Nobuteru Yuuki. He made his debut with this charming image, presumably the depiction of Kodai and Yuki when reunited at the beginning of the story.<\/p>\n

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June 30: Website update<\/h3>\n

Even more good news! Akira Miyagawa is returning to continue his work with one of the saga\u2019s most important characters: the music. His name was added to the website roster on June 30 with the following comment:<\/p>\n

Continuing to make Yamato 2199<\/em> is hard to do.<\/p>\n

Since I came onto this project with the understanding that its watchword would be to revive the first Yamato<\/em>, I was naturally hesitant when I was then told, “Okay, do this too, please.”<\/p>\n

However, by the time I heard whispers that such a thing might be laying in the future, by then I was already in the vortex. Seemingly every month, Yamato<\/em> was being programmed at a concert, and it was with responsibility and pride that I engaged in the performances. Amidst that, I fused my father’s work with my own…however, the more I tried to intentionally do it, the more I became aware of how they’d been fused from the very beginning.<\/p>\n

For example, when my own Garmillas National Anthem is performed by a 100-man chorus, it’s quite disturbing, but also quite uplifting, how I’m mixed in there. They’re performing my father’s Space Battleship Yamato<\/em>, and the feeling they elicit as they all perform it in unison in the concert hall is exactly the same.<\/p>\n

I had that experience over and over, and had many opportunities to talk at length about Yamato<\/em> in front of a lot of people. And that drove home how I had a responsibility. In other words, it was my duty to continue writing it.<\/p>\n

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You could call it an “obligation”, I suppose, but when you consider how much effort my father went through to compose 900 songs, I think you might understand why I’m hesitant to use the word “obligation” to describe it.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Yamato<\/em> served both as my textbook and as the bad example I could learn from.<\/p>\n

There was a time when I frankly felt it was indecent to release sequels one after another according to the times and needs. In that sense, even now I don’t welcome a “straying of Yamato<\/em>“. I think I’d rather clearly fashion something like a man should, and then just let it go. And yet, there’s a part inside of me that feels like I haven’t finished fashioning this, and so here I am now, seeing this Space Battleship Yamato 2202<\/em> through.<\/p>\n

During his childhood, one of Hiroshi Miyagawa\u2019s hobbies was apparently drawing miniature portraits of the Battleship Yamato<\/em>. When I was young myself, I naturally sketched Tetsujin 28<\/em> on the same drawing paper, only this time in dynamic fights against Zero fighters. Several years later, I drew Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> on a page in my sketchpad and notebook.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but my father\u2019s generation had swords and sword fights. And for my generation, it was model guns that captured boys’ hearts. I have to be honest here: is there anything a boy finds more beautiful than guns and weapons, fighter planes and battleships? It’s this fact that tears and torments my heart.<\/p>\n

Why are weapons beautiful!?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same in terms of music. During World War II, the war songs were the ones my father disliked most as a boy. The contradiction is that my father\u2019s masterpieces are war songs.<\/p>\n

One one hand it is loved, and the other hand it is hated. No matter how beautiful a love story you tell, the beauty breathes within that design. Similarly, no matter how deftly you depict the ravages of war, it can’t compare with the physicality of music…<\/p>\n

I guess you could say that Yamato<\/em> is created out of \u201cbeauty,\u201d \u201csensuality,\u201d and \u201cwar”. Perhaps the history of Yamato<\/em> = the history of conflict. That\u2019s the vortex I\u2019m in now.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m seeing the music of 2202<\/em> through.<\/p>\n

– Composer Akira Miyagawa<\/em><\/p>\n

Translated by Neil Nadelman<\/em><\/p>\n

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June 30: Ship\u2019s Log<\/em> #14<\/h3>\n

The new issue of the Yamato Crew Premium Fan Club magazine brought a fresh round of news directly from the nerve center with a new Producer Speaks<\/em> interview, a conversation with Director Nobuyoshi Habara (who created the striking cover image) and continuing features on local events and saga history.<\/p>\n

Read the Producer’s message here<\/a> for a roundup of the latest news! The conversation with Mr. Habara will follow in our August update.<\/p>\n

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Fan art<\/h3>\n

The rest of the news over May and June came from the world of Twitter, which was festooned with a range of fan art that carried classic imagery into a modern mindset. There are so many that the best way to review them is by individual artists. Click on the galleries below to fill up your eyes with happiness.<\/p>\n

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Art by Kami Koro Ozawa<\/a><\/div>\n

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CG works by MT<\/a><\/div>\n

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Art by Wu Niang<\/a><\/div>\n

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Art by others<\/a><\/div>\n

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