{"id":26568,"date":"2016-04-14T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=26568"},"modified":"2019-04-15T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T16:02:49","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Yamato<\/em> books direct from the source"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For a limited time, you can purchase three amazing Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> books created by fans for fans. Like this website, they are unauthorized and unofficial, but contain a treasure trove of information that can be found nowhere else. <\/p>\n

Full disclosure: these are fan publications. Buying them will not support the Space Battleship Yamato Production Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n

The curator is Mr. Toshinori Watanabe, a first-generation Yamato<\/em> fan living in Japan who was personally acquainted with Executive Producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki and was granted access to his personal archive of Yamato<\/em> artifacts. Like the fans who published the first doujinshis with materials obtained from the production studio, Mr. Watanabe carefully curated this vast archive into a museum on paper. The result was a pair of encyclopedias titled Hero\u2019s Trajectory.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hero\u2019s Trajectory: Be Forever Yamato<\/em><\/h3>\n

Yamato Land Resource Collection
\nAugust 2016
\n8\u201d x 11.5\u201d Full color, 108 pages<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hero\u2019s Trajectory: Final Yamato<\/em><\/h3>\n

Yamato Land Resource Collection
\nDecember 2018
\n8\u201d x 11.5\u201d Full color, 96 pages<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Each book is packed to the limit with images and documents related to its respective film; pre-production materials, cels, poster images, advertising, event photos, contemporary media coverage, the works. All text is in Japanese, but spot translations will be provided in a future Cosmo DNA support article.<\/p>\n

Supplies are limited.<\/p>\n


\nSample pages from the Be Forever volume<\/em><\/p>\n


\nSample pages from the Final Yamato volume<\/em><\/p>\n

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Proud of Yamato<\/em> Visual Book<\/h3>\n

Office Legacy
\nHardcover, May 2012
\n12\u201d x 8.5\u201d
\nFull color, 112 pages<\/p>\n

Mr. Watanabe also contributed to this earlier book, which must be seen to be believed. It contains high-quality, full-page reproductions of animation art (in landscape format) from across the entire saga. This includes production art seen on screen and special pieces created for books and posters. All of it was curated directly from Yoshinobu Nishizaki\u2019s personal collection. No other source contains this material at this size or quality.<\/p>\n

Unlike Hero\u2019s Trajectory<\/em>, this was a fully-authorized publication sold through the Yamato Crew website in 2013. Text is in Japanese, French and English.<\/p>\n

Supplies are limited.<\/p>\n


\nSample pages from Proud of Yamato<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ordering information<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Because of the limited nature of these books, they are not available in stores. They can only be ordered directly from the source via Cat Hands Agent<\/a>, a handler for buying and shipping Japanese goods. Tim Eldred, the editor of Cosmo DNA, has been using his services since 2006 and assisted in brokering this exclusive arrangement.<\/p>\n

Prices are as follows, including shipping and handling. (Exchange rates as of April 14, 2019; rates can vary.)<\/p>\n

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Hero\u2019s Trajectory, Be Forever Yamato<\/em>
\n5735 yen ($52.99)<\/p>\n

Hero\u2019s Trajectory, Final Yamato<\/em>
\n5235 yen ($48.37)<\/p>\n

Hero\u2019s Trajectory<\/em>, both volumes
\n9935 yen ($91.79)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Proud of Yamato<\/em>
\n6835 yen ($63.15)<\/p>\n

All three books
\n15500 yen ($143.21)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To order, send an email enquiry to order@cathandsagent.com<\/span> with the subject line \u201cYamato book request.\u201d You will receive a reply with instructions. Payment is accepted through Paypal.<\/p>\n


\nFrom left: Tim Eldred, Anton Kholodov, Toshinori Watanabe<\/em><\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568","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=26568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26579,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions\/26579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}