{"id":35021,"date":"2022-08-27T19:17:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=35021"},"modified":"2023-09-06T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:20:41","slug":"bouken792","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/bouken792\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Bouken Oh<\/em>, February 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/sep23\/bouken79201.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>The inside cover contained another model kit ad from Bandai (now sharing space with <em>Gatchaman II<\/em>. Right up front were two <em>Yamato 2<\/em> bonus features: a &#8220;calendar card&#8221; for February, and two pages of DIY collector&#8217;s cards showing characters and mecha.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/sep23\/bouken79202.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>There were two pages of these cards, one for good guys and one for bad guys. Handy for quick ID purposes, so keep them on you at all times.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/sep23\/bouken79203.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up, a mini-article titled <em>All About the Wave-Motion Gun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/sep23\/bouken79204.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>It consisted of two pages with a rundown of <em>Yamato<\/em>&#8216;s mightiest weapon.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/sep23\/bouken79205.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>A new ad from Nomura Toys faced the opening page of Leiji Matsumoto&#8217;s latest manga chapter.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/sep23\/bouken79206.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>This one consisted of 21 pages (the first five in color) and succeeded in getting <em>Yamato<\/em> out of the ocean and into the air. That&#8217;s literally all the action this chapter contained. For those keeping score, Matsumoto&#8217;s version of the story was now 8 chapters in with 8 more to come.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/834a'>Return to previous article<\/a> <\/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-35021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021","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=35021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35023,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35021\/revisions\/35023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}