{"id":43810,"date":"2025-04-18T21:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T04:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=43810"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:04:58","slug":"high1course378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/high1course378\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>High 1st Course<\/em>, March 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/may26\/high1783A.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Story synopsis<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/may26\/high1783B.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Character guide<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Bottom left: character popularity ranking (via reader questionnaire)<\/p>\n<p>1: Kodai \/ 2: Captain Okita \/ 3: Starsha \/ 4: Dessler \/ 5: Dr Sado \/ 6: Shima \/ 7: Yuki \/ 8: Mamoru Kodai \/ 9: Domel \/ 10: Analyzer<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/may26\/high1783C.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Weapons on both sides<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/may26\/high1783D.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Right side: text below. Left side: product listings.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h3><em>Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> A la Carte<\/h3>\n<p>Packed with behind the scenes stories and anecdotes that every <em>Yamato<\/em> fan should know!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 After careful consideration<\/p>\n<p>The production of <em>Yamato<\/em> took two years, but the image in the initial project proposal was quite different from the actual finished product. First, regarding <em>Yamato<\/em> itself, its initial size was ridiculously huge: 2000m long, 1000m wide, and 500m high. Moreover, it was supposed to be shaped like a scallop, with a continent-like rock formation attached to it, allowing it to fly.<\/p>\n<p>The same was true for the characters. The only names that remained until the end were Analyzer and Yoshikazu Aihara, while Susumu Kodai was named Shinobu Kotake, and Juzo Okita was named Izumi Katsuhiko.<\/p>\n<p>Through a long production period, the staff repeatedly reconsidered and refined the design, resulting in the creation of that captivating <em>Yamato<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0They used over 120 colors of paint<\/p>\n<p><em>Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> is a work created with the utmost energy by anime fanatics. You can see that from the numbers. The production cost was \u00a5200 million, the total number of staff members was 890, the number of animation cells used was 52,000, and the number of colors of paint was over 120, all of which are 30 to 50% more than a typical theatrical anime film.<\/p>\n<p>Even the color of <em>Yamato<\/em> itself was specially ordered. Since the metallic <em>Yamato<\/em> floats in the dark expanse of space, using standard paints would cause it to blend into the background. After repeated test shoots with dozens of different colors, that unique \u201c<em>Yamato<\/em> color\u201d was finally created.<\/p>\n<p>Even the movements \u2013 how to depict an explosion in zero gravity, something no one has ever seen before, how to handle the smoke and debris flying endlessly, how to create the sound \u2013 were all decided after at least triple the time and effort required for other anime productions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Lots of <em>Yamato<\/em> products<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting the <em>Space Battleship Yamato<\/em>, boom among young people, products featuring designs of popular characters, such as <em>Yamato<\/em>, Kodai, and Starsha became popular.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/131b'>Return to previous article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/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-43810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43810","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=43810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43852,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43810\/revisions\/43852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}