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The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 117: Leiji Matsumoto Tribute Livestream with Zack Davisson

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! In February of 2023, we learned th...

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 20

In February the pace picked up slightly thanks to online activity and a long-awaited concert, but of course the biggest Yamato news of the month was also the…

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Artificial gravity in space

How is the “artificial gravity” on board Space Battleship Yamato created? Kodai: “float, float” Rikao Yanagita, Senior Researcher, Dream-Science Laboratory Published on Yahoo.co.jp, February 27, 2023. See the…

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Rediscovering the Sea of Stars: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for March 2023

The end of last month hit with some tough news as the world learned that Matsumoto Leiji had passed away at the age of 85. I’m still thinking…

OGIUE MANIAX

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Tribute to Leiji Matsumoto, Legendary Manga and Anime Pioneer

Leiji Matsumoto, manga artist and animation creator, passed away in Japan on February 13, 2023, at the age of 85. He is arguably the most important figure in…

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A Personal Look Back at Matsumoto Leiji

The news of Matsumoto Leiji’s death shocked me. While the passing of an 85-year-old shouldn’t be too surprising, it still makes me contemplate so many things. The number…

OGIUE MANIAX

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The Manga Review: RIP Leiji Matsumoto

On February 20th, Leiji Matsumoto passed away at the age of 85. Matsumoto made his professional debut in the pages of Manga Shonen magazine in 1954, dabbling in…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 19

Activity held steady as one of our annual digits changed again, and the world inched closer to the year 3199. Despite continued silence from the home office, music…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 18

The final month of 2022 ticked up a bit with a flurry of live events and the triumphant return of Michio Murakawa’s Yamato 2199 manga, both online and…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 17

Yamato world stayed just about as busy in November as the previous few months, always a good sign when there’s no new anime to supercharge things. News announcements,…

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Yamato movie time machine, 1977

1977 was the year anime became a mainstream phenomenon in Japanese media. It started slowly at the fringes, but when the Yamato movie hit pop culture like a…

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Anime and the Costs of Starting Battles

I think a lot of people who read my blog posts know how I feel about wars and fighting. I hate them. Not because they aren’t necessary sometimes,…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 16

October 2022 was one of the busier Yamato months we’ve had since the premiere of 2205 Chapter 2, especially at the end when it started to heat up…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 15

September 2022 was pretty slow, but there’s no bad month to be a Yamato fan. Between a surprise TV appearance, new Hyuga volumes from Hachette, a spectacular hobby…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 14

August 2022 was about average in terms of activity, but there’s never a dull month in Yamato world. The first full-scale book arrived and Star Blazers Lambda reached…

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Vintage Report 5: August 1977

The whole world changed for the better in August 1977, and that is not an exaggeration. With the August 8 premiere of Space Battleship Yamato, the entire anime…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 13

Activity ticked up slightly in July with the arrival of a new pachinko game, a live-action TV appearance, and the first large-scale hobby show in QUITE a while,…

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Why Anime Sci-Fi Space Wars are so Interesting

I talk about Space Wars as shown in anime. Strategy, Villains, Space Combat, Sci Fi Weapons, Mecha, and I kind of just go off the cuff about what I…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 12

Conditions conspired to give us another slow month in Yamato world, but this is a temporary situation as we all know by now. And really, there is no…

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Book translation: Space Battleship Yamato and 70s Japan

Throughout its long history, Yamato has been the subject of repeated analysis with one textbook after another examining the phenomenon. (See them all here.) They are all tempting…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 11

Activity remained steady in May as fans took the wheel and filled in the gaps for their fellow fans with art, modeling, and even a glorious four-hour radio…

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Ranking Retro Anime Watch Priority

List of anime: • Aim for the Ace • Akage no Anne • Akira • Angel’s Egg • Ashita no Joe • Barefoot Gen • Beck • Belladonna of Sadness • Berserk • Birdy the Mighty • Bubblegum Crisis •…

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Vintage Yamato doujinshi archive

The importance of doujinshi (fanzines) in the early years of Space Battleship Yamato cannot be underestimated. Thanks to a handful of fans who visited the Office Academy animation…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 10

Predictably, April 2022 was one of the slowest months for Yamato news in a long time, since we’re back in the stretch between productions. But any news is…

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The “secret” fan club, 1991-2001

The original Space Battleship Yamato fan club has been well-documented elsewhere on Cosmo DNA. Founded in December 1977 after the incredible success of the first feature film, it…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 9

Activity dropped back to pre-2205 levels in March, reminding us how lucky we are to be fans when a lot of news drops. But even a little is…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 8

2205 activity got a huge boost with the Chapter 2 premiere as a dramatic new turning point was added to the remake universe, giving us a lot to…

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The History of Tatsunoko – 6 – Repetitions

Without any aim to be comprehensive, this article will follow these developments and focus on two shows: 1974’s Hurricane Polymar and 1976’s Gowapper 5 Godam. Although very different,…

Animétudes

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Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers: Massive in Japan, Criminally Ignored in the West

Many older anime fans recount with misty eyes rushing home from school to catch Star Blazers’ opening theme…

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What Happened This Week (Among Other Things)

First off, I apologize to all of you for not getting Fuun Lion Maru #7 done on time. A couple of things came up in the real world…

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The History of Tatsunoko – 3 – Mecha animations

mixture of expressionist motion and anatomical realism was born. It was also the moment when another one of anime’s key stylistic features developed: mechanical animation. Early TV anime…

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Voyage through Outer Space #01 – Leiji Matsumoto’s Roman

The post Voyage through Outer Space #01 – Leiji Matsumoto’s Roman appeared first on Full Frontal.

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 7

As the final month leading up to 2205 Chapter 2 counted down, the pace picked up significantly with lots of online activity, product announcements, and an unexpected announcement…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205, Report 6

2205 activity for the final month of 2021 exactly matched the amount we saw in November, highlighted by a brand new trailer and announcements that Part 2 successfully…

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The Melody of Kure Station

Space Battleship Yamato‘s famous song playing at JR Kure Station, in a naval town, was proposed by a citizen. The Story of the Station Melody By Kaoru Mizusawa…

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The Dessler of Akasaka

The legend of the powerful producer who made Space Battleship Yamato a success. Does he look like Leader Dessler? by Tatsuji Nagano Published January 15, 2021 by Magmix.…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 5

As expected, activity dropped quite a bit after the giant premiere month for Yamato 2205, but the ripples were still strong. And any month that culminates with a…

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The politics of 80s anime: the 198X controversy

A common narrative of Japanese social history and anime history holds that, starting from the 1980’s, the Japanese population has gotten increasingly distant from politics. The rise of…

Animétudes

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Space Battleship Yamato 2199 – Episode 8

The universe beckons! Having made their last farewells to the known world, the Yamato’s intrepid crew now set their sights starward, as they move beyond the boundaries of…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 4

You have to go all the way back to January 18 (the premiere of 2202 Chapter 4) to find a match for all the Yamato action October had…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Report 63

September 1: 1/350 Diecast Gimmick Model Vol. 136 This month’s weekly volumes from Hachette started with the mirror of last month’s, this time with the ship’s port-side nameplate…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 3

The last countdown month to Part 1’s theatrical premiere was an exciting one with news flashes, a big update of the official site, and a very well-received preview…

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The making of Dawn Chapter, Aquarius Algorithm

In September 2021, the original Yamato saga returned to life for the first time since 2009. A new novel titled Space Battleship Yamato Dawn Chapter, Aquarius Algorithm was…

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Yamato 2205 Character and Mecha guide

Published at the official website on September 23, 2021 See the original pages here and here Yamato Crew Susumu Kodai Voice: Daisuke Ono Third captain of Space Battleship…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Report 62

August 2021 ticked up a bit over July with some interesting announcements, a new fan club magazine, Age of Yamato on home video, and a LOT of fan…

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The Story of Animerama: Legacy

The Animerama trilogy officially ended in 1973 with the failed release of Belladonna of Sadness and the closure of Mushi Productions.  That...

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Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Report 61

After the “boom month” of June, Yamato activity dropped back down to pre-movie levels as the countdown to 2205‘s October premiere got underway. Covid caused another event to…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 2

One of the best things about being a Yamato fan is getting blindsided by a full-power promo campaign. That’s what happened to all of us on August 9…

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Space Battleship Yamato 2199 – Episode 7

The Yamato is free! After unraveling Shultz’s nefarious schemes, our intrepid crew launched a counterattack on the Gamalian base, saving not just their own ship, but the innocent…

Wrong Every Time

Hachette design interview, May 2021

A conversation commemorating the extension of the Making Space Battleship Yamato 2202 series Aiming to create a “full-scale” model Junichiro Tamamori (series supervisor) & Ken Sato (Hachette Collections…

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