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Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 27
To keep things in perspective, reflect upon how lucky we are to say, “It was another typical Yamato premiere month with a torrent of new products, live events,…
REBEL 3199 Chapter 5 interviews
Presented here are the various media interviews with cast and staff members pertaining to Chapter 5, The Incandescent Galactic War released on February 20, 2026. More will be…
REBEL 3199 Original Soundtrack Vol. 1 notes
One of the greatest parts of being a Yamato fan is adding a new dimension to your music collection, giving us all a way to immerse ourselves in…
Vintage Report 46: Summer 1983
With the Final Yamato campaign fading into memory and most of the merchandising now out into the world, activity slowed down considerably in the summer months. But on…
Series 1 commentary by Kenanime2026
Elsewhere in this section of Cosmo DNA you can find complete commentaries on the first Yamato TV series: this set by American viewers and this set by O.G.…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 26
2026 got off to a flying start as the final month before the premiere of Chapter 5 rolled by with the third 50th Anniversary Exhibition, pre-release coverage, product…
Vintage Report 45: April/May 1983
Predictably, Final Yamato created a big wake after its release, which was filled by one last blitz of book and music publishing along with the game-changing arrival of…
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…
Toshio Masuda on Yamato, 2007
Right from the beginning, Yoshinobu Nishizaki wanted Space Battleship Yamato to be different from all previous anime productions. One way to achieve that was to hire Toshio Masuda,…
The Life of Leiji
Dozens of books were published about Leiji Matsumoto in his lifetime. Many of them attempted to catalog and analyze his enormous output of manga and anime projects, but…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 16
March 2025 did not deliver a movie premiere, but was still the biggest month we’ve seen since 3199‘s debut. Centered around the 50th Anniversary Exhibition in Tokyo, there…
REBEL 3199 Chapter 3 Interviews
Interviews for Chapter 3 began almost a month before the April 11 premiere and brought back all the familiar faces. Keep an eye on this collection as more…
Voice actor interview, Hobby Japan No. 671
Interview to commemorate the screening Tasuku Hatanaka (Ryusuke Domon) and Yuto Uemura (Takeshi Ageha) The third chapter of Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199, titled Aquamarine Asteroid, is finally…
50th Anniversary Complete Records Exhibition
Train station advertising It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive, more inspired, more lovingly curated presentation than what fans in Tokyo got to see from March 15 to…
Vintage Report 35: 1981, third quarter
While the creative minds at West Cape Corporation continued building Final Yamato, word of its development worked its way beyond the borders of the official fan club. Be…
Italian Star Blazers products
Part 1: Prehistory Photos by Carlo Savorelli The story of Star Blazers in Italy begins the same way as it did in the rest of the western world:…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 15
February was less about products and more about announcements, but you can’t lament a month that includes two concerts, a major hobby show, and a brand new trailer…
Vintage Report 34: 1981, second quarter
After the final episode of Yamato III aired in early April, Exec Producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki found himself in an uncommon situation. For the first time since early 1978,…
Vintage Report EXTRA, 1978-1981
It may be impossible to construct a complete timeline of Yamato history in the Vintage Report series since previously unknown artifacts can emerge at any time, and sometimes…
Yamato in 8mm, 1977
Publisher Asahi Sonorama became the very first source for Yamato anime-on-demand when they released a set of three 8mm film reels on November 1, 1977. Each included sound…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 14
As a new year began, Yamato world added another month of activity to the record. Most of it happened online, but the 50th anniversary screenings and a few…
Building the 1/350 Hyuga
by Tim Eldred At the start of 2022, I finally worked up the courage to begin building Hachette’s 1/350 Yamato. A year later, I did the same with…
Vintage Report 33: 1981, first quarter
After a banner year like 1980, it could only be expected that Yamato activity would decline, and it certainly did. In this time period, the second half of…
Ryusuke Hikawa Interview 2024, Part 1
Published irregularly by Gentosha, Spectator magazine is a “cultural journal” that examines social trends across a wide range of topics. The theme for the August 2024 issue volume…
Symphonic Suite Yamato liner notes, 1977
When Symphonic Suite was released to the world in December 1977, it revolutionized the field of anime music by bringing it a level of respect not previously seen.…
Yamato Years in Review
Starting in 2008, an annual year-in-review was written to look back at everything that happened in the ever-expanding world of Space Battleship Yamato. The tradition began in time…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 13
REBEL 3199 Chapter 2 dominated theaters in December with new things constantly popping up. When the Studio Khara screenings took over, it meant Yamato was on the big…
3199 Mecha designer interview, November 2024
From the pages of the REBEL 3199 Chapter 2 program book: Junichiro Tamamori discusses the evolution of Yamato‘s design into the realm of a Be Forever remake, along…
REBEL 3199 Animator interview
Interview by Tim Eldred, December 2024 Rhythm Bhattacharje [Batta-char-jay] is living the dream. He fell in love with classic Yamato and launched an animation career that brought him…
Vintage Report 32: December 1980
As we look back over the entire sweep of 1980, December was the lightest month with the least amount of activity. That wasn’t the case for Yoshinobu Nishizaki,…
Speculative art, December 2024
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A new voyage for the masterpiece Symphonic Suite Space Battleship Yamato
We hear from the engineers who took on the challenge of remixing it Published on Phile Web, December 25, 2024. See the original article here. Yamato Sound Almanac,…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 12
November 2024 ticked all the boxes for what makes a Yamato month great. News and products from every front, live events, media coverage, and a brand new chapter…
REBEL 3199 Chapter 2 Interviews
Interviews for Chapter 2 didn’t get rolling until the premiere on November 22, but they delivered plenty of food for thought on the unexpected direction the story takes…
Vintage Report 31: November 1980
After Yamato III‘s first month on the air, Be Forever was still rippling through the publishing world and all seemed well in camp. At least on the surface.…
Why did Office Academy become Westcape Corporation?
Deja Vu all over again Some time in November 1980, ratings information for Yamato III was gathered for its first month on the air, and it was not…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 11
It should come as no surprise that the 50th anniversary month was an absolute juggernaut with an outpouring of passion and attention from all corners. The events of…
Mono magazine articles, 2024
Just before the release of REBEL 3199 Chapter 1 in July 2024, Mono magazine No. 942 (published by World Photo Press) became the first to carry a Yamato…
Vintage Report 30: October 1980
You have to push pretty hard to top the premiere of a new TV series, but the publishing community did its best with the last big wave of…
Yamato 2205 media catalog
Chapter 1 Limited Edition Blu-ray October 8, 2021 The theater-exclusive Blu-ray for 2205 was a hot seller with many theaters running out of copies in the first week.…
Yamato 2205 theater & event goods
Photo by friend-of-the-website Minoru Itgaki Chapter 1 advance ticket promo September 15, 2021 Convenience stores in Japan truly live up to their name. You can get a meal…
Yamato 2205 model catalog
Mecha Collection model 01 October 8, 2021 Deusula III was the first model kit of the 2205 era, and once everybody had the chance to study it in…
Yamato 2205 games and other products
Path to the Future Announced November 2, 2022 Path to the Future debuted on Japan’s G123 platform in 2023. It was the first to incorporate elements from Yamato…
Special Report: October 6, 2024
The 50th anniversary of Space Battleship Yamato‘s original TV broadcast was overwhelming. Live events, news flashes, social media posts, and more brought fans together from all parts of…
From Ratings Disaster to Unprecedented Boom: A 50-Year Journey
By Toshiharu Kagami Published October 6, 2024 at Magmix. See the original post here. Translated by Anton Mei Brandt Space Battleship Yamato – a name synonymous with anime’s…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 10
While animators toiled away on 3199 Chapter 2 for its November release, Yamato activity in September held steady as news trickled in from all corners and the 50th…
The Yamato X Hayabusa connection
Space Battleship Yamato has had an influence on real things actually happening in space exploration, and thanks to an ongoing NHK series titled Project X ~ Challengers we…
Shigeru Ishiba: Fun facts to know and yell
The flow of time made it inevitable; sooner or later, a member of the Yamato generation would eventually rise to the height of political power. That has now…
Vintage Report 29: September 1980
As Be Forever Yamato closed its premiere run in Japanese theaters, spinoff media became more concentrated as the first dedicated books appeared, and magazines became the first source…