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With the days dropping rapidly away until the Chapter 1 premiere, May activity picked up substantially with another wave of promotion from the head office and a general…
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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…
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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,…
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Now THAT was a Yamato month! You have to go back over two years to the release of 2205 Chapter 2 to find this much action. The launch…
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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…
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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…
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After the big announcements on January 3, everything went quiet again until March 2024 when we got the first news of official merch and a reveal of new…
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August 2024 was a textbook followup to the enormous premiere month of July; Chapter 1 closed its first – and very successful – theatrical run, a new concert…
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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…
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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…
Yamato 3199 Report 2
After a long period of silence, new information about Yamato 3199 finally trickled out during the months of October and November 2023. Thanks to a live talkshow, the…
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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…
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As of this writing, the debut date for Yamato 3199 is still unknown. But the series has been in production for over a year, and if the gap…
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REBEL 3199 Character Guide
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A few days before the premiere of Chapter 1 on July 19, 2024, “interview season” began online with a series of conversations with staff and cast in print…
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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…
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I'm happy to report that Star Blazers REBEL 3199 blasts out of spacedock, immediately firing on all cylinders.
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REBEL 3199 Science Research, Part 1
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When Yamato 2205 debuted in 2021, interviews with writer Harutoshi Fukui revealed that he felt obligated to keep going after Yamato 2202 rather than leave all the story…
REBEL 3199 voice actor interview, June 2024
The June 2024 issue of TV Fan (published by Media Boy) was the first mainstream magazine to publish a REBEL 3199 interview, a little under a month before…
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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…
Yamato 3199 writer interview, April 2023
From the Star Blazers/Yamato Premium Fan Club magazine, Vol. 16 (April 2023): Writer Harutoshi Fukui and Scriptwriter Hideki Oka break the long silence to update fans on the…
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Yamato 3199 mecha designer interview, April 2023
Special Talk Exploring the hints of 3199 Yamato Junichiro Tamamori (Mechanical designer) X Shosuke Uechi (CG director) The fascination of the mechanic expression of Space Battleship Yamato, which…
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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…
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…
Yamato 2 production site report, 1978
From the January 1979 issue of Kodansha’s manga magazine Mimi comes this six-page exploration of the Yamato 2 production office at Academy Studio, filled with insider details and…
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November 2023 turned into a busier month than expected thanks to a new 2199 manga chapter, various announcements, live events, and a sudden burst of information on Yamato…
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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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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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October 2023 gave us a nice uptick over the activity of September with product announcements, live events, reruns on TV, a big screen revival, and more. Here’s what…
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