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Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 9
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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Things heated up quickly in the month of June, and not just from proximity to the sun. The final month before the premiere of 3199 Chapter 1 was…
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The month of April brought us closer to the July premiere of Chapter 1 with a new trailer, bolstered by the debut of the new 1/350 model from…
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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…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 6
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…
Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 4
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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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…
Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 3
Back up to Report 1 | Back up to Report 2 That bang you heard on January 3, 2024 was the sound of REBEL 3199‘s promo campaign bursting…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 3199 Report 1
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…
REBEL 3199 Timeline
About this list: this is a work-in-progress with the goal of assembling as complete a timeline as possible of the entire Yamato/Star Blazers phenomenon. Data will be added…
REBEL 3199 Character Guide
Art and descriptions published at the official website in March 2024. See the original post here. Special thanks to Luis Cotovio for translation support Character ages given are…
Be Forever Yamato: the radio drama
Decades after their original broadcasts, the Yamato radio dramas still linger in relative obscurity despite their enormous popularity at the time. The allure of hearing next Yamato story…
REBEL 3199 Earth Mecha Guide
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REBEL 3199 Chapter 1 interviews
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…
Be Forever Yamato (1980) – Love Travels Dimensions
The Be Forever Yamato Down Low In terms of continuity, this one does follow The New Voyage. The weird thing is it doesn’t feel like it at first.…
REBEL 3199 Science Research, Part 1
From the Chapter 1 program book: SF researcher Shinya Ogura, science advisor for the Space Battleship Yamato remake series, presents some of his work for Dark Invasion with…
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…
Yamato 2205/3199 Proposal Memo
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…
(First Reaction) Space Battleship Yamato 3199
I don’t write a lot of singular first reaction posts anymore, but the Space Battleship Yamato franchise is special to me. I mean, I didn’t spend the last…
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…
REBEL 3199 Chapter 1 Just Before Launch TV Special
As we’ve followed the remake chapters, each theatrical premiere has been preceded by a TV special featuring new footage and interviews with staff and cast members. That tradition…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 27
After that nice bump in August, Yamato world settled back down in September to match the slow pace we saw in July. However, fans must have sensed something…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 33
March 2024 turned out to be a light but meaningful month with news from multiple fronts, new music & video releases, and a surprise announcement that gave us…
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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…
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…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 21
Activity in March 2023 dropped a bit compared February, but that didn’t make it any less interesting. Any month that gives us online publishing, three major live events,…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 25
Summer doldrums (or whatever) caused activity to drop in the month of July, but the hits were still solid, especially an unexpected announcement that pulled an exceedingly rare…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 22
Yamato world held steady for another month with a new Yamaket fan gathering, another round of Hyuga parts, two live concerts, unexpected media blips and the next issue…
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…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 26
In a welcome surprise, activity in August doubled over the slow month of July, bringing us more summer music events and news from multiple fronts, the most exciting…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 1
From the moment Yamato 2199 was announced, we pretty much assumed there would be a followup. From the moment Yamato 2202 was announced, it was practically a guarantee.…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 23
May 2023 was the lightest month for Yamato activity since the year started, and it likely won’t be the last, since we still don’t have a premiere date…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 28
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…
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…
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…
Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Report 58
April 2021 was a surprisingly slow month in Yamato world, with the lowest amount of activity since January 2020. But quality always trumps quantity ’round these here parts.…
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,…
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…