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 tidal wave, it earned so much attention that the term “Yamato Boom” spontaneously emerged in newspapers and magazines.

To get the full force of that boom from a media perspective, here is a chronological index of all the magazine coverage (found so far) from this breakout year.