2014-2020 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 and revised as new information becomes available. As the entries on this list receive coverage elsewhere on this site, links will be added to help you find them. If you notice missing, incorrect, or incomplete items on this list, please contact us and make noise!

Timelines for Yamato 2199 and Yamato 2202 can be found in their own sections.

No-class 2014
BOOK ? The dirt you didn’t know behind the hit and downfall of Space Battleship Yamato (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
No-class JAN
on air 1 Rebroadcast of Yamato Series 1, Episodes 1-26 (Family Channel)
on air 13-16 Rebroadcast of Yamato Series 1, Episodes 1-26 (Family Channel)
RIP 14 Animator Koichi Tsunoda (Final Yamato) dies of cancer at 75
model 17 Yamato Resurrection garage kit: 1/144 Cosmo Zero Type 21 (Team Strike)
model 17 Yamato Resurrection garage kit: 1/2000 SUS battleship (Team Strike)
on air 19 Rebroadcast of Yamato Series 1, Episodes 1-13 (Family Channel)
on air 20 Rebroadcast of Yamato 2, Episodes 1-6 (Family Channel)
on air 21 Rebroadcast of Yamato 2, Episodes 7-10 (Family Channel)
music 22 CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1982-V Space Battleship Yamato Synthesizer Fantasy (Columbia)
music 22 CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1983-IV Final Yamato BGM collection (Columbia)
music 22 CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1983-V Digital Trip Final Yamato Synthesizer Fantasy (Columbia)
on air 22 Rebroadcast of Yamato 2, Episodes 11-18 (Family Channel)
on air 23 Rebroadcast of Yamato 2, Episodes 19-26 (Family Channel)
on air 26 Rebroadcast of Yamato Series 1, Episodes 13-26 (Family Channel)
RIP 14 Voice actor Ichiro Nagai (Sado, Tokugawa) dies of coronary artery disease at 82
on air 27 Rebroadcast of Yamato III, Episodes 1-6 (Family Channel)
on air 28 Rebroadcast of Yamato III, Episodes 7-12 (Family Channel)
on air 29 Rebroadcast of Yamato III, Episodes 13-18 (Family Channel)
on air 27 Rebroadcast of Yamato III, Episodes 19-25 (Family Channel)
No-class FEB
PUBLICATION 28 Ship’s Log #6 (Yamato Premium fan club magazine)
No-class MAR
publication 17 Space Battleship Yamato sheet music for gentle instruments (Music Eight)
music 19 CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1984-I Grand Symphony Yamato (Columbia)
music 19 CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1996-I Sound Fantasia Space Battleship Yamato (Columbia)
publication 20 White Comet sheet music in Electone magazine (Yamaha Music Media)
No-class APR
online 5 1973 Yamato plan book sold in auction (Mandarake)
online 9 2004 New Yamato proposal and character designs sold in auction (Mandarake)
event 17 Yamato decor on tour buses (Tsuruga, Japan)
RIP 23 Superfan Edward Hawkins dies of respiratory failure at 49
video 23 DVD & Blu-ray: Final Yamato MV (Columbia)
video 29 DVD & Blu-ray: Live-action Yamato movie (Funimation)
No-class MAY
RIP 1 Voice actor Koji Yada (Talan, et al) dies of kidney failure at 81
RIP 8 Superfan Derek Wakefield
PUBLICATION 27 Ship’s Log #7 (Yamato Crew Premium Fan Club Magazine)
publication 31 Space Battleship Yamato sheet music for piano (Fairy)
No-class JUL
video 23 DVD & Blu-ray: Be Forever Yamato MV (Columbia)
RIP 30 Voice actor Shusei Nakamura (Daisuke Shima) dies at 79
product ? Live-action Yamato jackets (Cosplay)
No-class AUG
music 6 Space Battleship Yamato hi-rez albums available for download (Mora)
EVENT 6-10 Yamato display at Asagaya Tanabata Festival
music 28 CD: Yamato Sound Almanac bonus disc Space Battleship Yamato drama album (Columbia)
PUBLICATION 31 Ship’s Log #8 (Yamato Premium fan club magazine)
No-class SEP
EVENT 7 Announcement of greenlit production for American-made Yamato movie
RIP 15 lyricist Yoko Yamaguchi (Be Forever Yamato) dies of respiratory failure at the age of 77
video 17 DVD & Blu-ray: The New Voyage MV (Columbia)
event 27, 28 Yamato music performed live at Anime Weekend Atlanta (Georgia, USA)
No-class OCT
ONLINE 2 Yamato art in 60 minutes Twitter page opens
No-class NOV
video 19 DVD & Blu-ray: Farewell to Yamato MV (Columbia)
BOOK 29 Yamato illustrations by Noriyoshi Ohrai published in Green Universe (Genkosha)
No-class DEC
on air 1 Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel)
PUBLICATION 2 Ship’s Log #9 (Yamato Premium fan club magazine)
on air 2 Rebroadcast of Farewell to Yamato (Star Channel)
MUSIC 3 CD: Yamato 2199 40th Anniversary Best Track Image Album (HATS Unlimited)
on air 3 Rebroadcast of The New Voyage (Star Channel)
BOOK 4 Rediscover Space Battleship Yamato (Take Shobo)
on air 4 Rebroadcast of Be Forever Yamato (Star Channel)
on air 5 Rebroadcast of Final Yamato (Star Channel)
on air 9 Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel)
on air 16 Rebroadcast of Farewell to Yamato (Star Channel)
on air 17 Rebroadcast of Farewell to Yamato (Star Channel)
on air 23 Rebroadcast of The New Voyage (Star Channel)
on air 27 Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel)
on air 27 Rebroadcast of The New Voyage (Star Channel)
on air 28 Rebroadcast of Be Forever Yamato (Star Channel)
on air 28 Rebroadcast of Final Yamato (Star Channel)
on air 30 Rebroadcast of Be Forever Yamato (Star Channel)
music 30 CD: Yamato Sound Arrange Project Vol. 5 Elements by Brightness
model ? Cosmo Gun garage kit (On Air Works)
model ? Dessler pistol garage kit (On Air Works)
No-class 2015
No-class JAN
PRODUCT ? Yamato T-shirts (Red Bubble)
PRODUCT ? Yamato iPhone cases (Red Bubble)
ONLINE 15 Interview with astronaut Naoko Yamazaki
RIP 16 Voice actor Chikao Ohtsuka (Gatlantis Admiral Baruze)
EVENT 24 Leiji Future 2015
No-class FEB
RIP 2 Voice actor Patrick W. Lohn (Eager in Star Blazers)
EVENT 7 Leiji Matsumoto art show (through March 22)
EVENT 20 Space Settlement model kit designed by Kazutaka Miyatake (Wave Corporation)
PUBLICATION 25 Following Yamato serial in Asahi Shimbun (through March 11)
No-class MAR
EVENT 2 IJN Musashi wreckage discovered
ONLINE 13 Star Blazers article on i09
No-class APR
MUSIC 1 CD: Best of Best: Isao Sasaki (Columbia)
ONLINE 27 Fever Space Battleship Yamato pachinko game website opens
No-class MAY
ON AIR 3 Star Blazers referenced on Silicon Valley (HBO)
EVENT 17 Isao Sasaki 55th Anniversary Concert Birthday Live
PRODUCT 22 Leiji Matsumoto IC card stickers in Big Comic Superior magazine
No-class JUN
BOOK 26 Zero-Dimensional Machine Travelogue (Shogakukan)
No-class AUG
EVENT 10 Fever Space Battleship Yamato pachinko game rollout
PUBLICATION 14 SF Manga of our Youth doujinshi
No-class SEP
ONLINE 9 Leiji Matsumoto stickers on LINE message app
BOOK 10 The Man who Made Space Battleship Yamato ~ The Madness of Yoshinobu Nishizaki (Kodansha)
MUSIC 23 CD: This is all I want to know: 50 Anime Songs (Columbia)
EVENT 27 Yamato panel at Anime Weekend Atlanta
video 29 Yamato movie box set (Yamato Video, Italy)
model 29 Yuki Mori garage kit announced
No-class OCT
MUSIC 28 CD: Yamato Sound Almanac Music Addendum (Columbia)
No-class NOV
video 29 Star Blazers DVD box set (Sanver Productions, Spain)
No-class 2016
No-class JAN
MUSIC 20 Download single: Desler Attack by W.C.D.A. (iTunes)
PRODUCT ? CR Fever Space Battleship Yamato pachislo game promo begins
No-class FEB
ON AIR 1 Series 1 rebroadcast through February 20 (Star Channel)
ON AIR 1-20 Yamato 2 rebroadcast through March 12 (Star Channel)
No-class MAR
EVENT 5,6 Katsumi Itabashi art exhibition (Tokyo)
EVENT 6 Isao Sasaki concert: 55th Anniversary Debut Special Live Encore
ON AIR 8 Yamato III rebroadcast through March 27 (Star Channel)
BOOK 31 Leiji Matsumoto Big Analysis (Sanei)
No-class APR
RIP 12 Voice actor Toru Ohira (Dark Nebula Emperor Skaldart)
BOOK 25 The 2nd Floor Residents and Their Times biography by Eiji Otsuka (Seikaisha Shinsho)
No-class MAY
CINEMA 14 Live-action movie screening at Odaiba Cinema Mediage (Tokyo)
EVENT 14-29 Leiji Matsumoto ~ Dreams and Romance art exhibition (Tokyo)
RIP 15 Bruce Lewis (artist)
No-class JUNE
EVENT 17-26 New Battleship Yamato art exhibition (Cyberdyne Publishing)
No-class JULY
MUSIC 31 Sheet music: Nostalgic Anime and Tokusatsu Hero includes Yamato theme (Electone)
No-class AUG
MUSIC 10 CD/DVD: Mirage by Especia includes Yamato theme (Bermuda Entertainment Japan)
MUSIC 31 Sheet music: Nostalgic Anime and Tokusatsu Hero includes Yamato theme (Electone)
PRODUCT ? “Classic Yuki” 1/8 garage kit figure
No-class SEP
ONLINE 11 interview with voice actor Kenichi Ogata (otoCoto)
EVENT 14-29 Leiji Matsumoto/Miyako Maki collaboration art exhibition (through Nov. 20, Kobe Artists Museum)
MUSIC 28 CD: Moment by Isao Sasaki includes Yamato theme (Nippon Columbia)
No-class OCT
EVENT 8-10 Tomonori Kogawa art exhibition (Tokyo)
ONLINE 20 Anime Revolutionary Yoshinori Kanada documentary
PRODUCT ? “Previz Yuki” garage kit figure
No-class NOV
EVENT 23-30 Yamato production art displayed at Studio Khara exhibition (Laforet Museum, Tokyo)
EVENT 26 Leiji Matsumoto: Legend of the Manga World art exhibition (through Dec. 25, Morioka)
No-class DEC
CINEMA 25 Live-action movie screening at Odaiba Cinema Mediage (Tokyo)
No-class 2017
No-class JAN
PUBLICATION 11 Cover story in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 41 (Crete Publishing)
EVENT 21 Leiji Future 2016
No-class FEB
CINEMA 5 Yamato Resurrection at Cinema Novecento (Yokohama)
on air 7 Yu Aku TV special (NHK)
PRODUCT 16 Leiji Matsumoto art prints (Broad Expert Co.)
No-class MAR
PUBLICATION 11 Article in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 42 (Crete Publishing)
No-class APR
MUSIC 26 CD: New Sounds in Brass 2017 includes Yamato highlights (Nippon Columbia)
PUBLICATION 26 Sheet music: New Sounds in Brass: Yamato highlights (Yamaha Music Media)
BOOK 28 Kazutaka Miyatake: Mega Designer Created Mega Structures (Hobby Japan)
No-class JUL
PUBLICATION 26 Sheet music: Standard Chorus Piece: Space Battleship Yamato (Winds Score)
EVENT 8 Junko Yagamai performs Final Yamato song live in concert
BOOK 31 Professional Manga Techniques: The Manga of Leiji Matsumoto (Genkosha)
No-class AUG
BOOK 4 How to Draw SF Mecha starting from Leiji Meters (Genkosha)
music 24 CD: Best Tune Takamiy includes cover of From Yamato With Love (Universal Music)
No-class SEP
EVENT 2 The World of Manga Legend Leiji Matsumoto art exhibition (through Oct 22, Imabashi)
BOOK 19 The Movie Art of Syd Mead, Visual Futurist inclues coverage of Yamato 2520 (Titan Books)
No-class OCT
BOOK 2 The Truth of Space Battleship Yamato (Shodensha)
No-class NOV
EVENT 1 Leiji Matsumoto Galactic World Exhibition ~ Bringing dreams and romance together art exhibition (through Nov 6, Fukuoka Prefecture)
PUBLICATION 10 Article in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 46 (Crete Publishing)
online 11 The Nova Show premieres on Youtube
No-class DEC
EVENT 3 Leiji Future 2017
BOOK 21 The Man who Made Space Battleship Yamato ~ The Madness of Yoshinobu Nishizaki Plus-alpha edition (Kodansha)
MUSIC 21 CD: POWER (songs by Yu Aku, Kanameishi Records)
No-class 2018
No-class JAN
ONLINE 12 Star Blazers review at Syfy Wire
ONLINE 16 Voice actor Yoko Asagami profiled at Daily Sports
PUBLICATION 18 Grand Symphony Yamato sheet music (Crete Publishing)
BOOK 27 Cosmoship Yamato Boukenou Original Revive Version (Fukkan)
No-class FEB
BOOK 28 Leiji Matsumoto Infinite Creation Orbit (Shogakukan)
No-class MAR
BOOK 22 Space Battleship Yamato is dead (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
No-class APR
online 22 1973 Yamato plan book sold in auction (Yahoo Japan)
No-class MAY
on air 5 Radio Suite Space Battleship Yamato (Clover Media)
PUBLICATION 11 Article in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 49 (Crete Publishing)
No-class JUN
BOOK 25 The truth you didn’t know about the Space Battleship Yamato Roman Album (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
BOOK 29 Leiji Matsumoto Classic Anime Great Analysis (Shogakukan)
No-class JUL
MUSIC 25 CD: The Universe Expands Into Infinity performance on May J. Cinema Song Covers (Rhythm Zone)
No-class AUG
EVENT 25 Grand Symphony Yamato performed by Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
MUSIC 29 CD: Yamato included on Hiroshi Miyagawa TV Theme World (Columbia)
No-class SEP
PUBLICATION 11 Cover story in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 51 (Crete Publishing)
BOOK 13 Cosmoship Yamato 2 Boukenou Original Revive Version, Vol. 1 (Fukkan)
No-class OCT
BOOK 5 Japan Nostalgic Anison Compendium (Tatsumi Publishing)
ONLINE 9 Lyricist Yu Aku profiled at Music Calendar
BOOK 18 Cosmoship Yamato 2 Boukenou Original Revive Version, Vol. 2 (Fukkan)
publication 20 Yamato sheet music in Electone magazine (Yamaha Music Media)
No-class NOV
PUBLICATION 13 Following the history of Battleship Yamato and Space Battleship Yamato serial in Asahi Shimbun (through Nov 27)
No-class DEC
BOOK 2 The truth you didn’t know about Space Battleship Yamato‘s copyright; the unknown swamp of the 70s (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
EVENT 8 Yamato display at Usuki Illumination Festival
EVENT 16 Leiji Future 2018
online 21 Final Yamato production painting listed in auction (Yahoo Japan)
No-class 2019
No-class APR
BOOK 9 Space Battleship Yamato The Classic Collection manga in English (Seven Seas Entertainment)
EVENT 10-21 Worlds of Leiji Matsumoto art exhibit (Ota City)
MUSIC 17 CD: Space Battleship Yamato Grand Symphony (Denon)
PRODUCT 24 Yamato 2520 poster (Yamato Crew)
EVENT 27 Syd Mead Progressions exhibition opens, features Yamato 2520 content (3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo)
ONLINE 26 Yamato Project” announced on Family Theater website
No-class MAY
ON AIR 4 Radio Suite Farewell to Yamato (Clover Radio, Saitama)
ONLINE 9 Interview with Conductor Naoto Otomo
MUSIC 22 digital single: Great Love (WCDA)
PUBLICATION 25 Model Graphix No. 416 publishes Studio Nue cover story (Dai Nippon Kaiga)
No-class JUN
ONLINE 15 “Sunken Yamato” paper model for download (Paper Model Workshop)
EVENT 20 Animage magazine 41st anniversary
No-class JUL
EVENT 19 Yamato suite performed at Osaka College of Music summer concert
No-class AUG
ONLINE 26 Promo video for Yamato Project (Family Theater)
No-class SEP
EVENT 1 Yamato 2205 announced for fall 2020
MUSIC 11 CD: Organ Odyssey includes cover of White Comet (King Records)
EVENT 12 Yutaka Izubuchi lecture: Anime Reintroduction Course: First Space Battleship Yamato
ONLINE 23 Commercial for HD remaster of Farewell to Yamato (Family Theater)
No-class OCT
EVENT 6 45th anniversary of Series 1
ON AIR 6 Yamato Project debuts on satellite channel Family Theater
PUBLICATION 10 Yamato cover feature in Mandarake Zenbu catalog no. 95
ON AIR 20 Farewell to Yamato on satellite channel Family Theater
No-class NOV
EVENT 2 Giant straw Yamato unveiled at Chikuzen Harvest Festival (Fukuoka Prefecture)
CINEMA 9 Farewell to Yamato screened in 4K (Tokyo)
ON AIR 9 Yamato 2 on satellite channel Family Theater
ON AIR 9 The New Voyage on satellite channel Family Theater
ON AIR 9 Be Forever Yamato on satellite channel Family Theater
EVENT 24 NYPD band performs Yamato theme at World Tour Concert in Japan 2019
PRODUCT 27 Cosmo Gun water pistol, 4 types (Grenade/Daiki)
RIP 29 RIP: voice actor Makio Inoue
PUBLICATION 29 Aquarius Algorithm debuts in Star Blazers/Yamato fan club magazine Vol. 5 (Yamato Crew)
No-class DEC
ON AIR 30 Yamato III on satellite channel Family Theater
ON AIR 30 Final Yamato on satellite channel Family Theater
ON AIR 30 Yamato Resurrection on satellite channel Family Theater
No-class 2020
No-class JAN
EVENT 9 Animation director Tomonori Kogawa appears at Anime Los Angles convention (through Jan 12)
EVENT 25 HOBAS model exhibition (Hokkaido)
No-class FEB
ONLINE 7 Aquarius Algorithm Chapter 1 on Yamato Crew
EVENT 15 Leiji Matsumoto Cosmoworld popup shop at Tokyu Hands dept. store, Shinjuku (through Feb 27)
EVENT 15&16 Yokohama Modeler’s Club exhibition
EVENT 23 Be Forever Yamato screened at Yakitori Yamato restaurant
EVENT 29 Yamato Lecture 20 (Shibuya, Tokyo)
No-class MARCH
ONLINE 5 Voice actor Goro Naya profiled on Magmix
No-class APRIL
PUBLICATION 16 Yamato content in Showa 40 Man magazine special (Crete Publishing)
No-class MAY
ON AIR 9 Radio Suite Space Battleship Yamato, The New Voyage (Clover Radio, Saitama)
ONLINE 23 Leiji Matsumoto discussion at Momoconline
No-class JUN
ONLINE 10 Star Blazers Lambda manga debuts on Comic NewType
ONLINE 11 Leiji Matsumoto interview in Sankei Sports
ONLINE 11 Leiji Matsumoto interview in Yomiuri Shimbun
No-class JUL
ONLINE 7 Character popularity contest finishes at Akiba Souken
ONLINE 10 Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 3 (Comic NewType)
No-class AUG
ONLINE 10 Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 4 (Comic NewType)
ON AIR 12 Radio Suite Space Battleship Yamato, The New Voyage Extra Edition (Clover Radio, Saitama)
ONLINE 13 Andromeda popularity contest finishes at Akiba Souken
ONLINE 15 Mecha popularity contest finishes at Akiba Souken
ONLINE 16 How Much Did Kodai Earn article on Pash Plus
EVENT 19 Yamato music performed live at Mt Fuji Kawaguchiko Music Festival 2020
ON AIR 19 Radio Suite Space Battleship Yamato, The New Voyage Extra Edition (Clover Radio, Saitama)
EVENT 28 Yamato theme performed live in Panama
No-class SEP
ON AIR 6 Yamato scores #3 in Anison General Election (TV Asahi)
ON AIR 7 Yamato Series 1 on Family Theater
VIDEO 9 Blu-ray: Maeda Construction Fantasy Marketing Department includes Dessler cameo (Bandai Namco Arts)
ONLINE 11 Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 5 (Comic NewType)
BOOK 13 Space Battleship Yamato • books • videos • music • sheet music list 1974-2020: Aggregated Data Analysis (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
ONLINE 19,20 Star Blazers marathon (streaming, Daikaiju TV)
ONLINE 23 BGM and song popularity contests finishe at Akiba Souken
ON AIR 27 Isao Sasaki performs Yamato theme on Karaoke Battle (TV Tokyo)
ON AIR 29 Yamato 2 on Family Theater
No-class OCT
ONLINE 9 Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 6 (Comic NewType)
ONLINE 11 Yamato III 40th anniversary article (Magmix)
No-class NOV
ONLINE 1 Voice actor popularity contest finishes at Akiba Souken
ONLINE 11 Yamato theme performed by Foresta men’s chorus
ONLINE 13 Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 7 (Comic NewType)
ON AIR 21 Yamato music featured on Untitled Concert
BOOK 25 Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, My Back Pages (Ohta Books)
No-class DEC
EVENT 5 The Colonization of the Imaginary art exhibition (Rome, Italy)
ONLINE 11 Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 8 (Comic NewType)
ONLINE 13 Yamato places 8th in Top 20 anime poll (Bunshun Online)
ONLINE 25 Aquarius Algorithm concludes in Star Blazers/Yamato Fan Club Magazine #9
ON AIR 30 Yamato conversation on radio with Shigeru Ishiba (Bunka Hoso)

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