September 2021 was a month of news from multiple directions and included the long-awaited revival of the original saga. With Yamato 2205 just over the horizon, Aquarius Algorithm reawakened the sleeping giant of the past. Here’s how it all went down…
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 activity. Plus, Yamato 2205 got another month closer. Here’s everything that went down…
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 be postponed, but fans came to the rescue again with phenomenal levels of online engagement. Here’s the rundown for July.
Well, now, that’s more LIKE it. You have to go all the way back to the premiere of 2202 Chapter 7 (March 2019) to find a month as busy as June 2021. That’s what a long-awaited movie premiere will do for you. Age of Yamato finally opened and 2205 news poured in with it, making June an extraordinary month to be a fan. [2 pages]
May 2021 was one of the slowest months in years, seemingly caught up in the malaise of uncertainty over when the Wave-Motion Engine would restart. That moment arrived June 1 when it was announced that Age of Yamato would open as planned. But up until then, the holding pattern kept the plane on the ground. Here’s what we got while we waited…
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. When official stuff slows to a crawl, fans reliably race to Yamato‘s rescue, just as they’ve always done.
March 2021 was a month of milestones and surprises. Age of Yamato‘s new release date was announced, the Hachette Yamato gave way to the Hachette Andromeda and we even got the first 2205 teaser. Other news nuggets flew in from multiple directions to give us a nice uptick in activity.
Yamato action held steady throughout February, matching January despite the continued delay of the Age of Yamato premiere. While news of a revised date remained out of reach, continuity saved the day and set the table for some nice surprises.
We didn’t get the burst of activity we were hoping for due to Age of Yamato being postponed, but January still pulled up equal to December anyway. The arrival of the new Symphonic Suite was definitely the highlight of the month, but there was plenty more to keep the fires lit.
There was a slight uptick in Yamato activity as 2020 drew to a welcome close and a year of new productions approached. Most of it came from outside the official channels, but there were some rumblings from within as well, including the return of what now seems like an old friend.
November saw a steady pace of activity as the Age of Yamato movie promotion got fully underway and energized online activity seemingly from all corners. It was also a particularly creative month for the fan community, as you’ll see here.
October 2020 brought several unexpected treats including the first teaser for the Age of Yamato movie, another 40th anniversary, the return of Yamaket, and (of all things) an unofficial endorsement from a legendary starship captain. That and more made it a month where you had to wonder what was coming next.
September saw a steady patter of activity leading up to the long-awaited announcement of the Yamato 2202 compilation movie premiere in 2021. Here’s everything that made it a continuous delight.
August was another month without major Yamato news, but general activity actually ticked up slightly with continuing installments, lots of fan activity, and unexpected surprises lurking in the corners. Here’s how August 2020 kept Yamato fans on their toes…
Yamato activity in June 2020 pulled roughly even with May, highlighted by the debut of the all-new Star Blazers Lambda manga and another banner month for fan activity. Here’s what went down during lockdown…
May 2020 was the lightest Yamato month since the ramp-up began in December 2016, at least in terms of official activity. But fans came to the rescue again, mounting a new radio show and maintaining a prodigious online presence. Let’s dive in.
The combination of COVID-19 and related malaise slowed Yamato activity to a trickle in April. But just as everyone’s legs are long enough to reach the ground, there is always enough news to fill up a monthly report. Here’s everything that kept fans going through the mounting crisis…
March 2020 was a thin month for quantity but a great one for quality with new model kit and video releases, plus the last of the fan gatherings before the Covid-19 lockdown began. Here’s how the month shook out…
February 2020 was surprisingly busy with events for Japanese fans from the beginning of the month all the way to the end. Then there was the completely unexpected announcement of an entirely new Yamato spinoff. Here’s what your calendar would have looked like if you were lucky enough to see it all…
January 2020 saw about the same amount of activity as December 2019 with continuations and some new events. There was nothing new regarding Yamato 2205, but now that we’ve moved irrevocably into the year of its debut, things won’t be quiet for much longer. Meanwhile, here’s what occupied fans as 2020 kicked off…
The last month of the last year of Yamato 2202 ended with an easy slide into the first month of the first year of Yamato 2205. If you knew where to look, it was a month of surprises and delights from unexpected corners – which is always the case in Yamato world. Here’s the roundup for December 2019.
Despite not having a huge concert event as its centerpiece, the month of November saw a nice uptick in activity with news from multiple fronts, another giant-size Yamato for the history books, and the first glimpse of 2205. Here’s the full rundown…
October 2019 was an action-packed month for Yamato fans with new products and events unrolling at such a steady clip that one could almost forget it had been over seven months since 2202 ended. Here’s everything that kept the flames lit…
Activity held steady as the sixth post-2202 month rolled around and interesting things continued to pop up. Modelbuilding and live events set the tone throughout September as new product announcements gave us our first glimpse into 2020. Here’s what went down…
Thanks to several announcements and some special events, 2202 activity ticked up slightly in August. We also finally got the 2199 manga in English and the month concluded with the most unexpected announcement of all: the next Yamato series! Here is everything fans were talking about in August 2019.
2202 action ticked downward as previously-promoted products rolled out and some new ones were announced. But fans flew their Yamato flags to make it another interesting month. Here’s what happened in July 2019…
Yamato 2202 activity in June leveled out to the leisurely pace of events, announcements, and products you would expect for a series that has closed up shop. Fan activity bloomed to fill the gap and give us another month of Yamato adoration.
Activity in May dropped off from April as Yamato 2202 receded into legacy territory, but fandom took center stage again to keep the flames lit. A new radio program, the start of hobby show season, and news of things to come made it another interesting month.
Yamato 2202 activity in April 2019 dropped to about half of what we saw in the climactic month of March as the last echoes of Chapter 7 washed over the world. Here’s what went on as the saga made its transition to a new legacy period.
The month following the March 1 premiere of Chapter 7 was one of the busiest in the history of the series with something new emerging almost every day as the finale played out over its 4-week run and came to its historic end. Here’s everything that made it a month to remember. [3 pages]
