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!
More timelines: Series 1 | Yamato movie | Farewell to Yamato | Series 2 | The New Voyage | Be Forever Yamato | Series 3
No-class | 1981 | |
No-class | MAY | |
production | 13 | Brainstorming session 1 |
production | 28 | Brainstorming session 2, Aritsune Toyota story notes set 1 |
No-class | JUN | |
production | 1 | Toyota finishes story notes set 2 |
production | 5 | Brainstorming session 3 |
production | 9 | Toyota finishes story notes set 3 |
production | 11 | Brainstorming session 4 |
production | ? | Brainstorming session 5 |
No-class | JUL | |
production | 24 | Brainstorming session 6 |
production | 31 | Toyota finishes story notes set 4 |
production | 31 | Eiichi Yamamoto completes first story draft |
No-class | AUG | |
production | 6 | Toyota finishes story notes set 5 |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1982 | |
No-class | JAN | |
production | 16 | Toyota finishes story notes sets 6 & 7 |
production | 19 | Toyota finishes story notes set 8, composition plan |
production | 28 | Writer’s summit, day 1 |
production | 29 | Writer’s summit, day 2 |
production | 30 | Writer’s summit, day 3 |
No-class | FEB | |
production | 1 | Preproduction concept notes |
production | 5 | Concept notes organized |
production | 11 | Eiichi Yamamoto story memo |
No-class | MAR | |
production | 2 | story treatment 1 |
production | 9 | story treatment 2 |
Music | 9 | Prelude to Final Yamato album recording begins (finishes 3/14) |
production | 11 | concept notes written |
production | 12 | story treatment 3 |
production | 17 | story treatment 4 |
No-class | APR | |
production | 15 | Nishizaki plot composition written |
event | 27 | Production announcement at press conference, Tokyo |
No-class | MAY | |
production | 20 | Script part A completed |
music | 21 | |
production | 24 | SF concept notes completed by Aritsune Toyota & Kazuichi Tsurumi |
production | 26 | Toshio Masuda makes scene plan from script part A |
No-class | JUN | |
production | 7 | Script part B completed |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (July cover dates) |
production | 19 | Script part C completed |
production | 28 | Script part D first draft completed |
No-class | JUL | |
production | 9 | Script part D final draft completed |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (August cover dates) |
book | 31 | |
No-class | AUG | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (September cover dates) |
event | Yamato Fan Club Gatherings include screening of documentary ‘Message Film’ | |
No-class | 9 | Fukushima |
No-class | 10 | Nagasaki, Yamagata |
No-class | 11 | Takeo |
No-class | 12 | Akita |
No-class | 13 | Kagoshima |
No-class | 14 | Aomori, Miyazaki |
No-class | 15 | Morioka, Ooita |
No-class | 16 | Sendai, Kitakyushu |
No-class | 17 | Kumamoto |
No-class | 20 | Niigata |
No-class | 21 | Takamatsu |
No-class | 22 | Toyama, Tokushima |
No-class | 23 | Kanazawa, Kochi |
No-class | 24 | Fukui |
No-class | 25 | Hiroshima |
No-class | 26 | Okayama, Tottori |
No-class | 27 | Himeji, Tsuyama |
No-class | 28 | Matsue |
No-class | 29 | Hamada, Matsuyama |
No-class | 30 | Shimonoseki |
No-class | SEP | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (October cover dates) |
production | 16 | Music meeting 1 |
No-class | OCT | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (November cover dates) |
production | 18 | Music & FX meetings |
Product | 22 | |
Publication | ? | |
No-class | NOV | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (December cover dates) |
Book | 30 | |
publication | ? | |
No-class | DEC | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (January cover dates) |
book | 15 | |
production | 15 | Songs recorded by Tomoko Kuwae, Transam and Isao Sasaki at Sound City in Minato, Tokyo |
production | 18 | Love Supreme recorded by Junko Yagami |
Publication | 20, 26 | |
book | 31 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1983 | |
No-class | JAN | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (February cover dates) |
On Air | 15 | Final Yamato 4-hour radio drama on All Night Nippon |
Event | 18 | Final Yamato press conference, Tokyo. |
music | 21 | |
music | 21 | |
music | 25 | |
music | 25 | |
publication | ? | Final Yamato insert poster in Juniorhood magazine |
No-class | FEB | |
music | 1 | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (March cover dates) |
event | 12 | Yamato Festival, Osaka Welfare Hall |
book | 15 | |
Book | 15 | |
music | 21 | |
production | 22-24 | Voice recording at Avaco Studio |
publication | 25 | |
book | 28 | |
event | ? | |
Game | ? | |
No-class | MAR | |
Publication | 1 | |
music | 1 | |
music | 1 | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (April cover dates) |
publication | 15 | |
event | 15 | Space Battleship Yamato: Grand Festival is held at Kosei Nenkin hall in Shinjuku, Tokyo |
book | 15 | |
book | 15 | |
Cinema | 19 | |
publication | 19 | |
Event | 19 | “Big Space Project: Yamato Launch” attraction at Takarazuka Family Land (through June 5) |
music | 21 | |
event | 25-30 | Final Yamato final goods fair at Tokyu Department Store, Kichijoji, Tokyo |
Event | 29 | |
book | 31 | |
event | 31 | Final Cruise 2 (sea cruise, through 4/2) |
model | ? | |
model | ? | |
model | ? | |
model | ? | |
Model | ? | Cosmo Tiger II reissue (Bandai) |
No-class | APR | |
music | 1 | |
event | 2 | Final Cruise 3 (sea cruise, through 4/4) |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (May cover dates) |
book | 10 | |
book | 15 | |
music | 21 | |
Video | 21 | |
Publication | 25 | |
cinema | 29 | Final Yamato concludes its first theatrical run, having attracted 2.5 million viewers |
Book | 30 | |
No-class | MAY | |
Book | 1 | |
publication | 10 | Final Yamato coverage in anime magazines (June cover dates) |
Book | 13 | |
Book | 15 | |
music | 21 | |
Book | 30 | |
Book | 30 | |
Book | 30 | |
No-class | JUN | |
music | 21 | |
book | 30 | |
No-class | AUG | |
music | 20 | |
music | 21 | |
No-class | NOV | |
Cinema | 5-13 | |
Publication | 5 | |
No-class | DEC | |
book | 10 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1984 | |
No-class | FEB | |
Cinema | 11-17 | Final Yamato 70mm version screens in Osaka |
No-class | MAR | |
Event | 22-25 | Final Yamato screened at Norwescon ’84 (Seattle, WA) |
No-class | MAY | |
Event | 10 | Final Yamato 70mm edition exhibited at Cannes Film Festival |
Publication | 10 | |
No-class | JUN | |
Video | ? | |
No-class | ||
Video | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1985 | |
No-class | AUG | |
Cinema | 17 | Final Yamato revival in a double-feature with Odin: Photon Space Sailor Starlight |
Video | ? | |
Game | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1986 | |
No-class | AUG | |
event | 23 | Fan Club screening of Final Yamato (35mm version) in Meguro Public Hall, Tokyo |
No-class | SEP | |
Video | 21 | |
No-class | OCT | |
music | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1987 | |
No-class | AUG | |
Cinema | 3-7 | Summer Vacation Anime theatre exhibition includes Yamato exhibit, screens Space Battleship Yamato, Arrivederci, Be Forever and Final Yamato in Shibuya, Tokyo |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1988 | |
No-class | MAY | |
Event | 11 | Yamato movies and other Westcape productions marketed at Cannes Film Festival. |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1989 | |
Video | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1990 | |
No-class | MAY | |
Video | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1993 | |
No-class | SEP | |
Video | 24 | |
No-class | NOV | |
Book | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1995 | |
No-class | JAN | |
music | 1 | |
No-class | APR | |
music | 1 | |
No-class | AUG | |
VIDEO | ? | |
No-class | SEP | |
music | 21 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1996 | |
No-class | MAR | |
music | 21 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1998 | |
No-class | JUL | |
Video | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1999 | |
No-class | AUG | |
Video | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2000 | |
No-class | NOV | |
on air | 9 | Final Yamato broadcast on Family Theatre |
on air | 19 | Final Yamato broadcast on Family Theatre |
on air | 30 | Final Yamato broadcast on Family Theatre |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2001 | |
No-class | MAR | |
music | 1 | |
No-class | APR | |
on air | 5 | Final Yamato broadcast on Hokuriku sunrise |
No-class | MAY | |
on air | 5 | Final Yamato broadcast on Family Theatre |
No-class | DEC | |
on air | 5 | All 5 Yamato movies broadcast on channel NECO |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2003 | |
No-class | JAN | |
on air | 5 | All 5 Yamato movies rebroadcast on channel NECO |
No-class | NOV | |
music | 3 | |
music | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2004 | |
No-class | MAR | |
Video | ? | |
Video | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2005 | |
No-class | MAY | |
music | 18 | |
No-class | JUN | |
book | 19 | |
No-class | NOV | |
cinema | 4, 5 | All five Yamato movies screen at Toho Virgin cinemas, Roppongi, Tokyo |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2006 | |
No-class | JAN | |
Product | ? | |
Product | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2007 | |
No-class | AUG | |
Video | 24 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2009 | |
No-class | NOV | |
video | 25 | DVD: All five Yamato movies reissued (Bandai/Emotion) |
No-class | DEC | |
on air | 11, 31 | Final Yamato rebroadcast (Family Theatre TV network) |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2010 | |
No-class | FEB | |
book | 23 | |
No-class | 2011 | |
No-class | NOV | |
online | 24 | Final Yamato streaming on Yamato Resurrection Fever pachinko game website (through 12/4) |
No-class | 2012 | |
No-class | FEB | |
music | 1 | |
music | 16 | |
No-class | 2013 | |
No-class | APR | |
on air | 28 | |
No-class | SEP | |
music | 18 | |
No-class | NOV | |
music | 20 | |
music | 20 | |
music | 20 | |
No-class | DEC | |
VIDEO | 25 | |
No-class | 2014 | |
No-class | JAN | |
music | 22 | |
music | 22 | |
No-class | APR | |
video | 23 | |
No-class | DEC | |
on air | 5 | Rebroadcast of Final Yamato (Star Channel) |
on air | 28 | Rebroadcast of Final Yamato (Star Channel) |
No-class | 2018 | |
No-class | DEC | |
online | 21 | |
No-class | 2019 | |
No-class | DEC | |
ON AIR | 30 | Final Yamato on satellite channel Family Theater |
No-class | 2020 | |
No-class | MAY | |
ON AIR | 9 | Final Yamato on satellite channel Family Theater |
No-class | 2023 | |
No-class | FEB | |
ONLINE | 24 | Final Yamato character popularity poll (Akiba Souken) |
No-class | APR | |
ONLINE | 13 | Online poll, favorite Final Yamato mecha (Akiba Souken) |
No-class | DEC | |
PRODUCT | 7 | |
PRODUCT | 14 | |
No-class | 2024 | |
No-class | JUL | |
on air | 7 | Final Yamato (Star Channel) |
on air | 29 | Final Yamato (Star Channel) |
No-class | 2025 | |
No-class | JAN | |
on air | 3 | Final Yamato (Star Channel) |