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 | Farewell to Yamato | Series 2 | The New Voyage | Be Forever Yamato | Series 3 | Final Yamato
No-class | 1975 | |
No-class | MAY | |
PRODUCTION | ? | Editing begins on the Space Battleship Yamato movie |
No-class | SEP | |
Publication | 24 | Fan Club “Yamato Laboratory” announces the existence of the Yamato movie |
No-class | 1976 | |
No-class | MAY | |
PRODUCTION | ? | |
No-class | OCT | |
Production | ? | Voice recording for Space Cruiser Yamato movie in Hollywood |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1977 | |
No-class | JAN | |
Production | ? | Sound dubbing completed for Space Cruiser Yamato movie in Hollywood |
No-class | MAY | |
Event | ? | Space Cruiser Yamato is screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Distribution deals are made for European markets |
Production | ? | Space Battleship Yamato the movie is prepared for release in Japan, to be distributed by Shochiku-Toho |
No-class | JUL | |
MUSIC | 25 | |
No-class | AUG | |
Event | 5 | The night before the movie premiere, fans line up at theatres and receive animation cels in a special giveaway |
Cinema | 6 | |
PUBLICATION | 6 | |
On Air | 20 | Space Battleship Yamato ‘Stereo Manga’ radio dramatization on NHK FM (runs for 7 days) |
PUBLICATION | ? | Leiji Matsumoto essay in Kinejun magazine #714 (Kinema Junpo Co.) |
No-class | SEP | |
Publication | 15 | Yoshinobu Nishizaki interview in Kinejun magazine #717 (Kinema Junpo Co.) |
PUBLICATION | 22 | Yoshinobu Nishizaki interview in Weekly Sankei magazine (Sankei Publishing) |
Publication | ? | |
No-class | OCT | |
EVENT | 6-11 | “Yamato Fancy Goods” exhibition at Hanshin Department Store in Osaka |
CINEMA | 28 | The movie closes, having attracted 2.3 million viewers and setting a Japanese box-office record |
PUBLICATION | ? | |
No-class | NOV | |
Product | 15 | |
MUSIC | 25 | |
MODEL | ? | |
No-class | DEC | |
ON AIR | 2 | Space Battleship Yamato 4-hour radio drama on All Night Nippon |
Cinema | 17-29 | |
MUSIC | 25 | |
MODEL | ? | |
MODEL | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1978 | |
No-class | JAN | |
CINEMA | 10-29 | Space Battleship Yamato screens at KBS Laserium in Kyoto |
ON AIR | 28 | Space Battleship Yamato radio drama rebroadcast on All Night Nippon |
event | ? | Space Battleship Yamato exhibit at Imai Department store, Tokyo |
No-class | FEB | |
PUBLICATION | 25 | |
Book | 25 | |
No-class | MAR | |
CINEMA | ? | Space Battleship Yamato screens at Humble House Theatre in Kagoshima |
EVENT | 16 | Yamato product exhibition at Seibu Department Store in Shibuya, Tokyo |
CINEMA | 24-29 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Yamatoyashiki Theatre in Himeji |
MUSIC | 25 | |
CINEMA | 25 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Tokuyama Station Theatre |
CINEMA | 29-31 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Kumamoto Tsuruya Theatre |
EVENT | 30 | product exhibition at Keisei Departmen Store in Ueno, Tokyo (through April 5) |
MODEL | ? | |
Publication | ? | |
No-class | APR | |
CINEMA | 6-11 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Wakayama Theatre, Nagasaki |
CINEMA | 13-25 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens in Nagaoka City |
CINEMA | 27 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Daimaru Theatre in Kobe (through May 9) |
CINEMA | 27 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens in Niigata City (through May 1) |
CINEMA | 28 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Koriyama Usui Department Store |
Cinema | 29 | Space Battleship Yamato movie opens Golden Week Anime Festival at Omon Theatre, Nagoya |
No-class | MAY | |
MUSIC | 1 | |
CINEMA | 3-9 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Yamato Theatre in Kanazawa |
CINEMA | 4 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Yagihashi Theatre in Kumagaya |
No-class | JUN | |
MUSIC | 10 | |
PUBLICATION | 25 | |
CINEMA | 29 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Yamato Theatre in Joetsu City (through July 4) |
No-class | JUL | |
CINEMA | 20-26 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Daimaru Theatre in Osaka |
CINEMA | 28 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Matsuya Theatre in Ginza, Tokyo (through Aug. 2) |
publication | ? | |
No-class | AUG | |
ON AIR | 4 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast debut on Fuji Television Network (31.9% audience rating) |
ON AIR | 4 | The Space Battleship Yamato 4-hour radio drama is rebroadcast on “All Night Nippon” |
CINEMA | 4-9 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nagoya |
CINEMA | 10-15 | Space Battleship Yamato movie screens at Matsuzakaya Theatre in Shizuoka |
No-class | DEC | |
PUBLICATION | 20 | |
Book | 20 | |
MUSIC | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1979 | |
No-class | JAN | |
Book | 20 | |
No-class | JUN | |
No-class | JUL | |
On Air | 13 | “Yamato Festival” special on All Night Nippon includes re-broadcast of first Yamato radio drama |
Cinema | 14 | |
Publiction | 14 | |
No-class | DEC | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1980 | |
No-class | JAN | |
ON AIR | 2 | Space Battleship Yamato movie rebroadcast on Fuji Television |
Book | 15 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1981 | |
No-class | MAR | |
BOOK | 25 | |
No-class | MAY | |
BOOK | 15 | |
No-class | AUG | |
On Air | 12 | Space Battleship Yamato movie rebroadcast on Nippon Television’s ‘Wednesday Roadshow’ |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1982 | |
No-class | DEC | |
BOOK | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1983 | |
No-class | MAR | |
Video | ? | |
No-class | APR | |
video | 21 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1984 | |
No-class | MAY | |
Event | 10 | Yamato films exhibited at Cannes Film Festival |
No-class | JULY | |
Video | 1 | |
No-class | ||
Video | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1985 | |
No-class | JUN | |
MUSIC | 21 | |
No-class | ||
Video | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1986 | |
No-class | JAN | |
EVENT | 12 | Fan Club screening of Space Battleship Yamato movie in Tokyo |
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 | DEC | |
ON AIR | 28 | Space Battleship Yamato movie rebroadcast on Hiroshima Television |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1988 | |
No-class | MAY | |
Event | 11 | Yamato movies and other Westcape productions marketed at Cannes Film Festival. |
No-class | OCT | |
EVENT | 23-30 | Westcape Corporation exhibit at Milan Film Festival |
No-class | ||
Video | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1990 | |
No-class | MAR | |
Video | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1991 | |
No-class | JAN | |
ON AIR | 1 | Space Battleship Yamato movie is rebroadcast on Tokyo 12 Channel |
No-class | AUG | |
ON AIR | 11 | Space Battleship Yamato movie is broadcast on Hiroshima Television |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1993 | |
No-class | JUL | |
Video | 21 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1995 | |
No-class | JAN | |
MUSIC | 1 | |
No-class | APR | |
Music | 1 | |
No-class | SEP | |
VIDEO | ? | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1998 | |
No-class | JUL | |
Video | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 1999 | |
No-class | JAN | |
ON AIR | ? | The Yamato movies are broadcast on CS Power Movie |
No-class | AUG | |
Video | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2000 | |
No-class | APR | |
Publication | 30 | Yamato 1977 Memorial fanzines published by fan group New World Academy |
No-class | NOV | |
ON AIR | 2 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on Family Theatre |
ON AIR | 10 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on Family Theatre |
ON AIR | 22 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on Family Theatre |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2002 | |
No-class | MAR | |
ON AIR | 21, 22 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on WOWOW |
No-class | MAY | |
ON AIR | 1 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on Family Theatre |
No-class | JUN | |
Video | ? | |
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 | MAR | |
ON AIR | 31 | Three of the movies are broadcast on late-night ‘Daily Life Television’ |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2004 | |
No-class | MAR | |
Video | ? | |
No-class | AUG | |
ON AIR | 2 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on NHK |
No-class | NOV | |
MUSIC | 25 | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2005 | |
No-class | SEP | |
CINEMA | 11-20 | Space Battleship Yamato, Farewell to Yamato revival screenings at Toei Theatre in Kurashiki |
No-class | NOV | |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2006 | |
No-class | AUG | |
ON AIR | 11 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on Family Theatre |
ON AIR | 13 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on Asahi National Broadcasting |
ON AIR | 18, 20 | Space Battleship Yamato movie broadcast on Family Theatre |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2007 | |
No-class | MAY | |
Product | ? | |
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 | 7, 30 | Space Battleship Yamato movie rebroadcast (Family Theatre TV network) |
No-class | ||
No-class | 2010 | |
No-class | AUG | |
product | 18 | Flash anime mobile service offers footage from the first Yamato movie, renamed Yamato The Origin (Softbank) |
No-class | 2011 | |
No-class | NOV | |
online | 24 | Space Battleship Yamato streaming on Yamato Resurrection Fever pachinko game website (through 11/6) |
No-class | DEC | |
online | 5 | Space Battleship Yamato streaming on Yamato Resurrection Fever pachinko game website (through 12/18) |
No-class | 2012 | |
No-class | FEB | |
MUSIC | 16 | |
No-class | MAY | |
product | 21 | |
No-class | JULY | |
music | 18 | |
No-class | NOV | |
BOOK | 2 | Rules of a Hit Anime Movie by Morihiko Saitoh covers the first Yamato film (Knowledge Fore) |
No-class | 2013 | |
No-class | APR | |
ON AIR | 28 | |
No-class | JUNE | |
VIDEO | 21 | |
No-class | JULY | |
VIDEO | 24 | |
No-class | 2014 | |
No-class | AUG | |
music | 28 | |
No-class | DEC | |
on air | 1 | Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel) |
on air | 9 | Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel) |
on air | 27 | Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel) |
No-class | 2019 | |
No-class | OCT | |
ON AIR | 6 | Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Family Theater) |
No-class | 2020 | |
No-class | MAR | |
ON AIR | 28 | Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Family Theater) |