Roadshow Magazine Coverage
Elsewhere on this site, we explore the rich and busy history of Space Battleship Yamato publishing in Japan. During the production years, it was a crowded field occupied by many different publishers and licensors all covering the same material in different ways.
One such company was Shueisha, which published a very popular monthly magazine called Roadshow. Its mission was to cover the latest in film and TV entertainment. Shueisha published a considerable number of Yamato books, so in the spirit of mutual promotion, Roadshow became a strong vehicle to increase visibility in the mainstream.
From December 1978 to May 1979, they published a six-part Yamato Newspaper that kept pace with Yamato 2 and reported on its many developments with the same editorial style as anything in the live-action world. Shown here are all six of the Roadshow articles in this series. Click on the links to read translated text.