1977 was the year anime became a mainstream phenomenon in Japanese media. It started slowly at the fringes, but when the Yamato movie hit pop culture like a tidal wave, it earned so much attention that the term “Yamato Boom” spontaneously emerged in newspapers and magazines.
To get the full force of that boom from a media perspective, here is a chronological index of all the magazine coverage (found so far) from this breakout year.
Manga Shonen
December 1, 1976
The Wonderful World of TV Anime
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Manga Shonen
April 1
The Wonderful World of TV Anime, Part II: All of Space Battleship Yamato
Read it here
OUT No. 4, Aug issue
June 18
A Letter from Yamato to Younger Readers
Read it here
OUT No. 5, Sept issue
July 18
Yamato World Part 2
Read it here
Eiga Fan September issue
August 1
Space Battleship Yamato
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Kinejun No. 714
August 1
The eternally unforgettable Space Battleship Yamato
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Weekly Sankei
August 4
Popular TV anime made into a movie!!
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Weekly Playboy No. 33
August 9
Entering the global film market with Yamato
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Weekly Myojo No. 34
August 14
Suddenly Space Battleship Yamato Surfaces: The Secret of Crazy Popularity
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Kinejun No. 715
August 15
Space Battleship Yamato
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English Today
August 15
English on Screen: Space Battleship Yamato
Read it here
Weekly Heibon Punch
August 15
WHAT’S Space Battleship Yamato
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Roadshow, October issue
September 1
The secret of the hit Space Battleship Yamato
Read it here
Manga Shonen
September 1
Animation World Part 1
Read it here
Eiga Fan, October issue
September 1
Music review
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Treasure Island
September 1
Spaceship Yamato is a pioneer of space!
Read it here
Weekly Bunshun
September 8
Yoshinobu Nishizaki interview
Read it here
Middle Third Age
September 11
Why is Space Battleship Yamato so popular this summer?
Read it here
Heibon Punch No. 677
September 12
Riding on the Space Battleship Yamato, the “Anime Generation” is fantasizing…
Read it here
Weekly Seventeen No. 39
September 13
Now it burns in our hearts, The World of Space Battleship Yamato
Read it here
Kinejun No. 717
September 15
Yoshinobu Nishizaki interview
Read it here
Weekly Sankei
September 15
The up-down life of the man who earned “500 million yen in one summer” with Space Battleship Yamato
Read it here
Screen, November issue
September 21
SF Frontier Drama
Read it here
Eiga Fan
October 1
SF Anime Special • Encore Wide Publication
See it here
Roadshow, November issue
October 1
Star Wars vs Space Battleship Yamato
Read it here
Movie Arts No. 319
October 15
Doves and Battleships: Space Battleship Yamato Criticism
Read it here
Hobby Japan #100
October 25
We Are Yamato Fans!! Dreams, adventures, and roman
Read it here
Roadshow, December issue
November 1
Top ten movie poll
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Kappa [Gem] Monthly
November 1
Behind the boom of the revived Battleship Yamato
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Terebi Magazine
November 1
Space Battleship Yamato
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Goro
November 10
Space Battleship Yamato is in danger! Is a second sortie possible?
Read it here
Roadshow, January issue
December 1
Top ten movie poll
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The World of TV Anime
December 1
First mook devoted to anime on TV
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