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!

Timelines for the remakes can be found in their own sections.

No-class	2014
BOOK	?	The dirt you didn’t know behind the hit and downfall of Space Battleship Yamato (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
No-class	JAN
on air	1	Rebroadcast of Yamato Series 1, Episodes 1-26 (Family Channel)
on air	13-16	Rebroadcast of Yamato Series 1, Episodes 1-26 (Family Channel)
RIP	14	Animator Koichi Tsunoda (Final Yamato) dies of cancer at 75
model	17	Yamato Resurrection garage kit: 1/144 Cosmo Zero Type 21 (Team Strike)
model	17	Yamato Resurrection garage kit: 1/2000 SUS battleship (Team Strike)
on air	19	Rebroadcast of Yamato Series 1, Episodes 1-13 (Family Channel)
on air	20	Rebroadcast of Yamato 2, Episodes 1-6 (Family Channel)
on air	21	Rebroadcast of Yamato 2, Episodes 7-10 (Family Channel)
music	22	CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1982-V Space Battleship Yamato Synthesizer Fantasy (Columbia)
music	22	CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1983-IV Final Yamato BGM collection (Columbia)
music	22	CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1983-V Digital Trip Final Yamato Synthesizer Fantasy (Columbia)
on air	22	Rebroadcast of Yamato 2, Episodes 11-18 (Family Channel)
on air	23	Rebroadcast of Yamato 2, Episodes 19-26 (Family Channel)
on air	26	Rebroadcast of Yamato Series 1, Episodes 13-26 (Family Channel)
RIP	14	Voice actor Ichiro Nagai (Sado, Tokugawa) dies of coronary artery disease at 82
on air	27	Rebroadcast of Yamato III, Episodes 1-6 (Family Channel)
on air	28	Rebroadcast of Yamato III, Episodes 7-12 (Family Channel)
on air	29	Rebroadcast of Yamato III, Episodes 13-18 (Family Channel)
on air	27	Rebroadcast of Yamato III, Episodes 19-25 (Family Channel)
No-class	FEB
PUBLICATION	28	Ship’s Log #6 (Yamato Premium fan club magazine)
No-class	MAR
publication	17	Space Battleship Yamato sheet music for gentle instruments (Music Eight)
music	19	CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1984-I Grand Symphony Yamato (Columbia)
music	19	CD: Yamato Sound Almanac 1996-I Sound Fantasia Space Battleship Yamato (Columbia)
publication	20	White Comet sheet music in Electone magazine (Yamaha Music Media)
No-class	APR
online	5	1973 Yamato plan book sold in auction (Mandarake)
online	9	2004 New Yamato proposal and character designs sold in auction (Mandarake)
event	17	Yamato decor on tour buses (Tsuruga, Japan)
RIP	23	Superfan Edward Hawkins dies of respiratory failure at 49
video	23	DVD & Blu-ray: Final Yamato MV (Columbia)
video	29	DVD & Blu-ray: Live-action Yamato movie (Funimation)
No-class	MAY
RIP	1	Voice actor Koji Yada (Talan, et al) dies of kidney failure at 81
RIP	8	Superfan Derek Wakefield
PUBLICATION	27	Ship’s Log #7 (Yamato Crew Premium Fan Club Magazine)
publication	31	Space Battleship Yamato sheet music for piano (Fairy)
No-class	JUL
video	23	DVD & Blu-ray: Be Forever Yamato MV (Columbia)
RIP	30	Voice actor Shusei Nakamura (Daisuke Shima) dies at 79
product	?	Live-action Yamato jackets (Cosplay)
No-class	AUG
music	6	Space Battleship Yamato hi-rez albums available for download (Mora)
EVENT	6-10	Yamato display at Asagaya Tanabata Festival
music	28	CD: Yamato Sound Almanac bonus disc Space Battleship Yamato drama album (Columbia)
PUBLICATION	31	Ship’s Log #8 (Yamato Premium fan club magazine)
No-class	SEP
EVENT	7	Announcement of greenlit production for American-made Yamato movie
RIP	15	lyricist Yoko Yamaguchi (Be Forever Yamato) dies of respiratory failure at the age of 77
video	17	DVD & Blu-ray: The New Voyage MV (Columbia)
event	27, 28	Yamato music performed live at Anime Weekend Atlanta (Georgia, USA)
No-class	OCT
ONLINE	2	Yamato art in 60 minutes Twitter page opens
No-class	NOV
video	19	DVD & Blu-ray: Farewell to Yamato MV (Columbia)
BOOK	29	Yamato illustrations by Noriyoshi Ohrai published in Green Universe (Genkosha)
No-class	DEC
on air	1	Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel)
PUBLICATION	2	Ship’s Log #9 (Yamato Premium fan club magazine)
on air	2	Rebroadcast of Farewell to Yamato (Star Channel)
MUSIC	3	CD: Yamato 2199 40th Anniversary Best Track Image Album (HATS Unlimited)
on air	3	Rebroadcast of The New Voyage (Star Channel)
BOOK	4	Rediscover Space Battleship Yamato (Take Shobo)
on air	4	Rebroadcast of Be Forever Yamato (Star Channel)
on air	5	Rebroadcast of Final Yamato (Star Channel)
on air	9	Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel)
on air	16	Rebroadcast of Farewell to Yamato (Star Channel)
on air	17	Rebroadcast of Farewell to Yamato (Star Channel)
on air	23	Rebroadcast of The New Voyage (Star Channel)
on air	27	Rebroadcast of Yamato movie (Star Channel)
on air	27	Rebroadcast of The New Voyage (Star Channel)
on air	28	Rebroadcast of Be Forever Yamato (Star Channel)
on air	28	Rebroadcast of Final Yamato (Star Channel)
on air	30	Rebroadcast of Be Forever Yamato (Star Channel)
music	30	CD: Yamato Sound Arrange Project Vol. 5 Elements by Brightness
model	?	Cosmo Gun garage kit (On Air Works)
model	?	Dessler pistol garage kit (On Air Works)
No-class	2015
No-class	JAN
PRODUCT	?	Yamato T-shirts (Red Bubble)
PRODUCT	?	Yamato iPhone cases (Red Bubble)
ONLINE	15	Interview with astronaut Naoko Yamazaki
RIP	16	Voice actor Chikao Ohtsuka (Gatlantis Admiral Baruze)
EVENT	24	Leiji Future 2015
No-class	FEB
RIP	2	Voice actor Patrick W. Lohn (Eager in Star Blazers)
EVENT	7	Leiji Matsumoto art show (through March 22)
EVENT	20	Space Settlement model kit designed by Kazutaka Miyatake (Wave Corporation)
PUBLICATION	25	Following Yamato serial in Asahi Shimbun (through March 11)
No-class	MAR
EVENT	2	IJN Musashi wreckage discovered
ONLINE	13	Star Blazers article on i09
No-class	APR
MUSIC	1	CD: Best of Best: Isao Sasaki (Columbia)
ONLINE	27	Fever Space Battleship Yamato pachinko game website opens
No-class	MAY
ON AIR	3	Star Blazers referenced on Silicon Valley (HBO)
EVENT	17	Isao Sasaki 55th Anniversary Concert Birthday Live
PRODUCT	22	Leiji Matsumoto IC card stickers in Big Comic Superior magazine
No-class	JUN
BOOK	26	Zero-Dimensional Machine Travelogue (Shogakukan)
No-class	AUG
EVENT	10	Fever Space Battleship Yamato pachinko game rollout
PUBLICATION	14	SF Manga of our Youth doujinshi
No-class	SEP
ONLINE	9	Leiji Matsumoto stickers on LINE message app
BOOK	10	The Man who Made Space Battleship Yamato ~ The Madness of Yoshinobu Nishizaki (Kodansha)
MUSIC	23	CD: This is all I want to know: 50 Anime Songs (Columbia)
EVENT	27	Yamato panel at Anime Weekend Atlanta
video	29	Yamato movie box set (Yamato Video, Italy)
model	29	Yuki Mori garage kit announced
No-class	OCT
MUSIC	28	CD: Yamato Sound Almanac Music Addendum (Columbia)
No-class	NOV
video	29	Star Blazers DVD box set (Sanver Productions, Spain)
No-class	2016
No-class	JAN
MUSIC	20	Download single: Desler Attack by W.C.D.A. (iTunes)
PRODUCT	?	CR Fever Space Battleship Yamato pachislo game promo begins
No-class	FEB
ON AIR	1	Series 1 rebroadcast through February 20 (Star Channel)
ON AIR	1-20	Yamato 2 rebroadcast through March 12 (Star Channel)
No-class	MAR
EVENT	5,6	Katsumi Itabashi art exhibition (Tokyo)
EVENT	6	Isao Sasaki concert: 55th Anniversary Debut Special Live Encore
ON AIR	8	Yamato III rebroadcast through March 27 (Star Channel)
MUSIC	30	CD: Brass Band Heroes includes Yamato theme (Universal Music)
BOOK	31	Leiji Matsumoto Big Analysis (Sanei)
No-class	APR
RIP	12	Voice actor Toru Ohira (Dark Nebula Emperor Skaldart)
BOOK	25	The 2nd Floor Residents and Their Times biography by Eiji Otsuka (Seikaisha Shinsho)
No-class	MAY
CINEMA	14	Live-action movie screening at Odaiba Cinema Mediage (Tokyo)
EVENT	14-29	Leiji Matsumoto ~ Dreams and Romance art exhibition (Tokyo)
RIP	15	Bruce Lewis (artist)
No-class	JUNE
EVENT	17-26	New Battleship Yamato art exhibition (Cyberdyne Publishing)
No-class	JULY
MUSIC	31	Sheet music: Nostalgic Anime and Tokusatsu Hero includes Yamato theme (Electone)
No-class	AUG
MUSIC	10	CD/DVD: Mirage by Especia includes Yamato theme (Bermuda Entertainment Japan)
MUSIC	31	Sheet music: Nostalgic Anime and Tokusatsu Hero includes Yamato theme (Electone)
PRODUCT	?	“Classic Yuki” 1/8 garage kit figure
No-class	SEP
ONLINE	11	interview with voice actor Kenichi Ogata (otoCoto)
EVENT	14-29	Leiji Matsumoto/Miyako Maki collaboration art exhibition (through Nov. 20, Kobe Artists Museum)
MUSIC	28	CD: Moment by Isao Sasaki includes Yamato theme (Nippon Columbia)
No-class	OCT
EVENT	8-10	Tomonori Kogawa art exhibition (Tokyo)
ONLINE	20	Anime Revolutionary Yoshinori Kanada documentary
PRODUCT	?	“Previz Yuki” garage kit figure
No-class	NOV
EVENT	23-30	Yamato production art displayed at Studio Khara exhibition (Laforet Museum, Tokyo)
EVENT	26	Leiji Matsumoto: Legend of the Manga World art exhibition (through Dec. 25, Morioka)
No-class	DEC
CINEMA	25	Live-action movie screening at Odaiba Cinema Mediage (Tokyo)
No-class	2017
No-class	JAN
PUBLICATION	11	Cover story in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 41 (Crete Publishing)
EVENT	21	Leiji Future 2016
No-class	FEB
CINEMA	5	Yamato Resurrection at Cinema Novecento (Yokohama)
on air	7	Yu Aku TV special (NHK)
PRODUCT	16	Leiji Matsumoto art prints (Broad Expert Co.)
No-class	MAR
PUBLICATION	11	Article in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 42 (Crete Publishing)
No-class	APR
MUSIC	26	CD: New Sounds in Brass 2017 includes Yamato highlights (Nippon Columbia)
PUBLICATION	26	Sheet music: New Sounds in Brass: Yamato highlights (Yamaha Music Media)
BOOK	28	Kazutaka Miyatake: Mega Designer Created Mega Structures (Hobby Japan)
No-class	JUL
PUBLICATION	26	Sheet music: Standard Chorus Piece: Space Battleship Yamato (Winds Score)
EVENT	8	Junko Yagamai performs Final Yamato song live in concert
BOOK	31	Professional Manga Techniques: The Manga of Leiji Matsumoto (Genkosha)
No-class	AUG
BOOK	4	How to Draw SF Mecha starting from Leiji Meters (Genkosha)
music	24	CD: Best Tune Takamiy includes cover of From Yamato With Love (Universal Music)
No-class	SEP
EVENT	2	The World of Manga Legend Leiji Matsumoto art exhibition (through Oct 22, Imabashi)
BOOK	19	The Movie Art of Syd Mead, Visual Futurist inclues coverage of Yamato 2520 (Titan Books)
No-class	OCT
BOOK	2	The Truth of Space Battleship Yamato (Shodensha)
No-class	NOV
EVENT	1	Leiji Matsumoto Galactic World Exhibition ~ Bringing dreams and romance together art exhibition (through Nov 6, Fukuoka Prefecture)
PUBLICATION	10	Article in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 46 (Crete Publishing)
online	11	The Nova Show premieres on Youtube
PUBLICATION	20	Trumpet the Best Hit 51 sheet music includes Yamato theme (Yamaha Music Entertainment)
No-class	DEC
EVENT	3	Leiji Future 2017
BOOK	21	The Man who Made Space Battleship Yamato ~ The Madness of Yoshinobu Nishizaki Plus-alpha edition (Kodansha)
MUSIC	21	CD: POWER (songs by Yu Aku, Kanameishi Records)
No-class	2018
No-class	JAN
ONLINE	12	Star Blazers review at Syfy Wire
ONLINE	16	Voice actor Yoko Asagami profiled at Daily Sports
PUBLICATION	18	Grand Symphony Yamato sheet music (Crete Publishing)
BOOK	27	Cosmoship Yamato Boukenou Original Revive Version (Fukkan)
No-class	FEB
BOOK	28	Leiji Matsumoto Infinite Creation Orbit (Shogakukan)
No-class	MAR
BOOK	22	Space Battleship Yamato is dead (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
No-class	APR
online	22	1973 Yamato plan book sold in auction (Yahoo Japan)
No-class	MAY
on air	5	Radio Suite Space Battleship Yamato (Clover Media)
PUBLICATION	11	Article in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 49 (Crete Publishing)
No-class	JUN
BOOK	25	The truth you didn’t know about the Space Battleship Yamato Roman Album (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
BOOK	29	Leiji Matsumoto Classic Anime Great Analysis (Shogakukan)
No-class	JUL
MUSIC	25	CD: The Universe Expands Into Infinity performance on May J. Cinema Song Covers (Rhythm Zone)
No-class	AUG
EVENT	25	Grand Symphony Yamato performed by Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
MUSIC	29	CD: Yamato included on Hiroshi Miyagawa TV Theme World (Columbia)
No-class	SEP
PUBLICATION	11	Cover story in Showa 40 Man magazine Vol. 51 (Crete Publishing)
BOOK	13	Cosmoship Yamato 2 Boukenou Original Revive Version, Vol. 1 (Fukkan)
No-class	OCT
BOOK	5	Japan Nostalgic Anison Compendium (Tatsumi Publishing)
ONLINE	9	Lyricist Yu Aku profiled at Music Calendar
BOOK	18	Cosmoship Yamato 2 Boukenou Original Revive Version, Vol. 2 (Fukkan)
publication	20	Yamato sheet music in Electone magazine (Yamaha Music Media)
No-class	NOV
PUBLICATION	13	Following the history of Battleship Yamato and Space Battleship Yamato serial in Asahi Shimbun (through Nov 27)
No-class	DEC
BOOK	2	The truth you didn’t know about Space Battleship Yamato‘s copyright; the unknown swamp of the 70s (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
EVENT	8	Yamato display at Usuki Illumination Festival
EVENT	16	Leiji Future 2018
online	21	Final Yamato production painting listed in auction (Yahoo Japan)
No-class	2019
No-class	APR
BOOK	9	Space Battleship Yamato The Classic Collection manga in English (Seven Seas Entertainment)
EVENT	10-21	Worlds of Leiji Matsumoto art exhibit (Ota City)
MUSIC	17	CD: Space Battleship Yamato Grand Symphony (Denon)
PRODUCT	24	Yamato 2520 poster (Yamato Crew)
EVENT	27	Syd Mead Progressions exhibition opens, features Yamato 2520 content (3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo)
ONLINE	26	“Yamato Project” announced on Family Theater website
No-class	MAY
ON AIR	4	Radio Suite Farewell to Yamato (Clover Radio, Saitama)
ONLINE	9	Interview with Conductor Naoto Otomo
MUSIC	22	digital single: Great Love (WCDA)
PUBLICATION	25	Model Graphix No. 416 publishes Studio Nue cover story (Dai Nippon Kaiga)
No-class	JUN
ONLINE	15	“Sunken Yamato” paper model for download (Paper Model Workshop)
EVENT	20	Animage magazine 41st anniversary
No-class	JUL
EVENT	19	Yamato suite performed at Osaka College of Music summer concert
No-class	AUG
ONLINE	26	Promo video for Yamato Project (Family Theater)
No-class	SEP
EVENT	1	Yamato 2205 announced for fall 2020
MUSIC	11	CD: Organ Odyssey includes cover of White Comet (King Records)
EVENT	12	Yutaka Izubuchi lecture: Anime Reintroduction Course: First Space Battleship Yamato
ONLINE	23	Commercial for HD remaster of Farewell to Yamato (Family Theater)
No-class	OCT
EVENT	6	45th anniversary of Series 1
ON AIR	6	Yamato Project debuts on satellite channel Family Theater
PUBLICATION	10	Yamato cover feature in Mandarake Zenbu catalog no. 95
ON AIR	20	Farewell to Yamato on satellite channel Family Theater
No-class	NOV
EVENT	2	Giant straw Yamato unveiled at Chikuzen Harvest Festival (Fukuoka Prefecture)
CINEMA	9	Farewell to Yamato screened in 4K (Tokyo)
ON AIR	9	Yamato 2 on satellite channel Family Theater
ON AIR	9	The New Voyage on satellite channel Family Theater
ON AIR	9	Be Forever Yamato on satellite channel Family Theater
EVENT	24	NYPD band performs Yamato theme at World Tour Concert in Japan 2019
PRODUCT	27	Cosmo Gun water pistol, 4 types (Grenade/Daiki)
RIP	29	RIP: voice actor Makio Inoue
PUBLICATION	29	Aquarius Algorithm debuts in Star Blazers/Yamato fan club magazine Vol. 5 (Yamato Crew)
No-class	DEC
ON AIR	30	Yamato III on satellite channel Family Theater
ON AIR	30	Final Yamato on satellite channel Family Theater
ON AIR	30	Yamato Resurrection on satellite channel Family Theater
No-class	2020
No-class	JAN
EVENT	9	Animation director Tomonori Kogawa appears at Anime Los Angles convention (through Jan 12)
EVENT	25	HOBAS model exhibition (Hokkaido)
No-class	FEB
ONLINE	7	Aquarius Algorithm Chapter 1 on Yamato Crew
EVENT	15	Leiji Matsumoto Cosmoworld popup shop at Tokyu Hands dept. store, Shinjuku (through Feb 27)
EVENT	15&16	Yokohama Modeler’s Club exhibition
EVENT	23	Be Forever Yamato screened at Yakitori Yamato restaurant
EVENT	29	Yamato Lecture 20 (Shibuya, Tokyo)
No-class	MARCH
ONLINE	5	Voice actor Goro Naya profiled on Magmix
No-class	APRIL
PUBLICATION	16	Yamato content in Showa 40 Man magazine special (Crete Publishing)
No-class	MAY
ON AIR	9	Radio Suite Space Battleship Yamato, The New Voyage (Clover Radio, Saitama)
ONLINE	23	Leiji Matsumoto discussion at Momoconline
No-class	JUN
ONLINE	10	Star Blazers Lambda manga debuts on Comic NewType
ONLINE	11	Leiji Matsumoto interview in Sankei Sports
ONLINE	11	Leiji Matsumoto interview in Yomiuri Shimbun
No-class	JUL
ONLINE	7	Character popularity contest finishes at Akiba Souken
ONLINE	10	Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 3 (Comic NewType)
No-class	AUG
ONLINE	10	Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 4 (Comic NewType)
ON AIR	12	Radio Suite Space Battleship Yamato, The New Voyage Extra Edition (Clover Radio, Saitama)
ONLINE	13	Andromeda popularity contest finishes at Akiba Souken
ONLINE	15	Mecha popularity contest finishes at Akiba Souken
ONLINE	16	How Much Did Kodai Earn article on Pash Plus
EVENT	19	Yamato music performed live at Mt Fuji Kawaguchiko Music Festival 2020
ON AIR	19	Radio Suite Space Battleship Yamato, The New Voyage Extra Edition (Clover Radio, Saitama)
EVENT	28	Yamato theme performed live in Panama
No-class	SEP
ON AIR	6	Yamato scores #3 in Anison General Election (TV Asahi)
ON AIR	7	Yamato Series 1 on Family Theater
VIDEO	9	Blu-ray: Maeda Construction Fantasy Marketing Department includes Dessler cameo (Bandai Namco Arts)
ONLINE	11	Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 5 (Comic NewType)
BOOK	13	Space Battleship Yamato • books • videos • music • sheet music list 1974-2020: Aggregated Data Analysis (for Kindle, PD Company Ltd.)
ONLINE	19,20	Star Blazers marathon (streaming, Daikaiju TV)
ONLINE	23	BGM and song popularity contests finishe at Akiba Souken
ON AIR	27	Isao Sasaki performs Yamato theme on Karaoke Battle (TV Tokyo)
ON AIR	29	Yamato 2 on Family Theater
No-class	OCT
ONLINE	9	Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 6 (Comic NewType)
ONLINE	11	Yamato III 40th anniversary article (Magmix)
No-class	NOV
ONLINE	1	Voice actor popularity contest finishes at Akiba Souken
ONLINE	11	Yamato theme performed by Foresta men’s chorus
ONLINE	13	Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 7 (Comic NewType)
ON AIR	21	Yamato music featured on Untitled Concert
BOOK	25	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, My Back Pages (Ohta Books)
No-class	DEC
EVENT	5	The Colonization of the Imaginary art exhibition (Rome, Italy)
ONLINE	11	Star Blazers Lambda manga Chapter 8 (Comic NewType)
ONLINE	13	Yamato places 8th in Top 20 anime poll (Bunshun Online)
ONLINE	25	Aquarius Algorithm concludes in Star Blazers/Yamato Fan Club Magazine #9
ON AIR	30	Yamato conversation on radio with Shigeru Ishiba (Bunka Hoso)

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