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.
Examining all the books devoted to the first series and movie provides the broadest glimpse at the evolution of anime publishing from a children’s medium into one for all ages and interests. As a result, anime publishing is still healthy today, and Yamato is still a part of it as this record will attest.
Many publishing companies were involved with Yamato, but the home office was always the leader of the pack. Since all the resources and quality control Office Academy could want were at arm’s reach, the excellence of their publishing efforts was second to none. Here is a rundown of their lineup for the first story.
Yamato began as anime, but didn’t end there as this review of the many different novelizations demonstrates. Some viewed the story through a different lens, and others took it on a very different path. Find out what they had to offer in terms of both art and story.
