Your guide to everything seen in The New Voyage on the Yamato, Gamilas, and Dark Nebula sides, originally released as bonus features on the Voyager Entertainment New Voyage DVD.

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Magazine coverage for The New Voyage was comparatively thin, but not hard to find; Animage, OUT, and the Yamato Fan Club Magazines all gave the film its due and fans did get a few words from the inside. Read it all here.

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The New Voyage was first broadcast on Japan’s Fuji TV network Tuesday July 31, 1979, from 7:30-9pm. Referred to as a “telefeature,” the film occupies a special position in the Yamato saga in that it was intentionally designed to serve two audiences. Read the whole story of its development and release here.

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In the months of January and February 1979, the writers created and modified several story treatments, passing them back and forth and building one idea on top of another. Inevitably, some fascinating but untenable concepts were discarded. In this series of story drafts, we get a look at other directions The New Voyage might have taken.

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In this version of the story, we meet Youichi Maki of the sinister Galactic Crime League, whose vendetta against Kodai moves him to implicate Earth by destroying planet Gamilas. Everyone is caught up in the plot, including Starsha and Mamoru. Read the synopsis of this strange tale here.

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Invasion forces from Dark Nebula Uralia attempt to tow planet Gamilas to their home in the center of the galaxy. The wedding of Kodai and Yuki is interrupted by this crisis and Yamato launches to join in the chase after a runaway Iscandar. We’re almost to the finished story here, but not quite…

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As one of the Yamato animation staff’s most accomplished and prolific directors, Masuda’s treatment ran to twice the length of the others and was far more detailed. Although many of his ideas were too ambitious, others were solid enough to remain unchanged in the final movie. Read about them here.

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