The New Voyage was caught up in the wake of Farewell to Yamato; books for it were still popping up throughout 1979, each one stealing some thunder from the new film. On the other hand, it was a new story with plenty of new material for fans to organize and dissect, so it was still attractive to publishers with pre-existing book formats to be filled.

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The lineup of publishing devoted to The New Voyage didn’t approach the volume of the other movies, but Office Academy maintained its high standards and ensured that their work would tower above all others. See the entire publishing history of the film here.

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Hio’s New Voyage maintains heavy allegiance with the screenplay, but because his work began before the final cut of the film was made, he was able to include sequences that were deleted prior to broadcast. These deleted scenes became sort of a holy grail to diehard fans. Read about them here.

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A collection of the many novelizations of the film published by Shueisha and Asahi Sonorama, 1979 to 1981.

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