General activity slowed down in August, but a new trailer, a movie tie-in, several product announcements, and some live events were among the highlights as another month peeled off the calendar in the countdown to Chapter 4. And we even heard a nostalgic message from Earth orbit!
July 2025 was jammed solid with Yamato action. The Osaka exhibition, concerts, a major hobby show, music, publishing, and a nice big wave of new products would have been enough, but a new teaser for 3199 Chapter 4 came along to get us over the halfway point of the long wait. Here’s the roundup of all that and more…
The second month of our 6-month wait for 3199 Chapter 4 eased into a holding pattern with news flashes, a few live events, and the home video release of Chapter 3. As always, fans did their part to fill the gaps. Here is everything June 2025 had to offer…
Chapter 3 closed in theaters after a successful run as the first month of the 6-month wait for Chapter 4 continued the rolling wave of news flashes and online coverage. Drop in a major hobby show and the Radio Suite for 2025 and you’ve got yourself a Yamato party.
Interviews for Chapter 3 began almost a month before the April 11 premiere and brought back all the familiar faces. Keep an eye on this collection as more get added. UPDATED JUNE 2025!
From the pages of the 3199 Chapter 3 program book: Mecha Designer Mika Akitaka connects the past to the present with a discussion of how Dezarium’s mecha design evolved from its original 1980 forms to what we see in the remake series.
April 2025 didn’t just bring us the premiere of Chapter 3, it turned into one of the biggest months in Yamato history with new merch, live events, online publishing, and much more, something for every single day! Get comfortable and we’ll dig through ALL of it. [3 pages]
March 2025 did not deliver a movie premiere, but was still the biggest month we’ve seen since 3199‘s debut. Centered around the 50th Anniversary Exhibition in Tokyo, there was Yamato action to be found every day for the entire month, making for a big report. [2 pages]
February was less about products and more about announcements, but you can’t lament a month that includes two concerts, a major hobby show, and a brand new trailer for REBEL 3199 Chapter 3! Here’s the wind that kept the flags waving in February…
As a new year began, Yamato world added another month of activity to the record. Most of it happened online, but the 50th anniversary screenings and a few physical products made their way into reality as well. He’s the record for January 2025…
REBEL 3199 Chapter 2 dominated theaters in December with new things constantly popping up. When the Studio Khara screenings took over, it meant Yamato was on the big screen literally every day for the entire month. Here’s how you bring an already banger Yamato year to a close. [3 pages]
From the pages of the REBEL 3199 Chapter 2 program book: Junichiro Tamamori discusses the evolution of Yamato‘s design into the realm of a Be Forever remake, along with the genesis of the Cosmo Hound based on its earliest development in 1980.
November 2024 ticked all the boxes for what makes a Yamato month great. News and products from every front, live events, media coverage, and a brand new chapter in theaters to really tie the room together. Here’s the whole gigantic laundry list. [3 pages]
Interviews for Chapter 2 didn’t get rolling until the premiere on November 22, but they delivered plenty of food for thought on the unexpected direction the story takes us in.
It should come as no surprise that the 50th anniversary month was an absolute juggernaut with an outpouring of passion and attention from all corners. The events of October 6 got their own report, but that was only one day out of a very packed month. Here’s the rest…
While animators toiled away on 3199 Chapter 2 for its November release, Yamato activity in September held steady as news trickled in from all corners and the 50th anniversary approached. We’ve already passed that date as of this writing, but the celebration has only just begun.
August 2024 was a textbook followup to the enormous premiere month of July; Chapter 1 closed its first – and very successful – theatrical run, a new concert performance joined the pantheon of all-time greats, and the month ended with a look at Chapter 2. Here’s all that and everything in between.
A few weeks before the premiere of Chapter 1 on July 19, 2024, “interview season” began with a series of conversations with staff and cast in print and on entertainment websites.
From the Chapter 1 program book: SF researcher Shinya Ogura, science advisor for the Space Battleship Yamato remake series, presents some of his work for Dark Invasion with a look at the state of Earth’s solar system at the beginning of the series.
Now THAT was a Yamato month! You have to go back over two years to the release of 2205 Chapter 2 to find this much action. The launch of REBEL 3199 brought us everything we’ve come to expect and MORE, since its international debut hit just a week later. Don’t worry if you missed anything, it’s all here from top to bottom. [2 pages]
Things heated up quickly in the month of June, and not just from proximity to the sun. The final month before the premiere of 3199 Chapter 1 was full of promotion, live events, and news you can use. Because anticipation is always the best part.
Each theatrical premiere of a remake chapter has been preceded by a TV special with footage and interviews. That tradition is preserved with REBEL 3199, but now we’ve got something new: a complete English transcript! With this, another barrier has been lifted to give us a closer experience to fans in Japan.
With the days dropping rapidly away until the Chapter 1 premiere, May activity picked up substantially with another wave of promotion from the head office and a general increase across the board. Here’s what the busy month looked like…
The month of April brought us closer to the July premiere of Chapter 1 with a new trailer, bolstered by the debut of the new 1/350 model from Hachette, various live events, and more. Here’s everything April had to offer in Yamato‘s 50th year…
After the big announcements on January 3, everything went quiet again until March 2024 when we got the first news of official merch and a reveal of new characters and voice actors. Here’s a roundup of all the latest news…
This is a work-in-progress to catalog and index all information related to REBEL 3199. 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.
That bang you heard on January 3, 2024 was the sound of REBEL 3199‘s promo campaign bursting out of Asteroid Icarus and raining new information down on an eager public. We got a release date, poster art, a teaser trailer and more, all of which is dissected here.
After a long period of silence, new information about Yamato 3199 finally trickled out during the months of October and November 2023. Thanks to a live talkshow, the fan club magazine, and a treasure trove of design art, we finally have enough to fill up another report! (And probably less of a wait until the next one.)
