From the Star Blazers/Yamato Premium Fan Club magazine (October 2023): an extensive interview with the personnel who brought almost 50-year old footage up to today’s digital standard. Remake scriptwriter Hideki Oka asks them about the process in detail and adds some fascinating trivia to an already rich historical record.
July 1979 delivered a big one-two punch with both of the feature films returning to theaters and The New Voyage premiering on TV. It was no accident that these things reinforced each other, making this the third straight summer of Yamato fever.
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.
Imagine being able to walk into a movie theater in 2023, to see the original Space Battleship Yamato movie on a big screen. Fans in Japan got to live that dream in December, along with a nice wave of activity to accompany it, including the most welcome news of all as 2023 came to an end. [2 pages]
