When Farewell to Yamato returned to movie theaters in 4K at the start of 2024, some claimed that they remembered seeing extra scenes in 1978. As it happens, a fan named Yuji Onuma explored this topic in depth in a 2006 doujinshi. Here is Onuma’s article, generously translated for Cosmo DNA by Anton Mei Brandt.
The new decade dawned with the making of a new Yamato adventure that would be just one part of Academy Studio’s busiest year of them all. While the production team got started, a steady flow of media kept fans at bay. But…for how long? Here we examine the state of Yamato world for the first quarter of 1980.
