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1980: Yamato‘s Summer of Love
In the history of fantasy films, animated or otherwise, few premieres can compare with the rollout of Be Forever Yamato. The anticipation for this film burned even hotter than it had for Farewell to...
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The Be Forever Yamato Time Machine, Part 2
Back up to Part 1 Here we continue our roundup of the prodigious press coverage for the movie, picking up in mid-July 1980 and rolling all the way through the blockbusting August premiere. As with...
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The Be Forever Yamato Time Machine, Part 1
Two years before Be Forever Yamato became Japan’s summer event of 1980, Farewell to Yamato did the same thing. Prior to that film, the world of anime journalism was practically nonexistent. Producer...
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The Making of Be Forever Yamato, Part 7
Producer’s Production Memoir By Yoshinobu Nishizaki From the Be Forever Yamato Deluxe Book, November 1980 (Academy) The Overwhelming Voice for Yamato‘s Continuation: the History from Farewell to Be...
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The Making of Be Forever Yamato, Part 6
Staff Essays Tokuma Shoten’s famed Roman Album book series made its publishing debut in September 1977 with volume 1 dedicated to the first Space Battleship Yamato TV series, and chugged along at a...
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The Making of Be Forever Yamato, Part 5
Story Draft by Toshio Masuda & Yoshinobu Nishizaki The writing of this draft began at a staff meeting in Hawaii, January 1980. Toshio Masuda had made strong contributions to the two previous...
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The Making of Be Forever Yamato, Part 4
From Concept to Production Click here to back up to Part 1 On the first day of 1980, Be Forever Yamato was only eight months from its theatrical premiere, and all the production staff had to go on was...
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The Making of Be Forever Yamato, Part 3
Story Draft by Leiji Matsumoto Following the October 1979 story meeting, Matsumoto took the lead in expanding the initial ideas into a story synopsis. He produced two drafts, completing the first on...
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The Making of Be Forever Yamato, Part 2
The First Plot Meeting The major difference between Be Forever and previous works in the Yamato saga was its plot development phase. Prior stories had been conceived by a writing staff that coalesced...
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The Making of Be Forever Yamato, Part 1
Dawn of the Decade Seismic references may be ill-advised following the Tohoku Earthquake of March 2011, but whenever a Space Battleship Yamato feature film premiered in Japan, the Richter scale of pop...
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Be Forever Yamato DVD galleries
by Tim Eldred When I was hired by Voyager Entertainment to produce the Star Blazers and Space Battleship Yamato DVDs for US fans, my first goal for each series and movie was to create bonus features...
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The Be Forever Yamato Time Machine, Part 3
Since the August 2, 1980 premiere of Be Forever Yamato was one of the most anticipated anime movie openings in history, coverage was at an all time high across a wide spectrum of print media. There...
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