Links

NEW! ADDED 8/1/10

Leiji Matsumoto talks Yamato, 1999

Hiroshi Miyagawa talks Yamato, 1999

Orchestral medley of Yamato themes conducted by Hiroshi Miyagawa Part 1 | Part 2

Live concert performance of themes

Isao Saski performs Yamato theme live (pink tux)

Isao Saski performs Yamato theme live (blue tux)

Yamato theme performed by Katsuyama Jr High brass band

A Capella version of Yamato theme

Sci Fi Japan's interview with voice actor Peter Fernandez

Commemorative Yamato currency from the nation of Tuvalu

8-episode "Stereo Gekiga" Yamato radio drama from August 1977

All Night Nippon Yamato radio drama from August 1977
(at bottom of page)

All Night Nippon Farewell to Yamato radio drama from August 1978

Video montage with 2009 Yamato theme by The Alfee

Video mash-up: Yamatogelion

2009 Yamato rock theme by The Alfee

2009 Yamato theme with symphonic orchestra by The Alfee

Homemade CG video montage with Yamato theme by The Alfee

Sourcenext Typing Software game CG footage: The Battle of Saturn Part 1 | Part 2

Opening title from first Yamato Playstation game

Launch scene from first Playstation game

Comet Empire battle scene from second Playstation game

CR Yamato 2 game footage: Reflex Gun Battle

CR Yamato 2 game footage: Final Yamato sequence

YouTube index link to various game cutscenes

Yamato 2520 footage from The Quickening documentary

Fan-made video montage: Yamato Through the Years

Live-action Yamato TV promotion

Live-action Yamato movie trailer

Re-edited version of live-action Yamato teaser commercial

Hybrid edits of live-action Yamato teaser and trailer
Version 1 | Version 2

Subtitled version of live-action Yamato teaser commercial

Tribute video to live-action Yamato movie

Yamato X Kitty tie-in campaign news

Bandai's new "Soul of Chogokin" Yamato toy

"Soul of Chogokin" Yamato and Andromeda toys at Tokyo Toy Show

Opening Title Parody: Galman Wolf from Yamato III

Fan-made video tribute with disco theme

Taito's "Super Mechanics" Yamato toy with firing Wave-Motion Gun

Index link to various YouTube video clips

Yamato Museum display of sunken battleship

TV commercial for Yamato Rebirth DVD

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JAPANESE WEBSITES

Yamato Expo '10 video coverage

Yamato Expo '10 Blog reports: A (English)
B (Japanese) | C (Japanese) | D (Japanese) | E (Japanese)

Yamato Expo '10 news reports:
Report A | Report B | Report C | Report D

Yamato Crew news and networking website

Bandai Visual's Yamato database site

Leiji Matsumoto's Home Page

online pages from Leiji Matsumoto's Great Yamato manga

bronze Be Forever Yamato statues at Tsuruga City
(click on the list at left under the word INDEX)

Homepage for Yoshinobu Nishizaki's Enagio Company

Battleship Yamato museum in Kure, Japan

Analyzer exhibit at the Battleship Yamato Museum

Photo tour of 1/1 battleship Yamato set from the movie Men of Yamato (2006)

Various traditional Japanese-style paintings, including Space Battleship Yamato

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FAN SITES

Yamato-related bulletins and reviews at Fanboy.com

Space Webzine Yamato

Yamato primer from Dave Merrill's Let's Anime blogsite

JRs Star Blazers Page

Space Cruiser Yamato homepage by superfan Ed Hawkins

Ultimate Yamato Resource Page

Wave-Motion web page

EDF Drawing Board by superfan Brian D. Rivers

Nova Shipyards by superfan Don Gaiser

EDF Shipyards

USA Star Blazers/Yamato Webring directory

The homepage of Amy Howard Wilson (the voice of Nova)

The Star Blazers You Didn't See by Superfan Walter Amos

Dave Merrill's Let's Anime history site

The making of Space Fanzine Yamato

Anime News Network's Yamato page

An English-language overview of the 'Leijiverse'

Visons Virtual Fanzine by superfan Frederick P. Kopetz

Star Blazers fanfic site

Starship Schematic Database: Yamato page

Yamato spaceship schematics

Cel collection of Media Blaster's John Patterson (not for sale)

Series 1 episode timeline

English Fansite: The church of Leader Desslok

Wikipedia entry for Claster Television, producer of Star Blazers

TV Tropes' Analysis of trends presented in Yamato

Topless Robot's glowing review of Star Blazers

Yamato spaceship schematics by David Briedis

1979 TV interview with Star Blazers fan August Ragone

Tim Eldred's overview of the first Yamato TV series at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of the first Yamato movie at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of Farewell to Yamato at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of Yamato 2 & Star Blazers at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of The New Voyage at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of Be Forever Yamato at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of Yamato III at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of Final Yamato at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of Yamato in the 1980s at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of Yamato in the 1990s at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's overview of Yamato in the 00's at SciFiJapan.com

Tim Eldred's first report of Yamato Rebirth at SciFiJapan.com

JAPANESE FAN SITES

EDF spaceship paper models featured on Japanese blog:
First page | Second page

Blog by Japanese Yamato fan "Black Zero"

"Admiral Kino:" Japanese fansite with original spaceship art

"Kenji's Yamato Page," a text-heavy Japanese fansite

Japanese fansite with an extensive product gallery

Japanese fansite: The Journey Continues

Japanese fansite: Kenji's Yamato Page

Yamato Secret Base: a fansite with up-to-the-minute news

Lighthouse Mechanics: a Japanese artist with a bilingual blog

Mah's Memory: A very detailed Japanese 'nostalgia' fansite

Yamato Zero fan site by Kamekiti Osada

Leiji Matsumoto online encyclopedia

Bilingual BBS with custom spaceship art

Japanese spaceship artist fansite

Modified CG Yamato

CG model fansite

CG image library

Yamato Webring directory #1

Yamato Webring directory #2

Index of Japanese links

PRODUCT SITES

Yamato 2010 t-shirt collection from Bandai

1/4 Impulse: an extensive toy and hobby site

Pictorial review of Taito's 1/665 Yamato toy

Bandai's Yamato products page

Ordering page for the Cosmo Zero motorcycle helmet

Ordering page for the Emperor Dessler wine set

Strapya website selling Yamato kewpie dolls

Bandai Visual's Web page for the 2008 remastered DVD box set

Yamato cel phone graphics offered by Primeworks in Japan

Home page for the Star Blazers Fleet Battle System

Hobbylink Japan's ordering page for the 1/350 Yamato model kit

Product site for the Star Blazers Cosmo Gun from Frontier Models

Yamato products page from Anime World Star

ODDS AND ENDS

Anime World Order's interview with Director Noboru Ishiguro

Meet the next generation of Star Blazers fans on YouTube

Iscandar countdown video

A suite of Yamato sound effects

General Talan cosplay at Anime Expo Tokyo, 2004

Yamato for Game Boy online emulator

Demo footage for Yamato PC Engine game

Animation layouts for 'Leiji Matsumoto Masterpiece Theatre' (1981)

Tab Murphy's aborted Star Blazers movie script

Gamilas Invaders! (A free online Yamato shooting game)

The universal symbols for 'Star Force'

Index link to Star Blazers Rebirth YouTube clips set to music

Translated Space Map from the 'Hot Blood' novelization

CG clip of the Andromeda

Video feature on Yuki cosplayer Azusa Yamamoto

MUSIC-RELATED SITES AND YOUTUBE CLIPS

English-language Space Cruiser Yamato theme song performed by Isao Sasaki

The entire 1978 "Disco Yamato" album on YouTube, track by track:
Main theme | White Comet | Scarlet Scarf | Iscandar | Teresa's Sigh | I Remember You | Andromeda | Attack Theme | The Rival | Theme of Dessler | Yuki's Final Moments | Love theme

Singer Akira Fuse's cover version of Galaxy Legend song from Be Forever Yamato

Hiroshi Miyagawa conducts the Yamato theme, talks with Kentaro Haneda and Akira Miyagawa

Galaxy Express and Yamato themes performed by Japan Self-Defense Force band

Yamato Grand Symphony performed in 2007

Yamato theme performed at Japan's National High School Baseball Championship

A Japanese fan ensemble performs the Yamato theme

Choral performance of the Space theme

Japan's 'Swing Guys' perform the Yamato theme

Yamato theme: Piano and flute combo

Yamato theme: Electric guitar solo

An all-purpose MIDI version of the Yamato theme

Yamato Music fan site (Japanese)

Memorial website for composer Hiroshi Miyagawa

Concert tribute to Composer Hiroshi Miyagawa with Akira Miyagawa & Isao Sasaki

Hiroshi Miyagawa songs performed by 'The Peanuts'

Profile of composer Kentaro Haneda

Singer Isao Sasaki's homepage

Isao Sasaki live performance, 1977

Isao Sasaki live performance at Super Robot Spirits concert, 1999

A recent Isao Sasaki live performance

Isao Sasaki in concert

Isao Sasaki live performance of The Scarlet Scarf, 2005

Another live performance of The Scarlet Scarf

Live theme recording by Isao Sasaki with anime footage

Isao Sasaki live performance 2005: Galaxy Express and Yamato

Isao Sasaki live performance, 2006

Live appearance by Isao Sasaki at a Japanese soccer game

Music video by Japanese heavy metal band Concerto Moon

Yamato theme performed by Japanese cover band Animetal:
Version 1 | Version 2

2006 choral performance of Yamato themes

2007 Symphonic performance by M Sound Factory

Theme performed by the Japan Self-Defense Force band, 2007

Yamato theme by Japanese group 'Hamoneprig' with 'Baka Girl'

Synthesizer performance of the Yamato 'space theme'

Fireworks performance in Tsuruga, Japan

Theme performed at West Shinjuku nursery school athletic meet

Yamato theme performed by a Japanese chamber orchestra

Kashiwa Reysol Supporters sing the Yamato theme

A recorder quintet performs the Yamato theme

Comet Empire theme played on a Hammond organ

Live performance by the Port Angeles High School band, 2008

The bravest fan in the world

The second bravest fan in the world

Inexplicable music video 1

Inexplicable music video 2

Yamato theme with commentary

Music video by Pretty Cure using Yamato Playstation footage

Music video of the Yamato theme by Japanese band Animetal

Yamato theme sung by...well, just watch it

Italian band 'Kartunia' (and the Flash) performs Star Blazers theme

Fan-made music video for Princess Invidia #1

Fan-made music video for Princess Invidia #2

Recorder quintet performs Yamato theme (with CG pachinko footage)

Yamato theme by the National University of Singapore Wind Symphony

Yamato theme performed by Viola quintet

Yamato theme performed by trumpet corps

Fan-made "love song" music video featuring Wildstar & Nova

YAMATO AND STAR BLAZERS AROUND THE WORLD

A Brazilian fan site

An Italian fan site

Hoshi no Senshi: an Italian fansite dedicated to Leiji Matsumoto

L'univers de Yamato, a French fan site

French Wikipedia page for composer Kentaro Haneda

Yamato history (in French)

Star Blazers article from Australian magazine Frontier

Korean knockoff Yamato animation

Korean knockoff Andromeda animation