Kuroi: In the U.S., sequels of hit films are often made, but the director of the first work doesn’t always do the follow-up. When one goes all-out to make the first one, they don’t often have a sequel in mind. Nishizaki: That’s the cause of my worry, but looking at it...
Capping off a weekly run of Yamato films that started on August 21, Channel BS12 in Japan concluded the “trilogy” with the broadcast premiere of Age of Yamato. Read all about the film here. September 7: 1/350 Diecast Gimmick Model Vol. 181 Hachette’s 11th volume of the 1/350 Hyuga...
our family began going regularly to church.At that time I became extremely pious.I really tried to live in imitation of Christ.Beginning in eighth grade through my senior year in high school, I served as the narrator of the annual Christmas pageant.I really tried to make my Lutheranism...
The animation is top notch and the computer-animated ships merge seamlessly with the more traditionally animated characters, bringing Space Battleship Yamato firmly into the world of 21st-century animated feature films. The character designs have moved away from the rounded 70s-80s look of earlier ...
As the most popular and profitable of the Yamato films, Farewell has traditionally been the first to get new upgrades as technology advances. It happened again when it became the first to premiere in 4K for one screening at a single Tokyo theater as part of Family Theater’s 45th anniversar...
A point which should not be overlooked is that the fans of genre films like animation and tokusatsu [live-action special effects films], as opposed to other types of fans, tend to exhaustively analyze every nook and cranny of a work, looking for significance. Therefore, Space Battleship Yamat...