Space Battleship Yamato Chronology

6/05/2006

This FINAL update release contains the following number of new ships:

• EDF New - 22 (plus 6 updates)
• Gamilon/Garumman New - 4
• White Comet New - 6
• Dark Nebula New - 6 (plus 15 updates)

3/25/2003

Small update with Leiji Matsumoto's new "Great Galaxy" incarnation of the original (but still somewhat new) "Great Yamato", but with a decidedly Harlockian-Arcadian flare. Not sure what's going on in Japan right now between the Matsumoto and Nishizaki camps, but after some court battles of who owns what, it would appear that Matsumoto no longer has the rights to the original Yamato property and must now put his "Great Yamato" idea into an "alternate universe" and rename it to "Great Galaxy". It's all very strange. Kind of reminds me of a mish-mash of the Battlestar Galactica fight between Glen Larson and Richard Hatch and the Pink Floyd fight between Roger Waters and David Gilmour. CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG, PEOPLE?!?! Crimeny!

2/22/2002

Many thanks to Art Braune for his rendition of the NewType Yamato as seen in the first Fixed Data manual for the Japanese Playstation video game. Also, I've added Brian D. Rivers' Yamato Upgrade and compiled three views from Space Battleship Great Yamato which just came out in Japan last year (2001), thanks to some images that were made available by Edward Hawkins at www.spacecruiseryamato.com.

One more thing! As it is generally accepted that the universes of Yamato and Captain Harlock are one in the same (some people have even gone so far as saying that Kodai/Wildstar IS Harlock), I have included the Battleship Arcadia - the second (green) one, that is. I have pictures of the first (blue) one, A.K.A. Battleship Alcady, A.K.A. Battleship Alcadia, A.K.A. Battleship Albator, but no schematics as of yet. Still working on it.

4/18/2001

Added Don Gaiser's Yamato II and Brian Rivers' Lazerous to the EDF Capital Ships list. It's an excellent design, logically evolving Yamato to the next phase, while still maintaining its original anime look.

3/28/2001

Welcome to the new Space Battleship Yamato section! It officially went online at 12:10 AM on Wednesday morning. As usual, it follows in the footsteps of the Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica sections of the database. It was really a trip down memory lane for me, as I remember seeing Star Blazers for the first time back in 1979 and was enthralled. Ever since that time, I've collected a considerable amount of info on the show, discovered that it originally came from Japan, and that the ship's original name was the Yamato. I was quite surprised, especially at that young age.

Question for the users out there: Is there any information/schematics that you have seen specifically regarding the following:

• Great Yamato (the latest incarnation - MUCH bigger than the original but looks virtually identical)
• Yamato Type 17 (from Yamato: 2520)
• Captain Harlock's BLUE Arcadia (the one that DOESN'T have the Skull & Bones on the bow of the ship and the green-colored hull)

Any info appreciated...