Title : Space Cruiser Yamato RA# : Deluxe 1 Pub/Date : Tokuma Shoten/1980 Pages : 90 (has no dust-cover jacket) Price : 480 yen
Glossy colour stills; rough and final designs for characters, mechanics, and scenes; production drawings; staff and cast interviews.
Double-sided pin-up poster
Covers the highlights from the story of the first TV season. Unfortunately, the glossy pages are not the usual cine digest (the format of which sprang up sometime after Roman Album #11), but rather single pictures. Thus, there are only about 30 glossy pictures total.
This is the first Roman Album (devoted to Yamato or otherwise) second only to RA #1). Unlike the Roman Albums that would follow it, RA #1 has no thick-textured outer dust jacket. This book is out of print, but it is still occasionally seen for sale at conventions and from travellers to Japan.