After nearly 3 years of corresponding with my private seller, they agreed over a zoom call to let me archive this official booklet that was used by staffers at MBS, Sunrise, and Tohokushinsha Film of the cancelled Terrahawks project. Many pages had to be omitted due to the confidential nature of the documents. I was specified to strictly not include them by my source, as it could constitute to legal concerns for the parties involved. With that said, I've honored that notion, and have been only allowed to publish information pertaining to the character illustrations, mechanical illustrations, and story. This information is all confidential and still internal til this very day, so I'm simply happy to share what I can of it. I also must specify that this is not my personal copy, and upon completion of my archiving, I am scheduled to send it back immediately.

This document was by far the hardest to scan, even though it wasn't bound as hard. What I ran into was a variety of structural issues; stains, partially ripped edges, crinkling, and worst of all, fading. Some of these illustrations were ghost like; I did some retouching as well as image upscaling with a powerful AI program via Google to do the best that I could possibly do. Otherwise, there was no way around getting this document in the shape it *would* have been in way back in 77'.

This copy is a xerox of original illustrations. I am assuming these illustrations were photographed, cut out for a layout, and then xeroxed, as some contain figments of tape as well as some being in greyscale. Some were perfectly black and white and were easy to preserve. Included in this upload are 4K upscales of Yasuhiko's original cel paintings that were made into lithographs. These lithographs are about 8 x 10, and were apparently included in the pamphlet to show insiders.

This is immense history, and I'm glad to have been able to archive it as best that I can. Thanks to everyone who supported my efforts and encouraged me with new scanning methods when I ran into road bumps.

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Important highlights/observations about this text:

In 1977, after the production of the Farewell to Yamato film, Tohokushinsha Film wanted to greenlight a brand new SF series that was to run tentatively from late 1977 until April of 1978 (April was mentioned directly to me, they were unclear as to what date would fall from 1977, but given series approximations, I'd say September-October for a show's 'season' ). Gerry Anderson, famous for his supermarination/puppet shows, wanted to break into the JP market with an anime as he was quite taken with the work he saw on Yamato. Farewell to Yamato would not have a public release until August 5th, 1978, but thanks to Tadao Nagahama (who according to my source was a close friend/fan of Gerry's), Gerry was exposed to elements of it. Given how famous Thunderbirds was in Japan, he wanted to proceed further, and more or less met a team of Yamato staffers as well as staffers from Sunrise & Tohokushinsha Film to proceed.

Gerry would be supervised by Aritsune Toyota and Arashi Ishizu, who had done extensive work on Yamato as a series years prior, on how to implement his story idea and work alongside Tadao Nagahama. My source stated that while staffers were extremely exhausted post Farewell to Yamato, that they were extremely interested in working with Gerry on a SF project, Tadao being the most excited of them all. My source would meet with Gerry several times during this, discuss ideas, and ultimately once they were all drafted, would help deduce which ones fit the mutual agenda of all staff that would be involved. Munehiro Minowa, who was the original character designer for Zero Tester (and later The Dagger of Kamui), was brought on to be the original designer for Terrahawks, but decided to step down due to personal reasons (of which my source did not stipulate out of privacy). Yoshikazu Yasuhiko would be tasked with character and mechanical design, and his ethos from working on Yamato is beautifully prevalent.

In the end, the series was pitched to MBS (Mainichi Broadcasting System) in 1977, however due to a variety of time slot issues as well as interest surrounding the project, MBS decided ultimately that they did not need another SF show on their broadcasting schedule. The project was eventually shelved, and due to the IP having had come so far along, there were discrepancies between Tohokushinsha film producer Banjiro Uemura and Gerry Anderson. While it was discussed between me and my source, I was asked to not divulge any deeper details about the depth of their argument. All in all, Gerry would be allowed to use aspects of the Terrahawks IP for his own project whereas Banjiro would ultimately use aspects of it for future ventures as well; Gerry not only created the Terrahawks show in 1980, but ultimately decided to prey further on the IP with Thunderbirds 2086, which follows aspects of his own ideas for Terrahawks but uses licensed footage from Scientific Rescue Team Techo Voyager, with long time Yamato staffer Kazuhiko Udagawa coming on board as character designer.

In the future, aspects of Terrahawks would be reused in 77' as they were dashed about between several people and projects, mainly those working at Sunrise and Tohokushinsha. Brave Raideen, in its inception, features themes, as well as Yas' illustrations for the early Crusher Joe novels and even more famously, the inception of the earliest draft of Freedom Fighter Gunboy in 78', which would become Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979.

Additional Information about the 'Lifeforms':

The lifeforms that are within this series are not aliens in a traditional sense. They are in fact bred by the antagonist, Dr.Guerlain to be slaves for the human race. My source provided additional information on their make up:

"(Astrobiologist) Dr. Guerlain created a bipedal human made of neoplasm. They were born from the synthesis of proteins and amino acids using seawater as a test subject, which gave them the same concentration of salt as in human blood. They are organisms created by adding hormones extracted from a new breed of termite that come from Afuri (the hill located on the eastern border of the Tanzawa Mountains/Kanagawa prefecture). Just like termites, they repeat generational changes, breeding habits, and evolve at a tremendous speed." A translation from their original JP.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION/APPROXIMATION:

https://e-hentai.org/g/2217496/72069f465b/

Last edited on 11 May 2022, 02:39.

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