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Matsumoto’s Leijisha website (https://leijisha.jp/) is filled with fun illustrations, such as this one penned by Matsumoto in November 2019 to commemorate being released from the hospital after collapsing on a visit to Italy. (© Matsumoto Leiji/Leijisha)
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Yamato has many sequels and remakes, most recently the 2021 Uchū senkan Yamato 2205: Arata-naru tabidachi (Space Battleship Yamato 2205: The New Voyage). A follow-up, Yamato yo towa ni (Be Forever Yamato), is in the works. (© Nishizaki Yoshinobu/Yamato 2025 Production Committee)
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock aired in Japan in 1978–79. A 1982 theatrical version, Waga seishun no Arukadia (My Youth in Arcadia), told the story of Harlock’s younger adventures and how he came to meet his sidekick Ōyama Tochirō. (© Matsumoto Leiji / Tōkyū Agency; © Matsumoto Leiji / Tōei Animation)
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A Seibu Rail line decorated with Maetel from Galaxy Express 999, photographed on April 30, 2009, in Tokorozwa, Saitama. (© Jiji)
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I Am a Man ran in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1971 to 1973. There are nine compilations in total. (© Kyōdō)
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An illustration drawn by Matsumoto for the January 2018 Matsumoto Leiji Exhibition at Isetan in Shinjuku, Tokyo, one of countless exhibitions of his work that have been held. (© Matsumoto Leiji)
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