After a three-year absence from animation, Hideaki Anno is coming again to assist a brand new venture for considered one of Japan’s most beloved science fiction collection.
There aren’t many anime administrators extra well-known than Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno, but it surely’s been some time now since Anno made any anime. His most up-to-date anime work is 2021’s Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, which accomplished the Rebuild of Evangelion film collection and, as of this time limit, the Eva anime franchise. Following Thrice Upon a Time’s launch, Anno wrote and produced 2022’s Shin Ultraman and wrote and directed 2023’s Shin Kamen Rider, which, together with the Anno-written-and-directed Shin Godzilla, spherical out his trendy re-imaginings of Japan’s holy triumvirate of live-action tokusatsu particular results collection.
However Anno is lastly prepared to come back again to the anime world, with a venture that’s nonetheless in line with his enduring love for iconic franchises from his childhood, as he’s introduced that he’s making a brand new Area Battleship Yamato anime.
Anno himself broke the information on Sunday at a particular screening in Tokyo of the primary episode of the unique Area Battleship Yamato, which Anno himself personally deliberate and introduced on the precise date and time of the fiftieth anniversary of its unique airing at 7:30 p.m. on October 6, 1974. “I wish to take this chance to say that Khara [Anno’s anime studio] has been granted the rights to provide a brand new anime based mostly on Area Battleship Yamato by Voyager Holdings and its consultant director Shoji Nishizaki,” stated Anno. “On the similar time, we’ve got additionally been granted permission to make use of the Area Battleship Yamato copyright by Tohoku Shinsha.” Realizing that is perhaps a bit of an excessive amount of legal-ise, Anno went on to summarize, “To place it extra immediately, I can now make new Area Battleship Yamato works.”
▼ A particular fiftieth anniversary retrospective video for Area Battleship Yamato
Area Battleship Yamato is without doubt one of the most influential anime of all time, previous not solely Evangelion however different landmark science fiction anime collection similar to Macross, Gundam, and Galaxy Specific 999. A pathos-packed story of the World Struggle II battleship Yamato being transformed right into a spaceship and despatched on a dangerous voyage to acquire methods for humanity to struggle off alien invaders and cleanse the radiation the attackers’ weapons have contaminated the earth with, Area Battleship Yamato was Japan’s first area opera to change into a serious hit, and got here at a time when it might depart a deep impression on many younger viewers who’d go on to make anime of their very own, similar to Anno. It additionally performed a key function in serving to anime as a medium set up a fan base within the U.S., the place a closely localized model, titled Star Blazers, was among the many first anime to air on American TV.
The Studio Khara official web site has confirmed that the venture might be a theatrical anime, and that it is going to be a unique continuity than 2012’s Area Battleship Yamato 2199 remake of Area Battleship Yamato and its subsequent sequels, together with Be Eternally Yamato: REBEL 3199. Nonetheless, Anno revealed that Area Battleship Yamato 2199’s director Yutaka Izubuchi (who’s additionally a famend mecha designer with creations similar to Patlabor’s Ingram on his resume) might be concerned in Khara’s Yamato venture, which is scheduled to enter manufacturing in 2025.
▼ Anno making the announcement in his customary soft-spoken approach
“If I’d by no means watched throughout Area Battleship Yamato, I wouldn’t have the life I’ve at the moment,” says Anno in Khara’s assertion, and contemplating how a lot respect and fervour he put into Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and Shin Kamen Rider, we will most likely anticipate him to do the identical with yet one more beloved landmark collection from this youth.
Supply: Oricon Information, Studio Khara
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