Gamera 60th Anniversary Trailer and New Project Announced!

[Kailem]

Kadokawa have posted a trailer celebrating Gamera's 60th anniversary, along with announcing a new "anniversary project" via a new official Twitter account which will be providing updates on whatever this project turns out to be!

https://x.com/gamera_info/status/1900527924912214199

I dig the little logo they've come up with too. Very much in the style of Godzilla's recent movie anniversary logos. So far though there's no indication of what this mystery "project" is going to be, but as someone said in the comments, it could either be Gamera 4 or a new pachinko machine; we'll just have to wait and see!

[lhb412]

I'm not getting my hopes up for something too substantial, but I'll take whatever Gamera comes our way!

I hope Arrow Video puts out some 4Ks for the 60th.

[Benjamin Haines]

According to Google Translate...

The text at the end of that tweet says "The Gamera series will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2025. We are currently preparing a project that everyone can enjoy, so please look forward to the next update."

The title of the linked YouTube video is "Special Report: Gamera 60th Anniversary Project".

And then the key part of that video's description says "A project is being launched to look back on the history of this legendary monster movie series that has had a major impact on Japan's special effects culture, and pass it on to the future."

As much as I wish Kadokawa would announce production of a new Gamera movie, I get the impression that this project will be a series retrospective documentary, like a modern-day version of the 1991 documentary A Look Back at Gamera.

[Dai]

My money is on it being some merchandise that will only be available from a pop-up store/Gamera museum in Tokyo for a month. If I set my expectations that low then anything else will be a bonus.

[Kailem]

"And then the key part of that video's description says "A project is being launched to look back on the history of this legendary monster movie series that has had a major impact on Japan's special effects culture, and pass it on to the future."

As much as I wish Kadokawa would announce production of a new Gamera movie, I get the impression that this project will be a series retrospective documentary, like a modern-day version of the 1991 documentary A Look Back at Gamera."

I'd be cool with that. I'm sure they'd make a much bigger deal out of it if it was an actual movie (as in, they would have *announced* one), and that would at least give us more chance to be able to enjoy it ourselves than if it turned out to be some Japanese-exclusive merch or something.

It'd be nice if they took Shusuke Kaneko up on the offer he made before Rebirth came out to make a new Gamera movie, but I feel like that might sadly end up being one of those things we end up looking back on forever and saying "why didn't you do this?! It was right there!"

[lhb412]

Apparently, they're cutting up the 6 episodes of the Netflix show into 12 episodes for television. Maybe a documentary will also be for TV? I mean, these are modest projects, but I appreciate they're doing something to keep him out there.