GAMERA: REBIRTH coming to Netflix!

[Benjamin Haines]

More than eight years after Godzilla's hiatus ended, Gamera is finally returning! The official KADOKAWAanime Japanese YouTube channel has just posted this 20-second teaser for GAMERA: REBIRTH, coming to Netflix!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJkYWXRj6Q

Here's the official website: https://gamera-rebirth.com

One of the posts on that website features comments from Shusuke Kaneko. Here's a Google translation of what it says:

Supporting comments from Shusuke Kaneko, director of "Heisei Gamera Trilogy" have arrived!

Shusuke Kaneko: Director of "Heisei Gamera Trilogy"

"When I came up with my own idea for Reiwa Gamera and made a proposal, KADOKAWA has already started a new project, and it's content that makes me think that's what happened, so I can expect this too. With that in mind, I would like to support the team from the position of a baseball commentator who has experience as a manager of the Gamera team until they win the championship and pitch again."

[lhb412]

Gamera has been MIA since kaiju have come back into vogue and I've missed him... almost like he was a person! "I wonder what Gamera is doing? Haven't seen him in a while."

Happy to see him back!

[Kailem]

This is fantastic! It's been so long since had any sort of Gamera *anything* I was beginning to worry that he would miss out on this new kaiju renaissance we seem to be having at the moment! Very, very glad to see that's not the case though!

And it's also cool to hear Shusuke Kaneko was like "Kadokawa aren't doing anything with him, so damn it I'll do it myself!" Granted he then found out they *were* actually making this anime after all, but regardless it's still cool to hear that he cared enough to try and revive Gamera himself.

As for this anime, whatever it turns out to be, I'm hyped! And hopefully if it does well maybe they'll let Kaneko make his Reiwa Gamera movie after all!

But for now, Gamera's back, and that's awesome!

[Benjamin Haines]

This new 15-second teaser shows a bit of animation and a glimpse of Gamera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN06AFa2jBA

"ANIMATION SERIES"

"6 EPISODES"

"GAMERA VS. 5 KAIJU"


The official Twitter account also shared this new poster featuring Gyaos: https://twitter.com/gamera_rebirth/status/1619863470954123264


Still no release date.

[lhb412]

Our boy is coming home!

Looks good.

[Benjamin Haines]

https://gamera-rebirth.com/news/index00090000.html

Here's a Google translation of this new announcement on the official website:


AnimeJapan 2023, the world's largest anime event celebrating its 10th anniversary, will be held at Tokyo Big Sight on Saturday, March 25th and Sunday, March 26th, 2023!

The stage of "GAMERA -Rebirth-" has been decided on the main stage of "AnimeJapan 2023"!

"GAMERA -Rebirth-" will be exhibited at the KADOKAWA booth at "AnimeJapan 2023"!

• On the main stage, a talk show will be held to announce new information on "GAMERA -Rebirth-".
• Various new information will be delivered with the voice actors of this work, such as the broadcast of the animation PV, which will be released worldwide for the first time! Please enjoy it.

"GAMERA -Rebirth-" Gamera is back! New information announcement talk show

[Date and time] Saturday, March 25, 2023 15: 20-15: 50 @ BLUE STAGE
[Performers] coming soon…

Overview of “AnimeJapan 2023”

[Event name] AnimeJapan 2023
[Venue] Tokyo Big Sight East Exhibition Hall 1-6
[Date] March 25 (Sat) and 26 (Sun), 2023 9:00-17:00 (Public Day)
[Official site] https://www.anime-japan.jp

We will take sufficient measures to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infection.
The content of the event may change or be canceled depending on the situation.


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It sounds like the first full trailer (promotional video) for this series will debut at AnimeJapan 2023 on March 25 before going online. I wonder if they'll announce the series premiere date before then.

With Gamera fighting five different kaiju across six episodes, I like how they seem to be taking a monster-of-the-week approach. Gyaos is a given, so I'm glad that they went ahead and revealed that he's one of them, but what could the other four be? Will they stick to reviving Showa-era monsters or will they go for Legion, Irys or Zedus? Will there be any new monsters? So many possibilities!