An official website opened for the new Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato) anime project on Tuesday, revealing its official title, main staff, and a teaser visual (pictured). Titled Uchuu Senkan Yamato √2199 (Cosmoship Yamato √2199), the project will be a feature-length anime movie. A premiere date has yet to be announced.

Staff

Original Work: Yoshinobu Nishizaki (Uchuu Senkan Yamato original co-creator)

Director, Design Works: Hideaki Anno (Shinseiki Evangelion), Yutaka Izubuchi (RahXephon)

Planning: Hideaki Anno, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These)

Executive Producer: Hideaki Anno

Studio: Production I.G, Khara

Production: Shin Office Academy

Hideaki Anno stated that Uchuu Senkan Yamato √2199 is being developed separately and will take a different path from the remakes.

Leiji Matsumoto launched the original Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato) manga in October 1974 alongside the original television anime, ending it after three volumes in December 1979. Matsumoto serialized the Shin Uchuu Senkan Yamato manga from April 2000 to April 2001. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the original manga in English and released it as an omnibus in April 2019.

Michio Murakawa began serializing the Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 remake in March 2012. Dark Horse Comics licensed the remake in English in January 2019 and released the second omnibus volume in March 2020.

The original Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar) television anime aired in 26 episodes from October 1974 to March 1975, followed by the sequel anime Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2 (Star Blazers: The Comet Empire) from October 1978 to April 1979.

The new Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato) project—rebooting the 1974 anime series—began with the Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 (Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199) original video anime series that ran in 2012–2013. The Hoshimeguru Hakobune (Odyssey of the Celestial Ark) side story movie opened in December 2014.

The 26-episode Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi (Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202) OVA ran between February 2017 and March 2019. The Seireki 2202-nen no Sentaku (Star Blazers Chronicle 2202) compilation movie, reconstructing Yamato 2199 and Yamato 2202 from a new perspective, screened in June 2021.

The remake project continued with Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205: Aratanaru Tabidachi, which released in two parts theatrically in October 2021 and February 2022.

The latest installment in the franchise, Yamato yo, Towa ni: Rebel 3199 (Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199), debuted in July 2024, served as a sequel to Aratanaru Tabidachi. Reconstructing Yamato yo Towa ni (Be Forever Yamato) and Uchuu Senkan Yamato III (Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars), the movie project will screen in seven parts for 26 episodes, with the seventh and final part scheduled to premiere on October 30.

Official site: https://yamato-r2199.jp/

Official X: @yamato_r2199

Source: Comic Natalie

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A website opened on Tuesday to announce that Hideaki Anno and Yutaka Izubuchi are directing the feature-length anime film Cosmoship Yamato √2199 at Production I.G and Studio Khara. (The film’s Japanese title uses the same “Uchū Senkan” prefix previously also translated as “Space Battleship” or “Space Cruiser,” and the √ symbol is pronounced “Root.”)

The project also credits Anno for planning with Production I.G founder Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, as the production executive producer, and for design works with Izubuchi. “Shin Office Academy” is presenting the project.

The website quotes Anno (“a huge Yamato fan since the second year of junior high school”): “I want to keep making Yamato not only to fulfill a childhood dream, but also to imbue our proyers and wishes for the next generation and our own. It is with that resolve that we produce this.”

Anno had announced after the 50th anniversary screening for Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Leiji Matsumoto‘s Space Battleship Yamato anime in October 2024 that he and his Studio Khara are producing a Yamato project with new anime footage. Anno said that Khara received license approvals from Yamato’s rights holders Voyager Holdings and Tohokushinsha Film Corporation to produce new anime footage. Izubuchi, the chief director of the remake projects launched by the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 anime, also appeared at the screening and confirmed his involvement.

Anno, arguably best known for co-creating Neon Genesis Evangelion and working on the Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, and Shin Kamen Rider films, has frequently cited Yamato as inspiring his interest in anime. He previously planned the opening sequence to the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 series. Anno stated in a comment about the 50th anniversary project that he has been a fan of the franchise for 49 years, since his second year in middle school. He added that he did not think he would be the same person he is today without the franchise. He reminisced about how he missed the first episode when it was first broadcast, but how he watched the second through final episode, sacrificing even watching Great Mazinger and running home after cram school to do so.

The original anime follows the voyages of the World War II battleship Yamato after it is resurrected as a space-faring ship to fend off alien threats to Earth. The first television series premiered in October of 1974. The first animated film then opened in 1977 and earned 2.1 billion yen (about US$23 million) at the box office. The anime franchise later garnered a record instantaneous television rating of 50% in 1978.

Yamato yo Towa ni: Rebel 3199 (Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199), the current project in the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 remakes, is opening as seven films, beginning with the first film “Kuro no Shinryaku” (Dark Invasion) this past July. The final film will open in Japan on October 30.

Sources: Cosmoship Yamato √2199 anime’s website, Comic Natalie