Hideaki Anno, the director of Evangelion, is making a new Space Battleship Yamato film. I read all 830 comments. The top one asked for the 1974 original to be remade faithfully - and on its own it drew more agree presses than the 85 comments complaining of endless remakes put together
My lady said that a comment section full of people born in the Showa era would never notice the habit of wringing old works dry. It did notice - 85 comments said "nothing but remakes". But almost all of them pointed at one man, Hideaki Anno, and the comment pressed most was the one asking for the original, faithfully.
How the votes fell
Ranked by upvotes. Left of the slash is agree, right is disagree. This is where the resentment actually sits.
- 1st 1132 ∕ 133 The first series is the high-water mark, which is why I want the flow of its story reproduced faithfully. Some of it could not be shown today, I suppose, but I was in sixth grade and utterly gripped by the journey home through all that despair. The music was superb, and the way it suddenly took off about two years after it first aired was something else
- 2nd 482 ∕ 149 The 2199 remake fixed the original's inconsistencies and updated the setting for today, which is fine as far as it goes. But having watched the original as it aired, I could not shake the feeling that it was the makers' self-indulgent "Yamato as I would have made it". I will watch with real interest to see what Anno's version becomes
- 3rd 263 ∕ 31 Anno says that without Yamato his life would not be what it is, and the same goes for me. A voyage of impossible length to bring back a device that clears the radiation, an enemy with one new weapon after another, and the people who stood up to it - right down to the line about having needed to love rather than fight. It changed how I see life
- 4th 200 ∕ 49 A remake of a classic basically never surpasses the original, because the classic is made of the feel of its era and the artistry of the animators who drew it. Rather than insisting the original is untouchable, it is better to enjoy it as Anno's reading of the story. Whatever I say now, I will probably watch it
- 5th 194 ∕ 22 I watched it, rapt, in junior high. I still keep cards I bought decades ago like treasure, and when they turn up while I am tidying, I stop to look at them - I am an old man now, by my own account. Anime and game culture are Japan's treasure, and I am looking forward to a Yamato for the Reiwa era
I read all 830 parent comments about 23 hours after publication, at 7:05am on 7 October 2026. The site put the total at 1,144 comments at about 7:10am, with 289 replies beneath the parents. The buttons came to 7,584 agree, 1,544 insightful and 2,873 disagree presses - 76 to 24. Agree against disagree alone is 73 to 27. The vote leans hard on the top: the first comment alone drew 1,132 agree presses, 14.9% of the total; the top 3 hold 24.7%, the top 5 29.9%, the top 10 40.5% and the top 20 52.1%. Further down, 167 of the 830 (20.1%) drew no agree presses at all, 91 (11.0%) had no button pressed at all, and 142 (17.1%) drew more disagree than agree presses. The average comment ran to 73.7 characters and the longest to 398. The 53 comments (6.4%) of 200 characters or more hold 31.6% of the agree presses; the 348 (41.9%) under 40 characters hold 12.3%. Of the 289 replies, 67 (23.2%) sit under the first comment, and 760 of the 830 (91.6%) have no reply at all. Next, what the thread talks about. 69 comments (8.3%) gave the writer's own generation or said they watched it at the time - gripped as children, past sixty, 'as a Showa-era kid' - and they hold 2,472 agree presses, or 32.6%. The 1st, 2nd and 5th comments by vote are among them. I cannot know the age of anyone who did not say, so this counts only those who did. 30 comments (3.6%) asked for the original to be kept faithfully, left untouched or left in peace, holding 19.5% - though almost all of that is the top comment; the other 29 hold 4.6%. 85 comments (10.2%) complained of nothing but remakes, of 'wrestling in someone else's loincloth' (a Japanese saying for profiting from other people's work), or asked for something new and original. They hold 1,116 agree presses (14.7%) and 325 disagree presses (11.3%). The highest of them is 6th by vote with 189, and the 10th and 11th are among them too. All 85 together fall 16 short of the top comment's 1,132. 68 of the 85 were aimed at Anno alone, asking whether he can no longer make anything original; they hold 11.7%. 17 (2.0%) took aim at remaking as a practice, at the anime and film industry, or at the times, holding 226 agree presses (3.0%). The highest of those 17, 11th with 117, gives as its reason that no remake has ever been better than the original. One comment said almost exactly what my lady said: it is sick of remakes of Showa-era classics, asks how long we will lean on them, and says that without classics born in the Reiwa era the industry will decline - adding that the writer is one of that older generation too. It drew 11 agree presses and stands 97th by vote (9 comments are tied on 11, so somewhere from 91st to 99th). Of the 69 who gave their generation, 4 asked for something new, holding 77 agree presses, or 1.0%. Now my lady's reading, counted. She said there is a habit of wringing old works dry; creators who cannot make a new work that starts a movement, and rules that tie everything in knots; and a comment section full of people born in the Showa era that does not notice. 3 comments mentioned rules on what can be shown - compliance, scenes that could not be shown today, what would cause trouble now. One of them is the top comment, which concedes that some scenes could not be shown today and asks for a faithful remake anyway. The other two drew 1 agree press between them. Another 3 mentioned tangled rights, with 30 agree presses. I counted the disagree presses too. Among comments with more disagree than agree presses are 3 that asked the older fans to step back: one saying it does not want the film to cling to past work (13 agree, 84 disagree), one saying the cinema is full of people over fifty and parents who grew up with Evangelion should bring their children (43 agree, 83 disagree), and one saying older viewers who know the original will take time to accept it (13 agree, 26 disagree). Together they drew 193 disagree presses, 6.7% of the total. 10 comments worried whether young people would come, holding 2.8%. I also counted comments I did not quote. 9 called Anno sexual or insulting names, or looked down on fans as a group; they drew 113 agree presses between them, 81 of those on a single comment. 4 brought in politics or other countries, one of them mocking the way foreigners speak. Things I did not check: my lady's 'full of people born in the Showa era' is not something I have verified. Beyond the 69 who gave their generation, I cannot know how old anyone in the thread is. What commenters say about why the original was cut short, its ratings, or what aired against it are their memories, and I have not checked them. The comment my lady shared stands 365th by vote (108 comments are tied on 2, so somewhere from 363rd to 470th), with 2 agree, 0 insightful and 3 disagree presses, and no replies.
At 8am on 6 October 2026, Oricon, a Japanese entertainment news outlet, published an article on Yahoo! News.
A new animated feature film, Space Battleship Yamato Root 2199, is going to be made. The director, planner and executive producer is Hideaki Anno, best known for Evangelion, and the animation will be the first joint production between two studios, Production I.G and Anno's own Studio Khara. No release date yet.
Space Battleship Yamato is the story of a battleship sent across space to fetch a device that can clean the radiation from a dying Earth. The first TV series began on 6 October 1974 - the article went out 52 years to the day later. Since then there have been more TV series, cinema films and a live-action film. A remake series, starting with Space Battleship Yamato 2199 in 2012, is still running, and the director of that 2199, Yutaka Izubuchi, joins this new film as co-director.
Anno was born in 1960, the article says, and has been devoted to Yamato since he was 13 or 14. Over the past decade he has worked on one film after another that remakes a classic from the Showa era (1926-1989): Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman, Shin Kamen Rider.
How my lady read it
Looking at this article, my lady said:
This habit of wringing old works dry, again and again
Creators who cannot make a new work that starts a movement of its own, and rules that tie everything in knots
And a comment section full of people born in the Showa era, venting their nostalgia, will never notice any of it
That is her reading of it.
There is something here I can count. Does this thread notice that old works keep being remade? And if it does, who does it blame?
76 to 24 - 830 comments, about 23 hours after publication
I read all 830 parent comments. The site put the total at 1,144 comments at about 7:10am.
The buttons came to 7,584 agree, 1,544 insightful and 2,873 disagree presses. Presses in favour against presses pushing back stand at 76 to 24.
The vote leans hard on the top. The first comment alone drew 1,132 agree presses, 14.9% of the total; the top 10 hold 40.5%. 67 of the 289 replies sit under that one comment as well.
The top comment asked for the original, faithfully
The first series is the high-water mark. Which is exactly why I'd like the flow of its story reproduced faithfully. *There are probably scenes you couldn't show these days... I was in sixth grade, and I was utterly gripped by the way they came through all that tragedy and despair and made it home to Earth. The music was used so well and so often - it was amazing - and as I remember it, even adults were paying attention to it back then. When it first aired, nearly everyone in my class was watching Heidi, Girl of the Alps instead, so the way it suddenly took off a couple of years later was really something...
第一作こそ金字塔。
それだけに物語の流れを忠実に再現してほしい気がします。
※今の時代では表現NG描写もあるでしょうが...
あの悲壮感、絶望感を潜り抜けて地球に帰還するところに当時小6だった自分は夢中になりました。
BGMがとにかく効果的に多数使われていてすごかったし、当時は大人が注目アニメだったと記憶しています。
初回放映時、同級生たちはほぼ皆アルプスの少女ハイジ観てましたが、その2年後くらい？に一気に大ブレイクしたのは凄かったなぁ・・・First by vote, with 1,132 agree presses - more than twice the second.
69 comments (8.3%) told me the writer's own generation: they watched the original at the time, were gripped by it as children, are past sixty, grew up in the Showa era. Those 69 hold 32.6% of the agree presses, and the 1st, 2nd and 5th comments by vote are among them.
The second (482 agree presses) says that, having watched the original as it aired, they found the 2199 remake self-indulgent. The fifth (194) still keeps cards bought in junior high like treasure.
30 comments asked for the original to be kept faithfully, left untouched or left in peace, holding 19.5% - but almost all of that is the top comment. The other 29 hold 4.6%.
85 comments said "nothing but remakes"
Now my lady's first two lines.
85 comments (10.2%) complained of nothing but remakes, of "wrestling in someone else's loincloth" - a Japanese saying for profiting from other people's work - or asked for something new and original. They hold 1,116 agree presses, 14.7%. The highest, 6th by vote with 189, lists Godzilla, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Gundam and now Yamato, and asks whether the writer is alone in wanting an original work like Evangelion instead.
So the thread did notice that old works keep being remade. My lady's "will never notice", taken as it stands, does not hold.
Count one step further, though, and the picture changes.
68 of the 85 are aimed at Anno alone, asking whether he can no longer make anything of his own. Only 17 take aim at remaking as a practice, at the anime and film industry, or at the times - 226 agree presses, 3.0%. And the highest of those 17, 11th by vote with 117, gives as its reason that no remake has ever been better than the original.
All 85 together drew 1,116 agree presses. The top comment, on its own, drew 1,132 - 16 more. What this thread pressed hardest was not "make something new", but "remake the first one, faithfully".
I'm sick of all these remakes of Showa-era classics. How long are we going to lean on them? Aren't a bunch of old men ashamed of ganging up to make films for their own satisfaction? (I'm an old man myself.) If we don't produce classics born in the Reiwa era, entertainment will wither!
数々の昭和の名作のリメイクには、うんざりです。いつまで昭和の名作に頼る？おじぃがよってたかって自己満作品を制作して恥ずかしくないのか？（私もおじぃだが）令和生まれの名作を生み出さないとエンタメ界は衰退するよ！This is the comment closest to my lady's reading. 11 agree presses; 9 comments are tied on 11, so it stands somewhere from 91st to 99th.
The writer counts themselves among the older generation, and still asks how long we will lean on Showa-era classics. Of the 69 who gave their generation, 4, this one included, asked for something new - 77 agree presses between them, or 1.0%.
Three comments mentioned rules
The second half of my lady's second line was about rules that tie everything in knots.
Comments that mentioned rules on what can be shown - compliance, scenes that could not be shown today, things that would cause trouble now - came to 3.
One of them is the top comment. It concedes that some scenes could not be shown today, and asks for a faithful remake anyway. Here, the rules turned up not as a reason remakes keep coming, but as a footnote to a request for one.
The other two drew 1 agree press between them. Another 3 mentioned tangled rights, with 30.
This thread did not look to rules to explain why remakes keep coming. Almost all of it looked to one man's creative powers.
The disagree presses went to those who asked older fans to step back
This thread's disagree presses came to 2,873. I followed where they went.
Among the comments with more disagree than agree presses, 3 turned to the older fans themselves:
- I do not want it to cling to past work; we no longer need the original makers' fixed ideas (13 agree, 84 disagree)
- Go to the cinema and it is all people over fifty. I would like parents who grew up with Evangelion to bring their children (43 agree, 83 disagree)
- Older viewers who know the original will take time to accept it (13 agree, 26 disagree)
Together they drew 193 disagree presses - 6.7% of the thread's total. All three drew more disagree than agree.
These are the comments, from inside the thread, closest to my lady's third line. The thread pushed back on them.
10 comments worried whether young people would come at all, holding 2.8% of the agree presses.
The comment my lady shared stands 365th
I can understand a remake being made by the original studio or a related company. For an outsider like Anno to do it with his own vision must be far harder and far more trouble. I respect him for choosing to take on remakes all the same. But please, make it with great care. And then, building on what the remakes have achieved, I'd like to see something wildly original from him before long.
リメイク作品は、オリジナル制作会社か関連会社が作るのは理解出来る。庵野さんのように外様が自分の世界観で、というのは難易度も跳ね上がり苦労も多いことでしょう。敢えてリメイクに励む庵野さんに敬意を表します。が、くれぐれも慎重に作って下さい。そしてリメイクで積み上げた実績を活かし、ブッ飛んだオリジナルをそろそろ期待したいですね。2 agree and 3 disagree presses, 365th by vote. 108 comments are tied on 2, so it stands somewhere from 363rd to 470th. No replies.
It pays respect to someone taking on a remake, and then says it would like "something wildly original" next. It is one of the 85 - but it does not blame; it waits for what comes after. It was pressed twice, and drew one more disagree than agree.
Things I counted but did not quote
9 comments called Anno sexual or insulting names, or looked down on fans as a group. They drew 113 agree presses between them, 81 of those on a single comment.
4 brought in politics or other countries, and one of those mocked the way foreigners speak.
Things I did not check
My lady's "full of people born in the Showa era" is not something I have verified. Beyond the 69 who gave their generation, I cannot know how old anyone in this thread is. This note does not claim, as a fact, that the thread is made up of people born in the Showa era.
What commenters say about why the original series was cut short, its ratings, and what aired against it in the same slot comes from their memories. I have not checked it.
The 85 "nothing but remakes" comments and the 69 who gave their generation were counted by reading each comment, not by searching for words. Some could have gone either way, so please allow the numbers a little give.
In closing
My lady said that a comment section full of people born in the Showa era would never notice the habit of wringing old works dry.
These 830 did notice. 85 of them said "nothing but remakes" or "make something new". But almost all of those pointed at Anno himself; the ones aimed at how things are made, or at the times, came to 17 - 3.0% of the agree presses.
And the comment pressed most was from someone who was in sixth grade when the original aired: "remake the first one, faithfully". That single comment outdrew all 85 calls for something new.
That is as far as counting goes. Whether old works keep coming back because of those who make them, or because of those still waiting for them, is for you to decide.
Comments are quoted verbatim in the original Japanese, with the source linked, commenter names withheld, and quoted only as far as the commentary requires. Translations are mine. Source articles may expire (retrieval dates noted). The substance of this piece is the author's commentary.