Novel 'Anne of Green Gables' Gets New TV Anime in Spring 2025

I received the notification message and was a bit shocked to see this out of nowhere.

But honestly, as I've seen the original 1979 series, consider it quite close to a masterpiece-level work, have it as one of my modest handful of 9/10s and in my Top 20 for the past several years since I first saw it, as with all my other favorite anime series or even series I just generally liked and considered at least basically "good" upon first viewing, I have absolutely no desire to watch a remake or re-adaptation. I would rather just rewatch the original, and I'm sure I will at some point anyway, along with revisiting individual episodes and scenes, listening to the OST, etc. as I have already done since the first watch.

At least, being 45 years ago, or what will be 46 years prior when this is due to come out, it can be justified on the grounds that enough time has passed with such a shift in national and human culture and production techniques that it's arguably worthwhile to expend the time, effort/talent, money, and manpower to produce another newer version, in a way that I simply don't believe anime from, say, 15 - 25 years ago, like talks of remakes of early 2000s era series, can be.

I still won't watch as not just with this series in particular or even anime as a whole, but in general I will not watch a remake of anything if I'm already sufficiently satisfied with the original, and this case far exceeds that standard. The only exception is if I have never seen the original to begin with, which usually is a result of not knowing of the original's existence, which, before getting into anime, was true of some Hollywood films and such I didn't know were remakes until after I had already seen them, when I was like eight. I did watch the Fruits Basket reboot from 2019 in full knowledge that it was a remake/reboot/re-adaptation, but I had never seen the original at all in that case and also was aware that the original was incomplete. When it's not applicable, like here, it just seems pointless for me to engage with.

There are so many yet-unseen interesting and creative series out there, ones I haven't even discovered by title yet, so my thinking is "Why watch a remake of a series I already love?" Would rather rewatch it and then watch something else new. Some will argue that "Oh, it's not for you. It's for the new/next generation" (Not that the late 1970s is my generation - I watched it in 2019). But I don't fully buy that thought process because many of these remakes seem to be designed to pander and heavily play into the nostalgia factor.

Not best pleased generally with the anime industry lately seemingly embracing Tinseltown's tendency toward autophagy and cannibalization.