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

What a coincidence, I downloaded the 1979 one just yesterday to watch any time soon, and today they announce that a new one is being produced. I will watch both! I like the aesthetics of "old anime about a Western girl", like Candy Candy or Ashita no Nadja, even though this one is not old, obviously.

I wonder if Japanese kids these days know what Anne of the Green Gables is... As I understand it, the novel used to be widely-read in Japan and Korea "in the old days," but I'd be surprised if that's still the case in 2024.

Will this story even appeal to kids? Or are they targeting an older demographic?

I wonder if Japanese kids these days know what Anne of the Green Gables is... As I understand it, the novel used to be widely-read in Japan and Korea "in the old days," but I'd be surprised if that's still the case in 2024.

Will this story even appeal to kids? Or are they targeting an older demographic?

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I would imagine quite a few do. A new Japanese translation of Anne of Green Gables came out in 2011, with illustrations by the great Umino-sensei (Sangatsu no Lion, Hachimitsu to Clover)

Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island came out subsequently in 2012 and 2013, so there were enough sales to finish the trilogy (there are more books of course but by then Anne is already well into adulthood).

What a coincidence, I downloaded the 1979 one just yesterday to watch any time soon, and today they announce that a new one is being produced. I will watch both! I like the aesthetics of "old anime about a Western girl", like Candy Candy or Ashita no Nadja, even though this one is not old, obviously.

I will laugh for a long time if it turns out that anime got a new lease of life thanks to its yuri bait meme reputation in an attempt to catch the current yuri trend. But all jokes aside, it turns out that even anime from the 70s can get a remake now? Then what about an anniversary remake of Gundam 0079 or a new reboot of something from Go Nagai?

@RobertBobert i actully not suprised it got new anime. after all It was one of the first western novels released in Japan post-WW2. it so popular that NHK made a drama about the life of the woman who translated it. also in 2011 there was a novel as well

@Elior21 Well, this is still a remake of the original anime, and not a completely new adaptation. Although anything is better than the latest Western adaptation. Also, you don’t need to write me a PM, I receive a notification about all replies to my posts.

@RobertBobert what exactly the diffrence between remake and new adaption? after all the news saying new adaption

@Elior21 In this case, the primary source. This is not a reboot, this is a remake of an old anime.

@RobertBobert what the primary source of this? is it the manga or the books that came long ago? also anouther question how is it possible to know if anime is a reboot or if it remake of the old version?

I will laugh for a long time if it turns out that anime got a new lease of life thanks to its yuri bait meme reputation in an attempt to catch the current yuri trend. But all jokes aside, it turns out that even anime from the 70s can get a remake now? Then what about an anniversary remake of Gundam 0079 or a new reboot of something from Go Nagai?

Sunrise has said for decades they won't remake 0079 because they ''see no need'' (by which they actually mean they can still sell the model kits like hot cakes despite the show having no new material), and we literally got a Go Nagai remake earlier this year with Grendizer U.

@RippleLover Do you think that creating a remake of 0079 will require a significant redrawing of mechas and, accordingly, kits?

@Elior21 In this case, a specific old anime that is considered a cult show in Japan. How is it possible? Well, if you look at Anne's design in the illustration, you'll see that it's a more modern version of the character design from that old show.

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.

@Elior21 You cling to words. The fact that the original anime is based on a book does not change the fact that the reboot of the anime is connected with it, and not with the book directly.

@RippleLover But wasn't Origin a prequel and not a remake?

@RobertBobert The Origin, the manga, is a remake of the entire 0079 storyline with a bunch of added material, including a flashback arc. The Origin, the anime, only adapts the flashback chapters from the manga, so they marketed it as a prequel

@RippleLover That is, this is a remake at the manga level, but only a flashback prequel at the anime level?

@RobertBobert Yes, the manga is a full on remake, but the anime adapted only the parts from flashbacks because, again, Sunrise doesn't see a point in remaking the actual story of 0079, hence why the only part of it that got remake is Cucuruz Doan's Island (the episode Tomino hated and has never been released outside of Japan, so this was mostly to replace it).

@RippleLover But the Gundam YouTube channel broadcast it a year or two ago as part of the free broadcast of old Gundam shows. Or was this already a remake version?

@RobertBobert They've only put up the remake movie, not the episode, the episode has never been officially released outside Japan because Sunrise tries to bury it (probably because, again, Tomino doesn't like how it turned out)