In 2013, Gainax co-founder and president Hiroyuki Yamaga was named as the director of a revived project in which the studio would produce a Blue Uru anime movie. Now, his name is connected to another project from a studio that has been fairly quiet in recent years. According to @Eldur_380, Yamaga said at German anime event Connichi that a third anime from the Aim for the Top! aka Gunbuster mech sci-fi series is in development.

The series started as a 1988 OVA from Hideaki Anno, in which a sports parody about girls training to fight off alien invaders brought in more science/sci-fi concepts, then a 2004 sequel (streaming on Crunchyroll) celebrated the 20th anniversary of the studio. A movie edit was released in 2006.

More details are promised in an upcoming interview post.

NEWS : Yamaga nous annonce qu'il prévoit de produire Top wo Nerae 3 ! #otacrew — Eldur @Connichi2016 (@Eldur_380) September 18, 2016

Évidemment merci également à monsieur Yamaga qui semblait très fatigué ! pic.twitter.com/OdtG0gUsgb — Eldur @Connichi2016 (@Eldur_380) September 16, 2016

Un énorme merci à monsieur Sadamoto !!! pic.twitter.com/1dVYSGZysU — Eldur @Connichi2016 (@Eldur_380) September 16, 2016

@Poutchan mais je t'invite à attendre que je sorte l'interview sur https://t.co/6HRZ9uamp8 (rt stp) — Eldur @Connichi2016 (@Eldur_380) September 18, 2016

UPDATE:

@_Erasu @Crunchyroll We rechecked our audio he said that Top wo Nerae 3 will be easier to found than Akibi o suru ni wa wake ga aru — Eldur @Connichi2016 (@Eldur_380) September 18, 2016

@_Erasu @Crunchyroll he's still writing the book for the sponsors but they're pretty determined to do something good — Eldur @Connichi2016 (@Eldur_380) September 18, 2016

@_Erasu @Crunchyroll Sadamoto joked about the fact that it could come out sooner than their next TV series — Eldur @Connichi2016 (@Eldur_380) September 18, 2016



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.