Himiko Yamato and other cancelled Tomino projects

>Himiko Yamato

New Tomino series, seemingly not approved yet but he's been saying that he definitely wants to do it. Has been talking about it more in interviews lately such as the Dunbine special in Great Mechanics.

"Not a robot series" "but robot-like things might appear"

Based on an old cancelled project also called Himiko Yamato (old version's title was in kanji = 卑弥呼大和, new version is katakana = ヒミコヤマト). The old project was a collaboration between him, Fukui Harutoshi and Kadokawa Haruki, and the three have gone on to say that it influenced Wings of Rean, Fukui's Lorelei, and Kadokawa's Yamato. Tomino was the one to come up with the idea and Fukui has described it as "something primally Japanese like Himiko possessing the battleship Yamato and coming to reprimand modern Tokyo".

In one interview before he started mentioning Himiko Yamato by name he says he's currently thinking of two new projects that are both
>"Not a robot series" "but robot-like things might appear"
There are no real details on the second project yet.

Also he's said that he might rewrite the scripts so that there are no humanoid robots in them (he specifically says "humanoid").

In another he says that they're both robot anime (and "not full 3DCG"), and that he wants them to have non-humanoid robots. Both are still on the script phase. He describes one as having the battleship Yamato, where the battle parts are "like the song parts in opera". Given how Himiko Yamato is literally about Yamato I think it's safe to assume that he was talking about it here.

He first mentioned Himiko Yamato by name in Great Mechanics saying that it's based on the cancelled Himiko Yamato

He says that the old Himiko Yamato was about Himiko Yamato heading to Tokyo to "defeat the governer", fighting the SDF along the way.

He wants to make it before he dies but doesn't know if they'll let him do it.

He says that it's a story about how, if the Yamato wasn't a weapon, it would have been magnificent. Himiko appears as "Yayoi-hime". He says "the thoughts and ideas of the military and military engineers are compressed in the Yamato" and that he wants an "answer" to what comes next after imperialism.

Supposedly the new Himiko Yamato is quite different from the old one.

He says he used 最終結論「邪馬台国」はここにある as a reference book.

I'm not familiar with it but according to a summary I just skimmed it apparently uses primary sources to conclude that Yamatai-koku and Himiko were an entirely different culture had absolutely nothing to do with the Yamato dynasty, Japanese imperial family, and Japanese mythology.

It also pushes the theory that Yamatai-koku was in what is modern-day Kyushu, but some Tomino fans have pointed out that as of 2017 Tomino was pushing the theory that it was in Nara (he brought it up when talking at the International Film Festival).

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And since the old cancelled Himiko Yamato is relevant here I figured I might as well post about some old cancelled Tomino projects

>Genma Taisen anime movie
The writer Hirai Kazumasa knew Tomino since his Ideon days and they were supposed to make a movie in 83. According to Ghibli's Suzuki Toshio the original director was Tomino, and he was removed "due to an incident".
> 鈴木敏夫 あれ、監督交代があったんですよね。もう時効だと思うから言っちゃうけど、『幻魔』はほんとうは富野さんがつくる予定で、あることがきっかけでおろされちゃう。それでりんさんに替わるんですね。

>Zeta movies (not ANT)
They had plans for Zeta movies twice before ANT, once in 1989 after CCA was done, and once in 2000. The 89 version was cancelled because of Sunrise thinking it wasn't the right time, and the 00 version because of Tomino (he was busy with King Gainer). ANT's project started after King Gainer was done.

>Gundam F92
They planned to have a TV series as a sequel to F91, and ideas from it were reused for V Gundam and Crossbone. There are designs for it that have never seen the light of day. The Medozack, which Ishigaki just revealed for the first time earlier this month (pic) was originally meant to be Iron Mask's MA in F91, but Tomino said it was too good and told him to save it for F92.
https://twitter.com/gakky1967/status/1302862697206145025?s=20

Some other sources say that another reason why the Medozack was replaced with the Rafflesia is because of the tentacular rod gimmicks, which were too complex to be animated in time (the Rafflesia's tentacular rods are simplified) The segments that make up the tentacles turn into thrusters (the bit with them lined up on the right in that picture) and there are three different types of heads, chainsaw, beam rifle and beam saber.

>Polka Gundam
Project to be the next series after V Gundam but it was replaced with G. It was supposed to be about a conflict between Martian immigrants and the people left on Earth.

>Dunbine movie
Planned in 94, cancelled due to a combination of the chaos from Sunrise going under Bandai and Tomino's mental health at the time. Nagano Mamoru was to do the designs, and he reused some of them for FSS like the MH Phantom.

>Unknown project with Suzuki Yoshitake
Something they started working on before Brain Powered that was supposed to have happened after it, but Tomino decided to do Turn A instead. Suzuki says it was "a new and weird robot series that aimed to detach itself from Gundam, that had no consideration for any director other than Tomino"

>Daitarn sequel
Project from 97. Tomino wanted Kanada Yoshinori to work on it, but Kanada had to turn it down because he was going to Hawaii to work on Spirits Within for Square.


>Hateshinaki Nagare no Hate ni movie
Project that Tomino and Kadokawa were working on together around 2000, an anime adaptation of what is said to be Japan's greatest sci-fi novel. Had to be cancelled on account of Kadokawa going to prison.

>Chinmoku no Kantai/The Silent Service
Tomino was the first choice to be director but he turned it down saying it was "too close" to him and the end result would become "dangerous".

>Gatekeepers
According to Tanaka Kouhei, Tomino offered to be an animation director due to being interesting in the setting, but he ended up not on the project. If he had, the episode he handled would have been about Mushi Pro.

Not really something cancelled but
>SD Gundam Force
Tomino was very interested in how the show was being made and kept showing up when nobody invited him, and offered to work on storyboards, but it never happened because he had to work on ANT.