Research better sources. You have to go with information from Japanese books and interviews with the filmmakers. There is so much misinformation and outright lies about Japanese monster movies in the west.
"it's very clear that this isn't a reappearance of the Gamera from the past Showa films. It's more of a reboot."
That is not the intention of director Noriaki Yuasa or screenplay writer Niisan Takahashi. It was not a reboot either. Tokuma Publishing bought Daiei and its properties and discovered the Gamera team still owed an eighth film from contracts they signed back in 1971. Tokuma called in those contracts and forced the Gamera team into making this film, but gave them no money to do so with. Takahashi's script for the movie ended the same way every other Gamera movie ended--with Gamera flying off in the distance. However, when Noriaki Yuasa saw how the movie was going, he realized Gamera was never going to come back from this thing and decided to kill the character off. This is why everyone is still happy at the end; only rudimentary changes were made to the script. "I grieved for my son, Gamera," Yuasa has said. "It was a very strange fate for him."
"I've also heard that Diamond Entertainment, (one of the companies that distributed the English dubbed versions), didn't include this film in their collection. They went as far as to say Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) was Gamera's last film in the Showa series."
A foreign distributor has absolutely no say in the matter. Daiei is the one who makes that call and Daiei considers "Super Monster" the end of the Showa series. Their Japanese publicity for the movie at the time of release suggests that Gamera was in outer space since 1971, hence the new title "Space Monster Gamera."
Like it or don't, "Gamera, Super Monster" features the Gamera from the prior seven movies.
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