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Supernatural: The Anime?

Sam and Dean Winchester have traveled to heaven and hell, attended conventions devoted to a series of books based off of their lives and been trapped inside a sitcom – but now, for the first time, the characters from Supernatural are getting animated.

AnimeNewsNetwork.com took note that the official website for Warner Bros. in Japan had launched a section for Supernatural: The Animation. At first, details were sketchy, but now, thanks to additional info from Cinema Today and AnimeAnime.jp, more is known about the project.

MADHOUSE, the anime studio behind projects like Death Note and Vampire D is producing Supernatural: The Animation, which will be comprised of a 22-episode season that will cover the storyline of the first two years of the live-action series. However, while some episodes will remake episodes from the original series, other stories will be brand new, and include, "prologues of the Winchester brothers' childhood, anime-only enemies, and episodes featuring secondary characters from the live-action version."



Supernatural: The Animation will be released on DVD in Japan starting with the first volume on January 12th with the first two episodes, and then a "Box 1" set on February 2nd, that includes episodes 3-12 and a "Box 2" set of episodes 13 to 22 on April 6th.

Of course U.S. Supernatural fans will be very curious to see this material for themselves, begging the question of if and when it will get a proper release over here. I would guess that Warner Bros, who are well aware of the passion of Supernatural viewers, would make sure there is eventually an outlet for the animated Winchesters in America as well.

AnimeNewsNetwork.com notes that Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is credited as the anime project's creator, and MADHOUSE co-founder Masao Maruyama is executive producer. Naoya Takayama (Night Head, Liar Game) is supervising the series' scripts, Takahiro Yoshimatsu (Trigun) is designing the characters and Shigeyuki Miya (Lupin III: Green vs Red, Aoi Bungaku Series, Buzzer Beater) and Atsuko Ishizuka (Aoi Bungaku Series) are co-directing the project.

From IGN.

I'm not sure what to make of it, I'll probably watch a few episodes since I love Supernatural. It'll be interesting to see another take on it.

[BOOSH]

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It may be good, I'll judge after I've seen it