• So. True.

• Oh, the panties have dropped! The panties have SO, SO dropped!! Supernatural was such an underrated show (I say 'was' because I am not counting this new, Kripke-less season as canon). Can't wait!!

• And your point is? Every fandom is a bit crazy. Starwars fans and male Comic book fans can be scary as hell as well. Fanboys are always so quick to point out the craziness of their female counterparts and forget that they behave the exact same way when it's about hot girls!

• At least now Dean will be fucking taller than Sam.

• Panties have already dropped in preparation of the awesomeness that is to come this january. I can't freakin' wait!!!!!!!

• This is the best news since, oh my god, I don't even know when. They are taking one of my favorite TV shows and making it into an anime (which I am a total whore for)supervised by Kripke and Madhouse!!! It's more than a lil bit awesome. It's an f'ing ton of awesome. But I also gotta say, you know as a girl who watches Supernatural, I watch the show because I love the story. The brothers' being insanely hot is just a bonus. Watch this show. I know my hubby was resistant at first to the whole idea of it, but once I got him watching it, he was hooked. It's got something for everyone. Oh and Ghostfacers anime? I'm just saying...

• Bullshit, some of the best genre episodes are in the subsequent seasons...Don't get pi$$ed the show wasn't what was in your head...Only a fool would think they were never going to expand past monster of the week and Azazel... Watch the whole series, sure some eps are annoying, but that's every series...There are plenty MOTW eps thru-out the core plot eps in later seasons...

• I preface it with a truly massive "LOLWUT?" but that is a little bit awesome. Ok, a lot awesome. I can't really wrap my mind around how they got this to happen, actually...

• I never watched the show regularly, but my room mate did. It was pretty good, but as I didn't see any of it until the fourth or fifth season, but what I have seen is pretty good. And some of the meta moments are hysterical, such as the episode they found out about slash fics. "Don't they know we're brothers?!" "I don't think they care."

• I'm so glad they're sticking to the first two seasons for this. The first two season were fantastic, and then they had to go and ruin it with all that stupid heaven/hell angel/demon BS. Rob, do yourself a favor and watch at least up until the end of season 2. Then stop. Because after that, Dean's "No chick flick moments!" rule disappears and the show becomes a whiny drama that happens to involve angels and demons.

• i'm more scared if they introduce the typical anime humor devices, such as the sweat drops, the silence "ding", the falling over someone's dumb remarks, and worst of all, the 'dimensional hammer' of hammerspace. ...wait, i take that last one back. seeing either of the two smack the other with a 1000T hammer would be icing on this anime cake! XD

• on that note, they also need to be careful with the song selection to honor the series, since japan is pretty liberal on the OST selection game. case in point: HEY HEY NINGEN NINGEN FUCKER!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVGj-sdXw8 (luv the song btw)

• Oh dear, I think you just offended the other girl that actually visits the site.

• Actually, one of the things I love about Supernatural (specifically in the later seasons), is that it's aware of it's fanbase and through some strange, but interesting plot developments, spends quite a bit of time poking fun at the fangirls. (i.e. Becky who writes Supernatural slash-fiction, the supernatural convention, ghostfacers). Honestly, if you ignore the "man-candy", the show is actually pretty damn good. Storyline is fantastic, action's good, it's worth a look if you've never seen it.

• OMG are you serious!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always said this would make an excellent anime in every way...I was just thinking about quitting weed this summer, but not now!! Thank You Thank you…How do you STILL not watch this shit Rob?!?!?! You are sleeping so hard..Since LOST sold out in every way by default Supernatural has been my favorite show of the past 5 years…It's the most creative show on regular Television and even when it missteps it still recovers and redefines it's own genre…For this to be an anime, an anime done by MADHOUSE no less!!!!! Man this is awesome!!!!!!!! Screw the fangirl angle, you just don't get how awesome this show is...I only wish Castiel could somehow be apart of this remake... Windingo for the win!!!!!!!

• hahahah, I can already see people getting into fights over the "right way" to say their names. I'll laugh myself sick if it gets a Japanese audio track, too.

• I'm scared. I actually think I felt a tremor in the Nerd-Force when I read this. I'm a long-time fan of both Supernatural and anime, but even I gotta admit that both fandoms are more than a little bit loopybats. Separately, that's fine, but *put together??* HOLY SHITSTORM, MY FRIENDS. From the comments on here, though, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only girl-fan who watches the show for the car, the mythology arcs, and the shotguns. We get it, the actors are good looking--jeez, fandom, let it go already.

• I found out about this on the SuperWiki last night and never thought you would cover it. Thank you Rob for posting this and showing nerd love. Now I must wait for this and Season 6 to start, srgh I hate Hellatus.

• Doesn't surprise me that much. Considering the rather huge amount of doujinshis (compare to any other western tv series... And, of cause, all the doujinshis are yaoi wincest......), I can see the anime version doing extremely well over there. I am quite interested. Hopefully, they won't turn Sam and Dean into a couple of totally Japanese-looking bishis though.

• I wasn't completely sure CW was still on the air! All kidding aside, is Supernatural really that good? Because if it is, I have been woefully misinformed!

• I've seen very little of it, but it's strange for this to get the Anime Adaptation, especially fully remaking episodes. Not because it's unworthy of it or anything, it just seems a strange choice. But I guess this is for the fans of it.

• Well, Smallville's got... um... you know it's story is sorta... uh... you know, you got me there. =P

• HELL YES.It looks like my visit to that southern crossroads paid off...Supernatural is a excellent show(even though it kind of went the way of season 7-9 x-files as of late)and would really translate well into an anime. I'm glad there doing/starting with the first two seasons, which are the shows best, instead of continuing from the present storyline. This has made my week!

• I think the fact that it's on the CW might have something to do with it. I mean, I know it used to have Buffy and Angel which I liked, but when I think of it lately I think of the One Tree Hill/Gossip Girl stuff they show, which aren't really my types of shows. So, I usually gloss over any new stuff they play.

• I'm not terribly familiar with "Supernatural," but if classic rock tunes figure prominently (as other commenters have indicated) it's safe to assume that those will be gone. The appeal of anime to Western intellectual property holders is that producing it is relatively cheap. The cost of licensing songs runs counter to that purpose. Shows produced for ad-supported television can afford the cost because of how much revenue they generate, but anime titles that feature Western pop tunes in their Japanese versions usually have to drop the songs in their licensed straight-to-disc foreign releases due to the cost of music permissions. Two that come to mind immediately are "Speed Grapher" and "Monster." Of course, a counter-example to the above is Funimation's recent announcement that their Region 1 DVD release of "Eden of the East" will keep the original theme song by Oasis. So it's unlikely that classic rock songs will be included in the "Supernatural" anime's soundtrack, but it's not impossible.

• Is it because Sam & Dean have become pretty fucking moopy? Granted with good enough reason...Cas was just the badass of this past season...

• seen a few episodes and always meant to sit down and watch the rest of it. This is exciting news! I wonder if they will use the original actors as the voice actors?

• Agreed. I think for the main show itself, I'm checking out. But I'll probably watch this, plus if Kripke is involved it should be at least decent, if not totally awesome. And if it continues for seasons, it wouldn't have to follow the stupid current story line, and could stick with the Monster of the Week format. Which the main show probably won't be able to get back too.

• Supernatural rulz! this will kick ass!

• Not too into Supernatural, but this is really cool. I would love to see a Buffy, or BSG anime next.

• As if bored housewives didn't slash the living hell out of the main characters before... "ZOMG wincest is like, so KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ^-^ ^-^ ^-^V"

• You do KNOW how often Supernatural turns up on Fandom Wank, right?

• I don't know. A girlfriend's even more girly frend tried to get me into it. I think the girly aspect seemed to be just how much everybody had to feel their feelings.

• Oh, the panties are already off, my friend. Bring on the bishies.

• i always thought that super natural was just screaming given its themes to be made into an anime. and looks like the thing has become a reality. though i will not touch the thing.

• Would you stop that! You sound like a whiny fanboy that is afraid of girls!!

• I disagree, Supernatural is for girls because most fans are female. You know girls can appreciate hot guys, awesome music, great storylines and fangirl at the same time!

• This is awesome! A reimagining of the two best seasons of the show (before the clusterf*ck of 4 and 5 especially)... sounds awesome. The promo art looks quality, hopefully it transfers to the anime. Since they're actually working with the creator I assume there's a decent budget going into this. MADHOUSE has a pretty good reputation, we'll see.

• This doesn't really surprise me. I know that when I taught English in Japan some of my high school girl students were big fans of the show; at least one of them had episodes on her phone at the time. If I heard about it from my small group, there must have been numerous others equally enamoured with the series.

• How do you explain Smallville? :p But yeah, my friend kept giving me some positive word-of-mouth on Supernatural, and I practically watched the entire series in less than a month. It's really good, a lot better than I expected from WB at the time.

• Hmmm, big anime fan, but never watched Supernatural. But from the reaction here, sounds like it's a decent show. Netflixed!

• Dude! Rob, go Netflix Supernatural right now! My wife and I have started watching it just recently, and are up to season 2. We figured any show that's been on for 6 seasons, and still going, must be pretty good. The acclaims here of how "bad ass" it is, are not being exaggerated. Great show!

• I'm super excited for this, although I'm more of a fan of Castiel than Dean and Sam. But I just want to see more badassery!

• I've seen a few episodes and always found it interesting. I kind of wish I had followed it from the beginning, but it's been on so long now that I don't want to go back and try to catch up. This might be a perfect solution for me though.

• well, they needed to make a custom intro for the 90's x-men cartoon with fancy animation and j-rock. it actually worked.

• Awesome! Mixing Supernatural and animes; it just couldn't be better!! And as one of those fangirls, I must say: Panties have already dropped. Wow.

• I will be having this orgasm until I die. Fuck that - beyond time and space. I've utterly adored Supernatch for it's stand-alone episodes as much its overall mythology. Great writing, great pacing and great acting bridge the two styles together seamlessly. I'm with Siofra, the Winchesters being hot might be the first lure, but after awhile it's just extra points.

• please, don't tell me that the only way that japanese guys see an american tv series is if the make it in anime version?

• Hell fucking YES!!! This is going to be so awesome. The only downside will be fact that SPN fans will have to suffer from even more delusional 13 year old girls.

• Wow. Supernatural is a great show i wonder will the anime translate the same humor/action as the live action show. The voice acting will be crucial though it can make or break it i beleive

• Be interesting. Wonder how "pretty" they'll make Sam and Dean...or will they be "Samanosuke & Jin"?

• Exactly! I, too, never quite got the "supernatural is for girls" idea... Yeah, the guys are gorgeous, but c'mon! The story's as badass as one could ask for! And talk about under-rated indeed. I so wanna see this now!

• I 100% agree, This show isant for the fangirls. Infact in a episode they shit on those people.(not literally)

• I'm pretty pumped for this. Now, I have to wonder, will they keep the show's current music style, or go with a more "Anime-esque" soundtrack?

• The first two seasons were great, in a "Night Stalker/ early X-Files/ early Buffy" kind of way. Once you get past the really loser wendigo episode, it picks up. It went the later "X-Files/ later Buffy" route with the whole "angels/demons/apocalypse" storyline, because it added a lot of tiresome "we have to do this crappy episode because it fits in with our current storyline and it's completely unwatchable by itself but if you don't watch this crappy episode you won't know what's going on" thing and tedious support characters and really cut down on the fun of "what is the monster of the week and how will they deal with it" stuff.

• I've never been a fan of anime but I am so going to watch the fuck out of this.

• I came. And I'm not even a girl. But an Anime version of some of those hot demon chicks. Yeah, I'd sell my soul too.

• Exactly...plus there is more gore on the show then any other TV show I have ever seen.

• I'm shaking!!!! I never expected that we would get 22 episodes (I was secretly hoping for a 4-5 mini series or an OVA) BUT NOPE WE'RE GETTING A FULL SEASON. AND we get MADHOUSE as animation studio! THIS IS FREAKING BRILIANT!!!

• I never really understood the girly show idea. Sure the leads are dreamy and occasionally take their shirts off, but that's overlooking all the testosterone fueled badassery (a 60's chevy and classic rock) and that 80% of the people they save are smoking hot chicks.

• Seriously. I watch it for the great acting and chemistry, the plots, the characters, the gimmick episodes, everything. The fact that the leads are hot is nothing more than a bonus.

• Supernatural is f**kin awesome. The most under-rated show on TV. For some reason everyone assumes it's some girly show. It's totally badass.

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