Holy @#$^, There’s Going to Be a Supernatural Anime

?Oh, you Supernatural-loving fangirls (and boys). Do I have some good news for you — or rather, Anime News Network does:

[Supernatural the Animation] will be a 22-episode season that will cover the storyline
of the live-action version’s first two seasons. The first volume will
ship on January 12 with the first two episodes. On February 2, the “Box
1” set will ship with episodes 3 to 12. On April 6, the “Box 2” set will
ship with episodes 13 to 22. (There will be a different release
schedule for the rental version of the project.)

The anime project will not only remake the best episodes from the
live-action version, but also depict original episodes not seen in the
live-action version. Those original episodes will include prologues of
the Winchester brothers’ childhood, anime-only enemies, and episodes
featuring secondary characters from the live-action version.

Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is credited as the anime
project’s creator, and MADHOUSEMasao
Maruyama is serving as executive producer. Naoya Takayama (Night
Head, Liar
Game) is supervising the series’ scripts, and Takahiro
Yoshimatsu (Trigun)
is designing the characters.

I haven’t watched a minute of Supernatural, but this news blows me away. I mean, when you think about anime adaptations of Western properties, you think about those direct-to-DVD anthologies of major franchises like The Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight. To make an anime version of a CW show — and to give it a full 22-episode season at that! — well, this is actually the most interesting anime news I’ve heard in forever.

And Jesus. When I think about the fangirls who lust after Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles now… when they see the anime/bishonen versions of Sam and Dean? Panties will drop, my friends. Panties will drop.