Summer is around the corner and that typically means reruns on TV, but not for anime! Fans of the all female mangaka group CLAMP will be please to learn that they have provided a new original story and character design for the Blood series (Blood: The Last Vampire, Blood+). It will be interesting to see CLAMP's take on the gory natural of the original movie. Appleseed makes a return in the form of a new animated series, while Nuraihyon no Mago and Baka to Test gets a second season. Other series to keep an eye out for is the child raising series Usagi Drop, R-15, and Kami-sama no Memo-chou.
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It's that time again, and the denizens of the anime community have put together yet another chart of Winter's anime season. Fans may want to keep an on Beelzebub, a story about a delinquent who ends up with a Demon King's baby, which has been highly successful as a manga in Japan, and Haiyoru! Nyarlko which received OVA shorts earlier this year. Will update appropriately as more information is released.
Another season of new anime titles is almost here, and there is definitely a little something for everyone. Arakawa Under the Bridge, To Love-Ru, Super Robot Taisen, A Certain Magical Index, and Sora no Otoshimono return with sequels which should please many prexisting fans. Bakuman and The World Only God Knows are already popular manga titles and will probably do pretty well, but will Gainax's new Panty & Stocking be as successful as the companies previous hit titles? We'll find out this October.
Here's a more complete list of anime series airing this Spring 2009. The list is a bit more impressive than Winter's, with the new Full Metal Alchemist, and the adaptation of the hit Playstation 3 game Valkyria Chronicles.
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