As always, I have a huge collection of anime sitting around that someday, SOMEDAY I will go through and finish all. But I stumbled upon Japanator’s Spring ’10 Preview and quickly found myself tempted by quite a few upcoming series. I’ve been trying really hard not to add more series to my already long to-watchlist, but it looks like there’ll be lots of exciting new shows this spring :D

I’m curious about the Black Rock Shooter OVA – even though I agree 100% with the Japanator’s spot-on comment: “It’s a character from Supercell and a figure. I’m not really sure where things are going to go with this property, but it’s got everyone hot and bothered about it.” But hey, I’ve always admired the character design for Black Rock Shooter so I’ll probably end up checking it out ;) I feel the same way about Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan – have seen too many pretty scans of those hawt guys floating around! But realistically, this one’s on the back burner. I’ll probably check out Heroman because I’m a fan of Bones, and the trailer for House of Five Leaves looked interesting/pretty enough to hook my attention, so that’s also on my maybe list.

The series that I’m MOST excited about, however, is Yojō-han Shinwa Taikei. The trailer is weird and artsy, which isn’t always an immediate positive in my book, but the minute I saw the official (Japanese) website I was like… YUSUKE NAKAMURA!! (He did, in fact, do the character design for this series :D ) I’ve been a long-time fan of Yusuke Nakamura‘s awesome illustrations, and I will watch this series so I can see his beautiful art in animation form. Even if this series ends up being completely over-the-top and/or pretentious, this is the one that has me drooling with anticipation in front of my comp.

…I guess it’s a bit like watching Code Geass and feeling the cuddlies because CLAMP did the character designs for that series.

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