Stay alone, put a record on, listen to the songs, keep yourself at home
You know, I think I failed to actually point out exactly what I am excited about seeing, so lets start with two things I didn’t list, and then the rest in order of excited-ness.
GOTHAM KNIGHT – The Batman OAV is out over here in July and I’ll be picking this up. At least half the directors involved I’m a fan of so this should be fun, fun, fun.
DETROIT METAL CITY – This is DMC’s year (or maybe next year if the film gets an international release). Anyway the manga is, along with Chi’s Sweet Home, the most obvious choice for manga to be released in English, and the Studio 4°C adaptation looks ridiculously faithful to it’s brilliance. Fingers crossed that as it’s Studio 4°C it might have subtitles included. A man can dream.
BIRDY THE MIGHTY DECODE – Noein creative team reunite.
COBRA THE ANIMATION
ULTRAVIOLET: CODE 044
There’s a bit of gap ‘twixt Ultraviolet and the next lot in measure of hopping up and down in expectedness.
SOMEDAY’S DREAMERS: SUMMER’S SORA – I am a mark for Osamu Kobayashi
NATSUME YUUJIN-CHOU – Takahiro Omori has goodwill with me after Baccano!
SLAYERS REVOLUTION – Oh nostalgia.
CHOCOLATE UNDERGROUND – Not holding much hope of seeing it given it’s release format, but if the opportunity arose I’d check it out.
RYOKO’S CASE FILE – I am also a mark for mystery/detective shows