SUPERNATURAL anime coming

Friday, June 11, 2010

Yes, you read that right. A 22-episode Supernatural anime series is coming, and it will adapt the first two seasons of the original WB/CW series.

As others have pointed out, the basic plot of Supernatural already kind of sounds like something from anime: two pretty-boy brothers drive around, fighting horrible monsters and trying to save the Earth from becoming a casualty in an endless war between demons and angels. But given that premise, Supernatural is about as un-anime as it could be. It's a very rough, snarky spook show that gets a lot of its power from inserting its horrors into a very recognizable, blue collar American reality.

I'll be interested to see how the show is adapted for animation, but I have a feeling that the Supernatural anime will have about as much in common with its source material as Powerpuff Girls Z did with the original Powerpuff Girls.

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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden

Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?

Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.

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