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It was one of my first mangas, very dark manga but it was great. In another topic, i even mentioned that its sad that Blade of the Immortal wasn't made into an anime, and today i saw this on ANN.

The May issue (on sale on March 25) of Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine will confirm that a television anime version of Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal manga will premiere this summer in Japan. Tomokazu Seki (Escaflowne's Van, Gungrave's Beyond the Grave) will voice the main character Manji — a rōnin swordsman condemned to immortality unless he kills a thousand evil men for all the good men he killed. Rina Satou (Negima!'s Negi, Bamboo Blade's Satori) will play Manji's fellow traveler Rin. Hirofumi Nojima (Kagehisa Anotsu), Kazuya Nakai (Taito Magatsu), Masashi Ebara (Sabato Kurui), Katsuyuki Konishi (Eikū Shizuma), Daisuke Namikawa (Araya Kawakami), Mamiko Noto (Makie), Megumi Toyoguchi (Hyakurin), Toshiyuki Morikawa (Giichi), Shinichiro Miki (Shira), and Maaya Sakamoto (Machi) complete the cast.

Koichi Mashimo will direct the animators on Bee Train as he did for the .hack// franchise and Noir. Hiroyuki Kawasaki (The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Sorcerer Hunters) will oversee the scripts, and Yoshimitsu Yamash*ta (Murder Princess, Samurai Champloo animation director) will design the characters. Kō Ōtani (Ayakashi Ayashi, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) will compose the music.

Dark Horse Comics publishes the manga in North America.

I cant wait to see the anime, i hope they dont screw up the art. What made Blade of the Immortal appealing to a lot of people was because of the art style and the fact that Blade of the Immortal was sold in either A4 or A5 format*

*A4 or A5( cant remember which one) is the format of manga where its the size of a magazine. Sorta of like the Akira Mangas. They look like minature encyclopedias

ARE YOU SERIOUS?  Hell yeah.  Ay idea what it is going to look like or who is going to direct it?