There’s no way to do a more accurate title for this post, alas, because there are no details. But over at Destructoid, Brad has spotted word that a new Gyakuten Saiban (Phoenix Wright) project is in the works, and it happens to involve special illustrations and voice recording. And it’s not a game.

Now, in all likelihood, that sounds ilke an anime, doesn’t it? Sure, there are other possibilities: a drama CD with a special book, or maybe a mobile manga with some voice acting (a la TOKYOPOP’s iManga), or whatever other clever things Capcom could come up with.

…But…it seems to me that a lot of people have wanted a Phoenix Wright anime for a long time…so that’s where my money would be. If I were the betting sort.

If the Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei is the next Motteke! Sailor Fuku (which was the next Hare Hare Yukai), I will be one very happy nerd.

So: Gyakuten Saiban (a.k.a. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) + Zetsubou-sensei = …

Via SWFblog, natch.

Del Rey (see liveblog thread) opened with their new announcements (after some stalling while they got Power Point working), their favorite being Fairy Tail, by Rave Master’s Hiro Mashima.

More exciting to me is Hell Girl (a.k.a. Jigoku Shoujo), whose very attractive but decidedly episodic anime has been licensed by FUNimation. i’m hoping the manga is a little cooler, though the art style looks a bit less to my liking.

More exciting to many of YOU is probably Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the manga based on the very popular DS game. (They’re hoping to have the first volume out around the same time as the next game.)

And finally, Me and the Devil Blues, a manga about the blues singer Robert Johnson, who allegedly sold his soul to the devil to get his blues skills. (In this version, of course, that really did happen).

They also announced a couple of novels: Dark Wars, a continuation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Vampire Hunter D author Hideyuki Kikuchi; and Psycho Busters, a novel by GetBackers author Yuya Aoki, which they also have the manga for.

Aaaand an OEL manga announcement…Yokaiden, a manga by Nina Matsumoto, who you may remember as “spacecoyote” - the artist behind the amaizngly popular “manga Simpsons” fanart.

You want more? How about a manga adaptation of Terry Brooks’ Dark Wraith of Shannara, with art by Edwin David and adaptation by Robert Napton.

I dunno about you, but I’m exhausted just typing all that.