Today’s Moon Phase diary has some details on Slayers REVOLUTION, although it’s unclear where it came from (though other information has been hitting the web from Newtype and other mags today, so I’m guessing it’s one of the primary anime ‘zines). Moon Phase is generally spot-on, so take it as you will.

Anyway, they report that the anime will air in July on TV Tokyo in a late-night spot. Apparently the plot at least begins as a search for a replacement for Gourry’s Sword of Light. Characters that I think haven’t been seen in the anime before (but who are known in the novels) will appear, including Rook and Mirina. Some more familiar faces, as well: Prince Phil returns, as does Sylphiel. And apparently some kind of mascot character called Pokota, as well…no clue there.

Once again, no source cited on the blog, but it’s Moon Phase, so it’s up to you what to think.

Moon Phase has the word on an anime adaptation of Kurozuka, Baku Yumemakura and Takashi Noguchi’s 2002 manga about a pair of immortals named Kurou and Kuromitsu who fall in love and, over the course of a thousand years, fall apart again. (Apparently the manga is an adaptation of Yumemakura’s novel; he also wrote the Onmyouji series, about Abe no Seimei.)

The announcement was made on Animax’s website, which also mentions a date for Kurozuka and for the previously announced Ultraviolet: Code 044 anime: July 1st.

Aaaaaaaand in this corner, we have Slayers REVOLUTION! Moon Phase’s link has an image that tells us nothing about the new series (at first I was like, “Sylphiel’s coming back? Shit!”). The images are actually the first few covers for a re-release of the Slayers novels by Hajime Kanzaka. Do want! *scours Amazon for the Tpop releases in the meantime*

Apparently somewhere along the line I missed out on word that the eroge Koihime Musou is being developed into a TV anime, and its official website has opened.

The game follows a high school boy who gets sucked into a Romance of the Three Kingdoms-esque world when trying to catch a thief. There he joins forces with a female warrior, and together they screw a dozen or so women unite the world. Or something?

Anyway, it’s supposed to air in July, and it’s being directed by Sumomomo Momomo and Kashimashi director Nobuaki Nakanishi, so it’ll probably be good fun.

anime!anime! reports that a new Beyblade series is due out this summer. You may remember the show as “that kids’ series with the spinning top things” or, alternately, “that show whose name sounds kinda badass but actually isn’t” (or is that just me?).

Anyway! The franchise has been off the airwaves since Beyblade G-Revolution (which sounds like an action/porno) finished in December ‘03, but Takara Tomy just announced that a new season, heretofore unnamed, will air starting this August.