Moon Phase has two more pieces of new anime news (but Black Lagoon is one we– or at least I –have been waiting for since 2006, so it got its own post). Still, we shouldn’t diminish either of these: Umineko no Naku Koro ni (the newest sequel to horror series Higurashi, natch) and the slightly pervy middle-school comedy Kyou no Go no Ni (Today in Class 5-2), is getting some kind of new animation this fall– it’s not clear yet if it’ll be an OVA or a TV series.

If you haven’t heard of Kyou no Go no Ni yet, you should really consider checking it out. It’s based on a manga by Koharu Sakuraba, the creator of Minamike, and since the first anime is an OVA he was able to get away with a lot more sex humor than Minamike’s TV series had. Kyou no Go no Ni isn’t a gag manga, but its OVA format was similar to Azumanga Daioh’s TV format, i.e. the episodes were generally split into short bits, since Kyou’s chapters are also fairly short. The whole series is actually only one volume; the original OVA was four episodes.

So there you go: two more series to get excited about!