Just got this rather brilliant news from my insider at Production I.G here in Tokyo: there’s going to be another take on the Blood anime franchise.

According to the teaser press-release notes I received, Blood-Cis a creative collaboration between Production I.G (the people behind anime classics Ghost in the Shelland the original Blood: The Last Vampire) and all-girl artist group CLAMP (they did the original manga of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and xxxHOLiC) – supervised by Junichi Fujisaku, one of the key people who developed the original concept forBlood: The Last Vampire (2000) and later directed the spin-off TV series Blood+ (2005).

This baby’s slated as a TV series that’ll be aired in Japan on MBS/TBS starting from July 2011 (see here), and also a theatrical feature film set for 2012.

The TV series will be directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, who helmed the xxxHOLiC – A Midsummer Night’s Dream feature film, based on CLAMP’s manga and also produced by Production I.G.

Anyway, enough cheating off the promotional notes. I’ll let you know more when I do, but in the meantime I’m pretty darned excited about this.

I love my I.G.

This (below) was the trailer for the 2000 original.