I'm probably really behind on anime news... I didn't know about this anime until I saw the comments on a post I wrote about a year ago...

Apparently, AYAKASHI IS now being made into an anime. But judging from the first couple of episodes, it didn't quite live up to what I had hoped...

The open theme song in the game, which IMHO is one of the best opening theme songs I've heard, is absent in the anime. In its place, a mediocre opening sequence I couldn't bare myself to watch... Licensing issues, perhaps? Then again, the anime kept all the BGMs...

Some of the characters are barely recognizable. This may or may not be a bad thing. It departs away from the game, but it also feels refreshing(and they do look quite good, none the less).

The anime IS keeping itself fairly close to the original on its story. However, due to its not-so-adequate length(13 episodes), it'll probably feel like a brief summary rather than a full anime series to those who have played the game...

An adult oriented(what did you expect) game produced by CrossNet two years ago. It was the 14th best selling game of 2005, and ranked as the 10th best overall game of 2005 on www.getchu.com.

Basically the story revolves around people who have "ayakashi" residing in their body, where ayakashi's consume the mind of their hosts as their energy source...

This is the opening of the game. Is it just me, or is this great anime material? Too bad one is yet to be produced...