Can You Say Anime Event of the Year? Trailer For Ghost Hound Appears Online ...

Well, television anime, anyway. Here's why this will be the big, must see event of the year:

2007 marks the twentieth anniversary of Production IG, one of the finest animation houses in Japan and one that we're big fans of here at Twitch. Their body of work is huge but IG will likely always be best known thanks to Mamoru Oshii's heavy involvement in the company and their work on the various incarnations of the Ghost in the Shell franchise.

Now, when a company hits a big anniversary they like to plan a big event to mark it. Ghost Hound is that event for Production IG, a new twenty two episode series due to start airing in the fall. And they've pulled out the big guns on this one. In the writer's chair? Series co-creator Masamune Shirow, the force behind Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed, and writer Chiaki Konaka from Serial Experiments Lain. In the director's seat is Ryutaro Nakamura, also of the much-acclaimed Serial Experiments Lain

Few specifics are known about the show yet but Shirow has described it as "occult tactical action" and the first teaser has turned up online so you can take a gander.

Ghost Hound Trailer (downloadable WMV)

Thanks to Ulrik for the pointer.