While I spent much of my teenage years enjoying all sorts of animated series from Japan, it’s been 5 years since I really devoured an anime series proper (I devoured Gurren Laggan while unemployed over the Summer of 2008).

Sure, I’ve been looking at some series over the years - the superhero series Tiger & Bunny, the mega hot Attack On Titan, even the new Ghost in the Shell series looked good. But thus far, I haven’t seen frame one of any of them.

That said, at Otakon this year, the director of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, Shinichiro Watanabe unveiled his latest series - Space Dandy.

The trailer is officially online, and wow, this looks ridiculous and fun!

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Bebop and Champloo are in my eyes two of the greatest series ever aired on television, let alone Japanese or animated, so based on the pedigree alone, I’m in, but the artwork, the character designs - Space Dandy looks like a blast.

Space Dandy is due to air in January 2014. I’ll be waiting.