Ladies versus Butlers! Anime Gets Early Special

Hmm, looks like this is our first time mentioning the TV anime version of Ladies versus Butlers!, originally a school / romance / comedy light novel series by Tsukasa Kouzuki. An adaptation of some sort had been teased as early as March of this year, but it wasn't until September than the anime format was finally confirmed. The actual series will begin airing in Japan from January 5, 2010, and according to the latest update on the subject, the end of this year will also bring an early TV special.



This special will be a 1-hour program scheduled by the AT-X channel for December 29. Half of it will be devoted to an advance screening of the anime's Episode 1, while the other half will be just some random noise (chatter with the voice cast - most boring thing ever invented by mankind, right after Western talk shows).

The official website doesn't show much in terms of eye-candy, but we've taken care of that with the addition of a few artworks exposing the scantily clad female cast of Ladies versus Butlers!. Hotness abounds. Narative freshness... not so much.

"The school romantic comedy revolves around Akiharu Hino, an ordinary high school student who unfortunately looks like a juvenile delinquent. He enrolls into an academy that was once a school for upper-class ladies, and he is placed in the school's newly established servant training department. The students there are raised to be either maids or butlers, and Akiharu finds himself in the middle of the bickering cliques."

Ladies versus Butlers! is being animated by studio Xebec, by the way, who are no strangers to the ecchi genre: To Love-Ru, Kanokon, Kyou no Go no Ni... need I say more?