Dogs, Bullets, Carnage & Anime

Another new anime announcement today emerged from the pages of Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine, once again via ANN. The magazine's freshly released December issue heralds an upcoming Dogs anime based on Shirow Miwa's action manga, which first ran from 2000 to 2001, and was restarted in 2005 under the title Dogs: Bullets & Carnage. An English version of the manga will start being released by Viz from April 2009.


The manga is set in a future city from Europe which extends far underground. There, "a genetically altered albino gunman, a chain-smoking mercenary, a former assassin, and a katana-wielding orphan ply their deadly trades on the streets and below the surface". Sounds interesting enough, and stylistically it's even more intriguing. The anime, currently in the works at studio David Production, has yet to receive a release date.