I read from Yuri no Boke's post that a new yuri anime is set to premier on April 2010 (scheduled date is yet to be announced). The launching of this new anime was first announced at the Anime News Network last 8/9/09. According to the recent update last 1/6/10:
....The official website for the television anime adaptation of Karino Takatsu's Working!! four-panel manga has posted a 107-second promotional video on Tuesday. The video was original shown at last week's Comic Market convention in Tokyo. On December 25, the website posted a 32-second "character trailer" that focuses on the main character, a high school freshman named Sōta Takanashi.
The story is set in a family restaurant named Wagnaria in the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido. Sōta works part-time among the restaurant's high-spirited, mysterious, yet cool staffers.
Takatsu's original manga runs in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine, and six compiled book volumes have been published. Yoshimasa Hiraike (Kaleido Star, Sketchbook ~full color'S~, Solty Rei) is directing the anime version, and Shingo Adachi (Megaman Star Force, Rockman.EXE Beast+) is designing the characters and overseeing the animation at A-1 Pictures Inc. Jun Fukuyama and Kana Asumi will play the characters Sōta and Popura, respectively. The television anime will premiere this April. Anime News Network.
After I read Yuri no Boke's post, I checked out the trailer for Working!! at Wagnaria, the official website for this anime. It couldn't understand Japanese but there was a few second shot that the character Todoroki Yachiyo, the hot girl with a sword, was blushing and had a I'm-in-love look on her face while talking to Shirafuji Kyouko (the female restaurant manager). If you want to see it for yourself, watch the trailer here.
I haven't read any news yet on what genre this new anime will be under (aside from its slice of life and comedy label). Is it really yuri? or is it just our wishful thinking? Whatever it is, I believe Yuri no Boke when she said that this is a yuri anime (the trailer did look like it will have a potential yuri element). I guess, I'll have another thing to look forward to this April.
