Madhouse to Animate Natural Born Kittens

Corsham Entertainment has issued an official press release announcing that Japan’s Madhouse Studios will animate 26 half-hour episodes of Natural Born Kittens.

Excerpted from the press release:

Natural Born Kittens is the brainchild of UK anime artist Larry Bundy Jr., and centers around the anarchic activities of four ancient Egyptian cat goddesses posing as teenage schoolgirls in low rent suburbia, with the ensuing mayhem making South Park look like Noddy. The Natural Born Kittens website is one of the UK’s most visited anime sites, with more than half a million hits a year. Scripts will be written in the UK and the US, while the rest of the production will be handled entirely in Japan by Madhouse.

According to Shinichi Kobayashi, CEO of Madhouse, ‘Natural Born Kittens is a great combination of Western and Japanese animation – we are very excited about the prospects for the series.’ In fact, Corsham Entertainment believes that this will be the first ever genuine UK/Japanese anime co-production.