Fantastic news for anime fans! Eureka 7 - pretty easily one of the bet anime series of the past few years - is about to make the step from small screen to large, with a feature film now in the works. Subtitled Psalms of Planets the feature film will give the adventures of young hero Renton the scale and scope they always aimed for on the small screen ...

Eureka Seven tells the story of a young boy named Renton, whose life just plain sucks. That is, until a giant robot crashes into his house. Piloted by a girl named Eureka, this encounter will lead Renton to be pursued by the military and pulled into a web of drama, intrigue, and non-stop action. Renton's time to daydream is over.

Set against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eureka 7 takes a young boy and throws him into the middle of resistance fighters, the girl he'd be in love with if he knew what that meant at this stage of his life, and a giant robot. A bunch of giant robots, actually. It's equal parts coming of age story and large scale action, as much about Renton figuring out what it means to grow up as it is about his fight for freedom, and in its best moments it plays an awful lot like Neon Genesis Evangelion with the whining and abstract mysticism stripped out. I like this show a lot and can't wait to see what they do with the feature ...