The Japanese anime Website Moonphase is reporting (via Anime News Network) that, according to the January issue of Hakusensha's LaLa magazine, Matsuri Hino's shojo manga Vampire Knight is being adapted into an anime series.  The announcement did not include any information about the cast, the staff/studio, or the potential broadcast date of the Vampire Knight anime series.

Viz Media published the first volume of the Vampire Knight manga series in the U.S. last January, and the high school/vampire/romance has become the most popular new manga introduction of 2007.  Vampire Knight is ranked as the seventh most popular manga property in the latest ICv2 'Top 50 Manga Properties' list, which will be included in the ICv2 Guide #50: Anime/Manga, which will be released at the New York Anime Festival in early December.  While there is no guarantee that any anime series (and especially one based on a shojo property) will get a U.S. release these days, the popularity of the Vampire Knight manga series does augur well for the potential release of the anime version.

Vampire Knight takes place at a very special school, the Cross Academy, which holds both regular daytime classes and special night classes for an elite group of students, who just happen to be vampires.  Hino's saga not only features stylish 'Gothic shojo' artwork; she has come up with an interesting take on vampirism, which like the variations on the vampire mythos employed in Blood+, breathe new life into an old genre.