HellGirl (Cancelled Hellboy anime 2014-2016)

hellGirl was a planned anime adaptation of the dark horse comics of the same name, studio trigger and the team behind kill la kill it have worked on the series with the creator of Hellboy come back as one of the writers

History
around 2009 After the cancellation of hellboy 3 and a third Hellboy animated movie, Guillermo del Toro tried another attempt of making another animated Hellboy show, he was approached by studio trigger to make a Hellboy anime with the title character being female this time, the show would of had Mike mignola come on board as writer and artist, Japanese illustrator rariatto was brought on to also come up with character designs for the characters, hellboys partner Abe was also suggested to be female to and renamed Abigail, there was also talks about having liz be male but was scrapped early on.

Ami koshimizu would have voiced the title character while aya Suzaki would voice Abigail and ryoka yuzuki would voice Liz Sherman.

Not much is known is test footage was created but some concept art has surfaced online.

The anime was planned to have 26 episodes of the first season and would have been rated tv-MA, Liz and Hellgirl were also planned to be a couple in the second or third season.

Scripts for the first 13 episodes were written and there was plans to do a Video game the in, however the anime was cancelled  around 2013 in favor of Hellboy 2019

Cast/voice actors
Ami koshimizu as Hellgirl

Aya Suzaki as Abigail

ryoka yuzuki as Liz Sherman

Tetsu inada as Grigori Rasputin