Hanamaru Kindergarten (TV)

Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Demon City Hunter
A bloody, brutal demon slayin' manga from the guy behind Demon City Shinjuku slithers out of Jason's vault! 2010-09-02

The X Button - System Wars
Game consoles become anime women, Kingdom Hearts becomes more complicated, Yakuza becomes more vicious, Bangai-O comes back, and something called Zill O'll comes our way, all this week! 2010-09-01

Anime News Nina! - 2010-09-01
"Don't you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents." 2010-09-01

Brain Diving - Short Term Memory
Brian Ruh's column launches! An exploration of all the heady things about anime and manga, this week Brian takes a look at Ghost In The Shell: The Lost Memory. 2010-08-31

Now Streaming: d.Gray-Man 1-26 sub, 1-2 dub
Meet teenaged exorcist Allen Walker. His job is to stop the akuma, the evolving machines created by the Millennium Earl to kill all humans. To stop them he will use... THE CLAW!! Here's 1-26 subtitled and 1-2 dubbed. [discuss] 2010-08-31

Now Streaming: Best Student Council 1-26 dub/sub
An all-powerful student council at an all-girls school... Sounds familiar, except there's no French words and one constantly-attached hand puppet. Here's the whole thing dubbed and subbed!
Also new today:
Claymore 1-4 dub
[discuss] 2010-08-31

RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - Library War And Peace
What's up with 20th Century Boys these days? Find out in this column! Library Wars and Slam Dunk also remind us about standing up and fighting for what's right ... in totally different ways. 2010-08-31

Shelf Life - Junjo Come Here
Erin gets angry about post-apocalyptic tropes, and warns of killer robots.
- Brighter than the Dawning Blue ep. 7-12
- Casshern Sins pt 1
- Junjo Romantica
2010-08-30

The Mike Toole Show - Bein' a Hata
Mike's back with a journey through the works of Masami Hata, the man behind Sea Prince and the Fire Child. 2010-08-29

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Blu-ray Part 2 BLURAY
With this set of episodes Brotherhood forges ahead down a completely different track from the first series. New characters, redefinitions of old characters, and spectacular action sequences are all highlights in material which goes to greater extremes of silliness and graphic content.

My Bride Is a Mermaid: Season 1 DVD Part 2
Part II does drop the ball on occasion, but it makes up for its lapses with an onslaught of parodies and sight gags that reaches heights not dreamt of in Part I.

Seiho Boys' High School GN 1
While the initial BL-vibes are only just that, there're only so many blushing peer-invested boys you can ignore in an all boys' dormitory before your minds start thinking something's up. Then again what's a little arousing shampoo sniff between guy friends? It's all about the women here anyway.

Shigofumi - Letters from the Departed DVD
Supernatural mail carriers deliver messages to the living from beyond the grave, with widely mixed results, in this 2008 offering from J.C. Staff. Despite some moe trappings, the surprisingly involved storytelling offers biting social commentary as it explores some very dark territory.

Drunken Dream and Other Stories GN
A Drunken Dream may not float everyone's boat, a substance over style menagerie of ideas and life, but those who take the time to explore it should not be disappointed by the experience.

House of Five Leaves Episodes 1-12 Streaming
Deliberately unconventional and even alienating at times, Five Leaves doesn't forget that it must also entertain. It just does so without pandering or compromising.

Vampire Knight DVD 1
Perverse, overwrought, and executed to near perfection, this adaptation of Matsuri Hino's vampire melodrama qualifies as one of anime's great guilty pleasures. Both in guilt, and pleasure.

Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky ep 1-6
Though this catgirls-from-space series gives every outward indication of being just another Magical Girlfriend/Harem series, its cleverness, subversion of genre conventions, and willingness to push its genre's envelope help make it one of 2010's biggest and most pleasant surprises.

The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya (Novel)
It hops, skips and jumps through a number of familiar genres ... Yet each tale comes with its own physics-defying twist, the kind only Nagaru Tanigawa can dream up. In short, Haruhi's boredom is anything but.

Initial D: Stage 4 DVD Part 2
In case you missed it somehow during the first half, part two of Initial D's Fourth Stage broadcasts its message loud and clear: If you aren't here for the racing, then you may as well not be here at all.

Kaze No Stigma DVD
The first half of this series about a cool and cocky wind magic-user and his temperamental fire magic-user cousin is hardly awful but definitely does not stand amongst the better recent efforts of its type. Weak writing and overripe characterizations eventually cause what little early promise it has to wither.