As anime likes to do from time to time, this is a period in the Rouroni Kenshin TV timeline, just retold from a different perspective. The Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto-Hen OAV will be screened in Japan in December.

There's nothing there. I don't get the censorship.

Girls with guns. School girls in short skirts. Bras. These elements in an anime that give me pause, that make me fearful of trying a new series. I am glad, then, that I gave Aria: The Scarlet Ammo a chance.

There are indeed lots of those typical anime tropes. We have all these girls who want to get close to our main guy, Kinji. Then we have the girl who expresses her attraction to Kinji the least: Aria.

Aria is a loli-looking girl who has fantastic skills in unarmed and armed combat. Kinji, then, is a great partner for her. They meet as Kinji is about to become a victim of the mysterious Butei Killer. When they come together to disarm the killer's automated weapons, we learn what makes Kinji so special. First, he has Hysteria Mode; in simple terms, he goes moe for girls if he gets too close to them. Um, nothing special about that. Secondly, Kinji also has good detective skills, so combining that with his need to protect women, he is the perfect guy to have around in a female dominated anime.

So far, Aria is like Speed if it became a television series. Add a dash of moe and a sprinkle of tsundere, and that is what Aria brings to the table. Even though there is a goofy reveal about Aria during the first arc, at least the show made a nice early impression. Not one for the history books, but maybe an anime that''s fun for the moment.

Maybe I'm an old man, but the CG modeling in this trailer doesn't totally agree with me, and I miss the soundtrack from the original anime! *SIGH*

Still, the latest Berserk trailer looks really cool and I hope this new film series will attract a lot of new eyes to Berserk.

This is the official site. The berserk movies will debut in early 2012.

Enough of that, though. Here's the trailer

Grand Theft Auto 5 's release date has not been released, but some say it'll be out in 2013.

Fuck yeah!

When your Dad's the Devil himself, you've got a lot to live up to. Although it's turned his world upside down, teenager Rin Okumura hasn't let it get to him. He's a half demon who's determined to become a powerful exorcist and, well, check out the screencap above.

Rin is a twin (rhymed!) who got all the cool demon-y power, while his brother is just your basic human. They were brought up by a priest who led them away from evil, but eventually Satan came to collect his son. The concept of someone being the son of the devil is good enough for me to take a ride with an anime, but  an anime also has to have likeable characters and a plot that doesn't make you grind your teeth. Blue Exorcist has funny and interesting characters, ducks a few shounen action cliches, and the animation is above average. Blue Exorcist is not a great anime, but while it still airs, it's a fun supernatural action title to watch from week to week and deserves to be on the air for many seasons to come.

DO YOU LIKE FLAMING AURAS? Of course you do, case closed!! Alright, so maybe not everyone appreciates everything that goes with shounen fighting anime, but for many people across the world, tournaments and supernatural battles were their bread and butter. Shounen Jump knows this very well, and that's why Toriko became a manga, and now an anime.

Toriko has bits and pieces of shounen we know sown on its chest. A muscular hero wearing orange has a big appetite and a great amount of raw fighting power. That describes a hero from at least three anime. Still, Toriko's hook is that it it is more ridiculous and preposterous than any fighting anime running right now.

Toriko takes place not in a post apocalyptic world, but in a world where crazy food oddities are happening. Fruit isn't just being grown on trees, but also pancakes. Rivers are flowing with butter. It's out of some dream that a person starving in the desert would have! On top of great foods just growing everywhere, there are mighty beasts stalking the earth, beasts as big as dinosaurs, stalking the earth. Toriko is one of the mighty Gourmet Hunters who is tough and talented enough to beat these beasts and make a good meal out of him.

What makes Toriko different, besides the culinary theme, is that Toriko is already a powerful guy. He's already legendary, and now he's just on a journey to put together his Full Course Menu. Torkio caters to people who like dumb things. I think shounen anime fans are a base audience for this, but it's awfully silly. If you have to ask "how would that be possible" you wont even make it through one episode of this show.

This screencap hurts. Trust me.

If you went into this anime with no knowledge about this anime, and what the main thrust of the plot was, you would think it was about a plucky teenage girl with a nice personality living her life in the city. That's only a part of the deal. This is a "city gal comes to the country" story, but this story is not just a silly comedy.

Matsumae is a girl with an eccentric Mom. One day her Mom just decides to skip out on her house and leave with her boyfriend. Oh, and she also doesn't want to take Matsumae with her; great parenting. Even though they have a severely estranged relationship with one another, Matsumae's Mom sends her to live with her Mom, the grandmother Matsumae has never met. It gets worse from there.

Matsumae's arrival at her Grandmother's inn doesn't go well. At one point, she's told to "die." What a welcome! Then, at the climax of the first episode, we get the screencap you've already seen. This is a slice of life anime, but what I like about it is that this is not a happy, dull tale. Hanasaku Iroha looks to be more engaging than other anime of its ilk. I don't mind seeing the struggle of a fish out of water. One can only hope that it does not become predictable.

The Avengers? No. Justice League? Uh-uh.

Ahh. Like having an ice-cold soda, watching Tiger and Bunny is very refreshing. Tiger & Bunny not only warms my anime-loving heart, but it gives my Superhero comic-loving self a tickle on top of that. I say this, but I don't think this is a show that has you saying "WOW, where have you been all my life?" by the end of the first episode. It is not a bad first episode in any way, but this is not a stunning classic.

What Tiger & Bunny can be called is a show that you will continually be entertained by, week after week. To do that is not a feat most TV shows can promise. Tiger & Bunny is, at first, the story of Kotetsu Kaburagi, codename Wild Tiger. Wild Tiger is one of the heroes who save Stern Bild City (don't ask me why they named it so strangely), but Wild Tiger is not the type of hero fit for this futuristic world. You see, in this world, superheroes not only save the day, but they also get points for saving people and capturing the bad guys. Imagine if the cards, books, and various character-related paraphernalia we own had a real-life hero attached to it; this is that world.

With the sagging popularity of Wild Tiger, and the fact that Kotetsu is not as young as he used to be,  the corporation he works for is bought up, and Kotetsu gets a partner. Barnaby Brooks (AKA Bunny, as Kotetsu calls him) is not Tiger's sidekick, but with Tiger being older and more experienced, you wonder why he isn't.  Both Tiger and Bunny are given mech suits which give them 5 minutes of super power. This is, ah, a strange point of the show. Why do these guys need super suits when they both have their own super powers? I guess it's to be more durable and strong in battle. Never mind that. Just a nitpick.

What should be focused on are the relationships between all these superheroes. Tiger & Bunny is funny oftentimes, and has moments of seriousness, usually involving Barnaby's quest for justice. There is only so much I can say about Tiger & Bunny in words. Tiger and Bunny is visually impressive, from its CGI superhero models to the regular character designs and the cityscape. Tiger & Bunny is for people who love tokusatsu like Power Rangers, magical girls, American superheroes or just an action-comedy shows. The show is one of my favorite of Spring '11.

Yeah, so, ah, this is Gundam AGE. It's a show, about Gundam. At least it looks that way, at times. The look of this new Gundam is the biggest departure from Gundam's look since G Gundam, maybe? That doesn't even begin to properly describe what is so non-Gundam about this trailer.

The first "issue" is the character design. Even Gundam Unicorn, which had character designs that harken back to the original series, is a better fit for the Gundam universe than this. The characters, namely the boy hero, looks like he was plucked out of some second-rate Pokemon.

If you keep your focus on this boy, you realize that he could probably be the youngest Gundam pilot of any title in the series. How old is this kid, 8? How young is the limit for someone to hop into a bi-pedal fiery war machine?

A smaller "issue" are the enemy units, which look more like creatures than mobile suits. Not too big of a problem, because mecha tend to be treated basically as living beings anyway.

While I can see why this promotional video has twice as many dislikes as it does likes, appears to be trying to reuse elements of the classic Gundam shows while they are also designing it for a youthful audience.

Less panty shots, more of this!

In less than 30 seconds, We Without Wings- under the Innocent Sky went from being interesting to being the same panty-waving drivel I usually ignore.

I don't recall ever come across an anime that is in such a rush to introduce the harem so quickly as this show does. We open on Haneda, a personality-less, lucky-as-hell, unworthy-of-all-this-attention dude, attacked and fawned over on his way to school, even by a girl who is related to him. Although this looks like some kind of trite nonsense, I will give We Without Wings some credit. The bits where we hear the narrator commenting on the story is fun, and there are a few nice visual flourishes, but it still is not enough to keep my attention. Yes, I denounce this anime even though provides me with quick profiles of all its characters.

CHARACTERS

Otori - a cigarette-smoking man unmoved by anything. He seems like

Karube - a man who's slightly older than his mat; bearded

Shusuke- someone who is way too excited about everything

Alice- A foreigner who is learning to speak English. She is QUITE YOUNG.

Hino- she's like Otori's other half. She's a jerk, too, and Otori looks down upon her, just like he looks down upon everyone else.

Narita- An unemployed guy who acts like he has morals, instead of admitting he's broke.

Mochizuki- A girl who works at the Alexander Bar while taking classes at cram school.

Martinez- The token black guy. So if he's in japan, is he a Super Token? At least he speaks better Japanese than Alice does. He sells trinkets on the sidewalk.

There are more character, but these many introductions may be tiring. How many characters are in this thing? There are more characters here than in Durarara!!

Oh yeah, back to Haneda. Haneda talks in flowery language, about his destined lover and nonsense of that sort. He is BO-RING! I would rather watch any of the other characters than this crashing dullard, and I am afraid there will be more of him on the show than their should be. Then there are the gratuitous panty shots. I LOVE sexual content, in anime or in live action, but something as lame as a panty shot is self-censored in this anime, so it's useless pandering. Ah, We Without Wings. I wish you luck, but I think you might deserve to go down the drain.

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Hopefully this error is remedied soon- and that it's not the symptom of ANOTHER attack.

If you're a fan of the Blade movies, then keep your eyes on G4TV this summer. G4 has the rights to show all the Marvel/Madhouse collaborations, which are: Iron Man, X-men, Wolverine and Blade.

The most information you can get is at the official site. It's Japanese, but some of the site is in plain English.

I really hope there's a drunken party minigame.

It's an old title, but I've heard that the conversion to Blu-ray looks good.

This is not a straight-up cameo from Spider-man, though. Since this is a very ero book, the male protaganist has been turned into Papaider-man, who shoots his "liquid" in the most interesting (and unnecessary) of poses. That's sex comedy for you!

I won't even get into the whole premise of this series. Let's just say it's VERY awkward.

I will let my underling, Kaz Hirai, explain it to you

Thank you, Kaz. So if you don't despise PS3 for their blunder, you may get back to gaming life as normal!

As the trailer goes on, I felt like this is what Mirror's Edge 2 would look like. There is some running and jumping in addition to the standard FPS Run N Gun. Enough of my blather, though. Watch this trailer and see what could potentially be a new step in first person shooter warfare.