That's what I thought too… I remember reading about "Turn On" in The Book of Lists as a kid, topping the list of the shortest-lived TV shows of all time.

It would be a really nice choice for Summer TV Club coverage. Sci-fi geeks do not live by Doctor Who alone.

How has this post been up for half a day, and no one has yet posted a link to Attack On Christopher Walken?

Spice & Wolf seems to have a lot of stealth fans. It's nobody's favorite anime, but seemingly everyone who's seen it likes it.

Yep. Liking the dub, hoping the normals discover this show. Most approachable yet satisfying anime Japan has sent over in a while.

Which in turn means he imagines his rival Yukiatsu to be a crossdresser. This theory is awesome.

I inadvertently got not one, but two of my app.net friends to watch the tear-jerker anime Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. So if anyone needed drought relief, you're welcome.

Traveling to/from an iOS developer conference, so on the way out, I checked out last week's 99-cent iTunes rental, In A World. Very funny stuff, if maybe just a bit calculated to scratch the various indie movie itches. Still, I'm really looking forward to see what Lake Bell does next (and I was impressed by the…

I like the sappy Twilight Zones, so "A Message from Charity" was right up my alley. Surprising thing seeing it again is that the modern-day boy was played by Robert Duncan McNeill, who went on to play Tom Paris in Star Trek Voyager

Can we make an analogy here to Cosmos? That's a total outlier, probably not doing much ratings-wise, and the only reason it's taking up a precious hour on Sunday can be summed up in two words: Seth MacFarlane. Prestige? Great. But don't plan on ever seeing something like this actually get made unless it's to appease…

I'm still floored at the thought of Clifford Odets, playwright of Waiting For Lefty, writing for a television program. Thanks for this.

The scene that taught anime viewers the term "problematic".

And it also creates a fascinating distortion of what even gets made, because it only takes a few thousand dedicated buyers to completely fund a show. So a production committee puts up the money to scratch the itch of some hitherto-unknown kink — say, saliva fetishists — and bang, we get Mysterious Girlfriend X.

Should have mentioned this sooner: Brian Ruh just released a second edition of Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamuro Oshii, which adds coverage of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, among other works. Also, Ruh spoke about Oshii on last week's Anime News Network podcast

If you're happy with your DVD, then I assume you got the $80 Geneon release that looks really good (and came with a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD), and not the earlier release from Manga that was mastered from an interlaced LD, but set to progressive, which thus blurs almost all the motion.

Royal Space Force (aka The Wings of Honneamise) just got a re-release last year, and that's an essential sci-fi anime film if you haven't had a chance to see it (quite likely, as its previous DVD releases were disastrous).

It seems like back in the 60's and 70's, most cities had a "Captain 11" type show, locally produced (back when local stations did any local production other than news), and largely existing as an introduction to old theatrical cartoon shorts from various sources. In Detroit, we had "Oopsy the Clown", and we could pick…

I probably shouldn't even give One Week Friends a chance, given how many other amnesia-themed anime shows I've already seen over the years: ef: A Tale of Memories, Rumbling Hearts, and last season's utter train-wreck, Golden Time. OWF is definitely my bubble show at this point.

So far my Spring anime list is The World Is Still Beautiful, One Week Friends, and Mekakucity Actors. (Hey look, once again you and I have no shows in common!) However, none of these shows has proven to be a keeper yet, and I'm itching to drop at least one to free up room for my catch-up shows Nagi No Asukara, Kill La…

And for anyone just following along and doesn't know what we're talking about, the premise of Girls Und Panzer is that it's an alternate reality where live-ammunition tank combat is a high school sport, practiced exclusively by girls. That's right, tanks == field hockey. And from there it's played utterly straight as…