Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill and Howard Jones' New Song. (Links go to iTunes for handy comparison.)

Some critic I read a while back pointed out that creepy part of Sakura Wars is in the main series (and its anime adaptations) which imagines a 1920's Japan under attack by supernatural evils and not, you know, an imperial Japan that was subjugating half of Asia under its own boot.

Sakura Wars would always be a hard sell in America. A universally adored series in Japan and born on the Sega Saturn…. You're not kidding about the popularity of the series in Japan. There was a Sakura Wars-themed cafe in Ikebukuro that managed to stay in business for a decade. And it's the only videogame I can name…

Depends what genres you like. Anime is so big, it's impossible to like all of it. If you're using Netflix availability as your filter (which cuts things way down because they have so little of it), then for action, you could do Attack on Titan, comedy, The Devil Is A Part-Timer, dark fantasy, Madoka Magica, etc.

Just got back from this; I liked it a lot more than the usual corporate kids' product (last thing I took my daughter to was the soulless Penguins of Madagascar). AV Club review seems more on the mark than the dump being taken on it by other critics, fully half of whom seem to be motivated by getting in one more shot…

OK, went and saw Strange Magic. I don't get the hate this movie is getting on Rotten Tomatoes — its approach is a nice change from of pace for a kids' movie, and my daughter was really into the twists of just who the movie was going to pair up with whom. And yes, the Moulin Rouge reference in the AV Club review is…

Saw The Tale of the Princess Kaguya at the mall theater's indie movie series in my little town. Amazed at the turnout for Saturday's one showing (room sat about 100, and I'd say there were 60-75 people). Mostly adults, but some kids, and how great for them to see something so different from the usual Pixar/Dreamworks…

Will it please you or anger you to know that there is so much anime that is so much better than Deadman Wonderland? Not that it's bad, it's just that there's so much more out there.

The two things that really impressed me in Malificent were Angelina Jolie's performance, and Linda Woolverton's script. How she managed to get that compelling a story out of the corner she was painted into by the nature of the original material, plus doing it under watching eyes of the Mouse House, I can hardly…

But the problem with Howard is that he's not a big-screen kind of character, and I think that's why the bloated George Lucase FX-driven movie served him poorly. Howard's wry, cynical nature might work a lot better on television. The issue where Howard is lured into being the poster child for a bogus charity…

I've long hoped that the next time there's a writers' strike in Hollywood, someone would get the scripts to the 80's UK sci-fi series Blake's 7 and do a modern update (this scenario is how we got a word-for-word remake of Mission: Impossible in the 80's). The world has caught up to the show's wry cynicism… maybe to a…

Having mentioned the Kinks' slide into concept albums and musicals, it's time for our periodic AV Club "what's happening with Bobcat Goldthwait's movie version of Schoolboys in Disgrace?" post.

I feel like they missed the boat not doing weekly coverage of Attack On Titan back when that was such a sensation last year.

That's twice in the last year that AV Club has covered a one-off "anime style" short (see also the Gravity Falls as anime), and still more than it's covered any actual anime.

Since B7 is not legally available, can I assume it at least adequately seeded in the wonderful world of illegal file sharing?

B7 is high on my list of best endings, though my tops are all anime (Madoka Magica and Angel Beats! specifically).

Would love to see this. I love how in the first episode, the Federation convicts Blake not of his revolutionary crimes (which could make him a hero or martyr), but rather on completely bogus charges of child molestation. When I saw a few years back that Western governments were after Wikileaks' Julian Assange not for…

It's also why I think the ending to nu-BSG is such a turd. Ron Moore took four years to show us how shitty the human race is, then had to end with warm fuzzies. Nation and Boucher were united in their cynicsm, and "Blake" is the ultimate statement of that cynicsm.

No more wrong than thinking that Claire (psychotic killer) and Chane (mute assassin with severe daddy issues) make a really cute couple.

IIRC, there was an AV Club article last year about shows that are infamously unavailable in the US, and Blake's 7 was on that list. AFAIK, it has never been available legally in any form here: streaming, DVD, VHS, nothing. So, good on anyone who taped every episode off KTEH's Sunday Night Sci-Fi back in the day…