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Published: Monday, March 15th, 2010

VIZ Launches a Bustling Anime Hub

Put on your favorite weird anime face, grab a friend, and pop a squat before VIZ Media’s new VIZAnime.com—the latest in wretched hives of inappropriate prep school scum and sweat-drop villainy. Before you scamper away and leave a huge, dramatic dust cloud in your wake, remember that this anime goodness will happily hog your internet without costing you a cent.

Feast your eyes on over 400 episodes of several popular confirmed shows, which have snuggled into their new home: Bleach, Buso Renkin (new), Death Note (complete series), Hikaru No Go (new), Honey and Clover, Inuyasha (complete series) and Inuyasha: The Final Act, Nana, Naruto (complete series), Naruto Shippuden, and The Prince of Tennis (new). With new episodes set to appear fresh each week, and additional content and features scheduled, VIZ is clearly trying to bump furry-eared heads with fellow stream-ready communities such as Hulu.

Additionally, users can “follow” shows and click to be notified about upcoming episodes, rate videos, share their own profile page, and even message other fans.

“We’re committed to developing VIZ Anime as a premiere online destination, and hope to offer a real community for VIZ Media fans to interact with each other and share their love of anime,” announced Ken Sasaki, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VIZ Media. “We will also utilize the site as a means of two-way communication to better understand what our fans enjoy most and want, and how they engage with anime and manga online. With a lot of content to select from, VIZ Anime will become a favorite site to visit again and again!”

Once you contract Shin Chan, it might do just that, Ken.

Will you pour hours of your time into VIZAnime?

Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Review: Biomega Vol. 1

I enjoy manga/anime more than I like to admit, that’s for sure, and Biomega currently tops my Japan-themed list. Okay, I’m also a sucker for science fiction … and horror … and pretty pictures, although there are some gritty ones in this  volume.

Tsutomu Nihei concocts a mind-bending new sci-fi horror that envisions humanity’s desperate future. In the hands of new wave idealists, a bleak outer space virus slashes through Earth’s landscape and corrupts healthy human beings, mutating them into zombie-like “drones” that meander hungrily and follow an unspoken code. Biomega propels readers into a dark age full of government conspiracy and media-driven health crises, and the further we explore, the more terrifyingly real and all too possible the world becomes.

Read the whole review at OneMetal.