This review of The Skullman by CJ Hitchcock was originally made for the Bonus Round. We've decided to give a lot of our reviews a first run on the website before distributing it to all of our listeners in our podcast feed. The Bonus Round will serve as a base for both original conversation and discussion as well as a compilation of our best site reviews. With that said, The Skullman series was licensed by Sentai Filmworks and distributed by Section 23 Films. It's a Bones production directed by Takeshi Mori of Vandread and Otaku No Video fame. If you would like to become an audio producer for anime3000.com, feel free to contact us.

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Josh Dunham gives us a monthly cheat sheet of what anime fans can expect for the month of September. This use to be written, but is now in audio form to go along with our new media initiative. Make sure you also check out our latest addition to the A3K Network, the Animeshon Podcast, which is also produced by Josh Dunham.

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Bloody Kiss and the Vampire Trend!
Review by: Jd Banks
Created by: Kazuko Furumiya
Published by: Tokyopop

The first installment of Bloody Kiss is one manga fit for the Twihards and the Vampire Knight cosplayers who aren't tired of bloodsuckers and half-baked romances. It begs the question; do manga creators just decide that no matter how overdone a vampire story is, they should add to the fire simply to make sales?

It's no secret that the vampire mythos can sell. Among the uprising of TV shows and movies boasting vampire stories, anime and manga have followed the trend with the same aggression. Unfortunately, the focus on selling drowns out the opportunity for releases to acquire any sort of legacy. Add a comment

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Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie is an excellent sci-fi epic adventure that follows the great space cruiser, Yamato, as it engages on a long journey.

As soon as the movie started playing, I was reminded of Star Wars (1977). I originally got into anime because I was looking for good sci-fi and Space Battleship Yamato: The Movie delivered on all points.  It has engaging action with likable characters and plenty of gadgets, rockets, and spacecraft dogfights to please most sci-fi fans out there.  This movie is worth checking out before the live action Space Battleship comes out in Japan later this year.

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Heads UP! – August 2010
Welcome back to a slightly belated issue of Heads UP! Each month we bring you a list of events you can expect to see both on our site and in the world-wide blogosphere. Some of these events includes news about a Dir en Grey American tour, Crayon Shin-chan’s return, Dirty Pair and Fullmetal Alchemist.

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Support Anime3000.com in a Variety of Ways.
There are several ways you can support Anime3000.com. We want to provide a variety of content that showcases the talent of the anime and manga community. In order to keep doing this, we need the support of our visitors. This can come in the form of donations, content submission, iPhone app purchasing or sponsorships.

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Men Who Shove the M out of Manime
By Josh Dunham

For those of you who read my ‘Guys who Shove the M in Manime’, I’m sure I told you nothing that you didn’t already know. Yes we know that Kenshiro is manly, and yes Char is the best ‘villain’ in Gundam… ever! “We already knew that”, you say? Well, this time I’m going to pick some guys who are anything but manly. Add a comment

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Weekly Podcast Review:
The Silicon Chickens Project Podcast (Also available on iTunes). This unique, original story-based podcast is the brainchild of Paul Chapman (he of The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast fame). Paul has always struck me as an intelligent and introspective guy with tastes similar to my own and a vast knowledge of literature, film, and generally speaking, good stories. Chapman's original project, Silicon Chickens, is an ongoing series of podcasts featuring his original literary work. Chapman is also well-known podcaster and an occasional contributor to the anime magazine Otaku USA.
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