Hey, c’mon, let’s fight!

Okay, I don’t have it myself, but a LOT of people at HJU do. We’ll soldier up another time for HALO action, but this Saturday at 5pm Central time, it’s time to choose your favorite fighter and throw down in some Brawl!

Check out Vash’s Thread for details and the friend codes of those that plan to rock.

Tauted as the spiritual successor of Evangelion, Gundam, Macross, and Jesus the Almighty, IGN.Com serves us all up a free episode of Aquarion. Super robot action for the masses.

Enjoy and enjoy the weekend!

This Week’s Releases…

MARVEL

AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #10
“KILLED IN ACTION” Part 3 of 4
For some time you’ve known the secret of the Scarlet Spiders. Now here’s what happens when Cloud 9 finds out! Just how will the Initiative’s resident headcase react to Michael, Van, and Patrick? And if that wasn’t bad enough, just wait till you see what happens to another of our longstanding cadets! More death! More mayhem! No mercy!

MIGHTY AVENGERS #10
Iron Man and the Sentry are stuck in the past with none other than Doctor Doom. Any interaction with anything or anyone could jeopardize the future of the Marvel Universe! Can Tony Stark trust Victor Von Doom to help get them back to the present before the Sentry has a complete meltdown? Guest starring the Fantastic Four’s ever-lovin’ blue-eyed Thing!

NEW AVENGERS #39
The Secret Invasion is here! Award-winning artist David Mack brings his amazing talent to NEW AVENGERS to illustrate a major story in the life of Echo! Have the Skrulls infiltrated the Avengers? Is Maya Lopez the only one with proof? Will she live to tell the tale? All this and a major Avengers hook up!

ULTIMATES 3 #4
The Story: Who rules the Savage Land? Who could possibly challenge Magneto’s authority? How about the Ultimates with special guest Wolverine! Plus: back in NYC, the Wasp makes a discovery that will change everything! The most-talked-about series from superstars Jeph Loeb, Joe Madureira and Christian Lichtner charges toward Ultimatum!

X-FACTOR #29
How can X-Factor be the defenders of Mutant Town when their little piece of the world is hemorrhaging its population? Combine that with Rahne already being gone and Rictor having one foot out the door, and Madrox’s team finds itself at its lowest point. Unfortunately, since they’re the last mutant team standing and the only game in town, that puts them squarely in the crosshairs of one of the X-Men’s oldest and deadliest foes.

DC

WONDER WOMAN #18
Comics superstar Bernard Chang joins Gail Simone for a 2-part story that will take Wonder Woman to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, but not before the vicious alien race the Khund begin an assault on Earth! But before the invasion can begin, the relationship of Wonder Woman and Nemesis takes a defining turn.

This Week’s Releases…

SOUL: THE DRAGON CASTLE IS IN ANGER
Airs March 16th 2008.

1986. Despite being under Yuri’s watch, yet another regular customer of the Cafe Mal D’amour disappears. It turns out Jiro is transforming into Garuru and attacking them but both Yuri and Otoya don’t even imagine it. Still, Yuri keeps watch on Jiro, who detects a suspicious scent in the air and tells Yuri she’s the one being targeted…

2007. Wataru keeps working in the restaurant of Count Kenshi/Prawn Fangire, but he still can’t find not even a slightly suspicious thing. While reporting this to Nago, Megumi appears and, as always, starts complaining about everything to do with Nago.
Wondering why Megumi dislikes Nago so much, he gathers the courage to ask her, and Megumi reveals an unexpected secret of Nago. What this secret could be?

GP05 - OCCASIONAL MOM?!
Airs March 16th 2008.

Hanto is working part time in a crepe place where he is very popular among girls. But the Savage Machine Beast, JishakuBanki appears in the city, trying to destroy it with magnetism. The Go-ongers arrive to confronting but Hanto is having so much fun at work that he arrives late at the scene. On top of that, Sousuke gets furious at Hanto as he doesn’t seem to be sorry at all. Ren then decides to talk to Hanto, who lies saying that he’s working for the team. Ren believes these words but…

Rito “Tyler” Rivolto of RangerCast fame scored himself an exclusive interview with Valerie Vernon who played Kendrix in one of Power Ranger’s greatest all time series, Lost Galaxy. Click here to check out what she’s been up to and what her path was to becoming a Power Ranger.

Kendrix’s Last Stand

Most of you may have know this, but I thought this rumor had been debunked. I just heard it today while listening to the R5 Central Podcast that the Den-O/Kiva movie is a reality! Sucks that I didn’t really dig on Den-O, but I know a lot of people did. It also breaks my heart that the one Kamen Rider Series that stands above all others, Kamen Rider Kabuto didn’t get the same kind of love.

Ah well, congrats to the Den-O fans and let’s hope this becomes a new Rider tradition. Click the above picture to check out the Kamen Rider Den-O vs. Kamen Rider Kiva trailer, and Wake Up to the Climax!

Official Website:
http://www.den-kiva.jp/

This Week:
Two years ago, a hot blooded youth from the future and his Cyber Assistant started a Japanese Pop Culture podcast that has since evolved into a Giant Flaming Katamari of Epic Chaos ™. This week, Mike, Sylene, and Mai celebrate 50 episodes of the continued run of the GFKoEC that is R5 Central with this Mega Episode to shatter the heavens. So massive, in fact, that it has to be split up into THREE episodes!

Featured in this portion: a follow up review of Sukeban Deka: Codename Asamiya Saki with Erin and Noah from Ninja Consultant, news of a possible Godman sequel, and Daryl Surat. Need I say more on that subject?

Click the pic to check out Part 1 of the Epic 50th Episode of R5 Central!

EDIT: He might also want to mention news regarding THE NEW KAMEN RIDER DEN-O vs KIVA MOVIE!!!!

HYMN: THE THREE STAR FULL COURSE OF DARKNESS
Airs March 9th 2008.

2008. Customers of a famous restaurant have been desappearing. Feeling there is something behind this, Shima sends Nago and Megumi to investigate. Megumi decides to go to that restaurant with Wataru. Mistaking this as a date, Wataru is happy, but Nago appears and tells his disciple Wataru to do something, which is…

1986. Regular customers of the Cafe Mal D’amour have been desappearing. Having heard this from the Shima, Yuri decides to watch the most recent regular, Jiro. However Otoya appears again to interfere in Yuri’s work…

What’s the link between this disappearances in 2008 and 1986?!

GP04 : ENJIN TROUBLE
Airs March 9th 2008.

Enjins Gunpherd and Birca have arrived to the Human World. Hanto and Gunpei are happy to finally meet their partners and immediately start looking for them. Gunpei manages to find Gunpherd’s Enjin Soul but the Enjin Cast is nowhere to be found. It seems a kid has taken it. Meanwhile the Savage Machine Beast SprayBanki steals Birca’s Enjin Cast from Hanto and…