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There doesn’t seem to be anything I have been waiting for this week. I suppose Left Behind could be interesting, in an end-of-the-world sort of way, and it does have Nicolas Cage, so there should be some good over the top moments. For the younger set The Hero of Color City has a diverse group of animated crayons fighting for the imagination of children everywhere. It does have quite an impressive collection of voice actors, but somehow I suspect I will be doing something else for the weekend.

In movies Transformers: Age of Extinction is for the serious action junky, as any one who has seen the previous films in this franchise can attest. For myself, my must-have entry in this category is Space Station 76; anything that gets proclaimed the best science fiction comedy since Galaxy Quest has to be a keeper.

Our only genre entry in TV is Beware the Batman: Dark Justice – Season 1 Part 2, another animated adventure.

In Anime Psychic Detective Yakumo: Complete Collection is abut a girl with a number of possessed friends and a guy who can communicate with the dead. They team up to try to bring some peace, or at least control, to their school. Zombie-Loan: Complete Collection is about a girl who can see death coming, in the form of black rings around peoples necks. When she sees the rings on two of her classmates she warns them of their danger, but it turns out they have the rings because they kill zombies to pay off a loan. When they learn of her abilities, they try to use her to increase their profit margin.

We also get the continuation of a few favorites in the form of Bleach: Season 22 with episodes 304-316, and two from the Luffy franchise, One Piece: Season 6 Part 1 with episodes 337-348, and One Piece: Film Z, a feature length program. I should also mention that Steins;Gate: Complete Series is coming out in an Anime Classics version, which means you can pick up this twisty time travel tale fairly cheap.

Panda Hero was going to be my first attempt to embed something from Nico Nico. Then I discovered on testing that you can only see the embedded video if you are currently logged into Nico Nico. So instead, another excellent live set from KEXP, this time featuring the band Rose Windows. KEXP is public radio out of the west coast, and they play some of the best music around. You can listen to them from anywhere through the internet, and if you like what you hear you should consider supporting them.

It won’t be in theaters until February, but Jupiter Ascending has already released it’s third trailer, and the best of the bunch in my opinion. This epic space opera is another project by the Wachowskis, and looks to be somewhere between Star Wars and Dune as far as I can tell. When you see this in the theater, keep your eyes open for a short scene done by Terry Gilliam, which is a homage to his movie Brazil according to the entry in Wikipedia. After watching all the trailers, I am pretty sure I am going to have to see this movie in 3D.