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The Japanese band Indigo la End is a bit hard to categorize; Alt, Rock, and Pop, they do it all. The first track is Images Do Not Appear On The Eyes from their first Warner Music single in 2014, the second is Nameless Happy Ending from their Space Shower Records days in 2013, the 3rd is Sweet Spider, also from the Space Shower era, circa 2012 or so. They have more recent tracks, but some of them are a bit overproduced, so I had to go with a few of the classics.

Funimation is bringing the Psycho-Pass Movie to US theaters on March 15th and 16th. The Sibyl System uses extensive surveillance and biological monitoring to determine who is likely to commit a crime. When they find one the police remove potential criminals from the population before they become a problem. But some are bypassing the system and attacking without warning, and Inspector Akane Tsunemori is tasked with bringing them to justice. Normally a movie like this would be a stand-alone taking place in the same universe as the anime TV series, with the same characters in a separate story, but not in this case. This is actually the culmination of the TV series, bringing the story to its end. If you have been following the series from the beginning, this is your chance to see the conclusion on the big screen. If you haven’t been watching it until now, you have time to see the entire series before the theatrical presentation; you can catch it on Funimation or Hulu.

As previously mentioned, also in March The Boy and the Beast will be brought to American theaters by Funimation. That one will be at the beginning of the month, on March 4th, and I am including the new US trailer for it. This being Monday I would normally be talking about what will be hitting the theaters this week, but sadly the answer is Nothing. If you missed Deadpool last week this would be a good time to see it.

There isn’t much out this week. In Movies Steve Jobs hits the shelves, and will hopefully recover some of the money it lost in the theaters. It was a bit too cerebral for audiences raised on a diet of explosions, car chases, and sex scenes, and it didn’t have a mega-star playing the title role, so it never got the traction it deserved on the big screen. I didn’t see anything for western TV, which makes me think I may be missing something.

Anime has Space Brothers 7 with episodes 76 through 87; there should just be one more collection to finish the tale of the sibling astronauts. Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2Wei! has Illya going head to head against her evil magical clone in a 10 episode series that follows up the previous season. Finally, Bleach Movies: The Unforgiven Double Feature are the 3rd and 4th Bleach movies, packaged together and released at a discount.

Released last week, Flumpool‘s new CD includes the theme song for the TV and Movie series Ajin: Demi-Human, Yoru Wa Nemurerukai? (Can You Sleep At Night?), which is the first track here. The Anime series itself just started airing in January, and runs for 13 episodes. This song was also the OP for the trilogy of movies of the same franchise; the first hit theaters in Japan in November, the second should be out roughly in May. According to Cruncyroll it will be streaming in North America on Netflix soon, but as of yesterday I wasn’t finding it.

The second track is their 2012 single Because… I am, and the third is Awakening Identity, which was posted online in April of 2015. I am not sure when it was actually released, as this was posted in support of their album The Best 2008-2014. The band also has a nice collection of ballads, but I tend to prefer music with a pulse, so I posted the ones I liked.