Looks like this is it, gang. Due to low numbers, low interest, and the upcoming influx of Fall TV, the Adult Swim Saturday coverage is closing down—most likely for good. I can't say I'm...

Bad news, everyone: no Death Note rerun this week, and going by the schedule, it looks like the show may be off the regular roster for a...

After all the exposition and flashbacking of "74", "Episode 75" of Bleach switches gears with a solid action sequence between Yoshino and one of Kariya's Bounts, a big guy named Koga. When Yoshino...

"Episode 74" of Bleach is light on action, and apart from a couple of brief scenes, it's light on its main hero. During the confrontation with Han and Bo, Uryu, ashamed at...

There's water, water everywhere in "Episode 73" of Bleach. Ichigo and Renji meet Uryu and the others outside the hospital after seemingly losing the Bount twins Ho and Ban, but the situation keeps getting worse...

I've been a bit hard on Bleach these past few weeks. Partly because I have a lot of hate in my heart, but mostly because it's a series with a lot of potential—a...

A moment of silence, please. Death Note is dead. Long live Death Note. Although it's still dead. So that doesn't really work.

On a series with the sort of tension that Note excelled at—screw-turning,...

"Episode 70" of Bleach opens with a quick recap. Thank goodness, really, there's been so much plot to bring everybody up to speed on. What with the previous threat ending up a thoroughly pointless training mission, and...

Oh "Episode 69" of Bleach. I wanted to enjoy you. Truly, I did. I—I know we've had our problems in the past. I know there have been some words, and that most of them were mine; "filler"...

A commenter last week asked me what I liked about Code Geass, and while I did my best to answer then, I've been thinking about it since; more to the point, I've been thinking about anime in general, what I hope to get out...

Of the four shows in the anime block, three have males of roughly the same age. But while Ichigo of Bleach is a largely re-active hero, working to fix problems and rescue his friends, Lelouch of Code Geass and Light of Death Note are both pro-active, trying to undermine the status quo from the bottom up. Both have special abilities to help them achieve their goals, and...

It was discussed in last week's comments that the current Bleach arc is basically filler, created to stall for time so Tite Kubo, writer and illustrator of the manga on which the series is based, could come up with a new storyline. This isn't automatically a bad thing; a new creative voice on a series can offer a different perspective, and take familiar characters in new...

Good news, everyone! Bowing to the will of the republic, The A.V. Club Watches Adult Swim Because I Don't Leave The House On Weekends has been split into two easy to swallow entries, Saturday Night Action Etc. and Sunday Night...