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.

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.

Snap Judgment: Summer 2010
By Josh Dunham

Digimon Xros Wars
Toei wants you to buy more toys. So to rectify this, they send three elementary school children to the digital world to fight digital monsters (digimon) several million times their size. But it’s all good because they have X-Loaders, (this season’s version of a digivice) and digimon companions.

Initial Thoughts: Being a Digimon fan since I was a kid, the opportunity of a new show was too much to pass up. I’m going to say it up front in case you haven’t caught on, Xros Wars is a money grab to make little children buy merchandise. But even at that, this show kicks gigabytes of ass!

Heads UP! – July 2010
Summer time! The weather is the best it’s going to be all year, not to mention a new season of anime is on the way. What a paradox, you’ll want to be outside, but you’ll want to also be watching cartoons. Better pick the latter, it’s safer.