question, what are you willing to lose in order to gain? The manga has been running consistently since 2005 and a new season of the anime, which airs Saturday's on Adult Swim, will commence in Japan in April.

Fan video for The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello featuring "Black Day" by Abney Park.The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper MorelloIn Gothia, a city that brings to mind scenes from Industrial Revolution novels, a mysterious, virulent disease that seems like a cross between tuberculosis and a staph infection has destroyed the population. Jasper Morello, a navigator whose spiky hair and buckle boots give him a goth club aura, embarks on a mission wherein they stumble upon a cure for "the sickness." Nominated for an Academy Award in 2005, The MysteriousGeographic Explorations of Jasper Morello utilizes silhouette animation to stunning effect. The short film is only available on DVD in Australia and New Zealand, but anyone can watch it in the YouTube Screening Room. According to the film's website, this is the first in a series of animated adventures for Jasper Morello.

Steamboy fan videoSteamboyIn an alternate version of Victorian Manchester, Ray Steam is a factory boy by day, steam-powered inventor by night. After receiving a package from his grandfather containing a "steam ball," the young boy is pursued to London, where he encounters his father and becomes entangled in a sinister scientific plan. Like Fullmetal Alchemist, Steamboy is as philosophical as it is fantastical as Ray Steam wrangles with the ethics of invention.Steamboy was directed and co-written by