After last week’s bonanza, the pickings are slimmer this time around, though geek viewers will love the latest season of Robot Chicken, and should relish a chance to discover the Jack Kirby touches in the Ruby-Spears animated series The Centurians, to say nothing of the humorous delights of the often brilliant vampire parody What We Do in the Shadows, and the old school Hong Kong martial arts vibe of Kung Fu Killer.

TV on DVD

This week’s top Geek-centric release is Robot Chicken: Season 7 (Warner Bros., 280 min., $24.98), which collects all 20 Season 7 episodes of the Adult Swim stop-motion animated series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich that has won three Emmy Awards for its spot-on parodies of pop culture phenomena.

A little more obscure, but perhaps even more precious to comic book fans is The Centurians: Part 1 (Warner Bros., 632 min., $35.99), which collects the first half of the 1980s animated science fiction series from Ruby-Spears, which features character designs and concepts created by comic book legends Jack Kirby and Gil Kane.  Back in the day The Centurians cartoon series supported a line of toys from Kenner, and comic books from DC Comics, but today the project is lucky to come out in the less-than-optimal DVD-R format, though hardcore fans of Kirby and Kane and students of 80s pop culture will want to check this series out.

Otherwise is slim pickings in the TV category this week unless you are a fan of 1980s miniseries like the ecologically-prescient The Fire Next Time: The Complete Miniseries (Mill Creek, 195 min., $9.98), in which a family led by Craig T. Nelson tries to survive some serious climate changes, or the Cliff Robertson-starring 1987 biopic Ford: The Man and the Machine—The Complete Miniseries (Mill Creek, 205 min., $9.98), or the martial arts-infused Son of the Dragon: The Complete Miniseries (Mill Creek, 178 min., $9.98), or the political/biological warfare thriller The Summit: The Complete Miniseries (Mill Creek, 179 min., $9.98).

The only other major release this week is Looking: The Complete Second Season (HBO, $29.98), the series that presents an unfiltered look at the lives of three gay men in present day San Francisco.

Theatrical Movies

No movie released this week earned more than $3.3 million, but that doesn’t mean there are some cinematic delights for geek movie fans dropping on Tuesday.  Those who love martial arts movies will find much to like in Kung Fu Killer (Well Go USA, “Not Rated,” 100 min., $24.98, BD $29.98), which stars Donnie Yen in a combination police procedural and martial arts movie that pays homage to the classic Hong Kong action films of the 20th Century.

Kung Fu Killer is a good enough genre film to earn a solid 69% positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, but that pales in comparison to the 96% positive rating for What We Do in the Shadows (Paramount, “R,” 85 min., $29.99, BD $39.99), a wonderful horror comedy about four vampire roommates created by Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement, who also created the hit HBO series Flight of the Conchords.  If you are sick to death of romantic vampires a la Twilight, then What We Do in the Shadows is the perfect antidote.

For art movie fans this week’s top offering is Tangerines (First Run, “Not Rated,” 87 min., $27.95), a 2013 Estonian antiwar film about the 1990s conflict between the former Soviet Republics of Georgia and Abkhazia.  Two Estonian, who have established a tangerine orchard in Georgia, are caught in the middle of the fighting between Georgians and Abkhazians.  When they take in a wounded fighter from each side, this film becomes an interesting study of the nature of conflict and resolution.

Fans of the rock band Kiss might want to own Scooby Doo and Kiss: A Rock & Roll Mystery (Turner, 78 min., $19.98, BD $24.98), an animated movie that is really geared toward pleasing Kiss fans with lots of inside jokes and semi-hidden references to the band’s repertoire of ersatz rock-and-roll anthems.

Anime

This week’s top release is the Soul Eater Not! Complete Collection (Funimation, 300 min., BD/DVD Combo $64.98, Ltd. Ed. $69.98), a moe-influenced prequel 2014 anime series created by Bones that is based on the spin-off manga created by Atsushi Okubo, who is also responsible for the original Soul Eater manga.  Those who like the original Soul Eater anime, may find Soul Eater Not!, which was simulcast by Funimation, a little too cutesy, though those who like moe characters will find lots to enjoy here.

Also new this week are BlazBlue Alter Memory (Funimation, 300 min., BD/DVD Combo $64.98), which collects the 2013 anime from teamKG that is based on the video games BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, and Tokyo Ravens, Part 2 (Funimation, 300 min., BD/DVD Combo $64.98), which collects the second half of the 24-episode 2013-2014 anime from 8-Bit that is based on a series of fantasy/action/adventure romance light novels written by Kohei Azano.

The plot of the Guardian Ninja Mamoru: Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, 300 min., Subtitles Only, DVD $49.98) revolves around the attempts of a teenage ninja to safeguard the daughter of a family that his ninja clan has been guarding for centuries.

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