Getting into anime, let alone keeping up with it, can be quite difficult in the United States — so, in order to make your life easier, I’ve compiled a list of 10, feminist-friendly anime to legally watch on Netflix and Hulu!

I suspect there will be massive celebrations on the internet today. Nickelodeon has made the only obvious decision – they’re producing The Legend of Korra Season 2.

I know we’re all still freaking out about season one of The Legend Of Korra (omgwhenwillseasontwoair) so here’s a Korra-related video to tide you over: it’s an inside look at Studio Mir, the animators responsible for season four of The Boondocks, an animated sequence in Think Like A Man, and of course, our strong-willed Avatar Korra. The studio was launched by Jae Myung Yoo, who was an animation director on Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s kind of nice to see the faces of the folks who have brought one of the most beloved women of color characters in nerd culture to life, isn’t it?

(via Cartoon Brew.)

According to the actor who played Rufio in Hook, there is going to be a prequel to the 1991 movie (which starred Robin Williams as a grown-up amnesiac Peter Pan) that is all about Rufio! Dante Basco told Crave Online that this thing is actually “in development” and will be produced by an independent film company. You know who had an “independent film company”? Me. I made movies with my parents’ old video camera in the 1980s. While I wrote and performed the movie “independently,” my dad “filmed” it, and my mom watched it while keeping me “company.”

The Legend of Korra, the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, premiered this weekend on Nickelodeon. We know you probably have a few strong opinions on it (feel free to share them in our comment section) but today we’re here to clue you into something you may find shocking -The Legend of Korra, featuring a female lead, appeals to boys! In fact, they think Korra is “awesome.” 

The idea that evil is in the blood is an old one. Not quite as old as blood, but probably about as old as the knife. There are many religious philosophers that have put the concept of Original Sin under this heading, as representing “hereditary” evil tendencies in humankind.

So here’s to the fictional characters who didn’t just have abusive childhoods but out right megalomaniacal parents, who in many cases were grooming them so they could later inherit a dominated world… and turned out pretty okay anyway.

Last night the official Legend of Korra fan blog (Korra Nation… like CORONATION, HAHA, get it?) released just a tiny bit of footage from the new series, and dang if it isn’t pretty cute. We’ve seen bending prodigies before in the show, but an Avatar prodigy? The clip also shows off the characteristic, shall we say… confidence that reportedly lies at the heart of Korra’s character strengths and flaws. And why wouldn’t she be a little full of herself? She’s bending three elements at a preschool age!

The Avatar series is known not least for putting its characters though significant personal development, so I can rest easy in enjoying some cute toddler tantrums, knowing we’ll have a balanced and powerful Avatar by the end of the series.

Now that March is nearly upon us — less than 24 hours away, actually — it’s obvious that many of us are excited about The Hunger Games coming to theaters in just about three weeks. But one of the major elements of Suzanne Collins’ trilogy is how exceptionally ordinary the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, is. She’s just a normal girl, thrown into a horrible situation, and then she handles the crap out of it. She sends a message that fantastical superpowers aren’t all that necessary if there is a battle afoot. Even an epically huge, life-or-death battle that concerns the welfare of a country, a planet, or even a universe.

This week, we’re talking about Katniss’ predecessors — superheroines of geekdom who don’t wear costumes, nor do they have superpowers. Some of them might be barely educated or inexperienced, some of them are wildly smart. But what they all have in common is that if you have them on your team in a fight, you will win. Hands down.

While Korra still has no actual release date, just a nebulous target launch period of mid-2012, the fact that there are TV-Spots floating around, well, it warms the cockles of this fan’s heart. This clip shows quite a bit of new footage from the show, and, in case you were wondering, it’s a polar bear dog, and her name is Naga.

Previously in Avatar (Like in that show.)

(Video from IGN, thanks tipster Anon!)

• Avatar: The Promise Comic Tops Charts
• Futurama Meets Avatar (This is a Bender joke.)

It doesn’t surprise us much that The Promise is getting a great reception. When Avatar: The Legend of Korra was announced, the second most common reaction we saw, after excitement for a lady Avatar and any continuation of the series at all, was disappointment that the story wouldn’t be picking up with the same characters it left off on. What is surprising, as The Beat points out, is that The Promise is excelling in a place comics don’t usually: Bookscan, which tracks sales only in bookstores and other not-a-comic-shop locations, and lesson about cross-media tie ins that comic companies should take to heart.

It seems that a return to the adventures of Aang, et. al., has paid off for Dark Horse and Nickelodeon. It’s also paid off for the fandom, and for writer/artist Gene Luen Yang, which is a bit redundant to say.