Despite the rise of streaming anime online, Cartoon Network announced last week that the popular Toonami segment would return this week on May 26. FUNimation has announced yesterday that Casshern Sins and Deadman Wonderland would be joining the Toonami block.

Many of Americans became aware of anime through Toonami. Unfortunately after 11 years, Toonami was cancelled in 2008. Hopefully this is a sign for more things to come with Toonami back.

When was your first time? For me it was not very long ago; actually, it was a few months ago and it was kind of confusing and there were a few people there too… What? Wait, don’t stop reading and don’t think dirty thoughts! I was talking about my first time hearing about this anime with some of my friends. I too was confused with the title -- I had a totally different idea of what Yamada’s First Time was about, to tell you the truth. Since I was assigned to review it and it came from FUNimation, I felt it safe, but boy was I wrong. I began to watch it and soon found out this is not the anime to watch with little kids around.

On Sunday, the official website for Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse announced that they will be debuting Satelight's (AKB0048, Macross Frontier) newest series at Anime Expo 2012 on July 1^st in Los Angeles, the same day as its Japanese debut along with a few more surprises for the upcoming annual convention.

Created by web comic designers Christina Strain (writer, artist) and Jayd Alt-Kaci (artist), The Fox Sister is a weekly supernatural series that explores the life of its Korean protagonist, Yun Hee Cho, in her quest to take revenge on the shape-shifting fox demon known as kumiho. Seven years prior to the present day course of events, Yun Hee Cho’s parents and sister were brutally slaughtered by the kumiho, whom has now taken the form of her dead sister, Cho Sun Hee to seduce and kill her victims.

Stereopony's been rocking the faces off of Japan since 2007 and we had the chance to be de-facificed ourselves at this years Sakura-Con. If you've enjoyed Mobile Suit Gundam 00 or Darker Than Black, you would probably recognize their music. These three girls have definitely made their mark in the J-Rock and anime world and there's no sign of them slowing down. Our very own Roger Lee sat down with them and talked a little bit about their career, their struggles, and the support they've received from fans friends and family alike.

Earlier today, MangaGamer announced that OVERDRIVE president Bamboo, Dengeki Stryker artist Katakura Shinji, and voice actress Tamiyasu Tomoe will be joining them for Anime Expo 2012 to be held this year in Los Angeles between June 29th and July 2nd. Tamiyasu, whose impressive credentials includes Yayoi from DEARDROPS and Riki Naoe, and Sasami Sasasegawa from Little Busters! will be making her debut American appearance.

Full press release after the jump.

Nitro+ is back again with an anime adaptation of their visual novel, Phantom -PHANTOM OF INFERNO-, in the form of a twenty-six episode series called Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom. Phantom is animated by Beetrain and has a script written by Gen Urobochi, Hideki Shirane, and other staff writers. The plot follows a tourist named Reiji who unwittingly becomes a part of the assassin group Inferno, which is based in the United States, after witnessing their ace assassin, Ein, finish her most recent kill. He is then taken and brainwashed to become Inferno’s next assassin with no memory of his past.

For anyone tired of visual novels that feature the same stereotypical super emo high school characters, settings and melodrama, MangaGamer's upcoming June release of Overdrive's Dengeki Stryker! should be a bishoujo fans delight. Featuring a storyline that will appeal to fans of Joss Whedon's the Avengers, a young protagonist who wishes to become a superhero, Dengeki Stryker! is a visual novel that should be on everyone's radar.

Full press release after the jump.