Anime News

Every anime fan will always on the look out for the latest anime title, regardless of which media it was adapted from, be it from mangas or video games. Asgard brings you the latest anime offerings with their cast members revealed. To kick start this week’s In the News, we have Karneval (カーニヴァル) and their cast and crew.

News of Touya Mikanagi’s manga getting an anime adaptation has teased fans for so long now and finally, fans received their early Christmas present with the news that work for having an anime version of Karneval is underway. Keep Reading

Strike Witches’ Kazuhiro Takamura is on a roll this 2012, as he dives into not just one, but two big anime projects. As we all know, the film animation adaptation for Humikane Shimada’s original illustration Strike Witches has been released in March 2012. However, this doesn’t stop Takamura in picking another shoujo-based action packed adventure, as he enters another realm of cute girls fighting to save the world in a new project called Vividred Operation. Keep Reading

Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン) is one of the hottest anime titles to date and thanks to Namco Bandai (株式会社バンダイナムコゲームス), a majority of the male fans will finally get to live their dreams of dating female protagonist, Asuna Yuki (結城 明日奈), and more.

Namco Bandai has come up with Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment. The special, limited edition of this game is packed with a limited edition box, two DVDs consisting of a two-part Infinity Moment Special Content, a cd which contains the soundtrack, a special booklet and to top it off, a special custom PSP theme. Keep Reading

What happens to a world where there is no God? Surely it must be a dark and desolate place, filled with chaos and confusion, of sorrow and despair, of darkness and death. Now this sounds too frightening to be true, and it happened—well, not in real life, but in the mind of Kimihito Irie. Irie founded the concepts for this in the Story of Creation, where there were six days a week for one to work, play and do their task, but on the seventh, everyone must rest, just as He did. Keep Reading

There is no doubt that animations created by PA Works always boast of something good. This popular animation studio has been known to work with Production IG, Bee Train and Tatsunoko Production, giving it the experience to produce well-known series in delightful animation details. The company is also known to be involved with video game animations, widening its brand towards various media.

PA Works and ASCII Media Works’ Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh Magazine produced original animation, Nagi no Asu Kara, has been scheduled to air in 2013, to the much anticipation of fans. Keep Reading

Not too long ago, a special Pikachu edition of the Nintendo 3DS XL was announced by Nintendo. Now, it’s Charizard’s (リザードン) time to shine with its own limited edition 3DS XL.

Fans of the Pokemon series are no stranger to this fire-breathing behemoth. Standing at 5’07” and weighing at 199.6 lbs, Charizard is the sixth entry on the National Pokedex and is the second evolution of the humble Charmander (ヒトカゲ). Game-wise, Charmander evolves into Charmeleon (リザード) at level 16 and into Charizard at level 36. Keep Reading