Cosplayer Interviews: The Real Carlos Liao

Cosplayer. Photographer. Model. There’s definitely more to this guy than meets the eye. Meet the real Carlos Liao in this Asgard Anime interview!

Asgard Anime: When was your first cosplay exposure and what made you say that you have to cosplay?

Carlos Liao: Since I love anime and fashion, it made me think of trying out cosplay because its so cool, fashionable and it’s fun acting like an anime character that you really love. Keep Reading

Captain Harlock Set for CG Remake

harlock_660It has been announced that the Space Pirate Captain Harlock キャプテン・ハーロック, along with his crew, will be relived into a 3D animation for a CG remake. The project is hosted by Toei and casts two of the nation’s popular actors, Shun Oguri and Haruma Miura. Oguri will play the role of Captain Harlock, while Miura takes on his first voice acting role. His character, Yama, will be solely created for the film. Keep Reading

Say Hello to Black Jack Creator Releases A Free Manga

blackJackManga collectors are known to spend a lot of bucks on each volume. It’s a painstaking task to gather titles you’ve love, and to invest upon them with every penny you can buy it for. But this time, a renowned manga author will be releasing a manga for free.

You’ve heard it right. It’s a free manga, done by no other than the manga author Shuho Sato, who has created the titles Umizaru, Say Hello to Black Jack and The Isle of Tokkou. Keep Reading

Sailor Moon S.H Figuarts Takes Over Akihabara

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I will punish you in the name of the Moon!

To all the kids who grew up watching Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン) and who have now become young adults, get ready to become a child again as your favorite heroine is making a 2013 comeback! Promotions have come slowly but surely this year for Sailor Moon, starting off with her appearance as Tokyo ViVi’s magazine cover. Now, Bandai has released a Sailor Moon S.H. Keep Reading

Manga Inspires School Girls To Vandalize Their School

flowers of evil vandalSee this photo on the left? Would you believe that a pair of 13-year-old girls did this? That’s what the police in Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture announced on May 1, 2013.

According to police reports, the girls sneaked inside their campus and broke through a window in the first floor to get inside using a rake on February 4, 2013, just 3 two months ago, between 9:00 to 11:00 PM. The girls then went to the fourth floor of their building, opened all the faucets and left the waters to run. Keep Reading

Fuka Koshiba Stars in Kiki’s Delivery Service Live Action Adaptation

kikiFinally, here’s a confirmation to what everyone has been brewing about. While news about a Hayao Miyazaki live action has been going around, Ghibli has kept their mouth shut and has insisted on saying no. However, the Sports Hochi and Sports Nippon have reported that Kiki’s Delivery Service will soon be adapted into live action. Now, we all know that this title has been one of Hayao Miyazaki’s film masterpieces, but Ghibli states they have nothing to do with it. Keep Reading

Free Comic Book Day 2013 Celebrates 11 Years Of Free Comics

free comic book dayFree Comic Book Day is a day where all comic book fans unite and rejoice for participating comic book shops and book stores hand out free comic books. Free Comic Book Day is already on its 11th year and things just got better and better. Although Free Comic Book Day is predominantly celebrated in the United States, its fame also reached out around the world.

Viz Media participated in this annual event by giving out free previews of Dragon Ball, Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration and It’s An Ugly Doll comics. Keep Reading