New One Piece Special To Air in December

Fuji TV had just revealed last week that the productions for the anime One Piece, will be releasing a new special episode dubbed as One Piece Episode of Luffy: Hand Island no Boken (One Piece Episode Luffy: The Hand Island Adventure). The special episode will air on Saturday, December 15 at 9:00 PM. Normally, the One Piece television series air on Sunday mornings.

The Hand no Island Boken special episode is separated from the four successive television episodes that will begin airing on December 2. Keep Reading

By カリス, ago

Russian Teenager Commits Suicide After Favorite Naruto Character Dies

14-year-old Leonid Hmelev was found dead after jumping off more than 100 feet from the highest point of an apartment in Chaikovsky, Russia. The cause of his depression and ultimately his untimely death is seeing Naruto character, Itachi Uchiha (うちは イタチ), die in the anime. The Daily Mail, a British news media, has reported this unfortunate event last Friday.

After Itachi’s death, a highly devastated Hmelev left a message on a social networking website saying he was “planning an ending”. Keep Reading

By SchoolGirlBlogger, ago

Comedy Manga Ai Mai Mi Gets Adapted into Anime

Manga artists probably get the best of reality and fiction. When their minds are drifting away, they enter a new world of their own to be shared to their large pool of readers. These quaint ideas are eagerly stored to be recreated by illustrations, emotions depicted by various lines, and characters come to life even in its two-dimensional form. This kind of artwork has swept the world by storm and no wonder, many are eager to enter this kind of profession to share what different world is in the back of their minds. Keep Reading

By カリス, ago

Early Osamu Tezuka Manga Discovered Through An Old Middle School Classmate

The Godfather of Anime and the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫), has introduced us to anime and manga. While Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム), Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック) and Kimba the White Lion (ジャングル大帝) still entertains us today, the news of an unpublished manga that was created in his late teens swept the nation. The 19-page manga, whose theme was about problems with the society after the Second World War, was found and obtained from his middle-school classmate. Keep Reading

By SchoolGirlBlogger, ago

Goro Miyazaki’s From Up On Poppy Hill Up For The Oscars

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Studio Ghibli’s 2011 offering, From up on Poppy Hill (コクリコ坂から), has been submitted for a consideration as an Oscar nomination. This film, which runs for about 90 minutes, was made from a father-and-son collaboration. The great Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿), together with Keiko Niwa, worked on the film’s script while Goro Miyazaki (宮崎 吾朗), Miyazaki’s son, directed the movie.

From up on Poppy Hill takes place in a 1960’s time frame of Japan – the time when the country was preparing itself to host the Olympics. Keep Reading

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Revealed Casts In The News: Busty Shinobis, The ESP Club’s Highlight And The World Of Karneval

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

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Strike Witches’ Takamura Directs New Animation Project

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

By カリス, ago