I am doing a TEMPORARY Shutdown of Cartoon Leap main site pretty soon, probably before this month (January 2012) ends. I want a new hosting company, fresh layout, reboot, whatever! Meanwhile, I will be updating and posting news on Facebook. Feel free to subscribe if you wish, for the time...

Back to my old days, when internet was just surfacing and I was interested about getting anime “online”, I remember the time when people bought several VHS tapes from fansubbers in the U.S.A. Titles such as Rayearth, Card Captor Sakura, and many more were available for a cheap...

If you have a girlfriend / boyfriend, maybe you might want to take notes. This survey was conducted in Japan and asked the simple question. It has been a long time since I posted a survey, but this was a funny one and I did not want to pass this chance. Demographics Over the 25th and 26th of...

Figma pose of the day. I will pose from time to time a different pose, just for the fun of it or just because I don´t have anything interesting to say… Location: My office! Background: My PC! I will stretch this figure and make her suffer, posing this figure on difficult situations...

Megaupload users received a bad news today…Megaupload was shutdown by the FBI. A coworker and friend sent me this news today and I was shocked! The site’s founders have been charged with violating piracy laws. Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more...

Dear readers and visitors: This is an special post. I am writing this to inform that CARTOONLEAP is going to shutdown its current anime blog. It has been a wonderful pleasure to write about anything Japan for you. Some of the reasons why I am doing this shutdown are described right after this...

Japan Today posted an interesting picture of a robot that appears in the movie Robo-G. A robot that appears in the movie “ROBO-G” is paraded outside the Shinjuku Piccadilly theater in Tokyo. The Japanese film stars Mickey Curtis as an old codger grandfather who finds new life as...

Gundam franchise loves to exhibit HUGE things for their products. The latest thing is this huge 1/1 scale HAND. The hand is huge and was used to promote the Gundam War Card game Series. The event was held in Akihabara. Check it out You can check out more pictures at the original source,...

Berserk fans can now taste what their heroes eat…Hamburgers! Well, thats the theory behind the new campaign from Lotteria fast food chain in Japan. Comic Natalie reports that a collaboration campaign of Berserk Ougon Jidaihen I: Haou no Tamago with a fast-food restaurant Lotteria will...

Finally, I received my Black Rock Shooter 2035 figma figure and it is awesome. It is not a perfect figure and has its flaws like her WRS counterpart. I am just going to mention the good, bad and ugly facts of this BRS 2035 figure. The good: Her details are really cool. Her clothes, hair,...

Japanese shares with us some hilarious things after They get drunk. Such fails deserves to be shared and can help you plan things before you get drunk. Demographics Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private...

It seems the live action version of Akira was paused by Warner Bros. We heard interesting news about the casting and suddenly, We read that the project stops due to some “budgetary” and “casting” issues. That´s according to the Hollywood Reporter and some...

Evangelion fans! You can check out the new layout for the last two movies of Evangelion. Nothing much to say besides that Evangelion 3.0 is called You can (not) redo. and what about Evangelion 4? Well, you will have to wait until… …to find out! Funny thing about that “can...

One of those curious rankings for 2011 are COSPA´s sales. Cosplayers bought many different costumes and here is the ranking for last year. Curiously, almost all costumes are high school related. According to Mainichi, cosplay clothing maker COSPA has announced the yearly sales rankings for...

Japan never cease to amaze Me. Here We have some footage of what it seems…floating cars racing each other. This was inspired by WIPEOUT, the video game.  Even the cars looks like their video game counterpart. Here is a short footage on our recent work on quantum levitation. We were...