Author: Kimle Nguyen

Journalist, Digital Strategist, & Creative Entrepreneur residing in the Bay Area

Good news, all you DBZ Fans… Dragon Ball Super is now ready for the U.S.! Although Dragon Ball Super has aired in Japan since 2015, the English-language dub version did not premiere until Jan 2017 starting in Southeast Asia and India. The company Funimation has acquired the rights to the franchise and is also streaming the series on their exclusive platform FunimationNow, which is like the Netflix of Anime shows. In addition, the North American TV Premiere of DBZ: Super now airs on Adult Swim Saturdays at 8 p.m. and their Tonami line-up. Catch up online: DBZ on Adult Swim

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Before Mike Shinoda embarked on a solo rap career as Fort Minor, and even before Linkin’ Park got signed to a major label, Shinoda was known as “Kenji” in his early band Xero. Originally, fans assumed only 4 Kenji tracks existed (which were from Linkin Park’s 1996 demo tape), until Reddit user Almamu shared some audio rips from old rap albums. Shinoda even took to twitter to confirm the nearly 2 decade old tracks: Confirmed, these are old songs we made in the earliest Xero days. I made a few tracks with Joe. We produced the tracks together, (1/2) https://t.co/OAUmXNETuX —…

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Meet Ludi Lin, whose playing Zach Taylor, the Black Ranger, in the new reboot of The Power Rangers. (Thank Goodness, they didn’t make him the Yellow Ranger!) You may also recognize the actor from the Netflix series Marco Polo as Batbayer. The Power Rangers franchise became a pop culture hit after its debut in the early 90’s. Lionsgate, the studio behind the reboot, hopes to launch several sequels if it becomes a blockbuster success. The production budget for Power Rangers came in at $105 million, and with a global audience and a diverse cast, it’s sure to become profitable or at least…

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Raver and EDM enthusiast, Tin Nguyen, customizes a set of Monkey Knuckles with LED lights and paired it to Hex Cougar’s ‘AnythingUWant’ for a mesmerizing light show, as shown in this Instagram clip. Monkey Knuckles is a toy that consists of two sliding wooden balls on a string with end stoppers that allows the player to maneuver it in different directions. The results are Hypnotic, as seen below. So out with Gloving, and in with Monkey Knuckling…? Testing out my new homemade LED Monkey Knuckles prototype 😄Results: way too much fun. Song: Hex Cougar – anythingUwant . . . . #monkeyknuckles #aroundsquare #kumafilms #skilltoy…

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Singer and Seattle native, Jay Park wins ‘Artist of the Year’ & ‘Best R&B and Soul Album’ at the 2017 Korean Music Awards on Feb 28th in Seoul. Jay Park’s album Everything You Wanted was released on October 20, 2016 featuring 19 tracks, including popular English songs Aquaman, Me Like Yuh, and All I Wanna Do. The album peaked at #3 on the World Album category of the US Billboard Charts. Although Park was not able to accept his award in person, he took the time to thank his fans on Instagram. This time i got Artist of the year at the Prestigious Korean…

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Four years after his online hiatus, KevJumba (now referred to as just Kev) has released a new Youtube Video called Internet Power. https://youtu.be/mGmGRYqfFao Followed by what seems to be his first official, public appearance at Youth Represent the World on March 11th, 2017 in Stafford, Texas. KevJumba (Kevin Wu) disappeared from YouTube in 2013, with little to no communication of his plans, aside from his last video “This is Home,” which in hindsight became his subtle way of saying good-bye–or temporarily at least– to his online followers, while he focused on his education, family, and religious enlightenment. Although Kevin was silent on most of his social…

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