Category Archives: Interviews

Assorted one on one discussions with assorted artists, musicians and vendors.

PiercingMetal’s Exhibitor Interviews From Toy Insider’s “Sweet Suite” 2024 @ The Glasshouse

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Last week, PiercingMetal was once again invited to participate in the annual “Sweet Suite”, a mega-toy preview event held by the fine folks over at The Toy Insider. Today’s affair would be held at a brand-new event space to my list called The Glass House. If memory serves me correctly, I’ve been attending the groups events since 2016 and now the coverage spans across all three of my websites. The more adult collector stuff gets shown here and now its time to share some of the videos that were done at the event. Starting off is the amazing “Transformers” robots from Robosen. These are so damned cool.

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Checking Out Robosen’s “Transformers” at The Toy Insider “Sweet Suite” 2024


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Exhibitor Interviews from MoCCA Arts Fest 2025 @ Metropolitan Pavilion: Part One

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It was only a couple of weeks ago that the PiercingMetal High Command attended our very first MoCCA Arts Festival, and for those in the unaware like I initially was, MoCCA stands for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. The event has been happening for several years now but was on the new side for me which is never a bad thing since it becomes complete discovery. As a pretty close to tenured media attendee of the New York Comic Con and Anime NYC, I was surely interested in exploring and talking to those artists who wished to speak to me. During the exploration a number of video interviews were done and while those are resident on the Official PiercingMetal YouTube Channel, they have also been embedded here to add the proper content to the website. I’ll start off with my arrival Short, a practice that I am trying to keep doing on any trade show, convention or concert arrival.


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Artist Interviews from Anime NYC 2023 @ Javits Center – Part Five

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Back in November, PiercingMetal was in attendance at the 2023 edition of the awesome Anime NYC convention which took over three main portions of the Javits Center for three days. During the course of our media coverage of the event, a series of artist interviews and booth explorations were done by site founder Ken Pierce. While all of these videos are resident on the Official PiercingMetal YouTube Channel, I’ve compiled them into a series of posts to expand upon the coverage that gets featured on the website. This is Part Four in the series.

Talking To May Zheng at Anime NYC 2023


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Artist Interviews from Anime NYC 2023 @ Javits Center – Part Four

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Back in November, PiercingMetal was in attendance at the 2023 edition of the awesome Anime NYC convention which took over three main portions of the Javits Center for three days. During the course of our media coverage of the event, a series of artist interviews and booth explorations were done by site founder Ken Pierce. While all of these videos are resident on the Official PiercingMetal YouTube Channel, I’ve compiled them into a series of posts to expand upon the coverage that gets featured on the website. This is Part Four in the series.

Talking To Danny Choo from “Smart Doll” at Anime NYC 2023


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Artist Interviews from Anime NYC 2023 @ Javits Center – Part Three

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Back in November, PiercingMetal was in attendance at the 2023 edition of the awesome Anime NYC convention which took over three main portions of the Javits Center for three days. During the course of our media coverage of the event, a series of artist interviews and booth explorations were done by site founder Ken Pierce. While all of these videos are resident on the Official PiercingMetal YouTube Channel, I’ve compiled them into a series of posts to expand upon the coverage that gets featured on the website. This is Part Three in the series.

Talking To Gigi Murakami at Anime NYC 2023


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