FUNimation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre, having been purchased in 2005. Today, Navarre held their second-quarter fiscal 2010 conference call for the period ending 30 September 2009. Unlike last quarter’s release and call, there was not much of interest for Dragon Ball fans. The bankruptcy of Circuit City (a “$60-odd million customer”) hurt their …
The cover art for the third Dragon Ball Kai DVD volume has been unveiled. It is set to be released 20 November 2009 and will contain episodes 007-009. It will run you the nice price of ¥2,940 (~$30). Last week saw the release of the first Dragon Ball Kai Blu-ray box set which contains episodes …
It may just be a matter of shipment availability and retail restocking considerations, but Amazon is now listing FUNimation’s upcoming Dragon Ball Z “Dragon Box” volume one as coming out on 17 November 2009, a delay of exactly one week. In addition, my own e-mail update from Amazon stated: Unfortunately, the release date for the …
For whatever reason, it seems that several folks across the net seem to claiming Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta’s upcoming inclusion in Raging Blast is not real, and that all of the images are doctored. Regardless of how you actually feel about the inclusion of such a character and transformation (in addition to Super Saiyan 3 …
A demo for the upcoming fighting game Dragon Ball: Raging Blast is available in North America for both the PS3 and Xbox 360. It is a relatively small download (269.39 MB on the 360), and allows for a single battle against the CPU using either Goku (regular or Super Saiyan), Piccolo, or Raditz. The North …
In case you were caught unaware, this past week the wife and I took off for a lovely one-year anniversary… so site updates basically stopped for the duration of the trip. Hey, you can always follow the Twitter streams for those minor housekeeping updates! To make things right again, we return with the podcast episode …
Former Dragon Ball editor at Viz and current author with Otaku USA magazine and on his own, Jason Thompson, has written a new article about the manga’s situation in Maryland. There are some great comparisons and recollections, so be sure to give it a read.
All the regular sites (CDJapan, Amazon Japan, Columbia, etc.) have posted up the cover art for the forthcoming second soundtrack to Dragon Ball Kai: While we still do not have a track listing for it, the disc drops in Japan 18 November 2009 for ¥2940. Ours is already on pre-order, so look for a review …
Amidst their criticizing of delmarvanow.com staff writers about fact-checking and conflicting quotes within their stories, author “Cato” (a one “G. A. Harrison”) over on Delmarva Dealings apparently cannot be bothered to do his own research beyond Council Member Holloway’s photocopied “examples” (PDF) mentioned earlier this week, and has determined that Dragon Ball is “smut”. The …
MMO News is reporting on what sounds like a minor “scandal” related to the development of Dragon Ball Online, the only-barely-just-recently “launched” massively multiplayer online role playing game. From the sounds of it (the English is a little broken), former designer on the game with NTL, Ku Jeong-Hun, claimed he was being taken advantage of …