The oft-delayed “Manga Review of Awesomeness” returns to the podcast for Volume 37! The new story arc is still off to its start, but we now have an entirely new group of gods introduced, as well as what seem to be the first in a series of evil henchmen. The kids also get a chance …
30 January 2011, 4:18 PM ESTComment
We reported about a month ago that the “Limited Edition” versions of the Bakuman anime’s R2 releases would be coming with bonus CDs that contain cover songs from Dragon Ball. It looks like volume three is going to continue the trend, this time with a cover of “Romantikku Ageru yo”, the closing theme to the …
30 January 2011, 4:17 PM ESTComment
Big thanks to tinlunlau for the info and links on this one. Dragon Ball Kai apparently began airing in Taiwan back on January 1st. A localized website with a quick trailer is available for viewing — it looks like the dub kept the original Japanese performances on the theme songs, which is a nice touch.
30 January 2011, 4:16 PM ESTComment
Big thanks to our buddy sangofe for keeping up on this one. After not being on television for around a decade, the Dragon Ball Z TV series is back on TV in Denmark, airing Monday through Friday at 2:30 pm. The series was originally dubbed up through around the point that Goku turned Super Saiyan. …
27 January 2011, 4:58 PM ESTComment
Both CDJapan & Amazon Japan are listing the upcoming Dragon Ball Kai Original Soundtrack IV as coming on 23 March 2011, a delay of exactly one month from its originally-listed date. Dragon Ball Kai Complete Song Collection appears to still be on-track for release 23 February 2011, though.
26 January 2011, 10:40 AM ESTComment
FUNimation has issued a bit of clarification to Anime News Network regarding their streaming of the Dragon Ball franchise. While the original press release noted that FUNimation had obtained “exclusive rights to the U.S. and Canadian online streaming” of the series, the versions that went live this month eventually went with a standard Hulu player …
26 January 2011, 10:39 AM ESTComment
WorldScreen lets us know that Argentina has some Dragon Ball-branded dinnerware coming their way courtesy of Daysal, while GC Properties will be bringing out scooters and some other accessories. Over in Mexico, Falcom will be releasing a new batch of stickers and albums (we presume “album” to be “sticker albums” rather than a music album). …
26 January 2011, 10:38 AM ESTComment
The Amazon Japan listing for the upcoming Dragon Ball Kai Complete Song Collection now has cover art:
23 January 2011, 9:14 PM ESTComment
We are back after missing a week with a quick catch-up episode. The last two weeks worth of news all gets covered this episode, as well as some of the more recent written content here on the site — FUNimation’s re-release of the first Dragon Ball movie (reviewed last week), and our complete review of …
Big thanks to Super Sonic on our forum for the heads up on this one! Viz’s American version of Shonen Jump will be hitting its 100th issue next month, and in celebration, none other than Cross Epoch will be presented! Cross Epoch was a single-chapter collaboration between Akira Toriyama and Eiichiro Oda (author of One …