The cover art for the next two DVD volumes and Blu-ray box set of the “Artificial Humans & Cell arc” of Dragon Ball Kai have been unveiled via Amazon Japan. All three are scheduled to be released 02 June 2011, with the DVDs retailing for ¥2,940 (~$35) and the Blu-ray running a hefty ¥14,679 (~$175). …
After a lengthy test release, Zenkai Battle Royale is finally making its way to arcade spots throughout Japan, starting in 392 locations across 46 regions. It debuts today with a marketing push across Twitter (following their account and tweeting #zenkai_wget) to gain access to Vegeta with his Saiyan arc scouter, while playing with Namco-Bandai’s “Bana …
animeanime.jp (also adapted and translated by Anime News Network) has revealed that Dragon Ball background music composer Shunsuke Kikuchi has received the 2nd place “International Award” from the Japanese Society for Right of Authors, Composers, and Publishers (“JASRAC”) for the amount of money generated overseas in the previous year thanks to his score for Dragon …
By way of Robert’s Anime Corner, we have learned that FUNimation’s “Part 5” of their home DVD and Blu-ray release of Dragon Ball Kai (released domestically as Dragon Ball Z Kai) has been delayed for a second time to 28 June 2011. This delay was in conjunction with a slew of other FUNimation products, unlike …
Thanks to a slow news week, we were able to dive into the past a little bit with something that is occasionally requested for a topic, but we have held off for fear of it being too distant and possibly irrelevant of a topic. With it being such a huge and important part of fandom’s …
This week on our show, the guys dive into two weeks worth of news. A new video game is coming later this year (despite the franchise continuing down the financial hole for Namco-Bandai), the 98th episode of Dragon Ball Kai will make its way to the home release as a bonus inclusion (not to mention …
Namco-Bandai just sent out the official press release announcing Dragon Ball Game Project Age 2011, confirming its development by Spike, who has been responsible for the Sparking! (PS2, Wii) and Raging Blast (PS3, 360) games over the last half-decade. THE UNSTOPPABLE SAGA LIVES ON WITH DRAGON BALL® GAME PROJECT! Dragon Ball Game Project AGE 2011 …
While the rest of the Internet is busy talking about SoulCalibur V (which is admittedly pretty exciting), those of us following along with the Dragon Ball franchise have been waiting for additional tidbits on the so-called Game Project Age 2011, first revealed in Jump this past week. The game was further unveiled by Namco-Bandai at …
Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥1.8 billion (approximately $22.3 million) profit for the fiscal 2011 year. In comparison to their other franchises, Dragon Ball did not perform well enough to warrant an inclusion on the top-performing list of franchises for the fiscal year, something hinted at in Q3 2011 when it did not show up for …
From today until next Sunday, Viz is offering 20% off the price of volumes 1 through 16 of the Dragon Ball manga via their iOS manga app. For those of you living in the future and who care about saving trees, this might be a good route to go to catch up on how the …