This week on the show, with the manga review complete after about four years of diving in volume-by-volume, we turn our attention to Dragon Ball GT. Our DB-newbie buddy Jeff is still on board with us, and material in this particular series might even be new for some of the regular hosts…! Is it everything …
28 November 2011, 9:52 AM ESTComment
Our good buddy Lemmy has collected a bunch of “Cyber Monday” Amazon sale prices all in one convenient thread over on our forum. There are some pretty great steals here. If you did not grab FUNimation’s DragonBall sets earlier in the month when they were down around $15, you totally win out at a $12-15 …
21 November 2011, 12:19 PM ESTComment
Announced this past June, a special three-chapter spin-off manga titled Episode of Bardock was published in the August, September, and October issues of Japanese gaming magazine V-Jump. Written and illustrated by Naho Ooishi (also currently responsible for Dragon Ball SD as published in Saikyō Jump), with supervision by Akira Toriyama, the story was part of …
21 November 2011, 11:58 AM ESTComment
A remake of the storyline from the 1993 Famicom game Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu Keikaku (“Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans”) appeared as an animated feature on last year’s Raging Blast 2 video game for the PS3 and 360, updated and retitled as Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans. Since then, it has only been available on the …
13 November 2011, 10:02 PM ESTComment
This week on the show, Hujio joins in to discuss and review the first (non-Kai-ified) high definition release of the Dragon Ball Z TV series: “Level 1.1”, out this past week from FUNimation, covers the first seventeen episodes. How does the timing of this release make any sense, and is it a worthwhile one considering …
07 November 2011, 7:58 PM ESTComment
This week on the show, we brought on our buddies Dustin and Joe to discuss the franchise’s latest fighting video game for the PS3 and 360, Ultimate Tenkaichi. You have probably read and hear a ton about it already, but is the community giving it a fair shake? Download the show now, or head on …
02 November 2011, 1:54 PM EDTComment
All five “seasons” of the original Dragon Ball TV series are currently $14.99 each on Amazon right now: DB Season 1 ($14.99) @ Amazon DB Season 2 ($14.99) @ Amazon DB Season 3 ($14.99) @ Amazon DB Season 4 ($14.99) @ Amazon DB Season 5 ($14.99) @ Amazon These are the only currently-available versions of …
02 November 2011, 1:44 PM EDTComment
Namco-Bandai has posted an ¥8.03 billion (approximately $103 million) net income for the first two quarters of fiscal year 2012. Similar to the last several quarters, Dragon Ball did not perform well enough to warrant an inclusion on the top-performing list of franchises for the reporting period — the final one listed is the BEN10 …
02 November 2011, 6:42 AM EDTComment
We unfortunately did not have the episode done yesterday as anticipated, but a day late never really hurt anyone, right? This week on the show, our buddy Herms joined us to talk about everything demonic! Where do all these different ghouls and ghosts in the series come from in mythology, and how does Toriyama play …