After months of inadvertent leaks, Manga Entertainment has officially announced that the Dragon Ball Z TV series is coming to DVD in the UK. As anticipated and revealed in earlier leaks, Manga will be releasing a version of FUNimation’s orange bricks originally released in North America from 2007-2009. The first of nine sets will be …
A couple folks have sent this in, and while it seems slightly early (compared to prior years and the games’ usual April/May formal reveals), we should probably not be too surprised to see the first hints at this year’s main video game for the franchise. Listings for a (likely tentatively titled) “Dragon Ball Z HD” …
We have done a variety of character breakdowns over the years, ranging from major ones like Gohan all the way through minor ones like Tapion from Dragon Ball Z Movie 13. This time around, our buddy Lance joins us to totally deconstruct Vegeta. What makes this guy tick? Did he serve his purpose in its …
Following up on its ratings in Korea and then the UK, the apparently-upcoming Dragon Ball Z game for the Xbox 360’s Kinect was issued a “PG” rating down in Australia back on February 27th, as reported on Gamekyo: Namco-Bandai does seem to have a press event coming up next month — while the Internet is …
Come 22 March 2012, Dragon Ball Heroes will officially be entering the realm of Dragon Ball GT as they role out their first “Galaxy Mission” stage for the arcade game. This of course means that they will also be releasing numerous new cards to go along with the stage. In celebration of this new milestone …
Back in August, Manga UK had an “interesting” (for lack of a better phrase) back-and-forth with fans when listings for a Dragon Ball Z DVD release attributed to them was discovered on the British Board of Film Classification website. The company denied the rumors even up through this past October when a flyer for their …
We know that this month’s “Part 7” of the “refreshed” Kai series is definitely still on its way from FUNimation, and we now have confirmation that the eighth and final “part” is due out 05 June 2012: At this point, all that is left for FUNimation to do is continue back with the “season” format …
To mark the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, Anime Fans Give Back once again held a 24-hour live streaming fundraising event. We joined on board for a half-hour segment to talk about how our favorite franchise was affected (not only by the disaster, but also by Kenji Yamamoto). Download the …
To celebrate 291 episodes of our podcast, we in turn celebrate one of the best and most under-appreciated artists from our favorite franchise: Minoru Maeda. When fans think of Dragon Ball, the first name that comes to mind is obviously Akira Toriyama, but Maeda shaped the series (particularly for fans of the anime) in almost …
We are a little late on this, but the numbers are finally interesting to us, again! Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥8.275 billion (approximately $101.7 million) profit for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012. Unlike the last several quarters, the Dragon Ball franchise actually performed well enough to show up in the top five-to-six franchises …