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Published by 30 December 2016, 5:15 PM ESTComment

This month’s 2.2.0 update for Dragon Ball Fusions on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan introduced new Space/Time Vortex Quest weekly challenges. Running from 21 December 2016 to 27 December 2016, the third quest tasked players with defeating Merged Zamasu. All participants in this third challenge received Zamasu and Merged Zamasu as playable characters, with the

Published by 30 December 2016, 4:52 PM ESTComment

Continuing onward from the previous fourteen chapters, Viz has added their English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s fifteenth chapter to their website, continuing into the “Future Trunks arc” of the manga. The respective page in our “Manga Guide” has been updated with this release information. The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” began in June

Published by 26 December 2016, 1:12 PM ESTComment

Shueisha has released the cover artwork for the seventeenth volume (“Legend 17”) of the Dragon Ball manga’s new “Digest Edition” (Sōshūhen), now into the “Majin Boo arc” in the manga re-release series: These editions are touted as allowing the reader to “enjoy Dragon Ball the same way as when it was serialized in Jump“, and

Published by 21 December 2016, 8:26 AM ESTComment

This month’s 2.2.0 update for Dragon Ball Fusions on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan introduced new Space/Time Vortex Quest weekly challenges. Running from 07 December 2016 to 13 December 2016, the first quest tasked players with dealing as much damage to Goku Black as possible within a certain time limit. Running from 14 December 2016

Published by 20 December 2016, 12:11 PM ESTComment

The first paid downloadable content pack for Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 is available today from Bandai Namco. The “Dragon Ball Super Pack 1” ($9.99, or included with the game’s season pass) contains new in-game items, story points, and two new playable characters: Cabba (with a Super Saiyan transformation) and Frost (in his final form), both

Published by 20 December 2016, 8:38 AM ESTComment

Following its debut at Jump Festa ’17 last weekend in Tokyo, Toei has made the promotional video for Dragon Ball Super‘s upcoming “Universe Survival Arc” available for streaming: Original story and character drafts: Akira Toriyama 2015.7.5: God of Destruction Beerus arc 2015.11.15: Golden Freeza arc 2016.1.24: Universe 6 arc 2016.6.12: “Future” Trunks arc Goku and

Published by 19 December 2016, 8:30 PM ESTComment

At the end of the company’s recent preview video for Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2‘s upcoming first paid downloadable content pack, the Japanese branch of Bandai Namco teased a forthcoming “Anison & BGM Pack” for the game allowing players to select additional new music: The pack — whose contents, price, and date are still yet to

Published by 19 December 2016, 6:43 PM EST1 Comment

Our history with documenting Kenji Yamamoto‘s musical shenanigans goes back nearly a decade at this point. From the earliest stories on our podcast to our entire retrospective feature, it perhaps goes without saying that we have taken great interest in sharing these tidbits. This week on the podcast, we take it back to the beginning

Published by 17 December 2016, 9:46 AM ESTComment

The sixty-eighth episode of the Dragon Ball Super television series — which aired 27 November 2016 — revealed that episode director Kōhei Hatano (羽多野浩平) has been appointed as the new lead series director, alongside previous lead director Morio Hatano (畑野森生). Morio Hatano previously took over as the lead series director in episode thirty-three, replacing the

Published by 16 December 2016, 8:41 PM ESTComment

By way of various attendees at Jump Festa this weekend in Tokyo, we have learned that the Dragon Ball Super TV series will debut its second opening theme with the upcoming “Universe Survival Arc” this February: “Limit-Break x Survivor” (突破限界×サバイバー; Genkai Toppa x Sabaibā). The song — to be performed by Kiyoshi Hikawa — will