The Weekly Jump website recently updated its Saikyō Jump section with a listing of the next issue’s featured manga. The listing shows that the quarterly magazine will indeed contain a fourth chapter of Dragon Ball SD by Naho Ooishi, and thanks to preview pages posted along with the listing, we know it will center around …
The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
13 September 2011, 10:19 AM EDTComment
From this week’s pages of Jump we have received confirmation that Hironobu Kageyama’s classic DragonBall Z TV first opening theme, “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA”, will be used as the opening theme for Ultimate Blast in Japan. As reported a few days ago, the game will also feature new 2D animation in its story mode, now revealed to …
09 September 2011, 12:49 PM EDTComment
FUNimation’s Clarine Harp (Director of DVD, Blu-ray and Video Production) and Matt O’Hara (Manager of DVD, Blu-ray and Video Production) were interviewed this week on Anime News Network’s ANNCast, where some new tidbits and discussion regarding the company’s upcoming Blu-ray release of the Dragon Ball Z TV series were dropped. Also included as a part …
09 September 2011, 11:40 AM EDTComment
Namco-Bandai EU has been on a roll with promotion for the upcoming Ultimate Tenkaichi (Ultimate Blast in its home country of Japan) — yesterday, the branch put up yet another trailer for the game, this time focused on a portion of the story mode, which features new 2D animation: While I am personally hesitant about …
01 September 2011, 12:42 PM EDTComment
Namco-Bandai EU recently uploaded a new trailer for Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (coming out as Ultimate Blast in Japan) which showcases the game’s character creation mode: Unsurprisingly, the custom designs shown off all fall squarely in the typical Saiyan-overload promotion the games receive internationally, many even fitting in with the Dragon Ball AF-style of …
24 August 2011, 3:09 PM EDTComment
The website for Ultimate Blast (the new and finalized name in Japan for what was previously called “Game Project Age 2011”, being released internationally as Ultimate Tenkaichi) has been slightly updated, most significantly with the pre-order bonus: Pre-ordered copies of the game will come with Sūshinchū, the four-star Dragon Ball, which sizes up at 4 …
24 August 2011, 1:50 PM EDTComment
A couple days ago, observant fans noticed a listing on the British Board of Film Classification website that contained four bits of Dragon Ball Z material, all with names and run-times similar to the DVD extras present on the first DBZ “season set” FUNimation released in North America back in 2007. The materials were attributed …
17 August 2011, 11:19 AM EDTComment
While already unveiled internationally as “Ultimate Tenkaichi”, the upcoming PS3/360 fighting game formerly known as “Game Project Age 2011” has finally been given a formal name in Japan: Ultimate Blast. The game, now with a name calling back to the prior two Raging Blast games in its home country (themselves an extension of the Sparking! …
The third issue of Saikyō Jump was released in Japan today, which includes the third chapter of Dragon Ball SD by Naho Ooishi. The quasi-parody/quasi-straight-forward spin-off features the Cell Game this time around. The first two chapters in the quarterly magazine featured a re-telling of Goku’s training under Kame-Sen’nin with Kuririn, while the second focused …
10 August 2011, 8:38 PM EDTComment
We noted just a couple days ago how a mysterious re-release listing for the first five Dragon Ball Z movies had popped up on RightStuf, inevitably bringing about the elephant-in-the-room-question: are they Dragon Box masters? Unfortunately, we have been able to confirm with FUNimation that this re-release will not be based on the Dragon Box …