The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
Let the shenanigans continue! Toei Animation’s official Dragon Ball Kai website has updated with the new voice of Nail. Taiten Kusunoki will be taking over the role of Nail in Dragon Ball Kai, replacing Katsuji Mori who had originally voiced the character in Dragon Ball Z. He also provided the voice of the popular action …
It has certainly been a rather slow week in terms of news! The best we have for you is that Amazon has new listings for even more “Chapter Book” volumes of the Dragon Ball story they have begun releasing under their “Viz Kids” label. We absolutely adore the cover art for the releases, but are …
We are sad to report that the Arabic voice actor for Son Goku, Mr. Zeyad Errafae’ie, passed away on August 26th. He was involved with a car crash and apparently seemed to be getting better, but ultimately did not pull through in the end. Our condolences go out to his family and all of the …
Toei Animation’s official Dragon Ball Kai website has updated with the cast for the Ginyu Special Squad members. As is starting to become the trend, all five members have been completely re-cast with none of the original voice actors returning to take on their original roles: Ginyu: Katsuyuki Konishi Jheese: Daisuke Kishio Butta: Masaya Onosaka …
Our buddy Tanooki Kuribo tracked down the European cover art for the upcoming Attack of the Saiyans on the Nintendo DS: It is certainly nice to see the Japanese cover art remaining consistent across the world! We are hoping the American release gets the same thing when it drops this November.
Back in late April it was announced that Shueisha would be releasing all subsequent editions of the tankōbon with newly “refreshed” covers and newly drawn spine art. As homage to the original tankōbon volumes, Coca Cola, in collaboration with the Lawson convenience store franchise, began releasing limited edition figures of the tankōbon spine art. The …
CDJapan has a listing for yet another CD for Dragon Ball Kai, this one simply called the Dragon Ball Kai Song Collection. With the “Koro-chan Pack” CD canceled, it seems like this may be its spiritual successor. Due out 21 October 2009 for ¥2940 with a catalog number of COCX-35798, it is set to contain …
The line-up for the 2009 Jump Super Anime Tour (JSAT) was announced earlier this month. Sadly, it seems Dragon Ball fans will have to wait at least one more year to see if there will be another new animated special. The tour kicks off 12 October 2009 in Tokyo and will finish up 29 November …
School Library Journal has an interview with Traci Todd, editor of the Viz Kids line. There is a good amount of discussion regarding the marketplace and using Dragon Ball and Naruto as springboards to create an entirely new market using existing franchises and “reversioning” them down to a lower target age group. GC4K: Are you …
There has been a rather large drought of Dragon Ball Online information over the last several months, but like the last time we saw the game rear its head, it comes in swinging with loads of new information… which itself just brings more questions than answers, but we are OK with that. Most significant this …