The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
CDJapan has updated with the cover art for POWER OF DREAMER, the opening theme song CD single for the new Wii game Tenka’ichi Dai-Bōken performed by Hiroki Takahashi: It is mostly a cropped version of the actual game’s cover art. The CD single is due out 26 August 2009 for ¥1200 in Japan. Unfortunately, we …
Amazon also has a new listing for the first Dragon Ball Z movie, “Dead Zone”. Based on the release date of this new listing, which is the same as the first FUNimation Dragon Box, could this contain the Dragon Box footage rather than the normal footage FUNimation has been using since 1997? If you remember, …
Amazon now has a listing for the first domestic “Dragon Box” set coming from FUNimation. The pre-order price (for now) is a solid $55.99. Not too shabby.
Long-time friend of the site Rachel pointed out to us that Mitsuaki Madono, who replaced Hirotaka Suzuoki as Tenshinhan in Burst Limit (PS3 & Xbox 360 fighting game last year), is reprising that role in the new Wii game Tenka’ichi Dai-Bōken… despite Hikaru Midorikawa sealing it up for Dragon Ball Kai. Very strange situation with …
Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥2.8 billion loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2010. In terms of Dragon Ball overall, the franchise dropped in net sales from ¥4.3 billion in Q1 2009 to ¥2.3 billion this quarter, though the company is forecasting a full year net sales figure of ¥17 billion, up from ¥15.8 last …
The official Dragon Ball Kai website has been updated with voice actor information for Freeza’s main henchmen Kewi, Zarbon, and Dodoria. Unfortunately, none of the original voice actors will be returning to reprise their roles. Here is a quick look at the new voice actors: Kewi Eiji Takemoto (竹本英史) Zarbon Hiroaki Miura (三浦祥朗) Dodoria Takashi …
As opposed to the unfortunate news out of Germany, our buddy sangofe also popped in to let us know that France will finally be getting a proper release of the original Dragon Ball TV series. It will be dual-language, and where the French dub was edited, the language track will swap over to Japanese to …
Our buddy Timo popped in to let us know about an exciting home release coming in Germany! Not only are they getting box sets from “Anime Virtual”, but it is… the old edited, dub-only version as-is from its airing on RTL2 with video material nearly 20 years old. Timo goes on to note that the …
As you may know, FUNimation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre, having been purchased in 2005. Today, Navarre released their fiscal-year 2010 quarter one figures. Of particular note to Dragon Ball fans is the amount noted concerning Namco-Bandai. As reported earlier this month, Namco-Bandai has entered into a five-year agreement with FUNimation to be the …
Kurt wrote in to let us know that his order for the upcoming fifth “Viz Big” release of Dragon Ball Z has been delayed. We checked in with some of the supposedly-upcoming volumes, and here is what the schedule seems to be of currently-listed volumes: Dragon Ball VizBig 5 (Volumes 13-15) Release Date: 18 August …