The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
A quick article over on ICv2 about Navarre/FUNimation notes that they have extended their license on the Dragon Ball franchise for another five years. Nothing is stated with regards to when their prior license agreement runs (or ran) out, and what the new end-date in their contract may be.
Navarre, FUNimation’s parent company, issued their annual report earlier this month. There are quite a few interesting tidbits we can pull out of this relating to Dragon Ball. Here are just a few of them: In particular, one licensed property accounted for $32.0 million, or 46%, of FUNimation’s revenues for the fiscal year ended March …
The big news of the day is clearly the Dragon Ball Kai Blu-ray and DVD sets and their listed details. The first Blu-ray set is due out 23 October 2009; keep in mind that the first disc (with the first three episodes) is due out 18 September 2009. That first disc is important because this …
The CDJapan entry for what would have been the July release of the Koro-chan Pack Dragon Ball Kai CD (which was also set to include a little picture book) is now listed as “Release Cancelled”. I had not actually put in my order for it yet, so if anyone out there did and received any …
FUNimation has officially stated that the Wal-Mart listing for Dragon Ball: Season One (Widescreen) is a “mistake”. Things still seem a little too fishy based on the comment we received from Lionsgate and the original Saga of Goku sets mysteriously becoming unavailable on retailer sites. While the commonly-accepted “Lionsgate’s rights expire in 2010” nonsense is …
Dragon Ball Kai will be receiving a high-definition Blu-ray release in Japan: Set to release on 18 September 2009 for ¥3045, the first volume will contain three episodes. There will also be a standard DVD release with the same contents (albeit not in high-def) retailing for ¥1995. For a bit of comparison, and making no …
We contacted Lionsgate back in April regarding their sub-license to the first 13 episodes (and first movie) of the original Dragon Ball TV series — productions that have always been available edited and English-dubbed-only due to a distribution deal FUNimation wrangled themselves into back in 1995 when they first began producing the series. At that …
Our forum member GotenZ1 spent some time at E3 this last week and got a chance to play Tenka’ichi Dai-Bōken for the Nintendo Wii (being released outside Japan as Revenge of King Piccolo). Confirmed is a new vocal theme song! We do not yet have any details on the performer, but do know that it …
We have it on good authority that all of the new Dragon Ball video games are due out this fall in North America in addition to their European releases. These games include Attack of the Saiyans on the DS (dropping the “Kai” title just like its European release), Revenge of King Piccolo on the Wii, …
The CD single for the closing theme to Dragon Ball Kai, “Yeah! Break! Care! Break!”, is set to be released 24 June 2009 in either a regular (¥1200, ~$13.00 US) or “Limited Edition” (¥1300, ~$14.00 US) version. The track listing is as follows, with both song titles written in English: Yeah! Break! Care! Break! Over …