The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
Our buddy Greg popped over to our forum with a couple quick bits from the new Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide – Story Volume guide book that came out this week in Japan. Greg notes that while most of the material is information we have seen packaged and repackaged many times before, there are a …
“Rule”, Ayumi Hamasaki’s latest CD single (and the theme song for Dragon Ball Evolution), is apparently not selling so well for Hamasaki… comparatively speaking, anyway. According to Oricon, while “Rule” is Hamasaki’s 20th #1 single in a row (and her 32nd #1 single in total), it sold “barely” over 95,000 copies, and is the lowest …
CDJapan is having a special sale to tie-in with the Japanese release of Dragon Ball Evolution this month. They are offering up to 20% off most Dragon Ball-related DVDs (though some are only, for example, 10% off). If you have any holes in your R2 collection, this may be another great chance to fill them …
Toshio Furukawa (the voice of Piccolo) updated his blog yesterday to say that they were recording lines for the first episode of Dragon Ball Kai, while Naotoshi Shida (keyframe animator for Dragon Ball Z) also had a blog update noting that they finished up the keyframe animation for the new ending theme to the series. …
We have some final confirmation about the most recent guide, Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide – Story Volume, which was released today in Japan. It appears our original guess was correct, and it will indeed be a manga-specific guide. Here’s the book description from Shueisha’s site: 世界的名作コミックの見どころを徹底ガイド！ 友情 悟空と仲間たちの感動エピソードを徹底追跡！ 努力 鳥山明先生監修の修行データで、孫悟空の成長を完全解析！ 勝利 強敵たちとの熱きバトルを、孫悟空の想いとともに大紹介！ A complete guide to the …
Back in December we first told you about the “Chapter Books” coming out under the Viz Kids label. Courtesy of Amazon (by way of our buddy Tanooki Kuribo), we have cover art for the first four announced volumes: While I am sure that very few of us are genuinely interested in the contents of these …
Jump’s official DVD blog has updated with a batch of new character designs, this time all tying in with the last batch of movies to hit R2 DVD:
With only days until its release, Shueisha has finally posted the cover art for Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide – Story Volume, which appears to have been drawn by our main-man Akira Toriyama. Based on Goku’s age span on the cover, I think we can confidently say that this new story guide will cover the …
kei17 let us know that a new idol group named “Sherry” is going to be releasing their debut single, which happens to be yet another cover version of “Romantikku Ageru yo” (the closing theme to the Dragon Ball TV series). There is no word on whether or not this is going to be used as …
SSj_Rambo wrote in to let us know that Bandai is going to be releasing new “Real Works Warriors of the World” figures later this year in May, also under the Dragon Ball Kai label (similar to the new DS game also getting the new “Kai” branding). They will run about ¥3500, and a little bit …