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The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.


Published by 25 June 2008, 8:00 AM EDTComment

The cover art for the forthcoming 5th anniversary hardcover release of Viz’s domestic “Shonen Jump” has come out: Again, we do not really know what will be inside here. We all assume it will basically be a re-print of the original release from back in 2003, perhaps with some new items inside…? It will be

Published by 25 June 2008, 7:55 AM EDTComment

All the blog sites have (obviously) already picked up on this one, and since this is somewhat more-important news, we would love to share this one with you. The first promotional poster for the upcoming live action Dragon Ball movie has shown up!

Published by 19 June 2008, 7:06 PM EDTComment

Sorry to give some slight false hope, but it is too good to pass up! According to Marbridge Consulting: In an article posted on his blog, Li Yanqing, president of online gaming firm China Game, has claimed that Chinese online game operator 9You has signed an agreement with Korean developer CJ Internet to license the

Published by 14 June 2008, 12:24 PM EDTComment

“Burst Limit” has been doing well over in Japan, selling 92,298 copies on the PS3 last week, making it the top-selling game. This is, of course, until the next figures come out, which will include “Metal Gear Solid 4”. Also on the list down at number twelve was the 360 version of the game, though

Published by 14 June 2008, 12:23 PM EDTComment

A 17-year-old “man” has been issued a citation down in Texas for trying to steal DBZ season four from his local Wal-Mart. Another typical example of you damn kids and your smug sense of entitlement! Get off my lawn!

Published by 11 June 2008, 8:31 PM EDTComment

Just a reminder for all of you that “Burst Limit” officially shipped to stores in the US yesterday (all you Japanese and European fans have already been playing for a couple days, though). I picked mine up at GameStop today. If you pre-ordered the game, you received a t-shirt and either a DVD of the

Published by 10 June 2008, 7:30 PM EDTComment

It would appear that Hironobu Kageyama’s fantastic “Power Live ’98” CD is going to be re-released. Of the sixteen tracks on this CD full of live performances, there are five Dragon Ball songs: “Mind Power …Ki…” (DBZ episode 139 insert / Trunks flashback) “Unmei no Hi ~Tamashii tai Tamashii~” (DBZ episode 184 insert / Super

Published by 08 June 2008, 3:19 PM EDTComment

As was reported back at the end of April, a “Jump Super Anime Tour” will visit 10 cities in Japan this fall with some new anime specials. The full line-up has finally been announced in the latest “Weekly Shonen Jump” (2008 WSJ #28) and includes the following anime: Dragon Ball (Akira Toriyama), One Piece (Eiichiro

Published by 06 June 2008, 9:45 AM EDTComment

Toei has put up a release schedule for the upcoming “Dragon Ball The Movies” individual discs, which gives us the order in which they will be released, beginning with the Dragon Ball Z movies (as opposed to starting with the three original Dragon Ball movies and/or the 10th anniversary movie). In addition, it has also

Published by 05 June 2008, 6:40 PM EDTComment

Back in December we told you about a whole bunch of new stuff coming down the pipeline from FUNimation. Everything has come out except for the last item on the list — a “season one” set for Dragon Ball GT — which we now know will be coming out later this year on 16 September