It's kind of hard to pick my top three stories from this year. Hmm...
03.) A tie between Mazako Nozawa's trip to America and the boatloads of brand new merchandise/books.
02.) The 2013 movie premiere
01.) Jaco The Galactic Patrolman
To port over my predictions from another thread...
- "Battle Of Gods?" We're getting it. In America. From FUNimation. By year's end. By year's end, this movie will be dubbed and in select theaters. I'm calling it. No DVD or blu-ray release until 2015, but definitely dubbed.
- The Jump Special? By year's end. FUNimation will surprise us all by giving the special its very own DVD release in preparation for "Battle of Gods." Extras will include a credit-less opening, credit-less ending, a trailer for the upcoming movie, and a collection of short bonuses from the FUNi cast (like the intros for conventions that Vegeta appears in, for example).
- Akira Toriyama will draw a special anniversary "epilogue" one-shot that takes place after Goku and Uub take off and start training. Probably after being pressured by his editors or something. Tights and the Jaco cast will appear. Toriyama will make yet another comment about how he probably won't draw anything again.
- Dragon Box ZA MOVIEZ will be released by FUNimation in two volumes. This is the year, folks!
- A nationwide celebration of the series' 30th anniversary will commence in Japan, courtesy of Shueisha and Toei (not a collaboration; each company will be doing their own thing). A brand new
Dragon Ball Z film will be announced by Mayumi Tanaka on Twitter. It will be released in 2015 with a brand new story and characters. Beerus and Whis only make a short cameo appearance or are mentioned off-screen. Fans riot.
- FUNimation will continue to do absolutely nothing with the
Detective Conan franchise.
- Masako Nozawa will come to America AGAIN. She'll accompany Toshio Furukawa and Ryusei Nakao to the same convention they went to this year. MagicBox is still unable to attend and falls into a deep depression.
- A new two-disc "30 YEARS ALL THE BEST" compilation CD will be released in Japan. "CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA" will be track #01, while "Mystical Adventure!" will be pushed back to roughly track #09. No new songs will be recorded, but the full version of the "Dragon Ball Heroes" theme will finally be released on this set, forcing all of us to buy it for one freaking track.
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Dragon Ball X
One Piece X
Toriko THE SEQUEL. Toei will try one last time to make
Toriko relevant. Fans get so excited that they forget to show any interest whatsoever, just like this year.
- Everything mentioned above will have happened, both good and bad. The Kanzenshuu staff and forum members will do a retrospective on 2014 this time next year. Our verdict? "2014: It was a thing."