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Podcast Episode #0330
Published by 15 April 2013, 7:14 PM EDT7 Comments

A new series was NOT announced!
This podcast episode is about using critical thinking skills to debunk rumors. There was no press conference, Akira Toriyama would not personally animate anything, and no new series is coming! Join us in the fight against bad Dragon Ball information.

It’s true! I heard it from a friend! On the Internet! Akira Toriyama is totally animating a new Dragon Ball series even though Toriyama is not an animator and it will be over 200 episodes and he announced it at a press conference even though he didn’t even show his face on TV last time he was on and it is because the movie did so well even though the announcement was supposedly made before the movie actually premiered in theaters and…

Heard this one before?

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SHOW DESCRIPTION:
Episode #0330! VegettoEX and Julian give fandom a lesson in critical thinking with regard to new Dragon Ball announcements. There is always a random new rumor floating around, but we took the opportunity to break this one down – that Akira Toriyama supposedly appeared at a press conference to announce a new 200-episode series – to its humble beginnings and how a game of telephone can contort and twist misinformation into even worse misinformation.

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8th “Please Tell Us, Akira Toriyama-sensei!!” Q&A
Published by 14 April 2013, 7:46 PM EDT1 Comment

The new series of Q&As with original manga author Akira Toriyama — “Please Tell Us, Akira Toriyama-sensei!!” — continues on yet again for another week in today’s issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump (2013 #20) in Japan. This time around, Toriyama gives a couple brief thoughts on the type of open-ending used for the new movie, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods:

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What is the meaning of that conclusion…?
I suppose there might be a variety of impressions with regards to the battle’s conclusion…. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be happy if I can get people to feel “an expansion into [something] afterwards”. Like, “Isn’t there still more to come?” (laughs)

Toriyama’s comments here are incredibly similar to what he wrote as the final compilation volume of the manga was being published back in 1995, with the possibility and open door of an ever-expanding world:

At long last, it’s the final volume! I deliberately made the end low-key, as though the story might still continue; what did you think of it?

We will continue to archive each of Toriyama’s answers on the respective page of our “Translations” section if any more are included, even now after the movie’s release!

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New “Chōgashū” (“Super Illustration Collection”) Release Details
Published by 11 April 2013, 10:47 AM EDT1 Comment

About a month ago, a listing for yet another new Dragon Ball book popped up on Shueisha’s website, separate from the on-going Chōzenshū guide books: a new “Dragon Ball: Chōgashū” or “Super Illustration Collection”. At first, all we had was a release date (09 May 2013, the same day as the fourth and final Chōzenshū), a size (B5, same as the Chōzenshū), and a price (¥3,800, a bit more pricey than the Chōzenshū).

The upcoming issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan (WJ 2013 #20) gives us a few more key details about the book, including its cover art.

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The new 240-page book will contain a collection of over 400 illustrations drawn from the time period of 1985 to 2013. As of right now, there is nothing specifically stated about it exclusively containing illustrations by original author Akira Toriyama, so it is possible that it could contain the contents of Daizenshuu 1: Complete Illustrations, new Toriyama artwork, and/or additional artwork from other artists and producers that have worked on the franchise.

The new “Chōgashū” is available for pre-order on both CDJapan and Amazon Japan.

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“Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission” Sixth-Week Sales
Published by 10 April 2013, 2:16 PM EDT2 Comments

Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission for the Japanese Nintendo 3DS fell off the Media Create best-sellers list in its fourth week, but charged back upward last week for a return appearance.

Now in its sixth week (covering the period of 01 April 2013 to 07 April 2013), the game is performing as strong as ever, jumping all the way back up to #6 on the Media Create list with another 11,674 copies sold.

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This puts the game at 151,881 total copies sold. The game, released 28 February 2013, is currently only available in Japan with no word on any international release.

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“Battle of Gods” Second Weekend Figures Updates
Published by 10 April 2013, 8:37 AM EDT5 Comments

The new film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods continued to prove successful into its second weekend, with its 9-day total attendance standing at 1,488,518 and gross revenue at ¥1,772,955,800 (passing the halfway mark to Toei’s target of ¥3 billion). The audience demographic holds steady with parents and children, older fans from back during the series’ original run, and young women in their teens to early 20s.

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Animazement Announces Yūko Minaguchi As Additional 2013 Guest
Published by 08 April 2013, 10:00 PM EDT3 Comments

Coming off an already-impressive announcement of Ryūsei Nakao (Tambourine, Freeza, Coola), Masako Nozawa (Son Goku, et al.) and Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo), Animazement has also announced Yūko Minaguchi (Videl, Pan) as a guest for their convention this year.

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Animazement will take place 24 May 2013 to 26 May 2013 at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Kanzenshuu will be there to cover all of the panels and stories from this amazing collection of talent!

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Podcast Episode #0329
Published by 08 April 2013, 7:11 PM EDT3 Comments

As the new film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods continues to hold steady in theaters, we felt it was proper to continue diving into all of the reference materials coming out these days — guide books, magazine articles, website interviews, etc. — to get a better idea of where the movie actually came from. So many ideas were drafted and tossed out before the final stages of production that we almost have an entirely different story sitting out there in the unused ether. Join us for an in-depth look at some of these ideas and where the story could have taken us!

For those of you who may also wish to refer to this material in text form, the Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods page in our “Movie Guide” has been updated with an “Original Draft/Design Concepts” section which includes a few tidbits we have yet to post in full over in our “Translations” section!

SHOW DESCRIPTION:
Episode #0329! VegettoEX, Hujio, and Julian dive into a wealth of reference materials for the new film “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods” and attempt to discover where the film’s story truly came from. While the final result was fantastic, imagine an alternate version with a lizard-esque villain, Super Saiyan God with a cape, a wedding instead of a birthday party, and a far darker story than has ever been told before!

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Enjoy! Discuss this episode on the Kanzenshuu forum.

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“Battle of Gods” Opening Week Figures Update
Published by 08 April 2013, 10:47 AM EDT6 Comments

If you have been keeping tabs on the new film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods — as we have! — then you are probably already aware that, in its first weekend, it was doing pretty well! It probably comes as no surprise that it continued that trend in its first full week.

As reported this past Thursday by Cinema Today, the film was set to top one million in attendance on its sixth day, keeping a steady pace from its opening-weekend figures.

As of this past Wednesday (its fifth day in theaters), the film had already reached attendance of roughly 990,000, and was seen as certain to reach 1,000,000 on Thursday (its sixth day), thus making it the fastest movie to reach that milestone this year (in Japan). The precise numbers as of Wednesday stood at attendance of 988,790 and gross revenue of ¥1,146,467,600.

The Cinema Today article goes on to state that other family-oriented films for the spring vacation period, Doraemon: Nobita’s Secret Gadget Museum and Wreck-It Ralph (renamed Sugar Rush in Japan), are also doing well. Dragon Ball has many parents taking their children to see the film, but it is also attracting older fans of the series, as well as pairs/groups of women in their teens to early 20s, truly demonstrating its strength across generations.

In addition to totals at the end of the spring vacation period, Toei is looking ahead with great expectations for audience turnout during the Golden Week holiday at the beginning of May.

A recent article from Kōgyō Tsushinsha does not give any hard numbers for attendance or earnings, but shows Dragon Ball Z maintaining its place at the top of the pack for its second weekend.

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“J-Stars Victory Vs” (PS3/Vita) First Commercial
Published by 08 April 2013, 10:04 AM EDTComment

Namco-Bandai has unveiled the first video footage for their upcoming crossover fighting game J-Stars Victory Vs with a debut commercial:

The footage showcases the four known playable characters — Goku (Dragon Ball), Luffy (One Piece), Toriko (Toriko), Naruto (Naruto) — battling with each other and performing their signature attacks.

J-Stars Victory Vs, initially unveiled as Project Versus J, is tied in with the 45th celebration of Jump and will be available for the PlayStation 3 and Vita at some unspecified point with a promise that there will be more “announcements of successive Jump heroes joining the battle” to decide who is the strongest, and to keep your eyes on the official site.

We will, of course, keep on top of any further announcements via their own website and the regular plethora of magazines in Japan!

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7th “Please Tell Us, Akira Toriyama-sensei!!” Q&A
Published by 07 April 2013, 10:21 PM EDTComment

The new series of Q&As with original manga author Akira Toriyama — “Please Tell Us, Akira Toriyama-sensei!!” — continues on for yet another week in today’s issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump (2013 #19) in Japan. We are still back on the one-question-per-week schedule, and this one brings us a tidbit on backstories that Toriyama creates in his head.

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Do you have any unspoken backstories?
Just because he’s the God of Destruction, I wouldn’t like it if he just showed up for no good reason and went on a rampage. So even if it’s not mentioned in the work itself, I do try to come up with a convincing backstory in my own mind. …Although, I forget surprisingly quickly. (laughs)

We will continue to archive each of Toriyama’s answers on the respective page of our “Translations” section if any more are included, even now after the movie’s release!