According the next issue preview page on V-Jump‘s official website, a “special manga” based on Dragon Ball Heroes drawn by Naho Ooishi will be published in the next issue of V-Jump.

You will recall that Ooishi previously did a two-part manga adaptation of the 2008 Jump Super Anime Tour Special for V-Jump and the on-going Dragon Ball SD manga in Saikyō Jump. The story will revolve around some “invading super warriors”, but other than that, we do not know too much. As always, it has not been noted whether or not this will be a recurring manga or a one-shot. The next issue of V-Jump drops 21 June 2011!

The next batch of releases for our favorite franchise over here in North America have some information trickling out.

First up is the seventh and final Dragon Box for the Dragon Ball Z TV series, coming 13 September 2011 from FUNimation. This set covers DBZ TV episodes 251-291, and closes out the series. RightStuf is already taking pre-orders, and we expect listings to spread to other retailers soon. MSRP on the boxes is currently $59.98, but there have been some pretty great deals online, so shop around.

Also coming out on 13 September 2011 is FUNimation’s “Part Six” of Dragon Ball Z Kai. The next set continues onward into the Cell story arc and retails for $34.98 on Blu-ray and $29.98 on DVD. RightStuf is also currently accepting pre-orders on this release, both on DVD and Blu-ray.

The fifth set, due out later this month, has already been confirmed to have the “replacement score” of Shunsuke Kikuchi’s music, re-inserted into the series after the debacle with Kenji Yamamoto’s score possibly infringing on other compositions.

GMA has announced that down in the Philippines, the original Dragon Ball TV series is back on TV as of this past weekend. The show will air Saturdays after Hanep Buhay, and Sundays after Pinoy M.D.on GMA-7.

Meanwhile, Cartoon Network Latin America has Dragon Ball Kai coming soon via Televisa in Mexico, with the first 54 episodes (through to the end of the Freeza story arc) confirmed for broadcast. Additionally, City TV in Columbia has licensed twenty of the series’ movies for broadcast — while it was not specified, doing the math, we can assume this includes the three movies for the first series, thirteen movies for the second series, the 10th anniversary movie, and then possibly the two feature-length Dragon Ball Z TV specials along with the Dragon Ball GT TV special to get to that magic number of twenty.

Wrapping things up for Latin America is the announcement that Chenson in Mexico will be bringing out more merchandise in the form of backpacks. Hurray!

RightStuf notes that the sixth Dragon Box for the Dragon Ball Z TV series from FUNimation has been delayed from 05 July 2011 to just two weeks later on 19 July 2011 (also a Sunday).

The second-to-last bad boy in our near-perfect dream release for this part of the series in North America (no, seriously — go back and check out our reviews of the first two boxes for how great these are) is a mere $30.99 on Amazon right now. Grab it!

A new survey has popped up from Namco-Bandai with the company asking for, among other minor tidbits, name suggestions for what we can only assume is “Game Project Age 2011“, the working title for the upcoming PS3 and 360 fighting game. Current options include:

• Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Z
• Dragon Ball Z: Saiyan Rising
• Dragon Ball Z: Awakening Saiyans
• Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
• Dragon Ball Z: Saiyan Warriors

There are a couple interesting tidbits to pull out of this. When the Sparking! games were released in North America under the prior Atari regime beginning back in 2005, they were re-named to (an in-universe named-backwards) “Budokai Tenkaichi”. While the “Raging Blast” moniker was kept over the last two years and games, last year’s PSP game TAG VS was re-branded as “Tenkaichi Tag Team” internationally, calling back to the prior games it was based on. It would seem that Namco-Bandai is considering the “Tenkaichi” branding going forward still, perhaps as a way to distance themselves from the dwindling sales of the Raging Blast games and grab a few older fans back into the mix.

Before the first Sparking! game’s international release, Atari distributed a similar survey (which indeed had “Budokai Tenkaichi” as a possible name choice). Despite whatever the original Japanese name for the game may end up as, it is likely that the official international name for “Game Project Age 2011” is among the five titles above.

Shanda Games, an online game developer and operator in China, announced their Q1 2011 results yesterday. As a part of the conference call discussing their results, Chairman and CEO Alan Tan also announced that they will be bringing the Korean-developed Dragon Ball Online MMO to China “early next year”. Along with Final Fantasy XIV, the game is currently undergoing customization to launch in their region.

First revealed back in March 2007, Dragon Ball Online has so far been only officially available in Korea.

The cover art for the next two DVD volumes and Blu-ray box set of the “Artificial Humans & Cell arc” of Dragon Ball Kai have been unveiled via Amazon Japan. All three are scheduled to be released 02 June 2011, with the DVDs retailing for ¥2,940 (~$35) and the Blu-ray running a hefty ¥14,679 (~$175). The DVDs will contain episodes 85-87 and 88-90 presented in 16:9 widescreen, respectively, while the third Blu-ray box set will contain episodes 77-87 presented in 4:3 full screen spread across four discs. These releases now all contain the Shunsuke Kikuchi replacement score, as opposed to their original broadcast score from Kenji Yamamoto.