The fifth set of Dragon Ball The Movies individual discs (DBZ movies 9 & 10) were just released, and in typical Toei fashion, they have already posted the next set of covers (DBZ movies 11 & 12). These next two films, “Super-Warrior Defeat!! I’m the One Who’ll Win” (DBZ movie 11) and “Rebirth of Fusion!! Goku and Vegeta” (DBZ movie 12), are set to be released on 09 January 2009.

You can still order any of the previously released discs or either of these discs from Amazon Japan.

The full-length Japanese trailer for the upcoming live action Dragon Ball movie leaked online today, so go take a gander while you still can:

In addition to that, Anime News Network is reporting (via the Sports Nippon newspaper) that none other than Ayumi Hamasaki will be performing the theme song to the movie (“Rule”). They note that it will be used as the theme song “… in over 60 countries around the world”; there is no specific notation of whether or not the US will get this song.

Additionally, IGN is actually “premiering” the “international” trailer, themselves, with various formats and sizes available.

Shueisha has put up a new figure of Piccolo in their Mekke! Shop, the fourth in a seven figure collection put out by Shueisha:

Also looking quite sexy is a prototype Super Saiyan Goku figure from Medicos (not to be confused with the Medicom figure having cracking issues). This figure looks to be amazingly well detailed and is part of the Medicos “Super Image Art Collection” series. It is set to be released in April 2009.

In a bit of frustrating news, the special Goku figure from Medicom that we mentioned at the very beginning of the year is starting to showcase serious production issues, as brought to our attention by our forum member Oldphan and posted on dragonballtoys.com:

With the prices that people pay for these things, it is certainly frustrating to see something like this. Hopefully Medicom will get their act together and issue some type of statement, especially with more DBZ figures on the way.

FUNimation’s new Dragon Ball GT “season one” DVD box set is finally out, and boy do we have a whole bunch of info pouring in about it!

• Five discs
• Same packaging style as the DBZ TV “remastered” season sets
• A new/different encode and “clean-up” is used, though there are slight blurring issues that continue to remove detail
• Full-screen 4:3 presentation (no cropped-widescreen)
• Contains episodes 1-34 (correctly numbered; no more “Lost Episodes” nonsense)
• Audio tracks: English dub w/ Japanese score, English dub TV broadcast track (Menza score), original Japanese
• OP, ED1, ED2 included on English tracks as new English versions of original Japanese songs
• Both English dub audio tracks play with English versions of original Japanese theme songs
• The newly dubbed songs do not use the original Japanese instrumentation
• “Step Into The Grand Tour” is completely absent
• The eyecatch is visually cut to match the English music instead of the (proper) reverse way
• Next-episode previews are removed (whereas the original DVD releases had them)
• Opening credits have Japanese production crew listed
• Original DBGT logo is gone, replaced solely with FUNimation’s own creation
• Japanese title cards are gone, replaced solely with FUNimation’s dub title cards (no alternate angles)
• Extras confirm that the DBGT TV special will be included on the second box set

Special thanks to SSJ Kaboom for pulling together the above image. Check out all sorts of additional tidbits in our discussion thread.

You have picked up “Burst Limit” yet? The Xbox 360 version is currently over on Amazon for a special Cyber Monday price of $14.95. The PS3 version is also supposed to be $14.95 today, but is still showing up as $39.99 (for the time being, anyway).

The official Dragon Ball DVD blog now features Oolong and Yamcha’s coverage of the conclusion to the “Come forth, Shenron! Gather the Dragonballs” campaign. This was a contest held back in August in celebration of the release of the Dragon Ball individual discs, the winner of which would “have their wish made a reality”. The winner, chosen from 12,000 people, was a Mr. Suzuki, whose wish was to see the Dragon Ball movies on a private big screen theater (something tells me he had a somewhat limited range of wishes to actually pick from).

And so his wish was granted on November 16th, at Fuji TV Multimedia Theater in Odaiba. Fuji TV announcers Maiko Saitou and Keiko Tsubakihara were there, along with Hironobu Kageyama, who gave a live performance of “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA”. Goku himself then appeared in convenient styrofoam suit form and requested that Kageyama sing “We Gotta Power”. Masako Nozawa also came by and was interviewed together with Kageyama. They were asked what wish they would make to Shenlong, and Nozawa said she would like to get into the Guinness Book of Records, while Kageyama said that, as a fan of Kame-Sen’nin, he would wish to do a pafu-pafu… but he quickly added that he was only joking, and his real wish would be to always stay healthy enough to sing.