One of the most helpful sections of our weekly podcast has always been the “Releases” segment where we cover that month’s upcoming products coming out across the world. We backed off the segment quite a bit as 2012 came to a close, mostly because it seemed as if merchandise — not completely, but for the most part — was trickling down to a crawl.
Not so with 2013!
To bring everyone back up to speed, here is a quick overview of some of the products we already have confirmed for an early 2013 release. Each product will have as many links as we can provide for all you global fans to get your money flowing. Where applicable, we will include referral links to vendors that we at Kanzenshuu have worked with in the past and have a good relationship with — if you want to support both your favorite franchise as well as your favorite website for that franchise, clicking away and buying is a great way to do so!
Please note that some items do not have an official release date announced just yet — additional products like Project Versus J on the PlayStation 3 & Vita will make their way into the schedule eventually, as well as any additional Battle of Gods merchandise that gets pumped out the door. For now, these are the confirmed items up through the end of March. As always, let us know if you foreign folks have anything else coming your way that we can add to the list.
23 January 2013
- Dragon Ball Z Les Films #1: À la poursuite de Garlic (Animanga, France) — Read the news story
Availability: Glénat | Amazon France
04 February 2013
- Dragon Ball Full Color Comics Saiyan Arc #1 — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Amazon Japan - Dragon Ball Full Color Comics Saiyan Arc #2 — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Amazon Japan - Dragon Ball Full Color Comics Saiyan Arc #3 — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Amazon Japan - Dragon Ball Z – Les Films Box #1 (France)
Availability: Amazon France - Dragon Ball Z – Les Films Box #2 (France)
Availability: Amazon France
05 February 2013
- Dragon Ball Chōzenshū #1: Story & World Guide — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Amazon Japan
21 February 2013
- Dragon Ball: Ultimate Blast (PS3 The Best) — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Play-Asia
23 February 2013
- Dragon Ball Z Best Song Collection — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Play-Asia | Amazon Japan
28 February 2013
- Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (Nintendo 3DS, Japan) — Read the news story
Availability (Regular Edition): CDJapan | Play-Asia | Amazon Japan
Availability (LaLaBit Market Special Edition): Namco-Bandai | Play-Asia
04 March 2013
- Dragon Ball Z Kai Box #2 (France) — Read the news story
Availability: Amazon France
05 March 2013
- Dragon Ball Chōzenshū #2 — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Amazon Japan
12 March 2013
- Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season Four (North America) — Read the news story
Availability: RightStuf (DVD / Blu-ray) | Amazon (DVD / Blu-ray)
20 March 2013
- FLOW’s “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA” (+ insert song) CD Single — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Play-Asia | Amazon Japan
31 March 2013 (Approximate Date)
- Desktop Real McCoy Dragon Ball Z Son Goku 02 — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Play-Asia | Amazon Japan | Hobby Link Japan
- Dragon Ball Capsule R Senshi-tachi Futatabi… Hen — Read the news story
Availability: CDJapan | Hobby Link Japan - Palm Motion -SHODO- Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Spark Version
Availability: Hobby Link Japan
11 Comments
I wonder if the movie box is a reprint?
Erhm, I should say my question was for the french DBZ movie box…
I have faith Glénat will bring me the colored adaptation in due time, all I need to do is wait. I surely wanna get my hands on the Real McCoy Son Goku, and the capsule figures re-release, best song collection maybe! I don’t like KAI, 3DS CARD GAME come to the West! Journey yourself to the West!
sangofe: Yeah, I would expect those movie boxes to be reprints a la the rest of the series. Seems about time for that. Just happened to stumble upon them right as I was finishing up the post :).
I’m curious what everyone else is looking to pick up! Pretty much everything I put up there (other than the French items) are on my shopping list…
I don’t see the line of figures connected to the movie on the list (the ones including the silly face Vegeta). So a release date for those hasn’t been announced yet? I guess since one of the figures is still a secret, it’s not going to be released too soon 😕 But that’s the merchandise I’m most willing to throw my money at!
Wow, my eyes hurt, they didn’t switched the CMYK to RGB for digital promo 8)
The silly!Vegeta is also one that I want. I’m most interested in BOG tie-in stuff. The movie’s soundtrack, the possible Toriyama BOG-artbook that would have the character design sketches in it, maybe even the inevitable animanga. Also, if my longshot-hope of Goku getting a new movie-only powerup/transformation actually happens and it turns out to be something really neat, I’d like to get a piece of merchandise of that too.
Damn, NOW I find out that project Versus J is coming out on the PS3 as well! XP
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The manga and guidebooks usually show up on Play-Asia as well?
Nah, they only have video game guides. I usually look on Hobby Link Japan.