In mid-July Manga UK announced their acquisition of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, noting that additional details would be forthcoming “in the coming weeks”. Well earlier yesterday it was announced via their Instagram account that Battle of Gods is officially slated to be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on 10 …
Australian distributor Madman Entertainment announced last September that they had acquired the license to Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, and shortly thereafter it began being screened from October to December at the 17th Japanese Film Festival in Australia and New Zealand. As with all movies shown at the festival, it was presented in its …
Amazon Japan and Happinet have both updated their product listings with the cover art for the first box set of the “Majin Boo arc” of Dragon Ball Kai, which is set to be released 02 September 2014. This first box will contain episodes 99 to 110 of the Japanese broadcast version of the series on …
23 July 2014, 11:08 AM EDTComment
It is time to once again to dust off a few issues of V-Jump, pull out a few randomly-purchased magazines, and attempt to put another minor dent in our ever-growing translation backlog! This time around we are hitting a few lengthier interviews, intermixed with some short Q&As and commentaries, with original manga author Akira Toriyama …
Starting this last weekend J-WORLD Tokyo, an indoor amusement park created by Bandai Namco on the third floor of Sunshine City’s World Import Mart Building in Ikebukuro, began hosting their special main summer event “Dragon Ball Festival 2014” in commemoration of the Dragon Ball Kai TV anime broadcast covering the revival of Majin Boo. The …
The “Jump Victory Carnival” event is underway this weekend in Tokyo and many Japanese Dragon Ball fans have been tweeting out pictures of a flyer being handed out to attendees for the upcoming Dragon Ball Z movie. The artwork is the same as that used on the movie’s official “teaser” website, with the front of …
With the impending “official announcement” of a new Dragon Ball Z movie coming this weekend in both V-Jump and Weekly Shōnen Jump, Toei has been hard at work creating the new movie’s official website. On 15 July 2014, mere hours after news of the movie first broke online, Toei acquired the dragonball2015.com domain and shortly …
The September issue of V-Jump officially hits Japanese store shelves this Saturday (19 July 2014) and, as originally reported by Anime News Network, will contain a “scoop” unveiling a new Dragon Ball Z movie. The movie is currently still in development, with original author Akira Toriyama once again providing the original concept, writing the script, …
As was announced in late-May, FUNimation will be providing a limited theatrical run across North America for the new film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods from 05 August 2014 to 09 August 2014. Since the initial announcement, the official English cast has been announced, a theatrical trailer has been released, and a “red carpet” …
07 June 2014, 5:33 AM EDT3 Comments
The date was 20 November 1984, and Akira Toriyama’s new Weekly Shōnen Jump serialization, Dragon Ball, has just hit magazine racks across Japan for the first time. There was no internet, at least nothing like the modern internet as we know it today, and there was very little thought of documenting these domestic releases at …