Yesterday we reported about some very early rumblings of a new fully-colored manga re-release and something being called a “Chōzenshū” (超全集). Fortunately, our very own Julian rushed out to grab the February 2013 issue of V-Jump and snapped a quick photo of the page containing the essential details we had been missing! As of now, …
With only three months left until “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods” hits theaters across Japan on 30 March 2013, Toei has released a packet of promotional images to various media outlets. The packet includes the film’s official poster, a piece of promotional artwork, and five screen shots from the film, all from scenes previously …
Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo) has announced via his personal website that he will be attending Jump Festa ’13 on 22 December 2012 to take part in a 30 minute “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods” discussion panel on the “Jump Super Stage” at 11:20 AM. The panel had previously been announced as part of the “Jump …
Jump Festa, an annual anime and manga convention hosted by Shueisha, will be held on December 22-23 in Tokyo, Japan this year. Toei’s Jump Festa news website recently announced that the Toei Animation goods booth at the convention will be selling a limited number of advance tickets to the upcoming Dragon Ball Z: Battle of …
17 December 2012, 1:00 PM EST5 Comments
It’s been a while, but we’re fianlly back with yet another new animator to highlight in the “Animation Styles Guide”. This week we detail the work of Toei Animation’s talented Akira Inagami, who joined the staff of Dragon Ball Z in late 1991 as a key animator and would later become an animation supervisor in …
The recent trailer for the upcoming “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods” film that aired on Fuji TV last week has been posted in its entirety on the Japanese website 11CH, an internet TV station in Sapporo, Japan. However, the trailer has been subsequently removed from their site for unknown reasons. However, once something like …
11 December 2012, 10:16 PM ESTComment
The new merchandising push in anticipation of the upcoming 2013 Dragon Ball Z film, “Battle of Gods”, has officially begun with the listing of a new single-disc compilation CD on Amazon Japan. The album, under the tentative title “Dragon Ball Z: Best Song Collection”, is scheduled to be released 27 February 2013 for ¥2,310 with …
Hot off the heels of the recent theme song announcement, the official “Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods” website has unveiled its new “Story” section. Unfortunately at the moment it’s merely a recap of the original Dragon Ball series, but it appears that they may be slowly updating the page with new information as we …
06 December 2012, 3:35 PM EST4 Comments
In addition to the new line of Dragon Ball Capsule R figures we reported earlier this morning, Megahouse has announced it will also be re-releasing the second “Desktop Real McCoy” Son Goku figure. It will be available in March 2013, just as “Battle of Gods” hits theaters in Japan — the franchise’s first theatrical film …
As we reported last night, Toei Animation’s official “Battle of Gods” website was revamped yesterday; however, the majority of the new sections have not yet gone live. Thanks to some fun URL guessing, we have stumbled across the website’s new “Introduction” section that is not yet linked in the navigation, but is indeed live and …