Now that the promotional pages from next year’s first issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump covering the upcoming 2013 Dragon Ball Z movie have been officially released as of earlier today in Japan, Toei Animation’s official “Battle of Gods” website has been updated and overhauled with a new design, some new information, and the official movie …
The past two issues of V-Jump — Shueisha’s video game magazine in Japan — have featured a brand new promotional mini manga by the mysterious “Toyotarō” and based on the Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game. These mini manga chapters have primarily showcased the recent Dragon Ball GT-focused “Galaxy Mission” updates to the game and so …
Earlier this morning, scans from one of Shueisha’s “Jump” magazines (we have yet to confirm the specific magazine, though it is likely Ultra Jump, or possibly Weekly Shōnen Jump or V-Jump), promoting the upcoming 2013 Dragon Ball Z movie, were leaked in a 2ch thread. The pages confirm quite a lot about the movie, including …
11 November 2012, 5:19 PM EST10 Comments
Last month we brought you the first of two anime companion guide books released in conjunction with the series’ grand revival in Japan in the early 2000s. Well, this time around we bring you the second of these fantastic guide books, Dragon Ball Tenka’ichi Densetsu, covering the original Dragon Ball TV series. Once again there’s …
06 November 2012, 5:47 PM ESTComment
Four updates in one day?! What is this, 2009…? But nevertheless, we trek on with more daizenshuu translations! This time around we bring you the “Akira Toriyama Super Interview” from Daizenshuu 6 which was conducted on 05 October 1995 at Shueisha. This is the last of the main daizenshuu interviews with Toriyama where he discusses …
06 November 2012, 9:13 AM ESTComment
It’s been a few weeks, and we’re back with yet another new animator to highlight in the “Animation Styles Guide”. This week we detail the work of Toei Animation’s talented Naoki Miyahara, who joined the staff of Dragon Ball Z early on in 1990 as a key animator and would later be an animation supervisor …
03 November 2012, 10:37 AM EDT1 Comment
Japanese rock metal groups Maximum the Hormone and jealkb held a small concert earlier this week on 29 October 2012 at the “Electric Lady Land” live music house in Nagoya, Japan. You may remember that both groups are avid fans of the series, as Maximum the Hormone released the tribute song “F” dedicated to Freeza …
02 November 2012, 10:44 PM EDT3 Comments
Toshio Furukawa, the voice actor for Piccolo, announced today via his Twitter account that they had just finished recording all of their dialogue for a “certain anime”. He even included a photo of the cast after wrapping things up, which included (from left to right) Ryō Horikawa (Vegeta), Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn), Masako Nozawa (Son Goku), …
We’re a little behind with our Dragon Ball Heroes news, but hopefully this update will get us all caught up, for now. Hot off the heals of “Galaxy Mission 4”, which was released this last September, the official Dragon Ball Heroes website recently announced that “Galaxy Mission 5” will be available in arcades nation-wide (in …
22 October 2012, 2:32 PM EDT8 Comments
When Dragon Ball began its grand revival in Japan in the early 2000s — with a “Perfect Edition” release of the manga and the TV series’ availability on home video for the first time ever via the Dragon Boxes — Shueisha began releasing new companion guide books to compliment this sudden surge of interest in …