Last week’s issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan kicked-off a brand new series of Q&As — “Super Long Interview!! Please Tell Us, Akira Toriyama-sensei!!” — with the original Dragon Ball author himself. While last week’s question was about the plot for the upcoming film, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, this week’s question is …
KFC has been massively promoting the new film, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, with toys, posters, bottles, you name it. The kid’s-meal (“Smile Set”) toys in particular have gone through two iterations already. But now, the third phase of items has been announced. Starting on 28 March 2013, the “I’m Excited! New School Term …
A special Dragon Ball Heroes card has been promoted as one of three items to be given out to theater-goers at screenings of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, but its exact identity has heretofore been obscured. Now, however, the official Dragon Ball Heroes website has been updated with information about the card: The card …
Last weekend saw the release of the March 2013 issue of Cinecom Walker, a movie-centric publication distributed to certain theaters around Japan. The spotlight for this issue is Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, which also gets a feature inside the magazine. Not only do the details revealed in the feature line up with what …
This past Friday, a news posting to the official website for “Battle of Gods” laid out a list of “media exposure” for the new movie up through 10 March 2013, and first on the list was a Dragon Ball segment on the late-night NHK program “MAG Net”. Julian stayed up to watch it… and then …
01 March 2013, 10:11 AM EST2 Comments
We have already covered all of the significant pieces from the April 2013 issue of V-Jump that hit Japanese shelves 21 February 2013 — things like “Super Saiyan God“, upcoming Dragon Ball Heroes updates, etc. — but there are a few interesting promotional tidbits still hanging out that we have not yet covered. Starting 12 March 2013 at Lawson …
Today’s issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan (2013 #12) spills the beans on a massive amount of additional promotions for the Dragon Ball franchise coming soon to Japan. As a part of the lead-up to the upcoming film, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (set for release 30 March 2013), three satellite channels (Toei …
Today marks the day of the official release for the “Full Color Comics”, not only here in Japan, but also for those of you in the United States later in the day, courtesy of Viz. The newly-colored version of the manga is kicking off in both regions with what we would consider the “Z”-portion of …
The official Battle of Gods website announced a new partnership today with Ace Cook in Japan whereby purchasing specially-branded instant noodles could win you one of 10,000 Tosho Cards — a gift card good at bookstores across the country — worth ¥500. If you lift the lid and the card is there, you have won! …
Leaked pages (via Manga-News Japon and 2ch) from the upcoming Weekly Shōnen Jump 2013 issue #1 (due out this Monday) have finally confirmed the two characters previously seen on a questionable poster for the upcoming 2013 theatrical Dragon Ball Z movie, “Battle of Gods”: “Z”の常識を破る破壊神、降臨!! A God of Destruction who Violates the Common Sense of “Z” Descends!! …