In conjunction with this weekend’s February 2017 issue of V-Jump and forthcoming news out of Jump Festa, the official Dragon Ball Super website has revealed the key visual and brief synopsis for next year’s “Universe Survival Arc”: 悟空に申し出により、全王様主催の宇宙対抗の武道大会「力の大会」が始まる！…だがそれは宇宙消滅の始まりだった。この武道大会の勝者、それに敗者には何が待ち受けののか…？宇宙の精鋭たちによって熾烈なチームバトルは一体どんな戦になるのか…！ At Goku’s request, the Omni-Kings’ “Tournament of Power” martial arts tournament between universes now begins! …But this …
As initially leaked on Japanese blogs earlier today and later shown in full by Twitter user @white4517, next week’s February 2017 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine in Japan reveals the next storyline in the Dragon Ball Super television series as the “Universe Survival Arc” (宇宙サバイバル編 Uchū Sabaibaru Hen): 05 February 2017 (Sun.) The curtain rises …
The European branch of Bandai Namco has announced a forthcoming free content patch for Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 that will add Hit’s “Pure Progress” and Son Goku’s “SSGSS Kaiō-Ken” techniques to the game this week. The announcement also reiterates the 20 December 2016 release date for the first paid downloadable content pack. In preparation for …
Industry consortium website Daisuki has partnered with Bandai Namco to provide players of Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 with free download codes to redeem “TP Medals” in exchange for viewing episodes of the Dragon Ball Super television series. Upon viewing a complete episode — no skipping allowed! — registered users will be presented with a 12-digit …
Last week’s 2.2.0 update for Dragon Ball Fusions on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan introduced new Space/Time Vortex Quest weekly challenges. Running from 07 December 2016 to 13 December 2016, the first quest tasked players with dealing as much damage to Goku Black as possible within a certain time limit. Each participating player received the …
Shueisha has launched a new Dragon Ball spin-off manga series on their Shōnen Jump+ digital platform by popular fan artist @dragongarowLEE. Dragon Ball gets a super-outrageous side-story! And the main character is… him, of all people! Aiming to be the strongest, he challenges himself with stupendous training…?! The series, “Dragon Ball Side-Story: The Case of …
Following up on this past weekend’s special Yamcha “raid” encounter, Bandai Namco has announced a “Patroller Rank Reinforcement Week” in Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2. During the next week, users will be able to get specific prizes based on their final Time Patroller Rank at the end of the event. To raise your Patroller Rank, all …
12 December 2016, 3:04 PM EST1 Comment
As we head toward the holiday season (not to mention the next arc in Dragon Ball Super), we decided to take this opportunity to catch up on a few news stories. The podcast gives us a wonderful outlet to editorialize and otherwise chew on these stories in quite a different way from our standard text …
Following up on their previous “raid” encounters, Bandai Namco has announced a new battle with Yamcha running in Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 this weekend, with Yamcha’s baseball uniform as one possible reward: The unkillable Yamcha is you Raid Boss for this week. Here are the Details: ➢ Start/End Times December 10th 09:00AM ~ December 11th …
Shueisha has released the cover artwork for today’s sixteenth volume (“Legend 16”) of the Dragon Ball manga’s new “Digest Edition” (Sōshūhen), kicking off the “Majin Boo arc” in the manga re-release series: These editions are touted as allowing the reader to “enjoy Dragon Ball the same way as when it was serialized in Jump“, and …