Today’s 29th episode of the Dragon Ball Super TV series featured an appearance by the character Tights (originally from Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, Akira Toriyama’s short manga series from 2013). The character was voiced — somewhat appropriately enough considering her family ties — by Hiromi Tsuru. Tights’ appearance in Dragon Ball Super was teased in …
Amazon Japan have updated their listings for the third DVD and Blu-ray box set of the Dragon Ball Super TV series with a new release date of 02 July 2016. The new date marks a delay of exactly one month from the previously-announced 02 June 2016 release date. The set will contain episodes 25-36; episode …
It’s been a while! While we have not been able to schedule our 2015 reflections/predictions wrap-up episode just yet, the podcast must charge forward, nonetheless. This week’s episode comes courtesy of our buddy Kirbopher who invited us alongside MasakoX to discuss the Freeza adaptation in Dragon Ball Super for his “Kirblog” series on YouTube. Enjoy …
This week’s Dragon Ball 30th Anniversary “Super History Book” is packed with an introduction from and short comments by original manga author Akira Toriyama. In addition, the book features a lengthy interview with the man himself. In this new interview, Toriyama recounts some popular stories such as the revolving cast of Cell arc villains, using …
This week’s March 2016 issue of V-Jump in Japan — as well as the new Dragon Ball 30th Anniversary “Super History Book” — contain the original character designs of the Dragon Ball Super Universe 6 competitors by Akira Toriyama. Each has a corresponding bio/description, translated below (and also archived in our “Translations” section.) Hitヒット (hitto) …
This week’s Dragon Ball 30th Anniversary “Super History Book” is a doozy, packed with an extensive amount of documentation, designs, and interviews spanning the entire three-decade run thus far. Original manga author Akira Toriyama has contributed several comments throughout the book, including a lengthy interview of his own — stay tuned for a translation of …
Today’s March 2016 issue of V-Jump reveals a new game in development for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan: Dragon Ball: Project Fusion. The brief V-Jump teaser splash talks of fusing the world together in the upcoming RPG, including different islands and cities, while Tenshinhan ponders who might be responsible for this. In conjunction with the …
Dragon Ball video games have consistently ranked in the PlayStation Store monthly sales charts over the last two years, in part thanks to consistent sales across the three main platforms (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Vita). Sony has revealed the top North American downloads for 2015, and Dragon Ball makes the expected appearances for the …
As a part of an on-going campaign to promote the upcoming Universe 6 story arc of Dragon Ball Super, Toei’s official website has posted new promotional Twitter icons for fans to use on social media. In addition, the update reveals the names of Champa’s Universe 6 competitors: Hitヒット (hitto) NAME PUNTaken from the normal adaptation …
Following the 1.1.0 patch in early October, Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan received a new 1.2.0 patch update last month. The patch introduces another four new Z-Assist characters: Super Saiyan 4 Son Gohan, Super Saiyan 4 Broli, the Kaiōshin of Time, and Trunks’ time machine. Additionally, the long-promised online …