We have been working on it, and you have been waiting on it, so it is time to finally answer the big question: What the Hell just happened to Dragon Ball Kai…? Heath and Corey joined us in-house this week to attempt to answer that big question. By diving into publicly-available corporate presentations and financial …
The website worldscreen.com is reporting some moderately extensive home release licensing for the Dragon Ball franchise in Latin America by way of two companies, including the “refreshed” Dragon Ball Kai TV series: Toei scored a DVD deal for Dragon Ball Kai with Televisa in Mexico, which picked up episodes one through 54. Separate DVD agreements …
It seems that FUNimation has delayed their release of their fifth volume of the “refreshed” series approximately one month to 07 June 2011. Whether this delay is related to the series’ situation in Japan is unknown.
The cover art for this month’s Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 soundtrack gives us plenty to talk about. While the primary soundtrack for the Raging Blast games in Japan has been a synthesized version of Shunsuke Kikuchi’s original score for Dragon Ball Z, the cover art reveals that the soundtrack release will consist (exclusively?) of …
This time around on our podcast, in addition to the big news surrounding Dragon Ball Kai and Kenji Yamamoto’s musical score, we finally get a chance to dive back into the manga with Volume 38. The fight against Bobbidi’s minions has begun, Vegeta has turned back into the demon prince he once was, and a …
Our hearts go out to everyone in Japan affected by the recent earthquake and its subsequent destruction. Many thanks go out to all of you who have shown such amazing generosity and caring, particularly for our own Julian. Rest assured, he and his family are safe and sound in Osaka, and can be heard on …
Something we have talked (and joked) about for years has been the blatant plagiarism from Kenji Yamamoto in various bits of music for the franchise. Some pieces have taken inspiration, but others have been flat-out “stolen” — examples such as Cell’s theme from Super Butōden 2on the Super Famicom (Pink Floyd’s “One of These Days”) …
The latest (read: second) listing for Dragon Ball Kai Original Soundtrack Collection is now also categorized as “Canceled” on a few retailer sites such as CDJapan. Will another disc for the series ever see the light of day? Only time will tell, at this point.
An unforeseen sickness led to an impromptu, completely different episode this week… but that never means we are short on material to cover! Much like our news update from last week, this podcast episode we cover the raw facts of what appears to be the imminent end of Dragon Ball Kai before dipping into a …
I feel like I have to preface this news by stating that we here at the site have no particularly strong opinions any which way on what the future may be for Dragon Ball Kai. It is not an adaptation we particularly loved, but it was quasi-new, brought a fresh group of fans in, gave …