FUNimation has issued a bit of clarification to Anime News Network regarding their streaming of the Dragon Ball franchise. While the original press release noted that FUNimation had obtained “exclusive rights to the U.S. and Canadian online streaming” of the series, the versions that went live this month eventually went with a standard Hulu player …
WorldScreen lets us know that Argentina has some Dragon Ball-branded dinnerware coming their way courtesy of Daysal, while GC Properties will be bringing out scooters and some other accessories. Over in Mexico, Falcom will be releasing a new batch of stickers and albums (we presume “album” to be “sticker albums” rather than a music album). …
The Amazon Japan listing for the upcoming Dragon Ball Kai Complete Song Collection now has cover art:
We are back after missing a week with a quick catch-up episode. The last two weeks worth of news all gets covered this episode, as well as some of the more recent written content here on the site — FUNimation’s re-release of the first Dragon Ball movie (reviewed last week), and our complete review of …
Big thanks to Super Sonic on our forum for the heads up on this one! Viz’s American version of Shonen Jump will be hitting its 100th issue next month, and in celebration, none other than Cross Epoch will be presented! Cross Epoch was a single-chapter collaboration between Akira Toriyama and Eiichiro Oda (author of One …
I figured February’s Kai releases might be the last music we would see for a while, but leave it to Japan to prove me wrong! A soundtrack for Raging Blast 2 (LACA-15111) is due out 23 March 2011 in Japan for ¥3000. No track listing details are available just yet, and we usually do not …
FUNimation has indeed launched their online streaming for the franchise, beginning with the first fifteen episodes of the Dragon Ball Z TV series. As previously reported, these episodes are based off their orange brick “season set” masters (which includes all extraneous smoothing/filtering, cropped image, etc.). A bit of clarification, though — while the episodes are …
Well this is some unfortunate (if not expected) information. According to a tweet from FUNimation (and later reiterated via a blog post), their upcoming streaming of the Dragon Ball ZTV series will use the video masters created for their orange brick “season sets” released from 2007-2009 (with the questionable remastering process and cropped video). While …
Our buddy LaRésistance slapped together a fun little video showcasing his “Top 5 Dragon Ball Z game intros“. As a true showcase of worldwide fandom, the video is narrated in French and subtitled in English. Check it out over on blip.tv:
Almost immediately after Nintendo unveiled the upcoming 3DS at the most recent Electronic Entertainment Exposition (E3), Namco-Bandai announced they would release a Dragon Ball game for the platform. No specific title or even time frame was given. Nintendo has unveiled their tentative 3DS game release schedule through Spring 2011, and no Dragon Ball game appears …