By way of Anime News Network, we have just learned that FUNimation’s English dub of Dragon Ball Kai (coming as Dragon Ball Z Kai) will be airing on Nicktoons. The announcement was made “during its 2010 Upfront Presentation for advertisers on Thursday morning in New York City”. This is a somewhat fascinating move on many …
We are back in the swing of things! Our secondary recording rig bit the big one this week, so while we may sound a little “airy” at times, all the content you know and love is there for you. We finally picked back up with Volume 33 in our “Manga Review of Awesomeness” and have …
In an economy where we hear about nothing but studio closures and layoffs, it is shocking to hear that Toei has actually raised their earnings forecast for the current year. Projecting ¥1.2 billion up from ¥1.0 billion in net profits, it would seem that the most recent One Piece movie (Strong World), which was written …
FUNimation’s parent company, Navarre, issued a formal press release earlier this week confirming the acquisition of Kai for North American distribution. There is nothing in here that we did not already know from its original announcement during their Q3 Fiscal 2010 earnings conference call, but it was good to see it get a little more …
This weekend Julian was off helping out the children with an event at school, so we invited our bud Hujio to shoot the shiz with us. We are in the middle of lining up a bunch of interviews, so we took the opportunity with a little downtime to catch up on this week’s news and …
It did not seem like anyone else bothered to ask the question, so we did! Our buddy Steven J. Simmons confirmed for us that he will indeed be the one responsible for the subtitle translations on the Japanese side of FUNimation’s upcoming Kai releases. We spoke with Steve at length way back on Episode #0052 …
The game was released just a week ago in Japan, and we finally have word from Namco-Bandai that Dragon Ball DS 2 will be coming to North America, as expected, under the title of Dragon Ball Origins 2. The first game was released stateside by Atari under the title of Dragon Ball Origins back in …
Our buddy Sebastian dropped a link to a fascinating interview with Mr. Anison himself, Hironobu Kageyama, over on otaku2.com. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit from the interview is: PG: What song are you most proud of? KH: That’s tough, but I guess it would have to be “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA.” No matter where I go, people …
Sakura-Con has announced Mayumi Tanaka as a guest of honor. Tanaka is widely known for her portrayal of Kuririn in the Dragon Ball series (as well as characters like Yajirobe and occasionally Uranai Baba, not to mention Luffy in One Piece). The convention is set to take place in Seattle, Washington from April 2-4.
A trailer for the third Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box from FUNimation has popped up as a mislabeled trailer for Volume 2 over on its respective Amazon listing: This trailer is also narrated in-character (similar to the first two), though this time by Sonny Strait as Kuririn. While the trailer does not give a set …