Long-time friend of the site Rachel pointed out to us that Mitsuaki Madono, who replaced Hirotaka Suzuoki as Tenshinhan in Burst Limit (PS3 & Xbox 360 fighting game last year), is reprising that role in the new Wii game Tenka’ichi Dai-Bōken… despite Hikaru Midorikawa sealing it up for Dragon Ball Kai. Very strange situation with …
Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥2.8 billion loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2010. In terms of Dragon Ball overall, the franchise dropped in net sales from ¥4.3 billion in Q1 2009 to ¥2.3 billion this quarter, though the company is forecasting a full year net sales figure of ¥17 billion, up from ¥15.8 last …
As opposed to the unfortunate news out of Germany, our buddy sangofe also popped in to let us know that France will finally be getting a proper release of the original Dragon Ball TV series. It will be dual-language, and where the French dub was edited, the language track will swap over to Japanese to …
Our buddy Timo popped in to let us know about an exciting home release coming in Germany! Not only are they getting box sets from “Anime Virtual”, but it is… the old edited, dub-only version as-is from its airing on RTL2 with video material nearly 20 years old. Timo goes on to note that the …
Episode #0185 of the podcast is available for download! Julian and Jeff are both with us this week as we dive into Volume 29 in our “Manga Review of Awesomeness”. The new jinzôningen (or, hey… “mecha-men”, if you will…!) arc is getting into the swing of things. We certainly had some interesting thoughts about where …
As you may know, FUNimation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre, having been purchased in 2005. Today, Navarre released their fiscal-year 2010 quarter one figures. Of particular note to Dragon Ball fans is the amount noted concerning Namco-Bandai. As reported earlier this month, Namco-Bandai has entered into a five-year agreement with FUNimation to be the …
Kurt wrote in to let us know that his order for the upcoming fifth “Viz Big” release of Dragon Ball Z has been delayed. We checked in with some of the supposedly-upcoming volumes, and here is what the schedule seems to be of currently-listed volumes: Dragon Ball VizBig 5 (Volumes 13-15) Release Date: 18 August …
Episode #0184 of the podcast is available for download! We have a doozy for you this week. We brought on Heath (Kanzentai) and Marc (The Fanboy Review) to discuss FUNimation’s announcement of “Dragon Box” sets for the DBZ series. Beyond just the announcement itself, we also go incredibly in-depth with a history lesson on how …
Needless to say, it was an exciting weekend to be an American Dragon Ball fan down in Baltimore for Otakon. FUNimation announced at their industry panel at Otakon that, among other new licenses and upcoming products, they would be releasing the first of seven “Dragon Box” sets for the Dragon Ball Z TV series on …
FUNimation has announced a new team-up with Namco to provide Dragon Ball Z figures in a new crane game available at amusement parks, theaters, etc. FUNIMATION AND NAMCO CYBERTAINMENT INC. BRING ANIME’S GREATEST HERO TO GAME CENTERS ACROSS THE U.S. Anime Leader and Major Amusement Game Operator Introduce Game Featuring Dragon Ball Z Figures Flower …