Episode #0171 of the podcast is available for download! This week is a doozy with us not only doing our regularly-scheduled Volume 26 in the “Manga Review of Awesomeness”, but we also start-up the appropriately-titled “DragonBall Kai Review of Awesomeness”…! That’s right, mere hours after its debut airing, we already have thoughts for you. Tune …
Toei’s website for Dragon Ball Kai has announced that none other than Hikaru Midorikawa will be the formal replacement voice for Tenshinhan in Dragon Ball Kai (in place of the late and great Hirotaka Suzuoki). Midorikawa previously played the roles of #16 and Paikuhan in the series, so it will be interesting to see his …
29 March 2009, 10:25 PM EDTComment
Episode #0170 of the podcast is available for download! This week it was just Meri and I, so we dipped back and took a more thorough look at Ayumi Hamasaki’s “Rule/Sparkle” CD+DVD single. You heard some general thoughts about it two weeks ago on the show, but tune in for more in-depth thoughts and tons …
27 March 2009, 6:53 AM EDTComment
It looks like the American debut of Dragon Ball Evolution has been delayed yet again, though this time it just goes back from a Wednesday to a Friday. Instead of the pretty firm April 8th release date, we are now set to go on Friday, April 10th.
25 March 2009, 11:37 AM EDTComment
While it is general video game industry news, it certainly affects Dragon Ball fandom in a huge way. According to a news piece over on Gamasutra, Infogrames (Atari’s full owner at this point) has agreed to sell a 66% stake in its “sales, marketing, and retail distribution” business called “Distribution Partners” to Namco-Bandai. “Distribution Partners” …
While Wasted Wisher has already noted to us that scenes from the Bardock TV special would be used in the first episode of Kai, an upcoming issue of Jump apparently confirms that Freeza will be making an appearance in the first episode, so this all lines up pretty well. Additionally, Jump states that a CD …
22 March 2009, 8:26 PM EDTComment
Episode #0169 of the podcast is available for download! We originally wanted to do a “bonus” episode mid-week to follow up and do a more thorough review of the “Rule” CD single, but that didn’t end up happening. We considered doing that for this week’s regular episode, but decided that a more traditional topic would …
As we predicted based on the short blurb about a CD single release for the Dragon Ball Kai opening theme, we are going to get double-dipped with the new opening and ending themes getting their own separate releases. CDJapan is listing the opening theme, “Dragon Soul”, coming out 20 May 2009 in both a regular …
21 March 2009, 11:56 AM EDTComment
Our buddy Marc (The Fanboy Review) has a few gaming tidbits for us. Apparently Dragon Ball Evolution for the PSP did around a mere 1,200 copies in its first day. A Japanese blog gives a little break-down of first-day sales for other recent Dragon Ball games, so you can see just how much of a …
21 March 2009, 11:55 AM EDTComment
Digital Media is reporting that five marketing agencies went after the Dragon Ball Online market in Asia, but it went to TBWA in the end. The account is estimated at 2 billion KRW (or approximately $1.34 million). TBWA will be handling a full-scale marketing blitz for the game from April to August.