Toei Animation has announced that Plus Licens has been granted the license to the Dragon Ball franchise in “Nordic and Eastern Europe”. This license covers television, home video, and merchandising rights, but does not extend to video games and publishing. “We are very pleased to be working with Plus Licens AB, who is one of …
It sounds like the first episode of Dragon Ball Kai will have some flashbacks to earlier Dragon Ball (non-“Z”) material, as well as some of the Bardock TV special. Very interesting! Also, as Julian pointed out in our most recent podcast episode (which you should listen to, as we review anything and everything Dragon Ball …
Episode #0168 of the podcast is available for download! You know, we joke time and time again how if we discuss the live-action movie on the podcast, it will “blow up” or otherwise give us horrible technical problems (like it genuinely did back on Episode #0148). Sure enough, while editing the podcast I noticed how …
Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo) gives us more information regarding Dragon Ball Kai with another blog update from the other day. Masaharu Satō will be playing the role of Kame-Sen’nin, as opposed to what seemed (and what we would have guessed) to be the character’s formal replacement actor, Hiroshi Masuoka. As a bit of background, Kame-Sen’nin’s original …
The Fuji TV website has announced that Kenji Yamamoto will be responsible for the background music of Dragon Ball Kai. While it is unfortunate that Shunsuke Kikuchi’s score will not be making a return, those unfamiliar with Kenji Yamamoto will be happy to hear that he has actually been involved with the series and its …
Our old buddy Greg (who ran “The Ulimate DBZ Info Site” for many years, starting it up back in 1997, a year before this site began) has posted up his review and thoughts on Dragon Ball Evolution over in our forum. Hopefully we will be able to get Julian to go see it this weekend, …
The official website for Dragon Ball Kai has updated with details on the upcoming Tokyo International Anime Fair and its Dragon Ball-related events. We knew from a prior update that on March 20th the singer of the new theme song would appear, and that Masako Nozawa would also be on-hand for an interview. Since then, …
It looks like next week will see a couple CD releases that those looking forward to the upcoming Dragon Ball Evolution might be interested in. Amazon has listings for both the “soundtrack” for $14.99 and another “soundtrack” (which is actually the movie’s score as composed by Brian Tyler) for $17.99, both listing for about the …
Episode #0167 of the podcast is available for download! Since the “Rule” CD single didn’t come in until recording day (which actually lets us do an all-Evolution episode next week), we decided to bring on prior guests Hujio and Corey to talk some more DragonBall Kai with us. We have all seen the new commercial …
We have been following these manga delays for a while, so it is no real surprise to see that a couple of the upcoming omnibus “Viz Big” editions for the “DBZ” portion of the manga have been delayed… again. DBZ #4 (covering tankōbon 26-28) has been pushed back from 21 April 2009 to 23 June …