The first commercial (a simple 15-second spot) for Dragon Ball Kai, the upcoming “refreshed” version of the Dragon Ball Z TV series put together for its 20th anniversary, has made its way online. The screen shot above is from the 16:9 commercial, and showcases a bit of the color correction, clean-up, and other work put …
The official website for Dragon Ball Kai notes that the new theme song will be premiered at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 20th, and the singer of the song will be there. In addition to that, Masako Nozawa will be on-hand and interviewed. Still waiting for some type of confirmation on whether we …
23 February 2009, 1:50 PM ESTComment
The official website for Dragon Ball Kai has gone live! There is not much there yet, but you can check out the logo and bookmark it for more prettiness down the road.
22 February 2009, 7:49 PM ESTComment
Episode #0165 of the podcast is available for download! This week we gave a little recap of all the huge news going on (in fact, I had to do a little break-away during the show’s editing to record a little extra based on today’s stuff). Sure, there’s no “topic” like our normal episodes, but that …
22 February 2009, 11:16 AM ESTComment
It looks like the previously-announced Dragon Ball Z Story for the Nintendo DS has been renamed Dragon Ball Kai: Saiya-jin Raishū (“Saiyan Invasion”), and will be hitting the DS over there in Japan 21 May 2009 (there is still no word on a domestic release).
22 February 2009, 11:15 AM ESTComment
The latest issue of V-Jump (in addition to breaking some news on Dragon Ball Kai) reveals that a manga adaptation of the 2008 Jump Super Anime Tour Special will be published in the May issue of V-Jump (to be released 21 March 2009): The adaptation will not be drawn by Akira Toriyama, but instead by …
A fresh page from V-Jump details even more information on the upcoming Dragon Ball Kai: The opening stuff is the standard fare we have come to expect from the earlier announcements (like “Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Start of Dragon Ball Z’s Broadcast!” and “The Son Goku Legend, Once More!! And its name is… …
Wasted Wisher has not led us wrong in the past yet, so we have faith that the trend continues! The upcoming “refreshed” version of Dragon Ball Z being produced in HD for Japanese television (now called Dragon Ball Kai, so we will just call it that from here on out) will apparently have the following …
20 February 2009, 4:18 PM ESTComment
We know about Dragon Ball Evolution coming for the PSP in the next couple months (March in Japan, April in the US), and we know about Dragon Ball Z Story coming for the Nintendo DS in the spring over in Japan. Anyone interested in another new game? While we can not confirm any additional details …
17 February 2009, 5:15 PM ESTComment
Check out a new trailer for Dragon Ball Evolution (the game for the movie) over on Game Trailers. It is fully in English, but it is technically the Japanese trailer for the upcoming PSP fighting game based on the upcoming live action movie. Be amazed at the “KamayamaYA!” pronunciation among a couple halfway-interesting things like …