Viz will be releasing the entirety of the Dragon Ball portion of their manga 03 February 2009 (DB volumes 1-16): Viz will also be releasing the entirety of the Dragon Ball Z portion of their manga on the same day (DB volumes 17-42):
A while back we told you about a funny story from Texas where a guy tried to steal some Dragon Ball Z DVDs from his local Wal-Mart. This new story comes to us from Japan, where a 21-year-old man and two teenage cohorts totally one-uped the American hick by stealing an entire gashapon machine. From …
While it is unfortunately not a new console game, the 40th anniversary of “Shonen Jump” brings us more crossover goodness in the form of Bandai’s new Let’s!TV Play game, “Dragon Ball Z x One Piece: Batoru Taikan Gomu-Gomu no Kamehameha ~omee no koe de ora wo yobu~” (“DragonBall Z & One Piece: Battle Sensation Gum-Gum …
FUNimation will finally be breaking their shockingly accurate chronological consistency for the first time in the next “remastered” series of releases by packing DBZ movies 7 and 9 together: Skipping the eighth movie makes sense if they plan to release the Broli movies (perhaps all three) together in one package. This double feature set (with …
Anime News Network reports that FUNimation has finally decided to go after DiscountAnimeDVD.com and its associated persons and businesses for bootleg DVDs: Funimation’s legal representative filed the lawsuit in August. The suit is still active, pending a scheduling conference between all parties that is set for November 17 in a Los Angeles courtroom. The lawsuit …
There is nothing of huge interest this time around for Navarre, FUNimation’s parent company. The only slight bit of news was the following note regarding the “publishing segment” of Navarre, which includes FUNimation: Net sales for the publishing segment were $27.4 million (before inter-company eliminations) for the first quarter fiscal 2009 compared to $29.6 million …
Episode #0150 of the podcast is available for download! That’s right, Meri and I have returned from our wonderful vacation consisting of those pesky little “wedding” and “honeymoon” things! We are right back into the swing of things, though, and joined back up with Julian to do a podcast of catching-up on news. Definitely check …
Right on the heels of “Infinite World” on the PS2, “Dragon Ball: Origins” (originally released in Japan as “Dragon Ball DS”) for the Nintendo DS has gone gold and is also ready for its North American release from Atari: ‘Dragon Ball: Origins’ Goes Gold – Atari Completes Development on the First Action-Adventure Dragon Ball Game …
Not much to report here other than the fact that games are at least finished for their North American releases and should be in stores on schedule! ‘Dragon Ball Z(R): Infinite World’ Goes Gold – Development Complete on Final Dragon Ball Z Game for PlayStation 2 System that Combines the Greatest Elements from the World-renowned …
Episode #0149 of the podcast is available for download! This is probably going to finish out shows for the month, but hopefully you can all get along without new podcast material for a couple weeks! For the last show before our break, we dove into volume twenty (Viz’s DBZ Volume 4) of the manga. The …