Last month’s September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The celebration aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, with the images and an accompanying comment published as …
01 September 2021, 4:10 PM EDTComment
It is September 2021, which means FUNimation’s English dub of the Dragon Ball Z television series kicked off in syndication 25 years ago this month. What specific date did it actually debut, though? And is there more to this story? Did Dragon Ball Z actually air on American television years before this?! Read the Full …
19 August 2021, 11:03 AM EDTComment
Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his August 2021 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Papoi (and others!) relating to the Afterlife Tournament filler …
18 August 2021, 11:29 AM EDTComment
Continuing onward from previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s seventy-fifth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing the brand-new “Granolla the Survivor arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the …
16 August 2021, 12:32 PM EDTComment
SHOW DESCRIPTION: Episode #0489! Mike and Ian discuss the evolving craft of the “Dragon Ball Super” manga series and all four of its key players: just how involved is Akira Toriyama in the most recent two arcs, how creative is Toyotarō allowed or encouraged to be, and how much authority do Akio Iyoku and Victory …
Last week’s September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a new “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The first contribution to the series, which aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, comes courtesy of …
21 July 2021, 11:46 AM EDTComment
Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his July 2021 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Paikuhan (and others!) from the Afterlife Tournament filler arc …
Continuing onward from previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s seventy-fourth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing the brand-new “Granolla the Survivor arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the …
Shueisha has listed the sixteenth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō and the second collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Big Bang Mission!!! manga series by Yoshitaka Nagayama as releasing 04 August 2021 in Japan for ¥484 each. The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” began in June 2015, initially …
22 June 2021, 2:52 PM EDTComment
The latest addition to our “Press Archive” is another fun blast-from-the-past: a general overview of the “anime invasion” from the August 14, 1995 issue of Newsweek, which happens to also mention the impending broadcast of FUNimation’s English dub of the Dragon Ball television series. Imported by cultists since the ’60s, Japanese animation, or “anime,” is …