The official Dragon Ball games Twitter account — both in Japanese and in English (by way of Bandai Namco) — announced today that the 2020 video game Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is set to receive continued development support. #ドラゴンボールZKAKAROT『ドラゴンボールZ KAKAROT』は今後も展開を予定しております。どうぞ続報をお待ちください！ — 「ドラゴンボール」家庭用ゲーム公式 (@dbgame_official) March 21, 2024 『ドラゴンボールZ KAKAROT』は今後も展開を予定しております。 どうぞ続報をお待ちください！” Developed by CyberConnect2 for Bandai Namco, …
Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s 103rd chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”. After three chapters worth of original prologue material, the manga version of the arc covered the …
16 March 2024, 6:30 PM EDTComment
Kentarō Yabuki — now a modern mangaka legend in his own right — took to Twitter to reflect on the passing of Akira Toriyama, and in the process shared his original design for “Gohanks”: a fan contest submission that was later reimagined into a “real” character. Yabuki initially shared: This is going to be a …
15 March 2024, 12:58 PM EDTComment
Last week, the Chunichi Shimbun published an interview/article (both on the front page of the morning print issue on March 9, as well as paywalled on their website) with Hisashi Tanaka, Akira Toriyama’s first assistant, reflecting on the creator’s passing this month. His First Assistant Bids Farewell “The fact that I was able to continue …
12 March 2024, 8:39 PM EDTComment
On the evening of Saturday, March 9, 2024, we kept up our usual weekly tradition of streaming Mario Kart… except this time we had something important on our mind that we needed to talk about. You’ll see and hear us working out our feelings and thoughts on the passing of Akira Toriyama, just mere days …
11 March 2024, 8:58 PM EDTComment
Earlier this week, the Chunichi Shimbun published an article/interview with Takashi Matsuyama, Akira Toriyama’s second assistant, reflecting on the creator’s passing this month. The article corroborates other reports of Toriyama apparently undergoing surgery for a brain tumor. “Never gave an inch with his creations” — former assistant Illustrator Takashi Matsuyama (66, pictured, of Seki, Gifu), …
11 March 2024, 1:18 PM EDT1 Comment
Originally announced back in December, Akira Toriyama was selected for a Lifetime Achievement Award in conjunction with the 2024 Tokyo Anime Award Festival. Toriyama was honored with the award at the event held in Tokyo over the weekend, where volumes of his various manga as well as character designs were on display. Though he unfortunately …
Though first announced back in October 2023, up to this point there had been no formal declaration of a distribution or broadcast medium for the forthcoming animated series Dragon Ball Daima. This morning, the official Dragon Ball Twitter account announced that Dragon Ball Daima will in fact be broadcast on Fuji TV when it debuts …
The 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 the …
08 March 2024, 2:32 PM EST2 Comments
Akira Toriyama — original author/illustrator of Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, and creator of countless other works and various contributions to other franchises and our culture as a whole — passed away on March 1, 2024 at age 68. The announcements initially came by way of the “Dragon Ball Official Site” and Shueisha (on the official …