July 10 is a special day for a very different franchise: it is the anniversary of the original Ultraman promotional broadcast back in 1966! In this fun Twitter thread, take a quick tour through some of Akira Toriyama’s references to Ultraman — you’re bound to learn something new! Today (July 10) is Ultraman Day (https://t.co/H1t6IoFn7U)! …
SHOW DESCRIPTION: Episode #0482! Mike and Meri literally clean house with a discussion on fansub organization, consolidating broadcast tapes, action figure history, and much more! SEGMENTS: 00:13 – Introduction 01:17 – Discussion 42:22 – Wrap-up REFERENCED SITES: PHOTO TWEET: Mike’s First Fansubs PHOTO TWEET: Box of Fansubs PHOTO TWEET: “Burst Limit” Shirt PHOTO TWEET: “Ultimate …
Following today’s fourth episode premiere, the official Super Dragon Ball Heroes website announced a title and summary for the upcoming fifth episode of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime‘s new “Universe Creation Arc” (under the larger umbrella of the game’s current “Big Bang Mission” update series). Similar to episode four’s original announcement, no debut …
FUNimation has announced that their upcoming online convention, FunimationCon 2020, will feature a pre-recorded interview with Masako Nozawa: Toei Animation Presents Dragon Ball Super Interview Featuring Voice Actress Masako Nozawa Toei Animation presents an exclusive English-language interview with Nozawa-san, the Japanese voice actress for Dragon Ball’s protagonist Goku. Don’t miss this special opportunity to hear from her …
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 June 2020 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a new image of the Mermaid from early on in Son Goku’s …
Shueisha has listed an 04 August 2020 release date for the thirteenth collected volume of Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Super manga series, which will retail for ¥440 (+ tax) in print. The volume will pick up with the fifty-seventh chapter of the series; the twelfth collected volume saw its release in Japan back in April spanning …
While Dragon Ball Super‘s manga-exclusive “Galactic Patrol Prisoner Arc” is still ongoing (beginning back in chapter 42 in the January 2019 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, and continuing today in chapter 61), the fight has been brought to Earth, and the Galactic Patrol — beyond just Jaco himself, now — has seen a great deal …
Continuing onward from previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s sixty-first chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, moving further into the original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release …
The latest addition to our “Press Archive” is a fun blast-from-the-past: a TV Guide article from October 1996 previewing the syndication broadcast debut of the Dragon Ball Z English dub from FUNimation. While the article itself is not particularly notable in and of itself, it was subject to a pretty fun (in retrospect, anyway!) discussion …
Viz’s tenth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga will be released 01 September 2020, covering chapters 41-44 a la its Japanese counterpart: The Tournament of Power is over and Goku and Vegeta have embarked on a new adventure…in space! The Galactic Patrol experiences its worst prison break ever, and the evil Moro—a planet-eating …