Following up on previous “Dragon Ball Movie Frontline” interviews, the Dragon Ball Official Site shared a new interview with Dragon Ball Super: Broly composer Norihito Sumitomo back in October. In the interview, Sumitomo discusses his initial work with the Dragon Ball franchise, separating that from what came before, and working through the score to the […]
This weekend’s Jump Festa event included various Super Dragon Ball Heroes game reveals during the franchise’s stage presentation yesterday (beyond a continuation of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime, no additional story projects were formally announced). While this particular stage presentation was not live streamed, Twitter user @SaikyoDevin provided video with comments from Akira […]
The latest additions to our “Translations” archive come from a two-page spread in last month’s January 2019 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine as part of the promotional lead-up to the Dragon Ball Super: Broly theatrical film. First up, the magazine conducts a brief interview with film director Tatsuya Nagamine chatting up the end of the […]
The eighth collected volume of Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Super manga — originally and currently serialized on a monthly basis in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine — officially hit Japanese shelves this week on 04 December 2018 for ¥440 + tax. Spanning 200 pages, the volume covers chapters 37-40. The volume takes its title of “‘Sign’ of Son […]
The latest translation to our archives comes from the 1995 #28 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump and its “Anime J Wing” column, pieces of which are often passed around untranslated and/or doctored alongside various agendas or by unsuspecting, eager-to-learn fans: This particular issue came just three issues after the end of the manga’s serialization, and […]
The latest addition to our increasingly-falling-behind “Lyrics” section skips over the last few years’ worth of material in order to charge ahead to franchise’s latest song: “Blizzard” by Daichi Miura, the main theme to the forthcoming Dragon Ball Super: Broly theatrical film. READ THE FULL LYRICS Please note that this transcription and translation may be […]
Each month, Toyotarō provides a sketch — as well as a brief comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website for a character that has not appeared in Dragon Ball Super. Thus far, Toyotarō has provided sketches of #8, Lunch, Chapa with Oob, Tambourine, Man-Wolf, Tapion, Janenba, Broli, Ozotto, Ginyu, and Bardock. For his […]
The 1986 No. 3 issue of TeLePAL magazine, a television-focused publication not unlike TV Guide in the U.S., features a talk between Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama and fellow cartoonist Rumiko Takahashi regarding the then-upcoming animated adaptations of their latest comics: Dragon Ball for Toriyama, and Maison Ikkoku for Takahashi. The interview, which provides a […]
Each month, Toyotarō provides a sketch — as well as a brief comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website for a character that has not appeared in Dragon Ball Super. Thus far, Toyotarō has provided sketches of #8, Lunch, Chapa with Oob, Tambourine, Man-Wolf, Tapion, Janenba, Broli, Ozotto, and Ginyu. For his October […]
Each month, Toyotarō provides a sketch — as well as a brief comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website for a character that has not appeared in Dragon Ball Super. Thus far, Toyotarō has provided sketches of #8, Lunch, Chapa with Oob, Tambourine, Man-Wolf, Tapion, Janenba, Broli, and Ozotto. For his September entry, […]
