Last month, FUNimation officially announced what we had long since known: the company would be re-releasing the Dragon Ball Z TV series on Blu-ray. The new release, officially out today, is the company’s second attempt at releasing the original version of Dragon Ball Z on Blu-ray. During these on-and-off releases, the “refreshed” Dragon Ball Kai …
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Following up on our recent posting of a short Masako Nozawa interview from earlier in the year, we have yet another piece of translation work from the never-ending pile of Battle of Gods promotional material. This time around, it is a joint interview between Shōko Nakagawa and original manga author Akira Toriyama! Originally posted on …
This is just a quick, little, relatively-insignificant addition to our “Translations” section, but in our never-ending journey to catalog virtually every bit of Battle of Gods promotional coverage, we present to you yet another Masako Nozawa interview translation! This one comes via the May 2013 issue of OtonaFami in Japan. In the interview, Nozawa regurgitates …
Despite us still getting around to digging into this month’s issue of V-Jump, we find ourselves still catching up with the wealth of information from last month’s issue! The December 2013 issue (which was officially released back on 21 October 2013) had a series of interviews with various authors and artists promoting all sorts of …
On 13 September 2013, months following the premiere of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods in theaters across Japan, Toei finally released the franchise’s first theatrical film in 17 years to the home video market. We gave everyone a first glimpse at the packaging as our own Julian (“SaiyaJedi”) received his copy a day before …
Now that the onslaught of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods movie news and work has more-or-less blown over, we’re finally getting back to porting over all of those missing movie information pages in the “Movie Guide”. So, picking up where we left off, we’re jumping into the late-1980s and early-1990s to bring you the …
Dedicated Kanzenshuu readers may have been wondering over the last couple months why we have not kept up with the usual detailing of Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission chapters, or why our Dragon Ball SD documentation abruptly concluded with the four original quarterly chapters. We have been hard at work behind the scenes on a …
Living in Japan has its perks sometimes, like being able to see the new film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods on its release day in theaters, and also being able to receive its home release a day early! Our own Julian (“SaiyaJedi”) received his shipment at work today, and took a couple quick videos …
We began receiving an official English translation of the Dragon Ball manga from Viz around fifteen years ago. If you asked me then how many editions we would have in fifteen years’ time, I likely would not have been able to come up with anything resembling an accurate answer. Much like I will be purchasing …
Takao Koyama is a name that is likely familiar to most of the Kanzenshuu audience. Having been the main writer for all thirteen previous theatrical Dragon Ball Z films as well as the “series organizer” for the Dragon Ball Z TV series, the man is quite intimately familiar with the franchise. The new film Dragon …