Dragon Ball Z: Budokai HD Collection saw its release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 across North America (and slightly internationally, though not in its original home land of Japan) this past week. Much like we did with Dragon Ball Z for Kinect, we felt it would be helpful to break down some of the …
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Much like with a few instances of Dragon Ball TV series filler and the introduction to Dragon Ball GT, it seems that the original villain from the series — none other than Pilaf himself — will be making at least a cameo in the upcoming Dragon Ball Z movie hitting Japanese theaters next March. The 30th “Prize Fair” …
“Black Friday” — the insane shopping day following Thanksgiving in the United States — occasionally tosses a few nice deals out there for us Dragon Ball fans. Some of this year’s upcoming deals are already starting to leak out, with Best Buy leading the pack: Dragon Ball Z for Kinect (for the Xbox 360 and obviously …
The upcoming January 2013 issue of V-Jump, Shueisha’s video game-focused magazine, will come packaged with a few Dragon Ball goodies. To commemorate the two-year anniversary (and 100-million card sales milestone) of Dragon Ball Heroes, the issue will contain a special celebratory article. Also packed in will be a rare Son Goku card (which is the …
Mere days after Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo)’s cryptic tweets about finishing up a mysterious recording session, Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn) has let slip via her blog just what exactly it was: a continuation of Dragon Ball Kai… with a hitch. 日本ではオンエアされないけど、 海外で続いてるドラゴンボール改 今、天下一武道会、悟天とトランクスが肩車で、 大人の部に混ざる辺りを収録しています。 やはり前より画像が綺麗です。 日本でもオンエアして欲しいなあ～～～と話しました。 真弓より It won’t be aired in Japan, but overseas, Dragon Ball …
03 November 2012, 10:37 AM EDT1 Comment
Japanese rock metal groups Maximum the Hormone and jealkb held a small concert earlier this week on 29 October 2012 at the “Electric Lady Land” live music house in Nagoya, Japan. You may remember that both groups are avid fans of the series, as Maximum the Hormone released the tribute song “F” dedicated to Freeza …
02 November 2012, 10:44 PM EDT3 Comments
Toshio Furukawa, the voice actor for Piccolo, announced today via his Twitter account that they had just finished recording all of their dialogue for a “certain anime”. He even included a photo of the cast after wrapping things up, which included (from left to right) Ryō Horikawa (Vegeta), Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn), Masako Nozawa (Son Goku), …
Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥17.320 billion (approximately $215 million) net income for the first half of fiscal year 2013. Dragon Ball once again made the list of best-performing franchises this half, raking in ¥3.7 billion this first half, down slightly from the ¥4.1 billion the same first half last year. Namco-Bandai is sticking with their projection for …
26 October 2012, 8:06 AM EDT1 Comment
Just about two years ago, Banpresto announced a new line of figures for Dragon Ball and other popular series called the “Master Stars Piece” collection. What made Dragon Ball special was that it would have a special contest — the Zōkei (“Model”) Tenka’ichi Budōkai — via a tournament website to determine which figure from the lot would …
We’re a little behind with our Dragon Ball Heroes news, but hopefully this update will get us all caught up, for now. Hot off the heals of “Galaxy Mission 4”, which was released this last September, the official Dragon Ball Heroes website recently announced that “Galaxy Mission 5” will be available in arcades nation-wide (in …