The December 2012 issue of V-Jump is chock full of Dragon Ball goodness. In addition to some Dragon Ball Heroes news and mini manga, the issue also teases a new, “super aggressive” character coming soon to Zenkai Battle Royale, the arcade-only Japanese fighting game: The silhouette is obviously Zarbon, Freeza’s right-hand lackey. The game’s official …
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Back in the November 2012 issue of V-Jump — Shueisha’s video game magazine in Japan — a new, two-page Dragon Ball Heroes mini manga made its debut. Authored by the mysterious “Toyotarō”, the mini manga was really just a short promotional piece for the card-based arcade game showcasing some of the Dragon Ball GT-focused “Galaxy …
16 October 2012, 2:33 PM EDT1 Comment
Today in Japan, Shueisha — the main company behind the Jump brand and by extension our favorite franchise — launched their new “Jump Book Store!” (ジャンプBOOKストア!) app for the iOS platform. The base app, available for free on both the iPhone and iPad running iOS 5.0 or higher, launches with more than 1,000 individual volumes …
13 October 2012, 9:38 PM EDT2 Comments
CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama announced today at New York Comic-Con (during a live stream at the ShiftyLook Live Stage) that the upcoming (March 2013) Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will contain a bonus Son Goku oufit: …as a day-one order first edition kind of bonus, you will …
Dragon Ball Z for Kinect officially launched in North America this week for the Xbox 360 (and obviously it requires the Kinect add-on). Tons of folks have been asking lots of great questions, and very few of them have been comprehensively answered in one shot. That is where we come in! Below you will find …
The American-produced Dragon Ball Evolution live action movie is receiving its second reduced-price DVD reissue in Japan this holiday season. Originally released to home video in summer 2009, the first reissue (with changed cover art pulled from the North American / international releases) came 02 September 2010. This new reissue appears to be the exact …
03 October 2012, 11:47 AM EDT1 Comment
Back in June we received first word of an upcoming release of Dragon Ball Kai (under the quasi-international Dragon Ball Z Kai moniker) for France — the first set would span episodes 1-54 (wrapping up the Saiyan and Freeza arcs) over nine DVDs. Our buddy sangofe dropped us a note with info on its release …
If we could keep up with Dragon Ball Online — the seemingly-successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game that initially launched in Korea back in 2008 — we would! Thankfully we have a great bunch of community members that keep that drip of information goodness coming, which most recently includes this guy: Thanks to our buddies …
27 September 2012, 9:49 PM EDT6 Comments
With the upcoming Dragon Ball Z movie in Japan set to debut in March, a few fans have speculated whether FUNimation would possibly screen its trailer at the New York Comic Con on 14 October 2012 at 1:30 pm during their industry panel. The majority of these rumors stem from people misconstruing the description for …
Back on 17 July 2012, a few days after the new Dragon Ball Z movie was first announced, Toei released an official press statement for the movie. We unfortunately did not notice it at the time, and frankly, we stopped looking after scriptwriter Yūsuke Watanabe publicly confirmed our suspicions via his Twitter account. That being …