The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
Dragon Ball Kai — under the standard international name of Dragon Ball Z Kai — is making its way to home video in France later this year. A nine-disc DVD box set (no Blu-ray set seems to be announced) called Saga Des Saiyens & Saga De Freezer will be released by AB in France 08 …
As a part of what appears to be called the “Sparking Campaign” with eight new cards, new updates for Dragon Ball Heroes (the Japanese card-based arcade game follow-up to prior Bakuretsu Impact and Dragon Battlers games) will include a new Super Saiyan 3 transformation for Gogeta, the fusion dance combination of Son Goku and Vegeta …
The cover art and release date (11 September 2012) for FUNimation’s third “season” release of Dragon Ball Kai (released under the name Dragon Ball Z Kai) has popped up online: Much like with the first two “seasons”, FUNimation’s recent sets repackage the prior “Part (#)” two-disc releases into a larger four-disc set — “Season Three” …
American spin-off cover band Animetal USA is gearing up for their debut live performance at Anime Expo later this month, as well as the domestic release of their self-titled album (originally released last October in Japan). This domestic release is set to include all of the original pressing’s tracks, along with a few bonus tracks …
California-based Anime Expo has announced Ryō Horikawa — whom our audience will likely best know as the voice of Vegeta — as a Guest of Honor for their upcoming convention, which will take place in Los Angeles from June 29th to July 2nd. For the record, all of the mistakes in the press release below …
Earlier this week, the official website for Zenkai Battle Royale, the arcade-only, multiplayer fighting game in Japan, announced an upcoming update for the game coming in July: Super Saiyan Awakening (Sūpā Saiya-jin Kakusei): Four of these Super Saiyans will be added as “new characters”: Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, and Trunks. In addition to being able to …
Tying in with various Dragon Ball Heroes updates (and eventually Episode of Bardock), last summer Shueisha announced a Dragon Ball Z Special Selection DVD which would contain both the Bardock and Trunks TV Specials on DVD at an incredibly reduced price (¥1000). The disc came in larger packaging typical of convenience-store-esque cheap items, and brought …
As per the norm, the European branch of Namco-Bandai is pumping out new trailers for their upcoming Dragon Ball games ahead of both Japan and North America! This time around, Dragon Ball Z for Kinect is featured with its QR code functionality, which was revealed back during the game’s original announcement: Over 20 QR codes …
UPDATE: It seems fandom got a bum steer on this one. The sources listed below grabbed the news per the usual cycle and locations (text descriptions of upcoming magazines 3-5 days before release on Japanese chat/image boards), but it was unfortunately all just a ruse on the part of one Japanese fan, most likely taking …
It was back at the end of March that Walmart and a couple other online retailers put up listings for a so-called Dragon Ball Z “HD” / “HD Collection” for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The price was set at a full $59.99 with a release date of 02 October 2012, and the …