The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥19.3 billion (approximately $241.7 million) profit for the fiscal 2012 year. Unlike last year, Dragon Ball rebounded enough to warrant an inclusion on the top-performing list of franchises for the fiscal year. The franchise dropped from ¥15.8 billion in 2009 to ¥12.5 billion in 2010 to ¥8.3 billion in 2011, but …
C21Media reports a couple little updates from Latin America this week. Colombia’s CityTV is on a roll, having acquired all 291 episodes of the Dragon Ball Z TV series as well as the 98 episodes of its 20th anniversary “refreshed” edition, Dragon Ball Kai. Additionally, Ecuador’s Ecuavisa has renewed its license for the franchise, as …
Those of you who keep up with the international items in the “releases” portion of our weekly podcast have probably been wondering where the Dutch kanzenban has been for the last year. So have we! Our forum member Nils_McCloud tossed a note over to Glénat to see what was going on. Last summer’s Volume 13 …
FUNimation’s more-formal “season” set releases of the refreshed Dragon Ball Z Kai series officially begins 22 May 2012, but as per the norm, RightStuf is shipping out orders early… which gives us all a chance to confirm things equally nice and early! After the announcement of possible infringing works in Kenji Yamamoto’s musical score to …
Originally announced back in August 2009, France finally received a proper home release of the first Dragon Ball series spread across two giant collector’s edition DVD box sets, with the second set seeing its release back in May 2010. Taking a card from FUNimation’s play book, it seems AB Video will be re-releasing the series …
Originally announced back in late 2010 and more formally launched almost a year ago in May 2011, the Japanese, arcade-only, multiplayer fighter Zenkai Battle Royale has still been getting consistent updates, including the most recent revision which includes two new playable characters: Mr. Satan and Majin Boo. Mr. Satan participates, believing all the fancy energy …
While the larger story is more relevant to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, 4Kids’ proposed assets sale to (what appears to be) Saban-owned KidsCo Media Ventures LLC includes a couple interesting tidbits relating to Dragon Ball, and more specifically the North American TV broadcast of Kai. (…) all of Seller’s rights under the Dragon Ball Term Sheet …
A commercial for a Portuguese-subtitled broadcast of the Japanese version of Dragon Ball Kai has made its way online courtesy of our buddy Puto: The commercial is quite an odd one — it is a subtitle parody (a la our 2004 Dragon Ball AF prank commercial) with the original Japanese audio intact, but with the …
The press embargo for the upcoming Dragon Ball Z for Kinect lifted yesterday, so in addition to its debut trailer, many news outlets are pushing out their hands-on impressions and such. As expected, the game will contain over 50 characters and over 100 unique moves. It will also include one “never-before-seen” character — plenty of …
Namco-Bandai EU has put up the first official trailer for the upcoming Dragon Ball Z for Kinect (Xbox 360) on their YouTube channel: