The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
We are a little late on this, but the numbers are finally interesting to us, again! Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥8.275 billion (approximately $101.7 million) profit for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012. Unlike the last several quarters, the Dragon Ball franchise actually performed well enough to show up in the top five-to-six franchises …
There was a bit of concern among fandom a little over a month ago when FUNimation announced that the first four “parts” of their Z Kai release (on both DVD and Blu-ray) were being discontinued in favor of “season” sets. “Part 7” was still on the books for a late March release, coming in a …
We really dropped the ball on this one. Despite receiving the issue about a week ago and flipping through it briefly, we totally missed something pretty neat. The April 2012 issue of V-Jump was set to receive a reprint of Episode of Bardock, Naho Ooishi’s spin-off sequel manga to Bardock’s TV special from back in …
Though we mentioned this in the most recent podcast episode, we neglected to make a proper news update about it! FUNimation’s May solicitations confirm “Season 1” and “Season 2” collections of Kai from the company, which would not be strange were it not for the fact that “Season 1” has already been released. The first …
Following up on the initial report and rating board leak of an upcoming Dragon Ball Z game for the Xbox 360’s Kinect, now the British Board of Film Classification has rated a title simply called “Dragon Ball Z For Kinect” (rated for ages 12 and up), but also with a release date: 15 June 2012. …
Blistered Thumbs tossed out their own report earlier this month that Namco-Bandai was potentially working on a Dragon Ball Z game for the hands-free Kinect for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Just this morning, Siliconera noted a rating for the simply-titled Dragon Ball Z Kinect action game on Korea’s Game Rating Board confirming the game’s existence. No …
Shueisha will reprint the three-chapter Episode of Bardock spin-off manga by Naho Ooishi in the upcoming April 2012 issue of V-Jump in Japan. The short new story by Ooishi (who is also currently responsible for Dragon Ball SD in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine) was originally printed in one chapter intervals in the August, September, and …
Perhaps in light of the recent news that FUNimation has (after only six months from the original project announcement) suspended all work on their own in-house Blu-ray remaster of the Dragon Ball Z TV series, FUNimation has put up a new survey indicating they are interested in releasing additional Dragon Box versions of the franchise, …
The Spanish website ANMTV is reporting that Arait Multimedia has confirmed they have acquired the distribution rights for Dragon Ball Kai in Spain. As done elsewhere internationally (i.e. outside of Japan), the series will be released under the title Dragon Ball Z Kai. The company has also announced plans to start dubbing the series in …
FUNimation has discontinued a few of their licensed properties, including the first four volumes of Dragon Ball Z Kai on both Blu-ray and DVD, according to an update posted on RightStuf yesterday. In an appended update, Crunchyroll News noted that FUNimation confirmed these four volumes were discontinued in favor of “season” sets, with “season two” …