The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
Our good buddy Lemmy has collected a bunch of “Cyber Monday” Amazon sale prices all in one convenient thread over on our forum. There are some pretty great steals here. If you did not grab FUNimation’s DragonBall sets earlier in the month when they were down around $15, you totally win out at a $12-15 …
Announced this past June, a special three-chapter spin-off manga titled Episode of Bardock was published in the August, September, and October issues of Japanese gaming magazine V-Jump. Written and illustrated by Naho Ooishi (also currently responsible for Dragon Ball SD as published in Saikyō Jump), with supervision by Akira Toriyama, the story was part of …
A remake of the storyline from the 1993 Famicom game Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu Keikaku (“Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans”) appeared as an animated feature on last year’s Raging Blast 2 video game for the PS3 and 360, updated and retitled as Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans. Since then, it has only been available on the …
All five “seasons” of the original Dragon Ball TV series are currently $14.99 each on Amazon right now: DB Season 1 ($14.99) @ Amazon DB Season 2 ($14.99) @ Amazon DB Season 3 ($14.99) @ Amazon DB Season 4 ($14.99) @ Amazon DB Season 5 ($14.99) @ Amazon These are the only currently-available versions of …
Namco-Bandai has posted an ¥8.03 billion (approximately $103 million) net income for the first two quarters of fiscal year 2012. Similar to the last several quarters, Dragon Ball did not perform well enough to warrant an inclusion on the top-performing list of franchises for the reporting period — the final one listed is the BEN10 …
Just about two months ago we reported on a listing on the British Board of Film Classification website that detailed a series of extra features which were originally a part of FUNimation’s first “season set” for the Dragon Ball Z TV series. Through attributed to Manga UK, the publisher harshly denied any rumors and — …
The Weekly Jump website recently updated its Saikyō Jump section with a listing of the next issue’s featured manga. The listing shows that the quarterly magazine will indeed contain a fourth chapter of Dragon Ball SD by Naho Ooishi, and thanks to preview pages posted along with the listing, we know it will center around …
From this week’s pages of Jump we have received confirmation that Hironobu Kageyama’s classic DragonBall Z TV first opening theme, “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA”, will be used as the opening theme for Ultimate Blast in Japan. As reported a few days ago, the game will also feature new 2D animation in its story mode, now revealed to …
FUNimation’s Clarine Harp (Director of DVD, Blu-ray and Video Production) and Matt O’Hara (Manager of DVD, Blu-ray and Video Production) were interviewed this week on Anime News Network’s ANNCast, where some new tidbits and discussion regarding the company’s upcoming Blu-ray release of the Dragon Ball Z TV series were dropped. Also included as a part …
Namco-Bandai EU has been on a roll with promotion for the upcoming Ultimate Tenkaichi (Ultimate Blast in its home country of Japan) — yesterday, the branch put up yet another trailer for the game, this time focused on a portion of the story mode, which features new 2D animation: While I am personally hesitant about …