The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
animeanime.jp (also adapted and translated by Anime News Network) has revealed that Dragon Ball background music composer Shunsuke Kikuchi has received the 2nd place “International Award” from the Japanese Society for Right of Authors, Composers, and Publishers (“JASRAC”) for the amount of money generated overseas in the previous year thanks to his score for Dragon …
By way of Robert’s Anime Corner, we have learned that FUNimation’s “Part 5” of their home DVD and Blu-ray release of Dragon Ball Kai (released domestically as Dragon Ball Z Kai) has been delayed for a second time to 28 June 2011. This delay was in conjunction with a slew of other FUNimation products, unlike …
Namco-Bandai just sent out the official press release announcing Dragon Ball Game Project Age 2011, confirming its development by Spike, who has been responsible for the Sparking! (PS2, Wii) and Raging Blast (PS3, 360) games over the last half-decade. THE UNSTOPPABLE SAGA LIVES ON WITH DRAGON BALL® GAME PROJECT! Dragon Ball Game Project AGE 2011 …
While the rest of the Internet is busy talking about SoulCalibur V (which is admittedly pretty exciting), those of us following along with the Dragon Ball franchise have been waiting for additional tidbits on the so-called Game Project Age 2011, first revealed in Jump this past week. The game was further unveiled by Namco-Bandai at …
Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥1.8 billion (approximately $22.3 million) profit for the fiscal 2011 year. In comparison to their other franchises, Dragon Ball did not perform well enough to warrant an inclusion on the top-performing list of franchises for the fiscal year, something hinted at in Q3 2011 when it did not show up for …
From today until next Sunday, Viz is offering 20% off the price of volumes 1 through 16 of the Dragon Ball manga via their iOS manga app. For those of you living in the future and who care about saving trees, this might be a good route to go to catch up on how the …
Happinet’s official release website has updated their Dragon Ball Kai listings for the 15th DVD volume and 4th Blu-ray box of the “Artificial Humans & Cell arc”. Both releases are due out 02 August 2011 and will indeed include the 98th episode of Dragon Ball Kai that was produced, but never aired on Fuji TV …
Hot on the heels of its official announcement earlier this week, a new website for Dragon Ball Game Project Age 2011 has opened: http://b.bngi-channel.jp/dba/ There is not a whole lot there just yet, but promises of at least a video clip and additional information should be enough to keep folks salivating for a little while …
About a week ago, word began to leak around that a new video game would be announced in an upcoming issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan, with a Tales blog naming it as “Dragon Ball Game Project Age 2011”. This week, the game was officially unveiled in Jump: Indeed titled Dragon Ball Game Project …
When two of the individual DVD releases of Dragon Ball Kai were delayed in Japan last month, without ever being stated that it was due to the music fiasco (a result of “multiple suspicious musical pieces which may infringe on the rights of third parties” as announced by Toei a month prior to that), it …