The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
Hot on the heels of episode 82’s new insert song inclusion last month, this past weekend’s episode 85 of Dragon Ball Kai featured not one, but two new insert songs. “My 18th Magic”, performed by cAnON., played on the radio in the background of a scene with the Son family and Kuririn driving along, shortly …
The new Dragon Ball manga spin-off, Dragon Ball SD, made its debut today in Shueisha’s new magazine, Saikyō Jump. You will recall that this spin-off comes from mangaka Naho Ooishi; however, original series author Akira Toriyama is listed as supervising the manga — in fact, the credits are the same as the Jump Super Anime …
The cover art for the upcoming Nintendo DS fighting game, Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden, has made its way online:
A few sites are reporting that the upcoming arcade game ZENKAI Battle Royale will run on Namco’s own PS3-based System 357 hardware (similar to how Super Dragon Ball Z ran on the PS2-based System 246 hardware), meaning an eventual home port is more likely. The game’s official website has also revealed that it will be …
Following up on their website for ZENKAI Battle Royale from just a few days ago, Namco-Bandai has just opened up the official website for next February’s DS fighting game, Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden: www.bandaigames.channel.or.jp/list/ds_dragonball_kai/ There are a couple screen shots of the game seen before in Jump, but we are probably only just getting …
This past weekend’s episode 82 of Dragon Ball Kai featured a new insert song: “Tatta Hitori no Senshi” (“The Lone Warrior”), performed by Takeshi Kusao, who happens to be the voice actor of Trunks. The song recently appeared on the new album Dragon Ball Kai Soundtrack III & Songs, though there was no hint that …
The confirmations are just coming one after another! After hearing about two new trademarks filed in Japan last week, more solid bits of information on Namco-Bandai’s latest Dragon Ball video games are coming in quick succession. In addition to Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden coming on the Nintendo DS in February, we have Dragon Ball: …
Earlier this week, we reported news from Siliconera that Namco-Bandai had trademarked two new video game titles that potentially had something to do with the Dragon Ball franchise, including one called “Ultimate Butōden” (アルティメット武闘伝). A Japanese Tales fansite/blog is reporting that an upcoming magazine will reveal Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden as a fighting game …
Raging Blast 2 was released in Japan 11 November 2010, which means that we now have some first-week sales figures for the game. It managed to grab the number-two spot this past week, selling 47,610 copies on the PS3 (the Xbox 360 version does not appear anywhere within the top twenty performing titles). There are …
About a week ago, Shueisha announced plans to release a new magazine called Saikyō Jump. At the time, this news had nothing to do with our favorite franchise — other series were receiving spin-offs from new artists (including One Piece), but Dragon Ball was not listed. Well, things have changed — we are getting one, …