The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
Channel NewsAsia has an interesting piece about Edison Chen from Hong Kong and his debut in an exhibition entitled The Treacherous Tries. As a part of the exhibition, Chen has created fiberglass statues of notable Dragon Ball characters: Chen has other “pop-art” creations, but that giant Goku will be of most interest to you all, …
As a bit of a fun aside, our ever-observant forum members have recently discovered a slew of “hidden messages” on FUNimation’s most recent Dragon Box sets: FUNimation’s fourth Dragon Box for the Dragon Ball Z TV series was released just this week (and is a sweet $36.49 on Amazon). Check out our reviews of the …
TAG VS is due out next week in Japan on 30 September 2010 for ¥5229. Its American release, re-titled Tenkaichi Tag Team, has gone gold and is ready for release 19 October 2010for $39.99: DRAGON BALL Z®: TENKAICHI TAGTEAM GONE GOLD FOR THE PSP® (PLAYSTATION®PORTABLE) SYSTEM Intense Two Vs. Two Action Heading to PSP® system …
The first Raging Blast received a special Collector’s Edition over in Europe which included a booklet and soundtrack — those of us over here in North America had no such luck. It seems as if the sequel’s release will play out in exactly the same way, with Europe getting another Collector’s Edition for Raging Blast …
We have been covering the potential sale of FUNimation by their parent company Navarre for a while now, but no major updates have come since the potential sale was announced at the end of this past May. This week, however, Navarre filed an 8-K noting that during its Annual Meeting of Shareholders that prior day, …
Amazon Japan seems to be the first retailer with a full track listing for the upcoming Dragon Ball Kai Soundtrack III & Songs, due out next week in Japan on 22 September 2010, which has been broken down on our forum by Dragon Ball BGM guru kenisu3000.
We have not been keeping up with every single last character announcement for Raging Blast 2 lately, but a few have cropped up over the last few weeks that are worth mentioning. Making their first playable appearances will be characters like Artificial Human #14 (from the seventh Dragon Ball Z movie), along with other characters …
The official Raging Blast 2 website is now advertising a free character design and conceptual art pamphlet for the new Plan to Exterminate the Super Saiyans animated short which is set to be included with the game. The pamphlet will be included with the game for those who have pre-ordered the Japanese version. Unfortunately there …
Megahouse has unveiled the next addition in their Desktop Real McCoy high quality Dragon Ball figure line. Of course it is none other than Son Goku! You may recall that the first figure in the series featured Goku riding a dinosaur, which was based on the Akira Toriyama – The World cover illustration. This time …
Those of you Australians still waiting for “Part 2” of Kai to come out will not have to wait much longer. As we have mentioned on the podcast, Madman will be distributing FUNimation’s release both on DVD and Blu-ray on 03 November 2010. This set contains episodes 13-26, and was released in North America yesterday. …