The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
We are devastated to learn that Masayuki Uchiyama, animation director and key animator for much of the various series and early movies for the franchise, passed away due to heart failure on August 31st at age 58. His work left quite an impact on the series, and we will all miss him.
The next three Dragon Ball Kai episode titles have been leaked online early — here is a quick run-down of what to expect in the upcoming weeks: Episode 073 – September 19, 2010 「これが超ナメック星人の力！１７号ＶＳピッコロ」 “This is the Power of a Super Namekian! No. 17 vs Piccolo” Episode 074 – September 26, 2010 「逃げろ１７号！ピッコロ、懸命の抗戦」 “Run, No. …
Amazon Japan has revealed the cover art for the first DVD volume and Blu-ray box of the “Artificial Humans & Cell arc”. A big thanks to Andrew for giving us the heads up about these! Both are set to be released 02 October 2010, with the DVD retailing for ¥2,940 (~$30) and the Blu-ray running …
Since the English dub of Dragon Ball Kai was first announced for North American television broadcast, we have covered very few examples of the censoring due to the uncut home release being readily available and essentially nullifying any complaints we could have about the censoring. That was until this popped up in the most recent …
The “Viz Big” re-releases of the Dragon Ball manga have finally been back on-track since the very beginning of the year when Dragon Ball Z volume 6 was delayed from January to February and then again to March. It looks like Dragon Ball Z volume 9 has been pushed back from 19 October 2010 a …
With the recent news about the upcoming Mexican dub of Dragon Ball Kai, it seems that fans are all-ears about additional international versions of the series. We heard some rumblings way back in April with some Facebook shenanigans about a possible “alternate” English dub of Kai (a la the English dub of Dragon Ball Z …
Voice actor and director Irwin Daayan (who previously played Dende in the Mexican dub of Dragon Ball Z) recently started up a Twitter account to announce an exciting new project: their new dub for Dragon Ball Kai (English translations of the originally-Spanish tweets courtesy of Roddy): Hello everyone. I hope that you have been well. …
Amazon Japan has posted the cover art for the new Dragon Ball Kai CD release, officially titled Soundtrack III & Songs. The album is due out in Japan 22 September 2010 for ¥2,940 (~$35). Again, the entire track listing for the album has not been revealed yet. Besides the new background music to be included, …
Shueisha’s official listing website has been updated with all of the final information for the JSAT Edition: Dragon Ball – Heya! Son Goku and Friends Return!! anime comic. The listing includes the book’s cover and some additional details about the book. You can grab the book from both CDJapan and Amazon Japan at the full …
Previously scheduled for release 14 September 2010, the fourth “Dragon Box” for the Dragon Ball Z TV series from FUNimation has been delayed a single week back to 21 September 2010 (according to various online retailers such as Amazon). This delay does not appear to affect FUNimation’s second volume of Kai, which is still due …