The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
After just announcing the new book Dragon Ball Uranai, Shueisha has announced it will be releasing an Anime Illustration Collection book entitled Dragon Ball: The Golden Warrior (ドラゴンボール 黄金の戦士; Doragon Bōru Ōgon no Senshi). The title suggests the illustrations will focus on Super Saiyans, or Son Gohan’s exploits as the Golden Warrior before becoming the …
By way of Anime News Network, we have just learned that FUNimation’s English dub of Dragon Ball Kai (coming as Dragon Ball Z Kai) will be airing on Nicktoons. The announcement was made “during its 2010 Upfront Presentation for advertisers on Thursday morning in New York City”. This is a somewhat fascinating move on many …
The next three episode titles have been leaked early for Dragon Ball Kai — here is a quick run-down of what to expect in the upcoming weeks: Episode 049 – March 21, 2010 「仇を討て孫悟空！惑星崩壊のカウントダウン」 “Exact Vengeance, Son Goku! The Countdown to the Planet’s Collapse” Episode 050 – March 28, 2010 「フリーザ決死のフルパワー！願いを届けてくれ神龍」 “Freeza’s Do-or-Die Full Power! …
Shueisha announced a new Dragon Ball book, Dragon Ball Uranai (ドラゴンボール占い). You may recognize the term uranai as that used in the character Uranai Baba’s name, meaning “fortune-telling”. Unfortunately, there is no other information about the book at this time, considering it is not even listed on any other online store… so really, we have …
In an economy where we hear about nothing but studio closures and layoffs, it is shocking to hear that Toei has actually raised their earnings forecast for the current year. Projecting ¥1.2 billion up from ¥1.0 billion in net profits, it would seem that the most recent One Piece movie (Strong World), which was written …
FUNimation’s parent company, Navarre, issued a formal press release earlier this week confirming the acquisition of Kai for North American distribution. There is nothing in here that we did not already know from its original announcement during their Q3 Fiscal 2010 earnings conference call, but it was good to see it get a little more …
It did not seem like anyone else bothered to ask the question, so we did! Our buddy Steven J. Simmons confirmed for us that he will indeed be the one responsible for the subtitle translations on the Japanese side of FUNimation’s upcoming Kai releases. We spoke with Steve at length way back on Episode #0052 …
The next three episode titles have been leaked early for Dragon Ball Kai — here is a quick run-down of what to expect in the next two weeks, with perhaps the most important episode being #47 (as opposed to #95 in the original Dragon Ball Z…!), where Goku will transform into a Super Saiyan for …
The game was released just a week ago in Japan, and we finally have word from Namco-Bandai that Dragon Ball DS 2 will be coming to North America, as expected, under the title of Dragon Ball Origins 2. The first game was released stateside by Atari under the title of Dragon Ball Origins back in …
Our buddy Sebastian dropped a link to a fascinating interview with Mr. Anison himself, Hironobu Kageyama, over on otaku2.com. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit from the interview is: PG: What song are you most proud of? KH: That’s tough, but I guess it would have to be “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA.” No matter where I go, people …