The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
It may just be a matter of shipment availability and retail restocking considerations, but Amazon is now listing FUNimation’s upcoming Dragon Ball Z “Dragon Box” volume one as coming out on 17 November 2009, a delay of exactly one week. In addition, my own e-mail update from Amazon stated: Unfortunately, the release date for the …
For whatever reason, it seems that several folks across the net seem to claiming Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta’s upcoming inclusion in Raging Blast is not real, and that all of the images are doctored. Regardless of how you actually feel about the inclusion of such a character and transformation (in addition to Super Saiyan 3 …
A demo for the upcoming fighting game Dragon Ball: Raging Blast is available in North America for both the PS3 and Xbox 360. It is a relatively small download (269.39 MB on the 360), and allows for a single battle against the CPU using either Goku (regular or Super Saiyan), Piccolo, or Raditz. The North …
Former Dragon Ball editor at Viz and current author with Otaku USA magazine and on his own, Jason Thompson, has written a new article about the manga’s situation in Maryland. There are some great comparisons and recollections, so be sure to give it a read.
All the regular sites (CDJapan, Amazon Japan, Columbia, etc.) have posted up the cover art for the forthcoming second soundtrack to Dragon Ball Kai: While we still do not have a track listing for it, the disc drops in Japan 18 November 2009 for ¥2940. Ours is already on pre-order, so look for a review …
Amidst their criticizing of delmarvanow.com staff writers about fact-checking and conflicting quotes within their stories, author “Cato” (a one “G. A. Harrison”) over on Delmarva Dealings apparently cannot be bothered to do his own research beyond Council Member Holloway’s photocopied “examples” (PDF) mentioned earlier this week, and has determined that Dragon Ball is “smut”. The …
MMO News is reporting on what sounds like a minor “scandal” related to the development of Dragon Ball Online, the only-barely-just-recently “launched” massively multiplayer online role playing game. From the sounds of it (the English is a little broken), former designer on the game with NTL, Ku Jeong-Hun, claimed he was being taken advantage of …
Namco-Bandai sent us over a couple gashapon this week in celebration of their upcoming domestic release of Revenge of King Piccolo (originally released in Japan as Tenka’ichi Dai-Bōken): I reached out to our buddy Oldphan over at dragonballtoys.com to find out exactly what line these figures come from, etc. They are a part of the …
Following up on all the news and our podcast commentary, you may be interested in the third story posted on delmarvanow.com concerning the manga being pulled from the school library. This one, written by a different staff writer (Laura D’Alessandro) is certainly of a different tone. You can read for yourself, but we are happy …
There seems to be a large amount of head-scratching going on with regard to the release date of Raging Blast across Europe. Amazon UK is listing the “Limited Edition” version of the game (both on PS3 and 360) with a release date of 23 October 2009. However, the standard versions of the games (again, both …