The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
While this is only somewhat Dragon Ball related, I just could not pass up the chance to share it. While doing some research for my massive “Cast Guide” update, I came across Ryō Horikawa’s personal blog. In his most recent update, posted on August 1st, he wrote: さて先日、ドラゴンボールのメンバーで屋形船で飲み会をしました。 船からは花火が見えて、夏を満喫できました よ！ (荒川区の花火大会だったみたいですね。) The other day, we …
Amazon has also put up the cover art for the mysterious listings for both DBZ Movie 1 and DBZ Movie 2 with the same release date of 10 November 2009 that was reported a couple days ago. They in fact will be individual disc releases from the “remastered” steel book double feature (as opposed to …
Rumblings can be heard ’round the internet that FUNimation’s upcoming first “Dragon Box” set for the Dragon Ball Z TV series has been delayed from November to December of this year. Despite the Amazon listing still noting a release date of 10 November 2009, several of our forum members have received e-mails from Amazon telling …
The official website for Dragon Ball Kai has noted that there will be even more new voices for the “refreshed” version of the TV series currently airing in Japan. In its original airing, both (the younger version of) Dende and Cargo (all… what?… one of his lines…?) were played by Tomiko Suzuki, who unfortunately passed …
Amazon Japan has posted the cover art for the first volume of both the upcoming Blu-ray and DVD releases of Dragon Ball Kai. Both volumes will contain the first three episodes and are set to be released 18 September 2009. Both volumes will also come with a special Data Carddass “Dragon Battlers” card and the …
CDJapan has updated with the cover art for POWER OF DREAMER, the opening theme song CD single for the new Wii game Tenka’ichi Dai-Bōken performed by Hiroki Takahashi: It is mostly a cropped version of the actual game’s cover art. The CD single is due out 26 August 2009 for ¥1200 in Japan. Unfortunately, we …
Amazon also has a new listing for the first Dragon Ball Z movie, “Dead Zone”. Based on the release date of this new listing, which is the same as the first FUNimation Dragon Box, could this contain the Dragon Box footage rather than the normal footage FUNimation has been using since 1997? If you remember, …
Amazon now has a listing for the first domestic “Dragon Box” set coming from FUNimation. The pre-order price (for now) is a solid $55.99. Not too shabby.
Long-time friend of the site Rachel pointed out to us that Mitsuaki Madono, who replaced Hirotaka Suzuoki as Tenshinhan in Burst Limit (PS3 & Xbox 360 fighting game last year), is reprising that role in the new Wii game Tenka’ichi Dai-Bōken… despite Hikaru Midorikawa sealing it up for Dragon Ball Kai. Very strange situation with …
Namco-Bandai has posted a ¥2.8 billion loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2010. In terms of Dragon Ball overall, the franchise dropped in net sales from ¥4.3 billion in Q1 2009 to ¥2.3 billion this quarter, though the company is forecasting a full year net sales figure of ¥17 billion, up from ¥15.8 last …