The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
April has turned into such a great month. We have a “new” series currently airing on TV, another Super Exciting Guide was released, and we are only 8 days into the month. What more could you ask for? Well, the mail-in order DVD for the Dragon Ball Jump Anime Tour Special, Heya! Son Goku and …
Chris Roper over at IGN has reviewed the latest Dragon Ball video game, Dragon Ball Evolution for the PSP. Without spoiling too much of the review for you, let us just say that an entire paragraph is essentially the word “square” pasted over and over. Read for yourself. McKinley Noble over at GamePro also has …
We have some final confirmation about the most recent guide book, Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide – Character Volume, which is set to be released tomorrow in Japan. This manga-specific guide will cover the characters of the series, including both main and minor characters. As with the “Story Volume”, a lot of the information in …
Toei’s website for Dragon Ball Kai has announced that none other than Hikaru Midorikawa will be the formal replacement voice for Tenshinhan in Dragon Ball Kai (in place of the late and great Hirotaka Suzuoki). Midorikawa previously played the roles of #16 and Paikuhan in the series, so it will be interesting to see his …
This very well may be our last post about Dragon Ball Kai before it airs! Our buddy SSj_Rambo has been keeping us posted on the recent update of Toei Animation’s Dragon Ball Kai website. The site has pretty much been completely over-hauled from its original one-page news layout. They have put up pages highlighting the …
It looks like the American debut of Dragon Ball Evolution has been delayed yet again, though this time it just goes back from a Wednesday to a Friday. Instead of the pretty firm April 8th release date, we are now set to go on Friday, April 10th.
Toei has updated their Dragon Ball DVD blog for the last time, seeing as all of the episodes and movies have been released. There is not much about anything we do not already know, except at the very end they leave us with some interesting news. Well, it is more of a “we are not …
While it is general video game industry news, it certainly affects Dragon Ball fandom in a huge way. According to a news piece over on Gamasutra, Infogrames (Atari’s full owner at this point) has agreed to sell a 66% stake in its “sales, marketing, and retail distribution” business called “Distribution Partners” to Namco-Bandai. “Distribution Partners” …
On March 20th, Fuji TV and Toei Animation held a preview of Dragon Ball Kai as part of the Tokyo International Anime Fair. Saeki Kenji of “Game Watch” was in attendance and has posted up a nice run-down of the event. Some of our favorite actors were in attendance, including Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn), Masako Nozawa …
While Wasted Wisher has already noted to us that scenes from the Bardock TV special would be used in the first episode of Kai, an upcoming issue of Jump apparently confirms that Freeza will be making an appearance in the first episode, so this all lines up pretty well. Additionally, Jump states that a CD …