Toei Animation’s Official Dragon Ball Z website has posted a statement confirming the “revival” of the Dragon Ball Z TV series: 「ドラゴンボールZ」がTVアニメで復活！ 「ドラゴンボールZ」放送開始20周年記念！最新デジタル技術を使いZ伝説がTVアニメで復活！！ 2009年4月5日(日)朝9：00よりフジテレビ系列にて放送スタート！！ 詳しい情報は、後日掲載します！ “Dragon Ball Z” TV Anime Revival! 20th anniversary of “Dragon Ball Z”! The legend of Z returns with the newest digital technology!! Broadcasting will begin Sunday, April 5, 2009, at …
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The announcement of the upcoming “refreshed” version of Dragon Ball Z gave an air date and time of 05 April 2009 at 9:00 am, which is the time slot currently held by GeGeGe no Kitaro. animeanime.jp has reported that Toei will in fact be dropping GeGeGe no Kitaro (which is actually the fifth television series …
08 February 2009, 11:34 PM ESTComment
Oricon has posted a trailer for the movie with a preface from our main-man Toriyama: Here is what he had to say (as translated by Anime New Network): As the original creator, I had a feeling of “Huh?” upon seeing the screenplay and the character designs, but the director, all the actors, the staff, and …
Forget the American live action movie… this is perhaps the biggest news to hit since Dragon Ball GT ended in Japan back in 1997! We have heard rumblings since last month, but now that Jump confirms it, I think we all feel a little more comfortable sharing the information (due to it being so strange-yet-incredible). …
03 February 2009, 10:39 AM ESTComment
Our good ol’ buddy Greg just took a quick capture for us from television over in Japan showcasing Shenlong in the upcoming live action movie, Dragon Ball Evolution:
03 February 2009, 8:54 AM ESTComment
Anime News Network (by way of Sankei News) reports that Akira Toriyama himself sketched Ayumi Hamasaki as “Goku” for her CD single release of “Rule” (the international theme song for Dragon Ball Evolution): This is the first time that Toriyama is responsible for this type of music-related release. The first pressing of the release will …
02 February 2009, 9:11 AM ESTComment
Our forum member kei17 dug into the Newtype website’s news section to grab a list of the Japanese voice actors & actresses playing the roles in the Japanese dub of the upcoming American-made live action movie, Dragon Ball Evolution: Son Goku: Kappei Yamaguchi Piccolo-Daimaō: Hōchū Ōtsuka Kame-Sen’nin: Tsutomu Isobe Bulma: Aya Hirano Chi-Chi: Ami Koshimizu …
29 January 2009, 8:47 AM ESTComment
According to Kotaku, the recent Dragon Ball: Origins for the Nintendo DS has been recalled in Australia due to some of the game’s content not quite matching up with the given rating (a “PG”). Kotaku notes that once it receives a new rating, it will be back on store shelves. Dragon Ball DS received an …
19 January 2009, 9:36 PM ESTComment
Some screens from the upcoming Dragon Ball Evolution video game on the PSP have shown up online. The only characters we have seen so far have been Bulma, Chi-Chi, Yamcha, and Master Roshi (all somewhat awkwardly resembling their “real life” counterparts). Gaming sites are claiming the game will be out stateside in April (we know …
18 January 2009, 3:34 PM ESTComment
CDJapan has up listings for Ayumi Hamasaki’s new CD single, a song from which (“Rule”) is being used as the somewhat “international” theme song for Dragon Ball Evolution, the upcoming American-made live action movie (no word on whether or not we are getting this song in our release of the movie). There are three versions …