The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
20th Century Fox has finally opened their website for the new live-action movie, Dragon Ball Evolution, which is due out in the United States on April 8th and in Japan on March 13th. As of now, the site only contains a “new” trailer, which is nearly identical to the international trailer we have already seen, …
To follow-up on what we mentioned on the last podcast (and forgot to put up a news entry for), we now have word of at least twenty FUNimation employee layoffs, in addition to (or including; the wording is vague) the two we had noted last show, including their Chief Operating Officer, Brian Burke. I wanted …
Our buddy Tanooki Kuribo found a listing on Play-Asia for Dragon Ball Evolution for the PSP. This would indeed be the game based on the upcoming live action movie that was first shown off at Jump Festa a few weeks back. Right now Play-Asia is listing a release date of 19 March 2009 for this …
Back in December 2008, Shueisha released a new figure of Super Saiyan Goku in their Mekke! Shop. It is the 5th figure in a 7 figure collection being put out by Shueisha. Unfortunately, with today’s exchange rate, this figure will set you back about $80 (without shipping). With the craftsmanship they put into this figure, …
After being released this last week, the sixth set of Dragon Ball The Movies individual discs (DBZ Movies 11 & 12) have deputed in the top 15 of the “Japanese Animation DVD Rankings” on the Oricon charts. Dragon Ball Z Movie 11 is ranked #12, having sold 6,206 copies, which is followed by Dragon Ball …
Toei has also updated their official Dragon Ball DVD blog with some character designs from various Dragon Ball Z movies:
The sixth set of Dragon Ball The Movies individual discs (DBZ Movies 11 & 12) were released today, and in typical Toei fashion, they have already posted the next set of covers (DBZ Movie 13 & the 10th Anniversary Movie). These next two films, “Dragon Fist Explosion!! If Goku Won’t Do it, Who Will” (DBZ …
We mentioned this on the podcast and then totally forgot to post it up! The soundtrack for Infinite World (due out this week in Japan on King Records) finally has some cover art courtesy of CDJapan: We will be doing a review of this soundtrack and the game’s theme song CD single as soon as …
Tanooki Kuribo let us know that Viz is going to be putting out adaptations of the upcoming Dragon Ball Evolution live action movie a la the “Chapter Books” coming out for the series proper under the “Viz Kids” label: These are being adapted for Viz by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon, just like the “Junior …
We hinted at a couple things previously, but our good buddy Greg gave us a really nice write-up of his time spent at Jump Festa this past week. There was a lot going on, so let me pull out a couple key quotes from him: When it came Nozawa’s turn they asked who else she …