The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
The game just came out in Japan earlier this month, and Infinite World (the latest fighting game for the franchise, an expansion of the Budokai series) on the PS2 managed to push 76,500 copies in its first week (coming in second only to the latest Professor Layton game, which itself pushed 87,100 copies that week). …
A kanzenban release is coming to the Dutch! Starting in January 2009, Glenat will be releasing a new version of the manga in the kanzenban style (34 volumes), including the new ending, the tribute illustrations from other artists, and a new translation!
While not entirely an accurate name, Spain is currently seeing a release of the Dragon Ball Z TV series which they are calling “Dragon Box” sets. They are actually just packaged sets of five discs each from the single releases that we have been talking about for a while now. There are a couple touch-ups …
The fifth set of Dragon Ball The Movies individual discs (DBZ movies 9 & 10) were just released, and in typical Toei fashion, they have already posted the next set of covers (DBZ movies 11 & 12). These next two films, “Super-Warrior Defeat!! I’m the One Who’ll Win” (DBZ movie 11) and “Rebirth of Fusion!! …
The full-length Japanese trailer for the upcoming live action Dragon Ball movie leaked online today, so go take a gander while you still can: In addition to that, Anime News Network is reporting (via the Sports Nippon newspaper) that none other than Ayumi Hamasaki will be performing the theme song to the movie (“Rule”). They …
Shueisha has put up a new figure of Piccolo in their Mekke! Shop, the fourth in a seven figure collection put out by Shueisha: Also looking quite sexy is a prototype Super Saiyan Goku figure from Medicos (not to be confused with the Medicom figure having cracking issues). This figure looks to be amazingly well …
In a bit of frustrating news, the special Goku figure from Medicom that we mentioned at the very beginning of the year is starting to showcase serious production issues, as brought to our attention by our forum member Oldphan and posted on dragonballtoys.com: With the prices that people pay for these things, it is certainly …
FUNimation’s new Dragon Ball GT “season one” DVD box set is finally out, and boy do we have a whole bunch of info pouring in about it! Five discs Same packaging style as the DBZ TV “remastered” season sets A new/different encode and “clean-up” is used, though there are slight blurring issues that continue to …
You have picked up “Burst Limit” yet? The Xbox 360 version is currently over on Amazon for a special Cyber Monday price of $14.95. The PS3 version is also supposed to be $14.95 today, but is still showing up as $39.99 (for the time being, anyway).
The official Dragon Ball DVD blog now features Oolong and Yamcha’s coverage of the conclusion to the “Come forth, Shenron! Gather the Dragonballs” campaign. This was a contest held back in August in celebration of the release of the Dragon Ball individual discs, the winner of which would “have their wish made a reality”. The …