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The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.


Published by 23 November 2008, 11:48 AM ESTComment

That is right, folks — the Jump Super Anime Tour Special is online right now and it is completely subtitled in English (pretty well, no less)! Head on over to Jumpland’s English page for the special, and click the big “Download Browser” button in the bottom-right. You will need to be on a Windows-based machine

Published by 19 November 2008, 2:38 AM ESTComment

After being released this last week, the fourth set of “Dragon Ball The Movies” individual discs (DBZ Movies 07 & 08) have deputed atop the “Japanese Animation DVD Rankings” on the Oricon charts. Both have sold about 7,000 copies in only one week!

Published by 18 November 2008, 9:38 PM ESTComment

Wow. I do not think you could possibly sum it up any more than Greg Miller did for his “Infinite World” review over on IGN: Do not play Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World. They have given it a 3.5 (out of 10). If you tune in to our latest podcast episode, you will hear from

Published by 15 November 2008, 2:05 PM ESTComment

The fourth set of “Dragon Ball The Movies” individual discs (DBZ movies 7 & 8) were released yesterday. As usual, Toei has already posted the next set of covers (DBZ movies 9 & 10). These next two films, “The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy” (DBZ movie 9) and “The Dangerous Duo! Super-Warriors

Published by 13 November 2008, 11:01 AM ESTComment

While it is mostly been considered a joke by gaming enthusiasts, Spike TV’s Video Game Awards have indeed been getting slightly better over the years. In a halfway-shocking nod, “Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit” (the PS3/360 fighter from Dimps that came out earlier this year) is actually up for “Best Fighting Game”. Being that it

Published by 13 November 2008, 9:03 AM ESTComment

According to licensing.biz, TF1 Enterprises has been selected as the new merchandising broker for the various Dragon Ball properties: TF1 Licences will handle France, French speaking Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Monaco and will have merchandising rights for the brand with the exception of toy, video games, publishing and Lamincards categories. “TF1 Licences ranks among one

Published by 09 November 2008, 9:17 PM ESTComment

Our buddy Tanooki Kuribo picked up Viz’s recent “Collector’s Edition” releases of both Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z volume 1. These hardcover editions seem to be part of a trend Viz is going with where they release just the first volume of a series in this special format with some color pages and updated

Published by 09 November 2008, 9:16 PM ESTComment

Viz will be releasing the entirety of the Dragon Ball portion of their manga 03 February 2009 (DB volumes 1-16): Viz will also be releasing the entirety of the Dragon Ball Z portion of their manga on the same day (DB volumes 17-42):

Published by 09 November 2008, 9:15 PM ESTComment

A while back we told you about a funny story from Texas where a guy tried to steal some Dragon Ball Z DVDs from his local Wal-Mart. This new story comes to us from Japan, where a 21-year-old man and two teenage cohorts totally one-uped the American hick by stealing an entire gashapon machine. From

Published by 09 November 2008, 9:14 PM ESTComment

While it is unfortunately not a new console game, the 40th anniversary of “Shonen Jump” brings us more crossover goodness in the form of Bandai’s new Let’s!TV Play game, “Dragon Ball Z x One Piece: Batoru Taikan Gomu-Gomu no Kamehameha ~omee no koe de ora wo yobu~” (“DragonBall Z & One Piece: Battle Sensation Gum-Gum