The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
FUNimation will finally be breaking their shockingly accurate chronological consistency for the first time in the next “remastered” series of releases by packing DBZ movies 7 and 9 together: Skipping the eighth movie makes sense if they plan to release the Broli movies (perhaps all three) together in one package. This double feature set (with …
Anime News Network reports that FUNimation has finally decided to go after DiscountAnimeDVD.com and its associated persons and businesses for bootleg DVDs: Funimation’s legal representative filed the lawsuit in August. The suit is still active, pending a scheduling conference between all parties that is set for November 17 in a Los Angeles courtroom. The lawsuit …
There is nothing of huge interest this time around for Navarre, FUNimation’s parent company. The only slight bit of news was the following note regarding the “publishing segment” of Navarre, which includes FUNimation: Net sales for the publishing segment were $27.4 million (before inter-company eliminations) for the first quarter fiscal 2009 compared to $29.6 million …
We have confirmation from the Jumpland website that the new Jump Super Anime Tour special (“Heya! Son Goku and Friends Return!!”) will be streamed online absolutely FREE following the tour’s conclusion in November. Anime News Network reports: This year’s 49th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has announced on Saturday that the Jumpland website …
Play-Asia has put up new listings for an original soundtrack and a theme song single for the upcoming “Infinite World” PS2 fighting game. You will be able to pick up the original soundtrack 07 January 2009 in Japan (LACA-5852) for ¥2,999. If you cannot wait that long, or you just want the theme song single, …
Right on the heels of “Infinite World” on the PS2, “Dragon Ball: Origins” (originally released in Japan as “Dragon Ball DS”) for the Nintendo DS has gone gold and is also ready for its North American release from Atari: ‘Dragon Ball: Origins’ Goes Gold – Atari Completes Development on the First Action-Adventure Dragon Ball Game …
Not much to report here other than the fact that games are at least finished for their North American releases and should be in stores on schedule! ‘Dragon Ball Z(R): Infinite World’ Goes Gold – Development Complete on Final Dragon Ball Z Game for PlayStation 2 System that Combines the Greatest Elements from the World-renowned …
Way back in July we put up an image of the concept art of what the Dragon Ball movie individual discs special figures would look like. We finally have some actual images of these new figures! From left to right, we have Super Saiyan Gogeta, Coola (4th Form), and Legendary Super Saiyan Broli: We also …
Well, that was fast! If you happened to read through some of our prior updates, you would have seen that there have been hints of a new vocal theme song being produced for the upcoming PS2 game “Infinite World”. One of the latest trailers (from Atari, no less) confirms this by blasting it right from …
The third set of the Dragon Ball movies individual discs (DBZ movies 5 & 6) were released today and Toei has already posted the next set of covers. The next two films, “Extreme Battle!! The Three Great Super Saiyans” (DBZ movie 7) and “Burn Up!! A Close – Intense – Super-Fierce Battle” (DBZ movie 8), …