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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 17 August 2008, 9:15 PM EDTComment

There will be a “junior novel” coming out for the upcoming American live action Dragon Ball movie: Expect a written adaptation of the movie by a couple people otherwise known for just a couple quasi-Disney-related children’s books.

Published by 14 August 2008, 11:45 PM EDTComment

The cover art for the upcoming “Burst Limit Original Soundtrack” has made its way online: What was previously listed as a dual-soundtrack for both “Sparking! METEOR” and “Burst Limit” appears to be just for the one game. It drops 27 August 2008 in Japan (LACA-5808) for about ¥3000.

Published by 14 August 2008, 11:22 PM EDTComment

In a strange twist, it appears Atari has actually made money for the first quarter of the 2009 fiscal year. In fact, they made $3.5 million, up from a net loss of $11.9 million at the same point last year. The growth was driven by the success of “Burst Limit” and “Alone in the Dark”,

Published by 08 August 2008, 6:40 PM EDTComment

A new book containing one-shot manga by Akira Toriyama, entitled “An Emperor’s Feast of Akira Toriyama 1” (鳥山明 満漢全席 1), was released today. It appears that this is the first volume of a new line of Toriyama’s one-shot manga collection. This volume contains 10 one-shot manga titles on 336 pages, and will set you back

Published by 06 August 2008, 7:35 AM EDTComment

Anime News Network has word via Internet Watch that a Japanese man has been arrested for selling bootleg copies of various anime, including the various Dragon Box releases: Japan’s Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS) announced that a 37-year-old male company employee from Kakogawa City in central Japan was arrested on Thursday for selling

Published by 06 August 2008, 7:30 AM EDTComment

You may be reading a few things across the interwebs about something called “Final Budokai”. It is important to note a few things about this: Only Portuguese sites have been reporting this All of these sites are copying-and-pasting the exact same text; no original reporting has occurred European enthusiast press are well known for breaking

Published by 04 August 2008, 10:59 PM EDTComment

The first two discs have not even been released yet and Toei has already posted the final cover art for their next set of Dragon Ball movies individual discs. Dragon Ball Z movies three and four are set to be released 12 September 2008. You can still order any of the previously released discs or

Published by 31 July 2008, 10:14 PM EDTComment

We reported a while back about the attempted robbery at Wal-Mart for Dragon Ball Z season five. This one is not quite up there, but the age of the perpetrators is shocking: AVON PARK – Two Avon Park boys were in the care of the Department of Juvenile Justice on Thursday after they were arrested

Published by 25 July 2008, 3:04 PM EDTComment

“Dragon Ball DS” has some new trailers available for streaming over on the game’s official Japanese website. Remember that the game comes out 18 September 2008 exclusively in Japan… at least for now. We are still waiting to hear about international releases.