The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
While mostly only playing the role of Jheece in the Dragon Ball series, Tanaka played a wide range of roles in various series. He passed away on the 20th of this month due to his issues with cor pulmonale.
Chow Yun-Fat has indeed joined the cast of the live action movie! He will be playing Kame-Sen’nin (Master Roshi), lending at least a little more authority to the cast. Apparently director James Wong also tried to get some more Asian talent, including Edison Chen and Jitty Zhang Yuqi.
hoyCinema has posted a few photos from the set of the upcoming live action Dragon Ball movie. Nothing really special yet — honestly, it looks more like “hey, the guy has arrived on the set” more than anything truly substantial. Emmy Rossum has at least been confirmed as playing Bulma, though.
Now that an official website has been set up for the game, we actually have some confirmation on certain things! The upcoming fighter for the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 is indeed being developed by Dimps and has actually been in development for a bit (Dimps is not exactly rusty, either; the “Shin Budokai” and …
ect5150, in diligent ever-scanning-Amazon-Japan fashion, has discovered the full release schedule for the upcoming Dragon Ball GT R2 DVDs. As with DB & DBZ, these are individual discs based off of the previous Dragon Box sets (non-faux-remastered, nice sound, progressive, full-screen, etc.). Remember, these are from Japan, and while they are NTSC, they are encoded …
SuperHeroHype is sourcing “The Hollywood Reporter” on this one — apparently Eriko Tamura will be joining the cast as Mai (Pilaf’s female lackey), and Joon Park will be playing Yamcha (I guess James Kyson Lee did not get the role?). We also have Emmy Rossum joining the cast in some unknown role. If we know …
With the Will News has put up some information listing a whole bunch of interesting Dragon Ball-related releases coming from FUNimation later this year: DBZ movies 1 & 2 Blu-ray May 27th – Remastered DBZ movies 1 & 2 DVD May 27th – Remastered DBZ Season 5 box set May 27th DBGT Season 1 box …
Our buddy Timo wrote in to let us know that there are some new releases on the way over in Germany. Carlsen Comics (who released the manga over there) announced that they will be putting out the “Film Anime Comics” versions (or “animanga”) for the Dragon Ball Z TV series. There is a little bit …
“Sparking! METEOR” (released internationally as “Budokai Tenkaichi 3”) is still the new-hotness for the franchise, but Namco-Bandai is already heading into “next-gen” territory with a “new battle for Goku and friends” on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 entitled “Burst Limit”: The preliminary info and images come from next week’s Jump (by way of NeoGAF). …
Mark Bozon over at IGN has finally put up a review of “Budokai Tenkaichi 3” focusing on the Wii version, though mentioning the PS2 version where appropriate: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is far from being a failure of a game. When looking at the core gameplay, and ignoring the titles before it, BT3 …