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Published by 05 September 2007, 6:46 AM EDTComment

You have probably already read it elsewhere, but it would behoove us to update with the information, as well. Via IGN (and note the update to their own report at the end): September 4, 2007 – It looks like 20th Century Fox is rushing the long-awaited live-action movie adaptation of Dragon Ball Z into production

Published by 03 September 2007, 10:21 PM EDTComment

CDJapan is taking pre-orders for a couple new calendars, including the official DBZ 2008 calendar! It was exactly this time last year that we started getting wind of the next year’s calendars over in Japan, so it is great to see them keeping up with the releases. This particular one will set you back a

Published by 01 September 2007, 8:10 PM EDTComment

Over on Anime News Network, we have a link to the Montreal Gazette’s story by Brendan Kelly stating the following: The 20th Century Fox studio is expected to shoot three big-budget movies in Montreal over the next year; each has a budget of at least $100 million. The films are the Night at the Museum

Published by 28 August 2007, 9:08 PM EDTComment

If you check out this entry over on RightStuf, the listing for the so-called “Dragon Ball Ultimate Edition DVD (Hyb)” from Tai Seng has a release date of 30 October 2007. Now, Tai Seng is the distributor for a bunch of Chinese / Hong Kong live action movies, including the infamous “Dragon Ball: The Magic

Published by 26 August 2007, 2:40 PM EDTComment

Differing from their stand-alone releases of, for example, a Naruto information book, the October 2007 issue of Viz’s domestic Shonen Jump magazine includes a section entitled “Dragon Ball Collector”. Information within this section includes a history of some video games, fusions, the Tenka’ichi Budōkai, action figures, and more. The issue also contains the first of

Published by 26 August 2007, 10:30 AM EDTComment

Our buddy sangofe and everyone on our forum have done a really great job of keeping up with this release over in France. While it is not officially out yet, they have managed to snag some images that a lucky consumer has put up, along with some great comparison images with the Japanese release of

Published by 24 August 2007, 3:59 PM EDTComment

After another month of waiting, the next set of the Dragon Ball individual discs are finally here! As always, each of these discs contain six episodes, covering episodes 091 thru 108, and are set to be released 05 September 2007. This set wraps up the 22nd Tenkai’chi Budōkai arc and moves us into my favorite

Published by 19 August 2007, 12:19 PM EDTComment

Jeux-France has updated with some larger scans showcasing new characters in “Sparking! METEOR”. All of the ones from prior updates appear, including the hinted-at Chi-Chi…! It will be her young form as depicted in her first appearance, which is pretty neat stuff: The other big of interesting news is the confirmation that the game’s opening

Published by 17 August 2007, 8:18 PM EDTComment

EvilGamerX has plopped a brand, spakin’ new scan from “Weekly Shōnen Jump” (#38, to be exact) over on the forum, which showcases three all-new playable characters in the upcoming “Sparking! METEOR”: Dr. Uiro, Great Ape Selypa, and Tambourine! I know people around here have been specifically clamoring for the ol’ doctor, so that is certainly

Published by 04 August 2007, 11:49 PM EDTComment

Tanooki Kuribo did a little extra digging around based on the previous update, and found a companion to the “Koro-chan Pack Dragon Ball Z Best” CD that is coming out in September. What is this companion, you ask? One for the original Dragon Ball, of course! It looks like we are also getting “Koro-chan Pack