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Published by 20 February 2005, 1:36 AM ESTComment

Check out FUNimation’s trailer for the “Ultimate Uncut Edition” DVDs — random Japanese gibberish is fun! Apparently “ultimate uncut special edition” is “yufuyanohechiyana yuhoteyuya mominatenochifu natonoyanomaho”, while “Exclusive Goku Action Figure” is “naritefuyumonoyona numahiyu chiteyanomaho ninonuyumena”. You will definitely want to watch it “yanena rachiru noya rachimo henachihoya yama tsuna monanaho” (“the way it was

Published by 20 February 2005, 1:35 AM ESTComment

Thanks to ANT Link 15 I have done a little digging through the audio files on “Dragon Ball Z 3”, and came across the announcer’s list of character names for the tournament mode — it is the exact same order and number of names heard in the American version game. The list is as follows:

Published by 19 February 2005, 12:46 AM ESTComment

Big special thanks to GameFAQs user dsxgate for these images and updates. From what dsxgate says, in order to obtain/use Bulma as a playable character in “Dragon Ball Z 3” (the recently-released Japanese version of “Budokai 3”) you must: Complete the entire game; a full 100%… this includes the twenty “Story Reenactments” Level-up all DU

Published by 16 February 2005, 5:30 PM ESTComment

April’s domestic “Shonen Jump” arrived today from Viz with a huge bit of news on the cover — this will be the last monthly chapter of “Dragon Ball Z”. For those keeping track, this monthly issue features original Japanese chapters 419-420 (Viz’s DBZ chapters 225-226), which showcases Trunks’ return to his future to defeat the

Published by 10 February 2005, 6:20 PM ESTComment

“Dragon Ball Z 3” (the Japanese release of what we received as “Budokai 3”) was officially launched for the PlayStation 2 in Japan today, and first word is been getting back across the ocean. The March 2005 issue of “V-Jump” has a three-part supplement was all sorts of goodies: Supplement 1: “Fly High!! Dragon Ball

Published by 06 February 2005, 12:22 PM ESTComment

Bandai’s “Dragon Ball Z 3” (“Budokai 3”) website features some great little commercials for the game, but the main attraction is a near-four-minute promotional video featuring a conversation between Goku and Vegeta talking all about the new features in the game. It features the full-length version of “Ore wa Tokoton Tomaranai!!” in the background, so

Published by 01 February 2005, 8:31 PM ESTComment

Dimps’ official website for “DragonBall Z 3” (the Japanese version of “Budokai 3”) was updated today with a little more content — with only nine days left until release, they are certainly pushing it with the slow reveals!

Published by 24 January 2005, 11:40 PM ESTComment

FUNimation will indeed be re-dubbing and re-releasing the first three Dragon Ball Z movies. These movies were originally released in 1997-1998 jointly with Pioneer (whose distribution sub-license has since run out). The voices were handled by the Ocean Group, just as the first two DBZ TV “seasons” were. The English dub’s musical score on these

Published by 19 January 2005, 3:46 PM ESTComment

The soundtrack to the first two “Budokai” (as we know them) games has officially been released in Japan today under the full title “Dragon Ball Z & Z2 Original Soundtrack”. The disc is packed with a bonus DVD that has some great extra stuff on it. If you are interested in ordering (and have not