The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
FUNimation, the current North American rights-holder for the Dragon Ball franchise, will be acquired later this year by distribution and publishing corporation Navarre. MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Navarre Corporation (Nasdaq: NAVR) a leading publisher and distributor of a broad range of home entertainment and multimedia software products, announced that it has executed a definitive …
It is now January, and so February’s “Monthly Shōnen Jump” has been released to stores across Japan (and hopefully a few local Japanese bookstores, as well…). As we were told, we are on the receiving end of a two-month “Neko Majin Z” run, with chapter five coming out this month! Below is the overall magazine’s …
The cover art for “Dragon Ball Z 3” (the Japanese release of what we received as “Budokai 3” on the PlayStation 2) has trickled online thanks to retailers such as Play-Asia and Amazon Japan:
FUNimation finally spills some beans regarding the releases of Dragon Ball Z movie 10 and the first volume of the “seasons one and two” redubs. Look for movie 10 (now re-titled to “Broly: Second Coming”) on 05 April 2005 and the first volume of the so-called “Ultimate Uncut Edition” (the first uncut redubbed / subtitled …
Remember the soundtrack for “Budokai” 1 and 2 that was supposed to be coming out forever ago in Japan? Remember how it kept getting pushed back repeatedly at CDJapan, to the point where some of us were beginning to suspect they were just making it up? Ever wonder what happened? Well, wonder no more… the …
The first “Great Saiyaman” DVD (which actually begins with the Ano-Yo-Ichi Budōkai) — volume 57 in FUNimation’s line of single-disc releases for the Dragon Ball Z TV series — is due out 15 March 2005, and will be available with an optional box for “Series 11” (the Great Saiyaman arc, of which there are five …
This goes hand-in-hand with yesterday’s update — following up on the news of “Neko Majin Z 4” in the January issue of Monthly Jump, those who have gotten it (it went on sale this past Monday) are reporting that “Neko Majin Z 5” will be in the February issue. Two new Toriyama works in a …
It is true — “Neko Majin Z 4” (the fourth chapter in a spin-off/parody of the Dragon Ball series with magical cats by original author Akira Toriyama himself) will appear in this January’s “Monthly Shōnen Jump” (the Japanese release, of course). We hear a certain Mr. Boo makes an appearance…! We are definitely going to …
The Magic Box has updated and we finally have a release date set for “Dragon Ball Z 3” for the Japanese PlayStation 2 (which we already received as “Budokai 3”): 10 February 2005. Also, it will have “… additional characters from the DBZ movies and Dragon Ball GT.” Note that we simply have no idea …
As you may recall, both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z have been released on DVD in Japan over the past two years, in the form of three huge (not to mention hugely expensive) boxed sets, known as “Dragon Box” sets. There have been three so far (because DBZ was split in half) but there …