The following articles have been filed under the "News" category and covers general franchise news from across the globe.
Sally Beatty, staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has penned an article examining the violence in the DragonBall series and its rise to popularity in North America. Brutality is a staple. In one recent episode, beads of sweat form on the brow of a character named Vegeta as he is nearly strangled to death …
FUNimation Productions, Inc. will be releasing DragonBall Z on DVD, with the future DVDs including their internally-produced English-dubbed version and its specific music track, as well as an accurately-English-subtitled original Japanese version with its music. As a part of the new initiative, the third DragonBall movie and fourth DragonBall Z movie are also in the …
Instead of the first two episodes of the third season being shown last Monday (06 September 1999) as previously announced, the new date for their airing will be the 13th. The first half of the Toonami block will consist of the last two episodes of the third season (dub episodes 52-53), with the last half …
After a long while of being down due to the inappropriate actions of a few fans, the forum at FUNimation’s dragonballz.com is back up and working, again. Users are now required to enter in a login and password to post on it (presumably their new “security” measure).
The next two English-dubbed videos (which will make up dubbed episodes 67-72) will be released on 31 August 1999. Pre-orders will be taken for them on FUNimation’s website. As for air dates concerning these episodes, FUNimation and Cartoon Network have officially announced that on 06 September 1999, from 4-5 pm EDT, the final two episodes …
The forum area at the new dragonballz.com seems to have been shut down! Why is this you ask? The Forum is Closed. I’m sick of having to delete all the perverted messages and cuss words. Sorry to anyone who did not cause this. The forum will be back up when content checkers and a password/UserID …
Purchase some videos from FUNimation, and having a little bit of trouble with them? FUNimation has issued a notice concerning three of their videos (“Sleeping Princess in Devil’s Castle,” “Captain Ginyu: Assault,” and “Captain Ginyu: Double Cross”). Problems with a small percentage of these tapes includes tracking problems or shaky video, continuous background noise (we …
Seems that FUNimation’s English dub of DragonBall Z is popping up in TV scheduling guides for airing during the upcoming week. Next Friday would be a good day to actually tune in — that will be the day we see whether or not dubbed episode ten (the now infamous “Escape From Piccolo” episode) will be …
The week of May 24th through May 28th, Cartoon Network held a special DragonBall Z marathon entitled “DBZ20XL.” During their Toonami timeslot (4pm-6pm EST), four half-hour episodes of FUNimation’s English dubbed DragonBall Z were shown. To conclude the marathon, on Saturday, May 29th, starting at noon EST, all three of the DragonBall Z movies that …
FUNimation’s new VHS volumes for “Season Three” of their English dub of DragonBall Z are ready for pre-order as of today, just as “Agent Mai” had reported. These videos will not, however be shipped until May 15th. To pre-order these episodes, head on over to FUNimation’s website, and click the link to go to their …