Though first announced back in October 2023, up to this point there had been no formal declaration of a distribution or broadcast medium for the forthcoming animated series Dragon Ball Daima. This morning, the official Dragon Ball Twitter account announced that Dragon Ball Daima will in fact be broadcast on Fuji TV when it debuts …
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The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The celebration aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, with the images and an accompanying comment published as the …
Akira Toriyama — original author/illustrator of Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, and creator of countless other works and various contributions to other franchises and our culture as a whole — passed away on March 1, 2024 at age 68. The announcements initially came by way of the “Dragon Ball Official Site” and Shueisha (on the official …
Following up on previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s 102nd chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing onward into the brand-new “Super Hero arc”. After three chapters worth of original prologue material, the manga version of the arc covered the …
First teased last month, Bandai Namco has announced that the paid downloadable content pack for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot featuring the 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai will release on 21 February 2024. The downloadable content pack’s title in Japanese is “And So, After 10 Years” (そして10年後 Soshite Jūnengo); as with the previous packs this season, its title …
Three volumes of various collected Dragon Ball manga series are all set to release 04 April 2024 in Japan. Dragon Ball Super — Volume 23 The twenty third collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō will release 04 April 2024 in Japan for ¥528 + tax. Following previous volumes, the upcoming …
Bandai Namco Holdings has posted a ¥8.231 billion profit for the third quarter of fiscal year of 2024 (and ¥60.398 overall for the fiscal year thus far), down from a ¥17.887 billion quarterly (and ¥84.444 three-quarters) profit this same timeframe last year. By way of an investor Q&A session, it was noted that the company …
The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The celebration aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, with the images and an accompanying comment published as the …
Following a live performance of past songs from veteran vocalist Hironobu Kageyama, Dragon Ball franchise executive producer Akio Iyoku was then welcomed to the DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour 2024 stage for a “Dragon Ball Daima Special Panel“. After kicking off with a repeat of the original trailer first showed at New York Comic Con …
In conjunction with this weekend’s “DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour 2024” event, Bandai Namco has released a new “Goku VS Vegeta – Rivals” trailer for the forthcoming DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO video game: The trailer appears to use recycled audio in at least certain portions for its dialog — in both English and Japanese — …