This very well may be our last post about Dragon Ball Kai before it airs! Our buddy SSj_Rambo has been keeping us posted on the recent update of Toei Animation’s Dragon Ball Kai website. The site has pretty much been completely over-hauled from its original one-page news layout. They have put up pages highlighting the …
The following articles have been filed under the "Site Meta" category and covers site-related information that does not necessary relate to content or the Dragon Ball franchise, such as announcements, improvements, or upgrades.
29 March 2009, 10:25 PM EDTComment
Episode #0170 of the podcast is available for download! This week it was just Meri and I, so we dipped back and took a more thorough look at Ayumi Hamasaki’s “Rule/Sparkle” CD+DVD single. You heard some general thoughts about it two weeks ago on the show, but tune in for more in-depth thoughts and tons …
27 March 2009, 6:53 AM EDTComment
It looks like the American debut of Dragon Ball Evolution has been delayed yet again, though this time it just goes back from a Wednesday to a Friday. Instead of the pretty firm April 8th release date, we are now set to go on Friday, April 10th.
27 March 2009, 2:08 AM EDTComment
Toei has updated their Dragon Ball DVD blog for the last time, seeing as all of the episodes and movies have been released. There is not much about anything we do not already know, except at the very end they leave us with some interesting news. Well, it is more of a “we are not …
25 March 2009, 11:37 AM EDTComment
While it is general video game industry news, it certainly affects Dragon Ball fandom in a huge way. According to a news piece over on Gamasutra, Infogrames (Atari’s full owner at this point) has agreed to sell a 66% stake in its “sales, marketing, and retail distribution” business called “Distribution Partners” to Namco-Bandai. “Distribution Partners” …
On March 20th, Fuji TV and Toei Animation held a preview of Dragon Ball Kai as part of the Tokyo International Anime Fair. Saeki Kenji of “Game Watch” was in attendance and has posted up a nice run-down of the event. Some of our favorite actors were in attendance, including Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn), Masako Nozawa …
While Wasted Wisher has already noted to us that scenes from the Bardock TV special would be used in the first episode of Kai, an upcoming issue of Jump apparently confirms that Freeza will be making an appearance in the first episode, so this all lines up pretty well. Additionally, Jump states that a CD …
22 March 2009, 8:26 PM EDTComment
Episode #0169 of the podcast is available for download! We originally wanted to do a “bonus” episode mid-week to follow up and do a more thorough review of the “Rule” CD single, but that didn’t end up happening. We considered doing that for this week’s regular episode, but decided that a more traditional topic would …
As we predicted based on the short blurb about a CD single release for the Dragon Ball Kai opening theme, we are going to get double-dipped with the new opening and ending themes getting their own separate releases. CDJapan is listing the opening theme, “Dragon Soul”, coming out 20 May 2009 in both a regular …
21 March 2009, 11:56 AM EDTComment
Our buddy Marc (The Fanboy Review) has a few gaming tidbits for us. Apparently Dragon Ball Evolution for the PSP did around a mere 1,200 copies in its first day. A Japanese blog gives a little break-down of first-day sales for other recent Dragon Ball games, so you can see just how much of a …