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It looks like next week will see a couple CD releases that those looking forward to the upcoming Dragon Ball Evolution might be interested in. Amazon has listings for both the “soundtrack” for $14.99 and another “soundtrack” (which is actually the movie’s score as composed by Brian Tyler) for $17.99, both listing for about the …
Episode #0167 of the podcast is available for download! Since the “Rule” CD single didn’t come in until recording day (which actually lets us do an all-Evolution episode next week), we decided to bring on prior guests Hujio and Corey to talk some more DragonBall Kai with us. We have all seen the new commercial …
Coming hot on the heels of the recently-released Super Exciting Guide – Story Volume is the Character Volume, set for release from Shueisha 03 April 2009 in Japan. Stay tuned for more details as they come in.
We have been following these manga delays for a while, so it is no real surprise to see that a couple of the upcoming omnibus “Viz Big” editions for the “DBZ” portion of the manga have been delayed… again. DBZ #4 (covering tankōbon 26-28) has been pushed back from 21 April 2009 to 23 June …
A new page from Jump details all sorts of new tidbits about the upcoming Dragon Ball Kai: Both the (new) opening and ending themes will be performed by Takayoshi Tanimoto, known for theme song performances in shows like Konjiki no Gash Bell!!. The new opening is called “Dragon Soul” and the new closing is called …
Our buddy Greg popped over to our forum with a couple quick bits from the new Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide – Story Volume guide book that came out this week in Japan. Greg notes that while most of the material is information we have seen packaged and repackaged many times before, there are a …
“Rule”, Ayumi Hamasaki’s latest CD single (and the theme song for Dragon Ball Evolution), is apparently not selling so well for Hamasaki… comparatively speaking, anyway. According to Oricon, while “Rule” is Hamasaki’s 20th #1 single in a row (and her 32nd #1 single in total), it sold “barely” over 95,000 copies, and is the lowest …
CDJapan is having a special sale to tie-in with the Japanese release of Dragon Ball Evolution this month. They are offering up to 20% off most Dragon Ball-related DVDs (though some are only, for example, 10% off). If you have any holes in your R2 collection, this may be another great chance to fill them …
Toshio Furukawa (the voice of Piccolo) updated his blog yesterday to say that they were recording lines for the first episode of Dragon Ball Kai, while Naotoshi Shida (keyframe animator for Dragon Ball Z) also had a blog update noting that they finished up the keyframe animation for the new ending theme to the series. …
We have some final confirmation about the most recent guide, Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide – Story Volume, which was released today in Japan. It appears our original guess was correct, and it will indeed be a manga-specific guide. Here’s the book description from Shueisha’s site: 世界的名作コミックの見どころを徹底ガイド！ 友情 悟空と仲間たちの感動エピソードを徹底追跡！ 努力 鳥山明先生監修の修行データで、孫悟空の成長を完全解析！ 勝利 強敵たちとの熱きバトルを、孫悟空の想いとともに大紹介！ A complete guide to the …