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According to licensing.biz, TF1 Enterprises has been selected as the new merchandising broker for the various Dragon Ball properties: TF1 Licences will handle France, French speaking Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Monaco and will have merchandising rights for the brand with the exception of toy, video games, publishing and Lamincards categories. “TF1 Licences ranks among one …
Our buddy Tanooki Kuribo picked up Viz’s recent “Collector’s Edition” releases of both Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z volume 1. These hardcover editions seem to be part of a trend Viz is going with where they release just the first volume of a series in this special format with some color pages and updated …
Viz will be releasing the entirety of the Dragon Ball portion of their manga 03 February 2009 (DB volumes 1-16): Viz will also be releasing the entirety of the Dragon Ball Z portion of their manga on the same day (DB volumes 17-42):
A while back we told you about a funny story from Texas where a guy tried to steal some Dragon Ball Z DVDs from his local Wal-Mart. This new story comes to us from Japan, where a 21-year-old man and two teenage cohorts totally one-uped the American hick by stealing an entire gashapon machine. From …
While it is unfortunately not a new console game, the 40th anniversary of “Shonen Jump” brings us more crossover goodness in the form of Bandai’s new Let’s!TV Play game, “Dragon Ball Z x One Piece: Batoru Taikan Gomu-Gomu no Kamehameha ~omee no koe de ora wo yobu~” (“DragonBall Z & One Piece: Battle Sensation Gum-Gum …
FUNimation will finally be breaking their shockingly accurate chronological consistency for the first time in the next “remastered” series of releases by packing DBZ movies 7 and 9 together: Skipping the eighth movie makes sense if they plan to release the Broli movies (perhaps all three) together in one package. This double feature set (with …
Anime News Network reports that FUNimation has finally decided to go after DiscountAnimeDVD.com and its associated persons and businesses for bootleg DVDs: Funimation’s legal representative filed the lawsuit in August. The suit is still active, pending a scheduling conference between all parties that is set for November 17 in a Los Angeles courtroom. The lawsuit …
There is nothing of huge interest this time around for Navarre, FUNimation’s parent company. The only slight bit of news was the following note regarding the “publishing segment” of Navarre, which includes FUNimation: Net sales for the publishing segment were $27.4 million (before inter-company eliminations) for the first quarter fiscal 2009 compared to $29.6 million …
Episode #0150 of the podcast is available for download! That’s right, Meri and I have returned from our wonderful vacation consisting of those pesky little “wedding” and “honeymoon” things! We are right back into the swing of things, though, and joined back up with Julian to do a podcast of catching-up on news. Definitely check …
We have confirmation from the Jumpland website that the new Jump Super Anime Tour special (“Heya! Son Goku and Friends Return!!”) will be streamed online absolutely FREE following the tour’s conclusion in November. Anime News Network reports: This year’s 49th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has announced on Saturday that the Jumpland website …