Each week the recently revamped Dragon Ball Official Site posts a short “Weekly Dragon Ball News” video highlighting the franchise’s most recent news, often focusing on upcoming merchandise. In this week’s video, Dragon Ball Super manga author Toyotarō sat down with the segment’s regular host, and his own editor, “Victory Uchida” to share some behind-the-scenes …
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Last week’s September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a new “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The first contribution to the series, which aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, comes courtesy of …
As scheduled, a pre-recorded Comic-Con@Home panel covering the previously announced Dragon Ball Super 2022 film was posted online at 1:00pm EDT on 23 July 2021. The panel featured voice actress Masako Nozawa (Son Goku), Toei Animation producer Norihiro Hayashida, and Shueisha executive producer Akio Iyoku. Following a “live” performance of “CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA” by Hironobu Kageyama, …
21 July 2021, 11:46 AM EDTComment
Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his July 2021 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Paikuhan (and others!) from the Afterlife Tournament filler arc …
Continuing onward from previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s seventy-fourth chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing the brand-new “Granolla the Survivor arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the …
Shueisha has listed the sixteenth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō and the second collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Big Bang Mission!!! manga series by Yoshitaka Nagayama as releasing 04 August 2021 in Japan for ¥484 each. The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” began in June 2015, initially …
22 June 2021, 2:52 PM EDTComment
The latest addition to our “Press Archive” is another fun blast-from-the-past: a general overview of the “anime invasion” from the August 14, 1995 issue of Newsweek, which happens to also mention the impending broadcast of FUNimation’s English dub of the Dragon Ball television series. Imported by cultists since the ’60s, Japanese animation, or “anime,” is …
22 June 2021, 11:39 AM EDTComment
Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his June 2021 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a drawing of Chop Chai from the Afterlife Tournament filler arc of …
Continuing onward from previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s seventy-third chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, continuing the brand-new “Granolla the Survivor arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the …
08 June 2021, 10:07 AM EDTComment
The latest addition to our “Press Archive” is another fun blast-from-the-past: an Internal Correspondence article from the April 1995 issue announcing the forthcoming syndication broadcast debut of the original Dragon Ball television series from FUNimation. Read the Full Article! The article is also noteworthy for mentioning Viz’s ongoing negotiations for their Dragon Ball manga license, …