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Friend of the website Kuririn321 wrote us in with another heads-up on a strange Suncoast listing: something called “DragonBall Z: Our Hero Awakes” (sic). As Kuririn321 says, this is the title of a FUNimation English dub episode, and the listing says it is a short 20 minutes long. What is most odd is that not …
Thanks go out to visitor WuFEi for pointing us to FUNimation’s dragonballz.com website that contains a few tidbits about upcoming releases: The “Z Warriors Prepare” DVD will contain all three episodes found on the previously-released “Trunks: Prelude to Terror” disc. However, the episodes on the “Z Warriors Prepare” disc will be corrected versions — the …
FUNimation’s official DragonBall Z site has updated the FAQ once again with incredible information: their continued dub of the original DragonBall TV series will use the original Japanese musical score! Q: What are future plans for Dragon Ball? A: Dragon Ball will begin airing on Cartoon Network June 4. Dragon Ball will run in time …
According to Suncoast’s latest listings, the “Frieza: The Summoning” disc is due out on 10 April 2001, but we also have another three discs announced! The last two in the series of four “Androids” DVDs (“Assassins” and “Invincible”) are due out on 03 April 2001, and the first Garlic Jr. disc (“Black Water Mist”) is …
Having problems playing some of your DragonBall Z DVDs from FUNimation? According to e-mails and posts by many fans out there, you are not alone. Phillips Magnavox players are confirmed to spit the discs back out after being unable to read them, while visitors are reporting that Oritron models run the gamut from playing poorly …
As further confirmed by Planet Namek and re-posted by Anime Nation, FUNimation’s DVD release of the third DragonBall movie (entitled “Mystical Adventure”) will indeed be “hybrid”, meaning it will include both the original Japanese language track as well as an English dub. While we could not announce it ahead of time, a scan of the …
Anime Fringe has posted their regular list of “must-visit” anime websites, and Daizenshuu EX (editor’s note: one of the two prior sites later incorporated into Kanzenshuu) has been placed in the #18 spot: The second appearance of a DragonBall web site on this list gives us a site filled tons of original multimedia and information. …
Suncoast lists the DVD of “The History of Trunks” as being released on 29 November 2000, while RightStuf lists the release date as 12 December 2000. We will let you know when we are able to confirm a release date with FUNimation. Thanks to the folks on alt.fan.dragonball for noting these conflicting release dates.
Adding to the whole Ocean cast “thing” comes a reply from Ian James Corlett, the first voice of Goku in FUNimation’s English dub of DragonBall Z. We asked Ian if he had gotten any offers concerning recording new DragonBall Z episodes or movies — FUNimation seems to be saying that nothing is going on with …
The 26 August 2000 edition of the San Jose Mercury News ran an article about Viz, the translation of manga into English, and release concerns. ENVISIONING A POP-CULTURE BRIDGE COMPANY SAYS ANIMATION IS KEY TO UNDERSTANDING JAPAN MIKE ANTONUCCI, Mercury News People once fretted that the world was becoming unified under an American framework of …