Various retailer sites have posted up full track listings for the three Koro-chan Pack Dragon Ball Kai CDs all due out next month. For those unfamiliar with the concept, these “Koro-chan Pack” discs are lower-priced compilations of previously-released music with a small number of tracks on each disc. We saw one each for the original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z back in 2007, and then there were plans for a Kai version last year which was ultimately canceled, seemingly in favor of the single Dragon Ball Kai Song Collection disc.

If you already own that disc, you may as well stick with it — these discs offer up very little in the way of new material. As expected, each of the three discs contain music associated with and used during that portion of the story arc thus-far in Kai. The only new material you will find are karaoke versions one one song per disc (“Win Tough Fight!”, “CHASER!”, and “Ultra Super Dragon Soul”, respectively).

We do not yet have cover art or details on the “picture book” bonuses that will come with each of these 12-cm CDs when they come out 24 February 2010 for ¥1575 a pop.

In all honesty, I may be passing on these, shocking as that may be. Sure, they are cheap, but I already own any of the significant material over on the Dragon Ball Kai Song Collection disc. Only true karaoke enthusiasts need dive in, it seems.

In music news, CDJapan has three new “Koro-chan Pack” releases scheduled for a simultaneous release in a couple months on 24 February 2009. Each will retail for the standard ¥1500 and contain a small number of songs on the mini-CD, as well as a picture book.

• Koro-chan Pack Dragon Ball Kai: Goku vs. Vegeta
• Koro-chan Pack Dragon Ball Kai: Goku vs. Ginyu-Tokusentai
• Koro-chan Pack Dragon Ball Kai: Goku vs. Freeza

You may remember that a single Koro-chan Pack disc was scheduled for release much earlier this year and canceled shortly before the announcement of the Kai Song Collection. As with all releases, regardless of Japanese or American origin, it gets impossible to keep up with everything with these multiple releases and cancellations!

As reported earlier this week, the upcoming Dragon Ball DS 2 will contain the first Famicom game for the franchise, Shenron no Nazo (The Mystery of Shenlong), as a hidden extra. The official website for the game is now proudly showcasing this information:

In addition to this, a new trailer for the game has popped up online also showcasing the Famicom game, along with plenty of other aspects of the game play. We are most excited about some traditional control being tossed into the mix, since the stylus-only attacking was one of our problems with the original.

Due out on 11 February 2010 in Japan, there is still no word on a North American release for Dragon Ball DS 2.

Siliconera is reporting that the upcoming Dragon Ball DS 2 will contain a hidden extra: an emulated ROM of the first Famicom game for the franchise (and one of the first franchise video games overall), Shenron no Nazo (The Mystery of Shenlong). The game was actually released here in North America back in 1986 as Dragon Power with most references to the original version removed (Bulma renamed “Nora”, panties flipped upside down into a hamburger, generic crystal balls, etc.).

Namco-Bandai still has not announced a North American release of the game, so it will be interesting to see if this kind of bonus material makes it into a possible domestic release.

The one bit of new news covered this most recent podcast episode comes to us courtesy of Ayelén. You may remember the news back in August about a certain “Anghelo” claiming to be the official performer for the Spanish versions of the Dragon Ball Kai theme songs. The website ANMTV has back-and-forth debates with Anghelo, Eduardo Garza (the local voice actor for Kuririn), and even Toei Animation by way of their Latin America marketing director, Eduardo Lucio. Long story short, Garza called Anghelo out as being a “pirate” that did not have the rights to perform these songs, which were followed by legal threats from Anghelo’s production company, Magic Sound Records, who stood by their remarks that Anghelo had the rights to this music. In comes Lucio with an official statement that Kai is in no way licensed at all for any production outside of Japan, which includes its music:

“At the moment, there’s no authorization that allows the existence of any official product”

You Spanish folk can read the latest story bits on ANMTV, but it seems to be pretty resolute for the time being. It will be interesting to see if Anghelo or Magic Sound Records come back with any further nonsense.