After being released this last week, the sixth set of Dragon Ball The Movies individual discs (DBZ Movies 11 & 12) have deputed in the top 15 of the “Japanese Animation DVD Rankings” on the Oricon charts. Dragon Ball Z Movie 11 is ranked #12, having sold 6,206 copies, which is followed by Dragon Ball Z Movie 12 at #13, having sold 5,517 copies.
That is correct — the Bio-Brolli movie is out-selling the oh-so sexy Gogeta movie!
Episode #0159 of the podcast is available for download! Jeff joined the trio of hosts for taking a look at volume 23 of the manga. Goku still hasn’t arrived, but things are going crazy with Vegeta teaming up with the Earthlings, Ginyu-Tokusentai has arrived, the seven Dragon Balls have been gathered… crazy times on Namek, right now. How is the story moving along, though? Does Toriyama still seem like he knows what he’s doing? Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0159! VegettoEX, Meri, Julian, and Jeff take a look at volume 23 in our “Manga Review of Awesomeness”. The proverbial excrement has begun to hit the fan, with Goku still on his way, and Vegeta being forced to team up with Kuririn and Gohan due to the arrival of Ginyu-Tokusentai. Is the story still moving along, though? News about layoffs and cover art, DBZ ABCs, January’s last release, and your great e-mails round out the episode.
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Toei has also updated their official Dragon Ball DVD blog with some character designs from various Dragon Ball Z movies:
The sixth set of Dragon Ball The Movies individual discs (DBZ Movies 11 & 12) were released today, and in typical Toei fashion, they have already posted the next set of covers (DBZ Movie 13 & the 10th Anniversary Movie). These next two films, “Dragon Fist Explosion!! If Goku Won’t Do it, Who Will” (DBZ Movie 13) and “The Path to Ultimate Strength” (10th Anniversary Movie), are set to be released 13 February 2009.
You can still order any of the previously released discs or either of these discs from Amazon Japan.
We mentioned this on the podcast and then totally forgot to post it up! The soundtrack for Infinite World (due out this week in Japan on King Records) finally has some cover art courtesy of CDJapan:
We will be doing a review of this soundtrack and the game’s theme song CD single as soon as they come in, so expect that all later this month.
Episode #0158 of the podcast is available for download! We were finally able to catch up with Julian again to record, so the core trio took a look back at 2008 in its entirety. We had all sorts of crazy stories, huge surprises, wacky releases, and so much more. Also, how did our predictions for 2008 fare? We took a look at those, as well as made (more beefy & substantial!) predictions for 2009. Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0158! VegettoEX, Meri, and Julian take a look back at the extraordinary year that was 2008. Amazingly huge news stories, shocking surprises, and crazy releases summed up the year. In the end, though, what were the biggest stories and surprises? How did our predictions fare, and what do we see happening in 2009? January’s releases and your e-mails round out the episode.
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Episode #0157 of the podcast is available for download! We came back from Christmas down at my parents’ with bags full of old action figures, so we decided to tear into them and see what has been sitting around for the last decade or so. Definitely check it out.
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Episode #0157! VegettoEX and Meri tear through some old bags of action figures to see what has been sitting around for the last ten years! Japanese figures, hilarious American attempts, and naming fun are plentiful. January’s releases, some more DBZ music homage e-mails, and tons more fun round out the episode and 2008.
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Tanooki Kuribo let us know that Viz is going to be putting out adaptations of the upcoming Dragon Ball Evolution live action movie a la the “Chapter Books” coming out for the series proper under the “Viz Kids” label:
These are being adapted for Viz by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon, just like the “Junior Novel” version of the movie we talked about a while back, too.
We hinted at a couple things previously, but our good buddy Greg gave us a really nice write-up of his time spent at Jump Festa this past week. There was a lot going on, so let me pull out a couple key quotes from him:
When it came Nozawa’s turn they asked who else she did beyond THE OBVIOUS 3 and a child answered Bardock. Both Tanaka and Nozawa commented that they were so amazed small children knew smaller roles they did so long ago. It was then that I exposed that banter as bullshit when Nozawa asked who ELSE she did. I raised my hand to answer Tullece (or whatever the hell the accepted dubbination calls him these days) and Nozawa made direct eye contact with me at which time she scowled, shook her head and went on to pick a child. So yeah, basically their amazement at children knowing the roles is bullshit, they wanted/expected them to know the answers and only intended on picking them.
How many Americans can say they’ve been scowled at by Nozawa herself? Ah Japan. Gaijin are all the same to you eh?
One of Tanaka’s most memorable scenes is that with Bacterian where Krillin is reminded he doesn’t have a nose and just kind of responds, “Oh…yeah!” Nozawa thinks it’s hilarious because she honestly believes Toriyama originally genuinely forgot to draw one.
So they made a big hoot about Japan getting the live action movie first on March 13th. Nozawa wants it to be first here because, “…DB belongs to Japan!” So they showed us the trailer. Turns out it’s just the trailer.
It was the first time to see the trailer for many of the fans. Why? Because Japanese people suck ass at using computers.
Piccolo was laughed at. Flat out.
When Goku said Kame Hame Ha there was audible laughter.
Nozawa said she was surprised because Goku was such a hunk and Yamcha looks like some bumpkin which should be the other way around.
The idols said it’s strange to see such a young Roshi and that it’s hard to picture him being a perv like that. (Later Nozawa would say, “You can tell he likes young girls!”, apparently commenting on his shirt out of the blue which directly contradicted that comment and the feeling of the crowd so it seems she was fed that line)
Then Nozawa laid the smack down on the American Kame Hame Ha. She said in Japan they extend the ‘Ka’ OR the final ‘Ha’ but in America they extend the first ‘me’ which just makes it sound way off.
Head on over to our forum to read Greg’s full write-up.
If you are in the market for some Region 2 Dragon Ball DVDs, and especially the beginning of the series, you are in some serious luck:
Amazon Japan is running a holiday sale right now where you can grab volumes 1-9 (that is episodes 1-54) for a disgustingly-low ¥10,770 — about 70% off the price!
Get in there and grab it while it is hot!