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“Super Dragon Ball Heroes” Promotional Anime Website Updates With Character Biographies

Published by VegettoEX31 May 2018, 9:51 AM EDT1 CommentSDBH Promo Anime

The official Dragon Ball Heroes website has updated with biographies for eight characters set to appear in the forthcoming Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime slated to begin this summer:

Son Goku
VA: Masako Nozawa
A kind-hearted Saiyan who trains every day to be the strongest. He heads to the Prison Planet where Trunks has supposedly been taken.

Vegeta
VA: Ryō Horikawa
In order to rescue his son Trunks (who returned from the future), he resolves to head to the Prison Planet. He’s suspicious of the mysterious man “Fu”.

Trunks: Future
VA: Takeshi Kusao
He came from the future to receive training from Goku and the others on Beerus’ planet, but has now been imprisoned by someone on the Prison Planet.

Mai
VA: Eiko Yamada
Came from the future with Trunks. On Beerus’ planet she cooks and does other things to help with the training, but when she learns Trunks has been imprisoned on the Prison Planet, she heads there despite knowing the risks.

Fu
VA: Kappei Yamaguchi
A mysterious man who brings news that Trunks has been taken to the Prison Planet. Though he claims to be Trunks’ friend, his true identity is unknown. His aloof personality makes it difficult to tell what he’s thinking.

Son Goku: Xeno
VA: Masako Nozawa
A Son Goku from another dimension who works for the Time Patrol. He seems to be investigating the Prison Planet, but…

Coola
VA: Ryūsei Nakao
Teams up with Trunks in order to escape from the Prison Planet.

The Evil Saiyan
VA: Rikiya Koyama
A mysterious warrior interred by Fu on the Prison Planet. With his astonishing power, he rampages through the Prison Planet and overwhelms Goku and company.

Fu — a character originally created for the defunct MMORPG Dragon Ball Online — recently made a “re”appearance in Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 before also surfacing in Super Dragon Ball Heroes.

The “Prison Planet arc” is the latest scenario featured in the Super Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game, which recently launched the second update in its “Universe Mission” series. Super Dragon Ball Heroes is itself an update and hardware revision to the original Dragon Ball Heroes, a card-based arcade game in which players arrange teammates on a playing field for turn-based battles.

Dragon Ball Heroes, now in its eight year, has seen a variety of multimedia spin-offs and support pieces. Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission series) runs in the bimonthly magazine Saikyō Jump, while Toyotaro’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission ran from 2012-2015 in V-Jump. Three portable game adaptations — Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X — were released on the Nintendo 3DS.

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Bandai Namco Teases Additional “Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2” Free and Paid Content Updates

Published by VegettoEX29 May 2018, 10:16 PM EDTCommentXenoverse 2

In conjunction with a Dragon Ball FighterZ promotional live stream today, Bandai Namco also released a brief video statement from Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 producer Masayuki Hirano stating the company’s intent to release additional free and paid content for the game:

(NOTE: Any and all grammatical errors are preserved from the original video transcription below.)

Hello Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 fans, Long time no see, this is Hirano, the producer of Xenoverse 2. First off, I wanted to give you my biggest thanks for supporting Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for such a long period of time. And today, I was hoping to make an announcement to the fans out there. Some of you may remember, but when we announced this title, we promised to support the game for a year after the launch. And we have been successful to the run the game for a year and a half now, and that’s all thanks to the support from the fans. However, since we did say “a year”, there may be some people thinking that there’s no more new experience and content coming to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. So that’s why I wanted to take this time to make this announcement. It’s not the end of Xenoverse 2 yet. We are planning for more DLCs which include New Characters. And we aim to optimize the Online Experience for all users, with Free Updates. We will be addressing the Network Connection issues you may be encountering during battle, and we also plan to make adjustments and balances to the Skills/Attacks, and also rules so that battling each other is a more streamlined experience for everyone. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 still has much more to offer, so although Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and DRAGON BALL FighterZ is very different in genre, we would like to keep expanding both worlds, so that players can continue enjoying the game for a long period of time. So we hope that you will continue to support and enjoy the Dragon Ball Game Series.

Following the four paid content packs covered by the game’s original season pass, Bandai Namco released two additional paid content packs for Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2.

Developed by Dimps for Bandai Namco, Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 is available worldwide for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC (via Steam), and Switch. In North America, the game launched for consoles 25 October 2016 with a PC release following 28 October 2016. In Europe, the game launched across all platforms 28 October 2016. In Japan, the game launched on the PlayStation 4 console 02 November 2016. The Nintendo Switch port was released in Japan and internationally in September 2017.

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Podcast Episode #0444

Published by VegettoEX28 May 2018, 2:46 PM EDTComment

This week on the show we finally get around to scratching the surface of 2016’s Dragon Ball 30th Anniversary: Super History Book by taking a look at interviews with game producers Nobuyuki Tanaka and Toshihiro “Dragon” Suzuki! Tune in for some hilarious behind-the-scenes development stories you’ve certainly never heard before!

SHOW DESCRIPTION:
Episode #0444! Mike and Julian dive into interviews with video game producers Nobuyuki Tanaka and Toshihiro Suzuki from the 30th Anniversary “Super History Book”. Learn all about the 2:00 a.m. feedback sessions, getting the most out of the Famicom, running up against the anime and the manga, and teaching Akira Toriyama how to do special moves!

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Our podcast available via iTunes and/or Google Play Music, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.

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“Dragon Ball Super” Japanese Home Release Box #11 Packaging

Published by VegettoEX22 May 2018, 2:10 PM EDTCommentDragon Ball Super

Online retailers have begun updating their listings for the eleventh Dragon Ball Super home video box set in Japan, covering episodes 121-131, completing the “Tournament of Power” in the Universe Survival arc, and wrapping up existing the television series:

The disc label art features Son Goku in his “Ultra Instinct” state. As with previous releases, the box set will come packaged with a special booklet. On-disc extras will include a creditless version of the series’ eleventh ending theme song, “LAGRIMA”. Toei and Happinet have been releasing the series on DVD and Blu-ray box sets of roughly 12 episodes each, all of which are cataloged in our “Home Video Guide“.

The DVD set is listed at ¥12,096 (+ tax) and the Blu-ray set at ¥16,416 (+ tax), with both scheduled for release 03 July 2018 in Japan. Both DVD and Blu-ray sets are listed as two discs each. Sets are available to pre-order via CDJapan and Amazon Japan.

The Dragon Ball Super television series concluded in March 2018 with 131 total episodes. FUNimation owns the American distribution license for the series, with the English dub airing on Cartoon Network, and the home video release reaching its fourth box set next month.

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“Dragon Ball FighterZ” SSGSS Vegetto Promotional Video Showcases Special Moves, Alternate Colors, Lobby Character, & Z-Stamp

Published by VegettoEX22 May 2018, 10:15 AM EDTCommentDragon Ball FighterZ

Following a seemingly-accidental leak out of Taiwan last month, a short promotional video for SSGSS Vegetto, one of the next paid downloadable characters coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ, has been released showcasing some of his special moves:

The video concludes with a glimpse at the in-game alternate colors, player lobby character, and Z-Stamp that will accompany him for those that pay for access to the character.

Vegetto — a Potara earring fusion of Vegeta and Son Goku (“Kakarrot”) — debuted in the Boo arc of the original series. The fusion reappears in a “Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan” (or simply “Super Saiyan Blue”) form during the Future Trunks arc of Dragon Ball Super.

The character will be made available (alongside Merged Zamasu) 31 May 2018 individually for ¥500/$5, or as part of the game’s game’s optional $34.99 “FighterZ Pass” covering eight total characters. The first two additional characters, Bardock and Broli, were released last month. Though extensive datamining has taken place among fans, the remaining fighters beyond these four have yet to be officially announced.

The 3-on-3, “2.5D” fighting game is developed by Arc System Works for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (via Steam). The game runs at a 1080p resolution and 60fps frame rate, with higher resolutions available on the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X consoles, as well as the PC. Playable characters include Son Goku, Son Gohan (Cell arc design), Vegeta, Freeza, Cell, Boo (Good), Trunks, Piccolo, Kuririn, #16, #18 (with #17), Yamcha, Tenshinhan (with Chiaotzu), Ginyu (with teammates), Nappa (with Saibaimen), Gotenks, Son Gohan (Boo arc design), Boo (Pure), Hit, Beerus, and Goku Black (with Zamasu), as well as “Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan” (SSGSS, or “Super Saiyan Blue”) versions of Goku and Vegeta that can be accessed early via pre-orders or unlocked through gameplay. The Akira Toriyama-designed “#21” is a new character central to the game’s story mode. Broli and Bardock were the first two paid downloadable characters made available.

Dragon Ball FighterZ was released 26 January 2018 in North America and Europe, and 01 February 2018 in Japan. Alongside its Japanese release, Bandai Namco announced that they had shipped two million copies of the game, making it the fastest-shipping game in the franchise’s history.

Arc previously worked on Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden for the Nintendo 3DS, as well as the Super Sonic Warriors games (Bukū Tōgeki and Bukū Ressen) on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. The developer is otherwise known for their Guilty Gear and BlazBlue series of fighting games.

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“The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama”: Work #086

Published by VegettoEX22 May 2018, 8:27 AM EDTCommentThe Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama

The official Dragon Ball website’s eighty-sixth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is the cover from the inaugural July 1993 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, released 25 years ago this month:

The cover features the cast of Toriyama’s Dr. Slump series cosplaying characters from the video game Dragon Quest II, which was receiving a remake alongside the first Dragon Quest on the Nintendo Super Famicom that December as Dragon Quest I & II.

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“The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama”: Work #085

Published by VegettoEX21 May 2018, 9:22 PM EDTCommentThe Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama

The official Dragon Ball website’s eighty-fifth entry in “The Nearly Complete Works of Akira Toriyama” — an on-going series highlighting rare and important pieces of the author’s work over the years — is a series of character designs from the first Nintendo Famicom game, Shenron no Nazo (“The Mystery of Shenlong”), as originally shared in Bird Land Press 22 in December 1986:

The characters seen here, all in the employ of the game’s antagonists, the “MB Army”, are “Kurilien” (an alien that resembles Kuririn), an “Asura Robot”, and the MB Army General.

The game eventually received a North American release, with substantial modifications, as Dragon Power for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Goku was changed to a generic martial-arts protagonist, Nora’s (née Bulma’s) panties were changed to “sandwiches”, and nearly all overt references to Dragon Ball proper were papered over.

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Bandai Namco Announces “Super Dragon Ball Heroes” Promotional Anime Centered on Universe Mission’s “Prison Planet” Storyline

Published by VegettoEX21 May 2018, 7:26 PM EDT1 CommentSDBH Promo Anime

In conjunction with today’s July 2018 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine in Japan, Bandai Namco has announced a forthcoming Super Dragon Ball Heroes animation project. The project is described as a “promotion(al) anime” focused on the Prison Planet arc from the arcade game’s current/ongoing “Universe Mission” series of updates (not to be confused with the Dragon Ball Super series’ “Universe Survival arc”).

An official mini-site has also opened at www.carddass.com/dbh/sdbh/prison_planet/.

In addition to providing a brief overview of the arcade game itself, the new website details the new Prison Planet story:

Super Saiyan 4 Goku vs SSGSS Goku?! A super battle unfolds on the unknown “Prison Planet”!

Trunks returns from the future to train with Goku and Vegeta. However, he abruptly vanishes. The mystery man “Fu” suddenly appears, telling them that Trunks has been locked up on the “Prison Planet”, a mysterious facility in an unknown location between universes. The group searches for the Dragon Balls to free Trunks, but an unending super battle awaits them! Will Goku and the others manage to rescue Trunks and escape the Prison Planet…?

The V-Jump promotion notes that “episode one” will receive a preliminary screening 01 July 2018 at Aeon LakeTown in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, while the official website simply states that the first episode will begin its “distribution” that same date; nothing is stated regarding any kind of digital distribution or broadcast method.

In addition to the ongoing storyline in the arcade game, Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission manga series in Saikyō Jump tells a similar version of events; the manga debuted last month in the magazine’s May 2018 issue as a continuation/follow-up to Nagayama’s previous Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission series, which ran for ten standard chapters and recently wrapped up its collected edition release.

Podcast

Podcast Episode #0443

Published by VegettoEX21 May 2018, 10:44 AM EDTComment

This week on the show we do a bit of news catch-up! Tune in for analysis on new character designs revealed for this year’s upcoming Dragon Ball Super theatrical film (via today’s July 2018 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine), as well as a quick recap of what (little!) we know about an upcoming Dragon Ball Heroes promotional animation.

SHOW DESCRIPTION:
Episode #0443! Mike, Julian, and Ajay discuss new character designs revealed for the upcoming 2018 “Dragon Ball Super” theatrical film as well as a recent interview with Dragon Ball Room manager Akio Iyoku. Stay tuned for a brief chat about a new “Dragon Ball Heroes” promotional anime, which could either be something or… well, it sure will be a thing.

REFERENCED SITES:

INTERVIEW: Akio Iyoku (Kanzenshuu translation forthcoming!)
WEBSITE: “Dragon Ball Heroes” Promotional Anime

Our podcast available via iTunes and/or Google Play Music, or you can pop the direct RSS feed into the program of your choice. You can also listen to this episode by directly downloading the MP3 or by streaming it on SoundCloud or YouTube. We invite you to discuss this episode on our forum.

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New “Dragon Ball FighterZ” Paid Characters Merged Zamasu & SSGSS Vegetto Dated For May 31

Published by VegettoEX21 May 2018, 10:25 AM EDT1 CommentDragon Ball FighterZ

Following a seemingly-accidental video leak out of Taiwan, in conjunction with today’s July 2018 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine in Japan, Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan (“SSGSS” for short, or simply “Super Saiyan Blue”) Vegetto has been revealed for Dragon Ball FighterZ alongside the previously-announced Merged Zamasu.

Both characters are slated for release 31 May 2018, either individually (¥500/$5 each) or as part of the game’s optional $34.99 “FighterZ Pass” covering eight total characters. Vegetto will have a special “dramatic finish” when paired up and winning against Zamasu.