Despite the series debuting in just under a month’s time, so far we have received various, non-committal text splashes for Dragon Ball Super in online and magazine announcements. Today’s episode of Dragon Ball Kai in Japan (Episode 156) continued the recent scroll of text promoting the forthcoming new TV series, but this time included stylized …
After teasing fans with a blank page a little over a week ago (yet still having surprises spoiled by our buddy kei17‘s detective work), the official Twitter account for Dragon Ball Super has previewed actual content of the storyboard for the ending theme. 関係者の了解をもらったので、先日アップしたエンディングの絵コンテの中身をチラ見せ！(S) After getting consent from those involved, here’s a sneak peek at …
Anime News Network reports that next week’s 2015 #28 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan reveals that the Dragon Ball Super TV series will begin airing 05 July 2015 on Fuji TV in Japan. The promotional splash’s tagline, “A Super-New Work!!” (超神作!! Chō-Shinsaku), is actually a play on words where the 新 (shin) in …
Staff member Hikari wrote on the composer’s official blog this week that Norihito Sumitomo will return to musical composition duties for the upcoming Dragon Ball Super TV series. Sumitomo began with Dragon Ball in 2013 with the score to the theatrical film Battle of Gods. He returned for the Majin Boo arc of Dragon Ball …
A piece of promotional artwork resurfaced online yesterday tied in with excitement about the upcoming Dragon Ball Super TV series and, more specifically, its accompanying manga adaptation. Over the last day, several news outlets have incorrectly claimed this image is promotional artwork for the aforementioned manga adaptation. The image — drawn by Toyotarō — dates …
In conjunction with the launch of the official Dragon Ball Super website yesterday, the series’ theme songs were unveiled at the “Triad Rocks –Columbia vs Triad-” event held in Tokyo. The series’ opening theme, “Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!!”, will be peformed by Kazuya Yoshii (lead vocalist of The Yellow Monkey), while rock band Good Morning America …
An official website for the upcoming Dragon Ball Super TV series has been launched at www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/dragon_s/. An official Twitter account has also been set up at @DB_super2015. In addition to the previously-revealed involvement (story and characters) from original manga author Akira Toriyama, as well as returning voice actress Masako Nozawa, the website reconfirms Kimitoshi Chioka …
Anime News Network reports that the upcoming Dragon Ball Super TV series will receive a manga adaptation by Toyotarō, which will begin serialization in the August 2015 issue of V-Jump. Along with the announcement, which appears in this month’s upcoming July 2015 issue of V-Jump (officially hitting shelves 21 May 2015), a brief message was …
The “Toei Animation Online Shop” has posted a listing for the fifth and final Blu-ray box set of the “Majin Boo arc” of Dragon Ball Kai. Set to be released 02 September 2015, this box set will contain episodes 147 to 159 of the Japanese broadcast version of the series and will come packaged with …
A new Dragon Ball TV series has been announced: Dragon Ball Super will debut this July and will run as a weekly series at 9:00 a.m. on Fuji TV, taking the time slot of the Dragon Ball Kai TV series. The story and characters will be developed by original manga author Akira Toriyama himself and …