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This week’s Comic-Con@Home 2021 event was host to a special Dragon Ball Super movie panel, with Goku VA Masako Nozawa present along with Toei Animation producer Norihiro Hayashida and Toriyama’s editor and Dragon Ball series executive producer Akio Iyoku. While discussing the new film—which was …Read more »
There’s no shortage of bumps in the night in the work of GeGeGe no Kitaro creator Shigeru Mizuki, who passed away in 2015 but continues to delight fans of all ages. The latest to head to the screen is Mizuki’s Akuma-kun manga, and there’s also …Read more »
When it comes to absurdly powerful intergalactic villains like Frieza, it usually takes someone as strong as Goku to have a fighting chance against them. That hasn’t stopped others from trying, and the most recent contender is a popular 43-year-old enka singer, Kiyoshi Hikawa, who …Read more »
Everyone’s doing their part to entertain others during the ongoing pandemic, and that includes some of Japan’s biggest anime voice talent. One of the current challenges has voice actors and actresses reading children’s stories for families to listen to together. The latest to get in …Read more »
It’s hard out there for a voice actor these days. In addition to, you know, voice acting, you have to appear at live events, on the radio, and a whole host of other “extracurricular” activities. At the same time, you’ve got fans on all ends …Read more »
Dragon Ball Super: Broly hits screens in the U.S. January 16, 2019. That’s the word from Funimation, who have licensed the new Dragon Ball film. Before it goes wide, Broly will have its English-dubbed premiere December 13 at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. Before …Read more »
As previously-revealed, the 21st Pokémon movie is 2018’s Pokémon the Movie: Everyone’s Story, and it’s set to open in Japan on July 13. Attack on Titan‘s Wit Studio handles animation production for the feature, with Tetsuo Yajima directing and Shizue Kaneko handling character designs. Ahead …Read more »
Once upon a time, anime and manga fans actually thought Dragon Ball Z was a long series. The notion seems ridiculous now—Akira Toriyama’s original manga ran for 519 chapters across a total of 42 volumes, each of which has been collected in myriad ways since—but …Read more »
In Japanese, there are several ways to say each numeral, which is a pain in the butt for Japanese learners but fun for making abbreviations and puns. This wordplay often manifests itself in the creation of silly holidays, like 4/18 as “yoi ha no hi” …Read more »
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ , the latest film in the Dragon Ball franchise, opened with a kamehameha at the Japanese box office this weekend, earning 960 million yen ($8.4 million) between Saturday and Sunday. In Japan, a film must earn about one billion yen …Read more »
Ok, so you may not exactly be able to get the IMAX experience through a mere embedded YouTube video, but the latest promo for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods is here to promote an even bigger release for the upcoming anime film. When Battle …Read more »
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