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August 19, 2015

Ep 3 ComicPop Gets Animated with Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

Join Jonathon, Lenny, Logan, April, and Richard as they travel to the world of Dragon Ball to pay a visit to Son Goku, his family and his friends as they review and discuss Funimation’s release of the anime film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods.

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What we reviewed in this episode:

1) Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Uncut Edition DVD, Director Christopher R. Sabat, FUNimation, 2014. ASIN: B00MX3EM7E, $16.99.

Music clips used in this episode:

1) Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Trailer, FUNimation YouTube Channel, 2014.

2) “I’m the Hero, Son Goku”, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Original Soundtrack, Norihito Sumitomo, 2014.

Links:

http://lastoneoutmusic.com/ – Last One Out’s Website

https://www.facebook.com/lastoneout – Last One Out’s Facebook Page

http://www.funimation.com/home – FUNimation’s Website

https://www.facebook.com/pages/ComicPop-Library/135675669828474?fref=ts – ComicPop Library’s Facebook Page

August 11, 2015

New DBZ Cards Coming

Panini America will be releasing the next wave to their Dragon Ball Z trading card game, Dragon Ball Z: Evolution. Come October 30 Dragon Ball fans will be able to pick up new starter decks and booster packs for their collections, which will be centered around the Androids. The starter decks will contain 60 cards, which will include 4 parallel cards and 6 prizm cards. The booster packs will have 12 cards per pack to make a 140 card set. Each box of packages of booster packs will have a chance of purchasers getting 24 rares, 8 foil parallels, and 1 ultra rare card, again that is in each box of booster packs. So all you TCGer’s get ready for more cards to add to your collections.

April 28, 2015

New Dragon Ball!

This one is for all the Dragon Ball fans. This July, Japan’s Fuji TV will premiere a brand new Dragon Ball animated television series entitled Dragon Ball Super. This is inspired by Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball, but he is not writing the script. So more than likely this will make its way to the North American Market.

May 13, 2013

J-Park Tokyo

Namco has released information about the new J-Park Tokyo indoor theme park. The theme park will be on the 3rd floor of the Sunshine City World Import Mart Building in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro ward. There will be five main attractions: 2 – One Piece; 1 – Naruto and 2 – Dragon Ball.

The above is concept art of the Dragon Ball interactive attraction.

The J-Park will have a Heroes Arena that will have mini attractions from Gintama, Kochira Katsushiki-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo, Toriko, Bleach and Hunter X Hunter. It will also have a J-World Kitchen with menus themed around Shonen Jump’s manga series and characters.

J-Park is scheduled to open July 11 so if you happen to be in the area, be sure to stop by and have some fun! Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the heads up on this and you can go to their site link here for more concept art.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-05-13/shonen-jump-indoor-theme-park-attractions-revealed

March 4, 2013

Akira Toriyama Dragon Ball Exhibit

This spring and summer if you are going to be in Japan this is something you might want to check out. To coincide with the release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods movie, publisher Shueisha, Toei Animation and the movies production committee is organizing a Dragon Ball exhibit. The exhibit is entitled “Akira Toriyama: The World of Dragon Ball” and will have 300 items featuring cel animation, original color illustrations, a video screen area, and other items. The exhibit opens on March 27 – April 15 on the eighth floor hall of the Nihonbashi Takashimaya store in Tokyo. There will be two other showings April 17 – 23 at Osaka and July 27 – September 1 at Nagoya. For more details about the exhibit follow the link below:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-03-02/world-of-dragon-ball-exhibit-to-open-in-japan-in-march

March 15, 2011

Gaiman making a Journey to the West

Librarians will know the name Neil Giaman from his novels and young adult novels. However, comic book fans also know him for his writing skills in the comic book medium, most notably from Sandman published through DC Comic Vertigo imprint. Giaman has been signed on to adapt the Ming Dynasty classic novel Journey to the West into a screenplay.

The film is to be shot in China, but will have an English dialogue with Western and Chinese actors. Many of your library’s manga and anime fans will recognize this title since it has been adapted into both mediums. The most popular versions are Dragon Ball and Saiyuki. Therefore, the library will already have patrons interested in this film when it becomes available. Link below to ICv2 for the full article.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19593.html