In 1999, Pioneer began releasing the edited TV version of the first two dub seasons of Dragon Ball Z on DVD. In 2000, FUNimation began releasing their own uncut, bilingual DVDs of the series, starting with the third dub season. In 2005, after the rest of the series was finished, FUNimation began releasing bilingual, uncut [...]

 
Introduction by Marc- We get to welcome a new staff member to FBR today.  Heath will be writing some editorials and reviews for us in the future.  Many Dragonball Z fans will know him as Hujio, from one of the premiere American DBZ sites, Kanzentai.  For his first article he wrote up a little history [...]

Some game news from E3 via press releases.
 
Looks like the new Dragon Ball related games will be published directly by Namco-Bandai and be Atari free.
 
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans, for the Nintendo DS. This one is the Kai RPG (guess that tells us if Funi secretly has Kai yet or not.)
 
Dragon Ball: [...]

Looks like the DVD and Blu-ray for Evolution will have slightly different coverart (I’m sure many people will just jump at the chance to get variant coverart for such a…. fine…. piece of entertainment.
 
Here are the different covers for the 5 of you that are interested.
 

 
Just fantastic, I’m sure Goku’s flexed arm will be the [...]

Oh boy, everyone is gonna love this….
 
Apparently Fox is prepping a new/different (maybe it’s the foreign cut?) of Dragonball Evolution for home video, and it will be called….
 
Dragonball Evolution: Z-Edition
 
I’m trying not to laugh, but…. lol
 
edit- Having watched a screener of the “Z-Edition” film with two other staff members, I think it’s probably likely that [...]

New game that hasn’t been announced even in Japan yet (as far as I know).
 

 
Dragonball for the Wii.
 
Yes, Dragonball, not Dragonball Z.
 
Only information I know so far about the games plot…
 

 
At some point in the game you get to wail on General White.
 
More news to come when I get it.
 

Got some information on the English version of the game.  Everyone should be aware the information regarding this only seems to list it as coming out in Europe in December 2008, but since some listings have shown up at American stores, we will probably get it sooner rather than later. (Some of this news may [...]

After going over ADV’s changing boxart, I realized another company is doing something in regards to their packaging.
 
Funimation has been emulating DVD packaging styles.
 
Let’s take a look at what they’ve done.

So apparently one of Bandai USA’s new DBZ toys is an electronic game where you connect a Goku and a Piccolo figure to electronic handles and press buttons to make them flail about and scream battle action phrases while battling them.
The issue with it is WHERE the connector points are…

Yeah…
Well, if you too require weird [...]

The one thing that was mentioned at the Funimation panel of interest is the Dragonball GT Season 1 set will be 5 disks.  Since the set is 32 episodes and the solicitation info at quite a few stores said 3 disks people started to get a bit worried about video compression.  5 disks should be [...]