Episode #0518! Mike interviews Rocco from Mega64 about his introduction to Dragon Ball, figure collecting, Mega64’s five-minute live-action DBZ sketches, ssj8 (99 percent sure is real), and more!
Viz’s previously-announced English translation of Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques has been bumped slightly from its originally-intended 22 April 2025 release to a new date of 13 May 2025.
The upcoming release is an English-translated version of the 2023 Japanese book which includes a variety of career reflections, advice for upcoming artists, and interviews with colleagues from legendary editor Kazuhiko Torishima. Alongside this wealth of content, Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques includes an interview with (and an original cover illustration by) the late and great Akira Toriyama:
Kazuhiko Torishima is the sixth editor-in-chief of Japan’s biggest manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump! He is one of Japan’s leading editors, having discovered and nurtured great manga artists such as Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball, Masakazu Katsura of Video Girl Ai, and Koji Inada of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, and further transforming the manga business by expanding the crossover of manga, anime, and video games.
“Dr. Mashirito” is a scientist who was modeled after Kazuhiko Torishima by Akira Toriyama in Dr. Slump, and the character later became Kazuhiko Torishima’s nickname in real life, too. This book is the only place to discover Kazuhiko Torishima’s “Torishima Method,” an approach to making comics that will give you the mindset needed to become a manga artist!
Dr. Mashirito’s Ultimate Manga Techniques is available for pre-order on Amazon, currently with a 10% discount from its $25.00 MSRP.
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Since the initial launch of Kanzenshuu back in April 2012, our “Cast Guide” has remained virtually unchanged, with only the database consistently receiving updates. It was truly one of the last holdovers from the “pre-merger” times; a straight-up copy of how it had appeared on Kanzentai, with only minimal cast profiles listed from the first phase of Dragon Ball Kai. Well no more! After 13 years, the guide has finally been completely overhauled and reorganized to follow the current structure of most of our guides.
You will find information on cast credit structures, more organized cast profiles, and of course our large database of cast credits, which has also been updated to include original video game characters, cast credits from the Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime, and is now current up through the last episode of Dragon Ball Daima. In addition, we have added filtering functionality — which you may have already noticed went live a few months ago — to make it easier to view credits from a specific series, production medium (movies, TV, video games, etc.), or special feature.
The cast profiles have also been updated and reorganized between the legacy (“original”) and new/current voice cast. You will see we have also opted for more of a listing approach, rather than dedicated in-depth profile pages. This was primarily done to make the profiles easier to maintain and keep up-to-date. However, each profile does include links to any agency profiles and Wikipedia pages available, where this in-depth information already exists.
Episode #0517! Mike, Ken, and Ajay review the complete “Dragon Ball Daima” television series! Over these 20 episodes, what new concepts are introduced/reintroduced, what lore conflicts are we still reeling from, how did the art and animation hold up with such a prolonged production timeframe… and did we like it?
Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his (belated) February 2025 entry, Toyotarō has drawn Piroshki and Karoni, anime-only characters from the Cell Games:
PIROSHKI AND KARONI
Disciples of Satan that took part in the Cell Games
Both characters debuted in Dragon Ball Z episode 176 as disciples of Mr. Satan who take on Cell, only to be immediately defeated. Karoni (カロニ) likely takes his name from part of the word “macaroni” (マカロニ), while Piroshki likely takes his name directly from “pirozhki” (ピロシキ).
Karoni — alongside Mr. Satan’s manager (and likewise-filler-character from the Cell Games) Piza — made a small appearance in the first Dragon Ball Super episode, as well:
Four Blu-ray discs (all 20 episodes + bonus material)
Illustrated box and three-sided illustrated case
Bonus material includes three 4K UHD Blu-ray discs (all 20 episodes in a 4K SDR upscale), a deluxe edition booklet, Demon Ream Sugoroku (board game), sticker, and a set of 7 die-cut pin badges
Bonus deluxe edition booklet
Video extra include creditless opening/ending and a preview/trailer collection
Standard Edition Blu-ray Box
¥30,800 yen (tax included)
Four Blu-ray discs (all 20 episodes + bonus material)
Three-sided illustrated case
Bonus booklet
Video extra include creditless opening/ending and a preview/trailer collection
Standard Edition DVD Box
¥28,800 yen (tax included)
Five DVDs (all 20 episodes + bonus material), with a three-sided illustrated case
Three-sided illustrated case
Bonus booklet
Video extra include creditless opening/ending and a preview/trailer collection
Sets will be available for purchase via several retail partners, including Amazon Japan (whose own exclusive version will come packed with additional bonuses, including a shirt and new illustration with acrylic stand).
Dragon Ball Daima — whose broadcast concluded today with its final of 20 total episodes — was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The series debuted 11 October 2024on Fuji TV in Japan (with multiple worldwide streaming options), and features an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.
Initially leaked and teased through Steam back-end updates this week, the previously-announced, two-part Dragon Ball Daima DLC expansion for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is set to begin Summer 2025:
Unlike past DLC expansions, the title for this pack remains largely the same between its original Japanese (魔界の大冒険! or “Great Adventure in the Demon Realm!”) and its official English title (“Adventure Through The Demon Realm”). The new trailer also noted that a “Daima Edition” of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will be released, which itself includes access to the two-part expansion. Access to just the Daima pack (covering both parts) is priced at $34.99.
Per the aforementioned Steam listings, “Part 1” is pegged for sometime between July and September this year (falling in line with the “Summer” announcement), while “Part 2” is listed as sometime between January and March 2026:
Developed by CyberConnect2 for Bandai Namco, the action role-playing game released16 January 2020 in Japan and 17 January 2020 internationally on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (via Steam). A Nintendo Switch edition came later in September 2021.
Two season passes worth of content — with six individual packs in total — have come out since the game’s release. In the first season pass, the Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’ DLC entries were much shorter with a focus on boss fights and level increases, while the third entry — that of Trunks’ future timeline — told a comprehensive, multi-part story. The second season pass includes entries for the original 1990 Bardock television special, the 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai, and the 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai.
Reviews of the base game, Trunks DLC, Bardock DLC, 23rd Tenka’ichi Budōkai DLC, and 28th Tenka’ichi Budōkai DLC can be found on episodes #0481, #0490, #0497, #0505, and #0509, respectively, of our podcast.
Dragon Ball Daima — whose broadcast concluded today with its final of 20 total episodes — was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The series debuted 11 October 2024on Fuji TV in Japan (with multiple worldwide streaming options), and features an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.
Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s 104th chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services. This special one-shot chapter serves as further-introductory/prequel content to the “Super Hero” arc, which itself already received a three-chapter prologue and three-chapter epilogue beyond the scope of the original 2022 theatrical film.
Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its Japanese debut to the release date, but to its local time in Japan alongside its serialization in today’s April 2025 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine.
Since the Dragon Ball Super manga went on hiatus last year (following chapter 103 and coinciding with the passing of Akira Toriyama), the manga’s collected volume release has been at a standstill, with only three chapters worth of material to fill out a volume that otherwise covers four chapters. This release of “chapter 104” fills out that space, and will likely be content that fills out Volume 24, set for release in Japan this April.
Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc, “speeding up the excitement of the TV anime even more”. Though the television series completed its run, the manga continued onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and “Super Hero” arcs.
Viz releases free digital chapters of the series upon release as a simultaneous publication, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s 23rd collected volume — which lags behind the Japanese release — is due out this April.
The previously-announced “Dragon Ball Daima Original Soundtrack” — a two-disc set (COCX-42467-8) with “about 70” tunes by composer Kosuke Yamashita — is set for a 19 March 2025release in Japan via Columbia, priced at ¥4,000:
A full track list has not yet been provided. The set will also see digital distribution.
Dragon Ball Daima — currently up to its 18th of 20 total episodes — was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The series debuted 11 October 2024on Fuji TV in Japan (with multiple worldwide streaming options), and features an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.
The most recent music release for the Dragon Ball franchise was the official soundtrack for the 2022 theatrical filmDragon Ball Super: Super Hero as composed by Naoki Satō. A 10th anniversary soundtrack collection for the mobile video game Dragon Ball Dokkan Battle is due out this May.
The twenty fourth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō will release 04 April 2025 in Japan for ¥572 + tax, and should pick up with chapter 101.
Since the Dragon Ball Super manga went on hiatus last year (following chapter 103 and coinciding with the passing of Akira Toriyama), the manga’s collected volume release has been at a standstill, with only three chapters worth of material to fill out a volume that otherwise covers four chapters. This month’s forthcoming release of “chapter 104” — a one-shot prequel chapter to the “Super Hero arc” (which itself already had original prequel material) — fills out that space, and will likely be content that fills out Volume 24.
Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc, “speeding up the excitement of the TV anime even more”. Though the television series completed its run, the manga continued onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and “Super Hero” arcs.
Viz releases free digital chapters of the series upon release as a simultaneous publication, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s 23rd collected volume — which lags behind the Japanese release — is due out this April.
