New Dragonball Special Coming This Fall
While it isn’t directly related to the film, I thought it was worth a post. Reader Bullza came across this post from Anime News Network:
This year’s 21st issue (released on April 21) of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has announced that a “Jump Super Anime Tour” will visit 10 Japanese cities this fall with new anime specials for Dragon Ball and One Piece. The tour is the eighth project that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the magazine. The magazine also hints that at least one other title will also be animated.
I sure hope Toriyama’s involved.


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April 21st, 2008 at 10:45 am
Hooray for me i even got credited
April 21st, 2008 at 10:45 am
i dont understand ..? new dragonball special animeted movie? or about the live action..?
April 21st, 2008 at 11:02 am
interesting. It probably doesn’t tie in directly with the movie. Could indirectly generate some hype for it though. Come to think of it is the movie being released internationally around the same time as North America’s release?
April 21st, 2008 at 11:06 am
Oh yeah!!!
I knew this movie will sprout up something new in the anime!
Sweet!
I wonder how it will look since we are in a future and all, heh.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:23 am
OMG OMG OMG ANOTHER DBZ ANIME THING
is this for real…??????
April 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
wow! fingers crossed for Akira Toriyama animating this!
April 21st, 2008 at 11:37 am
Well, if it’s for shonen jump, that means it’s going to be a manga, right?
has anything like this been done before?
April 21st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
well, it IS for shonen jump, but it says anime, not manga. who knows lol.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
H E L L T O T H E —————–> Y A H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 21st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
This is a little confusing. It’s Shonen Jump, which does mangas but they said animated. So is the DB special going to be manga, animated or both? Either way, I’m all for it so long as Toriyama’s doing the story.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Toriyama doesn’t animate anything. Toei Animation in conjunction with Toriyama’s Production company, Bird Studios animated the franchise.
I’m not surprised. DragonBall turns 25 next year, maybe this is gonna be the thing that segways us into a brand new remake series that is soley called “DragonBall” and doesn’t have the time fillers that Toei originally used(extended fight scenes, power ups taking years, etc.).
April 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The sun has begun shining over the world of Dragonball once more….hopefully this will be done by Toriyama…actually I’m praying that this will be done by Toriyama
April 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Man, Japan gets everything its not fair
April 21st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
how cool, i wonder if they will keep the same sort of cartoon style ur bump it up to CGI like the new star wars tv show
April 21st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Wow…now I bet all those Dragonball AF skeptics are hitting themselves as of now…but nah, this sounds quite interesting…but seriously, what more can they add to the series with the same characters? But considering its a special it will be telling the story of another character(s), ie History of Trunks and Father of Goku. So maybe a story on Goku’s immortality after GT?
April 21st, 2008 at 6:10 pm
i wouldn’t expect too much out of this.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Tell me what u guys think
April 21st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
They say new anime specials for Dragon Ball and One Piece. I wonder if that means there’ll be a Cross Epoch OAV, or something.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:51 pm
this is interesting. It’d be cool if they did follow goku’s journey after DBGT. But odds are it will be something about as exciting as the Goku Jr. special. And I’m an avid DB fan, but i couldn’t sit throught that whole Goku Jr. special - talk about boring.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:54 pm
new!! : oh man.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:40 pm
To clear up any confusion on if this will be animated or not, the article also goes on to say “The magazine also hints that at least one other title will also be animated.”
So I would imagine that mean’s One Piece and Dragonball will be animated….and wow….I’m in complete shock…
I’m looking forward to this more then I am the movie
April 21st, 2008 at 10:44 pm
TO BE NEVER CONTINUED!!!
April 21st, 2008 at 11:02 pm
CGI wouldn’t be a step up, far from it. The show’s great as it is.
I’m hoping for a nice little special, well animated like the current specials are with most of the cast showing up and getting to hang out. I’ve been wondering whether anything would be happening for the anniversary coming up, and hopefully either this’ll be it or there’ll be something else cool.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:09 am
Crossing my fingers for DBZ, to get new Special.
Also, I’m hoping, that they might do one day a continuation.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 am
Cool, im guessing its going to be something like the dragonball one piece crossovers, you can see them on oyutube, obviously DB characters have their powers toned down in it, but still cool
or maybe it will be longer, like the path to power movie !!
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:01 am
oh kick ass!!! i hope the new thing besides db is naruto! i would love to see a naruto movie also…… they should prob get like shia or someone to play naruto…. well thats just me.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 am
I just hope it’s not something like that DBZ-Naruto-One Piece crossover manga they did awhile back, or like that Dragon Ball: Path to Power. We’ve already got those, let’s see something else. Something new preferably. I wonder if it’ll have to do with Dragon Ball Oniline.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 am
@Daimao
I’ve been wishing for the same thing. That’d be the best thing they can do for this series. Reanimate the show, make the animations crisp and in HD quality and for goodness’ sakes, get rid of ALL the filler and ALL the extended gasp scenes where the character has that shocked look on their face while the camera sloooowly pans in for 5 minutes. That’s why I prefer the manga as of now.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 am
And I hope it won’t be all dark and moody like GT and Path to Power, the color palletes for that were really depressing.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
guys have u seen The Forbidden Kingdom its soooo good the up and coming Dragonball movie should take pointers from The Forbidden Kingdom
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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April 22nd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I totally agree wth the post bfor me,forbidden kingdom Shia gov ppl ideas about way shut be in the movie. I highly recommend u guys watch coz it has similiar dragonball elements, it even involves the monkey king San wukong himself, and journey to the west and eat not,
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Do any of you guys remember that Forbidden Kingdom is based on the Dragon Ball world?!
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
i agree with that fayel guy…… he seems to have a good head on his shoulders
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
hey dont diss veggietales!!! they kick ass…… i love thos jesus loving foods!!!
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
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April 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Hmm for ages i was wishing i was born Japanese so i could understand the original Dragonball without subs.
Then when they said they were making a dragonball movie in english and i decided it was better to be english…
Now theres MORE dragonball to come, in animation form so it will be synced with japanese voices.
I wish i mas multi-lingual!
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:59 am
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:26 am
Oh my!!!! I just read Dragon BALLZ skit and that was freakin’ hilarous. I couldn’t stop laughing!!!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 am
Jeff The Forbidden Kingdom is not based on the Dragon Ball world its based on the Chinese story Journey to the West its about Sun Wukong aka The Monkey King also Dragonball is base on the Journey to the West with changes.
heres some info Jeff before u say anything
Jet Li portrays the character Sun Wukong in the 2008 movie The Forbidden Kingdom.
The main character Son Goku from Akira Toriyama’s Dragonball was originally based on Sun Wukong, and many other major characters in the series were also originally based on characters from the Monkey King/Journey West story.
so Jeff before u just type the wrong info do reseach first
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
TO BE NEVER CONTINUED…. AGAIN!!
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 am
This sounds sweeeet.
Corey Wilson… shut up, dude.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:05 am
Wait…does that mean a new series like GT??? or just a short kinda thing?
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 am
What would be cool is if the anime special looked like this.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rOCQ8rND2vw
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
Uh………………….. I’m not so sure about that one J.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
argh. We’ve hit another dry spell of news.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
This movie will ROCK!
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
BTW… how can i have a pic next to my name..??
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
TO BE NEVER CONTINUED!!
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
@J
There actually was never an official manga crossover between DragonBall, One Piece, and Naruto, most likely a tonne of fan manga, but nothing official. However, there has been crossovers in Video Games, like Battle Stadium D.O.N(DragonBall, One Piece, Naruto), and the Jump Stars series. In terms of official manga, there was a DragonBall, and One Piece crossover called “Cross Epoch” but that was a one shot kind of thing.
Also, I never had a problem with the actual filler in DragonBall and DragonBall Z. By filler, I mean storylines found exclusively in the anime. Which I think for DBZ was only the Garlic Jr. Saga. I had a problem with the time filler Toei implemented. For those who don’t know, DragonBall’s manga was released in a weekly format, in the Japanese Anthology Manga Magazine “Weekly Shonen Jump”.In a Chapter a week format. However the same applied to the TV anime. And as one might expect, adapting 12-15 pages a week into 22-25 minutes an episode is extremely hard because you simply don’t have an adequate amount of material to adapt. So Toei decide to extended fight, and power up scenes,aswell as adding those “Staring Compeititions” something maybe lasting a panel or few in the manga, may be minutes in the anime. That I hated, and a new series wouldn’t have to do this because the manga ended in 1996.
And I might be the one of the 4 people who actually like DragonBall GT, aswell as a Hero’s Legacy.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
OK those skits are getting annoying.
Anyways I’m really glad that they’re doing this. This should definitely boost up morale.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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April 23rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Wow this isn’t even on topic. And this is getting really old. So quit it.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Yeah.. I kind of agree. I don’t think I’ll be adding anymore smilies.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
K, so Forbidden Kingdom was a terrible movie.
Corey Wilson isn’t funny, makes crappy music, and is an emo nig.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Oh JP. They’ve updated some cool news on movieland.
It’s pretty interesting!
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
JP
I hate to say it, but I have to agree with you. The smilies are getting out of control.
On another Note…
When are we going to get a poster for this movie. Release a poster FOX and let us all drool over it for a few weeks.
I can wait for a teaser and pictures, especially if theres lots of special effects involved. I also wish Chatwin would break his silence, damn chatwin, damn him.
I also think Emmy Rossum will be perfect as Bulma, anyone agree?
April 24th, 2008 at 9:51 am
@ Daimao: Yeah, that’s what I was talking about. Cross Epoch, I hope it’s not just an animated version of that. It was just the One Piece and DBZ guys trying to get to a party or something.
The filler I’m talking about that I’d like removed is all the junk scenes that are meant to only take up time in an episode. Scenes like during the Cell Games where it would constantly cut to something stupid besides the fight, like the telephone companies handling complaints, or the cuts to Mr. Satan saying “it’s a trick!” every two seconds and the part with his sidekicks who weren’t never appeared in the manga.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:14 am
I would like to see how the special turns out? Are they gonna follow the story cause when GT ended everybody was dead… I mean Pan was like 80! Unless it takes place in the other realm or demiension… whatever its called.


They should do a next generation type thing with mini goku and mini vegeta from the world tournement at the end of GT… that would be cool. There could be another picolo since he just spit out anohter egg!
Thats just my idea.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
well they are making a dragon ball online game a mmo that is 500 after the last fight with i think buu and pretty much what there saying is that in dives into what happens after DBZ but it totaly different from GT because GT was something they asked toriyama to do. It was never a manga, so i think this is going to be the manga that would have been instead of DBGT, which was kind out of place in the world of db i think not totaly but seemed out of place i mean i liked it but meh. so it could be like and alternet thing. The main thing i liked about DBGT and Dragonball 10th anivirsory was the way it if drawn i love it.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Like the above poster said, the Dragonball Z MMO is supposed to take place 500 or so years after the end of DBZ. In the game, something takes over the Earth and you get to play 3 available races to save it. etc. etc.
DBGT was a Toei creation and not a Toriyama creation. This takes place years after DBZ. Not GT! Toriyama was actively involved in making this game so there will be no trace what-so-ever of GT’s existence in this game.
But on topic news!
I personally hope its a new movie or something. And not a bad movie! Like a good movie which features all our favorite characters. Maybe taking place after the whole Buu dilemma so it can be possible to fit it canonly to the series.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:47 am
WAS es kommt eine neue Dragon Ball Staffel???? erklärt mir das ist das jetzt der Realfilm oder Anime????? Wenn es der Anime ist dann wäre das sooooooo cool!!!!!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Yeah!!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
I hope this Dragonball Special is an explanation on what happened to the Z-Fighters after Dragonball Z, And also about the new Dragonball Online Game. How did Future Trunks became the Guardian of Time and how did Gokou become Immortal because in the new Online game everyone is dead etc etc..
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July 17th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
one time for you peoples that like the show come back out with something its killing me just not to be able to see something new on it dont get me rong the games and things inbetween are good but yall need to pick it up for the fans come back wit the show…..
August 6th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
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August 11th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
August 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
i heard that this is going to be a manga
August 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
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August 25th, 2008 at 9:25 am
i hope Dragon Ball special episode not just in 1 movie, i hope they will release dragon ball ova remake series, such us Saint seiya hades. people love human Z-soldier (Ten shin Han, Kuririn,Yamcha, Chaotzu). i hope they more involved in this movie.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
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November 16th, 2008 at 12:28 am
You’re only going to get camera tricks like crouching tiger, people pretending to walk on trees, fake fighting; and to you hardcore DB fans worldwide, you must be disappointed. By Goku alone, never mind the none green Piccolo and Master Roshi with a full head of hair, tall and serious, when has master Roshi ever been serious. As for Bulma, she should have blue hair and where is Krillin and Tien. Finally I have beef with the storyline, WHERE IS GOKU’S TAIL and what’s up with his hair? It may be a good movie, but it is not DB, give the movie another name it not DB. To be continued after the release date.