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Image: FunkoAnother New York Comic Con, another overwhelming, arguably intimidating number of exclusive Pop Vinyl figures. In fact, 2022's slate includes nearly 50 toys ranging from the MCU to obscure Disney characters—so we’ve decided to let you know about every single exclusive Pop coming to the con and where you can get your hands on them, even if you aren’t attending.Please note! At the time of this article’s publication, October 6, 5:00 pm ET, the assorted retailers haven’t opened pre-orders for their exclusive…

Image: Toei Animation/CrunchyrollEver since Dragon Ball Z aired on Toonami in 1998, the animated adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s shonen series has stood as one of the most beloved anime in the west. It’s so popular that even though there hasn’t been a new episode of Dragon Ball Super since 2018, and the film Dragon Ball Super: Broly released that same year, the franchise has lived on largely due to the many video games from Bandai Namco and an extremely passionate fanbase.There’ve been many films throughout Dragon Ball…

In the endless cavalcade of Fortnite crossovers comes a new one that I’m actually surprised hasn’t happened sooner. Goku’s potentially coming, meaning a handful of beloved Dragon Ball characters are also about to get dropped off at Tilted Towers strapped with an AK and some slurp juice. Sweet lord Jesus, that’s a sentence. The Fortnite Twitter account teased the news, hinting at an August 16th release, and players are already seeing what look to be assets from the event. One of them is a bunch of in-game furniture…

Screenshot: 20th CenturyLook. Let’s be honest with each other. I know you don’t have any questions, let alone frequent ones, about 2009’s Dragonball Evolution. Critically and commercially scorned, the movie based loosely (ever-so-loosely) on Akira Toriyama’s best-selling manga and anime of (kind of) the same name has been largely forgotten by the world. This made me wonder, has the passage of time made the movie any better? Short answer: No. Am I punching down by doing a FAQ review of it? Yes, but sometimes that’s exactly…

Screenshot: Toei Animation/CrunchyrollWhile Dragon Ball’s Goku may have saved the universe a few times, he was also an absentee father. Sure, he was dead some of the time, but that still left his son Gohan to be partially raised and trained by Goku’s former foe Piccolo. But the two bonded—and that bond will be retested when the new Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero movie comes out next month.Here’s the second trailer for the film, which will focus on Gohan and Piccolo saving the world while Goku and Vegeta continue their…

Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball franchise is insanely popular, thanks in part to Toonami and airing the anime adaptation of both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z during the 90s. Fandoms are the lifeblood of IP, and Dragon Ball’s fandom has been beating quite strongly more recently, especially with the new theatrical film, Super Hero, hitting theaters in August. But if that’s not enough for here, here’s a fan film that beats with the fandom heart of a thousand suns and is, to be quite blunt, fucking sick.LEGEND - A DRAGON BALL…

Before it was even officially out a full day Nexon’s absurdist, highly enjoyable fighting title DNF Duel launched yesterday, and it wasn’t even 24 hours before modders were already adding popular anime and gaming heroes into the PC edition of fast-paced fighter — such is the way of the FGC and its incredibly talented modding community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe9RmGZGwfU The first that caught my eye was this wonderful skin of Persona 5‘s button-down bookworm Makoto Nijima, whose skin fits like a glove over DNF‘s…

For 90s kids, Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball was one of our first steps into anime and manga. It was Dragon Ball Z on Toonami that was The Show back in the day, and the franchise has gone on in the years since to produce countless games, spinoff anime, and films. With the upcoming Super Hero movie serving as the first film in four years, Toei Animation is going all out to make sure that this movie is a big deal.Super Hero follows Piccolo (Toshio Furukawa in Japanese, Christopher Sabat in English) and Gohan (Masako…