It has been noted that Dragon Ball Kai is set to be streamed on Netflix in Spain.
This will not be the first platform for Kai to be released on in Spain as Selecta Vision’s Anime Box began to stream the series in July.
As a new Castilian Spanish dub began earlier this year it is likely that this will be the local language track used.
Yesterday, Crunchyroll’s new Blu-Ray boxset for Dragon Ball Z was released in the UK.
Scott Emsen of UK Anime Blu-Ray received a test copy and reviewed it.
Unfortunately the following special features from Funimation’s 2013/2014 Blu-Ray season sets are not included:
These additional special features were included on the original 2014 Blu-Ray release of Season 9 but were absent from the Crunchyroll rebranded release in the US as well.
As such, it seems these extras have been phased out and never got a UK release.
The only difference, as Emsen points out, other than the placement of Crunchyroll’s logos and BBFC ratings the disc art depicts the four star Dragon Ball rather than a plain blue and white background.
While Manga UK’s head of marketing and acquisitions at the time ruled out these Funimation discs being released in the UK because of the backlash and the company listened to advice against releasing them again in 2020 it appears the company, now known as Crunchyroll are operating differently.
This box set marks the fourth UK release of Dragon Ball Z on Blu-Ray (following the 30th anniversary collection in 2019 as well as Manga UK’s standards and steelbooks in 2020) and the first release for the cropped 16:9 discs.
This will come as a disappointment to fans clamouring for the original 4:3 aspect ratio, but it is very telling that Manga UK cared about what the fans wanted. Crunchyroll has been a much less customer-focused company.
The Dragon Ball Z movie Battle of Gods is set to make a brief return to European screens on March 1, 2025.
According to the boxofficenl.net it will be the extended cut, which runs at an hour and 25 minutes.
The movie only received limited screenings in some European territories like Spain and Italy during its original theatrical run, in addition to exclusive screenings at Nom-Con in Ireland and Scotland Loves Anime the same year.
Piece of Magic Entertainment have screened various concert films and cult films in Europe.
Watch this space for further updates on which territories have been added.
It has been over two years since Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero premiered in Italy, but now native fans will be able to bring the latest film in the long running franchise home.
The 4K Ultra HD and Blu-Ray combo pack is released on January 27, 2025.
Plaion Pictures Italia-owned distributor Anime Factory previously released Dragon Ball Super : Broly and the Dragon Ball Super TV anime.
As their releases contain physical extras like art cards and episode guides this will surely be one for the collectors.
Dragon Ball Daima has been released across multiple streaming platforms worldwide since its debut earlier this month.
Three reports on Twitter/X this week have seen the new TOEI anime score top positions on both Netflix and HBO Max in the UK, India and Latin America.
In the last week BHDAnkur reported the new anime was the top show for kids on Netflix in India and 4th overall.
Similarly on sunday the UK-based Youtuber and animation critic Ajay reported Dragon Ball Daima reached number 2 for children’s TV programmes on Netflix.
Meanwhile EpikEpikson1 reported that among the 20 countries in Latin America Dragon Ball Daima dropped on HBO Max it reached the number 1 spot in 15 of them.
There are no reports on the number of viewers as streaming services don’t usually disclose this information but its fantastic news and a great start for Dragon Ball Daima globally nonetheless.
Kanzenshuu user jrdemr has self-announced to be the official translator for Portugal’s new edition of the Dragon Ball manga published by Devir.
As jrdemr notes, the original Ediçáes ASA Portuguese translation of the manga lasted 18 volumes and was poorly translated from the Spanish version and the second edition was indirectly translated from the Viz release.
This will mark the first time a Portuguese translation of the Dragon Ball manga was based on the Japanese version.
As per the publishing houses preferences for older series Dragon Ball will be published in the 3-in-1 format rather than the traditional tankoubon format.
The first volume is expected in November.
Selecta Vision’s streaming platform Anime Box has, in the last few months began releasing Dragon Ball Kai and the original Dragon Ball for customers wanting to watch either series on demand.
The classic TOEI anime trilogy was announced all at once, but now there is a release date for Dragon Ball Z on the platform – November 8th.
As Anime Box reveals on Instagram:
The above can be translated as:
“Dragon Ball Z arrives on November 8th at AnimeBox! π
Every Friday, a new saga of the series of your life, Rewatch the most epic battles in the best quality! π₯
From 11/8 you can enjoy the adventure in its original version and with Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque dubbing, and later also in Valencian ποΈ
Dragon Ball Z recently ran on Spanish TV channel Comedy Central between September 18, 2023 and May 24th this year.
This is fantastic news for Spanish fans just looking for a convenient way to watch the show in high quality for a low monthly price.
The Dragon Ball Super Danish dub made its debut on Danmarks Radio’s DR Ultra app.
The first 27 episodes were uploaded to the platform, marking the first time any Dragon Ball series had a Danish dub since Dragon Ball Z was dubbed in the early 2000s.
Fortunately, for fans of the Dragon Ball Z dub several cast members reprised their roles, namely Caspar Phillipson as Goku, Peter Secher Schmidt as Freeza, Jan Tellefsen as Kuririn/Krillin and Christian Damsgaard as Piccolo.
Jan Tellefsen also returned as the ADR director.
New voices include Julie Lund as Bulma, Estrid Ebba Bâttiger as Chi-Chi, Elias Strube as Jaco, Jesper Hagelskær Paasch as Beerus, Benjamin Kitter as Kaio-Sama/King Kai, Peter Aude as Mr Satan, Mathias Hartmann Niclasen as Gohan, Gulliver Rich Zahle as Goten, Arn Nielsen as Trunks, Peter Vindling as Vegeta, Oliver Berg as Whis and Michael Elo as elder Kai.
The full cast has been documented on a Danish online database.
The dub is recorded at KM Studio, with translation duties by Jakob Friis Petersen and Laurits Laursen.
Dragon Ball Z’s dub was recorded at D&D Adapter and translated by SΓΈren Lampe.
Another Spanish streaming service will now stream not only original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z but also Dragon Ball Super.
VOD platform Makusi announced these acquisitions in a tweet.
his marks the second new Spanish dub of Dragon Ball Super announced this year, as a Catalan dub was announced in June, and the third new Dragon Ball dub following Selecta Vision releasing a Castilian dub of Kai.
The Basque dubs of original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z aired on ETB1 (Euskal Telebista) in the early 90s to great acclaim.
As such this will be great news for Dragon Ball fans in Spain, with the series being distributed to even wider audiences within the country.
Just over two weeks ago Netflix announced the new anime series Dragon Ball Daima would be streaming globally on October 18th, with release dates possibly varying from country-to-country.
Evidently this date does not apply to all of Europe yet, or may exclude Nordic territories as sangofe has reported on Kanzenshuu Norway haven’t received Dragon Ball Daima on Netflix yet.
That said, as of yesterday the UK and Ireland received the first episode on Netflix with the second to follow on October 25th.
This appears to suggest episodes will be uploaded to Netflix a week after the Fuji TV premier.
The recent movies Battle of Gods, Resurrection ‘F’ and Broly were also available on the platform locally.
This marks the first time Netflix UK has received the series however.
The only audio option so far is Japanese with English subtitles as the Crunchyroll dub has not been announced for any release outside of the US and Oceania where it will get theatrical screenings in November.
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