Dragon Ball Super Beerus now has an official release date for the UK and Ireland: October 14th on Disney+.
This is not too surprising as Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Super as well as the recent movies Broly and Super Hero were all added to the platform in these territories in the early summer this year.
Recently it was noted that Odeon Cinemas were bringing the 2013 Dragon Ball Z movie Battle of Gods (originally Kami to Kami) to various theatres across the UK and Ireland.
Now it appears another theatre chain will be bringing the movie to more screens than originally expected.
That theatre chain is Omniplex, and numerous screenings have been announced for cities like Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow and Birmingham but also smaller urban areas like Sutton, Sligo and Newry.
Omniplex’s screenings appear to be dubbed.
The full list of screenings is as follows:
Republic of Ireland : Arklow, Balbriggan, Ballinasloe, Carlow, Cork, Drogheda – Scotch Hall, Dublin – Rathmines, Dundalk, Galway – Salthill, Killarney, Limerick, Longford, Monaghan, Mullingar, Nenagh, Roscommon, Shannon, Sligo, Tralee, Waterford, Wexford
Northern Ireland : Antrim, Armagh, Banbridge, Bangor, Belfast – Dundonald, Belfast – Kennedy Centre, Carrickfergus, Craigavon, Derry, Downpatrick, Dungannon, Larne, Lisburn, Newry, Omagh
Scotland : Glasgow – Clydebank
England : Birmingham – Great Park, High Wycombe, Ipswich, Sunderland, Sutton Surrey, Wigan
This will be the widest release any Dragon Ball Z movie has had in the UK and Ireland and the second widest release in the franchise overall with over 53 locations announced. By comparison, the most recent movie Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero received 111 screenings across both territories.
Nonetheless for a movie being re-released the number of screenings is fantastic news.
More screenings are being spotted for the upcoming re-release of Dragon Ball Z : Battle of Gods in theatres.
Only 4 days ago Twitter/X user Christopher Galazka spotted listings for March 1st and 2nd, which is when the movie will be screening in various other European countries.
As Odeon Cinemas also operate in Ireland we checked to see was there any screenings for the Emerald Isle. Turns out there will be, in the lesser known city of Limerick.
While Battle of Gods received a limited re-release across the United States for its 10th anniversary in 2023 this will mark the widest release the movie has received since it was first released.
As of the announcement of these screenings, and the previously announced Savoy Cinema screenings all four of the revival era Dragon Ball movies (Battle of Gods, Resurrection F, Broly and Super Hero) have received theatrical runs in the UK and Ireland, as previously these territories only had Battle of Gods at one film festival (Scotland Loves Anime 2014) and one convention (Nom Con 2014).
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.
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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