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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Hits No. 1 in Japanese Theaters

The Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero movie has earned the top box-office position in its opening weekend in Japanese theaters. Dragon Ball author and screenplay writer Akira Toriyama comments on its success.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero premiered on Saturday, June 11, 2022, in 407 screens. In its 2-day opening weekend it sold 500,000 tickets, earning 670 million yen (~4,986,547.36 USD), or about $5 million dollars. It beat Top Gun: Maverick for weekend attendance, despite its 3-day weekend.

This ...

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Dyspo DLC Announced!

Watch the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Dyspo DLC trailer here:

More content for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is on the horizon, as gaming company Bandai Namco announced a new character available for download.

The new character is Dyspo, a member of the Pride Troopers in Dragon Ball Super who also appears in a brief cameo in Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

Early in the trailer, Dyspo is shown using a move called Justice Kick on Golden Freeza. The move Justice Kick is classified as a “rush attack” and involve...

First Summer Internship Begins!

I’ve hired a group of student interns for the summer! Read this article to learn more about the program, the interns, and how their work will benefit you.

You may have noticed more blog posts on the site recently, and that’s because of the great teamwork of my interns who are writing about Dragon Ball.

The summer internship team consists of 5 students. Two journalists, two social media marketers, and one data analyst.

Their goal is to produce more content that you enjoy reading, to promote that...

Did Dragon Ball Inspire New One Piece Character Design?

One Piece Film Red is getting closer to its release date of August 6 in Japan, and its latest trailer seems to contain a tribute to Dragon Ball and Akira Toriyama.

Teasers of characters who will be in the One Piece movie have started to be released. Their outfits in the movies are almost always different from what they wear in the show, and one character’s outfit stands out.

Blueno makes his return in a green tracksuit that will be familiar to Dragon Ball fans. The tracksuit is identical to the...

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Clip Shows Gohan Fighting for Pan

Watch the new promo for Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero here:

Ahead of the new movie, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, a third promotional clip from the film has dropped that showcases Gohan and Pan’s father-daughter relationship.

As shown in the clip, Super Hero will be centered on Gohan, Piccolo, and other Z-fighters defending Earth from the revived Red Ribbon Army, who creates two Androids that attack Piccolo and Gohan.

The focus of the promo is on Gohan and his daughter, who gets kidnapped by ...

Dragon Ball Food – Library Summer Tour

Join me for a presentation on Dragon Ball Food and character names, at the Kent District Library this summer!

I will be presenting my Dragon Ball Food panel at 5 library locations from June 7, to August 9, throughout the Grand Rapids, Michigan area.

The show is for teenagers and adults, with food samples provided, while supplies last. As you learn about the character’s names, you eat the food they are named after!

Description: Discover the fun and exciting food-based names of Dragon Ball, the w...

What was Goku and Vegeta’s Closest Moment?

Vegeta and Goku’s fight in the early stage of the Majin Buu Arc was an iconic moment in Dragon Ball Z, but what about the conflict that preceded it?

Could this tense moment before the fight give us more insight into their personalities than the fight itself? How does this scene show their similarities and the way they respect one another?

Demands

To summarize the scene; Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, and the Supreme Kai are teleported back to the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament stage by the evil sorc...

New Vegeta Super Saiyan 4 Figure Coming!!

Japanese figure maker S.H. Figuarts is issuing a new Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta across their stores. It is scheduled for a December 2022 release.

S.H. Figuarts designed the figure with free and flexible joints, allowing fans to pose the Super Saiyan in any way they like. This is especially true with his shoulder and leg joints. Even Vegeta’s feet are flexible.

The Vegeta figure comes with three optional face expression parts, five pairs of optional hands, and a tail.

From Vegeta’s ulti...

Read Dragon Ball Infinity on My Site!

Read Dragon Ball Infinity, an Egyptian-themed fan-manga that takes the series in an old direction!

This exciting fan-manga is now available to read on The Dao of Dragon Ball for free!

The story is about a monkey-tailed boy named Taima with a mysterious power and past.

Taima is inspired by a real-life Egyptian monkey-god similar to Sun Wukong, the legendary Monkey King from Journey to the West that inspired Akira Toriyama’s Son Goku in Dragon Ball.

He lives in a pyramid-filled desert inhabited b...

Why is Dragon Ball so Beautiful? A Work of Love at First Sight!

Why is Dragon Ball so beautiful? There are a lot of reasons. Read and find out!

This is the first guest post published on The Dao of Dragon Ball.

It is written by Tillamizu (Davide della Via). He is an Italian professional freelance comic and book editor, and fellow Dragon Ball expert.

His articles and videos about Dragon Ball focus on its curiosities, Japanese linguistics, and graphic novel semiotics and syntax.

What follows is an English translation and summary of the first part of Tillamizu...