THE year 2002 will be remembered as a great year for Dragonball Z but it is not over yet! 2003 will continue upon last year as Dragonball Z draws to a close in the USA. But all is not lost as there is many things that 2003 will bring to us and heres a list of them....
1. New Dragonball Z on TV and Video/DVD - Both on TV and on video/DVD it will be the last episodes of Dragonball Z. There are a total of 276 episodes of DBZ and on TV3 222 have screened so far while on video and DVD so far there has been 247 with another six coming January 24). The rest of the episodes will screen this year!
2. More Armageddon Expo's - The two more Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo's this year in Auckland in Wellington will be filled with DBZ and in April the Auckland one will have the voice of Goku and King Kai, Sean Schemmel, will be there signing autographs. There will also be a CCG tournament, kamehameha contest and a screening of the yet to be released DBZ movie seven
3. New Babidi Saga CCG - The recent World Games CCG was awesome and the Babidi saga featuring the new Majin personalities should be all the more better
4. Goku Goes Super Saiyan and Intro to Piccolo in Graphic Novels - I don't know about all of you but personally I am greatly enjoying reading the DB and DBZ graphic novels and this year they will only get better as in DBZ volume 11 (released around March ) Goku goes super saiyan for the first time! Also later in the year is the defeat of Frieza and the introduction to Trunks. In Dragonball volume 11 (unknown release date) Goku battles a equally powerful Tien in the World Tournament final while later in the year Krillin dies and Piccolo appears! Coincidence? I think not!
5. New Dragonball Z Movie - The seventh Dragonball Z movie Super Android 13 reveals three more of Dr Gero's evil androids which the three super saiyans (Goku, Future Trunks and Vegeta) battle all at the same time!
6. New Dragonball Z Toys - With Jakks taking over production from the bankrupt Irwin toys it will be interesting to see what they release
The next few things contain things that might happen, will likely happen or might not happen in New Zealand (at least not this year)
7. Dragonball on Video in New Zealand - It didn't happen in 2002 but the prequel series to Dragonball Z, Dragonball, may be released this year (I emailed the people at Manga but they haven't replied yet). Dragonball Z fans will be amazed to see Goku as a kid and freiends in DBZ enemies in DBZ such as Yamcha, Puar, Oolong, Tien, Chaozu and Piccolo!
8. Dragonball GT Revealed - in the USA the first of a possible two season Dragonball GT (the sequel series to Dragonball Z) will be released on video and before the end of the year New Zealand might see it too!
9. More Dragonball Z Video Games - With the great success of the DBZ games last year it wouldn't be suprise to see more releases including games for the GameCube and PC as well as more releases for Gameboy Advance and Playstation 2 and perhaps sequels to The Legacy of Goku and Budokai!
10. Possible Release of Live Action DBZ Movie - When the live action DBZ movie was announced in March 2002 they said the movie be released either late this year or sometime in 2004 so theres still a chance it could be released this year but considering the lack of any info it seems unlikely at this moment but the power of the dragon may prove me wrong!
Well thats it for now. It will be interesting to see how much of this stuff (numbers 7-10) happens. If you think I missed anything coming this year or I missed a DBZ event from last year email me at [email protected]