America's Nicktoons television channel has announced that it will run the Dragon Ball Z Kai action anime series starting in May 2010. Nicktoons, a spinoff of Nickelodeon, will also launch Voltron Panthera Force from World Events Productions, Ltd. in conjunction with Kick Start Productions. (The channel did not specify if Voltron Panthera Force is Japanese-animated or not.) Nickelodeon made the announcements in the press summary sheet for its 2010 Upfront Presentation for advertisers on Thursday morning in New York City.

Source: Anime News Network

Hey everybody, I hope everyone's doing well. It's a day off for me from work so I decided to put in a few hours and get some more of the full episode links working again. The Freeza Saga episodes (82 episodes in all) are now uploaded and the links have been updated for immediate download. Please hop on over to the Freeza Episodes download page to begin downloading!

I'll upload the update the links to the rest of the episodes as soon as possible. Please check back often!

Just a quick update. It appears the server stopped executing our CGI scripts, so most of our download links and our whole image gallery stopped working. Also, Mega inactivated our full episode links. The image galleries are working again, and I've gotten the Vegeta Saga re-uploaded as well (and ready for download!), however it'll take me some time to get the rest of the episode links working again. Please stay tuned.

Hello again everyone, I've got some great news. We have successfully installed and configured our new image gallery. The change from ImageFolio to Coppermine is pretty vast, so please bear with it as Coppermine is much more powerful and has greater upside than ImageFolio. Once I figure out how to integrate the site layout to the gallery I'll do just that. Thank you for your patience everyone!

I'm in the process of getting the image gallery up and running again. Unfortunately, we've been forced to use different software in place of ImageFolio. The new software, however, is much more robust and feature rich. The switch had to be made due to CPU usage (the new PHP-based software should be much more efficient than the CGI software we were on). There's no specific time frame on when I'll get this up again, but as soon as I get all of the images up I'll at least make the links on the left navi bar functional again, even though the galleries may not match the site's layout.

Stay in-tune for further updates.

You have probably noticed that certain aspects of the website recently haven't been working correctly (download of the day, poll, imagefolio, etc.). This is because I have moved the website to a new server. The previous server had issues with CPU/memory overload, so it would crash about once every other day. Whenever it would crash, the website would stay down until the admin reboots it (sometimes we wouldn't catch it and the site would be down for several hours). As you can see, this became a huge issue.

EDIT: During the move we lost our news backup. Anything ground-breaking since March of '07 until today will be re-posted again shortly.
Now, we're unpacking our bags and settling into our new home. Please bear with us as we try to get the website 100% again. Thanks!

This is a preview for the UK version of DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 2. Here's a small excerpt from the article...

In essence this is your classic beat 'em up, but with an added Wiimote twist, allowing you to re-enact your favourite Dragon Ball Z moves. For instance, performing the Kamehameha, Goku’s signature move, is merely a matter of holding the B and Z buttons, and then gesturing forward and back. This sounds incredibly simple but fun, and can only be made more entertaining by yelling ‘kamehameha’ at the top of your voice. The rest of the fighting is performed by using a mixture of the A and B buttons for punching and kicking. This simplicity seems initially to be a good thing - over-complication of controls is something that Wii already suffers, and a simple but frantic beat 'em could be exactly what the console needs.

The rest of the article can be found here ...

The official solicitations for FUNimation-distributed releases in May are out, with the release of AN Entertainment's Hare+Guu OVA kicking things off on May 1st. According to current information, releases of FUNimation-proper titles don't begin until May 15th with the release of the final Moon Phase DVD (#6).

May 22nd brings Afro Samurai in Edited ($19.99) and Uncut ($39.99) forms, as well as the Dragonball Z Season 2 Boxset.

The month comes to a close on the 29th, with Case Closed Case 3 Vol. #2, Peach Girl #2, Solty Rei #4 and Yu Yu Hakusho Collection #5.

[via Anime on DVD]