It’s time for ten straight episodes of almost entirely filler as the Saiyan Arc grounds to a stop for “not catching up to the source material” reasons, something that actually stops for the most part after this, adopting the “making each episode agonisingly slow” method instead. Having said that I have strong and very happy memories of watching some of these episodes on TV when they first aired (two episodes a day, it has to be said, and some of these filler stories were cut entirely) so I don’t mind some of these stories purely with nostalgia goggles on. Let’s take a look!
Continue readingDragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Z – Saiyan Arc (Episodes 1 – 10) Review
It’s been a long time coming but after covering the whole of the original series it’s time to finally start covering Z. This is definitely one of those things I put up thinking “doesn’t the internet really need someone reviewing such an iconic series in 2025? What’s left to say?” Well… nothing really, but after covering the criminally under-looked original series I wasn’t going to leave it there! So let’s take a look at the first 10 episodes, because the Saiyan Arc is so comparatively short but I still wanted a consistent four-ish parts. Thanks to pacing issues future arcs will have higher episode chunks, I have no doubt…
Continue readingDragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 (PS1) Review
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 was the first Dragon Ball game I played, being released here at the start of the newly emerging but quickly expanding English speaking Dragon Ball explosion but way after the game was in any way relevant. Hell, the PS2 was already out and well established by that point! I brought it cheap thinking it would “tide me over” until the PS2 DBZ games came along (which they thankfully did quite quickly!) but I barely played it because it was so… SO bad. Even my newly minted DBZ hype couldn’t cover the slow, clunky gameplay. Guess what? It’s not any better now! Let’s get this out of the way, shall we?
Continue readingDragon Ball Z: Kakarot (PS4) Review
While I finally do have a plan in place to cover the many Dragon Ball games in my collection on this blog including this game would mean reviewing it a good few years from now so I’d rather review it now after I’ve just played it, especially since there is still more than enough DB games to cover for that eventual plan as it is. So yeah, I finally played DBZ Kakarot at the start of the year after the complete collection was on sale for roughly £10 digitally. The combat didn’t look inspiring and the story was just the same-old so I didn’t get it at launch, despite free-roaming the Dragon Ball world sounding very fun. Were my instincts correct? Let’s find out!
Continue readingDragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters Part 3 – Anime UK News Review

My journey through the frankly disappointing Dragon Ball Kai version of the Buu Arc comes to a close, and can be found HERE. Oh well, onwards to 2019! Where new Dragon Ball releases will include a canon Broly, apparently…
Dragon Ball Z Kai – The Final Chapters: Part 2 Anime UK News Review

Jeez, these Final Chapter covers don’t make for good thumbnails… Anyway, my review of the second third of the slightly condensed version of the Buu arc is now up on Anime UK News and can be viewed HERE.
Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters – Part 1 Review

My review of the first chunk of episodes from DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters is now up on Anime UK News HERE. Warning: it’s not very positive, fairly, I feel… obviously, otherwise I wouldn’t have scored it that way… You know what I mean!
Dragon Ball Z – The TV Specials Anime UK News Review

My reviews of the UK releases of the DBZ Double Feature Blu-rays come to an end with the two TV Specials, which can be found HERE. Great fun reliving these 45 minute chunks of Dragon Ball action!
Dragon Ball FighterZ (PS4) Review

Back when I launched this blog I went back and forth whether to do a “Wrestling Game Rundown” or one based on Dragon Ball games, with the latter appealing due to have comparatively few there are, but in the end I went with the childhood favourite. So here we are in 2018 and my first review of the year is also, at last, the first Dragon Ball game reviewed on the site! A dream team of Dragon Ball and Arc System Works, Dragon Ball FighterZ is eye-wateringly beautiful, but maybe not as perfect as we’d all hoped. Let’s take a deeper look!
Dragon Ball Z Movies 12 and 13 Anime UK News Review

My review of the last two (of the original 13) Dragon Ball Z movies on blu-ray is now available at Anime UK News HERE. Good times, though maybe a few years down the line I’ll do a more in-depth look at each film on this blog…



