That is right folks, after 11 years, Goku and his friends have returned! The new Dragonball Z anime special is now streaming online. Read the directions below and click the link to watch the anime live!

VISIT JUMPLAND TO WATCH THE NEW DRAGONBALL Z SPECIAL!

1. Download the Jumpland Browser at their website.
2. Install the new browser.
3. Once that is done, visit the website (http://www.jumpland.com/animetour/db/index_en.html)
4. Click “Watch the Anime Now” (make sure the Manga Browser is open when you click watch anime)

And you are good to go. It is available in English subtitles.

Note : This special will be streaming live online for free until Janurary 31st 2009!

And more good news. Jumpland has confirmed a DVD of the special will be released starting 2009. It will be released with certain JUMP magazines, so look forward to that! A dubbed released is not yet confirmed however.

UPDATE - You can now view the intro to the special here! View it below.

Dragonball movie character designer, Jonay Bacallado, showed his concept artwork for the Dragonball movie film in a recent interview. They show several pieces of the concepts including Goku, Piccolo, Chi Chi, Bulma and more.

Narrator: His latest project has entered a whole new realm of difficult creativity, It involves the diversion of the reality of the dragonball series. His ambition was to give the characters a “new look” than in the manga, while still keeping the spirit of it in tact.

Jonay: This is one of those projects where the artist already has a reference to look off of; my job was not as big as that of say, the producer, because I already had a reference to expand from. To tell you the truth, It was really complicated, we had so much work to do to redesign every character to get them to where they’re at now.

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I have to ask you to please remove this information, because the images shown are mine, no one has asked for authorization, and most importantly, because it may lead people and Dragon Ball fans to think this is actual concept art, but it’s not. They are part of my personal artwork.

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According to JumpFesta, 30 minutes of the Dragonball movie will be shown in Japan.

A prescreening of Dragonball live action movie open to the public will hit JUMP FESTA 2009 (Makuhari, Chiba, Japan) on Dec 20, 2008, the very first day of the 2-day famous Japanese ACG exhibition. With running time of 30 minutes, from 13:20 to 13:50, it’ll be an excerpt with especially selected scenes from the movie which is to be released on March 13, 2009 in Japan.

Another significance of this activity isn’t the said presence of anonymous famous star(s), but the preselling of Be@rbrick of Dragonball, in live action Goku’s orange gi, as a special edition produced by Medicom Toy Corporation. As announced, the person who later wins the reserved seat of this prescreening can have one such Bearbrick as a gift. Anyone who later loses the reserved seats can still buy the entrance ticket at the booth on the festa to have the Be@rbrick attached to the ticket.

Today we have a few more new Dragonball movie photos/stills to share. They include a brand new one of Mai, a brand new one of Chi Chi (holding a gun) and another one of Goku. More to come soon, enjoy!

A new photo has leaked that shows the fight between Goku and Piccolo. This image brings a close up on Piccolo’s clothing as well as Goku’s gi. Hopefully more to come, enjoy!

A photo has leaked online showing a brand new Dragonball movie poster that was seen in Japan. it translates “Sun Shopping Mall Dragonball Campaign”. The poster shows promotion of not only the movie, but several merchadise items such as DB movie hats, shirts and other various items. Hopefully this is a sign of a lot of upcoming promotion fairly soon. Especially seeing how the movie releases 4 months from now in Japan (and 5 months worldwide).

Update :  This is from Licensing Asia 2008 in Tokyo that is promoting merchandise that can be won through the contests.

Clear the seven missions and get the great prizes during the campaign period !!

Lower right, the poster with Goku wearing a blue gi, is written “Tenkaichi Budokai” and below “special event.”

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The website civilizedjames has posted several new Dragonball movie screenshots. They are movie stills showing Master Roshi, Bulma, Goku, and Piccolo.  View them all below, enjoy!

DBTheMovie has recieved more new Dragonball movie pictures from their anonymous source. This time we got two brand new images of Piccolo. We can now clearly see his wardrobe and the fact he is light green. Piccolo will be going through various stages throughout the movie and some are refering this stage as pre-green. His appearance will become more green as the movie progresses. Enjoy!