Dragonball Legends

Dragon Con 2008 starts 14 days from today. Sadly, there will be no Dragonball panel this year. However, James Marsters (role of Piccolo) will in fact be there. There is also a high possibility that he will doing an interview or two as well. So hopefully this event won’t be totally worthless. Here’s a quote from James Marsters’ Website.

Dragon*Con Private Party / Concert
Be one of the lucky few to join James at an intimate concert and dinner reception

James Marsters will be the guest of honor at a limited sit down buffet style dinner and concert Saturday, August 30, 2008. Limited to only 60 guests, the evening will consist of an acoustic guitar performance and a round robin meet and greet and mingle. Also joining James will be Torchwood’s own Gareth David Lloyd!

The complete schedule for the event will be online August 19th.

Plus, we got these anime conventions to look forward to.

- Anime Festival (August 15-17)
- Anime Evolution (August 22-24)
- MatsuriCon (August 22-24)
- AnimeFest (August 29 – September 1)
- New York Anime Festival (September 26-28)

Click here for the complete list…

On a side note, the Dragonball movie was originally set to release today before the delay.

Barnes and Noble has stated that a Dragonball junior novel is currently being written by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon. The book will be based on the upcoming Dragonball film written by Ben Ramsey and James Wong. It will be entitled “Dragon Ball : The Junior Novel” and will consist of 152 pages. It will be published by VIZ Media and has a set release date of February 2009.

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It seems promotion has started to officialy begin. First IGN posts their high quality version of promo pics and now a report that a book based on the Dragonball movie is being written. So keep a look out for official teaser trailers and probably some kind of preview for a movie based video game. Not to mention more high quality Dragonball movie promo pictures! Stay tuned.

UPDATE : Borders is showing that there are three more DB movie books aside from Dragon Ball The Novel. They are called…

- The Battle
- The Search
- The Discovery

Update 2 : Amazon has posted the basic description for the novel.

Collect all seven Dragon Balls and you can wish for whatever you want!

Goku thought he was a normal high school student until he found out he’s actually a martial-arts whiz with all kinds of powers. Now he and his fellow teen warriors are on a quest to find all the Dragon Balls before they fall into the wrong hands. But they may already have! Goku must battle the evil Piccolo with all he’s got to save the planet Earth!

All four books are available for pre-order!