Dragon Ball: RB2 Game to Add New 1/2-Hour Anime

"Super Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu Keikaku" remakes 1993 story with all-new footage

Bandai Namco Games has announced on Monday that production on 30 minutes of new animation footage has been green-lit for the Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 fighting game, which will ship for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles in Japan on November 11.

The new "Dragon Ball: Super Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu Keikaku" (Dragon Ball: Plan to Destroy the Super Saiyajin) animation will remake the story first told by the 1993 Nintendo Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System) game Dragon Ball Z Gaiden: Saiya-jin Zetsumetsu KeikakuOVA) project, but the new game's "revival animation" is being produced with all-new footage.

The Dragon Ball Kai television anime series is now running in Japan (and in the United States under the name Dragon Ball Z Kai). However, unlike Raging Blast 2's all-new animation footage, Dragon Ball Kai is mostly composed of remastered archival footage with new digital effects on selected scenes.

Bandai Namco Games has already confirmed that the Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 game will ship in North America this fall.

Japan's Animation TV Ranking, July 12-18

GeGeGe no Nyōbō, Howl's Moving Castle, Hotaru no Hikari, Precure, Anpanman

GeGeGe no Nyōbō (Spooky Wife), the live-action television drama adaptation of an autobiographical essay book by GeGeGe no Kitarō author Shigeru Mizuki's wife Nunoe Mura, ran on July 12 at 8:00 a.m. and earned a 21.8 rating. Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle film re-aired on July 16 at 9:00 p.m. with a 19.0 rating. The second live-action television series based on Satoru Hiura's Hotaru no Hikari women's romance manga aired on July 14 at 10:00 p.m. with a 17.4 rating. That is up from the July 7 series premiere, which garnered a 16.2 rating. The last half of the Soreike! Anpanman: Dadandan to Futago no Hoshi film ran on July 16 at 2:30 p.m. with a 2.6 rating.

No.1 Sazae-san

Station : Fuji TV

Date : July 18 (Sun) Time : 18:30 Length : 30 min.

Average Household Rating : 15.1

No.2 Chibi Maruko-chan

Station : Fuji TV

Date : July 18 (Sun) Time : 18:00 Length : 30 min.

Average Household Rating : 11.3

No.3 One Piece

Station : Fuji TV

Date : July 18 (Sun) Time : 09:30 Length : 30 min.

Average Household Rating : 10.7

No.4 Dragon Ball Kai

Station : Fuji TV

Date : July 18 (Sun) Time : 09:00 Length : 30 min.

Average Household Rating : 9.6

No.5 Crayon Shin-chan

Station : TV Asahi

Date : July 16 (Fri) Time : 19:30 Length : 24 min.

Average Household Rating : 8.4

No.6 Detective Conan

Station : NTV

Date : July 17 (Sat) Time : 18:00 Length : 30 min.

Average Household Rating : 7.4

No.7 Heartcatch Precure
Station : TV Asahi
Date : July 18 (Sun) Time : 08:30 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 6.9

No.8 Doraemon
Station : TV Asahi
Date : July 16 (Fri) Time : 19:00 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 6.7

No.9 Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl
Station : TV Tokyo
Date : July 15 (Thurs) Time : 19:00 Length : 30 min.

Average Household Rating : 5.6

No.10 Naruto Shippūden
Station : TV Tokyo
Date : July 15 (Thurs) Time : 19:30 Length : 28 min.

Average Household Rating : 4.8

Japan's Animation TV Ranking, July 5-11

GeGeGe no Nyōbō, Whisper of the Heart, Pokémon, Sengoku, Basara, Moyashimon

GeGeGe no Nyōbō (Spooky Wife), the live-action television drama adaptation of an autobiographical essay book by Gegege no Kitarō author Shigeru Mizuki's wife Nunoe Mura, ran on July 9 at 8:00 a.m. and earned a 20.3 rating. Yoshifumi Kondô and Studio Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart film re-aired on July 9 at 9:00 p.m. with a 16.7 rating. The Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life film held its television premiere on July 8 at 7:00 p.m. with 6.2 rating.

The first episode of the Sengoku Basara Two television anime series earned a 5.3% rating in Tokyo's Kanto region and a 7.4% rating in Osaka's Kansai region on July 11. Those figures represent the highest rated premiere in the Sunday 5:00 p.m. timeslot for the MBS/TBS

network since it began airing anime in that timeslot in April of 2008. It is also the third highest rating recorded in that "Nichi-5" (Sunday 5 p.m.) anime timeslot in the Kanto region, and the highest rating recorded in that timeslot in the Kansai region. 

The live-action television adaptation of Masayuki Ishikawa's Moyashimon manga premiered on July 8 with a instantaneous rating high of 4.7%. This series is the first live-action work to play during Fuji TV's late-night timeslot Noitamina.

No.1 Sazae-san
Station : Fuji TV
Date : July 11 (Sun) Time : 18:30 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 17.9



No.2 Chibi Maruko-chan
Station : Fuji TV
Date : July 11 (Sun) Time : 18:00 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 13.6




No.3 One Piece
Station : Fuji TV
Date : July 11 (Sun) Time : 09:30 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 12.0




No.4 Crayon Shin-chan
Station : TV Asahi
Date : July 9 (Fri) Time : 19:30 Length : 24 min.
Average Household Rating : 9.0




No.5 Dragon Ball Kai
Station : Fuji TV
Date : July 11 (Sun) Time : 09:00 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 8.8



No.6 Doraemon
Station : TV Asahi
Date : July 9 (Fri) Time : 19:00 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 8.7




No.7 Detective Conan
Station : NTV
Date : July 10 (Sat) Time : 18:00 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 8.2



No.8 Inazuma Eleven
Station : TV Tokyo
Date : July 7 (Wed) Time : 19:26 Length : 29 min.
Average Household Rating : 6.2



No.9 Mainichi Kaasan
Station : TV Tokyo
Date : July 7 (Wed) Time : 19:00 Length : 26 min.
Average Household Rating : 5.7

 

No.10 Sengoku Basara Two
Station : TBS
Date : July 11 (Sun)Time : 17:00 Length : 30 min.
Average Household Rating : 5.3