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Finally, a Kintect game that we, as anime fans, can be truly excited about! ...right?

Are you ready for DBZ Kinect? This guy is.
Are you ready for DBZ Kinect? This guy is.

Namco Bandai officially announced "Dragon Ball Z® for Kinect™" (I'm assuming the game will have a snazzier title soon enough) today at a press event in Las Vegas. Like Dragon Ball Z games before it, Dragon Ball Z Kinect will offer many fighters to choose from--over 50 in this case–including a new character and over 100 moves performed by you in front of the Kinect camera. That's right, as you'd expect you'll be Kamehameha-ing your way through this game, all in first person! The game will include a Story Mode, Score Attack Mode, and I'll hazard a guess at some sort of Tournament Mode and Training Mode, at the very least. The game also supports some hot QR code action. Holding up QR codes to the Kinect camera unlocks characters and power-ups in the game. The full Press Release can be read here.

As an added bonus the game comes new anime footage never released in the US or Europe. Anyone want to guess what that will be? The Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! special perhaps? Or maybe Episode of Bardock? Which somehow doesn't have a page here. Someone get on that.

What do you guys think? Ready to power-up Super-Saiyan-Style?

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I did it again Vicers. I crumbled under the weight of another RightStuf sale. It's a pretty good order but it could have been better if there was more manga in stock that I wanted. Won't be until later this week that I get to the series I got for DCs. I need to get back into manga reviews, too.

WARNING! This video contains explicit language. Also, this video is not edited in any way.

-Will McQuigg ( sotyfan16) is your everyday anime/manga enthusiast. You can also find him on Twitter ( bildo_88).

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After only just announcing it's existence a few days ago, Namco Bandai has released the first trailer for Dragon Ball Z for Kinect. Were you one of those kids in the playground at school who "played" Dragon Ball Z with their friends? Pretending to fire Kamehamehas at each other? Well now you no longer have to look like an idiot in front of your peers, you can do it in front of your TV at home... and earn achievements for it.

You know what? If this game came out back when I was a kid firing Kamehamehas at my friends, I would have been all over it.

Dragon Ball Z for Kinect is being developed by Spike Chunsoft and will be published in North America and Europe by Namco Bandai Games in October 2012 for Xbox 360. Are you interested in picking it up?

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Welcome to Featured Figures; a blog feature highlighting a handful of figures, my thoughts on them, the dents they'd leave in your wallet and maybe even links to sites you can buy them from. Let me know what you want to see from these blogs and I'll see what I can do.

Son Goku SSJ, 1/8th scale, Clear Hair Ver. (Medicos Entertainment)

Screaming, as usual
Screaming, as usual

This is easily one of the most bad-ass Dragon Ball Z figures I've seen, and boy has there been a lot of DBZ figures over the years. Not only does this Goku figure have really great looking clothes--all the folds and highlights look really great--but look at that hair. Dude has glass hair, well... I imagine it's really semi-transparent plastic, but it certainly looks the part.

This is version 2 of the figure, with the original featuring boring not-awesome hair, so clearly this is the version to get. The equally awesome Super Saiyan aura around Goku's feet is also a great touch.

What do you think? Is glass hair cool or weird?

Goku is listed at ¥9,200 on Amazon Japan (approx $112 or £71) and $117 on Hobbyfan but currently out of stock.

Samus Aran, 1/8th scale, Zero Suit ver. (Max Factory)

Sleek Samus
Sleek Samus

I have a weird relationship with Metroid games. I acknowledge that they're great, in fact I think very highly of them, but I don't think I've ever finished any of them. Particularly whenever I take a crack at Metroid Prime, I just don't get on with it, not really sure why. Maybe I'll finish one eventually, in the meantime I'll just admire gorgeous figure renditions of Samus like this Metroid: Other M figure from Max Factory. If it's too hard to tell Samus is a woman with her power suit on, there's certainly no question when she takes it off.

I love how sleek this figure looks, I don't know if Samus normally looks as tall as she does here, but I guess I haven't played Other M so maybe one of you knows better than me. There's some nice detail on the gun, and the Metroid looks great too.

Samus can be pre-ordered for $103 on Hobbyfan (approx £65) or $130 on J-List (approx £82)

Kobato Hasegawa & Maria Takayama, 1/7th scale (Max Factory)

Super cute
Super cute

Okay, I haven't watched Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai yet, but these figures are adorable. These are sold as two separate figures, but as you can tell they obviously go together, which is a classic trick to get twice as much of your hard-earned money from you.

I literally can't find fault with either of these figures. They're cute, the hair looks good (while not quite as glassy-looking as Goku's hair, it's similar) and their outfits look especially great. I appreciate it when sculptors put in extra effort to make the clothes look separate from the figure, you know, like actual clothes. Like the "Zero Suit" Samus is wearing, these playboy-style catgirl outfits are super glossy.

These figures can be pre-ordered for $88 each on Hobbyfan (approx £55) or $105 each on J-List (approx £66)

Chifusa Manyuu, 1/4th scale (A+)

Skimpy Samurai
Skimpy Samurai

For those with more risqué tastes we have Chifusa Manyuu from Manyuu Hikenchou. The biggest figure in this selection at 1/4th scale making it more of a statue than a figurine. Chifusa comes with a katana and completely removable attire that already barely covers her expanding bust (in the show, the figure itself doesn't expand... that would be weird).

I'm not really sure why her hair is so blue, I'm pretty sure it was black in the anime, but I like how... soft she looks. That probably sounds weird, but it's easy for figures to look very solid since they're made of plastic, and this doesn't. If you're looking for something a little lighter on clothing and bigger in size, this may be the figure for you. With that sword it would probably make a pretty good letter-opener too I guess.

Chifusa can be pre-ordered for $210 on Hobbyfan (approx £132) with extra shipping fees.

What do you think of these figures? Ready to order one? Or are you like me, preferring to appreciate them from afar instead?

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Let's take a real hard look at the wishing rules established 
Shenron can NOT bring someone back to life who has been dead for over 1 year 
Shenron can NOT bring the same person back to life more then once  
 
And as for the Namekian wish granting dragon...
Porunga CAN bring the same person back to life any number of times regardless of how long the have been dead, but only one at a time, meaning he can bring back 12 people a year at max (three every three months) 
 
So lets think about a few examples of mass murder and genocide committed in DBZ and the wishes made.... 
Nappa wipes out an entire city after he arrives on Earth, he kills a few Z-Fighters, Tenchinhan and Piccolo included, and thus the Dragon Ball's were gone, after Piccolo was revived by Porunga's Dragon Balls, and the next wish made on Shenron's Dragon Balls which were back due to Piccolo/Kami being revived was to bring back everyone killed by Frieza and his men, Piccolo was already revived, but Tenshinhan, who was killed by Nappa, who was working for Frieza when he killed him, did not come back to life, so I assume neither did those humans, and thus, over a year passed given the time it takes for the Dragon Balls to become active between wishes. All humans Nappa killed would then just be dead permanently. 
 
Then we have the Androids and Cell 
Android 20 (Doctor Gero) wiped out an entire city, Cell wiped out several, we know everyone killed by the androids and Cell, aside Goku were revived, but.... 
 
Vegeta killed a whole stadium full of people and Majin Buu wiped out the entire human race, so I guess the people who died in the Android/Cell sagas should be gone for good right? 
 
Next up, Dragon Ball GT, a massive number of people were wiped out between the Baby/Super 17/Dark Shenrons sagas.... 
 
And yet the civilian population seems immune to the rules of the Dragon Balls 
 
Your opinions? Theories?
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"Essentially, to use the Spirit Bomb, one must have a pure heart so they can manipulate and gather energy, otherwise the move can backfire and possibly hurt or kill the user. In the afterlife, Goku was taught this move from King Kai. Likewise, once a Spirit Bomb has been fired, it is possible for one with a pure heart to deflect the technique, as Goku clarifies to Gohan and Krillin. However, it should be noted that although whether a person can be pure good or pure evil of heart, a Spirit Bomb that is created by a pure good person can not be deflected by a pure evil person, the two opposite energies cancel each other out and one engulfs the other. This is shown when Frieza (a being of pure evil) is not able to deflect the Spirit Bomb, although being able to survive it through brute force. Therefore, the Spirit Bomb harms anyone, regardless of morality."

I don't understand. I thought that the Spirit Bomb could not harm beings of pure good heart. But according to "Therefore, the Spirit Bomb harms anyone, regardless of morality" it can harm anyone. How does that work?
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