Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Dragon Ball franchise, a statement made by producer Akio Iyoku during an interview hinted at more Dragon Ball announcements in 2025. While he simply said that there may be some announcements this year, he did not give much regarding what, and fans believe there may be related to movies and games.
This came during a late-night interview at a Japanese radio show, “All Night Nippon,” where they talked about the franchise in general and other things as revealed in a translation shared by ‘peraperayume’. His response regarding the announcement came when he was asked about upcoming this like movies and games.
Happy New Year!🐉
— Andy 案太郎 🇩🇪 (@peraperayume) January 2, 2025
Yesterday on January 1st, Akio Iyoku talked at the "All Night Nippon - Dragon Ball 40th Anniversary Special" radio show for about 20 minutes about various DB things, including Daima and what may be coming👀
Translated some bits🔽
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“There ‘may’ be some announcements coming this year,” Iyoku told during the interview, which could mean a lot of things. Dragon Ball is one of the biggest franchises, and most recently, Frieza got his new form, so the hype regarding more details is very high.
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Now that Iyoku has confirmed that there will be new announcements, it’s just a matter of what those will be. Two movies in the series are currently rumoured to be in production, so perhaps fans will get an announcement for them.
On top of that, Dragon Ball Sparking Zero was also quite successful and reportedly the biggest launch across all Dragon Ball video games. The game already have plans for DLC bringing content from Dragon Ball Super and DAIMA, so it’s hard to tell if gamers will also get something exciting.
As of now, an announcement for the movie or anime series looks much more reasonable with the ongoing rumours and the fact that it came from the producer. However, the gaming community does not need to lose hope that easily. As the success of Dragon Ball, Sparking Zero may encourage the development of a completely new game.