Looks like Shueisha is to blame for DBFZ being pulled from various tournaments.
Source: Toei Animation (Twitter)
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Toei Animation: We have no knowledge about preventing DBFZ tournaments
- Thread starter Neoxon
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Looks like Shueisha is to blame for DBFZ being pulled from various tournaments.
Source: Toei Animation (Twitter)
Shueisha are the ones who own Shonen Jump, which means they own the Dragon Ball manga, while Toei owns the rights to the anime.
They were responding to a tweet from Toei animation celebrating 20 years of the One Piece anime with the words "Fellowship. Friendship."
I thought it was really weird that people were blaming Toei when Shueisha and Toriyama are the ones that hold the main rights to the brand, and would be the ones that would make decisions regarding licensing issues. Toei wouldn't have any control over that kind of stuff since they were granted a license themselves (to produce animated DB works).
*The person who runs Toei's English Twitter account has no knowledge about preventing DBFZ tournaments.
Is Bandai Namco the one reaching out to organizers? If not, let's announce our own tournament so we can get word directly from the source.
Shueisha. Toei Animation is just the studio responsible for the anime and they have the copyright and trademark over it while Shueisha and Toriyama have the copyright and trademark of the overall franchise as the original owners.
It's Bird Studio/Shueisha/Toei Animation after all in the copyright.
I really doubt them or ASW would do this.
It was Bandai Namco idea
I don't know if the statement of the Twitter handler of the USA branch of one Toei subsidiary is a strong statement. If this is a Toei Animation JP thing, or their parent company, this guy certainly wouldn't know it. It doesn't mean it was Toei, but this doesn't seem like a very strong denial.
Even if it's not them I think what the poor Toei Twitter guy wants to avoid is an angry mob. I don't think he must really know the decisions.
I think he means it in jest, but if that user was serious, yeah highly unlikely to be BN considering how much they support the FGC.
Was it? Nearly everyone was blaming Toei in the previous thread
Because nearly everyone has this weird misconception that Toie owns Dragon Ball
The sensible people in that thread also noted that Toei only holds the rights to the anime and that Shueisha was the only entity that'd be able to pull something like this.
I love One Piece, but yuck at that friendship comment
Pretty sure a couple people were insisting Toei had nothing to do with this in some of the threads about DBZF being removed from shows. At least they spoke up to confirm it.
Edit: okay, I see that person was just replying to one of their tweets. I don't get on twitter much (ever)
Pretty sure a couple people were insisting Toei had nothing to do with this in some of the threads about DBZF being removed from shows. At least they spoke up to confirm it.
Edit: okay, I see that person was just replying to one of their tweets. I don't get on twitter much (ever)
You're right. Especially the ENGLISH twitter guy from a Japanese company.
Don't think that Toei has anything to do with it tho, just saying. Ain't a confirmation.
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Why would Bamco do it? They're cool with their other fighting games being at tournaments.
It wasn't Toriyama. That would require him to actually care about Dragon Ball which is, frankly, a laughable concept.
Wait how are they stopping tournaments? It's not like people are pirating the game. They're just playing it.
