And none of this woulda happened without the source material. There's a market for a black and white dbz figures and a perfectly good excuse for Bandai to reissue older sh figuarts dbz toys in this manner.
All I responded to was your comment that seemed to imply manga had a higher status than the anime for dbz: it does not. (Case in point the current manga is adapted from RoF and the DBSuper series, not the other way around.) Source material or not is irrelevant. Numbers determine current relevancy. There's a **** ton of **** that a whole lot of people want more than the quantity of people who want to see precious slots of ANYTHING go to things like black&white releases. I have ZERO doubt about that, and neither side on this is factually provable without the biggest global survey ever.
Majority rules, period. It's not a principle issue, it's a numbers game. Unless you can show me that a significant percentage of of dbz fans grew up on the manga (I'm talking at the least a third), I'm not convinced. How many fans of dbz at large are there? Utterly convinced the majority is a fan of the anime above the manga and even knew the anime first. Even with superman and batman that stuff is the case. This is market-production: majority demand rules. I've said that defending things I wanted, I've said that defending the release of stuff I did NOT want, such as Broly. It's just simple, imo tamashii should do what most people want most. And right NOW thats not black and white releases, not a shred of doubt in my mind even if I had half the board against me here.
In a few years, once we have a lot more fan favourites, different characters etc, once we've been through all that then sure, throw out a black n white goku, they wanna keep making goku's anyway. But if it happened now or within say two years I'd call a big whooping BS on it.
Nope, hourly checks and nothing has appeared.
I don't see why anyone would put it up immediately. Hmmm well... as long as the sdcc isnt revealed then it only rises value to wait. Some might even take the gamble to wait for the reveal cause if the reveal isnt this goku it's scalpering time. Although I think it will be.