The TV Anime Series Dragon Ball Super: Beerus will be broadcast on Fuji TV in the fall of 2026

[M16U3L2015]

I'm hoping they expand upon the Broly movie to fit with Toriyama's original drafts.

There was a lot of content that got cut, Broly wouldn't have worked as a 3 hour movie but as a series? I think it'll work.

I expect the Broly arc will be nothing more than the movie cut up into 5 episode parts, with new animation made for the beginning and ending of each episode to help thing flow from one to the other.

To my knowledge, isn't there some clause regarding the films Toei co-produced with Fox (as in, Battle of Gods, Resurrection F, and Broly) where they aren't allowed to use any footage from those movies in the TV series? I thought that was why Super reused none of the footage from the first two revival movies despite its rushed production.

If that is the case, then Broly would have to be completely reanimated for the new remaster, which seems like an awful lot of work for a show which is supposed to just be a remaster (even with additional cuts and composting changes). I wonder what the plan for it is, then. Will Broly just not be included in Super: Beerus--like how the manga handled it? I guess we won't know for another year.

No, Fox's agreement with Toei was only for distribution, which was inherited after canceling the live-action sequels following the failure of Evolution. In addition, their contract was broken after Disney bought Fox, that's why Sony distributed Super Hero. Nothing would prevent them from reusing the Broly animation.

[Hellspawn28]

People in 2013: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus
People in 2015: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus
People in 2026: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus

[Bardock God of Time]

People in 2013: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus
People in 2015: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus
People in 2026: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus

People in 2037: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus

[DHM211]

Just gotta say its amazing how much better modern Yamamuro's art style looks with better color design/grading/effects. Noticed this first in Daima but its really evident here.

[PhantomSaiyan]

Just gotta say its amazing how much better modern Yamamuro's art style looks with better color design/grading/effects. Noticed this first in Daima but its really evident here.

Yes, but at the same time, I still think it's the weakest style for Dragon Ball that we've seen

[JulieYBM]

It's occuring to me now that new Opening and Ending songs will likely be selected for this project, so I'm really hoping that Kiina will be asked to come back and do another song for Dragon Ball. Their Genkai Toppa x Survivor is still one of my favorite songs for the overall series.

[wjbraden]

So, any ideas if this was planned before Toei decided to do One Piece Fishman Island Special Edition? Because this seems to be practically the same thing.

As crazy/superfluous as all this is, I do think it's a nice gesture in trying to fix Super's problems and bring it up to higher standards before, presumably, moving onto covering new material from the manga as people are saying. Maybe, finally, Toei is getting with the program and realizing they can't just churn out a lot of subpar content and hoping for the best, which is pretty much what they've done since the early 2010's to the last few years for all their anime. Maybe they could even Kai-ify Sailor Moon Crystal, that whole project was a hell of a mess.

Edit: I forgot that they're also doing a reboot for World Trigger soon, so they really are trying to erase and redo everything from the past decade and a half.

[JulieYBM]

So, any ideas if this was planned before Toei decided to do One Piece Fishman Island Special Edition? Because this seems to be practically the same thing.

As crazy/superfluous as all this is, I do think it's a nice gesture in trying to fix Super's problems and bring it up to higher standards before, presumably, moving onto covering new material from the manga as people are saying. Maybe, finally, Toei is getting with the program and realizing they can't just churn out a lot of subpar content and hoping for the best, which is pretty much what they've done since the early 2010's to the last few years for all their anime. Maybe they could even Kai-ify Sailor Moon Crystal, that whole project was a hell of a mess.

Edit: I forgot that they're also doing a reboot for World Trigger soon, so they really are trying to erase and redo everything from the past decade and a half.

Toei Animation's been doing better productions since 2018, which is eight years ago. Meanwhile, when Dragon Ball Super premiered in 2015, they were producing something like eight series a year in addition to whatever else they were working on. There's a pretty massive difference between 2015 and 2026 Toei, especially since they aren't in the middle of a move to a different studio.

[Vegard Aune]

Maybe they could even Kai-ify Sailor Moon Crystal, that whole project was a hell of a mess.

Sailor Moon Crystal? The show that... already was far too rushed and left basically no time for characterization? I mean I can agree that it was also hella ugly-looking and poorly animated, (at least for the first two arcs. "Season 3" looked respectable, I'd say) but like, that show needs more episodes to work, not less.

[JulieYBM]

Maybe they could even Kai-ify Sailor Moon Crystal, that whole project was a hell of a mess.

Sailor Moon Crystal? The show that... already was far too rushed and left basically no time for characterization? I mean I can agree that it was also hella ugly-looking and poorly animated, (at least for the first two arcs. "Season 3" looked respectable, I'd say) but like, that show needs more episodes to work, not less.

Twenty-six episodes is plenty to work with, it's just poorly written and conceived as a series.

[Vegard Aune]

Twenty-six episodes is plenty to work with, it's just poorly written and conceived as a series.

I skipped the second arc entirely and I feel that the 13 or 14 episodes I saw were not enough for the first arc. Like, it just jumped into super serious drama way too fast without giving me much of a chance to really get attached to the characters first. ...But then again I have seen other shows balance similarly sized casts and still tell a compelling story in a single cour so... yeah, maybe it could have worked if it just wasn't so all-around sloppy in pretty much every respect.

[wjbraden]

So, any ideas if this was planned before Toei decided to do One Piece Fishman Island Special Edition? Because this seems to be practically the same thing.

As crazy/superfluous as all this is, I do think it's a nice gesture in trying to fix Super's problems and bring it up to higher standards before, presumably, moving onto covering new material from the manga as people are saying. Maybe, finally, Toei is getting with the program and realizing they can't just churn out a lot of subpar content and hoping for the best, which is pretty much what they've done since the early 2010's to the last few years for all their anime. Maybe they could even Kai-ify Sailor Moon Crystal, that whole project was a hell of a mess.

Edit: I forgot that they're also doing a reboot for World Trigger soon, so they really are trying to erase and redo everything from the past decade and a half.

Toei Animation's been doing better productions since 2018, which is eight years ago. Meanwhile, when Dragon Ball Super premiered in 2015, they were producing something like eight series a year in addition to whatever else they were working on. There's a pretty massive difference between 2015 and 2026 Toei, especially since they aren't in the middle of a move to a different studio.

To a degree, I agree they improved by doing small, incremental things since 2017/2018 (Super getting an upgrade in animation from ToP, Wano getting the same treatment, etc.), but they were still lagging behind what many studios were already doing in terms of reduced episode counts and having a baseline of consistent animation quality. Besides Studio Pierrot, everyone else switched to a seasonal model a decade ago. Toei was the last of the Mohicans, and it really stood out. And even stuff like Crystal that was cour-length, just always had some kind of glarring problem of some kind. Over-exertion was the culprit, no doubt as you mention, along with poor planning (like what happened with Daima).

With One Piece now officially seasonal with some kind of long-term strategy in mind, the page has finally turned and it seems the floodgates have opened to getting with the rest of the industry. It's just too bad it took over a decade to get here.

[wjbraden]

Maybe they could even Kai-ify Sailor Moon Crystal, that whole project was a hell of a mess.

Sailor Moon Crystal? The show that... already was far too rushed and left basically no time for characterization? I mean I can agree that it was also hella ugly-looking and poorly animated, (at least for the first two arcs. "Season 3" looked respectable, I'd say) but like, that show needs more episodes to work, not less.

Twenty-six episodes is plenty to work with, it's just poorly written and conceived as a series.

Yep, agreed. And those movies weren't that great either. A full reconstruction would be in order to fix it all.

[JulieYBM]

Twenty-six episodes is plenty to work with, it's just poorly written and conceived as a series.

I skipped the second arc entirely and I feel that the 13 or 14 episodes I saw were not enough for the first arc. Like, it just jumped into super serious drama way too fast without giving me much of a chance to really get attached to the characters first. ...But then again I have seen other shows balance similarly sized casts and still tell a compelling story in a single cour so... yeah, maybe it could have worked if it just wasn't so all-around sloppy in pretty much every respect.

Yeah, like, plenty of two cour anime exist with big casts and manage to work. I know it's a legendary series, but look at what Evangelion managed in just 26 episodes. Or hell, Code Geass is huge in scope with a large cast but still knows what it wants and manages to set up where it wants to end the season in an entertaining 25 episodes. Sailor Moon Crystal didn't work because it's not well written. I won't speak to the quality of the comic, given that I don't read it, but 26 episodes is plenty to tell a story in any kind of way they like.

To a degree, I agree they improved by doing small, incremental things since 2017/2018 (Super getting an upgrade in animation from ToP, Wano getting the same treatment, etc.), but they were still lagging behind what many studios were already doing in terms of reduced episode counts and having a baseline of consistent animation quality. Besides Studio Pierrot, everyone else switched to a seasonal model a decade ago. Toei was the last of the Mohicans, and it really stood out. And even stuff like Crystal that was cour-length, just always had some kind of glarring problem of some kind. Over-exertion was the culprit, no doubt as you mention, along with poor planning (like what happened with Daima).

With One Piece now officially seasonal with some kind of long-term strategy in mind, the page has finally turned and it seems the floodgates have opened to getting with the rest of the industry. It's just too bad it took over a decade to get here.

I'm speaking in terms of the quality of the output, not so much whether studio conditions have improved (the anime industry sucks in general). The Toei of 2015 wasn't putting out Tiger Mask W, World Trigger Seasons 2-3 (12 and 14 episodes respectively), One Piece's Wano and Egghead arcs, Daima and Dragon Quest: Dai (which had 24 finished episodes before it began airing). This transformation began taking full effect in 2020, when those series began airing. Heck, arguably it can be traced back to GeGeGe no Kitarou (2018) and Tiger Mask W.

The reduced episode counts that studios do isn't really because of the studio wanting to do less. They're still taking work, they're just being asked for fewer episodes at a time from the production committees while also pushing the quality further than can be sustained for television.

Like, yeah, we're getting cool, densely-packed action in anime now, but the industry is worse off than ever.

[Artorias]

Something I've been thinking about that I haven't seen discussed much is how they'll handle the music. I wonder if they'll just move around the existing soundtrack in conjunction with the recuts, or if they'll actually create some new songs. Early Super's soundtrack was pretty abysmal for the most part, so I would hope that maybe they could devote some time to at least a partial re-score. Maybe just wishful thinking though.

Just gotta say its amazing how much better modern Yamamuro's art style looks with better color design/grading/effects. Noticed this first in Daima but its really evident here.

Yea, it's genuinely opened my eyes even more to how warped your perception of artwork can be by simple coloring and compositing changes. So many of these scenes shown have little to no actual artwork adjustments at all and are just lit or colored differently, and it makes a world of difference. It's still not the ideal base to start with, but my god it just reinforces how utterly abysmal the color design of the original show was.

[Lord Beerus]

I'm still not sold at all on a third helping of Battle Of Gods and Resurrection F. The Battle Of Gods movie was already a perfectly fine story as is, that practically anyone can watch, and unless the Resurrection F arc goes through some significant narrative restructuring, I have no interest in seeing Golden Freeza again.

[SupremeKai25]

More side-by-side comparisons courtesy of the official subreddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DragonBallZ/co ... all_super/

I'm sold.

I can't wait for this remaster and I can't wait for Toei to also remaster the other arcs. Goku Black and Zamasu are gonna look so awesome.

Good lightning/shading makes SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE.

[BernardoCairo]

It's occuring to me now that new Opening and Ending songs will likely be selected for this project, so I'm really hoping that Kiina will be asked to come back and do another song for Dragon Ball. Their Genkai Toppa x Survivor is still one of my favorite songs for the overall series.

The one very strong aspect of the original Dragon Ball Super was the fire ending themes. They're all so nostalgic and simply great to listen to. I hope they remix some of them. 1, 3, 7 and 9 come to mind now.

[GreatSaiyaJeff]

People in 2013: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus
People in 2015: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus
People in 2026: I hope Vegeta will go SSj3 against Beerus

Someone needs to make this into the Dr. Manhattan meme

[wjbraden]

I'm speaking in terms of the quality of the output, not so much whether studio conditions have improved (the anime industry sucks in general). The Toei of 2015 wasn't putting out Tiger Mask W, World Trigger Seasons 2-3 (12 and 14 episodes respectively), One Piece's Wano and Egghead arcs, Daima and Dragon Quest: Dai (which had 24 finished episodes before it began airing). This transformation began taking full effect in 2020, when those series began airing. Heck, arguably it can be traced back to GeGeGe no Kitarou (2018) and Tiger Mask W.

The reduced episode counts that studios do isn't really because of the studio wanting to do less. They're still taking work, they're just being asked for fewer episodes at a time from the production committees while also pushing the quality further than can be sustained for television.

Like, yeah, we're getting cool, densely-packed action in anime now, but the industry is worse off than ever.

Oh no, I definitely agree in regards to the working conditions, that's a whole other issue in and of itself. But yes, generally speaking, the quality of most grade-A anime has improved. No other studio could get away with a DBS episode 5 situation anymore without being lambasted out the wazoo. No other studio could even get away with doing less than a chapter per episode for a show either, but that's what One Piece has endured until now. That's the full transformation that's finally happened with Toei I think.

And without getting too far off topic, I do think there's still a lot of bloat in the industry. It's not uncommon to get anime with over 100 episodes over the span of several years. Even for anime that might not have been that long in the past, when studios were given 13/26/50 episodes to shoot their shot (even if the manga wasn't over, leading to original endings with mixed results). Though there were flaws with that model, it usually worked. Lots of great 1 to 2 cour anime from yesteryear that cover a lot of ground in their runtimes. That's another thing clogging studio's workloads, imo (not to mention, there's just waaaaay too much anime being made in general, many I think we all agree we could do without).