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

[JulieYBM]

This show is going to fucking suck so much if this is true lol

Yeah... I hope the leaks were exaggerating, but looking at the trailer, they seem pretty accurate unfortunately. Idk what they have against animators putting their own unique style into the character designs, to me that's one of the best parts of watching an animated show

They want the drawings to look like Toriyama's art as much as possible because that's the angle that they advertise the series at and also probably because Toriyama wants the animated projects to look like his work. That aside, the production committee usually wants the anime to look like the merchandise as much as possible. Bryan Hikari Hartzheim wrote about this technique of 'thingification' in his paper Pretty Cure and the Magical Girl Media Mix. I suggest at least reading the section titled 'Product Portal', which begins on Page 18 of the PDF. Dragon Ball as-is doesn't strictly function like PreCure does, but it's safe to say that similar logic is used in how it is produced. Whenever a new transformation appears for the first time, it typically has extra attention paid to the animation, particularly in having a trusted chief animation supervisor correcting the key animation—if not the animation character designer himself. When the episode cuts to the commercial break and the audience is bombarded with Dragon Ball product placement, they want the images to be seamless between the two.

[Vegard Aune]

SoKai, unfortunately, while benefited from the better pacing of cutting out the majority of the filler, as well as the color correction & clean-up of the footage, also had less graceful redraws due to bad & probably rushed rotoscoping (talking about the first 98 episodes) to replace certain frames to either somewhat censor some of the gore, or redo the strobing effects to make sure they don't cause seizures. And then The Final Chapters had a half-assed remaster that didn't go as far as Q-Tec did to actually making the footage look better than it did on the Dragon Boxes. Not helped by the forced cropping to widescreen (I still hold the better pacing due to removing the most worthless, pointless, & downright BAD fillers that never added anything & even bogged down the pace & tone of the arc way too much, plus the better English dub more than make up for its shortcomings, but that's besides the point). Thus, this Super reboot will be a MUCH more cohesive & well-produced product than Kai.

It could mean that, but make no mistake, we have a very recent example of how badly this can go. Pretty much all the stuff they're doing here with DBS Remastered, is what they did in 2024 with the One Piece Fishman Island arc... and it was horrible. The pace was all kinds of nonsense, characters would randomly just teleport around because the footage of them moving was gone, reactions would get cut down to a split second, scenes would either start or end midway through, conversations would get trimmed down to incomprehensibility, so many smaller scenes that aided in characterization were just gone, big climactic moments would come and go so fast that they left no impact, and generally it just... did not flow coherently at all. For as dragged out, poorly animated and messily written as the 2012 version of that arc was, Toei's fancy new and polished redo of it somehow managed to only make it worse. I'd sooner rewatch the original. And because of that, I am keeping this Super remaster at an arm's length for the time being. It could be good, certainly... But we also have a clear example of how it can go completely awry.

[JulieYBM]

It could mean that, but make no mistake, we have a very recent example of how badly this can go. Pretty much all the stuff they're doing here with DBS Remastered, is what they did in 2024 with the One Piece Fishman Island arc... and it was horrible. The pace was all kinds of nonsense, characters would randomly just teleport around because the footage of them moving was gone, reactions would get cut down to a split second, scenes would either start or end midway through, conversations would get trimmed down to incomprehensibility, so many smaller scenes that aided in characterization were just gone, big climactic moments would come and go so fast that they left no impact, and generally it just... did not flow coherently at all. For as dragged out, poorly animated and messily written as the 2012 version of that arc was, Toei's fancy new and polished redo of it somehow managed to only make it worse. I'd sooner rewatch the original. And because of that, I am keeping this Super remaster at an arm's length for the time being. It could be good, certainly... But we also have a clear example of how it can go completely awry.

My guess—based on what we've been told—is that Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is learning from those mistakes, although I still don't know how Nagamine wasn't just given the production staff necessary to redo a few cuts per episode to make them flow better. I have to wonder how much the project was hampered by his health?

[Scsigs]

So Kai, unfortunately, while benefited from the better pacing of cutting out the majority of the filler, as well as the color correction & clean-up of the footage, also had less graceful redraws due to bad & probably rushed rotoscoping (talking about the first 98 episodes) to replace certain frames to either somewhat censor some of the gore, or redo the strobing effects to make sure they don't cause seizures. And then The Final Chapters had a half-assed remaster that didn't go as far as Q-Tec did to actually making the footage look better than it did on the Dragon Boxes. Not helped by the forced cropping to widescreen (I still hold the better pacing due to removing the most worthless, pointless, & downright BAD fillers that never added anything & even bogged down the pace & tone of the arc way too much, plus the better English dub more than make up for its shortcomings, but that's besides the point). Thus, this Super reboot will be a MUCH more cohesive & well-produced product than Kai.

It could mean that, but make no mistake, we have a very recent example of how badly this can go. Pretty much all the stuff they're doing here with DBS Remastered, is what they did in 2024 with the One Piece Fishman Island arc... and it was horrible. The pace was all kinds of nonsense, characters would randomly just teleport around because the footage of them moving was gone, reactions would get cut down to a split second, scenes would either start or end midway through, conversations would get trimmed down to incomprehensibility, so many smaller scenes that aided in characterization were just gone, big climactic moments would come and go so fast that they left no impact, and generally it just... did not flow coherently at all. For as dragged out, poorly animated and messily written as the 2012 version of that arc was, Toei's fancy new and polished redo of it somehow managed to only make it worse. I'd sooner rewatch the original. And because of that, I am keeping this Super remaster at an arm's length for the time being. It could be good, certainly... But we also have a clear example of how it can go completely awry.

To say this, the majority of the first 2 arcs could easily be cut out & trimmed down to the length of the movies & you'd lose absolutely nothing of value since the majority of what's there is added on to the movies' scripts. Hell, episodes 1 & 2 of the original super, if you cut out the Beerus stuff & trim down on stuff to make it 22 minutes & you'd have a good first episode that reintroduces the characters & keeps the spirit of Toriyama's original story from the movie intact by not jumping the gun on introducing Beerus & Whis. And, the Res F arc & movie would need a top down rewrite to actually make the story good, so I couldn't care less what they do with it. Every other arc would need varying levels of fixes, reductions, additions, &/or substitutions to make better because they were definitely written to be TV arcs from the start when they were adapting Toriyama's manuscripts. I do know, though, that the TOP could be cut down a lot & you'd also lose nothing of importance. It all depends on what they do, how much time they've been given to properly do this project, & how they handle it.

[The Dark Knight]

New info from Geekdom101:

The Beerus arc has completed production and the team has fully moved into the Resurrection F arc.

There are two teams working on Super: one for the remake and the other for Moro.

Some key animators are working on both.

There is AI being used in the remake, but it's being used as a tool, rather than a replacement for nay of the animators.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

New info from Geekdom101:

The Beerus arc has completed production and the team has fully moved into the Resurrection F arc.

There are two teams working on Super: one for the remake and the other for Moro.

Some key animators are working on both.

There is AI being used in the remake, but it's being used as a tool, rather than a replacement for nay of the animators.

Bear in mind he hasn't been able to double source this information yet so we can still file it in the Rumour category. That said, this is all good news if true.

[Scsigs]

New info from Geekdom101:

The Beerus arc has completed production and the team has fully moved into the Resurrection F arc.

There are two teams working on Super: one for the remake and the other for Moro.

Some key animators are working on both.

There is AI being used in the remake, but it's being used as a tool, rather than a replacement for nay of the animators.

A lot of this makes sense, as I doubt the Beerus arc took long to do & they're having another team handle Moro with some people being shared in both.

Bear in mind he hasn't been able to double source this information yet so we can still file it in the Rumour category. That said, this is all good news if true.

Geekdom has a bad habit of claiming he knows behind the scenes info of current projects of the franchise, only for it to either not be true, or not as he thought it was because he either doesn't think about it, or checks to see if the info is right before opening his mouth, so until any of this is confirmed by other people, take it with a BIG grain of salt.

[Yasai9001]

Coming into this with high hopes but will not be disappointed if it falls flat; that said, I genuinely know that certain things need to be cleared up: Super Saiyan 3, Super Saiyan 4, the time-skip before End of Z and maybe some other things I'm missing; I don't know how much stock you or anyone else may put into that, but as one said in this same thread, tying everything up neatly would be nice.

Super has the chance to not only redo things and make them right, but to make Super as big as a household name as Dragon Ball was back then. I know everyone remembers when Dragon Ball Super's Universal Tournament was ending and everyone was going nuts - this was done during a time period where the series had a lot of highs and hella lows.

All is well, though - Dragon Ball is immortal.

[M16U3L2015]

New trailer that also tease Resurrection 'F' enhanced version.

https://youtu.be/sjXXTgYaer0?si=hemABfWHJ_GIK2bm

[JulieYBM]

Damn, they're really holding back on any new shots that might make this project look good lol

[Chuquita]

The small amount of new redone footage makes me think this isn't as far along as I thought it was.

Still neutral on it until I see more.

[BernardoCairo]

I think the artwork and colors are looking pretty good! It's nice to see them moving away from the plastic Yamamuro look of the original. It looks a bit grayish (it's hard to describe). Nothing major, though.

Also, it's nice that they are already showing us Freeza. Let's keep the ball rolling. I want to see U6 and Goku Black.

[super michael]

I will be watching this new version of DBS BoG, in my opinion it does look good. Visually it does look good.

[The Dark Knight]

It's nice that they are already showing us Freeza. Let's keep the ball rolling. I want to see U6 and Goku Black.

I expect U6 to be shown in July for Comic Con, then Goku Black in December for Jump Festa. If I had to guess, Beerus and Freeza will be finished just before the end of the year, then U6 will start in January followed by Goku Black in March or April. As for the Tournament of Power, I don't see it starting any later than July 2027.

[Jord]

I saw the new trailer and it really makes me think "Why?". It doesn't look better than the movie, and both the movie and original are already available to watch worldwide. Not to mention, at least for the Japanese cast, their vocal performances aren't as good as they were in the original. Just like how the VA's sounded worse in Kai compared to Z.

[The Dark Knight]

I saw the new trailer and it really makes me think "Why?".

Because Super 1.0 is an absolute dumpster fire that needed to be reworked from the ground up.

It doesn't look better than the movie...

It doesn't have to be, it just has to look good in its own right, which Super 1.0 failed at spectacularly.

[Yuji]

I'm also becoming disappointed since it seems they're not touching on the story at all or even the minor aspects. The God absorption was something I thought they ought to cut completely. Goku's character arc from the film still seems to be completely absent. Freeza still regenerates with his armor. Cool, flashy new visuals under awful Yamamuro designs, I guess.

[SupremeKai25]

The story of these arcs was always fine. When you go back to the old threads, you'll see that the major complaints were always about the "ugly artstyle". This remaster fixes that. The scenes in this trailer look absolutely stunning.

The second major complaint was the filler/padding scenes, which is also fixed since a 10+ episodes saga is cut down to 6 episodes. This means that all the stupid filler with Pilaf gang must have been removed. Good riddance.

[Vegard Aune]

I think it's fair to assume that this "remaster" is not really for any of us. It's just to give a less crude-looking version of the show that might be more appealing to new viewers.

...I'll be content if it just flows decently tbh. And if it fixes the most egregiously awful shots from OG Super. Since it's still Yamamuro designs, it's definitely not going to look terribly appealing to me, but the least it could do is look competent, which I do feel like is a fair expectation.

[SupremeKai25]

I think it's fair to assume that this "remaster" is not really for any of us. It's just to give a less crude-looking version of the show that might be more appealing to new viewers.

...I'll be content if it just flows decently tbh. And if it fixes the most egregiously awful shots from OG Super. Since it's still Yamamuro designs, it's definitely not going to look terribly appealing to me, but the least it could do is look competent, which I do feel like is a fair expectation.

This seems to be a remaster for me and others who like Super: we like the story, we like the characters, we like Yamamuro, and we just want a more beautiful artstyle and the filler removed. Which this remaster seems to do exactly that.

If you were expecting Toei to start changing arcs so that Goku and Vegeta fuse into SSJ4 Vegito against Beerus or Future Trunks gets a Disney happy ending, well... this project was never meant to be fanfiction. It's still supposed to be faithful to Toriyama's story for Super.

Actually, if/when they go to later arcs, we might see things from Toyotaro manga like SSG Vegeta, since those seemed to have Toriyama mark of approval (even if they never appeared in the anime because, obviously, the anime predated Toyotaro).