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

[Yuji]

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.

The story of Res F was fine, it improved on the movie even. The story of BoG was severely neutered, Goku's entire character arc in the movie, which is the crux of his dynamic with Beerus and driving conflict which makes the absorption of the God power satisfying, is completely absent in the anime version, replaced instead with a POV of Beerus' boredom, which is fine, but less interesting to me. And both could have been present.

What I fear is what this means for the Super original arcs that diverge heavily from anime and manga, whether this means no manga content will be included at all.

[super michael]

I found this video in Youtube that compares DBS and DBS remake side by side, the video explains the differences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_C7DZa_c9U

Maybe they might keep the movie lines in DBS remake, only time will tell. I doubt they will reveal everything about the remake.

[BernardoCairo]

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.

People didn't like them because the movies were better. At least Battle of Gods was. The Super anime added some good and bad things to Fukkatsu no F. I really like the Goku and Vegeta training scenes. Whis is one of my favorite characters.

[Scsigs]

So, because people are still complaining about Yamamuro, I don't understand why anyone didn't expect Yamamuro to be the art director for these remastered arcs. They're taking already-existing animation & touching that up while also inserting new shots & doing redraws entirely. This isn't a reboot. Hell, this was called Super Kai internally when they started working on it because it's supposed to be like Z Kai, but better since they have the original project files to work with & Kai was remastered from the old film stock, but also had certain shots reanimated for various reasons & others toned down that, unfortunately, stuck out like a sore thumb because they were digitally animated rather than cel animated. Yamamuro's artstyle DOES work, it's just that the way it was done in the last 2 Z movies & most of Super was bad. It needs time to be properly animated & it also needs to scale some things back, like the weird white shading on the characters' skin & what not. When it's scaled back, it works pretty well. Like, many people generally like the look of the Android & Buu Arcs of the anime as well as most of the later 90s Z movies & that's because that's when Yamamuro's artstyle worked the best.
When Toei forced their animators for Super to work in a 6 week timeframe because they wanted to put a new DB anime into production to continue the hype of the last 2 movies when they finally had Toriyama on board for producing one, they put an enormous constraint on their abilities to do good quality assurance on their cuts. Hence why everything fell apart in episode 5 & towards the end of the Res F Arc. It literally didn't take until the Future Trunks Arc for us to get some really fluid & actually great animation in the Vegetto VS Fused Zamasu fight. Plus, there were a lot less animation errors in that arc, iirc, since they managed to scale back production to a more reasonable timeline. Then by the Tournament of Power when they changed certain things with the animation so there were a lot less bad animation & some of the worse things about the animation were changed or toned down. This remaster is looking to make everything more in-line with the Tournament of Power so it all flows better together as a whole. The cutting down on fluff that doesn't matter & mission statement of making the remaster more close to Toriyama's original vision as best they can also shows that.

[The Dark Knight]

Yamamuro's artstyle DOES work, It needs time to be properly animated & it also needs to scale some things back, like the weird white shading on the characters' skin & what not. When it's scaled back, it works pretty well.

I agree; everything we've seen in this Super 2.0 proves that when Yamamuro has time, he can put out respectable work. Will it look as good as Shintani's work on Broly ? obviously not, but as long as it looks good in its own right, that's all that really matters. I would like to remind people that Yamamuro also worked on Daima, which many consider to be one of the best looking projects in this franchise.

[JulieYBM]

So, because people are still complaining about Yamamuro, I don't understand why anyone didn't expect Yamamuro to be the art director for these remastered arcs.

People were being optimistic in their hopes that Yamamuro would not be involved. Nobody's blindsided, just appropriately disappointed by Yamamuro being involved because he sucks.

Yamamuro's artstyle DOES work, it's just that the way it was done in the last 2 Z movies & most of Super was bad. It needs time to be properly animated & it also needs to scale some things back, like the weird white shading on the characters' skin & what not. When it's scaled back, it works pretty well. Like, many people generally like the look of the Android & Buu Arcs of the anime as well as most of the later 90s Z movies & that's because that's when Yamamuro's artstyle worked the best.
When Toei forced their animators for Super to work in a 6 week timeframe because they wanted to put a new DB anime into production to continue the hype of the last 2 movies when they finally had Toriyama on board for producing one, they put an enormous constraint on their abilities to do good quality assurance on their cuts. Hence why everything fell apart in episode 5 & towards the end of the Res F Arc. It literally didn't take until the Future Trunks Arc for us to get some really fluid & actually great animation in the Vegetto VS Fused Zamasu fight. Plus, there were a lot less animation errors in that arc, iirc, since they managed to scale back production to a more reasonable timeline. Then by the Tournament of Power when they changed certain things with the animation so there were a lot less bad animation & some of the worse things about the animation were changed or toned down. This remaster is looking to make everything more in-line with the Tournament of Power so it all flows better together as a whole. The cutting down on fluff that doesn't matter & mission statement of making the remaster more close to Toriyama's original vision as best they can also shows that.

Yamamuro's modern style does not work. Yamamuro had the time to be the animation supervisor for Ressurection F and that movie looks hideous and had animators complaining about his corrections to their animation. You can pull up his character models and those are themselves terribly drawn. Yamamuro's also an awful director, so if he winds up also storyboarding these new shots, they're going to terrible not simply because he is the chief animation supervisor.

I love the Future Trunks arc and Tournament of Power arc, but those arcs still look hideous in large part because those episodes were still rushed into production, still animated based on character designs not suited for animation, and still had barely any staff to work with to create good shots of animation.

[Scsigs]

Yamamuro's artstyle DOES work, It needs time to be properly animated & it also needs to scale some things back, like the weird white shading on the characters' skin & what not. When it's scaled back, it works pretty well.

I agree; everything we've seen in this Super 2.0 proves that when Yamamuro has time, he can put out respectable work. Will it look as good as Shintani's work on Broly? Obviously not, but as long as it looks good in its own right, that's all that really matters. I would like to remind people that Yamamuro also worked on Daima, which many consider to be one of the best looking projects in this franchise.

Yeah. His style just needs to be toned back to not have a lot of the more terrible design quirks from the Super era & time to be properly animated, which is something it looks like they're doing with this Super remaster. It's not gonna be Shintani, it could never be, but when it's given time to properly cook & Yamamuro's reigned in on his worse eccentricities, it can work well.
Yeah, he did work on Daima (you can tell because of how he draws when characters, mainly Vegeta, cross their arms & the arms don't look right, which is 1 of the things I hate from his designs) & he was reigned in. Daima looks more like what Dragon Ball should like if they're not going with Shintani's designs. Granted, I don't believe Yamamuro was the main character designer on Daima, but even his designs looked good in Daima. Which is great.

[JulieYBM]

Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi was the animation character designer of Dragon Ball Daima. Yamamuro Tadayoshi acted as an animation supervisor and key animator on Dragon Ball Daima. He was an animation supervisor on Episode #19 and did pretty heavy corrections on Oonishi Ryou's cuts, effectively making them look different from all of Oonishi's work on the other parts of the series.

Like, we don't need to apologize for this man. He's still got the same issues he's had for decades. He worked on Daima because they needed staff and he's working on Super Enhanced because they decided to cheap out and reuse as many designs and cuts as they could to pump something out quicker without putting a ton of effort into it. This isn't meant to be a premium project, which is a shame.

[The Dark Knight]

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 second major complaint was the filler/padding scenes, which is also fixed since a 10+ episodes saga is cut down to 6 episodes.

Another complaint that's being addressed is the over the top behavior of the characters, as the series is aiming to have a tone more in line with late DB and Z. Most fans would've been satisfied with a simple re-cut like what Kai did, but instead they're going above and beyond to correct their mistakes; I tip my non-existent hat off to them for doing this.

I think it's fair to assume that this "remaster" is not really for any of us.

I think it's for anyone who liked the idea of Super, but not the execution. When you break it down, Super had 4 core issues:

1- Pacing
2- Art and Animation
3- Characterization
4- Certain plot points.

This remake is completely addressing the first 3 points, which will make the plot points fans have issues with far more digestible as a result of everything else working so well. If you're someone who flat out hated everything about Super, then this probably won't win you over. However, for fans who were on board but just couldn't overlook so many flaws, I believe this is what they've been waiting for.

[Nevaeh]

Looking back and knowing how bad the production schedule was, BoG wasn't actually that bad looking and still watchable outside of episode 5

RoF was where the wheels came off though. If they can salvage that, Toei are miracle workers

[The Dark Knight]

RoF was where the wheels came off though. If they can salvage that, Toei are miracle workers

A lot of that arc is going to have to be redrawn from the ground up, especially episodes 24 and 26.

[angeldreamZ004]

In this new trailer, I appreciate the visual part, I do believe they are indeed trying to make modern Yamamuro style look the best it can and the animation seems great to me as well, it reminds me of the best parts of the Super DB Heroes promotional anime.

But narratively, I'm quite confused, maybe disappointed. What I saw here is exactly just Super, the 2015 anime, no differences. Well it does match what they once said about this "remakaster" capturing Toriyama's original view of the story, and his original view, well, was the 2013 Kami to Kami movie, where SSJ God physically disappears but Goku uses its power in the appearance of the SSJ transformation. In the first trailer it felt like Red form was going to last longer or maybe even to the end because of the clips shown, but those were the parts from the original Super animation where Red form's screen time is extended to allow it to appear even in the stratosphere, so it made us trick ourselves into thinking that it was going to be closer to the manga. Which is weird, because the official site does talk about it being closer to the manga, so I don't know what they made here and hon this won't create the later contradiction of the Kami o koeta (Beyond God), Goku only using Blue form, Red form no longer existing and Regular Golden transformations being obsolete.

Maybe it's just me exaggerating / overreacting but it made kinda sad now because I indeed believe it was going to be more faithful to the manga, and I especially hoped they would be exploring more the new concepts that Super introduces. But apparently the "more faithful" is not going to be so faithful as I expected, which makes me more skeptical in regards to the leaks as well (And I'm someone who rarely trusts leaks. The problem is that the information on the official website made me expect too much. Otherwise, I wouldn't have believed these leaks about it being more manga-accurate)
So I'll control my expectations more for this, and of course I became less hyped, but still going to watch it.

As for the Fukkatsu no F teaser, don't know what to say about it, I just really hope they make the saga minimally more interesting, it's just the weakest saga in Super in my opinion as it introduces very few new concepts and stuff that feels new, so consequently one of my least favorite sagas / movies in the entire franchise as well (and I believe many people think the same way)

[SupremeKai25]

This thread should temper their expectations and keep in mind that the main product remains the Galactic Prisoner, and the Galactic Survivor after that. Since these stories were written by Akira Toriyama, it's about time they were animated.

This "Super Kai" (I'll be using this unofficial name from now on) is a side project, let's say it's an "appetizer before the main dish", to use Goku terms. The main function of this project is to STREAMLINE the older series. It does appear to be aimed particularly at new viewers, keep in mind that Super turns 11 years old this year.

What does streamline mean? Better pacing (bye bye Pilaf Gang filler, BOG went from 10+ episodes to 6), better flow of the animation and artstyle (I'm sure there will be less reciclying, the Tournament of Power was infamous for this, they recycled Ribrianne's transformation, Freeza's transformation, that beauty goddess arm movement so many times), also maybe better lines? I'm sure they'll try to make the dialogue more meaningful, for example we might get a clearer dialogue that explains the God Base thing or what Super Saiyan Rosé is supposed to be.

But if you thought this was gonna be a "reimagining" of Super, with reworked character arcs, reworked storylines, overarching changes... well, that's way, way, waayyyy beyond the scope of this little project. Goku is still gonna forget the Senzu bean, Infinite Zamasu will still destroy Trunks' timeline. U7 will win the Tournament of Power. SSJ4 is not gonna randomly show up and beat Beerus.

If you want fanfiction that rewrites Super, play Sparking Zero. There you can have fun with Gohan Black, Trunks saving his timeline and getting a Disney ending, or Jiren winning the tournament.

EDIT - However, I would also like new -SHORT- scenes where they try to make sense of some of the weird writing from the original anime. We could have a scene of Trunks training with Goku and learning the Genkidama, for example. We could also have a few things borrowed from the manga, like Super Saiyan Goku Black and making Rosé his version of Blue. They could show Trunks absorbing some God ki through training with Vegeta. This is an excellent opportunity to go back and better explain some of the weird things from the original anime, and in general just try to make the story easier to follow.

[angeldreamZ004]

This thread should temper their expectations and keep in mind that the main product remains the Galactic Prisoner, and the Galactic Survivor after that.
This "Super Kai" is a side project, the main function of this project is to STREAMLINE the older series. It does appear to be aimed particularly at new viewers, keep in mind that Super turns 11 years old this year.
What does streamline mean? Better pacing (bye bye Pilaf Gang filler, BOG went from 10+ episodes to 6), better flow of the animation and artstyle (I'm sure there will be less reciclying, the Tournament of Power was infamous for this)

I agree. The problem for me was that people were frenetically spreading leaks about what this kai super was going to be about. I saw a lot seeing that it would remain closer to what the original anime was, but I also heard a lot saying it would be more faithful to the manga. Again, I'm not one to buy leaks, but when the official information came in, explicitly saying "more faithful to the manga", It made me mislead myself, so I fully started to believe it was going to be a lot more than just "Super Anime with make-up and on marathon". So I interpreted this enhancement as also a way to make things more coeherent and in line with the content that came after, such as the Broly movie and the upcoming arcs, so I imagined them also focusing on fixing the narrative that they messed up from time to time in the original version. So i'm more grounded now in regards to this, I especially now believe stuff like SSJBlue + Kaioken will continue being recurrent, which I'm fine with, but also made me more skeptical about other stuff such as the SSJGod in the U6 and Zamasu arcs, I was expecting those big changes but now I believe it may be much simpler, which is sad since I expected to see more from the Red my favorite form after UI.

also maybe better lines? I'm sure they'll try to make the dialogue more meaningful, for example we might get a clearer dialogue that explains the God Base thing or what Super Saiyan Rosé is supposed to be.
But if you thought this was gonna be a "reimagining" of Super, with reworked character arcs, reworked storylines, overarching changes... well, that's way, way, waayyyy beyond the scope of this little project. Goku is still gonna forget the Senzu bean, Infinite Zamasu will still destroy Trunks' timeline. U7 will win the Tournament of Power. If you want fanfiction that rewrites Super, play Sparking Zero. There you can have fun with Gohan Black, Trunks saving his timeline and getting a Disney ending, or Jiren winning the tournament.

However, I would also like new -SHORT- scenes where they try to make sense of some of the weird writing from the original anime. We could have a scene of Trunks training with Goku and learning the Genkidama, for example. We could also have a few things borrowed from the manga, like Super Saiyan Goku Black and making Rosé his version of Blue. They could show Trunks absorbing some God ki through training with Vegeta. This is an excellent opportunity to go back and better explain some of the weird things from the original anime, and in general just try to make the story easier to follow.

I definitely wasn't one of these, if there were people who thought they were going to make drastic changes to the narratives, literal end of the arcs, etc, these people were just unaware about the reality of this project or they have been lied to. I expected at best for them to explore more some of the concepts that Super introduces, because I think both anime and manga bring new ideas and concepts to the DB universe that are way too interesting, but I feel that some of them are just not given enough attention or not noticed by most fans because they either lacked substance throughout the story or were just dismissed (Super anime especially), so following or even improving on stuff the manga presents, so this is what I was expecting, which is what could bring to life the examples you gave that could improve on the original anime, so it suits the purpose of a "enhancement".

SSJ4 is not gonna randomly show up and beat Beerus.

I saw a lot of people expecting this one, but I personally never believed it, at least not physically, I could expect some dialogue, but now not even this I'm expecting anymore, I believe Daima will just be ignored to be honest XD

That also makes me now believe that what they exactly mean, or what they mostly meant with "more faithful to the manga" is actually, like you said (aside from the visuals), the pacing. Remember, one of DB "Z" Kai's main purposes was exactly this, alongside remastering the image, and redoing the voice acting, but especially the pacing being closer to Toriyama's manga. So I believe it's going to be the same with Super Kai, but with reanimated and improved visuals as a contrast to just a resolution improvement and color readjustment. When it comes to narratively being closer to the manga I believe they'll only change, adapt or add what they'll be able to execute using the original Super anime as basis. So I'm personally already discarding stuff like Beerus vs Hakaishins for example. It wasn't even there in the original.

[JulieYBM]

Lol who wants Super Saiyan 4 to beat Beerus? Let's grt that lovely form completely destroyed like all the others were.

Optimistic outlooks have no drawbacks, baby!

[Vegard Aune]

What does streamline mean? Better pacing (bye bye Pilaf Gang filler, BOG went from 10+ episodes to 6)

I would be actually shocked if the Pilaf gang aren't in this, considering that their very existence at all in Battle of Gods was a Toriyama idea and I strongly suspect he's also the main reason they kept coming back. Will they be toned down? Probably. But they are absolutely still gonna be there.

...If they change anything about it I would just want them to actually explain their deal. Battle of Gods explained why they were kids. The manga explained why they were kids. The anime just... brings them in and treats them being kids as if it's something we already know, undermining the idea that the anime is the "main" product.


...I mean I also think said Pilaf gang was infinitely better implemented in the movie than in the arc, both with them having funnier interactions with the rest of the cast in the movie, and with them actually getting involved in the plot albeit in a fairly tertiary fashion. (The hostage situation, which is one of many straws that eventually leads to Beerus snapping + the foreshadowing for Videl being pregnant brought about by Dende noticing something about her while healing her leg. Whereas in the show, the pregnancy reveal comes up with no foreshadowing at the exact point where it's relevant to Goku and not a second earlier.) But I think "Implement Pilaf better into the plot" is absolutely something that goes well beyond the scope of this project.

[SupremeKai25]

What does streamline mean? Better pacing (bye bye Pilaf Gang filler, BOG went from 10+ episodes to 6)

Will they be toned down?

That's what I was arguing. I don't think the Pilaf Gang's mere existence is filler, but they did get a lot of filler scenes in Super. One or two of the early episodes were literally just about the Pilaf Gang. I have vague memories of an entire filler episode about the Pilaf Gang going on a boat or whatever. I remember it was one of the earliest episodes in July 2015, and I was thinking to myself: "When does this start to get interesting?"

If this project gets to the Future Trunks saga though, 99% of the scenes with the Pilaf Gang can be safely removed. Do they even do anything in the manga? Well, let me tell you, in the anime they have a lot of useless scenes that makes rewatching the early section of that arc awful. Episodes 54-58 have a lot of filler scenes that can be removed. The manga pacing is a lot better in that regard.

[Nevaeh]

How "close" can you get to the manga when it comes to BoG and RoF honestly? Both combined are like 4 chapters long

[SupremeKai25]

How "close" can you get to the manga when it comes to BoG and RoF honestly? Both combined are like 4 chapters long

Even the Tournament of Destroyers saga isn't that different in the manga.

Where anime and manga diverge is mostly in the last 2 arcs. I think some things from the manga are likely to be incorporated into this new series, like Goku Black using Super Saiyan, Vegeta using SSG against Goku Black, or Anilaza being fodder who gets taken out by Kale. But other things will probably not be featured because they change the plot too much or they're just way too different from the 2015 series.

Like, there's no world where they replace Goku's badass kamehameha wave vs. Kefla with Gohan off-screening Kefla.

[Vegard Aune]

Like, there's no world where they replace Goku's badass kamehameha wave vs. Kefla with Gohan off-screening Kefla.

Toyotaro's take on the Tournament of Power was like... He had some neat ideas. It could have been interesting. If only he wasn't trying to cram three chapters' worth of development into every chapter. It's such a weird mess sandwiched between the quite solidly paced Future Trunks arc and the manga-original Moro arc which I also think flowed nicely. I guess probably because the TV series had wrapped up by then and someone, perhaps Toyotaro himself or perhaps the higher-ups at Shueisha, wanted the manga to seize on the opportunity to tell its own, new stories?