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

[Miracles]

Ajay has confirmed on Twitter (I'm not calling it "X") that the remake will indeed end after the Champa arc, however, he also said that doesn't mean they won't revisit it once the Moro arc concludes. If I had to guess, I'd say we'll get the Black and TOP remakes between the Moro and Granola arcs, as that way we won't have to worry about any long gaps between Dragon Ball content. Until that happens though, this will be yet another version of Super that's incomplete, and that newcomers will have to jump between different versions to get the full story. As for Moro, that's going to be one of the best looking DB arcs considering it'll be in-production for nearly two years by the time the first episode airs.

Is this something official? Not questioning Ajay cause he could be correct. What is the source?

[angeldreamZ004]

Some people seem to have assumed that they would fully reanimate Super before the Moro arc, but that was never actually confirmed by TOEI.

Indeed Toei never did that and we never got the confirmation for all the posterior arcs (with the exception of Golden Freeza now). But we do have the official confirmation that Beerus is just the first chapter of this new version of Super and that we would be going through “Super” once again.

The first trailer says “SUPER Begins”
The official site says “the anime Dragon Ball Super, based on Akira Toriyama's original work, story, and character design, is set to begin anew as Dragon Ball Super: Beerus!”
Finally, Iyoku said “this is the first episode or the start of "Super", so i wanted to start "Super” once again, or rather, I wanted everyone to see "Super" once again.”

Of course this is open to different interpretations, he can be simply referring to the Beerus arc only, but given how he uses “first episode” and “start” to refer to this arc, also he says "I wanted to start Super once again” instead of “I wanted to make the start of Super once again”, most likely meaning he would be going beyond Beerus and wanted for everyone to specifically see “Super” once again, not the BoG story only. And the only way to revisit “Super” again is by retelling it at least up until the ToP.
That's at least the way I interpret it, I can be wrong. But i think the fact that DBS Frieza is later announced only contributes more to this interpretation that the remake was indeed intended to revisit all of Super.

Also, re-checking what he said, I think a lot of people and myself included forgot about this. Apparently Toriyama did another version of the BoG / Beerus arc, but Iyoku said he decided to stay faithful to the original script. Which, well, I believe he might be referring to the original 2013 Battle of Gods. That explains why God powered SSJ1 Goku is still seen in this remake. Fair enough, my bad, Iyoku.

[The Dark Knight]

Is this something official? Not questioning Ajay cause he could be correct. What is the source?

No one has said anything either way, but considering Ajay's sources, as well as others such as Geekdom also reporting on this, I think it's safe to say it's true. With that said, Geekdom said he'll be giving an update on the story later this week, so hopefully he can shed more light on what's going on.

[Cold Skin]

It seems entirely possible for me that with the head start they have (3 first arcs well on their way) and only 2 arcs to deal with after that (for those that were originally aired), they could have been like "we can stop a little and focus on Moro for a while to make sure - with all hands on deck - that we really have a great handle on the start of the Moro arc and the general direction and quality before we continue with the separate teams".

Sort of like "you're really ahead of schedule, guys! No need to rush, come and help us having a max quality start with the Moro arc as the guiding line for the rest, you can go back to the remasters in three months from now and you'll still be way ahead of time."

Still leaves me wondering about incorporating the Broly story. It needs full reanimation and even though it's been suggested here that they can cut the movie into episodes and add small things in-between scenes, I don't think WB or whatever movie rightholders would be okay with giving the movie "for free" to viewers/buyers and that's potentially why they also needed to do BOG and ROF from scratch rather than taking the movie footage and adding extra scenes in-between and cutting it all in 20-minutes episodes.

I think just like for the first two movies, they need to fully reanimate Broly if they want to incorporate it, but that's impossible, all "brand new animation" stuff logically goes to Moro only, the previous arcs are supposed to be just a remaster requiring a limited team to shorten and correct things.
But hey, maybe they'll just allow ONE ARC to be skipped out of conveniency, the Broly one, with the manga bonus scene showing Goku who explains everything that happened with Broly being deemed enough.

Either way, I'm already happy to get whatever they are willing to "redo correctly" for us! I'd like as many arcs as possibly to be redone properly under the "Dragon Ball Super Blue" label, but I'll already be glad we're getting several arcs updated to be clearly acceptable this time!

[JulieYBM]

They either planned ahead to not re-edit every arc, or they changed their minds about re-editing every arc just recently, which would be even weirder. Either way, it's part and parcel of the entire project: if they were taking things seriously, they wouldn't have cannabalized the 2015 series to make the 2026 series just to save time and money when they could have just planned ahead and adapted those arcs from scratch, using Shintani Naohiro's character designs.

Like, dang girl. You might as well have just been patient and waited for, like, 2030, which would have been the fifteenth anniversary. God knows you didn't make the ten anniversary last year lol

[The Dark Knight]

Geekdom just posted another video with a slight update: what's going on in regards to these two arcs isn't exactly set in stone. He believes what may be going on (this is speculation on his part) is that as a result of all the big name animators already contributing so much to the arcs during their initial run, there's no reason to keep them on board for the remakes. He thinks that the remakes will indeed happen, just that they might be worked on by a smaller team as a result of their quality being better than the first three arcs.

My thoughts: I'm leaning towards this theory, although I'll wait for Ajay to comment on this before I 100% side with it. As far as I can remember, all the fights in the Black arc were well animated and choreographed, so all that's needed there is touch ups on the art side of things and reducing the episode count. As far as the tournament is concerned, both art and animation were consistent for the most part, so that require even less people to work on it, as the vast majority of work would focus on bringing the episode count down.

[JulieYBM]

I think it's less a case of those later arcs being 'well animated and choreographed' and more a case of them being 'less offensive' and receiving less social media backlash in comparison to the first two arcs. Goodness forbid I have high standards, but I would posit that the Gokuu Black and Tournament of Power arcs, being the more creatively exciting stories, deserve far, far better directing and animation than they received in the 2010s. I remember recently re-watching Gokuu and Gohan's fight during the recruitment episodes of the Tournament of Power arc and being quite heartbroken that such a meticulously set up character moment looked like complete dogshit that everyone working on deserved better support from Toei Animation for. I think that if you're going to ask artists to lend their craft to your money-making scheme, you at least have the responsibility to support the poor fuckers.

Blah, blah, blah, ten years too late, blah, blah, blah, do better next time

[angeldreamZ004]

I agree. And that's exactly why I believe that they won't be making drastic changes to the story of the original anime to make it closer to the manga. I mean, the stuff exclusive to the manga, SSJGod in Champa and Zamasu arcs, SSJ Goku Black, etc. Maybe those could be included by redrawing over the original frames, changing the colors, etc. Maybe… But the more original stuff? Gohan vs Kefla, Mirai Trunks training with Kaioshin, Beerus vs Hakaishins, Goten & Trunks vs Cell Juniors? I think we can forget about those, it would demand them much more work as they don't have the original Super as basis for these moments.
The idea is to enhance the original Super anime as it has the “same status” as the manga, but with the complete Beerus arc told + The Golden Freeza arc which is absent in the manga. Making it the “definitive Super” as they intend to tell all the stories under the “Super” brand through consistent format using a unique media of serialization, which is the anime, but the original anime ended and 2 movies got in the way.

So fans would need to watch an anime that was poorly made most of the time, go through the filler, finish it then jump into a movie (Broly), then watch Moro, then wait for Granola, then after Granola, jump into another movie (Super Hero), which would make people very confused.

They don't want this, so they need the remake first before going to Moro. And of course, would demand them a lot of time to redo everything especially from scratch, without Yamamuro, etc.
So they preferred to use the original Super anime as the basis and improve it.
So the only thing they need to do is re-editing the arcs, redraw and reanimate what looked bad, make it comprehensive and shorter, that's all.
It's at least the way I see it.

As for Broly, that's the part of the story I'm very curious to see if they are really going to include it, or not, leaving it as the only Super story that is untouched, unadapted, stuck in a unique format (Movie).
Just re-editing the movie would be the easiest thing to do as they would probably need to just improve very few things here and there such as the CGI parts, they wouldn't even need to include the extended script from Toriyama, I saw a lot of people waiting for that, but that's not the ideal if the retold arcs are supposed to be straightforward.

But when it comes to movies, there's very likely internal rules that prevent them from doing that, and the Beerus arc seemingly not featuring any footage from the 2013 movie so far shows that.
And like Cold Skin said, it's very likely a problem with the international distributors, which also forced the 2015 anime retellings to be remade from scratch.
So I do believe we're getting Zamasu and ToP arcs, but very skeptical about the Broly arc, unless they stop everything they are doing with Moro, bring everyone to work on Broly. Maybe if they made it the shortest arc, like, 3 or 4 episodes only.

(I even thought about something fun in regards to the visual. They could redo the “Past” part in the Yamamuro style, then, when changing to the “Present” part, they switch to the Shintani style seen in the Moro arc haha)

If I had to bet by percentage
I'm 95% sure we're getting the Zamasu and ToP arcs
60% sure they'll be released before Moro
5% sure the Broly story will be remade

[The Dark Knight]

I still think they'll find a way to cut the Broly movie into 5 individual episodes, with maybe a handful of new scenes to help begin and end each episode. I know the argument against this is them not doing this with BOG and RF, but keep in mind that was 11 years ago, and things have changed drastically since then. If they still can't do this for whatever reason, then I believe they'll just leave the movie as is, as remaking it from the ground up in the same or similar quality will take way too much time and resources.

[super michael]

If I was a new person to watch Dragon Ball Super, I think the remake would be confusing if it does BoG, RoF and Champa Saga and then skip to the Moro and Granolah Saga. Then later on return to the saga that they skipped.

I think it would have been better to do all the saga in order, without skipping even if that means it takes longer to make the Moro and Granolah part of the story.

[Vegard Aune]

You know, assuming that "making one single more approachable version of the story that's more stylistically consistent and high-quality" were indeed the goal here (which, I think that's more of a happy side-effect if anything) then... Broly needs not be touched. It already looks phenomenal, Shintani is presumably coming back for Moro which means the designs and overall aesthetic will likely be similar, and the movie takes a pretty broad strokes approach to the stuff that came before to where I don't think there are any continuity hiccups to worry about. So while doing the arcs out of order would still be weird, if they do go back and remaster Future Trunks and Universe Survival later then you would still have a fairly straight-forward viewing order in the end of
-Remastered Super
-The Broly movie
-The Galactic Patrol

...This would be less easy to justify with Super Hero though owing to its completely different style.

[The Dark Knight]

You know, assuming that "making one single more approachable version of the story that's more stylistically consistent and high-quality" were indeed the goal here (which, I think that's more of a happy side-effect if anything) then... Broly needs not be touched. It already looks phenomenal, Shintani is presumably coming back for Moro which means the designs and overall aesthetic will likely be similar, and the movie takes a pretty broad strokes approach to the stuff that came before to where I don't think there are any continuity hiccups to worry about. So while doing the arcs out of order would still be weird, if they do go back and remaster Future Trunks and Universe Survival later then you would still have a fairly straight-forward viewing order in the end of
-Remastered Super
-The Broly movie
-The Galactic Patrol

...This would be less easy to justify with Super Hero though owing to its completely different style.

Considering it being animated in 3D, having 4 prequel chapters, as well as an epilogue chapter, I full expect it to get remade from the ground up in the same style as Moro and Granola.

[Vegard Aune]

Considering it being animated in 3D, having 4 prequel chapters, as well as an epilogue chapter, I full expect it to get remade from the ground up in the same style as Moro and Granola.

I would very much like for them to reanimate Super Hero for this, yeah. It's specifically Broly that strikes me as being entirely redundant. The movie already even follows the same title format as the remaster and new arc, being "Dragon Ball Super: [SUBJECT MATTER]".

[super michael]

DBS Super Hero needs a new version, there are some lines that needs to be changed compared to the movie version. They should make the remake version similar to the manga version instead.

[angeldreamZ004]

The only reason I would like to see the Broly arc is because if they really want to go through all Super stories in this new animated serialization, then they would need to tell it as well, it would allow this new Super anime to feel even more complete as a contrast to Super's manga, which lacks not only Broly but also the Golden Freeza arc.
But in case they really end up skipping it, then I'll be satisfied with having only the movie as well, it's just one story, and a very short one, so I think we can accept it.

After all, Super is not the only one to do this. We never really got a Dragon Ball that was completely understandable from A to Z. There was always at least one story that was stuck somewhere in comparison to the rest of the series.

-Kai almost covers the entirety of the "second half” of the original DB, but lacks the Trunks and Bardock specials, and of course, the first half of the story. Forcing you to watch the old first Dragon Ball anime and the two DBZ TV specials.

-The original first two anime series, despite being very complete, you have to watch at least one Movie to understand the full story, which is the Garlic Jr. movie.

-And Toriyama's manga, despite being the most consistent and complete Dragon Ball, also has stories that are omitted or even are “out of chronological order”. Toei's Bardock is referenced in his manga, pretty much "telling" you to watch the first TV special, as it's the only way to see that story. The Trunks story, despite being present in the manga, was released when the Androids weren't even a threat anymore, and we already knew what was going to happen. Unlike the Bardock special which, despite taking place in the past, was perfectly released at a point of the Freeza saga where Goku still wasn't fighting Freeza in both the anime and the manga, so we didn't know what was going to happen.

The Super manga kinda has a prequel to it, which is the Jaco manga. It never got an animated adaptation, maybe because they chose to make Daima the prequel to Super in the animated serialization.

Back to Broly, I think you could also add the fact that internationally, it's called “The Movie Dragon Ball Super Broly”, as a possible reason for it to not be adapted into an arc. The other movies do not include this in their titles in any release, so they view that movie in a different way.

And as Vegard Aune pointed out, the title for the movie already follows an idea that is identical to what the “New Super” arcs will be following, DBS + Subject Matter (we see mostly a Character Name). Though the Moro arc already tells us that it's not necessarily just the name of a character that will be used. So maybe the Broly arc adaptation, given its story, could be called something like “Dragon Ball Super Saiyans” (A pun with SSJ lol).
The Super Hero saga will have to be renamed obviously, it can't be called just DBS Super Hero like the movie did, and the manga adaptation received the same title. So maybe “Dragon Ball Super Red Ribbon”

[Yuji]

They're using the same voice lines as the OG Super, right? From the trailer, it seems the exact same takes as the ones in the original episodes

[Koitsukai]

If I understand correctly, skipping the Black and Jiren arcs applies only to the remake, not to the order in which the arcs will air.
Those two arcs aren’t a complete trainwreck, they aren't fantastic either, but I don’t really think they need to be remade. From a financial standpoint, it would be unnecessary.

I’d like to think we’ll see Beerus, RoF, and Champa retouched (not redrawn or retold), followed by the original Black and ToP arcs (perhaps slightly retouched or even abridged, especially between arcs, after they are done with Moro) and then Moro.

[The Dark Knight]

They're using the same voice lines as the OG Super, right? From the trailer, it seems the exact same takes as the ones in the original episodes

My understanding is that it will reuse the same recorded lines, unless there's a new scene that requires new dialogue to be recorded. Beerus waking up for example wasn't in Super 1.0, so any dialogue there will be completely new.

[JulieYBM]

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and assume that Yanami Jouji's lines will not be used for this series.

[angeldreamZ004]

It's vague in regards to both, it's not said that they will be skipped nor if they'll be made but released out of order, both Ajay and Geekdom pretty much gave the same info. Ajay said that the remake won't go beyond the Champa arc because everyone in the production has completely moved over to Moro and the focus will be 100% on that arc. While Geekdom said that the idea now is to release Beerus, Golden Freeza and Champa arcs but not enhance the Zamasu and ToP arcs because they're now focused on the creation of the Moro arc.

Both of them said that this doesn't mean they won't be enhancing those arcs in the future, but that it won't go beyond the Champa arc at this point where the priority changed.

I understand why they say this, given how, whoever their sources are, are not talking about the future of the remake, but it's current state, so saying if the Zamasu and ToP arcs are going to be made or not, and if they are made, they'll release them before or after Moro is pure speculation.

In summary: The project in the works now is DBS: TGP, and not DBS: Zamasu / ToP.

I really don't think they'll just air a trimmed version of the original Black and ToP arcs after the Champa arc. For me it's more likely that we'll get a re-release of the Broly movie before the Moro arc starts.

Also from a financial standpoint, I actually think then that reworking the Beerus, Golden Freeza and Champa arcs make even less sense, as those are the arcs from the 2015 Super anime that had the worst quality. Episode 5 and The Golden Freeza arc especially, definitely demanded them a lot of work. This compared to the Zamasu and ToP arcs, I think those two arcs would demand less effort from them, it's starting from the Zamasu arc where Super started to slowly improve visually, until we arrived on the ToP with amazing scenes that they can very well just keep intact. So remaking Zamasu and ToP only would literally save more money, lol, I didn't think about this before.

I don't remember the original Super voice lines to compare, but I tried to check at least the “Hakaishin is very scary” line, and indeed, It sounds exactly the same as the one from 2015 at least to my ears. So they are definitely reusing the old recordings. Now if it's only a partial or complete reuse, we can't tell. But if this remake includes new scenes, then they''ll have to insert new recordings. Unless the new scenes somehow were made to feature specific dialogue that were already present in the original.
I don't know about Beerus sleeping because maybe it could be from the Golden Freeza prequel episodes, but I don't remember.