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

[Skar]

They said the remake was in development before Toriyama passed away. It might not be until 2028 or whenever the SH arc gets adapted that we get something new with no involvement from Toriyama. I still feel the revival has been winding down with less frequent releases since the anime ended. They might only be concluding the era involving by Toriyama than intending for it to be a new long running era that probably everyone knows won't perform as well without him.

[JulieYBM]

The production committee is taking more time to approve projects because doing so requires more planning now. The long-running anime is increasingly no longer a thing because the productions committees can spread a series out over a longer period of time while maintaining profits and animation studios are so booked that unless a production studios schedules when they want to have a new project releasing it will take even more time to produce projects.

During the production of the 2015 series and the beginning of Dragon Ball Super: Broly in 2017, it's pretty apparent that they decided to focus on smaller projects to maintain quality and oversight, while still being able to sell a new project every so often. I imagine this was done so that Toriyama wouldn't complain about the quality of the anime again.

The problem with that is that Toriyama doesn't know anything about anime and the actual good parts of the 2015 series are getting ignored, instead of letting Toriyama work with one of the writers from it, like Tomioka Atsuhiro, to better flesh out his ideas and bridge the gap between Super 2015, Broly, Super Hero and Daima.

[angeldreamZ004]

They said the remake was in development before Toriyama passed away.

Does this refer to the start of production as well? Because I don't believe that just because Toriyama was involved means production started before his death. For them to still be in the Champa arc seems very strange to me, I believe production started at the beginning of 2025 at the earliest.

They might only be concluding the era involving by Toriyama than intending for it to be a new long running era that probably everyone knows won't perform as well without him.

Akio Iyoku said we would have 10 years of content. That means we would have to wait at least until the 8th year (2031) to see 100% new stuff made without Toriyama from the animation side.

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

The production committee is taking more time to approve projects because doing so requires more planning now. The long-running anime is increasingly no longer a thing because the productions committees can spread a series out over a longer period of time while maintaining profits and animation studios are so booked that unless a production studios schedules when they want to have a new project releasing it will take even more time to produce projects.

During the production of the 2015 series and the beginning of Dragon Ball Super: Broly in 2017, it's pretty apparent that they decided to focus on smaller projects to maintain quality and oversight, while still being able to sell a new project every so often. I imagine this was done so that Toriyama wouldn't complain about the quality of the anime again.

The problem with that is that Toriyama doesn't know anything about anime and the actual good parts of the 2015 series are getting ignored, instead of letting Toriyama work with one of the writers from it, like Tomioka Atsuhiro, to better flesh out his ideas and bridge the gap between Super 2015, Broly, Super Hero and Daima.

This doesn’t need to be a thing, though. It just means they are just not willing to get out of the comfort zone and try again. Many of the past long-running anime had been successful without major issues is pretty evident that it can still be pulled off with success. What happened in 2015 doesn’t need to dictate the future. With proper planning in place, a long-running series can look great.

The Moro and Granolah arcs need to be made with long-running series in mind. I have seen you push for a shorter series many times. While that would mean a higher quality, it doesn’t mean it’s a good thing. Dragon Ball isn’t a short series franchise. If I am in a production committee, I would push to make new Super arcs and the future iterations a long-running series with side stories as limited series here and there.

[Basaku]

They said the remake was in development before Toriyama passed away. It might not be until 2028 or whenever the SH arc gets adapted that we get something new with no involvement from Toriyama. I still feel the revival has been winding down with less frequent releases since the anime ended. They might only be concluding the era involving by Toriyama than intending for it to be a new long running era that probably everyone knows won't perform as well without him.

Between remaking all of Super1 (in one batch or multiple), adapting Broly, Moro, Granolah and SuperHero stuff into anime format AND whatever Black Freeza saga is (which can still be easily sold on Toriyama's name), they have easy 10 more years of content to stretch and milk. I don't think they need to worry yet. The obvious big question "now what?" will happen when they finish the Black Freeza stuff (manga and anime-wise), reach EOZ and start wondering how can they produce something new post-EOZ that would be better than GT while the fans won't believe anymore that Toriyama was involved in planning

[JulieYBM]

The production committee is taking more time to approve projects because doing so requires more planning now. The long-running anime is increasingly no longer a thing because the productions committees can spread a series out over a longer period of time while maintaining profits and animation studios are so booked that unless a production studios schedules when they want to have a new project releasing it will take even more time to produce projects.

During the production of the 2015 series and the beginning of Dragon Ball Super: Broly in 2017, it's pretty apparent that they decided to focus on smaller projects to maintain quality and oversight, while still being able to sell a new project every so often. I imagine this was done so that Toriyama wouldn't complain about the quality of the anime again.

The problem with that is that Toriyama doesn't know anything about anime and the actual good parts of the 2015 series are getting ignored, instead of letting Toriyama work with one of the writers from it, like Tomioka Atsuhiro, to better flesh out his ideas and bridge the gap between Super 2015, Broly, Super Hero and Daima.

This doesn’t need to be a thing, though. It just means they are just not willing to get out of the comfort zone and try again. Many of the past long-running anime had been successful without major issues is pretty evident that it can still be pulled off with success. What happened in 2015 doesn’t need to dictate the future. With proper planning in place, a long-running series can look great.

The Moro and Granolah arcs need to be made with long-running series in mind. I have seen you push for a shorter series many times. While that would mean a higher quality, it doesn’t mean it’s a good thing. Dragon Ball isn’t a short series franchise. If I am in a production committee, I would push to make new Super arcs and the future iterations a long-running series with side stories as limited series here and there.

What is 'short', though? Four episodes? Thirteen episodes? Twenty-six episodes? Twenty-six episodes is six months of watching something, that's quite a bit of time! The anime industry is no longer just putting out 48-52 unambitious episodes a year because these projects are increasingly targeting an audience with increasingly higher standards for directing and animation. The industry changed, it happens!

If the plan for these projects is to follow the story outlines provided by Toriyama and not to create character arcs that Toriyama would not, there is no point in making a storyline spread itself out over two, three or four cours. We don't know how long the outlines for the Moro Granolah arcs were, nor do we know if the manga adaptions will be used as a starting point for the animated adaption. Even if it was, those arcs do not need to be adapted at only 1-1.5 chapters per episode. There are more technically and emotionally effective ways of telling the story told by the Dragon Ball Super comic.

Like, I keep advocating for shorter adaptions because I don't just regurgitate the same three hundred episode shounen anime for my media diet. I don't just eat shit cooked to forever stay behind the story of the concurrently running original comic. Experiences influence how we view art, we do not need to keep playing to the same rule book—especially when the project is not driven by a creative figure that actually has free reign to design these projects to work in long-running formats.

Say all the shit you (general) will about Yuyama Kunihiko, but letting him do whatever he wanted as chief director meant he could design the Pocket Monsters anime to properly work as a infinite cour series because it had original, episodic stories that were not trying to follow the plot of a weekly comic baked directly into the design of the series. You ain't getting that unless a completely original series separate from Toriyama's story outlines is made.

I also just don't want to sit through two cours dedicated to the Moro arc where it's nothing but meaningless fighting because the series isn't allowed to be well-written, it's only allowed to follow Toriyama's outline. I don't need to see Gohan, Piccolo and the other Earthlings all fighting Moro and his minions in another "getting the band back together to play the greatest hits" yet again. There's no story arc there, there's no character shit that is actually happening, and it has nothing to do with the main thrust of the arc as has been established up to that point already.

What the fuck was even the point of this post again? Bad things are bad and we should let creators make good things? Yeah, sure, right. The problem with that is you can do good things in a lot of different ways and one isn't necessarily better than the other. Voila.

[kiarasuraru]

I'm looking forward to the Dragon Ball Manga By Akira Toriyama™ Anime Remake in 2050.
Maybe after that happens they will make a Dragon Ball Super Re-Remake By Akira Toriyama The Real Closest to Toriyama™ For Reals This Time. Finally, we will have a Super that is not all schizo. Watch Toei have another Toei moment though.
Getting to watch Beerus be made aga-ga-gain in my fifties? Now that's the life.
Maybe our reincarnations in 2150 will get to watch Super Super made not by Toei and that'll finally be the one?

[super michael]

The only reason filler existed was so the anime doesn't pass the manga. By having filler that made the episode longer and needed to create more episode than they need, the other solution is the anime create their own unique story such as FullMetal Alchemist which is nothing like the manga if they don't want to wait for the manga.

An example which an anime took filler to an extreme was Naruto, even when there was the Boruto movie, the Naruto anime was still in filler mode. So people that didn't read the manga, the movie would be spoilers for them.

By taking breaks the anime, that means they don't need to rely on filler like they used to in the past. This puts less pressure on the manga writer and the anime can produce higher quality animation and story.

[JulieYBM]

I'm looking forward to the Dragon Ball Manga By Akira Toriyama™ Anime Remake in 2050.
Maybe after that happens they will make a Dragon Ball Super Re-Remake By Akira Toriyama The Real Closest to Toriyama™ For Reals This Time. Finally, we will have a Super that is not all schizo. Watch Toei have another Toei moment though.
Getting to watch Beerus be made aga-ga-gain in my fifties? Now that's the life.
Maybe our reincarnations in 2150 will get to watch Super Super made not by Toei and that'll finally be the one?

2050 would the 65th anniversary, so they'd more likely do a 60th anniversary in 2045 instead, or a Daima 25th anniversary instead.

[Skar]

Does this refer to the start of production as well? Because I don't believe that just because Toriyama was involved means production started before his death. For them to still be in the Champa arc seems very strange to me, I believe production started at the beginning of 2025 at the earliest.

I think they only meant planning or initial concept of a remake that's more faithful to his outlines started while Toriyama was still alive. If they're still working on it I don't think any production could've started that early.

Akio Iyoku said we would have 10 years of content. That means we would have to wait at least until the 8th year (2031) to see 100% new stuff made without Toriyama from the animation side.

I think 10 years of content is for the overall franchise including video games which is why we had a few new games announced with the remake. If we're just considering animation then I guess it might not be until 2030 or 2031 that the remake covers the SH arc and we finally see what they have planned next. I just mean it could be a final arc to close out this revival rather than a new era of several new arcs with no involvement from Toriyama replacing GT.

[Mister_Popo]

I'm looking forward to the Dragon Ball Manga By Akira Toriyama™ Anime Remake in 2050.
Maybe after that happens they will make a Dragon Ball Super Re-Remake By Akira Toriyama The Real Closest to Toriyama™ For Reals This Time. Finally, we will have a Super that is not all schizo. Watch Toei have another Toei moment though.
Getting to watch Beerus be made aga-ga-gain in my fifties? Now that's the life.
Maybe our reincarnations in 2150 will get to watch Super Super made not by Toei and that'll finally be the one?

I’m afraid the announced concept “Dragon Ball Super Re-Remake By Akira Toriyama – The Real Closest to Toriyama” is a bit of a marketing gimmick. Toriyama’s name sells the Dragon Ball series as a product. It feels a bit like buying a pig in a poke when you consider that the Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods movie was the version Toriyama was most directly involved in, while the 2015 Dragon Ball Super remake mainly consisted of additions and expansions by Toei Animation. What we’re essentially getting is a condensed version of that remake rather than BOG itself—effectively a remake of a remake, and not necessarily any closer to Akira Toriyama’s original vision.

Some people seem to hope that the arcs will be shortened with the primary goal of improving and rewriting the story. Personally, I think the main objective is the remastering process itself. It’s simply more cost-efficient to remaster 6 episodes than 14, and that likely applies to the rest of Super as well. If they end up remastering the rest of the series and shortening arcs like the Future Trunks arc and the Tournament of Power, it will probably be done mainly to keep the remastering process manageable rather than to significantly improve the narrative.

I don’t expect the story to be fundamentally rewritten, nor do I anticipate major changes to key plot points or character portrayals. Most of it will likely remain based on Super version 1.0. Akira Toriyama only provided basic scripts for the Future Trunks and Tournament of Power arcs, so there isn’t really an “ultimate” Toriyama version to fall back on.

For Dragon Ball Super: Broly, he did write additional material that was never used in the film, but it remains to be seen whether they’ll adapt that into an anime format.

[JulieYBM]

Slapping the mangaka's name on a project and saying that they helped (usually with designs or on the script) is an unfortunate gimmick that began taking off after One Piece Film: Strong World was so financially successful compared to the previous films, which did not attempt this. It's a real shame, because taking the creative thrust out of the hands of actual directors and writers, instead of inspiring them to make art without considering marketability so much would be far better an option. The mangaka had their comic, let them work there. If they want to make anime, learn how anime is made and get some experience so that you can do it yourself.

[kiarasuraru]

I’m afraid the announced concept “Dragon Ball Super Re-Remake By Akira Toriyama – The Real Closest to Toriyama” is a bit of a marketing gimmick.

That's the joke.

Slapping the mangaka's name on a project and saying that they helped (usually with designs or on the script) is an unfortunate gimmick that began taking off after One Piece Film: Strong World was so financially successful compared to the previous films, which did not attempt this. It's a real shame, because taking the creative thrust out of the hands of actual directors and writers, instead of inspiring them to make art without considering marketability so much would be far better an option. The mangaka had their comic, let them work there. If they want to make anime, learn how anime is made and get some experience so that you can do it yourself.

Red and Infinity Castle and their consequences have been a disaster for the anime industry.

[JulieYBM]

I’m afraid the announced concept “Dragon Ball Super Re-Remake By Akira Toriyama – The Real Closest to Toriyama” is a bit of a marketing gimmick.

That's the joke.

Slapping the mangaka's name on a project and saying that they helped (usually with designs or on the script) is an unfortunate gimmick that began taking off after One Piece Film: Strong World was so financially successful compared to the previous films, which did not attempt this. It's a real shame, because taking the creative thrust out of the hands of actual directors and writers, instead of inspiring them to make art without considering marketability so much would be far better an option. The mangaka had their comic, let them work there. If they want to make anime, learn how anime is made and get some experience so that you can do it yourself.

Red and Infinity Castle and their consequences have been a disaster for the anime industry.

Pretty much, yeah. I know that I watched One Piece Film Red, but good lord, I don't remember it at all. Putting aside the bad directing and animation, the story is constructed to be so, so inoffensive so as to feasibly work within the continuity of the original comic or animated series or whatever. The movies should be a way to show off weird shit you can't do in the series. Let them be their own thing so that the staff can go all-out and let their proverbial freak flags fly. Yamauchi Shigeyasu's Digimon Adventure 02 film was so fun specifically because it didn't hold back in that regard, save for being not super inappropriate for kids.

I haven't seen Infinity Castle yet and I'm stuck part way through the third season of the TV series in large part because Kimetsu no Yaiba fucking sucks and I am too much of a grown ass woman to lower my standards any longer lol

[Skar]

Some people seem to hope that the arcs will be shortened with the primary goal of improving and rewriting the story. Personally, I think the main objective is the remastering process itself. It’s simply more cost-efficient to remaster 6 episodes than 14, and that likely applies to the rest of Super as well. If they end up remastering the rest of the series and shortening arcs like the Future Trunks arc and the Tournament of Power, it will probably be done mainly to keep the remastering process manageable rather than to significantly improve the narrative.

The way I understood it is that the remake is just a remaster and more faithful to Toriyama's outlines. The outlines weren't complete scripts so more faithful here means reducing anime only scenes that didn't move the story forward. By default it would end up being shorter just from doing that. I don't expect any major rewrites and still going to be the same general story.

One criticism of the anime compared to the movies was that it felt like it was written by a committee or suffered from too many cooks in the kitchen being rushed than the vision of one writer. Maybe this is an attempt to improve that. There's likely still going to be anime only scenes but probably just to connect bullet points in those outlines rather than plot threads, characterization, and extra scenes that were never part of it originally.

[JulieYBM]

Some people seem to hope that the arcs will be shortened with the primary goal of improving and rewriting the story. Personally, I think the main objective is the remastering process itself. It’s simply more cost-efficient to remaster 6 episodes than 14, and that likely applies to the rest of Super as well. If they end up remastering the rest of the series and shortening arcs like the Future Trunks arc and the Tournament of Power, it will probably be done mainly to keep the remastering process manageable rather than to significantly improve the narrative.

The way I understood it is that the remake is just a remaster and more faithful to Toriyama's outlines. The outlines weren't complete scripts so more faithful here means reducing anime only scenes that didn't move the story forward. By default it would end up being shorter just from doing that. I don't expect any major rewrites and still going to be the same general story.

One criticism of the anime compared to the movies was that it felt like it was written by a committee or suffered from too many cooks in the kitchen being rushed than the vision of one writer. Maybe this is an attempt to improve that. There's likely still going to be anime only scenes but probably just to connect bullet points in those outlines rather than plot threads, characterization, and extra scenes that were never part of it originally.

Generally-speaking, longer-running anime have multiple writers with their own quirks and characters that they tend to focus on, so it's not necessary to have only one writer. The issue was definitely a lack of time to establish what the series was going to be. There was no credited series composer and Series Director Chioka Masatoshi wasn't credited for storyboarding or directing any of the episodes or Openings and Endings. We also know that there was interference from a certain someone who was high-up at Toei Animation, which led to even more delays.

I am curious as to who is going to be writing the scripts for the Enhanced Edition, though. One Piece's re-edited Fish-Man Island arc only used one writer for ever episode: Toyoda Momoko. I suspect that Dragon Ball Super: Beerus will be the same, given that it's only six episodes long.

[Skar]

Generally-speaking, longer-running anime have multiple writers with their own quirks and characters that they tend to focus on, so it's not necessary to have only one writer. The issue was definitely a lack of time to establish what the series was going to be. There was no credited series composer and Series Director Chioka Masatoshi wasn't credited for storyboarding or directing any of the episodes or Openings and Endings. We also know that there was interference from a certain someone who was high-up at Toei Animation, which led to even more delays.

I assume those issues were the anime being rushed. I think the remake will be an improvement just by being more focused and having fewer episodes so less to keep track of between writers. Every fan recut that attempted it was an improvement in my opinion and that was only with the existing animation.

[JulieYBM]

Generally-speaking, longer-running anime have multiple writers with their own quirks and characters that they tend to focus on, so it's not necessary to have only one writer. The issue was definitely a lack of time to establish what the series was going to be. There was no credited series composer and Series Director Chioka Masatoshi wasn't credited for storyboarding or directing any of the episodes or Openings and Endings. We also know that there was interference from a certain someone who was high-up at Toei Animation, which led to even more delays.

I assume those issues were the anime being rushed. I think the remake will be an improvement just by being more focused and having fewer episodes so less to keep track of between writers. Every fan recut that attempted it was an improvement in my opinion and that was only with the existing animation.

Yeah, a lack of time was definitely an issue. It's not really clear how the enhanced edition will work past the Beerus arc, but it's going to be increasingly difficult to not include the writing decisions of the previous series' staff unless a ton of things are cut and supplemented with new animation. I think it's a shame to do that, though. There's nothing interesting going to be added simply by trying to follow Toriyama's outlines exactly and without embellishment.

[Skar]

Yeah, a lack of time was definitely an issue. It's not really clear how the enhanced edition will work past the Beerus arc, but it's going to be increasingly difficult to not include the writing decisions of the previous series' staff unless a ton of things are cut and supplemented with new animation. I think it's a shame to do that, though. There's nothing interesting going to be added simply by trying to follow Toriyama's outlines exactly and without embellishment.

I don't think they're going to go that far removing every anime only scene since the outlines aren't a complete story. I'm just going what every fan recut attempts to do. There's still a lot of good anime only scenes left in them and it's just cutting down scenes that only pad the story without adding much, plot thread that doesn't really go anywhere, weird characterization only applied to one writer. Probably no one would miss those types of scenes in any anime that removes them.

[super michael]

There are a lot of scenes and episode that are not needed in DBS, they can easily be cut out without affecting the story. In the ToP they can greatly reduce the amount of time they show characters on the bench an example.


The Monaka episode that can get cut out without affecting anything. Bulma building her time machine in secret, that episode isn't needed at all.