Dragon Ball Super: Beerus - Episode 6 - Official Discussion Thread

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General Discussion for Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Episode 6, aired 15 November 2026

神と神
Kami to Kami
Battle of Gods

Note that the above episode title English translation is transcribed directly from the official simulcast subtitle translation. In several cases across the span of this series (but not necessarily all), a respective/equivalent Kanzenshuu translation may be different. For example, in this specific case, the episode title is the same setup as the 2013 theatrical film: the Japanese text has a very simple literal meaning of "God and God" while the accompanying English text alongside it was a separate title with a separate meaning of "Battle of Gods".

Synopsis:
TBD

[Chuquita]

+The princess-catch lived.
-The scene was partly shortened.
+But it lived.

Good episode.

Everything else was fine. No other complaints from me.

-Not looking forward to them likely skipping all the fun training camp stuff so they can immediately jump into boring F episodes, but serious business is supposedly what this edit of Super is about.

[Kenji]

Not sure if it's because I legitimately enjoyed my time, or because everything that came before was that bad, but I thought this was a good episode. Almost makes you forget about the 5 atrocities that preceded it. Almost...

Well, this was certainly a story that has certainly existed in this franchise. The usual themes of Dragon Ball are present: There's always someone stronger, Goku influences people positively, you should always strive to surpass your own limits... Still, none of this is remotely new or interesting. It looks pretty and has well-animated fights, so there's that, at least. Not my thing, but there's a public for it, so... (shrugs)

The movie is a better go-to in my eyes, because it's not focused on pleasing just one subset of the fandom.
Hopefully RoF and Champa will be better, though I'm not holding my breath.

[goku the krump dancer]

Not sure if it's because I legitimately enjoyed my time, or because everything that came before was that bad, but I thought this was a good episode..

Yeah I feel the same way, I felt like I watched an actual episode and not a passionless commercial that somehow went by too fast but took too long at the same time lol there was actual energy behind what was going on. When Goku and Beerus were fight under the water I said to myself, “wow I think I can watch more of this”.

Overall I like how this was told as more of a glorified training session by Beerus for Goku, it leans pretty neatly into every interaction that have moving forward from here.

Funny enough though the discourse on other platforms is more about whether or not Goku and I guess by extension Beerus got “nerfed” because of the omission of the “universal punches” .. some folks are losing there minds over it, when it shouldn’t be that serious.

[Noah]

Another okay episode.

• They kept the line about Goku absorbing the SSJ God powers into his base form, which caused a massive headache for power scalers back in 2015. Honestly, maybe the best thing about Toyotaro's manga is that this isn't a thing there.

• If I already thought Goku was a genius for suppressing his SSJ Blue power while sparring with Krillin and 18, imagine Beerus taking hits on purpose and pretending to feel pain while using 0.00001% of his max power.

• Considering this is (hopefully) the last time Battle of Gods gets retold, yet they couldn't even take the opportunity to use tracks from the actual movie.

• The subs said Beerus confessed to regretting getting obsessed over the SSJ God dream. If he meant it in the sense that SSJG wasn't all that impressive, I would've loved it, but they kept his line with Whis on the way back about lying just to push Goku to his limits.

• The NEP shows we're finally entering the RoF arc next episode. I gotta admit I'm way more hyped for this one since it has much more room for improvement than BoG.

[Lord Beerus]

Yeah... just watch the Battle Of Gods movie instead. There's really nothing to see here. That may sound harsh, but this arc just did nothing for me. It may have been shorter than the Super (2015) retelling of the Battle Of Gods movie, but it was by no means better than the original retelling, besides just some visual touch-ups.

I don't have any hope for Resurrection F, unless it gets a complete rewrite.

[DestructoDisc]

Best ep since ep 2. Everything looked great (not Daima level or anything, but far better than the original), and I'm glad they kept the talk between Gohan and Goku, I was afraid they will cut it out but they didn't.

Overall I still wouldn't recommend this over the movie or even the original. At most i'd say skip ep 5 of the original and watch ep 2 of this remake instead of it.

Next up, Freeza time. Will that also be 6 episodes? Who knows. I just hope they will keep Ginyu and the Future Trunks reference, everything else I couldn't care for. But seeing Vegeta in his grey armor again will be great, best Vegeta look imo, sucks how much hate its been getting online recently despite how popular it used to be a few years ago.

[kiarasuraru]

They actually kept God in base lmaaaaaaaaaoooooooooo, like, I'm not even a powerscaler or anything but good lord how do you leave this of all things still in?

This thing might really be one of the most pointless things ever in history. Practically zero positives narrative-wise.

Well, if this is the future and a sign of things to come and a prime example of how they will be handled forward, boy, it's not a bright looking one at all. What a shame.