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.