Anime streaming service Daisuki has announced an initiative to provide additional simulcast streams of the Dragon Ball Super television series to an expanded audience, specifically targeting European countries.

Streaming of Action-Packed Fan Favorite “Dragon Ball Super” begins!

TOKYO, JAPAN – October 21, 2016 – International anime streaming site DAISUKI.net will begin simulcasting the popular anime “Dragon Ball Super” soon after the newest episode airs in Japan on October 23 9:00a.m. (JST), October 22 5:00p.m. (PST), and October 23 1:00a.m. (BST), 2016.

Streaming Areas:
Aland Islands, Albania, Antarctica, Ascension Island, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegowina, BQ Bonaire, British Indian Ocean Territory, Bulgaria, Canada, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Croatia (Hrvatska), Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Gambia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Heard and McDonald Islands, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Kiribati, Latvia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Saint Martin (French part), Serbia, Sint Eustatius en Saba, Slovakia (Slovak Republic), Slovenia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Spain, St. Helena, Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, Tokelau, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands (British), Yugoslavia

Languages:
Spain: English, Russian (delay)
Other countries: English, South American Spanish (delay), Russian (delay)

DAISUKI.net, in collaboration with Bandai Namco Entertainment, will have a special “Dragon Ball” campaign for fans, involving “Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2” game! We’ll be announcing details soon, so stay tuned!

■ About “Dragon Ball Super”
“Dragon Ball Super” is a brand new anime series with an original story by original creator Akira Toriyama! The anime begins not long after Goku defeated his greatest enemy yet Majin Buu in a vicious battle and brought back peace to Earth. However, strange incidents begin occurring one after another around Goku and his friends. Not only do they meet God of Destruction Beerus, who has awakened from his long slumber, the warrior once feared as “The Cosmic Emperor” Frieza reemerges to take revenge. To add to the chaos, stars seem to be mysteriously disappearing around the vicinity of Earth. What is happening to the planet?

A promotional video has been made available in support of the upcoming streams. Following the debut of the simulcast this weekend, Daisuki will add episodes 1-46 weekly in batches of ten.

According to a report by Anime News Network, the New Zealand/Australia streaming service AnimeLab (not to be confused with the 1990s VHS fansub group “Anime Labs”) will also provide a simulcast stream.

Toei Animation and Crunchyroll have announced a forthcoming simulcast initiative for the Dragon Ball Super television series. Beginning 22 October 2016 at 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) with episode 63, new episodes of the series will be available each week on the streaming service, with the previous batch of episodes to be added at a later point.

In their announcement, Crunchyroll clarified that “paid and free users” will include, “United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand” while it, “…will also be available to Crunchyroll paid members in Latin America and South Africa.”

Arguably the biggest and most influential anime franchise of the last several decades, Dragon Ball‘s latest series continues the story from the wildly popular manga of the same name, and has been highly anticipated by U.S. fans as soon as the series was announced and started airing in Japan last year.

“We’re thrilled that this licensing partnership with Toei Animation means that Crunchyroll will provide American fans access to Dragon Ball Super,” said Crunchyroll Co-Founder and General Manager Kun Gao. “Crunchyroll has always strived to be a beacon for anime fans to watch the shows they love through safe and legal means, and now that Dragon Ball Super will become available on our platform, fans no longer have to resort to drastic means to find out how the story continues after decades of waiting for a reboot.”

“Crunchyroll has long been a valued partner and we’re excited to present Dragon Ball Super to its vibrant community,” said Masayuki Endo, President of Toei Animation Inc. “The amount of work and imagination that went into creating Dragon Ball Super is unprecedented and we appreciate the awesome contributions of Mr. Toriyama and our team at Toei.”

Like many shows, Dragon Ball Super has been wildly pirated — with varying degrees of translation competence — by the franchise’s international fans since its debut in July 2015 in lieu of an official simulcast. Dragon Ball Super is currently airing or announced for an impending debut in several international territories, with each of these dubs specifically airing with a traditional television broadcast. Beyond this new simulcast, no American distribution (such as one including an English dub and bilingual home release by FUNimation) has been announced as of yet. Viz is currently releasing the series’ manga “comicalization” on a biweekly schedule for free on their website; chapter nine was released earlier this month, and the first collected edition will be released in print in May 2017.

Continuing onward from the previous eight chapters, Viz has added their English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s ninth chapter to their website.

The respective page in our “Manga Guide” has been updated with this release information.

While the Dragon Ball Super television series has been licensed for certain international territories, no announcement has been made for North America.

The Dragon Ball Super manga began in June 2015 as a promotional tie-in for the television series. The manga runs monthly in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ sixteenth chapter printed last month in the magazine’s November 2016 issue. Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc to act as further promotion for the television series. Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and will release their own collected print edition beginning in May 2017.

Following past appearances at Jump Victory Carnival in Japan, Toyotarō will make an appearance at New York Comic Con this weekend for autographs at the Bandai Namco Mobile Booth from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. on 08 October 2016.