Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol has received an official production announcement, marking the anime’s return after more than eight years since its previous run concluded. The reveal took place on January 25, 2026, during the Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri event at Makuhari Messe in Japan, an occasion honoring the franchise’s 40th anniversary. This new installment is now in active development and was highlighted as the highlight—or “pinnacle”—of the anniversary initiatives that kicked off in 2024.
You can watch the announcement video below:
On stage at the event were Masako Nozawa, the iconic Japanese voice actress behind Son Goku, along with Akio Iyoku, Executive Producer of the Dragon Ball franchise. The big reveal occurred during the opening segment known as “Exclusive Announcements! GENKIDASTAGE Part 1.”
They detailed that the upcoming anime will pick up the narrative right after the Tournament of Power. It’s presented as the continuation of the “Universe Survival Arc” from the original Dragon Ball Super anime, which ran from 2015 to 2018. This storyline also corresponds to the “Galactic Patrol Prisoner Arc” in the Dragon Ball manga.
In the new series, Son Goku and Vegeta team up with operatives from the Galactic Patrol—the galaxy’s dedicated peacekeeping force—to launch an epic, large-scale confrontation against a formidable new antagonist: the “Planet-Eater” Moro!
The production also confirmed that Akira Toriyama receives credits for Original Work, Story, and Character Design on the anime.
The soundtrack for the special anniversary video features an all-new original piece composed exclusively for this celebration by Hans Zimmer, bearing the title “Infinite Future.” The orchestral arrangement comes from Tom Lucas. Additionally, Hans Zimmer released a personal statement to mark Dragon Ball’s 40th anniversary and express his excitement about contributing to the project.
The anime also unveiled a teaser visual.
Dragon Ball Super is a Japanese anime television series within the Dragon Ball franchise, adapted from Akira Toriyama’s original manga and produced by Toei Animation. The show takes place during the 10-year gap in Toriyama’s manga storyline, occurring after the defeat of Kid Buu and before the events that wrap up Dragon Ball Z. It marks the first anime in the series to incorporate original character designs personally created by Toriyama himself.
The anime originally broadcast in Japan on Fuji Television and affiliated networks from July 2015 through March 2018. Its initial two story arcs reworked content from the movies Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (2015), with the latter receiving only a brief mention in the manga. Subsequent films in the franchise—Dragon Ball Super: Broly (released December 2018 and becoming the top-earning anime movie in the series) and Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (released June 11, 2022)—were later incorporated into the manga adaptation. Broly received a condensed summary treatment, while Super Hero was expanded into a more detailed storyline.
Following the end of the Universe Survival saga, the anime entered an extended hiatus in 2018. The manga paused after completing the Super Hero arc, particularly after Toriyama’s passing in March 2024. A special one-shot chapter, penned by Toriyama and acting as a prequel to the Super Hero events, appeared in February 2025 and was collected in volume 24, which came out in April 2025. An anime version of the manga’s “Galactic Patrol Prisoner Arc” (also called the Moro Arc) has been officially confirmed, and a remastered edition of the Battle of Gods storyline is scheduled to debut in fall 2026.
The Dragon Ball Super manga, scripted by Toriyama and drawn by Toyotarou, covers the same core events as the anime plus the related films. It launched in Shueisha’s monthly shōnen publication V Jump in June 2015, just ahead of the anime’s debut. The series is available simultaneously in English through Viz Media and on Shueisha’s Manga Plus platform.
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