Dragon Ball Super: Beerus, a brand-new TV anime endeavor, has received its official greenlight and is scheduled to debut in Fall 2026. The reveal came on January 25, 2026, during the Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri celebration at Makuhari Messe in Japan, commemorating the franchise’s 40th anniversary. This follows the earlier announcement of the Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol sequel series.
Officials confirmed that Dragon Ball Super: Beerus serves as an enhanced take on the original Dragon Ball Super anime, officially positioned as a fresh starting point. The initiative, which has been in the works for several years, credits Akira Toriyama with Original Work, Story, and Character Design.
Akio Iyoku elaborated that this enhanced version surpasses a typical remaster. It incorporates a substantial amount of brand-new animated sequences, reworked existing footage, full re-rendering of every scene, fresh voice recordings, added music and sound design elements, and an overall restructured storyline. He emphasized the goal of aligning more closely with Akira Toriyama’s core vision and universe-building, especially by amplifying the intensity of combat sequences through state-of-the-art animation techniques. Iyoku further noted that Beerus stands out as a formidable antagonist and figure, and the team worked to highlight his commanding aura more effectively in this revamped presentation.
You can watch the announcement trailer below:
The anime unveiled a teaser visual as well:
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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