The Dragon Ball franchise’s latest installment has launched worldwide. The first episode of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus, the remastered and reedited version of the original Dragon Ball Super anime series, can now be streamed in the United States on Hulu and Crunchyroll. This premiere has already proven to be especially popular on the latter platform, so much so that it broke the website.
This isn’t the first time one of the Dragon Ball shows has blown up to a point that it crashed Crunchyroll. Dragon Ball Super’s "Son Goku Wakes! New Level of the Awakened!!” is among the most notable examples of anime episodes that broke the internet. Premiering alongside the preceding “The Mightiest Enemy Zeroes in on Goku! Launch the Knockout Spirit Bomb Now!” in October 2017, Super’s 110th episode saw Goku achieving Autonomous Ultra Instinct while fighting Jiren in the Tournament of Power.
Dragon Ball Super premiered in July 2015, with the story taking place in between the conclusion of the Majiin Buu storyline in Dragon Ball Z, and that show’s final episode, which jumped forward 10 years. The show’s first two arcs were expansions of the Dragon Ball Z movies Battle of the Gods and Resurrection F, which were released in March 2013 and April 2015, respectively. Super’s “God of Destruction Beerus” and “Golden Frieza” sagas were followed by the “Universe 6,” “Future Trunks,” and “Universe Survival” sagas, and then the movies Broly and Super Hero.
Along with boasting enhanced footage and new cast recordings, Dragon Ball Super: Beerus reconstructs the original anime. As originally announced, the overall product serves as “an ENHANCED edition that expresses [Dragon Ball creator] Akira Toriyama's original idea and worldbuilding more accurately, that will be broadcasted with highly satisfying quality.” This show’s arrival falls on the 40th anniversary of when the first Dragon Ball anime hit the airwaves, which in turn followed two years after Toriyama began the manga series focused on Goku.
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is preceded on the franchise’s TV front by Dragon Ball Daima, which ran for 20 episodes from October 2024 to March 2025. Looking ahead, Dragon Ball Super: The Galactica Patrol is in development, adapting the “Galactic Patrol Prisoner” arc from the manga version of Super that takes place post-Tournament of Power. The manga remains on indefinite hiatus following Toriyama’s death in March 2024.
New episodes of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus premiere Sundays on Hulu and Crunchyroll, and Netflix will also begin streaming the series in the United States on October 17.
