Dragon Ball Super

Dragon Ball Super is a 2015 television anime and the first new Dragon Ball TV storyline in roughly two decades. Rather than rebooting the saga, it slots into the ten-year gap after Majin Buu's defeat and expands the world with gods, aliens, and higher-stakes martial arts. Its 131-episode length and Toei Animation production make it a major modern pillar of the franchise, but this page covers that specific series on its own.

The show mixes high-energy fights, broad comedy, adventure, and science-fiction spectacle. Viewers get tournament arcs, divine opponents, transformations, and a cast that ranges from Goku and Vegeta to cosmic deities. The tone can swing from silly slice-of-life moments to large-scale battles, which gives it a different rhythm from earlier Dragon Ball television entries while still rewarding longtime fans.

Because it is dubbed and widely streamed, Dragon Ball Super is accessible to viewers who want a long-running action anime with familiar shonen structure. Complete newcomers may appreciate a guide to earlier Dragon Ball events, but returning fans can step into this series as a continuation. It suits people who enjoy martial arts, ensemble battles, comedy, and escalating power fantasies, and who are comfortable with a substantial episode count.

Dragon Ball Super unfolds during the peaceful decade that follows the defeat of Majin Buu, a stretch of quiet years in which Earth's defenders have largely settled into ordinary routines. Son Goku, restless even in peacetime, splits his time between training and the unlikely work of tending crops, while his friends and family adjust to a life without constant battles. That calm is broken when Beerus, a God of Destruction from distant space, wakes from a long sleep and turns his attention toward Earth in search of a legendary warrior known as the Saiyan God.

Beerus arrives with his attendant Whis, and the encounter quickly reshapes the series' scale. Goku and Vegeta find themselves far outmatched by divine power, and their response is to seek training and new transformations rather than rely on the strength they already have. Around them, the extended cast remains active, with Bulma, Piccolo, Krillin, and the younger generation of fighters pulled into events that move well beyond the threats of earlier stories. The opening arc establishes both the comedic tone of peacetime life and the more cosmic stakes that follow.

The primary conflict grows from that widening horizon. As Goku's appetite for stronger opponents draws attention from gods, angels, and warriors of other worlds, the series builds toward organized competitions that pit fighters from many universes against one another. The central tension lies in how Goku, Vegeta, and their allies measure themselves against beings whose power operates on a completely different level, and in what those confrontations demand of a group that had already reached the top of its own world.

Dragon Ball Super is a television anime produced by Toei Animation. It is based on the Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama, and its main story arcs grew from original plot outlines Toriyama wrote before Toei Animation's writers and staff adapted them for the screen. The series aired in Japan on Fuji Television and its FNS affiliates.

The show premiered in July 2015 and ran until March 2018, totaling 131 episodes. It was positioned as a midquel to Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Z Kai, unfolding within a ten-year gap in Toriyama's original manga timeline after the defeat of Majin Buu. Its debut marked the franchise's first new television storyline in about 18 years.

The anime was adapted from manga source material. An English dubbed version was produced, and the series was distributed through outlets including Crunchyroll, Adult Swim, iQ, Hulu, and Prime Video.

Dragon Ball Super is a television anime series inside the larger Dragon Ball franchise, placed as a midquel to Dragon Ball Z and its remastered counterpart Dragon Ball Z Kai rather than a remake or a stand-alone work. It aired from 2015 to 2018 with 131 episodes and was the first Dragon Ball television series to tell a new continuing story in 18 years. Its events unfold during the ten year timeskip in Akira Toriyama's original manga, after the defeat of Majin Buu, so it extends the animated continuity audiences know from Z while filling a previously open stretch of that timeline.

The series draws from the Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama, yet its main arcs were built from original plot outlines he wrote and then adapted for animation by Toei Animation's writers and staff. That makes it a distinct animated continuation rather than a direct panel by panel adaptation of an existing manga arc. Its opening portion retells the events of the Dragon Ball Z film Battle of Gods, connecting the television series to the franchise's theatrical side before it moves into its own storylines.

Within the franchise, Dragon Ball Super is a main anime installment rather than a spin-off or an alternate version of an earlier series. It follows the original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z anime in the broader continuity and stays inside the timeskip established by Toriyama's manga, which means its place in the catalog is continuity based: it carries the story past Z's Majin Buu conflict while remaining one individual entry in a much wider franchise hub.