Dragon Ball International

Category: Poland

  • Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero now available on Polish streaming service Canal+

    From today the most recent Dragon Ball movie Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is now available to stream on another platform in Poland.

    Canal+ is now offering the movie with Japanese and English audio options as well as new Polish subs to customers.

    Curiously, the Polish dub, which was available during theatrical screenings as well as Amazon Prime and Crunchyroll is not being offered.

    This is not the first instalment of the franchise to be available on the service as all 153 episodes of original Dragon Ball have also been on Canal+ for at least six months now.

  • Director of Polish Super and Kai dubs open to dubbing Dragon Ball Z : Battle of Gods

    The 2013 Dragon Ball Z movie Battle of Gods is about to get a brief theatrical re-release around Europe, but another exciting prospect is that of at least one new dub being produced.

    That prospect emerged the other day when ADR director Dariusz Kosmowski said on Facebook he would dub Battle of Gods if his post got 2,000 likes by February 7, 2025.

    Dariusz Kosmowski was the director for the Polish dubs of Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Kai, which premiered on Polsat Games in 2018 and 2023 respectively.

    Battle of Gods will be screening in Poland on March 15, 2025, a whole two weeks after its release date in many other European territories.

  • More European territories announced for Piece of Magic Entertainment’s theatrical run of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods

    The previously announced screening of Dragon Ball Z movie 14 Battle of Gods has now expanded to various European countries.

    Fans on the Kanzenshuu forums such as TheRed259 and sangofe have noted screenings taking place in territories both east and north of the continent.

    The first countries to be getting this limited screening of the 2013 movie by TOEI Animation are Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and Slovakia on March 1, 2015.

    One UK listing has also been spotted for both March 1st and 2nd, 2025.

    France will be getting the movie a week after most of these countries on March 8th.

    A week after that comes Poland, and although we have been told privately Studio PDK creates Polish subs for the distributor Piece of Magic Entertainment, and have been requesting them to order a dub we have not been able to double source this information, so for now it’s best to take it with a grain of salt.

    The final territory for this new theatrical run is Germany, which opens on March 18th with further screenings that weekend on March 22nd and 23rd and includes dub screenings.

    This is great news, as many of these countries have never received Battle of Gods in theatres and will provide fans with another chance to catch the first movie of Dragon Ball’s revival era on the big screen.

  • Original Dragon Ball set to premier in Poland on GameToon

    It has been announced that the original 1986 Dragon Ball anime will be returning to TV in Poland next Monday, September 2th.

    Dragon Ball first came to Polish TV with RTL 7’s original run in 1999-2002 in which it aired during the ‘Cool Cartoons’ morning and afternoon programming block using a lectored version of the French dub. It also aired on TVN Siedem.

    Now the Kino Polska group-owned channel GameToon has announced they will be launching an anime strand, which will feature both “Dragon Ball” and “World Trigger” and broadcast several times a day. As both series are TOEI Animation productions it is possible they were acquired in a package deal.

    Fans hoping for a Polish dub as Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Super have received during their broadcasts on Polsat Games may be disappointed as it appears GameToon will be airing original Dragon Ball with only Japanese audio and Polish subtitles, although sources have said it is so viewers can appreciate the atmosphere and authenticity of the production.

    GameToon have scheduled a daily anime stream Monday-Friday where the first episodes of Dragon Ball and World Trigger will be aired with additional reruns at various times throughout the day.

    For example, current times are as follows:

    6:20am – Repeat of the previous day’s “Dragon Ball” premiere

    7:00am – “Dragon Ball” premiere

    2:20pm – Repeat of the previous day’s “World Trigger” premiere

    3:00pm – “World Trigger” premiere

    3:45pm – Repeat of the previous day’s “Dragon Ball” premiere

    4:30pm – “Dragon Ball” premiere

    11:20pm – Repeat of the previous day’s “Dragon Ball” premiere

    00:00am – “Dragon Ball” premiere

    00:45am – Repeat of the previous day’s “World Trigger” premiere

    01:30am – “World Trigger” premiere

    This will mark not only the second channel to begin airing original Dragon Ball this year (as Cartoon Network India has just commenced their rerun) but also the second channel for the series to be launched on within the space of just over a week, and a first for GameToon.

    As the 40th anniversary of Dragon Ball’s debut in the 51st issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on November 20, 1984 approaches expect more to be announced in the near future to commemorate the work that made Akira Toriyama a globally recognized mangaka.

    Perhaps more broadcasts or releases of the original Dragon Ball will be on the cards to test the waters for a kid Goku-centric show as countries around the world await the international licensing of Dragon Ball Daima. That would certainly be something to look forward to as the original Dragon Ball is often overshadowed by its successors, most notably Dragon Ball Z, but this may be the time loyal fans have long waited for.

  • Dragon Ball going strong on Polsat Games

    Nearly six years after its premier on Polsat Games Dragon Ball remains a mainstay on Poland’s first independent TV station, which is offered as part of the nation’s largest satellite provider Cyfrowy Polsat.

    The innovative broadcaster allows viewers to switch from the Polish dub to Japanese audio with a remote. Not too shabby for a linear channel, and a wonderful way of giving viewers the freedom to choose whatever version they prefer or are in the mood for watching.

    Dragon Ball Super, which Polsat Games at the time aired weekdays at 4pm allowed the channel to reach 1.4 thousand homes and became their most popular programme.

    And while Super was the first Dragon Ball TV anime to receive a traditional dub it has not been the last, as last year Polsat Games began airing Dragon Ball Kai, which it continues to air alongside Super to this day.

    Currently Polsat Games airs Dragon Ball Kai weekdays from 9am-10am, 12:30pm-2pm, 3:30pm-4:30pm while Dragon Ball Super airs Monday-Friday from 11am-12:30pm. On weekends Polsat Games treats viewers to various quintuple airings of both Super and Kai, with the former airing Saturday from 2pm-4:30pm, Sundays 8am-10:30am and the latter airs Sunday from 11am-1:30pm, 2pm-4:30pm.

    As we speak the morning and afternoon weekday timeslots for Dragon Ball Kai have wrapped up the Saiyan arc and now begin with the early Namek arc, although the timeslots around midday on the same days are in the middle of the Cell arc. Dragon Ball Super has also finished up another rerun of the Goku Black arc and is to begin another rerun of the Tournament of Power arc.

    For more information see the full listings for Polsat Games on the week this article was written.

    With so much time allotted to Dragon Ball on their channel it seems safe to assume that Polsat Games and Studio PDK, the dubbing facility behind the recent Kai dub will have their eyes on Dragon Ball Daima whenever that is being licensed for Poland.

    I hope fans will get it, this recent surge of Polish Dragon Ball dubs is long overdue considering there was one time when all they had was Dragon Ball Z movies 12-13.

Category: Poland