Yesterday (June 19th) LostTimeLord reported on the Kanzenshuu forums that the episodes of Dragon Ball Kai previously omitted from Disney+ in the UK have been added to the platform.
The two Dragon Ball Super movies, titled Broly and Super Hero were also added on the same day.
The Dragon Ball Super TV series was also added to Disney+ soon after Kai, so there is a lot of Dragon Ball content on the service for fans to enjoy.
Yesterday Disney+ announced on Facebook and Instagram that Dragon Ball Super was now streaming in the UK and Ireland.
This is not the first time that a Dragon Ball series has been on the platform as Dragon Ball Kai was added a few weeks ago.
Additionally both series have been available to stream on Crunchyroll and were released on DVD and Blu-Ray by the company formerly known as Manga UK (now Crunchyroll in the UK and Ireland).
There have been several local releases of Dragon Ball Super on both physical formats, that includes the Parts and two Complete Series by Manga UK in addition to steelbooks and a more recent Complete Series by Crunchyroll with their branding.
Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Super also aired on national TV through the channels Kix and Pop respectively. The latter is now airing on GREAT! Action.
Dragon Ball Super’s addition to Disney+ will no doubt bring the series to a much wider audience.
A remake of Dragon Ball Super is scheduled for release later this year, but its international releases are not yet known.
The UK is now following in the footsteps of Canada with the release of Dragon Ball Kai on Disney+.
As of today the first 2 seasons are available to stream on the platform with English dub option and the Japanese credits for the OP and ED.
Unsurprisingly it is the Funimation dub that has been added, and not the never released Ocean dub.
This is not the first time Dragon Ball Kai has been on a streaming service in the UK, as it was previously added to Crunchyroll.
The series also aired on Kix between 2012 and 2015, and was released on DVD and Blu-Ray by Manga UK in 2015, albeit with the original Kenji Yamamoto score on the DVDs for episodes 1-13 and 27-39 and episodes 1-39 on the Blu-Rays.
Every other release of Dragon Ball Kai in the UK has used the replacement Shunsuke Kikuchi score due to the plagiarism scandal that occurred in 2011.
It has been announced that the UK TV channel GREAT! Action will air Dragon Ball Super.
The 2015 TOEI TV anime will premier on the channel May 5th at 11pm.
GREAT! Action is owned by Narrative Entertainment, who also owned Pop, the channel that had been airing Dragon Ball Super in the UK and Ireland on and off since 2019.
Pop last aired Dragon Ball Super in the early hours of January 1st this year, although it was still available through Pop Up, which still had an EPG channel number and programme listings.
Dragon Ball Super will also be available to stream on GREAT! Player.
After 6 and a half years with a few breaks in between Dragon Ball Super will cease to air on traditional TV in the UK.
According to today’s listings on tvguide.co.uk the channel Pop, which has aired Dragon Ball Super since 2019 will close down in the early hours of New Years Day.
The schedule for today (December 31, 2025) and early tomorrow (January 1, 2026) is as follows:
6:00AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
6:31AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
7:02AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
7:33AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
8:00AM – Totally Spies!
8:31AM – Totally Spies!
9:02AM – Totally Spies!
9:33AM – Totally Spies!
10:00AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
10:31AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
11:02AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
11:33AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
12:00PM – Totally Spies!
12:31PM – Totally Spies!
1:02PM – Totally Spies!
1:33PM – Totally Spies!
2:00PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
2:31PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
3:02PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
3:33PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
4:00PM – Totally Spies!
4:31PM – Totally Spies!
5:02PM – Totally Spies!
5:33PM – Totally Spies!
6:00PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
6:31PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
7:02PM – Dragon Ball Super
7:33PM – Dragon Ball Super
8:00PM – Dragon Ball Super
8:31PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
9:02PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
9:33PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
10:00PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
10:31PM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
11:00PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:10PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:20PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:30PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:40PM – Grizzy and the Lemmings
11:50PM – Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: The Series
12:14AM – Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: The Series
12:38AM – Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: The Series
1:02AM – She-Ra: Princess of Power
1:26AM – She-Ra: Princess of Power
1:50AM – Dragon Ball Super
2:14AM – Dragon Ball Super
2:38AM – Monster High
2:53AM – Monster High
3:08AM – Monster High
3:23AM – Monster High
3:38AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
4:02AM – Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
4:26AM – Power Players
4:41AM – Power Players
4:56AM – Hero Inside
5:16AM – Hero Inside
5:36AM – Hero Inside
The final episodes of Dragon Ball Super to be rerun on the channel will be:
Dragon Ball Super’s 6-year run on UK TV should be coming to an end soon, as it has been announced Narrative Entertainment will be shutting down their linear channels and app next month.
Narrative Entertainment MD Paul Dunthorne commented:
“With commercial value across the UK kids’ TV market now just 4% of what it was 10 years ago, we’ve taken the decision to close our linear Pop channel at the end of the year. We understand the importance of offering high-quality kids’ TV, and we’ve done everything that we can to maintain Pop. But free-to-air channels for this audience are simply not commercially viable without public service broadcaster-style funding.
“We will retain our Pop presence on FAST channels in the UK on Freeview, Samsung, LG and other platforms, and internationally, as these continue to offer commercial opportunities.”
Pop was previously owned by Sony Pictures Television before they sold their UK TV portfolio to Narrative Entertainment in 2021.
Dragon Ball Super’s premier on Pop in 2019 marked the series debut on free TV, which became the only such free-to-air (FTA) commercial kids’ broadcaster after the closure of ITV’s CITV in 2023.
Sister channel Pop Max (which also aired Dragon Ball Super) left Freeview and Sky in December of last year, and January this year respectively. Their content was moved to Pop and Pop Player.
As it stands Dragon Ball Super remains on Pop from 7pm-8pm and 1:50am-2:38am every night. Whether it will be run until Pop’s last day broadcasting remains to be seen.
As Dragon Ball Super has lasted 6 years on Pop (although the channel removed it from their schedule at times) it is the instalment of the franchise which has been on UK TV for the longest.
Dragon Ball Z aired between 2000 and 2002 on Cartoon Network, 2002-2003 on CNX and 2003-2005 on Toonami, Dragon Ball GT ran on CNX and Toonami for the same years while original Dragon Ball only aired on Toonami and Dragon Ball Kai was shown on Kix between 2012 and 2015.
It is likely Dragon Ball Super lasted as long as it has on Pop because of sponsorship deals with Bandai Namco and toy retailer chain Smyths.
While the future of Dragon Ball on linear TV remains uncertain, although the series is still available on Crunchyroll, BBC iPlayer and home video releases from Manga UK and Crunchyroll.
Over a month ago a listing was spotted on Crunchyroll’s site for a new Dragon Ball Super Broly Blu-Ray steelbook to be released in North America.
Now listings have been spotted on Amazon UK, Anime-On-Line and Rarewaves for what appears to be a regional repackaging of this release.
Crunchyroll in the UK was formerly known as Funimation, and Manga UK before that. The latter released a steelbook for this movie back in 2019.
It remains to be seen whether this release will contain the US Funimation disc or the Manga UK disc, which doesn’t have the green tint, although considering the fact the Dragon Ball Z Complete Series set last year used the US discs rather than the UK ones that seems to be becoming the new precedent for these releases.
Recently it was noted that Odeon Cinemas were bringing the 2013 Dragon Ball Z movie Battle of Gods (originally Kami to Kami) to various theatres across the UK and Ireland.
Now it appears another theatre chain will be bringing the movie to more screens than originally expected.
That theatre chain is Omniplex, and numerous screenings have been announced for cities like Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow and Birmingham but also smaller urban areas like Sutton, Sligo and Newry.
Omniplex’s screenings appear to be dubbed.
The full list of screenings is as follows:
Republic of Ireland : Arklow, Balbriggan, Ballinasloe, Carlow, Cork, Drogheda – Scotch Hall, Dublin – Rathmines, Dundalk, Galway – Salthill, Killarney, Limerick, Longford, Monaghan, Mullingar, Nenagh, Roscommon, Shannon, Sligo, Tralee, Waterford, Wexford
Northern Ireland : Antrim, Armagh, Banbridge, Bangor, Belfast – Dundonald, Belfast – Kennedy Centre, Carrickfergus, Craigavon, Derry, Downpatrick, Dungannon, Larne, Lisburn, Newry, Omagh
Scotland : Glasgow – Clydebank
England : Birmingham – Great Park, High Wycombe, Ipswich, Sunderland, Sutton Surrey, Wigan
This will be the widest release any Dragon Ball Z movie has had in the UK and Ireland and the second widest release in the franchise overall with over 53 locations announced. By comparison, the most recent movie Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero received 111 screenings across both territories.
Nonetheless for a movie being re-released the number of screenings is fantastic news.
More screenings are being spotted for the upcoming re-release of Dragon Ball Z : Battle of Gods in theatres.
Only 4 days ago Twitter/X user Christopher Galazka spotted listings for March 1st and 2nd, which is when the movie will be screening in various other European countries.
As Odeon Cinemas also operate in Ireland we checked to see was there any screenings for the Emerald Isle. Turns out there will be, in the lesser known city of Limerick.
While Battle of Gods received a limited re-release across the United States for its 10th anniversary in 2023 this will mark the widest release the movie has received since it was first released.
As of the announcement of these screenings, and the previously announced Savoy Cinema screenings all four of the revival era Dragon Ball movies (Battle of Gods, Resurrection F, Broly and Super Hero) have received theatrical runs in the UK and Ireland, as previously these territories only had Battle of Gods at one film festival (Scotland Loves Anime 2014) and one convention (Nom Con 2014).
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.
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