The European dubs of the latest TV anime in the long running Dragon Ball series – Dragon Ball Daima keep coming.
To the surprise of fans online a French dub was missing in action, but it appears that is about to change.
According to French free-to-air channel Gulli,Dragon Ball Daima will be coming to the channel soon.
No debut date has been announced, but it is expected that the series will air with a French dub.
This was confirmed by the channel on their X (formerly Twitter) account:
The first episode of the Dragon Ball Daima Italian dub is now available as an exclusive preview on the Mediaset Infinity streaming platform.
A fan named Venixys on X (formerly known as Twitter) has reported on the lack of censorship and the change of cast.
As such it means that the censoring of Mr Popo may have been a decision made by the producers of the German dub rather than a TOEI Europe mandate.
The TV premier of the Italian dub of Dragon Ball Daima will follow on Italia 2 beginning September 14th, only two days after the debut of the Castilian Spanish dub.
In one of Kanzenshuu’s features they analysed the evidence surrounding the debut date for Dragon Ball Z in North America in 1996, which has many caveats to say the least.
Unlike the UK where we can definitively say Funimation’s dub of Dragon Ball Z premiered on March 6, 2000 on Cartoon Network or Finland where it was January 15, 2003 on SubTV the US is a completely different ballgame since the show did not premier on a mainstream channel, but instead it was smaller regional networks.
Long story short, it depended on the state, and while the formal, widespread premier was on the weekend of September 14th-15th there were smaller, more niche weekday sneak peaks for the weekdays of September 12th and 13th, although anecdotal evidence suggests there may have been an earlier weekend sneak peak on September 7, 1996.
Take this blurb from the September 14-20, 1996 issue of TV Guide in the Kids Programming Fall Preview:
In only one known instance does a fan online suggest that this September 7th debut happened:
There are no known newspaper listings that confirm Dragon Ball Z was premiered on any channel this date, that is not to say it didn’t happen, as TV schedules can sometimes be ambiguous, a TV block can be listed but not the programmes, in the case of syndicate networks the schedules might list “Local Programming”, which according to a fan on the Kanzenshuu forums can be anything from sitcom reruns to church broadcasts to bootlegs of a pay per view wrestling event.
So it is possible, although it may never be known for sure whether or not Funimation’s English dub of Dragon Ball Z first aired in North America on September 7, 1996, but nonetheless the week up to September 14th did include sneak peaks, as Kanzenshuu’s article highlights.
In any case this week celebratory threads and articles can be expected, just as was the case for the 20th anniversary of this dub in North America on both forums and websites.
A premier date has been announced for the enhanced version of Dragon Ball Super.
The new TV anime Dragon Ball Super: Beerus will premier on October 11th, the same day as Dragon Ball Daima premiered in 2024.
The first episode will however have a sneak peak on October 8th at New York City Comic Con.
In keeping with tradition the new TOEI anime will air on Fuji TV, albeit at a later timeslot than the 2015 version of Dragon Ball Super did.
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus will air at 11:15pm on Fuji TV.
Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT all aired at 7pm Wednesdays on the same channel, but Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Super aired at the earlier 9am timeslot, although Dragon Ball Daima premiered at 11:40pm.
Norihito Sumitomo will be returning as the composer.
As “Broadcasting and Streaming” is in the promo it seems likely that much like Dragon Ball Daima, Dragon Ball Super: Beerus will be distributed to several different streaming services around the world subtitled, no dubs have been confirmed as of this point.
The official announcement describing the project stated:
In relation to the story of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus the staff stated the following:
Other staff members confirmed for Dragon Ball Super Beerus will include:
The first promotional art indicated that Dragon Ball Super: Beerus would only be covering the Battle of Gods story arc, but this new promo confirms that the Resurrection F and Universe 6 arcs will also be adapted.
Over a year ago Spanish Dragon Ball fans were expressing their desire for a dub of Dragon Ball Daima in their region on X (formerly known as Twitter), particularly a dub from Dasara Producciones.
Dasara Producciones previously provided the Castilian Spanish dub for both Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Kai, which fans were satisfied with, so naturally there has been a desire for them to record more content.
Sometime later RTVE director José Pablo López was asked about Dragon Ball Daima airing on the Clan network, and expressed interest in licensing it.
Dragon Ball Daima has been available in Spain subbed on AnimeBox, Crunchyroll and Netflix but not yet in the native language.
By the end of 2025 however it was announced at Manga Barcelona during the Selecta Vision conference that a Spanish dub would indeed be coming in 2026.
More recently it was stated that Dragon Ball Daima would be airing on Clan very soon, but no debut date was confirmed, until now.
In yesterday’s RTVE press release it was confirmed that Dragon Ball Daima would begin the following Saturday (September 12th) at 7:25pm.
Under “New Releases” the press release says:
In English this can be translated as:
Denmark is very close to having a complete Danish Dragon Ball dub with the 3 episodes that have been added to the DR TV app.
As of today (August 14th) Dragon Ball Super episodes 125-127 are now available in Danish.
These 3 episodes are natively titled:
125. En altoverskyggende styrke! Udsletterguden Toppo bliver født!
126. Hinsides en gud! Vejitas selvopofrende angreb!
127. Muren nærmer sig! Alt håb hviler på en sidste barriere!
Next week could see the release of episodes 128-130 with the final episode following the week after, as season 2 ended with a single episode released on August 1, 2025, but only time will tell.
Recently it was announced that RTL Consumer Products would be taking over the marketing of the Dragon Ball brand as part of a strategic plan for the franchises continued growth in popularity throughout Europe, as envisioned by TOEI Animation.
As part of that plan it was revealed that a German dub of the latest anime series Dragon Ball Daima would be coming to TOGGO Plus and then to RTL+, although at the time there was no release date.
That has changed now however with the most recent update in RTL’s press release.
New episodes of Dragon Ball Daima will be set to premier August 28th from Monday to Friday at 9:15pm.
Following on from this the episodes will be available on RTL+ and TOGGO’s website from September 25th.
This will mark the first European dub of Dragon Ball Daima to be released since the Albanian dub last year.
With today’s addition of 3 more episodes to the Dragon Ball Super Danish dub there is only 7 more to go until the dub is completed.
The episodes uploaded were 122-124 and they have been natively titled:
122. Hans stolthed er på spil! Vejitas kamp for at blive den stærkeste!
123. Frigør din krop, sjæl og styrke! Son-Goku og Vejita!
124. Det vilde, overvældende angreb! Son-Gohans sidste forsøg!
Next week episodes 125-127 should be uploaded.
Last week actor Manolo Solo (real name Manuel Jesús Fernández Serrano) passed away at the age of 62.
The actor known for playing Beerus and #17 in the Castilian dub of Dragon Ball died on Thursday from cancer.
Solo won a Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Tarde para la ira.
The stage name Solo came from his childhood desire to be a rock star, in addition to his work as an actor he was a singer, bassist and guitarist of the rock band Los Relicarios.
Solo was also a theatre actor, performing in the documentary plays Ruz-Bárcenas (2013) and El Rey (2015), both of which were adapted to films.
Within Dragon Ball, Solo is also known for playing Tao Pai Pai, Silver Horn, Mr. Popo, Gregory, Zarbon (first voice), Jheese, Oob (Dragon Ball GT episodes 32 onward), Bon Para and Nappa in Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
Solo is the second actor that played #17 to pass away this year after Figueira Junior in the Brazilian Portuguese dub).
With this week’s 3 new episodes of the Dragon Ball Super Danish dub the latest Nordic dub in the series draws closer to its conclusion with less than a month left to go.
As of today (July 31st) episodes 119-121 have just been uploaded to the DR TV app.
The 3 episodes are natively titled:
119. Umulig at undvige?! Det vilde overraskelsesangreb!
120. En perfekt overlevelsesstrategi! Det tredje univers’ frygtindgydende lejemorder!
121. Giv alt, hvad I har! Den ultimative firdobbelte fusion mod det syvende univers!
Episodes 122-124 will likely be released next week with the dub wrapping up on August 21st or 28th.
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