With the latest batch of episodes released the Danish dub of Dragon Ball Super’s Universe 6 tournament arc is now complete.
As of today episodes 40-42 are now available to stream on the DR TV app.
Danmarks Radio has been releasing 3 new episodes a week since the Danish dub resumed on April 11th, so next week’s batch of episodes should be 43-45. The following week will likely be 46-48 (which will include the beginning of the Future Trunks arc) and so on.
Recently Dragon Ball Kai premiered for the first time in Israel with a new Hebrew dub.
Since the show’s debut on April 14th a total of 14 episodes have aired on Junior TV.
Now these 14 episodes are available on the streaming site Yes, which is the largest company in Israel that brings content to consumers through the internet.
Based on previous schedules Junior TV appears to be airing 4 new episodes a week. As such episodes 13-16 of Dragon Ball Kai should be airing this week.
If any more episodes are added to Yes we will report on it accordingly.
Previously we reported it was looking like a pattern was being established with 3 new episodes of Dragon Ball Super’s Danish dub coming to DRTV every Friday.
Now the platform has seen this pattern being followed for three consecutive weeks as episodes 34-36 have been uploaded.
These new episodes have been released every Friday since April 11th at 6am, and by the looks of things will continue to do so.
Episodes 37-39, which will bring Danish fans to the episode before the conclusion of the Universe 6 Tournament should be released next Friday.
Watch this space for further updates on Dragon Ball in Denmark.
Yesterday a social media page for Dragon Ball in Israel shared a post, which featured a clip from new Hebrew dub.
This marks the second new dub of Dragon Ball Kai within the last year, and the sixth in the last two years (preceded by the Hindi redub, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Polish and European Spanish dubs).
According to online TV schedules Dragon Ball Kai has been listed for various timeslots throughout the week:
The channel is also airing Dragon Ball Super (with a dub that began in September 2016 and resumed production in December 2023) at the following times:
This is great news as it shows that TOEI is still distributing Kai to territories that haven’t received it yet.
New episodes of the Dragon Ball Super Danish dub are now available on the DRTV app.
While this may be exciting news to fans it appears that despite the previous announcement of 49 new episodes only the first 3 episodes of the Universe 6 arc can be streamed now.
Further episodes are scheduled to be released on April 18th, but it is not known how many episodes will drop on this date.
This is the first time a Danish dub has been released since the rebroadcast of Dragon Ball Z in 2011.
The admin of the Dragon Ball – DK Facebook group has reported Danmarks Radio (DR) is negotiating for more episodes of Dragon Ball Super.
Dragon Ball Super was initially announced as being licensed by DR following the death of series creator Akira Toriyama.
The first 27 episodes made their debut on the DR Ultra streaming app last October with the new Danish dub.
DR Ultra aired a rerun of Dragon Ball Z over a decade prior when they were a linear channel, which was also shown in Danish.
As such the premier of this dub of Dragon Ball Super marks a generational shift in how content is consumed since Dragon Ball Z initially aired in Denmark before the big streaming boom we are currently living in.
If Dragon Ball Super completes it’s run it should be possible in theory more Dragon Ball content will be licensed for Danish dubbing in future.
December 13, 2004 was the end of an era, or so many UK and Irish Dragon Ball fans thought.
The Piccolo Junior arc had been on the air every weekday since episode 123 (titled The Search for the Magic Stick in the Blue Water dub) premiered on November 1st that year.
I vividly remember the promo for that arc, which said “Every story has an ending” and feeling a sense of loss that after Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and now original Dragon Ball had their runs on TV the story had come full circle and was no over.
There was no Dragon Ball Kai, Dragon Ball Super or Dragon Ball Daima, Toonami didn’t even air the movies until the summer after. The series had finally come to an end with no more episodic content to be licensed, and at the time presumably nothing else was coming.
It was a completely different time, as today with nostalgia being such a massive business franchises like Dragon Ball seem to keep going.
In some ways it’s nice, in other ways some would say we receive too much.
In any case 2024 has been a great year for original Dragon Ball now that fans have preserved Blue Water episode 71, and with that the entire series with its respective Canadian dub is now out there to enjoy for anyone that wishes to relive memories of the UK broadcast.
Of course the Blue Water dub never had a DVD so be sure to support the official release for original Dragon Ball to ensure more home media is made for years to come.
It has been reported that from January 1, 2025 with one final airing of Dragon Ball Z episodes 197 and 198 Warner Channel’s block Wanimé will close down.
This comes 8 months after the block was removed in Brazil, but now it appears the remainder of Latin America will follow.
Various reasons have been cited for the clock’s closure, such as Warner Channel’s parent company WBD already having a definitive home for broadcasting anime with Adult Swim and the third party anime catalog on HBO Max not expanding much this year.
Wanimé, which began on April 11, 2022 replaced the Toonami Powered by Crunchyroll block on the regional Cartoon Network, and has aired not just Dragon Ball Z and its films, but also Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Super.
It is not known when the new TV anime Dragon Ball Daima will begin broadcasting in Latin America, although Adult Swim has teased it recently, so it may be coming soon.
Adult Swim Latin America has recently tweeted about Dragon Ball Daima.
The above can be translated as “If there’s a dog, there’s a like. #AdultSwim in the house”, so while it’s not confirmation it does lend credibility to Dragon Ball Daima coming to their channel.
Although it is not listed for January schedules it has been reported Adult Swim will be airing a programme listed under the pseudonym ” AS PREMIERE”.
If “AS PREMIERE” is the premiere of Dragon Ball Daima , fans can expect it on Monday, January 20 at 21:09 ARG-CHI | 19:09 COL-PER.
It should be noted it is not known whether a Latin American Spanish or Portuguese dub is in production. There were reports that Daniel Castañeda (TOEI’s licensing director for the region) said in an interview with Produ “We go into dubbing for worldwide release in October 2024″ but the original source is no longer live and we are not aware of Daniel Castañeda commenting on it since.
As was the case when Stephanie Nadolny reprising her role as Goku in the English dub this could be another case of where there’s smoke there’s fire.
Nonetheless Dragon Ball has always been a monstrous success in Latin America so undoubtedly the arrival of Akira Toriyama’s final work to traditional TV will be highly anticipated should this be indeed confirmed.
It has been revealed Crunchyroll will begin streaming their English dub of Dragon Ball Daima on January 10, 2025 at 1:30pm PT in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
The first 3 episodes of the dub were recently screened in North America and Oceania courtesy of Fathom Events and Sugoi respectively. This will mark the series debut in South Africa.
While the UK has not been mentioned the announcement that Dragon Ball Daima in general would be streaming there or Europe overall was very low-key and published in a German article to no fanfare.
The current cast and staff list for this dub is as follows:
Returning cast members:
Technical staff:
Director : Jonathan Rigg
Producer : Samantha Herek
Script writer : Jarrod Greene
ADR Mixer : Gino Palancia
ADR Engineer: Jameson Outlaw
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