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Dragon Ball Daima Italian dub coming in September

Last summer the relevant rights for the 2024 TV anime Dragon Ball Daima was acquired by Starbright Licensing and Sabor, this strongly implied that a dub was in the works, but since then nothing has been revealed, until now.

It has now been announced that an Italian dub of Dragon Ball Daima will be released in September.

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Dragon Ball Daima is available for streaming throughout various European countries on Crunhcyroll and Netflix, as well as Anime Generation (Amazon Prime Video) in Italy, but up until now it has only been available subbed.

Dragon Ball has had a long history in Italy since its debut on Junior TV in 1989, so the news of an Italian dub of Dragon Ball Daima will be great news for longtime fans of the franchise.

This is not the only European dub of Dragon Ball Daima coming, as a German dub and a Spanish dub were also announced. There was also an Albanian dub.

July 22, 2026
Dragon Ball GT returns to Mangas in France

A few days ago a promo was aired, which confirms the return of Dragon Ball GT to the French TV channel Mangas.

Mangas, which first broadcast Dragon Ball GT in 1997 has aired Dragon Ball content regularly in France for many years but has not aired Dragon Ball GT in 15 years.

Mangas confirmed to a fan that it will be a complete remaster of the French dub with a video source will not be the same as what was seen on ADN or Crunchyroll.

This will be great news for fans as there were episode previews dubbed in French that are considered to be lost as no recordings have survived, but this will be another chance for fans to catch them live.

It has been said that in 2010-2011 the complete uncensored French dub of GT was aired with the next episode previews dubbed in French and the openings and endings left in Japanese.

No start date has been confirmed to our knowledge, but we will keep an eye on such information to be revealed.

July 10, 2026
Dragon Ball Super episodes 110-112 uploaded to the DR TV app

The Dragon Ball Super Danish dub continues with another 3 episodes.

Today (July 10th) episodes 110-112 have been uploaded to Danmarks Radio’s DR TV app.

With this addition the episode Goku turns Ultra Instinct has been released in Denmark for the third time, as this episode was previously available to stream on Daisuki and Crunchyroll in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

The availability of these episodes on DR TV also marks the first time they’ve been available spoken in the Danish language rather than with subtitles.

Expect episodes 113-115 to follow next week.

July 10, 2026
Dragon Ball Super comes to Disney+ in the UK and Ireland

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.

June 1, 2026
Dragon Ball Kai comes to Disney+ in the UK

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.

May 17, 2026
Crunchyroll announces Dragon Ball Daima Blu-Ray editions for the US
Fans that have wanted to own an English-friendly copy of Dragon Ball Daima will no longer have to wait, as Crunchyroll have announced they are bringing the show to the Blu-Ray format in 2026.

There is set to be both a standard edition and a limited edition, which will each be released on March 3rd.

While both editions will contain no special features other than the usual textless opening and ending songs the limited edition will contain the following:
- 7 silver foil art cards
- Goku x Vegeta x Piccolo sticker
- Silver foil rigid box with exclusive art by the character designer
There is no news yet on a release for other Crunchyroll territories like Germany, the UK and Australia, but expect them to follow.
December 17, 2025
The end of Dragon Ball’s longest run on UK TV nears as Narrative Entertainment is set to shut down Pop

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.

November 4, 2025
Dragon Ball Daima coming to free-to-air TV in Spain?

It has been reported that José Pablo López, director of RTVE, the national television and radio public broadcaster was asked about airing the latest anime series Dragon Ball Daima on the Clan network.

The above comment directly translates to “We are in it”, implying interest in the product.

Dragon Ball Daima is currently available across multiple platforms in Spain, namely AnimeBox, Crunchyroll and Netflix, but it is only available on all these services in Japanese audio with Spanish subtitles.

A Spanish dub exists for the series, but only for the Latin American region, no European dub has been announced, although it may happen as all Dragon Ball series thus far has had a Latino dub and a Castilian dub. Even Dragon Ball Kai received a dub in Spain last year after over a decade of only a Latin American dub being in circulation.

Dragon Ball Kai received its Castilian Spanish dub from Dasara Producciones, so they may be contracted to dub Dragon Ball Daima too.

October 10, 2025
Crunchyroll to release Dragon Ball Super Broly Blu-Ray Steelbook in the UK

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.

September 24, 2025
Crunchyroll releasing new Dragon Ball Super Broly Steelbox in the US

A listing for a Dragon Ball Super : Broly Blu-Ray steelbook has appeared on Crunchyroll’s store.

This new edition of the movie is set to be released on November 4th of this year, and is available for the pre-order price of $31.98.

This is not the first time the movie has had a steelbook release, as Manga UK previously released such a variant for region B.

This will be the first steelbook release of the movie in North America.

It is however likely that this will be a repackage of the North American Blu-Ray, as such the green tint (which Funimation denied being there) that was absent from the UK release will remain present.

August 22, 2025

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