It has not been announced which territories will receive Dragon Ball Super: Beerus on streaming internationally, but it is likely that it will be seen on many services throughout the world, just as Dragon Ball Daima was on both Crunchyroll and Netflix.
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.
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:
“La energía de los fines de semana corre a cargo de Goku y compañía en ‘Dragon Ball DAIMA’. Una aventura inédita llena de sorpresas, artes marciales y ese humor inconfundible que une a generaciones enteras frente a la pantalla. Se podrá ver a partir del sábado 12 de septiembre a las 19:25 h.”
In English this can be translated as:
“The energy of the weekends is provided by Goku and company in ‘Dragon Ball DAIMA’. An unprecedented adventure full of surprises, martial arts and that unmistakable humor that unites entire generations in front of the screen. It can be seen from Saturday, September 12 at 7:25 p.m.”
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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 UKand Crunchyroll.
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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.
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