Crunchyroll will start streaming the English dub of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus on November 12 at 11:00 a.m. EST. New dubbed episodes go up weekly. Spanish and Portuguese dubs launch at the same time, and Crunchyroll says the dub streams are exclusive to the platform.
The subtitled Japanese version has been running since October 11 in the United States, Canada, Latin America including Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Southeast Asia and Europe. Hulu carries the series as it airs, and Netflix added it in the U.S. on October 17 and in selected countries on October 14. The first episode also screened early at the Dragon Ball Super: Beerus panel at New York Comic Con on October 8.
So the dub announcement is the last piece of the rollout. For most of the English-speaking audience, it is also the piece that matters.
What this version of Dragon Ball Super actually is
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is not a new story. It is a rebuild of the 2015 series. Akio Iyoku said the work started a few years ago and described it as a reconstruction of the story with new and redrawn cuts. The official announcement put it plainly: Dragon Ball Super begins anew as Dragon Ball Super: Beerus in fall 2026.
The original Dragon Ball Super ran 131 episodes from July 2015 to March 2018. Its early stretch retold the Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F' films before moving into new material, and that opening arc is where the Beerus title comes from. A reconstruction of a series that already retold two movies is a strange thing to build, but the production has been clear about what it is doing: same story, new animation.
Kōichi Yamadera is back as Beerus. MEGATERA･ZERO performs the opening theme "ONOGAMI," and VK Blanka performs the ending theme "Kan Peki No Peki."
Why the dub matters more than the sub for this one
Dragon Ball's English-language audience was built on television, not simulcasts. Funimation debuted the Dragon Ball Super dub on its streaming service in December 2016, and it hit Adult Swim's Toonami block in January 2017. A generation of viewers met the series through that broadcast and never switched over to subtitles afterward.
That history explains the release order here. Subtitles first in October kept the simulcast crowd served while the dub was being produced, which is standard now, but Dragon Ball is one of the few anime properties where the dub is not a secondary product. The weekly rollout pattern also matches how the series was originally consumed in the U.S., one episode at a time with a wait in between.
Where the dub will sit in the winter schedule
The dub premieres while the fall season is still finishing, which means it overlaps with the last month of the current broadcast year and runs straight through the winter premieres. Crunchyroll has not said how many dubbed episodes are ready or whether the weekly schedule will break for holidays.
For anyone waiting on the English version before starting, November 12 is the date. Everyone else has had a month's head start.
Source: Anime News Network.
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