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Dragon Ball Super
The canonical sequel: twelve universes, gods, and a ceiling pushed higher.
Fact sheet
Main continuity131 episodes2 films
2015–2018
Broadcast
DBS
Synopsis
Dragon Ball Super picks the story up in the gap left by the end of Majin Buu, with Akira Toriyama writing. The series’ first move is to widen the map: above the known gods sit Gods of Destruction, their angel attendants, and eleven other universes.
The arcs alternate registers. Beerus imposes an opponent you cannot beat, only impress. Frieza’s return treats death as an administrative formality. The Tournament of Power puts the survival of Universe 7 on the line in an arena where everyone fights at once.
Super is also the series that gives Vegeta an arc of his own again, and that installs the franchise’s divine register: a scale where energy is measured in control as much as in volume.
Main cast
Main cast
Japanese voice, plus the French voice where it is documented.
- Son Goku
Fighter looking for a ceiling
- Japanese voice
- Masako Nozawa
- French voice
- Patrick Borg
- Vegeta
Rival turned pillar
- Japanese voice
- Ryô Horikawa
- French voice
- Éric Legrand
- Beerus
God of Destruction of Universe 7
- Japanese voice
- Kôichi Yamadera
- Whis
Angel attendant and teacher
- Japanese voice
- Masakazu Morita
- Son Gohan
Scholar pulled back into fighting
- Japanese voice
- Masako Nozawa
- Piccolo
Strategist of the Z Fighters
- Japanese voice
- Toshio Furukawa
Story files
Sagas in this series
01DBSGod of Destruction Beerus saga
2015Episodes 1–14Details
Battle of Gods
Fourteen episodes to reinstall the series and raise the ceiling one notch: above the known gods sit a God of Destruction, his angel attendant, and a scale where raw power is no longer enough. The pace is deliberately slow at first, domestic even, before the sky opens up.
Chapters 1–43 arcsVerified
02DBSFrieza’s resurrection saga
2015–2016Episodes 15–27Details
Return of Frieza
What is left of Frieza’s army uses the balls to bring their employer back. The return mostly serves to show what four months of training can do to a character who had never trained at all.
2 arcsVerified
03DBSUniverse 6 tournament saga
2016Episodes 28–46Details
Universe 6 vs Universe 7
Two Gods of Destruction settle a dispute with a five-on-five tournament between universes. This is the saga that properly opens Super’s cosmology and introduces the Saiyans of Universe 6.
Chapters 5–132 arcsVerified
04DBSFuture Trunks saga
2016–2017Episodes 47–76Details
Goku Black and Zamasu
Trunks returns from a future wrecked by an opponent wearing Goku’s face. Super’s darkest saga, and the one that treats time travel as an offence somebody eventually punishes.
Chapters 14–262 arcsVerified
05DBSUniverse Survival saga
2017–2018Episodes 77–131Details
Tournament of Power
Eight universes, eighty fighters, one arena and forty-eight minutes: eliminated universes are erased. Super’s climax, and the largest melee in the franchise.
Chapters 27–422 arcsVerified
06DBSFilmBroly saga
2018Details
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (film)
The film that writes Broly into the continuity: the fall of Planet Vegeta told from Bardock’s side, exile on Vampa, then a fight on the ice that forces Goku and Vegeta to fuse into Gogeta. Frieza, once again, plays the recruiter.
Verified
07DBSManga onlyGalactic Patrol Prisoner saga
2018–2020Details
Moro
A ten-million-year-old sorcerer breaks out of the galactic prison and devours planets’ energy. Goku and Vegeta join the Patrol; one learns Ultra Instinct from Merus, the other Spirit Fission on Yardrat. Exclusive to Toyotarō’s manga.
Chapters 42–672 arcsNeeds checking
08DBSManga onlyGranolah the Survivor saga
2021–2022Details
Granolah and the Heeters
The last Cerealian wishes to become the strongest in the universe to avenge his people, wiped out by Saiyans in Frieza’s service. Vegeta learns Ultra Ego from Beerus; the saga closes on Frieza’s return as Black Frieza.
Chapters 68–87Needs checking
09DBSFilmSuper Hero saga
2022–2024Details
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (film and manga)
The Red Ribbon Army is reborn around Dr. Hedo and his Gamma androids; Piccolo and Gohan, left alone on Earth, carry the film. The manga extends it with a prologue and an epilogue — the last chapters published in Akira Toriyama’s lifetime.
Chapters 88–103Needs checking
Arcs
Seven years of peaceEpisodes 1–4
A gentle restart: odd jobs, family life, training at the North Kai’s place, and the waking of a god who dreamed of an opponent.
The party on the linerEpisodes 5–9
Beerus turns up at Bulma’s birthday. The Z Fighters try to contain him one by one, and the party becomes a demonstration of just how wide the gap is.
The Super Saiyan God ritualEpisodes 10–14
A transformation obtained through a collective ritual rather than rage: six Saiyans in a circle, a single beneficiary, and a fight in the upper atmosphere.
Sorbet’s wishEpisodes 15–19
Sorbet and Tagoma divert Earth’s balls to bring Frieza back, who puts himself through four months of training — the first of his life — before returning for revenge.
Golden FriezaEpisodes 20–27
The army lands on Earth, the Z Fighters hold the line, then Goku and Vegeta face a golden form whose stamina never caught up with its power.
Champa’s wagerEpisodes 28–32
Beerus’s twin proposes a tournament whose stake is Universe 6’s Earth; the team is recruited, Monaka included, and the Super Dragon Balls are revealed.
The tournament on the Nameless PlanetEpisodes 33–46
Botamo, Frost, Magetta, Cabba and Hit against Universe 7’s team; Zeno’s arrival ends the tournament and raises the question that will drive what follows.
Goku BlackEpisodes 47–60
Trunks’s future is laid waste by a Goku with a foreign ki; first trips in the time machine and the reveal of Black’s identity: Zamasu, apprentice Supreme Kai of Universe 10.
Fused ZamasuEpisodes 61–76
Black and Future Zamasu merge into an immortal being that spills over the universe; Trunks lands the blow, Zeno erases the timeline, and Beerus punishes time travel.
Recruiting Universe 7Episodes 77–96
The exhibition match, the announcement that losing universes will be erased, and the assembly of the team of ten — Frieza included, brought back from Hell for a day.
The Tournament of PowerEpisodes 97–131
Forty-eight minutes in the arena: Universe 7 falls one by one down to Goku against Jiren, the completed Ultra Instinct, and Android 17’s wish restoring every erased universe.
New Namek
Moro targets Namek’s balls; Goku and Vegeta’s first defeat, and the sorcerer recovers his full magic.
The battle for Earth
The escapees strike Earth; Goku returns with an incomplete Ultra Instinct, Merus sacrifices himself, and Moro ends up fused with the planet itself.
Broadcast log
Episodes in this series
- 001A Peacetime Reward: Who Gets the Hundred Million Zeni?
- 002To the Promised Resort! Vegeta Goes on Holiday?
- 003Where Does the Dream Pick Up? The Search for the Super Saiyan God
- 004Aim for the Dragon Balls! The Pilaf Gang’s Grand Scheme
- 005Showdown on the Kai’s Planet: Goku versus the God Beerus
- 006Don’t Anger the God: A Tense Birthday Party
- 007You Laid Hands on Bulma: Vegeta’s Fury
- 008The Prince’s Rage Is Not Enough
- 009The Ritual of Six Saiyans: The Super Saiyan God Is Born
- 010Show Us, Goku: The Power of the Divine Saiyan
- 011Let’s Keep Going, Lord Beerus: The Battle of Gods
- 012The Universe Cracks: God of Destruction versus Divine Saiyan