Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Gets October 11 Premiere Date — What the "Enhanced" Edition Actually Changes

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus now has a premiere date: Sunday, October 11, 2026, at 11:15 p.m. JST, broadcasting nationwide on Fuji TV in Japan. That timing is confirmed specifically for Japan — no international streaming service has announced a same-day release, so treat any claim of a simultaneous Crunchyroll, Hulu or Netflix simulcast as unconfirmed for now.

What actually premieres that night needs some unpacking. Beerus is Toei’s official “ENHANCED edition” of Dragon Ball Super — not a straightforward rerun of the 2015 anime, and not the brand-new post-Tournament of Power continuation some coverage implies. It’s also a completely different project from Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol, a separate new anime that gets confused with it constantly.

So What Exactly Is Dragon Ball Super: Beerus?

Toei’s January 25 announcement, made at the Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri event, describes the ENHANCED edition as featuring “extensive new cuts, revisions to existing scenes, a complete re-rendering of all footage, newly recorded dubbing with added score and sound effects, and a full reconstruction of the story.” The stated goal is to deliver more immersive battle scenes while reflecting Akira Toriyama’s original ideas and worldbuilding more accurately.

That’s considerably more work than an HD remaster implies, but it’s also not a ground-up remake by definition — the project explicitly revises and rebuilds existing material rather than discarding it. The official site’s September wording echoes the same idea in plainer terms: “a large volume of newly added and redrawn cuts, as well as a reconstructed narrative,” using “cutting-edge visual expression” for more immersive battles and a more faithful adaptation of the manga. Akira Toriyama retains the Original Work, Story and Character Design credit.

What the Super Surge Trailer Shows

Toei’s official YouTube channel published the Super Surge Trailer on September 2, built around new footage for the enhanced edition. It opens on a Kamehameha, intercutting Goku and Beerus as their confrontation escalates, then widens to show Frieza — restored to his golden form — alongside a wave of new threats and spaceships closing in on Earth. Both the new opening and ending themes get previews in the same trailer.

It’s worth being careful here: trailer editing doesn’t establish full chronology. The footage draws from the Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’ material, but the exact order, episode count and full villain lineup haven’t been detailed. Toei’s own copy leans into promotional language like “brand-new story” and “expanding scope,” which is easy to misread. Read literally, that’s describing added and reworked story presentation within the enhanced edition — not evidence that Beerus is a separate post-Super sequel. Toei hasn’t defined it that way.

New Opening and Ending Themes

The opening theme is “ONOGAMI” by MEGATERA・ZERO, and the ending is “Kan Peki No Peki” by VK Blanka. Both play in the Super Surge trailer alongside the new footage.

Beerus and The Galactic Patrol Are Two Different Projects

This is the point most coverage glosses over, and it’s worth being exact about.

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is the enhanced, reconstructed version of the existing Dragon Ball Super anime, premiering October 2026 with Beerus-centric material re-rendered, re-recorded and revised.

Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol is a separate, newly produced anime, also announced at January’s Genkidamatsuri event. It adapts the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc — the manga story that follows the Universe Survival arc — and Toei has confirmed it’s officially in production. It does not have a confirmed premiere date, episode count or streaming platform. Don’t combine the two projects’ art or assume Galactic Patrol shares Beerus’s October date; nothing official ties them together beyond both stemming from the same anniversary announcement.

Official key visual for Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol — a separate, newly produced anime. Credit: ©BIRD STUDIO/SHUEISHA, TOEI ANIMATION.

Episode 1 Premieres Early — At NYCC

Three days before Japan’s broadcast, Toei is holding the Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Special Panel at New York Comic Con on Thursday, October 8, from 12:00 to 12:45 p.m. at the Empire Stage inside the Javits Center. The panel includes a world-premiere advance screening of Episode 1, with English voice actors Jason Douglas (Beerus) and Ian Sinclair (Whis) appearing, hosted by Monica Rial (Bulma). That’s an in-person advance screening for the NYCC crowd, not a public U.S. release of the episode — and their attendance doesn’t by itself confirm anything about an English dub’s broadcast schedule.

What We Still Don’t Know

Toei hasn’t announced an international streaming partner, so whether Beerus reaches Crunchyroll, Hulu or any other service — and when — remains open. The existing Crunchyroll library holding the original Dragon Ball Super isn’t evidence of anything for this specific project. Full episode counts, exact story order and how far past the Beerus and Frieza material the enhanced edition runs also haven’t been detailed. What’s confirmed is the October 11 Japan premiere, the NYCC preview, and Toei’s own definition of what “enhanced” means — everything past that is still to be announced.