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Dragon Ball at 40: Franchise Announces Return With New 'Super' Season and Game

Festival announcements signal a restart following a rights impasse after Akira Toriyama’s 2024 death.

Overview

  • Organizers at Japan’s Festival Genkidama unveiled a refreshed Dragon Ball Super: Beerus, a new season titled Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol adapting the Moro arc, and the game Dragon Ball: Age 1000.
  • Reports describe Age 1000 as featuring new characters, with some outlets suggesting it could be Xenoverse 3, a detail presented as a leak rather than a confirmed position from the publishers.
  • The announcements follow a lengthy pause tied to a dispute over lucrative rights involving Capsule Corporation Tokyo, Toei Animation, and Shueisha.
  • Dragon Ball first aired on February 26, 1986 on Fuji Television and ran 153 episodes, launching a franchise later expanded by Z, GT, Z Kai, and Super.
  • The property’s cultural footprint remains vast, with estimates placing franchise revenue near $30 billion and with Goku’s voice actor Masako Nozawa recognized in 2025 as a Person of Cultural Merit in Japan.