The franchise was so popular and made so much money for Toei Animation, a department that deals strictly with the Dragon Ball property was created shortly after the series' ended.ĭragon Ball Super: Broly recently released in North America and has made more than $88 million dollars at the box office at the time of this writing. The English dub of the anime is still running weekly on Toonami's block of programming. Toei Animation could be leveraging the popularity of Dragon Ball Super to get deals for television, toys and more.ĭragon Ball Super completed its original Japanese run after 131 episodes back in March 2018. NATPE is a licensing convention where companies show off their IPs and brands to sell to investors. Toei Animation told Anime News Network that the report 'is not true at this moment.' 'The company is also making more episodes of Dragon Ball Super, a Japanese fantasy martial arts action series in the Dragon Ball media franchise that follows Goku in the aftermath of Majin Buu's defeat and as God of Destruction Beerus awakens.'

More episodes of Dragon Ball Super are reportedly on the way, if a story on Toei Animation from a trade show is to be believed.Īccording to a spotlight article from World Screen, who was covering the National Association of Television Program Executives or NATPE, the report states the media group is bringing more episodes of Dragon Ball Super. World Screen has updated its story to reflect this change. Update: After the news, Toei's media representative, David Syatt told Newsweek, 'Toei does not have plans to produce new Dragon Ball Super episodes at this time.'

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