Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Gets Its English Dub Thursday — Only on Crunchyroll

The English dub of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus starts Thursday, November 12, at 8 a.m. PT, streaming exclusively on Crunchyroll. New dubbed episodes follow weekly. No other platform has a date for it — at launch, Crunchyroll is the only place the dub exists. Toei Animation and Crunchyroll announced the dub on November 5, a month into the subtitled run, with a trailer cut from the rebuilt footage.

The first drop covers the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. The Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs start the same morning, in the same territories, on the same weekly rhythm. In Latin America and Brazil, the dubbed run also reaches Adult Swim on December 4.

The voices are the originals

Sean Schemmel is back as Goku, Christopher R. Sabat as Vegeta, Jason Douglas as Beerus and Ian Sinclair as Whis. That is the full lead cast of the original series’ English dub — the one that first reached American viewers in 2016 — reassembled for the remake.

The Spanish dub kept its anchors too: Mario Castañeda as Goku, René García as Vegeta, José Luis Orozco as Beerus and Arturo Castañeda as Whis. The Brazilian Portuguese cast is led by Wendel Bezerra as Goku, Alfredo Rollo as Vegeta and Marcelo Pissardini as Beerus, with Felipe Grinan as Whis.

A rebuild, not a rerun

Beerus is an enhanced edition of Dragon Ball Super, the series that ran from 2015 to 2018. Toei Animation describes a reconstruction rather than a polish: the story rebuilt, a large volume of newly added and redrawn cuts, every frame re-rendered, and the soundtrack re-recorded with added score and sound effects. The original story and character designs are Akira Toriyama’s.

The shape of the thing is the tell. The original Super ran 131 episodes; Beerus is listed at 19. Those episodes cover the God of Destruction arc, Frieza’s return in his Golden form, and the Universe 6 tournament — the same ground the original needed more than 40 episodes to cross. Listings run the series through February 14, 2027.

The story is Super’s opening movement. Years after the fight with Majin Buu, Earth has gone quiet — and Beerus wakes from a long sleep, hears about a Saiyan who defeated Frieza, and comes looking for him. Even the Kais, who watch his awakening from across the universe, do it with fear: a destroyer who can erase planets on a whim is not someone you negotiate with. A god like that, standing in front of Goku, is the whole engine of the season.

The project itself was announced back in January, in the middle of the franchise’s 40th-anniversary run — a decade after the original series, Toei is treating Super’s opening as the part most worth redoing properly.

The subtitled run is five weeks ahead

The Japanese version premiered October 11 on Fuji TV, taking the Sunday late-night slot One Piece vacated in September. Crunchyroll and Hulu streamed it in the United States the same day; Netflix followed on October 17, and Disney+ carries the subtitled version in Canada and Latin America. A crowd of about 3,000 saw episode one early, at a New York Comic Con screening on October 8. Episode five aired Sunday, November 8.

So the dub starts five episodes back, and the arithmetic never helps it: a dubbed episode every Thursday against a subtitled one every Sunday holds the gap exactly where it opened. At one episode a week, the dub’s finale lands in the back half of March, weeks after the subtitled run closes. Netflix, for its part, carries the subtitled version and has announced no dub date; it runs about a week behind Crunchyroll on those episodes too, posting them on Saturdays. Anyone waiting for the dub to surface on a second service is waiting on an announcement that hasn’t happened.

The question Thursday answers

One thing the announcement never spelled out is how the English track was built. The edition’s audio was re-recorded for the rebuild and the cast is the original cast, but neither Crunchyroll nor Toei has said how much of the dub is fresh recording and how much, if any, carries over from the first run’s sessions. That argument has run since the announcement, in comment threads and on podcasts. It ends Thursday at 8 a.m., when the first episode lands and everybody can just listen.

Crunchyroll is also where the original Super streams, alongside Dragon Ball Daima — so from Thursday, the remake and the series it rebuilds sit on the same service, in both languages, and anyone can compare them scene by scene.

Behind this run, the rebuild is already bigger than one series: Toei has Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol in production, covering the Moro arc — the first Super storyline the anime never reached. Beerus is the way back in, all the same. On Thursday, it starts speaking English.