Dragon Ball Super Season 2: Is It Actually Happening?

Yes. After eight years of fans asking and getting movies, a spinoff, and long stretches of nothing instead, Dragon Ball Super is officially getting more anime again.

The confirmation came at Toei's Genkidamatsuri showcase in January 2026, and it was not one project but two. The catch, and there is always a catch, is that only one of them is the continuation people have actually been waiting for.

What Toei actually announced

Two Super anime are in the pipeline. Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol is the story continuation, picking the manga back up. Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is a 40th anniversary remaster of an arc you have already seen. Both are real, both are coming, and they are very much not the same kind of thing.

Why nobody believed it would happen

The skepticism was earned. The Super anime went off the air in March 2018 after the Tournament of Power. What followed was movie-shaped: Broly in 2018, Super Hero in 2022. Then Daima arrived as a fun side story rather than a continuation, and the manga quietly stalled with no return date. Eight years of everything except the actual next chapter trains you to assume it is never coming.

If you only care about one of these, care about this one. Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol is the continuation, the closest thing to a true Season 2 the show has had since 2018.

It moves the story forward, finally

The Galactic Patrol adapts the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc from Toyotarou's manga, the storyline that comes after the Tournament of Power. That means new material, not a rerun: Goku and Vegeta tangling with Moro, the planet-draining sorcerer who gave the manga its best villain in years. For the first time in a long while, the anime would actually be telling you something you have not watched before.

In production, with the usual asterisk

Toei confirmed it is in production. Toei did not confirm when you can watch it. No firm release date, no season-length details, nothing past the announcement itself. Telling fans the thing exists and then going quiet on the date is the most Dragon Ball move imaginable, and it is exactly what happened here.

Here is where expectations need managing. The Super project arriving first is not the new story. It is Dragon Ball Super: Beerus, and it is a remaster.

What Beerus actually is

Beerus is a re-edited, partly re-animated version of the Battle of Gods arc, built for the franchise's 40th anniversary and aimed at a fall 2026 window. It comes with new footage, animation cleanup, and re-recorded audio, and the arc-by-arc remake plan eventually marches all the way to the Moro saga. It looks sharp. It is also a story you watched in 2015.

So is Super back? Yes, with an asterisk

The answer to the question everyone is typing into Google is a genuine yes. The honest footnote is that the remaster gets here first, and the real continuation, the Galactic Patrol and its Moro arc, is the one worth waiting for. After eight years, Dragon Ball Super fans have both a date-less promise and a polished rerun, which somehow feels exactly right. The continuation is coming. Pace yourself.