Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Is a Remake, and Here's What It Retells
Dragon Ball Super Beerus remakes the first sagas of the 2015 series, starting at Battle of Gods. What it covers, the manga chapters it overlaps and the watch order.
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Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is a remake, not a new story. It is an “enhanced edition” of the 2015 Dragon Ball Super anime, with redrawn cuts and a reconstructed story, and it starts by retelling the Battle of Gods arc, the one where Beerus wakes up and goes looking for the Saiyan who beat Frieza.
It began airing in Japan on October 11, 2026, with Crunchyroll streaming it the same day. Wikipedia’s page for the series lists Crunchyroll worldwide, Hulu in the US and Netflix, which added it in the US on October 17, and shows four episodes aired with episode 5 set for November 8, 2026. Streaming lists change, so check your own service. This covers what it retells and how much of that is confirmed, which manga chapters overlap it, where it sits in the Dragon Ball order and what to watch first.
What the remake retells
Two things are on the record. Toei and Crunchyroll’s announcement calls it an “enhanced edition” and bases it on the God of Destruction Beerus saga of the 2015 series, according to AniTrendz’s write-up of the announcement. And Wikipedia says executive producer Akio Iyoku described the reconstruction as beginning with the Battle of Gods arc. The same page maps the first episodes to footage from episodes 1 to 9 of the 2015 series, and notes that episode 1 includes a scene that only the manga had.
Battle of Gods first
The 2015 series opened by retelling the 2013 film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. Wikipedia’s page on the original series says its first 27 episodes readapt that film and the 2015 film Resurrection ‘F’, with anime-original additions. So when Beerus says it starts at Battle of Gods, it is retelling a story that has already been told as a film, then as a TV arc, and now again.
How far it goes
Screen Rant reports that Toei confirmed three sagas, the God of Destruction Beerus saga, the Frieza revival saga (the Golden Frieza story, Resurrection ‘F’) and the Universe 6 saga. That is the same ground the 2015 series covered at its start, which Screen Rant says took more than 40 episodes.
The saga list comes from Screen Rant’s report, and Toei has not published a list of its own. The episode count is less certain still. The same article says the remake is “slated for 19 episodes,” but it takes that from a fan account on X, not from Toei. No source says whether the remake continues past Universe 6.
Where it sits in the Dragon Ball order
The official synopsis, which Achriom’s page for the series carries, says several years have passed since the fight with Majin Buu and Beerus wakes from a long sleep. So the chronology is simple. Dragon Ball Z comes first, through the Buu story. Beerus comes after, and it covers the same stretch as the first part of the 2015 series.
That gives you a few ways in.
- The 2015 series. Dragon Ball Super (2015) is finished, 131 episodes from July 5, 2015 to March 25, 2018 per Wikipedia, and it goes well beyond what the remake has announced.
- The films. Battle of Gods (2013) and Resurrection ‘F’ (2015) are the two stories the 2015 series started from.
- The remake. Beerus (2026) is the newest telling, with the animation redone.
If you have never seen Super, the remake is a sensible front door because it begins where the story begins. If you want the whole run, including everything after Universe 6, the 2015 series is the only one that has it so far. Watching both means seeing the same opening twice, which is a fair price if you want to compare how the two tell it. If you do, Dragon Ball Z itself is on Achriom as Dragon Ball Z (1989).
The manga
The manga is Dragon Ball Super, illustrated by Toyotarou and running in Shueisha’s V Jump since June 2015. The overlap with the remake is partial.
Chapters 1 to 4
Kanzenshuu’s arc list calls the Beerus arc, chapters 1 to 4, an abbreviated but comprehensive adaptation of Battle of Gods. Four chapters is far shorter than the film or the anime arc, so the manga is the quick version of this story.
Chapters 5 to 13
The same list puts the Universe 6 vs. Universe 7 tournament in chapters 5 to 13. If the remake reaches that saga, this is the manga it lines up with.
No chapters for Golden Frieza
Kanzenshuu says the Dragon Ball Super manga has no adaptation of Resurrection ‘F’. The only manga coverage is a three-chapter preview that ran in V Jump months before the series began. So if the remake does retell the Frieza story, it has no manga counterpart to read beside it.
Tracking it on Achriom
Beerus has its own page on Achriom, separate from the 2015 series and from the two films, so you can mark what you have seen of each. On an anime page you set a status, count episodes, log rewatches, write a review and add the series to lists, and the anime sits beside your films and books.
Manga is on the web only for now, not on iOS, and it has no title page yet, so the Dragon Ball Super manga is a library entry rather than a page like the anime has.
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Common questions
Is Dragon Ball Super Beerus new or a remake?
It is a remake. Dragon Ball Super Beerus is an “enhanced edition” of the 2015 Dragon Ball Super anime, with new and redrawn cuts and a reconstructed story, and it starts by retelling the Battle of Gods story.
What does Dragon Ball Super Beerus adapt?
Crunchyroll’s announcement bases it on the God of Destruction Beerus saga of the 2015 anime. A report on the arc list says Toei confirmed three sagas, Beerus, Frieza’s revival and the Universe 6 tournament.
Which manga chapters does Dragon Ball Super Beerus cover?
Kanzenshuu’s arc list puts the Battle of Gods story in chapters 1 to 4 of the Dragon Ball Super manga and the Universe 6 tournament in chapters 5 to 13. The Golden Frieza story has no chapters in the manga.
Do I need to watch Dragon Ball Super before Beerus?
No. Beerus retells the opening of Super, so you can start there after Dragon Ball Z. You only need to have seen Z through the Majin Buu story, because Beerus picks up several years after it.
How many episodes does Dragon Ball Super Beerus have?
Toei has not announced a count. One outlet reports 19 episodes, citing an X account rather than Toei, so treat it as unconfirmed.
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