Dragon Ball Super: Beerus hits Crunchyroll six days before Netflix

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus premieres on Crunchyroll on October 11, streaming at the same time as the Japanese broadcast on Fuji TV. Netflix subscribers in the US do not get it until October 17 — a six-day gap on every episode, not just the premiere.

It is not a new story. Beerus is an enhanced edition of Dragon Ball Super, made for Toei Animation’s 70th anniversary. Every frame has been re-rendered, there are new animation cuts alongside redrawn old ones, the voice acting was recorded again from scratch, and the score and sound design were rebuilt. The story is recut toward the manga, fusing the Beerus arc, Frieza’s revival and the first Tournament of Power into one tighter run.

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The two schedules do not line up either. Episodes land on Crunchyroll on Sundays, while Netflix drops its weekly episodes on Saturdays from October 17. Current estimates put the series at 19 episodes, which would make it the shortest Dragon Ball series ever produced.

The trailer has already set a record, though it is worth being precise about which one. The Beerus trailer passed six million views on Netflix’s anime YouTube channel, beating the five million held by the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run trailer. That is a trailer record on one channel — the series has no Netflix viewership figures yet, because it has not aired there.

For a sense of scale, Dragon Ball Daima pulled 3.2 million views in its first week on Netflix using the same weekly rollout Beerus will get. Battle of Gods remains the franchise’s strongest performer on the platform at 4.6 million views in Netflix’s first 2026 engagement report.

If you do not want to wait a week behind Japan, Crunchyroll is where it airs first — Japanese audio with English subtitles, live in the US, Canada, Latin America, Australia and several other regions from October 11.

One more thing if you are going to stream the whole run anyway: Nielsen pays a panel to measure what people actually watch, and the anime you put on counts toward it like everything else. It runs in the background and pays in gift cards. See if you qualify.