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Dragon Ball Super On November 4, 2016, Funimation announced the company acquired the rights to Dragon Ball Super and would be producing an English dub, with many cast members of their previous English-language releases of Dragon Ball media reprising their respective roles.As well as officially announcing the dub, it was also announced they would be simulcasting the series on their streaming platform, FunimationNow.[23][24] On December 7, 2016, IGN reported that the Funimation English dub of Dragon Ball Super would air on Adult Swim Saturdays at 8 p.m. with an encore showing in their Toonami block later that night at 11:30Â p.m. starting on January 7, 2017.[25] This was later confirmed on Toonami's official Facebook page.[26] The United States premiere of Dragon Ball Super obtained 1,063,000 viewers for its 8 p.m. showing on Adult Swim.[27]
List of Dragon Ball films As with the franchise's anime television series, all nineteen films and the first three TV specials were licensed in North America by Funimation. Dragon Ball Z movies six and twelve received select theatrical presentations in the United States, as part of a double-feature on March 17, 2006, while movies fourteen and fifteen were given limited theatrical runs in August 2014 and August 2015 respectively. In Europe, AB Groupe licensed the second and third Dragon Ball movies, the first nine Z movies and the first two TV specials. In 2017, a 20th Dragon Ball film was announced to be released in December of the following year. The film was later revealed to be a Dragon Ball Super feature to be released in Japanese theaters on December 14, 2018, with plans for a worldwide release.