If you plan to watch from the very beginning to the end of Super , you are looking at nearly of content. That doesn't even include the movies (there are over 20) or the recent web-series Super Dragon Ball Heroes .
Dragon Ball GT (64 episodes) is the franchise’s bastard child. Toriyama provided initial character designs but had almost no hand in the plot. For two decades, fans declared GT “non-canon.” Then Dragon Ball Super arrived, effectively erasing GT from the official timeline.
As of May 2026, the entire anime franchise spans 831 standard episodes . This total includes the five main televised series but excludes promotional web series and upcoming 2026 remasters like Dragon Ball Super: Beerus .
In 2009, Toei Animation released a "refreshed" version of Dragon Ball Z titled Dragon Ball Z Kai .
Furthermore, Super introduced a new structural problem: the . The anime ended in March 2018, but the manga continued through the Galactic Patrol Prisoner and Granolah the Survivor arcs. As of 2026, Toei has not announced a continuation of the Super anime. This means the “episode count” is frozen in a state of limbo—131 is a tombstone, not a finish line.






