Dragon Ball Super To Premiere On Toonami In January

Toei Animation, FUNimation Entertainment, and Adult Swim announced on Wednesday that Funimation's English dub of Dragon Ball Super will air on Adult Swim's Toonami block. The first season will premiere on January 7, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. EST and 11:30 p.m. EST. Funimation also launched an official website and streamed a new dubbed clip:

The 26 episodes of the first season — which encompass the storylines of the Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' films — are scheduled to follow.
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The cast includes:​

Sean Schemmel as Goku & Christopher R. Sabat as Vegeta
Jason Douglas as Beerus & Ian Sinclair as Whis
Sonny Strait as Krillin & Kyle Hebert as Gohan
Monica Rial as Bulma & Christopher R. Sabat as Piccolo
Alexis Tipton as Trunks & Doc Morgan as Narrator
Kara Edwards as Goten & Cynthia Cranz as Chi-Chi
Meredith McCoy as Android 18 & Chris Rager as Mr. Satan
Josh Martin as Buu & Sean Schemmel as King Kai
Christopher R. Sabat as Shenron & Kara Edwards as Videl
Christopher R. Sabat as Yamcha & John Burgmeier as Tien
Chris Cason as Shou & Mike McFarland as Roshi
Brina Palencia as Puar & Chuck Huber as Pilaf
Kyle Hebert as Ox-King & Brad Jackson as Oolong
Tia Ballard as Marron & Kent Williams as Kibito Kai
Kent Williams as Elder Kai & Justin Cook as Dende
Brina Palencia as Chiaotzu & Colleen Clinkenbeard as Mai

The FunimationNow, Crunchyroll, Daisuki, and AnimeLab streaming platforms are all simulcasting the series with English subtitles.

Dragon Ball Super premiered in Japan in July 2015 on Fuji TV and other channels. Toonami Asia will premiere the series in Southeast Asia and India on January 21 with a different English dub produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment. Toei Animation announced last month that the anime will begin airing in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa between fall and winter.​

 

Is Super any good?

I've heard horrible things.

 

If you want my honest to truth answer, skip the first 30 or so episode. It's basically all Battle of God's film recap. You'll essentially waste your time watching it and the animation quality is just awful. It actually infatuated Akira Toriyama to the point he spoke out about it saying his fans deserved better and that the studio involved with the project was tarnishing the franchise. Now he is on board and actually helping with the drawing/editing and direction the stories taking. You can tell to by just how much more gag real and jokes are put into everything which is very Akira if you know his personality.

In short just skip things and start out on the Chappa Arc or Universe 6 vs 7 Arc. It's not a overly bad arc, but I can't say I liked it all that much. Most likely due to it being used as a world building arc more than anything else. The next arc though is significantly better being the Future Trunks & Zamasu/Goku Black Arc. If you do decide to watch it I hope you can enjoy it. If not you may be better off dropping it or coming back to it when you have nothing better to watch. ​

 

Good to know -- I'll think about it.

I won't be comfortable with skipping 30 episodes, (in spite of the fact I can probably infer what's to happen by episode 1), but knowing that it's entertaining at all (yes, even if it takes 30 episodes) is invaluable information.

Thanks, Vlad.