5 Anime That Need the Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Treatment
5 Anime That Need the Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Treatment
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus arrives this fall as a full reconstruction of the God of Destruction and Golden Frieza arcs: new cuts, re-rendered footage, re-recorded dialogue, and rebuilt scenes that provide new context to Akira Toriyama's story. Yes, we are getting a repeat of that same story, but it's looking to be a substantial upgrade from the original series run.
It isn't an isolated decision either. Toei is doing the same thing to World Trigger, rebooting the entire first season from chapter one because the weekly production schedule strangled it in 2014. The World Trigger anime was also known for its disappointing first season, back when we were still in the dark ages of Toei's production quality.
However, things have changed in the year of our lord 2026. If a studio can go back and fix the parts of its own catalog that got rushed, gutted, or abandoned, there's a very long list of shows standing outside that door waiting.
Here are five.
1. Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
The anime ran 203 episodes and stopped in 2010. The manga kept going until 2012. Two entire arcs, the Inheritance Ceremony and the Curse of the Rainbow, were never animated at all. In their place, Artland dropped two original filler arcs into the middle of the Future arc so the show could keep breathing.
So the ending everyone has seen isn't THE ending. It's a pause that turned into a fifteen year hiatus.
The anime turns twenty in October 2026, and the official account has been running an anniversary campaign: new key visual, retrospective PV, short clips for all 203 episodes posted daily. That's either a nostalgia lap or a temperature check, and we'd wager the latter. It's essentially a telltale sign that conversations about a revival are in the air. A consistent remake made by the same team behind My Hero Academia (Studio Bones) would serve the shonen community for generations.
2. Claymore
The Claymore anime ran twenty six episodes in 2007. The manga ran until 2014.
The anime caught up to Norihiro Yagi's manga and improvised a finale, which means the version most people know closes on a fight that's essentially filler. Everything after Pieta, the entire back half of the story, the timeskip, the Abyssal Ones, exists only on the page the IP came from.
A modern full run would be the most obvious Brotherhood-style correction available, and with the current appetite for stories with strong female leads, it would send ripples through the community.
3. Soul Eater
Bones adapted the manga for about thirty five episodes and then winged it for the rest of the show's run. Atsushi Ohkubo didn't finish the manga until 2013, so the 2008 anime finale is a fabrication that resolves one objective of the story, not the full one.
The design work is the argument here. Soul Eater's visual identity, the world design, the laughing sun, the character art, is one of the most distinct things Bones has ever put on screen. The art style has aged very well and gets praise from anime fans across multiple decades. A remake that ties into its sequel, Fire Force, made by David Production, could very well break the internet if executed properly.
4. Berserk
The 1997 series is well made and adapts the material all the way through the Golden Age arc. That's it. The 2016 and 2017 seasons went CG and became another lesson in why anime should not fully rely on 3D CGI.
Fan studios keep trying, but the quality of a full fledged studio is clearly absent in every attempt. Studio Eclypse's Black Swordsman project got shut down after Hakusensha and Studio Gaga called it unauthorized. A successor group called Band of the Wolf announced they'd start production in 2026, staffed partly by former Eclypse animators. If MAPPA or ufotable picks up the mantle and makes a primarily 2D anime in the vein of Demon Slayer or Attack on Titan, the anime community would have two words to say. Absolute cinema.
5. Black Clover
Season two lands in October 2026, five years after the anime stopped at episode 170. Studio Pierrot is back, Ayataka Tanemura is directing, and the Spade Kingdom Raid arc finally gets animated.
With that being said, the future is in good hands. However, for it to be in great hands, the beginning portion of the series needs the same energy and treatment it had in the original OVA.
Black Clover's first stretch is notorious. Not for being bad, exactly, but for being slow and loud in a way that filtered out a huge number of people before the show found its footing around the hundred episode mark. The people who stayed will tell you it becomes one of the best shonen on television. The people who left made it about thirty episodes in and never came back, because they were watching Fairy Tail with blander animation.
An enhanced recut of the early run, in the exact vein of what Toei is doing to World Trigger, would be the single most useful thing anyone could do for this franchise. There's a new season arriving with a five year gap in front of it, and the on ramp is still the version that made people quit.
What the Beerus precedent actually means
Toei's language around the Beerus project is worth reading closely: extensive new cuts, revisions to existing scenes, a complete re-rendering of all footage, newly recorded dubbing, a full reconstruction of the story. That's not a remaster. A remaster is an upscale. This is a rebuild.
And the business case is obvious. The IP is already valuable, the audience already exists, the story is already written and already tested. The risk profile on rebuilding a known quantity is lower than launching something new, which is why World Trigger is getting the same treatment and why the list above is going to get shorter over the next few years rather than longer.