Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol Anime Announced, With Moro Teased as the Next Big Threat
Dragon Ball is officially coming back in anime form, and it’s doing it with one of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s most anticipated storylines.
At the Dragon Ball Genkidamatsuri event in Japan on January 25, 2026, held at Makuhari Messe as part of the franchise’s 40th anniversary celebration, it was confirmed that Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol is in production. The bigger takeaway is where it lands in the timeline. It’s positioned as the next story after Dragon Ball Super’s “Universe Survival Arc,” the era most fans know as the Tournament of Power.
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The announcement also confirms the direction of the story. The upcoming anime adapts the manga’s Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc (published in the US by VIZ Media), bringing in a new villain referred to as Planet-Eater Moro. And yes, with a name like that, he’s obviously dangerous. In that particular storyline, a prison break throws the Galactic Patrol into crisis, and Moro escapes into the wider universe, pulling Goku and Vegeta into a conflict that stretches far beyond Earth, with the Patrol directly in the mix.
Moro’s personal objective then puts New Namek in his sights and turns the arc into a race for the Dragon Balls. Though what makes him feel dangerous is not only raw strength, but the way he changes the shape of a fight. The manga frames his defining edge as energy absorption, the kind of ability that can drain opponents down over time.
There’s no official release date yet, but production being confirmed is still a real shift. Between the title, the post-Tournament of Power placement, and Moro finally entering the anime timeline, it truly feels like Dragon Ball is setting up its next major TV chapter with a villain designed to make every matchup feel a little more unpredictable.
