Dragon Ball fans have been eagerly awaiting news regarding the future of the series throughout 2025. And, while eyes remain focused on announcements coming in January 2026 and rumors surrounding a new Dragon Ball Super film, Toei Animation has released information in advance that will be of great interest to the fandom.
Toei Animation has developed a plan for the future of Dragon Ball and its other anime. As reported by @Venixys on X (formerly Twitter), the studio that produced Dragon Ball anime since the 1980s now begins the first stage of a ten-year strategy aimed at making Toei a global powerhouse.
Toei Animation’s Dragon Ball Reveals Ambitious 10-Year Plan to Become a Global Anime Powerhouse
As anime has become more mainstream during the 2020s, demand in international markets has increased. has grown significantly, as evidenced by the box office successes of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie – Infinity Castle And Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc. Toei Animation’s goal over the next decade is to meet the demand for anime in international markets and become the largest anime production studio in the world.
Toei Animation has outlined several of its core goals for the first stage of its plan. These include: continuing to develop the studio’s flagship IPs, such as Dragon Ball And One pieceglobally, filling hundreds of major roles within Oizumi Studio, developing 2-3 new studios across Asia to support Japanese production over the next five years, delivering visual expressions and experiences that “go beyond” animation, expanding assets and environments, developing next-generation technologies such as VR, AR and XR, gaming, motion capture and AI, and investing approximately 70 billion yen over five years in production development.
Toei Animation also seeks to center Oizumi Studio and its artists, promoting them more and increasing the efficiency of their workflow. In doing so, the studio aims to create 25 new IPs across North America, China and Europe, as well as enter markets in Central and South America, Asia, the Middle East, India and Africa, a mission for which they are investing 20 billion yen over the next five years. Another 19 billion yen is being invested in logistics, e-commerce, facilities and global events.