After a nearly ten year run on Cartoon Network, King of the Hill is being shown the door and the network is now bringing in Dragon Ball Super to take over. The intent is to go back to the beginning of the series and offer up five nights a week at the prime 8pm slot this series beginning on July 2nd, 2018. Te Toonami slot on Saturday’s remain unchanged with the latest dubbed episodes arriving there and then eventually going into the weekday rotation.
Toei Animation is animating the series that comes from a story concept from Akira Toriyama. The debut of the series marks the first new series for the property in eighteen years. The show is being broadcast in Asia, Germany, and elsewhere through various agreements set up.
The cast includes Masako Nozawa as Son Goku, Son Gohan and Son Goten, Ryo Horikawa as Vegeta, Hiromi Tsuru as Bulma, Takeshi Kusao as Trunks, Mayumi Tanaka as Krillin, Masaharu Satou as Kame-Sen’nin, Toshio Furukawa as Piccolo, Naoko Watanabe as Chi-Chi, Yuko Minaguchi as Videl, Unshou Ishizuka as Mr. Satan, Kôzô Shioya as Majin Buu, Kouichi Yamadera as God of Destruction Beerus and Masakazu Morita as Whis.
Plot Concept: With Majin Buu defeated, Goku has taken a completely new role as a…radish farmer?! With Earth at peace, our heroes have settled into normal lives. But they can’t get too comfortable. Far away, a powerful god awakens to a prophecy revealing his demise at the hands of a formidable being. When his search for the Saiyan God brings him to Earth, can Goku and his friends take on their strongest foe yet?