Dragon Ball fans have eagerly awaited news regarding the series’ future throughout 2025. And, while eyes remain focused on the upcoming announcements in January 2026 and the rumors surrounding a new Dragon Ball Super movie, Toei Animation has released information ahead of time 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 has produced Dragon Ball anime since the 1980s is now proceeding with the first stage of a ten-year strategy to turn Toei into a global powerhouse.

Dragon Ball’s Toei Animation Reveals Ambitious 10-Year Plan to Become Global Anime Powerhouse

As anime has grown more mainstream throughout the 2020s, the demand for it in international markets has increased significantly, as evident in 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 world’s largest anime production studio.

Toei Animation has outlined several of its core goals for the first stage of its plan. These include: continuing to expand the studio’s flagship IPs, such as Dragon Ball and One Piece, globally, filling hundreds of major roles within Oizumi Studio, developing 2–3 new studios throughout Asia to support Japanese production over the next five years, offering visual expressions and experiences that “go beyond” animation, expanding assets and environments, developing next-generation technologies such as VR, AR, and XR, games, motion capture, and AI, and investing approximately 70 billion Yen over five years in the development of productions.

Toei Animation is also looking to center Oizumi Studio and its artists, promoting them more heavily, and increasing the efficiency of their workflow. While doing this, the studio aims to create 25 new IPs in North America, China, and Europe, and to enter the Central and South American, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian, and African markets as well, a mission for which they’re investing 20 billion Yen over the next five years. An additional 19 billion Yen is being invested into logistics, e-commerce, facilities, and global events.