Toei Animation Officially Announced Dragon Ball Department


Last Friday, Toei Animation officially announced (translated by ANN) that it will have some department restructurings on April 1, and part of that is the establishment of a third department under its Anime Planning and Production Headquarters that will focus mainly on the Dragon Ball franchise. The new department will be led by Atsushi Suzuki (producer of Expelled from Paradise, Digimon Adventuretri.), who will still retain his executive and business development department head titles.

The other two divisions will also be restructured.The Television Planning Department will be renamed into Planning Division Department 1. Under this department will be Video Planning Office 1, the Overseas Video Planning Office, and the Video Planning Management Office. The head of this department and the Video Planning Management Office is still

Takashi Washio

,

planning) but he will no longer be the head of the Film Office.

The CG anime-focused Video Planning Department will be renamed into Planning Division Department 2 and will also keep its current focus. The department will comprise of the Video Planning Office 2 and the Media Planning Office. The department will be led by Kouichi Noguchi (

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producer)

The Oizumi Studio General Affairs Office and the Production Management Department will be merged and renamed the Student Management Department. In adition, the General Affairs Department and the Human Resources Department will be merged and renamed the General Affairs Humans Resources Department. Talk about fusion!

Dragon Ball Super is available for streaming on Crunchyroll Saturdays at 7:15 p.m. CST. Toonami still airs the English dub of Dragon Ball Super on Adult Swim Saturdays at 9:30 p.m. It's also available to stream on FunimationNOW and Amazon. The upcoming Dragon Ball Super film will be released on December 14.

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