Disney+ have once again expanded its anime selection in the UK, as during the weekend I noticed that the remaining episodes from Dragon Ball Z Kai (including Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters), and the entirety of Dragon Ball Super have been added to the streaming platform. In addition, the first seasons of Jujutsu Kaisen and Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon?, as well as both seasons of The Eminence in Shadow have also been added.
All of the series mentioned are available to stream in both dubbed and subbed format, with synopsis and links to the page on Disney+ listed below.
Dragon Ball Z Kai: For the first time in history, experience the legendary Z as the master intended: bigger, faster, stronger, and packed with the pulverizing power to blow your puny minds! Beef up your collection with this manga-centric, fresh take on Akira Toriyama’s original vision, featuring more action than you can handle, revitalized animation, and an amped-up audio experience that will make your ears beg for mercy!
Dragon Ball Super: With the battle against Majin Buu over, peace has returned to Earth. Between planning weddings, birthdays, and new training regimes, the Z fighters live their normal lives while a new danger travels through the galaxy. The God of Destruction is coming, his sights set on finding the mysterious Super Saiyan God. Are our heroes ready to face the powers of a god?
Jujutsu Kaisen: Yuji Itadori, a young boy with extraordinary physical abilities, is just a normal high school student. But one day, in order to save a schoolmate assaulted by a “curse,” he ate “Sukuna’s finger”—a cursed object— and incarnated a curse in his own soul. Now that Itadori shares the same body with the curse known as Ryomen Sukuna, he enrolls into Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School —an organization that exorcises curses—under the referral of Satoru Gojo, the strongest Jujutsu Sorcerer.
Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon?: The labyrinth city of Orario is a sprawling metropolis built over a massive underground labyrinth known as The Dungeon. Within it dwells the thrill of the unknown, glorious honor, and romance with divas. In this city where hope and desire intermingle, a boy encounters a goddess who welcomes him in her Familia. This is the story of the young boy’s growth, as recorded by the goddess – Familia Myth.
The Eminence in Shadow: An eminence in shadow. This is a person who usually hides his or her abilities and remains a background figure, intervening in the story from the shadows. A certain boy aspires to become such an eminence in shadow and lives inconspicuously while training for power. However, he loses his life in an accident and is reborn in a different world. The youth is reborn as Cid Kagenou, and decides to enjoy the eminence in shadow possibilities of the other world. He works behind the scenes, just for fun, leading his secret organization Shadow Garden, to defeat a dark cult that he himself had created in a fantasy, but it seems that the dark cult really exists. The girls who are under his command worship Cid as Shadow, and Cid is able to become a real eminence in shadow without even realizing it.
As a reminder the episodes of Dragon Ball Z Kai available to stream on Disney+ are presented in 16:9 widescreen as opposed to the original 4:3 aspect ratio, and are also exactly the same episodes that were added to Crunchyroll in 2024. The original Blu-Ray and DVD releases of Dragon Ball Z Kai in the UK (and North America), as well as the original broadcast of the series in Japan, saw episodes presented in 4:3 aspect ratio just like the original series of Dragon Ball Z.
Image above is being used as a reference for the difference between 4:3 and 16:9 versions of the series.
Additionally the opening and closing segments are presented with Japanese text (as opposed to the translated/localized versions seen on the Blu-Ray and DVD releases) and the songs, unlike the Crunchyroll streams, are only sung in Japanese when watching it dubbed in English. The same also applies to Dragon Ball Super, which sees the original Japanese version of the opening and ending song rather than the localized versions.
Image above is being used as a reference for the difference between the Blu-Ray and streaming versions of the series.
In regards to Dragon Ball Z Kai it seems TOEI Animation reworked the series in to 16:9 so that it has parity with Dragon Ball Z: The Final Chapters and Dragon Ball Super so that the entire franchise is in one resolution format. Of course it is unclear why the opening and ending songs are all in Japanese (rather than localized), but it is nice to hear the original Japanese songs when watching the English dub version of the series.
Either way, as it stands all episodes of Dragon Ball Z Kai, Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters, Dragon Ball Super, Jujutsu Kaisen and The Eminence in Shadow are available to stream on Disney+ in addition to the first season of Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon?. Rumours also suggested that in June the Dragon Ball Super movies will be added alongside My Hero Academia, so I’ll let you know when I see those appear (if they do).
