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Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Episode 4 Stays Close to the Original
The fourth episode of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus follows the 2015 anime more closely than the remake’s earlier episodes did.
It adapts about one and a half episodes of the original, rather than several episodes’ worth of story.
The episode keeps Beerus’s rock-paper-scissors match with Oolong and adds an image to heighten their comic stare-down.
It also cuts some of the Pilaf Gang’s scenes, including dialogue about returning to Bulma’s ship after Pilaf sees Shenron.
Vegeta’s trip with Bulma and Trunks, which the remake had skipped, returns only as a brief flashback during a discussion about the Saiyan God ritual.
These differences are mostly small or cosmetic, though the episode also includes a few changes the reviewer considers worse than the original.
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Episode 4 follows the original 2015 anime more closely than the remake’s earlier episodes did.
The episode, titled “The Saiyan God,” covers about one and a half original episodes, from the middle of Episode 8 through Episode 9.
Most of its changes are cosmetic or involve minor omitted side stories, according to CBR.
The remake keeps Beerus and Oolong’s rock-paper-scissors match and adds imagery to the scene.
The Pilaf Gang’s presence is reduced, while a family vacation involving Vegeta, Bulma and Trunks returns briefly in a flashback.
- Who
- Dragon Ball Super: Beerus, the remake of the 2015 Dragon Ball Super anime.
- What
- Episode 4, “The Saiyan God,” largely follows the original story while making some changes and omissions.
- When
- Published on Nov. 4, 2026, according to the article’s publication date in EST.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- Not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Vegeta takes a family trip with Bulma and Trunks.
The family-trip sequence is skipped.
The family trip returns briefly in a flashback, and the episode adapts material from the middle of original Episode 8 through Episode 9.
- Episode title
- The Saiyan God
- Original story covered
- About 1½ episodes, from halfway through Episode 8 to Episode 9
- Rock-paper-scissors scene
- Beerus and Oolong’s match remains and gains new imagery
- Pilaf Gang
- Pilaf sees Shenron, but the remake omits his order to Mai and Shu to return
- Vegeta’s family trip
- Shown in the 2015 anime’s Episode 2; briefly recalled in the remake’s Episode 4