The rivalry inside Toei Animation's own portfolio has a repeat winner. The studio's latest 2026 financial report shows Dragon Ball has once again been beaten by One Piece, which Screen Rant calls the biggest anime of this generation.

Both franchises are pillars of Toei's business, but the gap between them keeps showing up in the company's numbers. One Piece's run of momentum — spanning the ongoing anime, films and a steady drumbeat of high-profile collaborations — has consistently translated into stronger financial performance than its shonen stablemate.

For Dragon Ball, the result stings given the franchise's enduring global merchandising power and recent anime activity. But as long as One Piece keeps converting its cultural peak into revenue, Toei's earnings reports are likely to keep telling the same story: the Straw Hats are the studio's flagship, and the gap isn't closing yet.