According to DeMarco, this happened because of edits made to scenes that failed the Harding Test.
DeMarco added the people who perform the program edits on the show slow down the cuts that failed the test to about four frames per second, which, according to DeMarco, made the fight scenes “look insanely slow.”
Dragon Ball Super airs on Toonami on Saturday evenings at 11:00 p.m. Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the news tip.
Jason DeMarco, senior vice-president and creative director for Adult Swim, posted a thread on Twitter on Friday commenting on “slowdown” in last week’s episode of the Dragon Ball Super anime on Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block.