This week’s upcoming April 2014 issue of V-Jump (officially hitting store shelves 21 February 2014) announces the continuation of the “Full Color” comics print edition with the “Artificial Humans & Cell” arc and “Majin Boo” arc spanning six volumes each.

The release schedule will be interesting, with the first three volumes of the “Artificial Humans & Cell” arc coming 04 April 2014 and the rest of the volumes coming at some unannounced later point in time. The “Full Color” volumes will remain at a base price of ¥600, but their tax-inclusive price will rise to ¥648 (from ¥630) due to the consumption tax increase.

The company released print editions of the Saiyan arc (three volumes; February 2013) and Freeza arc (five volumes; April 2013), but the entire rest of the series has been digital-only until now.

The “Full Color” version of the Dragon Ball manga began back in June 2009. Over a five-month period, Shueisha released — for free, in both Japanese and in English with Viz’s existing translation — the first 23 chapters of the series. After this abrupt end, things fell silent for nearly three years. In late 2012 the company released the original black-and-white/monochrome version of the manga to digital retailers, and then a print version of the Saiyan arc in the “Full Color” format. Soon after, the full digital strategy was laid out with them going back to the beginning as digital-only, and eventually they released the entire series in a colorized digital format.

As Viz wraps up with a digital release of the “Full Color” version of the Saiyan arc in their own English-language Weekly Shonen Jump, they have begun a print release starting with the same material.