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Published by 10 May 2026, 10:36 AM EDTComment

It’s another week with an unintentional primary focus on manga! Sometimes that’s just how it shakes out. We’re really running the gamut again here with everything from an actual Toriyama series, to a collaboration one-shot, to a spin-off series, to compilation volumes… and let’s not forget that fan manga!

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

  • Dragon Ball AF (Toyble)“: Ken’s deep-dive into this historically-important piece of fan media continues with summaries of all the main volume contents, and now moves on to its influences and legacy. We actually have some archive material shipping in this week to cite here on the page, so stay tuned for even more…!
  • Cross Epoch“: While its page here on the main site is already pretty content-complete, it made sense to replicate and expand on some of that work for its respective wiki page. In particular, we’ve detailed some of its various (limited!) official English releases from Viz, along with a first-stab at a write-up regarding its legacy.
  • Savings Soldier Cashman (1990 Manga)“: Moving backward from its 1997 reboot manga, here we are where it all began back in V-Jump with Akira Toriyama’s original Savings Soldier Cashman manga. The history of this three-chapter series is fully documented with a bunch of great resources I haven’t seen anywhere else, including early character designs and details on its debut action figure directly from those actual V-Jump issues!
  • Go! Go! Ackman 3 (Cel Comic)“: Last week we shared the Go! Go! Ackman 2 cel comic documentation, so it only made sense to wrap things up with this final one! With this four-chapter comic and the release of the corresponding Super Famicom game, Ackman’s reign of terror(?) finally comes to an end.
  • Dragon Quest Anthology (Manga)“: While doing some final clean-up and research about a few one-shots, I happened upon this short run of Shueisha Jump Remix volumes for a few Dragon Quest series. Short and to the point here, but some necessary citations for additional releases and compilations of these chapters.

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Published by 03 May 2026, 9:57 AM EDTComment

It’s been a month since launch! What a wild ride. We hope everyone’s enjoying all the new stuff and finding cool new things — but if you need some suggestions, here’s another small selection of recent things to check out.

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

  • Dragon Ball release chronology“: Even we keep finding things in the depths of the wiki we forgot we made! We’re big fans of big ol’ “list” pages — things that give a real nice overview of a subject at a quick glance. This page provides a color-coded view of all mainline Dragon Ball releases (e.g., manga chapters, episode broadcasts, volume releases, etc.), and is now up to date with things like Daima and the Dragon Ball Super manga. Just need to get those Dragon Ball GT episodes in here, now…!
  • Bulma (Resident Number TKM118755)“: Sometimes you need to clear your mind with an extremely simple, one-off character write-up.
  • Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO“: Kev is one of our major workhorses behind the scenes, and in addition to a ton of character pages, he’s turned this attention to the latest Sparking! game — really nice overview of characters, forms, and outfits right now (of course with tons more still to add).
  • Go! Go! Ackman 2 (Cel Comic)“: More content in the expanded Akira Toriyama universe! Did you know there was a Go! Go! Ackman sequel comic? Did you know that sequel comic got two sequels of its own to promote the video games?! Here’s the middle one!

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Published by 26 April 2026, 4:36 PM EDTComment

Here we are three weekends post-launch! Everyone’s still plugging away at a million different things — here’s another small selection of cool, recent things to check out.

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

  • Birthday“: After crashing out a bit realizing that people still slogging it over on The Everything App haven’t learned that Goku does not have a set birth date specified anywhere, I put together this comprehensive page listing all traditional (and many non-traditional!) instances of birth dates and birthday celebrations in the franchise. Are we missing any? Let us know!
  • Dragon Quest Monsters+“: This 2000-2003 manga series by Mine Yoshizaki — which actually got an English release a few years back! — is now (basically) fully documented, including all of its individual chapters. There’s a little cleanup work to do with character blurbs (and eventually individual Monthly Shōnen Gangan release dates), but the majority of work is done here.
  • Arale’s Jump Up“: The page for this PC-8001 mkII game now includes a translation of its programmer bio blurb as well as the story/mechanics overview! (Have you checked out that “Additional Franchise Video Games” page…?!)
  • Dragon Ball AF (Toyble)“: Ken’s comprehensive deep dive into this fan manga’s publication history is basically complete now — check out that timeline! Obviously those top sections still need to be written, but you won’t find a better publication overview of this extremely notable and influential fan manga series anywhere else out there.
  • Dragon Ball Video Game Characters“: There’s been some nice collaboration fleshing out this page listing all the characters that are original to (and oftentimes exclusive to) various Dragon Ball video games, with TheDevilsCorpse really taking the lead here — and speaking of which, have you noticed his awesome original artwork used on the main “Dragon Ball Characters” page…?!

Enjoy everything you see here (plus everything else the wiki has to offer!), and be sure to also follow us on Bluesky, where we skeet out a random wiki page link every day — you never know what might pop up!

Published by 23 April 2026, 10:02 AM EDTComment

Roughly every month, Toyotarō provides a drawing of a Dragon Ball (or related…!) character — as well as an accompanying comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Following up on the wealth of characters already drawn, for his proper April 2026 entry, Toyotarō has drawn various “doctors”:

I wanted to draw a smart old geezer, but since they’re pretty weak on their own, I put some mad scientists together!

The drawing — whichi follows his entry for Dr. Gero from earlier this month — features:

  • Dr. Mu from the Dragon Ball GT television series — the character’s name comes from the first part of the word “mutant” (as in the “machine mutants”)
  • Dr. Raichi/Lychee from Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans (Famicom/VHS/etc.) — as a Tsufruian, the character takes his name directly from the lychee fruit (putting him in contrast with the Saiyans and vegetables)
  • Dr. Uiro from Dragon Ball Z: The World’s Strongest Guy (DBZ Movie 2) — the character takes his name from 外郎 (uirō), a steamed rice cake notably from Nagoya; the recent “Dr. W” persona and name as used in the Dragon Ball Heroes game appears to come from FUNimation’s English dub historically renaming him “Dr. Wheelo” (ignoring the source pun entirely) and Japanese rights holders recently falling back on these older foreign spelling conventions
  • Dr. Kochin from Dragon Ball Z: The World’s Strongest Guy (DBZ Movie 2) — in line with Uiro (and other characters from the film), the character takes his name from Nagoya chicken known as 名古屋コーチン (Nagoya kōchin), a special kind of free-range chicken from the respective region

This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.

Published by 19 April 2026, 6:55 PM EDTComment

Originally teased back during the EVO France 2025 fighting game event last October, in conjunction with the finals of the Dragon Ball FighterZ tournament at today’s “DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour 2026” event in Los Angeles, a formal trailer showcasing the version of Super Saiyan 4 Son Goku from the Dragon Ball Daima television series was shared:

Son Goku from Dragon Ball GT was included as a playable character in the game’s “FighterZ Pass 2” back in 2019 — as part of the character’s skill set, he transforms up to different stages for various moves, and reaches Super Saiyan 4 as part of his Dragon Fist Meteor Attack, but this version of Super Saiyan 4 is not playable as his own independent character. Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta from Dragon Ball GT was previously included as his own standalone character, however, and was showcased battling the Daima version of Goku in today’s new trailer.

The new Super Saiyan 4 version of Goku for Dragon Ball FighterZ launches 22 April 2026 as part of a new “Daima Pack” that includes three Z-Stamps (Goku, Doo, and Koo), three lobby avatars (Super Saiyan 4 Goku, Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta, and Panzy), and 12 default colors for the new playable version of Goku. No pricing was immediately announced.

Dragon Ball FighterZ was originally released 26 January 2018 in North America and Europe, and 01 February 2018 in Japan, across the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Alongside its Japanese release, Bandai Namco announced that they had shipped two million copies of the game, making it the fastest-shipping game in the franchise’s history. The game also shipped on the Nintendo Switch back in September 2018, and received updates (including rollback netcode) for the PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 in February 2024.

Published by 19 April 2026, 6:42 PM EDTComment

Originally announced last October and more formally detailed back at the Genkidamatsuri event in Japan this past January, the video game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is set to receive a substantial update — coined “Super Limit-Breaking NEO” — which was further detailed today during a showcase at the “Battle Hour Times Stage” as part of the “DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour 2026” event in Los Angeles.

By way of a new trailer (introduced by producer Jun Furutani), specific new characters given a priority spotlight included:

  • Vegeta (GT)
  • Four-Star Dragon
  • Trunks (GT)
  • King Vegeta
  • Cheelai
  • Jaco
  • Oob

Characters showcased or teased in the previous trailer (and teased yet again), as well as all-new character teases included:

  • Super Saiyan Bardock
  • Great Demon King Piccolo
  • Super #17
  • Hell Fighter 17
  • Paikuhan
  • Zangya
  • Grandpa Gohan (Masked)
  • Tao Paipai
  • Akkuman
  • Champa
  • Mighty Mask
  • No. 18 (GT)
  • Kaioshin
  • Hatchan
  • Namu
  • Colonel Blue
  • Chilled
  • Thouser
  • Selypa
  • Toma

Four new stages were also revealed:

  • God’s Palace
  • Kame House
  • Bitter Tundra
  • Stratosphere (Planet Vegeta / Earth)

Various other updates were also showcased, including new costumes for various characters, two new aspects of the battle system (“Chain Blast” and “Sparking! Boost”), a new game mode (with three steps, following from a map, to a battle or event, and finally to leveling up), as well as the new song “ZERO” by franchise veteran performer Hironobu Kageyama (as originally revealed and performed at the Genkidamatsuri event).

The “Super Limit-Breaking NEO” update — a nod to the original Japanese titling for the game series back during the PlayStation 2 era, with the second and third games being appended with “NEO” and “METEOR” respectively — is set for launch in Summer 2026.

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO released on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally. As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth game — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.

Published by 19 April 2026, 5:58 PM EDTComment

Following a replay of the original “AGE 1000” reveal trailer (first debuted at the Genkidamatsuri event in Japan back in January), a new trailer for the game was screened today during the “Battle Hour Times Stage” at the “DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour 2026” event in Los Angeles, formally unveiling it as Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 3:

Additional character designs were also showcased, including a female player character option (in addition to the male player character option as previously revealed), Bulma, and an all-new character named Brett (one of the new “key” characters):

Even more characters and names were teased, but were not specifically divulged during the panel, though it was acknowledged that there was a character in the trailer that looked suspiciously similar to one of the Gammas (a character originally from the 2022 theatrical film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero).

During an additional pre-recorded video interview with Masayuki Hirano (Dragon Ball games producer at Bandai Namco) and Akio Iyoku (Dragon Ball franchise executive producer), it was noted that Akira Toriyama lent his vision to the world and story of the game — when pushed on which exact aspects of the game by Hirano, Iyoku simply restated that it was many aspects, but in particular the various new characters seen today were based on designs from Toriyama. The fact that the game series has been one where various players historically gather together and play online was also highlighted.

The announcement for XENOVERSE 3 comes in conjunction with XENOVERSE 2 — originally launched back in 2016 — being set to receive its “final” downloadable content pack in the form of Chapter 4 for the currently-ongoing “Future Saga” content series, releasing this summer.

Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 3, developed by Dimps for Bandai Namco, is scheduled for release in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam).

Published by 19 April 2026, 5:08 PM EDTComment

At today’s “Dragon Ball Super Special Panel” as part of the “DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour 2026” event in Los Angeles, a new “SUPER GEKITOU Trailer” for the upcoming Dragon Ball Super: Beerus “enhanced” television series reboot closed with a tease of Freeza in a rejuvenation tank, a nod to the next story arc following the Battle of Gods adaptation in the original Dragon Ball Super television series.

The full trailer was later made available on Toei Animation’s YouTube channel:

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus was originally announced at the Genkidamatsuri event held back in January earlier this year. This “enhanced” series is scheduled for broadcast in Japan in Fall 2026. No official word on international distribution has been made, though video messages during today’s “Battle Hour” panel included Jason Douglas (English voice of Beerus), in addition to Akio Iyoku (Dragon Ball franchise executive producer), Koichi Yamadera (Japanese voice of Beerus), and Masako Nozawa (Japanese voice of Son Goku).

Published by 19 April 2026, 2:30 PM EDTComment

This has been a particularly non-coding/writing-focused week, with lots of documentation being cross-checked and video game research/screenshots in progress. Sometimes there’s a lot going on, but not necessarily a lot to show for it… but let’s dig in anyway and see what’s new!

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

  • Kidomo“: With the release of Dragon Ball Super manga chapter 104 last year, we finally had resolution to a multi-decade mystery of which exact character the name “Kidomo” applied to. This is a very recent total overhaul of this character’s page, because when it was first written, the manga chapter in question didn’t exist yet!
  • Paikuhan“: After wrapping up some of the Kidomo work, that red “Paikuhan” link was really sticking a thorn in our side. Paikuhan is an interesting character, because he’s a fan-favorite with limited appearances: some TV episodes, a movie, and some other one-offs, along with a manageable amount of video game inclusions. He seemed like the perfect test bed for ironing out what exactly “Appearances” should look like on a character’s wiki page. We’re well along our way here now (all with completely original video game screenshots, including some Carddass scans where necessary!). Overall, this is a pretty solid aspirational example of a character page, albeit one still in-progress.
  • Final Kamehameha“: We’re making nice progress on another aspirational page, this time here instead for an attack or technique. In particular, please notice the real, legitimate, yes-we-hooked-it-all-back-up Dragon Ball Z for Kinect screenshot!
  • Dragon Ball AF (Toyble)“: This is very much a “preview” of where this page is heading… but this may be the first truly complete and comprehensive deep dive into the publication history of this extremely notable and influential fan manga series.

Enjoy everything you see here (plus everything else the wiki has to offer!), and be sure to also follow us on Bluesky, where we skeet out a random wiki page link every day — you never know what might pop up!

Published by 12 April 2026, 8:12 PM EDTComment

With about two weeks under our belt since Kanzenshuu‘s wiki finally debuted to the world, we thought it would be a nice opportunity to share some of the cool things that have been worked on in the time since launch:

(NOTE: As with everything else across the wiki, not everything on these pages is necessarily complete! We just want to showcase some of the leaps in content and documentation being done.)

  • FUNimation Dragon Ball Z English Dub (1996-1998)“: As some of the few remaining people who actually lived through this time and are still kicking around, we felt it was important to document this product and timeline as much as possible. There’s still plenty of work to do, but some of what we wanted to drive home here was the ongoing success the syndication broadcast truly had, the fact that Saban’s exist of the children’s syndication business was a primary factors in the production pause, as well as what happened between 1998 and 1999 before “new” episodes aired on Cartoon Network.
  • SH1-SEC2“: Branching off some of the work put into the “Final Kamehameha” page, it made sense to catalog a significant milestone card in the Super Dragon Ball Heroes collection — as one of the two secret cards at launch, “SH1-SEC2” is especially notable for being the first card to give Vegetto his Final Kamehameha (now you see the connection!) in Heroes. Will we actually catalog every Dragon Ball Heroes card? Unlikely. But maybe…?!
  • Super Saiyan 5“: You may know “Super Saiyan 5” from a bunch of fan works, but did you know it was actually spoken aloud during the television series, and Akira Toriyama was point-blank asked about it by Naho Ooishi?! We think it’s worth acknowledging and cataloging these types of references, but we want to take it further by exploring their ongoing legacies and prevalence in fandom. This page also includes an original scan of David Montiel Franco’s original submission from Hobby Consolas as provided by Anthony, one of our Patrons — awesome!
  • Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory (Manga)“: One of our fun wiki-editing-live-stream discoveries just ahead of the launch was this joint Naho Ooishi and Osamu Kaneko manga series published in V-Jump in late 2010. In the time since launch, we’ve finished the main chapter citations for this series, which really helps tell the story of Ooishi’s professional debut in 2009 and the journey toward Dragon Ball SD in late 2010 immediately following this Dragon Quest promotional series.
  • ONEPIXCEL“: We have a lot of “music” and “song” entries done to some degree of completion, but during our internal chats we decided that “musical acts” (bands, groups, idols, etc.) would be worth covering. ONEPIXCEL — who performed “LAGRIMA”, the eleventh and final ending theme song for the Dragon Ball Super TV series — is one of the first entries in this batch. Stay tuned for more!

Enjoy everything you see here (plus everything else the wiki has to offer!), and be sure to also follow us on Bluesky, where we skeet out a random wiki page link every day — you never know what might pop up!

And in case you missed it:

A few days after launch, we sat down with a couple of the wiki editors and did a live tour though a bunch of our work, focusing on things you probably don’t expect to see/find, and answered a bunch of viewer questions along the way. Definitely worth your time to check out!