Four volumes of various collected Dragon Ball manga series are all set to release 04 April 2022 in Japan.
Dragon Ball Super — Volume 18
The eighteenth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō will release 04 April 2022 in Japan for ¥484 + tax. Following previous volumes, the upcoming volume should pick up with chapter 77, and (in line with prior volumes covering four chapters total) likely span through chapter 80.
The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” began in June 2015, initially just ahead of the television series, and running both ahead and behind the series at various points. The manga runs monthly in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ eighty-first chapter coming this weekend in the magazine’s April 2022 issue. Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc, “speeding up the excitement of the TV anime even more”. Though the television series has completed its run, the manga continues onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner” and “Granolla the Survivor” arcs.
Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The fifteenth collected volume was released last month.
Dragon Ball SD — Volume 8
The eighth collected volume of the Dragon Ball SD manga series by Naho Ooishi will also release 04 April 2022 in Japan for ¥639 + tax spanning 192 pages. Following previous volumes, the upcoming eighth volume should pick up with chapter 69; though previous collected volumes included ten chapters total, it remains to be seen how many chapters the next volume might include considering SD‘s shift to an online-only series last year.
Dragon Ball SD was a stalwart of Saikyō Jump dating back to its original debut issue, adapting events from the original story in humorous new ways with “chibi” or “super deformed” (the titular “SD”) styled characters. After the original four quarterly issues of the magazine and SD covering four distinct time periods, the magazine shifted to a monthly release and SD reverted back to the proper beginning of the series with a continuous storyline. In 2016, the series skipped ahead from the end of the 22nd Tenka’ichi Budōkai to the Saiyan arc.
The series’ final print chapter came in the magazine’s May 2021 issue, after which the magazine underwent a redesign following a brief hiatus, and Dragon Ball SD shifted to a YouTube-only series.
Dragon Ball SD is not available in English, though it does currently see a release in certain territories such as Germany and France.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Big Bang Mission!!! — Volume 3
The third collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Big Bang Mission!!! manga series by Yoshitaka Nagayama will also release 04 April 2022 in Japan for ¥550 + tax spanning 240 pages. Following previous volumes, the upcoming third volume should pick up with chapter nine, and (in line with the prior two volumes covering four chapters total) likely span through chapter 12.
Yoshitaka Nagayama debuted in a supplemental booklet packed in with the December 2013 issue of Saikyō Jump, with Dragon Ball Heroes: Rookie Charisma Mission Episode 0 depicting the daily life and “training” of Engineer Yoshito and new Battle Navigators Tsubasa and Momo-chan in a cartoony style. The series eventually received its own standard serialization in Saikyō Jump beginning in the July 2014 issue, followed by the traditional story serials of Dark Demon Realm Mission! beginning in the September 2016 issue, Universe Mission!! beginning in the May 2018 issue, followed yet again by Big Bang Mission!!! beginning in the May 2020 issue. Big Bang Mission!!! came to a close in the magazine’s March 2022 issue, to be followed by the brand-new Ultra God Mission!!!! series next month.
The various Dragon Ball Heroes manga series remain without an official English translation and release.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! — Volume 1
The first collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series by Yūji Kasai will also release 04 April 2022 in Japan for ¥506 + tax spanning 192 pages.
A prototype/one-shot for Avatars debuted as a single chapter in the January 2021 issue of Saikyō Jump (under the title “Super Dragon Ball Heroes Side-Story: Avatar Story!!”), followed by the serialization of Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! beginning in the September 2021 issue, coinciding with Saikyō Jump‘s refresh. Much like Charisma Mission before it (and likewise similar to DeSpo FighterZ for Dragon Ball FighterZ), the Avatars series showcases a group of young protagonists taking on the world of Dragon Ball Heroes with comical showcases of the various cards and mechanics.