Three volumes of various collected Dragon Ball manga series are all set to release 04 August 2023 in Japan, accompanied by a new kanzenban release of Sand Land, Akira Toriyama’s 14-chapter manga series from 2000:
Dragon Ball Super — Volume 21
The twenty-first collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō will release 04 August 2023 in Japan for ¥528 + tax. Spanning 192 pages, the upcoming volume should pick up with chapter 89, and (in line with prior volumes covering four chapters total) likely span through chapter 92.
The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” — running within Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine — began in June 2015, initially just ahead of the television series, and running both ahead and behind the series at various points. 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”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and now “Super Hero” arcs.
Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s eighteenth collected volume was released this month.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! — Volume 2
The second collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! manga series by Yoshitaka Nagayama will also release 04 August 2023 in Japan for ¥572 + tax. Spanning 176 pages, the upcoming second volume should pick up with chapter six, and (in line with prior Nagayama volumes) likely span through chapter 10.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! is a promotional manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitaka Nagayama, currently running in Shueisha’s monthly Saikyō Jump magazine. The series adapts events from story lines original to the Super Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game. Ultra God Mission!!!! succeeded Nagayama’s own prior Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission!, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission!!, and Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Big Bang Mission!!! series in the same magazine.
The various Dragon Ball Heroes manga series remain without an official English translation and release.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! — Volume 3
The third collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series by Yūji Kasai will also release 04 August 2023 in Japan for ¥594 + tax. Spanning 192 pages, the upcoming third volume should pick up with chapter 15, and (in line with prior volumes) likely span through chapter 21.
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.
Sand Land — Kanzenban
A new kanzenban edition of Akira Toriyama’s 14-chapter manga series Sand Land — originally serialized from the No. 23 to No. 36/37 issues of Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2000 — will likewise release 04 August 2023 in Japan for ¥1,210 + tax.
This new edition — mirroring the format and sizing of Dragon Ball‘s own kanzenban edition released from 2002 to 2004 — will be updated to contain the original full-color versions of pages from its Weekly Shōnen Jump serialization, rough sketches from Akira Toriyama, as well as behind-the-scenes information.
An animated film adaptation of Sand Land will debut in Japan 18 August 2023. A forthcoming video game adaptation from Bandai Namco has also been announced for worldwide release.