The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The celebration aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, with the images and an accompanying comment published as the magazine’s back cover.

Following the previous twenty-four entries, this month’s September 2023 issue brings us Yasuhisa Hara (Kingdom) and their take on the series’ 34th volume cover:

Yasuhisa Hara commented:

Congratulations on 40 years! Dragon Ball is a work I read every week in Jump right from the first chapter, so it’s a real honor getting to participate in a special project such as this. It’s quite humbling to be doing an arrangement of one of Toriyama-sensei‘s illustrations, but I also had fun with it while mixing in elements of Kingdom, adding in background soldiers to bring out that “likeness,” even while giving the armor Goku-style coloring.

Saikyō Jump is currently a monthly magazine published in Japan by Shueisha under the “Jump” line of magazines. The magazine began as a quarterly publication in 2012, went monthly in 2013, went bimonthly in late-2014, and returned to a monthly format in 2021 (including a digital release for the first time). The magazine’s focus is spin-off and supplementary manga series aimed at a young audience, while also including game promotions, news coverage, and more. The magazine currently serializes content such as Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! manga series, Yūji Kasai’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series, and the Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic. For calendar year 2019, Shueisha reported Saikyō Jump‘s circulation down at 130,000, with readership as 58.5% upper elementary school, 28% lower middle school, 11% middle school, and 2.5% high school or older.