Three volumes of various collected Dragon Ball manga series are all set to release 04 April 2024 in Japan.
Dragon Ball Super — Volume 23
The twenty third collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga series by Toyotarō will release 04 April 2024 in Japan for ¥528 + tax. Following previous volumes, the upcoming volume should pick up with chapter 97, and (in line with prior volumes covering four chapters total) likely span through chapter 100.
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 in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ one-hundred-second chapter coming next week in the magazine’s April 2024 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”, “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 twentieth collected volume was just released this month.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! — Volume 4
The fourth collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!! manga series by Yoshitaka Nagayama will also release 04 April 2024 in Japan for ¥572 + tax. Following previous volumes, the upcoming fourth volume should pick up with chapter 16, and will likely span through this particular series’ end to chapter 20.
Yoshitaka Nagayama debuted in a supplemental booklet packed in with the December 2013 issue of Saikyō Jump, with “Dragon Ball Heroes: Rookie Charisma Mission 0” depicting the daily life and “training” of Engineer Yoshito and new Battle Navigators Tsubasa and Momo-chan in a cartoony style. The Charisma Mission series eventually received its own standard serialization in Saikyō Jump beginning in the July 2014 issue, followed by traditional story serials beginning with Super Dragon Ball Heroes: 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, and yet again by Ultra God Mission!!!! beginning in the April 2022 issue. Following its own completion in the November 2023 issue of Saikyō Jump, it was announced that another new series — Meteor Mission! — would take its place in the following issue.
The various Dragon Ball Heroes manga series remain without an official English translation and release.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! — Volume 4
The fourth collected volume of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! manga series by Yūji Kasai will also release 04 April 2024 in Japan for ¥594 + tax.
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.
As with Yoshitaka Nagayama’s various series, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! does not have an official English translation and release.