With Dragon Ball Super Divers on the horizon, the next Dragon Ball Heroes guide book looks to perhaps be a retrospective wrap-up rather than another standard anniversary book — Shueisha and other online retailers have listed a 29 August 2024 release date and ¥1,760 + tax price tag for a forthcoming book titled Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Path of Heroes ―HEROES MEMORIES―.
The B5-sized book will span 112 pages and come packed with several Dragon Ball Heroes cards representing and celebrating the history of the game:
The book is also slated to contain the “final chapter” of Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission manga series (originally serialized in V-Jump from 2012-2014); whether this refers to the previously-published “Chapter 29” or something new all-together is not clear from the existing verbiage.
This 2024 book follows several previous anniversary guide books: the 5th Anniversary Mission book in November 2015, the 8th Anniversary Super Guide book in November 2018, the 9th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2019, the 10th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2020, the 11th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2021, the 12th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2022, and the 13th Anniversary Super Guide in November 2023. Each book covers card additions, ongoing storylines, interviews with production staff, and more.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes is an update and hardware revision to the original Dragon Ball Heroes, a card-based arcade game in which players arrange teammates on a playing field for turn-based battles. Dragon Ball Heroes has seen a variety of multimedia spin-offs and support pieces. Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Meteor Mission! manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission!, Ultimate Mission!!, Big Bang Mission!!!, and Ultra God Mission!!!! series) currently runs in Shueisha’s monthly Saikyō Jump magazine. Three portable game adaptations — Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X — were released on the Nintendo 3DS. A fourth home version, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, launched on the Nintendo Switch and PC internationally in April 2019.