With the conclusion of the Dragon Ball Heroes card-based arcade game series, the transition to Dragon Ball Super Divers, and a few ongoing manga milestones, the lineup in Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine is shaking things up with new ongoing entries and special one-shots.
Saikyō Jump: October 2024 Issue
After a single one-shot chapter back in 2020 and then 37 full chapters in regular serialization, Yūji Kasai‘s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!! came to a close in the October 2024 issue. A fifth collected volume should theoretically finish out the series with a bump to its page count — though nine chapters remain, the first four collected volumes contained seven chapters each.
The full colorization of Akira Toriyama’s Sand Land also came to a close in the October 2024 issue. The colorization spanned the full original 14-chapter run. No collected edition has been announced, and no continuation is present in the November 2024 issue — for example, there is no Anime Comic adaptation of the streaming series’ original second story arc now running in the magazine.
The October 2024 issue of Saikyō Jump was released 04 September 2024.
Saikyō Jump: November 2024 Issue
After 12 full chapters in serialization (themselves following a wealth of chapters from the previous four series), Yoshitaka Nagayama‘s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Meteor Mission! came to a close in the November 2024 issue. A second collected volume has been announced for this December, which should contain the final six chapters and complete the series.
The November 2024 issue of Saikyō Jump was released 04 October 2024. Copies are still available to order via Amazon Japan.
Saikyō Jump: December 2024 Issue
Next-issue-previews from the November 2024 issue detail a wealth of content coming in the December 2024 issue.
Naho Ooishi will return to the print pages of Saikyo Jump for a “Special Edition” (特別編 Tokubetsuhen) of Dragon Ball SD in the December 2024 issue. A splash alongside the announcement notes that it will be in celebration of Dragon Ball‘s 40th anniversary, and that there will be a “special announcement” about Dragon Ball SD to accompany it. Though in recent years Dragon Ball SD has otherwise been relegated to online video content, Ooishi did make a brief return to print back in July 2022 with another “Special Edition” in support of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.
Additionally, an all-new manga by Yūji Kasai in support of Dragon Ball Super Divers will begin next issue — as with his previous series (the aforementioned Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Avatars!!), this new series will be about a boy who aims to be the best at the game. This new series was first teased in the Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Path of Heroes ―HEROES MEMORIES― book released back in August. This new series will be separate from the Dragon Ball Super Divers manga one-shot that Toyotarō will contribute to the December 2024 issue of V-Jump releasing later this month.
Other Dragon Ball content next issue will include a feature on the Dragon Ball Super Divers game itself, a special poster with the second key visual for Dragon Ball Daima, and a “Vegeta (Mini)” card for the Dragon Ball Super Card Game.
The December 2024 issue of Saikyō Jump will be released 01 November 2024 for ¥700. Pre-orders for the print magazine have not yet opened on Amazon Japan.