During Dragon Ball‘s panel on the “Red Stage” at Jump Festa 2025 this weekend (and as seen in a YouTube live stream unfortunately since made private), it was announced Toyotarō will once again return to the pages of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine in its April 2025 issue — set for release 20 February 2025 — for a special one-shot Dragon Ball Super manga chapter.

The chapter will focus on what led to Trunks’ admiration of superheroes, with key artwork showcasing Goten and Trunks behind “Clean God” (a source of inspiration most recently seen in the “Super Hero” arc of the Dragon Ball Super manga).

What was not announced, however, was a “full return” of the Dragon Ball Super manga. The Jump Festa announcement was solely for this special one-shot, and as of V-Jump‘s February 2025 issue released this week, the usual note of “The Dragon Ball Super manga will be on hiatus next issue” remains in the back preview pages:

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 completed its run, the manga continued onward, moving into its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner”, “Granolla the Survivor”, and “Super Hero” arcs. The manga has been on hiatus since chapter 103’s release back in the May 2024 issue (released earlier this year in March), coinciding with the passing of Akira Toriyama.

Toyotarō most recently contributed another special one-shot to promote the launch of the new Dragon Ball Super Divers arcade game in Japan two months ago in V-Jump‘s December 2024 issue.