Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s 104th chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services. This special one-shot chapter serves as further-introductory/prequel content to the “Super Hero” arc, which itself already received a three-chapter prologue and three-chapter epilogue beyond the scope of the original 2022 theatrical film.

Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its Japanese debut to the release date, but to its local time in Japan alongside its serialization in today’s April 2025 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine.

Since the Dragon Ball Super manga went on hiatus last year (following chapter 103 and coinciding with the passing of Akira Toriyama), the manga’s collected volume release has been at a standstill, with only three chapters worth of material to fill out a volume that otherwise covers four chapters. This release of “chapter 104” fills out that space, and will likely be content that fills out Volume 24, set for release in Japan this April.

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.

Viz releases free digital chapters of the series upon release as a simultaneous publication, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The company’s 23rd collected volume — which lags behind the Japanese release — is due out this April.