"Dragon Ball Super (Manga)" Official Discussion Thread

[angeldreamZ004]

Dragon Ball Super Manga : V-Jump 11° 2026
Status: On Hiatus
In the meantime, enjoy the Dragon Ball Super series featuring Beerus, arriving on October 11, 2026.

Does this seriously strongly suggest that there will be nothing new about the manga during the entire run of the remake anime? If ends up being the case then I think I was right when saying that Jump Festa would have nothing.

And there's the possibility that Shueisha, CCT and Toei agreed that 2027 would be reserved for the rest of the remake, Xenoverse 3 and (possibly) the Moro arc being the new Dragon Ball content for that year while they'll keep the manga in the fridge.

So I guess my hope to see it returning soon may indeed be dead. Toyo, It's ovah.

Spoiler:

[JulieYBM]

Stop pyching yourselves out about it and just focus on other hobbies. The comic will inevitably return some day, let yourself be pleasantly surprised when it does.

[angeldreamZ004]

Stop pyching yourselves out about it and just focus on other hobbies. The comic will inevitably return some day, let yourself be pleasantly surprised when it does.

The thing is that I think it's important to point out when there's a change. This one in specific has a detail, as previously they always used the typical message "will remain on hiatus in the next issue". But this time they didn't, they just said a generic "on hiatus" without specifying that it's for the next month, then proceed to telling us to watch the remake anime in this meantime.
That can be interpreted as being the next month only, but also the next months, as well as the months of the entire run of the new anime and also further than that.

And yeah it was a problem that they kept giving the same message every month and the manga never returned, but they were at least specific about it, now they were just straight up vague about it which works just like the indefinite hiatus message that they use for the websites for more than a year, and VegettoEX has already shown something that makes this even more concerning, there's the possibility we won't see that old message being used again for example.

But you're right about should focus on other things, just think this detail couldn't go unnoticed through, it's at least useful to kill more hopes lol.

[Zinnia]

Does this seriously strongly suggest that there will be nothing new about the manga during the entire run of the remake anime?

Not at all, it's the Tweet author who wrote that description.
Honestly it's actually worse because that'd be slight confirmation it would be returning after the remake, but now we're still stuck with nothing

On the other hand this might still mean Jump Festa has a chance to announce it's return.

[The Dark Knight]

I think at this point it's safe to say the manga won't be returning at all; whatever comes after Granola will be handled by the anime's staff, maybe with Toyotaro's involvement if he's lucky.

[angeldreamZ004]

Not at all, it's the Tweet author who wrote that description.
Honestly it's actually worse because that'd be slight confirmation it would be returning after the remake, but now we're still stuck with nothing

I just saw that, thank you for the clarification, I still would like to know what the content actually says though, if there's even any mention to the manga or the typical message from before, if not then it would be the worst scenario.

On the other hand this might still mean Jump Festa has a chance to announce it's return.

I don't think so given their history, unless they want to do something like what was done during the run of Daima, when they announced chapter 104, but I think it was a different ocasion, so idk, i think it's more likely that they would wait for the remake to end, the "do not announce this product yet, or else it will steal attention given to this other product" mentality, or they could also go the "let's hype it more" mode, especially if the remake ends up flopping, let's see.

I think at this point it's safe to say the manga won't be returning at all; whatever comes after Granola will be handled by the anime's staff, maybe with Toyotaro's involvement if he's lucky.

I wouldn't fully commit to that at first, but indeed him removing the "I draw Dragon Ball Super for the V-Jump magazine" message from his bio and changing to something that suggests that he can't return to it should mean something. It's still on his Instagram but he hasn't udpated it since last year.

[The Dark Knight]

I think they want the anime to be the main product, so whatever is going on with Black Freeza will be resolved there following the adaption of the Granola arc. The anime just generated more hype and revenue than the manga, so having something like Black Freeza debut there first will be a massive deal.

[angeldreamZ004]

That would only happen if Shueisha and CCT agreed that this was the direction for the series moving forward, the fact that they have to adapt two arcs and a half already finished in the manga into an anime format was just a matter of timing that ended up being inconvenient for them. After that, they might not even make an anime, maybe a movie instead, or, regardless of the format, we’d have to wait until 2030 for the manga to return, and even then, it might just be to see an adaptation of a single arc or movie.
And it would be a terrible long wait, Unless Toyotaro is willing to do it, but he won't be getting any younger until there, which may also result in him losing his patience, if that's what they have planned then it would be better for him to retire in my view or relocate him to work in another series in the meantime. There's still a bit more than 3 years for this decade to end after all.

[sangofe]

V Jump reposted Toyotaro's reply to the father who reached out to Toyotaro in behalf of his kid. I think this is quite interesting and significant:

Hear and see here:
https://youtu.be/qWOW1aZfe9E?t=132

[angeldreamZ004]

V Jump reposted Toyotaro's reply to the father who reached out to Toyotaro in behalf of his kid. I think this is quite interesting and significant:
Hear and see here:
https://youtu.be/qWOW1aZfe9E?t=132

I think the fact that they aren't coming back with it Next Month or November shows that they aren't worried about capitalizing on the moment while there's also a new anime with the same name airing. Unless they really want to wait until the Jump Gesta in December so they can analyse if the remake is being a success, and if it would be a good idea to bring back the manga during its run.

As for the retweet, I would think it's interesting and significant too... if it wasn't for the fact that this V Jump account occasionaly retweets some of Toyotaro's posts that are Dragon Ball related. So to me it's more likely that this was just them promoting the creators they have when they are promoting their properties, even if they are casual posts. Gave an example below which I believe works in a similar vein to that one Toyotaro retweet.

Spoiler:

I think people saw this as possible indication of something happening behind the scenes because Toyotaro makes more posts than that and V jump choose to repost that one amongst the few they repost. But I personally would be surprised if it was the only one.

And the message in the Toyotaro Tried to Draw I believe it's because it's being used to promote the remake anime, the latest two drawings were of characters exclusive to the old Super anime.

[PhantomSaiyan]

I think they want the anime to be the main product, so whatever is going on with Black Freeza will be resolved there following the adaption of the Granola arc. The anime just generated more hype and revenue than the manga, so having something like Black Freeza debut there first will be a massive deal.

I don't think it's super safe to say just yet

[JulieYBM]

The Dragon Ball Super comic was never the 'main product', as far as a 'main product' even existed. The cartoon was always moving along as its own drum beat, even to the point of being where a lot of new characters and transformations were first introduced. Given that Iyoku can have more control by being involved with the animation side of things and doesn't have to be involved with the comic, where I'm sure there's bad blood with Shueisha, my guess is that animation will be where we see new things continue to be introduced.

The problem, of course, is that Iyoku Akio seems to suck as a producer. We'll see how that unfolds now that he can't get Toriyama involved in micromanaging story and character stuff, though. Dragon Ball: The Galactic Patrol is going to be the first real test of a post-Toriyama landscape.

[super michael]

Lets hope that the higher up doesn't mess up the anime. I will give the remake and The Galactic Patrol a fair chance.

The good news is once the anime animates The Galactic Patrol and the new content, then the games can use those characters and story.

Dragon Ball games can't use content from The Galactic Patrol and Granolah chapter.
Naruto games can't use content from Boruto Two Blue Vortex manga.

[angeldreamZ004]

I don't think it's super safe to say just yet

May not be super safe but we now have the animation department working more independently from Shueisha, and so far, they saw no issues with the anime and manga literally changing roles, that means the opposite of the late 2018-2024 scenario where there was no anime other than a movie lost in the middle and a new anime that had nothing to do with the brand, but the manga continued. Now there's more anime while the manga is paralyzed with no sign of return. The reason that there was no new Super anime being problems such as the rights dispute.

If we see both the anime and manga as "main products", then the anime has been their focus and only main product since late 2024 because since then they decided to only release a one shot chapter of the manga and hadn't show any interest in continuing it. While the anime they were happy to already announce one that may only be coming out in 2028, and again nothing about the manga. This while we are in a scenario where supposedly there is no longer any problem related to the rights or something else between the companies behind the scenes.

And the latest VJump highlights the new anime while (supposedly, I still want the actual info on that) not saying that the manga will continue on hiatus in the next issue.

CCT also naturally having 0 interest in the manga apparently as Akio Iyoku wanted the rights to the anime and games only. Meaning that they very likely see the manga as maybe not even something secondary, but tertiary.

And if Shueisha has no issues with that, then they very likely would also have no issue in not returning with the manga anytime soon.

So the anime can indeed go its own way. I think for those who want it to follow the manga, the hope would be the fact that they want to adapt the Moro arc, which obviously would be followed by Granolah then extended Super Hero arcs. So that does suggest that they want to follow the manga, they could've very well just announced a new anime with new original story instead of a remaster and a adaptation.

Spoiler:

The Dragon Ball Super comic was never the 'main product', as far as a 'main product' even existed. The cartoon was always moving along as its own drum beat, even to the point of being where a lot of new characters and transformations were first introduced. Given that Iyoku can have more control by being involved with the animation side of things and doesn't have to be involved with the comic, where I'm sure there's bad blood with Shueisha, my guess is that animation will be where we see new things continue to be introduced.

The problem, of course, is that Iyoku Akio seems to suck as a producer. We'll see how that unfolds now that he can't get Toriyama involved in micromanaging story and character stuff, though. Dragon Ball: The Galactic Patrol is going to be the first real test of a post-Toriyama landscape.

Even if it worked that way, the manga and the anime were both sort of "aligned" with each other, because they both had to follow Toriyama's outlines, that means they had a source to work from.
This was pretty mcuh the rule of this revival era since Super started, they never did something that escaped from Toriyama's outlines, at best only derivative content such as the old anime exclusive scenes, transformations, characters and filler episodes. As well as Toyotaro's ideas for the manga such as SSJG Vegeta or the ideas for the movies such as Shintani's green haired form for Broly.

Then the anime ended and Toyotaro's own story came.
I wonder if for the anime, they are going to follow Toyotaro's story, or create something new inspired by it? Maybe they aren't willing to adapt it but rather taking ideas from Toyotaro in order to build a new story. Same question goes for the Super Hero prologue arc.

For the Granolah arc, Toriyama provided an outline just like he did with the Champa-ToP arcs, but also had a lot of Toyotaro's hand on it.
Maybe if Toei gets access to Toriyama's outlines for the arc, they'll be creating the anime from it and insert their own ideas like they did with the arcs in the old anime, ignoring Toyotaro's ideas instead of adapting the story we already have? Same question goes for the Super Hero main and epilogue arcs.

Also, I think there's a possibility that maybe Shueisha, knowing that the Moro arc was entirely made by Toyotaro, is waiting to see if the animated adaptation will be a success or not, because if it succeeds, then it's going to be the reason they'll greenlight the continuation of the manga.
But there's also the possibility that not even that would serve as a reason to resume it, due to the Moro arc still falling under the "Toriyama worked on this" Era regardless.

Well anyway, we'll have to wait, honestly I'm more excited to find out what might have happened / might be happening behind the scenes than waiting for the new animes to release lol, unfortunately I don't think we'll get to know anything.

[JulieYBM]

I imagine that the animated version of the Moro arc will be based on whatever ideas that Toriyama had and then go from there. The animation side of things has never seemed particularly concerned with adapting anything from Toyotarou's comic. What Toyotarou does with his comic is really no different than a random Toei Animation animated film from the 1980s and 1990s: both are just Dragon Ball projects owned by Toriyama and therefore subject to be regurgitated however they please.

If Iyoku Akio has a way to attribute the Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol to Toriyama Akira, he's going to do it. The fact that Toyotarou has not been trotted out by Iyoku as a promotional device is proof enough that he really has no need for him, especially given how Iyoku apparently didn't care about the comic rights when he managed to convince Toriyama to allow him to form Capsule Corp Tokyo and take over the handling of the licensing and such.