Contemporary with the franchise’s original serialization, three “Original Illustrated Stories” were published in various magazine and book publications by anime production staff members, taking three separate characters that were further developed with internal monologues and story expansions. Several Dragon Ball crossovers and guest appearances were also published. Since that time, the amount of supplemental Dragon Ball manga has exploded thanks to sequel series and successful video games.
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Naho Ooishi (オオイシナホ) has contributed three adaptations of Dragon Ball, with all of them being published in either V-Jump or Saikyō Jump. Her manga spin-offs have covered many different aspects of story telling, including straight-up adaptations of the original material (the 2008 Jump Super Anime Tour special), alternate re-tellings of the original material (Dragon Ball SD), and completely new stories (Episode of Bardock).
In 2012, “Toyotarō” (とよたろう) joined the fold with his Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission promotional comic in V-Jump. Toyotarō went on to pen a three-chapter introductory adaptation of the 2015 theatrical film Resurrection ‘F’, and was later tapped for the “comicalization” of Dragon Ball Super, all of which also ran in V-Jump. Toyotarō also penned a single-chapter promotional comic in support of the video game Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2 in 2016, for which he made an appearance at New York Comic Con.
Original manga author Akira Toriyama himself has directly contributed to two crossover manga chapters: a One Piece collaboration with author Ei’ichirō Oda, and a Kochikame crossover with author Osamu Akimoto. Toriyama also penned an eight-chapter series that increasingly became more and more of a Dragon Ball spin-off and parody as it went on called Neko Majin. The most recent spin-off from Toriyama himself has been Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, an 11-chapter series that starts out as its own story, but concludes with an exciting tie-in to Dragon Ball, expanding upon his existing “Galactic Patrol” universe co-authored with Masakazu Katsura.
Various other manga artists — including Hiroshi Otogi, Yoshitaka Nagayama, Katsuki Hirose, etc. — have penned their own tie-in series for video games such as Dragon Ball Heroes, Dragon Ball Fusions, Dragon Ball Discross, and more.
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