How many volumes of Dragon Ball Super manga are there?

A new story arc for the Dragon Ball Super manga begins in December with the publication of Chapter 88.

According to an official magazine advertisement, presumably taken from Shueisha's V Jump, the Dragon Ball Super Chapter 88 is due for release on Dec. 20. The chapter beings a brand-new arc, which serves as a direct prequel to the events of the anime film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, which premiered earlier this year. This new arc evidently focuses heavily on the duo of Goten and Trunks, with Gohan and Piccolo also set to be key players.

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Written by the legendary Akira Toriyama and illustrated by Toyotarou, Dragon Ball Super originally launched in 2015. The manga serves as a follow-up to Toriyama's original Dragon Ball manga, which ran for 519 chapters -- split across 42 volumes -- from 1984 to 1995. To date, Dragon Ball Super has published 87 chapters in V Jump, with the first 84 chapters being collected in 19 tankōbon volumes thus far.

Dragon Ball Super's New Arc Leads Into Super Hero

Like Dragon Ball before it, Dragon Ball Super received an anime adaptation which ran for a total of 131 episodes from 2015 to 2017. A feature film, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, premiered in theaters in 2018. It was followed up by a sequel, the aforementioned Super Hero, which bowed in Japan this past June before getting a worldwide release in August.

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"The Red Ribbon Army was once destroyed by Son Goku," the official synopsis for the recent feature reads. "Individuals, who carry on its spirit, have created the ultimate Androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2. These two Androids call themselves “Super Heroes”. They start attacking Piccolo and Gohan... What is the New Red Ribbon Army's objective? In the face of approaching danger, it is time to awaken, Super Hero!"

In addition to being the second film to carry the Dragon Ball Super branding, Super Hero is also the 21st Dragon Ball anime film overall. The film was a considerable box office success, earning $124.6 million worldwide to become the second-highest-grossing Dragon Ball movie ever, behind Broly. That said, Super Hero managed to top Broly in the United States.

Having defeated Boo, Goku is starting to get bored with his life on Earth. His wife, Chi-chi, wants him to get a job, but all he wants to do is train and fight stronger enemies. Elsewhere in the universe, the God of Destruction, Beerus, and his attendant Whis are traveling from planet to planet in search of food and entertainment. After blowing up some hapless victims, Beerus is reminded of a man from his dreams with the moniker "Super Saiyan God," or something like that... The God of Destruction sets his sights on Earth to track down this mysterious man! Maybe this will give Goku something to do?

The Dragon Ball Super manga series debuted in the August 2015 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine on 20 June 2015, two weeks prior to the Dragon Ball Super TV series’ debut. The manga series is written and illustrated by Toyotarō with supervision and guidance from original Dragon Ball author Akira Toriyama. While both the manga and TV series are based on the same general story developed by Toriyama, each often go with their own separate take on events; this is in contrast to the development of the original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z TV series, which were nearly direct adaptations of the original Dragon Ball manga series.

Most notably, following the conclusion of the Dragon Ball Super television series, the manga continued onward into its own original story arcs (the “Galactic Patrol Prisoner” and “Granolla the Survivor” arcs), which as of yet remain exclusive to the manga. Neither Dragon Ball Super: Broly nor Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero theatrical films have been adapted in whole into the manga.

In his interviews included in the series’ first, second, and fourth tankōbon, Toyotarō discusses the rough process of creating the manga series. To begin, Toriyama provides a written plot of the general story that Toyotarō then expands upon, adding in his own ideas and events between Toriyama’s established main story elements. The story is then broken out into chapters and Toyotarō draws a rough draft of that month’s chapter, and via his editor, submits it to Toriyama for review and comment. Toyotarō then draws and inks the final draft based on any of the notes or corrections provided. This process continued to evolve as the series continued onward into its post-television, original story arcs, with Toriyama notably contributing an outline for the story of the “Galactic Patrol Prisoner” arc.

Each chapter of the Dragon Ball Super manga is first serialized in V-Jump. The series began with chapters running anywhere from roughly 15 to 30 pages, but eventually settled into 45 pages per chapter. Chapters are primarily produced in black and white, with very few color pages, and thus far have only been compiled in a tankōbon format.

With the series’ 87th chapter serialization in the October 2022 issue of V-Jump (released 20 August 2022), a note alongside the final page explained that the series would be going on hiatus, “…in order to prepare the next arc.”

Select a story arc to view a chapter-by-chapter break-down of that specific arc, with additional information pertaining to the original serialization. Detailed pages have also been included for each individual chapter, which contain title pages, chapter summaries, notes, and page breakdowns.

It should be noted that prior to the debut of the Dragon Ball Super manga series, Toyotarō penned a three-chapter introductory manga to the Resurrection ‘F’ movie in the April, May, and June 2015 issues of V-Jump. While not officially confirmed, it is believed that for this reason the Resurrection ‘F’ story arc that appears in the TV series was omitted from the manga, which instead “charged ahead” to the God of Destruction Champa story arc.

Documentation of additional bonus chapters — generally first published in event booklets or collected manga volumes — is also available.

Beerus, God of Destruction, has awoken after a 39 year slumber. Having had a dream about “Super Saiyan God”, he sets out in search of this mysterious Saiyan. After visiting Kaiō, and eventually ending up on Earth, Goku must find a way to summon the power of “Super Saiyan God” and battle the irritable god before he destroys the Earth!

Gods of Destruction Champa and Beerus have decided to hold a team battle featuring select warriors from their respective universes, with the grand prize being Universe 7’s Earth, and all of the delicious food that comes with it! With so much on the line, Earth’s heroes must defend their home and find the last remaining Super Dragon Ball before it’s too late.

The future is in danger once again, driving humanity to the brink of extinction. Future Trunks resists, but even the power of a Super Saiyan is no match for this mysterious man called “Black”. With no option left, Trunks travels back to the past once again to enlist the help of Goku and Vegeta. Even with Beerus on their side, can they stop Black’s shocking plan?!

Having enjoyed watching the martial arts tournament between Universe 6 and 7 firsthand, the Omni-King holds his very own between all 12 universes! With the warriors assembled, the Universe’s Greatest Martial Arts Tournament is set to begin. While Goku is filled with unabashed delight, Beerus and Whis are fraught with fear at the consequences of losing…

Goku and Vegeta volunteer to help the Galactic Patrol capture Moro, an escaped prisoner who had been imprisoned for 10 million years. However, Moro wields powerful magic that allows him to steal other’s power. As Moro shifts his attention to obtaining the Namekian Dragon Balls, can the Galactic Patrol stop him before he makes a universe-changing wish?!

All seems at peace across the Universe as our heroes receive accommodations from the Galactic Patrol for their efforts battling Moro. But in the shadows Granolla moves to retrieve Seven-Three’s remains, which have already been recovered for replication by Goichi, the lifeform’s original owner. What secrets does Seven-Three hold, and what is Granolla’s grand scheme?!

Now teenagers, Goten and Trunks have become super heroes to protect peace! But as remnants of an old organization reemerge, can Earth’s mightiest young protectors save the day, or will they need a little help from some friends?!

Supplemental Works

North Kaiō’s planet is restored back to its small size. Pilaf and co. are wished into babies. Gohan wishes to visit Trunks’ future timeline. Goten and Trunks babysit the island. Anyone remember Broli? These short bonus chapters have been published in each year’s “Jump Victory Carnival” attendee guidebooks since the series’ debut.

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