The September 2021 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine kicked off a “Dragon Ball Super Gallery” series in commemoration of the Dragon Ball franchise’s upcoming 40th anniversary. The celebration aims to have different artists all contribute their own spin on the original 42 tankōbon covers, with the images and an accompanying comment published as the magazine’s back cover.

Following the previous thirty-nine entries, this month’s December 2024 issue brings us Nobuhiro Watsuki (Rurouni Kenshin) and their take on the series’ 40th volume cover.

At this time, Kanzenshuu will not be sharing Watsuki’s illustration or comment (beyond this note for future reference’s sake that it was published at this time in this issue).

In 2017, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police charged the then-47-year-old manga creator with possession of child pornography. Watsuki was later fined ¥200,000, and returned to serialization the next year.

Saikyō Jump is currently a monthly magazine published in Japan by Shueisha under the “Jump” line of magazines. The magazine began as a quarterly publication in 2012, went monthly in 2013, went bimonthly in late-2014, and returned to a monthly format in 2021 (including a digital release for the first time). The magazine’s focus is spin-off and supplementary manga series aimed at a young audience, while also including game promotions, news coverage, and more.

For calendar year 2019, Shueisha reported Saikyō Jump‘s circulation down at 130,000, with readership as 58.5% upper elementary school, 28% lower middle school, 11% middle school, and 2.5% high school or older.