How many volumes of the Dragon Ball Super manga are there?
There are currently 23 volumes of the the Dragon Ball Super manga in Japan.
Of these 23 total Japanese volumes, 22 volumes have been translated and released in English by the official distributor, Viz — Volume 23 is due out in April 2025. Elsewhere across the globe, different distributors such as Glénat and Carlsen may be at different points in their manga release schedule for these localizations into different languages.
What is the most recent manga volume?
The latest volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga volume in Japan is Volume 23, which covers chapters 97-100.
This 23rd volume is due for release in English by Viz in April 2025.
Why are there chapters not available in the volumes yet?
The Dragon Ball Super manga is serialized within Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine in Japan. V-Jump is released monthly; more specifically, it is released on the 21st of each month, barring a Sunday or holiday, in which case its schedule gets moved up slightly to accommodate.
Chapters are first serialized in V-Jump, and once there are enough chapters to fill the space — four chapters these days with each chapter running roughly 45 pages — print (and digital) volumes are later released compiling those chapters.
Which chapters have yet to be compiled into a volume yet?
Right now, chapters 101-103 — the very end of the Super Hero arc — are the only chapters that have yet to be compiled. Since Dragon Ball Super manga volumes generally compile four total chapters these days, and because the manga is currently on hiatus, there is not yet a chapter 104 to fill out the necessary page count for a theoretical “Volume 24” at this point. If and when the Dragon Ball Super manga returns to serialization, and once enough additional chapters have been printed to leave enough buffer time, we assume that the next collected volume will indeed see a release.
That all said, a single-chapter bonus story will be included with the April 2025 issue of V-Jump (releasing in February 2025) focused on what led to Trunks’ admiration of superheroes, with key artwork showcasing Goten and Trunks behind “Clean God” (a source of inspiration most recently seen in the “Super Hero” arc of the Dragon Ball Super manga). This may serve as content to fill out another volume.
Which chapters are in each volume?
Your best bet is to check out the full listing of Dragon Ball Super manga chapters over in our “Manga Guide” — it always provides an up-to-date list of every single chapter, its respective V-Jump serialization date, titles and translations, and which chapters are included in which volumes of the manga.
The Japanese and English releases of the manga are one-to-one in terms of content, so there will never be a difference or surprise in terms of which chapters are in which volumes.
Why is the English release behind the Japanese release?
These days, Viz simultaneously publishes a digital version of each Dragon Ball Super chapter alongside its Japanese debut not only to the release date, but to its local time of midnight in Japan. These digital releases can be read on the official Shonen Jump and Manga Plus websites — the first three chapters and lastest three chapters are always available to read for free, while the others require a $3/month subscription to Viz’s “digital vault” service to read.
When it comes to the collected volumes, there are a few factors to take into consideration:
- Though it became a simultaneous publication eventually, Viz did not begin publishing the Dragon Ball Super manga simultaneously with its Japanese debut: Viz’s release of chapter 1 came almost exactly one full year after its original Japanese debut. This built in a fair amount of backlog right off the bat.
- The United States is a gigantic country (as a comparison, Japan is roughly the size of just the state of California), so the logistics behind printing, distribution, and stocking are exponentially larger and more complicated compared to other countries.
- Baked into those logistics are the planning and production between the licensor and licensee, too. For example, it’s widely speculated that Toei wanted a TV deal in place for the Dragon Ball Super television series in America before they considered doing something like a simulcast; thus, we didn’t get it on Crunchyroll until episode 66, and the English dub began airing about two months later, giving it something like almost a year and a half of time in between. Sometimes things just take time!
- Another thing to consider is that Viz does another translation pass between digital release and print release, and they also do artwork redraws on sound effects for the final print release — all additional layers of work.
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