The Dragon Ball Super manga is the official print sequel to the Dragon Ball manga. It is drawn by Toyotaro in Shueisha's monthly V Jump magazine, starting on June 20, 2015, based on story outlines by Akira Toriyama. After the anime ended in 2018 the manga carried on alone with three new arcs, but it has been on hiatus since March 2024: as of October 2026, the latest chapter is still chapter 104, released in February 2025.
How it works
Toyotaro came from years of Dragon Ball fan comics and had already drawn the manga adaptation of the movie Resurrection 'F'. On Super, Toriyama supplied the main plot points, and Toyotaro worked out the storyboards, dialogue and details himself before sending them back for approval. The anime used the same outlines, but the results differ: the manga is tighter, skips the Resurrection 'F' arc entirely and handles several key moments in its own way.
At first the comic and the Dragon Ball Super TV series ran side by side, but at one chapter a month the manga quickly fell behind the anime. That is why the two versions of the Tournament of Power, which wraps up around volume 9, tell the same story with plenty of differences in the details.
The arcs after the anime
Once the anime ended in March 2018, the manga became the only place to read new stories.
| Arc | Chapters | Years (V Jump) |
|---|---|---|
| Galactic Patrol Prisoner (Moro) | 42 – 67 | 2018 – 2020 |
| Granolah the Survivor | 67 – 87 | 2021 – 2022 |
| Super Hero (prologue and movie adaptation) | 88 – 103 | 2022 – 2024 |
| Standalone chapter | 104 | 2025 |
Moro, the planet eater
Moro, an ancient sorcerer whose powers were sealed millions of years earlier by the Grand Supreme Kai, breaks out of the Galactic Patrol's prison and goes back to draining whole planets dry. Goku and Vegeta sign up with the Patrol, get beaten, and then split up: Goku learns to control Ultra Instinct with help from the agent Merus, while Vegeta travels to planet Yardrat to master spiritual techniques. It is the manga's longest arc, and it is being adapted as the anime Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol, announced in January 2026.
Granolah the Survivor
Granolah, the last surviving Cerealian, uses his planet's Dragon Balls to become the strongest warrior in the universe, trading away almost all of his remaining lifespan. His revenge against the Saiyans uncovers a piece of the past of Bardock, Goku's father, and gives Vegeta his own path with Ultra Ego. The arc ends with the debut of Black Frieza, who flattens both Saiyans in seconds. That threat is still hanging.
Super Hero
After a break in the second half of 2022, the manga returned with three chapters devised by Toyotaro that send Goten and Trunks to high school. It then adapted the movie Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, with Gohan Beast and Piccolo's new form, and closed with an epilogue on Beerus's planet. According to Toyotaro, those chapters were largely written by Toriyama.
The hiatus: where things stand
Toriyama died on March 1, 2024. Chapter 103 appeared in the May issue of V Jump, on sale March 21, 2024, and that same issue announced an indefinite hiatus starting with the next one. Since then only one chapter has come out: chapter 104, a short standalone story written and drawn by Toyotaro, released on February 20, 2025 and collected in volume 24.
As of October 19, 2026, the manga is still on hiatus, with no date for chapter 105. There are signs of a return, though. In March 2026 Toyotaro changed his X bio to say everything is for the series' return, and on August 27, 2026 V Jump publicly described him as the artist currently serializing Dragon Ball Super in the magazine. Meanwhile the anime is back on TV with Dragon Ball Super: Beerus, a reworked version of the series that follows the manga more closely, airing in Japan since October 11, 2026.
Did you know? From chapter 104 onward, Toriyama is no longer credited for the story: the writing is entirely Toyotaro's. Toriyama himself had once told him that, of everyone who had worked on Dragon Ball, his art was the closest to his own.
Reading it in English
VIZ Media has been posting free English chapters on its website since June 24, 2016, and the first print volume came out on May 2, 2017. VIZ had released all 24 volumes in North America by March 3, 2026, so the English edition is caught up with Japan, where volume 24 came out on April 4, 2025. Shueisha also publishes the series simultaneously in English and Spanish on its MANGA Plus app, which is the quickest legal way to read new chapters on the day they come out in Japan. On top of that, Shueisha has sold digitally colored versions of the volumes since 2020.
Each paperback collects roughly four chapters, with recaps at the front.
Is it worth reading?
Yes, especially if the anime left you hanging. The Moro and Granolah arcs have not been animated yet, and the manga handles fight pacing and side characters better than the TV series did. Toyotaro's linework is clean and faithful to the source, even if the panels can feel crowded in the longest battles.
Our take
On paper, Super did something the anime could not: keep going. The Granolah arc, with Bardock's return and a Vegeta who finally finds a path of his own, is among the best material the franchise has produced in the last decade. The hiatus stings because it lands on the Black Frieza cliffhanger and in the shadow of its creator's death. But the series has not been cancelled, and Toyotaro now faces the hardest job of all: writing Dragon Ball without Toriyama.