What is the Dragon Ball Super manga?

Dragon Ball Super began as an anime in July 2015, and its manga twin started a month earlier in V Jump, Shueisha's monthly games-and-cards magazine. The division of labor was unusual and openly credited: Toriyama supplied story outlines and character designs, and Toyotarou, a fan artist turned official successor, scripted and drew the chapters, with Toriyama checking and correcting pages.

The manga retells Battle of Gods, Resurrection F (mostly skipped in the book), the Universe 6 tournament, the Goku Black arc, and the Tournament of Power, but it is not a transcript. Fights are re-choreographed, power scaling is handled differently, with completed Super Saiyan Blue as a manga emphasis, and whole anime subplots vanish while new scenes appear. Readers who know only the show will find the Black arc's ending and the tournament's eliminations genuinely different.

After the anime ended in 2018, the manga became the lead version of Super. The Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc, introducing the magic-consuming villain Moro, and the Granolah the Survivor arc ran only in the manga, followed by a retelling of the Super Hero film and, after Toriyama's death in March 2024, a hiatus that left the series' future openly uncertain.

Physically, Super is collected in slimmer tankobon than the original series, published by Viz in English with the same covers in most cases, making cover comparison between editions less dramatic than the original run but paper quality and color page reproduction the real differences. The color pages Toriyama-era Jump made famous appear here as occasional full color chapters in the digital V Jump edition.