Monday, February 10, 2025 noticed the primary have a look at the upcoming Dragon Ball Tremendous manga one-shot formally shared in a video from the franchise’s official YouTube channel. Whereas the one-shot itself and its launch date of Thursday, February 20, 2025 had been beforehand introduced at Bounce Festa 2025, this newest sneak peek is the primary provided.
Whereas the Dragon Ball Tremendous manga is returning with a one-shot, it’s unclear as of this text’s writing whether or not or not the one-shot will mark the manga’s return to common serialization. Nonetheless, the most recent “Weekly Dragon Ball Information” video which shares the sketch of one of many chapter’s pages teases extra data coming this Thursday, February 13.
Dragon Ball Tremendous manga returns with one-shot, however has but to announce a return to common serialization
Presumably, the approaching data on Thursday, February 13 will reveal further draft sketches of pages for the upcoming Dragon Ball Tremendous manga one-shot. That is one thing the collection did commonly previous to taking its ongoing hiatus after Akira Toriyama’s demise, therefore why it appears more likely to be the primary focus. Nonetheless, if the manga is ready to quickly return to common serialization, this may very well be introduced on Thursday as properly.
It will additionally make sense, because the collection has been on hiatus for practically a yr, first introduced in April 2024 following Toriyama’s aforementioned passing. Simply earlier than Toriyama’s passing, the manga did appear to be laying the groundwork for a brand new arc, suggesting there’s no less than a path for the story’s near-future because it stands. Illustrator and presumably now creator Toyotaro has doubtless spent a majority of the hiatus making an attempt to plan a long-term imaginative and prescient for the collection’ future.
This lends additional credence to the concept that the Dragon Ball Tremendous manga’s return to common serialization is close to. Likewise, even when this return isn’t introduced simply earlier than or alongside the one-shot’s launch, followers can take the one-shot as an indication that the extremely anticipated return is coming quickly. Nonetheless, that is nonetheless purely speculative as of this text’s writing, with no rumors or official information indicating a return quickly.
The manga collection initially started in June 2015, and was written by Toriyama previous to his demise in March 2024. The manga was tailored right into a tv anime which ran from July 2015 to March 2018. Each the anime and manga are thought of to be unified canonically regardless of that includes some discrepancies and completely different occasions. The story is ready a number of years after Majin Buu’s defeat, however previous to the ultimate episodes of the Dragon Ball Z anime.
Toriyama handed on March 1, 2024 at 68 years previous from an acute subdural hematoma. Toriyama was finest referred to as the creator of the Dragon Ball franchise, in addition to the Dr. Hunch mangaka and the character designer of each the Chrono Set off online game and Dragon Quest online game franchise.
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