Famed Creator Akira Toriyama Returns With The Sequel To His Best-Selling DRAGON BALL Manga Series This Spring.

VIZ Media announced this week that the exciting follow up to the iconic, best-selling saga DRAGON BALL with the launch of DRAGON BALL SUPER on May 2^nd.

The new series will be published in digital and print editions under the company’s Shonen Jump imprint. DRAGON BALL SUPER delivers a new martial arts adventure written by DRAGON BALL creator Akira Toriyama and features artwork by manga illustrator and DRAGON BALL super-fan Toyotarou.

DRAGON BALL SUPER is rated ‘T’ for Teens and will carry a print MSRP of $9.99. The series also launches digitally on May 2^nd via VIZ.com and the VIZ Manga App, as well as from the Nook, Kobo, Kindle, iBooks, comiXology, and Google Play stores. Continuing chapters of the series are also available for FREE on VIZ.com/ShonenJump/chapters/all!

In DRAGON BALL SUPER, ever since Goku became Earth’s greatest hero and gathered the seven Dragon Balls to defeat the evil Boo, his life on Earth has grown a little dull. But new threats loom overhead, and Goku and his friends will have to defend the planet once again in this continuation of Akira Toriyama’s best-selling series, DRAGON BALL!

“Manga and action fans are going to love DRAGON BALL SUPER, which marks the return of Akira Toriyama’s world-famous manga series,” says Marlene First, Editor. “Goku puts aside his idyllic life and faces powerful new enemies across the multi-verse in this thrilling continuation of the DRAGON BALL saga. Between Toriyama’s creative genius and Toyotarou’s dynamic art, strap in for an action-packed adventure with volume 1’s release this spring!”

Toyotarou created the manga adaptation of the Dragon Ball Z anime’s 2015 film, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F. He is also the author of the spin-off series Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission, which debuted in V-Jump in Japan in November 2012.

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