Dragon Ball Super the animated television show ended in the United States in 2020, and in 2019 in Japan. Even though Japan is currently broadcasting a new show entitled Dragon Ball Legends, the show’s production company has decided to expand upon the storylines in Dragon Ball Super into a manga, that has been extraordinarily popular with its Japanese audience.
It is a good time to be a fan in Japan because there is both a hit TV show and a comic book with all-new adventures. This is something new for the Dragon Ball franchise, they typically like to exclusively focus on the TV series or manga, and rarely at the same time. The manga must be performing well if it has already reached Chapter 68. Western audiences are curious about the adventures within the manga that they can only experience by importing books from Japan that are written in Japanese. will likely make a debut in America by the end of 2021.
During the end of chapter 67, manga fans had the opportunity to see Granola, who is a main character in chapter 68. He is an android that is looking for some specific on earth that is a part of his programming.
Fans of Dragon Ball Z will imediently recognize the similarities between this new character and Android 16, Android 17, Android 18 and Cell. The few pages of the manga that this character has been in has been well received by readers.
It has been confirmed by several sources that Granolah will have some relationship to the destroyed Planet Vegeta, and he has some kind of vendetta against Goku’s father. However, since Goku’s father was killed in the planet’s genocide by Freeza, it’s likely that this new character will be going after Goku himself.
In addition to Granolah, the teaser for chapter 68 shows the characters of Whis and the Oracle Fish, who many reviewers think will play a significant role in the chapter. It is expected that Goku and Vegeta will continue their training with Whis in order to control their spirit power and prepare for the new challenge of competing against Granolah.
Even though the manga is unlikely to release in the U.S. its content is important for fans to know. After Dragon Ball Legends has aired all of its episodes in Japan, they usually release the English version several months to a year later. Some of what is taking place in the manga, may have an influence on the character arcs present within Dragon Ball Legends.
The premise for Dragon Ball Legends is to feature all of the characters from different generations in battle with each other; it is like going into the future and all the characters that ever existed in the manga or TV shows have the opportunity to battle each other. It is a big hit in Japan, and will be in the U.S. also sometime later this year or in 2022. As for chapter 68, the best way to experience the manga is to import them and read the visuals.
