 The manga's story revolves around Burdock, Goku's father, who is featured in a scenario where he did not die at the hands of Freeza and fights his enemy's ancestor as a Super Saiyan.<ref></ref>

On December 12, 2016, the first chapter of a spin-off manga titled was released in Shueisha's "Shōnen Jump+" digital magazine.Written and illustrated by Dragon Garow Lee, it is about a high school boy who wakes up after an accident in the body of Yamcha in the "Dragon Ball" manga.Knowing what comes later in the story, he trains as Yamcha to make him the strongest warrior.<ref></ref> Utilizing the "reincarnated in a parallel world" theme popular in light novels, the series was conceived by "Shōnen Jump+" editor-in-chief Shuhei Hosono.<ref name="yamchaprint"></ref> A second chapter was released on May 8, 2017 and the final one on August 14, 2017.<ref></ref><ref></ref> A "tankōbon" collecting all three chapters was published on November 2, 2017 and has 240,000 copies in print.<ref></ref> Viz licensed the series for English publication and released the collected volume on November 6, 2018.<ref></ref>

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"Dragon Ball" is one of the most popular manga series of all time, and it continues to enjoy high readership today.