 These new illustrations were initially drawn in ink, scanned into a computer and colored using Corel Painter.Midway through, Toriyama changed to drawing them on a graphics tablet and coloring them with Adobe Photoshop.The December 2012 (cover date February 2013) issue of "V Jump" announced that parts of the manga would be fully colored digitally and re-released as "Dragon Ball Full Color".<ref name="colorchozenshuu"></ref> Twenty volumes, beginning from chapter one hundred and ninety-five and grouped by story arcs, were released between February 4, 2013, and July 4, 2014.<ref></ref><ref></ref> Twelve volumes covering the first one hundred and ninety-four chapters were published between January 4 and March 4, 2016.<ref></ref><ref></ref> "Dragon Ball" was also released in a "sōshūhen" edition that aims to recreate the manga as it was originally serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" in the same size, with the color pages, promotional text, and next chapter previews, in addition to foldout posters.<ref></ref> Eighteen volumes of "Dragon Ball Sōshūhen Chō Gōku Den" were published between May 13, 2016, and January 13, 2017.<ref></ref><ref></ref>

The English language version of the "Dragon Ball" manga is licensed for North America by Viz Media.