Dragon Ball Releases Third Cover in Super Gallery Project

Shueisha has released the third cover in the publisher's Dragon Ball Super Gallery Project.

The new cover was posted online by Shonen Jump News - Unofficial and is a redraw of the cover to Dragon Ball Volume 38, which was originally released in August, 1994. The new version of the art was drawn by Ryuhei Tamura, a manga artist and writer who is best known for the Beelzebub series, which was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2009 - 2014 and was adapted into a 2011 anime series by studio St. Signpost (which at the time was still known as Pierrot+). Tamura recently completed his latest series, Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin, which also ran in Weekly Shonen Jump and told the story of a detective who intentionally tries to be his department's "loose canon," at least until he is partnered with humanoid dolphin. Together, the two try to solve crimes related to the activities of a mysterious cult.

Tamura's cover is the third of Akira's Toriyama's Dragon Ball covers to be redrawn by another manga creator. The first two were created by Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of Naruto, and Tite Kubo, the artist behind Bleach. The cover illustrations are part of Shueisha's Dragon Ball Super Gallery Project, which tasks the creators of other famous manga series to draw their own version of a classic Dragon Ball cover. A new cover will be revealed every month until Nov. 2024, when the franchise will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its original publication. Kishimoto and Kubo's covers can also been viewed below:

Since its debut in 1984, Dragon Ball has become one of the most iconic anime and manga franchises in the world. The series was created by Akira Toriyama, who was already known for his hit Dr. Slump comedy manga at the time, and is now the third best-selling manga series of all time with a whopping 250 million copies in circulation worldwide. The series has been adapted into multiple anime series and movies, which have been credited with helping to establish anime's mainstream popularity worldwide during the 1990s and early 2000s.

The series continues to this day with Dragon Ball Super, a new manga series that is a direct continuation of Toriyama's original Dragon Ball manga. The series is written by Toriyama and is drawn by Toyotarou, a self taught artist whom Toriyama has appointed as his official successor. The manga was adapted into a televised anime series that ran from 2015 - 2018. The anime will continue with a new movie, the CG-animated Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, which will be released sometime in 2022.

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