Universe Survival! The Tournament of Power Begins!! throws eighty fighters into one arena and lets the Dragon Ball Super manga off the leash: Volume 7 collects Chapters 33–36, the opening phase of the Tournament of Power, where eight universes fight for forty-eight minutes and the losers are erased on the spot. It is pure escalation — the first universe falls here.
What Volume 7 collects
Volume 7 collects Chapters 33–36, the first movement of the tournament itself. From the opening free-for-all through the first erasure and Hit’s doomed stand against Jiren, these chapters establish the rules of survival: teamwork, stamina and knowing which fights not to take. Full chapter guides are available from the chapter index.
- Chapter 33: Universe Survival! The Tournament of Power Begins!!
- Chapter 34: The First Doomed Universe
- Chapter 35: Hit vs. Jiren
- Chapter 36: Quirky Competitors
The story inside
The arena is the World of Void, the rules are brutal in their simplicity: no flying, no weapons, no killing — just ring-outs, eighty fighters deep. The opening minutes are chaos as alliances form and dissolve, and Universe 7 scatters across the stage. Goku immediately hunts for the strongest opponents, Vegeta does the same, and the androids and veterans settle into the less glamorous work of actually surviving.
The cost of failure arrives quickly. One by one Universe 9’s fighters are picked off — several by Frieza, who treats the tournament as sport — and when their last warrior falls, Zeno erases the entire universe in front of everyone. There is no longer any doubt about the stakes. The volume’s centrepiece is Hit’s challenge to Jiren: the assassin bends time itself into a trap, slowing the Pride Trooper to a crawl, and for a moment it almost works. Jiren breaks free through raw power and eliminates the strongest fighter Universe 6 had. Around them, stranger competitors — Universe 2’s theatrical warriors among them — keep the battlefield unpredictable as the volume closes with most of the field still standing and the worst yet to come. What keeps the chaos readable is the clock: the whole tournament lasts forty-eight minutes, counted down as the universes thin out. Every fighter who showboats is spending a resource the entire team needs, which is why the veterans’ dull, careful survival work matters just as much as Goku’s headline chases.
Where Volume 7 sits in the series
Volume 7 follows Volume 6, which assembled the team, and continues into Volume 8, where the tournament’s middle game turns vicious. All four chapters are part of the Universe Survival arc, the longest storyline in the manga to that point. See the volumes index for its place in the complete run.
Editions of Volume 7
Shueisha released the Japanese edition in September 2018, and VIZ Media’s English edition followed in December 2019, in print and digital. A full-colour digital edition came to Japan in August 2020; our coloured edition guide covers the format in detail. You can also read the original chapters officially through VIZ’s Shonen Jump service. ISBNs and full publication details are in the information panel on this page.