Volume 13 of the Dragon Ball Super manga, Battles Abound, collects Chapters 57 to 60 and drops the series into the middle of a planetary invasion. Moro — the ancient wizard who eats the life energy of worlds — has freed the Galactic Patrol’s worst prisoners and sent them to Earth as his advance force. While Goku races home and Vegeta trains on a distant planet, the defence of Earth falls to the warriors who stayed behind, and this volume is their showcase before the main event begins.
What this volume collects
The volume gathers four chapters from the heart of the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc, continuing directly from Volume 12. Every chapter is a full battle chapter, and each one has its own guide in the complete chapter index:
- Chapter 57: Battles Abound
- Chapter 58: Son Goku Arrives
- Chapter 59: Activate Ultra Instinct -Sign-
- Chapter 60: Merus’s Miscalculation
The story inside
Saganbo’s Galactic Bandit Brigade spreads across the Earth, and the home team finally gets the spotlight it has waited several arcs for. Gohan and Piccolo fight as a drilled unit, Androids 17 and 18 bring their endless stamina to the front line, and Krillin, Master Roshi, Tien Shinhan, Yamcha and Chiaotzu each hold a battlefield of their own against prisoners chosen to exploit their weaknesses. The early chapters are built as a rolling war rather than a single duel, and the coordination between the defenders — not any one transformation — is what keeps Earth standing.
The balance shifts when Moro himself arrives and pours his stolen energy into Saganbo, turning a strong prisoner into a weapon his own body can barely contain. Goku’s return in Chapter 58 turns the tide of the invasion, sweeping aside the brigade before he finally stands across from Moro. Chapter 59 gives the volume its centrepiece: Goku taps Ultra Instinct Sign against an opponent who grows stronger the longer a fight lasts, because every exchange feeds Moro’s absorption. The technique is still imperfect, and when the opening closes, the Patrol’s own Merus steps in — a decision the final chapter frames as his miscalculation, as Moro slips through their grasp to recover his strength for a rematch.
Where it sits in the series
This is the sixth volume of the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc, and it covers the invasion phase of the Moro conflict — the last stretch before the story narrows to Goku, Vegeta and Moro alone. It follows Volume 12, where the prisoners reached Earth and Merus’s true identity was exposed, and it leads straight into Volume 14, where Vegeta returns with a technique built to undo everything Moro has stolen. Readers who want the full arc order can browse all volumes in the volume index.
Editions and reading options
The Japanese edition was released on 4 August 2020, the English edition followed on 1 June 2021, and Japan’s full-colour digital edition arrived on 4 February 2021; the bibliographic details, including both ISBNs, are listed in this page’s info panel. Our guide to the coloured edition explains how that version differs. To read these chapters through an official channel, they are available digitally on VIZ’s Shonen Jump service, which carries the series in English.