The Winning Universe Is Decided! brings the Universe 6 tournament to its conclusion and then changes the tone of the Dragon Ball Super manga completely: Volume 2 collects Chapters 10–15, finishing the tournament between universes and closing with the desperate arrival of Future Trunks. It is the volume where the series stops being a friendly contest and a genuine threat appears on the horizon.
What Volume 2 collects
Volume 2 collects Chapters 10–15. Chapters 10–13 resolve the Universe 6 versus Universe 7 tournament that began in Volume 1, while Chapters 14–15 open the Future Trunks arc with a time machine, a wounded swordsman and a name whispered in fear. Every chapter also has its own guide, reachable from the chapter index.
- Chapter 10: Frost’s True Form
- Chapter 11: Vegeta’s Turn!!
- Chapter 12: Saiyan’s Pride
- Chapter 13: The Winning Universe Is Decided!
- Chapter 14: SOS from the Future
- Chapter 15: Hope!! Once Again
The story inside
The tournament reaches its decisive bouts. Frost, Universe 6’s supposed hero, is exposed as a cheat who hides a poisoned needle and staged the very pirate attacks he was praised for stopping. Vegeta takes personal offence and works through Frost, the metal man Magetta and the young Saiyan Cabba in turn, even pausing to teach Cabba how to become a Super Saiyan. That leaves the final: Goku against Hit, the legendary assassin whose Time-Skip freezes opponents mid-exchange. Goku answers with godly transformations, then shocks everyone by stepping out of the ring of his own accord. The tournament is settled by the joke fighter Monaka, and the arrival of Zeno, the Omni-King, turns a squabble between brothers into the promise of a far bigger tournament to come.
Then the book pivots. In a ruined future, a young man flees a figure who wears Goku’s face, and a one-way trip through time deposits Future Trunks, half-dead, in front of a Bulma who has already lost him once. His warning names the enemy: Goku Black. It is a sharp change of register: the tournament half of the book runs on rivalry and pride, while the closing chapters introduce a hero who has already lost everything once and an enemy wearing the most trusted face in the universe.
Where Volume 2 sits in the series
Volume 2 follows Volume 1 directly and hands over to Volume 3, which investigates the mystery of Goku Black in earnest. Its chapters close out the Universe 6 arc and open the Future Trunks arc, the darkest storyline of the early manga. You can place it in the full run through our volumes index.
Editions of Volume 2
The Japanese edition was published by Shueisha in December 2016, with VIZ Media’s English edition following in December 2017 in print and digital formats. Japan’s full-colour digital edition of this volume arrived in April 2020, as covered in our coloured edition guide. Readers who prefer the original chapter releases can read them officially on MANGA Plus by Shueisha. ISBNs and full edition details are in the information panel on this page.