Volume 20 of the Dragon Ball Super manga, All-Out Bout, collects Chapters 85 to 88 and contains one of the most talked-about endings in the series. The Granolah arc’s final battle burns through Gas’s remaining lifespan, Granolah takes his last shot at the man who ruined his life — and then Frieza arrives, in a form nobody on the battlefield can touch, and rewrites the universe’s power balance in a handful of pages. The volume then closes by opening the next saga entirely.
What this volume collects
Three chapters end one arc and a fourth begins another. Each chapter has its own guide in the complete chapter index:
- Chapter 85: To Each His Own Answer
- Chapter 86: All-Out Bout
- Chapter 87: The Universe’s Strongest Appears
- Chapter 88: Super Heroes Are Born
The story inside
Goku and Vegeta fight Gas the way they should have from the start: together. It still nearly is not enough. Gas’s wish made him the strongest at the cost of his life, and as his body visibly decays he keeps spending what is left of it, matching Ultra Instinct and Ultra Ego blow for blow. Granolah, healed and armed with everything he has, lines up one full-power strike from across the battlefield and lands it — and even that only brings the war to its final, exhausted stalemate. Nobody present has anything left to decide the outcome.
Frieza decides it. Chapter 87 reveals where the emperor has been: training for ten years inside a time chamber on one of his conquered worlds, emerging as Black Frieza — a form so far beyond the battlefield that Gas and Elec, the two men who built their entire war around surpassing him, are finished in moments. Frieza then does the most unsettling thing of all: he leaves Goku and Vegeta alive, explaining they were never his target today. Whis collects the humbled pair and offers them the only sensible response — proper training, on Beerus’s planet. The aftershock matters as much as the entrance: Black Frieza does not merely end this war, he sets the ceiling that every future storyline must now measure itself against, and he clearly knows it. The final chapter jumps to Earth, where two teenage heroes calling themselves Saiyaman X-1 and X-2 are keeping the peace, and the Super Hero arc begins.
Where it sits in the series
Volume 20 closes the Granolah the Survivor arc and opens the Super Hero arc, making it the pivot between the manga’s two most recent sagas. It follows Volume 19, where Goku found his own Ultra Instinct, and continues into Volume 21, where Dr. Hedo and the Red Ribbon Army take centre stage. The full collected run is in the volume index.
Editions and reading options
The Japanese edition was released on 3 March 2023, the English edition on 6 February 2024, and Japan’s full-colour digital edition on 2 June 2023; both ISBNs and the remaining bibliographic details are listed in this page’s info panel. See our coloured edition guide for the colour releases. These chapters are available officially in English on MANGA Plus, Shueisha’s official service.