Volume 24 of the Dragon Ball Super manga, A Legacy Toward the Future, collects Chapters 101 to 104 and is, for now, the final collected volume of the series. After the Cell Max battle, it asks what all that new power is for: Goku returns to Earth to test Gohan’s awakening himself, the next generation takes the measure of the old one, and a gentle prequel one-shot closes the book by explaining where Goten and Trunks’s superhero act really came from.
What this volume collects
Three chapters form a sparring epilogue to the Super Hero arc, and a fourth steps back in time. Each chapter has its own guide in the complete chapter index:
- Chapter 101: Carmine and Soldier #15
- Chapter 102: Son Goku vs. Son Gohan
- Chapter 103: A Legacy Toward the Future
- Chapter 104: The Birth of Saiyaman X
The story inside
The volume opens in the rubble of the Red Ribbon Army, where Carmine — unrepentant — tries to recruit Dr. Hedo into rebuilding the organisation a third time, and gets exactly the answer his scheming deserves; the army’s story ends not with a bang but with its last officer being laughed out of the room. Then ki from the Cell Max fight does what no phone call could: Goku, training on Beerus’s planet, senses Gohan’s awakened power across the universe and comes home to see it for himself. Chapter 102 is the gift long-time readers waited decades for — Ultra Instinct Goku against Gohan Beast, father and son at full strength, not as enemies but as a measurement of how far the boy who once hid behind his father has come. Broly gets his own test against Gohan, and Goten and Trunks are reminded, firmly, of the gap that still exists.
Chapter 103 winds the visit down on the series’ favourite theme: the future is in good hands, and the old guard knows it. The closing chapter then rewinds to before the Super Hero arc entirely. “The Birth of Saiyaman X” follows a school museum trip where a substitute hero — Gohan, secretly covering the role of the city’s beloved Cleanod — inspires a young Trunks in ways nobody notices at the time. The joke lands warmly: the Saiyaman X personas Goten and Trunks debut in this arc were themselves inherited, a legacy passed down without anyone planning it.
Where it sits in the series
Volume 24 completes the Super Hero arc and is the latest collected volume. It follows Volume 23, where Gohan Beast destroyed Cell Max. No further volume has been announced, because no new numbered chapters have been released since Chapter 104 — the series is on hiatus, and our Chapter 105 status page tracks what is (and is not) known about the next chapter. The full run is listed in the volume index.
Editions and reading options
The Japanese edition was released on 4 April 2025, and Japan’s full-colour digital edition followed on 4 July 2025. The English edition is listed as scheduled for release on 3 March 2026 — a listing date for a forthcoming edition, not a book already on sale; both ISBNs and the remaining bibliographic details are in this page’s info panel. Our coloured edition guide explains the colour format. The collected chapters can be read officially in English on MANGA Plus, Shueisha’s official service.