Last Chance for Hope is the Dragon Ball Super manga at its most desperate: Volume 4 collects Chapters 21–24, in which the heroes throw every remaining idea at an immortal god and a stolen body — an ancient sealing technique, a fusion of their own, and a transformation Goku has been quietly perfecting. Almost nothing works, and that is exactly the point of the book.
What Volume 4 collects
Volume 4 collects Chapters 21–24, the penultimate movement of the Future Trunks arc. A return trip to the future, a borrowed technique from Master Roshi’s era and the arc’s two great fusions all land in these four chapters. You can follow the sequence chapter by chapter from the chapter index.
- Chapter 21: Last Chance for Hope
- Chapter 22: Zamas’s Final Trump Card
- Chapter 23: The Potara’s True Worth
- Chapter 24: Son Goku’s Evolution
The story inside
With the future’s defenders scattered, the plan becomes the Evil Containment Wave, the Mafuba technique once used to seal King Piccolo. Goku trains under Master Roshi to learn it, and the heroes return to the future with a sealing jar and a strategy. The attempt collapses on a humiliating detail: Goku has forgotten the paper seal that makes the jar work, and the immortal Zamasu walks free.
Zamasu then plays his final card. The two Zamasus use the Potara earrings to fuse into a single god with Black’s Saiyan power and the other’s immortality, and against him even Goku and Vegeta’s own Potara fusion, Vegito, burns out in minutes under the strain of Super Saiyan Blue. That leaves Goku alone, refining Super Saiyan Blue into a perfected form that contains its full power inside his body, trading blows with a god who simply refuses to fall. The volume closes mid-crisis, with every trump card spent and the fusion’s unstable body starting to betray its owners. The endgame is drawn as a war of attrition rather than a duel of finishing moves: each of these chapters spends one of the heroes’ remaining ideas, and the art keeps returning to the ruined city, the useless sealing jar and Zamasu’s swelling confidence. By the final page the question is no longer who is stronger, but what on Earth is left to try.
Where Volume 4 sits in the series
Volume 4 follows Volume 3, which exposed the conspiracy, and leads straight into Volume 5, where the Future Trunks storyline reaches its shocking conclusion. All four chapters sit inside the Future Trunks arc, and the book is the arc’s fighting peak before its bittersweet ending. The volumes index shows where it belongs in a full collection.
Editions of Volume 4
The Japanese edition came from Shueisha in November 2017, and VIZ Media’s English edition followed in January 2019, in print and digital formats. A full-colour digital edition was released in Japan in May 2020, as detailed in our coloured edition guide. The original chapters are also available officially on MANGA Plus by Shueisha. ISBNs and complete edition information appear in the information panel on this page.