The Decisive Battle! Farewell, Trunks! closes one era of the Dragon Ball Super manga and opens another: Volume 5 collects Chapters 25–28, finishing the Future Trunks arc with the most drastic ending in the series, then slowing down for training, family life and the first moves toward the Tournament of Power. Few volumes swing this hard between despair and calm.
What Volume 5 collects
Volume 5 collects Chapters 25–28. The first two chapters conclude the battle against Zamasu that has run since Volume 2, and the last two reset the board: everyday life on Earth, a visit to Zeno’s palace and an exhibition unlike anything the series had attempted. Individual chapter guides are listed on the chapter index.
- Chapter 25: Will It Be Goku?! Or Zamas?!
- Chapter 26: The Decisive Battle! Farewell, Trunks!
- Chapter 27: Life, Training and More
- Chapter 28: The Gods of Destruction from All 12 Universes
The story inside
The fused Zamasu’s borrowed body finally gives way, splitting him back into two — who then multiply into an army of Zamasus, each as dangerous as the original. There is no technique left, so Goku uses the one thing Zamasu never planned for: the button that summons Zeno himself. The Omni-King of the future takes one look at the corrupted world and erases the entire timeline, gods, mortals and all. Trunks and Mai survive with nowhere to go home to, and choose to build a life in a new future, one where their doubles already exist. The farewell that gives the volume its title is genuinely final.
After that storm, the book breathes. Goku trains, works a farm shift and pesters everyone about the tournament Zeno promised back in the Universe 6 arc. His persistence pays off at Zeno’s palace, where the two Omni-Kings formalise the Tournament of Power: eight universes, ten fighters each, one arena, and erasure for the losers. As a preview, the Gods of Destruction of all twelve universes are ordered to fight an exhibition battle royale among themselves, a brawl that shows Goku exactly what league he has wandered into. The volume also sets a pattern the manga keeps from here on: story arcs end with consequences that cannot be punched away, and the comedy of ordinary life is what those consequences are measured against.
Where Volume 5 sits in the series
Volume 5 follows Volume 4 and hands the story to Volume 6, which recruits Universe 7’s team. Its chapters close the Future Trunks arc and open the Universe Survival arc, making it the hinge of the whole early manga. Check the volumes index for the full reading order.
Editions of Volume 5
Shueisha published the Japanese edition in March 2018, and VIZ Media’s English edition followed in May 2019, in print and digital. Japan’s full-colour digital edition of this volume was released in June 2020; see our coloured edition guide for how the format works. The chapters themselves can be read officially through VIZ’s Shonen Jump service. Complete publication details and ISBNs are in the information panel on this page.