Shueisha and Bandai Namco have opened a new official website to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dragon Ball. The site is available in Japanese and English. In an official tweet, Shueisha noted that it will launch numerous projects throughout the 40th-anniversary year.
One of the articles it posted on the anniversary day featured a look back on Dragon Ball milestone covers in several Weekly Shonen Jump editions from around the early 1990s. The same article also included Akira Toriyama’s illustration for the franchise’s 20th anniversary in 2004 and a message for the 30th anniversary in 2014. Unfortunately, there will be no new messages from the Dragon Ball creator for the 40th anniversary, since Akira Toriyama died due to an acute subdural hematoma on March 1, 2024.
Besides the manga series, the website also contains a section dedicated to updates on Dragon Ball games Bandai Namco has released. When the website was just published, it featured a free trial of Dragon Ball Daima‘s Mini Goku in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. People who have the game on the PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, or Switch can try playing with the character even without purchasing the “Future Saga Chapter 2” DLC on November 20-27, 2024.
The publication of the website on November 20, 2024, coincided exactly with the debut of the manga series in the Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on November 20, 1984.
Published: Nov 20, 2024 05:30 pm