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Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock V Jump Jaco The Galactic Patrolman

Dragon Ball continues to be popular with new manga spin-offs being created, including stories focusing on Goku's father Bardock and mother. It remains one of the best-selling manga series of all time with over 300 million tankōbon volumes sold worldwide as of 2021, having made Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine the highest circulating manga magazine during its initial run. Dragon Ball broke sales records in Japan and worldwide, increasing its total sales to over 400 million copies when including unofficial copies.

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Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock V Jump Jaco The Galactic Patrolman

Dragon Ball continues to be popular with new manga spin-offs being created, including stories focusing on Goku's father Bardock and mother. It remains one of the best-selling manga series of all time with over 300 million tankōbon volumes sold worldwide as of 2021, having made Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine the highest circulating manga magazine during its initial run. Dragon Ball broke sales records in Japan and worldwide, increasing its total sales to over 400 million copies when including unofficial copies.

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Another manga penned by Ōishi, the three-chapter 

Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock that


revolves around Bardock, Goku's father, was published in the monthly magazine V Jump from
August and October 2011.[40]
The final chapter of Toriyama's 2013 manga series Jaco the Galactic Patrolman revealed that it
is set before Dragon Ball, with several characters making appearances.[41] Jaco's collected
volumes contain a bonus Dragon Ball chapter depicting Goku's mother.[42]
In December 2016, a spin-off manga titled Dragon Ball Side Story: The Case of Being
Reincarnated as Yamcha began in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ digital magazine. Written and il

Dragon Ball is one of the most popular manga series of all time, and it continues to enjoy high
readership today. Dragon Ball is credited as one of the main reasons manga circulation was at its
highest between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.[72][73] During Dragon Ball's initial run in Weekly
Shōnen Jump, the manga magazine reached an average circulation of 6.53 million weekly sales,
the highest in its history.[72][73][74] During Dragon Ball's serialisation between 1984 and 1995, Weekly
Shōnen Jump magazine had a total circulation of over 2.9 billion copies,[75][h] with those issues
generating an estimated ¥554 billion ($6.9 billion) in sales revenue.[h]
Dragon Ball also sold a record number of collected tankōbon volumes for its time. By 2000, more
than 126 million tankōbon copies had been sold in Japan alone.[76] It sold over 150 million copies
in Japan by 2008, making it the best-selling manga ever at the time.[77] By 2012, its sales in Japan
had grown to pass 156 million, making it the second best-selling Weekly Shōnen Jump manga of
all time, behind One Piece.[78] Dragon Ball's tankobon volumes sold 159.5 million copies in Japan
by February 2014,[79] and have sold over 160 million copies in Japan as of 2016. [48]
The manga is similarly popular overseas, having been translated and released in over
40 countries worldwide.[80] The total number of tankōbon volumes sold have reached 300 million
copies worldwide, as of August 2021.[81][82][i] not including unofficial pirated copies; when including
pirated copies, an estimated total of more than 400 million official and unofficial copies have
been sold worldwide.[g][b][c]

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