Editing Dragon Ball (manga) (section)

===Sales===
{{See also|Weekly Shōnen Jump#Circulation figures{{!}}''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' 
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''Dragon Ball'' is one of the most popular manga series of all time. It is credited as one of the main reasons manga circulation was at its highest between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.<ref name="IbarakiInterview">{{cite web|url=http://comipress.com/article/2008/03/31/3452|title=The Reminiscence of My 25 Years with Shonen Jump|last=Ibaraki|first=Masahiko|date=March 31, 2008|others=Ohara, T. (trans)|work=ComiPress|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912001524/http://comipress.com/article/2008/03/31/3452|archive-date=September 12, 2015}}</ref><ref name="comipress-jump">{{cite web|url=http://comipress.com/article/2007/05/06/1923|title=The Rise and Fall of Weekly Shonen Jump: A Look at the Circulation of Weekly Jump|date=May 8, 2007|work=ComiPress|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306083429/http://comipress.com/article/2007/05/06/1923|archive-date=March 6, 2017}}</ref> During ''Dragon Ball''{{'}}s initial run in ''[[Weekly Shōnen Jump]]'', the [[manga magazine]] reached an average circulation of 6.53{{nbsp}}million weekly sales, the highest in its history.<ref name="IbarakiInterview"/><ref name="TimeMag">{{cite magazine|last=Garger|first=Ilya|date=February 17, 2003|title=Look, Up in the Sky!|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|issn=0040-781X|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,423567,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024163537/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,423567,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 24, 2008|access-date=July 7, 2008}}</ref><ref name="comipress-jump"/> During ''Dragon Ball''{{'}}s serialization between 1984 and 1995, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine had a total circulation of over 2.9{{nbsp}}billion copies.<ref name="exlight">{{cite news|script-title=ja:週刊少年ジャンプの発行部数（最高653万部）|url=http://exlight.net/doc/business/jump/index.html|work=exlight.net|date=2006-07-26|access-date=February 8, 2019|archive-date=September 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200903173256/http://exlight.net/doc/business/jump/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|See ''{{Section link|Weekly Shōnen Jump|Circulation figures}}''}}

The collected volumes of ''Dragon Ball'' have sold in record numbers. By 2000, more than 126{{nbsp}}million {{Transliteration|ja|tankōbon}} copies had been sold in Japan.<ref name="LittleBoy">{{cite book|title=Little Boy: The Art of Japan's Exploding Subculture|first=Takashi|last=Murakami|others=Linda Hoaglund (translator)|publisher=[[Yale University Press]], Japan Society|date=May 15, 2005|isbn=0-300-10285-2|chapter=Earth in My Window|pages=[https://archive.org/details/littleboyartsofj0000unse/page/105 105–106]|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/littleboyartsofj0000unse/page/105}}</ref> By 2008, it had over 150{{nbsp}}million copies in circulation and was the [[List of best-selling manga|best-selling manga]] ever at the time.<ref name="Comipress">{{cite web|title=Top Manga Properties in 2008 – Rankings and Circulation Data|url=http://comipress.com/article/2008/12/31/3733|publisher=Comipress|date=December 31, 2008|access-date=November 28, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629000255/http://comipress.com/article/2008/12/31/3733|archive-date=June 29, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, Shueisha announced that ''Dragon Ball'' volume sales had grown to more than 156{{nbsp}}million, making it the second best-selling ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' manga of all time, behind ''[[One Piece]]''.<ref name="156mil">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-23/top-10-shonen-jump-manga-by-all-time-volume-sales|title=Top 10 Shonen Jump Manga by All-Time Volume Sales|access-date=November 17, 2012|archive-date=October 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008192850/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-23/top-10-shonen-jump-manga-by-all-time-volume-sales|url-status=live}}</ref> Two years later, this number had grown to 159.5{{nbsp}}million copies.<ref name="jump2014">{{cite web|title=Shueisha Media Guide 2014 少年コミック誌・青年コミック誌|trans-title=Boy's & Men's Comic Magazines|url=http://adnavi.shueisha.co.jp/mediaguide/2014/pdf/boys.pdf|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=2017-04-22|page=2|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430025858/http://adnavi.shueisha.co.jp/mediaguide/2014/pdf/boys.pdf|archive-date=2014-04-30}}</ref> By November 2015, the manga had over 230{{nbsp}}million copies in circulation worldwide, including 140{{nbsp}}million {{Transliteration|ja|tankōbon}} volumes and 20{{nbsp}}million {{Transliteration|ja|kanzenban}} volumes in Japan.<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ja:30th ANNIVERSARY ドラゴンボール超史集 -SUPER HISTORY BOOK-|chapter=Dragon Ball Comics & Book Data|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|date=January 21, 2016|isbn=978-4-08-792505-0|pages=210–211}}</ref> The total number of ''Dragon Ball'' volumes sold reached 260{{nbsp}}million copies worldwide by 2022.<ref name="Toei-press-22061"/>