Dragon Ball Daima

After saving the world from the destructive might of Majin Buu, Gokuu Son and his allies look forward to a well-earned rest. However, unbeknownst to them, their battle was recorded and observed by Gomah, an evil being who assumes the title of King in the Demon Realm, filling the void left behind with the death of former ruler Dabura.

At Gomah's side is Degesu, the younger brother of Higashi no Kaioshin, a being who lords over the universe. Jealous of his brother's power, Degesu works alongside Gomah to steal Earth's Dragon Balls and preemptively subdue any potential future enemies. Calling upon the power of the legendary dragon Shenron, Gomah wishes for Gokuu and his friends to be reverted into children, intending to rob them of the limitless power that defeated Buu. With Earth's greatest warriors shrunken down, Gomah abducts Dende, the planet's acting god.

But Gokuu refuses to be set back by his new body, working to master his younger form to fight as proficiently as he could as an adult. Joined by Kaioshin and Glorio—a mysterious but seemingly rebellious demon—Gokuu pursues Gomah to the Demon Realm in order to rescue Dende and restore his friends to their natural ages.

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Son, Gokuu Main

Nozawa, Masako Japanese

Vegeta Main

Mino, Yudai Japanese

Higashi no Kaioshin Main

Kobayashi, Yumiko Japanese

Panzy Main

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Glorio Main

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Son, Gohan Supporting

Nozawa, Masako Japanese

Piccolo Supporting

Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Japanese

Trunks Supporting

Yonaga, Tsubasa Japanese

Bulma Supporting

Nakahara, Mai Japanese

Muten-Roushi Supporting

Kanemitsu, Nobuaki Japanese

Kunihiro, Mamoru Producer

Hirokawa, Taku Producer

Yashima, Yoshitaka Director

Komaki, Aya Director

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Dec 11, 2024

KatanaCast

Recommended

Preliminary (9/? eps)

Dragon Ball Daima is a new Dragon Ball TV series that fans of the franchise have been waiting for since 6 years ago.
The animation and sound design + soundtrack is great, As expected from the animators of One Piece. The plot may be somewhat simple, But it expands on Dragon Ball Z after the Majin Buu saga and introduces us to a new world that Goku and (some) of his companions are unfamiliar with. This anime's story happens between Dragon Ball Z and Super.
I like the fact about how the anime goes back into it's martial arts roots that the original Dragon Ball had and ... some of it's other elements was passed on to Daima as well, It low-key brings a sense of nostalgia.
9 episodes in and it's pretty great! Can't wait to see what Toei is gonna cook. 7/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 30, 2024

Lone_Wayfarer

Recommended

Preliminary (8/? eps)

Dragon Ball Daima brings a sense of nostalgia to an already legendary franchise and a breath of fresh air by going back to its roots. As Dragon Ball's power scaling kept getting higher, it moved further from its focus on martial arts, and now it's back with Daima!

The announcement of a new Dragon Ball project excited me a fair bit since we didn't have much Dragon Ball after the release of the Broly movie back in 2018. It also sparked a renewed interest, given that this is the last Dragon Ball project the late Toriyama-sensei was working on.

The prospect of the characters turning into kids ... wasn't anything new; GT had the same idea for Goku. But this time it isn't a repeat of that. After finishing the 8th episode of the new addition to the story, I've felt the old Dragon Ball Saga vibe all over again. The adventure and martial art are back. The demon realm and a few other aspects of the story had some new additions to their lore. Instead of menacing villains like Freiza, Cell, or Buu, Daima has some cunning ones in the form of Gomah, Degesu, and Arinsu. We have a new mysterious character named Glroio. The true villain is yet unknown, though so is our hero's journey and how the story will unfold.

The fight scenes are more focused on martial arts than earth-shattering transformation. Goku still is a powerhouse and can use his transformations. But the fight is now much more enjoyable thanks to the change in focus and, not to mention, excellent animation. The new OP and ED are great, and so is the soundtrack. 

The only thing that was kind of disappointing was the slow-paced nature of the show. There hasn't been a lot of fighting so far in the show. Considering it's just the beginning of the adventure, I'm interested to see how it goes. Since Daima is focused on a new adventure and doesn't require the viewers to watch the old series, it can be a great way to get into the world of Dragon Ball.

Toriyama-sensei's last work turned out to be exactly what defined Dragon Ball in the past. The new adventure of Goku is exciting, has good world building, a bunch of new and interesting characters, new additions to Dragon Ball's lore, and only time will tell what's more!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Nov 25, 2024

AppleDragon91

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (5/? eps)

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its not a review because only 5 episodes aired which is too few to form a review, this is just my thought. and no its not negative because it has many good things in it and its not bad or boring or anything, its just that its pacing is too slow and the episodes feel like filler. stalling, stalling, and stalling, this is basically whats happening. first 2 episodes were the indructoction but once we got to episode 3 which was nothing but a transitional episode with alot of exposition.

they go into a bar gets into a fight with thugs and they steal their ... plane, fair enough, what now? episodes 4 and 5 are about getting new planes just so they would crash immidiatly so they can stall the series much more. first its a flying flower that cant even fly. we spended half of an episode in a store getting it and it immdiatly crashed, then episode 5 we meet pansy and yes pansy is cool, we meet the king, we have finally some advancement in the plot. we get a new plane and then what happns? it crash, immdiatly. so we got overall 3 flying tools 2 that crashed and 1 that was stolen. why? why do you have to stall the show like this? and next episode there is some kind of bull monster they meet. monster of the week type of nonesense. feel like black star dragon saga from gt all over again.

the fight scenes we got by now are just goku beating like 30 guys at the same time, its maybe well animated but its boring because the fights has no stakes. those demons are even weaker then tambourine in dragon ball. goku dosent even need to go ssj. he did for like 1 second and was back to base form. he litterly flicker them with his finger just like how beerus did to him.

so now they are going to fight the tamagamis to get the demon realm dragon balls, fair enough, the tamagamis were said to be strongests beings in the demon realm. but guess what? even with the ship they said it gonna take them 4 days. now that its crashed? we are going to see ALOT of pointless filler and monster of the week kind of nonesne. i do predict that EVENTUALLY there will be a climax with some big stakes and fights but i think it will happen in the very end of the season. at least we know vegeta gonna be there soon so at least we will have that.

but seriously. dont write the demon realm people to be that weak and then it wont be that boring like it is now.

EDIT: ok so i'm updating my "review" we had 7 episodes so far and beraly anything happend. now, people compared it to dragon ball, problem is, dragon ball was 153 episodes. this one is 20 episodes, not 22, not 24, 20. so that means if we are in the next episode in 8 we are reaching 10 episodes soon, half way trough, so only now in episode 8 goku fight the first tamagami, and we have 2 more in 2 different demon worlds all together, we still bearly had any scenes with the vilians aside from the first episode. we had episodes like episode 6 who was nothing but going into a cave to make a gag joke with some monster. that was the entire episode 6, yeah, goku foght with glorio, so what? we all knew goku is far stronger.

goku and vegeta and the rest dident even met yet, episode 7 was nothing but going from place to place. the biggest thing that happend in it was supreme kai removing pansy's collar, thats it. are you kidding me? if this is a 20 episodes show you seriously have no time to wase with those filler episodes. litterly nothing happens in the show!, it has the pacing of a snail!, its been 3 ships that they replaced already.

you know what that means? this all dragging gonna effect the second half of the show big time, its gonna be rushed. seriously get things moving already!

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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	This anime is bad and all, but even then I'm disappointed about episode 9 MyllerPhiem - Dec 6	48 replies	by Janethan23 »» 4 hours ago
	will dragon ball daima end in a cliffhanger and will have a second season? *spoilers* AppleDragon91 - Dec 10	11 replies	by AppleDragon91 »» Today, 2:57 AM
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