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Mar 5, 2025
Dragon Ball Daima has had a lot riding on it's shoulders in the eyes of fans, given that this is Toriyama's truly last project he worked on before he passed away. And in my opinion it's the best thing we could've gotten, as someone who's been with this series from manga, to anime, to games throughout my life. It was a gateway back to youthful excitement I thought I'd never get to experience again.

The spirit of Toriyama's Dragon Ball is felt through everything in this series. The jokes are sometimes raunchy and silly, or just straight-up weird toilet humor, a long-missed trait of the early Dragon Ball manga that always made the story so hilariously juvenile despite the stakes it often dealt with realistically. The battles throughout these 20 episodes encompass every form that it has taken throughout the history of the series, from tiny Goku's martial arts and power pole, to super forms and energy beams galore, the series loves and respects every part of itself and wants to celebrate all of it with the fans.

The progression within Daima also feels like a genuine continuation after the Buu saga, furthering the training and evolution of characters, as well as filling in cracks in the original Dragon Ball lore that we never really got answered. Why did the original Piccolo call himself a Demon King? Where did Kaioushin come from? Dabura showed up in the Buu saga and that door is opened fully in Daima, to fully complete the lore of Dragon Ball's original run.

The production of the anime is also top-notch, it all looks amazing. If you look at the staff you'd find countless names from the anime's entire history, like Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, the character designer of the Z anime series, as well as incredibly reputable key animators like Naotoshi Shida, who's probably Dragon Ball's greatest contributor for action animation.

In the end, this series is the ultimate celebration of Dragon Ball, and the most heartfelt a love letter could be from a creator to his fans. Toriyama has passed on, but his spirit is fully felt throughout all of Daima, to a point it nearly brings a tear to my eye.

Don't listen to the people saying Daima's worse than Super or that it messed up the lore or whatnot, this is all Dragon Ball in it's truest form. It's Dragon Ball, it's Dragon Ball Z, it's Dragon Ball Super, hell it's even a bit of Dragon Ball GT. As Dragon Ball fans we should love and appreciate this final installment for all of it's beauty, despite some pacing hiccups in the early episodes, since it encompasses everything that made Dragon Ball what it is today.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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