Dragon Ball Daima (2024)

[JulieYBM]

It was announced at the NYCC panel, y'all. The trailer looked pretty good.

The DB cast is made young again~?!

Gokuu is using the Nyoi-bou again!

The title was decided just a few days ago lol

'Daima' is a made-up term, basically meant to mean 'Evil', so I imagine this is based on 'Great Evil'?

[eledoremassis02]

New anime series for fall of 2024

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U8bUEq ... ZGFpbWE%3D

https://twitter.com/ZenoUniverso/status ... 7406778503

https://twitter.com/DbsHype/status/1712518234908561585

[Noah]

Don't know how to react right now... Animation looks pretty good, but why take such a lousy concept from GT (revert the main character into a child) to all cast?

[ZeroIsOurHero]

YES!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS TRUE!!!!!!!!! THE MAGIC BEGINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or the "Daima", whatever.

I don't see the trailer uploaded anywhere, but it already sounds highly intriguing: different from the leaks, but in a pretty interesting way. I don't think anyone was expecting Vegeta and Bulma to be turned into kids too.

EDIT: Wait, the ENTIRE CAST is kids now?!?! An... unconventional choice, but we'll see where it goes. At least it's not the Moro and Granolah arcs again.

[Cursed Lemon]

Did they just "Teen Titans Go" Dragonball

[JulieYBM]

Don't know how to react right now... Animation looks pretty good, but why take such a lousy concept from GT (revert the main character into a child) to all cast?

Why is it a lousy concept? You can do a lot with any concept so long as you ground it in real human feelings. Perhaps the use of de-aging is meant to speak to the pain of aging?

[Lord Beerus]

The jury is still out for me.

Turning the cast into children just reeks of not having any ideas left.

Visually it looks decent but I can't imagine a concept like this lasts more than two dozen episodes

[Koitsukai]

Daima as in Dai Magikku? or something completely different? like Dai Ma (Great Evil)?

Anyway, fantastic news. I can stop watching that disgusting SDBH thing.

[coltigore]

I'm excited!

[CodeOfMe]

Frankly, out of all the details that were part of the Dragon Ball Magic "leak", I did not expect the "being turned into a child" aspect to actually be true, especially not applied to (presumably) most of the characters. I don't particularly like the idea in theory, but I'm cautiously optimistic that the series will turn out good.

[PurestEvil]

It was not what I would have expected but I am so starved for content I will take any fucking premise at this point hahaha

Seems like Toriyama is taking the silliness to a whole new level!

[Bardock God of Time]

The person who streamed the trailer was so annoying "WE DON'T WANT THIS"

I'd love to see Moro get animated but I'm fine with something new at the same time

I hope Frieza got turned into a kid too, just cuz why not

[GhostEmperorX]

Don't know how to react right now... Animation looks pretty good, but why take such a lousy concept from GT (revert the main character into a child) to all cast?

It's SD rather than GT now I guess.

[Lord Beerus]

Um... okay?

I mean... I don't see a series with a core concept like turning the cast into children lasting more than a dozen or so episodes before the charm wears off and edges dangerously close to GT 2.0 territory, but I'll hold my reservation until more information about how long the series will last and who's involved creatively is dropped next year.

As of now, for me, Dragon Ball Daima is... a thing that will happen in 2024.

[MasenkoHA]

Given Super's utter refusal to age anyone who wasn't Gohan and Videl, de-aging the cast by magic was a pretty logical next step.

The animation looks nice. It's nice seeing Goku use the Nyoibo again. I'm optimistic.

[JulieYBM]

On Ajay's stream he mentioned that Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi is the character designer and doing them in a modern Toriyama style, but Chief Animation Supervisor Kubota Chikashi will be in charge of the first half of Episode #1 and making the characters look like they did in Dragon Ball Z while still adults. I think that the modern style designs are a bit too detailed IMO—particularly in the hair highlights—but I guess we'll see how it works in a full episode.

Komaki Aya is also one of the series directors. Yashima Yoshitaka is also a series director, which is a weird turn of events since Yashima is usually a solo key animator and storyboard artist. I wonder if Yashima was given the role because they did a ton of storyboards?

[Zephyr]

Goten and Trunks finally had their growth spurt, only to be shrunk again.

[eledoremassis02]

Message from Toriyama

[WittyUsername]

The leaks were true after all. Not surprised.

Did they just "Teen Titans Go" Dragonball

I would compare this more to Muppet Babies and all those other “baby” spin-offs that were prominent back in the day.

[mecha3000]

Wait, on the English side of things, who will voice the younger characters besides Colleen Clinkenbeard as Goku? Monica Rial sounded sure she'd be back and she could pull off young kid/teen just fine as we've seen, but what about characters like Vegeta and Krillin? Will they do what Kai and Kakarot did and give Vegeta a younger voice actor (PLEASE DO, IT WOULD MAKE FOR A FUN DYNAMIC WITH COLLEENS VOICE) or will Chris Sabat do the voice like in Broly and for Vegeta Jr in GT?

Also, I think the villain will be a Makaioshin AKA Dark Supreme Kai, which I have been wanting for a long time. Other than that, this concept is not going to go over well with half the fandom, but I'm still cautiously excited.

And I'm REALLY happy it's not just the Goku and Shin show from the looks of it (even if I'd be okay with that). Making a character like Vegeta and the whole cast into kids again will make this stand out from just another GT.

I also imagine Sean Schemmel somewhere cursing the world that he most likely won't voice Goku in this series.