Dragon Ball Daima trailer, October release date announced

[JulieYBM]

While Nozawa is officially cast in Daima as Son Gokuu I don't know if there is any completed voice recording yet. One would hope and think so, but who the hell knows? They might just be waiting until a monthe before broadcast, like with most Toei Animation series.

[FortuneSSJ]

Crazy that this will be the third series with kid Goku...Surely there are better timelines than this one.

The visuals are beautiful. The only bad thing are the highlights in Goku and Vegeta black hairs. In this trailer Goku's hair looks horrible in all the scenes.I don't really like they brought Nakatsuru back to be the main character designer.

After the new gen take the helm and doing great in the last 2 movies, give the character designer role to an old guy again doesn't seem right. Current Nakatsuru is better than current Yamamuro, but he's not as good as some people claim him to be. I'm sure Kubota for example would do much better than him.

At least Goku's hair is reacting to movement. It´s a detail that we barely had in Super.

As for the story, I've been asking for Demon World story in the main show for years, só I'm glad Toriyama gave us that. Even though the price to pay for that is everyone of the main cast becoming kids, which is a horrible idea that nobody ever asked for.

The sense of adventure and fighthing Demons is give me Journey to the West vibes.

This story would be good an opportunity to recast the older voice actors. Start with them and then when the main cast become kids introduce the new voice actors that will keep the role, after the main cast revert to normal.

Unfortunately it won't happen and we're stuck with 87 years Nozawa trying to sound like a kid...

And yeah the marketing is trash. They need to fire whoever is responsible for that department.

[JulieYBM]

If feel like if the next major project is remaking the original comic Kubota will probably fight tooth and nail to be the character designer.

[aleksandrored]

I liked the trailer. It gave me a bit of a "xenoverse" vibe. I'm excited for this new anime, a classic DB style adventure is very welcome nowadays.

I wonder what the dubbing will be like. Whether they are going to use the adult cast or children.

[MasenkoHA]

I wonder what the dubbing will be like. Whether they are going to use the adult cast or children.

Chris Sabat is guaranteed to voice Chibi Vegeta since most of the time he does voice kid Vegeta except that one time in Kai.

Laura Bailey isn't with Funimation anymore to voice Chi Chi so I guess Trunk's Super voice actress might voice her? I do recall Cynthia Cranz saying while she thought Laura Bailey did a great job as young Chi Chi she was annoyed they didn't even ask her to audition and that she could have done young Chi Chi so they might let Cranz do it.

Goku and Krillin can go either way. They might have Colleen Clinkenbeard and Laurie Steele do it or they might use the excuse the characters look more like chibified version of their adult selves and have Sean Schemmel and Sonny Strait still voice them.


The characters without an established kid voice actor (Supreme Kai, Mr. Satan, Majin Buu, Ox King. Master Roshi, Piccolo, etc) are almost guaranteed to just have the same voice actor.

[TechExpert2021]

I wonder what the dubbing will be like. Whether they are going to use the adult cast or children.

Chris Sabat is guaranteed to voice Chibi Vegeta since most of the time he does voice kid Vegeta except that one time in Kai.

Laura Bailey isn't with Funimation anymore to voice Chi Chi so I guess Trunk's Super voice actress might voice her? I do recall Cynthia Cranz saying while she thought Laura Bailey did a great job as young Chi Chi she was annoyed they didn't even ask her to audition and that she could have done young Chi Chi so they might let Cranz do it.

Goku and Krillin can go either way. They might have Colleen Clinkenbeard and Laurie Steele do it or they might use the excuse the characters look more like chibified version of their adult selves and have Sean Schemmel and Sonny Strait still voice them.


The characters without an established kid voice actor (Supreme Kai, Mr. Satan, Majin Buu, Ox King. Master Roshi, Piccolo, etc) are almost guaranteed to just have the same voice actor.

This will be the first time Funimation is dubbing a Dragon Ball anime under the Crunchyroll name (second if you count their dub of DBS Super Hero). Maybe I should call post-2022-merger Funimation dubs "Crunchyroll dubs".

[BootyCheeksJohnson]

If they get a guest artist to perform the op or ed I'd love to see Babymetal do it. We've had 3 different pop/rock artists do the op, ed, and insert songs for the first 3 canon movies and I'd love to hear another group get a shot.

[JulieYBM]

I'm hoping that Kiina (Dragon Ball Super Opening #2) returns to provide the opening song. They're a big name vocalist and they love performing the song that they already did for DB live as much as possible.

God, Genkai Toppabx Survivor was so good.

[BootyCheeksJohnson]

I'm hoping that Kiina (Dragon Ball Super Opening #2) returns to provide the opening song. They're a big name vocalist and they love performing the song that they already did for DB live as much as possible.

God, Genkai Toppabx Survivor was so good.

They were a great vocalist on that song, but I'd like to see someone new get the chance. However I wouldn't have a problem if they came back.

[The Monkey King]

Struggling to get excited for this.

These chibi character designs are just hard to look at.

[Cure Dragon 255]

Struggling to get excited for this.

These chibi character designs are just hard to look at.

I think this is a show where the advertising will fail to portray the final product, so it cant really generate hype.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

This will be the first time Funimation is dubbing a Dragon Ball anime under the Crunchyroll name (second if you count their dub of DBS Super Hero). Maybe I should call post-2022-merger Funimation dubs "Crunchyroll dubs".

I made a thread asking this very question. Interestingly responses varied from person-to-person. I still haven't heard any specific delineation for the Super Hero English dub, but then again there was only one.

Crazy to think because some fans feel multiple English dubs is a thing of the past, but if Daima only has one dub it will be the first series where that is the case, unless you consider Kai : The Final Chapters a separate show.

Original Dragon Ball, Z and GT all had alternate Canadian dubs, we all know Kai had one, its just never been released but it nonetheless exists, Super had the Bang Zoom dub. Daima will probably only have one English dub, but at the same time let's not be surprised if it does in fact receive another dub. With this franchise its always possible.

[JulieYBM]

I re-watched the TotallyNotMark video from three months ago just to refresh my mind on what we already know about Daima, and I have to say, having at least sixteen episodes finished by six months before the first episode airs is so exciting to hear.

[Cure Dragon 255]

This EXTREMELY little ammount of pre release marketing reminds me of "The Boy and The Heron". ABSOLUTELY NO MARKETING until you enter the movie title

[BootyCheeksJohnson]

This EXTREMELY little ammount of pre release marketing reminds me of "The Boy and The Heron". ABSOLUTELY NO MARKETING until you enter the movie title

I feel like that situation was a bit different since it had the prestige of Miyazaki to fall back on. Sure Dragon Ball has the name brand, but after the mishandled production of Super fans will be more skeptical of this than "Miyazaki is coming out of retirement again!"

[FortuneSSJ]

I'm not really seeing Goku not having a new transformation in a new DB series.
And if he has one, I hope it's something more akin to Sun Wukong (since Daima it's giving Journey to the West vibes) and not just a new hair color.

I would like to know how long the series is supposed to be, but they probably don't have the answer for that. Because if it's really sucessful they will probably strech it. Hopefully Toriyama gave them a lot of info to work with.

For me the biggest mistake of GT was sidelining everyone for Goku. So far the trailers aren't give me confidence that Daima will be different. If Goku/Kaioshin are the only ones to go to the Demon World that's a big mistake.

As for Gohan. No idea if they are just ignoring him or there's a surprise waiting. If he isn't affected by the spell and has a good role, fans will be pleased.

[AliTheZombie13]

For me the biggest mistake of GT was sidelining everyone for Goku. So far the trailers aren't give me confidence that Daima will be different. If Goku/Kaioshin are the only ones to go to the Demon World that's a big mistake.

Dragon Ball has always sidelined everyone for Goku, GT was just more upfront about it.
Even in the rare cases where other characters had spotlight, it was just them stalling until Goku arrived and saved the day.
The two instances where it didn't play like that was at the very end of the Saiyan Saga and Cell. Also, the very first arc, but nobody remembers the very first arc.

[FortuneSSJ]

Dragon Ball has always sidelined everyone for Goku, GT was just more upfront about it.
Even in the rare cases where other characters had spotlight, it was just them stalling until Goku arrived and saved the day.

Not really. In DBZ PIccolo, FT Trunks, Vegeta and Gohan defeated major characters.

In GT only Goku was allowed to that. Pan helped twice against two Evil Dragons, but the only one from the main cast to do it alone was Goku. There's also Luud but nobody remembers Luud.

[AliTheZombie13]

Not really. In DBZ PIccolo, FT Trunks, Vegeta and Gohan defeated major characters.

In GT only Goku was allowed to that. Pan helped twice against two Evil Dragons, but the only one from the main cast to do it alone was Goku. There's also Luud but nobody remembers Luud.

I'm mean, I'm not gonna dispute that.

Personally, I'm fine with Goku being the punching guy as long as the other characters have plot relevance and good use. Most of the Baby arc centered around Pan, Trunks, Giru and the antagonists, while Goku just existed to beat up their strongest fighters. That's a good structure, IMO. Remove Trunks, Pan and Giru from the story, leave just Goku, he would be dead before he even got to Rilld.

What I'm not fine with is the story going circles over a character being stronger than what they're supposed to be, only for it to go "Nah, they're shit, here's Goku again!" While it's true Vegeta, Piccolo, Trunks and Gohan had moments during Z, they were all downplayed by the story going. "Pffftttt, you thought Vegeta was stronger than #20? Nah, those aren't the Cyborgs who ravaged Trunks' future, THESE are! (Vegeta proceeds to get his ass kicked)"

[MasenkoHA]

Original Dragon Ball sidelined everyone for Goku all the time, especially the Red Ribbon arc. I see no issue with the main character being the main character.

Kaioshin as co-lead is a bit of a choice though