KBABZ and Robo present: Daima Trivia (COMPLETE)

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

So, the first three episodes of Daima almost resemble (but not entirely) the first three episodes of DBGT (which is why Daima is referred to as DBGT 2.0 by fans before Daima's premiere), am I right?

The beats are very similar so far:

Episode 1 : Wish made on the Dragon Balls to turn Goku/everyone into kids

Episode 2 : Goku sets off with trio into space on a new adventure

Episode 3 : Goku and trio arrive at a desert, stay at a hotel, get overcharged, ship gets stolen

Episode 4 : From what we know so far Goku is chased by the police

It will be interesting to see if this continues in further episodes. Feels like what The Force Awakens was to the original Star Wars (now known as A New Hope) where the story takes a similar trajectory to the extent some call it a "soft reboot".

[KBABZ]

So, the first three episodes of Daima almost resemble (but not entirely) the first three episodes of DBGT (which is why Daima is referred to as DBGT 2.0 by fans before Daima's premiere), am I right?

Four! The next episode will have Goku and co. recover their ships from the thieves, then meet a new, small character who becomes a new member of the cast lineup for the show!

It will be interesting to see if this continues in further episodes. Feels like what The Force Awakens was to the original Star Wars (now known as A New Hope) where the story takes a similar trajectory to the extent some call it a "soft reboot".

Don't insult Dragon Ball like that, at least Daima has its own unique lore and new biomes! TFA couldn't be bothered with that shit.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Don't insult Dragon Ball like that, at least Daima has its own unique lore and new biomes! TFA couldn't be bothered with that shit.

It wasn't an insult, I'm a guy who likes The Force Awakens. I don't think two works being very similar is inherently a bad thing, I agree Daima having more creativity is a bonus though.

[KBABZ]

Don't insult Dragon Ball like that, at least Daima has its own unique lore and new biomes! TFA couldn't be bothered with that shit.

It wasn't an insult, I'm a guy who likes The Force Awakens. I don't think two works being very similar is inherently a bad thing, I agree Daima having more creativity is a bonus though.

Apologies, I was being comedically facetious there. What I mean is that TFA and Daima have two very different approaches. The former is trying to revive a franchise and pander to a fanbase by mirroring as much as possible about the original work, to the detriment of its original ideas. The latter meanwhile feels more artistically-driven and interesting because it has so many of its own ideas, and isn't beholden to slavishly recreating the past.

[nineko]

All that said—if Toriyama does indeed give us a land of giants, I'll still claim I noscoped it. ;p

To be fair, it's not like giants are uncommon in fiction at all, even One Piece has them (amongst the recent stuff), so even if Daima ends up having giants as well it would be nothing out of the ordinary.

Some giantesses, now, that would be unexpected, though they're probably going to steer clear from that because of the potential fetish implications.

[Robo4900]

Some giantesses, now, that would be unexpected, though they're probably going to steer clear from that because of the potential fetish implications.

You think giants would only be allowed if they were male, because if they were female people might fetishise them?

I suggest you consider the implications of this view.

In other news, KBABZ and I are working on trivia for episode 4 now. We both really enjoyed the episode.

[nineko]

Some giantesses, now, that would be unexpected, though they're probably going to steer clear from that because of the potential fetish implications.

You think giants would only be allowed if they were male, because if they were female people might fetishise them?

That's not what I think, most media aimed at children usually go out of their way to avoid everything which could potentially arouse males even by a little bit, to prevent parental uproar and whatnot, cue Helen Lovejoy:


As sexist as this might sound, it's no mystery that males tend to behave much worse than females, already starting at young ages.

And yes, I know that we had Bulma's shenanigans in the original series, but those were different times, and Daima's target audience is different as well. I'm sure we're not going to see any giantesses, females without shoes, or anything like that. And you know what? That's a good thing.

[Robo4900]

KBABZ and I had this mostly ready about 6 hours ago, but since yesterday we've been waiting to see if the main Kanzenshuu site puts up their notes on things like names or anything we might have missed—they haven't put anything up yet, so here's the Episode 4 post.

Errata for episodes 1-3:

• Episode 1 stands out among Daima episodes for lasting 32 minutes, in contrast to the regular 23 minutes of all the other episodes. 23 minutes is of course the standard runtime for a Dragon Ball anime episode.
• In Episode 2, Satan steals God. Well, a demon steals Dende, but close enough.

This will all be added to the first post, but we're noting it here so people don't have to play a game of Spot the Difference to find these changes.

Because we can't edit posts older than about an hour unless it's the OP, and because Kanzenshuu has pretty strict character limits (for our purposes), errata for episodes 4 onward will just appear in subsequent posts, and will be noted in an episode listing in the first post.

Episode 448 - Chatty (Daima episode 4)
Originally aired 1st of November 2024
Written by: Yūko Kakihara
Episode director: Kan Murakami
Animation supervisor: Yūichi Hamano
Chief animation supervisor: Naohiro Shintani

Forced to make their way through the Third Demon World on foot, Goku and his companions stop by a lone drive-in on the way. There they encounter some strange souvenirs and a rather chatty and quirky Majin woman and her husband!

• The first four episodes of Daima don't share a consistent opening sequence, as listed below. It's both Robo and KBABZ's belief that this is more down to meeting the 23 minute runtime, with the editors opting to keep as much of the story content as possible. KBABZ also postulates that it may also be to splitting up episodes originally intended for web viewing.
  • Ep1 - Full recap, no intro
  • Ep2 - Extended story sequence, no recap, then intro
  • Ep3 - Truncated recap, then intro
  • Ep4 - No recap, just intro
• Episode 4 is the only the second episode to use a title card background, in this case the Demon Realm Dragon Ball mural from outside Gomah's castle. The classic era of Dragon Ball didn't use repeating title cards: this was an invention of Dragon Ball Kai, whose title cards reflected the general setting of the episode.
• It isn't initially apparent what the episode title, "Chatty" refers to. The episode description may reveal this: the Majin shopkeeper and her husband. This is curious considering none of the group comments that they talk a lot.
• Daima is notably the first adventure Goku has been on where he has to walk to get anywhere. Previously he could just fly, ride Kinto'un, or use a vehicle provided by Bulma or stolen from the Red Ribbon Army.
• It isn't confirmed at this point if the cacodemon-like enemy died when it fell into the Sea of Darkness, or if it can survive down there.
• Kaioshin claims that he's a pretty good fighter, however he hadn't demonstrated any combat prowess in the manga.
• The Ogre with Club brings to mind the Bear with Sword from the third chapter / episode of Dragon Ball. In both cases, Goku uses his smaller size to easily avoid the slower weapon strikes and go in with a one-shot strike to the head.
• Chronologically, Daima is only the third time Ki has been explained to the audience. The first was filler while Goku was training with Mr. Popo and Kami, and the second was Gohan teaching Videl how to fly. It's never given an explainer when it was first used in the manga / anime, possibly because Dragon Ball was a lot less global back then, and so the script assumed even its younger Asian audiences would already know what it is.
• The skewered lizard reminded KBABZ that in the second chapter / episode of Dragon Ball, Goku brings back a lizard and a skewered wolf.
• The bumpy skin, curled tail and beady eyes gives the lizard a Chameleon-like aesthetic.
• The vegetable side for Goku's meal resembles a radish, the name pun origin for his brother Raditz.
• By "120 kilos", the old Sky Seed man does NOT mean that the trio weigh 265 pounds!
• With an RPG-like cacodemon enemy and an item shop, KBABZ lovingly calls this the Dragon Quest episode.
• The diagram for the Join Bug depicts three individuals fusing into one, implying that Join Bugs can fuse more than two people together. This tracks with the Daizenshuu lore where the Fusion Dance could always fuse any number of participants, despite us never seeing this in action.
• Episode 4 establishes that Goku has developed a habit of getting the names wrong of new demon characters he meets, having mis-spoken Gomah as "Tamah" and Glorio as "Goliro" (twice!).
  • Coincidentally, Goliro is a weapon used by Iron and Ice Golems in Baldur's Gate II.
• One of the items Goku buys from the shop resembles a Blue Rupee from The Legend of Zelda, which is worth 5 Green Rupees.
• Another bug resembles a konpeito, a sugar candy from Japan that resembles a star. Nintendo gamers may recognise them as the inspiration for Star Bits in Super Mario Galaxy, Gratitude Crystals in Skyward Sword, and Star Fragments in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
• The loud megaphone may be why the old Sky Seed man has incredibly poor hearing.
• With the light green shirt with a pointy bottom, thin belt, dark green pants, and pointy brown shoes, the old Sky Seed man bears a strong resemblance to Disney's design for Peter Pan.
• In the shot where the trio fly off the ground to board the Sky Seed, Goku's Nyoi-bo sticks out of its sheath much more than it usually does.
• The shop woman tells Goku and Kaioshin to hold onto Glorio, but they opt to hold onto the Sky Seed directly instead.
• Despite being mentioned and seen as early as Episode 1, it takes until Episode 4 to have the Demon World Dragon Balls and Tamagami introduced and explained to Goku and the audience.
• Glorio saying that the Demon Realm Dragon Balls are the originals is the second time Daima has directly contradicted Dragon Ball Super. In this case, they contradict the Super Dragon Balls, which are the original, planet-sized set of Dragon Balls used by the gods.
• Powerful warriors guarding the Dragon Balls by having them inset into their bodies is another concept that Daima is borrowing from Dragon Ball GT: this is exactly how the Evil Dragons guarded Earth's Dragon Balls in the final arc of GT.
• Goku wanting to fight an opponent immediately after hearing about their unstoppable reputation is similar to his first reaction to Frieza after Kaio talks about him back in the Namek Arc.
• While it's not stated to be from Goku and Kaioshin's memories, the flashback to the kidnapping of baby Dende is nonetheless an event none of them were present to witness.
• Goku using Nyoi-bo to get a lay of the land is visually very similar to the second-to-last shot of the original Dragon Ball OP. Goku also did something similar in a filler sequence in the anime's Pilaf Arc, in order to stay out of reach of Pilaf's hounds.
• Goku saying that they can get a drink at the next town implies that he didn't finish his bitter boba from the Sky Seed shop. We don't blame him.
• Much like GT's fourth episode, the fourth episode of Daima has poor civilians being abused of their money by the local government, with Goku directly intervening and becoming a fugitive.
  • The severe tax increase also seems to imply that King Dabura was a much fairer ruler than King Gomah is.
• King Gomah's statue is much smaller than the statue of Dabura from the previous episode. Just saiyan'.
• The staffs used by the Gendarmerie bear similarity to the staff used by King Gomah.
• The age-reducing machine visually looks like a gas station pump connected to a lava lamp.
• The Gold Coin tax may be how King Gomah intends to extend Neva's life by 1,000 years, which is something he mentioned in Episode 1. It may also be possible that something like this is how Neva was able to live so long even compared to Namek's Grand Elder.
• Panzy only using a taser implies she doesn't know any ki attacks or other martial arts.
• The fight scene of Episode 4 confirms that Goku technically doesn't need to verbally tell Nyoi-bo to extend or retract: it seems to instinctively know when Goku wants to do it (similar to how it instinctively knew exactly how long it should extend to).
• This fight is also the first time Goku has used Nyoi-bo extending to launch himself through the air.
• After the long side-on fighting shot, Goku beats the next opponent exactly how he defeated the Bear with Sword in the third episode / chapter of Dragon Ball. Specifically, Goku stands on his opponent, pulls his fist close to his side, then punches them for a one-hit knock-out. Compare the poses in the original manga and in Daima.
  • In the fight with the Bear with Sword, this was also the first time Goku used the Jan-Ken, hitting the Bear with Sword with Rock.
• GT Similarities tally:
  • Ep1 - Goku is turned into a kid after a sparring match by a short character using the Dragon Balls at Kami's Lookout.
  • Ep2 - Plans are made to leave earth with a vehicle referred to as a spaceship, courtesy of Bulma.
  • Ep3 - Goku, as part of a trio, arrives at a town where they are overcharged for their hotel, and the ship is stolen.
  • Ep4 - Goku helps out a village being monetarily oppressed by the local government, becomes a fugitive, and meets a small character who becomes a major addition to the cast lineup.

[LoganForkHands73]

I do wonder if Glorio's lack of knowledge about chi may be connected to Babidi and Dabura's use of kili to measure energy. It's been established that there are language barriers between Earth and the Demon Realm for similar concepts (i.e. spaceships and "planes"), so Glorio may only understand chi through a different lens to Goku. After all, he can fly.

[KBABZ]

I do wonder if Glorio's lack of knowledge about chi may be connected to Babidi and Dabura's use of kili to measure energy. It's been established that there are language barriers between Earth and the Demon Realm for similar concepts (i.e. spaceships and "planes"), so Glorio may only understand chi through a different lens to Goku. After all, he can fly.

Possibly, although personally I think that's just a measuring system difference since they're detecting the same thing (and Scouter users can fly but have no idea how to detect ki themselves, and Videl can fly but can't detect ki either). I do wonder if that will become important later as the fights become more intense and with biggest stakes.

[Robo4900]

It reminds me of something KBABZ and I have privately discussed before, about the difference between magic and Ki, as part of our discussions about how we'd do our own sequel to the original manga. I forget if we've gone into it publicly anywhere before, but in this particular case, I forget which of us suggested it, but the idea is, what if magic and Ki are like diesel and petrol? They can both run your car, and from the outside, if they're being used for the same purpose, they'll look pretty much the same, but you really can't mix and match them—a petrol car shouldn't run on diesel, and a diesel car shouldn't run on petrol.

But, I don't think this is where Daima is going with this. Maybe it is, and if so, hooray we noscoped it! But I don't think that's it. I think Glorio just doesn't know about Ki, similar to how Han Solo doesn't know about the Force. But as the old fan theory goes, he is Force-sensitive, it just manifests as his great luck. Even when he gets into a really terrible situation that by all rights should kill him, he somehow gets out alive.

[Robo4900]

Well, Kanzenshuu temporarily phased into the next dimension, and it seems to have dropped our Episode 5 trivia post on the journey back.

Oh well. Guess we'll just have to post it all again, along with our new Episode 6 trivia.
KBABZ pulled extra duties this week, doing the work of recovering our Episode 5 trivia from our notes after I was hit by some serious demotivation from the loss of work. That's on top of writing the first draft of almost all the trivia every week, and us always agreeing on some consensus when we make changes.

That out of the way—man, KBABZ and I are really enjoying this show.

Extra Trivia for episodes 1–5:

First up, our errata for episodes 2 and 4...

• Episode 2—The Daima ED ends with white feathers blowing past Goku forming a large bird-like being. Somewhat coincidentally, the Boo Arc's ED, We Were Angels, used white feathers as a prominent motif for Goku's presence in Gohan's life after his death. It's unknown at this point if the feathers in Daima's ED represent anything or are otherwise important in any way.
• The river shot of the ED shows something truly incredible: Goku wearing shorts!
• Also in the ED, Hybis does not appear to be wearing anything whilst swimming in the river.
• Panzy appears to have spare scarves, as two of them can be seen hanging from the washing line in the river shot of the ED.
• Moving onto Episode 4—When the Gendarmerie guard orders his men to chase after Panzy, the subtitles have him refer to Panzy as "they". This is presumably because the guard can't be certain what gender Panzy is, given the disguise in use, so it makes sense he'd use gender-neutral pronouns in this situation.
• Naohiro Shintani is the chief animation supervisor Episode 4. He was the animation supervisor and character designer (as well as one of the key animators) for the movie Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Daima continues and refines the style of animation he introduced there.

We have some errata for episode 5 as well, but since we're reposting Episode 5 in full, we've incorporated it into the main list—however, for anyone who already read the old post, here it is at the top...

• When Panzy asks for Goku's name, he responds with just "Goku". This is in contrast to when he introduced himself to Bulma as "Son Goku", his full name.
• Despite appearing in a few wide shots, the larger warriors of Kadan Castle are never actually shown fighting Goku.
• Dragon Ball Daima uses plant and flower-based name puns for the Demon Realm characters. This is in contrast to Dragon Ball Heroes, which used sauce and soup-based puns for its Demon Realm characters.
• The fight with the Kadan Castle guards is the first instance of what KBABZ refers to as a looping "Yatatata" fighting animation, for about a second. Daima is rather notable for avoiding this sort of thing and instead preferring to use choreographed fight moves that are focused on.

On the 14th of November, KBABZ went to see the "theatrical presentation" of Funimation's dub of the first three Daima episodes. While there was a lot of trivia for the dub, she opted to prioritize trivia about the theatrical presentation itself. We'll get the Funimation dub eventually, but we probably won't ever see the theatrical presentation ever again! So, this trivia is meant to record what it was like watching it compared to the individual episodes.

• The theatrical presentation of the first three episodes has some alterations in order to fit the format:
  • Episode 1 still retains the original black credits sequence.
  • Episode 2's intro is removed, resulting in a hard cut from Goku screaming at everyone being young to Gomah screaming for only getting one wish.
  • Episode 2's outro and Episode 3's intro are removed. When Glorio's ship blasts off into the night sky, it fades to black, then it cuts to the first shot of Episode 3 of Glorio's ship blasting through space.
  • Episode 3's recap is also removed, since it's redundant thanks to the full recap at the start of the presentation.
  • The credits for Episode 3 have been replaced with much longer credits that cover the Japanese production of the three episodes, which scroll vertically like in Episode 1. The background is not from the NAKAMA outro, instead being stills from throughout the three episodes with a slight blooming effect, similar to the Magic Monitor Gomah uses. The song is still NAKAMA, however the credits are long enough that it's supplemented with the music from the recap after it finishes. Last are the credits for the Crunchyroll production for the three episodes, presented similarly to the Episode 1 credits.
  • Due to all of the above, the actual OP and ED visuals are never seen in the presentation. This may be because the presentation was originally for early reviews, and not showing them would avoid early spoilers for things like Hybis, or that the Demon Realm only has three Dragon Balls.
  • Interestingly, Crunchyroll splits its voice credits between the adult cast from Episode 1 and the younger cast from Episode 2 and 3.
• In the theatrical presentation, the audio mix for Episode 1 is mis-balanced, with the music and sound effects not being as loud as the voices. Owners of the Orange Brick DVDs will be intimately familiar with this type of mixing error.

That's it for "special" Trivia. Now on to your regularly scheduled broadcast...

Episode 449 - Panzy (Daima episode 5)
Originally aired 8th of November 2024
Written by: Yūko Kakihara
Episode director: Yūichi Tsuzuki
Animation supervisor: Naoki Murakami & Kōji Watanabe
Chief animation supervisor: Yūya Takahashi

The masked Majin who appeared before Goku and his companions is a young girl named Panzy! While Glorio gives her the cold shoulder, Panzy insists on acting as their guide. The group reaches a suspicious castle!

Trivia:

Spoiler:

• Episode 5 starts the same way as Episode 3, with a shortened recap followed by the intro, making it the first Daima episode to copy the opening "schedule" of a previous episode. However its recap is slightly longer than Episode 3's yet not as long as the original Episode 1 recap, so we've still yet to have a single episode open the same exact way twice.
  • As KBABZ postulated last time, this may be done so that an episode with slightly less story content can still fit within the 23 minute broadcast runtime without having to add story padding. In a sense this is similar to how The Simpsons can use its Couch Gags: a longer one, such as the "pull back to reveal a stage show circus" gag, is deliberately used to bolster a shorter episode to meet the broadcast runtime.
• When Goku is asked how he became so strong, he answers that it's because he trained, just like when Bulma asked him this question in the first chapter / episode. This also highlights that Goku's strength primarily comes from his drive to train and better himself, which is how he's able to exceed Vegeta despite being a "low-class" Saiyan.
• Goku can hardly be blamed for revealing that they're going to Kadan Castle, since he wasn't told that their destination was supposed to be a secret.
• When Panzy asks for Goku's name, he responds with just "Goku". This is in contrast to when he introduced himself to Bulma as "Son Goku", his full name.
• The exchange between Goku and Panzy regarding their names is the reverse of Goku and Bulma: with Bulma, Goku is the one who finds the other's name funnier, but with Panzy, it's the reverse. For his part, Goku isn't offended in the slightest that Panzy thinks both of his names sound weird.
• Saiyans can also use the Force lift rocks like Panzy can, but of course that's because they're charging up their battle powers.
• Kaioshin gives his name as "Shin", the same alias he used when entering the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai in the Boo Arc, which is similar to Piccolo using Majunior, Kami using Shen (or Hero in the Funi dub) and Chichi using Anonymous in the 23rd TB). It's possible he gives it to be coy around Panzy, so as to not reveal his important role outside the Demon Realm.
  • The Funimation dub of Z obscured the origin of this alias, as they changed "Kaioshin" to "Supreme Kai". Daima's subtitles don't do this, but as of this writing it remains to be seen if Funimation's dub of Daima will adjust his name so that his alias makes more sense (probably not).
• Panzy confirms her age as 82, meaning she was born in Age 693. This makes her older than Bulma, Vegeta, Broly, Nappa, and (in the GT continuity) the Saiyan / Ts'frui War.
• The modest appearance of Kadan Castle is another implication that the Third Demon World is not very well-off compared to the other Demon Realms.
• Despite Goku being reprimanded for giving away their destination, neither Kaioshin nor Glorio object to Goku revealing they're trying to rescue Dende.
• In the scene with baby Dende, King Gomah reveals that he intends to use Dende to "eventually" make new Dragon Balls for them. There's three things to note about this:
  • First, it confirms that Dende will eventually grow older and not remain a child forever. Back in Episode 2, Vegeta's subtitles implied he thinks he'll be a child "forever", when the Japanese audio itself doesn't use that word. (KBABZ brought up subtitle!Vegeta's phrasing as Trivia but was veto'd by Robo. Thanks bro!)
  • Second, Gomah made no implication of this plan when he kidnapped Dende in Episode 2, instead saying he only took him as a hostage just in case.
  • Third, Dende has never created his own Dragon Balls from scratch before. The closest was in the lead-up to the Cell Games, where he restored Earth's existing Dragon Balls.
• Goku asks Panzy if they're walking up to Kadan Castle, despite his previous scene confirming that's what it was. This error is similar to the Kibito "I have returned" one back in Episode 2; it could be bad writing, but it could also be artless translation.
• Glorio's deception regarding his service to the King of the Third Demon World is be further called into question because he doesn't recognise Panzy as the princess.
• Glorio mentions that he met with the Kadan Castle guards the previous day. This is somewhat confusing, because he met with Goku at night in Episode 2, then slept at a hotel overnight in Episode 3, before the events of Episodes 4 and 5 on the third day. It's possible that there are time zone factors at play here (days may last longer in the Demon Realm compared to Earth), but if that's the case it hasn't been brought up yet.
  • Robo's interpretation was that he was deliberately tricking the guards; playing with the "Obviously I'm supposed to be here, how dare you question my presence!" type of manipulation of grunts in a hierarchy. Basically, the Bugs Bunny/Doctor Who approach.
• Panzy is introduced as young girl who has to be rescued by Goku, has a passion for mechanics, and is revealed to be an important heir, making her similar to Bulma.
• Panzy being a princess explains why she had to use a disguise in Episode 4, as the Gendarmerie would likely have recognized her without it.
• Goku greets the Kadan Castle guards with "Ossu!", which is the standard greeting he used to the audience in the next episode previews of past shows. It's also the first word in the Jump Super Anime Tour Special's title: this is why the title of that special is usually translated to "Heya!" or "Yo!" (although it must be said that the special does not have an official English title).
• The plants in the castle's crops are inverted: they grow above ground on stalks, with their leaves drooping down to the ground. This is a familiar Toriyama "inversion" touch, like how Namek has green skies and blue grass, or how in the Adventures of Tongpoo the fish fly in the air while birds swim in the water.
• It's easy to miss, but the King of the Third Demon World has a red control collar, meaning he can be restrained by Glorio's Gendarmerie.
  • Conversely, it isn't apparent in this episode if his daughter Panzy is wearing one. She would directly reveal it to the Gendarmerie in the next episode.
  • Glorio also isn't wearing a collar, which in our opinion adds to his shifty nature.
• The King of the Third Demon World has a rounded head and hairstyle that makes him look a lot like a turnip.
  • He is also Robo's favourite new character in Daima.
  • KBABZ's is Goku Mini. She insists this isn't cheating.
• Both Panzy and her father wear the same sun-like emblem, implying it's the emblem of either the royal house, or the kingdom itself. It can also be seen on the base of the columns in the Kadan Castle throne room, below the king's left shoulder, and on the aprons of the bear-like guards that Goku fights.
• Panzy and her father also both have the same OTK and armwarmer-like clothing, with Panzy's being pink and her father's being blue.
• As part of her summation of Goku being from the outside world, Panzy points out that Goku can fly. This seems to imply that Majin usually cannot do this, which would explain why they use planes instead.
• The Demon Realm Dragon Balls are the first to be confirmed to have never been gathered together, implying that nobody has ever seen its dragon or made a wish. The closest to this otherwise would be the Black-Star Dragon Balls from GT (which do get used in its first episode) and the Namekian Dragon Balls (but only because this isn't mentioned).
  • If you're wondering about the Black-Star Dragon Balls, remember that they fly across the galaxy and blow up the planet they were used on after a year, which is a problem since space travel isn't exactly common on Earth (not everyone can just build a spaceship based on old alien ships like Capsule Corp. can!).
• The fact that nobody has seen the Demon Realm's dragon god makes Degesu's note about it in Episode 1 more interesting. There, he says "This is quite different from the Porunga I've read about", implying that he knows about the Namekian dragon god despite the Namekians having left the Demon Realm long ago. Yet despite THAT, Shen Long granting three wishes is a surprise to him, despite that being Porunga's main difference from Shen Long when he was first introduced.
• Panzy's statement that not even King Gomah has been able to gather the Demon Realm Dragon Balls implies that he's incredibly strong. We'll see if this is really the case, or if that's just his reputation.
• When the woman blows on the trumpet, it changes notes despite her not visibly operating the trumpet beyond blowing into it. Either that's her Majin power, or her breath control is strong.
• Goku requests his fight with the soldiers have no guns. In Resurrection 'F' (which it must be said, may not take place in Daima's continuity), Goku gets shot in the back by a laser gun by one of Frieza's men, which infamously puts him out of commission immediately.
• Goku discards Nyoi-bo for the fight in this episode, similar to what he had to do in the 21st and 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai.
• The sweeping move Goku does on the ground at the start of the fight is a Breaking move called the Flare (not to be confused with the similar-looking Windmill move).
  • For anyone as confused as Robo: Breaking is the proper name for break dancing. TIL!
• In the shot of Goku stepping on the heads of two guards, the sound effects used for the steps are the famous punching sound effects from the Indiana Jones movies.
• It takes five episodes of Daima for Goku to turn Super Saiyan... for less than a second (it also takes him this long to use Instant Transmission!).
• Episode 5 - The fight with the Kadan Castle guards is the first instance of what KBABZ refers to as a looping "Yatatata" fighting animation, for about a second. Daima is rather notable for avoiding this sort of thing and instead preferring to use choreographed fight moves that are focused on.
• Despite appearing in a few wide shots, the larger warriors of Kadan Castle are never actually shown fighting Goku.
• Goku notably doesn't use the full Super Saiyan form outside of the initial activation: instead he gets a yellow glow around him, which is visually similar to Ultra Instinct Omen from Dragon Ball Super.
• Glorio being modest about the condition of the King's provided plane is the first time he's been showing being polite, if only slightly.
• Before he's introduced, Hybis can be seen helping load cargo onto the new plane.
• Panzy's father doesn't seem to have any qualms with providing liquor to first-graders. What is this, DBZ Movie 1?!
• The brief shot of Bulma welding at the end of this episode is the first time we've cut away from the Demon Realm since Goku and friends arrived there in Episode 3 — and it's a shot re-used from Episode 2.
• Hybis comments that it's a tall order for a Majin, a demonic being, to enter a temple. Amusingly this has already happened before: Super Boo famously visited the Lookout in the Boo Arc, not to mention the many times Piccolo Jr. has been there (it's unknown if Piccolo Sr. ever visited the Lookout, and while the anime depicts him being born there, the manga doesn't show where Sr. was born at all).
• The map device that Hybis uses is very similar in design to the famous Dragon Radars, in particular the second design introduced in the Namek Arc. Hybis' "Map Radar" uses a touch screen to move across the map, while Bulma's radars used the main button (since touch screens weren't widely available in the time of the original manga).
  • Hybis' "Map Radar" has two sub-dials flanking the central spike, similar to the sub-dials on a wristwatch that are used to track seconds and minutes like a stopwatch can.
  • Despite it being impossible to see into the Demon Realm, Hybis' "Map Radar" is able to see outward into the Living Realm. The fact that he has to be told to search in Universe 7 specifically also implies it can see into other Universes!
• Among Panzy's possessions loaded into the plane include an umbrella, an umbrella shade, a teapot, a broom, a suitcase, a fishing line with tackle box, some books, a radio-controlled flying saucer, an alarm clock, two boom boxes, a rubber duck, and an inflatable otter-like animal with a bowtie.
• Despite asking Goku to be polite regarding the castle, Panzy out and calls their new plane "trash".
• Goku mis-pronounces Glorio's name as "Gliro" in this episode. Gliro is Esperanto for dormouse, which probably isn't a reference.
  • Robo note: In troubled times like those we live in, take solace that you can google the word dormouse, and be greeted by pure joy (although my favourite is field mice).
• Goku has experience with machines ruining his Dragon Ball quests: the Dragon Radar breaking was a huge problem in the Red Ribbon Army arc, forcing him to make a detour to West City so Bulma could fix it.
• When the engine of the new ship gives out, the triumphant background music stops IMMEDIATELY.
• As the plane falls out of the sky, Panzy says "Maybe we loaded too much luggage." Emphasis ours (she was the one who put all her luggage there!).
• In the next episode preview, the shot of Goku fighting with Glorio has Glorio's eyes shaded much thicker than normal.

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Episode 450 - Lightning (Daima episode 6)
Originally aired 15th of November 2024
Written by: Yūko Kakihara
Episode director: Gaku Yano
Animation supervisor: Takumi Yamamoto
Chief animation supervisor: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru

After encountering the Gendarmerie, the wardens of the Demon Realm, the four are forced to camp in a cave where they encounter further trouble! The enigmatic Glorio unleashes lightning magic against Goku to resolve the situation!

Trivia:

Spoiler:

• If you watch along with Dragon Ball and Z, episode 6 of Daima will be the 450th episode of Goku's adventures!
• The Chief Animation Supervisor for this episode is Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, who also has the position of Animation Character Designer, and is the Animation Supervisor for the OP and ED and Key Animator for the ED. He held similar responsibilities during the run of GT and the second half of DBZ, in addition to being the Character Designer for everything Toriyama didn't draw in GT. He debuted on Dragon Ball as a Key Animator on Dragon Ball episode 19 in July 1986, 38 years before Daima. He also did Key Animation for the last GT and the first Super episode, as numerous episodes of DB and Z (including the final episode of the original Dragon Ball anime and the Jump Special), and was Animation Supervisor for Z episodes 44 and 120. Needless to say, he's a bit of a Dragon Ball icon.
• Episode 6 is the first to match the exact opening structure of another episode, in this case Episode 3. Finally!
• Perhaps as a reflection of the episode's core length, Episode 6 starts off repeating the footage from the end of Episode 5 of the plane crashing, which is something Episode 4 also did (albeit not to 6's extent)
• While a large impact cloud is shown in the wide shot of the ship crash, this episode reveals the ship slid along the ground for a few meters before coming to a proper stop.
• Despite citing all of the emergency equipment, Panzy doesn't think the crash was caused by her more frivolous luggage like the inflatable otter.
• Episode 6 is the first Daima episode to display the title card after unique story content.
• Kaioshin openly admits to his important role and title in this episode, despite being a bit curt about who he is exactly in Episode 5 (possibly because he didn't realize Panzy was a princess at the time).
• After Goku explains Kaioshin's title and role in the godly heirarchy, Kaioshin replies with "something like that". He pointedly doesn't mention anything revealed in Super like Gods of Destruction and Ze'no, nor the Grand Kaio from the Other World Tournament filler.
• Goku has the decency to do his business behind a nearby plant. All the way back in Chapter / Episode 1 of Dragon Ball, Goku wondered why Bulma did so behind a tree instead of right there next to her Capsule Bike.
• When Panzy throws the roll of toilet paper at Goku, it passes right through the camera via the hole in the middle, implying Dragon Ball Daima is filmed on a very tiny (perhas cylindrical) GoPro, somehow floating in midair (perhaps held by an intangible Lakitu with an intangible fishing line).
• Goku once again mis-speaks Glorio's name as "Goliro", the same error he made in Episode 4. This is the first time Glorio actually calls him out on it.
• In Japan, toilet paper is actually rather unusual, as the standard is instead jets of water via a washlet / bidet. Of course, Goku would be used to using toilet paper analogues having grown up in the wilds, and bidets likely aren't standard in the Third Demon World.
  • Toilet paper has appeared in Dragon Ball as far back as the opening arc, where Oolong used a roll after his bowels were activated with the verbal command.
• Much like with Bulma, Panzy initially has a good relationship with Goku in her first proper episode before getting rather annoyed with his peculiarities in her second.
• Kaioshin states that Goku is the strongest in the universe as far has he knows. If Beerus exists in the Daima continuity, then this is the same assumption Freeza made: he's the strongest by way of his only known competition being asleep at the moment. This feels believable for the dishonest egotist Freeza, but is a bit harder to swallow for our precious cinnamon roll Kaioshin.
  • Incidentally, in the Saiyan Arc Vegeta claims he's the strongest in the universe, despite knowing that he ranks under Freeza, the Ginyu Force, Zarbon and Dodoria at that point in time.
• The Gendarmerie ship, with the large front windshield, simple fuselage, and helicopter-like landing gear, bears similarity to the "bug jumper" aircraft introduced in the Red Ribbon Army arc.
• In several shots of this episode, the interior of King Kadan's ship is traditionally drawn, as you usually cannot see inside it. A neat detail is that in one shot you can see straight through the ship to the ground behind it, since the rear hatch has been lowered.
  • In the same wide shot, the tracks of the ship go farther than where the ship is parked.
• The Gendarmerie accuse Kaioshin of not wearing a collar, despite the high collar of his tunic obscuring most of his neck.
• When interrogated by the Gendarmerie, Kaioshin says he's from the Second Demon World, which is a plausible excuse given that Episode 3 revealed that his race, the Glind, originate from that world.
• Panzy tactfully doesn't reveal to the Gendarmarie that she's the princess of the Third Demon World, just like she did when meeting Goku and co. in the previous episode. In fact, she never even speaks to them!
• Goku's line "What was that all about?" indicates he was aware of the visitors but opted to keep quiet while he did his business.
• When asked by Kaioshin to tie down his hair, Goku replies that it's "too resilient". This alludes to a fact revealed by Vegeta in the Cell Arc that pure-blooded Saiyan hair retains its shape from the day they're born. Goku's hair has also never been affected much by getting wet, either.
  • Amusingly, Toriyama himself forgot about this when he designed the initial GT cast in 1996, with Vegeta's weird, shorter hairdo, not to mention his infamous mustache. Probably says something about how committed he felt to those designs when he just wanted to rest after having put the manga to bed.
  • Missed GT Trivia - The fact that Vegeta has a mustache in GT implies that he either shaved it every day like Krillin, or was wearing a fake one... that he then shaves off.
• Panzy asks if Goku has washed his hands right after he rubs the back of his head with his hand. She also didn't provide Goku with a means of washing his hands.
• Glind being born from trees is the formal introduction of a major piece of Dragon Ball lore that Toriyama had first revealed in the "Super Exciting Guide: Character Volume" from 2009, 15 years before Daima.
  • Similar to Toriyama's take on the Bardock backstory, there are some differences between the two: in the Super Exciting Guide interview, there is a singular "World Tree" which grows on Planet Kai-Shin that birth new "Shin-jin" via Kaiju fruit, whose location Toriyama did not elaborate on. In Daima, there are five "Glind trees" that birth new "Glind" every few centuries, with Glind babies hanging off it from their backs, and its exact location doesn't appear to be its own planet.
  • One major commonality between the two versions is that Glind don't have genders, although they may identify with and/or have the physical traits of men or women.
  • A major difference meanwhile is that Kaioshin doesn't mention how new Kaioshin are selected, which itself hasn't been consistently described. In the 2009 Super Exciting Guide interview, Toriyama says that they are chosen from normal "Shin-jin" via lottery. However in the 2014 "Twel-Boo Mysteries" interview, Toriyama instead says that Kaioshin are only born from golden Kaiju fruit, which typically happens when one of them dies in an accident. This may imply that Kaioshin are immortal; Toriyama explains in both interviews that regular "Shin-jin" live for about 75,000 years.
  • The above in mind, the fact that in Daima the four Glind trees are in the Demon Realm may explain why no new Kaioshin were chosen after the rampage in Boo's backstory 5 million years before Dragon Ball, as it would have been inaccessible to them without a PIN code to return there.
• The architecture of the buildings and ships in the Glind town seen in Kaioshin's exposition is very similar to that of Namekians, particularly the two spaceships.
• The tops of the onion-like Glind trees bear a striking resemblance to the "Tree of Godly Might" from the third Dragon Ball Z movie. Interestingly, in said movie, Tullece says that the tree's fruit are only for the gods to eat, and while this is interesting to make a connection to, it's unlikely Toriyama came up with that particular lore element—and that's if it's even relevant today.
• In the Toei-provided subtitles, Kaioshin says that Glind are born "one every from centuries" from one of the Glind Trees. However he does not clarify if this means just one Glind is born, or multiple are via a batch / harvest.
• This episode formally confirms that Kaioshin and Kibito only need to drink water for nourishment, after alluding to it in Episodes 2 and 3, and in the ED.
  • Robo note: If anyone can provide examples of this being contradicted in prior stories, I'd apprecaite it. We couldn't think of any as of posting this, but neither of us are perfect. (I've been known to repeatedly remind KBABZ that I have a memory like a sieve.)
  • KBABZ note: If Robo's a sieve, mine's a cheesegrater!
• Kaioshin notes that Degesu was born when he was 216. In the Super Exciting Guide interview, Toriyama stated that "Shin-jin" live for around 75,000 years, meaning that, if one assumes the average human lifespan is 75, Kaioshin would have been 0.2 human years old. Of course, this math does not account for any extended periods of adulthood.
  • It's also worth noting the Kaioshin has yet to provide his current age!
• It's confirmed here that Kibito is the same race as Kaioshin (a Glind), which may explain why Kibito's skin colour was changed in Daima to be closer to Kaioshin's.
• Degesu being ambitious and not getting along well with his own kind gives him a similar air to Zamasu from Dragon Ball Super.
• Panzy explains that the Third Demon World has two suns, explaining why it's still a little light even at night-time. This is similar to Namek, which has three suns positioned such that it doesn't have a night-time at all.
  • The fact that the Third Demon World has two suns implies that it has its own equivalent of space. Of course, we may be thinking about this more than the writers did, or will be contradicted by some strange and interesting sun lore revealed later down the line!
• Glorio refusing to let Panzy take a shift flying the plane and instead opting to land may be because he wants to check in with Dr. Arinsu. This may also retroactively explain why Goku and Kaioshin had to bunk together in the hotel in Episode 3 while Glorio had a room of his own. It would also explain why he's averse to increasing the size of the party, like refusing Vegeta coming along in Episode 2 and not wanting Panzy to tag along in Episode 5, as that would make it more likely for him to be exposed.
• Ironically enough, Panzy realizes she forgot she left the camping gear behind to save on weight, despite the camping gear partially being the reason why they crashed in the first place because the plane was too heavy!
• Goku saying he skips showers all the time is reminiscent of Chapter / Episode 2 of Dragon Ball, where he had no idea what a shower was in the first place.
• The matchbox that Glorio uses has a picture of Gomah on it. Assuming this is a reference to the fact that he's King Gomah, this is an astonishingly fast turnaround for new wares bearing his likeness. And unless Glorio picked some up at the town with the hotel, he would have had no opportunity to purchase it!
• The can of meat has a picture of a centipede on it. In Chapter / Episode 2 of Dragon Ball, Goku brought back a centipede for Bulma to eat.
• Despite the fact that he has no need to eat anything, Kaioshin is still disgusted by the centipede meat.
• Glorio is also implied to only need water, as he only has a water bottle next to him at the campfire like Kaioshin does (contrasting Goku, who is surrounded by the empty spoils of his meal).
• The white-and-blue cooler box at the campfire is the same cooler box that Kaioshin is peering into in the river and cockpit shots of the ED.
• Glorio's refusal to be open about himself causes everyone around him to be highly suspicious of him. By contrast, Goku and Kaioshin earn Panzy's trust by being open about who they are, or revealing why they have to coy soon after being so.
• Like in Episode 3, Goku continues the tradition of sleeping in a splayed-out T-pose with little or no blanket over him.
• When Glorio and Kaioshin sit up due to the approaching minotaur, Goku has shifted off his bed and the blanket slid off of him, implying a passage of time after the initial campfire dinner scene.
• Kaioshin identifying that the oncoming smell isn't Goku is somewhat similar to Goku identifying Roshi's scent through Jackie Chun at the 21st Tournament.
• Goku once again upsets a being that commands respect by derisively describing them. In Episode 3, he called Sir Warp a goldfish, and in this one, he calls the minotaur a cow.
  • We do not learn if the minotaur fights like a cow.
• The comedic and deconstructive conversation Goku has with the minotaur is much like the conversation he had with Oolong back when they first met in the opening arc.
• The minotaur says he's going to make the four his breakfast. This is another indication of a passage of time after the campfire scene as it implies that it's now nearly morning, which is borne out in the Goku / Glorio fight right after this that takes place at dawn.
• Goku's entire exchange with the minotaur is shown in one shot, with Goku not even visible as the camera focuses on the minotaur the entire time.
• The strength of Kaioshin and Glorio relative to the minotaur is displayed in how casual they are talking with him, much like Goku. Panzy being terrified meanwhile implies she's in genuine danger.
• Goku mis-speaks Glorio's name as "Gliro", the first time he's mis-spoken it two different ways in the same episode.
• Glorio doesn't take Goku at his word that the minotaur is too much for him, despite it being established in Episode 4 that Glorio can't sense ki while Goku can. While Glorio admittedly doesn't know that Goku can use this to measure somebody's strength, it's nonetheless unknown exactly what metric Glorio was using when he figured he could take down the minotaur.
• Goku fighting with only one arm is similar to Frieza fighting Goku with no arms in the Namek Arc (as depicted in his shot at the end of the Daima recap).
• Glorio raising his index finger to charge his lightning attack is of course highly reminiscent of Freeza doing the same to charge the attack that destroyed Bardock and planet Vegeta, and later Namek.
• This episode is the first time Goku has flown whilst having Nyoi-bo drawn, since he discarded it two arcs before he started regularly flying.
• Glorio using magic lightning to attack the protagonist of Dragon Ball is much like Palpatine using magic lightning to attack the protagonist of Star Wars.
• Glorio's lightning whip meanwhile is similar to the Light Whip from the Star Wars Legends canon (it made its Disney canon debut in The Acolyte).
• Glorio knocking away Goku's Nyoi-bo is reminiscent of Piccolo Daimao doing the same, although in the latter case it was a much bigger deal because Goku was using it as a crutch for his broken leg.
• Masako Nozawa provides three separate yells for Goku's first sustained Super Saiyan transformation in Daima.
• As of this episode, Goku has properly used the Super Saiyan form in all four realms of Universe 7: the Living Realm, Other World, the Land of the Kais and the Demon Realm.
• After powering up to Super Saiyan, Goku has no visible aura. If the visual logic from the Cell Games applies here, this means that even in his child form, Goku is able to use Super Saiyan without wasting any ki whatsoever—as Piccolo says in Steve Simmons' subtitles for Kai, “so that [he and Gohan can] maintain that state on a normal, everyday level.”
• In the first-person view of Glorio's laser shot heading for Goku, Goku initially doesn't have any shading until the laser shot gets closer and illuminates him.
• In the close-up of Goku's fingers approaching Glorio's laser shot, Goku's fingers, thumb and even the curvature of his armband move with proper 3D perspective.
• Goku was actually rather close to adhering to only using his right arm for his fight with Glorio: he uses two hands to strike Glorio with Nyoi-bo, and used his left hand to dispel Glorio's laser shot when he could also have done it with his right.
• Despite having spied on Gomah in the Magic Monitor room in the first episode, Glorio didn't realize how amazing Goku was and thought he had an honest shot against him, and is also rather surprised by Goku's use of Super Saiyan in their fight. However if you pay close attention, Glorio doesn't appear until the very end of that scene, meaning it's likely he actually missed Gomah's Boo Arc recap and genuinely had no idea of Goku's true capabilities.
  • This also implies that Glorio had no idea about Boo's capabilities either, as him thinking he had an honest shot at defeating Goku implies the rather astounding possibility that he thinks he could have defeated Boo as well!
  • Since this episode also reveals that Glorio has been hired by Dr. Arinsu, it's possible that she informed him that Goku and friends were going to be wished into children by Gomah after he finished spying in the Magic Monitor room, explaining why he wasn't surprised by it.
• The effect of Super Saiyan on Goku's demeanour is actually visible in this episode: Goku immediately becomes more serious and outright arrogant whilst in the form, which vanishes the moment he returns to his base form.
• There are a few shots in this episode, such as when Goku expresses relief that he can still use Super Saiyan as a kid, where Nyoi-bo's sheath is slightly wider than it. Typically the slot in the sheath is the exact diameter of the staff.
• Panzy says that Goku is able to use amazing magic, which Kaishin corrects is not actually magic. Funnily enough, Goku charging up to Super Saiyan lifts up tens of rocks out of the ground, compared to Panzy who was barely able to lift up one with her magic.
• Once again like Goku first meeting Oolong, the minotaur tries to slip away to avoid fighting Goku (incidentally, Oolong was in a bull form when he attempted to do this). The minotaur making up terrible excuses to NOT fight Goku meanwhile is just like Mr. Satan!
• The Toei-provided subtitles on Crunchyroll have a grammatical error, where the minotaur says "then Ill have you all for breakfast!", missing the apostrophe in "I'll".
  • As a general reminder: Although the official subtitles have minor grammatical mistakes, the presence of actual translation errors is rare, and the errors are very minor when they do pop up.
• As the minotaur makes excuses to leave, his eyes switch back and forth between the half-outlined "friendly" eyes and the fully-outlined "villain" eyes.
• The minotaur's grumbling stomach uses the same sound effect used for Goku's in Episode 4 (and this one, of course).
• Goku being blindsided by Panzy throwing another toilet roll at him is similar to Krillin blindsiding Goku in the Cell Games filler by throwing a rock at him. Both incidents show that Goku can be hit if he has his guard completely down despite his colossal strength.
• Glorio is unable to land a single hit on Goku in this episode. Panzy, meanwhile, gets two. With a toilet paper roll!
• The scene at the end at Kami's lookout is the first time we've seen new story content for this half of the Dragon Ball Gang since Goku and Kaioshin left with Glorio back in Episode 2.
• Vegeta training with the weights means he's putting more effort into his physical training as a kid than Goku did (albeit we don't know if he got used to flight and his smaller stature like Goku did).
• The interior of Kaioshin's ship is shown more clearly in this episode than in Episode 2. With the circular bench seat and a central, ring-shaped control console, it has a resemblance to the spinning teacups ride in the Disney theme parks.
• This episode is the first time Kaioshin's ship has been depicted as a 3D model, having been shown only as a 2D art asset in Episode 2.
• Despite having one seat open, Bulma watching the takeoff with Mr. Popo implies she never intended to go to the Demon Realm with Vegeta.
• While KBABZ's memory may be sketchy, the refurbishment of Kaioshin's ship may be the first time one of Bulma's completed inventions has unequivocally failed.
  • The Octopus ship in GT doesn't count because: 1) It didn't completely fail, it just temporarily went out of commission. 2) GT takes place after Daima, and in a different continuity at that.
• Speaking of, Panzy is successful in repairing a ship in this episode, while Bulma is not!
• Thus far, every Daima episode has followed the same structure: a rather relaxed first half focusing on exposition, followed a more exciting second half where an actual fight takes place. Episode 2 is the exception, as the closest thing it has to a fight is Goku snapping a column in half and showing off Nyoi-bo.
• GT Similarities tally:
  • Ep1 - After a sparring match, Goku is turned into a kid by a short character using Dragon Balls at Kami's Lookout.
  • Ep2 - Plans are made to leave earth with a vehicle referred to as a spaceship, courtesy of Bulma. Goku goes off on a minor side quest before takeoff happens at the end of the episode.
  • Ep3 - Goku, as part of a trio, arrives at a town where they are overcharged for their hotel, and the ship is stolen.
  • Ep4 - Goku helps out a village being monetarily oppressed by the local government, becomes a fugitive, and meets a small character who becomes a major addition to the cast lineup.
  • Ep5 - Goku meets a king and defeats his guard(s) while the rest of the team watch on (debuting Super Saiyan in the process), we are shown a new kind of radar, the gang's ability to travel quickly is restored, and the team is officially joined by the cute, small cast member introduced in the preceding episode.
  • Ep6 - The gang continue the adventure after repairing their ship, and encounter a giant who they they placate without fighting him directly.

[KBABZ]

Would you believe I'm always worried each week that I'll have little to point out for Trivia?

[Koitsukai]

Good catch with the Tree of Might reference. There was a pointy-ear member on the Crusher Corps, so maybe...

I wonder if Goku will recognize one of the Realms as the one where Gohan fought Dabura. That's also something I never quite understood, was Babidi creating a similar environment but on Earth or was he sending people to the Dai Makai, bypassing the Fish with no effort at all? I can believe the latter, he was said to be a hell of a wizard.
All of this really makes Babidi, who is not a demon, look much more powerful. He went there, stole their king and kept sending people there back and forth.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

• Kaioshin states that Goku is the strongest in the universe as far has he knows. If Beerus exists in the Daima continuity, then this is the same assumption Freeza made: he's the strongest by way of his only known competition being asleep at the moment. This feels believable for the dishonest egotist Freeza, but is a bit harder to swallow for our precious cinnamon roll Kaioshin.
  • Incidentally, in the Saiyan Arc Vegeta claims he's the strongest in the universe, despite knowing that he ranks under Freeza, the Ginyu Force, Zarbon and Dodoria at that point in time.

Vegeta also said at the beginning of Battle of Gods he heard the name Beerus when he was a kid. Of course when Toriyama was writing the Saiyan arc its extremely unlikely he even thought of these characters, but retroactively I'd assume Vegeta also said that in light of other known competition being asleep as you say.

[KBABZ]

I wonder if Goku will recognize one of the Realms as the one where Gohan fought Dabura.

I haven't seen that episode in a while, but if I had to guess it'd be in the First Demon World where Gomah's palace is, since that also appears to have large red bodies of water, which matches its depiction in the Full Color manga!

Funnily enough, in me and Robo's Dragon Ball fanfic, we also figured a way to reference that moment, as well as the Demon Realm filler from OG-DB!

That's also something I never quite understood, was Babidi creating a similar environment but on Earth or was he sending people to the Dai Makai, bypassing the Fish with no effort at all? I can believe the latter, he was said to be a hell of a wizard.

He was taking them directly there. Remember that this method is how Goku and Vegeta fought at the 25th TB arena, and that was VERY MUCH real!

Also, the dub calls him Sir Warp!

All of this really makes Babidi, who is not a demon, look much more powerful. He went there, stole their king and kept sending people there back and forth.

I suspect we'll learn more about Babidi as Daima goes on, since he appeared to be VERY important to Gomah at least. Degesu felt that Babidi and Boo stood in the way of him being King of the Demon Realm!

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Vegeta also said at the beginning of Battle of Gods he heard the name Beerus when he was a kid. Of course when Toriyama was writing the Saiyan arc its extremely unlikely he even thought of these characters, but retroactively I'd assume Vegeta also said that in light of other known competition being asleep as you say.

I think it counts actually! Remember that Toriyama hadn't created Frieza or any of his henchmen yet either when Vegeta made that claim, so retroactively adding Beerus to it as well doesn't stretch things too much!

[Robo4900]

KBABZ and I argued a tiny bit about Sir Warp, but my personal verdict is: It's funny, so I'm going with it. On this, we agreed, thus that's the name we'll be using for the time being.

[Robo4900]

I've been very busy and KBABZ and I continue to butt up against timezone conflicts. But unlike when we did the rewatch, we aren't keeping to any particular schedule other than "as soon as we can, ideally before the next episode airs."

So far the only time we've run foul of that was when Kanzenshuu ate our trivia for episode 5, despite it initially being posted on time... Oh well. All sorted now.

First up, some Extra Trivia...

Errata for episode 2:

• Episode 2 - Toei have opted to call the younger versions of the characters in Daima "[Character] (Mini)". This is possibly done to differentiate them from their original younger forms, which are usually structured as "Young [Character]".
  • Amusingly, the title of the very first episode of Z refers to Gohan as "Mini-Goku". (Kanzenshuu translates the title as Mini Goku is Just Precious! I'm Gohan). Goten was also compared to being a miniature Goku, such as first meeting his father and with the Tournament Announcer.
  • On a similar note, Gohan in the Cell Saga is called Teen Gohan by Funimation, even though he's the same age as "Young Goku". This is because Gohan is slightly older in their 90s produced dubs which, on top of slightly longer time-skips, means that Gohan is closer to 15 rather than 13 in their Cell Arc. This has also led to the Saiyaman-era Gohan to be called "Adult Gohan" despite being a high school teenager.

And now, onto this week's episode...

Episode 451 - Collar (Daima episode 7)
Originally aired 22nd of November 2024
Written by: Yūko Kakihara
Episode director: Ryōta Kawahara
Animation supervisor: Naoko Yamaoka
Chief animation supervisor: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru

Goku and his companions continue their journey. But the Gendarmerie appear and bar their way again, perhaps due to them knowing the location of the Magic Collar around Panzy's neck. Can the bond with her friends save Panzy from peril?!

Trivia:

Spoiler:

• Episode 7 is the first Daima episode to have the same Animation Supervisor as a previous episode, being Naoko Yamaoka of Episode 2.
• Episode 7 features a small alteration to the OP: after the shot of the rotating adult Goku, the shot of the minotaur snorting menacingly at the camera has been replaced with various Kadan Castle characters. The minotaur is in this new shot as well, looking much less menacing than his original solo shot.
  • The shot has now been added to Robo's wallpaper rotation.
• By this point, it's rather apparent in the intro that the three Tamagami are always presented alongside their locations in the First, Second and Third Demon Realms. Number One is outside Gomah's Castle, Two is at the bottom of a Namekian-like body of water, and Three is in the Third Demon Realm in general.
• In the opening shot of Bulma trying to fix the plane, there's a subtle depth of field effect on her necklace as it droops close to the camera.
• The Toei-provided subtitles had an error across the entire episode, where the end of certain subtitle blocks end with "…". These were corrected after a few days.
  • It's possible this was a mistake on Crunchyroll's part – we were unable to determine if the glitch was present on other services. As always, please do get in touch if you have further information.
• The six landing legs, large eyeball-like windows, and upper panels give the Demon Realm planes the appearance of insects. This gets less apparent the more advanced the ship is, with Hybis' ship being the most like an insect and the Gendarmerie planes looking the least.
  • Hybis' ship has the same antenna sticking out of it as Jaco's Galactic Patrol ship from his titular manga. The Galactic Patrol ships also look rather insect-like, appearing like slaters.
• Going by the density of the tiles, the wide shot of Hybis' ship landing depicts the Lookout much, MUCH larger than it usually is.
• The "Manpuku" in Manpuku Dumplings is Japanese for "full stomach".
• Manpuku Dumplings are similar to the original description Karin gave for Senzu Beans, which count as a full meal when eaten (or two, in the case of Manpuku Dumplings). The property of Senzu Beans healing the one who ate them was not added until the 23rd Tournament Arc.
  • Manpuku Dumplings are therefore also similar to Lembas Bread from The Lord of the Rings, a Lorien bread which can fill the stomach of a grown man with a single bite, let alone the entire loaf. Being Hobbits, Frodo and Sam are regularly seen eating entire loaves in the second and third films, and in the Extended Edition of the first film, Pippin admits to eating four of them.
  • Robo is the sort of heathen who prefers the Theatrical Edition – but that line can stay. It's great.
• Goku admitting he hasn't really been involved with raising his kids is rather true: in the manga, the most time he gets to spend with Gohan "on-screen" is training with him in the Room of Spirit and Time during the Cell Arc (where, it must be pointed out, he is incredibly supportive and understanding of Gohan's progress). They also train together in the time skip between Mecha Freeza and the arrival of the Androids, but this isn't given as much focus. Otherwise, Goku was dead for much of the Saiyan Arc and after the Cell Arc, and was revived in the Boo Arc a few months before Daima.
• Piccolo explains that Kibito stayed behind to look after the Lookout. Despite this, he was on board Kaioshin's ship at the end of Episode 6 when it attempted to depart.
• Episode 7 is the first time a husband and wife have gone on an adventure together since the Wedding Dress filler arc at the end of the original Dragon Ball anime!
• The communicators that Hybis and King Kadan use are able to communicate with each other, despite Hybis being outside the Demon Realm. This is notable because it's impossible for people like Kaioshin to see into the Demon Realm which, on top of Sir Warp's stringent entry requirements, meant the Demon Realm was inaccessible and unknown to anyone not living there.
• Despite the weight issues from the previous two episodes, Panzy still opted to keep her inflatable otter with a bowtie.
• Goku has zero trouble using his teleportation technique, instead having trouble with flight. In Dragon Ball GT, the opposite was true, where Goku was capable of flight but couldn't use teleportation effectively at all.
• This episode is the second time that Goku's teleportation has been depicted with no sound effect for the new position he appears in (him appearing behind Glorio at the end of their match in Episode 6 was the first). In the older shows, there would be a sound effect for when Goku appears, just like when he leaves.
  • Speaking of, in this episode there's no sound for when Goku teleports out of the ship either!
• Just before he jumps into the bushes, Goku spreads his arms out, just like Arale did!
• Episode 7 is the first Daima episode where the big fight occurs in the first half of the episode rather than the second.
• This episode depicts Kaioshin running with a Naruto run!
• The Gendarmerie only shoot at King Kadan's ship because Kaioshin and Glorio happen to run over to it. So really, it's their fault the ship got trashed.
• Thus far, every Demon Realm plane that Goku has flown in has suffered some sort of unfortunate fate, being stolen, crashed or shot at.
• Goku prods at the limp body of one of the Gendarmerie with a stick, much like Arale would to piles of poop.
• Kaioshin says that Katchintite can only be obtained on planet Kaishin, however he doesn't mention that he was also able to create his own block of it back in the Boo arc for Goku to toss at a Z Sword-wielding Gohan.
  • Since Kaioshin's sister Arinsu is the one who makes the collars, it's possible that she does so using a similar technique to the one Kaioshin used to create the cube of Katchintite.
• In the Funimation dub, Katchintite is called "Katchinite". The ViZ translation of the manga calls it "Klangite", which is derived from the original Japanese pun: Katchin is an onomatopoeia for the sound of a metallic clanging sound.
• Planet Kaishin, much like how Kaio are born, originates from the second Super Exciting Guide: Character Volume from 2009, where Toriyama instead called it the "World Core". The World Core is located in the Living Realm, while its Daima equivalent, Planet Kaishin, is presumably located in the Second Demon World.
• As noted by Kanzenshuu's Episode Notes, Nahare comes from the Osaken-dialect version of the word "do" (as in, "to do something"). This aligns with other Kaioshin-adjacent characters like Gowasu and Zamasu in Super, and Degesu and Arinsu in Daima.
• This isn't the first time Goku has opted to refer to a godly being by the name he first learned them as. Back in the Android Arc, he referred to the merged being of Kami and Piccolo as "Kamiccolo" / "Pikami" before falling back to just "Piccolo" at the Namekian's request.
• Kaioshin, or Nahare, is chronologically only the third "godly being with a title" who we know the original name of. The first was King Yenma, and the second was Dende (Piccolo / Kami having forgotten their original, pre-division name). In the Super continuity, the third person was Beerus, followed shortly by Whis.
• As noted by Kanzenshuu in their Episode Notes, Pelar's name likely comes from the plant "Pelargonium".
• The PIN code provided by Peral for the Gendarmerie plane is 1022. October 14th 2022 is the release date of Dragon Ball: The Breakers, the asymmetric survival co-op Dragon Ball game, although we don't think this is an intentional reference.
  • In a near-miss instance, the last major work before Daima was Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, which released on June 11th 2022.
• It's possible that Hybis landed on one of the floating islands for Bulma's comfort, to keep her out of the dense gas below that would seriously impede her movement.
• Unlike most opponents Goku challenges, the one against Tamagami Number Three is treated like a proper tournament match (which may explain why Goku is surprised he's allowed to use Nyoi-bo in the fight). The closest to this would be Cell in the Cell Games, although that was eventually shown to be an ego-driven farce.
• The names of the Tamagami are interesting because while Tamagami is a Japanese word (meaning "Ball Gods" or "Orb Guardians"), their individual names (Number One / Two / Three) use English words.
• It's not too visible in this episode, but the arena Tamagami Number Three stands in has the same Demon Realm Dragon Ball design as Tamagami Number One's arena from the first episode. These are white and red respectively, but the pattern used for the title cards is blue, meaning it may be from Tamagami Number Two's arena.
• KBABZ is obligated to approve of Goku's food choice towards the end of this episode.
• The guy with a big gun who challenged Tamagami Number Three did so 20 years prior to Daima. This would be in Age 765, which is during the time skip between Mecha Freeza and the arrival of the Androids. That is a year before Trunks was born and Goku dies of the Heart Virus (in the unaltered timeline, anyway).
• Goku flushes the toilet and them immediately appears outside, implying he still did not wash his hands (unless he did that before flushing, we suppose?).
• Goku states that eating the dumplings were enough to restore his energy such that he doesn't need a Revive Bug. This seems to imply that they work like Senzu Beans (since Goku directly compares Revive Bugs to them), but it remains to be seen if the dumplings also have abject healing properties like Senzu Beans do.
• Panzy's measuring stick for Tamagami Number Three's strength is Dabura, who notably lost to Majin Boo's original fat form, not even Super Boo or the Pure Boo that Goku himself defeated.
• Episode 7 is the first to have a more extended series of shots for its Next Episode Preview, including a longer music piece to fit. It shows a total of eight shots, when previous Next Episode Previews used between 2-4.

[KBABZ]

The scene where Kaioshin frees Panzy of her collar might be my favourite moment in the entire series so far. It's such a heartwarming display of kindness and generosity!

[Robo4900]

Errata for episode 7:

• In what is increasingly becoming a stretch as Daima's plot moves onwards, Episode 7's GT similarity is that Goku's proper confrontation with the episode's towering opponent is saved for Episode 8.

Episode 452 - Tamagami (Daima episode 8 )
Originally aired 29th of November 2024
Written by: Yūko Kakihara
Episode director: Kazuya Karasawa
Animation supervisor: Kozue Komatsu
Chief animation supervisor: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru

The fight with a Tamagami begins! The Tamagamis are the undefeated guardians of the Dragon Balls. Seeing Goku fight toe-to-toe with one, Panzy and the others are unable to hide their surprise. As the battle heats up, what will happen?!

Trivia:

Spoiler:

• Episode 8 is the first Daima episode to feature a Director of a previous episode. In this case it's Kazuya Karasawa, the Director of Episode 2. Incidentally, Episode 2 was the last episode to not use any eyecatches before this one!
• Episode 8 starts off with a very compressed reuse of Episode 7's ending. After Goku says "I do!" in the third shot, we're off to the races with new animation, skipping over Goku's "freeze paint" shot that ending Ep7.
• Goku and Number Three never once fight in the central arena where Three was standing in. It seems the arena is only used for the Five-Cup Monte game.
• After Number Three dodges the extending Nyoi-bo and throws his hammer at Goku, the staff has immediately retracted back to its normal length!
• While there are a few "whoosh-cuts", the sequence of Number Three catching his hammer, Goku riding it to attack and run on Three, Three catching Goku back on his hammer to slam him into the ground, then Goku zipping between his legs to trip him, is done in a single 15 second shot.
• The sound effects used for Nyoi-bo when deflecting the rocks are metallic. The exact material Nyoi-bo is made of has never been given any attention, but these sound effects imply it's made of metal. Interestingly, it's depicted bending as Goku attacks, yet it's able to snap Number Three's hammer, which is never shown bending despite being made of metal, implying it's a rather brittle alloy.
  • KBABZ imagined Nyoi-bo, being a staff, was made out of wood. Robo meanwhile imagined some sort of hardened rubber given its flexibility, which lines up with the rubber-like sound effects when the hammer is pressing into Nyoi-bo. We're both aware that Nyoi-bo is a magical staff.
• In the Tamagami Number Three fight, Goku's eyes turn teal before the rest of his body turns Super Saiyan. In Episode 6, his eyes were the last part of his body to change!
• It takes Daima eight episodes to destroy its first mountain.
• Unless this happened in Super or something (Robo doesn't think so – and the awful Heroes promo anime doesn't count), Daima Episode 8 is the first time Goku has been depicted holding Nyoi-bo whilst in a powered-up form of any description, be it Kaio-Ken, Super Saiyan, or otherwise. He strikes with it like this exactly once, to snap Number Three's hammer in half.
• An easily-missed detail is that Goku matches Tamagami Number Three's capabilities: he discards Nyoi-bo after he destroys Three's hammer, he only uses ki attacks when Three demonstrates a similar ability, and he only uses an arena-destroying attack when Three does it first (the only ability Goku can't match is recalling his weapon). This speaks to Goku's desire to win against his opponent on equal terms, as well as proving to himself that he can be better at their own arts.
  • This is similar to Beowulf's honourable decision to fight the troll Grendel without any weapons or armour, since Grendel wouldn't use those either. This reinforces some parallels that Saiyans have with Viking culture, such as a thrill for battle, a strong sense of honour, and (under Coola and Freeza) sacking weaker peoples. Goku and Gohan's first times as a Super Saiyan also have parallels to Berserkers.
• Ignoring the strikes made to his legs, Goku lands his first proper hit on Number Three after he goes Super Saiyan and blocks Three's opening punch.
• In the circling wide shot of Goku fighting Number Three, Goku has no aura unless he's trying to quickly get out of the way of Three's attack, or go in for a powerful strike. Once again going by the "Cell Games" logic, this means Goku boosts up the form at specific moments rather than running at 100% all of the time.
• The shot of Goku running along the wall outrunning Number Three's attack is very similar to a shot in DBZ Movie 2 ("The World's Strongest") of Krillin running along a wall to outrun Dr. Uiro's machine gun arm, famously used in the "Rock the Dragon" intro. In DBZ M2 Krillin runs left to right, while in Daima Goku runs right to left.
• The spire Goku suddenly appears on for his Kamehameha isn't present in any wide shot before that point.
• Aside from the recap and his opening fight with Vegeta, it takes eight episodes for Goku to use a Kamehameha. He utilizes the same trick he uses on Vegeta too, pressuring his opponent with the Ki beam before jumping in with a melee strike.
• Goku and Number Three's big Ki clash is very similar to the final Ki exchange between Goku and Frieza at the end of their fight on Namek. Both have Goku's opponent fire a single red attack, which Super Saiyan Goku then punches through like a pillow with his blue beam. Both result in the defeat of Goku's opponent.
• When Goku boosts the strength of the Kamehameha beam, the top of the rock spire he was standing on is obliterated.
• The ball of Kamehameha Ki cuts a channel into the cliff after Number Three is deflects it into the air.
• Despite being rather metallic in nature, Tamagami Number Three lets out spit when Goku elbows him in the gut.
• After Goku elbows Number Three, he has lighting sparks around him, but does not appear to be in Super Saiyan 2. In the manga, sparks were never used with the original Super Saiyan form, while the anime includes them anyways because they look extremely cool, a semi-notorious "hallmark". In this case the implication is that Goku is VERY fired up after the Kamehameha struggle.
• The dent Goku made in Number Three's gut disappears after their fight has concluded.
• Number Three challenging Goku to the Five-Cups Monte game feels like the classic folklore motif of "Now, brave hero, for a test of your wit and cunning" which often took the form of riddles or puzzles.
• The birds-eye shot of the arena as Number Three explains the rules is the first time we see the entire Demon Realm Dragon Ball mural. Goku happens to be standing on the mural's Three-Star Ball, the one he's trying to earn at that moment.
• While definitely larger than the Earth Dragon Balls, the Demon Realm Dragon Balls aren't anywhere near as large as the Namekian ones.
• After handing Goku the Three-Star Ball and repairing his hammer, Tamagami Number Three returns to the same pose he was in when Goku first met him.
• Goku bows to his opponent before holding up the Three-Star Ball in victory, an easily-missed moment.
• Episode 8 is the first Daima episode to have no eyecatches since Episode 3, instead using the "corner logos" from Episodes 1 and 2.
• In the wide shot after the "ad break", one of the Demon Realm planes has a spherical thruster at the back. This is similar to the thruster of Bulma's Capsule Plane that was flown to Red Ribbon HQ and Baba's Palace.
• In what KBABZ has only just noticed is surprisingly common, Daima shows characters eating food rather frequently compared to earlier works. In fact, Episode 4 is the only one to not show a character eating! The eating instances are:
  1. Trunks' birthday
  2. Takeout at the Lookout
  3. The Bar Burgers
  4. Campfire Centipede Meat
  5. Manpuku Dumplings
  6. Mouth Kebobs
  7. Mouth Kebobs in the Cockpit
• In an easily-missed detail, Goku scarfs down three shish kebobs in one bite!
• The secondary panels on the Magic Monitor show views from each of the three Demon Worlds. This implies that King Gomah is able to see what's going on in each of them, giving a double-meaning to the "monitor" part of the name.
• Similar to the Gendamerie in Episode 4, in Toei's provided subtitles Gomah uses the neutral "them" pronoun when looking at the figure at the edge of the crater, since he doesn't know the figure's gender yet.
• Dr. Arinsu being present at the site of Boo reforming has an interesting implication. Ki is not well-known in the Demon Realm, let alone the ability to control it, yet Piccolo was unable to sense Arinsu when he returned to survey the aftermath of Vegeta's sacrifice. Given the shot that Degesu zooms in on shows Boo's fragments still as blobs, KBABZ's theory is that Arinsu grabbed a fragment before Piccolo had returned (since the blocks turn into mini-Boos only when Piccolo had come back).
  • Another possibility is that, being more of a scheming magic-user than a fighter, Dr. Arinsu's Ki is as weak as that of an average human, or perhaps even an insect, meaning no one would have sensed her out.
• Arinsu's appearance in the Boo Arc may retroactively explain the smaller warp fish mentioning her recent use of his services back in Episode 1, although that use would have been several months prior.
• Marba's name, as explained by Kanzenshuu, doesn't appear to have an obvious flower pun. Instead it seems her name is a combination of "ma" ("devil"/"demon") and old woman ("baba").
• Marba doesn't have any legs, instead having a single point like a spinning top – or a genie/djinn – as she floats above the ground.
• Bibidi not being the creator of Majin Boo is another bit of "Toriyama lore" that originates from post-manga interviews, this one coming from the "Twel-Boo Mysteries" interview in 2014. There, Toriyama explains that Boo "has existed since time immemorial", "[cycled] between rampages and long hibernations", and Bibidi "merely knew the means of calling Boo from out of his long slumber". Existing since time immemorial contradicts the Daima lore drop that Marba created Boo (unless Marba is that old), but the rampage / hibernation cycle does seem to fit in with Daima, as we explain further below.
  • Boo's hibernation cycles has actually been used before: in Dragon Ball Super, Boo was asleep and unable to be woken up to compete in the Tournament of Power, which is why Goku recruits Frieza instead. In fact, as of Super Hero, Boo still hasn't woken up yet!
• Marba having the M symbol on her clothing may raise some confusion regarding the spell that Babidi is famous for using. This is because the "Majin X" naming convention (as in, "Majin Vegeta") was created by Funimation. It was never used in the original Japanese manga, where "Majin" was only used for Majin Boo, who it turns out IS from the Demon Realm.
  • We're guilty of this ourselves, as KBABZ came up with the term "Majin spell" to refer to the spell Babidi used on Vegeta, ironically to avoid calling him Majin Vegeta!
  • As for the meaning behind the M symbol, in the Toriyama Q&A for the fifth Full Colour volume for the Majin Boo Arc he explains that it stands for "魔", which makes up the "ma" in "madoshi" ("mage") and "majin" ("magical being"). It could be assumed (albeit not confirmed) that the M simply represents an affiliation or connection to magic in some way.
• It's revealed in Episode 8 that Majin Boo is the reason for the Glind leaving the Demon Realm. This dovetails very well with Kaioshin's utter fear regarding Boo in that arc, the creature that drove his people away from their ancestral home.
  • This may appear to cause some timeline confusion, as Kaioshin was, well, Kaioshin (of the East) when Boo attacked. The implication is two separate rampages: one in the Demon Realm that drove the Glind away, and a second outside of the Demon Realm where the North, West, South and Dai Kaioshin perished. This fits with the "Toriyama lore" mentioned earlier where Boo goes through cycles of rampages and hibernation.
• Extra Trivia: Kaioshin states in the Boo Arc that he, the youngest and weakest Kaioshin, was able to survive Boo's rampage. This is quite similar to the unaltered timeline where Gohan, the youngest and weakest of Earth's defenders, survives the original Android attack.
• In order to get what she wants, the elegant and posh Arinsu has to do the undignified act of spitting.
• As Marba explains why Arinsu should donate her saliva, the puffs of smoke depict all four of Boo's forms in re-used manga poses: Fat Boo, Evil Boo, Super Boo and Pure Boo.
  • The inclusion of Fat Boo and Evil Boo is somewhat confusing, as neither were exactly "part of the plan" when Marba created Boo: Fat Boo only came into being when Pure Boo absorbed the "chubby but gentle" Grand Kaioshin, and Evil Boo when Fat Boo ejected his evil! It's possible that they appear because the fragment of Boo donated to the cauldron had Fat and Evil Boo in its mix, so to speak. Also it looks fuckin' cool.
• While Marba describes Gomah as "quite powerful", Panzy stated back in Episode 5 that he was unable to get the Demon Realm Dragon Balls. However we don't yet know WHY he wasn't able to. It's entirely possible that Gomah is in fact able to beat them in combat, but failed their second test that's unrelated to fighting and/or strength. If that's the case, then Gomah will be more than a match for Goku or Vegeta should they fight.
• Marba redundantly asks if Arinsu plans to use the Dragon Balls, much like Dende did to Gomah back in Episode 2.
• Given the blush lines on King Kadan and his men, it's rather obvious that they are drunk off their gourd in celebration, even if this isn't apparent in their speech.
• When Bulma asks Hybis if the hotel serves good food, Hybis replies with a beverage, likely because he, too, doesn't need food for sustenance.
• Daima's (increasingly thin) connection to GT for Episode 8 is that it's when the fight with the towering opponent met in the last episode actually transpires. The end also features some thieves (although in Daima's case it's in the Next Episode Preview).