Dragon Ball Daima nominated for Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Great news for all us Dragon Ball Daima fans, and perhaps a new, exciting chapter in Dragon Ball's history with Nickelodeon, but the show has been nominated for the Kids' Choice Awards 2025.

This is huge news as it is being nominated alongside some iconic mainstream cartoons like The Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Let's get voting and hope it wins .

Exclusive: Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Reveals Animation Nominees of 2025

By Mercedes Milligan

Billed as “the biggest party of the summer,” the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2025 show is scheduled to take place live from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, June 21. Kicking off at 8 p.m. (ET/PT), the KCAs will celebrate fan-favorites across film, television, music, sports and more in a surprise-filled event hosted by Grammy-winning multiplatinum superstar Tyla.

Ahead of the full nominations announcement this morning, Nickelodeon gave Animation Magazine a sneak peek at this year’s nominees in its Animation categories!

FAVORITE CARTOON

Dragon Ball DAIMA (Toei Animation)
Monster High (Nickelodeon)
SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
Teen Titans Go! (Cartoon Network)
The Loud House (Nickelodeon)
The Simpsons (Fox)

FAVORITE ANIMATED MOVIE

Despicable Me 4 (Illumination/Universal)
Dog Man (DreamWorks/Universal)
Inside Out 2 (Pixar/Disney)
Moana 2 (Disney)
Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney)
Plankton: The Movie (Nickelodeon/Netflix)
The Wild Robot (DreamWorks/Universal)
Transformers One (Paramount Animation/Hasbro)

FAVORITE MALE ANIMATED VOICE FROM A MOVIE

Ben Schwartz (Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 3)
Chris Hemsworth (Orion Pax, Transformers One)
Dwayne Johnson (Maui, Moana 2)
Keanu Reeves (Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 3)
Steve Carell (Gru, Despicable Me 4)
Will Ferrell (Maxime Le Mal, Despicable Me 4)

FAVORITE FEMALE ANIMATED VOICE FROM A MOVIE

Amy Poehler (Joy, Inside Out 2)
Auli’i Cravalho (Moana, Moana 2)
Kristen Wiig (Lucy, Despicable Me 4)
Lupita Nyong’o (Roz, The Wild Robot)
Maya Hawke (Anxiety, Inside Out 2)
Scarlett Johansson (Elita-1, Transformers One)

Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2025 will simulcast across Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons the Nick Jr. channel, MTV2 and CMT, and also air on Nickelodeon channels around the world.

Beginning today, fans can cast their votes across 35 categories on the official Kids’ Choice Awards website, KidsChoiceAwards.com.

[Tian]

These are great news.

It's a shame that Daima is unlikely to win because the cartoon award has been usually rigged to go to SpongeBob, which I don't hate but I'm tired of it getting the award almost every year.

Still, this nomination means a lot. It says how much impact Daima has made among the younger audiences.

[TheRed259]

I wonder if Nickelodeon could buy the TV rights for Daima, at least in countries where the series has not aired yet.

[Tian]

I wonder if Nickelodeon could buy the TV rights for Daima, at least in countries where the series has not aired yet.

Maybe if Paramount Global ever gets interested to acquire it for Nickelodeon CEE (Central & Eastern Europe), since that feed covers most of the territories where Dragon Ball hasn't had any local presence like Latvia, Georgia and Ukraine.

[Saiya6Cit]

Well, did Daima win? I don't watch nickelodeon.

[Tian]

Well, did Daima win? I don't watch nickelodeon.

The awards will air this saturday.

[Tian]

Well... SpongeBob won the award again.

But it was nice of Nickelodeon to consider something of DB for these awards.

[DB_Fan1991]

I think Nick always buys SpongeBob’s win.

[Tian]

I think Nick always buys SpongeBob’s win.

And they aren't subtle about it.
They even had a prepared winning animated sequence.

[MasenkoHA]

Still, this nomination means a lot. It says how much impact Daima has made among the younger audiences.

It has??

[Saiya6Cit]

I think Nick always buys SpongeBob’s win.

And they aren't subtle about it.
They even had a prepared winning animated sequence.

mmmmhhh....
I think once you are nominated you should prepare a speech regardless, but I have also heard that the Oscar's winners get notified before hand...

I was hoping for DB to win... anyways... thank you for bringing the news.

[Jord]

Spongebob is a great series with a huge audience. It doesn't surprise it wins over a short series with a much more limited audience.

[funrush]

I'm surprised it even got nominated lol. Doesn't it only air on Toonami? At like midnight? When almost all kids are asleep?

[Yellow Flower King]

Well, it does have kinda slightly bigger ratings than Spongebob.