No Manga adaptation?

[GreatSaiyaJeff]

I apologize if this was asked before but I'm surprised we never got a manga adaptation of the series. Was it considered at one point but because Toriyama passed, the decided not to?

[The Dark Knight]

The Moro arc has been announced for 2027, and the Super remake/remaster will incorporate some elements from the manga.

[GreatSaiyaJeff]

The Moro arc has been announced for 2027, and the Super remake/remaster will incorporate some elements from the manga.

That... doesn't really answer my question?

[VegettoEX]

I assume they got confused and thought they were in the "Dragon Ball Super" sub-section...?

My thought on the actual question is that it was probably a combination of Daima still being written while it was being produced (and therefore difficult to plan a spin-off adaptation of it while all hands were on deck for the actual main product), and/or not having properly allocated or on-boarded an appropriate artist to handle one, and/or not having allocated space in a magazine to handle it, and/or them assuming (probably rightfully?) there wouldn't be the interest level to support it.

[The Dark Knight]

I totally didn't see where this was placed; my bad.

I agree; I'm also surprised Daima didn't get a manga adaption, especially with Toyotaro not doing anything during and after its run. I initially thought they were waiting for it to finish, but then it did, and nothing happened. Although Daima was by no means viewed negatively by the fan base, it did have a lukewarm response to it, so I agree with VegettoEX in that they might have assumed people just didn't care about it enough to justify the investment.

[SupremeKai25]

I think you should read this interview from Akio Iyoku of Capsule Corporation Tokyo from last year which is reported on the website of Kanzenshuu.

https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations ... o-iyoku-1/

The way I understood it, the plan for Daima was always to be an animated series without a comic, and its primary function was to recreate the feeling of childish adventure from GT and reach both old school fans and a wider audience. Iyoku and his team tried not to involve Toriyama since he was working on Super Hero (this was about 6 years before this interview, so in 2019), but happily accepted his input as he became increasingly more interested in this project. They probably just wanted to make an animated series calling back to GT and not go beyond that. A manga adaptation would be beyond the scope of this project.

While I appreciate the visual beauty of the show and its lore drops, ultimately I see Daima only as a small-scale tribute to 40 years of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT, and not a long-running series with different mediums of storytelling akin to Super. I think it's a matter of "scale" and "ambition" more than anything else. Super was designed as the grand sequel to the original series after nearly 20 years since the end of the original series. On the other hand, Daima was designed as a smaller-scale project celebrating a milestone in Dragon Ball's history, and celebrating GT more specifically.

[GreatSaiyaJeff]

I totally didn't see where this was placed; my bad.

I agree; I'm also surprised Daima didn't get a manga adaption, especially with Toyotaro not doing anything during and after its run. I initially thought they were waiting for it to finish, but then it did, and nothing happened. Although Daima was by no means viewed negatively by the fan base, it did have a lukewarm response to it, so I agree with VegettoEX in that they might have assumed people just didn't care about it enough to justify the investment.

It happens, I've done that more than I want to admit

It's a shame but I guess it's understandable. Be nice to have a few volumes between the original series and Super on my shelf.

[The Dark Knight]

While I appreciate the visual beauty of the show and its lore drops, ultimately I see Daima only as a small-scale tribute to 40 years of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT, and not a long-running series with different mediums of storytelling akin to Super.

From a marketing perspective, Daima should've been under the Super brand of the franchise, set after SuperHero. The biggest issue that faced Daima from day 1 was people believing it was filler as a result of not being connect to Super, despite its lore being anything but filler. The only thing you would have to change is the birthday party, as instead of Trunks' 9th, it could be Pan's 4th. Also, make some shit up about Goku and Vegeta not having access to their SsjG and SsjB forms as a result of being kids; everything else about the show would remain exactly the same.

[SupremeKai25]

While I appreciate the visual beauty of the show and its lore drops, ultimately I see Daima only as a small-scale tribute to 40 years of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT, and not a long-running series with different mediums of storytelling akin to Super.

From a marketing perspective, Daima should've been under the Super brand of the franchise, set after SuperHero. The biggest issue that faced Daima from day 1 was people believing it was filler as a result of not being connect to Super, despite its lore being anything but filler. The only thing you would have to change is the birthday party, as instead of Trunks' 9th, it could be Pan's 4th. Also, make some shit up about Goku and Vegeta not having access to their SsjG and SsjB forms as a result of being kids; everything else about the show would remain exactly the same.

I think setting it between Z and Super was fine. And while it's not the Super brand, Super-specific lore like Gowasu or "Universe 7" is acknowledged. (I know that Universe 7 technically comes from Battle of God, and Battle of God is technically a Z movie... but let's be real, it's Super lore)

I quite liked the series, actually, and I think it's a wonderful bridge between Z and Super. But that's simply what it was. An interim series. Fun, low stakes, and short. I think the target audience of this show, besides GT fans, was new fans who are scared of starting Super. An anime series of 131 episodes is quite long, it's a big undertaking, and very few of those episodes are filler, it's not like Naruto Shippuden where almost 50% of it is filler. If I were a new fan, I would begin my experience with Modern Dragon Ball from Daima, a short series with low stakes and fun adventures. And I would begin Super, a long series with high stakes and serious conflicts, only after Daima. Daima is an "appetizer", if you will, and it has all the plot elements and characterization we can expect from Super.

The studio's now working on the next big thing - the Galactic Prisoner saga of Super.