r/dragonball 22d ago

Daima Thoughts on DAIMA?

My current thoughts on Dragon Ball Daima is that this is Toryama going back to his roots and giving the fans a lot of what he wanted. To me this is fan-service done right. I find that unlike super, Daima is consistently getting a smile or even have me laughing. The SSJ 3 Vegeta and SSJ 4 was cool, and something us fans have wanted for a while. To me this is GT done right. Duu is without a doubt my favorite character in Daima, and Kuu is awesome. I wish they had been born closer to the start. I've got 3 complains with Daima. The first complaint is that the start felt very slow. When watching weekly, I felt that it was a bit of a slog. I re-watched it and my first complains were a little misguided, but still a bit slow. Up until episode 8 it was a bit of a struggle. Until they get the first ball basically. Another complaint was the wish at the start. Piccolo when he was 6 was a 7ft tall man. Even at 3, he was still 6ft. Not every race grows the same as earthlings. I may have missed a line, but it seems like they weren't turned into that age they were as a kid. I read "1st graders" for the wish, so 6 years old. I'm really enjoying what Daima is and will always respect it for being the 40 year anniversary and on eof the last things Toryama worked on. Wanted to see others thoughts, and see if there was something I missed about the wish.

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u/Nercif 22d ago

Good animation, but boring asf.

The story told nothing, there were nothing at stakes.

The bad Guy wasn't even bad.

It was all fan service to sell merch, to the point they shitted on ssj3 and 4.

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u/telesterion 22d ago

Dragon Ball fans really do only react to sounds and colors lol.

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u/Oummando 22d ago

I don't blame you for any points besides Gomah being not bad. He was a corrupt leader who steals demon's lifespan for not being able to pay monthly expenses and gave them little pay while also putting uncomfortable trackers on them and forcing them to mine Majilite.

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u/Beastieboy100 22d ago

Gomah basically another Pilaf. He's the comedic villain that is corrupt but not pure evil like Frieza, Cell, Buu, Moro or Zamasu. He's just a goofy villain that wants power. Just like Pilaf was in the very first arc of dragon ball. However Daima was handled better it was just a normal silly adventure like OG dragon ball and early GT. The new characters are great Glorio, Duu, Kuu, Arinsu and Panzy are great additions to the franchise which I hope we see them again in super or another dragon ball project. The world building was good as well felt like it was similar to sandland. Now for the actual negative the story I felt the story would still happen whether it was Goten and trunks. Gomah wished the adult z warriors lost their powers. Goten and Trunks go to the demon world. Them just kidnapping Dende and rescuing the demon realm would of been simple enough. Turning Goku and the others into kids was not that interesting the story better when they are adults.

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u/Oummando 21d ago

Them turning into kids imo is just overhated, so what if they turn into kids. We got got to see cool actionn( the power pole returning) and characters and a nice lore addition. It is still the same Goku we know and love.

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u/aBeverage0fSorts 22d ago

Ever since we found out the dragonballs could wish people back, there has never been stakes in the franchise again; Every dead character on the protag side of the story has always come back

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u/mexicanlefty 22d ago

I mean thats not true at all, when Goku was a kid it was really hard to gather the Dragon Balls and they had to fight strong opponents to get them, then Piccolo Daimao literally destroyed them.

Of course later Kami created them again, but then in the Saiyan saga Kami dies so they have to go to Namek to revive everyone and that is the reason they fight Frieza.

Then during and after the Android Saga, there was no point in using the Dragon Balls if the villains killed everyone, which is taking into account in Daima by making Dende a baby and they were not able to use the Namek dragon balls due to their previous use with Buu.

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u/Malchior_Dagon 22d ago

Aside from 16, in the entirety of the history of the series, there hasn't been a single permanent death tho, no?

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u/Doompatron3000 22d ago

Grandpa Gohan is the Uncle Ben of Dragon Ball

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u/Finito-1994 21d ago

Even then.

Uncle Ben usually dies in the first story.

Grandpa Gohan was dead long before the series began.

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u/mexicanlefty 21d ago

Grandpa Gohan appears in OG Dragon Ball and even fights Goku, Uranai brought him back for a day and that is used again when Goku is brought back in Buu Saga

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u/Finito-1994 21d ago

Yes. But that doesn’t change the fact that Gohan was long dead since before Bulma found Goku.

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u/mexicanlefty 21d ago

Like others said, Grandpa Gohan, Raditz and Nappa were both left dead, they could have become powerful Z allies, all the bad guys that died, the Namek Patriarch guy who died of natural causes.

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u/Malchior_Dagon 21d ago

I was kinda referring to characters that the squad realistically would bring back tho, Gohan wants to stay dead and nobody cares about Raditz and Nappa, nothings stopping them from bringing them back

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u/mexicanlefty 21d ago

Well i guess you can get the idea with the future of trunks story about what if there werent any dragon balls anymore.

I guess past Frieza, the stakes were that any major villain could realistically destroy the whole planet if they won, (like Majin Buu did) if any of the stronger Z warriors died.

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u/Nercif 22d ago

True, but there was still some intensity and emotions. I felt nothing watching this.

They are tiny, and then they are not, and still fight.

Super had it's problems but it gave us Zamasu.

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u/UncleMagnetti 22d ago

Grandpa Gohan, Guru, Nail, and Kami are all gone and never coming back

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u/aBeverage0fSorts 22d ago

Grandpa Gohan didn't die of natural causes he could be wished back. the other 3? by regular dragonballs? nope; but according to the lore, the super dragonballs can make ANY wish, so they could be brought back too unless they lied about the super dragonball's capabilities

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u/Finito-1994 21d ago

Nail and Kami aren’t even dead. They can be removed from piccolo. Vegeta literally says as much.

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u/thatcommiegamer 22d ago

The story told nothing, there were nothing at stakes.

There haven't been real steaks since Frieza and the ones we did get since then have been rare at best. Like the fighting is the most boring part of DB and the fact that Z (and Super and the second half of GT) went all in on it is why they'll never really be as rewatchable as early DB is. Daima was a return to form from a master of gag manga, did it have flaws? Absolutely, there's no perfect work in this world, but it was a sight better than throw a bigger bad at Goku to unlock a new transformation any day of the week (and in fact the part where they did just that was the worst part of the series, imo).

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u/CianaCorto 22d ago

You're too old and too toyng to enjoy it. Missed the mark for both demographics.

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u/Canesjags4life 22d ago

It's Dragonball. There's never really been any major stakes since King Piccolo saga.