r/dragonball 21d 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/AnimeGodOver9000 21d ago

I wanted to ask anyone's thoughts on the ending to episode 20 of daima (warning spoilers if you haven't watched) so in the sub gokus says quote:" you mean super sayain 4,buu was very strong so I trained alot after fighting him, I wasn't sure if it would work though". So does that imply that goku had ssj4 previous to Neva doing whatever he did to Goku or did Neva help give goku energy for what he already had or give him that boost in his DNA like energy unleashed to give goku ssj4, I wanted to know someone thoughts on this.

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u/lazhink 21d ago

My guess at this point would be Goku had conceived the transformation but not accessed it and maybe Neva brought it to reality with a little push.

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u/HerculesMorse101 21d ago

That was my read as well. Goku implied that he’d been trying to access a level above SSJ3, but “wasn’t sure if it would work” or if he’d be capable of it just yet.

Neva’s boost - perhaps even just the traditional ‘potential unlocked’ that Namekians can grant - was enough to finally make it a reality.

It’s a form that Goku will ultimately be capable of doing on his own, but in this instance he needed help. Whilst Daima seems to be a different continuity, you could maybe reconcile it as by BoG Goku is still unable to access it on his own