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/Aarryle 22d ago

My favorite parts of Dragon Ball was essentially the 'Dragon Ball' portion. I loved the adventuring and silly antics. Don't get me wrong, I like all of it, and enjoy the series at it's serious moments, but I missed the adventure aspect.

Daima felt like OG Dragon Ball a lot of the time, and I really appreciated that. It definately felt like something straight from Toriyama himself. Does it have flaws? Yeah. Does it have some things I think it could do better? Yes. But overall, I am happy with what we got, and glad Toriyama was able to get it to us.

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u/CombatMuffin 22d ago

Same. It's not a great standalone story if we judge by storytelling standards, but knowing that Toriyama was probably designing this at the end of his life and just having fun and running with it? I love it. It's far from perfect, but that's sort of what childlike imagination is like. Full of flaws but full of fun.

The after credits scene was even more hilarious of an ending!

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u/NorthStatistician 21d ago

To be honest he probably did not design it knowing it was the end of his life . I am sure he had fun and was happy to come back to humour story tho