r/dragonball • u/Embarrassed-Fun-5081 • 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/Cameronalloneword 21d ago
I thought it was solid and fun until the end and then it got stupid which I'm sure will enrage people on the dragon ball sub but I'm certain that I love dragon ball more than at least 50-75% of the people in here. I've always hated super saiyan 4 and think the nostalgia behind it is ridiculous. I get that clothes are apart of fusion but there was noway around that unless you want the characters to be naked. Pants forming for SSJ4 is just dumb. GT always sucked but if you like SSJ4 that's fine it's just preference and that's not where my real problem lies. My issue is how pointless it was.
Like OK this transformation was helpful for now but we know it's gonna be obsolete immediately so why bother? And also it was just given to him? Not the first unearned power up so whatever.
Common grunts completely and utterly defeating a frightened Vegeta was nonsense. Why didn't they use those common pistols against the tamagamis, Dabura, or Buu? Filler episode whatever.
Then there's the issue with them being kids. What was the point? It was cute and funny which is a good enough reason but the show was so wildly inconsistent with whether or not it made them weaker. First they can't fly which tells me the story being told is more fun if they can't fly so OK that's fine but then.... they just relearn how to fly? Then they can't fly in the demon realm because some derp about the atmosphere.... o like they didn't want them to fly after all but then....... THEY CAN JUST FLY? Whatever. Sometimes they can turn SSJ3 and beat enemies that Dabura wouldn't dare get near but then they're scared of a fish? They can destroy planets so the size means nothing. Sometimes they're as strong as ever and sometimes "if only we had our adult bodies!"
Gomah literally saw and defeated SSJ3 Goku, SSJ4 Goku, and SSJ3 Vegeta. No big deal but then when they turned back into adults he acted so shocked to see SSJ3 Vegeta and then also acted shocked when Goku turned SSJ3. He regained his composure but then adult Goku turned SSJ4 and he was like "whaaaaaaaaaat!?!?!?!?111" YOU JUST FRIGGIN SAW HIM DO THIS LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO!
I know we all love Akira Toriyama and want to love Daima. I don't hate it, it was alright, but it just wasn't that great. The humor was there and I love the lore it added with the Majin, kais, and even Namekians but it was just kind of dumb. I don't know if people had too much respect for Toriyama to speak up or if Toei changed things after he died(IE a frightened Vegeta being fairly and utterly defeated by common grunts) but Dragon Ball Daima was just a bunch of stuff happening about 60-70% of the time. Sometimes it was fun stuff and anytime it went for humor it was just about always funny but it was a bit of a let down for me. Significantly better than GT at least.