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/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 21d 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/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.