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Dragonball Daima?? What is going on?

 By Mark Rodriguez

So recently it has been announced that a brand new Dragonball series will be premiering in Fall 2024, and apparently Akira Toriyama himself is very excited about it. Much to everyone's surprise, it wasn't the long awaited continuation to Dragonball Super, but a whole new thing called Dragonball Daima.

The trailer shows mysterious enemies that are able to see all of the events of Dragonball and Dragonball Z. For whatever reason they used the Dragonballs to turn Goku into a kid. This might sound similar to Dragonball GT, but this time the entire Dragonball cast has been turned into kids. Vegeta, Bulma, Krillin, Master Roshi, Android 18, Yamcha, Mr. Satan, the whole lot of them!!! Toriyama later explained that they must all venture to a brand new world in order to fix things.

The big question here is.... what about the rest of Dragonball Super? Manga readers know that the story has moved beyond the Universal Survival Arc and have had two entire arcs with new characters and transformations yet to be seen in anything outside of the manga. Moro, Granolah, Gas, as well as Ultra Ego Vegeta and Black Freeza have yet to be animated. Also since the merchandising goes only by the anime, this is why none of these characters or forms have appeared in videogames or action figures (though it looks like figures will be made soon at this point). 

Another bizarre thing is that the Dragonball Super manga is currently re-telling the Dragonball Super Super Hero movie. The manga breezed through the Beerus arc, but still went through it since the introduction of Beerus kicks off the events of Super. However, the manga skipped out the entire Resurrection F and Broly arcs with mere mentions or a 'watch the movie' blurb on the bottom of the page. While the manga added a mini arc leading up to the events of Super Hero, it's odd that Toyotaro is actually taking the time to adapt the movie in manga form. It's almost like they're stalling since they're not sure what happens next in the story.

Speaking of which, when does Dragonball Daima happen? What point of the story are we in before the characters get turned into kids? Now that I think about it, what happens to the actual kids like Goten, Trunks and Marron? I know I'm supposed to feel excited about a brand new Dragonball series, but I'm just asking myself 'Why??? Why are they doing this???'. It is definitely a very bizzare and unexpected direction to take the franchise.

The new series leaves a lot of questions, especially regarding what came before. We do know it will be done in time for the 40th anniversary and it seems that Toriyama has regained his passion for the series again. And hey, Goku gets his Nyoibo back. Gotta get the full Dragonball treatment!

We'll find out next year if this new show will be worth it.... or if it's time Dragonball finally hangs it up. At this point, it kinda looks like things have gotten ridiculous.

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