#nyoibo

[neenack]

You guys know this scene was fire, right?

[autisticgoten]

[Image ID: A digital artwork of young Goku jumping up and leaning on Nyoibō/the power pole. He is looking forward with an intense expression, and has a tail. End ID.]

@gokutober day 2 -- Youth!

I envisioned this being around the King Piccolo saga, so he's about 15 :)

[leftpostwerewolf]

[tgsofu]

Bye bye, Toriyama :(

[soysville]

Eiko may have gotten his staff from Amazon, but he booked his lessons with the Monkey King

from EIKO!GO!!

[duhragonball]

Daima 08: Tamagami

"Hey, you! Let's fight."

"Them's fightin' words!"

The first six minutes of this episode is just an all-out battle between Goku and Tamagami No. 3. I'm tempted to just say "They have a cool fight" and move on to the rest of the episode, but that feels like a disservice to the action. So I'm going to try to do a blow-by-blow description of the fight, if only to practice writing action scenes.

All right, so we start where the last episode left off, with the Tamagami asking Goku if he seeks the Dragon Ball in his chest, and Goku says he does and they start fighting. Tamagami raises his big hammer and charges Goku, who leaps away before the hammer smashes into the grounder where he was standing.

The Tamagami takes five more swings at Goku, and misses each time as Goku dodges just before impact. Then Goku jumps up onto the big rocks in the air. I think this is the debris Tamagami kicked up from hitting the ground so hard, but the Third Demon World has floating "islands" of land in the sky, so for all I know these could have been floating there before the fight began. Anyway, Goku bounces off a few of them and then launches himself back down at the Tamagami trying to hit hm with his Nyoibo. But the Tamagami blocks Goku with his big right hand. The Tamagami follows up with a spin kick and knocks Goku away.

Goku uses his Nyoibo to brake his motion along the ground. Then he braces one end in the ground and extends the Nyoibo right at Tamagami's face as he's charging towards Goku. Tamagami manages to dodge with only inches to spare, and since this stops his charge, he throws his hammer at Goku instead.

Goku dodges the hammer again, but Tamagami has the power to summon it back to him, like Thor, so the hammer flies back at Goku as he rushes to attack Tamagami. But Goku senses it coming and gets on top of the hammer to ride it back to Tamagami. This doesn't accomplish much, but it does keep the Tamagami on the defensive. He gets his hammer back and knocks Goku aside, but Goku's right back on him before he can really get any new offense going. Goku strikes his leg with the Nyoibo, then Tamagami's right hand as he tries for a grab, and then Goku runs down the length of his right arm as he prepares to strike Tamagami's head.

But Tamagami stops Goku using the handle of the hammer instead. That's clever, because at first I just took it as a way to add some variety to the action, but it's more than that. Goku had been dodging the business end of the hammer this whole time, and it's not hard to see why. Its so enormous that it's easy to watch. By attacking with the other end, Tamagami can trick Goku into thinking he's out of position for another swing, when in fact he's not planning to swing the hammer at all. And the end of the handle is huge too, but it's not nearly as big an impact. Goku blocks it and has to back off, but that's about all.

Tamagami swings the hammer around in a circle and it turns out Goku's clinging to the surface of it like he's hiding or just hanging on for dear life. Finally Tamagami appears to fling him off the thing so maybe that's all he was trying to do. The tactical consideration becomes clearer now. Tamagami can hit really hard with that hammer, but he needs Goku in a certain range to land a hit. I he's too close then the hammer doesn't do much good, and if Goku's too far away, Tamagami can't reach him.

On the other hand, Goku is so quick and agile that Tamagami can't land a good hit even when he has Goku in range. And Goku's a lot more versatile as well. He can attack at any range, and he can dodge the hammer at will. His only real disadvantage so far is that his offense doesn't seem to hurt Tamagami that much, and he can't attack very often because he's constantly watching out for the hammer.

Tamagami goes for another hammer strike and Goku zips between Tamagami's legs, slips behind him, and strikes Tamagami's right knee with the Nyoibo. Then he hits the left leg and tries a third strike on Tamagami's head when he collapses. But Tamagami is ready for this and blocks the Nyoibo with the handle of his hammer once again. He swats Goku away, but it looks like Goku didn't catch all of Tamagami's fist, so he's still on his feet when he lands.

They charge each other and their weapons collide in the middle. Despite the great size of Tamagami and his weapon, Goku's still able to hold him back with his Nyoibo and his teeny little kid body. They separate, and then Tamagami continues attacking with his hammer, and we cut to the townsfolk gathering around to see the fight. Panzy is impressed, and the Supreme Kai observes that Goku has already acclimated to the heavier air of the Demon Realm.

Back to the fight, Goku is backing off, and Tamagami uses his hammer to kick up some debris, and Goku deflects it with the Nyoibo. This appears to set him up for Tamagami to charge into him, hammer-first. I think Goku would have dodged that earlier, but here he's got too many oncoming projectiles. Tamagami drives Goku through a hill, but it doesn't seem to slow Goku down, and he continues dodging hammer strikes.

Then Goku leaps onto the hammer as Tamagami brings it down, hops over Tamagami and heads off into the other direction. He flies into a narrow crevice in a hill, uses the Nyoibo to stop himself and flip around to go back the way he came, but when he comes out of the crevice, Tamagami launches his hammer at him again and Goku is pinned between the hillside and the hammer.

Now we see Tamagami holding out his hand, and it looks like he can apply greater force to the hammer even from a distance, and Goku's straining to hold it back. At last, he turns it to one side with the Nyoibo, and as he does we see his eyes turning green, and it's time for Super Saiyan Goku.

The hammer got knocked away during Goku's transformation, so Tamagami summons it back to strike him from behind, but Goku does a sick backflip over it as it approaches, and he whacks the handle off while he's in mid-leap. They just stare at each other for a minute, and then Goku puts his Nyoibo away all cool and stuff, and Panzy thinks he's about to surrender, I think. But we know better.

Goku calls for them to fight seriously, and the Tamagami agrees. They stare down for a while, and then the broken hammer settles on the ground, and they start going at it, like that was the signal to begin. Very cool. Nice touch.

Tamagami leaps at Goku in the air and tries a punch, but Goku blows it with one hand, then kicks Tamagami to the ground. He advances on Tamagami, who begins firing some sort of energy blasts. I almost said "ki", and maybe that's what this is, but no one in the Demon Realm seems to know what ki is, so let's just call it "energy blasts" for now.

Goku seems annoyed to learn he can do this, but it doesn't slow him down much. He slips around Tamgami, kicks him in the right leg, and fires his own ki blast at his back, but Tamagami swats it away, then crosses his arms over his face to defend against a ki barrage.

Goku flies in to punch, but Tamagami blocks him. Goku flies around behind him, but Tamagami blocks again. Tamagami tries a punch, but Goku dodges and goes back around to his front and shoots ki blasts. Tamagami deflects those too. Tamagami tries to kick Goku, who dodges, goes behin him, and Tamagami tries to stomp him. No good, Goku 's back around to the front. Tamagami leaps up to swing his arm at Goku, but misses again. Goku zips around a bit and then goes in for a divekick but Tamagami blocks. Tamagami swats him away and Goku fires a ki barrage again.

Tamagami starts firing back with big red energy blasts from his right plam. Goku avoids these, but he's back on the defensive, and it seems like it's all he can do to run along the side of this old wall that surrounds the Tamagami site it looks like there used to be a fort here once.

Anyway, Tamagami starts charging up some big attack, and he even has a steam whistle sound like Majin Buu. Goku sort of hops around him like he's not sure what he wants to do, or maybe he's waiting to see how things play out. Then Tamagami plants both hands on the ground and shoots a bunch of energy down, which breaks up the ground all around him. I'm not sure what that was supposed to do, other than maybe throw Goku off-balance.

Instead, Goku just finds a spot and starts setting up a Kamehameha. The Tamagami sees this and quickly sets up another blast. It looks like it's gonna be a classic beam struggle, but instead Goku's shot rips right through Tamagami's and it pushes him across the battlefield. Tamagami ends up caught between a cliffside and the Kamehameha, and he seems like he might be able to hold it back a little longer, but then Goku turns up the juice and this added pressure is too much for Tamagami. He manages to deflect the blast, but only by sending it straight up. It must tire him out too, because he just lays there face up as the Kamehameha explodes in the air. And then Goku lands right on his belly and knocks the wind out of him.

Goku immediately hops clear and readies himself for more combat. By now he's transformed again into a Super Saiyan 2, but I'm not sure when he did that. Maybe when he amplified the Kamehameha, or maybe he did this after the Kamehameha, because he knew he would need to escalate the fight if Tamagami was strong enough to deflect it.

But there's no need. The Tamagami stands up, then collapses, and admits defeat. Goku thinks he can still continue, but the Tamagami insists that there's no need to continue, as he now understands Goku's power. Goku wins.

So Goku gets the Three-Star Dragon Ball, right? Not quite. The Tamagami tells him they need to have one final battle first, and no one knows what this could mean since no one's ever gotten this far against the Tamagami before, ever.

They head for the spot where the Tamagami had been standing in Episode 7, and the Tamagami sets up five cups. He plucks the Dragon Ball out of his chest and hides in in a cup, then shuffles them around. If Goku can correctly guess where the Dragon Ball is, he gets to take it.

No one explains what would happen if Goku guesses wrong. I mean, he already defeated the Tamagami, so I suppose Goku could just challenge him all over again, win, and then get another try at the shell game? Panzy observes that this is a little cheap, since they just had an all-out battle. The Supreme Kai suggests that this is still a battle, so maybe this is a test of some kind.

So Tamagami shuffles really fast, and the Supreme Kai admits that he could follow along, but only briefly. As for Goku, he says that the Dragon Ball isn't in any of the cups, but instead it's floating over the head of one of the demon bystanders. Tamagami somehow snuck it over there during his shuffle, and no one but Goku could see him do it.

The Tamagami is impressed, and he presents Goku with the Dragon Ball and reassembles his broken hammer. He resumes his pose on the pedastal and says he likes Goku for being a fair fighter. Then he wishes him luck against the other two Tamagami. Goku gives him a cute little bow of respect, and then he turns to face the adoring crowd.

After the fight, Glorio cals Dr. Arinsu to report on their progress. Arinsu is pleased to hear things are going so smoothly, but then she decides to continue work on her "main" plan.

Glorio sets course for Warp, so they can continue their quest in the Second Demon Realm. He plans to take the backroads, because he expects news of Goku's victory to spread quickly, and King Gomah's goons will be looking for them.

Meanwhile, in the First Demon World, Gomah and Degesu are reviewing footage from the Buu Saga again. I'm not sure what they're looking for, but they soon discover a mysterious figure present at the site of the battle between Majin Buu and Vegeta. On closer inspection, it turns out to be Dr. Arinsu, collecting… something from the crater where Vegeta exploded.

I think it's pretty clear that she was taking a sample of Buu's body before he could reassemble himself, but Gomah and Degesu can't seem to figure that out, so maybe there's more to this than I realize. I've never quite understood how something like this would even work. I mean, on paper it's a good idea, but all of the other pieces of Majin Buu's body woke up and reassembled, so I would think the piece she took would eventually regenerate into a full-sized Majin Buu.

I'm pretty sure this is how Android 21 was created too. Someone got a sample of Buu an used it in her design, and then she used another Buu sample to make all the Kid Buu doppelgangers you have to fight in the Fighter Z story mode. Also there's the matter of that shirt Super Buu ripped off and threw away after he thought he beat Vegito. I'm pretty sure that's also a piece of Majin Buu, which could be harested for making new monsters or whatever, but wouldn't it just grow back on its own to make another Buu?

Well, Dr. Arinsu put her sample in a little flask, so maybe she knows certain techniques to keep that from being a problem. And if she can pull this off, then maybe Android 21's creator had something similar to work with.

The thing is, Gomah seems much more troubled by the fact that Arinsu knew about the Majin Buu crisis well before Gomah and Degesu found out about it. Like, she was literally there when it went down, however briefly. Back in episode 1, the Warp fishes told Gomah that soneone else had gone to Earth "recently", and it turned out to be Arinsu, and now we know when and why. Gomah suspects Dabura must have told her about Buu before, and that's how she knew to come here. I assume he means "before Dabura got taken over by Babidi," which implies that Dabrua knew about Babidi's plot before he got mind controlled. Maybe he was trying to stop Babidi before and he got flipped to the other side.

But Gomah has no idea what Dr. Arinsu was doing on Earth, which I find curious. I mean, it seems obvious that she's trying to make her own Majin Buu, right? Maybe Gomah lacks the imagination to think anyone would want to try that. He was pretty scared of Buu before, and he seems pretty confident of his own power and plan, so maybe he can't envision someone taking such a dangerous risk when he wouldn't need to.

Meanwhile, the present-day Arinsu consults with another demon, Marba. She's some kind of old witch who has a cool witch house with potions and cauldrons and such. She also has a familiar "M" symbol on her stuff. She tastes her latest concoction and says the fragment of Majin Buu "really brings the flavor together." This rules. Marba is awesome.

They take the pot outside, and I guess this is the next step of the process. Arinsu complains that Marba's previous attempt failed, and the Majin she created from it couldn't even beat Dr. Arinsu herself. But Marba is optimistic about this one because it has the essence of Buu in it. They won't know for sure until it's done, though. Still Marba thinks it should be fine.

Arinsu is skeptical, because she understood that Marba was the witch who created the original Majin Buu in the first place. Marba plays dumb, and says that Bibidi created Buu, which was the original DBZ lore. But Arinsu knows the truth: All Bibidi did was come to Marba and ask her to make Buu for him.

After that, Buu threw the whole Demon Realm into chaos. The Glinds went to the outside world, and some were killed, so I guess that's why Marba isn't eager to take credit for Buu's creation. But Arinsu promises to keep her secret.

That seems to assure Marba, and she admits that Buu was a fluke, and hardly a success, because he was uncontrollable. But Marba's been working on improving controllability in her creations, so she thinks this new project will be powerful and obedient. Marba asks Arisu to add a sample of her own saliva to the mix, which will make the Majin more obedient. Arinsu does it, and her loogie make the potion all green and stuff.

I love this. The idea of Majin Buu being a potion some creepy old witch mixed up in a pot is awesome, and now we see her whipping up another one! It's great.

Marba expects a reward for this work, and Arinsu expects she can produce one once this new Majin helps her become the new Demon King. Marba thinks it's unwise to underestimate Gomah, but Arinsu has another card to play: the Dragon Balls. Marba can't believe it, but Arinsu already has one secured, and two more one the way.

Meanwhile, Hybis is still bringing Bulma, Piccolo, and Vegeta to meet with Goku's group, but King Kadan calls to inform them of Goku's victory over the Tamagami. So Goku's heading back to Warp, so Hybis can turn around and wait for him there. He tells Hybis to take the group to a hotel and get a good meal. Hybis wants mud-colored wine, a drink that looks and tastes like mud.

Vegeta wants to know more about the Demon Realm's Dragon Balls, but Hybis ignores him because he's not even a king and yet he's too rude to say "please". Vegeta says "please" and he is suitably nettled over this.

So this was a great episode, maybe even better than the first episode, which was a pretty strong opening to the series. The show built up to the Goku/Tamagami fight, made us want it, and then overdelivered. I especially like that it was six minutes and change of nonstop action, easy to follow, and with a clear and unambiguous outcome. The only time the show cut back to the onlookers was to show us that there were onlookers, and that even the Supreme Kai was impressed with Goku's performance under these conditions. And everyone was awed by the Kamehameha, which is only proper for the first one of the series.

And then the episode kept going! The Tamagami's shell game seemed a bit odd, but it was a good way to cool down after such a big fight. I don't think anyone seriously doubted that a fighter capable of defeating Tamagami would fail to spot the Dragon Ball, but it emphasizes Goku's worthiness as a hero. And the scene didn't overstay its welcome or try to force any corny jokes onto the audience.

The stuff with Arinsu and Marba is awesome. We not only get a clear idea of what Arinsu is up to, but how she plans on doing it. Gomah's onto her, but he doesn't know enough to really stop her, at least not yet. And Marba is a fantastic addition to the show. This series has been presented as a direct continuation of the Buu Saga, but this is the first time we've realy gotten any follow up on Majin Buu himself. Now we finally meet his true creator, and unlike Bibidi, she's a living, breathing character with her own motives and ambitions. I'm a bit disappointed now that Majin Buu seems to be left behind on Earth. Everyone keeps talking about him in the past tense, but he was still hanging around with Mr. Satan as recently as Episode 2. I wonder what Marba would think of him.

For years, Buu's origin story has confused me, because there were always two versions. In the manga, Bibidi was clearly stated to have created Majin Buu, but later sources indicated that Buu was some sort of primordial being who had existed for millions of years, acting as some sort of agent of destruction in the universe. In this scenario, Bibidi didn't create Buu so much as he summoned him from this ancient primordial state to do his bidding. I think Toriyama himself put this forth in an interview, but I don't understand why he said this, unless he wanted to establish Bibidi wasn't the creator without giving away any plans for a new character who deserved the credit.

It's also possible that Marba is the one who discovered the primordial Buu and converted it into something Bibidi could use. Or maybe Toriyama finally decided that there should be a straightforward Buu origin: Marba created him on commission and now she's making another one. I'm interested to see what else we learn about her and her methods.

I'm also hoping for some clarification on the "Majin/Demon" terminology. So far, it seems like Daima is using "Majin" and "Demon" interchangeably. It's possible that "Majin" is a subset of Demons, distinct from other races like Nameks or Glinds. But "Majin" also seems to be the term for Buu and other characters like him, such as his descendants serving in the Time Patrol in the Xenoverse games. In this episode of Daima, Arinsu notes that she's skilled in magic and science, but even she couldn't create a Majin the way Marba can. So the implication is that Buu is just as much a demon as Dabura or Glorio or Panzy, but he's an artificial Majin generated through Marba's talents. I'm curious to see what that means.

[nijigasakilove]

And mfs was writing this off as soon as it got announced 😂 I’m so glad we going back to OG style Dragon Ball, yea I want Moro animated but we can wait.

Knew from last week, but this is gonna be special. Seeing Goku wield Nyoibo again just brought back so many memories of watching OG dragon ball after school with my dad man I’m so happy to see Dragon Ball going back to its roots as a proper shonen adventure story with Goku relying on his friends and everyone(hopefully) being relevant again. Especially excited to see the demon realm and learn more about the various cultures that live there!

Everyone being weirded out by being turned back into kids and Bulma, Chichi and roshi being happy as hell to be young again is killing me 😂 Roshi first move is to flirt with girls man I love this dude.

[cuttyclowngirl]

DAIMA EP.9 (Spoiler) Review/Theories

• Only 3 more shots from the 2 minute trailer left to see in the show now.

• Panzy starts the episode off reminding us that's she's not the type of princess who enjoys roughin' it outdoors. Understandable. One more thing she & Bulma can bond over.

• So they went with "put on a silly hat, Goku" instead of having Goku walk around as a Super Saiyan. (Surprise, surprise, it didn't work out.)

• I'd forgotten that Goku's nyoibo can't shrink to the size of a toothpick like Wukong's staff. Hope it never gets stolen, then.

• If Glorio isn't being sponsored by Kadan, then I guess I should've been saying "poor Dr Arinsu's wallet" this whole time. Glorio must think he's traveling with the most oblivious people ever...

• If Panzy's rubber ducky is anything to go off, then 3rd Demon world ducks either have dinosaur-like crests or silly mohawks. I like it. Either is cute to me.

• If that was a bottle of liquor Glorio was chugging, then he oughta talk to someone. You good, buddy?

• I suppose Panzy placing a tracker on her bag holding the D ball just barely justifies recklessly leaving it by a breakable window instead of everyone's (Goku & co.) line of sight.

• The mohawked blue demon demonstrated an impressive proficiency in body altering/shape shifting magic. This further strengthens the implication that Glinds reach a point in their early life where they choose to have masculine/feminine presenting bodies via magic.

• Glorio acknowledging Panzy's helpful was a cute moment.

• Goku trying to stay up was pretty funny.

• While Vegeta's bar fight was much shorter, I liked that the interior of the bar looked wildly different, not just it's cool blue/purple lighting, but the clearly Star Wars cantina inspired middle table section with colorful drink dispensers. Though it was another bar fight that led to plane theft...

• Vegeta's burger looked yummy. Neat that it wasn't the same black bun burger. Even little bits of variety helps the world feel lived in.

• There are ACTUAL Zombies in the 3rd Demon world. (Implied) Entire forest patches full of them. And they aren't just undead, but can also TURN you into a zombie. I know it's just a bit, but Holy Moly.

• As I predicted in my episode 5 review, Hybis has the Tertian Oculus in his belt.

• I'm starting to think that this whole "timid yesman" persona Degesu has is just an act. A few episodes ago, Shin described Degesu as especially ambitious. Why would someone Shin implied to be the possibly even more ambitious than even Dr Arinsu settle for the position he holds under King Gohma's heel? I keep thinking about that wish Degesu wanted...

• While a bit selfish in it's own right, leaving the rescue of Dende/defeat of King Gohma up to Vegeta & Piccolo isn't exactly irrational. A jerk move to be sure. "Bad habit of his" indeed, Piccolo...

• Out of every angry face Bulma has pulled throughout Dragon Ball, the one she pulls when after Piccolo says "We should have brought Kibito, since he can teleport" is my new all-time fav.

• Vegeta paid extra for slow-mo shots. Also, him just sneaking up on that horse demon while they were distracted by Piccolo was so funny to me. Also also, Horse-headed demons are a thing. Neato.

• All these zoomed in shots of Marba makes me feel like she's secretly much more malevolent than she lets on. Casually mentioning that she used to sell Saibaimen seeds, as in lil killing machines, literally bioweapons, implies a lot. Plus even Dr Arinsu doesn't fully trust her.

• Since Marba only having 2 seeds left, it's loosely implied that Majin Kuu might not live for more than a few episodes. The next Majin will probably be the scarier threat. Dr Arinsu said "This thing might not work, so let's start with just one.(Seed)" One planted more than 5 centimeters down was implied to be stronger yet uncomfortable, according to Marba.

• This Majin Kuu feels sort of intelligent, (maybe thanks to Dr Arinsu's spit?). But I'm literally only basing this off of how it responded to orders/how serious it acted. Only time will tell...

• Hybis, bro, you chew weird.

[fandom-trash-xl]

EPISODE 8: TAMAGAMI

Was dealing with another show's angst today so I felt this would be quite fluffy by comparison

We start off with the Tamagami fight! I'm kinda bad at commentating on fights to be honest, but I'll try. Honestly, something about Tamagami Three is giving me Jiren vibes with the beady eyes and the deep voice (I'll look up the VA later, not counting on a match though).

We got some good old Nyoibo action! That material has to be really tough. Was it ever stated if it can be broken? Is it made of even katchier Katchikachin?

Goku's got all sorts of tricks, he's using to brace himself when he gets knocked into the canyon.

We got some full-fledged Super Saiyan fighting (is the aura flare sound a bit higher-pitched?) and a KAMEHAMEHA FOR ONCE! An amazing amount of extension (could it bend in that state?) when it pushes the Tamagami back.

Goku manages to best the Tamagami- not necessarily destroy him, though who knows if he would if the Kamehameha wasn't bounced away- and earns his respect.

Dabura couldn't defeat this thing, but standard SSJ's Kamehameha could. How we feeling power scalers?

However, the TG (I am already tired of writing the name, bear with me) has one final test- THE HECKIN CUP BALL GAME. I knew this had to have the Toriyama flavor, so I knew the "final battle" would be absolutely silly.

Proof that Goku still has sharp senses from high-speed battle- thought this would be a test of his ADHD attention span. But, bro locks in, he notices the Dragon Ball getting thrown behind him at a speed that the animators don't even let us see (I reviewed the footage, I checked).

Looks like the Dragon Balls can float on their own- or perhaps the Tamagami at work.

As everyone celebrates and Panzy questions Goku's stomach capacity, Glorio has a phone call to take from Arinsu (somehow no one hears this). Still no clear indication of the exact plans, but they do need the Dragon Balls.

The TG even waves goodbye as they set out on their way- meanwhile, he's practicing the Kamehameha hands, which is honestly, very cute.

Goku explaining his ki stuff to Panzy, who thinks it's magic: "Well, I guess it's a kind of magic!" One might say it's... Dragon Ball Magic (Sorry).

Glorio seems to be smiling a bit more on his journey with Goku and crew (I audibly squeaked). Who knows if he gets his eleventh hour redemption later down the road when the Arinsu scheme comes to light?

Meanwhile, Degesu and Gomah realize their Demon Royal projection screens are stuck on the Buu Saga recap channel, so they're reviewing the footage- but now they've found Arinsu collecting a piece of Majin Buu (hope that wasn't important) in the background!

Side note: Seeing Gomah's profile view is reminding me that he has the mascara glare eye plus the line down the cheek face design I like. Alas, there's the clown lips, unfortunately.

We tune back in with Arinsu, who's consulting with Marba- who has been retconned into a Girlboss (Womanboss? She's on the old side) Win as the actual creator of Majin Buu. Bibidi just put in the request.

Arinsu, on her very... hookah-like vaccum cleaner broomstick, stops by to supply the Buu essence to make her own Majin. Add a little saliva and boom- increased loyalty in your Majin. Maybe that's why Buu backfired on Babidi. He didn't have Bibidi's spit.

"It took me a great risk to get this." Was it a risk of blowing her cover to potential enemies or did she time travel? I do get Towa vibes from her.

Looks like she's aiming for ruler of the Demon Realm!

Before we get all of the answers, let's tune back in with Team B. They're going to meet up with the main group at the Warp-Sama. King Kadan is in such a good mood that he'll let the gang splurge at their hotel. Hybis wants some mud-colored (and mud-flavored) wine.

Vegeta's very pushy about wanting to know about the Demon Realm Dragon Balls, but he gets forced to say please by being called arrogant and Hybis presses the "you're no king" button- Vegeta manages to keep his cool, as much as he's growling and going red.

Next episode: Pajama party! Also, thieves, but... PAJAMA PARTY!

EPISODES WITHOUT KNOWING HANVI'S WHEREABOUTS: 8

This counter will go the whole series, won't it?

Also, unrelated note, I never noticed how much of the score is giving me JRPG vibes? Dragon Quest homages? This really is the Toriyama spirit.

[saiyanmazen]

Daima!Goku needing the nyoibo pole again to compensate for being turned small, meanwhile Vegeta's always been short king so the change doesn't really affect his fighting abilities so who's really the winner here 😹😹😹

Somehow I missed this, so I don't know how long it's been sitting, but

You're absolutely right, anon. He's used to being 175 cm (5'9") and just can't reach as far as he's used to in a fight. With his powers presumably back to his younger self as well, he will need his power pole if he's to have any chance.

But Vegeta - unsurprised to be a little shorter than usual because he knows now that it's the kind of life he stepped into when he came to Earth years ago - will be like 'I got this'.

I hope they let him use his ki powers because he did know how to control his ki when he was a small child. It wouldn't make sense otherwise. However, I'm also aware that it still kind of is The Goku Show, so whatever Vegeta can do, Goku can do better.

Anyway, I hope Vegeta gets some screen time.

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Onde está Son Gohan em Dragon Ball Daima?

Vocês devem estar se perguntando: Onde está Son Gohan em Dragon Ball Daima? O que ele estará fazendo?! Até o presente momento não foi confirmada a presença do filho de Son Goku, uma vez que se considerarmos que Dragon Ball Daima se passa ao fim da saga Buu, e depois que Majin Buu na forma Kid é destruído por Goku, nesse meio tempo, Gohan está priorizando a vida acadêmica, agora que o pai dele reviveu. Muito provavelmente Gohan vai desempenhar um papel importante mais adiante no enredo, ou seja, os roteiristas usaram isso de uma maneira estratégica para criar expectativas.

E o que é Dragon Ball Daima, você me pergunta?!

Veja uma pequena descrição da série por Akira Toriyama:

"Olá. Sou Akira Toriyama. Atualmente estou trabalhando em um novo Dragon Ball. O título é "Dragon Ball DAIMA". "DAIMA" é um termo inventado, que em caracteres japoneses seria "大魔" ou em inglês seria algo como "Evil". Devido a uma conspiração, Goku e seus amigos ficaram pequenos. Para consertar as coisas, eles partirão para um novo mundo! É uma grande aventura com ação intensa em um mundo desconhecido e misterioso. Como Goku tem que compensar seu tamanho pequeno, ele usa seu Nyoibo (Power Pole) para lutar, algo que não se via há muito tempo. Eu criei a história e os cenários, bem como muitos dos designs. Na verdade, estou investindo muito mais nisso do que o normal! As coisas se desenrolarão de maneira próxima aos mistérios do mundo de Dragon Ball. Espero que todos gostem dessas batalhas diferentes do normal, que são fofas e poderosas!!" -Akira Toriyama

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That feel when you

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Dragon Ball DAIMA HD Anime Japonés Eps. 05 de ??

-Descripción: Debido a una conspiración, Goku y sus amigos se vuelven pequeños. Para arreglar las cosas, ¡se dirigirán a un nuevo mundo! Es una gran aventura con acción intensa en un mundo desconocido y misterioso. Como Goku tiene que compensar su pequeño tamaño, usa su Nyoibo (Báculo sagrado) para corregirlo, algo que no se había visto en mucho tiempo.Disfruta de nuestro contenido y entra a nuestra web como redes sociales para ver mucho mas.. El siguiente contenido a ver no es de nuestra autoría los derechos están reservados al autor de la obra y al estudio de la adaptación Dragon Ball Episodio 01 Episodio 02 Episodio 03 Episodio 04 Episodio 05 Episodio 06 Se estrena la próxima semana Catalogo 2024 Series de Anime Esperamos que les guste el contenido recuerda compartir lo y dejar tu DONACION eso nos apoyara Read the full article

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News - A new Dragon Ball TV anime, Dragon Ball DAIMA, has been announced for 2024 to celebrate Dragon Ball's 40th anniversary! According to Toei at their NYCC 2023 Panel, Akira Toriyama will be "deeply involved" in this anime, not only handling character designs, but also penning entire new episodes for this series' storyline. Here's Akira Toriyama's official English statement given at the Toei Panel:

Hello. I'm Akira Toriyama.

I'm currently working on a new Dragon Ball. The title is "Dragon Ball Daima".

"DAIMA" is a made-up term, which in Japanese characters would be "大魔" or in English would be something like "Evil."

Due to a conspiracy, Goku and his friends are turned small. In order to fix things, they'll head off to a new world! It's a grand adventure with intense action in an unknown and mysterious world.

Since Goku has to make up for his petite size, he uses his Nyoibo (Power Pole) to fight, something not seen in a long time.

I came up with the story and settings, a well as a lot of the designs. I'm actually putting a lot more into this than usual!

Things will unfold that close in on the mysteries of the Dragon Ball world. Hope you all enjoy these different-from-usual battles that are cute and powerful!!

Apparently more info will be announced during the next Dragon Ball games battle hour on January 27-28, 2023.

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>Stealing Nyoibo from Goku

NOW YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR, TUXEDO MASK

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Oh hi there, it's been a minute!

Sooo NYCC panel happened, and Dragon Ball Magic/Daima is real!

Under the read more for the links, images, and some of my thoughts, analysis, etc...

First, the name: Daima 大魔 can be translated as big magic, large sorcery, big magic trick...And that 魔 symbol should look familiar to you guys, because it's the same MA from Piccolo DAIMAo, from MA Jr., from MAkkankosappo, from MAsenko, and from MAjin (magic people/population). It's the same word used for magic, sorcery, witchcraft, and hocus pocus style stuff. So... with or without demon connotation, just supernatural magic stuff :p

Then the continuity. When does this happen? There's no DBS refs at all in it, so there's speculation about it happening before DBS (but after the Buu saga since the Buu events are the origin of the story it seems). However... Kibito and Shin are defused. Did they defuse because of the wish? Or is it happening sometime after they get defused in DBS (different versions depending on manga or anime).

We don't know. I would say: we don't care. "Canon" is a lie. Official content (games, anime, manga, movies, tv specials, one shots, promo material, etc..) tend to steal from each other and reuse whatever is interesting for the following stories. Content is recycled and reused and readapted to fit whatever narrative of the current story beat (or arc/saga if we're generous) and that's it.

Oh btw you can watch it online, since Toei put it out!

Anyway let's get back to the plot:

Pretty sure these guys are Bibidi-Babidi related, and they hold a grudge against the gang because of the Buu situation (this is what they're watching).

They make a wish to make everyone young, and there's no transformations (!) so.. Goku has to use the PowerPole.

There's also a message from Toriyama himself, delivered by Iyoku:

Hello. I’m Akira Toriyama. I’m currently working on a new Dragon Ball. The Title is “Dragon Ball DAIMA”. Due to a conspiracy, Goku and his friends are turned small. In order to fix things, they’ll head off to a new world! It’s a grand adventure with intense action in an unknown and mysterious world. Since Goku has to make up for his petite size, he uses his Nyoibo to fight, something not seen in a long time. I came up with the story and settings, as well as a lot of the designs. I’m actually putting a lot more into this than usual! Things will unfold that close in on the mysteries of the Dragon Ball world. Hope you enjoy these different-from-usual battles that are cute and powerful!! — AKIRA TORIYAMA

He's far more involved in this than he ever was in DBS, sooooo.. !! Who knows. It's going to be similar to his modern style though, like Dragon Quest or SandLand.

Everyone's designs look amazing!

Look at Trunks and Goten! They will never age, they get CTRL-Z lol Same for Marron actually, she got back to being her Buu saga toddler self :o (note how Trunks is back at being purple, and not Blunks anymore...)

Anywaaaay!

The animation looks STUNNING. However! Goku's hair looks very stiff :(

Other than that, the series started production right when Dragon Quest Dai ended: that's what the animators are transitioning from.

And some new and old names!!

https://x.com/ag_sanda1/status/1712564193344311549?s=20

Nakatsuru at the character design and corrections, Aya Komaki and Yoshitaka Yashima in the direction roles. Art direction is Takahashi Kurahashi (big background artist, did Yo SonGoku a while ago), and some GOATED names for the animation: Chikashi Kubota, Naohiro Shintani, Yuya Takahashi, Takeo Ide, and Miyako Tsuji. Kubota is the guy who did the 2D section of the intro for DBSSH btw. Kubota My beloved.

Anime AJAY did a whole thread about the production info he has so go check it out.

Kid versions of everyone look super cute, but there was no Gohan on sight. It has to take place "after the Buu saga", but considering the designs, I do think this is kinda meant to be before Pan and Bra were born.

Also I smell Demon lore.

Much interest on my end because it looks amazing even if it's not the serious type of story I usually enjoy. But it looks so good!

Also yeah, DBS Broly and DBSSH is "let's reuse the OG Broly Trilogy", so this is let's reuse/repurpose GT?

Prolly.