Dragon Ball Daima

, stylized as Dragon Ball DAIMA, is the fifth anime installment in the Dragon Ball franchise.
==Release==
The series was announced during the Dragon Ball Special Panel at New York Comic Con 2023; it was revealed to be airing in Fall 2024. On July 19, 2024, and September 2, 2024, it is later revealed that the series would premiere on October 11, 2024.
Toei Animation holds the international rights to the series and is streamed via Crunchyroll, Hulu and Netflix. As with the other Dragon Ball media dubbed in English, the first three English dub episodes of Daima are produced by OkraTron 5000 premiering in U.S. theaters on November 10-12, 2024.
==Overview==
===Production===
Daima was originally going to be an anime-original series without any input from Akira Toriyama, however after giving advice here and there, Toriyama ended up becoming majorly involved; creating the story, world, characters, mechs, and all sorts of other things.
Akira Toriyama handled the story and settings, as well as many of the designs.
"Daima" is a made-up term, which would translate to "Evil" in English. However, the kanji used for Daima (大魔) mean "great" and "demon/magic". The series' name is primarily displayed as ドラゴンボールDaima(ダイマ) by official sources, using katakana for Daima rather than the kanji Toriyama gave.
Akio Iyoku confirmed Dragon Ball Daima would feature a completely original story.
===Story===
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 Power Pole to fight, something not seen in a long time.
==Sagas==
#Daima Saga (Episodes 1-?)
==Cast==
Character name 	Japanese voice actor 	English voice actor
Goku 	Masako Nozawa 	Sean SchemmelStephanie Nadolny (Mini)
Gohan 	Masako Nozawa 	Kyle Hebert
Goten 	Masako Nozawa 	Kara Edwards
Shin 	Shinichiro OhtaYumiko Kobayashi (Mini)	Kent WilliamsNia Celeste (Mini)
Glorio 	Koki Uchiyama 	Aaron Dismuke
Panzy 	Fairouz Ai 	TBA
Gomah 	Showtaro Morikubo 	Tom Laflin
Degesu 	Junya Enoki 	Landon McDonald
Dr. Arinsu 	Yoko Hikasa 	Morgan Garrett
Neva 	Hiroshi Naka 	Garrett Schenck
Vegeta 	Ryō HorikawaYūdai Mino (Mini) 	Christopher SabatPaul Castro Jr. (Mini)
Trunks 	Takeshi KusaoTsubasa Yonaga (Mini) 	Alexis TiptonCeleste Perez (Mini)
Piccolo 	Tomohiro Yamaguchi (Mini) 	Christopher SabatNasim Benelkour (Mini)
Krillin 	Mayumi TanakaAki Kanada (Mini) 	Sonny StraitLara Woodhull (Mini)
Yamcha 	Ryōta Suzuki 	Christopher Sabat
Android 18 	Miki Itō 	TBA
Marron 	Hiroko Ushida 	TBA
Chi-Chi 	Ai Kakuma (Mini) 	Brittany Lauda (Mini)
Bulma 	Aya HisakawaMai Nakahara (Mini) 	Monica RialTaylor Murphy (Mini)
Ox-King 	Ryūzaburō Ōtomo 	TBA
Master Roshi 	Nobuaki Kanemitsu (Mini) 	Jordan Dash Cruz (Mini)
Oolong 	Naoki Tatsuta 	TBA
Puar 	Naoko Watanabe 	TBA
Mr. Satan 	Tōru Sakurai (Mini) 	Cory Phillips (Mini)
Good Buu 	Kōzō ShioyaShiho Amuro (Mini) 	Josh MartinDusty Feeney (Mini)
Bee 	Masami Suzuki 	TBA
Kibito 	Shin AomoriYūsuke Handa (Mini) 	Chuck HuberAaron Michael (Mini)
Dende 	Aya HiranoErina Gotō (Mini) 	Justin CookEmi Lo (Mini)
Mr. Popo 	Yasuhiko KawazuKimiko Saitō (Mini) 	Chris CasonTrisha Mellon (Mini)
Shenron 	Ryūzaburō Ōtomo 	Christopher Sabat
Korin 	Ken Uo 	Christopher Sabat
Turtle 	Takahiro Fujimoto 	Christopher Sabat
Sir Warp 	Kenichi Ogata 	Kristian Eros
Tamagami Number Three	Kenta Miyake 	TBA
Marba 	Mami Horikoshi 	TBA
Majin Kuu 	Tomokazu Seki 	TBA
Tamagami Number One 	Hiroki Takahashi 	TBA
Majin Duu 	Fukushi Ochiai 	TBA
Tamagami Number Two 	Hideyuki Umezu 	TBA
==Staff==
*Series Director: Yoshitaka Yashima & Aya Komaki
*Episode Director: Aya Komaki, Kazuya Karasawa, Takao Kiriyama, Kan Murakami, Yūichi Tsuzuki, Gaku Yano, Ryūta Kawahara
*Story: Akira Toriyama
*Character Designs: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru
*Screenplay: Yūko Kakihara
*Art Director: Maya Kasai
*Art: Bun-sun Lee, Maya Kasai (eps 1-), Eiji Hamano
*Background Art: Bun-sun Lee, Maya Kasai (eps 1-)
*Music: Kōsuke Yamashita
*Animation Supervisor: Naoko Yamaoka, Takeo Ide, Miyako Tsuji, Kozue Komatsu, Naoki Murakami, Kōji Watanabe, Takumi Yamamoto, Shun Sawai, Hiroyuki Honda, Kaori Saitō, Hiromi Ishigami, Yūya Takahashi, Emiko Miyamoto, Yūichi Hamano
==Theme Songs==
*Opening (OP):
**"Jaka Jaan": episodes 2~onward
*Endings (ED):
**"Jaka Jaan": episode 1
**"Nakama": episodes 2~onward
==Trivia==
*Daima is the last Dragon Ball project to be worked on by Akira Toriyama before his death on March 1, 2024.
*In the United States, Dragon Ball Daima had a limited theatrical release on the weekend of November 8th that included the first three episodes in the English Dub. This release saw the event gross a total of $661,204 at the box office.
==Gallery==
==See also==
*List of Dragon Ball Daima episodes
==External links==
*Official Toei Animation's website
==References==
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