Dragon Ball Daima

[MFauli]

Due to a conspiracy, Goku and his friends are turned small. What sort of adventure awaits Goku, Supreme Kai, and the new characters Glorio and Panzy in this unknown world, the "Demon Realm"?

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Episode 1:

Okay, that was a great first episode. Felt like watching part of a movie quaity-wise. I'm actually looking forward to this adventure.

However, I have two big problems that I need to know:

1.) What does it actually mean to be king of the underworld? Why are these 3 Tamagami so strong that not even the king of the demons can get the underworld's dragon balls? That feels wrong.

2.) So ... is this a complete alternative universe-story like Dragon Ball GT? Or are we to assume that this happened before Dragon Ball Super, despite NO reference ever having been made to this adventure? If this isn't part of the established canon story, then my excitement is severely lowered. Will still watch, but man ... why not just continue Super ...

Anyway. Animations were great. My favorite new piece of information, though, was: Namekians actually ARE from the demon realm Wasn't the big twist in DBZ that Piccolo is not actually a demon, but an alien from planet Namek? And now Toriyama switched it back around, saying "lol, no, the Namekians from planet Namek ACTUALLY steam from the demon realm, so Piccolo was a demon all along!" And really, that makes sense. Because it never made sense that a random alien species was capable of creating something like the Dragon Balls.

Not sure how this goes, but this was a fun start.

[DarthEnderX]

Christ, did we really need to spend half the episode recapping the Buu Saga?

And yeah, so far this is just GT...again.

The new demon scientist lady feels like a missed opportunity to make Towa canon.

2.) So ... is this a complete alternative universe-story like Dragon Ball GT?

To be fair, GT wasn't an alternate history at the time it was made.

Because it never made sense that a random alien species was capable of creating something like the Dragon Balls.

...why?

[MFauli]

...why?

Because we found out in Super that the Dragon Balls originally stem from WAY above, from Zeno, from the gods. Why would some random alien species be capable of re-creating them? Sure, you can always say "why not", but Namekians actually being creatures from the realm of demons/gods makes for a better exaplanation imo.

[DarthEnderX]

Because we found out in Super that the Dragon Balls originally stem from WAY above, from Zeno, from the gods. Why would some random alien species be capable of re-creating them? Sure, you can always say "why not", but Namekians actually being creatures from the realm of demons/gods makes for a better exaplanation imo.

I don't see why it doesn't make sense that an alien species can have mysticism. It doesn't make any more or less sense for demons to make wish granting dragons than it does alien mystics.

The only thing that would make it make "more sense" is if Namekians had been descended from, like, dragons.

[MFauli]

Episode 2:

Shenron, wtf. That was super bs and I'm still trying to make sense of it. Just denying someone 3 wishes for some new "only longtime customers get 3 wishes" rule? Meh ...

Otherwise, nice episode.

Muten-Roshi about to go full-Rudy, LOL.

[DarthEnderX]

Popo has horns!!

[MFauli]

Episode 4:

Very bad episode. Skipped fast forward from the halfway point. This isn't dragon ball, this is some random fantasy filler shit.

[Y]

This show didn't pass the three episode test for me and I only gave it that long since I'm a Dragonball mark. The premise isn't interesting either from a serious storytelling perspective or as a joke - it's a retread of GT in the way people feared.

[DarthEnderX]

This isn't dragon ball, this is some random fantasy filler shit.

This is: "What if Goku was in Dragon Quest?"

[MFauli]

This is: "What if Goku was in Dragon Quest?"

Yes, exactly. Even the character designs look like DQ-characters.

[DarthEnderX]

That said, I like DQ. So I'm down for watching Goku in DQ. But I'm not expecting this to be a DBZ show anymore.

The "heavy air" has even debuffed Goku down to the level of a DQ Martial Artist.