Dragon Ball Daimahas lastly come to an ending . The anime ’s 20 - episode test delivered an ample helping of sports fan service by making desirous fiction from internet forum of old real number , with myriadnew and return transformation . The show also served as a huge animation flex on the part of Toei Animation weekly , commit the stout Zanzibar copal in conversation with popular power fantasy series of today likeSolo Levelingwith its hype fighting . ButDaima‘s most substantial accomplishment is that it is a meet bookend to late creatorAkira Toriyama‘s 40 - year bequest with the series .
WhenDragon Ball Daimafirst send last twelvemonth , the independent points of disceptation at the forefront of every fan ’s judgment were where the show was place in the series canon — and what new revelations it would cement in its wake . For those queer , the show wastes no metre confirming that it occurs sometime after the Buu saga inDragon Ball Zandtechnicallybefore the events ofDragon Ball Super . keep things canon inDragon Ballhas never been particularly important . designate likeGT , Super , and nowDaimamake references and callbacks to retiring events , giving an impression of concurrent storytelling , but they never palpate like sequel . Instead , they always end up feeling like wanton spin - offs , drive either by fiscal incentives on Toei ’s part or Toriyama ’s desire torectify the damage triggered by the unrecorded - action flick . Dragon Ball‘s charm has always been watching Toriyama playing with his ensemble of spiky - haired toys in a series of what - if scenarios . Daimais a indirect request fulfillment that its Maker and his world-wide fans can enjoy . Plain and simple .
This is n’t to sayDaimaisn’t have-to doe with with series canon . Toriyama pulls a Thomas Nelson Page out ofOne Piececreator Eiichiro Oda ’s playbookby thrive on traditional knowledge bits that were either forgotten ( as he was wo nt to doand wasteased about by Oda ) or hand - wave aside in Z as flavor schoolbook to make villains seem imposing . Daimasees Toriyama expand on the daemon kingdom and Majin lore while casually retconning thing here and there . Not for the rice beer of retcons but to tell apart the kind of fun - loving magical adventure Goku used to galavant through in OGDragon Ball . Goku , Piccolo , and Vegeta get turned into kids , Goku gets his power pole back , and the trio goes on an dangerous undertaking fill with earlyDragon Ballcomedic jinks and a topping ofSuper Saiyan fan help .
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The show ’s finale further punctuates this breaker point by presenting its big hero here and now in an uninterrupted , dialogue - free activity fest before cutting the tension from its oculus - hilltop - furrowing play with an unserious muzzle befitting of the mangaka behindDr . Slump .
Daima‘s final sequence get a sense of gratification , followed by a pang of sadness , as the world asks itself : what ’s next ? It ’s firmly not to ignore that sense of emptiness watching a posthumous work make its closing . Personally , it ’s always been a queasy experience watching germinal series likeBerserkcontinue after the passing of Kentaro Miura , andDragon Ballis at an cul de sac where Toei Animation will weigh making more anime without Toriyama .
Rather than entertain the sacrilegious estimation ofDragon Ballcontinuing without Toriyama , Daimashould function as its franchise finale : the goal of amega - democratic serieswhere Toriyama position aside power creep treatment that his magnum opus aid proliferate in the wider anime industry — and convey his characters on one last sprawling escapade full of jokes and earth - shattering jabs .
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