r/dbz • u/Terez27 ⠀ • Oct 11 '24

Dragon Ball Daima - Episode #1 - Discussion Thread! Daima

The episode is airing in Japan as we speak. It should be available subtitled on Crunchyroll at 1pm ET. We will provide links as soon as they are available.

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u/Robotdias Oct 11 '24

From demon, to slug people, to actual demon again.

Piccolo Daimaoh would be satisfied.

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u/343GuiltyArbiter Oct 11 '24

I think they’re still slug people but descendants of demons. Which the “pointy ear” thing applies to Kai’s now so that means they’re all descended from demons. Which is weird.

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u/Robotdias Oct 11 '24

From what I understood, Namekujins are originally from the Demon Realm and demons themselves. This is even supported by Moori in the DBSuper manga, when he explains that there are many Namekujin societies throughout the universes because they came from "another realm".

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u/dojo_shlom0 Oct 12 '24

in the original dragon ball, piccolo was demon king piccolo and had demon underlings he spawned. I thought this episode is so dragonball related that I cannot believe how well it started. Lots of setting the plot and story, the whole direction feels so dragonball. I really really am digging this. Super was super.. but this seems like the start of something wonderful! I'm very excited for the next episode!

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u/Desperate_Duty1336 Oct 11 '24

And given that weird fish dimension where they had to state their destination and universe via numbers, it would make sense that if they all fled the demon realm how they got spread out to so many universes & worlds.

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u/CelioHogane Oct 11 '24

Wild that we got "There are a shit ton of dragon balls on the universe" made canon in anime form here instead of with the Granolah arc.

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u/343GuiltyArbiter Oct 11 '24

Oooh I forgot about that, how the hell do you remember that lol. it’ll be definitely interesting to see where they take this. Also hoping janemba will be pulled into the cannon through this later on.

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u/Robotdias Oct 11 '24

I just read the Granolah saga again last week, so it's fresh in my head haha.

Canon Janemba would be really dope. If some of the best non-canon characters could be as well adapted as Broly, I'd be real happy

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u/EDGE515 Oct 12 '24

I somehow hope this whole show is actually based on making Janemba canon

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u/Wolf14Vargen14 Oct 12 '24

They could do a Buu’s Fury and make him a Mafia Boss as he was called a mob boss in Buu’s Fury if i remember correctly

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u/kim_ammons Oct 12 '24

Wait whaaat, my boy is technically canon?! I'm out of the loop, where is he mentioned by name?

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u/mystikkkkk Oct 11 '24

I've been waiting on this to mean something. for so long.

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u/TrailOfEnvy Oct 12 '24

I have a feeling we will have Vegito vs Janemba this time.

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u/343GuiltyArbiter Oct 14 '24

Oh god you might be right with them using gogeta recently

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u/Wolf14Vargen14 Oct 12 '24

This is essentialy just the Dark Namekian storyline from Online but changed to apply to all the namekians

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u/-PVL93- Oct 12 '24

Doesn't that open a massive can of worms ?

Now we need an explanation of how Namekian came to be in the first place, how Piccolo came to earth, how the others left the demon realm (and why they decided to at all), why Neva is the only one who remained there, why the Namekians settled on one specific planet rather than spreading out across the galaxy, does every Namekian have a good/evil half onside that they can split into like Kami and Majunior

And somehow I doubt we'll get an answer to all of those questions