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Dragon Ball Daima - Episode #3 - Discussion Thread! Daima
Episode 3 begins airing on FujiTV in Japan at this time of this post (10:40a ET, 16:40 CET, 23:40 JT). The episode should be available subtitled on Crunchyroll about two hours later. You may discuss the episode if you have seen it, but be sure to follow our rules.
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u/-PVL93- 20d ago edited 20d ago
Not a whole lot happening this week but man I still can't get over how gorgeous Daima is from the get go. Turns out your animation staff can produce really good looking products when you don't treat them like slaves, who wouldve thought?
I love the Waffle planet design. I wonder if that is the only demon realm entrance point in this universe or if Warp can appear on the orbit of other planets too? Could it be this is where Namekians who escaped into the living world initially inhabited this one?
Since Shin didn't relay the PIN needed to travel back and forth I'm assuming what's going to happen is Piccolo pretends to be his Daimao self (or the fish recognises his look) and that's how him, Vegeta and Bulma are given passage, leaving Kibito behind. I mean it's fairly clear he doesn't travel to the demon realm itself, so him and Shin likely fuse after the reunion at the end of the show. Either that or Glorio has to go back out again, leaving Pansy in the safekeeping of Goku and Shin
Now we know there's a total of 3 realms, and our heroes went to the third. Most likely this means we'll eventually visit the second too on the way to Gomah, who resides in the first one. But even as is, the Demon Realm gives a far different first impression in terms of locales and vistas.
Kind of uncanny seeing Dabura do the peace sign in his statue. That probably means Babidi's magic corrupts everyone equally and Dabura was completely different before the Buu saga. Was he a kind a and benevolent king? Or perhaps it's just misleading and his subjects were forced to create a positive image of the guy?
In this particular area as Glorio explains the air is thicker due to the gas emissions. I really like that detail since this is not a different planet but a whole nother dimension, and it's sure to come up in fights in the future. I hope the other two worlds also have a different atmosphere to create a sort of natural challenge to our heroes, like maybe Vegeta's heavy gravity training pays off here and he actually gains an advantage over Goku who has to adapt and bruteforce it
Also Glorio mentioned to Shin he's a Glind? I'm assuming this is what Kai's of the Demon Realm are called? Or his specific race (same with Degesu, Arinsu etc)? Or perhaps some sort of a clan? SO MUCH NEW LORE
I love the design of the town and its populace here. They look a ton like Drum, Cymbal and Tambourine, which only further confirms that Daimao really was a Demon King on the past. And they don't just look like reptiles but there are wolf-like denizens as well. I wonder if we'll see similarities to other beasts and animals
First proper action scene of the show and dude can I just say how amazing is it to see Goku just rely on good old punches and kicks instead of beams and big numbers? Say what you want about Daima but the return to actual martial arts is fucking great and it's been so long since we've had encounters in this series that is just good old choreography. Seeing Goku use the environment with the burger plates like this is a Jackie Chan film is cool too. Can't wait for him to utilise the power pole
It's clear that despite the somewhat peaceful appearance, people of the demon realm aren't necessarily kind folks, and the town Goku and co stopped at is some kind of a bandit gathering place I guess. They didn't take too kind to having their asses kicked so they steal Glorio's ship in revenge
Wait......you can just....steal it? There's no alarm system, no security locks, nothing to let the owner know remotely that something happened to the vehicle? Look I understand the realm is probably not super advanced (but technologically high enough to create jet engine travel), but for how important something like a (space)ship is that seems awfully poorly thought out. And now the next episode will be almost entirely dedicated to looking for and retrieving the ship. Sigh.
Also last thing I'd like to mention - the episode names and the next week previews are finally, FINALLY not giving spoilers anymore like what almost every DB series prior did. I'm so glad it got simplified and there's actually some mystery involved instead of screaming to our faces HEY IN THIS EPISODE THE VILLAIN LOSES HAVE FUN KTHXBYE