Netflix premieres the latest incarnation of a legendary anime globally: ‘Dragon Ball Daima’

The ‘Dragon Ball’ drought is almost absolute on our screens: just a few movies on Crunchyroll and a few loose seasons of ‘Dragon Ball Z’ on Movistar Plus+, plus the chaotic broadcast of ‘Dragon Ball Super’ on the Mediaset Boing line . That’s why it’s quite news that Netflix has purchased the global broadcast rights to the new series from the franchise, ‘Dragon Ball Daima’.

Since October 14 in Asia and from October 18 in the rest of the world (although there may be variations depending on the country), the last series that Akira Toriyama supervised before his devastating death last March will reach our screens. At the moment, it is not known if it will be the only series of the franchise that will land on Netflix, although a policy that we have seen the platform follow is to accompany new incarnations of the series with its previous versions, so there is hope.

‘Dragon Ball Daima’ is the sixth ‘Dragon Ball’ series, but only the second to have Akira Toriyama himself on board after the original, which has sparked the interest of fans. Many of the vehicles, monsters and backgrounds, as well as the title (“Daima” is an invented word, in a game so typical of the lamented author, and which means “evil”), were designed directly by him. He also devised the entire story, which is a return to the early days of the original ‘Dragon Ball’.

The starting point is a real delight that serves as a nod, in effect, to the early days of the series (and also to ‘Dragon Ball GT’, where only Goku suffered from this effect): Goku and his friends, due to a problem with the dragon balls become children again. To solve this mess, they will head to an unexplored world far from Earth, where Goku will have the opportunity to use his legendary sacred staff again. What is unknown is at what point in the franchise’s chronology it takes place, although it is doubtful that it will take us to a point after ‘Dragon Ball Z’.

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