Dragon ball is one of the most important franchises of all time and is also one of the most influent who has reflected on the impact of Toriyama’s work and how he was inspired to run for the Shonen Jump. And it is that the saga has accompanied us for generations.
The last 2024, Dragon ball celebrated the 40th anniversary of the franchise, so several projects were carried out to commemorate it, including the premiere Dragon ball Daima, a series in which Akira was very involved, even more than in other projects. However, recently, the team behind the anime reflected on the difficult task that was honoring 40 years of the saga.
Creating Dragon ball Daima was a difficult task, the goal was to honor the franchise in its entirety
Dragon ball Daima was a return to the roots of the franchise
It is important to note that, as part of the official launch of the Blu-ray collection of Dragon ball Daima in Japan, Some comments were shared and information enters the projectdirectly through the team in charge of production.
Obviously, these interviews and comments were published in Japanese. Fortunately, through X, the @Venixys account has shared an English translation and that is easier to understand. Here we can learn a lot about how the development of this series was, the objectives, the obstacles. In fact, we even knew that Toriyama had designed Gohan’s mini version, although it did not appear.
One of the images that the user shared in X speaks directly about the objective pursued by the team behind the anime. But it is important to have a little context, since this series was born thanks to several important figures in the industry, such as Aya Komaki, the director, who joined Yoshitaka Yashima Ya Akio Iyukithe executive director of the franchise.
The most remarkable thing is that Komaki is entrusted, so to speak, The task of composing a start sequence for the first episode of the series. This set of images and scenes had to narrate the chronology of the franchise a bit, but retaining the charm that characterizes it so much.
Yashima, director of the series, stressed that rebuilding exact chronology was a very complicated task. This part of the series begins by showing Goku’s dark silhouette and that, later, he advances the first encounter between El Niño and Bulma, which began this adventure.
This scene was encouraged by the anime team, maintaining the goal of creating them from scratch, but not simply reusing what has been seen decades ago. But, obviously, emulating Toriyame’s characteristic style in his work.
The mission that Dragon ball Daima pursued was none other than to bring the franchise back to those elements, approach and narrative that characterized it so much. After this start sequence, the series shows us the news that the Z Warriors destroyed Majin Buu. And it is King Gomah who finds out about this.
Obviously, this Majin feels fear that Goku and Your friends want to go to the demonic kingdom to overthrow itso that an idea is very far and complex in which the dragon balls use to wish that these warriors are converted into children and, in this way, do not represent a threat.
Dragon ball Daima was not a perfect series, but he did seek to replicate and transmit the essence of the original work, maintaining that approach to children, with great emotion and the characteristic narrative of Toriyama. In this sense, fulfilled what was expected, although he had his failureslike the lousy villains.
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