Dragon Ball Daima

Toriyama's last story: a shrunken Goku in the Demon Realm.

Dragon Ball Daima is the sixth Dragon Ball TV anime, produced by Toei Animation and aired on Fuji Television from October 2024 to February 2025. It was the last series with a story conceived by Akira Toriyama, who died in March 2024, shortly before it came out.

Quick Facts

Genre

Adventure
Fantasy comedy
Martial arts

Based on

Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama

Screenplay

Yūko Kakihara
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柿原優子

Story

Akira Toriyama

Director

Yoshitaka Yashima, Aya Komaki

Voices

Masako Nozawa
Shinichiro Ohta
Koki Uchiyama
Fairouz Ai
Showtaro Morikubo
Junya Enoki

Ending theme

"Nakama", Zedd and Ai

Music

Kosuke Yamashita

Story

A year after Majin Buu's defeat, Gomah, the new Supreme King of the Demon Realm, kidnaps Dende and uses Earth's Dragon Balls to turn Goku and his friends into children. Goku, Shin, Vegeta, Piccolo and Bulma, helped by the demons Glorio and Panzy and later the old Namekian Neva, cross the three worlds of the Demon Realm to collect its Dragon Balls, undo the wish and rescue Dende.

Production

Toei announced it at New York Comic Con on October 12, 2023. Toriyama was credited with the original work, story and character designs, and also designed many of its vehicles, monsters and background characters and coined the title. Executive producer Akio Iyoku said it had been in the works for five years, with Dragon Ball GT as a starting point.