Today astatine New York Comic Con, Toei Animation celebrated Dragon Ball Z‘s 40th day and shared behind-the-scenes details astir however it crafted its precocious released Dragon Ball Daima anime.
During the Dragon Ball Daima presentation, Akio Iyoku, the enforcement shaper of Dragon Ball, and Monica Rial, the English dependable histrion for Bulma, served arsenic hosts. Not dissimilar a Nintendo Direct, Dragon Ball Daima‘s peculiar sheet featured a slew of gaming announcements for fans to get excited about—the archetypal of which is that Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero’s first question of DLC characters volition see Dragon Ball Daima characters Vegeta Mini and Glorio. Likewise, Goku Mini is coming to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and volition beryllium disposable to play for escaped for a constricted time.
Goku (Mini) from Dragon Ball DAIMA volition beryllium joining the combat successful the #DBXV2 FUTURE SAGA Chapter 2 DLC!
A escaped proceedings run for Goku (Mini) volition beryllium held for a constricted period. Grab the Power Pole and spell connected a rampage! pic.twitter.com/SmXWg4RQag
— Bandai Namco US (@BandaiNamcoUS) October 17, 2024
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot volition besides person a Daima Demon Realm DLC for players to explore. On the mobile crippled side, Dokkan Battle volition get Goku and Vegeta mini arsenic characters. Dragon Ball Legends volition besides person a peculiar lawsuit wherever players tin play arsenic Goku mini. In the trading paper realm, Dragon Ball Fusion World volition get Glorio and Pansy cards with its 5th booster pack. In the warring crippled scene, Toei Animation announced registration for its upcoming warring crippled tournament, Battle Hour 2025. The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot successful Los Angeles January 18-19.
Later connected during the panel, Iyoku and Kid Goku’s English dependable actor, Stephanie Nadolny, made an quality to fto radical cognize she’ll beryllium voicing Mini Goku successful Daima arsenic good arsenic to punctual fans astir Daima‘s English occurrence merchandise successful U.S theaters November 10-12. The sheet besides revealed that Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse Elric successful Fullmetal Alchemist) volition beryllium the English dependable histrion for Glorio.
Dragon Ball Daima‘s merchandise comes astatine an breathtaking clip for Dragon Ball fans. On the 1 manus (barring the show’s staggered merchandise connected Netflix connected October 18), the anime’s archetypal connection merchandise premiered connected streamers similar Crunchyroll and Hulu connected the aforesaid time arsenic its hotly anticipated arena fighter, Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero. A game, caput you, that rapidly sold a staggering 3 cardinal copies wrong 24 hours of its merchandise connected October 11. On the different hand, Daima‘s merchandise not lone comes a afloat calendar twelvemonth aft its uncover astatine past year’s NYCC, but besides arrives pursuing the passing of bid creator Akira Toriyama connected March 1.
During past year’s New York Comic Con, Iyoku revealed Toriyama played a important relation successful Daima‘s production, supervising its communicative and quality designs. During the panel, Iyoku showed disconnected a publication of illustrations Toriyama drew of the demon realm, ogres, and the interior and outer of Daima‘s galore charming vehicles.
Introducing SEASON PASS DLC 2 playable characters from Dragon Ball DAIMA, coming soon to DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO.
🟣 Vegeta (Mini)
🟡 Glorio
🟣 & more…
Stay tuned for further updates! #DBSZ pic.twitter.com/lumYfm1KL2
— Bandai Namco US (@BandaiNamcoUS) October 17, 2024
“Toriyama is precise peculiar erstwhile it comes to mechs, however they relation and however they move. There’ll beryllium each sorts of mechs that [fans] volition spot passim the show,” Iyoku said. Unfortunately, those watching the watercourse connected Popverse’s unrecorded watercourse couldn’t spot immoderate of Toriyama’s illustrations.
Similarly to Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Daima sees Goku and his friends transformed into children. From its premiere occurrence alone, Daima teases a new story that volition spot its Z-fighters contend with creatures from the demon realm who’ve succeeded successful powerfulness acknowledgment to Goku’s swift neutralization of Buu saga grunt enemies.
Fans of the Japanese dub tin look guardant to watching caller Daima episodes each Friday (and, again, English dub connoisseurs tin ticker the archetypal 3 episodes of Daima successful U.S. theaters November 10-12). In signature DBZ fashion, the sheet closed disconnected its announcement with a peculiar video connection from Goku’s Japanese dependable actor, Masako Nozawa, who asked everyone to bask screening Daima‘s archetypal episode. Naturally, the occurrence began aft everyone successful attendance joined her successful doing their champion Kamehameha.
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