Confirmed: Dragon Ball Daima will have a “completely original” story

Slowly more information is being revealed about Dragon Ball Daimathe upcoming anime series from Dragon Ball which will celebrate 40 years of the work of Akira Toriyama and we now have confirmation that it will be a “completely original” story.

Akio Iyokupresident of Capsule Corporation Tokyo and executive producer of Dragon Ballon January 5th he gave an interview to the newspaper Nikkei where he talked about plans to expand Dragon Ball even more so across the world.

This global approach was the reason why Dragon Ball Daima was announced in New York Comic Con 2023 and not in Japan.

Akio Iyoku stated:

With Dragon Ball Daima, which will be released in fall 2024, we took on the challenge of creating an anime series with a completely original story.

This means that Dragon Ball Daima it will not adapt any previous material and will be an entirely new story.

Scheduled to premiere in autumn 2024, the direction of Dragon Ball Daima it’s from Yoshitaka Yashima (animation direction for Dragon Ball Super, Digimon franchise) and Aya Komaki (direction of the One Piece series, direction of Marie & Gali episodes), the character design is by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru (Dragon Ball Z, Digimon franchise) and the argument is Yuuko Kakihara (Digimon Adventure tri., Urusei Yatsura 2022, Cells at Work!). The creator of Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyamais credited for the story and character designs of the new anime.

It was confirmed that the veteran Masako Nozawa returns to interpret Son Goku.

The anime series Dragon Ball Super was shown from July 2015 to March 2018, consisting of 131 episodes. The anime film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero premiered in Japan in June 2022.

The phenomenon Dragon Ball began in 1984, when the well-known Japanese manga Akira Toriyama debuted in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Since then, the manga’s popularity has continued to grow with an impressive record of 260 million copies sold around the world and increasing.