How can you be surprised by Dragon Ball after all these years? Take a look at this amazing project launched on the 40th anniversary of Akira Toriyama’s cult franchise and the New Year.
Goku, Chi-Chi, Vegeta, Bulma, C-18, Krillin and Awesome Turtle will return in Dragon Ball Daima in Fall 2024. An anime in which all these characters and many others are rejuvenated to the point where they become adults again. Children. And it won’t be a remake of DB or DB GT, but a series with original arcs and therefore never seen before. This has yet to be confirmed, but the first leaks suggest that this flashback is due to a curse triggered by the two new villains of this animated production. The announcement took the public by surprise, but that may be nothing compared to what you’ll see here.
A real Dragon Ball show to celebrate 2024
After Dragon Ball Daima, we present you an IRL show organized by Bilibili. A hugely popular streaming platform in China, it is widely used to share anime, manga, and even video game videos. On New Year’s Eve and the manga’s 40th anniversary, the company spent a lot of money to put on a Dragon Ball show with real actors and, especially, dancers. Children and adults meet on stage, dressed as heroes of the cult work, to imitate clashes and sketch a few steps to pieces from the anime, or sometimes to more modern music that has nothing to do with it. .
And it is completely lunar. We get to see Goku and Vegeta almost living a bromance under the astonished eyes of Buu, Awesome Turtle fidgeting and doing splits like JCVD, and even witness a crossover between different Dragon Ball storylines, but that’s all we want at this point better not say. It’s obviously very special, but perhaps less frightening than the movie DB Evolution. As a gift, Bilibili specially brought Hiroki Takahashi, the singer of the opening theme song “Makafushigi Adventure” from Dragon Ball.
