Spoilers notice: We are going to talk openly about what is shown in episode 18 of Dragon Ball Daimaissued on February 14, 2025
A year after the loss of Akira Toriyama, the manga master makes us a sensational gift from the hereafter. Well, to the fans of his most beloved work and, by extension, to Son Goku himself. Because, having spent almost three decades since the premiere of Dragon Ball GT, officially the transformation in Super Saiyan 4 is already part of the canon in Dragon Ball Daima. And eye, that Toriyama has added small changes to the design.
The first is the first: the “awakening” episode of Dragon Ball Daima and everything that passes in the series itself is chronologically between the end of the manga and dragon ball z (specifically the battle against Majin Buu) and before Dragon Ball Super. The project was written by Akira Toriyama himself and adapted to the serial format by Yuko Kakihara, which in many ways establishes its quality of canon within the continuity of the story. Something that, in fact, does not happen in a Dragon Ball GT which was created entirely by Toei Animation with Toriyama's specific supervisions.
With that established, the series Dragon Ball Daima He officially arrived at his climax after offering adventurous sections that directly evoked the adventures of Goku Niño, which implies returning to the usual formula of the sensational films of Dragon Ball Z: After a progressive battle of all against a final enemy of unimaginable power, the hero manages to awaken a power with which the spectator did not count (or yes?) And he turns the total around the development of combat. So far everything very well.
The interesting thing is that, as we comment, this new transformation for Dragon Ball Daima It is actually the jump to the official continuity of the history of that integral redesign that Goku experienced in January 1997 when episode 35 of Dragon Ball GTalthough with subtle changes that do not go unnoticed by the most observers. After all, Toriyama himself already introduced some minor touch -ups in the original design decades.
Input, the Super In Nvel It retains the fur, “dark circles” and even recovers the tail as almost 30 years ago, but Goku's hair is as reddish as that of his body hair and, in addition, the way in which he wraps the chest exposed and limbs differently.
Official image of the Super Saiyan 4 published to promote the episode from the official Dragon Ball Daima accounts
However, the most significant change of this new Super Saiyan 4 that forms canon within Dragon Ball It is that our protagonist transforms but still has the body of a child. Recall that in the series of 30 years Goku recovered its adult appearance. Something quite particular. However, already practical effects, the truly significant is the amazing increase in power compared to the previous three levels of Super Saiyan.
Dragon Ball Daima It is a series created to give the usual fans and the new ones all they have had internalized in relation to Dragon Ball. We have had adventures and trips, as in the first episodes of manga; But also great battles and transformations that, even being very dear, manifest on the screen of unexpected ways. That said, from Toei Animation there are still surprises to give fans in the following episodes. What will be next? While Dragon Balls exist Anything can happen.
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