From the outside it might seem that Goku's final battles are cut by the same patterns: a very strong enemy part with an overwhelming advantage, a new transformation appears and the shifts change. However, Dragon Ball Daima's climax is unique. In fact, it is truly special. Not only for the claim to give viewers an apotheosic event that crosses the saga, but how fans have been given both the impossible and something that had been highly anticipated for decades. Both things at the same time!
Go ahead that the reason for being Dragon Ball Daima He was always in view of all: that fans of a lifetime and those who arrive from new enjoy all the range of emotions that turned the manga of Akira Toriyama into a work of cult. The sensation of adventure, tontorrón humor and, of course, the emotion of explosive battles. All agitated by pure fakebice.
And, despite this, the episode “The Awakening” feels like something special. Being more specific, as a last gift than Toriyama himself leaves us from wherever he is. And before that, One can only smile and thank.
What do we mean exactly? In the following paragraphs we will talk in more detail about the milestones of one of those anime episodes that win the privileged status of unforgettable. Not only for what happens, but by the way it occurs. But, of course, we are aware that this implies having to speak more openly about what happened.
And despite the fact that the main image of our criticism already gives unequivocal clues in this regard, which we will clear and break down next, the really significant thing is not what but how Toriyama and Toei Animation have retroactively expand the universe of Dragon Ball. And not in any way, but to give the taste to Goku's fans.
Toei Animation returns to dedicate a full episode to action, and that is synonymous with explosions, screams, energy cannon trees and those demolishing techniques that have conquered entire generations. With regard to animation, they have been up to the circumstances, guaranteeing and adjusting every section of the battle with reservations to a parallel sub -border that takes shape in the final bars. Remembering in impelable everyone behind the screen why Dragon Ball He is so exciting and entertaining.
With that established, “the awakening” has not only been a good chapter, that this goes in advance, but within the entire work of Dragon Ball It works like those Puzzle pieces that, once placed in place, make you see everything different. Both with regard to this specific anime series, as well as the set. To the above, it takes place before or after this trip to the busy kingdom of demons.
And although the uncertainty that we are possibly before the end of Dragon Ball Daima It is more intense than ever, we know that what it contributes to the Dragon World Universe will continue to expand big. Both in the face of the video game already available and future, and when wildly unleashing the imagination of the spectators. And that there are still at least a couple of episodes to issue!
What happened so far, with very specific details of the plot
After rescuing the planet Earth from infinite hazards and threats of enormous power, Goku and his friends are children again. To recover their normal body, our heroes have started a trip full of adventures and strange characters through the kingdom of demons. The basis of the story, which records, is the one that Toriyama has always used: look for the Dragon Ball alternating fun battles with epic duels. However, now that all magical spheres are gathered in the same place to raise a climax. One in style Dragon Ball. How should it be!
King Gomah, who turned the protagonists of Dragon Ball In children, it reappeared in the last stretch of the busy trip. The monarch of Demonic kingdom It is, in general, a being often with great skills for magic and of a more scandalous than intimidating nature, but after recovering the third eye has aroused and acquired a power to a scale superior to that of any known being. Enough to overcome the Super Saiyans of Level 3.
The story of Dragon Ball Daima It takes place just after the Majin Buu saga, so that Goku's most powerful transformation, belonging to the Saiyans lineage, is equivalent to a being that triples the power of the legendary super Saiyan. Is there anything stronger than that? On his trips through the demonic kingdom it was never necessary to find out. The other reality is that the difference in power of this enemy is too great.
In a moment of complete despair, and with Goku absolutely surpassed after having aroused its definitive form, the Namekiano Legendario Neva (the original creator of the Dragon Balls) decides to take part in this battle and, using his magic without equal, awakens a type of Absolutely unexpected strength in the Saiyan: his hair turned reddish, his body has been involved in pink hair and his strength and aggressiveness has multiplied. Now who has a problem is Gomah itself. Or, at least, in appearance.
One of the peculiarities of Dragon Ball Daima It is that the Majin, those born in the demonic kingdom, dominate at least one type of magic. Logically, force in gross state and almost unlimited energy can be intimidated or reduced if they are directly exposed to this kind of magical arts. Above all, with the influence of the incalculable hidden power of the third eye. Consequently, the fight between Goku and Gomah is almost, almost at the same point as at the beginning, but something has changed: during the battle someone has used the Dragon Balls. What has been asked?
The final stretch of Dragon Ball Daima He has managed to channel all the accumulated emotions not only since this new stage of Toriyama's work began, but seeks to hold ties to the entire legacy together, including specific elements that were created expressly for the animated series of Dragon Ball GT and that, from here, are already an official part of the Canon of Akira Toriyama.
Daima Encyclopedia: Super Saiyan level 4
When Akira Toriyama concluded the publication of the manga of Dragon Ballhe gave to his characters and his universe to the Toei Animation so that, once the anime broadcast is over, they started a new one. An original story, expressly created for television, and in which he participated giving his approval, creating illustrations, making specific decisions and, giving advice to his creators. Therefore, when in 1996 we had to imagine what Goku's definitive transformation would be like, Super Saiyan 4, responsibility fell in Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru.
Super Saiyan 4 debuted in Dragon Ball GT And, although in that series it is outside the canon, it is a very curious transformation: Goku obtained this transformation thanks to a ritual for which he recovered the tail he had as a child. With it, and due to the genetics of the Saiyans, seeing the full moon became a giant ape (Oozu) that multiplied its base force, but made it a wild being and without its own control. Therefore, when in the middle of his inner battle he recovered his humanity, the result was a completely unexpected aspect.
The most characteristic of Super Saiyan 4 It is the hair layer that covers the entire body. The color of the same depends on each person and exposes the head, the neck, a good part of the chest, the hands and feet. The hair gains volume and size, being able to hang at shoulder height and the expression and the color of the eyes are much more aggressive. However, the really important thing is the drastic increase in power.
Almost three decades later, Dragon Ball Daima It recovers this concept but with changes and the approval and the designs of Akira Toriyama. At the outset, now that Goku is a child retains his children's body and hair color becomes reddish. The way in which body hair is wrapped has some changes and the limbs become more pronounced. In addition, in the face of its appearance, it is wrapped in a kind of white aura. But, for practical purposes, the fundamental thing about this change is to give Goku an increase in force to a scale well above the Super Saiyan 3. How many times the louder? At the moment it is a mystery.
Unlike the version of Dragon Ball GTthe origin of this transformation comes from the magic of a legendary Namekiano called Neva who, as the most powerful among their race, are able to awaken and activate the hidden power of people. However, it is an increase in power and skills and that makes it vulnerable to magic as any previous transformation.
The version of Super Saiyan 4 we saw in Dragon Ball Daima Not only is it aesthetic in the face of its bearer, but it is also accompanied by a change in the combat style: Goku recovers its tail and its technique is more wild, moving at high speed running with feet and hands like the apes or being more acrobatic in air combat, although without losing the sanity or bases of the struggle style of the turtle elf that began to learn since childhood.
This new transformation of Super Saiyan 4 Is it specific or comes to stay? From here three things can happen:
- That can only be activated through the magic of the Namekiano Neva, which makes sense that is not shown in the manga and anime of Dragon Ball Super.
- That after this battle new events begin in Dragon Ball Daima, such as a new season or a new series, which would enable us to see it more times.
- Or that Toriyama simply wanted to make Goku fans happy, regardless of what will happen next. Even if he created the scripts.
What is clear is that in Dragon Ball Daima The aspect of Super Saiyan 4 is from Toriyama, since in the credits it was confirmed that he designed the characters of the anime, and that is something that marks a wonder with the drawing of the same transformed Goku that he made more than a decade ago on the occasion of the Disc edition of Dragon Ball GT. An illustration that you can see below.
As a curiosity, both in Dragon Ball GT as in Dragon Ball Daima The transformation in Super Saiyan 4 makes the user lose “by magic” the upper part of their clothes and, like the one who does not want the thing, they recover it when they return to transformations or states of lesser power, so that Goku returns to dress your complete orange uniform. Things that happen.
Dragon Ball Daima 1×18: The Awakening
- Address: manual
- Script: Akira Toriyama y Yuko Kakihara
- Premiere: 7 of 2025 fever (international)
- Study / Producer: Toei Animation / Toei Company
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