Daima Dragon Daima Producer Akio Iyoku recently shared in a newly translated interview that he and Akira Toriyama tried to do something “a little different” with the most recent Dragon Ballon Anime.
For any fan that followed throughout the Dragon Ball Super Era, this will not be a surprise given the only one both toned and aesthetically Always is Dbsor even Dbz. However, the surrounding context of this declaration is revealing because Daima Dragon Daima was created in the middle of the development of Dragon Ball Super Anime. In a comment newly transformed into fans included in Japanese Daima Dragon Daima Blu -ray box set, Akio Iyoku and the codirectors Aya Komaki and Yoshitaka Yashima sat to discuss the creation of the Toriyama anime swan song – including why they even wanted to create Always at all instead of simply more Dbs.
Dragon Ball Exc reveals Akira Toriyama wanted something different from Dragon Ball Super
During episode 1, comments from the discussion for the Daima Dragon Daima Box, Akio Iyoku explained why he and Toriyama wanted to create Daima Dragon Daima First. In other words, the pair wanted to create something “a little different”. In particular, this whole idea was born during the production of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Film, around 2018.
Iyoku gave an overview of what he had observed about the writing process of Akira Toriyama, having worked with him for years. He explained: “With the master’s way of working, there are various cases; sometimes the characters and the script come at the same time, other times, the characters are born after the script.” However, Iyoku actually felt that Gomah was a unique case: “For Gomah, I have the feeling [Toriyama] already had visual design in mind and probably wrote the script with this conception in mind. “”
This method of developing tandem script with the characters could potentially explain Toriyama’s desire to do something different with Always. Above all, he branched technically on something new with Superhero – A story that has removed the attention of Goku and Vegeta to put Piccolo and Gohan in the main roles. This desire to try new things with Dragon Ballon was clearly fresh in the spirit of Toriyama, and he was no longer ready to make a simple story with Goku.
Transforming Goku into a child was apparently just different enough to keep Toriyama engaged. Interesting, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Contains a now appreciated scene representing the kid Goku in a flashback, fighting the army of the red ribbon. It is not beyond the field of the possibility that this scene may have had a certain influence on Toriyama and the decision of the anime staff to write a new story with Kid Goku at the helm.
In a previous interview, Iyoku revealed that Daima Dragon Daima was born from a desire to call on a young generation, while capturing the spirit of Dragon Ball GT For fans who grew up with the franchise. As Iyoku said to Mantan Web in February: “The idea was to create a new series with the same spirit as GT. Our main goal was to attract a wider audience. With hindsight, making Goku smaller expanded the entry point for viewers. “He also developed that” if GT represented “big tour” in space, “then”Always concerns an adventure in the great demon kingdom. “However,” unlike [Dragon Ball] Greatwhich focused on the growing force of Goku, [Dragon Ball DAIMA] Take a different approach, showing it dynamically fighting with the power post. “”
The accent put by Iyoku on the electric pole is the key because it directly recalls this favorite scene of Goku fans fighting the army of the red ribbon Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. It is ironic that, trying to create something different Dragon Ball SuperToriyama ended up drawing from an individual “Dragon Ballon-NESS “with Always It had not been felt by many in the Fandom for years.
Daima Dragon Daima is currently streaming in Japanese and English on Crunchyroll.