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Dragon Ball Daima
, stylized as ''Dragon Ball DAIMA'', is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It is the sixth televised animated installment in the Dragon Ball, ''Dragon Ball'' media franchise, and the second and last to have been written by franchise creator Akira Toriyama, who died in March 2024. Featuring a storyline set after the events of ''Dragon Ball Z'' and before the events of ''Dragon Ball Super'', the series aired on Fuji TV from October 2024 to February 2025. Premise Following one-year after the defeat of the evil Majin Buu and the death of List of Dragon Ball characters#Dabura, Dabura in ''Dragon Ball Z'', , the new Supreme King of the Demon Realm, uses the Dragon Balls of Earth to turn Goku, Son Goku and his friends into younger versions of themselves in order for them to not pose any threat to him and kidnaps Dende (Dragon Ball), Dende. Goku, Kaioshin, Shin, Vegeta, Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Piccolo, and Bulma are aided by the demons and , both of whom o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Genre
Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of Romance (prose fiction)#Definition, romance fiction. History In the introduction to the ''Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction'', Critic Don D'Ammassa defines the genre as follows: D'Ammassa argues that adventure stories make the element of danger the focus; hence he argues that Charles Dickens's novel ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is an adventure novel because the protagonists are in constant danger of being imprisoned or killed, whereas Dickens's ''Great Expectations'' is not because "Pip's encounter with the convict is an adventure, but that scene is only a device to advance the main plot, which is not truly an adventure." Adventure has been a common theme (literature), theme since the earliest days of written fiction. Indeed, the standard plot of Heliodorus, and so durable as to be still alive in Adventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majin Buu
, generally spelled Majin Boo in subtitles of the Japanese anime, and rendered as Djinn-Boo in the Viz Media manga, is a fictional character and final antagonist in the '' Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama, before the release of '' Dragon Ball Super''. He made his debut appearance in chapter #460 "Majin Buu Appears?!", first published in '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine on March 1, 1994. Majin Buu has had multiple origins throughout the series. Canonically, he is a genie-like magical life form known as a "Majin," created by the witch Marba after being asked by Bibidi, due to him not having the ability to do so. In Dragon Ball Z, he is explained as being a creation of the evil warlock Bibidi, who is unleashed by his son, Babidi, onto Earth. Alternatively, In a later interview, Dragon Ball's author Akira Toriyama states that Buu had existed outside of Bibidi and that Bibidi simply knew how to summon Majin Buu. Majin Buu was sealed away by Bibidi and broug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumiko Kobayashi
is a freelance Japanese voice actress from Chiba Prefecture. She was formerly affiliated with Arts Vision until August 2007. She made her voice acting debut as Mita in '' Kirara'' while still in college in 1998, and her first lead role was as Kento Yūki in '' Dennō Bōkenki Webdiver'' in 2001. She is still good friends with Natsuko Kuwatani, Hisayo Mochizuki, and Nana Mizuki, members of the former voice acting unit Prits; all four voiced characters in ''Sister Princess''. In an interview in 2019, Kobayashi said that shortly after her debut, while researching how to play a boy who can be dubbed, she came to believe that there was no better way to act than as a child actor, but she was struck by Akiko Yajima's performance as Kevin, the main character in ''Home Alone'', and has since made it her goal. Beginning with the July 6, 2018 episode, she took over the role of Shinnosuke Nohara in ''Crayon Shin-chan'' from Yajima, who had played the role since the show began airing on A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Kai
''Dragon Ball'' is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, ''Dr. Slump''. While many of the characters are humans with superhuman strengths or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic animals, Extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial lifeforms, and deity, deities who govern the world and the universe. During the course of the story, protagonist Goku, Son Goku is adopted by Grandpa Son Gohan and encounters allies like Bulma, Master Roshi, and Trunks (Dragon Ball), Trunks; rivals such as Tien Shinhan, Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Piccolo, and Vegeta; and villains such as Frieza, Cell (Dragon Ball), Cell, and Majin Buu. Goku's group of associates, known as the , bolsters its ranks throughout the series with the addition of former enemies and new heroes. The group is also known in Japanese as the or Tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Schemmel
Sean Schemmel (born November 21, 1968) is an American voice actor, ADR director, and screenwriter known chiefly for his work in cartoons, anime, and video games. His most notable role is the teen and adult voice of Goku, Son Goku in the Funimation dub of the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise. Career Initially, Schemmel never planned on becoming a voice actor; he trained to be a Classical music, classical French horn player. When a friend persuaded him to audition for ''Dragon Ball Z'', he tried out for a minor character who was going to be killed in the first season of the show. He had been recording for two weeks before he was told that he was going to be the lead. Since being cast as Goku, Son Goku by Funimation in 1999, he has been the most consistent English voice actor for the main protagonist of the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, having voiced the character's older teen and adult incarnations in every anime series produced to date (''Dragon Ball (anime), Dragon Ball'', ''Dragon Ball Z, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Nadolny
Stephanie Nadolny is an American voice actress, known for her English dubbing role as the child version of Son Goku, the protagonist of the ''Dragon Ball'' series, and the child version of Goku's son, Son Gohan, in ''Dragon Ball Z''. She reprised both roles in several ''Dragon Ball''–related video games and other media. She formerly worked for Funimation and ADV Films. In 2013, Nadolny voiced K.O. in the pilot of the Cartoon Network Studios original program '' Lakewood Plaza Turbo''. She reprised the role in Cartoon Network's '' OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' from 2017 to 2018. Filmography Animation * ''Lakewood Plaza Turbo'' (2013) – K.O., Gladys * '' OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' – K.O. (Episodes 4, 5, 6, 11, and 43) ** '' TV Shorts'' (2016–2017) ** ''TV series'' (2017–2018) Video games * ''OK K.O.! Lakewood Plaza Turbo'' – K.O. (2016) Dubbing roles Voice roles dubbing (as Goku and Gohan in ''Dragon Ball'' series) Series * ''Dragon Ball'' - Goku (Young) * ''Dragon B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan. The website offers reviews and other editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events, and an encyclopedia that contains many anime and manga with information on the staff, cast, theme music, plot summaries, and user ratings. The website was founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, and operated the magazine '' Protoculture Addicts'' from 2005 to 2008. Based in the United States, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in five separate regions: the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and India. History The website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the website editorial staff, replacing editor-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masako Nozawa
is a Japanese actress. Beginning work as a child actress at the age of three, by the time she became an adult, voice acting had inadvertently become her main occupation. Throughout her career, Nozawa has been affiliated with Production Baobab, 81 Produce, the self-owned Office Nozawa and Aoni Production. She is best known as the voice of Son Goku in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise, beginning with its first animated adaptation in 1986. She also voices most of the character's male relatives, namely Son Gohan, Son Goten, and Bardock. Nozawa's other roles include Kitarō in '' GeGeGe no Kitarō'' (1968, 1971 and 2008), Doraemon in the 1973 anime, and Tetsurō Hoshino in '' Galaxy Express 999'' (1978). Credited as a pioneer of voice acting in Japan, Nozawa has received awards from the Animation Kobe Awards, Tokyo Anime Awards, Seiyu Awards, Japanese Movie Critics Awards, Japan Academy Film Prize, and the Kikuchi Kan Prize. Her work voicing Goku in ''Dragon Ball'' video ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulma
is a fictional character in the '' Dragon Ball'' franchise, first appearing in the original manga series created by Akira Toriyama. She made her appearance in the first chapter "Bulma and Son Goku", published in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine on 19 June 1984, issue 51, meeting Goku and befriending him and traveling together to find the wish-granting Dragon Balls. Bulma is the daughter of Dr. Brief, the founder of Capsule Corporation, a company that creates special small capsules that shrink and hold objects of various sizes for easy storage. Being the daughter of a brilliant scientist, Bulma is also a scientific genius, as well as an inventor and engineer. Along with creating the Dragon Radar, a device that detects the energy signal emitted by a Dragon Ball, Bulma's role as an inventor becomes important at several points in the series; including the time machine that brings her future son Trunks to the past. Creation and design Bulma is loosely based on the character Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piccolo (Dragon Ball)
is a fictional character in the Japanese ''Dragon Ball'' media franchise created by Akira Toriyama. He made his appearance in chapter #161 "Son Goku Wins!!", published in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine on February 9, 1988, as the reincarnation of the evil King Piccolo, who was positioned as a demonic antagonist of the series. However, it is later revealed that he is in fact a member of an extraterrestrial humanoid species called Namekians from an exoplanet called Namek, those able to create the series' eponymous wish-granting Dragon Balls. After losing to Son Goku in the World Martial Arts Tournament, Piccolo teams up with him and his friends in order to defeat newer, more dangerous and powerful threats, such as Vegeta, Frieza, Cell, Majin Buu, Beerus, Zamasu, Jiren, Broly, and Moro. He also trains Goku's eldest son, Gohan, and the two form a very strong bond. Piccolo is one of the most popular and recognizable characters from the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise. The charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegeta
( ), fully referred to as , is a fictional character in the Japanese franchise ''Dragon Ball'' created by Akira Toriyama. Vegeta made his appearance in chapter #204 "Sayonara, Son Goku", published in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine on January 7, 1989, seeking the wish-granting Dragon Balls to achieve immortality. As the first major antagonist of ''Dragon Ball Z'', Vegeta is the prince of an elite Extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial warrior race known as the Saiyans. As a person, he is naturally blunt, regal, hard-working and is full of his Saiyan pride; he often refers to his heritage and royal status throughout the series, but can also have negative traits such as being extremely haughty along with a destructive temper. He believed that he should be regarded as the strongest fighter in the universe, and becomes obsessed with surpassing Goku, Son Goku after losing his battle with the Z fighters. However, after Frieza's death, Vegeta unites with the heroes to thwart greater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaioshin
''Dragon Ball'' is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, ''Dr. Slump''. While many of the characters are humans with superhuman strengths or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic animals, Extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial lifeforms, and deity, deities who govern the world and the universe. During the course of the story, protagonist Goku, Son Goku is adopted by Grandpa Son Gohan and encounters allies like Bulma, Master Roshi, and Trunks (Dragon Ball), Trunks; rivals such as Tien Shinhan, Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Piccolo, and Vegeta; and villains such as Frieza, Cell (Dragon Ball), Cell, and Majin Buu. Goku's group of associates, known as the , bolsters its ranks throughout the series with the addition of former enemies and new heroes. The group is also known in Japanese as the or Tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
