Fuji TV has announced that the new series Dragon Ball Daima will begin airing in Japan on Oct 11, 2024 at 11:40 PM.
This marks the return of the Dragon Ball franchise to television for the first time in six years, following the conclusion of Dragon Ball Super in March 2018.
Notably, this is the first time in the history of the series that a Dragon Ball anime will air during a late-night slot.
Alongside this announcement, Fuji TV revealed the creation of a new anime programming block on Friday nights, with Dragon Ball Daima being the inaugural series to be featured in this time slot.
Traditionally, Dragon Ball anime has been broadcast on Wednesday evenings or Sunday mornings, making this late-night airing a significant shift for the franchise.
Explaining the shift from Sunday mornings—where Dragon Ball Kai and Super previously aired—to Friday nights, Yuichi Nakajima, the head of programming at Fuji TV said that the new time slot will be broadcast nationwide across Japan.
This change ensures that Daima will be “easily able to be watched by the target demographic,” unlike the Sunday morning slot, which wasn’t available in all regions.
Nakajima also revealed that all episodes of Dragon Ball Daima were ready for broadcast.
Aya Komaki along with Yoshitaka Yashima will serve as the directors for the original anime, with Yuuko Kakihara in charge of the series script. It has also been confirmed that Katusyoshi Nakatsuru will handle the character designs.
Dragon Ball Daima is an original anime series with content penned by the late Akira Toriyama.
Toriyama had been deeply involved in the production, overseeing the story, character designs, and various other elements. Check out the trailer of the anime which was revealed previously:
The plot revolves around Z characters along with the Supreme Kai who were turned into children by a nemesis.
Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters collected into 42 tankōbon volumes by its publisher Shueisha.
Toriyama’s manga was adapted and divided into two anime series produced by Toei Animation: Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, which together were broadcast in Japan from 1986 to 1996. Additionally, the studio has developed 21 animated feature films and three television specials, as well as two anime sequel series titled Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super.
Twenty animated theatrical films based on the Dragon Ball series have been released in Japan. The most recent films, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013), Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (2015), Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018), and Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022), were produced as full-length feature films and were given stand-alone theatrical releases. They’ve also been the first movies to have original creator Akira Toriyama deeply involved in their production.
Source: Oricon