Dragon Ball Daima is the last new anime series with a new plot and characters from the late author Akira Toriyama. The first episode made some significant changes to the series' official plot, introducing a completely new world called the Greater Demon World.
Although the Greater Demon World has been a part of Dragon Ball since the early days of the manga, it has not been fully explored to the level that fans have seen with Other World or the multiverse in anime releases. other. The first episode of Dragon Ball Daima sees the Demon Realm – the great demon world – introduced, with a number of new characters set to act as future antagonists.
Dragon Ball Daima confirms that the Namekians come from the Greater Demon World
The first big change is one of the biggest, as Dragon Ball Daima confirms that the Namekians come from the Greater Demon World. This makes sense since Demon King Piccolo introduced himself as such in the original Dragon Ball manga, but this fact was forgotten when it was revealed that Piccolo is part of a race living on Planet Namek. We now know that the Namekians are actually creatures from the Great Demon World with pointed ears.
While this is just a detail that reconfirms Toriyama's original idea of Demon King Piccolo, this actually has a huge impact on the Dragon Balls and their origins. Dragon Ball Daima then introduces Neva, a Namekian who created the Dragon Balls of the Greater Demon World. This also means that the magic of the dragon balls is demonic in nature and tied to the origins of the Demon Realm.
Dragon Ball Daima and the Dragon Balls have demonic powers
King Gomah and Degesu from the Great Demon World are trying to use Earth's dragon balls to make wishes. When deliberating over their proposed wishes, they showed the different nature of the wishes that the dragon gods summoned from different dragon balls could grant. Depending on the nature of the dragon ball, the nature of the wish granted will be opposite.
For example, the Earth Dragon Ball is essentially a light spell, so dark wishes that cause death will not be accepted. Understanding this, King Gomah wanted to make a wish to turn Goku's group into first grade children, because it was not a dark wish. When summoning the earth dragon god, they made such a wish and it was granted by the god dragon.
This further indicates that the dragon balls originated from the Greater Demon World, as Gomah and Degesu knew a lot about them. Although they did not know about the Divine Dragon variant seen on Earth, they did have a lot of knowledge about the Divine Dragon Porunga.
If Dragon Ball is indeed premised on being a source of demonic power, then questions would certainly arise about all the versions we've seen throughout the series. What effect does the Demon Realm have when they are allowed to have magical items like this? And what does it mean for all the wishes that have been used on them? We could be headed for a Dragon Ball GT-like story here.