Summary
Whis’s comment about “throwing away the time axis” in Dragon Ball Super suggests a connection to Dragon Ball DAIMA’s premise of reversing time to make the main characters younger. If not completely foreshadowed, Whis’s warning may have been something that Toriyama recovered and used as a premise for DAIMA. The possibility of a plot involving the time axis being destroyed could explain why the characters in DAIMA became children.
Not much is known about Akira Toriyama’s upcoming brand new adventure Dragon Ball Daima except that Goku and the main characters have turned back into children, but there is a small comment from the angel Whis in Super Dragon Ball suggests how the two strings might be connected.
Fans first learned about Dragon Ball DAIMA through the official trailer shown at New York Comic-Con 2023. It is not yet known whether this new series will take place in the main Dragon Ball timeline, or not. when and what its connection might be, if any, to the ongoing Dragon Ball Super. Although Akira Toriyama himself revealed that Goku and his friends became small “due to a conspiracy,” some cautious fans may have also remembered something Whis said in Dragon Ball Super chapter #14 by Toriyama and artist Toyotarou.
Whis revealed that the three-second reset he performed during the events of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ couldn’t have been done that early because it would have “skewed the time axis.” As fans recall, Frieza successfully destroyed Earth right before Vegeta was about to kill him in ‘F’. Since Whis cannot change the past or participate in wars, his solution is to reset everything to a time before the Earth was destroyed. And of course, Goku saved the world instead of Vegeta.
The time reversal and the premise of Dragon Ball DAIMA are naturally connected
Critics of this theory will no doubt point out the fact that Whis’ comments happened long before DAIMA was announced, and that it could just be Toriyama’s way of addressing a potential plot hole, where Whis can reset everything every time Goku and his friends lose. This is similar to how Toriyama reintroduced zenkai enhanced abilities in Super but ensures that they will not have a detrimental effect on the plot. However, it’s still possible that this whole concept of time reversal, if not foreshadowing, is something that Toriyama resurrected and used as a premise for Dragon Ball DAIMA.
What “throwing away the time axis” could entail is endless, and it’s clear that reversing time, as Whis did in Resurrection of F, could also be used to return an adult’s body to another time. earlier point, as occurs in Dragon Ball DAIMA. Of course, Toriyama mentioned that these characters become small because of a plot. For this theory to work, the plot would have to be somehow linked to the removed time axis, which Super created. This makes perfect sense since the supposed villains appearing in the trailer bear similarities to angelic and divine entities like Whis and even Grand Zeno, the Omni-King.
Dragon Ball linked two separate series together
Past precedent indicates that Akira Toriyama could link the events of new spin-off series like DAIMA to Dragon Ball. For example, Super brought back Dragon Ball’s most famous villain, Frieza, and it even made Broly, a character from the Dragon Ball Z movies, into canon. The Red Ribbon Army and a version of Cell return in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and its manga adaptation. So it’s a specific possibility that Dragon Ball DAIMA won’t be a completely separate spin-off but at least has some connection to it Super Dragon Balland Whis’s warning about messing with the time axis might explain that.
Dragon Ball Daima will launch in 2024.
Dragon Ball DAIMA
Category: Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Martial Arts
Rating: Not yet rated
Seasons: first
Story by: Akira Toriyama
Writer: Akira Toriyama
Franchise(s): Dragon ball