Fuji TV has introduced that the brand new collection Dragon Ball Daima will start airing in Japan on Oct 11, 2024 at 11:40 PM.

This marks the return of the Dragon Ball franchise to tv for the primary time in six years, following the conclusion of Dragon Ball Tremendous in March 2018.

Notably, that is the primary time within the historical past of the collection {that a} Dragon Ball anime will air throughout a late-night slot.

Alongside this announcement, Fuji TV revealed the creation of a brand new anime programming block on Friday nights, with Dragon Ball Daima being the inaugural collection to be featured on this time slot.

Historically, Dragon Ball anime has been broadcast on Wednesday evenings or Sunday mornings, making this late-night airing a big shift for the franchise.

Explaining the shift from Sunday mornings—the place Dragon Ball Kai and Tremendous beforehand aired—to Friday nights, Yuichi Nakajima, the pinnacle of programming at Fuji TV mentioned that the brand new time slot can be broadcast nationwide throughout Japan.

This variation ensures that Daima can be “simply in a position to be watched by the goal demographic,” not like the Sunday morning slot, which wasn’t accessible in all areas.

Nakajima additionally revealed that every one episodes of Dragon Ball Daima had been prepared for broadcast.

Aya Komaki together with Yoshitaka Yashima will function the administrators for the unique anime, with Yuuko Kakihara in control of the collection script. It has additionally been confirmed that Katusyoshi Nakatsuru will deal with the character designs.

Dragon Ball Daima is an authentic anime collection with content material penned by the late Akira Toriyama.

Toriyama had been deeply concerned within the manufacturing, overseeing the story, character designs, and varied different components. Try the trailer of the anime which was revealed beforehand:

The plot revolves round Z characters together with the Supreme Kai who had been was kids by a nemesis.

Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The preliminary manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was serialized in Weekly Shonen Soar from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 particular person chapters collected into 42 tankōbon volumes by its writer Shueisha.

Toriyama’s manga was tailored and divided into two anime collection produced by Toei Animation: Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, which collectively had been broadcast in Japan from 1986 to 1996. Moreover, the studio has developed 21 animated function movies and three tv specials, in addition to two anime sequel collection titled Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Tremendous.

Twenty animated theatrical movies based mostly on the Dragon Ball collection have been launched in Japan. The latest movies, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013), Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (2015), Dragon Ball Tremendous: Broly (2018), and Dragon Ball Tremendous: Tremendous Hero (2022), had been produced as full-length function movies and got stand-alone theatrical releases. They’ve additionally been the primary motion pictures to have authentic creator Akira Toriyama deeply concerned of their manufacturing.

Supply: Oricon