It’s time to mark your calendar for the premiere of the Dragon Ball Daima anime! Goku and friends are ready to return to the screen this October, and the broadcast date has been locked in for October 11, 2024.
Dragon Ball Daima episodes will broadcast in Japan every Friday at 11:40 p.m., with the first to run 10 minutes longer than usual. Compare this to the timeslot of the previous Dragon Ball anime, Dragon Ball Super, which aired alongside One Piece on Sunday mornings at 9:00 a.m. Japan Time.
According to Fuji TV, all episodes of Daima have been completed, and the new timeslot will span all of Fuji TV’s affiliated networks throughout Japan.
Ahead of October 10, the first episode of Dragon Ball Daima will have its wold premiere at the Dragon Ball 40th anniversary event at Tokyo Big Sight in Japan. The premiere is set for October 6, 2024.
VIZ Media publishes the various Dragon Ball manga series in English, and gave this description for the first volume of Dragon Ball:
Dragon Ball Plot
Before there was Dragon Ball Z, there was Akira Toriyama’s action epic Dragon Ball, starring the younger version of Son Goku and all the other Dragon Ball Z heroes! Meet a naive young monkey-tailed boy named Goku, whose quiet life changes when he meets Bulma, a girl who is on a quest to collect seven “Dragon Balls.” If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and Bulma needs Goku’s help (and his super-strength)! With a magic staff for a weapon and a flying cloud for a ride, Goku sets out on the adventure of a lifetime…
Source: Anime News Network