Dragon Ball："Dragon Ball" continues! Masako Nozawa, Yumiko Kobayashi, Kouki Uchiyama, and Fairouz Ai show off their Kamehameha

On October 6th, the "Dragon Ball Daimatsuri" event, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the popular manga "Dragon Ball" by the late Akira Toriyama, was held at Tokyo Big Sight (Koto-ku, Tokyo), where the world premiere of the completely new anime series "Dragon Ball DAIMA" took place. "Dragon Ball DAIMA" is an anime celebrating the 40th anniversary of "Dragon Ball", and the story, character design, and settings were handled by Toriyama, the original author who passed away in March this year due to acute subdural hematoma. Executive producer Akio Ino commented, "There are still many things to think about and we will continue to work hard together with Nozawa-san (Masako Nozawa, the voice actress of Son Goku)" regarding the future development of the "Dragon Ball" series.

The event also featured the world's first screening of "Dragon Ball DAIMA". Finally, the speakers, including voice actress Masako Nozawa, who has played the main character Son Goku for about 38 years since the TV anime "Dragon Ball" began in 1986, Yumiko Kobayashi, who plays the role of Kaiōshin (mini), Kouki Uchiyama, who plays the new character Glorio, and Fairouz Ai, who plays the new character Panji, posed with the Kamehameha.

In the new work, Goku (mini) and Kaiōshin (mini), who have become small due to a "conspiracy," go on an adventure in the Great Demon Realm with the new characters Glorio and Panji. This is the first new anime series in about six years since "Dragon Ball Super," which ended its broadcast in March 2018. It will be broadcast from October 11th in Fuji TV's new anime time slot at 11:40 pm every Friday.

"Dragon Ball" is a popular work that was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha) from 1984 to 1995, with a total of approximately 260 million copies of the comics in print. The TV anime series was broadcast from February 1986 to April 1989, "Dragon Ball" from April 1989 to January 1996, and "Dragon Ball GT" from February 1996 to November 1997. "Dragon Ball Super," a completely new original story created by Toriyama, aired from July 2015 to March 2018.