Dragon Ball Daima finally assembles his main team and it’s already a huge improvement over GT

Warning: Contains spoilers for episode 5 of Dragon Ball Daima.Since its initial revelation, much has been said about the overlap between Dragon Ball Daima and Dragon Ball GT. Both shows revolve around Goku going on an adventure after being turned into a child by the Dragon Balls, with GT happening in space and Daima in the Demon Kingdom, and the first arcs of both shows also address similar themes of poverty and government corruption.

There are undeniable similarities between Dragon Ball Daima and Dragon Ball GTwhich can even be seen in the makeup of each show’s main characters. The main groups of both shows play off similar archetypes and personalities, but due to the different way the characters and respective stories are written, Dragon Ball DaimaThe main characters of were already written to be much better than the main characters of Dragon Ball GT. GT is still infamously divisive among fans, so Daima It’s great to see so much work going into improving it on all fronts.

Dragon Ball Daima’s version of Goku is already much better than GT’s

Goku from Dragon Ball Daima vs Goku from Dragon Ball GT

The biggest comparison between Dragon Ball Daima and Dragon Ball GT can be drawn through how Daima and GT deal with Goku’s writing. Both shows try to emphasize that Goku became weaker after becoming a child, but GT couldn’t commit to it and it made Goku feel stronger than ever. In comparison, Dragon Ball Daima is much more consistent in portraying a weakened Goku than Dragon Ball GT with things like Goku struggling to fly and needing to use the Power Pole again, and this makes Goku’s situation feel much more impactful and less gimmicky.

More than that, though, is how each show handles Goku’s personality. As with many Dragon Ball projects, GT often wrote Goku with little or no air of seriousness and prioritized his adventurous nature, but although Daima still makes Goku a pretty silly character, Dragon Ball Daima does a better job of striking a balance between Goku’s silly and serious nature compared to GTwith Goku treating the plot with a much greater sense of urgency in comparison. It’s a big change GT and the comprehensive franchise, and it has already been done DaimaGoku’s take on Goku is great to watch.

Shin and Glorio take on the role of GT Trunks and are much better at it

How Shin and Glorio Compare to GT Trunks

In Dragon Ball GTWith Goku and Pan being as eccentric and impulsive as they were, it often fell to Trunks to be the straight man of the group, but Trunks had little to no personality beyond that, so he was often boring to watch. In Dragon Ball Daimathe role of the straight man is split between Shin and Glorio, but thanks to Shin being an established character and Glorio being an abrasive character with a lot of mystery, Shin and Glorio are much better straight men than GT Trunks for having so much more to their characters.

The fact that Trunks was the straight man also led to him being the one to handle the group’s technology and devise plans, but even this was often difficult to justify due to the fact that he was only on the team because Vegeta forced him to be. there. In comparison, although Shin and Glorio are not technologically gifted, they both understand how the Demon Realm works and know how to plan, especially Glorio, so Dragon Ball Daima gives Shin and Glorio a better justification for being the smart cast members than Dragon Ball GT I did it with Trunksalso.

Dragon Ball’s children’s character Daima is already much better than Dragon Ball GT

How Panzy Compares to Pan

Another notable comparison that can be made between the casts of Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Daima is between Pan and Panzy. Both characters are intended to be stereotypical bratty childish characters, but while the only justification for Pan’s inclusion was her being Goku’s granddaughter, Panzy is given a much better justification as another person who wants to stop Gomah and a princess who uses her connections to help. the team. Dragon Ball Daima does a much better job justifying Panzy’s involvement than Dragon Ball GT I did it with Panand the show is all the better for it.

The differences between Pan and Panzy can also be seen in the way they behave in fights. Both characters are established as the weakest members of their respective teams, but although Pan’s incompetence was often detrimental to herself and others, Panzy’s skill with gadgets and knowledge of the Demon Realm more than made up for any deficiencies in terms of power. Add how Goku is not as above everyone as he was GTand Dragon Ball Daima does a great job of not making Panzy’s weakness as problematic as Dragon Ball GT I did it with Pan.

Panzy’s skill with gadgets also establishes another possible difference between her and Pan. While Pan never really grew as a fighter or character, though thanks in large part to how much Goku took control of the story, Dragon Ball DaimaBulma and Panzy’s theme song teased the bond between Bulma and Panzy over their love of invention, something that could spark Panzy’s character growth that was missing in Pan. Dragon Ball Daima is already teasing that Panzy will receive more character development than Pan received in Dragon Ball GTand if it continues like this, it will certainly be great to see.

Dragon Ball Daima continues to solve Dragon Ball GT’s biggest problems

Dragon Ball Daima does GT right

Although it would be false to dismiss Dragon Ball Daima simply as a modern approach Dragon Ball GTit is undeniable that Daima is fixing many of the GTbiggest problems. Not only does the story have more palatable stakes and better action and animation, but the comedy and overall writing are sharper in Daimaprobably due to Akira Toriyama’s strong involvement in its production. Dragon Ball Daima improvement in Dragon Ball GT in almost all technical and writing areasand this will only get better as the story progresses.

Naturally, this kind of improvement manifests best with the main characters of each series. The flaws in the main cast of Dragon Ball GTboth as individuals and as a team, it made everyone except Goku boring to watch most of the time, but the main cast of Dragon Ball Daima is already avoiding the larger issues of Dragon Ball GT thanks to better characterizations for everyone involved. Dragon Ball Daima keep giving everything Dragon Ball GT it should have happened decades ago, and it’s unlikely to slow down any time soon.

Dragon Ball Daima releases new episodes every Friday on Crunchyroll.