Dragon Ball Daima: Animation Breakdown (Episode 2)

[@AnimeAjay]

*CONFIRMATION/CORRECTION CORNER:* Yuya Takahashi privately confirmed the following scenes as his own: - OP Kamehameha - Twirling Nyoibo scene - From the part where Glorio comes to the temple on the plane, to the part before Bulma inspects the old plane. (Turns out that wasn't Karasawa despite the janky timing!)

[@El_Mince]

even after all these months, i still can't believe that he's gone. thank you, akira toriyama overall, i really liked this episode. you rarely get so much wonderful character animation in dragon ball, so it's great to see. takahashi's pole spin was the highlight for me

[@caseysaunders2168]

5:19 even just one single note is enough to mentally send me back to the darkest moons of 2015

[@SpeedPunch]

And ep5

[@dennist.8210]

​@@SpeedPunch Ep5? You do realize the fault of that episode wasn't on any particular animator (with technicalities being on Naoki Tate if you want to go that far but I digress) and not Yam. In any event, that was simply the result of a horrible schedule and no time. Naoki's art looked horrible* because he didn't have any time to make it better and Yammy had no time to do extensive corrections for him.

[@SpeedPunch]

@@dennist.8210 Still that was the dark ages

[@dennist.8210]

@@SpeedPunch Yes, that's what happens when there is no preproduction and animators are limited. I merely mentioned what j did above because your reply gave off vibes that you directly blame Yamamuro for episode 5 which couldn't be further from the reality. In any event, hopefully everyone understands how beneficial a proper pre production can be for DB by looking at how good Daima looks. Cheers!

[@TotallyNotMark]

Another great video :D

[@fourstaredits9062]

4:14 bro always has to throw hands at Yamamuro 😂😂😂

[@shofan0456]

Yamamuro's biggest OPP

[@fourstaredits9062]

@@shofan0456 you RIGHT

[@gtone339]

5:12 as well 😅

[@Calawey]

Got teary eyed at the beginning, thank you Toriyama and welcome back Ajay!

[@falconhead67]

These are my comfort videos. So glad they are back.

[@321gametime5]

It sucks that this is the final Toriyama Dragon Ball project we will ever get, but I am so happy that this is one of the highest quality Dragon Ball projects we have ever received.

[@Sakirth]

Whilst I share that sentiment, it kind of depends on your definition of a "Toriyama Dragon Ball project". For example, if after Super Hero they decided to do another Dragon Ball film, the preproduction and planning would've been done before Toriyama passed away and he presumably would've had some influence on story and characters.

[@Messypapa]

Yuya Takahashi Sensei being an animation supervisor after his outstnading work on super and DBS Broly is just so good to see! all the fans knew he was something special when his cuts popped up in the ToP and its just so gratifying to see his talent being recognised and rewarded in Toei

[@lyzellandarmanisworld8165]

Man, R. I. P. And thank you so much, Akria Toriyama. 😭 The intro and ending were both incredible, not surprisingly. I’m happy that we are getting the episodes out fast, similar to Dragon Ball Super. I can’t wait to see episode 3 where Goku goes on an adventure!

[@grapes9h5]

Spot the Yamamuro should be a game

[@Astreon123]

The porn comic artist?

[@jfreshh330]

Takahashi is my favorite animator I love that he’s working on this series

[@GeteMachine]

I do like how SSJ Goku is drawn in a way to look more closer to how Toriyama drew SSJ Goku in later years. Never thought I'd see that replicated. Including the color pallet.

[@CheemsBased]

The ending really changed how I’m looking at Daima. It’s so easy for people to look at a new Dragon Ball thing as fresh content for us to enjoy, but I can’t stop thinking about Toriyama when looking at each episode. It’s still hard to believe that he’s no longer with us, seeing his newest contributions to Dragon Ball with us. I’m sure he would’ve been happy seeing fans across the world coming together every week to enjoy Dragon Ball. Brilliant video and tribute Ajay, it’s great to see these breakdowns every week.

[@Messypapa]

Real. for real man. back when i was watching dragonball and DBZ for the first time i never really noticed, but once i watched DBS it became noticable how much of toriyamas charm was really lost due to his hands-off involvement. So its strangely nostalgic to really feel his touch throughout everything in daima so far

[@bensupermario]

Ajay, I’m so happy you’re back. Your videos were such a massive comfort back when super was airing, and I loved learning and gaining new knowledge from ya. These two breakdowns were perfect and I’m always left wanting more info and more of your opinions on the animation (that’s just how good these videos are!). It’s like I’m back a few years ago in spirit, thank you!

[@OpticalSparkz]

“During my hiatus” Mf acting like he ain’t just taking a hiatus from his hiatus, just to disappear again when daima ends😭

[@andrewrodriguez6197]

First. Yeheh. AJay will always be the goat when it comes to this stuff. I've been watching AJay for the past 7 years and probably won't stop until everything DB is done.

[@JMotion]

The closeup of the hand during Takahashi's cut with the Nyoibo was GODLY. Every time I watch it, man. It's so good.

[@Peasham]

True

[@SilverShion]

Dragon Quest Dai is so underrated

[@emanuelrodriguez9044]

100%. It was such a good looking series and overall blast of a show. I do miss watching it every week but Daima doing a great job to bring back the joy I had from watching Dai weekly.

[@minicle426]

Not in Japan it isn't.

[@kurisu2847]

Looking forward to watching these every week

[@shurikenkat]

I had the same feeling. The intro made me tear up unexpectedly and I realized that his work outlived him-all an artist could ever wish for.

[@soyakat]

Awn man that intro got me teary-eyed 😢 Pretty good breakdown, i really enjoyed Takahashi's action with the Nyoibo the best but all the scenes were really great with pretty good character acting all throughout. And i LOVE Takumi Yamamoto's stuff here on this episode too, i really hope they stick around the whole series. Also quite hype about Ishigami on Daima after 6:03, i hope we can see great stuff from her!

[@TheObicobiHD]

Adore your breakdowns. I loved these two episodes! Such a beautiful show

[@yahshuah144]

God damn, how much I enjoy and MISSED your videos and narrations. Glad you are back🎉

[@UltraPerfectCellZ]

So surreal having both weekly Dragon Ball AND weekly Ajay back. Loving both!!! That OP and ED are soo beautiful in a way the DB doesn’t normally do. Such fun movement in the series thus far. Keen for some Shintani goodness soon but glad to see Takahashi in a more restrained sense.

[@panthersfly]

I haven't seen the episode yet, so I'm just popping in to give a like. I'll be back to watch after!!!

[@J.G.1684]

Interesting that they're using Arai's sound effects, I thought we'd never hear them again in Dragon Ball.

[@pajaroprecario]

I'm just so happy to have you making content again. You're able to convey genuine excitement and appreciation for the craft.

[@TheSoulExplorer]

My first thought when I saw Super Saiyan Goku firing the Kamehameha in the opening was that awesome cover of Budokai 2. So Nakatsuro, it's wonderful. Man I missed these breakdowns so much. And it is so refreshing to hear so much praise and optimism about Dragon Ball's animation nowadays after that underwhelming performance of Super. Great stuff and welcome back Ajay.

[@darksaiyan2006]

The fact that you can put out these videos mere days after the anime airs is seriously impressive! Keep it up, Ajay!

[@nilrubio7040]

The Yamamuro scare audio cue brought to us by Sumitomo 👌

[@kushinmukherjee8988]

Wonderful having you back on KZbin Ajay! Missed these thoughtful and well produced breakdowns

[@kw-wf9uf]

Dude you have no idea how happy I am to see you doing these again. Your Super videos were so formative to my artistic eye and I've learned so much about this incredible craft from you alone. Daima is making me so happy, and I'm glad it's doing the same for you. Welcome back

[@mrmysteryman444]

Ajay you are such a goat 👏👏

[@KillerAnbo]

7:24 is when he's done with talking about the intro

[@harryprice2749]

This show continues to be so blessed. The character acting is so good and I'm very happy to hear Hiromi Ishigami will be appearing throughout the series as well. Hiroo Nagano was also a surprise to see even though their contribution on the OP wasn't the craziest thing. It was well worth it to let this series cook and avoid the problems that DBS had and it's refreshing to see some unfamiliar names on the franchise, just as we had Toru Iwazawa on episode 1. I feel like Daima can be considered Dai 2.0 due to staff carrying over but this also feels like a step up from the Dai episodes I've seen (not to say Dai is bad tho by any means) and I was initially worried about the idea of Daima just being Dai 2.0 due to how much the leaks hyped this series up, but so far it has been well worth the wait

[@Cloudx0x]

Gotta love Ryo Onishi

[@sasuke_clan96]

#1 thing to look forward to every week: daima #2 thing is ur animation breakdowns bro

[@TornBase]

The mob edit

[@Listai87]

Missed you Ajay! Loved the episode and love your work!

[@ledbygitimate1273]

Seeing you posting regularly is such a treat

[@kurapees]

Yeah this episode was a lot more fun than the first. Cool vid as usual Daniel.

[@StepBaum]

Great breakdown again :) comedy bits of yours were good too

[@chentrabelsi2219]

Why am i more excited for your breakdowns then the actual episodes (and it’s not to insult the show)

[@Anken93]

Damn, your intro before the review got me hard. DB is the very first manga I've ever read and it became such an important piece of myself that I cannot know where I would be if it weren't there. RIP Akira Toriyama

[@NemSumeragi]

Maybe I'm reaching, but the walking sequence at 1:58 made me think of the Dragon Ball manga spine art :')

[@navi2181]

Yamamuro gonna somehow end up being in every episode. 😂

[@AnimeAjay]

And I will jump scare you in the video every time he does 😏

[@kurapees]

Would be pretty funny if he showed up way more on this than he did on Super.

[@dennist.8210]

​@@AnimeAjayJokes on you my lad, because I welcome it! I don't mind seeing little bits of our dear Tadayoshi here and there, especially for small corrections just to ensure all is polished ;) Besides, I can already see this being a fun game for you of "Spot frames with Mr. Yam"...which means more entertainment for everyone watching!

[@animegifter18]

all i can say this episode was building the heat but iw was so awsome to see the characters beign what akira wanted them to be

[@mechajay3358]

5:16 This is honestly the best Yamamuro's cuts have looked in Modern Dragon Ball.

[@sadistpotatoe3157]

I'm just happy to hear you talk about dragon ball again

[@negano5654]

Emotional intro at the beginning to Akira Toriyama, Ajay! thank you for it and rest in piece Akira Toriyama for giving us a series that every week now is gonna deliver us some insane lore and animation we can eat with our eyes. Love all the animators but i must the animation from Katsusohi Nakatsuru is just gorgeous because the similarities to Akira work. I actually do that that original concept art of Bardock he drew back in the day and some art he did for Budokai games. Him and Yamamuro will be giving us 5 course meal of animation every week now...

[@fedora__thexplora.335]

Thank you for this video Ajay

[@jiefuti]

OMG 8:00 thank you for verbalizing what I could never put into words re: western cartoons. I was once trying to explain to a friend why I struggled to appreciate Avatar the Last Airbender's visual direction and referenced certain anime action scenes as points of comparison but I wish I could have just shown them something like this haha

[@afifsahrin5708]

The opening and ending really feels like this is final gift from Akira for fans. What I really like about Daima other than the animation is the story is really feels uniqueness of Akira’s storytelling that I got from reading all of Akira Toriyama’s mangas.

[@Laekith]

Hiromi Ishigami might be one of my new favorites, that scene is probably my favorite scene in Battle of Gods and both those shots are my favorite shots from the OP.

[@YourGuyAlex]

I’ve missed well animated dragon ball for a while.

[@aliendemiks]

You are so right about the story boards being flat but I'm not sure if it just might be like this for these 2 episodes

[@AccelSternritter]

If only DB Super had this much production time

[@SpeedPunch]

And toei not rush for the sake of money therfore plots are more deep liek Toriyama checking scripts.

[@crestofhonor2349]

DBS should have come out a year after Resurrection F and skipped both movie arcs and starting directly with the Goku Black arc

[@SpeedPunch]

@@crestofhonor2349 toei fault

[@crestofhonor2349]

@@SpeedPunch It is 100% their fault as they rushed the production well out before it was ready. They overbooked animators and rushed pretty much every part of the production. They didn't get better until the Goku Black arc when they used some filler episodes with slow animation to give time for the production to actually look good. Even animators like Naoki Tate put out bad work and he worked on DBZ and was a great animator on that show

[@Ningamer-bo7ej]

​@@crestofhonor2349I heard that toei has become one of the best studio when it comes to time schedule for animators. Let's hope it stays this way when super get announced fans can always let them know that they should take there time for it when it get announced.

[@mechajay3358]

10:22 I always daw Takahashi's animations as him paying homage to Shida's work.

[@artmowenca230]

RIP Toriyama-sensei

[@ElFily32]

Gotta love the Yamamuro spooks

[@artofmarcos1992]

Pure joy for me. Didn`t expect this much fun when I heard about Daima and becoming kids again part. But oh God how wrong I was. Kid Goku just kicked me back into childhood and I am living every second of it.

[@DSIrocker]

Kid Popo is amazing lol

[@shabazzprophet904]

❤ great work

[@rickster008]

Probably , because i loved the original dragonball so much that i really like daima so much so far. I love the kid designs

[@lightzofficial]

Absolute Cinema

[@SwastikBiswas-b3r]

Loved the ep ❤

[@DanielBakerFoster]

Thank you!

[@MixtheSkele]

Daima Balls

[@classicboy97]

I missed all your breakdowns soooo much. Would you be open to looking at other anime OP's as a side distraction like the DanDaDan OP?

[@OmniDivin]

How did you get the character sheets?

[@SuaatanaTube]

Aya Komaki always delivers good stuff. I've been a big fan of hers in One Piece. She directs one of the best episodes along with Megumi.

[@darkren88]

so far so good

[@coreym8145]

this being his last work for Dragon Ball, i am just so pleased the studio have given it time to cook. I cant imagine the heartache and disappointment if we had the same quality as super. This feels like Toriyamas final gift to us all!

[@jpromero9391]

Yuya Takahashi style looks so different.

[@crestofhonor2349]

I thought it was a great episode. Loved seeing the characters all try to unravel what just happened to them and how none of them have proper ki control thanks to the smaller bodies. On an unrelated note the most recent episode of One Piece, One Piece Fan Letter, has to be the best looking episode I think I've seen out of the show and maybe out of the vast majority of anime. It is genuinely movie quality animation and directing. I can't believe that we got 2 amazing looking episodes of One Piece in a row

[@maskofthedragon]

9:36 Dog Beerus

[@MADKapo]

I remember that when I first saw Takahashi's scene with the Nyoibo, I didn't know WHO the animator was, but I thought "oh someone wanted to show off huh?".

[@jensennguyen02]

The only scene I felt like "oh wow this is really distracting" was when goku was kicking and punching trying to hit the pillar. Its so oddly choppy like he just goes from wind up to kick in one frame and then back to wind up the next frame. Everything else has consistently nice animation that when you get something THAT weirdly choppy it stands out a lot.

[@adxmxe]

This is random but just got the Nakatsuru DB/Gintama Vjump so 3:24 made me grin

[@Senshi00]

I wonder if this will be the Dragon Ball GT we wanted

[@GeteMachine]

9:36 Beerus looking a bit like a dog in that screenshot.

[@noelrodriguez6625]

Ajay, it’s really good to have you back 🥲

[@KennethAndresInciarteFinol]

3:28 Dude... HOW THE DEMONS HALOS, YOU GET THE CHARACTER SHEETS!!!!!!!!???????

[@goldmemberpb]

I like that Popo just cuts through the bullshit and tells them what's what. They are not spending 2 episodes trying to figure out what happened.

[@NoxLegend1]

Wow I thought nothing could top db super broly in animation in quality within db, maybe it cant but this is looking close to it.

[@crim7x]

I'll never understand why everyone hates modern Yamamuro, his style has some flaws but I still think its an Iconic look Edit: I understand what the flaws are, and I get why people dislike it but when done right, like for example Goku vs Frieza by Takahashi, it can look really good in my opinion.

[@El_Mince]

iconic does not equal good. some flaws: overused highlights stiff posture stiff fabric stiff facial features occasional wonky proportions and scoliosis limiting for animation

[@JustAsh001]

His designs were peak back in his dragon ball z saga or gt saga. But modern yamamuro style is so bad i can't name one good thing about. The slim and toned down muscles, overused white shading and highlights in general, ugly and inconsistent facial expressions

[@crim7x]

@@JustAsh001 Honestly, as an Artist myself I agree that classic is better but if modern received some tweaks that freshened it up and got rid of its major flaws I think it’d be a lot better

[@JustAsh001]

@@crim7x then that's just becomes his classic style or close to it bruh. His lost his edge overtime and the designs his did for super anime isn't style it's him becoming old and losing his passion for art. Just compare the designs he did for buu saga to his modern work you might think that they are made by different artists because how good older designs and how terrible the now ones are

[@dennist.8210]

Not to worry my lad. Some people have valid criticisms but there has always been (and will continue to be) people who take the hate way too far and hate for the sake of hating. The funniest part is many of them don't even know his work, as I have seen many point out frames or art pieces where it isn't even Yam. In any event, there is no downside to having Yamamuro on for corrections here and there. When "weaker" animators are on an episode, having people like Yam there to slightly correct them ensures the episodes looks all around polished. Remember, the key is TIME. The reason Daima will look phenomenal is because they had proper time to make everything look as good as it can be. Don't let anyone try to make you feel down about liking or at least putting some respect to his name.

[@Gaia_BentosZX5]

Yamamuro is cast into the demon realm abyss, as an animator, falling victim to an unforgiving industry, having considered to lost his touch by many fans. Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa Opa, Bad Ending.

[@salvatoreocello]

5:35 11?!? 😅

[@tearex3485]

yup haha, battle of gods was a little more than 11 years ago

[@salvatoreocello]

@@tearex3485I remember being in HighSchool study hall listening to youtube news about Beerus 🎉time flies

[@Fuzzycuffsqt]

so like, they're letting Ajay look in at production ahead of release to convince him it's actually worth reviewing episode by episode? nice

[@MissNorington]

5:19

[@iamthetrev7671]

5:19 *Nam flashbacks*

[@S0X1919]

yamamuro🔥

[@Genkai-fw5rz]

Will shida not be doing work on this show??

[@Alllex]

Shida was in the most recent trailer before episode 1 released. He does the super saiyan Goku kamehameha

[@Genkai-fw5rz]

@@Alllex oh ok thank you

[@CarbonSaturn]

how do you know all this??

[@crestofhonor2349]

Multiple ways to tell. You can either recognize an artist's animation or art style, look at the credits of who was involved, or even have the artist themselves confirm they worked on the scene themselves. One example is Naotoshi Shida, once you recognize his stuff, he's probably one of the easiest Toei animators to spot based off how he does shading and how he tends to animate characters

[@zeldagamer2018]

can you makke a video on blue lock or bleach pleaaaase

[@SilverGas147]

Is there English Dub ? Where do you guys watch it ?

[@crestofhonor2349]

Not out yet. Apparently it's going to be a month behind as that's pretty typical for an english dub. I don't watch english dubs but I am familiar with how they never premier the same week as the original JP version

[@SilverGas147]

@@crestofhonor2349 thank you for explaining, I felt a bit left out

[@cc3230]

I both really like Daima’s presentation and get frustrated by its lighting

[@djonketchup2597]

where is ep 1?!

[@AnimeAjay]

On muh channel - kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2a2q2uur7Whj9U

[@SwastikBiswas-b3r]

Out Lil prince is angry