I think Glorio ends up being the villain of Dragon Ball Daima, and I think Gomah ends up being nothing.
That’s where Episode 5 left me. The episode’s called “Panzy,” my co-host and I sat down to talk it through for the anime review, and I’ll be straight with you: there’s not a whole lot going on in it. It’s fun. It’s good. It’s Goku being Goku. But it’s twenty-two minutes, and the truth is that once I’ve told you what happened, I’ve got nothing more to add.
Glorio Is the Shadiest One in the Room
The girl they rescued, the one who showed up at the end of the last episode, is Panzy. They meet her properly here, there’s a whole conversation, and she kind of just pushes her way into the group. It’s her place now. Her pitch is that she knows where the king’s castle is, if that’s where they’re looking to go. And I’m sitting there like, okay, all right, sure.
Glorio is not having any of it, for some reason. My co-host asked whether it was just him or whether Glorio is the shadiest one of the bunch, and no, it’s not just him. Glorio is super shady. Shady to the point that I’m sitting there thinking, I’m kind of shady, and this guy’s got me beat.
Everybody’s going Gomah, Gomah, Gomah. I’ve got a feeling Gomah ends up being nothing and Glorio ends up being the real reason for all of it. You walk into Gomah’s area, he goes down, and all you hear is boss music start playing behind you.
A Glimmer of Super Saiyan
We did get a cool fight. Goku beats up a bunch of guys, and at one point it looked like he was about to get overwhelmed. I doubt it. But he bursts into Super Saiyan, briefly, and at least for a glimmer we saw it. He had the aura and everything.
Goku is being very Goku in all of this. Goku’s always being Goku. Just Goku things. He’s funny, and that’s most of what’s carrying the hour.
The Princess, the Mafia Boss, and the Secret Demon Wife
Panzy hides the fact that she’s actually the princess of the Third Demon World, and I thought she played it pretty smart. She did good. Her dad, King Kadan, gets described as essentially a glorified big bully mafia boss, which made me laugh. It’s so funny sometimes how real world things translate into Dragon Ball. You just go, yeah, I don’t know, whatever.
Then one of the demon guys offers his daughter to Goku as payment, and I had to stop and ask whether we were being serious. Are they really going to tell us, in this prequel series to Super, that by the way, Goku has a secret demon wife nobody knew about? I could totally see something stupid like that happening. It put Joseph Joestar and his secret kid on the table, and if you don’t know about that, that’s a whole different anime.
Past that, there’s not much setup. We find out it’s going to take them four days to reach their destination, where the first Dragon Ball is. They take off, and we all knew, in the back of our minds, that something was going to go wrong. Sure enough, the engine shoots off and they start falling. I’m sitting there going, I thought you were the mechanic girl, what’s going on? They’re probably going to have to get rid of most of her luggage. They hit the ground, and that’s the episode.
Really? Give us more.
Two Places We Both Hit Pause
My co-host and I did the exact same thing watching this one. We each stopped the episode in one specific place, for two different reasons.
He stopped because he saw onions. They’re going through the demon kitchen, and the first thing they cut to is a dude cutting meat. Then there’s a wide pan, and there’s a group of what look like onions with eyeballs, and they’re terrified. I’m sorry, what? The show went so dark so fast, for about two seconds. You almost want to save one of them.
Mine was the training group. They’re showing the trainers, and one of them is clearly one of King Kadan’s generals, or whatever she is, working the troops. The joke we landed on was Bikini Warriors, because she literally is the whole gag of less armor means more powerful. She’s also got the same problem the Val Kilmer Batman suit had, and I’m gonna leave it right there. It was one of the weird things about that suit. Why did you do that? It’s dumb.
Twenty-Two Minutes Isn’t Enough
These episodes go by so quick that I’m debating whether we should wait. Maybe we purposely hold for two episodes so we’ve at least got something to dig into, and cover a different anime in between. Or we do the show every two weeks and put two episodes together, because we need more than twenty-two minutes.
The other version is short updates. Hey, here are some thoughts, it was a good episode, whatever, the way some other reviewers do it. Then we get together for a real, full, in-depth conversation after a small arc wraps. I don’t know which one it is yet, but I definitely want to do something. We’ll talk about it offline. There’s stuff I want to review and I know there’s stuff he wants to review.
And if you haven’t started Daima, or you’re thinking about it, do yourself a favor. Wait until the first part of it is done, or a stretch of them are finished, and then go watch. At least that way you get enough story in a row.
The Verdict
Dragon Ball Daima Episode 5 lands at an 8 out of 10 on the Know-It-All Index.
My co-host voted 8.5, going under nine. I’m going to an 8, and only because we got to see some stuff. It’s interesting stuff. But I feel like I’m reading chunks of a bigger story, which obviously is the case, and it’s really noticeable when you’re watching Dragon Ball in this format.
Thank you to everybody who’s been subscribing and liking the channel and the videos. We really appreciate all of you taking the time to watch. My co-host streams over on Twitch, too. He ran Dead by Daylight and some other games, and he noticed he had more viewers than usual. Know-It-All Nation coming through. Love it.
Two things for the comments on the video above. Should we keep reviewing Daima one episode at a time, or save them up and cover a stretch together? And I want to play Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero badly enough that I might invite my co-host over to stream it from my place, so let me know if you think I should let him move in.
