Dragon Ball Daima is here! The first episode of the series premiered on Crunchyroll last week and showed up on Netflix yesterday. A full panel dedicated to the series was hosted at NYCC with executive producer Akio Iyoku, Stephanie Nadolny (English voice actor for Mini Goku), and revealed for the first time, Aaron Dismuke as the voice of the new character Glorio.

Toei saved certain details about this series for its actual airdate, so now that it’s out there, we know WHY this series has the Muppet Babies premise it does. An evil Demon King obtains the Dragon Balls and wants to wish the Saiyans dead, but finds he cannot. Instead, he wishes for them to be children, because how can they possibly stand up to him in that form? This is obviously a mistake, but some villains just have to fool around and find out.

Dragon Ball Daima turned out to be the last Dragon Ball series that will have involvement from Akira Toriyama himself. He was heavily involved in the creation of the show and its characters, and during the panel, Iyoku showed off some drawings from the man that no one has ever seen before, like this design for a round spacecraft. Glorio will pilot one of these.

Here is the spacecraft flying over the Demon Realm, the place Kiddie Goku and his newly bite-sized friends will have to brave to return themselves to normal. “Toriyama-sensei was very particular when it came to mechs,” said Iyoku. “He actually thought about how they would function, how they’d move. We got small mechs like this, all the way to really large ones that are all going to show up in the show.”

The Demon Realm will have characters like this troll with a giant club and belly tattoo of a spiral (the meaning of which is currently unknown). This is another Toriyama drawing.

Finally here’s Toriyama’s illustration of Glorio. Dismuke refused to tell the panel’s audience whether Glorio is good or evil.

Iyoku closed things out by saying “This new series takes the Dragon Ball world into unexplored territory, with fresh challenges and characters that Toriyama-sensei designed every detail. Dragon Ball Daima is filled with charming characters and moving stories and intense action — what represents Dragon Ball — all packed in one show.”

New episodes of Dragon Ball Daima will appear weekly on Crunchyroll, and one week later on Netflix. The first three episodes will be shown theatrically in English across the US and Canada on November 10-12.

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