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Did Dragon Ball GT Introduce a Race Stronger than the Saiyans? Dragon Ball: DAIMA Episode 13 Review

The Dragon Ball verse just got bigger with a single planet. And the inspiration for that came from Dragon Ball GT of all places!

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Dragon Ball DAIMA Episode 13 is titled, “Surprise” and I am surprised to find this to be my favorite episode in the entire saga.

Most of Dragon Ball DAIMA suffers from crippling slow pacing and semi-empty content for the whole Demon Realm.

However, with one simple trick, we not only revive the hype of classic Dragon Ball and contemporary Dragon Ball Super but also make the Demon Realm infinitely more interesting and it all happened in one episode and the words of an old man.

MAKE. EVERYTHING. BIGGER.

To fill the empty space and boredom, just upscale the entire Dragon Ball multiverse.

Meet the Planet Mega.

When the crew land on this planet, it is unlike every setting with a generic nameless setting and an itinerary.

By Episode 12: “Strength”, we have finished the fights with the Tamagami, as all three guardians have been defeated.

Now we enter a different playing field as the team head to the First Demon World.

However, they were not done yet with the Second Demon World as they land in an unusually massive planet.

Everything from the leaves and rocks to the critters on the ground were bigger than normal.

What appeared to be hamsters or small rodents actually feel like furry insects compared to the puppy of the Megath child.

Apart from slight inconsistencies, for the most part, we get the impression of how massive everything is and here, size really matters.

After all, Mega is a thousand times before than our normal size.

This is the first time the Daima Realm has become an actual threat to the heroes.

Most of the demons we encountered felt like average humans in Universe 7, with magic and gimmicks.

Not even the new Majin Buu clones or the durable Tamagami showed even promise of being a threat.

The Kraken was the closest thing to a threat but it felt manageable even with the nerfed childlike bodies of the Saiyans and Piccolo.

Now that Kraken turns out to be a small snack for a Megath child.

The Megath are on a completely different level, not because they are more hostile but precisely because they are not and yet even Gomah and the Gendarmerie dare not set foot on this planet.

All regular-sized characters are nothing but gnats compared to a single Megath child, who only viewed the Z Fighters flying around as a mere inconvenience that the child would encounter.

While yes there was no intent to kill in any of their attacks, the strongest attack shown, Goku’s Kamehameha, only pushed back the puppy a short distance and when Super Saiyan Vegeta and Goku tried to push the child’s ruler and hand back, it barely felt like anything for the child, as he would swat Goku effortlessly to its own chest.

Is This Episode a Dragon Ball GT Reference?

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The eagle-eyed of you may have noticed that this is not the first time Dragon Ball introduced a planet of giants.

In 1996, there was a little-known Dragon Ball sequel called “Dragon Ball: GT” that began airing and is first saga was the Black Star Dragon Balls Saga, where the Z Team had to find the Seven Black Star Dragon Balls, which, unlike Earth’s Dragon Balls, were scattered across the universe.

In Episode 6: “Like Pulling Teeth”, the planet the Four Star Dragon Ball landed on was Planet Monmousa, on a giant apple that was eaten by a giant and Goku had to pull out the Dragon Ball from the Giant’s tooth.

The two episodes are designed with a similar pattern, with the characters exploring a world bigger than their own.

It also happened that Akira Toriyama designed the planet and the giant that lived there.

The words “Megath” (Mega) and “Monmousa” (Mammoth) are related to each other.

Both types of giants look Majin-like, with the eyes and the demon-like pointy ears as proof.

However, the Monmousa Giant looks far smaller than the Megath child.

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Kid Goku was the size of the Monmousa Giant’s tooth yet in Daima, Kid Goku was only a gnat and a lot smaller than even the tiniest candies in the Megath Child’s bag.

Most of all, Dragon Ball GT has a similar premise to Daima, where an impish evil king (Pilaf in GT and Gomah in Daima) wished for Goku to become a child.

In Daima’s case, the whole original cast became children.

So you could say this episode was likely Toriyama’s tribute to this specific GT episode that he was involved in.

However, this act by Toriyama was a genius way of repurposing a neglected element of the Dragon Ball lore (although mostly from the perspective of Western fans, who have heavily criticized the approach GT took with the story).

How Powerful are the Megath?

What makes this episode work is that we are finally seeing how even a Super Saiyan cannot compare to beings with far too much mass.

Their level of power would still need to consider mass and while the Saiyans right now are nerfed by the child forms, they still retain their battle experience and drive to grow stronger.

Where the Megath adults would occupy in the scales of power is tough to say because, as we learn from Neva at the end of the episode, the Megath are docile and do not really fight.

If they did have the means to fight, even with simple tools and weapons, as shown with the Megath Child’s ruler against Goku, then a whole army of them would easily overwhelm Gomah’s forces or even the entirety of Universe 7, Saiyans and all.

Could the higher forms in Dragon Ball: Super do lasting damage? Probably but we have yet to see how a group of adults would respond to only a few Saiyan of Goku and Vegeta’s caliber.

Ultra Instinct Goku, Ultra Ego Vegeta, Ultimate Gohan, any form you can name from the Super animanga might prove

However, what is canon at this point is the original Dragon Ball series, not GT or Super and the strongest foe the Z Fighters have faced was Majin Buu, who currently has two clones that have not quite grown to their full power.

The Gigath

Also at the end of the episode, we learn that the most dangerous planet in the Demon Realms is Planet Giga, which is about a thousand times bigger than Mega.

This Gulliver Travel’s style episode makes fans think of all the possibilities.

A Megath unaware of the Saiyans fighting them would easily take care of the smaller foes, even if they could escape from the Megath.

And note that the Saiyans were smaller than flies to the Megath child.

Just think of how Goku’s most powerful attacks in Dragon Ball Super would affect a single Gigath.

Mass still matters and if we imagine Dragon Ball Super Goku and Vegeta once again, can their overwhelming power, which has beaten foes as large as a planet-sized Moro, compare to opponents that are a million times the mass of a normal planet?

This is the point of the episode, to drive fans nuts with all the possibilities connecting to an ever-growing sense of scale.

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