Dragon Ball just revealed the secret twist behind the Dragon Balls

Dragon Ball Daima has finally made its long-awaited premiere as part of the now-airing Fall 2024 anime schedule, and the premiere episode has shaken up everything we know about the Dragon Balls. Dragon Ball Daima is a brand new long term item Dragon ball franchise as part of its 40th anniversary celebration. It’s the latest new anime to feature a story and new characters from late creator Akira Toriyama, and the first installment has already made some significant changes to the franchise’s overall canon as it introduces a whole new realm with an expanded Demon Realm .

Although the Demon Realm is part of it Dragon ball since the early days of the manga, it has yet to be fully explored on the level that fans have seen with the Otherworld or the multiverse in the other anime releases. Dragon Ball Daima’The first episode of the first episode introduces the Demon Realm with several new characters that will serve as antagonists in the future, and it turns out that this realm has a much greater connection to the Dragon Ball thim all the time. They all come from this region and use black or white magic, depending on which is used.

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Dragon Ball confirms that Namekians are demons, not aliens

The first big change is one of the biggest Dragon Ball Daima confirms that the Namekians originally came from the Demon Realm. This makes a lot of sense, since Demon King Piccolo introduced himself as such during the original Dragon ball manga, but was called into question when it was revealed that Piccolo was part of a species living on planet Namek. But it turns out that even this origin isn’t entirely accurate, as the Namekians are beings who indeed come from the demon realm.

While this isn’t a retcon, and more of a reaffirmation of Toriyama’s original Demon King Piccolo idea, this actually has huge ramifications for the Dragon Balls and their origins. Dragon Ball Daima then introduces Neva, a Namekian who actually created a set of Dragon Balls specific to the Demon Realm. Although they are guarded by powerful beings and therefore cannot even be used by the Demon Realm itself, this also means that the magic within the Dragon Balls is demonic in nature and tied to their ultimate Demon Realm origins.

Dragon Balls have demonic power

If Namekians are from the Demon Realm, then the Dragon Balls are rooted in the same magic found in the Demon Realm. An extra wrinkle has been added and as Gomah and Degesu (new characters introduced as the new leaders of the Demon Realm) try to use Earth’s Dragon Balls, they think a bit about what kind of wishes they can make. It is then explained that there is both a “black” and a “white” magic behind the balls. Depending on who forged the set of Dragon Balls, this can also change the wishes used on them.

The example used is that a ‘black’ magical wish would be to eliminate them, so they needed a ‘white’ wish instead, such as making everyone younger, as seen later in the premiere itself. This further indicates that the Dragon Balls originally came from the Demon Realm, as these two already knew so much about them. While they knew nothing of the Shenron variant seen on Earth, they already had plenty of knowledge about Porunga on Namek.

If the Dragon Balls indeed had a demonic power source at its center, it certainly raises questions about all the versions we’ve seen in the franchise. How influential is the Demon Realm that they are allowed to have magical items like this in the living world? And what does it mean for all the wishes that are already on it? We could be heading towards a full point Dragon Ball GT like saga here as a result.