Though first announced back in October 2023, up to this point there had been no formal declaration of a distribution or broadcast medium for the forthcoming animated series Dragon Ball Daima.

This morning, the official Dragon Ball Twitter account announced that Dragon Ball Daima will in fact be broadcast on Fuji TV when it debuts in Japan this fall.

Following the Dr. Slump television series adaptation before it (and in the same timeslot), the original Dragon Ball television series debuted on Fuji TV on 26 February 1986. The series ran through to both Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT, and was then followed — appropriately enough! — by the Dr. Slump television series reboot in November 1997. Due to programming shifts after this time, when the franchise returned to the airwaves with Dragon Ball Kai in 2009, it aired on Fuji TV alongside One Piece on Saturday mornings. With a break therein for the broadcast of the Toriko series from 2011 to 2014, Kai returned to the same timeslot for “The Final Chapters” and then ran directly into Dragon Ball Super through to 2018.

No information about corresponding international broadcasts or distribution of Dragon Ball Daima was released alongside this announcement.

Dragon Ball Daima was first revealed at New York Comic Con in October 2023 by way of a trailer and comment from original franchise creator Akira Toriyama. The “Daima” in the series’ title is a made-up term, though the individual kanji that make up its spelling would be 大魔; in Toriyama’s own words, …”in English would be something like ‘Evil.'” The forthcoming series will feature an original story by series creator Akira Toriyama, character designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, script/composition by Yūko Kakihara, and series co-direction by Yoshitaka Yashima and Aya Komaki.