After an announcement misfire last week via the Humble Bundle retailer website, Bandai Namco has formally unveiled the second paid downloadable content pack for Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO: the “DAIMA Character Pack 1” set with eight new playable characters from the respective (and recently-concluded) television series.
The new playable characters in this first Dragon Ball Daima pack include:
- Son Goku (Mini) — Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Mini)
- Vegeta (Mini) — Super Saiyan
- Vegeta (Mini) — Super Saiyan 2
- Vegeta (Mini) — Super Saiyan 3
- Glorio
- Panzy
- Majin Koo
“Son Goku (Mini)” was previously a pre-order bonus character; as part of this new pack, Bandai Namco clarifies:
*This alternative version of Goku (Mini) can transform into Super Saiyan and use Aura Impact.
If you own Goku (Mini) from the Pre-Order Pack DLC you can use the alternative version by equipping an outfit. If you do not own it, it will appear as a new character in the character select screen.
The “Season Pass” for Sparking! ZERO is set to contain the previously-released “Hero of Justice Pack” (featuring characters and transformations from the 2022 theatrical film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero), and two Dragon Ball Daima character packs (with the final pack tentatively due Q3 2025). The full “Season Pass” retails for $34.99; the previous “Hero of Justice Pack” is separately available by itself for $17.99.
“DAIMA Character Pack 1” will release for separate public sale 24 April 2025, though anyone who has purchased the existing “Season Pass” can access its content starting today (21 April 2025), in line with their “three days early” scheme for ongoing content releases.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO released on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally. As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.