In Dragon Ball Daima Son-Goku and his friends are shrunk. This reminds many fans of Dragon Ball GT, where Son-Goku also travels the world as a young boy. In the anime, he transforms into a Super Saiyan 4, which fans are now wishing to see again in Dragon Ball Daima.
What is Super Saiyan 4?
- A Saiyan must first transform into a Golden Great Ape. For this, the Saiyan must still possess his tail and have the ability to become a Super Saiyan.
- Once a Saiyan becomes a Golden Great Ape, he loses his mind. Only when he regains self-control does he become a four-times Super Saiyan.
- After that, Super Saiyan 4 could be reached from any transformation level.
Son-Goku also reaches Super Saiyan level 4. As a Golden Great Ape, he regains self-control because Pan reminds him of his old self. Vegeta also manages the transformation, but he needed the help of Bulma’s Miracle Wave Generator because he was missing his tail.
Since Dragon Ball GT is considered an official part of the Dragon Ball story, fans wish to see Super Saiyan 4 again in Dragon Ball Daima. The series is set to start next year. However, this could be more difficult than expected.
Unfortunately, Super Saiyan 4 is not visible in the trailer for Dragon Ball Daima so far:
Son-Goku’s chances of becoming a Super Saiyan 4 are slim
Why are fans hopeful? In the reddit forum, CoffeNerdAlert hopes that Super Saiyan 4 could become official with Dragon Ball Daima. It might be that Son-Goku gets his tail back and transforms into the Golden Great Ape.
However, there is a problem: Super Saiyan 4 was actually not drawn by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru is responsible for the extraordinary form. Users are uncertain whether the production studio Toei Animation would use a design other than Nakatsuru’s.
However, there is even a drawing by Akira Toriyama. This never made it into the anime but did as a bonus to the DVD box of Dragon Ball GT. In the acknowledgment, Toriyama mentions that Nakatsuru is an incredibly talented artist and animator (via kanzenshuu.com):
For GT, I only came up with the title, designed the initial main cast, and created some of the machines and a few images. However, I was able to leave the work to the excellent staff with peace of mind […]. Especially animator Nakatsuru-kun is amazingly skilled and mastered the quirks of my drawings in a very short time, so that I sometimes didn’t even know whether I had drawn a certain character design or he had. For example, one of Nakatsuru-kun’s designs is “Super Saiyan 4,” which appears in GT […].
Akira Toriyama, via Kanzenshuu
So, if we should see a Super Saiyan 4 in Dragon Ball Daima, it would look like in Toriyama’s drawing. However, Super Saiyan 4 has not appeared in the anime since Dragon Ball GT. Instead, Son-Goku and Vegeta reached even stronger forms of Super Saiyans.
Super Saiyan 4 only appeared as a bonus, if at all. In Dragon Ball FighterZ, for example, he was available as a DLC fighter. However, in the anime, the form is nowhere to be found.
By the way, Dragon Ball is so popular in Japan that Son-Goku has his own holiday: Did you know that Son Goku has a holiday in Japan? 5 facts about Dragon Ball
