The official Dragon Ball website revealed additional cast members and the artists behind the ending theme for the Dragon Ball Daima anime series on Tuesday. The newly announced cast includes:

ZEDD, featuring Ai, will perform the ending theme “Nakama” (Companions), which Zedd composed exclusively for the anime. Zedd also composed the opening theme, while singer-songwriter Ai penned the lyrics for the ending song.

The anime is set to premiere on a new programming block on Fuji TV, airing Fridays at 11:40 p.m., starting October 11. The debut episode will have an extended runtime, 10 minutes longer than usual.

Dragon Ball Daima will have its world premiere at the special “Dragon Ball Daimatsuri” event (combining “Daima” and the Japanese word for festival, “matsuri”) on October 6 at Tokyo Big Sight. There will be three screenings of the first episode at 10:00 a.m., 2:15 p.m., and 6:00 p.m., with cast members appearing during the first two. The event, celebrating the series’ 40th anniversary, is free but requires a lottery for tickets.

Masako Nozawa is returning to voice Son Goku. The other cast members include:

Yoshitaka Yashima (animation director for Dragon Ball Super, Digimon franchise) and Aya Komaki (director for One Piece, episode director for Marie & Gali) are serving as series directors. Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru (Dragon Ball Z, Digimon franchise) is adapting the late Akira Toriyama’s character designs for animation, while Yuuko Kakihara (Digimon Adventure tri., 2022 Urusei Yatsura, Cells at Work!) is overseeing and writing the series scripts. Akira Toriyama, the creator of the Dragon Ball franchise, is credited for the story and character designs of the new anime.

Zedd feat. C&K perform the opening theme song, “Jaka Jaan.”

In the series, Goku, Vegeta, Bulma, and other characters are transformed into younger versions of themselves. However, this differs from the similar storyline in Dragon Ball GT, where Goku reverts to a child after the original series. Although the title Daima has no direct meaning, the kanji can be interpreted as “Evil” in English.

The Dragon Ball Super television anime premiered in July 2015 and ran for 131 episodes until March 2018. Funimation and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and Funimation released it on home video. The Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero anime film debuted in Japan in June 2022, followed by a U.S. release in August. Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures screened the film in theaters worldwide.

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Source: Dragon Ball franchise‘s website