Dragon Ball Daima Gives Majin Buu a Strange Power That Explains A Critical DBZ Moment

Warning: SPOILERS for Dragon Ball DAIMA episode #1

Dragon Ball DAIMA is already exciting viewers thanks to Toei Animation's loving care for the source material and Akira Toriyama's key contributions before his passing, addressing long-standing fan questions. When the Majin Buu Saga rolled around, entirely new questions began to arise due to the emergence of the Fusion Dance, Potara Fusions, and the magical Majin race. While these factors interacted in Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball DAIMA episode #1 addresses Majin Buu's newly confirmed ability to separate Potara Fusions into their original entities.

Majin Buu's innocent form was given a new chance after splitting away from his evil qualities, creating an adorable yet still strong addition to the roster entering the Dragon Ball Z epilogue. However, his entry into the series introduced many fascinating abilities and characteristics that were not fully explored, with new revelations seemingly still emerging. In Dragon Ball DAIMA, Buu's latest confirmed ability explains what happened to Vegito in Dragon Ball Z episode #273 while addressing a continuity error about Kibito Kai across the Dragon Ball timeline.

Majin Buu Can Separate Potara Fusions in Dragon Ball

New Ability Erases a Continuity Error in Dragon Ball Daima

In Dragon Ball Daima episode #1, Kibito and Supreme Kai Shin celebrate Trunks' ninth birthday, with Goku asking how they were separated despite the Potara Fusion seemingly permanent. As Shin explains, this was inspired by how Vegito was consumed by Buu, where after he lowered his guard, he was separated back into Goku and Vegeta; Kibito Kai approached Buu to do the same. Buu confirms, saying, "When I inhaled them and spit them out, they were separated." This is due to Buu's internal gases being able to separate Potara Fusions in Dragon Ball.

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Akira Toriyama has taken this to varying extremes in the franchise, such as in one particular moment between Goku and Krillin, resulting in one of the best quotes in Dragon Ball. In the middle of his fight against Bacterian, Krillin finds his opponent's stench debilitating, to which Goku responds by pointing out that Krillin doesn't have a nose; the Majin Buu physiology moment is a similar retcon to explain a plot hole in the series. However, this could also be explained as Toriyama writing his creations out of creative corners, once claiming Krillin could breathe through his skin.

Vegito and Kibito Kai's Separations Are Explained in Dragon Ball Daima

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Vegito was introduced as the Potara fusion of Goku and Vegeta, the only one who could fight and defeat Buu. However, to free his friends who had been eaten by the villain, Vegito let himself get consumed by the Super Buu variant. Once inside, the fusion ends, despite the fact that the Potara version had no time limit. The series explains it away quickly as an effect of the miasma inside Buu's body, in classic Toriyama fashion, and now DAIMA has confirmed that the creature has indeed this power.

Perhaps the greater inconsistency addressed by this retcon is Kibito Kai, whose fused state is varied between Dragon Ball Super arcs, namely the Golden Frieza Saga and God of Destruction Beerus Saga. As addressed in Dragon Ball DAIMA episode #1, Kibito and Shin confirm that they willingly approached Majin Buu to eat and separate them once more.

This lends flexibility to an otherwise rigid technique in Dragon Ball, with Vegito's fusion not being permanent only because it's done by characters who aren't Supreme Kais, as it was explained later in Dragon Ball Super. In Dragon Ball DAIMA, this indicates that Shin will have a greater presence, especially with the promotional art featuring him and Goku. It'll be fascinating to see whether Dragon Ball DAIMA discusses other moments in Dragon Ball lore in future episodes and how it'll affect fans' perception of the series in the future.