# Dragon Quest Dai no Daiboken
**URL:** https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/dragon-quest-dai-no-daiboken/19965
**Category:** The Anime Forum
**Created:** [March 29, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/dragon-quest-dai-no-daiboken/19965 "2008-03-29T21:43:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Fullmetal](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Fullmetal)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/dragon-quest-dai-no-daiboken/19965/1 "2008-03-29T21:43:44Z")
I just wanted to mention this surprisingly good manga that I have been reading. I have a feeling many people have missed this jewel. I mean anime shows based off of much more story oriented games (like Final Fantasy Unlimited) didn’t do so well, so the chances of a dragon quest manga doing well seems low (at least to me it did). Also, the manga never made it to America.
Anyway, I heard some good reviews about it and decided to give it a try. To me, it sounded like a good Dragonball clone. At first, it pretty much seemed like that. It had the likeable hero trying to save his friends and the mini stories were charming in a sort of nostalgic way. Then, the main adventure started. The plot at first still seemed Dragonballish with its quirky teacher and young, super-good hearted main character and interesting battles. To summarize the story, the hero Dai needs to defeat the evil demon king Hadlar and his 6 generals in order to save the world. Yeah, the story is cliche. But as the story continued, I found myself really liking the characters and the deep characterization. One character I particularly like is Pope, the cowardly hero. I normally don’t like cowardly heroes, but Pope is just a likeable guy. Mainly, the manga starts slow, but its good characterization and the way it tells the cliché rpg story in a way that makes the cliches seem fresh won me over. I’d recommend this manga to anyone who likes great characterization and a good, classic rpg story done well.
P.S. I was thinking of putting this in the anime recommendation thread, but I wanted to put it here so anyone who has also read this manga could post about how much they liked/hated it.
You can read the manga at [http://www.onemanga.com/Dragon\_Quest\_Dai\_no\_Daiboken/](http://www.onemanga.com/Dragon_Quest_Dai_no_Daiboken/)
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### Author:  [@Mullenkamp](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Mullenkamp)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/dragon-quest-dai-no-daiboken/19965/2 "2008-03-29T21:53:49Z")
Hm, seem’s interesting. I’ll give it a try. Just wish some of the text wasn’t so small at times.
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### Author:  [@RoguePaladinTrian](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/RoguePaladinTrian)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/dragon-quest-dai-no-daiboken/19965/3 "2008-03-29T22:08:21Z")
Chapter 2 and my gut has already busted once or twice, in technical terms. Well done, Mab.
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### Author:  [@SpoonyBard](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/SpoonyBard)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/dragon-quest-dai-no-daiboken/19965/4 "2008-03-30T10:14:24Z")
I remember a fansubbing group tackled the animated version of this series awhile ago, but only got a few episodes done. Which is sad, it was looking neat.