Dragon Ball AF Video Trailers
Dragon Ball AF is the hypothetical continuation of the famous saga of Dragon Ball. It Ideally should take place shortly after the conclusion of Dragon Ball GT, after the time when Goku goes to the level of semidivinità, becoming one with the dragon Shenron. It is true that this story was never written by the creator of the real saga, Akira Toriyama. Obviously this is an invention of some fans of manga, but were met with some success over the Internet, and gradually enriched with a multitude of fan fiction, to the point of being dictated by many years “Fansites” everything the world.
In reality, in fact, do not exist and never existed comics or cartoons on the official Dragon Ball AF, although recently an independent team Detailers Japanese (Toyble the team) was to absorb the task of designing a real screenwriter and breadth in perfect Dragon Ball Z style, with new characters and new stories to tell.
* 1 The Myth
* 2 Dragon Ball AF: The MANGA
* 3 A more detailed analysis
* 4 Trivia
Myth [Amendment]
The “myth” of Dragon Ball AF appears to have begun in 1997, shortly after the end of Dragon Ball GT in Japan. At that time, the mysterious “after GT was unnamed, and the entries were relatively few and did not last long. In 2000, however, began to circulate on the Internet a picture of Super Saiyan 5, with a logo “Dragon Ball AF” Now it is seen as simply a fan of art (although its original source remains unknown), but when it was considered that the image could have been designed by Akira Toriyama or someone at Toei Animation, with the logo strengthened this hypothesis. In October of that year, a lengthy article published in the (now retired) amateur Majin.com site stated that “information” about the “new series” of a “source in Japan.” The Article highlighted the contradictions and I do not know if he was serious or a joke, but the whole picture when it was too late: the voices are now beyond their control. Shortly after the site was not updated.
Thus, in late 2000, there were many voices spread about this series. Over the years on the fantomatica this series are quite varied in relation to Article Majin.com, and there are still many fans – especially outside of Japan – who are questioning the existence of this series (this can be explained in part by the that Dragon Ball continues to collect even new fans, who still are not aware of the fact that there are more mass production).
In 2004, the well-known fan sites dedicated to Dragon Ball Daizenshuu EX plays with the legend of Dragon Ball AF with a “fish of April”. Even if other sites had already done so far since April 2001 version of Daizenshuu EX is the most elaborate: a pamphlet [1], and advertisement created with pre-existing material, and a new logo [2] created with Adobe Photoshop. Both the brochure that the land contained numerous indications of its nature “not true”, but in Japanese language, and many fans who do not know how the Japanese led to believe (despite being the beginning of April) is the reality: this scherzo helped generate a lot of confusion, a confirmation of the high speed of dissemination of news on the Internet. By following this link you can get more information directly on Daizenshuu E, see pamphlet in Japanese and English, in addition to the ground Japanese and a movie subtitled in English demonstration that the sound of reality spot was taken from a single piece.
The entries on Dragon Ball AF continued to spread through forums, IRC, Usenet and simple mouth. Many people have heard these voices are dedicated to Dragon Ball AF pages of their Web sites, which contributes to the spread of the myth. While many have subsequently corrected by specifying that this is fan fiction [3], many people have thought that the information came from official sources. On the other hand fans have joined and changed the fabric of this story fantomatica, which are scattered throughout the network many “versions” (for example, when it appears Radish and Nappa as Super Saiyan 4, the most famous is the Tsufuru, it is curious is that the story which was distributed in the network were arrested in the same place, and some fans joined the final where the enemy would be defeated by Goku Super Saiyan 5, then go where others Ginew, Zarbon, Cell phones, refrigerators, an excellent C-16 and so on …). The fact is that Dragon Ball AF has been repeatedly mentioned as a new threat of souls, or as a new manga of the same Akira Toriyama, or as a comic book published “in its” (dojinshi). Perhaps the latter scenario is one that comes closest to reality, however, is the legend of Dragon Ball AF has created much confusion among fans of manga and anime.
Dragon Ball AF: The MANGA
From 2006 an independent team that seems to be one of the support team that Akira Toriyama, the team Toyble (http://blog.livedoor.jp/toyble/), is the application of the manga Dragon Ball AF. Despite being produced by Akira Toriyama, the manga in question is of very high quality and is without any shadow of doubt far greater than any other fan art on Dragon Ball AF. The cartoon presents the author’s original drawings and script incredibly organized, full of photos of the scene and accurate reference to previous sagas of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT.
In addition, the manga Dragon Ball AF has participated in its first exhibition Comics and has had great success in Japan, to the point of interest for some publishers who would be time to think about a possible publication. [No source] In addition to the 111 already on site pages, Toyble have already shown an additional 10 pages saboteurs and various curiosities.
The site is translated from the official site of anime in Australia: dragonball-italia.it
- Further investigation -
Toriyama stated publicly that it would not continue the series (which ended in 1995), although it has designed a series-parody, Neko Majin, in which even many of the characters of Dragon Ball.
The fansite Daizenshuu EX [4] has created a list of questions to confirm the theory that Dragon Ball AF does not exist:
1. The lack of promotion in the media of Japan.
* This refers to the lack of advertising in magazines and specialized web sites, as well as on television. Dragon Ball is well known in Japan, it seems impossible that a possible new series can be published without advertising and without being noticed by the Japanese population. EX Daizenshuu has played in this event for themselves by creating a brochure and a plot of Dragon Ball AF for its fish in April mentioned above.
2. The lack of official announcements by Toriyama, or Shueisha Toei Animation.
* Still in the “promotion”, none of the official Japanese sources of Dragon Ball has never granted interviews also show the simple realization of the AF series. Even if they are the voices that spread these ads have taken place, there is no recording.
3. The lack of articles, previews and reviews in magazines and blogs Japanese.
* Note that some of them have talked about the spread of the AF phenomenon outside Japan, and those who are unfamiliar with the Japanese may have thought that talking about the series itself, further increasing the spread of the items.
4. Lack of scans of the new comic books and screen shots of new movies or cartoons.
* While there are many images “false” (usually produced to wrongly attributed a joke or Dragon Ball AF), there are anywhere from scans of manga directly or screenshot available unchanged. Expected good fans in particular can go to promotional material, but there is no real comic or cartoon. Who says that also possess this type of material, for some reason are not showing ever.
5. The lack of translations of comic book fans (scanlation) and versions with subtitles amateur cardboard (fansub).
* Beyond ethical and legal implications, a series as popular as Dragon Ball have not stayed long without translations of fans. With modern methods of digital distribution, it would be highly unlikely not imbattercisi, including random, if it exists.
6. The lack of merchandising officer.
* Dragon Ball is, and always has been commercially exploited. In Japan a multitude of products (from action figures snack) display the logos of Dragon Ball and the characters of the series. The lack of goods related to Dragon Ball AF is a new confirmation that this series does not exist.
7. The official denial of VIZ Media and Funimation.
* Both distributors of manga and anime Dragon Ball in the United States, denying the existence of the series, it should be against their own financial interests, if it really existed. It is very unlikely to give a series categorically that they could produce millions of dollars.
- Trivia -
* Some think that the initials AF, indicating “Another Future” (Another Future), “After Future” ( “After the Future”, indicating a continuation of Dragon Ball GT), “Alternative Future” ( “Future Alternative, “as a hypothesis of this story to current and unsatisfactory saga of Dragon Ball GT) or” April Fool, “or April fish, to confirm that it is an invented story.
* Akira Toriyama said that the last stage of Super Saiyan is the fourth level, then there must not be a Super Saiyan 5.
* Change of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 was a video game Dragon Ball AF by some fans.