ＡＦへの感想ありがとうございます。
すこーしずつですが、進めてはいます。スイマセン。
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ドラゴンボールAF / DRAGON BALL AF
Showing posts with label Dragon Ball Z. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dragon Ball Z. Show all posts
Monday, April 1, 2013
Toyblog Update - Super Saiyan God
http://blog.livedoor.jp/toyble/
Toyble commemorates the release of Dragon Ball Z - Battle of Gods! He thanks everyone for all the feedback and states that Dragon Ball AF will continue!
ＡＦへの感想ありがとうございます。
すこーしずつですが、進めてはいます。スイマセン。
Click here for a preview of Volume 5!
ＡＦへの感想ありがとうございます。
すこーしずつですが、進めてはいます。スイマセン。
Click here for a preview of Volume 5!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Battle of Gods - Young Jijii's Dragon Ball AF
http://blog.livedoor.jp/youngjijii/
Young Jijii commemorates the release of Dragon Ball Z - Battle of Gods! He states on his blog the story might connect with Dragon Ball AF in the future!
ﾄﾞﾗｺﾞﾝﾎﾞｰﾙAFもどんどん描きますよ～
Young Jijii commemorates the release of Dragon Ball Z - Battle of Gods! He states on his blog the story might connect with Dragon Ball AF in the future!
ﾄﾞﾗｺﾞﾝﾎﾞｰﾙAFもどんどん描きますよ～
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Young Jijii's Custom Dragon Ball Cards
http://blog.livedoor.jp/youngjijii/
Young Jijii has released some Dragon Ball Z cards with custom art!
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
The 1st Legendary Super Saiyan
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Original_Super_Saiyan
"According to legend, the last Super Saiyan could only maintain his status in the transformed state. His power was extraordinary, he had no equal in the universe. But he was too primitive to control it, his rage burned so intensely that it eventually consumed him. In the end, he was destroyed by his own power."
— Vegeta, in "Goku's New Power"
The Original Super Saiyan (先代の超サイヤ人, Sendai no Sūpā Saiya-jin; lit. "Previous Generation Super Saiyan") was an unnamed Saiyan who could transform into a Super Saiyan. He was originally thought to be nothing more than a myth.
Vegeta states that the last Super Saiyan to appear was a thousand years prior (three thousand in the Ocean dub) to the beginning of Dragon Ball Z. The original legend of the Super Saiyan was more about his power than the Saiyan himself, stating that he had achieved a level of power so overwhelming that it could only be maintained in a transformed state. When the Dragon Ball Z anime was released, a filler scene in the episode "Goku's New Power" was added showing the Super Saiyan as a Great Ape with yellowish colored fur instead of the standard brown. It may be that he was the first Golden Great Ape, and he could not control it, which ultimately led to his demise.
The Super Saiyan was fabled to have been destroyed by his own power, and the filler visual in the anime suggests that his power destroyed the planet that he was on. Vegeta states that the Original Super Saiyan destroyed the Original Saiyan Homeworld immediately after his transformation, thus forcing the remaining Saiyan survivors to flee to Planet Plant (which was later renamed Planet Vegeta). In the series, the form is believed to be a myth, until Vegeta begins to suspect that Goku is a Super Saiyan after seeing his drastic increase in power in a short period of time. Vegeta's suspicions are not confirmed until later, when Goku transforms against Frieza, and states that he is a Super Saiyan.
Contrary to Bardock who transformed into a Super Saiyan on Planet Plant, only seen in this form by Plants and Chilled, the Original Super Saiyan transformed on the original Saiyan homeworld, among other Saiyans. Bardock's story in Episode of Bardock explains Frieza's fear of the Saiyans, as Chilled passed his knowledge of Super Saiyans to his descendants, while the Original Super Saiyan explains the Saiyans' knowledge of the Super Saiyan legend.
"According to legend, the last Super Saiyan could only maintain his status in the transformed state. His power was extraordinary, he had no equal in the universe. But he was too primitive to control it, his rage burned so intensely that it eventually consumed him. In the end, he was destroyed by his own power."
— Vegeta, in "Goku's New Power"
The Original Super Saiyan (先代の超サイヤ人, Sendai no Sūpā Saiya-jin; lit. "Previous Generation Super Saiyan") was an unnamed Saiyan who could transform into a Super Saiyan. He was originally thought to be nothing more than a myth.
Vegeta states that the last Super Saiyan to appear was a thousand years prior (three thousand in the Ocean dub) to the beginning of Dragon Ball Z. The original legend of the Super Saiyan was more about his power than the Saiyan himself, stating that he had achieved a level of power so overwhelming that it could only be maintained in a transformed state. When the Dragon Ball Z anime was released, a filler scene in the episode "Goku's New Power" was added showing the Super Saiyan as a Great Ape with yellowish colored fur instead of the standard brown. It may be that he was the first Golden Great Ape, and he could not control it, which ultimately led to his demise.
The Super Saiyan was fabled to have been destroyed by his own power, and the filler visual in the anime suggests that his power destroyed the planet that he was on. Vegeta states that the Original Super Saiyan destroyed the Original Saiyan Homeworld immediately after his transformation, thus forcing the remaining Saiyan survivors to flee to Planet Plant (which was later renamed Planet Vegeta). In the series, the form is believed to be a myth, until Vegeta begins to suspect that Goku is a Super Saiyan after seeing his drastic increase in power in a short period of time. Vegeta's suspicions are not confirmed until later, when Goku transforms against Frieza, and states that he is a Super Saiyan.
Contrary to Bardock who transformed into a Super Saiyan on Planet Plant, only seen in this form by Plants and Chilled, the Original Super Saiyan transformed on the original Saiyan homeworld, among other Saiyans. Bardock's story in Episode of Bardock explains Frieza's fear of the Saiyans, as Chilled passed his knowledge of Super Saiyans to his descendants, while the Original Super Saiyan explains the Saiyans' knowledge of the Super Saiyan legend.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Demon Realm
http://daizex.fanboyreview.net/
The Demon Realm
魔界/Makai
Translation: demon world, demon realm
AKA: 悪魔界/akumakai (“Devil Realm”), 暗黒魔界/ankoku-makai (“Demon Realm of Darkness”)
Other Names: the Underworld, the Netherworld, the Spirit World (all various fansubs)
The Demon Realm is the lower half of the living world, a dimension that exists on the reverse side of the universe. It’s not to be confused with Hell, which exists in the afterlife. According to Daizenshuu 7, it’s a chaotic place where magic has more influence than science. The Kaio/shin themselves don’t really understand the Demon Realm, as not even the gods’ eyes can reach it. As a result, not much is known about it other then that it is the home of evil life-forms. Records still survive of these life-forms interfering with the peace of the universe’s planets. In fact, one of the factors in the nations of the DB Earth unifying into a single world state was to guard against this threat from the Demon Realm.
Like the universe with its division between the four cardinal directions, the Demon Realm is divided into several different spatial areas, though it’s unknown how many there are or what these divisions are based on. Either way, all these areas are unified under the rule of Dabra, the king of the Demon Realm and far and away its strongest resident, according to Kaioshin. Or at least they were, until Dabra was brainwashed by the wizard Babidi into becoming his servant. Dabra’s been working for Babidi for at least the last 300 years, and it’s not known who if anyone has taken control of the Demon Realm in Dabra’s absence.
According to Toriyama in the recent Super Exciting Guides, the Demon Realm has its own special gods called Makaio and Makaioshin (“Kings of the Demon Realm” and “Gods of the Kings of the Demon Realm”, respectively). They’re the antitheses of the Kaio and Kaioshin, and govern evil. Whenever one of the Shinjin (the special race that Kaio and Kaioshin are selected from) is born with an evil heart, they leave the Shinjin’s planet and go to be with the Makaio. However, it’s unknown whether the Makaio/shin themselves are selected from among these delinquent Shinjin, or whether they are beings who have always existed in the Demon Realm and simply ally themselves with evil Shinjin. It’s also not known whether Dabra himself was a Makaio/shin, or if he was simply a political ruler of the Demon Realm rather than a god (like the difference between the Earth’s World King and its God). At any rate, Toriyama says that currently the power of the Kaioshin is greater than that of the Makaioshin.
In the manga we never officially see the Demon Realm, but when Gohan and Dabra are fighting Babidi teleports them to some different world, one of rocky plains and blood-red water. Since Babidi transported his other henchmen Pui Pui and Yakon to their respective home worlds during their fights with Goku and co., it seems likely that this is the Demon Realm. Also, when Dabra dies Enma Daio sends him to Heaven on the reasoning that he’d be happy to go to Hell. This implies that Hell and the Demon Realm are similar, and in fact the place where Gohan and Dabra fight does somewhat resemble Hell as seen in the anime. Also, the two realms are positioned similarly in their respective worlds: Hell at the bottom of the afterlife, and the Demon Realm at the bottom of the living world.
The Demon Realm also figures into the anime filler showing Goku’s journeys while training for the 22nd Tenkaichi Budoukai, made years before the Demon Realm was ever mentioned in the manga (though “Demon World” is a fairly generic term that pops up in lots of manga and anime, so it’s use here is probably a coincidence). In DB episode 81, Goku visits a village being attacked nightly by beings from the Demon Realm. In another premonition of things to come, the inhabitants of the Demon Realm are called majin in this episode, with females being called majo, literally “demon woman” but generally used to mean “witch”. These fiends are coming from the Demon Realm Gate, a portal linking the living world to the afterlife, and located in a cave connected with the Demon Realm. This portal is only supposed to be used by grim reapers, who are authorized to do so by Enma Daio and God (mentioned in yet another bit of unintentional foreshadowing).
A Demon Realm martial artist named Shura jams a cursed sword into the gate to keep it open, allowing him and his fellow fiends to come and go freely between the Earth and Demon Realm. Eventually Goku manages to set all this right, mostly by grabbing a princess Shura had kidnapped and running away very fast. This filler version of the Demon Realm has several inconsistencies between the Demon Realm that later figures in the Boo arc (such as the Demon Realm apparently being part of the afterlife), but it’s still a neat little side story.
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Demon_Realm
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Makaioshin
The Demon Realm
魔界/Makai
Translation: demon world, demon realm
AKA: 悪魔界/akumakai (“Devil Realm”), 暗黒魔界/ankoku-makai (“Demon Realm of Darkness”)
Other Names: the Underworld, the Netherworld, the Spirit World (all various fansubs)
The Demon Realm is the lower half of the living world, a dimension that exists on the reverse side of the universe. It’s not to be confused with Hell, which exists in the afterlife. According to Daizenshuu 7, it’s a chaotic place where magic has more influence than science. The Kaio/shin themselves don’t really understand the Demon Realm, as not even the gods’ eyes can reach it. As a result, not much is known about it other then that it is the home of evil life-forms. Records still survive of these life-forms interfering with the peace of the universe’s planets. In fact, one of the factors in the nations of the DB Earth unifying into a single world state was to guard against this threat from the Demon Realm.
Like the universe with its division between the four cardinal directions, the Demon Realm is divided into several different spatial areas, though it’s unknown how many there are or what these divisions are based on. Either way, all these areas are unified under the rule of Dabra, the king of the Demon Realm and far and away its strongest resident, according to Kaioshin. Or at least they were, until Dabra was brainwashed by the wizard Babidi into becoming his servant. Dabra’s been working for Babidi for at least the last 300 years, and it’s not known who if anyone has taken control of the Demon Realm in Dabra’s absence.
According to Toriyama in the recent Super Exciting Guides, the Demon Realm has its own special gods called Makaio and Makaioshin (“Kings of the Demon Realm” and “Gods of the Kings of the Demon Realm”, respectively). They’re the antitheses of the Kaio and Kaioshin, and govern evil. Whenever one of the Shinjin (the special race that Kaio and Kaioshin are selected from) is born with an evil heart, they leave the Shinjin’s planet and go to be with the Makaio. However, it’s unknown whether the Makaio/shin themselves are selected from among these delinquent Shinjin, or whether they are beings who have always existed in the Demon Realm and simply ally themselves with evil Shinjin. It’s also not known whether Dabra himself was a Makaio/shin, or if he was simply a political ruler of the Demon Realm rather than a god (like the difference between the Earth’s World King and its God). At any rate, Toriyama says that currently the power of the Kaioshin is greater than that of the Makaioshin.
In the manga we never officially see the Demon Realm, but when Gohan and Dabra are fighting Babidi teleports them to some different world, one of rocky plains and blood-red water. Since Babidi transported his other henchmen Pui Pui and Yakon to their respective home worlds during their fights with Goku and co., it seems likely that this is the Demon Realm. Also, when Dabra dies Enma Daio sends him to Heaven on the reasoning that he’d be happy to go to Hell. This implies that Hell and the Demon Realm are similar, and in fact the place where Gohan and Dabra fight does somewhat resemble Hell as seen in the anime. Also, the two realms are positioned similarly in their respective worlds: Hell at the bottom of the afterlife, and the Demon Realm at the bottom of the living world.
The Demon Realm also figures into the anime filler showing Goku’s journeys while training for the 22nd Tenkaichi Budoukai, made years before the Demon Realm was ever mentioned in the manga (though “Demon World” is a fairly generic term that pops up in lots of manga and anime, so it’s use here is probably a coincidence). In DB episode 81, Goku visits a village being attacked nightly by beings from the Demon Realm. In another premonition of things to come, the inhabitants of the Demon Realm are called majin in this episode, with females being called majo, literally “demon woman” but generally used to mean “witch”. These fiends are coming from the Demon Realm Gate, a portal linking the living world to the afterlife, and located in a cave connected with the Demon Realm. This portal is only supposed to be used by grim reapers, who are authorized to do so by Enma Daio and God (mentioned in yet another bit of unintentional foreshadowing).
A Demon Realm martial artist named Shura jams a cursed sword into the gate to keep it open, allowing him and his fellow fiends to come and go freely between the Earth and Demon Realm. Eventually Goku manages to set all this right, mostly by grabbing a princess Shura had kidnapped and running away very fast. This filler version of the Demon Realm has several inconsistencies between the Demon Realm that later figures in the Boo arc (such as the Demon Realm apparently being part of the afterlife), but it’s still a neat little side story.
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Demon_Realm
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Makaioshin
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Episode of Bardock Anime - Online Worldwide
Audiences worldwide can now enjoy the anime adaptation of "Episode of Bardock", as Toei Animation's "Anime Jan" website is currently offering a free stream until December 28, 2011 that is not region-locked (but without subtitles).
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Daizenshuu EX
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Dragon Ball Z - AF Mail
There is a mailbox with the letters "AF" on it in West City as seen in the Dragon Ball episode "A Trip to the City", as well as on a mailbox seen in Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks.
A mailbox with "AF" on it in West City
A mailbox with "AF" on it in The History of Trunks
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_AF
A mailbox with "AF" on it in West City
A mailbox with "AF" on it in The History of Trunks
http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_AF
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