Anyone here read AF?

[Southern Gothic]

I've got a couple of the original Doujinshi. The ones with Ize by YoungJiji, I believe.

They are still in Japanese. Bought them mostly for the artwork. But I see now that the English versions are now on ebay, done by Herms. And for much, much cheaper.

Was thinking about giving it a read. Anyway, I wanted to open a discussion about it to here what you guys thought of it.

 

[Dragon15]

Yes, I read them online. I am waiting for the other story made by the same author dbafter who happens before gt.

 

[FutureProtagonist]

I've read them. They're fine. They've got fighting.

Youngjiji's version has the craziest powerscaling. Ize is said to be "10 times stronger than Freeza", but he's also stronger than SSJ4 Gohan.

Of course, he's the same character as Freeza and Cooler, so nothing particularly interesting.

 

[Southern Gothic]

I've read them. They're fine. They've got fighting.

Youngjiji's version has the craziest powerscaling. Ize is said to be "10 times stronger than Freeza", but he's also stronger than SSJ4 Gohan.

Of course, he's the same character as Freeza and Cooler, so nothing particularly interesting.

That's all I'm really expecting. I've got a decent idea of what happens in the first few chapters, just based off the visuals.

Honestly, I only bought it to see SSJ3 Vegeta. So my bar isn't totally high on this one.

 

[Southern Gothic]

Also, do you guys prefer Toyble or YoungJiji's version? I am only familiar with the latter, so that's the one I'm sticking with.

 

[FutureProtagonist]

It's a tossup. The villain in Toyble's AF is just a dumb villain Sue (Wow! He's Goku's brother and he's half god and he's Super Saiyan 5. Wow!), while the villain in Youngjiji's is unoriginal, but serviceable. Toyble tends to use secondary characters better (Kibitoshin and Trunks do things that are useful!).

They're quite similar, though. Both of them have SSJ4 Gohan and SSJ5. Youngjiji uses SSJ5 better (kind of), but they're both rather plain.

 

[Southern Gothic]

It's a tossup. The villain in Toyble's AF is just a dumb villain Sue (Wow! He's Goku's brother and he's half god and he's Super Saiyan 5. Wow!), while the villain in Youngjiji's is unoriginal, but serviceable. Toyble tends to use secondary characters better (Kibitoshin and Trunks do things that are useful!).

They're quite similar, though. Both of them have SSJ4 Gohan and SSJ5. Youngjiji uses SSJ5 better (kind of), but they're both rather plain.

They did seem rather similar. Enough so that it took me some time to start to differentiate. If you don't mind giving me some more info, what happens a bit down the road. I know they bring in Broli, and I haven't seen Goku at all in the issue I have. How does that fit in?

Sorry, I'm not trying to have you narrate the entire plot. I'm more unfamiliar where the series goes after the first few issues.

 

[FutureProtagonist]

I'm actually not familiar with that. I pretty much only read the first arcs of each one. The last thing I remember from Toyble's AF is that Vegeta trained for 100 years (or whatever) in the Suuuper RoSaT and he beats up the villain really easily in base and stuff. I didn't get very far because I couldn't find an English translation.

The last thing I remember from YoungJiji's is Gohan going Super Saiyan 5 after Pan dies and killing Ize.

Wow, there's a shitload of Youngjiji stuff. I had no clue. It's safe to say that I have really no clue about it either.

 

[Dragon15]

Here you have english versions of youngjijii's af And toyble's.

https://www.facebook.com/DBAF.USA/photos_stream?tab=photos_albums

Here you can find the beginning of the vol 5 of toyble translated.

http://nuruigumi.tumblr.com/post/77117792340/translating-dragonball-af-manga

Me, I am waiting for the english version of db after made by youngjijii too.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I read the first few chapters of the version done by Toyble several years ago, up until a few chapters after Kibitoshin self destructs to kill West Kaioshin. Can't say it was anything interesting since, like most DB fanfiction, it panders more to the aspect of showing characters in forms they didn't achieve in the series and uses that as it's selling point, much like DBH. For instance, Gohan gets SS4 out of nowhere and Xicor being an asspull in itself.

 

[Uncle Goten]

I've read Toyble's AF manga, didn't even know there was another fan manga. Is it worth reading?

 

[Southern Gothic]

I've read Toyble's AF manga, didn't even know there was another fan manga. Is it worth reading?

I only have the Japanese books. I've read a couple online. I like it, and most people seem to be putting them on the same level of quality. Art is great, of course. Like I said, I got it soley to see SSJ3 Vegeta kick some ass. And he did. For a minute.

Still considering getting a few of the translated versions. Don't really like reading them online.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

Bump

I forgot much about it, I guess it's time for me read it again.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Wait, Toyotaro's didn't even get to Goku making it to earth before it went on "hiatus", did it?

 

[Pocket-Gog~]

Wait, Toyotaro's didn't even get to Goku making it to earth before it went on "hiatus", did it?

he followed up with duragon ball super

 

[Fantastische Hure]

He left for another manga. I think it was DragonBall Heroes.