Chinese Bootleg Sequel Manga in 1996

[kei17]

As you know, there have been many fan-made Dragon Ball sequel projects after the rumor of AF became popular around the world. However, there already was a sequel in 1996, immediately after the original manga ended, and it was commercially published in China. It's called 西藏版 (xi zang ban, literal translation: Tibet version) after the name of the publisher 西藏人民出版社 (xi zang ren min chu ban she, literal translation: Tibetan People's Publishing House). It has three arcs, and each of them was divided into five volumes, so there are fifteen volumes in total. Of course, it's a bootleg series. In the first place, all the Dragon Ball manga releases in China had been bootlegs until the early 2000s.





Surprisingly, the art is half-decent for a bootleg, and though there are some panels that were obviously ripped-off of the original manga, it's mostly original. They even bothered to write the onomatopoeias in (broken) Japanese to label it as a true sequel produced in Japan. Since I don't speak Chinese, I don't understand the story, but it seems a little more creative than today's mass produced AF fan manga at least.




You can read all the volumes on this site: http://hi.baidu.com/supermajin/item/d18 ... 3248e1dd2a


Also, there is another bootleg sequel published by 新疆青少年出版社 (xin jiang qing shao nian chu ban she, literal translation: Xinjiang Juvenile Publishing House). I don't know much about this series, but it looks worse than xi zang ban. *Edit: I did a little research on this and it turned out to be a sequel to xi zang ban, so it's a bootleg of a bootleg.




In addition, there is a bootleg Dragon Ball/Dr. Slump crossover published by 中国华裔出版公司 (zhong guo hua yi chu ban gong si, Overseas Chinese Publishing Corporation) in 1990.

[B]

Is that supposed to be Vegeta? But yeah, based on those three pages, it's not awful-looking.

[Gyt Kaliba]

...Do I even want to know what Yajirobe is doing to Mr. Satan on the cover of the first volume?

Pretty neat find though. I dunno how much I'll get out of it by flipping through pages I can't read (I'm assuming they're untranslated anyway), but I may give this a look just for the heck of it. It's just amazing to think how many different unofficial creations there are stretching back over the years.

[kei17]

Is that supposed to be Vegeta?

He is just a weak earthling.

...Do I even want to know what Yajirobe is doing to Mr. Satan on the cover of the first volume?

I want to know that, too. For your information it's volume 1 of the final arc, and the subtitle says "Piccolo suicides himself".

[KentalSSJ6]

Yeah...just gonna go burn my eyes out now.

[TheRed259]

Very interesting! Kinda reminds me of the Greek DBZ stickers with Gohan Super Saiyan 4.

[DarkPrince_92]

Gross... just gross.

[kei17]

Yeah...just gonna go burn my eyes out now.

Gross... just gross.

Do you mean the cover? The actual contents look good anyway.

[doomydoomydoom]

LMFAO! My God, nothing like a Chinese bootleg.

Seems impossible to infer that Yajirobe is doing anything OTHER than what you'd think he's doing to Mr. S...

"Piccolo Suicides Himself?" Eh? I'm assuming they mean a "last ditch" attack on an enemy. Although I'd like to imagine him killing himself like Tommy Wiseau in The Room.

*Piccolo puts finger in mouth* "Gahd...fowgive me. MAKANKOSAPPO!!!"

[kei17]

More info added to the OP.

[shinmaru]

Yeah...just gonna go burn my eyes out now.

Gross... just gross.

Do you mean the cover? The actual contents look good anyway.

I like how they did Pikkoro antenna.
And what is happening with Satan ?

[kei17]

Incidentally, a similar thing happened in Indonesia, too. A bootleg publisher continued the serialization of Dragon Ball themselves because it was a huge hit, but the sequel was soon cancelled due to the bad reputation.

I like how they did Pikkoro antenna.
And what is happening with Satan ?

They are just flowing in the wind, though. As for Satan, I looked into the volume and it seems to be a panel from a gag scene where Yajirobe is trying to take out something from Satan's ass.

[Kakarot88]

What are the general storylines of these various works?

[Scarz]

No way! I saw a few of these in China Town in NYC years back! They were on a table full of other old Chinese mangas and I assumed they were just reprints of the official mangas (with covers I'd never seen before). I didn't bother to skim through them, instead I just brought the other books instead. Crap, if I knew I would've brought them too. I think they were only a few bucks each.

EDIT: At least I'm pretty sure it was the same fan made books. A few of these covers looked awfully familiar.

As for Satan, I looked into the volume and it seems to be a panel from a gag scene where Yajirobe is trying to take out something from Satan's ass.

Oh my god... that has got to be one of the grossest gags I've heard of. What's in his ass anyway that has to pulled out with a stick?

[kei17]

No way! I saw a few of these in China Town in NYC years back! They were on a table full of other old Chinese mangas and I assumed they were just reprints of the official mangas (with covers I'd never seen before). I didn't bother to skim through them, instead I just brought the other books instead. Crap, if I knew I would've brought them too. I think they were only a few bucks each.

EDIT: At least I'm pretty sure it was the same fan made books. A few of these covers looked awfully familiar.

You should've bought them! But they could be 海南版 (hai nan ban), which includes only the original manga. Hai nan ban was the most popular DB manga release in China (of course it's a bootleg, too) and this xi zang ban sequel manga obviously took it as a model.

Hai nan ban comics



Anyway, calling this "fan made" is a little inappropriate because the publisher sold the books for pure commercial purposes by hiring an artist themselves.

[Herms]

Alright, so I translated the volume and chapter titles for the first bootleg Kei posted up. Seemed like the perfect chance to put my still rather meager Chinese skills to a good (?) use.

Like Kei said earlier, this series consists of 15 volumes (7 chapters a volume), divided up into 3 story arcs. But in addition, there appears to be a fourth story arc continuing things, which has 3 volumes at the moment with the last 2 apparently still not complete. Despite being broken up into these sub-sections, the entire thing appears to be one big storyline, called the "Zero World" or "Jia Tai" story arc.

Going just off the chapter titles, this "Jia Tai" fellow (absolutely no clue what, if anything, this name is based on) is apparently the master of this "Zero World" place, and has his own "Armed Guard" that sounds a bit like the Ginyu Force. A lot of the other villains (Jia Tai's underlings, I'd assume) seem to have names like "Cindy" and "Sally", but I could be wrong. One of them has the same name in Chinese as the tokusatsu hero Gridman for God knows what reason.

I'll have to try actually reading the thing next to try and make sense of all this.

Anyway, here's the titles:

Spoiler:

The “Return to the Dragon Ball World” Arc

Volume 1: An Unexpected Fusion
1. Satan and Oob’s Deal
2. The Match Everyone Loves
3. Boo’s Afraid of Oob
4. The Finals Begin
5. Awesome, Pan!!
6. An Unexpected Fusion
7. The Battle Hangs in the Balance

Volume 2: Oob’s Demonic Nature Emerges
1. Master and Student Face Off
2. Oob Has a Few Tricks Up His Sleeve
3. Babidi’s Barbara […I have no clue…]
4. Oob’s Demonic Nature Emerges
5. Vegeta and Oob Fight
6. Super Magic Eye
7. The New Majin’s True Power

Volume 3: Pan is Kidnapped
1. Gotenks Fails
2. Babidi Wants the Dragon Balls
3. Satan Summons Up his Courage
4. Pan is Kidnapped
5. The Mysterious Master
6. Even Kaio Can’t Find Pan
7. …The Zero World…

Volume 4: The Real Battle Begins
1. An Anxious Wait
2. A Taste of the Zero World
3. Jia Tai’s Armed Guard
4. Vegeta Launches his Attack
5. The Real Battle Begins
6. Hurry Up, Gotenks!
7. Vegeta Breaks Through the Limits of Death

Volume 5: The Promise from the Beginning of the Universe
1. The Confident Vegeta
2. Piccolo In Danger
3. Hang in There, Piccolo!
4. The Promise from the Beginning of the Universe
5. Jia Tai’s True Objective
6. Babidi is Robbed and Killed
7. Son Goku’s Predicament

The “Space Game” Arc

Volume 6: Forestalling the Enemy
1. Pan Transforms
2. Blocking the Jia Tai Guard
3. Kaioshin is Injured
4. In Order to Stop Shenlong from Appearing
5. Forestalling the Enemy
6. Satan’s Counterattack
7. “I’ve Taken Back the Dragon Balls!”

Volume 7: Satan’s Brave Retreat
1. Satan Hauls Ass
2. Satan’s Brave Retreat
3. Cindy’s Transformation
4. Boo is Punctured
5. Boo’s Not Dead Yet
6. Cindy Gets Eaten by Boo
7. The Jia Tai Guard’s Fearsome Power

Volume 8: The Light-Speed Fist
1. Son Goku and Gridman Face Off
2. The Light-Speed Fist
3. The Only Way to Counter the Light-Speed Fist
4. Son Goku’s Counterattack
5. Hang In There! Hold Him Back!
6. Trunks Dies?
7. A Matter of Life or Death

Volume 9: Taking You Down With Me
1. Trunks’ Successful Surprise Attack
2. Gohan Can’t Stand it Anymore
3. Taking You Down With Me
4. Sally’s Fission
5. There’s No Escape
6. Son Goku Takes Them by Surprise
7. Son Goku Exhausts his Full Power

Volume 10: Son Goku Hangs in There
1. The Zero World Power Spheres
2. Satan and Gridman Play Hide and Seek
3. Goku Hangs in There
4. Satan Doesn’t Hand Over the Dragon Balls
5. Kaio’s Genki-Dama
6. Son Goku’s Indomitable Will
7. Goku is Saved

The “Master of Zero World’s New Terror” Arc

Volume 11: Piccolo Commits Suicide
1. Goku’s Out of Energy
2. Shenlong Appears
3. Jia Tai’s Two Wishes
4. The Only Way of Stopping Shenlong
5. A Difficult Decision
6. Piccolo Commits Suicide
7. Satan’s Stomachache

Volume 12: Jia Tai Descends
1. Goku is Beaten by an Earthling
2. Boo’s Curiosity
3. Chi Chi’s Wish
4. Who is Guiding Vegeta?
5. Jia Tai Descends
6. The Rebellious Vegeta (1)
7. The Rebellious Vegeta (2)

Volume 13: Setting Off For a Strange Land
1. What Does Vegeta Want to Do?
2. Breaking Through the Limit
3. Vegeta Launches Another Attack
4. Vegeta Suffers Another Defeat
5. Setting Off For a Strange Land
6. The Bubbles of the Strange Land [apparently “Bubbles” is a character name. So is it Kaio’s monkey’s bizarro world doppelganger?]
7. Vegeta’s Out of Energy

Volume 14: Kaio Asks the Namekians
1. Elder Gema
2. Pan’s Resolution
3. Only One Choice
4. The Might of Jia Tai
5. Naughty Bubbles
6. Kaio Asks the Namekians
7. Babidi Arrives on Namek Too

Volume 15: Jia Tai Appears
1. Setting Off for that Dangerous Place!
2. Danger…!
3. Confronting The Menace of Babidi
4. Babidi’s Pleased with Himself
5. The Great Elder Speaks his Wish
6. The Strange Wish
7. Jia Tai Appears

The “Primitive Saiyans” Arc (continuation)

Volume 16: Decision
1. Gotenks Joins the Fight
2. The Great Assembly of Kaioshins
3. Oob Rejoins the Team
4. The Fusion Countdown
5. The Palace of Kaio’s Earliest Ancestor
6. Decision
7. Earring Fusion Trunkten

Volume 17: The Return of the Mightiest Warrior
1. The Great Cycle of Time and Space
2. The Spirits of the Primitive Saiyans
3. Trunkten’s Valor
4. Jia Tai’s Final Transformation
5. The Children’s Call
6. The Return of the Mightiest Warrior
7. The Saiyan’s Grudge

Volume 18: The Tables Turn
1. Jia Tai’s Immortal Body
2. The Elder Kaioshin’s Directions
3. Boo and Oob Rush to Zero World
4. Win by Wisdom
5. Sealing Off Zero World’s Space
6. The Tables Turn
7. The King’s Confession

Volume 19: The Final Ancient Battle (updating)
Volume 20: ?

[sangofe]

Someone get these scanned and translated!

[Blade]

Cannot be unseen. Oh my God, this is more disturbing than any Dragonball slash fanfiction premise I've heard of - and believe me, there's some messed up ideas out there.

[ACCloud]

Bizarre artwork aside, kudos to whoever wrote this thing for using Oob. It seems like he doesn't appear much after the third volume (he seems to become Babidi's slave?), but it's nice that they at least gave him a decent role - his fight with Goku looked kinda neat. It also looks like Goku and Vegeta got a lot of screen time together, which always has the potential to be fun - particularly in the last volume which shows them exploring some sort of strange, new realm. Honestly, if it was English, I'd probably give it a read

[RocktheDragon]

The Chinese bootleg sequel looks pretty awesome! I would totally try to get my hands on this release if I had any idea as to how. I think I will show my wife the scans and then we can go through the story together that way. It will make for a great Friday night read.