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Afterimage Fist[1][2][3]
ざんぞうけん Zanzōken
Viz Afterimage Technique
Split-Image Technique[4]
Games After-Image Technique[5]
Afterimage Strike[6]
Afterimage Attack
Other Bunshin no Jutsu (ぶんしんじゅつ­; Viz "Afterimage Speed Illusion"; Literally meaning "Clone Technique")
Phantom Star Fist (幻星拳, Genseiken; English "Phantom Star Technique")
First Appearance
Manga Debut Dragon Ball Volume #4, Chapter #43
Anime Debut DB024
Data
Type Physical Martial Arts Technique
Sub-Type Afterimage Type
Class Supplementary
Range User
Derived technique(s)
Related technique(s)
Users
Non-canon Users
  • Chin Taiken


The Afterimage Fist is a Physical Martial Arts Technique that is introduced by Jackie Chun in the Dragon Ball series.

Usage[]

This technique is created by a user's swift physical movements creating an intangible, transparent, distorted, decoy of the castor that in itself cannot perform autonomous tasks. The technique is commonly used to confuse its target, to mistake them for the user to give the opportunity to perform a counterattack.[2][3]

Murasaki of the Red Ribbon Army refers to the Afterimage Fist as the Bunshin no Jutsu (ぶんしんじゅつ­; Viz "Afterimage Speed Illusion"; Literally meaning "Clone Technique"), a form of ninjutsu centered around self-replication.[7] However, Murasaki's version of said technique involves his brothers instead of actual high-speed movement.

In the anime, Chin Taiken employs a variation of the Afterimage Fist known as the Phantom Star Fist (幻星拳, Genseiken; English "Phantom Star Technique"). However, with the exception of the name and the philosophy behind it, there is no difference between the two techniques.

Trivia[]

  • In the anime, Karin claimed to be the inventor of the technique.
  • Despite being a different technique with a similar result, Afterimage Sorcery is typically grouped together with the Afterimage Sorcery in games.

References[]

  1. Daizenshū 2, page 203
  2. 2.0 2.1 Daizenshū 4, page 116
  3. 3.0 3.1 Daizenshū 7, page 140
  4. Viz Media
  5. Dragon Ball Kai Attack of the Saiyans
  6. Budokai Tenkaichi series
  7. Dragon Ball Chapter 58, pg. 7