Dragon Ball's Super Saiyan 5 Explained
A fan drawing of a a supposed Super Saiyan 5 led many fans to believe that the Dragon Ball franchise would continue beyond Dragon Ball GT years before the debut of Dragon Ball Super. In the late '90s towards the end of Dragon Ball GT, an image surfaced online detailing a silver haired Goku that looked like a cross between Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 4 and quickly took the internet by storm. This image was soon dubbed “Super Saiyan 5” by fans, who began speculating on what it meant. The truth is, of course, more complicated as Super Saiyan 5 never came and Dragon Ball went without a new series for another decade and a half until the release of Dragon Ball Super.
In the image of this supposed Super Saiyan 5, the letters "AF" were featured prominently in the corner, leading many fans to believe this meant a new series called Dragon Ball: After Future was coming after the end of GT. Others believed that this AF simply stood for April Fool’s and dismissed the image as an internet publicity stunt entirely. The truth of the matter is that this image actually came from a Spanish video game magazine called Hobby Consolas.
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The most iconic Super Saiyan 5 most image came from a work of fan art submitted to Hobby Consolas by an individual named David Montiel Franco. This famous fan art was meant to be nothing more than that and the original intentions of the letters “AF” are unknown to this day. Though it was just fan art and not an official teaser like many Dragon Ball fans had hoped, this single Super Saiyan 5 image alone was enough to spawn countless fan spinoff mangas centered around ideas of what Dragon Ball AF could be. One of these spinoffs was
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