Dragon Ball AF Explained. You hate it, you love it, or maybe youve never heard of it. In any case, I doubt you know the full story. Its a truth that Dragon Ball fandom is and always has been intense. Regardless of their preferred version, Dragon Ball fans absolutely love their Dragon Ball. Just before Dragon Ball GT concluded its original television run in Japan in 1. Dragon Ball AF. Fans wanted the series to continue. The only problem is that it was never true. And you might suppose we could end this article right here. But as with everything involving Dragon Ball and its impact across the world, theres a lot more to the story. Dragon Ball AF was originally the creation of an unknown fan that evidently had a strong desire for a fourth Dragon Ball anime series. A single image appeared on the web of a hypothetical Super Saiyan 5 Goku with a Dragon Ball AF logo on it, and from there it spread like wildfire. Kanzenshuu formerly Daizenshuu EX and Kanzentai is the numberone Dragon Ball news information database and community You are going to watch Steven Universe Episode 1 online free episodes with good English translation. The rumor grew gradually over the years and took on a life of its own, spawning many fan creations, illustrations, videos, episode listings, action figures, and even high quality fan manga based on the collective rumors. For example, who is this guy fighting Goku Images like this confused the heck out of new Dragon Ball fans. And those who circulated lies about Dragon Ball AF preyed on the gullible nature of fans who simply wanted to see more of their favorite characters. The desire for a new Dragon Ball series is so strong that even today the rumor is still actively spread that Dragon Ball AF is the next official series from Toei, and that the videos and images leaked on You. Watch Dbaf Episodes Online' title='Watch Dbaf Episodes Online' />Tube will arrive in the next year or two. New fans continue to fall for it, and the cycle continues. Despite all the time that it has been around, if you search online for an explanation of Dragon Ball AF, you will only find bits and pieces of info. A short wiki article here, some crudely Photoshopped images there, a guy saying its not real while another screams back that it is, followed by immature insults and a link to fan made manga. There are, maybe, two good sources on the topic. Unless you spend hours putting the pieces together, youll be confused or simply dismiss the whole thing outright. Because of Dragon Ball Z Kais and Dragon Ball GTs second syndication on TV, there is now a new generation of Dragon Ball fan looking to see what happens next. With the realization that people are still being confused, I set out to discover the true story behind Dragon Ball AF and write the definitive article. Along the way I found a captivating story to tell. The Dragon Ball AF Trend. Before we get into the details of Dragon Ball AF, Id like you to see just how popular it is. Ive been a fan of Dragon Ball since 1. Cartoon Networks. Toonami block and Midnight Run. Watch Cop Land Download Full here. Even back then I remember seeing rumors about it on the Internet. Ive never done an article about Dragon Ball AF because frankly, I didnt think it was worth digging into. As a kid I realized it wasnt real after 5 seconds of seeing the first image. It was obviously poor quality and made by fans. I was curious, but since it wasnt genuine I thought the rumor would be dead in a few years. But Dragon Ball AF continues to be talked about. Somehow people are still falling for the rumors. In fact its even more popular now than when Dragon Ball Z was syndicated on national TV. Consider the following search trends. According to Google Adwords keywords tool, the term dragon ball AF received 1,0. January, 2. 01. 1 to January, 2. Watch Amnesiac Online Hulu. And at the date of this article it has 3,4. Google search results. For comparison, dragon ball z kai received the same 1,0. This means Dragon Ball AF is currently 1. Dragon Ball Z Kai, and its not even realNor is it backed by millions of dollars in marketing. How is that possible The rumor started in 1. STILL actively looking for it 1. Query data for Dragon Ball AF on Google only begins in 2. Google began recording trend data. We can see that its popularity grew gradually over the years. There was a huge spike in 2. Dragon Ball AF information, most likely coinciding with the end of Dragon Ball GTs syndication across the world by fans hungry for more. Then this gradually dropped over the next few years. But there are more queries for it now between 2. The term dragon ball has 3. Comparing that to two other large series, we see that Star Wars receives 2. Star Trek receives 4,0. This helps prove that Dragon Ball fandom on the internet is still very much alive, as searches for dragon ball eclipses both star wars and star trek combined. Whats crazy is that the entirely fan created dragon ball AF is so popular when compared to these legitimate series, at 1,0. Even more shocking, there are multiple Dragon Ball AF videos on You. Tube with over 9 million views, 8 million views and 5 million views, while the incredibly popular Dragon Ball meme, Its Over 9,0. Is Dragon Ball AF really more popular than Over 9,0. Some fans have speculated that when the rumor began in 1. April Fools Day April 1st, and this is why its called AF. Theres no proof of this, but if so, it seems like the whole world fell for it, because Dragon Ball AF is exponentially more popular now than when it started. Where did Dragon Ball AF Come From Dragon Ball GT completed its run in 1. GT was for most people a disappointment, as it was written by someone other than Akira Toriyama. In this case, Matsui Aya, the Series Organizer at Toei. Fans wanted Akira Toriyama at the creative helm again, like he was for Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. Its not known where the rumor started possibly Spain, but it mentioned a new series called Dragon Ball AF, where Goku reaches Super Saiyan 5, Pan turns Super Saiyan, and Raditz comes back alive somehow, also as a Super Saiyan. The first image associated with Dragon Ball AF was of Super Saiyan 5 Goku. Nobody knew where it came from. Rumors said it was from a fan made manga Dojinshi, but no proof was ever provided. Others have said that its not Goku at all, rather his son Xicor. The AF logo was completely fabricated, but even so, fans speculated what it could mean. It was rumored to stand for After Future, because the series took place 2. GT. Others said it stood for Alternate Future, or Afterli. Fe, while those who didnt believe in it, as they still explain today, said it stood for April Fools. A few crudely drawn images appeared of Goku Photoshopped to have different color hair, Pan with golden hair, Super Saiyan Raditz and other seemingly random combinations of Fusioned characters, like Vegetunks, the Fusion of Vegeta and Trunks. Meanwhile, Super Saiyan 5 was surpassed by Super Saiyan 6. Goku was now Evil Goku because he had been corrupted by the power of the dragon balls and it was up to Vegeta to stop him. And a new set of Potara earrings could now fuse 3 people together, instead of only 2. Fans argued endlessly about whether or not these were real, with some stating that their friend in Japan confirmed it was. Others said, Yeah, its real, I use these characters in my fan fiction and my role playing games, naively blurring the line between fan made fiction and official releases. This mess of real or not real confused others looking for the truth. Watch Shutter Online Free HD more. What may have been a couple months or perhaps years later, two more images appeared of Super Saiyan 4 Gohan and King Vegeta. These two images were exquisitely detailed and looked very professional, as if they could have been done by Toei staff or even Akira Toriyama. These caused a huge surge in the number of believers and were used as validation that Dragon Ball AF was real. But on each image was a logo that read, Studio Tomita. Who was Studio TomitaNobody knew, so more rumors flew around. Maybe it was a company working with Toei, or maybe it was Toriyamas studio under a different name It was neither. Turns out that Studio Tomita was a very talented fan or group of fans who drew illustrations of their favorite anime characters.