Toyotarou has called “Everything” canon in the past, and DBS Chapter 104 proves it

With May 9th seen as Goku Day, Dragon Ball fans are excited, and to increase the excitement, Toyotarou recently confirmed that he is working towards serializing the DBS manga again. This is, of course, good news, and along with this, he’s gonna bring some major changes to the franchise’s canonicity.

May 9th is regarded as Goku Day in Japan. It’s a clever take as in Japanese:
5 means ‘Go’
and 9 means ‘Ku’

Earlier, just like anything Akira Toriyama personally created as part of the Dragon Ball universe, was considered canon even if it didn’t pop up in the manga; now, Toyotarou’s word on the Dragon Ball franchise is the law, and it seems Super Saiyan 5 might become canon the moment Toyotarou decides he will continue the manga. Yeah, we’ve seen various forms of Goku, and now it might be the time for SSJ5.

This means it’s time for the fans to start taking his personal works seriously. Toyotarou had already designed a Super Saiyan 5 form before drawing the Dragon Ball Super manga. While Toyotarou might not be the person who invented the SSJ5 concept, he certainly did perfect his own take.

Toyotarou’s SSJ5 is quite different from the version created by other artists like Tablos and Young Jiijii.

In Toyotarou’s Dragon Ball AF, Super Saiyan 5 has white hair, almost similar to Ultra Instinct Goku or Gohan Beast. In the manga, its antagonist, Xicor (Goku’s genetically created or “secret” son, depending on the version, and in some of the fan continuities, he’s portrayed as a Saiyan/Kai hybrid with very high power), achieves this form, although it is implied that Goku too had achieved this level.

Toriyama’s diagram of the Dragon Ball universe in Daizenshuu is widely accepted to be the canonical map of Universe 7; similarly, whatever comments Toriyama made in interviews about the series’ lore were treated as canon, unless he himself revised them later.

If that’s the case, then it’s time for Super Saiyan 5 to surface. Before drawing any official Dragon Ball manga, Toyotarou was a huge fan and even created his own fan-made manga, Dragon Ball AF, a continuation of Dragon Ball GT.  

Toyotarou’s work in DBS Chapter 104 proves the point about canonicity by including an Olibu cameo, hinting at the Dragon Ball fluidity of canon. In fact, Dragon Ball Super 104 included an allusion to DBZ filler by way of an Olibu cameo.

In an interview at Japan Expo Paris 2025, Toyotarou had said, “To me, everything is more or less canon because I’ve seen everything. After all, it’s not really my place to know who determines what canon is and what isn’t.”

If that is the case, then seeing that Toyotarou has worked with Dragon Ball Heroes before Dragon Ball Super, the canonicity just broke through the roof as DBH and DBAF make DBGT also a canon.

This looks like one big battle royale is in make, now that DBS has introduced multiverse widely, respecting Toriyama’s vision for Dragon Ball’s main storyline. It’s quite a slippery slope that fans need to get ready to embrace now

Dragon Ball Super Chapter 105 release date hasn’t been confirmed yet, and Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is scheduled for a winter 2026 release.

^{Pic Credits: DB/Toyotarou/Tablo/Young Jijii}