What year is it in the Guyver manga? It started in the 80s, so it was the 80s in the manga, but...it's been 32 years now. Did the manga just retroactively update to modern times, or what? Is there anyway to tell?

The only relatively fixed date we have is for X-day, which happened in the 1990s. But that's all.

 

('M-day'. Geeeesh.)

Edited June 22, 20178 yr by Salkafar

X day was in the 90s too.

the only indication we have is technology but that has been confused a bit by chronos' influence on society. I think it may actually be meaningless to assign a date because of how chronos have effected technology differently to our world.

I think the only indications are when the characters mention how long they have been hanging around since last incident. I think it's a few years. maybe 5 at most since x day.

 

On 21/6/2017 at 3:23 PM, Tora Tan said:

X day was in the 90s too.

 

Depends on the content. in the comics it was in the 90s. In the 2005 Anime it can be worked out to be in 2003.

A comparison can be made to Alan Moore's Watchmen - it is set in a historic time period, but superhuman intellects within the fiction have accelerated the development of technology and society to a level whereby much of what we see in the fiction rings true today. The social impact of a Zoanoid population and a unified world government makes attempts to deduce specific years pretty much impossible, especially as the main historic progress that the story is concerned with is the development of the central characters. 

I did appreciate the retconning of the time period for the 2000's anime, but I prefer for the manga to stay locked into its own timeline. As real-world tech and culture develops, Chronos R&D and Zoanoid-inspired pop culture can keep pace so new readers aren't going to be laughing at Murakami's attire and the size of mobile phones - which is a fortunate narrative tool, given Takaya's rate of output. 

4 hours ago, Lindsay said:

A comparison can be made to Alan Moore's Watchmen - it is set in a historic time period, but superhuman intellects within the fiction have accelerated the development of technology and society to a level whereby much of what we see in the fiction rings true today. The social impact of a Zoanoid population and a unified world government makes attempts to deduce specific years pretty much impossible, especially as the main historic progress that the story is concerned with is the development of the central characters. 

I did appreciate the retconning of the time period for the 2000's anime, but I prefer for the manga to stay locked into its own timeline. As real-world tech and culture develops, Chronos R&D and Zoanoid-inspired pop culture can keep pace so new readers aren't going to be laughing at Murakami's attire and the size of mobile phones - which is a fortunate narrative tool, given Takaya's rate of output. 

This is pretty much what I assume... We see old fat TV's in the early books, pre X-Day... But the newest books have big screen thin LCD-ish TV's ( and PS3 like systems)

It's still a pretty ridiculous jump in technology, but it can sort of be explained in this way... Despite it only actually being only a few year span in the actual timeline itself.