Apocrypha

I know that really threw me off, but I also realize the flow of time in Guyver is probably not reflected by the real world either. Or if it is and the timeskips are only noted for plot's sake that is just a bit goofy. I know the vehicle thing Chernaudi pointed out makes sense if it was based on real life time flow, but just it doesn't seem like it would with our flow of time...unless it really is? I mean it is stated X-Day happens one year after the events of Chapter 52.. and there is a one year gap between those volumes.. Well crud...I might have been looking at this all wrong.

I'd noticed that thing about the vehicles as well. I mean Murakami drives an RX-7 and the generation he drives was built from '89 until '91 and Yohei's SUV is a Hilux according to the scanlations I have and it seems to be the version from the late 80s...but that doesn't mean that they wouldn't have older vehicles if the timeline is further along. I drive a Ford F100 from 1977 for pete's sake. I did notice Val had the nicer cars in her chapters as well and I wondered how those fit. My main point of doing this is to cover the passage of time in canon really. Its a side project that gives me something to do until I resume schooling a few weeks honestly. Plus someone might have some use for it when I'm done. And you're right about Takaya usually being on point with his explanations. Granted it takes him nearly 30 years to move the story forward three, but he does a good job with it.

I figured I would like to contribute to our knowledge of the Guyver universe and decided to start this timeline project. I found a page on the wiki for the real-world history of Guyver, such as publishing dates and the figma releases, but I decided to undergo a research project to find a good flow of time for the universe within the pages. Also shout out to Cannibal for sparking my interest in the timeline itself. Disclaimer: This is not a guide to the events of the manga. What I do is analyze each chapter for time-skips and transitions of day to night or speech that reflects the passage of time. I will try to mention events only for a reference within a chapter. I am warning now, this will probably contain spoilers if it serves the project. I AM THE SPOILER GHOST! BEWARE! That being said, I will use this first post as my main update point and will just respond to stuff in new posts. Current Progress: Chapter 21 ______________________________________________________ First thing to hit is the year(s) that all of this occurs. This is a date that I know I will find after running through and actually doing my notes so for now I'll just throw down the only actual date I can recall off the top of my head I remember being mentioned. Nov 0X 2000. I procured this date from the scene in the Nov 2012 chapter found in Volume 30, where Agito and Shizu are standing in the Zeus' Thunderbolt cemetery and we see Yohei's headstone. So I copied that image and threw it into Photoshop and blew the picture of his gravestone way up (like 900%) and this is what I found: Blown way up I changed the pixel coloring from the black to red and simply followed the pixels that were a deep black and traced it. I made out the Nov and 2000 easily enough, but the date in the middle was a bit hard to get. It looks like 06, but it could be anything from 01-09. Doesn't really change much in the big scheme. So what this ultimately tells us is that Chapter 70 - Volume 12 happened in Nov of 2000. Chapter 70 is when Yohei sacrificed himself to the Enzyme III to try and protect Agito. Now I doubt Takaya would place this date incorrectly and even then in the real world we don't place people's death date on the wrong day. So that's what I have for now on the year. I'll bring more up when I get past the first ten volumes as that's when a bunch of time skips happen through the following volumes. ______________________________________________________ As for specific months and days I am going to leave this section empty until I get to the chapter of X-Day - August 17, 199X. My main reason for this is because based on a bit of logic concerning the date of when Summer Break starts in Japan. In Chapter 10, Sho's school let's out for Summer which implies that it is July of that year. In the 90's Japan's summer break for schools was based on a Holiday called Marine Day. The Happy Monday System saw Marine Day moved to the third Monday of June in 2003. If the time frame is the 1990s then the date of Chapter 10 would be July 20, unless this happened before 1996..but still July seems likely. Below is a snippet of an article I found regarding Japanese education. Granted it does not cover high school specifically, but the Japanese educational system seems uniform from my research. ________________________________________________________ That's all I have for now. Once I get to past Volume 10 I will publish my list of exact dates and that should be within the week. From there an update schedule should be about I'll do three volumes before I post another update. Here's to Guyver and the pursuit of knowledge that you didn't even know you wanted.

Yuki Lewis and the Advocates?

Oh hello there. Not much to write about this, but I'd rather not just be that dude who hangs in the corner eyeing your girl..eerr..guyver scans. After like a bajillion hours looking around and rearranging and redownloading guyver scans, I figured I'd join up and get my hands on the newer volumes come payday. Seems like a neat community and hope to finally keep reading this manga that I've been on since 2004.