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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.