Thread:Harostar/@comment-26509016-20150618161832

Hey Haro,

I think there's a little mistake on this wiki. You kinda know me, we had this discussion about Haise's and Kaneki's true age within the last few days, I'm the anon you lastly wrote with. I've already sent you a message about that matter on the thread itself, but it was just a little bit rushed and without any source given and all that, so I'd like to correct it here.

While thinking about Haise's age, I was pretty confused somehow. The arguments you've given me were solid, but it still felt too weird... the problem was that this wiki assumes that the time skip between TG and TG:re skiped 2 years. Now I could've bet all my money that I've already read several times that the time skip actually was 3 years long. I couldn't find any part in the manga which stated it (I honestly didn't search a lot within the chapters themselves), but I've found plenty of hints throughout other places in the net. For example sites such as myanimelist.net, animecharacterdatabase.com and tvtropes.org all state this. If you look through (for example) Touka's character description, you'll see that they've all assumed that she became 3 years older within the time skip. http://myanimelist.net/character/87277/Touka_Kirishima http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/character.php?id=68165 Also I've looked up a few other TG-wikis in other languages (only those I understand of course), which also assume that Touka was 16 in the beginning of TG. Therefore she had her 17th birthday in TG chapter 89. TG ended a short time after that, and then again, :re started a short time after she became 20. Same goes for some other characters, or at least every character I could look up. The time skip being 3 years long would solve two other Logical issues as well: - First of all, Kaneki died when he was 19 years old, in the end of july (it was july, right?). After two years, his body would be 21 years old by theory. Now in chapter 32, Kaneki would've been 22 years old. If the time skip only skiped 2 years, then the CCG would've done a pretty sensless move. They "killed" Kaneki and needed almost one year to "give birth" to Haise. His body was 20 years old since 4 months at that time, and he was closer to his 19th age than to his 21st. Why should the CCG just make him that much older for no reason? Saying that he's been born with 20 years is at least half-true. - It's been stated at some point that Haise started as a rank 3 investigator. If the time skip skiped 2 years, it would've been like this: Kaneki gets brainwashed/has a koma for almost one year. Then Haise is born. Then they had to teach him at least a little bit of how the CCG works, and that probably takes at least a few weeks. So far, one year has passed. Then Haise starts being an investigator, and within one year, he increased his rank from rank 3 to rank 1, something that not even Arima or Juuzou could do. Of course it would've been possible, but wouldn't there be any mentioning about it? He really does an awesome job there, looking at how he already has a golden osmanthus award, but there would've been at least the slightest mentioning if Haise would've managed to climb up 2 ranks in one year. According to the theory that the time skip skiped 3 years, Haise would've been an investigator for a bit less than two years at the point where :re started. Still very impressive, but it also already happened two times, so it's plausible to assume that there's not such a big fuss about it.

Now of course I couldn't find a source within the manga... but there are very many sources saying that the time skip actually was 3 years long. And I'm not so sure if all these other wikis and sites are all wrong in this case... there are just too many hints that it's the other way round. Maybe you can find out something about it or so.

Sorry for taking your time, but I guess that's something that should be cleared. I can imagine that this mistake occured due to the statement that "Haise is an investigator since 2 years", as he or one of the Q's once mentioned.

Hope I could help somehow 