Thread:KrytenKoro/@comment-35109290-20180716165043/@comment-35109290-20181224074743

I was going to mention the new movie's ages were finally revealed, but it seems someone beat me to it and edited the profiles with the info. I'll be glad if we can finally put that issue to rest (haha, I do apologize for all the confusion/debating, though it would be nice if the profiles could reflect the actual ages/actually canon estimated "age ranges".)

Observations: - Takeru is given the age of 19, but Hikari isn't. However, the Tri article from before confirmed Hikari to be OLDER than Takeru. That would make Hikari's age range either 19 (same as Takeru) or 19-20 (a close and appropriate estimate going by the given timeline so far). I believe the fact she's stated to be older than Takeru should definitely be mentioned somewhere on her profile (if it isn't already), since people often presume the opposite (due to Takeru being a boy/taller than her, usually.)

- Takeru (19) and Jou (23)'s age gap is only about 3~4 years, with Takeru being on an "older" (for his school year) end and Jou being on a "younger" (for his "conflicting" school years' age range) end, not the 5-6 one would presume going by a real-world Japanese school system. In fact, Jou is usually given the "younger"/"conflicting" end of his year compared to ALL of the rest (i.e. Taichi+Yamato+Sora+Meiko? are 22 when they "should" be 21-going-on-22 if going by a real-world system, while Jou is only 23, which is actually semi-appropriate for him/all his previous grades. In Tri, he is 18 when they are all 17 / mentioned further below, etc.). (*edits to correct/clarify, Jou is on the "younger" end of a "conflicting" age range, i.e. if he is 18 at start and it followed a real-world system he'd be in university already, and on the "older" end going by a real-world system, instead of studying to get into one.)

- I did remember Mimi and Meiko were together a lot in Tri; G-SANtos' comment confused me a bit too. However, I had been under the impression Taichi+Meiko were in the same class; I'm glad that got confirmed (again?). (I do see how it could have been confusing though, as I had forgotten / gotten confused too, my apologies)

- Sora is (still) the exact same age as Taichi+Yamato; not "younger" at start regardless of her "canonical" birthday (which Kakudou already reconfirmed was "not set" despite OWG having happened already. This does not mean that OWG was not canon, obviously, just that Sora's "birthday" plotline was given a conflicting age range, and I definitely believe this should be mentioned on her profile to clear up the confusion.)

- Koushiro was confirmed same age as Mimi again, as well, and they are both still given the "older" end of their year (i.e. only 1 year behind Taichi+Yamato+Sora+Meiko, NOT 2 years younger.) Nearly a whole school year passes between April-December 2005 in Tri - he's very likely 17 by the end or close to it already (i.e., 16-17 is an appropriate age range, with him being 16 at start, if very briefly.) It is notable that he is always shown to be the exact same age as Mimi; never mentioned "younger" or "older" in relation to her, but along with Mimi given the "older" age range of a typical Japanese school grade regardless. If that was the case, he would definitely be 17 by December anyway. Anyone born January 1-March 31st is on the "younger" end (this is, again, despite Sora's OWG birthday). This would imply both Mimi+Koushiro's possible birthday ranges being between April 1st-December 31st - pointing out Jou's profile notes mentions a possible birthday range going by the real-world system and the canon "timeline", as does Iori's and Daisuke's (iirc), due to the complicated "timeline" and conflicting ages. I don't see why the others' couldn't mention this as well.

- For some reason Takeru's non-sequel movie ages were all changed to TBD as well?? He had canonical ages given in Adventure, 02, and Tri?

- After all the searching I did to try and confirm info, I finally refound canonical profiles that DID actually state ALL of the Tri ages, which was here: https://withthewill.net/threads/15276-New-Digimon-Adventure-tri-Discussions-and-Otomedia-Images-Updated-New-PV-stuff

The ages for all 8 Chosen are displayed perfectly clearly on the scans, and this was PRE-Saikai, implying the start of Tri (with Taichi+Yamato+Sora being 17 at start, Mimi+Koushiro being 16, Jou being 18 - still the "younger" end - and Takeru and Hikari BOTH being "14", despite Hikari also confirmed not much later being "older than Takeru".)

(I am sorry this became so complicated, but just pointing out canonical references again in case there's still confusion with the new ages.)

(and again): https://www.tokyo-icc.jp/guide_eng/educ/01.html "Children who have their 6th birthday [on or before April 1] enter the first grade of elementary school [of that year]." (i.e. January 1st-April 1st = the younger end. April 2nd-December 31st = the older end)

"School year starts in April and ends in March." (this is typically late March, i.e. not long before April 1st.) (This is basically the issue a lot of people have with Sora's birthday being in March and why the ages are so conflicting to begin with.)

It's again up to the Wiki to decide what to do with the info, but I feel a lot of it is relevant again now that the sequel movie actually does have ages and they do line up exactly with Adventure, 02, and Tri "age" "ranges" regardless of multiple opportunities they had to "fix" these "timeline" "errors".

(*Edits post to fix spacing issues - apologies, Wikia keeps messing up the formatting.)