Thread:KrytenKoro/@comment-35109290-20180716165043/@comment-134861-20180727122754

@Marcus: if tri had claimed to be two years later, that would have gotten things back in sync without wrecking continuity, but as it is now, any English ages/grades are inextricably fucked. We'd need a retcon a la Spiderman Homecoming saying "no, that date was a mistake, we meant X" to unfuck this.

@Kage: Any grade/year that is stated within the material is already acceptable to be listed as canon, and clarified what season it belongs to. I'm unclear what you're suggesting changing, can you explain?

Also, for the "in 2005" bits, my understanding is that tri does state ages for these characters in either the anime or ancillary material. If it doesn't, then the ages should be removed. That being said, Mimi and Koushiro being 16 would "match" the primary Japanese ages given. I hesitate to call that the "official" ages because we're always finding new claims from different sources. I suppose we could have a dicussion about whether the memorial books are final canon for anime characters, in the same way that the DRB is final canon for Digimon species.