Thread:Norleon/@comment-30764484-20131128043453

While we did all the hard work already figuring out the characters' birthyears, I was trying to fix their age(s) and there's a bit of an issue.

The finale-type event of every year of the story is the Cultural Festival, though we usually see stuff after. In High School and College (since there's always less to the mangas), the story ends right after the festival, and I mean that very day. Looking up when that is, Cultural Festivals are usually on November 3rd, or the closest weekend to that date.

Azusa's is the only birthday that's close, but the battle of the bands poster's date is, while either illegible or in Japanese numbers, clearly November and a single digit date, which means it's before Azusa's birthday for sure. Being a work of fiction at fictional schools, it's likely the 3rd because everyone likes simplicity. However, this is an issue for all the characters who's birthdays we don't know (Jun, Sumire, Nao, Akira, Sachi, & Ayame), as we don't actually know if they've had their birthday by the time of the festival or not.

There are a few possible ways to deal with this:
 * We list their ages like this: 15-17/18
 * We assume they haven't yet: 15-17
 * We assume they have (go by the end of school year): 15-18
 * We see if their ages are actually known but none of us know them because we don't read Japanese.

The last one is quite possible, basic stats about characters (birthday, height, dimensions, blood type) are pretty much par for the course with animes. Until then, I vote we go with the first option and list both their possible final ages. 