Hello to the 4 other SZS fans on this website. This a Very Important Post discussing about a point of the most importance. I am here to prove that Nami Hito has two different birth dates.
The most popular one is the one that the anime attributed to her : 31st march, which is actually a reference to her VA's own birthday, Ryōko Shintani. Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei - Episode 9, 03:43 if you need to check.
But, if you are a Nami fan, you may have noticed that people online uploaded art of her for the 23rd January. In fact, there's also the anime character database site that give the date 23rd January.
Why is that? Well, the actual day of her birthdate isn't important plotwise, and thus she was given one simply because of the need of the chapter's problem. + SZS like to make a lot of jokes with their own VA. Remember : an anime-only element from the same episode, the freaky yellow plush. Nami receives it for her birthday, it was actually a present her VA received IRL. It only appears much later in the manga, after the Zan episode aired.
Nami's birthday is revealed in the chapter 124, volume 13. Remember it, it's important. (And don't mind the weird translation here)
But, despite great efforts, I couldn't find when exactly the chapter 124 had been released in the Weekly Shonen Magazine.
Our first step here to determine Nami's birthday, is to find a temporal element.
Lucky for us, 4 chapters earlier, we have a Christmas episode, chapter 120 "One Thousand and One Christmasses" (no picture available as I've been temporarily banned from some manga website)
Thus, Nami's birthday is roughly between the 2nd and 4th week of January, depending on when exactly the christmas chapter had been released.
Volume 12, so the volume with the christmas chapter as its last one, was released in Japan the February 15, 2008. Therefore it was around Christmas 2007. We can believe the chapter 120 was released either the 19th or the 26th.
The Weekly Shonen Magazine releases weekly each Wednesday. Let's check them, starting in December 2007.
TWO CHAPTERS after her birthday, it's Valentine's day! Chapter 126.
Quick check on which days were Wednesday in February 2008 :
There, it would make sense that it was release the 13th!! Thus, by using a lot of complicated maths like substraction, we can determine that Nami's bday was 2weeks prior. And if we check the January calendar we can see that the wednesday from two weeks before this chapter was...
Okay so chapter 120 christmas 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126... Okay there's 6 WEEKS, 6 CHAPTERS between Christmas and Valentine's day. If we say that the christmas chapter was released the 19th, then the valentine chapter would have been released the 30th January which is plain stupid. Therefore the Christmas chapter MUST HAVE been released the 26th, one whole day after Christmas, and thus the valentine chapter would have been released the 6th February, which make a lot of sense!
So if you count the chapter from the 26th, you get the release date of Wednesday the 23rd January 2008 for the chapter 124 of Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei, which conclude that Nami was, in the manga, born a 23rd January.
Abiru probably suffers from the same problem, as, if I recall correctly, she has a chapter where we know it's her birthday.
Of course you may think "But if Valentine's day is two weeks after her bday, wouldn't it make her birthday actually the 31st of January?" to which I would answer : "I'm blocking you. Here and on every other platforms. Disappear."
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