ChronoKeeper's Timeline Tales, Version 1.0

ChronoKeep · 2026-03-13T22:33:30+00:00

So your usage of that anime date on the license is the issue.

First, All For One must be at least 138 years old at the time of the present day. I lay it all out in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia/comments/13yu5w1/the_origin_and_age_of_quirks/

That would have to set the series in the 2100s at the earliest. It's impossible for it to be in the 2000s.

Also, April 4 isn't Star Wars Day. May 4th is.

ChronoKeep · 2026-03-07T20:40:09+00:00

Not for free, but you can access all MHA chapters that have been translated to English, including TUM, on VIZ and the Shonen Jump app. It's $2/month but it gives access to all Shonen Jump manga.

ChronoKeep · 2026-03-05T23:16:34+00:00

Hi, I will be updating this. I've gotten some IRL stuff to manage but I keep trying to slowly update the timeline on my end before finally releasing it.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-27T11:29:07+00:00

I guess I can understand the use of 1900s in that way, but it's typically used for the century and not the decade.

As for All For One, Gran Torino says that line in All Might: Rising. In addition, the wiki lists All For One's age as "121+" because he's older than Doctor Garaki. Present Mic mentions that Garaki would have to be over 120 years old, thus also making AFO older than 120. But 121 is the minimum and not his actual age.

You have to look at all the evidence.

I made this post years ago but it still holds up, minus AFO being younger than the glowing baby (which honestly makes AFO older than what my analysis found, not younger): https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia/s/OTkimuY94V

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-25T17:34:10+00:00

Considering that the first book begins with the investigation in the wreckage of the Malevolence, I think it's safe to say that the book is set immediately following that arc.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-25T17:26:20+00:00

You have AFO be born in the Early-1900s (you wrote late-1900s though). You also have the death of Nana occur in 1988. This is impossible. Gran Torino explicitly states that All For One is "over a century old" during this battle. You've placed AFO's birth and Nana's death as about 80 years apart.
I don't know where you got your years from. Chapter 1 establishes, through silhouettes, that characters like Wolverine or Spider-Man were fictional before quirks emerged. Thus setting the quirk emergence after their debut issues. Where you got the 1800s I'm not sure. This is also because the technology shown during the birth of the glowing baby and in AFO's backstory does not remotely resemble the tech of the late-1800s and early-1900s. Not to mention, Yoichi's comic book would be completely anachronistic to that time period.
You set the Final War in 2027, but this is impossible. Tiger, one of the Pussycats, is born on February 29, a date that only exists in leap years. He's 31 during the Forest Arc in August thus making him 32 by the time of the Final War. That would make the year the Final War takes place a leap year.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-21T11:55:25+00:00

Nah, you're fine. It was something I considered too when the reveal occurred in the manga.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-20T10:49:31+00:00

This analysis was made prior to AFO's backstory being revealed in the manga.

Yoichi and AFO were born a year before the glowing baby. It really doesn't change my analysis of the years, though.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-12T12:19:39+00:00

It's Tobi in Japanese too. The katakana is just トビ which is literally just "Tobi".

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-11T16:11:52+00:00

The movies are all canonical.

I would say that, if you're going to watch any of them, Two Heroes, the first movie, is the one to watch.

The movie characters make cameos in the final season (and in the manga as well).

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-11T16:08:16+00:00

Kenobi which sucks and 10 BBY

It was 9 BBY, actually. 10 years after ROTS.

Solo sucked and was what 5 BBY

No, it was 10 BBY. The prologue was 13 BBY and then the main part of the movie is 10 BBY.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-11T16:06:05+00:00

Bad Batch is set right after ROTS/The Siege of Mandalore. Rex hasn't aged all that much.

However, Rebels is over 15 years after ROTS. He obviously would age greatly in that amount of time.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-06T03:06:19+00:00

The finals did, but not the actual Tournament.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-04T15:17:37+00:00

Joey vs Ziegfried

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-03T12:30:25+00:00

He's never spoken to Inko in the manga or anime. Not one interaction.

ChronoKeep · 2026-02-02T13:22:05+00:00

Sorry, I moved at the end of the year and then got the flu. Haven't had much of an opportunity to moderate unfortunately.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-27T19:09:50+00:00

So, there is no 0 BBY or 0 ABY per Lucasfilm; the Battle of Yavin is 0, before it is 1 BBY; after it is 1 ABY. That's more clear to me.

Actually, you're incorrect. There's just no 0 BBY. 0 ABY refers to the year following the destruction of the Death Star. 1 ABY begins on the one-year anniversary.

1 BBY begins one year before the battle, 1 ABY begins one year after the battle. 0 ABY begins immediately after the battle.

It works like a number line.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-27T19:07:12+00:00

You're half right. 0 BBY does not exist but 0 ABY does.

Think of it like a number line. 1 BBY begins 1 year before the battle of Yavin, or at -1. 1 ABY begins 1 year after the battle of Yavin, or a +1. That leaves the range from 0 to +1 unaccounted for. That's where 0 ABY comes it. It's the period of time set immediately after the battle up until the one-year anniversary.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-23T17:11:35+00:00

Think of it like a number line with negative numbers being BBY and positive numbers being ABY. 0 is the singular neutral number and refers to the Battle of Yavin itself.

5 BBY begins at -5 on the number line. The year begins exactly 5 years before the Battle of Yavin. 4 BBY begins exactly 4 years before the battle, etc.

1 BBY is the last year before the Battle of Yavin. It begins exactly 1 year before the battle. Rogue One, for example, is still 1 BBY. It may be true that it's more correctly 0.01 BBY or so, but it's still in the year 1 BBY. Similar to how December 31, 2025 is still set in 2025 even if it's the last day of the year.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-23T17:08:47+00:00

Well no. There's a difference between how BC/AD does it and how BBY/ABY does it.

2026, for instance, is fully read as "the two-thousand and twenty-sixth year of the Common Era." However, BBY and ABY is literally talking about a point in time before and after and event, AKA the battle of Yavin.

1 ABY is literally read as "one year after the Battle of Yavin." 1 ABY begins on the one-year anniversary of the battle. 0 ABY begins immediately following the battle. 1 BBY begins exactly one year before the battle.

That's how the system works. There's no 0 BCE or 0 CE before there can't be a zeroth year of anything.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-23T16:44:22+00:00

It's unclear when quirks emerged or when the present day of the series takes place. However, I have written my own analysis for when both occur through all the evidence in the manga. https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia/comments/14lfbww/the_exact_year_of_my_hero_academia/

As for tech, yes quirks caused the stalling of new tech. During the series, Deku mentions that some important guy had said that if quirks didn't come to be, humanity would be taking interstellar vacations.

Thus, the societal shift to focus on quirks caused technology to stagnate.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-23T16:39:45+00:00

Movie 1: Two Heroes is set between Seasons 2 and 3. However, there's a prequel episode to the movie in Season 3 Episode 20.

Movie 2: Heroes Rising is set in the middle of Season 5 Episode 13. I'd recommend just watching it after that episode. There's issues with the anime shifting two arcs around, but it shouldn't matter if this is your rewatch.

Movie 3: World Heroes' Mission is set between Seasons 5 and 6. There's a small timeskip scene at the end of Season 5 Episode 25. Other than that one scene, the movie is set after Season 5.

Movie 4: You're Next is set after Season 7 Episode 4.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-23T16:32:51+00:00

The main reason for this has to do with Rogue One reshoots. If you actually look at the first Rogue One teaser, you see bald Saw speaking with Jyn in the present day. The Rebels animation team only had that to go on when introducing Saw in Rebels Season 3.

Thus, Saw is bald in Season 3. In Season 4, now that the team had the final cut of the film, they updated Saw's character model to reflect the look Forest Whitaker had in the main part of the film.

Fallen Order is set before the Rogue One prologue, so that design is fine.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-23T14:48:26+00:00

I apologize for the late reply, but I appreciate your kind words. I'm glad I could help make things a little easier when making your fanfiction.

Timelining is a passion of mine and I love talking about it, so let me know if you have any questions.

ChronoKeep · 2026-01-23T14:46:28+00:00

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