Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27229742-20151020041356/@comment-2248043-20151205061439

Eclipse-Magician wrote: Just wondering, though... How old is the Journalist (especially when he meets his wife?) Hm... Hard to say...

Mysterious Tape #1 says that in April of 1989, he was at the peak of his career as an investigative journalist and that "I was so young back then." He met his wife in 1990, because at the beginning of Mysterious Tape #6 it says that "My life was a liviing hell for about a year..." In that same tape it says, "It was around this point in time that I met my future wife." At the end, it's "We got married about six months after meeting each other."

The Mysterious Tapes must've been placed sometime before the game started, considering that not only is Ryoba out of town for 10 weeks right before the game starts, The Journalist has little chance of placing all his tapes at school for both the daugther and Yandere-chan to find when he's so notorious. It would probably be easier to place when no one's there, so The Journalist would have had to place the tapes down before school starts and then run out quickly before Ryoba gets him.

The game starts in 2016 or 2017. But...

The Journalist's daughter must be in school, probably. "I know that she spends all of her time on her computer," says The Journalist in Mysterious Tape #7. "She bought it herself. She seems to have a lot of money for someone her age." Both of those imply that she lives with The Journalist and that she's still a kid, because an adult would probably be able to buy a computer but a teenager would have a harder time. It seems obvious, but I just realized that I don't question that fact enough...

If the daughter was born in around 1990 or 1991 or whatever, she would be in her twenties by 2016 or 2017. Not only that, but Ryoba got with her husband after getting rid of all the rivals, as seen in Basement Tape #1. "...aren't you..." says the husband, "that girl who's been on TV lately?" Ryoba must've gotten her senpai pretty early. The Aishi family tends to have their babies at age 19 or so. Ayano Aishi is about 17 or so during 2016 or 2017, but the age is ?? simply because of some rules. Not only that, but The Headmaster's ages are off too... How could he be 28 in 1989 if he's 59 in 2017?

Either, YandereDev is purposely making this mistake or he made a huge mistake on a lot of those dates. I'd say the former since I'm sure YanDev would've known at least one of these things by now. That's just an extremely fragile theory though.

Thus, because of these mistakes it's a bit difficult to tell what age The Journalist is as of 2016 or 2017. However, during April of 1989 He must've been younger than 40! He had to be! It only makes sense for his peak of his career to be there when he said he was young. When he meets his wife he is about one year or so older than the peak of his career. I believe...