JoJo's Inconsistent Timeline

Taking a look at all the retcons made to JoJo's timeline over the years, as well as the times when it conflicts with the story.

Songs Used:
Intro: Crazy My Beat - Coda
Stardust Man Appears
Fire Shaman
Purple Thorns
Approach
Calm Sightseeing

[W-to]

Seeing as Araki is actually a 300+ year old, it makes sense he has issues with people's ages.

[Skibbutz]

Have we considered that tooru might just be a REALLY bad driver?

[MarcusFigueras]

I have learned something from this video: If I know I am going to be bad at keeping track of dates in my story, don't ever mention very specific time dates and stuff to avoid worsening it

[KaijuofSteel]

Tooru taking almost two whole days driving to the Higashikata Estate seems oddly in-character for him

[ItsGBMoD]

why is tooru taking 2 days so hilarious to me i’d like to just imagine tooru *somehow* convincing yasuho that 2 days of continuous driving is how long itll take to go to higashikata estate

[nantoghidrah]

I would say "Araki forgot" but this seems more like an "Araki can't make up his mind".

But it is interesting how many inconsistent birthdates and ages there are when Araki has said that he uses character histories in his Manga in Theory and Practice book. With the character birthdates being at the top, you would think there would be very little inconsistencies.

[shade]

You might be able to explain Jobin not knowing his own son's age with him just being that bad of a father if you stretch it, but there's no explanation for Tooru taking almost 2 days to drive to the estate.

[SaltExarch]

We need a spinoff manga oneshot of "Thus Drove Tooru" that details the intense, high-stakes, undoubtedly mind-game filled 45-hour drive to the Higashikata household

[coomslayer]

The timeline is broken cuz Dio used The World to push people down stairs too many times

[goaway]

JoJolion's countdown drove me wild when reading it too. Felt unnecessary

[pachutoazumadrexD]

can you imagine the confusion of anyone reading jojolion monthly before Tsuguri's corrected age and wondering how in the world is a 2 year old speaking fluently, being a pervert and doing 4D chess moves against Yasuho

[cthulusushi]

6:41 It’s really weird to see Tserugi actually be drawn to the proportions of a child and not like a stumpy goblin like in part 8

[pleasecallmedoku]

"This is proof that Araki forgets"
No. It's proof that he's immortal and time is meaningless to him so he doesn't keep track of it.

[shinyagumon]

Plot Twist:

Araki did that deliberately to tease the Part 9 antagonist and their time manipulation powers.

[purmello]

I'm just curious why Araki feels the need to keep writing characters' ages. There's like, literally no reason for it, and it causes confusion, but he still writes characters' ages, like, constantly.
It's not even like it's a manga staple, this is a hell of his own creation.

[adampelletier]

When it comes to dates, I always take dates over time passage (i.e. I haven't stopped time since 1988 vs I haven't stopped time for 10 years) and narration over characters. For the first preference, people will round when talking about the past, saying things like 10 years when it might be 9 or 11, probably because the exact length of time doesn't matter, just the general idea. For the second one, characters have memories which may not be perfect where as narration (when not done by a character) is meant to be from a third person, more objective, perspective. That's my take on it though

[thewolf]

Tooru driving for two whole days is peak comedy

[hidden_animator]

Oh my gosh, thank you for covering this- I have been tearing my hair out over Trish’s birthday inconsistency for a while now. She would literally have been born before her parents met-. I wasn’t sure anyone else noticed this Im so glad Im not alone in this ahah.


I suspect the reason they changed Diavolo’s age is to avoid making him (and presumably Donatella) teen parents.

[THEDeathWizard]

9:23 this is an easy one. Rohan just used heaven’s door on the manga to change it so he would appear younger

[leblanc]

For Tooru, i always thought she was asking him ahead of time because he’s likely busy working at a hospital