User blog comment:Martialmaniac/HxH timeline/@comment-30484460-20161214062633/@comment-30484460-20161214202802

"We do have an official timeline". Do you have an actual source for this? I believe you're only using a fan made timeline. " which simply could not have been retconned." And why do you think it can't be retconned? " The Hunter Exam is a yearly event. There have been 3, 3 years have passed.  " No, there's only been 2 after the first arc, but we've had Gon's age been stated as 12 since, thus a retcon has happened. " We have dozens of official dates". Only months and days. We've only had the year 1999 shown in the background once. There's no guidebooks or the author saying here's the official yearly timeline. " Whatever this is, it is a fact that Gon should be 14", not when the creator of that character has stated he's 12 on many occassions. You're trying to say as a fan your interpretation overrights what the author has said. Quite clearly it's more like you can't accept a retcon or a supposed "plot hole" is taken place. I believe we need to leave it to what the author said, not fan interpretation. We need to get to objective, not spread misinformation. " Hunter x Hunter is clearly not The Simpsons, episodes are not self-contained and all events have consequences." Okay, let's go by serialized manga. Dragon Ball actually has an official timeline, yet, the series author retconned the protagonists age and events within it. The recent example is Goku in Minus being 3, when that doesn't line up with the official timeline.