User blog comment:Martialmaniac/HxH timeline/@comment-30484460-20161214062633/@comment-30484460-20161216212820

" Well there's a coherent timeline that can be traced through all the dates we've been given, we know Gon's birthday and we know the calendar year for the current events in the manga". Yes, there's been plenty of months and days given, yet, we've only seen a year shown in the background on one occassion. There's been no mention of it again, and no official yearly timeline given. There's a chance it could be floating timeline, too. 1987 as Gon's birth year may not even be a thought in the author or the publications head, just a fan interpretation based on one of the backgrounds. It'd be great to get a confimation through a guidebook or the authors word, but we don't have that. We need to be as objective as possible and go with all the sources, not fan theories.