Let's Use The Real World Calendar.

[Asin]

Trunks (2001) would be 20 years old, Goten (2002) and Pan (2014)

Oh shit, I was born in the same year as Trunks. That's neat to know, I suppose.

[Grimlock]

Minor point, but since the 21st Budokai should logically take place around a year after the Pilaf saga, shouldn’t that make Goku 13 at that point, and not 12?

If you place his birth year as AGE 737, yes. That's correct. But since it was said Goku was twelve, then we must assume the tournament takes place before Goku's birthday.

If you place his birth year as AGE 736 (going by Dragon Ball Minus), he would be fourteen (or thirteen-going-fourteen).

[Saiya6Cit]

So Battle of Gods and the beginning of Super were actually released in their respective years? That's pretty interesting...

it's very curious indeed.

I don't see the objective of trying to put DB into our years, it does not even happen in our Earth.

[Grimlock]

And I don't think everything has to have an "objective". As the opening post states, it's supposed to be something fun.

Also, there's no "trying", I did it and it worked (and it revealed that we would be living at some point when the Dragon Ball events would still be happening. Little fun trivia to know about without an objective).

[Ashur]

This is really interesting and it also kinda helps me with a story i'm working on right now that has real world dates in the Dragon World for it to work.

I want to ask what is the basis for the 1984 date to begin with, Dr. Slump? I want to know what the "anchor date" is and how much time passes between Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball (my bet is that it's less than a year but still), i appreciate any answers on this subject because it is really important for me.

[jjgp1112]

This is really interesting and it also kinda helps me with a story i'm working on right now that has real world dates in the Dragon World for it to work.

I want to ask what is the basis for the 1984 date to begin with, Dr. Slump? I want to know what the "anchor date" is and how much time passes between Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball (my bet is that it's less than a year but still), i appreciate any answers on this subject because it is really important for me.

In the manga, Dr. Slump is stated to be set in 1980, while the Daizenshuu timeline has it set in age 745, 4 years before Goku meets Bulma. So you just translate the years from there.

[Ashur]

This is really interesting and it also kinda helps me with a story i'm working on right now that has real world dates in the Dragon World for it to work.

I want to ask what is the basis for the 1984 date to begin with, Dr. Slump? I want to know what the "anchor date" is and how much time passes between Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball (my bet is that it's less than a year but still), i appreciate any answers on this subject because it is really important for me.

In the manga, Dr. Slump is stated to be set in 1980, while the Daizenshuu timeline has it set in age 745, 4 years before Goku meets Bulma. So you just translate the years from there.

Thank you very much! That works perfectly, i'll be using this timeline of the events for my story, then, this was a big win

[Grimlock]

I want to ask what is the basis for the 1984 date to begin with, Dr. Slump?

The basis I use is the fact that 1984 is the year Dragon Ball was released. It stands to reason that 1984 translates to AGE 749, as that's the year you'll get for Pilaf saga by doing math correctly based on "AGE 788" mentioned in the manga.

Whatever Doctor Slump states is purely coincidental. It's good to have some official thing that may corroborate with this "correlation" between the fictional years of Dragon Ball and the real world years, but even if we didn't have that Doctor Slump tidbit, I would still say "1984 = AGE 749". It's an arbitrary decision, but one that makes the most sense.

[jjgp1112]

I want to ask what is the basis for the 1984 date to begin with, Dr. Slump?

The basis I use is the fact that 1984 is the year Dragon Ball was released. It stands to reason that 1984 translates to AGE 749, as that's the year you'll get for Pilaf saga by doing math correctly based on "AGE 788" mentioned in the manga.

Whatever Doctor Slump states is purely coincidental. It's good to have some official thing that may corroborate with this "correlation" between the fictional years of Dragon Ball and the real world years, but even if we didn't have that Doctor Slump tidbit, I would still say "1984 = AGE 749". It's an arbitrary decision, but one that makes the most sense.

Well I imagine Shueisha chose to place it 4 years before the Pilaf arc on the DB timeline precisely so that DB would start in its first year of publication.

[Ashur]

I want to ask what is the basis for the 1984 date to begin with, Dr. Slump?

The basis I use is the fact that 1984 is the year Dragon Ball was released. It stands to reason that 1984 translates to AGE 749, as that's the year you'll get for Pilaf saga by doing math correctly based on "AGE 788" mentioned in the manga.

Whatever Doctor Slump states is purely coincidental. It's good to have some official thing that may corroborate with this "correlation" between the fictional years of Dragon Ball and the real world years, but even if we didn't have that Doctor Slump tidbit, I would still say "1984 = AGE 749". It's an arbitrary decision, but one that makes the most sense.

Yes i was aware it coincided with the beginning of publication of the manga, but i was looking for something in-universe, thankfully they made it so the dates of release fit with the in-universe dates as well, i just didin't want to fully base a timeline on something out of universe because there could be a detail somewhere that completely contradicted it.

[Hulk10]

According to this calender I was born in 756 (1991)

[Grimlock]

Such a cool thread to revive.

I still can make edits, so I made a few adjustments (for some reason I didn't mention Jaco, the Galactic Patrolman), and if you want to know the dates of other things, just let me know. Took the opportunity to double check the dates and everything else, all is still right.

We are experiencing the Dragon Ball GT events. Which means we are all going to die soon, unless some Goku decides to evacuate us to another planet. We are going to lose Piccolo, though.

[Hulk10]

I kinda wish they hadn't equated Dragon Ball years to real world years. Since I was born in 1991, that is later than the destruction of Planet Vegeta and my favorite species in the Dragon Ball world is the Saiyans, aside from dragons and dinosaurs. That would mean in the Dragon Ball world I'd have no chance to be born a Saiyan in canon. That and since I was fully introduced to Dragon Ball as an adult. I identify more with the older Z fighters. I realize that these are silly reasons. But they are still reasons.

[MasenkoHA]

I kinda wish they hadn't equated Dragon Ball years to real world years. Since I was born in 1991, that is later than the destruction of Planet Vegeta and my favorite species in the Dragon Ball world is the Saiyans, aside from dragons and dinosaurs. That would mean in the Dragon Ball world I'd have no chance to be born a Saiyan in canon. That and since I was fully introduced to Dragon Ball as an adult. I identify more with the older Z fighters. I realize that these are silly reasons. But they are still reasons.

It's just a fandom thing for fun and not something the actual series applied.

I mean it would put the Cell and Boo saga in the 2000s and they're so 90s it hurts (for the obvious reason that Toriyama isn't psychic and wouldn't be able to predict 2000s fashion, technology, and trends)

[Hulk10]

I kinda wish they hadn't equated Dragon Ball years to real world years. Since I was born in 1991, that is later than the destruction of Planet Vegeta and my favorite species in the Dragon Ball world is the Saiyans, aside from dragons and dinosaurs. That would mean in the Dragon Ball world I'd have no chance to be born a Saiyan in canon. That and since I was fully introduced to Dragon Ball as an adult. I identify more with the older Z fighters. I realize that these are silly reasons. But they are still reasons.

It's just a fandom thing for fun and not something the actual series applied.

I mean it would put the Cell and Boo saga in the 2000s and they're so 90s it hurts (for the obvious reason that Toriyama isn't psychic and wouldn't be able to predict 2000s fashion, technology, and trends)

I realize that now. But thank you for clarifying

[Hulk10]

I kinda wish they hadn't equated Dragon Ball years to real world years. Since I was born in 1991, that is later than the destruction of Planet Vegeta and my favorite species in the Dragon Ball world is the Saiyans, aside from dragons and dinosaurs. That would mean in the Dragon Ball world I'd have no chance to be born a Saiyan in canon. That and since I was fully introduced to Dragon Ball as an adult. I identify more with the older Z fighters. I realize that these are silly reasons. But they are still reasons.

It's just a fandom thing for fun and not something the actual series applied.

I mean it would put the Cell and Boo saga in the 2000s and they're so 90s it hurts (for the obvious reason that Toriyama isn't psychic and wouldn't be able to predict 2000s fashion, technology, and trends)

I realize that now. But thank you for clarifying

[Grimlock]

We have a better notion of the events by placing them using the real world years, but how about we see our relation to the characters ages? Are we younger, older, of the same age as a certain character? Let's see it!

I'm going to consider all characters that have their ages stated in the series, with the exception of Marron, who doesn't have it, but she does look like a three-year-old kid in Majin Buu saga. Please let me know if I forgot to mention someone.

~ Bardock TV Special / Dragon Ball Minus / Jaco, the Galactic Patrolman ~

• 1907 (AGE 672) - Omori.
• 1957 (AGE 722) - Tights.
• 1971 / 1972 (AGE 736 / AGE 737) - Goku.

~ Dragon Ball ~

• 1968 (AGE 733) - Bulma.
• 1970 / 1971 (AGE 735 / AGE 736) - Kuririn.
• 1975 (AGE 740) - Suno.
• 1988 (AGE 753) - Piccolo.

~ Dragon Ball Z ~

• 1992 (AGE 757) - Gohan.
• 2001 (AGE 766) - Trunks.
• 2002 (AGE 767) - Goten.
• 2006 (AGE 771) - Marron.
• 2009 (AGE 774) - Uub.
• 2014 (AGE 779) - Pan.
• 2015 (AGE 780) - Bra.
• 2023 (AGE 788) - Cell.

~ Dragon Ball Super ~

• 1961 / 1962 (AGE 726 / AGE 727) - Granolah.
• 1993 (AGE 758) - Hedo.

~ Dragon Ball Online ~

• 2026 (AGE 791) - Miss Buu / Majin race.

As Goku may have two birth years, it will directly affect both Kuririn's (who is stated to be one year older than Goku) and Granolah's (who is stated to be ten years old by the time the Saiyans assault his planet) birth years as well. I ignored Mai's statement from Movie 14 that she is "forty-one years old". She's neither forty-one, let alone twelve by the time the Pilaf saga occurs. That age is completely off. I wish we had got more characters age in the series, but I guess this is it if we are not counting guidebooks, if I'm not forgetting someone, of course. I included this one in the opening post too!

[Grimlock]

Updated the opening post to include Dragon Ball Daima. I don't believe it has an official name yet, so I will be calling it "Demon Realm saga" for now.

Trunks is celebrating his ninth birthday, this undoubtedly puts the series in AGE 775 (2010 in real life). That means one year after Majin Buu saga and one year before the Tarble OVA.