Hi Slug! If possible could you please translate the new updated timeline from the second guidebook? Thank you so much 🙏
I typically don't want to translate any sort of paid content, but I'll make an exception just this once so we can publicly shame Hypmic for its ludicrous timeline have this as a resource.
The guidebook's timeline is split into two halves corresponding to Chuuouku and the six Divisions featured in the storyline. For ease of reading, I've combined them into one and placed them in order (as much as possible).
The translation is as direct as possible. I do not translate word by word by the dictionary when there are more straightforward or natural-sounding equivalents available, and I do not incorporate features of the source grammar and punctuation that are nonsensical in English. Apart from that, this is super cut-and-dry. It's a timeline lol.
Finally, a note about the "H Age" (H歴) year system: While treated as its own calendar system similar to BCE and CE (or BC/AD), the H Age notation is otherwise similar to Japanese "eras." In real life, a new era corresponds to a new emperor taking the throne, so Otome's rise to power and the subsequent beginning of the H Age marks a paradigm shift. Eras can start in the middle of a calendar year, so Year 1 of the H Age isn't necessarily from January to December (in so much as Hypmic has months anyway). Let's arbitrarily say it started in June 2024. (Did it? No idea. I made this up for argument's sake.) That means Year 1 is June - December of 2024 while "one year prior" is January - May also of 2024. Therefore, "two years prior" is January - December of 2023. And so on and so forth.
Under a cut for length
19 years prior to the H Age
Rei joins a military R&D program.
Otome founds the Party of Words.
13 years prior to the H Age
World War III begins.
11 years prior to the H Age
World War III ends, but smaller violent conflicts continue.
Rei leaves the military and assembles an independent Hypnosis Mic development team.
4 years prior to the H Age
Rei creates a working Hypnosis Mic.
3 years prior to the H Age
Otome purchases the Hypnosis Mics from Rei.
The military creates a working Hypnosis Mic prototype.
Rei begins development of the Hypnosis Canceler.
2 years prior to the H Age
Rei creates a working True Hypnosis Mic.
1 year prior to the H Age
The Party of Words stages a coup d'tat.
Rei creates a working Hypnosis Canceler and gives the first Ramuda to Otome.
Year 1 of the H Age
The H Age begins, ending violent conflict with weapons.
The Party of Words overwhelms the preexisting government, thus subverting the state.
The Party of Words founds Chuuouku and distributes Hypnosis Mics to select candidates.
Ichirou and Kuukou form Naughty Busters.
Samatoki and Sasara form Mad Comic Dialogue.
Ramuda meets Jakurai and Yotsutsuji. The former two go on to form Kuujaku Posse.
Otome purchases the True Hypnosis Mic from Rei.
Ichirou and Kuukou begin working with Mad Comic Dialogue.
Year 2 of the H Age
Ramuda clones use the True Hypnosis Mic to brainwash Sasara and Kuukou. Kuukou tells Ichirou their friendship is over and leaves for Nagoya. Sasara does the same and returns to Osaka.
Ichirou, Samatoki, Ramuda, and Jakurai form The Dirty Dawg.
The Dirty Dawg gains supremacy over every Division in Japan. A Ramuda clone puts Yotsutsuji in a brainwashing-induced coma.
A Ramuda clone brainwashes Nemu. She goes on to join the Party of Words.
Ichirou and Samatoki battle one another in accordance with a Chuuouku plot. At the same time, Jakurai and Ramuda fight over the Yotsutsuji situation. This leads to The Dirty Dawg disbanding.
The Party of Words disables all preexisting Hypnosis Mics distributed [through their program in Year 1] and recalls the mics.
The Party of Words creates the Division Rap Battle program.
Year 3 of the H Age
Ichirou, Samatoki, Ramuda, and Jakurai receive mics from Chuuouku.
The Division Rap Battle program begins.
Ichirou forms the Buster Bros with Jirou and Saburou.
Samatoki forms Mad Trigger Crew with Juuto and Riou.
Jakurai forms Matenrou with Hifumi and Doppo.
Ramuda forms Fling Posse with Gentarou and Dice.
Preliminary matches begin within each Division. The Buster Bros, Mad Trigger Crew, Fling Posse, and Matenrou win their respective preliminaries, thus advancing to the finals.
Ichijiku uses a Hypnosis Canceler for the first time.
In the first DRB tournament, Mad Trigger Crew wins round 1 against the Buster Bros.
In the first DRB tournament, Matenrou wins round 2 against Fling Posse.
In the first DRB tournament, Matenrou wins the final match against Mad Trigger Crew and takes the championship.
Hitaki Tsumabira, Vice Director General of the Criminal Bureau, and the Tobari brothers attempt to lay a trap for the Buster Bros, Mad Trigger Crew, Fling Posse, and Matenrou. Their plot fails.
Ichijiku has Tsumabira purged from the Party of Words for using the Tobari brothers to traffic the Grasshopper drug.
The Party of Words announces the second DRB.
Kuukou and Sasara receive mics from Chuuouku.
Rei meets Sasara and Roshou. The three go on to form Dotsuitare Hompo.
Hitoya introduces Juushi to Kuukou, who takes Juushi under his wing as an apprentice. The three go on to form Bad Ass Temple.
Ichirou notices Nemu's name on a list of missing persons and meets up with Sasara and Roshou to find out more. Rei meets with Jirou and Saburou. He reveals that he is their father and that Ichirou has been lying to them.
Nemu becomes the Vice Director General of the Administrative Inspection Bureau.
Nemu, still brainwashed, shows up in front of Samatoki with other Chuuouku members. Ramuda confesses to Samatoki that he brainwashed her.
Gentarou and Dice learn that Ramuda is a clone.
Chuuouku approaches Jakurai for his crucial assistance in improving the True Hypnosis Mic in order to bring Yotsutsuji out of his coma. Jakurai and Hitoya reunite. Meanwhile, Hifumi and Doppo meet Kuukou and Juushi.
Chuuouku decides to have Ramuda killed. Honobono enlists the Word Wreckers to join her in hunting him down. Gentarou and Dice come to his rescue and spirit him away to safety, but now all three are wanted as outlaws.
Dice performs a trade with Otome, giving her the Chuuouku expose left behind by Gentarou's older brother. Ramuda is allowed to go free, and Fling Posse is granted permission to participate in the second DRB.
Jakurai agrees to cooperate with Chuuouku under certain conditions. Honobono pays a visit to Hifumi's club.
Juuto arrests Sekirei Hanmyou, the man responsible for the drug that led to Juuto's friend and parents' deaths.
Nemu arrests Tsumabira, now escaped from prison, and her coconspirator in crime Misago Haebaru. Honobono rises to position of Vice Director General of the Criminal Bureau in Tsumabira's place.
Ichirou battles Jirou while Saburou battles Rei. The brothers make up afterward.
After receiving advice from Rei, Sasara and Roshou battle one another and come clean about their feelings. With that bad blood washed away, the team comes together stronger than ever.
Juushi comes face to face with the boy who bullied him and took his grandmother's life. Through his own fortitude, Juushi prevails through the mental distress. After talking with Kuukou, Hitoya lets go of the past in seeking revenge for the death of his brother. The team comes together stronger than ever.
The second DRB preliminaries come to an end. The Buster Bros, Mad Trigger Crew, Fling Posse, Matenrou, Dotsuitare Hompo, and Bad Ass Temple advance to the finals.
In the second DRB tournament, the Buster Bros win round 1 against Dotsuitare Hompo.
In the second DRB tournament, Matenrou wins round 2 against Bad Ass Temple.
In the second DRB tournament, Fling Posse wins round 3 against Mad Trigger Crew.
In the second DRB tournament, Fling Posse wins the final match against the Buster Bros and Matenrou, thus claiming the championship.
Sasara and Kuukou learn that they were brainwashed. Ramuda opens up to Jakurai and tells him the truth. Ichirou and Samatoki learn the truth as well, thereby resolving the feuds between the team leaders.
The Party of Words announces the third DRB.
The Party of Words locates and seizes control of Rei's laboratory. In an exchange of hostages, the Party gains control of the True Hypnosis Mic and Ramuda clones.
Otome announces plans for world domination before Rei attempts a coup d'tat. All Hypnosis Mics are disabled, and Otome and Ichijiku are sent to maximum security prison by the very Ramuda clones Rei created.
Public order breaks down following the disabling of the mics.
Ichirou discovers Rei's connection to the Hypnosis Mics due to Gentarou's brother's expose. The main cast, led by Jirou and Saburou, hold a music festival to bring courage to everyone struggling with the political turmoil.
Honobono frees the inmates of Chuuouku's maximum security prison. After staging an attack on the music festival, she disappears from the eye of Chuuouku.
Rei and Ichirou have a fistfight over their respective moral positions. Rei acknowledges his defeat, reconsiders his moral stance, and reactivates all Hypnosis Mics.
Armed with a working mic once more, Nemu takes command and restores order within Chuuouku. Otome decides to step down from her position in government.
Rules won’t work here, trust me
I’m the only real gangster here
I rule this city from the shadows
Even the police and gangs are afraid of me
I hold their weaknesses in my hands
Drug traffic? I’ll decimate it in one hit
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