"oniichan week" as my friends and i lovingly call is a series of episodes written by series creator amako soubee, released from october 10 to october 14 in 2022. these episodes are highly revered for revealing backstories of dearly beloved characters, which, despite the show's decades long runtime, is a rare and special occasion! below i've listed and linked each episode (which are all subbed, mainly thanks to zenpouji-isaku!) i mainly created this post as a way these episodes can be easily retrieved/referenced. one day i'll write my thoughts about all these episodes.
Beginnings of Training
Shioe Monjirou is a senior who is always hard on himself. But Senzou Tachibana-senpai says that Shioe-senpai may actually be the kindest to others...
Memories of Siege
Hama-kun secretly checks on Kema-senpai. However, when Kema-senpai approaches him, he runs away. He’s being avoided?? Kema-senpai wonders if he did something to make Hama dislike him, but…
The Reason Why I'm Quiet
Kameko has arrived at Ninjutsu Academy. Shinbei and the others are busy, so Kameko decides to clean the library with Nakazaike-senpai. There, Nanamatsu-senpai is carrying overdue books!
Roommates' Reminiscence
Caught up in the misfortune of the Health Committee once again, Kema-senpai and Zenpouji-senpai are busy tending to their wounds. As Rantaro and the others apologize, Kema-senpai says, "This is also one of my battles." Then, he starts talking about his time as a first year.
The Remembered Treatment
Rikichi comes to the Ninjutsu Academy with an injured Totsuan Bōta. When Doi-sensei sees Totsuan being treated, he remembers the first time he met Rikichi and Yamada-sensei. At that time, Doi-sensei was also injured and was treated by Rikichi.
brute forcing my way into guessing the heights of the six years, a horrible, horrible post
a bit ago on twitter, someone posted a shot from the official animation book that had all the character heights lined up and it had me curious. so naturally, i compiled all my previous notes (yes, i had previous notes on this) and put them together into this rambling nightmare for you to enjoy. all heights will be reported in metric but im adding imperial measurements for ease of comparison.
this is all for fun and all to quench my own personal demons so its probably inaccurate but please let me have this
WITH THAT, let's begin with who I know has a definitive, at least semi-canon height stated somewhere.
GINGIN
In the tsudois (fan-gathering), Amako notes he's the same height at Heisuke at 165 cm (shorter side of 5'5). as a general note the tsudois aren't officially canon unless they later are and sometimes contradict info in the anime and manga, but i haven't seen enough contrary evidence to disprove this.
one down five to go.
Shioe Monjirou: 165 cm (5'5)
With that, here's another freebie for me. It's kind of difficult to discern sometimes, but Kema's generally taller than Monjirou for the most part. This is confirmed by the animation book height charts and also by the musical, where he's 3分 (about 1 cm) taller than Monjirou, so I don't have to lose sleep over this much. thank you kenen for making my life easier
Kema Tomesaburou: 166 cm (5'5)
Now onto Isaku and Senzou. The author has ranked the six years by height before, so i'm putting it here because i forgot to earlier.
from shortest to tallest: isaku + senzou (same height), monjirou, tomesaburou, koheita, chouji
referencing the anime imo can be dubiously helpful because shots where the characters stand side by side directly facing the camera tend to be kind of rare so heights can look inconsistent. that being said, i still compiled images for my own reference in addition to the height chart.
from the fifth years vs the six years arc and the orienteering arc.
from shuichirous debut arc. not totally side by side and they're leaning back/forward, but it might be useful
I don't remember if they have an official height stated anywhere, so I just eyeballed this one. the anime isnt super consistent but senzou looks about an inch shorter than monjirou (2-3 cm). eyeballing the animation book height chart if the gap btwn monji and kema is supposed to be around a cm, the gap btwn monji and isaku is just tall enough that I can probably safely say he's at least more than a cm shorter than 165.
for reference, the red line here is rantarou, who is I think 136 cm (4'5). as an aside, the height chart also puts the average six year to be a little shorter than doi, who's canonically 175 cm, so?
ive seen them noted as 162-163 cm a couple times before though but i don't actually know if it's canon or not, but that's already my hc anyhow, so im going to be extremely biased here.
Tachibana Senzou: 163 cm (5'4)
Zenpouji Isaku: 163 cm (5'4)
i didn't expect short senzou actually but it makes a lot of sense...
ROKURO TIME
these two were a nightmare to figure out because i had some trouble finding good shots of these two next to the other six years, so I decided to use someone else whose height i knew: kirimaru.
kirimaru is about 140 cm (4’7) and consistently goes up to a little below chouji's shoulder. chouji looks about a foot taller, so about 170 cm (5’7) or 172 cm (5’8).
to verify my work, i compared the height difference with doi, who's 175 cm. kirimaru goes up to what looks like the middle of his upper arm. or around the dark blue stripe on his casual wear here.
just for fun, i also compared these with isaku and zatto, who's 180 cm (5'11). isaku goes roughly to his neck and there's a 15-20 cm difference, so i think a 30 cm difference between kirimaru and chouji made sense.
Nakazaike Chouji: 171 cm (5'7)
the six years don't have drastic variations in height visually anyhow so i felt this was fair since he's the tallest.
koheita's height is all over the place sometimes. he gets drawn as being shorter sometimes, but i can't tell?
his hair makes him look way taller than he actually is lol. but the height disparity looks pretty similar to 1-2 cm shorter compared to chouji, so that's my ruling because i accidentally spent too much time working on choujis height. dont worry about the details, or something
Nanamatsu Koheita: 169 cm (5'6.5)
And thus, our verdict is as follows:
Senzou + Isaku (163 cm), Monjirou (165 cm), Tomesaburou (166 cm), Koheita (169 cm), and Chouji (171 cm). we did it...
just for fun, I also pulled up the official height charts for them as first years just for comparisons sake and because there's a more obvious difference in height (and also look at them...my children...)
isaku and kema actually look shorter than senzou here though which is interesting (though tomesaburou looks like the same height as him too). imagining rokuha outgrowing senzou at some point and hes kind of a sore loser about it bwaswbashwabwa...
while I was putting this post together, I also found out they have heights listed on the jpwiki...oops. but i thought it would be fun to check my answers.
Actually not that far off! im curious where the other canon heights came from; is it also in the animation book?? i don't have an actual copy of it, but it would be fun to go through especially because there's references for the other grades.
conclusion. this was fun. thank you for reading my monstrously long ramble. i put so much effort into this...bye
