Death the Kid's True Birthday, Has It Been Solved??
i've been wracking my brain to figure out Kid's bday for such a long time, and I think I found it. Will explain the theory below.
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Firstly, Atsushi Ohkubo said in response to a question many years ago, that Death the Kid is 13~15 in the series. The reason for no set date is because he is probably referring his age by the whole series. He is shown and canonically to be short in the beginning, and in the end of manga where he grew taller, so we know that they did all age throughout the whole story.
People in Japan speculated his birthday to be August 08, because the numbers are mirrored and is 8 (was there's another reason? Don't remember).... but... what if it was not that off the mark? What if his birthday WAS august, just not on that day? Now... let me tell you where I suspect his birthdate is... In the manga, there is chapter where Kid is in a library where he wants to check out a book. On one page, we see Kid's ID in the manga, but it is illegible and the words are not visible, but when we go to the anime, and watch the HD version, you can see things more clearly, but of course it's in Japanese. But the Japanese letters are not the focus. What the focus is, is the numbers. Look at the top middle, then the date issued at the near bottom.
The date this was issued was somewhere around the 2000's, so it can not be outside of that. Soul Eater manga was released on May 12, 2004, so it fits with everything so far.
The other part to focus on is this: 10089818
Those numbers look random, but they might not be.
If you take the last few digits, then go by Japanese date format, it's year, month, then day. Right? So.. 89/8/18 = 1989 August 18th, then if we use the age range that Mr. Ohkubo said to us, then calculate from the year the main manga series first released which is May 12th 2004 from 1989/08/18 from his assumed birthdate, the date between is 14 years and 268 days. And since Soul Eater not! manga storyline is about 1 year before the mains story, that's 1 year off, making it 13 years! And the numbers are still mirrored like 808 too!
So, if this assumed to be correct, his birthday was right under our noses all along! And everything I see so far, fits too perfectly to just be a coincidence. But if it is just a coincidence, then how tf did I do this?? Even if we don't get the exact date, I'm sticking to this for now. lol If anyone else wants to celebrate on this date with me too, go for it!