Board Thread:Fourth Databook/@comment-4271790-20141104211032/@comment-362960-20141105013519

Reliops wrote: Kishi really should fucking check his math.

Nagato was 35 at the time of his death. Minato, who died at 24, would have been 40-41 had he lived, i.e. 5-6 years older. Jiraiya taught Minato when he graduated from the academy at 10 years old. There's simply no way he met and then taught the Ame Orphans for 3 years.

Also, Yahiko, who looked like he was 25-30, was apparently 15 years old when he died. lol, wat.

Given the fact Konan was 35 when she died, I'm assuming that's how old Yahiko would have been had he lived as long.

So if Yahiko died at 15, and Nagato and Konan died 20 years later, that would have meant Obito met them when he was 11 years old? Doesn't fit in the time line. Dafuqery. The 15 has gotta be something that Kishi didn't think through. He looked older. If he was 17 then it pushes it back to eighteen years ago which fits almost perfectly. So at that point Obito is 13 when he appeared to them. Although far be it for Kishi to do something revolutionary like make characters in a three character group .... different ages.

As for Minato vs the Orphans, if Minato died at age 24, then training with Jiraiya was 14 years before Naruto's birth. Which means He trained Minato first and trained the Ame Orphans second. That actually makes sense to me as Jiraiya thought Minato was the Child of Prophecy. It's far more logical for Jiraiya to revise that assessment because he met a kid with a Rinnegan than because he met a kid who was more talented than any he had ever met.