Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1018594-20140824175144

Has anyone ever stopped to think about how convoluted the timeline of Naruto is? It's really hard to space out the time lapse between events unless you're actually told.

Here's an example: We know that the Fourth Shinobi World War has only gone on for two days at this point. A let Naruto and B pass into the war zone the morning of Day 2. It's currently Night 2. Based on that, I'm gonna ballpark these:

Itachi broke the Edo Tensei about 4 hours ago. Neji's been dead for like 2 hours. The Hokage showed up rougly an hour and 45 minutes ago, Orochimaru following about 10 minutes later. Obito was a jinchuriki for about a good 15 minutes. Madara was revived about a half hour ago. I'd say around a good 20 minutes since the Infinite Tsukuyomi was launched. Obito died about a minute ago.

That's only recent history. Kakuzu is the oldest person whose age we know for a fact. He was 91 when he died and he fought the First Hokage prior to becoming a missing-nin. If Hashirama died sometime before or during the First Shinobi World War, that means the ninja world has had four world wars in less than 100 years? How do the villages recover and repopulate enough to make that happen?

And while we're there: if Hashirama was Hokage before the war and Madara, who was a full grown adult at the time, died sometime during or after the Third war, how old does that make him?

The Sannin and Sakumo Hatake were relatively young, I'd say early 20s when they became famous during the Second war. Nagato and Konan were found by Jiraiya as young kids, which makes sense if they're in their 30s at the time of their deaths. Tsunade and Orochimaru are now in their early 50s, which makes sense. Kakashi became famous at age 15 in the Third War and fought again in the Fourth war at 31. So I'm guessing the First and Second Wars happened consecutively, there was a period of peace and the Third happened a couple years before the start of the series.

I dunno, it's really confusing and involves a lot of math I don't wanna do. Maybe we can make sense of this somehow. 