Thread:Luxartisan/@comment-27869316-20200527082106/@comment-5785681-20200527112750

That's reasonable. In fact, I just saw this topic on an anime message board recently. It could be a matter of Japanese semantics and the age discrepancy is notable. I was going to suggest that you listen to the dialog and see what you think. The specific reference is in Episode 10 of DttF just before the Iwatobi team leaves for Tokyo (mid-episode or so). Gou is talking about giving Haru and Makoto nicknames. And if the phrasing is the same as how Nitori refers to Mikhail, then yes, we should change it. However, there may be a backstory (I suspect that there is), so maybe keeping the phrase "possible kin" would be appropos.

I say this because Shizuru might also be saying that his grandpa thought the nickname was cool, not that Ryuji was his grandpa. And it's possible that Ryuji actually is his grandpa because of this potential scenario: Ryuji has a child at 19. If his "sick" friend was actually the mother of his son/daughter, that would not only throw off his concentration, but also likely interrupt his career. So... if he's 19 when the child is born and that child also has a child at 19 (or younger), the grandchild would be 15 upon entering h.s. (like Shizuru). Ryuji would be a young grandpa at 53 y.o.

Far fetched? Maybe, but possible, and it would be a dramatic explanation for his leaving competitive swimming. I'm going to predict that Ryuji's history is explored in the next film because you just know something is going to happen to one of the characters causing a crisis for Haru. That's just Haru's life (poor boy). ;)

Angelle 11:27, May 27, 2020 (UTC)

P.S. I noticed some image deletions. I assume they were duplicates or replaced by those of a better quality, eh? We also did agree that "clean" images that aren't specifically identifiable from a mag would be moved to Official Art, right? I thought I'd moved them over, but maybe not. I'm going to wait until I hear back from you on these two points before doing anything.