Talk:Josuke Higashikata/@comment-27756096-20160729190442

maybe this was translated wrong/regionalized to make it easier for americans to relate to, or it's just araki and his plot holes again, but according to this: http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Diamond-wa-Kudakenai/Vol-036-Ch-341--Shigechi-s-Harvest-Part-007--Official-Color-Scans-?id=279552 it says josuke is a sophomore? i was trying to connect it with the japanese school system but they usually change grades in march, so whatever grade he is in wouldn't have changed through the april-july(?) that the story takes place. if he is a gemini, then his birthday would be around may-june, and if he was born in 1983, that means he has yet to actually turn 16 at the beginning of the story when school is starting, making him more likely to be a freshman. he should actually be turning/have turned 16 around the time they meet shigechi, according to the timeline. the freshman/sophomore thing would make sense if they were using the american school calendar, which would put them in the summer break between grade changes during the events of the story, meaning josuke could call himself a sophomore at this point, but i doubt that's the case because they are shown in school during the cinderella arc which takes in place around the end of june (unless they were taking summer school... which isn't unlikely.)