The Dashboard Dude

This is a Tableau visual or "viz" with birthdays of over 1875 anime and manga characters, grouped and accessible in many ways which I will show you below. However, I know there are still many missing. I will show you how to identify some of them so if you were interested in getting me new characters and their birthdates that I can add to the list, please leave them in the comments. Otherwise, just have lots of fun with this in some of the ways I'll describe below, among others you can find! You can navigate within any of the windows below to access anything the set of dashboards within the viz offers. I just created one window for each dashboard to have a picture of what I'm talking about in describing each dashboard, close to the text to help with reading. TODAY You came here for birthdays, so the ideal greeting is a list of which character's birthday it is today. I think the date mechanism is synced to the time on your browser so that someone ac...

UPDATE: My friend Lara J. came through with the answer of Nico Yazawa of Love Live! Thanks, Lara! Now, to get to the other five days listed below. ----------------------------- For the first time since I created by interactive dashboard of anime and manga character birthdays, with 1915 characters now, it hits a date without a character with a birthday. :( That means the opening dashboard to the set stating "Happy Birthday" and listing those with a birthday on the date you visit, would be empty. I'd show you except if you looked at this 359 other days of the year, it wouldn't be empty, with SIX empty dates! 1915 characters and there are SIX days during the year on which none of them celebrate a birthday! Below, you can see the list of dates during the year for which I don't have a character with a birthday on it if you scroll to the bottom. Interestingly enough, of the other five dates without a birthday, we also have another on the 22nd, bein...

From my anime and manga character birthdays analytical set of dashboards, you can see March 3rd is the date that has the most characters with birthdays, at 36 birthdays. That'd make quite the birthday party, eh? There is even a decent gap in character dates, with more characters with birthdays on March 3rd than the next most popular date, January 1st, at 28 days. January 1st is a bit of a lazy choice being the first day of the year. There may be some symbolism involved, but it can't be that much to deter from the fact it's just the first day of the year. The birthdays of these characters were chosen by many writers over the years, and there should be some randomness to them, as you can see by the coverage of days with at least one birthday. However, what is it about March 3rd that might have inspired more birthdays for it than some other dates. These are conscious decisions creators of characters make for their birthdays. But was there something unifying their...