The Dashboard Dude

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...