Talk:Sumiko Sumimura

Sumiko's Age
I seem to recall at some point we had Sumiko's age listed as being in the neighborhood of the high 30s. So I decided to do a little math, using the ages of her sons. Let's assume that Sumiko was 20 when she gave birth to Masamori. That's a big assumption itself: the actual date is never even implied as I recall, but Shuji doesn't strike me as the overly passionate type, unless of course Sumiko jumped his bones early, which is entirely possible. But anyway: at age 20, Sumiko has Masamori. Masamori is 7 years older than Yoshimori, so at age 27, Sumiko has Yoshi. Yoshimori is 5 years older than Toshimori, so at age 32, you get the picture. All of which concludes in one of two ideas: either Sumiko is the youngest-looking 41 year old mother (42 by the manga's end) I've ever seen, or she had Masamori before she was 20. I'm inclined to go with the former, since people being much older than they look is a common trend in the series. Even if we take a few steps back and say Sumiko may have given birth to Masamori as early as 15, she would still end up 36-37. But I suspect if Sumiko had gotten pregnant earlier than was considered decent, Shigemori wouldn't like Shuji anywhere near as much as he does. Though all of this makes me wonder about Shuji's age as well. - Dap00 19:36, October 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * I like the math, I really do. I'm pretty sure she had Masamori when she was around 20 becuase if she had him earlier than 18 then Shigemori wouldn't approve of his birth or her relationship with Shuji. The three Sumimura brothers look alike to me, so I'm guessing that Shuji is the biological father of all of them, and I don't think Sumiko would commit adultery from what I read in the last chapter, that the days she spent with him were the ones she felt the most human.


 * Also, if Sumiko grew one year older, wouldn't Yoshi be 15 and Tokine be 17 by the end of the series? -The  Abbster  23:13, October 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, from the "current" timeline everyone ages a year by the manga's end. I think it was a comment on Shichirou's age near the end that first made me realize it. - Dap00 23:30, October 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * All right. I'll edit everyone's ages that we have on record now. -The  Abbster  01:14, October 9, 2011 (UTC)