Tuned In

"There are hundreds of different radio waves being broadcast all around you from distant stations. At any given instant, your office or car or living room is full of these radio waves. However if you turn on a radio, you can listen to only one frequency at a time; these other frequencies are not in phase with each other. Each station has a different frequency, a different energy. As a result, your radio can only be turned to one broadcast at a time. Likewise, in our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them."
Professor Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)

"However, what if we could tune into a parallel reality? What if?"
Silverwing013, author on fanfiction (2011)

Written Wednesday, May 24, 1989 of this world

Now that I look back and think over it… The difference of years should not surprise me. YuYu Hakusho had that late 80s and early 90s look to it. It being the year of 1989 makes sense. At least until I started thinking over it. The copyright date on the first manga states the series began in December of 1990. The main character dies then, so my guess of a year of waiting was correct. A little longer than a year, more like a year and a half of Shiori staying at Nakamori General Hospital.

However, I have read up to the seventh book. The look back was one year before Goki, Hiei, and Kurama teamed up to steal from Spirit World. If Yusuke dies in December of 1990, then does all the trials before coming back to life… How long was the time he was dead? A month? So around January or February…depending…wait. One of his trials did get him through Christmas, with the ghost who would not move from her seat on a bench. Then there was the ornery old man, Kuwabara's promise to not fight, a temporary resurrection, the troubled little ghost girl, who then stuck around to judge her hero's love life, and the boxer kid from back in Yusuke's childhood…

That is quite a bit going on after Christmas. Okay, so Yusuke possibly came back to life closer to March of 1991. But if the demon Eight Hands was here before Kazushi dragged all his work inside. Perhaps I should ask on when he moved his materials here. However, that would bring the fight back to around April or so. April 1989 all the way to March of 1991 before the artifacts are stolen when the series claimed one year later? The timing makes it almost two years. One year later is not making any sense to me.

Perhaps the timeline is shifted in some way? Or…oh! He, I always forget his name, but the dude who married the creator of Sailor Moon and her name fails me as well… Um, Yogishi Toga something? I'll look at his name later on the book that came through with me. Anyway, he would have had the story in mind before he wrote it and it became published. So perhaps the times align up with when it first entered his mind?

So…if I guess on April of the month of the fight against Eight Hands, then a year later would be April 1990 rather than December of 1990. If April is when the artifacts were stolen and Yusuke is dead during Christmas, then he actually becomes roadkill much closer, more like December this year…only six months away. Then he is a ghost for about three or four months…until April and gets the artifact case nearly days after coming back to life. Six months plus that…

Poor Shiori for all that time! I am going to have to check to see the next time I can stop by the hospital again. I certainly hope they do not keep her in that hospital for that long. At least allow for some time at home. Perhaps I'll visit her again.

Thank you to Phantom Hobbit and OhhTaylorJade.