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Why do anime characters have official birthdays? Why do they decide for the
anime characters to have birthdays? Does this have a historical basis? And
when exactly is a character's birthday decided? Is it when a character's
physical appearance is drafted? What is the birthday's significance?


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Why do anime characters have official birthdays?


Why shouldn't anime characters have official birthdays? It would be strange if
they didn't have them!

Over in the west animated characters are given birthdays also. Spongebob's
date of birth is July 14th, 1986.

![Spongebob](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4MwjG.jpg)

Presumably the addition of birthdays is just to make characters a bit more
realistic. And occasionally it helps with character, For example in Kodocha,
Akito was given his name as he was born in autumn. Sana was named so because
she was born on 7th march.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKq33.jpg)

Sometimes an author will release a 'databook' with information about the
different characters including dates of birth, blood types etc. The example
below is an excerpt from a Bleach databook.

Birthdays of course can be shown to in the actual show's content, in which
case the day the episode was first aired is taken to be their birthday.

However, the most common case is to take birthdays from a character profile

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwGgB.jpg)

As for historical significance, authors have been giving fictional characters
from day one.

Sherlock Holmes's birthdate is 6 January, 1854

**_TL;DR_** : Fictional characters are treated as non-fictional characters to
bestow a sense of realism on them, so why shouldn't they have birthdays, blood
types and everything else we have?


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