Timeline of Events

38 Years Ago

Kuzuryu Chisei born June 21

36 Years Ago

Shingu Haruomi born September 9

34 Years Ago

Saimon Naoakira born September 18

32 Years Ago

Inukai Yuto born August 12

28 Years Ago

Baek Chungsung born February 7

[???] Iori born May 2

Kanbayashi Yohei born August 28

27 Years Ago

Gaho Zen born January 1 to a family of rakugo performers

26 Years Ago

Yuto's (age 6) parents pass away in an accident, and he is taken in by a relative

24 Years Ago

Masaki Hokusai born March 3

Haruomi (age 12) is introduced to hiphop

23 Years Ago

Tosa Ryoga born May 28

22 Years Ago

Kaida Shion born November 11

21 Years Ago

Yeon Hajun born April 8

Sugasano Allen born October 1

Hikage Toma born November 26

Hokusai's (age 3) father is imprisoned for murder

20 Years Ago

Anjin (Anne) Faulkner born June 12

Yamato Shogo born August 20

Haruomi (age 16) debuts as a trackmaker

19 Years Ago

Miyama Kei born January 31

Ito Satsuki born May 15

Yatonokami Kanata and Nayuta are born December 24th and are raised by an abusive mother

Chisei (age 19) debuts as a professional basketball player

Exact Timeline Unknown

Natsume Ryu born somewhere around this time?

18 Years Ago:

Allen (Age 3) begins receiving education for musically-gifted children

17 Years Ago

Itsuki born January 15

Misuji Kantaro born February 14

Maruyama Reo born July 21, and grows up with hiphop thanks to his father's influence

Ando Shiki born August 8

Miyama Rokuta born October 10

Shion (age 5) is abandoned on the front step of an orphanage

16 Years Ago

Kureha Aoi born April 19

Chisei (age 22) retires from basketball and takes up an interest in hiphop

Haruomi's (age 20) father commits suicide, and Haruomi withdraws from trackmaking

Kei (age 3) and Rokuta (age 1) are placed in an orphanage

Exact Timeline Unknown

Yohei spends some amount of time in his youth institutionalized before being picked up by the Suiseki

15 Years Ago

Mikoshiba Kenta born March 20

Kanata and Nayuta (age 4) are taken away from their mother and placed in a facility

Toma (age 5) suffers severe burns on his face

Ryoga (age 8) begins to be bullied for being a poor talker

Shion (age 7) is sold off to a freak show for money

14 Years Ago

Yeon Dongha born December 7; he is raised in a separate house from Hajun

Shiki's (age 3) parents die protecting him in an accident and he is placed in a facility

Iori (age 14) enlists with the Suiksei

Chisei (age 24) and Haruomi (age 22) form Buraikan

Toma's (age 6) parents divorce

Yuto (age 18) graduates from high school and becomes a military mercenary; he is sent overseas

13 Years Ago

Anne (age 7) first develops an interest in clothing

Saimon (age 21) graduates from university one year early and enters graduate school

Yohei (age 15) graduates from junior high, enlists with the Suiseki

Kantaro (age 4) is left in the care of his grandparents in the countryside when his parents are stationed overseas for work

Ryoga (age 10) puts an older kid in the hospital

12 Years Ago

Kanata and Nayuta (age 7) run away from the facility

Aoi (age 4) first begins to admire princes

Itsuki (age 5) is brought to an Alter Trigger facility as a metal test subject

Yuto (age 20) retires from the military and returns to Japan

Shion (age 10) runs away from the freak show and lives in the slums on the street

11 Years Ago

Saimon (age 23) meets Yohei (age 17) and they form XXXX following a Buraikan concert

Iori (age 17) inherits the name Suiseki from the old man

Hokusai faces relentless harassment due to his father's crimes

Chisei (age 27) and Haruomi (age 25) obtain their phantometals

Yuto (age 21) enrolls with a police academy and joins the police force

10 Years Ago

Phantom Lives experience a boom in popularity

Saimon (age 24) and Tsubaki are married

Iori (age 18) graduates highschool and begins overseeing the operation of CANDY

Hokusai's (age 14) mother commits suicide and he is placed in a children's home

Shogo (age 10) makes his show business debut

Ryoga (age 13) begins to command fear and respect for his fighting skill and strength

Exact Timeline Unknown

Haruomi intervenes with Chisei's acute metal erosion

9 Years Ago

Buraikan retire from the public eye and CLUB Paradox disappears

Tsubaki passes away and XXXX disband

Yohei (age 19) has a chance meeting with Ryu (age ???) outside of the hospital, and becomes barmaster of Bar 4/8

Kanata and Nayuta (age 10) begin doing hiphop

Zen (age 18) joins the police force

Hokusai (age 15) is unable to make friends and begins befriending animals

Haruomi (age 27) inherits his family's ramen shop, Raimentei

Kei (age 10) and Rokuta (age 8) learn piano from the staff at the orphanage

8 Years Ago:

Allen (age 13) discovers an interest in hiphop

Hajun (age 13) is sent to Japan alone

Shiki (age 9) falls in love with taking care of plants

Zen (age 19) begins working out

Satsuki's (age 11) home life becomes complicated

Shogo (age 12) is labelled a "second generation talent"

Yuto (age 24) is partnered up with Zen (age 19)

7 Years Ago

Saimon (age 27) and Yohei (age 21) reuinite

Kanata and Nayuta (age 12) win their first prize money

Reo's (age 10) mother vanishes, and his father's debauchery gets worse

Toma (age 14) falls in love with idols

Rokuta (age 10) goes missing, kidnapped by Alter Trigger; he meets Itsuki (age 10) when they share a room at the Alter Trigger facility

Dongha (age 7) has first direct encounter with Hajun (age 14)

Exact Timeline Unknown

Ryu escapes the Alter Trigger facility with help from onii-san

6 Years Ago:

Allen (age 15) and Hajun (age 15) meet

Saimon (age 28) and Yohei (age 22) begin rapping again

Zen (age 21) infiltrates the Suiseki as part of an undercover investigation

Hokusai (age 18) is homeless and gets picked up by Iori (age 22)

Ryoga (age 17) begins hanging out with Satsuki (age 13)

Shion starts going to clubs and takes up an interest in hiphop

5 Years Ago:

Allen's parents burn his records and Allen (age 16) moves in with Hajun (age 16)

Anne's (age 15) parents divorce

Satsuki (age 14) takes the fall for Ryoga (age 18) for a fight, and is sent to a juvenile detention hall in the stead of Ryoga going to jail, because Ryoga's mother's health is beginning to decline

Reo's (age 12) father vanishes, leaving only his debt behind

Shogo (age 15) wins an award for his performance in a movie, but having his success attributed to his father's influence leads him to retire from acting

Toma (age 16) begins working part-time jobs to save up for cosmetic surgery

Shion (age 17) begins making money by gambling and cash prizes in hiphop events

4 Years Ago:

Anne (age 16) moves to Japan, meets Allen (age 17) and Hajun (age 17)

Shiki (age 13) meets Nayuta (age 15)

Zen (age 23) leaves the police force to join the Suiseki, and is violently beaten by Yuto (age 28)

Satsuki (age 15) is released from juvenile detention but has no home to return to, and gets into many fights

Haruomi (age 32) opens Raimentei in its current form

Kantaro (age 13) enters a training school to become an idol, but ends up dropping out

Dongha (age 10) becomes aware that everyone around his is comparing him to Hajun

Ryoga's (age 19) mother passes away, and he becomes a gunman for a gang

3 Years Ago:

Allen (age 18) and Hajun (age 18) enter university

Ryu (age ???) becomes attached to Yohei (age 25), leading to Yohei becoming Ryu's caretaker

Reo (age 14) is saved by Iori (age 25) and joins the Suiseki

Satsuki (age 16) joins the Suiseki

Toma (age 18) has cosmetic surgery

Toma, Shogo (age 17), Kantaro (age 14), and Kei (age 16) are scouted by a talent agency

Aoi's (age 13) relationship with his family begins to become strained

Alter Trigger's experiments intensify, leading to Itsuki (age 14) losing his emotions and Rokuta (age 14) losing his memory

Yuto (age 29) leaves the police force to become a prison guard

Ryoga (age 20) is arrested and imprisoned for large-scale gang violence

2 Years Ago

Anne (age 18) is admitted to university, leaves home, and begins working at CANDY

Nayuta (age 17) begins to experience metal erosion as a result of participating in metal trials, and attempts suicide

Saimon (age 32) becomes a college professor

Shiki (age 15) is picked up by Saimon and begins living at Bar 4/7, and enters high school

All but five members of the Suiseki are killed in a mass shooting

Aoi (age 14) is scouted by a talent agency

VISTY debut (Shogo age 18, Toma age 19, Aoi age 14, Kantaro age 15, Kei age 17)

Dongha (age 12) is shocked to learn that his father thinks more highly of Hajun than of him

Shion (age 20) is arrested for a stabbing incident and is sent to prison

1 Year Ago

Shiki (age 16) begins to get accustomed to Ryu

VISTY (Shogo age 19, Toma age 20, Aoi age 15, Kantaro age 16, Kei age 18) are at the peak of their popularity

Shogo's father passes away

THE PRESENT

This is purely speculation, but my current best guess is that round 1 takes place over a span of time spanning from approximately November to April/May, there is a time gap in between the rounds, and since then everything from RTL Opening Show onwards has taken place over a couple of months.

Opening Show

Club Paradox reopens; four groups are selected to participate in the Paradox Live

DESIRE

Kanata steals Allen's metal

JUSTICE

Iori visits Bar 4/7 and begins to suspect that Ryu may have connections to Alter Trigger

PRIDE

BAE have a heart to heart after an altercation with The Cat's Whiskers

FAMILY

Kanata seeks the help of Akan Yatsura after Nayuta goes missing

Christmas Eve (Fan Book story)

cozmez celebrate their birthday

Springtime(?) (Fan Book stories)

Shiki's school sports festival day

BAE have an incident with Allen's notebook

Zen drinks Ryu's cocktail and pays the price

Exhibition Show

Hokusai, Satsuki, and Reo are tasked with investigating Ryu

Zen eats with Nayuta and Kanata at Raimentei, then notices that Nayuta's food is uneaten

Iori advises Hajun against getting involved with the shady doctor he's seeing for metal erosion

LOVE

Shiki visits the building where he saw Nayuta jump to his death

VIBES

Hajun collapses onstage from metal erosion

LIVE

Kanata wins the Paradox Live, but realizes that he has been creating the Nayuta illusion all this time

Haruomi works behind the scenes to shut down Alter Trigger's involvement with the Paradox Live

Nayuta is released from the Alter Trigger facility at which he has been kept

The others decide the only way to get cozmez to participate in a congratulation party is kidnapping

Shuffle Team

Hijinx ensue

MEMORY Framing Device

The cast variously discuss and reminisce on past events following the events of LIVE but preceding the Buraikan vs. cozmez fight.

Exact Timeline Unclear

Buraikan vs cozmez; Buraikan win

Buraikan announce a second Paradox Live, theoretically free of Alter Trigger's interference

Some form of qualifying rounds are held, leading to the selection of four additional teams that will be participating in the Road to Legend in addition to the four teams from last round.

Exact Timeline Unclear

The shutdown of Alter Trigger facilities leads to the emancipation of Itsuki, Rokuta, and other former human experimentation subjects

Kei resigns from VISTY and reunites with Rokuta, meets Itsuki

Dongha and Chungsung come to Japan

GokuLuck is formed

Road to Legend Opening Show

Road to Legend Opening Show is held

FATE and RAGE

Note that SHOWDOWN indicates that RAGE and FATE take place nearly-simultaneously

BAE are invited to an incredibly passive-aggressive dinner by Dongha

1nm8 approach The Cat's Whiskers to ask them to retire if they lose their stage battle

VISTY are threatened with disbandment if they do not show results in the Paradox Live and have encounter with cozmez

GokuLuck have encounters with Akan Yatsura while doing community service

SHOWDOWN

1 day after the results of RAGE are made public, GokuLuck confront Yuto about why he's doing hiphop with them

~A few days after RAGE results, VISTY go on a driving tour

Less than one week after FATE results, Rokuta collapses from acute metal sickness, then Kei and Rokuta play street piano together. The song causes Rokuta remembers that Kei is his brother. The piano song is filmed and uploaded.

At some point after FATE results, Dongha returns to Korea to interface with his father

WILL and TRUST

The video of Kei and Rokuta playing piano triggers a memory in Ryu, causing him to run away. Yohei and Anne retrieve him

Following a disastrous interview, Iori and Kanata discuss over pudding while Nayuta and the AKYR kids tail Zen as he discusses Yuto with an ex-colleague from the police force

SHOWDOWN -AFTER-

GokuLuck are determined to be the winners of the consolation round.

VISTY discuss going independent from their agency if negotiations do not go well with their company president.

Dongha and Chungsung return to Korea. A last-minute meeting with Hajun inspires Dongha to negotiate with his father regarding AMPRULE's future.

Kei is unsure how to proceed after Itsuki and Rokuta both express a desire to continue doing Phantom Lives following 1Nm8's elimination from Road to Legend.

REVOLUTION

Anne receives a call from their mother in hospital.

cozmez argue over whether or not Kanata would quit music if anything were to happen to Nayuta.

GokuLuck are called in to meet with the prison district admin.

ANTHEM

Buraikan host an afterparty for Road to Legend and celebrate BAE as the new champions.

We know that the CDs do not follow real time release schedules (the end of Exhibition show and the start of LOVE happen within minutes of each other; SHOWDOWN's dramas happen within days of the round 1 results and also implies that FATE and RAGE happened closer to each other in time than they did in real life). Not only is all Twitter-based time explicitly anachronistic (the series is set in the near future, not the present day!), but there are oddities such as the fact that the characters do not age in the main dramas despite celebrating their birthdays on social media.

As such, Twitter and Paradox Tribe are treated as generally canonical in terms of content (as in, what the characters reveal about themselves is assumed to be true) but as also as falling outside of the canonical timeline.