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"body": "\n\nTachibana Kanade (aka Angel) is a prominent figure in _Angel Beats_. The SSS,\n\n> at least in the first few episodes,\n\nis constantly fighting her, but she has certain abilities that make her very\ndifficult to defeat.\n\nHowever, it's revealed that abilities aren't\n\n> God-given, instead, she uses software called Angel Player to create these\n> abilities herself.\n\nBut,\n\n> Angel Player was created by the Programmer, as stated in Episode 11. The\n> Programmer is an elusive figure, who **likely** didn't even know Kanade.\n\nSo how did Angel Player find its way to Kanade, for her to later use?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the [Wikia](http://angelbeats.wikia.com/wiki/Angel_Player):\n\n> Some time after the creation of the Angel Player program, a student by the\n> name of Kanade Tachibana **discovered the program** and became the first\n> user of the program. She used the program to create Guard Skills to battle\n> against the SSS.\n\n(emphasis mine)\n\nThe exact details of the acquisition process is not revealed, however it is\nbelieved that Kanade found the program by herself. Considering that she has an\nEnglish manual, it could be that she found it with one of the computers in the\ncomputer room, or bought it in the Afterlife.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to an\n[Interview](https://worldomonation.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/angel-beats-\ninterview-with-maeda-jun-second-season/) with Maeda Jun (Angel Beats! planner,\nwriter and music composer\n[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Maeda#Tactics_to_Key))\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ih7E7.jpg)\n\nWhen Maeda was asked “ **What exactly is Angel Player**?” this was his\nresponse:\n\n> There were people fighting against God, even before the arrival of Yuri.\n> Similarly, there were people that tried to unravel the mystery of this world\n> as well. Angel Player is the result of an individual who found ways to\n> manipulate and create material. **Kanade found that software on her own,\n> analyzed it** […continues]\n\nOtonashi was not the creator of Angel Players. Nor was he the only bug to find\nits way into this world. Ultimately, Maeda seems to suggest that the world has\nbeen going on for god-knows-how-long.\n\nIn the interview, Maeda Jun [also] revealed and filled in some of the points\nof debate after Episode 13 of Angel Beats! last aired.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn One Piece, Luffy can use gears 2-4 (I know from a little bit of spoilers,\nI'm on the Water 7 arc and he has already used gear 2), but so far I haven't\nseen another devil fruit user use gear like Luffy's. Is there any devil fruit\nuser that uses gears?\n\n",
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"title": "Can any other devil fruit users use gears besides Luffy?",
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"body": "\n\nLuffy is the creator of Gears, and so far in both the manga and the anime, he\nis the only known user to use it. In the One Piece wiki, the only person who\ncan use Gears is Luffy, and the only reason he can even use gears is because\nof his Devil Fruit, the Gomu Gomu Fruit.\n[Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy/Abilities_and_Powers#Gears)\nquotes:\n\n> By taking advantage of the unique physical abilities granted by his Devil\n> Fruit, Luffy has invented techniques that augment his speed and strength in\n> different ways, though each one also has corresponding physical drawbacks.\n> He refers to these techniques as Gears.\n\nThe way Gears work (you will see quite soon because they explain it in the CP9\nevent during the fights) is that Luffy pumps his blood a lot faster than\nnormal, and his veins don't explode because he can stretch any part of his\nbody, whereas if a non-stretchy person tried this, their veins would explode\ncausing instant death. Therefore, no one besides Luffy can theoretically learn\nGears.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou're asking the wrong question. Gears is just the name given by Luffy to the\nextra usage of his unique paramecia body, hence technically only he can use\nGears.\n\nGear 2\n\n> Luffy uses his Elastic Heart and Blood Vessels to increase his bloodflow,\n> this allows him to increase the limit of his body. He can move very fast and\n> increased strength. It however decreases his endurance as he experiences\n> more fatigue\n\nGear 3\n\n> Luffy pumps air into his bones, which also being of rubber expands and allow\n> him to increase the size and momentum of his moves\n\nGear 4\n\n> Here Luffy pumps air into his muscles. This allows him to use Haki, while\n> remaining elastic enough to dodge/bounce back attacks\n\nOther users have their own special moves. For Example:\n\n> 1\\. Magellan - Covering his body with a stronger poison (Venom Demon: Hell's\n> Judgment) \n> 2\\. Robin - Using Thousands of Hands to create larger body parts including\n> Wings. (Gigantous Mano or something) \n> 3\\. Mr.3's Wax Suit (Champion Form) \n>\n\nIf they call their special moves something else instead of Gear N, it doesn't\nchange the fact that they are using there fruits' ability in a new way :)\n\nNOTE: All Credit to Luffy for thinking outside the box, though I doubt he\nconsiders the impacts of those actions before doing something, usually he does\nit because its COOL! :D\n\nsource : <http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Paramecia>; Anime/manga \n**Edit** : added more examples. \n**Edit 2** : With the introduction of awakening, it makes sense to add that\neach fruits awakening will also be unique. Thus Luffy's version of awakening\nand how he uses it or even accommodates it into his Gears will be upto his\ningenuity. (Personally, I want him to use a Staff (Like young Goku), which can\nextend due to his Rubber powers!)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGears is just a name to his techniques. They are called gears basically since\nhe is forcing his body or devil to its current full potential. If we go with\nthat thinking then we can say that logia devil fruit user also use \"gears\"\nwhen transforming to liquid (well not liquid but when they turn to light or\nsand or fire etc). The one thing that all devil fruit users do have is\nawakening. But since you are in Water 7 arc I'll just stop here.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [Kawahara\nReki](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/29y8mj/my_summary_of_kawahara_reki_sao_panel_at_ax/)\nthere supposed to be 10 [Unique Skills] on Sword Art Online. I know few of\nthem.\n\n * Dual Blades = Player with Fastest Reaction speed.\n * Holy Sword = Strongest Player (GM giving himself the strongest player title)\n * Darkness Sword = Highest Player Killing count.\n\nAll [Unique Skills] should be rewarded after Floor 90. What are other [Unique\nSkills] and requirement to unlock it ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKaneki's hair turns white\n\n> after being tortured by Jason.\n\nIn the manga, it is a little bit better explained, but the point is: in\nchapter 62 of the manga, Jason just walks into the room with his hair white,\nand Jason doesn't even notice it? I know Rize noticed it, but did Jason or\nanyone else do so?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJason for sure does not care what happens to kaneki's hair. It should also\nhave been a bit mroe gradual, as he was down there for 10 days, so Jason\nprobably saw it in the intermediate stages. Rather, in the anime there is 1\ninstance, and in the manga, 2.\n\nThe beginning of the second season, Touka comments that he needs a wig if he\nis to return to Anteku due to its color.\n\nIn the Manga, Touka does the same thing in chapter 79. The second instance\ncomes much later when Kaneki meets his favorite author. He is pretending to be\nhuman at the time, and she comments on his hair, Prompting Kaneki to reply\nthat it is white Naturally. This happened in chapter 108/109.\n\nIts never really been the focus though. Rather, Ishida uses his hair as more\nof a symbol of his mental state and its changes. As it changes colors, so too\ndoes he. If he had not included people commenting about it, Fans would have\nmade elaborate theories on how only we could see it changing and try to reason\nit.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Tales of Demons and Gods_ , one lesson of Shen Xiu is observed by three\npeople. The identity of two of them is mentioned, they are the vice principal\nand another teacher. But the identity is of the third person is never\nmentioned.\n\nI have ideas who the third person might be, but I'm not sure and it is never\nmentioned again (IIRC).\n\n * Ye Mo\n * Ye Zhong\n * The principal\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthis is a spoiler answer. The third person is number three ranking in the ye\nfamily who is in charge of assassination. The character will be reveal in a\nplot when eliminating the Shen family\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the last scene of episode 4 of Yuru Yuri San Hai (i.e., the third season of\nYuru Yuri anime), Sakurako played with her friends a lottery game for finding\nout \"lucky colors\". She did so by drawing a diagram on the ground and\nfollowing the lines. I have never seen this particular kind of game before,\nand am wondering if this is some traditional children's game or Sakurako just\ninvented it on the spot. Can anyone provide some clues? Thanks!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JMcmm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a method of randomly assigning things called [\"ghost\nleg\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Leg) (in Japanese, called\n\"Amidakuji\", which means \"Amida lottery\").\n\nBasically, the way it works is that each player picks one of the lines at the\ntop. Then, you follow the line downwards. Every time you intersect a\nhorizontal segment, you follow it. Here is an example of one possible outcome\nfor a player of this game.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7RWdQ.jpg)\n\nNote that the loop-de-loop and the non-strictly-horizontal cross-segments\n(like the ones that go left-down-right and right-down-left from the rightmost\nline) are not used in conventional ghost leg. This is just the show being\nsilly.\n\nThis system is well-known in Japan (and maybe the rest of East Asia?), but is\ncertainly not well-known elsewhere, which is likely why you have never heard\nof it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat are typical release cycles that are used for manga chapters or anime\nepisodes?\n\nI'm not asking for specific mangas/animes but simply how often on\nchapter/anime could be released, eg weekly or monthly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe most typical release cycle for a manga chapter is either weekly or\nmonthly. A lot of times the magazine will have its release schedule in the\nname--[Weekly Shounen\nJump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Jump), [Monthly Shounen\nMagazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Magazine). Others,\nlike [Ribon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribon) or [Manga Time Kirara\nCarat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Time_Kirara_Carat) (which are both\nmonthly) don't offer such clues.\n\nSome magazines operate on other schedules: [Hana to\nYume](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana_to_Yume) comes out twice a month,\nwhile [Dengeki\nMoeoh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengeki_Daioh#Special_editions) comes out\nevery other month. Wikipedia has a [list of manga\nmagazines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_magazines) that give\nthe release schedules of various magazines.\n\nIf you buy tankoubon such as the ones released outside Japan, you can usually\ntell which manga were weekly and which were monthly by the length of the\nchapters. One volume of a weekly manga contains about ten chapters. One volume\nof a monthly or bimonthly manga will only contain 3-5 chapters, but the\nchapters will be longer so the page count is about the same.\n\nAnime pretty much are released one episode per week, every week, barring the\noccasional preemption by a sports game that runs late or delay due to natural\ndisaster. You can go on the page for a simulcasting show on Crunchyroll and\nsee the exact day and time when new episodes of a show come out. For instance,\nthe current season's [Flying Witch](http://www.crunchyroll.com/flying-witch)\ncomes out Saturdays at 3:00 PM Pacific Time.\n\nAnime releases are also split into cours, 13-week blocks of episodes also\nsometimes referred to as \"seasons\". (As described in [What is a\n\"cour\"?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7977/what-is-a-cour) and\n[What defines one \"season\" of\nanime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/1971/7579).) Some shows, such as\nMadoka, Bakemonogatari, and Ore Imo, run one cour in length. Others, such as\nKill la Kill, Fate/Zero, and Monogatari Series Second Season, run two cours,\nor 24-26 episodes. Still others, such as Full Metal Alchemist 2003, run four\ncours, or about 51 episodes. And some, like One Piece, have completely\ntranscended the cour system and just run until the generation of viewers who\nwere alive when it started has died off and no one remembers how Zoro and Nami\njoined the crew anymore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the title says what is the name/title of the instrumental song/BGM that is\nplayed during the first 4 minutes of the start of the anime movie _Mardock\nScramble: The First Compression_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe track that starts at 55 seconds into the movie and ends with the title\ncard at 3:16 is called \" _Balot -The little girl in the huge city-_ \".\n\nIt's the second track on the [official soundtrack for the first\nmovie](http://vgmdb.net/album/20395) and composed by [Conish\n(コーニッシュ)](http://www.conisch.com/www_top.html). (The first track on the OST is\nthe one they used for the trailer)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSince Marianne also agreed to Charles's plan, why did V.V kill her? Was it\njust because he \"thought\" Charles will deviate from the plan because of his\ncloseness to Marianne.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually it was just that V.V was jealous of her\n\n> In a flashback, it is revealed that V.V. was the one who assassinated\n> Marianne, having done so out of jealousy. He lies about this to Charles,\n> breaking his promise of mutual honesty between him and Charles.\n\nSource: [V.V - Character History - Second Season (final\nparagraph)](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/V.V.#Second_Season)\n\nbut why was he jealous? probably because he thought that Charles was getting\ncloser to Marianne and further away from him, enhanced by the fact they are\ntwins and have that extra bond twins are thought to have\n\n> He is the older twin brother of Charles zi Britannia, but as he has become\n> immortal at the early age of 10\n>\n> ...\n>\n> Charles and V.V.'s childhood years were marred by an internal feud in the\n> Imperial Family called the Emblem of Blood. This period filled with\n> deception and assassination resulting in the deaths of various members of\n> the royal court including their mother. This event convinced the two to\n> create a Geass contract to create a world without lies and to do so, they\n> intended to destroy the \"Gods\". Several years later, Marianne Vi Britannia\n> and C.C. joined in their venture as well.\n\nSource: [V.V - Character\nOutline](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/V.V.#Character_Outline)\n\nAs you can see from the quote above the two went through hell with the Emblem\nof Blood and created the contract between them to destroy Gods to create a\nworld without lies. then years later Charles marries some commoner unlike\nCharles other wives and she joins in on their plans along with her Geass\nContractor/Master.\n\nAlso after Marianne was killed Charles had her body taken away in the event\nshe could be returned too it, sealed Anya's memories, made Nunnally blind and\nsent her and Lelouch to Japan to protect them. even though all of that came\nafter the fact it does show that in a way Charles cares for Marianne and her\nchildren so V.V does have some ground in thinking his younger twin brother is\nbeing stolen by some woman.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs we r seeing dragonball super on air .Though its being viewed now , it seems\ngt series was the end to whole dragonball saga; is it true? .I gained this\nconclusion by watching the super saiyan 4 and also the leaving of goku in\nfinal episode of gt .Please can someone clarify if there is any other part\nafter gt? (In continued format for gt story)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Please can someone clarify if there is any other part after gt? (In\n> continued format for gt story)\n\nThere is a special that happens after Dragon Ball GT, _Dragon Ball GT: A\nHero's Legacy_. This special was aired between the 41st and 42nd episode of\nDragon Ball GT, but sequentially it takes place 100 years after the end of GT.\n\nYou can read more about this special on the [Dragonball\nWikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_GT:_A_Hero's_Legacy).\n\n* * *\n\nAs for why you are seeing discrepancies in the story that you remember from\nDragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super, that is because Dragon Ball GT is not\nconsidered canonical to the original series. It should be looked at as\nsupplemental and can be viewed for enjoyment, but is not considered what\nactually happened in the Dragon Ball universe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I went back and started reading, or just looking at, really old questions\nabout Naruto, including Shippuden. I read\n[this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/304/is-it-possible-to-\ncombine-all-five-chakra-elements) question, but\n[this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/311/20270) answer got my attention.\nAfter looking at the answer, I started to wonder how exactly Kakuzu's methods\nof getting the chakra natures work.\n\nWe know that he gets all the chakra natures by stealing people's hearts\nthroughout the years but once the hearts he has on are damaged or just get too\nold he has to get new ones. But how does that work? I always thought the\nnature of the chakra was in the body not exactly the heart. Or do both, body\nand heart, have the chakra nature, so when Kakuzu gets the hearts he gets part\nof the chakra nature?\n\nAlso, since we also know that Kakuzu has been living for a while, until\nKakashi killed him, exactly how old is he? I know he has been living since the\nFirst Hokage was alive, which I guess was about 100 years ago, so I think he\nwas at least a little more than 100 years old.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**This is just the theory** , but I always assumed that since the blood\nvessels and the chakra network are intricately related, if you take one the\nother also follows.\n\nThus when Kakuzu takes the heart of the shinobi he also takes the chakra\nvessels tied in and around the heart. Thus he would push his own chakra into\nthe heart while his unique body mimics the nature of the chakra vessels of the\noriginal body.\n\nThus he builds his own chakra, uses the handsigns to concentrate/accumulate\nit, but when nature transforming the chakra he passes it through the heart\nwhich acts like a processor to change the chakra nature to the type needed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the original anime Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan), there was an OST\nplaying at 18 minutes and 40 seconds into the first episode. This OST\nhappenned when Eren Jaeger saw the Collosol Titan for the first time before\nthe latter smashed a hole into the outer wall. What was the name of that\nOST/song in the background? (If the song name is a part of a bigger OST name\n(aka Difficult OST from One Piece being made of two parts, Shichibukai and Mr.\nPrince), could you name only the specific half of the OST? Thanks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe OST you're looking for probably XL-TT.\n\nIt's on album by Hiroyuki Sawano, [Attack on Titan (Original\nSoundtrack)](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/%22Attack_on_Titan%22_Original_Soundtrack)\ntrack #14\n\n[See this YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tMhkQ520Sk)\n\nAlbum Cover [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XNOE4.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhenever I saw some good art or illustration I usually try to find the artist,\nand when I search for \"Shun Saeki\" ([He is Shokugeki no Soma\nillustrator](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Shun_Saeki)) I came across\nthis topic on MAL. [Shun Saeki, the illustrator of this series is a H\nmangaka.](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1397908)\n\nIs this true that Shokugeki no Soma artist is a hentai mangaka? Looking how\nthe foodgasm is drawn I wouldn't be surprised if this is true.\n\n[NSFW Foodgasm](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c9SFlm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGoogled \"Shun Saeki\" wouldn't get any satisfying result, so I tried \"Saeki\nShun\" and found out that he really is a hentai artist under the name Tosh on\ncircle Hikakuteki Simple na Panty.\n\nThis is one of his other manga titled Yuukai Trouble\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o8ir6.jpg)\n\n[Almost all of his work have explicit\ncontent](http://myanimelist.net/people/11085/Shun_Saeki)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that Kiryuin Satsuki was experimented on by her parents to infuse Life\nFibers into her. She was too old at the time of the experiment for it to be\nsuccessful but she was able to wear either Kamui (albeit to a lesser degree\nthan her properly infused sister). I assumed when watching that she was\npartially infused but I now have no recollection as to whether that was\nclearly stated. The wiki seems to clearly state that only her mother and\nsister have infused Life Fibers.\n\nDoes she have infused Life Fibers to any degree or is she 100% human?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe is 100% human, but she carried artificial finger nails made with Life\nFiber (it is more likely to be a hidden weapon rather than an infusion with\nLife Fibers).\n\nKiryuin Satsuki waited until the last minute (until Ryuko arrived at Honnouji\nAcademy with Senketsu) to wear Junketsu. And her butler was continuously\nagainst the idea of her wearing Junketsu. When after a fight, Satsuki always\nhad physical and mental stress on her body and mind, so she always tries to\nend fights as quickly as possible when she is wearing Junketsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not just one single manga, there are quite a few that I like and that are\nnot published in the West. Some of them are moderately popular in Japan, but\nmost are obscure. The vast majority are seinen and their serialization has\nfinished.\n\n**How do I get these comics published in the West and is it something I can do\non my own?**\n\nThe only ideas I've come up with are with regards to contacting Western and/or\nJapanese publishers. The former would be just a request of sorts, whereas the\nlatter would involve asking to purchase license, but that pretty much becomes\na business on its own and I am not sure if that's what I want. Any other\nideas? I am willing to part with a decent amount of resources for every manga,\nso I am open to _any_ suggestions. The publication medium doesn't matter, both\nphysical and digital are acceptable, though I find the latter a bit more\nappropriate nowadays.\n\n* * *\n\n**EDIT:** To make it more clear, I am looking for a way to bring some of my\nfavourite manga to the Western audience, not how to purchase manga copies. To\nillustrate this with an example from the literary world: Suppose I wanted to\ntranslate a book from a foreign language to English. It would be perfectly\nacceptable to approach the author, and/or their publisher, with a sample\ntranslation and then potentially negotiate a deal. Or it's not uncommon to\ndirectly speak with a publisher who's willing to publish the book and then\nthey do the rest of the negotiation (and legal affairs) on your behalf.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can try contacting the Japanese publisher to see if anyone has already\nlicensed the rights to translate and publish the manga in the US. If it has,\nthen hopefully you can follow up with them. If it hasn't, then either you're\ngoing to have to either find someone willing to publish it or find a way to do\nit yourself, and if it's an obscure title then you're probably not looking at\na particularly lucrative business model unless you can find a way to make the\ncost of licensing, translating, printing and distributing the manga less than\nthe amount you get from sales.\n\nI expect that the best return on investment would come from something like\nCrunchyroll manga - no printing required and they already have a distribution\nnetwork set up, but they still probably wouldn't do much with it unless\nthere's a reason the title might help drive subscriptions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe best way to get a title licensed is to show that there is interest in the\ntitle via sending questions/tweets, e-mails, or filling out various companies'\nsurveys. For example, [Seven Seas\nEntertainment](http://www.sevenseasentertainment.com/) has a monthly reader's\nsurvey, and part of the survey asks you which Japanese manga series and which\nJapanese light novel series you would like to see licensed and published. They\ndo [tally the results](http://www.sevenseasentertainment.com/about/faq/).\n\nAlso, publishers in the west sometimes have ties to the series of a company,\nauthor, etc. (it's case by case), so it's worth looking into whether the\ncompany can legally license it at all. For example, here are some ties:\n\n * Shueisha/Shogakukan - Viz Media\n * Square Enix - Yen Press\n * Kodansha - Kodansha USA or Vertical\n\nSee also [this reddit\nthread](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/34ow2n/if_there_was_a_manga_i_wanted_publishedlicensed/)\nand [Seven Seas Entertainment's ask.fm\nfeed](http://ask.fm/SevenSeasEntertainment/).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are fan translation groups you can ask to translate it(scanalators).\nThey dont get paid and dont usually have a license for the works they\ntranslate. They generally do it to spread the culture and have a little fun\ndoing it. (I work for a fan scanalation group)\n\nI only mention this 4 years later in case anyone else has the same question.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm confused about the whole scene as to how and why CC lost her memory.\n\n * Why did she lose her memory? It is because she was not letting herself out of CC's world/ the collective consciousness?\n\n * How exactly did she (and Lelouche) destroy the first temple of Akasha?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nC.C didn't loose her memories, she sealed her Code probably to prevent Charles\nfrom stealing it from her when Lelouch promised her to make her smile.\n\nEpisode 16 - United Federation of Nations Resolution Number One\n\n> C.C: Um... what should I be doing now?\n>\n> Lelouch: Let's see now. Sing me a song while hopping on one foot and wearing\n> your clothes inside out.\n>\n> C.C: Yes. Right away, master.\n>\n> Lelouch: What? No, wait! I was kidding!\n>\n> C.C: I'm sorry. Please don't beat me hard again.\n>\n> Lelouch: Her mind is completely reverted. She's now only the slave girl\n> before the power of Geass came.\n\nEpisode 20 - Emperor Dismissed\n\n> Anya: It's been ages since we were face to face like this. It's me! C.C.,\n> don't tell me that you've actually...\n>\n> C.C: I'm so sorry!\n>\n> Anya: What are you doing? Closing yourself up in here again like this. C.C.?\n> C.C.!\n>\n> C.C: Who are you?\n>\n> Anya: It's me. See?\n>\n> C.C: It's you. So you've chased me all the way in here now. Are you that\n> worried about Lelouch, Marianne?\n>\n> Marianne: Oh, c'mon. Do you really think I'm such an ideal mother that\n> that's all I think about?\n>\n> C.C: Then why did you come here for me?\n>\n> Marianne: Because so much has changed. I need to know if you're still on my\n> side.\n>\n> C.C: Huh?\n>\n> Marianne: C.C., why did you seal off your own Code? Just when you have what\n> you wanted. Charles was ready to grant your greatest wish, the wish to die.\n> But you stopped him.\n>\n> C.C: Even I don't know why I did it. Actually I'm a little shocked, but I\n> did.\n>\n> Marianne: Then you have to find the answer in the real world. I've made up\n> my mind and that's all there is to it.\n\nC.C's memories appear to be tied to her Geass so when she sealed her Code she\nreverted back to before she got Geass from that Num who later forced her to\ntake the Code.\n\n* * *\n\nas for the \"temple\" (which remember Suzaku was corrected when he called it a\ntemple by Charles who said it's a weapon) they never destroyed it. the Sword\nof Akasha is the one place but there are different gateways to it. it appears\nthat any Geass Location that appeared when Ragnarok was activated has a\nTwilight Gate than links back to the Sword of Akasha with the Geass Order\nhaving a Twilight Gate within their facility\n\nHow the sword got damaged was that C.C released the Shinkiro and with that\nLelouch attacked the place with it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBefore the raid on Depths of Palm (Gold of the Kunie) in Susukino where Shiroe\nlooks for full party members, Naotsugu and Regan find Tetra. Later on in the\nraid of Depths of Palm, Tetra joins (or is permitted to join) Log Horizon.\n\nIt seems that all members of Log Horizon, except Naotsugu, know that Tetra is\nactually male. How is that?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRight after Archer ended his monologue, he fades away. Then we see Shirou (or\nArcher) walking in a desert.\n\nI wouldn't have any doubts concerning this scene whether it's Shirou or Archer\n(it would've been Archer who's taking part in a new mission) if he hadn't had\norange hairs which don't fit Archer. So if it's not him, then it has to be\nShirou in the future. If that's true, then why is he travelling alone and not\nwith Rin?\n\nAccording to a [review](https://animewithsky.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/review-\nfatestay-night-unlimited-blade-works-ep-25-finale-my-whole-life-was-unlimited-\nblade-works/comment-page-1/) and two similar questions on Reddit, there might\nalso be a third possibility which Kinoko Nasu (author of Fate/Stay Night)\nexplained (though, it seems it was only a suggestion or request to ufotable\nwhich hadn't been accepted by this studio):\n\n_“Desert scene- After the end credits. A desert scene, same as the opening.\nShirou walks alone. His strength falters and he stops walking. Shirou looks\ndown to shield his eyes from the sandstorm and sees traces of someone else\nhaving been there (the place where Archer stopped). Shirou breathes out and\nlooks up. There’s fake endurance in his expression, but it’s full of hope.\nShirou walks away with a steady gait. The camera lingers on the traces of\nArcher’s presence, and watches Shirou leave as the shot ends.”_\n\nAccording to this explanation (if ufotable did accept Kinoko's suggestion, but\nonly changed it a bit), this scene might be just some sort of a metaphor which\nhints that Shirou will be able to make a step forward and therefore doesn't\nhave to suffer like Archer. Or is this supposed to be a time leap and not a\nmetaphor?\n\nWhat's the right conclusion?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShort answer: Yes. Maybe.\n\nLonger answer: Nasuverse canon is massively convoluted and it can probably be\ninterpreted as whatever you can imagine.\n\nIt's definitely metaphorical - he's not seeing Archer's literal footprints\nbecause that would be silly. I think it's a non-Archer version of Shirou and\nthe line about \"the place where Archer stopped\" references this version of\nShirou surpassing Archer in some sense.\n\nMaybe he's made smarter choices and outlived Archer, and he's alone only\nbecause Rin/ Saber/ Sakura/ etc. aren't contained in whatever part of his mind\nthis is. Maybe he's been more successful in following his ideals and avoided\nwhatever pitfalls Archer ran into.\n\nThe orange hair could go either way - it turned grey because of Archer\noverusing his mage craft over long periods of time, so it could be that he\nhasn't used it as much (presumably being too busy with his girlfriends / wives\n& their kids), or that he's been more efficient about using it over time - or\nthat he's been using it way more, surpassing Archer's accomplishments in a\nfraction of the time, and it just hasn't kicked in on his hair yet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, I know Japanese (even though I usually read light novels just in\nEnglish). However, I just play visual novels in Japanese (I can't bear hearing\none thing and reading a mistake in the translation).\n\n> it seems it was only a suggestion or request to ufotable which hadn't been\n> accepted by this studio\n\nYou're wrong there, it wasn't a suggestion, it was part of the way it was\nsupposed to end.\n\n<http://www.typemoon.org/bbb/diary/log/201506.html>\n\nThis is Nasu's blog just after the episode was released. He says that the\nproduction of episode 25 started from a manuscript created by him (as the\noriginal author). Afterwards Ufotable had to trim/change things as it was too\nlong/ too much of a novel.\n\nThis is the most important part that says that:\n\n> と。感謝の気持ちを高円寺方面に送りつつ、\n> きのこはきのこで恒例のネタバレ含む裏話を始めるのであった。#25の制作は「ほぼオリジナルなので、まずは原作サイドで書くべし」と始まりました。 \n> そしてできあがったきのこによる脚本モドキを前に頭を抱える制作陣。 そう。分かるね。つまりきのこはまた尺をオーバーしたんだ。ファック！\n\nThe manuscript he creates is 11 pages long (just text) and appears in Blu-ray\nbox II booklet, which I happen to own. It's not much but here's a summary (I\ncan confirm it is good):\n<http://kurozu501.tumblr.com/post/131376500337/kyuubi-hime-fateubw-bdbox-ii-\nbooklet-scans>\n\nProof that he didn't like the ending Ufotable made is that when it was\nreleased he basically said: This is what they did, and this is part of what I\nwrote as the actual ending.\n\nNow, what do those 11 pages say about the ending?\n\nBasically that Rin and Shirou will have their happily ever after. The part\nwhere Rin says that in the anime, that her priority is Shirou's happiness,\nthat she will follow him, that they will suffer together but eventually they\nwill get their happily ever after. All that was in Nasu's manuscript.\n\nNasu's saying that Rin will be with him (she doesn't abandon him) and that she\nknows that after some suffering together (as Rin says both suffer, Rin took\npart of that burden for him) Shirou will achieve his goal and they will live\nhappily ever after.\n\nWhy do I know he doesn't become Archer? Because Nasu says so himself. At the\nend of the manuscript Rin puts her amulet in a box. She was touching it\nnervously and puts it there as a goodbye. Then Nasu says it means Shirou won't\nbecome Archer as he doesn't have the amulet. The sad goodbye symbolises her\ngoodbye to the other Archer, the one that was her servant in the war.\n\nThe good ending is happier because Saber will also be there with them in their\nhappy ending. I guess it is difficult to understand from the episode, but this\nis a literal translation of 2 paragraphs from his manuscript:\n\n\"The same library, a wide solemn space. I'm going searching for Shirou. On the\nwalls and walls, heavy bookshelves stand side by side and contain huge numbers\nof books. Those books are all thick and thick, they are only periodical books.\nShirou was alone in the reading seat. He is reading books eagerly. Image that\nseems to be studying judicial exam rather than studying magic. Shirou, on his\nway to self-study, raises his face from the desk and indulges in thought. The\nface of anguish, anguish, anguish is painful to watch. Rin watches it and\ncalls out with the usual lightness. Dear \"Thank you for your work, you were\nhere after all.\" Shirou, I was a little surprised when I saw Rin. Shirou\n\"Tohsaka? Not yet in class ......\" Rin \"I have finished the practice early\" I\nLook at the book that Shiro was reading. A book of language, history,\npolitics. Rin \"Next to English is Italian? Magic to convey intentions\"\n\n\"Even though you only have to master it, you are honest, is not it? \"Shiro\"\nMaybe, but I wonder if there is something that can not be conveyed unless I\nspeak with the people of the country properly in the language of that country\n\". It is because Shirou 's honesty seems to be hunted down. Rin takes the\ntextbook from Shirou and returns it to the bookshelf. Shirou protests with\neyes only saying \"What you are doing\", Rin looks backwards and backwards, Rin\n\"Freeze tomorrow, do not go out for a moment\"\n\nThe next days Shirou waits for her in the lobby and they go to one of Saber's\nfake grave (yes, there are many of these as Rin says in the manuscript).\n\nIt's very funny Shirou has an \"anguish, anguish, anguish\" look while in\nthought and Rin comes to the conclusion: Ok, you need Saber..., I'm gonna take\nyou there tomorrow...\n\nThe episode changes this as well. I'm not very happy with the episode\nactually.\n\nAnyways, the answer is NO, he's not Archer. Nasu blatantly says so in the\nmanuscript. In interviews he says the chance is so close to 0 it isn't worth\nmentioning. Here he just says he won't become Archer and before that he says\nShirou and Rin will have their happily ever after.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the grand magic games arc we saw several team events that use a lot of\nmagic events. Which are \"Hidden\", \"Chariot\", \"Pandemonium\", \"Naval Battle\" and\n\"Battle Royale\" etc.\n\nIn the world of magic, we see magic circles being used to create these events.\nFor Example, creating the water sphere in Naval Battle or Peripheral Chariots.\nThese may be comparatively easy, however it would require lots of magic power\nto create thousands of exact clones (Hidden) or 100 monsters of Pandemonium.\n\nSo who/which guild/how was used to create these events since they would\nrequire an absurd amount of power.\n\nConsidering, How powerful would the user be if he can create a monster which\ncan fight on level footing as an S-Class mage? Thousands of clone which may\nhave same power as that of user(?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe source of magic power is not explicitly exposed. It is highly unlikely\nthat the source of the magic power was some wizard. If it was a wizard, he\nmust have been an extremely powerful one, one who could easily create phonies\nthat could easily rival an S-class wizard. Having that kind of power is\nabsolutely monstrous. But there was no such presence in the whole city. The\ncity and the palace almost completely got obliterated by Rogue and the dragons\nand it was all left to the competitor wizards to save the city. The king\nhimself came to request them to save the people. If there was some such wizard\nwho had that kind of power, he should have been with the king and would have\njoined the battle. No such thing happened.\n\nFrom all that, the only logical conclusion is that all that magic power is\ncoming from the Eclipse Gate itself. The Eclipse Gate can hold magic power\nthat rivals that of the Etherion. That much magic is simply too much to\nimagine. Providing a small amount of that power to the magic games each year\nwouldn't make much of a difference in the immense reservoir of magic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am not able to find any manga chapter of Akame ga Kill Zero after chapter\n16. Even in the wikia page, all chapters after chapter 17 don't have any\ndescription. Did they stop the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> Did they stop the series?\n\nNo. The [latest volume (#4)](http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4757548648?)\ncontains chapters 21-25, and publication is ongoing in _Monthly Big Gangan_.\n\nIf the wikia stops at chapter 17, I'm guessing that's because the scanlators,\nwhoever they are, stalled or dropped the series. It is, in general, unwise to\ncount on wikias being up-to-date. They are, after all, written by random\nschmoes on the internet.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOkay, so my friend who I had a falling out with used to watch this anime on\nher laptop. I'd like to watch it but I don't know the title of the series and\nI can't ask her for obvious reasons. Here are what I remember:\n\n * It's not too old... 2013-2015, maybe\n * Main character is a guy with white hair and an infected (?) eye, but his eye can actually become a normal eye. He is a cannibal, if I remember correctly\n * He, along with many other characters, have four red tails coming out of his back, some others have wings. Everyone with tails or wings are cannibals, if I'm not mistaken. All of the cannibals have infected eyes which they can 'turn off' and are stronger than other humans\n * The art style is pretty good, as in not everyone has oversized eyes\n * Not too sure about the genre. It's something between horror and science fiction\n * Hair and eye colors aren't too realistic\n * I actually remember a scene where he was a fighting a big blonde man in a white suit who is trying to eat him or something like that. He ended up forcing the man to count and then eating him instead\n * I just remembered, the main character often cracked his index finger. He did this over and over again\n\nI'm sorry if this is too vague, please bear in mind that I only saw two or\nthree episodes in passing. I'd really like to know the name of this anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou should make up with your friend (friendship should triumph over quarrels).\nThen you can enjoy the rest of [_Tokyo\nGhoul_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Ghoul) together again.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IMmXG.png)\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbS4-W-hpg>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI received 2 anime figure at a yard sale. Can anyone help me identify who they\nare.\n\nThanks a bunch\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EOXVk.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rJKEl.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThose are Asahina Mikuru from _The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_ :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r0pGC.jpg)\n\nand Mari Makinami Illustrious from _Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance_ :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c3qGs.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> TK is a character in the well-known anime _Angel Beats!_\n\n_Note:_\n\n> **In the anime, TK's real name is never revealed.**\n\nIn he opening to the show, all of the characters are shown with their Japanese\nnames in a speech bubble, and the English translation in the background.\n\nTK's Japanese name is simply \"TK\", **but in the background of the speech\nbubble, there is something written in English.** (See the picture below)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wW0Zd.jpg)\n\n(TK is on the far left.)\n\nIt looks to me that those letters say something like, \"TH[???]\"\n\nDoes anybody know what these letters are? And, do these letters signify TK's\nreal name?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/128/1587) explains why\nNaruto say \"dattebayo\" or \"believe it\" in the English translations, being that\nhe inherited it from his mother.\n\nIn earlier episodes of Naruto when Sakura goes to think of what she really\nwants to say, this occurs in the form of white drawing lines of Sakura with\nwriting on her forehead with black background. See the image below:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BiIHg.jpg)\n\nIn the English dub, the second Sakura often ends her sentences by saying\n_\"cha\"_.\n\nWhat is the reason for this? Is this something she picked up from her parents\nlike how Naruto inherited his mother's habit, or is there some other\nexplanation for this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to [_Catchphrases and Verbal Tics from Naruto\nWikia_](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Catchphrases_and_Verbal_Tics#Shannar.C5.8D_and_Shannar.C5.8Dy.C5.8D),\nthe phrase **_\"Cha\"_** was replacement of **_\"Shannarō\"_** and\n**_\"Shannarōyo\"_** in the English dub often used by _Inner Sakura_ , which\nhave no literal meaning, but it can be translated into **_\"Hell yeah!\"_** ,\n**_\"Hell no!\"_** , or **_\"Damn it!\"_** depending on the situation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn chapter 824 of One Piece, Jack is shown lying motionless on the ocean\nfloor, waiting for his crew to come and rescue him after being defeated by\nZunisha the giant elephant. His mask is broken and his shark-like teeth\n(resembling Arlong and Hodi - the shark fishmen) is revealed. However, unlike\nother devil fruit users, he does not pass out or have any difficulty breathing\nin the ocean.\n\nMy question is: is Jack who happens to be a Zoan type devil fruit user also a\nfishman, or is there any other possibility as to how he can survive for so\nlong under water?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, Jack being a fishman is the only logical explanation for him surviving in\nthe middle of the ocean. As you noted already, he looks like a fishman too.\nHis devil fruit prevents him from moving but that won't stop him from\nbreathing (remember in Arlong park, Luffy could breathe while his body was\nunder water when Nojiko (Nami's sister) and Genzo got his head outside of the\npool).\n\nIt also seems it was not the first time he found himself at the bottom of the\nsea as he is expecting help as if it was normal, and we can assume he either\ncan speak with nearby fishes or he has a vivre card on him, and is only going\nto die if nobody comes to his rescue before he dies from hunger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think he is part fishman. From what I could tell the moment his mask came\noff he resembled that of a predator-type fishman. I believe he can breath\nunder the water but he is immobile.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn direct contradiction to the previous answers. Jack is not described or\ndefined as a fishman according to the one piece wiki linked here [Jack\nDescription link](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Jack)\n\n> Jack is a man of massive stature, dwarfing his crewmates and even the very\n> large minks Inuarashi and Nekomamushi.\n\nKey phrase being **Jack is a man**. Given that there is also substantial\nevidence adding to the credibility that he is in fact human.\n\n**Fishmen in appearance**\n\nIt is further described in the wiki that Fishmen are described as the\nfollowing:\n\n> Fishmen are more fish-like than merfolk, usually looking like a combination\n> between a man and a fish or other aquatic creature, such as an octopus,\n> manta ray, or sawshark; however, they still have legs (in fact, Decken has\n> four). They also have gills between their shoulders and necks, sometimes\n> covered by their clothing, as well as often having webbed hands. Depending\n> on species, they may have multiple limbs (mainly extra arms).\n\nLinked [here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Fishmen)\n\nGiven that all fishmen have some sort of gills between their shoulders and\nneck and that we have seen Jack full frontal topless and he's shown no signs\nof these due to the fur coat that he wears.\n\nThis can mean 1 of 3 things:\n\n1) He is not a fishman and there is a logical possibility for why being above\nhead level submerged in water wasn't causing him to drown, die or freak out\n\n2) He is a merefolk but it hasn't been fully discussed yet and his lineage and\ncapability.\n\n3) He is actually a fishmen but couldn't move due to restrictions via devil\nfruit powers.\n\nI disagree with reasons 2 and 3 because what sense would that make? He is the\nfirst antagonist in the series to not face any of the straw hats bringing him\nback either in the current whole cake arc or the next arc (hopefully wano\ncountry) ruins that nieche for his character. If he was in fact fishman or\nmerefolk why didn't we see or hear anything about him from the fishman island\narc? Or Jinbe? Or Kienmon and momonosuke? It doesnt make logical sense that\nall of those ppl just conveniently forgot him.\n\nIn summation I believe that reason 1 is the fact here. But that leads to the\nburning question, how is he ok being underwater?\n\nThere are 2 possibilities in this case, the first is that as a zoan type he\ncould have matriculated his lungs to a point where they hold more air without\nexpanding the rest of his body due to enhanced control over his zoan power.\n\nThe second and most likely case is that he is in fact drowning to death but\nhes such a tough bada** that he doesn't show that he even cares and might\nactually survive.\n\n**Truth of the matter is**\n\nNobody actually knows for sure beccause it's too soon to tell, we will know\nfor sure once the manga reaches a point where the straw hats or someone deals\nwith Kaido and we learn a bit more about the beast pirates. But as of right\nnow with the information we have in front of us. Jack is a man.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust an idea, but maybe there is something about the synthetic devil fruits\nthat they all used that decreases their susceptibility towards water?\n\nOr maybe it could be related to Kaido and his inability to die.\n\nThere are a lot of unanswered questions that could be tied to why Jack can\nsurvive underwater, but I personally don't agree that it's because of being a\nfishman. The creep from Fishman island that wanted to marry Shirahoshi\ncouldn't survive in water because he had a devil fruit power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJack is a half breed, like the fighting fish half-breed in Doflamingo's crew.\nIt would explain his human appearance and his teeth changing just like\nDoflamingo's crew mate, and being a DF user, it restricts his movement in\nwater.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJack is not using a synthetic devil fruit then why wouldn't most of Kaido's\ncrew be using them if you could just make a Ancient Zoan whenever why make\nmodern animals Sapi also looks more human then fish man so Jack could be half\nfor all we know .\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMost of you are saying either he is not fishman but human or hes a fishman and\nnot human, maybe even a merman. But how about half? It is shown to be possible\nthat someone can be part fishman and part human. example: Dellinger, He was a\nhuman that was part fighting fish so it is possible that Jack is part fishman,\nexplaining his human appearance but seemingly fishman strength and abilities\nsuch as breathing under water. He also seems to have horns, but those do have\nmetal parts at the beginning on his head, so it is possible they are fake.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen looking at Sasuke's Rinnegan, I noticed that he had 6 dots in it (the\nsame kind you find on a Sharingan).\n\n\n\nBut Madara didn't have this. His just had a few circles but nothing else.\n\n\n\nIs there a reason for this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _dots_ you're mentioning is actually called\n[Tomoe](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tomoe), like you said, it is usually\nformed on Sharingan. Rinnegan are usually characterized by light purple irides\nwith a ripple-pattern that spreads over the eyeball, a few well-known wielders\nare Pain (not really though), Nagato and Madara.\n\nBack to the question, recall that Sasuke received half of [Hagoromo's (aka\nSage of Six Paths)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hagoromo_%C5%8Ctsutsuki)\nchakra, thus awakened the Rinnegan. The Rinnegan Sasuke has is quite unique,\nit has 6 tomoe split between its first two ripples, this doesn't mean nothing,\nit indicates the Rinnegan is **_fully charged_**. What's the difference\nbetween a typical Rinnegan and a fully charged Rinnegan you ask? Well, it's\nsimple. Fully charged Rinnegan wielder like Sasuke gains abilities typical\nRinnegan wielders don't have. About the abilities, I bet you knew it already.\n\nSasuke cannot use the Rinnegan full abilities if he _overuses_ it. At this\npoint, the tomoe will disappear, preventing him from using its full power.\nSasuke will keep his left eye closed until it is fully recharged. Sasuke is\nstill able to use the powers of his Mangekyo Sharingan with his Rinnegan, but\ncannot use or form the Mangekyo in his other eye when it is recharging. _(See\nthe image, the Mangekyo doesn't form on his right eye when he loses Rinnegan's\ncharge, and it is formed again when the Rinnegan is fully charged. This is\nalso stated on Narutopedia.)_\n\nHere you can see it happen in the manga.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe reason as to why it's different is never really stated, but we can infer\nwhy.\n\nFirst off, there are three different eyes in _Naruto_. From the weakest to the\nstrongest, they are Byakugan, Sharingan, and Rinnegan. So the byakugan will\nstay a byakugan forever, but it can turn into a Tensaigan (I can't remember\nhow, but that doesn't matter). Now for the most important Rinnegan and\nSharingan, Sharingan can evolve into Rinnegan. However, before that, there are\n3 things needed: a fully developed Sharingan, 3 Tomoe Mangekyou, then eternal.\n\nSo as for what the Rinnegan is, it's basically a mixture of a Sharingan and\nits own traits, but the Sharingan aspect is only useable to Uchihas. That's\nwhy Nagato can't use Sharingan's effects, but Sasuke and Madara can.\n\nNow for why Sasuke's looks different, Madara took Hashirama's Senju chakra and\ncombined it with his which caused the Sharingan to evolve which is sort of the\nonly way to make a Sharingan evolve and Sasuke does something similar, except\nthe sage of sixth paths gives Sasuke half of his chakra which is much more\nthan Hashirama's. Thus, his eyes seem to almost turn into a Rinne Sharingan.\nAlso, the reason for their abilities being different is because that's just\nhow Rinnegans work as Mangekyou Sharingans do the same thing\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think what happened is, the Tomoe represent the charge of Sasuke's Rinnegan.\nWhen he overuses it, they disappear and he can't use its full power.\n\nHagoromo gave part of his power to Sasuke so he could activate the Rinnegan.\nMadara used Hashirama's cells to make himself fully as Hagoromo was, which\nmeans that Madara got the full portion of the Rinnegan power while Sasuke had\nonly a small amount since he was given part of chakra to activate it.\n\nIn short, Madara can use his eyes almost forever and at extreme levels, but\nSasuke's needs to charge to be fully functional.\n\nThere is proof of that in the mangas.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nByakugan is not the strongest. If you think about it, that was the Hyuga clan\nbeing arrogant. Susano, Kotoamatsukami, Amaterasu, Kamui? Byakugan has nothing\non that.\n\nSasuke's Rinnegan is stronger than Madara's. The Tomoe pattern indicates what\nI am guessing is an incredible amount of sage chakra that Sasuke can gather\nthanks to Hagoromo's buff. It's clear that at the least it's an advanced\nversion of Rinnegan, otherwise Madara would have had Rinnegan powers far\ngreater than Sasuke's considering he had two, yet Sasuke displayed far greater\nteleporting abilities which Madara would have used if he could have.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I've heard, it's called a Rinne Sharingan, which is the last stage\nof evolution for a Sharingan and Rinnegan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nthe six tomoe in sasuke's rinnegan represent him activating his mangekyou\nsharingan for this reason(I think) people have dubbed it the sharinnegan\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Sasuke rinnegan is more similar to the Ōtsutsuki clans rinnegan if u\nlook at theirs they have very unique from member to member and madara has\nregular rinnegan. All Ōtsutsuki members can travel through dimensions and i\nthink the reason sasuke can to is because of how his rinnegan was given\ndirectly through hagoromos chakra and because of this he has same abilities of\ntheir stonger rinnegan but the drawback is he doesn't have their rinnegan. He\nhas something similar where he has to have his eye charged to use the\nabilities to travel through dimensions. And if u were wondering why madaras\nrinnegan could be spammed unlike saskues rinnegan it is because madara had the\nten tails which is basically kaguya chakra\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _One Piece_ episode 468 around 6:38, there's a song when Ace is questioning\nwhy everyone came to save him. The song sounds like a Gregorian chant.\n\nI tried going through the soundtracks but I couldn't find it.\n\nWhat is that song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGo to this link to see the name of the song!\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece_Music>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMedwyn Goodall - Inside the Dragons Lair - A Wooden Door Opens onto the\nBalcony That Overlooks the Monks at Service.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring the scene in which Mitsuru was going to be hired by the gang of Mikiya\nand Shiki, we see a man with black glasses sitting in front of Mitsuru (see\npicture below). Is it Mikiya or just a member of the gang?\n\nI mean, on the one hand, when Mitsuru was referring to Mikiya (the current\ngang leader), we were able to see this man. Hence we could conclude that it's\nMikiya. But on the other hand, it wouldn't be surprising if the producers\nsimply showed a gang member who's in charge of recruiting.\n\nI'm still a bit doubtful that this man might be Mikiya since his personality\nseems a bit contradictory to his younger self. Though, it also needs to be\nconsidered that there was a time leap of over 10 years.\n\nSo, is this man Mikiya or just a gang member?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FVDKT.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis guy's simply the loan shark that Mitsuru was dealing with. He also stands\nup at attention when Ryougi, the family head, walks in, like an underling\nwould do.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nalthough this a question from 3 years ago but i just finished watching entire\nKara no Kyoukai Series. i just conclude that the guy in front of mitsuru that\nappears as a 'loan sharks' is actually Shiki's Bodyguard.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know it was a _Sword Art Online_ spin-off.\n\n * There was Asuna and Silica in their SAO avatars.\n * They meet a \"Kirito\".\n * That \"Kirito\" turns out to be a female player.(like reverse of Kirito's GGO avatar)\n * She is a fan of Kirito\n * I think it takes place inside Aincrad in ALO and before Kirito transfer his ID to ALO again. \n\nAnyone know the title of this spin-off?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe greatest medical ninja should have learned it somewhere.\n\n> Tsunade's skills extend beyond the typical medical ninjutsu. She earned fame\n> during the Second Shinobi World War for being the only person able to make\n> antidotes for the poisons of Sunagakure's Chiyo. Similarly, she can make\n> sleeping potions that are undetectable to even the most skilled ninja. She\n> is knowledgeable enough to perform autopsies and examine damage on a\n> cellular level.\n\nSource from [Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsunade).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's no background information explaining how Tsunade became a medical-nin\nor how she learned medical ninjutsu. She didn't have a medical specialist\nmentor. Maybe she did have one, but there's no source or background\ninformation to prove it.\n\nThere is a possibility that she learned medical ninjutsu all by herself, as\nshe often read other clans' medical books to solve particular problems.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs others have answered that there is no concrete evidence on who taught her\nmedical ninjutsu but we can theorize.\n\nMy guess would be the First Hokage. Consider the following information\n\n> 1. He doted on his granddaughter and spent time with her to teach her\n> gambling. (He'd said he shouldn't have taught her gambling) \n>\n> 2. He was the greatest ninja of his time. He could self \"heal his wounds\n> without weaving any hand signs\"\n>\n\nLogically I'd guess Tsunade was influenced by the first and may have even got\nthe basics of medical ninjutsu from the first Hokage. She then gained\ntremendous experience in the Ninja Wars and doing missions with the Sannin.\nThe real life experience with the large amount of chakra and aptitude made her\nthe greatest living medical-Nin in Narutoverse. She no doubt build on the\ninitail knowledge travelling and reading about in other books, like Nara Clans\nHerbology.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think she learnt it from Mito Uzumaki, The First Hokage's wife. She was the\nfirst to wield the Byakugou and was the second Kyuubi container. She could of\nhad behind the scenes moments with Tsunade. Mito lived until Kushina came and\ncollected the Kyuubi. Tsunade is like 20yrs older then Minato and Kushina so\nshe still could have time to teach Tsunade how to unlock the Byakugou before\nshe died.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 2 of Flying Witch, this rather strange looking fellow appears and\nterrorizes poor Chinatsu at the door.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z0T3Lm.jpg)\n\nMakoto explains that he's the Harbinger of Spring, some kind of nature spirit\nwho ushers out the winter and ushers in the spring, like a fairy.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SYTg3m.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xsw0Wm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kdgS3m.jpg)]\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wcO16m.jpg)\n\n> He's the Harbinger of Spring. He's a splendid person who bids farewell to\n> winter and brings about spring. He's like the fairy of spring.\n\nThe series takes place in the modern day and the witches and magic are very\nWestern in style. However, the Harbinger's clothing looks like traditional\nJapanese clothing (almost ninja-like).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3uE64m.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FkaYFm.jpg)\n\nHis mask sort of reminds me of a cross between the kodama from Princess\nMononoke and the style of Jomon pottery:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/245F6m.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0YQrDm.jpg)\n\nSo, at least within the series, it seems like the Harbinger is supposed to be\na traditional Japanese spirit. Is it based on any similar real-life legend or\nis it completely a creation of the series?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the anime, the Harbinger of Spring is called 春の運び屋 _haru no hakobiya_\n(spoken around `07:50`~`07:55` on\n[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/flying-witch/episode-2-a-visitor-for-\nthe-witch-712217)).\n\nWhile I don’t remember having heard this name or seen this appearance before,\nsimilar “spirits” exist in Japanese folklore. And animes like this usually\nportray one or two, e.g. _Mushishi_ or _Natsume’s Book of Friends_.\n\nI would consider the Harbinger of Spring a force or spirit of nature, and not\nnecessarily a specific legendary being, even if it may appear as one, like in\nthis anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI love the sophistication of the question, and it so happens that I was musing\nabout this too. So, as a non-Japanese speaker, I did the obvious, and entered\nthe Japanese characters for the Harbinger of Spring into Google search and got\na wikipedia entry ... about the anime. Then used Google translate to get some\nsense of the Harbinger character. What I learned: it is definitely a barn owl,\nas one respondent suggested. And ... that's it. There does not seem to be an\nequivalent in traditional folklore (credit to the how creators, who are being\ninventive, albeit in a traditional way). The connection to Jomon and animistic\nbeliefs is clear, and yes, Natsume comes to mind.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no direct correspondence in Shinto, which doesn't have a god or\nharbinger/herald of spring (except for the sakura tree), although in some\nstories a rooster is said to have tempted Amaterasu the sun goddess out of her\ncave - to end winter.\n\nThe mask is a stylized owl, though. In older legends, owls are bringers of\nluck/warders against misfortune.\n\nMaybe it is even a reference to Kotankor Kamui / Chi-kap Kamui of Ainu legend?\nHe was the land god of Ainu lands and was also an owl god (see _Handbook of\nJapanese Mythology_ by Michael Ashkenazi). He was supposedly a god of plenty\nand in charge of making sure the humans and gods/spirits of the lands obeyed\nthe rules and lived in peace. One of the better known stories about him has\nhim ending famine by teaching the Ainu the proper rituals to honour the\nspirits/gods when catching & killing fish etc. so the gods would not withold\ntheir bounty.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Rukia was transported to the Repentance Cell after the use of the Sokyoku\nfor her execution was authorized her head was covered with a white cloth. and\ni recall alter on when she is escoted to the execution ground her head is\ncovered aswell\n\nWhat i don't get is why? I get the feeling it may be something to do with a\nJapanese Tradition because when Ichigo's team got back and Orihime was telling\nTatsuki about what she did during the break i seem to recall Tatsuki assuming\nthat Orihime just went to a town that was themed like feudal japan.\n\nAlso it's not like Rukia wouldn't know the location of the cell since how many\ntall white towers are there in the Seireitei which overlook Sokyoku hill.\n\nso why was Rukia's head covered when she was escorted to/from the Repentance\nCell?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCovering a prisoners head is a good way to \"dehumanize\" them and it's a good\nway to try to prevent riots and escapes since people don't know who the\nprisoner is and the prisoner themselves cant see.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is an act called [Hooding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooding)\n(Wikipedia). It is often used as a form of torture, but also be for the\npurpose of hiding the prisoner's facial expressions to try and dehumanize the\nprisoner, as [user30104 said](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/40708/34906).\n\nAccording to the International Committee of the Red Cross:\n\n> Page 12 of the [ICRC report on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of\n> Prisoners of\n> War](https://web.archive.org/web/20091016005519/http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/us/doc/icrc-\n> prisoner-report-feb-2004.pdf)\n>\n> [This report contains rather graphic descriptions of violence]\n\nhooding is used to disorientate and prevent the victim from breathing freely.\nHooding can increase the anxiety of the prisoner, and it also allows the\nprisoner escorts/interrogators to remain anonymous.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe _[El Hazard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Hazard)_ series, written by\nRyoe Tsukimura and directed by Hiroki Hayashi, consists of two OVA series and\ntwo TV anime:\n\n**OVA**\n\n * [_El Hazard: The Magnificent World_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/117/El_Hazard__The_Magnificent_World)\n * [_El Hazard 2: The Magnificent World_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/118/El_Hazard_2__The_Magnificent_World)\n\n**TV Series**\n\n * [_El Hazard: The Wanderers_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/116/El_Hazard__The_Wanderers)\n * [_El-Hazard: The Alternative World_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/115/El_Hazard__The_Alternative_World)\n\nHow are these different productions related? What is the best order for\nsomeone to enjoy them?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nChronologically by release, it goes:\n\n 1. The first OVA, _El Hazard: The Magnificent World_ (OVA1, 1995)\n 2. The first TV series, _El Hazard: The Wanderers_ (TV1, 1995)\n 3. The second OVA, _El Hazard 2: The Magnificent World_ (OVA2, 1997)\n 4. The second TV series, _El-Hazard: The Alternative World_ (TV2, 1998) \n\nThe _Wanderers_ TV series (TV1) is of a seperate continuity (basically a\nretelling of the OVA series, but aimed at a younger demographic) to the two\nOVAs (OVA1 + OVA2).\n\nThe _Alternative World_ TV series (TV2) is set after the second _Magnificent\nWorld_ OVA.\n\nSo chronologically by story, it goes:\n\n 1. _Magnificent World_ (OVA1) ⇒ 2. _Magnificent World_ (OVA2) ⇒ 3. _Alternative World_ (TV2) \n\n⤜ `|| ...somewhere completely unrelated... ||` _The Wanderers_ (TV1) ⤛\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I have 2 Negima DVD Collections, one is spelled as _Negima!_ and the other\nis _Negima!?_ with the latter also having a second DVD called _Negima!? Spring\nand Summer Specials_\n\nBoth have relatively the same plot summary on the back of the covers, both\nhave the same number of episodes and [Anime News\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4380) just\nsays that _Negima!?_ is an alternate retelling. But what exactly is the\ndifference between _Negima!_ and _Negima!?_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNegima! is a direct adaptation of the original manga. It covers most of the\nmajor stories from the manga up through Volume 6, then does an original story\nfor its last few episodes. The stories are done out of order, though; the\nLibrary Island arc from Volume 2 is done after the Evangeline arc from Volume\n3, and the filler stories are scattered all over the place. The Kyouto story\narc is compressed into two episodes (it made up the majority of Volumes 4, 5,\nand 6 of the manga).\n\nNegima?! is a reimagined version of the story created by Akiyuki Shimbo and\nShaft, with the usual weird art style. I like to refer to it as \"Pani Poni\nNegi\", because the art and humor are very reminiscent of Shaft's Pani Poni\nDash. The story of Negima?! is completely different from the manga, and is\nmore focused on absurd humor and less on action and fanservice. (There is also\nsome action and a decent amount of adventure, but almost no fanservice.) The\ncharacters are vaguely similar but also quite different in many ways: Asuna is\nobsessed with finding a chupacabra, Makie for some reason believes that a frog\ncreature is her father, and Konoka is sarcastic and clever instead of cheerful\nand ditzy. (But she's sarcastic and clever in a cheerful way.)\n\nThe Spring and Summer Specials are OVAs of Negima?! I haven't seen them but\naccording to Wikipedia, the Spring Special is based on Volume 7 of the manga,\nwhere Asuna and Negi get in a fight at an island resort, while the Summer\nSpecial is an original story about Nodoka.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat \" Torisuda \" said. Also, in Negima!? Asuna has two blue eyes, and is less\nbitchy than her Negima! counterpart. Setsuna is also completely human, and not\npart demon.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs I watched Hunter x Hunter on AnimaxTaiwan, I am not sure but probably\nPariston won the election. Then he suddenly (probably) let Cheadle be the\nChairman and left. If I am right, please explain his actions. If I am wrong,\nthen please explain the election after the polls.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPariston indeed _won_ the election as Gon picked him because he knew Leorio\nafterall wanted to be a doctor. Also, take a look at the final result.\n\n\n\nAfter that, Cheadle confronts Pariston in the hallway. These lines by Pariston\nmight make you understand more about his action.\n\n> * I didn't become vice chairman because I wanted to become chairman.\n> * I just wanted to hinder the chairman.\n> * When I said silly things to tease Netero, he always looked so happy...\n> * I wanted to play with him some more. \n>\n>\n\n>\n> After he wipes his tears off...\n>\n> * Cheadle-san, if the Association becomes a dull place under your\n> leadership...\n> * I'll get serious about toying with you next time.\n>\n\nHe likes to play around and enjoy himself, of course on the election too.\nAccording to Ging Freecss, Pariston's personality is similar to Netero's and\nhis own. He's still care about the Association, like in the lines saying if\nCheadle makes the Association become dull and boring, he will really make fun\nof her. But, instead of becoming the chairman, he prefer be the vice chairman\nand make fun of the chairman to satisfy himself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fairy Tail Episode 144 (Despair Unleashed), approximately 7 minutes and 42\nseconds into it, a blue Exceed/cat can be seen hidden between the rocks in the\nbackground.\n\nIn the image I took below you can see between Happy and Panther Lily the blue\nExceed/cat.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/luqSK.jpg)\n\nThis is not addressed this during the episode and the characters in the scene\ndo not mention anything about it.\n\nIs there ever an actual explanation behind this? Or is it some type of Easter\negg?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's just an easter egg, they seem to appear in every episode. They're no part\nof the plot in any way.\n\nExample:\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SPRLF.jpg)\n\nIn earlier episodes, they showed a still image of every easter egg animal in\nthe episode with the relevant at the end of the episode.\n\nSource: [fanpop - Fairy Tail Question - In episode 39, what is this\nthing?](https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/fairy-\ntail/answers/show/538421/episode-39-what-thing)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are manga, light novel, and anime versions of Code Geass. Which came\nfirst?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was original, the anime came first then various adaptations. You could\nconfirm this in\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1575/Code_Geass__Hangyaku_no_Lelouch).\nUnder \"Background\":\n\n> Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch is an **original anime series** by Sunrise\n> animation studio with original character designs by the all-female Japanese\n> manga artist group Clamp.\n\n(Emphasis added)\n\nJust don't be surprised that some good shows are anime-original like Psycho\nPass, Madoka, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnother way to know it's anime original is that the wikipedia page calls Code\nGeass an anime. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Geass>\n\nCf another 'anime' like Death Note: The wikipedia page calls Death Note a\nmanga. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note>\n\nOf course it's just heuristic. The sure fire way is to scroll down the page\nand check the release/publication date.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n_The Lost Village_ (aka _Mayoiga_ , 迷家-マヨイガ) is one of the most talked-about\nseries of the spring 2016 series; more than one critic has called it \"the\ncomedy of the season\" with the claim that the series is simply so absurd, _so_\nover-the-top that it has to be a deliberate parody of its genre. See, for\ninstance, [this AniWords column at\nCrunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2016/05/03/feature-\naniwords-the-lost-village-is-the-best-comedy-of-the-season) or [this review of\nepisode 6](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-lost-\nvillage/episode-6/.101871) at ANN.\n\nMy question is whether there's any objective evidence that the material is\nsupposed to be parodic -- if there are interviews with the director,\nproduction company materials, or anything of that sort that specifically call\nout the comedy aspects of the series, or whether there's some chance that all\ninvolved with the production are playing it straight and would be shocked to\ndiscover that a large portion of their viewership is laughing at the show.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Tartoros Arc of Fairy Tail, Gray was given Ice Devil Slayer magic. His\nfather then said, \"Do you know why I learned ice devil slayer magic? It's\nbecause END is a fire demon.\" Gray said \"I swear one day I will kill END\". Why\nand how did Natsu kill Gray's father when he was still living?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSilver Fullbuster was an Ice Devil Slayer, the father of Fairy Tail Mage Gray\nFullbuster, and a member of Tartaros' Nine Demon Gates. He died in X774 along\nwith his wife, Mika, but was then **resurrected by Keyes, serving as a test\nsubject for his experiments**.\n\nAnd Deliora is the Demon that kill Gray's Family, so Silver starting to kill\nall Demon he came accross.\n\n[source](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Silver_Fullbuster)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNatsu didn't kill Silver; in fact, nobody directly killed him. Silver was\nalready technically dead for the entire span of the series starting from the\ntime when Deliora destroyed Gray's home; he was just kept in a \"living state\"\nwith Keyes' necromancy curse. Silver died (for real) because Juvia killed\nKeyes, causing the necromancer's power keeping Silver \"alive\" to disappear,\nwhich finally lead to Silver's death.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know it's located near the Middle East, but I'd like a more precise idea of\nthe locations involved in Otoyomegatari.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you are not already aware, the series is set in 19th century Central Asia.\nThe culture is without a doubt Turkic.\n\nThe main setting of the story is explicitly mentioned to be a rural village\nnear the Caspian Sea.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lk17p.png)\n\nIt's important to note that the land and territory borders in the 19th century\nwere [vastly different](http://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Central-\nAsia) from what is is today.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/je5m9.jpg)\n\nThis bit, done by the author for the 2014 [Taisho\nAward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Taish%C5%8D), sheds some light on\nthe regions each of the characters are from.\n\nKarluk's town (Pariya included) is located in modern Uzbekistan, and are of\n[Uyghur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs) ethnicity.\n\nThe city where Mr. Smith meets Talas, Karaza is likely in\n[Karakalpakstan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakalpakstan), part of\nUzbekistan.\n\nThe town where Mr. Smith and his guide meets the twins (Laila and Leyli,\nthey're [Tajik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajiks). Not Turkic, but rather\nPersian) is [Muynak/Moynaq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%E2%80%98ynoq), a\ncity in northern Karakalpakstan.\n\nAmir and her family are of [Kazakh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhs)\nethnicity, and hail from modern day Kazakhstan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Attack on Titan_ , it is said that titans do not have any digestive organs\nand the only way they get stuff out of their stomach is by puking it out.\n\nNow, if a human is swallowed whole by the titan, will the human survive inside\nthe titan? Yet no one is said to have survived this way.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe body temperature of a titan is extremely hot, causing the bodies inside to\nboil.\n\nExamples of the titans' high body temperature are shown by the steam coming\noff of their bodies, especially after death, and in episode 9 when Eren's\nexperience inside the belly of a titan was revealed.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEven if they don't have digestive organs, they sure have some sort of fluid\ninside of stomach, judging by corpses, that were puked out. Since it is\nbasically impossible to get out by our own, I suppose, one will simply\nsuffocate do death to the moment he is puked out. Not to mention that, if\nnumerous corpses are swallowed, survivor will simply buried under them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I know, there was no case where a human was swallowed whole by a\ntitan. Most of the time the titan would give a fatal bite on the human before\nswallowing him/her. As such, even if the inside of a titan was just an empty\nbag, the eaten human would die from blood loss.\n\nNow, assuming that somehow the human was swallowed wholly by a titan, and the\nhuman is in perfect condition, with the standard gear of the scouting legion,\nthen he might be able to survive if someone were to kill the titan immediately\nafter he was swallowed. If it took too long, then he won't survive. The\nreasons are as follow:\n\n 1. The titan would keep eating other humans, thus human bodies would come raining down on the already eaten human, potentially injuring them. If injured then his chance of surviving would get even lower due to the panic the injury caused him and the injury potentially hindering him from avoiding the next batch of dead bodies which could injure him even further. I doubt anyone who knows that he was inside the stomach of a titan and is injured would be able to stay calm.\n 2. The inside of a titan's stomach is not an empty bag. It has a liquid there. I'm not sure whether it has an acidic properties or not, but if it is then the eaten human would have his body melt due to the acid. If it is not, then being in the liquid itself would hinder his movement, which would disable him from avoiding dead bodies raining down on him as the titan eat more humans.\n 3. It was shown that after eating humans, titan would vomit them back since they lack digestive organs. The vomit was a crystal with the dead bodies inside. Assuming that somehow he was able to avoid getting injured while inside, he won't survived being crystallized since it means that he won't be able to breathe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is a one shot of _Attack On Titan_ where it is shown that a pregnant\nwoman was once consumed by a titan. However, once the titan was slain, the\nbaby that existed in the womb was in healthy condition, though the mother was\ndead.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is to my understanding that the reasoning for the Titans taking a 'fatal\nbite' out of its victim is that it is most probably hoping to absorb the\nspinal fluid of a Titan Shifter in order to turn back into a human. This is\nsupported by the fact that the Titan serum is injected into the back of the\nEldian's neck (where the spine is).\n\nFurthermore, there is no way of surviving due to this fatal bite, meaning that\nthe Titan, under normal circumstances, would never swallow you whole; provided\nit is a typical mindless Titan. Intelligent Titans, such as the Quadrupedal\nTitan and the Dancing Titan (Ymir), have held a human whole in their mouth,\nbut they did not swallow their captives regardless of their bodies not at risk\nof harm inside the stomach-like pocket in the Titan body. This could be due to\nthe uncertainty and lack of knowledge currently disposable about the Titans\nand risks not wanting to be taken.\n\nOverall, this suggests that a human cannot be swallowed whole. The best\npossible outcome is losing a limb or part of your hand/leg/arm like Eren did\nwhen encountering the 'Santa Titan', but in normal circumstances their arm\nwouldn't grow back and they'd likely die of blood loss.\n\nFurthermore, this suggests that the Titans are unaware of the section of the\nbody that they're severing, and probably just subconsciously hope that they\nsever the spine of an area relevant to the transferal of the spinal fluid into\nthe second party.\n\nWith regards to surviving inside a Titan provided you've been swallowed whole,\nthe survey corps are the primary people that Titans consume, and few of them\nare consumed by an individual Titan due to their skills in the field. So in\nthe unlikely event of someone getting swallowed whole, they would be inside of\nthe Titan for a long period of time before being vomited out when the Titan\nfills itself up. This could be months between expeditions or even years.\nNobody would be able to survive that long inside the Titan unless they eat\nother humans raw inside the Titan or even attempt to eat the walls of the\npocket they are being held in.\n\nWHEN EREN WAS HELD INSIDE A MINDLESS TITAN prior to discovering his abilities,\nit was evident that there were other alive people inside the Titan, but it was\nso hot in the pocket that they overheated and died while calling for help from\nthe heat. Titans are already known to be extremely hot especially without\nskin, and I doubt that there is any skin on the interior of the Titan. This\nsuggests that regardless of your physical state when swallowed, it will be too\nhot to last for a prolonged amount of time inside a Titan without simply\nboiling to death.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Eren was first eaten, he was pulling Armin out of Santa Titan’s mouth\nwithout any injuries whatsoever. This implies Titans do occasionally eat\nhumans whole\n\nInside the Titan, it’s obviously very hot, but considering blood is able to\ncollect in a liquid form, it’s not unsurvivable for a short period of time. If\nsomeone were to be swallowed and had the grit, they may theoretically be able\nto cut their own way out\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese are all summons with forehead protector that I can find, it's quite rare\namong the summons. For example, Sannin's summons, Inuzuka Clan's Ninkens and\nthe Ninnekos don't have forehead protectors.\n\nAre the headbands are overall just for decoration purpose for the summons?\n\nWeren't forehead protectors are worn by most Shinobi since the summons are\ntechnically mini ninjas?\n\n**Kakashi's and Guy's summons:** \n\n**Konohamaru's summons:** \n\n**Hiruzen's (Third hokage) summons:** \n\n",
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"body": "\n\nForehead Protector in Naruto shows the symbol of Ninja's hidden village and\nhis loyalty towards it.\n\nSimilar can be assumed with Summoned animals, Summoned Animals with Summoned\nanimals with forehead protector seems to be loyal to one village only.\n\nEven [naruto.wikia.com](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning_Technique)\nspeculated the same :\n\n> Summons may also wear a forehead protector, suggesting a loyalty to only one\n> village.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome don't wear a headband as well, because they too large, example being the\ngiant clam that the 2nd mizukage summons. Because the clam is to large it has\nthe villages insignia carved into its shell. Or in an opposite case the animal\npath pain, several summons being too large and only loyal to pain.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the Captain's meeting in Episode 24, Sosuke Aizen asks what Gin Ichmaru\nwas planning and that he \"wont get away with it\" and to \"not underestimate\nme\". given the context at that point in the series it would put suspicion on\nGin for being the grand mastermind behind the strange events concerning Rukia\nand her execution as what Aizen brought to Renji's attention previously.\n\nBut considering it was Aizen who was the mastermind this alters the context\nand that Aizen appeared to be threatening to punish Gin himself as if Gin\nencountering Ichigo and letting him live undermined Aizen's plans.\n\nAlso he knew very well that Ichigo was still alive because he waved them\ngoodbye just as the gate shut and by letting him live would then risk Rukia's\npossible release before the Hohyoku was retrieved.\n\nSo what was Gin plotting when he encountered Ichigo at the Hakuto Gate?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHitsugi and Chitaru are yuri characters. Chitaru's age seems according, but\nwhat about Hitsugi? She is really smaller than Chitaru.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WlLan.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[Hitsugi](http://akuma-no-riddle.wikia.com/wiki/Hitsugi_Kirigaya) and\n[Chitaru](http://akuma-no-riddle.wikia.com/wiki/Chitaru_Namatame) are both at\nthe _same age_ , which is 15 years old. It is true that Hitsugi actually looks\nlike a little girl, her height is also not up to her age, not even close, so\nit seems like Hitsugi is younger than Chitaru, but it's not.\n\n\n\nHitsugi doesn't even seem to have matured yet, which is the actual reason.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to _Akuma no Riddle AK_ , a social game which was released in 2012\n(before the anime in 2014), Hitsugi and Chitaru were both 15 years old, even\nthough Hitsugi was often to be mistaken as primary school student due to her\nshort height.\n\n \n\nImage courtesy of [naomamayu's blog\n(Japanese)](http://naomamayu.blog.jp/archives/cat_344404.html)\n\n*The game was shut down in 2015\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know the Japanese version can be found at [MediaFactory's official site\n(Japanese)](http://www.mediafactory.co.jp/comic-alive/index.php), but I did\nnot see any reference to an English version.\n\nIs _Monthly Comic Alive_ also available in English?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou can buy the Japanese version of Monthly Comic Alive from JList (e.g.\n[here](https://jlist.com/aap474) is the April 2015 issue) or Tokyo Otaku Mode\n(e.g. [here](https://otakumode.com/shop/560a30bbf481efcf51411fa4/Monthly-\nComic-Alive-December-2015) is the December 2015 issue). JList used to also\nsell subscriptions to some of the manga magazines. If you live in a large city\nyou might also have a Japanese bookstore somewhere (e.g.\n[Kinokuniya](http://www.kinokuniya.com/us/index.php/fho003)) that sells the\nmagazine in Japanese.\n\nTo my knowledge, there is no English release for Comic Alive; this [list of\nmanga magazines published outside\nJapan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_magazines#Published_outside_Japan)\nhas no entry for it. Manga are almost always published in English as\ntankoubon, outside of Shounen Jump and [Yen\nPlus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yen_Plus). Nowadays some sites, like\nCrunchyroll, simulpublish individual chapters as they come out.\n\nHere's what I would do: figure out which specific few series in Comic Alive\nyou are interested in following. Chances are you don't care about every last\nseries ever published in this magazine, so identify the ones you do care\nabout. Figure out if they have an English language release (Wikipedia and\nAnime News Network are pretty good for this, but if you're stumped you can\npost another question here asking about it.)\n\nIf there is an English release, it will probably be tankoubon volumes, or\nmaybe simulpub if you're lucky. If you absolutely must follow your chosen\nseries chapter by chapter, every month, and it's not simulpublished, then find\nscanlations for it. Then either buy the magazine in Japanese, or buy the\ntankoubon volumes in English when they come out. If you really don't want the\nbooks, you can probably donate them to a public library. (Apparently [public\nlibraries will even stock Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou\nnowadays](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-mike-toole-\nshow/2016-02-07/.98430).)\n\nI know it's not a great solution if you were looking to follow more than two\nor three series, especially if you don't care about the retouched art and\nbetter quality paper in the tankoubon. But unless you read Japanese it's about\nall you can do. Most likely, simulpub will become more popular as more of the\nJapanese magazines move online, but for now this is what we're stuck with.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSakura is a slayer not affiliated to Little Garden. So she does not have a\nvariable suit like Hayato and the others.\n\nBut she uses a very peculiar (fanservice-wise) type of suit when she uses her\nHundred on live shows:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fl5k2.png)\n\nIs this a variable suit?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes. It is her variable suit.\n\n\n\n(Source: [Anime's official site](http://hundred-anime.jp/character/);\nヴァリアブルスーツ = variable suit)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Season 2, we meet L's successors, \"M\" (Mellow) and \"N\" (Near). Seeing how\nthey are his successors and were all raised in the same institute, L must also\nstand for something.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the manga and the anime doesn't reveal what L stands for, but in a especial\nedition called \"Death Note 13: How to Read\", reveal that L real name is\n\n> L Lawliet or in japanese, Eru Rõraito.\n\nReference: <http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_13:_How_to_Read>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKazuki can have or borrow other summoner powers by having relationship. So, by\ndoing having relationship with other kings can he have or borrow their powers\n?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read what happened with Rin.\n\nIf Kakashi is a copy ninja, how is he able to get the Mangekyou Sharingan\nwithout the Uchiha bloodline?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShort answer.\n\nSharingan wielders don't really have to be part of the Uchiha clan to activate\nthe Mangekyou Sharingan.\n\n> It is initially awakened by the trauma suffered from witnessing the death of\n> someone close to the user.\n\nSo you just have to have a Sharingan and witness the death of someone close to\nyou.\n\nSources:\n\n * [Mangekyou Sharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObito in a way, gave them to Kakashi as a temporary gift. It was like Obito's\nwill live on in Kakashi for that moment. If you recall he said something to\nRin like, \"there's one more thing i must do\" or something like that. However,\nKakashi can no longer use both Sharingans, i'm not even sure he can use one\nSharingan anymore. It is still pretty confusing.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you have already read about Rin, you would know that she sacrificed herself\nfor the sake of Konoha. Also, she was close to Obito and Kakashi. The death of\nher (at the hands of Kakashi) made Obito to writhe in pain. This is also the\ncase with Kakashi. It hence, is that as a result of Rin's death, the Mangekyou\nSharingan was awakened in Kakashi. But, the usage of Mangekyou Sharingan by a\nnon-Uchiha demands additional amount of chakra to be spent than by a\ncorresponding Uchiha.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the wiki,\n\n> When they (Obito and Guruguru) arrived they found Rin and Kakashi surrounded\n> by Kiri-nin and Kakashi plunging his Chidori through Rin's heart.[14] Rin's\n> death caused each of their Sharingan to mature into Mangekyō Sharingan, a\n> process that also caused Kakashi to pass out.\n\nSo theoretically, as long as the user experiences an incredibly intense\nemotion (such as the loss of a loved one), that emotion will awaken their\nMangekyo Sharingan.\n\nAdditionally,\n\n> Sharingan that originate from the same Uchiha are still linked to some\n> extent even when wielded by separate users, at times enabling those users to\n> see the same things.\n\nFrom the Sharingan wiki page. References manga chapters 604 and 651. So\nObito's seperate Sharingan were still linked as well.\n\nRef: <http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Obito_Uchiha> ,\n<http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've had a look online and can't find any evidence that the term \"Ace\" refers\nto a position in volleyball; the only definition I could find was that of a\nservice ace.\n\nIs this term solely used for the sake of the anime/manga or is there any\nevidence that points to its use in real life?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not a \"position\" in the same sense that \"libero\" and \"middle blocker\" are\npositions. That is to say, you probably aren't going to find any references to\nan \"ace\" as a position in, say, [the Japan Volleyball Association's\nrulebook](https://www.jva.or.jp/play/rulebook.html).\n\nWhen _Haikyuu!!_ refers to Azumane as Karasuno's \"ace\", that's in the usual\ncolloquial sense - he's the best (offensive) player on the team. In English,\nthis sense of \"ace\" seems to be fairly restricted to baseball (where it refers\nto the best pitcher on the team), but the Japanese equivalent (エース _ēsu_ ,\nborrowed from English \"ace\") is used fairly often in real life for team-\nleading players in other team sports as well, including (at minimum) soccer\nand volleyball.\n\nAs it turns out, this turn of phrase has made it way into other parts of\nJapanese volleyball lingo. A wing spiker (Eng. \"outside hitter\" or \"opposite\nhitter\") who focuses primarily on offense may also be referred to as a \"super\nace\". But this is not the sense in which _Haikyuu!!_ tends to use the term\n\"ace\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe player who scores the most, being the ace, is an \"opposite hitter\" or\nattacker.\n\n> The opposite hitter is the player who most often scores the most points in\n> the team.\n\n[This site](http://www.volleyballadvisors.com/volleyball-positions.html)\npretty much explains the positions played in volleyball and it's easy to\nunderstand what they actually mean when they call him \"ace\", it's almost\nalways in any sport that uses the title; the player who scores the most.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the position stand points, the ACE seems to be the right-side hitter (in\nvolleyball terminology) that is directly opposite of the setter. They are the\nstrongest blockers because they have to block the ”wing spiker” or left-side\nhitter which is typically their best hitter. They are typically left handed,\ntall, and able to run shoots, 9, and 7s (behind the back sets usually). If\nthey are really good hitters, it’s a HUGE advantage to the team because the\nopponents will have a weaker block on that side, considering it’s only\noccupied when the setter is in the back row. But they also might just mean,\nmost reliable hitter.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAce may depend on country, but from what I gathered, it's actually the outside\nhitter that is the ace; meaning the position that is on the left-hand side.\n\nI used to play volleyball and I know in America we don't use that term, but we\ndo rely heavily on our outside hitter to get us out of a bind since they’re\nsupposed to be the best well-rounded player as well as the best hitter.\nAmericans don't have a term for it, but it's possible that the Japanese use it\nto encourage within the team.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second season of Sword Art Online, Yuuki had an 11-hit Original Sword\nSkill. She passed it down to Asuna before she died. She named the skill,\n\"Mother's Rosario\".\n\nCan anyone tell me what exactly is Rosario supposed to mean? I would like to\nknow what it literally means and what it means in the current context and if\nthere is any history behind the word.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYuuki's mother turned to Catholicism after learning about her and her family's\naffliction. This much I'm pretty sure was mentioned in the anime, and it left\na strong impression on Yuuki herself.\n\nThe author said the skill name is a memento to her mother. (I'll need to find\nthe exact quote later, but it was an answer to a fan's question on Twitter) He\nused \"Rosario\" instead of \"Rosary\" because the Japanese loan word was taken\nfrom Portuguese. A rosary itself is a set of prayers called \"Hail Mary's\".\nThere are also ornaments like necklaces or rings with specific beads for\ncounting the Hail Mary's, also called Rosaries. While it may be speculative, I\nalso think that each hit from the 11-hit skill by Yuuki represents a physical\nrosary's components, as the typical rosary has ten beads each to represent a\nHail Mary, plus a crucifix.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the title \"Mother's Rosario\" comes from Yuuki's religion (or her\nmother' religion), the number of shots in her unique sword skill along with\nthe gift she makes to Asuna.\n\n\"Rosario\" is the Italian/Latin (no Portuguese) word used for a form of prayer\nin the Roman Catholic Church. In its short form, it consists in a sequence of\nprayers (one Apostles' Creed, one Lord's Prayer, three Hail Mary, one Glory\nBe) followed by ten Hail Mary that must be recited in a loop at least five\ntimes.\n\nA necklace, called \"Rosario\" itself, which is composed of a string of knots or\nbeads is used in a hand to maintain sequence and count of prayers. The\nnecklace name is derived from latin \"Rosarium\" which stands for \"crown of\nroses\" and, among the Catholics, there is the tradition of gifting these\nnecklaces.\n\nPS: I'm Italian and I'm Catholic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you want the TL;DR version, just skip to the last paragraph.\n\nThis question is a bit easier to understand if you're Catholic or are\nknowledgeable in Catholicism. I'll try my best to help explain this as a\nCatholic myself. It might be long, but trust me, you will understand\nYuuki/Zekken from Sword Art Online 2 a lot more if you take the time to read\nall of this. First, what is Catholicism? I think it's important knowing so\nthat you understand Yuuki's decisions and thought process in naming her unique\n11 hit combo sword skill. This might be a little long, but I think it's\nimportant to first give a quick crash course in Catholicism before I explain\nhow it relates to Yuuki.\n\nTo start, all who are part of the Catholic Church are Christians. Catholic and\nChristian are synonymous, they are the same thing. To be Catholic means to be\nChristian. While there are other denominations of Christianity, it doesn't\nmean they are Catholics. All Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians\nare Catholic. Catholic means \"universal\" in Greek, which is used in\nCatholicism as representing \"Universal Christianity\". That is, Catholicism\nteaches the Christian faith to its fullest and most orthodoxy extent.\nCatholicism is both the original and oldest branch of Christianity, founded by\nJesus Christ in 33 AD (Almost 2000 years old now) when he appointed the\nApostle Peter as the first pope to look after his flock (Christians) in His\n(God's) physical absence. See to Christians, Jesus is God, and while he is no\nlonger with us in the flesh (physical), he is still with us spiritually in the\nform of the Holy Spirit from the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).\nAlthough the trinity can confuse non-Christians thinking it's 3 gods, the\ntrinity actually represents only one God. Christianity is monotheistic, which\nis the worship of the one and only God. Think of the Trinity as a 3 leaf\nclover/shamrock, which has 3 leaves, yet is still the one same clover. When a\nclover has 4 leaves, the 4th leaf is considered luck, which is where the\nbelief in lucky clovers comes from.\n\nMoving on, I think it's best to explain the Virgin Mary and the rosary now,\nwhich is called \"Rosario\" in Spanish. The Virgin Mary is very important to\nCatholics because she gave birth to God in the flesh, Jesus Christ. Mary is\nspecial because she was picked by God to give birth to Him in the flesh (Jesus\nChrist, the Son part of the Trinity). Mary then gave God permission to allow\nher body to give birth to God incarnate, Jesus Christ. I know, that may seem\nvery shocking to non-Catholics, but Christians believe it to be true based on\nmany miracles and many eye witness accounts as proof to Jesus' divinity as God\nin the flesh. Not to mention that Judaism (Jewish faith) prophesied this\nthousands of years before the birth of Jesus Christ. Christianity is the\ncontinuation of the Jewish faith. Mary's role in Christianity is to help guide\nall Christians towards her son and Lord, Jesus/God. Catholics consider Mary\nthe ultimate saint, a one of a kind saint whose body was completely pure of\nany taint of evil/corruption, which was the perfect vessel to give birth to\nGod in the flesh (God's human physical form). That is, Mary's body had the\nunique trait that allowed God to be reborn into his own creation. This is\nwhere the Rosary (Rosario) comes in.\n\nThe Rosary is used by Catholics as a form of prayer to recite the \"Our Father\"\nand \"Hail Mary\" prayers. The prayers that comprise the Rosary are arranged in\nsets of ten Hail Marys, called decades. Each decade is preceded by one Lord's\nPrayer and followed by one Glory Be. During recitation of each set, thought is\ngiven to one of the Mysteries of the Rosary, which recall events in the lives\nof Jesus and Mary. Five decades are recited per rosary. Other prayers are\nsometimes added before or after each decade. The crucifix represents the start\nof this 1+10 combo which results in 11. Rosary beads are an aid towards saying\nthese prayers in the proper sequence. While the rosary form of prayer is not\nrequired to be a Catholic, it is encouraged.\n\nNow we finally made it, time to explain how all that represents\nYuuki's/Zekken's \"Mother's Rosario\" unique sword skill. In Catholicism, Mary\nis considered every Catholic's mother, and she is a huge part of the Rosary.\nIf you combine this fact, you get \"Mother's Rosario\". One could also argue it\nhas to do with Yuuki's mother, who we find out prayed for her family,\nespecially her children, as evident by the flashback when Yuuki and her mother\nprayed in a church. Considering the mother was Catholic, it's extremely likely\nshe prayed often with a rosary, making sense of the skill name being called\n\"Mother's Rosario\". However, there is actually more meaning to the entire\n\"Mother's Rosario\" arc in Sword Art Online 2. Remember how in one of the\nepisodes Yuuki said she did not understand her Catholic/Christian religion\nwhen she was younger (shown in a flashback while she's praying in a church\nwith her mother)? Well, that is very common among children in Catholicism\nsince it is very complex. We grow to understand it more as we get older. While\nsome come to understand their Catholicism from an intellectual level by doing\ntons of research through books and epistles of the Church, many others learn\nthrough the Christian concept of suffering. See, Christians believe that\nsuffering has the potential to create good in some form that we cannot\nperceive at first glance with our limited human intellect. When we suffer, we\noften question the negative aspects of suffering, but sometimes, we are\nblessed by it after in some form. As an example, we'll use Yuuki's suffering,\nwho contracted the HIV virus, which then formed into AIDS. This is shown\nduring Yuuki's last few minutes before her death, when she says she finally\nunderstands why she went through all that suffering. In Yuuki's case, it was\nto experience \"Love\", true love in its purest form, but also to teach others\nhow to love before her death. Also, remember that Yuuki and the Sleeping\nKnights (her guild where all members are terminal patients in real life) had a\ndeep desire to immortalize their guild and name's in Aincrad's Monument of\nSwordsmen. The entire guild's suffering empowered them to achieve something\nthat was deemed impossible by most players in the game. Now, that is not\nsaying that Yuuki's suffering is a good thing, because it's not, in fact it's\nhorrible! But her suffering did bless her to be loved and in return to love\nothers, as well as give her the power to endure, yet enjoy her last moments of\nher life through in-real-life and in-game accomplishments. That is the meaning\nof the Christian concept of suffering. Another form of blessing from\nsufferings came after her death, in that Yuuki gave her guild mates of the\nSleeping Knights hope and courage to fight their disease, where we are told\nthat Shi-eun and Jun are recovering from their illnesses. Another blessing\ncomes in the form that Kirito and Asuna figure out that Akihiko Kiyaba and his\nwife are behind the medicuboid technology, suggesting/implying that Kiyaba's\nreason to create the death game of Sword Art Online was to give Medicuboid\ntechnology a jump start for investors to take it serious in order for its\ntechnology to benefit mankind in the long run. Finally, Yuuki's suffering\nleads her to determine who she will pass on her \"Mother's Rosario\" to. She\npicks Asuna as its next wielder, to which Asuna tells Yuuki she will make sure\nthe \"Mother's Rosario\" skill will be passed on to worthy players until the end\nof time, essentially becoming another unforeseen blessing, her \"Mother's\nRosario\" becoming another permanent piece of evidence that she existed,\nessentially becoming another action immortalizing Yuuki again in some form.\nKeep the thought of being \"immortalized\" on your mind because I will mention\nit one final time at the end of all of this. Now, the rosary (Rosario) is a 10\n+ 1 = 11 part of the Catholic rosary. The 10 represents the \"Hail Mary\" and\nthe 1 represents the crucifix. Does this sound familiar yet? It should, it is\na reference to Yuuki's 11 hit combo! Yuuki tells Asuna she named the 11 hit\ncombo unique sword skill \"Mother's Rosario\" and that it will keep her safe\nwhen she needs it. This represents the \"Hail Mary\" prayer, which is known to\nbe used during difficult or dangerous situations. The \"Hail Mary\" is a prayer\nrequesting the Virgin Mary to intercede for us in asking for Jesus/God's help\nwhen we need Him most. This is the popular football play in the NFL, when\nplayer's go for an all-in difficult long throw, the famous \"Hail Mary\" pass.\nMakes sense right? Well now, think about when Yuuki uses it. Notice Yuuki only\nuses her 11 hit combo, \"Mother's Rosario\", when she is being overwhelmed by a\nskilled opponent, as evident to only using it against Kirito and Asuna when\nthey managed to briefly overpower her. Yuuki's \"Mother Rosario\" is her \"Hail\nMary\"! How cool is that?!?! Lastly, I said I would mention \"immortalize\" one\nlast time. Yuuki is a Catholic Christian, meaning she believes in an afterlife\nafter death. Christians believe in heaven, where they will be granted life\neverlasting in paradise, essentially immortality in a perfect body, without\npain nor sadness, while living in peace and tranquility. Yuuki is looking\nforward to seeing her family again after her death, and during her dying\nwords, she mentions that she is looking forward to the day that she gets to\nsee all her friends again when they pass into the afterlife like her. This is\noverwhelmingly a Catholic Christian belief. Even if one is not a Christian,\nthe Catholic Church teaches that even non-Christians have the potential to be\ngranted entry into heaven by God, through the concept of \"absolute ignorance\".\nBriefly, \"absolute ignorance\" basically means non-Christians that are allowed\ninto heaven because of reasons in life that prevented them from learning about\nor accepting Christianity before the time of their death. This means that all\nthe Sword Art Online characters have the potential to be bound for heaven,\neven if they're not Catholic/Christian. Yuuki takes her last breaths in life\nsmiling, acknowledging that her suffering lead her to these moments and\nrealizations; lastly ending by saying that she gave it her all and that she\nwas alive.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNow it has been established on this forum that Rosario is Rosary. Yuuki gave\nMother's Rosario to Asuna to protect her in the episode. Now in real life,\ndevoted Catholics say the Rosary as a prayer. In fact the Blessed Mother Mary\npromises protection against hell to the souls who recite the Rosary.\n\nSo it can be interpreted that by naming the skill \"Mother's Rosario\", Yuuki\nwas asking for the protection of her soul and the soul of many others.\nTherefore it could also be interpreted when she gave it to Asuna, she also\nasked the Blessed Mother Mary for the protection of Asuna's soul against hell.\nCatholics believe that Mary is a powerful intercessor and leads souls to God,\nthat is why they ask for her prayers.\n\nNow the Mother in \"Mother's Rosario\" is very likely to be referring Mary the\nMother of God also known as the Blessed Mother Mary (also known by many\ndifferent titles). Catholic Christians believe and accept that Jesus on the\ncross has given His mother to His believers. Yuuki is heavily implied to be a\nChristian, specifically a Catholic Christian, so the \"Mother\" could be very\nmuch be referring to Blessed Mother Mary.\n\nSo hence, the points I discussed previously could be a reason to why Yuuki\nnamed the skill Mother's Rosario.\n\nI am a Catholic myself so I know the meaning of Rosary.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 5 of _Koutetsujou no Kabaneri_ , the jet bullets are presented —\nfreshly developed based on Ikoma's explosive-steam hybrid gun. However, Mumei\nhas her steam-powered pistols from the beginning and is also able to kill\nKabane with one shot.\n\nSince the blades on her pistol are reinforced with Kabane \"fabric\" I assume\nsomeone else had similar ideas regarding the improvement of anti-Kabane\nweapons, and that this is the reason why Mumei's pistols are that strong,\nthough I'd say using explosives to improve the gun force is still quite\nunusual idea for a steam powered world. But even if we say Ikoma wasn't the\nfirst one with these ideas, why isn't anybody else using this technology?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs you know and heard of, Mumei is a kabeneri (half- human and half- kabane).\nAnd apparently, once you become a kabeneri, your abilities as a human\nincreases vastly. For example, your speed and strength increases. Remember,\nwhen she talks with Ikuma inside the train, she says \"if I remove the ribbon\naround my neck, I could use my real abilities\". But she doesn't usually\nremoves it, because as a side effect, she get's exhausted and sleepy. And also\nMumei is seen in the anime as one skilled with martial arts. Therefore, due to\nher enhanced abilities- thx to kabane virus, it helps her to get Insta kill\nwith her pistols. And also the ammunition which she uses are normal bullets\nand they are limited.\n\nI think this helped you in finding your answer and for more information about\nher, visit the link below.\n\n<http://koutetsujou-no-kabaneri.wikia.com/wiki/Mumei>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst, let's establish whether the kabane died. I think all kabane killed\nthrough penetrating the heart has the blue spark animation. All other kabane\nare either not killed or killed through means like cutting off the head. Mumei\nhas only fought with pistol for a few episodes so far.\n\nEpisode 2: There is only one kabane killed by one shot and by the speed of the\nmotion, an earlier shot is implied. All other kabane are either killed by two\nor more shots or impaled by other objects while being shot. It seems to imply\nthat first shot break the metal cage and second shot destroy the heart. The\npistol is either slightly more powerful than rifles or are at the same level.\nHowever, no human are able to shoot twice at the same spot, thus no kills were\nmade. That might also be the reason there are two pistols in the setup. This\nmay be achieved through improved senses by the kabane virus.\n\nEpisode 4: Kabane's bones seem to be reinforced by the virus as well as the\nkatana seems to just bounces off a kabane's skill. This might mean that\ninaccurate bullets will have no effect at all as they will hit bone. As Mumei\nis jumping over the top of the train, she seems to one shot three kabanes. We\nshould note however, blue sparks did not appear, which means they are not dead\nbut probably only thrown off the train. However, later on, Mumei clearly\nkilled a kabane through one single shot to the heart. I assumed that is\nbecause Ikoma upgraded Mumei's weapon, however, it is yet to be confirmed.\n\nEpisode 5: The \"Young Master\"'s faction is clearly aware of gunpowder weapons\nas the Ear pulled out a pistol similar to real world weapon rather than steam\npowered. And he is clearly aware that it can kill Kabaneri. It could be that\nMumei's faction and thus their weapons are also using gunpowder before meeting\nIkoma. In this episode, Mumei is clearly able to kill kabane in one shot,\nfirst weakened by the explosion of suicide bombs, later in completely normal\nscenario below the crane.\n\nIn conclusion, I think Mumei's gun is either as powerful or slightly more\npowerful than the steam rifle. Thus needing two shots to kill kabane at the\nbeginning. However, starting from episode 4, Mumei's gun seems to reliably\nkill kabane in one shot. I believe while being trained by Mumei, Ikoma\nimproved her gun. It is just like how Ikoma improved the samurai's sword and\nthe rest of the steam guns during episode 5.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn one of the most popular anime of this season, **Koutetsujou no Kabaneri** ,\nbefore, in the middle or after a battle, the human combatants yell **\"Rokkon\nShojo\"** or the Princess says it after a battle. \nI researched a bit and apparently it means “ **purification of the six roots\nof perception”** (which is quite ambiguous) .\n\nMy questions are:\n\n 1. It has any other meaning other than the one stated above? \n 2. What is its purpose and why is it used in a situation which involves fighting?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRokkon shojo does indeed mean purification of the six roots of perception. By\nmy current knowledge there is no other meaning to it.\n\nThe usage however that is most known to people is during mountain climbing, or\nas [haikugirl.me](https://haikugirl.me/2014/12/14/word-of-the-week-\nrokkonshojo/) phrases it\n\n> ‘rokkon shojo’ is a common expression often repeated while climbing a\n> mountain, especially Mount Fuji. ‘Rokkon’ (六根) means ‘six senses’ (i.e.\n> seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and conciousness). ‘Shojo’ (清浄)\n> means ‘purification’. So, the phrase refers to purifying your heart of all\n> the bad stuff (desire, anger, fear, depression, etc.) that comes from what\n> we take in via the six senses.\n\nHowever this would not make a lot of sense in [koutetsujou-no-\nkabaneri](/questions/tagged/koutetsujou-no-kabaneri \"show questions tagged\n'koutetsujou-no-kabaneri'\"). The way\n[ja.wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AD%E6%A0%B9%E6%B8%85%E6%B5%84)\ndescribes it.\n\n>\n> そのため執着を断ち、心を清らかな状態にすることを言う。そのため不浄なものを見ない、聞かない、嗅がない、味わわない、触れない、感じないために俗世との接触を絶つことが行なわれた（山ごもりなど）。\n\nThis is a phrase as referred to in Buddhism. Which would roughly translate to\nsomething like\n\n> Cut of your obsessions, refer to your heart in a pure state. Do not see what\n> is unclean, do not ask, smell, taste or touch. Cut off your contact with the\n> world **in order not to feel**.\n\nThis does fit the series a bit better. By killing of your emotions, it will\nmake it easier to kill. This is something used in the modern day military as\nwel.\n\nIt also fits into the series given that\n\n> a monster cannot be defeated unless its heart, which is protected by a layer\n> of iron, is pierced.\n\nmaking `refer to your heart in a pure state` which I believe can also be\ninterpreted as `cutting of ones heart` (please correct me if I am wrong) a\nfair pun of sorts.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\na Chinese here. We have the same phrase in Chinese, however, I am not entirely\nsure if it means the exact same thing. 六根, refers to the five senses and your\nconsciousness (soul). 清净 refers to a state of being clean and not polluted. It\nis a Buddhism concept referring to to a state of personal purity. It means\nthat you are no longer bound by worldly desires and are free of it. It is\nusually used to describe someone's state of mind, an noun. The usage here is a\nlittle strange to me (they seem to shout it like a battlecry which is\nobviously not what the phrase is intended as). It is akin to any of us yelling\n\"inner peace\" before charging into battle. I can only understand it as a state\nthese people want to achieve after death, dying pure and not be polluted by\nthe kabane virus and turned.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the end of the Aincrad arc of SAO on episode 14, on the big glass plane,\nAsuna was apologizing to Kirito and I don't know why. Was it because she\njumped in front of the sword, or was it somthing else?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs you know Asuna and Kirito are madly in love with each other and that the\ngame is deadly (quite literally). As any lover would do, they promised each\nother to survive the game and meet up in the real world, fall in love again\nand get married and so on. You know who he was fighting with but she thought\nthat he was about to die from a lethal blow and decided to jump and save her\nman and eventually breaking the promise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a few explanations for this.\n\nFirstly, when Kirito and Asuna were on their honeymoon and they got called\nback, Kirito didn't allow Asuna to go for the boss battle, she told Kirito\nthat her life would be meaningless if Kirito died. If Kirito really died, she\nsaid that she would commit sucide. Hence, when Kirito asked Healthcliff to\nprevent her from commiting suicide, Asuna knew instantly that Kirito knew that\nhe didn't had a high chance of winning, so she decided to let herself get\nkilled instead. At the end, she perhaps apologised for not believing in him.\n\nSecondly, during the time when Asuna saved Kirito from the brink of death when\nKirito was paralyzed and about to be killed by the Laughing Coffin, Kirito\ntold her that his life was now in her hands, Asuna promised she would protect\nKirito and she did. Soon afterwards, Kirito died and Asuna probably apologised\nfor not being able to protect Kirito.\n\nThirdly, during the honeymoon, the both of them promised each other to meet up\nin the real world and go out together for real dates, love each other for real\nand also get married for real but the both of them broke their promises.\nKirito broke the promise by asking Healthcliff to prevent Asuna from commiting\nsuicide and Asuna broke it by shielding Kirito from Healthcliff's attack, thus\ndie. So maybe Asuna apologised for breaking her promise.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the dance that Tsukihi does in the third opening of Nisemonogatari\n(\"Platinum Disco\")? It's the one where she does all of the hand movements.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 32 when Renji is going through the story of how he and Rukia met\nand became Soul Reapers we notice that when he was a kid and when they first\nentered the Soul Reaper Academy his forehead was clear.\n\nWhen Renji runs to tell Rukia that he passed his Second Exam only to see Rukia\nmeeting with Byakuya Kuchiki (where she was offered to be adopted by him) we\ncan see that Renji now has a pair lines on his forehead, but it is still less\nthan what we see in the present day.\n\nSo i am wondering what is the meaning behind these tattoos?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the power of Renji increases, so do his tattoo's, when he achieves Bankai\nhe gets more / bigger tattoo's, basically when he increases in power he gets\nmore tattoo's,\n\nI believe that it's explained somewhere in the Soul Society Arc, but I'm not\n100% positive on that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe tattoos are actually not related to the growth of Renji. They are mainly\naesthetics, possibly done to make him look cool.\n\nHe probably descended from some family that has tattoos like his. Hoipe this\nanswers your question.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Ichigo fight Renji in Season 2, after he smashes Ichigo into a wall he\nthen says then if Ichigo was somehow able to defeated him there are 11 other\nLieutenants and 13 other Captains.\n\nIncluding himself Renji only seems to be counting 12 Lieutenants and 13\nCaptains. at first i thought he was skipping Squad 4 because most lood down on\nthen in terms of combat ability but then why would he then include Squad 4's\nCaptain if that was the case.\n\nSo which Lieutenant is Renji not counting and why does he exclude that\nLieutenant but not their Captain?\n\nNOTE: I am referring to the English Dub\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt the time the 13th Division did not have a vice captain. After Kaien Shiba's\ndeath sometime before the start of the series, the position goes a while\nunfilled, with the duties being covered by the two third seats of 13th\ndivision, before passing on to Rukia. Therefore there was no vice captain at\nthe time Ichigo came to rescue Rukia.\n\n<http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/13th_Division>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Episode 32 when Renji is going through the story of how he and Rukia met\nand became Soul Reapers, at the start when we see what his life was like in\nRukongi District 78 - Hanging Dog, the Old Man that he and his Friends steal\nfrom had these tubes which appeared to carry liquid which seemed to spill out\nwhen he fell onto his table.\n\nMy first guess would be these are some form of water bottle used in Feudal\nJapan so i am looking for confirmation if these tube things are. if not what\nare they? and do they have a basis in Japan?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes their purpose is to store water or a different liquid. I've seen them in\nother anime and manga but I cannot remember them though. In general they've\nbeen used all around Asia. This one for example is from Borneo and it can be\nseen that it is heavily decorated: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qc2ur.jpg)\n\nHere is the\n[Shop](http://borneoartifact.com/modules/product/?show=info&id=3348) were it\nis available more information.\n\nIt has current day versions like these:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cnV9f.jpg)\n\n[link](http://tomocchi.hamazo.tv/e5804304.html)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o29KF.jpg)\n\n[link](http://tomocchi.hamazo.tv/e5804304.html)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l9j5A.jpg)\n\n[link](https://minne.com/items/3385426)\n\nThey are usually handmade, being made in the wild when hiking or camping [like\nthis](https://sensiblesurvival.org/2013/03/08/make-a-bamboo-canteen/).\n\nThis is all the information I could gather including some japanese websites (I\nhave no knowdeledge of the Japanese language). I found information only on\nshopping websites and I hope it is not against the rules. I hope it is a\nconclusive answer even if it has ambiguous sources.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have searched for it and would like to know what would happen if a pokemon\nwere to die. Would the trainer go on and get another pokemon? Or maybe they\nwould stop being a trainer forever?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI suck at finding specific cannon sources, but here's is my general\nunderstanding.\n\nYou are asking one of two things. What happens if pokemon (in general) die\ninstead of fainting? OR What would happen if a pokemon (just one) died instead\nof fainting?\n\nIf you are asking the first, that's a bit opinion based, but you would likely\nsee defensive gear for pokemon to protect them more, higher regulations on\nbattles to ensure fights don't go passed certain limits, and more medical\nitems to help critically injured pokemon to prevent them from dying.\n\nIf you're asking the second, the trainer's response depends on the trainer.\nSome continue to fight. (I would assume most. If their goal is to become a\nmaster, it's a loss they learn to deal with. Not that they become emotionless,\nbut they learn to remember and move on and fight in their honor etc.) Some\nwould possibly stop because they don't want to lose more people.\n\nThis can be seen as something similar to when people command a division in any\nkind of combat. You either continue to fight when you've lost a man, or you\ndiscover that kind of stress is too much for you.\n\nThere's always theories [like this one](http://ds.about.com/od/Pokemon/a/Did-\nGarys-Raticate-Really-Die-In-Pokemon-Red-And-Blue.htm) that go over whether\nRed kills his rival's Raticate. This implies that pokemon CAN die and have\ndied, with your rival being an example of someone who continues on anyway. And\nwith a city like Lavender Town and the cemetery and the natural effect of\naging (since there are baby pokemon), you can reasonably assume most pokemon\ncan die of old age and, therefore, other causes of bodily deterioration/harm.\n\nHope that helps out some. It's a bit long because I wasn't entirely sure what\nyou were asking. Feel free to comment and I'll try to explain more or find\nbetter sources :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNext thoughts are based on manga, so I'm not sure if all of this applies to\nanime.\n\nFirst of all, it is not that strongly dependent on pokeballs. Pokeballs were\ndid not exist forever, you know. And even when they've appeared, there was\nfirst pokemon captured by pokeball, which means, trainer managed to capture it\nwithout other captured pokemons.\n\nYou see, it may also depend on attitude of pokemon towards particular human.\nIf pokemon likes someone, it may willingly allow to capture him, or at least\nobey commands of human he likes. Last one even applies to pokemons, who belong\nto other trainers. Also, trainers may lend their pokemon to other people. In\nmanga, several main characters lent their pokemons to people without pokemon\nto help them caught one (Red lent his Pika to Yellow to capture Rattata, Ruby\nlent his Ralts to Wally).\n\nSo, there are numerous solutions to solve situations, at least in manga.\n\nIn terms of trainer mental state - well, that heavily depends on character\nmentality, and is mostly same to real world situations. Will you take new cat,\nif your cat dies?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to use \"Laputa: Castle in the Sky\" as an example, but the\nidentifying features that I'm particularly interested in identifying are the\nancient, yet advanced technological civilization(s) that left behind the city\nitself.\n\nIs there a word or genre specifically describing the ancient yet\ntechnologically advanced civilization trope (specifically those more advanced\nthan present day civilizations)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\"Precursors\" or \"forerunners\" would be the title given to the\nsociety/societies that came before but they are not titles that would be\nclassified as a genre. The closest thing to an official genre title that you\nwould get is, \"post-apocalyptic\". Post-apocalyptic settings are those that\ntake place after the end of the world. in certain instances the end of the\nworld does not mean the end of humanity and so they start the world anew. I\nwould recommend searching post-apocalyptic animes if reborn society is what\nyou are into. Attack On Titan, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, and Murder\nPrincess, are all examples of animes with functional societies that speak of\n\"technology from the old world\", even though the ancient technology is\nfuturistic by comparison to their own. Enjoy\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'd say either **[Lost Technology](https://anidb.net/t4521)** (as used by\nanime/games like Galaxy Angel and a tag from AniDB) or **Lost Civilization**\n(just a common term usually referred to stuffs like Atlantis) is what you're\nmost likely looking for. It might not be the best term though.\n\nSome other closely related terms are **Technological Regression** (a term I\npersonally use, just as the term says) and\n**[Dystopia](https://anidb.net/t2882)** (another AniDB tag). I personally\nprefer the term Dystopia but it's basic definition is an \"undesirable place\"\nand doesn't have to mean \"regressing into a lesser advanced civilization\" but\nmost of the time I find them in tandem on stories.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen I was looking for info on Saiyuki and learned it was based on the Chinese\nnovel _[Journey to the\nWest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West)_ , I was reminded of\nsome things:\n\nThe Japanese name of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is Son Goku.\n\n> Sun Wukong (孫悟空) is known/pronounced as Suen Ng-hung in Cantonese, Tôn Ngộ\n> Không in Vietnamese, Sun Ngokong in Thai, Sun Gokong or Sun Go Kong in Malay\n> and Indonesian, Son Ogong in Korean, **and Son Gokū in Japanese.**\n\nSource: [Sun Wukong - Names and titles (1st\nParagraph)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong#Names_and_titles)\n\n[Some question here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4296/when-does-\nson-goku-learn-to-fly) refer to Goku from _Dragonball_ as Son Goku.\n\nA number of images of Sun Wukong show him on a cloud with a staff, similar how\nGoku in the original _Dragon Ball_ Series is shown with Nimbus and his staff.\n\nSo, I am wondering if Goku in _Dragon Ball_ is based on Sun Wukong from\n_Journey to the West_?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAkira Toriyama was definitely influenced by Journey to the West in writing the\noriginal Dragon Ball manga. In early stories, Goku rides the Flying Nimbus\ncloud and wields an extendable staff, two aspects taken directly from his\ninspiration the Monkey King along with his name, and the fact that he turns\ninto a giant ape is also a callback to his simian origins.\n\nThe quest to find the Dragon Balls was also a parallel to the quest for the\nsutras, or scrolls of the Buddha, and some of the other characters from Dragon\nBall have parallels to Journey to the West characters, although they tend to\nbe a little tenuous at times. And, of course, it didn't take long before the\noriginal story gave way to all the craziness and martial arts and ridiculously\nscaling power levels to the extent that by the time Dragon Ball Z came along\nthe resemblances are superficial at best.\n\nYou can see mention of the connection in the [Wikipedia\narticle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball), although the sources are\nmostly print ones so you'd have to put a little leg work in to track them down\nyourself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe last panel of the last page of the first chapter of _Dragon Ball_ alludes\nto _Journey to the West_.\n\n> Remember your Chinese fairy tales? You don't? Not even the impish _Monkey\n> King_ and his magic staff, the _Nyoibo_? Oh, well... drop in next time and\n> you'll learn...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XMwGl.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe is based on Wukong prior to having a monkey tail some monkey magic the\npower pole and the flying Nimbus including one more thing u forgot the armour\nof Son Goku that some evil sold it to a pawn shop for just because he liked it\nthat is what insipred the Omni king to not be scared of him in Dragon Ball Z\nand erased his future saying they lost\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis was Mai in Dragon Ball:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1daNf.jpg)\n\nAnd this is Mai in Dragon Ball Super:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T6i8I.jpg)\n\nHow does she become younger?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy did Shisui sacrifice himself? More importantly, why did he crush his eyes?\n\nIs it because he wasn't strong enough to protect them from falling into the\nwrong hands? What made him think that Itachi could stop the revolt even when\nhe knew he was stronger than Itachi?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to the Story part related to it in the game \"Naruto Shippuden :\nUltimate Ninja Storm Revolution\", and if I remember well :\n\nDanzô wanted to steal Shisui's eyes to use their power to prevent the coup\nd'etat from happening, because Shisui didn't want to use it against his own\nclan. Danzô succeeded to steal one of Shisui's eyes, but Shisui managed to\nescape just after. He knew Danzô would do everything to get the other eye, so\nhe chose to give it to Itachi (and so Danzô can't know where the 2nd eye is),\nand as he had no eyes anymore, I guess he thought that living in these\nconditions was meaningless and committed suicide.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it was made pretty clear when Itachi explains it to Naruto when he was\nEdo Tensei. Itachi and Shisui both new a Civil War was on the cards since\nUchiha were plotting a Coup. Both having grown up in the era of great war\ndidn't want it to come to that. Shisui tried to use his Genjutsu prowess on\nthe village elders to stop the anhilation of Uchihas, but Danzo overpowered\nhim and stole his eye. Shisui managed to get away but lost an eye. He didn't\nwant any other power monger to get hold of his other Mangekyo Sharingan and\nthus entrusted it to Itachi, because he knew he believed in the same ideals.\nHe left the village and faked his death.\n\nSource: <http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shisui_Uchiha>\n\nOn a smartphone. So will edit with proper citations of manga chapters later.\nPlease take a look at Wikia. It should explain it more clearly\n\nEdit 1: For those convinced he commited suicide\n\n> Shisui wrote a suicide note telling his clan he cannot follow through with\n> the coup d'etat, but his clan's narrow mindedness made them unable to\n> understand this, believing he would even sacrifice innocent lives for the\n> sake of the Uchiha Clan. The contents of the suicide note also made it\n> appear as though he had crushed his eyes when jumping off a cliff into the\n> Naka River to kill himself in order to prevent conflict from arising over\n> his eyes within the clan. He, at the same time, was able to erase his\n> existence, leaving no corpse behind. \n> Wiki Source: Chapter 550 pg11. Chapter 520 pg 15\n\nEdit 2: I am not sure whats wrong with people, but they do not want to do\ntheir own research but will hold their beliefs and opinions as hard facts. I\nam open to different interpretations of said facts BUT don't refute the facts.\n[Here is the anime clip of Shisui giving his eye to\nItachi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYwRU3B0Q7o) (Not that itachi killed\nhim and took his eye)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShisui was actually poisoned by Danzo. In terms of strength Danzo would stand\nno chance against Shisui if it came down to a 1 on 1 battle.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow many times Len Kagamine die in all of his PV's? I have been searching the\nanswer for this question for a long time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI checked a million of his songs (some of which were very suicidal), and the\nanswer for now many times Len died was 97.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have not seen a lot of anime, but some of the ones I have seen have pocket\nwatches in them. _Noir_ , _Phantom_ , _Fullmetal Alchemist_ , and\n_Steins;Gate_ all have pocket watches of some sort in them and are usually an\nimportant piece at some point in the anime. How come many anime include pocket\nwatches in them? Thanks.\n\nThese images are from _Noir_ , _Steins;Gate_ and _Phantom: Requiem for the\nPhantom_.\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QOm3M.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3IXVL.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r5uFw.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm not an expert on Japanese culture but if I had to guess, there are some\nsymbolism involved.\n\n1) A pocket watch became popular after World War I and it was one of the\nexpensive items being imported into Asian countries. It was valuable and was\nsomething that can be inherited.\n\n2) A watch symbolizes time; past, present, and future. It represents the\ncharacter's past (usually dark and sad in anime), present (struggles) and\nfuture (final goal, whether it's a bright one or inevitable death.)\n\nThat's what I think.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn addition to what monty_bean said, a watch does show the symbolism of time,\nbut it's far more significant with a pocket watch, which can have more\nmeaning, such as the engraving on the watch in FMA.\n\nA wristwatch just does not carry the same emotional gravity that a pocket\nwatch does; it would register more as just a fashion accessory or something to\ntell the time with. The significance of the watch itself wouldn't be nearly as\npresent.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Higuchi died, the original death note was in hands of Light, so he\nbecomes the owner again. After L dies, and Mello exchanges that death note for\nSayu, how did Kal Snyder end up as the owner, if Light did not forfeit\nownership of his death note between that time?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter Higuchi died, the Death Note was kept by the investigator so Light\ncouldn't use the death note. After L died, the book was kept by Soichiro\nYagami for quite a long time. At that time, Light had lost his possession of\nDeath Note either by giving it to his father or by not using it for a long\ntime.\n\nWhen Soichiro gave the Death Note to the guy who kidnapped Sayu, he gave him\nthe possession as well. At last, this guy lost his possession of Death Note\nafter he died in a plane. The one who first touched the Death Note after that\nwas Kal Snyder.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that Kirito didn't die at the end if episode 14 because of his will to\nfight overthrowing the system. But during the fight with Heathcliff, episode\n14, when all players were paralyzed, how did asuna manage to move in front of\nthe sword? Was it the same concept above, or was it because of somthing else?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nwell If you think about it asuna's will to protect kirito was probably greater\nthan kirito's will to fight so naturally her being able to move was only\nnatural since she was feeling intense emotions.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was stated to be her willpower. In chapter 23 of first tome of light novel:\n\n> Just to save me, the shy and spoiled Asuna had shaken off the incurable\n> paralysis with her willpower and thrown herself against an attack that was\n> impossible to block.\n\nIn terms of game features, it might be some sort of bug, since Kayaba was not\nexpecting thing like this to be possible\n\n> This is really surprising. Isn’t it just like a standalone console RPG\n> scenario? It should have been impossible for her to recover from the\n> paralysis… So things like this really do happen…\n\nI suppose, it was author's idea of willpower and true feelings being able to\nsurpass most limitations, so we probably will not find any more clues.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[This essay on\nReddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/40it1x/essay_iyashikei_the_genre_of_catharsis/)\ngives a pretty good definition for _iyashikei_ :\n\n> Iyashikei means “healing-type” and the genre’s works reflect this meaning.\n> Iyashikei aims to heal the viewer through delivering a sense of relaxation\n> and catharsis. This is accomplished through a tranquil – though not\n> necessarily happy – in-show experience which allows the viewer to calm their\n> mind and relax by focusing more on the emotional experience than on the\n> intellectual.\n\nThe essay gives several examples of _iyashikei_ shows, including Aria, K-On,\nMushishi, and Non Non Biyori.\n\nIn my meager explorations of Japanese literature, I've noticed a peaceful and\nsometimes pensive feeling similar to the tone of many _iyashikei_ , especially\nin the poetry. It seems that _iyashikei_ is a genre with pretty deep roots in\nJapanese culture, so I'd expect it to take off early on in anime.\n\nI'm curious what the earliest _iyashikei_ anime or manga was. The earliest I\nknew of was [Yokohama Kaidashi\nKikou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Kaidashi_Kik%C5%8D), from 1994;\nthe Reddit essay mentions the Studio Ghibli film [Only\nYesterday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Yesterday_\\(1991_film\\)), from\n1991. Are there any earlier? Given my hypothesis that _iyashikei_ came from a\nlongstanding and uniquely Japanese cultural perspective, it seems like there\nshould have been.\n\nSeries this old wouldn't have been identified as iyashikei at the time (even\nYokohama Kaidashi Kikou and Only Yesterday seem to predate the term), but if\nmodern fans would identify it as iyashikei or something similar, it's\npotentially an answer.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n(This was originally going to be a comment, but I'm going to go ahead and make\nthis an answer and explain why I'm not sure it is possible to effectively\nanswer this question. I could well be convinced otherwise, though!)\n\n## Unlike obscenity, you _don't_ know (old) _iyashikei_ when you see it\n\nSo, here's the problem, as I see it. _iyashikei_ is one of those things that\nis characterized less by the content of a work and more by the _effect_ of\nthat work upon its audience.\n\nToday, content creators have a well-worn library of narrative approaches that\nthey can use to make their work _iyashikei_ (e.g. \"cute girls doing cute\nthings\"), and so we can look at a present-day work and see how it uses these\napproaches to effectively \"heal\" the audience. Alternatively, we can look at\nhow a work comports itself relative to \"canonically\" _iyashikei_ works that it\ndiscourses with, like _Aria_ and so forth.\n\nBut when we look at works that predate the _iyashikei_ \"canon\" and its\nassociated library of approaches, how do we effectively evaluate whether a\nwork is or is not _iyashikei_? Based on how it makes you feel, I guess.1 But\nthat doesn't help us come up with a good answer to \"which was the first?\".\nThat's the issue - it's simply rather difficult to say what is or is not\n_iyashikei_ the further into the past you go.\n\n## For example:\n\nI strongly disagree with the reddit user's claim that _Only Yesterday_ is\n_iyashikei_.\n\nWhile it is, on the whole, a calm and relaxing movie, and happens to employ\nsome of the narrative trappings common to modern _iyashikei_ works\n(wistfulness for rural Japan, in particular), it pairs these elements with\ndecidedly un-healing bits, like the various mishaps Taeko experiences during\nher childhood, and the obstacles she faces in her budding relationship with\nToshio. It is a beautiful slice of Japanese life, but is it healing? No, at\nleast not to me.\n\nIf we lifted _Only Yesterday_ out of 1991 and released it for the first time\nin 2016, would we call it _iyashikei_? I don't think so. It is not, in my\nview, substantially in discourse with the modern \" _iyashikei_ canon\".\n\n## Why is _iyashikei_ a Thing, anyway?\n\nThere's something of an argument that the crystallization of _iyashikei_ in\nthe late 90s as a Thing (throughout Japanese media; not just in the otaku\nrealm) is a direct response to the trouble Japan was experiencing at the time\n- the bubble had just burst, and Japan was really reeling for the first time\nsince World War II. This explanation is pretty reductive, and it'd be silly to\nclaim that the economy is the only (or even primary) cause, but it seems\nuncontroversial that Japan's national woes at the time did contribute to the\nreification of _iyashikei_.\n\nTaken out of its context as a response to the Japanese zeitgeist of the 90s,\ndoes it even make sense to talk about _iyashikei_? I'm not sure that it does.\n\n## A long, rambling footnote\n\n1 This is not to say that it is _always_ impossible to identify a work as\nhaving a quality that was only effectively delinated after the work's\ncreation.\n\nTake, for example, the realm of gothic fiction. When Walpole wrote _The Castle\nof Otranto_ , he wrote the first gothic novel, even though he could not have\nknown that, since the idea of gothic fiction as a distinct thing did not come\nabout until some years later. But we can nonetheless distinctly see that\n_Otranto_ is a gothic novel (never mind the fact that the whole genre is named\nfor _Otranto_ to begin with), because there are specific narrative trappings\nthat characterize gothic fiction (spooky castles, fantastic romances, etc.),\nand _Otranto_ exhibits them.\n\nBut _iyashikei_ works are not characterized by their narrative in this same\nway. Where, on the one hand, you have the (admittedly large) cluster of \"cute\ngirls doing cute things\" anime, you also have \"man has mystical encounters\nwith spiritual entities\" ( _Natsume Yuujinchou_ , _Mushishi_ ) and \"parenting\nis great\" ( _Usagi Drop_ , timeskip notwithstanding) and \"shibe does shibe\nthings\" ( _Itoshi no Muco_ ) and \"whatever _Glasslip_ is\" ( _Glasslip_ ), and\nI don't know how to identify a coherent commonality among all these things\nbesides \"they make me feel fuzzy inside\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the background music played in the first 30 seconds of [episode\ntwo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3GBVwZAH6s), when a narrator speaks of\nthe conquest of Japan? This is the section before the OP is played.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have heard all of the OST tracks from Code Geass, and the closest match is\nin [Code Geass OST #2 - Pessimistic\nTime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nmOm7qrpDM). If you listen carefully\nafter 0:40, the main instrument's melody is the same. The style and backing\nare different, but it's normal for there to be some variation between the\noriginal OST and the version used in the series itself.\n\nIf you want the full list of all songs that played in the series, you can\ncheck them [here](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/CDs).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have found the answer. It is actually this so:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtxNw8Rs8Ds>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the second episode of [Seitokai\nYakuindomo](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8675/Seitokai_Yakuindomo), at around\nthe 12 minute mark, Shino Amakusa is referencing different animes. She says,\nat one point,\n\n> \"how about a fiancé who's sword dancing outside of the party grounds\"\n\nwhich makes it pretty obvious she's probably talking about [Princess\nLover!](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6201/Princess_Lover). However, before\nthat, she mentions\n\n> \"maybe the one where the antagonist was defeated, but it turns out that he\n> was the first pupil of the four godly kings\"\n\nto which Aria Shichijou responds with\n\n> \"you have to provide a glimpse of the last boss, too\"\n\nAnd I have no idea which anime they're referencing to. What is the name of the\nanime with the antagonist and the four godly kings?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just remember the last section bit where Conan & Sonoko(?) forced to make\nemergency landing on some harbor(?). I think the real Pilot & Co-Pilot got\npoisoned by accident because they are kissing the victim hand without their\ngloves.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is not an OVA, but rather a movie. The title is:\n\n> **[Magician of the Silver\n> Sky](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Magician_of_the_Silver_Sky)**\n\nIt is the 8th movie and one that features Kaitou Kid. The last part goes like\nthis:\n\n> While flying the plane, it's struck by lightning. They activate the back up\n> generator. They see that the auto-pilot is broken down so they have to\n> cancel the landing. They manage to pull up but lose one engine in the\n> process and damage the runway. The next thing they notice is that there\n> isn't much fuel left. This is because when everyone was in the cockpit, Ban\n> accidentally hit the fuel gauge button which made the fuel (in separate\n> engines) go into one big tank. \n> \n> Conan finds a place to land (Sakamori Dock). Kid (in disguise of Shinjo)\n> says he can't do it because he injured his hand and that Ran should take his\n> place. Kid opens the emergency hatch and tells them good luck. Kaitou Kid\n> then jumps from the plane. Nakamori chasing the real Shinjo, notice the real\n> kid flying, and so they chase after him. \n> \n> Conan tells Sonoko to take his place and that he has to go to the washroom,\n> also to put on the headsets in case contact is made with the airport again.\n> Conan uses his voice-changing bow tie and tells Ran using Shinichi's voice.\n> Ran tells him to stop acting so cool and that the fate of these passengers\n> is within her hands. She then tells him that she loves him which makes him\n> go silent. She tells him that she see's a ribbon of red lights. Heading\n> towards the dock. Conan sees it and realizes why Kid jumped off. He was\n> going to attract the lights of the police to create a runway so they can\n> see. \n> \n> Ran successfully lands the plane. Ran thinks that the person who jumped was\n> Kaitou Kid's accomplice and she was talking to Kaitou Kid. She is relieved\n> to know her secret wasn't let out.\n\nLast part summary quoted from the\n[page](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Magician_of_the_Silver_Sky)\nitself\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching this episode of _Naruto_ on\n[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qkH4mxtsaw).\n\nI would like to know why the quality and style of the anime differs from the\nregular one?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first part of the video's description reads (emphasis by me):\n\n> Naruto,Sasuke,Kakashi Team 7 Vs Kaguya Ōtsutsuki Full Fight (English Sub) .\n> **Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4** the Rabbit Goddess大筒木カグヤ\"Kaguya\n> Otsutsuki\" vs Naruto,Sasuke Uchiha Perfect Susanoo Kakashi. Rinne Sharingan\n> vs Byakugan. Kaguya's unstable Tailed Beast Transformation awakening,Final\n> TruthSeeker Orbs ultimate jutsu. Previous Boss Battles;\n\nSo as you can see, that is not a video from an episode of the anime series,\nbut rather a cutscene from the [Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm\n4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto_Shippuden:_Ultimate_Ninja_Storm_4)\nvideogame. The bottom-most part of the description also clearly states that\nthis is from a game:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5lsz4.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is known that Franky is powered by cola in his stomach fridge, so if other\nliquids are used, his behaviour goes through drastic changes.\n\nSo far, I'm aware of two cases in Enies Lobby and one in the Future Kingdom,\nright before the Impel Down events.\n\nIs someone able to provide a complete list?\n\n",
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"title": "What drinks are SURELY known to affect and/or differ Franky's behaviour?",
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"body": "\n\nThough Cola is the known drink used to power franky himself and his body it is\nshown that other drinks can also affect his personality. Used as a trope by\nChopper in Enies Lobby, it was used as a plot point in his stay in the\nFuture(?) Kingdom where he becomes gentleman like when tea is used. And\nreverts when it fizzes.\n\nFrom the wiki\n\n> It was shown during Franky's fight with Fukuro that depending on what kind\n> of drink Franky has, it can change his hair style and attitude when Chopper\n> accidentally hands him **vegetable juice and tea**. It also shows that\n> Franky's strength is many times greater when he has more bottles of cola in\n> his stomach fridge, and he needs it as a fuel for certain attacks. His hair\n> acts as a kind of meter to the amount of cola in his stomach, being tall if\n> he is full and sagging if empty. Franky's stomach compartment can hold up to\n> three bottles, or six liters, of cola.\n\nSo Canonically only three drinks are known through which Franky's personality\nalters viz. Vegetable Juice and two kinds of tea.\n\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Franky/Abilities_and_Powers>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Sparks Liner High ending of Heaven's Feel,\n\n> Shirou ends up as a vegetable, since his mind has completely deteriorated. \n> \n> However, since he was lying next to Saber, could his deteriorated brain\n> have been repaired by Avalon? Avalon is supposed to have ultimate\n> regenerative properties, so wouldn't it be able to regenerate him? \n> \n> Not to mention, Avalon allows people to use techniques that would normally\n> be too overbearing to the user (like how Kiritsugu could use higher levels\n> of Time Alter). Shouldn't the same apply to Shirou?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't believe so. According to the Wikia a Head Shot will still kill\nAvalon's holder\n\n> The holder of the scabbard is granted potent healing, allowing for critical\n> and fatal wound to be rapidly repaired to restore the wielder's health.\n> Minor injuries are restored easily, and even large missing portions of the\n> body and destroyed vital organs like the heart can quickly be restored at\n> the critical moment before death. **Targeting anything other than the\n> holder's head in order to destroy their brain is futile,** requiring for a\n> decisive strike to be landed in order to cause any true damage.\n\nSource: [Avalon (3rd Paragraph)](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Avalon)\n\nSo it's possible that the damage the brain is still too much for Avalon.\nthinking on when this Bad End could occur i can only think of 2 times Shirou\nfought Saber in Heaven's Feel and the only time i can think of in which\nShirou's brain could be destroyed because of a fight would be in the caverns\nwhere the Greater Grail is located. even if Shiou's brain did heal it would\nstill be a Bad End because it would probably take too long for Shirou to be ok\nto stop Angra Mainyu being born and saving Sakura and Rin.\n\nNow while i havn't seen that Bad End if Saber died in it then Avalon only\nworks to a limited level using the residual magical energy it has, if she is\nstill alive Shirou doesn't have the near True Immortality it provides because\nwhile a Contract with Saber isn't required to use Avalon's power it is for the\nimmortality and it's Sakura who has this Contract for the most part of\nHeaven's Feel\n\n> The contract between Saber and a Master isn't a requirement to use Avalon's\n> abilities, but having one will provide the user the true benefit of limited\n> immortality by allowing it to obtain magical energy from Saber and fully\n> utilize its effects according to the contract.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> Avalon's effects are less potent for those without the contract, allowing\n> its regenerative abilities to be used only while Saber is close enough to\n> provide magical energy to it.\n\nSource: [Avalon - Master's Noble\nPhantasm](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Avalon)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that Bentham sacrificed himself to save Luffy so that he can escape\nfrom Impel Down. He disguised as Magellan to open the gates for Luffy, but\nlater the real Magellan came and it seems like the two fight each other (not\nin screen).\n\nMy friends believed that he's dead at that fight. But when I read\n[this](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Bentham), it is stated that he's\ncurrently become the new queen of Newkama Land.\n\n> Bentham, alias Mr. 2 Bon Kurei, is a former officer agent of Baroque Works\n> and an okama (a Japanese slang term for a transvestite). While he was once\n> an enemy of Luffy's as a part of the Baroque Works, the two became quick\n> friends, leading Bon Kurei to sacrifice himself for Luffy both at Alabasta\n> and later at Impel Down. **_He is currently the new Queen of Newkama\n> Land._**\n\nSo I want to know, is Bentham or Bon Kurei dead or alive after Impel Down arc?\nIf he alive, have he shown in comics ar anime after Impel Down arc?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've seen this chapter cover that shows Mr.2 Bon Kurei is alive and is the new\nQueen of Newkama Land, so most probably he/she survived after Luffy left him\nin Impel Down. And aside from this I haven't read or seen him in any chapters\nafter the Impel Down arc.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rgXtN.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe all know that chopper was able to extend the capability of his devil using\nhis rumble ball. But I wonder if other DF users can also use this rumble ball.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gaq3j.jpg)\n\n",
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"title": "Can Chopper's rumble ball be used on other Devil Fruit users?",
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"body": "\n\nWhile it doesn't look like anyone else has tried the rumble ball that Chopper\ncreated yet, modifying your devil fruit power through science is possible.\n\nThe One Piece Wikia on the [rumble\nball](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rumble_Ball) has it written:\n\n> Through his development of the Rumble Ball, Chopper is the first Devil Fruit\n> user to artificially augment his Devil Fruit powers. However Chopper is not\n> the only one to do so, as Caesar Clown (by his own admission) used his\n> chemical and scientific expertise to artificially augment the Gasu Gasu no\n> Mi to grant himself new offensive abilities.\n\nWhile the Wikia also implies that the Rumble Ball can enhance any Zoan type, I\nhave not seen this evidenced by anyone else's use in canon sources.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you watched the Shin Chan anime series you will know what I'm talking\nabout. (I don't know if Chocobi appears in the manga, too.) Was Chocobi an\nexisting snack that just appeared in the Shin Chan series? Or was it invented\nwith the series and later produced as a real snack for merchandise?\n\n",
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"title": "Was the Chocobi (チョコビ) snack from Shin Chan fictional or did it exist before Shin Chan?",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pURj1.jpg)\n\nChocobi (チョコビ Chokobi) is a fictional chocolate star-shape snack brand\nfavoured by Shin. **It is a famous brand in real-life and continues to do so\nvia the anime's popularity**.\n\nso your last statement is the correct one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to various Japanese sources ([Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%81%97%E3%82%93%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%82%93#.E3.82.B3.E3.83.A9.E3.83.9C.E3.83.AC.E3.83.BC.E3.82.B7.E3.83.A7.E3.83.B3),\n[NicoNicoPedia](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B3%E3%83%93),\n[pixiv dic](http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B3%E3%83%93),\n[Geocities JP](http://2nd.geocities.jp/tyomo_pi5/meshi/chocobi/tyocobi.htm)),\n**the Chocobi snack was originally came from _Crayon Shin-chan_**.\n\nHowever, according to the interview with Mitsuru Hongo (Director of _Crayon\nShin-chan_ 's anime), it was based from Lotte's _Koala's March_.\n\n\n\n... until 1993, when Lotte did a collaboration with _Crayon Shin-chan_ to\nproduce a peanuts chocolate flavored snack with 2 types: Chocobi, and Royal\nChocobi (with almond). However, they're pretty much different from the one in\nanime. Couldn't find any images of them.\n\nLater on, Orion also produced Chocobi snack with star-shaped, but the package\nwas totally different.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/19anwl.png)\n\nBandai also produced Chocobi snack, but instead of star-shaped, it's a biscuit\nstick. The package was also totally different.\n\n\n\nMoving forward to 2006, Tohato released a real Chocobi snack.\n\n\n\nLastly, since 2014, Morinaga did a collaboration with the movie to produce\nChocobi Ice.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen the manga version of _Shin-chan_ was published, he always ate Koala's\nMarch, not Chocobi.\n\nWhen the anime version is adapted, there is a trademark and sponsor problem.\nIf Shin-chan eats Koala's March and the CM shows for a different snack, it\nwill become a huge problem.\n\nThus, the anime director creates a new snack with non-existence name.\n\nAfter the anime aired, the manga version also changed the snack to Chocobi\ntoo. Snack for Shin-chan in the manga is different between first few volumes\nand later episodes.\n\nThis kind of problem is happening for many anime too. For example, in the\nmanga version of Bakuman, they talk about Shonen Jump. But in the anime\nversion, the name was changed to Shonen Jack.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Bubuki Buranki_ , Kogane has a Donyatsu backpack. Written on it above the\nface of the pastry cat are the words \"Not Donyatsu\". Is there any special\nreason (same author, authors were friends, same publisher) for that shoutout?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPYDf.jpg)\n[](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1aCdK-\nAPHiE/maxresdefault.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe author/illustrator of _Donyatsu_ , [Kozaki\nYuusuke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABsuke_Kozaki), is also the lead\ncharacter designer for _Bubuki Buranki_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI heard he replies to people who email him and I will love to have the\nprivilege of emailing him. Does anyone know his email? And if he's ever\nreplied to your emails, don't be afraid to tell!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLooking Vic Mignogna up gives me [his website](http://www.vicsworld.net/).\n[His contact page](http://www.vicsworld.net/contact.htm) lists his email and\nalso has a [mail-to](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailto) link, although the\nlinked email and the email listed are different from each other.\n\nMignogna is also on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/vicmignogna), so I suppose\nyou could also tweet at him.\n\nI've no idea whether he usually responds to general emails; I don't watch\nEnglish dubs much and also rarely consciously follow voice actors.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched episode 7 of _Space Patrol Luluco_ today, and, well, that sure was a\nthing. Saliently, it featured\n\n> a piece from the _Kill la Kill_ soundtrack: \"Gekiban Tokka-gata Hitotsu-\n> boshi Gokuseifuku\" (OST 2 track 1), which is basically the soundtrack-ified\n> version of \"Before my body is dry\", a.k.a. \"DON'T LOSE YOUR WAY\".\n\n(I'm spoilering this because, frankly, this is the best anime-related surprise\nI've gotten in ages.)\n\n* * *\n\nThis got me thinking - who typically owns the soundtrack of an anime? Is it\nthe composer, or is it some other party, such as the animation studio or the\nproduction committee?\n\n(By soundtrack, I mean the soundtrack; not OPs/EDs, which I strongly suspect\ntend to have different ownership schemes.)\n\n* * *\n\nThe [situation in Hollywood](http://www.marklitwak.com/obtaining-music-for-a-\nmotion-picture-soundtrack.html) is interesting as a point of comparison -\nvarious ownership schemes seem to be possible (though I don't know which are\nmore common). In some cases, the soundtrack will be treated as a work-for-hire\nowned by the film's producers; in other cases, the composer will own the\nsoundtrack and will license usage rights to the producers; and surely other\npossibilities exist. (Keep in mind, of course, that Japan and the US have\nfairly divergent conventions when it comes to the handling of intellectual\nproperty, so the situation in Hollywood is probably not the same as the\nsituation in... Akihabara?)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on several stores I visited online, all the OSTs are sold/distributed by\nthe companies that produce them. Example of [Kara no Kyoukai\nOST](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/SVWC-7749), it is distributed by Sony,\nnot ufotable. Hence it must be owned by the company that produced it.\n\nAs for OP/ED, I have seen lots of anime opening videos on YouTube whose audio\ntrack is muted by the respective song producers (not the animation company).\nHence the soundtrack must be owned by the company that produces it and is used\nby the animation company on certain agreements.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is the typical situation in Japan: The composer and the lyricist transfer\nthe copyright to the music publisher and it trusts copyright to a copyright\ncollective, most likely JASRAC (ASCAP/BMI in the US). The performers own the\nperforming rights, which are usually transferred to the record label by\ncontract. Also, the record label owns the recording rights.\n\nThus the animation studio must have been licensed by JASRAC and the record\nlabel (Sony/Aniplex) to use the song.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere is what I found :\n\nFrom what I understood, music industry in anime is not really transparent.\nIt's difficult to find trustable sources.\n\nFirstly I had the idea to ask to Thomas Romain and here is his answer\n(translation below the screen) : [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nZUne.png)\n\nThe translation : \"Who usually owns the rights on anime OST in Japan ? (except\nOP & ED) the studio ? the composer ?\" \"Certainly not the studio. I couldn't\nsay. Probably the production committee + the composer.\"\n\nThomas Romain is a French animator which works in Japan since several years.\nHe works for the studio Satelight. So even if he's not sure about who owns the\nrights, I think you can trust him when he says that studios do not own the\nrights.\n\nI also made some resarch on Wikipedia :\n\n> Japanese copyright laws (著作権法 Chosakukenhō?) consist of two parts: \"Author's\n> Rights\" and \"Neighbouring Rights.\" As such, \"copyright\" is a convenient\n> collective term rather than a single concept in Japan. Japan was a party to\n> the original Berne convention in 1899, so its copyright law is in sync with\n> most international regulations.\n\nThey say the copyright law is in sync with most international regulations.\nThere are 3 actors : the composer, the producers and the broadcasters (wire\ndiffusers). In anime production like pointed before, producers and\nbroadcasters seem to be the same.\n\nAbout the rights of each of them :\n\n> The composer has all the moral rights on his music. He has also economic\n> rights, that is to say : Reproduction: The author can control the\n> reproduction of a work, including photography, recording, and downloading.\n> Communication: The author can control how a work is to be transmitted,\n> communicated, broadcast, performed, exhibited, etc., including how copies of\n> the work are to be distributed. Adaptation: The author can control the\n> adaptation of a work through translation, dramatization, cinematization, and\n> the creation of derivative works in general.\n\nAnd for the broadcasters (here the producers) :\n\n> Broadcasters and wire diffusers have the transferable economic rights of\n> fixation, reproduction, making available, and retransmission. Television\n> broadcasters also have a right to control photography of their broadcasts.\n\nIf you want more details, here is my source :\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Japan>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese are figures I got off eBay; the seller didn't know the answer. Thank you\nso much!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8PWAX.jpg)\n\n[eBay Item - 3 Gashapon Figure Figurine Lot Sexy Girl Boy 3.75\" Posable Anime\nManga ](https://www.ebay.com/itm/322097339447)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched Dragon Ball, DBZ, DBGT, DB Super, but the order is such that DBGT is\nin the end I believe.\n\nWhat happened to all the characters? On dragon Ball wikia, it said Goku died\nand is dead right now at Age 801, but I never saw this?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDragon Ball GT is non-canon, when you say Goku died is because he turn the\nguardian of the Dragon Balls (you can watch`Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy`\nto see that is true), but it doesn't matter because is not official, the\nofficial series is Dragon Ball Super.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs has been rightly pointed out in the comments by\n[Torisuda](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/7579/torisuda) and\n[Ryan](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/20610/ryan), Dragon Ball GT\n(DBGT) is non-canon, in fact, it never was canon.... \nSo calling DBGT the end of the DB Series is outright wrong....\n\nAlso, DBGT has been replaced by Dragon Ball Super (DBS) and since DBS is\nongoing, there is no definitive end to the series yet....\n\nOne must also keep in mind that the [Dragon Ball\nWikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com) is based in a time where the series has\ncontinued on to another point altogether, owing to games like [Dragon Ball\nXenoverse](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Xenoverse), [Dragon\nBall Xenoverse 2](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Xenoverse_2),\n[Dragon Ball Heroes](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Heroes)\netc... \nIn this period (many many years down the line), Goku is long since gone....\n\n* * *\n\nNow to answer your question why you haven't seen the death is because\n\n * DBGT ended in Age 790's, before Goku's death; He just left Earth riding on Shenron.\n\n * [DBGT: A Hero's Legacy](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_GT:_A_Hero%27s_Legacy) (also non-canon) takes place almost 100 years after the Shadow Dragon Saga ends, by the time only Pan is alive... \nThus it only references the fact that Goku is dead and has no use showing how\nhe died...\n\n * DBS is ongoing and since it's ongoing, one can't say where it's going to end... It might end with Goku's death, it might not... It's anyone's guess... \n\n * Also, it's not given in the [wikia page](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Goku) when he died after he was revived by Elder Kai. Using the above facts we can extrapolate that he died within the 100 years gap between DBGT and DBGT: A Hero's Legacy... Not to forget that neither is the reason for his death during this period mentioned, leaving it upto Akira Toriyama to bend the story according to his will....\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHow are they brothers, if Zeref is a human and Natsu is a demon. Was Natsu\nborn a demon or did Zeref make him one?\n\nThis is so confusing to me. Please clear this up for me!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Note** : If you're not up to date with the FT's manga or don't even follow\nit, then the information + images which I'm posting here will be spoilers.\n\nAccording to FT's manga, Natsu Dragneel is a demon made by Zeref Dragneel.\nHe's the END (Etherius Natsu Dragneel) that Zeref refers to way back when\nNatsu first meets Zeref face to face. Read chapters 436, 464 and 465. In\nchapter 436, when Zeref thinks about his past, how he created all other demons\nto kill him but all of them failed, he then says, \"And so, finally I made you.\nI made you.... With the hope that you'd truly be as your name states, END.\"\n\nAnd if you read further down that chapter, he also says that the body Natsu\nwas given is not his own body, but the body of Zeref's deceased brother. In\nchapters 464 and 465, when Natsu faces Zeref once again face to face, Zeref\ntells Natsu the truth behind the END, and also Zeref left Natsu with Igneel (a\nfriend of Zeref) as Igneel didn't have ill feelings toward humans.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9F8u0.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6bAsV.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kiK0U.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ALk29.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QS4JR.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Cj2Q.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KBbGG.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qbNCn.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ihx36.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Tupc.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VTA04.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9M9WT.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _My Neighbor Totoro_ , the girls plant some seeds they received from\nTotoro, and he helps them to grow them really fast in the night (See\n[here](https://vimeo.com/15165227)). This tree really looks like a mushroom\ncloud from a nuke. I'm aware of the nukes that the US dropped on Japan during\n2nd World War, still I don't get the meaning of this hint.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is definitely a mushroom cloud except that it’s one that brings life\ninstead of death. You see mushroom cloud-like imagery and symbols of\nradioactive destruction in a lot of post-WWII Japanese art and entertainment.\nThere’s a whole book by Takashi Murakami called Little Boy which discusses\nthis. My guess is that Totoro is about Japan re-finding it’s identity after\nthe trauma of the atomic bombings. It’s similar to how a lot of American sci-\nfi and action movies had scenes of buildings getting blown up after 9/11.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you check most of the animes that _Hayao Miyazaki_ wrote/produced they all\nhave environmentalism, pacifism, feminism, love and family themes to various\ndegrees.\n\nFor example in _Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind_ is about the aftermath of\na global war and find balance with Nature without repeating the mistakes for\nthe past.\n\nSame thing with _Laputa: Castle in the Sky_.\n\nPast/Current wars are the central point of those 2 movies, with _Miyazaki_\npushing for letting go of the 'old ways' and adopting a 'Live and let live'\nway of life.\n\nIn the case of _My Neighbor Totoro_ he went with a family theme. But that does\nnot mean that there could not be some hidden symbols in the images.\n\nJapanese people have been marked severely in their life/culture by having 2\natomic bombs dropped on them. Many manga/anime are based on post apocalyptical\nworlds as a result of it. Others just hint at this 'scar' that Japanese people\nhave. Take for example _Grave of the Fireflies_ in which it was only recently\ndiscovered that the movie poster actually shows a B29 Bomber plane flying\nabove the children when everyone thought it was just a shape of clouds.\n\nConsidering this, it is possible that _Miyazaki_ drew the shape of the tree as\na mushroom cloud without even realizing it.\n\nThis covers the point of view that the tree was indeed drawn to look like a\nmushroom cloud.\n\nNow, what you have to consider is that a lot of trees actually do have a\nmushroom shape (that's how kids mostly draw trees).\n\nAlso Japanese people venerate the largest trees. Often building small shrine\naround or next to them.\n\nIn the case of _Totoro_ , _Miyazaki_ actually made that tree stand taller and\nseparate from the others to show it as a kind of 'king' of the trees. Worthy\nto be protected by the guardian of the spirit _Totoro_. It grows so tall and\nstrong from the love/innocence of _Mei_ and _Satsuki_.\n\nPersonally, and considering the way _Miyazaki_ approaches war in his work, I\nbelieve the second hypothesis (a normal tree without any special war-related\nmeaning) to be the most probable one.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNaruto's RasenShuriken can usually kill average shinobi in one shot. If it's\nso powerful shouldn't it be forbidden?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not typical of strong techniques to be forbidden. Forbidden jutsu are\noften techniques that either damage the user, require a sacrifice (other than\njust Chakra), or is generally immoral.\n\nIncidentally, Tsunade did declare Fuuton: Rasenshuriken as a forbidden jutsu\nafter seeing the damage it caused Naruto's arm. Whether or not it's still\nforbidden after Naruto perfected it and managed to throw it (thus, nullifying\nthe damage to himself).\n\nOther examples of forbidden jutsu:\n\n * Izanagi - Because it sacrifices an eye.\n * Tajuu Kage Bunshin (Massive Shadow Clone) - Because the user might die from chakra loss\n * Edo Tensei - Because of living sacrifice and immorality.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause it destroys the cell that produces chakra not only to the one hit by\nit but also to the user which is naruto . That's why it's forbidden.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nLike the first guy said Tsunade did mark it as forbidden jutsu but when Naruto\nlearns sage mode and then Bijuu mode he uses it because it no longer damages\nhim.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt is a forbidden jutsu. Later on Naruto learns to use Sage Art: Rasenshuriken\nwhich lets him throw it by applying nature chakra to maintain it's shape, but\nI think this is classified separately. Outside that, he can use chakra arms of\nhis nine tails chakra mode to guide them, also negating the damage done to\nhim. But, anyone who doesn't know senjutus or has a tail beast chakra mode\nwill still be at risk, since it then has to be used as a melee jutsu.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was originally classified as a forbiden jutsu because of the damage it can\ncause to the user.\n\n> \"The name is a bit of a misnomer. The jutsu works like a poison. It causes\n> damage to the cells that produce chakra. Even those of the user. If Naruto\n> continues to use that ninjutsu he will lose the ability to mold chakra.\" \\-\n> Fith Hokage, Sanin, Slug sage, Medical Sage Tsunade Senju\n\nBut when he throws it, it nullifies the damage to himself. So I suppose it was\ndeforbiden.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen we are introduced to her in the second episode of the anime, Aqua and\nKazuma mentioned that her name was weird. She further revealed her parents'\nnames, Yuiyui and Hyoizaburo, which are apparently weird as well.\n\nHowever, to the Western audience or at least to me, it's no more weird than\nnaming yourself Darkness or Dustiness, the name of another character in\nKazuma's party. The latter being even weirder than \"Megumin\" considering it\nrefers to how dusty something is.\n\nWhy are the Crimson Demons considered to have weird names?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAdding the -n to the end of a name is typically a form of a \"cute\" nickname in\nJapanese. It's a contraction of the \"-chan\" honorific onto the person's name.\nThus, Megumin's given name sounds like a nickname. (Note also that\n[Megumi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megumi/ \"Megumi\"), without -n, is a\ngiven name in Japanese.)\n\nThis might be comparable to, for example, an American boy's given name being\n\"Bobby\" rather than \"Robert\". It's not odd to call him that as a nickname, but\nit might be somewhat strange for that to actually be his legal name.\n\n(See also: [Why does Konata call Kagami\nKagamin?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3515/why-does-konata-call-\nkagami-kagamin), and thanks to user Logan M for more information!)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think there are two possibilities:\n\n**#1 Different to the world's normal names**\n\nAs @ton.yeung mentioned in their comment, it's because it's so different to\nthe other names of the fantasy world.\n\nLook at some of the other characters in the world:\n\n * Aqua \n * Darkness (a.k.a. Dustiness Ford Lalatina)\n * Wiz\n\nKazuma and Kyōya are from the modern world so their names are probably odd,\nbut normal for their origin.\n\n**#2 Odd due to her character** (I think this is more likely)\n\n> Ho-ho-ho...\n>\n> That we would meet is a fate chosen by the world itself.\n>\n> I have anxiously awaited the arrival of those such as yourself.\n>\n> My name is Megumin!\n>\n> My calling is that of an arch wizard, one who controls explosion magic, the\n> strongest of all offensive magic!\n>\n> Fu-fu.. Do you, too, desire my forbidden strength, which is so almighty,\n> I've been ostracized by the entire world?\n>\n> Then show me thine resolve to peer into the ultimate abyss with me! When a\n> man stares into the abyss, the abyss stares back.\n>\n> I am Megumin, user of the finest magic crimson demons possess! My lethal\n> magic demolishes mountains, smashes boulders...\n\nAfter Megumin's huge character introduction and ever-chuuni speeches, one\nwould imagine she would have a crazy name too. But it's just Megumin, with an\n_n_ that sounds cutesy. Being short and young is usually something she gives\nout about too.\n\nSome people on MAL compared it to Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WObQK2vunAk>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey are from a feared and highly known clan that produces arch-wizards that\nare feared - the comments made in the anime are as if telling a legend or myth\nabout this group who can eliminate towns and their name is something childish\nlike what two close young friends would use to call each other.\n\nImagine if trumpets were blaring and messenger boys would ride upon horses,\nrolling out a red carpet then throwing rose petals, opening a proclamation\nmade from a rolled scroll and announcing that SillyBilly has arrived.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nscroll down for character images\n\n**Niiyama Niko** seems to be a character that's inspired by _Kill la Kill's_\n**Mankanshoku Mako** (behavior) and **Harime Nui** (appearance).\n\n**Tenga Hajime** seems to be a dumber version of **Kamina** from _Tengen Toppa\nGurren Lagann_. Are there any other referances/homages to be found in\n_Kiznaiver_? For example, maybe something from _Little Witch Academia_?\n\nFYI: _Kill la Kill_ , _Kiznaiver_ , and _Little Witch Academia_ are produced\nby Trigger, which was founded by members of Gainax, which produced _Tengen\nToppa Gurren Lagann_.\n\nNiko \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a6qjcm.jpg)\n\nMako: [the gif I actually wanted to\npost](http://orig04.deviantart.net/0d7b/f/2014/018/0/2/mako_mankanshoku_funny_gif_by_jkphantom9-d72q886.gif) \nMako \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rWBHjm.jpg)\n\nHarime Nui \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZD2Ihm.jpg)\n\nTenga \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aUtqkm.jpg)\n\nKamina \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xpy5Jm.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was just wondering, how did Danzo get all those Sharingan eyes in his arm?\nIs it from the people that Itachi and Tobi killed [that\nnight](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uchiha_Clan_Downfall)?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/alFVR.gif)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe're not sure, but he most likely got them from all the Uchiha that Itachi\nkilled.\n\nsource - <http://opforum.net/threads/how-did-danzo-got-this-hand-full-of-\nsharingan.18133/>\n\nMost were stolen by Obito, the ones that weren't were used by Danzo for his\nIzanagi.\n\nsee - <http://www.answers.com/Q/How_did_danzo_get_sharingans_on_his_arm>\n\nA definite answer can't be found, there are no official statements regarding\nthe matter and no official source, so one can only speculate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDanzo acquired his right arm from [Shin\nUchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shin_Uchiha) with the help of Orochimaru.\nThis is found in [Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage\nManga](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Gaiden:_The_Seventh_Hokage_and_the_Scarlet_Spring).\n\n> Orochimaru did another implant onto Danzō taking Shin Uchiha's Sharingan-\n> embedded arm and placing that, alongside some of Hashirama Senju's cells,\n> onto that of Danzō's.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iu1BPm.png)\n\n(Shin Uchiha's Left Arm)\n\nMore on [Shin Uchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shin_Uchiha):\n\n> Shin was one of Orochimaru's experimental test subjects and followers, and\n> possessed a unique genetic make-up that allowed for tissue and organ\n> transplantation with absolutely no chance of rejection. Together they\n> performed various experiments, cultivating clones from Shin's teeth and\n> nerves in order to uncover many secrets of genetics. At some point Shin\n> became intrigued by the Uchiha clan, especially Itachi Uchiha. As such, he\n> began to imitate the Uchiha: adopting their surname and customary clothing,\n> as well as numerous Sharingan which have been implanted all over his body.\n> **His Sharingan-embedded right arm was harvested by Orochimaru and\n> transplanted to Danzō Shimura along with some of Hashirama Senju's cells**.\n> Some time after this, Shin left Orochimaru's side and took most of his\n> clones with him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDanzo used Itachi to kill The Uchiha clan only sparing Itachi's brother:\nSasuke. Then Danzo took their eyes and implanted it to his arms\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nJust give you some info about the [Potara\nearrings](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Potara).\n\n> 1. _Potara Fusion_ is similar to the _Fusion Dance technique_ , however\n> unlike the Fusion Dance, the Potara Fusion is **permanent**.\n> 2. To use the Potara fusion, the two fusees each take one of the two\n> earrings and put them on opposing ears. The two will automatically merge as\n> soon as the earrings are put on.\n>\n\nAfter the fusion is done, the fused character has 2 earrings on each side of\ntheir ears, neither in the Anime nor the Manga has shown that fused character\nremove the Potara earrings. This makes me wonder what happens when fused\ncharacter like _Vegito_ remove one or two of the earrings, will they be\nseparated? Or still permanently fused forever?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the 1st episode of SNK / AOT, there's this awesome song at 0:47, when the\ncolossal titan appears. Do you know the name, please? I can't find it\nanywhere...\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI assume this is referring to when the colossal titan appears in the prologue\nbefore the intro.\n\nThe song is called **cóunter・attàck-mˈænkάɪnd (Counterattack Mankind)** and is\nfrom **Attack on Titan Original Soundtrack**.\n\nThe actual part featured in the mentioned scene starts over half way through\nthe track at around **3:25** , which is possibly why it is hard to find.\n\nIt is composed by Hiroyuki Sawano.\n\nThe track can be found here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PuP7IkpRLU>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe song youre looking for is named Attack ON Titan, not Counterattack -\nMankind. Link: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi_TTMjobng>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Naruto was forced to fight Itachi for the first time when he was\nreanimated by Edo Tensei, you could clearly see that he could still use the\npower of his Mangekyō Sharingan. How is this possible if Itachi no longer had\nhis original eyes (which Sasuke took it)? Does this mean that Edo Tensei can\nalso restore certain aspects of a ninja even after death?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs it comes straight from the Naruto wikia:\n\n[**Edo\nTensei**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning:_Impure_World_Reincarnation)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rNUPX.png)\n\n> **The Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation** _binds the soul of a deceased\n> person to a living vessel, restoring them as they were when they were alive\n> in order to do their summoner's bidding._\n\nSo that's why [Itachi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Itachi) had both of his\neyes, because he was restored in the state before he died, which he had both\nof his [eyes](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's a debate going on how Luffy got the scar on his chest but I recently\nseen episode 223 where Zoro and Luffy we're fighting and Zoro gave him that\nscar. Then for what reason is there a debate on how he got his scar?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think Luffy got the scar during Marineford War. It's on Vol. 59 Chapter 578\nand Episode 487.\n\nAfter his brother Ace died, Jinbe carried him and tried to escape to Akainu.\nJinbe jumps into the sea but finds the water below to be frozen. Akainu\nmanages to strike Jinbe and harm Luffy at the same time. Jinbe apologizes to\nLuffy for letting him get injured.\n\n\n\nIt can be seen in this image that Luffy's chest is burning after Akainu's\npunch past through Jinbe's body.\n\n[One Piece Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy) also did\nmention how Luffy got the X-Mark after the time skip\n\n> **After the Timeskip**\n>\n> After those two years, a few things have changed. Luffy wears an open, long-\n> sleeved red cardigan with four buttons (which **shows the X-shaped scar\n> covering most of his chest he received by then-Admiral Akainu** ), with a\n> yellow sash tied around his waist, somewhat reminiscent of Gol D. Roger's\n> outfit. He has grown slightly taller and is shown to be significantly more\n> muscular due to his training. This can be seen in his slightly thicker neck,\n> more pronounced deltoids, and better-defined chest.\n>\n> (Emphasis mine)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's in episode 223 when all except Luffy and Robin has no memory of becoming\npirates. Zoro gets hypnotised by a memory thief and attacks Luffy. In the\nfight, Zoro uses his Katana and make a X mark on Luffy's chest. That is how\nLuffy got his scar.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was well-known that the Red Dog's (Sakazuki/Akainu) Magma Fist hit the\nLuffy's chest several times. The most crucial piece of evidence is that in the\nFisherman's Island, Zoro and Luffy said that when the Red Dog was promoted to\nFleet Admiral, Luffy subconsciously grabbed his chest, and it is obvious that\nthe pain caused by the Red Dog is still very clear. So in summary, the scar on\nthe chest of Luffy should be left by the Red Dog. Luffy will definitely let\nhim pay back 100 times in the future, together with Ace's share.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI know that Gowther is one of Seven Deadly Sins, but in later manga, it is\nrevealed that he also one of Ten Commandments.\n\nSo, since when he is become one of them? Did he join Ten Commandments after or\nbefore he join in Seven Deadly Sins?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt has already been 3 thousand years with respect to the current events when\nthe 10 Commandments fought for their race and were defeated and sealed away.\nMeliodas himself being a demon was definitely involved and witnessed it all.\nHe has been alive all these thousands of years.\n\nThe Seven Deadly Sins were formed much more recently. The Seven Deadly Sins\nwere an independent group of knights serving the Kingdom of Liones. So it is\nobvious that they have been around for a while but only during the time of\nLiones.\n\nGowther was recently revealed to be a doll created by a great magician.\nMeliodas is a demon. King is a fairy. Diane is a Giant and Ban is an immortal.\nThose explain why they have such long life spans. But the true nature of\nEscanor and Merlin has not been revealed yet.\n\nStill, the Kingdom of Liones was probably founded much later after the 10\nCommandments were defeated. The back stories of some of the characters have\nbeen revealed before they joined The Seven Deadly Sins. Ban and Diane for\ninstance. They have been shown to be in their younger years living in pretty\nmuch the same timeline as the current one with no demons. So it is safe to\nassume that The Seven Deadly Sins were created fairly recently as compared the\nthousands of years.\n\nGowther is revealed to be \"Gowther the Selfless\" of the 10 Commandments. He\nlost his memories because of his selflessness. By the time he joined the Sins,\nhe had no memories of his past. That means he must have been a part of the 10\nCommandments before he had joined the Sins.\n\nIt is unclear though whether he was part of the 10 Commandments back when they\nwere defeated 3 thousand years ago or became a part of them afterwards like\nFraudrin. If Gowther was a part of the 10 commandments back then, then\nMeliodas probably knows about him and hasn't revealed the truth to anyone thus\nfar.\n\n**UPDATE:** Some of Gowther's past was revealed to King and Diane by Gloxinia,\nthe former fairy king and Dolor, the former giant king. Gowther himself was a\npart of the 10 commandments long before the war between the clans even\nstarted. However, he had been imprisoned by the Demon King. The Gowther we\nknow is just a doll created by the real Gowther, released into the real world\nto be his eyes and ears.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell in the last episode, he says, \"I am Gowther of the seven deadly sins,\nsparkle.\" Then right after that he says, \"I am Gowther of selflessness of the\nten commandments, sparkle.\" So yes, he is, I believe his commandment is if you\nare selfless, you lose your memory.\n\nThat was the last words in season 3, so it left us on a major cliffhanger.\n\nReally, Gowther is the name of a demon mage that was recognized about 500\nyears before the Holy War. He unwillingly became a part of the ten\ncommandments.\n\nBut currently, Gowther has been out of commission for a while now, so they\nsimply put Fraudrin in as a substitute for the real Gowther. Fraudrin has no\nreal commandment, and was seen in the anime with the doll Gowther, as the doll\nGowther tells Fraudrin that Melodis has betrayed the demon race.(And Fraudrin\nwas freaking out)\n\nThe Doll Gowther was created to be the eyes and ears for the mage Gowther as\nhe regained his power, but I have a feeling the doll Gowther has a mind of\nit's own.\n\nThere is no evidence on this next theory, but i believe that the whole reason\nGowther joined The Seven deadly Sins was to weaken their forces so the demon\nGowther could reach Meliodis quicker.\n\nSo the answer to your question is... He became one of the Ten Commandments\nwell before the Holy War(Demon Gowther). So the doll Gowther is only a vessel\nfor him to see what's happening, so the Doll Gowther joined the seven deadly\nsins, as the demon did not, So the Gowther that is a doll is more of a tool to\nthe Ten Commandments.(I really hope this helped you out. Bye now!)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter a failed attempt at recalling the name of a childhood acquaintance, Miho\nhelpfully guided Sakura to look at the blackboard where the teacher had the\nname of the transfer student written down. Sakura continued to feign\nremembering the guy, but then the scene panned down to reveal that Sakura kept\none hand off the table while Miho remarked about Sakura being a liar.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RtyT6.jpg)\n\nHow could Miho tell that Sakura was lying till the end? Was it the timid hand\ngesture or something she said?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am not aware of any Japanese body language rooted in having one hand on the\ntable and the other pointed down like that. In fact, Japanese gesture\ncommunication is generally conducted at chest-height or higher.\n\nMiho knew that Sakura was lying because she had just finished guiding Sakura\nto look at the blackboard, because she had been able to tell that Sakura\nobviously didn't remember his name, and clearly wasn't really paying attention\nwhen he was introduced to the class. Miho had just helped provide Sakura with\nhis name since she obviously didn't remember him, so of course she knew that\nSakura was lying when she pretended to still remember him.\n\nThe camera pan-down was more likely intended to center the view on Miho for\nher delivery of the 'liar' line than it was to display hand position or body\nlanguage. And the camera was lowered as far as it was to cut Sakura and the\ntransfer student's heads out of the frame to make it very clear where your\nfocus was supposed to be (on Miho).\n\nIf Sakura had actually remembered the transfer student, she wouldn't have\nneeded Miho to point his name out on the blackboard, and thus Miho wouldn't\nhave believed her to be lying when she claimed to remember him.\n\nSo, in short, Miho's \"liar\" line was delivered because she just helped Sakura\nwith the name of someone Sakura clearly didn't remember...then Sakura used\nthat help to pretend she had remembered him all along, pretending Miho hadn't\nactually helped.\n\nFor some people, this might be acceptable because they just helped a friend\nsave face...but it obviously annoyed Miho.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSome anime series use captions to translate signs, text messages, speech\nbubbles, and the like while others do not. I'm left guessing when some\ncharacters only communicate through these messages and nothing is translated.\nAre these extra translations done by specific studios or on a case by case\nbasis?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn some anime the additional text is there just to provide info. If context is\nprovided, the translation usually isn't necessary. However, anime or at least\ntheir source videos that are meant to be dubbed and shown outside of Japan,\nare sometimes supposed to be translated, because most viewers never know nor\ncare about the original language used in production (kids watching TV?).\n\nOtherwise it's just about speed. Some fast-subbing groups only provide the\nneeded dialogue, some groups take their time and translate everything to help\nthe viewer.\n\nSometimes scribbles and text on walls provide additional humorous inputs (e.g.\nSayonara Zetsubou Sensei) and some people like to thoroughly go through\nthem...\n\nOverall it's all about the target audience :)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto they usually translate everything but I think that it's because it\nis a very popular anime. In other small anime i've watched they did not\nbecause it's not that popular. So I think how popular the anime is has\nsomething to do with it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am curious to know why some leaf shinobi's vest colours are green and some\nare dark green. For example, Shikaku wears a dark green vest and Kakashi wears\ngreen. Are dark green vests considered elite shinobi? Wouldn't Kakashi be\nconsidered elite? Does it signify something about that particular shinobi?\n\nThanks\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI did a little bit of search about outfits in Naruto series, only 2 ninjas had\na dark green outfit.\n\n[Shikaku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shikaku) and\n[Asuma](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Asuma_Sarutobi). If you check both of\ntheir profiles in Naruto wikia, nothing is being said about the color.\n\nThis is a peace from Asuma description:\n\n> _His clothing consisted of the\n> standard[Konoha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Konohagakure) ninja uniform\n> with the sleeves rolled up half way, flak jacket, regular shinobi sandals\n> and forehead protector. He also wore a sash that had the kanji for \"Fire\"\n> (火) marked on it around his waist, a pair of black bangles, and bandages\n> wrapped around the arms of his sleeves._\n\nAlso [the flak jacket](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Flak_Jacket), for\n[Konohagakure](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Konohagakure) it's only one, there\nis no other jacket that the [Jōnins](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%8Dnin)\nwear.\n\nSo I asume it has to do mostly with Shikaku that he was the [Jōnin\nCommander](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%8Dnin_Commander), so we can\nunderstand the difference between him and the other\n[Jōnins](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%8Dnin).\n\nSo to summarize, it's just a speculation about all this. But there are no\nevidence about these colours. Maybe in a Naruto SBS there is an explanation,\nabout this, which I can't find.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's not overtly mentioned, but the difference in jonin vests color does\nactually mean something in the leaf village. Shinobi with Darker tone green\nvests are jonin platoon leaders (Not to be mixed with team leaders such as\nKakashi or Guy). Also, it's not just Asuma and Shikaku, it's around 10 other\nShinobi that appeared on screen like Raido and Aoba (3rd hokage bodygards),\nGenma (Chonin exam practor) , Shisui (Uchiha), Inoichi (Ino's father), Tsume\n(Kib's mother), Hiyashi (Hyuga), and others that I don't recall their names or\nthey were not significant enough to be mentioned by name.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSupreme Kai and Kibito fused using the Kai Earrings. Can now Kibito Kai use\nthe earrings again to fuse with another?\n\nI searched for this and found no creditable source.\n\nI know for a fact that the ear rings still work, since they were offered by\nKibito Kai to Goku and Vegeta before the battle against Kid Buu. However they\ndestroyed it. So could Kibito Kai use it to fuse again?\n\nEdit: Accepted answer has added a somewhat relevant frame. It doesn't make it\nexplicit but seems to indicate that fused individuals such as Elder kai,\nKibito Kai and Vegeto can no longer fuse again.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer is **YES** and **NO** , it all depends on which Akira Toriyama\nwants them to be.\n\n_Potara Fusion_ is not just a fusion, it somewhat merge two beings into one,\nsharing both memories. Unlike the _Fusion Dance_ , even though they have fused\ninto one being, but they still have both performers' conscious, that's why you\nhear 2 sounds overlapping when fused character is talking.\n\nI saw this example on the wiki, it says:\n\n> Have Goku and Vegeta fuse with Potara Earrings, then have Trunks and Goten\n> do the same. Then, have Vegito remove one of his earring and have Trunken do\n> the same, and they'll become Gogetenks. It's like how Supreme Kai and Kibito\n> fused by removing their Potara Earrings. I don't think they've ever said\n> what happens if a Potara fusion removes their earrings, so I assume it would\n> work this way. By that logic, everyone in the DBZ universe could fuse into\n> one ultimate being.\n\nDespite the possibilities of using Potara earrings over and over again to\ncreate an ultimate strongest warrior, I think you would probably **_never_**\nsee this multi-fused character ever in the DBZ universe, unless the writer is\na 12 years old kid.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Rou Kaioshin says that you can only fuse once. But the way it's worded it\ncould mean that the person you once was can't fuse with another because you\nwon't be yourself anymore. I.E. Goku can only fuse once because afterwards he\nwon't be Goku anymore.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bdKtr.png)\n\n> Rou Kaioshin: \"Also, you can use the Potara only once in your lifetime!\"\n>\n> Goku: \"Oh... Did you use it with someone else too...?\"\n\nChapter: 502 (DBZ 308), P1.4\n\n^Above is the VIZ big translation. I have added the raw panel as well just in\ncase you want the Japanese. I don't have a translation for it myself. Sorry.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't watched all of it yet, but it seems as if Nausicaä isn't wearing\nunderpants in the anime version. Either that, or she's wearing tight-fitting\nslacks that are of a colour close to skin tone. Is she wearing underpants?\n\nIf she isn't wearing underpants, what is the outside-universe reason for not\ndoing so? Within-universe, it seems to make sense: a lot of the clothing worn\nis very simple clothing, as if it were hand-made. However, while other Ghibli\nworks I've come across seem moderately relaxed with regards to clothing (you\ncan briefly see totally innocent underwear in Kiki's delivery service, and\nthere's a joking suggestion of nude portraiture) it seems a little surprising.\nIs a bias against prudishness a shared theme of Ghibli, along with a love of\nflying and a love of nature?\n\nThis [FAQ](http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/faq.html#bottom) (cited\nby\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_\\(Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind\\)#cite_ref-56))\ndenies that any scenes were cut because of nudity, and states that the\nimpression she doesn't wear underpants were because of poor quality videotape\nfansubs, saying that watching the DVD would clear it up - but I was watching\nthe DVD to start off with. It also has some cover art from a manga version\n(not the anime) with white-coloured slacks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe don't actually know if Nausicaa wears underwear, but no, I do not believe\nwe're staring at her naked bottom throughout the entire movie.\n\nIn the manga covers, you can see pretty clearly that she's wearing white pants\nunder her skirt:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n7yR2l.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGOw2l.jpg)\n\nNot only is the manga the original work that the movie was based on, it was\nwritten and drawn by Hayao Miyazaki himself. (It's right there on the\ncover—story and art by Hayao Miyazaki.\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_\\(manga\\))\nalso confirms.) I don't know why he would have changed that between the manga\nrelease and the anime.\n\nHowever, I won't deny that her pants in the anime are cream-colored and seem\nto be tighter fitting, which definitely makes it look like she's not wearing\nanything under her skirt:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IEfUQ.png)\n\nI have seen the DVD release and can also attest that this is the same in the\nDVD. According to [this review](http://from-the-\nsidelines.blogspot.com/2013/04/nausicaa-of-valley-of-wind-1984.html), it's\nactually the Blu-ray release that cleans up the colors:\n\n> Having never acquired the DVD release of Nausicaä due to it being a low\n> priority. The faded quality of the version I first saw years ago probably\n> had a lot to do with it. In 2011, Disney released the Blu-ray and last year\n> I decided to fill a gap in my collection. That turned out to be a great\n> decision.\n>\n> Disney’s first Studio Ghibli Blu-ray release includes the movie on DVD and\n> is of the digitally restored version. Suffice it to say this is the best the\n> movie has ever looked in the States. The movie is presented in anamorphic\n> widescreen in 1.85:1 ratio for both discs while the Blu-ray is in 1080p High\n> Definition.\n>\n> It is absolutely gorgeous with the colors finally being faithful. This is\n> important due to prior releases making it look like Nausicaä wasn’t wearing\n> any pants or underwear! The color of her pants were too close to the skin\n> tone used and got lost in the mastering before this release.\n\n[Here](https://web.archive.org/web/20160314014605/http://www.asianblurayguide.com/capture/1707/nausicaa_of_the_valley_of_the_wind_anime_japan/)\nis a gallery of images from the Blu-ray release. We can see that, while the\npants are still not as white as in the manga, they are definitely a different\nshade from her face:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sKOfr.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\nI wouldn't say that Ghibli films have \"a bias against prudishness\". They'll\nshow underwear or a bath scene if it makes sense to show it, but by anime\nstandards, they're quite sparing with nudity and sexual themes. Miyazaki\nhimself is usually considered a feminist;\n[here](https://bitchmedia.org/post/feminism-miyazaki-and-spirited-away-movie-\nprincess-mononoke) is one of many articles I found praising the feminist\nthemes in his work. Even without all the other evidence, it just doesn't feel\nin character for Miyazaki to draw a heroine with no pants and no underwear\nrunning around exposing her naked rear end through an entire movie. So even if\nall we had was the DVD release and didn't have the Blu-ray or manga to suggest\nit to us, my vote would still go to \"no, she's wearing pants\".\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI watched it for the first time a few days ago and it never occurred to me\nthat she wouldn't be wearing anything. It's rather clear that she's wearing\neither pants or leggings. As Torisuda says above, the colors just don't match,\nespecially during night scenes, and there are obvious places where the fabric\nbunches up and shows creases.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xDBQz.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1EpMA.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4cXpb.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe's wearing something.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VNJpJ.jpg)\n\nBut you just know that the animators had some fun with it.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mFfTu.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G3xh5.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to know why he is able to do pretty much anything. He seems to be\nalmost unkillable, except when Gon surprises him. I am only on episode 4, so\ntry not to spoil anything please :)\n\n",
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"title": "How is it that applicant 44 is able to turn into smoke and do magic if he is just another contestant?",
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"body": "\n\nYou're right to think he is NOT just another participant. He is already at\nhunter level which co-incidently includes several other participants in this\nexam as well (Good luck figuring them out!). As Happy Face said, you'd need to\nsee more to understand the actual mechanics between the \"magic\" Hisoka(the\nParticipant 44) uses.\n\nTo give you a bit more info without spoiling anything. I'll block quote the\nwiki intro about Hisoka on HxH wiki.\n\n> Hisoka is portrayed as entirely self-serving, self-absorbed, and selfish; he\n> does whatever he likes as long as it pleases him in some way. His insatiable\n> love for spilling the blood of powerful fighters in combat and his enjoyment\n> of extreme pain while doing so fuels his seemingly sadomasochistic desires.\n> In order for them to grow to their full potential (so as to improve the\n> pleasure of killing them later), Hisoka allows the main protagonists to live\n> in situations wherein he is easily able to kill them. Likewise, he grows\n> excited to meet any new people he deems worthy of fighting or anyone with\n> potential to be a good fighter and entertain him in the future.\n\nLong story short he is an anti-hero, who is completely self-centered and a\nSociopath. He is one of the best characters in HxH viz. saying something as\nHxH has great character development!\n\nEdit: Just saw your username \"DeadPool\" and Hisoka fits the role of Deadpool\nin HxH universe.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm wonna know when will be the release date of the season 3 of Haikyuu. It\nsays that its in this fall or in the later part of this year. But if someone\nknow the date can you share it with me?\n\n",
"comment_count": 0,
"content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
"creation_date": "2016-05-26T03:01:12.487",
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"haikyuu"
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"title": "When is Haikyuu season 3 release date?",
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"body": "\n\nHaikyuu should be released as a fall anime. There is still enough content left\nfor the 3rd season. Both manga and anime have been well received. [Haikyuu\nSeason 3 in fall](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-16/haikyu-\nvolleyball-tv-anime-gets-season-3-in-fall/.99844). Not sure if this can be\ntaken as an official confirmation though.\n\nThough content for 4th season might not be enough so they might decide to take\nsome time off and release OVAs.\n\nManga Volumes for Haikyuu. 1-17 Covered by first two seasons and only 3\nVolumes left. **Manga spoilers and Season 3 speculation below**\n\n> First half of season 3 can be covered with Final match against Ushijima\n> easily. It can be stretched with character development of both teams. \n> Nekomas road to National is recently concluded manga arc an can fill the\n> second part of the season.. Or vice versa since the second last episode\n> usually has the epic finale moment. \n> What I suspect is both Nekoma and Karasuno will be playing simultaneously\n> and reach the finals together. It'll give more depth to season instead of\n> the linear storyline\n\n",
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