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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nI am planning on making a website for streaming anime (legally). I would like\nto know how can I obtain the license to host and stream anime?\n\nI would like to know from where I can get the license, who should I approach\nand what all things should I consider when getting a license.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-02T05:50:47.467", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41140", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-25T03:37:10.427", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-02T06:57:38.417", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33386", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "licensing", "streaming-sites" ], "title": "How to get a license to stream anime on my website?", "view_count": 2443 }
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41278", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super episode 76 Krilin had an aura ki we never seen before, it\nwas drawed surrounding very closely his body:\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BQN2n.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BQN2n.jpg)\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sP4iS.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sP4iS.jpg)\n\nNow in the preview of Dragon Ball Super episode 98 we see Goku has the same\naura:\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1sVKf.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1sVKf.jpg)\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vx7eF.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vx7eF.jpg)\n\nWhat does this borderline ki first Krilin and now Goku get mean? It's the only\n2 times we've seen this kind of aura in the entire Dragon Ball universe.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-02T13:46:36.373", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41147", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-09T16:16:13.930", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-02T18:12:19.880", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "What does this borderline ki first Krilin and now Goku get mean?", "view_count": 264 }
[ { "body": "\n\nWe got an answer to this question in the last episode(98). Basically its just\na barrier that is used to protect them against posion, so it cannot make\ncontact with their skin. From this we can conclude that it had nothing to do\nwith the aura Krilin has showed us in a previous episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T09:42:02.483", "id": "41278", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-09T16:16:13.930", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-09T16:16:13.930", "last_editor_user_id": "27678", "owner_user_id": "27678", "parent_id": "41147", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41154", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn FMA 2009/Manga, Edward is able to exchange his Gate of Truth for Alphonse's\nbody.\n\nHowever, I find this pretty dumb. The Gate symbolizes the knowledge of\nalchemy. Father's Gate is small and has no ornaments like Ed's which indicates\nthat Father doesn't know anything as stated in the series. But alchemy is a\nscience in this universe. They learn it from reading books. Why is Edward\nunable to use alchemy but able to read it? I can imagine that Ed is not able\nto use alchemy by clapping his hands anymore but by drawing circles and\nalchemy formulas.\n\nAnother question: Edward's toll (his leg) to see Truth is less than Alphonse's\n(who lost his whole body) and it is also stated that Al probably saw more of\nTruth than Edward.\n\nSo Alphonse's Gate is worth more than Edward's Gate. Couldn't Alphonse easily\nexchange his own Gate? He probably would still use alchemy since his knowledge\nis worth more than Edward's.\n\nEdit: Just thinking about it, you don't have to sacrifice anything at all when\nusing human transmutation. All you need to do is sacrifice your Gate and you\nwon't lose that much of your body.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-02T17:56:14.397", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41152", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-03T00:56:53.493", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-03T00:56:53.493", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "33393", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series", "fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood", "fullmetal-alchemist-manga" ], "title": "Why is Ed able to exchange his knowledge?", "view_count": 9460 }
[ { "body": "\n\n# What does it mean that Ed exchanged his Gate?\n\nIn the context of Ed's final transmutation (in which he exchanges his Gate for\nAlphonse), the Gate represents his _ability_ to do alchemy, rather than his\nknowledge of alchemy. In chapter 108, Truth tells Edward:\n\n> The Gate of Truth exists within everyone. That is how everyone can use\n> alchemy.\n\nNotice that the emphasis is probably on the _potential_ to do alchemy. (Not\neveryone has the talent or knowledge to do alchemy in the universe of\n_Fullmetal Alchemist_!) Although what is _beyond_ the Gate is alchemical\nknowledge, per the discussion surrounding Ed and Al's human transmutation\nattempt, that is not what is involved here. (One way to think of it may be to\nregard the Gate as necessary in alchemy because alchemical knowledge must be\n\"let out\" when there is a transmutation, but I digress.)\n\nThus, even after his final transmutation, Ed is able to learn about alchemy;\nhe simply cannot put it into practice. (In fact, at the end of the manga, the\nbrothers travel to learn more about alchemy.)\n\n# Could Alphonse have exchanged his Gate instead?\n\nIn general, one cannot trade one's Gate for something else. (See the\ndiscussion at [Why can't Roy Mustang bring his eyes back using his\ngate?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/16671/2604) for details.) However, it\nseems possible in theory that Al might have been able to exchange his Gate for\nsomething after the connection between his and Ed's was discovered. Some\npossibilities as to why Al did not carry out such a transmutation:\n\n * Transmuting one's Gate for what was lost in one's human transmutation attempt is not necessarily an obvious line of thought. The idea may not have occurred to Ed or Al before Promised Day. Note that Ed only comes up with the idea after Al has sacrificed himself, not earlier, not even when Alphonse was starting to have problems with his body of armor.\n\n * Alphonse wanted to recover Ed's limbs; sacrificing his ability to do alchemy for his body would have prevented him from achieving that goal. Alternatively, had Alphonse exchanged his alchemical ability (i.e. his Gate) for Ed's limbs, it might have become impossible for his body to be recovered. Al's body sits at his own Gate, so if the Gate were removed, it might have become inaccessible.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-02T22:43:21.820", "id": "41154", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-02T22:43:21.820", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "41152", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41175", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhen he was defeated by Hashirama, he put a one-day time lapsed Izanagi on\nhimself. When Kaguya is defeated and Madara is spat out by her unstable\ntransformation, we see him supposedly die in front of everybody. I don't think\nit was ever shown what happened to his body, and nobody ever took his\nSharingan.\n\nIs it possible he could have put another Izanagi on himself and be still\nalive, or put a very long-lasting time lapse on himself (70 years for\ninstance), so when he is brought back Naruto and Sasuke will be gone ?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-03T04:24:55.143", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41156", "last_activity_date": "2021-10-07T14:43:18.660", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-03T17:14:04.330", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "33147", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Is it possible that Madara could have used the Izanagi after his \"death\"?", "view_count": 2703 }
[ { "body": "\n\nFirst thing is that Izanagi should be active before the scene occurred and it\nonly lasts for a while, so any surprise attacks or ambush attacks will\ndefinitely work on them.\n\nSecond thing is that he doesn't have Sharingan while dying he has Rinnegan\nremember, so after he separated from Kaguya he has normal eyes I guess.\n\nAnd third thing is that it went all according to plan except for Kaguya, so he\nwas not prepared for this and took him by surprise.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-03T12:47:06.300", "id": "41158", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-03T14:09:04.130", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-03T14:09:04.130", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33406", "parent_id": "41156", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough we don't know what happened to his body, we are almost sure that his\ndeath this time was in absolute certainty.\n\nFirst, only a Sharingan can cast the Izanami (taken from the [Naruto\nwikia](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Izanagi?oldid=1224403)):\n\n> Izanagi can be used only by those with the genetic traits of the Sage of Six\n> Paths. The Uchiha, descended from the Sage, are able to perform Izanagi with\n> their Sharingan. Even with such an eye acting as a medium, gaining the power\n> to temporarily control reality's flow as the user sees fit comes at a price;\n> one has very limited reserves of time within a single eye for invoking this\n> technique. This technique would normally be used for only the most dire of\n> situations and for but a brief moment as after the Sharingan with which\n> Izanagi was casted exceeds its limit, the said eye becomes powerless and is\n> rendered blind permanently, with the rare exception that its sight and power\n> can be restored to the said eye by further evolving it into a Rinnegan.\n\nMadara could switch between both the Sharingan and the Rinnegan effortlessly.\nBut there is one thing we know for certain and that is when a Tailed Beast\nextraction occurs the _jinchuuriki_ faces certain death. When we saw that\nKaguya had burst out from Madara we saw something similar happen, and the\nbeast was extracted from him into Kaguya and wasn't spit out until later when\nKaguya was about to be defeated. Madara was ultimately out of chakra and he\ncouldn't even switch between the eyes at the end as we could see. If he didn't\nhave the Tailed Beasts extracted maybe he could have.\n\nThere is another argument I have: after Madara became the Sage of Six Paths, I\nthink Madara could no longer access the _dojutsu_ powers of his Sharingan. But\nthis is only mere speculation.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T06:43:45.260", "id": "41175", "last_activity_date": "2021-10-07T14:43:18.660", "last_edit_date": "2021-10-07T14:43:18.660", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "22960", "parent_id": "41156", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn episode 5 of Kaiji, Kaiji plays scissors against Kitami.\n\nLater in the same episode, we find out he has 2 scissors and 4 papers other\nthan 30 rocks. Where did he get these?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-03T09:31:04.443", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41157", "last_activity_date": "2022-04-11T22:04:15.447", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-03T11:36:52.710", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "33400", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "kaiji" ], "title": "From where did he get 2 scissors and 4 papers?", "view_count": 838 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAfter being tasked with collecting as many rocks as possible, and then\nsplitting up, the group mentality was that while collecting scissors and paper\nwas not the goal, there was nothing wrong with it. I can't remember whether or\nnot Alix's answer is specifically how it happened but it may very well have\nbeen. I can however remember that it was insinuated that they were collected\nafter they split during one (or multiple) trades in their mission to collect\nrock cards. There did not need to be a specific time or reason they got those\ncards as the writers covered their bases in the montage of trading/collecting\ncards.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-03T01:41:09.723", "id": "43127", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-03T01:41:09.723", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36431", "parent_id": "41157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41165", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAfter watching the anime, I just wanted to read the novels for a better\nunderstanding of characters and of course, it had to be in Japanese language\nsince I am learning it.\n\nI tried searching for it, but couldn't find. Instead, I found those in\ntranslated version.\n\nCan anyone please tell me where I can find it?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-03T13:26:28.900", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41160", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-03T17:12:07.607", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-03T17:12:07.607", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "33408", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "merchandise", "durarara" ], "title": "Where can I find Durarara!! Vol 1 novel in Japanese language?", "view_count": 358 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIf you want to purchase the Japanese version of a light novel volume, manga\nvolume, or anime disc that was released relatively recently, Amazon Japan is\nalmost sure to have what you're looking for.\n\nSince you know at least some Japanese, you can just search the site for it.\nUnless you want to use a proxy-shipping service, you will want to find\nproducts that ship internationally, which you can do by filtering your search\ndown to \"AmazonGlobal対象\" products. Upon doing so, you will find that a print\nversion is available\n[here](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9-%E9%9B%BB%E6%92%83%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E3%81%AA-9-7-%E6%88%90%E7%94%B0%E8%89%AF%E6%82%9F/dp/404866848X/),\nand also that a Kindle version is available\n[here](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9-%E9%9B%BB%E6%92%83%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E6%88%90%E7%94%B0-%E8%89%AF%E6%82%9F-ebook/dp/B00O4QK3IU),\nwhich may be cheaper overall. (But note that I've had issues with Kindle\npurchases from Amazon Japan - the various country-specific versions of Amazon\ndon't share information about your Kindle purchases with each other, which\nseems to cause problems with some Kindle devices/apps.)\n\nDepending on what country you live in, there may be other options that are\ncheaper, more convenient, or both. For example, if you reside in the US,\nKinokuniya USA will ship basically any anime-related thing to you (more\nconvenient), but charges a fairly hefty markup for it (not cheaper).\n\n_Durarara!!_ and most other light novels are generally unlikely to be found\nfor free from any legitimate vendor, though occasionally the publishers will\nupload the first chapter or two online for free as a sampler.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-03T17:11:55.480", "id": "41165", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-03T17:11:55.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "41160", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41176", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWe know Aizen is trying to make keys and combining Hogyoku, assembling Hollow\narmies, etc. The question is why? What's the motive behind it? Is it cliche\nlike \"GREEED FOR POWAAA!!\" or are there other plans of what he is about to do\nas a Soul King? Perhaps rule change? What is he really fighting for?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T00:25:53.347", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41169", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-16T04:11:25.133", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-04T07:57:15.703", "last_editor_user_id": "22203", "owner_user_id": "23139", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "Why did Aizen want to defeat the Soul King?", "view_count": 8476 }
[ { "body": "\n\nFor the most part: we don't know. It's a plot point that was never really\nresolved by the time the manga concluded. All we have is the following angry\nexhortation from Aizen after being defeated by Ichigo and Urahara, admonishing\nUrahara for simply accepting the status quo and \"that thing\" as the Soul King.\n\n[![aizen\nyelling](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P525N.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/P525N.jpg)\n[![more\nyelling](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lOy3o.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lOy3o.jpg)\n\nWithout that we might have been left to conclude Aizen's real plan was to\nexplore the depths of power and find a challenge, and the Soul King was just a\npoint on the path. But it seems he didn't like the idea of being controlled,\nand he wanted to change the world. But beyond his perception of control, we're\nnever really given a reason why he wants to do this or what he intends to\naccomplish.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T07:39:10.733", "id": "41176", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T07:39:10.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "41169", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI'm looking for an Appleseed movie that I can't find.\n\nIt's the one where japan is hidden from all satelites and the team must go\nthere. Upon arriving its a wasteland. Giant Dune-esgue worms made of junk have\njust destroyed everything. Some kind of backstory about the japanese\ngovernment attempting to bioengineer its citizens by making them cyborgs at\nthe cellular level.\n\nCan anybody help me out?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T06:12:00.460", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41174", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T09:38:40.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33419", "post_type": "question", "score": -1, "tags": [ "appleseed" ], "title": "Missing Applessed movie", "view_count": 68 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI think you're looking for **Vexille : 2007 Nihon Sakoku** , rather than\nAppleseed. The plot all seems to match : [Vexille -\nMyAnimeList](https://myanimelist.net/anime/2746/Vexille__2077_Nihon_Sakoku)\n\n[![Vexile](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9WuK8.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9WuK8.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T08:23:02.593", "id": "41178", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T09:38:40.067", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-04T09:38:40.067", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "33421", "parent_id": "41174", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41181", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nLelouch, once Charles had been defeated, use his Geass to take the Britannian\ncrown and throne from others contenders. Then, he reforms their \"constitution\"\nand changes a lot of things in the empire. Then, after his coup d'état, he\nstarts to conquers the world and finally reaches his goal at the beginning of\nthe last episode. Now comes my two-in-one question :\n\n**For how much time did he ruled peacefully Britannia and for how much time\ndid he kept the power after his victory over the world ?** I'm asking for\napproximations (year?months?weeks?) more than actual time span.\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAAK1.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAAK1.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T12:22:27.640", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41179", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T13:42:45.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32156", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "code-geass" ], "title": "For how long has Lelouch been the Emperor of Britannia before and after \"turning evil\"?", "view_count": 2712 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAs per Wikia, Lelouch ruled for 2 months from July 2018 atb to September 2018\natb before being \"assassinated by Zero\".\n\n> **July 2018 a.t.b.** \n> \\- One month after the Second Battle of Tokyo, Lelouch vi Britannia\n> coronates himself as the 99th Emperor of the Holy Britannian Empire and\n> appoints the title of \"Knight of Zero\" to Suzaku Kururugi (heretofore the\n> Knight of Seven). With his ascension come many changes in Britannian\n> policies, including the destruction of the Imperial Mausoleum and the\n> abolishment of privileges to nobles. This leads to many attempts of\n> rebellion (one of which is led by the Knight of One, Bismarck Waldstein),\n> each of them futile against the \"Emperor of Justice\". \n> **September 2018 a.t.b.** \n> \\- Two months after the battle, using U.F.N. as political tool for forcing\n> E.U. to radicate, Emperor Lelouch vi Britannia declares himself world\n> leader. During a supervision of executions of the Black Knights and U.F.N.\n> leaders, Zero reappears and assassinates Lelouch to complete the Zero\n> Requiem.\n\nSource - [Code Geass - Alternate World\nHistory](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/World_History)\n\nUnfortunately this page doesn't have any reference sources, but I've found\nfinished series's wikia are generally accurate. I'll update once I find the\ncanon sources.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T13:42:45.973", "id": "41181", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T13:42:45.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6368", "parent_id": "41179", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nMiku is a Vocaloid, and Vocaloid is a voice synthesis software program\ndeveloped by Yamaha. From what I've read, Vocaloid is not an anime nor manga;\nit's not a game like Kancolle; it's not a visual novel like Fate/SN; and Miku\nis not a mascot for a gaming company like Super Sonico or a Windows mascot\nlike OS-tan or an IE mascot like Inori Aizawa. There is a video game series,\nbut originally, she is a singing voice synthesizer software.\n\nMiku herself is a cute humanoid persona for Vocaloid (picture from [Vocaloid\nwebsite](https://ec.crypton.co.jp/pages/prod/vocaloid))\n\n[![Hatsune\nMiku](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vRk0z.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vRk0z.jpg)\n\nBut the Vocaloid interface itself looks like this (picture from Wikipedia)\n\n[![Vocaloid4](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ygoKG.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ygoKG.png)\n\nIt doesn't look like a software that just anyone would use.\n\nAside from her really nice character design, what made Miku become so popular?\nShe is all over the internet and has a lot of fanarts, figures, and cosplayer\npictures everywhere.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T12:51:38.933", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41180", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-31T03:03:25.997", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-04T19:22:27.730", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2869", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "vocaloid", "hatsune-miku" ], "title": "How did Miku become so popular?", "view_count": 2502 }
[ { "body": "\n\nHere is an excerpt from: <http://kotaku.com/5936200/why-hatsune-miku-is-the-\nworlds-most-popular-virtual-idol>\n\n> Hatsune Miku is more than a little big in Japan. She appears on billboards,\n> in TV commercials, and gives sold-out concerts to legions of fans the world\n> over. Of course, being a popular singer in and of itself isn't something\n> that out of the ordinary. However, what makes her unique is the rather large\n> obstacle she had to overcome in her path to fame—namely that Hatsune Miku\n> isn't even a real person; she's a computer program.\n\nThe main fact that she is a program that anyone can use to make their own\nmusic despite perhaps not having an optimal singing voice opened up new paths\nfor many music artists. This led to many popular Vocaloid songs done by Miku\nsuch as MELT or World is Mine.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-28T00:39:48.317", "id": "41602", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-31T03:03:25.997", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-31T03:03:25.997", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "26235", "parent_id": "41180", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nOn one hand, she was literally **_made_** to appeal to her audience raised on\nanime and sugar-coated J-pop. Her look, manners and expressions where\nscientifically designed to be loved. That's more than just being \"cute\". It is\npossible to custom or cosplay her and as she is virtual, it is even possible\nto basically have a little Hatsune Miku in your house. That means a lot for\nfans.\n\nOn the other hand, Vocaloid opens up a whole new dimension of music lovers.\nGenerally, music are hidden behind big cooperate names with lots of people\nbehind every song. Vocaloid, on the other hand, is generally created by 1-5\npersons and is uploaded straight to the internet or is sold at local markets\nin Japan, which means it's way easier for the fans to \"connect\" with the\nproducers and other fans.\n\nTo go further :\n\n * <http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2017/03/crowd-sourced-pop-singer-hatsune-miku-reveals-true-nature-stardom>\n * <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagerou_Project>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-30T08:11:22.803", "id": "42071", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-30T08:11:22.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32156", "parent_id": "41180", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nDid it ever happen before when self-published mangas become adapted into an\nanime without having mangas published by companies?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T13:59:47.010", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41182", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-06T01:23:05.763", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-06T01:23:05.763", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "32925", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "anime-production", "anime-history", "manga-production", "manga-history" ], "title": "Rather then a company published manga, can a self-published manga become an adapted anime?", "view_count": 1017 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThere are a few anime adaptations of doujins and Artist CGs, like Z-Ton's \"A\nBeautiful Greed\" and Maron Maron's \"Yareruko! Densha Ecchi\", both of these are\nNSFW. Also that short anime \"Getsuyoubi no Tawawa\" was based on illustrations\nHimura Kiseki posted on pixiv that later got released as compilations on\nComiket, so this is a doujin as well. Those are the only ones that come to\nmind at the moment but I'm pretty sure there should be a few more. It doesn't\nhappen that often though, it's more of an exception to the norm.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T16:50:32.913", "id": "41187", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T16:50:32.913", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33307", "parent_id": "41182", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn season 1 episode 3, Midoriya is said to be placed last when compared to all\nother 20 candidates. Although I agree with him losing to most, I fail to\nidentify how he could lose to a few of the candidates like Hagakure (the\ninvisible girl).\n\nI mean, which activity could she have done better than Midoriya considering\nthat Midoriya had even trained for 10 months and that her quirk doesn't give\nher any apparent advantage in this test?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T14:36:58.327", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41185", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-07T11:34:09.103", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-05T10:10:34.663", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "32863", "post_type": "question", "score": 16, "tags": [ "my-hero-academia" ], "title": "Why did Midoriya come last in the quirk assessment test when there were others worse than him?", "view_count": 3351 }
[ { "body": "\n\n# We don't know for sure.\n\nAs far as I'm aware, this is never explicitly addressed later on in the\nseries.\n\nHowever, I think we can hazard a guess based on a few other factors seen\nduring the quirk assessment test.\n\nWhile Midoriya may have performed as well or even better than students like\nHagakure that gain no real physical advantage from their quirk, we have to\nremember that **Midoriya's quirk injured him severely** during the ball throw.\nWhile it was not as bad as Aizawa may have expected (just his finger versus\nhis whole arm) **it's entirely possible that Aizawa deducted points due to\nthis injury.** This is a quirk assessment test, after all, and breaking a\nfinger after merely throwing a ball is a severe disadvantage to a quirk no\nmatter how you look at it.\n\nHagakure, meanwhile, may not have had any real major advantages like Midoriya,\nbut her quirk had no disadvantages either. I would assume she's also fairly\nstrong herself, as mentioned in the comments to your question, so it's not\nunreasonable to think she had a similar (or even better) performance when\ncompared to Midoriya in the contests that neither had any advantage in.\n\nThis would apply to the other students with quirks that do not enhance their\nphysical strength as well, like Koda, Shoji, or Jiro, among others.\n\nConsidering that Aizawa was going to expel Midoriya before he thought to use\nonly his finger, I'd say Midorya actually did quite well to be placed last\ninstead.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-29T20:50:12.320", "id": "48602", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-30T14:24:30.067", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-30T14:24:30.067", "last_editor_user_id": "41474", "owner_user_id": "41474", "parent_id": "41185", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nMy point here is, if Midoriya hasn't broken his finger _on purpose_ , he would\nhave beaten Hagakure without needing his quirk. Therefore, he never needed to\nbreak his finger in the first place, because he was clearly in a better\nphysical condition than she was.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-01-07T11:27:54.937", "id": "66181", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-07T11:34:09.103", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-07T11:34:09.103", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "64941", "parent_id": "41185", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhat if Eren went and ate every other person with the titan powers? Could Eren\npotentially become the complete titan, and be able to bypass the 13 year rule?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T21:07:59.063", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41191", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-06T10:12:09.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33434", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "attack-on-titan" ], "title": "What would happen if Eren ate all of the other titans?", "view_count": 52827 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAs all the titans were originally a single being, so eating all the titans\nshould give Eren the power of the complete titan.\n\nYmir Fritz died 13 years after gaining the titan power, and her \"soul\" was\nsplit into nine successors, so if those fragments of her soul come together\nagain, then we may see a power struggle between Ymir and Eren.\n\nThe 145th Fritz King still has some influence and somewhat controls those who\ninherit the power of the Founding Titan, so a similar power struggle may be\nthere between Ymir and Eren, if Eren consumes all the titans. And if Eren\nmanages to defeat Ymir then he should be able to bypass the rule, as I think\nthat Ymir still has some control/influence on the titans which causes the \"13\nyear curse\".\n\nAnd I highly doubt that Eren will eat Armin, so I think Eren will not gain the\noriginal titan power.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T08:42:36.250", "id": "41205", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-17T16:01:54.047", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-17T16:01:54.047", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "33332", "parent_id": "41191", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is called the curse of Ymir. In Chapter 88, pages 22-23, we discover\nthrough Eren's memories that\n\n> The very first and original titan, Ymir Fritz, had the power of all nine\n> titans. Even though Ymir was in possession of all nine titan powers, she\n> died 13 years after receiving this power. This death, and the consequent\n> split into the nine separate titans, then imposed the 13-year rule wherein a\n> titan-shifter could not physically withstand the shifting after 13 years. We\n> see that as a titan-shifter gets closer to that 13-year limit, as in the\n> case with the OWL in Chapter 88, they grow increasingly less capable of\n> shifting as the process continually weakens their body. From here, it's up\n> to interpretation of the page below. [![enter image description\n> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t0DDB.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t0DDB.png)\n\nThe first interpretation is that\n\n> Ymir's body could not withstand the power of titan shifting and died at or\n> upon the thirteenth year. When she died, however, her powers were passed\n> down to 9 other Eldians. This suggests that she may not have known about the\n> limit, or did not choose to select a successor, and allowed her death to\n> distribute her power among the Eldians.\n\nThe second interpretation could be that\n\n> Ymir died for a reason not yet revealed, and not because she couldn't\n> withstand the power of all nine titans. If this is so, then she must have\n> chosen to divide her power into nine titans for a reason that hasn't yet\n> been revealed. Perhaps this was to limit the power any one titan-shifter\n> could hold, a sort of checks-and-balances system if you will.\n\nIf we go by the first interpretation then likely\n\n> it would not be possible for anyone, regardless of how many titan-shifting\n> powers they obtained, to break the 13-year rule if the rule was imposed on\n> the very first titan.\n\nIf we go by the second interpretation then\n\n> it's likely there exists a way for Eren to break the 13-year rule at the\n> expense of obtaining, through the process of consumption, all nine titan\n> powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T18:47:31.937", "id": "41217", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T18:47:31.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32833", "parent_id": "41191", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe basic premise of _Kenka Banchou Otome_ (the anime, anyway) is that\nOnigashima Hikaru (a boy) and Nakayama Hinako (a girl) swap places, resulting\nin Hinako attending Shishiku Academy (a boy's school) while disguied as\nHikaru.\n\nMost of the main cast has never actually met the real Onigashima Hikaru prior\nto the swap, and both Hikaru and Hinako are sort of androgynous, so the\ndeception works.\n\nBut Hikaru's elder brother Houou also attends Shishiku Academy, and encounters\nHinako (in the guise of Hikaru) multiple times, starting in episode 9. For\nsome reason, the disguise fools Houou as well - he shows no signs of being\naware that the person he's speaking with is not actually his brother Hikaru.\n\nIs there a reason that Houou is also fooled by Hinako's disguise (other than\n\"the plot demands it\")? We can infer, based on their conversation in episode\n9, that Houou and the real Hikaru have met before (they weren't raised\nseparately or whatnot), so this is rather odd.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T23:50:24.943", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41194", "last_activity_date": "2022-08-19T09:00:20.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "kenka-banchou-otome" ], "title": "Why can't Houou tell that Hinako isn't actually his brother?", "view_count": 936 }
[ { "body": "\n\nSince every episode of the anime is very short, a lot of details are left out.\nIn the game it is mentioned by others and Houou himself that although they are\nbrothers, they don't live together and didn't see each other much.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-12T17:58:59.923", "id": "43300", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-12T17:58:59.923", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36587", "parent_id": "41194", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41200", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe anime is missing severals arcs, like Noah's or one about Witches. Is there\na reason behind those differences or is it just that the manga wasn't over yet\n?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T07:31:14.090", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41199", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T07:52:42.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32156", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "soul-eater" ], "title": "Why was the Soul Eater anime different than the manga?", "view_count": 942 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThis is simply because the anime had caught up with the manga and the\nproducers wanted to continue rather than wait for the rest of the story.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T07:52:42.357", "id": "41200", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T07:52:42.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32938", "parent_id": "41199", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41206", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIt is known that Death the Kid is Lord Shinigami's son. However, how were both\nof them born ? And why does Lord Shinigami look like a Duskull while Kid and\nthe Kishin are both humanoïds ?\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hhy67.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hhy67.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T07:55:54.417", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41202", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-15T03:50:33.433", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32156", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "soul-eater" ], "title": "How are Shinigamis born?", "view_count": 621 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIn chapter 47 of the manga, it is mentioned that\n\n[code]\n\n A Shinigami is capable of reproduction, such beings possessing groins.\n \n[/code]\n\nHowever, Shinigami are also capable of asexual reproduction, as explained in\nvolume 9.\n\n> Shinigami can asexually reproduce by creating fragments of themselves and\n> create a being. These beings, rather then be a replicate of the parent, can\n> spawn off their own personality\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T08:42:55.487", "id": "41206", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-06T07:59:02.893", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-06T07:59:02.893", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "41202", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAlso, as for the humanoid part, it is implied by Death the Kid that his dad\nhas a face. He says early on in the series that he \"rarely takes off his\nmask.\" This is supported by the fact that Kid has his own Death mask and cloak\nthat he wears on the way to retrieve Eibon's magic tool from the eternally-\nrunning train in the desert. When he wears them he looks just like Lord Death\n\nIt can be assumed that upon becoming a fully-fledged Lord of Death, a person\nforegoes his human form for the black, shadowy form Lord Death takes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-15T03:50:33.433", "id": "43786", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-15T03:50:33.433", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37171", "parent_id": "41202", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nDo mangakas in Japan often make their manga using digital tools such as using\na computer, wacom tablet, clip paint studio, etc, over using traditional\nmethods such as using pencil, paper, inking pen, rulers, etc?\n\nWhat is the most used method to create a manga today in Japan?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T10:16:03.893", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41207", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-06T21:19:45.273", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-07T20:00:30.043", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "32925", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "manga-production" ], "title": "How many mangakas use digital or traditional tools to make their manga?", "view_count": 1274 }
[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I've seen, it is mainly the age of the mangaka that makes a\ndifference: older mangaka stick to the traditional pencil paper, many of them\nyoung ones work quite a bit with digital. The rough copy with a pencil and the\nfinal drawings will be digital.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T16:05:05.823", "id": "41250", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-07T16:05:05.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33084", "parent_id": "41207", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41210", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI first heard about tamate box, Otohime princess and the underwater palace in\nOne piece but episode 9 of Kaichou wa Maid Sama also contains very similar\nreferences such as the contents of the tamate box make you old, Otohime\nprincess etc. So I want to know if there exists a local tale or is it just KMS\nmaking a reference to One Piece.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T13:07:43.873", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41208", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T13:30:49.397", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-05T13:30:49.397", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "32863", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "one-piece", "culture", "maid-sama" ], "title": "Is there a local folktale regarding underwater palace and tamate box in Japan?", "view_count": 364 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThis is the story of [Urashima\nTaro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D). It's a famous old\nJapanese folktale from the Nara period about a man who saves the Emperor of\nthe Sea's daughter, Otohime. He is invited to live in the underwater palace\nwith them. He stays for three days but wants to go visit his mother. He is\ngiven a box by the princess before he leaves, and when he returns to the\nsurface he finds that it's 300 years later and everyone he knew is dead.\nDistraught, he absently opens the box and ages all 300 years at once, because\nthe box contained his old age.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T13:30:29.893", "id": "41210", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T13:30:29.893", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "41208", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41212", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nMidorima says \"-nanodayou\" a lot in the anime and the subs just put it as\n\"-nanodayou\" but what does it actually mean ? Does it have anything to do with\nOha-Asa ?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T14:15:45.253", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41211", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-10T07:54:24.133", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-05T15:36:23.513", "last_editor_user_id": "33054", "owner_user_id": "33054", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "japanese-language", "kuroko-no-basket" ], "title": "What does Midorima Shintarou's \"-nanodayou\" mean?", "view_count": 8155 }
[ { "body": "\n\nNanodayo (なのだよ) is about the English equivalent of \" 's-n-such \" So a sentence\nof \"Orenji o hirou nanodayo\" would translate to \"Pick up the oranges'-n-such\".\n\n\"N-stuff\" is also a good equivalent. Like \"I have to go to school-n-stuff.\"\n\nIt could also mean \"and so forth\" .\n\n[Source](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140111211545AAGqWZL&guccounter=1)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T15:33:28.343", "id": "41212", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-09T07:37:22.147", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-09T07:37:22.147", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "22960", "parent_id": "41211", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI find that [this\nsource](https://kurokonobasuke.fandom.com/wiki/Shintar%C5%8D_Midorima) gives a\nrelatively accurate description of the way Midorima uses the phrase:\n\"Nanodayo\" (...) adds a tone of 'an explanation about something that doesn't\nreally need explaining' to his words.\"\n\n'Nanoda' is a form of the verb \"to be\"(in this case simply 'da' / だ), used to\nindicate [assertion / a 'decisive'\ntone](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A0-589358), whereas yo\n/ よ gives a nuance of 'presenting new information' to someone or of 'trying to\nconvince' someone. In actual usage, the effect 'nanodayo' has is somewhat\nsimilar to saying \"This is fact.\", \"That is how it is.\" or \"It is so.\" after\nmaking a statement. However, since the expression incorporates a form of the\nverb 'to be', there is no way to actually translate it.\n\nI am unable to comment on other answers, but I want to correct the previous\none, so I'll add this here: The English \"n-such\" is an absolutely incorrect\ntranslation for 'nanodayo'. とか (\"toka\") or みたいな (\"mitai na\") or 的な (\"teki na\")\nor など (\"nado\") at the end of a word/sentence would all more-or-less correspond\nto \"n-such\" in Japanese in different contexts. However, 'nanodayo' does not\ncorrespond to this particular phrase in any context.\n\nHere, a native Japanese speaker answers the same question: [なのだよ とはどういう意味ですか?\n= \"What does なのだよ (nanodayo)\nmean?\"](https://hinative.com/ja/questions/385703). They say it's \"mainly\nsomething a CEO might say to their subordinates, and other than that it's not\nreally in common use\". Sound like \"n-such\"?\n\nAlso, the \"orenji wo hirou nanodayo\" example given in the [Yahoo\nanswer](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140111211545AAGqWZL&guccounter=1)\nand quoted in the previous answer here is bad grammar. More correctly, it\nwould be \"orenji wo hirou nodayo\" / オレンジを拾うのだよ, which simply means \"(I'm going\nto / lets / we must / you must / etc) pick up the oranges\". An anime character\nmight use \"nanodayo\" more freely for comedy or for a \"moe\" effect, but this is\nnot the case for Midorima (at least in canon situations).\n\nIn conclusion, なのだよ (\"nanodayo\") is simply an assertive way to say \"is\", \"am\",\n\"are\" or \"be\" (the equivalent for \"were\", \"was\" and \"been\" would be だったのだよ /\ndattanodayo). There is no English equivalent.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-08T21:35:40.807", "id": "52873", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-10T07:54:24.133", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-10T07:54:24.133", "last_editor_user_id": "43648", "owner_user_id": "43648", "parent_id": "41211", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn attack on Titan, what's the point of the shifter Titans becoming soldiers?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T17:16:00.727", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41214", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T19:31:53.737", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-05T18:37:32.677", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "33453", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "attack-on-titan" ], "title": "In attack on Titan, what's the point of the shifter Titans becoming soldiers?", "view_count": 545 }
[ { "body": "\n\nFor the most part, it's for stealth and infiltration - if Annie, Reiner and\nBertholt had walked into Shiganshina and asked to join the survey corp in\nTitan form, the first arc would probably have gone a lot differently!\n\nAs their main objective was to find and capture the 'coordinate', they had to\nmaintain a low profile and draw as little attention to themselves as possible.\nGathering information on the situation inside the walls was made much easier\nby remaining human.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T18:34:11.357", "id": "41216", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T18:34:11.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10654", "parent_id": "41214", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nPretty heavy spoilers below:\n\n> In 845, Marcel Galliard, Bertholdt Hoover, Reiner Braun, and Annie Leonheart\n> depart from the mainland and initiate Paradis Island Operation. The goal of\n> the mission was to infiltrate Wall Maria, Rose and Sina in an effort to\n> recover the Founding Titan. However, while they knew the individual in\n> possession of the Founding Titan was a member of the royal family, they were\n> unsure of the exact identity. Thus, this operation relied heavily on the\n> infiltration of the military ranks in order to gather intel and ascertain\n> the identity of the Founding Titan. For this reason, Annie, Reiner, and\n> Bertholdt each secured a position in the top ten recruits of their training\n> class, which allowed them to freely choose which division they would go to.\n> The original plan was to infiltrate the ranks of the Military Police where\n> it would be easier for them to determine which of the royal family members\n> was the Founding Titan, but the plan is then revised when Eren is discovered\n> to be the Attack Titan, and Reiner and Bertholdt join the Survey Corps (the\n> division Eren chooses) in order to gather more information on the titan-\n> shifter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T19:23:49.363", "id": "41218", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T19:31:53.737", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-05T19:31:53.737", "last_editor_user_id": "32833", "owner_user_id": "32833", "parent_id": "41214", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41255", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nSo it's been a couple of years since Naruto ended, and I don't think the\nauthor answered this question/mystery within the Narutoverse: Isn't a Bijuu\nsupposed to die after the host's death? How exactly did Minato have 50% left\nwithin him, and why did this chakra not return to Naruto?\n\nIf this was answered in some interview or solved, could you direct me to them?\nThis could be counted as plotholes or something that was left to reader's\ndiscretion by Kishimoto-sensei.\n\n", "comment_count": 14, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T17:53:45.523", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41215", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-17T15:58:41.527", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-06T17:49:46.053", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "22960", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What happened to Kurama?", "view_count": 4864 }
[ { "body": "\n\nDuring the Nine-Tails attack, Minato divided Kurama's chakra into two parts.\nReason is that Kurama has a huge amount of chakra that **couldn't be sealed\ninside baby Naruto**.\n\nSo Minato used the Reaper Death Seal to seal one half of the chakra inside him\nas there was nowhere else to seal Kurama, and not sealing the other half will\ncreate further problems (like more destruction to the village).\n\nNow in case of Reaper Death Seal, the soul is trapped inside the belly of the\ndeath god, so nothing can escape it. When Orochimaru released the trapped\nsouls, everyone came out. I think this is why Kabuto never reanimated any of\nthe hokages. And as Kurama was trapped inside Minato, so that chakra never\nescaped.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T15:27:39.453", "id": "41248", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-17T15:58:41.527", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-17T15:58:41.527", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "33332", "parent_id": "41215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen Minato used the Reaper Death (Dead Demon Consuming) Seal he essentially\nsplit Kurama into two parts:\n\n 1. Yang Kurama\n 2. Yin Kurama\n\nEach half [Kurama](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nine-Tails) have their own\nconscience, making them two separate entities.\n\n> Later, when Naruto and Minato bumped fists, Yin and Yang-Kurama came in\n> contact with each other, with Yang-Kurama greeting its other half casually\n> and asking it to share its chakra, which led Yin-Kurama to note that asking\n> itself for chakra was an odd situation\n\nThe reason for separating the charka was because an infant would not be able\nto withstand the power of Kurama if he had contained both sides of his chakra.\n\n> Since Kurama's chakra was too immense to be sealed within an infant like\n> Naruto, Minato first used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to separate and seal\n> its Yin half within himself and then prepared the Eight Trigrams Seal to\n> imprison the Yang half within Naruto\n\nFurthermore, Minato, knowing the consequence of performing the [Reaper Death\n(Dead Demon Consuming)\nSeal](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal), seals Yin\nKurama within himself.\n\n> When Minato uses it, he seals only the Nine-Tails' yin chakra, leaving its\n> yang chakra alone; this sealing of its yin chakra into himself makes him its\n> jinchūriki.\n\nThe consequence? Death.... kind of.\n\n> For a few moments afterwards the summoner can continue moving and speaking,\n> allowing them to finish any lingering business they may have. Shortly\n> afterwards the Shinigami will consume their soul and the soul of their\n> target(s), ending their life. The souls of those trapped within the\n> Shinigami's stomach cannot enter the Pure Land and are destined to fight\n> with their victims for all eternity\n\nWith Kurama being split into two separate entities, one half was trapped\nwithin Minato while the other half lived on and was sealed within Naruto.\nBecause the souls are trapped within the Shinigami's stomach, destined to\nfight each other, this also explains why Minato is able to use [Nine Tails\nChakra Mode](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nine-Tails_Chakra_Mode).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T16:18:39.153", "id": "41251", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-17T15:55:47.913", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-17T15:55:47.913", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "20275", "parent_id": "41215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe other answers are good, but they don't really point out the main reason\nwhy Yin Kurama did not reincarnate.\n\nThe [Reaper Death Seal, or Dead Demon Consuming\nSeal](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal) is a special\nkind of seal. It not only kills you, but your soul is sealed inside the\nReapers Stomach. By doing so, you are cut off from the Pure land.\n\nFrom the entry on [Bijuu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beast)\n\n> Because the tailed beasts are pure chakra, they cannot actually be killed;\n> if they or their jinchūriki die, their chakra will re-coalesce in time. In\n> addition, if a large portion of a tailed beast's chakra is separated from\n> it, that chakra becomes a separate, sentient copy of the tailed beast.\n\nThis is the 2 bits of most important information here. First, Kurama was split\nin half, and the Yin half was sealed in Minato. This half was then taken into\nthe Reapers Stomach, where it was sealed.\n\nNow, as noted, they can not die. So why didn't the Yin half revive? Simple,\nBecause they don't actually revive. As noted in the quote, their Chakra once\ndispersed due to death of some kind, will coalesce, giving them form again.\nHowever, the half sealed in Minato's soul was taken into the Reapers Stomach,\nand there it was sealed. There is no way for it to escape, and so it cant\nmerge back with Yang Kurama, nor can it coalesce into its own half. Bijuu can\nnot easily escape from their Jinchuriki, and the Reaper Death seal is like an\nincredibly powerful version of that.\n\nso Tl;DR, Bijuu don't die, ever. They just disperse and coalesce. However, Yin\nKurama was sealed into the Reapers Stomach, and not only could not escape, but\ndidn't even disperse in the first place.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T19:13:03.603", "id": "41255", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-07T19:13:03.603", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20610", "parent_id": "41215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn _Fairy Tail_ , they say that Dragon Slayers are really rare, but it seems\nlike there's more of them than most other kinds of magic. The closest amount\nof one kind of magic is maker magic; there are 5 people who are shown using it\n(Lyon, Gray, Ur, Ultear, and Rufus). It's kinda the same thing with Celestial\nWizards, they say there aren't many of them but there are 4 in the show (Lucy,\nAngel, Yukino, and Hisui. There's also Karen who died 3 years ago and I think\nthere's more in the anime during the Clock Arc, but I don't think that is in\nthe manga).\n\nI kind of get why the Celestial Wizards were likely to interact because they\nwere needed for stuff, but if there aren't many Dragon Slayers, wouldn't it\nmake more sense for them to run into more of any other kind of wizard than for\n7 Dragon Slayers to just happen to find each other? Other than when they run\ninto Leon, they never meet anyone with the same magic as anyone else in the\nguild except Celestial Wizards and Dragon Slayers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T20:06:55.863", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41219", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-29T11:17:39.327", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-18T11:16:28.727", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "30104", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "fairy-tail" ], "title": "How come there are so many Dragon Slayers?", "view_count": 1679 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThere being so many Dragon Slayers despite it being a Lost Magic is an element\ncentral to Fairy Tail's plot. Dragon Slayer Magic is extremely rare since the\nonly modern way to learn it is to embed Dragon Lacryma into the body as Laxus,\nCobra and God Serena did. Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, Rogue and Sting are completely\ndifferent cases as they were taught by dragons themselves more than 400 years\nin the past and were later send through time to year 777 as part of [The 400\nYear Plan](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/The_400_Year_Plan). Back in the\npast, Dragon Slaying magic was far more common.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-05T22:42:40.037", "id": "41220", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T22:42:40.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33307", "parent_id": "41219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFairy Tail has run into so many more people then dragon slayers and celestial\nwizards, but if you were to do a scene for every single one, that would take\neons.\n\nIf you were to write a story of someone right now, would you write down every\nsingle person they met? Of course not, you would write only the notable ones\nand the ones that got them on the path they are on.\n\nBeing that path they are on is to take down Acnologia and Zeref. The arcs that\nare written are the ones to that effect, discount filler ones of course.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-10-19T23:14:03.583", "id": "49279", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-20T04:42:51.803", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-20T04:42:51.803", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42964", "parent_id": "41219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason is because the plot is surrounding dragon slayers. OFC the story is\ngoing to introduce as many of the known ones as possible. You say why are\nthere so many, there arent, there are a handful, but since the story is\nfocused on dragon slayers, its only natural to feel like they are popping up\neverywhere.\n\nIts like if youre a doctor, at some hospital convention, lots of other people\nwill be there too, but ofc, youll be looking for other doctors. Ya know?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-29T11:17:39.327", "id": "54130", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-29T11:17:39.327", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48741", "parent_id": "41219", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe first time Lucy casts Urano Metria she used her own power to defeat Angel\nwith no problem. But the next time, when she uses it in The Grand Magic Games\nshe has to combine her power with Gemini to cast it and says it was still\nweaker than the first time and since this was after her second origin was\nunlocked she would have at least 3 time as much magic energy (her origin would\ndouble it and gemini would double that) So what makes her first casting so\nstrong.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-06T01:36:54.887", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41221", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-03T13:20:19.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30104", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "fairy-tail" ], "title": "Why does Urano Metria take double her magic the second time", "view_count": 1315 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe first time she casted Urano Metria, she received the spell from Hibiki of\nBlue Pegasus. He gave her one chance to cast the spell which she successfully\ndid but the spell wasn't her's. Hibiki's power is \"Archive\" : he is able to\ntransform a lot of things in datas that he can transfers to people. Thanks to\nthis power, **Hibiki has been able to give Lucy his knowledge about the spell\nand all his magic power** (he gave her so much of his power that he fainted\ninstantly right after).\n\nAfter casting it, she couldn't remember anything and she had to learn the\nspell all by herself. The trick she found to overcome the difficulty of the\nspell was to combine her magic power with Gemini's, like Naruto mastered\nRasengan thank to his clones.\n\nHope that helps\n\n> Sources :\n>\n> * Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 144, Pages 14-20\n> * Fairy Tail Manga: Chapter 385, Pages 14-17\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 11, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-06T07:55:08.733", "id": "41224", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-06T07:55:08.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32156", "parent_id": "41221", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nIts a South Korean animation TV series called ''Spheres'' and it is has strong\nsimilarities of Japanese animation techniques used in the series and art style\nthat looks similar to anime\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NTVeb.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NTVeb.jpg)\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2ATx6.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2ATx6.jpg)\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DiUBC.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DiUBC.jpg)\n\nShould we regard this as anime like Japan's due its animation styles and\ntechniques that Japanese use and despite being an animation of non Japanese\norigin?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-06T19:06:10.783", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41232", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-06T19:37:50.170", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-06T19:37:50.170", "last_editor_user_id": "32925", "owner_user_id": "32925", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "anime-production", "anime-history" ], "title": "Is this South Korean animation TV series regarded as anime due to its similar japanese animation style?", "view_count": 1325 }
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41395", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nPlease note, there are massive spoilers within this question so I've hidden\nthem. If you haven't read at least Chapter 83, and later in this question 94,\nthis question will spoil the events that occur in 83-94.\n\nIn Volume 21, Chapter 83, Pages 14-19 of the Attack on Titan manga\n\n> Zeke meets Eren for the first time, their conversation is cut short but as\n> he turns to leave, he addresses Eren and says the following: [![enter image\n> description\n> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aM17D.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aM17D.png)\n\nI have been trying to understand what Zeke means by this statement. So far,\nwhat I've gathered is that\n\n> Zeke and Eren share the same biological father but Zeke refers to their\n> father as strictly Eren's father. Zeke believes that \"Eren's father\"\n> brainwashed the two of them and Zeke made it clear that he understood what\n> Eren was currently going through.\n\nHowever, given that\n\n> anyone fighting in the Eldia vs Marley conflict seems to have a very biased\n> view of historical events,\n\nI can't tell the extent of the truth in Zeke's statements. Later in Chapter\n94, Zeke makes some statements about\n\n> the value of titans when human technology was about to, or already is,\n> surpassing them. And he expressed his concern for the survival of Eldians\n> should they no longer be useful to the world.\n\nSo, how is it that Zeke thinks he is going to someday save Eren if\n\n> Zeke is working for the one nation that seems most interested in getting rid\n> of the titans should they prove to have little or no military value?\n\nIs the statement Zeke makes to Eren in Chapter 83, page 19 referring to\nsomething less obvious than what is mentioned on pages 14-18?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-06T22:23:32.637", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41234", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-07T10:51:29.417", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32833", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "attack-on-titan" ], "title": "In Attack on Titan, why does Zeke tell Eren that someday he will save him?", "view_count": 14369 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a great question, and Isayama is a master of hinting.\n\nThe official answer is _we don't really know_ , but we can bring forth some\nconclusions based on what information we have so far.\n\n1) While it is true that Zeke\n\n> has been a loyal Marleyan soldier, is referred to as \"The Wonder Child\", and\n> has brought Marley many victories, it is shown in recent chapters that Zeke\n> does not fully trust the Marleyan government. He has not told them about his\n> Royal Blood (his mother, Dina Fritz), and even the Titan Scientific Society\n> cannot explain his Titan powers.\n\n2) In the last three chapters (93-95)\n\n> Zeke acknowledges the decline in Marley's need of Eldian Titan powers,\n> however he calmly and wisely suggests to return back to Paradis Island and\n> gain control of the Founding Titan. He even mentioned Colt about Zeke's\n> _secret_ , and planned a meeting with all Titan shifters without Marleyian\n> presence. This is showing us Zeke's urge of going back to the island and\n> complete his final wish.\n\n3) Currently (Chapter 95), Zeke has\n\n> one year left as a Titan Shifter. This is the time to finally reveal his\n> true intentions.\n\n4) Being a \"Wonder Child\", a great war strategist,\n\n> we can safely say that Zeke has noticed that Eldians are not treated well\n> within Marley.\n\nHaving mention all the above, we know that Zeke\n\n> is currently planning his return on Paradis Island. He is being very careful\n> about the arguments he uses with Marleyans, and he is also trying to get all\n> Titan Shifters with him to Paradis Island.\n\nAs you mentioned, both Zeke and Eren\n\n> have been brainwashed by Grisha, and turned into killing machines, and this\n> is the reason why Zeke feels he is the only one that can understand Eren the\n> most. Zeke is a product of war, and a master of it. Eren is the only family\n> he has left, and perhaps he does not want Eren to walk the same path as\n> Zeke.\n\nAgain, these are all speculations. No one knows what Isayama has been up to.\nBut in this Manga masterpiece, we have watched both protagonists and\nantagonists reveal their lives, we have sympathized friends and foes, and\nmaybe the ending will be about bringing closer the two sides of the story.\n\nTo quote Bertrand Russell: _war does not determine who is right - only who is\nleft_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-15T11:56:08.337", "id": "41395", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-15T11:56:08.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18769", "parent_id": "41234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhat is the song that plays during episodes previews of Hunter x Hunter? I\nhave had zero luck finding the name of this song and I've looked through\nplaylists.\n\nI know some songs haven't been released and I just hope this one is out there\nbut I'm just bad at looking for it\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T00:51:25.150", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41235", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-07T03:45:17.177", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-07T00:57:50.457", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "33471", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "music", "hunter-x-hunter" ], "title": "Song that plays during episodes previews of Hunter x Hunter", "view_count": 996 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to Glass Reflection's review ( <https://youtu.be/VgnSAOSo-\nTk?t=10m22s> ) and a re-listen to the preview music, it is called _The World\nof Adventures,_ by Yoshihisa Hirano. I found the whole track:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBppjlkXGc>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T03:37:39.093", "id": "41236", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-07T03:45:17.177", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-07T03:45:17.177", "last_editor_user_id": "19670", "owner_user_id": "19670", "parent_id": "41235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nSasuke is missing his left hand in Boruto: Naruto the Movie. In the manga,\nTsunade gives him a new hand but he gets it removed. Why?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T04:17:06.600", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41237", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-18T03:00:06.743", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-07T04:58:15.160", "last_editor_user_id": "20270", "owner_user_id": "33474", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "naruto", "boruto" ], "title": "Why doesn't Sasuke have his left hand in Boruto: Naruto the Movie?", "view_count": 10467 }
[ { "body": "\n\nTaken from the Naruto Wikia :\n\nSasuke loses his left arm at the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, though\nunlike Naruto, he opts not to have it replaced with a prosthetic that was\nbeing prepared for him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T04:40:52.767", "id": "41238", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-07T04:40:52.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22960", "parent_id": "41237", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to my opinion, he just wanted to keep that lose to remind him of\nsomeone who is always willing to go to great lengths too save him (naruto).\nAlso he shouldn't see the world in darkness as he used to in shippuden. While\nnaruto accepted Tsunade-hime's help to have an arm, he was being a little emo\nhere. After all it was the biggest event in his life.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T11:53:40.243", "id": "41282", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-09T11:53:40.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33408", "parent_id": "41237", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke refused tsunades offer for the arm to remind himself of his sins. This\nis quoted straight from the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-18T03:00:06.743", "id": "41433", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-18T03:00:06.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34674", "parent_id": "41237", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nCan Logia Devil Fruit users get hot or cold?\n\nExamples:\n\n * Mera Mera No Mi _(Fire Devil Fruit)_ \\- If this user were to be walking on an island of snow, would they be able to control their body temperature and stay warm (internally)? Or would they get cold like a normal person?\n * Yuki Yuki no Mi _(Snow Devil Fruit)_ \\- If this user were to be walking on a desert island, would they be able to control their body temperature and stay cool (internally)? Or would they get hot like a normal person?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T12:30:21.470", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41245", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-08T20:27:15.400", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-08T20:27:15.400", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33484", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "Can Logia Devil Fruit Users get hot or cold?", "view_count": 994 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think they get hot or cold. Some of them can even change the climate\naround them\n\nWhen Ace came to Drum Kingdom (Snow Island) there was no snow.\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gDWqR.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gDWqR.jpg)\nChapter 154 To Alabasta\n\nAlso remember Akainu and Aokiji battle, they divide the climate on the Island.\nIn ten day they permanently changed the weather on Punk Hazard, turning one\nside into a frozen wasteland and other side left in a blaze\n\nSmoker also doesn't seems to get hot or cold in Alabasta or Punk Hazard. He\nwore his jacket the same way on those island - he left it unbuttoned. The same\ngoes to Crocodile when he was in Freezing Hell floor and Blazing Hell floor in\nImpel Down. Although he only there for a moment.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T13:30:28.867", "id": "41246", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-07T15:56:55.813", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-07T15:56:55.813", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "41245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41249", "answer_count": 4, "body": "\n\nAfter the end of episode 25, Subaru confesses his feeling for\n\n> Emilia.\n\nSo, are Subaru and Rem just friends now? Or does Rem or Subaru have any\nfeeling for the other?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T15:08:15.137", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41247", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-21T10:16:15.537", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-08T20:24:11.547", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33332", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "re-zero" ], "title": "What is the relationship between Subaru and Rem after he confesses his feeling in episode 25?", "view_count": 51185 }
[ { "body": "\n\n[On the re:zero wiki description of the episode\n18](http://rezero.wikia.com/wiki/Re:Zero_Episode_18), it is said :\n\n> Listening on, **Rem listed on the reasons why she loves him**. From the way\n> he brushed her hair, held her hand, and walked together, she gently\n> continued the daily things about him that she adored. As Subaru asked why,\n> Rem told him that listening to him say he hated himself made her want to\n> tell him all of the wonderful things she knows about him. Subaru retorted\n> back that his behavior was phony, as he knows himself best. Finally raising\n> her voice, Rem retorted tearfully that if all he understood was himself,\n> then he knows nothing about how she views him. To her, he is a hero who\n> saved her by saying the words that melted her frozen heart and allowed her\n> to move on from her past. With the acknowledgement that someone else\n> believes in him and is willing to support him, Subaru slowly regained his\n> resolve. In the process, **Subaru confessed that he loves Emilia, with his\n> goal being able to see her smile. Rem joked that it was cruel of him to ask\n> of this from a girl he just rejected.**\n\nSo it is clearly stated that Rem loves Subaru and that Subaru rejected Rem as\nhe loves Emilia, but they are still friends.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T15:30:44.543", "id": "41249", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-07T15:30:44.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15542", "parent_id": "41247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you consider just the anime then they can be classified as just friends but\nit's actually more complicated than that. Minor web novel spoilers ahead:\n\n> In the web novel we see that Subaru holds both Rem as well as Emilia in his\n> heart and as far as how the love interest will be handled I haven't gotten\n> that ahead in the novel yet. In the arc immediately following the end of\n> anime Subaru clearly states that he loves both Emilia as well as Rem in\n> multiple instances.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-08T11:06:01.203", "id": "41263", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-08T11:06:01.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32863", "parent_id": "41247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nEpisode 21 kinda hints that there's still feelings between the two when you\nsee their little moment they share at the end of the episode and Subaru asking\nRem to stay by his side even though he said he loved Emilia. Not to mention\nthat he tells Crusch that he already has a #1 and #2 in his heart with the\nsecond spot obviously being for Rem, showing that he views Rem as more than\njust a friend to him (in the light novel, Rem fakes her death to trick Subaru\ninto confessing his true feelings for her)\n\nThe light novel makes it more obvious that they have feelings for each other\nand Arc's 4-6 take place after the events of the anime. Subaru actually admits\nto having feelings for both Emilia and Rem and agrees to make Rem his second\nwife under the condition that Emilia agrees to it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-27T17:09:30.310", "id": "50233", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-02T21:33:50.467", "last_edit_date": "2019-03-02T21:33:50.467", "last_editor_user_id": "43775", "owner_user_id": "43775", "parent_id": "41247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nObviously Subaru loves Emilia, but that doesn't mean he don't like Rem. In the\nepisode when Subaru comes back to life, before the confession, after he refers\nto \"my beautiful Rem\", I understand that Emilia was the first girl he met, but\nI know based on watching the episode that he loves Emilia a little more than\nRem, and if he'd never made that promise to Emilia, he would have probably\npicked Rem.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-08-21T03:36:43.047", "id": "59390", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-21T10:16:15.537", "last_edit_date": "2020-08-21T10:16:15.537", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "55870", "parent_id": "41247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhy are the Zen-Ohs going to destroy the universes that lose in the tournament\nof Power ? It seems rather brutal and pointless, and make the Zen-Ohs look\nevil just for the sake of being evil.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T16:21:31.317", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41252", "last_activity_date": "2019-07-10T11:45:42.943", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-08T14:44:47.273", "last_editor_user_id": "22960", "owner_user_id": "33493", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-super", "dragon-ball" ], "title": "Why is Zen Oh Sama destroying universes?", "view_count": 1867 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIt's being stated that the Zeno samas want to destroy the universes which have\nlow average mortal level and the 8 participating universes have the lower\nmortal levels . Why they want to do destroy such universes with low mortal\nlevel, it remained unexplained.\n\nMay be they'll give a twist to this idea somehow in the future and the\nuniverses will be resurrected, falsely destroyed or something, but for now\nit's being stated in a japanese magazine than (spoilers)\n\n> universe 9 will be the first one to be destroyed\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-08T12:29:45.083", "id": "41264", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-08T12:46:24.053", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-08T12:46:24.053", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "41252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBy now the anime has provided a clear answer (though if you're only following\nthe broadcast of the dub you're not quite to it yet):\n\n> The whole tournament and super dragonball wish was a secret test of\n> character. Wishing back all of the universes was essentially the only\n> correct and allowed wish. If a selfish wish had been made, they were going\n> to take it as proof that those Universes are, in fact, not worth keeping,\n> and all of them would be destroyed. But wishing them back would be a\n> testament to the caliber of the denizens of these universes, such that they\n> would be returned and spared.\n\nOddly, this seems to be a little different in the manga:\n\n> None of the \"secret test of character\" stuff gets brought up at all.\n> Seventeen says he wants to wish all the universes back if the super\n> dragonballs can do so, and the Grand Minister confirms that they can. So\n> they're wished back and that's pretty much the end of it. All that's said is\n> that the wish elevated Universe 7's rank by one position. Which does at\n> least say that such a wish was (highly?) valued, but not nearly at the level\n> it seems to have been in the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-07-10T11:40:06.803", "id": "53572", "last_activity_date": "2019-07-10T11:45:42.943", "last_edit_date": "2019-07-10T11:45:42.943", "last_editor_user_id": "8024", "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "41252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nHisoka constantly seeks out powerful opponents to challenge and kill. Razor\nwas acknowledged by the Phantom Troupe to be pretty powerful. Why didn't\nHisoka attempt to fight him?\n\nSo far (in the anime), the only other fights that Hisoka missed out on were:\n\n * Netero -- Hisoka deemed that Netero was leaving himself too vulnerable to attack.\n * Chimera Ants -- Hisoka was chasing Chrollo.\n * Chrollo -- Chrollo was cursed and unable to use his Nen abilities.\n\nIn the above situations, Hisoka lost the opportunity to fight powerful\nenemies. For other powerful fighters such as Illumi, Hisoka chose to befriend\nthem temporarily in order to gain something. But in Razor's case, it seems\nlike Hisoka shyed away from the challenge.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T22:56:32.823", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41259", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-24T03:34:13.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33502", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "hunter-x-hunter" ], "title": "Why didn't Hisoka challenge Razor?", "view_count": 19743 }
[ { "body": "\n\nBecause he is **NOT** suicidal....\n\nSimply because Hisoka has never challenged anyone that are physically stronger\nthan him despite the fact of it's availability. i.e. Uvogin, Franklin, Silva\nand Biscuit. People who's raw power are way above his. Therefore his attacks\nare meaningless unless he has more than just bungee gum in his arsenal. Razor\nhas the same build as the characters I mentioned, and is capable of\ndestructive power well above Hisoka's defenses as well(Shown in their\nvolleyball game). Meaning Hisoka does not have the ability **YET** to pierce\nthrough their defenses, unless he has an extremely hax ability.\n\nRationale: His fight with these people would look the same as Uvogin's and\nKurapica's. Unless he has an ability like Chain Jail, there is just no way he\ncould harm them, because they are physically and nen wise more powerful than\nhe is. If he is stronger or atleast at the same level, then that\nvolleyball(not full power) catch wouldn't have broken his fingers. Imagine\nwhat Uvogin's fist would do.\n\nFight Availability: Silva - Hisoka can pay the assassin to kill him, and we\nhave a fight. Buscuit - A dozen opportunities and he does not take it. Razor -\nHe could've attacked him on the spot after the game. Franklin - a simple duel\nbetween teammates Uvogin - same reason as Franklin\n\nMy thoughts are that Hisoka targets potentially cerebral fights, i.e. people\nwho could give him that must not have that much overwhelming power Chrollo,\nKillua, Illumi, Ging and Gon.\n\nAlso, just to add. Chrollo as evidenced by his fight with the 2 main heads of\nthe Zaoldyecks, did not show any feat basic nen wise that could pierce through\nZeno's and Silva's defenses, which is why he used a specialized dagger. Which\nmeans in pure combat without Hatsus both he and Hisoka are not in Zeno's and\nSilva's level and therefore Razor. The only factor that both Zeno and Silva\nwere being careful in their fight with Chrollo is that Chrollo has the\nadvantage of many unknown abilities. Which one of them could possibly be hax,\nlike an ability to put some1 in a cage regardless of their power. Or teleport\nlike we've seen Chrollo did once.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-27T08:36:16.990", "id": "43547", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-03T02:25:21.070", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-03T02:25:21.070", "last_editor_user_id": "25940", "owner_user_id": "25940", "parent_id": "41259", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI do think it's pretty similar to what the other answer states in that Hisoka\ndeemed that Razor could and would kill him. On the other hand, Hisoka is\nreally full of himself and he's cunning in battle, meaning he has the\ncapability to beat opponents with higher basic power than himself. He wanted\nto fight Netero, despite the obvious gap in power, and he wants to fight\nChrollo who we all know is also incredibly strong, so maybe under normal\ncircumstances he would have fought Razor. Unfortunately he was helping Gon,\nand in that process, used a lot of Nen and was injured, whereas Razor also\nused up his Nen somewhat, so they wouldn't be fighting at full power. I\nsuppose he could've tried to find and challenge him later, but he was trying\nto find Chrollo after that because Chrollo interests him more. I would assume\nhe didn't want to fight any of the other Phantom Troupe members because 1) A\nfight to the death which is all he cares about would ruin his chance to fight\nChrollo 2) They aren't strong enough for him, which really says something\nabout how he's full of himself.\n\nAs for Biscuit... I think she and Netero are doing the same trick. They put\noff an aura of being no threat to him, which totally curbs his blood lust.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-01T22:52:22.390", "id": "48648", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-01T22:52:22.390", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42310", "parent_id": "41259", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThis is another one of the questions that kishimoto sensei never actually\naddressed after the end of the series. It could be natural that they were left\nalone in forests , but is there any concrete evidence suggesting the same .\n\nWhat happened to the bijuu's? Are they left alone in the forest or was there\nequal distribution amongst villages to leverage equal power? If yes , do we\nknow about the existences of jinchuriki's post-naruto other than killer bee\nand naruto ?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-08T09:37:37.763", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41261", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-02T04:31:38.367", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-08T13:17:57.500", "last_editor_user_id": "22960", "owner_user_id": "22960", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "What happened to the tailed beasts?", "view_count": 3832 }
[ { "body": "\n\nthey are alive and are in the forest, since no one will want to capture tailed\nbeasts for wars after fighting as one during fourth war. naruto wouldn't let\nthem be captured since he promsied to set the tailed beast free\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T12:11:39.710", "id": "41286", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-09T12:11:39.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18138", "parent_id": "41261", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Boruto Episode 55, Urashiki spoke to Momoshiki Otsutsuki about the\nexistence of 9 massive entities of Chakra in the form of tailed beasts.\nHowever, the only tailed beasts whose locations he explicitly mentioned were\nthe Hachibi and Kyuubi. Urashiki was the member that the Main Branch of the\nOtsutsuki Clan, who was tasked with searching for the Chakra fruit that Kaguya\nwas originally tasked with, and with his Byakugan senses he was only able to\ndetect the Eight and Nine tails.\n\nMy Hypothesis is that; if the tailed beasts were somewhere in the open forest,\nthen Urashiki would most definitely have mentioned them and then started with\nthe lesser beasts which would be easier to acquire, but rather he does not\nmention them at all. This could Imply that the Tailed beasts are somewhere\nwhere even Urashiki could not find. I would guess that they were hidden\nsomewhere where No one would try to Harm or take advantage of their Chakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-02T02:59:08.430", "id": "49937", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-02T04:31:38.367", "last_edit_date": "2018-12-02T04:31:38.367", "last_editor_user_id": "42685", "owner_user_id": "42685", "parent_id": "41261", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41267", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nA new picture of a Goku possible new form/transformation has appeared and some\npeople is speculating that it could have to do with this another picture of a\npossible new Goku form/transformation [What is Goku's red aura form in the new\nDragon Ball Super\nopening?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/38814/what-is-gokus-red-\naura-form-in-the-new-dragon-ball-super-opening) .\n\nWhere does this new picture come from?\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Im9t.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Im9t.jpg)\n\nNote: can't find the picture with the tools suggested.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-08T15:35:00.850", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41266", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-08T16:50:52.407", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-08T15:50:02.447", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "Where does this picture of Goku possible new form/transformation comes from?", "view_count": 587 }
[ { "body": "\n\n[![original\nvisual](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RuEZT.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RuEZT.jpg)\n\nProducer Hiroyuki Sakurada released a statement about _Dragon Ball Super_ 's\nnew key visual for the \"Universal Survival\" saga: [From Toei Animation]\n\n> The curtain finally rises on the Tournament of Power, where the strongest\n> warriors in the history of _Dragon Ball Super_ are gathering! The new key\n> visual for the Tournament of Power is finally finished! It depicts Goku as\n> he tries to break new ground in order to face off against the mightiest of\n> foes in the midst of the fierce battle that is the Tournament of Power! What\n> sort of formidable foes are in store?! How will Goku battle them? And what\n> new ground will he break?! Don't miss _Dragon Ball Super_ as the hype ramps\n> up for the unprecedented battle that will unfold at the Tournament of\n> Power!!\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-08T16:01:45.577", "id": "41267", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-08T16:50:52.407", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-08T16:50:52.407", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "22960", "parent_id": "41266", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41416", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIt is said Chimera Ants made from humans keep some of the characteristics from\ntheir human life. Do we have any hint about Meruem's human identity ?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-08T22:23:08.663", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41273", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-09T01:54:25.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32156", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "hunter-x-hunter" ], "title": "Who was Meruem in his human life?", "view_count": 13287 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI believe that because his birth was fueled by so many humans it is impossible\nto say that he was born from any particular one despite clearly having human\nDNA and features. This is similar to the way Youipi was born from a magical\nbeast. The King, as he explains in his fight with Netero is instead the\nculmination of his entire species' evolution.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-16T21:56:52.860", "id": "41416", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-16T21:56:52.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34651", "parent_id": "41273", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI always figured it was that one dude who founded the NGL as it showed that he\nhad a caring side as well as a violent uncontrollable rage that wanted to lash\nout at humanity I just thought they wouldn't introduce a whole character like\nthat and give a backstory just to show the NGL's founding it just made sense\nto me for him to be Meruem in his human life\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-04-25T07:08:51.963", "id": "57368", "last_activity_date": "2020-04-25T07:08:51.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "52972", "parent_id": "41273", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI always thought it was actually pokel because he was the only nen user\nconsumed and i think it would just give more meaning to his death and would\nalso add another creepy fact that they had to fight a past companion\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-08-05T23:14:01.090", "id": "59287", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-05T23:14:01.090", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "55637", "parent_id": "41273", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nDue to some recent news about the _Hunter x Hunter_ manga being continued, I\ndecided to re-watch the anime and some question popped into my head. I haven't\nfinished it yet, but I don't remember any explanation of the origin of\nAlluka's power the first time I watched it.\n\nI've watched some videos but they don't really explain my question. I also\ncouldn't find an answer here.\n\nWas the origin of Alluka's power ever explained in the anime or perhaps in the\nmanga?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-08T22:41:48.823", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41274", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-15T07:43:07.883", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-06T14:10:59.483", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34520", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "hunter-x-hunter" ], "title": "How did Alluka Zoldyck obtain her powers?", "view_count": 4867 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAlluka isn't a human. She's a different being which there are six of them in\nthe world that are known of. Not sure, but I think they came from the Dark\nContinent.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-06T07:13:06.677", "id": "48217", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-06T14:11:01.953", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-06T14:11:01.953", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "41888", "parent_id": "41274", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt has been confirmed that Nanika came from the Dark Continent and evidence\nsuggests that Nanika is Ai, the desire of co-dependence.\n\nAs to how Nanika started possessing Alluka, we don't know for sure but seeing\nhow Zigg Zoldyck went to the Dark Continent, it is possible he brought it back\nto the outside world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-10-15T00:50:42.283", "id": "49194", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-15T07:43:07.883", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-15T07:43:07.883", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42907", "parent_id": "41274", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41301", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThe Sharingan copies techniques, but i want to understand can the sharingan\ncopy hidden technique like the shadow style jutsu?\n\nBecause according to \"narutowikia website\" the sharingan copies hand seals,\nand since the nara clan, ino clan e.t.c that uses hand seals in performing\ntheir secret jutsu, why have I never seen a sharingan user copy secret jutsu\nwhen its not a \"kekkai genkai\"?\n\nThanks, I hope my question is simple.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T12:05:01.670", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41284", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-17T13:52:17.583", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-09T16:45:08.040", "last_editor_user_id": "14229", "owner_user_id": "18138", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "naruto", "boruto" ], "title": "Can the Sharingan Copy Hidden Jutsu?", "view_count": 5576 }
[ { "body": "\n\n> Sharingan users need the prerequisite abilities before they can mimic a\n> jutsu they have... [Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan)\n\nand\n\n> Many hiden techniques are rooted in Yin–Yang Release, for example is Yin\n> Release used in the Nara clan's Shadow Imitation Technique and Yang Release\n> in the Akimichi clan's Multi-Size Technique.\n> [Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hiden)\n\nSo the answer would be yes if the sharingan user has the necessary abilities\nto perform the technique. \nIt is similar to the reason why the rasengan cannot be copied. The user can\nsee the chakra and how it moves but unless he can control his own like that he\nwon't be able perform it. \nThe jutsus of the Nara and Yamanaka have hand seals but it is only one and the\nmajority of the technique is rather manipulation of the chakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-10T10:39:59.470", "id": "41299", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-10T10:39:59.470", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27875", "parent_id": "41284", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough I completely agree with Turamarth's response, I want to point out\nsome aspects of \"why\" they can not copy secret/hidden techniques.\n\nA Sharingan user can copy all types of jutsus techniques: ninjutsu, genjutsu\nand taijutsu.\n\nThe examples are:\n\n * **Ninjutsu** , we can see it in Kakashi who is an expert.\n * **Gentjutsu** , we can see it in Itachi copying it from Kurenai.\n * **Taijutsu** , the best example of this is Sasuke using the Lee taijutsu.\n\nIn other hand, we have the special exceptions that are:\n\n * **Kekkei Genkai / Tota / Mora:** This can't be copied cause this aren't techniques, this are a genetic abilities. **(1)**\n\n * **Hidden jutsus:** These techniques also cannot be copied through any means of simple observation, but this techniques can be taught to anyone. A few hidden techniques require a special ability or lineage and as such are usually pride and fame of the clan that possess them. Also, the most of these techniques are based on a Yin-Yang manipulation and this isn't a trivial knowledge. **(2)**\n\n * **Summoning Jutsus:** These techniques first need to sign a contract with the owner blood for to be able to do it.\n\n * **Nature Transformations:** They can't mimic a jutsu with a nature transformation that they haven't learned to perform. **(3)**\n\nMore explanation:\n\n**(1)** Dust Release techniques these techniques are not genetic, as Onoki\nstated that Mu passed the secrets of Dust Release on to him. (Naruto chapter\n525)\n\n**(2)** For special abilities or lineage it mean some special characteristic\nof some one who use these techniques, like the big size of the people of the\nAkimichi clan.\n\n**(3)** Nature transformations are Fire, Wind, Earth, Water, Lightning, and\nthe other derivatives.\n\n* * *\n\n**[A]** So the answer is no, with only the Sharingan they can't copy hidden\njutsus.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-10T15:31:37.703", "id": "41301", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-10T16:58:55.707", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-10T16:58:55.707", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "31142", "parent_id": "41284", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41289", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the Black Goku arc, the future Universe 7 was destroyed by Zeno. Since\nBeerus said something along the lines of if a god changes an event in a\ntimeline then it changes in all the others, does that mean that in 20 years\nthe current Universe 7 will be destroyed?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T18:02:41.013", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41288", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-14T11:59:00.120", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-09T18:05:29.680", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "34532", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "Will the destruction of future Universe 7 affect other timelines in 20 years?", "view_count": 201 }
[ { "body": "\n\nNot likely.\n\nBeerus was the one that was sure that killing Zamasu was going to change\nfuture Universe 7, and it didn't change at all. So even if the destruction is\ndone by Future Zeno it doesn't look like it would change things, specially\nconsidering that any timeline that's created makes him \"less omnipotent\", as\nall timeline counterparts of Zenos are supposed to be as strong as him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T19:20:00.170", "id": "41289", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-09T19:20:00.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16483", "parent_id": "41288", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball, when a person travels in time it creates alternative\ntimelines/ realities. So what Beerus destroyed was an alternative\ntimeline/reality, which has no effect in the current timeline of universe 7\ntherefore the current timeline wont be destroyed in the future.\n\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Alternate_timeline>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T23:10:19.083", "id": "41294", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-09T23:10:19.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "41288", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "46849", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn the third opening of Attack on Titan we see a man and a baby holding hands.\nDoes anyone know who these two people are? I can't remember seeing them in the\nmanga.\n\nOr -if they are not \"real\" characters- what does this scene want to allude to?\nI can't think of any symbolism in this picture... [![two people holding\nhands](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mcj3e.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mcj3e.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T20:49:29.973", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41290", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-25T22:06:08.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32704", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "attack-on-titan" ], "title": "Who are these two people in the third opening of Attack on Titan?", "view_count": 9877 }
[ { "body": "\n\nProbably this is not totally explicit, but, according to this Website (and\nmany others): <http://aminoapps.com/page/shonen-amino/4316391/alerta-spoiler-\nprimera-parte>\n\nThese are hands from Grisha and Zeke.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-04T19:46:28.113", "id": "42177", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-04T19:46:28.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35483", "parent_id": "41290", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis scene is depicted from _Shingeki no Kyojin_ manga chapter 86, \"That Day\".\n\n> Grisha Yeager and Dina Fritz got married during the rise of Eldia and had a\n> baby. This baby was named Zeke, which further betrayed whole Eldia and\n> joined the Marley Forces. \n> \n> ![Grisha holding Zeke on his arms, with caption \"His name was\n> Zeke.\"](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ntbMQl.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-03T10:31:46.913", "id": "46849", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-03T10:38:12.730", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-03T10:38:12.730", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "40444", "parent_id": "41290", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is the hand of Eren Yeager and his son/daughter with Historia\nReiss/Fritz, could be Historia Yeager in the future. Though this theory cannot\nstill be supported yet by the manga, but I assume that this is where it leads,\nthe future, based on what the manga is currently potraying.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-03T04:49:37.500", "id": "49484", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-03T04:49:37.500", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43244", "parent_id": "41290", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41603", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn _Baccano!_ , \"Daily Days\" is both newspapers and an information office. In\nthe anime, its president, chief editor, and chairman stays hidden behind a\nmount of files.\n\nWho is he?\n\n[![pile of\nbooks](https://i.stack.imgur.com/29hVq.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/29hVq.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T21:45:38.093", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41292", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-28T04:08:25.827", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-28T04:08:25.827", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "32156", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "baccano" ], "title": "Who is the Daily Days' Chief Editor?", "view_count": 483 }
[ { "body": "\n\nHe's the president of the Daily Days. He runs the newspaper and the\nInformation Brokerage. Nothing more, nothing less. He never appears outside of\nthat context not even in the novels.\n\nAnd the only mentions of people seeing him are a girl on the street calling\nthe cops when she saw him climbing through the window of the News Paper\nbuilding since he physically can't get around the stacks of papers in his\noffice and has to come and go through the window.\n\nAnd when he met Keith Gandor for a private interview.\n\n(Rubik sees him in the anime, but that's anime-only).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-28T02:21:03.640", "id": "41603", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-28T02:21:03.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4966", "parent_id": "41292", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nIf a westerner or other foreigners draws anime/manga art in their style the\ndrawing,coloring,etc style will not resemble that of a japanese because it is\nnot 100% authentic japanese style\n\nHowever would it help if they went to japanese schools to tutored by japanese\nteachers(as it is happening in reality) for anime/manga in order draw and\ncolor anime/manga authentically to avoid inauthenticity ?\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-10T15:44:31.987", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41302", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-10T15:44:31.987", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32925", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "anime-production", "manga-production", "mangaka" ], "title": "Is it possible for a non japanese anime/manga artist to draw and color anime/manga authentically?", "view_count": 162 }
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nShoichiro dies from wounds inflicted by Mello soon after making the Shinigami\nEyes deal. Since he didn't even use the Death Note (nor was any DN used on the\npeople involved in the incident) prior to his death, it can be assumed that\nthe DN did not change the lifespans of anyone indirectly involved in some\nkilling.\n\nSo because his lifespan was halved with the eyes deal and he dies a few\nhours/days later (lets assume he underwent surgery and a few days seems\nreasonable) was his natural lifespan that much short?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-10T17:25:59.063", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41305", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-13T06:06:35.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "death-note" ], "title": "Was Soichiro Yagami that much close to his natural lifespan?", "view_count": 2670 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer is yes and no. He himself said that he was thinking about suicide\nand that he probably would have done it within a few days. At this point, his\nlifespan was that short. But his \"natural livespan\" is unknown (and was\nprobably longer) since his son's use of the DN led him into this situation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T11:51:00.093", "id": "41356", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-15T07:16:23.823", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-15T07:16:23.823", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "33164", "parent_id": "41305", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, a person who makes the eye deal with a shinigami gets their natural\nlifespan halved regardless of weather or not they technically use the\nDeathnote itself. By this logic Soichiro Yagami was only going to live a\nnatural life of about three days max.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-13T06:06:35.183", "id": "44669", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-13T06:06:35.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "38129", "parent_id": "41305", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nHave _Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow_ and/or _Brave Witches_ (and its\nOVA) been released on Blu-ray or DVD with either English sub or dub?\n\nI can only find _Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow_ in Japanese\nexclusively while only finding _Brave Witches_ DVD from Malaysia which I\nbelieve is technically a bootleg and of poor quality.\n\nIf not, has a release been scheduled for them?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-11T00:43:18.273", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41312", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-02T18:02:15.413", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-11T02:55:42.317", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34561", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "strike-witches", "brave-witches" ], "title": "Have \"Operation Victory Arrow\" or \"Brave Witches\" been released officially outside Japan?", "view_count": 610 }
[ { "body": "\n\nYou'll find the info for bd-dvd release for brave witches\n[here](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2016-11-14/all-brave-\nwitches-bd-dvd-volumes-delayed-by-2-months/.108812).\n\nMeanwhile , the operation victory arrow dvd's are only in japanese , although\nthey may be in subbed format so you should check them out , there has been no\nofficial info on the dubbed release of dvd's.\n\nAlthough crunchyroll seems to be streaming these series so you can check that\nout as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-11T04:03:05.340", "id": "41313", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-11T04:03:05.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22960", "parent_id": "41312", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 5, "body": "\n\nIt's clear that Todoroki left side is burnt but isn't it also his flame side.\nIf he is able to tolerate the high temperature he himself generates from his\nown flames shouldn't he also have been able to withstand the burn when his\nmother throws hot water on his face?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-11T18:22:00.720", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41320", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-27T01:31:42.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32863", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "my-hero-academia" ], "title": "Why is Todoroki scalded when his mother throws hot water on him?", "view_count": 8870 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think Todoroki necessarily is impervious to heat. Midoriya notices\nwhen they fight that Todoroki's use of his cold power is limited to how much\ncold he himself can stand, and that if he would not refuse to use his heat\npowers he would be able to remove this limit. So if he's not immune to the\ncold he may not be immune to heat. However, his father does have the flaming\nfacial hair which doesn't seem to bother him. I think it's most likely that\nhe's immune to the flames and the ice that he creates but when he uses it too\nmuch or is affected by something in the environment he's affected normally.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T21:39:15.803", "id": "41347", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T21:39:15.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34589", "parent_id": "41320", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nWell he maybe wasn't trained t activate his ability yet andhe does still get\ncold and freezes even though he's part cold\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-12T04:03:39.543", "id": "48299", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-12T04:03:39.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41977", "parent_id": "41320", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt could have to do with the fact that he was still quite young and probably\nhadn't worked on his quirk for a long period of time and even if his body was\nable to withstand the heat from his own flames, the boiling water would of\nprobably been extremely hot to of left a burn of that degree on anyone's face.\nBut I don't think we'll ever really know why.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-20T19:51:54.863", "id": "53009", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-20T19:51:54.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47351", "parent_id": "41320", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter finally getting to watch more of the anime, I've thought of an\ninteresting theory for this. Seeing as Todoroki accepts his ice side much more\nthan his fire side, maybe he was working to empower his ice far greater than\nhis fire. With the training leaning more to his ice, his fire and heat\nresistance might not have been _that_ strong at the time, growing stronger\nover the years...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-12-10T15:12:28.533", "id": "56094", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-10T18:30:12.210", "last_edit_date": "2019-12-10T18:30:12.210", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "51100", "parent_id": "41320", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nTodoroki's scar is a frost burn because her mother poured boiling water over\nhim and in panic used her quirk on him to 'easen' the pain, but it actually\nmade it worse.\n\n> ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWsMYl.png)\n\nIt's basic knowledge not to put ice over the wound as it will make it worse\nand will create a frost burn scar. If his mother didn't use her quirk,\nTodoroki would've been fine and wouldn't have a scar as he can easily go\nthrough extremely high temperature (on his left) and low temperature (on his\nright).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-01-24T00:13:46.190", "id": "56604", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-27T01:31:42.023", "last_edit_date": "2020-01-27T01:31:42.023", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "51716", "parent_id": "41320", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "62870", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Sanctuary chapter, after opening, there is a prologue for the events of the\nlast episode. I can't find the name of that music theme, and \"Galaxian Wars\"\nis not that I'm looking for.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-11T20:18:54.080", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41322", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-29T13:20:23.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29281", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "saint-seiya" ], "title": "TV Saint Seiya Prologue theme", "view_count": 98 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIt should be \"Galaxian Wars\" composed by Seiji Yokoyama. You can easily find\nit on Youtube. Try make sure of it.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T03:55:04.650", "id": "41352", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-13T04:03:24.123", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-13T04:03:24.123", "last_editor_user_id": "34593", "owner_user_id": "34593", "parent_id": "41322", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think this is the one you are looking for: [Intense!\nCosmo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V7MLiIEqc4&ab_channel=Awesmic)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-29T13:20:23.367", "id": "62870", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-29T13:20:23.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44697", "parent_id": "41322", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe excellent \"[Light Before we\nLand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Delgados)\" by the Delgados is used as\nthe theme-tune for the first season of Gunslinger Girl (ガンスリンガー・ガール /\nGansuringā Gāru)\n\n**Why (and how) did an obscure track by a Scottish 'Indie' band end up as the\ntheme song for a Japanese anime series based in Italy?**\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTxoH_5CnhM>\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-11T23:12:52.750", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41325", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-26T13:10:28.400", "last_edit_date": "2018-12-20T07:36:48.087", "last_editor_user_id": "3776", "owner_user_id": "3776", "post_type": "question", "score": 15, "tags": [ "gunslinger-girl" ], "title": "What is the connection between The Delgados and Gunslinger Girl?", "view_count": 551 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI can give some insights into the why. The how probably was through the usual\nprocess of licensing foreign songs.\n\nThe anime was made by Madhouse who contributed two episodes to the 2003 anime\nAnimatrix. This project was important at the time, since it was a direct\nresult of the anime-craze in the west in the early 2000s. Anime studios in\nJapan started to pay attention to foreign markets and with people behind a\nmajor Hollywood success like The Matrix reaching out to Japan to create\nsomething like the Animatrix, chances with the western market seemed good.\n\nAnd thus a lot of studios did some projects betting on that western market.\nFor Madhouse, these projects included Texhnolyze, Monster and Gunslinger Girl,\neach of them featuring a song by a foreign artist and deviating from usual\nexpectations of anime fans, who just discovered their fetish for maid\ncharacters in their moeblob harem shows, that casual western fans didn't even\nknew existed.\n\nThe songs:\n\n * Texhnolyze (2003): Guardian Angel from [Juno Reactor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Reactor)\n * Monster (2004): for the love of life by [David Sylvian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sylvian)\n\nGunslinger Girl was part of the studios efforts to appeal to the western\nmarket, which is why obscure foreign artists ended up in anime of that time.\nAt least that's my attempt at explaining how this came to be. I don't have any\ninside knowledge and am speculating from an observer's point of view.\n\nThe second season came out five years later and was handled by a different\nstudio. To be specific in 2008. It was at a time everyone betting on the\nwestern market realized that this was a huge mistake. Studio Gonzo who made\nthe biggest bet was in the most miserable state and talks of bankruptcy went\nthrough the news. \nIt was under this circumstance, that the studio handling the second season\ntried to deemphasize the appeal to the western market and therefore changed\nthe character design towards something I described above as moeblob. This is\npurely speculation on my part, but it seems like a valid assumption that this\nwas the motivation behind the change.\n\nIt also didn't help very much, that the manga itself wasn't exactly going\nstrong. Most of the story weaknesses were copied directly from the source. It\njust so happened that the first season made subtle changes in the presentation\nto appeal to western audiences, which the second season avoided.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-26T13:10:28.400", "id": "62610", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-26T13:10:28.400", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "41325", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41333", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nEven if _Transformers_ count as anime (it was made by Americans and Japanese\nconcept: Americans/Japanese, Americans producers, Japanese animation mainly so\nI guess it's debatable) there were shows with transformable robots before that\n(ie: _Genesis Climber MOSPEADA_ ).\n\nThen, which was the first anime to feature transformable robots or at least\none transformable robot?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-11T23:19:01.820", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41326", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T07:34:07.937", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-12T04:16:08.350", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "anime-history" ], "title": "Which was the first anime to feature a transformable robot?", "view_count": 377 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAs [Makoto](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/102/makoto) already mentions\nin the comments, depending on what you count as `transformable` the answers\nmight differ a bit.\n\nBut with the current scope the first `anime` to feature transformable robots\nwould be Mighty Atom (Astro Boy) in 1963, shortly followed by Tetsujin 28 in\nthe same year.\n\nHowever, the first Japanese comic to feature this came out in the year 1934\nstrip was called Tanku Tankuro, which also is the name of the main character.\n\nThere is a very interesting topic about it over at the [superherohype\nforums](http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=319060) Which has\nsome more in depth insight on transforming robots in Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T07:34:07.937", "id": "41333", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T07:34:07.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "41326", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41353", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe beginning of Gintama clearly mentions various times the sword ban but the\nShinsengumi are constantly carrying around swords. Why is that allowed?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T06:09:37.790", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41332", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-26T19:02:44.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34558", "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "gintama" ], "title": "In Gintama, why are the Shinsengumi allowed to have swords?", "view_count": 719 }
[ { "body": "\n\nGintama's setting is mix of fictional inter-galactic universe (which might be\ndepicting foreigner coming to Japan during that era) referencing to actual\nJapan historical era specifically Bakumatsu period.\n\n> In 1876, samurai were banned from carrying swords. A standing army was\n> created, as was a police force. This \"sword hunt\" was performed for,\n> ostensibly, different reasons, and certainly with different methods than\n> those of several centuries earlier. Ironically, perhaps, this sword hunt put\n> an end to the class system while the earlier ones were intended to deepen\n> the distinctions between commoners and nobles. Ultimately, however, the\n> result of this sword hunt was the same as the results of its predecessors;\n> the hunt ensured that the only weapons were in the hands of the ruling\n> government and not available to potential dissenters.\n> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_hunt>\n\nDuring this time Shinsengumi is the special police force that are there to\nprotect the government. So it's just the same as now where the military and\npolice may carry gun but commoners will need certificate to be able to carry\ngun legally.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T06:52:17.147", "id": "41353", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-13T06:52:17.147", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28828", "parent_id": "41332", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41585", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super, a giant tournament between the most powerful fighters of\neight different universes is currently happening. The seven universes to lose\nwill be erased by the God of all universes.\n\n**If that happens, could dragonballs possibly save the erased universes ?**\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T13:21:15.470", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41334", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-15T13:32:38.893", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-27T18:35:08.973", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "32156", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "Could dragon balls bring the universes back?", "view_count": 3724 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe universal super dragon balls can revive the universes yes. As it was said\nduring their first encounter that this Shenron was powerfull enough to grant\n\"any\" wish.\n\nHowever I doubt that the Super Shenron would go against Zen-oh as he would be\nat the risk of being erased. This is my personal thought, but based on the\nfear of the earth Shenron towards Beerus I can asume that Omega Shenron has\nthe same fear towards Zen-oh. Due to this he most likely would refuse to grant\nthe wish.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T09:15:34.567", "id": "41585", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-27T20:32:17.403", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-27T20:32:17.403", "last_editor_user_id": "34659", "owner_user_id": "31492", "parent_id": "41334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nAccording to him, Mephisto sided with humans an indefinite amount of time ago,\nfearing their extinction due to prolonged wars and demon's invasions. We also\nknow that his current alias originated abou 200 years prior to the manga's\nevents. Then, 100 years ago he started the cloning research, in the Japanese\nbranch that he controlled, as stated in chapter 86. That's when the Asylum was\nfounded as well.\n\nAre there any leads in the manga that might hint at a specific time period for\nwhen he was appointed the director of the Japanese branch? I assume it must be\nbetween 200 and 100 years ago.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T13:45:07.553", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41335", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T20:12:17.273", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-12T20:12:17.273", "last_editor_user_id": "27775", "owner_user_id": "27775", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "blue-exorcist" ], "title": "When did Mephisto become the branch director?", "view_count": 88 }
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThroughout Naruto and a lot of Naruto Shippuden you can clearly see that\nNaruto has a lot of affection towards Sakura. Various times he tries to ask\nher out and the like but it never goes very well for him. We do eventually\nlearn later in \"Naruto:the Last\" that Naruto's feelings for Sakura were\nanother way for him to compete with Sasuke, but his feelings cannot be simply\ndenied.\n\nMy question is: has Sakura ever shown signs of love, not friendship, towards\nNaruto throughout the series? When?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T15:05:37.507", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41336", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-14T19:34:01.050", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34558", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Has Sakura expressed signs of love towards Naruto?", "view_count": 52068 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI don't agree with the answer above or any answer on the Internet for that\nmatter. I watched _Naruto Shippuden_ dubbed and subbed and to my\nunderstanding, Sakura did develop feelings for Naruto (and people usually skip\nthose episodes because they are fillers).\n\nAfter defeating Pain, Sakura recalls her days with Naruto (not Sasuke) and\nrealizes that she has developed feelings for him. Later (in canon episodes),\nshe decides to get rid of Sasuke herself because she felt responsible for it\nsomehow. Sometimes, fillers are made to tune the main story and you should not\nskip these fillers if you like watching this show.\n\nEvery answer I saw described the situation poorly, so I decided to pen down\nthe real story, in my belief.\n\nSakura did like Naruto, but the problem is that she was not mature enough and\nbelieved herself \"deserving\" for Naruto, as he was a hero, unlike Sasuke. She\nrisked sabotaging Naruto and Hinata's story for her reasons. On the plus side,\nNaruto knew Sakura was not meant for her so he downright says her \"No\" on\nepisode 206 (Sakura's feelings).\n\nLater in series, she realized her \"true\" feelings towards Sasuke as he helped\nNaruto defeating Kaguya and got what she deserved (abandoned and knocked by\nher dear loverboy, whose thorns she desperately needed for 6 years)\n\n**Update:** I rewatched the entire Shippuden again, and my new conclusions\nsomehow contradict this (my old answer). So here it is:\n\nSakura loves Naruto, but only platonic. She shares sympathy with him and they\nare good friends. She cares about him and that's why she confessed her love.\nThere are two side-effects in the cannon because of this: 1\\. Naruto realizes\nthat Sakura can never be together with him (the same episode Sakura proposes\nto Naruto). He realizes that he actually never loved Sakura himself. And that\nwas the moment he knew Sakura and Sasuke belongs together. Writer stitches the\nstory beautifully there. And because of this, his _self-righteous_ self forces\nhim to sacrifice himself to bring back Sasuke. He just couldn't let Sakura\nsuffer anymore. As he owes that to Sasuke. 2\\. Sakura gained some real heat\nafter this scene from fans, as she seemed to neglect Hinata. But for me, this\nscene was pure satisfaction, her being rejected by our hero.\n\nSakura belonged to Sasuke. Naruto knew this. That was a pivoting moment of the\nplot. If Sakura had never confessed her love, Naruto probably went for a kill\nin the fight followed that episode. And we know he could easily swamp Sasuke\nas he was tired from the Danzo fight. But again, probably Obito intervened\nearlier, but in any case, the story would turn differently. So yeah, Sakura\nloved Naruto. But not as much as she loved Sasuke. She had undying respect for\nthe former.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-07T16:42:39.143", "id": "46915", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-14T19:34:01.050", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-14T19:34:01.050", "last_editor_user_id": "38083", "owner_user_id": "38083", "parent_id": "41336", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41342", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nNaruto had the power to regrow body parts of any individual as we saw with\nKakashi. Heck, he restored Guy who was on the brink of death. Therefore, was\nit not possible for Naruto to take Obito's left eye, transplant it to Kakashi\nand then just restore Obito's lost eye? It would have been the perfect\nscenario with Kakashi having a new sharingan and Obito having his both eyes\nand being able to access the full power of Sharingan.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T15:48:50.503", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41337", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T17:51:22.517", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-12T16:08:49.250", "last_editor_user_id": "26241", "owner_user_id": "26241", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "After Madara stole Kakashi's sharingan, was it not possible for Naruto to take Obito's left eye and give it to Kakashi?", "view_count": 7462 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe Sharingan and Mangekyou Sharingan are caused by a special kind of ocular\nchakra originating in an Uchiha's brain. Usually, a cause of powerful emotion\nwill awaken the Sharingan, and great loss will evolve it into the Mangekyou.\nOnce unlocked, activating them is fairly easy. They can be transplanted, and\neven retain their abilities. Though it may have been an exception due to its\nspacetime powers, Kakashi's case showed it could even evolve to the Mangekyou\ndespite not being in an Uchiha. Kakashi could activate and deactivate the\nMangekyou form. However, he could never deactivate the Sharingan, and hence\nhad to cover up his Sharingan eye when not in use to preserve chakra.\n\nNext, after Obitos's death, he used his space time powers to transfer his\nchakra to Kakashi. By doing so, he also transfered his ocular chakra, which\ntemporarily awakened Obito's Mangekyou in Kakashi. Once that Chakra was used\nup and the Sharingan released, it was gone for good.\n\nLastly, there is one who went through a very similar situation, Madara. As\npointed out, Madara at one time had Obito's Mangekyou and his own Rinnegan. By\nhaving a 2nd eye, despite having unlocked the Rinnegan, did not evolve it into\na Rinnegan. He even transplanted regular Sharingan before his death, but they\ndid not evolve into Rinnegan either, despite up to several years between him\ngiving his Rinnegan to Nagato, transplanting the spare Sharingan and dying.\n\nNow, of course those were not Madara's real eyes, but the fact that he had the\nocular chakra required to awaken even the Rinnegan, but couldn't do so with a\nSharingan and a Mangekyou eye says a lot.\n\nWith all that established, We have a decent amount of evidence backing up what\nwould happen if Naruto grew a new eye for Obito. Most likely, what would\nhappen is the new eye would be a normal Uchiha eye, which is almost identical\nto any other regular eye. It would have the potential to unlock the Sharingan\nand Mangekyou Sharingan, and Obito could probably more easily unlock them than\nnormal, but its impossible to say if it would happen immediately, take months\nto do so, or anywhere in between.\n\nSo, transplanting Obito's left eye into Kakashi, and then having Naruto regrow\nObitos eye would likely be able to create 2 eyes with Obito's Mangekyou\npowers, given an unknown amount of time before he could reawaken his powers.\n\nThat however shows the main reason why they didn't do so, besides the\nsituation preventing them from thinking about it. They couldn't risk it not\nworking instantly. Obito was under Zetsus control until Kaguya showed up, and\nthey needed everything they had to just barely pull off that victory. Obito\nhaving his left eye's powers is what both got Sasuke out of the dimension\nKaguya threw him into alone, and saved Kakashi from her All-Killing Ash Bones.\nThe odds that his new left eye being fully awakened to Mangekyou within the\nfew minutes before it was needed are slim to none. Then after it was used\ntwice in critical circumstances, he turned to ash.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T17:51:22.517", "id": "41342", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T17:51:22.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20610", "parent_id": "41337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nWhen the user uses taijutsu like Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms for example,\nI understand that it uses chakra. However, what if the user is just\nrunning/punching/kicking/etc? This still counts as taijutsu, right? Does this\nuse the user's chakra?\n\nPunching and kicking will probably exhaust the user eventually, so is this\nproof that it uses chakra? In other words, when a user uses up his/her chakra,\nthey feel exhausted. Does the reverse hold true(exhaustion means lack of\nchakra left)?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T17:30:58.343", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41341", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-17T15:51:25.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34586", "post_type": "question", "score": 8, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Does taijutsu drain chakra?", "view_count": 1792 }
[ { "body": "\n\nFrom <http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra>:\n\n> Chakra is created when two other forms of energy, known collectively as\n> one's \"stamina\", are moulded together. Physical energy is collected from\n> each and every one of the body's cells and can be increased through\n> training, stimulants, and exercise. Spiritual energy is derived from the\n> mind's consciousness and can be increased through studying, meditation, and\n> experience.\n\nSo, in case of taijutsu, the user uses kicks, punches, etc to fight. To\nperform these actions the user definitely requires normal energy produced by\nthe cells in the body. Now this part of chakra (physical energy) is required\nto produce chakra. If the user uses this \"physical energy\" faster, which is\nthe case for taijutsu, the amount of chakra produced will be less. So the user\ndoesn't use chakra, just its production gets limited. Now in case of the 8\ngates also, no chakra is used. Opening the gates removes the physical\nlimitation on the body like more muscle movement.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T18:39:17.067", "id": "41343", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-17T15:51:25.917", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-17T15:51:25.917", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "33332", "parent_id": "41341", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, taijutsu by itself will not use chakra but it will use up a portion of it.\nLet me explain.\n\nChakra is made by combining both the spiritual and physical energy in all of\nthe 13 trillion or so cells in the human body (as stated by Sakura in the\nNaruto bridge arc).\n\nWhile ninjutsu and probably genjutsu as well use up chakra (physical energy\nand spiritual energy), taijutsu just uses up physical energy. So no it doesn't\nuse up chakra : just one of the ingredients.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T01:57:10.600", "id": "41545", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-27T13:05:34.273", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-27T13:05:34.273", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "34809", "parent_id": "41341", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41348", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhen a jinchuuriki goes into version 2 mode, the number of tails that they\nhave can be different from the number of tails their tailed beast has. For\nexample, Naruto, the 9-tail jinchurriki, only had 6 tails in his fight against\nPain. My question is does the user have to start at 1 tail and move his/her\nway up? Can they have more tails than their tailed beast has(6-tail\njinchurriki getting 9 tails in version 2 mode)? Also, can the user control how\nmany tails they have or are they not in control anymore in version 2? I ask\nthis because Naruto seems out of control in this mode(hitting teammates like\nSakura that one time).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T19:30:52.030", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41345", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T22:28:24.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34586", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Can a jinchuuriki control how many tails their version 2 mode has?", "view_count": 548 }
[ { "body": "\n\n**Does the user have to start at 1 tail and move his/her way up?**\n\nNo, they do not need to work their way up from 1 tails. As we see in [this\nyoutube](https://youtu.be/aHiAupEJCmw?t=302) video, we see Killer Bee\ntransform directly into 8-Tailed Version\n\n**Can they have more tails than their tailed beast has?**\n\nPlausible, but why would it? According to [Jinchūriki\nForms](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jinch%C5%ABriki_Forms) wiki, we mostly see\nversion 2 only having the same number of tails based off of the tailed beast,\nbut there does not seem to be any reason how the 1-tailed would be able to\nhave a 9-tailed form\n\n> Most jinchūriki have only been seen to enter a Version 2 state with the same\n> number of tails as their corresponding beast\n\nNaruto is the only Jinchūriki we see that contains different number of tails\n\n> Naruto is also an exception, for he has only been seen in a Version 2 state\n> with four and six tails (and seven tails in the anime)\n\n**Also, can the user control how many tails they have or are they not in\ncontrol anymore in version 2?**\n\nThis depends on who is on control and if the Jinchūriki and Tailed Beast are\nin unison . The reason why he attacked Sakura while in version 2 is because,\nat the time, he and Kurama were not in unison\n\n> As the seal that kept Kurama contained weakened over the years, he became\n> increasingly susceptible to its influence. By fully submitting to the beast\n> and his own rage, Naruto would grant Kurama full control of his body who\n> then formed a Version 2 shroud around him. Naruto's ability to distinguish\n> between friend and foe vanishes and he attacks in whatever way will enable\n> him to defeat his target, oblivious to the consequences of the attack\n\nIn multiple instances, Killer Bee is able to enter in Version 2 and maintain\nthe ability to determine friend and foe due to him and Eight Tails being in\nunison\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T22:28:24.323", "id": "41348", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T22:28:24.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20275", "parent_id": "41345", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41351", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nMost alchemist title's make sense, e.g. Mustang is the Flame Alchemist,\nArmstrong is the Strong Arm Alchemist, there is Freezing Alchemist that uses\nprimarily ice, Sewing-Life Alchemist that made human/animal chimera's, etc.\n\nWhat, if any, is the reasoning behind Kimblee's title?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T23:28:39.407", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41350", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-13T02:56:53.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34591", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series", "fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood" ], "title": "Why is Kimblee the Crimson/Red Lotus Alchemist?", "view_count": 3436 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [wikia article for\nKimblee](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Solf_J._Kimblee)...\n\n> In the manga, Kimblee uses this array to transmute ordinary matter into\n> explosives by clapping his hands together. By combining the contradictory\n> symbols of the sun and moon, gold and silver, water and fire, the Crimson\n> Lotus Alchemist creates an unstable imbalance of energy in whatever matter\n> he touches, causing it to explode violently.\n\nThe trivia section below then states:\n\n> The kanji that makes up Kimblee's State Alchemist name in Japanese (紅蓮\n> Guren) is a source of contention among translators. While the word \"Guren\"\n> can be translated as \"Crimson\", the kanji (紅蓮) suggests another possible\n> translation that reads \"Red Lotus\" or \"Crimson Lotus\". As the Crimson Lotus\n> is often used as symbolism for fiery explosions, it is most likely that Red\n> Lotus or Crimson Lotus is Kimblee's true name despite Guren having been\n> translated as Crimson in the subtitles of the first anime series and both\n> English dubs.\n\nSo the answer appears to be that because his alchemy is know for large, fiery\nexplosions, he was named after the Red Lotus, which can symbolize the same\nthing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T02:56:53.883", "id": "41351", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-13T02:56:53.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34591", "parent_id": "41350", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41367", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Code Geass, those gigantic machines called Knightmare Frames evolve during\nthe show. It starts with a mere robot that can only carry a gun and it ends\nwith flying machines, shields, and the anime's equivalent of a hydrogen bomb.\n\nSo I was wondering, **what are the different stages of Knightmares'\nevolution**?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T08:45:50.883", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41354", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-14T00:03:12.923", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-13T20:13:50.097", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "32156", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "code-geass" ], "title": "What are the different knightmare generations?", "view_count": 1771 }
[ { "body": "\n\nthere is a total of 9 generations or \"Ages\" according to the\n[wikia](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Knightmare_Frame#History).\n\nto summarize\n\n### 1st Generation\n\nthese were effective just walking cockpits according to the wikia and weren't\noutfitted with weapons. though we have seen no examples of these considering\nthat the [Cockpit Ejection\nSystem](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Cockpit_Ejection_System) was developed\nwe can imagine the normal Knightmare Cockpits with legs\n\n### 2nd Generation\n\nthis generation came about after the creation of several common systemd found\nin Knightmares like [Factsphere\nSensor](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Factsphere_Sensor) and [Landspinner\nPropulsion\nSystem](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Landspinner_Propulsion_System). this\nallowed for the early Knightmare Frame prototypes to be developed. however\nthese new technologies behaved erratically so the research was outsourced to a\nBritannian Army Special Division, the 'Special Dispatch Guidance System\nDivision', and a private group, the Ashford Foundation. it was also in this\ngeneration that the term \"Knightmare Frame\" was born\n\n> The bipedal weapon was nicknamed 'Knightmare' by the Army but its non-\n> offensive equipment was referred to as 'Frame' by civilians. The union of\n> those two terms gave birth to the name 'Knightmare Frame'.\n\n### 3rd Generation\n\nresearch done by the Special Dispatch Guidance System Division and the Ashford\nFoundation lead to the development of combat-effective Knightmares. this also\npushed the value of Sakuradite due to it being paramount in making the\nKnightmare Frames perform to expectations.\n\nthe 3rd Generation is infact the earliest generation we see in the shown with\nthe only one being the prototype\n[Ganymede](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Ganymede) and its test pilot was\nMarianne. it was this which quickly made famous and being granted knighthood\nbefore she was married. however her assassination lead to the Ashford\nFoundation retiring from the Knightmare R&D\n\n### 4th Generation\n\nthe [RPI-11 Glasgow](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Glasgow) is the most\ncommonly shown 4th gen Knightmare and was the first mass production unit for\nthe platform. it was also the RPI-11 Glasgow which allowed the Britannian\nEmpire to easily dominate Japan during the invasion in 2010 and became their\nbaseline unit for the military.\n\nwhile it later becomes obsolete it is still used by the [Knight\npolice](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Knightpolice) and other\ncountries/factions use the Glasgow as their base for Knightmare Development\nlike the [Burai](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Burai) which is produced by\nthe Kyoto House for the Black Knights and the Japan Liberation Front\n\n### 5th Generation\n\nDue to Britannia's success in Japan with the Glagow this generation saw the\ndevelopment of Anti-Knightmare weapons leading to create the [RPI-13\nSutherland](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/RPI-13_Sutherland) design to take\non other Knightmares.\n\n### 6th Generation\n\nthe 6th generation showed no real improvement with Knightmares and thus is\nreferred to as the \"Missing Generation\". despite this and it's seemingly\noverwhelming power the [Gawain](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Gawain) is a\n6th generation model privately developed by Schneizel el Britannia and later\n(much to Lloyd Asplund's annoyance) perfected by Rakshata Chawla. also despite\nit being seen used more often by a 7th Gen Prototype the Gawain was actually\nthe first Knightmare to use the [Float\nSystem](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Float_System)\n\n### 7th Generation\n\nthe [Lancelot](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Lancelot) was the first\nsignificant innovation in the technology and lead to the development of the\n[Vincent](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Vincent) series of mass production\nunit. however the Lancelot still remained as a unique unit due to the\ndevelopment of experimental technologies not found in the Vincent such as the\n[BlazeLuminous](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Blaze_Luminous) shields\n\n### 8th Generation\n\nthe 8th generation was primarily seen during the second season with\nadvancements in Knightmares being lead by the heads of Camelot Division, Lloyd\nAsplund and Cécile Croomy for Britannia and by Rakshata Chawla for the Black\nKnights. the Knights of the round all use 8th Gen Knightmares as such prior to\nthis (and possibly prior to Susaku's appointment as a Knight of the Round) if\nthey did use Knightmares they were probably 5th Generation, possibly\nGloucesters considering Cornelia and her bodyguards use of them.\n\n### 9th Generation\n\nas of the end of the second season this is the pinnacle of Knightmare\nDevelopment with there only being 2 units, the [Lancelot\nAlbion](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Lancelot_Albion) and the [Guren\nS.E.I.T.E.N.](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Guren_S.E.I.T.E.N.), both of\nthese making use of the improved Float System called the Energy Wing.\n\nIt is possible that there may be a mass production series of the 9th\ngeneration or even more generations after thus the years following the Zero\nRequiem however until the release of _Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection_\nwe wont know for sure\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T00:03:12.923", "id": "41367", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-14T00:03:12.923", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "41354", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41397", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nKnightmare Frames are humanoid war machines developed by the Holy Britannian\nEmpire and unveiled during the invasion of Japan.\n\nIs there any known scientist behind their creation, like how Nina created\nFLEIJA?\n\n[![Knightmares](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9YhLcm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9YhLcm.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T08:50:46.563", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41355", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-15T18:46:37.203", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-13T20:13:21.487", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "32156", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "code-geass" ], "title": "Who originally created the Knightmare Frames?", "view_count": 247 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe earliest known developers of knightmare frames were the Ashford Foundation\nwih their development of the third generation Ganymede and the Io series.\nHowever, both of those models were cancelled at the prototype stage because\nthe Ashford Foundation closed down. The cost to develop the nightmares were\ntoo high and Milly's grandfather was too much of a fan of old fashioned\nextravagant parties. After that he used his party connections to move to Area\n11 and to become principal of what is now known as the Ashford Academy.\n\nThey talk about all this in the second picture drama, stage 3.25.\n\nAside from Milly's grandfather the only other known developers are Lloyd,\nCecile, and Rakshata.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-15T14:47:36.277", "id": "41397", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-15T18:46:37.203", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-15T18:46:37.203", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "41355", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nThere is a question regarding [the respawn time of regular Devil Fruits\n(DF)](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13660/how-long-does-devil-\nfruit-take-to-re-spawn-after-the-death-of-user?rq=1), but I am interested in\nthe possibility of creating an immortal army using the same one-time DF,\nnamely the _Ope Ope no Mi_ and the _Yomi Yomi no Mi_.\n\nThe _Ope Ope no Mi_ can perform the \"Perennial Youth Operation\" which kills\nthe DF user and gives eternal youth (and so potentially eternal life) to the\nsubject. The _Yomi Yomi no Mi_ enables the soul of the user to return to his\nbody **after his death**.\n\nDoes the _Ope Ope no Mi_ respawn after the Perennial Youth Operation (the\nuser's death) or after the death of the operated person? Does the _Yomi Yomi\nno Mi_ respawn after the \"First\" death or after the soul leaves this world\nforever?\n\nAt least for the _Ope Ope no Mi_ there is no body left to contain the fruit's\npowers and after Doflamingo wanted to become immortal by Rosinante eating the\nfruit and performing the operation, the powers can not be stored in the\noperated person's body.\n\nCould one create an army of immortals using one of this DFs?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T12:47:13.187", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41357", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-25T14:42:59.187", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-13T13:19:04.310", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33164", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "When do \"immortal\" Devil Fruits respawn?", "view_count": 2334 }
[ { "body": "\n\nNo, these fruits cannot create an immortal army, they are not designed with\nthat in mind. Even after giving someone eternal youth, that is all he will\nget, he will just remain \"young\" forever. Anyone will still be able to kill\nthe user in a fight, he may die to an accident etc. The same applies Yomi Yomi\nno Mi, you get another life but you are not immortal. Also, even if someone\nhas the Yomi Yomi no mi, and his head gets cut there is no body to return,\nbecause he will die again immeditally.\n\nOpe Ope no Mi respawns after the users death (the one who eat the fruit)\nbecause the person who gained eternal life has no \"connection\" with the fruit\nitself.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T18:19:09.957", "id": "41365", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-13T18:19:09.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27678", "parent_id": "41357", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, you got it wrong. The Ope Ope no Mi only gives eternal youth, and\nthe Yomi Yomi no Mi gives 1 extra shot at life and it's not as overpowered as\nit sounds.\n\nIf you were to perform the eternal surgery on someone like Makino, she would\njust live forever and wouldn't become stronger or invincible. She would just\nget the ability to never die from old age.\n\nIt's the same with the Yomi Yomi fruit, which only gives you an extra life.\nFor instance, if you drown because you ate the Yomi Yomi no Mi, a devil fruit,\nwhen your soul comes back you will just drown again and then be dead for good.\nIt doesn't give you any extra power.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T02:38:23.150", "id": "41550", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T14:27:12.467", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-26T14:27:12.467", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "34809", "parent_id": "41357", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI just watched both seasons of the Gunslinger Girl anime adaptation. I'm not\nsure if this is addressed in the show or the manga, but why are all the\ncyborgs female? I take it that they are kids because it's easier to condition\nthem - are there any male cyborgs in the manga?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T14:44:05.723", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41360", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-11T17:34:58.677", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-13T16:39:52.367", "last_editor_user_id": "261", "owner_user_id": "261", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "gunslinger-girl" ], "title": "Why are all the agency cyborgs female?", "view_count": 247 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe simple answer here is that this is what makes up a \"Fratello\" team, an\nolder male handler and his young girl cyborg. This relationship is a really\nimportant theme throughout the series. They are young because they are easier\nto condition, plucked from traumatic experiences so they can form a strong new\nbond with their handler who has complete control over the conditioning and how\nmuch is needed. Like with the instance with Triela, where she sometimes\nexpressed a bit of a rebellious (for lack of a better word) tendency toward\nher Hilshire, understanding the situation she's in and what the conditioning\ndoes, her bond with her handler trumps everything. Also see: Elsa, where her\nbond with her handler was so strong that it went to extremes (death).\n\nI remember reading somewhere that this sort of relationship was easier to\ncontrol as opposed to an older Female (or male) with a young boy, where the\nboy could be less cooperative and obedient, but I can't find that reference\nright now.\n\nTo answer your other question: No, there were no male cyborgs.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T15:33:58.413", "id": "41361", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-13T15:33:58.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "41360", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn the Naruto world, is it possible to get hurt directly by your own chakra?\nFor example, Naruto's Rasengan is a manifestation of his chakra, so is\nSasuke's Chidori, and Itachi's Fire Style jutsu. If Naruto were to\naccidentally hit himself with his own Rasengan, would it affect him the same\nway it would if he used it on someone else? Because it's his own chakra, would\nhis body just absorb it? Same goes for Sasuke's Chidori and Fire Style jutsu.\nIf Itachi blew a fireball into the wind and it came back and hit him, would he\nbe hurt by it?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T15:37:13.843", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41362", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-05T14:54:52.517", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-05T14:54:52.517", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "34586", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Can a user be hurt by his own chakra?", "view_count": 791 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIn the Fourth Shinobi War, we discover that you can get hurt by your own\nchakra.\n\nThe best example is Naruto versus the Third Raikage. [![enter image\ndescription\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OFiC2.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OFiC2.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T15:58:58.853", "id": "41364", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-13T15:58:58.853", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15549", "parent_id": "41362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nTo strike a finer point on this, one can be hurt by their own **moulded** or\neffectively weaponized chakra. It isn't the case that we've seen unmoulded or\nnon-weaponized chakra harm the originator.\n\nIt's important to note that chakra wasn't initially weaponized.\n[Ninshu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ninsh%C5%AB), the precursor to ninjitsu,\nwas originally meant to spread energies and thoughts between others, and to\nallow people to live in relative peace.\n\nAs an example, Naruto's\n[_Rasenshuriken_](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Release:_Rasenshuriken)\nwhen used as a normal _Rasengan_ actively damaged his body to the point that\nTsunade wished it classified as a forbidden jutsu to prevent irreparable\ndamage to him.\n\nAnother instance would be fully opening all Eight Gates. In this context the\nchakra is being expelled from one's body to the degree that it is taking\nsignificant physical damage. Might Guy opened all eight, and due to that fact\n(and the fact that normally one _would_ die from that, but he was saved by\nNaruto), he's wheelchair bound and unable to be a ninja. Lesser damage has\nbeen incurred by Rock Lee when he's opened up fewer gates, and has ended up in\nthe hospital due to its side effects*.\n\nThe main effects of using the Eight Gates would _also_ be damage to one's\nbones, but those are a direct result of taijutsu, and not necessarily the\nchakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T03:18:40.213", "id": "41369", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-14T03:18:40.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "41362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAny form of physical chakra can damage anyone, even the one who produced it.\nWhen Tsunade challenges Naruto to master the Rasengan in part 1, Naruto's\nhands are severely injured.... that's one of many examples of self chakra\ninjury.\n\nAlso are we forgetting the fact that Itachi used his own crow Kotoamatsukami\nto place genjutsu on himself when he was in Edo Tensei? So not only physical\nbut mental as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-18T02:57:26.253", "id": "41432", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-18T03:01:36.640", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-18T03:01:36.640", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "34674", "parent_id": "41362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41380", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn episode 1 of New Game 2, around 9:40, there is a shot of the code that Nene\nhas written:\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRFI2.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRFI2.png)\n\nHere is it in text form with the comments translated:\n\n[code]\n\n // the calculation of damage when attacked\n void DestructibleActor::ReceiveDamage(float sourceDamage) \n {\n // apply debuffs\n auto resolvedDamage = sourceDamage;\n for (const auto& debuf:m_debufs)\n {\n resolvedDamage = debuf.ApplyToDamage(resolvedDamage);\n m_currentHealth -= resolvedDamage\n if (m_currentHealth <= 0.f)\n {\n m_currentHealth = 0.f;\n DestroyMe();\n }\n }\n }\n \n[/code]\n\nAfter the shot, Umiko, pointing at the for loop, said that the reason why the\ncode crashed is that there is an infinite loop.\n\nI don't really know C++ so I'm not sure whether what she is saying is true.\n\nFrom what I can see, the for loop is just iterating through the debufs that\nthe Actor currently has. Unless the Actor has an infinite amount of debufs, I\ndon't think it can possibly become an infinite loop.\n\nBut I'm not sure because the only reason that there is a shot of the code is\nthat they wanted to put an easter egg here, right? We would have just gotten a\nshot of the back of the laptop and heard Umiko saying \"Oh you've got an\ninfinite loop there\". The fact that they actually showed some code makes me\nthink that somehow the code is an easter egg of some sort.\n\nWill the code actually create an infinite loop?\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T10:44:03.757", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41372", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-30T15:17:33.697", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33156", "post_type": "question", "score": 28, "tags": [ "new-game" ], "title": "Is code in episode 1 of New Game 2 actually an infinite loop?", "view_count": 6708 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe code does not seem to create an infinite loop.\n\nThe only way the loop would be infinite would be if\n\n[code]\n\n debuf.ApplyToDamage(resolvedDamage);\n \n[/code]\n\nor\n\n[code]\n\n DestroyMe();\n \n[/code]\n\nwere to add new items to the `m_debufs` container.\n\nThis seems unlikely. And if it were the case, the program could crash because\nof changing the container while being iterated.\n\nThe program would most likely crash because of the call to `DestroyMe();`\nwhich presumably destroys the current object that is currently running the\nloop.\n\nWe can think of it as the cartoon where the 'bad guy' saws a branch to have\nthe 'good guy' fall with it, but realizes too late that he's on the wrong side\nof the cut. Or the Midgaard Snake eating it's own tail.\n\n* * *\n\nI should also add that the most common symptom of an infinite loop is that it\nfreezes the program or makes it not responsive. It will crash the program if\nit allocates memory repeatedly, or does something that ends up dividing by\nzero, or the likes.\n\n* * *\n\nBased on the comment by [Aki Tanaka\n](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2516/aki-tanaka),\n\n> Probably helpful: [additional\n> screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I5vHa.jpg) of Umiko saying that \"It\n> was calling the same operation over and over again\", which might not be\n> shown in the code.\n\n_\" It was calling the same operation over and over again\"_ This is more\nlikely.\n\nAssuming that `DestroyMe();` is not designed to be called more than once, it\nis more likely to cause a crash.\n\nA way to fix this issue would be to change the `if` for something like this:\n\n[code]\n\n if (m_currentHealth <= 0.f)\n {\n m_currentHealth = 0.f;\n DestroyMe();\n break;\n }\n \n[/code]\n\nThis would exit the loop when the DestructibleActor is destroyed, making sure\nthat 1) the `DestroyMe` method is called only once and 2) don't apply buffs\nuselessly once the object is already considered dead.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T12:01:36.123", "id": "41378", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-30T15:17:33.697", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-30T15:17:33.697", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "41372", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe code is not an infinite loop but it is a bug.\n\nThere's two (possibly three) issues:\n\n * If no debufs are present no damage will be applied at all\n * Excessive damage will be applied if there is more than 1 debuf\n * If DestroyMe() immediately deletes the object and there are still m_debufs to be processed the loop will be executing over a deleted object and trashing memory. Most game engines have a destroy queue to work around this and more so that may not be an issue.\n\nThe application of damage should be outside the loop.\n\nHere's the corrected function:\n\n[code]\n\n // the calculation of damage when attacked\n void DestructibleActor::ReceiveDamage(float sourceDamage) \n {\n // apply debuffs\n auto resolvedDamage = sourceDamage;\n for (const auto& debuf:m_debufs)\n {\n resolvedDamage = debuf.ApplyToDamage(resolvedDamage);\n }\n m_currentHealth -= resolvedDamage\n if (m_currentHealth <= 0.f)\n {\n m_currentHealth = 0.f;\n DestroyMe();\n }\n }\n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T12:07:56.093", "id": "41380", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-14T12:37:18.997", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-14T12:37:18.997", "last_editor_user_id": "34613", "owner_user_id": "34613", "parent_id": "41372", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are several issues with the code:\n\n 1. If there are no debufs, no damage would be taken.\n 2. `DestroyMe()` function name sounds dangerous. Depending on how its implemented, it might or might not be an issue. If it's just a call to the destructor of the current object wrapped in a function, then there is an issue, as the object would be destroyed in the middle of it executing code. If it's a call to a function which queues the deletion event of the current object, then there is no issue, as the object would be destroyed after it completes its execution and the event loop kicks in.\n 3. The actual issue that seems to be mentioned in the anime, the \"It was calling the same operation over and over again\" -- it will call `DestroyMe()` as long as `m_currentHealth <= 0.f` and there are more debuffs left to iterate, which might result in `DestroyMe()` being called multiple times, over and over again. The loop should stop after the first `DestroyMe()` call, because deleting an object more than once results in memory corruption, which will likely result in a crash in the long run.\n\nI'm not really sure why every debuf takes away the health, instead of the\nhealth being taken away only once, with the effects of all debuffs being\napplied on the initial damage taken, but I will assume that's the correct game\nlogic.\n\nThe correct code would be\n\n[code]\n\n // the calculation of damage when attacked\n void DestructibleActor::ReceiveDamage(float sourceDamage) \n {\n // apply debuffs\n auto resolvedDamage = sourceDamage;\n for (const auto& debuf:m_debufs)\n {\n resolvedDamage = debuf.ApplyToDamage(resolvedDamage);\n m_currentHealth -= resolvedDamage\n if (m_currentHealth <= 0.f)\n {\n m_currentHealth = 0.f;\n DestroyMe();\n break;\n }\n }\n }\n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T18:07:42.637", "id": "41386", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-14T18:07:42.637", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34618", "parent_id": "41372", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41383", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nNote: we're already in episode 98 of Dragon Ball Super, yet, if it's\nconsidered this topic has to be hidden with the spoilers invisible tag, edit\nthe parts you consider relevant.\n\n**Details from episode 92 and 93 behind** :\n\nIn episode 92 of Dragon Ball Super Cabba teachs Caulifla how to turn into\nSuper Saiyan. And in episode 93, Caulifla, to save Cabba from Kale's attack\nturns into Super Saiyan 2. Is this supposed to happen all in the same day? Did\nCaulifla actually learn super saiyan 2 by her own and in the same day she\nlearnt super saiyan?\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jJQ5a.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jJQ5a.jpg)\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zj8Qo.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zj8Qo.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T12:55:41.053", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41381", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-17T16:15:09.090", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-14T15:17:21.030", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "Did Caulifla learn super saiyan and super saiyan 2 in the same day?", "view_count": 6848 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI'm afraid this is becoming a habit on Dragonball Super questions, but the\ncurrent answer as of Episode 98 is that _we do not know_.\n\nThe Saiyans from Universe 6 don't seem to have names for their forms. One\ncould guess that is because they're currently only Super Saiyans - just as we\ndidn't have the name Super Saiyan 2, or Ascended Saiyan until our Universe 7\nSaiyans reached those forms.\n\nOutside of the Universe 6 Saiyans saying \"I feel I've reached a level above\nSuper Saiyan\"/\"I feel I can change form again!\" or a Universe 7 character\nsaying \"I can't believe you've already reached Super Saiyan 2!\" we won't know\nfor sure.\n\nI would say we'll need to stop using Aura's as proof of forms. Not only do we\nnot know if the Universe 6 Saiyan transformation is completely analogous to\nUniverse 7 (since Universe 7 Saiyans never transformed by focusing on a single\nspot on their back), we also have seen Goku and Vegeta create a Ki-Aura to\nstop Lavender's poison attack yet was thought in at least one question on this\nsite to be some new form. Plus, IRL we have the animators using new animation\nstyles - they may just like using lightning around Caulifla to visually\nrepresent how she is a \"cut above\" the average Super Saiyan even in base form.\n\nEdit: as of episode 100, we have Caulifla specifically say she went Super\nSaiyan 2 in the same day however she did say that she was unable to return to\nthat form until Goku went Super Saiyan 2 to show her, so I'd say she didn't\n\"learn\" Super Saiyan 2 on that day. This is backed up by her going into what a\nDragonball Wiki calls [Super Saiyan Third\nGrade](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_Third_Grade) (The big-\nmuscle \"power but no speed\" SSJ form) instead of going SSJ2 - just like when\nGoku and Trunks did when they hadn't reached SSJ2.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T16:45:15.377", "id": "41383", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T12:23:57.830", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-24T12:23:57.830", "last_editor_user_id": "32196", "owner_user_id": "32196", "parent_id": "41381", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile there is no \"official\" answer, based on how the power up went and what\nwe know about transformation we can assume it was a super saiyan 2. Super has\ntaken an \"casual\" way with both character transformations and power ups, where\nbasically everyone has gotten an crazy boost, including master roshi.Even if\nyou look at the 7 universe, both Goten and Trunks could do a ssj\ntransformation without any problem.\n\nIf you look at the build of the saiyans from the 6 universe, they are much\nsmaller then the saiyans from the 7 universe and yet their base strength seems\nto be incedibly high. Cabbas base strength was same as Vegetas(and he seems to\nbe much younger), and we know how much Vegeta has trained to achieve that\npower. When then you account how fast they seem to learn things, i think its\nsafe to assume that they are \"biologically superior\" to the 7 universe\nsaiyans.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T19:34:36.583", "id": "41388", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-14T19:34:36.583", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27678", "parent_id": "41381", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think she will get Super Saiyan Blue but they are in another dimension\nand that leads me to think she's going to achieve Super Saiyan 3.\n\nAs of the latest DBS episode she achieved SSJ2 the same way she achieved SSJ\nwhich leads me to believe they're doing a cop out to how Super Saiyan forms\nwork.\n\nThey were originally based on anger felt intensely. So if anger is the trigger\nfor all Saiyan transformations and the tingly back thing just happens while\nthey're intensely angry.\n\nMuch like how people under high stress tend to get back pain.\n\nIt can be speculated that simply training in SSJ1 making the form easier to\nhold. Then gaining more power while training in SSJ1 will give you the needed\npush if you were to do the \"tingly back thing\" with your kei/chi energy's to\ntransform into SSJ2... which was what Caulifla just did in episode 100.\n\nSo having only Goku and Gotenks to go on for SSJ3 other dimension or not.. it\nseems very likely that Caulifla is going to attain SSJ3 but not have enough\npower to attain SSG/SSB. I wonder if Goku / Vegeta will tell them of the\nritual however and bypass the training some time later or if it will just\ninspire the other Saiyans to train harder.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T06:12:49.090", "id": "41519", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-17T16:15:09.090", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-17T16:15:09.090", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "34775", "parent_id": "41381", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI was watching Naruto Shippuden, episodes 35 to 45, and it is said many times\nthat Naruto's skin burns when under Kyuubi's chakra effects. In those\nepisodes, we see Naruto's skin is ripped off by Kyuubi's cloak when\ntransforming into fourth tails.\n\nWhy does Naruto still have clothes after Yamato reverts the 4 tailed state? If\nKyuubi's chakra destroys what is under the cloak, shouldn't Naruto be naked\nafter Yamato's jutsu?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-14T17:31:39.240", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41384", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-12T10:26:38.777", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-14T18:49:51.843", "last_editor_user_id": "20275", "owner_user_id": "34617", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Why does Naruto's clothes not burn after wearing the Kyuubi cloak?", "view_count": 2778 }
[ { "body": "\n\nWhat you're describing are side effects to what's actually happening; exposing\noneself to a bijuu's unfiltered chakra doesn't come at a cheap cost to the\nuser.\n\nThe jinchuriki forms vary, but in essence, [the host is regarded more as an\nendoskeleton](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jinch%C5%ABriki_Forms#Version_2)\nwhen transforming beyond Version 2 into partial and full tailed beast mode. A\nshroud of chakra surrounds the jinchuriki which is in the shape of (or is part\nof the shape of) the tailed beast within. From that, it stands to reason that\ntheir host is underneath the layers of chakra, quite well-clothed.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-15T00:36:54.870", "id": "41393", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-15T00:36:54.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "41384", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis my understanding on the matter. \nKyuubi's chakra destroys any thing in touch with it if they have chakra. Since\nthe clothing is not a living thing and is not receiving any chakra from any\nwhere and does not have a chakra flow in it, it will stand unharmed. But the\nskin has chakra points and a flow of chakra, so Kyuubi's chakra cloak will\nconnect with it and because the skin is not strong enough to handle and\nchannel Kyuubi's unfiltered chakra, it will burn away.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-15T08:07:15.197", "id": "41394", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-15T08:07:15.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25695", "parent_id": "41384", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn the original series the Super Saiyan is presented as a myth: according to\nVegeta when talking of the legend, he states that the last Super Saiyan\nexisted 1000 years ago. The mythical quality of the Super Saiyan persists\nduring the Frieza saga, and is taken as the reason Frieza decided to kill all\nSaiyans.\n\nNow in the 2011 OVA, Episode of Bardock, we learn that Bardock could turn into\nSuper Saiyan, and did so in the battle with Chilled.\n\nCan this incongruence be solved? How can the Super Saiyan be a myth/legend if\nat least one, Bardock, existed barely before the beginning of the original\nDragon Ball series?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-15T23:37:20.647", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41399", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-16T20:34:12.813", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-16T08:29:43.053", "last_editor_user_id": "15", "owner_user_id": "3480", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "dragon-ball" ], "title": "The Super Saiyan Legend", "view_count": 650 }
[ { "body": "\n\nBardock went back in time, so he could have become a super saiyan thousands of\nyears ago. Freezer attack created a wormhole who sent Bardock back in time. He\nfall in the past of the planet of the saiyans. According to this wikia, at\nleast one thousand years before the battle on planet Namek.\n\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball:_Episode_of_Bardock>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-16T00:57:47.020", "id": "41401", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-16T01:03:34.300", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-16T01:03:34.300", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "41399", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are 2 things to keep in mind there. 1.) Where did Bardock go (or more\nwhen) and 2.) The canonity of the films.\n\n**Where did Bardock go or more when:**\n\nWhen Freezer hit Bardock with his attack he was displaced in time a thousand\nyears into the past. And single handedly disposed of a member of freezers\nspecies by turning super saiyan. Chilled though survived the encounter at\nleast long enough to speak out a warning about a super saiyan.\n\nSo there is no real inconsistency if we take this into account. Saiyan myth\nsays 1000 years ago a super saiyan appeared and Freezer fears this LEGEND.\nBardock was a super saiyan 1000 years ago and put fear into chilled about a\nsuper saiyan.\n\nSo in total: No inconsistency there, aside from the flashback in the series\nwhere the super saiyan is shown as someone in a more ape like form than a\nnormal humanoid.\n\n**Canonity:**\n\nThe films are almost never considered to be part of the main canon and thus\nare often ignored in the series. For example the Broly films....no info from\nthem ever show up in any of the series aside from super now using a broly like\ntransformation for an universe 6 Saiyan.\n\nExceptions exist of course like 2 films being integrated (and remade) in\ndragonball super, but before that the events inside were largely ignored by\nthe main series (and often raised a few questions about abilities,... if they\nwould have not been ignored).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-16T20:34:12.813", "id": "41414", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-16T20:34:12.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13246", "parent_id": "41399", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41418", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAfter the anime stopped\n\n> Reiko (the Extra) was killed\n\nthat school year in 1998, right? Does that mean that the Calamity has stopped,\nor will it happen again next year?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-16T15:00:31.533", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41411", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-17T03:20:43.707", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18614", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "another" ], "title": "Does the Extra return next school year to class 3?", "view_count": 180 }
[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it can happen again as the Extra being killed has happened before.\n\nEarlier in the series, a former class 3 student Matsunaga was questioned about\nwhat happened to his class during a field trip. During this, it was revealed\nthat Matsunaga had accidentally killed the Extra and for a short while, he\nremembered this, and he made a recording about it.\n\nAt the end, Teshigawara and Mochizuki are shown to be re-recording Matsunaga's\nmessage but differently. Since killing the Extra prematurely stops the\nCalamity **for that year** , they gave caution about the actions to take\nagainst the Extra since it was learning how to stop the Calamity and the fear\nof losing Izumi Akazawa that made Takako Sugiura insane and rally the students\nto try and kill Mei.\n\nAs such, if killing the Extra was enough to permanently stop the Calamity,\nthen the events of Another wouldn't have happened. However, since this has\nbeen the second time that the Extra has died, then we can assume that the\nCalamity can and will happen again considering that [Another 2 was announced\nback in 2012](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-02-28/ayatsuji-\nplans-2-more-novels-of-horror-franchise-another).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-16T22:35:48.250", "id": "41418", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-17T03:20:43.707", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-17T03:20:43.707", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "41411", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "43748", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the 1st episode of Ansatsu Kyoushitsu [Assassination Classroom] season 2,\nan instrumental track plays in the background from 5:20 to 5:50. If anyone\nknows its name, please tell me.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-16T16:36:04.257", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41412", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-12T00:42:34.913", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-12T00:42:34.913", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "18561", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "music", "assassination-classroom" ], "title": "Which track is playing in S2E1 of Ansatsu Kyoushitsu?", "view_count": 566 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThis is \"Irina no Koigokoro\", which is track 5 on [the special CD bundled with\nS2 BD2](http://vgmdb.net/album/58512) (EYXA-10829B).\n[Here](https://clyp.it/tglyjy1y?token=31658c13c0ac8a4c89607aa067e697ce) is a\n15-second extract from the beginning of the track.\n\nSeems like an odd piece to be playing in a sequence where Karma and Manami are\ntalking (not about Irina), but it is what it is.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-12T00:41:52.863", "id": "43748", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-12T00:41:52.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "41412", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nWhat's the title of the soundtrack played in the scene where Azusa is talking\nto her toys in Ranma 1/2 Episode 20? It kinda sounds like Tchaikovsky.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-17T02:48:39.557", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41419", "last_activity_date": "2022-04-06T00:06:20.603", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18813", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "music", "ranma" ], "title": "What's the title of the soundtrack in Ranma 1/2 Episode 20?", "view_count": 188 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know the name of the soundtrack from the anime, but it sounds very\nmuch like Tchaikovsky's Allegro non troppo from Piano Concerto No. 1.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-23T13:02:43.913", "id": "48887", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-23T13:02:43.913", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42603", "parent_id": "41419", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI am referring to _Shikamaru's Story, A Cloud Drifting in the Silent Dark,\nPart 1: The State of Affairs_ episode.\n\nI played through the beginning of all the OST from the three albums of\n_Naruto_ and the three albums of _Naruto: Shippuden_ yet I can't seem to find\nit.\n\nIs it from a different album or is it a part of an OST? (I haven't listened\nfully to most of the OST from the six albums).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-17T14:40:57.483", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41422", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-17T23:20:58.130", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-17T15:30:03.787", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34664", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "naruto", "music" ], "title": "What OST is played at the beginning of Naruto: Shippuden episode 489 after the OP?", "view_count": 1247 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Shikamaru's Lazy Cloud theme\nsong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XivCZhbrng). It was never officially\nreleased\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-17T23:20:58.130", "id": "41429", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-17T23:20:58.130", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22142", "parent_id": "41422", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nWhen I see lists where they rank most powerful shinobi in Naruto, they\ngenerally rank Naruto near the top (usually 1 or 2). These lists generally\ndon't even have Kakashi in the top 25, yet Kakashi is a Jounin, whereas Naruto\nhas NEVER even been able to become a Chunin!\n\nSo at what point in the show is it that Naruto surpasses Kakashi?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-17T19:13:24.127", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41424", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-10T13:32:10.767", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-17T20:30:14.680", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "34669", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "At what point does Naruto surpass Kakashi?", "view_count": 23859 }
[ { "body": "\n\nNaruto surpasses kakashi by the pain arc after Naruto learns senjutsu. His\ngenin status is only a rank. You're forgetting that Naruto trained for Jiraiya\nfor three years and missed all the chunin exams in between.\n\nIf you really want to argue about Kakashi's Kamui and his Mangekyou Sharingan\nthat he somehow found out about it in Shippuden Naruto is still stronger. His\nchakra reserves aren't insane.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-18T02:53:45.577", "id": "41431", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-18T03:02:54.937", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-18T03:02:54.937", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "34674", "parent_id": "41424", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, Kakashi is a jounin, and yes Naruto didn't make it in the chuunin exam.\nBut you have to remember that these ninja ranks aren't based on power or\nstrength, but on discipline, tactical skill, and most importantly: _taking the\nexams_.\n\nAfter the chuunin exams in the beginning of the story, Naruto leaves the\nvillage and was never able to take another exam. After he grows up and comes\nback to the village, everybody (his schoolmates) is a chuunin and Neji is\nalready a jounin. He just didn't take the exams. I'm pretty sure he was\ndisciplined and trained enough to make it to jounin.\n\nKakashi might be a genius tactician and skilled in everything ninjutsu,\ngenjutsu and taijutsu BUT he has the chakra content of a small puppy, as seen\n[here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r4n6J.jpg), so in the general rank of power,\nhe can't make it very far.\n\nBut that's about it, actually. His lack of chakra is his great downfall.\n\nI would actually argue that Naruto surpassed Kakashi right about the beginning\nof Shippuden. Now, Naruto didn't have control over kyuubi then yet, nor did he\nhave sage mode then BUT STILL, if he could dodge few raikiris (I remember this\nnumber being three, but couldn't find sources) that Kakashi is able to\nproduce, he could beat him. At that time, it would be the battle of Naruto's\nlife, but two chakra tails from Kyuubi would probably be able to handle that.\nIf you think that that's too early, go forward a few episodes (40 to 43) and\nyou have Naruto almost killing Orochimaru, that is\n[reportedly](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_and_Orochimaru:_Face-to-\nFace!) stronger than Kakashi.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-18T11:52:59.437", "id": "41438", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-10T13:32:10.767", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-10T13:32:10.767", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "22922", "parent_id": "41424", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is highly opinion based question. The lists you might be referring to are\nmostly personal rankings by individuals who are using bias/potential to rank\nindividual Ninjas. For Example, Ina-Shika-Cho may be great in a team, but lose\nout individually. However, I'll try to answer the question based on canon\ninformation only.\n\nNaruto surpassed Kakashi in terms of Raw Strength and power as a Ninja, when\nhe mastered the Wind Style: Rasenshuriken. This is proven by the fact that he\ndefeats a Ninja Kakashi had trouble with in his 2nd attack and pretty much one\nshots him.\n\nThis was an achievement that showcases Naruto's persistence and talent as a\nNinja, creating a move that both his Father and Sensei (Kakashi, Jiraiya)\ncouldn't do. He had been moving up the chain for several instances (like\ndefeating Itachi duplicate), but this is the most clear demarkation of his\nprowess is beating Kakazu 1v1 with his Rasenshuriken. This is further proven\nby the fact that **Kakashi himself said it wondering if Naruto had surpassed\nhim.[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PAnPH.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PAnPH.png).**\n\nLater also Kakashi admits to Naruto, that he might be even stronger than him\nnow. [![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uPjIm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uPjIm.png)\n\nFinally, The moment where everyone acknowledges Naruto's strength and talent\nis clearly beating Pain. Jiraiya and Kakashi died fighting Pain, while Naruto\nwas able to beat him soundly. This moment, leaves no premise for confusion. So\nsomewhere between Kakuzu and Pain Naruto had surpassed Kakashi!\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-18T16:19:31.660", "id": "41443", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-18T16:27:36.180", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-18T16:27:36.180", "last_editor_user_id": "6368", "owner_user_id": "6368", "parent_id": "41424", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI've heard this music playing in a lot of episodes but in episode 95 of Hunter\nx Hunter it plays at 21:19? what music is this?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-17T20:37:26.183", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41426", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-15T05:31:24.860", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-17T23:27:43.180", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "34671", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "music", "hunter-x-hunter" ], "title": "What music is playing in episode 95 of Hunter x Hunter?", "view_count": 585 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe music you are searching for is a part of the HunterxHunter OST , Legend Of\nthe Martial Artist , you can find it [here](https://youtu.be/_T6oBCiIWeY).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-18T09:56:23.783", "id": "41437", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-16T04:36:07.247", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-16T04:36:07.247", "last_editor_user_id": "36569", "owner_user_id": "22960", "parent_id": "41426", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThere's a kid wearing a shirt with Uchiha symbol, but I have no idea who s/he\nis.\n\n![Uchiha still has \"this\" person](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HIK4b.png)\n\nWho is this kid?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-18T16:43:54.667", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41445", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-11T19:27:40.877", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-19T02:27:26.990", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34683", "post_type": "question", "score": 11, "tags": [ "naruto" ], "title": "Who is this running kid wearing a shirt with Uchiha symbol?", "view_count": 4239 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAfter doing some digging around, I discovered this scene is from the episode\n[The Night of the\nTragedy](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Tragedy). According to\nthe wiki, this is simply just an animation error\n\n> **Trivia**\n>\n> In one scene, there is an animation error that an Academy student is shown\n> having an Uchiha crest on the back of his shirt, despite that scene\n> happening after the incident.\n\nWe know for a fact that [there are very few Uchiha\nremaining](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/12/list-of-surviving-\nuchiha). While it is plausible, as @Hostile Amigo mentioned, that not every\nUchiha was present during the incident, this episode is part of the _Kakashi:\nShadow of the ANBU Black Ops_ filler arc and shouldn't be counted towards\ncanon.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-20T17:50:15.370", "id": "41482", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-21T00:36:48.937", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "20275", "parent_id": "41445", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41462", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI am mainly wondering about Zorori's age, I've seen a lot of the episodes and\nhaven't found out yet. If you can, please give the episode number or the canon\nsource that verifies your answer\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T05:54:34.983", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41458", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-07T12:14:22.787", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T06:06:14.500", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "kaiketsu-zorori" ], "title": "How old are Ishishi, Noshishi, and Zorori?", "view_count": 725 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIn the anime, Zorori age was never mentioned.\n\nHowever, in the spin-off manga, despite his young appearance, Zorori's age is\nover 120 years.\n\n * In the original manga series, ほうれんそうマン ( _Hourensou Man_ , Spinach Man), the 1st volume, titled へんし〜んほうれんそうマン ( _Henshi~n Hourensou Man_ , Transform Spinach Man) has a scene of Zorori's 100th birthday. (source: [Japanese Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%BB%E3%81%86%E3%82%8C%E3%82%93%E3%81%9D%E3%81%86%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3)).\n * On volume 15, titled かいけつゾロリつかまる!! ( _Kaiketsu Zorori Tsukamaru!!_ , \"Kaiketsu Zorori Arrested!!\"), there's a newspaper about his fugitive warrant with the text 「かいけつゾロリ(109)」 ( _Kaiketsu Zorori (109)_ ), which means that he was 109 years old at that time. (source: [hensachi60's tweet (Japanese)](https://twitter.com/hensachi60/status/601726597717069825))\n * On volume 46, titled かいけつゾロリ きょうふのようかいえんそく ( _Kaiketsu Zorori Kyōfu no Youkai Ensoku_ , \"Kaiketsu Zorori, the Terrifying Monster Field Trip\"), it's mentioned that his age was 124 years old. (source: [Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanese)](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1296896127))\n\nThe boar brothers Ishishi and Noshishi's ages, however, are never mentioned at\nall.\n\n* * *\n\nReference:\n\n * [Japanese Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8B%E3%81%84%E3%81%91%E3%81%A4%E3%82%BE%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AA#.E7.99.BB.E5.A0.B4.E3.82.AD.E3.83.A3.E3.83.A9.E3.82.AF.E3.82.BF.E3.83.BC)\n * [pixiv encyclopedia (Japanese)](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%82%BE%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AA)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T11:29:56.813", "id": "41462", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-07T12:14:22.787", "last_edit_date": "2021-09-07T12:14:22.787", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "41458", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\n[Episode 101](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gotta_See!_Gotta_Know!_Kakashi-\nSensei%27s_True_Face!) of Naruto is a joke episode; it is set in between major\nplot events and revolves around trying to figure out what is under Kakashi's\nmask. It's also [based](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/At_the_Ichiraku%E2%80%A6)\noff of an [omake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omake), which are often meant\nto be funny.\n\nIs it common to have entire episodes dedicated to just a joke, or to have them\nbased off of omake? While omake are relatively inexpensive to make, episodes\nare expensive, so it seems like this wouldn't be particularly common.\nAlternatively, it could be a useful way to fill up space in fillers in long\nanime, many of which I haven't seen. So, is this a common practice?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T13:13:19.297", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41463", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-21T09:12:55.147", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T15:21:38.847", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "93", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "tropes" ], "title": "Are joke episodes common in anime?", "view_count": 1479 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIt depends on the series.\n\nFor series who have a guided plot and who have a specific direction they're\ngoing in, like _Bleach_ or _Naruto_ , having a comedic episode appear once in\na while serves as filler, and something light-hearted for the audience to\nenjoy. For instance, non-plot-related episodes of Bleach involving Don\nKanon'ji were often joke episodes at intent, and Bleach even did an Arabian\nNights' episode in the middle of the major Hueco Mundo plotline.\n\n(I would argue, though, that Kakashi's true face became an ascended meme\nwithin the Naruto franchise due to the pervasive curiosity that Naruto and\nSakura have when they go to visit him in the hospital, and come _this_ close\nto actually seeing it.)\n\nLess guided shows like _Hayate the Combat Butler_ have joke episodes embedded\nand running alongside actual episodes to the extent that it becomes tough to\nfilter out the noise from the signal. However, with it being a gag anime, and\nit not getting ever serious (in animation), this is not only par for the\ncourse, but to be expected.\n\nI would say that it's not _common_ , but it largely depends on what\ndemographic the show is trying to hit, and how they're portraying themselves -\neither as a story, plot and resolution-style show, or as a gag show.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T14:45:23.110", "id": "41466", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-19T14:45:23.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "41463", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nJoke episodes or Fillers are quite common in anime which have many episodes\nlike Naruto, Bleach, One Piece etc. Usually the fillers are put after a long\nbattle or something substantially epic that has been happening over a number\nof episodes. There are few to no fillers in anime having less number of\nepisodes (20-24 ep per season). I recommend finding out all the fillers ep and\nskipping them to get to the man plot. I believe you are are watching Naruto so\nhere is the fillers list\n\n<http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto>\n\n<http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto-shippuden>\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T15:39:06.970", "id": "41467", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-19T15:44:29.217", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T15:44:29.217", "last_editor_user_id": "34711", "owner_user_id": "34711", "parent_id": "41463", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41493", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI know that Grisha was the Attack Titan before Eren ate him so that makes Eren\nthe Attack Titan now... right?\n\nI'm just not sure what to call his titan form. I know in the beginning they\nnamed him the Rogue Titan, but does it change now that we know he ate the\nAttack Titan? Most of the fandom calls him the Rogue Titan but I know a few\nthat call Eren's titan form the Attack Titan. So is it just majority rules or\nwhichever one you feel like calling him?\n\nI think of Eren being called the Attack Titan is more of a title than what you\nshould call his form... or is that the same thing?\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T14:10:41.693", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41465", "last_activity_date": "2019-06-10T12:15:03.683", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T14:13:51.307", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "31157", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "attack-on-titan" ], "title": "Is Eren Jaeger considered a Rogue Titan or an Attack Titan?", "view_count": 6717 }
[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to Chapter 88, pages 46-47,\n\n> we find out that the proper name for the titan form Eren is in possession of\n> is the **_Attack Titan_**. \n> \n> [![enter image description\n> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5kqKv.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5kqKv.jpg)\n\nHowever,\n\n> we do know that Eren's father, Grisha Yeager, consumed the Founding Titan\n> thus combining two titan forms into one. Once Grisha reached the 13-year\n> limit, he forced his son to consume him so that his titan-shifting abilities\n> would pass on to his son. That being said, even though Eren is technically\n> in possession of both the Founding Titan and Attack Titan forms, **_he is\n> still referred to as the Attack Titan_**.\n\nWhen he was referred to as the Rogue Titan,\n\n> it was not a form they were referring to but rather an alignment. Eren's\n> titan, unlike the other titan-shifters, was aligned with the Eldians on\n> Paradis Island and not with the titan-shifters waging war against them.\n> Think of the temporary name as a way that the Eldians initially\n> distinguished the Attack Titan from the other titan-shifters. Once the\n> Eldians learned the actual name of Eren's titan form, they stopped using\n> Rogue Titan as a descriptor and used Attack Titan instead.\n\nAgain, just to be clear, Eren's titan form is called the\n\n> Attack Titan.\n\nAnd Rogue Titan,\n\n> was used only as a means to describe Eren's titan when the Eldians did not\n> know the actual name of Eren's titan form.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-21T22:10:34.093", "id": "41493", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-21T22:18:45.377", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-21T22:18:45.377", "last_editor_user_id": "32833", "owner_user_id": "32833", "parent_id": "41465", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI would say they call him the attack titan or the coordinate.Realistically\nspeaking all titan shifters shown within the show turn out to have been at\nrisk of getting eaten according to the manga.In the anime when the female\ntitan first got captured it took advantage of that.It roared to attract\ntitans, and used the smoke from them eating her body and the titans dieing to\nescape.Not to mention when she appeared from the right titans attacked the\nscouts as well.likely following her until they decided to eat the humans.The\nsame thing happened when erwin leads the titans into the armored titan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-27T20:31:32.623", "id": "42037", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-27T20:31:32.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29629", "parent_id": "41465", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIs there a dubbed version of _kimi no na wa_ , and is there a site to watch\nthe dubbed version of _kimi no na wa_ online legally?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T18:44:53.063", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41469", "last_activity_date": "2021-12-11T21:09:46.823", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-23T22:16:45.677", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "29730", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "your-name" ], "title": "Where can I legally watch the dubbed version of \"Kimi no na wa\" (\"Your Name\")?", "view_count": 11298 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIf you're in Japan, you will be able to purchase the Blu-Ray [on July 26,\n2017](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/05/10/your-name-japanese-\ndvdblu-ray-release-date-set-for-july-26-2017).\n\nAmazon seems to be cross-listing this product in their catalog:\n\n * In NA, the release date appears to be [**August 4th**](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B07258V1DG).\n * In the UK, the release date appears to be [**October 30th**](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Name-Collectors-Blu-ray-DVD/dp/B01MXXEEIM/ref=tmm_blu_title_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=).\n\nDepending on where you live, you'll be able to make the purchases when they're\navailable from reputable vendors, like Amazon. Other specialty shops may sell\nthem slightly earlier.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T18:58:45.903", "id": "41470", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-19T19:11:04.027", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T19:11:04.027", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "41469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to _Amazon_ , _Your Name_ will be releasing **on Blu-Ray & DVD in\nAmerica on [November 7,\n2017](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B074R4KSTM).**\n\nYou can pre-order the [DVD + Blu-ray combo\npack](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B074R4KSTM) for $20.\n\n[![Amazon\nListing](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JMdax.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JMdax.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-31T01:41:06.493", "id": "43074", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-15T07:09:34.400", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-15T07:09:34.400", "last_editor_user_id": "35019", "owner_user_id": "31618", "parent_id": "41469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41476", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThe final chapter of the manga shows Ichigo leading a normal life but it's\nnever really shown if he is still a Shinigami. Or is it the same as the time\nhe used the Final Getsuga Tenshou in his fight with Aizen? Has Kubo talked\nabout this somewhere, given how abrupt the ending was?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-20T05:06:23.450", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41474", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-20T11:24:09.870", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-20T10:47:11.803", "last_editor_user_id": "29987", "owner_user_id": "29987", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "bleach" ], "title": "Does Ichigo still have his powers after his battle with Yhwach?", "view_count": 3982 }
[ { "body": "\n\nYes, the 2 Novels following the manga's ending said that he regained the\npowers stolen by Yhwach.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-20T11:24:09.870", "id": "41476", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-20T11:24:09.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34720", "parent_id": "41474", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41584", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the first chapter of Fullmetal Alchemist, immediately after the priest\nexplains that he wants to conquer the nation, we see Ed saying that he doesn't\ncare at all.\n\n[![panel](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DoSJJ.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DoSJJ.png)\n\nWhy is there a Japanese flag on the priest's head? And what does Ed's gesture\nmean?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-20T11:51:05.597", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41477", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-27T08:10:24.213", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-20T18:36:19.710", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "8154", "post_type": "question", "score": 14, "tags": [ "fullmetal-alchemist-series", "fullmetal-alchemist-manga" ], "title": "Why is the Japanese flag supposed to be funny?", "view_count": 692 }
[ { "body": "\n\nEd's gesture means he throws the priest's ambition away to where the arrow\npoints using his both hands. The SFX (onomatopoeia)「ぺいっ」(pei with small tu to\nexpress impetus) dexcribes the movement you toss away something light that you\ncan easily carry such as a crumpled paper. 「ぽいっ」is used commonly but in this\ncase, the author chose「ぺいっ」to make Ed's action a bit funnier because he\ntotally ignored the priest's burning passion to conquer the nation in front of\nhis nose.\n\nAbout the Japanese flag, I think only the author knows the true meaning of it\nbut I assume the flag is hoisted on the priest's head to make fun of him who's\nin shock by Ed's indifference. It won't make a difference if it were a\nAmerican flag or a tiny flower because it doesn't hold a serious meaning which\naffects the scene but only add a mockery taste to the conversation of them and\ngive a tiny giggle to a reader.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T08:10:24.213", "id": "41584", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-27T08:10:24.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34839", "parent_id": "41477", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41489", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nThere are some spoilers for episode 101 of Dragon Ball Super which I believe\ncomes from the Shonen Jump Magazine .\n\n> Kahseral fights as well as you'd expect of the leader of the Pride Troopers\n\nwasnt the leader of the Pride Troopers supposed to be Toppo? was this never\nmentioned in the anime?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-20T15:26:33.213", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41480", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-21T12:44:27.350", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "Who is the leader of the pride troopers?", "view_count": 341 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe leader of the pride troopers is Toppo himself , it was confirmed in\nepisode 82 , When toppo jumps down into the ring after Goku's fight with\nBergamo . Toppo introduces himself as the leader of the Pride troopers of\nUniverse 11 .\n\nAnother thing , Toppo refers to Kahseral as General , his second in command .\nThe General in this context doesn't mean leader.\n\nOn Toppo and Kahseral , Taken from the Dragon Ball super wikia :\n\n> Toppo suddenly jumps to the ring and confronts Goku, wanting to talk to him.\n> He then introduces himself as the leader of the Pride Troopers of Universe\n> 11\n\nLater ,\n\n> Some time after the fight, he decides to go to a bar, eating snacks with a\n> concerned look in his eyes, realizing how much of his world's safety is at\n> stake. His General, Kahseral, enters and asks why he is so upset.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-21T12:39:26.460", "id": "41489", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-21T12:44:27.350", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-21T12:44:27.350", "last_editor_user_id": "22960", "owner_user_id": "22960", "parent_id": "41480", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nWhy didn't Ranma and Genma stay in China after getting the curse? They got the\ncurse there in the first place. Also, if the only way to be cured was to go to\nChina again and visit the cursed springs, then why don't they? Ranma could've\nswam back to China anytime he wanted and he actually planned to during the\nepisode where Ranma was finding the cure for Akane after being attacked by\nShampoo with her Xi Fa Xiang Gao technique. What's keeping Ranma in Japan?\nThere were episode where Ranma and Genma discussed about Ranma going back to\nChina but for some reason, Ranma ended up staying for whatever reason,\nprobably something about inheriting the dojo. But Ranma can always return so\nwhy doesn't he?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-20T16:31:57.313", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41481", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-20T16:31:57.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18813", "post_type": "question", "score": 4, "tags": [ "ranma" ], "title": "Why didn't Ranma stay in China after getting the curse?", "view_count": 496 }
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "42165", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nBefore Ryuk killed Light, was it possible that Light could have relinquished\nownership of the Death Note so Ryuk wouldn't write his name?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-22T07:40:53.273", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41494", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-03T05:28:15.807", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34743", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "death-note" ], "title": "Couldn't Light have relinquished ownership of the Death Note before dying?", "view_count": 2284 }
[ { "body": "\n\nin the box thing below there are massive spoilers for death note only hover\nover it if you have watched the anime\n\n> It would not matter as he only had a small snippet of the book (corner i\n> belive) and the police have the book as they caught the person that had the\n> real book and swapped it with a fake book as it broke his schedual and as\n> @trim24 has stated Ryuk stated when light died (or when he time was up) he\n> would write his name in the book, I think you forget that there are 2 books\n> one is given to Ryuk (wont go in to much detail) the police only have 1 book\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-22T17:08:21.590", "id": "41499", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-22T17:08:21.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34751", "parent_id": "41494", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n**Light actually relinquished ownership of the one Death Note he had back in\nEpisode 29.** Right before that point, Misa was the owner of Gelus' Death\nNote, Light was the owner of Rem's and Mello's mafia underling was the owner\nof Sidoh's. After giving up ownership, Light has Misa lend him her DN so that\nhe doesn't lose his memories. She is still the owner since she still has her\nShinigami eyes. **Light never takes back ownership of any DN for the rest of\nthe anime.** I guess we can assume he keeps some sliver of a DN page on his\nbody somewhere to make sure he has all the memories.\n\nThe fact that Light is not currently an owner of a DN is not relevant. At the\nvery end of the last episode of the anime, no human is actually in ownership\nof any of the Death Notes. However, **Ryuk still has to write the names of the\noriginal owner in his DN.** according to Rule LXIV:\n\n> If nobody claims the ownership of the Death Note [...] gods of death are\n> [still] obliged to confirm the death of the first owner and write down that\n> humans name in his/her Death Note even when he/she is in the world of gods\n> of death.\n\n(<http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note>)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-04T03:46:21.717", "id": "42165", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-04T03:46:21.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35453", "parent_id": "41494", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nCould any of you please tell me what is the name of the background\ninstrumental music in episode 28 (season 2 episode 14) of My Hero Academia,\nwhich starts at 2:19? I'd really appreciate it. (The situation is training of\nMidoriya with Gran Torino.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-22T09:16:07.890", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41495", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-30T07:07:32.060", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-17T16:21:15.367", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "34744", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "music", "my-hero-academia" ], "title": "What is the name of the background instrumental theme that starts at 2:19 in episode 28 of My Hero Academia?", "view_count": 945 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a slightly modified version of \"Sendai no Meiyuu\", track 10 of disc 2 of\n[TV ANIMATION MY HERO ACADEMIA 2nd ORIGINAL SOUND\nTRACK](https://vgmdb.net/album/69367).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-25T00:14:29.750", "id": "42960", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-25T00:14:29.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "41495", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI saw [this post](http://onepiecegold.altervista.org/oda-placed-little-detail-\nalmost-no-one-noticed/) 2-3 days ago. Here Oda sensei explained why he drew\nthat!\n\nBut apart from that I think there may be a deeper reason why he did that.\n\nI think **Oda sensei** hinted that the story of **Dressrosa Arc** is inspired\nby **Alabasta Arc**.\n\nWe know he does that a lot. But if that is true then he is insane. _Writing a\nstory inspired by his own story_... is on a different level, I think. In the\nend we see that these two stories has different viewpoint, nature and ambition\nof **Crocodile** and **Doflamingo** are different and a lot of things are also\ndifferent (although the two arcs share a lot of similarities).\n\n## Is it true that Oda wrote a story inspired by his own story?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-22T12:10:45.163", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41497", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-02T17:51:10.080", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "34745", "post_type": "question", "score": 3, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "Was the Dressrosa Arc inspired by the Alabasta Arc?", "view_count": 1540 }
[ { "body": "\n\nWell.. it is not stated anywhere by Oda himself (as far as i could search),\nbut there is an ongoing rumor that the arcs in the New world are counterparts\nof their respective arcs in the beginning of the grand line.\n\nSo, we have Dressrosa as the first big arc since the straw hats entered the\nNew World as a counterpart to Alabasta and Punk Hazard as the New World's\ncounterpart of Drum.\n\nDespite the similarities, there is still no confirmation by any official\nsource that Dressrosa was based on Alabasta.\n\nAnnex: [List of similarities between Alabasta and\nDressrosa](https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/2p85wt/list_of_similarities_between_dressrosa_and/?st=j5vaa7nn&sh=2ad73aaa)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-02T17:43:07.903", "id": "41672", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-02T17:51:10.080", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-02T17:51:10.080", "last_editor_user_id": "34946", "owner_user_id": "34946", "parent_id": "41497", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super, if I recall correctly, it was told that each ring of\ntime represents an alternative timeline/reality. It was shown by Gowasu there\nwere 6 rings of time, one of them which exploded when Zeno destroyed one\ntimeline\n\n[![enter image description\nhere](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q6nku.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q6nku.jpg)\n\n. Since there is a \"present Zeno\" and a \"future Zeno\" of 2 different\ntimelines, are there supposed to be another 4 Zenos due to the other\ntimelines/realities which were created by Trunks and Zamasu time travels?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-22T17:29:43.937", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41501", "last_activity_date": "2019-09-30T17:55:38.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "Are there 6 zeno alive?", "view_count": 211 }
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAs seen in the latest episode 798, where Urouge falls on the ground while\nfighting Biscuit Knight - Cracker. And the accessory that he is wearing is\nstill in his neck. Why ?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-23T10:17:38.053", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41505", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-25T02:41:52.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31310", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "Why doesn't \"Mad monk\" Urouge's neck accessory fall off?", "view_count": 158 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThat is a part of his outfit and in manga and anime a part of a characters\noutfit only comes of for dramtic purposes i.g. luffys hat, natsus scarf,\nalucards hat and glasses. It's not a logical or story reason it's just mangaka\npreference i guess.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T02:31:59.440", "id": "41548", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T02:31:59.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34809", "parent_id": "41505", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41513", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nAfter the last attempt to get the Origin titan, in the battle of Shiganshina,\nwhy did Marleyans wait for 4 years to try again after their defeat?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-23T15:06:01.630", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41508", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T15:58:56.517", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-23T16:07:12.043", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34765", "post_type": "question", "score": 6, "tags": [ "attack-on-titan" ], "title": "Why did Marleyans wait 4 years?", "view_count": 3017 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe short answer is that the nation of Marley had **_suffered great losses_**\nin the battles leading up to, and including, the Battle of the Shiganshina\nDistrict.\n\nIn the fourth story arc of Attack on Titan manga, Chapter 33,\n\n> Annie Leonheart, the Female Titan, is forced to crystallize herself prior to\n> being captured by the Eldians on Paradis Island. In this way, she prevents\n> herself from being consumed by the Eldians but she also can not help the\n> Marleyans in their military operations either.\n\nThen, in the Battle of Shiganshina District, we see\n\n> Levi Ackerman take on the Beast Titan, rendering both him and the Beast\n> Titan incapable of further combat as both were considered to be at their\n> limits.\n\nOf course, elsewhere during the battle\n\n> Eren and his teammates take on both Reiner and Bertolt incapacitating both\n> with new technology (thunder spears) and excellent military tactics.\n\nThis left the Beast Titan with two choices:\n\n> Save Reiner, the Armored Titan, or save Bertolt, the Colossus Titan. He\n> chose to save Reiner and left Bertolt to the Eldians on Paradis Island.\n> Armin, at risk of dying, was injected and chosen to consume Bertolt. And\n> now, on behalf of the Eldians on Paradis Island, Armin is now in possession\n> of the Colossus Titan.\n\nSo let's recap the events up until now:\n\n> The Marleyans were never able to recover the Founding Titan. They also lost\n> the Attack Titan many years before Eren was born. Eren then became in\n> possession of both the Attack and Founding Titan. Armin took possession of\n> the Colossus Titan and the Eldians on Paradis Island are in possession of\n> the Female Titan who, in crystallized form, is incapable of performing any\n> further military operations of behalf of the Nation of Marley. That means\n> that, of the 9 titans, four of the titan-shifting powers remain in the hands\n> of the Eldians on Paradis Island. Not only was the military operation to\n> recover the Founding Titan a total failure, but the Marleyans also managed\n> to lose two of their titan-shifters in the process. To be fair, they\n> actually lost THREE of their titan-shifters but Ymir willingly gave her\n> titan-shifting form back to the nation of Marley so that brought their\n> losses back to two.\n\nUp until that point, the only reason the nation of Marley\n\n> wanted the Founding Titan was to take possession of the natural resources\n> found on Paradis Island without suffering casualties as a result of the\n> mindless titans roaming the land.\n\nHowever, four years after the Battle of Shiganshina District,\n\n> Marley's battle against the Mid-East Allies proved that their military power\n> was weakening; human technology rendered the power of the titan-shifters\n> almost obsolete. Thus, they decided to continue operations against Paradis\n> Island at great risk to themselves in order to bring all titan-shifters,\n> including the Founding Titan, within their power. Of course, realizing that\n> technology would soon make their titan-shifters obsolete, the Marleyans are\n> only pursuing this plan to buy them more time; the titan-shifters will give\n> them enough time to improve or advance their own military technology.\n\nSo the long answer is\n\n> the Marleyans had no intentions of returning to Shiganshina. They did\n> attempt some naval operations but the ships they always sent never came back\n> and so, they essentially gave up plans for Paradis Island. Then, four years\n> later, the battle against the Mid-East Allies gave them greater motivation\n> to go back and retrieve the remaining titan-shifters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-23T22:00:10.413", "id": "41513", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T15:58:56.517", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-24T15:58:56.517", "last_editor_user_id": "32833", "owner_user_id": "32833", "parent_id": "41508", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "42800", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super episode 100, (spoiler)\n\n> After Kale transformed in green super saiyajin \"berserker\", Vegeta says to\n> Goku: \"be careful Kakaroto, that could be the super saiyajin true form!\"\n\nWhat did he mean with this? was he refering to\n\n> the legendary super saiyajin?\n\nor was he talking about something else?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-23T21:52:07.363", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41510", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-14T13:22:32.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super", "dragon-ball-movies" ], "title": "What did Vegeta mean with \"be careful Kakaroto, that could be the super saiyajin true form!\"?", "view_count": 363 }
[ { "body": "\n\nHe was referring to the legendary super saiyan form. It is the Legendary Super\nSaiyan form that Broly basically used, but I thought he wasn't canon so I am\nnot really sure how Vegeta can refer to the form Broly used. However he\nprobably as the Saiyan prince posses more knowledge than others when it came\nto being a super saiyan. By calling it the true form he most likely verbally\nmeant to the form giving an infinite amount of stamina. The form Kale used was\nBerserker Super Saiyan though.\n\nLegendary Super Saiyan:\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Legendary_Super_Saiyan>\n\nBerserker/Uncontrollable Super Saiyan:\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Berserker_Super_Saiyan>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-13T12:15:45.557", "id": "42800", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-13T12:15:45.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31492", "parent_id": "41510", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41525", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super episode 100,\n\n> Goku attacked Kale Super Saiyan green \"berserker\" mode with a Kamehameha in\n> Super Saiyan blue.\n\nWas Goku using his full power when he did it? If so, does this mean that...\n\n> Super Saiyan green \"berserker\" is more powerful than Super Saiyan blue?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-23T21:54:00.820", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41511", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-25T10:05:38.283", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-24T02:59:30.470", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "Was Goku using his full power against Kale?", "view_count": 472 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think so. Remember, it's a battle royal so he has to conserve his\npower for the long haul and you can't kill anyone. So the Kamehameha that was\nlaunched at Kale wasn't meant to kill, at most probably push her back but that\ndidn't work...\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T02:19:24.257", "id": "41517", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T02:46:01.910", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-24T02:46:01.910", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "34771", "parent_id": "41511", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nGoku states when he goes SSJB that he's going to use \"a little more power\"\n(when I return home tonight I'll get the timestamp).\n\nMy take from this comment is that he did not go all out.\n\nThe only times he has gone all out, he also uses Kaioken in his SSJB form.\nUntil we see him do so, I'd suggest he's holding back on power.\n\nEdit: He actually says \"Let out more power\" at 17:38 of Episode 100. This is\nstill useful as \"more\" is less than \"most\" or \"all\".\n\nAs to your second question, I'd say that this LSSJ (as was the name for it\nwith Broly, which this is an homage to) transformation, cannot yet to be\nclaimed to be stronger than SSJB. Yes, Kale walked straight through a SSJB\nKamehameha, but she was completely taken out by Jiren from Universe 11 -\nadmittedly she wasn't prepared for that hit, but it didn't look like Jiren was\ntrying either. Once we see how Goku fighting serious fares against Jiren\nfighting serious, we can get an idea of how LSSJ and SSJB stack up.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T12:27:52.653", "id": "41525", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-25T10:05:38.283", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-25T10:05:38.283", "last_editor_user_id": "32196", "owner_user_id": "32196", "parent_id": "41511", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball Super episode 100,\n\n> After Kale went all rage in super saiyajin green \"berserker\", and after she\n> fired ki blasts in all directions, Goku appeared in base form after being in\n> super saiyajin blue. Though I dont think wee see a ki blast impacting him.\n\nDid Kale knock out Goku? or he transformed back to base form?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-23T21:57:07.347", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41512", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-07T07:36:36.607", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "post_type": "question", "score": 0, "tags": [ "dragon-ball-series", "dragon-ball-super" ], "title": "Did Kale knock out Goku?", "view_count": 143 }
[ { "body": "\n\nHe simply transformed back to base form. If he was knocked out or seriously\ninjured he would start being a lot more serious as based on his past actions\nthroughout dragon ball(z/super). Instead when he got back he didn't look\ninjured at all.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-07T07:36:36.607", "id": "41743", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-07T07:36:36.607", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31492", "parent_id": "41512", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41516", "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nIn the anime [Hajimete no Gal (aka My First Girlfriend is a\nGal)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_First_Girlfriend_is_a_Gal), it's made\nabundantly clear in the first episode that \"gal\" is not just another feminine\npronoun. Based on the 2 \"gals\" in the show, and compared to the other girls in\nthe show, it seems there's a marked difference in style, personality, and\nappearance to be labeled a \"gal\".\n\nWhat is a \"gal\" in anime or Japanese culture?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T01:09:24.063", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41515", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-14T03:05:45.307", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-24T02:04:26.970", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "13647", "post_type": "question", "score": 17, "tags": [ "hajimete-no-gal" ], "title": "What does \"gal\" mean in Hajimete no Gal and/or Japanese culture?", "view_count": 59678 }
[ { "body": "\n\n\"Gal\" is the English transliteration for\n[_gyaru_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru), which is a fashion trend in\nJapanese culture. This fashion trend includes things like:\n\n * Tanning/darkening the skin\n * Wearing lots of shiny makeup (traditional Japanese culture is very modest with makeup)\n * Wearing lots of jewelry and has lots of accessories (fake nails, excessive nail/toe polish)\n\nEffectively, the \"gals\" in _My First Girlfriend is a Gal_ are following the\n_gyaru_ fashion trend.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T01:39:50.157", "id": "41516", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T01:39:50.157", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "41515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 25 }, { "body": "\n\nCan't comment yet so I'll add an answer.\n\nギャル ( _gyaru_ ) is actually the way they imported the English word \"girl\".\n\nThen they imported the English slang \"gal\" on top of that as a back- _Romaji_\n-ized name for the current fashion.\n\n(In addition to what Makoto said.)\n\nIf you can read the Japanese, here's a dictionary entry, but it doesn't help\nmuch:\n\n[https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/en/ギャル/m0u/](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/en/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB/m0u/)\n\nHere's a wikipedia entry:\n\n[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ギャル](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB)\n\nAnd here it is in English:\n\n<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru>\n\nThe Japanese is more complete and more interesting, of course.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T08:19:55.687", "id": "41520", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T00:41:32.820", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-26T00:41:32.820", "last_editor_user_id": "34776", "owner_user_id": "34776", "parent_id": "41515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is also a bit of a deeper meaning and as to why this trend came about.\nIt goes way back to the World War 2 and a bit before. After occupation to make\nmoney, girls would well prostitute themselves, so a tanned girl was also a\nsign that they were out on the corner a lot. In the rebellion days of youth,\nin the 80s, it was a way to rebel in Asia, so it became a popular trend.\n\nThis is why you also get that \"gals\" are sluts or whores. In the west though,\ntanning became a positive thing while in the east it became a negative thing.\nAlso why in the anime and the manga of _Hajimete no Gal_ , the ex calls her a\n\"slut\". Also, _Hajimete no Gal_ directly translates to \"first time gal\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-14T01:22:27.143", "id": "42318", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-14T03:05:45.307", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-14T03:05:45.307", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35625", "parent_id": "41515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\n![screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I0BRu.jpg)\n\nI have been looking for this episode for quite a while. I would appreciate\nanyone's help. Thank you.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T09:39:24.310", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41522", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T12:15:34.830", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-24T10:46:25.770", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34779", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "doraemon" ], "title": "Which Doraemon episode is this with Shizuka and multiple mini Doraemons?", "view_count": 3457 }
[ { "body": "\n\n * The text on the upper-left reads 「大晦日だよ!ドラえもん」( _Oomisoka dayo! Doraemon_ , \"It's New Year's Eve!! Doraemon\"), which is the title of the show. \n * The subtitle reads「人類を救うために、ドラ・ザ・仮面登場!!」 ( _Jinrui wo sukuu tame ni, Dora The Kamen toujou!!_ , \"To save mankind, Dora The Kamen appears!!).\n\nThis is from **2001's Doraemon New Year's Eve special episode** , titled\n「大晦日だよ!ドラえもん!!ミラクル大変身3時間スペシャル!!」 ( _Oomisoka dayo! Doraemon!! Miracle\nDaihenshin 3-jikan Special!!_ , \"It's New Year's Eve! Doraemon!! Big Miracle\nTransformation 3-hour Special!!\"). This special episode was broadcasted on\n2001/12/31 from 18:00-20:54 JST and consists of 12 rerun episodes and 6\noriginal bridging episodes:\n\n 1. ミニドラ救助隊 (Mini Dora Rescue Team) [Episode 1291]\n 2. 冬眠シェルター (Hibernation Shelter) [Episode 1342]\n 3. ドラえもん の 捕物帖 (Doraemon's Detective Story)\n 4. ジャイアンのディナーショー (Gian's Dinner Show) [Episode 1054]\n 5. ドラえもん の 荒野のガンマン (Doraemon's Desert Gunman)\n 6. 未来へのメッセージ (Message to the Future) [Episode 1247]\n 7. ドラえもん の 黄門様 (Doraemon's Koumon-sama)\n 8. いつでもどこでもスケッチセット (Whenever, Wherever Sketch Set) [Episode 1053]\n 9. 刑事 ドラえもん (Inspector Doraemon)\n 10. ママのありがたみ (Mama's Blessing) [Episode 1077]\n 11. ジュラ紀でドラミが大ピンチ (Jurassic Age, Dorami in Big Trouble) [Episode 1489]\n 12. ボクを止めるのび太 (Nobita Who Stops Me) [Episode 1472]\n 13. **ドラ・ザ・仮面 (Dora The Kamen)**\n 14. カードテレビ電話 (Card TV Telephone) [Episode 1420]\n 15. 特賞!のび太温泉 (Special Prize! Hot Spring Nobita) [Episode 1484]\n 16. 名探偵 ドラえもん (Detective Doraemon)\n 17. 雪だるまドラ太郎 (Snowman Dora-tarou)[Episode 1434]\n 18. 白雪姫のリンゴ (Snow White's Apple) [Episode 1300]\n\n**Unfortunately, many Doraemon special episodes are only broadcasted on TV and\ndon't have their home consumer version (DVD/BD), including this one.**\n\n* * *\n\nReferences:\n\n * [TV Drama DB (Japanese)](http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-35565): Broadcast info\n * [Hana Baloon (Japanese)](http://hanaballoon.com/dorachan/data/anime/ooyama/sp/sp2001.html): Episodes info\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T10:45:10.820", "id": "41523", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T12:15:34.830", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-24T12:15:34.830", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "41522", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 0, "body": "\n\nSo I just figured in my previous question [Which Doraemon episode is this with\nShizuka and multiple mini\nDoraemons?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/41522/which-doraemon-\nepisode-is-this-with-shizuka-and-multiple-mini-doraemons) that I cannot get a\nDVD of this New Year Special.\n\nI would like to know where I can watch these specials alternatively.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T11:55:07.713", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41524", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T13:42:05.377", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-24T13:42:05.377", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "34780", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "doraemon" ], "title": "Where can I watch the Doraemon New Year Special which aired on 31st December 2001?", "view_count": 112 }
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41528", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nSo Eren\n\n> Has the Attack titan and the Founding titan inside of him right?!\n\nwe can presume that if someone were to consume Eren\n\n> they will gain the two titan powers together.\n\nSo can some one consume or gain just one of the titans? Like when the original\ntitan(the original Ymir) divided her powers in to nine different powers and\ngave them to her descendants?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T12:36:26.447", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41526", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T14:51:18.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25695", "post_type": "question", "score": 7, "tags": [ "attack-on-titan" ], "title": "Can the two titan powers inside Eren be separated and given to two different people?", "view_count": 8131 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIf a shifter dies not by getting eaten by a titan, their powers go to a random\nperson. One can therefore presume that if Eren were to die, the two different\ntitans would go to two different people.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T14:51:18.143", "id": "41528", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-24T14:51:18.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15549", "parent_id": "41526", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41664", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn episode 18, Subaru gives up on basically everything and suggests to Rem\nthat they run away to live a happy life in another country. However, he knows\nthat...\n\n> they will all die if he doesn't prevent Emilia's death.\n\nI know that Subaru has suffered a lot at this point and he's broken and\nhopeless, but surely he would know he would only get three days of happiness\nAT BEST before he dies again and starts over again. So why did he even think\nthis was an option?\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-24T17:23:20.717", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41529", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-01T14:18:16.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "post_type": "question", "score": 5, "tags": [ "re-zero" ], "title": "Why did Subaru suggest to run away with Rem?", "view_count": 2869 }
[ { "body": "\n\nHe said that because he was emotionally tired. He was confident that he\ncouldn't do anything more than what he has done so far. At the moment, he\ndidn't want to accept that he was going to die again and again, so he just\nwanted a little moment of relax with someone who really cares about him, in\nthis case Rem.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-01T22:56:27.060", "id": "41664", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-02T13:24:34.947", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-02T13:24:34.947", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "34933", "parent_id": "41529", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41564", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nHow did the staff of Impel Down not know Buggy had a devil fruit when they put\nhim in ? \nDon't they dunk prisoners in boiling water? \nSeriously how did Buggy get by these people ? Is Impel Down security that bad\n?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T07:05:53.053", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41559", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T14:25:36.600", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-26T14:25:36.600", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "34809", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "one-piece" ], "title": "How did Impel Down's staff not know Buggy was a devil fruit user?", "view_count": 2787 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThere is a lot of questions there, and some led by some misundertandings.\n\n> How did the staff of Impel Down not know Buggy had a devil fruit when they\n> put him in ? Seriously how did Buggy get by these people ? Is Impel Down\n> security that bad ?\n\nThe reason why Buggy was able to overcome ID's security system remains\n**unknown**. Buggy is discovered by Luffy in Chapter 526 and it is just said\nhe managed to hide his power, without further explanations. _I don't know for\nthe anime so if someone could check that would be awesome. I believe the scene\ntakes place on episode 420~._ \nHowever, it is easy to make some assumptions :\n\nThe fact is, Buggy has _only_ a 15 millions berries bounty on his head, which\nis pretty low. His very low bounty is also the reason why he was sent to the\nfirst level of Impel Down, because as he stated himself in chapter 549, every\nprisoner from level 2 that escaped with him has a higher bounty than him.\n\nHis insane luck must not be forgotten either as he shows an incredible ability\nfor deceive others (e.g. Impel Down break led him to become the Shichibukai\nreplacing Teach) without doing even doing it on purpose (even if he often\nlooks stronger than he actually is, not _weaker_ ).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T13:31:55.013", "id": "41564", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T13:31:55.013", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32156", "parent_id": "41559", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 3, "body": "\n\nSome people claim that those Mongolian flowers are poisonous and that Ein ate\none when Zwei died, but I've researched and there is no reliable source that\ntells us that those flowers are really poisonous. Some people claim that\nactually, they weren't together, Zwei was somewhere else, and others claim\nthat Ein killed Zwei.\n\nDid both Ein and Zwei die? What did really happen there?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T21:38:42.033", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41570", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-14T14:11:50.123", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-27T02:58:56.523", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34829", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "requiem-for-the-phantom" ], "title": "What did really happen in the end of Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom?", "view_count": 6453 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime ending is different from the visual novel. \nEin and Zwei were definitely together in that last scene because Ein was\ntalking to him.\n\nThe poisonous flower idea is a fan theory without official source. There are\nno official explanations of what happened in the last scene. It does make\nsense, though, to assume Ein committed suicide after Zwei got shot, and the\nflowers are the best and easiest tools for her suicide.\n\nSince there's no official explanation, you can go with whatever idea you want.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-22T11:39:50.730", "id": "47990", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-22T11:39:50.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41662", "parent_id": "41570", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt actually makes the watcher confused.\n\nIn the anime, Reiji was unexpectedly shot by an assassin (a man on a cart).\nThey were in Mongolia's countryside when it happened (Reiji was also not too\nfar from Eren). \nAfter it, we see a smiling Eren, a flower, then the bullet that killed (?)\nReiji on the ground and we see this flower again but one of its petals has\ndisappeared. There are several fan theories about it. Still, none have been\nconfirmed.\n\nI think the producers just wanted a striking end and that's it. This is a\nshocking end.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-07-29T07:08:55.650", "id": "65302", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-29T07:08:55.650", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61759", "parent_id": "41570", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAt the end both of the Phantoms died. Remember the boss of Inferno? Remember\nwhat he said? He said that they should do what they are supposed to do as the\nInferno and that means to kill both the phantoms.\n\nThe happy thing is at least Elen had her wish fulfilled before her death and\nReiji also kept his promise to Elen. They did not die before their wish or\npromise got fulfilled. That is the happy ending.\n\nAs for Reiji, the killer shot him with a silencer. But wait, why was he\nstanding for prolonged time and did not move or speak a word or at least moved\na muscle? Because he was so happy at that moment ( because he kept his promise\nand dreamt to pass the rest of his life by making Elen happy) that he did not\neven notice the bullet wound. Then finally just dropped on his right side\nparalyzed; thinking what happened, who shot him. Likely the shot hit on his\nright side. Remember Scythe master shot him 3 bullets on his left side and was\nstill alive. He might still be alive now. The motivation? It is for Eren. But\nit could be also the case that the killer made sure he died. As the anime did\nnot make any more episode, so we are concluding that Reiji is dead.\n\nFor Eren, she did not realize anything. Because firstly, the Ulanbator spot\nthat we saw was full of mountains, cloud, birds, insects, animals, wind and\nmany more. The sound of the nature can distract you easily. Secondly, Elen was\nengaged in thinking. She was truly happy because she regained her memory by\nseeing the sky of Mongolia and feeling the gentle breeze. Just like Reiji got\nhis memory back by seeing his passport. So she happily looked back at Reiji\nand saw him unconscious by then, lying in the ground. Thats why we saw that\neven if Elen smiled ( it was for regaining memory), the smile was not\ncomplete. As if it was blocked in the midway and so she got her gloomy sad\nexpression of eyes. Or it may be because, she immediately understood the\nsituation that the Inferno is after them. So she had to accept the fate. What\nwill she do now by trying to survive? Why she would live now when Reiji is\ndead? She just wanted a peaceful life with Reiji. But as her promise of\nregaining her memory has been fulfilled, she can now gladly die alongside\nReiji. Thats why we saw that last smile on her face.\n\nThen the killer also shot her and the bullet we saw in the green field at the\nvery last moment indicates the assassination of Eren. One can argue, if she\ndied by bullet, then where is the blood? Remember Reiji? We also did not see\nany blood when he was shot.\n\nAt the end of the day, Eren died in her motherland peacefully; knowing her\nidentity and also same goes for Reiji. Yes, the anime got separated from the\nnovel. But come on guys, it is just to make the anime more unexpected yet an\ninteresting FINALE. Afterall noone lives forever. If they had to die oneday,\nbe it in their motherland, fulfilling their wishes. This is one happy\nsatisfying end for the phantoms, isn't it?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-14T14:01:21.750", "id": "67824", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-14T14:11:50.123", "last_edit_date": "2023-03-14T14:11:50.123", "last_editor_user_id": "70751", "owner_user_id": "70751", "parent_id": "41570", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": null, "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI've been watching the English dubbed version of _Sailor Moon_ over and over.\nDuring that time, I thought the _Sailor Stars_ , the last season would soon\ncome out in English, but it never did. So, I only had one solution: to watch\nthe original Japanese version.\n\nI tried watching the last season in Japanese with English sub, and it was so\nconfusing. I was like ' _Who's this character?_ ' ' _Oh, it's Mina! Minako is\nher name..._ ' and stuff like that.\n\nSo, will _Sailor Stars_ (the final season) be available in English dub?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T22:07:24.400", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41571", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-03T08:51:58.030", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-03T08:51:58.030", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34831", "post_type": "question", "score": 1, "tags": [ "sailor-moon" ], "title": "Will \"Sailor Stars\" (the final season) be available in English dub?", "view_count": 2806 }
[ { "body": "\n\nyou don't need to watch the original dub for much longer as Viz Media has been\nre-releasing the original series (as well as the new Crystal remake) which\nincludes the final season\n\n> Nearly two years ago, we announced the series by surprise at Anime Central\n> in Chicago, IL. **For the first time, all 200 episodes, specials and movies\n> would be coming out in English!** Since then, we have been releasing\n> subtitled episodes every week. Just point your eyeballs here at VIZ.com for\n> buckets of Moon Kingdom goodness. For fans of the all-new, uncut English\n> dub, both season 1 and season 2 have been released on dual language Blu-ray\n> and DVD. You can find the sets in all their shimmery glory at your favorite\n> anime retailer, such as Right Stuf and Amazon!\n\nSource: [Viz Media](https://www.viz.com/blog/posts/is-it-two-years-already)\n\nlooking at the [list on\nwikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_episodes) we see\nthat _Sailor Moon Sailor Stars_ , the last season that the original US Dub\nnever covered in english, goes to episode 200 as such this means that Viz\nisn't just going to stop at _Sailor Moon SuperS_ (which is episode 166)\n\ncurrently (27/07/2017) Viz Media sells up to [Sailor Moon S, Season 3, Part\n2](https://www.viz.com/watch/tv-series/sailor-moon-video/12147) which is\nepisodes 109-127 so you currently don't have the final season and will need to\nwait, however it should also be noted that this Viz Media release isn't like\nthe original US Dub release which. as you can see in the list of episodes on\nwikipedia, skipped episodes in the first season (remember that 200 episodes is\nthe number of episodes from Japan, if Viz was going all 200 they wont be\nskipping like original US Dub did)\n\nWhile i have yet to see it to confirm from my understand this also means some\nof the themes from anime which were toned down/altered in the original US Dub\nare kept to how they were in Japan. noticeably during the Death Busters Arc\n(Season 3) the theme of sacrifice and ofcause, Haruka and Michiru\n\n> One of the controversies surrounding Sailor Moon S is in the romantic-\n> lesbian relationship of Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, who are subtly\n> depicted as romantic lovers, although this is never mentioned directly.\n> Takeuchi has openly admitted they are a romantic couple, and their voice\n> actresses were instructed to play the characters \"as if they are a married\n> romantic couple.\" However, because of differing cultural standards, most\n> countries outside Japan, excluding Greece, Germany, Sweden, Spain and\n> Mexico, have censored the relationship. Alternatively, in the\n> Cloverway/Optimum English-dubbed version, this subtext was made more taboo\n> by way of portraying Neptune and Uranus as biological cousins who were\n> involved in a romantic relationship with each other. **The Studiopolis/Viz\n> Media English-language dub preserves the subtext of the original material.**\n\nSource: [List of Sailor Moon S\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_S_episodes)\n\n* * *\n\nAs Viz Media's blog post says that the re-release is duel language i assume it\nwould contain both the japanese dubs with english subs and the english dub.\nconsidering that to my knowledge the final season was never released in\nenglish outside Japan officially watching the original subbed probably means\nwatching a fan subbed version which you shouldn't really be doing when the\nseries has been officially subtitled.\n\nin case if i am wrong and:\n\n * there is an official release of the final season before Viz Media\n * you decided to wait for Viz Media to release theirs \n * you want to watch it subbed rather than dubbed \n\nthen which subbed version you watch is a matter of personal preference.\nhowever Viz Media's release would be easier to acquire as aside from\nDVD/Bluray release the Viz Media link i posted on Sailor Moon S, Season 3,\nPart 2 lists digital distributions like Steam and the Playstation Store. i\nwould suspect ADV Film's home release it out of print thus harder to get\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T22:48:39.550", "id": "41572", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-27T00:21:23.633", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-27T00:21:23.633", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "41571", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "42268", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI have watched only anime and Shiro is a mystery to me. It seems like she has\ntwo personalities. It happened more than once, she was so nice and suddenly\nsomehow gone crazy, her face changes completely. Even if I'm right and she has\nsome mental disorder, I don't understand her at all.\n\nHow did she get out of prison if she is a prisoner and then killed Ganta's\nclassmates?\n\nWas that out of jealousy?\n\nI just don't get it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T23:08:27.557", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41573", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-24T06:50:49.027", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-27T00:12:35.657", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "34829", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "deadman-wonderland" ], "title": "Why and how did Shiro kill Ganta's classmates?", "view_count": 33864 }
[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer to this question is not in the anime. \nIt's one of the main plot points in the work, and fully explained in the\nmanga. Actually, MOST of what Shiro is is explained in the last chapters of\nthe manga. So, you are NOT supposed to get her from the anime. \nSome spoilers ahead.\n\nShiro is not a prisoner. She is actually a test subject from a research\nlaboratoryy, the reason why the Branches of Sin exist, and the responsible for\nthe earthquake that destroyed Japan. The prison was built later, above the lab\nshe was experimented on, as a facade for the testing on people who developed\nBranches of Sin after the earthquake. \nShe escaped the prison simply because there is no real way to contain her at\nall.\n\nYes, she killed all of Ganta's classmates out of jealousy.\n\nExtreme spoilers ahead.\n\nIn the past, Ganta knew Shiro, because his mother was on of the chief\nresearchers at the laboratory, extremely involved in the inhuman experiments\nthe girl was subjected to. \nGantas cared a lot for Shiro, and she liked him a lot too. They pretended to\nbe each other's hero, \"Aceman\". \nBut in one experiment, a broken Shiro decided to kill some researchers to show\nher control over her developing powers, and Ganta ended up witnessing it. The\nshock made him forget what he saw, and forget about Shiro. He was then sent\naway to live in the city. Some time later, Shiro would cause the earthquake\ntrying to die. She still survived, and Ganta's mother built a system to seal\nthe girl's powers to an extent, so she would not be able to try that again.\nShe also gave the girl a small red stone she had developed in the laboratory.\nIt was a substance that could null Shiro's powers. Ganta's mother then killed\nherself so no one would be able to deactivate the system and free Shiro's\npowers. \nThe years went on, and one day, due to the school's scheduled visit to the\nprison, Shiro found out that Ganta was living in the city and where he\nstudied. She ran away from the laboratory to find Ganta. \nShe ends up killing all Ganta's classmantes for jealousy, and inserts the\npower to null her powers into Ganta, hoping he will then become her hero and\nsave her, by killing her. She wanted to be killed by the boy she loved.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-11T04:50:45.433", "id": "42268", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-11T04:50:45.433", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16372", "parent_id": "41573", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41675", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nIn the anime series Haruka and Michiru (Sailors Uranus and Neptune) are a\ncouple confirmed by the author Naoko Takeuchi\n\n> Takeuchi has openly admitted they are a romantic couple, and their voice\n> actresses were instructed to play the characters \"as if they are a married\n> romantic couple.\"\n\nSource: [List of Sailor Moon S\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_S_episodes)\n\nIn the first season we learn that the Sailor Senshi (or at least the first\nfive) whom we see are reincarnations of their past selves from the Silver\nMillennium. They were friends and bodyguards of Usagi's past self, Serenity,\nas well as princesses of their representative planets.\n\nI am wondering, however, if Haruka and Michiru are too reincarnations of their\nformer selves, princesses of Uranus and Neptune, and if so, whether the\nPrincesses Uranus and Neptune were a couple as well?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-26T23:37:55.517", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41575", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-03T16:08:47.720", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-03T04:32:53.157", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1587", "post_type": "question", "score": 2, "tags": [ "sailor-moon" ], "title": "Were Princesses Uranus and Neptune lovers as well?", "view_count": 815 }
[ { "body": "\n\nIt is made clear that the Sailor Senshi were all princesses associated with\nthe celestial bodies attached to them. Thus, Haruka and Michiru were indeed\nprincesses in their past life.\n\nI do not recall ever seeing an indication that Uranus and Neptune were lovers\nin their _past_ life. [I have watched _Sailor Moon S_ and both seasons of\n_Sailor Moon Crystal_ , and I have also read the _Sailor Moon_ manga (albeit\nnot very closely).] In contrast, a relationship between Endymion (who is later\nTuxedo Mask) and Princess Serenity is well attested. Moreover, I was unable to\nfind any discussion of this issue in fan wiki pages for [Sailor\nNeptune](http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Sailor_Neptune), [Sailor\nUranus](http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Sailor_Uranus),\n[Haruka](http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Haruka_Tenou), or\n[Michiru](http://wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Michiru_Kaiou).\n\nThis suggests that we simply do not know if Uranus and Neptune were lovers in\ntheir past life. That other relationships from the past (between Mamoru and\nUsagi, or between Usagi and the Inner Senshi) have been preserved suggests\nthat they were.\n\nBut canon plot material does not _actively_ suggest that they were together,\nand the absence of this in the wiki suggests that there is no supplementary\nmaterial indicating it. We do know that the Outer Senshi led lonely lives in\ntheir past existence, which is difficult to reconcile with a serious\nrelationship.\n\nIt is also possible that the issue is completely up in the air, in the same\nway the birthday dates for _Fullmetal Alchemist_ characters are up in the air:\nit is possible that Naoko Takeuchi had not thought through the specifics of\nthis, particularly since the focus of _Sailor Moon_ is ultimately on Usagi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-03T04:30:19.427", "id": "41675", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-03T16:08:47.720", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-03T16:08:47.720", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "41575", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41582", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI was hoping that I could read the continuation of the series through the\nmanga, but I can't find any chapter beyond 23, it has been like that for a\nlong time. Is the manga on hiatus or something?\n\nAlso, yes I know about <https://translationchicken.com/> but I heard that the\nweb novel was kinda trash compared to the light novel, so I refrained from\nreading the translations.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T04:34:36.540", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41581", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-16T18:07:37.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34835", "post_type": "question", "score": -4, "tags": [ "re-zero" ], "title": "What happened to the Re:Zero manga?", "view_count": 10207 }
[ { "body": "\n\n_Re:Zero has_ been licensed by Yen Press officially in English and currently\n(27/07/2017) they have done\n[both](http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tappei-nagatsuki/rezero-\nstarting-life-in-another-world-vol-1-manga/9780316315319/?yen)\n[volumes](http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tappei-nagatsuki/rezero-\nstarting-life-in-another-world-vol-2-manga/9780316398541/?yen) of _Chapter 1:\nA Day in the Capital_ and the [first\nvolume](http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tappei-nagatsuki/rezero-\nstarting-life-in-another-world-chapter-2-a-week-at-the-mansion-\nvol-1-manga/9780316471886/?yen) of _Chapter 2: A Week at the Mansion_\n\naccording\n[wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Re:Zero_%E2%88%92_Starting_Life_in_Another_World_volumes#Manga)\nthe next volume of Chapter 2 of the Manga is expected to be released on August\n22, 2017 with Chapter 2 being fully done by the end of the year while _Chapter\n3: Truth of Zero_ is expected to start being released at the end of October,\n2017 with Volume 3 of it expected in April, 2018.\n\n[![wikipedia quote\nscreenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fHvTU.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fHvTU.png)\n\nas you can see from the link and screenshot the japanese release of Volume 5\nof Chapter 3 was in March 2017 but previous volumes have been between a few\nmonths apart. however it is based off the Light Novel which is still ongoing\nwith the last release being Volume 13 released in June 2017 (and also licensed\nby Yen Press and have planned up to Volume 5 currently (27/07/2017))\n\nSo no, there doesn't seem to be a hiatus but rather Yen Press taking their\ntime, probably a good thing because you wouldn't want this stuff rushed\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T05:19:45.960", "id": "41582", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-27T05:25:19.093", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-27T05:25:19.093", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "41581", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI know this is a little late and you probably already found an answer. The LN\nis based off the WN, just edited. The WN is the rough draft for the LN. The\nmanga just follows the anime and I'm not sure if it covers anything\nafter(might need clarification on this part).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-16T18:07:37.217", "id": "52957", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-16T18:07:37.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47291", "parent_id": "41581", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41592", "answer_count": 1, "body": "\n\nI just watched the show - Madoka spends most of it trying to figure out a good\nwish to make.\n\nOne episode shows Homura in presumably the original timeline, where she's just\na shy new kid and Madoka is already a magical girl along with Mami, which\nmeans Madoka had in fact made a wish in this timeline. Is it ever mentioned\nwhat did she wish for?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T10:05:59.927", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41586", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-27T09:11:20.377", "last_edit_date": "2020-01-27T09:11:20.377", "last_editor_user_id": "261", "owner_user_id": "261", "post_type": "question", "score": 9, "tags": [ "madoka-magica" ], "title": "What did Madoka wish for in the original timeline?", "view_count": 2772 }
[ { "body": "\n\nShe wished the cat in the opening (named Amy) to be saved from being run over\nby a car. This is revealed in the Drama CD 1.\n\nMore info about wishes in the series: <https://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Wish_theories#.E2.9C.94.C2.A0Timeline_1_-_Save_that_cat.21>\n\nMore info about the Drama CD 1: <https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Drama_CD_1>\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T13:50:23.397", "id": "41592", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-27T13:50:23.397", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34845", "parent_id": "41586", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]
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{ "accepted_answer_id": "41591", "answer_count": 2, "body": "\n\nI fairly often hear or read about how the anime industry had stagnated during\nthe early 90s. It's mostly brought up in the context of _Neon Genesis\nEvangelion_ being the first influential anime in several years back then as\nmentioned on [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7271):\n\n> Eventhough they never directly admit it, I'm sure there's some amount of\n> influence that Evangelion had on Rahxephon, intended or not, simply because\n> _Evangelion was an incredibly influential show, at a time when it seemed\n> anime in general was stagnating_. So everything that came after that, for\n> better or worse, could have had some influence from Evangelion.\n>\n> (Emphasis mine)\n\nIs this true? If so, what exactly was this crisis and why did it happen?\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T11:25:53.150", "favorite_count": 0, "id": "41590", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-01T19:11:12.403", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3188", "post_type": "question", "score": 22, "tags": [ "anime-history", "neon-genesis-evangelion" ], "title": "What, if anything, was the early 90s anime creativity crisis?", "view_count": 3075 }
[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know where you heard about a **_creativity crisis_** but in the early\n90's there was indeed a huge crisis which weakened the anime industry for a\nfew years, along with a lot of other industries: an **economic crisis**.\n\nIn the world, we more-or-less refer to this crisis as the \"Early 90's\nrecession\". In a few words, it was a massive and worldwide economic crisis\nwhich started after the market crash called the \"Black Monday\" (Monday,\nOctober 19, 1987 to be exact).\n\nIn Japan, they specifically call this period the \" **Lost Decade** \" (sounds\nlike an anime event, right?). I don't think economics courses interest you\nhere so I'll just show you how hard Japanese growth crashed.\n\n[![Real GDP Growth Rate in percentage in Japan between 1975 and 1997 by the\nInternational Monetary\nFund](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ppXWm.gif)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ppXWm.gif)\n\nSo, to summarize, **Japan had huge economic troubles during that time** , so\nit's normal that both anime quality and quantity were seriously harmed. \nAs [this article](http://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00043/) explains, even if\nthe number of television anime gradually recovered, because of these economic\nissues the whole anime industry has never recovered the greatness of the 80s.\n\n> A slump in advertising revenue, a lower birthrate and the popularity of\n> others forms of entertainment like video games and cell phones have led to\n> sluggish prime time ratings and a decline in the number of anime since the\n> peak in 2006.\n\nI add that the death of Osamu Tezuka ( _Astro Boy_ ) during this period could\nhave contributed to that \"creativity crisis\" you were talking about.\n\n* * *\n\n> **To go further** : \n> \\- [Osamu Tezuka](https://www.tofugu.com/japan/osamu-tezuka-history/) \n> \\- [Black Monday](http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blackmonday.asp) \n> \\- [Lost Decade](https://www.thebalance.com/japan-s-lost-decade-brief-\n> history-and-lessons-1979056) \n> \\- [Japan's\n> GDP](http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=JP) \\-\n> [The struggle of the anime\n> industry](http://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00043/)\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T12:17:37.333", "id": "41591", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-01T19:11:12.403", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-01T19:11:12.403", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "32156", "parent_id": "41590", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\n\nI want to add to Nevios answer that as a side effect of an economic crisis\ninvestors don't like to take unnecessary risks, so they bet on safe funding\nproductions with themes that trendy, think evangelion influencing the mecha\ngenre or madoka magica influencing the magical girl genere.\n\nNotice, for example, how many magical girl animes after madoka magica are\ndarker like mahou shoujo keikaku.\n\nTL:DR if it's popular, similar animes will be produced to cash in the trend\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-31T10:22:02.313", "id": "41640", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-31T10:22:02.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34898", "parent_id": "41590", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]
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