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"body": "\n\nEpisode 4 of _Gamers!_ has a scene where two characters go to an arcade.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kxBiC.jpg)\n\nOff to the right side of the scene is a poster that is unmistakably from\n_Madoka Magica_ :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UIc69.jpg)\n\nI consider myself something of a fan of _Madoka Magica_ , but I don't think\nI've ever seen this poster. What, specifically, is this a poster for? One of\nthe video games?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGiven the characters are at an arcade and the assuming the shape in the bottom\nright is an arcade cabinet I believe the poster is trying to represent Madoka\nMagicard Battle, a card battling game based on the series and films.\n\nI have not been able to find a poster, though the text and annotated images\nmake it look more like a magazine or advert page than a movie poster.\n\nThe key art may also be images put together from individual shots as no key\nart has the group of five in that order.\n\nMy best guess that if this is based on an existing poster, it is for the\nMadoka Arcade card game and is an instructional poster designed to be\ndisplayed outside the arcade itself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Naruto Shippuden, Danzo has a sharingan with powers that allows him to\ncontrol the mind of his victims as it is shown in the 5 Kage Submit. In the\n197th episode, after Pain's attack, some of the heads of the Land of Fire meet\nto decide what to do next and who should be the next Hokage. Kakashi should\nhave been chosen but Danzo made the Daimyo to change his mind.\n\nDid Danzo use his sharingan's powers to become Hokage or was his speech good\nenough to convince the Daimyo?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDanzō, rather than using the sharingan's ability, used the\n[Daimyō's](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_Daimy%C5%8D) indecisive\ncharacteristic to his advantage - knowing he would side with whoever convinced\nhim the most.\n\n> The Fire Daimyō has a fickle and indecisive nature and is easily swayed in\n> his decisions through biases as well as external influences. When situations\n> call for fast, important decisions, he makes his advisers do the whole work:\n> the one who convinces him most is the \"winner\"\n\nDanzō convinced the Daimyō that Kakashi, who was initially considered for\nbecoming the 6th Hokage, maintained the same ideology that put Konoha in it's\ncurrent state of crisis.\n\n> However, Danzō points out that the teachings that were passed down to\n> Kakashi were the cause of Konoha's problems and current crisis. The Konoha\n> Crush, the frequent confrontations with Akatsuki, the defection of Sasuke\n> Uchiha, and the destruction of Konoha's infrastructure, all stemmed from the\n> ideology that kindness and unity would lead to peace. Danzō believed the\n> ideology simply made Konoha appear weak and left them exposed to attacks\n\nThe Daimyō believed and agreed with Danzō\n\n> The daimyō, persuaded by Danzō's words and reasoning, appointed Danzō as the\n> Sixth Hokage Candidate, just in time for the Five Kage Summit.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt was activated until the fight with Sasuke, I don't remember why but it\nshuts for 10 years after being used for powerful genjutsu\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSorry but spoiler alert\n\nAt first I thought he did use it but it does make sense that the daiymo\nchanged his mind. It actually became more apparent later on when they were\nabout to choose his replacement he leans over and says wheres the fellow with\nthe one eye or something like that then says he scares me. I think that was\nactually put in to clear up any confusion about him using the eye. So it\nstands to reason that he just scared him into changing his mind when he got\nall stiff and rigid and stood up and raised his voice probably shook the\ndaiymo. About his eye. I could be wrong but I remember reading or seeing\nsomething about that the eye takes a bit over a decade to be able to use\nagain, however if suisui uses it because it was his eye I think it wont take\nanywhere near as long and as for donzo I think he actually said it after.he\nwas caught using it but he said it will take 3 days or something like that for\nit to be able to be used again. The only reason why it is cut down\ntremendously for him and not for itachi Is because danzo has the hashirama\ncell implanted inside of him and it repairs its users body tremendously. Now I\ncant say I'm 100% about this info but I am pretty sure its accurate.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDoes anyone know all the heroes not named in the Stain arc? Episodes 16 - 17\nin the anime and chapters 51-53 in the magna. e.g. the guy that is like a\nminotaur, the two ninjas, etc\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Japan, there are machines used for hand-drawn animation. Not drawing\ntablets but, the machines used to scan the drawings, color them, as well as do\nthe effects. Also, the machine that brings everything together in the end.\nThat includes character's, backgrounds, sound and effects. I believe that\nprocess is called 3D compositing.\n\nWhat are the names of any of the machines used in Japan for hand-drawn\nanimation? You don't need to know every machine, just 1 would be fine.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have studied this kind of course. Tools for animation have many, you asked\ntraditional animation question. There was no machine to work all-in-one. In\nthis kind of animation, you need at least 2 machines to work. At least a\ncomputer, and a hand-drawn animation scanner (for paperwork) _or_ a graphic\ntablet (for digital).\n\nThe production steps are:\n\n 1. First, the machine producers need a hand-drawn animation scanner for their cel-work to make it more accurately. For digital artists, they just need a graphics tablet.\n 2. After that, into the second machine is a computer having programs such as RETAS' all products, Celsy, western Anime Studio, Pencil 2D, TVPaint, toonboom and others. Don't forget Adobe.\n\nDeep into scanning, cleaning art, or drawing or (you can use a mouse and\nline/pen tool on your scanned work), coloring, animate, effect, background.\nAll completed by one in this steps.\n\nOr to answer your \"3D composition\", it means into 3D Software add-on\nanimation, the technique is for video production or 3D artists. 3D animation\nmajor work on Mac/OS.\n\n 3. During the second machine working-in-progress, the production has a third machine, that is a sound-recording machine to input sound in.\n\n 4. After complete the above steps, an animation is come out. It can take more than thousands/ten-thousands hours.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 6 of _Noir_ , when Mireille is identifying Yuri Nazarov to Kirika,\na shot where his photograph is clipped to some papers with English text\nappears. Two different pages are shown.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2bset.jpg)\n\nThe text in the papers contains references to 1990's American politics, with\nthe mention of Gore, the Democrats, and Congress. Does the text come from any\nreal-life publication from the period? Also, do the two different pages belong\nto different pieces of writing, or to the same one?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI ran two different internet searches for text that I could identify from the\ntwo different pages. Both searches led me to the 2000 article from TIME, [\"May\nIt Please The\nCourt\"](http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2047560,00.html).\n\nThe text copied in left page in the _Noir_ shot begins at:\n\n> The embarrassing admission didn't change Hengartner's overall point that\n> there were serious problems with punch-card voting, but it may have damaged\n> his credibility with Sauls.\n\nThe text shown follows that of the magazine article through the next\nparagraph.\n\nThe text on the right page begins at:\n\n> […] remain skittish and ready to bolt - and if they abandon Gore this week,\n> he will almost surely have to concede.\n\nBut note that in an actual magazine article, this division of the pages would\nnot make sense, as this would duplicate text that is already on the left page\n(e.g. _ready to bolt_ ). The most likely interpretation is that the \"page\" was\nduplicated, and the text used in a _Lorem ipsum_ -like manner.\n\nSomething similar happens in ep. 10, where a prosecutor is shown with [a\nvolume](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1sR2D.jpg) that presumably contains case\ndetails, in French. The two open pages contain identical text. The French does\nnot make sense as a whole, but an internet search with the bits that do make\nsense leads to [this _Le Monde diplomatique_\narticle](https://www.tni.org/en/archives/act/447) from 2001. Evidently, some\nwords have been cut out; I do not know why. The beginning of the text of same\narticle is also shown later on [the front page of\nLibération](https://i.stack.imgur.com/w8vVy.jpg).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn both LWA series and OVA, I only saw female wizards. The most likely to be a\nmale wizard are Lotte's dad and the magical shop owner but I never actually\nsee them perform any magic. There are also several non-human male character\nlike the Dragon Fafnir, but every human male seems to be a muggle. Is there\nany human male wizard in LWA world? If there are none, why all of them is\nfemale?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe series never states the existence or non-existence of human male magic\nusers.\n\nWhile we can assume from the setting that wizards likely don't exist, the best\nanswer is:\n\nWe don't really know.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pZqlU.png)\n\nNope, we see a wizard who is pretty clearly male in episode 25 at timestamp\n21:26. (Behind Croix, wearing glasses.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSometimes in anime/manga, I see some scene's where the MC flip the skirt of\nthe heroine, or even some random character with a cute face. I know there are\nmany kind of fan-service's like groping breast, yuri scene's, etc. But why is\nit almost always skirt flipping ? Like it is the standard of fan-service.\n\nIs there story behind it? Where does this originate from?\n\n",
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"title": "Why always \"skirt-flipping\" fan-service's (mini-skirt blowing up.)?",
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"body": "\n\nThis is the rule. This is the one of animation's principles. Follow Through\nand Overlapping Action. The artist is to make animation look like living\nmotion, when character move, the skirt need to follow up and move. Follow\nThrough and Overlapping Action is one of principles. Originate from Disney.\nAnimator all having this concept.\n\nFor fan-service, Anime when skirt-flipping, it increase charm of the\ncharacter, it also is fan-service. Cute, Cute poses, Smile, kawaii, sexy,\ncharming, eye contact more is all fan-service. Behind the story is is the fact\nand originate from Japan.\n\n[The fact, behind of story, fan-service because... (read\nmore)](https://injapan.gaijinpot.com/play/culture/2012/11/09/why-japanese-\npeople-are-comfortable-with-nakedness/)\n\n<https://a.dilcdn.com/bl/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2016/07/Rapunzel.gif>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have made some research and this is what i got (and sorry about my grammar )\n\nSo it called `Panchira (パンチラ)` refers to a brief glimpse of a woman's\nunderwear.\n\n> Panchira (パンチラ) refers to a brief glimpse of a woman's underwear. The term\n> carries risqué connotations similar to the word 'upskirt' in English usage.\n> The word is a portmanteau of \"panty\" (パンティー pantī) and chira, the Japanese\n> sound symbolism representing a glance or glimpse. It differs from the more\n> general term \"upskirt\" in that panchira specifies the presence of underpants\n> (the absence of which would more accurately be described as ノーパン; nōpan).\n\n**Origins**\n\n> **Traditionally, Japanese women did not wear underwear.** On December 16,\n> 1932, there was a fire in the Tokyo Shirokiya department store. Legend has\n> it that some of the female staff tried to use their kimonos to cover their\n> privates as they climbed down ropes from the higher floors, and accidentally\n> fell to their deaths. Japanese newspapers began agitating for women to start\n> wearing 'drawers' (ズローズ zurōzu), but seemingly had little impact at the\n> time. In a 1934 survey by a Fukuoka newspaper, 90% of the women surveyed\n> were still not wearing 'drawers' a year and a half after the\n> fire.[2](https://books.google.co.id/books?id=WkJ9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT446&lpg=PT446&dq=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&source=bl&ots=LhGN8iCxnu&sig=O9j3-t-mDOaf34vLQxM_4gRj4cE&hl=id&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip8PHEyoHWAhWIL48KHdqPDc0Q6AEIWzAL#v=onepage&q=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&f=false)\n>\n> As noted below, the development of panchira in Japanese popular culture has\n> been analyzed by a number of American and Japanese writers. Many observers\n> link the phenomenon to the Westernization of Japan following World War\n> II.[7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchira) During the occupation,\n> fashions, ideas, and media previously unavailable were accessed by the local\n> population, leading to a slight relaxing of earlier taboos. Western-style\n> clothing (including women's underwear) gained popularity in the post-war\n> period, reinforced through numerous media outlets — magazines, newspapers,\n> films, journals, and comics.\n>\n> At least one Japanese source traces the beginnings of panchira to the\n> release of The Seven Year Itch in 1955.[8] The media coverage surrounding\n> Marilyn Monroe's iconic scene fueled the emerging Japanese craze. According\n> to architectural historian Shoichi Inoue, the practice of \"scoring\" a\n> glimpse up young women's skirts became extremely popular around this period;\n> \"Magazines of the time have articles telling the best places where panties\n> could be viewed\".[9] Inoue also writes that actress Mitsuyo Asaka spurred\n> the popularity of the word 'chirarizumu' (チラリズム 'the thrill of catching a\n> brief glimpse of a women's nether regions') by parting her kimono to show\n> off her legs in her stage shows in the late 1950s.[10]\n>\n> In 1969, the Japanese oil company Maruzen Sekiyū released a television\n> commercial featuring Rosa Ogawa in a short mini-skirt that gets blown up by\n> the wind with her forming her lips into an 'O' in surprise. This led to\n> children imitating her line \"Oh! Mōretsu\" (Oh！モーレツ, too much, radical), and\n> a fad for sukāto-mekuri (スカート捲り flipping up of a girl's skirt).[11] Ogawa\n> subsequently appeared in a TV show Oh Sore Miyo (Oh! それ見よ, literally \"look\n> at that,\" but actually a pun on 'O Sole Mio,' a neapolitan song 'my\n> sunshine') that again featured scenes of her mini-skirt blowing up.\n\n**Anime/Manga**\n\nFor anime/manga culture, it's 'partially' answered from this question.\n\n[Where did the anime trope of Clothing Damage / Clothes being torn\noriginate?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/28469/where-did-the-\nanime-trope-of-clothing-damage-clothes-being-torn-originate)\n\nit was from this manga, Shameless School\n\n**Wiki Explanation**\n\n> Harenchi Gakuen (ハレンチ学園, lit. \"Shameless School\") is a Japanese media\n> franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga\n> serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly\n> Shōnen Jump. The series was the first big success for Go Nagai. It is also\n> considered as the first modern erotic manga, sometimes considered the first\n> hentai manga, though Nagai never used explicit sexual situations in the\n> original run of the manga.\n\nAnd from the same wiki, it was written\n\n> By the late 1960s, panchira had spread to the mainstream comic industry, as\n> fledgling manga artists such as Go Nagai began exploring sexual imagery in\n> boys' comics (shōnen manga).[12] Adult manga magazines had existed since\n> 1956 (e.g. Weekly Manga Times), but it is significant to note the\n> introduction of sexual imagery into boys manga. Millegan argues that the\n> ecchi genre of the 1970s rose to fill a void left by the decline of Osaka's\n> lending library network:[13]\n\nand i read an article about Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump came under fire for\nrunning a busty spread on Yuragi-sō no Yūna-san (Yūna of Yuragi Manor). The\nillustration sparked conversations about ecchi works in a magazine that is\nlargely seen as reading material for kids under 14 years of age.\n\n**Summary**\n\nFrom what i could tell, the originate of \"skirt-flipping\" is from short mini-\nskirt that gets blown up by the wind ). There is a book with titles,\n`Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture` that\nexplain about this topic, but i couldn't copy the reference's, since its\nlicensed. You could read the book online\n[Here](https://books.google.co.id/books?id=WkJ9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT446&lpg=PT446&dq=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&source=bl&ots=LhGN8iCxnu&sig=O9j3-t-mDOaf34vLQxM_4gRj4cE&hl=id&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip8PHEyoHWAhWIL48KHdqPDc0Q6AEIWzAL#v=onepage&q=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&f=false)\n\n* * *\n\n**References**\n\n * [Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture](https://books.google.co.id/books?id=WkJ9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT446&lpg=PT446&dq=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&source=bl&ots=LhGN8iCxnu&sig=O9j3-t-mDOaf34vLQxM_4gRj4cE&hl=id&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip8PHEyoHWAhWIL48KHdqPDc0Q6AEIWzAL#v=onepage&q=skirt%20flipping%20culture%20in%20japan&f=false)\n\n * [Panchira (パンチラ)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchira)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan the owner of Death Note be killed if another random person knows their\nface and name, writes the owners name in the owner's own Death Note? with a\nsheet torn out from it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no rule currently known which prevents any person from killing the\nowner of a death note under normal circumstances.\n\nThe only reasons a death note will not work on a person assuming that the\nvictims name and face are known are:\n\n> * the victim is very young\n> * the victim is very old (124 years old or older)\n> * the victim is already about to die in the next few seconds\n> * someone already misspelled the victims name too many times\n> * the victim's name was written in a second death note simultaneously\n> (victim still will die)\n> * the victim's name was already written in any death note in a valid way\n> (time of death before end of natural life span).\n>\n\n(Please edit if I missed any.)\n\nI almost always have to note on these questions that the rules available to us\nabout the Death Note are not complete. In fact, the rules themselves state\nthat even the shinigami do not know all of the rules about how a death note\nworks.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn the Death Note wiki under\n[Rules](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note/How_to_Read_Rules)\nit states\n\n\"An individual with Shinigami Eyes can see the name and lifespan of another\nhuman by looking at that person's face. By gaining ownership of a Death Note,\nan individual not only gains the ability to kill but also cannot be killed by\na Death Note. From this point on, a person with a Death Note cannot see the\nlife span of other Death Note owners, including him- or herself.\"\n\nwhich I think means that no, you cannot kill a Death Note owner at all (using\na Death Note, that is. You can probably still kill them the conventional way).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGintama i would said the The most epic Anime with Parody ever made. Here's\nsome example\n\n**One Piece Parody**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oIVgLm.png)\n\n**Naruto Parody**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YmiXXm.jpg)\n\nBinbougami Ga anime sure have many episode that contains parody. Ex:\n\n**Dragonball Parody**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/brhnSm.png)\n\n**Hokuto No ken**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wqwfrm.jpg)\n\n**Death Note**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DC56sm.jpg)\n\nWhy this kind of episode became so popular in anime? I know the episode that\nwere made for a parody is a Joke episode to entertain. But What is the first\nanime Parody that were found in anime hitory ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOldest Manga/Anime that's considered \"Parody\" I could find is [Sennin\nBaraku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennin_Buraku) which started\nserialization in October 1956 and the 23 episode anime started in 1963.\n\n(From Wikipedia)\n\n> Sennin Buraku takes place in Taoyuan, a small Edo period village, populated\n> solely by Taoist ascetics. The eldest, Lao Shi, conducts research into magic\n> and alchemy, while his disciple Zhi Huang remains more interested in\n> pleasures of the flesh. He has fallen for three pretty sisters who live\n> nearby, much to Lao Shi's annoyance.\n\nNo idea why parody is popular, but like most genres, it's probably helped\nsignificantly by the general popularity of anime.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGiven that so far in the series we have only had subtle hints at how powerful\nMihawk is is it reasonable to assume that he has power equivalent to that of a\nyonko say Kaido since parallels between him and shanks are done quite often?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Marineford, he fought Vista (one of the top officials of the Whitebeard\nPirates) to a draw, also Jozu, another of Whitebeard's top brass, was able to\ndeflect his attack unharmed. I don't think he is on par with the Yonkou,\nalthough he was Shanks' rival when they were younger, he lost interest on\ndueling him after Shanks' lost his arm, but that doesn't mean he's as strong\nor stronger. He respects him enough to pull back from the war once he showed\nup on Marineford saying fighting Shanks wasn't part of the agreement. So I'd\nsay he's pretty much a little bit under Yonko level, probably on par with\nAdmirals.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn season 1, episode 18, around 4:40 timestamp, there's a piano song in the\nbackground whilst Suguha is changing and placing the device on her head.\n\nWhat is the title of the song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat song is the the piano only version of \"Is this love?\" by Kajiura Yuki.\n\nIt's the 18th track on the Sword Art Online Original Soundtrack vol.2 which\nwas bundled with the limited edition SAO vol. 7 DVD and Blu-ray.\n\n[Source](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_Original_Soundtrack_vol.2),\nyou can also listen to the song there.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen i was staying in a hotel i was watching NHK World and there was a show\ncalled _Japanology Plus_ which was talking about the origins and evolution of\nJapan's Anthropomorphism (the attribution of human traits, emotions, and\nintentions to non-human entities. ie. the OS-Tans and Hatsune Miku).\n\nthere was a bit where during an interview the interviewer asked about\nperception problems because the Anthropomorphic Characters are generally\n\n> Kinky women\n\nto which the guest said that this was something about japanese culture which\nwould seem strange outsiders.\n\nthe example he used was in _My Neighbor Totoro_ in that there is a scene where\nthe 2 children in it are bathing with there father but the guest said that the\nscene had to be removed for the overseas distribution. the reason the guest\ngave for why it was in the movie was that in Japan this would be very normal\nfor parents to bathe with their children regardless of sex even citing that\nalong time ago there was mixed sex bathing in spas (onsen)\n\nNow i know that with initial screenings of an anime series the DVD/Bluray wont\nbe as censored as the TV version like in [the third Bluray Volume of\n_Eromanga-sensei_](https://jlist.com/blog/featured/eromanga-senseis-blu-ray-\nreveals-more-plot/) (JList - Possible NSFW Ads)\n\nSo i am wondering. Does the US, UK or Australian Localized DVD/Bluray of _My\nNeighbor Totoro_ have the bathing scene?\n\nNOTE: i ask about US, UK and Australian release as i am looking to get it in\nEnglish, whether dubbed or subbed\n\n",
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"title": "Does the US, UK or Aus Localized DVD/Bluray of My Neighbor Totoro have the bathing scene?",
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"body": "\n\nI recently bought the Disney Blu-Ray release of _My Neighbor Totoro_ from\n2013, and the bath scene is in it. Here's screenshots:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S1ZY4m.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4iUx0m.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ClCJm.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nifmbm.png)\n\nThe Disney release is rated G, which means the MPAA considers it suitable to\nbe watched by anyone. It has both subtitles and a dub starring a young Dakota\nand Elle Fanning as Satsuki and Mei, and Tim Daly, who is best known in fandom\nfor voicing Superman in the DC Animated Universe, as their father.\n\nWhen I was about 13, I rented the old Fox Video VHS release with the\nStreamline dub from Blockbuster Video, and I distinctly remember the bath\nscene also being in that version. The [answer I wrote to the linked\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/20080/7579) presents evidence that\nMiyazaki refused to allow edited releases of his work after the travesty that\nwas _Warriors of the Wind_ , which would also have applied to the Streamline\nrelease of _My Neighbor Totoro_ as [_Warriors of the Wind_ was released in\n1985](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_\\(film\\)#Warriors_of_the_Wind),\nthree years before _My Neighbor Totoro_ came out.\n\nSounds like someone didn't do their research before they made claims about\nwhat had or hadn't been cut from international releases of the movie, and made\nunfounded assumptions about what was and wasn't acceptable. This reminds me of\n[Kaworu Watashiya's utter\ncluelessness](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-06-07/nymphet-\ncreator-u.s-publisher-blog-on-cancellation) about just what it was that\nAmerican publishers found objectionable about _Kodomo no Jikan_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNear the end of [episode 1 of\nTsukigakirei](http://www.crunchyroll.com/tsukigakirei/episode-1-spring-and-\nhard-times-734075), beginning around @21:45, we see Akane and her sister in\ntheir room. Akane gets a text from Azumi as her sister is doing something with\nher own smartphone. Her sister gets up, sees the text and teases Akane, asking\nif that is her boyfriend. This slightly embarrasses Akane. When her sister\nleaves the room, Akane picks up her sister's smartphone. She says to herself,\n\"I'm going to mess with her.\" At that point she presses something multiple\ntimes. The smartphone is on, but it appears no app is active. So what did\nAkane do?\n\nBTW, I'm sure there was nothing malicious involved. It was just two sisters\nbeing playful.\n\nI checked the next episode, but there is no clarification. Maybe I'm just\nclueless about Japanese smartphone usage. The common communication app they\nall use appears to be [LINE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_\\(software\\)).\nIt is a real app, very popular in Japan. It combines texting, telephony, and\ninstant messaging (over the Internet, not telephone lines). We didn't see if\nthis is what her sister was using before she left, but that would be my best\nguess. Yet how would one mess with it without it being open and active?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHer sister's phone appears to be a recent-model iPhone. Pressing the Home\nbutton and the Sleep/Wake button simultaneously is [how you take a\nscreenshot](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200289).\n\nSo she now has a bunch of photos of her lock screen taking up space on her\nphone. Take that, Akane's sister!\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOk, I think that most people have heard of this strange title of the anime\nmovie which is due to come out... I've read the novel and the manga. But I\njust don't understand what the title actually means. The characters mention it\nat the start and at the end... I know that it shouldn't be taken literally but\ncan anyone explain me the meaning of the title?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo, this relates to the fact that in Japanese culture, and various other Asian\ncultures as well, mothers use a phrase along the lines of ' _I will eat up\nyour disease X, so that you can get all better..._ ' to their children; the\ntitle here refers to the fact that,\n\n> Haruki wants Sakura to get all better from the disease she is suffering,\n> which is some sort of pancreas disease\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnd Gamamaru’s Magic Ball, how it records everything that happened in any ERA?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nm6F9.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe \"Magic Ball\" that the Third Hokage and Gamamaru use is the [Telescope\nTechnique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Telescope_Technique).\n\n> A technique that uses a crystal ball to track a particular individual\n> anywhere they are. There are a few restrictions about the person that is\n> subjected to pursuit. The user must know that person's chakra pattern. If\n> someone can be targeted for pursuit, they may be very far away, the crystal\n> ball will be able to confirm their position. As this technique is infallible\n> for intelligence purposes, the Third Hokage used it to maintain public order\n> in the village.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to read the complete Kiteretsu Daihyakka manga free online in\nEnglish. Can anyone provide me a link for it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWith some Googling, it appears that there is no _licensed_ translation of the\nmanga (and thus, no way to legally read it for free online).\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiteretsu_Daihyakka) does not list\nany English publisher for _Kiteretsu Daihyakka_ ; in contrast, it does for\n_Doraemon_ (of which I've personally read licensed translations of certain\nchapters) or any number of other licensed manga.\n\nI was also unable to find any promising results when I Googled `kiteretsu\ndaihyakka manga english translation`.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I just realized the conundrum of Goku Black and Vegetas stubborn namming\nsense. Since the arc is a while away from being dubbed, I don't want to binge\nthe entire arc again just to find any instance of Vegeta saying Goku Blacks\nname. So what does he call Goku Black? And does he call him something\ndifferent after it's revealed who he really is?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is a really interesting question. Vegeta has never called his name out in\nperson but whenever he refers to him to the others, he calls him Black.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter watching the Netflix Death Note movie I was left with a interesting\nquestion.\n\nDuring the movie (from memory)\n\n> **Light** ; What if I write your name into the death note? \n> **Ryuk** ; Ha! I would like to see you try. Furthest someone got was two\n> letters.\n\nWas this also a possibility in the original manga/anime series? Or this\nsomething totally original to the movie?\n\nThere already seems to be a similar question [Is there a way to kill\nShinigamis with a death\nnote?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14888/is-there-a-way-to-kill-\nshinigamis-with-a-death-note) . This however only covers indirect usage of the\nDeath Note and not directly writing it down (which the op of that question\nseems to debunk without a source)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**You can't kill a Shinigami by putting down his/her name on a Death Note**\n\nAs stated on the anime/manga, the only _known_ way to kill a Shinigami/Death\ngod is for him/her to kill an human with a Death Note in order to expand\nanother human's life span. That's why Gelus died by expanding Misa's life span\n:\n\n> Rem recalls Gelus watching over a younger Misa Amane in the human world.\n> Knowing that it was Misa's final day, she watches with him. Having fallen in\n> love with Misa, Gelus uses his Death Note to kill Misa's destined murderer,\n> against Rem's protests. Gelus is reduced to a pile of dust as punishment for\n> extending a human life, leaving behind only his Death Note.\n>\n> [Death Note Wiki](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Shinigami#Gelus)\n\nHere's the clip of the episode where Rem explains to Misa how a Shinigami dies\n:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzt4IL6AjXA>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no definitive information in the anime or manga on this particular\nquestion. So **it MAY be possible, theoretically** , to kill a Shinigami with\na Death Note. However, regardless of that, **in practice, it is impossible for\na human to do it** , for the following reasons:\n\n**You don't have their name.** Humans have no way of verifying a Shinigami's\ntrue name, much less its spelling. Correct spelling using the script in which\nthe name is \"officially\" written does seem to be required. Shinigami vision,\nwhich always shows the name needed to kill, always shows the \"official\"\nspelling. For example, when Misa views Light's name, it shows up not as the\nEnglish word it comes from, and not as the kana approximation, but as the\nofficial kanji character, presumably because that's the way it is on his\ndocuments/how he likes to spell it, etc. Even though this spelling makes her\nconfused as to how to pronounce it (she initially reads it as \"Tsuki\" in the\nanime). On the other hand, the names of Western characters always show up in\nWestern script, not in Japanese approximation. The Shinigami would have their\nown way of spelling their names as well. According to the manga creators, each\nShinigami has their \"own written language\", and some even use pictures (says\nthe wiki here: deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Shinigami). And misspellings are not\nallowed: after 4 misspellings the target becomes immune from that Death Note,\nand misspelling it knowingly more than 4 times (such as deliberate trial and\nerror) kills the Note's owner (Rule XXXV.1). Even with the Shinigami eye deal,\nShinigami names don't seem to show up, from what I've seen in the anime. So\n**even assuming the Shinigami is stupid enough to tell you their real, full\nname, good luck explaining to them why you need it spelled, in their native\nlanguage**.\n\n**You don't have their face**. You need to visualize a face to kill. Many\nShinigami seem to wear masks/makeup that cover most of their faces. Who knows\nif that's their actual true face or just a costume? Again, good luck asking\nthem and getting an honest answer.\n\n**No cause of death.** Ok, this one is a little complicated, but here goes...\nThe conditions of death must be \"physically possible\" (Rule VI.1). If an\nimpossible cause of death is listed, or if none is specified, the cause\nreverts to the default: a deadly heart attack (Rule I.4). In other words, the\nperson's blood is no longer being pumped and they quickly suffer brain death,\norgan failure, etc., from lack of oxygen/nutrients. But we know for a fact\nthat it is physically impossible to kill a Shinigami this way. They are\nspiritual beings that are able to phase in and out of the material world and\ndon't need to eat, so assuming they even have such an organ as a heart, lack\nof physical pumping from it would not kill them. Thus **it is physically\nimpossible to kill a Shinigami with the known DEFAULT cause**.\n\n**So you have to SPECIFY some other cause** that is actually known to kill\nShinigami. The only way we know is to make them kill someone with their Note\nto extend another human's life (Rule XVII.1). **But that won't work either.**\n**Here's why:**\n\n**A. Bystander deaths are not allowed.** If you make the Shinigami write down\na random human's name, you run into Rule X.2, which prevents your Death Note\nentry from being the _direct_ cause of death of anyone other than the people\nyou _specifically listed by name_.\n\n**B. Double entries are not allowed.** If you try to work around that by\n_specifying_ the name of the human the Shinigami is to kill, you run into Rule\nXV.1, which states that if a name is written in 2 Death Notes, only the first\nentry written takes effect. So the Shinigami's attempt to re-enter the\nperson's name will be void, no harm no foul, the Shinigami lives. Even if you\ntry to force them to do a split entry with you (allowed in Rule XXXII.1), YOU\ninitiate the split entry, the human becomes YOUR victim, the Shinigami's Note\nis NOT the cause of death (yours is), so the Shinigami is still not\nresponsible.\n\n**TL;DR Only someone who knows the Shinigami's true face, true name, and how\ntheir body works, can possibly kill them with a death note** (or maybe even\nwithout it). **That would most likely be the Shinigami king** , possibly some\nof the higher ranking Shinigami. **Your only real option is tricking the\nShinigami** into doing something stupid like giving up their life voluntarily\nor getting into big trouble with their higher-ups (they do have a death\npenalty, per Rule XLVI.1).\n\n(All Rules are here:\n<http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note>)\n\n**Incidentally, the same basic idea applies to the Netflix movie version of\nRyuk.** We don't know anything pertinent about him either. He may threaten to\nkill anyone who writes his name, just because he's miffed, but that doesn't\nmean they have the ability to actually do it. In fact, someone did write \"\n_don't trust Ryuk_ \" on the actual parchment pages of the Death Note, so\n**technically he should be dead, because his name was put down in the Note. So\napparently it doesn't work on him.**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo it shouldn't be possible to kill a Death God with a Note, since the very\nfirst rule states that the _human_ whose name is written in this note shall\ndie, and Death Gods aren't human.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause shinigami will kill the owner before the owner will write shinigami\nname. Ryuk said furthermost anyone written is two word which means he killed\nthe person before he/she finished writing the whole name of Ryuk.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRules in both manga and anime mustn't even be put into consideration for this.\n\n**Ryuk tells Light both in chapter 1** :\n\n> \" _I'm in the Shinigami realm, so killing people in the Human world isn't\n> any fun_ \" \" _...but if I write the names of the Shinigami into the book\n> they don't die._ \"\n\n**Interesting change in current translation of chapter 1:**\n\n> \" _killing guys in the human world from the Shinigami world isn't fun at\n> all_ \" \" _...and writing a Shinigami's name in the notebook won't kill\n> them._ \"\n\n**in episode 1 (sub)** :\n\n> \" _...writing names of other Shinigami **doesn't work_** \"\n\n**in episode 1 (dub)** :\n\n> \" _even if you wrote the name of another Shinigami it would be pointless,\n> because they wouldn't die._ \"\n\n**This is of course a translation, someone should confirm the exact Japanese\ntext, but if it follows the original kanji closely that would mean a Shinigami\ncan't be killed by the Death Note as far as Ryuk knows** (probably they tried\nit out of boredom?). We aren't talking Shinigami king. He remains shrouded in\nmystery, so that being might.\n\nAlso following the first line in new English translation a Shinigami can be\nkilled in the Human world, it's just no fun according to Ryuk. That can imply\nthe method of Rem, though that one is so unusual. It took Ryuk a bit by\nsurprise. I take from that there might be another way that Ryuk knows about\nand it must be done in the human world.\n\nAgain, what are those two lines in original Japanese text? Anyone?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 5, at around 5:13 mark, we see the car driving away from the\ncamera. On the right the \"HOTEL\" sign is drawn horizontally flipped. Could it\nbe that in real life such sign exists, or is this just a drawing error?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CQeRZ.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFirst of all, this scene isn't happening in Japan, it's in Los Angeles, where\nKaleido Stage itself is located, so it makes sense the car is on the right\nside.\n\nWhile I do not have a definitive answer, there are two likely explanations:\n\n 1. During the production, while creating the scene they realized midway or after its completion that it isn't in Japan, so they flipped the background or the whole scene around.\n 2. The background was originally meant for cars coming towards the viewer, not for ones going away from us, so they flipped it around and didn't notice the sign or didn't have time to correct it.\n\nThe actual answer is more likely to be (or to be closer to) the latter, as the\ncars parking on the right side are actually on the wrong side of the road,\ntheir fronts are pointed towards the screen (If you don't have a driving\nlicense: in most countries this is considered illegal, [including Los\nAngeles](http://www.californiadriving.com/parking/)). Also, their driving\nwheels are on the right side instead of the left, while it's on the correct\nside in the police car a few seconds earlier. (But of course, this could be a\nproduction error too.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1AXsM.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI've searched everywhere online and can't find any recent pages but does Izuku\ncontrol his One-For-All? Thanks\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAt first, no. It is for this that he continues to injure himself so badly.\n\nIn chapter 41 after his match in the sports festival, it becomes an immediate\nneed that he learn to control his power because Recovery Girl declares that\nshe won't heal him anymore. In fact, this is one of the main problems in the\nbeginning of the series, the fact that he can't control his power. Most of the\nsecond season is dedicated to his progress at controlling his power.\n\nLater in season 2, Midoriya has an internship with Gran Torino and comes to\nlearn that he shouldn't focus so much on trying to activate the power, as much\nas make the power completely part of all his actions. Always active, but at\nthe level which he can control. Which at that point, is 5%.\n\nSo, yes he is slowly learning to control his power. That is a main struggle he\nfaces within the story.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe learned to control One for All but it's only 5%. He learned to control it\nwhen he's interning for Gran Torino. He got the idea from when he made a\nmistake in heating the taiyaki (because the taiyaki was not rotating inside\nthe microwave) that they will had for breakfast.\n\n> He figured that he should use One for All not just when he needs it to and\n> what body part he will use it to but he needs to activate it to his whole\n> body _all the time_.\n\nReference for this are episodes 14 and 15.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you mean 100%, then the answer is no.\n\n**At the end of the second season of the anime:**\n\n> He could use up to 5% of its power. He used it to fight the hero killer\n> Stain. (Ep. 14-18)\n\n**As of chapter 156 of the manga:**\n\n> In the fight against Chisaki, he could control up to 20% of his power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bwSNO.png)\n\nI've been thinking about his Mangekyo and how it seems to have had no impact\non his eye sight and how he could have escaped the effects. After much thought\non the topic I think I might have the solution and am wondering if this is a\nvalid theory or not. My theory is you need both Mangekyo to hurt your vision.\nSince he had only 1 eye this effectively allows him to use part of its power\nfor no effect compared to people like Itachi and Sasuke who do have both and\nhad issues with this. Basically if I didn't make it clear enough with only 1\neye he couldn't get Susanoo or the other great abilities but also didn't have\nthe downside of losing his sight. So do you think this is a valid theory? I\nknow its unprovable either way just trying to see if I'm the only one who\nthinks this is a possible solution.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI could think of two things:\n\n * He was the owner of that Sharingan. He had more compatibility with it. So he can use it more number of times than Kakashi.\n\n * He had Hashirama's cells.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nConsidering he have hundreds of spare _Sharingan_ and half body of white\nzetsu. It is quite easy for him to maintain Mangekyu Sharingan (can never\nactually use eternal mangekyu).\n\nWe can see that in the scene when he transplanted Itachi's eyes to Sasuke.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uz3yN.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/51vkD.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nit is due to Hashirama's cells, plus I have always been under the believe that\nany Uchiha and Senju/Uzumaki pairing would negate any of the physical side\neffects of the sharingan due to being of the both the physical and spiritual\nsides of the sage.\n\nit could also have to do with the fact that with one eye missing he can not\nuse susanoo which might have been damaging and intense enough to overwhelm the\nhealing abilities of Hashirama's cells.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYou've all got the wrong idea. It is because he had half of white zetsu's body\nwhich was developed using Hashirama's cells. The senju had extremely powerful\nhealing body which could instantly heal any wound. The lost of eyesight occurs\ndue to regular use of the mangekyo sharingan because you don't get the time to\nheal that injuries done by it in thar sorry period of time, however for Obito\nbecause of Hashirama's cells that damage was healed instantly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhere can I buy the digital version of Gantz manga? I searched in Dark Horse\nComics site but they don't have the digital version. Amazon also just has the\nPhysical version. Does Gantz not have a digital version of the manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShort answer, NO, there's no digital version of the US release of the GANTZ\nmanga.\n\nLong answer, some authors and publishing companies in Japan back in the day\nwere against publishing their works digitally (like Nishio Isshin, Kawahara\nReki, Log Horizon's author whose name keeps evading me, Kadokawa back in the\nday), I don't know for sure if that was the case with Hiroya Oku or Shueisha\n(I believe Shueisha was against it but don't quote me on that), but the fact\nis the Japanese digital version wasn't released until February 18th, 2014\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n897B.png)\n\nThis is 6 months AFTER the last volume was physically released in Japan, which\ncame out on August 19th, 2013. All the volumes were released in bulk on\nbookwalker that very same day. The [link\nhere](https://bookwalker.jp/series/12483/list/) will take you to the full list\nof the GANTZ releases (site is in japanese). Nowadays, more and more older\nseries are getting digital releases in Japan.\n\nWhich means that there was NO digital release of GANTZ in Japan back in 2007\nwhen Dark Horse made the license deal. IF their original deal had contemplated\nthe future possibility of digital releases in Japan, Dark Horse could legally\nsell the digital version, but there's been no such release so far so either\nthey don't care or they can't release digitally without another deal.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 2 of _Ballroom e Youkoso_ , when Tatara learns to dance from\nKiyoharu, what song is playing? I'm referring to the backward-Jazz-piano music\n[that starts at 1:17 in this YouTube\nclip](https://youtu.be/wPDPuESUW8I?t=1m17s).\n\nThe only songs I can find from this anime are things like OST/OP/ED, not those\ntransitioning instrumentals used whenever someone dances.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't know the answer to your question but you can't find it because Yuuki\nAyashi, the composer of the background music, hasn't released an OST yet.\n\nI was searching for background music too... ^^ Not that particular one, but\nseveral pieces of music in the score of this anime.\n\nGuess we have to wait a little more before finding it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 3 of _Chargeman Ken_ , a Juralian speaks to some of the flesh-\neating butterflies that have been plaguing Japan (and perhaps, elsewhere):\n\n> Oh, my lovelies. The Earthlings are in a panic over you. According to the\n> Earthlings, you went extinct 50 years ago. My lovelies, until that day\n> comes, be my power!\n>\n> Nobody knows that I saved you 50 years ago, and that I improved you to eat\n> human cells and multiply! All so that you would destroy the Earth!\n\n[Text taken from Crunchyroll subtitles; paragraph breaks are my own.] What\ndoes the Juralian mean by _until that day comes_? Normally, it would seem to\nrefer to the day 50 years ago when the Earthlings thought that species of\nbutterfly extinct. However, this is not a good reading, since the Juralian\nindicates that this day has not come yet.\n\nDoes it perhaps refer to the day when that species of butterfly _does_ in fact\nbecome extinct, or to the day when the Earth will be destroyed?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n\"That day\" means the day when they will go extinct.\n\nPulling together the two sentences: \"My lovelies, until the day you go extinct\ncomes, be my power\"\n\nIt would probably be much more obvious if it said \"until that day ACTUALLY\ncomes\"\n\nBut it's Crunchy, they aren't really the best translators, even though they\nimproved a lot during the lase few years.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom what I pick out of the Japanese dialog, it seems that translation is\nquite word-for-word literal. What's interesting though is in the Japanese he\nuses the words \"sono toki\" instead of \"ano toki\" to refer to \"that time\" and I\nthink that makes all the difference.\n\nBy Japanese 101 definitions, when referring to objects, you use \"ano,\" meaning\n\"that\", to refer to an object far away from both the speaker and the listener.\n\"Sono,\" also meaning \"that\", is used when the object is far from the speaker,\nbut close to the listener. Mind you, beware of Japanese 101 definitions of\nwords because they hardly ever give the entire context to the word.\n\nThrow in the context that you constantly hear in anime, when the speaker is\ntrying to be vague and mysterious, they will say, for instance \"ano hito,\"\n(literally meaning \"that person\" or you could just translate it as HIM,\nmeaning that person we all know because he's that important, but I'm not going\nto name) often referring to some mysterious big bad who has yet make an\nappearance, and wasn't mentioned before in the conversation.\n\nThe use of \"sono\" then feels significant, likely implying that he's referring\nto the time he was just talking about (their extinction), rather than some\nother time that they all know about but aren't naming.\n\nI also lean to this interpretation over the time when Earth is destroyed, as\nthe subject of Earth being destroyed hasn't come up yet in his speech either.\nJapanese is a very contextual language. You generally will say a thing once to\nestablish the current topic of conversation, then leave out the topic in\nfollowing sentences until the topic changes.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe used Izanagi to survive losing his battle with Hashirama and swiping his\nDNA, shouldn’t his other eye be permanently sealed?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jttfr.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uudoF.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Ysh4.jpg)\n\nThe Headbands Ninjas Wear Symbolize who they are Loyal to. Then why Jiraiya, a\nleaf shinobi has different headband?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe symbol on [Jiraiya's](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jiraiya) headband\ntranslate to\n\n> \"oil\" (油, abura)\n\nThe reason why Jirayia wears this symbol on this headband rather than the leaf\nsymbol is to show his affiliation with the toads on [Mount\nMyōboku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mount_My%C5%8Dboku)\n\n> He often carried a large scroll on his back, and had a tattoo on his left\n> palm, and he wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for \"oil\" (油,\n> abura), which denoted his affiliation with Mount Myōboku.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe also probably wore that instead of the leaf symbol because he would go on\nreconnaissance missions where he has to be undercover and keep his identity a\nsecret.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fuk1x.jpg)\n\nWhy Does Boruto and Himawari Have one less Whisker than naruto?\n\nNaruto Uzumaki (3 Whiskers)\n\nBoruto Uzumaki (2 Whiskers)\n\nHimawari Uzumaki (2 Whiskers)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere is no guaranteed answer to that. But judging from various traits of\ndifferent characters that they have acquired through parents, I can say that\nchildren of Naruto have inherited the trait of having whisker scars but not\nthe number of scars.\n\nIt is evident from the creators of the manga giving part father and part\nmother traits to their children. Like in case of Naruto, he inherited his\nfather's hair color although Kushina's hair had a distinctive red unlike other\nUzumaki's. On the other hand, Naruto got his whiskers because of being exposed\nto Kurama's chakra while he was in his mother's womb because Kurama was sealed\nin Kushina.\n\nSimilarly, in case of Inojin (son of Sai and Ino), he inherited his father's\nface and his mother's style. In Boruto and Himawari's case, they got the\nwhiskers because Naruto had and inherited the Jougan (Pure Eye - Boruto) and\nByakugan(Himawari) from their mother.\n\nThis I how I feel Boruto got his whiskers. It also may be as simple as the\nfact being that Naruto and Boruto have been created by different people, and\nthey might want to distinguish Boruto from Naruto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI was watching _Aoi Bungaku_ episode 9 \"Run, Melos\" plot when I saw this scene\nwhich reminded me of an episode of _Mouryou no Hako_.\n\n\n\n\n\nNotice that it's the same room and painting on the upper right. They are both\nin Showa era and the protagonists are look-a-like.\n\nIs this related or a real place?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe painting on the upper-right is just a cover for a fictional magazine, 近代文藝\npublished by 稀譚舎, from the [source\nnovel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%8Dry%C5%8D_no_Hako).\n\nApparently, the background art and the music that plays during that scene had\nbeen reused and recycled. In fact, if you compare the staff/cast behind\n_[Mouryou no\nHako](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10153)_ and\n_[Aoi\nBungaku](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11096)_\n(for episode 9–10), you see they have a lot in common:\n\n### Staff\n\n * **Director: Ryosuke Nakamura**\n * **Art Director: Hidetoshi Kaneko**\n * Sound Director: Yasunori Honda\n * Music: Shusei Murai\n\n### Cast\n\n * **Tatsumi Sekiguchi/Takada (the protagonists): Hidenobu Kiuchi**\n * Yoriko Kusumoto/Melos' Sister: Mikako Takahashi\n\nwhich explains the protagonists looking and sounding alike, and the recycling\nof the room design as well as the fictional magazine. However, _[Run,\nMelos!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run,_Melos!)_ has got nothing to do with\n_Mouryou no Hako_ , so the similarities might only confuse people.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy is it that in almost every anime, when there is a male main character,\nevery time a female main character comes on to him, he gets all flustered,\nscared, or runs away?\n\nThroughout the whole series, we see tons of huge boobs, panty shots, etc. But\nwhen a hot girl or mainly the love interest tries to hold hands with the guy\nor kiss or anything of that nature, he always chickens out or thinks that it's\ninappropriate, or they are interrupted, or he's too stupid to get the\nsituation. They can fight monsters and demons but when it's about romance,\nthey can't do that? It won't make the character any less noble.\n\nWhy is there a need to ALWAYS have other characters interrupt it or make him\ntoo dense to understand the female loves him? Why can't anime creators for\nonce let romance start near the beginning and go smoothly instead of towards\nthe end and is super hard to get to? It's been this way since anime first\nstarted and it's not funny or entertaining anymore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI read this question then I can know you have watched Anime and Drama from\nothers country did you? Most of this same story is come from same company, I\nwatched many these kind of same story because I lazy to search anime, most of\ntime I searched using keyword by company name. They are the same company's\nanime, most of them story look like this. This is the first point. The second\npoint is their ways of thinking, cultures, their life, their research, rules,\ninspire make them having story inspiration look like this.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI talked about this a little bit with my friends at school. One of them said\nto me that showing public affection is considered rude or embarrassing in\nJapan. So this is the reason why some couples are hesitant to hold hands at\nfirst. One example can be found in Clannad: The couple once walks to school\nalone. One of them suggests, embarrassed, to hold hands. The other person\nreplies \"But what if someone sees us?\" They are close to finally holding hands\nbut they get interrupted by a friend.\n\nBut this is probably only one of many reasons why this happens. A guess of me\nwould be writer laziness. But I wouldn't take my word for it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's probably due to their age.\n\nSee [Why So Many High School Anime in\nJapan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB9gIv_TsPg) by That Japanese Man Yuta\n\n> In Japanese romantic anime, things tend to move very slowly. These\n> characters are so innocent, 'Oh, I don't really know if I like him' or 'I\n> can't tell that I like her' and for that to work, they need to be young\n> enough to be pure then you can have many firsts: first real crush, first\n> confession, first kiss, and first sensei crush.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere's nothing complicated about it. It's a trope to pad out the story. In a\nstory like _Nisekoi_ , for instance, the author needs to draw out the romantic\ntension as long as possible to keep the story going. That's because once those\ntensions are resolved and the protagonist chooses a partner, the story's\nprobably just going to end. Or at the very least, it won't be too interesting.\n\nSo, there are a variety of techniques employed. The protagonist can be\n[clueless](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CluelessChickMagnet) or\n[oblivious to\nlove](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObliviousToLove), there can\nbe [misunderstandings and\nmiscommunications](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SustainedMisunderstanding)\n(see _Kimi Ni Todoke_ for a lot of that), they can just throw in new romantic\ninterests even if they've got no hope of competing (like in _Nisekoi_ ), or\nthe characters can be [hopelessly\nshy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwiceShy).\n\nI think the particular trope you're trying to look into might be close to one\nof these: The [will they or won't they\ntrope](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillTheyOrWontThey), the\n[false start](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FalseStart) or the\n[almost kiss](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlmostKiss). The\n_false start_ trope, for instance is characterized by a character being ready\nto make a love confession, but getting derailed by something.\n\nThese can be stalling tactics, as I stated previously.\n\nThe _will they or won't they_ page notes:\n\n> Actually [setting up the relationship is tricky and risky]. [Writers] are\n> very reluctant to risk losing the valuable source of dramatic tension that\n> is the (seemingly) unrequited relationship. After all, without that lovely\n> source of drama, your audience could [complain]. As such, [many] writers\n> [keep] the romantic tension building throughout the series, only [resolving\n> the romance threads at the end].\n>\n> Of course, keep this plotline going for too long, and you may encounter\n> complaints [...] In addition, shows can go out of their way to avoid\n> resolving the relationship, making ever-more-desperate narrative leaps.\n\nThe _false start_ says:\n\n> This can be a highly effective writing technique for a couple of episodes,\n> but the writers typically find that it's impossible to maintain forever.\n> Eventually, the character will tell the object of his affections, and the\n> plot will move on...or the viewers will.\n\nThe _almost kiss_ page notes:\n\n> But this way, the tension and dreams of shippers remain for the writers to\n> continue to take advantage of.\n\nI tried really hard to find the exact trope on tvtropes.org for you, but I'm\nnot sure if any of those were actually it. You're right though, that these\ntropes often makes the story really annoying; especially when you've seen them\nover and over. But as others have said, this is not a problem with anime, but\nrather a problem with the anime genres you in particular tend to watch. Some\nanime handle romance tropes very well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn episode 4 of _Shoukoku no Altair_ , Mahmut travels to the village of\nTughril, his hometown. After disembarking from the wagon on which he arrived,\nhe empties a bottle of liquid onto the earth (in a rather showy manner) and\nthen kneels down, seemingly to pray or to mourn.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pqQ2k.jpg)\n\nWhy did he do that? This gesture appears to be portrayed as having some kind\nof ritual significance, but I don't know what to make of it.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI haven't seen the series, but it sounds like a **libation** , or ritual\npouring of liquid. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libation> . It is an\nancient practice of many cultures, usually as an offering to a god or in\nremembrance of those who have passed on. If the series takes part in Japan, it\nmay specifically be a Shinto or Buddhist practice, but if in an anonymous\nfantasy world, they probably generalized the custom. What you describe\ncertainly fits with what the article states.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI sometimes see this glow in the old stuff. Curious if this technique has a\nname, and how this was made.\n\nHere is an example from _Golden Boy_.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k3AoN.png)\n\nA few extra examples, all from _Rurouni Kenshin_ 's second opening.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MYIMp.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/flYAw.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ztjVQ.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aeIRp.jpg)\n\nAnd from _Words Worth_.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1a7aC.png)\n\nIs there a documentary about the technology and business aspects for using\nthis glow effect?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll your screenshots look like conventional cel animation but are done with\nvarious different techniques.\n\nThe first image the \"glow\" looks like it was painted with an\n[airbrush](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbrush), probably on its own cel\nsheet overlaying the rest of the image.\n\nThe lens flare effects in your second and fourth screenshots look they were\npainted on separate cel sheets and then optically faded in and out to animate\nthem and then combined with the background using multiple exposures.\n\nThe glow of the candles in the third image was probably airbrushed on the same\ncel as the candle flames.\n\nI'm not sure how the animated sunlight falling on the water in the fifth image\nwas done, but my guess is it was simply hand-painted.\n\nThe last image with the glowing bar was probably done with an airbrush similar\nto the previous examples, though it could be that a\n[diffuser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuser_\\(optics\\)) was placed in\nfront of the camera lens.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThese are all very different effects and I don't think that most were done\nwith airbrushing.\n\nThe first one, maybe, but it's hard to be sure without seeing a higher\nresolution of that image.\n\nThe second one is often \"animated\" and appears to be a real lens flare, that\ncould be achieved by using a certain type of lens and shining in a light\nsource from a side angle.\n\nWith the others, it's hard to say, again, because of image resolution issues.\nI've seen the water effect you're referencing a lot, too, but I'm under the\nimpression that it's something else entirely.\n\nAs for the last effect, that's the one I'm most interested in because I see it\nused all the time in 80s anime and I love the effect. I'm like 90% sure it's\nnot done with airbrushing, however. If I had to guess, they leave part of the\nbackground cel unpainted and then shoot it over a light table with the light\nshining through to achieve this effect.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe short answer is \"lighting.\"\n\nRemember that traditional animation is constructed from multiple elements,\nlayered and photographed together. Static elements such as backgrounds are\npainted on sheets of glass (plates) and moving elements such as characters are\npainted on multiple sheets of acetate (cels). Each frame of animation is built\nby layering the various elements in a photography studio, lit, photographed,\nand then re-built and shot again for the next frame.\n\nCreating glow effects can be done by painting them by hand, but those super\nbright psychic auras, laser blasts, and the like take advantage of the fact\nthat glass and acetate are transparent. By shining a light up from underneath\nthe background, through translucent or unpainted portions of the various\nelements, or by directly cutting out parts of the cel with a razor, you can\ncreate anything from a soft, diffuse glow to intense, bright light. Color gels\nplaced between the cel and the light source will give you those brilliant reds\nor blues (or oranges or purples or greens or whatever).\n\nLens flare and sundog effects are done in-camera by using studio lighting to\ncreate the desired glare on the lens itself.\n\nThings get a little more complicated when you want to, say, add that intense\nglow to a fully painted object (like the glowing brick at the bottom there).\nFor that, they would likely use an optical printer, a device that allows you\nto combine previously photographed elements with new optical effects or with\nother existing photographed elements. You combine the photographed sequence of\nthe characters holding the brick, with a matte blacking out everything except\nthe brick, and blue light shining through the brick-shaped hole in the matte,\nand the optical printer allows you to re-photograph those elements together,\nessentially.\n\nThe shot of the rippling water on the shore is also an optical composite,\ncombining background elements (grass, tree), foreground elements (the\ncharacter) a matte that blocks out the grass, tree, and character, and footage\nof the water effect, which may be filmed with actual liquid (heavily watered\ndown shampoo was popular) or a stand-in medium (crinkled, reflective foil with\na moving light source was also popular).\n\nIt's all effectively the same method ILM used to assemble all of the\nindividually shot miniature X-Wings and TIE Fighters and Death Star trench\nfootage in _Star Wars_.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThanks to Kyle S. for the explanation!\n\nI was looking for the answer, too. Looks like it's an analogue compositing\ntechnique called \"Underlighting\"\n\n> Underlighting (aka \"Bipack Glow\") is an animation technique that caught on\n> in the 1980's, although it dates back much further.\n>\n> Some parts of an animated scene may need to glow. Traditionally, a glow was\n> painstakingly drawn by an animator, who had to pay careful attention to get\n> the fringe colors just right to make it convincing. Even in the best cases,\n> a hand-drawn glow still didn't look very \"glowy.\"\n>\n> The solution was to cut a hole in the background in the shape you wanted the\n> glowing object to have, and then project a bright colored light from\n> underneath the scene. The result was a rather awesome-looking glowing\n> object, with tapering fringes that looked exactly as you'd expect a brightly\n> glowing object to look.\n>\n> There were, however, two big drawbacks to this technique. First of all, it\n> was somewhat labor-intensive, as the hole in the animation background would\n> have to move to track where the glow was supposed to be frame by frame; as a\n> result, underlighting would typically be relegated to static background\n> elements if needed for a prolonged portion of the animation, with underlit\n> moving objects typically being on the smaller side to reduce the workload\n> for the animators. And second, adding texture to glowing objects was much\n> more difficult compared to hand-painted glow effects, though not outright\n> impossible; **typically texture was added by placing a translucent foil or a\n> glass tube filled with a mix of soap/shampoo, water, and glitter between the\n> background and the backlight**. This second drawback meant the technique was\n> used primarily for amorphous objects such as \"energy beams\" or lightning.\n\nSource: <https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Underlighting>\n\nI gather gifs of underlit shots from the old anime here: \n<https://www.are.na/ra-1528049834/underlighting>\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wzWea.gif)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDuring episode 22, we see a test between Sarada's DNA and Karin's preserved\numbilical cord. I can understand Orochimaru being the type of person to keep\nDNA on all his staff, but is there any symbolism, cultural significance or\nplot reason why in particular an umbilical cord?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't think there is, my guess is that it's just a real life reference to\nthe medical field where umbilical cords are kept, as they have stem cells that\nare helpful to treat some conditions.\n\nThose cells can differentiate into different types of cells, which would give\nsome scientific base to some actions he has done, as injecting Hashirama's\ncells.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat wasn't Karin's preserved umbilical cord, as Suigetsu wrongly led us to\nbelieve at first. In fact, it was the umbilical cord that belonged to Sakura\nand Sarada from when Sakura gave birth to Sarada, as it was explained by Karin\nherself in the manga _\" Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring\"_\n(chapter 10)/in the anime _\" Boruto: Naruto Next Generations\"_ (episode 23).\n\nKeeping in mind that the DNA from an umbilical cord is the same as the DNA of\nthe child, this was the reason why there was a perfect match between the DNA\nbelonging to the umbilical cord and the DNA from the sample provided by Sarada\nherself.\n\nThe inclusion of the umbilical cord in the story took place mainly because\nthere had to be something that (wrongly) made Sarada's doubts seem true for a\nwhile in order for the story to be able to move forward. Having a DNA test\ndone in order to seemingly concretize Sarada's suspicions about her parentage\nfor a short while and not receiving a concrete answer to any question about\nthis subject until the very last chapter represented pretty much the only way\nthis kind of plot could evolve.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut_ , Arcadia became the kingdom suffered the most\nfrom coup which was done majorly with the help of the Black Hero. But Lux was\nshown as the prince of Arcadia even though someone who is related to him was\nthe Black Hero at that time.\n\nWhy in the beginning the Lisesharte was shown as being in the castle in the\nincident?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat is the name of the music that plays in the movie \"Bonds\" during the\ndetermination rasengan.I hear this in a lot of scenes it also plays again when\nsauske and the 4 kages meet naruto.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Knight's & Magic_\n([MAL](https://myanimelist.net/manga/59087/Knights___Magic),\n[Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_%26_Magic)), Silhouette Knight\n(mecha) development takes a long time, which is why Ernesti is making such\nwaves. However, it seems that commanders have more powerful units. For\nexample, Knight Commander Morten Fredholm's Haimerwort in episode 5. The\nEarlcumber, and the King's unit also come to mind.\n\nWhat makes these units special and/or more powerful? Could they possibly be\nusing\n\n> custom ether reactors from demon beasts,\n\nrather than the standard, mined, ones?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat I think that they mean is that developing a completely new Silhouette\nKnight is long. Think about the time taken from the development of the war\nchariot to the tank (I know it is not the best analogy but it works), but\ndeveloping small incremental updates is not so hard (think on different\nvariants of the same tank model).\n\nThis is where Ernesti is making a revolution, each of his designs is\ncompletely new and he is creating a lot of new tech from the ground up.\n\nNow let's tackle the commander units. The base soldier is given a standard SK\nbut commanders are given slightly better units, maybe a hunt provided some\nbetter demon beasts so they have some custom ether reactors on hand, so they\nmake a more powerful version of the same unit, and they can carry bigger\nversions of the same weapons. So basically they are the same unit but slightly\nbetter (think a barebones car, and a full-equip one, they are the same, but\nthe full equip one, is more expensive and has better performance than the\nbarebones one)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI got her from a mystery bag. Anybody has any idea who this character is?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nErina Nakiri from _Food Wars_. Figured it out.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAnime: _Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma_\n\nCharacter: Erina Nakiri\n\nHere is the anime scene which resembles the figure in the photo.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 20 of _Re:Creators_ features something marvelous: real-world fanart of\nAltair from Pixiv appears in the show-world as fanart of Altair on \"Piclive\".\nFor example, this screencap...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NZPJi.jpg)\n\n...depicts [this piece of\nfanart](https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=62962983)\nuploaded to pixiv back in May by artist Mochizuki Kei (望月けい).\n\nA few seconds prior, a number of other pieces of fanart are shown:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghCOk.jpg)\n\nThese, too, are actual pieces of fanart from Pixiv (e.g. [#6 by\nitsia](https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=63411723),\n[#9 by\nTOH](https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=62329126),\netc).\n\n(Note that while all the linked images are SFW, Pixiv itself contains heaps of\nNSFW content.)\n\n* * *\n\nMy question: how did these pieces of fanart come to be integrated into the\nanime? Were they \"planted\" ahead of time (i.e. did the artists have a prior\narrangement with the producers to draw and release this art earlier in\nanticipation of episode 20)? Or was this art drawn \"organically\", with the\nartists only later being contacted about using it in the anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just found an interview with Tomoyuki Arima, a member of the art direction\nteam of the show on [Pixivision](https://www.pixivision.net/en/a/2534).\n\nRelevant part:\n\n> \"--By the way, I heard some illustrations that appear on Piclive were\n> actually posted on pixiv. Is it true?\n>\n> **Arima** : it's true. We commissioned those pictures in order to add them\n> to Piclive. I don't know much about those commissions, but the original\n> illustrators were allowed to post their work on pixiv, I think\"\n\n\n\nSo, to answer the actual question: The pictures weren't planted and the they\ndidn't contact the owners of existing artworks either. They simply asked a\nbunch of pixiv artists to create some artwork for them which they could put in\nthe anime to give Piclive a more realistic Pixiv feeling, and the artists were\nallowed to upload these onto their own Pixiv.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOn this scene and other bookshelves of [a Psycho-Pass\nAMV](https://youtu.be/EglGDGi_JNI?t=23), there are some Japanese books.\n\nWhat are they?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIs Ryuk required to write Misa's name in their Death Note at the end of her\nlife?\n\nDeath Note Rule LXIV states:\n\n> gods of death are obliged to confirm the death of the first owner and write\n> down that humans name in his/her Death Note\n\n**Misa was the first human owner of the Death Note that was brought into the\nhuman world by Rem.** Misa then gave up this Death Note, and then picked it up\nagain later, and this time the Shinigami owner was Ryuk (Light made him and\nRem switch notebooks). Obviously the responsibility of killing Misa would\nnormally be Rem's, since she was the first to \"drop\" that DN in the human\nworld. **But then Ryuk also \"dropped\" it after he got ownership of it, and\nMisa \"picked it up\" and became the owner for the second time. Rem is dead, so\nshe can't kill Misa. Does this mean that the responsibility transfers to\nRyuk?**\n\nI know that the anime makes it look like Misa was about to commit suicide. And\nit looks like it's her idea, too--I seriously doubt Ryuk would have made her\ngo through all that trouble (wearing the \"handmaiden of death\" outfit and\nfancy makeup, traveling to the place where Light died,etc). But we don't\nactually see her die. Would Ryuk be the one to kill her, now that her life is\nabout to end due to her own intentions?\n\nDoes anyone know of anything in the manga, creator commentary, etc., that\nmight clear this up?\n\n_(Rule is from the wiki\nhere<http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note>)_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThat rule is an expansion on the rules which state cases when Gods of Death\nare allowed to return to their own world (more specifically it's the second\npart of \"How to Use: LXIV\")\n\nPoint one of those rules start with:\n\n> The following situations are the cases where a god of death that has brought\n> the Death Note into the human world is allowed to return to the world of\n> gods of death\n\nWhile it is true that at one point Ryuk had ownership over Misa's Death Note\nhe wasn't the one who brought it to the human world, so in Misa's case those\nrules don't apply to him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe does not have to unless he wants to return to his world or for his own joy.\nOnce the human owner is dead, he can reclaim the notebook, but it's not really\na responsibility as he could let her live her full life. If she dies of old\nage or gives it up, he is free to go home, or if he simply lost track of who\nowned it, with Light gone and Ryuk being the owner of both death notes, Misa\nis now the human owner of at least one notebook.\n\nIt has been too long for me to confirm who wound up as the owner of Light's.\nIt would have been the next person to touch it after he died.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI feel an urge to watch [_Princess\nComet_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Comet) (aka _Cosmic Baton Girl\nPrincess Comet_ ) again which I watched once when I was a child. But the thing\nis that I know this anime has 43 episodes and in all anime providing websites\nI have looked at can only find 22 episodes.\n\nWhere can I find all 43 episodes?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems that Amazon has the Japanese DVDs still listed for sale. For official\nreleases, that's probably your best bet; to my knowledge no **official**\nsource for English of this anime would exist, since it hasn't been licensed\nfor physical distribution in America or any other English-speaking country (as\nfar as I can tell).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe first time I ever saw Oppai Loli is Hestia from _Danmachi_. But, is Hestia\nthe first Oppai Loli in anime and manga? Was there an Oppai Loli before her?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n> **Note** : this answer uses the term \"loli\" as defined by Japanese anime\n> fans: it's either age-related or appearance-related (AniOta), or to the\n> extension of either childlike face, short height, no waist, loli voice, or\n> even deformed (pixiv).\n\nHestia is _probably_ the first character that's called **ロリ巨乳 ( _LOLI kyonyuu_\n, big-breasted loli)** _in-universe_ , which is a famous term characterizing\nher physical trait, but there were many oppai loli before her.\n\nHere are articles on [AniOta Wiki\n(Japanese)](https://www49.atwiki.jp/aniwotawiki/pages/31324.html), [Nico Nico\nPedia\n(Japanese)](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AA%E5%B7%A8%E4%B9%B3)\nand [pixiv dictionary\n(Japanese)](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AA%E5%B7%A8%E4%B9%B3) that\nlist oppai loli characters with their traits. Here is a [Google\nSheets](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b2qmxKHIKNmPzVRmOR9OEJH6vWXF-\nLwYfHtz2HbjMSU/edit?usp=sharing) made by me for compiling a list of oppai loli\ncharacters based on those sources.\n\nBased on AniOta Wiki, Nico Nico Pedia, pixiv Dictionary (+ some YouTube\nvideos), [**Saori Kido**](http://saintseiya.wikia.com/wiki/Saori_Kido), a\n13-year old girl from _Saint Seiya_ (December 1985) is the earliest oppai loli\ncharacter.\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_\\(Saint_Seiya\\))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the original Japanese _Death Note_ title:\n\n\n\n * the first E is backwards (or, equivalently, rotated through 180 degrees)\n * the A and Ts are rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise, and\n * the N is rotated a few degrees clockwise.\n\nDo any of these stylistic choices have a known significance, or were they\nchosen at random?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThey're definitely not random. From an artistic perspective, this typographic\nchoice accomplishes 3 things:\n\n 1. The 90 degree rotation of the Ts and the A form the shape of an arrow or a knife tip. The E in front of this \"tip\" is reversed to make sure this can be seen easily--the back of the letter forms an uninterrupted surface that the \"arrow\" is striking. If the E was the right way, it would look a little like a knife fighting with a fork, so kinda silly. Overall, the design has the letters of \"Deathnote\" form a weapon. This echoes the mechanics of the plot, where the letters you write in a Death Note are literally the weapon that kills someone.\n\n 2. The title has \"death\" in it, and the show in general has people being killed off. In fact, one of the main points is to see who is smart or lucky enough to survive. The typography cleverly suggests this theme. Some of the letters are already \"horizontal\" because of reason #1 above. Tilting the N slightly makes it look like the letters are keeling over one by one, connecting the typography to the theme of people dying off. \n\n 3. Why is N specifically chosen to be tilted? a) because it's in the middle of a 3 letter block, so for compositional reasons b) it also might be the artist being cute by hinting at the character N and trying to foreshadow his role by drawing attention to that letter.\n\nSo basically, one answer is that typography is being used as an artistic\ndevice in many ways to suggest themes in the show. There may be other, non-\nartistic reasons that I'm not aware of, so additional answers are possible.\nThat's the beauty of visual art, it can do many things at once on many levels.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm guessing it's for aesthetic purposes, but here are two things I noticed:\n\n### Horizontal Line of Symmetry\n\n 1. All of the letters except 'A', 'T', and 'N' have a horizontal line of symmetry.\n\n 2. After rotating the 'A' and 'T's 90 degrees, they also have a horizontal line of symmetry.\n\n 3. 'N' doesn't get a line of symmetry, but the tilting brings it closer to having its center line be horizontally symmetric.\n\nIt doesn't explain why the first 'E' is flipped and 'N' remains an exception.\n\n### Imagery\n\nIt's easy to see people or objects (i.e. weapons as mentioned on\n[filistinist's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/42189/2516)) in the\nletters after tilting them sideways.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt kind of looks like the E's are brackets. If you focus on everything in\nbetween, it looks like an arrow piercing H, N, and O. The last T's head is\nshowing a point of impact. And though it might be weird to imagine, if you see\nthe O as a breast and the H as someone's back, it makes it seem like the N is\nthe one feeling the effect of the arrow first. Since the N is in between the\ntwo, you could say it's a heart. The N, or heart, being the first to be\naffected by the \"arrow of letters\" could be hinting towards how Light writes\ndown the names of his victims as they die in his signature killing style: a\nheart attack.\n\nIt's really just speculation, though; I could be wrong. It seems fitting to me\nthough.\n\nIf you didn't see the E's as brackets, then the last E could be the feathers\nof the arrow, and the first E could be a shield to stop the arrow's path. Why\nwould there be a shield there? Well, look at what would be using the shield. A\nD, for \"death\". The one thing that would stop Light's arrow of fatal words\nwould be his own death.\n\nThat's all that I was able to come up with, but I think it's pretty plausible\nnow.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe rotated letters could symbolize an arrow through the chemical symbol, HNO,\nof [nitroxyl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroxyl), which has been found to\ncure/treat heart failure. This analysis is just a theory, though.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have read the manga revolving around the Eldian Military, how they have\nIronclad Warships that are in regard very similar to modern day Warships. I do\nnot understand though, because I didn't think it was explained well enough,\nhow they came into possession of such ships, as well as their Airships.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf you're talking about the Eldians outside of Paradis Island (the one's where\n[Spoiler Alert] Reiner come from), **that was because of the Marleyans. Due to\nthe Marleyan's fear of the Eldian's titan transformers, they created weapons,\ntechnology capable of destroying these Titan transformers.** That's how the\nMarleyans got into possession of four of the original nine titan transformers\n(wont explain it here).\n\nSources: Manga. It was mentioned by one of the Marleyan higher ups. Forgot the\nchapter. But besides that, it was heavily implied.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhich is the first pokemon to have been born or formed or created. Some say it\nis Archeus. Is it the right answer?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on the information on [History of the Pokémon\nworld](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/History_of_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world),\nlegends go to say that\n[Arceus](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Arceus_\\(Pok%C3%A9mon\\)) is\nthe first Pokémon to exist\n\n> In a vortex of complete chaos and nothingness, a single Egg comes into\n> being, which then hatches into Arceus, the first Pokémon in existence\n\nAlso, based on the Pokédex entires from Platinum and Heart Gold & Soul Silver\n\n> **Platinum** : It is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there\n> was nothing, then shaped the world.\n>\n> **Heart Gold/Soul Silver** : According to the legends of Sinnoh, this\n> Pokémon emerged from an egg and shaped all there is in this world.\n\nThis information is derived from [Sinnoh\nMyths](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sinnoh_myths#Arceus.27s_Myth),\nwhich is learned from a Hiker at Oreburgh Mine, and then at Canalave's library\nin Pokémon Platinum after catching Arceus\n\n> But it all starts with Arceus, the first. It is known as the Original One.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> \"The Original One breathed alone before the universe came.\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf your looking for the first pokemon to exist in the pokemon world, it would\nbe Arceus. The first pokemon in the national dex is Bulbasaur, and the first\nPokemon design ever was Rhydon back when Pokemon was still called capsulemon.\nI think that's how it's spelled. I hope this helped :)))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nsomeone knows the exactly name of the song that is hearing in this video? The\ncreator says that is a remix from Touhou called Eletric Cat but I can't find\nany song related, hope its okay.\n\nHere's the video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nERXaTVy9fU>\n\nYesterday, one person told me that he doesnt know the song name but he's sure\nthat is an arrange from Chen's Theme, So based in this, someone knows who\ncould be the Circle/Artist made this?.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom The wiki, The name of this ost sure is from Stage 2 Boss - Chen's theme\n\n`Diao Ye Zong (withered leaf)` or `ティアオイエツォン(withered leaf)`\n\n[Chen's Theme Song Explanation\nWiki](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Cherry_Blossom/Music#Stage_2_theme)\n\n> I composed this title with the image of an energetic youkai girl in mind.\n> This song is based purely on improvisation, because I found that if I think\n> too much while composing the music tends to end up strange. Well, with the\n> help of more than a little booze... All in all, this is an honest song (^^;\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W4pzWVS5wk>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAccording to video OP, it's from this album:\n<http://touhourecords.blogspot.fr/2016/03/kyandoru-raito-no-konran-\nemotional.html>\n\n * Title: Electric cat \n * Album: Emotional Catastrophic Wind\n * Circle: Kyandoru Raito no Konran\n\nI think I'll go against Gagantuous and saying that the original is not\n`Withered Leaf` but `Fantastic Tales from Tohno` (遠野幻想物語):\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09FE5mEg-Mg>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the internet knows, in \"How To Use\" XXXVI, the following rule is stated:\n\"There are male and female gods of death, but it is neither permitted, nor\npossible for them to have sexual relations with humans. The gods of death also\ncannot have sex with each other. \"\n\nNow, this rule isn't to prevent romantic interaction, as a shinigami can be in\nlove and act like it, he will only die when he steps in to save his love\ninterest. In other words, love isn't forbidden, purposefully saving lives is.\nNo, the obvious would be that this rule addresses breeding. Nobody wants half-\nshinigami running around in either worlds. Or at least, the shinigami king\ndoesn't.\n\nBut if something is not possible for a shinigami, why is it also forbidden?\nIt's a pretty awkward catch: in humans (and supposedly also in creatures as\nsophisticated as shinigami, who have a culture and a personality) sexuality\ngoes way beyond reproduction. We guys in the human world have hundreds of ways\nto spend a steamy hot night without actually doing the deed. So what is\n\"sexual relation\" supposed to mean? Here are the two options that seem obvious\nto me, but neither feel entirely satisfying.\n\n1) If \"sexual relations\" are both forbidden AND impossible, can a shinigami\nbehave as lewd as he wants, with humans or peers, since none of it can be\ncalled \"sexual relationships\" (they're impossible) therefore everything sexual\nhe does is by default allowed? (In which case, the interdiction would only\nexist in case it somehow became possible for shinigami to get laid, I guess?)\n\n2) Or, is the rule twisted/badly worded, and implies that intercourse is not\npossible but also that all and any sexual behaviour is forbidden, despite\nbeing completely feasible? If that was the case, it begs the question why this\nrule exists in the first place, since it won't cause any offspring. That would\nalso be the first time a Death Note rule is so imprecise and ambiguous.\n\nThe whole question could be dismissed by saying that shinigami just won't be\ninterested in it in the first place, but I ruled it out, given how diverse\ntheir personalities are and how much some of them like to mess with humans in\nevery way possible out of sheer boredom _am I right_.\n\nBoth solutions seem problematic. Is there any info out there that I missed, or\nany thinking I got wrong? Thank you a lot for helping me solve this mystery.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think that some of the meaning of the rule is lost in translation. Trying to\ntranslate the rule myself using my limited Japanese based of [the wiki\nimage](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note?file=Rules_XXXVI.jpg)\nI came down to ( _feel free to correct me if I am wrong_ )\n\n> There is a male / female in the god of death, \n> Human book point descendants with humans are not allowed or impossible, \n> The death god Same as above does not mate. \n>\n\nWhich implicates _OR_ rather then _AND_ leaving the ambiguity. But also\nexplicitly states _descendants_ and not specifically _sexual relationships_.\n\nBut lets assume the translators know better what they talk a bout then I do.\nIn that case I would assume that the rule covers the aspect of interaction\nusing genitalia being impossible, but other sexual relationships are also not\nallowed.\n\nLets first take a look at the definition of [sexual\nrelationships](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sexual%20relations)\n\n> **Sexual relationships** : Interactions involving sexual behavior with\n> another person, or other people including, kissing, petting, humping, making\n> out, sex, anal sex, oral sex, rimming, t bagging, fucking, licking, hickeys,\n> sucking.\n\nReading through these, lets assume that relations which requiring the\ngenitalia are _impossible_. All though this never is explicitly stated, the\nrule does some what insinuate this.\n\nThis would leave us with things such as : Kissing, petting, humping, making\nout, licking etc.\n\nA Shinigami does have a mouth, hands and perhaps a tongue. Quite a few of\nthese _sexual relationships_ remain possible to the Shinigami, without actual\n_intercourse_ or chance of creating demi-god off-spring.\n\nSo if we interpretation it in this way, it would make sense to cover the\nbroader aspect of _sexual relationships_\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Attack on Titan_ , the titans wandering around the walls seem to live\nlonger than 13 years, bypassing the curse. We know for sure that the normal\ntitans live longer because of the Smiling Titan.\n\nBut why aren't the wandering titans affected by the curse? Shouldn't all the\ntitans have died just because of this curse?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe following answer contains spoilers from chapter 88 and after. _(For those\nwho don't read the manga: it's WAY beyond the anime)_\n\nAs we know from chapter 88\n\n> among the \"subjects of Ymir\" there are always up to 9 people who inherit the\n> power of the titans, a piece of Ymir's \"soul\" or power, which allows them to\n> transform into one of the nine \"special\" titans. Along with this power they\n> inherit the curse of Ymir, which is the reason they die 13 years after\n> awakening to their powers.\n\nOn the other hand the \"normal\" titans were originally\n\n> \"subjects of Ymir\" who were transformed into titans by injecting titan\n> spinal fluid into them. But they did not inherit the original titan power,\n> so they didn't inherit the curse either.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRegarding the special titans,\n\n> the 12 disciples of Ymir die in 13 years, so only the Shifters die in 13\n> years.\n\nBut normal titans\n\n> were turned by force, so they would not have died 13 years because they did\n> not inherit the titan shift unless they eat a titan shifter, which will\n> start the 13-years timer.\n\nHowever, for Eren's case,\n\n> his 13-years timer started when he first turned into a titan.\n\nSo the conclusion is,\n\n> when you eat the titan shifter, you have to wait until you turn into a titan\n> to start the 13 years.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Vatican Miracle Examiner_ , the main characters are often addressed as\nFathers Roberto and Hiraga. Thus, Roberto is addressed by his personal name,\nwhereas Hiraga is addressed by his surname. (Hiraga's full name, using\nEnglish-style ordering, is Josef Kou Hiraga. Josef seems like a name taken\nupon entering the priesthood.)\n\nWhy is there such a discrepancy? What I've seen in the past (e.g. in _The\nBrothers Karamazov_ ) suggests that at the very least, it's not unusual for\npriests to be addressed as Father + $personal_name, and Hiraga's form of\naddress does not fit that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt seems this is a highly speculative question. \nFrom research, I found out that the formal way to speak to a priest is\n**Father + Name + Surname**. \nStill, as is, those are not mandatory rules, and the priest might prefer to be\ncalled a specific way and say so to his congregation.\n\nSo, the discrepancy between Father Roberto and Father Hiraga could be because\nof his personal choice. \nOr because people read his name in the japanese order and see Hiraga as the\nfirst name. \nIt also might the decision of the writer to apply japanese adressing etiquette\nto the way people call the character.\n\nI don't think a definitive in scenario answer will be possible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nduring the Zanpakuto Rebellion Muramasa is shown to be able to throw is\nopponents around and hold them with a form or telekinesis but when he is\nfighting Ichigo's Inner Hollow in his Inner World he sees a bunch of arms in\nthe reflection of the skyscraper windows which is invisible otherwise and it\nwas them Muramasa was using to hold his Inner Hollow.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VumSg.png)\n\nwhen Ichigo and Muramasa fought in Koga's Inner World in Episode 255 Ichigo\nworked out that Muramsa's ability with those arms only worked where he had a\nreflective surface like the still water's surface in Koga's Inner World and\nwhen the surface was broken by the ripples cause by rubble or Ichigo's attack\nMuramasa's ability couldn't work.\n\nbut when Ichigo first fought Muramasa in Episode 233, before he reached into\nIchigo and Zangetsu was put under his control, Muramasa used the same\ntechnique to hold Ichigo down, but the main streets of the Seireitei where\nthey fought didn't have any reflective surfaces from what i saw as generally\nthe windows in the barracks and store houses don't have glass but are just\nholes in the wall with wooden bars sometimes in them.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OT849.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ffhzK.png)\n\nSo where was the reflecting surfaces for Muramasa to use when he ability to\nhold Ichigo down?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere isn't actually any kind of reflective surface in episode 233. In sight\nof this, if we want to avoid the possibility of this being a plot hole there's\nonly one possible explanation:\n\n * The creation and usage of the threads doesn't actually require any kind of reflective surface, but in case there's a reflection of them they can be disturbed through that.\n\n_On a side note, this might actually be a plot hole. The whole Zanpakuto arc\nis an anime-only filler arc, and filler arcs tend to be more likely to have or\ncreate plot holes._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found this statement in the\n[Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Vinsmoke_Sanji/Personality_and_Relationships),\n\n> Franky acknowledges that Sanji's strength is greater than his own, claiming\n> that Sanji was one of \"the strongest guys on the crew\".\n\nbut I can't find where or when does that (Franky's claim) happens. The Wikia\ndoesn't give any citation there.\n\nDid Franky say that? If so, where and when did he say it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Enies Lobby, when Franky fights against Fukuro and Sanji against Jabura\nthanks to the upgrade of the diable Jamble\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI agree with the fact that even after using the Izanagi Madara's other eye got\nrevived after activating the Rinnegan. But when he met Obito for the first\ntime, he had one Sharingan on the left eye. How can this be? He implanted both\nof his eyes onto Nagato, so where did that Sharingan come from?\n\nThough only one eye of Nagato is always exposed I noticed he actually has\nRinnegan on both eyes.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm confused, I thought Madara told Obito to implant his Rinnegan (both of\nthem) into Nagato's eyes after his death. I'm not sure if Madara did it\nhimself, but if that's the case, it could be he implanted later a Sharingan\neye (it could be two) on him if he possessed them (which is possible that he\npossessed other Sharingans, like the case of when Obito used Izanagi on his\nleft eye against Konan, it wasn't his). But I insist on my first opinion and\nlet me tell you why.\n\nIn the fourth Shinobi War, when Edo Tensei Madara used Rinne Tensei on Obito\nto revive himself (Rinne Tensei is a Rinnegan technique that allows the user\nof the Rinnegan to revive another one in exchange for his life, this is the\ntechnique that Madara wanted to be revived with in the first place, Madara\nsaid it to Obito before he died, said it again when he was revived with the\nEdo Tensei that he should be revived with the Rinne Tensei, and even Obito\nsaid it to Konan while battling her that Nagato's body was ment later to\nrevive him in case he died) so when he did the technique, Madara was revived\n(came back to life literaly) and his eyes started to somehow vanish until they\nare gone, which makes sense, he was revived means that he will come back as he\nwas like when he died, and he died with no eyes so he was revived with no eyes\nand started to get the originals back (because the ones that vanished were\nfake, an Edo Tensei Rinnegan, when he got his original right Rinnegan, a Bijuu\nmonster said that this is an original Rinnegan and not a fake one like he had\nbefore).\n\nReturning to my first point, I think it's obvious that Madara died with no\neyes at all, and therefor Obito is the one who implanted the Rinnegan (both of\nthem) in Nagato's body. Your answer isn't here yet, this is just for\nclarifying things, your real answer is that you are mistaken in the timeline\nbecause when Nagato had the Rinnegan, Madara was already dead and Obito\nalready did the job.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nObviously that Sharingan that Madara have when he save obito, do not belong to\nhim. Maybe when Madara activated the rinnengan, he infiltrated the leaf\nvillage and killed some uchiha to steal a sharingan. After returning to his\nden, he takes off both rinnegan and gives them to black or white zetsu to be\nimplanted in nagato and Madara implanted himself that Sharingan. Zetsu can\npenetrate any wall so is easy to Zetsu to infiltrate in any where.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the Sharingan on Madara could be his original eyes. After all, the\nRinnegan eyes are Izuna's, to begin with.\n\nI imagine the blindness could be more prominent in the eye that is more often\nused, like how Itachi used the Amaterasu with his right eye and that is the\none that bleeds.\n\nSo in the end, if one of his eyes were still usable somehow, why would he get\nrid of it? Just preserve it somewhere until you need it as a backup plan.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have a free write for my essay and I want to write about the history of\nanime because I am really thankful for anime. I have been reading that the\ngodfather of anime was Osamu Tezuka, but I'm not too sure.\n\nWho is the father or godfather of anime?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**History**\n\nTezuka is considered to be the father of the post-war anime. The concept of\nanime exists in the [early XXth\ncentury](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3409/14929) but there were no real\nstandardization. I think Tezuka was the first ever to define some rule and\nabove rule, the first one to be able to have a mass production as stated here\n([the conquest of the television](https://www.tofugu.com/japan/anime-vs-\ncartoons/))\n\nMoreover, I guess it would also be interesting for you to find out per your\nfavorite genre. For instance, if you like mecha, clearly Tezuka is a name to\nquote. If you are more into romance, well... once you have found your focus,\nyou can highlight some masters and their productions. Afterwards, you can make\nthe relationship between those productions and you have your history :)\n\nBut looking for the father of anime is like looking for the father of science-\nfiction to me: you can almost say whatever you want as it is pretty hard to\ndefine it objectively.\n\n**Your essay**\n\nAs for your essay, I did some myself when I was a student. My favorite topics\nwere:\n\n 1. Comparison of anime and Japanese history. A good example is why the anime in the 90s are somehow apocalyptic ( _Evangelion_ , _Ghost in the Shell_ ). Without entering into the detail, I made the parallel with the [economic crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_\\(Japan\\)). If you follow this axis, and I recall properly, you can split into big period: post war (50s), the early stage (70s, early 80s), golden age (80s-90s), democratization (2000s)\n 2. Comparison of mecha and Japan's past. You find a lot of symbol in the mecha etiquette and it somehow reminds the formerly glorious samurai (e.g. the Lancelot launching procedure in _Code Geass_ ). You can develop either toward the \"Japanese are looking for their golden past\" (once again _Code Geass_ is a good example but _Gundam_ series is like a golden mine) point or \"Human always wanted to overcome their condition thanks to the technology\" ( _Evangelion_ , _Gundam_...). Well, I'm not a mecha expert ._.\n 3. Impact of Japan culture in the anime and impact of the anime in the Japanese culture. Unlike in the West, anime is fully part of the Japanese culture, regardless if they are happy with it or not. And the dependency is on two ways. A good example for me is fashion where sometimes the border between cosplay and clothing is pretty thin.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWe all know that Minato was able to use sage mode, but when the nine-tails\nattacked the hidden leaf, why didn't Minato go into sage mode and destroy the\n\"Masked Man\"\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the 4th great ninja war Minato himself says that he can't use sage mode\nefficiently. This because it requires a lot of time to gather that much\nchakra, and he is not adept at using sage mode. \n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**_Kishimoto didn't think of it lol, plus if he had used sage mode we wouldn't\nhave the great story we have today so i rather have this great story with some\nplot holes. just like on star wars why didn't obiwan use force run to save qui\ngon instead of running normally when he had clearly used it at the beginning\nof the movie to get away from the droidekas._**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSpoken Japanese has a [number of\ndialects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_dialects) that vary\nregionally throughout the country. From my (moderately limited) Japanese\nlanguage experience, most of what is spoken in anime is Tokyo-ben (aka\nStandard Japanese). I'm not great at telling the difference between dialects,\nhowever, so I was wondering, are non-Tokyo accents/dialects common in anime,\nor used at all? In shows like Yuri!!! on Ice, which is set in Kyushu, is a\nKyushu accent being used or a Tokyo one? Do shows set in Kyoto use a Kyoto\naccent, or is everything standardized to a Tokyo-ben?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer depends on your definition of \"common\". Most anime don't include\ndialects or accents, so in that sense it's not \"common\" however it's not\nunusual for a show to do so. There are quite a number of shows that include\ncharacters with dialects, most often Kansai/Osaka-ben, but when they do it's\nalmost always for a direct purpose.\n\nSome examples:\n\n * Igarashi Tora from Maid Sama! will occasionally speak in his native Kansai-ben (he's from Kyoto) when he's not acting like a perfect gentlemen as a sign that he's showing his true colors\n * Ebina from Himouto Umaru-chan who, when nervous or flustered, occasionally slips into Akita-ben\n * Mitsuha from Kimi no Na wa, who has a dialect to signify her status as a \"country bumpkin\" and it becomes relevant because she initially keeps her dialect when in Taki's body\n\nOf course, it's not always that significant, as far as I can tell, the only\nreason Natsume from Inu x Boku SS speaks Kansai is to indicate his upbeat,\noutgoing nature. Perhaps for stereotype reasons?\n\nThat aside, it's rare for anime set entirely in another region to use said\nregion's dialect. This is because all Japanese people can understand and speak\nStandard Japanese, aka Tokyo-ben, as that's what's taught in schools and show\nmost on television. Therefore it's easiest to have Tokyo-ben speaking\ncharacters to ensure the whole audience can understand. The reason why Kansai-\nben is the second most common is because a lot of comedians come from Osaka\nand so most Japanese people are quite used to hearing Kansai-ben and can\nunderstand it compared to others.\n\nFor reference, my mother's father's family lives in Aomori (most northern part\nof Honshu) and neither my mother (native speaker) or I can understand those\nrelatives when they speak with the full dialect\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhile it was only mentioned one time in the pilot of the manga, one\ninteresting detail about Death Note is that there was originally a way for the\nuser of the note to reverse any of the deaths they carried out. Just as\nwriting a name in the Death Note notebook would eventually kill a person, a\nspecial eraser existed that could not only physically get rid of the name\nwritten in the book, but even restore the life that was taken as well.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe Death Eraser appeared exclusively in the Death Note Pilot chapter, which\nisn't canon.\n\nIf the pilot chapter was considered canon several things would contradict\nthemselves, like how the [Rules of the Death\nNote](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note) contain that\nthere are infinite number of pages in the Death Note, while in the pilot\nversion it is stated that it has 60 pages with 38 lines per page.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on the netflix version, where one of the rules states that the death\nmust be possible, ie no shark coming out of a toilet to bite the person,\nbringing back to life is not allowed. So, if it can't happen under normal\ncircumstances, it can't happen via Death Note. It seems then that Death Note\ndrives probability but it can't reach infinite improbability.\n\nEdit addition: \nThus eraser is not possible as there is no probabilistic way to bring someone\nback from the dead. Once someone is dead, they stay dead. Also Gorzius agrees\nthat it is the same in the manga/comic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes, it is true that there is a Deathnote Eraser.\n\nThis occurrence can be found in a Short story in **'Death Note 13: How to Read\nDeath Note'** book where Ryuk hands over an eraser to a new owner of the book,\nwho happens to be a kid.\n\n_Whereas in the actual Deathnote plot the Eraser isn't mentioned._\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the Netflix movie the rule is that you are aloud to burn one page and only\none page and when you do it before that person dies then they will not die but\nRyuk said you are not aloud to burn more then one page. which he could be\nlying and doesn't want you to back out of all the people you want to kill, but\ni fill like he isn't.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBecause, if it’s the same soul basically being reborn over and over…how\nexactly were Madara and Sasuke able to be alive at the same time?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fvzi8.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe official translation uses the word: “vessel”\n\nAs Naruto pointed out after the whole reincarnation scenario was presented to\nhim, he was Naruto, and not Asura, which was true. Rather, he was a vessel for\nAsura, or at least the essence, or the will of Asura. So, he will have the\nwill, and by extension, the same fate as the originals and the reincarnations\nbefore him. (although Naruto does break the cycle)\n\nAfter this, Masashi gets a little bit vague as to what this actually does for\nour heroes. He implies that the reincarnations are imbued with the power of\nthe originals, although this is never stated outright.\n\nAs to how Madara and Sasuke could both be inheritors at the same time, once\nMadara uses the Rinne Rebirth on himself, he doesn’t actually become a vessel\nfor Indra once again, but rather is already powerful from when he was. As\nKabuto stated, he is a copy of when he was in his prime, and that Madara did\nhave the soul of Indra within him. So, even if he wasn’t necessarily a vessel\nduring the war, he was very like his former, vessel self, they don’t both have\nIndra residing within them.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI managed to find the [list for the first\nseason](https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/2000121-anime-and-manga-other-\ntitles/73053729#msg_2) but I haven't found anything regarding the second. Does\nsomebody here know?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe seemed embarrassed to go barefoot and to be watched when she took her\nboots and gloves off. Since we can see when she is wearing those pieces of\nclothing does this mean she is constantly walking around naked?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWell, yes.\n\nWe know she can't make anything she has on her - including her clothing -\ninvisible, so if she's totally invisible she's naked. We've seen her taking\noff her battle uniform (yes, the gloves and the boots) for tactical advantage.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nalso during the final exam at the end of season 2 she put the cuff on snipe\nand his elbow bumped \"something\" on her and she immediately yelled at him for\nbeing a pervert while he defended that he couldn't see her.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI assume that with the technology disposable at UA they can manufacture\nsomething similar to Violet's suit from the Incredibles. It's not the suit\nthat can turn someone invisible, but the person's powers that turn the suit\ninvisible. The suit turns invisible with the person's powers (so for Toru,\nbecause she can't turn her powers off just yet it would be activated once she\nput it on) So along with Class A's costumes, Toru got hers which is a one\npiece suit. I assume and the gloves and boots are her own, which would explain\nwhy she needed to take them off. As for the logistics I think UA would have\nconsidered light refraction or something like that as we can see she figures\nout she can manipulate that too\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think she is. Even tho what Zach said might be true (and as for her gloves\nand boots, it might be for her allies to see her) when she get her winter\nuniforme (in chapiter 194) she says that she's freezing when Kyoko ask her if\nshe is cold. (so UA could probably have Make a\nwarm one) And for what Gorzius said, she doesn't have to be naked to make him\na pervert for bumping into some parts\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes I do think that Toru Hagakure is always naked because in season 1 episode\n5-6-7 while they were taking the test with All Might, when she came with her\npartner she was taking of her boots and gloves and then her partner had\nthought,\"I can't believe there is a naked girl standing right next to me\".\nPlus we have never seen toru in human form.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Tsukihime_ , Ciel is immortal because she was Michael Roa Valdamjong's\nprevious incarnation called Elesia (on the left). [Slightly NSFW]\n\n> \n\nI am wondering which is her birth name, Ciel or Elesia? Who was it that\ndecided on the name change? why did they change it from her birth name? and\nhow did they get the other name?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHer birth name was Elesia. After she was defeated by Arcueid her body was\nretrieved by The Church, she somehow survived even after Roa left her body and\nher link with him made her immortal. The Church \"killed\" her repeatedly\nthroughout a month as an experiment to research her immortality, and then she\nwas taken y the Burial Agency, there she was given the codename Bow for her\npreference with proyectile weapons. According to this [TYPE-MOON Staff\nRoundtable](http://tsukikan.com/misc/staff-roundtable-the-second-night.html)\n\"Ciel\" is taken from \"L'arc en Ciel\", \"BOW in the sky\" or \"RainBOW\" in French,\nthough Ciel = Bow (Ciel means sky, it's the L'arc part that means \"the bow\")\nwas a mistake on part of the scenario writer but it was already too late when\nthe demo was released, so they ended up having Ciel being good at air combat\nas well so it didn't feel out of place.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Koe no Katachi, Shouko Nishimiya uses hearing aids. She's deaf, so can she\nactually hear something or not? I have read the manga but didn't watch the\nmovie, so I haven't seen any clue about why she is using hearing aids. For\nwhat purposes did she use hearing aids in the first place?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AHDJL.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShouko uses hearing aids _because_ she's deaf. [They're meant to\nassist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_aid) anyone with hearing loss of\nspecific kinds to allow them to better identify sounds.\n\nIf you're looking for a clue, in the first chapter of her introduction, she\nplainly tells the classroom that she's deaf.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MQ3AQ.png)\n\nPicture taken from [Chapter 1 of _Koe no Katachi_ , available for free from\nCrunchyroll.](https://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/a-silent-voice-koe-no-\nkatachi/volumes)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think it's never mentioned exactly, but the only reason she is using hearing\naids can be that she can hear some sounds, but her hearing is bad enough to be\nconsidered clinically deaf.\n\nWe can actually see her several times in the manga reacting to loud shouts and\nnoises.\n\nThere are also some pages in chapter 51 that show speech bubbles from her\npoint of view (one of these pages below), so this also might prove that she\nisn't completely deaf.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WYKna.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm a hearing aid salesperson! Shoko has some degree of hearing somewhere. She\nuses the \"universal communication\" method which is generally about getting it\nout and making yourself understood. Some people try only hearing aids, some\npeople try only sign language and some people use both. Visual cues and\nhearing cues in unison are clearly enough for certain moments of short speech\nfor Shoko where she doesn't have to write or sign.\n\nThat being said, when Shouya yanks her hearing aids out and she bleeds on the\nright side, it's implied that he perforates her eardrum or causes other\nstructural damage. A perforated eardrum is contraindicated in some countries\nwith a hearing instruments which is why she has to wear a left side monaural\nhearing aid for the remainder of the time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nShe may have some degree of hearing, especially if she can hear certain loud\nsounds as shown in both the anime and the manga. The term \"deaf\" can be used\nas an umbrella term for all people with hearing loss, whether that be mild,\nmoderate, severe, or profound. I myself have moderate hearing loss and wear\nhearing aids, and they help me hear almost as well as a person with normal\nhearing. Most people with mild or moderate hearing loss prefer to be called\n\"hard of hearing\" instead of \"deaf\" to prevent any confusion for people who\naren't completely educated on the topic. Shouko most likely has severe hearing\nloss due to the fact that she responds to certain loud sounds as I mentioned\nbefore.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI have hearing aids myself so I can kinda understand, I guess?\n\nHer condition of hearing must still let her hear some sounds, specifically\nlouder sounds. From personal experience, the hearing appliance can help you\nhear sounds that you can't normally hear, making it a lot more clearer and\nreassured. Her hearing is considered quite severe, since she uses sign\nlanguage to communicate quite often throughout the movie.\n\nHer hearing aids will really help support her, they would make her feel\ncomforted, since they will allow her to hear to some extent and she has\nsomething to rely on to help her hear rather than have nothing to help her.\nShe also flinches at loud sounds, because listening to a bang or a general\nloud noise is like listening to it x10 louder through a clear microphone and\nthen hearing that reflected sound through a pair of earphones and sometimes\nthe noise wouldn't even be that loud, but it has the same effect (not a great\nexperience).\n\nAnyway, yeah, she has severe hearing loss and likes to be supported by hearing\naids.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEven if someone is deaf they may use hearing aids to let them hear a little\nbit. This will help them not have to be completely deaf. I use hearing aids\nbecause I have hearing loss but I was born deaf. I failed my hearing test as\nan infant. :( so the hearing aids probably assist Shouko. She might not be\ncompletely deaf or she would have a cochlear implant. I have hearing loss so I\nknow a lot about this topic.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Koe no Katachi_ , volume 1, chapter 2, page 37, first panel, Ishida said\nthat.\n\n> Because her ears don't have \"H\"\n\nWhat does Ishida mean by that? While his teacher did laugh too. What's funny\nwith that joke?\n\nIn Indonesian version, he said (I have translated it to English using Google\ntranslate)\n\n> Because Her ears hadn't been written with the sutra\n\nThe Sutra in this context refers to Buddha or Hindu religion.\n\nWhat's with the translation? Is the Licensed Indonesia translation not the\ntrue sentence? Which one is the correct sentence?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs the girl in the third panel says, she can't `'h'ear`. `ear` with the letter\n`h` in front of it spells `h + ear = hear`.\n\nAs to what the original Japanese joke was? Probably a similar joke about her.\nOften times, translations will change jokes if they don't make sense in the\ntranslated language- either because it's a pun in the original, or because it\nreferences something particular to that culture.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHere is the original page in Japanese:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wAcUt.png)\n\n> **Panel 1** \n> 耳【みみ】にお経【きょう】書き【かき】忘れ【わすれ】たんだよ！ \n> (Her ears hadn't been written with the sutra!)\n>\n> **Panel 3** \n> 耳【みみ】なし芳一【ほういち】？ \n> (Hoichi the Earless?)\n\nAs hinted in the 3rd panel, it's referring to the story of [Hoichi the\nEarless](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoichi_the_Earless). The relevant\nsummary:\n\n> Realizing that Hoichi had been bewitched by ghosts, the priest vowed to save\n> his friend from further trickery. **He painted Hoichi's body with the kanji\n> characters of the Heart Sutra** for protection and instructed him to remain\n> silent and motionless when he is called upon by his ghostly audience. That\n> evening the samurai called for Hoichi as before, and was angered when he\n> received no response. **The ghostly samurai approached Hoichi but was unable\n> to see anything but his ears. The sutra had rendered the rest of Hoichi's\n> body invisible**. Attempting to comply with his orders, **the samurai ripped\n> Hoichi's ears off** as proof that they had been the only portion of the lute\n> player that was available.\n>\n> After the ghostly retainer had left, Hoichi was still too frightened to\n> react, despite the blood gushing from the wounds on his head. When the\n> priest returned, **he realized in dismay that he had neglected to write the\n> sutra on Hoichi's ears** , which had left them vulnerable to the spirit.\n> Despite his injury, Hoichi's ordeal had freed him from the spirit's power,\n> and he went on to recover from his wounds and become a famous musician.\n>\n> (Emphasis mine)\n\n* * *\n\nI could see that the Indonesian version tried to be faithful with the\ntranslation, but unless they also provided a hint about this story, then\nunfortunately the joke got lost in translation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWere there ever any instances of something taken from outside of Japan (book,\ncomic, literature) that was turned into anime or manga?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe story of Heidi is well-known in Germany (as in other countries), but most\nof the children that watched the series on tv did not know they watched an\nanime: \n \n\n\n> Heidi, Girl of the Alps (アルプスの少女ハイジ Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji) is a 1974\n> Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo (now Nippon Animation) based on the\n> Swiss novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880).\n> It was directed by Isao Takahata and features contributions by numerous\n> other anime luminaries, including Yoichi Kotabe (character design, animation\n> director), Toyoo Ashida (co-character design, animation director), Yoshiyuki\n> Tomino (storyboard, screenplay), and Hayao Miyazaki (scene design, layout,\n> screenplay).\n\n[English Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi,_Girl_of_the_Alps)\n\nOther examples (from German TV) are \"Wickie und die starken Männer\" (\"Vicky\nthe Viking\") or \"Die Biene Maja\" (\"Maya the Bee\"). \n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OlEwA.jpg) \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ioVxi.jpg)\n\n([Source](https://manga-reviews.de/anime-unserer-kindheit-1/))\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe show requires us to suspend disbelief to the point where Roy Mustang can\nalter densities of gases or induce some chemical reactions, but not\nnecessarily change elements themselves. It argues the energy required to\ngenerate 'real' transmutations is much higher, so you need something like the\nphilosophers stone.\n\nNow, the animes claim he generates explosions by altering oxygen density\nprofiles in the air and triggering a reaction by creating a spark. See under\n'Abilities' here: <http://fullmetal-alchemist-\ndatabase.wikia.com/wiki/Roy_Mustang>\n\nHowever, while oxygen assists combustion, it is not flammable by itself.\nHence, the flame needs to travel along a path of oxygen _and_ combustible\nmaterial from Mustang to his target. The show offers no explanation for where\nthis combustible material comes from.\n\nPerhaps flammable gases or water vapor (that could be converted to hydrogen)\nin air could be utilized to create explosions. However, these gases are\npresent at levels lower than 1% in the atmosphere, and concentrating them\nsufficiently to create an explosive needs volumes several orders of magnitude\nlarger than what Mustang has access to in the show. (intuitively, the\natmospheric water vapor in the volume contained by a large living room will\nnot fill a glass of water).\n\nGiven what I have argued so far, and without having to suspend disbelief\nfurther, how does Mustang's flame alchemy even work? It feels like the authors\nof the show are (erroneously) assuming oxygen is combustible.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAll we know about how Flame alchemy works is described in the question. As you\nnote the description is incomplete.\n\nThat being said, we do know that creating flames in this way is a very\ncomplicated process and is a closely guarded secret. This secret was tattooed\non the Hawkeye's back by its creator and entrusted by Hawkeye only to Mustang.\nA full explanation in-universe would, therefore, not make much sense.\n\n**We might never know what the exact mechanism is and it is not necessary to\nunderstand the story.**\n\nI can come up with several head-canons to justify this physics:\n\n * The mechanism does not necessarily involve chemistry. The Crimson Alchemist creates explosions by combining contradictory alchemical symbols.\n * An unstable explosive such as tetranitromethane or nitroglycerin could be formed in gaseous state.\n * My preferred one is for Mustang to produce large quantities of nitric oxide (NO). There is a slow reaction where 2NO -> N2 + O2 which is exothermic but NO is considered non-flammable. This is because the reaction is slow without a catalyst because the NO molecules have to collide to react. At very high concentrations with other chemicals, a spark, and magic (alchemy), I like to imagine Mustang can induce a suitable violent reaction which I couldn't get to working in a lab. The actual difficulty is finding a high heat of formation molecule containing only N, O, and C stable enough to disperse harmlessly without decomposing if he can't ignite it. Several such compounds probably exist but it isn't necessarily something that if familiar or can even has been synthesized in the real world. I suspect NO is too stable but is a starting point. NO (nitric oxide) explosions have been observed and require a spark to get started but also require some other fuel to be present.\n\nFurther speculation would constitute a fan theory so would be off topic on\nthis site. I hope, however, this is enough to show you that an explanation is\nconceptually possible if not available (or possibly even known by the\ncreator).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Fairy Tail 2014_ , there is a common battle song that plays. An example is\nwhen Juvia fights Aries in the desert in episode 37, when Aries makes fun of\nJuvia while she is on the ground.\n\nWhat is the song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt depends on which part of the battle scene you are talking about.\n\n * Towards the beginning (When Aries first arrives) is unknown to me. It is possibly one of the 2016 versions of the song that I still haven't listened to.\n\n * At the end (when Juvia smashes the coolant on the magic mobile) that song is \"Titania Mau\". It is also played when the returning of the dragons in the Tartaros chapters (Grandeeney (could also be spelled Grandeena), Igneel, Metalicanna, Weisslogia and Skiadram)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI really would like to know what this is from if possible? But I might be\nbuying them and I want to know what I'm getting.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDfCF.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Fate/Grand Order, Alter Mysterious Heroine X's 3rd stage looks like this\n\n\n\nto me she looks very much like a Sith Lord from Star Wars because\n\n * The Sith often wore black hoods\n * Alter Mysterious Heroine X's Excalibur looks like a Red Light Saber\n * She looks like she is using Force Lightning\n * She has eyes like that of [The Emperor](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ok5mR.jpg) and [Anikin](https://i.stack.imgur.com/73UIU.jpg)\n\nSo I am wondering, was Alter Mysterious Heroine X's third form inspired from\nStar Wars?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nBased on the [Mysterious Heroine X\n(Alter)](http://fategrandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Mysterious_Heroine_X_\\(Alter\\)),\nthis form is indeed based on being a Sith Lord!\n\n> オルト・ライトニング (Alter Lightning) and her double-bladed lightsaber is a parody of\n> Red Lightning and the double-bladed lightsaber used by Darth Maul in Star\n> Wars.\n\nYou can see this [double-bladed attack](https://youtu.be/SOXVDpR-I00?t=20) on\nYoutube\n\nThis is due to the fact that, prior to the English release in June 2017, there\nwas a [Saber Wars\nEvent](http://fategrandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Saber_Wars_Event) in January 2016\nfor the JP release. This appears to be a parody based on the release of Star\nWars: The Force Awakens in December 2015\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dkvag.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI just saw some anime that are based on western literature. I was just\nwondering how is it done. I mean, does the anime production company have to\nask permission from the author of the books? If so, what if the author has\npassed away? And what kind of permission do they have to take? Like some anime\nthat are based on western-books have modifications to the real story, so do\nthey inform the author about all the modifications? Thank you.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIf the piece of literature is not part of the public domain, they will have to\nobtain the rights either at the original author or publisher, as the author\nmay or may not hold actual rights over the product after publishing.\n\nIn the case of a deceased author whom holds the rights, it might get a little\nbit more complex. Considering [Dead artists can be kept alive, and make a\nkilling](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-dead-authors-are-\nmaking-840289)\n\nThe actual permissions / allowed modifications are usually decided upon during\nthe inquiring of a license. Here they can either determine that no changes are\nallowed, or they are free to do as they please.\n\nUsually if somebody wishes to obtain said rights, they would hire a lawyer, as\nobtaining the rights, setting the terms and options, and the costs that come\nwith it are surrounded by a lot of legal rump slump\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo sometimes in Anime and Manga when someone is acting crazy or out of\ncharacter when on a rant they wear a headband with two flashlights or lit\ncandles pointing up.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g6zYr.jpg)\n\nI am wondering what the reason for this is or if it symbolizes something.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt originates from _[Ushi no toki\nmairi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi_no_toki_mairi)_\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wxqm7.jpg)\n\nPicture taken from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SekienUshi-\nno-tokimairi.jpg)\n\n**Wikipedia Explanation**\n\n> Ushi no toki mairi refers to a prescribed method of laying a curse upon a\n> target that is traditional to Japan, so-called because it is conducted\n> during the hours of the Ox (between 1 and 3 AM). The practitioner—typically\n> a scorned woman—while dressed in white and **crowning herself with an iron\n> ring set with three lit candles upright,** hammers nails into a sacred tree\n> of the Shinto shrine. In the modern-day common conception, the nails are\n> driven through a straw effigy of the victim, impaled upon the tree behind\n> it. The ritual must be repeated seven days running, after which the curse is\n> believed to succeed, causing death to the target, but being witnessed in the\n> act is thought to nullify the spell. The Kibune Shrine in Kyoto is famously\n> associated with the ritual.\n>\n> **The woman performing the curse is generally portrayed as dressed in white,\n> with disheveled hair,wearing an iron \"crown\" that holds three burning\n> candles** , suspending (from her neck) a mirror upon her chest (which lies\n> hidden) and wearing a pair of tall clogs (geta), She would then nail a straw\n> doll representing her target to a sacred tree (神木 shimboku) at the Shinto\n> shrine.\n>\n> **The iron \"crown\" that she wears is actually a tripod (五徳 gotoku) (or\n> trivet, a stand for setting cooking pots, etc., above a heat source) which\n> she wears in inverted, slipping the iron ring over her head and sticking\n> candles on its three legs.**\n\nIn Anime and Manga, this kind of action tells the Audience of the current\ngenre. Usually this action in Anime/Manga is a joke (for entertainment\npurposes) not to mention the character you showed us wants to curse someone\n(except the genre of the manga/anime is a thriller or horror).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe other answer is incorrect, or possibly overshooting the reference. Note\nthat the Ushi no Toki Mairi is always represented with a voodoo doll and\nhammer, absent in depictions of characters \"just going on a rampage\" that you\nsee. Also note the trend of being heavily armed, and wearing ammo belts across\nthe chest.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/54DuE.jpg)\n\nIn fact, we have to go back to 1938. Mutsuo Toi (都井 睦雄) murdered 30 people in\na rural village, in what is known as the Tsuyama Massacre (津山事件). Feeling\nostracized due to his tuberculosis, he carried out his grisly revenge heavily\narmed, wearing flashlights on his head. Presumably so he could see at night,\nbut maybe in crude imitation of the Ushi no Toki Mairi. Still, this isn't\nquite it yet.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RgSVx.jpg)\n\nIn 1951, Seishi Yokomizo (横溝 正史), the famous mystery novelist, wrote a novel\ncalled The Village of Eight Graves (八つ墓村). It concerns a family cursed with\nbloodshed, including one massacre of 32 people - modeled on the Tsuyama\nMassacre. This book was turned into a film by the same name in 1977. It stars\nTsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努) as Yôzô Tajimi (多治見 要蔵).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y8PZQ.jpg)\n\nIn the climax of the movie, Tajimi becomes possessed with the spirit of his\nbloodthirsty father and goes berserk, slaughtering men, women, and children to\nthe tune of bizarrely heroic music. Somehow, it's framed as an avenging\nspirit's righteous final stand.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hI835.jpg)\n\nAnd this iconic scene is what stuck in the minds of the Japanese public.\nThey're even making a figma of the character! From the flashlights to the\nweapons and ammo belts, this is it.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FlZWR.jpg)\n\n**So to make it clear: Yozo Tajimi, of the film \"The Village of the 8\nGravestones\".**\n\nNow, there was another film in 1983, The Village of Doom (丑三つの村), which wasn't\nbased on Yokomizo's novel but the actual original incident. Since they share\nthe same inspiration, the main character looks similar, but I think it's clear\nthat Tajimi is the one people reference.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Krmre.jpg)\n\nFor more references see this [twitter\nthread](https://twitter.com/poondonkus/status/1024800899053572096).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy didn't Orochimaru fight Madara in 4th Great Ninja War? I think Orochimaru\nwas strong, like the other Kage, if not stronger.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are two reasons: 1)Orochimaru was busy reanimating the four dead hokages\nto bring strong reinforcements. 2)Even if he was as strong as the Kages or\neven stronger, but we see in the fight between Madara and the Kages just how\nstrong Madara was. He singlehandedly annhilated all the five Kages. So if\nOrochimaru decided to face him alone then I am sure he would have died\ninstantly.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhen Kakashi had double Sharingan, he was able to use Susanoo. However, he\nlost the Sharingan.\n\nCan he still use Susanoo without Sharingan now?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, he can't now.\n\nDuring the battle with Kaguya, Obito lent Kakashi the full power of the\nMangekyo Sharingan which gave him the ability to use Susanoo. But after the\nbattle, Kakashi lost his Sharingan along with Susanoo. So, I don't think that\nKakashi can use Susanoo after all.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nMaybe he can! While fighting with Kaguya, Obito lent his both eyes to Kakashi\n(although Kakashi's eye was already taken by Madara and he was given a new eye\nby Naruto) and that's why he was able to use Susanoo. In same way, he can do\nthat again.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe answer is **NO**.\n\nIf you want to activate Suanoo, you must have the both Mangekyo Sharingan as\nit already state in the wiki.\n\n> \"It is the strongest ability available to those who have **awakened the\n> Mangekyō Sharingan in both eyes**.\"\n\nAs you can see below this image in Boruto series, Kakashi eye's have no longer\nget the ability to use Sharingan.\n\n\n\nPlus Kakashi able to use Sunanoo in the series of fighting Kaguya is because\nObito lend his eye to Kakashi **FOR A SHORT TIME**. So basically the eye of\nthe Sharingan is not Kakashi but it's Obito.\n\n(The red highlight part show that Obito borrow his eye to Kakashi for a\ntemporary.)\n\n\n\n\nImage credit to **_@Kira - The God_**\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI am going to say Kakashi can still use Susanoo. The theory states that one\nhas to have obtained the MS in both eyes and use it. Then even upon losing\nsight (Like Itachi), or losing your eyes altogether (Like Madara), one can\nstill use Susanoo since it was activated before. So even if Kakashi's MS in\nbothe eyes were temporary, he still met the requirements to be able to\ncontinue to use Susanoo. The only way for this to be false is if one has to\nhave the Uchia Gene (Blood of an Uchia coursing through their veins) to be\nable to use Susanoo even without MS.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nNo, anybody saying Kakashi can't use Susano'o is wrong because everybody said\nthat it was normal for Madara to use Susano'o when he was trapped in Gaara's\nGreat Sand Mausoleum. In the same way, you only need Mangekyou Sharingan to\nawaken the Susano'o but you can use it even without the eyes later.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nActually, yes. Unless the plot is like, “No but it only applies to Uchiha”\nbecause it’s stated that you only need to have wielded the both Mangekyo to\nsummon the Susanoo, and if you recall we did see one person summon a Susanoo\nwith only one eye: Shisui Uchiha, after Danzo yoinked his other eye. So in\ntheory, Kakashi should also be able to.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Unlimited Blade Works_ , which episode was Saber bounded up and was in a\nwhite dress being raped by Caster?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSaber wears - or more exactly is made to wear - those clothes in Fate/Stay\nNight: Unlimited Blade Works episode 13, 14, 17 and 18. (Or season 2 episode\n1, 2, 5 and 6, if you count the series as two seasons.)\n\nThe screenshot itself is from episode 13 (or S2 episode 1).\n\nBy the way she isn't being raped (not even in the visual novel). Caster just\ntortures her to make her lose her mind so she would want the pleasure by\nherself.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nCan Japanese voice actors watch an anime episode for free after an anime\nepisode is finished because they did contribute their efforts in it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVoice actors usually only see the parts of the anime/movie and script, which\nthey record. Their might be special occasions, when they are able to see the\ncomplete episode, but that is definitely rare.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nVoice Actors get paid. That is their compensation. And per se, voice actors\naren't cheap. To specifically give them only the episodes they appeared in\nseems to be too much of a hassle. Just think how many side roles there can be\nin an episode.\n\nThat aside, occasionally special voice actors (main roles or special guests)\ncan get gifts from the company they work for. E.g. the German voice actor\nGronkh received a \"LEGO Batman\" Joker plushie for his work of speaking the\nJoker in the German Translation of the movie, ADDITIONALLY to his payment.\n\nOP asks if watching the episode for free is something NORMAL Japanese voice\nactor get FOR their work. I say no, because Japanese have a special attitude\ntowards their work. Being allowed to work for your company is something to be\nhonored in Japan, almost as important as getting the money. If a company is\nespecially grateful towards an actor, they may bestow him with additional\nhonor. But that would be something of emotional value, not an episode of their\nown production everyone can buy. (At most, something like the first item of a\ncollectors edition, and that's more of a gift for the producer. Voice actors\nwould get something tied to their person or the role they spoke.) In addition\nJapanese are very polite, so it seems out of place to ask for free episodes if\none really wants some.\n\nAnd finally, it is work. Who has worked for a time, knows it is not always\nyour wish to revisit your past work.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn manga cover pages for the tankoubon version, I find it funny that the cover\npage always/often is not related to the content of the book. Usually there is\na big event of sorts that are drawn on the cover, but nothing in the book\ntells the reader about that event or even describes it.\n\nIn some series, like One Piece, Maruto, Magi, Toriko, etc., the cover of the\nmanga would be present in the current chapter or at least be about the events\nof the current arc or plot line. But in other series, like Hayate, Zettai\nKaren Children, Kurosagi, the pattern of irrelevance is consistent, with most\nof the cover art showing events that never happen in series.\n\nIs there a some sort of marketing reason for this trend?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nis there any connection between the movie, the original series and the newer\nseries of [Space Adventure\nCobra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_\\(manga\\))? and if so, what's their\nchronological order?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Koe no Katachi manga, volume 3, chapter 23, Shouko said that\n\n> She like Ishida\n\nSince when that Shouko feel that way about Ishida? In Volume 1, Shouko got\nbullied. Did she feel this way about Ishida back in elementary school? Did the\nauthor ever mention it on manga/anime ?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n## Update\n\nFrom an interview with the author, we know precisely when Shoko started liking\nShoya. It is contained in the first collector's volume on page 738.\n\n> At this point, when she couldn't see Shoya for two weeks, Shoko realizes for\n> the first time she has feelings for him. [...] Some people think Shoko tells\n> Shoya she loves him in reaction to Naoka's presence, but it came about\n> because of the two weeks when Shoko couldn't see Shoya at the bridge, and\n> the fact that her hearing had worsened. These intensified her emotional\n> state.\n\n## Introduction\n\nWe don't get to see Shoko's thoughts and feelings about anything; this is an\nimportant theme of the story. We get other characters' perspectives and thus\nwe can be relatively certain of what they're thinking, but we only get to see\nShoko through the lens of these viewpoint characters. Even when the story is\ntold through Shoko's perspective later on, it is murky and jumbled, making it\nhard to understand exactly what she's thinking. Thus, we can only ascertain\nhow she initially felt about Shoya through her actions and by what she says.\n\nWith this in mind, I believe there is enough evidence to indicate she did not\ninitially have romantic feelings towards Shoya. Firstly, let us keep in mind\nthat Shoko is not an oblivious idiot, as Shoya first suspected (see page 95 of\nfirst volume). When Shoko asks Shoya for Miyoko's contact info, it becomes\napparent to both Shoya and readers that Shoko is acutely aware of what was\ngoing on.\n\n## Shoko's Reaction When Shoya Appears Again\n\nAt the beginning of Volume 2, we see that Shoko's initial reaction to Shoya\nreappearing in her life is to run away. She decides to hear him out after he\ntrips, but her expressions throughout the chapter seem to indicate displeasure\nor perhaps uncertainty), at least until Shoya shows that he knows sign\nlanguage. This doesn't tell us how she initially felt about him, but it does\ntell us that at the end of their time together in elementary school, she\ndidn't like him.\n\n## Shoko's Initial Reaction to Shoya\n\nJust from reading Shoya's facial expressions, it seems that Shoko grows to\ndistrust Shoya, and perhaps even to dislike him. In greeting, she gives Shoya\nthe same cheery smile she gives everyone else, but this soon changes. In\n_Chapter 2: Just One Of Those Things_ , there are three interactions\n(identical in terms of structure) between Shoko and Shoya on pages 75, 81, and\n83. In each one, Shoko's expression becomes more and more wary. In the final\none, her eyebrows slant downward ever so slightly when she notices Shoya,\nperhaps conveying a hint of anger. And this is all before Shoya begins his\nbullying in earnest. Getting told not to sing, having dust poured on her, and\ngetting her hearing aids thrown out windows is unlikely to make Shoko develop\na crush on Shoya. The normal reaction to such incidents would be a growing\nfear or hatred of the perpetrator.\n\nThis was not the first time Shoko was bullied, and she caught on very quickly\nto Shoya's mockery. Far from having a crush on Shoya, I think we can conclude\nthat Shoko didn't like him.\n\n## Shoko Asks to Be Friends\n\nThere is an incident, just after Shoya injures Shoko by pulling on the\napparatus in her right ear, where Shoko uses sign language to ask to be\nfriends. This might be a singular piece of evidence supporting the idea that\nShoko has a crush on Shoya, however, the timing doesn't really make sense for\nthis; getting injured as she did should make this a low point in their\nrelationship. But this incident can also be interpreted another way.\nInitially, Shoko apologizes to Shoya with her notebook, even though Shoya\nshould be the one apologizing to her. This may just be Shoko's attempt to\nresolve her bullying situation. Her initial apology might indicate Shoko\nthinks she did something to upset Shoya, and this is why he's bullying her. In\nthis desperate attempt, Shoko hopes to make amends and become friends so she\nwon't be bullied anymore.\n\n## After Shoya Starts Getting Bullied\n\nWhich brings us to the point where Shoya starts getting bullied and why Shoko\ntried to help him. As previously stated, Shoko was aware of what was\nhappening. She also blamed herself (we see Yuzuru speculate on this in Volume\n2, page 138). She knew that her presence and her disability created a\ndisruption in the class. Just as in the case of Miyoko, Shoko blamed herself\nfor the bullying that happened to Shoya, and this is why she cleans off the\nmessages on his desk, and why she tries to make things right by helping him\nout.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nLater in the series, Naoka comments on how boys pick on girls they like,\nspeaking as though this proves Shoko liked Shoya in elementary school, but I\nbelieve this reflects more on Naoka's jealousy than it does on how Shoko felt\nabout the situation. I think it is reasonable to assume that Shoko disliked\nShoya in elementary school, and that she only grew to like him after seeing\nthe effort he made to correct his past mistakes.\n\nAll references are to Kodansha Comic's English version of the manga.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn the video of [Vsauce2](https://youtu.be/VIg5HkyauoY?t=575) it is mentioned\nthat\n\n> Prussian blue ... it reinvigorated Japanese wood block painting, which went\n> on to influence manga which led to Japanese animation\n\nThe phrasing makes it sound like the invention of this Prussian blue is one of\nthe key factors towards the development of Japanese animation or anime.\n\nBut was this invention really a key factor towards the creation of anime? Or\ndid this Prussian blue really have a an effect to the creation of Anime at\nall?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHonestly no, it's like saying that a certain type of pen led to anime and\nmanga, or that the printing press led to their eventual creation, sure it\ncould help make the experience much better and easier, but they aren't\nnecessarily creation sparkers. Prussian blue just gave us a new cool looking\ncolor to use in anime and manga, but was not key in its development. Our\ndesire and interest for storytelling along with our fascination in artistic\nexpression is more linked to the creation of anime and manga, definitely not\nPrussian blue.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIrrelevant to anime.\n\nAnime as we know it was invented 1963 with the release of Tetsuwan Atom. The\ncritical part about that specific anime isfound behind the scenes.\n\nThe creator Tezuka Osamu invented various cost-cutting techniques, like having\na 90s Opening scene and a 90s Ending scene; that's 3min you can reuse for\nevery episode! He also popularized the production committee approach of\nfunding, distributing the financial risk among a couple of large companies.\n\nThis approach essentially created the anime \"industry\". Prior to that there\nwas no industry.\n\nThematically, anime of that time do not have much in common with modern anime,\nthough. The roots of modern stories go back to Ashita no Joe (1970) and some\ncontemporaries which laid the foundation for anime like Dragon Ball, Naruto,\nOne Piece etc. \n..and to Ursusei Yatsura (1981) which is essentially the grandfather of RomCom\nanime. Most of the themes that are still used today were introduced with\nUrusei Yatsura.\n\nOf course, every genre has its own grandfather, but it all goes back to the\n1970s and 1980s, while the technical aspect goes back to Tetsuwan Atom.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n# The Logical Fallacy that A implies B\n\nThis is an example of a \"false cause\" or [\"post hoc ergo propter hoc\"\nfallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc).\n\ni.e. \"A occured, then B occured. Therefore A caused B\"\n\nSome examples:\n\n * \"The rooster crows every morning, therefore the rooster causes the sun to come up.\n * \"Hospitals are full of sick people. Therefore hospitals make people sick.\"\n\nIn this case:\n\n * \"Prussian Blue was used in woodblock paintings. Woodblock paintings were the precursor to manga. Therefore, the invention of Prussian Blue was critical to manga's creation\"\n\n# The Actual Claim - A was faster than it could have been\n\nWe can break down the statement from the video:\n\n> Prussian blue reinvigorated Japanese wood block painting, which went on to\n> influence manga which led to Japanese animation\n\nIf we look carefully at the facts from this sentence:\n\n**A:** Prussian blue reinvigorated Japanese wood block painting\n\n**B:** Japanese wood block painting went on to influence manga\n\n**C:** manga led to Japanese animation\n\nThese are presented by the video as to seem to be connected, but they are not\nnecessarily.\n\nLet's imagine that artists took 100 years to perfect Woodblock Painting, then\n100 years to develop Manga and another 100 to Anime. The entire time being 300\nyears to create Anime (note: these timelines are entirely made up)\n\nVsauce is implying that this first stage was invigorated and perhaps moved\nfaster than it may have without the introduction of Prussian Blue. Maybe it\nwould have taken 80 years to perfect Woodblock Painting instead - leaving us\nwith a total of 280 years before we got to anime for the same process.\n\nWhat they are saying isn't incorrect, but it is worded as to give Prussian\nBlue a false importance.\n\n# However...\n\nThe new availability of blue ink did allow some new stylistic choices for\nauthors, as an alternative to black. We can see artists chose this sometimes\nin other areas than Japan.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/X21ttm.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat did Shouko sign to Shouya in Koe No Katachi volume 7, chapter 54?\n\nNote: the below images are the signs that she used, in the order that they\nappear (right to left).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SXtVA.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo I watched the limited theatrical release today. While I can't say that I\nrecall anything _verbatim_ , I'll be updating my answer from here.\n\nShouko _says_ , not _signs_ , in the movie, that\n\n> She believed that if she weren't around anymore, everything would be better,\n> which is what led her to attempt suicide in the first place.\n\nThis tears into the heart of the matter: the immense guilt and discomfort that\nShouko feels about the entire situation, which is what led her to make that\ndecision.\n\nAlso, this highlights a point in which the film diverges from the manga, so\ntake this with a grain of salt.\n\n* * *\n\nWhile I can't interpret JSL very well, we can infer what happened through the\nuse of context clues a few chapters earlier.\n\n> This happened after Shoya effectively saved Shouko's life, when she\n> attempted to jump off her balcony into the river below. Recall in an earlier\n> chapter, Shouko and Shoya swapped positions, effectively keeping her on the\n> balcony, and him plummeting to the water below.\n\nFrom that, what we can infer is...\n\n> Shouko thought that Shoya was dead, and was feeling incredibly remorseful\n> for attempting suicide, and that Shoya had been badly injured due to her\n> actions. She's frantically apologizing and is grateful that he's alive.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found a good sources to answer this question These are from the chapter 54,\npage 9,10,and 11.\n\nPage 9, third panel.\n\n> You - Fall Down\n>\n> \"You Fell down\"\n\nPage 9, fourth panel.\n\n> Me - Bad\n>\n> \"My Fault\"\n\nPage 10, first panel.\n\n> Same\n>\n> \"(At that time) same\"\n\nPage 10, second panel. ( Not sure about this one )\n\n> Minimum\n>\n> \"I think that it is the lowest\"\n\nPage 10, fourth panel ( Not sure about this one too )\n\n> Relationship\n>\n> \"I messed up my relationship with everyone\"\n\nPage 10, fifth panel ( and this one too )\n\n> Past - Same\n>\n> \"At that time (when I was in elementary school) and I have not changed\"\n\nPage 10, seventh and eight panel ( and this one too )\n\n> Important\n>\n> \"Everyone is Important ... \"Based on(?)\"\n\nReferences(Japanese's site) : [los-endos.hatenablog.com(Japanese)](http://los-\nendos.hatenablog.com/entry/20160915/1473950095)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Naruto Shippuden_ episode 216, at around 7 minutes, there's a song when\nSasuke and Naruto fight with Rasengan vs Chidori.\n\nWhat's that song?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt sounds to me like Samidare (Track 28 of Shippuuden OST 2).\n\nNote that parts of this track also sound vaguely similar to Ochibabune (OST 2\ntrack 26), Yamagasumi (OST 2 track 22), and Utsusemi (OST 1 track 7), so it\ncan be easy to confuse them.\n\nIncidentally, Utsusemi was playing in the immediately preceding scene.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are plenty of anime that have a lot of filler, such as Naruto or Bleach.\nHowever, there are a lot of filler episodes that fit completely in the\nstoryline, and could easily have happened. Wouldn't it make sense for the\nmangaka to declare some of these as canon?\n\nThis would clearly satisfy the audience as it kills a lot of people to see\ngood content that didn't really happen. But building on this, would it be\nplausible for the mangaka to create a new category of episodes in between\nfiller and canon that simply labels episodes as correct so people can watch\nthem, but skip over them since they don't contribute to the plot? This would\nseem like a step up since there is a clear distinction between outrageously\nimpossible filler and filler that could actually have occurred.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOften times, when it comes to the filler, the original creator or mangaka has\n_no_ say in it. They may have the ability to influence designs, but that's\nprobably it; much of that would get written by someone other than themselves.\n\nThis is largely borrowing [from an earlier answer of\nmine](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/34275/102), but I want to highlight a\nfew key points from it:\n\n> Studios in charge of the more popular anime series don't really have this\n> liberty; generally, one of these things could happen:\n>\n> * The author treats it as non-canon and progresses forward (ignore it)\n> * The author incorporates it into canon (think Hayate no Gotoku and the\n> addition of Kayura Tsurugino after the movie) (embrace it)\n> * The author decides to reboot the series entirely, which may include some\n> components of the original one and may not, with the liberties largely\n> removed (Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood vs Full Metal Alchemist) (allow\n> both to exist)\n>\n\nEffectively, there's really not much wiggle room between what is and isn't\ncanon. It either gets adapted into canon, or it gets ignored. No one outside\nof the original mangaka can decide this, and there have been examples of both\nhappening in different works. Series like _Bleach_ likely didn't get to\nexercise options of adopting it into canon due to the fact that Kubo Tite was\nworking so hard on it, _he had to go to the hospital_ several times during\n_Bleach_ 's run.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTsunade is the granddaughter of the first Hokage, Hashirama Senju. She served\nas the fifth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf but where is she now in Boruto? Is she\ndead?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRight now it's too soon to definitively say; she was still alive at the end of\nNaruto Shippuden so we can assume that she will become a more significant\ncharacter later in the series.\n\nNot all characters from Shippuden have been brought into Boruto yet in the\nanime or manga. Give it time and we will see.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as we know, Tsunade is still alive. After the Fourth Shinobi World War,\nTsunade retires as the 5th Hokage, and she may have continued her tradition\nwith leaving Konoha after the Second Shinobi World War when she retired as a\nShinobi.\n\nWhile details to Tsunade's whereabouts in the Boruto series have not been\nfully released, we _do_ know she is still alive during the 5 Kage Summit in\nNaruto Chapter 700. This [5 Kage\nSummit](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Five_Kage_Summit) occurred 15 years after\nthe Fourth Shinobi World War, which was called by the 7th Hokage\n\n> Fifteen years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, another Kage Summit is\n> convened in Konohagakure by the Seventh Hokage.\n\nDuring this summit, [Tsunade](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsunade) reunited\nwith the other retired Kages\n\n> Tsunade attends Naruto's marriage to Hinata Hyūga. Yamato runs around prior\n> to the ceremony making final preparations, which Tsunade occasionally offers\n> advice on.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> **New Era**\n>\n> Twelve years later, while a Five Kage Summit was being held in Konoha,\n> Tsunade and the other retired Kage visit the Third Tsuchikage to, as Tsunade\n> puts it, get drunk and complain about things.\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iwCmV.png)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is an old question with old answers but now it looks incomplete. Tsunade\nappears in episode 72 of Boruto. You can see her here:\n\n[Boruto preview episode 72](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KEUXoB4k_Q)\n\nShe says she returns from a long trip in the same episode.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAfter the Great Ninja War, Naruto's right arm was replaced by an artificial\narm made up of Hashirama Senju's cells. To perform Wood Style, user requires a\nvast amount of chakra and Naruto can easily manage that.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWood Style requires water and earth affinity as it's a combination of these,\nwhile Naruto has wind affinity.\n\nUsing Combined Styles also requires Kekkei Genkai, which Naruto doesn't have.\n\nSo unless the author comes up with something in the future (like somehow\nforming his own chakra into the one he received from Hagoromo or into the\nchakras he received from the tailed beasts) Naruto is highly unlikely to be\nable to use Wood Style.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nGiven that Naruto has access to Six Paths Sage Mode - a power that gives him\ninstantaneous mastery over the five basic Changes in Chaka Nature + that of\nYin-Yang Release, is a reincarnation of Indra Otsutsuki - a power that grants\nhim access to his ultimate form, Asura Kurama Mode, as well gained the\naffinity of the remaining tailed beasts and was thusly able to master Lava,\nBoil, and Magnet Release, as seen in Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast\nRasenshuriken, I see no reason why Naruto - now also in procession of an arm\ngrafted from cells of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, who, despite not\nbeing a member of the Otsutsuki clan, mastered Wood Release - should (in\ntheory), be able to use Wood Style were he to meditate on the earth- and\nwater-based nature combination Kekki Genkai using the Six Paths' power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI would like to believe that he can. There are a few evidences that show this.\nSPOILER ALERT\n\nAfter gaining Sage of Six Paths powers he was show to be able to use several\nkekkai genkai including magnet release, and lava release. While fighting white\nzetsu his Kyubi cloak the defeated zetsus where turned into a cloak with the 9\ntails chakra. During the fight with Pain, after Naruto became enraged and\nreleased the 4 tailed cloak, we can see naruto raise a large forest of roots\nfrom the ground similar to the Deep Forest Emergence used by Hashirama\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn _Rewrite_ , Sakuya, Chihaya's butler, is nothing but antagonistic towards\nthe protagonist Kotarou from the moment they first meet. He calls him\ninsulting names and is generally just a bit of an asshole. It later turns out\nthat both he and Chihaya are working for Gaia, the eco-terrorist group who\nwant to destroy all human life\n\n> (and who ultimately succeed in the final episode of Season 1).\n\nThen, around Episode 8 or so, he randomly shows up in the magic forest and\nsaves Kotarou's life. He announces he's now working with Kotarou and friends\nagainst Gaia, offers to train Kotarou, and becomes considerably less\nantagonistic towards him. _Absolutely no explanation is given for this_ , and\nto me it seemed to come completely out of left-field.\n\n**What prompted Sakuya to change sides like that so suddenly?** I think\nChihaya may have already defected by this point, but surely that can't be the\nonly reason?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't remember what exactly happen in anime, so I will talk about Sakuya in\nVN.\n\n> Sakuya's loyalty lies completely with Chihaya. And Chihaya is not that loyal\n> to Gaia. In her VN she gives up on Gaia few times. And Sakuya always\n> follows. And while Sakuya does insult Kotarou, it is mostly playful messing\n> around. He never really endangers him. He is basically trolling him, because\n> he knows he gets reaction out of him.\n\nWhy Sakuya doesn't like Kotarou is explained in the VN:\n\n> Sakuya is same as Kotarou, having the Rewrite ability. And like Kotarou, he\n> abused it to the point he lost his humanity and became a familiar. And he\n> simply sees himself in him and doesn't like to be reminded of his past. But\n> when situation gets serious enough, he puts all joking aside and begins\n> treating Kotarou properly.\n\ntl;dr; Read the VN. The anime is terrible, TERRIBLE, adaptation.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI heard some rumors saying that all events in _Mekakucity Actors_ (all 13\nepisodes) happened in just one day (in Mekakucity Actors universe).\n\nIs it true?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nYes all the events took place in 1 day. There is no day night switch during\nthe episodes after the moment he spills his drink on his keyboard. It is the\n14th august. He then wants to order a new one, but due to the festival going\non all shops are only available to deliver at the 17th as earliest date.\nHowever one shop is open despite the festival. He thinks he is unable to\nsurvive 3 days without his computer so he decides to go outside on the 14th of\naugust. After this choice all the other events happen. Due to the flashbacks\nit looks like it all happened over a span of time, but in reality it was only\n1 day.\n\nBelow I have linked the sources I used, along with my memory of the anime. I\nwatched it when it aired so the only part I was confused about was when he\nspilled the drink and the time between him going to get outside. Hence the\nsecond source.\n\nSource 1: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagerou_Project>\n\nSource 2: <http://kagerouproject.wikia.com/wiki/Mekakucity_Actors_-\n_Episode_01>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhat's the meaning of the crayon painting picture just after Shinji choke\nAsuka ? The picture below is some of the crayon-painting in The End Of\nEvangelion:\n\n**Unknown Guy** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGopK.jpg)\n\n**A boy inside a house?** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lemiU.jpg)\n\n**Wth is that ?** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jHb8n.jpg)\n\n**Boy and woman ?** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mw33a.jpg)\n\n**A bucket of fish** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AOEdC.jpg)\n\n**Dog Corpse** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IFw4s.jpg)\n\n**A Murder Case** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJo7T.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI think the general consensus is that it's up to your own interpretation. They\nare a mix of actual children's drawings and some that were made to look like\nchildren's drawings but were actually created by the staff (e.g. the gutted\ndog and the bucket of fish).\n\nThere is commentary that's part of the [\"Eva Tomo no Kai\" (Eva Fan\nClub)](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Eva_Fan_Club) newsletters that supposedly\nmention that these drawings were created by children who went through\nabuse/traumatic experiences and were drawn as part of some sort of therapy. I\ncan't provide the actual source or the scan, though, so take that tidbit with\na grain of salt. UPDATE: [Twitter user verified that this is a false\nrumor](https://twitter.com/htGOIW/status/1453247436634349578)\n\nSo it's possible that the sequence alludes to that of a child (or children, as\nin the Evangelion pilots) who went through traumatic experiences (piloting,\nfighting, general psychological struggles from the events of the series) and\nattempting to cope with them. Sort of like the idea behind the therapy\nchildren's drawings.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs an art therapist and psychologist-in-training, I can tell you, that yes,\nthe pictures that were actually drawn by children (the \"real\" pictures) could\nlikely be a part of art therapy and reveal psychologically-\ndamaging/traumatizing people or events. However, these drawings would usually\nbe kept confidential when drawn within therapy sessions, so it is irregular\nthat they would just be picked up by Anno and added into the movie out of the\nblue. . .\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI personally think that the unknown guy is actually Asuka crying in one\nspecific frame, The angle of the nose makes me think about how closely related\nthe two pictures are. The boy inside the house I think is Asuka's mother after\nAsuka comes in and sees her hanged, I think that all of these pictures relate\nto Asuka's past, or things she sees in her everyday life. The boy and woman\nlooks like the Geofront and the spear of longinus.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn multiple fanarts and fanfic websites of Full Metal Alchemist, I have seen\nmentions of the \"503 day\". Here's an example:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9X4VNm.jpg)\n\nI did read and watch Full Metal Alchemist and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood\nand I do not remember any mention of such a date. It does not match with the\ndate Ed engraved into his State Alchemist Pocket Watch either.\n\nWhat does the \"503 day\" refer to?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n503 day is supposed to be the 3rd of May (5/03), which is the Edward x Winry\nday, or Edwin day in short.\n\nThere are two reasons for this coming into existence.\n\nFirst, there's a jeans brand called Edwin and one of their logos contains the\nnumber 503.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eAZNy.jpg)\n\nSecond, when Winry goes to Central City she's in room 503 of the hotel.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'm starting the series Re: Zero on\n[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/rezero-starting-life-in-another-\nworld-) and I noticed theres an episode 1A and 1B, what is this about?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI found a [twitter\npost](https://twitter.com/s3nsi/status/716737246662148096?lang=en) answering\nthis exact same question and it appears that Crunchyroll merely split the one-\nhour episode in two parts. You should start with A, then continue to B, and\nthen continue chronologically.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nEpisode 1 is an extended 50-minute episode, which is double the length of a\ntypical anime episode. So they split it into two parts, so that both parts\nwould be the length of one episode.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIn Anime/Manga One piece, when straw hat pirate had finished explore the\nentire island ( or beat the bad guys ), straw hat pirate will continue their\njourney to the next adventure ( a.k.a next island ). They travel around grand\nline using Going Merry soon will be replaced with Thousand sunny. The\nmanga/anime never mention how long they have been in sea ( cause using a boat\nto travel in sea would be take a month maybe a year ). In anime/manga it's\nlike the distance between previous island and the next island only take an\nhours to make it. Is the distance of island in one piece not really that far ?\n\n",
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"title": "How much time did straw hat pirate need to travel to the next island?",
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"body": "\n\nNo, usually it takes them few days to reach that destination, why that is not\nshown is because nothing interesting is happening. We usually are only shown\nthe stuff that is happening or when there is some important crew interaction\nongoing.\n\nOne of the earliest examples i can think of is when Luffy has recruited Ussop\nand they meet the two bounty hunters(Joni&Yosaku). They are talking about a\nchef and they tell Luffy that he can find one on a sea restaurant, but it will\ntake them 2-3 days to reach it from the place where they currently are (the\nchapter in question is 42, page ~19). Another example is the travel time\nbetween Dressrosa and Zou.\n\nMost islands require some time to pass, but since nothing interesting is\nhappening there, Oda just skips those days.\n\nHere is another relevant question: [How much time have the Straw Hats spent\nwith each other?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/26735/how-much-\ntime-have-the-straw-hats-spent-with-each-other)\n\nSome general one piece timeline(although you did not ask for this, but it\ncannot hurt): <http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/World_Timeline>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nIt's my impression that the Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors as a group are\nloosely organized, or are at least affiliated with each other in some way.\nThey're also generally hostile to both The Church and the Mage's Association.\nFurthermore, Dead Apostles in general have proven to be extremely antagonistic\ntowards humans.\n\nThis begs the question: why is Zelretch seemingly tolerated by both groups?\n\nAlso worth noting here is that he is described as an ally of humanity and True\nAncestors in the [Type Moon\nWiki](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kischur_Zelretch_Schweinorg). This begs a\nmore general question - how can he be all of these contradictory things at\nonce?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo answer this you have to take into account the origin of the 27 Dead Apostle\nAncestor. They were the original Dead Apostles who rebelled and escaped from\nthe True Ancestors (who were based on Brunestud the Crimson Moon, the Ultimate\nOne of the Moon). With time, due to being sealed by the Church or being\ndefeated by other Dead Apostles, their ranks were filled with suitable\nsuccesors, including bloodsucking creatures other than vampires and magi that\nobtained immortality through their Magic Research.\n\nZelretch is a unique existence, he is a Magician (not a magus), wielder of the\nSecond True Magic, Kaleidoscope, and this was BEFORE he turned into a Dead\nApostle, since the 2nd Magic was his trump card in his fight against the\nCrimson Moon. Before being defeated, Brunestud managed to suck Zelretch's\nblood, turning him into a Dead Apostle, effectively making him a DA born from\nthe basis of the True Ancestors (and the 3rd seat of the 27 DAA himself). But,\neven having become a DA, he still behaves as an ally of humanity and the True\nAncestors', having been invited even to Arcueid's birth.\n\nDon't forget that the 27 DAA is a loose organization, which counts as part of\nits members beings such as Primate Murder, the Forest of Einnashe and ORT. And\nneither Zelretch nor the Mage's Association are actively antagonistic to them.\nAlso, I wouldn't call them extremely antagonistic to humankind, they see\nhumans as merely cattle and slave material, and have their own political\nagendas to worry about to be concerned with human extermination.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nKischur Zelretch Schweinorg is a Dead Apostle because he fought Brunestud of\nthe Crimson Moon who created the True Ancestors who in turn created the Dead\nApostles.\n\nBrunestud is the Ultimate one of The Moon and this one of the\n[Aristoteles](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Aristoteles) called Type-Moon. In\nthe beginning over four thousand years ago he responded to a call from the\ncollective will of the Earth, Gaia, to protect it from human corruption and in\nexchange Brunestud was allowed to live on the earth.\n\nBrunestud created the True Ancestors based off his image as a natural\nprotective system for the planet and to return it to it's natural state which\nis why Alaya does not act against them (remember that Alaya is the collective\nwill of humanity which will deploy Counter Guardians to save humanity from\ndestruction). after this he went around challenging other being on Earth and\namassing followers in an attempt to eventually take the Earth as his own\nkingdom.\n\nhe eventually attracted the attention of Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg who was\nalready a Sorcerer wielding the Second Magic. in a battle which Kiniko Nasu\nlikes to keep to himself the 2 fought.\n\n> He was eventually defeated by Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg wielding Second\n> Magic. He tried to pull the moon to collide with Earth but it was pushed\n> back by Zelretch's magic, so it was unable to affect the planet. With all of\n> his power, Brunestud did not foresee being defeated by a human, but lost to\n> Zelretch due to being too late in understanding the power of Magic, \"a rule\n> outside of the rules.\" Before his defeat, he sucked Zelretch's blood\n> converting him into a vampire.\n\nSource: [Crimson Moon - Profile - Background (2nd\nparagraph)](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Crimson_Moon)\n\n* * *\n\n> They're also generally hostile to both The Church and the Mage's\n> Association. Furthermore, Dead Apostles in general have proven to be\n> extremely antagonistic towards humans.\n\nyou are right that there is hostility it should be pointed out that the\nAssociation wont do anything unless the Dead Apostles risk exposing Magic to\nthe public (as been their stance with their own Magi who can do the most\ninhuman thing so long as it's not publicly exposing magic) and given what's\nbeen happening with Aylesbury the Chruch, knowing full well what the Aylesbury\nValesti is for, isn't going to make a movie\n\n> Due to the development being funded and developed entirely by human means,\n> the Mage's Association and Church are unable to intervene until the advent\n> of the ritual.\n\nSource: [The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors - Attributes - Aylesbury\nValesti (2nd Paragraph)](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/The_Twenty-\nseven_Dead_Apostle_Ancestors)\n\nObviously though when the ritual starts thew Church will probably get involved\nand if it's too public that's when the Association will get involved.\n\nas for being antagonistic to humans, not entirely so. for the most part\n\"human\" in this case is anyone not either in the Church or a Magus. The Church\nhunts them down because they don't see them as Human and if they aren't human\nand can't be controlled they should be destroyed. Also within the 27 Dead\nApostle Ancestors there are some who weren't even human to begin with and\ntheir origins explain why they would be against humans\n\n * **[Primate Murder](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Primate_Murder)** is a Beast of Gaia and has the absolute authority to kill humans. it's counted as a Dead Apostle Ancestor because it's under Altrouge Brunestud's control and started to drink blood like it's mistress.\n\n * **[ORT](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/ORT)** is one of the Aristoteles like Brunestud of the Crimson Moon but he is Type-Mercury having crashed on Earth 5000 years before the [Common Era](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era) in preparation for the event that would occur in _Notes_. it's counted in the number of the Dead Apostle Ancestors because it was discovered to have vampric abilities\n\nthough there are some Dead Apostle Ancestors who aren't our enemies in a way.\n\n * **[Merem Solomon](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Merem_Solomon)** was turned by Brunestud of the Crimson Moon himself back in the day yet he and Merem feels an immense sense of gratitude towards him since Brunestud actually helped him by turning him into a Dead Apostle, of which he has directed his gratitude towards his golden princess, Arcuied, since Brunestud destruction. also Merem like treasures and joined the Church to access their relics and became the fith out of eight executioner of the Burial Agency and thus hunts vampires. the Church knows he's a Dead Apostle however he is \"a non-human who can be controlled\", so to speak\n\n * **[Gransurg Blackmore](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gransurg_Blackmore)** was a Magus who fought and was defeated by Brunestud but survived. Brunestud made him his personal Magus and Gransurg became a Dead Apostle on his own though his magical research. after Brunestud's destruction he's worked with the Association like how Merem works with the Church though at one point the church had sealed him but we was able to escape. unlike Merem he only kills other Dead Apostles if they stray from the teachings or wishes of Brunestud.\n\nwhile Dead Apostle Ancestors, Merem and Gransurg would oppose Altrouge who\ngenerally leads the rest. both worship Crimson Moon as a god and see Altrouge\nwas an impostor and that Arcuied is the true reincarnation of Crimson Moon\nwith Merem even helping her out at times (though Arcuied doesn't know how to\nrespond to his unconditional affection). one of them even hates Altrouge for\ntaking Arcuied's hair (i think Merem).\n\nwe also know that Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg is also Dead Apostle and he's\nwilling to help out Magi having appeared during Rin Tohsaka's trail at the end\nof Heaven's Feel and created Magical Ruby and Saphire for Rin and Luvia.\n\nAs for Zelretch's allegiance, it's stated on the\n[wikia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kischur_Zelretch_Schweinorg#Background)\nthat it's to humanity and the nearly extinct race of True Ancestors. while his\nfriend Caubac Alcatraz is a Dead Apostle Ancestor (who like Gransurg became\none though his own research rather than being turned) they were probably\nfriends before hand and the 2 were at [Arcuied's Coming of Age\nCeremony](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ax7VR.jpg) (only Zelretch and Arcuied is\nshown).\n\nThough whether he'll fight against Aylesbury Valesti is yet to be seen. his\nwiki page does state that he is\n\n> surprisingly meddlesome in worldly affairs\n\nand given that in _Fate/Extra_ the state of the world is suspected to have\nbeen the Aylesbury Valesti occurring earlier it might be bad enough for him to\ninterfere. he could also just have the same sorta reason as Merem and Gransurg\nto fight it just because Altrouge is involved because he acts as a surrogate\ngrandfather to Arcuied though it's not stated what his opinion on Altrouge is\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI didn't get how Julius tarnished his career. Also it was not mentioned how he\nwent out of his way to save Subaru?\n\n",
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"title": "How Julius tarnished his career after fighting Subaru?",
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"body": "\n\nJulius challenged Subaru, someone who is clearly below his rank, then during\nthe fight he practically started bullying Subaru, who was obviously greatly\ninferior to him regarding fighting abilities.\n\nJulius is a knight, meaning he should live by the Knights Code of Chivalry,\nbut his actions mentioned above are clearly violating it.\n\nThe duel had a lot of witnesses, so these events ruined the public view about\nhim while leaving a stain on his whole knighthood for a really long time.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThis is the first time Shouko change her hair style to ponytail. What's the\nreason ?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mu0eR.jpg)\n\n",
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"title": "Why did Shouko change her hair style?",
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"body": "\n\nI find the answer in Volume 4, chapter 24 ( **read from right to left** or\nlook at the page number )\n\n**Volume 4, chapter 24, page 6,7,8**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/L4Od4.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/usDWB.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/i8f0Y.jpg)\n\nIshida realized that what Kawaii do to her appearance is clearly the same with\nShouko at **chapter 23**. It's pretty obvious that Kawaii like Mashiba.\n\nSo The reason why Kawaii change her appearance is because **she want to look\nattractive in front of Mashiba**. It's same with Shouko case.\n\nIt's just my speculation but from the interpreter of the story at chapter 23\nsaid that **Shouko want to look attractive** ( she want to looks different )\nin front of Ishida, and after that he confession to Ishida but it didn't go so\nwell. But Ishida still didn't know what shouko feel toward him.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI don't understand what they are saying. Could someone translate this?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yRVQF.jpg)\n\n",
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"creation_date": "2017-09-21T06:47:27.027",
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"tags": [
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"title": "What did Shouko say to Ishida in the coming of age ceremony that made Ueno jealous?",
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"body": "\n\nFour fingers raised, thumb pulled in is \"ke\", while full fist means \"sa\".\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HiE8Z.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/D7BAn.png)\n\nTogether they are \"kesa\", which means \"this morning\".\n\nShouko is referring to the hardships they had that morning with putting on\ntheir kimono, doing their hair, etc. We know Ishida knows about it because\nShouko's mother has shown him a picture about the girls getting ready,\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/92HAh.png)\n\nso he reacts with \"beautiful\".\n\nExplanation for the sign he makes : [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xJWie.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs it's already been stated in a [similar\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/42275/why-did-shouko-use-\nhearing-aids-even-though-shes-deaf), Shouko's not completely deaf, but it's\nstill very severe as she wasn't able to understand people clearly. It seems to\nbe very blurry as shown in chapter 51 of the manga.\n\nBut e.g. the scene on the Ferris wheel in which Naoka talks to Shouko, it\nseems that Shouko is able to understand what Naoka's talking (I'm not sure\nthough, as she only answered \"I'm sorry\" which Shouko says a lot). Naoka\ndeliberately talked very slowly. So, is it safe to assume that Shouko is and\nhas always been able to understand people when they're talking slow enough?\n\nIf it wasn't the case when she was still a child, has her sense of hearing\nbeen improved until now to the point in which Shouko's able to understand\npeople clearly when they talk slow enough? If I'm not mistaken, depending on\nthe type of deafness, it is possible to stimulate the regeneration of the\nhearing ability through medicaments, clinical interventions or sometimes even\nwithout any interventions.\n\nAnd why is she only wearing one hearing aid? Is it a repercussion of the time\nwhere Shouya damaged her ear? If yes, how badly injured is that ear?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**1.Actually how deaf is Shouko ?**\n\nActually, it's already been stated in this\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/42275/why-did-shouko-use-\nhearing-aids-even-though-shes-deaf). Well, just some part of it that answered\nyour question. But from your state on the question above comes out a new topic\nto discuss. But there's another topic to discuss deriving from your question.\n\n> If it wasn't the case when she was still a child, has her sense of hearing\n> been improved until now to the point in which Shouko's able to understand\n> people clearly when they talk slow enough? **If I'm not mistaken, depending\n> on the type of deafness, it is possible to stimulate the regeneration of the\n> hearing ability through medicaments, clinical interventions or sometimes\n> even without any interventions.**\n\nWell, this is kind of true, but in chapter 32.5 there was a scene in which\nShouko practiced a lot to improve her sign-language with her grandmother. She\nis doing this because of Yuzuru. Here are the pages in which Yuzuru confronts\nShouko with her voice. (Read from right to left)\n\n**Page 1-2** [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vS0CR.jpg)\n\n> Shouko : Uyuu!(Yuzuru!)... Ah oohh(???)\n>\n> Yuzuru : I don't think you should speak in front of other people.\n\nWhat Yuzuru told her has (somehow) motivated Shouko to improve her\npronunciation and sign language so it will make her sound not so bad for other\npeople. You can see her practicing a lot with her grandmother. While Shouko\nwas learning the sign language with her grandmother, we can see that they\nfaced each other. I think the reason behind it is that Shouko wants to learn\nto understand people talking normally and how they pronounce certain words by\nreading their lips. The result of those practices can be seen on page 3.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NK2UV.jpg)\n\nHere, i.e. after the time skip, she's almost able to say \"Yuzuru\". Her\npronunciation has improved a lot. You can mostly understand what she's saying,\nbut it's neither grammatically correct nor phonetically correct.\n\nAnd on page 6 you can see her practicing JSL with Yuzuru just like her\ngrandmother did.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FuJyj.jpg)\n\nTo answer your question\n\n> So, is it safe to assume that Shouko is and has always been able to\n> understand people when they're talking slow enough?\n\nIn the Ferris Wheel scene (chapter 27-28), Ueno said that she will speak\nslowly, AND she said that _she will make sure that Shouko will understand what\nshe's going to say_.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/G8Rc6.jpg)\n\nThe question is, did Shouko really understood what Ueno said?\n\nIn chapter 28 Shouko writes a letter for Ueno. This scene happened just after\nthe Ferris Wheel scene. If Shouko didn't understand what Ueno said in the\nFerris Wheel, she wouldn't have been working that hard to write the letter.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4SiWim.jpg)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OQ9tzm.jpg)\n\nYou can see the content of her letter on chapter 44, page 11-12. The content\nof that letter really fits with Shouko's conversation with Ueno back then, so\nit is likely her response to that conversation.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u6hl3m.jpg)\n\nBased on this, it is correct to say that Shouko did understand what Ueno said\nin the Ferris Wheel.\n\n**2\\. Is it revealed why she is only wearing 1 hearing aid?**\n\nIt's not revealed officially, _yet_. I don't know if it has been revealed, but\na user said on the [MAL forum which discusses a similar\ntopic](https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1556088):\n\n> I'm surprised that no one knows the answer, considering how obvious it felt.\n> Near the middle of the movie, there was a scene with Shouko and her\n> grandmother talking with a doctor. After that scene, we see Shouko crying\n> with one hearing aid taken off. This basically means that Shouko lost\n> hearing capabilities completely in one ear. That's why she doesn't use a\n> hearing aid on that ear anymore.\n\nI haven't watched the anime so I can't prove if this is true or not, yet in\nmanga versions, they never mention anything concerning why Shouko only uses\none hearing aid. And I think it's a bit different between the manga and the\nanime version since there was no scene in the manga in which Shouko and her\ngrandmother were talking with a doctor.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs for why Shoko starts using one hearing aid in the middle of the movie, I\nthink it's because she lost all of her hearing in that ear. After the scene\nwhere she's with her grandma at the doctors, we see her crying in her bed and\nshe's tapping on the one ear. She's trying to see if she can hear anything in\nthat ear - but she can't. Remember, a lot of deaf/hard of hearing people can\ngradually lose their hearing until it's gone.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nRegarding the extra scene in the movie, there is actually part of an author\ninterview indicating that was part of the plan for the manga story, but was\ncut. It does also offer a little insight on how bad Shoko's deafness is. It is\non page 738 in the collector's edition:\n\n> **Oima:** At this point, when she couldn't see Shoya for two weeks [...]\n> There was a part I didn't include in the story because it could only be told\n> from Shoko's perspective, but actually, at this point, Shoko has just\n> learned that her hearing in her right ear has gotten even worse, and she's\n> feeling down. Her ability to hear Shoya's voice will be even more limited\n> than it is now.\n\nShoko is shown to react to loud sounds in the story. In the one-shots, she\nasks the teacher and others to speak louder, and to face the class (rather\nthan the blackboard) when teaching. Though she often interrupts because she\ndoesn't understand, and asks other students with her notebook. She even seems\nto hear the teacher call her a nuisance when he mutters it (it could be she\nread his lips). It seems she has a little bit of hearing in all versions, but\nit seems the degree of her deafness might be different.\n\nI don't have enough expertise to evaluate how deaf she is, but I sought to\nprovide a little extra information.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThere are clips in EoE that look like this. I wonder where these clips come\nfrom. What are they watching/listening to?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uuEoX.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe theater is a shot from one of the screenings of Death and Rebirth. I\nvaguely recall someone somewhere identifying which theater it was, but I can't\nfind the post. This was part of an entire sequence of live-action shots near\nthe end of the instrumentality portion of \"End of Evangelion\", the panning\nshot of the inside of the theater is both kind of a [4th\nwall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall) as well as fitting in with\nthe motif of the theater within instrumentality. Recall also from the last two\nepisodes of the TV Series where instrumentality is heavily depicted as part of\na theatrical set, like on a stage. Likewise, in EoE, we have a few shots,\nincluding a sequence in a sandbox, where there are those folding chairs seen\nfrom the end of the TV series.\n\nAnother related note is that the [\"Death Threats\"\nsequence](https://wiki.evageeks.org/End_of_Evangelion_Death_Threats) during a\nsimilar live-action portion of instrumentality has some of the letters mention\nseeing Death and Rebirth at the theater.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nPartial answer: the footage was shot at [Shinjuku\nMilanoza](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E5%AE%BFTOKYU_MILANO), a\ncinema hall. In [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kflw4TfGSnQ), you\ncan hear the establishment's proprietor speaking prior to a screening of _End\nof Evangelion_ (one of the last screenings at the hall before it closed in\n2014) and mentioning this. This detail is apparently well-known among Japanese\n_Evangelion_ fans. [According to\nANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=419), the hall\nwas credited as a collaborator on _End of Evangelion_.\n\nI was unable to find information on what, specifically, the audience was\nwatching when this footage was taken, but it's presumably some movie that was\nin Japanese theaters in 1996 or 1997.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the hardest things to wrap my head around in the Nasuverse has been\nwhat events belong to what timeline, this is just one example of that.\n\nIt seems like F/SF isn't contradicted by anything that happened in the F/SN\ntimeline (that is if you consider the unusual 'rules' of the Fake Grail War to\nbe permissible in the same universe as the normal Fuyuki GW).\n\nSo, is it more or less the same timeline? If not, does it belong to any other\ntimelines(like the KnK one for example)?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nFrom the afterword of the first volume:\n\n> I suspect many _Fate_ fans are wondering, \"This is set after the original\n> Fate, but which route's future is it?\" I hate to say this, but, \"It's a\n> fake, so it follows a mystery route.\" I'll leave the rest to your\n> imaginations. In the extra chapter, the two \"Observers\" leaf through a lot\n> of pages. You can assume that the \"world's route\" changes with each of those\n> pages.\n\nFSF is set in a parallel world, some years* after the Fifth Holy Grail War, as\nconstant references are made to it: Shirou is obliquely mentionned as a\ncreator of relics, Francesca Prelati took the mud of the corrupted Grail for\nher own purposes, etc.\n\n*By my own estimation, maybe **2008**. It was the year the April Fool's one-shot version of FSF came out in, but Flat Escardos's age is also an hint: in FSF and in El-Melloi Case Files, he is respectively 19 and 15, and El-Melloi Case Files take place during the year of the Fifth Holy Grail War, meaning 2004.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI wonder if there is any explanation in the anime or manga about the origin of\nthe Black Phoenix Army and Black Saints clothes, since they are not\nconstellations (as far as I know).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nThe origin of the Black Saints (暗黒聖闘士) was revealed in the data book Saint\nSeiya Cosmo Special published in 1988 (and re-edited in 2001), but it's\ncanonicity is debatable. While it was aproved by Kurumada himself at some\npoint, it wasn't directly written by him, and was published during the middle\nof the Poseidon arc weekly release, so there's plenty of later retconning that\nhas some contradictions to what's shown on this data book. I don't think\nthere's a full translation of said databook, but there's quite a few summaries\naround the internet, the one I'll be taking most info from is [this\none](http://snk-seiya.net/guiasaintseiya/Hipermito.html), while the\nintroduction is only in Spanish, the actual content of the summaries are\nmostly both in Spanish and English, though there are some pieces that are\nexclusively on Spanish.\n\nAround the time the Gigantomachia took place, the Continent of Mu (where the\nSaints Cloths were made) sank to the depths of the Pacific Ocean, with it, the\nknowledge of the crafting techniques along with the lives of the alchemists\nthat created the Cloths were lost. But circa 1500 AD, an island was discovered\nby alchemists rebel to the Sanctuary that was apparently what remained of the\nContinent of Mu and was called Death Queen Island, there they started working\non creating new Cloths, but since the knowledge was lost by the ages they\ncould only craft imitations of existing ones, the most copied one being the\nPhoenix Cloth, the only real Sacred Cloth that still remained on that island\nand the strongest Bronze Cloth ever made. While their power could not compare\nto the originals, they were still powerful enough to be a worrying issue to\nthe Sanctuary, especially since the warriors that claimed them were not\nSaints, but the warriors who were denied Saint status for they only gained a\nsuperficial understanding of the Cosmo and rebelled against the Sanctuary. As\nsuch, the island was sealed by the Sanctuary, and a keeper sent to guard the\nisland and supress the Black Saints. By the time of the original Saint Seiya\nseries, this keeper was Guilty, Ikki's master and Esmeralda's foster father.\nWhen Ikki killed him and broke his mask, the seal was broken and the Black\nSaints released\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nSo this boy in my class said to me, \"notice me senpai\". What does it mean? I\nthink they like me, so does that have anything to do with it?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nHe wants you to notice him because he has a great admiration for you ^^\n\nSenpai is an honorific used for experienced or older colleagues in a\norganization, like clubs, businesses or even schools.\n\nAll of this maybe means that this person considers you as a more important\nperson and hopes to get attention from you.\n\n<http://www.dictionary.com/meaning/notice-me-senpai>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nWhy would Bomber be hanging out with two weaklings? Neither of them even had\nnen power that they used.\n\nAlso, why didn't Kilua fight Bomber? It seems like his abilities would've been\nbetter to use against Bomber since he was using ranged attacks but had a good\nway of defending himself.\n\nI can see why Biske didn't want to fight him but honestly, Gon seems like the\nweaker of him and Kilua so wouldn't it make more sense for him to fight\nBomber?\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAbout the \"weaklings\": Considering how Genthru (the Bomber) wanted to heal his\nfriends first means they're friends and not just allies. So it doesn't matter\nif they're weak, he wants them by his side because he trusts them.\n\nGon as of from the start wants the hardest challenge (Hisoka, Pitou), so it\nmakes sense that he takes the leader. Also Genthru is at least high level\nwhich means even if Gon and Killua take him head on, he would still win. The\nreason Gon is the right choice is because of the plan. They need a powerful\nattack (Janken), enough to go through Genthru's defense. And Killua doesn't\nhave that kind of power.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nI'd like to purchase the original Japanese manga in digital form but prefer in\nPDF format as I don't want to be tied down to using a particular website or\neven losing my purchased manga (I remember buying a digital manga a couple\nyears ago but when I logged into my account recently it was no longer there.)\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nAs far as I know, there are _no_ raw, digital manga being sold in PDF format.\nYou can convert them, however, using applications found in the Internet. Here\nare some sites I found that sell raw, digital manga (and there are more\nmentioned in the forum links I posted below):\n\n 1. <https://booklive.jp>\n 2. <https://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/>\n 3. <https://www.cmoa.jp>\n 4. <https://books.rakuten.co.jp/e-book/>\n 5. <https://sokuyomi.jp>\n 6. <https://bookwalker.jp>\n 7. <https://honto.jp>\n 8. <https://www.amazon.co.jp>\n\nWhere I found those sites above:\n\n 1. <https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/3ekjyj/sites_to_buy_raw_manga_from/>\n 2. <https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/212get/is_there_a_way_to_buy_legal_digital_copies_of/>\n 3. <https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/7hg7i6/best_legal_japanese_ebook_sites_for_raw_manga/>\n\n",
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"body": "\n\n**Japanese DLsite** provides few Japanese manga in DRM-free PDF formats. The\nfiles can be downloaded and opened freely without any additional restriction.\n\nThe following search is for [\"Safe-For-Work\" (as per their definition)\nmanga](https://www.dlsite.com/home/fsr/=/language/jp/ana_flg/off/age_category%5B0%5D/general/work_category%5B0%5D/books/genre_and_or/or/options_and_or/or/exclude_protect/1/file_type%5B0%5D/PDF/file_type_name%5B0%5D/PDF/per_page/30/show_type/3/without_order/1/page/1/order/price_d);\nthis excludes doujinshi and R-18 works but includes tankobon (単行本),\nmagazine/anthology (雑誌/アンソロ), short story (短編), per-chapter (単話), and free-\nreading trial/demo (無料お試し版).\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nTo my sadness, I enjoyed the anime and the OVA very much but I cannot seem to\nfind where the anime left off in terms of the light novel.\n\nCould someone tell me what it left off on?\n\n",
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"creation_date": "2017-09-25T05:00:06.480",
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"title": "What chapter of the light novel does the anime Mondaiji-tachi end on?",
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"body": "\n\nThe animation covers vol. 1 and 2 so you can safely start from Vol. 3 onwards.\nThough it would be in your best interests to start from the beginning since as\nany adaptation, there's a lot more world-building in the novels and it can\nhelp explain some of the stuff that was a bit dodgy in the anime adaptation.\nBut all in all, it was quite a decent adaptation with very little pacing\nissues in my opinion so you can safely start from Vol. 3, I started reading\nfrom there back then but it was more of a compromise since they didn't\ntranslate the first 2 volumes until later on.\n\n",
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"body": "\n\nDid Oda say when he will finish his work One Piece? Why has it been going on\nfor so long?\n\n",
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"creation_date": "2017-09-25T16:49:18.880",
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"title": "When will Oda finish One Piece?",
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"body": "\n\nMost of the time the ending date of a serialized manga can't really be known\nuntil the last few chapters, alternatively the start of the last Arc of the\nseries.\n\nAs long as Oda enjoys drawing it and it keeps being a cash cow for both him\nand Shueisha it'll likely keep going, but [last year Oda\nsaid](http://comicbook.com/2016/12/31/one-piece-creator-hints-when-manga-will-\nend/) that as of now the story is about 65% done. Doing the math it should be\ngoing for about 5 more years. But of course this is just a very rough\nestimate, it will depend on the length of the future arcs, while there's also\nthe possibility that Oda will decide (or will be forced) to add filler arcs.\n\n As for why it's been going for so long, there are two reasons:\n\n 1. Oda enjoys doing it (and didn't die yet)\n 2. It's a cash cow for Shueisha (so it hasn't been cancelled)\n\nOn a side note, One Piece isn't even that long, there are ongoing series with\n[over a hundred volumes out there](https://honeysanime.com/top-10-longest-\nrunning-manga-best-recommendations/). The longest running Shounen Jump series,\n[Kochikame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochira_Katsushika-\nku_Kameari_K%C5%8Den-mae_Hashutsujo) finished last year, it was running for a\nsolid 40 years and has 1960 chapters in 200 volumes.\n\n",
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