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[ { "body": "\n\nThe bell is called the [Ox-Bell](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ox_Bell).\n\nWhat does the ringing of the bell signify?\n\n> The ringing of the bell signifies the end of one year and the beginning of\n> another. It is rung eight times to give thanks for the old year, and another\n> eight times to welcome the new year. If it is rung twice, it signifies some\n> sort of disaster or distress.\n\n**How others interpreted 16 rings:**\n\n> Lieutenant Commander Brandnew of the Marines analyzed it as a declaration of\n> war, and Killer of the Kid Pirates interpreted the meaning of it as the end\n> of one era and the beginning of another.\n\n\n\n**The real reason behind it:**\n\n> Luffy's ringing of the bell was only a distraction, along with his other\n> actions, so nobody in the world outside of the Straw Hat Pirates would\n> notice the real message; in the picture of Luffy after ringing the Ox Bell,\n> a mark is seen on his arm that reads 3D2Y with the 3D crossed out,\n> representing the amount of time the crew would be separated.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T13:43:56.360", "id": "8728", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-24T23:25:43.587", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-24T23:25:43.587", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "8727", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\n16 bells, rung on a ships bell by the youngest crew member at midnight on the\n31st December, ring out the old, ring in the new, as 8 bells signify the end\nof a watch and the beginning of another one, so it is with the years end/\nbeginning.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-12-28T21:21:28.857", "id": "56273", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-28T21:21:28.857", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51346", "parent_id": "8727", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJinbe is a **whale shark fishman**.\n\n> Jinbe is a **large blue whale shark fishman** with a stocky build similar to\n> a sumo wrestler and a face that is commonly associated with various Japanese\n> demons such as the\n> [**oni**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni_%28folklore%29)\n\nFocus on oni because it's related to his two white fangs.\n\n> He also possesses **two tusk-like conical lower fangs** associated with Oni\n> as well; the rest of his teeth from the upper and lower rows are pretty much\n> the same, albeit much smaller. He also has a severe underbite, which makes\n> room for his huge fangs.\n\n\n\nSource for above quotes: [Jinbe - The One Piece\nWiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Jinbe#Appearance) (emphasis added)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T14:28:50.717", "id": "8730", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-24T23:21:29.120", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-24T23:21:29.120", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "8729", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHaving progressed a lot further in my rewatch of Serial Experiments Lain, it\nseems that the \"correct\" answer is along the lines of the comment by\nuser1306322. At the beginning of most episodes (with the exception of 10, 11,\nand 13), someone says a few short lines, such as the one above, or such as:\n\n> * You've heard of a girl named Lain, right? Lain of the Wired. (Episode 3)\n>\n> * I don't need parents. Humans are all alone. They are not connected to\n> anyone else at all. (Episode 4)\n>\n> * If you want to be free of suffering, you should believe in God. Whether\n> or not you believe in Him, God is always by your side. (Episode 9)\n>\n>\n\nAn exception is in episode 12, where there seems to be an exchange instead\nbetween what seems to be Lain and possibly either her mother or the doll\nfigure she was addressing a couple episodes earlier.\n\nGiven this and the fact that the question at the opening of the first episode\nis somewhat similar to those \"opening lines\" in later episodes, it seems most\nreasonable to conclude that the question in the beginning of the first episode\nis meant to set the atmosphere, and that the addressee of the question is, as\npointed out by the comment, anyone who hears it (the viewer, people in the\nWired, Lain, etc.).\n\nI still can't quite identify the speaker of the question in the beginning of\nthe first episode, but it seems worth noting that the speaker of the \"opening\nlines\" seems to vary by episode. (I'm not completely sure about this since\nthis could well be the same voice actress/character speaking the lines, but\nwith a different inflection).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-20T04:03:04.360", "id": "8780", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-20T04:15:59.853", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-20T04:15:59.853", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "8737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOn Aria's Fairy Tail Wikipedia page it states that \"he is considered the\nstrongest member of the group\".\n\nThis by no means concrete evidence that he is indeed the strongest, but he did\nmanage to sneak upon Makarov and disable him for a short time. So as for\nofficial order there really is none, they were all S-Class mages so in terms\nof strength they were at least on the same playing field. So an example\n\"ranking\" could be:\n\n 1. Aria \n 2. Juvia \n 3. Sol \n 4. Totomaru\n\nThis is by no means the correct way to rank them and it really depends on your\npersonal opinion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-17T14:54:24.920", "id": "23330", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-17T21:36:57.497", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-17T21:36:57.497", "last_editor_user_id": "11469", "owner_user_id": "15660", "parent_id": "8741", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's just usual dots like this \"....\". That's because originally, text in\nmanga (which is in Japanese) is written vertically, like this: \n \nUsually, I interpreted it as \"The character have [something to\nsay/opinion/thought/knowing some information] about the matters in hand, but\nchoose not to say it yet\". Well about why people that type it keep it\nvertical, that's their choice. And in the case with the screenshot you gave,\nIMHO typing it vertically looks better than typing it horizontally.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-18T11:09:22.183", "id": "8744", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-18T11:09:22.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "8743", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere seems to be a lot of wrong information in the question you posted.\n\n`In order for a ninja to become a Sage one must posses a Rinnegan`\n\nTo be a sage you need to master\n[Senjutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Senjutsu). Ninjas that have mastered\nsenjutsu are Naruto, Jiraya, Kabuto, Hashirama, Sasuke (With the help of\n[Jugo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%ABgo)).\n\nTo have powers similar to the Sage of the Six Paths, one would need to have\nthe [Rinnegan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan) and the Chakra of the\n[Tailed Beasts](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beasts).\n\nTo read more on how the Rinnegan can be activated you can read\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5281/how-did-the-sage-of-the-\nsix-paths-obtain-his-rinnegan).\n\n`combination of the Sharingan (from the Uchiha Clan) and the Baykugan (from\nthe Hyùka Clan)`\n\nIt has not been explicitly mentioned that Rinnegan was a combination of\nSharingan and the Byakugan. It was shown that the\n[mother](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kaguya_%C5%8Ctsutsuki) of the Sage of\nthe Six paths had the Byakugan, but that does not imply that the Rinnegan was\na combination of the Sharingan and the Byakugan. Infact, to activate the\nRinnegan, you don't need to have a byakugan.\n\n`marriage from these clan was forbidden because the child would poses extreme\npower`\n\nI don't remember reading anything that specifies that marriage among the\nuchiha and the hyugaa was forbidden. If you could maybe provide some\nreferences then I could elaborate on it.\n\n`Minato was an Uzumaki`\n\nNo, [Minato](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Minato_Namikaze) did not belong to\nthe Uzumaki clan. It was\n[Kushina](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kushina_Uzumaki) that belonged to the\n[Uzumaki Clan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzumaki_Clan). Other ninjas that\nhave been shown to belong to the Uzumaki clan are:\n\n> Karin, Nagato, Kushina Uzumaki, Mito Uzumaki, Naruto Uzumaki\n\n[The Third Shinobi War](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Shinobi_World_War)\nwas not fought among the Uchiha and the Uzumaki.\n\n> The Third Shinobi World War (第三次忍界大戦, Daisanji Ninkai Taisen) is the third\n> of the four shinobi wars that involved the majority of the shinobi villages.\n> It takes place more than ten years prior to the beginning of the series and\n> has been rarely shown in the series outside the Kakashi Gaiden. Because of a\n> decline in national power, the reign of the Five Great Countries was\n> crumbling. Along their borders, skirmishes with smaller nations broke out\n> all the time. The prolonged war gradually spread its fires far and wide,\n> until at last it developed into the Third Shinobi World War. This war turned\n> into an unprecedented war of attrition, tormenting all nations with a\n> shortage of war potential. Not even excluding a great power like Konoha,\n> very young children were thrown unto the battlefield, losing their short\n> lives.[1](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Senjutsu)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-18T13:39:30.443", "id": "8749", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-21T05:16:17.757", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "8748", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is definitvely more than 5 countries. You can find all the countries on\nthis site:\n\n**([from\nWaybackmachine](http://web.archive.org/web/20130710000331/http://narutoraikiri.webs.com/narutocountries.htm))**\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-18T15:24:44.133", "id": "8751", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-21T14:08:01.110", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-21T14:08:01.110", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "4543", "parent_id": "8750", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst there are the 5 villages:\n\n * Leaf\n * Sand\n * Stone\n * Mist\n * Cloud\n\nThen the hidden villages:\n\n * Waterfall (Kakuzu)\n * Steam (Hidan)\n * Rain (Pain and Konan)\n\nDon't forget hidden Sound and Grass. Then the Uzumaki village and hidden Frost\nvillage.\n\nAlso in the Naruto manga (I forgot what book but the one with Edo Haku and and\nEdo Sasori), it says that the main hidden villages asked hidden Frost and\nSteam to move to a safer place, so it was somewhat involving them. Then when\nSasuke revived Orochimaru they went to the battle field with Karin Jugo and\nSuigetsu (and the past hokages), this doesn't count as hidden Sound.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-21T13:23:05.793", "id": "14087", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-21T16:52:23.753", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-21T16:52:23.753", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "6439", "parent_id": "8750", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are for sure more than the big five nations. I never watched a single\nepisode of Naruto, but I will try to provide an answer here. You only ask for\nthe nations, but I will add a list of the villages too.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VPF6k.jpg)\n\nThis [map is made by\nxShadowRebirthx](http://www.deviantart.com/#/art/Elemental-Nations-\nGeographical-Map-317422439?hf=1). **This is not a official map and also some\nplaces could be differ from the original!** Click on the image to enlarge the\nmap.\n\nThe countries in Naruto operate as separate political entities and are\npresumably all monarchies, ruled by feudal lords who stand equally in rank\nwith the hidden villages' leaders.\n\n## The great five countries\n\nFive of the countries are considered to be the most powerful and influential\nof them all.\n\n * Land of Earth\n\n\n\n> The country is mostly comprised of desolate, rocky areas. The border of the\n> Land of Earth runs along a rocky mountain range, blocking communication with\n> other countries. The wind blowing from the north passes over these\n> mountains, carrying small rocks from the Land of Earth to the surrounding\n> countries.\n\n * Land of Fire\n\n\n\n> The Land of Fire is appropriately oriented towards the element of fire,\n> typically having very bright and warm weather. While not the physically\n> largest country, it has the largest hidden village.\n\n * Land of Lightning\n\n\n\n> In the centre of the country are vast mountain ranges, whose many\n> thunderstorms are said to give the country its name. From these mountain\n> ranges, many rivers flow to the sea, creating a very crooked coastline that\n> displays an impressive oceanic beauty. There are many hot springs located\n> within the country.\n\n * Land of Water\n\n\n\n> The country's weather is typically cool and the islands are usually covered\n> by mist. The islands themselves also feature many lakes. The nation is\n> oriented towards the element of water.\n\n * Land of Wind\n\n\n\n> The country covers a vast realm, but that realm is largely composed of\n> deserts. Because there is very little rainfall throughout the year, the\n> people of the country live in villages built on one of the desert's many\n> oases. Despite the country's extremely harsh environment, it has a large\n> population.\n\nSo there are all countries listed, here are four more of the bigger ones\n\n * Land of Iron\n * Land of Snow\n * Land of Sound\n * Land of Sky\n\n## Minor countries\n\n\n\nI also found some other wich I could not assign to a catagory. These are the\n_Land of Grass_ , _Land of Rain_ , _Land of Read Beans_ , _Land of Rice\nFields_ , _Land of the Waterfall_ , _Land of Udon_ and _Land of Waves_.\n\n## Shinobi Villages/Hidden Villages\n\nShinobi villages, or also called hidden villages, are ninja villages that\nserve as the military force for their country.\n\n\n\nIn summary, there are the 5 big nations, the 4 smaller one which make 9\nnations. There are 28 minor countries (or 7 more if you count the not\ncategorized countries) and 31 hidden villages.\n\nMost of the information are from the\n[Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Geography). Other information from\nthe frozen site\n[narutoarikiri](http://narutoraikiri.webs.com/narutocountries.htm). A cached\nversion is available\n[here](http://web.archive.org/web/20130710000331/http://narutoraikiri.webs.com/narutocountries.htm).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-21T15:03:06.403", "id": "14089", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-22T15:22:36.503", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-22T15:22:36.503", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "8750", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're probably talking about [Tarot\ncards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot).\n\nTarot cards are occult magic cards used for telling fortunes and predicting\nsomeone's future and upcoming events in life. Mystics and magicians use them\nas part of their image. It's not exclusive to anime, you can see them in real\nlife, western cartoons, movies and tv series. They're kind of like Magic\norbs/crystals and Ouija boards.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-18T21:17:16.130", "id": "8757", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-18T21:17:16.130", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "8755", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[**MangaUpdates**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=406):\n\n> **Starts at** Volume 1, Chapter 1 (Season 1)\n>\n> **Ends at** Volume 6, Chapter 118 (Season 3)\n\nThese is a season 4 on top of that, but I couldn't find what it adapts.\n\nApparently the [**second season deviates from the\nmanga**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami-ke#Anime) or more accurately,\nincludes non-manga episodes/content.\n\nAn excerpt from the link above:\n\n> It is also different in storytelling as it uses material not from the manga\n\nAs of [**August 2014**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami-ke#Manga), 12\ntankōbon volumes of the series have been released, which as you say is still\nongoing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-27T10:09:23.840", "id": "19715", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-27T10:09:23.840", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11206", "parent_id": "8758", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell let's see what I can do....\n\nThe story starts off with a fox demon attacking the fire village. The 4th\nhokage (which, in other words, is the leader of the village) sealed this demon\ninside of a newborn baby. When you watch the series you find out that the\nbaby's name was Naruto and the 4th hokage was Naruto's dad. Now through the\nseries you see that Naruto gets stronger with his teammates: Sasuke, Sakura,\nand Kakashi (the team leader). Later down the road Naruto and his team enter\nthe chuunin exams, which is a set of tests to go up to the next level.\n\nA lot of things happened though the chuunin exams. After that, a few episodes\nlater, Naruto fights Sasuke to try to get him to stay in the village, but\nNaruto lost that fight even though Naruto used the demon fox's chakra. After 3\nyears of training with the toad sage (Jiraiya), Naruto comes back to the\nvillage. Naruto goes on a mission to save Gaara (who also had a demon inside\nof him). Gaara did die but was brought back from the dead by the sand village\nelder Chiyo (the puppet master of 10 puppets), who died to bring Gaara back\nfrom the dead. Naruto gets a new teammate (Sai) and a new squad leader\n(Yamato).\n\nNow, way down the road, Sasuke kills his older brother (Itachi) for killing\nhis whole clan. Sasuke then comes to find out that his brother didn't do it of\nhis own free will. He was ordered to do it by the 4 elders of the hidden\nvillage of fire. Sasuke then goes on a hunt to get revenge for his brother and\nhis clan. Sasuke then kills Danzou (one of the 4 elders that ordered Itachi to\nkill his clan) but ends up finding out that he needs to destroy the village to\nget revenge.\n\nNaruto and Sasuke fight again after both Kakashi and Sakura run into and try\nto kill Sasuke. Later, Naruto unlocks the powers of the fox demon inside of\nhim and Sasuke gets his brother's eyes. So things happened during the time\nSasuke was trying to kill Danzou, which leads to the 4th great ninja war. Now\nI'm just going to skip a lot and I mean a lot now. Uchiha Madara (the real\none) is brought back from the dead and destroys the ninja alliance between the\n5 great nations. Now in the manga where it's at now, Naruto and Sasuke unlock\nnew powers that are close to the sage of the 6 paths (the first person to be\nborn with chakra). And now, both Naruto and Sasuke are fighting Madara to try\nto end this war.\n\nP.S. Sorry if it's not talking about everything that happened, but there was\nso much that happened that it's hard to explain so fast. In other news you\nshould try to catch up either by the books or by the shows, because the next\nchapters that are coming out for the manga are going to be epic.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-20T08:31:42.673", "id": "8782", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-20T12:05:42.220", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-20T12:05:42.220", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "4569", "parent_id": "8768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough I strongly advise against not watching/reading them, there are some\nshortcuts to take.\n\n 1. **You could read episode summaries.** \nAs one of your main options it gives a good insight on the story, though not\nspecifically into the terms used in the story. But those aren't too hard to\ncatch onto when watching the second season.\n\n 2. **Watch the Naruto abridged series.** \nShortens a ton of episodes to just a mere 5 minutes, but still covering a\nbunch of key points. But there is a lot of parody involved, causing it not to\nbe 100% accurate. It also does not cover the key terminology in the series.\n\n 3. **Watch the anime without the anime-only arcs.** \nJust go watch the season without watching all the anime-only arcs. Greatly\nreducing the episode count, as you can skip the following episodes, which\nreduces the original 220 episodes with roughly 80 episodes. On the provided\nsite they also have a list for the Shippuuden series, also reducing the non-\ncanon content in there.\n\n> * Episodes 102—106: Naruto and Team 7 go to the Land of Tea to help\n> Idate Morino win a race.\n> * Episodes 136—141: Naruto, Sakura, and Jiraiya, while investigating\n> Orochimaru's whereabouts, encounters the Fūma clan.\n> * Episodes 142—147: Naruto helps Iruka catch the escaped convict,\n> Mizuki.\n> * Episodes 148—151: Naruto and Team 8 look for the bikōchū beetle in the\n> hopes that it will lead them to Sasuke Uchiha.\n> * Episodes 152—157: Naruto and Team Guy deal with Raiga Kurosuki and his\n> Kurosuki family.\n> * Episodes 159—160: Naruto, Kiba, and Hinata help Sazanami clear his\n> name.\n> * Episodes 162—167: Naruto, Neji, and Tenten go to the Land of Birds to\n> deal with a mysterious ghost.\n> * Episodes 169—173: Anko Mitarashi takes Naruto, Ino, and Shino to the\n> Land of the Sea to find information on Orochimaru.\n> * Episodes 175—176: Naruto is again paired up with Kiba and Hinata in\n> order to improve their teamwork.\n> * Episodes 178—183: Naruto and Team Guy go to Hoshigakure to help the\n> villagers protect their sacred star.\n> * Episodes 187—191: Naruto, Hinata, and Chōji go to the Land of\n> Vegetables to protect some peddlers from the Criminal Brothers.\n> * Episodes 195—196: Guy is forced to deal with Yagura's apparent\n> attempts at revenge.\n> * Episodes 197—201: The Konoha 11 stop Gennō from destroying Konoha.\n> * Episodes 203—207: Kurenai temporarily leaves Team 8 to take care of\n> some old business with Yakumo Kurama.\n> * Episodes 209—212: Naruto, Lee, and Sakura help transfer a member of\n> the Shinobazu to prison.\n> * Episodes 213—215: Naruto helps Menma regain his memory.\n> * Episodes 216—220: The Konoha 11 go to Sunagakure to help rescue\n> Matsuri from the Four Celestial Symbols Men.\n>\n> Source: [Naruto Wiki: Naruto\n> Plot](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Plot_of_Naruto)\n\n 4. **Read full episode summaries as written by fans.** \nAlthough this most definitely will take longer then just taking your time and\nread the manga. you could give [Full Naruto Episode\nSummaries](http://naruto.neoseeker.com/wiki/Naruto%3a_Episode_Summaries) a\nshot. They describe the episode in details, and also include the key\ninformation of the episodes.\n\nI personally think that it would be the best shortcut to just read the manga\nif you want to have a proper start in the series. The original Naruto is\ncovered in a mere 238 chapters, after all, which for me only took about a week\nand a half to read, while the episodes took me roughly a year to watch\nthrough. Or, you could just go ahead and take the risk and jump in mid-series,\njust Google or take for granted the terms you do not know yet, and try to get\ninto the story that way. Either way, its all up to you.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-20T19:34:27.993", "id": "8788", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-20T21:07:29.090", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-20T21:07:29.090", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a good story and worth reading. I don't understand why you want to be\ninvolved, but are too lazy to read the story. Being too lazy or uninterested\nto pay attention to a story is absolutely fine, there are far too many\nbooks/manga/tv shows for any one person to read even a tiny fraction of them.\n\nBut Naruto is not factual, you won't learn anything by finding out what's\ngoing on in the current arc. It isn't based on current events, so the older\nepisodes aren't dated or irrelevant. I just don't know why you're in such a\nhurry, there are more than 300 episodes out but they aren't going anywhere.\nYou can watch a few, then leave them for a few months and watch some more,\nthere isn't any pressure.\n\nYou see the knowledge you get by watching Naruto as a goal, rather than a side\neffect of enjoying the story. The only possible reason I can think for this is\nthat you want to discuss Naruto with your friends, or you're just insane and\nthink it might be true. But either way, there just isn't a way to get all the\nknowledge without watching the show, your friends have each spent hundreds of\nhours getting to know Naruto and the story, you can't spend a few hours\nreading and get all the knowledge they have. And even if you could read\ndescriptions of all the events, you wouldn't remember any of it, without\ncontext it's just a bunch of weird Japanese names fighting each other at\nrandom.\n\nI realise I haven't answered your question at all, but I hope you read this\nand reconsider, there's nothing wrong with not caring/knowing about Naruto,\nand there's nothing wrong with watching a bit of Naruto every now and then,\nbut all you're gonna guarantee is that if you do enjoy the story you'll\ncompletely ruin it for yourself with all these half remembered facts you\naccumulate, and if you don't like it you've just wasted your time trying to\nunderstand it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T23:10:45.183", "id": "8872", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T23:10:45.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "8768", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst off what is your purpose? I mean, do you just want to jump in to\nShippuuden where its at now and just see Naruto at his full power? Ill tell\nyou this, since you haven't watched any Naruto. It won't be something boring\nor a hassle. You won't have any idea how Naruto will progress. In other words,\nit would be worth watching it from scratch. Since you get to know all the\ncharacters way better if you watch everything. You get a much better\nunderstanding of the Naruto Universe as a whole. There is only benefits to\nstart from the beginning. Look at it like this, Naruto was made to be watched\nfrom episode one, or be read from Manga Volume one. So you will find out new\nthings about the Naruto Universe through each episodes that passes and you\nwon't get bored. Sure it will take you a while to watch it all, but you won't\nthink of it that way when you are watching it, its hard to explain. But I\nrecommend you to start from the beginning. This is how I got caught up in\nNaruto. A friend in School was talking day in and day out about Naruto and I\nwasn't sure what it real was. I didn't even know it involved Ninjas. So I just\nthought to myself \"why don't I just watch like 10 episodes, just so I\nunderstand what this guy is talking about\". it took me about 3 days to watch\n50 episodes. I got caught up so quickly, and it didn't even bother me that I\nstill had over 600 episodes left (including Shippuuden). I was just happy that\nI had that much left of the show. Cause I liked it so much. And I started\nloving the Anime when they went on their first mission, thats when I really\nbegan to love it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-17T18:21:48.667", "id": "25939", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-17T18:46:07.360", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-17T18:46:07.360", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "17980", "parent_id": "8768", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is very strong character development in this series. The plot is\nextremely involved. I'm not sure that any summary could do the show justice.\nFor example, watching 300+ episodes of sasuke trying to avenge his clan only\nto find out that he has a massive misconception about the entire thing is not\nnearly as impactful as it would be if you watched the anime or read the manga.\nYou grow to hate the murderer of his clan as much as he does, and feel almost\nthe same emotions he does when he realizes there is more behind their\nslaughter than previously imagined. Watching Naruto meet his parents would not\naffect you in the slightest if you didn't experience the pain he went through\nas a child in their absence. Watching Naruto repeatedly recieve the approval\nof his peers wouldn't affect you in any way if you hadn't seen him struggle to\ndo it. You should set aside the time. It's very good. Don't watch the filler\nthough... I repeat: DO NOT WATCH THE FILLER. Animefillerlist.com... I'm very\nserious haha. You'll get the feels by probably 20 episodes in and if you\ndon't, you're probably made of cardboard.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-15T08:47:34.573", "id": "38953", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-15T08:47:34.573", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30951", "parent_id": "8768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAt first, I flagged this as opinion based. However I remembered seeing [an\ninterview with the producer, director and\nwriter](http://www.practicemakesawesome.com/serial-experiments-lain-anime-\nanimerica-september-1999/) a long time ago and was able to find it.\n\nThere are a few pages of interview on that site, but I have quoted the most\nrelevant material here.\n\n> [Writer] Konaka: There's not a particular message about technology.\n> Technology advances anyway. [...]\n\n> [Producer] Ueda: [...] This work itself is a sort of cultural war against\n> American culture and the American sense of values we adopted after WW II.\n> [...]\n\n> [Interviewer] Q: Does the series have a \"message\"? \n> Ueda: The message is, Things are simple.\n\nThis is probably the only English language interview. I definitely wouldn't\ntake what they say at face value.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T22:16:32.490", "id": "9176", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-23T13:21:18.007", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-23T13:21:18.007", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "2110", "parent_id": "8776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n**To promote the incoming anime.**\n\nApparently, [Animeism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animeism) (a late-night\nJapanese anime programming block on\n[MBS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainichi_Broadcasting_System)) -- and to\nthe extent of anime produced by MBS -- has a routine of cutting\nentirely/shortening next episode's previews by 15 seconds to promote incoming\nanime when it's nearing the end.\n\nIn this case, since _Kill la Kill_ 's next episode's previews were 15 seconds\nlong, they were entirely cut and replaced by PVs for _Riddle Story of the\nDevil_ since episode 19 out of 24 (refer to the [Wikipedia's\nlist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animeism#Titles) on block B2). Also, since\nthey had worked on next episode's previews, they would be wasted if they\nhadn't shown them somewhere (e.g. official site).\n\nAnother example is _Hozuki's Coolheadedness_ which had 30-seconds next\nepisode's previews. In that case, they're shortened to 15 seconds then\ncontinue with _Knights of Sidonia_ 's 15-seconds PV.\n\nLastly, even for non-Animeism anime, but produced by MBS like _Magi_ , it's\nalso affected. Their 15-seconds next episode's previews got entirely cut to\nshow 15-seconds PV for _Haikyu!!_\n\n* * *\n\n> [previews resumed in the later\n> episodes!](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/8785/why-suddenly-move-\n> next-episode-previews-to-online-from-tv#comment11885_8785)\n\nThis is just a theory since I don't have enough information to make a\nconclusion, but if it's not simulcasted or otherwise on streaming sites which\nhad more flexibility in time arrangement, then the next preview could be added\nmanually from the official site.\n\n* * *\n\nSource:\n\n * [matome blog (Japanese)](http://ponpokonwes.blog.jp/archives/3688279.html)\n * Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanese): [1](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q12121826837), [2](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q12121405837)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-04-05T16:17:03.363", "id": "46404", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-05T16:17:03.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "8785", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nSanji was Red Leg Zeff's disciple. Red Leg Zeff was famous, as his name\nsuggests, because of his red leg. He was known to kill all his enemies using\nhis leg, which used to be smeared with their blood.\n\nImitating his master, Sanji created his own set of skills. He created the\nDiable Jambe, in which he rapidly spins and focuses all his energy into his\nleg, heating it up and forming a red leg which is so hot that anything in\nmakes contact with, spontaneously combusts. After the time skip, he can use\nDiable Jambe without spinning to make his leg heat up.\n\nHow and when he created this technique has not been revealed and is less\nlikely to be revealed. So as @AbhilashK mentioned in comments, he just didn't\nmeet anyone who is strong enough (and/or made him angry enough) to use it till\nthe Enies Lobby arc.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-22T06:46:34.087", "id": "8831", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-28T07:53:00.713", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-28T07:53:00.713", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "8798", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it’s because when he was a child, he was enhanced to have elemental\npowers like his siblings but they lose most of their humanity. Unlike his\nsiblings, Sanji isn’t robotic and has true human emotions due to the pill his\nmother took. I guess Sanji only used Diable Jambe on Enies Lobby because I\nthink he just mastered his power at that time skip.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-12-20T11:26:58.150", "id": "56193", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-22T19:20:57.313", "last_edit_date": "2019-12-22T19:20:57.313", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "51241", "parent_id": "8798", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think this is maybe from Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou.\n\n> Yukino Miyazawa is a Japanese high school freshman who is the envy of\n> classmates for her good grades and immaculate appearance. However, her\n> \"perfect\" exterior is a façade, a charade she maintains to win praise. In\n> the privacy of her own home, she is spoiled, stubborn, a slob, and studies\n> relentlessly and obsessively to maintain her grades. On entering high\n> school, she is knocked from her position at the top of the class by Soichiro\n> Arima, a handsome young man whose very existence Yukino considers a threat\n> to the praise on which she thrives, and she vows to destroy him.\n\n \n\nSeems like this could be it.\n\nEdit: I am absolutely sure this is it as I found another image from the\nseries. The scene occurs during episode 11.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-22T05:41:03.253", "id": "8828", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-10T04:02:32.960", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-10T04:02:32.960", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "8802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n 1. The things he told Sasuke during their battle suggests that he thought that Tobi was Madara.\n 2. Either because eliminating the entire clan on his own was too tough a mission for him, or because he wanted to infiltrate the Akatsuki to gather information. Also, he had Tobi promise to not hurt the Hidden Leaf or Sasuke.\n 3. Because that would blow his cover. He was still protecting Sasuke and the Leaf and revealing his position would make him lose all the things he could have gotten due to #2.\n 4. Because, as Madara, Tobi too had a grudge against the Uchiha. Also, he could use someone like Itachi in Akatsuki.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-21T10:34:44.733", "id": "8807", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-21T10:34:44.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "8805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nTobi aka \"Obito\" was just doing his mission what Madara gave to him to do ,\nSince Obito didn't really cared about their village or his clan anymore\nbecause of Rin's death, He hates everybody for not helping Rin. He chose\nItachi to join the Akatsuki because he wanted to use him in case Nagato betray\nhim to revive Madara back to life. He was going to put the Senju cell inside\nof Itachi to create the Rinnegan so Madara can come back for exchange of\nItachi life, But Itachi was very too smart for that and that's also why Tobi\nhelp Sasuke for the same reason.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-25T04:11:22.627", "id": "18826", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-25T04:48:39.287", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-25T04:48:39.287", "last_editor_user_id": "6345", "owner_user_id": "11366", "parent_id": "8805", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThese questions were mostly answered, or subtly hinted at, in the episode,\n_Kakashi: Shadow of the Anbu Black Ops: Night of the Tragedy_. Madara's Ghost\nmostly answers accurately, though I have to contend with point 4, as some\nothers have.\n\n> Did he know Tobi's real identity?\n\nAs far as we can tell, Itachi seems to have thought Tobi was Madara, so no.\n\n> Why did he take his help to eliminate the clan (irrespective of whether his\n> identity was known or not)?\n\nIf I'm not mistaken, it was stated by Sasuke late on that skilled as Itachi\nwas, he couldn't possibly have wiped out their clan by himself. Thus, he\nneeded help. Additionally, Itachi needed to secure a place for himself in the\noutside world. After killing the Uchiha, he was put in the bingo book. Itachi\nwould have been aware this would happen, and thus it makes sense to team up\nwith Tobi now. Infiltrating the Akatsuki served a lot of purposes. Keeping\nhimself safe meant he was keeping Sasuke safe as well, as his threat to Danzo\nwouldn't hold a lot of credence if he was dead. I'll note that Itachi needing\na place _was_ hinted at in the episode mentioned, and I'm not just speculating\nwildly. I don't remember the conversation exactly, but Tobi offered him a\nplace in the Akatsuki and I think he says something to the effect that Itachi\nwill need a place to go afterwards.\n\n> Why did he help Tobi by not revealing that he was the village infiltrator?\n\nItachi needed Tobi's help to carry out his mission, so it doesn't make sense\nto sell out Tobi at this point. Additionally, he needs Tobi's help to keep\nhimself alive (see previous question).\n\n> Why did Tobi agree to help Itachi eliminate his own clan?\n\nIn the episode I mentioned, one of Danzo's subordinates notes that some Uchiha\nbodies are gone, as though they just disappeared. With Tobi's power allowing\nhim to suck things into his alternate dimension, this is obviously his work.\nThus, we can conclude that Tobi's objective was gathering Sharingan. We see\nhim with these collected Sharingan in jars, for instance, here:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zRL1k.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-09-27T16:18:39.747", "id": "65659", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-14T18:39:30.143", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-14T18:39:30.143", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "8805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere's an [eBay auction](http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Guyver-Bio-Booster-\nArmour-VHS-Tapes-\nSet-/390823327797?pt=UK_DVD_Film_TV_Videos&hash=item5afee2b835) that is\nselling the entire series on VHS with the items listed as \"Good\" condition.\nDescription:\n\n> Good: An item that has been used but is good condition. May have minor\n> damage to jewel case or item cover, including scuffs, cracks, or scratches.\n> The cover art and liner notes are included for a CD. VHS or DVD box is\n> included. Video game instructions are included. No skipping on the CD or\n> DVD, when played. No fuzzy or snowy frames on VHS tape, when played.\n\nIt's currently listed with a starting bid of £27.00.\n\nHere's [another eBay auction](http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-guyver-complete-\nset-anime-manga-cartoon-Japan-comic-\nvhs-/271461952600?pt=UK_DVD_Film_TV_Videos&hash=item3f3464ac58) selling the\nentire set that's listed as \"Like New\", with this description:\n\n> Like New: An item that looks like it has just been taken out of its shrink\n> wrap. No visible wear, and the item is flawless and intact.\n\nIt's currently listed with a starting bid of £25.00\n\nThere's a couple of other sellers selling an incomplete set for around $31 or\n£18.44 so it seems the going price is around the $40 to $45 USD range. Single\nVHS episodes seem to be asking for more than the entire collection (per VHS\ntape).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-21T14:00:57.763", "id": "8812", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-21T14:00:57.763", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "8811", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's the currency symbol for the [Yen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yen),\nthe Japanese currency.\n\nThe Wikipedia article you have linked to in your question has this to say:\n\n> Maris' obsession with money is demonstrated by her hair ornaments, in the\n> shape of the symbol for Yen (Japanese money).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-21T16:36:09.753", "id": "8814", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-21T16:36:09.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "8813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMaria is also known as Mary, or [the holy virgin\nMary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_%28mother_of_Jesus%29). She is one of\nthe key points in several streams of religion. The Maria in the series seems\nto be based on this.\n\n> According to the Bible, Mary (מרים; c. 18 BC – c. 41 AD), also known as\n> Saint Mary or Virgin Mary, was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee. She is\n> identified in the New Testament[Mt 1:16,18-25][Lk 1:26-56][2:1-7] as the\n> mother of Jesus through divine intervention. Mary (Maryam) also has a\n> revered position in Islam, where a whole chapter of the Qur'an is devoted to\n> her. Christians hold her son Jesus to be Christ (i.e., the messiah) and God\n> the Son Incarnate. By contrast, Muslims regard Jesus as one of the prophets\n> of God sent to humanity; not as God himself nor the Son of God.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-21T23:14:54.977", "id": "8820", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-22T10:03:25.903", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-22T10:03:25.903", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8819", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBasically, Bebe, Charlotte, and Nagisa Momoe are three different names for the\nsame entity. Nagisa Momoe was her name in life; Charlotte is her name as a\nwitch; and Bebe is what the characters call her in Rebellion because they\ndon't know that her witch-name is Charlotte.\n\nHere's the thing: the only reason we (the viewers) know the names of the\nwitches (e.g. Charlotte, Oktavia, Kriemhild Gretchen) is because their names\nshow up in the runes. As far as we know, though, the characters in the show\ndon't see the runes, and even if they do, they presumably can't read them. So\neven though _we_ know that the witch that kills Mami in episode 3 is named\nCharlotte, the characters _don't_.\n\nSo when Charlotte shows up in Rebellion, the characters need to call her\n_something_. In keeping with Mami's fondness for Italian, she seems to have\npicked the name \"Bebe\" (which, with some accents in the right place, means\n\"baby\"). Of course, they eventually find out that when she was a human, her\nname was Nagisa Momoe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-21T23:33:45.017", "id": "8823", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-21T23:33:45.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "8821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI assume it is on Earth, but on a deserted location (or a post-apocalyptic\nEarth). During the movie it is mentioned that Kyouko and Mami entered the\nIsolation Field by coincidence (so did Madoka's parents). They could only have\nentered this Field if it were located somewhere on Earth.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-29T14:25:24.473", "id": "9223", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-29T18:26:43.263", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-29T18:26:43.263", "last_editor_user_id": "4709", "owner_user_id": "4709", "parent_id": "8822", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMay I assume you meant in \"which chapter\"? Because if we said \"which manga\",\nwell, surely it's in the main manga, **Shingeki no Kyojin**. True that the\nseries now has many spin offs, but the anime is based on the main series, and\nas far as I remember, all of those spin offs came out after the hype caused by\nthe anime.\n\nAccording to [Shingeki no Kyojin Mangaupdates\nPage](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=47446): \n_Anime Start/End Chapter_ \nStarts at Vol 1, Chap 1 \nEnds at Vol 8, Chap 34 \nSo you can start at chapter 35...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-22T05:01:54.863", "id": "8826", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-22T05:01:54.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "8824", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nSo far from the light novels that have been published, nothing has been\nexplained nor been mentioned about that piece of translucent garment. The\nfirst time I saw that, I was also asking like you are, because as far as I\nremembered, nothing about it was mentioned in the LN. I confirmed with others\nwho have read the LN, and they said the same thing. So, for now IMHO, it's\njust like you said: \"ornamental\". Correct me if I'm wrong.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-22T08:09:58.507", "id": "8832", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-08T14:18:33.013", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-08T14:18:33.013", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "8829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [the tweet from the official\naccount](https://twitter.com/dengeki_mahouka/status/64639399228473344):\n\n> 女生徒の制服は、上着の下にキャミソールタイプのレースを着用します。これは生徒が任意でいくつかの種類から選べます（もちろん着けない生徒もいます）。\n>\n> The female students' uniform consists of a camisole-type lace underneath\n> their jackets. This is optional and students can choose from several types\n> (of course, some students do not wear this).\n\n\n\n\n\nTherefore I don't believe there's a functional purpose to it.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T22:03:47.290", "id": "8868", "last_activity_date": "2021-12-07T06:23:31.257", "last_edit_date": "2021-12-07T06:23:31.257", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "8829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nSince there seems to be no word of god, let's go:\n\nThe gown has to do with the type of magic the girl uses.\n\nSo we have\n\n * The blue snowflakes for elemental magic\n * the green faeries (dots, whatever) for spirit, body and mind magic\n * The orange flowers for earth and physical, physics magic\n\nThe girls:\n\n * Shiba Myiuki - elemental magic. Uses snowflakes.\n * Saegusa Mayumi - movement, projectiles and matter summoning. Orange flowers.\n * Ichihara Suzune - body and mind manipulation. Green fairy.\n * Mitsui Honoka - Light manipulation. Orange\n * Watanabe Mari - mind manipulation via aromas. Green\n * Shibata Mizuki - spirit and magic sight. Green.\n\nThe list is not exaustive. Feel free to add more examples.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-05T03:01:32.493", "id": "15489", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-05T03:01:32.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "8829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI, too, thought the capes would be explained further, as it does seem to\ncorrespond to the owner's magic. I wish they had been, since the audience\nwould be able to then identify approximate magic types on sight, or be\nintrigued by a new, previously unseen color. Prime storytelling opportunities\nhave been missed there.\n\nThere is only one girl I've seen who doesn't wear it, and that's Erika. There\nare multiple reasons to explain why she would not wear it.\n\n 1. She's the only Course 2 (Weed) girl character we've seen, so it may be a Course 1 (Bloom) exclusive uniform piece.\n\n 2. If it's truly based on magic, which does seem to play a part in the colors, Erika's style is sword and weapon-based where the other girls use a different type of non-weapon magic.\n\n 3. If it's completely optional, Erika has exactly the kind of personality that would forego the cape by choice.\n\nAs far as the texture goes, it's always looked like a sheer fabric attachment\nto me rather than lace. If it's supposed to be lace, they didn't do very well\nin animating it. Looks closer to tulle, maybe? Or, actually, my vote is for\nchiffon. Chiffon flows the same way as they portray in the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-11T20:27:11.880", "id": "21492", "last_activity_date": "2021-12-07T06:23:53.770", "last_edit_date": "2021-12-07T06:23:53.770", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "14412", "parent_id": "8829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFor a moment I thought that the women's capes represented the grade they were\nin (something like the Mahoutokoro capes, in the Harry Potter Universe). But\nit is not like that, Miyuki, Honoka, Mizuki, and other first year characters\nwear other \"ornaments\".\n\nI think it's about the type of magic the wielder wields. But if that's the\ncase, why is Lina's (Angelina Kudou Shields) camisole so different?\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-12-06T16:22:34.290", "id": "66058", "last_activity_date": "2021-12-06T16:22:34.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63553", "parent_id": "8829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLet's go over this for some closure:\n\nIn Mahouka Koukou, magic doesn't take the form of weapons or of the like.\nMagic is processed through these \"weapons\" which actually come in a variation\nof designs based on magic user preferences. These devices are actually called\nCAD or Casting Assistance Device. The CAD act as a pass through for processing\nmagic operations that would otherwise be physically intensive on the human\nbody.\n\nMagic itself is actually psions. Here is the wiki literal definition:\n\n> Psions (想子, literally \"Thought Particles\") are substanceless particles that\n> come under the dimension of psychic phenomenon, an information element that\n> records the result of cognizance and thought. They are similar to Pushions\n> in that Pushions are the particle manifestations of emotions from intention\n> and thought, while Psions are the particle manifestations of intention and\n> thought.\n\nAs for how they got it to work with technology, we can assume that for the\nMahouka Koukou universe, psions are a natural form of energy much like\nelectrons in real world computing. If this is the case, they developed\ntechnology that relies on psions rather than electrons and this resulted in\nallowing them to use/alter psions as you would electrons, just on a larger,\nfancier magic scale...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-27T03:34:05.917", "id": "11498", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-27T03:35:40.760", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-27T03:35:40.760", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "8830", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFatalSleep's answer is right in saying that magic doesn't take the form of\nweapons, and is just thought particles called Psions. Magic sequences are only\n_processed_ through [CADs](http://mahouka-koukou-no-\nrettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Casting_Assistant_Device_%28CAD%29) shaped like\nweapons. Why they are that shape is covered below:\n\nFirst, it's important to understand the difference between a general and\nspecialised CAD. This excerpt from the light novel covers it nicely:\n\n> \"The two types of CAD are general and specialized. The general type placing\n> a larger burden on the user but capable of a wide range of up to 99\n> activation sequences, while the specialized type is only able to contain up\n> to nine activation sequences but possesses subsystems able to reduce the\n> load on the user, making it possible to invoke magic faster.\"\n>\n> _Volume 1 - Enrollment I, Chapter 2_\n\nTo add to those points, there's also a brief description of why certain\nspecialised CADs take the shape of weaponry such as handguns and sniper\nrifles:\n\n> \"By its nature, aggressive combat type magic sequences are generally stored\n> in specialized CAD. [...] Specialized CAD are often shaped in the form of\n> guns because using the auxiliary aiming systems incorporated in the area\n> corresponding to the barrel, coordinate data is input at the moment the\n> activation sequence is initiated\"\n>\n> _Volume 1 - Enrollment I, Chapter 2_\n\nPut simply, the shape makes targeting easier - aiming the CAD helps determine\nthe location of the desired target, rather than the Magic Technician having to\nsupply all the coordinate data manually.\n\nThis is why it's some combat specialised CADs that take the form of guns - the\nmajority of spells will be cast towards an opponent, which requires precise\naiming. Such examples would be Tatsuya's Silverhorn Trident, Ichijou Masaki's\nCAD, and the CAD used by Saegusa Mayumi (below) in the Speed Shooting\ntournament at the NSC.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-03T17:01:58.040", "id": "21325", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-01T17:32:15.043", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10654", "parent_id": "8830", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a filler arc, that does not contain canon material. The anime creators\nwere forced to insert this new arc randomly in the middle of the Hueco Mundo\narc as the anime was catching up too fast with the manga.\n\nHowever, I think it's safe to say that it occurs in the tiny window between\nIchigo's training and Orihime's kidnapping, as Ichigo uses his hollow\nabilites, and Orihime hasn't been kidnapped yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-22T15:55:19.383", "id": "8837", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-22T15:55:19.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4085", "parent_id": "8835", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe it occurs after Hueco Mundo because Chad gains his other arm's\nability there and he uses it in the filer arc when he is helping to protect\nRurichiyo.\n\nThis tells me that it either occurred after the Hueco Mundo arc, or it\nhappened parallel with it and was not canon.\n\nI choose to believe it is canon despite what other people say because\nRurichiyo and Kenryu are some of my favorite characters from Bleach.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-06T06:06:35.923", "id": "13275", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-05T16:18:08.107", "last_edit_date": "2019-08-05T16:18:08.107", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "7881", "parent_id": "8835", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis arc is what is called \"filler.\" It is, as the name states, an arc or\nstory line created by the animation team to \"fill\" time whilst waiting for the\nmanga to progress further into the story so that the animation team can\ncontinue to produce the story. It is not canon.\n\nHowever, to answer the question that you posed, the arc takes place,\nchronologically speaking, after the Sousuke Aisen arc, but before the\nFullbringer arc.\n\nAdditionally, the \"replacements\" arc, in which a treasonous member of the\nresearch and development squad (12) creates mod-soul copies of the shinigami,\nis also a filler arc, and is non-canon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-16T23:55:44.220", "id": "36885", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-16T23:55:44.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28757", "parent_id": "8835", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt has to happen while they are in Hueco Mundo because Chad can use del Diablo\nand Ichigo still has his soul reaper powers. Thinking on that, it’s impossible\nfor this to be after Hueco Mundo because Aizen is done with.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-02T04:47:30.920", "id": "53836", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-05T16:18:09.830", "last_edit_date": "2019-08-05T16:18:09.830", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "48359", "parent_id": "8835", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAnswer to first question:\n\n> **A. Just in case.**\n>\n> Ulquiorra’s a pretty careful guy. He likes to make plans. And stick to them.\n> So it’s possible that he hides his second release just because he knows that\n> it’s good to have an ace in the hole, just in case he ever needs it. Not\n> that he’s planning to use it for any nefarious purposes - he just figures,\n> why tell if he didn’t have to?\n>\n\n>> **Ulquiorra** : Also, I’m not really a talker.\n\n>\n> **B. As a tiny act of rebellion.**\n>\n> Or you could read Ulquiorra as more of a Grimmjow-figure. You know, someone\n> may recognize that Aizen is too powerful to actively rebel against, but who\n> needs to do SOMETHING a little rebellious just to stay sane. Grimmjow leaves\n> meetings early and sneaks off to the world of the living; Ulquiorra hides\n> his second release. And this allows them to put up with working for a\n> freakin’ shinigami.\n>\n\n>> **Grimmjow** : Um…I’m pretty sure that rebellion doesn’t count if nobody\nknows about it.\n\n>>\n\n>> **Ulquiorra** : And that’s why you get spiritual pressure slammed to the\nfloor, and I don’t.\n\n>\n> **C. Because he was actively disloyal to Aizen.**\n>\n> It’s possible, though, that this wasn’t a tiny act of rebellion, but rather\n> a big one - that Ulquiorra had some sort of secret plan to rebel against\n> Aizen someday, and he was saving his second release for that time. In which\n> case letting Aizen go off to the WOL with the top three espada was a damn\n> good plan. Ulquiorra would have had the castle to himself if he hadn’t been\n> killed by Ichigo. So close, Ulquiorra.\n>\n\n>> **Ulquiorra** : And I was really looking forward to sitting on that throne,\ntoo.\n\n>>\n\n>> **Aizen** : Yeah, white marble is comfier than you’d think.\n\nSource: [\"Why does Ulquiorra keep his second release secret?\" on\nbleachlists.tumblr.com](http://bleachlists.tumblr.com/post/48837765884/why-\ndoes-ulquiorra-keep-his-second-release-secret)\n\n* * *\n\nAnswer to second question:\n\nI came across an answer while scavenging the net (and I think it's pretty\ngood):\n\n> Well..the arrancars sword and the soul reapers swords are the same except\n> for how they are released or how to manifest themselves after they are\n> released. Arrancars have the power of soul reapers and soul reapers swords\n> have 2 different forms shikai (1st form) and then bankai (2nd Form or\n> release state). Now most Arrancars only have 1 sword release thats their\n> resurreccion, resurreccion means resurrection and if u notice all arrancar\n> release states are in spanish for some weird reason, but they only have one\n> b/c arrancars have only been around for only about 1 year or a couple of\n> months b/c they didn't come into existence till azien stole hogyoku out of\n> Rukia's chest. Seeing how they're a new form of hollow but with soul reaper\n> powers they probably have not explored all of their powers unlike soul\n> reapers who have been around for over a 1000 years which means they would\n> know more about their swords and how they operate. So basically the 2nd form\n> Resurreccion segunda, which means 2nd resurrection, is the 2nd form of the\n> sword similar to a soul reapers bankai. So in other words Arrancars haven't\n> been around for a while which is why a lot of them don't know the other form\n> unlike soul reapers who know both forms b/c they've been around forever. Now\n> every arrancar has one but Ulquiorra was just the first to learn it.\n\nSource: [\"Why does Ulquiorra have two forms?\" on Yahoo\nAnswers](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100522161233AAquE7o)\n\n* * *\n\nAnswer for Third one:\n\n**Ofcourse Aizen knew.**\n\n> ...[m]aybe Ulquiorra just wanted to know how much Aizen really watched, or\n> how much he could just deduce by being insanely smart. So he kept his\n> release hidden to see if Aizen could figure it out for himself. And like any\n> guy who tests a god, this just didn’t end well for poor Ulquiorra.\n>\n\n>> **Aizen** : Is there really any doubt that I knew?\n\nand about the ranking:\n\n> **Maybe he wanted to stay out of the top 3.**\n>\n> Maybe Ulquiorra just didn’t want to be in the top 3, and knew that with his\n> second release taken into account, he would be. Ulquiorra’s smart - he might\n> have guessed that the people who went with Aizen to Fake Karakura Town\n> wouldn’t be coming back. Or maybe he just really likes the number 4.\n>\n\n>> **Ulquiorra** : Actually, I just know how important the number 3 is to\nHalibel.\n\n>>\n\n>> **Halibel** : …\n\n>>\n\n>> **Ulquiorra** : Don’t worry, we’re not having a moment.\n\n>>\n\n>> **Halibel** : Oh, good!\n\nSource: [\"Why does Ulquiorra keep his second release secret?\" on\nbleachlists.tumblr.com](http://bleachlists.tumblr.com/post/48837765884/why-\ndoes-ulquiorra-keep-his-second-release-secret)\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T14:44:30.107", "id": "8852", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-24T22:37:00.793", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-24T22:37:00.793", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nHe had no motivation to show Aizen his true power, he was never shown to have\nany aspirations to become stronger or be recognised as the most powerful like\nsome other characters, he always spoke about his and other's strengths as if\nthey were just facts.\n\nHe was annoyed because he was so clearly stronger than Ichigo that it seemed\nstupid to him that Ichigo wouldn't give up, that's why he showed him his\nsecond release. He was already absolutely trouncing him in his initial\nrelease, it wasn't like Goku going Super Saiyan to defeat Frieza out of\nnecessity, it would have been like Goku then going Super Saiyan 2 and ripping\nFrieza's limbs off one at a time.\n\nHe's the only one with a second release because he's the only one who figured\nout how to go further, again becoming stronger in your first release is\nprobably completely separate to working out how to go to second release.\nThere's no reason to think it's unique to him, although it is possible, it's\nmore likely that he was just the first to figure it out.\n\nI'd love to say that if Aizen knew about his second release he would have been\nthe top Espada, as to me he seemed the most powerful and the coolest.\nConsidering the ridiculous extent to which he was smashing Ichigo it's hard to\nbelieve he wouldn't have been at least above Harribel, who never really did\nanything overly impressive.\n\nPersonally, I think Ulquiorra in his second release was the most powerful\nthing we've seen so far other than Aizen and Ichigo post-Dangai, but I'm sure\nmany people and probably even the author would disagree with me. The rankings\nwere always a little dubious anyway, again, Harribel was pathetic, and it was\nabsolutely bizarre when Yammy claimed to be the top Espada, and then was\nkilled by Kenpachi and Byakuya, offscreen, without any apparent effort.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T22:55:02.053", "id": "8871", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-17T21:08:35.563", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-17T21:08:35.563", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIf aizen new about gin's betrayal then I am pretty sure he new about ulqiuorra\nsecond release state and the reason why he has that is because he is an\narrancar and arrancar are soul reaper/hollow hybrids like the visoreds but in\nthis case arrancar are 60% hollow and 40% soulreaper. And since this is the\ncase ressurccion is similar to a bankai so basically is first release is like\nshikai and the second works like a bankai. Not only that the espada are closet\nto a soul reaper than any other arrancar also the 7th espada his ressurccion\nstated by byakuya is similar to kido\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-31T23:46:01.263", "id": "24520", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-31T23:46:01.263", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16666", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nMy personal opinion on why he never showed Aizen his true form is because he\nwas being calculated. Remember, he was easily the most calculated Espada\nmember, in my opinion, easily able to match wits with anyone. Thinking that\nway, he could also match wits with Aizen, given his powers, intelligence,\npatience and lack of feelings towards others. He and Aizen were a lot alike.\nHe may have had the same thinking that Shinji had: keep your friends close and\nkeep your enemies closer. I believe he kept it as a trump card just in case he\nand Aizen faced off.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-29T02:08:22.737", "id": "31745", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-29T12:02:15.477", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-29T12:02:15.477", "last_editor_user_id": "13504", "owner_user_id": "23755", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nSaying he never showed Aizen his second release, does not mean that Aizen did\nnot only know about it, but most likely talked to Ulquiorra about it at some\npoint, we have seen that while at times Aizen can get very arrogant at times,\nlike in his final fight with Ichigo, he is a genius.\n\nHe would have figured out that while soul reapers have their skikai and\nbankai, arrancars would most likely be able to have their own version of\nbankai, just as their first release is similar to a soul reapers shikai. The\nway Ulquiorra spoke when he said he never showed Aizen his 2nd release was\nvague, as he didn't exactly have to show Aizen his power, but he might have\ntold him and made a plan with Aizen to keep it hidden from Gin, Tosen, and the\nother espada in case they rebelled, much like how Nel regained her power as an\nespada and starting to fight, and how Grimmjow went against orders to fight\nIchigo, except to a more extreme level like a full scale rebellion. Aizen had\nrarely fought, at first having his espada fight for him.\n\nIf most of the espada went into full scale rebellion and if he knew about\nUlquiorra's second release before hand, he would be able to send Ulquiorra out\nto deal with the treasonous espada and end them. It would not be that far\nfetched, considering the fact that Aizen seemed to hold a special trust in\nUlquiorra that he didn't have for the other espada, sending Ulquiorra with\nYammy to the world of the living, sending Ulquiorra to get Orihime after\nletting him trick the treasonous arrancars to steal a fake hogyoku only to get\nkilled in the world of the living, entrusting care of Orihime to Ulquiorra,\nand lastly ensuring the safety of Los Noches to Ulquiorra.\n\nIt's possible that he would have also used Ulquiorra to kill Tosen or Gin if\nthey rebelled, sense Ulquiorra's second resurrection was powerful enough to\ncompletely stomp Ichigo when he was using bankai and hollowfication. And as\nseveral others have said, it is most likely that Ulquiorra was just the first\nespada to discover and use the second release, Aizen not revealing to other\narrancars, or even just the other espada, that it is possible for them to do\nthis as they all seemed to be more loyal to their fraccion or to more loyal to\nthemselves, unlike Ulquiorra who seemed to not only have no faccion, but never\nwavered in his loyalty to lord Aizen, you could say that in comparison that\nUlquiorra is like the perfect soldier.\n\nNot to mention IF Ulquiorra did aspire to rebel against Aizen and take his\nplace, he most likely could have done so before Aizen was able to finally use\nthe hogyoku. Not only is Ulquiorra already an expert in sonido and extremely\nfast without any form of release, in his second release he got faster, more\nagile, stronger. If he truly wished to rebel against Aizen, sense as far as we\nknow Aizen actually never showed the espada his zanpakto, he could have\ncompletely blind-sided Aizen when ever he pleased, releasing his second\nrelease and using a grand rey cero while in his second release.\n\nIf he did this quick enough he would have been able to completely destroy\nAizen, as we saw how powerful Grimmjows ceros were when he was just using the\nstandard at point blank range and without his first release, Grimmjow not\nbeing as strong as Ulquiorra and with Ulquiorras power being enhanced with the\nsecond release, a grand rey cero at point blank range in his second release\nand if Ulquiorra put everything he has into it, if Ulquiorra was able to do\nthis and blindside Aizen, well Aizen would have had no chance to survive it.\nAnd the fact is, Ulquiorra is very intelligent and would most likely realize\nthat if he wanted, he could kill Aizen if he did blind-side him. But he didn't\nand was trusted with many responsibilities that the other espada weren't.\n\nIn conclusion, yes, Aizen more then likely knew about it and talked to\nUlquiorra about it, deciding to keep it between themselves, yet would keep\nUlquiorra at number 4 sense it would seem strange if the 5th best espada, I\nsay fifth because while Ulquiorra was numbered at 4 the numbering system for\nespada was 0-9. Even the image above \"Aizen-sama has not **seen me** in this\nform\", the wording meaning that while Aizen has literally not been shown the\nsecond release Ulquiorra most likely talked to him about it, its possible that\nAizen is even the reason that Ulquiorra got his second release before the\nother espada and another reason why Ulquiorra could be so loyal to him. Sorry\nfor the very long answer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-23T01:24:34.923", "id": "41014", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-23T01:26:11.770", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-23T01:26:11.770", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "33230", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n 1. He is smart as devil, so he decided not to show his full potential to others (including Aizen)\n 2. You cant find it in the anime or manga, but just like Shinigamis only a few with a great potential can release their true power.\n 3. Definitely #1. His power, speed and intelligence would definitely placed him above the Starrk and Yammy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T14:32:00.933", "id": "41184", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T15:20:24.373", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-04T15:20:24.373", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "33427", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nUlquiorra is indeed the strongest espada. We all knew how Aizen had everything\nplanned from the start- with the help of hogyoku, he'd transcend into a higher\nbeing and when he does, he'd want to test it against someone who had already\ntranscended into a higher being. That being is ichigo kurosaki. But as aizen\nis already about to trascend into higher being, he had to give ichigo the time\nto be able to unleash the higher being within him which turns out to be the\nvasto lorde form then ultimately the final getsuga form. This is the reason\nwhy aizen had ulquiorra guard las noches so he could ultimately battle ichigo.\nAizen might not have seen ulquiorra's segunda etapa but he must have known\nthat he is far more powerful than number 4 suggests. The proof to this is when\nAizen told ichigo \"the fact you are here means you have defeated ulquiorra\".\nNow deriving from aizen's judgement that is guided by the hogyoku, i can say\nthat ulquiorra is the strongest among the espada and so strong that he was the\none chosen by Aizen to bring out the higher being within ichigo.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-03-16T11:57:08.653", "id": "51188", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-16T11:57:08.653", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45460", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\n1: Ulquiorra is intelligent. I believe he knew that in the final battle the\nstronger soul reapers would fight the stronger Espada Arrancars. That is why\nhe didn't want to be higher ranked because then he'd have a lower chance of\nsurviving.\n\n2: Like I said before, Ulquiorra is smart so he is more likely to catch on to\na second release/Bankai than others who were lazy or not as smart as\nUlquiorra. I also believe Ulquiorra's cold and calculating personality had a\npart in it, as soul reapers' Zanpakutos are meant to be similar in\npersonalities. If this applies to the Arrancars then his Zanpakuto will be\nmore willing to show him his Bankai.\n\n3: He would be number one, because for soul reapers the difference between\nShikai and Bankai is extreme, this will definitely apply to Arrancars as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-06-24T02:16:50.783", "id": "53354", "last_activity_date": "2019-06-24T11:57:07.690", "last_edit_date": "2019-06-24T11:57:07.690", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "47806", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nalthough he is very smart, fast, and powerful, I don't think that he could win\nthe number 2 spot from Barragan. to be honest, I don't even know how Barragan\ndidn't get the number 0 spot from Yammy, considering that he could neutralize\nall of his attacks. although I am praising Barragan, I really think that\nUlquiorra should have been sent to the world of the living, because of the\nfact that he could use his lightning lance and completely obliterate all four\nof the pillars within seconds. There is actually a Japanese comic written\nabout Ulquiorra's backstory, and in it, he is actually a natural-born Arrancar\njust like Stark. With this in consideration, he must have been one of the\noriginal Espadas so he would have time to search his powers. The reason he\nsaid Aizon doesn't care, in my opinion, is because Uliquiorra's form of death\nhe governs is nihilism. this means not caring about life, so I think that he\njust doesn't care if Aizon cares so he just doesn't tell him or show him. The\nreason that he is so loyal to Aizon is that he doesn't care about people or\nsubjects so he is completely fine with stepping out of the way and letting\nsomeone take over as long as they are smart and powerful. if Soske was weak\nthen Ulquiorra wouldn't let him take over. Back to his backstory, Soske found\nUlquiorra in a big quarts tree in Hueco Mundo (like all other trees but way\nway bigger) they don't exactly say that Aizon found him there but after\nUlquiorra claws his way into the middle of the tree which was tearing off his\nmask and making him an Arrancar (after recognizing that it was like him in\nthat it was grown from nothingness) he found peace. I assume that Aizon built\nhis palace around the tree making it like a masterpiece or felt his massive\nspiritual pressure inside of the tree, so he destroyed it. back to the point,\nwhen he was sitting inside of the center of that tree he probably started\nmeditating ( like Ichigo in the Dangai ) and learned how he came to be and\nabout himself and his power after this Aizon probably found him and took him\nout of the tree somehow. if he was in the tree for say 1 year, he would be\nolder then any of the Arrancars, assuming that he was only there for 1 year,\nwhen in reality he could be their from anywhere from 50 to 100 years and maybe\neven more\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-19T17:22:07.993", "id": "62551", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-19T17:22:07.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60144", "parent_id": "8836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is an anime that fits your description. It's called Master Mosquiton 99.\nThe third episode takes place in egypt. In this episode at least one sphinx\ncomes to life. It's also about defeating a boss in every episode and\ncollecting treasure that has magic powers. \n \nIt originally aired from 1997 to 1998.\n\n<http://en.anisearch.com/anime/2030,master-mosquiton-99>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-08T20:55:47.457", "id": "30331", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-08T20:55:47.457", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "8838", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it's just Nichijou's art style and how it expresses the fact the\ncharacters are gone past surprise at strange happenings and have come to\naccept it, the glazed over eyes and straight-line emotionless mouth indicate\nthis quite well.\n\nIn cases where it's something stupid, it gives the impression that the\ncharacters can't even justify a response, because the joke or suggestion was\njust so stupid that it's not even worth the effort. So they give blank\nexpressions and try to move the conversations on. This is usually accompanied\nby an awkward silence. This is common outside of anime as a ['tumbleweed\nmoment'](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/122986/whats-a-word-that-\nmeans-the-same-as-tumbleweed-in-a-desert-symbolizes)\n\nI'm pretty sure that it isn't a reference to any other animated characters and\nis just Nichijou doing its own thing :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-22T18:44:39.203", "id": "8841", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-06T21:40:40.160", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:38:45.803", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "8839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nAnother possibility, although slight - is that it could be a reference to the\nseries Initial D.\n\nI don't have much information to back this up, but I noticed a distinct\nsimilarity between the faces that Yuko and the other characters make, and some\nscreen captures and manga sections of Initial D.\n\nThe vacant neutral stares of the characters in Initial D seem to reflect a\nsimilar sense of 'not getting it' or being unsure of what to make of a\nsituation, which is pretty similar to the reaction of the girls.\n\n  \n\nThat being said, I haven't watched the show in its entirety, so it might be a\nbaseless speculation. There are also better examples of this, I just couldn't\nfind them again\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-16T15:41:59.187", "id": "20883", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-16T16:51:37.433", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-16T16:51:37.433", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "8839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Answer:** Nagisa never said nor thought love is worse than curses. Both\nNagisa and Sayaka couldn't explain why Homura's soul gem had those colors.\nHomura bore way more negative energy within her then ever seen before. Way\nmore than a curse ever had borne.\n\n**Side note:** Homura claims that all this negative energy comes from her love\nfor Madoka due to several events:\n\n * Being unable to save Madoka the way she wanted: by preventing Madoka from becoming a Puella Magi\n * Losing Madoka (again): Madoka vanished from visibility when she became the creator of the new universe, a.k.a. Madokami\n * The desire to bring Madoka back (as a plain human)\n * The idea of being able to meet Madoka(mi) again when Homura's soul gem becomes completely black\n * The selfish act of taking Madoka(mi) for herself and thereby breaking the universe\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-18T22:17:53.620", "id": "9795", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-19T01:03:18.873", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-19T01:03:18.873", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "4709", "parent_id": "8845", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn light of the events of Wraith Arc, it's likely that what happened isn't\nthat a new and worse form of corruption manifested ex nihilo but that **the\nwraith born of Madoka and Homura's mutual love, who is integrated into Homura\npost-Wraith Arc, became a pseudo-witch.**\n\nThe manga demonstrates that prolonged contact with old universe magic can\ncause wraiths to evolve into witch-like entities, including a copy of\nWalpurgisnacht itself. Specifically, the inciting magic was Homura's discarded\nshield of time manipulation -- which, in Homulilly's labyrinth, _Homura had\nbeen using in place of the bow of memory manipulation_. So, instead of\nbecoming a regular witch that Madoka could freeze in the soul vault, the\nwraith part of her became a pseudo-witch. But since Madoka was already in the\nprocess of soul-conducting, Homura was able to interact with her, and by\nutilizing her anomalous power she could divide Madoka's divine powers apart\nfrom her physical body. Thus, Madoka gets to live a human life alongside her\nloved ones, the Law of Cycles gets to prevent witches, and everybody wins.\nExcept Homura, who continues to be sad, and Kyubey, who gets mercilessly\ndunked on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-17T03:09:18.570", "id": "65937", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-17T03:09:18.570", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63239", "parent_id": "8845", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, the talismans will not work.\n\nIt's stated at the end of the story that all magic in the world disappeared\nalong with the Trees.\n\nAs for why this happens, it's because of how magic works (described in Chapter\n3 of the manga, pages 17-18). When a mage uses magic, their powers are being\nborrowed directly from a Tree. None of the mages ever have their own magical\npower.\n\nBasically, talismans are conduits, not batteries. Any magical power that's\nbeing stored would still be owned by the Tree of Genesis until it's actually\nused, with the talisman acting as a conduit between the Tree of Genesis and\nthe person whose skin is touching the talisman.\n\nTo give a relatable example: It'd be like if you _(the mage)_ went out and got\na refillable Visa card _(the talisman)_ and then put some money _(magical\npower)_ on it in case of an emergency. The Visa card is \"storing\" your money,\nand anyone can use it as long as you're there to sign for it _(the mage's\nvoice activation)_. However, if Visa _(the Tree of Genesis)_ suddenly ceases\nto exist one day, your Visa card is completely worthless, and all the money it\nwas storing will be gone forever.\n\nThis was alluded to near the beginning of the manga, when Hakaze had to ask\nthe Tree of Genesis for power in order to use the talisman to find Aika's\nkiller (chapter 2, page 21 in the manga).\n\nLater (chapter 3, page 18), Hakaze explains that talismans still require voice\nactivation, because the Tree of Genesis won't supply its magical power unless\nthe mage asks for it verbally. It's explained that the main characters are\nable to use the worn talismans without Hakaze's voice because Hakaze verbally\nasked the Tree of Genesis for that magical power ahead of time, and then asked\nfor the given power to be activated when the wearer of the talisman invokes it\nmentally.\n\nSo unfortunately for them, the characters of Zetsuen no Tempest won't have the\nability to use magic anymore, with or without talismans.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T21:32:05.183", "id": "8866", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T21:37:34.670", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-23T21:37:34.670", "last_editor_user_id": "3387", "owner_user_id": "3387", "parent_id": "8846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMy opinion is that he chose not to use the other one. With the Rinnegan not\nable to use Sharingan's abilities, it's probably better to use both at the\nsame time. Madara was seen switching back and forth between the Rinnegan and\nSharingan, so it should be something that Sasuke can do as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T19:54:54.383", "id": "8860", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T12:22:35.983", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T12:22:35.983", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4626", "parent_id": "8848", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nMaybe the other eye is only for Sharingan, or he can't have two Rinnegans\nbecause it might replace his Sharingan permanently. However, one thing is for\nsure: he might use Sharingan and Rinnegan at the same time in the future.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-07T07:06:40.277", "id": "9549", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T12:23:19.870", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T12:23:19.870", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4792", "parent_id": "8848", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke's Rinnegan is exactly the same Rinnegan of Kaguya's 3rd eye and\nMadara's 3rd eye. Since, Madara's 3rd eye and Kaguya's 3rd eye are one and the\nsame, this means that there is only one such eye.\n\nThis Rinnegan with Sharingan tomoe has always been a one eye case from the\nbeginning. It is very different from Madara's Rinnegan, which is same as\nHagoromo's pair of eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T17:55:54.920", "id": "11310", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T12:08:57.187", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T12:08:57.187", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "8848", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nFor starters: Sasuke's Rinnegan is **not** the same as Kaguya's/Madara's Rinne\nSharingan (not to be confused with Madara's Rinnegan, I'm talking about the\none in the middle of the forehead of both of them).\n\n * Sasuke's Rinnegan has 6 tomoe, Rinne Sharingan has (at least) 9.\n * Sasuke's Rinnegan is blue, Rinne Sharingan is red.\n\nThe reason Sasuke only has the Rinnegan in one eye was not mentioned or\nexplained in either the series or the data book. So we can only speculate.\n\nIn no particular order, here are my speculations:\n\n * Hagoromo only gave Sasuke enough chakra to awaken the Rinnegan in one eye.\n * That's the best Sasuke can do without fusing Asura's chakra.\n * It's the cool factor.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-10T12:39:51.167", "id": "21448", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T12:39:51.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "8848", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe what Madara means by \"straight commas\" is that Sasuke awakened the\nEternal Mangekyo Sharingan just like he did. No one in the Naruto series has\nbeen shown to possess Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan(s) besides these two, so that\nmust be what he meant.\n\nAs for the average Sharingan, 3 commas is the mastered form. However, Kakashi,\nObito, Itachi, Sasuke and a handful of other Uchihas have been shown to have\nthose 3 commas in their regular Sharingan. Also, all the Sharingan(s) embedded\nin Danzo's arm had three commas. So for Madara to say that Sasuke is the only\none who awakened a Sharingan with straight commas like him, he couldn't be\npertaining to the regular Sharingan, but the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T14:36:19.860", "id": "8850", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T09:21:02.453", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-18T09:21:02.453", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4625", "parent_id": "8849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the statement does have something to do with the Eternal Mangekyo, but\nit's not the only reason. If you look at Sasuke and Madara's Eternal Mangekyo,\nthey are the only ones with straight lines (straight commas) within them. I\nthink that is what they are talking about, as their normal Sharingan has\nnormal commas.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-26T05:09:39.253", "id": "8909", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T09:29:33.893", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-18T09:29:33.893", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4656", "parent_id": "8849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nCould be because they're both the reincarnations of the Sage's son of this and\nthe previous generations why their Sharingan have straight lines. Itachi and\nSasuke are brothers and their Mangekyo looked nothing alike\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-26T12:43:36.373", "id": "8913", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-26T13:07:50.213", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-26T13:07:50.213", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "4658", "parent_id": "8849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe straight tomoe that they are referring to is the straight whole lines\nconcept and pattern that sasuke and madara had after awakening their regular\nmangekyou. The black in the red of their sharingan shows their advanced range\nof perception or (power) compared to a normal eyed person. In a sense every\nblack part is their pupil,red is their iris. The red is What allows them to\nsee chakra since it would shade the pupil or the black tomoe differently and\nallow them to see things the way they do.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-11T01:06:08.840", "id": "31329", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-11T01:06:08.840", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23370", "parent_id": "8849", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNot so surprisingly the answer is\n[Krillin](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Krillin). While this page shows he\ndied 3 times in total in the short summery and trivia part, but I found him\ndying a total of 5 times including everything.\n[Goku](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Goku) seems to have died only twice.\n\n[Total List of all character deaths can be found\nhere.](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_deaths_in_the_Dragon_Ball_series).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T18:35:22.820", "id": "8854", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T18:35:22.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "8851", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**Krillin died the most number of times.** xD\n\nHere's [the\nlist](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_deaths_in_the_Dragon_Ball_series)\n(Krillin vs Goku):\n\n**Krillin:**\n\nTien Shinhan Saga (Dragon Ball)\n\n * Krillin: Killed by Tambourine. After the Tournament, he is killed by Tambourine, who was out to kill all of the greatest martial artists so that King Piccolo would go unchallenged. \n\nSaiyan Saga\n\n * Krillin: Killed by Frieza. Frieza lifted him into the air with his mind and blew him up, inducing Goku's first Super Saiyan transformation. He was later revived with the Namekian Dragon Balls. (Note: This was Krillin's second time dying, as he was killed by Tambourine in Dragon Ball). Ep.95 \n\nFusion Saga\n\n * Krillin: Turned into chocolate and eaten by Super Buu. Was later revived with the Namekian Dragon Balls. \n\nSuper 17 Saga\n\n * Krillin: Killed by Android 17, who was brainwashed by his clone created from the depths of Hell. After Krillin tried to help 17 remember how much he hated Dr. Gero, Android 17 shot a Photon Flash through Krillin's chest. \n\nIn alternate timeline\n\n * Future Krillin: Killed by the androids.\n\nIn second alternate timeline\n\n * Presumably killed by Goku Black\n\n**Goku:**\n\nSaiyan Saga\n\n * Goku: Killed by Piccolo, though he sacrificed himself. He held Raditz in place so he could not escape, and Piccolo shot a Special Beam Cannon through both of them. Goku was later revived with the Dragon Balls. Ep.5 \n\nCell Games Saga\n\n * Goku: Killed when Cell self destructs, after Goku took him to King Kai's planet. He is revived several years later when Old Kai gives him his life. \n\nIn alternate timeline\n\n * Future Goku: Died of a heart virus. \n\nHit Arc\n\n * Killed by Hit (Dragon Ball Super episode 71)\n\nSecond alternate timeline\n\n * Killed by Goku Black when he and Zamasu switch bodies.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T18:48:34.310", "id": "8855", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-13T20:58:37.613", "last_edit_date": "2019-01-13T20:58:37.613", "last_editor_user_id": "35452", "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "8851", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is not a plot hole. And he isn't necessarily wrong. He just meant the third\nperson _alive_. Of course he knew about Shisui, he had his eye. Of course he\nknew about Izuna and Madara too since he introduced their story to Sasuke. And\nhe probably knew about other unnamed Uchihas too, if there were any, because\nas he said the Uchihas were killing their best friends for decades to achieve\nit. So I can't find any other logical explanation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T19:47:52.663", "id": "8859", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T19:47:52.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "8853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe I understood your question a bit. I will try to elaborate on that.\n\nIf you check out the episode of the Nine Tails attacking the Leaf Village, you\nmust have noticed different age groups of various characters. Kakashi, Gai,\nand Asuma were depicted as teenagers. There is even a clip where Itachi was\nholding the infant Sasuke on his lap, assuring him that he would always\nprotect him. Itachi was around 10-11 years old. By this, I can conclude that\n**Kakashi was an elder to Itachi**.\n\nIn your question you stated that:-\"Obviously, he[Itachi] didn't know about\nObito/Kakashi\",I would like to highlight something which could contradict with\nyour statement. Itachi **did know** about Kakashi as he was a prodigy in his\nage. Getting Sharingan after Obito's death made him **a source of\nattraction**. **By then, Obito was out of the picture completely [since\neveryone assumed him to be dead]**. At the beginning of the Shippuuden\nepisodes, Itachi called Kakashi, \" **Copy Ninja** \", while he fought against\nhim. Now, coming to your question, Itachi couldn't figure out the man behind\nTobi's mask. **Because of his boastful nature and strong power** , Obito made\nItachi believe that he was Madara. Obito's calling himself Madara depicts his\ndeceptional and boastful behavior.\n\nWith this, I can say that there is no plot hole anywhere.\n\nEDIT\n\nAs [**debal**](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2077/debal) said, both\nKakashi and Itachi were in ANBU group.By this we can conclude that both knew\neach other.\n\n**EDIT II**\n\nTo make it clearer we can list all current know Mangenkyo users and how they\nhave or might have obtained it.\n\nItachi - It is thought he killed Shisui but did not. Very likely he witnessed\nShisui's death. I can think of one scenario but it's just a speculation.\n\n> When Itachi saw Shisui for the last time, he had MS activated. I think\n> Shisui used Kotoamatsukami on Itachi and made Itachi to kill Shisui. Itachi\n> can't remember it, 'cause Shisui used Kotoamatsukami, so the victim isn't\n> aware that they're being controlled. That way Itachi got his MS and Shisui\n> wanted him to protect Konoha.\n\nShisui - Unknown. But seems unlikely he murdered anyone as he showed a great\ndeal of self sacrifice do kill himself rather than have his eyes fall into the\nwrong hands.\n\nSasuke - Did kill Itachi and he witnessed his death.\n\nKakashi - Got his MS after killing Rin;although he came to know about his\nMangekyou at later stages\n\nObito - Saw Kakashi killing Rin;which triggered his MS\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-26T06:57:17.797", "id": "8911", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-29T05:57:54.663", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "8853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI myself think that the third person could have been **Madara**. Now Itachi\nhad met Madara once or twice and Itachi was very wise. He paid attention to\nthe things the others rarely did, said by the third Hokage when he was revived\nby Orochimaru. Also, he knew that Madara was the first one to awaken the\nMangekyo Sharingan Izuna. He told that to Sasuke in Naruto Shippuden episode\n136 or 137.\n\nNote: now we know that masked man was Obito and the real Madara was dead but\n_Itachi_ _didn't at that time_. Wise as Itachi was as a planner, **Madara**\nwas better than him and Madara told Obito that he has to live with the alias\n'Madara Uchiha'. As for the people who are saying he knew about Kakashi having\nthe Mangekyo, Kakashi rarely showed his Sharingan. Itachi and Kakashi were\nalso not that close to each other. If I remember correctly, he said you will\nbe the third one alive to have it. Shisui and Izuna were dead and he didn't\nknow about Kakashi's so it would have been Madara.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-19T10:27:55.037", "id": "30661", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-14T15:47:10.367", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-14T15:47:10.367", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "22824", "parent_id": "8853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is false. What Itachi says because in The Itachi Story Arc we learn that\nFugaku Uchiha, his father, possesses the mangekyou sharing and shows Itachi.\nAlso Itachi tells Sasuke the story of the Izanami when he is reanimated and\nmentions the existence of many other Uchihas who possessed the mangekyou.\nTherefore, it must be a plot hole.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-15T13:45:11.953", "id": "38956", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-16T01:40:31.807", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-16T01:40:31.807", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "30955", "parent_id": "8853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo matter who Sakurai-sensei is talking to (other teachers, students, etc) she\nhas those panic bubbles/sweat drops around her.\n\nI took this to mean she's just a naturally nervous person instead of being\nuncomfortable around people. I can't think of anything in the show that\nimplied she was uncomfortable around others since she was always willing to\nhelp and talk.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T20:45:24.310", "id": "8862", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T20:45:24.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4628", "parent_id": "8856", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's probably just an exaggeration of her being nervous and/or shy. As her\npersonality bio on the [Nichijou\nWikia](http://nichijou.wikia.com/wiki/Izumi_Sakurai) says, \"Izumi is a very\nnice young woman, but she is usually very shy, flustered, and easily\nfrightened.\"\n\nThis is similar to the [Overly Nervous Flop\nSweat](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyNervousFlopSweat)\ntrope, though that page doesn't have a section for anime or manga.\n\nSome other instances of this:\n\nDanganronpa:\n\n\n\nChii:\n\n\n\nKero:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T20:47:47.050", "id": "8863", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T20:49:50.917", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-23T20:49:50.917", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "8856", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat is because Tachibana is a\n[Tsundere](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere), she even got her own slang\nterm of it due to her extreme tsundere attitude, called GUNdere.\n\n> Misato Tachibana is a peach haired high school girl who generally acts cold\n> towards Koujirou whenever he does anything that reminds her of how she likes\n> him, or simply doing anything at all. She is a member of the Kendo club.\n>\n> Misato's feelings usually materialize as assault with various guns and heavy\n> weaponry that come out of nowhere, which Koujirou miraculously survives\n> despite being injured, and just turns white with the dust. In reality Misato\n> has feelings for Koujirou, but due to her tsundere attitude, she constantly\n> denies her feelings and shoots Koujirou. She somehow manages to always trace\n> everything back to Koujirou in conversations, even when he wasn't involved\n> in it, leading her to wildly deny accusations, such as marriage and\n> children, that nobody said. -\n> [Wiki](http://nichijou.wikia.com/wiki/Misato_Tachibana)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T19:39:39.503", "id": "8858", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T19:39:39.503", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8857", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGiven the variety of events that happened in first season, it is safer to\nconclude that a Great Mushi-Master can live as long as he want. Though I agree\nwith your view that as per Nui, anyone who lost one of its eyes to Tokoyami is\nbound to become Tokoyami sooner or later.\n\nAs far as I understand from the death of Nui in episode 12, Tokoyami is more\nlike a mushi that colonizes the host from inside, seeing as it came out from\nNui's second eye to devour her from outside, and the same happened to the one-\neyed fish which Yoki saw in the pond during daybreak.\n\nHowever, there are cases where people were able to avoid death.\n\nIn episode 20, Ginko went to meet [Tanyuu Karibusa](http://mushi-\nshi.wikia.com/wiki/Tanyuu_Karibusa), who happened to have a Mushi inside her,\nbut she was able to slowly \"get rid of it\" by writing the stories of Mushi's\nbeing killed. The ink used was the caged Mushi, which thereby got sealed into\nthe writings.\n\nIn episode 9, Ginko met a head priest of a village who happened to use a seed\nhaving Kouki (the life pulse of all the Mushis) inside of it. The head priest\nwas dead by the end, but Ginko revived him by injecting the same seed into\npriest's mouth, and then, he became immortal. Though such is a forbidden\npractice, it is always possible.\n\nBased on these three episodes, I'm completely certain that he can live as long\nas he want. He is no ordinary man who can be engulfed by Tokoyami easily. I'm\ncertain that Ginko, being a Mushi-Master, can find a way to cure himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-08T18:47:02.467", "id": "19915", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-09T01:54:04.230", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-09T01:54:04.230", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13126", "parent_id": "8861", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe episode numbers relate to the order they were broadcast. chronologically\nspeaking in the series Episodes 7, 8 and 9 occur after Episodes 10 and 11 with\nEpisode 12 occurring after 9.\n\nAccording to the linear notes in the bonus menu of the RightStuf DVD (Disk 3),\nthe Valentines Day Episodes were aired earlier as the initial broadcast date\nfor Episode 7 fell on/around February 14 which is Valentines Day.\n\nBecause the 3 Valentines Day Episodes are tightly connected together in terms\nof plot they couldn't just broadcast episode 7 and be done with it so the 3\nepisodes was broadcast in sequence and 10 and 11 broadcast after before the\nconclusion of the first season.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-23T22:50:25.547", "id": "8870", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T22:50:25.547", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "8869", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSounds kind of like [Kaze no\nStigma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaze_no_Stigma) (Stigma of the Wind). A\n24 episode series that aired back in 2007.\n\n\n\nHere's [ANN's\nsynopsis](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7473):\n\n> Ayano is the heir to the house of Kannagi, a house with ties to the spirit\n> of fire, whose members are all fire users. All except for her cousin,\n> Kazuma. After he was defeated by Ayano, his father banished him from the\n> house in disgrace. Kazuma ran off and changed his surname to Yagami. He\n> formed a contract with the spirit of wind and becomes a powerful wind user.\n> Four years later, he returned.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-24T16:15:29.860", "id": "8885", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-24T16:15:29.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "8876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, the first title that appeared in my mind when reading your\ndescription were these three animes called....\n\n**Magic Knight Rayeart** [(MAL\nPage)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/435/Magic_Knight_Rayearth) \nBut then it only fits \"The main heroine was using a \"fire spirit\" but only\nafter she accepted it in one of the episodes ...The little girl was using a\nhuge sword... In the end they have to fight some evil villain.\" and it won't\nfit \"living in modern times\"\n\nBut then, when I tried googling, I also found....\n\n**Shakugan no Shana** [(MAL\nPage)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/355/Shakugan_no_Shana) \nIt fits \"The main heroine was using a \"fire spirit\"..., ...firstly her rival\nbut they became friends after some time. The little girl was using a huge\nsword too. Apart from the girls there is also a love story involved with the\nmain heroine and a boy. In the end they have to fight some evil villain.\" and\nare \"living in modern times\".\n\nBut after searching more thoroughly, I found....\n\n**Mai-HiMe** [(MAL Page)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/98/Mai-HiME) [Wikipedia\nPage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My-HiME) It seems to fit most of your\ndescription.\n\nSorry for this kind of random guess, but well even if none of them is the\nanswer, at least it makes the possibility getting narrower...\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-24T21:03:05.110", "id": "8891", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-19T01:51:47.557", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-19T01:51:47.557", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "8876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst thing that popped into my mind was date a live because u said \"the story\nrevolves around girls with \"spirits\" they use to fight.\" And using a \"fire\nspirit\" but only after she accepted it in one of the episodes. There also was\na smaller girl, which was firstly her rival but they became friends after some\ntime. The one who was the heroine didn't use a fire spirit but there was a\nfemale who did and accepted it in the series and there is also a girl spirit\nwho uses a huge sword and the main heroine is a boy. I hope this helped\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-30T23:34:28.477", "id": "14751", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-30T23:34:28.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8945", "parent_id": "8876", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Senpou: Inton\nRaiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Art%3a_Yin_Release_Lightning_Dispatch)\n\\- Raiton and Inton mixed together to form a branched dangerous lightning\nnetwork . The flashes can be fired from both hands simultaneously. Senpou:\nInton Raiha uses Sage of Six Path's chakra. And till now there have been only\n4 characters to use Sage of Six Path's chakra - Obito, Madara, Naruto and\nSasuke. It is highly unlikely that Third raikage knew/believed in Rikudou\nSenin let alone had his chakra.\n\nAlso Third raikage's [black\nlightening](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Lightning) was unique to him\nand later used by Darui too and it is shown that it can be used at a single\ntarget at a time. It covers the whole body of the user while Senpou: Inton\nRaiha comes out from hands of user.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-25T17:05:29.790", "id": "8901", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-25T17:14:12.210", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-25T17:14:12.210", "last_editor_user_id": "3343", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "8884", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the Naruto wiki:\n\n[Senpou: Inton\nRaiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Art%3a_Yin_Release_Lightning_Dispatch)\nis a combination of senjutsu, Yin Release and Lightning Release.\n\n[Black Lightning](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Lightning) is a typical\nlightning release jutsu.\n\nHence Inton Raiha and Black Lightning are not related to each other.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-25T17:11:49.590", "id": "8902", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-25T17:11:49.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "8884", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nfound it!\n\n[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aqua-Knight-v-Yukito-\nKishiro/dp/1569316341/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398461089&sr=8-1&keywords=aqua+knight](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aqua-\nKnight-v-Yukito-\nKishiro/dp/1569316341/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398461089&sr=8-1&keywords=aqua+knight)\n\nAqua Knight - Yukito Kishiro\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-25T21:27:43.733", "id": "8905", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-25T21:27:43.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4652", "parent_id": "8888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI timed it at [5:18-5:34ish](http://www.anime-realm.com/Bleach-\nepisode-286-2-sub.html) for the animation of release to smoke cloud.\n\nAnyways, the stretch of physics would be bad if he threw her _underneath_ him,\nnear his feet. But my eyes saw his arm stretched out away from his body after\nthe toss in an attempt to basically spear-chuck her.\n\nMy speculation would be that they're relying on a set of three overlapping\ntimes: Ichigo's catchup (shortest span of observed time), Yammy's toss (short\nspan of observed time), and Rukia's trajectory (longest span of observed time\nto get in frantic dialogue).\n\nFor anime fluff, this feels around average.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-25T06:33:07.807", "id": "8897", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-25T06:33:07.807", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2364", "parent_id": "8892", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI guess my comment seemed answery & I used to have such fond memories of\nBleach so here goes. Disclaimer: if you're willing to accept lazy filler\nwriting as the answer, do not read anything below this statement because I\ndon't have classes tomorrow so I thought I'd write & reminisce.\n\nReasons why the personification of Zanpakuto do not directly reflect their\nshinigami\n\n**Literary sense** would dictate the following:\n\n * **Character Overlap** is unpopular & otherwise bad. You don't want to give every character of focus a clone. It's just bad writing to introduce partners as complete doppelgangers. It's different when that clone-character is referential to someone else (everyone in Naruto who was _like Naruto_ ) or substituting (also in Naruto, when Sai was a _new Sasuke_ ). Those are typically OK (but should not abused, Naruto). \n * **Lack of material** is the biggest reason for every problem Bleach has ever faced -- this is fact. Otherwise, it'd still be a beloved powerhouse than a retiring flagship of entertainment. With identical plots, new characters or focusing on B characters seem like an OK idea to seem fresh.\n * **Filler arcs** demaaaand disposable conflict, that is, sometimes you get ones knowing they're just buying time so they don't even attempt to seem exciting and other times you get game-changers and you cry knowing the cute girl who isn't useless will die or leave. In this case, everything would wrap up with a smirk by the sunset for \"even though we had our differences, we'll move forward\". Keep in mind, delivering this can be cheesy so it often gets rushed.\n * **Thought-provoking** topics or questions like yours is a subplot waiting to boil but all too often it's just left to fizzle without details. Which leads me to my next speculated point, \n * **Self-reflection/acceptance** implies dealing with the parts of yourself that you know you need and how to achieve them. Like, Ichigo's inner world reacts to the good (hometown, maybe more) and bad (raining on all of that, drowning in it) in his life. But his frustrations with himself turned into a seasoned old guy and animal instinct-man who create a demand that Ichigo needs to be stronger to overcome the odds. Rukia, the cute tomboy/soldier focused a lot on being militant, but has inner fascination with beauty only seen in her inspiration from Shiba Miyako (Kaien's wife), Byakuya's art & strength, and it can be argued that this is represented in her zanpakuto's embodiment. Also Sode no Shirayuki in this arc is bothered that Rukia's primary personality makes her just a military tool. Even though Muramasa's powers promotes the feelings of being oppressed to persuade the spirits to fight their Shinigami, the underlying ideas are still there in most of them -- or just secretly made up reasons to move plot because filler rarely has decent direction.\n\nIt's just a lot of open-ended conjecture that has good intentions of making\nfans expand on the characters they enjoy, hence those two examples up top and\nthis following final piece.\n\n**[Speculation]**\n\nKazeshini's personality is one that Hisagi detests not solely because of _how_\nhe is but instead _who_ he is -- the extension of his very soul. He doesn't\nemphasize with Kazeshini which makes it a part of himself he cannot identify.\nKazeshini reflects this confusion which is why they agree to disagree.\nAlternatively, if they meet halfway, neither would be stifled by fear (to\nkill) or frustration (that seems weak). Achieving Bankai is probably about\nreleasing insecurities & inhibitions to become whole or enlightened -- you\nknow, growing with your sword instead of against/away from it -- or that was\nthe original idea.\n\n**[/Speculation]**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-25T06:11:04.803", "id": "8896", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-25T06:11:04.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2364", "parent_id": "8893", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI figured some further research on my part wouldn't hurt:\n\nFrom a combination of checking the list of\n[volumes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spoon_%28manga%29#Manga) and\n[episodes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spoon_%28manga%29#Episode_list),\nrereading the Yahoo Answers question I referred to earlier, looking at [Baka-\nUpdates](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=64832), and looking\nthrough the relevant parts of the manga, it seems that:\n\n * The first \"season\" goes up to chapter 31, which is about up to the first half of volume 4. The chapters 30 and 31 involve Hachiken's bacon production/sale, which is covered more or less in the last episode of the first season of the Silver Spoon anime. However, I couldn't find the baseball game in the last episode of the anime anywhere in or before chapter 31 - and without reading the manga, it's hard to say if that's an anime only event or not.\n\n * Similarly, the second season seems to start at chapter 31 (where Hachiken becomes the vice-president of the equestrian club - which happens in the first episode of the second season). It seems to end at chapter 75 (where Hachiken's mother visits), which corresponds to the events of the last episode of the second season.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T05:11:43.687", "id": "9156", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-03T04:05:35.707", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-03T04:05:35.707", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "8895", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis would just be my best guess from reading the series thus far and also\noutside influences, but I think that the chakra which form the tailed beasts\nalso have a psychic impression with which humans communicate and interact.\nThis psychic impression, through experience, grows what we perceive as a\npersonality and has its re/actions based on this.\n\nThe physical form (and perceived growth) they take on may also be due to human\ninfluence. As they have interacted with the species over time they have noted\nthat these creatures grow old and die. Not only this, but they start from an\ninfant form and, over time, change in height, temperament, and language\nability.\n\nSince the entire lives of the tailed beasts since the death of the Sage of the\nSix Paths is not detailed it is impossible to know when the tailed beasts saw\ndifferent levels of maturity. I would also guess that this would have a human\ninfluence as well, but mostly from the jinchuuriki (human hosts) that the\nbeasts dwelled within. As the hosts grew older and died this possibly\nreflected within how the beasts manifested themselves as they moved from host\nto host over the generations. It is also through seeing the lives of these\nhuman hosts and what their role in society was that contributed to their sour\nfeelings towards the human species.\n\nAs for the chibi tailed beast having less power? If we consider all beings\nwithin this universe start out with no manual to their powers and not a lot of\ninstruction we can also infer that the tailed beasts came into existence not\nknowing the extent of their power. I say \"extent of their power\" only because\nafter the corruption of ninshu into ninjutsu that the techniques we think of\nas powers came about as a concept. The tailed beasts most likely have had the\nsame chakra reserves as before but started life without the desire to use them\nas humans would.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T13:42:33.017", "id": "8959", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T13:42:33.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4661", "parent_id": "8903", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis does contain manga spoilers, just to inform the people who've only seen\nthe anime.\n\n> **ORIGINS** \n> The first Demon Weapons were created 800 years ago prior to the start of\n> the series, Arachne following instructions found within the Book of Eibon.\n> To create a Demon Weapon she murdered a Witch to use as a sacrifice. Using\n> the Witch's soul, which has the power of transformation, Arachne joined\n> together an inanimate weapon and a human soul to create a Demon Weapon which\n> had the ability to transform from Human to Weapon form. This act of killing\n> a witch made every witch want to kill Arachne and demon weapons alike. One\n> of the very first Demon Weapons to have ever been created by Arachne is\n> suggested to be Giriko. The Demon Weapons, despite their unplanned creation,\n> were accepted into the world, and the Eight Powerful Warriors were the first\n> people to fight as Weapon and Meister teams. \n> \n> The blood of a Weapon is passed down however depending on the circumstances\n> of an individual's life that blood may or may not actually be awakened.\n> There are families like the Nakatsukasa clan which are made up entirely of\n> Weapons and families like the Evans family where the Weapon Soul is\n> apparently the only member to have inherited the Weapon blood for numerous\n> generations.\n\nSource: [Soul Eater Wiki:\nWeapons](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Demon_Weapons)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-26T21:54:50.153", "id": "8916", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-26T22:01:50.877", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-26T22:01:50.877", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4085", "parent_id": "8906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost probably, he would have brought his lucky charm but it might not be shown\nin the anime because they may have assumed that it's Midorimia \"thing\" and it\nneed not be highlighted again and again.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-06T15:06:54.860", "id": "33572", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-06T15:06:54.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20937", "parent_id": "8908", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt doesn't seem to have been spun from an actual person in history or a piece\nof writing. From an interview with the creator of Death Note Tsugumi Ohba he\nsays this:\n\n> There was nothing in particular. I started thinking of some ideas and while\n> these ideas were still floating in the back of my mind, I got more ideas to\n> fill up detailed plots like the rules and the god of death and so on.\n> Eventually, I thought there was enough material for a good story to tell.\n\nSince Death Note is centered around Gods of Death or Shinigami and since there\nare many urban legends on Shinigami in Japan and lets not mention that\nShinigamis are very commonly known about in Japan, it is safe to assume that\nthese may have influenced or helped influence the creation of Death Note,\nalthough if there were any actual people in history or a piece of writing that\ninfluenced Death Note, then these origins are yet unknown.\n\nand also\n\n> No, there was nothing that I strongly wished to express. The basic\n> underlying idea was that **“Humans are not immortals and once they are dead,\n> they do not come back alive again”. This is to indirectly say that we should\n> all treasure the present and live our lives to the fullest**.\n\nFrom the text above, this gives some more of an insight as to what also helped\ninfluence Death Note (which would have been his own personal thoughts). Refer\nto sentence highlighted in bold.\n\nIn conclusion Death Note was not inspired by any philosophers (people or a\nwriting), since in the comment that was what you were looking for.\n\nBibliography for reference\n\n 1. <http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=21396363>\n\nThis should help if you want to review my answer, compare it with other\nsources or to verify that information is correct.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T00:56:39.710", "id": "9090", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T00:56:39.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "8914", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\n_Note: this answer does not answer the question in title. Instead, it attempts\nto broaden the ideas the manga presents for those who are interested_\n\nThe YouTube channel Wisecrack has a good video on this topic: [The Philosophy\nof Death Note – What Is\nJustice?](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-ymYjG0SU0jUWnWh9ZzEQ)\n\nFrom the video, I understand that these characters represent these ideologies:\n\n * Light/Kira: the end justifies the mean (i.e. [consequentialism](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/)). If one has to sacrifice oneself and be a criminal for a greater good, then let it be.\n * L: it's better and more productive to find study about what injustice is, rather than the high-in-the-sky concept of justice\n * M, N: everything is just a logic game\n * Matsuda: [Socratic questioning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-07-19T18:22:35.347", "id": "53669", "last_activity_date": "2022-02-07T17:44:52.253", "last_edit_date": "2022-02-07T17:44:52.253", "last_editor_user_id": "4663", "owner_user_id": "4663", "parent_id": "8914", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEpisode 7 paints the picture of Kyouko's background. Basically, Kyouko is all\nalone having lost everyone important to her including her family. So she's in\ndespair and desperate to find comfort somewhere.\n\nAfter hearing Sayaka's story, Kyouko started to identify with her. So they\neffectively formed a friendship. Episode 10 reveals that this friendship is\nformed in multiple timelines.\n\nSo when Sayaka becomes a witch, Kyouko felt the obligation to save her - her\none and only friend.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T04:53:24.813", "id": "8955", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T05:00:06.793", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-27T05:00:06.793", "last_editor_user_id": "17", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "8954", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe is not morally ok with executing people. If you noticed he refused to kill\ncivilians in episode 2,especially since one was his friend, and he saved the\nfalling women in the same episode in the middle of a battlefield. The only\ntime he even actually killed civilians was when he fired the FLEIJA in Tokyo.\n\nHe is obviously aware of what the Britannians do as he sees some of it first\nhand. He is even one of the ones that is discriminated against, which is seen\nin the episode where he stood around washing paint off of his shirt and in ep\n5, even though they can't do anything more than that because he is an honorary\nBritannian. The only problem is at first he cannot change it. That is why he\nneeded to become the knight of one. From that position he would have the\nauthority to prevent the Britannian's treatment of elevens.\n\nHe is not ok with the executions but at the same time he is powerless to\nprevent them unless he were to become the knight of one.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-30T04:15:09.420", "id": "9236", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-30T04:15:09.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "8960", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe new guy is Fujitora or [Issho](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Issho) and\nis an admiral.\n\nThe 5 elders appear to be the\n[gorosei](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gorosei) who are the heads of the\nworld government. They pretty much are the world government and pick the\nadmirals, warlords, and everyone at navy HQ. That is why they could deceive\nthem as needed. They probably only did that, however, by orders of the\ncelestial dragons who are (essentially) the royal/noble class of the world\ngovernment.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T19:21:42.823", "id": "9001", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T22:02:24.457", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-27T22:02:24.457", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "8965", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe five elders are the Gorosei, Japanese for \"five elder stars\" (go means\nfive) who form the council that run the world government. Below them is the\ncommander-in-chief of the world government, and below him is the fleet admiral\nof the marines. They have pretty much unlimited power over the world\ngovernment.\n\nVery little information has been given, but many speculate (based on nothing)\nthat they are five of the direct descendants of the 20 kings who formed the\nworld government (making them celestial dragons). If they are just normal\ncitizens, they may in theory have to answer to the celestial dragons, if they\nare celestial dragons themselves then they answer to no-one.\n\nIt isn't really that they fooled Marine HQ, it's more that they withheld\ninformation, as Marine HQ follows their orders anyway. If Sakazuki had found\nout, he probably wouldn't have had a choice but to go along with them anyway,\nas when Sengoku wanted to get the wanted posters out for the escaped Impel\nDown prisoners as soon as possible, but was overruled and told that it was\nbeing kept secret. All he could do was resign, they can overrule literally\nanyone in the world government whenever they want.\n\nUpdate:\n\nAt the time of this answer, the above was true. Since then, we've now seen Im,\nthe man who sits on the Empty Throne in Mary Geoise and who stands above the\nfive elders.\n\nIt seems that they are the second highest authority in the world government.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T23:49:35.977", "id": "9036", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-11T17:06:52.300", "last_edit_date": "2020-12-11T17:06:52.300", "last_editor_user_id": "4515", "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "8965", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure if the [Sceptics](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/) site would\nbe a better fit for the \"is this possible\" portion of the question, but I'll\ngive my attempt at an answer.\n\nAs stated by my comment, TV Tropes calls this [_Clean\nCut_](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CleanCut) (which it argues is\nsometimes related to [_Absurdly Sharp\nBlade_](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbsurdlySharpBlade)). Given\nthat their naming for this is very \"straightforward\" (i.e. this trope\ndescribes making very clean cuts with blades) compared to others (e.g. \"idiot\nhair\" or \"ahoge\") it seems reasonable to conclude that this trope is generally\nreferred to as \"Clean Cut\".\n\nIt's not very clear whether or not this is possible in real life - this would\nmost certainly depend on the sharpness of the blade, the thickness of the\nmaterial in question, and the exact material being cut, among other things.\nFor example, in my experience, it's much easier to cleanly chop reasonably\nsized vegetable segments (at least with carrots, onions, turnips, etc -\nvegetables that aren't of the leafy type) than to cut meat that way.\n\nAs per the now edited question: the vegetable here is a daikon, which is used\nin a lot of East Asian cooking. I'll need to look further to check the\npossibility of cutting daikon very neatly in that form. With this specific\nvegetable, a relatively clean cut (assuming good technique) seems possible, as\nper videos such as [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Byhrzu2p0) and\n[this](http://www.monkeysee.com/play/18321-how-to-cut-daikon-radish), but I'm\nnot really sure.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T19:43:41.040", "id": "9006", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-14T20:43:42.223", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:46:46.593", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "9000", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNo. The sharpest blades ever made are composed of obsidian and artificial\ncrystals, as they can fracture down to an edge mere molecule thick Even under\nmagnification they retain an edge that are sharper than metal. Even so they\nare incapable of producing such a cut. Cells adhere to each other through\ncell-surface proteins called cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), they bond cells\ntogether and bond on the molecular level, far smaller than any blade edge.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OqePK.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-10-24T09:07:51.090", "id": "60894", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-24T09:07:51.090", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "54434", "parent_id": "9000", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was revealed in the Nightmare Of Nunnally that during the Hundred Years War\nC.C. was the rival of Joan of Arc. Joan was known as the Witch of Orleans,\nwhere as C.C. was the Witch of Britannia and she served under Henry VI. In a\nmeeting between C.C. and Joan she received her scar.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-30T04:25:54.217", "id": "9237", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-30T04:25:54.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "9022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFirstly, C.C. did not kill the Nun. The Nun's intent was to force C.C. to take\nher Code, and once C.C.'s Geass matured, attacked her to make her do so, and\nthen killed herself. C.C. receives her scar from the Nun, during that\naltercation.\n\nPresumably, the Nun tried to draw a Geass symbol, but it was done imperfectly.\n\nPresumably, the scar persists because it was one of C.C.'s features before her\ndeath, so it doesn't go away completely.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-28T18:26:43.543", "id": "37080", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-28T18:26:43.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28964", "parent_id": "9022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI know this is an old question, but I wanted to give my interpretation of what\nhappened since it doesn't seem to be one that I've heard elsewhere.\n\nI believe that the scar appeared after she had obtained the Code from the nun,\nand she was subject to torture because of the belief that she was a witch. As\nwe know, those with the Code can still be wounded and \"killed\", but their\ninjuries heal very quickly and they come back to life. It's possible that this\nparticular injury was just fresh enough to remain visible at this time. What's\nmore - this injury is right over her heart. Maybe it isn't supposed to be a\nGeass sigil at all, and is actually a deep wound caused by someone cutting her\nheart out (this would also explain why it is taking longer to heal). Of\ncourse, it could just as easily be a step in some sort of cultist method that\nthe witch hunters came up with to try and kill her based on the sigil on her\nforehead.\n\nRegardless, this cause and reasoning would answer the question regarding why\nher other injuries healed, but this one hadn't seemed to. Additionally, there\nis a scene during the sequence where C.C. has amnesia in which she mistakenly\nbelieves that Lelouch wants to have sex, and begins to remove her top. In this\nscene, her top is easily high enough that the scar should be visible, but no\nscar can be seen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-10T05:52:22.537", "id": "37795", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-10T05:52:22.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29691", "parent_id": "9022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Nun attacked her and caused that wound forcing C.C. to defend herself and\nkill the Nun instead. Which is what the Nun wanted anyways. The damaged the\nNun did, did not get healed, because it's at that moment when the Nun dies,\nthat C.C. gets the Code from her and is now the Code user. So because the\nwound occurred before and not after C.C. became a Code user, it must of only\nhealed naturally. I believe a Geass user who obtains a Code doesn't\nnecessarily mean they activated it right then and there. C.C. must of\nactivated the Code at a later date, probably after the wound had healed\nnaturally. Perhaps after killing the Nun in self defense and thus obtaining\nthe Code, C.C. fled the scene and eventually healed, only to be captured and\nblamed for the Nuns death and accused of being a witch and ultimately murdered\nby a mob in retaliation of the death of the Nun. Then upon death her Code\nactivates and she resurrects as the immortal Geass distributor that the Nun\nwas before her with that scar. As becoming immortal is basically freezing the\nperson at the current state they are at when activating the Code. If LeLouch\nresurrects, he will probably either have a scar in his chest or a hole. One or\nthe other, assuming his Code activated upon his death.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-05T05:06:02.860", "id": "38272", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-05T05:06:02.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30148", "parent_id": "9022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter searching everywhere for the day looking this up before someone else\nfinds the answer, he appears to be Mobuta Mobuo. He is actually a background\ncharacter that was actually placed in their as a joke as said in an interview\nwith Arakawa Hiromu in the Perfect Guidebook (Hagaren Kenkyujo DX). He was\nalso a gag character in the Mangas and hardly anyone seemed to notice him.\n\n \n\nI am absolutely sure this is him.\n\n* * *\n\nBibliography for reference\n\n 1. <http://www.roy-mustang.net/arakawa/about_interview1.html>\n\nIncluded for reference to my answer, to verify that this information is\ncorrect and to allow you to compare this information with other information to\nsee if this is correct.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T07:17:16.743", "id": "9160", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T07:17:16.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9023", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEven though in some countries, translations of original works are considered\noriginal works themselves, the copyright laws are still pretty vague, and so\nto avoid getting in trouble, fansub groups add such reminders that could be\ninterpreted as \"we did not intend to infringe any rights\" if they get sued.\n\nSo if some shady guy tries to sell some dvds, and they contain very explicit\nmarkings of a certain fansub group, that group has some protection by stating\nthat they did not intend for that to happen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T02:15:15.260", "id": "9128", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T02:15:15.260", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "9123", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's a combination of a few factors.\n\nFirst, there's a sort of ethical code among some fansubbers that dictates that\nthey fansub for \"the love of anime\" or something to that effect, and that it's\nimproprietous to profit off of fansubbing. I'm not sure how effective a\nreminder of this sort would be to people who don't subscribe to the same\nethical code (i.e. the people at whom this message would be targeted), but\nthere you have it. Sticking a reminder on your fansubs is pretty much a no-\ncost endeavor, so it's not like it can hurt.\n\nThen, there's the belief that explicitly stating that you do not intend to\nprofit off of your fansubs makes you less liable for copyright infringement. I\ndoubt this has been tested (I don't know of any litigation against\nfansubbers), but I rather doubt this would be of much value as a legal defense\n- statutory damages (as opposed to actual damages) are available in USA\ncopyright infringement cases under federal law (and, I imagine, in other\njurisdictions as well).\n\nI suspect (but have no evidence) that this is a holdover from the pre-Internet\ndays of fansub distribution when you actually needed to pass around video\ntapes to get your anime fix. Exchanging physical materials is likely to get\nyou more scrutiny from law enforcement than exchanging digital information,\nand this relates to my previous point: infringing copyright is bad, but\nprofiting off of infringed copyrights is probably worse, or at least that's\nthe general perception. [C. Griffin's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/9169/1908) to this question contains\nan interesting view on the matter, from the perspective of someone who\nconsumed fansubs in pre-internet times.\n\n[Adam Davis also brought up in a\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9123/why-do-fansubbed-\nanimes-have-a-reminder-to-not-sell-their-fansubbed-product#comment11192_9123)\nanother point I meant to address - fansubbers don't want _other_ people\nprofiting off of their work - it's kind of a slap in the face. So what's one\nway to do that? Stick a big \"this is not for sale\" warning on it, kind of like\nhow a lot of free (gratis) software comes with a notice saying something like\n\"if you paid for this, you should ask for your money back because this is free\nsoftware\".\n\nSo here's the problem: basically all fansubbing these days is done with\n\"softsubs\" - that is, the subtitles are [basically a text\nfile](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ass#Advanced_SubStation_Alpha) that\naccompanies a video. It's dead easy to edit these things (particularly using\nsoftware like [Aegisub](http://www.aegisub.org/)), so this is probably another\nreason that you don't see these disclaimers anymore: they're easy to remove.\nIn the pre-softsub days (maybe before 2008~2010 or so? I don't have my\nchronology down for this very well), subtitling was done by re-encoding the\nvideo to have the subtitles (\"hardsubs\") baked into the video file. Since this\nis _much_ more difficult to alter, disclaimers would have been more permanent\n(and hence, useful) back then.\n\n* * *\n\nAnyway, I haven't seen a disclaimer of this sort on any fansubs from at least\nthe past five years or so - it's gone the way of the dinosaurs. In the modern\nfansubbing world, where all exchange of fansubs is electronic and hardsubs are\nobsolete, these disclaimers serve no actual purpose.\n\n(I have seen this sort of thing on recent manga scanlations, though - but\nthat's a topic for another question. The key difference here, I suspect, is\nthat scanlations are still \"hardsubbed\", so to speak.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T02:16:22.230", "id": "9129", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-09T03:56:25.663", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9123", "post_type": "answer", "score": 26 }, { "body": "\n\nI think this is largely to do with Copyright issues. You see those who\ndistribute or offer the file are usually in the wrong and violate Japanese\ncopyright laws. But because copyright highly relies on where you are in the\nworld (speaking geographically) fan operated groups who do these fansubs often\nget away from this and find a way to \"turn the other corner\".\n\nEven though it is possible to find loopholes such as this, these warnings are\noften meant to redirect blame if they are sued for infringing on copyright.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T03:50:00.427", "id": "9152", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T03:50:00.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9123", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI was a _consumer_ of fansubs in the early-mid 90's. This statement has no\nbearing on my answer, however, I was pointing it out because someone thought\nit would be interesting to hear from a pre-Internet fansub consumer.\n\nAll of these answers are valid. Ultimately, the fan sub groups need legal\nauthorities to know that profit is not expected or accepted. It's a gray area,\nbecause the two \"products\" that we're discussing are the original work\n(included in a fan sub), and then the translation itself. The translation can\nprobably be distributed freely, as it is not the same as the original dialogue\n-- and on its own is an interpretation of a story by a translator.\n\nThe iffy part is about the original work being distributed. In most countries,\nit is illegal to distribute (user-made) copies of copyrighted work without\nexpress written consent of the copyright holder. It robs the copyright holder\nof earnings, blah blah blah. I'm not a legal zealot, and I'm not here to\ndefend any particular side. However, in this day and age, the copyright\nprotections are expected to be upheld in the international community, and\nenforced by local government or at a higher level -- Interpol. We don't\nnormally hear about busts like this, because a fansubber usually has a small\naudience, and many studios secretly find this type of behavior beneficial to\nincreasing their products popularity, and with any luck, profitability.\n\n_Footnote about the pre-Internet days: We would mail our brand new blank VHS\ncassettes to fansub groups in postage-paid envelopes so that no money would\nexchange hands whatsoever. It might take a month or two to get your tapes, but\nfor foreign video that was unreleased domestically, it's what you had to do._\n</backinthedaystories>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T15:40:20.030", "id": "9169", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T15:40:20.030", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4685", "parent_id": "9123", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nI have seen notices that warn that if you have paid money for this fansub you\nhave been ripped off leading me to believe that there have been cases of other\nparties trying to make money by selling free fansubs and these notices are\nattempts to stop that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-29T13:04:53.907", "id": "9221", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-29T13:04:53.907", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4707", "parent_id": "9123", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, _somebody_ has to do the grunting.\n\nIt may sound like I'm joking, but I'm really not. I don't know if canned\ngrunts or grunt SFX packages exist, but I don't think the producers would want\nto use them - Seki has to grunt in a number of different ways and in a number\nof different contexts, and when you get down to it, Seki's grunts can really\nbe quite emotive.\n\nYou could, in principle, have Seki be completely soundless, but that would be\nunrealistic - unlike the dude from Non Non Biyori, he does interact with the\nother characters to a substantive degree, and if he didn't make a single\nnoise, it would be kind of weird.\n\nFor illustrative purposes, I have compiled a collection of Seki grunts and\nrelated noises from episodes 1 and 2 (<http://vocaroo.com/i/s0PuflktAAbw>; do\nforgive the shoddy editing). I hope you will agree that this stunning\nperformance on Shimono Hiro's part is reason enough to have a voice actor for\nSeki. For an even better illustration, watch episode 16 from roughly 4:20\nuntil the ending credits (the part where Yokoi is messing with him) - he\nvocalizes a _lot_ there.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T03:48:45.687", "id": "9151", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-03T03:06:28.963", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-03T03:06:28.963", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9150", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe premise sounds like [Jigoku Sensei\nNube](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2012/Jigoku_Sensei_Nube).\n\n> Nube is a clumsy, easygoing, and very kind teacher, but he has a secret\n> under his glove on the left hand. He has a monster hand, and he also has the\n> ability to sense ghosts and evil spirits. So he protects his dear students\n> from these evil spirits with his monster hand, proving to be very powerful.\n\n \n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T04:42:33.390", "id": "9155", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-22T01:16:09.097", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-22T01:16:09.097", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3387", "parent_id": "9153", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe map definitely isn't accurate (at least in that it doesn't depict quite a\nnumber of current borders correctly). For one thing, as you noted, Europe\nhasn't been depicted well, though it does seem that the part west of Germany\nis alright. However, the Czech Republic's border with Slovakia is gone, and it\nseems that the border with Austria is also missing. The Romania-Hungary border\nis also gone\n\nWhen you look at South Asia though, the borders are also wrong. While the\nIndia-Pakistan border seems ok, the borders with Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan\naren't there. There are a couple smaller issues with Central Asia.\n\nI initially thought that this might be a 1900's map because of the European\nborders, but the North-South Korea division still seems to be there (which\ndidn't exist at the time of Austria-Hungary), and the India-Pakistan border\nshouldn't have existed at the time - so as far as I can tell, this isn't\nsupposed to be a replica of a map at some point in time in actual history.\n\n**Summary:** a number of borders here and there have been omitted. I'm not as\nfamiliar with the geography of Africa and South/Latin America, but for\nstarters, the Algerian-Tunisian border has also disappeared in this map. But\nthere are definitely a number of noticeable errors with Central/South Asia and\nwith Europe. So this map really isn't that accurate, even if for a lot of the\n\"unaffected\" countries it's drawn reasonably well.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T05:30:15.533", "id": "9158", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T05:55:46.977", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-28T05:55:46.977", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "9157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis takes place in the year 2030 so anything could have happened to those\ncountries. They could have been taken over or just wiped out.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-26T22:07:19.020", "id": "11493", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T22:07:19.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6394", "parent_id": "9157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThey didn't get east and west wrong, as the world is round and you are just\nused to looking at the world with the americas on the left and\neurope/asia/africa on the right. Also the map is a mercator projection meaning\nthat it is distorted making areas of low population bigger because due to the\nearth being round it cant be represented by a flat rectangular object\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-23T01:30:49.290", "id": "57670", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-23T01:30:49.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53476", "parent_id": "9157", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've never seen it mentioned, specifically, but we can get close to a minimum\nage.\n\nJuly 7, X777 is when the dragons disappeared. Since Natsu was trained by\nIgneel, he must have been born before this date, presumably several years\nbefore to allow time for training and such. If Natsu had been born the day\nbefore, he would be about 14.\n\nDuring the Fighting Festival arc, [the Battle of Fairy\nTail](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fighting_Festival_arc#Battle_of_Fairy_Tail)\nspecifically, Natsu, Gajeel, and Makarov are trapped by Freed's enchantment,\nsuggesting that Natsu must be older than 80 at this point.\n\nThe [Edolas arc](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Edolas_arc) sees the return\nof Gildarts after 3 year absence, suggesting the Battle of Fairy Tail was less\nthan 3 years prior to this. Since there is no minimum time that passed, there\nis not much help to us here.\n\nIn the [X971 arc](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/X791_arc) we know 7 years\nhave passed, so **Natsu must be at least 87** by this point.\n\nBeyond that, I'm not sure how much time is passing between each event.\n\n**Speculation**\n\nI do have a theory that would make sense of why Natsu is so old when\nphysically he looks young:\n\n> Natsu and the other Dragon Slayers are actually their respective dragons.\n> For example, Natsu is actually Igneel.\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T15:44:22.690", "id": "9473", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-05T14:32:07.470", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-05T14:32:07.470", "last_editor_user_id": "1651", "owner_user_id": "1651", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n * July 7, x777 The Dragons disappeared\n * Natsu joined Fairy Tail in x777\n * Currently it is x791 in Fairy Tail world\n\nFrom this it can be concluded that Natsu is **at least** 14 years old. **That\nis the only thing we can know for sure**. But as to how old he really is,\nthere is no definite answer. The Battle of Fairy Tail suggest that he might be\nolder than 80 years old, but it was never mentioned explicitly that he is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-05T08:44:36.110", "id": "13260", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-05T08:44:36.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is safe to assume that something inseparable from Natsu (his magic, a\nsealed dragon, previous sealling like the 7 years thing) could have also kept\nhim from passing through the enchantment. Ergo, the 80 years seal cannot\nnessesarily be used to develop a lower bound for his age. In addition, he\ndoesn't truely age when sealed away for 7 years. (Lucy was far too...\ndeveloped... to be 10 when she joined Fairy Tail).\n\nFor a lower bound of his body's age, we have to note that he remembers Ingeel.\nMost first memories a child has are from 5 to 10 years of age (i'm the\nlatter). Their first clear memories are definitly around 10 years old.\nAssuming Natsu must have been at least that old when Igneel disappeared, means\nthat in year X784 (when the series starts) Natsu would be roughly 17 years old\nby this specific means of estimating his age. This puts him around the same\nage as the others which makes sense. If he lived much longer than that,\n(living time) he would remember having lived much longer than that and would\nlikely look like he had lived much longer than that.\n\nI don't, however, believe his timeline is that simple. Zeref seem to remember\nhim which means he should be several hundred years old. The dragon slayers all\nseem to have indeterminate ages that may be easily over 80 years old (as shown\nby the previously mentioned enchantment).\n\nSo define living time as time he is conscious and sealed time as time he did\nnot age. Total age is living age+sealed age.\n\nWe do not know his age (living or sealled) as it is not yet revealled. **His\n_living_ age is roughly 17-19 years old close to other main characters.** This\nseems to be the measure used to define Lucy and the other's ages in the\nquestion. His total age is at least 24 as he was sealled for at least 7 years.\nHis total age, however, as no upper bound and there is evidence that he (or\npart of him) could be several hundred years old. The discrepency between\nliving and total age, however, all seems to be time sealled away by some yet\nundefined means.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-05T13:02:21.717", "id": "13262", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-05T13:02:21.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI would assume that Natsu is around the age of 17-18, because when he was\nfighting Gray and when he joined Fairy Tail, he looked about the same age, as\nI don't think that all the time travel with Eclipse would have affected it,\nhowever, if they had the 7 year gap, so technically Lucy would be about 24,\nbut I think that we can say he is around the same age.\n\nAlso, it wouldn't make sense that he is 70 something, because, yes, the age of\ndragons was around 400 years ago, but when the training is shown, he is the\nonly one there, not to mention the fact that Dragon slaying is a lost magic,\nand is quite rare. Before the phantom lord incident, he didn't know that other\ndragon slayers existed, and as a boy he didn't know how to read and write, so\nhe was quite clueless, surely in 70 years, he would have learn things!\n\nIn conclusion, if Guildarts left when he was 70/80 in a child form, and\nreturned 3 years later, he was in the state we see him now, considering that\nErza and the others grew at the same rate.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T21:38:01.053", "id": "13650", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-26T22:22:41.657", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-26T22:22:41.657", "last_editor_user_id": "2159", "owner_user_id": "8146", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNatsu couldn't be 14 because he didn't meet Igneel when he was born. When\nIgneel found Natsu alone in the woods, Natsu was able to walk properly, which\nmeans that he had to be around 7. Igneel left when Natsu was around 12 and\nspent around 5/6 years in Fairy Tail, not counting the years he skipped in the\nEclipse. Hence, Natsu is currently around 17 or 18.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-17T02:22:07.583", "id": "20113", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T06:14:08.010", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T06:14:08.010", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13267", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nGildarts returned from \"Century quest\". That means he was gone for 100 years,\nbut he was with Natsu when he was little... so I think that in their time 100\nyears are maybe 3-5 years in real life. So... They are maybe several hundred\nyears old but they just don't age as quickly as in real life...\n\nIt would make sense - the age of dragons was 400 years ago so if 100 years =\n~4 years then Natsu is around 16 + time before he met Igneel so around 17-20\nyears old in our world. Or like 500 years old in Fairy Tail universe!\n\nOr... maybe they just count years in different way. Maybe \"one year\" is for\nexample 50 days long. So 365 days are 7 years not 1 or something... that's why\nthey put for example X780 year. That X is a number that changes not in 1000\nyears but faster.\n\nHope you liked my theory :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-08T15:37:01.230", "id": "20706", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-08T15:50:36.750", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-08T15:50:36.750", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "13802", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAll the current Dragon Slayers who were raised by Dragons have there parent\nDragon inside them. That's why it seems like they are more than 80 years old.\n\nNatsu is older than Wendy, but younger than Erza, so his age would range from\n14-17. I'm leaning more towards the older side.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-10T02:04:03.467", "id": "20755", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T06:05:17.760", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T06:05:17.760", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13830", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, in chapter 436 it is revealed that, ...\n\n> **Natsu is about 400 years old.** Give a few years between the flashback and\n> his birth and take seven years during the time-skip. He was born 400 years\n> ago as the younger brother of Zeref. He died soon thereafter, but his body\n> was kept intact by Zeref during all those years. The body Natsu is using in\n> the current time-line is the exact same as that of Zeref's younger brother.\n> More can be read at [this related\n> question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/16872/6166) about how this all\n> came to be. \n> \n> \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-20T10:02:45.980", "id": "21691", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-20T10:02:45.980", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nWell it is hard determine the age as the dragon slayers have come from 400\nyears in the past.Technically Natsu is about 417-419 years old\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-17T18:35:48.577", "id": "28094", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-17T18:35:48.577", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19784", "parent_id": "9159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMadoka's mother is drinking from a faceted glass and what your screenshot\nshows are two edges of it and the Michelangelo's painting behind the glass.\nThe dialogue between two women doesn't really correspond with the painting's\ntheme, as far as I'm concerned.\n\n\n\n\nThe painting seems to be part of the entourage of the bar. With studio Shaft\nin charge of creating this anime, you can safely assume that it's a subtle\nhint at one of the many existential topics raised in it. It's probably not\nvery significant in relation to the plot, but it just may give you some food\nfor thought.\n\nConsider the process of Adam's creation by God a metaphor for a magical girl\nbecoming a witch. As a more powerful entity, witches are capable of creating\ntheir own kind by corrupting magical girls. Something along those lines.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T10:27:04.813", "id": "9165", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T10:27:04.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "9164", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn part 1, chapter 7 (or, for a shorter version, episode 4), we learn the\nfollowing from the false minoshiro:\n\n> It was only in the 2011th year of the Gregorian calendar that a scientist of\n> a protohistorical civilization conclusively documented psychokinesis,\n> hitherto thought to be a supernatural telekinetic phenomenon. [...]\n>\n> Every prior experimental investigation of PK had been a disastrous failure,\n> whether conducted in public or in a scientific facility. In 2011, however, a\n> cognitive scientist from the Republic of Azerbaijan - Imran Ismailov -\n> conducted an experiment in the nation's capital, Baku, that was a near-total\n> success. At the time, the quantum-mechanical paradox in which the mere act\n> of observing an object can induce changes in it was well known. Ismailov was\n> the first to suggest that PK could be used to amplify this phenomenon to\n> macroscopic levels. [...]\n>\n> ...The first person identified by Ismailov as possessing preternatural\n> abilities was a 19-year-old girl by the name of Nona Mardanova. She could do\n> nothing more than move a plastic ball, light as a feather, sealed inside a\n> transparent tube. And yet, it is thought that it was she that caused mankind\n> to undergo a transformation, as if she were a seed crystal in a solution,\n> stimulating the formation of more like crystals. People from around the\n> world followed in her footsteps, awakening a power that had 'till then lay\n> dormant within them.\n\nSo basically, this is how it went down: some people were \"inherent\"\npsychokinetikers, like Nona Mardanova - they had abilities that normal humans\ndidn't possess. Their abilities were, however, very limited, and not at all on\nthe level of the people in Saki's time.\n\nIsmailov conducted experiments on these people (specifically, on Mardanova; I\ndon't believe he conducted any other experiments). We don't know what the\nexperiments exactly consisted of, for two reasons: much information was lost\nover the thousand years that separate Ismailov from Saki; and Ismailov himself\nwent to great lengths to ensure that nobody but he would know the full scope\nof the experiments.\n\nWhatever Ismailov did, it \"awakened\" Mardanova. From there, it spread. We\ndon't know how that happened either - the false minoshiro doesn't address it.\nIt seems that once PK exists (i.e. the experiments on Mardanova happened), it\nspreads. Somehow. Even in Saki's time, people don't really understand how it\nhappens - children are sometimes born without PK, despite the existence of\nnon-PK users being an existential threat to society.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T21:43:52.763", "id": "9175", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T21:43:52.763", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9172", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI did Google Image Search. Maybe this is **Ghost in the shell** (1995).\n\n* * *\n\n# [Ghost in the Shell - Movie\n1995](http://myanimelist.net/anime/43/Ghost_in_the_Shell)\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\n> In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net\n> and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form\n> of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'\n> begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically\n> enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster. The\n> pursuit will call into question what makes a human and what is the\n> Puppetmaster in a world where the distinction between human and machine is\n> increasingly blurry.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T19:36:38.737", "id": "9174", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T21:54:18.787", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "4015", "parent_id": "9173", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nTo be exact, that frame is from the original Ghost in the Shell movie, and\ndepicts the creation of the cyborg body of the Major. It is part of the\nopening title sequence - which for being 20 years ago still thrills.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-29T00:06:44.963", "id": "22853", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-29T00:06:44.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15342", "parent_id": "9173", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJust like in [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/8240/1908), let's\ntake a look at [/u/homu](http://www.reddit.com/user/homu)'s\n[data](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1wr94h/tv_anime_adaption_source_by_year/).\n\n\n\nThis basically answers your question right here: between 8% and 15% (avg. 10%)\nof anime in each year from 2000-2013 were based on a video game of some\nvariety. Games are a minor but not insignificant source for anime.\n\nNow, if you're asking \"what percentage of video games get turned into an\nanime\", the answer almost certainly rounds to 0%. There are a _lot_ of video\ngames out there (probably in the high hundreds per year, at least), but less\nthan 200 anime per year, only a fraction of which are based on video games.\n\nThis data set only covers TV anime (thus excluding ONAs, OVAs, and films), but\nI see no reason to expect that an unusually large percentage of any of those\nmedia would be based on games.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-29T00:52:59.777", "id": "9211", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-29T05:38:17.793", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9209", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nIndeed. I've seen a few anime based on video games, and while they aren't that\ncommon, they aren't uncommon, either. Some anime are literally used to promote\ngames, but these are usually card games like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Duel Masters. One\nof my favorite anime, Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi, or Bridge to the Starry Skies,\nis based off of a visual novel!\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-02T19:14:22.820", "id": "49476", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-02T19:14:22.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29739", "parent_id": "9209", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAbsolutely there is, when speaking generally, though this is not utilized in\nevery single anime. The easiest way to familiarize yourself with the standard\nhair/personality types is to look at unapologetically harem (bishoujo) and\nreverse-harem (bishounen) anime and video games, because they heighten the\nmain stereotypes with the aim of every viewer/player finding at least one type\nthat is their ideal girl/guy. However, older anime from the 80s and earlier\nhave a fairly different (though not completely different) set of standard\ntypes than more modern anime do.\n\nFor bishoujo, check out: ToHeart, Ai Yori Aoshi, Love Hina‎, Tokimeki\nMemorial, Kakyuusei, Debut, etc. For bishounen, check out: Fruits Basket,\nFushigi Yuugi, Haruka naru Toki no Naka de, Hakuouki ~Shinsengumi Kitan ~,\nOuran Koukou Hosuto-bu, La Corda D'oro, Uta no Prince-sama: Maji Love 1000%,\nStarry Sky, Brothers Conflict, Free!!, Kamigami no Asobi, etc. You will\nrecognize the same basic character/hair types repeated amongst these series.\nFor 80s and older anime, check out: anything by Tezuka Osamu, Versailles no\nBara, Glass no Kamen, Ace wo Nerae, Attack No. 1!, Ashita no Joe, Kagaku\nNinjatai Gatchaman, Ginga Tetsudou 999, Candy Candy, early Gundam and Macross,\netc. Recent moe series have recurring types as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T08:41:29.063", "id": "13829", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T08:41:29.063", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "9212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, there can be some common traits that similarly haired characters share.\nOf course this is not a definitive guide to a character's personality and\nthere will be many counterexamples.\n\nHere are a couple of hairstyles and their common personalities:\n\n**Short hair** is often seen on tomboys or alternativly 'average' characters.\nThis is presumably so that they seem boyish or have a hairstyle that is not\nvery exciting.\n\n   \n\n * Kanbaru Sugura , Monogatari Series - a sporty fujioshi who is perhaps more boyish than the main , male, lead\n\n * Ranmaru Rindou, Binbougami ga! - a female delinquent who was brought up in a dojo like a male\n\n * Yuki Nagato , The Melancholy off Haruhi Suzimiya - emotionless\n\n * Kumin Tsuyuri - Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! - a member of the club who naps a lot.. And not much else\n\n**Twintails** are often childlike or are childhood friends, this is because\ntwintails are uncommon among older women, but more popular with young girls\nand society has associated the two:\n\n  \n\n * Lingyin Huang - Infinite Stratos, a childish childhood friend\n\n * Azusa Nakano - K-on! , a new (childish) member of the light music club\n\n * Yuno Gasai, Future diary, a childhood friend of the main character with simple motivations.\n\n**Drill hair** is usually a sign that a character is either wealthy or\nrefined. This is probably because rich characters tend to be braggarts.\n\n   \n\n * Selnia Iori Flameheart - ladies vs butlers - from a rich family\n\n * Mami Tomoe - Puella Madoka Magi Magicka - an experienced magical girl with refined taste\n\n * Akira Kogami - Lucky Star - drills?\n\n * Celestia Ludenberg - Dangan Ronpa - from a prestigious family\n\nAnd let's not forget the dudes. If you see this delinquent hairstyle, you can\nalmost certainly categorise that character:\n\n  \n\n * Mondo Owada - Dangan Ronpa, Member of a biker gang\n\n * Kazu, Redline - a rebel race driver\n\n * Eikichi Onizuka, Shonan Junai Gumi \n\nI could go on and on, There are quite a number of examples [including the\nsomewhat well-known hair antennae linked\nearlier](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5650/what-is-this-\nhairstyle-called)\n\nBut I think this should answer your question - Yes there can be a relationship\nbetween a character and their hairstyle, but its not a solid rule.\n\nAlso you should bear in mind that hairstyle trends will have changed\nthroughout time - what was once _in_ is now _out_ and visa versa.\n\nYou don't see many girls like this in anime today:\n\n\n\nAmano Ai - Video Girl Ai -\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-05T20:52:39.190", "id": "14311", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-08T12:25:44.200", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt is possible that he gave his all to the barrier so that it would be\npowerful and save the planet. A dying wish or something like that... It looked\nlike that to me.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-20T21:10:13.550", "id": "11385", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-20T21:10:13.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6307", "parent_id": "9216", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, there are some legitimate websites on which you can read manga and watch\nanime for free. [Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/) is one of them.\nWhile Crunchyroll [started\nout](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-11/video-site-with-\nunauthorized-anime-gets-us$4m-venture) as a site that streamed anime without\nlicenses (i.e. illegally), they are now fully legitimate and above-board.\n\nOf course, Crunchyroll has to pay for licenses for the anime they stream - the\nproducers over in Japan aren't just going to give it away for free. So how\ndoes Crunchyroll make money? I don't claim to know Crunchyroll's business\nmodel, but (as [this article](http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/21/crunchyroll-\nexpands-its-revenue-stream-by-selling-anime-related-merch/) points out), they\nhave venture funding, and they sell [premium\nmemberships](http://www.crunchyroll.com/premium_comparison), as well as\n[anime-related merchandise](http://www.crunchyroll.com/store). They also show\nads to non-members. Lots of websites follow a business model in which users\nget lots of functionality for free - for example, this one!\n\n> Aren't there any copyright violations?\n\nThe other sites you mention - \"watchop.com\" and \"anime44.com\" do not appear to\nbe licensed purveyors of anime, so in their case, yes - they are probably\ninfringing on the copyright of the owners over in Japan. They presumably\naren't paying the licensors in Japan a dime, so it's not surprising that they\ncan (illegally) show anime for free. You probably shouldn't use those sites.\n\n> If there are why don't these anime/manga companies do something about it?\n\nAllow me to quote from Logan's answer [over\nhere](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6472/1908) (emphasis added):\n\n> I'll also point out that while fansubbers and scanalators are almost\n> certainly legally in the wrong, the number of cases related to this is quite\n> small. There are several reasons for this. **For one, the Japanese industry\n> is built to sell merchandise in Japan, so they have little interest in\n> prosecuting cases overseas.** The licensing industry, on the other hand, was\n> built around an already extant culture of fansubbing, and so they've always\n> just factored that in.\n\nAlso, if I'm remembering correctly (and please, do correct me if I'm wrong;\nI'll try to dig up sources for this later), anime licensing deals are\ntypically a flat fee - the licensees outside Japan pay the licensors in Japan\na fixed amount in exchange for the right to stream the anime, or sell physical\ncopies, or whatever.\n\nWhat this means is that the licensors don't care _how many_ times the anime is\nstreamed or sold or whatever - they've already got their share, and if piracy\nreduces the number of people outside Japan that watch the anime on Crunchyroll\nor whatever, oh well! It's not their problem at that point.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-29T06:00:20.290", "id": "9218", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-29T07:59:42.330", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9217", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nSometimes anime streaming is free, but mostly it is usually geographically\nmonitored. E.g. Hulu uses geographical blocking to stop people from other\ncountries and regions outside of the USA from streaming content.\n\nThe reason they have this is due to probably copyright issues. Sites like\nanime44 are usually considered illegal sites, but because copyright varies of\nmany factors including location it is usually hard to shut down sites like\nanime44.\n\nAs said in the comments they are usually free because sites such as\nCrunchyrolls often get income from Premium Membership Users and\nproducts/merchandise that they sell on there site including Koruko No Basket\nfigurines and much, much more. It is also most likely that they earn money\nfrom clicks on ads, or on how many people view ads in between the animes that\nyou see for free. It is also likely that they might have sponsors too.\n\nEdit: One thing that these site infringe on is:\n\n> users are entitled to several protections of their own. A user is entitled\n> to make a reproduction for personal use.\n\nUnfortunatley there are some complications to this since if you are in a\ncountry where Copyright laws arent the same or enforced then people can get\naway with this, and if they are streaming it online to everyone one around the\nworld, then it isn't exactly for personal use then is it?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-29T06:10:36.160", "id": "9219", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-29T06:19:09.457", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-29T06:19:09.457", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9217", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt could be assumed that every wish is possible, yet Kyubey may lie about a\nwish being possible since granting a wish will also drain the universe of\nenergy. Kyubey will most likely only grant a wish if the energy outputted from\na Magical Girl becoming a Witch is greater than what was needed to grant the\nwish, indicated when Kyubey sometimes says something like:\n\n> Your wish has conquered entropy\n\nIt's assumed that the amount of energy to resurrect someone would be far\ngreater than what would be generated by most Magical Girl/Witch\ntransformations. After all, since Kyubey's race can manipulate souls (ripping\nthem out of bodies and making them into gems), they probably know how much\nenergy would be needed to make one.\n\nThe only wish which may in fact be impossible is something that affects the\nlaws of thermodynamics in a way that entropy no longer exists. Otherwise, a\nMagical Girl like Homura or Oriko who knew about the transformation process\nprobably would have sought out a Magical Girl who could make such a wish. (I'm\nassuming Oriko knew since she knew of Madoka becoming a witch who would\ndestroy the world and would question Kyubey as to why.)\n\nOf course, to change the laws of thermodynamics, it probably would need\nsomeone on Madoka's level to be able to produce enough energy by changing into\na witch so strong it would destroy the universe.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-29T22:35:32.600", "id": "9230", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T08:20:10.343", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-29T08:20:10.343", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "9225", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey would'nt be affected by the power of FACE , coz' it was clearly stated\nthat ONLY MAGIC which is the Magic User , not them . Their power came from\nCurse not in Magic . They are planning on a revolution , that would change the\nworld . But that is one of their goal , their main goal is to revive their\nMaster . which is named as E.N.D , the guild master of Tartaros and the\nstrongest demon creation of Zeref . I forgot that chapter where her/he stated\nthat _they will not be affected by the FACE Ability_ . \n\n> _The FACE will steal all MAGIC ability from humans and usher in the age of\n> us DEMON - kind ._\n\nVolume 44 - Fairy Tail 371 Tartaros Arc Part 2 - Song of the Heavenly Dragon\nPage 7 \n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T13:57:50.183", "id": "16895", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T13:57:50.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9351", "parent_id": "9226", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nActually even if the demons are created by Zeref's magic, they will not die as\nthey are not magic objects but actual living beings. He created these living\nbeings using his Living Magic (Seikatsu Mahou), thus breathing life into them\nwhich means they no longer need his magic to continue living. Thus, when all\nmagic will disappear, they will continue to live and their curses won't be\naffected.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-10T11:35:23.697", "id": "19264", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-30T09:53:52.530", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-30T09:53:52.530", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "11613", "parent_id": "9226", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs we saw in the manga, what FACE does is to absorb magic power. It's not a\ndispell or a counter of any type of magic, but instead its ability is to\nabsorb magic power in a radius around each face head.\n\nNow the demons of Zeref are all created by the Living Magic spell, or so it\nseems, but with the latter addition of the known as Curse Power, which doesn't\nhave a magical nature and it's instead related to something else (humans\nemotions).\n\nIn short, **Zeref's demons may have been created using magic power, but they\ndo not have any magic power inside of them and thus are inmune to FACE\neffects.**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-03T12:36:49.307", "id": "21321", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-03T12:36:49.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13229", "parent_id": "9226", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's titled \"Space Lion\", and can be found on the [1st Cowboy Bebop\nOST](http://vgmdb.net/album/19089), track #7.\n\nHere's a Youtube link: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnVaDwUg5s>.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-29T21:53:05.080", "id": "9229", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-29T21:53:05.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9228", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThis started as a joke on 2ch. The \"Manabi Line\" represent Manabi Straight's\ndisc sales, which reported barely broke even. Nowadays, people tend to use a a\npoint to indicate a show made money or not. It's not an accurate statistical\nrepresentation of any series due do how old it is comparatively to modern\nserials and how much was vested in a production.\n\nAlternatively there's also the \"Anime Saving Line,\" (it's reportedly started\nby /a/ on 4ch) which is how much Yakaman's Fractale series, he proclaimed was\ngoing to save this medium -- it sold 883 units.\n\nGenerally these numbers just take in account first week (domestic) disc sales.\n\n[This\npost](http://www.narutoforums.com/showpost.php?s=5250fa0f308d7665128b2875c418ed43&p=36590139&postcount=1)\noffers a good breakdown of volume anime disc sales with respect to how\nsuccessful a series is:\n\n> * **< 1k**: Complete failure for late night anime, but is common among\n> mainstream/daytime anime, which rely on other methods to produce revenue\n> such as ratings and merchandising. Examples of this would be Naruto, Bleach,\n> OP, Fairy Tale, Detective Conan, and most noitaminA slot anime.\n>\n> * **1k - 2k** : Pretty much same as above. Some examples of recent late\n> night anime that bombed like this would be LOLH, B Gata H Kei, and Ookami-\n> san.\n>\n> * **2k - 3k** : Still a failure, but the show has at least some fans but\n> didn't sale well for various reasons, whether they be not enough hype,\n> relatively boring plot, or too :deep:. Some recent examples would be Occult\n> Gakuin, Shin Koihime Musou, and UraBoku.\n>\n> * **3k - 4k** : This is around break even point for most anime, or as 2ch\n> calls it, the Manabi line. It's not exactly a failure, since no money was\n> lost, but it's not successful or a hit either, since no money was made. An\n> example of this would be Arakawa Under the Bridge and Ichiban Ushiro.\n>\n> * **4k - 5k** : This is around where you start to see profit being made.\n> Anime that sale in this area aren't what you would call hits, but it's still\n> a decent accomplishment for late night anime. Recent examples are Ikkitousen\n> Xtreme Xecutor and Mayoi Neko Overrun. An older one is all seasons of Zero\n> no Tsukaima.\n>\n> * **5k - 6k** : This is where some of the more prominent anime among the\n> niche market sale. By that, I mean the more memorable titles of a year. They\n> aren't exactly hits in the sense that they're known among outside of otaku\n> circles, but within them they're common names. Recent examples are Motto To\n> LOVE-Ru, Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls, Amagami SS, and Kissxsis here.\n>\n> * **6k - 7k** : Very good for late night anime. Once again, not hits, but\n> they're doing very well and are moderately popular among the niche market of\n> otaku. This is still within the realm of the 5000-6000 area. Here you have\n> your Seitokai Yakuindomo, BakaTest, and Sekirei ~Pure Engagement~.\n>\n> * **7k - 8k** : This is where you start to go from being niche within a\n> niche to being broadly popular within the otaku niche. Could be considered a\n> hit among otaku, although this is a sort of gray area in the the sense most\n> anime don't sale exactly in this range, they're either with the 5000-7000\n> range or skip into double digits. The only anime that comes to my mind\n> immediately that sales in this range are Katanagatari and HOTD.\n>\n> * **8k - 10k** : This is where you start to see the most memorable anime\n> over years sale, extremely good for late night anime and a mile stone. Still\n> a bit hesitant to call series in this area hits, but their at least\n> extremely successful. The first DARKER THAN BLACK and Sengoku BASARA seasons\n> sold in this area.\n>\n> * **10k - 12k** : Where you start to see anime staple marks at. These are\n> the series that even people who aren't otaku will at least have seen or\n> heard of somewhere. This are is ambiguous in the sense that stuff that sales\n> higher initially end up here from sales tapering off a bit. Anime in this\n> are usually have initial sales of around 15000-16000 or higher. Stuff like\n> Strike Witches, Durarara!!, and the first season of Toaru Majutsu no Index\n> end up here after the first few volumes. Toradora! and both seasons of\n> Shakugan no Shana sold around this area. DARKER THAN BLACK: Ryuusei no\n> Gemini also sold here.\n>\n> * **12k - 15k** : Most anime that end up in the 10000-12000 range overall\n> start out selling around here. As stated above, first season of Index and\n> both seasons of Strike Witches started out here. First season of Hakuouki\n> and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood also sale around this range. Sengoku\n> BASARA Two sales in this area.\n>\n> * **15k - 20k** : Pretty much same as above.\n>\n> * **20k - 30k** : Durarara and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood started\n> out in this area but tapered off later on. This area is ambiguous in the\n> sense that the only anime that consistently stay in this area over every\n> volume are heavily otaku supported. Still, some of the most popular anime\n> sales around here. Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, Azumanga Daioh, and Fate/stay\n> night are the only anime I can think of that consistently sold in this\n> range.\n>\n> * **30k - 50k** : Godly and legendary. This is where the household name or\n> super popular otaku anime sale. First Fullmetal Alchemist, Macross Frontier,\n> Code Geass, Gundam 00, Haruhi, Angel Beats!, Lucky Star!, K-ON!, etc.\n>\n> * **50k - 80k** : Nearly impossible. Only TV series that have sold here\n> are Bakemonogatari, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, and Gundam SEED.\n>\n>\n\nTake note that these numbers are arbitrary and success and profitability may\nvary depending on the production.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-30T15:14:48.780", "id": "9245", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-30T15:14:48.780", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9238", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThese are all place names. 町 is a marker for a\ntown/block/neighborhood/district or road/street.\n\n夕張 can be pronounced \"yuubari.\" The translators were probably trying to simply\nthe names as if they were actual place names. E.g. \"New Amsterdam.\"\n\nThe story is primarily set is 神栖66町 (Kamisu 66th District), there are 8 other\ndistricts:\n\n * 「夕張新生町」（北海道）, Yuubari New District (Hokkaidou region) \n * 「白石71町」（東北）, Shiroishi 71th District (Touhoku region) \n * 「胎内84町」（北陸）, Tainai 84th District (Hokuriku region)\n * 「小海95町」（中部）, Koumi 95th District (Chuubu region)\n * 「精華59町」（関西）, Seika 59th District (Kansai region)\n * 「石見銀山町」（中国）, Iwami Ginzan (Silver Mine) District ([Chuugoku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABgoku_region) region)\n * 「四万十町」（四国）, Shimanto District (Shikoku region)\n * 「西海77町」（九州）, Saikai 77th District (Kyushu region)\n\nThese are all named after real life locations, including\n[Kamisu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamisu,_Ibaraki).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-30T16:11:09.657", "id": "9246", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-10T16:04:52.660", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-10T16:04:52.660", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> (To Shinji Hirako)\n>\n> \"It is the nature of all living things to find some being greater than\n> themselves and place their trust in that being, following it blindly. In\n> order to escape from the pressure of that trust, those beings seek a still\n> greater entity in which to believe, and those greater beings too seek still\n> greater, still stronger beings to follow. This is how all kings come to be,\n> and this is how all Gods are born. Do not trust in me yet, Hirako Shinji. I\n> will take my time to teach you the nature of the God whom you face. Then,\n> you shall believe.\"\n>\n> \\- Chapter 383, pages 17-18\n\nThis might not be what you are thinking of but it was the only quote that I\ncould find on following something blindly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-30T21:03:02.507", "id": "9250", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-30T21:11:01.353", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2213", "parent_id": "9247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYou might be thinking of a scene near the end of the Soul Society arc, where\nAizen and his cohorts are escaping through a Garganta. He looks down on the\nShinigami from inside his Negacion and says something like:\n\n> You're too proud, Ukitake. From the beginning, there was no one in Heaven.\n> Not gods, not angels, not men. But that will soon change. From now on...I\n> will stand in Heaven.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-06T18:57:49.613", "id": "9542", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-06T18:57:49.613", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4787", "parent_id": "9247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's in episode 62.\n\n> Ukitake asks \"Have you become that corrupt? Have you?\"\n>\n> Aizen replies: \"You're blinded by your self-righteousness. From the\n> beginning, no one has ever stood at the top. Neither you, nor me, nor the\n> gods. But soon, that unobtainable vacancy at the top will be filled.\"\n\nHere is the [link](http://youtu.be/sPFb9gv6deI?t=12m10s) to the moment you are\nreferring to.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-22T17:19:35.053", "id": "18753", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-22T21:51:29.183", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "9247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are some basic characteristics/rules/constraints that are common in all\ncanon _Geass Users_\n\n * **Their power can not affect Code Barer** : We see with with C.C when Lelouch tries to command her and Mao's obsession for C.C was given birth from the fact that her mind was the only one he could not read. Also Charles blocked Lelouch's order when his Code became active\n\n * **Each use increases power** : Mao, Lelouch and C.C before she got the Code, use of their powers increased it's strength and thus they were unable to control it. Rolo while he was always in control of his power the same power stopped his heart. as the power got stronger we can assume that the strain on his heart got worse aswell, dying before it fully went out of control. the children \n\n * **The Sigil manifests within the eye(s) when the power activates** : with all characters the Sigils appear in the eye(s) when the is used and remains in the eye(s) when the user no longer as control. Lelouch's sigil disappears when he lost control due to the Contacts he wore. C.C's uncontrolled Geass was lost when she received the Code. Bismark's power wasn't active all the time because he had his eye sown shut and the wiki seem to indicate he couldn't turn it off.\n\n * **A user surrenders their powers when they obtain The Code** : When C.C gained the Code she was no longer able to user her power while Charles didn't use his power after the Code resurrected him. it's unsure if the Code being inactive or not causes a user to surrender their powers as when Lelouch was being careful not to be affected by Charles's power a second time however didn't know he had an inactive Code\n\n * **A User's Power will isolate them** : if we look at all the user's powers, consent use would isolate them for society. Lelouch being able to get anyone to do anything he wants, Mao being able to always being able to read someone's true thoughts. the love C.C revived was always false love induced from her Geass and Code Barers being immortal. every power has the possibility of isolating someone from the rest of the world as we have seen in other fiction how disenchanted with the world one becomes if they could always see someones true thoughts, see the future or never receive unforced love.\n\nThis last point may or may not be true because of the Geass Order\n\n * **Powers are unique** : we have seen that every character had a unique power. this however there are some contradictions to this,\n\n * **The children of the Geass Order** \\- they force a Black Knight Pilot to attack his allies, the [Wiki](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Geass#Unnamed_Children.27s_Geass) notes that it may be more puppetry\n\n * **Shin Hyuga Shaingu** \\- it's speculated that it works the same way as Lelouch's from the limited observations in Akito of the exiled\n\nIn these cases we are unsure who the Contractor (Code Barers) is. the only\nCode Barers who were in Britannia were all affiliated with the Geass Order\n(C.C and V.V were directors, Charles probably became defacto director after\nV.V's death) and because of the nature of the Order's research these power may\nhave in fact be fabricated. this is plausible because of [Julius\nKingsley](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Julius_Kingsley) as if he is Lelouch\nthen Lelouch was not at Ashford the entire time in the 1 year gap and the fact\nthat the emperor sent him with Suzaku (who too knew of Geass and possible the\nOrder having been shown the Sword of Akasha) it is pleasurable that The Order\ncould have studied Lelouch (the only exception to this if Julius is Lelouch's\nTwin Brother).\n\nAs for your comment\n\n> I was wondering if every Geass power needs someone other than the Geass user\n\nIf by this you mean \" _can Geass only affect another person who has does not\nhave Geass or under the effects of someone else's Geass_ \" then no. in the\nFirst Season Lelouch uses a mirror to cast Geass on himself to make him forget\nabout the plan to save Nunnally from Mao, this way Mao could not read his mind\nand detonate the bomb. Also Mao uses his power to read Lelouch's mind numerous\ntimes to see every move he would think up when they play chess and to discover\nhe was Zero to break Shirley (though Mao had to focus hard in order to target\nLelouch and not everyone else).\n\nIn the Second Season, Rolo uses his Geass on Lelouch in the OSS H.Q which is\nwhen Lelouch figured out that Rolo's Geass affect one's perception of time\nbecause Lelouch was counting the second on the clock before hand.\n\n[Bismarck Waldstein's](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Bismarck_Waldstein)\npower is to \"see the future\" however we only uses this in combat when he uses\nit on Suzaku while he mentioned to have used it on Marianne. his powers isn't\nfully explained however we can assume he sees the future of \"Cause and Effect\"\nso when he uses it on Suzaku he sees the Before Images of Suzaku's piloting of\nthe Lancelot. Suzaku use the Geass put on him to \"Live\" to overpower\nBismarck's power.\n\nAnd of cause there is Charles who wiped Lelouch's memories after the first\nseason with his Geass and Lelouch was able to order him to kill himself at the\nSword of Akasha (before hte Code Activated). there is also suspicion that non\nhuman entities can be affected like when Lelouch orders \"God\" however i have\nspeculation on just what happened here.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-01T01:46:36.620", "id": "9315", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-05T22:37:24.490", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-05T22:37:24.490", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "9248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe episode starts with the words of a correspondent: \"Marcelo Jarti, leader\nof the Jenoma democratic revolution, as well as military advisor to the\ncurrent administration, was attacked in Panan City today\". He was visiting and\nthe shooting was pretty serious, so he was assumed to have been killed.\nSection 9's agents are seen confirming his identity in the beginning of the\nepisode.\n\nMajor Kusanagi says:\n\n> \"Leader of the democratic revolution. Legendary hero. He and the current\n> chaimran were the cenral figures in the revolution commanding the guerrilla\n> war and leading it to victory. But after the revolution, he showed no\n> interest whatsoever in politics, and backed the State Council chairman from\n> behind the scenes, remaining true to his principles, staying a mere soldier.\n> <…> The SAS and Delta Force have been behind five assassination plots\n> against him, but he's miraculously survived each time. Nobody in his country\n> doubts that he's their ̈„Immortal Hero“.\"\n\nThen the guy with the scanner confirms that the signs of Ghost are present in\nMarcel's behavior. That doesn't absolutely prove his authenticity, but only\nsays chances are high it's really him.\n\nDirector Aramaki of the Section 9 then briefs the team about the mission:\n\n> In the past five years, Marcelo has come to Japan 12 times <…> Foreign\n> Affairs Section 1 had been unable to ascertain his activities in-country.\n> <…> They want us to find out why Marcelo has entered the country so often.\n\nBato responds: \"He's a South American drug lord, isn't he? Something to do\nwith that, maybe?\" Major Matoko says it's unlikely that his interest is in\nmaking a drug deal, since he trades the classic drugs, while most of the Japan\nhas switched to virtual drugs.\n\nBut then Marcelo is indeed seen with some drug traders. And after the\ninvestigation reveals that there are clones of Marcelo that look very life-\nlike due to his subtle personality traits being copied over to them, it makes\nthe same external appearance as the Ghost, making everyone think that clones\nare the real thing.\n\nMarcelo is found dead and for some time now his clones have been keeping up\nhis legendary work. Revealing the fact of his death to the public and other\norganizations could stir up a lot of trouble, so the Section 9 leaves things\nas they are for now.\n\n* * *\n\nThe cybercrime case is closed, but what about the drug business? I don't know\nfor sure, but I have a theory. It's likely that Marcelo's clones have been\nkilled more than once during drug deals, but authorities decide to go with\n\"he's alive, everything is fine\" info every time because maybe they're\ninterested in continuing the drug deals. Possibly they have a way to trace\nMarcelo's movements and ambush drug lords like that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T14:19:45.903", "id": "11243", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-13T14:19:45.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "9343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nErza uses [Requip:The Knight](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/The_Knight)\narmor as mentioned [here](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_372) in the\nmagic used section. This type of armor has various type. So this particular\none used by erza might be another variant of it which was not mentioned.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T15:14:21.703", "id": "9471", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T15:14:21.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "9351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is called the Piercing Armor. It allows her to pierce through substances\nand leave an hole within them. That was actually the first time she used it\nwithin manga/anima.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-29T17:56:01.237", "id": "20427", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-29T17:56:01.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13487", "parent_id": "9351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it is related to the real world. There's no map ever shown, but Death\nCity is a fictional city set in Nevada, USA.\n\n> Shibusen is an academy located in the fictional Death City, of Nevada where\n> Meisters and Weapons attend.\n\nSource: [Soul Eater wiki: Shibusen](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Shibusen)\n\nAlso, it's not listed, but I'm quite sure (judging by appearance) that Deng\nDinga is from Africa, and Djinn Galland is from Western Asia.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T03:48:22.700", "id": "9433", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T03:48:22.700", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4085", "parent_id": "9430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor illustrative purposes, I have taken the first four images off a Google\nsearch for `eyes` (note: you may not want to perform this search yourself, as\nthere is at least one disturbing image on the front page).\n\n   \n\nAs you can see, all of these images contain a similar \"white space\" /\nhighlight. That's because if you're taking a photo, you need a light source -\nand the eyes, being reflective, are going to reflect that light source.\n\nThese \"white spaces\" are called\n[**catchlights**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_light), and are naturally\nfound in film and in photography. It is unsurprising that animators and\nartists would imitate this for added realism - Disney's been doing it since\nforever.\n\n \n\nOf course, catchlights are somewhat more pronounced in anime simply because\ncharacters drawn in an \"anime style\" tend to have large eyes - and hence,\ncorrespondingly large catchlights.\n\nFor more information about catchlights in photography, see the question [In\nportrait photography, what is a\n“catchlight”?](https://photo.stackexchange.com/q/11657/21775) at\nPhotography.SE.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T04:33:41.183", "id": "9435", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-12T20:42:10.907", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:44:06.690", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9434", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Japanese term for [\"specular\nhighlight\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specular_highlight) or\n[\"catchlight\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_light) is\n[「鏡面ハイライト」](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8F%A1%E9%9D%A2%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88)\n( _kyoumen hairaito_ ), meaning \"mirrored surface highlight\" or \"specular\nsurface highlight.\" 「鏡」 can be pronounced \" _kagami_ ,\" \" _kyou_ ,\" or \"kei\"\nand means \"mirror,\"「面」 is pronounced \" _men_ ,\" \" _omote_ ,\" or \" _tsura_ \"\nand means \"mask\" (as in the word 「仮面」[ _kamen_ ]), \"face,\" or \"surface.\"\n\nThe sort that appear in human eyes are called 「人物のハイライト」 ( _\"jinbutsu no\nhairaito\"_ = person's highlight),\n[「眼球のハイライト」](https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E7%9C%BC%E7%90%83%E3%81%AE%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88&rlz=1C5CHFA_enJP509JP509&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=7QBtVZnEJOTKmwXqk4DQCw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1274&bih=740&dpr=0.9)\n( _\"gankyuu no hairaito\"_ = eyeball highlight) or\n[「眼球ハイライト」](https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E7%9C%BC%E7%90%83%E3%81%AE%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88&rlz=1C5CHFA_enJP509JP509&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=7QBtVZnEJOTKmwXqk4DQCw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1274&bih=740&dpr=0.9#tbm=isch&q=%E7%9C%BC%E7%90%83%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88)\n( _\"gankyuu hairaito\"_ = eyeball highlight). A specifically manga-style\nspecular highlight can be referred to as\n[「漫画的に描いたハイライト」](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%8F%A1%E9%9D%A2%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88#.E4.BA.BA.E7.89.A9.E3.81.AE.E3.83.8F.E3.82.A4.E3.83.A9.E3.82.A4.E3.83.88)\n( _\"manga-teki ni kaita hairaito\"_ = highlight drawn in manga-style).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-02T01:03:19.303", "id": "22047", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-02T01:03:19.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "9434", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen Kinoko Nasu first wrote _Fate/stay night_ in college, it was called _Old\nFate_ (旧Fate) and _Fate Origin_ and was reimagined later to be\n[Fate/Prototype](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/Prototype#Development).\nNasu only wrote what would become the game's Fate Route.\n\nThere is speculation on what meaning there is behind the name, i.e.\n\n * \"Fate\" may refer to the fate of the servants like Saber accepting her fate in her life or the Fate of the magi that battle each other in the war.\n\n * \"Stay\" may refer to the desire to keep the servants like with Shirou and Saber, it may refer to making something remain or _stay_ like the reason why Shiro enters the war in both _Fate/stay night_ and _Fate/hollow ataraxia_ was to keep the peace in the town, or in Heaven's Feel Route which is like the ultimate climax to the game how Zouken wanted Heaven's Feel to become Immorality but without his body rotting. In _Fate/Extra_ , Twice H. Pieceman had changed the Moon Cell's selection process to be a war believing humanity requires war to advance and evolve, he wanted Hakuno Kishinami and every other Master who appeared at the Moon Cell's core to wish for the perpetuation of war (stay in war)\n\n * \"Night\" could refer to how the battles mainly occurred during the night or the darkness behind the war (In _Prototype_ , the Heaven's Feel system was meant to materialize Beast; or in _Fate/stay night_ , Angra Mainyu's corruption of the grail)\n\nAnother theory is that the \"Fate\" part was taken from his original work,\n\"/stay night\" was just added to sound cool like with _Kara no Kyoukai_ (空の境界,\nlit. Boundary of Emptiness) - _The Garden of Sinners_ or _Tsukihime_ (月姫, lit.\nMoon Princess).\n\nRef: [Anime News Network Forum - So why is Fate/Stay Night called...Fate/Stay\nNight?](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com.au/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=59048&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T05:21:02.140", "id": "9441", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-26T14:58:59.937", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-26T14:58:59.937", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "9438", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThis answer is just mainly based off of **_speculation_**.\n\nAlthough the creators intention aren't actually really know well that much,\nhere are some common theories that were put together as to what the Stay/Night\nmight mean.\n\n> Some think that it may be related to some of the light novels because of\n> their hentai-ish side. Which was where the (Stay/Night) might have came\n> from. The theorie thinks that it might mean \"Stay the Night\" sexually\n> implied. [Unlikely, but maybe]\n\n* * *\n\n> Another theory is that it just sounded cool and the producers just choose it\n> because it sounded cool. [Unlikely, but maybe]\n\n* * *\n\n> Theory number three was that the name may be related to the other seasons.\n> [Possible]\n\nMostly since this is just speculation, this answer is definitely not accurate\nbut I have included some things that may help in answering your question. Hope\nit helped.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T08:57:24.460", "id": "9465", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T08:57:24.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9438", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's probably related to the different routes of the game.\n\nShirou at some point in time asks either Rin or Sakura to stay at his house\nthat night to keep them safe. Hence the \"stay night\" in the name.\n\nThe \"Fate\" part may mean how Shirou's decision on asking one of them to stay\nat his house affects his fate/destiny. So it's like, \"fate\" is decided by whom\nyou ask to \"stay night\" with. But that's just my theory.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-07-29T12:23:52.640", "id": "53794", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-26T14:59:02.727", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-26T14:59:02.727", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "48302", "parent_id": "9438", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere is what I found out, something called a \"[Golden\nweek](https://web.archive.org/web/20140906005410/http://sleepinggeeks.com/2014/05/01/fairy-\ntail-383-naruto-675-one-piece-746-bleach-579/)\".\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T10:32:26.867", "id": "9467", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-26T04:53:03.767", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-26T04:53:03.767", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4739", "parent_id": "9462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYou have to understand that the manga industry is in fact an industry and\nnormal industry situations happen.\n\nThe reasons behind a manga not coming out can be the same reasons some shop or\ncompany does not work at certain periods of time, but more specifically I've\nseen the following:\n\n * There is a public holiday for that period in the country of the publishing (e.g. Golden Week).\n * The author of the manga is taking a break after a two-chapter release. (Which basically means that the author already did this weeks job last week)\n * The author is on vacation.\n * The author is on an unpaid leave due to reasons of his concern.\n * The author is sick and cannot work due to that. (Pretty much calling in sick, in layman terms).\n\nAny other reasons a normal person may not be able to work at a job all also\napply here. If by chance there is a public holiday but a chapter still comes\nout, chances are the author prepared the chapter beforehand, and is enjoying\nthe holiday like everyone else, although it appears that he was \"working\" that\nweek.\n\n**EDIT:**\n\nAs pointed out by Miharu in the comments below, there also might be a rare\nsituation where a manga which is based on a currently airing anime has caught\nup to the anime and therefore might take a break to let the anime progress a\nlittle further. (Personally I haven't seen this phenomenon though.)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T12:42:44.590", "id": "9468", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T13:28:53.480", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-02T13:28:53.480", "last_editor_user_id": "4740", "owner_user_id": "4740", "parent_id": "9462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe most typical reason is a scheduled vacation. Out of four weeks the year,\nJapan celebrates major holidays and festivities. Many schools take the week\noff as a holiday.\n\nAt the time of you question is the holiday called \"Golden Week.\" These are the\nonly times that the mangaka can take a scheduled break without taking a hiatus\n(e.g., taking off the next issue). They called preceding issue (before the\nbreak) is a \"double issue.\" Now you may think that a double issue means that\nsince the magazine is meant for a 2-week period, the contents are doubles.\nThat's not the case here. What's implied is that there will be no Weekly\nShonen Jump issue in the following week.\n\nThere is no Weekly Shonen Jump the last week of December (end of the year;\nChristmas), 2nd week of January (New Years holiday), first week of May\n(\"Golden Week,\" a\n[series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_%28Japan%29) of holidays),\nsecond week of August (Obon).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T23:19:36.510", "id": "9484", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T23:19:36.510", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs per data given in the newer chapters of the manga,\n[Mirajane](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Mirajane_Strauss) got her Satan\nsoul power when she accidentally absorbed a demon which was residing in their\nvillage. Initially she was unable to control her Satan soul power and her hand\nwas always in the form of demon. She was ostracized in her village due to\nwhich she was forced to move out of her house. She along with lisanna and\nelfman somehow made to fairy tail guild where master makarov told her about\nher power and she learns how to control it. then afterwords her siblings also\nlearned Satan magic so that she doesn't feel out of place.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T15:01:12.963", "id": "9470", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T15:06:19.430", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-02T15:06:19.430", "last_editor_user_id": "3343", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "9466", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nASCII Media Works is the parent company for Durarara's publisher (a brand\ncompany of Kadokawa), Dengeki Bunko amongst other things. This is why most of\nthese references to shows are referenced by their light novels instead of\nmanga.\n\n_Durarara!!_ and _Baccano!_ were written by the same person, Ryohgo Narita.\nThe same studio (JC Staff) did the animation.\n\nSuzuhito Yasuda is the illustrator on Ryohgo Narita's _Durarara!!_ light\nnovels and also the author of the _Yozakura Quartet_ manga.\n\nThe _Durarara!!_ and _Kuroshitsuji_ manga are published by Square-Enix. JC\nStaff likes to include these sort of references in thier shows.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T15:44:37.113", "id": "9474", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T15:44:37.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think they can, but they just wouldn't gain any energy like they would from\nother sources, so it's just completely pointless. There have been points with\ndragonslayers in pretty tight pinches, and I'm pretty sure one of them would\nhave at some point eaten their own magic if there were any point in doing so/\nif it's even possible.\n\nI think Natsu was just making a bit of a stupid analogy when he said it was\nlike Lucy eating celestial spirits, at no point has there been any suggestion\nthat a dragonslayer's element is in some way alive, and he's more than happy\nto fire off bursts of fire that presumably must burn out eventually, I don't\nthink ethics come into it at all, just practicality.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T17:58:37.727", "id": "9477", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-02T17:58:37.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "9475", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI might get a bit technical here, forgive.\n\nMy claim is that they can but will not consume their own magic because it is\npointless.\n\nConsider the mage as an entity of energy. With the dragon slayers, when they\nconsume their element, they get a boost in energy which they use to fight\n(Gajeel consuming steel, Wendy consuming air, ...and so on). I presume they\nare using these elementals to top up on their depleted energy of to give them\na boost.\n\nIf they were to eat their own magic, it will give them a boost but it would\nonly return them to the level of energy they had before they produced that bit\nof magic. They see no gain in doing such. To produce magic, they have to use\nsome energy. This energy has been converted from them into the elemental. When\nthey consume it, it goes back into them. Arithmetically, `x - 1 = x'` where\n`x` is the amount of energy they originally have and `x'` is the amount of\nenergy they have after producing the magic. Consuming the magic they produce\nwill be `x' + 1 = x` which merely returns them to the starting point.\n\nIn the case of consuming their element which they did not produce,\narithmetically, that would be `x + 1 = x*`, where `x` remains as above and\n`x*` is the augmented energy level. This augmentation is made possible because\nthis energy did not originally reside in them.\n\nSo yes, they can eat their own magic but it would be pointless\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T18:37:05.350", "id": "9696", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-13T18:37:05.350", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4828", "parent_id": "9475", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nWell he can but he just chooses not to because he is uncomfortable doing it\nbut if it's absolutely necessary he will.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-28T22:09:47.557", "id": "13117", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T05:07:03.320", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-29T05:07:03.320", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "7768", "parent_id": "9475", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\n**They can't eat their own magic.** It was only recent (in chapter 391) that\nSilver reminded us of this during his fight with Gray.\n\nWe saw a flashback of Natsu saying he can't eat his own flames.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DKUG9.png)\n\nThen two panels later, Silver confirmed this by blocking Gray's attack, using\nSilver's magic, instead of eating the ice as he did before. As Natsu has,\nSilver then mentioned he can not eat his own magic.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1wkyA.png)\n\nTo be honest it doesn't make sense that they are physically incapable of\neating their magic, but if they could Silver would have been able to eat\nGray's attack instead of having to block. I guess Natsu being Natsu made an\nincorrect analogy, back in chapter 5.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2uAbU.png) \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WNsRs.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T13:09:05.047", "id": "13127", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T13:09:05.047", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "9475", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey are not easy to beat, Ash isn't just your average trainer. He might seem\nstupid/have really weak pokemon sometimes, but he is kind of world class when\nyou look at some of his greatest accomplishments. And many gym leaders do beat\nhim, and he eventually comes back to win. Gym masters do beat most\nchallengers, just beating all of a region's gyms is qualification enough to\ntake on the Elite four.\n\nAlso, gym masters are normally trainers who work within the rules of the gym,\na fighting master tends to mainly have fighting pokemon, so will always be at\na disadvantage to a trainer who wanders in with a bunch of psychic/flying\npokemon. They are never portrayed as invincible or easy, just a bunch of tough\ntrainers, well above the average guy wandering around with a bunch of pokemon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-02T18:04:29.400", "id": "9478", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-23T19:20:02.647", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-23T19:20:02.647", "last_editor_user_id": "4515", "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "9476", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a really good question, but hey, in the anime and in the games, we are\nnot talking about normal trainers - we are talking about passionate and strong\ntrainers. They are that elite which groups like Team Rocket etc fear.\n\nBut to come back to your question:\n\n> They should have a vast advantage over trainers, especially younger ones.\n\nThey do have an advantage - they are, as you said, trainers, which are\nfamiliar with their environment. But that doesn't mean they are impossible to\nbeat. Also, their age shouldn't play a big role in winning or loosing a\nbattle. I believe that battling with Pokemon is like playing a video game -\nwhen you start with it you can be good or bad. The more you do it, the more\nexperience you get, but even a guy who plays a game for 5 years can be beaten\nby a rookie, simply because he feels how to do it right.\n\nTo come to a conclusion: I believe that gym leaders are strong trainers but\nthe trainers we know are on another level than the gym leaders.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T07:19:53.337", "id": "9579", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-08T07:19:53.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "9476", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Pokemon Origins, it is strongly implied that gym leaders own several\npokemons of varying strength.\n\n> Brock is shown to have many Pokémon, and selects Geodude and Onix when Red\n> confirms that he has no Badges. This implies that all Gym Leaders have\n> Pokémon of varying strengths in reserve in order to keep each challenge a\n> fair fight.\n\nSource: <http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Brock#In_Pok.C3.A9mon_Origins>\n\nSo basically, gym leaders handicap themselves to get down to the trainers'\nlevel, depending on the number of badges the trainer has.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-20T18:07:40.663", "id": "9817", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T01:56:41.540", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-21T01:56:41.540", "last_editor_user_id": "3680", "owner_user_id": "3478", "parent_id": "9476", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI basically just trashed my other answer, but you can always see it again in\nthe edit history: as of now she is still an unknown assailant.\n\n## Background- Still unknown (partially):\n\n> Evermillion is a huge mystery. Her origins, how she came to be sealed in\n> Honoka, why she was sealed, and even what she actually is; are completely\n> unknown (she referred to herself as a demon with Honoka, though it's\n> possible she was being metaphorical). Sometime in the past she was sealed\n> inside of Honoka Takamiya with a five layer barrier preventing her from\n> escaping. She seems to have some history with Medusa.\n\n## Who is she- Still unknown (partially):\n\n> Evermillion (エヴァーミリオン?), fully named White Princess Evermillion (白姫エヴァーミリオン\n> Shirohime Evamirion?), is an entity of unknown origin sealed inside Honoka\n> Takamiya. She is addressed as the White Princess by various characters. A\n> total of five seals were placed on her.\n\nSource: <http://witch-craft-works.wikia.com/wiki/Evermillion>\n\nOh yeah, and theres scheduled to be an OVA as of 2015 per\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Craft_Works) too.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-10T15:49:17.477", "id": "9623", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-10T13:24:27.620", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9479", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIts a [Flamel](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Flamel)\n\n> The Flamel refers to the mystical and alchemical symbol depicted as a cross\n> with a snake or serpent draped about it, as well as detached wings and a\n> crown above it.\n>\n> In Alchemy, the Flamel represents the _\" fixing of the volatile\"_, a vital\n> step in the alchemical opus' process, related to the making of the mercury's\n> elixir and of curative processes.\n\nThe Flamel is named after [Nicolas\nFlamel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Flamel) Whom After his death\ndeveloped a reputation as an alchemist. However, these legendary accounts only\nappeared in the seventeenth century.\n\n> \"Flamel was a real person, and he may have dabbled in alchemy, but his\n> reputation as an author and immortal adept must be accepted as an invention\n> of the seventeenth century.\" \\- Dixon, Laurinda\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-03T02:15:15.387", "id": "9487", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-03T02:15:15.387", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "9486", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's called the Flamel (yes, named after [Nicolas\nFlamel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Flamel), purported to be an\nalchemist who sought the Philosopher's Stone).\n\nIt is most noticeably similar to the [symbol of Hermes, a god of\nalchemy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus), and also the [Rod of\nAsclepius](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius), which you may\nrecognize from ambulances as the [EMS\nsymbol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_Life).\n\n \n\nIt is not a religious symbol, nor is it ever explained to have a relevance in\nthe _FMA_ universe. However, given its real life links to alchemy and\nmedicine, it's safe to say that the author intended to bring forth real-world\nalchemical symbols into her universe.\n\nFurther reading: [_FMA_ Wiki entry on the\nFlamel](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Flamel)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-03T02:17:22.020", "id": "9488", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-03T02:17:22.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "9486", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nWell as everybody on here has said, it's a flamel which is a symbol created by\nthe alchemist Nicholas Flamel.\n\nAfter looking into it a bit more, I learned that Flamel often used this symbol\nwhen he talked about the Elixir of Life in his books.\n\nSo that makes it a fitting symbol for Dante, as she thought she had discovered\nimmortality.\n\nAs far as the wings and crown, I'm not sure what those represent, as those are\nnot part of the original Flamel symbol. I'm guessing its something Dante added\nto it, to make it her own. But like I said, I'm not sure what it represents.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-03T16:40:37.057", "id": "11628", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-04T05:16:04.777", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-04T05:16:04.777", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "6473", "parent_id": "9486", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI found a bible verse similar to this in Numbers 21:8, stating\n\n> And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and\n> everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”\n\nAnother interpretation is \"to be pure, to be purified\". I say this because in\nFMA, alchemy is what the world revolves around. Even in our reality, alchemy\nwas fabled to transmute any metal into gold. Since gold is considered to be\nthe purest of all metals, we can also transcribe that context to the purest\n(or purified) form of expression, ideas, self, etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-07T03:17:24.373", "id": "22213", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-07T03:28:54.947", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-07T03:28:54.947", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "14899", "parent_id": "9486", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThough I know where you were going with the Christian symbolism. The snake on\nthe rod (also a root that the medical symbols came from because People were\nhealed by looking at the snake on the rod)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-12T01:05:01.257", "id": "39814", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-12T01:05:01.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31931", "parent_id": "9486", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is also said to be the crucifixion of the serpent(AKA the natural man)\nwhich sort of happens to Ed as the series progresses.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-12T20:56:02.127", "id": "49645", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-12T20:56:02.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43386", "parent_id": "9486", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSince nobody else has attempted an answer, I'll give this my best shot. Be\nforewarned that this answer will be fragmentary. Also, this explanation will\nprobably be kind of difficult to follow if you don't already know a bit of\nJapanese. Suggestions/edits to make the explanation clearer are welcome.\n\n* * *\n\nTo understand why this is funny, you need to know how input method editors\nwork.\n\nIn order to type in Japanese, one typically uses an [input method\neditor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method_editor) (IME), which is a\nprogram that basically converts Latin-script text like `nihon` into Japanese\ntext, e.g. 日本 (gloss: \"Japan\"). Since the mapping from Latin letters to\nJapanese text is one-to-many, the IME doesn't always correctly guess what\nJapanese text you want, forcing you to go into a menu and select the correct\nJapanese text.\n\nIMEs usually allow you to define your own Latin-to-Japanese conversions. For\nexample, I've set my IME to convert `toripurubaka` to 驫麤. IMEs will also\nfrequently adjust which Japanese text it automatically selects based on your\nprevious usage patterns, so if you frequently correct e.g. `saikai` from 再会 to\n最下位 (homographs when romanized), the IME will eventually start defaulting to\ngive you 最下位 when you type `saikai`.\n\n* * *\n\nSo.\n\nFirst, Kagami types `fuchou`, expecting 不調 ( _fuchou_ = \"unwell\") but instead\ngetting 婦長 ( _fuchou_ = \"head nurse\"). Then, `maniaisou`, expecting 間に合いそう (\n_maniai-sou_ = \"likely to make it in time\") but getting マニア移送 ( _mania-isou_ =\n\"transfer of being-a-fan(??)\" - this isn't an actual phrase). I _think_ these\ntwo are just supposed to be funny because of how silly they are.\n\nAfter that, Kagami types `josou`, expecting 助走 ( _josou_ = \"a run-up\") but\ngetting 女装 ( _josou_ = \"crossdressing as a woman\"). Perhaps this is supposed\nto reveal something about what Konata posts about on the internet.\n\nKagami then types `fuinki`, expecting 雰囲気 ( _fun'iki_ = \"atmosphere\n[metaphorically]\"). Note the discrepancy between the Latin input and the\nproper romanization - this results in the IME displaying ふいんき（←なぜか変換できない）\n(\"`fuinki` (← unable to convert for some reason)\"). This IME conversion\nfailure is apparently [a meme on\n2ch](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%81%B5%E3%81%84%E3%82%93%E3%81%8D), dating\nfrom circa 2003 (see also [this answer on Japanese.SE about\nmetathesis](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/3293/3437)). The implication,\nI suppose, is that Konata has been posting this meme enough that she set up a\ncustom conversion to let her type it faster.\n\nKagami types `kuwasiku`, expecting 詳しく ( _kuwashiku_ = \"in detail\"), but\ninstead getting ｋｗｓｋ. As it would happen,\n[ｋｗｓｋ](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kwsk) (derived from\n_kuwashiku_ \"in detail\") is basically the Japanese equivalent of \"sauce pls\".\n\nFinally, she types `ikitai`, expecting いきたい ( _ikitai_ = \"want to do ~ going\nforward\"), but instead getting 逝きたい ( _ikitai_ = \"want to perish\"). Like the\nfirst two, I think this is just funny because of how silly it is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-09T22:18:56.827", "id": "9610", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-11T07:58:07.767", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:43:49.183", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9490", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOn Crunchyroll, the Flash streams are all soft-subbed (well, nearly all of\nthem, some series are hard-subbed) and relies on the Flash renderer to display\nthem. Crunchyroll actually sometimes streams subtitles (depending on\nlicensing) for multiple languages.\n\nYou just need to right click on the Flash frame (where the video is being\ndisplayed) and you should see a list of subtitle options, including at the top\n\"No Subtitles\".\n\nNote that Crunchyroll also does HTML5 video, so browser's like Chrome which\nsupports AVC streams through HTML5 will _not_ use Flash. These types of\nstreams are still soft-subbed but the local renderer of the subtitles isn't\nFlash, and it's probably some plugin-type video player that does this, so how\nyou turn off subtitles depends on your OS and how you've setup the browser.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xO9Zk.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-03T18:46:27.443", "id": "9493", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-25T20:12:01.610", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-25T20:12:01.610", "last_editor_user_id": "17758", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "9492", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's an interesting hypothesis, but I don't think it's right.\n\nAs the Digimon enthusiast will recall, the eggs from which Digimon hatch are\ncalled \"Digi-Eggs\" in English. However, in Japanese, they are called \"Digi-\nTama\" (デジタマ), from which the English is basically directly translated, since\n_tama_ means \"egg\", as you pointed out.\n\nIt seems rather more likely that the name \"Digitamamon\" derives from \"monster\nthat is a Digi-Tama/Digi-Egg\", rather than \"digital monster that is a _tama_\n/egg\". The latter interpretation might suggest a connection to Tamagotchi, but\nis unlikely, since (as you pointed out) it doesn't look particularly digital\nat all. However, it _does_ look a lot like a Digi-Tama/Digi-Egg - see below.\n\n\n\nThat said, I think there still is a connection to the Tamagotchi in a\ndifferent way: it's widely acknowledged that the Digimon product line is\nbasically \"Tamagotchi plus battles\".\n\nRecall that both Digimon and Tamagotchi are Bandai products. It's thought that\nthe Tamagotchi sold well among girls but not boys, leading Bandai to introduce\nDigimon to capture the other half of the market. As such, even if Digimon and\nTamagotchi aren't explicitly referencing one another, it shouldn't be too\nsurprising that they will have some features in common, being produced by the\nsame company and all.\n\n* * *\n\nAn aside:\n\n> Digimon (which preceded Pokémon)...\n\nNot quite. The chronology here is as follows:\n\n * Feb 1996: Nintendo releases Pokémon Red and Green\n * Nov 1996: Bandai releases the first Tamagotchi\n * Jun 1997: Bandai releases the first Digimon virtual pet device\n\nThe Pokémon anime (Apr 1997) also preceded the Digimon anime (Mar 1999).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-04T00:25:05.347", "id": "9499", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-04T00:25:05.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9497", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nDigimon didn't complete with Tamagotchi at all. They WERE Tamagotchis and by\nthe same company, Bandai. Just a newer version or sideline that took on a life\nof its own. With that in mind, Digitamamom wouldn't be a parody but more\nlikely a homage to its own other brand.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-18T13:51:31.697", "id": "52990", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-18T13:51:31.697", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47322", "parent_id": "9497", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI can't believe I found the answer in just 14mins. This is better than\nexpected. Thanks Maroon.\n\nThe anime I was looking for was indeed Chaika The Coffin Princess. Plot\nsynopsis from animenewsnetworks.com.au:\n\n> Toru Acura is a 20-year-old retired soldier meandering through life now that\n> the war has ended. He encounters Chaika Trabant, a 14-year-old sorceress\n> carrying a coffin, and follows her in hopes of finding meaning to his life\n> again. The two travel with Toru's adopted sister, Akari, the employed member\n> of the group and thus Toru's source of income.\n\nThis most definitely is it.\n\n\n\nI also found the girl with the coffin. Her name is Chaika. Credits to Maroon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-04T09:53:11.793", "id": "9506", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-04T09:53:11.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9505", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYep, upon further research this sounds like [_Chaika the Coffin\nPrincess_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaika_-_The_Coffin_Princess). The\nanime came out a month ago in Japan, so it's relatively new (so I'm not\ncompletely sure, but [Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-\nnews/2014/04/08-1/crunchyroll-to-stream-chaika-the-coffin-princess-anime) did\nfor starters also start broadcasting it online at around the same time.)\n\nThe eponymous Chaika is the daughter of [Arthur\nGaz](http://hitsugimenochaika.wikia.com/wiki/Arthur_Gaz), who apparently was\nthe former ruler of the Gaz Empire, according to the fan-made wiki. I haven't\nseen the anime or read the light novels, so I'm not sure, but judging from the\nlist of names he has it seems reasonable to conclude that he was a bit of a\ntyrant.\n\nMoreover, as might be suggested by the title, Chaika carries a coffin around\nmost of the time. In the first episode, she runs into Toru Akura and his\nsister Akari, which is consistent with your description.\n\n[Here's](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15524) the\nAnime News Network link.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-04T09:53:14.117", "id": "9507", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-04T09:53:14.117", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "9505", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThey could not be planned to foreshadow Rebelion for a very simple reason:\n[Urobuchi (author of the story) did not plan for Rebelion when writing the\nseries](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Gen_Urobuchi#Trivia). There are actually\nquite a few interviews with him that bring some light to his choices about the\nscript, and he never mentioned lyrics. \nShort answer then: very unlikely.\n\nEdit: As comments states. This does not apply to the movies' openings.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-19T20:41:49.763", "id": "20195", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-19T21:49:03.843", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-19T21:49:03.843", "last_editor_user_id": "3082", "owner_user_id": "3082", "parent_id": "9531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile it's difficult to prove a negative, and there's no telling where Nisio\nIsin got his inspiration from, I would be willing to claim that that most of\nthe apparitions appearing in the Monogatari series aren't quite based on real-\nlife stories.\n\nBroadly, one point in favor of this position is that other people on the\ninternet (in Japan) have also tried to find origins for the various\napparitions and failed. Given the popularity of Monogatari, this strongly\nsuggests that there indeed aren't any real-life bases for most of the\napparitions, though, of course, this doesn't amount to conclusive proof.\n\n## Crab\n\nHitagi's crab is a difficult case to handle. Crabs are a semi-frequent feature\nof Japanese folklore - see, for example, [the tale of the Crab and the\nMonkey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crab_and_the_Monkey) (which Meme\nmentions), or the legends surrounding the [Heike\ncrabs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani), so we can't discard out-of-\nhand the possibility that the \"Weight Crab\" ( _omoshikani_ ) has basis in\nactual legend. Nonetheless, it seems improbable.\n\nMeme claims that legends of the \"Weight Crab\" originated from peoples living\nin the mountains of Kyushu. However, he goes on to point out that the areas\nfrom which these legends originated - the mountainous parts of Oita and\nMiyazaki - are not actually places where you will find any crabs. Meme brushes\nthis off, explaining that it's easier to concoct grand legends about crabs\nwhen you don't have any actual crabs at hand.\n\nI'm not convinced that this really makes sense in a real-world context, though\n- do people tend to feature in their legends creatures that they have little\ncontact with? I'm no anthropologist, but it seems unlikely. Someone familiar\nwith the folklore of Kyushu would know more, I'm sure.\n\nThere are also some things about Hitagi's crab that just seem too convenient.\nFor example, its name is incredibly punnable in ways relevant to the plot - 思い\n_omoi_ \"thoughts\" vs. 想い _omoi_ \"feelings\" vs. 重い _omoi_ \"heavy\". The\nresolution of this arc is strongly related to the realization that the crab\ntook not both Hitagi's weight, but also her feelings from her. It would be a\ndamn surprise if there was an existing legend out there that matched up with\nthis. Far more likely is that Nisio Isin thought that this would be an amusing\npun and invented a legend to go along with it.\n\nThe points I've made in this section also generally apply to Mayoi's Snail and\nNadeko's Constrictor.\n\n## Snail\n\nAgain, it's difficult to make a strong claim that Mayoi's snail has no basis\nin actual legend. Snails are not prominent features in Japanese legend,\nthough.\n\n## Rainy Devil\n\nThe \"Monkey's Paw\" _does_ have a basis in real-life - a [short story by W. W.\nJacobs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw) titled as such. And\nthat's the problem - Kanbaru's apparition _wasn't_ a Monkey's Paw, but rather\na Rainy Devil, which is an apparition possessing only superficial similarities\nto the Monkey's Paw of Jacobs's story.\n\nIt's pretty clear here that Nisio Isin was deliberately playing with the\nreader's expectations by having the characters themselves incorrectly identify\nthe arm as a Monkey's Paw - and then they go to visit Meme, who pulls the rug\nout from under them, revealing that it was something else altogether. This\nstrongly suggests that the Rainy Devil is a creation of Nisio Isin's.\n\n## Constrictor\n\nTo a certain extent, it's very difficult to show that the Constrictor (\n_jagirinawa_ ) has no basis in legend, since there's nothing terribly unique\nabout it - it's a snake that possesses people. That's basically all there is\nto it. Snakes are certainly common features of legend throughout the world (as\nMeme points out), and I wouldn't be surprised if some group of people\nsomewhere in the world did believe in a constrictor snake that possessed\npeople.\n\nLike with the crab, though, this is most likely a case of the author taking a\nmotif well-established in folklore and putting an original spin on it.\n\n* * *\n\nI'll update this answer later with more details. A few notes in the meanwhile:\n\n * Hanekawa's cat is certainly an invention of the author, as you point out.\n * Shinobu explicitly identifies Tsukihi's phoenix (the _shidenodori_ ) as having some unusual features that don't match up to the conventional conception of a phoenix.\n * Given that Karen's bee is a fabrication even in the context of the story, I'd imagine legends of it don't exist out here in the real world either.\n\nAnd for Monogatari Second Season:\n\n> \\--There are no tigers in Japan. And besides, Hanekawa's tiger (the _kako_ )\n> is far too punnable to be real, just like Hitagi's crab. \n> \\--Jiangshi are a real thing, though Monogatari jiangshis appear to differ\n> from real-life jiangshis in some minor ways. \n> \\--Nadeko's _kuchinawa_ might be inspired by snake legends, but it's pretty\n> obviously original for the most part. \n> \\--The apparition-eating darkness of Onimonogatari only makes sense in the\n> context of the Monogatari world. It wouldn't make sense for it to be based\n> on a real legend.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-06T10:48:25.770", "id": "9539", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-06T10:48:25.770", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nIn a short awnser no they are not.\n\nNisio isin did take inspiration from some other works of literature but in\nreality the appereritions are not real.\n\nIn actuality the apperitions that are haunting the girls are foils for their\ncharacters\n\nHitagi gets a crab because she portrays a strong outershell that pushes others\naway yet hides a soft interior. Like many Tsunderes.\n\nMayoi was a foil for araragi's sisters so she was a snail or a cow because in\njapan cows usually block roads when one is trying to get home slowing them\ndown in the process, just like araragi didn't want to go home so he ended up\nmeeting Mayoi. Also she is called a snail because the kanji for cow is also in\nthe kanji for snail.\n\nSuruga gets a monkey because in japanese and many eastern cultures monkeys are\nsaid to be full of jelousy which is why people portray the phrase \"see no\nevil, do no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil\" with a monkey as their\nrepresentatives. That phrase contributed a lot to suruga's spirit. As she was\njelous because she had heard that Hitagi was in a relationship, confronted\nararagi in her own way with puns and innuendos due to the author and destroyed\nararagi all because of her jealousy\n\nSengoku gets a snake because she is portrayed as a victim character. She is\nwrapped in snakes to make her look moe which is the point to her character\ntoo. She is the only one to not be cursed trough her own doing in bakemono.\nShe is given snakes so that she would be placed in bondage positions for the\nviewer and she kinda liked it also because as a victim she had to either act\nor be crushed like a mouse and so she did act making her develop further in\notorimonogatari.\n\nHanekawa is tricky because she was given a cat due to her pure nature as a\nperson and as a lustful one in her black hanekawa form. Also to get her other\ntiger form you should read the story \"a beast under the moonlight\" which is\nabout a man that turns into a white tiger to reak havoc in japan and is the\ninfluence behind her spirit in Nekomonogatari white\n\nKaren's spirit isnt given much tought due to the orgin of Nisemonogatari.\nNisio isin wrote this one as a fanficfion for himself. Nisemono means fake\nmaking the title fake story. So these stories both karen bee and Taukihi\nphoenix were not really given much thought like the others.\n\nAnd araragi being a vampire was just to give him a way to deconstuct the harem\ngenre. Araragi is made imortal so that he can risk his life to help the girls\nand is tought by shinobu that because he wants to help that makes him hurt\nothers without his intention. Just like how he went against black hanekawa and\nsuruga without saying something to Hitagi. This is why shinobu is conected by\npain to him. He is a deconstruction of the male lead and is given an actual\nrepresentatios as how horrible going out of your way to help others can really\nbe\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-29T06:38:03.660", "id": "38142", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T06:38:03.660", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30021", "parent_id": "9532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe two have met before Index, in _Toaru Kagaku no Rērugan (A Certain\nScientific Railgun)_ Misaka encountered Touma and his ability to nullify her\nattack with his Imagine Breaker in his right hand. When Misaka asked how Touma\ndid it he says he doesn't know yet Misaka doesn't believe him.\n\nThis annoyed Misaka because she's one of the strongest Espers in the city (one\nof only a handful of Level 5's) and she's proud of it, Touma is a \"Level 0\" so\nhe shouldn't be any match for Misaka however she can't win against thanks to\nTouma's Imagine Breaker and without knowing how it works Misaka can't accept\nthat she is bested by him.\n\nIn Index they already know one another, it's just that after Episode 6 of the\nIndex Anime Touma acts as if he doesn't know her because his memory was wiped\nout from a feather that remained after the effects of St. George's Sanctuary\nwhen Index was in Johann's Pen Mode.\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-06T05:22:11.287", "id": "9535", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-07T22:03:12.677", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-07T22:03:12.677", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "9533", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe actual reason behind Misaka's attacks is quite simple. It is played for\npure comedic purposes. Tsunderes act out of character near their crushes - a\ncommon trope found in anime. Basically, Misaka was worried about how a level 0\nlike Touma could deflect her attacks. She thought that she must be missing\nsomething, and the same tactic might be used against her by criminals.\nAttacking Touma again and again would probably help her realise her probable\n'weakness' and whatever strategy he is using (since he never disclosed the\ntruth initially). Since they became closer, Touma became one upon whom Misaka\nwould vent her emotional frustration, and ends up fighting him. It does not\nhelp very much then, when Touma teases her in the process, making her feel\nmore insecure. The last reason, from Touma's perspective, is bad luck. To Aru\nMajutsu no Index confirmed that he was BORN to be misunderstood.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-19T03:33:00.403", "id": "49749", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-19T03:33:00.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43478", "parent_id": "9533", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe contract is an agreement of sorts, that place a binding obligation between\nparties. Another anime in the same season throws the word contract around\n(Chunibio, love and other delusions), where even the relationship between the\nmain characters is a \"contract\".\n\nIn the magical world of WCW, the contract does not need a physical (paper,\netc) shape. Merely the agreement and binding of magical powers is enough.\n\nSo, lets examine some contracts in the anime:\n\n 1. Honoka, Evermillion and Ayaka: Evermillion and Ayaka have a contract. Ayaka pledges to defend Evermillion's host (Honoka), and Evermillion pledges to supply mana to Ayaka. The contract's benefits are seemingly endless mana to Ayaka, wound absorption (Honoka's wounds are transferred to Ayaka). Displeasing Evermillion (when Ayaka and Medusa merge, Ayaka loses the mana because she is no longer \"pure\") causes the contract to be suspended. There is a particularity of the contract shown in the last episode, but SPOILERS enough.\n\n 2. Ayaka and Medusa go into a contract of sorts when they merge.\n\n 3. Head Workshop Mage and the city: the city contract is almost an enchantment. The Mage bound to the city pledges to use his mana supply to protect the civilians and reconstruct the city. The workshop witches cannot work their magic if the head mage is out of mana. When Weekend's bomb goes off, Kazane's mana is completely drained off, and her contract is suspended, causing all workshop witches to lose their powers. It takes a absurd amount of mana to sign-bind-cast this contract, as its shown in the final episodes, but SPOILERS enough.\n\nSo:\n\n> Are there any benefits to a contract?\n\n * There are benefits and drawbacks to contracts.\n\n> Is there a limit to how many contracts you make?\n\n * There is no limit to the amount of contracts you can get, but you are still subject to conflitcs of interest (medusa and Ayaka's merge can be considered a contract too).\n\n> Can a contract be made with anything else besides a town or a person?\n\n * Unknown, as it is not shown in the Anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-06T16:32:20.230", "id": "9541", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-06T16:32:20.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "9534", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]