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[ { "body": "\n\nEpisode 0 is technically the last episode in the season. The chronological\norder of the episodes can be found here:\n\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya_episodes>\n\nUnder the E tab, you can order it by descending or ascending. Using\nCrunchyroll's ordering, episode 2 should be the first episode to watch.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-06T06:19:51.990", "id": "9537", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-06T06:19:51.990", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "9536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe continuity is very slightly more clear in the novels. Episode 0 is the\nmovie that the SOS Brigade films to show at the school festival during \"Live\nAlive\". In the novels, the Brigade makes the movie during _The Sigh of Haruhi\nSuzumiya_ , the second novel in the series, which is adapted to anime in the\nlast four episodes of Series 2.\n\nThe novels _The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_ and _The Boredom of Haruhi\nSuzumiya_ both take place before _The Sigh_ , so the episodes based on those\nnovels--\"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya\" parts 1-6, \"The Boredom of Haruhi\nSuzumiya\", \"Mysterique Sign\", and \"Remote Island Syndrome\", all take place\nbefore Episode 0. As senshin mentions, \"Live Alive\", \"Day of Sagittarius\", and\n\"Someday in the Rain\" take place after Episode 0. \"The Day of Sagittarius\" was\nin the fifth novel, _The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya_ , and \"Live Alive\" and\n\"The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00\" (our Episode 0) were in the\nsixth novel, _The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya_. Both of these novels are\nrandom collections of shorts that cover different time periods.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-13T17:59:31.020", "id": "12829", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-15T18:23:29.487", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-15T18:23:29.487", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "9536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe only site I found that provides the English version of _Music Box of\nMemories_ series is **Fakku! (Warning: R-18 site!)**.\n\nEither you can:\n\n * subscribe to Fakku! [to read each volume](https://www.fakku.net/collections/music-box-of-memories)\n\n> Based on the long-running yuri franchise _A Kiss For The Petals_ by\n> Fuguriya, _Music Box of Memories_ contains three stories centered on three\n> different character pairs. If you want to learn more about the franchise,\n> check out Petals' Garden!\n\n * purchase the digital version on [Fakku! Store](https://store.fakku.net/products/music-box-of-memories)\n\n> Based on the long-running yuri franchise _A Kiss For The Petals_ by\n> Fuguriya, _Music Box of Memories_ contains three stories centered on three\n> different character pairs. If you want to learn more about the franchise,\n> check out [Petals' Garden](https://petalsgarden.axypb.net/)!\n>\n> This includes all 3 chapters of _Music Box of Memories_.\n\nDisclaimer: I don't have any affiliation with the site at all.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-16T13:58:16.557", "id": "43359", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-17T12:28:22.447", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-17T12:28:22.447", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "9545", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Kuroko no Basuke wikia (unlike most wikias) is actually pretty good about\nciting its sources. The statement you quote includes a reference to chapter 74\n(found in volume 9), page 9:\n\n\n\nThe left-hand speech bubble reads:\n\n> When I was a kid back in the U.S., I got bitten by a giant dog, so [I\n> seriously can't deal with them]...!\n\nI don't believe this was mentioned in the anime, though. At minimum, Kagami\ndoesn't say anything about it in episode 14, which is when the dog is\nintroduced in the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-07T11:29:52.477", "id": "9554", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-07T20:26:57.597", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-07T20:26:57.597", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is said in the anime, I haven't read the manga either but I did got that\nfrom the anime. The reason why he is so scared of dogs is because when he was\nyoung he was teasing a dog, the dog got mad and bit him. so technically it was\nhis own fault.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-23T21:48:15.460", "id": "40011", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-23T21:48:15.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32145", "parent_id": "9550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are wondering how can he can\n\n> tell his sisters that you have to be strong to be a hero despite being\n> rather weak himself.\n\nBut does he ever\n\n> claim to be a hero?\n\nI can't recall that he did. Thus, there is no discrepancy in his words and the\nstory he sees in himself is not invalid.\n\nHis sisters, however\n\n> did, quite proudly, claim to be heroes. He only (rightfully in his opinion)\n> pointed out that they can't live up to that standard.\n\nOn a meta level: Not every story needs a strong hero - many great pieces\n(commonly for adults) rather tell about the weaknesses of a person rather than\ntheir strengths. I would consider Monogatari well fitting in this light.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-07T22:46:43.370", "id": "9569", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-07T22:46:43.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "220", "parent_id": "9556", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn prequel, Kizumonogatari, when Araragi meets Kiss-shot for the first time:\n\n> Araragi becomes a vampire whose power comes from Kiss-shot. Then when he\n> fights one of the vampire hunters that are after her, he notes that Araragi\n> is second strongest oddity in the world right after Kiss-shot, even if he\n> has no clue how to use his power to his full potential. This strength comes\n> primarily from his and Kiss-shot's regenerative abilities making them\n> practically immortal so they can continue to fight no matter the damage\n> opponent does to them. This power went away as he reduced Kiss-shot into\n> Shinobu, but he still retains bits of it. He could easily get that power\n> back by having Shinobu regain her powers by drinking his blood, but then he\n> would become full vampire who need to kill and eat people for sustenance.\n> Something Araragi would never do.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T06:28:56.823", "id": "9578", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-08T06:28:56.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "9556", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Araragi was quite strong in Kizumonogatari, I mean he beat all of them\n3 exorcist guys to get Shinobu's arms and legs back, but then he kinda\ndowngraded that told because he wanted to be human again. I really think that\nif Araragi had his full powers like in Kizu, Kanbaru wouldn't stand a chance\nlike people say Kanbaru would beat him even in his full vampire form, but i\ndon't think that's true.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-01T15:58:45.943", "id": "38727", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-01T19:22:54.807", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-01T19:22:54.807", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "30682", "parent_id": "9556", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOhana's biological father - Matsumae Ayato - died when Ohana was still a baby,\nof unspecified causes (probably a Japanese cold or something). I believe this\nis only alluded to in the show, but if you watch the movie, you actually get\nto see that stage of Ohana's life.\n\nAfter that, Ohana's mother (Satsuki) gets in relationships with various\nboyfriends, the latest of which is the guy you see in episode 1. The dude\napparently is in a lot of debt - Satsuki has poor taste in men. Worse still,\nwhen his creditors asked him for his address, the dude seems to have given\nthem the address of _Ohana's apartment_.\n\nRather than dealing with his debts like a reasonable person, he and Satsuki\ndecide to abandon the apartment and run away together so as to get the\ncreditors off their trail. To them, this doubles as a romantic getaway, and\nthus, they don't want to take Ohana along with them. Satsuki decides to ship\nOhana off to Kissui, and thus the show begins.\n\nBasically, it all boils down to Satsuki being a godawful excuse for a parent.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-07T18:15:54.450", "id": "9564", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-07T18:15:54.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9559", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\"Zawsze\" is [Polish](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zawsze) for \"always.\"\n\nSo it's something along the lines of \"always in love.\" The significance has\nyet to be revealed.\n\nThe original version is written as ザクシャ イン ラブ （愛を永遠に)\n\nWhich means more or less \"forever in love.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-07T18:51:32.040", "id": "9566", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-17T22:23:48.887", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-17T22:23:48.887", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9560", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a little confusing because the notion of what exactly \"Adam\" is is\ndifferent from the original TV Series + End of Evangelion (Neon Genesis\nEvangelion) and the new movie series (\"Rebuild\" of Evangelion). In the\noriginal TV Series, Adam was a source of life (the Angels), and named the\n\"First Angel\", and used as a template of sorts for all of the Evangelions\n(eventhough near the end of the series, Evangelion Unit-01 was said to be a\n\"clone\" of Lilith).\n\nIn the new movies, \"Adam\" is a lot more vague. We're not sure what Adam is at\nthis point, and the first thing that we have to go off of was a preview where\nwe saw 4 glowing figures (presumably at the edge of the site of second impact)\nfollowed with the label \"ADAMS\":\n\n\n\nNote that this shot was never actually used in the movies, it was probably\nreworked so that it more closely matched the rest of the Second Impact\nflashback montage:\n\n\n\nSome things to note are that they all have halos and what appears to be\n\"cores\".\n\nAs far as the \"Adam's Vessel\", it's hard to decipher exactly what that means,\nespecially if there is supposedly 4 Adams. However, we are told a few things\nfrom the movies, and that \"Adam's Vessel\" is Evangelion Mark.09. [Here's a\nbreakdown of possible \"Adams\" and what the 3rd movie has\nrevealed](http://forum.evageeks.org/post/579968/Eva-Unit-Formats-and-Name-\nMeaning-Discussion/#579968).\n\nIt mentions that Mark.09 was referred to as \"Adam's Vessel\" and Evangelion 13\nwas called a \"Survivor of the Adams\" or something. The thread also goes into a\nlittle bit of detail and speculation about the Adams and what they could be.\nAt this point, we don't know for sure what the Adam's Vessel was for, why it's\ncalled Adam's Vessel, and why Mark.09 is supposedly it.\n\nMore rampant speculation about Adams and the Evangelions\n[here](http://forum.evageeks.org/thread/15070/Rebuild-of-Evangelion-1-3-Adams-\nand-other-Speculation/).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-07T19:44:05.533", "id": "9567", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-07T19:44:05.533", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "9565", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> My question is, which time period does the \"Dark Age\" correspond to?\n>\n> Is the following time scale correct?\n\nYour timeline is correct. The Dark Ages correspond to the period following the\nPK wars during which the slave dynasties held power (in northeastern Asia,\nanyway). In more detail:\n\n * Ismailov conducts his experiments in 2011, leading to the creation of the first psychokinetiker.\n * Psychokinetikers and ordinary people coexist peacefully, if uneasily, for a short time - perhaps a year or so? The exact duration isn't made explicit.\n * Boy A and people like him start using PK to commit severe crimes, prompting the formation of powerful anti-PK movements worldwide. In response, PK users band together. Some of the groups of psychokinetikers become heavily radicalized and commit acts of terrorism.\n * The PK wars begin. The war effort is particularly effective in the US, which almost manages to wipe out all the psychokinetikers within its borders (PK users decline from 0.3% of the population to a mere 0.0004% of the population - a few thousand people at most). \n * Faced with this grave threat to their existence, the few remaining PK users develop tremendously strong PK in a short period of time. Using their newfound strength, the psychokinetikers topple every standing government on the planet. \n\nThe collapse of all governmental structure marked the beginning of the Dark\nAges, so named because - like the \"original\" Dark Ages that followed the\ncollapse of the Roman Empire - little was known about it. The \"new\" Dark Ages\nlasted roughly 500 years. During this time, global communication networks\ncollapsed, and so little was known about what was going on elsewhere in the\nworld. The slave dynasties rose and fell, eventually leading to the rise of\nSaki's society.\n\n> Also, what is known about the dark age?\n\nUnfortunately, there isn't much known, what with it being a Dark Age, and all.\nIn the novel, the false minoshiro does go into more detail about the four\ngroups (and I can update this answer to include that information if you'd\nlike).\n\nThat said, our knowledge of the Dark Ages begins and ends with the false\nminoshiro. The Dark Ages were hundreds of years out of living memory by Saki's\ntime (even for telomere-manipulators like Tomiko), and it seems that all\nrecord-keeping was effectively delegated to the libraries - that is, the false\nminoshiros. It seems very likely that if you were to ask the people of Kamisu\n66 about the Dark Ages, they would know virtually nothing about it - perhaps\nnot even that the Dark Ages _happened_ at all.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T10:57:35.953", "id": "9583", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-08T13:57:58.270", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-08T13:57:58.270", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9570", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSomething I would note, some of the initial PKers were also just literally\ngoing crazy from having their perceptions unlocked and opened. Imagine no\nfilters, and suddenly your aware of every other human beings thoughts and can\nhear radio frequencies in your head, I believe they were literally just\nsnapping and lacked any sort of control until the time they learned to come up\nwith self imposed limitations and control elements for raising children to be\nto live with abilities that can alter reality without causing as much\nproblems.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-06-03T18:39:21.307", "id": "57799", "last_activity_date": "2020-06-03T18:39:21.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53663", "parent_id": "9570", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDoraemon returns in the next chapter in the next volume.\n\n\n\nThe regular manga has 45 volumes. The Plus manga has 5.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T04:47:06.890", "id": "9576", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-08T04:47:06.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9573", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n[Wikipedia Page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon) said\n\n> The third ending was actually meant to be the official ending due to low TV\n> ratings and the Fujiko Fujio duo being busy with other works, but Doraemon\n> did not leave their minds and restarted in the next month's issue. In 1981,\n> this episode was made into anime (called \"[Doraemon Comes\n> Back](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2634/Doraemon%3a_Doraemon_Comes_Back)\")\n> and in 1998 this was released as an anime movie.\n\nThe third ending there is the one you've said.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T07:24:05.770", "id": "9580", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-08T07:24:05.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "9573", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMany of the slapstick moments in the Monogatari Series are depicted in a way\nthat closely resembles the art style of\n[Doraemon](http://www.anisearch.com/anime/1840,doraemon). In fact, I vaguely\nremember a scene where the protagonist of the Monogatari Series, [Koyomi\nAraragi](http://www.anisearch.com/character/5174,koyomi-araragi), complains\nabout too many Doraemon references.\n\nThe whole Doraemon series is very extensive with a myriad of movies and\nspecials and not to mention the [second\nseason](http://www.anisearch.com/anime/540,doraemon-1979) which sports a\nwhopping 1787 episodes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-08T18:18:17.700", "id": "29622", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-08T18:18:17.700", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19042", "parent_id": "9574", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure if this is 100% correct, but when I saw it, I presumed it was a\nreference to Dragonball and Akira Toriyama's early art style.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/I6tJNm.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pKh5Rm.png)\n\nIn particular, It reminded me of Krillin who is frequently drawn without a\nnose.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EKkFU.jpg)\n\nI can't seem to find a perfect example on Google, but I remember this style\noften in the original series. One point to note though is that the lines\naround the eyes don't go around fully.\n\nI haven't seen Dr. slump, but as it's the same authour it makes sense you drew\nthese parallels too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-09T19:33:17.837", "id": "29651", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-09T19:33:17.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9574", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis will only be a partial answer addressing some of the major characters,\nbecause there's too many characters in the Fate universe for me to be bothered\ntracking all of them down. Broadly, though, with the exception of male\ncharacters like Shirou and Kiritsugu who are played by women when children and\nby men when adults, I know of only one case in which different VAs have played\nthe same character in different entries in the Fate-universe.\n\nThis one case is that of Sapphire in Prisma Illya. The unfortunate passing of\nMatsuki Miyu after the airing of 2wei Herz led to her being replaced by Kakazu\nYumi in 3rei.\n\n* * *\n\nRe: Fate/stay night - the casts of the 2006 anime, the UBW movie, Realta Nua,\nand the 2014 anime are all the same, at least for the major characters, so I\nhaven't specifically made a note of that in the list below.\n\n * Saber (Arturia) \n * voiced by Kawasumi Ayako in Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Prisma Illya, Carnival Phantasm\n * does not appear in Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC, Carnival Phantasm\n * Gilgamesh \n * voiced by Tomokazu Seki in Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Fate/Extra CCC\n * in Prisma Illya, his child form is voiced by Endo Aya, but the guttural yelling of his black form in the last few episodes of 2wei Herz are also by Tomokazu Seki\n * does not appear in Fate/Extra\n * Rin \n * voiced by Kana Ueda in Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC, Prisma Illya, Carnival Phantasm\n * Illya \n * voiced by Kadowaki Mai in Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night, Prisma Illya, Carnival Phantasm\n * does not appear in Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC\n * Archer (EMIYA) \n * voiced by Suwabe Junichi in Fate/stay night, Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC, Carnival Phantasm\n * does not appear in Fate/Zero, Prisma Illya\n\n[This Crunchyroll article](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-\nnews/2014/04/08-1/fatehollow-ataraxia-ps-vita-port-to-feature-tower-defense-\ngame) lists some of the voice actors for the Vita port of F/HA; all the ones\nthat are listed are the same people that played those characters in earlier\nFate entries. The [Japanese Wikipedia article for\nF/HA](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/hollow_ataraxia) also lists some more\nVAs for F/HA, citing _Type-Moon ACE_ Vol. 9; all of these match up correctly\ntoo.\n\nBesides, I don't think it would be in Type-Moon's best interest to change VAs\nfor any of the major characters - imagine what a fit fans would throw if their\nwaifu/husbando got a new VA!\n\n* * *\n\nYou didn't ask about Tsukihime, but do note that the voice actors for\nTsukihime in the 2003 anime all differ from their voice actors in Carnival\nPhantasm. If the Tsukihime remake ever happens, I suspect that they'll stick\nwith the Carnival Phantasm VAs rather than the 2003 anime VAs.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T11:23:03.433", "id": "9585", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-30T11:32:51.533", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-30T11:32:51.533", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n(Very late answer, I know, but I wanted to say this anyways) Well, this might\ntake a while, so get ready:\n\nAs far as Fate is concerned, it's voice cast has surprisingly consistent ever\nsince the 2006 anime... with the shining exception of Bediviere. The guy has\ngone through (I kid you not) 4 different voice actors. The first was Mamiko\nNoto in the 2006 anime, then in the PS2 version of Realta Nua Shinichiro Miki\n(Assassin's VA) took up the role, then in the PS Vita version of Realta Nua,\nthe role was passed on to Mitsuaki Madono (Issei's VA) and finally, in Fate\nGrand Order the role was passed once again, this time to Mamoru Miyano, and\nit'll hopefully stay consistent from now on.\n\nThere are only two other characters who have changed VAs as far as I can tell.\nThe first is Kuzuki, who is... a bit harder to explain. Basically, for all of\nthe Studio DEEN productions, the PS2 Version of Realta Nua and Carnival\nPhantasm he was definitely voiced by Kazuhiro Nakata. I also know for a fact\nthat in the second UBW adaptation, the PS Vita version of Hollow Ataraxia and\nthe Heaven's Feel movies he was voiced by Masaki Terasoma instead. Finally, I\nam also aware of the fact that the late great Unsho Ishizuka voiced him in\nUnlimited Codes and the Tiger Colisseum series. However I have no idea on\nwhether Nakata or Terasoma voiced him in Emiya-San or the PS Vita version of\nRealta Nua. I'm gonna throw a gamble and say it was Terasoma for the sake of\nconsistency, but don't quote me on that.\n\nFinally is the matter of Luvia. She's voiced by Yukari Tamura in Realta Nua\nand Shizuka Ito in everything else. I know, surprisingly easy to explain,\nright?\n\nAside from that, Fate's cast has actually stayed very consistent thought.\n\nAs for Tsukihime, well, I don't think I even need to mention the mass recast\nthat was done for the Melty Blood games and how we're now stuck with them. The\nonly character to note is Hisui. As a result of Miyu Matsuki's passing, the\nrole has returned to Yumi Kakazu, who had previously voiced her in the anime\nthat does not exist.\n\nI do however wonder what they'll do with Capslock-Kun. He hasn't had a voiced\napparence in a while, so I don't know if they'll recast him or they actually\ndecide to bring Hiroyuki Yoshino back (Which woudln't be that bad of an idea.\nI mean, Yoshino flat out sucked as Roa, but I actually think he could pull\nCapslock-Kun off). The former is far more likely, but who knows (And if they\ndo recast him, they better bring in Nobuhiko Okamoto).\n\nFinally is the Kara No Kyoukai cast, which is thankfully easy to explain. From\nwhat I've been able to gatter, all of the cast used in Drama CDs previous to\nthe movies' release was different. It was more along the lines of this:\n\nThe late great Tomoko Kawakami as Shiki (Passed on to Maaya Sakamoto).\n\nKentaro Ito as Mikiya (Passed on to Kenichi Suzumura).\n\nKikuko Inoue as Touko (Passed on to Takako Honda).\n\nYukari Tamura as Azaka (Passed on to Ayumi Fujiwara).\n\nAnd finally, Miki Ito as Fujou Kirie (Passed on to Rie Tanaka).\n\nAside from that, Type-Moon has actually managed to get a rather consistent\ncast. It's not to the extreme of, say, Square-Enix, but I'm actually surprised\nit has stayed so consistent over the years (Without mentioning the anime that\ndoes not exist).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-07T22:23:11.190", "id": "50014", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-07T22:23:11.190", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43797", "parent_id": "9577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell actually I do not watch the anime, but I searched and found people said\nthe anime pretty much the same with the manga. So, what happened was...\n\n> Well, you know that the present Yuno is First World Yuno right? When she\n> came to the present world (Second World), she killed the Second World Yuno,\n> took her place in the present, and **took her phone** , and that made her\n> having two phones. The phone that Aru destroyed was the phone that\n> originally owned by Second World Yuno. Meanwhile, the real phone of First\n> World Yuno was safe with her. That's why she didn't die.\n\nFor complete information, you can read [Mirai Nikki's Wikia Page of\nYuno](http://futurediary.wikia.com/wiki/Yuno_Gasai). Read \"The End Begins\" and\n\"The Final Battle\" section.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T19:42:40.313", "id": "9589", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-08T19:42:40.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "9581", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's actually explained a bit at one point, though I can't remember the\nepisode exactly.\n\nEssentially, humanity got really violent and started destroying each other,\nprobably via nuclear warfare or maybe previous people with supernatural\npowers. Shin Sekai Yori takes place on one of the remaining human colonies,\nwhere the elders are the only ones that know of the leftover science,\nknowledge from the previous era.\n\nThis explains why they're super paranoid about these kids with powers, because\nthey're afraid that everyone will get destroyed again.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-04T15:52:25.110", "id": "10107", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-04T15:52:25.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5116", "parent_id": "9588", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe false Minoshiro (lit. ミノシロモドキ, minoshiro-modoki, monoshiro-mimic) they\nencounter identifies itself as \"Panasonic Automotive Archive, Autonomous\nEvolution, version SE-778H Lambda.\" About 890 petabytes of data is stored\nwithin it using holographic memory; this includes all 38,242,506 volumes\npublished in Japan since 2129 AD and 671,630 reference books in other\nlanguages. The novel describes it to be a sort of flying transportation and\nsearch engine.\n\nBecause it allows easy access to the large cache of information, the\nintellectual elite are afraid that this forbidden knowledge might get leaked\nto the general public through it, and have made it a taboo to touch or even\nspeak to it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T22:54:50.617", "id": "9594", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-10T02:09:47.737", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-10T02:09:47.737", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9590", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> * Nightmare song (track #3)\n>\n\nTrack #3 _is_ \"Mada Dame Yo\", which you said you found lyrics for.\n\n> * \"Dream world\" [#25]\n> * \"the worst ending\" [#33]\n> * \"I was waiting for this moment\" [#40]\n>\n\nThe lyrics for these are in Kajiuran (cf. [this\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6723/1908)), which is not an actual\nlanguage. Lyrics for pieces in Kajiuran are typically not released (though\neven if they were, you couldn't translate them, because, you know, it's not a\nlanguage).\n\n> * Mami's fight scene\n> * Mami's remixed theme\n>\n\nIf you can point me to the track numbers or titles for these, I can check on\nthem (I don't remember off-hand which ones these were). Odds are, though,\nthese are also in Kajiuran.\n\n> * \"Noi!\" [#32]\n>\n\nThe lyrics for this one are also not a real language. I would hesitate to call\nit \"Kajiuran\", just because it seems a lot more Germanic-inspired and less\nRomance-inspired than her usual stuff, but anyway, you're not going to find\nlyrics for this one either.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T22:17:03.213", "id": "9593", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-08T22:46:23.830", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9592", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the final episode, Hikari's father explains:\n\n> Children born to a person of the surface and a person of the sea lose their\n> Ena. For this reason, the people of the sea had to hibernate before the\n> surface met its demise. We had to make sure that there were enough\n> descendants to leave behind and that there was a chance at a future.\n\nHibernation in this series seems to be equivalent of\n[Cryonics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics). Which is where an organism\nis preserved for virtually an indefinite amount of time by being frozen.\nDuring this process, the organism is frozen in time and does not age.\n\nSo the belief is:\n\n 1. There's an apocalypse coming. And everyone on the surface will die.\n 2. If the entire population of Shioshishio marries into the \"surface people\", there will be no one with Ena to survive the apocalypse.\n 3. So the only way is to hibernate through the apocalypse.\n\nBut then Hikari's father continues on:\n\n> But Miuna prove me wrong. Miuna has Ena now. That means there's hope for the\n> future even if we wake up.\n\nThis is why everyone wakes up.\n\n* * *\n\nSo biologically, there is no _need_ for an individual to actually hibernate.\nThat's why Chisaki is fine having been on the surface the whole time.\n\nOn the other hand, there's nothing in the Anime that seems to explain why\nHikari, Manaka, and Kaname woke up naked on the surface.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-09T03:13:10.683", "id": "9600", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-09T03:13:10.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "9596", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is definitely some pattern to the naming of these ships. The enemy ship\nclasses are named in Iroha order corresponding to the first 18 characters of\nthe [Iroha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha), a classic Japanese poem which\nuses all 47 classical hiragana* (excluding ん but including ゑ and ゐ) once. This\nis an old-fashioned way of ordering hiragana (modern Japanese usually uses\n[Gojūon ordering](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goj%C5%ABon)). It can be used\nto label things in order without resorting to numbers, similar to how one\nmight use letters A, B, C, etc. For example, the series Sayonara Zetsubou\nSensei [uses the same\nordering](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4273/is-there-a-special-\nmeaning-to-the-class-name-2-h-2) for classrooms, though in modern day Japan\nclassrooms would usually be labelled by letters. The main difference between\nthis and other ordering systems is that Iroha order feels more authentically\nJapanese and old-fashioned than the other options.\n\nA table illustrates the relationship between the numbers and the kana. From\n[the wiki](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Enemy_Vessel)\n\n[code]\n\n Ship Class Normal # Elite # Flagship #\n Destroyer I-class 501 514 564\n Destroyer Ro-class 502 515 552\n Destroyer Ha-class 503 516 553\n Destroyer Ni-class 504 514\n Light Cruiser Ho-class 505 515 554\n ...\n \n[/code]\n\nYou can see that the numbers are ascending, particularly in the leftmost\ncolumn. I'm not sure the right columns are correct since there's some\nrepetitions, but it would be a lot more work to check everything than it's\nworth doing here. Anyway, at least the normal numbers very clearly count up\nfrom 500, while the class kana progress in the Iroha.\n\nThat still doesn't explain how the ships themselves are ordered, though it\ndoes say how they're named once you know the ordering. The ordering of types\nis pretty clear. All the Destroyers come before Light Cruisers, which are\nbefore the Torpedo Cruisers, etc. For the most part, it goes from smaller to\nlarger ships. It's not exactly the same as the order\n[here](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Ship) for your available ship types (for\ninstance, battleships come after carriers, rather than before), but it's\nsimilar.\n\nHow the ships are ordered within each type is a bit less clear. I _think_ that\nmost enemy vessel classes are based on a class of ship available to you. For\nexample, [Battleship Ru-class](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Battleship_Ru-\nClass) seems to be based on the\n[Nagato](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Nagato)-class, while the faster but\nless armored [Battleship Ta-\nclass](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Battleship_Ta-Class) has more\nsimilarities with the [Kongou](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Kongou)-class\nbattleships, and the [Aviation Battleship Re-\nclass](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Battleship_Re-Class) is based on the\n[Fusou](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Fusou)-class aviation battleships. The\norder there is compatible with the order in the [Ship\nList](http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Ship_list), in that Nagato-class comes\nbefore Kongou-class, which comes before Fusou-class (at least prior to any\nremodeling).\n\nI suspect for the other types of ships, there's a similar relationship, but I\ndon't actually know which enemy class corresponds to which of your classes,\nand some don't seem to match well at all. I'm not even sure the creators\nreally put that much thought into it. If there is a nice correspondence, I\nsuspect someone has compiled this somewhere before, if possibly only in\nJapanese. However, I didn't immediately find it while searching, and it's a\ntangential enough that I'm not sure it needs to be stated here. Even if there\nisn't an exact correspondence, it's clear that the enemy ships are numbered in\na way that at least makes sense when you compare it to your ship list.\n\nAnyway, at the end of the day, there's no real meaning to the individual\nnames. In terms of literal interpretation, they could have just as well used\n\"A-class\", \"B-class\", etc. (nevermind that those have a different meaning in\nEnglish). The use of Iroha order here is consistent with the general mood of\nKanColle as a semi-historical game. It probably isn't worth reading much more\ninto it than that.\n\nNote that the ship classes are actually written in Katakana, e.g. 駆逐イ級 rather\nthan 駆逐い級. This doesn't really change anything significant, and one can just\nas well write the Iroha in Hiragana or Katakana. In this context, it's similar\nto writing in italics in English. There's a bit more to it than that, but the\nsubtleties between Hiragana and Katakana use in this sort of context aren't\nreally worth going into here.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-11T06:38:30.890", "id": "9638", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-11T06:38:30.890", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "9603", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nInteresting question with no definite answer, so I'll post my 2c here.\n\nThe Mangekyou Sharingan is activated by the immense grief caused by killing\nthe person closest to you. However, it seems like you don't actually have to\nkill him, but witnessing his death is enough.\n\nFor example, Itachi did not actually kill Shisui, rather, he watched him\ncommit suicide (filler).\n\nI believe that both of them awakened their Mangekyou Sharingans separately,\nand because they were both at the scene when it happened, it happened\nsimultaneously.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-09T18:41:20.367", "id": "9606", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-09T18:41:20.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "9605", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Sharingan was stated to be the result of special chakra inside a Uchiha's\nbrain altering their optic nerve when they lose those they love as Kakashi is\nnot a Uchiha he is unlikely to be able to produce the special chakra required\nto gain the Mangekyou Sharingan.\n\nObito could still see through Kakashi's Sharingan when in close proximity had\nshowing he is still connected to the Sharingan he gave Kakashi so I believe\nthat through that connection the special chakra produced in Obito brain\nevolving his Sharingan into the Mangekyou Sharingan was trasfered to Kakashi's\nSharingan causing it to evolve into the Mangekyou Sharingan.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-02T02:29:52.797", "id": "10067", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-02T02:29:52.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2256", "parent_id": "9605", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nBoth awoke mangekyou at the same time but only obito is aware of it and can\nuse it. It took kakashi much longer to recognise its existence and convert it\nto a usable ninjutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T17:50:17.970", "id": "11309", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T17:50:17.970", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "9605", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe visual prowess of the eye does not depend on the will of the person using\nit but on the one to whom it originally belongs to (because of Madara using\nhis brother's visual prowess and even Sasuke using Itachi's visual prowess\nwithout originally having the abilities. Also, Itachi used Shisui's visual\nprowess without having Kotoamatsukami originally). Therefore, Kakashi did not\nawaken the Mangekyou. It was Obito who awakened it in both eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-11T07:42:21.097", "id": "37807", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-11T11:18:48.467", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-11T11:18:48.467", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "29705", "parent_id": "9605", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBecause Jagirinawa tried to kill Nadeko when the ritual was performed, there\nare 2 snakes on her body. The ritual of removal can be done only for one\nsnake, the ritual is not strong enough to remove 2. So Araragi forcefully\nremoved the rest, but was not strong enough and was stopped by Kanbaru by\nletting it go. Nadeko only have the pain from the curse, the boy didn't die\nbecause he's not doing the removal ritual and have no two curse in his body.\nSo if the curse returns back to the boy, he only gets the pain.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-27T03:48:46.567", "id": "21869", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-27T03:55:53.970", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-27T03:55:53.970", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "14688", "parent_id": "9607", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's a Japanese website, [CDJapan](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/), from where\nyou can order CDs. However, here's the catch: they focus more on offbeat and\nnon-mainstream-anime related things.\n\nFor some miscellaneous and also filterable (like in English, Bestsellers,\nGreat Deals, New Releases), I recommend\n[YESASIA](http://www.yesasia.com/global/en/english-anime.html). I'm giving you\nthe link that points to its English anime page.\n\n[PLAY-ASIA](http://www.play-asia.com/music/soundtracks/14/71cy) is epic. Trust\nme. It is. I buy things from there as it accepts my currency too (INR). Here\nyou can find exclusive and good amount of foundational soundtracks. If you\nfeel adventurous, there's more! Like Frozen's Japanese (or was that Korean)\nversion and K-pop songs, etc. But that's not what you asked for, so sorry.\n\nIf you can read Japanese, [HMV Online](http://www.hmv.co.jp/) is a Japanese\nwebsite that gives good deals but may be limited in offers and variety of\npayment.\n\nIf you're a resident of Japan, check the comment by another user. Also, it may\nbe that the above mentioned HMV only lets Japanese people buy.\n\nIf you're American, you should know about [Right Stuf\nAnime](http://www.rightstufanime.com/) and [The Anime Corner\nStore](http://www.animecornerstore.com).\n\nFinally, I recommended you try the mighty [Jungle](http://jungle-\nscs.co.jp/sale_en/). The prices can sometimes be very well placed.\n\nI've picked the links that will land you at appropriate places. Most websites\nwill accept PayPal too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-10T14:36:38.593", "id": "9621", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-23T12:08:42.937", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-23T12:08:42.937", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4831", "parent_id": "9611", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNote: I only mention iTunes/Amazon MP3 because they are the largest\ndistributors of digital music for purchase. I don't refer to others\ndistributors because whatever they offer will likely be available in either,\nor both, iTunes or Amazon MP3.\n\n* * *\n\nIf you live in Japan, then you can find pretty much any anime soundtrack\nOST/opening/ending/insert song in the Amazon MP3 _JAPAN_ store or if not\nthere, the iTunes _JAPAN_ store for purchase.\n\nNote that I emphasize the _JAPAN_ ; you will likely NOT be able to find what\nyou're looking for in an Amazon MP3 or iTunes store for a different country.\n\nAlthough it pertains to the United States in particular, this\n[link](https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-buy-Japanese-music-in-\nthe-US) more or less explains the gist of why that is so.\n\nHowever, there is a small amount of anime music you can find in a non-Japan\niTunes/Amazon MP3 store. Here are couple examples that I have found in either,\nor both the U.S. Amazon MP3/iTunes Stores (but the trend seems to be that\nthere is mainly J-Pop opening/ending songs, and very little instrumental\nOSTs):\n\n * Yui's \"Again\" from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood\n * LiSA's \"Crossing Field\", \"Shirushi\", Eir Aoi's \"Innocence\", \"Ignite\" and a couple of other opening/ending songs from Sword Art Online 1 / 2\n * Most of Fairy Tail's opening/ending songs ( _NOT the OST though, unfortunately_ )\n * Hiroyuki Sawano's OST for Attack on Titan ( _nothing for Aldnoah Zero though_ ) and Linked Horizon's \"Guren no Yumiya\" and \"Jiyuu no Tsubasa\"\n * Joe Hisaishi's complete OSTs for a couple of Miyazaki films including Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke (iTunes only)\n\n* * *\n\nIf you don't live in Japan, as the above [link](https://www.quora.com/Why-is-\nit-so-hard-to-find-buy-Japanese-music-in-the-US) alludes to, then it is very\ndifficult to truly legally obtain anime music via download.\n\nOther than legally purchasing from the small library of anime songs available\nin your own country digitally from iTunes/Amazon MP3, (I know this defeats the\npurpose of your question of _digitally_ obtaining anime music, but)\nunfortunately the only other option is to purchase physical CD's from various\nvendors like Amazon, CDJapan or some other CD distributor.\n\nI will leave this [link](http://www.tofugu.com/2013/01/23/how-to-get-japanese-\nmusic-outside-of-japan/) for you to read. It tells you ways to obtain Japanese\nmusic outside of Japan both physically and digitally.\n\nYou will notice that there is a trick involving buying Japanese gift cards\nfrom a middle-man like Japan Codes and then creating an iTunes Japan or Amazon\nJapan account, BOTH OF WHICH ARE _ILLEGAL_ if you don't live in Japan because\nthey require that you have a valid address in Japan.\n\nI mention the gift cards because anybody looking into purchasing music from\ndigital stores from countries that they don't live in will likely consider\nbuying foreign gift cards, but since the question is about LEGAL methods, I\nwanted to make the point that it is technically illegal to do so if you don't\nlive in the country that the gift card in question is for.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-25T00:04:13.740", "id": "26140", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-25T00:04:13.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14010", "parent_id": "9611", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNot sure what kind of question you are asking, but from the plot summary it\ndoes not appear to be a romance and also appears to be a chinese comic.\n\n* * *\n\nPlot summary from wikipedia:\n\n> The Ravages of Time is a spinoff of Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance\n> of the Three Kingdoms. It tells the exploits of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, the Sun\n> family, and other people from that period, from the point of view of the two\n> main characters, Feng and Liaoyuan Huo, whose names collectively form the\n> Chinese title of the manhua.\n>\n> Sima Yi is the young, unofficial leader of the Sima clan, a highly\n> successful and rich merchant family with strong influence in politics and\n> the economy. Unknown to people outside the clan, the elders have long\n> deferred their power to Sima Yi, believing that he will bring prosperity to\n> their clan, due to his flair for spotting profitable business ventures at a\n> young age.\n\nIt also does not appear to have a female in 'The Ravages of Time' chinese\ncomic/manga ever.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-10T11:04:20.083", "id": "9616", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-10T11:04:20.083", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9612", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst, this question lacked of any amount of research. Please consider\nresearching before asking questions, especially for queries that Google or\nWikipedia can answer in less than a minute. It increases the load on the\nserver.\n\nEssentially, it's not. It's: Action, Drama, Historical, and Seinen. Of course\nseinen stories are free to have that element, but it's not a romance-centred\nmanga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-10T14:21:54.580", "id": "9620", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-10T14:21:54.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4831", "parent_id": "9612", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe it's [\"Tomadoi no Naka\"](https://soundcloud.com/soniko-\nstrange/yosuga-no-sora-tomadoi-no-naka) (戸惑いの中), from the _Yosuga No Sora\nOriginal Soundtrack -New-_ (ヨスガノソラ オリジナルサウンドトラック－New－).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-04T06:46:19.420", "id": "10102", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-04T06:46:19.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9625", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nits from the Yosuga no Sora OST -New-, in english its called, \"in the midst of\nbewilderment\" I believe\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-19T07:15:55.673", "id": "50142", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-19T07:15:55.673", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43956", "parent_id": "9625", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure where you'll find a version with English subs (there aren't any\n\"official\" subs, at minimum), but you can find the ones that have music videos\non 150P's Niconico account.\n\n * [Kodoku no Kakurenbo](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17804161) ([alternate](http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17804161))\n * [Nisemono Chuuihou](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18060733) ([alternate](http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18060733))\n * [Kanzen Hanzai Love Letter](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18172311) ([alternate](http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18172311))\n * [Saru Mane Isutori Game](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm19216490) ([alternate](http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm19216490))\n * [Arikitari Heroes](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm19811204) ([alternate](http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm19811204))\n * [Makeinu Shijou Shugi](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20350758) ([alternate](http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20350758))\n * [Shuuen no Shiori](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm21552346) ([alternate](http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm21552346))\n\nIf you don't have an account on Niconico and don't want to make one, use the\nalternate links instead. No guarantees that those links won't crap out at some\npoint, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-10T18:53:04.667", "id": "9628", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-10T18:53:04.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the designs created by Akihiro Yamada, that were adapted by Hiroki Kanno\nfor the anime, Quon is depicted wearing clothes with a very French motif (e.g.\nparasol, beret).\n\n\n\nOn the Vol.2 DVD release (used in France and Japan, but not in the initial\nU.S. and UK release), Yamada illustrated Quon wearing a frilly lace-trimmed\ndress and stockings, carrying a parasol for a goth loli look, which was\ninspired Old French Victorian style dresses.\n\n\n\nThe stereotypes mesh well with Renge, being a French \"otaku.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-10T19:50:19.413", "id": "9630", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-10T19:50:19.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9629", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's probably because Oda wanted the appearance of Sabo to be more of a\n\"surprise\" to the reader (not that it was particularly surprising in the first\nplace).\n\nIf Robin had mentioned anything before that, then the payoff would have been\nlessened.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T18:55:23.813", "id": "9697", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T13:56:36.360", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T13:56:36.360", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "9632", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSince the strawhat Pirates reunited, they have been on a rollercoaster ride of\nevents. In the One Piece universe, not much more than a few days or maybe a\nweek has passed and they just did not have time to \"catch up\". They always\nhave had bigger things to worry about. The thing is, suppose they would have\nhad the time, it actually makes a lot of sense for Robin to keep quiet about\nher whereabouts and it quite fits her character as well. **The following list\nare reasons why Robin should clearly not have told Luffy about Sabo.**\n\n * Robin did not know about the relationship Sabo, Ace and Luffy shared. She only knew Ace and Luffy were brothers.\n * Even if Sabo did tell Robin, she did not know Luffy considered Sabo to be death.\n * Even if Robin did know about all of this (which seems very unlikely), Sabo was to be considered death for the rest of the world too. So if anything, he probably wanted to keep it that way for the time being.\n * Sabo might even have asked Robin to keep it a secret, to not spoil the surprise. He probably wanted to tell Luffy himself, similar to how Shanks did not want to meet Luffy during the Marineford War.\n * Robin has been hiding her activities since she was just a child, so it was just natural for her, not to talk about it anyway.\n * Even if Robin wanted to share her whereabouts, she was probably told not to do so by Dragon himself, because being associated with the Revolutionary Army has major consequences. The World Government might want to interrogate her about the Revolutionary Army as lots is still unknown about them as of chapter 787. They want to keep a low profile as long as possible.\n\n**Edit** as per [Masked Man](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/99/masked-\nman)'s comment:\n\n> * Robin doesn't really \"socialize\" much, she is serious most of the time\n> and doesn't get into \"personal discussions\" too much, so it would be totally\n> out of character for her to talk for hours about what she did during the\n> timeskip.\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-23T14:01:59.677", "id": "21762", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-23T14:18:50.943", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "9632", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have found a solution. On Crunchyroll there is a workaround to this.\n\n* * *\n\n## Step 1\n\nHead over to the footer or bottom of the website. It should look something\nlike this >\n\n\n\n## Step 2\n\nFrom the footer, head over to languages in the footer, then head over to the\nhighlighted text which says 'French'\n\n\n\n## Step 3\n\nAfter this the page should reload and the animes should now be playing with\nFrench subtitles.\n\nNote: Not sure if it will work, but it did work for me. Have a look in the\npicture below. Try it on Golden Time Episode 24.\n\n## \n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-11T10:56:17.927", "id": "9644", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-11T11:12:33.893", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-11T11:12:33.893", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFollow the above instructions, then [view the\nlineup](http://www.crunchyroll.com/lineup). When your language is set to\nFrench, what you can see in the lineup are the videos available in your region\nwith French subtitles. If you are at the lineup page and flip between\ndifferent languages at the bottom of the page, you should see different\nnumbers of show for each language ... for myself, in the US, I see:\n\nContinuing Titles: English, 10; Spanish 6; Portuguese, same 6; French 4.\n\nNew Titles: English 37; Spanish, Portuguese & French, 33.\n\nBut if I accessed the site from Canada, the numbers in the French section\nwould increase, since a few French Language licenses are not available in\nEnglish in North America but are available in French in Canada.\n\nAlso, (1) this is just an automatic filter, so its only as good as the setting\nof the database, and mistakes are always possible in setting that database up\nand (2) for devices (Android, iOS, etc.) or for some titles where Crunchyroll\nhas hardsubs (normally in English) you need to also change your language\npreferences to get the right result.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-03T19:45:58.437", "id": "10090", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-03T19:45:58.437", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5110", "parent_id": "9633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis image is of (spoiler warning in links) [Solne](http://vndb.org/c6132) and\n[Koma](http://vndb.org/c6141) from the 2005 visual novel/eroge\n[Ouka](http://vndb.org/v5319) by Carriere. As far as I know, there's no anime\nor manga adaptation. They also appear in the original game\n[Shinkirou](http://vndb.org/v2100) (which Ouka was an expanded remake of), but\nthe character design in the image matches Ouka's. As you can probably guess\nfrom the image, Solne is one of the main characters in the game, while Koma is\nthe cute mascot animal (she's not actually a cat).\n\nThe plot from vndb:\n\n> The last descendant of a line of mystical protectors, Yuuya Furusaka has\n> received the twin blessing of Life and Death, and now his touch has the\n> power to save lifes or destroy them, although at the price of, respectively,\n> his own life or his own soul. But maybe the key for his salvation is hidden\n> in one of the girls around him...\n\nIn case you're unsure it's the same character, if you look at the full version\nof this image, you can see the Carriere logo in the lower left corner.\nModified versions of this image have been used for some of their merchandise,\ne.g. [this ZIPPO\nlighter](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89-%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AB%E3%83%ABZIPPO%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%80%8C%E6%A1%9C%E8%8F%AF%E3%80%8D%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8D-%E3%81%82%E3%82%84/dp/B000LVNNJS).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-11T06:21:34.963", "id": "9637", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-11T06:21:34.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "9634", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nMine is more of a vague guess for an answer, but I was actually kind of\nthinking the image looked kind of like Sorune for some reason from Ouka (A\ngame).\n\n\n\nI am glad you found what you were looking for though. I thought it would be\ninteresting to post this though. The picture above looks kind of similar in a\nway.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-11T10:25:56.917", "id": "9643", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-11T10:25:56.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9634", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a sign that the girl is 'gone' and not just absent.\n\nThe flowers on a desk usually means that the student is dead. However in the\nanime, it could mean that they were kicked out or worse, executed.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-11T12:01:56.593", "id": "9646", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-11T12:01:56.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3442", "parent_id": "9645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, they are actual flowers. And according to [this\ntweet](https://twitter.com/akuma_riddle/status/457892343354765312) from the\nanime's official Twitter account, the _hanakotoba_\n([花言葉](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B1%E8%A8%80%E8%91%89), literally\n\"flower words\") that are hidden behind each flower have some relevance to each\ncharacter.\n\n> **See also:** [What is the relation between the flowers and the heroines in\n> ED sequence of Photokano?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/4132)\n\nSo far, the names of the flowers and their implied meanings have been stated\nin the manga or by the anime staff in response to viewer questions.\n\n* * *\n\n### Otoya Takechi\n\n * [ヤマユリ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AA) ( _[yamayuri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilium_auratum)_ , lit. \"mountain lily\") / 「人生の楽しみ」 ( _pleasure of life_ ) 1\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sIDDX.jpg) \n[Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lilium_auratum1.jpg) by\nWikimedia Commons user KENPEI / [CC BY-SA\n3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)\n\n### Kouko Kaminaga\n\n * [彼岸花](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A)1 2 ([red spider lily](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoris_radiata))\n\n * 「また会う日を楽しみに」1 2 ( _looking forward to seeing you again_ )\n * 「悲しい思い出」2 ( _sad memories_ )\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4qXnP.jpg) \n[Photo](https://secure.flickr.com/photos/89747904@N00/499897) by Flickr user\nkenji mori / [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)\n\n### Haruki Sagae\n\n * [バーベナ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%99%E3%83%8A) ([verbena](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbena)) / 「家族の愛」 ( _family's love_ ) 3\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LQlUn.jpg) \n[Photo](https://secure.flickr.com/photos/tanaka_juuyoh/2589452958/) by Flickr\nuser TANAKA Juuyoh / [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)\n\n### Shiena Kenmochi\n\n * [アザミ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%9F) ([thistle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle)) / 「復讐」 ( _revenge_ ) 4\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQsuU.jpg) \n[Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cirsium_japonicum_3.JPG) by\nWikimedia Commons user Qwert1234 / [CC BY-SA\n3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)\n\n### Chitaru Namatame\n\n * 赤[バラ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9) (red [rose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose)) / 「愛情」 ( _love_ ) 4\n\n### Hitsugi Kirigaya\n\n * 白バラ (white rose) / 「無邪気」 ( _innocent [childlike]_ ) 4\n\n### Suzu Shutou\n\n * 赤い[チューリップ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97) (red [tulip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip)) / 「恋の宣言」 ( _declaration of love_ ) 5\n\n### Mahiru/Shinya Banba\n\n * [ヒルガオ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%AA) ( _hirugao_ , Japanese [bindweed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calystegia)) / 「[絆](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizuna)」 ( _bond [human ties]_ ) 6\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/A1NV7.jpg) \n[Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calystegia_pubescens2.jpg) by\nWikimedia Commons user KENPEI / [CC BY-SA\n3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)\n\n * [ヨルガオ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%AA) ( _yorugao_ , [moonflower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_alba)) / 「妖艶」 ( _seductive_ ) 6\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1K3nN.jpg) \n[Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipomoea_alba1.jpg) by\nWikimedia Commons user KENPEI / [CC BY-SA\n3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)\n\n### Isuke Inukai\n\n * 赤い[カーネーション](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3) (red [carnation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus_caryophyllus)) / 「愛を信じる」 ( _believe in love_ ) 6\n\n### Sumireko Hanabusa\n\n * [アイスランドポピー](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%99%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%92%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B2%E3%82%B7) ([Iceland poppy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_nudicaule)) / 「慰め」 ( _comfort [consolation]_ ) 7\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nhor2.jpg) \n[Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papaver_nudicaule_dsc00913.jpg)\nby Wikimedia Commons user David.Monniaux / [CC BY-SA\n3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)\n\n* * *\n\n**References**\n\n1\\. [悪魔のリドル (2)](http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/321310000132/), ISBN\n978-4-04-121056-7 \n2\\. <https://twitter.com/akumariddleQA/status/460430373109788672> from [the\nQ&A after episode 4](http://togetter.com/li/660159) \n3\\. <https://twitter.com/akumariddleQA/status/462962907437735936> from [the\nQ&A after episode 5](http://togetter.com/li/662989) \n4\\. <https://twitter.com/akumariddleQA/status/468363714454773761> from [the\nQ&A after episode 7](http://togetter.com/li/669431) \n5\\. <https://twitter.com/akumariddleQA/status/470574398374551552> from [the\nQ&A after episode 8](http://togetter.com/li/671908) \n6\\. <https://twitter.com/akumariddleQA/status/475654677640384512> from [the\nQ&A after episode 10](http://togetter.com/li/677839) \n7\\. <https://twitter.com/akumariddleQA/status/478499435496747008> from [the\nQ&A after episode 11](http://togetter.com/li/681073)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-20T13:21:49.053", "id": "9816", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T18:42:27.223", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "151", "parent_id": "9645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey're all a bit based on the arts of Okamoto Taro mixed with some unique\ntraits; like Brook based on the screamer, Nami on some Taro statue, Momonosuke\n(Samurai Dude xD) based on fantasy, since Momo in Japanese means peach xD, and\nfor Chopper I can't remember xD.\n\nThe Sunny also is probably based on Taro arts, as the figurehead is a\nrepresentation of the Sun Tower of Osaka as you can see here:\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-27T20:13:51.203", "id": "9944", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-09T11:41:33.293", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-09T11:41:33.293", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "5036", "parent_id": "9656", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCan't say for sure but, if Cubones do kill their mothers at birth, I would\nthink it is not intentional—at least from the sad tone of its Pokédex entries.\n\n> * Always wears the skull of its deceased mother on its head and never\n> shows its face. It cries mournfully in the moonlight.\n>\n> * It pines for the mother it will never see again. Seeing a likeness of\n> its mother in the full moon, it cries.\n>\n> * When it thinks of its dead mother, it cries.\n>\n>\n\n>\n> [_Source: Bulbapedia -\n> Cubone_](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Cubone_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29#Pok.C3.A9dex_entries_2)\n\nThis particular entry seems to have the most detail about the mother's death,\nbut I don't think it is very clear (Generation I):\n\n> It lost its mother after its birth. It wears its mother's skull, never\n> revealing its true face.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-12T00:31:04.170", "id": "9659", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-14T06:52:32.160", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3680", "parent_id": "9657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nOne theory is that Pokedex entries are based mostly on folklore that trainers\nhave collated over the years. Which would account for many entries which seem\nexaggerated. For example:\n\n> Shedinja: Shedinja's hard body doesn't move - not even a twitch. In fact,\n> its body appears to be merely a hollow shell. It is believed that this\n> Pokémon will steal the spirit of anyone peering into its hollow body from\n> its back.\n\nThe pokemon Arceus is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there\nwas nothing, then shaped the world.\n\nThe later series seem to specify information that are not fact or proven more\nreliably than the earlier series.\n\nSo potentially, the information about Cubone wearing its mother skull is\nnothing more than a rumour.\n\nSupporting this theory, any Cubone that produces an egg in the day care center\nin the video games do not die afterwards.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-12T15:16:27.543", "id": "9667", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-12T15:16:27.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a fan theory that fits your question but is, of course, a theory.\nCubone is the child of a Kangaskhan whose mother deceased but it has not aged\nenough to become a Kangaskhan. The mother's skull is, therefore, fitting as\nthe Pokemon would only appear if the mother was dead. The only way to explain\nhow a species could exist if every birth yields 1 child with 100% mortality\nrate for the mother is to say that it isn't really a different species but a\nspecial evolution that occurs under some very depressing circumstances.\n\nThere are several viable counterarguments to this theory based on color\ndifferences, breeding, and evolutions. This theory only really worked during\nthe generation 1 games, but it was the answer which I thought to be most\nbelievable and striking at the time.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-12T15:54:05.557", "id": "9669", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-14T05:56:33.430", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-14T05:56:33.430", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "9657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI know it's kinda late, but in [Pokemon Origins : File\n2](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/PO02), The stories set in Lavender\nTower and told about Marowak, Cubone's mother, is killed by Team Rocket when\nshe protected Cubone from team rocket.\n\n> She explains Cubone's story to Red: A trio of Team Rocket Grunts was\n> poaching Pokémon near town, and captured a Mankey, a Raticate, a Sandshrew,\n> and a Sandslash. One Grunt noticed Cubone attempting to run away, and the\n> others almost netted it, in hopes of selling it for a high price; however,\n> an unknown Pokémon tackled them to protect it. The Pokémon was soon revealed\n> to be Cubone's mother, a Marowak, who told her child to run. Cubone was\n> hesitant at first, but soon ran off. **One of the Grunts, infuriated by\n> Marowak's intervention, pulled out a stun baton and beat her to death.** The\n> orphaned Cubone was found by Mr. Fuji and given a loving home.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-11T01:46:09.660", "id": "29692", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-11T02:42:37.010", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-11T02:42:37.010", "last_editor_user_id": "17975", "owner_user_id": "17975", "parent_id": "9657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Chuunibyou's case, the extraordinarily large weapons are used to emphasize\nthe fact that this is in Rikku's imagination, and they are actually fighting\nwith a ladle and an umbrella, which is much less extravagant.\n\n\n\nHaving said that, the 'small girl, big weapon' trope is common enough in\nanime. Take Mami's _Trio Finale_ in Puella Magi Madoka Magica for example, or\nBlack Rock Shooter's girls which all have gigantic weapons:\n\n \n\nThere are lots of instances of these types of battles, but I wouldn't restrict\nthis trope to anime, with instances of 'Big F**king Guns' going back to games\nlike Doom\n\n\n\nAlong with the '100T anvil' trope, These types of tropes are used to emphasize\na scene. In this case, making battle scenes more explosive,action-packed and\ngripping.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-12T14:51:49.560", "id": "9666", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-12T22:49:09.173", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-12T22:49:09.173", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9660", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n2d girls are called as such because they are portrayed through screens, pages\nand other flat surfaces. Even when made into figurines and other items they\nare still usually referred to their main medium.\n\nNote that computer generated characters like in Knights of Sidonia are usually\ntreated as 2d persons because of their medium, despite being 3d.\n\nGirls are called 3d by otaku (often derogatory) when they talk about girls in\nthe real world - where there is a concept of 'depth', a third dimension. Again\nthe term 3d girl is used when they are depicted in photographs or similar,\nbecause we reside and interact with these people in a 3d world.\n\nOtaku who prefer 2d women occasionally offensively use the phrase '3DPD', or\n\"3d, pig disgusting\"\n\n\n\n2d girl vs 3d girl.\n\nI don't believe there is an 'origin' for this, as dimensions are facts and\nthis difference has always existed. However, the term has probably picked up\nusage with the rise of the internet and raised popularity of anime\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-17T11:08:35.537", "id": "9772", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-17T11:08:35.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9664", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it is common for most of anime to user their seiyu to sing the opening\nand/or ending theme.\n\n_Why?_\n\nAccording to this [link which explains why Anime Theme Songs are\ncreated](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeThemeSong):\n\n * > **Another reason this is done is because many anime voice actors are \n> also singers, often the more successful ones. It's not unknown for\n> production companies to organize some of their principal cast members into\n> groups for recording CDs. Either way, it's usually to a voice actor's\n> advantage — they perform theme songs (as well as additional \"character\"\n> songs), receiving a double benefit from exposure in two different markets\n> (and the additional profit).**\n>\nSo, to summarize why anime production mostly use their seiyu to sing opening\nand/or ending theme is for their market strategy and to maximize their profit.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-12T23:50:51.077", "id": "9678", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-12T23:50:51.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "9677", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nDepends what kind of anime you normally watch. There are anime that use\nprofessional bands songs as OP/ED (case point Black★Rock Shooter and FMA) with\nmodifications but original singers, others reuse a pre-existing song for the\nSeiyuu to sing, and others more where the singer/producer of the song is also\nthe Seiyuu. Is the industry. They are trying to maximize profit. So, it's\ncommon? Yes, it is. It applies to all cases? No, there are exceptions.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T00:03:43.303", "id": "9679", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-13T00:03:43.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "9677", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe simplest way to answer this question is to take a look at a sample of\nanime and see how many of them have OPs/EDs sung by the show's voice actors.\n\nFor the sake of argument, I will look at all shows with at least 10 episodes\nthat began airing in winter 2014, excluding children's shows. I will only\nexamine those OPs and EDs that were aired at some point between January and\nMarch 2014.\n\n * **Buddy Complex** \\- neither\n * **Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren** \\- ED by VAs\n * **D-Frag** \\- ED by VAs\n * **Go! Go! 575** \\- OP by VAs; no ED\n * **Hamatora** \\- neither\n * **Hoozuki no Reitetsu** \\- OP and ED3 (\"Caramel Peach Jam\") by VAs; ED2 (\"Parallax View\") features a VA\n * **ImoCho** \\- OP and ED by VAs\n * **Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha.** \\- episode 9 ED by a VA\n * **Mahou Sensou** \\- neither\n * **Maken-ki! Two** \\- OP by idol group that includes some of the VAs\n * **Mikakunin de Shinkoukei** \\- OP and ED by VAs\n * **Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen** \\- [note: no ED]\n * **Nisekoi** \\- ED1 (\"Heart Pattern\"), ED2 (\"Recover Decoration\") by VAs\n * **Nobunaga the Fool** \\- OP by a VA\n * **Nobunagun** \\- ED by VAs\n * **Noragami** \\- neither\n * **No-Rin** \\- all OPs/EDs by VAs\n * **Onee-chan ga Kita** \\- no OP; ED by a VA\n * **Pupa** \\- OP by VAs\n * **Pupipo!** \\- [note: no ED]\n * **Robot Girls Z** \\- OP and ED by VAs\n * **Saki: Zenkoku-hen** \\- ED3, ED4, ED5 (\"Kono Te ga Kiseki...\"; eps 3-6, 8) by VAs\n * **Sakura Trick** \\- OP and ED by VAs\n * **Seitokai Yakuindomo 2** \\- OP and ED by VAs\n * **Silver Spoon (2014)** \\- neither\n * **SoniAni: Super Sonico The Animation** \\- all OPs and EDs by VAs\n * **Space Dandy** \\- neither\n * **Strange+** \\- OP by a VA; no ED\n * **To Aru Hikuushi e no Koiuta** \\- OP by VAs\n * **Tonari no Seki-kun** \\- OP by a VA\n * **Wake Up, Girls!** \\- both OPs and ED by VAs\n * **Witch Craft Works** \\- ED by VAs\n * **Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil** \\- ED by a VA\n * **Wooser no Sono Higurashi 2** \\- [note: no OP]\n * **World Conquest Zvezda Plot** \\- OP by a VA\n * **Z/X: Ignition** \\- OP and ED by a VA\n\nCounting episodes with both an OP and an ED as worth 2 theme songs and\nepisodes with only one of them as worth 1 theme song (and giving full-length\nepisodes and short episodes equal weight), we find that **_roughly_ 50%\n(±5-10%, say)** of all theme songs for winter 2014 shows were sung by one or\nmore voice actors of the same show. My sense is that this is more or less what\nyou would expect if you picked a random season from the past 3-4 years.\n\n* * *\n\nHowever, it is important not to be misled by these data, which don't tell the\nwhole story. A number of these theme songs are sung by voice actors who _also_\nhave an independent musical career. The best example is Sakamoto Maaya (\n_Zvezda_ OP), but there's a few others in there, too, e.g. \"petit milady\",\nwhich is a new idol unit consisting of Aoi Yuuki and Taketatsu Ayana,\ninitially formed to do the OP for _Koiuta_ (in which they both voice-acted),\nbut which now does other things as well.\n\nWhat I'm getting at here is that there's a qualitative difference between\nSakamoto Maaya's OP for _Zvezda_ on the one hand, and the ED for _Chuunibyou\nRen_ on the other, which is sung by the four female leads of the show, only\none of whom (Maaya Uchida) has an independent musical career.\n\nI basically don't know anything about how anime producers arrange for theme\nsongs to be sung, but I strongly suspect that there are factors that suggest\nthe use of a proper singer from the VA cast (a la Sakamoto Maaya) in some\ncases, and just glomming all the lead VAs together and having them crank out a\nsong (a la _Chuunibyou_ ) in other cases. (And of course, there are still\nother cases in which you'll bring in an otherwise-uninvolved band or artist,\nbut that goes without saying.)\n\nI haven't gone back and collected any numbers, but in my experience, I have\nfound that shows with primarily-female casts that are targeted at men (e.g.\nmoe shows like _Kiniro Mosaic_ and harem shows like _Infinite Stratos_ ) and\nshows with primarily-male casts that are targeted at women (e.g. otome game\nadaptations like _Diabolik Lovers_ ) are far more likely to follow the glom-\nall-the-VAs-together-and-have-them-sing model than other shows.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T02:29:02.770", "id": "9681", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-13T02:29:02.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9677", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe characters seem to do \"the same things over and over again\" because they\nare trapped in what TV-Tropes call a [_\"Groundhog Day\"\nloop_](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GroundhogDayLoop). The\nWikipedia [article on time loops](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_loop)\nexplains it very short and crisp:\n\n> Stories with time loops commonly center on correcting past mistakes or on\n> **getting a character to recognize some key truth** ; escape from the loop\n> may then follow.\n\nThe episodes initially aired between 19.06.2009 and 07.08.2009, which may be\nwhy these episodes have such a bad reputation: the audience may have already\nsuffered from the [silly season](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season)\nand these episodes added more frustration on top.\n\nIt might be a bit far fetched, but I think this is also a play on how cool an\nendless summer break initially looks to pupils and students for as long as\nthey don't know what to do with all their time until they realize that they\nare right in the middle of the silly season and that an endless summer break\ncould also mean an endless silly season.\n\nAs _senshin_ already pointed out in his comment, the reason why they choose to\nmake this story arc span accross eight epsiodes is probably because 8 looks\nlike the sign for infinity: ∞ ( which surely is another trope or meme they\nchoose to play with but that cannot find right now).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T06:37:38.447", "id": "9683", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-13T12:15:00.557", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-13T12:15:00.557", "last_editor_user_id": "2590", "owner_user_id": "2590", "parent_id": "9680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNo one knows why director did it or what purpose it served. In the novels\nthemselves, only last \"loop\" was recorded and the whole thing spanned not even\n100 pages. If I were to speculate, then only reason why they did what they did\nwas because number of coincidences during airing of the episodes were so high\nit was too good to pass on the opportunity. Also, if they didn't waste 8\nepisodes of it, then they would need to adapt some other material, which by\nthe time of the show was just \"Dissapearance\" arc, something that later got\nmuch better movie adaptation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T11:09:00.057", "id": "9690", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-13T11:09:00.057", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "9680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nMost likely [the last arc of the show was originally planned to adapt _The\nDisappearance of Suzumiya\nHaruhi_](http://web.archive.org/web/20141101050001/http://ultimatemegax.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/tanigawa-\nishihara-shimo-roundtable.pdf), but the producers changed their mind well into\nproduction, and decided to make it into a movie instead. As a result they had\nto fill in a seven episodes gap that they already bought the timeslot for,\nthus this gimmick was born.\n\nThey _Endless Eight_ chapter in the novel is only about the very last\niteration where Kyon figures out the solution.\n\nThe point of _Endless Eight_ was to provide a reason for Nagato to do what she\ndid in _Disappearance_ , being the only one to remember the over 15000\niterations.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T11:02:06.210", "id": "9719", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-10T07:31:02.093", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-10T07:31:02.093", "last_editor_user_id": "18352", "owner_user_id": "4888", "parent_id": "9680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nI know an awful lot of people who were terribly annoyed by the Endless Eight\nsequence (if only because it meant losing seven episodes of potential new\ncontent), and even now that you can just marathon all eight episodes without\nhaving to wait a week inbetween, it's quite a slog. I can see and admire all\nthe work they put into each episode, and even I still think it was a dicey\nmove. ...But I've got to say, if you do watch all eight episodes, the rush you\nget when they finally figure things out and escape the loop is on a whole\ndifferent level than it would have been if they'd solved it on the first try.\nThat _may_ have been what the director was trying for. (By the time work began\non Season 2, there were two more volumes of unadapted short stories -\n\"Rampage\" and \"Wavering\" - in the series, so even if they'd originally planned\nto use \"Disappearance\" and decided against it, there technically were other\noptions.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-10-28T08:47:28.060", "id": "55710", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-28T08:47:28.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50539", "parent_id": "9680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nTrying to catch lightning in a bottle twice.\n\nThey trolled everyone by airing the episodes out of order for the first season\nand the anime became really popular, so likely someone insisted to also have\nsome kind of gimmick for the second season.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-06-15T17:12:33.517", "id": "66913", "last_activity_date": "2022-06-15T17:12:33.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "9680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Bellow is from my observations, i have no credible sources for this_\n\nSome of the title changes are a meaning to their new season, ie.\n\n * **Naruto Shippuuden** : Shippuuden means hurricane and Naruto in it is becoming for of a wind style Chakra User.\n\n * **Maria Watches Over Us** : the second season is subtitled Printemps which means Spring in french which symbolizes not only the time the season is set but the \"blooming\" of new relationships after the Lady Roses graduate and the further blossoming relationship between Yumi and Sachiko\n\n * **Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha** : the second season is A's but it is pronounced as Ēsu which could a lot like Ace. it was the Book of Darkness incident which saw Nanoha, Fate and Hayate be seen by lower TSAB agents as Aces at their young age.\n\nthe use of a number (or in Sword Art Online roman numerals II) is more\nindicative of a new season since it just omits the word season in there (ie.\nSword Art Online Season II, Shakugan no Shana Season III). i more or less\nthink K-On is doing the same with the ! since if you flip it it's a lowercase\nI which when capitalized would be the roman numeral.\n\nA different name can also be used to show a distinction between 2 series such\nas story (Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood), being a re-\nrelease (Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z Kai) or having a new writer (Dragon Ball\nZ, Dragon Ball GT). for uses like S or F these could actually be words Second\nand Further\n\nname changes can normally be a result of long \"hiatus\" periods between seasons\nas alot of anime is adapted from manga and light novels, as such a manga or\nlight novel which would continue on long after the anime has stopped wouldn't\nhave a name change but the anime would choose to adopt a subtitle when it\nresumes (if it resumes)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T01:44:03.550", "id": "9707", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-14T01:44:03.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "9705", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nOkay, based on what I've learned\n[here](https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/19370/5764), I think I understand\nwhy you're asking this question - it looks like it boils down to the fact\nAmerican television and anime use the word \"season\" differently.\n\nThe way anime is produced nowadays is that the production of a second season\nis almost always strongly contingent on the commercial success of the first\nseason. As such, production will typically halt completely in between seasons\n- different seasons are **different productions**. What this means is that\nwhat anime watchers call \"seasons\" are what American TV watchers call\n\"series\".1\n\nAnd this, I think, is the important insight. It is rare for American\ntelevision to feature shows that have multiple _series_ (separated by halts in\nproduction) set in the same continuity, since American television production\nfunctions differently. American shows typically semi-continuously churn out\nnew content (a la _The Simpsons_ ) until they get cancelled.\n\nIn the specific cases you used as examples (Railgun, Zero no Tsukaima, Medaka,\nSAO, OreImo, K-ON), it looks like all of them experienced halts in production\nbetween each season.\n\n> I mean, I understand that the title stays the same for long running series,\n> like _Bleach_ or _One Piece_...\n\nRight, and the key factor here is that _Bleach_ and _One Piece_ are each one\ncontinuous production - because there was never a halt in production, they\nnever got a new title.2\n\n> The source material keeps its name throughout its entire life (e.g. there\n> was never a _Naruto: Shippuuden manga_ or a _Shakugan no Shana III_ light\n> novel), so why do their anime adaptations get different titles?\n\nSo again, this boils down to the fact that the _Naruto_ manga and the\n_Shakugan no Shana_ light novels were each one continuous production (as\nbasically all manga series and light novels are). There's no logical breaking\npoint at which to change titles in these cases.\n\n> I'm particularly interested in the last two, where the only noticeable\n> difference in the title is a punctuation mark.\n\nThe practice of using a punctuation mark rather than a subtitle or other\ndesignation to identify a new season is a stupid practice that has been\n\"trendy\" recently, and should (with any luck) die out eventually. Still, the\nidea is basically the same - _K-On!!_ could just as well have been called _K-\nOn! 2_ or _K-On!: This Time It's Cuter_ or whatever - anything to indicate\nthat it's a separate production from the original series _K-On!_.\n\n> Is there a legal thing in Japan which disallows a production for one\n> \"season\" to have the same name as another, for clarification purposes?\n\nI'm no expert on Japanese law, but I would be astounded if this were the case.\n\n* * *\n\nAddendum: the case of _Fairy Tail_ is interesting - it ran from Oct 2009 to\nMar 2013, then stopped for a while, and picked back up again in Apr 2014.\nDespite this, the name of the series did not change - it was called _Fairy\nTail_ both before and after the break in airing.3\n\nMy _suspicion_ here is that the break in airing had been planned in advance,\nand that the producers had planned to resume airing once the manga had had\nsome time to get ahead.\n\nIf this is in fact the case, there would have been no reason to halt\nproduction during the break in airing - it was already known at the time\nairing stopped that they _would_ be making more episodes. Contrast this with\ne.g. _Railgun_ \\- when the first season finished in 2010, they didn't know\n(for sure) that they'd be making a second season (which didn't end up\nhappening until 2013).\n\n* * *\n\n# Notes\n\n1 In most cases, anime has no notion that is equivalent to what American TV\nwatchers call \"seasons\"; the major exception would probably be long-running\nchildren's anime (think _Doraemon_ , _Sazae-san_ , etc.).\n\n2 This explanation doesn't really work for _Naruto_ vs. _Naruto Shippuden_ ,\nthough, and I'm not familiar enough with that show to posit an explanation.\nYou might like to ask about that particular case separately if it interests\nyou.\n\n3 Regarding which, see [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/8649/1908).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T04:10:46.770", "id": "9713", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-14T04:35:52.423", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9705", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's simply a way of indicating to the viewer that the episodes are new. TV\nratings wars are extremely ferece in Japan, as are DVD sales wars. The\nproducers want even the show's title to scream \"new!\" at you.\n\nTo give you an idea of how bad it has become, TV channels often start their\nprogramming at weird times like 3 minutes to the hour or 7 minutes past the\nhour. The reason for this is to discourage people from changing channel. At 3\nminutes to the hour everyone else is still showing adverts, so you start\nwatching what they have. At 7 minutes past the programme you were just\nwatching overran the start of other channel's shows. They will do pretty much\nanything to get viewers it seems.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T15:12:12.050", "id": "9727", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-14T15:12:12.050", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4891", "parent_id": "9705", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLike **senshin** mentioned, nobody really knows for sure. One possible\nspeculation floating around is if Toei has another series on TV in July (Say,\n**Precure** or **Dragon Ball Kai** ) they wouldn't want it to compete with\n**Sailor Moon Crystal**...but even that explanation doesn't make much sense.\n\nMost likely, streaming **Crystal** on an online service such as NicoNico is\nthe easiest way of reaching an international market, since NicoNico _will_ be\nstreaming **SMC** with 10 different subtitled languages available. Online\nstreaming _could_ be the easiest way for Toei to keep track of how well\n**Crystal** does (internationally and in Japan), either before creating more\nseasons or airing it on Japanese TV.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T03:00:02.273", "id": "9712", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-14T03:00:02.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4628", "parent_id": "9709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI think this is the main reason for online streaming only: Sailor Moon Crystal\nis **_not_** expected to make money among the Japanese, so its _only_ hope to\nturn a profit is to make it available to viewers **_outside_** of Japan.\n\nThe classic anime series aired on Japanese television and garnered many fans\ninside of Japan, so tons of merchandise was sold to little girls. The reboot\nis not airing on Japanese TV; it is streaming on a website called NicoNico\nDouga.\n\nIn Western countries, streaming technology like Hulu and Netflix is hugely\npopular. In spite of the rest of the world’s image of Japan as\ntechnologically-savvy, a large number of Japanese young adults are virtually\ncomputer and internet illiterate, only accustomed to using mobile-friendly\nwebsites on smartphones. Among all of my college friends here in Japan, I have\nonly met one who had heard of NicoNico, and none who have heard of Hulu even\nthough it exists in Japan. If not even the college crowd knows about NicoNico,\nI can guarantee you that the older generation and the shrinking birthrate’s\nJapanese kids aren’t aware that the reboot exists, nor would know how to\naccess it even if they did. The average Japanese family won’t huddle around\nthe TV set on a Saturday morning to watch the next episode of the reboot, like\nthey did for the classic series in the 90s. This means that the entire\nJapanese viewership for the reboot will be the middle-aged otaku who’ve stayed\nfans for 20 years. Director Munehisa Sakai specifically said, “We want grown\nwomen who watched the original anime to watch this!” Well, I am a grown woman\nwho watched the original anime and who is living in the Japan, but I really\ndon't want to fork out to buy a monthly subscription to NicoNico just to watch\n1 show that only airs 1 episode every 2 weeks. If they had wanted to attempt\nsomething of a substantial Japanese viewership without airing it on TV, they\nshould have at least put it in the Japanese Hulu (hulu.jp), but they didn't.\n\nThe chance that the reboot will draw in new Japanese fans is unlikely. And the\nchance that the legions of Japanese young adults who avidly tuned in to BSSM\nas kindergarteners back in the day will even realize there’s a reboot is\nunlikely.\n\nConsequently, the reboot is not very marketable in Japan. Some new merchandise\nis being produced, but the sales numbers will be nothing like the boom in the\n90s when thousands of elementary school girls across Japan were buying the\ncostumes, transformation toys, dolls, stationary items, picture books, paper\ndolls, coloring books, etc.\n\nThe Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon live-action TV series did air on Japanese TV\nand did produce a collection of merchandise marketed to little girls. Even so,\nit only ran for one season: the Dark Kingdom arc.\n\nWhen I first heard news of the reboot, I wondered if BSSM might possibly come\nback out of the woodwork and give the Pretty Cure franchise a run for its\nmoney (this would be a considerable challenge, since Japanese kids may have\nheard of BSSM but haven’t watched it at all, whereas they’ve grown up on\nPretty Cure, and PreCure is able to switch in and out the character types in\neach incarnation of the series, keeping things fresh yet familiar. In\ncontrast, BSSM is one long tale with the same core characters throughout, less\nup-to-date, and less child-friendly. But soundly thrashing PreCure wasn’t a\ntotal impossibility). However, I can safely say that Pretty Cure is firmly\nholding its ground on the airwaves and on the shelves of the toy stores,\nelectronics stores, 100 yen shops, everywhere in town. I’ve only come across\n20th anniversary BSSM merchandise in a clearance bin in _one_ store. Not even\nAnimate, the main anime merchandise store, has _any_ Sailor Moon Crystal\nmerchandise in stock.\n\nThe reboot anime is 26 episodes long, period. Those 26 episodes are scheduled\nto be released over the span of a year, one every other week. The series would\nneed to be renewed in order to run past the first story arc (Dark Kingdom) in\nor after 2015. It’s possible that it could get approval to be extended, BUT\nthe situation is very different from the classic anime series’ run.\n\nIf the reboot gets extended, it will need to be based on the marketability\nabroad: the international BSSM fan community. How many of you are planning to\nimport reboot merchandise from Japan within the next few months? If you\naren't, then I'd warn against expecting to see further seasons produced.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-06T09:29:05.567", "id": "13849", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-06T09:29:05.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "9709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe show you are looking for is called _Orphen_ , also known as _Sorcerous\nStabber Orphen_\n\nIt was aired in 1999\n\n * Main character is a sorcerer -\n\n\n\n * Friend turning into a dragon - \n\n> Krylancelo Finrandi once attended the most prestigious school of sorcery on\n> Kiesalhima continent, the Tower of Fang. He was sent there as a young child\n> from an orphanage, along with another orphan girl called Azalie. Throughout\n> the years, the two were very close, with Azalie becoming more and more\n> powerful and Krylancelo looking up to her as a sister/mother figure and a\n> best friend. It isn't until one day, Azalie's thirst for knowledge and\n> extracurricular experimentation backfire, and she is horribly transfigured\n> into a hideous creature, a dragon-like beast that departs the Tower in an\n> animal fury, leaving Krylancelo behind\n\n\n\n * Milkshake scene:\n\nAbout 7 minutes into the first episode, the main character spills his\nmilkshake/icecream/parfait thing:\n\n\n\nHe then magics it back together again\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T09:57:15.893", "id": "9717", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-14T10:04:27.457", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-14T10:04:27.457", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9716", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLooks like my guess was right - \"LRIG\" is \"girl\" spelled backwards, not an\nacronym/initialism.\n\nThis was stated by\n[KawaseP](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=28846)\n(a.k.a. Kouhei Kawase, one of the producers for _selector infected WIXOSS_ )\nin [an interview with Akiba-Souken](http://akiba-\nsouken.com/article/anime/19970/?page=2) (Ctrl+F for `作品要素`).\n\n> ──LRIGs are a distinctive part of the show, aren't they?\n>\n> The LRIG character designs were done by [[Kyuta]\n> Sakai](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=75758),\n> but it was Tomo Yamaguchi, who is in charge of the card game at Takara Tomy,\n> who came up with the name \"LRIG\". We had a different name for them at first,\n> but at one of the scriptwriting meetings, we decided that we wanted to go\n> with something a bit more off-the-beaten-path, and so we decided on \"GIRL\"\n> spelled backwards: \"LRIG\" (pronounced \"loo-rig\"). Up to that point, we had\n> been making up all sorts of convoluted words, so when the simple word \"LRIG\"\n> was proposed, everybody agreed.\n\n* * *\n\nGiven the events of episode 8...\n\n> I guess we can see why the producers decided that \"LRIG\" was a good choice.\n> Girls turn into LRIGs when their wishes are \"fulfilled\", and LRIGs likewise\n> turn into (human) girls when that happens. Simple and effective.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-15T08:09:21.180", "id": "9735", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-05T22:38:12.490", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-05T22:38:12.490", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9732", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs our discussion in the comments suggest, the anime you are looking for is\nMardock Scramble\n\n\n\n> The story is about a girl named Rune Ballot who was taken in by a man named\n> Shell who later tried to kill her and left her for dead. She is saved and\n> turned into a cyborg. It is up to her to stop Shell and his evil gang.\n\n[Ref. Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardock_Scramble)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-15T17:16:20.280", "id": "9741", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-15T17:16:20.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9740", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is all spoilers if you haven't seen the entire show.\n\nThe Death Feedback is part genetic and part conditioned. From episode 4, they\nmention that the human genome was modified and that the Death Feedback works\nby the subconscious becoming aware of an attempt to harm another human and it\nuses their power to stop liver functions and parathyroid glands. This is\nfurther reinforced by education, conditioning and hypnosis. I think in episode\n12 Tomiko speculates that it could be possible to circumvent the Death\nFeedback if the user was on some kind of stimulants or somehow didn't\nrecognize their targets as human.\n\n(Taken from part of my answer to [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2858/how-are-akkis-fiends-\nogres-immune-to-death-feedback) which is also related.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-15T20:35:05.703", "id": "9747", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-15T20:35:05.703", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "9746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe rituals performed on the children when they first gain Cantus powers do\nnot have to do with death feedback - the rituals put in place a safeguard\nwhich allows some members of the community to effectively turn on and off the\nchildren's powers - this is what happens during the camping trip when they are\ndiscovered by the priest.\n\nDeath Feedback is a physical genetic safeguard bred into humans, and members\nof the community are conditioned from a young age to view killing another\nhuman as abhorrent. It isn't a part of the coming-of-age ritual the children\ngo through before attending school.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-21T19:21:51.917", "id": "27493", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-21T19:21:51.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19230", "parent_id": "9746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere doesn't seem to be a technical name for this animation style. TVTropes\ncalls it [Unmoving\nPlaid](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnmovingPlaid), while it's\nalso referred to as \"plaid animation\" and \"static pattern animation\".\n\nOutside of animation, this is also lumped in with, for example, a pattern such\nas plaid or polka dots not changing orientation on a shirt as the character\nmoves. This shows up in manga and comics as a way to avoid having to reorient\na pattern every time the character moves.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-20T14:21:39.077", "id": "39495", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-20T14:21:39.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "9750", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [an interview](http://www.yozone.fr/spip.php?article1798) (in\nFrench) with the series creator series creator, Mahiro Maeda, the art style of\nthe anime combines western Impressionism with Ukiyo-e, a 19th century Japanese\nwoodblock printed art style that strongly influenced the Impressionism\nmovement around the same time.\n\nOne of the particularly notable mini-movements within impressional is the [Art\nNouveau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Nouveau) style, particularly the\ninfluence from the Austrian artist [Gustav\nKlimt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt), likely best known for his\nwork _The Kiss_. Klimt was mentioned to be one of Maeda's most favorite\nartists and his works gave way to [inspire the blocks of strong primary\ncolors](https://www.manga-news.com/index.php/actus/2018/03/21/Interview-de-\nMahiro-Maeda-fondateur-du-studio-Gonzo) seen in the series.\n\nKlimt's style applies a tension of naturalism and stylization, bridged\ntogether by turns through fairly intricate multiform and multi-patterned\nsurfaces and bold contrasts of color with highlights of gold, silver, coral,\nand gems. This is all wrapped around a pervasively mystical and alluring aura\nbrought about the the spiraling and intertwining lines juxtaposed with stark\nsquare and triangular shapes. All of this is reminiscent of a ghostly mosaic\naesthetic.\n\nFor more information on the visual style, I recommend picking up the\nillustration art book on the series _Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo\nComplete_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-20T20:12:34.363", "id": "39505", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-19T02:22:17.087", "last_edit_date": "2019-04-19T02:22:17.087", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9750", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm promoting my comment above to an answer. What she says in every instance\nshe talks is 「まじひくわー」, or _majihikuwaa_.\n\nHere, _maji_ (まじ) means \"really\" or \"seriously\". It's a very strong, almost\nsuperlative way of modifying whatever follows, so it's literal meaning might\nbe closer to \"profoundly\" or \"incredibly\", but it's far more colloquial than\nthose.\n\n_Hiku_ (引く) is a common verb which has several possible meanings. The meaning\nhere is a rather colloquial one, which literally means something like \"to reel\nback in disgust or fear\". The use of the verb in an unconjugated form here is\nrather casual, and would not be done in polite speech.\n\nThe sentence ends with _waa_ (わー). _wa_ is a feminine way to end a sentence\n(see [this question on Japanese\nSE](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/2886/when-women-\nuse-%E3%82%8F-at-the-end-of-a-sentence-is-it-different-from-%E3%82%88)). It's\nrelatively uncommon in real life. It doesn't add much meaning here. Making the\nvowel long at the end just emphasizes the statement while making it less\npolite.\n\nSo in all, 「まじひくわー」 is a slang phrase which means something to the effect of\n\"That's seriously gross\". I'm simplifying things a bit here as the meaning\ncould change a bit depending on context, how it's pronounced, etc., but it's\nalways going to be a rather strong, course slang expression of disgust.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T12:13:13.703", "id": "16928", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T12:13:13.703", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:43:49.183", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "9755", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're most likely looking for 恋は切なく (Koi Wa Setsunaku, Love is Painful),\ntrack 15 of OST 1:\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NL-HCA67v0>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-16T22:38:25.427", "id": "9763", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-16T22:38:25.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it's just refer to the general **Causality** concept.\n\nFrom [Causality's Wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality)\n\n> Causality (also referred to as causation) is the relation between an event\n> (the cause) and a second event (the effect), where the second event is\n> understood as a consequence of the first.\n\nThere's also **Causation** [Wiki\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causation_%28disambiguation%29)\n\nFrom [God and the Laws of Science: The Law of\nCausality](http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=12&article=3716)\n\n> * “the principle that nothing can happen without being caused”\n> (“Causality,” 2009).\n> * “the principle that everything has a cause” (“Causality,” 2008).\n>\n\nand [The Principle of\nCausality](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-\nmaterialism/ch02-s06.html#AEN418)\n\n> Nowhere in the world can there be any phenomena that do not give rise to\n> certain consequences and have not been caused by other phenomena.\n\nAnd according to the link you gave, even the room where Deus located is called\n**Cathedral of Causality**\n\nHope those above answer the first question.\n\nFor the second question, I guess you refer to the content of the law? As far\nas I know and understand, it's simply the same as its definition:\n\n> “...nothing can happen without being caused” (“Causality,” 2009).\n\nHope this helps, and sorry if I'm out of topic or get your question wrongly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-17T08:51:34.667", "id": "9768", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-17T08:51:34.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "9764", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAs I understand it, he made this statement to describe his creation of the\nfuture diaries. That said, whatever the original laws of cause and effect\nwere, and whatever his alterations to the were, we know that the result is\nthat people are now able to know events that will take place in the future.\n\nSo at the very least, it can be concluded that the law of cause and effect\nthat was changed is the law that it is impossible for a person to know future\nevents, but the changing of this law has several loose ends that must be\naddressed as well:\n\n 1. Is the diary holder's mere knowledge of the event enough to alter the future? In the anime, the answer is no. A player must take action contrary or antithetical to the predicted event.\n\n 2. Is a diary holder's propensity or volition to take actions contrary to a prediction enough to change it? This isn't made entirely clear in the anime, as sometimes a character's volition to take different actions changes the prediction, while other times it doesn't.\n\nSo the two above items most likely constitute the \"changes to the laws of time\nand space\" that Deus made.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-17T17:03:43.357", "id": "9775", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-17T17:03:43.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2109", "parent_id": "9764", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Her full name is Yukiyo Abe.**\n\n[Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIAR_GAME#%E7%AC%AC%E5%9B%9B%E5%9B%9E%E6%88%A6%E6%9C%AC%E6%88%A6)\nlisted her name as\n\n> アベ ユキヨ（黒髪ポニーテール） \n> Yukiyo Abe (Black Ponytail)\n\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/character/86065/Yukiyo_Abe) also confirms\nthe name as\n\n> Yukiyo \"500 Year Old One\" Abe\n\n* * *\n\nAs for why the translator seemed to confuse \"Yukiyo\" with \"Yukiko\", コ ( _ko_ )\nand ヨ ( _yo_ ) looks similar, having only 1 stroke difference. In addition of\nthat, Yukiko is a more popular name in Japan than Yukiyo. Note however, her\nname is never written in kanji, thus there is no official kanji representation\nof her name.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T09:00:22.400", "id": "10014", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-05T03:59:09.773", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-05T03:59:09.773", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "9773", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## Introduction in first chapter\n\nUsually the main purpose of a manga is explained in the first chapter, being\nthe introduction to the complete story. In that sense both Natsu and Lucy\nwould be the main protagonists. Both Natsu, Lucy (and Happy) are introduced in\nthe first chapter. Natsu, who is searching for Igneel, while Lucy wants to\njoin Fairytail and become a great Celestial mage.\n\n## Introduction of Natsu (and Happy)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMUdC.png)\n\n## Introduction of Lucy\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ncLTn.png)\n\n## Both Natsu and Lucy mention their goal in the story\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QPkl1.png)\n\n## Title\n\nOn the other hand, the title usually points towards the main story too, like\nwith _One Piece_ , where Luffy is searching for the One Piece. In that sense\nLucy should be more considered as being the main character as her story\nactually revolves around Fairytail, since she doesn't just want to be just any\nmage, she wants to be a `FairyTail` mage. Natsu just happens to be in\nFairytail, but his story doesn't really revolve around his guild. He just\nwants to find his father.\n\n## Wikipedia\n\nThe Wikipedia page on Fairy Tail agrees on this, saying:\n\n> Fairy Tail follows the adventures of Lucy Heartfilia, a teenage wizard (魔導士\n> madōshi?),[1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMUdCm.png) who joins the titular\n> wizards' guild and teams up with fellow guild member Natsu Dragneel as he\n> searches for the dragon Igneel.\n\nNatsu is an important person to the story, and he is also introduced first of\nall, even before Lucy, but going by this Wikipedia quote I would say Lucy\nwould be the main (and only?) protagonist.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-09T15:09:54.373", "id": "11177", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-02T07:24:26.613", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "9776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are 5 main protagonists: **_Natsu, Happy, Gray, Erza and Lucy._**\n\nI feel the story revolves around them more than just one of them. They are all\nimportant to the plot of Fairy Tail, as if one were removed, the story\nprobably wouldn't be as intriguing as it is now. So I say that there is no\nmain character, but a bunch of main characters altogether.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-25T01:56:58.157", "id": "13041", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-25T02:35:26.207", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-25T02:35:26.207", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "7722", "parent_id": "9776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nLucy would be the main protagonist, seeing as the story is mainly revolves\naround her. Though Natsu is the main male protagonist and Lucy the main female\nprotagonist - sorta like _Rave Master_ (or simply _Rave_ ), another work by\nHiro Mashima, with Haru as the main protagonist/main male protagonist and Elie\nas the main female protagonist.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-16T22:44:40.163", "id": "20890", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-17T01:41:22.883", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-17T01:41:22.883", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13952", "parent_id": "9776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt would seem Lucy is the main character, as [Peter Raeves\nsaid](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9776/who-is-the-main-\ncharacter-of-fairy-tail/11177#11177), both Natsu and Lucy are mentioned in the\nfirst chapter (and episode).\n\nIn the more recent chapters\n\n> when Fairy Tail split up, the story came back to focus on Lucy and on what\n> she was doing, then slowly adding Natsu, then Juvia and then Gray.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-17T08:22:36.953", "id": "20903", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T06:59:01.993", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11648", "parent_id": "9776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion Natsu is the main character, because at the root he is the one\nthat everyone in fairy tail relies on. It can be clearly seen that all\nimportant fights include Natsu at the core. Even though Erza, Laxus and Gray\nand all others are powerful, still Natsu is the one that always fights hardest\nand finishes the battle.\n\nIn the episode where everyone is on Tenrou island, Zeref's magic was unable to\nkill Natsu because of his scarf. Also Zeref said that Natsu was still not\nready to kill him and Zeref and demons from his book are the evil mages.\n\nSo IMHO Natsu is the Protagonist\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-23T09:14:12.203", "id": "21749", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-23T09:26:45.927", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-23T09:26:45.927", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "14562", "parent_id": "9776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn karate, there's a breathing exercise that uses that hand form, and you can\nbet it's in kung fu as well since karate came from kung fu. Anyway, it's a\nmartial arts breathing form typically.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-29T23:16:53.163", "id": "22879", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-08T16:19:49.320", "last_edit_date": "2023-10-08T16:19:49.320", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "15362", "parent_id": "9779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm going to talk about the Kamehameha here if I talk about either one of them\nspecifically, because I know more about Dragon Ball than I do about Street\nFighter.\n\nThe Kamehameha is supposed to be the ultimate attack, in which the user\ngathers all of their Ki into one point and releases it at once.\n\nKi, also spelled Chi or Qi, is \"life-force\" as you mentioned. The idea of ki\nis one that is pervasive throughout East Asian mythology. It originates from\n[tai-chi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_chi). Tai-chi is not just a\nmartial art in the sense that someone brought up in the West like myself might\nthink of it -- that is to say, it doesn't exist just so that you can learn to\ndefend yourself from an assailant. It is a practice that was birthed from\nTaoism, also spelled as Daoism, which is a very spiritual set of beliefs.\n\nTaoism, as you may know, has as one of its core principles the balance of\ninternal and external force -- _yin_ versus _yang_. Yin represents the\ninternal force, and yang the external.\n\nIn tai-chi, one does learn self-defensive techniques and weapon drills, it's\ntrue. However, one also learns to cultivate the _yin_ in one's body. This may\nbe an oversimplification but I believe that defensive and weapons training is\nconsidered the cultivation of _yang_.\n\nTo cultivate yin, one learns completely passive techniques, such as breathing\nand meditation. These are designed to promote overall health and wellness of\none's own body. To someone unfamiliar with tai-chi, the exercises might look\nlike aerobics or even just stretching exercises. In mythology, it is believed\nthat masters of such artistry can live for well over a hundred years, or even\nforever. (hint hint, Master Roshi, although it's explained in the show as him\ndrinking from \"The Fountain of Youth\" -- that part is a parody of the \"eternal\nmartial artist\" trope in Asian stories). The breathing and movement techniques\nare said to keep one's ki in balance, and cultivate untapped potential ki\nwhich has not begun to flow in the body yet.\n\nIn other words, although a show like Dragon Ball is fantasy, to explain it in\nreal world mythology: Master Roshi became such a master of tai-chi that he can\nmanipulate his ki into an external force directly.\n\nThe same principle applies to Ryu. He is supposed to be a master martial\nartist. To someone familiar with East Asian mythology and tropes, this means\nthat he knows how to manipulate his life energy to make fireballs, to put it\nsimply.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-30T21:45:46.393", "id": "23683", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-31T13:37:43.610", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-31T13:37:43.610", "last_editor_user_id": "15528", "owner_user_id": "15528", "parent_id": "9779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe original Kamehameha wave was used by Master Roshi in _Dragon Ball_ manga\nvolume 2 originally released in Japan in 1986 while _Street Fighter_ only came\nout a year later in 1987.\n\nSince Capcom is a Japanese-based company, it's a safe bet that SF's Hadouken\nwas a copy of the Kamehameha in Japan. Yet, Americans were first introduced to\nthe Hadouken since mangas were not big back in the late 80's.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-11T12:45:27.680", "id": "59535", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-08T16:19:46.483", "last_edit_date": "2023-10-08T16:19:46.483", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "56190", "parent_id": "9779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe \"Hadouken\" is translated as “WAVE MOTION FIST” and is inspired by the move\n“WAVE MOTION GUN” as seen in _Space Battleship Yamato_ from the 70s. The\ncreator also made 2 games predating _Dragon Ball_ back in 1982 and 1 of them\nwas _Kung Fu Master_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-03-21T15:56:23.903", "id": "62251", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-21T15:58:07.127", "last_edit_date": "2021-03-21T15:58:07.127", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "59577", "parent_id": "9779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n**I propose it might be part of the general xianxia heritage**\n\nDragon Ball is (at least somewhat) based on Journey to the West, which could\nbe considered an ancestor of modern xianxia stories. Not to mention that DB\nshares multiple things with said genre.\n\nXianxia (\"immortal heroes\") are a genre of Chinese semi-mythological stories\nof masters of martial arts that transcend human limits (as a rough and limited\nprimer on the subject).\n\nModern stories tend to start out at \"fistfights with fancy fireworks\" levels,\nthen transition to flying people punching each other with lasers, and then\ngoing into destroying mountain ranges by punching in their general direction\n(, and then...). Scaling to continental, planetary, galactic, universal or\nmultiversal levels.\n\nMartial artists shooting lasers by punching, or waving their weapon (or tool)\nof choice is not an unknown concept and predates DB (see: [ZU Warriors From\nThe Magic Mountain movie](https://youtu.be/k4EQMAM7FWw?si=1WMok-qDQv_M5lRD)\nfrom 1983, which is an adaptation of a novel. In the linked clip you can see\ncharacters blasting lightning from their hands as well as the white-clothed\nswordsman shooting lasers/sword projections/sword energy/sword light out of\ntheir sword. Considering this example from before the publication of Dragon\nBall and variations of \"sword qi\" and the like being a staple of xianxia\nnovels, kamehameha/hadouken seem a reasonable extrapolation of the idea.\n\nI suppose master martial artists punching someone from across the room is the\nsame expectation in the east like we have with old men in robes and pointy\nhats shooting lasers or exploding balls of fire from their walking sticks.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-10-08T16:03:23.843", "id": "68366", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-08T16:03:23.843", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "71761", "parent_id": "9779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as we know it's not (or not necessarily) the chairman of the Magic\nCouncil who decides who becomes a Wizard Saint. In Erza's vision about her\nfuneral it was stated that the vote of the entire council decided that she\nshould be a Wizard Saint. Later Jura also states that it is the Council who\nappoints the members.\n\nWith that in mind, I'm pretty sure that the Council takes whatever factors\nthey want to take into consideration when pointing out Wizard Saints. Which\nmeans there is not a single score sheet, and if you score 5 points in magical\npower and 4 points in teamwork then you can become a Wizard Saint.\n\nStrength however is one factor that they definitely consider, but that' not an\nultimate factor for the decision as Jellal, for example, being a Wizard Saint\nwas defeated by Natsu and that didn't make Natsu a Wizard Saint.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-18T05:33:21.547", "id": "9785", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-18T05:33:21.547", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "9784", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nMakarov was defeated by Purehito who was no wizard saint. IMO, wizard saints\nare madoushi who have at one time, done something worthy of note for the good\nof the mage universe. Strength definitely does go a long way in determining\nthe Wizard Saints.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-19T22:05:04.430", "id": "9810", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-19T22:05:04.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4948", "parent_id": "9784", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nPower is definitely a factor. But other than that, other factors might come\ninto play. Here's what I am guessing.\n\nFactors:\n\n 1. Power (obviously)\n 2. Magical knowledge\n 3. Magical exploits (ie. if you have saved many lives or led a great journey)\n 4. Deeds that benefited mankind (for instance, Warrod has used his magic to stop the desertification)\n 5. How well known you are, etc.\n\nBut the ranking among the Wizard Saints is also not important. For instance,\nJura is currently the 5th Wizard Saint and there is no way he is more powerful\nthan Makarov.\n\nAnd yes, Natsu defeated Jellal. But you have to consider that Jellal was:\n\nA) weakened by the fact he had recently recovered his full power because he\nhad been using a thought projection for years and\n\nB) Natsu was in Dragon Force as well as fueled by Etherion.\n\nIn reality, Jellal is among the most powerful of Wizard Saints, for he was a\nmember of the 10 Wizard Saints at a fraction of his power because it took most\nof his power to simply maintain the thought projection. He was also a prodigy\nas a child, to the point that as a child he blew up a small mountain with a\nwave of his hand while using self-destruction magic.\n\nAll in all, power is a major factor.\n\nAlso, with the recent exploits of Natsu (the avatar fight specifically Ikusa\nTsunagi fight) should land him on the wizard saints.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-19T01:18:49.910", "id": "21637", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-29T09:08:19.433", "last_edit_date": "2018-12-29T09:08:19.433", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "4902", "parent_id": "9784", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was stated that the Bijuu will disappear from the world for a while, and\nthen reappear at some later time.\n\nThis was first said by Kushina on the day of the Nine-tails' attack that \"I'll\ndrag him down with me to death, that will buy us some time until it revives\".\n\nIt was then later reinforced on several occasions that killing a Jinchuuriki\nwithout extracting the Bijuu will make it reappear at a later time in an\napparently random place.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-18T11:50:23.453", "id": "9789", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-18T11:50:23.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "9788", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIf the Jinchuriki is killed then the chakra of the tailed beast disperses and\nafter a while reforms somewhere else.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-18T11:50:30.820", "id": "9790", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-18T12:06:40.580", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-18T12:06:40.580", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "9788", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJudging by the way he states it, he can create \"contracts\" with set time\nlimits. The contracts seem to extend to anything and everything with a spirit.\n\nas the fullbringers state \"Everything has a soul\". he makes a contract with\nthe box to trap ichigo inside, the next is the energy, he makes a contract\nwith the air to fire it at rapid speeds (energy) at ginjo, then finally after\nhe is wearing his fullbring he makes a contract with his own body to become\n\"invincible\" as he states...\n\n\"Time tells no lies\" ie, within this set time period everything I say is true.\n\nI don't have much to back this up with, it's just as logical as I could think\nof.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-01T14:14:46.603", "id": "24536", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-01T14:14:46.603", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11648", "parent_id": "9793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think that his fullbring gives him the ability to make contracts about\nanything which makes him extremly strong. However, if he breaks or changes it,\nhe will lose a body part. It is like a strong sword with double edges, at\nleast logically.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-23T15:49:39.353", "id": "33903", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-23T21:21:14.183", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-23T21:21:14.183", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "25809", "parent_id": "9793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nWhile I have not seen this episode yet, let me chime in to confirm that this\nimage looks awfully close to typical war propaganda posters. They do not have\nto be [Chinese](http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2011/08/glorious-socialism-\nchinese-ladies-in.html) actually, [Russians looked the same, as did those by\nWestern countries at the\ntime](http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/08/propaganda-posters-of-world-war-\ntwo.html).\n\nThe drawing style was, as far as I know, mandated by the circumstance around\nthe second world war, meaning they all look similar. The messages are also\n(maybe surprisingly) similar, as is the facial expression of energetically\nstaring into the upwards, far distance.\n\nThe text in the example given is Japanese, which I sadly cannot read.\n\nChinese and Russian as well as other socialist propaganda made particular use\nof red colors:\n\n\n([source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Propaganda_Poster_Art_Centre,_Shanghai,_China.jpg))\n\nFor comparison, American propaganda from 1944 often used the same painting\ntechnique:\n\n\n([source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1944_JonWhitcomb_USNavy_%283214638694%29.jpg))\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-19T21:11:13.280", "id": "9809", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-19T21:27:30.210", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-19T21:27:30.210", "last_editor_user_id": "220", "owner_user_id": "220", "parent_id": "9799", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst of all, you need to know what [Haoshoku\nHaki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Shanks) is. It is a rare form of Haki\nthat cannot be attained through training. Only one in a million people have\nthis ability. Though it cannot be attained via training but one who possesses\ncan master it by undergoing rigorous training.\n\n> What is Shanks Power, If \"Haoshoku Haki\" then is it different from other\n> user?\n\nNow coming to your question, the difference between the 2 events you're\ntalking about boils down to 2 points.\n\n**Superiority of Haki** \\- Shanks has a highly superior Haki than Luffy and\nthus the effect/impact of his Haki would be far greater than that of Luffy's.\n\n[According to the wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Shanks),\n\n> Oda mentioned in a SBS that Shanks could have knocked out all 100,000\n> pirates and fishmen opposing the Straw Hats during the Fishman Island Arc\n> with his Haoushoku Haki (Luffy managed to overwhelm 50,000).\n\n**Usage of Haki** \\- If you have a look at the\n[wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Haoshoku_Haki),\n\n> There have been two ways in which this Haki has been used. The first and\n> most common way is in a quick burst that will knock out those with weaker\n> wills relatively easily. The second method is to release it continuously,\n> which will not only knock out those of weak wills around the user, but also\n> put pressure on the surroundings, actually affecting other physical objects\n> besides living beings.\n\nLuffy happened to use the Haki in quick burst to knock out all the weak willed\nones, whereas Shanks opted the second method to release it continuously, which\nnot only knocked out the weak willed users, but all affected the physical\nobject (the ship in this case) in the surroundings. Shanks was in Whitebeard's\nship, and thus he had to be on guard always as both of them were the Yonkos at\nthat time.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-19T08:57:30.990", "id": "9803", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-11T08:12:00.703", "last_edit_date": "2021-03-11T08:12:00.703", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "9801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nIt seems that the highest level of control of Conqueror's Haki allows the\nwielder to \"wear\" it as an aura much like Armament Haki (or maybe it involves\na combination of both kinds of Haki.)\n\nIt's entirely possible that different uses for Haki exist that are bolstered\nby being strong in multiple types. A Conqueror who's skilled in Observation\nHaki could brush an opponent's mind with his aura to determine that opponent's\nlevel of willpower, for instance.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-07T16:53:07.570", "id": "15549", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-07T16:53:07.570", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9527", "parent_id": "9801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWell you're missing a third. You forget reyleigh used his to rescue those\nprisoners from the bomb shackles around their neck, and even his too. Haoshoku\nhaki, if anything, can \"touch\" as well. Imagine what experts would be able to\nuse it to accomplish. Could even wreck pirate fleets or cause shattering\nearthquakes depending on the strength of the user. Shanks already showed a\nlittle of that on whitebeard' ship, and I reckon there'd be nothing left of\nthat ship if he were serious. Makes sense why whitebeard had to yell at him\n\"I'm not afraid of you, shanks!\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-23T07:36:50.950", "id": "32276", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-23T07:36:50.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24237", "parent_id": "9801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# Some Notes Before Reading\n\nThis is an imaginary course that I have created. I think it gives a broad\nenough overview of the subject for a single term, but I think it could be\nextended easily to a two term course if a more in-depth knowledge was\nrequired.\n\nI'm assuming 1 hour lectures twice a week, enough time in seminars to do full\nscreenings, and a knowledgeable lecturer. There are 8 weeks to a semester, as\ndescribed by the original question.\n\nThe course could be an elective for new students studying film, media studies\nor a similar subject.\n\nIt could be easily enough adapted for an online course through discussion\nforums and recorded lectures/seminars.\n\n# Course Syllabus\n\n### Week 1: Introduction to Anime/Manga Culture\n\n * Lectures \n * A - Introduction to course and its aims, Brief overview of syllabus and related items\n * B - Anime vs Cartoons, Brief description of differences and history\n * Seminar - Watch an episode of both a distinctly \"cartoonish\" show and an distinctly \"anime\" show - (Suggested Looney Toons Vs Cardcaptor Sakura) . Discuss and follow up with a less clear-cut comparison (Suggested: Avatar: The last Airbender)\n * Homework - N/A :)\n\n### Week 2: Anime in the Western World\n\n * Lectures \n * A - Mainstream anime - Ghibli, Pokemon\n * B - Broader interest - Crunchyroll, Vertical Publishing\n * Homework - Watch and review one student-chosen translated animated film that displays distinct cultural differences from western shows. \n * Seminar - Watch lecturer-chosen film and have an interactive discussion cultural differences and etc with the class (Suggested: My Neighbour Totoro for both its popularity and contrast of culture [beliefs in spirits, etc])\n\n### Week 3: Genres of Anime/Manga and their development\n\n * Lectures \n * A - Anime/Manga genres & their associated tropes & features\n * B - Gekiga Movement, Moe and the history behind some of these genres \n * Homework - Read and review a work by a Gekiga author (Suggested Osamu Tezuka)\n * Seminar - Screenings of episodes of well-known titles within different genres. (Suggested \"Sailor Moon\", \"Naruto\", \"Gundam\")\n\n### Week 4: Anime & Manga during Wartime\n\n * Lectures: \n * A - Background information about Japan & WWII\n * B - Manga as a political medium\n * Seminar - Screening of \"Grave of The Fireflies\", \"The Wind Rises\", or other suitable item\n * Homework - Read lecturer-selected war-themed manga from this period (Suggested MW by Tezuka).\n\n### Week 5: The evolution of Artistic style\n\n * Lectures: \n * A - History of artistic style - Humble beginnings to 1999's\n * B - Recent Changes in style - 1990's to Present\n * Seminar - Comparing and contrasting recent shows with ones from different time periods (Suggested: \"Saru Masamune\", \"Doraemon\", \"Ranma 1/2\", \"Akira\", \"K-on\")\n * Homework - Essay comparing a modern anime to a pre-1990's anime \n\n### Week 6: The anime production process\n\n> _Note:_ Week 6 could be replaced with extended discussion of week 5 if the\n> lecturer so desired\n\n * Lectures: \n * A - Acquisition of an anime, pitches, support. Second half of lecture to describe the production process\n * B - Production process cont., Sales & Promotion\n * Seminar - An inspection of different works, analyzing the reasons why they greatly succeeded or failed (Suggested \"Neon Genesis Evangellion\", \"Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water\" for successes)\n * Homework - Write report on contributing factors to anime commercial success\n\n### Week 7: Akibahara, Otaku and the obsessive culture surrounding anime\n\n * Lectures \n * A - Cosplay, Conventions\n * B - Otaku, Social stigma, \"Weeaboos\"/\"Wapanese\"\n * Seminar - Screenings of convention recordings (both East & Western) and otaku interviews (There are several documentaries that cover this topic) - With optional discussion afterwards.\n * Homework - N/A\n\n### Week 8: The increasing ubiquity of anime\n\n * Lectures: \n * A - Anime stylism in government posters, advertisement, increasing appearance in everyday japan\n * B - Revision Lecture (Assuming an exam at the end of term)\n * Seminar - N/A\n * Homework - N/A\n\n### Assessment:\n\nPersonally I would have a 50:50 ratio of coursework to exam marks in order to\nattain a final grade. This exam would consist of a 2 and a half hour exam\ncovering topics from each section of the course. Coursework would be graded on\nthe quality of the deliverables, with additional marks for novelty.\n\nWith an online course, this may be adjusted to suit the setup accordingly.\n\n# Suggested Additional Reading Materia\n\n * Selected volumes of <http://mechademia.org/>\n * Anime: A history by John Clements\n * A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, ZEN, and the Tea Ceremony by Hector Garcia\n * Starting Point by Hayou Miyazaki\n * A Drifting Life by Yoshiro Tatsumi\n\n# What will I get out of this Course?\n\nThe students will, after this course, be able to:\n\n * Appreciate differences between anime and western media\n * Understand the culture around the media\n * Understand the genre types within the media\n * Be able to identify and discuss the different periods of anime\n * Recognize many anime references within other media\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T23:05:59.460", "id": "9982", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-23T12:36:36.897", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-23T12:36:36.897", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt was revealed later that Recca was not a flame master like the others, he\nhad inherited the former flame dragons, but he himself had no unique flame\nability. Therefore, when he dies, he might become a flame dragon, but he'd be\na useless one.\n\nFrom Volume 16 - Chapter 153:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qk5Uv.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-22T19:19:19.467", "id": "9879", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-21T04:31:53.323", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-21T04:31:53.323", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4987", "parent_id": "9813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is still unknown. We still don't have any precise details on how the\nfactory works. We just know that the Smile are Zoan-type fruits, and that\nprobably they achived these smiles by studying a prototype artifical fruit\nmade by Vegapunk (i.e. the dragon fruit that Momonosuke ate).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-27T18:58:59.280", "id": "9943", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-27T20:01:59.790", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-27T20:01:59.790", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "5036", "parent_id": "9815", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom: <http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Psycoframe>\n\n> The Psycoframe is a technology that builds on the brainwave-to-machine code\n> translator known as Psycommu into the atom-level of the metal frame of a\n> Mobile Suit. This allows a Newtype pilot to control the mobile suit as if it\n> were his/her own body with limitations.\n\nAlthough not very obvious it seems that Psycoframes allow Newtype pilots to\nhave something like a mental connection to their Mobile Suits allowing them to\ncontrol them as if they were a part of their body.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T02:04:02.667", "id": "9820", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T02:04:02.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3680", "parent_id": "9819", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBrook can be killed, but it's not overly easy. Busoshoku haki lets you strike\nthe true body of a devil fruit user, which would allow you to hit whatever\nhe's possessing with a haki-infused axe and strike his soul.\n\nSo yeah, he is killable, but only if you have sufficient haki and strength.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T10:31:31.987", "id": "9827", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T10:31:31.987", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "9823", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Wiki for the Yomi-Yomi no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi), the person who eats it\nrevives _once_. So Brook can still just as easily be killed, as he will not\nrevive again.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T20:01:51.870", "id": "9843", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T20:01:51.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4085", "parent_id": "9823", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt was mentioned in the anime that if you smash his spine really good he will\ndie. Can't look for prooflink right now. At fishmen island as far as I\nremember, during the fight...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-22T12:27:49.397", "id": "9869", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-22T12:27:49.397", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4777", "parent_id": "9823", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYou made a mistake in thinking his soul could come back as many times as it\npleases. A Yomi Yomi no Mi user can only be resurrected once. He does seem\nimmortal as we have seen him be beheaded and damaged several times, from which\nhe had healed back by drinking calcium rich drinks such as milk. The only two\npossibilities there are to killing him is by either submerging him into water\nor by crushing his entire body forcing the soul to leave the body. This would\nindeed make him quite immortal.\n\n**How many times does the Yomi Yomi no Mi resurrect the soul?**\n\n[The wiki page on the Yomi Yomi no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi) states:\n\n> The major strength of the fruit, as demonstrated by Brook, is that it gives\n> its user another life after dying **once** before.\n\n[The wiki page on\nBrook](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Brook/Abilities_and_Powers) states:\n\n> While he was still alive, Brook ate the Yomi Yomi no Mi, a Paramecia-class\n> Devil Fruit. Should the user of this fruit die, it allows them the **one-\n> time** opportunity to return to life.\n\n**Will the soul be able to come back regardless of the state of the user's\nbody?**\n\n[The wiki page on the Yomi Yomi no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi) states:\n\n> After death, the user continues to exist in whatever state they were revived\n> as and can even go as far as to grant a form of \"immortality\" that lasts\n> until the user suffers a second death. This of course is **negated if the\n> user's cause of death was drowning, and their body remains in the water** ,\n> or if their body is completely destroyed.\n\n**What will kill a Yomi Yomi no Mi Devil Fruit user?**\n\n[The wiki page on\nBrook](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Brook/Abilities_and_Powers) states:\n\n> One advantage is that because he is just comprised of light weighted bones,\n> he can use his speed and light weight to run across water, but, like all\n> Devil Fruit users, he can still **drown when submerged**.\n\n[The wiki page on the Yomi Yomi no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi) states:\n\n> After death, the user continues to exist in whatever state they were revived\n> as and can even go as far as to grant a form of \"immortality\" that lasts\n> until the user suffers a second death. This of course is **negated** if the\n> user's cause of death was drowning, and their body remains in the water, or\n> **if their body is completely destroyed**.\n\n**What will _not_ kill a Yomi Yomi no Mi Devil Fruit user?**\n\n[The wiki page on\nBrook](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Brook/Abilities_and_Powers) states:\n\n> He has also proven that calcium (such as in milk) will rapidly heal any\n> **damaged bones**.\n\nIf the user's **bones are only partially destroyed** , he will be able to\nregenerate them through consumption of calcium. Eg This was seen after Brook\nfought Ryuma and was severely damaged.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o3AOc.jpg)\n\n[The wiki page on the Yomi Yomi no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yomi_Yomi_no_Mi) states:\n\n> As long as his bones are not hurt any attacks will not go to his core like\n> when Zeo **beheaded** Brook, his soul managed to repair it and connect his\n> bones together again.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RwyfD.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-14T02:18:21.633", "id": "11259", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T10:03:14.173", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-07T10:03:14.173", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "9823", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you want to degenerate his bones, acid is your best bet, especially HCl as\nit attacks calcium, you can try on a piece of chalk or some chicken bone.\n\nAnd don't let him touch any milk in the process as it may regenerate him.\n\nSo, maybe any kind of food that is not calcium friendly can help, such as\ncassava or some very sour fruits.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-22T09:01:20.873", "id": "46192", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-22T09:01:20.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "38508", "parent_id": "9823", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nKilling brook might be nearly impossible. The methods normally used for\nkilling devil fruit users might not apply to him because,\n\n 1. He's too light to drown and he has no lungs. So even if someone submerges him into the sea, he'll just lie there but wont die as he doesn't suffocate.\n 2. His soul returned to him after his body decomposes completely and the only thing left of his body are bones. So you'll need to completely destroy his body until nothing is left.\n\nHad his soul returned to him when he still had his body and organs, It would\nbe possible to kill him. Even submerging him underwater might had killed him\nas he would have lungs and lose his breath(The soul would attach to his living\nbody which can be killed). But now his soul is attached to his bones and will\nstay within them until they are completely obliterated.\n\nYou can think of him as darth nihilius of one piece.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-22T09:53:31.043", "id": "46193", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-22T09:53:31.043", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33474", "parent_id": "9823", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGiven the fact that none of the Edo Tensei'd Hokages were affected, I'm\nguessing that Edo Tensei reanimated people are not affected by it.\n\nThere wasn't much said about it anyway, but that's the option that makes most\nsense.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T10:34:06.580", "id": "9828", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T10:34:06.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "9826", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with Madara Uchicha's answer, the dead (Edo Tensei'd) characters don't\nhave original chakra for the God Tree, so the the tree does not attempt to\nabsorb them?\n\nMaybe the Hokages will help Naruto and Sasuke attack Madara.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T18:58:48.693", "id": "9838", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-28T14:39:02.197", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-28T14:39:02.197", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4967", "parent_id": "9826", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt seems to me the God Tree and Infinite Tsukuyomi targets bodies with life\nforce and chakra. Edo Tensei shinobi posseses infinite chakra, but not any\nlife force, which is insufficient to fall under the genjutsu.\n\nBeyond this, Kishimoto has never shown any Edo Tensei falling under genjutsu\nor any shinobi trying to put Edo Tensei into a genjutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T17:47:59.683", "id": "11308", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-28T14:41:46.650", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-28T14:41:46.650", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "9826", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMaybe in the anime they made Itachi act surprised to not give away the plot.\nOr maybe he could be referring to another secret mission, in which it was\nItachi's plan to help lead Sasuke to the right path, and yet Obito figured\nthis out and used the darkness in Sasuke's heart to control him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T18:55:39.770", "id": "9837", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T18:55:39.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4967", "parent_id": "9829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nItachi may have asked Madara's help but it was never explicitly said that he\nrevealed the true reason behind his actions.\n\n> Itachi may have lied to Madara like he did to Sasuke that he massacred all\n> uchiha to test his powers.\n\nItachi may be thinking that Madara was convinced with his reasoning, while\nMadara knew the true reason that he was doing all this by leaf village's\norders.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-22T06:55:14.923", "id": "9856", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-22T06:55:14.923", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4163", "parent_id": "9829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt comes from [this document published by\nJETRO](https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/reports/market/pdf/2005_35_r.pdf) (Japan\nExternal Trade Organization) where it says (page 7):\n\n> International sales data is not exact, but around 60% of the anime shown\n> worldwide is made in Japan, according to a METI report issued in January\n> 2004. Twenty Japanese anime programs were being broadcast on American TV as\n> of March 2003.\n\n(Note that \"anime\" in this context probably means \"animation\")\n\nThe 60% figure was also quoted by [Jim Frederick's article in Time Asia\n\"What's Right with\nJapan\"](http://web.archive.org/web/20100403090055/http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/cool_japan/story.html):\n\n> Pokémon has supplanted Astroboy in the hearts of schoolkids in more than 65\n> countries, and 60% of the world's animated-cartoon series are made in Japan.\n\nThough, no source was provided.\n\n* * *\n\nThe number of voice-acting schools was attributed to:\n\n> Terumitsu Otsu and Mary Kennard (April 27, 2002). \"The art of voice acting\".\n> The Daily Yomiuri. p. 11.\n\nSource fetched from [the Voice Acting in Japan wikipedia\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_acting_in_Japan).\n\n* * *\n\nI don't know how to account for the other 40% of animated entertainment. Maybe\nif you're able to get a copy of the METI report that was issued in January\n2004, [which doesn't seem to be listed on their\nwebsite](http://www.meti.go.jp/english/report/previous_report.html).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T15:21:26.070", "id": "9832", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T17:51:14.093", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-21T17:51:14.093", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "9831", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLooks like it's part of a vinyl kit for Guyver II:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T17:29:31.433", "id": "9834", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T17:29:31.433", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9833", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt looks like Yamato was unconscious thus his body was being used as a tool by\nZetsu like how Obito corpse is being used by black Zetsu.\n\nSo Yamato is on the side of the shinobi alliance.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-02T02:00:24.253", "id": "10066", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-02T02:00:24.253", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2256", "parent_id": "9839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nYamato is part of the shinobi alliance but currently being controlled by\nmadara using genjutsu or probably something related to Hashirama's cells.\n\nRemember that madara greatly desired to use Hashirama's cells in battle he\ndefinitely came up with a working idea to use Yamato who is compatible with\nHashirama's chakra as a tool.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T17:43:50.657", "id": "11307", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T17:43:50.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "9839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHave a look at my gallery on <http://www.kochigallery.com/#!comics-\njapan/c1r18>. I offer hundreds of original anime cel and sketches from anime\nsuch as Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Captain Harlock, Akira, Sailor Moon, Galaxy\nExpress 999, City Hunter and many others! You may find something you like\nthere!\n\n**Edit** \nwe have updated our website, which now comprises more than 200 anime\ncelluloids and sketches!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T23:16:43.507", "id": "11369", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-06T11:58:32.350", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-06T11:58:32.350", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "6309", "parent_id": "9842", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nWe are a London based retailer selling authentic anime cels via our online\nstore [www.cel-ga.com](http://www.cel-ga.com) As we purchase Cels either\ndirectly from the production companies or certified dealers, we can guarantee\nthe authenticity of the items we sell. Our stock includes including some rare\nitems from Studio Ghibli, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon and others.\n\nSorry this is a bit of a late reply but hopefully this will be useful for\nanyone looking at this later on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-26T10:46:05.473", "id": "24380", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-26T10:57:19.490", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-26T10:57:19.490", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "16540", "parent_id": "9842", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n 1. By \"cel sheets\" do you mean **hand-painted animation cels**? In Japanese, these are called _seru-ga_ (セル画). When searching, \"anime cel\" will give you more search results than \"cel sheets\" (which is not a common phrase). The line drawing that corresponds to the _seru-ga_ is called a _douga_. When purchasing, ascertain whether your purchase includes the _douga_ and/or the background. Some do, some don't. If you get all three as a set, that is more valuable.\n\n 2. Instead of searching for online shops that sell only cels, search for online **retailers that sell a variety** of anime merchandise, especially used. Anime produced from the late 1990s to the present are computer-animated, so hardly any animation cels have been produced since then (which is why cel-only shops disappear: not enough stock available to flow in). Thus, you are generally looking for **pre-owned** cels that a previous collector has re-sold to a **used goods shop**.\n\n 3. There are licensed anime cels produced by the production company but which are not from the anime series itself, and which greatly vary in value (or lack thereof), such as these: [_hanken-seru_](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E7%94%BB#.E3.82.BB.E3.83.AB.E7.94.BB.E3.81.AE.E5.88.86.E9.A1.9E) (版権セル) a.k.a _hansoku-seru_ (販促セル) which are cels hand-painted for promotional artwork such as posters and toys, [sericel](http://www.ebay.com/gds/Difference-between-cel-sericel-original-production-/10000000000016731/g.html) (セリセル), _fukusei-ga_ (複製画) a.k.a. _rirezu-seru_ （リレイズセル), and [chroma-cel](http://www.animanga.com/cels/info/cels.html) a.k.a. _ripuro-seru-ga_ (リプロ・セル画).\n\n 4. Doujin cels (同人セル画) are fanart cels made by Japanese _doujinshika_ (doujin artists) and look just as real as the original ones, so take note of the word 同人.\n\nSome places to buy authentic anime cels are:\n\n * [Mandarake](http://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/listPage/list?categoryCode=0701&target=00) (stores in the U.S. as well as in Japan, ships internationally)\n * [Yahoo! Japan Auctions](http://auctions.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?auccat=&p=%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E7%94%BB&tab_ex=commerce&ei=utf-8) in Japan, but you can use a proxy service to bid and ship internationally, such as [Celga](http://www.celga.com/index.php?page=aboutus) (which has staff in the U.S. as well as in Japan and specializes in proxy bidding for cels)\n * [Cel-Ga](http://www.cel-ga.com/12-anime-series) (U.K., ships internationally)\n * [Entertainment Hobby Shop JUNGLE](http://www.animejungle.net/user/scripts/user/product_search.php) a.k.a. Anime Jungle (shop in U.S. as well as in Japan, international shipping <\\--- they sometimes show up at conventions; if you see Jungle's booth, rest assured that they're selling authentic pre-owned anime cels)\n * [Asylum Anime](http://www.asylum-anime.com)\n * [Animegame.com](http://www.animegame.com) (which is now selling on eBay)\n * [Takamura-Store](http://www.takamura-store.com) (exporting from Japan)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-26T13:17:59.547", "id": "24384", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-26T13:58:28.983", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-26T13:58:28.983", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "9842", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe very elaborate, meticulously-edited AMVs set to popular music that you see\nfrom creators like [Nostromo](http://www.nostro.fr/amv/) are, as far as I\nknow, mostly the domain of non-Japanese fans. Naturally, I can't prove that\nthere aren't any made by Japanese people, but I've spent my fair share of time\nbumbling around on [Niconico](http://nicovideo.jp), and haven't seen anything\nof the sort.\n\nWhat Japanese fans _do_ create are what they call \"MADs\" (for more, see [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3916/1908)). Though (many) MADs\nare derivative fanworks based on anime, they are, for the most part, not at\nall like the AMVs produced by Western fans. If I had to characterize Japanese\nMADs, I would point out the following features that distinguish them from non-\nJapanese AMVs:\n\n * The audio tracks of MADs are frequently made by editing the audio of the show from which the clips are drawn\n * Existing musical pieces (pop songs, whatever) are not used in MADs as frequently as in AMVs\n * Whereas many AMVs use footage from multiple series, MADs are more likely to use content from just a single series (or, perhaps, audio from one anime and video from another)\n * AMVs are often strongly identified with their creators (cf. credits footage, etc.) whereas MADs are relatively more \"anonymous\" in the sense that creators are less wont to plaster their name onto their creations\n * MADs are typically solo productions (or, at least, the work of few people), whereas MEP AMVs are fairly common. \n\nTo get a better flavor for the sorts of things that are typical of MADs, one\nmight like to take a look at [the top videos tagged with \"mad\" on\nNiconico](http://www.nicovideo.jp/tag/mad?sort=v).\n\nIn sum: **yes** , Japanese fans create audiovisual productions using footage\nfrom anime, but **no** , these productions are not very similar to the AMVs\nproduced by non-Japanese fans.\n\nMany anime conventions in the West incorporate AMV competitions; I suspect\nthat this is one of the major drivers of AMV production in the West. I am not\naware of any equivalent competitions in Japan. Also, for English speakers,\nthere's at least one thriving online community for AMV creators: [the\nOrg](http://www.animemusicvideos.org/home/home.php). Again, I am unaware of a\nJapanese equivalent, beyond general-purpose video sites like Niconico.\n\n(Note: this entire answer is only about the state of AMVs/MADs nowadays - I\nhave no idea what it was like in the past, pre-Youtube/Niconico.)\n\n* * *\n\nI had never heard of MMVs prior to reading your question; having looked at a\nfew on Youtube, I think (but am not sure) that these are also uniquely\nWestern. (They also mostly suck, for obvious reasons.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-22T04:30:44.273", "id": "9852", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-22T04:30:44.273", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9851", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, this is just the special weakness of that particular Devil Fruit.\n\nI mean, Luffy eats everything, nearly everywhere. And in the most dishes there\nis salt, or how do you cook you spaghetti?\n\nAnother instance to prove my opinion is that Luffy had gone underwater several\ntimes and had nearly drowned. In the process, he also \"ate\" salt, but it had\nno effect, like losing his Devil Fruit power.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-22T06:54:36.340", "id": "9855", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-13T04:54:54.500", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-13T04:54:54.500", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4957", "parent_id": "9853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't remember which episode it was, but Sanji especially collected salt for\nthe ship kitchen. So I don't think it is the issue. Salt harm is zombie\nspecific, not devil-fruit eaters. Not everything connected to the sea is bad\n:)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-22T12:21:04.497", "id": "9868", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-22T12:21:04.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4777", "parent_id": "9853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIf it were to be true then Luffy would also be unable to eat fish and I think\nthey would contain a fair amount of salt. So yeah, salt should be fine in a\nDevil Fruit user's diet\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-22T13:50:49.550", "id": "9874", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-13T05:18:15.440", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-13T05:18:15.440", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4984", "parent_id": "9853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe curse will only take effect on sea water, not on something taken/extracted\nfrom the sea (which naturally includes salt). Remember in Water 7 episode,\nwhere Sanji was challenged by an old man to find the secret ingredient of his\n_fried rice_? And the secret spice is actually the SALT, which was visible\nremain after the cataclysm of Aqua Laguna.\n\nAnd so it was, Sanji applied the _new SALT_ to his cooking, and all Luffy's\ncrew were astonished by the new flavour.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-26T05:07:42.873", "id": "9924", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-26T05:07:42.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2309", "parent_id": "9853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNote: Salt is generally used to symbolize purification so it was used to\nexpress the release of the curse of this Devil Fruit.\n\n1.Luffy loves fun and the meat doesn't spoil. They would need salt to preserve\nthere meat as pirates especially on the first less developed ship.\n\n 2. Ace and Luffy would have died by food. What better way to killed two famous pirates who love food than by poisoning their food?\n\n 3. Somebody would have warned Luffy in chapter 1 like about swimming. \n\n 4. Each fruit has it's own individual weakness and strengths. Like fire < water, fire > smoke\n\n 5. Luffy touched a Seastone that had to have salt on it.\n\n 6. Luffy has fallen in water and most likely seawater at least once.\n\nSo I conclude that salt does not effect all Devil Fruit users.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-26T11:15:57.790", "id": "9930", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-13T05:19:59.563", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-13T05:19:59.563", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "5022", "parent_id": "9853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSabo never intended to get the fruit for Luffy. When he showed up in this arc,\nhis first words were\n\n\"I'm not letting you have the Mera Mera fruit, Strawhat Luffy!\"\n\nSabo always intended to eat it, and Luffy was fine with that. Luffy obviously\ncan't eat it himself, he just wanted someone he liked to have it. He left the\ncolosseum very happy, fully understanding that Sabo was going to eat it. It\ndidn't come out of nowhere at all.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-22T09:33:44.273", "id": "9862", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-22T09:33:44.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "9859", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nShort story: Sabo wanted to eat the Mera Mera fruit because he, as Luffy's and\nAce's \"brother\", to inherit his will(have his spirit live on).\n\nLong story: He ate it because, before the final, he was doing it, because he\nsaid. wanted to inherit Ace's will. Well, him and Luffy, according to this\nstatement : \"We are the ones who will inherit his will!\" Besides, Luffy can't\nobviously eat it, and who better to come along to eat Ace's fruit, then his\nsecond brother Sabo!? Seriously, once Luffy fully realized that Sabo wasn't\nkilled, he would obviously let him have the fruit, since he is Luffy and Ace's\nbest friend/\"brother\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-11T00:04:53.813", "id": "14385", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-11T00:04:53.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8652", "parent_id": "9859", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI remember looking into this a while back, but never found where the theories\nabout this 'true ending' originally surfaced.\n\nThe reason you see so much information about it in Spanish though is because\nCaptain Tsubasa was one of the first Anime to ever air on TV (at least in\nMexico), and it was extremely popular at the time. The theory probably\nsurfaced there, and once it got into the internet it became an 'urban legend'\nof sorts.\n\nBut yeah, the alternate is purely fan-made. As far as I know the manga is\nstill running.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T21:17:24.597", "id": "9979", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-28T21:17:24.597", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5050", "parent_id": "9865", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, Anpanman does not die if his entire head comes off. When getting a new\nhead made by Uncle Jam, his damaged head comes off before the new one is put\non. Although having no head means he is unable to fight, it doesn't kill him.\nOn top of this, I remember watching a scene where, instead of taking only part\nof his head off to feed the hungry, he takes off his whole head and survived.\nIt is not fully explained how.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-14T19:44:55.477", "id": "20833", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-14T19:44:55.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13489", "parent_id": "9877", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn a later episode with that Hollow who has those exploding slugs the\nZanpakuto can forgive the sins a soul has committed while it was a Hollow\nallowing them entry into the Soul Society, it can not forgive the sins\ncommitted before hand so murderers and the like even when killed with a\nZanpakuto are sent to the Underworld. the Quincy only seek to kill Hollows so\ntheir weapons destroy rather than absolve the sins.\n\nWhat happened with Orihime's brother is apparently an \"Exorcism\" as Rukia\nimplies there is a difference when Ichigo is about to stop Orihime's brother,\ni think what she said is on the lines of\n\n> There's is a difference between killing a Hollow and exorcising one\n\ni've haven't see the entire series or read further in the manga but from the\nlooks of it it's the difference between a Soul Reaper forcing a soul to be\npurified and forcing the soul to understand what they have done as a hollow\nover the soul regaining themselves and learning of the sins they have\ncommitted, coming to terms with it seeking purification with their own hands,\nie. taking responsibility for their own actions\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-23T06:04:11.480", "id": "9889", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-23T06:04:11.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "9886", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe song title is \"Call Your Name\" (track #15) with vocals by mpi & CASG.\n\nYou can buy [the Audio CD at\nAmazon](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00CAL4LEI) and it has the\nfull OST of _Attack on Titan_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-23T06:39:28.930", "id": "9890", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-20T13:43:00.167", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-20T13:43:00.167", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "9887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA nice question. I have to get around a few topics to find a logic answer.\n\nLet's start with the explanation of the \"Liar\" statement against Toru Amuro.\nThe life Amuro is living and showing to all people around him is just a lie /\nfake. He claims to be a detective like Kogoro in the first episode he appears.\nAnd after the case is solved, he wants to be his apprentice to stay close to\nhim, for \"learning from the Great Kogoro\". But after we know he is Bourbon,\nthe whole perspective changed. What does he want? Why is he with the main\ncharacters? What exactly is his plan? Soon it is revealed: he wants to prove\nthat Shuichi Akai is alive and he and Kir faked his death. This makes him a\nfearful enemy: he is close to the main characters, he has the possibility to\nfind out the truth, yet, Toru Amuro is not who we think he is - he's a pretty\ngood liar.\n\nAkai explains it in the current chapter: Toru Amuro is actually Rei Furuya, an\nundercover cop! He is also infiltrating the Organization, like Akai used to /\nlike Kir is at the moment. The theory that Bourbon is our enemy is complete\nnonsense - he is on our side, even though he hates Akai for some reasons.\n\nHe even lies to Vermouth at the end: he claims that he was wrong; that Akai is\nin fact dead and Kir is loyal to the Organization. This lie shows us the real\nside of Amuro - he's a friend.\n\nFor me, the situation you are confused by is a simple message to each other:\nConan knows about the real Amuro, the real person behind his role. But Amuro\nin return has his own reasons to question Conan. The Sleeping Kogoro is one\npoint Amuro questions and believes Conan to be behind it -> there is this one\nscene where he phones with Vermouth and says that he wants to stay with Kogoro\nbecause he wants to solve the mystery behind the Sleeping Kogoro.\n\nMy conclusion: Conan and Amuro know the lies of each other. And with that\nscene (\"Liar\" - \"You're one to talk...\") they admit that they know each others\nsecret.\n\nMy fingers hurt. I hope this answers your question (a bit).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-06T14:17:38.520", "id": "10132", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-06T14:17:38.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "9888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, it was implanted back to Obito, it's seen when they warp back out, Obito's\nleft eye is back to be his Mangekyo (the eye the Black Zetsu part of him has).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-23T17:28:15.777", "id": "9892", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-23T17:28:15.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "9891", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou don't have to be a Jinchuuriki to befriend a Bijuu. According to Naruto,\nhe wants to partner up with all the Bijuu, even though not all of them are\nsealed inside of him.\n\nHe can't really change his situation with Kurama since extracting Kurama from\nhim will mean the he would die, however Naruto means that Shinobi and Bijuu\ncan be allies/friends like Shinobi and other Shinobi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-23T19:00:16.967", "id": "9894", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-23T19:00:16.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "9893", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWouldn't that require all nations to be cooperative and friendly and not send\nshinobi to go after and capture the tailed beasts?\n\nIt would be possible after the Great War, but certainly wouldn't be likely\nsince people fear these beasts. (From a realistic perspective)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-23T19:02:17.983", "id": "9895", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-23T19:02:17.983", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4967", "parent_id": "9893", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat episode was . . . weird, as weird as when Nanami became a cow.\n\nAnyway, my interpretation of it was based on the fact that the episode\n\"Nanami's Egg\" falls into the Akio Ohtori Saga. This is roughly two thirds of\nthe Apocalypse Saga. The content is more sexually suggestive in this saga:\nscenes involving Akio's car seemed to always be sexually suggestive, with his,\nTouga's and Kyouichi's shirts opening partway through the ride or when posing\nfor photos, and Kozue's first sexual experience was in the back of that car\nwith Ruka Tsuchiya.\n\nBecause of this I got the impression that the episode represented Nanami\nentering puberty as we know that women to begin produce eggs during puberty.\nShe begins to fret over the discovery of an egg in her bed probably because\nshe hasn't been taught about puberty. When she accepts it and raises the egg,\nI took this as the transition of Nanami growing up from a girl to a\nwoman/mother.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-25T22:25:22.780", "id": "9920", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-09T14:35:00.747", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-09T14:35:00.747", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "9896", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNanami's egg is the sign both literally and figuratively of her becoming a\nwoman. Her egg is her period.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-26T03:20:45.160", "id": "11482", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T03:43:02.920", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-26T03:43:02.920", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6376", "parent_id": "9896", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nTouga says to Nanami, towards the end of the episode:\n\n> Do you know why we've been able to live together so happily? It's because\n> you aren't the type of girl who lays eggs. I pity the family of a girl who\n> would betray them like that.\n\nSo it can't be that the egg is _simply_ an indication of the beginning of\nNanami's menstrual cycles: there's nothing socially unacceptable per se about\ngirls having periods. Rather, Touga's comments suggest \"deviant\" behaviour.\nPresumably this is something sexual: Nanami produces an _egg_ , and Anthy\n\"wonders who the father is\", after she says that Nanami might have laid an\negg.\n\nThus, it's _possible_ that the egg takes on the meaning of an undesirable\npregnancy: Nanami feels forced to abandon it, and the egg is found shattered\none morning.\n\nHowever, the concerns Nanami picks up _before_ she talks to Touga _can_ evoke\nanxiety over puberty.\n\n * She wakes up in bed one day and notices an egg---similar to how a girl might notice her menstrual blood out of the blue. (This could perhaps be similar to the discovery of a pregnancy, but it wasn't an immediate connection for me.)\n\n * Nanami also doesn't know what is going on and is as a result scared. I'm not sure if ignorance about menstruation was common in the 1990's though.\n\n * Nanami becomes convinced that it's _normal_ for girls to produce eggs. She then worries that she'll be mocked for not laying an egg earlier. When Nanami mishears Juri's words and believes Juri has produced eggs since the age of seven, she thinks Juri is very \"mature\". This parallels the linkage of puberty to a desirable sort of maturity and anxieties about the normalcy of one's body.\n\nHowever, this could just as easily be about sex (rather than puberty). (Having\nsex can be associated with maturity; one might feel abnormal for not having\nhad any.)\n\n**I would avoid trying to impart too much meaning to the egg (since there's\nnothing that entirely fits), but we can thus at least safely say that it is\n_linked_ to sex (and being initiated into it) and _possibly_ puberty. (Note\nthat sex and puberty can be linked. For instance, one is \"mature\" not just for\nhaving a developed body, but also for having sex.)**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-09T16:06:33.073", "id": "28806", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-09T16:06:33.073", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "9896", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNanami's Egg isnt any single thing but is instead a representation of the\ndifficult nature that a growing woman experiences.\n\n**In a sense her egg is her menstruation starting.**\n\nNo one talked to her about it, so when it happened her first reaction was\npanic. \"Is there something wrong with me?\" She does not want to talk to others\nabout it because what if it isnt normal? She later does not want to talk to\nher friends about it because what if it IS normal and it was supposed to\nhappen sooner?\n\n**In a sense her egg is pregnancy**\n\nHer brother mentions they can live their life well because \"she isn't the kind\nof girl to lay an egg\" Shame on a girl who lays an egg! The scrambling of eggs\nhere can be interpreted as getting an abortion. \"If juri has eggs then...\" and\nthen the egg scrambles by men.\n\n**The egg is her virginity/sexuality** This is best illustrated by the scenes\nwhere men are provocatively eating eggs. While in some ways this can be\ninterpreted as aborting unplanned pregnancy, the method in which it is\ndepicted is also suggestive. Miki looks embarrassed by talking of eggs\nearlier, and these could indicate that that its the loss of virginity.\n\n**The Egg is Masturbation**\n\nShe runs into Saionji out in the woods \"making his eggs\" because it was such a\nnice night. Wile Juri is talking about bowling balls, she talks about how fun\nit is and how she has tons of different weights and sizes at home.\n\n**Ultimately the Egg represents Taboo Topics and how it feels to be a woman**\n\nCombining the above concepts and imagry along with the scene in the woods\nwhere she finds her egg and its massive with spotlights, it indicates that the\negg can mean a lot of things and that when you are young and dont understand\nwhats happening, these feel like huge problems looming over you. Its a massive\negg everyone can see.\n\n**Finally the egg that is broken is her loss of innocence**\n\nWhich is a common theme rolled in with things like this. The understanding\nthat life is complicated and there are these struggles against society that\nmaybe shouldn't even be there is impactful. This broken egg is her coming to\nterms with this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-10-08T17:33:07.103", "id": "65706", "last_activity_date": "2021-10-08T17:33:07.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "62759", "parent_id": "9896", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn simple terms, libido is another word used to describe life force, or orgone\nenergy. You can think of it like mana.\n\n> Orgone energy is a hypothetical universal life force originally proposed in\n> the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich. -[source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone)\n\nTo answer your second question (paraphrasing from the source article): \nLibido generates orgone energy, so:\n\nNo libido -> no orgone energy -> no life.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-24T01:41:52.827", "id": "9901", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-26T08:06:06.580", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-26T08:06:06.580", "last_editor_user_id": "2044", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "9900", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nHowever the real definition for libido is \"sexual desire\" which most anime\nrefer to when mentioning the term. So yes lust, so the anime is probably\nreferencing sexual desire or libido as power for their machines.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T09:13:07.497", "id": "10015", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T09:13:07.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "9900", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's from [20th Century\nboys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Boys), a manga series by Naoki\nUrasawa (who also created \"Monster\"). And the man in the picture is referred\nto as \"Friend\".\n\n\n\nThough the symbol originated from:\n\n> comic books that the children read when they were kids that indicated a page\n> turn.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-24T20:10:58.433", "id": "9904", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-24T20:16:07.507", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-24T20:16:07.507", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "9903", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nStudio SHAFT has almost a custom of changing openings even after they first\naired. For example currently airing Mekakucity Actors have slightly different\nopenings for their first 3 episodes, usually changing text fonts or scenes\nslightly. The reason for this is simply lack of time management, where they\ndon't put much time to \"quality check\" the opening with director and they keep\nchanging it until they like it.\n\nThat is probably case with Nadeko's OP. Someone of power simply didn't like\nthe version with hat, so they remove it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-25T20:46:53.897", "id": "9917", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-25T20:46:53.897", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "9905", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAs every character in the Monogatari series holds a metaphorical reference to\nthe oddity he/she meets, the opening shows Nadeko's evolution.\n\n**Senjougahara** has a **stapler representing a crab's claw** as we see in\nfirst episode.\n\n**Mayoi** carries **her bag as a snail shell,** and her shadow itself becomes\na snail - her symbol when she sticks to Koyomi as they walk with Senjougahara\nin episode 5 of Bakemonogatari.\n\n**Kanbaru** carries **her own arm as the representation of the Rainy Devil,**\nmistaken for a monkey's paw within the arc.\n\n**Hanekawa** **has her ears turning into that of a cat** , approaching her own\nsymbol.\n\n**Nadeko has her jacket and hat** , representing a **snake's second skin.** As\nshe seems to be shedding her skin (becoming a totally opposite character in\nthe second season, thus explaining the change of her outfit), the\ndisappearance of those in the OP scene of her season one arc shows she's been\nreleased from the snake's bindings. As the OP is highly subjective and reveals\nher inner thoughts, it might mean that she feels safe whenever she reaches\nKoyomi to ask for help (at the end of the first episode of the arc), revealing\nhow deeply she trusts him.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-01T21:16:45.183", "id": "13776", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-02T05:53:11.053", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-02T05:53:11.053", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8217", "parent_id": "9905", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's a few reasons it couldn't be a cause for suspicion: \nThe bracelet isn't a handcuff, there's no reason to expect it not to get\ndamaged as a person flails around while getting incinerated especially while\nthe bracelet is more flexible due to high temperatures. Note that Mustang\n(episode 18) effortlessly cuts an entire chain link in half with a wire\nsniper. This reinforces the notion that the bracelet isn't that strong. It\nalso tells us that the chain was intentionally prepared. When you cut a single\nchain link in half, the two halves fall off, leaving complete circles on\neither end. Look at the picture you posted. The loose end appears to be pried\nopen instead of cut. Mustang would have had to do that on purpose, meaning\nthat Mustang made a conscious effort to make it less suspicious, which is\nconsistent with him separately incinerating the bracelet before wrapping it\naround the arm.\n\nFurthermore there is no initial cause for suspicion. Like any good trick its\nmost successful when no one knows it happened. The body is accounted for, the\ndental records match, the bracelets there, and the lone witness collaborates\nit. No one starts with an unidentifiable body, a form of identification, and a\nDNA match and assumes that its an elaborate conspiracy involving the coroner.\nEven if a few other details at the crime scene are highly suspicious, no one\nquestions the identity of the corpse.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-30T03:03:04.823", "id": "13737", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-30T03:03:04.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8192", "parent_id": "9907", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFound it! It's track #10 on cinema staff's latest album,\n[Drums,Bass,2(to)Guitars](http://www.amazon.co.jp/Drums-\nBass-2-Guitars-%E9%80%9A%E5%B8%B8%E7%9B%A4/dp/B00I4FM6HI) (released 2 Apr\n2014). I haven't listened to it myself (the sample is too short to be able to\ntell the difference between the regular version and the ep25 version), but\naccording to the product description, this is what you're looking for:\n\n> 「great escape」はTVアニメ「進撃の巨人」の最終回のみで使用された特別バージョンで収録。\n>\n> This album includes the special version of \"great escape\" that was used only\n> in the last episode of the TV anime \"Shingeki no Kyojin\".\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-27T09:44:56.020", "id": "9938", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-27T09:44:56.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9912", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBoth Kenbunshoku and Haoshoku are not visible at all, since, well it was not\nmade as something that is visually needed to the reader, since they're\nbasically perception and sheer will power respectively.\n\nBusoshoku, however, can be seen both by the user and others alike, though not\nall the time, since it acts like an \"invisible armor\" or coating, in a sense.\nAt that point, it is not seen, which could be demonstrated by someone like\nZoro, for example. But, when in is concentrated heavily on certain areas of\nthe users body (i/e: Luffy or Vergo) or to a weapon of theirs (i/e: Vergo or\nSmoker), it hardens said part (or extension of the users body) and turns it\nblack, making it \"denser\".\n\n(As for Vergo's extension for to his bamboo: Chapter 672, page 4 Smoker:\nChapter 690, page 8.\n\nFor a use of Buso, without demonstrating it physically: Chapter 512, page 12,\namong many others. Zoro vs Monet for instance.)\n\nHope this helps.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-26T06:44:50.263", "id": "9925", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-27T01:05:23.437", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-27T01:05:23.437", "last_editor_user_id": "5017", "owner_user_id": "5017", "parent_id": "9922", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAny type of Haki is not visible. There is just a time when a user of Busoshoku\nchanges the color of their body/weapon just to show that they are using\nsomething. It is just an indicator that it is not an ordinary punch or kick.\n\nIt's just my idea because Haki is the will of someone or his/her eagerness to\nhit a devil fruit user. It's like you really want to hit a smoke man (like\nSmoker), and because you focus and set in your mind that you really want to\nhit him, it became possible, and it will be more possible because of training.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-03T14:01:04.687", "id": "10086", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-07T01:55:43.100", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-07T01:55:43.100", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "5104", "parent_id": "9922", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs stated in [One Piece Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki), Haki are\ninvisible. As stated in **Anime and Manga Differences** , Haki are made\nvisible so that viewers can understand that Haki is being used.\n\n * In the manga, those hit with Haoshoku Haki foam at the mouth after or while losing consciousness, whereas in the anime, they simply faint.\n * In the anime, the use of Haoshoku and Busoshoku Haki creates a rippling or shockwave-like effect, similar to the [Gura Gura no Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gura_Gura_no_Mi), while in the manga, it is completely invisible. Also, in recent episodes, the use of Haoshoku Haki causes the affected area, excluding the user, to gain a dark blue tint. However, this could just be for dramatic effect. In the [One Piece Film: Z](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece_Film:_Z), the Haoshoku Haki's use creates a circular purple wave.\n * In the last anime episode before the time-skip, the use of Busoshoku Haki as \"invisible armor\" was shown as a swift percussion forming a light-blue beam, similar to lightning, while in the manga, it is shown simply as an amplified impact, nothing else visible is shown.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-06T10:11:10.600", "id": "13277", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-07T01:57:21.087", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-07T01:57:21.087", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "9922", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the moment Rayleigh explained to Luffy (and to us) what Haki really is, I\nbelieve that every single time Busoshoku Haki is used, Oda draws visual cues\nfor the reader to know it has been used, but it doesn't actually change color\nin the OP universe. Mainly to prevent too much speculation from our point of\nview.\n\nThe [Busoshoku Haki wiki\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Busoshoku_Haki) in a way confirms\nthis by explaining Busoshoku Haki as an _invisible_ armor.\n\n> Busoshoku Haki allows the user to create a force similar to an **invisible\n> armor** around themselves.\n\nTherefore I believe that when Busoshoku Haki is used, the object does not\nreally change colors in the OP world. Not much real proof could be found to\nthe visual changes of Busoshoku Haki except for maybe the fight between Zoro\nand Monet. When Zoro slashed Monet, both Monet and Tashigi thought the slash\nwas coated in Haki, which it wasn't in the end. So to me that means that the\ncharacters can't distinguish Busoshoku Haki usage with visual cues as we can.\nThey can only distinguish it from the after-effect.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vO2MY.jpg)\n\n**Edit:** Actually after thinking about it some more, the fact that Oda didn't\ndraw Busoshoku as black before the time-skip would proof that it doesn't\nactually turn black in the One Piece universe. **If it would, wouldn't he have\ndrawn it from the beginning**? One could argue that the Koju tribe's Haki\nwasn't as powerful enough to be turned black, but I doubt someone would\ndisagree on this with _Dark King_ Rayleigh. The moment he blocked Kizaru he\nmust have needed some powerful Haki to block that kick and yet it still didn't\nturn black. Other examples can be seen during the Marineford arc with Marco,\nWhitebeard, Shanks, etc.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/srt4P.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\nContra to what I have said earlier and I'm not sure whether this would be\nconsidered canon, but I'll mention it anyway. In [Volume\n1000](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece_Volume_1000),\n[Zephyr](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zephyr) is nicknamed \"Black Arm\" for\nhis superior B. Haki usage. Nicknames are usually something you obtain within\nthe OP world as an OP character, so if you would consider Volume 1000, which\nis a free volume distributed to One Piece Film Z's attendees, canon, then the\nanswer would be that the black color is indeed visible to people in the OP\nuniverse.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5oNUF.jpg)\n\n_PS: I don't speak Japanese and I think this is the picture the wiki referred\nto, but could someone confirm what is written there?_\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-06T11:45:28.423", "id": "13278", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T09:49:48.120", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-07T09:49:48.120", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "9922", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI like to think Armament Haki is only visible when you’re using Observation\nHaki, but it’s invisible if you aren’t using Observation Haki.\n\nBut, another plausible scenario is that the New World (including Fishman\nIsland) has a certain thing about its environment that causes Armament Haki to\nbecome darker the stronger it is, which is why we couldn’t see Armament Haki\nbecome dark when being used during pre-timeskip and return to Sabody arc\nbecause Haki only gains the ability to darken once you enter Fishman Island.\n\"The stronger, the darker\" idea also explains why we only see darkened Haki\nwhen it’s a strong amount, even when it’s in the New World where Haki is\ntheoretically visible.\n\n(tl;dr - theoretically, Fishman Island and New World has an environment that\nmakes haki appear darker the stronger it is, but it stays invisible if it\nisn’t that strong or if it is used outside of the New World)\n\nPersonally, I like my first theory better.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-01-06T22:27:28.610", "id": "66179", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-07T01:53:33.567", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-07T01:53:33.567", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "64933", "parent_id": "9922", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBusoshoku is visible but not all the time ! The Koka (hardening) is visible,\nbeing a very dancer version of the normal Busoshoku (pre time skip). Not\ntalking about vergo, Luffy or any others, the proof lies in the \"Kokuto\"\nShusui and Kokuto yoru were tuned BLACK by their respective users (Ryuma and\nMihawk) with very advanced version of Busoshoku and stayed permanently Black.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-09-22T03:50:56.130", "id": "68326", "last_activity_date": "2023-09-22T03:54:43.890", "last_edit_date": "2023-09-22T03:54:43.890", "last_editor_user_id": "73476", "owner_user_id": "73476", "parent_id": "9922", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nYes. The clones have rinnegan and have same chakra as the owner (not the\nquantity here but the quality).\n\nEach one if desires can activate a susano. It seems from the manga, sharingan\ntechniques have been concluded to be weaker than what madara is using now.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T17:40:37.710", "id": "11306", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T17:40:37.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "9926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is actually unclear. The Limbo clones can apparently fly and block physical\nattacks, and they also have the same Rinnegan as the original (they are, after\nall, clones).\n\nBut we haven't seen any evidence of the clones being able to use any sort of\ntechnique aside from basic taijutsu.\n\nSince the manga is over and the databook doesn't provide any new data on this\nsubject, the final answer would be **No**. Limbo clones cannot use ninjutsu by\nthe original.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T07:21:57.970", "id": "15204", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T07:21:57.970", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "9926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nLimbo clones can attack. there was a part where sasuke dealt with limbo and\nnaruto had to deal with the original. Then naruto had to fight a limbo, he\nlooked like an idiot to kakashi and sakura at that time. Finnaly he pinned one\nof the limbo. If I'm not wrong. could not recall which chapter but it does\nproves that a limbo can use all madara techniques.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T09:10:08.237", "id": "15208", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T09:10:08.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "9926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat is [Kazumi\nSchlierenzauer](http://myanimelist.net/character/92359/Kazumi_Schlierenzauer)\nfrom [Gokukoku no\nBrynhildr](http://myanimelist.net/anime/21431/Gokukoku_no_Brynhildr). This\nshow is currently airing this season (Spring 2014).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-26T07:31:22.797", "id": "9928", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T11:01:28.293", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-20T11:01:28.293", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "9927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Nickelodeon](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=58407) by\nDouman Seiman. The latter word game you mention is probably the shiritori game\nin chapter 6, and the former story with the two guys is from chapter 7.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-26T17:18:25.960", "id": "9933", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-26T17:18:25.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "9932", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI feel there's a bit of misconception here.\n\n * **Fillers** == **Not canon**\n * **Canon** == Original material from the original author.\n\nThere are episodes in Naruto for example, (like Naruto episode 101) which are\n**canon but were not in the manga**.\n\nSo the question of whether content being filler or not has nothing to do with\nit being in one medium or another (although there's usually a correlation).\nIt's about **who made it**.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-27T15:16:29.117", "id": "9940", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-27T15:16:29.117", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "9939", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI take \"filler episodes\" to be episodes that are side-stories that actively\navoid making any significant changes to the overall story, in order to extend\nthe length of the series.\n\nThere are anime series which opted to instead finish the overall story their\nown way, rather than use what I would call filler episodes to wait for the\nmanga series to get ahead. Though this is not the canon the original author\nmade up, I would not consider these filler episodes, but rather an alternate\ncanon.\n\nTwo series I know of that have done this are Full Metal Alchemist (not\nBrotherhood), and Full Moon wo Sagashite.\n\nIt seems to me a silly definition to call anything non-canon according to the\noriginal manga author \"filler\", since most people talk about filler episodes\nin the context of those episodes that may be skipped, or are less interesting\nbecause they are obviously avoiding advancing the overall plot. Plus, the\noriginal definition of the word seems to imply to me that the fandom\ndefinition has this meaning.\n\nI might even consider an episode that is canon even in the original manga to\nbe filler, if it seems that it's being used to extend the length of the series\nwithout really accomplishing anything meaningful.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-23T16:47:11.370", "id": "14138", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-23T16:53:11.787", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-23T16:53:11.787", "last_editor_user_id": "3734", "owner_user_id": "3734", "parent_id": "9939", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe town falling apart isn't 'symbolic' of anything. The story premise was\nthat since she was brought into the Haze artificially she got looped in with\nHibiya and Hiyori's Haze the same way Haruka/Konoha did. Hence the line from\nthe song \"Rioting people, a sobbing girl…\" which is accompanied by the image\nof the classic blue and pink spots that normally represent Hibiya and Hiyori.\n\nThe town falling apart was the end of the loop she had entered during and\nbecause she was artificially stuck into their loop she wasn't going to enter\nthe second loop in the same manner of repetition that Hibiya would. It is\nstated in the song Kagerou Days \"With that, like a cricket’s sound being\ndisturbed, the light blue of summer darkened away…\" Hibiya basically just\npasses out and wakes up with the previous day repeating.\n\nBecause Hibiya followed the standards of normally entering the Haze, the loop\nwas customized to him. Takane/Ene would have to go through the day and upon\nthe town falling apart she would wake up the next day in the same situation in\nthe same spot as the day before to continue the loop. The crumbling town was\nthe destruction of that specific loop that would carry into the next loop upon\nrebuilding the area from the beginning.\n\nThe reason that this wasn't repetitively shown is that she exited the Haze\nbefore the loop completely ended, and through which she entered the computer\nand then the story continues into Ene's Cyber Journey (Ene no Dennou Kikou).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-10T19:45:42.013", "id": "31325", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-14T02:21:06.667", "last_edit_date": "2016-09-14T02:21:06.667", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "23363", "parent_id": "9942", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAltough the series stays pretty loyal to the story as told in the manga, there\nare a few exceptions. But these don't influence the story that much. One of\nthe biggest factors affecting this is that a lot of the story in the manga got\ncut out.\n\n> We Initial D fans love those little details. It's a shame they had to cut\n> out so much in order to fit one race in each episode. Watching Fifth Stage\n> almost feels like watching an extended version of Battle Stage... And for\n> that reason, it's strongly recommended to read the manga after watching the\n> anime. That way, you don't miss all the details from the original storyline.\n> - [ID fan forum](http://idforums.net/index.php?showtopic=45168)\n\nAs to where to how much it covers, Fifth Stage episode 4 ends at Chapter 499.\n(I stopped reading at chapter 501, so I ain't too sure how far the rest of\nthis season covers.) I do know that the new season Initial D final stage will\ncover the left-over chapters, making this series fully covered by the anime.\n\nWith this said, there is a ton of manga-exclusive content: like I said, a lot\nhas been cut-out in the anime. There is also some unique anime content\n(fillers) in the series. A few I remember would be Initial D Episode's 13, 22,\nand 23.\n\nThere might be some more but I couldn't find a source to confirm this.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T11:08:03.613", "id": "9957", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-28T18:32:58.180", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-28T18:32:58.180", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "9948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the manga that was translated by Tokyo Pop, Itsuki did not crash by Shingo\nbut after Takumi drove Iketani's S13 Shingo challenge Takumi to a Gum tape\ndeath match all at the same night in the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-06T02:30:00.040", "id": "46898", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-06T02:30:00.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "40489", "parent_id": "9948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe character is unnamed and it really doesn't matter too.\n\nThe Fourth Mizukage's dream is to get married, and that's exactly what she got\nin her infinite dream.\n\nShe didn't really seem to have a preference of who to marry, but just **to**\nmarry.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T11:07:25.087", "id": "9956", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-28T11:07:25.087", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "9951", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is still no answer for this, we just know that for an 'abnormality' of\nhis body (Marco refers to this during Marineford). He can eat more than 1\nfruit (even if I think that 2 is the limit). We still don't know if he can\nchange or \"absorb\" other fruits.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T14:22:26.257", "id": "9961", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-19T15:26:15.127", "last_edit_date": "2021-07-19T15:26:15.127", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "5036", "parent_id": "9953", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom\n[Mythbusters](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mythbusters/Misunderstandings_and_Mistranslations#Eating_two_Devil_Fruits)\narticle on One Piece Wiki:\n\n> ## Eating two Devil Fruits Edit\n>\n> **Myth:** When you eat 2 Devil Fruits, the second fruit will replace the\n> first fruit's power.\n>\n> **Fact:** Eiichiro Oda stated in one of his SBS that you cannot transfer the\n> fruit's power to another person, if you take one bite of it the fruit\n> becomes normal. This caused fans to think he meant if you eat the second\n> Devil Fruit it will replace the first fruit but in Enies Lobby Arc, Lucci\n> and Blueno said if you eat the second fruit after eating the first one, your\n> body will explode and you will die.\n>\n> **Fact:** An exception to the rule stated above is Marshall D. Teach, user\n> of the Yami Yami no Mi fruit, who stole the power of the Gura Gura no Mi\n> fruit through some currently unknown means not related to eating it.\n\nSo it seems that normally no human being can eat 2 Devil Fruits. Until now,\nBlackbeard is the only one with this ability, though I don't know how. Maybe\nit's related to the \"D.\" in his name.\n\nLooking forward to see more!\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T14:39:40.380", "id": "9962", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-03T06:16:12.637", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "4957", "parent_id": "9953", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI think he used the same technique that Dr. Vegapunk used to create (Lasso and\nFrankfurt). He must have placed the fruit in his rings somehow to be able to\nuse 2 devil fruits. With that being said, Blackbeard technically only has one\ndevil fruit in his body, and he places the other one in his rings on his\nhands.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-05T23:00:49.660", "id": "19838", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-19T15:26:11.117", "last_edit_date": "2021-07-19T15:26:11.117", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "13081", "parent_id": "9953", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Blackbeard can absorb power like it shows when he fights Ace and\nLuffy. When he absorbs the power when the person dies, he can use their\nability. But at Dressrosa, when the person dies, it tells that the devil fruit\ncomes back into the world after the user dies because that's how Sabo obtains\nAce's devil fruit.\n\nBut I think Blackbeard's power can remove the user's devil fruit permanently\nfrom their body because darkness consumes everything as he says.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-26T00:15:08.793", "id": "37514", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-19T15:26:13.600", "last_edit_date": "2021-07-19T15:26:13.600", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "29450", "parent_id": "9953", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBased on what I read from other forums, I think Blackbeard have multiple\npersonality that is the reason he's able to get 2 DF without problems. And he\nmight get another one or already have based on his 3 skull flag.\n\nChapter 225:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/egKeo.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-07-22T19:49:50.220", "id": "64262", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-22T19:49:50.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61631", "parent_id": "9953", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm no expert, but sometimes a member of a gay couple can be called a\n[Bear](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_%28gay_culture%29). This man is\nusually rugged and macho, and usually hairy.\n\nWikipedia describes a **Teddy** Bear as:\n\n> A fully hairy Bear. Chest, back, beard, everything is hairy\n\nSo perhaps this is a reference to that, seeing as you mention it occurs\nsignificantly often in yaoi?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T21:18:33.493", "id": "9980", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-28T21:18:33.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9954", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWell I was surprised that my question didn't really get that much interest\nreally, but I think I may know why bears appear in Yaoi's and quite\nfrequently. I think this is in relation to [gay\nculture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_%28gay_culture%29).....\n\n> In male bisexual and gay culture, a _Bear_ is a **large, hairy man who\n> projects an image of rugged masculinity. Bears are one of many LGBT\n> communities** with events, codes, and a culture-specific identity.\n\nIt obviously does not mean an actual bear, but in Yaoi's I think it showcases\nor quite frequently shows/depicts bears as to relate to (well obviously)\nhomosexuals or gays and the definition for yaoi is....\n\n> Yaoi, also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese genre of fictional media\n> **focusing on homoerotic romantic or sexual relationships between male\n> characters**\n\nAlso see\n[here](https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130911103627AAVwei7).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-07T04:32:15.170", "id": "10138", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-07T04:32:15.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "9954", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt may be because the mangaka, Nakamura Shungiku, likes to show link between\nher two works, Junjou Romantica and Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi. In Junjou Romantica,\nbears have debuted the work as \"Suzuki-san\" and hence maybe she likes to show\nlinks using the bear and bunny mascots\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-17T16:36:50.363", "id": "22520", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-17T16:36:50.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15125", "parent_id": "9954", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is called [Uchimizu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchimizu).\n\nPeople do this to cool the street and as an effect - cools the surrounding\narea and reduces the amount of dust that flies around.\n\nIn recent times there has been a push for people to use recycled water instead\nto reduce waste.\n\nThe ladle and bucket are traditional, and can be replaced by hoses, buckets or\nany handy implement. Ladles and buckets are used exclusively at Uchimizu\nfestivals though.\n\n[Uchimizu.jp](http://www.uchimizu.jp/language/en/) provides a handy how-to\nguide for the activity:\n\n     \n\n[Further reading :) ](http://www.axiommagazine.jp/2012/06/25/keeping-\ncool-101-uchimizu/)\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T20:08:31.493", "id": "9978", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-28T20:08:31.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9958", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Rosé's surname is mentioned in the 2004 FMA game Fullmetal Alchemist: Stray\nRondo released by Bandai.**\n\nThis is clear from [_this video_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOvJrACETd4)\nwhere the aforementioned game is played on an emulator.\n\nIf you go to 2:49 you can see Rosé introducing herself to the Elric brothers\nas: Roze Tōmasu (in Japanese writing, katakana is used for writing non-\nJapanese names, ロゼ・トーマス) which is then adapted to English as Rosé (not like\nthe flower rose) Thomas.\n\nThis surname appears neither in the manga nor in the anime. It is common\nhowever for wikis to adopt such information from officially released games.\n\nHere is the aforementioned screenshot: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/66oOF.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T12:51:35.600", "id": "11338", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-01T12:42:55.610", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-01T12:42:55.610", "last_editor_user_id": "6253", "owner_user_id": "6253", "parent_id": "9959", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is presumably track #10 on the album [Sengoku BASARA Ongaku Emaki ~Ao-ban\n- It's Show Time!~](http://vgmdb.net/album/16709) (VTCL-60117). The title of\nthe piece is \"[Suikou ni Utsuru Juumu] featuring Katakura Kojuurou\".\n\nYou can listen to a sample at [its Amazon Japan\npage](http://www.amazon.co.jp/TV%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%80%8C%E6%88%A6%E5%9B%BDBASARA%E3%80%8D%E9%9F%B3%E6%A5%BD%E7%B5%B5%E5%B7%BB~%E8%92%BC%E7%9B%A4-It%E2%80%99s-Show-\nTime-~/dp/B001XXJFGS/) (or [the full version on\nYoutube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXuYu6SVPew), but this may disappear\nat any time).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T15:32:30.423", "id": "9967", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-28T15:32:30.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9966", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, _to_ (と) is a Japanese particle that functions like English \"and\". If,\nfor example, you wanted to say \"Yotsuba & Tanaka\", that would be _Yotsuba-to\nTanaka_ (よつばと田中).\n\nSo I suppose it makes sense that one might choose to write _Yotsuba-to!_ as\n\"Yotsuba&!\".\n\n* * *\n\nAs for _why_ the title is \"Yotsuba&!\" / _Yotsubato_ in the first place - I\nsuppose it's related to the fact that all the chapter titles are of the form\n\"Yotsuba & [something]\", e.g. \"Yotsuba & the Elephant\" (#19) and \"Yotsuba &\nCoffee\" (#58).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-28T19:42:15.430", "id": "9973", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-28T19:54:07.727", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-28T19:54:07.727", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "9972", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]