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[ { "body": "\n\nAfter Kaiyodo began selling Danbo models, a photographer named Arielle Nasal\nbegan taking photos of them every day for a year\n\n[See her account\nhere](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bunnyrel/sets/72157615647396658/)\n\nThese photos were eventually compiled into a book \"365 Days of Danboard\"\n\n\n\nThis piece is the source of many danbo scenic photographs, and the inspiration\nfor others\n\nAfter this, there were many Danbo photographs being taken. Many Facebook,\nTumble and Flicker pages set up with Danbo photos as their focus. Most notable\nof these is the [Danbo Love Flickr group](https://www.flickr.com/groups/danbo-\nlove/) who have amassed a staggering 35,000 photos of Danbo\n\nThere are 4 different models of Danbo available at time of writing - Original,\nAmazon.JP branded, 7/11 Branded, Miniature\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-02T08:20:39.770", "id": "10072", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-02T08:20:39.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "9977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo combine them all to be one timeline like the one you shared... I'm not\nsure, because many cameo appearances indicate they're in the same timeline,\nand Clamp has many titles... So, for Clamp timeline, I suggest see this\n[Wikipedia: List of Clamp\nWorks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Clamp_works). Use the list of\nCompleted Works, read just like how it's ordered there, but:\n\n * put Kobato before Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, because there's Kobato characters appear in TRC.\n * put Gohou Drug between Suki, Dakara Suki and Chobits, because Hina of Suki, Dakara Suki make appearance as cameo in Gohou Drug\n * put X between Clamp School Detectives and Duklyon, because, when the main characters in Duklyon watch a movie in cinema, the movie they watch is... X.\n * exclude Clamp no Kiseki (not a manga), Watashi no Suki na Hito (more of an essay), and Shirahime-Syo (manga, but so far it has no relation at all with other series). \n * nah, for whether to XXXHolic or TRC first... it's very hard because they had parallel storyline. You could see [this thread in MAL](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=284589) discuss which one comes first, but actually as far as I know, they're parallel.\n\nDeeper:\n\nSome that I know from reading the manga itself or from source in the bottom,\nbut the problem is that I have bad memory, so I can't give the exact chapter.\n\nx -> y: y comes after x \nx <-> y: parallel (same timeline)\n\nCardcaptor Sakura -> XXXHolic <-> Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle\n\n> Just a you've said, XXXHolic's characters make appearance in TRC, vice\n> versa, but judging from the plot, they're parallel. Why Cardcaptor Sakura\n> first, because it tells Sakura and Syaoran's childhood, while in TRC they\n> were married.\n\nAngelic Layer -> Chobits\n\n> The inventor of Chobits and Angelic Layer is the same, Icchan. Chitose is\n> his wife. Why Angelic Layer first, because in Angelic Layer Icchan lived and\n> he has died at Chobits.\n\nTokyo Babylon, Clamp Detective School -> X\n\n> Sumeragi and Sakurazuka clan is involved with the end of the world in X. Why\n> Tokyo Babylon first, because it could be said that Tokyo Babylon is the\n> story of Subaru, Hokuto, and Sakurazukamori when they're younger, and\n> Hokuto's still alive, since in X she has died. Nokoru, Suou, and Akira made\n> appearance in X as cameo, and they're adult there.\n\n20 Mensou ni Onegai!! <-> Clamp School Detectives <-> Duklyon: Clamp School\nDefenders\n\n> All in the same timeline and set in the same background, Clamp School.\n> Nokoru appears in Duklyon as their commanders (well actually someone with\n> blackglass, but that hair, appearance, position, and personality is\n> undeniably Nokoru), Akira and Utako is the main character of 20 Mensou, and\n> those Duklyon defenders made cameo appearance in Clamp School Detectives.\n\nMany Clamp's work except CCS and XXXHolic -> Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle\n\nMany of Clamp's chara appear in TRC, but they appears as their parallel\ncounterpart, thus have nothing to do with the original story, and even if you\nhaven't read it, it's fine.\n\nSource: \nTRC Wikia: [The list of other series appearance in\nTRC](http://tsubasa.wikia.com/wiki/Crossover_Universe) \nY!A: [Clamp manga set in the same\nuniverse](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110605100900AAQm3ji)\n\nCMMIW. To tell the truth, I just shared what I know.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T03:42:20.713", "id": "9986", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-29T03:42:20.713", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "9984", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nActually this technique that Sanji uses is called **Sky Walk** it doe not use\nany haki, he just learned it by training while running everyday increasing his\nspeed making him run in the air.\n\n[Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Leg_Style) states:\n\n> This is the aerial version of Blue Walk. Sanji kicks the air to jump higher,\n> giving the appearance of flight. **Sanji created this technique during his\n> ordeal in \"hell\" to escape from the okamas**. It was first seen used to\n> escape after being surrounded by the Sea Urchin-Armor Spine Squad, making\n> them hurt themselves. (Vol. 64 Chapter 635 and Episode 555)\n\nAs you can see he developed and learned this technique because of his ordeal\nduring the time skip while training in **Kamabakka Kingdom**. giving him\nimmense speed.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T06:40:56.207", "id": "9989", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-05T09:41:33.900", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-05T09:41:33.900", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2679", "parent_id": "9987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThey are using one of the **Rokushiki** techniques.\n\n> Rokushiki is a special, superhuman martial arts style. In the Viz Manga and\n> FUNimation dub, they are called the Six Powers\n>\n> _\\-- One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 37 Chapter 347 (p. 9) and Episode 245,\n> Rob Lucci explains the Rokushiki._\n\nThe one they are using is called **Geppo**\n\n> The Geppo allows the users to actually jump off the air itself, allowing\n> them to stay in the air for much longer than usual. CP9 members can use this\n> technique to cross great distances without ever touching the ground, or set\n> themselves up for swift, aerial attacks.\n>\n> \\-- _One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 36 Chapter 343 (p. 5-6) and Episode\n> 242, Geppo is first used by disguised Kalifa._\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T06:41:47.223", "id": "9990", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-29T06:41:47.223", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2842", "parent_id": "9987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs far as I remember, nothing has ever mention about how can Sanji and CP9 do\nthis technique, but it's not haki. None of CP9 members are haki user.\n\nOne possible way to do this is they running so fast until they reaching\nconsiderable speed that they can put a step mid air, it first happen to Sanji\nwhen he was trying to run away from okama every day while training in\nKamabakka Kingdom that he reach at a speed when he can do the \"Sky Walk\".\n\nOne other theory is it has the same principal with \"Soru\". This is one of the\nsix techniques of \"Rokushiki\" that allows the users to move at extremely high\nspeeds so people can't see with normal eye. It was revealed that the principle\nof this move was to kick off the ground at least ten times in the blink of an\neye.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T06:41:55.067", "id": "9991", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-29T06:41:55.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "9987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe technique was actually explained when luffy said he saw the kicking the\nair ten times at immense speed to compress the air under their feet and make\nit as hard as the ground\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-28T21:37:08.160", "id": "36067", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-28T21:37:08.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28000", "parent_id": "9987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo control nine tails, First hokage's wood style justsu or powerful sharingan\nwill need. Madara has Magekyo sharingan and First hokage's cell, so he\nabsoulutely can control nine tails and also Obito.Even nine tails can be\ncontrolled, another tails beasts'll be easy to control.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T07:59:28.530", "id": "9992", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-29T07:59:28.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4978", "parent_id": "9988", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n**Sharingan has the ability for Hypnotism**. From [naruto\nwikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan#Abilities) site\n\n> More advanced Sharingan users can take the hypnosis ability even further to\n> the point where a powerful summon like Manda or even a tailed beast may be\n> controlled. It has been stated by Madara Uchiha that the beasts were slaves\n> to those with the blessed eyes.\n\nSo using this ability both Madara and Obito controlled Kurama.\n\nAs for as the summoning concerned... (This my speculation only and I don't\nhave any source to backup)\n\nThe tailed beasts are not living things and they are almost mere tools. They\ndon't need blood contract to be summoned.\n\n> Kurama was summoned in the same way Ten Ten summoning her ninja tools. When\n> she first tried summoning she didn't made any contracts but she summoned\n> some tools. So the same way Kurama was summoned by Madara and he thought the\n> trick to Obito too. But only catch is it needs a lot of chakra to bring out\n> the beast.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-02T05:16:46.437", "id": "10070", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-06T05:59:23.320", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-06T05:59:23.320", "last_editor_user_id": "4163", "owner_user_id": "4163", "parent_id": "9988", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSharingan give the ability to control the others with their eyes. That how\nmadara and obito controls the nine tails. Coming to first hokage he developed\na wodden style jutsu to control tailed beasts. That jutsu draws tailed beast\nenergy and emerges as a forest leaving tailed beast without chakra to fight.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-03T02:31:07.717", "id": "10080", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-03T02:31:07.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4931", "parent_id": "9988", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nOkay, in order to understand the answer, you need to understand the links\nbetween the Tailed Beasts, the Uchihas and the Senjus.\n\nThe Sage of Six Paths was powerful enough to subdue the Ten-Tails, store it\nwithin himself and even split it into the nine Tailed Beasts. His two sons,\nIndra (whose descendants formed the Uchiha clan) and Asura (whose descendants\nformed the Senju clan), inherited his powerful chakra and also his power to\ncontrol the Tailed Beasts.\n\nTherefore, members of these clans who had evolved to a certain upper level\nlike the Mangekyo Sharingan (Madara and Obito) and the Sage Mode (Hashirama\nSenju with his wooden dragon) also inherited the Tailed-Beast-controlling\nabilities which originally belonged to the Sage of Six Paths Hagoromo and was\nlater passed on to his descendants.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-03T19:56:34.473", "id": "10091", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-09T12:02:37.633", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-09T12:02:37.633", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1876", "parent_id": "9988", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSharingan user can cast a genjustu or protect against one. This has been said\nsince chapter 003 (First Team 7 mission against Zabusa).\n\nThere are no limits on whether it is people or bijuu. In no chapter, the\nlimits are stated so why assume there are limits. Limits depend on user's\nproficiency of sharingan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T17:37:44.067", "id": "11305", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T17:37:44.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "9988", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Sharingan specifically the mangekyo has the ability to put any being into\ngenjustsu, that includes even tailed beasts, as it is inherited from the sage\nof six paths,the one who created them. As for obito he even had hashirama’s\ncells so a genjutsu to control even the quibe wasn’t an issue. The summoning\ncontract is more or less to transport kurama and is not something that\nrequires a formal contract like with toads,it is like shinobi summoning tools\nfrom scrolls,like ten ten.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-04-15T19:49:51.230", "id": "57287", "last_activity_date": "2020-04-15T19:49:51.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "52803", "parent_id": "9988", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTai is the japanese name for the sea bream, a fish known for its taste. A lot\nof anime characters add suffixes to their sentences, to give the character a\nlittle uniqueness, like Naruto's -ttebayo. So, since Uosuke really likes fish,\nhe suffixes -tai to his sentences.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-31T12:41:50.873", "id": "10042", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-31T12:41:50.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4085", "parent_id": "9994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Cydonia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_%28region_of_Mars%29) is\nactually a region on Mars - the name derives from here and is not actually\nmade up. Sidonia seems to be an alternative spelling for this.\n\nAs for the \"knights\" bit, the region is best known for the face-shaped\nlandmarks that were discovered by the Viking Orbitors, It is very likely the\n\"Knights\" refer to these faces, which strike a resemblance to tapestry and\nstained glass depictions of medieval knights:\n\n\n\n\n\n> Some commentators, most notably Richard C. Hoagland, believe the \"Face on\n> Mars\" to be evidence of a long-lost Martian civilization along with other\n> features they believe are present, such as apparent pyramids, which they\n> argue are part of a ruined city.\n\nThe region has been featured in more than these two mediums and in fact has\ninspired episodes of the X-Files, Final Fantasy IV, Invader Zim and more.\n\nThere doesn't appear to be a connection to the two works apart from the names,\nwhich may have differing spelling to avoid lawyer conflicts, for search engine\n& catalogue uniqueness, because of mistranslation, or a variety of other\nreasons.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T19:49:36.113", "id": "10004", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-15T22:31:15.833", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-15T22:31:15.833", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "10003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nOne thing to consider is that the original Japanese title is \"Sidonia no\nKishi\" (シドニアの騎士), which doesn't suggest a connection so clearly.\n\nNihei's past series have had English titles (Blame!, BioMega), so I think if\nhe wanted to reference the song he'd use English for the original title. I\nthink it's just a coincidence that it's so similar to the song's name, once\ntranslated into English.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-12T16:49:47.593", "id": "20001", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-12T16:49:47.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13201", "parent_id": "10003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile I do not believe that the reference to the Muse song is apparent, as a\nformer poster had already stated, it is very likely that the name for the\nseries is a reference to the sector of Mars rather than the ancient Cretan\ncity-state by which the sector was named after. Due to the transliteration of\nCydonia in Japanese as シドンイア and then transliterating it back into English as\n\"Sidonia,\" the apparent similarities become lost.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-04T21:08:56.290", "id": "26404", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-04T21:08:56.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18332", "parent_id": "10003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHer name is [Izumi Curtis](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Izumi_Curtis). I'm not\nsure which episode (or chapter) this was first revealed in.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T21:50:49.557", "id": "10009", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-29T21:50:49.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "10008", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's not too much information on C's World (World of C) or the imagery used\nin connection to it. It hasn't been officially explained so until a new canon\nCode Geass series is released (R3, a canon prequel like Jet Black Renya) the\nonly information we have will come from the series and interpretations on what\nisn't fully explained.\n\nWhat information there is all seems to point to how C's world is the\n\"collective human unconsciousness\" which is the source of the individual\nidentities for all humans. Charles plan was to kill this so that everyone\nbecame a single identity (thus removing one of the main reason wars start) by\nusing the Sword of Akasha, a temple-like structure which Charles refereed to\nas a \"weapon\" which was built by someone else as Britannia (particular\nCharles) only found it.\n\nC's world is connected to both the living and the dead as when C.C shoots Mao\nshe says\n\n> I'll see you again in C's World\n\nNow we know that C.C's wish\n\n> was to be free of her immortality to be allowed to die\n\nSo her line assumes that when her wish is granted she would see Mao.\n\nThere's a Theory that C's World may be one of Jupiter's Moons or Jupiter\nitself as when the characters are at the Sword of Akasha and in the visions\nLelouch sees we keep seeing Jupiter. However we can only assume that this\nplanet is Jupiter because it looks like it. It should be noted that the times\nwe see C's world is when the Sword of Akasha comes into play.\n\nC's World also seems to be deeply connected to Geass as entry to it could only\nbe done by/with the help of someone with Geass (Contractee or Code Bearer) as\nSuzaku is only brought to the sword by Charles or C.C. When Lelouch receives\nhis Contract for C.C we keep seeing the same imagery involving Jupiter, the\nSword of Akasha, and the Geass People.\n\n> Also, what was the guarantee that it would succeed?\n\nIt's implied that the collective human unconsciousness wanted Charles to\nsucceed because it would have ended war since not once did it try and stop\nCharles or V.V but Lelouch influenced this to continue the march of time\nindicating the world would be stagnate and trapped in the past.\n\nMy own theory is that the Code made Charles untouchable as to activate\nRagnarok originally required 2 Codes. (However after Lelouch saves C.C before\nRagnarok is activated Charles is still able to activate it). Whoever built the\nSword first probably knew that what happened to Charles and Marianne would\nhappen to them so made it that the Code was required as well. While Marianne\ncould have been killed at any time doing so would have done little to stop it\nso as long as one collaborator had the Code the plan would in some way\nsucceed. Of course this relies on the fact that Lelouch's second sigil is a\nresult of him obtaining Charles Code and that the Code can't be destroyed\n(thus why the Code Bearer who C.C got her code from said she had tricked C.C\nand forced the Code onto her).\n\nAt the current time C's World and the imagery used in connection to it hasn't\nbeen officially explained so until a new canon Code Geass series is released\n(R3, a canon prequel like Jet Black Renya) we won't have too much information\nto go by.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T23:28:11.407", "id": "10011", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-14T19:20:20.967", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-14T19:20:20.967", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "10010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIts basically the universal consciousness of all beings. Individuality is born\nfrom there and returned to there, and the combination of everyone's\nconsciousness constituting \"God\". Very similar to principles of many eastern\nreligions like Hinduism/Buddhism or philosophies like Omega Point or\nConsciousness Singularity. The movie Avatar also has something very similar to\nthis. The Na'vi's follow a God called Eywa. Eywa was their world's universal\nconsciousness where all the planets creatures memories/experiences returned to\na central planetary neutral network which can be tapped into by future\ngenerations and contributed by future generations. Eywa in turn contributes to\nthe shaping events on the planet. Sorry for the avatar seg-way but figured\nthat was the easiest way to grasp it other than to read up on eastern\nphilosophies.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-14T21:01:41.067", "id": "12850", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-14T21:01:41.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "10010", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe main legal anime streaming site I am aware of is\n[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/), a pay for service. If not the only\nlegal one, it certainly is the largest.\n\nThey actually work with the broadcasters in Japan in order to bring the shows\nto people across the globe, pretty much at the same time they are being\nbroadcast in Japan.\n\nMany sources of streaming anime (including AnimeUltima) are actually rips of\nCrunchyroll and other legitimate sources.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T10:06:30.183", "id": "10017", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T10:15:56.377", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-10T10:15:56.377", "last_editor_user_id": "4164", "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "10016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are a number of legal streaming sites:\n[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/),\n[Funimation](http://www.funimation.com/), [Manga\nEntertainment](http://www.manga.com/), [Daisuki](https://www.daisuki.net/)\n(which is relatively new), and some Youtube channels associated with legal\nsites (such as Funimation or Manga Entertainment), possibly among some other\nsites that I haven't heard of yet or am not completely sure about. Some of\nthese are very region-specific (e.g. a lot of Funimation videos on Youtube\ncan't be accessed outside of North America (I think)).\n\nMost other streaming sites (including some pretty popular ones, it seems) are\nactually not legal (using, as stated by @Oded, rips of videos from elsewhere,\nillegal fansubs, etc.).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T10:25:12.430", "id": "10018", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T10:25:12.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "10016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nI think where all forgetting one which is [Hulu](http://hulu.com/). Not only\nis it free but it is legal too and provides a service called Hulu Plus (Which\nprovides an ad-free experience) and allows you to watch several animes (Plus\nTV shows) without ads.\n\nJust thought this would be interesting to bring up.\n\nAlso another interesting fact is that most of the videos that are hosted on\nsites such as animeultima are actually hosted on other sites such as\nauengine.com which is a file uploading service and then are just embedded into\nthe site. So it all becomes a bit of a gray area here whether the site is\nlegal or illegal.\n\nThis is just my opinion though.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T10:47:46.010", "id": "10019", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T10:47:46.010", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "10016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you are worried about legal trouble for your own person, you need not\nworry. Accessing streaming sites is not a crime. The crime lies with those\nhosting said illegal site. Also there is probably some really fun legal deal\nwhere the sites are being hosted in countries that don't have laws against it.\n\nThe morality of using such sites is another thing entirely. I actually buy\nseries I like, but only after I watch them. So I justify my use of such sites.\nI also don't want to increase the numbers for a show I think is horrid.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-09T22:01:29.023", "id": "11184", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-09T22:01:29.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6184", "parent_id": "10016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI assumed you mean first TV series anime.\n\n> Mighty Atom became the first popular anime television series in 1963.\n> Contrary to popular belief, Atom was not the first anime series broadcast in\n> Japan; that honor falls to **Otogi Manga Calendar** , which began\n> broadcasting in 1962.\n\nFrom [Otogi Manga Calendar Wikipedia\nPage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otogi_Manga_Calendar)\n\n> Otogi Manga Calendar (おとぎマンガカレンダー Otogi Manga Calendar?) was a black and\n> white Japanese anime series aired from 1961 to 1964. It was the first anime\n> series ever televised.\n\nSorry if I understood your question wrongly.\n\nSource: \n[Y!A: What was the first anime ever aired in\nJapan?](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090529063100AANnoCt) \n[Anime and Manga: Brought to You by WikiProject Anime and Manga\n](http://books.google.co.id/books?id=E2jHAhPXxgEC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Mighty%20Atom%20became%20the%20first%20popular%20anime%20television%20series%20in%201963.%20Contrary%20to%20popular%20belief,%20Atom%20was%20not%20the%20first%20anime%20series%20broadcast%20in%20Japan;%20that%20honor%20falls%20to%20Otogi%20Manga%20Calendar,%20which%20began%20broadcasting%20in%201962.%20The%20first%20non-\nseries%20anime%20broadcasted%20was%20Three%20Tales&source=bl&ots=6u-PjFliz6&sig=mjOei314wQVaAWeC70IuuYt0I4k&hl=id&sa=X&ei=eHyIU5T9LdK58gWgoYFY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Mighty%20Atom%20became%20the%20first%20popular%20anime%20television%20series%20in%201963.%20Contrary%20to%20popular%20belief,%20Atom%20was%20not%20the%20first%20anime%20series%20broadcast%20in%20Japan;%20that%20honor%20falls%20to%20Otogi%20Manga%20Calendar,%20which%20began%20broadcasting%20in%201962.%20The%20first%20non-\nseries%20anime%20broadcasted%20was%20Three%20Tales&f=false)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T12:52:29.403", "id": "10021", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T12:52:29.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "10020", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [the Trivia section on IMDb page of \"Future Boy\nConan\"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077013/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv), it says\nit was the first.\n\n> First animated series to air on Japanese Public TV, NHK.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-17T01:02:35.510", "id": "38986", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-18T09:27:29.660", "last_edit_date": "2023-10-18T09:27:29.660", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "30992", "parent_id": "10020", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nFilms were released in cinemas, not broadcast, but there were animated films,\nJapanese TV animations in the 50s were commercials or interstitials, Otogi\nManga calendar was a TV animation, but not the first anime series, Astro Boy\nhas been first because, it was the first regularly broadcasted anime series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-10-18T08:47:45.573", "id": "68391", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-18T08:47:45.573", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58010", "parent_id": "10020", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't recall any of his gang having green hair. But in _Brotherhood_ (and\nthe manga), there were four gang members of Greed's:\n\n * **Roa:** Created by being mixed with an ox or possibly a bull. \n\n\n * **Dolcetto:** Created by being mixed with a dog. \n\n\n * **Martel:** Created by being mixed with a snake. \n\n\n * **Bido:** Created by being mixed with a gecko. \n\n\nLater, after Greed \"changed bodies\", he got two new \"partners\":\n\n * **Heinkel:** Created by being mixed with a lion.\n * **Darius:** Created by being mixed with some kind of ape.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T14:01:39.353", "id": "10023", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T14:01:39.353", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "10022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe money seems to be handled by Nano, so I doubt Hakase sells her inventions\nherself. (otherwise she would just buy **loads** of chocolate sharks)\n\nIt is presumably from a relative, or the money comes from a patent on an\ninvention (with the money going to Nano).\n\nNo relatives are ever mentioned, so it's probably some form of research\nfunding. (I personally think one of Hakase's inventions actually backfired at\nsome point, turning her into a child, that would explain why she gets it and\nthat Nano handles it.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-25T20:24:38.810", "id": "21839", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-25T20:24:38.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14646", "parent_id": "10026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe whole weight thing is rather unexplained. On the one hand, they said\ntitans are incredibly light, on the other hand, they can dish out destruction\non the level you'd expect from a humanoid this size.\n\nWere the weight thing consistent, Titans wouldn't be able to destroy buildings\nor make the earth shake.\n\nSo far, it wasn't entirely explained, it's possible that they weigh enough to\ncause the ground shake or destroy things, but light enough for the head to be\neasily kicked around after it was severed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T16:56:33.410", "id": "10028", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T16:56:33.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "10027", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's probably not so much that the titans are very light eventhough they are\nreally large, but that they are light for their size. Meaning that they're\nstill really heavy, but not nearly as heavy as their size would make it seem.\n\nAnime vs Real physics aside, if something really large was light enough not to\nmake the ground shake, at least a little, they're probably not heavy enough to\ngenerate the needed friction to run, or if they were to move their body really\nquickly they'd leave their feet, or if they jumped they'd be in the air for\nmuch longer, or if they stomped the ground hard, they'd launch themselves into\nthe air, etc.\n\nAll the interactions of the titans make them seem like they weigh enough to\ninteract normally with their surroundings, just that for their size, they\nactually weigh a lot less than expected.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T18:00:45.593", "id": "10029", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T18:00:45.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "10027", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nThat’s a question I’ve asked myself a lot. I’ve come to the conclusion that we\nshouldn’t consider titans as larger human beings as their structure is\nfundamentally different from ours. It has been proven that when an animal’s\nsize increases by 10 times, the strength increases by 100 times and the weight\nby 1000 times. For example, I’m about 1 meter 70 tall and roughly 60 kg. If I\nwere to be ten time bigger, I’d be a 17 meters class and have a hundred times\nmy actual strength, but my body would weight 60 tons!\n\nSo Titans are light (as revealed by Hange Zoe), but I also think they have\nabnormally high strength for their size. At the end of the Trost arc, Mikasa\nsaid when she saw Eren lifting the boulder that a human that size couldn’t\nlift it.\n\nLet’s try to calculate (roughly) the weight of the boulder. Eren (15 meter\nclass) is taller than the boulder, and it seemed bigger than the hole that it\nis supposed to sealed, which was mentioned to be 8 meters high. So I would say\nit has a diameter of about 10 meters, and so a volume of approximately 525 m3.\nThat makes it more or less 1.4 million kilograms! So of course a human that\nsize couldn’t lift that, unless you can lift 14 tons, plus ten times your own\nweight with your natural size. So at that point, I understand why the earth\nwas rumbling under Eren’s footsteps.\n\nBut I’m getting away from the subject. I’d like you note the fact that after\nthe colossal titan’s appearance in front of the Trost gate, once Eren made him\ndisappear, you can see step marks on the ground, which would lead you to think\nof an immense weight (I don’t know if you can see it in the manga).\n\n## Conclusion\n\nTitans are both abnormally light and strong for their size. The shaking of the\nground is just an effect in the anime to emphasize their size and the danger\nthey represent.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-15T15:40:42.577", "id": "13439", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-15T21:07:51.540", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-15T21:07:51.540", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8009", "parent_id": "10027", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nTheir weight comes from what they are powered by. Thinking about it, they\nsecrete clouds of heat and \"Burn out\" when too much energy has been expanded\n(the hybrid humans after using their titan form). And being as impossibly\nstrong, fast, quick motioned as they are (erin lifting a boulder about 50 tons\nheavier than his titan weights) the best possibility that they run on\nadrenaline more than blood. Adrenaline is the only reason fighting, sprinting,\nmoving large objects is possible. The titans, abnormal or not, sprint instead\nof run, crush instead of grab, can THROW another titan, and obliterate both\nthe section of the opponents body and the hand or limb they used. Adrenaline.\nThe titans lack a digest system, which questions what else they have besides\nbone and muscle. This can give way to a major adrenal system instead of gland,\nand since adrenaline is activated by the components of blood, thier constant\nneed is both give the adrenaline a power source and cool them down to avoid\n\"burning out\", adrenaline works like an acid, and a heat source in desperate\ntimes. To explain thier weight is the fact that they lack the organs that\nweight us down.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-11T15:01:05.517", "id": "16648", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-11T15:01:05.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10589", "parent_id": "10027", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe simplest thing I can think of is when Hanji tells Eren about the titans\nbeing light, the examples she uses are:\n\n1-A dismembered titan head.\n\n2-A dismembered titan arm.\n\nWe also know that titans bodies quickly (or at least semi-quickly) evaporate\nafter being killed. Considering that, we can assume that Henji's data was\nincorrect due to a large portion of the parts she tested with having\nevaporated. So the titans may possibly be heavy still, thus, the ground shakes\nwhen they move.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-25T05:57:25.570", "id": "23549", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-25T07:41:26.610", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-25T07:41:26.610", "last_editor_user_id": "15879", "owner_user_id": "15879", "parent_id": "10027", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe point is: density. Titans are not light, they're just not dense. That is\nto say, they're light for their size or relative volume.\n\nThey still probably have a mass of thousands or tens of thousands of\nkilograms, but they're much lighter than normal biomechanical physics would\ndictate for an organism that size.\n\nTypical flesh generally has a density of around 1000kg/m^3, where whatever a\ntitan is made out of might have something closer to 400kg/m^3 or 300/m^3. This\ndoes not mean titans are light, it means an equal volume piece of human would\nbe heavier than that equal volume of a titan.\n\nBut, titans are huge. An average human male weight around has a mass of around\n80kg, so we'll call that a volume of 0.08m^3 (assuming the 1000kg/m^3 density)\n\nNow, a 15-meter titan might have a volume of (lazy guess) 8m^3 Which even with\na much lower density like 400kg/m^3 that's 3,200 kilograms, or about 3 and a\nhalf US tons.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-08T00:06:41.047", "id": "42706", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-08T06:08:20.803", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-08T06:08:20.803", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36012", "parent_id": "10027", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI probably think that Titans produce alot of energy, and some of that energy\ngoes into the surface, creating a small quake. Objects don't need size to\ncreate large forces of energy to create a shake on the ground. You could just\ndrop a 1 ton coin I guess and it will shake the ground. You can even drop a\nbuilding around 100 meters tall constructed out of aerogel and it will create\nNO force at all.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-09T09:03:24.577", "id": "42728", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-09T09:03:24.577", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35865", "parent_id": "10027", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou may have missed this, but it was actually explained near the end of the\nepisode.\n\n**Whilst riding on horseback**\n\n> **Zoe:** Erwin, why did you order Levi to resupply? There's no time to\n> waste.\n>\n> **Erwin:** The female-form Titan was eaten. But did you see the person\n> _inside_ get eaten? I didn't.\n>\n> **Zoe:** You can't mean...\n>\n> **Erwin:** Ah, yes. **If your original hypothesis was correct, they can\n> still move to a degree after regaining human form**. If they'd prepared 3D\n> Maneuver Gear in advance...\n\n**Major spoiler for those who have not finished watching Attack on Titans**\n\nAfter this we see (unbeknownst to the audience yet), Annie zooming through the\ntrees using already prepared 3D Maneuver Gear\n\n**Then we head back to Erwin talking again...**\n\n> **Erwin** : The person inside the female-form titan is wearing our uniform\n> right now... The enemy is now camouflaged as one of the troops.\n\nAnnie was able to escape her titan form because **you can still move to a\ndegree even after regaining human form, which would explain why she was able\nto escape before getting eaten herself**.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-31T00:03:24.700", "id": "10034", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-06T13:07:17.993", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "10030", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe straightforward answer to your question is that Fuyumi and Bell aren't\ndoppelgangers (\"opposites\") for each other, and so there's no reason one\nshould expect that they would fuse with each other.\n\nSure, their _mothers_ were doppelgangers, but that doesn't mean that their\nchildren - Fuyumi and Bell - should also be. For one thing, they don't look\nvery much like one another, whereas their mothers (pre-fusion) totally did:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-31T01:10:39.943", "id": "10035", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-05T22:50:55.933", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-05T22:50:55.933", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "10031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nmaybe the reason they didn't fuse when they were kids was because they were in\nthe presence of another doppelganger fusion causing a energy thing.....\n\nand why they don't fuse now is because fuyumi is a demon now so here and bell\nare not complete oposites anymore.... but if fuyumi is resurrected and bells\nin the rum they might fuse then.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-04T08:08:51.607", "id": "13806", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-04T08:08:51.607", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8247", "parent_id": "10031", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWith user1306322's advice I attempted some searching. And came to the\nconclusion it was Toki No Mukou Maboroshi No Sora - FictionJunction.\n\nThe song I originally kept finding was the opening song of the visual novel\ninstead of the song used in the anime. And the fact I found to be familiar is\nmost likely due to [Yuki\nKajiura](http://myanimelist.net/people/5077/Yuki_Kajiura), which has allot of\nanime songs on her name that I watched.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-30T22:31:37.993", "id": "10033", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-31T09:10:54.463", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-31T09:10:54.463", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "10032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThere might be many reasons:\n\nFirst, Senketsu was created specially for Ryuuko. This might have created\nlink, that allows them to understand each other. It is clear that Senketsu\ndoesn't really \"talk\" using his mouth. It is more like telepathy. This\ntelepathic link might have been created either intentionally or accidentaly\nwhen Senketsu was made.\n\nSecond, there is question of relationships. Ryuuko and Senketsu are partners\nor friends. For them, it is symbiotic relationship. Satsuki on the other hand\nuses her willpower to dominate Junketsu so it can be used as a tool. And as\nsuch, there was no reason for her to listen to it, so even if Junketsu did\ntalk, Satsuki would simply make it shut up, because Junketsu talking isn't\nwhat she need. Ryuuko and Senketsu were partners so it was obvious they would\ntalk to each other.\n\nAnd last is simply about production: The creators simply didn't think of\nJunketsu as character. And as such, they didn't give it any voice. Senketsu\nwas individual character from early start and as such it made sense to make\nhim talk. And as such, he helped character development of Ryuuko. Junketsu on\nthe other side was just something used by Satsuki.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-02T09:01:53.500", "id": "10074", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T13:37:23.157", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T13:37:23.157", "last_editor_user_id": "13532", "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "10047", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSenketsu is the only one Kamui that can talk or communicate. Senketsu can\ncommunicate only with Ryuuko. This is because Senketu was made by Dr. Matoi\nwith some modification, i.e Dr. Matoi used Ryuuko's Central Nervous System's\nDNA with Senketu's life fibers, which is why Ryuuko only can communicate with\nSenketsu and wear it.\n\nAfter the end of the battle in episode 17, around 6:00, there is a\nconversation between Ryuuko Matoi and Aikuro Mikisugi:\n\n> A : Dr. Matoi made further improvements and completed Kamui Senketsu.\n> Senketsu's life fiber have been spliced with your central nervous system's\n> DNA\n>\n> R : What ?\n>\n> A : That is why he can only communicate with and worn by you.\n\nA is Aikuro Mikisugi, R is Matoi Ryuuko. The exact phrasing might depend on\nthe subtitle set.\n\nRyuuko's Central Nervous System's DNA is the main reason why Senketsu can talk\nbut other Kamui cannot.\n\n* * *\n\nBut Satsuki was able to wear it and use it. The reason may be that they are\nsiblings. Satsuki can hear and communicate with Senketsu. They are siblings so\ntheir DNA match to some extent, and Senketsu contains Ryuuko's DNA. This may\nbe the reason but this is more what I think than a confirmation of existing\ninformation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-16T09:50:43.027", "id": "25911", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-17T23:36:05.867", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "10047", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion, Senketsu is the only one that can talk because it was specially\nmade for Ryuko and probably only people like Ryuko and Ragyo who are part of\nLife-Fibers can wear them because they are in sync.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-15T17:56:55.193", "id": "42834", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-15T18:10:41.720", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-15T18:10:41.720", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36148", "parent_id": "10047", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSome details in the ONA for Bakemonogatari suggest a potential answer. In\nepisode 13, Hanekawa states that she has no memory of Golden Week beyond the\nburial of the cat (or slightly earlier). **So she can notice such gaps in her\nmemory.** Hanekawa comes to Araragi for help after growing cat ears (which\ncame after her headaches). It's possible she also remembers that.\n\n**Hanekawa probably at least knows that _something_ is up.** Moreover, Araragi\nstates that he has no idea how much of the events of \"Tsubasa Cat\" Hanekawa\nremembers, but that he won't ask for now because he wants to let her come to\nterms with her feelings.\n\nIn \"Tsubasa Song\", Araragi says (own emphasis, quotes from a fan translation):\n\n> . . . it was twice that a cat had rampaged—on Golden Week and **just a\n> couple of days ago** . . .\n\nMoreover, we have this:\n\n> And that’s why I ended up seeing nightmares **not once but twice** —said\n> Hanekawa, as if telling herself that rather than me.\n\nAnd later, Hanekawa tells Araragi:\n\n> I don’t want to shut myself out anymore, and as it is, if I don’t\n> demonstrate more of my individuality, then one day I may fall prey to the\n> cat again.\n\nAraragi probably hasn't asked Hanekawa about the events of a few days ago, but\nHanekawa knows about both possessions. **So it looks like Hanekawa got\nsuspicious and asked someone what happened during these two periods.**\n\nIt's possible that she remembers bits of the second possession or even finally\nremembered the first possession. But in \"Tsubasa Tiger\", Hanekawa comes to the\nconclusion that she must have been possessed at night via indirect evidence\nand not memory. So memory loss can be linked to possessions. **Thus, it seems\nunlikely she remembers _everything_ at this point prior to the end of \"Tsubasa\nTiger.** (It's possible that she does remember everything once she accepts her\nrepressed emotions, but that comes _after_ the period discussed in this\nquestion.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-07T09:09:56.343", "id": "11698", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-21T20:41:30.043", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-21T20:41:30.043", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "10049", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's from a Russian tradition that went back to Peter the Great and now it's\ndone after important toasts.\n\nFrom the [Table-glass Wikipedia\npage](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faceted_glass&direction=prev&oldid=625044655)\n(bold emphasis added):\n\n> A legend says that the first known faceted glass was given as a present to\n> Tsar Peter the Great from a glass-maker called Yefim Smolin, living in\n> Vladimir Oblast. He boasted to Tsar that his glass couldn’t be broken. Tsar\n> Peter liked the present, however, after drinking some alcoholic beverage\n> from it, he said loudly _Let the glass be!_ (Russian: Стакану быть! -\n> literally _the glass be_ ), **threw the glass on the ground** and managed to\n> break it. But Peter didn’t punish the glass-maker, and the production of\n> such glasses continued. According to the legend, people present during this\n> episode misinterpreted the Tsar’s words and thought that Peter called to\n> **break the glasses** (Russian: Стаканы бить! - literally _beat glasses_ or\n> _break glasses_ ), that’s how a tradition of breaking drinkware on certain\n> occasions appeared in Russia. Glasses were broken after especially important\n> toasts or just during the especially cheerful parties. Russian restaurants\n> even held a special prices for breaking the glasses. Breaking of drinkware,\n> or, in wider context, any tableware, is believed in Russia to bring luck and\n> happiness.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-01T15:00:09.987", "id": "10056", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-27T13:58:53.890", "last_edit_date": "2021-09-27T13:58:53.890", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "10050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm sure Jon Lin is correct about the background, but here is a more in-\nuniverse answer:\n\nAs user1306322 stated in a comment, it's likely based on a ritual done before\ngoing into a battle you don't expect to return from. In episode 23,\n\n> they toast again, but this time Satsuki says not to break the cups as that\n> time they're not going to their deaths (in her words, approximately).\n\nThis leads to the assumption that when they toasted in this episode, they did\nnot expect to return.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-22T01:56:36.110", "id": "11403", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-22T01:56:36.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6218", "parent_id": "10050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nAnother potential source, in addition to the already-mentioned sources and\npossibly influences by them, is earlier anime. _Kill la Kill_ makes frequent\ndirect and indirect references to earlier works, and [this\nscene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJDJ-ooENU) from a prominent 80's sci-\nfi anime _Legend of Galactic Heroes_ could have been what they are referring\nto by breaking glasses.\n\nAdmittedly, this is hardly the first instance of Germanophilia or Semitophilia\nin anime or Japanese culture in general and its sources could be earlier.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-13T05:51:54.580", "id": "36803", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-27T01:27:48.033", "last_edit_date": "2021-09-27T01:27:48.033", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "28697", "parent_id": "10050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is based upon many light novels that I have read. Typically the breaking\nof the glass after a toast denotes a finality to whatever you are toasting. If\nyou toast before parting you don't expect to see each other again, if you post\nwelcoming someone into your family it implies a permanence to that acceptance.\n\nI have also read in some that it is implied that \"until this toast is undone\n(repair of the cups) this is permanent.\" So in this one story they break the\ncups at the beginning of a journey and repair them when them come home to\ntoast again.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-19T21:54:25.617", "id": "48841", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-19T21:54:25.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42549", "parent_id": "10050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBreaking of glasses occurs twice in the yakuza film Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki,\n1966), once in the formal introductory ritual between Tetsu’s and the northern\nboss (actually a dish of sake); and in the final scene where\n\n> Tetsuo breaks his oath of loyalty to his boss, symbolically crushing a wine\n> glass in his hand.\n\nNeither is a formal toast, and each involves only one party. However this\n(particularly the first ritual) is an example of breaking a drinking vessel in\nritual fashion.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-06T00:49:39.847", "id": "53880", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-06T00:49:39.847", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48414", "parent_id": "10050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI imagine it's because they are unimportant to the plot and because the\nanimators wanted to give a sense of a hive-mind mentality.\n\nThe ranks above are individualized as they are powerful and _worthy_ of the\nviewer's (and Ryukko's) attention.\n\nThe zero-star students are individualized as well. Along with this, all the\nslums are very different looking to each other - In contrast, the houses that\nthe richer student live in are very regular and similar to each other\ncorresponding with their uniform class.\n\nA good example of the higher rank's lack of individualism is\n\n> When Mako and Ryukko start the fight club, They start to lose their\n> individuality that they once had in the slums and become arrogant, greedy\n> and unloving towards each other. Once they return to the slums, they regain\n> their own personalities again.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-01T10:35:06.370", "id": "10054", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-01T10:35:06.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "10051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe person (Well technically not people) you spotted are called \"easter eggs\".\n\n> Src from here:\n> [fairytail.answers.wikia.com](http://fairytail.answers.wikia.com/wiki/What_is_that_hidden_green_character_i%27m_starting_to_see_in_the_background_in_some_of_the_episodes)\n\n* * *\n\n> In every episode, at least once, a little creature is placed somewhere....\n> **These creatures are known as \"easter eggs\", as they appear in the anime\n> but serve no purpose. They are not part of the plot, nor an important factor\n> in the anime.....**\n\n[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7wX-DY2XIo) is a YouTube video of all\nthe easter eggs that appear in fairy tail. If you want to see the scene that\nyou referred to, just skip to 3:26.\n\n\n\nDifferent types that appear (Sometimes multiple times are)\n\n * Green one's with a white square with arms and legs\n * An Exceed\n * A little pink mouse\n\nAnd some others too like these:\n\n \n\nOh yeah, and look, I found the green \"easter egg\" from the photo you provided\ntoo. ^^\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-02T23:35:14.990", "id": "10079", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-02T23:35:14.990", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "10063", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\none of the members of the spriggan 12 has a thing sitting on their sholder\nthat is about the same size but i don't know if it would be him.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kKIGK.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-22T15:37:56.363", "id": "29963", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-22T15:37:56.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22254", "parent_id": "10063", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat would be\n[Claymore](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7028)\n\n\n\nit's set in a fictional medieval island where humans are plagued by Youma,\nhumanoid shape-shifters that feed on humans. A group known as The\nOrganization, creates human-Youma hybrids to kill Youma for a fee. These\nfemale warriors wear armored uniforms with white body suits. The public refer\nto them as \"Claymores\" alluding to their Claymore swords, or \"Silver-eyed\nWitches,\" due to their silver eyes and how they have powers beyond humans.\n\n## Evidence\n\n> it already has more than 50 chapter\n\nAccording to Wikipedia the manga has 143 chapters and is still ongoing\n\n> The genre is action, and have some explicit content with lot of blood\n\nI've only seen the anime but i believe it's action and quite bloody however\nthe explicit content in the anime also has a bit on nudity in it, there's a\nscene of cannibalism and one of the characters almost allows herself to be\nraped\n\n> The main character is a woman, short hair, white hair, and have sword\n\nThat would be Clare (Pictured Above)\n\n> This woman is a monster slayer, wandering between cities to slay a monster,\n> and the citizen pays her. But she's a monster herself.\n\nClaymores go from City to City, town to town killing Yoma , they leave but\nbefore doing so notifies the people that a representative of The Organization\nwill appear to collect the fee. all Claymores are Part Yoma , Clare herself is\npart Claymore because she was infused with a Claymore's Head (the woman who\nraise her)\n\n> At the beginning, a boy decide to follow her, for what reason I don't really\n> remember, perhaps to revenge his parents death.\n\nthis boy is Raki who she saved, he at first begins to follow her but then\nClare decides to take him along seeing herself in him when she was saved by\nTeresa, the Claymore who saved her from Yoma\n\n> One chapter reveal that she has a friend who also the same monster slayer\n> like her, but she has to kill her, because her friend has been consume by\n> the monster inside her, and turn into a monster.\n\nAs said above Claymores are half Yoma, their powers and strength come from\nusing this side of them by using demonic energy know as their Yoki Aura, if\nthey use too much they \"Awaken\" and becomes extremely power Youma known as\nAwakened Being. it's explained that awakening is likened to the feeling of\nsexual climax and Women was shown to resists this more than Men so it's the\nreason why Claymores are women, however later in the series Clare learns of\nthe Male Claymores having existed however it's assumed they are all Awakened\nBeings now, Claymore tend to hunt each other down in order to prevent them\nbecoming Awakened Beings.\n\n## Contradictions\n\n> It's seinen\n\nWikipedia says the demographic is Shōnen\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-02T00:09:27.887", "id": "10065", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-02T00:27:56.960", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-02T00:27:56.960", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "10064", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs of 10-March-2021, after using [myanimelist](http://www.myanimelist.net) as\na source for duration's I came to the conclusion that it would take you:\n\nDuration | Time of non stop watching \n---|--- \nIn Minutes | 32414 \nIn Hours | 390.2 \nIn Days | 16.3 \n \nThis would mean that you could completely watch all Naruto media in just under\ntwo and a half week. \nHowever, taking into account that nobody is going to watch anything for two\nand a half week straight. It would take an average viewer quite a bit longer.\n\nGiven that an average viewer watches around 5-6 episodes per day, or roughly 2\nhours a day. It would take them about 174.3 days to watch the series to\ncompletion, and an additional 20.9 days to watch all the other media. For a\ngrand total of 195.1 days total to watch _everything_.\n\n## Series\n\nTitle | Episodes | Episode Duration in minutes | Total Duration \n---|---|---|--- \nNaruto | 220 | 23 | ~5060 minutes or \n84.3 hours or \n3.5 days \nNaruto Shippuuden | 500 | 23 | ~11500 minutes or \n191.7 hours or \n8 days \nBoruto next generations (ongoing) | 189 | 23 | ~189 minutes or \n72.5 hours or \n3 days \n \n## Movies\n\nTitle | Duration in minutes \n---|--- \nNaruto: Movie 1 - Dai Katsugeki!! Yuki Hime Shinobu Houjou Dattebayo! | 90 \nNaruto: Movie 2 - Daigekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo! | 97 \nNaruto: Movie 3 - Dai Koufun! Mikazuki Jima no Animaru Panikku Dattebayo! | 94 \nNaruto: Shippuuden Movie 1 | 94 \nNaruto: Shippuuden Movie 2 - Kizuna | 92 \nNaruto: Shippuuden Movie 3 - Hi no Ishi wo Tsugu Mono | 95 \nNaruto: Shippuuden Movie 4 - The Lost Tower | 85 \nNaruto Soyokazeden Movie: Naruto to Mashin to Mitsu no Onegai Dattebayo!! | 14 \nNaruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison | 102 \nNaruto: Honoo no Chuunin Shiken! Naruto vs. Konohamaru!! | 14 \nNaruto: Shippuuden Movie 6 - Road to Ninja | 109 \nNaruto: Shippuuden Movie 7 - The Last | 112 \nBoruto: Naruto the Movie | 105 \nBoruto: Naruto the Movie - Naruto ga Hokage ni Natta Hi | 10 \n \n## Specials\n\nTitle | Duration in minutes \n---|--- \nNaruto: Dai Katsugeki!! ... Special: Konoha Annual Sports Festival | 11 \nNaruto: Takigakure no Shitou - Ore ga Eiyuu Dattebayo! | 40 \nNaruto: Find the Crimson Four-leaf Clover | 17 \nNaruto: The Cross Roads | 28 \nNaruto: Shippuuden - Konoha Gakuen Special | 8 \nNaruto: Shippuuden - Jump Super Anime Tour 2013 Special | 11 \nNaruto: Shippuuden - Sunny Side Battle | 11 \nBoruto: Jump Festa 2016 Special | 11 \n \n## Ovas\n\nTitle | Duration in minutes \n---|--- \nNaruto: Finally a Clash!! Jounin vs. Genin! | 26 \nNaruto x UT | 6 \n \n## Onas\n\nTitle | Duration in minutes \n---|--- \nKamiusagi Rope x Boruto: Naruto Next Generations | 1 \n \n## Spin-off\n\nTitle | Episodes | Episode Duration in minutes | Total Duration in minutes \n---|---|---|--- \nRock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden | 51 | 24 | ~1224 minutes or \n20.4 hours or \n0.85 days \n \nAs a side note, I feel sad for the people that had to wait weekly from episode\none onward. That's 909 weeks (excluding double releases and breaks) of waiting\n6 days for the next episode (Which is almost 17.5 years!)\n\n_Information will be updated when Boruto next generations ends, and somebody\nboops me about it in the comments_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-02T11:52:50.200", "id": "10076", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-10T17:46:35.377", "last_edit_date": "2021-03-10T17:46:35.377", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "10075", "post_type": "answer", "score": 38 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNot sure of the exact chapter, but Yamato was captured when Yamato, Aoba, and\nMotoi go outside to investigate during Naruto's training. They come across\nKabuto as he is captured by Kurotsuchi. Yamato creates a wooden beam that Aoba\ncan walk on to approach Kabuto and read his mind like he did with Kisame, but\nKabuto sheds his body to free himself. He goes after Yamato and, before being\ncaptured, Yamato pushes Motoi out of the way.\n\nKabuto escapes to the Mountains' Graveyard where he and Tobi gather\ninformation from Yamato about the Allied Shinobi Forces. Kabuto also studies\nHashirama's DNA within Yamato to strengthen the White Zetsu Army. Rather than\nkill Yamato when he has fulfiled his usefulness, they suspend him opposite\nHashirama's clone for future use.\n\nThere are no given details of when Yamato changed his side, so I would assume\nhe was forced to serve Kabuto/Madara/Obito/Zetsu while he was captured.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-03T14:21:17.780", "id": "10087", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-03T14:21:17.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4967", "parent_id": "10078", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYamato may be under the influence of a strong genjutsu and is being controlled\nby Madara/Obito.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T17:32:50.280", "id": "11304", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T17:32:50.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "10078", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, whatever happened with the reactor probably caused it. I don't think\nradiation poisoning is the exact condition, if only because an advanced,\nexperimental technomagical mana reactor shouldn't be using nuclear fission,\nbut the symptoms and progression seem to match media portrayals of that — and\nof tuberculosis, more closely; the \"beautiful pallor\", the exhaustion, and\ncoughing up blood were originally markers, in prose and poetry, then later in\nfilm, of what was generally referred to as \"consumption\". Tuberculosis is no\nlonger a major killer in the developed world, but its symptoms remain in media\nas the go-to nonspecific slow, wasting death.\n\nAs for the time factor, I think her disease was the determiner there; Alicia\nwasn't going to get any more dead. Whatever the actual cause of her illness, I\nbelieve that it was exacerbated by her throwing herself into Project Fate; as\nyou say, she spent 22 years on that before Fate herself was decanted,\npresumably working at all hours and neglecting her health; she probably knew\nshe was dying slowly before she realized Fate wasn't Alicia and moved to her\nmad attempt to reach Al-Hazard. She gave Linith a hard (and near-impossible)\ndeadline by which to build Bardiche and train Fate as a top-flight combat\nmage, so she certainly knew she had little time by then.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-02-15T21:57:06.590", "id": "56820", "last_activity_date": "2020-02-15T21:57:06.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51733", "parent_id": "10081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo answer this quite bluntly, No. There are no references to OK Corral or\nWyatt Earp nor any town sheriffs that had their background even briefly\nrevealed. But there are some things that might be indirectly related or\nreferenced to these. I'll explain.\n\nWhile there are no solid references in the anime to these, there are some what\nafter images or familiar presences to them.\n\nYasuhiro Nightow, the creator of Trigun series and manga, was in-fact inspired\nby western films genre. He created the character Vash in a similar way to\nthose he idolized in these films. More specifically a \"Gunfighter\". Now when\nsomeone says Gunfighter to you, there are a few key names that pop into your\nmind like; Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and of course Wyatt Earp. Whether these\npeople had any direct influence on this anime is something that is unknown.\nOnly way to know would to ask YN himself.\n\nAlso during this time there were other anime and manga taking the same\napproach. Such as Kino's Journey or Cowboy Bebop.\n\nSo basically the answer is \"No\" but watching Trigun may send vibes from some\nof the characters or locations or pretty much anything that may relates to the\nold west.\n\n(These answers were based off personal knowledge and having watched and loved\nthe Trigun series, so much that I just watched it again like 3 days ago.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T06:09:22.813", "id": "13414", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-15T17:17:46.543", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-15T17:17:46.543", "last_editor_user_id": "7989", "owner_user_id": "7989", "parent_id": "10093", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nExcerpts taken from Naruto Manga Chapter 501-503\n\nLets look at the following images from the manga,\n\n**1>**\n\n\n\n**2>**\n\n\n\n**3>**\n\n\n\n**4>**\n\n\n\nFrom image **1>** We see Madara* (Who was later shown to be Obito) extracting\nthe kyubi from Kushina's body.\n\n**2>** This is where he summons the kyubi into the village\n\n**3>** In the conversation between Madara and Minato, Madara says, `A contract\nseal...`\n\n**4>** Finishes off the fight between the two.\n\nNow, based on these images we can deduce that it is not always a scroll that\nis needed to create a summoning contract. A scroll may be one of the ways in\nwhich such a contract be created. The sign that is done in the scroll is a\n\"seal\" that seals the contract.\n\nSo, considering what Madara said about Minato trying to place a contract seal\nwe can deduce that there are other ways to seal a contract. Now when did\nMadara do it? That must have been done after Madara had the kyubi under\ngenjutsu and before Minato came back for the final showdown between the two.\n\nNow coming back to your question, there are two stages to controlling a beast\nor summoning animal. The first is where you put the target under genjutsu and\nmanipulate them, the other is to put them under a contract. It seems that\nMadara has first put the kyubi under genjutsu and then he sealed a contract\nwith the kyubi using some sort of contract seal.\n\n*I am referring to Obito as Madara here because at that point of the manga the character was known to be Madara himself. Which was changed as the plot progressed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-05T05:41:07.470", "id": "10117", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-05T05:41:07.470", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "10099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara, the REAL Madara, put Kurama under a genjutsu before fighting\nHashirama.\n\nDue to Kurama being under a genjutsu, somehow, someway, the sharingan allowed\nhim to sign a contract with Kurama. Each time Kurama is summoned, Madara has\nto quickly put him under genjutsu or it could mean Madara's certain and\nuntimely death.\n\nI would imagine that any large animal like a tailed beast or summoning animal\ndoesn't require blood for summoning if you have the sharingan and bound them\nunder a contract through genjutsu. Meaning that maybe Sasuke's summoning\n(Hawk) is a result of Genjutsu considering his summoning can't even speak. And\nneither could Kurama speak when he was under genjutsu. That's my only\nexplanation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-23T03:23:26.033", "id": "26764", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-23T08:10:08.253", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-23T08:10:08.253", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "18657", "parent_id": "10099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> You are exactly right. Thats what happens in future novels. Why didn't he\n> save himself? Because Kyon is dangerously genre-savy. And he know that\n> breaking the stable time loop might lead to more and worse problems. So he\n> doesn't do anything other than what he himself saw doing himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-05T18:13:16.727", "id": "10122", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-05T18:13:16.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "10104", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, we don't.\n\nFrom quick googling, it seems that it has not been revealed yet, even in the\nlight novel. But it seems some hints exist.\n\nFrom \"[Kyon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyon)\" on Wikipedia:\n\n> The name _Kyon_ is actually a nickname given to him; his real name has yet\n> to be revealed in the series. His sister is responsible for spreading its\n> use amongst his schoolmates, much to his embarrassment and annoyance, and he\n> misses being called _Onii-chan_ (お兄ちゃん, Lit. \"older brother\") by his sister.\n> In the ninth volume of the light novel ( _The Dissociation of Haruhi\n> Suzumiya_ ), his real name is hinted at in a conversation between himself\n> and Sasaki, a girl who had known Kyon since middle school, who said that it\n> was a very majestic name that didn't fit him.\n\nHis sister's name also hasn't been revealed yet.\n\n[Thread in MyAnimeList discussing\nthis](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=205191) \\- there are many hints\nand guesses being discussed there.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-04T16:28:14.437", "id": "10108", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-04T16:58:38.937", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-04T16:58:38.937", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "5117", "parent_id": "10105", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a theory that John Smith is his real name, but I don't think it\nreally is. Yes, his name is not mentioned anywhere yet. Kyon's sister is also\n\"Kyon's sister\" for now ^ ___ ^. Not revealing name also may hint that he\nplays a more important role in universe than we think. He must be some kind of\nKami or something <_<\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-05T07:49:49.017", "id": "10118", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-05T07:49:49.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4777", "parent_id": "10105", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, I will provide some information for ya...\n\n> In the light novel (chapter 10b), Tsuruya called him \"Kyorosuke\", and if we\n> replace \"r\" with \"n\", Voilà! his real name is \"Kyonosuke\". The reason why\n> he's being nicknamed as \"Kyon\" is because of his parents' economical\n> problems.\n\nSource:\n\n 1. I saw [someone's comment](http://www.haruhisuzumiya.net/2011/08/03/fan-translation-of-surprise-of-haruhi-suzumiya-released/#comment-45688) at haruhisuzumiya.net about this...\n\n> Kyorosuke is a nickname for Kyonosuke. Tsuruya just replaced “yono” with\n> “yoro”, just like most of her statements with nyoro\n\n 2. My own thoughts\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-29T10:52:17.280", "id": "14730", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-30T13:34:23.677", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8919", "parent_id": "10105", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are a lot of conversations and speculation about what his name actually\nis, and the reason being... we are never told what it is. The nickname Kyon\ncame from his aunt, and his sister caused for the nickname to spread to\neveryone else, much to his chagrin.\n\nIf I remember correctly, logical deduction leads us to know that his last name\nstarts with an \"S\", based upon where he sits at the beginning of their\nfreshman year of high school. However, everything else beyond that is\nspeculation.\n\nThe only other place his name gets mentioned in any detail is the spot you\nmentioned in your original question: when Sasaki makes a comment about it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-16T09:59:19.130", "id": "28059", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-16T09:59:19.130", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16539", "parent_id": "10105", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n * All we KNOW about his name is that it's majestic/noble. As stated before, Sasaki, someone who knew Kyon before, stated this, but still referred to him as Kyon.\n\n * As well, based off what was said before, his last name could start with \"Sa,\" or \"Shi,\" assuming the second mora of his family name is after \"Ka\" so that he is seated behind Sakanaka Yoshimi. Based off Haruhi's last name \"Su\"zumiya, it's safe to assume that his last name also begins with \"S\"\n\n * On those two points, anything we conclude must fit under those two points. Though John Smith fits under the second, meaning his name in Japan would be Smith John, it does not 'fit' the first one.\n\n * Haruhi, also wouldn't know what his name is right away, as EVERYONE including the teachers refer to him as \"Kyon\", this means that \"Kyon\" must in some way be related to his actual name.\n\n * A quick look up on Bing, says Kyon is a ancient Greek word, meaning 'Dog', which certainly fits his dog-like demeanor towards Haruhi.\n\n * **_Speculation_** Based off all this info, as his name must be related to \"Kyon\", his name must be majestic/noble, and his family name begins with \"S\" it's possible his family may be Shimazu, or a similar Sengoku-era family name.\n\n * **_Speclation_** As well, his given name might simply be Kyo.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-21T02:02:37.313", "id": "40458", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-26T15:47:23.380", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-26T15:47:23.380", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "32664", "parent_id": "10105", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**[Jajanken - Weekly Shonen Jump Lab](https://www.jajanken.net/en/) provides a\ndatabase of series published in the magazine.**\n\nAs far as I have seen, it allows:\n\n * Browsing [per issue](https://www.jajanken.net/en/years) to see which serieses and chapters are published, and\n * Browsing/searching per series to see which issues and chapters they are published \n * [_Naruto_](https://www.jajanken.net/en/sakuhins/QvL0BVl0NV)\n * [_One Piece_](https://www.jajanken.net/en/sakuhins/aAg89lnKZQ)\n * [_Bleach_](https://www.jajanken.net/en/sakuhins/Qv1nJDx0jK)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-15T04:12:20.943", "id": "67827", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-15T04:12:20.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "10116", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you want to see the cover and the list of comics which were serialized in\nthe current issue, you could use \"Comicvine\" website, it has a huge collection\nof covers for certain manga (JP) and comic (US) books\n\n[Shounen Jump Latest Issue](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/weekly-shonen-\njump/4050-43519/)\n\nPreview of the website.\n\nIssue List\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uvy6a.jpg)\n\nIssue Details\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XDqWk.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-16T12:08:24.003", "id": "67829", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-16T12:15:02.960", "last_edit_date": "2023-03-16T12:15:02.960", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35019", "parent_id": "10116", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is a reason why Jibril and Steph are surprised in this situation. As you\nshould know Steph and Jibril are girls, so the question would be \"what is a\ngirl's nether region?\". It is obvious that a girl's nether region would be\ntheir:\n\n> Vagina\n\nFrom [otaku - Censorship](http://otaku.wikispaces.com/Censorship):\n\nAs this is considered as a dirty joke, it is censored because `ま☆こ` in direct\ntranslation does mean \"Nether Regions\". If there is no censorship in this\nscene, it would violate \"Japanese Censorship Law\". When it is uncensored the\nword would be `まんこ` (romanized as \"manko\") which directly means vagina.\n\nHence, the censorship in episode 6 of No Game No Life.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-07T08:23:49.753", "id": "10142", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-07T11:48:20.273", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-07T11:48:20.273", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "5092", "parent_id": "10141", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Japanese text there is ま★こ _ma*ko_ , which (to someone who knows Japanese)\nis obviously a censored form of まんこ _manko_ , which does refer to the female\ngenitalia, as Sukeibe points out.\n\nThe key insight here is that _manko_ is in fact **vulgar** slang for the\nfemale genitalia, which is why you will see it censored. The translation\n\"nether regions\" fails to capture this vulgarity, I suppose because it's\nconstrained by the rules of word chain (can you think of a vulgar term for the\nfemale genitalia that begins with \"n\" and ends with \"s\"? I can't...). If a\ntechnical/medical term for the female genitalia were used instead (e.g. 女性器\n_joseiki_ lit. \"female sex organ\"), it would probably not have been censored.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-07T11:47:20.660", "id": "10145", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-07T11:47:20.660", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "10141", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n<http://animetranscripts.wikispaces.com/Attack+on+Titan+-+%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA>\n\nIt's not there for every episode though... I'll try some digging around.\n\n<http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/episode_scripts.php?tv-show=attack-\non-titan-2013> No names though. Just the lines.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-01T13:16:36.233", "id": "39665", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-01T13:16:36.233", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31743", "parent_id": "10143", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, she still alive, it's Erza after all\n\nI'll try to keep the spoiler to minimum so if you really want to now what\nhappen next you can read it on your own, or wait for next episode, this is a\nnext chapter from manga after that episode\n\n**Chapter 315: Rosemary**\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8KlF2.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-07T12:55:32.117", "id": "10150", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-07T13:08:07.743", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-07T13:08:07.743", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "10148", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nWithout spoilers - As a fairy tail mage, she will make sure hatred will never\nwin and Kagura will come to her senses on the matter of Jellal.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T18:02:20.987", "id": "11312", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T18:02:20.987", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "10148", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter watching **Fairy Tail (2014), Episode 11**.\n\n> Erza does not die, neither does she get hit. In the animation, **the blood\n> is not supposed to be there**. In the comic, Erza was hit in the right\n> shoulder by Kagura's slash, while in the animation they edited this part\n> out. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRka1.png) \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pp8Hy.jpg) \n>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T21:05:06.430", "id": "11314", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T21:05:06.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "10148", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is without a doubt the National Verbena Academy's winter uniform (from\nthe _Shuffle_ anime, with some minor inaccuracies).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-08T18:06:01.260", "id": "11156", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-08T18:06:01.260", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "10157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBudou (武道) is a Japanese term describing Japanese martial arts. Budou consists\nof the kanji \"[bu](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6)\" (武, ぶ), meaning\n\"war\" or \"martial,\" and [dou](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%81%93) (道,\nどう), meaning \"path\" or \"way.\"\n\nThe tournament is called the 天下一武道会, \"Tenkaichi Budoukai,\" which can literally\nmean: \"(Best) Martial Arts on Earth (Under the Sky) Tournament.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-08T17:30:06.797", "id": "11155", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-08T17:30:06.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "10158", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are two direct official adaptations of Bakuman's manga in real life.\n\n* * *\n\n# [Otter 11](http://myanimelist.net/manga/21274/Rakko_11-gou)\n\nAs @ʞɹɐzǝɹ said, Otter 11 has been published in Shonen Jump as a oneshot by\n[Takeshi Obata](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Obata)(Art) and [Tsugumi\nOba](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsugumi_%C5%8Cba)(Story), which are the\nsame persons that made Bakuman.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Eg9bZ.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\n# [PCP (Perfect Crime\nParty)](http://myanimelist.net/manga/92906/PCP:_Kotou_no_Kodomotachi)\n\nPCP has been adapted as a novel by [Takeshi\nObata](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Obata)(Art) which is the\nillustrator of Bakuman, and [Sei\nHatsuno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei_Hatsuno)(Story).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kTAqH.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-13T14:22:35.387", "id": "27985", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-14T07:31:43.607", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-14T07:31:43.607", "last_editor_user_id": "15542", "owner_user_id": "15542", "parent_id": "10159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDuring the episode, after Byro is attacked by Midnight (or Brain II), Jackpot\nsays that \"Brain's magic refracted the range of Byro's magic and attacked\nhim\". This seems to tell us that Byro can only nullify magic within a range\n(it figures, as otherwise Byro would have been able to nullify all magic\naround him, however far apart it is, thereby preventing Natsu or Gildarts from\neven conjuring their powers). Thus Brain's attack lands on him as it surrounds\nhim rather than coming in a straight line. Also, Brain attacked suddenly,\ncatching Byro by surprise, thus giving an additional reason for Byro's\ninability to nullify Brain's magic. Then again, perhaps Byro may even have a\nlimit to his ability, i.e. he can't nullify magic that is too powerful.\n\nP.S: This particular incident happens in episode 140 'The Reborn Oracion Seis\nAppears!'. You may want to watch it again to see the part where Jackpot says\nthe above quoted words. I have quoted the English translation that was shown\non the screen, the perfect literal meaning may be different in different\ntranslations, so sorry if it's something else that you see there. I know only\nthe anime version of the story, not the manga. Manga may have some other\nexplanation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-18T19:24:39.633", "id": "12923", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T14:35:29.543", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T14:35:29.543", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "7648", "parent_id": "11161", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBlack Zetsu was created by Kaguya Ōtsutsuki shortly before she was sealed as\nthe Ten-Tails by her sons. Black Zetsu was created from the will of Kaguya\nŌtsutsuki. With the goal of reviving Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, Black Zetsu manipulated\nIndra and his descendants, the Uchiha clan, along with Asura's descendants,\nthe Senju clan, in an attempt to get one of them to awaken the Rinnegan.\nMadara Uchiha eventually succeeded in doing so, and Black Zetsu began secretly\nmanipulating events to have Kaguya resurrected. He succeded when he had the\nrennigan and enough chakra to do so.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-07T16:50:51.520", "id": "11706", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-07T16:50:51.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4996", "parent_id": "11172", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nBlack Zetsu was created by Madara but it is the manifestation of Kaguya's\nwill. Its aim was always to revive Kaguya and hence it manipulated the Uchiha\nclan by making changes to the hidden stone tablet. Think of it as Kaguya's\nwill to return while she was being sealed in by her sons which took up a\nhumanoid form as over two generations.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-25T15:56:35.383", "id": "13049", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-25T15:56:35.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7728", "parent_id": "11172", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\n[Black Zetsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Zetsu) was created by Kaguya\nŌtsutsuki before she was sealed as the Ten-Tails by her sons, Hagoromo and\nHamura.\n\n> When Madara was on the verge of death, he believed he had created Black\n> Zetsu by imbuing his will into half of White Zetsu, and that the complete\n> Zetsu was partially his clone.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-27T04:37:29.430", "id": "17091", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-27T04:37:29.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10708", "parent_id": "11172", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt wasn't created by Madara. Zetsu only had it look like it. Zetsu is a living\nchakra manifestation of Kaguya's last resort, and he is basically a product of\nthe black mass chakra that contains all elements + Ying and Yang chakra, which\nis basically the reason why he is capable of thinking. She created it as a\nself manifestation in a form of chakra, and he manipulated Madara into\nbelieving it was his creation so that he could set the events in motion that\nwould later culminate in Kaguya's reincarnation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-12-29T00:19:37.773", "id": "61413", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-29T00:19:37.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "57927", "parent_id": "11172", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNobody ever told Toko directly that she was adopted. As you mentioned, she\noverheard her relatives speaking about it, and she confirmed it by looking it\nup in a registry.\n\nQuoting a line from\n[Toko](http://marimite.wikia.com/wiki/T%C5%8Dko_Matsudaira#Background)'s\narticle on wikia:\n\n> She found out the truth later after listening in to some of her relatives'\n> conversations, and confirming it in a registry\n\nSo Suguru just got angry and there was no specific person who revealed the\nsecret\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-01T14:47:48.937", "id": "21282", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-03T10:47:49.047", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-03T10:47:49.047", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14161", "parent_id": "11188", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom the [Naruto wiki site](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sand_Gourd):\n\n> Gaara carries around this giant calabash-shaped gourd covered in designs and\n> filled with his chakra-infused sand which he can freely manipulate.\n\nIt's just a design on the gourd and doesn't hold any particular meaning.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-01T09:35:26.150", "id": "34047", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-02T05:59:26.493", "last_edit_date": "2019-08-02T05:59:26.493", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "24320", "parent_id": "11190", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nthere is likely no meaning to the presence of the symbol aside from looks but\nit is one japanese \"letter\" from Katakana written system, not Kanji. It is ヨ .\nwhich is pronounced yo\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-23T11:29:45.763", "id": "37479", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-23T11:29:45.763", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29402", "parent_id": "11190", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOda mentioned in SBS vol 48, that it will be revealed in the end by someone\nwho knows how the Devil Fruit mechanism works. Quoting from the wikia:\n\n> According to Oda, a \"certain professor\" will explain the complex mechanisms\n> behind all of the Devil Fruits in the series in the near future.\n\nAnd I personally think all of your other questions, like \"regarding the author\nof the book\", will be answered when that happens.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T05:04:53.930", "id": "11192", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-11T10:35:06.533", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-11T10:35:06.533", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2892", "parent_id": "11191", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nWe have seen several examples of Devil Fruits that have re-emerged after its\noriginal owner died. It is known at this point that Devil Fruits don't simply\ndisappear when the owner dies, but rather shows up somewhere in the world.\n\nTherefore it is not far-fetched of an idea to say that someone or more likely\na group of people began categorizing the fruits anytime they came across them.\nOver the course of hundreds of years, it should be easy enough to compile\ninformation such as what they look like, what they do, and other useful\ninformation about the various fruits.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-27T21:31:37.077", "id": "11523", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-11T10:33:52.570", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-11T10:33:52.570", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "6174", "parent_id": "11191", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen Shanks is talking to Buggy about Devil Fruits (in epsiode 8), he says\nthat he heard that they were incarnations of the Sea Devil. I may be wrong but\nI think they're cursed because the Sea Devil itself is cursed. And it also may\nbe that the Sea Devil is the creator of the Devil Fruits.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-29T20:26:00.807", "id": "11544", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T03:13:34.820", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-18T03:13:34.820", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "6404", "parent_id": "11191", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirstly, Altria. what we see in Fate/Stay Night is not originally what Kinoko\nNasu first wrote, the original version was called Old Fate (旧Fate) or Fate\nOrigin which was re-imagined into\n[Fate/Prototype](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/Prototype), in this\nAltria's character would have been a man (Arthur) and Shirou's character would\nbe female (Ayaka Sajyou). Of course, this is no longer part of the Canon that\nis the Nasuverse but I thought I point out that originally Altria would have\nbeen a man.\n\nAs for Altria herself being a woman, Merlin's prophecy never indicated the\ngender of the future king, it was just a common view that a King would be a\nman; the inscription on Excalibur (or Caliburn, I can't remember which it was)\nalso didn't indicate that a man had to be the one to pull the sword out.\n\nAs Altria acted the part of the king, she dressed and acted much like one,\neven to the point that Merlin made her into a pseudo-male and\n[Mordred's](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mordred) identity was concealed, so\nbecause of that, their genders are normally concealed and were thought to be\nmen. There is also ambiguity with the Arthurian Legend as in the Visual Novel,\nShirou says that some legends portrayed \"Arthur\" as a woman or a group of\npeople, which is why he wasn't surprised that \"Arthur\" was a woman (more so\nthat he summoned her).\n\nAlso, \"King Arthur\" became more of a symbol than anything else. Merlin was\nclearly aware of this when he warned Altria before she pulled the sword from\nthe stone that if she did she wouldn't be human anymore.\n\nOne thing you may have missed is that Altria isn't in the Throne of Heroes\nlike most heroic spirits. Those who are in the Throne of Heroes are in there\nbecause they made a contract with the world to receive the strength to be a\nhero so it's their price. Altria became a hero on her own, but _on her death_.\nShe desired the Holy Grail to redo the sword-drawing Ceremony and find someone\nwhom she believed to be more capable of being a king than her. She made a\ncontract with the world _to become a heroic spirit if she got it_. Therefore,\nwhile Servants like Iskander or Gilgamesh who are copies with their original\nstill at the Throne of Heroes, Altria is always herself. This is why she can\nremember the events between wars when normally even if a heroic spirit is\nsummoned again they won't remember any other wars they were in.\n\n* * *\n\nNow, let us move on to Heroic Spirit EMIYA, who is a Counter Guardian. Before\nI begin, I should point out Altria is not a Counter Guardian. [Counter\nGuardians](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Counter_Guardian) are a special\ngroup within Heroic Spirits who made a contract with\n[Alaya](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Alaya) and as such they are\nincorporated as part of humanity’s Counter Force summoned whenever a factor in\nthe extinction of mankind is detected.\n\nRegarding EMIYA's summoning, he is summoned from another reality which is\nentirely possible for the Holy Grail. One of the key things in the Nasuverse\nis that there are alternate timelines which are all still Canon because of the\n[Second Magic](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Magic) which is the\nOperation of Parallel Worlds. The 5th Magic's Domain is unknown but it's\nabilities are related to Time Travel. However, Touko Aozaki claims there\nshould be more to it because time travel is also governed by the Second Magic.\nKischur Zelretch Schweinorg who wields the 2nd Magic was actually present when\nthe Holy Grail System was first created, so being able to get Heroes and the\nsuch from other times and realities would then be possible if it incorporated\nprinciples of the 2nd Magic (which I would do in order to crystallizes a\nServant's feats in the from of the Nobel Phantasm).\n\nNow in EMIYA's timeline, the 5th Holy Grail war was a disaster:\n\n> In Heaven's Feel route in the visual novel, Archer recognized Sakura's\n> Shadow and how it was attributed to Angra Mainyu. Whether it acted during\n> his 5th Holy Grail War is unknown but it is clear that Angra Mainyu and the\n> Greater Holy Grail was not destroyed/shut down before a major disaster\n> occurred.\n\nIf EMIYA came from the same reality that Fate/Stay Night was in, then he would\nhave known that he would have not been able to kill himself and by killing\nhimself he may have caused more destruction. Practically, Fate/Stay Night\noccurs in a separate timeline/reality to the one EMIYA existed and the Grail\nsummoned him because of Rin's Pendent which he still kept. So if EMIYA's\nstrength comes from how popular his legend is, then it will be unaffected\nbecause his Legend is from a separate reality which will still be known.\n\n> Also Rin is shown to be able to draw Mana from other realities in Heaven's\n> Feel by using an implantation of the 2nd Magic\n\n* * *\n\nNow I haven't read all too much into Iskander so I can't vouch for the\ndifference with his legend. However, this could be explained because the Holy\nGrail System is damaged. Rather that rehashing what caused it because it could\nbe spoilers, you can read the 3rd and 4th Paragraphs\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7433/1587) to read up on the\ndiscrepancies with the Servant Summons or look up on the wiki on how the\nsystem was originally created. However, since Mordred's legend is unaltered in\nFate/Apocrypha, and in that timeline the Einzbern's summoned Ruler rather than\nAvenger, we can safely say that Altria wasn't altered when being summoned.\n\n", "comment_count": 14, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T23:21:04.853", "id": "11217", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-12T05:02:10.973", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "11194", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe original author Nasu Kinoko mentioned that having a female protagonist\nwith a male Servant wouldn't be very interesting. The male version (mistakenly\nromanized as \"Saver\" [セーバー] in Character Material, as opposed to \"Saber\"\n[セイバー]) from his original draft depicted him as being cocky and arrogant,\nstill having the same sense of duty of the female Saber.\n\nWhen you think about it, Nasu uses the gender bender plot device in an\ninteresting way by making [(female) Saber, aka\nAltria,](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZDMn3.jpg) out as a character that's not\ninfluenced by preconceived notions of the mythologies behind her character.\n\nWhen you break everything down, Servants and their Noble Phantasms are a\nlittle more than \"historical figures\" and \"magical artifacts,\" which make them\nout to be incarnate legends. These so-called \"legends\" are seen as a whole by\neveryone. So there exists certain exaggerations that probably never happened\nto the figures themselves that get seen when they are summoned as Servants.\nSome notable examples from _Fate/Stay Night_ are:\n\n 1. Heracles' (abnormal) size\n 2. Gilgamesh's blonde hair\n 3. Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon possessing of all the Noble Phantasms in history (anachronistic, the regions and times don't line up appropriately)\n 4. Heracles' twelve lives (this is more or less a reworking of the [12 labors](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles#Labours_of_Heracles))\n 5. Assassin's very existence (note that this version of Sasaki Kojirou [summoned by Caster] never actually existed)\n\nThe Grail isn't as omnipotent as many believe. It's rather incomplete and\nmerely makes the soul and puts it into raw energy. How the Grail gathers the\ninformation and how the Third Magic and it tie everything together is not\nexplicitly mentioned. It's possible that being incomplete, the Grail gathers\nthe soul and then creates the body and abilities from contemporary knowledge\nof the time of the war. Assassin, though never having actually existed (he\nhimself even admits this), is realized by the Grail. So it's possible for the\nGrail to create a soul and body from a fictitious literature/accounts.\n\nThe story attempts to provide unique plot with unique scenarios, all while\ndrawing from familiar mythos. It's possible that all these changes were a plot\ndevice or a creative license by the author to keep this interesting.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-11T17:03:54.750", "id": "11223", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-09T18:18:35.550", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-09T18:18:35.550", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "11194", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nSince no one seems to have touched on the King of Conquerors: they explained\nthat in the book shop, that the wording of his legacy was wrong and he was\nalways that huge, just the throne that has been known to depict him as small\nwas even more massive than he is now. Similarly, you should just give lean for\ncreative differences. Alexander was actually known in life to be clean-shaven,\npale and dark haired, nothing like the Fate/Zero depiction.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-26T11:16:14.650", "id": "38063", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-26T14:40:30.660", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-26T14:40:30.660", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "29967", "parent_id": "11194", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n## Rules are made to be broken\n\nThis is the mantra to always keep in mind when engaging the Fate series.\n\nBy default—the \"rule\"—servants are summoned with their body as in their prime\n(physical prime normally, though servants renowned for more mental deeds would\nbe in their mental prime, which could be quite a good deal older). Except when\nthey aren't.\n\n[Leonard Da Vinci](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Leonardo_Da_Vinci)\ncould be summoned in the appearance of the Mona Lisa, both because that is the\nmental image people most often immediately associate with Da Vinci (even\nthough they know they're distinct people), and because Da Vinci himself\n_wanted_ to.\n\n[Penthesilea](https://www.gamepress.gg/grandorder/servant/berserker-el-dorado)\nmay have died so incensed by Achilles seeing her as a woman rather than a\nwarrior even on the battlefield that she intentionally manifests as a child\nversion of herself, hoping to make it impossible to suffer such an indignity\nagain.\n\n[Napoleon can be summoned as a tall, manly\nbro](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on) if he is summoned\nmore for the concepts he represents (achieving the impossible, responding to\nthe wishes of the people, etc.) than anything else.\n\nSo the rule can be subverted by legends and history providing many\nalternatives for what their appearance and prime are, as well as the very will\nof the spirit itself. The spirits are enticed there with the promise of a wish\non the grail, but the spirit ultimately influences how they manifest in order\nto best pursue their goal (whether it's the wish on the grail, or simply a\nchance to fight honorably against other heroes, or whatever else).\n\n## Heroes are not (always) one-dimensional\n\nAny servant is just a distilled interpretation of the sum total of their\nhistory and legends. The servant Classes are just limited vessels the spirit\nis shoehorned into.\n\nWhile Hercules may have legends about his archery skills (including arrows\ndipped in Hydra blood/poison), when summoned as a Berserker the archery\naspects do/can get filtered out as irrelevant. And Cu Chulainn may have some\nlimited rune capabilities as a lancer, but their full capacity is drawn out\nonly if he is summoned as a\n[Caster](https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Caster_\\(Fate/Grand_Order_-\n_C%C3%BA_Chulainn\\)).\n\nAs the last example points out, the form and nature of a servant is also\ninfluenced by the class they are summoned into, which is in turn related to\nthe summoner. With no catalyst, the grail attempts (another rule, here) to\nsummon a hero that is similar to its summoner, in order to assist their\ncooperation. With a catalyst, it attempts to pick a version of the hero that\nis, again, similar to its summoner, though this may be harder to achieve.\n\nThe latter is the case with the Saber and her summoner from\n[Fate/Zero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/Zero). The summoner would have\ninfinitely preferred an Assassin, as that suited his personality and style\nbetter, but his catalyst pretty much forced a Saber that was intensely\ndedicated to open and honorable combat.\n\nGilles de Rais might also be a [soldier, as when he served Jeanne\nd'Arc](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais_\\(Saber\\)) or [a\nhorrifying occultist](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais).\nHis history and legends include both tales of a competent solider and\nstrategist, as well as that of a child-sacrificing occultist driven mad by\nJeanne's death. Which one you get depends on the situation and the summoner\n(if any).\n\n## History can be inaccurate or ambiguous\n\nWhen a gender swap (from our perspective) happens with a character, a common\nexplanation is that the historical record simply got it wrong. Francis Drake\nis a guy, right? [Nope, she's actually a beautiful woman with giant bazongas;\nwe just remember it\nwrong](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Francis_Drake). Other heroes may\nhave ambiguous gender (and/or sexuality) in their histories, which may allow\nthem to be summoned in a seeming gender-swap. Just try to figure out what\n[Astolfo](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Astolfo) or [Chevalier\nd'Eon](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Chevalier_d%27Eon) are without\ncheating.\n\nAs women frequently occupied a notably inferior position in the social order\nfor much of history throughout much of the world, this creates a strong\nincentive for ambitious and adventurous women to mask themselves as men in\norder to realize their goals and dreams.\n[Assassins](https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Assassin_\\(Fate/Grand_Order_-\n_Jing_Ke\\)) may have benefited from a certain amount of gender fluidity, as\nbeing able to pass for men or women would make it easier to slip through\nvulnerabilities to reach their targets. [Even some historical generals and\nwarriors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uesugi_Kenshin) have records drawing\ninto question their gender. Did they never have children or much interest in\nwomen because they just weren't that sexual, and were singularly focused on\ntheir duties? Or perhaps they were actually a woman?\n\nIn the case of King Arthur (the Fate version of which was originally known as\nArtoria, but has more recently been changed to be named Altria), in the FSN\nstory/explanation her true identity was masked and known only to a few. She\nwas kept at a distance or in a heavily masking helm when visible to the\npublic. Other public appearances were often done by Gawain or another Knight-\nin-the-know, borrowing Excalibur if necessary to really sell it. The average\ncitizen would have few to no opportunities to see the King anyway. And in this\nsetting Arthur is noted (and at times criticized) for being an extremely\ndistant, removed, and unemotional ruler: this was the behavior of the ideal\nKing that she envisioned. The King's aging was also stopped the moment she\npulled out the sword in the stone, permanently leaving her as an\nandrogynous/tomboyish 14 year old (I think materials may now be saying 16,\ninstead).\n\nKing Arthur herself was so dedicated to maintaining the deception and being\nthe ideal King that she developed body image issues, supposing herself to be\nmuscled and un-woman like when the protagonist actually succeeds in developing\na romantic connection, despite her obviously waif-like appearance and\nporcelain skin. She had the heart of the dragon and superhuman strength as a\nresult, which may have encouraged herself to see herself this way. And the\nconflicts caused by her true gender motivates many other story points in\nArthurian legend: why there is a faction of rebels that Mordred can join (not\neveryone likes a cold and distant king, but she must be so to maintain the\nruse, or so she thinks), why Mordred even wants to rebel, why Guinevere and\nLancelot hook up (Guinevere was not a lesbian or bisexual, and she had needs;\nArthur intentionally overlooks their relationship, until it becomes public\nknowledge, out of guilt for how difficult their marriage was for Guinevere,\nand punishes Lancelot only out of a sense of Kingly necessity rather than any\nactual feelings of betrayal), etc.\n\nIskandar also falls into this, as Iskandar himself explains the basis for\nsupposing he was short is because he was compared to even more gigantic\nfigures. In particular he says the historical accounts say he was dwarfed by\nthe throne of Darius because Darius himself was a giant among men, who truly\ndid make the beefy Iskandar look short and puny in comparison.\n\n## It's a multiverse (and then some)\n\nThe Fate universe, or more broadly the Nasuverse, is a multiverse setting in\nrather the most expansive sense. Multiple universes, alternative histories,\ntime travel shenanigans, etc. are all available. [One story in the\nNasuverse](https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Tsukihime) [may be incompatible\nwith others](https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Fate/stay_night) for any number\nof reasons; a character in one may simply not exist in the other. In\nparticular, every single storyline that occurs in a game like Fate/Stay\nnight—including bad endings, not just the normal/true endings—are canonically\ntrue and all happened, just across a variety of timelines/worlds.\n\nMoreover, the Throne of Heroes, where the Heroic spirits reside and are\nsummoned from, sits outside of time and the world, and has access to all of\nthese alternative timelines etc. So heroes have a multitude of possibilities\navailable to them, not all of which need to have been realized within the\nworld and timeline their spirit is summoned into.\n\nThe prototypical example is [a certain FSN\nservant](https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Archer_\\(Fate/stay_night\\)) who\ncomes from the future of a timeline that is not covered by any of the routes\nor endings of the FSN game itself (and has never been fully detailed).\n\n## Out of universe rationales\n\nThe out of universe rationale for gender swaps and appearance changes is the\nsame one as usual: making money. It was determined that a Female main\ncharacter with a Male Servant wouldn't sell as well as a Male main character\nwith a Female Servant. So once that was settled on the easiest thing to do was\nto just swap the genders, and so bam, female King Arthur is born. Other\ncharacters had their appearances changed to fit modern perceptions of what an\narchetype should look like. The vainglorious, obscenely wealthy, painfully\narrogant king should be more of a pretty-boy, with golden hair to reflect his\nwealth (gold); not the rough-and-tumble manly warrior that Gilgamesh perhaps\nought to have really looked like. The ultimately in manly, world-conquering,\nmodern bro-dom should be huge and muscled and gruff, his intrinsically\nintimidating physique contrasted with how amiable and bro-like he behaves; not\nthe rather more effeminate physique that Alexander the Great should have had.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-07-12T00:03:09.827", "id": "58110", "last_activity_date": "2020-07-12T00:03:09.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "11194", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBrynhildr (also spelled Brunhild, Brünnhilde, Brynhild) is a shieldmaiden and\na valkyrie in Germanic mythology.\n\nBest answer I could find. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brynhildr>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-15T18:46:29.357", "id": "11290", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-15T18:46:29.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6252", "parent_id": "11198", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nSpoiler alert!\n\n> It could be because one of the main antagonists is called Valkyria, and\n> she's Neko's sister. Since Neko is even more powerful than Valkyria,\n> Brynhildr could refer to her. Plus, Valkyria is almost identical to Neko,\n> but with white hair instead of dark (darkness). Also, her memory is full of\n> holes, so she's \"in the dark\" about her powers and background.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-29T13:40:50.623", "id": "11537", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-29T13:40:50.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6418", "parent_id": "11198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n**Brynhildr** in this series is **Kuroha Neko**.\n[Brynhildr](http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Brynhildr) is mighty\nfemale warrior of Germanic mythology and the chief of the\n[Valkyries](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Valkyrie).\n\nNeko's character almost portray the character of Brynhildr as mentioned in\nGerman myth. She is powerful than Valkyrie. She does not have any past memory.\nShe gained her memory and became very powerful at the end in series.\n\n_Brynhildr in the Darkness_ trying to show the Neko in darkness or loss of\nmemory. She only does not have past memory but also lose memory when she keep\nusing her power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T11:50:14.350", "id": "13945", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-12T11:50:14.350", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "11198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAs confusing as the explanation was by \"MirrorOfTruth\" given on 09-12-2014, I\nthink shklim or shkler was trying to say the following: The refrence to\nBrynhildr, from the anime series \"Brynhilder In The Darkness\", refers to the\nfemale character Neko Kuroha. Brynhildr is a mighty female warrior and chief\nof the \"Valkyries\", which comes from German Mythology.\n\nNeko's character almost portrays \"Brynhildr\" from said myth where as she is\npowerful like the Valkyrie, has no past memories, and as she regains her\nmemories she becomes much more powerful, like in the end of the series. (I'm\ngoing to leave the last part out because it is the definition of the word\n\"Spoiler\") but lacking basic grammar skills.\n\nHaving said that, it is almost as damaging to the information given, as it is\nto the person lacking said skills.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T01:48:42.440", "id": "41455", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-19T01:50:48.130", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T01:50:48.130", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "28099", "parent_id": "11198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Devil Fruit wikipedia\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit):\n\n> The Devil Fruit, when consumed, gives the consumer a power or special trait,\n> which they will immediately become aware of\n\n**In my opinion** this means that only when the fruit is **completely**\nconsumed, that the Sea Devil is incarnated in the consumer's body and not any\nsooner. We can also see that the Sea Devil is not yet present in the Devil\nFruit at Enies Lobby, where two Devil Fruits were near each other and nothing\nhappened. Therefore if a person would drink the juice made of two devil\nfruits, he would only be wasting two Devil Fruits and make them useless. After\nhe dies two half Devil Fruits would be incarnated somewhere.\n\nI don't think Mister Oda ever mentioned what would happen if only part of a\nDevil fruit was eaten. Therefore this is just **my opinion** on this.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T15:04:04.823", "id": "11205", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T15:04:04.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "11204", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Devil Fruit wikipedia\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit):\n\n> Only one bite is needed for the user to gain the power of a Devil Fruit,\n> after which the Devil Fruit becomes a simple, useless, disgusting fruit.\n> Swallowing the fruit whole, as Buggy did, has the same effect,[8] Peeling\n> off the skin and eating it piece by piece, such as Kaku and Kalifa did, also\n> works. After ingesting the fruit, the powers within affect the eater's\n> lineage factor.\n\nSo basically the method the fruit is eaten does not matter, whether it be\neating it piece by piece, as a whole or as a juice. It is the first bite or\nsip that is important, because after that the fruit becomes useless. So what\nthis means is that in OP's question the person would basically have eaten two\nfruits.\n\n> One rumor, as recounted by Jabra, is that Devil Fruits house actual devils\n> that will fight when placed in proximity of one another. The resulting\n> battle would destroy the users' bodies. Nevertheless, Blueno contradicted\n> this claim, stating that Grand Line scientists have noted that the\n> phenomenon of one's body destroying itself only occurs when one consumes two\n> Devil Fruits.[18]\n\nSo according to Grand Line scientists, a person that would eat or drink two\nDevil Fruits **would die**.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T16:35:57.047", "id": "11209", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T16:35:57.047", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "11204", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what we have seen previously it doesn't seem so.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T15:34:43.410", "id": "11208", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T15:34:43.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "11206", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nA very nice description is given on the One Piece wikia , it says it depends\non the level of water, they don't completely immobilize if the water is only\nknee deep . But their powers are affected that is they can't use their powers\nin any form of water . Obviously if the bath tub is deep enough they can drown\n.\n\nTheir powers when in water can be manipulated by outside forces as in we saw\nduring Arlong Park arc that Nojiko and Genzo pull Luffy by stretching his neck\n.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T16:38:08.280", "id": "11210", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T16:38:08.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2892", "parent_id": "11206", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nLike some of the other answers said: no. Small amounts of water are fine.\n\nIf you think about the sea stone and the similar effect it has on devil fruit\nusers, I think it's safe to assume that the water itself is not the problem,\nbut rather the sea element of the water. Rivers, oceans. etc are deadly for\nthis reason, but other water sources like drinking water, rain, etc are fine.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T16:44:21.000", "id": "11211", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T16:44:21.000", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5116", "parent_id": "11206", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNo they won't drown because its not \"sea water\". Sea power basically sucks all\ntheir devil fruit power away and considering the amount of water in a bathtub,\nthey won't drown even if it is full of sea water.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T17:10:20.490", "id": "11212", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T17:10:20.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6192", "parent_id": "11206", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nComing into contact with sea water (or seastone) renders devil fruit users\nunable to use their power, and also they are unable to swim at all. Hence why\nthey will sink if thrown into the sea - cannot either swim or use any powers\nto escape.\n\nBut as for bath tubs or spa, its not like normal users go swimming in them\neither. Someone could probably knock out Luffy easily when he's standing in a\nspa (since his rubber nature is negated) and then he'd die when his body\nslipped into the water due to drowning. But otherwise I believe devil fruit\nusers could use spa normally even if it was salty water, so long as they are\nable to breathe normally.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T22:55:51.370", "id": "11216", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T22:55:51.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "255", "parent_id": "11206", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nSo, straight from the [wikia on Devil\nFruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit) :\n\n> With this new power comes a weakness: the sea rejects the new Devil Fruit\n> user and they become helpless while submerged in water (or \"become a\n> hammer,\" in Japanese parlance). Oda stated in SBS that Devil Fruit users are\n> susceptible to all types of water, not just seawater. This includes the\n> white sea surrounding Skypiea. He elaborated on this, saying that \"moving\"\n> water, like rain or waves, does not weaken Devil Fruit users, while standing\n> water does.\n>\n> Oda also said in an SBS that it is not until a Devil Fruit user is knee deep\n> in water that they become immobilized. This is seen with the Gorgon sisters\n> and Luffy in Boa Hancock's bath. Brook was also seen slowly losing his\n> strength as the water levels increased in the floods in Ryugu Palace,\n> demonstrating that being in contact with the sea does not instantly rob\n> their strength unless it reaches a certain level.\n\nSo, it really depends upon the depth of spa or water tub. And since they lose\nthe ability to swim they will eventually drown if the water is deep enough.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-11T08:29:09.483", "id": "11221", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-05T08:38:03.673", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-05T08:38:03.673", "last_editor_user_id": "17758", "owner_user_id": "6198", "parent_id": "11206", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nAny type of water will affect a Devil Fruit users if they're submerged in it,\nincluding the cloud sea. But you need to be submerged in it for it to have an\neffect. So something like Luffy standing in waist-high water (like when he\ncrashes in on Boa Hancock) isn't a problem. But if it gets higher than that,\nthen it starts to effect them and drains their powers and keeps them from\nmoving. And since you can't move, you can't swim.\n\nSo as long as you're careful about it, you won't drown. _But_ if they fall in\nand nobody's around to help you, then you're screwed unless you're a fishman\nlike Mammoth Jack. Then, you'd be able to breathe underwater until eventually\nsomeone hopefully stumbled onto you and pulled you out. You still wouldn't be\nable to swim, but you at least won't drown if you're a fishman, so that's\nsomething.\n\nAnyways, it's a risk. Which is why Oda mentioned in an SBS that most Devil\nFruit users just take showers since, unlike standing bodies of water, showers\nor rain don't affect Devil Fruit users and there's no chance of you drowning.\n\nTLDR: They won't drown unless they're at least submerged up to their chest and\nthere's nobody around to pull them back out.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-10T11:06:25.500", "id": "40808", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-10T13:23:47.413", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-10T13:23:47.413", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33015", "parent_id": "11206", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI have always thought it referred to the Bible verse Luke 17:2 \"It would be\nbetter for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their\nneck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.\" The millstone is\nsometimes restated as an anchor and isn't the devil fruit supposedly giving\nsuper powers because of a demon inside them? The devil fruits weakness would\nbe better viewed as an anchor that is pulling the user down and that is why it\nmakes them feel weak and unable to swim. That's why it normally only effects\nthe user when it is in more than knee deep of water versus rain, it is\nliterally trying to drown the user. Just my thought on the matter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-07T01:36:28.250", "id": "43186", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-07T01:36:28.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36491", "parent_id": "11206", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLogia users can transform themselves into their elements at their own will. I\nthink when Logia users are casually doing their work or just sitting around\nthey tend to be in their normal form and so they can be hit by normal attacks.\nBut even if they are hit they can be shattered and dispersed but come back\ntogether. So the only way to really hurt them would be with Haki, Kairoseki,\nor under a special circumstance like Luffy's rubber disabling Enel's\nelectricity.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T19:34:27.197", "id": "11214", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-27T21:19:28.827", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-27T21:19:28.827", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "2892", "parent_id": "11213", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n> It is said that Logia typed Devil Fruit Users cannot be hit without Haki.\n\nLuffy using water to hit Crocodile shows that Logia typed Devil Fruit's\nweakness can be used to hit without using Haki. So to harm a Logia is to\nexploit the element itself, using its properties to solidify the user and\nrendering them vulnerable to damage.\n\n[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Logia#Weaknesses)\n\n> Despite the fearsome power of Logia users, they are far from truly being\n> invincible. Sneak attacks are more likely to work, as the user will not be\n> ready to avoid them. However, with training, most Logia users learn to\n> transform by reflex, eliminating the ability to strike them by conventional\n> means. For example, Enel's ability has been trained to the point that he\n> could reflexively change form while partially asleep using Mantra to predict\n> his enemy's actions.\n>\n> Inexperienced Logia users also tend to become seemingly overconfident, as\n> they are unaccustomed to physically dodging attacks or receiving attacks,\n> due to their powers. Thus, if their advantage is neutralized by some means,\n> they then have to rely on their physical ability to dodge, a skill which\n> they may or may not be proficient at.\n\nVery high skill and training required to dodge any sudden attack. Physical\ncontact is required to hit Logia user, so a well trained user can avoid Haki-\nimbued attacks by changing the state.\n\n> Does this mean Logia users can \"solidify\" themselves or maybe only parts of\n> themselves, kind of like coating with Haki?\n\nYes they can solidify and turn there part of body as they want. Crocodile hand\nturn into sand while he was holding Vivi. Aokiji using ice leg in One Piece\nFilm: Z.\n\nSo it is clear that default form is human state and change according to\nrequirement. And can be hit without using Haki.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-27T08:08:55.850", "id": "13659", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T09:28:21.047", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "11213", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nLogia users have full control over which state they are in, and have been\nshown to be able to have parts of their body in different states.\n\nThere are some activities where literally being fire is very impractical, such\nas when eating or drinking. Logia users spend the majority of their time in\ntheir human forms of flesh and blood, but many have trained to the point where\nwhen something or someone unexpectedly makes contact with them they\nreflexively turn the point of contact and surrounding area into their element.\nFor more powerful users, this is augmented by Kenbonshoku haki.\n\nBut logia users are still just humans. When Luffy hit both Ace and Smoker by\nmistake, Ace was eating, and I think Smoker was caught off guard because he\nwas concentrating on Ace as the only threat at the time. It's also worth\nmentioning that despite Smoker being very strong, he is one of the weaker\nlogias shown thus far and at that time did not appear to posess haki.\n\nI think the default form for any human with a devil fruit is their original\nform, from what we have seen of all Logias and Zoans, with the exception of\nChopper, but he throws up all kinds of exceptions, and is also not human.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T19:29:09.647", "id": "14436", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T19:29:09.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "11213", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWell topic a bit exhausted, but i will give one addiction, we dont really know\nmuch logia types, we know the 'strong' ones, but they all(?) can use\nobservation haki, so they know when to use it (so they can't be killed in\ndistraction). Maybe Ace and Smoker couldn't use it... We don't really know\n'weak ones' to try understanding logia type (if they were unhittable, it would\nbe overpowered)!\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-14T08:23:44.400", "id": "14459", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-14T08:23:44.400", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8697", "parent_id": "11213", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've only seen the original anime, so I might have a wrong idea about her\npersonality (and thus motives). My first guess is that on the train, she's\njust in the general public and has no reason to cover it up (not to mention\nthe outfit looks like it shows some cleavage, which might be helpful and seems\nto be in line with her personality) while for the date she covers up to hide\nthe mark from the military who may or may not know about it. Even if they\ndon't, it's definitely an interesting mark that would draw attention.\n\nMy second guess is simply that she covers up on the date to look more modest\nand less \"slutty\".\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T14:46:43.393", "id": "11245", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T23:54:20.083", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-18T23:54:20.083", "last_editor_user_id": "6218", "owner_user_id": "6218", "parent_id": "11215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause in chapter 8 nobody know her and her job was just \"follow\" at\ndistance. She's not showing her self to anybody. In chapter 34 she must talk\nface to face to Havoc, who is part of the investigation about homunculi. It's\ntoo risky let him see her tattoo. Two totally diferent situation with\nabsolutely diferent kind of risk.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-01-21T01:17:52.960", "id": "56551", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-21T01:17:52.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51670", "parent_id": "11215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is from the third ED of _Xam'd: Lost Memories_.\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mU1MbPWyf8>\n\nThe figure in the center is Toujirou Kakisu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-12T14:10:27.260", "id": "11232", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-12T14:10:27.260", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "11231", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Q. Sandaime Hokage Hiruzen stated that a person killed by Death Soul Reaper\nJutsu will have his soul imprisoned in the Soul Reaper's body for eternity and\nwill be restless there. How can they be reanimated then?_\n\nA. They **CAN'T** be reanimated because their soul is not residing in the Pure\nWorld.\n\nIt is clearly stated in the wiki page of [Impure World\nReincarnation](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation)(emphasis\nmine),\n\n> To perform this technique, the user must first acquire some of the DNA of\n> the person they intend to reincarnate. Kabuto remarks that this basically\n> amounts to grave-robbing, although blood stains or organs salvaged after the\n> target's death also work. **The soul of the intended reincarnated must also\n> reside in the pure world (浄土, jōdo); for example, those whose souls have\n> been consumed by the Death God cannot be reincarnated. However, if it is a\n> case where the souls are freed from inside the Shinigami, then a user of\n> this technique is free to reincarnate them once again.**\n\n* * *\n\n_Q. And in the event that they are reanimated, what will happen when they are\nreleased from reanimation? Will they go back to the Soul Reaper or will they\nrest in peace?_\n\nA. Since they cannot be reanimated, they can't be released from it either.\nTheir souls stay in the Death Reaper stomach forever (or) or until they're\nreleased by someone by cutting open the Death Reaper's stomach.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T04:41:25.410", "id": "11238", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-13T04:41:25.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "11234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYes and no!\n\nThe Death Soul Reaper Jutsu (aka Dead Demon Consuming Seal) (aka Shiki Fūjin)\nis a sealing technique. While the soul is sealed with the Death Gods belly, it\ncan not be resurrected using Impure World Resurrection.\n\nHowever, like most sealing jutsu shown in the series, there is a way to\nrelease the seal. This is done by the using the using the releasing jutsu\nalong with a particular mask from the Uzumaki clan. After the soul is\nreleased, it is possible to revive them using Impure World Resurection as\nshown by Orochimaru when he revived all the previous Hokage and his arms after\nthe Third Hokage had sealed them using Dead Demon Consuming Seal.\n\nsource:\n[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal:_Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal%3a_Release)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T07:30:06.343", "id": "11239", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-13T07:30:06.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6224", "parent_id": "11234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is true that the caster and the target that is the victim of the death\nreaper seal cannot be reanimated. We get to know this when Kabuto explains the\nmechanism of the Death Reaper seal.\n\n[Please refer to this question for more\ninformation](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4245/werent-the-1st-\nand-2nd-hokage-sealed-forever?lq=1)\n\nSo the only event on which a person sealed using the Death Reaper can be\nreanimated is if and only if the person has been released from the belly of\nthe death reaper.\n\nNow, what happens if they are released from the reanimation? Well they simply\ngo back to the world of the dead where the soul of the dead resides. Since\nafter the belly of the death reaper is cut and the souls trapped there\nreleased, the souls must go back to the world of the dead and only then can it\nbe summoned for reanimation.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T09:02:26.693", "id": "11240", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-13T09:02:26.693", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "11234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nReanimation is done by using person cells and bringing back their soul.\nReapers Death seal locks away the soul within reapers belly so soul cannot\nescape. So Souls sealed by using reaper death seal cannot be reanimated. But\nif the reapers belly is cut the souls sealed inside escapes and then they can\nbe reanimated as they are not locked up. It is clearly explained in the\nnarutos 'episode 365 : those who dance in the shadows'\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-15T12:21:25.110", "id": "11278", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-15T12:21:25.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4931", "parent_id": "11234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYes because you need the Shinigami Mask to undo the dead demon consuming seal.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qkTWy.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-11T15:08:06.067", "id": "67986", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-11T17:19:30.043", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-11T17:19:30.043", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "72053", "parent_id": "11234", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI doubt there are any subtitled releases of _Crayon Shin-chan_. [The show's\nANN page](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=540) lists\nmultiple Region 1 releases, but all of them are dubbed (and don't even include\nthe Japanese audio, except for bonus episodes).\n\nIn general, don't count on being able to find subtitled versions of children's\nshows - if children's shows do get released in an English-speaking country,\nthey'll almost certainly be dubbed. After all, their target audience is\nchildren, and children aren't very good at reading subtitles.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-12T22:33:03.947", "id": "11236", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-12T22:33:03.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "11235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI will move this to comment, when I'm able.\n\nNotice the [mouse] cursor being moved to the \"purchase\" button. This is\nclearly an individual and not software. The user also scrolls through the list\nto find the Cerano entry where software would index and select the entry\ndirectly from an array or list in memory and not with the mouse.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-06T21:54:21.610", "id": "19177", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-06T22:10:06.817", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-06T22:10:06.817", "last_editor_user_id": "11588", "owner_user_id": "11588", "parent_id": "11242", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs Peter Raeves points out in the comments, a useful listing is available at\nWikipedia's [List of Yu-Gi-Oh!\nepisodes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_episodes) article. In\nbrief:\n\n 1. Watch [Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_episodes#Yu-Gi-Oh.21_Duel_Monsters_episode_list) (the first series, not the \"zeroth\" series), which is 224 episodes / 5 seasons in length. At any point after episode 144, you can, if you'd like, watch the [Pyramid of Light](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_The_Movie:_Pyramid_of_Light) movie.\n 2. If you'd like, watch [Capsule Monsters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_Capsule_Monsters_episodes), which is 12 episodes in length. This mini-series was created exclusively for US release (so I guess it's \"non-canon\" if you care about that), but it's pretty enjoyable nonetheless. It is best to watch it after episode 198 of Duel Monsters as it takes places between 198 and 199. Also since this comment was written another Yu-Gi-Oh! movie Dark Side of Dimensions has been released which takes place 6 months after the end of Duel Monsters. So be sure to watch that before starting GX.\n 3. Watch [Yu-Gi-Oh! GX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_GX_episodes), which is 180 episodes / 4 seasons in length. Note that you'll have to hunt for subtitled episodes if you want to watch the fourth (and final) season of GX - it was never dubbed. \n 4. Watch [Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_5D%27s_episodes), which is 154 episodes / 5 seasons in length. At any point after episode 86, you can, if you'd like, watch the [Bonds Beyond Time](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!:_Bonds_Beyond_Time) movie. Note that large segment of seasons 4 and 5 were never dubbed. Again, you'll have to hunt for subtitled episodes if you want to watch these in their entirety. There is also a special (\"Shinka suru Kettou! Stardust VS Red Demons\") that was never dubbed. \n 5. Watch [Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL (series 1)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_Zexal_episodes), which is 73 episodes / 3 seasons in length. There is also a special (the one featuring Kouhei Uchimura) that was never dubbed.\n 6. Watch [Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL (series 2)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_Zexal_II_episodes), which is 73 episodes / 3 seasons in length. Since this series only just ended in Japan (Mar 2014), dubbing is still in progress. As of this writing (13 Jun 2014), it looks like the first 40 episodes have been dubbed, with more coming out at a rate of one per week. Once you've caught up with this, you'll be up-to-date with the dubs.\n 7. If you don't mind watching subs, start watching [Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_Arc-V_episodes), which is ongoing as of Apr 2014. Konami has licensed it for dubbing, but the dubs presumably won't start until the dubs for ZEXAL series 2 are complete. \n\nI didn't mention [the \"zeroth\"\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yu-Gi-Oh!_%281998%29_episodes)\n(the one released in 1998) anywhere in there because it's sort of orthogonal\nto the rest of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime franchise. As such, you can watch it at any\npoint, though I would recommend watching it just before or after you watch the\nfirst series (just to see the contrasting ways in which the two series\nevolved). The \"zeroth\" series is 27 episodes in length, and was never dubbed,\nso you'll have to hunt down subtitles. Note also that [a short film (titled\njust \"Yu-Gi-Oh!\")](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_%28film%29) was\nproduced, which you might want to watch after you've finished the \"zeroth\"\nseries.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T22:27:12.160", "id": "11253", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T23:43:28.623", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-04T23:43:28.623", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "11248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nAs the answer above me stated, watch it in that order, but there is also Yu-\nGi-Oh! Season 0 (or just Yu-Gi-Oh in Japan) that to my knowledge wasn't\nreleased outside of Japan. The show is less yu-gi-oh than the rest, with the\nvery few duels, but it's kinda a prequel to the first season, Duel Monsters.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-28T17:48:45.040", "id": "33991", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-28T17:48:45.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25896", "parent_id": "11248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs I understood it, each coffin was for an attempted resurrection. The\nresurrection of the fourth failed as explained above. I assume that Orochimaru\neither didn't know it would fail, or wasn't sure it would fail, so he tried\nanyway. I think the coffins were not the actual coffins that the bodies were\nburied in, just bodies used for the jutsu, possibly generated by the jutsu.\n\nAs far as needing a host, what you copied only says that a sacrifice is\nneeded, which was probably arranged off-screen. I'm not sure what that has to\ndo with being able to summon the fourth hokage.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T23:51:38.893", "id": "11254", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-14T00:13:31.710", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-14T00:13:31.710", "last_editor_user_id": "6218", "owner_user_id": "6218", "parent_id": "11250", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nRemember the Orochimaru did not know of the Shiki Fuujin, he didn't know about\nnot being able to summon the fourth. The Shiki Fuujin was kept highly\nconfidential and was only ever used twice throughout the series.\n\nNow for a more practical explanation, the author likely didn't think that far\nahead, and caused The Third to be able to \"cancel\" the third summon. The Shiki\nFuujin explanation was later applied an implied by certain events taking\nplace.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-14T14:31:32.820", "id": "11263", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-14T14:31:32.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "11250", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis was stated by the Support Manager??(or is that just a forum title) of\nCrunchyroll:\n\n> This involves getting the rights to the songs that are used as opening and\n> endings for each show on the site.\n>\n> So not only when licensing new simulcasts would we be going after the show\n> but also the opening and ending songs.\n>\n> A lot of bands are reluctant to let their songs be licensed as this means\n> that the translation presented is -THE- official translation of the song.\n\nSource: <http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-803435/so-crunchyroll-why-not-\nsub-op-and-ed-songs-as-well>\n\nHe also backs that up at: <http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-758633/are-\ncr-subs-lacking-a-bit>\n\nSo he does seem to be a staff from Crunchyroll.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T22:13:16.837", "id": "11252", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-13T22:13:16.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "11251", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNobody knows why this is happening. Even **Eren** can't remember what actually\nhappened and it has not been resolved till now(59). Currently they are\nfollowing **Erwin** 's plan. The question may be answered in the future.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-21T19:17:12.573", "id": "12974", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-21T19:56:33.513", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-21T19:56:33.513", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "11255", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure this is due to the fact that turning into a titan requires\nenergy. Serially turning into one like that was wearing him down, such that he\ncouldn't turn into the normal full-sized titan of normal titan intelligence.\nIf he burned enough energy as a titan or through regeneration, he would not be\nable to turn into a titan at all for a while, as established much later in the\nmanga.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-21T23:57:01.717", "id": "12981", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-21T23:57:01.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3734", "parent_id": "11255", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason why Eren can't sometimes turn into a titan because he doesn't have\na objective to focus on, unlike his first transformation which he focus of not\ndying and the vision of his mother, sometimes his anger trigger his\ntranformation. For example, Annie's tranformation was easlier for her because\nshe had to be cold blooded when getting Eren. Before the last espiode Armin\ntold Eren to leave his humanity and became a monster to able to fight Annie. I\nhaven't read the manga but I do my research on Attack on Titan and I will read\nthe manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T06:41:13.583", "id": "17177", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T06:41:13.583", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10902", "parent_id": "11255", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason why he can't turn into a Titan at will is because he can only do so\nif there is a set goal in mind. Which is also why he could not turn in to a\nTitan when he was in the well, but later on when he was sitting at the table\nwith the rest of his squad and he dropped his spoon and then proceeded to pick\nit up, he grew a Titan arm.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-06T23:45:25.113", "id": "21370", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-07T02:01:39.340", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-07T02:01:39.340", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "14311", "parent_id": "11255", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nEren cannot transform, for purpose. Because it's is possibility that's\ntransform into titan will need sunlight and energy. I'm certain sure Eren need\nsun light/energy and bite his finger at same time. In episode 23-24, Annie\navoided to go dark underground. If she went into and bite finger, she wouldn't\nbe able to transform. That's why Annie and others titan shifter alway on\noutside in order to transform.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-05T16:00:59.140", "id": "39262", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-05T16:00:59.140", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31294", "parent_id": "11255", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think eren didn't have enough energy and sunlight so he was not able to\ntransform into full titan. So thats why annie and zeke if always outside to\ntransform.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-10-04T10:53:01.330", "id": "59730", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-04T10:53:01.330", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56529", "parent_id": "11255", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason is the plot :D He had to be captured by Kenny's goons so the story\ncould happen :D\n\nOk, but with all seriousness, Eren needs to be strong, both mentally and\nphysically. After dozens of test he was probably. He didnt knew his limits\nback then and before test he managed to fully transform only 3 times - all of\nthem very randomly.\n\nAlso i think it depends on how strong Titan Power is.\n\nSPOILER: Carting Titan is probably the weakest, but can stay in titan form for\nthe longest. Colossal Titan is huge, so he is very concious about to when to\ntransform into one - Ww can see Nertholdt transformin io Collosal's upper body\nin season 3, but then day later h is carried by Reiner. He never rly fights\nback when he and Reiner are attacked by mindless titans even if they both\nalmost get eaten, so he probably needs a lot of energy to transform. Eren has\n2 titan powers. His transformation is probably more demending than armored or\nfemale titans.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-01-02T18:23:40.387", "id": "61474", "last_activity_date": "2021-01-02T18:23:40.387", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58021", "parent_id": "11255", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWith the second trailer of the first movie released on\n[Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X0i4gnbBOA), and based on below\nsynopses, it seems like the first movie will feature the first chapters of the\nmanga. The wall will fall by the Colossal Titan, Eren will join the Survey\nCorpse and will have to transform to defend mankind. It is also confirmed that\nLevi will not feature in the movie, but an additional character and additional\ncontent will be created instead.\n\nFrom [Wikia](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_on_Titan_%28Live-\nAction_Movie%29):\n\n> That day, humanity remembered... More than one hundred years ago, Titans\n> suddenly appeared. The majority of the human race was eaten and civilization\n> collapsed. The survivors of the war built three walls to prevent the\n> invasion of the Titans, and kept the peace by securing the living area\n> inside. In one hundred years, the wall has not been broken... until this\n> day.\n\nFrom [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2072230/):\n\n> A teenage boy named Eren Jaeger must use his special gift to fight alongside\n> with the military to defeat the titan race. Mankind is on the brink of\n> extinction when these man eating monsters terrorize everybody and destroy\n> the last of human civilization left in the world.\n\n* * *\n\nRead more on [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan#Live-\naction_films), [Asianwiki](http://asianwiki.com/Attack_on_Titan_%28live-\naction%29), [Finalreel](http://www.finalreel.co.uk/attack-on-titan-movie-\ntrailer-part-two-end-of-the-world/) or their [Official\nwebsite](http://www.shingeki-seyo.com/).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-27T23:15:50.250", "id": "21901", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-27T23:15:50.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "11256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst off, there are a number of minor departures from the source material,\nsuch as Mikasa's general personality and the setting of the world, but this is\nto be expected - all adaptions have a degree of director's license, and the\nmain bones of the series are still easily visible.\n\n> \"This is not the Attack on Titan you saw on the comic book page. This is not\n> the Attack on Titan you saw animated on television\" [...]\n>\n> \"It takes place in the future of our world, with remnants of warplanes and\n> weaponry peppered across the countryside. Its great walls were built by\n> human hands...\"\n>\n> Taken from [Anime News\n> Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/attack-on-titan/part-i/live-\n> action-movie/.90469)\n\nThe first movie begins at the same point as the anime series, with the breach\nof the outer wall, and covers the majority of the main points up to and\nincluding the first battle in the Trost District:\n\n * Eren, Mikasa and Armin's friendship and discussing what is outside the walls\n * Eren falling out with the Garrison soldiers in his home city\n * The Colossal Titan appearing and kicking a hole in the wall of the Shiganshina District (Monzen in the movie)\n * Signing up to the Survey Corps. with the ideals of revenge\n * Travelling to and fighting in the Trost District with the other graduated recruits from Eren's training squad (Omotemachi in the movie)\n * Eren saving Armin, but being swallowed and having his arm bitten off in the process\n * Eren shifting into a titan from inside the one he was eaten by, and emerging in front of Mikasa\n * Eren (in Titan form) fighting the Titans inside the city\n * An unconscious but fully healed Eren emerges from his defeated Titan form, signifying the end of the first movie\n\nAdditionally, a more detailed plot summary can be read\n[**here,**](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_on_Titan,_The_Movie:_Part_1)\nalong with other information on the film.\n\n* * *\n\nTherefore, the following arcs are covered in the first film:\n\n * The 'Fall of Shiganshina' arc\n * The '104th Trainees Squad' arc\n * And approximately half of the 'Battle for Trost' arc\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-26T14:14:48.913", "id": "24388", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-26T14:14:48.913", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10654", "parent_id": "11256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime and manga have quite different storylines. Therefore, whether the\nprime minister dies in the anime or not is up for debate, but in the manga\nchapter 227, it explicitly shows the prime minister burning to ashes after\noverusing the seven flames, as well as a news broadcast in chapter 228 about\nthe death of the prime minister, with the next panel having normal citizens\ncommenting on how his death will affect politics. \nIt is up to you to use the events of the manga to make sure whether the prime\nminister dies at the end of the anime. In my opinion, though, I think it's\nbest to keep the events of the anime and manga separate. \nOne thing to note about my answer: I haven't watched the anime fully yet. I\nwill check the last episode, however, and update this answer accordingly.\n\nEdit: Just saw the ending of the anime. The story of the anime is so different\nfrom that of the manga that I think whether the prime minister dies in the\nanime or not will always just be speculation.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T02:43:54.103", "id": "11327", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T02:51:06.183", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-18T02:51:06.183", "last_editor_user_id": "6283", "owner_user_id": "6283", "parent_id": "11261", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe year is a little bit off but I think it's [Hadashi no\nGen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen)\n\n\n\nIt's a manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. The series takes place in Hiroshima\nduring the final months of World War II. The main character is a boy named Gen\nNakaoka and his family live in poverty. It shows an atomic bomb attack in\nHiroshima on first volume, where Gen's father and siblings perished in the\nfires, but Gen and his mother managed to escape.\n\n> There's a scene where one boy (I believe he's the main character here) is\n> fighting with his friends, and I think his friends are bullying him, and\n> that boy bites the friend's finger off and eats it later\n\nIt's probably this, he ate the finger afterward.\n\n\n\nAs you can see, the art is not like most shounen manga around 2000. It's\nbecause this manga was serialized from 1973 to 1985. It was published at late\n'90s in my country so I guess there is a possibility that this is the manga\nyou mentioned.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-22T00:32:35.030", "id": "11401", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-11T10:51:41.643", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-11T10:51:41.643", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "11264", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLets first see what happens on Sabaody Archipelago.\n\n**Chapter 508** Kizaru arrives on the island, searching for Sentoumaru. Since\nhe couldn't find Sentoumaru straight away, he gets bored and when Kizaru is\nbored, he\n\n> Couldn't possibly just leave a bounty head like this sitting around...\n\nSo that's why he started attacking the super novas in the first place. He\ndidn't really intend to do so otherwise. He wasn't ordered to do so and had\nbigger fish to fry.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nr3VX.jpg)\n\n**Chapter 510** Kizaru finally contacts Sentoumaru and goes after the\nStrawhats.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4cTh0.jpg)\n\n**Chapter 511** Kizaru finally meets with the Straw Hats, but is kept busy by\nRayleigh.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FWVgo.jpg)\n\nSo to summarize. They got away, because Kizaru never told the Marines about\nthe supernova's presence. The Marines didn't know about their presence so\n**they never ordered Kizaru to arrest them**. He only attacked them, because\nhe was bored anyway. I think he really only does what he is ordered to. He and\nKuzan are the lazy type like that. Secondly, **Rayleigh kept him busy** for\nsome time, giving them time to escape.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-14T17:31:51.663", "id": "11266", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-14T17:31:51.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "11265", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nSimply put, Kizaru wasn't there to arrest the supernovas. He was there to\nexecute or arrest the Strawhats, or more precisely, Luffy, since he broke the\nlaw and assaulted a Celestrial dragon. That was his primary objective. He\ncould have arrested them but that would have wasted time and the Strawhats\nwould have escaped. That's why he concentrated more on them.\n\nThe reason he attacked the supernovas was because he was bored and it did not\ntake much effort, while arresting them would.\n\nYou could say that the other marines should have arrested them as they were\ninjured anyway, but the low rank marines are still no good against the\nsupernovas. And hence, the supernovas were able to escape.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-14T18:49:05.380", "id": "11267", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-14T19:46:52.210", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-14T19:46:52.210", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6241", "parent_id": "11265", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey're the Major's friends/friends-with-benefits. (She actually does have a\nlife outside work.) The one with darker hair is named Ran; the one with\nlighter hair is Kurutan. She isn't a maid bot, she's just wearing a frilly\ndress and getting Motoko drinks, well, _'cause_... (By the way, I think it's\nactually Kurutan's apartment -- the Major was borrowing her virtual reality\nequipment to review the case.)\n\nKurutan is actually also featured in episode 8: She works as a nurse, and the\norgan trafficking case involves two of her patients. She calls in the Major\nand Section 9 after the police investigation founders.\n\nI haven't read the manga, but I understand that it features more of Motoko's\nrelationships. Apparently she had a boyfriend (who made one cameo in _SAC_ ),\nand she had a virtual threesome with Kurutan and Ran, as opposed to their more\nimplied relationship here.\n\nI don't know more about them. Still, with their names, you should be able to\nfind some more on Google.\n\n(References: [TV\nTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex),\n[Wikia](http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Kurutan), and the credits.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-15T14:37:37.020", "id": "11283", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-15T16:48:03.723", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-15T16:48:03.723", "last_editor_user_id": "4192", "owner_user_id": "4192", "parent_id": "11268", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter a bit of searching on the Japanese internet, I found an explanation that\nmakes so much sense that it almost _must_ be right. That said, I haven't found\nofficial material to back this up,1 so this may yet be incorrect.\n\nHere's the deal: \"Tetsudou\", written 鉄道, [means\n\"railway\"](http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E9%89%84%E9%81%93). \"Poppo\" (ぽっぽ) is\na childish/onomatopoetic word for a steam train (see e.g. [the zokugo-dict\nentry](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/jn/%E6%B1%BD%E8%BB%8A/m0u/), usage 3\n[in Japanese]). So I suppose what would have happened is that the kids\nwould've gone along some sort of chain of word associations and ended up\ndeciding to call the guy \"Poppo\" because that's related to \"Tetsudou\".\n\n* * *\n\n1 Then again, there may not even _be_ any official material to support this\nexplanation - I think this joke/whatever would be very transparent to people\nbrought up in Japan and so this connection would probably go without saying.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-15T04:42:47.590", "id": "11275", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-15T04:48:08.660", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-15T04:48:08.660", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "11271", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nPoppo is the Japanese equivalent of the English \"Choo-choo\" both which are\nonomatopoetic words for a steam locomotive, derived from the sound it makes.\nIt is pronounced Poe-poe, not Pop-oh. I know this because I have visited a\nrailway and museum for tourists in Japan named \"Poppo Town\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-17T04:54:22.213", "id": "40910", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-17T05:00:02.000", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-17T05:00:02.000", "last_editor_user_id": "33123", "owner_user_id": "33123", "parent_id": "11271", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think she has any name other than HEROINE in the anime and the\nGame.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T03:12:24.853", "id": "11329", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T03:35:32.800", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-18T03:35:32.800", "last_editor_user_id": "6273", "owner_user_id": "6273", "parent_id": "11277", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nShe is only known as \"Heroine.\" Now, if you look at Wikipedia or any other\nsource and check the dates, you'll see that the anime is released after the\ngame.\n\nIf the developers of the game never named her, e.g. implying the \"Heroine\" is\nwhomever plays as her in the game, they didn't need to name her. This would\nallow the players to insert themselves into the game as the game's \"Heroine.\"\n\nSo the fact that she isn't named could be entirely intentional in the game and\nthe decision was carried over to the anime. If she didn't need a name in the\ngame, I guess she didn't need it in the anime.\n\nWikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia_(visual_novel)>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T22:02:36.747", "id": "11366", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-18T23:50:02.437", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-18T23:50:02.437", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "11277", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**She said 「な・あ・に」 ( _na-a-ni_ , \"What\").**\n\nIn Japan, there's a TV program on BS2 channel called\n[BSアニメ夜話](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E5%A4%9C%E8%A9%B1)\n(BS Anime Night Talks), and on 26 February 2009, it's talking about _Ghost in\nthe Shell: Stand Alone Complex_.\n\nRegarding that scene, the original storyboard revealed that she was supposed\nto say \" _na-a-ni_ \". With cold expression, Major Kusanagi didn't convey\nanything to Batou even in that situation. [Toshio\nOkada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Okada) (anime producer & co-\nfounder and former president of Gainax) responded\nwith「[ドS](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/4435/)ねーちゃんですね」(\"She is\na very sadistic girl, eh.\")\n\n* * *\n\n**Fun fact** : before this information was revealed, many Japanese fans\ntheorized that she was actually saying 「と・け・い」 ( _to-ke-i_ , \"(Wrist)watch\")\nbecause\n\n> she tried to tell Batou that she wasn't wearing a watch, which means that\n> she was _not_ the real Major Kusanagi, only a body double of her.\n\nThe fan theory was also strengthened by the close-up of her wrist after that\nscene (spoiler image below)\n\n> \n\n* * *\n\nSource:\n\n * [jademetal's blog post (Japanese)](http://jademetal.exblog.jp/9713472/)\n * [Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanese)](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1236546452)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-15T16:45:18.383", "id": "39867", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-15T16:45:18.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "11286", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> One-hundred Exceed eggs, including Happy and Carla, were taken from their\n> parents and sent to Earth Land on a mission to obliterate the Dragon\n> Slayers. When Faust began using Anima to steal Magic Power from Earth Land,\n> Queen Shagotte gave the Exceed in the field new orders: To capture the\n> Dragon Slayers and bring them to Edolas. The Dragon Slayers would then be\n> used to create a special type of Lacrima filled with Dragon Magic.\n>\n> Carla decides to abandon her mission to kill Wendy and brought her to Edolas\n> without knowing that her mission had been changed to simply lure Wendy to\n> Edolas. She becomes very distressed by the fact that she unknowingly\n> betrayed Wendy and fulfilled her mission. Happy is unable to recall the\n> details of his mission but refuses to be a puppet of the Exceed, making it\n> clear that he and Carla are members of Fairy Tail first and Exceed second.\n> After this, they escape and are declared outlaws.\n>\n> This mission was later revealed to be a lie, due to the Queen's power she\n> could see the events of the Edolas arc, and as such, she saw Extalia\n> destroyed. So in order to keep the species alive, she sent 100 eggs to Earth\n> Land to protect them, and lied about the mission to kill the Dragon Slayers\n> to the other Exceed.\n\nSource : <http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Exceed> ([specific\nrevision](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Exceed?oldid=650711))\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-15T21:12:05.350", "id": "11293", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-15T22:10:47.010", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-15T22:10:47.010", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "5026", "parent_id": "11291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are no connections between Exceeds and Dragon Slayers. Hiro seems to\nalways pair them up without any reason.\n\nRemember, Gajeel did not want an exceed initially, but after seeing Wendy and\nNatsu with one he wondered why he didn't have one. He then became jealous of\nNatsu and Wendy and wanted Lilly as his comrade.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T17:59:38.050", "id": "11311", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T14:25:39.750", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-11T14:25:39.750", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "11291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIf we follow the story of Fairy Tail from the beginning, I think it goes like\nthis. At first, Happy was the only Exceed. Mashima-sensei created Happy to be\nsome-kind of sidekick to Natsu. And then there's Gajeel. At that time Mashima-\nsensei still has no idea about the Edolas Arc, so Gajeel was on his own, even\nwhen he revealed that Laxus' thunder magic was in fact a dragon slayer magic.\nThen there's Wendy, another dragon slayer. Wendy is the first female dragon\nslayer, and since Happy was the only flying cat (the term Exceed was not\nrevealed at that time), he decided to make another flying cat, named Charle to\naccompany her.\n\nIt was during this that Mashima-sensei got the idea to make Exceed as the\nofficial sidekick of Dragon Slayers. That's why he then make Gajeel wonder why\nhe is the only Dragon Slayer without a cat. And after that, Exceed is the\nofficial sidekick of Dragon Slayers. So when he created Sting and Rogue, he\ncreated Frosche and Lector too.\n\nEdit: The Exceed is sidekick of dragon slayers that was raised by dragons,\nthat is, a real dragon slayer, not the one made by embedding lacrima such as\nLaxus (Thunder Dragon Slayer) and Cobra (Poison Dragon Slayer).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-09T10:05:52.507", "id": "14965", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-25T05:01:20.137", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-25T05:01:20.137", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "11291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nSecond gen dragon slayer don't get exceeds because there not connected to\ndragons a lacrima was put inside them to give that magic\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-22T12:59:11.203", "id": "27514", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-22T12:59:11.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19244", "parent_id": "11291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's just a coincidence that all of the First Gen Dragon Slayers have\nExceed partners. After all, we find out that the whole \"Kill/Bring the Dragon\nSlayers to Edolas\" thing was made up by the queen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-11T20:52:31.007", "id": "39813", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-11T20:52:31.007", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31924", "parent_id": "11291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAll the First and Third generation dragon slayers have exceeds because they\nare basically true dragon slayers because they are or were raised by a dragon.\nThe queen of extalia which is now no more created a fake mission to capture\nand kill the dragon slayers so the future for the exceeds could be safe,\nincluding her daughter, Carla. The only exceed that later became a sidekick of\nan dragon slayer that didn't get sent to earthland is Panther Lily, which\nGajeel made his sidekick because he was jealous of Natsu and Wendy with Happy\nand Carla.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-12T21:46:43.593", "id": "40845", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-12T21:46:43.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33052", "parent_id": "11291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n**I agree with Ayase Eri answer**.\n\nHowever i like to add some of my own points based on the episodes which shows\nother Exceeds after Edolas Arc. Mashima didn't have any original plan\nregarding to have Exceeds with Dragon slayer, he only created Happy as a\nsidekick for Natsu. Later he decided to assign Carla to Wendy so that he can\ncreate Edolas Arc. After Edolas Arc he decide to Make Exceed as official side\nkick for Dragon Slayer and made Lily as Gajeel partner, but i don't think\nthere was any specific reason to assign Exceed with Dragon slayer other than\ncreating Edolas Arc, because in later episodes Nichiya(Exceed) join Blue\nPegasus guild which does not have any Dragon Slayer. Also i think people want\nto see an Exceed with Dragon slayer that why when he created Sting and Rogue,\nhe created Frosche and Lector too.\n\n<http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Exceed>\n\n<http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Nichiya>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-28T13:35:05.660", "id": "41081", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-28T13:40:37.183", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-28T13:40:37.183", "last_editor_user_id": "33328", "owner_user_id": "33328", "parent_id": "11291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo answer your first question: because it's said so. (Possible explanation\ncould be that Exceeds were laid there, so their bodies has some mechanism that\nthey just needed to awaken but mages needed the X-balls for that. But this is\njust a speculation as we only know as much as it's said: mages needed the\nX-balls, Exceeds didn't.)\n\nTo answer your second question: they were not supposed to have the right\nmindset. They were pretty much in doubt about everything, especially about\nthemselves. What are they, what are they for... what they knew so far changed\nquite drastically in a few hours of time. While it's not stated explicitly in\nFairy Tail, in most of the other universes (including RPGs), using magic needs\nquite some concentration, so that \"right mindset\" thing can be more crucial\nthan you think.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T15:31:49.573", "id": "11303", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-07T15:28:46.740", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-07T15:28:46.740", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "11295", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI only have an answer to your second question: It seems like the \"right mind\"\nwas all about knowing who you are as a person. The only real evidence I have\nfor this theory is the fact that when Happy and Carla jumped off of Lucky's\nisland, Happy was talking about them not being Exceeds sent to capture the\ndragon slayers but they were Fairy Tail wizards who were going to do\neverything they could to save their friends. Right after that, they got their\nmagic back.\n\nMy only other option would be that they couldn't doubt themselves in any way.\nThey had to be confident in what they were doing because right after they got\nto Edolas, they could obviously be doubting themselves as to what they were\ndoing and why various things, then they got confident again and regained\nmagic.\n\nI don't know if either of these is right, but they are my theories.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-12T03:04:51.363", "id": "26571", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-07T15:28:49.293", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-07T15:28:49.293", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "18454", "parent_id": "11295", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nEarthland mages both generate and absorb magic from the surrounding area, but\nin Edolas, it is rare to find Ethernano there as there is a limited supply.\nThink of it like this, gold nowadays is not found like in the movies in large\nchunks. But instead, it is a massive amount of dirt dug up and refined into\ngold. It is the same there in Edolas, the Exceeds evolved to generate their\nown magic, but since it was in limited supply, humans did not learn to absorb\nit or generate it, so they have no magic of their own. On the other side,\nEarthland mages generate and consume the magic of their own, making it so that\nthey need both to use magic. The X-balls allowed them to just generate their\nown to use magic. So it is like H2O, but the X-balls let them just use O.\n\nFor Happy and Carla, it is because they thought they used magic the same way\nand thus learn how to as they used magic. Since they believed they need to\nabsorb magic from the surrounding, they did. But once there was no magic to\ndraw on, they had no idea how to use magic. But once they found out the truth,\nthey could use magic without absorbing it. It was mostly psychological as in\nlike Superman. He believed he needed to eat, sleep, and breathe, so he did.\nBut once he found out he did not need to be worried about it, sure he would do\nthose things, but that does not mean he had to.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-27T05:00:47.780", "id": "34459", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-07T15:28:55.157", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-07T15:28:55.157", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "26391", "parent_id": "11295", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think we're told how many years Gelus or Rem had. Ryuk said that\nShinigami were lazy and only write names now to extend their life, and doing\nmore than that would be seen as \"working too hard\".\n\nIf we think about it, Shinigami might be _sooo_ lazy that they might only\nextend their own life when they have very little time left, then find some\nyoung person to steal a few decades off from, that said it's possible that\nGelus and/or Rem only had a few years left.\n\nAlso keep in mind that Rem died preventing Misa's death which L and/or Watari\nwould have been the cause of, one could assume before Rem killed them Misa had\nlittle time left given L apparently had hard evidence to convict Misa, L\nprobably could undeniably prove Misa was the second Kira in a week of so and\nsee her incarcerated (possibly solitary confinement), from there she may have\nbeen executed or took her own life from being separated from Light, I wouldn't\nbe surprised if that was in the space of a year or 2.\n\nThis is on the basis that a Shinigami _does not gain any life_ when preventing\nsomeone's death, so L's lifespan was never taken by Rem to then be passed onto\nMisa. Watari, who I remember dying first, was old so he probably didn't have\nmuch time left anyway.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-15T23:45:08.643", "id": "11297", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-16T17:00:26.213", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-16T17:00:26.213", "last_editor_user_id": "2159", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "11296", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you look when Misa sees L's lifespan, it is roughly 57 years by the\nequation on switching from shinigami time to human days/years so she would\ngain 57 years from L alone. Watari had about a year or two left.\n\nWhen Rem sees Misa's life span after making the second eye deal it reads\n56873. You divide that by 3556 and that's how many days she has left (just\nover 15.)\n\nSo by the theory that L and Watari's lifespan do _not_ go to Rem, the author\nwould be correct on the timeline.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-20T01:15:13.700", "id": "11372", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T15:46:19.393", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T15:46:19.393", "last_editor_user_id": "13532", "owner_user_id": "6311", "parent_id": "11296", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt isn't a plothole. There's a rule in the Death Note that specifically covers\nthis.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SsogP.jpg)\n\n> The use of the Death Note in the human world sometimes affects other human's\n> lives or shortens their original life-span, even though their names are not\n> actually written in the Death Note itself. In these cases, no matter the\n> cause, the god of death sees only the original life-span and not the\n> shortened life-span.\n\n_(Source: Volume 8 of the manga)_\n\n**Short Answer:** It doesn't matter how much time Misa gained from the\nshinigami, or how much she lost from halving her lifespan. Every time someone\nrelevant to your fate is killed by the Death Note, the future changes and your\nlifespan is recalculated.\n\nMisa was living for the sake of Light. Light was killed by the Death Note. It\nwould have been strange if her recalculated lifespan hadn't been dramatically\nshorter than before.\n\nThe fact she died on Valentine's Day in the year following Light's death\nstrongly suggests she committed suicide because he was dead. This is also\nshown at the end of the anime.\n\n**Longer Answer:** The same way killing a murderer with the Death Note can\nextend the lives of their future victims, killing someone with the Death Note\ncan shorten the lives of their loved ones.\n\nWe see both of these examples take place with Misa. Her life had ended with\nthe mugging, but she was indirectly allowed to keep living by the Death Note.\nLater, she had a long life ahead of her, but the Death Note indirectly gave\nher a premature death.\n\nThe best part of this rule is the last sentence: \"In these cases, no matter\nthe cause, the god of death sees only the original lifespan and not the\nshortened lifespan.\"\n\nSo basically, the lifespans that shinigami see aren't reliably accurate. They\ncan only see the person's original lifespan. If the Death Note indirectly\ndecreases someone's lifespan, that person's visible lifespan won't change.\n\nThis rule was most likely created by the author just to help ensure there\nwouldn't be any plotholes.\n\n**Note:** This only holds true for the Death Note indirectly _shortening_\npeople's lives. The user's original lifespan will still visibly decrease if\nthey trade half their lifespan for shinigami eyes (as shown when Rem is\nreunited with Misa, as she is able to tell that Misa traded half her lifespan\nagain).\n\nThe user's lifespan will also visibly increase if the Death Note indirectly\nlengthens someone's lifespan. Rule LIX states:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NEDl3.jpg)\n\n> A human death caused by the Death Note will indirectly lengthen some other\n> human’s original length of life even without a specific intention to\n> lengthen a particular person’s original life span in the human world.\n\n_(Source: Volume 10 of the manga)_\n\nThe rule about shortened lifespans, rule XLII, is the only rule which states\nthat \"in these cases\" the shinigami can't see the correct lifespan. There is\nnever any mention of this regarding lengthened lifespans.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-23T13:16:07.897", "id": "11424", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-15T03:51:41.863", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-15T03:51:41.863", "last_editor_user_id": "3387", "owner_user_id": "3387", "parent_id": "11296", "post_type": "answer", "score": 27 }, { "body": "\n\nTbh I think it is kind of a plot hole because Rem actually specifies that from\nGelus saving Misa her lifespan was extended far beyond a normal human.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-23T21:57:05.453", "id": "11429", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-23T22:20:11.623", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-23T22:20:11.623", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "6350", "parent_id": "11296", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe Near(N) used the Death note to kill MisaMisa. MisMisa had no\nknowledge that Light had died, and she doesn't seem like a person that would\ncommit suicide. Near probable wanted to eliminate Misa for just in case, or as\na punishment for being the second Kira.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-19T00:12:26.513", "id": "15171", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-19T00:12:26.513", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9238", "parent_id": "11296", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nHas no one considered the possibility that suicide is not a natural cause of\ndeath and therefore remaining lifespan is not affected by it? For example, a\nperson that is supposed to die at 60 dies at 20 because of suicide, but at the\ntime of death, their lifespan still reads that they have 40 years left. Or is\nthere a rule in the Death Note pertaining to suicides?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-19T21:05:03.017", "id": "18685", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-19T21:05:03.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11278", "parent_id": "11296", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Shiki Fuujin was invented by Minato, and taught to Hiruzen. That was said\nduring Hiruzen's battle with Orochimaru.\n\nIt was only ever used two times, once when sealing the Kyuubi (which caused\nhimself to be sealed in the Shinigami), and once against Orochimaru by Hiruzen\n(which caused Hashirama, Tobirama, Hiruzen and Orochimaru's hands to be\nsealed).\n\nBecause of that, no other souls were sealed in the Shinigami's stomach.\n\n* * *\n\nTrue enough, the author later contradicted what he said at the beginning of\nthe series, and said the the Shiki Fuujin was invented by the Uzumaki clan,\nand taught to Minato (probably by Kushina).\n\nIn that case, it may be possible to only unseal the specific souls you want\nto.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T07:17:17.450", "id": "11300", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-17T08:34:51.123", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-17T08:34:51.123", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "11299", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI hummed the song in Soundhound and it recognized it thanks a lot guys! It's\n\n> Aqua Times - ALONES\n\nIt's the 6th Bleach opening theme song.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T21:59:57.837", "id": "11315", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T22:51:35.213", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-16T22:51:35.213", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "6265", "parent_id": "11313", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThis tune is from Bleach, Opening 6\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xHIgXwqXGk).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-17T08:39:00.063", "id": "11321", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-17T21:39:44.487", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-17T21:39:44.487", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6273", "parent_id": "11313", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI was going to agree with you jogging off recent memory however taking a look\nat upcoming anime for the rest of the year I can't say I agree one season is\nstronger than another. Here are a few examples for the rest of the year: Akame\nga Kill!, Hanamonogatari, Space Dandy 2, Sword Art Online, Fate Stay/Night\nremake, Psycho Pass 2, Durarara 2, Evangelion 4.0, Log Horizon 2, new Gundam\nseries. There are plenty of other great looking titles too though I can't say\nI know them well enough to know whether they will be successful or not.\n\nI feel like this is all just a subject of opinion really, though this does\nseem to be the season for romance anime however, cant recall there being this\nmuch of it before.\n\nLast winter did seem to have an unusual amount of mediocre anime though. I\nonly watched a few things last season (winter) other than ongoing shows that\nwere still running from the previous season.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T18:59:20.570", "id": "11341", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T18:59:20.570", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6290", "parent_id": "11316", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Hikari family created an artwork and they became the two halves of it.\nThey are the soul of it. So they were probably created by the Hikari with the\nartwork. It is in the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T23:05:31.120", "id": "11368", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-19T23:10:05.430", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-19T23:10:05.430", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6307", "parent_id": "11322", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nDark and Krad are two halves of the Hikari work [\"The Black\nWings.\"](http://dnangel.wikia.com/wiki/The_Black_Wings_\\(Artwork\\)).\n\nAs for how and why they come to manifest, it was never elaborated upon in the\nmanga or anime.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0faAM.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-10T10:15:12.743", "id": "29676", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-10T10:15:12.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "11322", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the anime they are the two halves of Blackwings without much information to\nit. In the manga: actually Blackwings was its own artwork and Hikari was about\nto give it life when Niwa attempted to take it, interrupting the ritual. This\nhad a side effect that the magic ended up on both men, but not for giving, but\nfor taking life (both Dark and Krad are cursed to stop both lineages: Dark by\nmaking it difficult for the person to show or be overflown by affection and\nlove, which can make being in a relationship difficult; Krad makes near\nimpossible needing or caring for others and actively used method to destroy\nthe cursed person). All this is in the Argentine Qualia arc of the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-23T03:13:20.203", "id": "30756", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-06T12:08:44.760", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-06T12:08:44.760", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "22914", "parent_id": "11322", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_One Piece_ has been on hiatus for 2 weeks ( _Weekly Shonen Jump_ issue 28 &\n29) since Oda was getting some sort of surgery done. It should be back in the\nnext issue (issue 30).\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9eAz1.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T00:22:08.600", "id": "11325", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-08T08:53:41.223", "last_edit_date": "2018-04-08T08:53:41.223", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "11324", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMy guess is that it was sweet water. Whereas sea water takes away powers, not\njust any water. He must be ok with swimming pools too.\n\nP.S. There was a question about salt too. But I don't think we should seek\ndeep logic here. Sea and seastone annihilates devil fruits power. simple as\nthat. :) Unless Oda sensei decides that some other staff being dangerous will\nhelp the plot rolling.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T08:27:35.303", "id": "11333", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T08:48:01.757", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-18T08:48:01.757", "last_editor_user_id": "1649", "owner_user_id": "4777", "parent_id": "11331", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think he isn't affected, because technically at that time, he isn't\n**submerged** in water, but the water is rather submerged within him.\nAccording to the rule, this should be fine. If it wasn't, Devil Fruit Users\nwould always die of thirst or even die from the water within their own body.\nThis type of water could also be considered **\"moving\" water** , as it moves\nconstantly with every move you make. The same goes for when Luffy defended\nWhitebeard against Crocodile at Marineford. At that time he covered himself\nwith water and was still able to move freely, since it would be considered\nmoving water. So unless they are submerged into it, Devil Fruit users can\ntouch water without weakening.\n\nFrom the [Devil Fruit wiki page](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit).\n\n> With this new power comes a weakness: the sea rejects the new Devil Fruit\n> user and they become helpless while **submerged in water** (or \"become a\n> hammer,\" in Japanese parlance).[2] Oda stated in SBS that Devil Fruit users\n> are susceptible to all types of water, not just seawater. This includes the\n> white sea surrounding Skypiea. He elaborated on this, saying that **\"moving\"\n> water** , like rain or waves, **does not weaken** Devil Fruit users, while\n> standing water does.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T10:18:53.933", "id": "11335", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T10:18:53.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "11331", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI had the notion that devil fruit users have to be weary sea water, not just\nany water. That's why Luffy's power didn't work when an enemy put him into a\nprison made of sea stone.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-21T14:01:48.407", "id": "11394", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-21T14:01:48.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6328", "parent_id": "11331", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAll humans came from the same ancestor (\"Adam\"), does that make us all family?\nTechnically it does. Realistically, so much time had passed that no one looks\nat it that way.\n\nThis is the same. Based on the latest chapter, it indeed seems as though\nHagoromo was the ancestor of the Uchiha and Senju clans, while Hamura (at\nleast based on his eyes in the picture) was the ancestor of the Hyuuga clan.\n\nThat makes them all one big happy family, except that this history is long\nforgotten, and no one views it like that anymore.\n\nAs for clan ownership, Naruto belongs to the Uzumaki clan because his mother\nwas from the Uzumaki clan. The Uzumaki is a subclan of the Senju, which is\nrelated to the Uchiha. Does that make Naruto an Uchiha? Not really.\n\nClan ownership is determined by birth, not ability.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T10:23:22.387", "id": "11336", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T10:23:22.387", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "11334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs a competing answer to the one of\n[@MadaraUchiha](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/11336/1751), here's my take.\n\nThe clan belonging is solved quite easily. The clan-belonging is given through\nthe generations maternally.\n\nThis means what decides the clan is not the father, but the **mother**. In\nNaruto's case that is Kushina Uzumaki\n\nOther than that, the [naruto-wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Clans) gives\nsome nice information:\n\n> A clan (一族, Ichizoku; **Literally meaning \"family\"** ), in the loosest sense\n> of the term, refers to a family or group of shinobi who form a basic unit of\n> a shinobi village. Majority of these clans were **mercenary military\n> forces** even before the First Shinobi World War. [...] Membership in a clan\n> is usually determined by **blood relations and genetics** , which is vital\n> in the usage of kekkei genkai and secret techniques. [...] While clans **may\n> be composed of many individuals** and extended families, many clans\n> mentioned and seen in the series were somewhat **limited to a nuclear\n> family.** Highlighting by me\n\nIt seems that the most clans seen, are just the mentioned nuclear families.\nThis leads to the assumption, that one line of family that somewhen declared\nitself a clan **is** a clan. Some family lines had more offspring, and some\nhad less. for example the Hyuuga-clan has multiple branch families, who are\nsubordinate to the main family. The Uchiha clan on the other hand seems to\njust be loosely organized.\n\nSome clans seem to have a definitive familiy head (Hyuuga, Akimichi, Nara).\nOther clans are not organized (Uchiha, Uzumaki, Inuzuka, [...]).\n\nClans mostly differ in chakra affinity and Kekkei Genkai, as well as battle\nstyle. In fact that seems to be the only thing shared in a clan. This Chakra\naffinity seems to be genetic, so that you are rather born into a clan than\n\"join\" it. It seems that not every person has his / her own clan, most\nprominent examples are probably [Kakashi\nHatake](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi) and [Might\nGuy](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gai).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T11:36:50.120", "id": "11337", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T11:36:50.120", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1751", "parent_id": "11334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAll humans are not descendants of Kaguya.\n\nOnly a small amount are and they are all most all extinct i.e Uchiha, Uzumaki,\nSenju, Hyuga, Kaguya clans.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-04T19:41:23.037", "id": "37674", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T19:41:23.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29596", "parent_id": "11334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIIRC, it is not explicitly stated if you get your clan name based off the\nfather and mother. But typically the wife would take the husbands name, for\ninstance Hinata Uzumaki.\n\nIf you go by the principle that the wife will take the husbands name, which\ndoes not happen on a few rare occasions, it is just common sense that you'd\nget the fathers name, as the mother married into the clan. However, Minato is\nof Namikaze and Kushina is of Uzumaki, yet Naruto is named Uzumaki. Kushina\nnever took Minato's last name because Minato had tons of enemies that sought\nhis life and if Naruto was named Namikaze, it'd make those same people go\nafter Naruto. Naruto wasn't named Namikaze because that would have put him in\ndanger.\n\nNow, for your second question.\n\nIt is correct that all chakra started from Kaguya Otsutsuki, but that does not\nmean that everyone should be related to her. Remember, when Kaguya had\nHagoromo and Hamura, the chakra was accidentally inherited into them. Kaguya\ntried taking it back which eventually lead to her being sealed by Hagoromo and\nHamura. Hagoromo saw chakra as not a weapon, but a power that can link\neveryone's soul and hearts, leading all to love each other.\n\nHagoromo saw chakra as a power that would bring people together, and did so by\ngiving others chakra that did not directly inherit it from his mother, Kaguya.\nBecause of this, clans like the Aburame and Inuzuka are most likely\ndescendants of those Hagoromo passed chakra onto. Remember that once Hagoromo\npassed chakra onto others it would now become an inherited power.\n\nUzumaki, Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, and Kaguya clan are all descendants of the\nOtsutsuki, more specifically Kaguya, and other clans such as the Inuzuka are\nmost likely descendants of those Hagoromo passed chakra onto.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-12T21:56:53.237", "id": "62439", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-12T21:56:53.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "11334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLet's first off state bloodline limits.\n\nBloodline limits come with perks like Wood and Ice elements (Yamato and Haku).\nThis suggests that there is indeed a chance (Since it's not for _everyone_ ,\njust like the sharingan and byakugan) they will inherit it from their parents.\n\nIt doesn't seem like anyone outside the clans have the blood limit abilities,\nso we will assume that even when someone does not posses for example, Wood\nelements, they might still be carriers and carry the ability on to their\nchildren.\n\nHowever, they do seem to pass on elements within clans. The Uchiha specializes\nin Fire, Uzumaki in Wind, and so on.\n\nIt is quite safe to assume that you inherit the talent for your chakra element\ntype.\n\n## However\n\nAnyone can learn any chakra element type given enough practice. Even though\nthis won't easily become better than their main chakra element type, it could\nstill be passed on to their children more naturally.\n\nFurthermore, it's probably a lot like bloodtypes in real life. Tho there are\ntechnically rules, every human can get a random blood type instead of what\ntheir parents got. if not, we would all have the same blood types in the end!\nI believe this is also how the elements work. It's a game of chance between\nwhich parent has the stronger genes.\n\nSources:\n\n 1. I've been a proper fan for 10 years now and am rewatching + reading it for the 9th time or so.\n 2. <http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra> This webpage explains how ninjas can learn chakra types besides their natural affinity.\n\nOther than that, this is all speculation. There is no proof of what I said and\nthere is no explanation from Kishimoto relating to this. All my speculation is\nbased on how I have learned the anime and manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-18T13:57:30.587", "id": "11340", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-18T14:06:47.913", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-18T14:06:47.913", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "6289", "parent_id": "11339", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nUchiha are already affiliated with fire and can learn other elements by\npractice to help answer this even more it is more or less possiable Naruto\ncharacter's are more likely born with elements though birthday's like Naruto\nOct 10 1996 he has wind and he is a Libra but it also goes by one's clan blood\nline also so bit can be by both ways.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T03:17:40.090", "id": "11436", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-24T03:17:40.090", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6353", "parent_id": "11339", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Because the anime got canceled while in the middle of broadcasting due to\nreceiving continuing protest from[Parent-Teacher Association\n(PTA)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent-Teacher_Association) in Japan.**\n\nFrom [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%81!!%E7%94%B7%E5%A1%BE#%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1),\n\n>\n> アニメ独自の解釈が折り込まれているが、放送当初からPTAの抗議が絶えず、中盤以降は放送取り止めを叫ぶほどに激化したという。結局、大威震八連制覇編で放送は終了することになり、\n> **第31話にて第2戦途中から最終対決までの経過をダイジェストで進める強引な手法が採られている。**\n>\n> While the original interpretation of the anime was folded in, PTA's protest\n> continued since from the beginning of the broadcast, then got intensified\n> until reaching to the point of \"shouting\" to stop the broadcast while in the\n> middle of the story plot. In the end, since the broadcast was decided to end\n> after \"Great Trembling Conquest of the Unified Eight\" arc, **the battle from\n> the middle of 2nd round until the final round in episode 31 was cut and\n> summarized heavily to advance the progress.**\n>\n> (Emphasize mine)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-16T05:06:48.573", "id": "43801", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-16T05:06:48.573", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "11342", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Devil Fruit Power**\n\nIt can't change. For example, Chopper and Franky were changed their hearts. In\nthat case, Franky (in Chopper's body) can use all of Chopper's Devil Fruit\nabilities and Chopper (in Sanji's body) can't use his power at all.\n\n**Haki using ability**\n\nIt will change because Haki means willpower (power of heart).\n\n**Strength (physical and mental)**\n\nI think it can't change. My example is Sanji (in Nami's body). He can't use\nhis legs as well as in his own body and he can't run too fast for a long time\nbecause Nami's lungs can't bear.\n\nThey're only my views.\n\nI try my best to get some references from wiki.\n\nIn following case, Tashigi (in Smoker's body) can use Smoke Smoke ability and\nher Haki is not very well and Luffy easily beats with Haki.\n\n> Tashigi confronts Luffy, demanding to know what he is plotting but Luffy\n> easily dodges her smoke attack and pins her down using Haki wondering why\n> \"Smoker\" got so weak. Smoker, seeing this, attacks Luffy from behind to\n> Luffy's surprise that \"Tashigi\" got much stronger.\n\nIn following case, Sanji (in Nami's body) will not stand for a punch of Nami\n(in Franky's body). That shows strength doesn't change.\n\n> Sanji joyously introduces himself as Nami, ripping off his jacket and\n> holding up her breasts, much to Brook and Usopp's pleasure. Nami goes in to\n> punch herself, but is stopped by Chopper, saying she (meaning her body) will\n> die.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T05:29:06.980", "id": "11352", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-09T12:06:18.727", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-09T12:06:18.727", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "4978", "parent_id": "11351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n## Strength (Physical)\n\nA body's physical strength is not defined by its heart, but by the actual\nbody. Therefore it is not switched, as we can see when Nami (in Franky's body)\nwants to beat Sanji (in Nami's body) again. Nami should not be able to even\ntickle Sanji, but if she would have hit him again in chapter 663, Nami's body\nmight have been severely injured.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h1vmG.jpg)\n\n## Strength (Mental)\n\nMental strength on the other hand, does come from the heart as we can see\nSanji do extraordinary things with Nami's body. Things she would physically be\ncapable of, but not mentally. Like when Sanji blue walks his way to safety\nafter rescuing Kin'emon's torso in chapter 672.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h8Tho.png)\n\n## Devil Fruit Power\n\nDevil Fruit Powers become part of the body after eaten, so the same can be\nsaid as with actual physical strength. For example, it was Luffy's complete\nbody that became rubber and not his mind. Which was proven on multiple\noccasions. Oars couldn't use any rubber attacks on his own after he obtained\nLuffy's shadow. Tashigi could turn her body into smoke after her mind got\nswitched with smoker's and Franky could still change Chopper's animal forms.\nWith the last example, I would also like to point out that this is also a good\nexample where mental strength is not switched, since Franky could not control\nChopper's final form, while Chopper could, as seen on Fishman Island. I'm not\nsaying Chopper is stronger than Franky perse, I'm saying that if mental\nstrength and thus experience would have been transferred he would have been\nable to control the monster.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nXFbU.png)\n\n## Haki\n\nHaki obviously also gets switched, since this literally means willpower. So if\nthe will gets switched, so will it's power. This can be seen when Sanji\nactivaly uses Kenbunshoku Haki to locate Kin'emon's torso.\n\n> Kenbunshoku Haki is Sanji's speciality concerning Haki. When helping\n> Kin'emon recover his torso from within the lake on Punk Hazard, Sanji\n> actively used Kenbunshoku Haki in order to locate the samurai's torso within\n> the dark water.\n\n[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sanji/Abilities_and_Powers)\n\n## Summary\n\n> In the case of switched \"souls\", **Devil Fruit powers are maintained within\n> the original body** , while **voices and other abilities, such as Haki, go\n> along with the switched mind/soul** , as seen when Sanji used his\n> Kenbunshoku Haki in Nami's body, due to Haki originating from the\n> individual's spirit.\n\n[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ope_Ope_no_Mi)\n\n## Physical heart vs Mind\n\nIt should be noted that Law only switches the mind and not their actual\nphysical hearts. This can be seen when he switches Tashigi and Smoke's mind,\nwhile holding Smoker's physical heart in his hand in chapter 663.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AB1Sh.jpg)\n\n> Otherwhise it would have been chaos if Caesar would have put Law's heart\n> inside himself at Dressrosa, becoming Law.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T11:59:27.043", "id": "11358", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-23T09:41:57.263", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "11351", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Episode 01 - The world is full of ____? = Forgiveness\n>\n> Episode 02 - What dwells in your heart? = Courage\n>\n> Episode 03 - What's red, but isn't red? = Blood\n>\n> Episode 04 - What comes suddenly and never leaves? = Death\n>\n> Episode 05 - How do you get a bird out of its cage? = Make it trust you\n>\n> Episode 06 - Every pretty flower has ____? = Thorns\n>\n> Episode 07 - What can you never outrun? = Time\n>\n> Episode 08 - Which gatekeeper is the one who lies? = The one who don't tell\n> the truth\n>\n> Episode 09 - What dwells in your heart? (Make-up Test) = Love\n>\n> Episode 10 - Who's the queen? = Haru Ichinose\n>\n> Episode 11 - How to tell apart felicitation from a curse? = ???\n>\n> Episode 12 - Therefore, the world is full of ____? = Lies\n\n[Reference](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1164381#sHY5XYTHcvzJ2MkF.99)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T07:25:10.563", "id": "11355", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-20T12:55:03.773", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-20T12:55:03.773", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "6299", "parent_id": "11354", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nTo avoid spoilers. As Prix mentioned, there are no definitive answers to the\nriddles. The answers that Haru and Tokaku come up with are simply \"their own\nanswers.\" The riddles are presented to Tokaku in situations where she fills in\nthe Riddles with answers that have been decided based on her current situation\nand mental state.\n\n[code]\n\n 1. What is the World Full of? (Haru answers\" forgiveness\")\n 11. Therefore, the World is Full of ______?\n \n[/code]\n\nOne might answer \"lies\" for the second, while Haru answers \"forgiveness\" for\nthe first. However both Haru and Tokaku's situation and mental state are\ndrastically different. 1. being a sort of happy/mellow situation with her\nclass mates, 11. being dramatic and sad due to the prior events.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T08:44:18.117", "id": "11356", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-07T07:20:33.343", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-07T07:20:33.343", "last_editor_user_id": "3034", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "11354", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nNot putting questions just what I think should be the answers to this.\n\n 1. The world is full of \"lies.\" \n 2. regret. \n 3. blood. \n 4. a curse. \n 5. open the cage door. \n 6. Every pretty flower has its \"end.\"\n 7. death. \n 8. the one who speaks of everything but the truth. \n 9. (make-up test) love\n 10. Haru \n 11. a curse is as spell that's like Carma and a felicitation is a congratulation. \n 12. Therefore, the world is full of \"hate.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-04T15:54:16.450", "id": "14300", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-04T16:49:23.890", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-04T16:49:23.890", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "8584", "parent_id": "11354", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou will note that Tobirama, in the same scene tells Orochimaru that achieving\nbetter fidelity/accuracy/efficacy with edo tensei will be the cause of his\ndownfall, since **this time** they have been revived with nearly their full\npower.\n\nThis strongly suggests that Orochimaru did not perfect edo tensei at the time\nof the Chunnin exams and that Hashirama was not at full strength and capacity.\n\nWhich explains why he did undo the binding at the time of the Chunnin exams -\nhe couldn't.\n\nYou will also note that Hashirama doesn't seem to recall Orochimaru, further\nsuggesting that he was not fully revived at the time, though that could simply\nbe his personality...\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T20:58:43.110", "id": "11363", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-01T10:06:04.763", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-01T10:06:04.763", "last_editor_user_id": "1649", "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "11362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nSuppressing their personalities weakens their abilities. Un-suppressing their\npersonalities makes them more accurate and more powerful due to their near-\ninfinite chakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T03:20:40.430", "id": "11437", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-01T21:49:12.537", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-01T21:49:12.537", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6353", "parent_id": "11362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason has been explained both in the anime and the manga. The earlier\nversions of reanimation were far weaker then the perfected ones used now.\nSimply put, the old reanimations were simply weaker in everything compared to\nthe originals or the newer versions of Edo Tensei.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-01T09:34:25.793", "id": "11583", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-01T09:34:25.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6445", "parent_id": "11362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI will first use your examples to explain Rokushiki and Haki and then give a\ncomparative conclusion using the wiki.\n\n# Rokushiki\n\nRokushiki was mainly explained in chapter 348 and was explained to be pure\nbody strength with every technique. Rob Lucci confirms this after the CP9 had\ndefeated the Strawhats for the first time.\n\n * Tekkai\n\n> Our **bodies** are trained to the point of mimicking an iron shell. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bI2XC.jpg)\n\n * Soru\n\n> It only seems as though I've disappeared. With the **explosive power of my\n> legs**... [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MtAIC.jpg)\n\n * Geppo (See also [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/9987/6166)\n\n> (Also with the **explosive power of my legs** ) I can kick the air and\n> float... [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VnCWj.jpg)\n\n * Rankyaku\n\n> Nami: They cut the wall with their kicks!? \n> Kalifa: If you have the **speed** to create a kamakaze, then it's\n> possible... \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dPasg.jpg)\n\n * Overall\n\n> We've trained our **bodies** to great extremes since we were young. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AzBkq.jpg)\n\n# Strawhat crew's attacks\n\n * Sanji's sky and blue walk are basically like Geppo. The more power you gain in your legs, the faster you can move. So if you master this technique anyone could do it, as we have seen Sanji do in Nami's body. This could be argued to only have been possible by Sanji somehow imbuing Haki into Nami's legs as she would not have been as powerful to use blue walk. That's why I mentioned that technique is needed also. After being a thief and being on the run for most of her teen years, Nami has the physical potential of using blue and maybe even sky walk, she just didn't learn the technique needed to do so.\n\n * Zoro's ranged attacks are basically like Rankyaku. The more speed you can put in your slashes, the bigger the slash gets. Haki can be imbued to make the slash stronger as Law did against Vergo or when Mihawk slashed at Whitebeard (the fact whether Haki was imbued here, is debatable though). Haki can be imbued, but it isn't needed to create ranged slashes as explained with Rankyaku. Mere arm power or slash techniques would be enough.\n\n * Zoro cutting steel aka Mr.1 \nAs explained in the following question, [Zoro did not use haki in\nAlabasta](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13306/6166)\n\n# Haki\n\nHaki on the other hand is a pure mental power and it might not even be\npossible to get it out even with enormous training.\n\n * Overall \n\n> Haki is a power that **lies dormant** in all the world's creatures, but a\n> majority of humans go without noticing this power or perhaps finish their\n> lives failing to ever pull it out, **even if they try**... \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t6w85.png)\n\n * Kenbunshoku Haki \n\n> The ability to **sense** the opponent's presence even more strongly is haki\n> with the color of observation. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/L2Bd0.png)\n\n * Busoshoku Haki \n\n> This power can also be imbued into weapons (and can thus not be a mere\n> physical trait as you can't _train_ weapons) \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dLx5e.png)\n\n * Haoshoku Haki\n\n> This color of the conquerer however, **cannot be trained and strengthened**\n> , even if you are able to control it. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jg3ov.png)\n\n# Difference\n\nTherefore to conclude, Rokushiki is not Haki. **The result might be similar,\nbut they are fundamentally different.** **Rokushiki is based on pure physical\npower, while Haki is based on will power.** You could therefore technically\nhave both Rokushiki Tekkai enhancement and Busoshuoku Haki at the same time,\nalthough this has not been shown in the series thus far. This is also why\nRokushiki can be easily taught by becoming physically stronger, while Haki\nmust be developed by becoming mentally stronger, which isn't as easy to do.\nRokushiki will therefore not make the user able to negate Devil Fruit powers\nand hit Logia users for example.\n\n> Tekkai is similar to Busoshoku Haki, as both reinforce the users body in\n> some way, the difference being that Haki is based on the user's willpower\n> and Tekkai is based on the user's physical power. Also, Tekkai is more\n> inclined to defense and the user exhibits no movement while it is active. In\n> comparison, Busoshoku Haki is capable of both offense and defense.\n\n[Source on Tekkai](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rokushiki/Tekkai)\n\n* * *\n\n# Other information\n\nIf you want to read more about Haki, see the question about [the abilities\nthat are transferred when hearts are interchanged between\nbodies](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/11358/6166) \nIf you want to read more about Geppo, see the question about [how CP9 members\nand Sanji can run in the air](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/9987/6166)\n\n# Usage\n\n**Background**\n\n> It was used by **Garp** for the first time against Luffy to bypass his Devil\n> Fruit power and hurt him in Water 7. Later, **Sentomaru** used a Haki-imbued\n> attack against Luffy, which made the Straw Hats think he was a Devil Fruit\n> user due to their lack of knowledge about the ability. Afterwards,\n> **Rayleigh** used Haki to stop Kizaru and even touch his Logia body. The\n> first time the **Kujas** named this ability \"Haki\", they were shown wielding\n> Haki-imbued arrows. During the **Marineford War** , Haki was also used many\n> times by marines and pirates alike. It was shown that Haki is very common in\n> the New World, unlike in Paradise where Haki users are fairly rare and\n> almost nobody knows about it. It is later explained by Rayleigh once he\n> begins training Luffy.\n\n**Examples**\n\n> * **It can be used to augment the user's own attacks** , projected ahead\n> of the user as pure brute force, or imbued in weapons to increase their\n> effectiveness. Any attack enhanced by Busoshoku Haki hits immensely harder\n> than it would normally be without it. The Kuja's Haki-imbued arrows, for\n> example, are capable of penetrating solid stone.\n> * **This type of Haki also has the ability to bypass the powers of a Devil\n> Fruit user** , touching the \"substantial body\" beneath whatever protection\n> the fruit provides, such as the case of body-altering Devil Fruits such as\n> Logia or Paramecia users. However, unlike Kairoseki, it does not negate a\n> user's Devil Fruit powers, allowing them to defend themselves, and continue\n> fighting normally. By the same effect, this Haki can also be used as a\n> higher level of offensive, more so than just bypassing a foe's Devil Fruit\n> powers.\n> * **A heavy concentration (or coating) of this Haki can be used to harden\n> parts of one's body** , turning the area black, thus making the user denser\n> and more formidable, and giving their attacks greater power. Although Luffy,\n> the first in the mainstream storyline to demonstrate this effect, named the\n> technique as Busoshoku: Koka (武装色 硬化 Busō-shoku: Kōka?, Color of Armaments:\n> Hardening), no other users except Donquixote Doflamingo, such as Vergo and\n> Smoker referred to this method by such a name.\n> * **Busoshoku Haki works independently of the user's Devil Fruit** , as\n> shown when Luffy uses it to enhance his Gear Third attack underwater. This\n> type of Haki may not be equipped to attacks that are not from one's body\n> except for weapons, or anything generated from one's own body (like Kizaru's\n> laser beams, Marco's flames or any other energy/non-solid attacks based on\n> Devil Fruits). So, those who attack with parts of their body can combine\n> their Haki and Devil Fruit powers.\n>\n\n[Source on Busoshoku Haki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Busoshoku_Haki)\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T21:32:08.577", "id": "11365", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-19T11:31:37.960", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "11364", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWith the lack of a good answer i'll flesh my comment out.\n\nGoogle Translate translates 進撃の巨人 (\"Shingeki no Kyojin\") to [Giants\nAdvance](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA).\nnow Google Translate is machine translation so not good with sentances but it\ndoes does help with single words as guidelines, so the 2 main parts of the\ntitles are\n\n * Shingeki (進撃) = [Advance](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83)\n\n * Kyojin (巨人) = [Giant](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA)\n\nNow の (no) gets translated to\n[of](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E3%81%AE) so putting all together we\nget **Advance of Giant**.\n\nNow why did the title then become **Attack on Titan** , well without any\nexplanation of the translators we can assume the words was changed to make the\ntitle sound cooler as per Eric's (Listed as キルア) said in the comments to the\nquestion\n\n> it's just a typical grammatical abomination as a result of someone trying to\n> make a cool and catchy English title\n\nso how did they do that? well we can assume that _Advance_ and _Giant_ were\nchanged to _Attack_ and _Titan_ but why changed _Of_ to _On_ , the only reason\ni can think of is in the original title _Shingeki no Kyojin_ , if you did a\npartial translation it could be **Advance no Giant** , someone proably went\nand reversed _no_ to _on_ so we get **_Advance on Giant_** , do the same word\nreplacement as mentioned above and we get **_Attack on Titan_**\n\nNow this answer relies heavy on Google Translate, however this answer also\napplies logic, you can find better explanation of Japanese Language\n[here](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/12658/function-\nof-%E3%81%AE-particle-in-the-\ntitle-%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA), while it properly\ntranslates the original title and explains the use of の in it, it does to\nexplain how Attack on Titan came about so this answer serves to add assumed\nlogic behind such a decision.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-22T22:24:13.153", "id": "11417", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-22T22:32:39.833", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:43:49.183", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "11370", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nTo answer your questions, one must note one important thing:\n\n * The original English \"subtitle\" for 進撃の巨人 (\"Shingeki no Kyojin\") is in fact \"Attack on Titan.\" (See the [volume one cover](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YIp8w.jpg) for reference.)\n\nSemantically there is very little meaning that would connect the two titles,\nand is likely to be attributed to an error, on the part of the author or his\neditor/publicists.\n\nThe biggest notable change is the use of \"titan\" as a translation for\n\"kyojin.\"\n\nAccording to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, [titan](http://www.merriam-\nwebster.com/dictionary/titan) is defined as:\n\n> 1. capitalized: any of a family of giants in Greek mythology born of\n> Uranus and Gaea and ruling the earth until overthrown by the Olympian gods\n>\n> 2. one that is gigantic in size or power: one that stands out for\n> greatness of achievement\n>\n>\n\nIn terms of simplicity, titan might be an very good choice of words, but in\nterms of conveying the actual meaning, it falls a bit short.\n\n\"Kyojin\" is a very simple word, consisting of two kanji which translate as\n\"gigantic\" and \"human\" or \"person\" respectively. Naturally a more correct\ntranslation of this word would be \"giant\", because it's simplest way in\nEnglish that we can to refer people are like humans, but are significantly\nbigger.\n\n\"Attack\" seems like a broad and simplistic choice of \"attack\" for \"shingeki.\"\nboth share similarities to one another, the semantic connotations are a bit\ndifferent. \"[Shingeki](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%80%B2%E6%92%83)\" is a\nvery specific term for akin to a (swift) military advance/charge on the enemy.\nUsing \"attack\" oversimplifies this, and in combination with the preposition\n\"on\" and the noun \"titan\" (which can also refer to one of Saturn's moon by the\nsame name), leads to an error in interpretation. Shingeki can also be used to\nrefer to a vanguard rally/charge, much like what the Survey Corps are.\n\nBut let's take a deeper look at the title itself and see what we can get from\nit. It we directly translate and take it's meaning literally, the title would\nbe something like \"Advancing Giant.\" This doesn't work well as a title and\nprobably isn't what I think the author intended on convey to his readers.\n\nIf we read the English titles as it is, \"Attack on Titan,\" grammatically one\nwould infer that \"Titan\" is some sort of location rather than a person or\ngroup. E.g., \"Attack on Normandy.\" For this we have the preposition \"on\" to\nblame. Initiating an attack \"on\" usually implies that whatever \"on\" refers to\nis the thing being attacked, not doing the attacking. So the combination of\n\"attack\" and \"on\" as a passive proposition, implies in the act of inciting an\nact of aggression upon the following noun, \"titan.\"\n\nThe Japanese particle \"no\" (in \"Shingeki no Kyojin\") is often seen translated\nas either the preposition \"of\" or the possessive (-'s), as a marker of\npossession.\n\nIn the case of the title, \"kyojin\" would be something possessed by \"shingeki\".\nTherefore we can assume that the giant is something that belongs to the\nadvance/charge, in other words a giant pertains to a military advance/charge\nof a vanguard.\n\nNow what does all this mean? Is it referring to the Titans as a whole or\nsingling out on in particular? One can imply that the title is referring to\nEren Jaeger, as he is the one and only giant who fights on the side of the\nhumans, thus the giant who leads the way for their armies to finally make a\ndent in the enemy forces, representing hope for the humans. So something like\n\"The Advancing/Charging Giant,\" or more appropriately something \"The Giant of\nthe Vanguard.\" Essentially referring to the giant that would lead people\ntowards victory/salvation.\n\nThe original title was most likely intended to convey a great deal emotional\nvalue, especially when the circumstances involved in the story. However, this\nmight not be as easily conveyed in English so they often to go with something\nshort and to the point for the English subtitle (which is typically only there\nfor the \"cool\" factor) and never intended to be used as the localized name.\n\nFor better SEO, sometimes localizers like to include the romanized Japanese\nname or w/e the \"engrish\" subtitle might be, like in the case of Oreimo, this\nway they can bring already associating links from the original source material\nto their localized version, without needing to break the bank with\nadvertising.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-22T22:49:08.680", "id": "11418", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-24T21:21:54.117", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "11370", "post_type": "answer", "score": 37 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe it is [Ryu the Primitive\nBoy](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1463)\n\n\n\nPlot summary from ANN:\n\n> Set in primitive times, a baby with white skin is born into the world. As\n> his skin color is different from the rest of the children around him, the\n> baby is immediately disliked and alienated from the others. Deserted and\n> left on his own, the baby is eventually picked up by an ape called Kitty and\n> raised as her child. The baby, Ryuu, grows up to be a good man but at this\n> moment, his mother is attacked and killed by Tirano. In order to defeat\n> Tirano and also find his real mother, Ryuu decides to set off on his own\n> journey. In the midst of his travels, he meets the siblings Ran and Don.\n> With his new-found companions, Ryuu begins his battle against hardships and\n> obstacles.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T12:29:23.550", "id": "12900", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-28T09:43:04.197", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-28T09:43:04.197", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "7630", "parent_id": "11371", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's an actual manga called [_Hanaori\nSoushi_](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=62329), by Choujin.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8xfw5.png)\n\n> Having lost their parents at a young age, Chiharu and her brother find\n> strength in each other. The past behind, the two live their lives in peace.\n> However, the appearance of a new transfer student named Hisaya will put an\n> end to these tranquil days. What does he want, and why does it involve\n> Chiharu?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-20T20:11:26.197", "id": "11383", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T04:37:13.297", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T04:37:13.297", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "11382", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's [**Kekkaishi**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kekkaishi)\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## [Synopsis](http://myanimelist.net/manga/105/Kekkaishi)\n\n> By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a \"kekkaishi\"--a demon-\n> hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day,\n> Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a\n> seriously crotchety grandfather! Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and\n> childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, but their families\n> are feuding over who is the true practitioner of the art.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-21T01:13:54.313", "id": "11387", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-21T02:21:47.790", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-21T02:21:47.790", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "1601", "parent_id": "11384", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn 2011, many main creators did drop out from Gainax. They are the members of\nthe 'Gurren Lagann' and 'Panty & Stocking' creator.\n\n[Panty & Stocking with Garter Belt\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panty_%26_Stocking_with_Garterbelt)\n\nAfter that, those members build a new company named 'TRIGGER Inc.' as the\nanime studio of course.\n\n[Trigger Company](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_%28company%29)\n\nWhen they make the anime 'Kill la Kill', answered the question of the 'Gainax\ndrop out'.\n\n[ガイナックスを辞めた理由。新作「キルラキル」トリガー大塚雅彦代表に聞く１ - Why they dropped out from Gainax. We\nasked Otsuka CEO of the Trigger of new anime 'Kill la\nKill'.](http://www.excite.co.jp/News/reviewmov/20131003/E1380729604652.html)\n\n\\---Japanese---\n\n> ガイナックスを飛び出し、身軽さを手に入れたかった\n\n\\---English---\n\n> We want to spring out from Gainax, and take the free from the burden for the\n> new challenges.\n\nIn fact, they have continued the new challenge.\n\n[Little Witch Academia 2\nCrowfunding](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1311401276/little-witch-\nacademia-2)\n\nYou can interpret this as the fall of Gainax. But I do not think so. There is\nno doubt that Gainax has grown them. When the grown birds leave the nest,\ntheir parents should be relieved. However, I think I might be the minority,\nbut I think that they ought to be praised.\n\nToday, Gainax is too large. I think that their current essential work now,\ngrow the people, and make the affiliates. Studio Color, A-1, Trigger, those\nare the works of the Gainax I think.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-13T08:22:01.010", "id": "13390", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-11T08:55:29.563", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-11T08:55:29.563", "last_editor_user_id": "35019", "owner_user_id": "3412", "parent_id": "11386", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs you can see, the interior coloring of the cafe changes too. We could assume\nthat they're moving together to a new place every now and then, or that the\ncafe decorator is currently working 400% with customers still in the cafe.\nSenjougahara also changes her \"disguises\" between scenes. We can assume they\nhave enough money to afford all that, and are changing between their meetings.\n\nBut what's really going on is probably just Shaft doing a comedy thing with\nchanging decorations to somewhat lighten up the mood of a very serious\ndiscussion between Kaiki and Hitagi.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-21T14:07:01.440", "id": "11395", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-21T14:07:01.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "11392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a quite wild guess but it could be [**Saint Seiya\nOmega**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Seiya_Omega):\n\n> The storyline of Omega takes place 25 years after the Holy Wars of the 20th\n> century narrated in the original manga and its anime adaptation. The goddess\n> Athena is still on Earth after reincarnating to continue her duty of\n> protecting peace against several antagonistic deities. Athena and a new\n> generation of Saints prepare to face new threats that lurks in this new era,\n> in which Pegasus Seiya, the protagonist of Kurumada's manga, is revered as a\n> Saint of legend and one of Athena's Gold Saints.\n\nThe two characters you are referring to could be:\n\n * **Dragon Ryuhou** :\n\n> Very caring of others by nature, Ryuhou suffers from a frail health. Calm\n> and polite, he has a natural talent for becoming a formidable Saint, but he\n> is affected by his condition. He received the Dragon Cloth from his father,\n> the legendary Dragon Shiryu. The young Ryuhou commands the element of Water.\n> After Genbu's death, Geki entrusts the Libra Cloth to Ryuhou so that he can\n> give it to his father.\n>\n> \n\n * **Pegasus Koga**\n\n> The main protagonist in the series, trained since his early childhood to\n> become a Saint, Koga is rebellious but also compassionate. He is still\n> unaware of the purpose of having become a Saint in an era of peace, and has\n> yet to discover his destiny. He meets Seiya, who teaches him the importance\n> of friendship.\n>\n> \n\nThe other two characters you mentioned could be **Aquila Yuna** and **Lionet\nSoma**.\n\n \n\nThe plot will match your description even more if you replace Satan with the\nGreek god of war Mars, who in any case has a devilish aspect.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-15T09:56:45.620", "id": "20081", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-19T07:56:34.210", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "11402", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGood question. So far, the Totsuka no Tsurugi's seal has a better record than\nthe Shiki Fuujin. So it's hard to tell.\n\nGiven that when Edo Tensei was released, even though who were sealed got\nreleased, I would _guess_ that yet. Nagato's soul has returned to the pure\nworld, and can be revived with Edo or Rinne Tensei.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-22T10:49:54.127", "id": "11407", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-22T10:49:54.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "11405", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nMy theory:\n\nSealing 'someone' doesn't mean that they are going to seal the soul of that\n'someone'. It is not explicitly mentioned that the Totsuka Sword includes the\nsoul up to the extent like the Shinigami.\n\nThe body can be remained in the \"world of drunken dreams\" but the soul _can\nbe_ released. Edo-tensei only requires a body of a living person as a vessel,\nthen a deceased person's soul and bound to it. So it is possible that a person\nstruck by the Totsuka Sword _can be_ brought back by Edo-Tensei.\n\nUpdate:\n\nAs per Kaguya Otsutsuki about Benihisago, It seals the soul as well. Once\nsucked in, releasing Edo-Tensei won't release the person. Its mentioned here\n[Benihisago](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Benihisago).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-23T03:25:08.080", "id": "11419", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-23T15:03:32.370", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-23T15:03:32.370", "last_editor_user_id": "1709", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "11405", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nTo answer this, no, they are permanently sealed.\n\n 1. Edo tensei needs a soul\n 2. Nagato's soul was sealed\n 3. Itachi is deceased and his weapon hasn't been said to release souls.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T03:12:18.113", "id": "11435", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-24T03:52:04.383", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-24T03:52:04.383", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6353", "parent_id": "11405", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs someone metioned in comments Orochimaru was successfully \"reanimated\" by\nSasuke so that means his soul wasn't sealed away. Totsuka probably seals only\nbody of a person so the answer is **Yes - it should be possible to bring\nNagato back**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-01-06T01:52:29.243", "id": "56375", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-06T01:52:29.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42388", "parent_id": "11405", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime being only 13 episodes long **covers up to chapter 20 (page 101 in\nvolume 4** , with chapter 20 being the second chapter in this volume). In the\nsecond part of the 13th episode we see a preview of the next season and the\nmoments shown are mainly from the 5th and 6th volume. {Source: I own all of\nthe translated volumes and have watched the anime} Aku no Hana (The Flowers of\nEvil) original manga by Shuzo Oshimi was recently concluded at 11 volumes.\n\nAs for the second part of your question, the anime staff have taken quite a\nfew liberties in the direction of the anime. Major plot points are of course\nincluded in the anime adaptation. The **main plot** is the same, but as with\nmany anime adaptations some scenes were cut off, others were a little changed.\nWhat is more, some reactions from the characters are different in some scenes,\nwhich gives the viewer a slightly different image of the character. I can't\ngive you specific differences though (which as I said don't alter the plot, so\nno worries there), without possibly spoiling the story for you, as you didn't\nmention how many episodes of the anime you have watched.\n\nAlso, a special episode at the end of volume three isn't included in the anime\nadaptation and I doubt it will be, except perhaps as an OVA, as it is a small\nstory about Nakamura and another guy back in middle school.\n\nOne major difference, irrelevant to the plot, is the artwork, which is\nabsolutely different, and as a result the \"feel\" of the characters and the\natmosphere that both versions give to the audience/reader are different.\n\nKnowing that this shouldn't be part of my answer, I would however strongly\nrecommend reading the great manga that Aku no Hana is.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-22T11:50:50.330", "id": "11408", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-22T11:50:50.330", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6253", "parent_id": "11406", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHer [wikia page](http://kill-la-kill.wikia.com/wiki/Ragy%C5%8D_Kiry%C5%ABin)\nsays:\n\n> She also has seven scars on her back that greatly resemble the stars\n> emblazoned in Goku Uniforms. The origin of these scars is unknown, but they\n> are likely a result of her fusion with Life Fibers.\n\nIt's very likely that this was a side effect of fusing with Life Fibers at\nearly age.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-23T18:12:55.943", "id": "11427", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-23T18:12:55.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "11426", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe scars are almost exactly the same style as the stars that indicate a Goku\nuniform's rank. Remember what the stars actually mean? It's the percentage of\nthe thread that's made of life fibers: a 1-star has 10%, 2-star has 20%, and a\n3-star has 30%. The presence of the star scars on Ragyo is likely\nforeshadowing that she's a life fiber being. I only count 7 in the full shot,\nso either that specifically means that she's only 70% life fiber (having been\ncorrupted by them when she was older rather than as a child like Ryuko or\nSatsuki), or the specific number is unimportant and the idea is that she\nherself contains life fibers, and at a higher percentage than any Goku\nuniform.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-07T20:33:25.800", "id": "23870", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-07T22:44:11.640", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-07T22:44:11.640", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "16132", "parent_id": "11426", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHate to write a suggestion in an answer, but too new to comment.\n\nHave you tried crunchyroll? If you pay for their premium membership you're\nsupposed to get HD anime and manga (you can get a manga only subscription).\n\nIf you're looking at fan scanlations, some online reader sites downgrade the\nquality of uploaded chapters in order to make the pages load faster, which\nwill result in jpg artifacting at times as well. If you're looking for higher\nquality, I suggest grabbing it from the scanlators' sites and/or using their\nreaders if possible.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T02:04:39.317", "id": "14423", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T17:03:00.387", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-13T17:03:00.387", "last_editor_user_id": "8676", "owner_user_id": "8676", "parent_id": "11428", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe layout of the anime is extremely non-linear, and in one episode, the whole\nstoryline jumps 2 years into the future. This was intentional by the producers\n(obviously), but it does make it very hard to follow. There are always enough\nsubtle references made by the characters in order for us to work out the\ntimeframe of the episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T01:23:17.800", "id": "11433", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-24T01:23:17.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6351", "parent_id": "11430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nConsidering that Kirito maintains the same attire throughout the entire show,\neven when he joins the guild, Knights of the Blood Oath, we can see that\nKirito keeps similar or the same armor/armor set. If this is the case, we can\ninfer that he keeps upgrading Cloak of Midnight and is altering it's visuals\nto fit his current situation.\n\nSo the fact that it looks different on Christmas is most likely to keep him\nwarm during this season.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T05:30:01.270", "id": "11440", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-24T05:30:01.270", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "11430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nActually Kirito received 3 coats before receiving the Coat of Midnight. It was\nhis 4th coat received after defeating the first floor boss, and yeah Coat of\nMidnight's also named as Blackwyrm Coat and made by Ashley. In between the 2\nyears gap, he may have received some coats or purchased them from virtual\nshops.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T08:28:04.383", "id": "15286", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-25T09:35:41.960", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-25T09:35:41.960", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "9329", "parent_id": "11430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is believed that The Coat of Midnight was the first coat he got, from the\nfirst floor boss, and had a couple coats afterwards (Probably the weird polka-\ndot one and the winter one.) before he got The Blackwyrm Coat, which is\npresumably another Boss Drop from a higher floor, or perhaps a player made\none, we do not know which.\n\nReferences, the whole first season and second season, however if it was said\nin some sort of developer commentary I would not know.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-05T15:23:36.470", "id": "34111", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-05T15:23:36.470", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26024", "parent_id": "11430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn some sense the coat is maybe telling that the time is now Christmas. In\ngame aspect, maybe a limited time item with a strong buff or it is the mission\nrequirement to get the resurrect item with that coat. Moreover just like\nDasttann777 said it is not linear and the timeline is somewhat empty after the\nfirst floor until he met with Sachi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-11T16:29:40.087", "id": "34208", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-11T16:29:40.087", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26105", "parent_id": "11430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I understand, he changed to the Blackwyrm coat (the one that was\nblack) because the Coat of Midnight was too recognizable and, having announced\nhe was a Beta tester, he marked himself as a target, and the Coat of Midnight\nbecame associated with \"the Floor 1 Beater.\" (cheater/Beta tester). When it\nbecame a nuisance, he changed it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-15T01:21:36.813", "id": "37865", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-15T01:21:36.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29770", "parent_id": "11430", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis item was not mentioned after it's introduction.\n\nDuring that introduction Klein was given it with the instruction to use it on\nthe next teammate who dies in front of him.\n\nDuring the final battle he has every motivation and opportunity to use it as\nthe wife of the man who gave it to him has died right in front of him! He does\nnot use it here. It is unreasonable to think he would not use it under that\ncircumstance.\n\nAn object like that would not be disposed of carelessly.\n\nThis yields two possible answers: he followed the instructions given to him\n(Very possible) or he gave/sold it to someone else and they used it, sold it\nagain, or retained it until it did not matter anymore.\n\nIn either case, this is neither a plot hole nor a deep mystery as it was a\nrelatively minor plot element, we were told exactly how he should use this\nconsummable, and, if he did so properly, it would not have been a large enough\nplot point to warrent it being shown. I doubt it would retain its value by the\nlater stories so it doesn't even matter if it wasn't used by a purchaser by\nthe end of SAO.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-25T14:04:16.107", "id": "11469", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-25T14:24:04.807", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-25T14:24:04.807", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "11431", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter giving the item to Klein, it's never explained what became of the item.\nThe reason for this is because of the way SAO was written. I would go into\ndetails, but I'll try to make it simple.\n\nSAO was originally a Web Novel, written from 2002 to 2008, before the author\nwas asked to publish it in 2009. Most of the side-stories that took place in\nthe \"Aincrad Arc\", were written around 2002-2004 (After the first \"Volume\" was\nalready written), between the other major arc, Fairy Dance and Phantom Bullet.\n\"Red Nosed-Reindeer\" (the story that Episode 3 is adapted from) is different.\nKawahara didn't write this story until after 2005, when he had already began\nwriting the final arc of SAO (which isn't even in the anime yet)\n\nEffectively, when he first wrote SAO, the Stone was not a concept he had in\nmind. When he began publishing, he never bothered to write the stone into any\nother story either (even though he included \"Red-Nosed Reindeer\" as a side-\nstory in the second book)\n\nI would have to assume that the stone was used to save one of Klein's\nGuildmates, considering that in the novel it was said that his Guild never\nsuffered a single casualty.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-16T15:42:54.170", "id": "12877", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-16T15:42:54.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4071", "parent_id": "11431", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion, that stone was something that could have been brought back in a\nmajor way. A previous poster mentioned the stone would have been perfect to\nresurrect Kirito in that final battle, but his will to overcome the system\nafter witnessing his true love fall for him would've been less meaningful to\nthe whole story, and stories ahead. Or it could have been used in any of the\nfloors skipped in the amine. To me I it just seems like Klein followed\nKirito's instructions and just used it on the next person he saw die; which\nwas probably a lot considering the rate of deaths that likely would have\nhappened in his presence. This is this only thing to go off based on actual\nfact of the Anime.\n\nI've never read the light novels, because I wonder if they have more content\nfrom the floors that they majorly skipped in the show.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-01T04:23:52.900", "id": "19015", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-01T04:35:41.763", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-01T04:35:41.763", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11493", "parent_id": "11431", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no written path, but there are several factors and steps that must\nhappen for that:\n\n 1. **Fanbase**\n\n * The overall reaction to the manga, the volume of internet traffic it generates (fan-art, forums, discussions, fan pages, fan fiction, even porn of the main characters). \n * Are fans cosplaying as the characters even before anime?\n 2. **Connections and reputation**\n\n * The reputation of the mangaka. For example, I doubt any new manga by Rumiko Takahashi (for example) is NOT going to become an anime. \n * Who the mangaka and the manga producers/managers know. Sometimes the hardest part is to put your work in front of the right eyes. It's all in the pitch.\n 3. **Possible merchandising and target audience**\n\n * Can the manga become a toy line? Can you sell costumes of the main characters? \n * The target audience (gender, age, genre) spending power.\n 4. **Series health and controversy**\n\n * Is the manga series long enough? Are the arcs and plots interesting? Are the characters well developed and of enough depth? \n * Is there any group that will get grossly offended if the manga becomes an anime? Remember that printed media is pulled by the reader (you have to actively persuse the media) while audiovisual media is PUSHED into the viewer.\n 5. **Competition and market mood**\n\n * Is the manga a mecha manga, and it's on its peak during a new Gundam season and yet another Evangelion Retcon? \n * What was the reaction of fans to the animes of the same genre that aired in the previous seasons? Are they craving for more of the genre or had they have enough?\n 6. **Releases and versions**\n\n * Is the series already compiled into tankobon? Is it on Crunchyroll? Was it already translated (by fans or officially)?\n * Also, check if the manga is being pirated. It is a sad fact, but popular manga that will become anime is widely pirated, translated, fansubbed, etc.\n * Do some specialized Google searches for the manga series, its main characters and villains. Check the result count, and compare to other popular manga that already became anime.\n\n* * *\n\nAfter all of those factors, there are some things you can look for in\nspecialized media to see if your favorite manga is really going to become\nanime:\n\n**Option:** Did some studio or media company purchase the option for the IP?\nOptions are commonplace in the Western media world, but it's becoming very\npopular around the world. Check the media and news for the option signing.\n\n**Rumors:** Check some blogs (mostly in Japanese) for the titles they think\nwill make next season `(Dear Reader: suggest some blogs in the comments)`.\n\n**Wikipedia:** The folks at the [WikiProject Anime and\nManga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anime_and_manga)\nwork really hard to keep their corner of the wiki fresh. If your manga series\nalready have a Wikipedia page, chances are high.\n\n* * *\n\nAs for your particular manga, I would say it certainly will become anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T16:05:32.317", "id": "11450", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-12T01:06:51.337", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-12T01:06:51.337", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "11446", "post_type": "answer", "score": 22 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm in in the process of getting my own Manga, _Seeds of Arcadia_ , funded.\nAside from creating a fanbase, which may not lead to much, you really want to\nfocus on a detailed portfolio for investors and production companies to decide\nif your story is worthwhile. You'll mainy need (give or take):\n\n 1. Complete script of first season\n 2. Character illustrations, descriptions, and backstories (if necessary)\n 3. Illustrated chapters (at least some, if not all)\n 4. Illustrated action pages\n 5. Sketches\n 6. Promotional posters (the more the better)\n 7. Possible overview of any continuing season\n 8. Any free printouts for viewers\n\nOf course most if not all of this stuff may have to come out of your own\npocketbook. I suggest getting family or friends to help with the initial\nstartup so that you can hire help with the illustrations, or else you'll be\ndoing a lot of drawing and digital enhancements.\n\nThe important thing is to have hard substance which is both professional in\nappearance, unique, and intriguing. The fans will NOT fund your project, but\nwith a professional looking portfolio you can present it to investors, or sell\nyour story. If you do plan on keeping the rights to your story, never hand the\ncomplete script to anyone, only segments. You should still have the completed\nscript ready with digital backups.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-06T15:53:17.883", "id": "44555", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-07T01:55:40.143", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-07T01:55:40.143", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "38022", "parent_id": "11446", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure [Welcome to the\nN.H.K.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_N.H.K.) isn't based on an\nactual conspiracy story. It's not mentioned in any interviews or commentary\nsections of the media.\n\nI would imagine however, that the conspiracy is somewhat based on the author\n[Tatsuhiko Takimoto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuhiko_Takimoto)'s\npersonal experience living as a self-proclaimed \"top-runner\" hikkomori. In the\nlight novel afterword, it informs us that he primarily lives off royalties of\nhis novels.\n\nThe 'conspiracy' is mostly a commentary on how the mundane life of TV and\nseclusion is easy to fall into - because of the attraction of broadcast\nmedia's element of fantasy, such as produced by NHK TV - and the lack of\nimmediate consequence if should one fall into a hikkomori lifestyle. So it\ncould seem like there are conspirators trying to keep hikkomoris as\nhikkomoris.\n\nHikkomoris feel trapped because they usually have little social or\ncommercially valuable skills meaning it is hard to get a job or contribute to\nsociety (Especially as Japan job system is pretty much school -> college ->\njob or via social contacts) - and on the flip side, it is much easier to stay\nindoors and watch another episode of the latest airing anime.\n\nThis isn't his first novel dealing with the issue of life indirection either -\nHappy Negative Chainsaw Edge. So it is an issue that is close to his heart -\nperhaps he himself believes there is a conspiracy.\n\n[This fan blog post is a pretty great for reference for N.H.K. stuff in\ngeneral](http://textfiend.net/zerohero/?p=253)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-25T08:49:34.680", "id": "11462", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-07T18:04:56.953", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-07T18:04:56.953", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "11447", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Anipages](http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php/the-anime-\nproduction-line), a blog by Ben Ettinger about the world of anime and\nanimation.\n\n> **第二原画 _Daini Genga_** = Second Key Animation\n>\n> Traditionally in anime, after key animation, the next step would be for the\n> animation director to check the key animation and apply the necessary\n> corrections to bring the characters to model. A new role was recently\n> invented as a buffer between the key animator and the animation director:\n> second key animation.\n>\n> Nigen 二原 for short, second key animation is a relatively new concept in\n> anime. This person does what in the west is known as \"cleanup\" \\- cleaning\n> up the rough genga before they're passed on to the animation director to be\n> checked. This step permits key animators to pump out more animation than if\n> they had to produce a more polished shot. For example, an animator who might\n> be good at action can draw several complicated shots in rough form in the\n> time it might take them to draw one polished shot. A nigen would then clean\n> it up. Infrequently you will also see a daiichi genga 第一原画 or first key\n> animation credit, which is presumably a way of distinguishing between the\n> people who drew the rough key animation intended to be cleaned up by the\n> daini genga crew and the people who drew regular key animation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T14:15:29.093", "id": "11449", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-24T14:15:29.093", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "11448", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# Summary\n\nIf you've just watched the anime and want to get into the manga without\nrepeating material, you can probably start with Volume 5. It might also help\nto read Volume 4. Volume 5 seems to be the cutoff point where the anime ends,\nbut there are some differences in how the material of Volumes 4 and 5 is\npresented in the anime versus the original manga.\n\n# The Evidence\n\nIt's shocking how hard it is to find info in English on anything other than\nmega-hits like Naruto. For that reason, this answer isn't perfectly\ndefinitive, but this question deserves some kind of answer, so here's what my\nefforts produced.\n\nI just finished watching the anime and I did a little poking through some\nscanlations to try and establish the timeframe. Based on my random sampling,\nnhahtdh is correct that the anime version ends in Volume 5 of the manga;\nChapter 22 is the first chapter of Volume 5, and it contains a version of the\nscene from Episode 11 when Yuki and Hajime meet at the family restaurant to\ndiscuss the incident from sixth grade.\n\nHowever, [this chart from Japanese\nWikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E9%80%B1%E9%96%93%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%80%82#.E5.90.84.E8.A9.B1.E3.83.AA.E3.82.B9.E3.83.88)\nclaims that Episodes 11 and 12 are covered in Volume 4. Some scenes in the\nanime seem to be composites of scenes from the manga, so that might make it\nmore of a \"Well, yeah, XX from the anime was in Volume 5, but the bulk of\nmaterial from those episodes was in Volume 4\" sort of thing. For example, the\nscene with Hajime and Yuki ends totally differently from the anime; they don't\nmeet up with the girls who\n\n> bullied Kaori, causing her to run into the street and get hit and triggering\n> her memory loss\n\nnor does\n\n> Kaori show up and hear the reason for her memory loss\n\nas happened in the anime; instead, they go to Yuki's house and play video\ngames together. Also, the scene at the crepe shop from Episode 11 when\n\n> Kaori tells Hajime she probably can't remember him because he was her\n> friend, then sees her \"friends\" from her past who bullied her for \"stealing\"\n> Hajime and gets a tiny flash of memory, causing her to run away, after which\n> Yuki confronts Hajime\n\nhappens in Chapter 18 (Volume 4) under different circumstances.\n\nThe anime timeline seems to run ahead of the manga timeline, and as far as I\ncan tell, the pace of the manga is consistently slower than the anime.\n\nAccording to [the Wikipedia\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_Friends#Manga) (sourced from [this\nAnime News Network\nposting](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-07-21/one-week-friends-\nmanga-final-volume-ships-in-april-2015/.76876)), the manga hasn't ended yet\nand the final volume will be released in April of 2015, so we don't yet know\njust how how much the anime actually diverges from the manga. However, the\nmain plot points of the manga up to Chapter 22 seem to be the same as the\nanime:\n\n> Hajime shows up, causing Kaori to lose all her hard-earned memories of Yuki.\n> Yuki gets to work rebuilding those memories while trying to get to the\n> bottom of what happened between Hajime and Kaori in the past.\n\nAlso, if we look at the dates of release on [the Wikipedia\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_Friends#Manga), Volume 6 didn't\ncome out until the time the anime was already airing. Volume 5 came out around\nthe time the anime started airing, so assuming the anime production took about\nsix months, the material in Volume 5 was probably the most recent the\nanimators would have had access to when they were creating the series.\n\nBased on all of this, my educated guess is that Episodes 11 and 12 contained\nanime-original material, but were based on material from the manga wherever\npossible. Episode 12 just wrapped up too neatly to think otherwise, while also\navoiding a conclusive ending and leaving things open for a second season to\nfinish the manga plotline. Notably,\n\n> Kaori and Yuki are still just friends when the anime concludes, and Kaori\n> still loses her memories every week, though she's fought her way back to\n> remembering tidbits about Yuki.\n\nSo if you want to cut in to the manga without repeating material, I would\nstart at Volume 5. According to the MangaFox page, the manga has been licensed\n(though I can't find any info on which company has it), so we might be seeing\nan official English release soon.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T21:53:02.050", "id": "14055", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T21:53:02.050", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "11453", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI guess Don Freecs (grandfather of Gon) is someone who possessed Gon while he\nis in his fight against Pitou. Remember Gon was innocent and calm, and yet he\nbecome stubborn and fast temper. Maybe the author expresss the similar version\nof his another series like the _Yu Yu Hakushou_ , when Yusuke being possessed\nby his father who were the most powerful person in the series in his prime.\n\nAnother hint that I can contribute is the gap between Gon and Don. Don somehow\nmention that he was 300 years (impossible) of age, close enough to like of the\nfather of Yusuke in his another series. There is also other part of the world\n(Dark Continent) similar to his other series.\n\nDon maybe the strongest character in HxH, who knows, he lives in a secret side\nof the world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-06T16:30:18.073", "id": "13855", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-06T17:44:31.793", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-06T17:44:31.793", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8265", "parent_id": "11464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMy guess is that Don Freecss is the great grandfather of Gon or later since\nover 300 years, many generations could've passed.\n\nNow the question is, who is Don Freecss?\n\nDon Freecss is a novel writer. I don't think he is involved in Gon's\ntransformation. Why? If he was involved in it, then the transformation could\nhave been a power passed over generations and generations and the Freecs\nfamily could've been the most powerful nen users.\n\nDon Freecss was a nen user, but we can't confirm if all parts of this anime\nare related to Yu Yu Hakusho. That would be a crime. Don Freecss carries the\ncharacteristics of Ging Freecss, if you compare them. For example, Don travels\na lot to discover new things like Ging does.\n\nDon Freecss is probably an Enhancer. Why? The Zoldyck family has similarities\nin Nen. They are usually Transmuters or Manipulators. The only (rare) Enhancer\nin the family is the great great grandfather of Killua. Ging would be an\nEnhancer or Transmuter. I took the information by personality by Hisoka; I\nhave not read it well yet, but Ging posseses the characteristics of an\nEnhancer and Transmuter.\n\nDon Freecss's appearance is not yet revealed but my guess is that he looks\nslightly like Ging.\n\nI agree with the theory that he may still be alive somewhere farther than the\nDark Continent.\n\nI believe he is immortal since Freecsses are amazing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T12:20:17.793", "id": "15289", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-19T20:54:28.040", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-19T20:54:28.040", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "9332", "parent_id": "11464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAn ancestor of Ging, who obtained the immortality \"curse\" from the dark\ncontinent, or is still alive by some other means.\n\nThis is shown when Ging stated that he(Don) was still alive after 300 years.\nAs such, Don is still alive by some means.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T00:52:15.243", "id": "16736", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T23:51:39.403", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-16T23:51:39.403", "last_editor_user_id": "10638", "owner_user_id": "10638", "parent_id": "11464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nDon Freecss is a character mentioned to have written a guide to the dark\ncontinent in two parts: East and West. The association has had a copy of East.\nWest has not been seen. Ging claimed that is because Don is still writing\nWest, and thus is still alive. East was written 300 years ago.\n\nIf Ging is correct, then these are valid assumptions:\n\n 1. Don must be over 300 years old making him the oldest known character.\n 2. The Dark Continent is notoriously dangerous so Don must be strong or well protected to reside there.\n 3. Freecss is the last name of Ging and Gon so Don is likely related to them through Ging's father.\n 4. As Nen slows aging and is the major source of combat power in the series, Don is likely a very power Nen user.\n 5. As the Dark Continent is noted for having new/strange fauna and flora including powerful medicial plants, it is possible that his environment could greatly impact who the character is and provide a cause for his long lifespan.\n\nThat is all we know and can safely infer from the manga. There are fan\ntheories surrounding him but at this point we don't know anything else.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T22:01:44.543", "id": "17333", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-06T01:38:19.317", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-06T01:38:19.317", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "11464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI have a feeling that Don is an ancestor to both Gon and Ging. But I have a\nfeeling that he is going to help Gon restore the ability to use nen and it\ncould be possible that he could have been part of Gon's Transformation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-28T00:27:09.863", "id": "26873", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-28T00:27:09.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18750", "parent_id": "11464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]