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[ { "body": "\n\nDoubt it. Ryuk did not love light (which is the requirement for dying). Ryuk\nwas just hanging around for the entertainment. Even if he killed everyone in\nthe room it was probably to extend his entertainment. He however would never\ndo this because he was impartial to light and had explained this to him in the\nvery beginning. Whenever he did help light it was because he didn't want to be\nfurther bothered. In this case saving light would have caused him more work.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-16T16:27:31.190", "id": "12884", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-16T16:27:31.190", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "12880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nRule LVIII:\n\n1) By manipulating the death of a human that has influence over another\nhuman's life, that human's original life span can sometimes be lengthened.\n\n2) If a god of death intentionally does the above manipulation to effectively\nlengthen a human's life span, the god of death will die, but even if a human\ndoes the same, the human will not die.\n\nThis seems pretty explicit to me. Note that this seems to refer to killing\nwith the death note but if a god of death kills by any other means he is given\nan \"Extreme Level\" punishment and then is executed.\n\n**What's love got to do with it? Nothing**\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-16T20:38:37.797", "id": "12888", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-16T20:38:37.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "12880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n**There are no definite answers possible for your question, as there are no\nknown numbers of anime fans within the programming community.**\n\nBesides that, it is still very Dependent on how broad you take the term _\"\nprogrammer\"_ and _\" like\"_. \nThere are plenty of children out there that are able to write a simple script\nand call them self a programmer. And even without those there are tons of\nprogrammers that enjoy watching a anime every once in a while, or some times a\ncartoon. Which roughly would be just as big as the programmer group that likes\nto watch a movie, television series and even reading a good book.\n\nWe can make a well educated guess, but it would be no more than speculation.\nAssuming you are aiming at the above average adult anime watching behavior, so\nwhere adult are watching just as much as kids. Which is according to the\nfollowing source roughly 24 hours a week or 3.4 hours a day.\n\n> According to TV ratings company Nielsen, kids in 2012, age 2 to 11, watched\n> an average of 24 hours of TV a week. That’s an average of three and a half\n> hours a day.\n\nTaking a average daily life of showering, eating and minimum healthy sleeping\nhabits and jobs into account. A person would take up about at least 19 hours a\nday, leaving 5 hours a day. With the average programmers age of about 37 years\nthis time is usually spend with wife/ kids. Leaving about 13% tops of\nprogrammers above the age of 20 to even have time enough to above averagely\nlike anime to begin with.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T00:52:41.840", "id": "12895", "last_activity_date": "2022-02-20T19:16:52.550", "last_edit_date": "2022-02-20T19:16:52.550", "last_editor_user_id": "65539", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "12890", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPamela was already a ghost since she was first introduced in _Gramnad series\n(Atelier Judie & Atelier Violet)_, and as usual, nobody (even herself) knew\nhow she became a ghost.\n([Wikia](http://atelier.wikia.com/wiki/Pamela_Ibis_\\(Gramnad\\)))\n\nThere are 2 games where Pamela's cause of death were explained:\n\n 1. In _Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana_ , and\n 2. In _Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm_ (as mentioned in [the comment by Septian](http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/12893/how-did-pamela-die#comment15828_12893))\n\nIn _Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana_ , it's explained **in the main quest (SPOILER\nALERT!)** that\n\n> she was sent to a cave as a sacrifice to the dragon, but when she was trying\n> to escape, she froze to death... ([YouTube\n> link](https://youtu.be/9nzm_7kqUMw?t=8m25s))\n\nand in _Atelier Iris 3: Grand Phantasm_ , there's a side quest about Pamela's\ndeath, which\n\n> according to her diary which was placed on her grave, when she was going to\n> cook, she tried to reach for a plate in the cabinet, but it fell. She dodged\n> it by stepping back, but her foot landed in a pot on the floor. She flipped\n> over, hit her head, and died. This entry was written by her mom. ([YouTube\n> link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIrhXY4h5t0))\n\n... which contradicts each other! However, considering that both of her cause\nof death was told by herself, the player can only believe even if it's true or\nnot.\n\nThis also spawned a fan theory that not all Pamela is the same Pamela, similar\nto [Cid in every _Final Fantasy\nseries_](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Cid) (from [Neoseeker\nforum](http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/directmessage.php?m=29654458),\n**SPOILER ALERT!** )\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-13T16:59:51.177", "id": "39846", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-13T16:59:51.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "12893", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI believe you're talking about Astarotte Ygvar:\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n# [Astarotte no\nOmocha!](http://myanimelist.net/anime/9736/Astarotte_no_Omocha!)\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\n> While job hunting, Naoya is taken by a mysterious girl to a magical land\n> where he is installed in the harem of the succubus Princess Lotte. Thanks to\n> trauma from her childhood, Lotte hates men and surrounds herself with lots\n> of other women, who all have quirks of their own. In spite of her\n> selfishness, when Naoya learns that Lotte is really quite lonely he agrees\n> to stay in her world ...if he can bring his daughter Asuha with him.\n\nSource: ANN\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T04:26:28.633", "id": "12897", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-17T04:26:28.633", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "12896", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes it is, Klabautermann in One Piece world described as a marine holding an\nhammer, the real story about Klabautermann is a small sailor in yellow with a\ntobacco pipe and woolen sailor's cap, and often wearing a caulking hammer.\n([source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klabautermann))\n\n\n\nKlabautermann from German folklore (left) and Klabautermann from One Piece\nworld (right)\n\n> A Klabautermann often assists sailors and fishermen on the Baltic and North\n> Sea in their duties, and he is known to be an expert of understanding most\n> watercraft.\n\nWhen Usopp first meeting with Klabautermann, he was fixing Going Merry and\nrevert it to its original shape, not to the flying model when Going Merry got\ndamaged.\n\n> Despite the positive attributes, there is one omen associated with his\n> presence: no member of a ship blessed by his presence shall ever set eyes on\n> him. He only ever becomes visible to the crew of a doomed ship.\n\nUsopp saw Merry's spirit when it was already heavily damage, and the boat was\nbeyond repair.\n\n> Soon enough, the boat sinking, and the spirit say goodbye to Luffy's crew.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T16:30:29.030", "id": "12903", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-17T16:30:29.030", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "12902", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## Does every child of Wammy's House have a codename?\n\nYes, almost every child has a codename, all but Beyond Birthday. See next\nquestion for a complete overview of all characters related to Wammy's House.\n\n> The orphans use aliases rather than their real names, which are kept secret.\n> In addition to these aliases, notable graduates may be assigned a letter by\n> Watari.\n\n## Is the first letter from the codename the first from the real name?\n\nYes, the first letter from the codename is the first from the real name. Here\nis an overview of all characters related to Wammy's House.\n\nThe following list is formated as _alias_ , _letter_ , _real name_ and\n_relation_. Also the following legend is used.\n\n * **(-)** Indicates that the character does not have a Letter.\n * **(†)** Indicates that the character is now deceased.\n\n * **Watari** , W, Quillish Wammy, A famous inventor and philanthropist, founder of the orphanage and assistant and mentor to L. (†) \n\n * **L** , L, L Lawliet, The famous detective L. He was found by Wammy as a child and brought to the orphanage. The goal of the orphanage is to train a worthy successor to his title.(†) \n * **Near** , N, Nate River, The youngest of the two boys in line to succeed L. He takes on the mantle of 'L' by the end of the series. \n * **Mello** , M, Mihael Keehl, The eldest of the two boys in line to be L's successor. He leaves the orphanage soon after learning of L's death, and gives the title of 'L' to Near. (†) \n * **Matt** , (-), Mail Jeevas, He is the third smartest student at Wammys, though not a successor to L. (†) \n * **Beyond Birthday** , B, Beyond Birthday, The second child of the \"first generation\" in line to succeed L. He eventually ran away from the orphanage and became a serial killer. (†) \n * **A** , A, Unknown, The first child of the \"first generation\" that was in line to succeed L. All that is known is that he committed suicide. (†) \n * **Linda** , (-), Unknown, A female student who appears once, when she asks Near to come outside to play. She is referred to later as being a successful artist. \n * **Roger Ruvie** , (-), Roger Ruvie, A close friend of Watari's who runs the orphanage in Watari's absence. \n\n> **X, Y, and Z** \\- Only briefly alluded to at the end of Another Note, they\n> are referred to by Mello as three children that appeared in the \"Detective\n> Wars\" bio-terror case with L.\n>\n> Various other children are depicted in both chapter 59 and the one-shot\n> special's flashback, though none are given any names.\n>\n> Other characters\n>\n> * **K** \\- A former student of Wammy's in L: Change the WorLd, who has\n> become part of a bioterrorist organization which plans to \"cleanse\" the\n> world of its excess population by a deadly virus.\n> * **F** \\- A former Wammy's student and colleague of L's that dies early\n> on in L: Change The WorLd, while on a deadly rescue mission in Thailand.\n> * **D, P, Q, G, I, E** \\- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change the\n> WorLd.\n> * **R, V, T** \\- Also shown on L's mailing list however their letters are\n> grayed-out along with B's, implying they were killed.\n> * **J** \\- A character in the D.S. game L: The Prologue to Death Note. Due\n> to the game not being available in English, little is known about him, but\n> based on his name, it is assumed that he is from Wammy's.\n>\n\nSource [Death Note wiki](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Wammy's_House)\n\n* * *\n\nPS: I wanted to put the list in a table as on the wiki, but the formatting\nseemed to be completely off. Anyone know of a way to format tables on SE?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T22:17:08.060", "id": "12912", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-19T21:44:43.403", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-19T21:44:43.403", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "12904", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYes they do but not all of them.\n\nWammy's House is one of several orphanages established by Watari (real name\nQuillsh Wammy) after World War II, initially a training facility for\nespecially gifted children. After it's most accomplished child, L Lawliet (AKA\nL) become a renowned detective the goal of Wammy's House chnaged to produce a\nsuccessor to L.\n\nThe orphans use aliases rather than real names and notable graduates are\nassigned letters. in L: Change the WorLd and email i sent out after Watari's\nand L's death with the mailing list filled with letters, a number of them are\ngrayed out and assumed dead because Beyond Bithday who is given the Letter B,\nis too on the list but grayed out\n\nAs for how the Letters are assigned it seems that it is based off the first\nletter of their Alias as while L, Nate and Mihael start with their assigned\nletters, Quillsh Wammy is Watari and has the letter **W**. Beyond Birthday is\nalso known as Rue Ryuzaki though this may not be his real name as he was\npretending to be L for a period. **_A_** is mentioned in Death Note: Another\nNote however we don't know if **A** was also is alias like with **L** or even\nhis real name\n\nyou can read up on on the [Characters related to Wammy's\nHouse](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Wammy%27s_House) however it should be\nnoted that the information is from L: Change the WorLd, i am unsure which one\nthe information is from as K is in the Movie but the Novel is more faithful to\nthe canon bu al;tering the plot of the movie.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T22:17:20.140", "id": "12913", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-17T22:17:20.140", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "12904", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI read the light novel, and you got it wrong. It wasn't that only 3 devils\nsurvived. Think of it more like they were an endangered species (more than 3),\nand to increase their number one devil created the chess pieces. When a devil\nwants a servant, it doesn't limit to just humans, it can be any creature\n(devils included, i.e. Ravel). For example, a dragon that trains Issei is\nactually a devil as well. As for someone having to die before they can be a\ndevil is false, it's more like they are just reborn as a devil when they are\nturn into a servant.\n\nBoth Rias and Ruval are pure bloods meaning their parents are devils. In Rias'\ncase, she has no King, but she could if another devil wanted her as their\nservant (which is the case with Ravel).\n\nLastly, not all Kings are pure bloods. I'm pretty sure the first season\nexplains that if Issei tries hard enough, he can get his own set of chess\npieces making him the King.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-27T03:20:54.920", "id": "13068", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-27T16:23:54.330", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-27T16:23:54.330", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7746", "parent_id": "12905", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what i remember from the light novel:\n\nIn DxD a set of chess pieces are granted to \"high class\" demons, demons are a\ntiered class society, so if Issei managed to climb the social ladder he will\nbe granted his set of chess pieces despite he being a human born demon. Demons\nare extremely elitists so climbing is really hard, that's the reason that most\nsets of pieces are in possession of pure blood demons.\n\nAlso after the war there were 72 surviving houses \"the 72 pilars\" not just 3,\nbut their numbers were scarce, so in order to increase their numbers they came\nup with the chess piece system (minor spoiler: heaven will do something\nsimilar), those 72 clans are what is considered pure blood, because of\ndesesperate measures taken to increase numbers after the war\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-22T10:16:30.943", "id": "43478", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-22T10:16:30.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34898", "parent_id": "12905", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> The World Nobles, also known as the Celestial Dragons (天竜人 Tenryūbito,\n> literally meaning \"Heavenly Dragon Folk\"), are the descendants of nineteen\n> of the Twenty Kings who established what is now known as the World\n> Government.\n\n(Source: [Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/World_Noble))\n\nSo no, she is not a Celestial Dragon.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T20:48:13.620", "id": "12908", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-17T20:48:13.620", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "12907", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNope. Although her family belonged to the one of the 20 Kings who participated\nin Alliance during [Void\nCentury](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Twenty_Kings#Void_Century) , They did\nnot move to Mariejois.\n\n> The World Nobles, also known as the Celestial Dragons, are direct\n> descendants of the founding kings **who moved to Mariejois.** As such, these\n> Nobles possess the authority to do as they please, simply due to their\n> heritage.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T21:09:59.490", "id": "12909", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-17T21:09:59.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2956", "parent_id": "12907", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNefertari family rejected to be Tenryubito back in the day WG was created.\n\nWhen someone rejects the title all the descent loses the blood right.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-24T12:20:35.393", "id": "26118", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-24T12:20:35.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18102", "parent_id": "12907", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [_Nadia: The Secret of Blue\nWater_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia:_The_Secret_of_Blue_Water):\n\n> The series centers around Nadia, a young girl of unknown origins, and Jean,\n> a young French inventor. Early in the story, the two protagonists are chased\n> by Grandis Granva, Sanson, and Hanson, a group of jewel thieves who pursue\n> Nadia for the blue jeweled pendant she possesses. After being rescued by\n> Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, the jewel thieves and the\n> young protagonists join forces and participate in the struggle against the\n> Neo-Atlantean forces, who seek to dominate the world.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-18T14:52:28.183", "id": "12921", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-18T14:52:28.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "12920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt might be [Chuuka\nIchiban!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABka_Ichiban!).\n[[MAL](http://myanimelist.net/anime/110/Chuuka_Ichiban!)]\n\n> **After the death of Mao's mother, Pai, who was called the 'Fairy of\n> Cuisine', Mao becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef\n> of his mother's restaurant.** However, before he takes his mother's place as\n> Master Chef, he continues to travel China in order to learn more of the many\n> ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef, just like his\n> mother. During his journey, he meets great friends and fierce rivals who\n> wish to challenge him in the field of cooking.\n\nOne of the main characters is named **Mei Li** :\n\n> The 16-year-old daughter of Chouyu. Originally, she was a helper at the Yang\n> Spring Restaurant. She fell in love with Mao after seeing how much he loves\n> cooking and how he also cares about others. She only knows a little about\n> the cooking field, but she's useful when it comes to little facts and often\n> tries to help Mao with various other things.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-19T05:45:11.850", "id": "12930", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-19T05:45:11.850", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "140", "parent_id": "12929", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI know the anime your talking about, I enjoyed watching it too. It's a korean\nanime called Dae Jang Geum: Jang Geum Dream.\n\nFirst of all, I read the description posted, and it's an exact match for the\nanime Dae Jang Geum. The girl wants to learn to cook, and ends up be one of\nthe cooking maids for the emperor. However, she unexpectedly rescued the\nemporer, not knowing it was him and the bad guys start causing trouble for\nher. She's clueless about the bad guys until the end of the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-03T18:36:52.703", "id": "22991", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-03T22:13:35.333", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-03T22:13:35.333", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "15441", "parent_id": "12929", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on what I've watched, seen comments on and and search about, P4 Golden\nAnimation is based on the route oriented around Marie in the P4 Golden\nAnimation video game. The anime will retell the original P4 story, however\nwith bonus events with Marie, rather than following the original plot of the\nP4 anime.\n\nDescription from [Anime Ultima](http://www.animeultima.tv/watch/Persona-4-The-\nGolden-Animation-english-subbed-dubbed-online/):\n\n> Adaptation of Persona 4's remake video game, Persona 4 The Golden. The story\n> retells the events of the original while featuring a new character, Marie.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-19T07:30:15.013", "id": "12934", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-19T17:22:23.973", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-19T17:22:23.973", "last_editor_user_id": "3034", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "12931", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter googling to no avail, I tried searching for \"surgeon\" on\n[mangaupdates](http://www.mangaupdates.com) and go through the list of result.\nAmong the results, [_K2_](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=14199)\nhas a similar art style, but the synopsis is a bit different from what I\nremembered, so I check out the prequels [_Super Doctor\nK_](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=44137) and [_Doctor\nK_](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=47084) via Google and found the\nmanga I was looking for in Vietnamese.\n\nThe image below is from volume 1 chapter 4 showing parasites on the heart:\n\n\n\nSince I still don't know the exact title of the manga, I check the Wikipedia\narticle of [_Super Doctor\nK_](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BCK).\nThe manga was serialized from 1988 to 1998. While the series' name stayed\nunchanged in the magazine, it was changed to _Doctor K_ for tankoubon released\nafter 1996. The synopsis of _Doctor K_ on Wikipedia matches the description in\nthe question:\n\n>\n> アメリカ合衆国大統領ジム・ハミルトンが何者かの手によって瀕死の重傷となる。容疑者はドクターK。犯行の裏には何が?そして一昭の計画とは?KAZUYAの物語に終止符が打たれる。\n\nTranslation\n\n> Jim Hamilton, the President of the United States, is suspended between life\n> and death after receiving a serious injury from unknown person. The suspect\n> is Doctor K. What is the motive behind the crime? And what is Kazuaki's\n> plan? Starts the final arc of KAZUYA's story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-19T06:33:59.417", "id": "12933", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-22T05:00:02.820", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-22T05:00:02.820", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "12932", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn this case, Marika is probably wearing her old school's uniform. As a\ntransfer student, there's a grace period before you get provided the one the\nschool designates (they are typically purchased).\n\nThis is also the case of the [Transfer Student\nUniforms](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransferStudentUniforms)\ntrope:\n\n> New Transfer Students in places where school uniforms are a cultural default\n> setting often wear their old ones until the school can provide them with a\n> new one. **In fiction, this shows the newcomer or outsider. When they get\n> the current school uniform, this indicates they've been assimilated**. If\n> the student is meant to be a Fish out of Water, they will keep their old\n> uniform throughout the series. In Japanese media, even rebels don't choose\n> to abandon uniforms entirely; in American media they will do this even if\n> the new school doesn't have uniforms. Compare the Non-Uniform Uniform.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-19T15:46:44.740", "id": "12937", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-19T15:46:44.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "12935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nAside from the \"assimilation\" thing, it's worth mentioning that school\nuniforms normally aren't just stored in bulk somewhere in the school's\ndesignated warehouse of uniforms. That'd be ridiculous because all students\nhave different measurements. Can you imagine the amount of unused uniforms of\nall shapes and sizes?\n\nEach student orders their uniform before the year begins, and they all get it\non time. Students that transfer in the middle of the year have to order their\nuniform separately from all other students, and may even have to wait until\nthe required materials are shipped to the factory. So there's really nothing\nunusual going on, just everyday life stuff.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-20T20:25:12.557", "id": "12951", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-20T20:25:12.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "12935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nMyabe she doesn't want to? Not that I know this for a fact within the story,\nbut remembering Nagi No Asu Kara, the characters had agreed to keep wearing\ntheir old school uniforms on purpose as a way of saying they didn't belong to\nthe new school.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-16T17:24:13.180", "id": "22493", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-16T17:24:13.180", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15104", "parent_id": "12935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's true that if she transferred in the middle of the year she would have had\ndo wait...but she transferred in their first year and the manga is already\nlike halfway through second year (even the anime is into the second year) so\nat this point if she is still not wearing it it's cause she doesn't want to...\nRealistically, she would have been written up by this point by a disciplinary\nperson but because this is an anime/manga it's probably the whole \"character\nlook\" thing. Even if this were real life, she clearly has a lot of power and\nauthority due to her father's position so maybe they'd get the school to look\nthe other way, be it she just wants to stand out or she's more comfortable\nwith her old clothes. Marika is a more modest, feminine person so could you\nreally picture her in a mini skirt?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-09T19:30:02.467", "id": "29650", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-09T19:30:02.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "21009", "parent_id": "12935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFat chance it's [**Kungfu\nKomang**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=82250).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OzbNT.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nsM0o.jpg)\n\n> A boy named Komang learns kung fu and meet many friends along the way.\n\nFrom the images above, you can spot:\n\n * _an old man with a really long bold head_ [you mean bald maybe?]\n * _a ninja_ [dude with google above his head]\n * _a magician thief (Cased Close, Phantom Kid)_ [dude with hat and tie in his neck]\n * _a fighter_ [I think the one you meant by this is Komang, dude in orange suit] \n\nSoooo long since I read it, the only thing I remember is that it's pure\ncomedy, the old man was some kind of a master/teacher (for martial arts?),\nthey all live together, and ruckus happened between them in every story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-03T17:52:02.273", "id": "27794", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-04T16:40:32.123", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-04T16:40:32.123", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "12940", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime you are looking for might be Deltora Quest\n\n\n\n> The Seven Gems of Deltora are taken from The Belt of Deltora and scattered\n> over the most feared places in Deltora and The Shadow Lord takes over\n> Deltora. King Endon who was supposed to be the protector of the Belt which\n> protected the land, somehow vanished from the land to leave his people in\n> the mercy of the tyrant for 16 years. On Lief's sixteenth birthday after\n> narrowly escaping the Grey Guards, he is presented with the Belt of Deltora,\n> given a task to gather the 7 gems and to find the heir to the throne in\n> order to rid Deltora of the evil Shadow Lord once and for all. He is also\n> given a sword, an invisibility cloak, a rough map of where the gems were to\n> be and a travelling companion named Barda who was long known as a beggar\n> before revealing himself as one of the palace guards. He and Barda leave\n> city of Del and enter the Forests of Silence where they are attacked by the\n> Wenn and paralyzed. They are woken up by a mysterious girl named Jasmine,\n> who at first believed them as Grey Guards and only intended to rob them and\n> leave them to be eaten by the Wennbar. However, after being persuaded by an\n> old tree that told her that they were not Grey Guards, she comes and saves\n> them with an antidote that freed them from the paralysis.\n\nThe main protagonist is a young boy set out on a quest by his father to find\nthe gems and put them together to defeat the evil tyrant.\n\nHe runs into different people and places that have the gems.\n\nI found the information from the [Deltora Quest\nwikia](http://deltoraquest.wikia.com/wiki/Deltora_Quest_\\(anime\\)).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-23T16:26:35.297", "id": "12999", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-28T09:41:34.403", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-28T09:41:34.403", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6515", "parent_id": "12941", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it could be **[Shin\nHakkenden](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1988)**\n(1999, 26 episodes)\n\n> The year is 2588 in the system of Godworld and its eight satellites.\n> Humanity came here in the distant past, after a long journey across the\n> stars from Earth. Now the system is ruled by a loose coalition of powerful\n> families: House Owari, House Meed, and House Iigy. The story begins when\n> Kai, the heir to House Owari, attacks an icy planet. Living in a humble\n> village on the surface is Kou, a young boy who is perpetually arguing with\n> his father. When Kai's navy arrives, Kou takes his father's mighty Murasame\n> sword to fight back, and his adventures begin. A sci-fi remake of Hakkenden.\n> (Plot from [Animevice](http://www.animevice.com/shin-hakkenden/11-4852/)).\n\nThis is a picture of the main character **Kou** who has a red gem in his sword\n(You can also see a dog with an eyepatch: it hide a yellow gem in one of his\nteeth).\n\n\n\nThis is **Jinrai** who has a green gem in his shield.\n\n[Another pic\nhttp://gallery.animeinfo.ru/img/Jinrai-125835-57413-1.jpg](http://gallery.animeinfo.ru/img/Jinrai-125835-57413-1.jpg)\n\nThis is **Tomoka** who has a blue gem in a dice: he is a gambler and use cards\nalso for fighting.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T14:37:34.297", "id": "16788", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-26T07:27:32.867", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-26T07:27:32.867", "last_editor_user_id": "10644", "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "12941", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst of all, take all of this with a grain of salt. The movie is entirely\nfiller, and was not explicitly explained anywhere.\n\nWhen Hiroku tried to absorb and use the Rasenshuriken, the process of\ncombining this specific nature with that specific shape was too hard for him.\nRemember that Naruto needs 2 additional clones and a significant amount of\ntime to generate a rasenshuriken. When Hiroku tried, the technique blew up in\nhis hand, and he didn't have the time to do anything else.\n\nAs for Hiroku disabling Naruto's chakra, remember that Naruto is the\njinchuuriki of the Nine Tails, even if Hiroku could absorb such an incredible\namount of chakra without being overwhelmed, The Nine Tails' hatred infused\nchakra is poisonous.\n\nOn a more \"producer\"ish note, Naruto had to win somehow...\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-20T10:33:39.073", "id": "12943", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-20T10:33:39.073", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "12942", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe three series are spin-offs to the main series. All of them are assumed to\nbe canon.\n\n**Mirai Nikki: Paradox** follows Aru Akise as the main character along with\nmurmur, and takes place in an alternative timeline to the main series.\n\n[Read more about the plot\nhere](http://futurediary.wikia.com/wiki/Future_Diary:_Paradox)\n\n**Future Diary: Mosaic** features Minene Uryu (the 9th Diary Holder) as the\nmain character and includes five chapters, each of them focusing on several\narcs of the story under Minene's point of view. Some plot points are revealed\nthat were not disclosed in the main story.\n\n[Future Diary Wikipedia Page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Diary)\n\n**Future Diary: Redial** is different from the first two as it is the only one\nthat was animated (as an OVA). Redial covers the events in the Third World\nleading up to—and then slightly past—the final scene of the series. It follows\nthe Yuno of the Third World.\n\n[Review of the OVA](http://kotaku.com/the-future-diary-redial-is-the-ending-\nthe-series-was-m-1206240998)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-20T14:58:53.913", "id": "12946", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-20T14:58:53.913", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "12944", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe two series are by the same mangaka - Hiro Mashima - so it was this that\nallowed for the easy crossover OVA, as there were no copyright or licensing\ndiscussions that had to be made.\n\nThe two series do not share the same world. Rave master takes place primarily\nin the _Continent of Luka_ , whereas Fairy Tail takes place in _Earth Land_.\n\nI'm unsure of the overall world name for Rave Master, but there is no _Luka_\nin _Earth Land_ and the maps look quite different.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HgnjH.png)\n\nRave Master World Map\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rif66.jpg)\n\nFairy Tail World Map\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-20T15:11:35.573", "id": "12947", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-21T00:07:58.563", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-21T00:07:58.563", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "12945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, they only share the same mangaka and drawing style. In both, the Etherion\nis present. It is also similar but not the same thing.\n\nIn both we see parallel twin worlds, but they are differently meant.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-21T13:27:00.397", "id": "12967", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-21T14:58:24.250", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-21T14:58:24.250", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "7676", "parent_id": "12945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe that the worlds are not the same but parallel like Edolas. The fact\nthat the rave people came to fairy tail was probably by mistake just how some\nof the Edolas people got to earth-land. The two anime/ manga are written by\nthe same man, but the fact he linked them could be seen as an Easter egg as\nsome or no ova's are cannon, however in my personal opinion weather it's an\nOVA or not, the fact that they linked is clear enough to me that they are in\nfact parallel. However many things are the same in both animes like the jiggle\nbut gang, indicating to me once again it is parallel and characters can move\nfrom one place to another. :) Nyaaaa~\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-03T23:05:41.557", "id": "17283", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T04:21:54.503", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-04T04:21:54.503", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "11000", "parent_id": "12945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's been a while since this was asked and is pretty much covered in the\ncomments, but here's an answer.\n\nCaptain Kobayashi is part of the immortal council and therefore doesn't age.\nIf she walked around never aging people would notice, hence the mask. It\nprobably also serves as a way to hide emotion from the crew, show strength and\nall that.\n\n**[Sidonia's wikia page is pretty barren, but there is some stuff\nthere.](http://sidonia-no-kishi.wikia.com/wiki/Kobayashi)**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-28T15:34:25.373", "id": "18921", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-28T15:34:25.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11206", "parent_id": "12948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI can't help but think that the mask is random and serve no particular purpose\nas with a lot of things in the show.\n\nWe see the Captain with the mask sometimes, and then we see her without in\nfront of people, the mechanic team, some of the trainees. Same goes for\nYunatose, at times she wears a mask then other times, even when she is at\nwork, she does not.\n\nAs for the aging thing, I believe the Council takes turn to be Captain so they\nwill change hand every couple of decades or so without the average people\nknowing about them. They will just assume that the Captain got old and\nreplaced with a new guy. Also how come nobody mentions the teddy bear, how is\nshe even around and nobody noticed she is immortal? So I guess it's just the\nmismatch of the writers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-19T17:33:01.717", "id": "41468", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-19T19:36:14.550", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T19:36:14.550", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34713", "parent_id": "12948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe final volume _Last Diary_ contains the ending where they meet each other.\nBut the anime OVA contains the final ending and it is taken from _Redial_\nwhere the ending is very descriptive. This was not in _Last Diary_. As you\nmention you read the manga, so you know the difference between the ending in\nthe anime and the manga: how Yuno Gasai from third universe meets Yukiteru god\nof second universe.\n\nThe OVA does not only contain the story of how Yuno meets Yukiteru but also\nabout the other diary users and the changes in their lives. The final ending\nof the anime hints that they did meet each other. If you remember the ending\nfrom the anime, there is a text change of the diary from \"Yuno died\" to \"Yuno\ncame to see me\" and the sound of something breaking and Yuno calling Yukki\nwhich leads to one conclusion that they did meet each other. You can't say it\nis inconclusive.\n\nThe main reason may be lack of time. So later Esuno Sakae released both _Mirai\nNikki: Redial_ and OVA where there is happy ending and other details like how\nthe part of Murmur of first universe, which was hanging in Yuno's mobile to\nhelp her to remember about Yukki and Minene of the second universe and help\nthem meet with each other which he was not able to do in the show.\n\nAnother reason is that, it is not necessary that the contents of the anime and\nthe manga should be same. Manga can contain very deep story with every detail\nwhere anime covers surface. There are many other anime/manga, where the story\nof the manga and anime are completely different. Because release of anime is\nnot like the release of manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-21T18:47:13.407", "id": "12972", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-15T06:35:47.607", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-15T06:35:47.607", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "12956", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYoumu stones serve as a proof of victory of Spirit World Warriors over the\nYoumu. It's unknown what they are useful for except that. Each stone has its\nown \"aura\" detectable by Appraisers, who can tell how powerful the defeated\nYoumu was. Think of the stones as experience points earned in a fighting game.\nThe more you got − the higher level you are, and as a result, thought of as\nmore powerful by other Spirit World Warriors.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-21T20:29:12.243", "id": "12976", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-21T20:29:12.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "12975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere isn't really too much source material on the youmu stones besides the\nanime. However, we see that the youmu stones are brought to appraisers to be\nsold as a proof of victory over a youmu. However it's never explicitly\nexplained as to what use the stones have.\n\nBased on the Kyoukai no Kanata wiki:\n<http://kyoukainokanata.wikia.com/wiki/Youmu>\n\n> The similarity among all youmu is their tendency to manifest an ore-like\n> stone that contains the powers of that youmu when slain.\n\nIf this is the case, then the stones could be being used as a medium to create\nthe different powers of all of the Spirit World Warriors. This would explain\nwhy stronger youmu that are slain have higher value stones.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-23T19:21:55.967", "id": "13003", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-23T19:21:55.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "12975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI will build on\n[FatalSleep](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/3034/fatalsleep)'s answer:\n\n> [The similarity among all youmu is their tendency to manifest an ore-like\n> stone that contains the powers of that youmu when\n> slain.](http://kyoukainokanata.wikia.com/wiki/Youmu)\n\nIn the anime, it is shown that [Sakura\nInami](http://kyoukainokanata.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Inami) can use Youmu\nstones to empower \"her\" spear-like weapon.\n\nGiven \n**(1)** that the stones have the powers of the youmu and \n**(2)** this use of the stones shown on screen, \nwe can infer that the stones could be used to empower/create magical items.\n\nThe barrier sticks, the charms and several other magical artifacts from the\nKyoukai no Kanata universe could be made using the power from those stones.\n\nAs magical ingredients, youmu stones would be very valuable and highly sought\nafter. This would justify the Ikaishi income, the wealth of some Ikaishi\nfamilies and the economy of the Youmu stones market.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-25T14:07:02.970", "id": "13048", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-27T15:50:19.373", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "12975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhy would Gods of Death be concerned about a human institution of name\nregistry? Within the TV series and manga, people go by aliases and those are\nnever good enough. And there's 2 good reasons for this:\n\n 1. If simply changing your name changes the name that Shinigami eyes would see above you, then the value of having Shinigami eyes within the context of the story is greatly reduced, as there's no point in trying to find someone's real name. If changing your name changed the name the eyes see, then the goal of finding someone's \"real\" name would be changed in the story to finding someone's \"current\" name. Clearly from the story, the goal was to find the \"real\" name.\n\n 2. If changing your name changed the name that the Shinigami eyes saw, then it would be a way to circumvent death from the writing of your previous name in a Death Note. To play it safe, you could change your name every 5 seconds. There's not a rule to address this in the \"How to Use\" rules, so it follows that there's no such loophole with changing your name.\n\nTherefore, the name you were given at birth must be the only name that\nmatters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-21T22:19:02.903", "id": "12978", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-21T22:19:02.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "12977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nAs off 2016, there has been a new live action series and a movie, which do\ndeal with this sort of problem. This is probably the closest canonical example\nwe will get, instead of fan guesses we had to go with until now.\n\nIn Death Note: New Generation, episode 3:\n\n> Taichi Kanagawa, who had murdered a young girl, is located by a new Death\n> Note owner and his name is written down in this person's Death Note.\n> However, Taichi does not die in the alloted time. That is because Taichi\n> Kanagawa had changed his name and his new name is Taichi Amazawa. Once this\n> name is written down, he dies as ruled by Death Note rules.\n\nWhile this does not directly answer the question, How to Use: XXX state:\n\n> 2. The names you will see with the eye power of a god of death are the\n> names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names even if\n> that person isn't registered in the family registration.\n>\n\nWith that, it is safe to assume you would indeed see the name currently used.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-26T10:16:09.610", "id": "40535", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-26T10:31:39.027", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-26T10:31:39.027", "last_editor_user_id": "4292", "owner_user_id": "4292", "parent_id": "12977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nThe show you're looking for is probably [Maria\nHolic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Holic).\n\nThe character in question is named Maria Shido:\n\n> Mariya is a cross-dressing boy who attends Ame no Kisaki as a girl as a\n> means to win the chairmanship of both the all-male and all-female schools\n> where his late grandmother served as the ex-chairman for both. He deeply\n> respects and loves his grandmother and does not care about actually winning\n> chairmanship. He simply wishes to honor his grandmother's request\n\nMatsurika is Maria's maid, attends the same school and helps him cross-dress.\n\nMore info:\n\n * [My Anime List](http://myanimelist.net/anime/5030/Maria%E2%80%A0Holic)\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10200)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-22T00:08:09.387", "id": "12983", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-22T00:14:30.597", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-22T00:14:30.597", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "12980", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n\n\nWell, then it must be [Otome wa Boku ni\nKoishiteru](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otome_wa_Boku_ni_Koishiteru). The boy\nwho cross-dresses to get into the all-girl's school is named Mizuho\nMiyanokouji.\n\nFrom Wikipedia:\n\n> Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru revolves around the main protagonist Mizuho\n> Miyanokouji, a male high school student. After Mizuho's grandfather dies,\n> his will is reviewed, which explains his desire to have his grandson\n> transfer to Seio Girls' Academy, the same one his own mother attended and\n> his ancestors founded. Abiding by the will, Mizuho cross-dresses to attend\n> the school. The headmistress, the deputy head teacher (visual novel only),\n> Mizuho's homeroom teacher Hisako Kajiura and Mariya Mikado initially know\n> his secret; Sion Jujo and Ichiko Takashima also eventually find this out.\n\nMizuho's friend Mariya Mikado helps him cross dress:\n\n> Mariya is Mizuho's cousin-german who grew up with him and therefore knows\n> him very well. When it was decided that Mizuho would transfer to the all-\n> girls school she also attends, she took it upon herself to transform him\n> into a beautiful girl by the use of makeup, and she seemed to have a lot of\n> fun dressing him up.\n\nMore information:\n\n * [My Anime List](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1569/Otome_wa_Boku_ni_Koishiteru)\n * [Anime News network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6619)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-22T00:18:46.663", "id": "12984", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-22T00:18:46.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "12980", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're looking for [Mardock\nScramble](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8100/Mardock_Scramble:_The_First_Compression).\nThere are 3 movies that tell one story.\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-22T01:06:47.643", "id": "12986", "last_activity_date": "2023-07-13T10:22:33.307", "last_edit_date": "2023-07-13T10:22:33.307", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "12985", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe requirement for Kyoka Suigetsu's Kanzen Saimin is that Aizen needs to have\neveryone see it released once, that is going from normal form into its shikai\nform. After that, whenever Aizen activates it, even if they don't see its\nrelease, they will be affected.\n\nAizen replied to Hirako Shinji, \"Since when are you under the impression that\nI'm not using my power?\" This means, from the very beginning, he is using it.\nIt wasn't mentioned since when, but probably ever since he shows up, or during\nthe time he was trapped inside the firewall made by Head Captain Yamamoto\nGenryuusai Shigekuni. One thing for sure is that he activated it before Ichigo\ncame. That's why, Ichigo wasn't affected by it. Ichigo didn't see the release.\nWhat he saw is its released form already.\n\nIchigo wasn't affected by it. He was just confused with what he saw, that the\n3 captains are stabbing Hinamori.\n\nAdding to the when he switched with Hinamori part, we cannot answer that. We\ntoo as the viewer are under the effect of Kyoka Suigetsu (as in what was shown\nto us was from the captains' point of view). Possibly from the very moment\nHinamori was down. That was Aizen faking it while the real Hinamori is still\nfighting.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T06:32:55.533", "id": "13296", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-28T11:45:28.297", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-28T11:45:28.297", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "12987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom the left to the right (not including Silica, Asuna, and Lisbeth):\n\n * [Yolko](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Yolko) (Ep. 5)\n\n * [Sasha](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sasha) (Ep. 11), the one with the glasses\n\n * [Yulier](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Yulier) (Ep. 12)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-22T14:06:00.550", "id": "12991", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-22T14:06:00.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "12989", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nZatch lost his memories after he had already arrived on Earth. He was defeated\nby another mamodo, who decided to erase Zatch's memories instead of destroying\nhis spellbook.\n\n> The mamodo is named Zeno, and he is revealed to be Zatch's twin brother. \n> \n> As for his motivation: Zeno had a painful childhood, enduring brutal\n> training on a daily basis. He grew up separately from Zatch, and believed\n> that Zatch was living an easy, enjoyable life elsewhere. Not only that, but\n> Zatch had inherited their father's great power, \"Baou\" (Zatch's 4th spell). \n> \n> For these reasons, Zeno was extremely resentful of Zatch, and came to\n> believe that Zatch was the reason his own life was so terrible. \n> \n> Once they were on Earth, Zeno sought out Zatch and defeated him. Zeno\n> decided to leave Zatch's spellbook alone, because destroying Zatch's\n> spellbook would just send him back to their world, where he imagined Zatch\n> would be living happily. \n> \n> Instead, he stole Zatch's memories, so that Zatch would be forced to wander\n> around, confused and alone, being constantly attacked with no idea why. \n> \n> Later in the manga, Zeno accidentally looks at the memories he stole from\n> Zatch. He realizes that Zatch's life was also painful, having suffered\n> greatly at the hands of an abusive stepmother. Zeno regrets giving Zatch\n> amnesia, and apologizes to him.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1IER4.jpg)\n\nThe circumstances of Zatch's amnesia are revealed in the chapter \"Stolen\nMemories\" _(Volume 5, Chapter 48)_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-01T05:47:31.737", "id": "13198", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-17T16:24:22.340", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-17T16:24:22.340", "last_editor_user_id": "3387", "owner_user_id": "3387", "parent_id": "12990", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**First, the things we know:** Ash got late and had to pick the reserve\nPokemon _Pikachu_. The other 3 starter Pokemon already got picked, one of\nwhich was picked by _Gary_. At the end of the series, you could see that Gary\npicked _Squirtle_.\n\n\n\nSo the question is, who picked the other 2 starters and where were they\nmentioned?\n\n_Your question really inspired me to find a answer. I found answers on\nmultiple sites._\n\n[On\nreddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonconspiracies/comments/txano/if_ash_had_pickachu_and_gary_picked_squirtle_who/)\n\n> In the series, Ash and co. encounter a Charmander that was abandoned by its\n> owner. We might infer that the original owner was one of the other two\n> Pallet Town trainers. In addition, the Bulbasaur Ash and co. encounter was\n> raised in the Hidden Village, which the article linked states was a haven\n> for, among other things, abandoned Pokemon. So it appears possible that the\n> other Pallet Town trainers also abandoned his starter Pokemon.\n\n[On\nserebiiforums](http://www.serebiiforums.com/archive/index.php/t-96876.html)\n\n> These two mystery trainers' sole purpose in the anime was to be a plot\n> device so that Ash would miss out on all 3 standard starter Pokemon and get\n> Pikachu.\n>\n> Gary got 1 of them (and it wasn't revealed until the very end of Johto) and\n> for marketing purposes, Ash had to have Pikachu as his very first Pokemon...\n>\n> So they invented 2 other trainers to get the remaining Pokemon... and they\n> were referenced a few times until after Ash got the Earth badge and returned\n> to Pallet town. That was when Oak said that the \"other two\" gave up and\n> flunked out. Thus writing them out of the show permanently... never to be\n> referenced again.\n\nSo it seems that these 2 mysterious trainers were just there to lose their\nstarter Pokemon after a short time, so Ash could find them and train during\nthe series, the 4 most favorite Pokemon of every kid. (Squirtle came to him\nfrom the firefighter)\n\n_I think the 2 trainers weren't meant to have a big part in this series. They\nwere just needed to give Ash the rare Pokemon everyone wants to have._\n\n_But this is just my personal opinion._\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T07:44:50.773", "id": "13018", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T08:10:28.910", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T08:10:28.910", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4957", "parent_id": "12992", "post_type": "answer", "score": 29 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Damian, the original owner of Ash's Charmander (now Charizard), was\none of the Pokemon trainers from Pallet Town. Firstly, because he wasn't seen\nat the Pokemon League. Secondly, wild Charmanders weren't seen in the anime\nmuch or maybe at all. So it's reasonable to say that he got it as his starter.\n\nI don't know about Bulbasaur, though. It probably belonged to a girl who quit\nin episode 30 something, because she wanted her Pokemon to just be her\ncompanions.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-12T00:50:56.457", "id": "20779", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-12T05:02:31.900", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-12T05:02:31.900", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13858", "parent_id": "12992", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n\n\nI know the trainer who picked Charmander. He kinda looked like the same as\nAsh, but I think its Red. Just saying guys, Red looks like Ash, but I don't\nknow the Bulbasaur one. I saw one of Red's series, his starter was a\nCharmander, so maybe its Red.\n\nOh I also found who got Bulbasaur. Her name is Saur.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-12T07:57:04.500", "id": "21504", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T08:21:15.730", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T08:21:15.730", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "14422", "parent_id": "12992", "post_type": "answer", "score": -4 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with the Damian being another Pallet trainer. As for the other, it\ncould be that girl in the original theme song that never appears in the anime\nand she could have had the abandoned Bulbasaur which Ash found.\n\nI can't take credit for this answer as I got it from a YouTube video by\n[ProtoMario](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCENzLyqzPdI0KiOXFA4cJgA0).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-21T16:44:49.120", "id": "23441", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-04T10:00:05.160", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-04T10:00:05.160", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "15806", "parent_id": "12992", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n### The Four Trainers of Pallet Town Theory\n\n_Pokémon: Indigo League_ , episode 10 \"Bulbasaur And The Hidden Village\":\nBulbasaur protects a \"spa resort for pokémon\" village in which the only human\nthere, a girl by the name of Melanie, takes care of them. By theory, we\nconclude that Melanie does not want to be a trainer but more of a caretaker\nfor pokémon and may have \"abandoned\" or set free Bulbasaur to choose his own\npath. But there is speculation that she might be too old to have recently left\nPallet town considering she is as tall as Brock. He falls for her and is older\nthan Ash and Misty.\n\n_Pokémon: Indigo League_ , episode 11 \"The Stray\": Charmander is left on a\nrock and his trainer said he'd be back for him. His original owner's name is\nDamian. Oddly enough he brags about how many pokémon he has on a table in\npokéballs - over the 6 pokéball legal limit. By theory, he is one of the new\npokémon trainers from Pallet town and chose the Charmander as his first.\nStarter pokémon are associated with \"beginner\" which in turn translates to\nsome as \"weak\". A pokémon you catch and earned is less likely to be discarded\nbecause of work you put into it unlike the freely given pokémon at the start.\nThis may be what Damian was thinking of Charmander at the time.\n\n_Pokémon: Johto League_ , episode 269 (or S3E152) \"The Ties That Bind\":\nProfessor Oak bragged to Ash that Gary had chosen the best starter pokémon in\nthe first episode without revealing which one this might have been. Gary Oak\nreveals his third pokémon in a match against Ash to be the evolved form of his\nstarter pokémon, Blastoise (originally Squirtle).\n\nGary Oak was the only other trainer apart from Ash from Pallet town that was\ncarried on through the anime series to be his rival. The other two were simply\nwritten off by Professor Oak (ep64) who stated that the other two flunked out\nof Pokémon Training.\n\n* * *\n\nSources: [Bulbapedia](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net)\n\n * [Ep.10: Bulbasaur](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP010)\n * [Ep.11:Charmander](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP011)\n * [Ep.269: Squirtle/Blastoise](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP269)\n * [Melanie](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Melanie)\n * [Damian](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Damian)\n * [Gary Oak](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gary_Oak)\n * [Ep.1: Prof. Oak bragging](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP001)\n * [Ep.63: Earth Badge](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP063)\n * [Ep.64: consulting Prof. Oak](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP064)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-19T03:06:30.817", "id": "38490", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-06T05:06:02.370", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "30395", "parent_id": "12992", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nDamian is not Charmander's trainer. The reasons are:\n\n 1. Professor Oak or any other professor gives trainer a Pokemon with five Poke Balls and a Pokedex. In \"Mystery at the Lighthouse\", Misty says a trainer can have a maximum of six Pokemon and the others are automatically transported to the place where they got their Pokedex. Now Damien had over 6 Poke Balls and he said all Poke Balls contained Pokemon. So if he had been a trainer who got a starter Pokemon, he would have a Pokedex which would have directly transported all other Pokemon to Oak.\n 2. It makes no sense, but in episode 4 \"The Challenge of Samurai\", he says that all three trainers have passed and he lost to all three. At Cerulean Gym, one of Misty's sisters says that they lost to all trainers from Pallet. So it means they are on the same way. Now, Pewter Gym is before Cerulean Gym or Vermilion Gym. If all three were ahead of Ash from Samurai till Cerulean Gym, surely they passed Pewter before Ash. So Brock should have known them and Damien. But why did Brock act like it's Damien's first time he is meeting?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-23T06:51:07.033", "id": "42940", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-04T09:55:51.627", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-04T09:55:51.627", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36258", "parent_id": "12992", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the wiki.\n\n> The later Cowboy Bebop movie Knockin' on Heaven's Door is said to be set\n> between episodes 22 and 23 of the original TV series, but Shinichiro\n> Watanabe will not rule out the idea that the movie is a dream.\n\nSo I would say its definitely not after the movie since the creators think it\nwas either a dream or between the old episodes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T16:46:20.417", "id": "13029", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-24T16:46:20.417", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "12994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThanks to @アズーサ, [Hulu is streaming Season\n3](http://www.hulu.com/search?q=Black%20Butler%3A%20Book%20of%20Circus)\n\nYou can also watch it on [Funimation's\nSite](http://www.funimation.com/shows/black-butler/videos)\n\n[CrunchyRoll have also got the series for\nstreaming](http://www.crunchyroll.com/black-butler-book-of-circus). (Without\nEnglish subtitles for the moment however)\n\nSeason 3 or \"Book of Circus\" has only started releasing (July 11, 2014) at the\ntime of writing, so there's no physical product to buy. Perhaps someone will\npick it up once the season is over.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-23T12:15:54.000", "id": "12997", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T19:29:48.950", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-29T19:29:48.950", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "12996", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've watched the whole series so far and there hasn't been any more references\nto him. There's oftentimes filler characters just to create effect and fill\nout the space, so I wouldn't be surprised if they just stuck some random guy\nin that looked cool.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T13:43:41.460", "id": "13025", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-24T13:43:41.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5116", "parent_id": "13005", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe basic answer is \"it doesn't\" - the anime was not canon to the games. The\ngames' timeline is:\n\n3: Dante is young, hasn't started his agency yet, we meet Virgil as a human\n(well, half human), he meets Lady.\n\n1: Dante meets Trish and we learn Virgil became Nelo Angelo.\n\n4: Both Lady and Trish are in this.\n\n2: Dante becomes trapped in the underworld and we never learn what happened\nafter because they did a stupid reboot instead of a sequel for DMC 5. These\nevents are not mentioned in other games so it is the final game in the\ntimeline. There are no official canon works that make reference to what\nhappened after.\n\nIn the anime he knows both Lady and Trish so it is set after 3 and 1 and\nbefore 2. It could be before or after 4 but I would guess before since the\nanime was made before the game however there's no real answer because, as I\nsaid, the anime is not canon to the games.\n\nI don't have links or anything because this is just from my memory - I owned\nall games (sold my copy of DMC 5) including the DMC 3 Special Edition (where\nyou get to play through Virgil's story), two novels, and have the whole anime\non my hard drive and have watched all episodes at least twice.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-14T01:19:42.917", "id": "14445", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-14T01:19:42.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8690", "parent_id": "13006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Devil May Cry 5 there is a summary of event which encompasses the anime\ninto the timeline called \"History of DMC\". according to it the anime happen\nright after 1 before 2.\n\nMorrison is still the DMC agent as in the anime and Patty is 18 as of DMC 5.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-03-15T07:50:08.890", "id": "51179", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-15T07:50:08.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26515", "parent_id": "13006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLogically, there is a delay in between the death flag being detected and the\nNerveGear frying the brain, which is explain by how a Revival Item ([Divine\nStone of Returning\nSoul](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Divine_Stone_of_Returning_Soul))\ncan be used within 10 seconds of a player's death.\n\nHowever, as for how Kirito, whose HP was 0 but was still able to affect\nHeathcliff, was explained by Kayaba Akihiko when he congratulated Kirito for\ndoing something that went beyond the system by using the power of the human\nwill. This concept is reasserted when Kayaba appears before Kirito in ALO and\nreminds Kirito about how he acknowledged this.\n\nIt's more of an anomaly rather than any sort of plot hole. In essence, Kirito\nshouldn't have been able to do anything when his HP reached 0, but he was\nstill determined to end the game because Asuna believed he would end the game\nfor her sake. That determination allowed him to transcend SAO's rules.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T00:42:27.550", "id": "13009", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-19T17:33:21.933", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-19T17:33:21.933", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13007", "post_type": "answer", "score": 28 }, { "body": "\n\nKirito didn't come back to life. The whole \"You are dead\" and then scattering\nto pieces, and then coming back to life was the anime's dramatization. It was\nnever like that. It was simply there to say that Kirito's mind had accepted\ndeath. However, Kirito had **not** died in real life yet, and he had a sudden\nburst of will and resolution to live, by which he then altered the game's so\ncalled \"rules\". This is not a bug, it is simply because the virtual world they\nlived in was, well, **virtual**. In a way, it's simply an image projected by\nthe brain, and is supported by a system. Because he had a strong resolution,\nhe was able to defeat the game's rules just in time to defeat Heathcliff.\n\n**However** , this is not the end of it all. Asuna's died way before this\nhappened. To explain why she was able to survive: Heathcliff had turned off\nthe system's mechanism of killing a person in real life by frying the brain\nupon in-game death, which was an in-game module, right before the duel\nstarted. Thus, even though Asuna had died in-game, she was not killed in real\nlife because Kayaba had disabled the module that fries the brain. The area\nthey were in at the end was neither an imagination, a dream, nor any kind of\nafterlife. It was a special area Kayaba created in order to talk to Kirito\nafter the duel. Whether he had won or not, Kirito would meet Kayaba in that\narea\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-19T07:03:06.637", "id": "18656", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-22T08:17:49.327", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-22T08:17:49.327", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11260", "parent_id": "13007", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nKirito need to live on was great enough to where he could mentally hack the\ngame sort of so he delayed the deleting proses long enough for him to kill\nKayaba. Also because of Kayaba being defeated, he did not have to hold on any\nlonger he was already safe. Also to correct what another said, Asuna did not\ndie because the creator of Alfhiem Online spent a long time gathering her very\nessence and sending her to his game before the Nervegear fried her and was\nunder his control.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-22T07:09:11.740", "id": "20237", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-22T07:34:04.730", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-22T07:34:04.730", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13360", "parent_id": "13007", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe strong reaction Fuyubachi has in the parking lot isn't because he's having\nan attack with no medication to take for it...\n\n> ... it's because he's finally realized, he and the other two are dead. It's\n> a sunny day, and everyone else in the park is casting a shadow; the three of\n> them are not. Earlier in the episode, one of their suicide attempts\n> succeeded in bringing about their deaths, but they didn't know it, and\n> continued trying to kill themselves.\n\nThere are clues beforehand that such a thing is possible...\n\n> Namely, the man they saw who jumped in front of the train, and whom Zebra\n> then saw walking out of the crowd. Everyone's reactions to the death\n> indicate that it left him in a horrible state - so bad that our three\n> protagonists decide that even if they want to die, they don't want to do it\n> in a way that leaves you looking like that. \n> Yet the man Zebra sees is moving under his own power, and while he's\n> bloody, and complaining about how it hurts, it's nothing like the utter\n> mangling one would expect. More to the point, no one else in the crowd seems\n> to see the man. He is a ghost, who only thinks he's still alive - and the\n> only reason Zebra sees him, presumably, is because Zebra is also a ghost.\n\nIf you re-watch the episode knowing what Fuyubachi realizes at the end...\n\n> It seems that our protagonists must have died in the building that was being\n> demolished. When Zebra and Fuyubachi run away from Kamome, not wanting her\n> to die along with them, they have shadows; when they are going to the train\n> station, they cast no shadows on the ground, but a passing bike rider casts\n> a very visible shadow. Ironically, it means that their deaths probably\n> weren't even a result of their suicide attempts, except indirectly.\n> Fuyubachi and Zebra both take pills and try to inhale the carbon monoxide\n> inside the building, but Kamome shows up later than that, and still dies; it\n> suggests that they were killed when the building was demolished with them\n> inside, something they didn't plan for.\n\nIt also explains the reactions they get from others...\n\n> ... which is mostly not being noticed at all, because the living can't see\n> them. The exceptions are: Shounen Bat (Lil' Slugger), who can see them but\n> is presumably a little freaked that dead people are begging him to kill\n> them, and ... The teenage girls at the end, who are shocked because\n> Fuyubachi, Zebra and Kamome's photobombing turned the picture they took into\n> a \"ghost photo\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T01:04:07.167", "id": "13011", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-24T01:04:07.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7684", "parent_id": "13010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHe realizes they are dead. If you notice, he keeps popping one last pill.\nZebra the gay guy eat several pills, but nothing happens to him. Both inhale\nsmoke but they are still alive. However, the 3 of them died when the building\ncollapse.\n\nZebra sees the train jumper coming out bloody, but other people are staring in\nthe direction of the rail. When they are in the bathhouse already, in bed,\nZebra said \"did you say something\", a man runs screaming. That's because they\nare a ghost.\n\nLittle slugger or the boy of the golden bat is not real. It is a mere\nrepresentation of the solution of what afflicting you. In Japan, they said\nwhen people commit suicide they are stuck in eternity pursuing their goal.\nThey are going around thinking they fail to commit suicide when in reality\nthey are dead.\n\nIn real-life Japan, there are internet forums where people bra e meet for the\npurpose of suicide. _Welcome to the NHK_ mentions forum suicide groups. The\ngirl chooses suicide instead of being alone because her parents work and don't\neven pay attention to her.\n\nThe old guy carries a bag of candy that is given to children. That represents\nhis children, can be that he doesn't have a relationship with them or he was\nabandoned by his children. Zebra is gay, probably his lover left him and\nthat's why he is choosing suicide. It is really sad especially when Japan is\nthe second with highest rate suicide compared to the rest of the world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-25T11:18:29.967", "id": "42472", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-25T12:08:12.863", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-25T12:08:12.863", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35823", "parent_id": "13010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen Alibaba got Amon from a Dungeon, his sword became a **Metal Vessel** ,\nbecause Amon moved inside Alibaba's sword after he completed the dungeon. In\nother words, Alibaba became a _Dungeon Capturer_.\n\n> Dungeon Capturer (迷宮攻略者, Danjon Kōryakusha) is a person who “completes” or\n> “clears” Dungeons. If they survive the Dungeon, most of the time that person\n> acquires wealth and magical items, like a flying cloth or Djinn Metal\n> Vessel.\n\nBut Morgiana has a **Household Vessel**. Because Morgiana isn't a _Dungeon\nCapturer_ she is a _Household Member_.\n\n> Household Members are people who help a King Vessel capture Dungeons and\n> forms a Household Vessel from that person's Djinn, or if they form a strong\n> connection to the King Vessel. If the King Vessel does not have his/her\n> Metal Vessel, the assistant can not use their Household Vessel\n\nSo, Morgiana was at the Dungeon when Alibaba got Amon and his **Metal Vessel**\n, then Morgiana made a connection to Alibaba's Amon. After this connection,\nwas necessary an **activation** , and this only happened when they were at the\ndungeon of Zagan.\n\n[Here](http://magi.wikia.com/wiki/Household_Members) is the list of all\n_Dungeon Capturer_ and their respective _Household Members_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-20T19:01:19.557", "id": "13541", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-20T19:01:19.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "13012", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was implied that one gains cantus with the onset of puberty*. My\nexplanation is that Saki got into puberty a bit later than the others.\n\n*: I've read or heard this somewhere, but can't find a good link.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-28T16:03:27.063", "id": "14718", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-28T16:03:27.063", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2736", "parent_id": "13015", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLego have made anime-themed sets that can be purchased off different sites\nlike Amazon and Ebay. They are not available on the main website.\n\nThe anime-themed ones Lego has officially done are Exo-force and Avatar. There\nhas been talk about them doing more on the Lego forums but nothing is official\nas of now.\n\nThe anime-themed Lego sets that you can buy that are not officially from Lego,\ncan be used with Lego products.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T13:27:41.687", "id": "13024", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T16:59:35.620", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-29T16:59:35.620", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "6515", "parent_id": "13022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile not exactly LEGO, [Nanoblocks\n(ナノブロック{nanoburokku})](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoblock) are _very_\npopular in Japan, and they do have some of anime-related items. You could\nconsider this answer a supplement to\n[@bgrif](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/6515/bgrif)'s\n[answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13024/274).\n\nFirst, have a look at a comparison of LEGO (the big ones, of course) to\nNanoblocks:\n\n\n\nThey're obviously a lot smaller, but the construction is still pretty solid,\nand given that they're more common than Mega Bloks ever were, I'd say there's\nsome merit to their abilities.\n\nNow, if you're still interested, [there is a list of Nanoblocks available from\nPlamoya Japan](http://plamoya.com/en/nanoblock-c-1554.html), including [a\nPikachu](http://plamoya.com/en/nanoblock-pocket-monsters-\npikachu-p-86965.html?cPath=1554) (and the related Pokemon sets), though that's\nmostly it in terms of anime from them. However, there's lots of designer sets,\nsuch as those on [this blog (Japanese)](http://nanomura.blog87.fc2.com/),\nincluding _Evangelion_ , _Madoka Magicka_ , _Doraemon_ , and others.\n\nSo, while you may not be able to find what you're looking for in LEGO, there's\ndefinitely other options out there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T17:29:31.697", "id": "13137", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T17:29:31.697", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "13022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is fake. Unless someone can point me to the dvd/blu-ray version this can\nbe found on. Definitely not original airing. Further more the art seems a\nlittle off to be Lelouch, (chin is a little sharp). Chances are this is\nspliced in from another anime.\n\nP.S. - Not biased response, as I personally think he lived due to the Lelouch\nof the Rebellion movie they are working on as well as the popular code\nimmortality factor.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T17:00:42.720", "id": "13030", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-24T17:00:42.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "13026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThat video is very fake. \nIt' was shown to be fan made years ago. \nThere's many ways you can see it's a fake: \nThe zoom on his face was of terrible quality. \nThe broadcast station's logo disappeared during the zoom. \nThere was no music during the zoom. \nPeople checked the Japanese ending and the zoom wasn't there. \nIt was highly suspicious that this extra scene was nowhere to be found except\non youtube channels of people who (falsely!) claimed Lelouch was alive. \nHow did they get it? \nWhy are they the only ones to have this scene? \nWhy was it dropped? \nEtc.\n\nThe epilogue **WAS** remade, though, but not like this. \nThey made a new epilogue for the Zero Requiem blu-ray, it dropped the often\nmisunderstood hay cart scene and replaced it with C.C. narrating to the\naudience, explicitly telling us that Lelouch is truly dead. \nHere are here words: _\"A young man dies. He had the power to change the world,\nto create a new order. The world feared him, hated him. But, I know he died\nwith a smile on his face. Only those who have realised their dream will truly\nunderstand that feeling of utter contentment. So, this is not a tragedy. And\nwhenever I feel sad or cry at night, I sing a song. A song of man's making.\nZero Requiem!\"_\n\nYou can watch the new epilogue here: <https://streamable.com/d8dji> \nNotice the differences: not just a zoom, but actual new art of very high\nquality (and very beautiful), actual music, and C.C.'s voice actress talking\nto us!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-18T20:22:41.353", "id": "47918", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-18T20:22:41.353", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41600", "parent_id": "13026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTV Tropes has a\n[page](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CensorShadow) on the shadow\ncensorship, which is essentially the same thing. The basic idea comes from\noverall censorship laws, such as exist in Japan. As [this\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_japan) mentions, a common\nmeans of censoring genitals is a \"mozaiku\" or mosaic, which is pretty much\njust a pixelization of the area. [This\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Japan#Censorship_laws) talks\nabout the airbrushing over of female genitalia in pornography magazines.\n\nThe white bars (or shadows) seems to be, from what I can tell, attempts to\ncensor genitalia (and sometimes violence/gore) in relatively unobtrusive ways.\nShadows and light flares can more easily pass for being just a part of the\nscene than random people's faces, black bars, blurring, or pixelization.\nSimilar things happen in [this](http://www.movie-\ncensorship.com/report.php?ID=4737), for example, where clouds obscure Naruto's\njutsu.\n\nThe light flares are also sometimes used to block faces or people, especially\nin pictures, though that it more of an in-universe censorship (when they're\ndead or need to be kept a secret, etc.) than censorship because of the law.\n\nAs for why not all of them are done in the way that the Neon Genesis\nEvangelion scene was done, I have two answers. The first is that it is often\ndone for laughs or to add comedic effect, which is not necessarily what is\nbeing aimed towards in gory or sexy scenes. The second is that it is not\nalways practical. A lot of work would need to be put in to making some scenes\nbe able to always have something in front of the genitalia or wounds of the\ncharacter, while light bars, shadows, or clouds are a lot easier.\n\nAs for which anime had it first, I currently can't find that, but I thought it\nwould be more helpful to post this at least.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T21:11:54.173", "id": "13037", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-24T21:11:54.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "13031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere seem to be a couple of related issues when it comes to this.\n\nWhile there are a large number of Korean animation studios\n([~120](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_animation#Animation_industry)), a\nlot of those studios do largely work contracted from Western companies.\n\nAnimated Korean characters have also been becoming [more\npopular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_animation#Market) in recent\nyears (particularly since about 2010, when the market share was about 28%). By\n2014, the market share of domestic characters was 40%, which shows a massive\nincrease. However, that still shows less than a 50% market share of domestic\ncharacters, indicating that within the country domestic animation is not as\npopular as Japanese and Western animation. A few Korean animated shows [did\nbecome popular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_animation#History) in\nEast Asia in 2011 when the animation technique was improved, meaning that if\nthat trend continues we may start seeing more animated adaptions of manhwa\nwhen demand increases for it.\n\nAnother thing to consider is that manhwa are still being adapted, just not\ngenerally into anime/anime-like shows. Instead, K-dramas and movies have been\nmade from manhwa, and their success likely encourages Korean companies to\ncontinue making live-action adaptations rather than attempting the riskier\nshift of switching to animated adaptations. Should there be some major\nsuccessful animated adaptations, that may change.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-23T15:00:39.453", "id": "44826", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-23T19:17:43.187", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-23T19:17:43.187", "last_editor_user_id": "35452", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "13033", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nRemember that when Alluka requests something, she can't _force_ it to happen.\nLike when they Alluka was a kid, and wanted something, she couldn't force the\nother person to do it. They simply fulfilled her request, whenever they could\n(except when Alluka's parents forbade them from doing so).\n\nKillua and Alluka definitely played _shiritori_ together, and when Alluka said\n\"wake up,\" this was a request he fulfilled, since he was \"sleeping\". Lastly,\nwe definitely saw Killua pat her head.\n\nIt seems that the family observed that **Killua did not grant Alluka her\nrequest of, \"Die.\"** He simply said, \"Okay, sure,\" pretended to die, and made\nher laugh in the process. But he did not actually do anything to harm himself.\nThis allowed them to think that exactly three requests had been performed.\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n**Note:** In reality, the reason that the requests work this way is explained\nin a very convoluted and expository manner in episode 146.\n\nFrom what I can understand, there is a difference between when Alluka makes a\nrequest and when Something makes a request. The two are different, and\n\"wishes\" can only be fulfilled by actualizing requests from Something.\nHowever, the initial \"wish\" we see Killua make is not a \"wish\", it's a\n\"command\", so it doesn't count as a wish. Confused? Good, me too.\n\n\n\nSo in reality, since Killua was with Alluka, he was not in any danger of\nreceiving requests. (I feel like this contradicts earlier flashbacks, but\nthat's just a matter of Togashi's writing being, er... poor.)\n\n_However_ , since the original question is about why the Zoldyck family\n_thought_ it was three requests, the above answer remains true. (Edited a\nsmall bit to reflect this.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-25T04:42:20.827", "id": "13042", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-13T02:36:40.720", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-13T02:36:40.720", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "13036", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe wishes weren't wishes from the wish granting side of Alluka, or Nanika as\nKillua calls her (as Killua calls him a girl, I will refer to him as such).\n\nIt is stated in the manga that Alluka is made of two different distinct\npersonalities: Alluka, the normal girl, and Nanika, the wish granting one.\nAlluka comes up when Nanika is sleeping. Nanika sleeps after a) before she\nstarts asking someone wishes after she's granted a wish, b) if the person she\nis asking wishes too leaves her sight before she can complete her wishes or c)\nafter Nanika heals something and tires herself out. I think this would come\nunder a), that this is still Alluka asking Killua to do things as a normal\nsibling would. Nanika's first wish, which could have come up at any moment is\nthe fingernails that comes later on.\n\nTherefore, how many of 'wishes' she asks during this scene does not matter.\nWhat does matter is how the watching family interprets them.\n\nKillua didn't actually die when he was told to die, so that could be\ndiscarded. The second possibility is that the second 'wish' isn't a wish\nbecause in the Japanese manga it is said in a very different style to the\nother 'wishes'. It could be that if the Zoldycks were to realise that Alluka\ndidn't want Killua to actually die, the second 'wish' of waking up could be\nthought of as an extension to playing dead.\n\nKillua doesn't want his family to know that he can command Alluka, so pretends\nthat the 'wishes' he has been set by Alluka are actual wishes from Nanika.\n\nOf course, it could easily be a mistake on Togashi's part.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-29T18:35:03.133", "id": "20429", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-29T18:35:03.133", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13489", "parent_id": "13036", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBoth answer are pretty good but there are still some missing point. Killua\nexplained in the later episodes that there are 2 things the family doesn't\nknow, and the unknown will keep Killua from being control by his needle\nbrother who will surely abuses the power/wishes from Nanika.\n\nThe first unknown from the family perspective is that Alluka calls Killua\n\"brother\", and Nanika calls Killua \"Killua\".\n\nThe second unknown from the family perspective is that Killua can issue\n\"command\" to Nanika with no constraints (later episode explain Nanika just\nwant praise from Killua).\n\nIf his Needle brother does not fully know all the rules applied to Killua with\nregards to Nanika, its pointless to control Killua against his will. Hence,\nKillua has every reasons to misguide his family to keep the rules as secretive\nas he can.\n\nFrom my understanding, regarding to why the family thinks there are 3 request\nfrom others seems to simply because they are not Killua. Then the awfulness of\nthe request has to do the the nature of the last wish. Also Killua explained\nthat Nanika never request awful things after healing (Nanika simply needs pat\non the head and rests after any acts of healing).\n\nHere are key points to notice from the moment that killua meets Alluka in the\nisolated room, to Nanika healing Tsubone's left hand.\n\n 1. The last wish granted from Nanika is a computer from the fat brother.\n 2. When Killua meet Alluka, all the \"request\" are from Alluka (not Nanika). Hence they aren't request at all, its just Killua and Alluka hanging out.\n 3. The real requests after the computer wishes are the finger nails from Tsubone.\n 4. After healing Tsubone, Alluka/Nanika \"requests\" pat on the head and needed to rest.\n\nTrivia:\n\n 1. Killua issued a two clauses commands to leave home seems to be some specific writing for viewers to distinguish if Killua and Alluka/Nanika leave home accordingly.\n\n 2. Killua and Alluka/Nanika know each others existence since they are little child playing in the yard, and child Killua witness how child alluka/Nanika healed a bird.\n\n 3. Killua stated that only the people who wishes are cursed, NOT Alluka/Nanika.\n\n 4. Alluka call Nanika a \"she\", Killua did the same. But the family called Alluka/Nanika a \"he\".\n\n 5. Killua still seems to be unsure about relationship with Nankia even though he knows everything between the three of them (killua, alluka and nanika).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-04T08:17:18.560", "id": "23001", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-04T08:25:20.600", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-04T08:25:20.600", "last_editor_user_id": "15446", "owner_user_id": "15446", "parent_id": "13036", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's only a speculation, but my best guess is that Zankyou no Terror is\nhandling with a real life scenario that just **might happen** to us in the\nreal world (and that's little scary).\n\nUnlike other animes that have super powers (like a Death Note, or an ability\nto launch a destructive energy projectile, etc.), in this anime, there are no\nsupernatural abilities as far as it's shown to us.\n\nSo the author of the series wants to give us some sort of \"warning\" that what\nwe see is not really based on events in real life, and the we shouldn't start\ncopying the protagonist behavior (And if we do, the owners are not legally\nresponsible for it).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-14T12:11:26.480", "id": "13977", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-14T12:35:48.547", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-14T12:35:48.547", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "13044", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeeing as you're on episode 5, this is going to have spoilers.\n\nWhile the _\"Misdirection\"_ which makes him invisible is probably at least\nrooted in reality, I don't think it can be taken as far as the TV series makes\nit out to be. It would be one thing to misdirect someone who's defending, but\nto make yourself invisible to people watching from the crowd or the bench is a\nlittle bit incredulous.\n\nThe _\"Invisible Pass\"_ is something that is described as more of a \"tap pass\"\nand it uses misdirection. That's probably something that people do in real\nlife, though again, maybe not to the fantastic results we see in the show.\n\nThe \" _Ignite Pass_ \"/\" _Ignite Pass Kai_ \"/\" _Cyclone Pass_ \" are probably\nthings that you could see basketball players do, but the way they're animated\nand the speed in which they're shown in the show makes it impossible in real\nlife.\n\nThe \" _Vanishing Drive_ \" is another misdirection, and like the first\ninvisibility misdirection, it's probably something people can do in real life\nagainst a defender, but everyone else in the arena would obviously still be\nable to see the player. In the show, it makes it seem like Kuroko goes right\nthrough the defender for everyone, not just the defender.\n\nThe \" _Misdirection Overflow_ \" is clearly something that can't be done in\nreal life given how spectacular the effect can be. The explanation of how this\ntrick works isn't sufficient in making players \"disappear\" and trick everyone.\nStuff like this make Kuroko seem more like an illusionist instead of 1 among\n10 players on a court.\n\nThe \" _Phantom Shot_ \" is really just an odd way of shooting the ball. It's\nsomething people can surely do in real life, but why would they if they can\nshoot normally? It's unique in the show's story because Kuroko can't shoot.\n\nI think that's as far as they've gotten so far in the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-25T21:25:43.617", "id": "13052", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-26T04:09:30.010", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-26T04:09:30.010", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nMany of Aomine's formless shots are unachievable outside the realm of lucky.\nMidorima's shot arc is excessive but the half-court shot (without the crazy\narc) is within reason. Murasakibara's quickness and speed can be explained,\nbut that crazy power with that body frame is insane. Akashi's emperor eye. A\ngood eye, tons of experience, and athletic ability. Kise's Copy... well,\nthere's plenty of people out there that are like that. The zone is\nexplainable, but the reasoning on how it can be \"tapped\" into (in the anime)\nis dubious.\n\nMy two cents on Kuroko's misdirection and Misdirection Overflow:\n\nMost coaches and players define misdirection as putting their attention on\nthemselves to create space for others (which is Overflow). Kuroko's\nmisdirection if applied in real-life only allows for, at most 3 1/2 feet of\nseparation. It's almost unbelievable to shake somebody's line of sight that it\ndistracts the defender to lose sight of their mark entirely.\n\nPhysical abilities alone, outside of the generation of miracles, they're all\nnormal (and achievable). Hyuuga's streaky shooting, Takao's Hawk Eye,\nKasamatsu's speed, Kiyoshi's right of postponement... They are all within\nreason\n\nWatch a Japanese basketball game... There's a great disjoint on how basketball\nis played in Japan in real life and Japan in the anime world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-06T07:02:08.530", "id": "20658", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-06T07:02:08.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13759", "parent_id": "13051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think misdirection can be achieved by learning, because if you learn to\nconstantly use silent steps and slide your feet for a moment, you'll\neventually get the disappearing down. Since it's on a daily basis for me, it's\nlike being an assassin or ninja being sneaky. That's my conclusion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-19T09:10:41.263", "id": "20947", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-19T11:52:52.177", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-19T11:52:52.177", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13999", "parent_id": "13051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHighly possible to do all of these things, including the phantom pass. Though,\nyour height and the strength in your legs would have to be incredible to pull\nof the jumps and continue running as they do. But all can be achieved, the\nphantom pass is more of an actual technique used in basketball.\n\nThough you won't see something like that used often, coaches teach fakes more\nthan they do misdirection. It requires no ball handling; well at least almost\nnone. If you want to achieve misdirection, most is natural. The misdirection\nor 'phantom pass' used in Kuroko no Basuke, is most achieved naturally.\n\nIt's not something easily taught, I can naturally use it. It's as simple as a\nfake, maybe even easier. Stay invisible until you know you have a chance to\nscore, call for a pass earlier to who you plan to pass to you. Once you arrive\nat the rim, almost like a phantom, the players not paying attention to you.\nJump at the rim, since you are most likely to be blocked at a shot, put your\nhand up if above your shoulder and grab the ball, in that instant, shoot it\nback over your shoulder to an open teammate on the three point line or one\nwith a defense who doesn't expect you to do so. If the ball is passed too low,\nlower your hand to the ball, the palm of your hand facing behind you. After\nyou feel the ball in your hand, either grab and pass in that instant. Or you\ncan hit it back down in an instant to your teammate, just like above, open or\nwith a defender who doesn't expect it.\n\nFor jumping, it's just like in the anime, train the strength in your legs,\nhauling things back and forward on sand. Leg workouts of any kind, you'll be\nable to jump in no time. I've got an insane jump but I have to jump over and\nover, just like in the anime. Kagami's jumps only get higher. You start using\nmore and more strength to put yourself into the air, realizing you need to use\nmore strength. Your body responds to this and launches you higher.\n\nThe agility is possible, but very-very hard. The speed is the same as anything\nelse, work your legs, train on getting faster, and the higher you raise your\nstamina, the faster you'll be able to run, as well as maintain the speed.\nSorry for the 10 page long response. But it's not really easy to explain how\nall of the skills you mentioned can be obtained, as well as performed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-12T01:07:28.530", "id": "21496", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T01:37:39.553", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T01:37:39.553", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "14417", "parent_id": "13051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEach sub-skill is a relatively rare skill compared to the population of that\ntype of bending that requires special training (with one exception) to learn.\nAs the population of air benders has been tiny and many nuanced details of the\nform have been lost over the centuries. Aang was a good airbender but likely\ndidn't know everything as he was a child. From this we can speculate that if\nthere was one, it may have been lost.\n\nI have not found an example in Avatar nor Korra but I'm a little behind on\nKorra (which is why I didn't answer quickly).\n\nWe can speculate many different interestng ways manipulating air could be\nspecialized for different uses: sound bending, foam bending, breathe stealing,\nrapid oxidation, elemental separation, forcible phase transition (that could\nget gory), etc. This, however, would not have any canon support.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-28T14:43:35.677", "id": "13105", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-28T14:43:35.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "13055", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nBreathbending (or something of the sort; taking the air from someone's\nbreath/lungs). [As seen\non](http://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastAirbender/comments/2cvka5/spoilers_episode_10_unofficial_long_live_the/)\nThe Legend of Korra, Season 3 Episode 10: Long Live the Queen\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T21:37:35.703", "id": "13312", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T21:37:35.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7907", "parent_id": "13055", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nClimate control? It’s already been said by Tenzin, that Airbenders can control\ntheir body temperature through breathing techniques, so i think that it’s\nfeasible that they’d be able to manipulate/control the temperature of the air\naround them as well. Although, within reason. Like they’d theoretically be\nable to cool the air immediately around them to a certain degree in a warm\nclimate, but not drastic changes such as making it cold near an active\nvolcano. We’ve already seen benders do it. Earthbenders with lavabending.\nWaterbenders with icebending. Firebenders clearly can bend different\ntemperatures of fire (as seen with Azula’s blue fire).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-08-19T16:48:02.110", "id": "59387", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-19T16:48:02.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "55845", "parent_id": "13055", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMy best guess for you would have to be a manga that goes by the name **Boku no\nAno Ko**. I can't confirm this for you for sure because I don't have access to\nthe manga to read, but searching for images reveals a character that\n\n * appears visually similar to the one in the picture you've provided, and, incidentally, \n * enjoys homosexual activities.\n\nThe manga is a yaoi, so the dialogue content of the frame you provided fits.\n\nBelow is a frame I found for you to consider. The manga is NSFW.\n\n\n\n**EDIT** : That picture is apparently an edit.\n[Here's](https://archive.moe/a/thread/86132936/#86199457) the source.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T19:41:10.727", "id": "16697", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-07T05:18:51.583", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-07T05:18:51.583", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "13056", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nYour image is a collage from a scene in the second chapter of a 3-chapter\nshort BL series named [**Light Blue\nTriangle**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=34901) (Japanese\ntitle: みずいろ三角). It is collected along with 2 other stories into tankoubon\nunder the title [_Konna Nekomimi, Suki desu\nka?_](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=46638)\n\nThis is the page which the image comes from:\n\n\n\nIn the manga, what he actually said is along the line of:\n\n> Shut up! You don't know anything at all!\n\nSo what you have is confirmed a collage.\n\n* * *\n\nThe image was reposted on [this\nthread](https://archive.moe/a/thread/86132936/#86166234), as [@Secret Evil\nRadio](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/9554/secret-evil-radio) has\npointed out. However, the first identification was incorrect, and the actual\nseries was pointed out at [the end of the reply\nchain](https://archive.moe/a/thread/86132936/#86200155):\n\n> Now I searched through the internet archive (since that Tumblr account\n> deleted his posts) and found out that the title is _Konna Nekomimi, Suki\n> desu ka?_. It's a collection of stories.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-08T05:09:41.053", "id": "19207", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-08T05:09:41.053", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "13056", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Fairy Tail needed the money.**\n\nFor the past seven years, they tried to keep their guild alive as much as\npossible. They could have picked a fight and might have won this round, but if\nthey had, the guild would have been completely destroyed shortly after by\nTwilight Ogre.\n\nMaster Macao, The Fourth, did not want to risk this as they didn't have much\njob opportunities as it is, let alone if they had to pay for hospital expenses\nand repair expenses additionally.\n\nAlso, Fairy Tail was indebted to Twilight Ogre and it is not really in the\nguild's policy to steal money and to repay your debts. That's why the Fourth\naccepted their faith and punishment, and by doing so, he kept their losses at\na minimum while keeping the guild alive as long as possible.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-27T00:20:41.277", "id": "13067", "last_activity_date": "2019-06-22T19:07:51.423", "last_edit_date": "2019-06-22T19:07:51.423", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13059", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nCould it be [Kyōryū Bōkenki Jura\nTripper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jura_Tripper)?\n\n\n\nFrom the [Anime News network\nsynopsis](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1767)\n\n> On a school yachting trip, fifteen children of various ages are mysteriously\n> transported to another world where dinosaurs still roam. While attempting to\n> return home, they encounter talking dinosaurs, revolutionaries, pirates, a\n> princess and primitive scientists. These unlikely allies help them escape\n> from soldiers, bandits, vicious dinosaurs, and fanatical priests. Aggression\n> between the two oldest boys leads to a split in ranks, and a sneaky double\n> cross plot. Unlikely romances bloom in this tense atmosphere, and the group\n> learns that each has strengths that can help them get home, if they work\n> together. Losely based on the book Deux ans De Vacances, by Jules Verne in\n> 1888.\n\nAnd from a [plot synopsis from\nWikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jura_Tripper)\n\n> While trying to find a way back home, the children learn more about the new\n> world they're in, discovering the people and dinosaurs suffer from\n> oppression by the king as well as the church's prohibition of science. They\n> get into conflict with General Mosar who is interested in their advanced\n> technology and consequently have to flee from the king's army as well as the\n> priests who try to capture Zans, who incidentally is the son of White Wing,\n> the famous but passed leader of the rebellion.\n\nThe show aired back in 1995 and consists of 39 episodes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-26T20:04:49.080", "id": "13064", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-26T20:04:49.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13063", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure what it was inspired by or based on. I think that's more a fault\nof the readers view to think that. I mean, if I say mass genocide what will\nany Westerner immediately think of? It's just because The Holocaust was such a\nmajor representation of such an event we get that image that it must be based\non it, when in fact, several other mass genocides have occurred over human\nhistory.\n\nAs far as it might be, I don't think so. As far as parallels go to reality and\nhistory I don't see any others.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-27T16:44:33.637", "id": "13072", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-28T09:17:53.633", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-28T09:17:53.633", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "6389", "parent_id": "13069", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nHiromu Arakawa, the mangaka, states that she was not influenced greatly by any\nspecific country, but rather a collection of European countries during the\nIndustrial Revolution, as stated in [the answers to this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/501/274), sourced back to an\ninterview in Newtype USA, January 2006.\n\nWhile I'm sure Arakawa took inspiration from her own country's history, too,\nthe fact that she was inspired by Europe at all makes a convincing argument\nalready.\n\nWith that said, I think it's fair to say that there is a decent amount of\nevidence specifically toward the extermination of Ishval being inspired by the\nHolocaust. In the question I linked above, there's a few other points that tie\nAmestris to Germany, but I think there's a few specific points to consider.\n\n**The leader of the time was labelled as a Fuhrer.**\n\nNot sure there's much more to say here. Hitler and Bradley share a title and a\nmustache.\n\n**During the flashbacks, the most prominent feature of the Amestrian army is\ntheir eyes.**\n\nIt's quite clear that there is emphasis put on the non-Ishvalan Amestrians\nbeing very similar to the Aryan race that was dominant during the Holocaust.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ICUAJ.jpg)\n\n**Ishval differs from Amestris greatly in its religious views.**\n\nAside from their ways of living being similar to those of the Amish, the\nlargest difference between them and the \"regular\" Amestrians is the fact that\nthey believe in the creator Ishval. In the Holocaust, Hitler's motivation was\na duality of both targeting their bloodlines _as well as_ their faith.\n\n**However, the Holocaust is a very sensitive topic.**\n\nI think part of the reason Arakawa denies being inspired by this is that she\ndoes not want to take a political stance on the issue. As soon as she admits\nto being inspired by such a sensitive issue, she opens herself up to all kinds\nof criticism and alienation from specific groups, mostly notably those of\nJewish faith or descent.\n\n**Answer the question already! _Was the Ishvalan Extermination inspired by the\nHolocaust?_**\n\nThere is no straight answer! Sorry! If you believe what Arakawa has said\npublicly, then no, it wasn't. She does not admit to taking inspiration from\nany particular country or event, just the feel of the European countries\nduring the Industrial Revolution as well as the 20th century development.\n\nHowever, if you'd rather look past the [word of\nGod](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod), I think there is\nample evidence to suggest that there were aspects of the Holocaust and WWII\nGermany that were imported into _Fullmetal Alchemist_ , with Ishval and the\nExtermination being two of them.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-27T17:24:35.803", "id": "13073", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-27T17:24:35.803", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "13069", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nIt does seem more likely a collection of different countries. When looking at\nthe Ishvalan people, I would not say the Jewish people. Looks aren't\nemphasized in the manga as much, but when talking about physical features,\nJewish people match no traits of the Ishvalans. First, their geographic\nlocation. They live(d) in a desert. Even though some Jewish people now live in\na desert, the tense does not allow such a correlation to create a parallel.\nThe people in the desert have tanned skin. Majority of people who follow\nJudaism do not have that complexion. And finally, the Ishvalans fought back. I\ncan't recall any recorded uprising of the Jewish people. The Ishvalans, on the\nother hand, fought back.\n\nThere are then two plausible choices, in a Western point of view, who the\nIshvalens are. They are either Middle-Eastern people, maybe Palestinians, or,\nif looking at a present state, they are Gypsies. _Conquerer of Shamballa_\nintroduced gypsies, but it is non-canon, so it probably isn't as reliable.\n\nSome other things that reinforce, at least in a western view, how the\nIshvalens are middle eastern is that they lie east of Amestris, and Xerxes\ncould be shown as Jerusalem, a city destroyed overnight. Also, this could\nallude to the Crusades.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-02T22:35:52.787", "id": "23768", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-03T00:21:58.833", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-03T00:21:58.833", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "16042", "parent_id": "13069", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNo it was based on the War on Terror in the Middle East. You can tell they are\nan Arab-looking ethnic group. King Bradley and his warmongering cohorts were\ncreating false flags which would be allegorical to 9/11 and the subsequent\ninvasion, but in the show it would be the killing of the child by a officer to\nincite war and create the stone.\n\nShe is using two different generations of allegory, one being the German\nFuhrer and the white skin blue eyes rhetoric of Amestrians, and the million[s]\nof Iraqi civilians who perished under the embargo on them and the war on the\ncountry itself which happened in the show in similar fashion.\n\nIt is weird because Germany was friends with the Ottoman Empire of the Middle\nEast so I don't see how she could make the connection of the two.\n\nAlso Aryan does not mean white, blonde hair with blue eyes as the mainstream\nhistory books tell you. Iran (Land Of the Aryans) is also Aryan and they are\nnot white nor blonde or blue eyed.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-16T01:23:13.343", "id": "25907", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-16T03:30:25.160", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-16T03:30:25.160", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "17958", "parent_id": "13069", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs revealed in **Volume 16** of the light novel, DxD is the name of an anti-\nterrorism organization and has the meaning of the different factions which\nform the group:\n\n> Devils, also a Dragon, and the word “Fallen” of a Fallen Angel—like\n> downfall.\n\n(In Japanese, Fallen Angel is [堕天使]【だてんし】, whose romaji _datenshi_ starts with\nD)\n\nQuoting from the novel:\n\n> —Then Koneko-chan mutters.\n>\n> “—[D×D].”\n>\n> Everyone gazes at Koneko-chan’s muttering. Koneko-chan is surprised at\n> having so much attention directed towards her. She then continues while\n> feeling shy.\n>\n> “Well, since it’s a mixed team consisted of different beings, that’s how I\n> felt……”\n>\n> Rias then asks.\n>\n> “What does the [D×D] stand for? Does it stand for being a Dragon of Dragon\n> like Great Red?”\n>\n> “No, it can stand for Devils, also a Dragon, and the word “Fallen” of a\n> Fallen Angel—like downfall.”\n>\n> Koneko-chan answers.\n>\n> I see, so it means [D×D] while pointing towards Devils, Dragons, and such.\n>\n> Sensei nods his head.\n\n* * *\n\nAccording to **Volume 6** of the light novel, DxD also stands for _Dragon of\nDragons_ , referring to the Great Red:\n\n> “There are two dragons called the ‘Red Dragons’. One of them is the ancient\n> dragon from Wales residing in you. Welsh Dragon. The Sekiryuutei.\n> Hakuryuukou also comes from the same origin and the same myth. But there is\n> one more ‘Red Dragon’. That is the Red-Dragon which is recorded in\n> Revelation.”\n>\n> “Revelation……?”\n>\n> “The True God-Emperor of Red-Dragon. Apocalypse Dragon, the Great-Red. It’s\n> the great dragon which is called the ‘True-Dragon’. It chooses to live in\n> the dimensional gap and swims there for eternity. Today, we came here to\n> confirm ‘that’. The field of Rating Game is inside a section in the\n> dimensional gap by putting on a barrier. This time, Ophis’s true aim was to\n> confirm that. Shalba’s plan was something which wasn’t important to us.”\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> That time, Vali showed the clearest eyes ever seen before.\n>\n> “The one I want to fight the most. **The Apocalypse Dragon Great-Red who is\n> called [DxD], Dragon of Dragon.** –I want to become “The True God-Emperor of\n> White-Dragon”. It won’t look good if the ‘white’ is a rank below the ‘Red’\n> when there is the ultimate-class for ‘Red’ right? That’s why I will become\n> one. One day when I defeat Great-Red.”\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-27T18:30:11.790", "id": "13075", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-25T11:46:46.870", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "13074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nThe \"DxD\" in _High School DxD_ stands for \"Draw x Delete\".\n\nIn the opening song of _High School DxD_ , (I suggest listening to the one\nwith lyrics in English) you can see in it that they do say the full form of\n\"DxD\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-25T10:55:53.040", "id": "24346", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-25T11:05:17.777", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-25T11:05:17.777", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "16518", "parent_id": "13074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNow I feel stupid...\n\nA little thought and twenty minutes with Google image search has got me pretty\nsure that this cover is a reference to Kud Wafter:\n\n\n\nKud Wafter is the spinoff of Little Busters that continues the story of\nKudryavka Noumi, in the same way that Tomoyo After continues the story of\nTomoyo Sakagami from Clannad. I forgot the spinoffs existed, so I didn't look\ninto them.\n\nThe Reset! character on the Chapter 2 cover uses the name \"Kudryavka\" as a\n_nom de plume_ for her poetry, which makes it pretty near a sure thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-27T23:36:25.003", "id": "13081", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-08T20:25:47.783", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-08T20:25:47.783", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13076", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSorry, this is not manga, but I'd like to mention [_The\nIdolmaster_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idolmaster).\n\n[The original game of The\nIdolmaster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idolmaster#Game_series) is an\narcade game about producing girls as idols.\n\nHowever, the first anime series [Idolmaster:\nXenoglossia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolmaster:_Xenoglossia) is a robot\nanime. Girls ride big robots named \"IDOL\".\n\nEDIT: Added some background of my understanding.\n\n# Mushi Production\n\n[Mushi Production](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushi_Production) is one of\nfirst animation studios in Japan. Mushi Production is known for [Tetsuwan\nAtom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy_\\(1963_TV_series\\)) which is the\nfirst Japanese anime series. Mushi Production was founded by [Osamu\nTezuka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osamu_Tezuka) who is \"Godfather of Anime\"\nand the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney. This studio was created by\nmanga/anime creators (animators).\n\nAt Mushi Production, animator's opinion was most important and business-side\npeople didn't have a voice.\n\nLacking business sense, Mushi Production bankrupted in 70's.\n\n# Sunrise\n\n[Sunrise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_\\(company\\)) is a spin-off\ncompany from Mushi Production. The founders of Sunrise knew why Mushi\nProduction failed, so they decided a new policy that have strong business\nexecutive members and animators can't poke to the business side. For example,\nanimators can't become board members of Sunrise. At Sunrise, it moves in the\nopposite way: animator's opinion is NOT adopted.\n\nSunrise had a big success in robot anime. For example:\n[Gundam](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam), [Code\nGeass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Geass) and [My-\nHiME](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My-HiME).\n\n# Namco\n\nIn 2007, Namco (the game company that created Idolmaster) finished acquiring\nSunrise and merged executive members. In that time, Idolmaster was one of the\nmost successful games by Namco. The executives gave an order to the animator\nteam that created My-HiME to create an anime version of Idolmaster. Animators\nat Sunrise were professionals of robot anime, they weren't fit to make idol\nanime, but they had a policy. Therefore, they created robot anime that used\ncharacters of Idolmaster.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-10T04:59:07.760", "id": "13334", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T16:35:16.397", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T16:35:16.397", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13077", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI’m not sure whether this pair fully conforms with your request but there is\nno doubt that these works share the same name but have nothing (not even the\ngenre) connecting them.\n\nYou may have heard of [Kodomo no\nJikan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodomo_no_Jikan), a somewhat\ncontroversial anime and manga. Well, AniDB reveals that there is another\nanimation called [Kodomo no Jikan](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=2001) — which happens to be a hentai with a\ncompletely different plot and different characters. (The link will probably\nlead to a 403 variant if you’re not logged in to AniDB.)\n\nGranted, the hentai was first (2002) and it’s very possible that the mangaka\njust didn’t know it existed when she started the manga in 2005.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-29T00:24:42.333", "id": "38139", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T00:24:42.333", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13532", "parent_id": "13077", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nA good guess is probably Katsuhiro Otomo's\n[Akira](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29). It was released in\n1988 and had a worldwide theatrical release in more than 10 countries and at\nleast 9 languages.\n\nThe Akira wiki page notes:\n\n> The title has been regarded as one of the greatest animated movies of all\n> time and prompted an increase in popularity of anime movies in the US and,\n> generally, outside of Japan. It is still admired for its exceptional\n> visuals. In Channel 4's 2005 poll of the 100 greatest cartoons of all time\n> featuring both cartoon shows and cartoon movies,\n\nand\n\n> The film led the way for the growth of popularity of anime outside of Japan.\n> Akira is considered a forerunner of the second wave of anime fandom that\n> began in the early 1990s and has gained a massive cult following since then.\n> Akira has also been cited as a major influence on live-action films ranging\n> from The Matrix to Chronicle.\n\nThe [History of Anime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anime) wiki\npage also notes:\n\n> Despite the failure of Akira in Japan, it brought with it a much larger\n> international fan base for anime. When shown overseas, the film became a\n> cult hit and, eventually, a symbol of the medium for the West.\n\nMore info:\n\n * [The Guardian - Akira: the future-Tokyo story that brought anime west](http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/10/akira-anime-japanese-cartoon-manga)\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=375).\n\n* * *\n\nThere was some mention of Dragonball, but the first of those movies were\nreleased in 1986 and none of the first ones had international releases.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-28T16:11:48.637", "id": "13108", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-28T16:11:48.637", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13078", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe oldest anime I remember is Calimero. It originated from Italy and started\nairing **in Italy on July 14, 1963**. It later became an official anime in\n1974.\n\n\n\n> Calimero (カリメロ Karimero) is an Italian/Japanese cartoon about a charming,\n> but hapless anthropomorphized cartoon chicken; the only black one in a\n> family of yellow chickens. He wears half of his egg shell still on his head.\n> _Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimero)_\n>\n> Calimero is a small black bird who has a shell on his head; his dream is to\n> fly like the other birds. When he tries to fly and screws up he is teased by\n> the other birds, but his girlfriend Pricilla is there to cheer him up.\n> Despite his appearance, he is quite smart and thinks up an idea to fly.\n> _Source:[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2827/Calimero)_\n\nCalimero originally appeared on the Italian television show Carosello on July\n14, 1963, and soon became a popular icon in Italy. Therefore **it was\noriginally an Italian animation, but the characters were later licensed in\nJapan as an anime series** , twice. The first was made by Toei Animation and\nran from October 15, 1974 to September 30, 1975, and the second, with new\nsettings and characters, was made in 1992. Altogether, 99 Japanese episodes\nwere made (47 in the 1974 Toei series, and 52 in the 1992 Toei series).\n\nCalimero officially became an anime in 1974 and it had _international_\n(outside of Japan) success in Italy in the 60's and in the Netherlands,\nBelgium, Germany and Spain in the 80's, so I would consider this to be the\noldest anime I know of which was an international success.\n\n> The first series was also broadcast on European networks such as TROS\n> (Netherlands and Belgium), ZDF and RTL II (Germany) or TVE (Spain).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T11:31:59.667", "id": "13125", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T12:33:19.433", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13078", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe oldest anime I found after some research is Astro Boy. It originated from\nJapan and started airing **in the US on September 7, 1963**. This is two\nmonths after Calimero, but Astro Boy is of Japanese origin, which Calimero is\nnot.\n\n\n\nI first looked through the wikipedia page on [History of\nanime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anime#1960s) and the first\ntitle, \"[Astro Boy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy)\" looked familiar.\nTherefore I started reading through the page and there it said\n\n> The manga was adapted into **the first popular animated Japanese television\n> series** that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as\n> anime.\n\nThis was again repeated on the wiki page on the [1963 TV\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy_\\(1963_TV_series\\))\n\n> After enjoying success both in Japan and abroad as **the first anime to be\n> broadcast overseas** , Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s under the same\n> name(s), and in 2003 as Astro Boy: Mighty Atom\n\nFirst I clicked the [1959 TV\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Atom_\\(1959_TV_series\\)), which at\nthat time was still called \"Mighty Atom\", but later changed to \"Astro Boy\".\nThe 1959 series didn't seem to have been broadcasted abroad though. It was\nonly from the [1963 TV\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy_\\(1963_TV_series\\)), that the\nname was changed to Astro Boy, after discussions between producer Fred Ladd\nand representatives from NBC. The first United States broadcast was on\n**September 7, 1963** , which was only 9 months after the first release on New\nYear's day in Japan. More on the episode list with respective release dates\nfor both Japan and the US can be found\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mighty_Atom_episodes)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T12:14:18.663", "id": "13126", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T12:42:44.233", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-29T12:42:44.233", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13078", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCompared to your other question [What Japanese animation was the first to be\nan international\nsuccess?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13078/what-japanese-\nanimation-was-the-first-to-be-an-international-success/13126#13126), I don't\nthink you can really pinpoint to a specific animation for being the first to\nbe banned. All Japanese (or even all international) media was probably banned\nin several countries for various reasons.\n\n * Some countries had such a tight regime that no media could get in (or out) from (or to) whatever country, as mentioned by [senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin). _If I were better at world history I would have added some examples_\n * Some countries had had a grudge against Japan and had banned all Japanese cultural import all together. For example, [South Korea had banned all Japanese media after World War II](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Japanese_media_in_South_Korea).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-04T21:44:39.867", "id": "13250", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-04T21:44:39.867", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13079", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe was reading [_\"On the Banks of Plum\nCreek\"_](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0064400042). It is a\nchildren's book written in 1937 by Laura Ingalls Wilder\n\n \n\nThe book is based on Laura's childhood at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove,\nMinnesota in the late nineteenth century. It describes the family's move to\nMinnesota, where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face\nmisfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-28T14:35:55.240", "id": "13104", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-28T14:35:55.240", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "13103", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think that since the Dreamshade _Kyoukai no Kanata_ was absorbed back into\nAkihito Kanbara's body, he might have had some unconscious control over the\nother dimension that the Dreamshade created, and since he wanted Mirai\nKuriyama so badly, he might have brought her back from that dimension. After\nall, it was his dream world.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-12T13:32:32.853", "id": "19314", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-13T18:45:19.877", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-13T18:45:19.877", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11613", "parent_id": "13106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a crap one, but I'd like to put the thought out there that the writer\nprobably thought that her rebuilding her body could be easily explained by his\nover load on food at the shop, she could have easily felt his feelings and\ndecided it would be better to live, the one in the dimension had a different\noutfit on, I'm willing to bet that was the writers way of letting us know that\nthe real one was already out making an effort to rebuild her body, after all\nshe could replenish her blood very fast after only one meal, why not be able\nto create a flimsy body as the construct and him fought so that she could eat\nand rebuild herself? Not such a big plot hole when you analyze the\ncapabilities of the characters and the clues put into the fight build up. More\neating for extra nutrition, and a different version of her in the dimension\nthen what was seen before. Incredibly well planned out if you can find the\nbread crumbs to come to the most apparent conclusion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-06T09:38:14.897", "id": "23047", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-06T09:38:14.897", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15493", "parent_id": "13106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI know this is sort of a zombie, sorry, and purely speculation on my part, but\nI think it went like so:\n\nMirai initially vanished by absorbing KnK into her body, so she was\nintermingled with it from the beginning... but she was never really dead.\n\nWith KnK exerting all its power to combat her blood, another dimension is\ncreated, but their existence in that world is a supernatural manifestation of\nvirtually incorporeal beings. KnK has to use all focus fighting her blood\nwhich is a constant assailant on its very core, and somehow this is created.\nThough the exact reason this phenomenon occurs and the function thereof is not\ncrystal clear, it's fairly tertiary to this point, so I'll avoid the\ndigression.\n\nAfter the battle, KnK's not as strong as it once was, since it took a pretty\nbad pounding. Weakened (despite outside interference, to said party's\nastonishment), Aki is able to subdue KnK entirely having learned to control a\nmere fraction of KnK's full power, and he absorbs it back into his body (which\nactually includes Mirai as well). Since it's Aki's force of will now actively\ntaking control of it, rather than just fighting in the same vessel, Mirai\nvanishes because as KnK is no longer the one willing the alternate dimension\nwhere she'd manifest into existence. She's really still inside KnK, which Aki\nabsorbed and has at least partial control of.\n\nLater, his extreme desire to see her again, and to relive his memories of the\nfirst meeting, are so potent that he actually exercises some of KnK's power\nsubconsciously, extracting her from it and placing her right where he most\nwanted her to be. He knew what he was thinking at the time, and rushed to the\nplace he had seen her in his mind, knowing that the ring vanishing meant she\nhad been reunited with it, as was his most profound desire.\n\nCould be wrong though. Take it or leave it :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-16T09:04:55.757", "id": "25910", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-16T09:04:55.757", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17962", "parent_id": "13106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn _Mirai-hen_ , Akihito contemplates the matter (around 7 minutes into the\nmovie).\n\n> Akihito wonders whether Mirai's memory loss was the doing of the KnK. I take\n> this to imply that Mirai being there in the first place may _also_ have been\n> the doing of the KnK. \n> \n> This explanation seems consistent with what we learn about the KnK during\n> _Mirai-hen_ : that it is, in fact, some sort of \"gate\" between the world of\n> humans and the world of youmu. That is, it seems entirely plausible that the\n> KnK could have transported Mirai from wherever-she-was and put her back into\n> the human world. \n> \n> The motives of the KnK in doing so seem unclear to me, though (insofar as\n> the KnK is sentient enough to _have_ motives) - Mirai's lineage's sole\n> purpose in life was to destroy the KnK, so I find it curious that it would\n> choose to be useful Mirai in this way.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-20T23:41:41.370", "id": "28178", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-20T23:41:41.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "13106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nshe said that the original body of herself was long gone, at that point it was\nonly her spirit fighting the battle with the KnK though it did show I believe\nthat she was bound up somewhere where that _whatever he was_ had arrived,\nthough I could be wrong on that.\n\ntheres tons of controversy as to exactly what happened, but because of the\nwords she implied I believe she was never physically inside of the KnK but her\nlove had created the dummy of Aki. which to me is beyond strange and I almost\nthought she was supposed to kill it since it was _his_ memories in a way.\n\nsome of it seemed rushed with sending everyone here and there and maybe its\njust the fact that I read sub, but I couldn't comprehend the translation in\nsome parts which could be faulty to the difference is language translation.\n\nwhen the ring disappeared from his hand and ended up bringing him up to the\nroof top of the school I immediately suspected that he was causing his own\nillusion, because even if she _did_ come back and had reembodied herself, she\nwould not have been able to just make a ring magically reappear from the hand\nof her love to her pinky. then you'd have to think \"Why didn't she appear with\nher glasses as well?\"\n\nits sad to think that she did in fact parish in the end, however that's how it\nappears to have fallen.\n\nthe anime in which the girls parish seem to be the only kind of anime I can\nfind lately without even knowing that's what I'm watching until I'm engrossed,\nI'm running out of anime options considering I read and watch too many mangas\nand anime.\n\nthis is my interpretation of how things fell, looks like Aki went insane :'(\n\nill have to watch the movie(s)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-28T04:11:47.157", "id": "28434", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-28T04:11:47.157", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20025", "parent_id": "13106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCanon usually refers to the _original work_ rather than the most popular one.\nAs such, I would imagine that the original Japanese manga is canon.\n\nThe other mediums can be canon as well; the anime for example is a very\nimportant part of the franchise. Stil, the manga would probably still take\nprecedence.\n\nCanon is a very broad term that can be as strict or lenient as the user who\nuses it, so it's hard to answer this question definitively.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T22:55:22.697", "id": "13152", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-21T08:11:12.560", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-21T08:11:12.560", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13129", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe video games, manga, and anime are all different stories. Each is canon\nonly to it's own plot. Since the video game came first however, we can assume\nthe video game is considered canon unless you are speaking directly about the\nanime or manga, in which case that universe takes precedence. In the absence\nof information from the video game, I would say information from the anime\ncomes next, since it came out before the manga. (Though arguably the manga\nfits the games better then the anime, therefore it takes the spot at second\nmost canonical.) It entirely depends on how you see the Pokemon universe.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-30T00:07:36.337", "id": "26271", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-30T00:07:36.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18227", "parent_id": "13129", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nPokemon adventures is often considered to be more canon to the games. Even\nthough the manga was not made by Satoshi himself, you can see how canon it is\nto as Satoshi Taijiri once stated, \"This is the comic that most resembles the\nworld I was trying to convey.\"\n\nWhile the current producers of the Pokemon cartoon series have tried to make\nall the official movies to be canon to the cartoon series. As the series is\nonly canon to things relating to Ash Ketchum.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-01T06:03:34.833", "id": "37602", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-01T06:17:50.700", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-01T06:17:50.700", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "29541", "parent_id": "13129", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOdd that you mention it, because it seems that Studio Rikka (of _Pale Cocoon_\nand _Time of Eve_ fame) was released in the production. The particular UI is\ndone in the style of Time of Eve. No, this probably doesn't mean Time of EVE\nII is confirmed.\n\nIt says, on the top left:\n\n> noitaminA jingle movie - TYPE: Augemented Reality (ar) Version 1.10.03.23\n> (b) 2010 made by Studio Rikka.\n>\n> No drive attached to Animation, The BIOS is not installed.\n>\n> Checking files system C: The type of the file system is Augmented Reality.\n>\n> CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 1)... File Verification completed. 100\n> percent completed.\n\nThe bottom right says:\n\n> (A, {{backwards R}} logo img) 拡張現実 (augmented reality) AUGUMENT REARTY\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-30T19:26:41.977", "id": "13170", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-28T03:29:08.833", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "13144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nWith thanks to user @Prix for linking this to me, and reddit user herrekorre\nfor the actual content.\n\nHere is a higher resolution image:\n\n\n\n\n\nI think this section is fairly easy to read.\n\n> noitaminA jingle movie - TYPE: Augmented Reality (ar) Version 1.10.03.23\n>\n> (b) 2010 made by Studio - RIKKA.\n>\n> No drive attached to Animation, The BIOS is not installed.\n>\n> Checking file system on C:\n>\n> The type of file system is Augmented Reality.\n>\n> CHKDSK is verifying files ( stage 1 of 1 ).\n>\n> File verification completed.\n>\n> 100 percent completed\n\n\n\n> Expanding \"noitaminA\" timeslot\n>\n> Set at Thursday 24:45-25:15, noitaminA has been the highest rated midnight\n> anime slot on TV in Japan.\n>\n> Stable and high reputations gained from the advertisers.\n>\n> Starting April 2010, the 30-min weekly timeslot\n>\n> **TALES OF AGRICULTURE**\n>\n> Tadayasu is a new fresh-faced university student hiding a bizarre secret: He\n> can see germs with the naked eye.\n>\n> **EDEN OF THE EAST**\n>\n> Set in Tokyo in the near future, this is a story of just 11 days on a boy\n> who challenged the prevailing \"depressing\" mood of the country and a girl\n> who supported him.\n>\n> **MONONOKE**\n>\n> In the Edo era of Japan, as cultural arts, modern science, and technology\n> flourished, so too did the practice of mystical arts, as humanity faced the\n> perils of the supernatural!\n\n(Mononoke script found at:\n<http://www.fujicreative.co.jp/Portals/0/special/anime/mononoke/mononoke.html>)\n\n\n\n> NOTICE!\n>\n> magnitude8\n>\n> The location is Odaiba, the Tokyo Bay Area at the start of the summer\n> vacation 13-year-old Mirai and her 8-year-old brother, Yuki, are left away\n> from home when the catastrophically large quake has hit Tokyo.\n>\n> EDEN OF THE EAST\n>\n> Set in Tokyo in the near future, this is a story of just 11 days on a boy\n> who challenged the prevailing \"depressing\" mood of the country and a girl\n> who supported him. The boy, Takizawa, who lost his memory, helps Saki out\n> when she is trouble in Washington D.C. They return to Japan and try to solve\n> the mysteries of Takizawa's lost memory. He seems to be one of the twelve\n> selected people to lead the country in the right direction.\n\n\n\n> **STATUS**\n>\n> Starting April 2010, the 30-min weekly timeslot will be expanded into one\n> hour\n>\n> **LEVEL1**\n>\n> * Format: 12(?)eps, 30min\n>\n> * broadCast:from April22\n>\n> * Timeslot: \"noitaminA\"\n>\n>\n\nSimilar info for Level 2 & 3\n\n\n\n> Expanding \"noitaminA\" timeslot\n>\n> Set at Thursday 24:45-25:15, noitaminA has been the highest rated midnight\n> anime slot on TV in Japan.\n>\n> Stable and high reputations gained from the advertisers.\n>\n> Starting April 2010, the 30-min weekly timeslot will be expanded into one\n> hour consisting of two 30min series, doubling the number of animation titles\n> to be produced and broadcast in the slot throughout the year.\n\n\n\n> TITLE\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> The Tatami Galaxy\n>\n> TALES OF AGRICULTURE\n>\n> Saraiya Goyou\n>\n> Welcom to Irabu's_office\n>\n> EDEN OF THE EAST\n>\n> magunitude8\n>\n> Antique\n>\n> Hakaba_kitano\n>\n> MONONOKE\n>\n> Genji\n\n\n\n> Antique\n>\n> One day Keichiro Tachibana opens a cake shop. Then a gifted patissier/pastry\n> chef called Ono appears. Tachibana and Ono were classmates in high school,\n> but Tachibana gave Ono (a man) the cold shoulder back then. Luckily Ono\n> doesn't remember Tachibana. Tachibana feels relaxed and persuades Ono to\n> work for him as a chef/patissier. However, Ono is a guy of \"irresistible\n> Charm\" now and gives Tachibana nightmares by trying to seduce him. At this\n> cake shop called Antique, an incident from Tachibana's childhood is\n> revealed, and a variety of cakes is presented. This is a delightful comedy\n> anime\n\nI'm sure it's missing stuff here and there, but this solves the mystery of the\nsmall text. It's mainly synopses and similar small items of text related to\nnoitaminA.\n\nMost of the extraction of info:\n<http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/23ac5m/does_anyone_have_a_transcription_of_the_text_from/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-12T15:48:55.947", "id": "13368", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-14T18:16:07.553", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-14T18:16:07.553", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0stiWHFrxoc>\n\nalso check this, the animated intro backwards (or the same: original status of\nthe recording) says Back to Marijuana. #LOL\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-28T03:07:13.863", "id": "32389", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-28T03:07:13.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24350", "parent_id": "13144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's no evidence to show that it wasn't impossible for non-trapped players\nto gain access into the game. What Kayaba Akihiko did was removing the \"Log\nout\" option and altering the game so that the death flag would cause the\nNerveGear to fry the player's brain.\n\nOf course, whether it was possible or not on the basis of what Kayaba did to\nthe game is one thing, the other factor to consider is the authorities.\n\nWhen Kirito first entered Sword Art Online, he was on his bed. However, at the\nend of Aincrad arc, he woke up in hospital as seen where he wakes up and\nstumbles out to look for Asuna.\n\n\n\nIt was also mentioned that the\n[NerveGear](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/NerveGear#Chronology) has\nit's own internal battery in it which accounts for 30% of it's weight, in the\nNovels it's revealed this battery has atleast 10 minutes of power in it being\none of the conditions set to kill a player.\n\n> In the novel, Kayaba announces to the players that if one of the following\n> happened: **being disconnected from a source of electricity for 10 minutes**\n> , cut from the system for more than 2 hours, or dying in-game, the NerveGear\n> would fry the player's brain, killing them in the real world.\n\nSoruce: [Episode 1 - Adaptation Notes (Point\n2)](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_1#Adaptation_Notes)\n\nKayaba also says how people outside the game were told to avoid forceful\nremoval of NerveGears yet some chose to ignore this (though it doesn't imply\nhe cared for their lives).\n\n> Having informed the outside world of the situation beforehand, [Kayaba]\n> reported that friends and family members of some of the players had already\n> ignored his warning, causing the death of 213 players, showing images of the\n> SAO incident.\n\nSource: [Episode 1 - Plot (7th\nparagraph)](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_1#Plot)\n\nAlso every trapped SAO player was moved to hospitals within the first 2 hours\nof the game starting as a respone to Kayaba's announcement to monitor their\ncondition, and for those who didn't die in-game, to keep them from becoming\nunder-nourished.\n\n> He also told them that his crime was being broadcast all over the world,\n> with the location of each player, thus the authorities would be moving them\n> into hospitals to put them in better care during the 2 hours he had allowed\n> the players to be disconnected from the system.\n\nSoruce: [Episode 1 - Adaptation Notes (Point\n2)](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_1#Adaptation_Notes)\n\nIn the Novels, to which the anime does not mention, SAO was only released in\nJapan so the only players effected were Japanese. in the Wiki it says that\n_after_ the SAO incident\n[NerveGear](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/NerveGear#Chronology) had\nbeen seized and disposed as according to [Japanese Code of Criminal Procedure,\nArticle 121](http://www.kl.i.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/told/s23a13101je.2.2.txt)\n\nall of this indicate that the Japanese Authorities were well aware of what was\ngoing on and would be in the public's best interest to prevent any more cases\nof players being trapped inside. in terms of the game the Authorities didn't\nneed to stop people getting more copies of the game as only 10,000 copies were\nfirst produced and 10,000 players were trapped1\n\n> Only 10,000 copies were printed in the first batch of the game, and online\n> sales sold out within seconds. Hard-core gamers waited in line for days to\n> purchase the first few hard copies from many stores.\n>\n> «Sword Art Online» officially started server service at 1 PM of November 6,\n> 2022 and obtained infamy when the creator succeeded in trapping 10,000\n> people in the game, and making it so that death in-game would mean actual\n> death for the player.\n\nSource: [Sword Art Online -\nBackground](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online#Background)\n\nhowever on the NerveGear Wikia page it states there were about 200,000 players\nin possession of a NerveGear, so i assume that the authorities seized about\n193,853 NerveGear _during_ Death Game (3,853 from the player who died)\n\n* * *\n\nThis next part is mainly speculation. However, Cardinal system, which could\npossibly corrected new players entering the game, since we didn't see outside\nauthorities trying to help players in-game with clearing all 100 floors.\nthough this could be them being cautious as effectively Kayaba was in control\nof 10,000 lives\n\nIt is also mentioned that Kayaba has a level of honor and fairness so i would\nassume that as he aided players to reach the 95th floor (where he would reveal\nhimself as the final boss) he would also act on any outside interference\nagainst anyone in some way if they came up with hacks designed to help beat\nthe game or attempt to back into the game itself.\n\n> Akihiko had a level of honor and fairness. He designed Sword Art Online to\n> be a beatable game by anyone who had the skills. He never interfered with\n> the players' progress to keep them from advancing through the game; in fact,\n> as Heathcliff, he was actually fighting on the players' side, helping them\n> clear floors. The one exception to this is the fact that he made himself\n> invincible until his battle with Kirito, although this was necessary to\n> survive the game until the 95th floor was reached, where Heathcliff planned\n> to reveal his true identity and become the final boss on the 100th floor.\n\nSoruce: [Kayaba Akihiko - Personality (4th\nParagraph)](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Kayaba_Akihiko#Personality)\n\n* * *\n\n1: the web version of the story which included the adult #.5 chapters says\nthere were 50,000 players trapped\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T23:07:25.343", "id": "13153", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-25T04:46:55.113", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13146", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n@Azrael response is the proper response to this, but regarding whether they\ncould or not outside of the initial units and other units were confiscated,\nKayaba probably closed off the system/server since Govt or someone could hack\nin or hijack packets if they wanted to (happens now with MMOs). Even Sugou who\nwanted people for test subjects could only do it when they logged out which\nmeans he couldn't just penetrate the server and was waiting for it to open up\nto reroute 300 people to his own.\n\nTo add to this the new units in Fairy Arc were already in production and\ncouldn't physically fry anyone's brain. People would have just used this to\nlog in and communicate with those who are trapped but that never happened.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-31T14:02:00.823", "id": "13187", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-31T14:02:00.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "13146", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer are in the first episode of the series. Only 10 000 copies of the\ngame are sold, and all of them are in use, because in the presentation, when\nKayaba told her all of the \"new rules\", there are more than 9k players online,\nand some are dead at this moment.\n\nAlso, I can understand other explanations are correct, because yes, probably\nthe \"login server\" is down, or there's only a hidden server (neither series\nnor the novel said anything about if Kayaba can logout or not).\n\n@Quikstryke: They cannot hijack packets of the server. I explain: all these\nplayers are in controlled environment, because of this, you can sniff the\ninformation between NerveGear and the servers. But, you don't know the use of\nthese data. When you do a sniff on an MMO, you are playing the MMO itself.\nBecause of this, you view a packet going to the server or from the server and\nthe effect of this packet on your screen. If you receive a bunch of packets,\nbut you cannot relate it with the proper actions on the game, all these\ninformation are more or less useless. More, if these information are\nencrypted. If you have 5 packets, for example, you can try to relate itself\nwith actions (for example doing one more time the same action for view common\npackets). But, if you have thousands of them, you don't have nothing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-30T10:19:44.613", "id": "18979", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-01T04:39:46.270", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-01T04:39:46.270", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "11451", "parent_id": "13146", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI came here because I wanted to know people's opinions on the matter. You are\nall sticking to the fact that only 10,000 copies were made and all were being\nused. While this is true, I think that we shouldn't go on facts for this. I\nbelieve we should theorize and just get away from the fact that all copies\nwere in use. Let's say that about a hundred or so never logged in on the first\nday. Would they be able to log in if they still had the copy of the game?\nWhile we are at it, let's take away the whole thing about how the government\nwould confiscate those copies as well. Also, let's put people's reasoning\nabout joining a death game aside.\n\nSo my answer to this is kinda going to be everywhere.\n\nAlright, I believe that in a way, they could. I mean, look at how the game was\nset up. Let's start with the Beta of SAO. Everything is great; a few bugs here\nand there, but everything is running smoothly. Now for the Full Version. The\ngame was specifically modified to not have a \"Log Out\" button. So the people\nthat joined SAO on day 1 already logged in while the game had no \"Log Out\"\nbutton in the first place. So there goes that theory about people not being\nable to join after the \"Log Out\" button was removed. Right now it's looking as\nif they might be able to. Now let's go into the game's system, Cardinal. The\nCardinal system is SAO's whole system and does a number of things. It would\nalso adapt to situations. Let's say one of those things is to make the game\nfair for everyone. Would it not block out any other people from entering\nbecause everyone had a head start? It would possibly try to send them to\nanother server for when the game had multiple of them. But then what about the\nBeta Players? They are ahead of everyone; would that not be the same as if\nsomeone new joined? So there goes that one. It would go without saying that\nnothing is standing in the way of a person from joining. The servers wouldn't\nbe full, so people could still join. Unless the guys that worked on the game\nmade it so that no one could join. But with that said if they had that power\nto do so, then wouldn't they be able to pull everyone out of SAO? It's most\nlikely that Kayaba was the last person to check the systems before release, so\nhe could have made changes to the game that the others didn't notice. Or maybe\nKayaba was the last person the game went through before release so everything\nwould be set up the way he wanted it to. It would also go without saying that\nonly Kayaba could access the game, as we learnt that he was actually playing\nhimself. Now, there's another thing we have to consider. I believe Kayaba\nwould not have joined SAO on day 1 either, other than his appearance at the\nopening ceremony. I believe that he would have joined after the first month or\nso to ensure that everything was going well without him interfering. Also,\nwhat's to say that Kayaba thought about people not joining on day 1 and didn't\nbother to put a restriction on it? He did want everyone to join so that he\ncould control a world by his design. So the reasoning stands that yes, they\ncould join and be trapped there like the others.\n\nThat's my theory, but something else bothered me as well. For this, I am\nbringing back the rule about the government confiscating the copies. If these\ncopies of SAO were usable, would the government not try to find a way to get\neveryone out by looking at the game's codes and crap? This was most likely a\nthought in Kayaba's mind. So he probably did put a restriction on new players\njoining. Now with that in mind, Day 1 would have been the only time to join,\nunless you're the GM. Joining on any other day would result in a connection\nproblem. So if we add in that one little detail, then the whole answer turns\naround. So it varies on different occasions, but my final answer is no.\n\nNow don't go hating on my theory as this was actually my first theory that I\nhave thought of myself. And I'm sorry in advance if any of it does not make\nsense as it is very late so I'm tired and I've spent like over an hour writing\nthis.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-24T17:45:44.967", "id": "22736", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-24T18:57:16.300", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-24T18:57:16.300", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "15265", "parent_id": "13146", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nJust finished watching \"Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online\", in it\nyou can see that Pitohui wasn't able to participate despite being a Beta\ntester, although it doesn't say weather she had purchased the game or not but\nbeen who she is (and rich), she might have had the game in hand already, plus\nI can't imagine the developers not giving beta tester priority in the purchase\nof the game. So based on my own speculations, I believe the \"login server\" was\ndisabled by either Heathcliff or the government.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-07T14:34:33.960", "id": "62698", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-07T14:34:33.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60465", "parent_id": "13146", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's nothing that I have read or watched in DN that indicates to me that\nNear is interested in using the power of the book for himself; he is\ninterested in capturing a mass-murderer!\n\nOba-sensei was discussing the character's childish nature, but being cheeky,\nill-mannered, underhanded and generally pugnacious does _not_ mean that he\nwants to kill people using supernatural agencies!\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-16T00:33:31.517", "id": "24111", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T00:33:31.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "13149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nTo answer the title question, from [DN\nwiki](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Teru_Mikami) (but can be checked in\nDeath Note 13):\n\nRegarding Matsuda's theory on Near's involvement on Mikami's death, Ohba and\nObata have stated that they themselves aren't sure on this; in Death Note 13:\nHow to Read, Ohba suggests that given Near knew the \"burning\" and \"13 day\"\nrules were fake rules, he wouldn't have feared writing in the notebook, and\nthen burnt the notebook so as to destroy the evidence. No solid information\nhas been given on the matter; readers are meant to draw their own conclusions.\n\n[Another source.](http://death-note.livejournal.com/1759743.html)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-12T12:03:01.630", "id": "25814", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-12T12:03:01.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "13149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNear burned all death notes. It is safe to say that he can't use them for\nhimself. The only time he may have used it was to win against Light.\n\nIt was not the same in the anime but at the end of the manga two members of\nthe former task force are shown to speculate about the circumstances of\nMikamis death shortly after after he forgot to verify the death note and thus\nwithin 23 days. They speculated about whether N wrote his name in the real\nbook making him forget it - the book got burned so they could not verify it\nand as said N can not use them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-27T07:34:25.250", "id": "41067", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-27T07:34:25.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33164", "parent_id": "13149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs chocking as it may sound R2 stands for **second season**.\n\nThere is no information that it could mean something else or at least I\nhaven't found anything to back other information such as R2 being things like:\n\n * Round 2\n * Rebirth 2\n * Rewrite 2\n * related to the CG power overtaking both eyes\n * a 3rd element (such as c2 or v2)\n\nIf I had to name it, it would be \"2nd Rebellion\" as a continuation to the 1st\nseason.\n\nWhile there could be some crucial information provided on the manga that could\nclear I honestly don't recall any and perhaps some one could reinforce what I\nam saying.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-29T23:45:41.497", "id": "13156", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-29T23:45:41.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "13155", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nLelouch Lamperouge (Rurushu Ramperuji) = R.R. thus R2 - R2 (R.R.) is his code\nname like V2 (V.V.) & C2 (C.C.) had.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-11T18:45:44.920", "id": "21487", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-11T18:45:44.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14410", "parent_id": "13155", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a theory going around that Lelouch isn't actually dead. (I don't know\nif you've heard of it or not but I'll explain it anyway.)\n\nThe theory basically says that in the episode \"The Ragnarok Connection\" when\nCharles wraps his arm around Lelouch's neck and strangles him, he does so with\nhis hand that holds his code. The theory states that in this moment, Lelouch\nstole Charles's code and this is how Charles died. As a result of taking the\ncode, Lelouch becomes immortal and survives being stabbed by Suzaku. This is\nwhere the R2 comes into play. Because Lelouch is now supposedly immortal, he\nhas a name like C2 and V2.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-22T23:46:10.960", "id": "29973", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-23T04:13:56.113", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-23T04:13:56.113", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "22264", "parent_id": "13155", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**There is no information as to a meaning to C.C. or V.V other than to hide\ntheir real names.**\n\nThere is some information about the planning stages of Code Geass having C2\nname as Cera or Sera but I never saw any official information to back that up\nother than random websites.\n\nIn regards C2:\n\nWell if you want the reference from the anime alone, I don't think it was ever\nrevealed, there was a scene where she does say her name involuntarily in her\nsleep at episode 11 around 18 minutes of the first season, but the name it\nself is never revealed to us and is covered with droplet of water sound\ninstead.\n\nShe whispers her name \n\nShe confirms it was her name \n\nFurther in he also calls her name right after saying \"I learned something\ninteresting because of that\" in reference of staying/saving her which was not\nnecessary. And again her name is censored.\n\nFurther in she also asks him to call her name again which he does however\nagain its muted/censored.\n\nSo to this point the name is only known to Lelouch!\n\n* * *\n\nIn regards V2:\n\nOn episode 21 of the second season around 5 minutes and 20 seconds Lelouch's\nmother tell a set of events of the past along with Charles however V2 name is\nagain never revealed.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-30T00:00:58.840", "id": "13158", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-30T00:57:09.243", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-30T00:57:09.243", "last_editor_user_id": "2426", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "13157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nWith the release of chapter 40 of the manga \"Code Geass: Renya of Darkness\",\nwe now know that these names had no relation to the original names, but\ninstead followed an alphabetical naming sequence. This is shown when C.C. says\nthat the successor or \"U.U.\" would be called V.V. \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XilWh.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-22T02:45:22.277", "id": "47982", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-22T02:45:22.277", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41600", "parent_id": "13157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSpoilers Code Geass movies and series\n\n> In the 2019 movie Code Geass Lelouch of the Re;surrection (Re;surrection),\n> Lelouch takes on the name L.L. This suggests C.C. and V.V. are based on real\n> names that begin with, resp, C and V.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-07-08T06:48:30.600", "id": "67004", "last_activity_date": "2022-07-08T07:18:00.023", "last_edit_date": "2022-07-08T07:18:00.023", "last_editor_user_id": "4484", "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "13157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you can read lips, at some point Lelouch correctly guesses the name of C.C:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-07-12T14:23:07.723", "id": "67020", "last_activity_date": "2022-07-12T14:23:07.723", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "13157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [Kobato page on the CLAMP\nWikia](http://clamp.wikia.com/wiki/Kobato.#Crossovers) has a fairly expansive\nlist of ways that it fits within the multiverse. I'm not going to rewrite all\nof them, because that would be too long, so I'll just summarize them.\n\n * The alternate versions of some characters show up.\n * Her apartment complex shows up in other series (sometimes in alternate Japans).\n * A picture of Clow and Yuuko shows up in an explanation of the worlds.\n * Many characters have cameos.\n\nOverall: some characters from non-modern-Japan show up with different\nidentities, while series set in Japan are related to Kobato.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-30T10:23:21.780", "id": "13163", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-30T10:23:21.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "13160", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe magicians are all female to give the main character a harem of course.\n\nIt's not explained as to why all the magicians are only female. This could be\ndue to compatibility issues with the alien monsters, or it could simply be\npersonal preference on the kidnappers part, we don't know.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-30T14:21:53.453", "id": "13165", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-30T14:21:53.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "13161", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHypothetically speaking(since that is what it means to give Light the\nshinigami eyes at an early stage), if you give Light the shinigami eyes, the\nearly he could have killed L, was when they were frequenting the same\nschool/university and at that point L was already highly suspicious of Light\nto the point of tracking him.\n\nIf L were to die there regardless of how, it would trigger L's successors to\ncome in with all the already collected information which again would be\nfocused towards Light with the prediction of not to expose yourself to Light.\n\nThere is the fact pointed that Light could not kill without knowing one's name\nbased on L's experiment, but would that be suffice for them to cease\ninvestigations at such an early stage which not even L ceased him self?\n\n", "comment_count": 12, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-30T18:20:44.013", "id": "13168", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-30T19:53:57.497", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-30T19:53:57.497", "last_editor_user_id": "2426", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "13167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell assuming Light had a long life ahead of him (no health issues) the answer\nis an obvious yes knowing the chain of events we know.\n\nYou're probably asking if Near/Mello would have caught him anyway, but it was\nalready established Near only won due to the combined help he got from L's\ninvestigation and Mello's actions. Light was the better intellect (plus in\nyour scenario he has his eyes).\n\nBut of course no way for Light to know this and he assumed he can beat\nanything that gets thrown at him. Probably rightfully so, as the Mikami\nzealousness/sloppiness caused the downfall at the end, not Light's plan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-30T18:20:52.367", "id": "13169", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-30T18:20:52.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "13167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost of this answer is implied, because it is not directly shown or stated.\nAlso my answer is drawn from the manga, because I haven't watched the anime.\n\nMy impression is Doi is a bit of a jock and was a bit of a bully when they\nwere younger. The incident long ago was that he read out a shared diary of\nShuichi and Yoshino Takatsuki, detailing their cross-dressing experiences, out\nloud to everyone present.\n\nIn the manga [Vol\n8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wandering_Son_chapters) quoted from\nthe wiki:\n\n> Shuichi and his friends start their second year as junior high students, but\n> everyone is split up between several classes. Anna tells Shuichi that he is\n> an interesting person, even though he likes dressing like a girl. Shinpei\n> Doi, Shuichi's classmate, sees him coming out of a restaurant with Yuki and\n> his opinion of Shuichi changes; Doi wants to finally become friends with\n> him. Anna and Shuichi, dressed as a girl, go out on a date, and run into\n> Yoshino and Saori in a restaurant. The four go to a karaoke bar and have\n> fun, though not without some tension between Saori and Anna. Yoshino decides\n> to go to school in a boys uniform, and garners some attention from the\n> teachers and other students. Doi contacts Shuichi, saying he wants to meet\n> Yuki, so Shuichi goes with Yoshino and Doi to Yuki's place, who introduces\n> herself as a transvestite living with another man (Shiina). Doi is surprised\n> about Yuki, and even gets Shuichi to dress up like a girl in front of him.\n> Doi suggests to Shuichi that he come to school dressed as a girl, since even\n> Yoshino is dressing like a boy now. Shuichi thinks about this deeply, and\n> even consults Chizuru and Yoshino about it. In the end, Shuichi knows he has\n> to be the one to decide, and he comes to school wearing a wig and the old\n> female school uniform Yoshino gave him. Everyone is surprised about this\n> turn of events, and Shuichi is soon taken home early by his mother.\n\nAt first Doi is interested to befriend Shuichi only as a bridge to Yuki, whom\neventually stops him short from confessing by way of introducing her boyfriend\nand thus he only states that she is \"very pretty\" upon meeting her. The fact\nthat Yuki used to be a guy is a shock to him, \"I never knew a guy could be\nsuch a beauty. I don't get it at all.\" Then, Doi turns and, clearly showing\nShiuchi in this panel and muses \"I wonder if he's like that too.\" [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8HFru.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JhJud.jpg)\n\nAlready knowing that Shuichi used to cross-dress (he is unsure that he still\ndoes), Doi asks him upfront and Shuichi confirms this, leading Doi to ponder\nand this is clearly stated in the manga. And then he encourages Shuichi to\nturn up at school dressed as a girl. Shuichi eventually does so and the\nincident passes. Doi scoffs at Shuichi upon meeting him when Shuichi finally\nreturns to school (in front of others, I guess to preserve his image) that he\nwas a \"stupid\". [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Edqyu.jpg)\n\nHowever, Doi persues Shuichi after school to encourage him at several points\nto cross-dress, saying that he looks cute when he does. This hot-cold attitude\nconfuses Shuichi and makes him lash out at Doi resulting in the scene you\ndescribe.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IEVkV.jpg)\n\nMy read is that Doi himself is confused, but wants to see more of Shuichi as a\ngirl, for his own reasons. Perhaps he wants to better know how he feels, or\nperhaps he is really quite interested, but this was never explored. Him\n\"kicking the fence\" (or some cans near a drink machine in the manga), is just\nfrustration after trying hard to convince Shuichi to do it again, just not at\nschool.\n\nThe frustration could be a whole range of things, such as the possibility that\nShuichi doesn't trust him anymore after what happened, to simply wanting to\ntry out that relationship (and Shuichi saying he hated him makes that\nrelationship seem hard to achieve). Again this was not fully explored.\n\nHowever, we can tell Doi is interested at looking at Shuichi dress up as a\ngirl, perhaps hoping Shuichi grows up to be a Yuki one day.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-26T10:05:09.870", "id": "27606", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-15T03:15:16.587", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-15T03:15:16.587", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "6481", "parent_id": "13174", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**It would create chaos and it might even ruin Doflamingo's scheme.**\nCivilians don't remember their lost loved ones, but the toys remember\neverything. So you would expect the toys to try and remind their loved ones of\nwho they are as we have seen in chapter 717 when the toy supposedly\n_malfunctioned_ suffering of _human disease_.\n\n\n\n**Humans might remember their loved ones** or might start to dislike the toys,\nwhich would disrupt the peaceful kingdom Doflamingo had built. Now imagine if\nthe toys would be able to spend intimate alone time with regular humans, this\nwould mean situations like these would happen more often. This could then go\neither of two ways, none of which would be beneficial for Doflamingo. Either\nthe human would not recognize their lost loved one and freak out as in chapter\n717, creating chaos. Humans might start to loath the toys and possible\nretaliation might happen. The other possibility is that the human in some way\nmight even remember who the toy was and Doflamingo's schemes would be\ndiscovered. So the more control Doflamingo holds on the toys, the less chances\nhe has of being found out.\n\nIf toys would be able to visit houses, **they would be able to plot schemes**\nto overthrow Doflamingo and possibly kill or harm Sugar, which they would have\na real hard time doing if they would be watched constantly. Doflamingo could\nhave trusted Violet's ability to oversee any strange activity, but how would\nyou be able to trust the daughter of the former king with such a big\nresponsibility. And even if he would, she wouldn't be able to oversee every\ntoy at every second of the day. Her powers should be used more usefully\nelsewhere anyway.\n\nAdditionally, if toys were free to go about as they liked, they could travel\nto other islands and **expose Doflamingo's scheme**. Keep in mind that they\nwere the only ones aware of Sugar's ability apart from the Donquixote Pirates.\nI doubt the government would ignore the cry of help of a bunch of toys who\nclaim Doflamingo had made them like this. Especially since coincidentally\nDoflamingo's island is the only one having living toys. Don't forget that\namong the toys there are also Government officials, who would know too much\nabout the inner workings of the World Government for it to be just a strange\nmalfunctioning toy, who just happens to know too much.\n\n# Toy Soldier\n\nAs mentioned by OP in a comment, Toy Soldier has been seen in the private\ncompanionship of Rebecca. He was seen training her for the hard future to come\nto prevent her from being harmed once again. Since this is a special case and\nsince it was only possible by ~~plot armor~~ a great deal of luck, I will make\nthis a separate part of the answer. I want to point out that Doflamingo's\nlevel of dictatorial control is so high (and quite praiseworthy to be honest),\nthat it really needed this much of luck for it to work. So now how was the toy\nsoldier possible to break the law?\n\nAs we know, **every toy is put to a contract by Sugar** , right after\ntransformations. The contract states only two simple rules, which can be see\nin [chapter 737](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VoiyJ.png) when Cavendish became a\nsoldier.\n\n> * I will not bring harm to humans.\n> * I will bow to the orders of the (Donquixote Pirates') family.\n>\n\nTwo simple rules that make the toys unable to disobey any law put out by\nDoflamingo, which include not entering houses, and going to the toy factory\nevery night. Toy Soldier on the other hand, was the first and only person to\nbecome **a contract-less toy** as Sugar had forgotten to establish the\ncontract as mentioned by Leo [in chapter\n739](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XbJ8t.png). Therefore he could disobey the laws\nas he pleased. This didn't bring him out of the woods just yet though. He knew\n[Viola](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Viola) had the giro-giro (aka glare-\nglare) fruit, and he knew she had forgotten about who he was. If he would\ndisobey the law at this point, he would have been caught regardless. That's\nwhy in order not to stand out to other humans and especially Viola, he obeyed\nthe laws with the other toys and went to the toy house every night as he\nmentions in [chapter 721](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vt68R.png). This all\nlasted until Rebecca was kidnapped.\n\nAt this point (still [chapter 721](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8dvzO.png)) he\ncouldn't just sit back and let it all happen, so he rescued her regardless of\nthe laws. This made him a criminal and a fugitive from that point onwards.\nEven if he would obey the laws now, he would be hunted down by the police as\nwe have seen when the Strawhats first arrive at the Colosseum in [chapter\n703](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bO7l0.png). Yet **[he is too\nbadass](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EGN77.png) to be caught by mere mortals**.\nDoflamingo could have tracked him down, but he probably didn't care or might\nnot even have been aware of the situation. Viola on the other hand, knew well\nabout everything that had gone down, but by now she trusted Toy Soldier and\nwanted him to keep looking out for her niece Rebecca. She mentioned in\n[chapter 740](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zeI6Y.png) that she knew all about him\nand Rebecca, but that **Viola kept it a secret for Doflamingo**. It was also\nfrom this point onwards that he was seen in the private companionship of\nRebecca. It was only after he became a fugitive that he started breaking the\nlaws. He didn't have much choice.\n\nTo conclude, Toy Soldier confirms what I wrote as the original answer.\nDoflamingo wanted to keep his peaceful regime as long as possible and he\nneeded laws for that. **The negative effect that made Doflamingo implement\nthat law, was to prevent what Toy Soldier had done from happening.** Remember\nthat if it wasn't for Toy Soldier, nobody would have known about Sugar's\nability and the toys would never have been freed, because nobody would have\nknown about it. So by Sugar's neglectance her secret got out and he had\ngathered allies to overthrow Doflamingo.\n\n> It took him 10 years to do so, but here he is back to his human form and\n> riding towards Diamante and Doflamingo to avenge his wife and restore king\n> Riku's honor.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-31T10:29:34.587", "id": "13182", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-04T10:47:40.107", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-04T10:47:40.107", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13181", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFull moons are traditionally 'spooky' and are often associated with mystical\ncreatures from the 'darkness'.\n\nMidnight during a full moon is called the _Witching hour_ and is when these\nmany of these creatures gain their full strength.\n\nAn obvious example of this is werewolves who transform under the full moon,\nbut witches and other beings are affected also. A Halloween night (or\n_Samhain_ as it was called in Ireland, where Halloween originates) with a full\nmoon is when creatures abilities are at their most potent.\n\nIt is thought that this association was caused by the reactions that normal\nanimals have with changes in the moon. (Birds get restless, dogs bark a lot,\netc - much like [how animals can predict\nearthquakes](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/animal_eqs.php))\n\nBringing this back to vampires in particular, they also are affected by the\nphases of the moon. A full moon (and being well fed) will mean that their\nstrength is at their fullest, whilst a moonless night could influence their\ndesire for nourishment through blood.\n\nYou should also remember that in many tales of vampires, they cannot go out in\nthe sun. The association could stem from simplifying the moon to be the\n'opposite' of the sun.\n\n**TLDR:** The moon is often used as a general source of power for many\nmystical creatures. But vampires are also known (outside anime) to be\nassociated with the moon.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T15:51:54.667", "id": "17025", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T15:51:54.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13192", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe price of licencing a manga/anime **varies widely and are set by the\ndistributor or publisher**.\n\n(All prices that follows are in US Dollar, and from 2013.)\n\nJinki:Extend cost only $91,000 to license while Kurau Phantom Memory cost\n$960,000.\n\nSome studios have very relaxed licencing policies, some even aim to make their\nproduct to go truely global.\n\nSimulcast internet streaming rights can be less expensive, with prices around\n$1,000-$2,000 an episode.\n\nAbout $3,000 for a few volumes of a pretty low key series. Not the whole\nseries.\n\nLicensing includes the original Japanese company to agree for you to publish\nit in your region but also encompasses royalty.\n\nThat means a certain percent of the title’s price (In U.S. that would be the\nMSRP), that ranges from the 7% to 8%, minus tax. And a G.M. (Guaranteed\nMinimum). Let’s suppose the manga in question is sold at $9.99, since the tax\nis 8% then the royalty is calculated in 9.1908.\n\nThat means that a contract with 7% would pay 0.70 cents per issue, again\nassuming it’s a $9.99 book. And rounding it up, since the 7% of $9.99 isn’t\nexactly .70.\n\nI don't really know how many volumes any of the titles in the U.S. market\nprints so I don’t know an estimate of the GM for the US, but in Spain that\nwould be between 1,000 euros (7% royalty with a GM of 2,000 printed books) and\na max of 1,730 (8% and 3,000).\n\nAs I said, those are the numbers for the average title, series like “Naruto”,\n“BLEACH” or “Death Note” have higher GMs but that´s not important since this\nkind of titles sell well anywhere.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T14:56:40.437", "id": "14375", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-10T14:56:40.437", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8547", "parent_id": "13194", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKuroshitsuji: Book of Circus\n\nEpisode: 4\n\nCharacter Name: Doll\n\nThis occurs around 19:24 when Ciel and 'Doll' are eating what is suppose to be\nfish and chips. In this particular scene/picture that you've included, Doll\nwas praising Sebastians cooking skills.\n\n> **_Doll:_** Black's cooking is brilliant.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T04:01:09.180", "id": "13412", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-15T17:08:29.070", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-15T17:08:29.070", "last_editor_user_id": "7989", "owner_user_id": "7989", "parent_id": "13199", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# Mosk immigrants\n\nMosk was attacked by Romdeau before the series started, as we see the wreckage\nof several Romdeau's AutoReivs. Its desolated state would be the result of the\nRapture that Raul Creed initiated.\n\n \n\nIn the first image, we see the thermonuclear bomb \"Rapture\" falling down\noutside the dome, while the second image shows the after affects. Seeing as\nthere was only one crater (the cliffs in the back are carved to have the dome\nbuilt on a flat terrain), we can assume that the Mosk wasn't destroyed earlier\nin the series. So why was the people of Mosk leaving? Most likely because of\nRomdeau's attack.\n\nNow we're not sure how the immigrants travel to Romdeau, nor how many of the\nimmigrants actually made it to Romdeau. However, the Commune is able to live\noutside (somewhat), so maybe the immigrants who made it to the dome built up a\nnatural resistance. If the Romdeau military transported them (out of mercy,\nDonov Mayer only wanted Proxy One to return), they would have been treated\nbefore hand; otherwise, citizens of Mosk may have been given sort of\nvaccination or boost to their immune system.\n\n# Vincent and Re-L\n\nVincent and Re-L can be outside because of the Amrita cells in them.\n\nFirstly, for Vincent, it's because he is Ergo Proxy, and as such, he would be\nnaturally immune due to being near immortal.\n\nFor Re-L, when she first went outside, she was stricken with whatever virus\nwas outside, because she wasn't in any condition to fly back to Romdeau and\nVincent needing to escape, Hoody became a stand in for Vincent returning Re-L\nknowing full well that when Re-L get's treatment he (as Vincent) would be\ncaptured.\n\nDaedalus was on stand by and gave Re-L treatment to save her life. It's\nassumed he gave her Amrita Cell (which most likely came from Monad), which\nwould then explain why she is perfectly fine when she leaves Romdeau a second\ntime.\n\n# Romdeau emigrants\n\nProject ADW was an attempt to modify humans at a cellular level with an\ninfusion of Amrita cells, the cells found inside Proxies. It occurred at some\npoint between the launch of Rapture and Re-L, Vincent, and Pino's return to\nRomdeau. While it obviously used Amrita cells from Monad, Project ADW isn't\ntouched on in any real depth, so we don't know how successful it was or how\nmany people had the infusion.\n\nHowever, at the end, I don't recall seeing any other humans outside the Dome.\nIt's also suggested on [Proxy One's Wikia\nPage](http://ergoproxy.wikia.com/wiki/Proxy_One) (under Proxy One's Revenge)\nthat Re-L and Vincent are the only 2 humans left (along with a bunch of Cagito\ninfected AutoReivs), making them a proverbial Adam and Eve, at least until\nBoomerang Star returns.\n\n* * *\n\nOn a final note, it should be noted that the ecological disaster which saw the\ncreation of the Boomerang and Proxy Projects is subsiding, and the planet is\non its way to recovery. At first, the people of the Dome may have been told it\nwas too deadly to go outside. However, as the planet recovered, it's possible\nthe viruses/pathogens also began to die off (the planet was in something like\nan ice age), and the chances of people dying from them would be less likely.\n\nThis wouldn't be a instant process, so possibly by the time the series\nstarted, the likelihood of surviving outside was greater than before when the\nDomes first tried to prevent people from leaving.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-12T22:38:01.123", "id": "13380", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T22:33:24.647", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-13T22:33:24.647", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt may have very well been a designer virus to keep people inside the domes,\nworking, living and building the habitable domes up. If you're using the\npopulation as is speculated, to build and maintain habitable space for the\nreturning beings, why allow the population to roam freely?\n\nNow that the original humans are returning the same signal to trigger the\nproxies to go crazy could be doing the same to a designer virus.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-24T19:44:13.500", "id": "49832", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-24T19:44:13.500", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43571", "parent_id": "13212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSee <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sword_Art_Online_light_novels> for\nthe list of translated chapters/volumes and their ISBNs which you can use to\nfind the stores which have them on:\n\n * <http://www.isbnsearch.org/>\n * <http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Search-Books/b?node=241582011>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-03T00:58:20.873", "id": "13221", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-03T00:58:20.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "13220", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCurrently, the second season of Sword Art Online is based on the novel volume\n5-6. If they make it 25 episodes like the first season, then it is possible\nthat the anime will cover volume 7 & 8 as well, just like the first season is\nbased on volume 1-4.\n\nWhile the story is about Gun Gale Online (GGO) and no longer Sword Art Online\nitself, the novel is still titled Sword Art Online. Currently it is about to\nbe published in western world as Baka-Tsuki has already removed it from their\nwebsite.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-05T17:20:10.070", "id": "13267", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-05T17:20:10.070", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13231", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt would depend on your definition of \"Beater.\" While they are not\nspecifically referred to as \"beaters,\" their actions and hidden ulterior\nmotives would likely label them as such.\n\nIf you define it as Beta players who take advantage of their inside knowledge\nfrom the closed beta for their own benefit, then there are at least two.\n\n * [Diavel](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Diavel), attempted to manipulate a certain transaction to ensure that Kirito played a support role during the Floor 1 boss encounter, so he could get the last kill bonus\n * [Coper](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Coper), tried to use a monster to PK Kirito, so that he could get a certain quest item\n * [Morte](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q81Jt.jpg), from SAO Progressive, Vol. 2, one of the Beta players that completed the \"War of Elves'\" quest (one of three people, including Kirito), has a hidden agenda...\n\nNot all Beta players have ulterior motives.\n\n * [Argo](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Argo), an information broker that provides the \"Strategy Guide by Area\". The guide is distributed in NPC shops and provided many resourceful information about the game.\n\nBut all in all, the term \"Beater\" is just a derogatory term non-Beta players\nuse for Beta players that don't share their knowledge and keep information to\nthemselves. Non-Beta players are jealous of the knowledge Beta players have\nand seek to ostracize them, so the Beta players either have no choice but to\nshare what they know or be forced to play by themselves.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-04T09:51:05.697", "id": "13241", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-04T14:26:24.110", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-04T14:26:24.110", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "13233", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nAs I understand it from anime and LNs - Kirito was one and only Beater. The\nmain reason of him becoming Beater was to turn anger of \"simple\" players away\nfrom beta-tester by concentrating it on Kirito. \nBy the way, Kuradeel says \"Sou ka, ano Beater no\" what roughly translates into\n\"Oh, he's that Beater...\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T22:30:25.530", "id": "18964", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-29T22:30:25.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11447", "parent_id": "13233", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nOn some chat at first, with Klein, kirito tolds him they lucky obtaining one\nof the 10k copies of the game.\n\nAt same time, Klein tolds kirito he's more lucky, because are one of the 1000\nbeta testers.\n\nBecause this, you can understand who they're 1000 beta testers online.\n\nOn the other hand, the \"beater\" term are a union of beta tester and cheater.\nBut, the definition of cheater in game are only a player with unknown\ninformation.\n\nYou can assume who all the beta testers are beaters too, because at one or\nanother form, they know more information about the game, and probably doesn't\ntold to anything, or only to friends. Also, even if you try to not take\nadvantage of these knowledge, you're using it if you need.\n\nIf the term \"beater\" are used only for these players who uses these knowledge\nfor their own advantage \"trying to do it\", then, the quantity are unknown,\nbecause of the 1000 beta players you doesn't know nor 10%.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-30T10:52:30.543", "id": "18982", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-30T10:52:30.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11451", "parent_id": "13233", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nTo answer the question, it's first important to understand what a \"Beater\" is.\nThe term was coined as conflation of \"Beta\" and \"Cheater\" to describe Kirito\nimmediately after he made his speech after Diavel's death. The definition is,\ntherefore, the contents of said speech.\n\nIn his speech, Kirito asks not to be conflated with mere \"beta players\",\nnoting that he is much knowledgeable than \"regular\" beta players. In part,\nthis is an exposition speech, explaining how Kirito knew a detail about the\n1st floor's boss's weapon that Diavel did not. Kirito explains that he knew\nmore than Diavel, a fellow beta tester, due to reaching a higher floor during\nbeta (Although Kirito doesn't specifically reveal that Diavel was a beta\ntester, but talks more generally. It is implied that he is talking about\nDiavel, though). This immediately rules out Diavel as a possible beater, as he\nis used for contrast.\n\nThe definition of a \"Beater\" is hence: A beta tester who has more knowledge\nthan the average beta tester due to playing more and reaching farther.\n\nSince the mere act of clearing a floor unlocks the upper floors to all\nplayers, the very concept that Kirito was the only one to venture to the\nhigher floors is unlikely from the get go.\n\nHowever, since the other beta testers that appear don't go around specifically\nsaying which was the highest floor they had reached, it's hard to determine\nwhich was a beater, and which wasn't. The only one that could be reliably\nruled out was Diavel, due to his lack of knowledge about the Nodachi. At any\nrate, after the 10th floor was cleared, any special knowledge known to the\nbeta testers was rendered worthless, as only the 10th floor was reached during\nbeta. This also means that past this point, it would be completely impossible\nto identify a beta tester based on knowledge or behavior, let alone a beater.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-24T12:26:22.383", "id": "19636", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-24T12:26:22.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "12909", "parent_id": "13233", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMy guess is that it's supposed to be some sort of\n[Kachāshī](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kach%C4%81sh%C4%AB), a form of\ntraditional Okinawan dance. They were on the beach in Okinawa but the dancing\nis wrong, which may be why Haruhi is going \"???\" at them.\n\nFor reference, here's the screenshot of the scene in question:\n\n\n\nAnd some screenshots of the Okinawan dance:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-04T02:22:57.830", "id": "13235", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-04T02:22:57.830", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you're probably looking for [_Shibou to Iu Na no Fuku o\nKite_](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=14196) (\"In the Clothes\nCalled Fat\"). This manga has a protagonist who is overweight and can't manage\nto control her weight at the beginning. The scenes you describe of her\ncoworkers and her boyfriend happen in this. Her boyfriend's name is also\nSaito, matching your description. In order to try to keep from breaking up\nwith her boyfriend of 8 years, she develops an eating disorder, which leads to\nfurther complications. The main focus is her psychology and self-esteem\nissues, as well as the issues facing some of the other characters.\n\nThe manga was published in 1997, and spans 15 chapters total (collected in 1\nvolume). The English version was published very recently by Vertical.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-04T03:15:03.907", "id": "13237", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-04T03:22:23.023", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-04T03:22:23.023", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "13236", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI can't comment, but it's not the words that are being used, because in the\nEnglish dub, both \"I'll have to attack again!\" and \"Here's one more!\" come\nfrom \"21487214\". Therefore it might have something to do with the intent of\nthe words being said as both phrases have an aggressive intent.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-11-04T11:26:57.577", "id": "55774", "last_activity_date": "2019-11-04T11:26:57.577", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50636", "parent_id": "13244", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAction/Adventure anime is typically catagorized under shounen - which means\nadolescent males. \nPeople like other people who are like themselves. In this case, adolescent\nmales empathize and therefore like shows about other adolescent males being\nheroes.\n\nThe \"exceptions\" you listed are typically listed under seinen, which don't\ntarget _just_ young people.\n\nAs for the difference, there are plenty of novels written for young adults\nfeaturing teen heroes, just look at Hunger Games or the slew of vampire books\nor harry potter. You just see so much more of it in Japan because there are so\nmuch more teenagers reading manga, reading novels, and watching anime.\n\nPlease see these questions for more information - [What are the differences\nbetween types of anime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2328/what-\nare-the-differences-between-types-of-anime) or [Why is most anime centered on\nfighting?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6430/why-is-most-anime-\ncentered-on-fighting)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-04T17:06:09.443", "id": "13248", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-04T19:34:08.613", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "13247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's to increase the appeal to the target audience, and I believe all of those\nseries you listed are shounen (for young boys). I think those manga series\nthat are action that are made for an older target audience (seinen rather than\nshounen) do not as commonly get made into anime, or if they do, they are not\nusually as long running or as big in merchandising. But these series do tend\nto have older protagonists.\n\nI believe also that there's also a spotlight effect happening that may be\naffecting your perception. Those series that tend to do well and get licensed\nfor television in the west also tend to be shounen action anime.\n\nI'll also note in those western series you mentioned where the starring\ncharacter is not a child or teenager, they have a history of trying to insert\nchildren/teens as \"sidekicks\" in order to increase appeal for a target\naudience. It's kind of funny you listed Transformers as an example though,\nsince it was first created by Takara Tomy (a Japanese toy company) and Hasbro,\nand so I see it as just as much a Japan thing as a western thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-04T19:51:44.553", "id": "13249", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-04T19:51:44.553", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3734", "parent_id": "13247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nThis sounds like [Mahoromatic\n2](http://myanimelist.net/anime/277/Mahoromatic_2) (Something more beautiful),\nthe second season of the series which involves battle androids (dressed as\nMaids in the case of these 2) and spans 14 episodes.\n\nFrom the [Wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahoromatic) for\nMinawa, the orange-haired younger android:\n\n> Minawa is first introduced in Mahoromatic ~Something More Beautiful~. Clumsy\n> and anemic, she ends up living with Mahoro and Suguru and going to school\n> under the pretext of being Mahoro's younger sister. She has a habit of\n> apologizing for everything she does, even if she has done nothing wrong. She\n> claims to be a runaway member of The Management, but is later revealed to\n> have been sent to gather information on VESPER's battle android Mahoro after\n> being promised a heart in return. Mahoro, however, convinces her that the\n> fact that she can cry means she already has a heart.\n\nThe original series aired in 2001, but the one with Minawa, the orange-haired\ngirl aired in 2002. The first series didn't have Minawa in it.\n\nEpisode 10:\n\n> Where the enemy android from The Management tells Minawa that it's time for\n> her to hold up her end of the bargain, so she kidnaps Suguru (the male lead)\n> and takes him to the laboratory (where the large cylindrical room is).\n> Mahoro comes to save him but is captured, then Minawa has a change of heart\n> and frees everyone but gets shot in the process. \n> \n>  \n> \n> Mahoro then goes crazy and destroys everything \n> \n>  \n> \n> And the episode ends in a huge fire fight (looking down into the bottom of\n> the cylindrical room which is on fire) \n> \n> \n\nThe ending of the 2nd season:\n\n> Is pretty violent as a culmination of both Mahoro's lifespan ending and the\n> final battle. It's also pretty sad as well as controversial for an ending.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-05T03:49:21.910", "id": "13254", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-05T06:49:04.190", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-05T06:49:04.190", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13251", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo be perfectly honest there was no original \"notice me senpai\" moment in\nanime. The way it started is when a female character has feelings for a guy,\nbut she never manages to tell him, and this just happens again and again. My\nguess is that it was probably a fan of one of these anime that made the first\nmeme.\n\nAs for what anime was used in the first \"notice me senpai\" meme, neither I nor\nanyone else would be able to give you a definitive answer.\n\nUnless you got Google themselves to look it up for you :P\n\n(I'm sorry that this probably wasn't the answer you were looking for, but I've\nwatched a lot of romantic comedy type anime, but have never actually heard\nsomeone say that).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-03T02:26:21.987", "id": "19787", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-06T05:45:06.810", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-06T05:45:06.810", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13030", "parent_id": "13252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\n'Notice me senpai!' Really didn't originate from anywhere, it's more of a\nreference to when there's a romance in Animes that deal with school life.\nBefore it somehow always was the girl chasing the guy (and still is). So I'm\nbetting that whatever was the first anime to have an older male protagonist\nand a younger female protagonist, is most likely where it really originated\nfrom. If you watch older romance anime's their almost always about school\nlife, so I'm assuming as time went on people noticed the pattern and came up\nwith that meme.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-07T16:50:32.250", "id": "19879", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-07T16:50:32.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13102", "parent_id": "13252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**In real-life Japanese culture** , many people do hope to get and attempt to\nget the attention of their love interest without ever voicing it or being\ndirect, so **this is not an anime/manga-specific trope** but rather works of\nanime/manga are incorporating a very standard experience of elementary/jr.\nhigh/high schoolers in Japan past and through to the present. In other words,\na particular anime did not start the meme, but rather some particular anime\nwas simply the first to document the real-life occurrence of such moments.\n**_Shoujo_ manga magazines such as _Ribon_ often feature color page spreads of\nadvice and instructions on what hairstyles, fashion, and accessories could\nhelp you be noticed by the guy you like** (I personally find this very\ndubious, having taught in 5th~6th grade in Japanese public schools... I'd be\nsurprised if any of the boys are paying attention to how darling a girl's\npencil case is and thereby thinking, \"Oh, she's good at being cute. I like her\nnow,\" but I digress), so **from a young age, Japanese girls are encouraged in\nthis practice** of trying to attract a love interest without needing to\nconfess her feelings to him directly (so that he will get interested in her\nbefore he realized she's interested in him).\n\n_Sempai_ (「先輩」) are upperclassmen _in some sense_ to whom a Japanese person\nwill always be kouhai (「後輩」, underclassmen) throughout their lives after\ngraduation. There is no analogous system to the _sempai/kouhai_ system in\nWestern culture. **_Sempai_ are _often_ older, but not always**: more\nimportant than age is the person’s year in school or number of years in the\nshared _bukkatsu_ (student club), company, etc. at the time that the _kouhai_\nenters said school, club, or company. This is true of both males and females,\nso we cannot say that a meme developed out of only girls in romance-focused\nseries thinking secretly about their _sempai_ ; in _shounen_ action anime,\nboys pine away for girls who they think might be out of their league too,\nwhether older or the same age. For example, I'm a member of the manga student\ngroup at my university in Japan, and we all call each other by “-san.” Even\nthough they're all younger than me (since I'm a grad student and they're\nundergrads), it would be totally inappropriate for me to start calling them in\n_yobisute_ (that is, without a respectful name suffix) because they either 1)\nare my _sempai_ in terms of number of years of membership in the club, or 2)\nthey entered the club at the same time as me. If you enter university as a\nfreshman and meet a sophomore who is your own age, he/she is automatically\nyour _sempai_ by virtue of being a grade ahead of you. Then, even if you have\nnot seen your _sempai_ in decades and you are now both middle-aged and working\nat different companies of equal repute, when you meet again he/she is still\nyour superior to whom you must look up to, defer to, and serve; there is no\nevening-out of level in Japanese _sempai/kouhai_ culture.\n\nYou write,\n\n> \"it seems to be made up and not really existent in anime. . . . it doesn't\n> seem like this particular line could have come from an anime.\"\n\nIf you are asking, which anime first featured this exact line of inner\nmonologue where the _seiyuu_ voices it, you might be correct in that the exact\nwording cannot be found; however, that would be hard to confirm. Since the\n_sempai/kouhai_ relationship and the don't-confess-feelings-directly cultural\nelement are both so standard in Japanese culture, it would be hard to pin-\npoint and verify the earliest case of this moment documented in the anime\nmedium, because **you would need to be looking at the earliest anime TV films\nand series produced in[the\n60s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anime#1960s) that contain school\nsettings**, or possibly you would even need to check through the older\n[propaganda films and shorts of the previous\ndecades](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anime) (which are difficult\nto get ahold of, even for anime scholars). That would entail investigating all\nthe genres ranging from _shounen_ sci-fi to _shoujo_ sports series. Though I\nam not very familiar with 60s anime, I can say, at the least, that **you can\nfind this \"notice me, senpai\" _moment_ , though not the exact phrasing, in\nmany anime produced in the 70s, 80s, and 90s**. Such an English phrase would\nbe summarizing the moment that we do often see occur in anime.\n\nSee also my [answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/22209/8134) to this\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22208/why-are-there-so-\nmany-perverted-virgins-in-anime/):\n\n> . . . a major format of Japanese romance is to like someone who you are not\n> friends with for a long time, and finally \"confess\" your feelings in a\n> sudden love letter, on St. Valentine's Day, or on graduation day, in which\n> the recipient must abruptly decide whether or not he/she has romantic\n> interest in the other person -- who might not have been on the recipient's\n> radar whatsoever. This can result in either being turned down on the spot\n> (\"I don't even know you\"), a willingness to try to go on a couple dates\n> (\"Maybe I could get interested in you\"), or the first-choice being the\n> recipient is overjoyed (\"I secretly pined away for you for years too!\"). A\n> lot of romantic feelings and sexual desire are never confessed, but some\n> that are get rejected due to the format in which the potential couple does\n> not get to know each other through friendship or casual dating before a\n> major DTR (defining the relationship) event takes place, or reciprocal\n> feelings are confessed right after the graduation ceremony and the\n> respective parties part ways to go to different schools for high school or\n> university, so the mutual interest doesn't lead anywhere.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-10T02:31:39.733", "id": "25764", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-10T02:56:25.163", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nOne thing I noted for sure is that Manga usually is not drawn in the same\nstyle they use for X-Men, Batman, Superman (DC Comics or Marvel).\n\n**Muscles** They tend to be drawn slimmer & less muscular. When they are drawn\nmuscularly, the muscles tends to have more packs (not sure what's that called)\nthan that in American comics. A simple comparison is between Goku of Dragon\nBall and Superman. Goku has more packs than Superman.\n\n**Hair** Also, Manga character hair tends to be spikey, while American comics\nare not. For example Tony Stark of Iron Man and Natsu Dragneel of Fairy Tail.\n\n**Eyes** Manga tends to draw the characters with big, round eyes. This is\nespecially true in girls manga (shoujo manga).\n\n\n\n**Expressions** Well, American manga don't draw jaw-dripping expressions like\nmanga do, or panic character having >.< eyes.\n\n\n\n**Sound Effects** Another this is that effects in American comics are usually\ndrawn inside a spikey bubble, while in manga, they are usually just written in\nbig hiragana or katakana letter.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-05T06:35:34.327", "id": "13257", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-06T14:25:34.390", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-06T14:25:34.390", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nSome characters have massive heads\n\nVery teenagey at times\n\nMassive eyes\n\nLots of connection to Japanese school life\n\nUses nearly the entire colour spectrum for hair colour and eye colour choices\n\nCan get very platonic/intimate to a point of rated x at times\n\nMore common in black and white than in colour\n\nAll of the above have been sourced from 10 years experience of reading manga\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-24T02:31:44.813", "id": "28285", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-24T02:31:44.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19939", "parent_id": "13256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMaybe because of the potential consequences of changing the past, Gintoki may\nnot have met Shinpachi, Kagura and others at all.\n\nMoreover, if you believe in the \"parallel world\" interpretation of time\ntraveling, it can be said that the past cannot be changed, but only forked\ninto alternative futures.\n\nThus maybe going to the future is the best choice here.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-04T15:06:01.323", "id": "44523", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-04T15:06:01.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37993", "parent_id": "13259", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nGintoki is a lazy bastard, the only time we see him go out of his comfort\nzone, is when the people precious to him are threatened. And the level of\neffort he will put in also seems to be proportional to the amount of threat\nposed (like when the threat level is low, he will just save their ass while\nsmiling smugly and stuff).\n\nSo, to convince Gintoki to put in all of his effort into preventing a future\ndisaster like in the alt world, Gintoki needed to feel the sheer amount of\nsuffering that would be caused if he failed; if he was just told some story,\nwith a few videos; I doubt Gintoki would have risked his own life, as the\nstory is just too damn far fetched.\n\nA foreign virus that supposedly originated in the Joi war and stays dormant\nfor 20 or so years, just to explode into the world, bombing it back to pre\nAmanto period? Yeah, is a very unconvincing story, unless you experience it,\nif you ask me.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-29T10:20:53.737", "id": "54128", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-29T10:20:53.737", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48740", "parent_id": "13259", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHaine was born into the Kamiya family, but \"sold\" to the Otomiya family in\nexchange for 50 million yen, hence why her family name is Otomiya.\n\nShizumasa is the emperor, but we first meet the \"fake\" Shizumasa, who is\nfilling in for the real one, and we find out the fake is actually Shizumasa's\ntwin brother.\n\nFor more details including family tree diagrams, see the GAC wikia:\n\n * [Haine page](http://gac.wikia.com/wiki/Haine_Otomiya)\n * [Kamiya family page](http://gac.wikia.com/wiki/Kamiya_family)\n * [Togu family page](http://gac.wikia.com/wiki/Togu_family)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T01:44:57.120", "id": "14422", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T01:44:57.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8676", "parent_id": "13261", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTomoe knew that Kenshin was her fiance's assassin. She moved to Kyoto,\ndesperate to find him. So we can assume that the rest of the family knew about\nKenshin too.\n\nWhen Kenshin kills, he delivers the \"Tenshu\", a signature for the crimes, that\nidentifies the faction responsible for the murders. Kenshin's reputation among\nthe Ishin Shishi and their ennemies was increasing (remember that the Shinsen\nGumi has a physical description of him before actually meeting Kenshin).\n\nSo Mr Yukishiro knows that his daughter's fiance was killed by the Ishin\nShishi's assassin, and later on, that assassin became famously known has a man\nwith red hair and 2 scars across his left cheek. Even if Kenshin's name was\nunknown to most, his appearance and skill was becoming a legend.\n\nNow, how would he know about Tomoe's wedding? She wrote to Enishi, once they\nmoved close to Ootsu. That is why Enishi meets them in the mountain (and he\nalready knows that Kenshin is responsible for her fiance's death). We can\nassume that Tomoe's father learnt about her wedding from Enishi.\n\nSource: Manga + the OVA Rurouni Kenshin Tsuioku Hen\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-23T13:43:24.120", "id": "29985", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-08T08:56:40.993", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-08T08:56:40.993", "last_editor_user_id": "18068", "owner_user_id": "18068", "parent_id": "13266", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIsika the guy who cleans up after Kenshin's assassinations is a spy. He knows\neverything about Kenshin. He also tries to weaken Kenshin emotionally to get\nhim killed when he goes after Tomoe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-17T04:01:15.047", "id": "42364", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-17T04:01:15.047", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35672", "parent_id": "13266", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nEpisode 6 (The Stolen Mask / 奪われた 仮面). The description is\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Code_Geass:_Lelouch_of_the_Rebellion_episodes).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-05T23:04:52.177", "id": "13272", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-05T23:04:52.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "13270", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen Naruto learns the Flash ability just before he goes out to join the war,\nwe see Naruto actually getting his foot stuck in some stone after failing at\nusing the Flash ability. From this, we can tell that the Flash ability allows\nthe user to move very fast, because it'd take a large amount of force for\nNaruto to hit the stone, crack it and get stuck in it. Where as based on\nconcept, teleportation would not exert any sort of outward force, Naruto would\nshift positions in space, but his initial vectors would not change.\n\nThis moment is at 9min 39sec of episode 250 of Naruto Shippudan. Here Naruto\nget's stuck after hitting Kisame(Akatsuki Member) and Bee chases after Kisame\nas he tries to get away.\n\nAs we all know, the Sharingan further awakens based on the level of despair a\nuser of the Sharingan goes through. Check the wiki for more info:\n<http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan>\n\n> The Sharingan's power, because of its ties to the Curse of Hatred, is both a\n> blessing and a curse. The moment that an Uchiha comes to know a powerful\n> emotion towards someone, such as love and friendship, a stressful or\n> emotional condition brought out from losing that precious person causes the\n> brain to release a special form of chakra that affects the optic nerves\n> while transforming the eyes into Sharingan.[26] After its initial\n> activation, the Sharingan may be used freely, although it is possible for an\n> Uchiha to lose memory of such an event and not reactivate it until through\n> willpower years later.[27][28] When the Sharingan is first activated by a\n> user, it has a different number of tomoe (巴) around the central pupil,\n> varying between users.[29][27]\n>\n> The wielder of the Sharingan, through continued use and training, changes\n> its form further, which involves the eye maturing fully until it has three\n> tomoe. As the Sharingan develops, the user gains heightened abilities\n> through the heightened ocular sense. For example, they can at least copy\n> hand movements with one tomoe, predict a person's movement and copy\n> techniques with two and completely use the Sharingan's abilities when it is\n> fully matured. From what characters have noted, this dōjutsu apparently\n> \"glows\" in the dark.[30][31] True to its name, the Sharingan and its derived\n> forms have shown the ability to spin.[32] It is shown that when a person\n> awakens their Mangekyō Sharingan without a fully matured Sharingan, their\n> Sharingan will automatically mature while developing into a Mangekyō\n> Sharingan.[33]\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T00:53:49.740", "id": "13286", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T01:00:07.083", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "13285", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n[Flash ability](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Flying_Thunder_God_Technique) is\na teleportation. It's a space time technique something like Kamui. Naruto\nhasn't learned it so far. Naruto's speed,strength,skills are dramatically\nincreased when he's in [Nine Tails Chakra\nMode](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nine-Tails_Chakra_Mode).\n\nNow his abilities are even increased with Sage's power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T06:01:21.153", "id": "13293", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T09:36:13.343", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-07T09:36:13.343", "last_editor_user_id": "6176", "owner_user_id": "6176", "parent_id": "13285", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSharingan by no means makes the bearer any smarter. Sharingan enables its\nbearer to:\n\n 1. See chakra of someone, but not the chakra points\n 2. See motions in greater detail making it feels like slow-motioned\n 3. Perform genjutsu better\n 4. Do sharingan specific jutsu, like Amaterasu, Izanagi, Izanami, etc.\n\nThe logic behind it is that normally humans don't use the maximal capacity of\ntheir brain, only about 10% if I'm not mistaken. In using the 2nd ability,\nSharingan utilize more of the brain to do image processing, but not anything\nelse. As for ability 1, 3 and 4, it's just that Sharingan is like a\nprerequisite to do so, just like a mere 160 cm basketball player would not be\nable to do slam dunk unless he have an ultra strong foot muscles. Sharingan is\nlike that, only instead of foot, it's the eyes. Therefore, though Sharingan\nenables such feats I mentioned above, it doesn't make the user any smarter.\n\nAs for Naruto, as far as I know, Naruto is just moving very fast. His fast\nmovement is different than that of Minato. Minato uses Space and Time Jutsu.\nThat means Minato is not moving, he is teleporting. That's why he needs his\nkunai as marker.\n\nSharingan would not be able to keep up with it when he's on the teleportation,\nbut when he shows up, it can.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T06:22:31.177", "id": "13295", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T06:22:31.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13285", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThough he put his hand in the form of triangle, the hole is in\nsquare/rectangular form. The answer is quite scientific. A [Reuleaux\ntriangle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuleaux_triangle) can be rotated to\ncreate a square shape. This [YouTube\nvideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5AzbDJ7KYI) and this\n[site](http://io9.com/5829336/the-triangle-that-makes-rectangular-holes)\nexplain it in more detail.\n\nTenshinhan's hand shape is similar to the Reuleaux triangle. Due to its shape,\nwhile it rotates, its cutting edge cut the hole in a shape of square which is\nshown in the gif below.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T06:48:16.063", "id": "13297", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T09:59:48.263", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-07T09:59:48.263", "last_editor_user_id": "6345", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13289", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe attack leaves a square hole due to the way he holds his hands. When he\nfires the attack normally he places his hand in a diamond shape and zooms into\nhis target. the attack then is shot and forms the square shape.\n\n\n\n\n\nas you can see that his hands put together form more of a diamond shape and\nwhen he fires the attack it rotates and makes the square.\n\nlater in the series He changes the way his hands are placed and over laps the\nthumbs and make a triangle shape with is hands instead of the diamond shape.\n\nit is stated on [Ultra DragonBall\nwiki](http://ultradragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Tri-Beam)\n\n> Interestingly, this technique leaves a square hole in the ground, instead of\n> a triangle.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T15:08:36.700", "id": "13308", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T15:08:36.700", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6515", "parent_id": "13289", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBeing a Maestro is separate from being a doll's medium.\n\nA maestro is someone who has special abilities in creating and repairing\ndolls. (This becomes particularly apparent in the latest Rozen Maiden manga\nseries.)\n\nIf you watch enough of the anime or read enough of the manga, you'll notice\nonly a couple of people are mentioned as being a maestro (Rozen, Jun), and\nthey're the only ones who are ever seen creating or repairing a doll (as\nopposed to just the clothes).\n\nIf you want a full explanation with all the evidence laid out, check out the\n[AnimeSuki Rozen Maiden\nQ&A](http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?s=3b0a40df0651153a7838136975a4ae87&p=707612#post707612)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T01:32:18.577", "id": "14421", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T01:32:18.577", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8676", "parent_id": "13291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n[Wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Bari_Bari_no_Mi) claims it is unknown\nat this point whether the barriers have a damage limit and I agree on this.\n**There has been no proof yet of something that could damage the barriers.**\nSo as of writing (chapter 788) it would seem that the barrier would indeed be\nindestructible.\n\nThe strongest things we have seen the barrier block are:\n\n * King Elizabello II's King punch, which could allegedly take down an entire fortress. (chapter 709)\n * Hakuba's slashes (chapter 773)\n * Gladius' full body rupture (chapter 773)\n * The Birdcage (chapter 788)\n * Chinjao's Haki imbued drill (chapter 788)\n\nThe only **limitations** we have seen so far are:\n\n * It cannot block sound (chapter 742)\n * It has a surface area limit (chapter 754 and 757)\n * Only one barrier can be produced at the same time. (chapter 773)\n\nAs of now it does not seem like he would be able to block the slowbeam from\nFoxy, as that would consist of pure waves similar to sound or light. On the\nother hand, the beam from Franky would probably be blocked. Similar to King\nElizabello II's King punch, it also seems that he would be able to block\nWhitebeard's shock wave.\n\n* * *\n\nAdditionally, Oda has answered this question himself on [the Volume 77,\nChapter 773\nSBS](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_77#Chapter_773.2C_Page.C2.A0192),\nsaying Bartolomeo's barriers are indeed limited to one at the time and have a\nmaximum capacity of **50.000 Bari-Bari or 500 Pickle-Pori-Pori-Bari-Bari's**.\n\n> **Reader** : Oda-san, hello~. About Bartolomeo, he said something about how\n> his barriers have a limit or whatever, so how many Bari-Bari's worth is its\n> maximum capacity? P.N. Hoichael Jackson\n>\n> **Oda** : Great question. There is in fact a limit to the space his barriers\n> can cover, as well as how many barriers he can put up at a time. He can only\n> hold up one barrier at a time, and they say that this one barrier can cover\n> up to 50 thousand Bari-Bari's!! Amazing! 1 Bari-Bari equates to roughly 100x\n> that of 1 Bori-Bari-Bari, so in other words, his barrier capacity is just\n> about 500 Pickle-Pori-Pori-Bari-Bari's.\n>\n> _(Translator's Note: Bari, Bori, and Pori are all Japanese sound effects\n> that roughly translate to 'crunching'.)_\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-20T17:53:02.577", "id": "13538", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-06T12:23:20.303", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13298", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nObito doesn't need to move inside Kamui space to move in the \"real\" dimension.\nIf he wishes to move in his \"current\" dimension (Kamui or real) then there are\ntwo ways: either he physically moves inside that dimension or he goes into the\nother dimension, and while coming back, he returns at a different place.\n\nHowever, while using his ability to let things pass through him, the things\nstay in the same place in Kamui space and return to the same place in the real\ndimension as well (cause it'd hurt terribly if your stomach was to be taken\nout and placed over your head).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T13:28:32.780", "id": "13641", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-26T13:28:32.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7728", "parent_id": "13299", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## What is a light novel?\n\nA light novel is a style of Japanese novel targeting teenagers and young\nadults. These novels contain mostly illustrations in anime or manga style.\nThey are usually published in _bunkobon_ size (A6 – 105 x 148mm). Light novels\nare not very long. The length is comparable to a novella in US publishing\nterms.\n\nLight novels are very popular in Japan as you can see in Japanese bookstores.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cX4J5.jpg)\n\n## Where does the term come from and what does it mean?\n\nThe word “light novel” is actually not an English word. It is a _wasei-eigo_\n(literally translated “Japanese-made English”) which is a Japanese term formed\nfrom words in the English language.\n\nThe term is everywhere used where you read such novels. In Japan you will use\nthe word _raito noberu_ (sometimes also _ranobe_ or _rainobe_ as an\nabbreviation) which is the Japanese term of light novel.\n\nIn the western culture light novels are normally called Japanese Novella.\n\n## What is the difference between a novel and a light novel?\n\nIn short: Light Novels are usually shorter and they also contain few\nillustrations. In addition they are easier to read. This is particular because\nthe text contains much simpler and easier to read modern _kanji_.\n\nThe illustrations are mostly at the beginning of capitals or when a new\ncharacters respectively a new place is described. On the picture below you see\nan example on how a light novel is build up. Left an image from the scene and\nto the right the text to read.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LlUBN.jpg)\n\nIn typical light novels you will find mostly black and white illustrations.\nBut today you also find many novels that include colored illustrations.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/q4zqa.jpg)\n\n## Why is a light novel styled like an anime or manga?\n\nThe reason because light novels are styled like anime or manga is because of\ntheir history and they are actually from Japan.\n\n> Light novels are an evolution of pulp magazines. To please their audience,\n> in the 1970s, most of the Japanese pulp magazines, which had already changed\n> from the classic style to the popular anime style covers, began to put\n> illustrations in the beginning of each story and included articles about\n> popular movies, anime and video games.\n>\n> The narrative evolved to please the new generations and became fully\n> illustrated with the popular style. The popular serials are printed in\n> novels.\n>\n> In recent years, light novels' stories have been popular choices for\n> adaptation into manga, anime, and live-action films, though in the case of\n> the former two, usually only the first two novels are adapted.\n\nInformation from [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel),\n[englishlightnovels](http://englishlightnovels.com/an-introduction-to-light-\nnovels/), [animanga.wikia](http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Light_novel),\n[tvtropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightNovels).\n\nPictures from [englishlightnovels](http://englishlightnovels.com/an-\nintroduction-to-light-novels/),\n[afrobonzai.unblog](http://afrobonzai.unblog.fr/2014/05/01/light-novel-ou-le-\nroman-facile-a-digerer/).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T14:07:13.210", "id": "13304", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-17T13:23:28.740", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-17T13:23:28.740", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "13301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 36 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen referring to a novel, you'd be talking about...\n\n> A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing\n> character and action with some degree of realism.\n\nTherefore I always assumed a light novel to be a short story of sorts,\nsomething you could read on the bus or on the train. After looking it up, I\nwas wrong. A light novel apparently is a Jenglish or [wasei-\neigo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-eigo) expression for a\n[novella](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novella), which would be a short novel,\nbut not as short as a short story according to it's wiki page.\n\nSo before I continue and answer your questions, I'll let\n[wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel) explain what a light\nnovel would be.\n\n> A light novel (ライトノベル raito noberu?) is a style of Japanese novel primarily\n> targeting middle and high school students (young adult demographic). \"Light\n> novel\" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English\n> language. Such short, light novels are often called ranobe (ラノベ?) or LN in\n> the West. They are typically not more than 40,000–50,000 words long (the\n> shorter ones being equivalent to a novella in US publishing terms), rarely\n> exceed 200 pages, often have dense publishing schedules, are usually\n> published in bunkobon size, and are often illustrated. The text is often\n> serialized in anthology magazines before collection in book form.\n\n**Is this term only use in Japan?**\n\nYes it is. If you would use the term in the west, you would be referring to\nJapanese novella.\n\n**How is a light novel different from a regular novel?**\n\nI guess novels would printed in the A5 format, but a light novel would be\nprinted in the [Bunkobon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkobon) format, which\nwould be the A6 format.\n\n**Is a light novel used exclusively for anime or manga adaptation?**\n\nSince the target group of light novels are primarily middle and high school\nstudents, it wouldn't surprise me if most of them are. They aren't exclusively\nused for anime or manga adaptations though. If you read further on the wiki\npage it is mentioned that popular movies as Star Wars have also influenced the\ncontent. But they do mention that\n\n> In recent years, light novels' stories have been popular choices for\n> adaptation into manga, anime, and live-action films, though in the case of\n> the former two, usually only the first two novels are adapted.\n\n* * *\n\nWhile searching about Light novels I encountered the wiki how page on Light\nnovels. So if you ever wanted to write one yourself, [check it\nout](http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Light-Novel).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T14:09:27.003", "id": "13305", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T14:16:26.157", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-07T14:16:26.157", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\n> Is this term only use in Japan?\n\nIt originated in Japan but not exclusive of Japan. There are light novel\nwriters in Korea and China, since it can be used for anything written within\ncertain criteria.\n\n> How is light novel different from regular novel?\n\nIf I had to describe it in few words: a easier to read novel.\n\nIf you check out some novels, like _Another_ and see most Light Novels the\ndifference is evident. Light novels have shorter paragraphs, characters less\ncomplicated to read (i.e. the appearance of obscure Kanji in a sentence is\nrare), and generally shorter.\n\n> Is light novel use exclusively for anime or manga adaptation?\n\nActually, most light novels (LN from now on) don't make it to anime\nproduction, and some are adapted to manga to promote the novel itself rather\nthan to make a illustrated carbon copy of the LN. This is, as with all\nbusiness, mostly motivated by marketing reasons, rather than some secret rule.\nGranted, if your LN is popular, it will get advertised in more media (manga,\nanime, live action, etc.) than if it's not popular.\n\n> Is there any light novel that do not use manga style drawing?\n\nDrawing depends on the artist, and most artist also do other things like\ndoujins or the very manga. The drawing is merely a representation of what they\nknow to do, rather than following a predefined style.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-12T00:24:25.143", "id": "13359", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-31T17:59:06.940", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-31T17:59:06.940", "last_editor_user_id": "2159", "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "13301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n## Is this term only used in Japan?\n\nThis term **originated in Japan** as a\n[和製英語](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-eigo) ( _wasei eigo_ [meaning Japan-\nstyle English] = Japanese-invented **words that \"superficially appear to come\nfrom English, but in fact do not\"** ). _Wasei eigo_ differs from\n[外来語](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gairaigo) ( _gairaigo_ = loanwords or real\n“words from abroad”) and [Engrish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish)\n(misuse or accidental corruption of the English language by native speakers of\nsome East Asian languages).\n\nThe term \"light novel\" has been adapted from Japan for **use in other Asian\ncountries** , where it refers to imported light novels from Japan as well as\nto **locally-produced books of similar style** (In Korea, it is called [\"라이트\n노벨\"](http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8_%EB%85%B8%EB%B2%A8)\n[ _laiteu nobel_ ], in China it is called\n[\"輕小說\"](http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BC%95%E5%B0%8F%E8%AA%AA) [ _qīng\nxiǎoshuō_ ] = \"light fiction\"), whereas [**in English-speaking\ncountries**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel), the term refers\n**exclusively to Japanese light novels** which are imported under that term.\nIn the English usage, the term is only used to refer to such books produced in\nJapan (i.e. there cannot be a legitimate American light novel just in the same\nway as there [cannot be American\nanime](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14429/is-the-legend-of-korra-\nanime/)).\n\n## How is a light novel different from a regular novel? Except for light\nnovels being... light, are there any other differences?\n\n * A light novel is short in page length and usually features intermittent manga-style illustrations --- but that same description can be said of many Japanese children's novels! **In contrast, light novels are for all ages & demographics.** Although it is approximately equivalent in length to the Western [novella](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novella), **the light novel cannot be called a Japanese novella** : the Japanese term for \"novella\" is [「中編小説」](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E7%B7%A8%E5%B0%8F%E8%AA%AC)( _chuuhen shousetsu_ ), and is not used to refer to light novels (it is used for [short stories by Murakami Haruki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami#Short_stories), for example, which are considered high-quality literature).\n * Though each published volume is short, light novels can stretch into long series. Some of the series premier in magazines, so you can think of those like [**literary serials**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_\\(literature\\)) (think [Charles Dickens](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#Episodic_writing)); a serial is **episodic** , \"a printed format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in sequential installments.\" As such, a serial is written differently than a full-length novel that gets published into a chunky book at once. A serial must grab the reader's interest in the first chapter, and plot out the development so that at least one exciting thing happens in each chapter. It intentionally ends chapters with a cliff-hanger when possible. It cannot leisurely build to the climax, or take a whole chapter or so to only tell you what a minor character is doing somewhere else (which a novel printed all at once is free to do). Thus, **the format of the story is structured in a specific way that other novels are not bound to.** This is another aspect in which the light novel differs from average Japanese children's novels. This is also why, if _Harry Potter_ had been written in Japanese with manga-style illustrations, it still would not have been a light novel: it is not short in length and it was published all at once rather than serialized.\n * A large percent of light novels are read by people involved in some sort of **sub-culture** , such as manga, anime, and/or gaming. However, just because a certain percentage of light novels include _moe_ , light novels are not limited to such content and tone; **all genres are included** , from horror to romance to sci-fi. Some are the novel-equivalent or adaption of shoujo manga and are marketed at young girls. Some genres are less likely to be exported based on the otaku demographics outside of Japan, so those genres are less well-known to the international subculture community.\n * **In contrast to standard Japanese (and Western) novellas and novels for adults** , light novels are **often illustrated**.\n\n## Are light novels used exclusively for anime or manga adaptations?\n\n * No, some light novels are serialized as their own original works in non-manga magazines and **never have a relation to manga**.\n * Some light novels now **originate online** and never have a relation to manga or any other mediums.\n * Some light novels are created as **adaptions** of manga/anime/games after the manga series or game has gained a lot of popularity.\n * Some light novels start as original works and then **get adapted** into manga/anime/games/live-action afterward.\n\n## Are there any light novels that do not use manga-style drawings?\n\nYes. Artists of the [earliest light\nnovels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasei-eigo) included those who worked in\n油絵 ( _abura-e_ = **oil painting** ) and 水彩画 ( _suisaiga_ = **watercolor** ).\nIn 1987, the [少女小説](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gairaigo) ( _shoujo shosetsu_\n= girl's novels) genre began, and for the first time shoujo manga style was\nused, which helped establish the trend of manga-style art as the standard for\nlight novels from the 1990s.\n\nWhile illustrations are a common feature, **some light novels do not include\nany illustrations whatsoever**. The ones without any illustrations are less\nlikely to be exported to other countries and are therefore less well-known\noutside of Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-01T00:36:29.313", "id": "22014", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-02T02:53:39.010", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe expanded definition and description of \"light novel\" appears to correspond\nto pulp fiction which started as magazine serials in the 19th century in\nEnglish and Western European language markets - with the exception of it\nhaving the sensibility to be age appropriate for young-adults or the modern YA\nmarket. The format length appears to be driven by the market, and series light\nnovels are much like series pulps - but with aiming the stories to be age\nappropriate for 10 and 11 year olds (and up).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-04-11T14:08:13.307", "id": "46529", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-11T14:08:13.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "40109", "parent_id": "13301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nLight novels started in Japan, as physical books. But in this Internet era,\nlight novels from China & Korea can also be found online. Here's my impression\nof what these novels are mostly about...\n\n * Japanese light novels: Main Character reincarnation / isekai into another planet / dimension / video game\n * Chinese Light novels: Main Character leveling up 'Cultivation'(Tai chi inner force) & challenging higher level bosses <https://skdesu.com/en/as-10-best-light-novels-chinese/>\n * Korean Light Novels: Main Character playing a Virtual Reality game / world turning into a game-like state <https://animeukiyo.com/best-korean-light-novels/>\n\nJapanese light novels/manga came first, got adapted into anime.\n\nChinese & Korean light novels came later, and are now being adapted into\nmanhua/manhwa, and then anime. <https://mangatoon.mobi/> is a good(legal)\nstarting point for reading these comics. (ofcourse scanlations also exist)\n\n<https://www.iq.com/anime> is a good starting point for watching Chinese anime\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-08-03T10:42:29.360", "id": "65341", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-10T06:49:28.030", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-10T06:49:28.030", "last_editor_user_id": "43931", "owner_user_id": "43931", "parent_id": "13301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's not Haki, but it's similar to Haki. When he heard the rock falling, he\ndid not dodge them, but instead he knew where the rock were gonna fall.\nKenbunshoku Haki has something similar, but the user predicts an opponent's\nmoves which makes it much easier for them to evade the attack given enough\nskill. Zorro was also able to sense where his sword was, while no Haki users\nare known to have this ability.\n\nZorro didn't move and he said he was not evading those rock\n\n\n\nHaki users can evade attacks.\n\n\n\n> Though the power allows the user to predict most attacks, it can be\n> circumvented by various means. It cannot predict inherently random attacks;\n> for example, Luffy managed to bypass Enel's Mantra by bouncing his fists off\n> a nearby wall, to prevent himself and thus Enel from knowing where they\n> would land.\n> [(source)](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Kenbunshoku_Haki#Drawbacks)\n\nSo it was clear that Haki users can't use their Haki power to predict a\nmovement that was not intended. Therefore, Zorro's ability to sense those\nrocks was not Haki.\n\nAnother proof that Zorro couldn't use Haki at that time is that he was able to\ncut through Daz Bone's metal (which is actually possible with enough skill),\nbut he couldn't cut through Enel's lighting (impossible without using\nBusoshoku Haki).\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T14:48:06.773", "id": "13306", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-24T14:26:04.703", "last_edit_date": "2019-12-24T14:26:04.703", "last_editor_user_id": "50667", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "13303", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nThe idea that makes sense to me is that; Zorro is using both kinds of Haki in\ntandem.\n\nOne, he can sense his Iwashimizu sword which in itself is special as due to\nits rarity and nature, + the swords in _One Piece_ have unexplored depths e.g.\nblack swords, and cursed swords. Hence, the ability to sense it with Haki as\nit is probably imbued with another's spirit.\n\nTwo, knowing the breath of things as it is stated, maybe how Zorro utilises\nhis Haki, in this event he knows the breath of steel, so he strengthens his\nown steel with Haki just enough to cut Das Bonez.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-06T00:12:11.570", "id": "39739", "last_activity_date": "2022-05-31T18:33:00.000", "last_edit_date": "2022-05-31T18:33:00.000", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "31823", "parent_id": "13303", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, Obito has another weakness.\n\nHe cannot keep the \"Everything goes through me\" mode for more than 5 minutes\nstraight. So if they kept going at him without letting him a chance to rest,\nhe should have been dealt with.\n\nHowever, this is a very hypothetical question, and thus can't be factually\nanswered.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T19:41:40.887", "id": "13311", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T19:41:40.887", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "13309", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nObito only has one eye available for izanami per fight (assuming he doesn't\nwant to go blind), so after he uses it he's pretty vulnerable. Imagine if\nright after Konan, another shinobi with knowledge of his power was there to\nkeep up the fight. Obito would have been fighting with one sharingan and very\nlow chakra. One on one though he's a pretty tough match--but most S class\nshinobi are \"invincible\" in one on one fights. As far as the fight with Naruto\nand co. with the ten tails--it was for lack of knowledge Naruto and Guy\ncouldn't beat him. Ignorance makes a lot of shinobi look invincible. Remember\nwhen we first saw Pain against Jiraiya??\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-15T01:14:33.930", "id": "13430", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-15T01:14:33.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8001", "parent_id": "13309", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's completely unknown.\n\nObito never wielded both eyes so it could be said that his abilities would be\nenhanced 10 fold if he had both. Perhaps his intangibility time would increase\nfrom 5 minutes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-25T06:31:36.753", "id": "26813", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-25T06:31:36.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18703", "parent_id": "13309", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell hes basically invincible. He has a 5 min limit but that's only 5 mins of\nUNINTERRUPTED phasing, the instant he stops phasing that time limit is reset.\nSo naruto, kakashi, and guy wouldn't be able to counter it by just attacking\nhim for 5 minutes because as shown he stops phasing in between attacks. But I\nfeel like someone as fast as naruto in his prime could potentially counter it\nor sasuke using his teleporting ability. Also I saw someone say that the\nnaruto crew lacked knowledge and that is not true they knew the basic fact\nthat they had to attack him when he attacked and that's basically all u need\nto know about kamui because that's the only way to attempt to counter it\nwithout using kamui itself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-10-31T10:11:19.477", "id": "60948", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-31T10:11:19.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56931", "parent_id": "13309", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt appears one of the main characters of [Obake no\nQ-taro](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obake_no_Q-tar%C5%8D) is also called\nOjiro.\n\nI thought Q-taro was the one who said \"Bakeratta\", so I was looking mostly at\nhis character - but it is actually his little brother, Ojiro, who is the link.\n\nHe can understand everyone speak, but can only say \"Bakeratta\", Q-taro is the\nonly one who understands what this means.\n\n* * *\n\nSo I guess his Ojiro and his brother (in _Megane X Parfait_ ) watched it\nbefore, and made a joke out of it because they share the name.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-20T18:28:22.460", "id": "13540", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-05T08:44:48.620", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-05T08:44:48.620", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13313", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]