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[ { "body": "\n\nThe first one is the dominant one a.k.a. seme while the second one is the\nreceiver a.k.a. uke. For example in doujinshi Puella Magi Madoka Magica\nDoujinshi Homura x Madoka (available online in online manga sites), Homura\nwill be the seme, while Madoka is the uke.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T16:58:13.737", "id": "13426", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-14T16:58:13.737", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, Haki wouldn't help him. It was established that many prisoners knew how to\nuse Haki and that Magellan was the only one capable of keeping them in line.\nFurthermore Blackbeard and his crew are potent haki users, he definitely got\nhis butt handed to him only to be saved with the antidote from Shiryu.\n\nIts good to note that while haki lets you hit the body of users, it doesn't\nnegate powers like the sea, or yami yami fruit. While the Haki user can hit\nMagellan which was never an issue for Luffy, it poisons anyone who has contact\nwith it.\n\nSimilar issues are present with some other paramacia users like Sugar in the\nDonquixote Pirates where contact with her turns even haki users to toys.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-11T14:50:56.323", "id": "13350", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-11T14:50:56.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "13315", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI think that he would've still been poisoned since Haki is an offensive\ntechnique and not a defensive one, plus Luffy would still have to hit the main\nbody: like when Luffy couldn't hit Trebol on Dressrosa because he moved his\nbody around inside his snot body\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-15T13:05:08.980", "id": "40881", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-15T13:05:08.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33095", "parent_id": "13315", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nTo answer this debate, consider the following scenarios:\n\n * Ace's Death\n * Pica's defeat\n\n**Case 1** In the case of Ace as a logia user, why wasn't the admiral burned\nfrom punching fire? His power was greater than Ace's power was.\n\n**Case 2** How did Zoro actually cut pica with a haki coated sword when pica\nhad both haki armor and devil fruit? His haki was stronger\n\nIn both cases the haki user on the attacking end just so happened to be\nstronger. In the end I think it comes down to who has more mastery of either\nthe haki or the devil fruit and in Magellan's case with the prison he just so\nhappened to be stronger.\n\nNow this is pretty opinion based but I believe that if Luffy hit Magellan the\nway he is now Gear 4+ King Kong Gun. Magellan would not be strong enough to\nprotect himself and overpower the negation of Luffy's haki\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-15T21:48:14.173", "id": "40887", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-16T02:36:31.767", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-16T02:36:31.767", "last_editor_user_id": "18404", "owner_user_id": "18404", "parent_id": "13315", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhat you're looking for seems to be a manhwa(Korean comics) and all of what\nyou described seems to be listed:\n\n * cross dressing\n * she is watched over by two of the Four Guardians of Heaven\n * princess angel\n * unwanted marriage\n * Devils\n\n* * *\n\n# [Angel Diary (Manhwa)](http://myanimelist.net/manga/778/Angel_Diary)\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\n> The only Angel Princess of Heaven is betrothed to the Emperor of the\n> Underworld. Unable to accept her future with the Demon King, she realizes\n> that her only choice is to run away. Her plan is to join the human world\n> disguised as a schoolboy! Now all of the Gods from Heaven and Hell are\n> searching high and low on the earth trying to make sure that a wedding\n> happens.\n>\n> Source: MAL\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-08T19:30:36.077", "id": "13318", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-08T19:35:59.847", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "13317", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDifferent episodes of the anime were directed by [different Animation\nDirectors](http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Animation_Directors),\neven within one season. The animators themselves and the artists who paint the\nbackgrounds would have been under orders from the Animation Director and the\nStoryboard Artists rather than having personal freedom to decide the style and\neffects. It may be that the Animation Director of the episode in which a\ntransformation sequence was introduced was allowed to propose, give input on,\nor approve the Storyboard Artists' proposition of how it would look. Finally,\neven amongst the Key Frame Animators drawing the actual cels, it is not clear\nwhether or not one person would have drawn all key frames for the whole\nsequence. It is the responsibility of the Animation Director, Storyboard\nArtists, and Key Frame Animators to ensure that the character design and flow\nlooks uniform despite the number of people drawing/painting various pieces of\nthe final product.\n\nSome of the sequences draw loosely upon the original manga illustrations by\nTakeuchi Naoko.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T09:17:59.173", "id": "13832", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T09:17:59.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13321", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI am going to make a couple of assumptions here. Since _Uke_ is normally the\n\"passive\" partner in the relationship, it would stand to reason that they are\nthe younger in the couple, while the _Seme_ , being the dominant partner, is\nthe older one.\n\nIn a school scenario, _senpai_ would make sense and I'd assume the Uke would\nstart calling the Seme by their name (probably with the -sama honorific at\nfirst) when their relationship is a bit more intimate (intimate = anything\nafter their first kiss).\n\nWhile I don't read Yaoi, one can't assume that every Yaoi story has the Uke\nand Seme attending the same school. There may be some where one attends a\ndifferent school or doesn't attended at all, as such _senpai_ could still be\nused.\n\nHowever, the Seme, being the senior, is still guiding the Uke like how one's\n_senpai_ guides, protects, and teaches their kōhai as best they can. With\nthat, _senpai_ becomes a term of endearment from the Uke after having been\nguided in the relationship by the Seme.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-10T22:51:04.793", "id": "13340", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-11T07:25:59.920", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-11T07:25:59.920", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13325", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nSenpai means senior in Japanese. It's more polite to call your senior Senpai\nat school, at work, etc.. rather than calling them by their name alone.\n\nThe Uke is sometimes older than the Seme which means it's more polite for the\nSeme to call the Uke 'Senpai' if he's his senior or call him (Name+San) which\nmeans Mr. (Name).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T21:28:58.807", "id": "15296", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-25T21:28:58.807", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9338", "parent_id": "13325", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt feels more in control when you are older and your uke calls you senpai as a\nform of respect. Why? Because uke should respect and obey their seme just like\nthey should with their senpai. It's kind of a,\"you're older, you're in\ncontrol, and I respect that I listen to you\" thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-24T02:32:16.650", "id": "18794", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-24T03:29:47.450", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-24T03:29:47.450", "last_editor_user_id": "293", "owner_user_id": "11348", "parent_id": "13325", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's a situational thing, not necessarily a rule. Like with Takano and\nOnodera, Takano was Saga-senpai because he was senior, so calling him senpai\nis just how Onodera referred to him when they were in school. With Koisuru\nBoukun, Morinaga says senpai because of their senpai-kohai relationship as\nschoolmates even though he is the seme. It differs with every relationship.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-06T13:01:54.423", "id": "38298", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-26T10:33:30.480", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-26T10:33:30.480", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "30177", "parent_id": "13325", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Japanese culture, everyone defers to titles if one applies, unless you have\na special relationship with the person in question (ie, a family member,\nchildhood friend, etc.). Social structure/strata rules in Japanese society.\nEven within a family, younger siblings call older siblings by their titles,\nthe kids call the parents by their titles. Employees ALWAYS defer to their\nmanagers by their titles. Even strangers are addressed by titles when you\ndon't know them because it's rude to just say \"you\", so depending on your age\nin relation to their age you use titles like \"uncle\", \"auntie\", big\nbrother/sister\", \"young man/lady\". You've probably already experienced this\nfrom old, poorly sub'd kung fu movies. Yes, it's not just a Japanese thing -\nit's an Asian \"respect your elders\", Confucian kind of thing. You might not\nalways observe this in translated Japanese manga/anime/movies/TV shows because\ntranslators switch titles to the characters' names because titles are a little\ntoo unwieldy/confusing for Westerners to get use to.\n\nHow to address those outside/inside/above/below your particular place in\nsociety and how to navigate it is a big deal and that gets reflected in\nmanga/anime/movies/TV. Japanese aren't standing around scratching their heads\ntrying to figure out what to call the other person every time they meet\nsomeone by any means - it's ingrained and becomes natural. Just like when you\ncall someone you don't know (or even if you do) \"sir\" or \"ma'am\", or when\nsouthern folk call you Mr.~ or Miss~ even with your first name. There's a\nstandard of politeness ingrained.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-09T09:56:37.497", "id": "44598", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-09T11:10:52.250", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-09T11:10:52.250", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "38060", "parent_id": "13325", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**There is no plothole. Anyone with 2 MS can use Susanoo. Kakashi received\nchakra from Naruto/Obito.**\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-10T13:58:27.017", "id": "13335", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T07:25:57.807", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-13T07:25:57.807", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "13326", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAside from the obvious chakra problem - which has been shown to be a problem\non previous fights (namely vs Deidara, IIRC) - there don't seem to be any\nplotholes, IMO.\n\nAs I've pointed out in [this\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/2784/49):\n\n * Amaterasu, \"representing the light of the material world\"1, is performed with the right eye.\n * Tsukuyomi, \"the nightmare realm, representing the world of the mind and darkness\"1, is performed with the left eye.\n * Susano'o is \"the strength of the tempestuous force that resides only within those of have mastered\"1 both of the above techniques. \n\nGranted we haven't seen Kakashi perform any of those, but we haven't seen\nMadara perform them either, and he mastered Susano'o all the same- That being\nsaid, I don't think Kakashi was able to perform Susano'o due to the\nSharingan's copying ability, but rather because he now possesses both\nSharingan.\n\nAs for the chakra problem, maybe the next chapter will shed some light on\nthat, but let's also remember that Obito gave Kakashi both Sharingan not in\nhis physical form, but only as a 'blob of chakra', and he may have transferred\nsome chakra over to Kakashi on the process.\n\n* * *\n\n1[Naruto: The Official Character Databook](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Naruto-\nOfficial-Character-Data-\nBook/dp/1421541254/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362417911&sr=8-1)\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-10T14:11:41.837", "id": "13336", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-10T14:11:41.837", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "13326", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nEasy:\n\nNeither Obito or Kakashi had both Sharingans. but Kakashi definitely went\nthrough all the things needed to unlock it's potential but he only had one\nSharingan at the time. Since it was only one, it couldn't actually activate. I\nthink since he had at least one, once he got the other it would unlock since\nhe previously did all the things needed to unlock it.\n\nMy mind is all scrambled right now, I don't know if the way I put it made\nsense.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-13T20:42:00.840", "id": "13407", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T21:27:12.893", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-13T21:27:12.893", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "7986", "parent_id": "13326", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nOK. So remember when Itachi transplanted some of his Mangekyou powers to\nSasuke presumably through a chakra only transaction? Sasuke got Amaterasu and\nItachi's Mangekyou Sharingan. So it wasn't a stretch to see Kakashi unleash\nthe Susanoo. Itachi's powers were only temporary in Sasuke, and Obito said his\npowers were temporary in Kakashi. Same exact thing besides Itachi and Sasuke\nbeing Uchiha but apparently you don't need to be an Uchiha to get Mangekyou\nSharingan (Itachi's crow, Kakashi, Danzo). You just need chakra, which Kakashi\ngot from Naruto and Obito.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T16:43:58.453", "id": "13425", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-05T04:08:36.483", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-05T04:08:36.483", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "8001", "parent_id": "13326", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI think I recall Obito saying that he need both his eyes for the sharingans\ntrue power. Or something of that sort, earlier in the series.... so I think\nyou just need two mangekyou to use susanoo\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-24T19:22:48.790", "id": "14152", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-24T19:22:48.790", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8467", "parent_id": "13326", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nSusanoo is awakend when you activate the abilities in both mangekyo like lets\nsay in obito's case in the right eye going trough things and in the left eye\nabsorb things. that's the two abilities obito awakend to use susanoo or in\nthis case kakashi it's not necesarily needed to awaken only amaterasu and\ntsukuyomi to use susanoo\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-15T14:02:29.903", "id": "14492", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-15T14:02:29.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8724", "parent_id": "13326", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSome rule state that the eye of the shinigami did not work on drawings, no\nmatter how perfect. It could apply a similar rule to the \"face in mind\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-09T22:59:15.070", "id": "13333", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-09T22:59:15.070", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7902", "parent_id": "13327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nLight did see Mihael's face when his dad Soichiro confronted Mello at the\nmafia place (episode 29 in the anime). The Japanese task force had cameras on\nthem when they infiltrated Mello's hideout. Since Light knew his name and saw\nhis face, he could've killed Mello at any given time.\n\nHowever, this would make Light seem more suspicious as the only person with a\ndeath note at the time was his father and the only people who knew how Mello\nlooked like were the people on the mission.\n\nOn the other hand, Near said he couldn't contact Mello because he didn't know\nwhere he was, so Light could've conceivably made Mello disappear in the same\nway he did with the Naomi Misora.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T20:30:16.110", "id": "18960", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-01T11:40:08.277", "last_edit_date": "2018-04-01T11:40:08.277", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "11456", "parent_id": "13327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the anime there is evidence there were cameras when the police intervened\nin the Mafia place. Light tells police at the scene they have to keep\nsearching for Mello because none of the gangsters at the scene looks like the\ndrawing of Mello's face made by the girl. It didn't look like they were\nsending phone pictures. There must have been cameras, and when the building\nexplodes, we can see Light watching the screens with the transmission\ninterrupted. The only way to justify that Light didn't know Mello's face is\nbecause his father takes off his helmet (where the camera most probably was\nplaced) in front of Mello, a strange decision since he didn't need to do that\nto recognize Mello's face and his name and lifespan. Another explanation can\nbe that Soichiro didn't want his action of killing a criminal through the\nDeath Note recorded in his helmet's camera.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-07-19T21:36:41.083", "id": "53673", "last_activity_date": "2019-07-19T21:36:41.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48170", "parent_id": "13327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Sword Art Online\nWiki](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Laughing_Coffin#), the battle\n(called the \"Crusade\") happened in August of 2024:\n\n> The Crusade\n>\n> By August 2024, they had already killed hundreds of players, thus they were\n> now the number one threat against the Clearers. The Clearers tried to\n> negotiate with them via messengers, but the guild killed every one that they\n> sent. After realizing that they would never stop killing and finding out the\n> location of the guild's headquarters from a member of the guild, the\n> clearers formed a high-level crusade party to wipe the guild out. Fifty\n> high-leveled players (including Kirito and Asuna) went to attack them,\n> however, just before they reached the designated location, the Laughing\n> Coffin members were warned about the incoming party, so they decided to\n> ambush the crusaders instead. Although some of the crusaders were unable to\n> kill the red players, as the guild would not yield, some of the crusaders\n> finally took the initiative of finishing off the Laughing Coffin members. At\n> the end of the battle, twenty-one Laughing Coffin members and eleven\n> crusaders had died, with most of the remaining Laughing Coffin members,\n> including XaXa and Johnny Black, being arrested by the clearers and sent to\n> the Black Iron Palace prison. Somehow, PoH was not found in the list of\n> deceased or captured members, making him the only one to escape the crusade.\n\nThis was 1 month before\n[Kuradeel](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Kuradeel) was invited into the\nLaughing Coffin guild:\n\n> October, 2024\n>\n> Although the guild was vanquished during the crusade, PoH, who avoided the\n> crusade, watched Kirito and Kuradeel's duel on the 74th Floor. After hearing\n> that Kuradeel wished to kill Kirito, after the duel and before Kirito went\n> to a mandatory training session with Kuradeel and Godfree, PoH approached\n> Kuradeel. PoH then invited Kuradeel to his guild and taught him how to make\n> paralysis poison.\n\nHere's a full\n[Timeline](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_Timeline). It\nsays the battle happened after the \"Warmth of the Heart\" light novel volume\nand that by August, they were on the 70th floor. So I think that would put the\nbattle somewhere between episodes 7 and 8?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-11T00:59:41.843", "id": "13342", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-11T00:59:41.843", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13341", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nAs you've mentioned: this scene is NOWHERE in season 1. I just checked (out of\ncuriosity), and skimmed through episodes 6-15 (Kirito defeats the head master\nin episode 14) and there was no mission involving any guild going after\nLaughing Coffin in those episodes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-09T04:09:54.787", "id": "13900", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-09T04:09:54.787", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8290", "parent_id": "13341", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nDuring the episode where there was a 'death' in a safe zone (can't remember\nthe name) I believe Kuradeel was the 'point' or leader of the three people who\nwhere hired to kill the group... with Red-Eyes being there too. At least\nthat's what it looked like\n\nThe safe zone killing episode Laughing Coffin players were PoH, Red-Eyed Xaxa,\nand Johnny Black, three of the top members. Kuradeel is recruited shortly\nbefore he kills Godfree and tries to kill Kirito, well after the crusade,\nsometime after Kirito beats him in the duel. He's just a grunt really.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-03T07:21:43.283", "id": "14284", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-06T23:10:08.083", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-06T23:10:08.083", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "8574", "parent_id": "13341", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis event happened in the manga but was never put into the actual season for\nanime, but after that was made they created season 2 which heavily focused on\nthe laughing coffin and the survivors of that battle and him having to recall\nthat fight scene so they had to place it in and they didn't go back and change\nup the previous SO A to make it fit\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-06T00:23:50.907", "id": "28704", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-06T00:23:50.907", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20250", "parent_id": "13341", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIzanagi is a technique which is able to **rewrite history**. You take an event\nthat wasn't favorable to you and make it into nothing more than a dream.\n\nHe set up Izanagi beforehand to be trigger a few hours after his death. Even\nthough he was already dead, the technique still activated (Much like Itachi\nsealed his own Amaterasu into Sasuke's eye, and it activated even though\nItachi already died).\n\nOnce Izanagi was activated, Madara's death was cancelled.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-11T11:14:28.850", "id": "13346", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-11T11:14:28.850", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "13345", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was never stated so any response would only be speculation. With that said,\nI don't think its the water weakness as Luffy already knows that and wouldn't\nprompt the reaction Crocodile had. Most likely knowing Oda its something\nembarrassing/silly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-11T14:44:07.987", "id": "13349", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-11T14:44:07.987", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "13348", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMaybe because there actually isn't any \"bad guy\" in this world from the start.\nSomebody becomes bad because of certain incidents happened to them in the\npast. Nobody is evil at the time when they are just born in this world.\n\nIf you cut the fillers and the battles in the Naruto or Naruto Shippuden, you\nwill see the story of this anime actually is very deep, closely related to our\neveryday life. It always tries to unify people in some way.\n\nYou will surely remember how Nagato ended the chain of hatred, or how Zabuza\nkept his faith on Naruto. You will see there is no actual \"villain\" in Naruto.\nEvery \"villain\" character (Madara, Sasuke, Obito, ...) has a good reason to\nbehave like how they do. When someone tries to do things the way they want,\nbut couldn't make it, they try to help those who have the same goal like\nhim/her. That's how they become good.\n\nIt's actually like how Sossli1 says in one of his videos on YouTube\n\n\"Those in need of a shoulder to cry on seek those who experienced it\".\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-12T18:37:08.043", "id": "13371", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T18:19:15.830", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-13T18:19:15.830", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7890", "parent_id": "13356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nBased on what Sakata Gintoki said in Gintama anime, it is the pattern of\nShonen Jump manga. See Fairy Tail and Bleach. In Fairy Tail, Gajeel was an\nenemy, alongside Juvia, but now, they are one of the main members. Same thing\nin Bleach. Ishida Uryuu was an enemy in the beginning, but then he turned into\nfriend, although now he is posing as an enemy again. But that pretty much is\nlike Vegeta in Dragon Ball, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T17:50:06.487", "id": "13428", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-14T17:50:06.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n> \"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become the villain.\"\n\n\\-- Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight\n\nThe characters that you describe started out as heroes, then turned to\nvillainy, and then were set straight by Naruto.\n[KnowYourMeme](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-either-die-a-hero-or-you-\nlive-long-enough-to-see-yourself-become-the-villain) does a good job of\nexplaining the background and has links for more reading.\n\nThe jist of the phenomenon is that heroes usually become such when they die\n(posthumously), while the same disregard for the norm will eventually lead\nsomeone against normalcy, thus becoming a villain.\n\nThis picture uses the quote and Naruto characters to take it full circle:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4P4hq.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-04T13:50:26.927", "id": "47682", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-04T13:50:26.927", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13647", "parent_id": "13356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt seems to be due to the inherent nature of each being to think and decide\nthe way he wishes to pursue, more like when you are born you are in an\nequilibrium and when faced by circumstances and the emotional atmosphere\naround you, you learn from it and draw towards to one of the positive or\nnegative sides.\n\nAs we saw in DBZ, Vegeta came to destroy earth and was really persistent but\nthen with the change of a heart decided to safeguard it and called it his\nhome.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-07-22T05:36:37.057", "id": "53703", "last_activity_date": "2019-07-22T05:36:37.057", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18761", "parent_id": "13356", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJust watched the movie and I tried to pay attention to where the realistic\nsound is replaced by voice effects, and it seems like this mostly happens when\nthe mood is supposed to be light-hearted, happy and dreamy. Planes are a\nchild's dream for Jiro, and so he sees them (and certain events) as something\nchildish and fun. Other people want to make those planes into weapons, and\nwhen the mood is not so light, more realistic sound effects come into play.\nBut Jiro often finds himself in company of people who view planes as a\nrealization of a blissful dream, and so we often hear these funny noises,\nreminding us that this is what his fun in life is really about.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-14T00:43:59.967", "id": "24067", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-14T00:43:59.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "13361", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe following is more an interpretation of the film, rather than a solid\nsource of undeniable truth. Because of this, there is unfortunately a lack of\nsources.\n\nI believe Hayao Miyazaki could have insisted on this feature. @krazer's\ncomment on your questions backs this up:\n\n> Geoffrey Wexler, Studio Ghibli's \"Chief Gaijin\" who represented the company\n> at the screening at the Toronto International Film Festival [...] answered\n> an interesting fact about the sound production. He said Miyazaki wanted to\n> do all the sound effects himself, but the staff denied him because he’s\n> already too busy with all the other duties so someone else had to do it all.\n>\n> He also let it be known that the movie has Mono sound, which apparently no\n> one ever believes but that's another thing Miyazaki wanted and won out on.\n\nMiyazaki mentions in an interview that he has always wanted to make an anime\nabout planes - and being his last movie before retirement, this was probably a\nvery personal film.\n\nMiyazaki is a plane fanatic, although not a plane otaku, as he emphasizes in\nthe documentary _Kingdom of Dreams and Madness_. In the documentary, you can\nsee him [playing with a model plane](https://youtu.be/QRMHrlxJRxc?t=80) and\nmaking up his own sound effects. His autobiographies _Starting Point_ and\n_Turning Point_ feature planes as a secondary interest to anime too.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u2qux.png)\n\nI imagine Miyazaki wanted to create _The Wind Rises_ with a certain element of\nnostaliga and insight into the appeal of aeroplanes for himself, and other\nplane fans.\n\nThe film is somewhat about the beauty of planes and their unfortunate setting.\nCaproni appears in Jiro's dreams speaking of their wonder, despite humanity's\nill use of them.\n\nIn this vein, I think Miyazaki wanted to show audiences the _spluttering_ s,\n_whirring_ s and _ka-put_ s that make the machines beautiful for him, even if\nthey didn't sit right with the tone of the film.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-14T05:01:08.137", "id": "24071", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-14T16:13:19.947", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13361", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile Miyazaki has never (to my knowledge) explained his thinking behind the\n'personification' of inanimate objects in this film, he has spoken about the\nissue of 'anthropomorphism' in animation before. I think it not unreasonable\nto apply the discussion in Dani Cavallaro's [\" _The Late Works of Hayao\nMiyazaki: A Critical Study, 2004-2013_\n\"](https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VF6QBQAAQBAJ&dq=miyazaki%20anthropomorphism&source=gbs_navlinks_s)\n(in relation to Miyazaki's _Howl's Moving Castle_ and his collaborator Kazuo\nOga's _The Night of Taneyamagahara_ ) to the representation of aeroplanes and\nthe city in _The Wind Rises_ :\n\n> \"It is apposite, on this point, to appraise Miyazaki's own views on\n> anthropomortphism. Miyazaki avers that depictions of both animals and\n> fantastic creatures, such as dragons, are bound to be uninteresting as long\n> as they capture featurs and expressions which make it easy for an audience\n> to figure out without effort what is supposed to be going through their\n> minds. \"Something is far more likely to become an object of our longing,\"\n> argues Miyazaki, \"when we don't know what it is thinking. The more we humans\n> anthropomorphize something and make it an easy target for empathy, the less\n> interesting it becomes. From the beginning we seem to have a longing for a\n> presence or a power that is far greater than ourselves and not easily\n> understood, a presence beyond our current framework or whose origins are\n> prehistoric.\" This yearning is \"a memory repeated over and over from our\n> ancestors\" ... [There is a belief that] unless characteres somehow resemble\n> humans, it is impossible to empathize with their situations and feelings.\n> Miyazaki has never been interested in entities of this ilk. ... On the\n> contrary, they embody that ungraspable \"presence\" or \"power\" for which\n> humankind has been instinctively \"longing\" for time immemorial. ... one of\n> the salient traits of the Japanese psyche is its tendency to perceive\n> different dimensions as interpenetrating. \"That the membrane between inner\n> and outer or this and that world is paper thin\" ... Likewise, the farmer's\n> dream ... belongs at once to reality and to illusion. It articulates an\n> impalpable fantasy, and yet it is endowed with the credibility of a lived\n> event.\" (pp.38-40)\n\nIn this context, the visual design of the planes, locomotives and the city\n(especially during the earthquake scenes) and the use of [human voices\nexclusively for their sound\neffects](http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2013/09/08/the-wind-rises-\nproduction-notes/) would be to convey the sense to the audience that these\nthings are alive, have their own unique natures/personalities and their own\n'lives', and yet are to some extent incomprehensible to us. This is consistent\nwith Miyazaki's Shinto-inspired worldview about the vitality (i.e. the animate\nnature) of everything in the material universe, simultaneous with awareness of\nthe profound mystery underlying it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-15T08:56:12.700", "id": "24094", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-15T08:56:12.700", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "13361", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [進研ゼミ](http://chu.benesse.co.jp/) (Shinkenzemi) is a one of the most\nfamous distance learning service for minors in Japan.\n\n'真剣' and '進研', both read as 'shinken.'\n\n'真剣' meaning \"seriousness\"\n\n'ゼミ' is short for \"seminar.\"\n\n'進' means \"progress/advancement\".\n\n'研' means \"sharpen/polish/study.\"\n\nThis is a parody that use similar sounding Japanese characters.\n\n> あ、これ進研ゼミでやったことがある\n>\n> I did this at the Shinkenzemi once.\n\nMuch like McDonald's and MacRonald's in English.\n\n", "comment_count": 12, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-12T20:55:00.180", "id": "13374", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T16:26:06.223", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-13T16:26:06.223", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "3412", "parent_id": "13372", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is the symbol of the\n[Sturmabteilung](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung), a paramilitary\norganization within the German Nazi Party, whose methods of violent\nintimidation played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power.\n\nIt's made up of an \"S\" (in lightning bolt shape) and an \"A\" and is probably a\nreference to Neo-Nazi groups evading the Swastika ban by using other related\nsymbols.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-13T00:16:12.300", "id": "13384", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T05:23:01.123", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-13T05:23:01.123", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "13382", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nThat's the symbol for the Sturmabteilung, or Storm Division of the Nazi Party.\nThey always wore the brown uniforms, and were the main tool used to strike\nfear into political enemies of Adolf Hitler. It was in fact used during WWII\nby the SA, so it's not a Neo-Nazi creation. It's not a reference or an attempt\nto avoid Swastika bans as this was a genuine symbol used. They didn't use the\nsymbol on their armbands. I'm 99.99% sure all armbands worn had the Swastika\non them. The Waffen Schutzstaffel took their place after the Nazis REALLY\nkicked in.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-29T23:48:34.750", "id": "42069", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-29T23:48:34.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35391", "parent_id": "13382", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe it could be [Isekai no Seikishi\nMonogatari](http://myanimelist.net/anime/5781/Isekai_no_Seikishi_Monogatari)\nas there are multiple races, something about a princess, but I don't remember\nit that well.\n\nHis mecha looks like a lizard. He is the white one in this screenshot:\n\n\n\nAnd if what you meant by egg is where the pilot is, then it could be this part\nof it:\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n# [Isekai no Seikishi\nMonogatari](http://myanimelist.net/anime/5781/Isekai_no_Seikishi_Monogatari)\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\n> Kenshi —half-brother of intergalactic hero Tenchi Masaki— has been summoned\n> to the mysterious world of Geminar, and his only hope of returning to Earth\n> is piloting a bio-mechanical weapon in a shocking assassination attempt!\n> When the mission fails and Kenshi is captured, he discovers he's been lied\n> to by the very culprits who transported him to this strange new world.\n> Luckily, Princess Lashara kindly welcomes Kenshi and invites him to live\n> amongst her followers. Now, caught up in a political whirlwind —and hotly\n> pursued by Geminar's female population— Kenshi must find a way to get home\n> while civil war erupts all around him!\n>\n> Source: FUNimation\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-13T02:03:49.967", "id": "13386", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T05:15:58.560", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "13385", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's called [Mudazumo Naki\nKaikaku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudazumo_Naki_Kaikaku). The characters\nare all based off of real-life politicians like George Bush, Kim Jong Il, Mao,\nPol Pot, Putin, and of course, many from Nazi Germany, and they play Mahjong\ntogether in this manga. It was also adapted into an anime series.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-13T07:18:43.247", "id": "13388", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T07:18:43.247", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13387", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMaybe [InuYasha](http://myanimelist.net/anime/249/InuYasha) at episode 28,\nthere is a woman that transforms into a giant mantis.\n\n\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n# [InuYasha](http://myanimelist.net/anime/249/InuYasha)\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\n> Higurashi Kagome, after being pulled down a well by a demon, finds herself\n> in Feudal Japan, where she learns that a powerful jewel has been reborn\n> inside her body. After the jewel shatters in an attempt to retrieve it from\n> one of the many demons who was after its power, Kagome must join forces with\n> the half-demon Inu Yasha (also after the jewel's power) to track down the\n> shards of the jewel before its power falls into the wrong hands.\n>\n> Source: ANN\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-13T08:51:54.897", "id": "13391", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T08:51:54.897", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "13389", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI haven't been keeping up with the anime (too many fillers...), so I don't\nknow whether this manga chapter has been covered or not, or if you are even\nclose to it. This was actually shown in one of the manga chapters quite\nrecently.\n\nIf you don't mind spoilers, here are links to a few pages from Naruto Chapter\n681:\n\n[Madara bites Hashirama](https://i.stack.imgur.com/v45X8.jpg)\n\n[Madara uses Hashirama meat](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iITKE.jpg)\n\nAccording to [Narutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Izanagi#Trivia):\n\n> In the past, Uchiha clan members used this technique during an important\n> battle that they had to win at all costs. However, they soon started to\n> abuse the abilities granted by this technique and as such Izanami was\n> created as a way to punish the abusers of Izanagi.\n\nSo, I am guessing that the Uchiha must have performed some experiments. Maybe\nas long as you have the both trait in body you can use Izanagi immediately,\nand Madara was aware of this. Since Madara clearly must have bit onto the\nmeat, he must have swallowed some blood, thus having the Senju trait in his\nbody. This is an assumption, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-13T10:24:54.797", "id": "13394", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T12:57:57.273", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-13T12:57:57.273", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7957", "parent_id": "13392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst of all, Izanagi has nothing to do with Senju powers. The requirement for\nIzanagi is that you must be ready to sacrifice one sharingan. If you have more\nthan one, then you can cast it for as much as you have, which is the case with\nDanzo. The power that is awaken by having both Senju and Uchiha power is\nRinnegan. Senju power however, can be used to extend the duration of Izanagi,\nwhich is once again, is the case with Danzo.\n\nNow, to the main question, Uchiha Madara bite Senju Hashirama during their\nfight at the Valley of the End where it was believed Madara was killed by\nHashirama. It was actually Madara's Izanagi. Later, when he was nearing his\ndeath, Madara awakens his Rinnegan. (Naruto Chapter 681)\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T17:36:39.753", "id": "13427", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-14T18:02:25.903", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-14T18:02:25.903", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYou don't need senju cells for izanagi. Itachi used it on Kabuto. And he has\nhad nothing to do with cell transplanting and whatnot.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-08T17:11:53.960", "id": "37235", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-08T19:32:01.400", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-08T19:32:01.400", "last_editor_user_id": "13532", "owner_user_id": "29155", "parent_id": "13392", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's a way she can remember about her victims. It's mentioned in the manga\n[chapter 738](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_738):\n\n> \"Sugar is able to make a contract with her victims and control them, leaving\n> them with no control over their own bodies.\"\n\nRead about her abilities here: [One Piece Wikia -\nSugar](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sugar)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-19T10:55:47.653", "id": "14560", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-28T14:43:44.213", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-28T14:43:44.213", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "13393", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is one ok piece of evidence (from the anime I'm not up to date on the\nmanga) that says she cannot remember who she turns into a toy or even whether\nshe did so. There is, however, even better evidence that she could communicate\nto her non-remembering self and turn him back. I am not aware of any evidence\nthat she could turn someone back at will but that is comparitively trivial as\nI don't believe (though they may I just don't see it) that they age while they\nare toys.\n\nAt the start of the arc, she had reportedly only ever let one toy free without\na contract (Kyros). She does the religously every time she uses her power\n(could be anytime she sees a new toy randomly appear in front of her). When\nRobin is turned into a ragdoll, she makes no contract and does not try to find\nher to make one while Usoland is running away in terror. If she can remember,\nthis could also be an oversight on her part, knowledge that she can't get to\nthe toy in time anyways, or may be even an oversight by the animators\n(couldn't possibly be one by Oda...that is impossible). If she could not\nremember Robin, this makes perfect sense and she would behave exactly like she\ndid.\n\nWhether she can remember or not, the statue of Kyros has stood since before he\nbecame a toy and communicates information such as his name. The Toyfamino\nbeing contractually ordered to serve himself has free will and can walk her\nthrough whatever he needs (as long as he can get her to believe him for a\nsecond. He cannot be the last of his \"family\" to be turned into a toy,\nhowever, or she would give him a different contract.\n\nThis all assumes, however, that she is loyal to him. For a _young?_ lady under\nconstant guard by as slimey man she is constantly ordering to die, this might\nbe a radical assumption. Whether she is loyal or not if he does not age as a\ntoy, has free will, and she will someday die (if he has to kill her to do it),\nhe will likely survive the incident without being physically harmed.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-31T18:01:38.503", "id": "19004", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-27T16:51:23.513", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-27T16:51:23.513", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "13393", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n[@Madara](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/27/madara-uchiha) basically\n[hit the nail on the\nhead](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13404/why-is-human-\ntransmutation-illegal-or-that-matter-have-alchemy-laws#comment16804_13404)\nhere, but I thought I'd elaborate a bit.\n\n**_Unmarked spoilers follow._**\n\nFather wants people making philosopher's stones _for his goals_. He has his\nend goal of the Nationwide Transmutation Circle, and he has a plan to get it.\nThis plan involves the military laboratories (especially lab #5), as well as\nwaging wars (such as the blood crest in the North), and a few other things.\n\nBut let's consider the very first episode of _Brotherhood_ , in which Isaac\nMcDougal, by way of philosopher's stone, launched an attack against the\nmilitary, attempting to completely freeze over Central. This was _clearly_\ncontrary to Father's goals, as its motive was to destroy Central by ice,\nbeneath which Father lived.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LJy91.png)\n\nAnd later in the series, the truth behind the military's law of, \"you must not\ncreate humans,\" is revealed: they are not concerned with ethics, but rather\n**to prevent people from creating an army which would oppose the\ngovernment's** , and subsequently, oppose Father.\n\nSo, like @Madara initially mentioned: killing people in reality is illegal,\nyet countries wage war because the governments have their own motives, which\nthey believe are above those of the citizens. Yet, we can't just have citizens\ngoing around massacring others, can we? (Hint: The answer is no.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-13T19:50:45.890", "id": "13405", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T19:50:45.890", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "13404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nMorals predate father's existence he is only in his [5th\ncentury](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Father) and its likely that some other\nperson of greater moral fiber and less pride created the ethical system which\nwas then codified into law. Fundamental principles of societies are hard to\nchange when revolutions are hidden. Revisions to history, ethics and taboos\nwould be extremely difficult to change. Just look at [foot\nbinding](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding) as an example of culture\nresisting an opposing government and even medicine.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T07:04:28.917", "id": "13415", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-14T07:04:28.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "13404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nBecause he wanted Sasuke to kill him and awaken his powers and control Sasuke\nafter that because he is easily brainwashed and anger revenge driven.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T13:12:36.033", "id": "13419", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-14T14:11:27.550", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-14T14:11:27.550", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "316", "parent_id": "13416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHe let him stay because a lot members of the organization had their own\nmotives and knew they would betray the overall effort at some point or\nanother. They are all missing nins which means loyalty to an organization was\nclearly not on the top of their list. Many were even there just to spy or\nfurther their own goals. It didn't matter to him as long as he can use them to\naccomplish immediate goals. And everyone of them thought they would eventually\noutsmart, control or win over the others as they are all excellent ninjas.\n\n 1. Pain/Konan revealed they never intended to go along with Tobi's original plan. Tobi was aware of this at least to some extent. There was clearly mistrust between the two. \n 2. Orochimaru was a big time defector and they always knew he was there to spy on them and had his own agenda. \n 3. Kisame only went along with Tobi once he revealed he was the real Mizukage. Otherwise it seems like he didn't really have any loyalty other than it was what he was doing at the time. \n 4. His alliance with Kabuto, he knew he couldn't trust him but partnered with him anyways because of all the reasons listed above. \n\nHe also didn't think Itachi knew as much as he did or was good as he was (a\ntestiment to how good a ninja he was). Also he liked the idea of having extra\nSharingans hanging around in case he needed them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T15:03:39.977", "id": "13421", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-25T17:44:18.590", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-25T17:44:18.590", "last_editor_user_id": "7597", "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "13416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a very similar thread on Narutobase: [Itachi and\nAkatsuki](http://narutobase.net/forums/showthread.php?t=320471)\n\n_Slightly edited the posts here and there._\n\n**Then why did he let Itachi join the Akatsuki?**\n\n> Tobi gained a lot from Itachi- help with tailed beasts, stalled Gaara rescue\n> team, help with killing off the Uchiha clan while keeping his identity\n> secret [(Chapter 400,Page\n> 9)](http://i29.mangapanda.com/naruto/400/naruto-8059.jpg), let Sasuke be so\n> that he can take care of Itachi as per his plan later only to use him as a\n> pawn after Itachi dies, and once that's done he can attack Konoha without\n> warning and seal the Kyuubi last.\n>\n> Itachi was an eyesore for Tobi's plans and he never wanted Sasuke at first\n> but when Nagato died he needed some one to sync with Gedo Mazo [(Chapter\n> 453, Page 17)](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xK-\n> YPgcCIBw/TlVMrBUTeCI/AAAAAAAAAB8/QBAUS8UWEoY/016.jpg?imgmax=3000), so he\n> recruied sasuke as he was short on members.\n>\n> Itachi was happy since village was safe and also he was keeping eye on the\n> Akatsuki. We have seen this as Konoha was attacked by Pain after Itachi died\n> and not before that so it make sense.\n\n* * *\n\nThread on Narutobase discussing why Itachi couldn't kill Tobi:[Establishing\nwhy Itachi could never kill Obito once and for\nall](http://narutobase.net/forums/showthread.php?t=462343)\n\n**Why didn't he get rid of Itachi at least after they start to capture the\ntailed beasts?**\n\n> Itachi was a Leaf's spy, but he was nevertheless a useful asset to Akatsuki.\n> Add to this the fact that Itachi never had the chance to share any intel he\n> gathered with Konoha, nor did he manage to interfere in Akatsuki's plans at\n> any point and you get an ALMOST full picture. The last reason Tobi kept\n> Itachi alive was because of Sasuke. As we know, Itachi wasn't willing to\n> cooperate with Tobi really. But, thanks to Itachi's death by the hands of\n> Sasuke, Tobi was able to persuade Sasuke into joining him. That's how he\n> gained a powerful tool (because an ally is a wrong word here), especially\n> after Sasuke got Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. In other words, killing Itachi\n> would be a complete waste. Even if Itachi was stronger than Obito, Obito\n> could have get ridden of him at any point he wanted. He was pulling the\n> strings behind the whole organization, ordering even Nagato around. If he\n> wanted to, he could have simply ordered Nagato to do the job. As you can\n> see, no matter the individual strength of Obito, he could have got ridden of\n> Itachi anytime he wished. He didn't - not because he was too weak, but for\n> the reasons stated a point above.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T16:05:32.787", "id": "13424", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-14T16:05:32.787", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7957", "parent_id": "13416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell even if Obito did get rid of Itachi he would have had a hard time since\nit is shown in one of the anime movies that Obito says to Itachi that he was a\nnuisance as always since he could have killed obito with his black flames the\neternal flames of sharingan. and also Obito would have lost the advantage to\nthrow sauske in even more darkness and use him against naruto\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-03T04:54:42.653", "id": "39224", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-03T04:54:42.653", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31258", "parent_id": "13416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFirstly, Obito is stronger than Itachi and we all know that! Susano isn't able\nto defeat someone who has Kamui, even tough Obito has only one eye, He still\nstronger than itachi, and Kakashi become stronger than Itachi in Naruto\nShippuden! of course, Itachi has deadly jutsu, but someone like Kakashi who\nknows everything about uchiha, I don't think izanagi would be a useful jutsu\nagainst him! All he's gonna do is waiting for him to get back to life and kill\nhim another time! Anyway, what I wanna say is Obito used Itachi, and he wasn't\nafraid of him at all! if he planned to do something he will kill him! Guys,\nI'm not a fan of any of them but, Obito is stronger than Itachi, and if he\ndidn't give his eye to Kakashi, kakashi wasn't even going to be in the list!\nSo, Obito used itachi, like when Pain defeated orochimaru so easily, and\nforced him to join and Pain tells sasori that if orochimaru did something i'll\ndeal with him personally! Pain treated orochimaru as a kid, while obito did\nthe same thing but, not that easy at least obito was aware of itachi a little\nbecause he's stronger than itachi, but not to the point where he'll defeat him\neasily! That's why he tells him to join Akatsuki\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-15T20:23:47.947", "id": "53990", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-15T20:23:47.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48435", "parent_id": "13416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\ni haven't read the books or manga myself but from my understanding,\nVampires/Methuselah were human colonists sent to Mars where the contracted the\n\"Bacillus Virus\" which is a Martian Virus, if there was life on Mars before\nhumans arrived it could have been the cause of Martian Extinction though i'm\nnot sure if it's a natural virus, engineered virus or a virus born from dead\nMartian's who evolved to be vampires but there doesn't seem to be any\nindication that the Bacillus Virus was alien in nature to Mars (ie. having\ncame from somewhere else in the universe).\n\nCrusniks Nanomachines were also found on Mars and if the Bacillus Virus is\nconnected to Martian Vampires, then the Crusniks Nanomachines may have been\nmade as a weapon to use against them as we know Crusniks feed on Vampires and\nare by far more powerful.\n\nAs for the concept of space/aliens that's what the Methuselah are to the\nTerrans in the very beginning as they where Humans who were changed on Mars\nand came back to wage war so in a sense they are aliens, the Ships we see at\nthe beginning of the anime series is more than likely space ships from Mars at\nthe beginning of the war.\n\nAlso in the anime the scenes we see Able, Cain, Seth anbd Lilith on a\nspaceship looking over Earth and at the end we see it. this ship is called\n_Ark_ and i think in the novels it's covered again, see bellow (major spoiler)\n\n> The Vatican destroy's the Empire's second largest City with a nuclear\n> attack, Seth goes to reactive the _Ark_ hoping to use it's Satellite Cannon\n> to destroy the Vatican's nuclear launch facility \n> \n> Cain and Dietrich appear and take control of the _Ark_ and it's revealed\n> Cain plans to crash it into the earth and Able gets involved with the fight\n> between Cain and Seth \n> \n> Seth is able to stop Cain's plan but is weakened where Cain then severs her\n> head, killing her. the Order of Rosenkreuz twists the information framing\n> Able for Seth's Murder and since Seth was the Empress Augusta Vradica, seen\n> as the \"Mother\" of the Methuselah, and Able is allied with the Vatican the\n> Empire starts and all out war with the Terrans\n\nthough i'm not sure if the above takes place in _Rages Against the Moons_ or\n_Reborn on the Mars_\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-15T01:59:48.197", "id": "13431", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-15T01:59:48.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13423", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you have seen the fight between **Tobi (Obito)** and **Konan** , he\nactually used his left eye which he had given to **Kakashi**. So the Sharingan\nhe used for Izanagi was of the other ( **Uchiha** ).\n\n\n\nAlso, Obito gave Kakashi his Sharingan (the right one) and Kakashi already has\nthe left Sharingan, so he has both and talking about Mangekyo, Kakashi has\nalready awakened that power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-15T06:48:55.257", "id": "13436", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T14:44:02.973", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T14:44:02.973", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13435", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, we know that all of humanity has been wiped out, except for the people\nliving inside the walls.\n\nSeeing as much of mankind lives on islands (such as the Japanese), it's safe\nto assume that Titans are able to cross water somehow. Presumably, they're\nable to float due to the previously mentioned attribute of their abnormally\nlight weight.\n\nThere's also a river going through Shiganshina District that appears to be\nused for transporting cargo, so mankind is not oblivious to manmade bodies of\nwater.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-17T00:18:23.757", "id": "14527", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-17T00:18:23.757", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8753", "parent_id": "13446", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer is we don't know. We have not seen (I think) a titan crossing a\nbody of water.\n\n 1. We don't know if any other cities or islands used water to protect themselves from titans, but none seemed to be known to the populace. The massive size of the walls means that at least one of them should probably be near to the ocean. I expect that they would know if individuals on boats were safe. If moats were more effective than walls, they would be implemented in some capacity at the (reportedly) more important locations. It is highly possible, though, that they don't border the ocean. There definitely isn't an ocean within the outer set of walls, so one has not been accessible for years.\n 2. I have not seen it rains on titans. Ergo, I don't know if rain water would dissolve them. If it had been the case, we would have already seen it in use. I would be surprised if they did not try those experiments, but the \"discoveries\" of the military regarding their physiology still seem ridiculously mundane for having studied them for so many years.\n 3. Titans are light compared to their size. Their density is low enough they should float on the top of the ocean. They are probably, however, not light enough that the reasonably large ones would not touch the bottom when walking across the rivers of the size that have been shown in the series so far. Do not forget that while a material with density lower than water will float in water, it will still touch the bottom if the water is shallow enough that their body is not sufficiently submerged to cause a large enough buoyancy. Regardless, whether they float or walk across them, I don't think moats could prevent them from crossing. \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-17T18:26:42.353", "id": "14540", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-20T17:58:31.433", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-20T17:58:31.433", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "13446", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you take a look at the official closing theme of Season 2 of Attack on\nTitan you see the following:\n\n> Titan emerging from the water. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZpJZ2.jpg)\n\nBut the way that they emerge it suggests\n\n> that they actually don't swim but cross bodies of water by walking along the\n> bottom.\n\nAlso from the scene we can derive that\n\n> if titans can walk along the bottom of bodies of water this implies that\n> they either have no lungs or do not require oxygen for survival which is\n> something that was actually discussed on Anime Stack before.\n\nAnd finally we can see that\n\n> water does not harm them in any way whatsoever.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-12T01:00:08.103", "id": "41328", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-12T01:00:08.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32833", "parent_id": "13446", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nSome titans can climb. So it is a possibility that they can swim like this\nguy:[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SKg2t.png)\n\ni know he's a shifter but in season 2 when they try to trap the female titan a\ntitan tries to climb and then falls. so some titans may be able to swim.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-10-22T12:26:10.230", "id": "55640", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-22T12:26:10.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50436", "parent_id": "13446", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe original lifespan is the time you are supposed to have alive at the moment\nof birth, unless someone, Shinigami or human, use their Death Note on you, or\nyou make a deal with a Shinigami shortening your lifespan, or a Shinigami\nsacrifices themself to allow you to live incrementing your lifespan.\n\n> What if the person contracts a lethal disease?\n\nOnce you spent your lifespan you will die, the reasons of death doesn't\nmatter. If you contract a disease you will live until your lifespan allows you\nto live.\n\nTo illustrate this, Amane Misa was supposed to die when the fan attacked her.\nGelus knew her life will end, and decided to intervene. Since her lifespan was\nspent and she didn't die when she was supposed to, Gelus dies transferring his\nlifespan to Misa, hence she no longer lives with her \"original lifespan\" but\nthe shinigami's.\n\n> would he have effectively beaten radiation poisoning?\n\nHe could be died because a indirect effect of the use of the Death Note, which\ncaused him to be affected of radiation poisoning, as can be seen in [this\nother answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/11424/2159), but if there\nisn't Death Note involved, no matter what he should die when their lifespan\nexhaust, so he could just get lucky and not being poisoned or something\nhappened before hand that prevented him from being poisoned.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T03:37:34.550", "id": "13454", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-16T20:04:13.490", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "13447", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nOkay, let's say I have a Death Note. Now, another Death Note owner wants to\nkill me.\n\nLet's say to save my life, I write my own name in the Death Note with\n_bradykardie_ as a cause of death. I will over 23 days. And when my lifespan\nends I will die of bradykardie. So, that means, **if no Death Note is\ninvolved** _that CIA Agent won't die_ , **because he isn't supposed to die\nthen**. _But_ **if he writes his own name in the Death Note** , _with a\ndisease as a cause of death_ , **he will die of that disease when his lifespan\nends**.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T20:30:04.460", "id": "13466", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-16T23:46:29.523", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-16T23:46:29.523", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "6399", "parent_id": "13447", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think you are missing the point of \"Death Gods\". The \"original lifespan\" of\na human is the amount of time they have from birth to death. And I think it is\nalready decided from before!\n\nThe only way it would change would be any type if interaction with a death\ngod/death note being introduced to the situation.\n\nSo if he got affected by radiation, and were to die, this would have been\ntaken into account in your original lifespan! (As long as the radiation\nsituation was not introduced by someone with a death note or a death god!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-17T18:22:19.160", "id": "13486", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-17T18:22:19.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8030", "parent_id": "13447", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n405 entered the test. 1 was injured. So the 404 was correct. The hunter test\nis one of survival and cunning etc. the one Hisoka \"Disarmed\" could not\ncontinue with both arms gone.\n\nEssentially he failed the test when he bumped into Hisoka and not apologizing.\nPerhaps if he had sensed his surroundings a little better, like a real hunter,\nthe 404 would have been a 405.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T02:43:43.803", "id": "13452", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-16T02:43:43.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7989", "parent_id": "13449", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime of Skip Beat was in 2008/09 , by Hal Film Maker. Shortly after the\nanime, Hal Film Maker merged into the parent company TYO Animations. There may\nhave been some issues with licensing works from a company that didn't exist\nanymore.\n\nThis was also around the time of legal online streaming's emergence - so\ninterested studios (possibly Funimation, who took on B Gata H Kei - Hal\nStudio's next production) had a lot of business decisions and work at this\ntime.\n\nMost dubbed anime go under a lot of cost analysis to see whether it is worth\nit to produce. Usually shounen works are the easiest of works to pull a profit\non. Shoujo works are harder to sell, so perhaps it was decided by most\ncompanies that it just wasn't worth it.\n\nAny of these could be potential reasons and this probably isn't a very\nsatisfying answer, but unless there's an official announcement by a involved\ncompany, we won't know due to company secrecies.\n\nThe longer it remains unlicensed however, the less likely it is to be picked\nup as it slowly looses the target audience's interest.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-30T08:25:34.780", "id": "21972", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-05T05:24:16.490", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-05T05:24:16.490", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13453", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI began this as a comment on Toshinou Kyouko's answer, and it's sort of a\nsupplement to that answer.\n\nUS companies, in general, have become a lot more averse to producing dubs. In\nthe days of Geneon (2003-2007), almost everything that came out had a dub.\nThat is no longer the case; lots of shows come out with no dub, and it seems\nthat, as Toshinou-san mentioned, any show that isn't going to make the sales\ndoesn't get one. Shoujo anime typically doesn't sell that well in the US; only\na small fraction of all the shoujo produced even comes out here. (Shoujo manga\nused to sell well, in the age of Geneon, which was also the age of Tokyopop.)\n\nWhy don't companies want to produce dubs? The economics of anime has changed\npretty drastically. In the Geneon days, you bought anime as a series of DVD\nreleases, usually six or seven of them, for about $30 each. That works out to\nabout $180 to own a complete series, but the companies also sold a lot of\nindividual copies of the first few discs. (If you think that's bad, the\noriginal release of Eva was on 13 VHS tapes, each with two episodes, and you\nhad to pick whether to buy the dub tapes or the sub tapes.)\n\nLegal streaming sites changed that. Whether you intend to buy the DVDs or not,\nit makes sense to watch it for free online so you know you're getting a good\nvalue. Everyone stopped paying $60 just to watch the first five or six\nepisodes of a series to find out if it was good or not. DVD releases now are\nusually in box sets that contain 13 episodes. The US distributors have to\nassume that everyone who buys the DVDs has already seen the series online,\nwhich drastically limits the market for most shows. Also, US distributors\ntoday have seen Geneon and ADV fold because they spent too much money on fancy\ndub scripts and pop-up notes for shows that turned out to be unpopular. For\nshows like, well, about 80% of what I watch, producing a dub is a losing\nproposition.\n\nI also believe dubs became less popular because the TV market for anime dried\nup. In the mid-2000s, TV networks were hooking up left and right with anime\ndistributors. Cartoon Network was working with Viz and Funimation; Encore was\ncarrying titles for ADV and Media Blasters; Geneon worked with TechTV (later\nG4) and even had a deal with MTV that resulted in a disastrous run of Heat Guy\nJ. As far as I can tell, no one except Cartoon Network is carrying anime\nanymore, and they've scaled back quite a bit. The networks have also been hit\nby the Internet, and they've figured out that they can produce their own\nanime-like content, such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, and have full control\nover it, instead of having to work out some weird limited-term licensing deal\nwith a US distributor who already has a weird limited-term licensing deal with\na Japanese distributor.\n\nProducing a dub is much more expensive than producing a subtitled translation;\nthat's why you see lots of fansubs, but very few fandubs. That's also why\nstreaming sites such as Crunchyroll don't produce their own dubs. And since\nanime is still fairly low-profile in the US, for a lot of shows, it just\ndoesn't make sense to spend that money.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-06T23:42:54.370", "id": "22206", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-06T23:42:54.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13453", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nOne reason there was never a dub for Skip Beat is the industry at the time\ntruly believed only magical girl shoujo made money. Even now (2016) when some\ncompanies are adding more shoujo titles to their catalogs, they are still more\nhesitant to invest in shoujo at the same rate they invest in shounen, and the\ntitles to appeal to girls/women licensed lean towards reverse harem, its\ncousin the newer bishounen subgenre, and yaoi.\n\nGood news, though. More companies are crowdfunding left-behind licenses, and\nPied Piper, the company that rescued and released Time of Eve, is running a\nKickstarter for a North American release of Skip Beat. The disc will have the\noriginal Japanese audio, with improved subtitles, and a new English dub. The\ncampaign ends April 16, 2016. <http://kck.st/1RooUS7>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-01T06:17:39.150", "id": "31050", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-01T06:17:39.150", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23135", "parent_id": "13453", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt suddenly occurred to me that I probably just wasn't paying enough attention\nto the film and that it had been too long since I'd seen the anime. There are\ntwo slightly similar possibilities.\n\n 1. From the anime, we know that as long as the Soul Gem is intact, the magical girl won't die. It's thus possible that Homura only shot herself in the head (without touching her Soul Gem) when she did so, which would have led to her not dying. (Such an interpretation makes sense given that as Shinobu pointed out, Homura was doing this to distract Mami.)\n\n 2. The second possibility is as follows: a bit later than halfway through the film, Homura decides to test whether or not the 100 metre restriction for her Soul Gem still works, after she becomes suspicious of herself. She leaves her Soul Gem at a location and boards a bus that later bursts into flames, but emerges unscathed despite to fact that this was some distance from where the bus was. Given this detail and the fact that she has become a witch at some point, it's possible that this has also affected the destructability of her body.\n\nI'm not sure if I interpreted the events of the second bit correctly, so\nplease comment if I have gotten something wrong.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T05:28:19.317", "id": "13456", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-16T08:50:43.300", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-16T08:50:43.300", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "13455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI can only think that the bullet didn't actually hit her head, but only\nscratch her. She point the gun on her head not to kill her self, but to\ndistract Mami. Mami, who is Homura's friend, didn't want Homura to die, tried\nto save her. She pull the ribbon when Homura shot her gun and this makes her\nmiss the shot. I believe she did it on purpose, because after this, Homura\nable to cut Mami's ribbon and able to stop time again. Which is of course,\nthat's what she want to do from the beginning.\n\n> \n\nBefore the battle begin, we can see that Homura tried to shoot Mami's ribbon,\nbut failed to do so, but after she tries to shoot herself in the head. Mami\nget distracted and Homura finally able to free herself\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T09:24:29.597", "id": "13457", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-16T11:09:28.007", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-16T11:09:28.007", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "13455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nMagical girls in MadoMagi universe are like zombies. It doesn't matter if her\nbrain gets destroyed as long as her Soul Gem is intact. Homura knows this\nfact, but Mami does not and that's why she panics.\n\nAs Mami at this point is already a ghost, although she should have known that\nthings like this would not hurt magical girl, she was brainwashed like the\nrest of people inside the barrier and forgot. As for why Mami was killed by\nBebe in earlier scene, it was not because her brain was destroyed, but because\nshe wore her Soul Gem on her hat and it was eaten along with her head.\n\nSo yes, Homura was safe all along.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-19T13:41:27.683", "id": "19493", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-19T15:39:30.493", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-19T15:39:30.493", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "12817", "parent_id": "13455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBlack Zetsu by himself is not powerful enough to take on either Sasuke or\nNaruto by himself. So, instead of being in the battle field, he's taking cover\nin Kaguya Ootsutsuki's arm (His mother).\n\n**(As we have seen black Zetsu also has a physical body of his own, so taking\nthat as a premise we can deduct that he is not powerful enough to take on the\nduo)**\n\nI believe it's pretty clear that Kaguya is not being controlled. It's just\nthat the will of black Zetsu matches with that of Kaguya unlike her other\nsons.\n\nBlack Zetsu also said (to Uchiha Madara) that he's not the will of Madara's\nbut Kaguya's.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T19:05:00.617", "id": "13463", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-17T08:02:56.783", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-17T08:02:56.783", "last_editor_user_id": "6345", "owner_user_id": "3793", "parent_id": "13458", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter searching for an hour I found in a YouTube comment on the seventh page\nthe name of it. I found out that it is not any anime or manga. It is a artwork\nfrom _Sano Toshihide_ from the visual novel **Queen Bonjourno!**\n(Queenボンジョルの！).\n\nIf you like the picture, here is a bigger one...\n\n\n\nThis is a jpg image from a vector graphic from\n[ZeroChan](http://www.zerochan.net/1005696). If you want the same image you\nposted use this from [ZeroChan](http://www.zerochan.net/86315).\n\n> Juliet, a princess, was in love with the main character. But she took over\n> the throne, and needed to work for the people, holding back her love toward\n> him. One day, she finally crossed the line, and slept with him without\n> knowing the impending threat from the neighboring countries…\n>\n> One thousand years later, they all meet again at a high school, as a student\n> or as a teacher or as an older sister. The main character lives a peaceful\n> life. But triggered by a meeting with a transfer student, his life changes\n> dramatically. \"I've been looking for you.\" The curtain on the battle for the\n> main character raises...\n\nInformation from [Visual Novel Database](http://vndb.org/v1042).\n\nThe female character is called _Sakurazaka Meguru_ (桜坂 めぐる) and she is one of\nthe main characters in the visual novel.\n\n\n\nImage from [ZeroChan](http://www.zerochan.net/256185).\n\nThe male character I could not find... Maybe you are the main character\nyourself? Or because they are often \"uninteresting\" for such type of games...\nIf you know what I mean ;)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T15:04:21.053", "id": "13462", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-12T18:19:57.927", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-12T18:19:57.927", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "13461", "post_type": "answer", "score": 22 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis [2ch post](http://www.logsoku.com/r/news4vip/1365251852/6) has bigger\nimage.\n\n * Intelligence: IQ is 400.\n * Haptic sense: Can feel the movement of heat and air.\n * Hearing ability: Can here the ululation of animals from bats to whales.\n * Visual acuity: Like astrometric telescope.\n * Born: Breakdown to each cell and transform into many breeds.\n * Muscle: Recuperate from wounds very soon, then can transform/heal very quickly.\n * Gripping power: 900 kg/cm^2\n * Jumping power: 18m\n * Favourite food: Humans that became bloodsuckers. (Can survive without the need of any food and drink for 1 year.)\n * Sleep: No need.\n * Objective of breed: Other breed has a objective that creates descendants. But in his case creates a world that he thinks.\n * SEX: No need. lower forms of life need many children. It's easy to die. No need for child or friend for perfect life. \"Top\" is always only one.\n * Baby of the human was transformed 9 hundred million evolution in 10 month. DNA know it. Like this, cell of his body know all DNA of all breed. he can transform to any breed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-16T22:11:27.977", "id": "13469", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-17T19:41:54.813", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-17T19:41:54.813", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis oil seems like some sort of oil made of a sponge-like surface that can\ntake a lot of damage. We don't have such things in our world, but there is\nthis sort of thread-like material used in new body armor that deflects\nbullets. This sort of oil could follow such physical rules possibly. Also, the\nanime just does things that are pretty **bizzare** , so it might be plot\nlogic.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-02-01T17:37:54.010", "id": "61808", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-03T17:32:16.830", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-03T17:32:16.830", "last_editor_user_id": "56835", "owner_user_id": "56835", "parent_id": "13465", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAt least for anime version, there are some discussion and some TV station\ncancelled the series.\n\nFrom [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodomo_no_Jikan#Anime):\n\n> [...] two television stations — TV Saitama and Mie TV — removed it from\n> their broadcast schedules. In an official press release, TV Saitama stated\n> that their decision was heavily influenced by the then-recent capture of\n> Takayuki Hosoda, a notorious Japanese child pornographer who was revealed to\n> be an elementary school vice principal.\n\nI haven't read _Kodomo no Jikan_ yet. In my understanding, Kodomo no Jikan\ncontains two taboos. One is sexual interest from child, and the other one is\nlove relationship between teacher and student. First one is also controversial\nin Japan. But for second one, it doesn't get any attention in Japan (if it's\nin fiction).\n\nOther example of teacher-student taboo in US is [Cardcaptor\nSakura](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardcaptor_Sakura). This anime was aired\nby NHK (BBC or PBS equivalent in Japan). It's not controversial in Japan. But\nthe NA version was heavy edited. All love relationship between teacher and\nstudent was removed with same-sex love relationship. (e.g. father and mother\nof protagonist met each other when the mother entered university that the\nfather worked as professor.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-17T05:59:12.713", "id": "13478", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-17T07:21:59.040", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-17T07:21:59.040", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13472", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, he doesn't play much of a main character role, though he's important in\nthe first series as someone who's there to help explain what's going on to the\naudience. The series/franchise focuses mainly on **Hakufu Sonsaku** , his\ncousin. Although he's listed as a main character in most of the shows from the\nfranchise, so are a lot of the other fighters from the school, who don't\nalways appear in every episode.\n\nFor example, in **Ikkitousen: Xtreme Xecutor** , it seems Shuuyu is listed as\na main character but I can't remember seeing him at all in the series, if only\nin passing.\n\nAs for the franchise itself, and this is purely opinion, I've heard that the\nBattle Vixens manga that the show was adapted from is superior to the various\nanime. While it is in the ecchi genre, there's a lot of focus on the fighting\n(and clothes magically getting ripped to shreds during fights), and while very\nliberally taken, the background link to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is\nmildly compelling.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-17T07:32:57.057", "id": "13481", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-17T07:32:57.057", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13473", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe best answer that I could make out myself for the use of the semi-colon in\nthe names:\n\n> The semicolon in the names are used as a form of \"pertaining to,\" however\n> \"not in possession of.\" Meaning--for example--\"Steins\" is related to \"Gate\"\n> however, \"Steins\" is not in possession of \"Gate.\" (This applies to the other\n> two names as well.) We can see this because \"Steins\" does not make use of an\n> apostrophe, which denotes possession.\n\nWe can see this by also rewording the titles of the anime:\n\n> Gate of Steins\n>\n> Head of Chaos\n>\n> Notes of Robotics\n\nIn this case, we see that \"Steins,\" \"Chaos,\" and \"Robotics\" all are related to\nthe the preceding words in the reworded titles, just the same as if we made\nuse of the semi-colon instead of, \"of,\" in the original titles.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-17T07:21:33.400", "id": "13480", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-17T07:21:33.400", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "13477", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\n> If lots of people start using a semicolon to connect words because they\n> think it looks cool, then eventually it will become standard usage in World\n> English and no one will complain\n\nNo need to speculate on \"World English\"; the series is Japanese, from a\ncountry simultaneously using four different official alphabets, and numerous\nlanguages in daily life. Japanese publishers feel very comfortable\ndisregarding usual English grammar rules in their naming conventions. Note,\neven in Japanese, without translation, the series is still named \"\n**Steins;Gate** \". This disregard of usual English usage in titles has been\ntrue for many years now in Anime and Manga. It may be amusing to imagine the\nfuture response of \"Users of Standard English\", but totally unnecessary. For\nmany years now, knowing native English speakers have shrugged, saying \"It's\nfrom Japan!\"\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-14T04:47:07.603", "id": "67903", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-14T04:48:50.187", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-14T04:48:50.187", "last_editor_user_id": "71841", "owner_user_id": "71841", "parent_id": "13477", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYuri is a _genre_. It, like any other genre - drama, action, romance,\nadventure, slice-of-life, etc - is part of what will define the particular\nplot the show will have.\n\nIt by itself isn't a _demographic_ , which is what defines the target\naudience.\n\nMany yuri-centric works actually do have a demographic attached to it\nexplicitly. For example, [Girl\nFriends](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Friends_\\(manga\\)) is listed as\nseinen, and [Collectors](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=52593) is\nlisted as Josei. They may also have a demographic attached by virtue of the\nmanga that they're published in, such as [Kannazuki no\nMiko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannazuki_no_Miko) being a shounen manga,\ndue to it being published in a shounen magazine.\n\nIn general, the demographic will vary, but I've noticed it by and large be\nseinen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-17T16:22:59.637", "id": "13483", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-17T16:22:59.637", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "13482", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nThe origin of **yuri** comes from [Class\nS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_S_\\(genre\\)) novels. This genre was\ncreated 100 years ago. In this time, the main readers of Class S novels were\ngirls.\n\nIn 70s, the word **yuri** is created by the editor of Barazoku (rose tribe,\nthe magazine for gays). But Yuri still targets girl or lesbians.\n\nIn 90s to 00s, these yuri novels/manga were _found_ by fanboys. Ex. Sailor\nMoon, Revolutionary Girl Utena and Maria-sama ga Miteru. These novels/manga\nwere targeted for girls, but got interest from fanboys also.\n\nIn 00s, many yuri manga/anime were created for fanboys, like Kannazuki no\nMiko, Kashimashi and others.\n\nCurrently, yuri for boys has bigger market than yuri for girls.\n\nWikipedia's [history of\nyuri](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_\\(genre\\)#Thematic_history) section\nhas more details.\n\nAdded: I forgot to mention about [Yuri\nDanshi](http://myanimelist.net/manga/29631/Yuri_Danshi) (The yuri man).\n\n> Hanadera is a high school boy who loves yuri to the point he constantly\n> watches his female classmates and just lets his imagination run wild. He's\n> living the fabulous life of a man obsessed with yuri, but this is also\n> source of personal conflict: if a yuri-filled world is so perfect, where\n> does he fit in as a man?\n\nYuri Danshi is meta fiction story about a man who likes yuri.\n\nOne of the chapters is about a yuri-only conference. (Sorry I didn't remember\nthe chapter number.) The protagonist is planning to visit the yuri conference,\nbut he is afraid that he will be the only male visitor of that conference. But\nfinally he found most visitors were male.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-17T17:10:10.733", "id": "13484", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-14T14:36:09.213", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-14T14:36:09.213", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13482", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are correct that, overall, the classic anime has more non-plot advancing\nmaterial (i.e. filler) than the manga does. On the other hand, in many cases,\nthe anime boasts more plot and depth of storytelling, whereas the manga plows\nthrough each story arc in a more bare-bones, brief, and (arguably) flat style.\nAs a couple of examples: 1) whether villain or ally, many characters in the\nmanga are introduced and then promptly killed off in order to move on to the\nnext character. Only in the anime are enduringly popular minions such as the\nWitches 5, Amazon Trio, and Animamates developed into personable and\nsympathetic characters. 2) In the manga, it's not as clear as to how the\nStarlights enrolling as students at Juuban High School is very necessary to\nadvancing the plot, whereas in the anime, as a result of their schoolmates\nfriendship with Usagi, Ami, (Rei: actually, she attends a different school but\nshe usually comes over to their campus to hang out), Makoto, and Minako, which\ntook the span of a whole season to develop to the point of mutual trust, leads\nthe Starlights to end up being the only ones who stand with Sailor Moon and\nprotect her until the end; without their encouraging pep talk, she _would\nhave_ given up her star seed to Sailor Galaxia in episode 198 (if she had done\nso in order to escape her grief, everyone in the galaxy would die permanently,\nthe end).\n\n(While it is the case that _Sailor Moon Crystal_ has, for the most part,\navoided filler, the storytelling is arguably lower in quality than that of the\nclassic anime [ _Crystal_ 's [viewer numbers have sharply\ncrashed](http://ellephedre.tumblr.com/post/107146770770/crystals-ratings-on-\nniconico-japan), a drop of 77%]).\n\nThe number of changes in the classic anime from the original manga is so high\nthat it would take an online encyclopedia to list them all. As just _one_\nnarrowed example, consider the LGBT content:\n\nThe classic anime invented the following popular LGBT-related content which\nwas NOT present in Takeuchi’s original manga (and thus, is NOT present in the\nreboot):\n\n~ Kunzite/Zoicite: in contrast to serving as the 1991 anime’s sole canon gay\ncouple, in the original manga, Kunzite had a straight romantic relationship\nwith Sailor Venus ([Codename ha Sailor V volume\n3](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_sailorv/sailorv_chapter16/020.jpg)),\nand Zoicite is shown in a [manga\nillustration](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/raws/japanese/artbooks/sailormoon_picturecollection_1/028.jpg)\nwith his arms around Mercury, implying that they were also a heterosexual\ncouple on the Moon Kingdom. The live-action _Sera Myu_ ( _Sailor Moon_\nmusicals) incarnations follow these pairings. The 2013 _La Reconquista_\nmusical paired up the male generals with each of the female sailor soldier\nguardians at a ball, and particularly highlights a prominent and cute\nrelationship between Zoicite and Mercury. The completed 2003-2004 _Pretty\nGuardian Sailor Moon_ live-action TV series does not include any romances for\nKunzite or Zoicite.\n\n~ Fiore: one of the classic anime’s original characters, featured in the R\nmovie and the _Another Story_ video game, could be interpreted as liking\nMamoru, though this was never explicitly affirmed or denied.\n\n~ Fish Eye: a gay cross-dresser who fell for Mamoru in the classic anime, is,\nin the manga, merely an mildly-effeminate monster-of-the-day (the same could\nbe said of Hawk’s Eye and Tiger’s Eye - all three of their outfits are…\nunique). In the manga, he never cross-dresses or expresses any homosexual\ninterest. He only\n[attempts](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act40/038.jpg)\nto\n[seduce](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act40/039.jpg)\nAmi (Mercury).\n\n~ Sailor Starlights: in the classic anime, this trio flipped back and forth\nbetween female and male when they transformed from sailor soldiers into\ncivilian guise and developed intriguing relationships to varying degrees with\nthe Earthling sailor soldiers but, in the manga, there are no fun Taiki (Star\nMaker)/Ami (Mercury), Taiki/Makoto (Jupiter), Yaten (Star Healer)/Minako\n(Venus), or Yaten /Luna vibes. Those were introduced in the anime along with\nthe sex-switching that challenged gender norms. In the manga original, Ami\nhates Taiki, Michiru (Neptune) hates Yaten, and Haruka (Uranus) hates all\nthree - that’s really the entire extent of the interaction between these\nextraterrestrials and the solar system soldiers. [Usagi, Minako, and\nMakoto](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act51/026.jpg)\nblush and get [heart\neyes](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act51/027.jpg)\nwhen the Three Lights transfer to their high school, that’s it. Even Yaten’s\npassionate and undistracted devotion to Kakyuu Princess is original to the\nclassic anime, and the anime’s Haruka vs. Seiya rivalry and Seiya/Michiru\nflirting were not in the original manga… heck, basically anything you liked\nabout the Starlights in the classic anime wouldn’t show up in a reboot.\nTaiki’s softening toward his astronomy teacher and his sweet hospitalized fan\nor laughing for the first time in years; Yaten as a cat person who constantly\nflips his bangs in annoyance; Seiya’s boy-next-door softball training,\namusement park date, and conflicted, unrequited love in the vein of Taylor\nSwift’s _You Belong With Me_ that spanned 28 episodes (82% of the final\nseason) with Usagi? That’s all original to the classic anime. The manga Three\nLights are always female and demonstrate zero personal preference for passing\nas male. Manga Yaten and Taiki are merely girls without any sexual preferences\nindicated, who disguise themselves as boys for a mission. Since neither of\nthese characters display any attraction to anyone, they’re not lesbians. Since\nthey’re not particularly masculine by any stretch of the imagination, don’t\nidentify as male, don’t evidence any interest in gender identity whatsoever,\nand wear [feminine\nclothing](http://gallery.missdream.org/albums/scanlation_smoon/smoon_act56/042.jpg)\nin private, even attempting to identify them with cross-dressers is a little\nshaky - in their minds, their boy band costuming is just a disguise rather\nthan a conscious lifestyle choice. That leaves us with Seiya (Star Fighter)\nalone, who is attracted to Usagi in the manga. \nSeiya (Star Fighter)/Kakyuu: it can be interpreted that manga Star Fighter had\nfeelings for Kakyuu Princess before arriving on Earth but this is not overt.\nKakyuu resting her head on Seiya’s shoulder was only shown in the classic\nanime, not in the manga.\n\nIn contrast, in the original manga, there was:\n\n~ Sex-switching Usagi (Moon) and Minako (Venus), which was not included in the\nanime. Many English-language websites bemoan the fact that Takeuchi-sensei was\nshocked that, in the classic anime, the Starlights were male in civilian form\n- but she’s the one who thought up sex-switching in the first place. In the\nmanga, Usagi uses the Hensou Pen (Disguise Pen) to transform herself into a\nman (a groom [pages 190-191 of volume 1 of the Kanzenban {Perfect Edition}])\nand Minako uses her compact to transform into a male in BSSM itself (a Mugen\nGakuen [Infinity Academy] student [pages 167-169 of volume 5 of the\nKanzenban]) using the phrase “Moon Power!” (「ムーン・パワー」). As an aside, Minako\nalso twice used her compact to transform into male form in Codename ha Sailor\nV (a teen idol [pages 115-118 of volume 1 of the Shinsoubon {Reprint Edition}]\nand a samurai [pages 140-141 of volume 2 of the Shinsoubon]), both using the\nphrase “Mikazuki Power Transform!” (「三日月パワー・トランスフォーム！」).\n\n~ Haruka (Uranus)/Michiru (Neptune): yes, they have a romantic relationship in\nthe manga, BUT very little is shown or said of it when you contrast it with\ntheir classic anime version: although you would see a good amount of\nHaruka/Usagi action including their manga kiss, manga Haruka/Michiru romantic\nscenes and dialogue are sparse. Almost all of their suggestive lines, Haruka’s\nclearly stated answer to what her _koibito_ ’s name was ( _\"koibito\"_ is a\nJapanese word which can mean either simply \"girlfriend\"/\"boyfriend\" or can\nmean \"lover\"; usually in the context of shoujo anime, it refers to the\nformer), and their moving interlude after Galaxia removed their bracelets\noriginated in the classic anime. Fans who met Haruka through the anime might\nalso happen to be surprised to discover that her manga version wears a high\nschool girl’s school uniform, mini skirts, girly blouses that show off her\ncleavage, and a polka-dotted scarf - in the manga, sometimes she presents as a\nman, but other times she’s rather feminine; it was only in the older anime\nthat she consistently dressed masculine.\n\n~ Haruka (Uranus)/Usagi (Moon): Haruka/Michiru fans may be disappointed to\nrealize that there’s a lot more Haruka/Usagi than Haruka/Michiru visuals in\nthe manga, and there’s also a brief Mamoru/Michiru vibe. People who like the\nidea of Haruka/Michiru being monogamous would be challenged by manga Haruka’s\namorous advances toward Usagi in full knowledge that Usagi has a boyfriend and\nwhile being in an apparently open relationship with Michiru. The classic anime\nHaruka flirted with Usagi and Minako, but it was only in 2 episodes\naccompanied by Michiru’s bemused comments which indicated she didn’t consider\nit anything serious, whereas the manga Haruka pursued Usagi a lot more\nseriously.\n\n~ Seiya (Star Fighter)/Usagi (Moon): in the manga, there’s some chemistry and\na kiss, but most of what Seiya does in the manga is send Usagi anonymous\npostcards. The duration in which the Three Lights attend school with Usagi and\nfriends is all too brief.\n\nSo that's just _one_ example of the countless large and small differences\nbetween the manga and the classic anime.\n\nThere are positive changes (Serenity/Sailor Moon committed suicide twice in\nthe manga, whereas in the anime, she didn't), neutral or disputed ones (some\nfans like the serious manga Rei [Mars], whereas others like the anime Rei who\nteases Usagi as a friendly sort of love/hate rivalry), and generally-received-\nas-negative ones (the manga Shitennou had served Prince Endymion in the Silver\nMillennium and returned to loyalty, giving him strength, whereas the anime\nversion had no backstory of their being loyal to him). The aspect where the\nmanga/anime difference is greatest is that the end of the manga and the end of\nthe anime are completely different. Some fans like the manga version better,\nsome like the anime version better.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T03:55:06.960", "id": "13822", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-06T01:13:49.523", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-06T01:13:49.523", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13487", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nInstead of revisiting all the differences between the original, the dub, and\nthe manga, I wanted to contribute some input on the filler.\n\nAccording to Wikipedia, the original anime and the manga were produced almost\nsimultaneously (the manga had a 6-week head start). Different studios deal\nwith this situation differently. Fairy Tail took a one-year hiatus when the\nanime caught up with the manga. Bleach introduced anime-only story arcs that\nwould last about a year and return to the manga story arc once that was done.\n\nInstead of waiting for the manga to get a head start or coming up with filler\nstory arcs while the author came up with more material, Sailor Moon was rife\nwith filler episodes. As a result, the plot is slow to advance and some of the\ndeeper, character-building aspects of the manga were left out. Though it isn't\nthe origin, Sailor Moon is definitely a poster child for the Monster of the\nWeek trope.\n\nToday, Sailor Moon Crystal is essentially covering a chapter of the manga with\neach episode. The Dark Kingdom story arc was completed after 46 episodes in\nthe original anime, but Sailor Moon Crystal packed it into 13 episodes and\ndeviated from the Monster of the Week trope set by its predecessor.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-04T21:02:37.650", "id": "21347", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-04T21:02:37.650", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13167", "parent_id": "13487", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Whispered woman you are referring to is Mira Kudan, whom Sousuke rescued\nin Khabarovsk. She is the only Whispered 'captured' by Mithril of whom we are\ngiven any details about her subsequent life. In the light novel series, she at\nfirst works in Mithril's engineering division, and helps to build the Arbalest\nfor Sousuke, to thank him for saving her. Later, she is relocated to a secret\nsafehouse where she, presumably, lives out a normal life in peace and calm.\n\nIn the final novel, _\"Always, Stand by Me: Part 2\"_ , she and Sousuke are in\ncontact with each other over the internet, and before his final battle she\nemails him a copy of a video his classmates uploaded wishing him and Kaname a\nsafe return to school. She appears happy and at peace, though still suffers\nresidual trauma from her experiences.\n\nI presume that other rescued Whispered are treated the same way: they can\nassist Mithril with their skills if they wish, or be put into protective\ncustody where they can live quietly far from any of this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-16T00:44:36.880", "id": "24112", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T00:44:36.880", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "13488", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n[Bani Morauta](https://fullmetalpanic.fandom.com/wiki/Bani_Morauta) is another\nWhispered that worked with Mithril. He developed the AI system 'AL' for ARX-7\nArbalest. According to his wiki page, he committed suicide right before the\ncompletion of ARX-7 Arbalest. He tried too hard to increase his Whispered\nability by diving into resonance. He lost his mind at the end.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-22T15:45:51.427", "id": "53027", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-23T07:36:24.683", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-23T07:36:24.683", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "47373", "parent_id": "13488", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Episode 10 of FMP, Tessa discusses her feelings of inferiority vis a vis\nher brother. In the light novel series, it is explained that she is extremely\naware of both Leonard's past and that he is working for an enemy organization.\nE.g. in _\"Continuing On My Own\"_ he openly battles the Arbalest in the middle\nof the city and captures Kaname from Sousuke. And for the final showdown\nbetween Sousuke and Leonard in the final book, Tessa gives him some words to\nshout to Leonard at a critical time, revealing to Leonard the extent to which\nshe knows about their family history and his subsequent deeds, distracting and\ndemoralizing Leonard, giving Sousuke the chance to land a killer blow.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-16T00:30:17.103", "id": "24110", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T00:30:17.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "13489", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo particular reason is ever given for why Wraith chooses any particular\ndisguise throughout the anime series or novels. Her M.O. involves cycling\nthrough an entire range of different disguises, male or female. The overriding\npurpose is that she blends into whichever environment she is seeking to\ninfiltrate. That, and to ensure her true identity is as concealed as possible:\nin that case, pretending to be a man is doubly useful, in that it makes her\nless likely to be identified as the notorious (female) Wraith.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-16T01:04:17.360", "id": "24114", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T01:04:17.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "13490", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is without a doubt the _Plan 1058 Codarl-i_ as it gets ripped apart (i.e.\narms coming off) by the blast from the Arbalest's Lambda Driver. Note that if\nit was Gate's body, the scale of the explosion would be much bigger as the\nblast engulfs the entire machine, and would not fit in the shot as Gates is\ntiny in comparison to the Codarl.\n\nIf you take a look at the Codarl, you see it has a slim humanoid body shape.\n\n\n\nNote that while in his pilot suit, Gates has a small pack on his back, his\nhelmet and the large collar cover of his pilot suit (protecting the area under\nhis neck), if this were his body all of these part are missing. I doubt this\nwould be an animation mistake, considering the studio in charge of the\nanimation. So I think it's safe to conclude that it's the Codarl's rather than\nGates that get obliterated by Sousuke's Lambda Driver.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T00:37:33.310", "id": "16803", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T00:37:33.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "13491", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHayashimizu's shall we say \"extraordinary\" tolerance for Sousuke's school\nshenanigans is a separate question, so I will abstain from that and focus on\nyour primary issue:\n\nThe short answer is: it's a joke, based on Sousuke's inability to distinguish\nbetween the nature of life in the school environment and life in the dangerous\ngeo-politico-military environment in which he's lived his entire life.\nHayashimizu is introduced to him as the school's President. In real life,\nnobody is higher than a President (certainly not any \"mere\" Teachers!), and so\nhe defers to him accordingly, as if he were the President of an actual\ncountry. \"Your Excellency\" is a formal way to address a President, or any Head\nof State. The humor comes from Sousuke's exaggerated politeness and formality\nwhenever dealing with somebody who is in reality merely another student, with\nsome extra after-hours responsibilities!\n\n(However, it should be noted that in the light novel, _\"Continuing on My Own\"_\n, their conversations show that both have developed a very real and deep\nrespect for the other, based on their history and knowledge of each other's\npersonalities.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-16T00:57:09.537", "id": "24113", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T00:57:09.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "13492", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBy [interview of Gen Urobuchi](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4862487726), Law of\nWheels/Cycles is a folklore talked between Magical Girls.\n\nFollowing idea is my (and some [Japanese anime\nfan's](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E5%86%86%E7%92%B0%E3%81%AE%E7%90%86)) guess.\n\nLaw of Wheels/Cycles is translated from \"円環の理\". 理 is principle or reasonable.\nI think 円環 is circle or ring instead of Wheels/Cycle.\n\nMadoka is officially written as \"まどか\", but most Japanese have a name in kanji.\nBy [a naming\ndictionary](http://name.m3q.jp/list?s=%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A9%E3%81%8B&g=2), most\ncommon kanji for the name \"まどか\" is \"円\"(circle).\n\nBy this two facts, I guess 円環 means Madoka. In the rewritten world, most\npeople forgot about Madoka, but Homura found some affected things from Madoka.\nI guess the folklore was named Law of Wheels/Cycle because of such a effect.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-21T07:28:22.653", "id": "13546", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-23T05:25:21.170", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-23T05:25:21.170", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13495", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## Can you manipulate someone with the Death Note, so that the person writes\nhis own name in the Death Note?\n\nYes, you could and that person will do so if he is physically capable of\nwriting a name in a Death Note, but it wouldn't really matter what kind of\nnotebook it would be. Nothing would really happen when he writes his own name,\nbecause of [How to Use:\nXV](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XV)\n\n> When the same name is written on more than two Death Notes, the note which\n> was first filled in will take effect, regardless of the time of death.\n\n## Can you manipulate John Zeürtö to kill himself by writing his name in the\nDeath Note, by using a Death Note?\n\nNo you can't. If you do so, his name would already have been written in the\nDeath Note, so any further name writing, would have no effect, as mentioned\nearlier. Therefore he wouldn't be able to kill himself. This would lead to\n[How to Use:\nVI](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_VI)\nand he would die of a heart attack, since no other cause was specified.\n\n> The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically\n> possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by\n> that human.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-18T20:14:01.143", "id": "13501", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-28T13:00:31.690", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13499", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe magic of [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Lightning_Cutter):\n\n> The Lightning Cutter is an enhanced and concentrated form of the Chidori\n> with the same effects and drawbacks. According to Might Guy, it gained its\n> name after Kakashi split a bolt of lightning with it. Because the Chidori is\n> already powerful on its own, the Lightning Cutter requires better chakra\n> control, which is exemplified in its appearance. The Chidori appears as\n> simply a mass of white electrical chakra in the user's hand, while the\n> Lightning Cutter is more focused (and blue in the anime).\n\n**tl;dr:** It's still a Chidori but when Kakashi's using it, it's more refined\nand famed for cutting a lightning bolt ergo dubbed Raikiri.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-18T21:49:35.500", "id": "13504", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-16T17:06:12.890", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-16T17:06:12.890", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2364", "parent_id": "13502", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nOriginally the name of the jutsu is Raikiri (Lightning Cutter). However,\nbecause the jutsu makes a noise like that of a thousand bird squeaks, it was\ndubbed by others as Chidori (千鳥) which literary means a thousand birds.\n\nAFAIK Chidori and Raikiri is actually the same jutsu. The name is different\ndue to the reason stated above. Also, Kakashi prefer to call it Raikiri while\nSasuke, who was taught by him, prefer to call it Chidori.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-01T07:53:03.810", "id": "34045", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-01T07:53:03.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13502", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt's from [Oniichan no koto nanka zenzen suki janain dakara\nne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don%27t_Like_You_at_All,_Big_Brother!) or\n(I don't like you at all, Big Brother!), a 12 episode anime from January,\n2011, that was adapted by a manga by Kouichi Kusano.\n\nThe main character is Shusuke Takanashi: \n\nThe plot (from the wikipedia page):\n\n> Nao Takanashi loves her brother Shūsuke despite the incest taboo. Nao thinks\n> that Shūsuke is her blood relative, but in fact she is an adopted daughter,\n> whose parents already died. After Nao learns the fact, she wants to normally\n> fall in love with Shūsuke because siblings by adoption can marry under the\n> family law in Japan. However, she finds herself competing with Shūsuke's\n> childhood friend, Iroha Tsuchiura, and his class president and yaoi lover,\n> Mayuka Kondō.\n\nMayuka Kondō is the \"Kondou\" that he's referring to in that video. From the\nwiki page:\n\n> Shūsuke's classmate and class president, with a strong interest in Boy's\n> Love magazines. When Shūsuke tears up one of her magazines by accident, she\n> makes him her 'pet'. She forces him to purchase and review explicit BL\n> magazines which she interprets as having a shared interest. Despite\n> Shūsuke's belief that she may ask him to do something more perverted at some\n> point, she treats him more as a boyfriend - making him bentos and coming to\n> wake him up in time for school. Over time her feelings for Shūsuke increase\n> because of his apparent acceptance of her BL magazines. She becomes\n> attracted to Shūsuke's pink and sensitive nipples due to the fact she has\n> never seen a naked man before, though despite him being her pet, she doesn't\n> use this to her advantage. Although she confesses that she has feelings of\n> wanting to dominate Shūsuke, he loses memory of the incident after being hit\n> by a truck.\n\nMore info:\n\n * [My Anime List](http://myanimelist.net/anime/9587/Onii-chan_no_Koto_Nanka_Zenzen_Suki_Janain_Dakara_ne!!)\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11947)\n\nI can't make out what's on the cover of the manga, the video is really noisy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-19T01:56:14.047", "id": "13509", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-19T07:49:42.173", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-19T07:49:42.173", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13508", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCorrect me if i'm wrong, but typically investigators need solid concrete\nevidence in order to do a search and seizure, or any form of operation, to\navoid being targets themselves. Imagine... A police officer brakes open your\ndoor, cracks you with the butt of his pistal on mere speculation on the fact\nthat your name and/or hairstyle matched the criminal he was chasing. Yea...\nHaving a facial recognition may not be accurate, but it would give them enough\nproof to get a warrant\n\nAnd while the differences between their targets are pretty big, in'turn\nincreases their chances of being wrong. Using technology to confirm would\nshorten the distance.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T00:56:55.213", "id": "13688", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T00:56:55.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7989", "parent_id": "13511", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs what @Clockwork-Muse have said, it is for confirmation bias, because\nwithout recreating the face of Makishima, Tsunemori can just say anyone in the\nacadamy that he is Makishima without having any evidence even though it is not\nin Tsunemori memory, so by creating the identikit, they provide an unbiased\nevidence based on the real image that Tsunemori's memory depicts.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T02:35:58.823", "id": "13690", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T02:35:58.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2679", "parent_id": "13511", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nActually Makishima didn't use his real name to register as a professor at Oso\nAcademy but use his alias \"Yukimori Shibata\". Only one who knew the truth in\nthe school is Rikako Oryo.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-15T06:33:26.217", "id": "15094", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-15T06:33:26.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9178", "parent_id": "13511", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Warning** : I just read the manga so I don't know if it happened the same\nway in the anime.\n\nFirst of all, there were three facts that were given when Guts was in the Band\nof the Hawk:\n\n> 1) A Behelit was given to Griffith, that saved his life several times. \n> 2) For him, his dream was more important than anything. \n> 3) He was always considered as a special person, a chosen one that could do\n> anything.\n\nSo, we can say that he was chosen by the God Hand. But the moment that\nprecipitated things was:\n\n> when Guts decided to leave the Band of the Hawk, at the end of the war. Guts\n> was an important piece in his plans to conquer the throne. So, Griffith\n> decided to fight Guts to force him to stay in the Band of the Hawk but lost\n> and Guts left him.\n\nAfter that, Griffith looked desperate so he rushed his plan and\n\n> he was arrested when he took the virginity of the princess. He stayed in the\n> darkness of an underground jail for a long time where he met the God Hand\n> (Dream? Hallucination?). When Guts and the others freed him, he was already\n> influenced by the God Hand. \n> Because he had a broken body, he knew he couldn't rule over a country with\n> human methods. So he thought that his dream was more important than the\n> lives of his comrades and decided to sacrifice them to become the fifth\n> member of the God Hand.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-19T08:39:15.110", "id": "13517", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-19T09:17:39.597", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-19T09:17:39.597", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2064", "parent_id": "13513", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nGriffith lost his way after Guts won the fight and only could think about how\nhe lost to him and that Guts wasn't an equal. So when he was with the\nprincess, he made a mistake and got thrown in the prison where he sat in\ndarkness, broken and beaten.\n\nAt that point where he felt completely lost and broken, he felt he had no\nother way of making it out alive. However, Guts showed up and saved him. In\nthe moment when Guts saved Griffith, he felt as if he was being punished and\nmade his choice to sacrifice them in order to become a ruler over the land.\n\nGriffith did that in order to become a god king and beat Guts once and for\nall.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-19T13:39:22.273", "id": "13522", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-19T13:46:33.893", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-19T13:46:33.893", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "6515", "parent_id": "13513", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you recall in (the original run of) the anime, they call the Behelit the\n\"Egg of the King\". There are other Behelits too. In the manga, something\nsimilar happens to many other people. Typically, a demon in disguise\nintervenes when someone is down on their luck and gives them the Behelit. The\nBehelit warps their fate, giving them everything they wanted. Eventually, fate\ntwists violently and brings them back to despair. When their blood comes in\ncontact with the Behelit (which tends to happen at this low point), the God\nHand appears and offers to grant a wish in exchange for a sacrifice. This\nprocess turns them into monsters known as Apostles. It's heavily implied that\nsomething like this previously happened to the Snake Baron in the first\nepisode of the anime, as well as all the monsters in the last episode. It's\nbeen a while since I've read it, so the details may be off a little.\n\n**Basically the Behelits are human bait, leading people into situations where\nthey will lust for power enough to embrace being a demon. Griffith's dreams\nand fate were also manipulated, or at the very least the darkness in his heart\nwas cultivated until he chose the outcome.**\n\nThe entire anime is just a small part of the entire storyline. It was canceled\nfor obvious reasons.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-25T17:21:11.883", "id": "13618", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-06T17:39:12.190", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-06T17:39:12.190", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8128", "parent_id": "13513", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\n> **Griffith's dream was to become a ruler of a kingdom.**\n\nWhile it has always been true for any form of Griffith (purebred human, angel\nFemto, reincarnation into human) that his goal is to have a kingdom, he has\nnever mentioned the boundaries of or the terms for his kingdom. That is, a\nreader in early chapters of the manga could think of it as the kingdom of\nMidland; in middle chapters, as Empire of Holy See and of Ganishka; in recent\nchapters, a kingdom encompassing both Human and Astral World.\n\n* * *\n\n> **But at what point did his dream all go to hell?**\n\nAs it is already clear in the manga, this dream of having his kingdom is the\nreason why Griffith in his human form lived, later took rebirth into an Angel\n(to get rid of human body restraints) to start his expedition of having a\nkingdom again (because of being feeling lost in the jail for so long when he\nwas purebred human), and had reincarnation into a human to claim human world\nfrom the existing emperors. Accounting the development in recent chapters of\nthe manga, there is no doubt that this dream has not been abandoned but has\nbeen invigorated with new plans.\n\nIn your words,\n\n> the dream did not got to hell but the hell has been brought to earth by him\n> to rule both simultaneously from Windham.\n\n* * *\n\n> _**How did demons originally get involved in all this...?**_\n\nSome part of the following text is complete opinion of mine.\n\nHumans follow the fate set forth by **The Idea of Evil** and the Behelit which\nthe chosen ones receive draw them to the currents of causality, thus, reaching\na point of despair and malice, that they decide to offer sacrifice to get rid\nof this feeling.\n\nTurning into an Apostle doesn't end fate but marks a watershed moment. They\nare still headed for the destiny set forth by fate knowingly (like Emperor\nGanishka thought) or unknowingly (like the tragedy with Count).\n\nAs for Griffith, his fate was set by **The Idea of Evil** and the Crimson\nBehelit made sure that he remains drawn to the currents of causality as\n[answered](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13618/13126) by\n[Gunfulker](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/8128/gunfulker).\n\nNow, to the question about involvement of the Demons.\n\n### Regarding their involvement into the eclipse\n\nThe Apostles might knew or could have received the information that their will\nbe a feast on eclipse, or an angel, a member of God Hand, will be reborn, or\nit could be both. So, they came to the spot _en masse_.\n\nThe aforesaid conclusion can be deduced from the following events in the\nmanga:\n\n 1. When Wyald tried to look for Crimson Behelit in Griffith's body (to call God Hand) during latter's rescue by his band;\n 2. When Zodd interfered and killed Wyald for doing such and later accepted the position of front guard during feast;\n 3. When Rosine and Count among others ate injured members of the band of the Hawk (while Rickert was away to fetch water) in the night; and Skull Knight asked them to make haste for reaching the Eclipse spot.\n\n### Regarding the involvement of Demons in the army of War-Demons\n\nIt was not shown in the manga but can be concluded that, since Zodd was\nseeking the strongest one to fight (as he witnessed the dream of a white hawk\nflying in a dark sky) he was defeated by Femto, thereby, Zodd became the first\nmember of Griffith's army. It cannot be said how Locus, Grunbeld and Rakshas\ncame to know of Griffith's presence on Earth, but they chose to join him\nvoluntarily as witnessed in the manga.\n\nIt has also been witnessed that a demon cannot stand against Femto,\nirrespective of their wish. When Ganishka (extremely powerful Emperor and a\ndemon) encountered Griffith the first time on the battlefield he felt been\ncarried away by latter's presence, comforting voice, and the blood of demon\nrealm that flows through Griffith too. Therefore, it can be concluded that\nwhile an Angel doesn't control a demon willingly, a demon cannot directly\nfight against, as well as oppose an Angel.\n\nHence, it can be ascertained now how did demons get involve with Griffith into\nhis War-Demon army.\n\n**Note** : The question has been answered by accounting episodes 01-337.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-15T18:51:31.923", "id": "20865", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-27T16:15:57.007", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "13126", "parent_id": "13513", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Mechademia](http://mechademia.net/) is an annual publication published by\nMinnesota Press. It also covers fan practices and other surrounding activities\nand media of anime/manga\n\nThere is currently [a call for papers for a conference on Asian Pop\nCulture](http://mechademia.net/cfp/), but none for the next edition. The last\nvolume was published in 2014 and they are still active.\n\nLarger conventions occasionally have calls for papers and a good source of\nfinding them is [on the Fan Studies Network\nsite.](http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/) They hold their own conference with\ncfps annually also. Arguably the largest of these is [at Anime\nExpo](https://animemangastudies.wordpress.com/symposium/2016-cfp/)\n\nOther resources for finding articles on anime & manga can be found here:\n\n * [The \"Let's Manga\" Project](https://groups.diigo.com/group/lets_manga) , [(also here)](http://letsmanga.be)\n * [Academia.edu](http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Manga_and_Anime_Studies)\n * [Anime & Manga Studies group](https://animemangastudies.wordpress.com)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-19T08:27:01.710", "id": "13516", "last_activity_date": "2023-08-27T08:26:39.240", "last_edit_date": "2023-08-27T08:26:39.240", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nSome of my thoughts on this topic are at\n<https://animemangastudies.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/where-do-we-publish-on-\nanimemanga-a-select-list>. Basically, just some of the journals that regularly\npublish articles on anime/manga, organized by subject, include:\n\n/Animation\n\n * Animation Journal\n * Animation Studies\n * Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal\n\n/Comics\n\n * The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship\n * Image [&] Narrative\n * ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies\n * International Journal of Comic Art\n * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics\n * Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art\n * Studies in Comics\n\n/Film Studies\n\n * Cinephile: The University of British Columbia's Film Journal\n * Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema\n * Journal of Religion and Film\n * Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities\n * Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies\n\n/Japanese, East Asian, Asian Studies\n\n * The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus\n * Asian Studies Review\n * Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies\n * Japan Forum\n * Japanese Studies\n * The Journal of Asian Studies\n * The Journal of Japanese Studies\n * Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context\n * Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique\n\n/Media and Popular Culture\n\n * East Asian Journal of Popular Culture\n * Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media\n * Journal of Fandom Studies\n * Journal of Religion and Popular Culture\n * M/C Journal\n * The Phoenix Papers\n * Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media\n * The Journal of Popular Culture\n * Transformative Works and Cultures\n\n/Science Fiction\n\n * Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction\n * Science Fiction Film and Television\n * Science Fiction Studies \n\nHope this helps!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-23T23:53:27.680", "id": "35973", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-23T23:53:27.680", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27909", "parent_id": "13515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, there are.\n\n[Journal of Anime and Manga\nStudies](https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/about) (JAMS) is an\nannual on the study of Anime and Manga, which was firstly issued in 2020. As\nthe official description says,\n\n> The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is an open-access journal\n> dedicated to providing an ethical, peer-reviewed space for academics,\n> students, and independent researchers examining the field of anime, manga,\n> cosplay, and fandom studies to share their research with others. JAMS is\n> peer reviewed by scholars with experience in these areas. The goal of JAMS\n> is to explore anime as an art form and bring visibility to the deeper\n> meanings, understandings, and/or cultural significance of anime, manga,\n> cosplay, and their fandoms.\n>\n> The use of “anime” as a descriptor in all principles includes manga,\n> cosplay, and its fandoms.\n\nYou may find articles on any serious topic in this journal. There are some\ncritical analyses on anime like those on traditional literature works. For\nexample, _[Existentialism and Death Education in\nAnime](https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/806)_ did\na detailed analysis on the existentialism in the anime _Cells at Work!_. There\nare also researches on the behaviour of the audience, for example, _[Japanese\nAnime Fandoms in the UAE: An Exploratory Study on Media Accessibility, Habits\nand Cultural\nPerceptions](https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/774)_.\nAnd of course there are studies on the content of an anime genre, like [_A\nSurvey of the Story Elements of Isekai\nManga_](https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/808).\n\nWhat's more, it's free for the time being! You can download any paper on this\njournal for free up till now.\n\nThere are surely more journals to come in the future, considering the rapid\ngrowth of the anime fandom. This is a good start for a trend of systematic\nanalysis and critique of the anime-related stuff. It can be imagined that some\nanime might get the position as serious literature works in the near future.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-10-19T04:41:55.800", "id": "67351", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-19T04:49:02.563", "last_edit_date": "2022-10-19T04:49:02.563", "last_editor_user_id": "66163", "owner_user_id": "66163", "parent_id": "13515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI would have a look here: <https://journal.animationstudies.org/>\n\nIt's not restricted to anime as such, but animation in general.\n\nThe article which first caught my attention some time ago was this:\n\n<https://journal.animationstudies.org/daisuke-akimoto-a-pig-the-state-and-war-\nporco-rosso/>\n\nMore (from the same author)\n<https://www.soka.ac.jp/files/ja/20170513_055728.pdf>\n\nI was thinking of eventually writing a similar semi-scholarly article on how a\ncertain isekai protagonist does or does not conform to the principles of\nMachiavelli, Sun Tsu's The Art of War, and Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-10T10:00:22.197", "id": "67819", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-11T12:52:20.443", "last_edit_date": "2023-03-11T12:52:20.443", "last_editor_user_id": "57035", "owner_user_id": "57035", "parent_id": "13515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are a few things wrong with your theory:\n\n 1. Death by Death Note doesn't count in the user's lifespan. Even if you have 80 more years to live, if I write your name down now you die 30 seconds later.\n\n 2. A Death Note will not work on someone with 12 minutes or less left to live. According to How to Use: XXIX.\n\nSo no, the user would lose half of his original lifespan. The only way to\nextend a lifespan is to get a Shinigami to die for you.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-19T11:38:21.063", "id": "13519", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-16T15:53:31.273", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-16T15:53:31.273", "last_editor_user_id": "11469", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "13518", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nOriginal lifespan has to do with a humans lifespan without any intervening of\na deathnote or death god!\n\nSo if someone makes the deal for their eyes they lose half of their remaining\nlifespan. (Getting the eyes to kill someone who is about to write your name\ndown on a deathnote is a situation not counted in your \"original lifespan\"...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-19T15:07:53.240", "id": "13525", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-19T15:07:53.240", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8030", "parent_id": "13518", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIf someone wrote their own name in the death note and then did the eye deal\nthe shinigami will not be able to cut his lifespan as he has already written\nhis name in one death note before the shinigami\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-04T04:46:45.807", "id": "36188", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-04T04:46:45.807", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28103", "parent_id": "13518", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter doing a Google image search I found that the gif comes from\n**Platinumhugen Ordian episode one** at about 4:55. If you were going for the\nfanservice, you might be disappointed as I hadn't seen much other scenes like\nthese, while scrolling through the series.\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\n> Kananase Yu is just an ordinary high-school student. Since he has mysterious\n> inside knowledge about piloting a mecha, he is recruited by the\n> International Military Organization as a potential test pilot for a new\n> mobile armor. However, apparently there are other young recruits around his\n> age, including one of his classmates, were recruited as test pilot as well.\n> Now Kananase Yu must prove that he is the best to be the test pilot.\n\n* * *\n\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/832/Ginsoukikou_Ordian) \n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinumhugen_Ordian)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-19T13:26:49.627", "id": "13521", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-19T13:26:49.627", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13520", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDuring all that arc, Killua is under the surveillance of his family and he is\nforbidden to show the abilities of Alluka or even talk about her or let people\nsee her (e.g. a butler of the family interrupted a phone call where Killua\ncould talk about Alluka, nobody except persons related to her family saw\nAlluka when she went in the hospital). If Killua disobeys them, Alluka and\nalso himself will be forced to return at their family mansion.\n\nLike you said in a comment, he could still have tried to cure Gon that way and\nreturn home with Alluka then but there are some points for which he can't let\nthat happen :\n\n1) There was still a risk that his family caught him before he cured Gon, so\nif he failed he couldn't help him anymore. \n2) Alluka is the only member of his family that Killua really likes and she\nsees her brother as a good person so he doesn't want to disappoint her. \n3) If Alluka was caught by Illumi, he would use the power of his sister for\nhimself without caring about her. And Killua couldn't allow that to happen.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-20T08:47:17.893", "id": "13534", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-20T08:47:17.893", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2064", "parent_id": "13528", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it is a stopwatch. Ikuhara Kunihiko (Director/Producer, Storyboards,\nOriginal Concept) answered this question in an Animage [interview with Be-\nPapas](http://ohtori.nu/creators/pics/sku12.jpg), the animation studio that\ncreated Utena:\n\n[Translation by a fan](http://ohtori.nu/creators/a_animage.html):\n\n> [**Animage magazine**](http://ohtori.nu/creators/pics/sku00.jpg): The next\n> question came up most often.\n>\n> **Question** : What does Miki measure with his stopwatch? (reader from\n> Hokkaido)\n>\n> **Ikuhara** : Let’s just say that it’s connected with the structure of the\n> world.\n>\n> **All** : (laugh).\n>\n> **Enokido Yoji** (Animation Composition, Chief Screenwriter): That’s a\n> really hard-to-understand answer.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T08:54:22.040", "id": "13830", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T16:20:03.103", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13533", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nMiki uses her stopwatch during certain conversations with the other members of\nthe student council, mostly while they are in private. I believe she is timing\nmoments of significant things that they say to one another that has an\nalternate meaning than the physical.\n\nThe themes in this story are very abstract and metaphysical but all\ninterconnected, like:\n\n * The symbolism of the staircase spiraled straight to heaven is the character's feelings of hope about important memories and feelings they all have and wish to keep eternal.\n * The shining castle in the sky is just a mirage to signify that shining everlasting hope that some keep close to their hearts and hope to attain once again.\n\nBut everything has cause and effect and is on an eternal clock of action and\nreaction. A spiral of spira mirabilis, times and moments stacked upon one\nanother to create the reality we live in now. These moments are algorithms in\nthe universe and everything plays an important role in this grand play, and we\nare all actors playing our parts.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-15T06:11:31.957", "id": "43340", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-15T06:35:34.637", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-15T06:35:34.637", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36622", "parent_id": "13533", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was a global mission, seems like that every team arround the world has a\nlimit time to help in the mission. Kurono's team were out of time and living\nones were teleport back.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-06-14T20:09:42.207", "id": "53242", "last_activity_date": "2019-06-14T20:09:42.207", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47675", "parent_id": "13535", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLaw did use his Ope Ope no Mi. In chapter 729, Law has his room up and tries\nto slash Doflamingo, but unless he can actually get a hit in, the room isn't\ngoing to do him much good.\n\n> \n\nThe second time (chapter 724) that Law used his ability on Doflamingo, he\ncould have tried to get a sneak attack in, but that would have been insane. If\nhe would have slashed at this point, it would probably have been a suicide. He\nwould potentially hit Sanji since he couldn't move anymore, he could end up\nfalling in the ocean and Doflamingo would still have been able to attack Sanji\nwith his whip because the slash wouldn't have stopped him from doing so.\n\n> \n\nSo, Law basically didn't have a good opportunity to set up his room and have\ntime to get a clean slash in with his sword. Also, don't forget that Law's\nslash would only slice the body, but not actually damage it and since\nDoflamingo uses strings, he could just get his body part back to re-attach it.\n\n> With the upcoming fight from next week or the week after, he might still end\n> up slicing Doflamingo.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-20T16:59:53.430", "id": "13537", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-01T15:48:53.280", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-01T15:48:53.280", "last_editor_user_id": "47275", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the manga, particularly chapter 729, Law doesn't use his sword other than\nto defend against one of Doflamingo's string attacks. It's a quick skirmish.\n\nIn the anime, they're using what I call \"filler padding\" where you expand on\ncanon scenes with non-manga content to elaborate the details. An example of\nthis from episode 656 at about 7m30s shows Law using room & slicing where\nparts of the gate split easily enough but it was countered by Doflamingo's\nstrings.\n\n> Law vs Mingo, why didn't Law use ROOM?\n\nHe did in both manga chapter 724 and anime episode 656 on the bridge just\nbriefly.\n\n> Why doesn't Law use it (ROOM) when fighting against Doflamingo to slice him\n> to pieces?\n\nPresumably, according to a filler padded scene of combat, Doflamingo can\ndefend against it. Also, it reinforces why Vergo thought Law couldn't cut him\nin Punk Hazard by believing Law to be too weak to slice through his Haki-\ncoated body. The point is, some people can resist Law's slice to keep him from\nbeing overpowered.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-20T18:14:07.810", "id": "13539", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-28T15:00:27.203", "last_edit_date": "2019-08-28T15:00:27.203", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2364", "parent_id": "13536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, this was shown in Chapter 35 of volume 4 of the original Japanese manga.\nThe anime adaption only made minor changes, such as the place of their meeting\nis changed from the school library to a local public library, and Yui's Kanji\nexercise book is seen with different contents.\n\nYou can refer to [this page](http://homepage3.nifty.com/hysk/yryrdb/e35.htm)\nfor detailed information. I personally find this \"Yuru Yuri database\" site\nvery useful in answering questions like yours, so please allow me to recommend\nit to any of the Yuru Yuri fans here.\n\nAlso, since a long time has passed after this question is first asked, it is\nhighly possible that amateur English translations are out there right now.\nMaybe I should not provide a link for copyright reasons, but googling will\ncertainly lead you to one.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-17T02:04:00.643", "id": "32152", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-17T02:04:00.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23823", "parent_id": "13543", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe titans can sometimes be killed with canons if they hit the weak spot. It\nwould be reasonable to presume that while they could not kill enough with\ncanons to due to the regeneration, they could see the occational fatality and\npass the information on. Some inventive mind would then create a more\nefficient way to target that spot. I believe after the battle for Trost they\nspecify how many are killed by canon. But don't have a means right now to look\nit up.\n\n* * *\n\nEdit: In manga chapters killing titans by shooting them with shells is\nexplicitly mentioned by Armin in the battle of Trost and in one of the\ndiagrams discussing the different between grape shot and regular shot. In\naddition:\n\n> We learn there are individuals who erased memories of all other humans. It\n> is very possible that nobles with more information about the origins of\n> titans revealed this info to those with the erased memories while holding\n> other information back.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-22T18:08:18.177", "id": "13583", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-24T19:40:53.300", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-24T19:40:53.300", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "13547", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYour question is partly answered in the 17th chapter of the Manga **SHINGEKI\nNO KYOJIN - BEFORE THE FALL**.\n\nThis answer is a **SPOILER** for anyone who hasn't read the manga after\nchapter 16.\n\n> In this chapter, Instructor Jorge recalls the last Survey Corps expedition\n> before their dissolution, before the beginning of the current story. He\n> recalls the tests done on the captured titan. These tests of theirs sealed\n> with finding the weaknesses, if any, of the titans, by hacking into their\n> bodies with weapons made of **Iron Bamboo**. They discovered that their\n> lower part of the body (limbs), and the head wasn't their weakness. Then\n> they were interrupted by the onset of other titans from the South and the\n> West. Here, the chapter ends and as the next chapter hasn't been released\n> yet, we don't know how they got to know about the weak point. What we do\n> know is that Angel Altonnen killed Mammon (a titan) using **The Device** (a\n> prototype of 3DMG) and discovered the weak point.\n\nI will update the answer as soon as more information is revealed....\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-08T12:11:36.523", "id": "28770", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-08T12:11:36.523", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19592", "parent_id": "13547", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nI am rewatching the anime currently, about half way through episode 5 there is\na part in which Eren and others were in a class learning about titans. Their\nteacher started with \"What little we know about their bodies , we learned from\nRecon corps most recent report \"..and then he continues teaching them how are\ntitans killed. I haven't read the manga so I don't know about what's mentioned\nin the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-31T21:48:13.037", "id": "32465", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-31T21:48:13.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24412", "parent_id": "13547", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nDuring one of the first encounters, a cadet was inspecting the body and\nthought to slice the back open, he missed and accidently cut the nape, when\nthe Titan died, he reported it to his superiors, so the nape was found, this\nis said in the manga, can't remember where, hope this helps.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-09T18:43:28.540", "id": "36738", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-09T18:43:28.540", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28638", "parent_id": "13547", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the OVA \"[Ilse's\nJournal](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Ilse%27s_Notebook:_Record_of_a_Fallen_Soldier)\"\nHanji/Hange tries to convince Erwin to let her capture _another_ Titan, which\nis first refused due to the many squad members who had to die for a previous\ncapture. It is not mentioned when _that_ happened, but it makes sense to\nassume that a previous capture helped in learning how to kill a Titan -\nunfortunately also requiring Hange/Hanji to capture another one...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-31T07:09:30.010", "id": "38706", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-31T07:09:30.010", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1596", "parent_id": "13547", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHere's an updated answer to your question. Note that this will contain\nspoilers from the manga **Shingeki no Kyojin: Before the Fall** and I'm\nconfident this is accurate as of **Volume 14** of the mentioned manga, which\nwas where I stopped reading. Also, the events in this manga occurred\napproximately 50-70 years before the breach in Shiganshina District in the\nmain **Shingeki no Kyojin** manga.\n\n> Before the invention of the [Vertical Maneuvering\n> Equipment](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Vertical_maneuvering_equipment),\n> the Survey Corps could only counter Titans using swords, rifles and bombs\n> for close-combat and cannons for long-range. This was shown in **Volume 2**\n> of the manga. However, **this was just a stopgap and the most it could do\n> was delay the movements of or distract a Titan** due to its fast\n> regenerative abilities. The swords were initially made using a naturally-\n> growing/wild plant called [Iron\n> Bamboo](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_bamboo_\\(Before_the_Fall_Manga\\))\n> before it would be replaced with [ultrahard\n> steel](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Ultrahard_steel_\\(Before_the_Fall_Manga\\))\n> after the final design of the Vertical Maneuvering Equipment was completed.\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mhiTe.jpg)\n\nHowever,\n\n> [Angel Aaltonen](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Angel_Aaltonen), a\n> craftsman, with the help of his assistant,\n> [Corina](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Corina_Ilmari), and another\n> craftsman, [Xenophon\n> Harkimo](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Xenophon_Harkimo), were able\n> to come up with an early model of the maneuvering equipment. This was mostly\n> shown in **Volumes 10-11** of the manga as Angel's flashbacks. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/avIiR.jpg)\n> This equipment could only move vertically (upwards and downwards). Also,\n> unlike the current maneuvering equipment which has a control grip at the\n> handle of each sword, the control grip for the early model was in one hand\n> while the other holds the sword. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qACrV.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3CllW.jpg)\n\n**How did they come up with this idea?**\n\n> It was Corina who suggested on thinking up on a device that allows them to\n> fight 'on equal terms' with Titans. So, the invention of the first\n> maneuvering device happened, **to make up for the height difference of a\n> human and a Titan.** But, during this time, they were still unaware of a\n> Titan's 'weak spot.' [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/waNaT.jpg)\n\n**How, then, were they able to 'learn to kill' a Titan?**\n\n> After Angel, Corina and Xenophon returned from the [Industrial\n> City](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Industrial_City) where they made\n> the first model of the maneuvering device, a Titan was able to get inside\n> the gates of Wall Maria, which ate Corina. Angel, wanting revenge, first\n> joined **an expedition to attempt to capture a Titan and find its\n> weaknesses.** This almost ended in failure but with the death of his close\n> friend, [Sorum](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Sorum_Hum%C3%A9), who\n> sacrificed himself by blowing up a Titan's head when he was about to be\n> eaten, they witnessed how the Titan did not regenerate and die (they saw\n> lots of smoke being emitted from the Titan's body before disappearing).\n> **They initially presumed that the weak point might be the head or somewhere\n> in the throat and neck.** To test this, **another expedition was led in\n> secret by the Survey Corps** and this time, Angel himself was able to kill a\n> Titan, the first human to do so using the early model of the maneuver\n> device, but the credit was given to the then-captain of the Survey Corps,\n> [Jorge 'The Hero'](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Jorge_Pikale),\n> [despite Jorge himself not wanting\n> to](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Jorge_Pikale#Trivia). [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xxI3L.jpg)\n\nIn **Volume 6 Chapter 19** ,\n\n> Jorge mentioned that they were not sure of the exact location of the 'weak\n> spot' but this was what he said: '..based on the way Angel delivered the\n> killing blow, we can assume that it is somewhere on the back of the neck.\n> Angel was able to confirm that it was not actually the throat, as we\n> initially surmised..' Therefore, **it was Angel who discovered the Titan's\n> weakness** but after this expedition, he would disappear for roughly a\n> decade before being convinced by\n> [Sharle](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Sharle_Inocencio) to go back\n> and help finish the device.\n\nIn **Volume 12** ,\n\n> during their journey back to the Industrial City in Xenophon's workshop, it\n> was Sharle who suggested that the control grip be placed on a sword's\n> handle. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zcyQW.jpg)\n> After Sharle's suggestion, it took them one month to finalize the Vertical\n> Maneuver Equipment's design and build it. Thus, mankind's first weapon that\n> can actually kill Titans was finally finished.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-13T14:18:56.543", "id": "49659", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-14T02:40:38.737", "last_edit_date": "2018-11-14T02:40:38.737", "last_editor_user_id": "43199", "owner_user_id": "43199", "parent_id": "13547", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI agree with @Maroon. It's basically just a foreshadowing dream/bad feeling he\nhad which combined his existing knowledge with his aspirations/dreams.\n\nHowever he does have legitimate flashbacks/dreams he doesn't know anything\nabout later in the show/manga and discovering what it all means is part of the\nplot. He also keeps dreaming about a \"female\" he doesn't know. His memory is\nhazy, and there are\n\n> the lost 3 years when his father experimented on him\n\nwhich I feel they will reveal over time. He also probably has memories/dream\nissues associated with\n\n> being the controller\n\nthough it wasn't revealed if he became that\n\n> during the 3 year break or was like that before,\n\nwhich could impact whether his dreams were induced by or related to it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-21T15:20:03.237", "id": "13555", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-12T23:58:50.357", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-12T23:58:50.357", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe vision that Eren had in the first espiode were premonition of things that\nwere going to happen in the anime or later on but he chalked it as other\nnightmare, so did Mikasa. Eren doesn't understand these visions and what they\nare about.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T07:31:54.177", "id": "17179", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T07:31:54.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10902", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think there is more to the visions you mentioned. They aren't in the\ncomics and only seem to represent the events that are about to happen later in\nthe same episode. For example, you can see the flowers and mill from\nShiganshina District when Eren walks up and you can also see the Smiling Titan\ndevour Eren's mother.\n\nOn the other hand, there is more to the visions that appear before the intro.\nI'll not go into details as they aren't specifically asked for, but as you\nsaid they are indeed suppressed memories from the past.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-20T21:26:44.100", "id": "26729", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-20T21:26:44.100", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs the royal family is able to erase the memories of ordinary people, maybe\nthe dream is not a vision or anything, rather than memories from Eren's\nancestors that were erased (but not completely erased) by the royal family.\n\n~~I mean it's also a mystery where Eren's father came frome, as he was found\noutside the wall with supposedly no memory of how he got there. I think\nthere's a good chance that these event are connected.~~\n\n~~So if the visions are memories of Eren's ancestors, they might have taken\nplace before the wall was built, therefore resembling Shiganshina Distric\nbefore the wall protected the rest of humanity~~ \n(I don't think this part is too relevant anymore reading from chapter 86\nonwards)\n\nI think that from chapter 89 p. 45-46 there is a strong indicator that history\nis bound to repeat itself. This might also be the reason for starting the\nseries with the sentence\n\n> \"to you 2000 years from now\"\n\nI think that supports the theory that Eren's \"vision\" are really his memories\nof past times. Either that or something about timetraveling or time loops.\n\nWorth mentioning is also the repeating phrase chapter 89 p.36\n\n> Everything is connected\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-29T15:14:21.760", "id": "26919", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-31T08:25:03.107", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-31T08:25:03.107", "last_editor_user_id": "18779", "owner_user_id": "18779", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis answer contains spoilers.\n\nPlease do not read if you are not up to date with the manga (chapter 89 is\nwhere this answer is based upon).\n\nThis question is **strongly** related with the title of the first\nchapter/episode: \" _To you, 2000 years from now_ \". Check\n[this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/39431/18769) related post on Anime\nStackExchange, which I answered similarly.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n> Eren's reality, is sometimes distorted by the memories of the future and\n> past inheritors of the ' _Attack Titan_ ' power.\n\nAlso keep in mind that there is no official answer, thus the correct answer\n(for now) would be \" **We don't know** \".\n\nHowever, after discussing on some forums and reading some theories, some hints\nprovide a common direction.\n\n> As we know, Eren obtained the power of the Attack Titan with the Coordinate\n> Titan (also known as the Progenitor Titan) from his father, Grisha Jaeger.\n> Ever since, he has been having certain \"visions\", or \"memories\" especially\n> while fighting other titans. In the manga chapter 89, this becomes clear.\n\n**SPOILERS!! Images from manga chapter 89.**\n\n(Picture source:\n[Mangastream](http://mangastream.com/r/attack_on_titan/089/3934/46)\nDisclaimer: I do not own these pictures. They are only used to answer this\nquestion more clearly.)\n\n[](http://mangastream.com/r/attack_on_titan/089/3934/46)\n\nLeading to Hange asking:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yMjWH.jpg)\n\nWhich brings us to the second hint of this chapter. Eren recalls the time he\nwas able to use the Coordinate Titan's power.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ISpFg.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nGD1p.png)\n\nFocus on \" **everything connected** \".\n\nWhich brings us to the culmination of the chapter (and the 'answer' to your\nquestion):\n\n**SPOILERS! If you have not read chapters 87 and above, do not read further!**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eRKI2.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4vZZo.png)\n\n**Whose memories are these, I wonder**\n\n**TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION**\n\n> There exists a memory-timeline that is outside of our perception of time.\n> That is, Eldians who have obtained (at least) one of the 9 original Titan's\n> power, **have access to the memory-timeline of all previous (and possibly\n> future) Eldians who obtained the same power!!** In simple terms, Eren has\n> the 'Attack Titan' power and the 'Coordinate Titan' power. He is able to\n> access his father's memories, and either alter them or combine them with his\n> own memories. Thus, the _visions_ he is having in the first scenes of the\n> first chapter, might be a result of a _distorted reality_ , caused by the\n> memories that **the future inheritor of the 'Attack Titan' power** is\n> inheriting from the **Attack Titan memory timeline**.\n\nAs stated above, this is all speculation because nothing is revealed yet.\n\nI apologize if this raised confusion, but I am more than happy to clarify\nparts of my answer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-14T14:34:17.677", "id": "40359", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-14T14:34:17.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18769", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nEren doesn't have any titan power during that 1st dream. He didn't get his\npowers until he had his 2nd dream (which wasn't a dream, but a memory). When\nEren and the others evacuated Shiganshina, his dad found Eren and took him out\nto the woods to pass on his titan powers.\n\nI feel like everyone posting about his 1st dream are overlooking that fact.\nThat dream had no significant meaning for the past. As for the future.... it\nwouldn't make sense.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-25T13:19:43.403", "id": "42474", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-25T13:41:10.697", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-25T13:41:10.697", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "32072", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSince shifters can see the memories of other shifters of the same titan power,\nmaybe he was seeing the memory of some other attack titan holder looking at\nEren's memories. That didn't really make sense the way I said it, so I'm going\nto give an example: maybe Grisha saw Eren's memories of those things, and Eren\nsaw Grisha seeing Eren's memories.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-12T01:29:28.670", "id": "48757", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-12T11:34:40.670", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-12T11:34:40.670", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42446", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSpoilers below up to the current Manga issues:\n\nI have a theory that this opening scene will also be one of the last scenes of\nthe series, and that Eren's consciousness may 'loop' back to this initial\nscene. The way that he wakes up so disoriented, not knowing where he is at\nfirst, and saying that the dream seemed to go on forever, makes me think that\nwhat he was experiencing was the paths and not just a dream. We know that Eren\nis able to alter the memories of previous inheritors of the attack titan like\nhis father and Eren Kruger, and even influence their actions retroactively, so\nit makes sense that he would be able to influence his own past self's memories\nan actions as well. I don't think the series will end with a cut a dried time\ntravel plot (eg. current Eren goes back into his child body and relives all\nthe events) but I think this scene might indicate more of a ripple effect with\nboth the past and the future influencing Eren.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-18T19:28:46.923", "id": "59613", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-18T19:28:46.923", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56300", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis visions don't apear in the first chapter of the manga. This is probably\njust a stupid mistake that happened because the person who produced this\nepisode didn't know that Eren just started to have those visions after the\nfall of Wall Maria because he inherited the attack titan's power from his\nfather on that moment.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-22T23:36:23.147", "id": "59638", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-22T23:50:04.043", "last_edit_date": "2020-09-22T23:50:04.043", "last_editor_user_id": "56353", "owner_user_id": "56353", "parent_id": "13548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Death Note can only operate within 23 days from writing, so since the date\nwould be impossible to fulfill it would be voided as Krazer said.\n\n> But once the victim's name has been written, the individual's death can\n> never be avoided. LXII\n\nTherefore it depends on the cause of death you write down.\n\n> In the occasion where the cause of death is possible but the situation is\n> not, only the cause of death will take effect for that victim. If both the\n> cause and the situation are impossible, that victim will die of heart\n> attack. LV\n\nBy combining these rules I would expect Bob to die as soon as it is possible\nfor him to do so according to the written cause of death.\n\n* * *\n\n<http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note>\n\n", "comment_count": 11, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-21T14:46:01.467", "id": "13553", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-21T14:46:01.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> How many chapters or volumes of manga is required at minimum for a manga to\n> get anime adaptation once the decision is made?\n\nThe short answer is none.\n\nThe long answer is: Anime adaptations can be in the _same universe_ , with\ndifferent characters and plot without following the original material at all,\nso the reason that \"there isn't enough chapters for a season\" becomes moot.\nThat's why is called an \"adaptation\" instead of \"illustration\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T15:50:55.383", "id": "13648", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-26T21:45:57.880", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-26T21:45:57.880", "last_editor_user_id": "2159", "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "13552", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the correct answer is 'at least one page'. (because if it was zero, it\nwouldn't be a manga adaptation)\n\nThere is no set limit on how much content one must have in order to get an\nadaption. The deciding factor is instead decided by the production company,\nsponsors and any other involved parties that make up the committee who decide\nwhich animations to produce. It does help the management board decide on a\nseries if it the series has significant existing fan interest from the manga.\n\nNow, while I can't think of any one-page manga that have been adapted, it is\nperfectly possible if the committee agrees to it - There will just be more\neffort put into planning around this.\n\n[This blog post explains further about the anime production\nprocess](http://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-detailed-\nguide-to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-it/):\n\n> This process depends on who’s pushing for an idea and who is backing it up,\n> it can be animation studios themselves along with sponsors, but many anime\n> are adaptations of manga or light novels, in which case, publishers front\n> costs (including the costs of having it shown on TV stations). The\n> production company (e.g Aniplex) gathers staff, sponsors, and looks at\n> advertisement and merchandise. While many people describe studios as being\n> cheap, only around half the budget is often given to the anime studio, with\n> the rest going to broadcasters and other contributing companies.\n\nIt is also worthy of note that many mangas themselves are adaptations from\nlight novels or visual novels or may have other spin-off content which adds to\nthe content that the studios can work with.\n\nThe content range of which adaptations do come to life can vary significantly.\nThis is to do with chapter sizes, author preference, committee requests, etc.\nEvery show will have different requirements and differing ease of adaptation.\n\nFor example; [Chihayafuru](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=595393)'s\nfirst season (of 13 episodes) covers 40 chapters & Claymore with 22 episodes\ncovers roughly 60. Hikari lychee club is a manga adaption, but is very\ndifferent in style and story.\n\n \n\nThis is probably a bit of a disappointing answer, but there is no minimal\ncontent requirement and it is something that differs from company to company.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-27T07:34:49.703", "id": "13658", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-05T05:27:33.527", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-05T05:27:33.527", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13552", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nThis sounds like [Inuyasha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha), based on a\nmanga by Rumiko Takahashi. The girl in question is \"[Kagome\nHigurashi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Inuyasha_characters#Kagome_Higurashi)\"\nand her male counterpart is a half-demon named Inuyasha. She also shoots\narrows that are tipped with a special jewel shard. She travels back and forth\nfrom the fantasy world through a well in the back of her temple.\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info:\n\n * [Wikia](http://inuyasha.wikia.com/wiki/Inuyasha)\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=76)\n * [My Anime List](http://myanimelist.net/character/1353/Inuyasha)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-21T17:13:57.887", "id": "13561", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-21T17:20:02.107", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-21T17:20:02.107", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13556", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere were two years between the moment they had escaped and the moment the\nbones were received.\n\nWhen Saki was 14 years old, Maria and Mamoru escaped. When Saki was 26 years\nold, she knew the council received the bones 9 or 10 years earlier.\n\nAt least they were alive for 2 years. This is enough time to create a child.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-21T17:12:48.050", "id": "13560", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-21T17:49:23.617", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-21T17:49:23.617", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13558", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter Maria and Mamoru escapes from Kamisu 66th district, the story undergoes\na time skip 12 years ahead, where Saki and Satoru are 26 years old1.\n\nAs we all know, in episode 18, Asahina Tomiko, the head of Ethics Committee,\nreaffirmed the death of Maria and Mamoru. After they received the bones from\nYakomaru/Squealer, they have checked that the bones are from human and there\nare no inconsistencies in age and gender. They even further confirmed by doing\nDNA tests and matching the dental record from Harmony School. Therefore, at\nthe point when Saki and Satoru are 26 years old, **both Maria and Mamoru have\ndeceased**.\n\nHowever, it was not mentioned **when** they received the bones in the anime\n(or maybe I have missed it).\n\nI only found reference in the manga2 (volume 4 chapter 13), where it was\nmentioned that the bones are recovered 2-3 year after their disappearance.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGusx.jpg)\n\nTherefore, it is safe to conclude that during the period of 2-3 years, Maria\nand Mamoru had a child together, then Maria and Mamoru were killed by the\nqueerats and had their bones sent back to the district. Their child was raised\nby the queerats, which made the child recognize the queerats as his/her3 own\nspecies and enable him/her to freely massacre other humans. In the anime, the\nchild is shown to be around 10 years old, which matches the timeline of the\nstory.\n\n1 This is confirmed by Wikipedia, both\n[English](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_New_World_%28novel%29#Characters)\nand\n[Japanese](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%82%88%E3%82%8A_%28%E5%B0%8F%E8%AA%AC%29#.E6.99.82.E7.B3.BB.E5.88.97.E3.83.BB.E5.90.84.E3.82.A8.E3.83.94.E3.82.BD.E3.83.BC.E3.83.89)\nversion. In the summary of the chapter 5 of Japanese version: 12 years passed,\nSaki and Satoru are now 26 years old. (12年が過ぎ、早季と覚は26歳になっていた。)\n\n2 There are **many** differences between the manga and anime. However, the key\npart of the story remains: Maria and Mamoru leaves the district, their child\nraised by the queerats later helps the queerats attacking the village.\n\n3 The child is male in the novel and female in the anime. According to cite\nnote on\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_New_World_%28novel%29#Characters).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-21T18:28:03.773", "id": "13566", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-21T18:28:03.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "13558", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI mean the top answer's obviously what the writer was going for, but it has a\nplot hole in it, or at least it's not really believable.. The kids said they'd\nreport Maria and T-whatever his name is as dead, Squealer suggested that they\nshould say an avalanche killed them... Really? An avalanche killing 2 kids\nwith superpowers? And on top of that, they'd have to see it actually happen,\nso, in order for this story to work, they'd have to have found them first,\nthen either they agree to come back (unlikely, but hey, could be made\nbelievable), or, they run away again (the scenario that would've happened IF\nthey found them). In the first scenario, the avalanche happening wouldn't have\na time restriction, so sure, an avalanche randomly going off would be\nbelievable i guess. But it would have to kill ONLY those 2, again, nevermind\ntheir powers and all, BUT ALSO while the other 2 kids, WHO ALSO HAVE\nSUPERPOWERS, watch it all happen? Nope, nobody would buy that, the board would\nknow somethings off. In the second scenario tho, the avalanche would have to\nhappen the exact same moment they decide to run away, which is really\nconvenient isn't it? And again, 2 kids with superpowers doing nothing, the\nother 2 kids with superpowers just watching it happen. Nope.\n\nLet's say that the board does buy their story though, searching for those\nbones would be the highest priority, the kids would probably be forced to show\nthem where it all happened, which would narrow the area greatly obviously. Now\nthey start the search from that area, and keep widening it. If they don't find\nit in like a month with their psychic-powers, the kids obviously lied,\nsomethings off, they investigate, consequences. But let's imagine that in this\nworld where grownups are paranoid as fuck, paranoid enough to kill innocent\nchildren, even their own at times, let's just imagine that they keep on\nsearching forever without questioning it, and then dig the bones up in 2\nyears. Where would Squealer put them? A Queerat couldn't hide them deeper then\nthe superpowered humans didn't already dig. So if they found the bones in\nlayers above what they've searched, it would be obvious that they were put\nthere recently. Again, let's imagine that the paranoid humans wouldn't notice\nthis, and that the depth of it doesn't matter. Squealer could either put them\nwhere the kids said they saw the avalanche, or, somewhere random in that\nentire snowy biom. First case, it becomes obvious that the bones weren't there\n2 years ago since it's been thoroughly investigated already. Second case, the\nkids lied and the bones were nowhere near, they get to the bottom of it\n(hypnosis etc.), smell something fishy's going on with Squealer, consequences.\n\nSo there's not a single way that this lie could be hidden from the board, and\nin turn saddens me cause it makes the story unrealistic :(.\n\nAlso, if anyone were to die in an avalanche, their body wouldn't rot since it\nwould be kept frozen until the snow started melting, so they wouldn't find\nbones, they'd find the entire body intact. Well, mostly. There have been cases\nof humans finding frozen bodies that were 500 years old. Would an educated\nsociety with access to all the previous civilizations knowledge miss that fact\n:) ? Doubt it, since anyone could deduct that using simple logic. Keep in mind\nthat freezing to death probably happened in their civilization often, so\nthey'd be even more aware of this fact then we are.\n\nEdit: - Just rewatched episode 18, apparently Squealer was the one who brought\nthem the bones? So i guess I didn't even have to try and develop those other\ntheories that had more potential of working out, the anime just decided to go\nwith the one that's not possible at the slightest. A Queerat finding bones\ndeep in the snow when superpowered humans couldn't, alright.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-02-09T08:19:43.447", "id": "50781", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-09T08:44:25.007", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-09T08:44:25.007", "last_editor_user_id": "44883", "owner_user_id": "44883", "parent_id": "13558", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, in the Hunter Chairman Election arc, it is clear that basically everyone\nwho is a licensed hunter knows that Ging Freecss is Gon's dad, including\nHisoka. It is also clear to everyone that Ging and Gon are not emotionally\nclose, per Leorio's outburst in the Hunter Chairman Election. There is no\nreason to think that the Zoldycks would be in the dark about Ging and Gon\nbeing related since they keep tabs on a lot of things, especially where Killua\nis concerned. However, neither Hisoka nor the Zoldycks express any interest in\nGing. Zeno and Silva Zoldyck got involved with Netero in the Chimera Ant arc,\nbut as Ging couldn't be bothered to get involved with it, they have had no\nreason to have any interaction with or interest in him. Ging is portrayed as\nliking to play/goof off and being generally disliked by others, so other\ncharacters don't have much motivation to care what he does since it is\nunlikely to affect their agendas. Hisoka has never really evidenced taking\npersonal interest in anyone other than Gon, Killua, Illumi, and Chrollo.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T03:33:35.820", "id": "13820", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T03:33:35.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13565", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Hisoka knew from almost the beginning that he is interested in what\nGon wants, and that is his father, so he must have looked him up. Plus, his\nname is Gon 'Freecss', so it was obvious. Let's not forget to mention that\nGing is the best hunter in the world and Hisoka is interested in strong\nhunters, so, again, he must have looked him up even before meeting Gon.\n\nAlso, he's interested in Gon, Killua, Illumi, Chrollo, and _Machi_ as well.\nWhich means, he's not gay and a bae because he wanted to go on a date with\nMachi. Anyway, in general, he's interested in young people with an amusing\nbehavior or strong people, and he's interested in hugging & cuddling Gon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-09T02:12:12.883", "id": "14959", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-25T02:21:57.733", "last_edit_date": "2021-02-25T02:21:57.733", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "9086", "parent_id": "13565", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHisoka is interested in very strong and powerful people he want's to kill\nthem, so he's inetrested to Ging Freecss and Isaac Netero, Gon Freecss is he's\nmost interested to, because Hisoka is very strong and powerful that he can see\nhow strong and powerful a person is as seen in the election arc, Hisoka was\njust amazed in Kuroro Lucifer's power's abilities that's why he want's to kill\nhim, so Kuroro Lucifer was just a killtime to Hisoka, Hisoka was only toying\nMachi so he has no interest to her, Hisoka was just outsmarting and toying the\nwhole Genei Ryodan group and even this group unite and take on Hisoka they all\nwill die in the hands of Hisoka...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-19T16:46:58.590", "id": "22595", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-19T16:46:58.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15171", "parent_id": "13565", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYep. Hisoka was right beside Gon during the dodge-ball game in Greed Island.\nHe heard it when Gon asked Razor if he knew Ging.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-13T15:44:33.710", "id": "41363", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-13T15:44:33.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34599", "parent_id": "13565", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBase on what you've said so far, I think it should be one of those (ordered\nfrom what is most suspect to be your answer):\n\n**Saber Marionette J**\n\n\n\n> In a world of only males, they have created female looking marionettes\n> (androids). A handful of them have been given special 'hearts' called maiden\n> circuits that give them emotion and human personality. Three of these are\n> found by Otaru, and they soon are caught up in a war against Lord Faust and\n> his 3 'human' marionettes.\n\n**Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!** \n\n\n> It's one thing to honor your ancestors and keep old traditions alive, but\n> there IS such a thing as taking it to a ridiculous extreme. In Kawakami\n> City, having a samurai ancestor and enormous 'fighting spirit' isn't just an\n> interesting fact, it's a huge part of how you end up being ranked on the\n> social totem pole. That, in turn, rolls over into the school curriculum.\n> Fortunately, that's something the local kids like Yamato Naoe have learned\n> to deal with by forming into small 'bands,' (that's the samurai type, NOT\n> music). However, while the delicate sexual balance of Yamato's group seemed\n> fine when there were three girls and four boys, the sudden addition of two\n> MORE girls starts to send everything spinning out of control!\n\n**Kakutou Bijin Wulong: Rebirth** \n\n\n> Mao Lan continues growing into her path in life through what she learns\n> while fighting. Her grandfather thinks that she has grown complacent and\n> decides to train an adversary for her next Prime Mat appearance. Training\n> with her friends and companions Mao Lan slowly advances through life.\n\n**Karakuri no Kimi**\n\n\n\n> Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her\n> home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As\n> her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet\n> warriors to seek revenge. She can manipulate these to battle the strongest\n> of warriors, however manipulating the puppets leaves her own self vulnerable\n> to direct attacks, so she seeks a ninja warrior named Manajiri to aid and\n> protect her in her quest.\n\n**Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba**\n\n\n\n> Kurogane Yaiba is a boy who doesn't want to become what any regular kid\n> would: He wants to be a samurai. That's why he undergoes a hard training\n> with his father, knowing only the forest as his world. Then, one day, he is\n> sent to Japan, where he has to deal with a whole new civilized reality,\n> meeting the Mine family, the evil Onimaru and even the legendary Musashi,\n> having lots of dangerous adventures, becoming stronger everyday.\n\nThat's pretty much sums up my guess\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-21T21:29:05.540", "id": "13570", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-21T22:10:00.163", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-21T22:10:00.163", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "13569", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThat sounds a bit like [Labyrinth of\nFlames](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_of_Flames). (Ignore the plot\ndescription on that page; it's absolutely, utterly wrong. I just linked it for\nthe extra picture.)\n\n\n\nThe main character is a Russian obsessed with samurai who's invited by a\nJapanese girl to her family estate, which is a big ninja mansion. She gives\nhim a sword to seal their marriage since she wants him to defeat her rich\nfiance. Her father is spending time with two sexy women who turn out to be\nninjas in disguise trying to steal something from him. There was a blonde\nAmerican cowgirl in a Jeep who I think was some kind of reporter, although she\ncarried a gun (a revolver, of course).\n\nThere was a ton of nudity and barely any plot. It sounds quite a bit like what\nyou're describing.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-21T23:48:39.733", "id": "13571", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-22T01:48:08.130", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-22T01:48:08.130", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13569", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nActually in episode 23 two members of the Military Police are seen selling\nsome 3DMG for what is most definitely coin\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-22T11:33:10.787", "id": "13579", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-22T11:33:10.787", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4591", "parent_id": "13577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's definitely a monetary system in place (note I'm on mobile so I can't\nlink any sources yet).\n\nIn episode 1, after the incident where Moses's arm is handed to his mother,\nthere is a person saying \"its like our taxes go to fatten them up\". This\nclearly indicates some form of tax system.\n\nIn episode 6, the titans yet again breach another wall. There's a scene where\nmerchants are blocking the passageway trying to get their goods through. This\nshows an obvious ownership of goods.\n\nIn the same episode, we see Mikasa and her mom targeted by slave traders. The\nslave traders planned to sell them to some rich folk, demonstrating value and\na need for some form of money.\n\nIn episode 23, we can clearly see corrupt military police selling goods for\nwhat is obviously currency.\n\nOver all we see several trends that point to the use of currency within Attack\non Titan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-23T04:46:34.760", "id": "13589", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-23T04:46:34.760", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6174", "parent_id": "13577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI saw some characters use a paper currency to buy passage onto the surface\nfrom the Underground in an OVA.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-17T20:57:47.023", "id": "39913", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-17T20:57:47.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32040", "parent_id": "13577", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSaying Conan doesn't reveal his identity is wrong, [there are 10 people who\nknow about Conan true identity, and Conan told 2 of them. (Link contain\nspoiler)](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/List_of_characters_who_know_Conan's_identity)\nConan never told Ran because it's dangerous for her to know the truth.\nProfessor Agasa warn him about it at the first time he know about Conan,\n[Second Chapter - The Shrunken Detective](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jOecN.jpg)\n\nKnowing her personality, Ran will risk her life to save others and most likely\ntoo help Conan to fight the Black Organization. [This chapter (chapter 434\nRotten Apple)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9NBmo.jpg) is when Ran tried to save\nAi from Vermouth, she risk her own life to save her\n\nOn several occasion, Shinichi wants to tell Ran the truth about his identity\nbut chooses her safety above their happiness.\n\nBeside, different from the others who know Conan's secret, Ran might\nunintentionally tell anyone about it. Closest possible, she will tell her best\nfriend, Sonoko. For example, when Ran accidentally tell Sonoko about Oogami.\n(He's a wrestler who cover his real identity by wearing a mask - [Chapter 389\nThe Man Who Can Never Be a Wolf](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pjHge.jpg))\n\nAt one point Ran knew that Conan is Shinichi and actually waiting for him to\ntell her by himself, but as always Conan was able to trick her again.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-22T12:03:08.403", "id": "13580", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-01T12:05:30.617", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-01T12:05:30.617", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "13578", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nRemember the very first chapters which creates the setting for the story of a\nprimary school detective. Shinichi Kudo was caught by the Black Organization\nwhen he was doing some investigation, and he was force-fed the drug, which is\nsupposed to kill him (but he only shrink to the body of a child).\n\nAlthough his small body is inconvenient in everyday life, it is the best\npossible condition for Shinichi to continue investigating the Black\nOrganization, since the Black Organization doesn't know that he is still alive\nand in the form of a child.\n\nIf he were to reveal his identity to Ran, knowing her personality, she is\nlikely to help him in his investigation, which would put her in danger of\nbeing eliminated to keep her mouth shut. Not to mention that it might involve\nnot just her but many people around them.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-22T12:12:59.560", "id": "13581", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-22T12:12:59.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "13578", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI’ll say revealing his identity to Ran is wrong because she might tell it to\nher best friend Sonoko, and Sonoko might tell others about it too and it's not\nall, the Black Organization might know and Ran could be their target and\nothers might get involved and get killed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-18T00:15:22.673", "id": "48823", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-18T02:08:45.620", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-18T02:08:45.620", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42530", "parent_id": "13578", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause the writer wants to create a kind and strong maiden who is waiting for\nShinichi.\n\nAfter all, the reason the writer has given is baseless and fans who are\nsupporting it are just pawns trying to prove a baseless reason right created\nby the writer that if he tells her his identity then she will be in danger\n\nAccording to me, only foolish people will support this. It doesn't matter if\nShinichi tells her or not, her life will be in danger because the organisation\nwill kill her too upon knowing Conan's identity no matter if she is innocent.\n\nAnd according to me, Rachel (Ran) would have supported him like Hattori. After\nall, if she had known about the organisation, she can also take necessary\nprecautions and can cover his identity more effectively.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-02-18T18:00:05.530", "id": "50886", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-17T12:14:10.507", "last_edit_date": "2021-03-17T12:14:10.507", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "45034", "parent_id": "13578", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengu#In_popular_folk_tales):\n\n> An old man has a lump or tumor on his face. In the mountains he encounters a\n> band of tengu making merry and joins their dancing. He pleases them so much\n> that they want him to join them the next night, and offer a gift for him. In\n> addition, they take the lump off his face, thinking that he will want it\n> back and therefore have to join them the next night. An unpleasant neighbor,\n> who also has a lump, hears of the old man's good fortune and attempts to\n> repeat it, and steal the gift. The tengu, however, simply give him the first\n> lump in addition to his own, because they are disgusted by his bad dancing,\n> and because he tried to steal the gift.\n\nThe mean old man doesn't want to steal it, he wants to get rid of it like the\nprotagonist did.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-22T23:11:33.290", "id": "13585", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-22T23:11:33.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "13584", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# Updated answer\n\nI have not been following _Attack on Titan_ past the first season of the\nanime, but since I currently can't delete my answer since it's been accepted,\nI'll provide something based on what I've gleaned from the Wiki.\n\nFrom the page about the [Walls](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Walls), it\nappears that at present, there is no knowledge of any other walled community.\nHowever, when Eren finally returns to [his father's\nbasement](http://attackontitan.wikia.com/wiki/Grisha_Yeager%27s_basement), he\ndiscovers that humanity has not actually been wiped out. I'm not sure if this\ndevelopment was entirely predictable. Early on, the story of a quick\nconstruction of massive walls while humanity was under attack was already very\nsuspicious, but I was not invested enough to think much about it. (My hunch at\nthe time was also more of something to the effect of, \"a conspiracy destroyed\nmost of humanity.\")\n\n# Old answer, based on the first season of the anime\n\nIn some of the episode openings (particularly in the first few episodes of\n_Attack on Titan_ ), it's stated that:\n\n> Over a hundred years ago, humanity suddenly found itself faced with a new\n> predator. They were more powerful than humans. Humanity was immediately\n> pushed to the brink of extinction. The survivors built three walls: Maria,\n> Rose, and Sina.\n\nWithout any further qualification of the statement, it's pretty much implied\nhere (and elsewhere) that the walls contain all that's left of humanity. This\nsense of there having been huge losses to such an extent - to the point where\nentire cultures probably have been obliterated - are confirmed somewhat by\nthings like when Mikasa's kidnappers describe her and her mother as the last\nof the Asians.\n\nThere're probably some more explicit statements of this elsewhere, but it's\nbeen a while since I saw _Attack on Titan_ , and this was the first place that\ncame to mind that stated something of this sort.\n\nIf it matters to anybody, I'm taking the quote here from the Crunchyroll sub.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-23T03:54:58.897", "id": "13588", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-05T16:58:54.187", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "13587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nI think there is a fourth wall.\n\nAccording to the second ending \"Great Escape\", you can clearly see there are\nfour walls:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1dvFG.png)\n\nHere, you can see both Wall Sina and Rose where there are no titans.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TykhL.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pPjq4.png)\n\nIn this picture, you can see Wall Maria and the titans roaming around in it.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BVObO.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/88P76.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t5BpT.png)\n\nAnd here, you can see the fourth wall which all the titans seem to live in.\n\nMaybe that is where the shifters came from because you know that Bertolt\nalways wants to finish his mission and go back to his hometown quickly, and as\nyou can see in the picture above, his hand is laying on where the fourth wall\nis. Also if you look closely, you can see there are no titans beyond that\nfourth wall, thus we can only see titans in the fourth wall and Wall Maria.\n\nYou would wonder, how come no one knows about the fourth wall? Well, we\ndiscovered in chapter 63 of the manga that\n\n> the royal family can alter the memory of humanity. Therefore, we can\n> conclude from this evidence that there is a war going on between people in\n> the fourth wall and the rest of the other walls and the royal family is\n> trying to hide it so they can maintain peace within the three walls.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-28T03:25:34.323", "id": "15340", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-21T09:33:12.343", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-21T09:33:12.343", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "9375", "parent_id": "13587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n**COLOSSAL SPOILER FOR EVERYONE WHO DID NOT READ MANGA CHAPTERS 86 AND 87!**\n\n> A sort of fourth wall exists and it's the one showed in chapter 87, near the\n> ocean, so it must be really far away from the Walls we know. It keeps\n> mindless Titans away from the sea and it has been probably built by the\n> Marleyan Government. It seems to be shorter than the three other Walls and\n> its structure is different from theirs (it doesn't seem to be built with\n> crystallized colossal Titans). Beyond this fourth wall, there's the ocean\n> and on the other shore of the sea, there's the continent where Marley is.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-19T18:37:20.393", "id": "37413", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-21T09:33:28.400", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-21T09:33:28.400", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "29334", "parent_id": "13587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSPOILER ALERT--- FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE MANGA OR WATCHED THE SEASON 3\nANIME\n\nWall Maria, Wall Rose, and Wall Sina are walls that are on the island of\nEldia. The fact that humanity was pushed to the walls is mere propaganda\nspread by the government as they do not want the people inside to know about\nthe outside world.\n\nThe truth is, Titans are made by a country called Eldia (this country is\ndifferent from the one on the island). A queen [Queen Ymir] (through\nmysterious means) gained the power to become 7 types of titans. She made\nthousands of titans to gain power all over the world and tortured a country\ncalled 'Marley' when she died, all the powers were split between 7 Eldians.\nKing Fritz (the current king of Eldia) surrendered to Marley and gave them\npermission to kill the Eldians. Eventually, all Eldians were forced into a\ntiny island. This island was corrupt, propaganda, capitalism, all of that took\nplace. Almost like Imperial Japan. Just like North Korea trying to protect its\ncitizens from the truth, Eldia does the same.\n\nNow, the 4th wall is meant to represent the barrier of the island. Bertholdt\nwants to return there, so he placed his hand there. Once you cross this ocean,\nyou'll enter Marley.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-15T09:31:56.320", "id": "50096", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-21T09:33:17.917", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-21T09:33:17.917", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "43350", "parent_id": "13587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is the walls of Liberio, a town in Marley where any Eldians are from\nMarley.\n\n\n\nSo, no, Maria, Rose, and Sina are not the only 3 walls. And there are other\nplaces that have walls but not names, like other nations that Marley was at\nwar with also used walls for the same reason as Maria, Rose, and Sina.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-25T22:47:10.520", "id": "65992", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-21T09:33:15.467", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-21T09:33:15.467", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63421", "parent_id": "13587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOne of the two girls is Hanekawa Tsubasa. Remember that during the events in\n_Karen Bee_ 1, she underwent an image change where her usual braided hair was\nreplaced by bob cut, and her glasses replaced by contact lens. Her hair was\nactually cut by Araragi when she went out with him to karaoke in the short\nstory _Tsubasa Song_ 2, which takes place some time after _Tsubasa Cat_ and\nbefore _Karen Bee_.\n\nI don't know who the other girl is. There are many characters whose hairstyle\nhas changed between the First Season and the Second Season of the light novel\nseries, but they are not cut by Araragi:\n\n * Senjougahara Hitagi: She cut her hair short between the events of _Karen Bee_ and _Tsukihi Phoenix_ to break away from her past and start anew3.\n * Kanbaru Suruga: She initially kept her hair short in _Suruga Monkey_. However, after she was saved by Araragi, she started **growing** her hair3 up until the end of Hanamonogatari.\n * Hanekawa Tsubasa: After _Tsubasa Tiger_ , her hair became black and white stripes like that of the white tiger she absorbed4. This is only a change in color, though.\n * Araragi Karen: In _Tsukihi Phoenix_ , she nonchalantly **cut off her own** ponytail so that she could piggyback Araragi as a punishment game4. Araragi does not cut her hair himself. In the anime, she seems to grow her ponytail back a little in _Hanamonogatari_ (episode 5).\n * Araragi Tsukihi: In the anime, story-wise chronologically, she had mid-back level hair in _Nekomonogatari (Black)_ (episode 1), then bob cut hair in _Nisemonogatari_ , then very long braided hair in _Nekomonogatari (White)_ , then straight waist-length hair in _Hanamonogatari_ (episode 5). However, she is said to change her hairstyle very often3, so it is very unlikely that Araragi has anything to do with it.\n\n1 Light novel - Nisemonogatari Volume 1 - Karen Bee Chapter 011. Anime -\nNisemonogatari Episode 4 \n2 Published in Bakemonogatari Anime Complete Guidebook. According to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Monogatari_novels#List_of_short_short_stories). \n3 Light novel - Nisemonogatari Volume 2 - Tsukihi Phoenix Chapter 005. \n4 Light novel - Nekomongatari (White) - Tsubasa Tiger Chapter 066. Anime -\nMonogatari Series: Second Season Episode 5. \n5 Light novel - Nisemonogatari Volume 2 - Tsukihi Phoenix Chapter 005. Anime -\nNisemonogatari Episode 9.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-23T16:05:55.123", "id": "13591", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-23T16:05:55.123", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "13590", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nTurns out the 2nd girl is Tsukihi; \"Tsukihi Brushing\" is set some point after\nAraragi graduates.\n\nA brief summary of the story: Tsukihi steps on her long hair, wants to cut it,\nAraragi wants to do it, dumb shenanigans ensue, Shinobu gets fed up.\n\nA translation can be found\n[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/araragi/comments/6gx8fl/monogatari_short_stories_tsukihi_brushing/).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-12T09:27:22.397", "id": "57521", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-12T10:23:52.977", "last_edit_date": "2020-05-12T10:23:52.977", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "53289", "parent_id": "13590", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis sounds like Ranma 1/2 - The main character changes gender when they get\nsplashed or come in contact with water\n\n\n\n> Ranma Saotome and his father, Genma, both practitioners of the Saotome\n> school of anything-goes martial arts, fall into the cursed springs of the\n> legendary training ground of Jusenkyo in mainland China during a training\n> mission. Each spring holds a different curse for any who come in contact\n> with its water, all of which involve who or what has drowned in the spring\n> in the past - Ranma emerges from the spring a girl and Genma a panda, both\n> now cursed to change forms each time they come in contact with hot and cold\n> water. [MAL](http://myanimelist.net/anime/210/Ranma_%C2%BD)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-23T22:00:50.123", "id": "13597", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-23T22:00:50.123", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13596", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nWhile the second rule given here clearly states that the Death Note can only\noperate within 23 days (in the human calendar), according to the next rule, if\nthe specified disease takes more than 23 days then the human will die\naccording to the time required by the disease.\n\n\n\nHowever, whether or not you can manipulate the human during that extra (after\n23 days) time period is not specified in any of the rules.\n\nPersonally, I think it would be beyond the scope of the Death Note to do so.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-03T09:42:41.973", "id": "13790", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-03T09:42:41.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7728", "parent_id": "13598", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, there are. TV Tropes refers to this as a [Decoy\nProtagonist](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DecoyProtagonist),\nalthough TV Tropes' definition generally seems to refer to when the apparent\nmain character gets killed early on in the series. Some examples of this may\ninclude _Gurren Lagann_ , _Yuru-Yuri_ , and _Bokurano_ (I took these straight\nfrom the examples page and have not actually watched the latter two).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-24T05:37:29.317", "id": "13601", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-24T07:23:17.887", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-24T07:23:17.887", "last_editor_user_id": "6379", "owner_user_id": "6379", "parent_id": "13600", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen I read this question, I remember the shojo manga [From Eroica with\nLove](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Eroica_with_Love).\n\nIn first 3 chapters in volume 1, the main protagonist is the girl who have\npsychic ability. The main plot is \"Psychic children team VS the phantom\nthief\". But after 3 episode, the author found other character (Major of NATO)\ngot more interest from reader. Then the author changed plot of follow episode\n(latest books is volume 39 and still continue) to \"NATO vs KGB\", and never\nseen psychic children.\n\nI think such a radical change is easy to happen in manga series, because the\nauthor writes each episode every week (or month) based on reader's feedback.\nFor example, Jump manga is easy to change to fight manga. Dragon ball changed\nfrom adventure to fighting. Yuyu-hakusyo changed from detective to fighting.\n\nNext example is [Boogiepop\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_series). Each story of this\nseries has different protagonist. all protagonist meet the boogiepop, but each\nprotagonist has different understanding about it.\n\nSuch a change of observing point is also common (as same as novel). For\nexample each episode of [The Twelve\nKingdoms](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Kingdoms) has different\nprotagonist for each \"Kingdom\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-24T23:01:13.967", "id": "13607", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-24T23:01:13.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13600", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n**\"Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni\"** does exactly this. The first main character\n(Keiichi) is still alive but the series completely shifts focus later on to\none of the supporting characters which turns out to be the one the whole story\nhave been circulating around the whole time. I won't say who because I would\nspoil it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-08-25T08:36:20.590", "id": "42001", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-25T10:05:56.703", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-25T10:05:56.703", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "35317", "parent_id": "13600", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA possible theory is that only certain Exceeds with special conditions can\nhave a battle form.\n\nSamuel was raised by the Legion Corps upon birth, prompting his devotion to\nthem. He has learnt combat from the Legion Corps and has great wisdom. His\nknowledge is what that enabled him to unlock the key to have a battle form.\n\nPantherlily is born in Edolas and is an Exceed that used to work for the\nkingdom of Edolas as the Magic Militia's First Division Commander of the Royal\nArmy. He should be able to do it with talent and stay in his battle form or he\nwouldn't be the leader in the Royal Army.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T03:10:30.017", "id": "13695", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T03:10:30.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8179", "parent_id": "13602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reasons that I think is the most probable would be that:\n\n 1. They both have combat experience. They learnt how to fight and their body adapted to be that form to allowed them to fight to their fullest.\n\n 2. They wanted to make Lily special because he was the only exceed that came into the human world and joined Fairy Tail during the Edolas Arc.(Samuel was not canon)\n\n 3. My last point is that they both have better magic capabilities/power/amount compared to all the other exceed as lily mentioned that it was difficult to maintain the battle form in Earthland compared to Edolas. Since both was brought up like a soldier they would be stronger in physical terms and magical terms.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-16T15:23:30.067", "id": "14010", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-17T04:44:45.773", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-17T04:44:45.773", "last_editor_user_id": "8018", "owner_user_id": "8018", "parent_id": "13602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, up until the Edolas arc, Carla and Happy were the only Exceeds in Earth\nLand, and since Exceeds are the only living beings in Edolas with magic power\nflowing through them, they would have plenty of time to learn, whereas Carla\nand Happy knew nothing of their heritage until that arc.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-02T09:49:00.557", "id": "15419", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-19T13:29:30.643", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-19T13:29:30.643", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9439", "parent_id": "13602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, if you had listened to Samuel, he said that both him and Pantherlily are\nthe older generation of the Exceeds. Maybe that's the reason why.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T18:29:10.137", "id": "18582", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T18:32:41.020", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-16T18:32:41.020", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "11213", "parent_id": "13602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs of Fairy Tail chapter 420,\n\n> Carla has taken on a human-esque form, similar to Pantherlily and Samuel. It\n> might be age-related, or age combined with maturity to get to this second\n> form of appearance.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-16T21:21:42.393", "id": "19414", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-19T13:31:08.480", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-19T13:31:08.480", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11761", "parent_id": "13602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI am not sure that this applies for Pantherlily and Samuel, but in chapter\n421, Charle could transform into anthropoid (human-like form) because she\nlearned transformation magic.\n\n\n\nThis may be the cause that Pantherlily and Samuel could transform, and\nPantherlily saying that he could maintain that form for certain time only when\nhe's worn out in battle because it requires magic to maintain it.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-18T11:18:41.380", "id": "20149", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-30T10:15:49.010", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-30T10:15:49.010", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think David Connor should be enough as the death note requires you to know\nthe name of the person AND know the face of the person. So as long as you have\nthe face in your head, the middle name is not important.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-24T22:40:53.730", "id": "13605", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-24T22:40:53.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8030", "parent_id": "13603", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nDavid Connnor should be enough, in [How to Use\nI](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_I) it\nsays\n\n> This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in\n> their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same\n> name will not be affected.\n\nThat alone should be enough. if, by some genetic miracle, 2 identical people\nwith the same name existed then adding the person's full name (ie. Troy Delu\nvi La'Flash) may then allow the Death Note tell the difference between the 2.\n\n**IF** , and this is a huge if, that 2 identical people with identical full\nnames existed then it's quite possible they will be immune unless the cause of\ndeath was\n\n> David Winston Connor dies from a heart attack in 40 seconds **after writing\n> his own name in the death note**\n\nbut try and get someone to do that, also the odds of 2 people like that being\nborn is insanely huge.\n\nNOTE: To clarify a point raised by trlkly, [How to Use:\nLIII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LIII)\ntalks about writing one's _name_ across multiple pages, Point 1 says it wont\nwork but Point 2 says that the front and back are still one page and talks\nabout writing the surname on the front and given name in the back. this seems\nto imply that by _name_ it would refer to the _given_ and _surname_.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-24T22:43:44.720", "id": "13606", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-25T22:34:43.057", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-25T22:34:43.057", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13603", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nLet's take a look at the events at the end of FMA - I'm using the manga.\n\n * Hohenheim offers to use himself to get Alphonse back, out of paternal duty. Ed refuses because what happened to him and Alphonse was their own responsibility. Notice that in FMA, there's this sort of emphasis on personal responsibility for one's actions (e.g. Riza's comments about Ishbal, Ed's comments here, etc.). Consequently, it's possible to read Hohenheim's comments to Izumi Curtis as implying that he shouldn't - morally speaking - just give back to her _everything_ she lost, given her own culpability. If I'm not mistaken, Ed has a similar attitude towards his automail leg at the end of the manga.\n\n * Ling also offers the philosopher's stone he has for the same purpose, but since Ed promised Al they wouldn't use it to get their bodies back, Ed refuses. This and Hohenheim's comments seem to imply that it is possible to recover what's lost from Truth if the appropriate toll is paid and what you're trying to recover actually exists.\n\n * Marcoh asks Mustang if he can use his philosopher's stone as payment in exchange for his sight, on the condition that the policies on Ishval are revised. It's not clear if Marcoh knows about Mustang having been forced to open the gate, but it is clear that Ishval is one of his motivations for putting forth this offer.\n\n**Given that it seems to be implied that Alphonse could have been retrieved\nwith means other than Edward giving up alchemy, this seeming inconsistency is\nprobably best interpreted as Hohenheim choosing not to completely restore\nIzumi Curtis in accordance with themes and ideas about personal responsibility\nin the series (since the state of Alphonse and Edward is also a result of\ntheir own actions)**.\n\nWhile Hohenheim's offer to use himself to get Alphonse back may seem out of\ntouch with his comments to Izumi, it's honestly not that inconsistent,\nparticularly when he feels some responsibility for his sons' attempt at human\ntransmutation and when this is an egregiously life-or-death scenario compared\nto Izumi Curtis'.\n\nMoreover, just because there's some sort of emphasis on personal\nresponsibility (and, at least judging from Riza's comments about Ishval, or\nthose in the last episode of Brotherhood, the impossibility of atonement) in\nFMA doesn't mean that the characters don't try to improve on their own\nsituation or that of others (e.g. Hohenheim's improvement of Izumi's blood\nflow, Ed and Al's pursuit of a means to get their bodies back, etc.). Rather,\nit seems more like a rejection of the attitude of \"if I do X, I can make up\nfor Y and forget about it\". As thus, in the case of Roy, we should also note\nthat Marcoh seems to have had fairly specific motives apart from restoring his\nsight in giving him the philosopher's stone.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-25T09:56:04.887", "id": "13612", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-25T09:56:04.887", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "13610", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nI figured it was because Hohenheim was not willing to use the stone's power to\ncure Izumi. He was a pro with medical alchemy, so it was just highly advanced\nAlkahestry. He said he made contact with all of the souls, then asked\npermission. He could only use them to kill the dwarf in the flask.\n\nHe had no idea Izumi would be part of the final battle.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-27T01:26:28.430", "id": "44875", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-27T02:35:05.060", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-27T02:35:05.060", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "38357", "parent_id": "13610", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nRoy didn’t ‘sin’.\n\nIzumi, Ed and Alphonse alike all performed human transmutation of their own\nwill, unlike that of Roy, who was forced to do so against his will. I’d say\nthat Dr Marcoh was able to use the philosophers stone to give Roy his sight\nback because he wasn’t purposely trying to commit a taboo and the truth would\nhave known that since its y’know... the truth. Just my opinion\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-02-23T16:22:16.177", "id": "56861", "last_activity_date": "2020-02-23T16:22:16.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "52071", "parent_id": "13610", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nChoe attacks her with some acid just before that. It obviously didn't work\nquite as expected.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T06:06:21.240", "id": "13631", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-27T07:44:28.263", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-27T07:44:28.263", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "13611", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFollowing are the standard steps that a Mangaka usually go throw to make a\nprofessional Manga.\n\n 1. Storyboard\n 2. Pencil Sketch\n 3. Inking\n 4. Computer Editing\n\nAt first plot or story is required to start.\n\n**Storyboard**\n\n> Before anything gets written in stone, an idea must first exist. This is\n> where the storyboard comes into play. A rough sketch of the story is\n> sketched on the page. The page layout begins to take rough form. Speech\n> bubbles, panels, and characters are added to the sketch. Panels are the\n> divider lines between each picture. Paneling can prove to be a as\n> challenging of an experience as the actual drawing. This step takes the\n> longest because trying to come up with the poses and position of the page is\n> very difficult.\n\nThen drawing start. Here only pencil sketch are drawn.\n\n**Pencil Sketch**\n\n> The pencil sketch is a vital step of any comic. The sketch is usually drawn\n> using the type of pencil the artist is most comfortable with. The lead\n> number or darkness doesn't matter because this will get erased later during\n> the inking. If the pencil sketch is poor, then the final product will most\n> likely be poor as well. The pencil sketch may be laid over the storyboard\n> sketch or drawn out on a different piece of paper.\n\nI would show a pencil sketch for the picture below.\n\n\n\nAnother step is inking. It is one of the essential part of manga.\n\n**Inking**\n\n> Inking the comic is almost essential. The only exception would be if the\n> artist chose to use a dark permanent lead pencil. Inking is basically\n> tracing. The goal of inking is to get smooth, dark, “printer friendly”\n> lines. The pencil drawing underneath is erased and only the ink will remain.\n> If inking is sloppy, then the next step takes a lot longer to finish.\n\n\n\nThe last step is conducted using computer software like Photoshop and other\npicture editing tools to clean up line art and make sure it looks\nprofessional.\n\n**Computer Editing**\n\n> After the inking, the picture is then scanned into the computer and edited\n> with an editing program. The editing program is obviously up to the artist\n> but some popular ones are Manga Studio and Photoshop. Photoshop is very\n> powerful but has a bigger learning curve than Manga Studio. Before any\n> effects are ever added, the artist touches up the artwork to get it as clean\n> as possible. Once he/she is happy with the comic thus far, effects can be\n> added. Effects can be added by using screen tones. Screen tones can be\n> purchased as a physical product or can be added digitally. (If purchased as\n> an actual product, adding them would occur in a step in between inking and\n> computer editing).\n\n\n\nSo these are the basic steps. [Source](http://carlton88.hubpages.com/hub/How-\nProfessionals-Create-Manga#)\n\n[This](http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Manga) will help with a bit more\ninformation if you were interested to start from scratch.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-25T18:17:39.410", "id": "13621", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-25T18:32:03.817", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-25T18:32:03.817", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nInteresting question... I searched it up on different websites. This how I\nfound out!\n\n## Choosing the theme\n\nBefore anything is done the theme or story is chosen. An idea is needed - What\nis the genre? What should the Manga tell the reader? etc.\n\nAll these things have to be done at first before the drawing is starting. If\nan existing anime is converted into a manga it will be easier - because this\ninformation is already there.\n\n## The Plot\n\nIf the general idea of the manga is decided on, it is time to think about the\nplot. At this step it is important to ensure that the manga does not run\noutside of the theme and the dimension is observed.\n\nThe main events and the story flow is created. The plot is written in a simple\nform like:\n\n> * Little Red Riding Hood is visiting her grandmother who's living in\n> another village\n> * She's courted by a wolf along the way\n> * The wolf ran and reached the grandma's house before Little Red Riding\n> Hood\n> * The wolf ate the old lady, he put on her dress and lying on the bed,\n> waiting for Little Red Riding Hood's arrival\n> * Little Red Riding Hood arrived and was being tricked by the wolf\n> * Wolf is ready to eat Little Red Riding Hood, a woodcutter passed by and\n> rushed in for rescue\n> * The end\n>\n\nThis is a very simple plot. A plot for a professional manga is a bit longer\nand contains much more information. But this is not everything - You would\nalso write down some notes about where these events are happening. Also little\nside notes are made to remember everything.\n\nMostly mangakas also write a number at the left side of the plot and mark the\npage where this part is drawn.\n\n## Character Design\n\n_Yahoo~_ This is the fun part! The story is finished and now we can\nconcentrate on the character design.\n\nNow you make some examples of your characters. Not only what they looks like -\nit is very important to write down the characteristics of you character also.\nAge, size, maybe favourite colour - everything is important information.\n\nThe clothing is also significant. One design is chosen, based on the\ncharacter, and this design has to go through the whole manga.\n\n(Although sometimes the characteristics and clothing of a character could\nchange in the course of the story)\n\n\n\nFor this part you only use pencil and a eraser (and your head). Some like\nmechanical pencils and some like traditional pencils, it depends on the\nmangaka.\n\n## Storyboard\n\nAfter that, you can start with the pages. What will they look like? At the\nbeginning you just draw a rough sketch on a paper to get a idea of how it will\nlook.\n\nThen, you draw everything on the actual paper. First you draw the panels,\nmostly with a ruler. Then the panels get filled with the characters, speech\nbubbles and a background (place).\n\n\n\nAt this moment it is not important to draw clean or anything. The clean\ndrawing is made later. The borderline is important also called the bleed (the\nsmall frame at the outside of the paper). It is need for the print you should\nnot draw on it. It is also a little bit of a margin so the page looks better.\n\nThe sketch is also made with pencil and eraser. Sometimes also special rulers\nlike a French curve are used.\n\n## Inking\n\nThis is a hard and sometimes irritating process. If you make a mistake you\nhave to redraw the the page again from the sketch on.\n\nAt this part the sketch gets \"redrawn\" but with a clean line and with - mostly\nblack - ink. The artist is drawing over the pencil line and at the end he\nerease the sketch. Also a little bit of shading is done.\n\nThe so called G-Pen is a sign spring. With it you are able to control the size\nof the line by pressing it harder or softer down on the paper. This is one of\nthe most used sign spring for mangakas.\n\n\n\nIf you have a coloured manga you only draw the outline without the shadows and\ndark hair. Later you paint it with alcohol markers. One of the most well known\nmarkers are copic markers.\n\nHere a little picture from a image that is drawn with such markers (Letraset\nmarkers).\n\n\n\nfrom [deviantart](http://mistiqarts.deviantart.com/#/art/Winter-\nMiku-2014-422177778?hf=1) drawn by Mistiqarts\n\nA thing that for both is used is white out. It is used for highlights. This\ncould be in a pen or in a bottle and you draw with a brush.\n\n## Computer Editing\n\nAfter the page is inked it gets scanned and edited on a pc. The artist cleans\nit up with a Photo-editing program. This is mostly made with a tablet. Wacom\nis a good brand for such tablets.\n\nWhen the page is clean, patterns are added. These patterns are added for\nshadows and explosions. The pattern could be crossed lines or dots or\nwhatever.\n\nThe software that is used depends on what the mangaka like. There are many\ndifferent ones. I would guess that Photoshop is one of the most used.\n\nKeep in mind that today some mangas are only drawn on computers without the\ninking stage. But the pencil sketching is mostly still done.\n\nIf you only draw on a pc there is other software used like [Manga\nStudio](http://manga.smithmicro.com/). With that you are able to design the\nwhole page including the layout and panels. It also has awesome functions to\nbe able to draw in a perspective.\n\nThis was the first page.\n\n## Print\n\nAfter you have finished all pages. The whole manga gets printed and published.\nI will stop here because the way of creating a manga is ending here.\n\nPictures and most information from [mangakasjournal\nblog](http://mangakasjournal.blogspot.co.at/2008/12/manga-drawing-\nprocess.html). More information from the [Manga\nWorkshop](http://youtu.be/afpopL3pGOU) and\n[HubPages](http://carlton88.hubpages.com/hub/How-Professionals-Create-Manga#).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-25T19:38:59.493", "id": "13625", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T10:11:30.060", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-29T10:11:30.060", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "13620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThough there has not been any information about what reconstruction means, but\n**Dann of Thursday** has the ability to regenerate.\n\n> [It is seen that this reconstruction process is what gives them their\n> regenerative capabilities.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Sword#Armor)\n\nSo the main reason to reconstruct is to make **Van** body feasible to use\nDann's regenerative capability.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-08T06:16:16.103", "id": "13879", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-08T13:38:10.797", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-08T13:38:10.797", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13622", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, There are no legal way for a 16-year-old to drive on public roads.\n\nAs Memor-X pointed out\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Uranus#Profile) has a sentence\nabout it.\n\n> Haruka is a racecar driver, even though she is barely sixteen years old when\n> she appears. However, the timing of her birthday to the Japanese school year\n> means she is one grade ahead of the Sailor Soldiers.\n\nAnd the Japanese version of\n[Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E7%8E%8B%E3%81%AF%E3%82%8B%E3%81%8B#cite_ref-4)\nhas a annotation.\n\n> 高校一年なのだが、制服姿でスポーツカーを愛車として公道で走らせている[4]。\n>\n> She is first grade of high school, but she ride a sports car as beloved car.\n>\n> 4^ 国際運転免許証をもっていると考えれば合法であるが日本国内においては18歳までは公道では運転できない。北米版では留年しているという設定。\n>\n> Legally she can drive a car with an international driver's licence, but in\n> Japan, she can't drive on a public road until the age of 18. In the North\n> American version, she has a scene where it's stated that she repeated a\n> grade of school.\n\nThere is the [Vienna Convention on Road\nTraffic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Traffic).\nJapan and US both signed this convention. For example, I can drive a car in US\nwith a Japanese driver's licence but without US driver's licence. But the\nconverse is little bit more difficult. In Japan, the registration is required\nbefore driving a car. (The convention says that the government can't have a\ntest, but can have a registration.) And Japanese government can't accept\nregistration from people younger than 18 years old. Thus a 16-year-old girl\nwho has a US driver's licence can't drive a car in Japan.\n\nAdded: more research.\n\nThe author Naoko Takeuchi misunderstand the law; she thought a 16-year-old\ninternational driver licence holder can drive on public roads in Japan, and\ncreated the character and scene. But the law doesn't allow it. To fix the\nproblem, in the North American version, Uranus was stated to be 18 years old.\n\n## For racer licence.\n\nIn Japanese law, there are no restrictions for driving inside private space.\nFor example, most Japanese get driver's licences in driving schools that have\nlarge space with fake road. You can get training to drive inside the school\nbefore getting your licence.\n\nIf the racing course allows it, children of any age can drive. But (according\nto the\n[Wikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9)\narticle) most racing courses require [racer\nlicence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIA_Super_Licence). Racer licence is\ncertified by a company or agency (not the government). The requirement is\ndifferent between each company. From Wikipedia's example, JAF (Japanese\nAutomobile Federation) requires a normal driving licence to get a racer's\nlicence, but MFJ (Motorcycle Federation of Japan) doesn't require a normal\ndriving licence. And racing course will accept international racer licences.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T05:51:23.037", "id": "13630", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-27T06:34:08.320", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13628", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[DRAGON BALL Z -Orquesta\nSinfonica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2soFL4dIac#t=0m45s)\n\nIt's the music in this video at 0:45. I can't remember the name in the\noriginal soundtrack collection. The majority of the DBZ OSTs come from the\nmovies; this one I believe is from some movie between Freeza and Cell saga.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T17:43:04.183", "id": "14772", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-31T18:20:40.463", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-31T18:20:40.463", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "8957", "parent_id": "13629", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is the Genkidama (spirit bomb) theme in the Japanese ost I think it als\nplays when Goku makes the Super Saiya-jin speech\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T18:31:02.063", "id": "16936", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T18:31:02.063", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10769", "parent_id": "13629", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nLogia users can be hit with intangible attacks. Users of Busoshoku Haki can\nstrike Logia users as if they were human. When Haki is applied to a Logia user\nwhile they are intangible, rather than nullifying the powers completely; it\nturns the user back to their physical form. I have listed 2 other ways to\ndamage Logia users too:\n\n 1. Logia users suffer the same weakness to the sea and Kairoseki as with other Devil Fruit users, forcing them back into their original form and sealing their powers. By using a weapon that is coated or tipped with Kairoseki. An example of this is the Nanashaku Jitte that Smoker uses as his primary weapon. It can be used to nullify Devil Fruit powers simply by contact.\n 2. Another way to harm a Logia is to exploit the element itself, using its properties to solidify the user and rendering them vulnerable to damage. For example, Enel, being made of electricity, is vulnerable to Luffy's rubber body despite his honed reflexes, since rubber is an insulator. Another example is Crocodile, who, being made of sand, can be struck if his body is dampened (either by getting him wet or striking with wet limbs), since sand sticks together if wet.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T02:52:06.373", "id": "13691", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T02:52:06.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8179", "parent_id": "13634", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nTechnically the answer is yes, as any Logia can be hit by any sort of attack\nif they're in their flesh form, either because they were caught off guard and\ndidn't reflexively transform, or if they wanted to take the hit (for example\nto shield someone else), or when they are wearing sea stone handcuffs.\n\nI think the answer to the question of whether intangible attacks can hit logia\nusers in general though is no.\n\nLogia users have two ways of evading attacks in general, they can become their\nelement, such as when Crocodlie is hit by bullets and simply becomes sand\nwhere the bullets hit and then reforms, or by changing their shape they can\navoid the attack, such as when Aokiji opened up a hole in his own chest when\nWhitebeard stabbed him with a haki infused bisento.\n\nI think the first method suffices for a basic intangible attack, as from what\nwe have seen it is not possible to use haki on an intangible attack.\n\nSword beams are different, as they look intangible, but other than with Law,\nwho uses his devil fruit, what swordsmen such as Zoro and Mihawk do is swing\ntheir sword fast enough to send the air in front of the sword flying at you at\nvery high speeds, and they can transfer haki to the air itself, as when Zoro\nsliced Monet.\n\nHowever, proper intangible energy based attack, such as Enel's Lightning,\nKizaru's light and possibly Fujitora's gravity have never been shown to have\nhaki infused in them, and Rayleigh's explanation didn't mention this as a\npossibility.\n\nAlso, there are relatively few intangible attacks in One Piece as a whole,\nsome which seem to be such as Ace's hiken are in fact Ace turning his fist\ninto fire, making the fire huge and hitting you with it, so this attack could\neasily contain haki. Ace's move where he fires fire through his fingers like a\ngun however, probably could not contain haki.\n\nI don't think it is possible, unless you were to hit them when they are in\ntheir flesh form, or with their eleme metal weakness, as the only thing that\ncan normally hit a logia's true body when they are transformed is busoshoku\nhaki.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-28T12:04:24.753", "id": "14714", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-28T12:04:24.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "13634", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, the Logia user can be hurt by intangible attack. The fight between Monet,\nZoro and Tashigi where Monet was going to bite off Tashigi shoulder Zoro cut\nMonet face using slash/wave, bloods flows so definitely its a hit and it is a\nslash/wave because Zoro was far from Monet and walking toward her to blow\nfinal attack. Episode 613 17:23-17:35. Here is the\n[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBs7ZDKzxM) video clip\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-27T15:46:28.310", "id": "17109", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-27T15:46:28.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13634", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is the **Monthly Comic Alive**. It is a Japanese seinen manga magazine\npublished by Media Factory.\n\n\n\nPicture from [comicvine](http://www.comicvine.com/monthly-comic-\nalive-201309/4000-424394/)\n\nThis episode here is the July 2013 issue or as a number 201309.\n\n* * *\n\nI am pretty sure the mange she is reading here is **Omae o Otaku ni Shiteyaru\nkara, Ore o Riajuu ni Shitekure!** (おまえをオタクにしてやるから、俺をリア充にしてくれ！)\n\n## Information\n\n\n\n * Type: Manga\n * Volumes: Unknown\n * Chapters: Unknown\n * Status: Publishing\n * Published: Apr 26, 2012 to ?\n * Genres: Comedy, Romance, School\n * Authors: Aoki, Mutsumi (Art), Murakami, Rin (Story)\n * Serialization: Comic Alive\n\n> Kashiwada Naoki was determined to lead his high school life without anyone\n> knowing that he’s an Otaku. However, his classmate Bishoujo, Koigasaki Momo,\n> who was rumored among the girls to be a bitch, found him out!? Before the\n> despairing Kashiwada, she said something undoubtedly surprising.\n>\n> “Aren’t you an Otaku? Then, make me into an Otaku!”\n>\n> The love story of two individuals bounded by an agreement of Otaku and\n> Riajuu starts!!\n\nfrom\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/manga/39505/Omae_wo_Otaku_ni_Shiteyaru_kara_Ore_wo_Riajuu_ni_Shitekure!)\n\n## Scene\n\nThe scene you see on the left page of the secound image is in the tenth\nepisode.\n\n\n\nPicture from [Mangapark](http://mangapark.com/manga/omae-o-otaku-ni-shiteyaru-\nkara-ore-o-riajuu-ni-shitekure/s2/c10)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T13:05:05.667", "id": "13638", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-26T13:35:41.620", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-26T13:35:41.620", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "13636", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe manga on the cover is [**_Seikoku no\nDragonar_**](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=64902). It has\nreceived an anime adaptation just last season (Spring 2014).\n\n* * *\n\nThe manga that she is reading inside is [**_Omae o Otaku ni Shiteyaru kara,\nOre o Riajuu ni\nShitekure!_**](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=77617) (lit. _I will\nturn you into an Otaku, so please turn me into a Riajuu_ ).\n\nThe pages are from the end of chapter 10. Below is the 2-page spread for\ncomparison. Note that the art is not even distorted (which is usually done to\navoid copyright problem), which suggests that it has received an okay from the\nauthor.\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T13:22:37.450", "id": "13640", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-26T13:31:36.677", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-26T13:31:36.677", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "13636", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have looked this up before and found\n[this](http://vultureofcritique.wordpress.com/2013/12/25/the-etymology-\nphonetics-and-linguistics-of-nyanpasu-could-be-considered-funky/):\n\n> But have you considered why “Nyanpasu” is a creative coinage of a new term\n> in Japanese?\n>\n> Japanese people and linguists may disagree on the exact etymology of the\n> greeting “Osu!” This greeting is often used by people who are exerting\n> themselves physically, such as karate students. (“Osu” is customarily used\n> by men, and it is customarily used to greet people who are not older than\n> the speaker. Thus it is a little funky when we see Renge, who is female,\n> using it to address people who are older than she is.)\n>\n> If we wanted to combine the cat-like meowing sound of “NYAN” to “OSU,” why\n> wouldn’t we just say, “NYAN-OSU”?\n>\n> Think about the way we say “senpai.” The “p” sound is a voiceless bilabial\n> stop. The “n” sound is a nasal. When the nasal precedes the stop, it is very\n> easy to [slur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law) “senpai” into\n> “sempai.”\n>\n> When using the nasal sound “n” before a word boundary, it is very easy to\n> slur the sounds, and in the case of “nyanpasu” the voiceless bilabial stop\n> replaces the conventional word boundary.\n>\n> That could be considered funky.\n\nSaying it's a combination of nyan and osu, but one that rolls off the tongue a\nlot more smoothly.\n\nIt seems like a decent explanation to start with.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T13:13:51.430", "id": "13639", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-09T10:11:28.067", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6446", "parent_id": "13637", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's just her random, meaningless word for \"Good morning\".\n\nI found an [interview](http://mantan-\nweb.jp/2013/11/09/20131108dog00m200066000c.html) with the producer of Non Non\nBiyori.\n\n> －－主要キャラクターの宮内れんげのせりふ「にゃんぱすー」はどういう意味があるのですか？\n>\n>\n> 小学1年生が考えた「おはこんばんちわ」的な（笑い）、いろいろなときに対応できるあいさつです。また、れんげというキャラクターは1年生ですが、いろんな意味でませています。知識も多彩で通知表もオール5です。\n>\n> What's the meaning of \"Nyanpasu\" from main character Renge Miyauchi?\n>\n> It's \"Ohakonbanchiwa\"-like. (laughing) A greeting phrase created by a grade\n> 1 elementary school student. It fits many situations. Renge is grade 1, but\n> she is too grown-up in many ways, and has lots of knowledge and a straight-A\n> report card.\n\n\"Ohakonbanchiwa\" is a greeting used in the old anime\n[Dr.Slump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Slump), created by Akira Toriyama,\nthe author of Dragonball. \"Ohakonbanchiwa\" is a combination of \"Ohayou\" (Good\nmorning), \"Konnichiwa\" (Hello) and \"Konbanwa\" (Good evening).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-27T05:43:53.543", "id": "13657", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-09T09:09:52.900", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-09T09:09:52.900", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13637", "post_type": "answer", "score": 25 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe **release order** of .hack is:\n\n 1. .hack//Sign \n 2. .hack//Liminality [OVA]\n 3. .hack//Legend of Twilight (Tasogare no Udewa Densetsu)\n 4. .hack//Gift [OVA]\n 5. .hack//Roots \n 6. .hack//G.U. Trilogy [Movie]\n 7. .hack//G.U. Returner [OVA]\n 8. .hack//Quantum [OVA]\n 9. .hack//Sekai no Mukou ni [Movie]\n\n* * *\n\nIf you want to watch **each story** at a time, I would suggest:\n\n * .hack//Sign \n * .hack//Liminality\n\nBecause they share the same storyline. Then,\n\n * .hack//Legend of Twilight\n * .hack//Gift\n\nAs _Gift_ is a side story to the other three you have now watched.\n\nAt this stage there are two distinct storylines you can pick from:\n\n1:\n\n * .hack//Roots\n * .hack//G.U. Trilogy [Movie]\n * .hack//G.U. Returner [OVA]\n\n2:\n\n * .hack//Quantum\n * .hack//Sekai no Mukou ni [Movie]\n\nFinally, pick the story you didn't choose to watch in the last choice\n\n* * *\n\nHere's a flowchart from [AniDB:](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=8606)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T15:12:07.467", "id": "13646", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-26T16:32:02.787", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-26T16:32:02.787", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 24 }, { "body": "\n\nI just want to expand on [Toshinou Kyouko's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13646/1587) (since i was beaten to\nanswering it, thank you stupid timezones).\n\nWhile the question asked about the Anime there are some things to note as the\nasker is also asking about the _\"main story\"_ and in Toshinou's Answer\ncomments on not wanting to _\"skip any of the storyline\"_\n\n * .hack//Legend of the Twilight is not canon, the Manga by the same name is mainly because of how [Zefie's](http://dothack.wikia.com/wiki/Zefie) first appearance is in it (she does not appear in the anime, instead we get a fragment of Morganna Mode Gone)\n\n * .hack//G.U Trilogy is not canon while the game it's based off from is. .hack//G.U Returner and .hack//Quantum follow from the game and there is one major point that is different between the game and the movie\n\n> Ovan is brought back by Haseo in .hack//G.U Trilogy. in the games he is\n> still a Lost One after having used The Rebirth and Reiko Saeki AKA Shamrock\n> is searching for him in .hack//Quantum (she mentions looking for someone).\n\nAlso a huge chunk of the main plot of the series is told in the games (.hack\nPart 1 - 4, .hack//G.U Vol. 1 - 3, .hack//G.U Last Recode), .hack is set\nbetween the second last and last episodes of .hack//SIGN with\n.hack//Liminality occuring at the same time\n\n> when Helba forcefully shuts down The World's serves just as Tsukasa and\n> party are about to face Skieth is shortly before when the games start. the\n> last episode with everyone having a party in Net Slum we see Kite and\n> BlackRose along with how Tsukasa mistakes Mia as Macha because Mia is Macha\n> in a new PC (with little to no memories). \n> \n> in .hack//Liminality's last episode we hear mentions of the .hackers final\n> battle with Morganna Mode Gone and Corbenik, in fact the server they set up\n> is the same server that Helba mentions went down during the fight\n\nwhile .hack//G.U is set between .hack//ROOTS and .hack//G.U Returner\n\n> the intro scene of .hack//G.U Vol. 1 _Rebirth_ shows Haseo's fight with the\n> PKers and his fight with Azure Flame Kite which initializes him back to\n> Level 1. .hack//G.U Returner shows Haseo's Xth Form and the AIDA infected\n> Chim Chim explains how the AIDA aren't by nature violent and were influenced\n> by Tri-Edge\n\nAlso, there is .hack//Terminal Disk, while not an anime series it is a\ncollection of videos which came on a DVD with the pre-order of .hack//G.U Vol.\n1 _Rebirth_ and also included with _.hack//G.U Last Recoded_ , the re-release\nof _.hack//G.U_ with a new 4th Chapter set after the 3rd Volume.\n\nit follows Reiko Saeki's brother, Jun Bansyoya as he explains the events of\nthe previous games (including how Sora/Haseo/Ryou Misaki was freed from\nSkeith), of Project G.U (which he was a member of), the R.A Program and the\nNature of Cubia which lead him to separate Tavos from Project G.U Originally,\nparticularly revealing insight into Jyotaro Amagi who we see in .hack//Quantum\n\n> and how he was responsible with the CC Corp Fire and he destroyed Mai from\n> the original games/last episode of .hack//SIGN, which lead to\n> Elk/Endrance/Kaoru Ichinose to see an AIDA as Mia and become inflected\n\nalso Jun mentions he met Zefie during the final hours Players got to spend\ntime in The World before The World:R2 replaced it (wiping all PC Data). Zefie\nhints at as to why Aura suddenly disappeared before the events of .Hack//ROOTS\nbefore returning to her\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-26T22:59:08.597", "id": "13652", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-14T03:30:55.157", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-14T03:30:55.157", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe only proof we have seen so far, indicates that the ability re-spawns\nimmediately, as can be seen when\n[Smiley](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Smiley) died during the Punk Hazard\narc.\n\n\n\nMarshall D. Teach isn't a good counter-example as he probably didn't use the\nconventional way to obtain his second devil fruit power. He must have used his\npowers to obtain the power instead of just eating it. I believe that he used\nhis powers to trap the spirit before it could be reborn. I believe he absorbed\nthe devil, the moment it got out of Whitebeard's body and before it could\ntravel to the nearest fruit in order to be reborn.\n\nThe fact that Caeser deliberately put a sack of apples near the location he\nwould kill Salamander indicates that he was aware of the fact that it would\nre-spawn immediately. If it wouldn't, there wouldn't be any point in putting a\nbunch of apples in the sleigh near Smiley. And even if it was just a major\ncoincidence that the apples were there, it still shows that the Salamander\nfruit demon was reborn the instant Smiley died.\n\nI don't think it is a well known fact though. Otherwise the Marines would have\nput a fruit similar to the fire fruit nearby Marineford to keep that awesome\npower within the Marines. Or maybe they did and Doflamingo stole the fruit in\nthe end. We can only speculate on how Doflamingo got the Fire fruit, as it\nhasn't been revealed and I doubt it will be revealed further down the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-27T10:43:17.210", "id": "13661", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-27T14:03:34.600", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-27T14:03:34.600", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "13660", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's Hayate from [Hayate no Gotoku](http://www.anime-\nplanet.com/anime/hayate-the-combat-butler) and apparently, the tiger is also\nfrom the same series, he's Tama\n\n\n\n\n\n * [Ayasaki Hayate](http://www.anime-planet.com/characters/hayate-ayasaki)\n * [Tama](http://www.anime-planet.com/characters/tama-hayate-the-combat-butler)\n\n**Hayate's character description**\n\n> Butler of the Sanzenin, Hayate, although underage, has had to work to\n> support his unemployed parents. He moved from job to job since he was nine,\n> but through this he has gained considerable and practical knowledge on how\n> the world works. However, Hayate has terrible luck. Called a 'combat\n> butler', Hayate is skilled with firearms and is physically invincible, even\n> surviving after being hit by vehicles.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-27T11:02:49.593", "id": "13663", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-27T23:39:29.457", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-27T23:39:29.457", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "13662", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor starters, at the beginning of the series, [Kakashi was\n26](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake), and Naruto was 12. Which\nmakes him (and Obito) only 14 when the Kyuubi attacked.\n\nSecond, presumably Obito was able to summon Kurama because Kurama was under\nhis control, and thus acts like a sort of contract between the two. The only\nother person who was known for summoning Kurama is Madara Uchiha, and Kurama\nhates his guts.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-27T19:28:35.403", "id": "13669", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-27T19:28:35.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "13666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's a [Contract Seal](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Contract_Seal) to\nsummon tailed beasts. So far, we have only seen Kurama summoned with it. The\nanswer is here [Obito summoning\nkurama](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7531/does-obito-master-the-\nsummoning-jutsu)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-28T04:30:18.383", "id": "13675", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-28T04:30:18.383", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6176", "parent_id": "13666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt looks like it's from [Tokyo\nGhoul](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Ghoul). They've all got eyes like\nthat:\n\n\n\nIt looks like the characters from your screenshot are [Kurona\nYasuhisa](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Kurona_Yasuhisa) and [Nashiro\nYasuhisa](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Nashiro_Yasuhisa):\n\n\n\nMore info:\n\n * [My Anime List](http://myanimelist.net/anime/22319/Tokyo_Ghoul)\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=16086)\n * [Wikia](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Tokyo_Ghoul_Wiki)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-27T19:23:05.480", "id": "13668", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-27T19:29:02.303", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-27T19:29:02.303", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13667", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's [Tokyo Ghoul(Kushu)](http://myanimelist.net/manga/33327/Tokyo_Ghoul) its\na really good manga, and it already has an anime adaption.\n\n> ### Synopsis\n>\n> Strange murders are happening in Tokyo. Due to liquid evidence at the scene,\n> the police conclude the attacks are the results of \"eater\" type ghouls.\n> College buddies Kaneki and Hide come up with the idea that ghouls are\n> imitating humans so that's why they haven't ever seen one. Little did they\n> know that their theory may very well become reality.\n> ([source](http://myanimelist.net/manga/33327/Tokyo_Ghoul))\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-25T05:08:50.147", "id": "19656", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-25T08:43:35.787", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-25T08:43:35.787", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "12925", "parent_id": "13667", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThey are character from the Nasuverse (which Fate/kalied liner Prisma Illya is\nset in).\n\nFrom left to right\n\n * [**Touko Aozaki**](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Touko_Aozaki) \\- [Kara no Kyokai](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kara_no_Kyoukai), [Mahou Tsukai no Yoru](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mahou_Tsukai_no_Yoru)\n\nShe is Aoko Aozaki's older sister, the one you see in the screen shot is how\nshe looks in Mahou Tsukai no Yoru as she looks slightly different in Kara no\nKyokai.\n\n * [**Euryale**](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Euryale) and [**Stheno**](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Stheno) \\- [Fate/Hollow Ataraxia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/hollow_ataraxia)\n\nThey are the other 2 of the 3 Gorgon Sisters, as such they are related to\nMedusa, AKA\n[Rider](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Rider_%28Fate/stay_night%29).\n\n * [**Kohaku**](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kohaku) \\- [Tsukihime](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Tsukihime)\n\nOne of the Heroines from Tsukihime and\n[Hisui's](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Hisui) sister who both serve as maids\nfor the Tohno Household. Kohaku normally serves\n[Akiha](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Akiha). However, her romantic interest\nis [Shiki](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shiki_Tohno).\n\nIrisviel's quote would refer to them all being the older siblings and having\nsome sort of power over the younger siblings:\n\n * Touko has a [Sealing Designation](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sealing_Designation#Sealing_Designation) and was seen as being the most powerful due to her superior Magic Circuits. However, her little sister Aoko was chosen to be the Aozaki Successor instead, which made Touko angry and caused the fight between the two (and thus the reason why Magus Families try to avoid sibling heirs). Touko was only defeated when Aoko used one of the 5 True Magics which was thought to be impossible. Otherwise, by specifications, she is still better that Aoko.\n\n * Euryale and Stheno often picked on and belittled their younger sister Medusa and fed off her blood. However, they both did care very deeply for her. Chances are, if they were summoned as Servants, they would be more powerful than Medusa.\n\nAfter Medusa became the monster known as Gorgon, she devoured her sisters.\nHowever, when Perseus reflected the Nightmare of [Breaker\nGorgon](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Breaker_Gorgon) back at Medusa, the\n\"nightmare\" Medusa saw was of the time she spent with her sisters, which made\nher paralyzed with joy of seeing them again, so they still hold power over\nher.\n\n * Kohaku is a master at medicines and is often comically seen experimenting with them, (e.g. making a potion to turn Akiha into G-Akiha in Melty Blood), being a Magical Girl or making Mecha of Tsukihime Characters in her Underground Dungeon beneath the Tohno Household.\n\nIn Tsukihime, she plots to get revenge on the Tohno Family due to her having\nbeen raped by Shiki's and Akiha's father as a child and later by SHIKI before\nreleasing him (who then went to kill his father) because she (and her sister)\nare Synchronizers and resigned to this fate to protect her sister from\nsuffering the same abuse.\n\nThe part about \"[holding] more power than even the father\" is strange, as none\nof them do we know the father of. If it's related, I assume it might refer to\nKohaku as it was she who convinced Shiki's and Akiha's father to never touch\nHisui when they were children and that it was because she was a Synchronizer\nwho can keep him from giving into the Tohno Blood.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-28T22:05:47.550", "id": "13686", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T13:37:28.920", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-29T13:37:28.920", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13681", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe game changed him into a female character because he didn't modify his body\nwhen setting it up. The game automatically added a body correction. It's near\nthe beginning of Chapter 1 if you want to find it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-01T02:21:47.863", "id": "13768", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-01T02:21:47.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8209", "parent_id": "13689", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Volume 2, the prologue states that the machine identified Syun as a female.\n\nUnless there was a translation error in the previous volume, this is the first\ntime there is definitive evidence that Syun's avatar Yun is female in the\ngame.\n\nThis occurs when Yun goes an NPC and gets referred to as a female. He then\nexplains how it happened.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-19T03:45:58.687", "id": "14059", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-19T03:45:58.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "13689", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Krytyk's translation of volume 8, in chapter 3 there's this:\n\n> I said and walked towards the men's bath entrance marked with blue curtain. \n> 『\"——Entering prohibited. You do not have authority to enter.\"』 \n> \"Wha?!!\" \n> \"Hey hey, Missy. That's men's bath. The one beside it is for women.\" \n> Mikadzuchi pointed at the red curtain marking women's bath... \n> As if I'd enter women's bathh!! Heck! Why the hell can't I enter men's?!\n> I'm a man!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-30T19:02:43.837", "id": "31798", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-01T01:24:09.763", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-01T01:24:09.763", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "23795", "parent_id": "13689", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime that you are trying to find is most likely to be\n[Kämpfer.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4mpfer)\n\n\n\n**Plot:**\n\n> The plot revolves around Natsuru Senō, a normal high school boy with blue\n> hair. One day he wakes up and found himself turned into a girl. A stuffed\n> tiger \"Harakiri Tora\" comes to life and tells him that he has been chosen as\n> one of the \"Kämpfer\", a female fighter. The Kämpfer are destined to fight\n> with other Kämpfer. The story starts when he is attacked by an unknown girl\n> who happens to also be a Kämpfer.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T02:56:24.197", "id": "13693", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T03:24:25.547", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-29T03:24:25.547", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "5092", "parent_id": "13692", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]