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[ { "body": "\n\nFrom Wikipedia in [List of Sekirei\nCharacters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sekirei_characters):\n\nIt states under\n[Homura](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sekirei_characters#Homura):\n\n> Homura (焔, Sekirei #06) was the self-titled \"Sekirei Guardian\" who protected\n> unwinged Sekirei during the first two stages (this mission was given to him\n> by Takami), usually from Hikari and Hibiki. Prior to being winged, Homura's\n> power and gender were unstable. Even after his body started becoming female\n> (called \"feminization\" in the manga), Homura continued to think and act as a\n> man.... \n> \n> Afterwards, Minato received the power to determine Homura's gender and\n> mentality, but chooses to let Homura remain who he is for now\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T04:41:37.937", "id": "13698", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T14:07:14.893", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-29T14:07:14.893", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "5092", "parent_id": "13697", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n\"Toy Box Series Episode 3: Picture Book 1936\" (オモチャ箱シリーズ第3話 絵本一九三六年) could\ncount, depending on when you regard WWII and the second Sino-Japanese war as\nstarting. ([1934 in Anime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_in_anime) English\nWikipedia page listing it)\n\nHere's a [YouTube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVu-acHlpU). Warning:\nsome of the comments in the comment section are racist.\n\nFrom Boing Boing: [~~1936~~ 1934 Japanese cartoon with evil Mickey\nMouse](http://boingboing.net/2008/03/17/1936-japanese-cartoo.html)\n\n> Mickey Mouse flies in with a squadron of mouse-headed pterodactyls to attack\n> an island populated with cute Japanese animals, including a surreal Felix\n> the Cat with sausage-link arms. Link (Via Pink Tentacle)\n>\n\n>> [I]n the aftermath of the Mukden (Manchurian) Incident and Japan’s\nannounced withdrawal from the League of Nations after the League concluded\nthey were the aggressor, right wing elements in the country started an opinion\ncampaign that once the Five Power naval limitation treaty ran out in 1936,\nAmerica was planning to attack Japanese possessions, so Japan needed to expand\nits military… just in case.. Apparently, this cartoon was an attempt to stir\nthe pot.\"'\n\nBrowsing Wikipedia's XXXX in anime list, I came across [Sankichi the Monkey:\nThe Air Combat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_in_anime) in the 1942 year.\nHere's a [YouTube link featuring English\nsubtitles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKCfyBKvhw).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-30T08:59:53.193", "id": "13742", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-30T08:59:53.193", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1379", "parent_id": "13705", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is Black Rock Shooter (anime & character both have the name). It\noriginally was a drawing from Ryohei Fuke on Pivix. This later spawned an OVA\nand subsequent anime series in 2012 and also a PSP game\n\n\n\nOriginal Design\n\n> Black★Rock Shooter (ブラック★ロックシューター Burakku Rokku Shūtā?) [...] revolves\n> around its eponymous character, a mysterious black haired girl with a\n> blazing blue eye.\n>\n> The original illustration inspired a song of the same name by Supercell,\n> which gained popularity on the Nico Nico Douga website. A 50-minute original\n> video animation based on the franchise was produced by Yutaka Yamamoto's\n> studio Ordet, written by Nagaru Tanigawa and Shinobu Yoshioka, and directed\n> by Shinobu Yoshioka. A \"Pilot Edition\" was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc\n> in September 2009, before the full version was released on DVDs bundled with\n> select magazines from July 24, 2010, subtitled in seven languages, followed\n> by a retail release on December 17, 2010. An eight-episode television anime\n> series, produced by Ordet and Sanzigen, aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina\n> programming block between February 2 and March 22, 2012. The franchise has\n> also spawned several manga series and a video game for the PlayStation\n> Portable titled Black Rock Shooter: The Game, each set in their own\n> universe.\n\n[Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rock_Shooter)\n\nIf you want to watch/play you don't have to worry about the order too much as\nthe stories are separate\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T20:23:51.500", "id": "13731", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T20:40:32.267", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nTo be more precise, the character from the picture in the question is [_Insane\nBlack Rock\nShooter_](http://blackrockshooter.wikia.com/wiki/Insane_Black%E2%98%85Rock_Shooter),\nthe antagonist form of the titular main protagonist character _Black Rock\nShooter_.\n\n> Compared to Black★Rock Shooter, Insane Black★Rock Shooter has purple eyes\n> with a flame of the same color emerging from her left eye and fangs.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-30T01:34:22.903", "id": "13735", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-30T01:34:22.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2590", "parent_id": "13730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe name of the manga your mentioning is called\n[**Pansy**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/5966/Hikari_no_Pansy).\n\nA girl is raised by monkeys before being brought to where people are and\neventually meets the crown prince. It turns out her family was good at pianos.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-15T13:27:59.633", "id": "21575", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-15T13:51:22.283", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-15T13:51:22.283", "last_editor_user_id": "10644", "owner_user_id": "14480", "parent_id": "13733", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNothing has ever been shown of Zoro's family, and he has never mentioned them.\nWe know from his flashback that he trained in Kuina's father's dojo from a\nreasonably young age, and that even before that he traveled around as a\nreasonably good swordsman.\n\nThere's a chance he might have family on Wano Kuni, but I think it's unlikely.\nWe don't know if he knows his family, or if he grew up as an orphan, but he\nhas been without a family for a long time now.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-30T19:08:11.960", "id": "13750", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-30T19:08:11.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "13734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nLike other Straw Hats, nothing about his biological family has been told yet.\n\nMost of them had been raised by foster families (Dadan, Koshiro, Bellmere,\nZeff, Kureha, Tom and so on) and I think Oda clearly tries to make point that\nfamily is not about blood, but about feelings.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-25T10:38:32.643", "id": "26151", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-25T11:12:44.747", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-25T11:12:44.747", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "18102", "parent_id": "13734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI can't be certain because I haven't read the source material nor am I sure\nthat the author took this into consideration, but if I were to theorise I'd\nsay power was more related to the sacred gear and number of peices consumed in\nthe creation. By this I mean since Issei consumed 8 pawns his promotion to\nqueen should be, hypothetically 8 times as strong as the promotion of a single\npawn. I don't think the strength of his queen would impact this, but I cant\ntell for sure how powerful shed be in comparison. The other thing to consider\nis the sacred gear. Issei's Welsh dragon is inconsistent with its power, and\nthus he may be weaker than a normal queen on no stacks but stronger after\nsome. I'm not sure what you mean by the king of peices thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-31T07:34:09.827", "id": "13756", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-31T07:34:09.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8152", "parent_id": "13749", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n**No, the ability doesn't depend on the Queen of the group**. I forgot whether\nit was Rias herself, or Azazel-sensei that said that the stronger Issei is,\nthe longer he can stay in promotion as the promotion takes its toll on his\nbody. **If the promotion depends on the power of the team's Queen, then there\nwon't be any need for Issei to improve his physical strength.**\n\nIn the light novel, it was explained that each piece has a value. Queen worth\n9 pawn, Rook worth 5, Bishop and Knight 2. So, rather than the strength of the\nQueen, the promotion increases the strength according to those numbers, I\nthink. Of course the improvement depends on which piece he's going to promote\ninto.\n\nFor example, Knight is worth 2 Pawns, so the ability improvement is more or\nless 2x of his ability as Pawn. However, it is not distributed evenly. Most of\nit will be distributed to the Speed. Queen, being all-round piece, will get an\neven increment to all abilities.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-30T10:07:36.800", "id": "14241", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-02T07:01:05.693", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-02T07:01:05.693", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13749", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Harmonie** is the anime you're looking for.\n\n\n\n## Synopsis (MyAnimeList)\n\n> Every person has his or her own little world. Among the 34 bustling students\n> of classroom 2-1, there are many such worlds.\n>\n> Honjou Akio's world—my world—is filled with passionate talk about last\n> night's anime with Yoshida, Watanabe, and other friends. It's an fun,\n> comfortable place... But, I always wonder. Wonder about the world of Makina\n> Juri, smiling and surrounded by gorgeous friends on the other side of the\n> classroom.\n>\n> One day, I enter her world. But it's not as simple as it sounds.\n\n## Synopsis (IMDB)\n\n> A girl's phone rings during a class. A boy tries to reproduce the ringtone\n> and this becomes the spark that makes them meet, dream together and discover\n> each other personal world.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-31T18:08:06.767", "id": "13761", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-01T16:02:49.617", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8192", "parent_id": "13758", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe episode is **Target 55: Resolution**. At **17:45** she gives to Tsuna.\n[YouTube](http://youtu.be/R6v6Z90LYps?t=16m)\n\nIn case the video is deleted, below is the picture where she shows the charms\nshe made for everyone.\n\n\n\nI wanted to add a screenshot when she was giving charm to Tsuna, but I cannot\nfind Tsuna, the charm and Kyouko all in a single picture.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T17:01:27.020", "id": "17326", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-08T17:04:48.297", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-08T17:04:48.297", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13766", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> In movie, it is said scientists who caused the whole catastrophe felt\n> responsible for what happened and went along the inverts to underground as\n> form of atonement. And as part of the atonement, they helped inverts in\n> creating suitable living environment. And part of this environment was\n> system to simulate sun, moon, daylight and starry sky. That is what we saw\n> in the movie. And it is obvious that after whole thing finished, they went\n> their own way both forgetting about what really happened and thinking they\n> are actually the opposite side.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-04T08:16:55.487", "id": "13807", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-04T08:16:55.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "13772", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI've made a little picture to explain the orientation of Patema's world:\n\n**WARNING:** This explanation would be impossible without spoilers, so exit\nthis question if you don't want to reveal parts of the story!\n\n\n\nWe'll explore this planet from the outside in. So, **on the outside** is the\nworld like we the one we live on. It may have continental differences and\nother things, but nothing overly dissimilar to Earth. The light sources here\nare the same as ours - The Sun, Moon & Stars.\n\nThis layer (with the seas and continents) is actually where they end up at the\nend of the movie revealing that Age's civilisation were actually the inverts\nwho were caught in the scientists' disaster and had their gravity reversed -\ndespite their teachings otherwise.\n\nThe next layer is Patema's home ( **brown** )- Tunnels in between Age's world\nand the outside. The cave dwellers who are her family are decendants of the\npeople who burrowed into the earth in order to keep contact with the inverted\ncivilisation. Despite the title - Patema is not in fact inverted - She is the\ncorrect way up. This is indicated on the picture by little red people. The\nlight source here is mainly electric or oil-based. Some areas would have light\nleaking from Age's land.\n\nThe **blue sector** is where Age's civilisation resides. I think what people\nfound confusing about this is the fact that looking up they were able to see\nthe stars. But this is not actually the case, which we find out when Patema &\nAge take the flying ship to the **innermost section**.\n\nBehind the stars that Age's civilization sees is actually a huge feat of\nengineering. Boiling hot machines shine light down on the citizens at timed\nintervals (nighttime). You may have noticed Patema & Age suffering from the\nheat - as not only were the machines hot with activity, they were also getting\ncloser to the molten core of the earth [not shown in diagram]\n\nSo to answer your question, it is actually normal light from the sun and etc.\nAll other light throughout the movie was man-produced. You can see your\nscreenshot adapted in my diagram on the surface of the planet here (Age\nrepresented by the white person):\n\n\n\n(I am accepting any job offers as a lead artist for anime)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-04T09:06:53.763", "id": "13808", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-04T16:58:04.627", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-04T16:58:04.627", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13772", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter a long search I finally found the manhwa (Korean comics) I was looking\nfor.\n\nIt's name is [**Sword of the\nEmperor**](http://myanimelist.net/manga.php?id=45665)\n\n\n\n> **Synopsis**\n>\n> A young Emperor is cast out of his Empire by his uncle, who seizes the\n> throne for himself. The young Emperor sets out to become the strongest among\n> the living, and take back what is rightfully his.\n\nSo thanks for everyone who looked for it or at least tried to think about it\n:)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-04T11:54:14.427", "id": "13810", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T17:58:11.343", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-05T17:58:11.343", "last_editor_user_id": "7728", "owner_user_id": "8225", "parent_id": "13780", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Japanese, the [number\n4](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_superstitions#Numbers) and, to a\nlesser extent, 7, is generally associated with death and considered unlucky\nbecause of the pronunciation of the word. 4 is 「四」 which can be pronounced 「し」\n_\"shi\"_ , and 7 is 「七」 which can be pronounced 「しち」 _\"shichi\"_. Death is 「死」\nwhich is pronounced _\"shi\"_. 9 is 「九」 which can be pronounced 「く」 _\"ku\"_ ,\nmeaning suffering or hardship 「苦」. For this reason, it is impolite to give any\ngift in an [increment of 4](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_\\(number\\)#Others)\nor 9 (for example, a set of cups should be given and bought in sets of 5, not\n4), and my Japanese grandmother told me not to give in the increment of 7\neither since it has the sound of _\"shi\"_ inside the word.\n\nOn the other hand,\n[various](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_Japan#Impolite_gifts)\nthings considered positive in Japanese religion and mythology are in a [set of\n7](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_\\(number\\)#Others), such as the Seven Lucky\nGods 「七福神」（しちふくじん, _\"shichifukujin\"_ ） and the Seven-Branched Sword\n「七支刀」（しちしとう, ななつさやのたち、pronounced as either _\"shichitou\"_ or\n_\"nanatsusayanotachi\"_ ）.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T02:52:38.953", "id": "13819", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-06T07:16:59.157", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-06T07:16:59.157", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13785", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe first one that this tune brings to mind is the Attack on Titan opening\nsong - \"Guren no Yumiya\" by Linked Horizon, which of course is very recent .\nIt doesn't match the tune exactly, but it's a chance it could be because of\nmemory.\n\n[Here's an acoustic cover version of the\nsong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHzLFC-CmU)\n\nThe tune seems really familiar to me, so I'm hesitant about this answer,\nperhaps some more details like style/genre of music would help.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-03T22:02:57.430", "id": "13796", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-03T22:02:57.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13791", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe melody really reminds me of main theme from Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu.\nEspecially this part : <http://youtu.be/foKqCYEYnpo?t=45s>\n\nIt has slow tempo, but it doesn't have any lyrics. But I might be mistaking it\nbecause you used similar instruments in your music sheet.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T20:58:17.730", "id": "13948", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-12T20:58:17.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "13791", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis melody seems to be\n\"[Aizome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oIdIYHpHSo)\" by Mamiko Noto, the\nending theme of _[Jigoku Shoujo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Girl)_. The\nmelody seems to be playing the chorus of the song.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T01:05:21.253", "id": "15032", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-12T02:20:56.107", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-12T02:20:56.107", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "13791", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nSince I posted the question half a year ago, I've been tracking Sailor Moon\nscripts on Yahoo! Japan Auctions more regularly. If you are looking for a\nscript of a specific episode, you should act when it becomes available,\nbecause there are always some scripts up for sale, but not scripts of most of\nthe episodes of such a long series. At a given time, about 10~30 episode\nscripts are on auction. Scripts from the Sailor Stars season (season 5) rarely\ngo up on auction (I've only seen 2 listed in the past year). The Japanese used\n(i.e. pre-owned) merchandise store called Mandarake (online shop, plus\nbranches in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, etc.) sells scripts from a variety\nof series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-30T02:02:07.633", "id": "20450", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-04T05:03:30.033", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-04T05:03:30.033", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13798", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOfficially, Season 2 is a sequel to Season 1; it was released after Season 1\nand doesn't repeat any material. The US DVD releases for the two are\ncompletely separate. But because of the jumbled continuity of the Haruhi\nSuzumiya series, the Japanese TV broadcast of Season 2 included a rebroadcast\nof Season 1. That's why when you looked it up, your source said there were 28\nepisodes; it was going by the TV broadcast, and wasn't being careful about the\ndistinction between Season 1 and Season 2.\n\nSince the timelines of Seasons 1 and 2 are interleaved, when Season 2 was\nbroadcast on Japanese TV, it was shown along with a rebroadcast of Season 1,\nwith all the episodes in chronological order. For example, _The Sigh of Haruhi\nSuzumiya_ (in Season 2) was played before \"Live Alive\" (in Season 1) because\n_The Sigh_ takes place before \"Live Alive\". (The movie the Brigade shows at\nthe culture festival during \"Live Alive\" was filmed during _The Sigh_.)\n\nThe merging of Season 1 and Season 2 was only for the TV broadcast; if you buy\nthe DVDs, they're separate, so if you haven't bought the Season 1 DVDs yet,\nmake sure to get those along with the Season 2 set. The Season 2 DVD set only\nincludes the new episodes. The DVD sets don't have the episodes\nchronologically ordered; they have their own ordering for the episodes which\nis different from both the chronological ordering and the TV broadcast. You\ncan read more about that on [the Wikipedia\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya_episodes),\nbut I'll give a little summary:\n\n * Season 1 was originally broadcast in weirdo order, then later broadcast in chronological order **without** the Season 2 episodes.\n * When Season 2 came out, it was shown along with the episodes from Season 1; the entire series was shown in chronological order for this broadcast.\n * The US DVD sets have their own ordering. The Season 1 DVD sets are ordered chronologically amongst themselves, except that \"The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00\" is the first episode. The Season 2 DVD sets are ordered chronologically amongst themselves.\n\n(I'm not even going to go into whether the various repetitions of \"Endless\nEight\" have a chronological ordering or not--the metaphysics of time is off\ntopic here.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-04T03:02:21.997", "id": "13801", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-04T19:52:32.863", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-04T19:52:32.863", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13799", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've read the first 5 novels and from what I see, the main plot of the movie\nis basically the 5th novel (which is also the thickest one), though there are\nsome parts of the other novels in there too, especially in the beginning and\nin the end (after the scene in the planetarium).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T18:41:31.950", "id": "13840", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T18:41:31.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8260", "parent_id": "13800", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a good question you there. Kakashi uses the Sharingan to copy ninjutsu\nthat he has seen from other ninjas like the Water Dragon Jutsu and to continue\nusing them, he has used his memory and experience to remember the seals to\nperform them. The Sharingan is a tool which he uses it to learn other ninja's\nninjutsu the fast way and his brain memorises the ninjutsu so that he can cast\nit instantly whenever he needs it.\n\nHope I have answered your question.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T04:46:00.763", "id": "13824", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T04:46:00.763", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8179", "parent_id": "13811", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIndeed a good question.\n\nYes, but there is a limit. Based on the\n[wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan):\n\n> _The Sharingan's second-most prominent ability grants the user an incredible\n> clarity of perception. This allows the user to pick up on subtle details,\n> enabling them to read lip movements or mimic something like pencil\n> movements._\n\nNow, if a Sharingan user has this _incredible clarity of perception_ , he can\neasily copy hand seals. The result is that he can copy that jutsu and store\nthat in his memory for other use. On the other hand, since it is a _copied\njutsu_ , it doesn't mean that he _master_ that jutsu. As a result, Kakashi\nrequires more chakra to perform that jutsu thus giving him a limitation to use\nthem frequently.\n\nIn addition, he can't fully utilize/copy if a jutsu requires [Kekkei\ngenkai](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kekkei_Genkai) (not just hand seals).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T06:45:42.020", "id": "13826", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T11:00:24.890", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-05T11:00:24.890", "last_editor_user_id": "1709", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "13811", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with Bryan Se To above.\n\nIn terms of copying, I see the Sharingan as a camera. It takes crystal clear\nimages of the jutsu being perform from hand seals to chakra. Kakashi remembers\nthese images and can perform the same jutsu providing he have the same type of\nchakra and able to perform the hand seals. He probably have images of jutsu he\ncan't perform like bloodline limits, but still have knowledge of it.\n\nWith the sharingan like a camera, so long as he have the mental images in his\nbrain he can perform the jutsu even if the sharingan is destroy/removed. Kind\nof like taking photos of your girlfriend. Doesn't matter if she destroy the\ncamera, you still have the photos.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T17:40:56.663", "id": "13838", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T17:40:56.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8259", "parent_id": "13811", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYes he can. His sharingan enables him to see the hand seals movement of the\nenemy, where then he do the same seals, thus copying the jutsu. However,\nduring Naruto's training of Rasen Shuriken, he told Naruto that he can copy\nthe Rasengan but only up to the level where the Rasengan is on the palm in its\nsphere form. **He cannot copy beyond that** despite the fact that Rasengan is\nnot a Kekkei Genkai jutsu. What this means is that the Sharingan is not the\nreason he can copy other people's jutsu. Sharingan helped him copying jutsu by\nseeing the hand seals, but what enabled him to perform the jutsu is that **he\nhas the elemental affinity for the jutsu**. So far, it has been shown that\nKakashi is able to use 4 of the 5 basic elements (fire, water, earth, and\nlightning). His main affinity is lightning, though.\n\nAlso, based on the manga where ninjas not from Village of the Hidden Rock used\nearth jutsu to stop the bijuudama, it seems that up to a certain level, people\ncan use jutsu of elements that they don't have the affinity for. But,\nconsidering that Rasengan was said to be an A rank jutsu (or S, not sure) it\nis possible that people's element affinity itself has its level. Meaning that\nKakashi had the affinity for 4 of the 5 basic elements with lightning being\nthe strongest considering his only original jutsu (Raikiri a.k.a Chidori) is\nof that element. This fits the fact of him being able to use Rasengan, an A\nrank jutsu, but not being able to use Rasen Shuriken, an S rank jutsu which\nrequires elemental transformation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-08T10:49:13.743", "id": "13886", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-04T06:28:45.673", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-04T06:28:45.673", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13811", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell...yep he can use those jutsu which he sees with Hus\nsharingan....sharingan notes those hand seals which a ninja performs and\nKakashi at the same time remembers them. After remembering them it's easy for\nhim to perform the jutsu in future however more chakra is required for him.\n... \\+ we may not forget that he has a affinity for lightning element...which\ncertainly means that other jutsu which he copies....cannot be performed by\ntheir fullest potential.. However with time and experience he can perform\nthose abilities with their required amount of chakra and less burden\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-04T06:05:01.657", "id": "38251", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-04T06:05:01.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30130", "parent_id": "13811", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nKakashi can use wind style, too. He uses the Rasengan, which is a wind style\njutsu. This is during his teaching Naruto with the wood user Yamato. So, I\nguess I have my answer: he can use all styles.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-13T03:50:56.613", "id": "65906", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-13T10:04:04.010", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-13T10:04:04.010", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "63231", "parent_id": "13811", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHis name is written 黒鵺（くろぬえ）according to the [Japanese\nWikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%BD%E2%98%86%E9%81%8A%E2%98%86%E7%99%BD%E6%9B%B8_%E5%86%A5%E7%95%8C%E6%AD%BB%E9%97%98%E7%AF%87_%E7%82%8E%E3%81%AE%E7%B5%86#.E7.99.BB.E5.A0.B4.E4.BA.BA.E7.89.A9).\n\nHis name means \"black chimera.\" The [Japanese\nchimera](http://jisho.org/words?jap=*%E9%B5%BA*&eng=&dict=edict&tag=&sortorder=relevance)\nis a mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and\na snake tail.\n\nIf you do a Google search for 「黒鵺」, pretty much everything that comes up is\nabout _Yuu Yuu Hakusho_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T02:20:45.030", "id": "13818", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T02:25:49.193", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-05T02:25:49.193", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13816", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThese are the _Gokage_ (lit. _Five Shadow_ ), the first Kages from each\ncountry. Their names haven't been told yet, but by their appearance we can\ndeduct which _Kage_ ruled which village.\n\n**First panel:** The first _Kazekage_. I'm doubting between the third and\nfirst panel on who the first _Kazekage_ might be. But given that the third\npanel resembles a _Tsuchikage_ more, I deduct that this is the first Kazekage.\n\n**Second panel:** First _Mizukage_. The razor teeth follow the trend of the\nshinobi swordsman who originated from the village of the hidden Mist.\n\n**Third panel:** I'm guessing that this is the first _Tsuchikage_. I'm not\nsure because I can't base this answer on the fact that he's aged. The facial\nhair however does hint at a resemblance between Oonoki and other _Tsuchikage_\n's.\n\n**Fourth panel:** First _Raikage_ due to hair. We can assume that he's\ncoloured. This follows the trend that most villagers from the Hidden Cloud are\nin fact black.\n\nIn manga chapter 648, pages 10 - 11 and 12. We see Hashirama meeting with the\nfirst Kages. These are the same Kages as shown in the panels\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T07:55:08.830", "id": "13827", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T15:40:49.470", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-05T15:40:49.470", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2766", "parent_id": "13817", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis isn't a Bleach character. This is, as you guessed, Lightning from Final\nFantasy XIII, at least according to [this\npage](http://www.theanimegallery.com/gallery/image:119539/final-fantasy-\nxiii:lightning-anime-version) on TheAnimeGallery.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T04:42:28.180", "id": "13823", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T04:42:28.180", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "13821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe celestial entered Tiz when you started a new game, then left him as the\ncredits were ending.\n\n_You are the Celestial occupying Tiz's body._\n\nThe Celestial realm that Ouroboros is trying to break into is the real world\n(the 3DS camera even turns on and blends your face into the background during\nthe final battle after Ouroboros says that he's approaching the Celestial\nRealm). Ouroboros is also talking directly to you when he asks if pretending\nto care about the party has alleviated your boredom.\n\nThe AR movie at the start is supposed to be Anges briefly breaking into the\nreal world (the Celestial Realm) to beg you to intervene.\n\nThe extra movie is a sneak peak of Bravely Second. He wakes up from the coma\nbecause the celestial (you) came back to him for the next game.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T07:36:50.340", "id": "13939", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-12T07:36:50.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8314", "parent_id": "13825", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShall I assume that these characters are in high school or younger? In that\ncase, yes, it not so common for high schoolers to hang out at a ramen\nrestaurant compared to a fast food place like McDonald's or a family\nrestaurant like Jonythan's where they can stay for a long time using the drink\nbar (all-you-can-drink soft drinks/juice/coffee/tea), study there, chat with\nfriends, etc. Ramen restaurants are generally not upscale and, as you can see\nin the illustration, strangers may sit next to each other at bar-like seating,\nso this makes it convenient for middle-aged salarymen to eat lunch there alone\n(again, this is shown in the illustration). Ramen shops are not very conducive\nfor having conversations, hanging out, and staying past when you empty your\nbowl. Thus, it's not a place that usually has a family or young people vibe.\n\nIf these characters are university students, it is less likely that the\nJapanese girls would consider Karen fearless, because university students tend\nto want to eat cheap and quick food, so ramen joints work for that, but it is\nstill that case that many female college students wouldn't go to a ramen shop\nalone, and possibly wouldn't even go there in a group unless that group\nincludes a male friend, because they will assume that the place will be full\nof college guys and older men. It's more common for Japanese university girls\nto eat at regular restaurants and cute cafés.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T09:45:23.737", "id": "13833", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T09:45:23.737", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13828", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nI think that's the joke. Aya and Yoko are acting excited because Karen said\n\"You could at least sound interested\", so there taking the advice and are now\ninterested in the conversation (over-the-top interested mind you).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-20T21:46:12.643", "id": "31561", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-20T21:46:12.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23580", "parent_id": "13828", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## [Hiseki Senki Stone\nBuster!](http://myanimelist.net/manga/23657/Hiseki_Senki_Stone_Buster!)\n\n\n\nUnfortunately, I can not find an English summary online. If you read Chinese,\n[Baidu Baike](http://baike.baidu.com/view/1416354.htm) has a very brief\nsynopsis. The manga was serialized in [Shuukan Shounen\nMagazine](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=11496).\n\nIn volume 1, the following events took place:\n\n> Black shadows came out of the black stone, killed the store owner, and\n> burned down the store.\n\nSee [page 34](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a4Eo7.jpg). The store owner is saying:\n\"My body is dissolving?\"\n\n> The black stone threw itself into his eye and fused with it.\n\nSee [pages 47-48](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vkgk2.jpg).\n\n> He got another gift for the girl (a dolphin ring) and she happily accepted\n> it.\n\nSee [pages 101-102](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BoNln.jpg).\n\n**Later in the story:**\n\n> The guy with a jade necklace that can communicate with plants and the\n> vampire with a ruby that manipulates gravity both appear in volume 3. The\n> werewolf guy appears in volume 2. The monk with a blue stone that heals\n> appears in volume 4.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-18T15:09:43.910", "id": "18630", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-04T16:25:03.970", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-04T16:25:03.970", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "13835", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the first rule in [How To Use\nIII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note)\n\n> If the time of death is written within 40 seconds after writing the cause of\n> death as a heart attack, the time of death can be manipulated, and the\n> **time can go into effect within 40 seconds after writing the name**.\n\nSo the time of death (e.g. \"NOW\") won't go into effect for 40 seconds.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T21:13:46.133", "id": "13842", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T21:13:46.133", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13841", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYour quoted info is right. Most high school have first mid-term exam around\nMay 20th.\n\nThe problem is magazine system. As you think, most magazine's release date of\nissue 7 (July issue) is some day of June, because no one buy July issue in\nAugust.\n\nBut some magazine have more wider shift from titled date. JMPA (Japan Magazine\nPublisher Associates, which most Japanese magazines are members of) has the\nless than 40 day guideline for monthly magazine. Publisher (and book store)\ncan sell magazine 40 days before the titled release date or month. (Weekly\nmagazine have 15 days guideline.)\n\nIf the titled date is July 1st, publisher can sell the magazine after mid May.\nOf course, this is most extreme case, but it's possible that people can read\nissue 7 in May.\n\nTo evidence, you can find example from [Amazon.co.jp magazine\ncorner](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%9B%91%E8%AA%8C-%E9%80%9A%E8%B2%A9/b/ref=nav_mag?ie=UTF8&node=13384021).\nFor example, [this magazine](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00JV42OLE) is July\nissue (07月号) but Amazon starts sending that magazine mid May (2014/5/17). (Yes\nAmazon starts earlier than 40 days rule, and some book stores are angry about\nthis, but Amazon says customer will receive the magazine after the date).\n\nI think fashion magazine has earlier selling start date. Using the above\nexample, the magazine features topic on how to select swimwear, which most\npeople prepares before summer but uses it in summer. The date rule fits the\nuse case.\n\nWeekly Shounen Jump is officially release on Monday, but some store selling it\nfrom Saturday.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-06T03:16:36.923", "id": "13845", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-06T07:12:13.667", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-06T07:12:13.667", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "13843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeki most likely does not pay attention in class. Though I wouldn't call any\nof it definitive, the manga actually throws a deluge of evidence that Seki is\nalways playing. In contrast, I haven't seen him paying attention to class, so\nthere's no evidence that he does.\n\n 1. In the chapter _53rd Period_ in volume 4, Yokoi visits Seki's home and sees some of his prep work for his games. On page 134, Seki is shown holding two bags, one saying \"1st Period\" and the other \"2nd Period\". **This implies that he brings a game every day for every class.**\n 2. In _55th Period_ in volume 4, we see how Seki does on two English tests. On the first, he gave up halfway and painted his desk plaid, which got him a 23 (Yokoi got 82). Yokoi's comments:\n\n> \"Obviously! Your attitude towards class is reflected in that score! Plus,\n> during the test, Seki gave up right away and painted his desk plaid. He\n> should've scored even worse!\"\n\nDuring the retest, Seki used a myriad of toys to guess random answers for him.\nThis time, Seki got a 95 and Yokoi got an 88. **So from this chapter, it seems\nSeki plays even during tests.**\n\n 3. In _60th Period_ in volume 5, there's a parent visiting day, and we get to see Seki's mother. Seki's mother is immediately on guard, and launches rubber bands to knock away Seki's toys to stop him from playing around. **His mother's preparedness and lack of surprise implies that Seki fooling around in class is a longstanding problem.** The story heavily implies this with Yokoi's assessment of the situation:\n\n> \"A rubber band!! Seki's mother shot him with a rubber band! [...]The fact\n> that she brought rubber bands with her... means his mom knows that **Seki's\n> always goofing off in class!!** So this isn't the first observation day\n> where he's played around. I can't help imagining... The history of hardship\n> suffered by Seki's mother!\"\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AofnW.png)\n\nIn spite of this, one could try to argue that it's simply impossible that Seki\ncould get away with this every day all day, so Seki must pay attention to\nclass at some point...\n\nMy comment:\n\n> \"Seems likely that he wouldn't always be playing around since the only\n> reason he gets away with his antics because he sits in the back of the\n> class. He probably hasn't always sat there, nor will he always sit there in\n> the future. But given the nature of the show and manga, I doubt it is\n> addressed.\" – Shaymin Gratitude, Nov 1, 2016 at 18:06\n\nDue to the evidence I wrote out in the first part of the answer, I will eat my\nwords. _nom nom_. While Seki's actions are more grounded than, for instance,\n_Phineas and Ferb_ or _Nichijou_ , much of his antics are highly improbable\nand beggar belief, so we're still dealing with a level of surrealism. Thus, we\ncan't make this argument.\n\nThough the comment is still valid in so far as things could change if the\nmanga addresses this again. If I notice anything, I'll try to update the\nanswer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-10-14T16:56:33.147", "id": "68386", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-21T21:26:23.177", "last_edit_date": "2023-10-21T21:26:23.177", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "13846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Note: I don't recall any earlier points where Michiru and Mamoru interact in\ncivilian form, and I've been keeping an eye out for this since I started\nwatching this season a week ago. It's possible I may have missed something\nthough._\n\nIn episode 4 of _Sailor Moon S_ , Michiru and Haruka observe Mamoru from a\ndistance during and after the concert. (They are sitting some distance away\nfrom the five \"confirmed\" Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask, and they have\nopera glasses. Haruka points out Usagi and her boyfriend, whom Usagi had been\ncomplaining of feeling inadequate for, to Michiru.)\n\nIn the beginning of episode 9, Mamoru explicitly interacts with Michiru. He\nhas gone with Usagi and the other girls to watch Haruka at a motorcycle race.\nAfter the race, Usagi talks to Haruka and Michiru, bringing her friends and\nMamoru. (It's worth noting, however, that there is no introduction---\"This is\nMamoru; this is Haruka and Michiru\"---in this episode. Either the introduction\nis simply handwaved, or they were introduced at an earlier point, before they\nare _shown_ explicitly interacting for the first time.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-06T16:03:10.593", "id": "27118", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-06T16:34:17.383", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-06T16:34:17.383", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "13848", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis scenario is totally possible. As long the 2 main factors can be reached.\n\n 1. _This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected._\n\n 2. _The conditions for death will not be realized unless it is physically possible for that human or it is reasonably assumed to be carried out by that human._\n\nSo if he knows the real name, and can bring the face of the person to mind.\nAnd it is physically possible for that person to obtain a piece of death note\nand write in it. Then yes it is possible indeed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-06T13:23:24.150", "id": "13853", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-06T13:23:24.150", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "13851", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n> Whether the cause of the individual's death is either a suicide or accident.\n> If the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will\n> simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not\n> influenced.\n\nI'm sorry but I don't think Dimitri is correct. This appears to be the same as\ntelling L's bodyguards to shoot L. This does not work. There are quite a bit\nmore than just those two rules.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-07T15:33:00.040", "id": "13865", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-07T15:33:00.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "13851", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# From official source\n\nI tried to find some comments from the author on the Japanese internet, but\ncame up empty-handed due to my lack of knowledge of Japanese. I do have some\nvery tenuous evidence that as of 2013, there was no such explanation even in\nJapanese, discussed below.\n\nAccording to the [Japanese Wikipedia page on the Monogatari\nseries](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%80%88%E7%89%A9%E8%AA%9E%E3%80%89%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA#.E4.B8.BB.E8.A6.81.E4.BA.BA.E7.89.A9),\nvery little is known about Mizudori-kun and Rousokuzawa-kun except that\nMizudori-kun is shorter than Karen-chan and Rousokuzawa-kun is taller than\nTsukihi-chan, suggesting that they look similar to Koyomi and adding evidence\nfor the Fire Sisters' massive brother complex. Tsukihi-chan talks a little\nabout Rousokuzawa-kun in Neko Black, during which she says he wants to fondle\nbreasts in a set-theoretic sense, and also says during Tsukihi Phoenix that\nher relationship with him is chaste; she also says that Karen-chan and\nMizudori-kun haven't been getting along. The [Monogatari series\nwikia](http://bakemonogatari.wikia.com/) also has next to nothing to say about\nthem. Since Koyomi, the viewpoint character, has absolutely refused to meet\nthem, we've so far never seen them, and it seems that they're more a minor\nplot detail than anything; as far as I can tell, what I listed above is the\nsum total of our knowledge about them.\n\nAs for their names, Nisio Isin, author of the Monogatari series, has a history\nof making up bizarre names for his characters, usually ones full of pun and\nsubtext, and it seems the more minor they are, the more bizarre the names get.\nFrom the Monogatari series itself, I submit \"Kaiki Deishuu\" and \"Kiss-shot\nAcerola Orion Heart-Under-Blade\" and the name \"Valhalla Combi\" for the\ncombination of Senjougahara and Kanbaru; see\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaregoto_Series#Characters> and\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Medaka_Box_characters> for examples from\nhis other work.\n\n# Fan's interpretation\n\nThe next part is a little tangential since it involves an unofficial\ndoujinshi, but I take it as evidence that Japanese audiences also had no\naccess to an explanation as of April 2013 (the doujinshi's publication date)\nsince they were making up their own theories. I once found a doujinshi (a\nvery, very NSFW doujinshi, which could get you fired if you happen to be at\nwork, so I'm not going to provide a link, but the title is _Sukimonogatari_ \\-\n[SFW Cover](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VlYpf.jpg)) that offered a theory on the\nnames \"Rousokuzawa-kun\" and \"Mizudori-kun\", along with a random sex scene.\nHere's part of a page (edited to be SFW) that explains some of the theory:\n\n\n\nNote that in the doujinshi, boys named \"Mizudori-kun\" and \"Rousokuzawa-kun\"\ndon't exist; \"Mizudori-kun\" is Tsukihi-chan, and \"Rousokuzawa-kun\" is Karen-\nchan. The upper-left panel gives a chain of transformations:\n\n[月火]【Tsukihi】 (Moon | Fire) \n→ [水]【Mizu】 (Water. Based on day of the week progression from Sunday to\nSaturday: 日月火水木金土) \n→ [瑞]【Mizu】 (Good omen. A kanji with the same reading as \"water\") \n→ [瑞鳥]【Mizudori】 (Auspicious bird).\n\n[火憐]【Karen】 (Fire | Pity) \n→ [燐]【Rin】 (Phosphorus. Take the second character and replace the heart\nradical 忄 with fire radical 火) \n→ [燐寸]【Macchi】 (Match. Match head contains phosphorus) \n→ [蠟燭澤]【Rousokuzawa】 (蠟燭 means candle. 澤 or equivalent\n[shinjitai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai) 沢 is a common character\nused in names)\n\nKoyomi takes note of the terrifying coincidence in the names they give each\nother and the kaii that they are affected. Tsukihi-chan, called \"Mizudori\", is\na bird kaii, and \"auspicious bird\" can refer to phoenix. Karen-chan, called\n\"Rousokuzawa\", was afflicted by a bee kaii, and candles can be made of\nbeeswax. When Koyomi asked why they choose such names, the Fire Sisters\nexplain that they chose those names because migrating **birds** and\n[**candle** clocks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_clock) are both\nmethods of telling time, which aligns with the fact that the entire Araragi\nfamily has names with timekeeping and calendar themes1.\n\n# Conclusion\n\nIn summary, nothing much is said about these two in the novels or anime up\nthrough the end of the second season, and no explanation is given for their\nnames up to that point. Although I didn't find anything official, the very\nscant information on these two, along with the (admittedly weak) evidence of\nthe doujinshi, suggests that they're another example of Nisio Isin's famously\nbizarre punny names for his characters, and no, he isn't going to explain them\n(that would ruin the fun).\n\n# Footnote\n\n 1. [暦]【Koyomi】 means calendar.\n\n[火憐]【Karen】 contains the prefix of カレンダー, i.e. calendar.\n\nTsukihi （月火） can be rendered as 月日, which contains the kanji for moon and sun,\nwhich also means month and day.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-07T07:57:16.330", "id": "13861", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T10:56:38.737", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T10:56:38.737", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13856", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is going to be all spoilers.\n\n> Those are pictures are from the book [Obluda, Která Nemá Své\n> Jméno](http://obluda.wikia.com/wiki/Obluda) or \"A monster without a name\" by\n> Franz Bonaparta under the alias Emil Scherbe in the Czech language. It was\n> first introduced in the anime at episode 37 and in chapter 71 in the manga. \n> \n> Though the book itself is created by a fictional character from Monster, I\n> believe you can actually buy a real copy of it. \n> \n> See also: [The nameless monster\n> article](http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/anime/articles/142586/title/nameless-\n> monster).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-07T03:36:43.870", "id": "13859", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-07T16:26:37.530", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-07T16:26:37.530", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13858", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn _To Aru Majutsu no Index_ light novel volume 6, page 57, it is explained\nhow teleporters use the 11th dimension to move objects:\n\n> [...] Though the phrase “to teleport within space” sounded simple, the\n> theory behind it was to get away from the three dimensions, find her\n> position in the eleventh dimension, and then calculate the vectors to\n> teleport. [...]\n\nIn volume 20, page 107, it is specifically explained that:\n\n> When he reflected teleportation powers, a strange phenomenon occurred in the\n> 3 dimensional world, [...]\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-11T19:16:45.513", "id": "13928", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-26T15:15:29.063", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-26T15:15:29.063", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7902", "parent_id": "13864", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA witch's \"Labyrinth\" is technically a separated space which the witch hides\nin, as such, it doesn't so much have a range. We see this numerous times - no\nmatter how far they travel inside a witch's Labyrinth, the Puella Magi more\noften than not reappear where they entered.\n\n * In the case of the first witch whom Mami faced together with Madoka and Sayaka, in which Mami saved an office woman from falling, the three entered the Labyrinth when they were on a bridge. After the witch was defeated, they reappeared on the same bridge.\n\n * Charlotte's Labyrinth appeared outside the hospital where Kyousuke Kamijou was in. Sayaka and Kyubee traveled a fair way into it to reach where Charlotte was asleep and kept a watch on her progress. Mami and Madoka also did a lot of traveling to get to Charlotte's lair. Despite all that, all of them sans Mami returned to the same spot that Sayaka and Kyubee had entered.\n\n * Homura's Labyrinth was inside her Soul Gem and contained in an isolation field which we see isn't all that big despite it being the size of an entire city (though it did have a limit which would then loop back into the city). We can confirm this when the Puella Magi broke open the roof and there were 2 Incubators looking down.\n\nThe case of Walpurgis Night, however, is different. In the timeline before the\nanime, which Kyubee commented that Kriemhild Gretchen would finish destroying\nthe world soon, Madoka is seen **inside** a Labyrinth where Homura was\nfighting Walpurgis Night. However, at the end of the series/second movie, the\nfight took place in the city **without** the materialization of a Labyrinth,\nwe can make 2 hypotheses from this:\n\n 1. Walpurgis Night's Labyrinth is that of the storm cell that weather agencies picked up and warned people about.\n\n 2. Walpurgis Night gets more powerful with each jump Homura does due to it being a possible cause for Madoka's Fate. In its final fight, its Labyrinth probably wasn't needed since next to nothing could stop it. However, its power doesn't grow nearly as fast as Madoka's, which is why after enough jumps, Madoka could kill it with one shot.\n\nAs for how much control a witch has over the elements in the Labyrinth, they\ndon't have much apart from the formation of elements that they use for their\nattacks (e.g. Sayaka's wheels). The Labyrinth is more of a reflection of the\nMagical Girl's mental landscape before she became a witch. We also know that a\nLabyrinth forms before the witch is fully born, which is also the case of\nCharlotte whose Labyrinth had formed but was still sleeping as a Grief Seed\neven when Mami and Madoka entered (we see Sayaka and Kyubee keeping a watch on\nit).\n\nSources: Observations, [Madoka Magica Trivia](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Labyrinth#Witch.27s_Labyrinth)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-07T22:53:33.927", "id": "13868", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-08T15:19:02.140", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-08T15:19:02.140", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe original Japanese title was \"Working!!\". It was changed to \"Wagnaria!!\" by\nNIS America for the US release.\n[Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working!!). \"Wagnaria\" is the name of\nthe restaurant where the main cast works, so it makes sense as a title, even\nif kind of sounds like the name of a world of magic and wonder where knights\nand princesses adventure.\n\nTHEM Anime claims [in its review of Season\n2](http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=1487) that the title \"Working\"\nalready belonged to a 1997 sitcom starring Fred Savage in the United States,\nwhich precluded NIS America from using it. I'm skeptical; as far as I know, US\nlaw does not prevent two works from having the same title as long as neither\ninfringes the copyright of the other by copying major plot elements or other\nprotected aspects of a work. Otherwise, I don't see how [every US TV series\never written could have an episode titled \"The\nGift\"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StockEpisodeTitles)\n(warning, TV tropes). I think NIS America just felt the title was too plain to\ncatch attention in the US; in Japan it stood out because it was in English,\nbut in the US, it's just a gerund.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-07T23:31:11.943", "id": "13870", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-08T13:08:49.457", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-08T13:08:49.457", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13869", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Japan, it is normal to address others by their family name instead of their\ngiven name far longer in any kind of relationship than in the West. First name\nbasis is usually reserved for very close friends, and even then not always\napplied, depending on the people involved and their background.\n\nWith that premise, what can be observed is not very unusual, just sufficiently\nborderline to allow giving a spotlight to the issue in the story.\n\nThe way Senjougahara uses this to tease Araragi can be considered her trait.\nShe often (ab)used similar situations in the same manner and made a pun of it,\nwhich confirms the image and personality she displayed before.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-09T00:47:28.207", "id": "13897", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-09T00:47:28.207", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "220", "parent_id": "13875", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nEven though we viewers have spent three, four, five years of our lives\nwatching Monogatari, Koyomi and Hitagi have only been dating for about a year\nat the end of Monogatari Second Season. In other anime, characters who've\nknown each much longer than that are still on a family name-basis; for\nexample, _Honey and Clover_ takes place over four years, but by the end of it,\nalmost everyone is still on a family-name basis. That's something we should\nprobably consider.\n\nNot only that, Hitagi herself is a distant sort of person. Look at the lengths\nshe went to to stop anyone getting involved with her when she was afflicted by\nthe Heavy Crab--she alienated her friend, Suruga, and actually cut open\nKoyomi. Because of her past, she's distant and standoffish with everyone, but\nshe's especially uncomfortable with romantic matters. She warns Koyomi early\non in their romance (Tsubasa Cat Part 2) that it's going to move very slowly\nif he stays with her, and that she might never be ready for certain intimate\nactivities. I'm sure she wasn't including calling each other by given name in\nthat, but it's still a sign of the very slow progress that she warned Koyomi\nabout.\n\nI also think we should look at Koyomi himself. In general, he seems to use\npretty respectful forms of address. He calls every one of the heroines by\nfamily name, even though Mayoi and Nadeko are younger than him and could\nprobably be referred to by given name, possibly with -chan. (In Love Hina,\nKeitaro Urashima calls Motoko Aoyama \"Motoko-chan\" from the get-go, and even\nthough she despises him, she never calls him on this that I can remember.) He\ncalls his own sisters \"Karen-chan\" and \"Tsukihi-chan\" with an honorific, which\nTsubasa remarks on as odd. He refers to Oshino Meme as \"Oshino-san\", even\nthough Oshino is a weird transient in a Hawaiian shirt and Koyomi doesn't seem\nto find him particularly worthy of respect in most ways.\n\nGiven all of the above, it seems likely that:\n\n * It's somewhat normal in Japanese culture to still be on a family-name basis after dating for just a year.\n * Hitagi is trying to take things slow; for that reason, she might be sticking with family names as a way of keeping a little distance.\n * Koyomi seems to prefer using a family name with no honorific to address his friends, and without a sign from Hitagi, he isn't going to switch how he addresses her.\n\nAs for Hitagi hassling Koyomi when they're in the car with her father, well,\nthat's Hitagi. She loves making him uncomfortable. It might also have been a\nway for her to try on being on a given-name basis in a non-threatening\nenvironment without committing to anything. If she liked being called by her\ngiven name, she could ask Koyomi to keep doing it; otherwise, once she's had\nher fun, they're back to family names. I don't really think she keeps this up\nout of respect for Tsubasa. I would go too far into literary analysis if I\ntalked about all my theories on the dynamic between Tsubasa and Hitagi, but\nsuffice it to say, I don't think Hitagi ever saw Tsubasa as a loser who she\nshould be a gracious winner towards, which is the view that that kind of\ngesture would suggest.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-10T08:22:01.777", "id": "13908", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-10T08:22:01.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13875", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSailor Moon Crystal is not expected to make money among the Japanese (its main\nhope to turn a profit is to make it available to viewers outside of Japan,\nsuch as by selling a license to stream it). (Please also see my answer to a\nsimilar question, which Toshinou Kyouko linked in the comments, for details on\nwhy.)\n\nAiring episodes weekly would mean that either 1) the series ends after only 26\nweeks, or 2) that the animation company would need to animate 2 to 3 times as\nmany episodes to run for the same number of weeks. Since it is not necessarily\nprofitable to produce the series, animating more episodes would be too costly.\n\nOnly the first 2 episodes were made available to view for free on NicoNico\nDouga in Japan; to see all subsequent episodes, Japanese are required to buy a\nsubscription to NicoNico. Spreading out the episodes more sparsely over time\nforces the fans who buy a subscription for the sole sake of watching Sailor\nMoon Crystal to pay for about a year's worth of subscription, rather than only\n26 weeks' worth. The number of such fans is probably low, but the company\nneeds to milk the amount of money it can get from them. Stretching it out also\ncan provide a longer time frame in which said fans could decide to buy some\ncollectible merchandise before it ends and they move on to avidly watching\nanother series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-09T04:36:36.080", "id": "13901", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-09T04:36:36.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "13876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Edit:** See @senshin's answer for the correct answer. This answer addresses\nthe question assuming the version on Crunchyroll was the same as before. I\nwill keep this here for general reasons as to why the series may have been\ncensored on TV.\n\nI don't have a definitive answer, but I can offer some guesses:\n\n * This season may have aired on TV earlier than usual so harsher censorship rules could have applied (I don't think this one is likely, but it's a possibility)\n\n * In the past few years censorship laws have been enforced more and more strictly. In July 2013 (before Stardust Crusaders) There was a big push for more self-censorship after a series of arrests in Core Magazine. Also broadcasters will send back episodes if they do not meet their expectations of censoring. These then have to be edited at short notice to be fit to broadcast.\n\n * With regards to smoking, The Japan Society of Smoking Control may have filed a complaint. They have been known to do so with other anime series, such as Nana [Ref](http://comipress.com/news/2006/06/25/325)\n\n * Other groups may have complained about Jojo's content - In 2008 Jojo was under fire for having Dio reading the Qur'an and containing fighting scenes played out ontop of, and destroying, mosques. [Ref](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoJo's_Bizarre_Adventure#Controversy) \\- These scenes had to be redrawn.\n\n * The animators may have seen what way other shows were going and used them as a guideline for what to censor and what not to. It is true that Japan has been stricter on censorship over the last 10 years, and that the market is also moving towards a _censored TV / Uncensored DVD_ setup.\n\nI would imagine it's primarily broadcaster standards that dictate what Jojo\ncan and cannot show. Stardust Crusaders was also on more Japanese TV networks\nthan its prequel so it had more vendors to satisfactorily censor for.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-11T08:23:05.880", "id": "13921", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-07T21:18:30.667", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-07T21:18:30.667", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13877", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nParts 1 and 2 of Jojo were censored just as bad when they aired on TV.\nCrunchyroll is just using the uncensored blu-ray release for them.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-06T15:25:09.170", "id": "17343", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-06T15:25:09.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "13877", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n[user11503's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/17343/1908) is exactly\ncorrect: the earlier parts of JoJo were just as bad when they aired on TV.\nHere's the TV version of OP's screenshot from JoJo part 1:\n\n\n\nNot much better than Stardust Crusaders.\n\nHere's what happened: sometimes, Crunchyroll only gets streaming rights to a\nshow after the BDs have come out. This was the case for JoJo parts 1 and 2. In\nthese cases, Crunchyroll will typically use the BD version rather than the TV\nversion, since the BD version is almost invariably higher quality (Shaft\nnotwithstanding). Of course, it so happens that the BD version also will be\nless censored.\n\nThis also happened, for example, with\n[Madoka](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6268/1908) (no simulcast; when\nCrunchy got streaming rights, they used the BD version).\n\nI think it is unlikely that most of the points mentioned in [Toshinou Kyouko's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13921/1908) are relevant in light of\nthe fact that OP's assumption is false: Stardust Crusader is _not_ , in fact,\nsubstantially more censored than parts 1 and 2. The smoking thing seems like\nit might be playing a role, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-07T03:08:00.057", "id": "17352", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-08T00:51:19.797", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "13877", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nASIMOV is kind of OS (or program), used by Earth force.\n\n\n\nIt's main module to control kataphrakt as you seen in the image above. But who\ndevelop it, what else it can do, it's still unknown (for now).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-09T10:34:45.633", "id": "13903", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-09T10:34:45.633", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4506", "parent_id": "13878", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe name itself just seems to be a reference to the science fiction writer\nIssac Asimov who the show draws a lot of parallels to. The team behind the\nshow seem to be classic sci-fi fans.\n\nEdit: In Asimov's Short Novel series including The Caves of Steel, The Naked\nSun a detective is charged with investigating a murder of a member of a group\nof people that left earth to colonize space. These select few created an\nelitist society with a small but pure, healthy population. Much like American\nplantation aristocracy. These colonists or \"spacers\" saw their distant\nrelatives as inferior and alien due to the lack of attention the Earthlings\ngive to genetic filtering or a seemingly strange social system. Auro Kumar\nDatta can explain it better that me here:\n<http://worldanimeclub.com/2014/10/12/aldnoah-zero-isaac-asimov-revisited/>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T02:14:05.687", "id": "14872", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T08:35:55.240", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-08T08:35:55.240", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "9031", "parent_id": "13878", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAnnie's titan transformation was her main weapon. If indeed she was the Female\nTitan, she wouldn't want to go underground because that would put her at a\nhuge disadvantage (she wouldn't be able to properly transform in such a small\nspace).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-08T08:48:56.993", "id": "13881", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-08T10:05:23.687", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-08T10:05:23.687", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "13880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n**Warning : possible spoilers from the manga**\n\nThe power of the titans comes from light. So, during the night, they lose\ntheir power and become inactive or, at least, less vigorous than during the\nday.\n\nSo, Annie may have feared that she would be unable to transform in the dark or\nto fight well against Mikasa and Eren.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-08T09:26:28.630", "id": "13883", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-08T09:26:28.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2064", "parent_id": "13880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe problem is that Mikasa was with them. Were it only Armin and Eren, Annie\nmight not be that afraid of going underground. Annie knows that in human\ncombat, Mikasa can match her if not best her. The only way for her to defeat\nMikasa and take Eren with her is for her not to go underground. Going\nunderground will prevent her from transforming, not because of the dark, but\nbecause if she transform there, she will be trapped in the tunnel, preventing\nher from moving. Being unable to move will cause not only:\n\n 1. her identity as the female titan be exposed\n 2. be captured by the Scouting Legion\n 3. failing her mission of capturing Eren alive\n\nthat's why.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-08T10:28:25.037", "id": "13885", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-08T10:28:25.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nThere's 3 (two for now) different future, first future is when the 10000\ndragons come out from the gate. This future Lucy didn't know about Rogue so\nshe didn't know that they have to destroy the gate so Rogue won't come to the\npast and prevent all of this to happen. So the diary didn't consist of how to\nstop the prophecy, but rather she just write what she know that if the gate\ndestroyed, it will make a chain reaction effect. Present Lucy is the one who\ncome up with the conclusion.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-09T01:49:30.763", "id": "13898", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-09T06:08:19.470", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-09T06:08:19.470", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "13884", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt definitely has the potential to be profitable. Otherwise, why would they do\nit?\n\nMovie adaptions for a successful series have two benefits.\n\n * Avid fans will watch it, even if it is just a giant recap\n * People who don't want to invest 26 episodes' time into the series will watch it\n\nThe latter is especially true as more casual viewers will have heard the name\nbefore from the shows' popularity and decide to get up to speed with it\nthrough the movie.\n\nOf course, every instance is different and there may be series that flunked\ndramatically or performed exceedingly well.\n\nIn the case of live-action adaptions like Death Note, the audience spreads a\nlot wider and can be marketed to people who wouldn't go near anime usually.\n\nI can't find any sales figures but I'm pretty sure it's a good investment for\npopular shows, but every venture is unique.\n\nWhether it's necessary is up to your personal opinion.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-08T15:40:29.247", "id": "13890", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-08T15:46:04.953", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-08T15:46:04.953", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "13887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's very cheap to cut a TV show up to become a movie compared to making a\nwhole new movie. This is usually done in anticipation of some form of\ncontinuation of the story.\n\nPeople who watched the show years ago but did not buy it can refresh their\nmemory, people who never watched the show get a chance to dive into the\nfranchise. Fans get to experience the show on the big screen.\n\nThere's really no downside if the franchise is popular enough.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-28T11:46:18.573", "id": "67728", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-28T11:46:18.573", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "13887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to the financial incentives, a studio may compile a series into a\nmovie in order to release a version without filler, or content that may have\nbeen added in for political\\commercial reasons. Think of it as being a\ndirector's cut.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-28T17:24:33.180", "id": "67730", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-28T17:24:33.180", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "70080", "parent_id": "13887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n### Compilation videos predate modern video consumption methods and were\ndesigned to be compact, efficient and affordable products that allowed casual\nfans to relive the series.\n\nOther answers cover the modern concept nicely, but as someone whose first\nexperiences with anime dates back to the world of media that existed prior to\nstreaming, Blu-rays and DVDs, the reasoning is simple: It was not practical or\neconomical for studios to pump out VHS episode collections back in the 1970s\nand 1980s.\n\nI first got into anime when trying to get episodes of old English versions of\nanime I grew up with: [_Battle of the\nPlanets_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Planets) (aka: [_Science\nNinja Team\nGatchaman_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Ninja_Team_Gatchaman)) and\n[_Star Blazers_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers) (aka: [_Space\nBattleship Yamato_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato)) as\nwell as old [_Space Pirate Captain\nHarlock_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pirate_Captain_Harlock) episodes\nI would occasionally see on local\n[UHF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high_frequency) stations in NYC back\nin the day.\n\nNeedless to say in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there weren’t many quality\nor comprehensive releases of vintage anime like that on VHS past a few\nofficial compilation “[direct-to-video](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-\nto-video)” releases.\n\nSo while nowadays, I can easily purchase DVD or Blu-ray set of all of the\nepisodes of any of those series, back then relatively short official\ncompilation VHS releases is the best anyone could do.\n\nThus, things like the [_Gatchaman The Movie_\n(1978)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6856) were\ncompiled and released in theaters and eventually on home video. Whether\ncompilation “films” like this were good or bad, for most people at the time a\n“movie” like this was the only way to rewatch the characters of Gatchaman at\nhome on their own VHS players.\n\nAnd sure, fandom-based tape dubbing circles existed. But for the average fan\nwho just wants a bit of nostalgia, compilation “films” like this worked well.\n\nI don’t believe there was ever a _Space Battleship Yamato_ video compilation\nfilm that was ever released in this way, but the first few _Space Battleship\nYamato_ movies were basically a retelling of the exact same story told in the\nmulti-episode TV series.\n\nDitto with _Space Pirate Captain Harlock_ but I cannot recall the exact name\nof the VHS release but among fan circles that VHS compilation of a handful of\nTV episodes was considered a compilation made for “kids” since it summarized\nand simplified a lot of the plot-lines to make it all more self-contained.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-30T00:24:02.583", "id": "67736", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-30T15:44:45.207", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-30T15:44:45.207", "last_editor_user_id": "20254", "owner_user_id": "20254", "parent_id": "13887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe objective is to make your opponent move their feet or otherwise lose their\nfooting. There are a wide variety of rulesets and variations. This one seems\nto be pretty basic:\n\n * Each player stands feet apart with toes pointing at each other.\n * Hands are placed palm to palm, palms of your opponent are the only part of them you can touch.\n * Push or pull your hands to throw your opponent off balance.\n * Whoever shifts their feet first loses.\n\nSome varieties include:\n\n * Clasp right hands and try and shift your opponent's footing.\n * Push anywhere to shift your opponents footing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-08T18:58:32.417", "id": "13893", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-19T23:46:34.773", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-19T23:46:34.773", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "8286", "parent_id": "13891", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n<http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2002-06-11> Anno is not really\ncritique anything in particular. He came up with the concept of EVA when he\nwas going through depression. It is a coming of age story and offers ideas of\nliving the life that he and Gainax thought were important for life. The show\ndoes play homage to series like Ultraman; and is littered with hidden\nreferences. Most of the food in the vending machines were discontinued\nfavorites that the animators liked (the junk food market has a quick turn\naround with many flavor varieties being limited edition).\n\nI would recommend watching [Blue Blazes (Aoi\nHonō)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoi_Hon%C5%8D). This J-drama has Anno and\nother members of Gainax and does show a little about who Anno is and how\nGainax made the Daicon (Diacon 4 in particular) opening that made them famous.\n\nI would look at ME! ME! ME! This recent music video is a much straight forward\ncritique on how anime is consumed by Otakus in Japan.\n\nOtaku no Video is another cool OVA to check out. Made by Gainax it is\nsomething of an autobiography into how the studio was created.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-09T17:55:52.537", "id": "20739", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-14T22:13:27.600", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-14T22:13:27.600", "last_editor_user_id": "11760", "owner_user_id": "11760", "parent_id": "13892", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThis manga is [**Zai x\n10**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=103028) （[罪×10]【じゅうざい】） by\nYamauchi Yasunobu, the same author as [_Danshi Koukousei no\nNichijou_](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=44418).\n\nThe first 2 chapters and the latest chapters can be read\n[here](http://www.ganganonline.com/comic/jyuzai/) on Gangan Online (in\nJapanese).\n\nThe scene is from page 3 of chapter 16 _Hijacking Arc 2_\n\nBelow is my own summary of the first 11 chapters. It contains heavy spoiler\nthat will destroy your viewing experience, especially the comedy, so read with\ncare:\n\n> The story is basically about 10 different girls/ladies either involving in\n> or committing 10 different kinds of crimes, where their special powers are\n> shown. Their special powers originate from their ribbons, which were given\n> to them by a mad scientist. The magical girl, who also gets her power from\n> the mad scientist, decides that the mad scientist is the root of all the\n> evil and beats him up. The mad scientist then reveals that there are other\n> girls whom he had modified before, and their power source is their ribbons.\n> Thence, the magical girl goes on a mission to retrieve all of them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-09T19:13:18.523", "id": "13906", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T10:57:29.873", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T10:57:29.873", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "13905", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSpoilers galore:\n\n> Kite was killed and was fed to the ant queen. When the queen was killed, she\n> had one last baby, a little girl. That little girl was known to be Kite\n> because she rejected the name her caretakers gave her and referred to\n> herself as Kite. This happened in Episode 92.\n\nPlease see this\n[wikia](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Kite_\\(Chimera_Ant\\)) entry for\nmore information.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-10T08:34:27.493", "id": "13910", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-10T08:34:27.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "13909", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs the asker may have seen in episode 146,\n\n> Ging told Gon that Kite's weapon had a special setting which only activated\n> when Kite was in fear of his life. The episode did not state this\n> specifically, but implies this is what led to his reincarnation.\n\nEpisode 147 begins with a long metaphysical monologue from Koala\n\n> to the reincarnated Kite. Koala, who also remembers his life as a human\n> assassin, wanted to apologize and explain for shooting the girl who Kite now\n> looks like. He goes deep into his past history and his speculations on\n> reincarnation itself. Koala hopes that the girl's actual soul had moved on,\n> past the cycle of reincarnation. He suspects this is why Kite's soul now\n> occupies what would have been her body. Koala had likely been planning on\n> suicide after talking to Kite. Kite stops him and gives another option --\n> work for Kite and apologize every day. I gathered that Kite was offering a\n> path for Koala to build up some positive Karma. He accepts.\n\nPrevious answers mentioned earlier episodes which described Kite was a girl.\nThose were just quick mentions or a quick scene. It was not until watching\nepisode 147 that I understood the bigger picture. The aforementioned [Wikia\narticle](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Kite) explains a lot of this as\nwell, but watch episode 147 as it contains the main explanation.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-28T01:08:37.880", "id": "28427", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-31T21:25:00.597", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-31T21:25:00.597", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "19670", "parent_id": "13909", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\n * **When** : The first time the reborned-Kaito (or Kite) is shown in the manga is in Chapter 316 (picture shown below). This event takes place when Gon is still injured from his fight with Neferpitou and right before the King's death and end of the Chimera Ant's arc. Gon later meets Kaito in Chapter 337.\n * **How** : Some humans that were killed and digested by the Queen are reincarnated into her offspring (only some because the number of digested humans far exceeds that of the Queen's children, and not all of them have human memories though). However, Neferpitou kept Kaito's body instead of feeding it to the Queen and therefore does not fall into the previously mentioned category. From this wikia article: \n\n> Ging Freecss hypothesizes that Kite's survival has something to do with his\n> ability \"Crazy Slot\"; whereby there is a number that will only appear when\n> Kite has a strong will to survive and does not wish to die.\n\nWhen a human was killed an fed to [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6qNUx.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-29T16:48:33.213", "id": "28490", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-29T16:48:33.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18850", "parent_id": "13909", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKiritsugu's wish was for world peace, not just destroy the grail. In a certain\nepisode (I can't remember its title,but it's the one that flashes back to\nKiritsugu's boyhood) is shown how Kiritsugu believes that peace can be\nachieved, (in the example with the boats) by killing the larger evil. Though\nhe understands that this way isn't possible so he trusts the grail to achieve\nit using super-human measures. Now Kiritsugu's wish ended up in a devastation\nbecause by the time he summoned it there were more than one heroic spirits\nalive meaning that the grail wasn't omnipotent in order to create world peace\nin a super-human way that Kiritsugu couldn't think of. But at that point it\nwas strong enough to realize his wish at the human-possible level in other\nwords in what Kiritsugu did in the past. By killing the larger evil, and thus\nsuch devastation occurred\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-10T10:58:22.687", "id": "13912", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-10T10:58:22.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7875", "parent_id": "13911", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n## The Lesser and Greater Grails\n\nWhat we see in Fate/Zero and the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works Routes of\nFate/Stay Night is the [Lesser\nGrail](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Greater_Grail#Fuyuki), this is just a\nvessel to summon the [Great\nGrail](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Greater_Grail#Greater_Grail) which is\nhidden beneath Fuyuki. so long as the Greater Grail exists the Wars will\ncontinue.\n\n> Why did Shirou succeed while Kiritsugu failed?\n\nIt depends on which route you take in Fate/stay night.\n\n## Kiritsugu's plan\n\nHe knew that he wouldn't be able to destroy the grail for good. After the\nFourth War, Kiritsugu knew that the war would begin again and [planned for\nthat](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fuyuki_Holy_Grail_War#Fourth_Holy_Grail_War)\n\n> Kiritsugu had planned to demolish the ritual as of the proper scheduled time\n> of the Fifth Heaven's Feel by arranging for the physical collapse of the\n> Great Grail System before the originally estimated date. The process\n> involved utilizing stocked dynamite and the manipulation of ley-lines to\n> ensure a severe localized earthquake in the targeted area within thirty to\n> forty years of the Fourth War.\n\nBut this plan failed as there was a build up of Prana in the Greater Grail\nthat was not spent after the Forth War because of how it ended. In the\nprevious 3 Wars, it would take roughly 60 - 70 years to build up the Prana\nagain because it would have been spent. However, since it wasn't spent in the\nFourth War, Kiritsugu's plan would have failed to stop the Fifth War (but may\nhave stopped a Sixth War though).\n\n## Fate/Stay Night - Fate & Unlimited Blade Works Routes\n\nIn both of these routes from the visual novel (adapted in the Fate/Stay Night\nAnime Series and Unlimited Blade Works Movie and Anime Series), we only see\nthe Lesser Grail manifest, so Saber only ever destroyed the Lesser Grail even\nwith Archer's help in Unlimited Blade Works. As such, a Sixth War can still\nhappen.\n\nHowever [Lord El-Melloi II](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_El-\nMelloi_II#Fate.2Fstay_night) and Rin (now the proper head of the Tohsaka\nFamily) return 10 years later to take apart the Greater Grail\n\n> He arrives in Fuyuki and, together with Rin as the head of the Tohsaka clan,\n> sets out to completely take apart the Greater Grail. They are opposed by\n> members of the Mage's Association wishing to retrieve it instead, leading to\n> great turmoil of the same magnitude as the Grail War. His side eventually is\n> victorious, and the Greater Grail is completely dismantled, marking the\n> conclusion of the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars.\n\n## Fate/Stay Night - Heaven's Feel\n\nThis time we don't see the Lesser Grail. Rather, Shirou comes to the Greater\nGrail in order to destroy it to prevent Angra Mainyu's birth and to save\nSakura, while destroying the Lesser Grail would have done nothing. Depending\non your choices in the route, there are 2 ways it ends.\n\n**Normal End**\n\n> Shirou defeats Kotomine and sacrifices himself to uses one final Projection\n> to destroy the Greater Grail. Sakura waits for him in the Emiya Estate\n> because of their promise and grows old before passing away.\n\n**True End**\n\n> Shirou defeats Kotomine but he is about to die before Ilya, wearing the\n> [Dress of\n> Heaven](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Magic#Dress_of_Heaven), arrives\n> and assumes the role she was created for and uses the Greater Grail and\n> closes the gate, sacrificing herself in the process. The final scene is told\n> by Rin 2 years later. She is called to Trail at Clocktower in London because\n> of her actions in the route, but Zelretch intervenes and she spends the 2\n> years in London before returning to Japan. She also reveals that before\n> closing the Gate, Ilya used the [Third Magic, Heaven's\n> Feel](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Magic), to save Shirou's Soul,\n> which was later found by Rider and put into a Puppet Body made by Touko\n> Aozaki.\n\n* * *\n\nNow since you are asking _\"regarding the animes' endings.\"_ , I should point\nout that the Heaven's Feel Route, at the date this answer was posted\n(10/9/2014), has yet to receive an adaptation, however there is a series of\nHeaven's Feel Movies planning to come out yet currently we don't know what\nending they will choose to go with. that aside, apart from reading the Wikia\nyou'd need to get the Visual Novel (and Translation Patch if you want\nEnglish). In the link to Lord El-Melloi II, there is a citation note to\n[Fate/complete material III: World\nMaterial](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/complete_material_III#Volume_III_-\n_World_material), which to my knowledge is only in Japanese.\n\nWith that said and done, from just the anime (Studio Deen's anime and move +\nufotable's Unlimited Blade Works series), **Shirou and Saber had only\ndestroyed the Lesser Grail just like what Kiritsugu and Saber did previously**\n, and a sixth war was a possibility. However, other material will explain how\nthe Greater Grail is later destroyed/dismantled/shutdown.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-10T22:37:44.887", "id": "13915", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-11T00:14:21.873", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-11T00:14:21.873", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "13911", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I remember, the 99 souls were not actually confiscated. Because the\n100th soul he ate was a cat's, he had to repeat the whole process of hunting\n99 red souls again.\n\nThink of this as a \"soul-meter\", the goal is to fill it up to 100 (99 being\nred souls and a soul of a witch). Initially, he had 99 souls already eaten,\nand he had one more soul to go. He then mistakenly ate a cat soul, thinking it\nwas a witch. This caused the gauge to drop back to zero.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-21T11:05:23.867", "id": "15223", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-21T11:05:23.867", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9275", "parent_id": "13916", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI read through the first volume again, and it's quite clear that Death\nbelieves this to be a witch. Take for instance, the following page:\n\n\n\nHere Death makes several references to Blair as being a witch. He makes no\nmention that contradicts this belief. In fact, I cannot find anywhere in the\nmanga where Death states there's something odd about Blair, so it appears that\npart was actually added in the Anime.\n\nAs for why Death \"confiscated\" them, I believe that is also something added in\nthe anime. The first volume of the manga ends with Maka asking \"Does this mean\nwe failed?\", with the second volume going into Blackstar's introduction. I\ncouldn't find anything regarding \"confiscated\" souls after skimming over the\nfirst few volumes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-21T23:39:03.830", "id": "15238", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T16:17:37.837", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-25T16:17:37.837", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "6174", "parent_id": "13916", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI doubt there will be evidence to back this up, however when Black Star says\n\"Tsubaki.. Ninja-to mode!\" and a burst of smoke appears (around **16:27** ),\nis practically the only chance they could switch - and it makes perfect sense.\n\nWithin this puff of smoke, Black Star makes his 'escape' to a better position,\nand instead of Tsubaki changing into Ninja-to form, **she becomes the dummy**.\n\nI doubt that Mifune saying that his eye colors changed was quite true, or at\nleast can't be verified by the viewers, as Black Star doesn't have colored\neyes - just typical black dots. Tsubaki, on the other hand, has the 'other'\nstyle of anime-eyes, (which are a shade of blue).\n\nThe _important part_ is, however, that when Tsubaki is in Dummy-form, her eyes\nwere the same as Black Star's, as proven when the dummy 'floats away' (it is\nvery clear to see the eyes changing from Blackstar's to Tsubaki's).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-11T08:55:10.827", "id": "13923", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-11T08:55:10.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "13918", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is quite a downer of an answer, however there really is **nothing** more.\n\nAfter escaping, within neither the anime nor manga, is Lupin mentioned again.\nI personally read Soul Eater and watched it, I don't recall any more sign of\nhim, and this 'thesis' is backed up by the\n[wiki](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Lupin):\n\n> **Debuts** \\- Manga - _'Death the Kid'_ , Anime - _The Perfect Boy. Death\n> the Kid’s Magnificent Mission?_\n\nAs you can probably assume, this is indeed Episode 3, which I trust is the\nappearance you are referring to (being his only). It mustn't have ended with\nsuch a bad fate, as the use of the human souls, as we probably would have\nheard about a new Kishin being born.\n\nI doubt it, as I'm not following it, however there is a possibility his name\nis at least _mentioned_ in **Soul-eater Not!** , however I have yet to hear\nanything regarding that.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-11T08:39:32.120", "id": "13922", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-11T08:39:32.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "13919", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs @ʞɹɐzǝɹ mentions, the kanji [零](http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E9%9B%B6)\ncan be read as ぜろ (\"zero\") and has the meaning \"null\" or \"cipher\", as well as\n\"overflow\" (as in the word こぼれる).\n[崎](http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E5%B4%8E) can be read as さき (\"saki\") which\ncan become \"zaki\" under [rendaku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku). It's\nthe same kanji we see in common spellings of the names \"Yamazaki\" and\n\"Kanzaki\" (山崎 and 神崎). I believe this might be to make the word sound more\nlike a real name, like adding Mc- or -son to English words (\"Grumpy\nMcSnarlson\").\n\n人識 (\"Hitoshiki\"), the character's given name, is written with the kanji for\n\"person\" ( _hito_ ) and [\"know\" (識)](http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E8%AD%98)\n(also seen in the word _shiru_ ). Again, I believe the 識 character is just to\nmake the name sound more like a name. The fact that he kills people may lend\nsome significance to the 人 kanji.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-13T23:20:24.340", "id": "13962", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-13T23:20:24.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure about the Zerozaki part. But looking at just the pronunciation,\n\"shi\" in Hitoshiki can also be rendered as 死｛し｝ meaning \"death\", and as\nTorisuda mentions, \"hito\" means person, so together they make \"person's\ndeath\". Furthermore, Hitoshi is an actual name, but Hitoshiki is not and\n\"shiki\" can be rendered as 死期｛しき｝ which means \"time of death\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-17T04:20:33.880", "id": "19424", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-17T07:03:52.233", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-17T07:03:52.233", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11770", "parent_id": "13920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom [this](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kamui) page about Kamui's abilities:\n\n> Despite not always being present, Obito could keep targets under genjutsu\n> while they were confined inside this technique's pocket dimension, thus\n> keeping them incapacitated for extended durations.\n\nTobi knew that he cannot defeat the Fourth Hokage so easily while keeping\nKyuubi under his control, since controlling Kyuubi itself consumes a lot of\nchakra. Hence, he may have tried sending Minato to Kamui's dimension to keep\nhim out of the equation.\n\nMinato can teleport to his Flying Thunder God formulas (specially marked\nkunai), but it isn't revealed whether he can do it from a different dimension.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T06:07:40.843", "id": "13936", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-23T04:41:27.383", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-23T04:41:27.383", "last_editor_user_id": "20270", "owner_user_id": "4163", "parent_id": "13927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nJust to add to the already given answer. From the wiki page of Space Time\nNinjutsu\n\n> It appears that each specific space-time technique has its own unique\n> dimensional void that other techniques cannot normally access.[5] However, a\n> user can synchronise their respective dimension with the other one to gain\n> access to it. To achieve this feat, however, requires an enormous amount of\n> chakra.[6]\n\n[LINK](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Space%E2%80%93Time_Ninjutsu)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-24T14:54:19.753", "id": "30017", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-24T14:54:19.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18618", "parent_id": "13927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSounds kind of like [Ronin\nWarriors](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_Warriors) and the red armor guy\nis named [Ryo](http://roninwarriors.wikia.com/wiki/Ryo_of_the_Wildfire)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-11T23:43:53.257", "id": "13932", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-11T23:43:53.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "13931", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt sounds like [**Saint Seiya**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Seiya)\n(a.k.a. _Knights of the Zodiac_ in NA).\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T14:22:10.420", "id": "13946", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-12T14:22:10.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7884", "parent_id": "13931", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nYes, she can be considered a\n[**Dandere**](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Dandere) character.\n\n> A dandere character is one who is normally quiet and silent, possibly to the\n> point of coming across as emotionless at times, but will suddenly become\n> talkative and sweet and cute when alone with the right person if they manage\n> to push the right button to get them to pour their heart out, revealing that\n> they're actually just shy.\n>\n> A dandere will be more or less a normal person, but, will not talk unless\n> spoken to/required to. They will avoid talking because of their shyness, but\n> if need be, they will speak. Also, a dandere tends to feel more power in\n> numbers. If they're with a group that they're comfortable with, then the\n> shyness factor of said dandere will very likely decrease if another,\n> unfamiliar person is introduced at that time.\n\n * At the first otaku meeting of **Kirino** , **Ruri** (a.k.a. **Kuroneko** ) was silent and passed her time with her cell phone, but later when **Saori** introduced them to each other, Ruri was talking (quarreling) with Kirino.\n\n * Ruri was comfortable with **Kyosuke**. She was talking normally with him and\n\n> confessed her love to Kyosuke.\n\n * She also talks and enjoy herself when she is with members of Saori's circle and with school club.\n\nThese are, however, only some examples of her behavior. Throughout the entire\nseries, there are many occasions where her character matches the description\nof a Dandere as stated above.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T05:02:47.680", "id": "13935", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-12T12:10:33.453", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13934", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nShe should be considered kudere because of her lack of emotion...most of the\ntime\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-30T03:40:06.037", "id": "40105", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-30T03:40:06.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32252", "parent_id": "13934", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat will be Letzte Bataillon from the Hellsing OVA I-V Soundtrack “Nazi CD”.\nIt's listed as song number 2.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T10:59:51.637", "id": "13944", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-12T14:31:52.100", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-12T14:31:52.100", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "13937", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe terms \"shounen\" and \"seinen\" are assigned to a work for many reasons, none\nof them really having to do with how intellectual or difficult the work is.\nThe most common criteria are the age group and gender that a work is aimed at\nand the magazine in which a work is published (for manga and light novels),\nbut the definitions for these terms are fuzzy rather than precise.\n\nAccording to Wikipedia, the age range for shounen works is [between 10 and 42\nyears old, although the largest portion of the audience is between 10 and\n18](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnen_manga). Even 10-18 is a pretty\nwide range, and the interests and abilities of boys between 10 and 18 are not\nat all uniform. As a personal anecdote, I first watched the Haruhi Suzumiya\nseries when I was 18 and had no trouble following the conversations; I expect\nthere are lots of eighteen-year-olds capable of following the series. On the\nother hand, the ten-year-olds would probably be more comfortable with\nsomething simpler, like One Piece. But then, there might also be some ten-\nyear-olds who would enjoy the series; I first watched Eva, an extremely\ndifficult series, when I was eleven, and although a lot of it went over my\nhead, I still got something out of it. (Fifteen years of loving anime, among\nother things.) Given that variability, there's basically no way you can expect\nto neatly categorize works according to what age group and gender they're\naimed at. You'll always end up with works too smart for some of the audience,\nworks too dumb for others, and works that a lot of people don't quite get,\neven though they still enjoy them for other reasons. (People who watch Eva\njust for the shipping, who bug Hideaki Anno to no end.) In many cases, the\ndesignation of \"shounen\" or \"seinen\" is somewhat arbitrary, often made for\nbusiness reasons like what magazine a manga runs in or what time an anime\nbroadcasts.\n\nAnd if we look at the content of the works themselves, things become even less\nclear-cut. Typically, we think of shounen as including works like Naruto, One\nPiece, and Dragon Ball. But Love Hina, Attack on Titan, and even Aria are also\nconsidered shounen. (Aria ran in [_Comic\nBlade_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Comic_Blade), which is considered\na shounen magazine.) Those three series have about as little resemblance to\nNaruto and Dragon Ball as Haruhi does. Wikipedia lists Maison Ikkoku as [a\nrepresentative seinen work](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinen_manga), but\nLove Hina, which was heavily influenced by Maison Ikkoku, is shounen. (I even\nremember Love Hina being racier than Maison Ikkoku, though it's been a long\ntime since I read Maison Ikkoku.) Granted, Akira, Berserk, Battle Royale, and\nGhost in the Shell are definitely more mature than Naruto and One Piece, both\nin their themes and in their depiction of graphic violence. But so is Attack\non Titan, and so is Eva, whose manga version ran in [Shounen\nAce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnen_Ace). Shueisha found Attack on\nTitan a little too dark for Shounen Jump, but Shounen Magazine, which also\ncarried Love Hina, consented to publish it.\n([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan#Production)). The cases\nof Attack on Titan and Maison Ikkoku show us how fuzzy the border is between\nshounen and seinen. It's more a matter of what one editor thinks of the work,\nand what's best for business, than any hard and fast rules.\n\nIn short, Haruhi is considered shounen because the editing department at\nKadokawa Shoten thought it would appeal mostly to males between the ages of 10\nand 18. They were making a judgment call, filtering out all sorts of\nconflicting information about the differences between ten- and eighteen-year-\nolds in general, the variation among individual ten- and eighteen-year-olds,\nand how similar it was to other works classified as shounen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T09:37:08.943", "id": "13943", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-12T09:37:08.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "13938", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWith some google research I found that it comes from a manhwa whose chinese\nname is **万人夜话** : I don't know if there is an English translation of that.\nMaybe someone who understand Chinese knows the translated title (if it\nexists).\n\n[This](http://www.dm5.com/m50628/#ipg23) is the link to the scan from which\nthe picture is taken (vol. 5).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T22:23:52.103", "id": "16826", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T22:23:52.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "13941", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe reason are not been clear, probably it never will be, now that Naruto is\nscheduled to end this year.\n\nThe Sage of Six Paths told himself that no matter what, if a Tailed Beast is\nextracted from someone, **they die**.\n\nI believe that's canon material and a fact in Narutoverse. I guess we just\nhave to make our peace with it.\n\nOn a personal note, in my opinion, when someone becomes a **Jinchuuriki** ,\nthe huge chakra of the Tailed Beast enters into the ninja's body and gets\nmixed up with that of the ninja's. \nImagine the body of ninja is water, and the ninja's chakra is a pinch of sugar\ndissolved in the water. The process of turning into a Jinchuuriki would be\nlike adding salt (= Tailed Beast's chakra) to the mixture. Now to extract the\nTailed Beast's chakra, it's impossible to do so without drying up the ninja\nfirst, i.e. **Ninja has to die.**\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-12T21:58:23.277", "id": "13949", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T10:36:50.693", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T10:36:50.693", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3793", "parent_id": "13947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nMaybe the process of extracting the huge amount of chakra from a Jinchuuriki\nis too taxing on the body. It seems to me that their chakra don't mix up\nbecause Naruto doesn't always use Kurama's chakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-13T18:10:49.790", "id": "13961", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T10:46:25.147", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T10:46:25.147", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1815", "parent_id": "13947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Jinchuuriki doesn't necessarily die when their Biju are extracted.\n\nThe Jinchuruuki can survive the extraction of Biju in the following cases:\n\n> * The Jinchuuriki has enough life force (like the Uzumaki clan - being Ten\n> Tails Jinchuuriki gives enough life force for the host)\n> * The Jinchuuriki receives immediate medical attention\n> * [Safe Biju extracting\n> method](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beast_Removal_Technique) is used\n>\n\nThe main reason for the death of a Jinchuuriki is due to the weakened state of\nthe host body, and the host's strong dependence on the Biju chakra for its\nsurvival. Such cases are:\n\n> * Moving the Biju to the next host when current host is about to die -\n> they are weakened already\n> * When the Biju is forcibly extracted by others. In such case, the\n> Jinchuuriki will be forced (beaten to near death by Akatsuki members) for\n> the extraction process\n>\n\nWe haven't seen any other case where the extraction of a Tailed Beast caused\ndeath to their host, yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-15T10:40:09.153", "id": "13990", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T10:57:31.507", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T10:57:31.507", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4163", "parent_id": "13947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter some searches, discussion on forums and answers posted here, I came up\nwith the following conclusion, which is based on the content of the manga up\nto chapter 692 and contains spoiler.\n\nLet's start with the term **Jinchūriki**. The term Jinchūriki (人柱力\n(Hitobashira-ryoku); Literally meaning \"Power of Human Sacrifice\") implies\nthat human is sacrificed when **Biju** is implanted or sealed inside. In other\nwords, when a human become Jinchūriki, their body is sacrificed for Biju.\n\nBiju, also known as **Chakra Monsters** , is a living form of chakra. That\nhuge amount of chakra is sealed, but can be used with high level of training\nlike how **Killer B (Hachibi)** does. Biju acts as a part of the body or the\nbody's chakra and when all chakra is lost the person die, so healing and\nrestoring chakra should keep Jinchūriki alive. However, the case is different\nwhen Biju is extracted: the essential part to live, **the life force** , is\nalso lost. To add to the argument, this\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14025/why-is-madara-\nsupposedly-dead) describes that life force is essential to be alive and why\nJuubi's Jinchūriki does not die after extraction of Biju. Resurrection of\n**Gaara** after extraction of **Shukaku** by **Chiyo** using the [\"One's own\nlife\nreincarnation\"](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/One%27s_Own_Life_Reincarnation)\njutsu shows that the life force is essential to keep alive.\n\n> Even **Hagoromo** said,\" Madara was once a Jinchūriki. So now that he no\n> longer has a Biju in him, there is no saving\n> him\".\n\n* * *\n\nDeath of Jinchūriki after extraction of Biju is inevitable, unless there is\nway to provide life force as mentioned above or other ways. If there was any\nsafe Biju extraction method, then why elite shinobi from different village,\n**Uzumaki** clan, **Third Hokage** who knew almost all jutsu of **Konoha** ,\ndid not know such type of jutsu or tried to invent it? There are lots of\nforbidden Jutsu which are powerful and extraordinary. How can be this possible\nthat no one was able invent it? **Uzumaki clan** also die, but they resist and\ncan live longer than other Jinchūriki .\n\n> **Naruto** was at the stage of death and was saved after putting **Kyuubi**.\n> Otherwise, death of Naruto was\n> inevitable.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-19T16:19:20.350", "id": "14062", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-29T13:11:25.817", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "13947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's simple really. The ninja shares its body and chakra with the beast, so\nwhen it's all pulled out, it depletes both parties' chakra. And you know what\nhappens when your chakra goes down to zero, right? (Killer Bee says this)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-10T09:10:33.120", "id": "21443", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T10:48:44.120", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T10:48:44.120", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14381", "parent_id": "13947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are a couple explanations. 1) Jinchurikki are sacrifices to contain (and\ncontrol) Bijuu. It seems they latch themselves on to the Jinchurikki's life\nforce. We have to understand that there were no Bijuu Beasts to begin with.\nThey were Juubi's chakra. Hogoromo made them into nine different entities, by\nexpending his own life force.\n\nIt's entirely possible that the Bijuu substitutes as the life force of the\nJinchurikki once they are sealed inside someone. The resiliant Uzumaki or\nSenju relatives can not die instantly, but they are going to die anyway.\n\nChakra is something that mixes with life force and as explained in Naruto, if\nyou exhaust your chakra, you die. Bijuu extraction methods does not\ndifferentiate between a Bijuu's chakra and a persons own. It depletes all of\nit in one go. And since Bijuu is basically chakra, the extraction casuses\nfatality to the host.\n\nBee was able to stay alive after extraction via connecting to a bit of Gyuki's\ntail containing its chakra. Naruto got Kurama's chakra else he also would've\ndied.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-11T02:20:28.193", "id": "21464", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-11T02:20:28.193", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14368", "parent_id": "13947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nthink of a human body as a chakra container. when you put a biju inside the\nbody needs to slowly grow to store all of that massive amount of chakra. if\nI'm not mistaken inserting a biju can kill the host (since his body can't\nadapt fast enough to the extra chakra) and that was one of the reasons minato\nand kushina didn't put the entire kyubi inside naruto.\n\nnow, when the biju is removed the body also needs to adapt to the loss of\nchakra.\n\nlet me put it in this way. when you were born your chakra was a glass of\nwater. when you fused with the biju you slowly became a balloon. it was\npainful and you could have pop but you managed. now they took away 99% of what\nyou were. how would look the balloon? nearly completely depleted. now remember\nyou got a beating and are already using a sizeable amount of chakra to stay\nalive and slowly heal. when you had the biju chakra that was easy but now...\ndepending on how hard was the beating your body won't be able to heal fast\nenough and will completely deplete itself. congratulations. you died.\n\nUzumaki clan has an unusually large amount of chakra so the difference between\nhaving or not having the biju chakra isn't as large as with other clans. it's\nstill massive but they have it easier so they survive longer. also naruto\ndidn't have a full kyubi so the difference was even less (still massive but\nevery bit counts) and he got the other half kyubi from his father. that's why\nhe survived even when they removed the half kurama he had.\n\nthere's an extra piece of info. when forcibly extracted you don't just remove\nthe biju chakra but also possibly a good amount of chakra from the host as\nthey are mixed and the process ensures all the biju chakra is removed. this\nmeans the jinchuriki loses not only the biju chakra (which is probably over\n99% of the total) but also a good amount of his own human chakra. if using a\nmore natural method of splitting the two and the consent of the biju and the\nhuman I do believe it's possible to ensure the jinchuriki would survive\nextraction but it's not an easy task since whoever would perform the removal\nwould want to contain the biju in some way and the biju won't agree to such a\nthing unless extremely rare circumstances. I suppose naruto could pass part of\nkurama to boruto to save his life but I don't bet anything on it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-27T19:00:53.673", "id": "49877", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-27T19:00:53.673", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43632", "parent_id": "13947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat looks like [Shu Ouma](http://guiltycrown.wikia.com/wiki/Shu_Ouma), the\nmain character of [Guilty Crown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Crown) ;)\nIf you watch [the opening](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUtmbZt8zc), you\ncan see that the visual style is similar to your picture.\n\nHere's another picture of him:\n\n\n\nI really like this anime :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-13T01:04:53.737", "id": "13951", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-13T07:08:45.607", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-13T07:08:45.607", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "8319", "parent_id": "13950", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe character you're looking at is [Shu\nOuma](http://myanimelist.net/character/43278/Shu_Ouma) \\- the main protagonist\nfrom [Guilty Crown](http://myanimelist.net/anime/10793/Guilty_Crown), and that\nspecific scene is from the opening.\n\nGuilty Crown is quite a popular anime, however according to [My Anime\nList](http://myanimelist.net/), more popular than it is good (as seen by the\nrankings - Ranked #616, Popularity Ranked #38).\n\n> The story takes place in Tokyo in 2039, after the outbreak of the\n> \"Apocalypse Virus\" during what became known as the \"Lost Christmas\" of 2029.\n> Since then, Japan has been under the control of the multinational\n> organization called GHQ. \\-\n> [Source](http://myanimelist.net/anime/10793/Guilty_Crown)\n\nThough, on the same page detailing more into the character -\n\n(Episode 1 spoiler - mouse-hover to view)\n\n> Ouma Shu is a 17 year-old boy who mistakenly obtains a rare and great power.\n> He can use this power, \"The Right Hand of the King,\" to extract \"voids,\" or\n> tools/weapons that are the manifestations of peoples' hearts.\n\nI won't go throwing more information at you - I'd rather recommend watching\nthe first episode - **it's the best way for you to see if you like it or\nnot**!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-13T07:17:43.400", "id": "13955", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-14T03:23:22.803", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-14T03:23:22.803", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "13950", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is for sure the Anime **Guilty Crown** (ギルティクラウン). There is also a Manga\nof this Anime. [Icyk](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/8319/icyk) already\nanswered correct but his answer is low quality. I searched the other things\nup.\n\n## Information\n\n\n\n * Type: TV\n * Episodes: 22\n * Status: Finished Airing\n * Aired: Oct 14, 2011 to Mar 23, 2012\n * Producers: Production I.G, Aniplex, FUNimation EntertainmentL, Movic, Fuji TV, Fuji Pacific Music Publishing\n * Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Super Power\n * Duration: 24 min. per episode\n * Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)\n\n> The story takes place in Tokyo in 2039, after the outbreak of the\n> \"Apocalypse Virus\" during what became known as the \"Lost Christmas\" of\n> 2029\\. Since then, Japan has been under the control of the multinational\n> organization called GHQ.\n>\n> Ouma Shu is a 17 year-old boy who mistakenly obtains a rare and great power.\n> He can use this power, \"The Right Hand of the King,\" to extract \"voids,\" or\n> tools/weapons that are the manifestations of peoples' hearts.\n>\n> He has been rather shy since a childhood tragedy, but both his personality\n> and life change forever when he meets a girl named Yuzuriha Inori, a member\n> of the rebel group called \"Funeral Parlor,\" whose members seek the\n> restoration of self-government in Japan via the ousting of GHQ.\n\nfrom [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/10793/Guilty_Crown)\n\n## Character\n\nThe character you see in the picture is _Shu Ouma_ (桜満 集). He is the main\ncharacter of the Anime. At the beginning you can say he is introverted and\njust a normal high school student.\n\n\n\nfrom [ZeroChan](http://www.zerochan.net/1201358)\n\n> One of the main protagonists of Guilty Crown, who's right hand holds a\n> special power called \"The Power of the King\". This ability allows him to\n> extract weapons from his friends known as a \"Void\" which is a manifestation\n> of a person's personality.\n>\n> He is an unsociable 17-year-old young man who usually tends to stay out of\n> people's way so as to not cause them any trouble. However, this changes when\n> he meets a girl named Inori Yuzuriha. From that moment on, he must learn how\n> to make friends because of his ability \"The Power of King\".\n\nfrom [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/character/43278/Shu_Ouma)\n\n## Scene\n\nThe scene in your picture is in the opening of the Anime. It starts at 1:09 in\nthis [YouTube](http://youtu.be/DjUtmbZt8zc?t=1m9s) video.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-13T07:19:31.623", "id": "13956", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-13T12:12:02.307", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "13950", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's from a visual novel named [**Koijibashi**](http://vndb.org/v4247),\naccording to the tag on the same image on [Sankaku\nChannel](https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/3095057).\n\n\n\nIt is released on 2004-August-13 for Windows platform.\n\n**Synopsis** (translated from [Koijibashi's\narticle](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%93%E3%81%84%E3%81%98%E3%81%B0%E3%81%97)\non Japanese Wikipedia):\n\n> Looking forward to their graduation in March, Tachibana Yuuta, together with\n> his classmates Katakura Hadzuki, Ichinose Ryuu and his childhood friend\n> Konno Nonoka, make a plan to go on a graduation trip together during spring\n> break.\n>\n> From Yuuta's casual remark, the destination is decided, by Sagara Shiho -\n> Yuuta's cousin who happens to be there, to be a rural town with the\n> suspension bridge named \"Koijibashi\" (Love Bridge?), which has the legend to\n> tie people's fate together. However, the legend of \"Koijibashi\" as it is\n> passed down is not your usual pleasant story, and unforeseen mysteries\n> awaits Yuuta and co.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-14T09:07:53.773", "id": "13972", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-17T13:37:37.370", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "13971", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, because of several things:\n\n * A human with the Shinigami Eyes cannot see the lifespan of other Death Note owners. (How to Use: XVIII)\n * If you write your name and a cause that cannot be possible (being stabbed by a dead man), you will die of a heart attack. (How to Use: LV)\n * Writing your own name in the death note bypasses all lifespan calculations. If you wrote that you die at a certain date, you will die at a certain date, regardless of how much lifespan you have remaining.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-14T11:41:52.127", "id": "13976", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-14T11:41:52.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "13975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe you can extend someone's life by 23 days. If someone were going to\ndie on April 1st, but someone wrote in the death note, \"will die on April\n23rd,\" that should extend the natural life span of the victim.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-09T08:23:00.170", "id": "14963", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-09T08:23:00.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9089", "parent_id": "13975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Makiko Itoh** answered the question \" _[Do people in Japan actually eat\ntanuki in hot pot?](http://www.quora.com/Japanese-Food-2/Do-people-in-Japan-\nactually-eat-tanuki-in-hot-pot)_ \". A side information of her shows \" _I write\nabout Japanese food and cooking and am Japanese_ \".\n\nI quote her answer below:\n\n> A long, long time ago it may have been more widely eaten, but these days it\n> rarely is. Even when it is eaten it's limited to certain regions, and to\n> certain seasons. Tanuki are omnivores, and the meat of omnivores is supposed\n> to be very unpleasant.\n>\n> You do see a lot of dishes that are called tanuki, e.g. tanuki udon, but\n> that usually means it has some tenkasu (tempura batter crumbs) in it. The\n> 'tanuki' part of such dishes has nothing to do with the animal - it comes\n> from 'tanenuki', or 'no main ingredient/filling' - i.e. tempura batter\n> without the shrimp or vegetable or whatever.\n\n* * *\n\nAnother [article](http://food-in-japan.com/2013/05/kitsune-udon-and-tanuki-\nudon/), which writes about interesting names of food, says:\n\n> Do Japanese people eat fox and raccoon dog?\n>\n> “ **No way!** ”\n>\n> Don’t worry! They are just a name of foods and any fox and raccoon dog are\n> NOT cooked.\n\n(Raccoon dog = Tanuki)\n\n* * *\n\nAnother answer by **bluemoonmemory** for the question \" _[Do people really eat\ntanuki?](https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081206214834AAGjYYM)_\n\":\n\n> Because raccoon dog is not cultivated but just hunting game in limited\n> official hunting season, the supply is scarcely limited. Most of Japanese\n> never eat tanuki but rabit or sort of fake instead actually.\n>\n> In addition, tanuki soba or tanuki udon is just name only. It doesn't\n> contain any tanuki meat or tanuki extract. It is soba or udon with topping\n> something non-animal products deep-fried that old people long time ago once\n> had thought it as if tasted like tanuki or much better.\n>\n> Raccoon dog meat has heavy animal smell urinal. This modern society of Japan\n> people prefer beef, pork and/or chicken much more to wild animal meat. They\n> don't need to eat tanuki anymore.\n\nWith these information, I would say that Japanese generally do not eat tanuki.\nOnly the food is called like that, but it is actually made from other animal\nor even vegeratarian. But I would not deny that it is eaten in some regions,\nand especially a long time ago.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-14T14:48:08.210", "id": "13980", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-15T13:43:33.340", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "13978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nRather than an illusion magic, it seems what Kirito used is a transformation\nmagic instead. The following is based from the 3rd novel.\n\n> \"Well, I somehow remember the battle earlier. I used the magic Yui\n> suggested, and became very big. Since my sword disappeared, I had to use my\n> hands...\"\n>\n> \"Also with the teeth bite yo~\"\n>\n> On Lyfa's shoulder, Yui added with pleasure.\n\nRemember that Yui is an AI from Aincrad and that upon arriving at the Alfheim\nworld, Kirito noticed that Alfheim is based on Aincrad, including the skill\nsets and player data.\n\n> In the skills window, I saw several skills side by side. These skills\n> included: 1-H Swords, Unarmed Skills, and Parry, the Combat skills, as well\n> as Fishing, a support skill, but the proficiency values were abnormal. More\n> were just about 900, and some had even reached 1,000 and had a tag denoting\n> MASTERY.\n\nLater when asking Yui, Yui confirmed that.\n\n> \"It seems this world is based on a copy of the Sword Art Online server.\"\n\nThis explains how Kirito can turn into The Gleam Eyes. Since it is a copy of\nthe SAO, some resource file might be still left intact. While it is not\nnormally accessible by the players, with Yui giving assist, it is possible\nthat she hacked the system a bit and granted access to Kirito to transform\ninto The Gleam Eyes. This wasn't explicitly mentioned in the novel, however.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-15T09:07:48.203", "id": "13988", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-15T09:07:48.203", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "13986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nLet's not forget that the Salamanders' remain-lights were extinguished as soon\nas they were formed. This means that Kirito also got the special stats of the\nmonster he became. GLEAM EYES was the first _demonic_ monster the SAO players\nfaced, according to the wiki. In Alfheim this must mean that any damage a\ndemonic monster does cannot be healed by magic and anyone it killed could not\nbe revived, thus they all faced the penalties for dying in Alfheim with _no_\nchance of escape through revival. **That's** pretty terrifying if you ask me.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-12T01:21:39.473", "id": "37277", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-12T01:24:39.870", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-12T01:24:39.870", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "29200", "parent_id": "13986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is a spell called metamorphosis. Here's the description from the wiki.\n\n\"Once the incantation is completed, the spell turns the caster into a monster.\nThe shape of the monster that the player is transformed into depends randomly\non the player's combat skills. However, this spell is not popular, as the end\nresult is usually a weak monster with no change in stats, thus it is usually\nnot viable in actual combat.\"\n\nIt is also an illusion spell.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-24T23:43:14.777", "id": "40032", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-24T23:43:14.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32168", "parent_id": "13986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the scene, it seems implied that Yui had worked out a plan with Kirito to\nturn into the Gleam Eyes monster (\"Do it now Daddy!\").\n\nIt obviously isn't an illusion - he was killing other players with it. The\nonly possibility you're left with is that although Sprigins normally have only\nillusion magic, he had a special ability which gave him access to transform\ninto to this beast.\n\nSince Yui could not hack the systems as was mentioned earlier, the best we can\nsay is that she recognized that he had higher level magic skills in his\ninventory that could be used to his advantage. And although Leafa was\ngenerally aware of what Sprigins were capable of, she may not have been aware\nof what one at Kirito's power levels were capable of.\n\nThus I'd say he had the ability to transform into a real monster, given his\nability, and perhaps Yui pointed this out to him and he made use of it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-11T10:12:29.707", "id": "43276", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-11T10:12:29.707", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36562", "parent_id": "13986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI would really like to help, there are so many anime in fantasy or medieval\nsetting with a female main character that lost her memories, but i'm not sure\nany of the ones that come to mind really fit your description.\n\nCame to mind: \nKoihime \nPandora Hearts \nTsubasa Chronicle \nKobato \nChobits \nVampire Knight? \nUtawarerumono (unlikely) \n3x3 Eyes (unlikely) \nKiddy Grade (its in space...)\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-15T12:30:29.140", "id": "13992", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-15T12:36:11.010", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-15T12:36:11.010", "last_editor_user_id": "8340", "owner_user_id": "8340", "parent_id": "13987", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\n## [Dragoon](http://myanimelist.net/anime/3968/Dragoon) (1997)\n\n> In the great Garubado Empire, a lethal weapon is in the process of being\n> manufactured, but is stolen and subsequently lost in battle. Now the Empire\n> is looking for this weapon: a girl that can call forth the \"Dragoon\" power.\n> She has amnesia and is found by a wandering swordsman in training by who\n> vows to help her find out who she is and why she has such a strange power.\n\nSynopsis of the first episode from\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoon_%28anime%29#Plot):\n\n> In Dragoon, May is the key to unlocking the deadliest weapon, known as the\n> Dragoon. Soon into the film, May is shown in a tube being controlled by two\n> older men. May escapes and finds herself lost in the woods. While sword\n> fighting, a young man named Sedon, hears soldiers and airplanes around where\n> he is practicing his sword techniques. He comes across a search party\n> looking for May, keeping himself hidden behind a row of shrubbery as he\n> follows them. Down the line of hedges, while he isn't looking where he is\n> going Sedon trips. He turns over and realizes what he has stumbled over. He\n> finds May lying naked, unconscious beside him.\n\n\n\n**Sorry, no naked picture.**\n\n> After finding May in the woods, Sedon takes her to his small cabin, in which\n> his father built. They stay there a while, and soon after May awakens. Soon\n> after that, the search party comes across the cabin, and they knock on the\n> door.\n>\n> Sedon and May escape just in time, but they are leaving tracks in the snow.\n> To hide this, they run down a small nearby stream. The Searchers lose the\n> trail, and Sedon takes May back to his village. After they arrive, Sedon\n> learns of May's Amnesia. She can't remember a thing.\n\n\n\n**Rain Keeves Fearudo, the blonde-haired character.**\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-26T10:56:55.623", "id": "14176", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T14:05:17.073", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "13987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'll attempt an answer.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this per se, given the Death Note\nrules as I remember them. If sea monsters (or aliens) existed, this would be\nhypothetically fine as long as the conditions for such scenarios coming into\nplay (e.g. A's journey to the sea doesn't take 24 days, or A doesn't have to\nfly from Urumqi to the Atlantic Ocean in an hour) are appropriate and\npossible. However, we run into some problems.\n\nObviously if sea monsters exist where A goes diving and the biology of sea\nmonsters allows them to swallow A, we're fine. But how about aliens? What if,\nas I mentioned, it takes more than 23 days for them to arrive on earth?\n\nIf the aliens show up and kill A, or if the sea monster swallows him, we have\nproof of those things existing. But if A just dies of a heart attack, we don't\nknow what we've \"proved\" or disproved. For example:\n\n * Maybe aliens (or whatever) don't exist.\n\n * Maybe it's impossible, _at least at the moment_ , for aliens to show up and kill A within 23 days, because they don't have the appropriate technology.\n\n * With kaine's comment - maybe the mathematician simply isn't capable of solving the Riemann hypothesis that quickly for whatever reason.\n\nSo if we get a \"positive\" result, we're good. But if we get a negative one, we\nprobably won't know why exactly such a result occurred, and in that sense this\ntechnique doesn't quite work (or rather, it wouldn't be as useful as one might\nimagine).\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-15T18:05:36.273", "id": "13997", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-26T21:59:34.310", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-26T21:59:34.310", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "13989", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer was finally revealed in the follow-up \"The Eccentric Family 2.\"\n\nThe earlier series had established that some tanuki have stimuli that undo\ntheir transformations -- Yasaburo's mother, for example, loses her ability to\nhold on to her transformation when she sees or hears lightning, and she\nreverts to tanuki form.\n\nThe reason Kaisei hides herself from Yasaburo is that _she_ is the stimulus\nthat makes him lose control of his transformation. If he sees her, he reverts\nto tanuki state.\n\nIt's never explained (at least, not in the anime) how Kaisei knows this, when\nYasaburo doesn't. However, it's implied that she's known this all along, and\nsecretly regarded their engagement as ultimately impossible because of it.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-11T23:44:17.470", "id": "41327", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-11T23:44:17.470", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7684", "parent_id": "13993", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI answered my own question partway through writing it with a visit to\n<http://iqdb.com>. Rather than delete the question, I made it a shill for iqdb\n(brought to my attention by Logan M. in [this question's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13867/who-is-this-girl-with-\nred-hair-in-a-sheep-outfit).) iqdb led me to [this\npage](https://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/1249239) that lists all the\nseries and characters in this picture.\n\nThe far left pair is Lelouch and Nunnally Lamperouge from Code Geass.\n\nNext to Lelouch and Nunnally are Izaya Orihara and his younger twin sisters\nMairu and Kururi, from\n[Durarara!!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Durarara!!_characters).\n\nNext are Hiromi Souma and Aoi Yamada from Working!!. They're not actually\nsiblings, but Aoi tries to make Hiromi into her big brother.\n\nThen we have the Araragi siblings from the Monogatari series. (The reason I\nfound this picture.)\n\nNext to them are Shouma and Himari Takakura from [Mawaru\nPenguindrum](http://myanimelist.net/anime/10721/Mawaru_Penguindrum).\n\nThe pair on the far right is twin brothers Yuuta and Yuuki Asaba from [Kimi to\nBoku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimi_to_Boku_%28manga%29).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-15T23:03:21.803", "id": "14004", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-15T23:03:21.803", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHagomoro split the ten tails to 9 individual tailed beasts, while the juubi\nbody is trapped into the moon. Thus when all the tailed beast are combined,\nthe full power is obtained. Hamura did not seal any parts of the beast.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T01:12:42.857", "id": "15189", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T02:54:18.777", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-20T02:54:18.777", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "14012", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nA couple of things to explain your question. Hamura never sealed any part of\nthe juubi in himself, he was sealed entirely in hagoromo. Also, I don't know\nif you're talking about the anime or the manga. If anime, no, you haven't seen\nthe full power of the juubi yet, as the resurrection was incomplete due to\nlack of the hachibi and kyuubi. In the manga, its full power is shown.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T11:45:16.457", "id": "15470", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-19T11:01:24.853", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T11:01:24.853", "last_editor_user_id": "14883", "owner_user_id": "9467", "parent_id": "14012", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was never mentioned exactly how many equipment she has, but according to\n[Fairy Tail Wiki](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/):\n\n> Erza owns over 100 different types of armor, and over 200 different types of\n> weapons.\n\nA part of this equipment is stored in other dimension and the other part is\nplaced at her room, as mentioned in the section [The\nKnight](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/The_Knight) (name of Erza's requip\nskill):\n\n> This Magic allows the user to store weapons and armors in pocket dimensions\n> and summon them during battle. [...]\n>\n> there is a limit to how much the pocket dimension can store, and as a\n> result, she leaves some of her armors in her room in Fairy Hills.\n\nAnd answering your second question, Erza is an user of requip magic, in other\nwords, she can summon weapons and armors during the battles, but she does not\ncreate them.\n\n[Here](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Erza_Scarlet#cite_ref-\nVolume_9.2C_Q.26A_48-0) or [here](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/The_Knight)\nyou can see the list of all weapons and armors that already appeared in the\nmanga/anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-17T02:42:55.377", "id": "14020", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-17T02:54:48.817", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "14015", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know how accurate my answer is because the content described below are\ntaken from discussion and some source.\n\n[Source 1](https://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=22238&page=1)\npost#422937.\n\n> Oranyan is a term used to describe male characters that are rude to\n> everyone, but can be kind to those he loves. The word is derived from \"ora\"\n> which is supposed to sound like shouting and \"nyan\" which is equivalent to\n> \"meow.\"\n\n[Source\n2](http://bangin.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3oranyan/)\n\n> Tsukimori Ren in Kin-iro no Corda or Wolfram in Kyou kara maou could be. But\n> is there any other saying? Yes…that is オラニャン[oranyan].\n>\n> In fact, this was not born in the otaku society, but kogals’ circles. To get\n> to the point, オラニャン is an abbreviation form of オラオラニャンニャン[ora-ora nyan-\n> nyan]. I can’t translate it! オラオラ[ora-ora] sounds like a rude guy’s\n> shouting. Maybe you could hear this in such a delinquent boys’ story like\n> Gokusen, Bebop High-School or something like that. Well, how can I put\n> it…sounds like “Oi! Oi!”?? They would say like 行くぜオラァ！[ikuze, oraa!, let's\n> go, guys!]. オラオラ金出せや！[ora-ora, kane dase ya!, Oi oi, give fucking money,\n> eh?].\n>\n> Meanwhile, ニャンニャン[nyan-nyan] is actually a cat’s mew-mew. Caught on, haven’t\n> you? Although he is so cheeky and rude in front of everybody else, he would\n> be very sweet to a girl who he loves. Probably he could be still sweet even\n> when others are there. In this case, it might be called as オラデレ[oradere].\n\n[Source 3](http://animeyume.com/blog/2011/10/23/my-favorite-anime-character-\ntrope/)\n\n> Contrary to what some may think, there are male tsunderes. Inuyasha, Kyo\n> (Fruits Basket), Shaoran (Cardcaptor Sakura), and Ed (Fullmetal Alchemist)\n> are some examples. They’re sometimes called “Oranyan,” and though not as\n> famous as the female types, they’re certainly there.\n\nSome other character are [Len\nTsukimori](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_La_Corda_d%27Oro_characters#Len_Tsukimori)\nfrom **La Corda d'Oro** , [Wolfram von\nBielefelt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kyo_Kara_Maoh!_characters#Wolfram_von_Bielefelt)\nfrom **Kyo Kara Maoh!**. And if you try to Google like **Oranyan anime term**\n, you will see most of the link containing term **Male Tsundere (Oranyan)**.\n\nThis justify that the term Oranyan as synonyms of Tsundere for male\ncharacters. Since it comes from \"ora ora\" and \"nyan nyan\", there's nothing to\nthe claim that it means the opposite of \"male tsundere\".\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-17T05:15:58.067", "id": "14022", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-17T08:06:48.537", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "14016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is derived from ora, which is to shout or roar, and Nyan, which is a cats\nmeow. It is the male version of a tsundere, where someone is at first\nconfrontational and off putting, but slowly warms up to them. Just like how\nTsundere is derived from tsun tsun (turn away in disgust) and dere dere (to\nshow affection). It’s an analogy of a lion turning into a kitten.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-07-31T00:58:05.057", "id": "65314", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-31T00:58:05.057", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61784", "parent_id": "14016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe new edit version of Psycho-Pass has:\n\n * Reanimated Opening and Ending themes\n * Additional minor scenes (for example in episode 1 there are two new soliloquies not seen in the original). These tend to be placed midway during the episodes to allow for a better transition between the two old episodes.\n * Redone animation of particular scenes (and some additional CGI in places)\n * Some music changes in scenes\n\nThere's nothing substantially different in the new edit version, so if you\nhave seen the original there's not a huge benefit in watching this version and\nyou should still be able to watch the sequel Psycho-Pass 2 in Fall 2014\nwithout worries.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-17T06:22:37.507", "id": "14023", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-02T17:31:55.060", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-02T17:31:55.060", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14021", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's because the Gedo Mazou itself was extracted as well (and sealed on the\nnew moon on the other dimension).\n\n### Spoiler\n\n> [ \n> Click the image for a larger version](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pK2FV.jpg\n> \"Naruto chapter 690 page 7\") \n> \n> We can see the Gedo Mazo getting caught up in the Rikudo Chibaku Tensei,\n> while Madara getting spit out.\n\nMadara didn't have the Gedo Mazou in him to provide life force when all of the\nBijuu were extracted.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-17T09:31:58.300", "id": "14027", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T06:58:51.920", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-18T06:58:51.920", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "14025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDeleted previous answer. You can always look at the edit history if you want\nto see it again. :)\n\n\n\nIs this the scene when the piano bit plays for a while? If it is then it is\nactually part of the ending song.\n\nI am not too sure why they decided to play it at that moment before the ending\nsong but I am fairly certain it's part of the ending song.\n\n* * *\n\nFYI ;): If you listen really closely, that same tune is actually part of the\nending song (Aikotoba) itself at [1:27](http://youtu.be/ZJPEMmIf7A4?t=1m27s)\n(it's actually part of the ending song).\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-17T19:02:27.583", "id": "14030", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-19T11:31:42.390", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-19T11:31:42.390", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "14029", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[The Magica Wars Wikia](http://magica-wars.wikia.com/wiki/Characters) has\nupdated with a list of the girls.\n\nThe series only included a few of them, here are the prefecture's girls in\ntheir entirety (with pictures where available)\n\n**Aichi:** Rin Takehara & Subaru Amashita\n\n\n\n**Akita:** Mai Inakura & Topiko Arube\n\n**Aomori:** Neo Shiratori & Rui Shirakawagoshi\n\n**Chiba:** Sen Hazakura\n\n\n\n**Ehime:** Setoka Himeno\n\n\n\n**Fukui:** Fuku Echizen\n\n\n\n**Fukuoka:** Arisu Sugawara & Ume Hoshino\n\nN/A , \n\n\n\n**Fukushima:** Momo Iwaki\n\n\n\n**Gifu:** Hidari & Minori Ichiki, Shizuri Tsuzuku\n\n , N/A\n\n**Gunma:** Tsutsuji Makai\n\n\n\n**Hiroshima:** Akane Wajima & Miwa Kyuumon\n\n , \n\n**Hokkaido:** Komako Kitano & Yuki Miku\n\n , \n\n**Hyogo:** Hotaru Kugui & Tamae Sakamoto\n\nN/A , \n\n**Ibaraki:** Mio Kasama & Nobara Yuuki\n\nN/A , \n\n**Ishikawa:** Yuri Inuwashi\n\n\n\n**Iwate:** Meguru Hoshi & Yuki\n\n , \n\n**Kagawa:** Kanoka Tamamo\n\n\n\n**Kagoshima:** Hayame Kaji\n\n\n\n**Kanagawa:** Minamo Kousaka\n\n\n\n**Kochi:** Monobe Tsurugi\n\n**Kumamoto:** Renka Ariake\n\n\n\n**Kyoto:** Mebuki Konoe & Miyako Saionji\n\n , N/A\n\n**Mie:** Suzuka Kamiki\n\n\n\n**Miyagi:** Naruko Aoba\n\n\n\n**Miyazaki:** Himuka Amano\n\n\n\n**Nagano:** Shinanono Kawanakajima\n\n\n\n**Nagasaki:** Ameko Kamishiro\n\n\n\n**Nara:** Fuhiko Fujiwara\n\n\n\n**Niigata:** Ichiko Echigo\n\n\n\n**Oita:** Kemuri Midoriyu & Touka Taketori\n\n , N/A\n\n**Okayama:** Suzume Momomura\n\n\n\n**Okinawa:** Manami Hika & Menou Amakusa\n\n , N/A\n\n**Osaka:** Sakura Midou & Yana Minase\n\n , N/A\n\n**Saga:** Sayaka Yoshino\n\n\n\n**Saitama:** Tamame Saijou\n\nN/A\n\n**Shiga:** Kinoe Oumi\n\n\n\n**Shimane:** Chitose Kunibiki\n\n\n\n**Shizuoka:** Matsuri Sengen\n\n\n\n**Tochigi:** Hikari Tochinobi\n\n\n\n**Tokushima:** Narumi Sudachi Hi-san & Sara Shirasagi\n\nN/A , \n\n**Tokyo:** Rin Kobari\n\n\n\n**Tottori:** Chiyo Miasa\n\nN/A\n\n**Toyama:** Karin Hotarui\n\n\n\n**Wakayama:** Kino Shirarahama\n\n\n\n**Yamagata:** Yukana Akaba\n\n\n\n**Yamaguchi:** Natsumi Manten\n\n\n\n**Yamanashi:** Koi Momoyama\n\n\n\nIf anyone can fill in the blanks, that'd be great. If you speak Japanese,\nthere's a [card site here](http://orenoturn.org/?mode=grp&gid=933923)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-15T22:30:23.153", "id": "14502", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-15T22:30:23.153", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## Asuna\n\n### Theory 1: Kayaba kept his words to prevent Asuna from comitting suicide\n\nBefore the fight, Kirito had requested Kayaba to prevent from Asuna taking her\nown life if he was to die, as Asuna threatened to commit suicide if that\nhappened. Quite possibly, Kayaba had set thing up to ensure that if Asuna went\nto kill herself, she wouldn't actually die, confident that he would win (as he\nwas supposed to be the last boss on the 100th floor).\n\nOtherwise, in [my answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13007/how-\ndoes-kirito-come-back-to-life-when-hes-fighting-heathcliff/13009#13009) to the\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14035/how-did-asuna-\nsurvived#comment18023_14035) Mysticial linked to, I explain there is a time\ndelay before the NervGear kills Kirito in the real world. Seeing as Asuna had\nin a way killed herself, Kayaba at that point might have prevented Asuna from\ndying in the real world and put her in the holding area where she met with\nKirito later. After all, Kayaba was show to have a level of [honor and\nfairness](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Heathcliff#Personality) and\nprobably wanted to hold up his end of the deal. Remember that he paralyzed\neveryone so no one would get in the duel between him and Kirito, yet he was\nsurprised to see that Asuna was still able to move.\n\n### Theory 2: Sugou had been keeping Asuna alive\n\nAnother possibility is Sugou Nobuyuki. Asuna being in the holding area may\nhave been a stroke of luck, and Kayaba didn't notice that after SAO was\ncleared, Sugou prevented 300 players from waking up for his experiments.\nHowever, this runs off the theory that Asuna was not _just_ one of the 300,\nand she was targeted to be isolated and trapped separately.\n\nThis is slightly backed up by 2 points:\n\n 1. Sugou did say **he** was keeping Asuna alive, rather than her father who owned the company, and were more likely to use it to look after his daughter\n\n 2. [The wiki](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/RECT_Inc.#Background) about RECT Progress's background says\n\n> RECT Progress Inc. had set the 1st main goal of ALfheim Online to reach the\n> top of the World Tree, but was later found to be impossible to complete. It\n> was revealed that the World Tree's actual purpose was to hold the remaining\n> 300 prisoners from SAO as test subjects in inhumane experiments.\n\nThis would indicate that since the release of ALO, Sugou was waiting for SAO\nto be cleared.\n\n## Kirito\n\nAs for how Kirito survived, please refer to my answer\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13007/how-does-kirito-come-\nback-to-life-when-hes-fighting-heathcliff/13009#13009). (Originally, this\nquestion only addressed Asuna, and I have only noticed that it's been edited\nto address Kirito as well).\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T01:23:53.540", "id": "14036", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T05:20:04.330", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\n> Divine Stone of Returning Soul (還魂【かんこん】の聖晶石【せいしょうせき】, Kankon no Seishōseki)\n> is a unique rare item found in «Sword Art Online» that can be used to revive\n> a recently fallen player. The only known way to obtain it was to defeat\n> Nicholas The Renegade, the Christmas event boss, during the Christmas Event.\n\n\n\n_Item description and image source:[Sword Art\nWiki](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Divine_Stone_of_Returning_Soul)_\n\nI remembered this item was mentioned to have existed within Sword Art Online\nand that it was hypothesized that it must obey the laws of the game. Part of\nthe reason for the delay between a player dying within the game and being\nkilled by their Nerve Gear in real life, was because there is a chance for\nthem to be revived within the game. To me this explains why Asuna was able to\nlive, because the world was 'saved' very soon after her avatar's HP hit zero.\n\nWhile this could explain why Kirito didn't immediately die after his HP was\nzero, it doesn't explain why his avatar was still able to last hit the world\nboss after receiving a death blow. I have a hypothesis for this, but this one\nis even a larger leap. In Sword Art Online, there are skills known as _Unique\nSkills_ which are rewarded to players who satisfy certain conditions. Kirito\nhad the Dual Swords skill (rewarded to the player with the fastest reaction\ntime). My hypothesis is that this unique skill could also have a \"last stand\"\nor \"last resort\" type of skill to get that last hit in or increase DPS for the\nuser in their final throws which makes sense for a player with the quickest\nreaction time in the game.\n\nAnother possibility is that Kirito could have earned more than one unique\nskill which allowed for his final thrust. The creator of the game stated that\nthere are 10 unique skills and each one is awarded to the player who satisfies\nthe condition best in all of SAO. He stated that the 10 unique skills are\nawarded to only one player each, but did not say that a single player couldn't\nobtain more than one unique skill. Out of the 10 unique skills we know of\nthese six:\n\n * «Dual Blades» - given to the player with the fastest reaction time\n * «Holy Sword» - given to the strongest player.\n * «Darkness Blade» (暗黒剣, Ankoku Ken)\n * «Battoujutsu» (抜刀術, lit. \"The art of drawing one's sword\")\n * «Shurikenjutsu» (手裏剣術, lit. \"The art of using a throwing star\")\n * «Infinite Spear» (無限槍, Mugen Yari)\n\nThis means that there are still 4 unique skills that we don't know the\nabilities for, of which one could explain Kirito's ability to briefly\nwithstand a killing blow.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-24T03:26:48.733", "id": "14144", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-22T20:47:49.457", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-22T20:47:49.457", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "8456", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nKirito and Asuna didn't immediately die because the system, Cardinal, was\ndesigned that way. That's why they have the resurrection item like Disgaea\nmentioned. There is a delay before the player is killed in the real world,\nfollowing his avatar's death.\n\nAs to how Kirito can still move after his HP reached 0, it was because of the\nCardinal system's artificial intelligence. Seeing that Kayaba himself was\nsurprised that Asuna can still move despite being under paralysis status\napplied by Kayaba, the GM, thru the system, it is safe to assume that that is\nnot planned by Kayaba. Being an artificial intelligence system, Cardinal\nreacted to Asuna's strong will to protect Kirito.\n\nNow, the same can be said about Kirito killing Kayaba. It was because in his\nfinal moments, Kirito suddenly showed a burst of emotion, strong enough for\nthe Cardinal to approve that it is of higher priority than his death.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-25T08:09:08.507", "id": "14160", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-16T17:43:37.820", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-16T17:43:37.820", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMy theory is a mixture of a lot of the popular ones, but I think what happened\nis that, first, Kirito gave the Divine Stone of Returning Soul to Klein.\nKirito said to use it on the first person he saw die, and either that first\nperson was Kirito, (Can't remember the order of the episodes) or he saved it,\nand used it on Kirito, bringing him back to give the final blow.\n\nAs for Asuna, I think that Sugou prevented her death. We know that he said\nthat he was keeping her alive, and that she was one of the 300 that didn't\nwake up. Sugou must have stopped her NerveGear from killing her somehow, but\nhow he did is unknown to me. We know that he planned to marry her without her\nconsent, while she was trapped in the game, and that he works at RECT, so,\nafter saving her from dying, he trapped her in a separate game, ALO. That way,\nAsuna is still alive, and still asleep.\n\nTo me, this makes the most sense, but if there is something I'm missing,\nplease tell me.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T16:55:43.800", "id": "18414", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-09T16:55:43.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11106", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason they didn't die is because it takes some time between the moment\nyou die in game and the moment your brain is fried in real life. If you recall\nthe scene where Kirito looked at the menu to find \"[Executing the Final Phase,\n54% completed]\", the \"Final Phase\" was meant to be death in real life.\n\nFrom _Volume 1 - Chapter 24_ :\n\n> But the window contained neither an avatar nor a menu list. The blank screen\n> showed only the message [Executing the Final Phase, 54% completed]. As I\n> stared at it, the number went up to 55%. I had originally thought that my\n> mind would die alongside the destruction of my body, but what was going on\n> here?\n\nBut of course, he cleared the game in time to be logged out before the Final\nPhase was complete.\n\nThe item Kirito got from the Christmas Event was the 10 Second Revival Item,\nwhich also backs up why it took time before dying. The delay gave them a\nchance to be revived, and the Nerve Gear had to charge up to fry the brain.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-27T21:14:39.993", "id": "19728", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-22T08:01:35.943", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-22T08:01:35.943", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "12980", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is quite well-explained in the manga.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6CyPM.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bS3NJ.png)\n\nAs he was dying, he said to himself \"The system might be telling me to get\nlost, but **I'm not listening! I'm still here! I'm still alive!** \", denying\nthe system's control over his existence, and more or less breaking the\nlimitation imposed on him.\n\nAlso, in the first season episode 24 _Gilded Hero_ , at the end of ALfheim\narc, the gravity magic used on Kirito didn't end, but like he did in the\nbattle against Heathcliff, he again denied the system and stood up with his\nwillpower.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-23T22:32:59.780", "id": "21774", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T10:16:03.247", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-24T10:16:03.247", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14622", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are no theories, because there is a real explanation for this topic.\nAlthough, I suppose you remember he bears the \"Divine Stone of Returning\nSoul,\" yes? The item may be used to resurrect yourself during the 10 second\ndelay before the system has told you \"You Have Died.\" An explanation for his\nawesome matrix-like ability to come back and see Heathcliff's face for the\nlast time would be the usage of the own human will. Yes, it may sound stupid,\nbut really. It says in the manga. Kirito has so determined to end the virtual\nworld of SAO, that he had to destroy the system to revive himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-29T11:10:48.380", "id": "28484", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-19T22:10:02.637", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-19T22:10:02.637", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "20057", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nSugou released Asuna from paralysis in the final moments so she would run to\nKirito, as he knew she would. Sugou lifted his sword in anticipation as Asuna\ndarted to Kirito, then struck her dead. Kirito was killed, however I think\nKlein used the revival item on him, but also, Kirito used Asuna's sword for\nthe kill, so perhaps Asuna's sword became Kirito's and gave him some sort of\nability.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-29T18:08:24.720", "id": "31764", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-29T18:08:24.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23770", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nDo you guys know accel world? It's from the same author as Sao. In the accel\nworld series threre appears something called incarnation System. It means that\nif you can imagine something hard enough, the system will accept this image\nhas reality instead of what really happend. So in my opinion kirito used some\nKind of incarnation System, with what he just overpowered the Kardinal System\nin the case that he kinda revives himself\n\nBtw accel world and Sao play in the same Universe, so this should be possible,\nright? :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-25T21:49:40.393", "id": "32336", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-25T21:49:40.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24303", "parent_id": "14035", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI can't seem to remember when this is from but, it was revealed that in the\nlater episodes, Kaneki's parents died when he was very young and ever since\nthen he has been living alone. He grew up as a very lonely kid only having\nHide as one of his closest and only friend. In his life before the accident of\nhim becoming half-ghoul the only person close enough to care about him is\nHide. In the later episodes, Hide makes his appearance multiple times and show\nsome concern for Kaneki.\n\nAccording to the [Wiki](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Kaneki):\n\n> His aunt's son, Yuuichi, who she always compared with him since Yuuichi did\n> not do well at school. This greatly angered her. When comparing her son with\n> Kaneki, she also compared Kaneki with his late mother, saying how alike they\n> were. Her feelings of inferiority regarding Kaneki's mother were turned on\n> him as spite. As time passed, the family became a place that did not give\n> Kaneki any comfort for long because nobody in the family would look after or\n> care for him\n\nI think Kaneki has now moved to Anteiku. Since no one gives concern in\nregarding where Kaneki is, he could have moved out of the old house or still\nbe staying there, but that would not make for any good content since, his\nhungers, desires are all satisfied at Anteiku to the extent that him in his\nhome would just be watching TV or sleeping.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T03:27:05.660", "id": "14040", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T03:27:05.660", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8018", "parent_id": "14037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn episode 12 of the anime, it is explained in detail.\n\n * His dad died before he was old enough to form memories\n * His mom died from \"overwork\" trying to support Kaneki and her younger sister\n * His aunt (which took advantage of his mom) is obviously not the responsible type\n\nAs far as the anime goes, Kaneki does not have any other family. As a result,\nanyone that would care for him is dead, so they can't go looking for him, and\nhis aunt doesn't care about him, so she would not look for him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T20:37:17.237", "id": "14054", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T20:37:17.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "14037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nKaneki moved out when he turned 18 to get away from his abusive relatives who\ndidn't really like him or want anything to do with him. After his mom died,\nher life insurance was left as a trust for him, which is where his living\nexpenses came from. Upon graduating from high school, he was able to get the\nentire thing and moved out to live by himself.\n\nHis \"family\" didn't give a damn about him, and as we find out, aside from\nHide, he had no close friends, since he was emotionally distant and withdrawn.\nInstead, he preferred to read in quiet places by himself, aside from the\noccasional friends by association with Hide.\n\nHowever, in the manga, there **were** missing person flyers posted around\nafter his sudden disappearance1 following his kidnapping by Aogiri. Even Touka\ndidn't know where he was most of the time after that, because he distanced\nhimself from them to protect them, while Hide was actually covering for him,\nsaying he just had some family troubles and wasn't feeling well and just\nwanted some time alone. The coincidence between the disappearance of Kaneki\nand the appearance of Eyepatch became an important clue for the CCG to\ndiscover Kaneki's identity as Eyepatch. Although Hide had been covering up for\nKaneki, once they had made the connection, Hide basically told them everything\nto try and get them to agree to help him, which was why he was trying to tell\nKaneki to give it his all to try and impress the CCG enough to consider him\nworth keeping around.\n\n1 Kaneki continued going to college all the way up until that point in the\nmanga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-06T04:05:44.227", "id": "19846", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-21T05:41:41.303", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-21T05:41:41.303", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4966", "parent_id": "14037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Tokyo Ghoul A there were missing signs in the college that Kaneki went to,\nand there were also files on him missing. In an episode his friend always take\ndown the missing flyers, and I guess the government kept this accident\nconfidential since only the doves had access to the information. But he has no\nfamily because both of his parents died. I conclude that his friend kept his\ndisappearance a secret and the government or doves kept this confidential from\nthe public eyes, and nobody worried or is looking for Kaneki. *according to\nthe anime\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-21T02:22:09.520", "id": "20215", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-21T02:22:09.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13339", "parent_id": "14037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA quick google search shows that _Barnes and Noble_ and _Amazon_ have the\npaperback novels for sale:\n\n<http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sword-art-online-1-reki-kawahara/1116946707>\n[http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Art-\nOnline-1-Aincrad/dp/0316371246](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0316371246)\n\nThese are obviously not downloads, but you can request nook or wait for kindle\nversions to be released, which would be digital downloads.\n\nThese are not free as **legal** usually means **you pay for it** unless its so\nold that the licensing has expired.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T04:25:49.233", "id": "14042", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T04:28:26.670", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-18T04:28:26.670", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "14039", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMy guess is 338 \"Up in a tree\" based on the previews for 148, although who\nknows they might include a little of 339 although I doubt it.\n\nThe reason I state this, is that in the preview of 148, and at the end of 147,\nthe plot is left at the point where Gon is traveling to the World's Tree to\nmeet Ging. This is exactly what happens in 338 of the manga, hence the name\n\"Up in a Tree\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T06:55:08.357", "id": "14046", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T15:24:50.450", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-18T15:24:50.450", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8381", "parent_id": "14043", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the Hunter x Hunter wiki, the corresponding manga chapter for\nepisode 148 is chapter 338 and 339. Some specific plot points to consider:\n\n * Gon's friends Killua and Alluka have already departed Gon from the previous episode, 147. This happens in chapter 338.\n * Gon climbs up the World Tree and meets Ging. This happens in chapter 338.\n * Ging explains where the Chimera Ants are from, that they're not from this world. This happens in chapter 338.\n * In chapter 339, in the Zoldyck's estate, Canary and Amane makes a grave for Gotoh. \n * At the very end of chapter 339, in East Gorteau, Komugi and Meruem are shown holding hands. This corresponds to the end of episode 148.\n\n<http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_338>\n\n<http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_339>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-12T18:48:59.557", "id": "14410", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-12T18:48:59.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "14043", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen people were trapped in SAO, their avatars became exactly similar to their\nreal-life bodies, so recognizing someone from real life was possible there.\n\n**Kirito at SAO:**\n\n\n\n**Kirito in real life:**\n\n\n\nBut in ALO, it's totally different.\n\nSee Sugu and leafa as an example:\n\n**Real Life:**\n\n\n\n**ALO:**\n\n\n\nKirito's avatar in ALO may **resemble** his character from SAO, yet it's still\ndifferent. A player with that avatar could look totally different in real\nlife. And people that play MMORPG's are not use to talk about their real life\nat the game.\n\nSo, Leafa didn't recognize Kirito because there was no reason for her to do so\nin a game like ALO.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T12:50:20.213", "id": "14049", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T13:03:50.980", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-18T13:03:50.980", "last_editor_user_id": "2251", "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "14048", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nSuguha didn't resemble her true self because it was a different machine in the\nanime but by the same creators... remember how they \"asked them to touch\nthemselves all over so they resemble the same?\" Remember how there were\nmirrors and when they looked inside of them they looked exactly the same as\nwhat they look like in the real world? Maybe that's why. One, because f it's a\ndifferent machine, then they might've forgot to make it so you had to touch\nyourself all over, two, because they didn't receive any mirrors in Alfheim.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-01T20:37:27.267", "id": "28574", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-01T20:37:27.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20129", "parent_id": "14048", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen Kirito went onto ALO it said that his apearence will be randomised,\nhowever, since all of his data was transferred from SAO he looked the same as\nhe did in SAO which was exactly how he looks in real life but when Sugu saw\nhim she would not have thought it was her cousin because all the looks had\nbeen randomised.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-04T21:06:06.347", "id": "44077", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-04T21:06:06.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37472", "parent_id": "14048", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI reckon this is primarily because JoJo starts based in 1880s Britain and they\nwanted to keep referencing this aspect of JoJo's heritage. Even down the\ngeneration line when they are based in America, Jojo still has a very english-\nbased family tree.\n\nAs for why some of them are not common in actual English conversation, It's\nmore than likely problems with translating from English to Japanese and back\nagain.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T15:52:47.920", "id": "14052", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T15:52:47.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, it is still ongoing according to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_Friends). At top right of\nthe page under \"Original run\", it says \"January 21, 2012 – ongoing\".\n\nSometimes, Wikipedia doesn't update the information or the status is left like\nthat when the series is on a long unexplained hiatus. Just to be sure, in the\nVolumes section of that page, it says that the release date for Volume 7 is\nApril 22, 2015, which shows that the next volumes is in the works.\n\nAlso, [Manga-Updates](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=73195) says\nthe same thing under \"Status in Country of Origin\" ( _6 Volumes (Ongoing)_ )\n\nAccording to a post on [Anime News\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-07-21/one-week-friends-\nmanga-final-volume-ships-in-april-2015/.76876) provided by\n[Torisuda](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14057/is-one-week-\nfriends-manga-still-on-going/14058?noredirect=1#comment18069_14058), Volume 7\nis the last one.\n\n> The sixth compiled volume of Matcha Hazuki's Isshūkan Friends. (One Week\n> Friends) manga is announcing on Tuesday (26/07/2014) that the seventh and\n> final volume of the manga will be released in Japan on April 22, 2015.\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-19T01:21:06.763", "id": "14058", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-19T16:09:09.377", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14057", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## [Night Warriors: Darkstalkers'\nRevenge](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1952/Vampire_Hunter) (1997–1998)\n\n> The world is a dark, brooding place populated by humans, but ruled in\n> reality by powerful beings known as the Darkstalkers, and there is constant\n> conflict between them as they try to determine who is the most powerful of\n> them all. Zombies, vampires, werewolves - all of them compete in contests of\n> strength and sheer will to attain their own personal goals.\n>\n> All of this becomes moot when a race of Aztec robots called the Huitzil\n> decide that humanity isn't worth saving, and start waging war on the world,\n> while in the sky, a solar god from outer space plots the conquest of Earth.\n> And the Darkstalkers must become unwilling allies in order to save the\n> world.\n\nThe sun totem spits out Pyron, the boss of the series, who challenges every\nmonster character and wins all battles until his defeat in the end. The\nbackground of the anime is pretty dark most of the time, as you can see in\nthis screenshot of the sun totem:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-29T04:09:32.237", "id": "14216", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T13:48:20.287", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "14061", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nApparently the move is a reference to [Micheal\nJackson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVkMbtOa0j4). His dancing style has,\nat times, included moves where he angles himself further than most people can\nusing his feet as support.\n\nAlot from the Thiller Bark arc references Micheal Jacksons Thiller music\nvideo.\n\nGoing beyond 45 degrees makes it difficult, if not impossible, not to fall\nover which is frequently mentioned.\n\nWhen he needs to get stronger, he seems to think leaning more will somehow\nmake him more useful.\n\nThe leaning against a wall makes the move much less impressive but, hey, that\nmakes it sillier.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-19T19:10:09.867", "id": "14066", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-19T19:10:09.867", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "14065", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI realize this is a rather old post, but I thought I'd provide some further\ninput for anyone else wondering about the same thing. Another possible reason\nthis is found funny is because, when pronounced a certain way, \"45\" in\nJapanese can sound like \"shigo\", or \"after death\" (死後).\n\nTo expand on that, the Japanese word for four (四) can be pronounced as \"shi\",\nthe same as the word for death (死). Completing the phrase, 5 (五) is pronounced\nas \"go\", making it so that 45 can sound like \"shigo\", which, as I said, means\n\"after death\". Seeing as it's coming from a talking skeleton, that's pretty\nhilarious.\n\n4 can also be pronounced \"yon,\" which is the only way I've heard him pronounce\nit in the subbed version of the anime. That takes away a bit of the hilarity\nof it, but I believe in the manga they leave it open to different\npronunciations. Either way, he is standing at 45 degrees with his face against\nthe wall, so whether it sounds like \"after death\" or not I'd say it's pretty\namusing.\n\nI actually got the idea for this by looking up tetraphobia, or the fear of the\nnumber four, on Wikipedia, but I verified it by looking up the translations\nand pronunciations of them. No specific references (aside from the not always\nreliable Wikipedia), but you can easily look up the translations and\npronunciations to verify for yourself.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-12T04:36:17.347", "id": "30429", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-12T04:36:17.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22632", "parent_id": "14065", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSure it was the old man's turn... except he was incapacitated at the time, so\nhe couldn't do anything, which is why the bartender allowed the young man to\ncontinue the game. In a normal game of billiards, if a player is knocked out\nand no one is able to substitute for them, then the game would naturally end.\nIn Death Billiards, however, ending the game was not an option, so the young\nman decided to take over the old man's turn and finish the game\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-21T11:23:51.267", "id": "14596", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-21T11:23:51.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8801", "parent_id": "14067", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nTaking episode 1 of the TV series _Death Parade_ (which is based on _Death\nBilliards_ ) into account, **except for the scoring rules and winning\ncondition, the games don't have any other restrictions in the first place**.\n\nAs revealed in episode 2 of _Death Parade_ , the game is just a means to an\nend. It is designed so that as the players play the game (under the belief\nthat their lives are at stake), they gradually regain the memory before death\nand expose their emotions and their true nature as they try to win the game by\nany means necessary. And the arbiter observes their actions and emotions\ndisplayed throughout the game to judge whether they should be reincarnated or\nsent to void.\n\nTherefore, although his action violates the rules of the game in real life, it\nis totally valid here for the young man to knock out the old man and \"steals\"\nhis turn to pocket the rest of the balls.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T19:50:12.917", "id": "18415", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-18T11:00:09.373", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-18T11:00:09.373", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "14067", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nElaina Lynn didn't put this down as an answer but it was called holy knight.\nTHANK YOU SO MUCH\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T15:19:06.153", "id": "15046", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-12T15:19:06.153", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8405", "parent_id": "14068", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> As well as finally trusting that a day\n>\n> will come when you can be forgiven.\n>\n> It means never hiding yourself from love.\n>\n> Your true battle is still aheardsic of you...\n>\n> If we can not defeat Zeref,\n>\n> wizardkind will again be awash in grief.\n>\n> Please live on, for me...\n>\n> ...and battle on, this journey of yoursic...\n>\n> will bring happiness to all.\n>\n> That is what I pray.\n\nIt is not proper English. \"aheard\" is not a word, and \"your\" should be\n\"yours\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-24T06:52:00.907", "id": "14146", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-25T03:16:46.090", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "14072", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHope answers from the light novels are okay. I remember the anime following\nthe LN very closely on this point, so it shouldn't affect the outcome.\n\nBlack Hanekawa's biological sex is female. Its body is the body of Hanekawa\nTsubasa, who is most surely female. (If anyone has any doubt on this\npoint—look at what Koyomi's always fixating on.)\n\nOshino does some speculating in Neko Black, but the most definite information\ncomes from the later parts of Nekomonogatari White. The issue of its gender\nidentity is far murkier, as it tells us itself in Nekomonogatari White,\nChapter 61, just after it reads Tsubasa's letter on the origins of Kako, in\nwhich she calls Black Hanekawa her little sister:\n\n> Besides, I was male when when I was run over, so it's weird to call me a\n> little sister—and in the first place, even though my base was the Hindering\n> Cat, seeing as I was created by raw material cut off from Mistress, my\n> gender isn't just vague, it's undeniably a grey area between being a sister\n> and being a brother nyah.\n>\n> What's the point of asking an abnormality about its gender, anyway?\n\nHere, Black Hanekawa calls into question the idea that kaii even have genders\nor that the concept is meaningful for them. (After all, they don't seem to use\nsexual reproduction.) Even Shinobu, who is obviously female, seems to be\npretty much the same as male vampires except for outward appearance; her sex\nis a holdover from her time as a human, when it did matter. (See\nKizumonogatari on Shinobu once being human.)\n\nGiven the context of the above quote, it seems like Black Hanekawa was trying\nto mock Tsubasa for getting things wrong (against her usual inclination). Just\nbefore that remark, it says\n\n> That said, it looks like Mistress has still got a few misunderstandings\n> nyah—though I suppose, seeing as she was conjecturing with a lack of data to\n> base her decisions on, these mistakes couldn't have been avoided nyah.\n>\n> Plus, both the style and content of the letter [that Tsubasa wrote to\n> explain the situation to Black Hanekawa] are all over the place by\n> Mistress's standards—it definitely wasn't something written while she was\n> calm nyah.\n>\n> It isn't a situation to be hoping for full marks anyway, so getting an 80\n> for an A-grade is good enough nyah.\n\nSo the above quote is in the spirit of continuing to call out Tsubasa on her\nminor mistakes—she calls Black Hanekawa her little sister, and it responds by\nnitpicking her for assuming it was female. That suggests this isn't a serious\nstatement about Black Hanekawa's gender identity.\n\nIn Nekomongatari White, Chapter 60, Tsubasa speculates that Black Hanekawa\nexisted inside her long before she ever encountered the Sawari Neko. In Neko\nBlack, Oshino hypothesized something similar—that the Sawari Neko's\nconsciousness is completely gone from the equation and it's really just its\npowers being directed by Tsubasa Hanekawa's unconscious will that comprise\nBlack Hanekawa. If true, that makes the Sawari Neko's gender even more\nirrelevant. But none of this necessarily makes Black Hanekawa's gender\nidentity female—it could be a suppressed masculine part of Tsubasa that\nexpressed itself in the fusion of Sawari Neko and Hanekawa that created Black\nHanekawa. Kako, the Inflaming Tiger,\n\n> is also a spinoff of Tsubasa, yet is always treated as male, except when\n> Tsubasa calls it her \"little sister\".\n\nBut there's no evidence I can remember in the books or anime to say that Black\nHanekawa actually identifies as male. It's murky, for lots of reasons, and I\nthink it was presumptuous of the wikia to post that line as it did.\nFurthermore, it seems pretty far out there to assume that this means Tsubasa\nherself has a nonbinary gender identity, whatever the situation with Black\nHanekawa is. Tsubasa is in love with a male, Koyomi. The imagery in the anime\nduring Tsubasa Cat Part 5 even suggests she wants to have a sexual\nrelationship with him. Tsubasa seems uncomfortable with Hitagi's grabbiness\nearlier in Neko White when they shower together. Nothing she ever says or does\nsuggests that Tsubasa Hanekawa doesn't identify as female. The most we could\nsay on that score is that there's a vague possibility she may have had\nsomething like a split personality inside her that identifies as male—and\nthat's almost pure speculation.\n\nSorry to burst anyone's bubble, but the evidence does not support the idea\nthat Tsubasa Hanekawa is not biologically and psychologically female. And the\nevidence for Black Hanekawa is very ambiguous, and muddied by the irrelevance\nof gender for non-human kaii.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-21T09:27:23.613", "id": "14085", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-21T09:27:23.613", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHis change in hair color is probably due to Marie Antoinette syndrome, a rare\ncondition that causes the hair to suddenly become white in response to some\ngreat stress or shock. It's so named because Marie Antoinette's hair\nsupposedly turned white after she was captured during the French Revolution.\n\n[Here's Wikipedia on Marie Antoinette\nSyndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_syndrome).\n\n[Here's a more reliable\narticle](http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=712060) from\nJAMA Dermatology, a site that archives papers in dermatology.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-21T10:13:41.623", "id": "14086", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-22T06:56:24.410", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-22T06:56:24.410", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "8421", "parent_id": "14081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt seems that his hair turning white and his nails turning black was both due\nto the physical and mental stress he was experiencing during the torture and\nthe forced regeneration of his toes. (Sources:\n[one](http://www.comicvine.com/ken-kaneki/4005-101900/),\n[two](http://www.reddit.com/r/TokyoGhoul/comments/2g4365/tokyo_ghoul_episode_11_links_and_discussion/ckfksmr),\n[three](http://www.qaster.com/q/489749515193184256/can+someone+explain+to+me+how+kaneki+got+white+hair+from+torture))\n\nThe whitening of the hair due to stress is also known as [Marie Antoinette\nSyndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_syndrome). The\ncondition got its name after Marie Antoinette's hair supposedly turning white\nthe night before she was going to be executed.\n\n**Sidenote:** Another anime I know of where Marie Antoinette syndrome appears\nis [Gosick](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8425/Gosick) where\n[Victorique](http://gosick.wikia.com/wiki/Victorique_de_Blois)'s hair also\nchange colour due to experienced stress.\n\nThe changes going on both in his mind and the real world (even though that is\njust my opinion) might be because what happened in his mind affected his\nbehaviour in the real world as well (gave him strength to fight \"Jason\" while\nstanding up to Rize) and vice versa. Another possible reason is to depict the\nchange in him as a person (not just the physical appearance).\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-28T14:08:04.840", "id": "14209", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-30T13:04:06.140", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-30T13:04:06.140", "last_editor_user_id": "8100", "owner_user_id": "8100", "parent_id": "14081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYou should read the manga. His hair turned white because of the stress of\nbeing tortured 2 or 3 times everyday for 10+ days.\n\nThe anime is wrong. Why? Because Kaneki's hair didn't change in a moment, in\nthe manga they show us his hair gradually turning white while he also loses\nhis mind.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThey don't explain why the hair turns white or the nails black (also they are\nnot black black, they're more like super dark blood colored), but we can\nassume that the hair it's because of the [Marie Antoinette\nsyndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_syndrome), and the\nnails are because of the constant regeneration. Like I said before the nails\nare like dark blood colored, they're not pure black, it's like when you hit a\nfinger really hard, and the nail falls off in a time? Well before that, it\ngets really dark blood colored, Kaneki's are like that.\n\nI know you posted this a time ago but maybe if you can read it, or other\npeople that has the same doubt will understand.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-24T16:38:58.717", "id": "14647", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-25T02:22:20.497", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-25T02:22:20.497", "last_editor_user_id": "20270", "owner_user_id": "8851", "parent_id": "14081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nHis clothes change colors probably due to the blood on his shirt drying.\nUsually, when blood dries and forms scabs, it turns black. That is also the\nbasis for the suddenly darkened color in the fingernails.\n\nHis hair changes in color in response to extreme stress as pointed out by the\nothers and is called Marie Antoinette syndrome.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-31T13:35:24.647", "id": "46329", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-31T14:37:47.947", "last_edit_date": "2018-03-31T14:37:47.947", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "39902", "parent_id": "14081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nUnlike stated in some of the other answers, it's not Marie Antoinette\nSyndrome. In the Tokyo Ghoul Re: manga, it is explained in Chapter 131: \nbecause the bodies cells are only able to divide a certain number of times\nbefore they fail, aka Ageing.\n\nAs Kaneki had to repeatedly heal his toes over and over and over, all the\nwhile being tortured and borderline starved. His body was basically getting\nweaker and weaker because the cells were wearing thin, which is why his hair\nturns white, as happens with people when they get old. \nThis is also why Takizawa from Re: had his hair turn white, torture.\n\nFor the same reason Kaneki's hair turns black again, because he was no longer\nundergoing torture.\n\nIt's explained in Chapter 131. Directly states that his torture has caused him\nto age at a heightened rate. Which seems to be an issue with human turned\nghouls though... Same with Takizawa\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-30T16:46:39.107", "id": "47616", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-04T16:02:36.250", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-04T16:02:36.250", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "41343", "parent_id": "14081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nHaving read the manga and kind of knowing the style of writing this author\ndoes I doubt it's due to some Marie-whatever syndrome. It's such a huge detail\nand having it be because \"oops biology\" doesn't seem very likely to me. I\nwould bet that it's symbolic, either just for Kaneki's change in character\n(although that maybe wouldn't make much sense since the second time Kaneki\ngets black hair he doesn't act at all like he did the first time he had black\nhair) or for some deeper poetic or philosophical reason. The manga at the very\nleast is very poetic after all. But what this symbolism means is a different\ndiscussion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-14T14:33:30.443", "id": "48791", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-14T14:33:30.443", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42485", "parent_id": "14081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHis name is obviously _Heero Yuy_ as DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia suggest.\n\n\n\n> **Heero Yuy** (ヒイロ・ユイ Hiiro Yui, derived from Japanese hito, lit. \"one\") is\n> the pilot of the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam and its ancestor/successor, the\n> XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero. He is the main protagonist of **Mobile Suit\n> Gundam Wing** and of several derivative works that make up the After Colony\n> timeline.\n\nSource: [Gundam.Wikia.com](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Heero_Yuy)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-21T15:19:19.870", "id": "14090", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-21T15:19:19.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2590", "parent_id": "14082", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe fact is, we don't have a clue from the series. Our best guess is the\nLivlaster.\n\nReason 1 - They were confirmed to be living things with a will, but we never\nreally \"met\" them. We met the machines, but not them, which is odd.\n\nReason 2 - Her color style is the same as Daichi's Livlaster, so there is\nreasonable evidence to make the connection.\n\nReason 3 - She was first seen when he got the Livlaster. She is only seen with\nDaichi during critical moments for him. So she and he are connected.\n\nThe next best option is Pitz, but we never gave a corresponding figure for the\nother squirrel. However, this is probably the second best theory based on the\nevidence. Following that theory is a new character (like a planetary gear) to\nintro into a season 2. We have no reason to suspect this, but hey, we don't\nknow. Lastly is Daichi's mom. He lives with his uncle, his dad died, so we\nhave a missing mom figure. Maybe there's some backstory?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-23T03:09:12.693", "id": "14121", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-23T14:48:05.687", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-23T14:48:05.687", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8441", "parent_id": "14083", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nShe is both Pitz and the Livlaster, both Pitz and the girl have the same eye\nshape and color and she appeared to Daichi to give him the Livlaster. It is\npretty much confirmed because the other squirrel Lappa disappeared after Siren\nregained her memories, but it returned to her after her ego block was\ndestroyed.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-23T05:42:23.480", "id": "14126", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-23T14:49:02.900", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-23T14:49:02.900", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8444", "parent_id": "14083", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]