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[ { "body": "\n\nthe Iris from Eternal Mana and Azoth of Destiny are the same, set at different\npoints in the timeline. Grand Phantasm was originally supposed to take place\nduring Iris Blanchemont's alchemy career with the main antagonist and the\nyoung elder witch from the first game as her teammates, however the storyline\nwas scrapped and altered, resulting in the seperation. so Iris Fortner is not\nIris Blanchemont. but Eternal Mana Iris and Azoth of Destiny young Iris are\none and the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-08T05:39:20.057", "id": "37756", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T05:39:20.057", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29665", "parent_id": "14092", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Japanese culture, children often refer to themselves in the third person\n(see [this question from Japanese Language Stack\nExchange](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6410/why-do-children-\ncall-themselves-by-their-name), and also [the Wikipedia article on\nIlleism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illeism#In_everyday_speech), which is\nthe technical term for referring to yourself in the third person. [This JLSE\nquestion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/2320/speaking-in-the-\nthird-person) also gives more of the nuances of using illeism in Japanese.) A\nWestern example of this would be Elmo, the Sesame Street character, although\nin the West, illeism usually makes someone look big-headed rather than cute,\nlike former WWE superstar The Rock, who always referred to himself in the\nthird person as \"The Rock\".\n\nIn anime, older characters with childish personalities often also use the\nthird person; for example, Bakemonogatari's Nadeko always refers to herself as\n\"Nadeko\". (If you see \"I\" or \"me\" in the subtitles, it was added by the\ntranslators.) Yamada claims to be sixteen if I recall correctly, so she should\nbe too old for this (though [the second comment on this JLSE\nanswer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/2321) claims that even women in\ntheir twenties will do this in real life), but she spends most of her time\nacting like she's much younger than she really is, trying to be cute and make\npeople like her and praise her and overlook her mistakes. She tries to adopt a\n\"poor orphan in search of a loving family\" kind of persona and get people like\nOtou, Yachiyo, and Hiromi to feel sorry for her and join her ideal family. I\nthink her use of her own name is meant to play up her assumed role as the\ncute, spoiled youngest child of her imaginary family.\n\nYou're right that this is different from other times when the subtitles\ntranslate a name as \"you\" or \"her\"; that usage is more in line with what's\ndescribed in [this Japanese Language Stack Exchange\nquestion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/591/are-first-second-\nand-third-person-in-japanese-all-the-same-as-in-english), where you address\nsomeone by name instead of using a second-person or third-person pronoun, as a\nmatter of respect. Going by Yamada's personality, I think it's a childish\naffectation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-22T06:47:39.983", "id": "14098", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-22T06:47:39.983", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:43:49.183", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14093", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nApart from being of the same genre and containing similar enough art style, I\ndon't think the productions are related.\n\nDifferences:\n\n * The authors are different ( **Masahiro Yokotani** vs **Haruichi Furudate** )\n * The production studios are different: _Haikyuu!!_ is produced by **Production I.G** , _Free!_ by **Kyoto Animation**\n * _Haikyuu!!_ is shonen whilst _Free!_ is mostly targeted at women.\n\nSimilarities:\n\n * Character style (but this could just be that the style of the characters has been found to appeal to their target market and chosen for this reason)\n * Exclamation marks in their title!! (but so has _K-On!!_ and many other shows)\n * Sports genre\n\nThe similarities between the shows aren't really substantial enough to warrant\na link between them, so I doubt they are.\n\n[I thought that _Chihayafuru_ (another sports title) was similar to\n_Haikyuu!!_ also, but it also doesn't have anything in common, so I think this\nis just an art style that sports anime have evolved into]\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-22T12:03:46.897", "id": "14100", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-13T12:43:16.120", "last_edit_date": "2019-04-13T12:43:16.120", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI actually think the creators of haikyuu stole some ideas from free since the\nsimilarities are crazy. The characters seem to be fairly similar but another\nkey point is the plot. Both teams have a female president, both teams failed\nto make it into their first competition, both teams go on training camps, both\nteams succeed in getting into the second competition they try for and not to\nmention the same some of character realationship the king of the court has and\nthe great king has kinda resembles haku and runs realationship a little bit. I\ndon't know I'm just saying. Also \\- free was released in 2013 \\- haikyuu's\nfirst season was released in 2015\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-11-28T11:03:05.277", "id": "55973", "last_activity_date": "2019-11-28T11:03:05.277", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50940", "parent_id": "14099", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe mask covered Kaneki's nose and mouth. This helps him suppress his urge to\neat the opponent by reducing his ability to smell. Remember that Kaneki's\nghoul ability is originally Hanazawa Kana's...no wait...Rize's, nicknamed the\nGlutton for her great hunger.\n\nBy suppressing this urge to eat, he can concentrate more on the fight as he's\nnot worried about getting carried away and going berserk.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-23T04:56:48.393", "id": "14124", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-23T04:56:48.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "14102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nTo protect himself, as a human. By putting on the mask, he's putting on\nbecoming a ghoul and can fight as he must, knowing that by taking it off he\ncan be \"human\" again and as such he can fight harder with it on. Fighting\nwithout the mask means accepting that he is a ghoul if he fights with his full\nstrength, and as such without the mask he'll hold back to try and stay\n\"human\".\n\nDuring his torture however, he came to accept his ghoul half as part of\nhimself, and his mask loses it's meaning, just becoming a means to protect his\nidentity from others then as an emotional crutch. Nishio of course only\nknowing the old Kaneki, who wanted to hang on to his humanity as long as he\ncould.\n\n(Touka is actually the same, acting far more ruthless with her mask on then\nshe is when it's off, because of her strong desire to be human even though she\nknows she isn't at all).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-06T04:15:04.830", "id": "19847", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-06T04:31:50.247", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-06T04:31:50.247", "last_editor_user_id": "4966", "owner_user_id": "4966", "parent_id": "14102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nmost likely weather after touter by Jason or not the mask is basic his gate\nway into his monstrous Side because of the fact several times through the\nmanga he showed extreme compassion towards all his friends and even some\npeople of the shady sort but as an example when he had it on tearing apart the\nghoul restaurant he has absolutely no moral even though the fact there could\nhave bean several there how did not deserve death and even encountering Amon\nin the anime after he TOOK OFF the mask his abilities were greatly decrease so\nbasically the entire time he still tried to hold on to being at least civil to\nothers and be some one but once the mask was put on he went all out on more\nthan one occasion.\n\nalso it is a possibility that he was trying to restrain hi urge to eat but it\nwas on several times uses such as his first encounter with Amon that drove him\ncrazy. also he used the mask as a symbol of his true nature for it was\ndesigned directly for him with the eye-patch,liples mouth, and bolts in the\nneck all to show that he is a monster and as the look says a half bread\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-02T18:41:55.703", "id": "43122", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-02T18:41:55.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36437", "parent_id": "14102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, earlier in the series, Hana was worried about Daichi kissing her. She\nsaid something along the lines of \"I was worried you'd hate the real me\".\nThus, she knows that the kiss between them would be telepathic. We can assume\nfrom this that She is the one with said power.\n\nand as for Stevebot's answer, the Planetary gears Princess was under control\nof a mind-transfer machine when she was telepathic-kissed, and saw her foster\nmother's evil intentions. So telepathic kiss works despite mind-control\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-18T19:59:49.720", "id": "29893", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-18T19:59:49.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22183", "parent_id": "14103", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe's got a \"walkie-talkie\" in his brain. I'm not sure, but I suspect his brain\nis fully cyberized as part of his job's requirements. You would certainly not\nwant to be that one idiot shouting tactical information out loud while the\nrest are communicating almost instantly via a secured wireless connection.\n\nIn the _GITS:SAC_ series when he's in court, his teammates find out they can't\ncommunicate with Togusa because he turned off that module, which means he\nalready had it at that time. _SAC_ happens later than _Arise_ on the GITS\ntimeline, so he probably got it installed somewhere at the start of his career\nas a cop.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-22T18:16:30.610", "id": "14106", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-29T14:16:23.097", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-29T14:16:23.097", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "14105", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to [Hakase's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14106/2516), Togusa's character has\nsomething in common between all series/movies and continuities: he is the less\ncyberized person in Section 9.\n\nIn the original movie from 1995, Major Kusanagi says something along the lines\nof:\n\n> We hired you because you are not a full cyborg, super specialization would\n> make us weaker.\n\nThey also mention shortly afterward about he needing a cyber brain to\ncommunicate and enhance his memory to be in Section 9.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-29T13:08:42.613", "id": "47598", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-29T14:16:24.477", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-29T14:16:24.477", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "41319", "parent_id": "14105", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think the whole thing will be explained in the manga. I haven't caught up\nyet completely but last I saw\n\n> it looked like stuff's gonna go down with the soul king so I expect they'll\n> explain more regarding that.Also at the start of the current arc they\n> briefly showed Aizen being locked away almost as if they were hinting you\n> should keep him in mind. I think it's gonna go deeper.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-10T16:26:13.960", "id": "14997", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-10T16:26:13.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9107", "parent_id": "14110", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**Aizen had two conflicting goals. One was to become even more powerful and\ndestroy the Soul King, and the other was to find someone who was his equal.\nHe's a multi-faceted character.**\n\nFrom _Bleach_ episode 310 Ichigo says to Urahara,\n\n> When I battled Aizen, I finally had enough power to feel his sword. And I\n> could tell you with certainty that there was nothing but loneliness in that\n> weapon.\n\nIchigo states this with **certainty** , so this whole speech doesn't come off\nas some idle speculation you can dismiss offhandedly. Ichigo goes on to say\nthat Aizen was isolated because of his power and was looking for an equal, but\nthat he probably gave up. Keep in mind that he was pursuing his\nhollowification research long before Ichigo was around. Naturally, he would\nhave been more focused on the goal he thought he could achieve: gaining more\npower and destroying the Soul King. When, in the process of his\nhollowification experiments, he discovered Ichigo's unusual case, he became\ninterested and decided to pursue his other goal at the same time by grooming\nIchigo into a powerful entity.\n\nIchigo also states that there must have been times Aizen must have wanted to\ngo back to being a simple soul reaper. Even so, I very much doubt that trying\nto get rid of his power would have been something Aizen would have pursued.\nYou have to keep in mind his other personality traits: he's manipulative,\ndriven, calculating, and conceited. His loneliness is something he keeps\nlocked up deep in his heart. He'd definitely rather have someone rise up to\nhis level rather than to weaken himself (it's the same with Zaraki, too).\n\nIn episode 309, Aizen briefly talks about the Soul King with Urahara as he's\nbeing sealed away.\n\n> **Aizen** : With your great intellect, why don't you take independent\n> action? Why in the world is it that you choose to subjugate yourself to that\n> thing?\n\nAizen shows a very deep hatred of the Soul King and the current state of the\nSoul Society. He says only losers talk about the way the world is and winners\nshould talk about the way the world should be. I think this shows his\nmotivation for wanting to kill the Soul King.\n\nI've only read up to volume 68 in the manga, but I've seen that Aizen will\ncontinue being in the story, so more of his backstory and motivations may be\nexplained in later volumes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-09T00:09:36.233", "id": "38863", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-09T00:09:36.233", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "14110", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've only seen up to the second movie. However, if i was to make a guess, it\nwould be what Kaji gave to Gendo.\n\nIn the original one, it was a [Adam's\nEmbryo](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Adam#Design), while in Rebuild it's\n[Nebuchadnezzar's\nKey](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar%27s_Key). I'd say its\ndiscovery (before the first movie) is what would be turning point, but a\nnoticeable difference didn't occur until Kaji went to deliver it to Gendo.\n\nIn the original series, [Gaghiel](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Gaghiel)\nattacked the UN Pacific Fleet searching for Adam's embryo, but that never\nhappened in Rebuild. Rather, [Ramiel](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Ramiel)\nbecame the new 6th Angel, while Gaghiel never appears. Instead, we have the\nunnamed [Third Angel](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Third_Angel) which, if\nyou account for the fact it was subjected to experiments, is reminiscent of\nGaghiel.\n\nAlso, Kaji released the Third Angel to cover his escape with Nebuchadnezzar's\nKey, so it's possible that the facility that the Third Angel was in was where\nGaghiel attacked before the first movie. Gaghiel may have been captured and\nexperimented on, and became the Third Angel we see in the second movie (thus\nmaking [Sachiel](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Sachiel) the Fourth Angel).\nKaji knew that by releasing the Third Angel, the facility will do everything\nthey can to prevent its escape from the facility, and in the end, they destroy\nit.\n\nI'd also note that Sachiel,\n[Shamshel](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Shamshel) and Ramiel are very much\nthe same since the first movie was more of less the same as the original (very\nlittle deviation), except their numbers have been pushed up thanks to the\nThird Angel appearing in the second movie (and numbering seems to be based off\nappearance) - from the [Seventh\nAngel](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Seventh_Angel) on they are different.\n\n> While [Bardiel](http://evangelion.wikia.com/wiki/Bardiel) is just demoted in\n> number, Asuka is the one who pilots the Eva, not Toji, and the Dummy Plug is\n> over top Shinji and talks backwards which didn't happen in the original.\n\n[Jon Lin's Answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14118/1587) talks about\nLilith which I totally forgot about. However, both Rebuild's references to\nLilith in the first movie and the original series references to her would\nstill occur _after_ the item Kaji gave to Gendo was discovered (Original =\n\"Adam's Embryo\", Rebuild = \"Nebuchadnezzar's Key\"), and as such I stand by my\nspeculations.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-22T22:28:46.427", "id": "14116", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-24T13:07:50.813", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14111", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n[Here's a list of differences between the first movie and the original\ntimeline](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Differences_between_Evangelion_1.0_and_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion)\n\nThe most notable plot-wise is that Misato knew about Lilith, and she knew what\nLilith's purpose was, and later before the Ramiel battle, she showed Shinji\nwhat Lilith was and explained why he needed to fight the Angels.\n\n> The appearance and identification of the Angel Lilith at the end of the\n> first movie and just before the commencement of Operation Yashima\n> (Corresponding to Episode 06 of the TV series), unlike the veil of secrecy\n> kept in the original series where Lilith was never seen until Episode 15 and\n> wrongly identified as Adam until Episode 24.\n>\n> More notably, Gendo and Fuyutsuki speak about a \" **contract with Lilith**\n> ,\" which did not exist in the old series. Lilith's existence may not be a\n> mystery, but its role is hinted to take a different turn from its original\n> series counterpart.\n\nThere was no mention of a \"contract\" with Lilith in the original time-line.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-23T00:49:10.023", "id": "14118", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-23T00:49:10.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "14111", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI think one of the biggest changing points is [the Vatican\nTreaty](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Vatican_Treaty).\n\nAs the wiki points, this represents a weakened political influence by the part\nof Seele. Comparing the roles of Seele in both continuities, in NGE they are\nthe masterminds, but in Rebuild they are more like an advisory board (going\neven to the extreme of shutting themselves down peacefully, instead of having\nthe plug pulled by Gendo).\n\nThe Vatican Treaty may have arised from a stronger nationalism to fill the\nvacuum left by Seele's reduced influence. Since Asuka identifies more as a\nGerman (even being part Japanese), this reduced the bonding between her and\nShinji and probably supressed whatever crush she had on Kaji.\n\nBut keeping with the Rebuild continuity, there were no need to a fourth pilot,\nso Toji Suzuhara was never recruited.\n\nWhen [Bardiel](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Bardiel) attacked, the one inside the\nplug was Asuka, not Toji. The bond between Shinji and the person trapped was\nsmaller, and the psychological damage from the fight was also smaller. Toji\nwas Shinji's friend as much as in NGE, but Asuka was, instead of a love\ninterest, just some annoying female.\n\nThis vacuum in Shinji's love interest created by Asuka disinterest had him\ngravitate more towards Rei. So the psychological reaction to having Rei\n\"dying\" while fighting [Zeruel](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Zeruel) had the added\nimpact that was missing during the fight with Bardiel.\n\nSo instead of just going into [400%\nsynchro](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Synchronization) like in NGE, Shinji causes\nthe [awakening of\nEVA-01](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Third_Impact#Near_Third_Impact). Notice that\nin both scenarios, EVA-01 ends up bearing both fruits (in NGE she eats Zeruel\nS2 engine, while in Rebuild the liquified Zeruel-Rei merges with EVA-01),\nbecoming the forbidden godlike being.\n\nSo I think the root cause (as far as we can go from what is shown in the\nMovies) might have been the Vatican Treaty.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-24T13:54:19.833", "id": "14150", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-24T13:54:19.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "14111", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**TL;DR:** Because the target audience for the show are girls. And girls are\nsupposed to like makeovers.\n\n* * *\n\n[An excerpt from the\nbook](http://books.google.com/books?id=Ck2Q5qPVSlYC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=sailor%20moon%20make%20up%20transformation%20keyword&source=bl&ots=7hhK9AYMoU&sig=s6Q0SdrVNr2d6ftA2WNV1aR17IE&sa=X&ei=VWElVJi9ArHgsATo_oCACA&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=sailor%20moon%20make%20up%20transformation%20keyword&f=false)\n_Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Anne Allison)_\n(emphasis mine):\n\n> In a property like Sailor Moon, these two words [romance and fantasy\n> marriage] blend in a story line that incorporates both fighting and romance,\n> (...) however the text still belongs in \"girls' country\" (...).\n>\n> Girl heroes have powers rooted in magic or otherworldliness, they fight to\n> help friends, **their weapons double as fashion accessories** , a princess\n> or spirit empowers them, they \"make up\" when transformed, and \"love\" is\n> their keyword. (...)\n>\n> When girl heroes morph, however, the **process is more a \"makeover\"** than a\n> \"powerup\". Apart from empowerment, that is, transformation also beautifies\n> girls, fostering personal attractiveness, romance and dreams.\n\n* * *\n\nWe can infer that the **\"make up\"** magic word in Sailor Moon is used to\nfoster the identification process between the audience (young girls) and the\ncharacters.\n\nIn Sailor Moon Crystal, the\n[protagonist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonist) is 14 years old. From\nthe same Wikipedia article:\n\n> The audience is intended to mostly identify with the protagonist.\n\nSo, there you go.\n\nThis answer also answers: \"Why is Tsukino (sailor moon) 14 years old?\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-26T13:03:01.010", "id": "14179", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-26T13:14:07.100", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-26T13:14:07.100", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "14117", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost of [Kotomine's Command\nSpells](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kotomine_Kirei#Command_Spells) are\nactually inherited by his father and the previous supervisors of the Holy\nGrail Wars at the end of the war, since a Master can only obtain 3 from the\nHoly Grail.\n\n> In addition to his own Command Seals on his lower left arm, he also has\n> Command Seals inherited from his father that cover his right arm from the\n> elbow to the wrist. The supervisor of the Holy Grail War is entrusted with\n> the Command Seals recollected from previous Holy Grail Wars, so he has\n> access to a great number of them.\n\nHe of course got all of the Command Spells that Risei Kotomine had after\nKayneth Archibald El-Melloi killed him. And because his Magic Circuit is still\nunderdeveloped by the time of the Forth Holy Grail War, he uses Command Seals\nas makeshift Magic Circuits and sacrifices them, similar to how Shirou\nsacrifices the Magic Circuits he made during his training when he does\nProjections (as noted when he projects Excalibur).\n\nThe [Origin\nBullets](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kiritsugu_Emiya#Thompson_Contender)\nutilizes Kiritsugu's Origin of \"Severing and Binding\"\n\n> The \"Severing\" aspect will cause prana stored within the Circuits to ignore\n> the paths within the body, flowing chaotically and destroying it in the\n> process. Afterward, the circuits will be bound together again with the\n> \"Binding\" aspect, albeit in a chaotic and useless manner, thus rendering\n> them permanently inoperable and destroying the target's magecraft abilities.\n\nHowever, since Kotomine is using Command Spells as Magic Circuits, the Origin\nBullets affects the Command Spell Kotomine used and leaving the others intact.\nKotomine doesn't fight like an orthodox magus which Kiritsugu has fought in\nthe past, and the fact he was even born with with Magic Circuits is abnormal\nby itself, so Kotomine isn't your typical Magus.\n\nAs for what Kotomine knew of Kiritsugu's abilities, while he probably didn't\nknow them at the time he was still a skilled Executor, it's noted that he's\nskilled enough to judge the type of bullet by the sound of gunfire and able to\nanalyze the situation calmly. Coupled with his own physical prowess and how he\nuses the Command Seals to reinforce his own body and equipment, he probably\nfigured out Kiritsugu's bullets weren't normal and prepared a suitable Anti-\nMagus Defense (devised from experience hunting strange Magi in the past for\nthe Church) backed by Command Spells as replacement for a Magic Circuit. And\nas we can see, he quickly worked out how to defend against Kiritsugu's\nbullets.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-23T23:34:10.900", "id": "14141", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-24T13:35:55.660", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-24T13:35:55.660", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14128", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nItachi\n\nLeft Eye : Tsukuyomi (powerful genjutsu) Right Eye : Amatarasu (black flames)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-23T13:46:30.290", "id": "14134", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-23T13:46:30.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8449", "parent_id": "14129", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the Naruto Wikia site under [Mangekyō\nSharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan#Itachi_Uchiha)\n(Itachi Uchiha):\n\n> With the Mangekyō Sharingan, Itachi was able to use at least three powerful\n> techniques. With his \"left Mangekyō\" he could use Tsukuyomi, an extremely\n> powerful genjutsu that allowed him to distort the victim's perception of\n> time, torturing their psyche for what seemed like days in a matter of\n> seconds. With his \"right Mangekyō\" he could use Amaterasu, a ninjutsu which\n> creates virtually-inextinguishable black flames at the user's focal point\n> that continue to burn until the target is reduced to ash. The last of these\n> known techniques was Susanoo, which allowed Itachi to summon a massive\n> ethereal warrior.\n\nAs such we can conclude Itachi's powers are,\n\n * [Tsukuyomi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsukuyomi)\n * [Amaterasu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Amaterasu)\n * [Susanoo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Susanoo)\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-24T01:10:25.890", "id": "14142", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-24T01:10:25.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14129", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe manga is not clear on this, but the idea many people seem to have is that\nAmaterasu and Tsukuyomi are two generic powers every Mangekyo user has and\nthat Obito and Shisui had various bonus unique powers, but I don't think this\nis the case.\n\nNeither Obito nor Shisui are ever shown to use either of these, my\nunderstanding is as follows:\n\nItachi, Sasuke: Amaterasu in one eye, Tsukuyimi in the other.\n\nObito: Kamui, close range in one eye, long range in the other (Kakashi's)\n\nShisui: Kotoamatsukami, perhaps in both eyes.\n\nMadara: ?? I can't remember if this has been shown\n\nAnd then any Mangekyo user who has awakened both powers will be able to use\nSusanoo.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-24T11:08:35.040", "id": "14149", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-24T11:08:35.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "14129", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nMangekyou Sharingan users have three abilities. Two unique ones in either eye,\nand Susano'o, which can only be used if you have Mangekyo Sharingan in both\neyes. Itachi had Tsukuyomi in his left, and Amaterasu in his right. Sasuke had\nAmaterasu in his left eye, and could extinguish and control the shape of the\nflames in his left, as he did during his fight with Killer B, stopping B from\nbeing killed by the Amaterasu. Obito's Mangekyo both used different forms of\nKamui, the left one he gave to Kakashi could uses a long range form that could\nteleport objects within the user's line of sight to the Kamui dimension. The\nright one he kept could only teleport himself and people he had physical\ncontact with to the Kamui dimension. It also allows the user to become\nintangible, by teleporting the parts of themselves hit by attacks to the Kamui\ndimension. The full extent of Shisui's abilities are unknown, but both the eye\nthat Shisui gave Itachi and the eye taken by Danzo could use Kotoamatsukami.\nThe abilities of Madara and his brother were not revealed, but we know Madara\nwas able to use Susano'o, meaning he unlocked the power of both his eyes.\n\nHowever, Amaterasu and Tsukyomi are _not_ generic Sharingan powers. While\nSasuke had Amaterasu like Itachi, I believe that was due to them being closely\nrelated, and not because it was a generic power, because _no other_ Mangekyo\nSharingan user has demonstrated the ability to use either Amaterasu or\nTsukuyomi, apart from Madara using Infinite Tsukuyomi, but I think it's safe\nto say that's a special case because of the Rinne Sharingan on his forehead.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-25T22:38:53.767", "id": "26822", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-25T22:38:53.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18714", "parent_id": "14129", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter doing a bit of research, it seems that they both did survive. In the\nsame regard as to when Daichi fired the Boostedmagnum at the debris,\nsupposedly killing Teppei, Daichi's Livlaster pulled the two into the same\nplace, that Teppei was taken that let him survive the blast. It isn't very\nwell explained, but I believe that the little girl with blue hair is Daichi's\nLivlaster in human form.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-27T17:05:55.727", "id": "43026", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-27T17:05:55.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36338", "parent_id": "14132", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs in the case of Teppei, his Livilaster teleported them onto a platform near\nEarth (Assumed from his comment about seeing the galaxy from this planet) the\nunnamed blue hair girl is his Livalaster in human form and helped Entrangled\nJump them out of the explosion. It's obvious that Dachi is alive because he\nspoke at the very last 5 seconds Hana responded with, \"Yeah.\" so that means\nshe woke up from being unconscious. All in all it is a happy ending and they\nprobably go back to meet their friends and family. I'll go read the manga and\nupdate this answer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-03-03T20:10:54.127", "id": "51035", "last_activity_date": "2019-03-03T20:10:54.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45246", "parent_id": "14132", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think [**Horimiya**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=70263) is\nwhat you are looking for.\n\nMost of the descriptions in your question matches the details in the first\nchapter of the manga.\n\n**Synopsis** (From MangaHelpers)\n\n> Hori may seem like a normal teenage girl, but she's a completely different\n> person after school. In her workaholic parents' absence, **Hori has been\n> like a parent for her little brother since she was young herself**.\n> **Between taking care of her brother, feeding them both, and housework** ,\n> she doesn't have much time for a usual teenage social life. One day, she\n> meets someone else who does not present his true self at school: a quiet,\n> glasses-wearing boy called Miyamura. **She'd assumed he was bookish, and\n> possibly an otaku** , but Hori couldn't have been more wrong. **Outside of\n> school** , Miyamura is a friendly guy **with many piercings** , and he's not\n> very good at academics. Now the two of them have someone with whom they can\n> share both halves of their lives!\n\nHere is the cover of the first volume, which shows both character in their\n\"school mode\". Note how Miyamura (the male character) leaves his hair long and\nhas a nerdy look, while Hori (the female character) looks very stylish:\n\n\n\nHere is a panel from chapter 1, showing Miyamura in his \"after school mode\"\nwith plenty of piercing, which he hides by leaving his hair long:\n\n\n\nHere is a panel from chapter 2, showing Miyamura's tattoos, which is the\nreason why he always wears an extra layer of clothes during PE to prevent the\ntattoos from showing through:\n\n\n\nYou might also want to check out [Hori-san to Miyamura-\nkun](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=36865) written and\nillustrated by HERO, since it is the original work that **Horimiya** adapts\nfrom. The art is not as good, though, like the case with [One Punch\nMan](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=103033)'s original work by\nONE (which looks like it is drawn with Paint) and [its awesome\nadaptation](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=80345).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-23T15:27:30.567", "id": "14137", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-23T15:39:30.360", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-23T15:39:30.360", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "14135", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nSearching for the image resulted in this title **影のセクハリスト ～孕ませ王位継承騒動～** ,\nwhich roughly translates to _Sexual Harasser of the Dark ~ The Impregnation\nMayhem for Throne Succession ~_\n\nHere is [a clearer version of the cover](https://i.stack.imgur.com/miHk1.jpg)\n**(NSFW)**.\n\nHere is the link to [official website](http://www.lilith-\nsoft.com/lilith/product40.html) **(NSFW)** and [its entry on\nvndb](http://vndb.org/v7705).\n\nIt seems to be a eroge, not an anime, though.\n\nThe site describes it as a \"magic school slapstick love comedy\".\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-25T18:13:05.833", "id": "14169", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-26T15:13:51.997", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-26T15:13:51.997", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7902", "parent_id": "14148", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI haven't played the game, but according to [its English-language Wikipedia\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Universe_%28video_game%29):\n\n * Demon God Kanata\n * Valkyrie Rizelea\n * Fox Spirit Tsubaki\n * The Dark Hero Lucius\n * Treasure Hunter Recit\n * Managraphic Artist Miyu\n * Mizuki\n * Suzaku\n * Macaroon\n * Shuten\n * Ashura\n\nare all original characters.\n\n * Flonne\n * Etna\n * Prinny\n\nare all Nippon Ichi characters from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. (I can\npersonally vouch for this one, since I've played Disgaea.)\n\n * Pamela Ibis\n * Violet Platane\n\nare Gust characters from Atelier Viorate: Alchemist of Gramnad 2.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-25T05:46:01.623", "id": "14157", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-25T05:46:01.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14153", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Torisuda's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14157/1587)\nto [another question of\nmine](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14153/which-trinity-universe-\ncharacters-belong-with-each-developer) Macaroon seemed to be an original\ncharacter in _Trinity Universe_.\n\nSince Trinity Universe came out in 2009 and _Hyperdimension Neptunia_ in 2010\nit would seem that Macaroon is an original character used in cross-over works\nas such doesn't appear in any other previously released Gust Game.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-25T23:19:38.250", "id": "14171", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-25T23:19:38.250", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14154", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWarning, some spoilers for Ar Nosurge are below:\n\nAr Nosurge is set in the same universe as Ar Tonelico, but not on the same\nplanet as Ar Tonelico (mostly, two of the main characters do visit Ar Ciel,\nthe planet in Ar Tonelico). It is also a prequel to Ar Tonelico (the plot of\nAr Nosurge takes place around 700 to 800 years before Ar Tonelico).\n\nDespite being set on a different 'planet', there is a major story link between\nthe two, as it deals with the origin of the Teru tribe in Ar Tonelico. You\nalso meet a major character from Ar Tonelico in Ar Nosurge.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-02T18:47:25.920", "id": "21305", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-02T18:47:25.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13265", "parent_id": "14155", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAr nosurge takes place roughly 735 years before Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia,\ngoing by the clues the game leaves and the information revealed from the\nofficial setting encyclopedias.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-04T23:48:34.877", "id": "23807", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-04T23:48:34.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16076", "parent_id": "14155", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo.\n\nThe Japanese version has no subtitles embedded for English. The only way you\ncould get around this is buy the movie, rip the image, mux in some subtitles,\nand then re-burn a \"backup\". This is no advocating doing so -- check your\nlocal law.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-23T16:50:02.413", "id": "15256", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-23T16:50:02.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "14156", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLooks like a bootleg version of **Manatsu Kuroki** from the anime [**Uta\nKata**](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=2481)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-25T14:10:32.560", "id": "14164", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-25T14:10:32.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7884", "parent_id": "14162", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# [Clothing](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Gotei#Uniforms)\n\nIt's actually relatively simple for the \"standard shinigami\". They will wear:\n\n * a [Shihakushō](http://bleach.neoseeker.com/wiki/Shihakusho) (死覇装, Garment of Dead Souls), the black .. thingy which comprises of: \n * a [white shitagi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitagi) (下着, under clothing)\n * a [black kosode](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosode) (小袖, small sleeve)\n * a [black hakama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakama) (袴, \"trousers\")\n * [white tabi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabi) (足袋, foot pouch / socks)\n * and [waraji](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waraji) (草鞋, sandals)\n\nAdditionally the Lieutenants will sometimes wear an armband with the division\nsymbol and number.\n\nThe Captains wear a white overcoat called\n[Haori](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimono#Accessories_and_related_garments)\n(羽織) with their division symbol in a rhombus (the Gotei 13 symbol)\n\nThere is differences for the [Covert Ops (隠密機動,\nOnmitsukidō)](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Onmitsukido) They wear a\nstereotypical ninja outfit. \nThe other subdivisions of the Covert Ops (namely Detention Corps and Inner\nCourt Corps) also have different clothing.\n\n# Equipment\n\nEvery shinigami has a Zanpakuto of their own. They will always carry them\n**especially** on duty. Usually they don't carry any further equipment.\n\nAdditionally the fourth division (healers) is regularly seen with pouches for\nmedicine and related material.\n\nFurthermore Lieutenants and Captains will automatically be given a Power-\nSuppression-Sigil when they pass the Senkaimon to go to the World of Living.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-30T08:08:17.603", "id": "14240", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-30T10:14:14.830", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1751", "parent_id": "14172", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nYou **only** need a Shihakusho [unless you're a Captain and as such there's\nthe jacket that has to be worn over it[. The garment itself doesn't have to be\nthe standard they give you, there are shinigami like Nemu that wear a\ndifferent style that isn't the default uniform cut. Then there's the aesthetic\nand functional gear that you are allowed to have over the uniform itself which\nyou are allowed to have. This is one of the peculiarities of the Gotei 13,\ndespite their structured organization, the members aren't bound to look the\nsame due to the understanding that each soul and spirit has it's own story\nbehind them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-26T17:33:12.623", "id": "47572", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-26T17:33:12.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41283", "parent_id": "14172", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this site](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=72810)\nthe anime ends at chapter 100 of the manga \n(left side, 8th entry)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-26T13:01:06.840", "id": "14178", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-26T13:01:06.840", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "5035", "parent_id": "14174", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe anime ends at chapter 100 of the manga. Below is the last 2 pages of\nchapter 100.\n\n> \n\nThe anime is generally faithful to the manga (the source material) in terms of\nimportant plot points. The anime is quite close to the manga for the first few\nepisodes, then it starts to skip many events in the later half. Notably:\n\n * Mizuka arc, where Murakami and the girls tried to escape from Mizuka, a rank AAA magic user with precognition ability. Mizuka's power can project herself into the future, where she interferes with people's decision to make her vision comes true. The anime skips the whole arc.\n * Yuki Tsuchiya, debuting during Mizuka arc as a new employee of The Organization, is skipped in the anime along with Mizuka arc. In the manga, she serves mostly as an excuse to let readers have a look inside The Organization and their treatment towards magic users.\n * Kitsuka, who is Murakami's student and has a crush on him, followed Murakami and the girls on their trip to the beach in the manga. This is omitted in the anime. Although this detail being removed doesn't affect the ending of the anime, it is connected to the story after chapter 100 and may confuse you a bit.\n * Many details in the last few episodes of the anime are trimmed.\n\nTherefore, I recommend everyone to take a look at the manga for the full\nexperience.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-26T14:05:43.060", "id": "14180", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-26T14:05:43.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "14174", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think the requirement is _strictly_ for the phone to always be on but\nrather that it shouldn't get damaged. The phone is meant to be a reflection of\nthe user, like a piece of their soul. So if it's damaged, the user is also\naffected. It probably doesn't hurt to just casually turn it off since it\ndoesn't harm the phone. Although, it would be a BIG disadvantage, lol! I would\nguess the power would work the same too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-27T21:51:50.063", "id": "14196", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-27T21:51:50.063", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8502", "parent_id": "14175", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nFrom [the wiki\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica:_The_Movie) this\nshould be the part:\n\n> As Homura realizes that said witch must be no other than herself, Kyubey\n> appears and reveals that she had fallen into despair and when she was about\n> to become a witch, he and the other incubators isolated her soul gem to set\n> a trap for Madoka, in order to take control of her power. However, when\n> Madoka appeared, she had forgotten about her duty as the Law of Cycle and\n> her power as such, thus Kyubey kept observing her until that point.\n\nMy guess would be: the Incubators trapped the soul of Homura _before_ the\noccurence of the Law of cycles i.e. moments before becoming a witch (which is\nalso confirmed by the incubators at a certain point when they say that Homura\nis between the two states), and it shouldn't contradict the law of cycles\nbecause after all it's Madoka who stops the magical girls from turning into\nwitches.\n\nShe decides then to become a witch in order to destroy her own soul, so that\nMadoka won't be trapped by the Incubators, who wanted to study her so that\nthey would have been able to restore the old (magical girl->witch) rule. After\nall, _Homura's_ soul was kept there for that reason (I previously wrote \"her\"\nbut it was ambiguous).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-27T00:18:17.947", "id": "14189", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-27T09:29:05.307", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-27T09:29:05.307", "last_editor_user_id": "8464", "owner_user_id": "8464", "parent_id": "14187", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are actually a lot of ideas about that, and one is that Goku spent a\nlong time training in the heavens, where power is limitless and that is said\nto have greatly strengthened him. Vegeta on the other hand, never had that\nchance. As a note, Vegeta did reach Super Saiyajin 4 after gaining power from\none of Bulma's machines, then he fused with Goku to beat the One-Star Dragon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-29T20:20:59.010", "id": "14228", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T05:12:06.327", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T05:12:06.327", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "8405", "parent_id": "14190", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAs an additional note to the accepted answer, Gotenks was able to reach SSJ3\nonly because the fusion dramatically increased his power.\n\nGohan never reached it because he had the Old Kai awake his sleeping powers\n(Mystical Gohan form) which made his power comparable to a SSJ3.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-29T06:18:57.750", "id": "20416", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-29T06:18:57.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13397", "parent_id": "14190", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSuper Saiyajin 3 transformation takes in a lot of energy. And to perfect that\nform, Goku needed to work on his stamina, which he did when he was at King\nKai's planet.\n\nPrior to fighting Kid Buu, he had not perfected the form. Infact, that form\nwas even hidden from Vegeta, because Vegeta had no clue that there was a\npossibility of moving beyond the Super Saiyajin 2 level. In case you remember,\nwhen fighting Kid Buu, Goku tried recharging himself in the Super Saiyajin 3\nform, when Vegeta was the bait, but he failed to restore his strength, unlike\nwhat he expected.\n\nLikewise, while fighting Beerus, his energy was not even close to that of the\nGod of Destruction. I think , the SSJ 3 form is a form that requires extremely\nhigh energy surge. As for Gotenks, SSJ3 was possible, because of the combined\nstrength of Goten and Trunks.\n\nAs for Vegeta, well, even though he is the Prince of all Saiyans, he lacks the\npotential to power up to that level. And he lacks training, unlike Goku, we\ncan never stop himself from continuing to train and fight.\n\nHalf saiyans have the potential to reach SSJ3, however, Toriyama hasn't\nfocussed much on the SSJ3 transformation part. And there ain't no discrete\nlogic to support the transformation as such. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/i55Xb.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-16T06:34:20.223", "id": "41404", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-16T06:34:20.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34643", "parent_id": "14190", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAnbu are recruited directly by the Hokage (or, in case of Root, by Danzou).\nThere's no mention of a hard requirement, but generally excellent shinobi are\nchosen.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-28T10:55:39.450", "id": "14204", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-28T10:55:39.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "14195", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn general, they are chosen from the excellent jounins the village has. This\nis because the ANBU has to do missions like assassinating missing ninjas, and\nmissing ninjas are more often than not, includes ninjas of jounin level. So if\nthey are just so-so level jounin, they won't be able to do their missions\nwell.\n\nOf course, even though s/he is strong, doesn't necessarily qualifies them as\nANBU. Notice that although Might Guy is a strong ninja, he never joined ANBU.\nI think one of the qualifications for entering ANBU is that **even if you\nexcels in one ability, your other abilities must be high-leveled too**. Guy is\nvery strong in taijutsu (even Uchiha Madara admitted that he never met someone\nremotely as good as Guy in taijutsu), but his ninjutsu and genjutsu is so so.\nCompared to Kakashi, although Kakashi is not as strong as Guy in taijutsu, he\nis quite high-leveled in it. His genjutsu is good and he is excellent in\nninjutsu, being called the Copy Ninja.\n\nThe last requirement and the most important is the **willingness**. That they\nknow what missions the ANBU conducts and they accept that if they join, they\nhave to do it, even if that means you have to massacre your entire clan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T04:59:33.203", "id": "14369", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-10T04:59:33.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "14195", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nGuy actually requested to be in ANBU to keep an eye on Kakashi but the third\nhokage and Danzo didn't let him because they said he \"Lacked the necessary\ndarkness in his heart\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-04T04:48:14.777", "id": "32530", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-04T04:48:14.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24475", "parent_id": "14195", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think he is, he is of an age with Hashirama Senju, as seen from when\nthey were children together, and his slightly younger brother was the master\nof Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was only 69 when he died.\n\nThe age gap between master and student varies, with Kakashi less than twenty\nyears older than Naruto and Jiraiya more than thirty years older than Naruto,\nbut even if Tobirama was forty years older than Hiruzen, that only puts him at\n109, and seeing as they were both kids at the same time, Hashirama can't be\nmore than 115 or so, and Madara at most maybe 118.\n\nLooking at it another way, Hashiraama's granddaughter Tsunade is 55 after the\ntimeskip, and on average grandparents tend to be between fifty and seventy\nyears older than their grandchildren, making it unlikely for Hashirama to be\nolder than 124, but possible.\n\nIt's also important to note that after entrusting Obito to resurrect him,\nMadara did pass away, I'm not sure for how long, but most likely at the\nminimum for a year or two.\n\nI would guess that Madara was born about 100 to 110 years ago, and spent one\nto ten of those years dead, making him susceptible to the Death Note.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-28T19:18:43.610", "id": "14212", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-28T19:18:43.610", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "14205", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nObito was 12+ when Madara found him at age 110, and during the ninja war he\nwas 30+. Your birthday doesn't stop coming after you die though.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-23T17:12:43.380", "id": "42449", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-02T15:46:27.027", "last_edit_date": "2018-03-02T15:46:27.027", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35790", "parent_id": "14205", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know about the specific case of Tokyo ESP, but it's far from uncommon\nfor anime to have references to American popular culture. For example, there\nwas [Nerima Daikon\nBrothers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerima_Daikon_Brothers), which was\nvaguely influenced by _The Blues Brothers_ and contained the weird Michael\nJackson parody Yukel Hakushon. [Excel\nSaga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excel_Saga) and [Magical Shopping Arcade\nAbenobashi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Shopping_Arcade_Abenobashi)\nwere also full of them. The Cowboy Bebop episode \"Toys in the Attic\" was a\nparody of the _Alien_ movies. The Yuru Yuri manga included a weird scene where\nKyouko imagines a Hollywood movie of Yuru Yuri where everyone carries a gun.\nHellsing included [its bizarre \"Willis\"\ndream](http://hellsing.wikia.com/wiki/Hellsing_Combat_Pistol_%27Jackal%27#Trivia)\nthat references Bruce Willis.\n\nJapan receives a good portion of our pop culture. If you look at [this list of\nhighest-grossing films in Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-\ngrossing_films_in_Japan), you'll notice that it's about an even split between\nJapanese and US productions, and that _Titanic_ , _Frozen_ , _Harry Potter_ ,\nand _Avatar_ are all in the top ten. Japanese voice actors often do both anime\nand dubs of American films; check out [this list of dub roles by Akio\nOtsuka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_%C5%8Ctsuka#Dubbing_roles), who\nplays Rider in Fate/Zero. Even movies that many of us Americans would rather\nno one ever saw, like _Con Air_ and the entire filmography of Steven Seagal,\nare in that list.\n\nSo the author of Tokyo ESP was just making reference to well-known movies, for\nthe same reasons any author might.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-05T01:52:41.257", "id": "14305", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-05T01:52:41.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14213", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt could be because Naruto doesn't take place on Earth and so the culture is\n'Japanese-esque' with certain differences. Or it could be to encourage\nfeelings of comradery between teacher and students so they work better as a\nteam.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T03:48:08.593", "id": "14424", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T03:48:08.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8679", "parent_id": "14221", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe main reason is Naruto's Universe is different from ours.\n\nIn most of the other anime where the story takes place in Japan, Japan's mode\nof addressing applies. Calling your teacher and your female/male friend by\nfamily name. Calling each other by name if you are a lover or male-male or\nfemale-female friend. Respecting your seniors by calling them Senpai, etc.\n\nHowever, since Naruto takes place in a different universe, the mode of\naddressing is different. In Naruto, you can find people not only calling by\ntheir names but also by their nicknames. Naruto has nicknames for most of his\nfriends, sensei, and elders, like Rock Lee-Bushy Brows, Ero Sennin-Jiraya, ...\nwhich you mostly don't find in real life.\n\n* * *\n\nThis is not limited to just Naruto. One Piece, Attack on Titan, and most of\nthe other anime where their universe is different from ours (or Japan), the\nusual Japanese mode of addressing doesn't apply.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T11:05:31.470", "id": "14428", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-08T12:19:32.793", "last_edit_date": "2021-03-08T12:19:32.793", "last_editor_user_id": "59258", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "14221", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with the other answers which point out that the Naruto universe\ndoesn't necessarily follow the Japanese culture in our real life. However, in\ncase of Naruto, there's one other reason.\n\nNot just the jonin teachers, but pretty much everyone in the Naruto universe\naddresses everyone else by their first name.1 This practice seems to have its\nroots in the shinobi rule of guarding one's surname from strangers, which was\nstrictly followed in the times before Konohagakure was founded. (Chapter 622)\n\n \n\nAfter Konohagakure was founded, it was no longer necessary to hide your\nsurname, but the habit of calling people by their first name remained. Nobody\nfelt the need to reconsider the practice and think, \"Hey, we don't need to\nhide our surnames anymore, let's just call each other by our surnames from now\non, mkay?\" (If it ain't broken, don't fix it.)\n\n* * *\n\n1 The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, seems to be the only major character who\nis an exception, as everyone addresses him by his last name.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-03T11:41:10.347", "id": "21319", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-03T11:41:10.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "14221", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nRegarding the fate of the flying cloud (Kinto'un), according to [Flying\nNimbus](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Flying_Nimbus) article on Dragon Ball\nwiki:\n\n> During Dragon Ball Z, the Nimbus was used by Goku during the Vegeta Saga. He\n> used the Nimbus to chase down and save Gohan from Raditz, and to race toward\n> the battlefield to save his friends from the Saiyans, Vegeta and Nappa. The\n> Nimbus perhaps most notably saved Gohan from being stomped to death by\n> Nappa. After recovering in the hospital from the injuries he received during\n> the fight with Vegeta, Goku uses the Nimbus once more to travel to the\n> Capsule Corporation and begin his journey to Namek in Dr. Brief's Capsule\n> Corporation spaceship. This is Nimbus' last appearance for quite some time,\n> as most characters learned high-speed flight, which far outclasses the\n> Nimbus' speed.\n>\n> It is seen again in the Great Saiyaman Saga when Gohan also used it to fly\n> from Mount Paozu to Orange Star High School, and even raced with it after\n> becoming Great Saiyaman. **He later gave it to his little brother Goten**\n> after getting the Great Saiyaman Watch from Bulma, which allowed him to fly\n> without the fear of someone recognizing him. **The Nimbus is only used by\n> Goten once,** as he would soon learn to fly after Gohan teaches him. **This\n> would be the final time the cloud would appear in Dragon Ball Z.** **In the\n> 2004 kanzenban edition of the manga,** four new pages drawn by Akira\n> Toriyama were added to the final Dragon Ball manga volume. **They depict\n> Goku giving his Flying Nimbus to Uub while they are leaving Papaya Island.**\n\nAs for the extending staff (Nyoibou), according to [Power\nPole](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Pole) article on Dragon Ball\nwiki:\n\n> When Goku shows up for the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, he is also\n> carrying the Power Pole. After the 23rd tournament, Goku uses the pole to\n> fight Annin in the final episode of Dragon Ball. Four years later, Goku uses\n> the Power Pole against Garlic Jr. and his henchmen in the movie Dragon Ball\n> Z: Dead Zone. While Goku was training with King Kai in the Other World after\n> his death fighting Raditz, the Power Pole was shown strung between Korin\n> Tower and Kami's Lookout. Brought by Gohan in Wheelo's fortress, Goku uses\n> the Power Pole again in the battle with Dr. Wheelo in Dragon Ball Z: The\n> World's Strongest. Following this, Goku retires the Power Pole, presumably\n> because he does not have much use for it with his rapidly ascending power.\n>\n> In the Garlic Jr. Saga, the pole is not between Korin Tower and Kami's\n> Lookout but in Korin's possession, as seen when he bets it in a poker game\n> with Maron and Yajirobe. **The Power Pole is later seen extending from Korin\n> Tower to the Lookout several times during the course of Dragon Ball Z, and\n> Goku is seen with it one final time in the Japanese ending credits of \"Until\n> We Meet Again\", the last episode of Dragon Ball GT.**\n\nAs seen in the 2 articles, the flying cloud and the extending staff are still\nthere, but no one really uses them. Goku has the extending staff with him in\nGT, but that is later in the series and he doesn't even use it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-29T15:17:16.703", "id": "14224", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-19T13:01:02.327", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6515", "parent_id": "14222", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nRegarding Kinto Un, Goku gave it to Gohan and, later, had been used by Goten.\n\nNyoibou was given to Goku by his grandfather Son Gohan. Before, it was used to\nconnect Karin's Tower to Kami's Palace. Goku used it to reach Kami's Palace\nduring his training with Kami, before his fight against Piccolo in the last\npart of the Dragon Ball serie. It is there until now and can be seen in\nseveral DBZ episodes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-16T23:48:00.957", "id": "23318", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-16T23:48:00.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15712", "parent_id": "14222", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nKinto'Un is seen again in Dragon Ball Super when Goku and Krillin enter a\nforest where they encounter gigantic versions of all the major villains in\nDragon Ball Z which grow as they use energy, so Goku calls on Kinto'Un so he\ncan get a view from above without spending energy to fly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-04-04T19:06:32.373", "id": "46385", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-04T19:06:32.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "39966", "parent_id": "14222", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSee this image:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EYCiP.jpg)\n\nThe image consists of comparison shots between the TV broadcast (left) and the\nDVDs (right). Except for the bottom right one, obviously. The rest are\nlegitimate images.\n\nThis is the infamous white devil scene from _StrikerS_ , and you shouldn't\nhave much trouble noticing significant differences in the faces, especially in\nNanoha's.\n\nThe severity of the difference should also suggest why it was changed: they\ndecided Nanoha's reaction and characterization in that scene were\ninappropriately grim and harsh. In the broadcast, she is mortified into\nbrutality. In the DVDs, she is disappointed but cool and in control.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-30T19:54:21.013", "id": "14244", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-03T08:42:47.483", "last_edit_date": "2018-03-03T08:42:47.483", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "14233", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile I don't know if Gen Urobuchi had said anything about this, the [TYPE-\nMOON Wikia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Rider_%28Fate/Zero%29) page for\nRider (under Profile section, since you know his real name the first paragraph\nshouldn't be too bad in terms of spoilers) says his name was also Al-Iskandar\nwhich does kinda sound like Alexander.\n\nBut then that doesn't answer _why_ they choose that name. This is just\nspeculation on my part, however\n[Iskandar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskandar) is derived from the Old\nPersian name Sikandar. Old Persian have been used in Achaemenid Empire at the\ntime of Alexander's conquests, and it should be noted that the Achaemenid\nEmpire was [one of the largest empires in the\nworld](http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WBAZAQAAIAAJ&q=%28Meyer%20p.85%29&redir_esc=y)\nin terms of how many people it ruled.\n\n> Darlus ruled about 50 million people in the largest empire the world had\n> seen (Meyer, p.85)\n\nAnd\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires#Largest_empires_by_land_area_and_population)\nlists it as the second largest in terms of % of the world population\n\n> 44.48% (50 million out of 112.4 million in 480 BC)\n\nI would assume Alexander's name being Al-Iskandar (or just Iskandar) is a note\nto one of his greatest achievements: his victory against the Achaemenid\nEmpire.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-01T00:56:33.070", "id": "14251", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-01T12:35:02.947", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-01T12:35:02.947", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14238", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't have any concrete statement from Gen Urobuchi or the anime production\nstaff, but I suspect it's because although Alexander the Great began as King\nof Macedonia, he spent a good portion of his life ruling Persia and other\nMiddle Eastern kingdoms, and so was actually more of a Middle Eastern king\nthan a Greek one.\n\nAccording to [the Wikipedia\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great), Alexander reigned\nfrom 336 BC to 323 BC--a reign of only thirteen years. He spent two years as\nKing of Macedonia, rallying his forces for an invasion of Asia. In 332 BC,\njust two years after beginning his conquest, he overthrew Darius III, Pharaoh\nof Egypt and King of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia, and assumed those\ntitles. That means that, of thirteen years of rule, he spent nine as King of\nPersia and Macedonia and just two as King of Macedonia; furthermore, we can\nsee from the Wikipedia page that he spent almost all of his time after the\ninvasion in Persia and the Middle East. As @Memor-X mentions in his answer,\nthe Achaemenid Empire was one of the largest empires in the world by\npopulation, so being its king put Alexander over a far greater number of\npeople than his kingship of Macedonia. As Memor-X mentions, \"Iskandar\" is\nAlexander's name in Old Persian, and all of these new subjects would have\nknown him by that name. And after taking the kingship of Persia, Alexander\ndidn't double back to Europe; he continued east, pushing through Pakistan and\ninto India, searching for the great ocean at the end of the world (as his\nfictionalized counterpart Rider also was), planning to establish a capital at\nBabylon and invade the Arabian Peninsula. Since all the people on his eastward\nmarch would be more familiar with Persian than with Greek, it makes sense that\nthey would also call him \"Iskandar\".\n\nNot only that, but during his time as ruler of Persia, Alexander adopted\nseveral Persian customs and overall tried to integrate his Macedonian and\nPersian subjects\n([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#Problems_and_plots),\nthe first paragraph, and also\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#Last_years_in_Persia).)\nAlexander also married two Persian princesses, [Stateira\nII](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateira_II) and her cousin [Parysatis\nII](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parysatis_II), and integrated his army so\nthat both Macedonians and Persians could hold positions of high power; he\nbribed, pandered, and punished as needed to keep the peace between them, even\nhaving some of his men executed for desecrating the tomb of Persian king Cyrus\nthe Great.\n\nGiven all that, it seems possible that Urobuchi thought that even though\nAlexander began as a Greek king, his major accomplishments were more\nassociated with Persia and the Middle East, and so it was the Persian form of\nhis name that should go down in legend. His Noble Phantasm, Ionioi Hetarioi,\ntransports everyone to the Persian desert, not the Macedonian hills, which\ncould be another nod to this. It's also notable that, so far as I can\nremember, we first hear the name \"Iskandar\" from Rider himself, in Episode 4\nwhen he flies into the middle of Saber and Lancer's battle and tries to\nrecruit them for his army; perhaps Urobuchi thought that, given all the\nhistory that Memor-X and I mentioned, Rider would think of himself as Iskandar\nand not Alexander.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-01T21:38:17.593", "id": "14265", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-01T21:38:17.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14238", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nSo according to the [Rider (Fate/Zero)\nWikia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Rider_\\(Fate/Zero\\)), Iskandar is the\n\"adult aspect\" summoned in Fate/Zero, whereas Alexander is the \"child aspect\"\nwhom I believe is summoned in the android IOS game Fate/Grand Order.\n\n> \"the King of Conquerors (征服王, Seifuku-Ō?), summoned as the adult aspect\n> known by the name Iskandar (イスカンダル, Isukandaru?) rather than the youthful\n> aspect known as Alexander (アレキサンダ, Arekisanda?).\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-25T05:04:37.030", "id": "37508", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-25T05:04:37.030", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29437", "parent_id": "14238", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt because Japan and Turkey in the same language family. That means reading\nİskandar(İskender) easier than reading Alexander. But I have question too!\n\nIn fate\\apo why did they call the Dracula's skill like Kazikuru bei? Its a\nTurkish word too but they didn't read it as \"Kazikli Bey\"\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-16T18:18:23.413", "id": "48808", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-16T18:18:23.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42513", "parent_id": "14238", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMy answer is based off of what I know from reading \"Hey Answerman\" every once\nin a while, but I think it should be a good enough guess of the process:\n\n 1. The Production Committee for Log Horizon decided to adapt the novels into an anime. \n 2. They bought 25 weeks worth of a time slot because they were pretty confident that it would be more successful than a typical 13 week anime. \n 3. They contracted an animation studio to animate it (Satelight). \n 4. The anime aired and it had a good response with ratings and DVD sales. (And, more importantly, Light Novel sales.)\n 5. The Production Committee thought \"Hey, the first series turned a profit and there is a demand for more, lets make a second series\"\n 6. The Production Committee checks with Satelight and decides not to use them again because they were either too expensive or they had already contracted to animate another anime during the proposed season (scheduling conflicts). \n 7. The Production Committee finds some other animation studio (Studio Deen) that doesn't currently have plans for that season and goes with them because its better to do a second series now while the fan interest is high than to wait until Satelight is available.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-06T22:00:37.580", "id": "14325", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-06T22:00:37.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4241", "parent_id": "14239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom the [Void Genome](http://guiltycrown.wikia.com/wiki/Void_Genome) page in\nGC wiki, a Void is said to be\n\n> a person's inner psyche taking physical form.\n\nmoreover,\n\n> A Void's form and function reflects the person's fears and or complexes, in\n> other words it's like the shape of their heart, or personality.\n\nThe _definition_ of void wasn't given explicitly, but from what can be read in\nthe quotes above the Void is the shape taken by the personality of a person\ninfected with the [apocalypse\nvirus](http://guiltycrown.wikia.com/wiki/Apocalypse_Virus) after it has been\n\"condensed\" by the power of kings.\n\nIn the page dedicated to the virus, the stages of the disease are reported:\n\n * Stage 1-2: Virus materializes the mind in the form of a Void. \n * Stage 3: Small crystal protusions emerge from the skin and grow along the skin. \n * Stage 4 onwards: The person appears to have crystalline substances over some parts of their body. That continues to spread till their entire body is covered in crystals. \n * Final Stage: Once the body is completely crystalized the body begins to break down. \n\nSo the Void is some kind of temporary materialization of the genome of any\nindividual, which forms after said individual contracts the Apocalypse virus.\nIt takes a shape which mirrors the individual's personality and doesn't really\nexist unless it is extracted using the power of kings.\n\nThe fact that a Void is a fragment of Mana's soul should be a consequence of\nthe fact that she was the first one who contracted the virus.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-01T16:30:07.450", "id": "14264", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-01T16:30:07.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8464", "parent_id": "14243", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHawk is The Great Leftovers Knight. And at the party when Ban first joined,\nHawk rams Ban and said \"respect the The Great Leftover Knight\". And Ban said\n(I think) \"I'm sorry for not recognizing you, master\". It's like when you're\ngood at something, and I admire you and call you master.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-24T18:02:18.490", "id": "20310", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-31T02:56:49.783", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-31T02:56:49.783", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "13408", "parent_id": "14245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nBasically it's just trolling.\n\nIt's like calling some idiot \"sensei\" or adding \"-sama\" sarcastically.\n\nBut then it turns into more of an affectionate nickname than an insult, I\nsuppose.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-07T16:58:43.967", "id": "20683", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-07T16:58:43.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13784", "parent_id": "14245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nBOI.... Ban calls hawk master because hawk is the captain of the order of\nscraps disposal, and Ban wishes to learn from him or in this case his\n\"Master\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-04T17:22:45.230", "id": "40192", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-04T17:22:45.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32335", "parent_id": "14245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI always thought it was implied ban joined the order of scraps disposal corp\nafter being impressed with hawks title as captain of such a prestigious order.\nI dont think hes making fun of him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-27T12:42:10.933", "id": "40546", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-27T12:42:10.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32766", "parent_id": "14245", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nBan loves food as evidenced by his cooking skills. Ban had never met anyone\nwho enjoyed food as well as Hawk. Ban respects Hawk for this reason.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-02T01:21:25.617", "id": "43639", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-02T01:21:25.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36959", "parent_id": "14245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've never read or watched Those Who Hunt Elves, so I'm leaning heavily on\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Who_Hunt_Elves) and [Archen's\nAnime Page](http://scythe.net/archen/misc/elfokarumonotachi/).\n\nAccording to [Archen's Anime\nPage](http://scythe.net/archen/misc/elfokarumonotachi/), there turns out, by a\nshocking coincidence, to be some kind of nut available in the medieval fantasy\nworld that can be turned into gasoline. (Scroll down to where it says \"T-74\"\nunder \"Characters\".) That seems to be what keeps the tank moving for the first\nbit of the manga.\n\nIn both the anime and manga, the tank is at some point possessed by a cat\nspirit named Mike, as stated on\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Who_Hunt_Elves#Elf_Hunters)\nunder \"Mihke\". According to Archen's Anime Page, this happens earlier in the\nanime than it does in the manga. It seems that the cat spirit can move the\ntank without needing any fuel--Archen's Anime Page says under \"About the\nManga\" that \"the T-74 was still at the bottom of the river, until Miké's\nspirit moved into the tank and drove out of the water.\" [This TV Tropes\npage](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SapientTank) also implies\nthat the tank actually did run out of gas in the anime and couldn't move until\nit was possessed by Mike.\n\nIt's not very clear from my sources, but it seems the gasoline nut was just a\nstopgap to keep the tank going until the mangaka came up with the idea to have\nthe tank possessed by a cat spirit, and the anime writers decided to just have\nthe fuel last until the cat spirit came along. (This is supported by the\n[Wikipedia description of Episode\n5](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Who_Hunt_Elves#Anime): \"Ritsuko's tank\nruns out of fuel in a town terrorized by the spirit of a deceased cat which\ncan possess inanimate objects.\")\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-08T06:18:31.550", "id": "14340", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-08T06:18:31.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14247", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEmitters can create beings made out of _nen_ ; it has been shown with Emitters\nin the dodgeball game. Razor creates his 14 devils and Goreinu creates his\ngorillas. These creatures are not conjured but are simply physically shaped\n_nen_ made to do a task. The _nen_ beasts are invisible to people without\n_nen_ training and are controlled with manipulation which is similar to\nemission for this purpose.\n\nThe creatures can also have abilities giving to them, like Razor's devils\nbeing able to merge with each other and Goreinu's gorillas being able to\nteleport. This is how Knuckle creates the APR with the powers. It's mainly\nemission with a small bit of manipulation to give the APR its orders when it's\ncreated. These abilities look like conjuration but are actually complicated\nemission techniques.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T11:51:31.823", "id": "15471", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-04T17:24:57.857", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-04T17:24:57.857", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "9468", "parent_id": "14248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\ni saw a comment that says that an emitters \"conjured beasts\" or in knuckle's\ncase apr are actually nen emissions that are pre-programmed to act a certain\nway and i think that is a cool explanation, i came here to offer a counter\nexplanation that by setting rules and conditions knuckle could probably\novercome his learning curve in conjuration while still being an emitter, just\nlike how kurapika made his chains so strong by tailoring them to the troupe\nand it could be viewed that the enforced zetsu isnt knuckle's ability directly\nbut irs's ability which again could be gained and manifested as a result of\nhis conditions being met i.e accuring a certain amount of interest.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-12-23T11:16:02.610", "id": "66125", "last_activity_date": "2021-12-23T11:22:21.007", "last_edit_date": "2021-12-23T11:22:21.007", "last_editor_user_id": "64760", "owner_user_id": "64760", "parent_id": "14248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAssuming that all the chickens are related to Touko's friends, it becomes\nquite obvious who Jonathan is meant to represent.\n\nKakeru reminds Touko of Michelangelo's \"David\" and is often referred to by\nthat name. In the Biblical story of David, his best friend is a man named\nJonathan.\n\nJonathan is not a philosopher, but in the same way, Kakeru is not friends with\nTouko's other friends. It separates him from the others and Touko does pay\nmore attention to that chicken.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-25T21:15:56.840", "id": "21841", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-25T21:15:56.840", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14646", "parent_id": "14252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeptian, you have a misconception there.\n\nMy answer is based on the manga so read at your own discretion\n\n> Firstly, Najenda does not have 2 Teigu's. Even though, yes she used to use\n> Pumpkin but that was before she lost both her right eye and arm while trying\n> to run away from Esdeath. It was mentioned, that due to such injuries\n> Najenda only retains 40% of her original ability causing her to lose the\n> power to wield Pumpkin any longer and has passed it on to Mine.\n\n~\n\n> Secondly, she can use Susanoo even though she is weak mainly because of the\n> type of Teigu that it is. An organic/biological type of Teigu. It has lesser\n> stress on the user, hence allowing even the weaken Najenda to use it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-01T13:39:59.047", "id": "14263", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-01T13:45:33.387", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-01T13:45:33.387", "last_editor_user_id": "8018", "owner_user_id": "8018", "parent_id": "14255", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAt this point of time, there is no known ranking system for the _Danger\nBeast_. Nor is there any other known rank besides the regular _Danger Beast_\nand the _Ultra Class Danger Beast_. And even for this rank we do not know what\nthe requirements are.\n\nAll that we can assume is that the _Ultra Class_ is a rare occurrence, of whom\nthe most already have been eradicated and turned into Teigu.\n\nLong story short: \n**No, there are no other danger beast classes besides regular and ultra at\nthis point in time**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-10T23:39:00.290", "id": "26541", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-10T23:39:00.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "14256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe less dangerous to the more dangerous\n\n * Level 4\n * Level 3\n * Level 2\n * Level 1\n * Supreme level\n * Ultra level\n\nI put here an image from the french manga :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NQueC.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-16T17:45:01.320", "id": "27355", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-16T17:45:01.320", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8730", "parent_id": "14256", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBy taking the previous [question](http://www.tsukikan.com/misc/nasu-kinoko-\ntakeuchi-takashi-urobuchi-gen-special-forum.html) into account, the meaning is\npretty clear.\n\n> **OK then, we'll change topics. Saber has a lot of alter egos like Saber\n> Alter and Saber Lily. How do you see them, Urobuchi?**\n>\n> **Uro:** What I imagine is that for the Saber Lily storyline, in Fate/stay\n> night, Saber was completely beaten by Caster, and so she became one of her\n> Servants. Like, she thought \"I'd be way better off with Caster than with\n> Shirou.\" (Laughs)\n>\n> **Nasu:** I never thought of that. Interesting. So in other words, the white\n> dress represents how both her body and soul have been tamed by Caster. So\n> Lily is truly like a \"lily\" to Caster... you crazy bastard, you did it\n> again...\n>\n> **Takeuchi:** Lily's design was inspired by the dress she wore when Saber\n> was captured by Caster. Then, we just filled it with feminine qualities that\n> Saber lacked and it became what it is now. So basically, I think Urobuchi\n> really hit it close to the mark.\n>\n> **Uro:** Really?! Lily looked like a villain to me from the moment I saw\n> her. Imagine her appearing from behind Caster, really working those heels!\n> Just thinking of it gets me excited!\n>\n> **Takeuchi:** But in terms of villains, don't we already have Alter?\n>\n> **Uro:** No, she isn't a villain, she's a dark hero.\n>\n> **Nasu:** Alter is an idealist who clings to her own values even though\n> she's been blackened. In that respect, she isn't a pure villain.\n>\n> **Uro:** For example, Alter's like how Hakaider was in Mechanical Violator\n> Hakaider ([*8](http://www.tsukikan.com/misc/nasu-kinoko-takeuchi-takashi-\n> urobuchi-gen-special-forum.html#f8)). And Lily is the enemy she would face.\n> The wrinkles in the corners of her eyes are proof to that. She'd shine as a\n> villain.\n\n^ (This part is most pertinent in the hypothetical \"Black vs. White\" scenario\nposed between Urobuchi and Nasu)\n\n> **Nasu:** Then after defeating Lily in battle, Alter would jump on a\n> motorbike in the last scene and ride off into the sunset. Then the narration\n> would come in: \"She is a modern knight, who lives in a world of darkness!\"\n> ([*9](http://www.tsukikan.com/misc/nasu-kinoko-takeuchi-takashi-urobuchi-\n> gen-special-forum.html#f9))\n>\n> **Takeuchi:** Motorbikes aside, (laughs) I do think it'd be interesting to\n> add meat to Lily's character in that manner.\n\nIt is indeed a you assumed, but the interviewer merely mentioned hypothetical\npossibility of series where Saber Alter as the protagonist and Saber Lily as\nthe antagonist would be a refreshing story idea.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-02T03:03:50.050", "id": "14268", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-02T03:03:50.050", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "14266", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is normally an obvious difference between Limited and Started Edition\nanime normally defined by the content they come with, the actual episodes\nhowever aren't different.\n\nLimited Editions of Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 and Tales of the\nAbyss came with Manga and the [first volume of Galaxy\nAngel](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00018D5PI) on Amazon came\nwith figures, pencil boards and a book.\n\nOn RightStuf the first volume of My-Z-HiME came in a special box, not like the\none where you have the spins of the disk cases sticking out, this had a lid\nand also on one side it had the cast printed on a sheet of plastic and was\npositioned slightly in front of an image of the academy while the other side\nhad Arika's jewel, there's one of it on\n[Amazon](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000PY30ZS). the Zwei OVA\ncame with a shirt and there's one on\n[Amazon](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001EL6EAO) (images say it\nalso comes with Pencil boards, i haven't opened by box yet and i missed that\nnote on the box about what was inside)\n\nPuella Magi Maodka Magica on Madman the only bonus was with Volume 1 and was a\nbox to put the other 2 Volumes in, on RightStuf you got the Soundtrack, Cards,\nArt Book, all glittery and shiny, also there's 2 more Limited Edition Volumes\nwhile Madman never went further than a box.\n\nFate/Zero subbed on RightStuf original came with a Translation book on\ndeveloper interviews which was missing in the Dubbed Limited Edition.\n\nSword Art Online on RightStuf, along with the soundtracks, came with limited\nedition Weiss Schwarz cards. i also remember getting a card in each volume of\nFate/Zero dubbed but i can't remember if i did with the subbed (the subbed\nones went into storage for safe keeping)\n\n[NISA's Premium Editions](http://store.nisamerica.com/Anime/Premium) normally\ncome in a large box with an art book inside however Love Live! School Idol\nProject has 2 Premium Editions. a standard one and the [Concert\nSet](http://store.nisamerica.com/Anime/Premium/Love-Live-School-Idol-\nProject-1st-Season-Premium-Concert-Set) which comes with the\n[OST](http://www.nisamerica.com/anime/lovelive/lovelive_OST.html).\n\nalso, NISA will oftern include a bonus item like [tear resistant\nposters](http://nisamerica.com/anime/fuse/fuse_bonus.jpg) ([Fusé: Memoirs of a\nHuntress](http://store.nisamerica.com/Anime/Premium/Fuse-Memoirs-of-a-\nHuntress-Premium-Bonus-Set)), [Student Council\nArmbands](http://nisamerica.com/anime/yuruyuri/yuruyuri2_bonus.jpg) ([YuruYuri\nSeason 2](http://store.nisamerica.com/Anime/Premium/YURUYURI-Season-2-Premium-\nBonus-Set)), [Ties](http://nisamerica.com/anime/HSboys/bonus.jpg) ([Daily\nLives of High School Boys](http://store.nisamerica.com/Anime/Premium/Daily-\nLives-of-High-School-Boys-Premium-Bonus-Set)) and RightStuf sells NISA stuff\nthough i have yet to get a NISA Premium Edition from them since the PAL\nLockout on NISA's store (Hanasaku Iroha the Movie ~ HOME SWEET HOME ~ is going\nt be the first). it should be noted these bonus items are in even limited\nsupply than the Premium Edition themselves as Arakawa Under the Bridge used to\ncome with a Kappa Mask of Chief however were out of stock by the time i\nstarted buying them\n\nGenerally a standard edition will just be a normal case with the disk inside,\nhowever Hanabee's stranded edition of [Nisemonogatari\nDVDs](http://hanabee.myshopify.com/products/nisemonogatari-part-2-dvd) are\nlike little art books with the DVD inside while RightStuf Limited Editions\nincludes cards, posters, soundtracks, of cause more expensive. it seems to be\nthe same with other Monogatari releases between Hanabee and RightStuf since\nall the Monogatari DVDs i've brought from Hanabee has been the same book thing\nand i always notice a better limited edition on RightStuf\n\nAlso, Hanabee's Standard Edition of [Dusk Maiden on\nAmnesia](http://hanabee.myshopify.com/collections/everything/products/dusk-\nmaiden-of-amnesia-dvd) came with the soundtrack though i still torrented it\nafter because like most soundtracks ripped from disk, unless you have a net\nconnection you don't get the Meta data (Album Name, Artist, Cover Art etc.)\n\nSo as you can see it all depends on the series and where you buy them.\nLimited/premium editions are normally worth buying because you get something\nin them you don't get with a standard edition, and great for collectors since\nthey are limited for a reason, but you should always look up both and see\nexactly what is different and how much more your paying for the extra stuff\n\nNOTE: i can't get any RightStuf Links due to it being blocked at work\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-02T23:50:30.870", "id": "14279", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-03T03:18:44.927", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-03T03:18:44.927", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14277", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTheir power levels are not equal. Nine-tails power level is equal to every\nother tailed beast **combined**. It is stated in no plainer words. However, a\nbeast's power is not determined by the number of tails it has, e.g. two-\nthrough eight-tails have a comparable power level.\n\n[Check this out for more info.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/1943)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-04T21:06:13.887", "id": "14301", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-04T21:14:53.167", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8587", "parent_id": "14280", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nAdding on to what omni said:\n\nThe first Hokage wished/hoped for peace among the five countries, not use\ntheir power for war. During the first meeting of the Kages, Hashirama even\nbowed his head, asking for understanding and peace. To show his sincerity, he\nmight have given the other villages one more tailed-beast than his own.\n\nIt's true that Kurama is the strongest among all the tailed-beasts, but I am\nunsure whether or not Kurama can take on two of the other tailed-beasts by\nhimself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-05T19:06:52.573", "id": "14309", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-09T19:44:33.590", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-09T19:44:33.590", "last_editor_user_id": "29", "owner_user_id": "8018", "parent_id": "14280", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen Hashirama convened the first Kage summit to distribute the tailed beast,\nhe wanted to distribute them to each village based on power. Three of the four\ngreat nations and received 2 tailed beast while sunagakure already possessed\nthe 1 tail and did not desire another, so takigakure took possession of the 7\ntails for their commemorative strength of not being one of the great nations.\nSince the nintails possessed chakra comparable to equivalently 5 tailed, the\nfirst hokage sall acquirring another tailed beast would disrupt the balance of\npower between nations and thus settled with having the strongest tailed beast\noverall. The argument of kurama being as strong as at least 5 biju is\nsupported by him creating a tailed beast ball able to cancel out a combined\ntailed beast ball empowered by 5 tailed beast.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-13T04:56:59.760", "id": "33711", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-13T04:56:59.760", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25639", "parent_id": "14280", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nDudes look at it this way the yondaime split the kyuubi into two halves\nreducing its max output and size and yet it can still beat the hell out of the\nothers of all the beast it has the most chakra even when split in half to show\nhow awesome it is . oh and the higher the tail the more powerful the beast\nchakra sensors know this fact people like Karin and the blonde body gaurd the\n4th raikage brought with him\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-02T17:54:12.687", "id": "38220", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-02T18:11:15.647", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-02T18:11:15.647", "last_editor_user_id": "30100", "owner_user_id": "30100", "parent_id": "14280", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nKurama inspires utter terror in every living thing, even most of the other\nTailed Beasts. If say Matatabi was unleashed on the battlefield by Cloud and\nthe Leaf answered by unleashing Kurama, Matatabi would probably run like hell\nin the opposite direction to Kurama with her tails between her legs. Gyuki\nmight've stayed to fight but any other Tailed Beast, maybe except Shukaku\n(because he's a crazy son of a raccoon) would duck right on out of there.\n\nI'd say Kurama is so powerful that the threat he represents is so great that\nHashirama didn't feel the need to keep another Tailed Beast. Add to that the\nLeaf having the Uzumaki Clan, who could release and reseal Kurama practically\nat will and Hashirama himself, who could apparently 1 vs 1 every single Tailed\nBeast and come out on top, every other village wouldn't have dared to use\ntheir Tailed Beasts against them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-18T20:00:36.517", "id": "47916", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-18T20:00:36.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41602", "parent_id": "14280", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou can find _One Piece_ episodes to watch on [Hulu](http://www.hulu.com/one-\npiece).\n\nCrocodile is at the end of season 2, so you will want to start from season 3.\nAce also shows up in season 3 from the thumbnails on Hulu.\n\nMost of the episodes are [subbed](http://www.hulu.com/grid/one-\npiece?categories=subtitled), but season 3 and 5 are\n[dubbed](http://www.hulu.com/grid/one-piece?categories=dubbed) (season 4 is\nnot available dubbed for whatever reason).\n\nAnother popular site to watch is CrunchyRoll, you can watch [Season\n3](http://www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece/episode-136-zenny-of-the-island-of-\ngoats-and-the-pirate-ship-in-the-mountains-651953) there, too. However, all\nthe episodes are subbed.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-03T03:31:02.417", "id": "14283", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-18T04:37:39.830", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-18T04:37:39.830", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "14282", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI am biased and would prefer to watch it from the beginning... largely because\nI love the show and want to do that myself if I had the time. Nevertheless,\nyou don't need to watch everything in order to know what is going on now. The\nstart of each arc is an acceptable place to try and pick up the show (though\nyou will miss things obviously).\n\n**I would recommend that you start from episode 382** , you will get to know\nthe whole crew a just after they are finally assembled. Before this point\nthere are several entertaining arcs in which the crew progresses through the\nEast Blue and then Grand Line fighting Big Bads and gathers new members. The\ncurrent crew becomes whole in episode 381. You get to see them in one arc\ntogether (which provides very important information) and then BIG things\nhappen. You will meet the characters who are the big players in the world as\nLuffy does and will get quick overviews of the now underpowered big bads from\nhe previous arcs. This is a major turning point for the show and I don't think\nthere is another good place to pick it up again until episode 517. If you\nstart there you will have missed the exact badasses you want to see.\n\nAdditionally, I would recommend you watch Strong World. It is a canon movie\nbetween (i think) episodes 381 and 382.\n\nDo not think, however, that I am saying that the first 381 episodes are not\nworth watching. They are amazing and provide important backstory to every\ncharacter.\n\nI prefer subs and don't know where to find dubs anywhere but Hulu. Sorry for\nnot being able to answer that part.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-03T18:27:42.963", "id": "14293", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-03T18:39:57.303", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-03T18:39:57.303", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "14282", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's difficult to give an objective answer, so I'll summarize the arcs to give\nyou an understanding where you should start watching without giving too much\nspoiler. I'll stick to recurring characters and exclude filler arcs, as I\nhaven't watched those. For the exact episode numbers refer to [this\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Arcs).\n\nIf you want to skip to where _all the big badass characters like Ace and\nWhiteBeard are involved_ you should **skip to the Marineford Arc**. In that\narc you will see an all-out war going down between Whitebeard and the Marines\nto save Ace. I would recommend you to **start at the Sabaody Archipelago Arc**\nthough, where a lot of new characters were introduced that will recur in the\nstory. You could skip inbetween arcs if you want. If you would do so, you'd\nonly have missed the introduction of Franky and Brook and the backstory on\nRobin.\n\n# East Blue\n\n> First half of the Straw Hat pirates are introduced.\n\n * _Romance Dawn Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Luffy, Zoro, Coby, Red Hair pirates, (Alvida and Helmeppo).\n * Luffy rescues Coby and Zoro from the marines.\n * _Orange Town Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Nami, Buggy (and his pirates).\n * Strawhat pirates vs Buggy pirates.\n * _Syrup Village Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Usopp, Going Merry, (and Jango).\n * Strawhat pirates vs Black Cat pirates.\n * _Baratie Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Sanji, Mihawk, (Fullbody, Johnny and Yosaku).\n * Strawhat pirates vs Krieg Pirates.\n * _Arlong Park Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Arlong, Hachi, (and Mohmoo).\n * Backstory on Nami and Strawhat pirates vs Arlong pirates.\n * _Loguetown Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Smoker, Tashigi and Dragon.\n * Luffy will be Pirate King.\n\n# Alabasta\n\n> Robin and Chopper join the crew.\n\n * _Reverse Mountain Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Laboon, Crocus and the Rumbar pirates.\n * Strawhat pirates enter the grand line.\n * _Whiskey Peak Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Baroque Works and Vivi.\n * Zoro vs Baroque Works.\n * _Little Garden Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Mr 3 and two giants of Elbaf, Dorry and Brogy.\n * Strawhat pirates vs Baroque Works.\n * _Drum Island Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Chopper.\n * Strawhat pirates vs king Wapol.\n * _Alabasta Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Robin, Mr 2, Mr 1, Crocodile, Ace.\n * Strawhat pirates vs Baroque Works.\n\n# Sky Island\n\n> Introduction of some of those bad-ass characters.\n\n * _Jaya Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Sengoku, Tsuru, Kuma, Doflamingo, Gorosei, Whitebeard pirates, Blackbeard pirates and Noland.\n * Getting ready to go to Skypiea.\n * _Skypiea Arc_ : \n * Introduction of sky islands.\n * Strawhat pirates vs god Enel and his priests.\n\n# Water 7\n\n> Franky joins the crew.\n\n * _Long Ring Long Land Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Aokiji.\n * Strawhat pirates vs Foxy pirates.\n * _Water 7 Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Franky, Sogeking, Thousand Sunny, (Spandam and CP9).\n * Strawhat pirates vs Franky Family\n * Luffy vs Usopp\n * Sanji, Sogeking and Franky vs CP9. \n * _Enies Lobby Arc_ : \n * Backstory on Robin and Strawhats learn new battle techniques.\n * Strawhat pirates vs CP9.\n * _Post-Enies Lobby Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Garp and Dadan.\n * Ace vs Blackbeard.\n\n# Thriller Bark\n\n> Brook joins the crew.\n\n * _Thriller Bark Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Brook, Moriah, (Perona, and Lola).\n * Strawhat pirates vs warlord Moriah\n * Strawhat pirates vs Kuma.\n\n# Summit War\n\n> Shit goes down.\n\n * _Sabaody Archipelago Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Duval, Kizaru, Rayleigh, the Eleven Supernovas, World Nobels, (Fisher Tiger and his Sun pirates).\n * Strawhat pirates vs Rosy Life Riders.\n * Eleven Supernovas vs admiral Kizaru and Pacifista.\n * Strawhat pirates vs admiral Kizaru.\n * _Amazon Lily Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Boa Hancock.\n * Luffy finds out Ace has been imprisoned by the Marines.\n * _Impel Down Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Jinbe, Ivankov and Magellan. \n * Luffy brings chaos to Impel Down prison.\n * _Marineford Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Akainu, Blackeard's new crewmembers.\n * All-out-war of Whitebeard pirates and their allies vs the marines and the shichibukai in order to save Ace from execution.\n * _Post-War Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Sabo and Haki.\n * Backstory on Luffy, Ace and Sabo.\n * Three year training-timeskip of the Strawhat pirates.\n\n# Fishman Island\n\n> A glimps of the new techniques the Strawhats learned during the timeskip.\n\n * _Return to Sabaody Arc_ : \n * Strawhat pirates regroup after their training.\n * _Fishman Island Arc_ : \n * Introduction of Shirahoshi, Big Mom and Koala. \n * Strawhat pirates vs New Fishman Pirates.\n * Backstory on the Sun pirates.\n\n# Pirate Alliance\n\n> Doflamingo doing a lot of sick shit.\n\n * _Punk Hazard Arc_ :\n\n * Introduction of Dr. Vegapunk, Caesar Clown, Kaido, Kin'emon and Momonosuke.\n * Strawhat pirates and Heart pirates form an alliance.\n * Strawhat pirates and Law vs Caesar and the Donquixote pirates.\n * _Dressrosa Arc (ongoing)_ :\n\n * Introduction of Tontatta, CP0, Fujitora, Bartolomeo, and A LOT of other characters that might make a recurrence in future arcs.\n * Strawhat pirates vs Donquixote pirates. \n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-06T15:56:31.733", "id": "14321", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-06T15:56:31.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "14282", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMoral proclaimed that Skill was brain dead, but the Minimum Root was actually\nthe heart of Skill*, which was still intact. This heart was most likely\ntransplanted into Nice by Moral**. So Skill is thus \"still alive\" through\nliving on through the heart of Nice/Skill.\n\nYou also have the hesitation line by Art who could not yet kill his brother,\nsince he does know that Nice's Heart is actually Skill's Heart.\n\nThis also explains how Art survived his fall as Nice/Skill probably restored\nhis Minimum during the fall.\n\n*Notice how Art's Minimum Root is also his heart too\n\n**This also explains how Nice was able to save the gunshot wound, implied that\nit shot his heart\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-30T19:46:41.243", "id": "40123", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-30T19:46:41.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32264", "parent_id": "14286", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've read the first six or so novels, covering up to the end of the OVAs for\nthe first anime series. [Note: now I've read them all, so I've edited to\nreflect that.] There aren't any major plot differences between the novels and\nanime, but there is lots of extra material in the novels that could be\ninteresting for big fans of the anime. I'll spoiler-tag major stuff. Some of\nthis material is also in the manga, which has an official US release, although\nI'm not too familiar with the manga, so I can't say how much.\n\nThe first few novels follow the same plot arc as the anime, with Kyousuke\ndiscovering Kirino's otaku secrets and helping her meet Saori and Kuroneko,\nwhile also dealing with their parents and Ayase. The main difference is that\nthe novels are narrated in the first person by Kyousuke, so we get to hear his\nreasons for some of his more inexplicable actions (for example, his screaming\nbout with his father that was in Episode 3 of the anime was, in the novels,\ndepicted as a product of utter terror and desperation, whereas it looked sort\nof calculated in the anime).\n\nThere are a few extra stories in these novels that weren't adapted to anime,\nlike one where Kyousuke buys Manami a present. The first major difference is\nthe novel-writing storyline, which is almost completely different between the\nnovels and the anime. In the novels,\n\n> the woman who was Kirino's editor in the anime is actually a failed novelist\n> herself, who steals Kirino's work and passes it off as her own. Kyousuke and\n> Kuroneko infiltrate the publisher using Saori's connections and expose the\n> plagiarism, after which she becomes Kirino's editor as in the anime.\n\nKirino's novel is never turned into anime as it was in the anime series.\nKuroneko has a much bigger part in this story than in the corresponding anime\nstory, which I enjoyed as a Kuroneko fan. The earlier Christmas date story\nalso has a slightly different emotional payoff than in the anime.\n\nIn the novels' equivalent to Series I, Episode 11, Kuroneko actually finishes\nshowing her picture drama about Kyousuke and Kirino's relationship. Not only\nis it one of the funniest scenes in the novels, it also explains Kuroneko's\nbehavior towards Manami after she starts attending Kyousuke's school.\n\nThe anime's \"good\" ending doesn't happen in the novels; only the \"true\"\nending, where Kirino flies off to the United States, happens in the novels.\n\nI have now read the novels that cover the second series, and the Sakurai\nsubplot, a major subplot explaining\n\n> why Kyousuke changed to his current \"take it easy\" persona, causing Kirino\n> and Manami's confrontation and Kirino's hatred for Manami, as shown in\n> Episode 13 of Series II\n\nwas not adapted to the anime. This subplot takes up most of the eleventh novel\nand contains a scene of temporary peace between\n\n> Kirino and Manami, wherein Kirino even helps out at Manami's family's shop.\n\nDuring this scene, Kyousuke recounts how when he and Manami were in elementary\nschool, he\n\n> had a meddlesome, class president-like personality that led him to expend a\n> bunch of energy getting a delinquent and nascent otaku, Sakurai, who of\n> course is another cute girl otaku, to come to class. Kyousuke convinced\n> Sakurai to come on their class trip, where he led her up a dangerous\n> mountain peak. Sakurai fell off and was seriously injured; her parents\n> blamed Kyousuke and moved her to a different school, and they didn't see\n> each other again, until Kyousuke seeks her out to apologize in the present.\n> After this incident, Manami convinced Kyousuke to stop being so meddlesome.\n\nThis led to the incidents between Kirino and Manami, and later Kirino and\nKyousuke, that we see from Kirino's perspective in Series II, Episode 13--\nwhich is not in the novels. The events it covers are implied, but never\nexplicitly shown; in particular, the anime offers a definitive explanation of\nKirino's love for little sister eroge, which we didn't get in the novels as\nfar as I can remember.\n\nIt's debatable how much you're really missing by not getting the subplot from\nthe novels; I found it to be a huge, bloated digression that added very little\nto the anime's much shorter overview of the events, and it\n\n> adds yet another confession to the string of love confessions that Kyousuke\n> rejects due to his relationship with Kirino, when Sakurai confesses to\n> Kyousuke sometime between his confessions from Ayase and Kanako.\n\nDisappointingly (especially for Kuroneko fans), the controversial ending of\nthe anime is an exact adaptation of the novels' ending, so don't expect the\nnovels to save you from that disappointment. (In fact, it's weird how many of\nthe anime's worst moments are direct adaptations of the novel.)\n\nIn general, the side characters are integrated into the novel more thoroughly\nand relationships are explored at greater depth. We get little mentions of\nthings like the relationship between Kyousuke and Rock (Manami's little\nbrother), or between Kuroneko and Ayase. There are also some side stories that\nshed extra light on certain characters (including Hinata Gokou, Kuroneko's\nmiddle sister; Kouhei and Sena Akagi; and Mikagami, who posed as Kirino's fake\nboyfriend in Series II) and show us things that happened offscreen in the\nanime, or outside the main timeframe. There's even a crossover story between\nOre Imo and To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, where Kirino and Mikoto meet on a talk\nshow while Kyousuke and Touma Kamijou hang out backstage. There's a lot of\ngood humor and interesting exploration of the characters in this extra\nmaterial.\n\nWhile reading the novels, it's pretty easy to see why all of these things were\ncut from the anime; the Sakurai subplot introduces a not-very-significant new\ncharacter at the last minute, and I found the anime version of the main plot\nperfectly intelligible without it. The rest has nothing to do with the main\nplot, and is mostly of interest to hardcore fans. I wouldn't say you're not\nmissing anything by skipping the novels, but you're not missing anything\n_essential_ --you can get about 90% of the Ore Imo experience, including 99%\nof the bad parts, with just the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-03T22:36:12.123", "id": "14295", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-20T20:13:17.583", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-20T20:13:17.583", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14287", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it could be [**Dog of\nFlanders**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_of_Flanders_\\(1975_TV_series\\))\n(1975, 52 episodes) or [**My\nPatrasche**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Patrasche) (1992, 26 episodes),\nadaptations of [_A Dog of\nFlanders_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dog_of_Flanders).\n\nThis is the plot summary of the original _A Dog of Flanders_ from Wikipedia (\n**emphasis** mine).\n\n> In 19th century Belgium, **a boy named Nello becomes an orphan** at the age\n> of two when his mother dies in the Ardennes. **His grandfather** Jehann\n> Daas, who lives in a small village near the city of Antwerp, **takes him\n> in**.\n>\n> One day, **Nello and Jehann Daas find a dog** who was almost beaten to\n> death, and name him Patrasche. Due to the good care of Johaan Daas, the dog\n> recovers, and from then on, Nello and Patrasche are inseparable. Since they\n> are very poor, Nello has to help his grandfather by selling milk. Patrasche\n> helps Nello pull their cart into town each morning.\n>\n> Nello falls in love with Aloise, the daughter of a well-off man in the\n> village named Nicholas Cogez. Nicholas doesn't want his daughter to have a\n> poor sweetheart. Although Nello is illiterate, he is very talented in\n> drawing. He enters a junior drawing contest in Antwerp, hoping to win the\n> first prize, 200 francs per year. However, the jury selects somebody else.\n>\n> Afterwards, he is accused of causing a fire by Nicholas (the fire occurred\n> on his property) and **his grandfather dies**. His life becomes even more\n> desperate. Having no place to stay, Nello goes to the cathedral of Antwerp\n> (see Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross), but he doesn't have enough money\n> to enter. On the night of Christmas Eve, he and Patrasche go to Antwerp and,\n> by chance, find the door to the church open. The next morning, the boy and\n> his dog are found frozen to death in front of the triptych.\n\nAccording to Wkipedia, [_A Dog of Flanders_ spawns many\nadaptations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dog_of_Flanders#Film.2C_TV_or_theatrical_adaptations).\nConsidering the fact that you watched the anime around 15 years ago, and it\nwas a TV series, it can be either of the series above.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-03T15:49:34.957", "id": "14289", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-03T16:38:36.660", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8576", "parent_id": "14288", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n[Nobody's Boy\nRemi](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2130) fits\nquite well. It's a drama anime from 1977 and is indeed very sad.\n\n\n\nAt around the midway point in the series, his guardian dies along with several\nof his animals, leaving him to fend for himself. He is always accompanied by\nhis loyal dog Capi and has a monkey named Joli-Cœur. Hulu Plus has the\ncomplete series if you're a subscriber.\n\nThe anime was remade in 1996 as [Nobody's Girl\nRemi](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1101)\n(switching the gender of the main character), but it isn't as highly regarded.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-03T18:38:04.310", "id": "14294", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-03T18:38:04.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "parent_id": "14288", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is a reference to Himura Kenshin, from [Rurouni\nKenshin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin).\n\n\n\nThis is noted not only by the scar, but also by the way [the sentences are\nended](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/121/49).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-03T17:40:24.663", "id": "14292", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-03T17:40:24.663", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "14291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nHimura Kenshin is also known as the \"Hitokiri Battousai\", Battousai the\nManslayer, Rurouni Kenshin.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-27T23:50:59.430", "id": "14706", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-28T00:11:14.800", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-28T00:11:14.800", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "4407", "parent_id": "14291", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a internet meme in Japan, that a collage picture from [Rurouni\nKenshin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin) manga and the text \"I\nhate to work, I certainly hate to work.\"\n\n\n\n## Reference\n\n * [Nicopedia's entry on 「働きたくないでござる」](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E5%83%8D%E3%81%8D%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8F%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E3%81%A7%E3%81%94%E3%81%96%E3%82%8B) (Japanese)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-29T06:37:22.313", "id": "14726", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-30T13:57:11.857", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-30T13:57:11.857", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "14291", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the Crystal continuity it is unknown as it is a work in progress, and did\nnot progress too much further from Pluto's introduction, so it is **unknown\nfor Crystal continuity** if she will leave the door or not. There is still no\ncanon material on the matter.\n\nAs to why she can leave the door, she has the power to seal off entire worlds\nout of the fourth dimension (the time\ndimension)[(ref)](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSailor_Pluto%20&cd=7&hl=pt-\nBR&ct=clnk&gl=br&lr=lang_en%7Clang_pt#Special_powers_and_items).\n\nSince you need a time-space key to safely navigate fouth dimension, she could\nsecure all keys, lock the access to the place where the keys were stored and\nleave for a short time.\n\nProbably her leave cannot be defined as permanent or temporary. Since the\nfourth dimension is outside normal time, she can safely exists in the fourth\ndimension and outside it:\n\n> However, for all intents and purposes, in the manga the technicality of\n> Sailor Pluto existing outside of time means she is able to be reincarnated\n> as a normal woman while still existing back at her post at the Time\n> Gate.[(ref)](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSailor_Pluto%20&cd=7&hl=pt-\n> BR&ct=clnk&gl=br&lr=lang_en%7Clang_pt#Profile)\n\nSailor Pluto's racial status is also subject of controversy. While\nEndymion/Tuxedo Mask is from the Earth realm, Usagi/Sailor Moon is from the\nSilver Millenium race, the other sailor senshi seem to be reincarnated humans,\nSailor Pluto is more of a goddess than a human:\n\n> She is also stated to be the daughter of Chronos, god of time. (manga act\n> 18, original anime ep. 82).\n\nThey made significant changes in Crystal from the original Sailor Moon works\n(like giving Tuxedo Mask an attack), so I wouldn't expect it to be identical,\nbut to follow closely.\n\nYou can compare Crystal and the original making a parallel between the\noriginal Yamato series and Yamato 2099 that aired in 2014. They tend to follow\nthe original work closely, but making adaptations and concessions to suit XXI\ncentury's scientific and social developments.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-05T20:59:47.343", "id": "22177", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-05T20:59:47.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "14297", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the manga, as she the daughter of the god of time, she has a strong\nconnection to the Space-Time Door and can control it from anywhere. She even\nused an attack with the Garnet Rod, _Dark Dome Close_ to close the Door from\nthe 20th century. However, she sometimes cannot use this abilities, such as in\ncase of an eclipse - that's why the Dead Moon Circus arrived in time of an\neclipse. In Crystal, as it's following the manga, it might be the same.\n\nIn the anime, this wasn't explained too much, as Setsuna was a minor\ncharacter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-02T08:19:22.297", "id": "22937", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-02T16:07:50.137", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-02T16:07:50.137", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "15410", "parent_id": "14297", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYou're not thinking fourth-dimensionally. (As Doctor Emmet Brown says).\n\nThe Space-Time Door exists outside of the Physical Realm. And as the name\nsays, this door lets the people travel through Time and Space.\n\nI'm sure that as Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask can find themselves at the\nfuture, Pluto can Stand at the door and in XX century Tokyo at the same time.\n\nRemember that she left the others at the end of the Death Busters Arch, to\nhelp rise Hotaru Tomoe after she uses her Death Reborn Revolution Attack and\nreturn as a baby.\n\nThe episode when she appears in front of Chibi Moon at the middle of Sailor\nMoon S is the episode when Pluto mentions the permission that Neo Queen\nSerenity gave her to travel at that time.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-04T16:42:36.403", "id": "47309", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-26T04:47:01.540", "last_edit_date": "2022-10-26T04:47:01.540", "last_editor_user_id": "70386", "owner_user_id": "34823", "parent_id": "14297", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nCheck\n[this](https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005028/http://members.shaw.ca/makimura/DCN/EPS/DCNCRITEP.html)\nout. It lists all the essential episodes in the storyline! Here's a copy of\nthe content from that site (as of November 2014) with formatting added:\n\n * 1-5\n * 10\n * 11\n * 18\n * 21 (1st appearance of Yoko-chan (idol))\n * 27\n * 28\n * 32\n * 34\n * 35\n * 42\n * 43\n * 48/49 (absolute must)\n * 54\n * 57/58\n * 68-70\n * 76 (enter Kid)\n * 77/78\n * 81/82 (Minami)\n * 96\n * 100/101\n * 112 (1st appearance of Kobayashi Sumiko (teacher))\n * 116-118\n * 121/122\n * 128\n * 129-131\n * 132-134 (Kid, 134 only)\n * 136/137\n * 141/142\n * 146/147 (Police Love Story #1)\n * 153/154\n * 156/157 (Police Love Story #2)\n * 162\n * 166-168\n * 170-171 (Araide intro)\n * 174\n * 176-178\n * 188-193\n * 199/200\n * 205/206\n * 217/218\n * 219\n * 220-224\n * 226/227 (Jodie Santemillion debut)\n * 228/229\n * 230/231\n * 233/234\n * 236/237\n * 238/239\n * 241/241\n * 246/247\n * 249/250\n * 253/254\n * 255/256\n * 258/259 (Enter James Black)\n * 263\n * 264-265 (Eri)\n * 266-268\n * 269\n * 271/272\n * 277/278\n * 279/280\n * 284-293\n * 297-298 (Eri)\n * 299-300\n * 301/302\n * 304\n * 307-311\n * 316/317\n * 323/324\n * 329-330 (Black Organization, Haibara's parents)\n * 331/332\n * 333/334\n * 335/336\n * 338/339\n * 340/341\n * 343/344\n * 345 (most critical to date)\n * 356\n * 358/359\n * 361/362\n * 381/382\n * 385-387\n * 390/391\n * 394-396\n * 398-399\n * 400-402\n * 406-408\n * 418\n * 425 (another jaw dropper)\n * 426 (Ran)\n * 429-430\n * 431-432\n * 435-436\n * 437\n * 445\n * 446/447\n * 449\n * 457/458\n * 462-465\n * 469-470 (Kid)\n * 472-473 (Toichi!!)\n * 474 (Eri)\n * 479 (2hr, Heiji & Hakuba)\n * 484-485\n * 487 (Police Love Story #8, 1hr special)\n * 489 (Eri)\n * 490 (Shinichi VS Heiji for the 1st time, but they didn't know it)\n * 491-504\n * 505-506 (Eri)\n * 507-508 (Eisuke knows C is S)\n * 509-511 (Enter Okiya or should we say Bourbon?)\n * 515 (Kaitou Kid) \n * 516-517 (Heiji & Kazuha)\n * 521-523 (Shinichi back and he's a killer)\n * 528-529 (Eri solves another murder)\n * 530-531 (Satou & Takagi)\n * 534-535 (Satou & Takagi)\n * 537-538 (Kid)\n * 542-543 (Okiya helps solve case)\n * 545-546 (a bit of Satou's past)\n * 554-555 (Heiji & Kazuha)\n * 558-561 (Detective Koumei intro)\n * 563-564 (Akai (or his twin) lives?)\n * 568-569 (Shiratori's love)\n * 573-574 (Heiji & Kazuha)\n * 579/580/581 (Black Organization, Okiya, \"Akai\")\n * 583-585 (Shiratori/Kobayashi)\n * 586-587 (Kid)\n * 589-590 (Eri & Kogoro)\n * 592-593 (Ran)\n * 608-609 (affects all couples)\n * 610-613 (Heiji; \"Hound of the Baskervilles\")\n * 616-621 (London case!!)\n * 622-623 (Okiya)\n * 624 (Shiratori/Chiba)\n * 627-628 (Kid) \n * 646-647 (Sera intro)\n * 648-650 (Sera, Shinichi)\n * 651 (1hr SP: Conan VS Heiji)\n * 652-655 (Heiji/Kazuha)\n * 656-657 (Haibara/Sera/Okiya)\n * 659-660 (Chiba/Miike)\n * 667-668 (Amuro's 1st appearance)\n * 671-674 (Amuro, Sera, Okiya)\n * 675-676 (Black Organization hints, relates back to 671-674)\n * 681-683 (Takagi/Satou)\n * 684-685 (Okiya/Haibara)\n * 689 (Eri/Kogoro)\n * 690-691 (Okiya/Sera/Y Kudo)\n * 699-700 (Haibara/Amuro)\n * 701-704 (MYSTERY TRAIN CASE)\n * 705-706 (Amuro)\n * 710-711 (Heiji/Kazuha/Ohtaki/Heizo)\n * 712-715 (Heiji/Kazuha/Ohtaki)\n * 722-723 (Tanteidan, Amuro, Okiya) \n * 724-725 (Kid, Sera)\n * 727-728 (Sera)\n * 731-732 (Yumi/Miike/Takagi/Megure)\n * 734 (Jodie/Bourbon/Vermouth) \n * 740-741 (Sera, Black Organization hints)\n * 744-745 (Sera, Makoto)\n * 746-747 (Sonoko/Makoto/Kid)\n * 748-749 (Takagi/Sato) \n * 751-752 (Amuro; Takagi/Sato)\n * 754-756 (Sera, Akai, Yamato/Uehara)\n * 759-760 (Sera, 1st appearance of her younger sister (?))\n * 763-764 (Heiji/Kazuha),\n * 770-771 (Amuro//Eri)\n * 772-773 (Shinichi/Ran)\n * 779-783 (Black Organization/Bourbon/Jodie/Vermouth/Akai)\n * 785-786 (Yumi/Haneda)\n * 787-788 (Sera/mystery girl)\n * 792-793 (mention of Rum, the case itself is not important)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-08T19:13:41.923", "id": "14346", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-18T21:50:00.280", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-18T21:50:00.280", "last_editor_user_id": "37708", "owner_user_id": "3999", "parent_id": "14304", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a website called _Animefillerlist_. They list all the canon and\nfiller episodes of certain anime.\n\n[Canon Episodes for Conan](http://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/detective-\nconan):\n\n> 1-5, 7-13, 15-16, 18, 20, 22-23, 27-28, 31-32, 34-35, 38-40, 42-43, 46,\n> 48-50, 52, 54, 57-58, 60, 63, 68-70, 72, 75-78, 81-82, 84-86, 91, 96,\n> 98-105, 110, 113-118, 121-122, 128-134, 136-139, 141-142, 144-147, 153-154,\n> 156-157, 162-164, 166-168, 170-174, 176-178, 188-195, 199-200, 205-206,\n> 212-213, 217-224, 226-231, 233-234, 238-244, 246-247, 249-250, 253-254,\n> 258-259, 263, 266-272, 274-275, 277-280, 284-293, 301-302, 304-313, 316-317,\n> 323-327, 329-336, 338-341, 343-347, 350-351, 354-356, 358-359, 361-362,\n> 366-367, 371-372, 374-375, 381-383, 385-387, 390-391, 394-396, 398-402,\n> 406-408, 411-412, 415-417, 421-422, 425, 427-432, 435-436, 438, 443-447,\n> 449, 453-455, 457-458, 460, 462-467, 469-470, 472-474, 476-477, 479,\n> 481-482, 484-485, 487-488, 490-511, 513-517, 521-526, 528-535, 537-538,\n> 542-543, 545-546, 549-552, 557-561, 563-564, 568-569, 571-576, 578-581,\n> 583-587, 589-590, 592-593, 597-598, 600-601, 608-628, 632-633, 642-657,\n> 659-662, 667-668, 671-676, 681-685, 690-691, 699-706, 710-715, 722-725,\n> 727-728, 731-732, 734, 738-741, 744-749, 751-752, 754-756, 759-760, 763-766,\n> 770-773, 779-783, 785-788, 792-793, 808-812, 814-815, 822-823, 827-828,\n> 830-832, 836-837, 843-844, 847-850, 853-854, 861-864, 866-867, 872-874,\n> 878-879\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-03T02:27:16.813", "id": "43129", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-18T23:24:29.450", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-18T23:24:29.450", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "35019", "parent_id": "14304", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo.\n\nFirstly [How to Use: IV Point\n1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_IV)\nsays\n\n> The person in possession of the Death Note is possessed by a god of death,\n> its original owner, until they die.\n\nThis ties with the numerous references of a Shinigami following the owner.\nThis also ties to Light's original fear about being identified by Misa (the\nsecond Kira) in _Episode 13 - Confessions_ (or it may have been the episode\nbefore).\n\nIn the episode, Light found out that Ryuk would always tail him, which led him\nto question if Misa's Shinigami could see him and possibly tell Misa who Ryuk\nwas following. So when Light and Matsuda went to try and intercept the meeting\nbetween the 2 Kira's, Light brought a bunch of his friends so Ryuk was hoving\nabove all of them (we later learn Misa found Light because of her Shinigami\nEyes).\n\n> In the Manga, Near smiled to himself when he saw Ryuk at the end because he\n> touched the Death Note, confirming that Light was Kira\n\nIn [How to Use:\nXIII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XIII),\nit talks about lending a Death Note and how a lender will not be followed.\nSince a Shinigami follows the owner, this will be problematic if the 2 owners\nare quite some distance apart, i.e. when Mikami has the Death Note.\n\nFinally, you seem to be confused with what Light was actually doing when he\nwas holding onto the Death Note. The real reason why he was holding onto it\nwas because when Higuchi would die, whoever holds the Death Note next would\nbecome its next owner. Remember that you don't have to be the owner to regain\nyour memories, as Light regain his while Higuchi was still the owner.\n\nSince the Death Note was discovered, there was really no risk to Light if\nHiguchi lived and blabbed about it's usage, since Higuchi was following the\n[fake rules](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Fake_Death_Note_Rules) too (the\nonly risk would be if he could kill Higuchi after 13 days from the last name).\nThis is why Light killed him with the scarp of the Death Note in his watch and\nheld onto the Death Note, to make sure that no one else became the next owner.\n\nThis ties into [How to Use: XIV, Point\n2](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XIV)\n\n> If the Death Note is stolen and the owner is killed by the thief, its\n> ownership will automatically be transferred to the thief.\n\nTechnically, Light stole the Death Note from Higuchi, so when Higuchi died,\nLight became the new owner.\n\n* * *\n\nThis next part is speculation as I don't have too much to base this on. Since\nit is a _what if_ scenario but in the situation where both Light and L were\nholding onto it, I dare say either of these scenarios would occur:\n\n 1. Whoever is the last person touching the Death Note becomes the owner, though this would be a problem for Light, had L insisted he confiscate the Death Note as evidence and it ended up as a stand off. ( _This book seemed to the the key to Kira's killing ability, so why is Light is insistent that L to be the one to let go first, unless he knows what this book is which would make him more likely to be the original Kira_ )\n\n 2. Whoever first physically touched the Death Note is the owner, probably measured in milliseconds, and if we can count on the preciseness of the Times of Death (much more likely).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-05T21:32:04.953", "id": "14314", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-06T14:17:00.030", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-06T14:17:00.030", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14310", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is speculation.\n\nPoint Number 1. Shizuka was already past the point of no return. Which\nliterally means she went past the point where she and Nagate would have enough\nfuel to return to Sidonia. This is a very real and very deadly result for all\nof the knights. Even so, Nagate went after her. In addition to him being a\nhero, his actions gained the respect of everyone, so they left to rescue him.\n\nPoint Number 2. The guardians are supposed to guard, not leave the mother\nship. By leaving to rescue them, they left Sidonia open to attack. Rescue cost\nresources, most obviously fuel. Rescue of people past the point of return\nopens up the risk to Sidonia even more because of the time the rescuers are\naway. The rescuers can get attacked themselves, and it takes time and\nresources to replace every knight. So yea, they were officially abandoned\nbecause the risk and cost outweighs promoting a new cadet.\n\nEDIT: the number was because each squad has 4 members, so there were 64 squads\npresent. I'm not sure if this answers your question because I'm not sure\nwhat's so strange about the number.\n\nEDIT2: The significance of the number 256 according to @krazer:\n\n> That's the the smallest tactical unit in the [Ancient Macedonian\n> army](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_army#The_Foot_Companions),\n> which was the 256 men syntagma/speira. Take note of the parallelism\n> structure and organization between Sidonia, it's Garde, and ancient city\n> states\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-05T21:23:02.790", "id": "14313", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-28T03:48:06.910", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-28T03:48:06.910", "last_editor_user_id": "2044", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "14312", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\n256 is also the amount of numbers that can be represented by 8 bits of data (1\nbyte) It seems like the japanese like this kind of numbers, in an Evangelion\nepisode, they claim that the S2 engine could had failed by 32768\npossibilities, not considering sabotage. The number 32768 is the amount of\nnumbers represented in 15 bits of data, or the maximum represented positive\nnumber in 16 bits when using one bit for the sign.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-22T19:30:48.577", "id": "20248", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-22T19:30:48.577", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13368", "parent_id": "14312", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nActually, the _Hunter x Hunter_ wiki [addresses\nthis](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Alluka_Zoldyck#Gender_confusion),\nand is quite accurate in its assessment, though the references cite the wrong\nvolumes (but correct chapters).\n\n> There is considerable confusion about Alluka's gender. Two of Alluka's\n> brothers, Illumi and Milluki, refer to Alluka as their brother. But Killua,\n> the closest brother of Alluka, specifically states that Alluka is a \"girl\"\n> and refers to Alluka as his sister multiple times. This inconsistency can be\n> explained by Killua's intimate and understanding bond with Alluka, hence he\n> would know and care that Alluka is mentally female, versus Illumi's cold and\n> dehumanizing attitude towards Alluka. **While Alluka is most likely\n> biologically male, Killua's interactions show that Alluka's psyche may be\n> female.**\n\nEveryone (except Killua) addresses Alluka by her biological gender, which\nappears to be male. While she is quite small, she shows no female development.\n\nHowever, she is very sensitive, gentle, and reserved, and has a very feminine\nside. Being that Killua is the only one who dares to actually interact with\nAlluka as a person, he would be the best one to understand that she probably\nis more feminine inside.\n\nThis does seem a bit odd to me; even if someone I knew were closer to \"she\" in\nhis head, unless they specifically asked, I'd probably still say \"he\". But\nperhaps either Alluka did ask this of Killua, or Killua just took it upon\nhimself because he knew Alluka so well.\n\nUnfortunately, since it's never explicitly stated, this is somewhat\nassumption, but realistically it's the only explanation that makes sense since\nKillua is the only one to refer to Alluka as female.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-08T01:35:59.397", "id": "14335", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-08T01:35:59.397", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "14334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nHe is physically a male, and mentally female. It is the reason why Killua\nreferred to him as \"she\". This is stated in the databooks and also by the\ncanon writers. So in other words, Alluka is transgendered. Though, I believe\npeople have the right to think of him as whatever they like, male or female.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-26T13:49:27.130", "id": "19696", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-26T14:07:15.930", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-26T14:07:15.930", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "12955", "parent_id": "14334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAlluka is male. He just dresses like a girl.\n\nFrom\n[Alluka](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Alluka_Zoldyck#Gender_Ambiguity)\narticle on Hunter x Hunter Wiki (emphasis mine):\n\n> There is conflicting information regarding Alluka's gender.\n>\n> **The official data book lists Alluka's gender as male** , and two of\n> Alluka's brothers, Illumi and Milluki, refer to Alluka as their brother.\n>\n> However, Killua, the person closest to Alluka, specifically states that\n> Alluka is a girl and refers to Alluka as his sister multiple times. While\n> Alluka may have been designated male at birth, Killua's interactions show\n> that Alluka may identify as female.\n>\n> This inconsistency may be due to Killua's intimate and understanding bond\n> with Alluka, hence he would know and care that Alluka identifies as female,\n> versus Illumi and Milluki's cold and dehumanizing attitude toward Alluka.\n\nIn the episode showing Alluka in his childhood, we can see that he used to\ndress like a boy. He ended up looking like a girl, because he played with doll\ntoo much that his parent decided to dress him up like a girl.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-26T15:31:08.027", "id": "19697", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T15:15:22.413", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "12957", "parent_id": "14334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI've always played with two theories:\n\n 1. It could be the case that the family refer to Alluka as male to distance themselves from her, denying the fact that she's female to dehumanize her, or to further disassociate her from the family in some way.\n\n 2. Or it could very well be that, as Alluka's exact origin is unknown, she isn't strictly human and doesn't possess what we would call a conventional gender, but rather, her gender is simply non-existent, like a Nen beast.\n\nPersonally, I favor the latter, or a mix of the two. These are all just\nspeculation, of course, but it's interesting to think about nonetheless.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-20T21:09:38.013", "id": "20212", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T15:07:06.880", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-24T15:07:06.880", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13336", "parent_id": "14334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nHere is my assumption: When Alluka was born, her mother didn't take care of\nher, she let the butlers to take care of her (like bathing her, etc), and\nbecause their mother always thought that all her children must be male, so she\nthinks that Alluka is male too, especially because she is cold to her and\nnever bathe her, so she doesn't know that Alluka is actually female, and the\nbutlers are too afraid to tell their mother that Alluka is female. While\nKillua is the one who really cares for her, and knows her the most.\n\nSo even thought in the birth-biodata and everywhere, Alluka is stated as a\nmale, but Killua knows the truth, and so the butlers who ever took Alluka to\nbath also have known that.\n\nIt's just my hypothesis after watching the anime. I think if this hypothesis\nis true, this story will be a very nice scene, because then it will be stated\nthat \"Even the writer of the story doesn't know about Alluka's gender, but her\nbrother knows it because of how he always set an eye on her.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-24T09:04:46.163", "id": "21785", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-18T06:11:58.937", "last_edit_date": "2021-03-18T06:11:58.937", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "14629", "parent_id": "14334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nApparently yes, there are rules about how the Death Note works if someone has\nmore than 1. These rules are stated in [How to Use:\nXXIII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXIII)\n\n> Whenever an individual with ownership of more than two Death Notes loses\n> possession to one of the Death Notes, he will not be able to recognize that\n> Death Note's god of death's appearance or voice anymore. The god of death\n> himself will leave, but all the memory involving that Death Note will remain\n> as long as he maintains ownership of at least one other Death Note.\n\nAnd in [How to Use:\nXXXII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXXII)\n\n> If someone possesses more than one Death Note, by visualizing the victim,\n> then writing down the name in one of the Death Notes and the cause of death\n> in the other, it will take effect. The order however, is unimportant, if you\n> write down the cause of death in one Death Note and afterwards, write the\n> name in the other, it will take effect.\n\nWe also see Light owning 2 Death Notes in Episode 25 - _Silence_ and in\nChapter 58 - _Feelings Within_. while the scenes play out differently in both\nLight becomes the owner of Rem's Death Note after she has died. in _Death\nNote: The Last Name_ we however never see this as Rem destroys her Death Note\nin the equivalent scene.\n\nThere is however a limit of 6 Death Notes that a single persona can own. This\nis because only 6 death Notes can be active as it is stated in [How to Use:\nLII, Point\n1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LII)\n\n> In the event that there are more than 6 Death Notes in the human world, only\n> the first 6 Death Notes that have been delivered to humans will have effect.\n\nOne can assume \"ownership\" will not work unless the Death Note is active, so\nthe 7th Death Note can probably be passed around. But when one of the\ncurrently active 6 is removed (destroyed or taken back to the Shinigami\nRealm), the person currently holding the 7th will become the owner.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-08T05:53:15.213", "id": "14339", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-09T21:12:16.467", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-09T21:12:16.467", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14338", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, I think you got all the details in your post. From the information\nprovided, as you say, the non-Queen females seem purely based on the fact that\nthe humans they are derived from were female.\n\nAs to the one that said she was going to run off, if I remember correctly, it\nwas more establishing a colony and asserting herself as the most dominant ant\nwithout any mention of reproduction.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T01:09:01.890", "id": "14420", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T01:09:01.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8676", "parent_id": "14343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n“Sex” and “gender” bear disparate meanings but many people accidentally\nconflate these words. In the technical distinction, “sex” is a neutral word\nreferring solely to physiology including differences in brain chemistry and\nhormones, whereas “gender” refers to cultural constructions/assumptions about\nwhat personality traits best suit (or are innately connected to) a particular\nbiological anatomy. The female Ants all seem to identify as female, meaning\ntheir gender is female, regardless of 1) whether or not they can reproduce and\n2) whether or not they have any interest in reproduction of any sort. It is\nnot clear whether or not they subscribe to a belief in gender essentialism\nand, even if they did, whether their brand of gender essentialism would\ninclude reproduction as the main, or even as a main, component of what\n\"female\" means to them.\n\nThe Queen and the other feminine Ants were all given female _seiyuu_ (voice\nactors) and they speak in feminine Japanese. The Queen especially speaks in a\nvery motherly, or perhaps, grandmotherly, fashion.\n\nHina (formerly known as Hirin) has a nen ability to remove curses that gives\nher the [appearance of being\npregnant](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Hina). She does not comment on\nthis visual appearance in regard to human pregnancy, but only to complain\nabout her figure.\n\n(As an aside, the feminine Ants do seem to roughly align with modern Western\ngender norms for females, but Japanese gender norms have historically differed\nsignificantly from Western ones. For example, the 11th century Heian era ideal\nman was a master of concocting perfume, wearing make-up, and penning love\npoetry, and in the present day you can often see young straight men styling\neach others’ hair in public, wearing numerous plushie Disney key chains\ndangling from their man purses, and dressed in pink and lavender — none of\nthese practices are non-masculine in contemporary Japanese culture — whereas\nthe culture does maintain extremely strict gender norms, copious self-\nsegregation by gender, and rampant sexism.)\n\nThe fact that a Chimera Ant is female is not dependent on the prior human\nand/or animal who was/were eaten by the Queen also having been female. Many of\nthem are an amalgamation from a number of humans/animals who were killed,\nwhich were likely a mix of males and females. The main illustration of this is\nKite, who was a human male, was killed and apparently at least some part of\nhim was eaten by the Queen (though much of his body was not eaten in order for\nPitou to make her puppet), then was birthed prematurely as [a female\nAnt](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Kite_\\(Chimera_Ant\\)), and insisted\nthat her name was Kite from a young age. The characters specifically mention\nthat the Ant Kite is a girl. Her appearance came from a random female villager\nkilled by Koala, meaning it is likely that that girl's entire body was eaten\nby the Queen, but the resulting Ant retains the memories of Kite instead, even\nthough only a small portion of Kite's body was eaten.\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-14T07:07:04.680", "id": "14455", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-14T07:07:04.680", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe first seiyuus that were credited in an anime were Furukawa Roppa and Sawa\nRanko. They voiced characters in _Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka_ ( _The World\nof Power and Women_ ). Unfortunatly, this anime was lost in time and there are\nno copies still available.\n\n \n\nThe Seiyuus - who were highly reputed names at the time (Furukawa as a famous\ncomedian, Sawa as a highly reputed film actor) , as the idea of purely voice\nacting was not yet a reality. These names helped to drag in audiences to the\nshort film feature.\n\n\n\nThe characters that the voice actors played. Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka was\npraised by many, and went on to be listed as the \"Best of the Best\" in the\n12th Japan Media Arts Festival.\n\nReferences:\n\n * [Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka Wikipedia Page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikara_to_Onna_no_Yo_no_Naka)\n * Anime: A History by Jonathan Clements\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-08T18:13:13.873", "id": "14345", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-08T18:13:13.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14344", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSome of the phrases are explained at the Steins;Gate wiki's [Real-Life\nReferences](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Real-world_References) and\n[Glossary](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Glossary).\n\nRegarding the phrase「エル・プサイ・コングルゥ」(El Psy Congroo), according to [Anime News\nNetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=9941),\n[FutureGadgetLab](https://twitter.com/FutureGadgetLab) is the anime's official\nTwitter account. According to a\n[tweet](https://twitter.com/FutureGadgetLab/status/4125656912760833) by\nFutureGadgetLab, Okabe Rintarou (lab member #1) explains it as\n「お前の胸の中にあるもの。それが答えだ。俺の中ではKONGROOが正しい。『俺の中では』な。《001》」, which you could\ntranslate as \"It's something that's in your heart. That's my answer. When it's\ninside me, KONGROO is right. 'When it's inside myself,' y'know.\" So either the\nauthor is being intentionally obtuse (i.e., writing in character), or there is\nnot a specific meaning for it, or the author of the tweet (whoever at the\ncompany was assigned to manage the Twitter feed by posting as the various lab\nmembers) didn't know what the meaning is.\n[next_tales](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1381253833)'s\nanswer given at Yahoo Japan's 知恵袋 ( _chiebukuro_ , bag full of wisdom) website\nalso says that there is a notation stating that the phrase has no meaning in\nthe 『ＳＴＥＩＮＳ；ＧＡＴＥ─シュタインズゲート─ 円環連鎖のウロボロス』 (Closed Chain of Ouroboros) novel. It\ndoes not seem like Japanese fans know the meaning and it is not a general meme\nin Japanese society. According to the\n[ネット王子](http://netyougo.com/an/3125.html) ( _Netto Ouji_ , Net Prince)\nwebsite, the phrase has no meaning but _as a result_ of its use in this\nseries, it has become an internet meme used by Japanese people in their online\ncommunications. So to boil that all down, 「エル・プサイ・コングルゥ」 wasn't a preexisting\nmeme used by Steins;Gate, but it became a real meme as a result of\nSteins;Gate. (Though it is not a meme, the use of Dr. Pepper in Steins;Gate\nlikewise pushed the soda into popularity in Japan [I can actually find it in a\nvending machine here in Hokkaido now, all thanks to Hououin Kyouma, but see\nthese links: [1](http://blog.livedoor.jp/geek/archives/51247510.html)\n[2](http://seventhstyle.com/2011/06/08/dr-pepper-drink-of-intellectuals-in-\njapan/) [3](http://seventhstyle.com/2011/06/29/dr-peppers-derranged-\nsteinsgate-fans/)]).\n\nI'd love to hear further answers to this thread's question.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-15T12:35:11.940", "id": "14490", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-15T13:45:41.200", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-15T13:45:41.200", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14347", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's references to 2chan if I remember correctly, which weirdly enough they\njust called image boards in the dub instead of 4chan as you'd expect. Also\nthere were tons of cross culture references to star wars and other movies.\nAlso memes (is it really?) of \"all your base belong to us\" which I don't know\nif it is a Japanese meme as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-10T16:10:40.350", "id": "14996", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-10T17:04:28.020", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-10T17:04:28.020", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "9107", "parent_id": "14347", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI can answer\n[this](https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wep5_RRYxbk?rel=0&showinfo=0&autoplay=1&modestbranding=0&vq=hd1080&end=3)\nparticular meme.\n\nFansub: \"Yo, I heard you like fail, so we put some fail in your fail, so you\ncan facepalm while you facepalm.\" \nOriginal: \"Dame da koitsu, hayaku nantoka shinai to\" \n..which translates to something along the lines of \"This guy is hopeless, I\nhave to do something about him quickly.\"\n\nThis is a reference to the 2006 anime [Death\nNote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjm4149Ywpw&start=634).\n\nSpecifically from episode 12 around half way into the episode. This saying\nturned into a meme back in those days, just like the \"Keikaku means plan\"\nthing did in the English speaking world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-27T16:19:14.477", "id": "48952", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-27T16:19:14.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "14347", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nConcerning **'El Psy Kongroo'** , while its meaning hasn't been clarified in\nthe anime or by the production team, I think it probably originated from the\nDanish phrase **'pest eller kolera'** , which means 'a choice between two\nundesirable options'. Recall that in the anime, Okabe Rintarou had to make a\nchoice between the α and the β worldlines, a choice between letting one of\nMayuri or Christina dies. The writers of the anime probably remembered the\nDanish phrase, replaced each word by a Greek/Latin sounding one, and\nrearranged the word order from PEK to EPK to obtain 'El Psy Kongroo'.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-02T09:03:29.903", "id": "62899", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-02T09:03:29.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4017", "parent_id": "14347", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI managed to find the answer!\n\nIt's [Choujin Gakuen Gowcaizer](http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=1560)\n\nIt seems I mistook the wolf and the dark haired woman for the same person.\nThey are actually two different people.\n\nAlso, the film seems to have been released in the late 90's, not late 80's\nearly 90's as I had previously thought.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T12:28:39.383", "id": "14373", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-10T12:28:39.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8635", "parent_id": "14354", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think this question **is** opinion-based, but not to an extent where it\ncannot be reasonably answered. Anyway, that's a decision someone else can\nmake.\n\nGlasslip is about teenage life, but without many of the cliches that are in\nmany shows - characters are uncertain about many things - love, friendship,\nfuture, and in general growing up.\n\nThis is why not much happens during the show - the characters are nervous\nabout the fact that they can now date within the group, that a new person has\ndisrupted their social circle, that they will soon be separated as they move\non to new schools and new areas.\n\nThese uncertainties are shown abstractly in character's interations:\n\n * Touko feels 'invisible' in her vision of watching the fireworks where she is ignored by all her friends.\n\n * Kakeru has many internal monologues with different instances of himself, showing his internal conflicts. He also sleeps outside in a tent as it gives him a sense of safety and belonging, which he usually lacks because of his family's constant moving.\n\n * Yanagi takes up running in frustration of her unrequited love\n\nIt's interesting to note that Sachi and Hiro, who do not dwell on their\nfriend's potential reactions to their relationship have an unwavering devotion\nto each other (apart from Sachi's misleading which causes a small stir).\n\nAnd it is true that this was a turning point in all their lives: Touko's life\nwas disrupted by the visiting stranger, Sachi & Hiro are now in a loving\nrelationship, Yanagi has left for her modelling career, Yuki has stopped\nrunning and has split off from the group. Kakeru also has travelled somewhere\nnew, but experienced the same conflicted emotions that Touko did over the\nsummer\n\nIf one is looking for a _meaning_ in Glasslip, I would say it is to not worry\nabout other people's perceptions of you, that growing up is a confusing,\nemotional time and that you find who your true friends are during testing\ntimes.\n\nI recommend reading these reddit analyses of the final episodes:\n\n<http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2grlj5/spoilers_glasslip_episode_12_discussion/cklxbkn>\n\n<http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2hfo2a/spoilers_glasslip_episode_13_final_discussion/>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-11T14:41:24.353", "id": "14391", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-11T16:15:55.727", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-11T16:15:55.727", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14355", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe meaning in Glasslip is specifically about the idea that relationships can\nbe very disruptive to the dynamics amongst a group of friends, and more\nspecifically, it’s a story of how dating can drive people in a group apart and\nthat even with magic (such as Toko's ability to peer briefly into the future),\ndating and falling in love is so tricky that magic might not be too helpful\n[1]. The reason why these themes stand front and centre can be seen in the\nanime's opening, which portrays Toko and her group of friends as being very\nclose. However, with Kakeru's arrival, things become much more messy as Toko\nconsiders dating him. To allow her to explore this possibility, Toko ends up\ndissolving the rule where her friends can't date. This action comes from a\nselfish desire to know more about Kakeru because of the mystery he seems to\ngive off.\n\nThis action ultimately has unforeseen consequences on everyone, and this is\nwhere the magic of seeing into the future comes in. In spite of both Toko and\nKakeru having this power, they are ultimately unable to foresee what happens\nin their own futures. In Toko's case, the power does not give her a full\npicture of what will happen to her group of friends. The reason why glass\nbeads are chosen to act as a medium for these visions is because through them,\nthe familiar world appears distorted, an image of the world but not quite\nreality.\n\nThese messages are shown time and time again in Glasslip's opening, which is\nbeautifully done: hints of the group of friend's old status quo, and the\ninclusion of the visions of the future, all come together to show that things\nlike relationships are always shifting, and it's tricky to predict what can\nhappen [2]. This is what Glasslip is about: the turbulence and\nunpredictability of teenage relationships [1]. The messages of Glasslip are\nnot just broadly about turning points, nor is it about worrying about what\npeople think of one self: Kakeru's introduction into Glasslip acted as a\ncatalyst to drive the Toko's friends apart, and the consequences are\nnoticeable. As an aside, I've noticed that all of the analysis and answers out\nthere, especially on Reddit, are incomplete or wrong because they completely\nomit what Kakeru calls the Fragments of the Future. The opening shows that\nthey are a central part of the anime [2].\n\n**Sources**\n\n 1. <https://infinitemirai.wordpress.com/2020/09/25/worst-anime-challenge-the-themes-of-glasslip-explained-yet-again-and-revisiting-p-a-works-parvulum-opus/>\n 2. <https://infinitemirai.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/a-glasslip-analysis-deciphering-what-glasslip-intended-to-be-about-through-its-opening-sequence-and-its-impact-on-viewer-expectations/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-25T19:27:05.460", "id": "59664", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-25T19:36:57.850", "last_edit_date": "2020-09-25T19:36:57.850", "last_editor_user_id": "56405", "owner_user_id": "56405", "parent_id": "14355", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat would be around **Chapter 646: God tree**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-09T23:49:02.200", "id": "14363", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-09T23:49:02.200", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "14362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a reference to _yaoi_ sex positions. _Seme_ is the Japanese term for\nthe dominant partner (usually on top), while the _uke_ (\"opposite\" of _seme_ )\nis the submissive partner, usually on the bottom.\n\nThis is also a pun in Japanese. _Seme_ (same _kanji_ ) is another word for\n\"offense\" or \"attacker\". The opposite of which would be \"defense\".\n\nSo, I'm guessing the joke here is basically that Kaoru is perhaps\n\"excessively\" normal, since she is so pure she isn't even aware of _yaoi_ sex\nterms.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T00:23:50.670", "id": "14365", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-10T17:03:29.807", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-10T17:03:29.807", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "14364", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\n * \"seme\" is a noun derived from the verb \"semeru\" which means \"to attack\".\n * The expected opposite is probably \"uke\", derived from \"ukeru\" meaning \"to receive\".\n * what Kaoru said was \"mamori\", derived from \"mamoru\", \"to protect\". \n * Seme and uke are most commonly used in martial arts to describe the roles in a move: the seme is the person who takes the initiative and attacks, while the uke is the one who is attacked, so it might also be translated as \"defender\" - but in many (perhaps most) cases also the one who ends up \"winning\" because martial arts often have turning an attacker's actions against them as a major component.\n * Yaoi fans have adapted these terms to describe the roles in a male/male relationship: the seme is the one who takes the traditional male role: initiates the relationship, \"pursues\" the uke and is usually \"on top\" during sex. This can get ridiculously codified and outright heteronormative, e.g. the seme has to be taller and stronger, not show their emotions, etc. The \"uke ends up winning\" aspect may or may not be relevant.\n * An otaku would know this, a normal Japanese person may not, but would understand the usage in context.\n * Kaoru's answer seems to show that she is aware of neither usage, and I guess semantically choosing \"mamori\" as opposite of \"seme\" sounds kinda sweetly naive given the alternatives.\n * A factor might be that the only common use of \"mamori\" as a noun which I'm aware of is in the honorific \"O-mamori\", talismans that one can buy for a few hundred yen in shrines or temples and which promise health, success in business or studying, safe birth, etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T13:55:15.430", "id": "14374", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-22T09:36:16.273", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-22T09:36:16.273", "last_editor_user_id": "4092", "owner_user_id": "4092", "parent_id": "14364", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBoth words can be summerized with _Kemonomimi_ (獣耳) what just means animal\nears.\n\n> Kemonomimi, literally meaning \"animal ears\", is the concept of drawing\n> animals as bishōjo or bishōnen, or having such characters wear animal\n> accessories such as ears or tails. Catgirls and catboys are the most\n> prolific in this category, although bunnygirls, foxgirls, and dog girls are\n> also common. Kemonomimi characters typically appear human except for added\n> animal-like qualities.\n\nQuote from\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_anthropomorphism#Animals).\n\n**Nekomimi** and **Inumimi** are some more accurate designation for such\ndesigned characters. But there is one essential difference.\n\nThe word **Nekomimi** (猫耳) means \" _cat-ears_ \" in english. On the other hand\nyou have the word **Inumimi** (犬耳) what means \" _dog-ears_ \". And this is\npretty much the difference... **Nekomimi** are styled like cats and\n**Inumimi** are styled like dogs.\n\nTraditionally they only wear a headband with the ears of the animal they dress\nup without a tail or paws.\n\nOn this picture you are able to clearly see the difference between this two\nspecies. Left a Neko and right a Inu styled girl.\n\n\n\nPicture from the [nonoshirip blog](http://nonoshirip.blog73.fc2.com/blog-\nentry-45.html).\n\nIt is not always that easy to find out what is shown at the moment because\nthere are also some **Inumimi** with pointed ears. But you are also able to\nrecognize them apart by the tail.\n\nAs before, **Nekomimi** have a tail like the tail of a cat. **Inumimi** more\nlike a dog. Here is a picture with the tail. Again left the Neko and right the\nInu styled girl.\n\n\n\nLeft picture from [ZeroChan](http://www.zerochan.net/1773005) and right\npicture from [ZeroChan](http://www.zerochan.net/1750563).\n\nSometimes it is very hard to recognize them apart only by the ears. If you\nreally want to know who is who you need more characteristics than only the\nears.\n\nBut watch out! There are _Kemonomimi_ that look similar to the cat or even\nmore the dog... A example are Kitsunemimi (狐耳) what means \"fox-ears\" or\nOkamimimi (狼耳) what means \"wolf-ears\".\n\n\n\nLeft image from [ZeroChan](http://www.zerochan.net/1320423) and right image\nfrom [ZeroChan](http://www.zerochan.net/239366).\n\nYou could guess who is who? Left is the fox styled girl and right is the wolf\ngirl. And this is a example where it is actully very hard to find out what\n_Kemonomimi_ style the character is designed.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T12:00:25.010", "id": "14372", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T12:47:49.473", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-13T12:47:49.473", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "14370", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBy that point in time, Light wanted to kill anyone who threatened or insulted\nhim (though he would not really want to admit the latter one). His ego and\ndesensitization had risen to the point that he did not not really care who he\nkilled. Near claimed to be L's true heir and the one who could bring Kira (as\nknown as L now and also known as Light) down. Of course he wanted to kill him.\n\nI don't think he would have seriously entertained any other idea at that time\neven if he bothered to come up with it. He was more inthralled with his\ngodhood than even the battle anymore.\n\nNote: I don't think it mattered that at episode 37 (the last episode) that\neven after killing Near, he would still be captured. He wanted to kill Near\nbecause he insulted/threatened him. If he could avoid capture, though, he\nwould have probably done that planning on killing him later.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T18:48:16.840", "id": "14379", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-24T15:07:56.213", "last_edit_date": "2020-01-24T15:07:56.213", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "14378", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThanks to [this MAL\npost](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1285841&show=0#post9) I just found\nout it's [Ludwig van\nBeethoven](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven)'s [_Piano Sonata\nNo. 14 in C-sharp minor \"Quasi una fantasia\"_ , popularly known as the\n_Moonlight\nSonata_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._14_%28Beethoven%29)'s\nthird and last movement, [_Presto\nAgitato_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._14_%28Beethoven%29#Presto_agitato).\n\n[Here's a video](http://youtu.be/oqSulR9Fymg) of the music, played by [Wilhelm\nKempff](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Kempff). \nAnd [here](http://youtu.be/-B2Cqcb8FzU) another video by one Brandon Ethridge,\nfilmed from the top. This ones makes it look - at least for me - like the\nanimation was done accurately (or at least the progression of the right hand\nalong the keyboard in the animation intends to suggest a minimum of accuracy).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T19:44:20.993", "id": "14381", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-10T19:44:20.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "14380", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\n[Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, 3rd\nmovement.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-10T19:50:06.903", "id": "14382", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-10T19:50:06.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8646", "parent_id": "14380", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nMoonlight Sonata - Third Movement.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-19T08:58:22.420", "id": "35893", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-19T08:58:22.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27837", "parent_id": "14380", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom naruto wikia:\n\n> Susanoo is an ability granted to those who awaken the powers of both their\n> Mangekyō Sharingan. It creates a gigantic, humanoid being that surrounds the\n> user and fights on their behalf. As one of the strongest techniques granted\n> to those that have acquired the Mangekyō Sharingan, it is the user's\n> guardian deity, but at the same time, it consumes the user's life force and\n> damages their body over time.[1]\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-11T06:25:07.030", "id": "14387", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-11T06:25:07.030", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3274", "parent_id": "14386", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n\n[Susanoo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Susanoo) is an ability granted to those\nwho awaken the powers of both their Mangekyō Sharingan. **It creates a\ngigantic, humanoid being that surrounds the user and fights on their behalf.\nAs one of the strongest techniques granted to those that have acquired the\nMangekyō Sharingan, it is the user's guardian deity** , but at the same time,\nit consumes the user's life force and damages their body over time\n\nThe answer to your question is : **Susanoo is a materialized form of user's\nchakra.**\n\n> According to Sasuke Uchiha, if a Sharingan user unlocks two Mangekyō\n> Sharingan powers, one in each eye, known as the \"Double Mangekyō\" (ダブル万華鏡,\n> Daburu Mangekyō), it gives access the third power, Susanoo. Nevertheless,\n> for a Sharingan user to activate Susanoo, according to Obito Uchiha, is a\n> rarity. **Since it is formed through the materialisation of the user's\n> chakra, its abilities, appearance and colour vary among individuals.** While\n> the user usually remains grounded within Susanoo, it is possible for them to\n> freely move around within its body, as well as levitate inside of it. The\n> user can allow others to enter Susanoo, or leave its body entirely. While\n> Susanoo acts as a defence against external attacks, anything coming out of\n> Susanoo will simply phase through it.\n\nSource : [Naruto wikia : Susanoo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Susanoo)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-11T20:31:14.840", "id": "14392", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-11T20:31:14.840", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "14386", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are right, Cell ends up using Solar Flare.\n\nIt is hard to get a definitive answer (because the question is pretty\nspeculative), but I will argue that:\n\n * Solar Flare has been shown to be incredibly disruptive every time it was used - in the manga, everyone affected by it was made helpless for at least ten seconds - having Trunks stop in mid-air because of it is not inconsistent with previous uses of that ability;\n * I do not remember any character in Dragon Ball that could fight effectively while blinded, or without using his eyes - by implication, it means that there is nothing to suggest that ki sensing could replace eyes if someone was blinded. However, even if you find an example of someone that did fight without his eyes, you would still have to find something that Trunks would be capable of doing it;\n * The time that Cell took to absorb Android 18 was extremely short - I mean, if you look at the sequence depicted in the manga, it goes:\n\n 1. Trunks blasts Vegeta to distract him;\n 2. Trunks begins flying towards Cell, who is a few steps away from Android 18;\n 3. Cell uses Solar Flare;\n 4. Everyone is blinded;\n 5. Cell gulps Android 18 down;\n 6. The cloud generated by Trunks' blast around Vegeta dissipates;\n\nI mean, damn, how long did it take Cell to absorb Android 18 after blinding\neveryone? 3 seconds? The disruption from Solar Flare clearly seems to be\nenough for this purpose.\n\nHowever, I agree that the scene, as depicted in the anime, does not really\nmake sense, as Android 18 and Krillin attempt to fight against Cell, while\nTrunks and Vegeta are completely forgotten about. It _could_ be argued that\nthey were affected more strongly because they were closer to Cell when he used\nSolar Flare, but that explanation seems dodgy.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-11T12:28:30.040", "id": "14390", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-21T21:54:40.810", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-21T21:54:40.810", "last_editor_user_id": "8446", "owner_user_id": "8446", "parent_id": "14389", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems that the author [liked Bonta-kun's design so\nmuch](http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=4977189&postcount=7), so he\nreused (with Shiki Douji's appoval) it in this series.\n\nFrom a summary of the afterword of LN Vol. 1:\n\n> As for the secondary main character \"Mofuru\", I ended up borrowing Bonta-kun\n> of FMP. I just couldn't separate the two characters in my head, so I had the\n> idea of just using Bonta-kun directly. I thank Shiki Douji for giving his\n> approval.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-12T06:00:43.537", "id": "14398", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-12T06:00:43.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "14397", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, Bonta-kun was first stolen by Sosuke at an amusement park and was\nremodeled by him. Now, it cannot hurt to say that it came from the same place.\nMaybe this is a prequel of \"The Birth of Bonta-kun\"? Just a thought.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-27T12:47:40.843", "id": "14691", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-20T19:59:52.680", "last_edit_date": "2019-04-20T19:59:52.680", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "8889", "parent_id": "14397", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis already got an answer, but I would like to point out that Moffle has a\ntendency to end sentences with a \"-fumo\" suffix. This, of course, being\nanother subtle(?) tribute to \"Full Metal Panic!\" (Fumoffu)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-05T22:43:17.287", "id": "15512", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-05T22:43:17.287", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9496", "parent_id": "14397", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think because Shinji Gatoh is the original creator of both of them?\n\nThe character of both series is the same if you compare each other. A\ncharacter that shoots guns easily. And the delinquents who beat in front of an\namusement park.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T19:11:08.593", "id": "17238", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-20T19:59:51.113", "last_edit_date": "2019-04-20T19:59:51.113", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "10971", "parent_id": "14397", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe song is called **Minato Mura**.\n\nAfter some additional searching I found that the piano solo is part of the\nsong called **Village Harbour** (or Minato Mura in Japanese), which is\nsupposed to be part of the second song of the second OST collection as shown\non [Youtube](http://youtu.be/QZA5qCfRZQc?t=1m17s)\n\n* * *\n\nMore information:\n\n * [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chILw64HZMw)\n * Piano sheet on [Everyonepiano](http://www.everyonepiano.com/Music-2670-Minato-Mura---One-Piece-OST.html)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-12T12:54:08.160", "id": "14403", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-12T13:10:27.727", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-12T13:10:27.727", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "14400", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe hand raising part comes from old Japanese traditions where refined women\nwere not supposed to show their mouth when they laugh. The fact that a\ncharacter uses it can indicate that they place a high importance on manners\nand such which is one of the traits of stereotypical posh characters.\n\n\n\n_Women covering their mouths as they laugh at the lady falling over after\npulling bamboo from ground (Scene of the Twelve Months - Fifth Month\n(Toyoshiro and Teyokuni) ) 1801_\n\nThe _Ohoho!_ is intentionally high pitched and annoying - this is to make it\nsound both artificial and bitchy (which is usually the character's\npersonality)\n\nKodachi from Ranma 1/2 was the first instance of this trope occurring in\nanime, however this trait was already in use in film by this stage.\n\n[TVTropes page](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoblewomansLaugh)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-12T16:06:32.147", "id": "14406", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-07T07:22:16.990", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-07T07:22:16.990", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14405", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe text on the wall are references to Faust, which foreshadows the plot for\nthe anime.\n\nOriginal Text:\n\n[code]\n\n Weh! Weh!\n Du hast sie zerstört,\n Die schöne Welt,\n Mit mächtiger Faust;\n Sie stürzt, sie zerfällt!\n Ein Halbgott hat sie zerschlagen!\n Wir tragen\n Die Trümmern ins Nichts hinüber,\n Und klagen\n Über die verlorne Schöne.\n Mächtiger\n Der Erdensöhne,\n Prächtiger\n Baue sie wieder,\n In deinem Busen baue sie auf!\n Neuen Lebenslauf\n Beginne,\n Mit hellem Sinne,\n Und neue Lieder\n Tönen darauf! \n \n[/code]\n\nOn the screenshot, you can kinda see the \"Neuen Lebenslauf\" and some of the\ntext.\n\nTranslation:\n\n[code]\n\n Woe! woe!\n Thou hast it destroyed,\n The beautiful world,\n With powerful fist:\n In ruin ’tis hurled,\n By the blow of a demigod shattered!\n The scattered\n Fragments into the Void we carry,\n Deploring\n The beauty perished beyond restoring.\n Mightier\n For the children of men,\n Brighter\n Build it again,\n In thine own bosom build it anew!\n Bid the new career\n Commence,\n With clearer sense,\n And the new songs of cheer\n Be sung thereto!\n \n[/code]\n\nThe text on another wall, near Getrud's Barrier:\n\n[code]\n\n Verflucht voraus die hohe Meinung,\n Womit der Geist sich selbst umfängt!\n Verflucht das Blenden der Erscheinung,\n Die sich an unsre Sinne drängt!\n Verflucht was uns in Träumen heuchelt,\n Des Ruhms, der Namensdauer Trug!\n Verflucht was als Besitz uns schmeichelt,\n Als Weib und Kind, als Knecht und Pflug! \n \n[/code]\n\nTranslation:\n\n[code]\n\n Cursed be, at once, the high ambition\n Wherewith the mind itself deludes!\n Cursed be the glare of apparition\n That on the finer sense intrudes!\n Cursed be the lying dream's impression\n of name, and fame, and laureled brow!\n Cursed, all that flatters as possession,\n As wife and child, as knave and plow!\n \n[/code]\n\nSpoiler:\n\n> It is referring to the Faustian bargain that magical girls make with Kyubei.\n> In exchange for their wish and their powers, they give Kyubei their souls.\n\nSource: <http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Episode_2#References_to_Faust>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T00:00:28.420", "id": "14418", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T00:00:28.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "14416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSo, uh, this is kind of weird.\n\nAccording to [a guy on\nChiebukuro](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1388861238/a212338659)\n(which is basically Japanese Yahoo! Answers), the artist of this end card,\nHIKAWA Hekiru, is a fan of the movie Mad Max 2, and one of the characters in\nthat movie is [a dude named\nHumungus](http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_Humungus), who is the guy pictured\nhere.\n\nAlso according to the guy on Chiebukuro, Humungus has apparently popped up in\nother works by Hikawa. I'm not familiar with any of Hikawa's works, so I don't\nknow whether this is actually true or not, but the guy in the endcard\ncertainly does look like Humungus.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-29T01:35:01.343", "id": "14723", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-29T01:35:01.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "14417", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's part of the song Connect. You can say it's a remix version. The title is\nConnect -Game Installation-\n\nIt's from [Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica Special CD 6 (track\n#13)](http://www.jpmusic.info/2011/09/mahou-shoujo-madoka-magica-ost-3.html).\n\nMahou Shoujo Madoka Magica has total 6 Bonus CD. From what I could see, the\nartist is still ClariS. (I actually has all the bonus CD)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T11:46:02.490", "id": "14430", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T11:46:02.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "14427", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe motivation for deciding that it is not anime is that it is a Western\nAnimation. Despite the fact that the styles borrow from one another, anime is\noften considered simply \"Eastern Animation\". While there is a lot of \"I know\nit if I see it\" characteristics which make the Avatar series more anime-like\nthan Futurama, it it still considered Western in origin.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T13:10:00.563", "id": "14431", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T13:21:43.243", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-13T13:21:43.243", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "14429", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe \"genre\" that I have typically heard these type of shows being referred to\nas \"American Anime\" or \"Western Anime\" to refer to the borrowed style, however\nI've only seen these terms used \"unofficially\". The term anime these days is\nmost commonly used to define works originating from Japan, and [even some\ndictionaries](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anime) define it as\nsuch.\n\nLet's take a look at some other notable titles:\n\n * [RWBY](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWBY) coins itself as \"an American animated web series\". Even though it is licensed in Japan, most still won't consider it \"anime\" in the traditional sense, although [judging by this article](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/07/12/feature-inside-rooster-teeths-rwby) some people really want to view it as such.\n\n * [Halo Legends](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_Legends) considers itself \"anime\" as the actual animation studios were based in Japan, and they were given a wide degree of freedom in terms of story.\n\n * [The Animatrix](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix) dubs itself \"animated short films\". Although the majority of the films within the anthology originated from Japanese studios, the collection as a whole originates from several different countries.\n\nIn this regard we can deduce that strictly speaking, Legend of Korra isn't\nconsidered anime solely for the reason that it wasn't produced or even\nanimated in Japan. However this doesn't mean that the definition will evolve\nto refer to the overall art style if other countries start producing these\ntypes of works.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T20:53:29.327", "id": "14439", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T20:53:29.327", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6174", "parent_id": "14429", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAny animation that is not made by a Japanese production company is not anime,\naccording to the English definition of the term.\n\nTo Japanese people in Japanese, the Japanese words 「アニメーション」 and 「アニメ」(\n_animeeshon_ , shortened to _anime_ ) are used to describe any animation,\nwhether made in Japan or made in other countries, such as Disney.\n\nIt is important to distinguish between the Japanese word used by Japanese in\nJapan to describe all animation from all countries, as compared to the English\nword which is distinct from that in meaning. The English word only refers to\nanimation that is made by a Japanese production company. It includes many\nseries which were almost entirely animated in Korea by Koreans, but done so\nfor a Japanese production company. Look in the credits list at the end of many\nanime TV series and you will see many Korea names; since the company is\nJapanese, it counts as anime, even if the animating work was largely\naccomplished by non-Japanese people. If the exact same Korean animators\ncreated an animated series produced by a Korean company, it would not be anime\naccording to the English definition of the word.\n\nKorean comics are called _manhwa_. There are a handful of American publishers\nthat might market a graphic novel to you as \"manga made in America,\" but that\nis actually an oxymoron. The English word \"manga\" only refers to comics\nproduced by Japanese publishing companies. Japanese people do not usually use\nthe Japanese word 「漫画」 ( _manga_ ) to refer to comics from other countries;\ninstead they say 「コミックス」 ( _komikkusu_ ). Again, you could be a non-Japanese\nliving in Japan and having your comic published in a Japanese manga magazine,\nand it would be real manga, because of the company, regardless of your own\nethnicity. But if you are ethnically-Japanese publishing your comic outside of\nJapan, it is not manga.\n\nAnother important thing to keep in mind is that neither the English word nor\nthe Japanese word contain anything related to art style. This is also true of\nwords such as _shounen, shoujo, seinen, josei_ , and so on: within each, there\nis a wide variety of art styles. For example, compare the art style of _Kaitou\nSt. Tail_ to _NANA,_ to _Kiko-chan Smile,_ to _Ace wo Nerae,_ to _Zetsuai\n1989_. They are all _shoujo_ , but they do not look alike, and there are\nrespective _shounen_ series that look more like one of them than the other.\n\n_Shounen, shoujo, seinen,_ and _josei_ are words that can only be used to\nrefer to sub-genres within Japanese comics and animation; they cannot be\napplied to animation produced in America or any other countries. Rather than\ngenres proper, they are simply technical groupings of marketing targets: was\nthis series targeted at young adult women, or not? You can promptly tell which\ntype it is by which area of the Japanese bookstore the manga is in.\n\nAccording to [Energetic Heartbeats](http://shoujo.tripod.com/intro.html),\n\n> What is Shoujo? \n> Shoujo (girls') is not a genre itself - it's the marketing strategy. Shoujo\n> simply means that the title was originally marketed to a female audience in\n> Japan. Nothing more than that. Shoujo includes its own genres that cannot be\n> found in their original form within the shounen world, including mahou\n> shoujo, shounen ai, yaoi, yuri, and others. \n> Shoujo is not limited to only anime and manga. The word is also used for\n> audio dramas and novels. . . . Pretty much any film genre you can think of\n> has been represented in shoujo.\n>\n> What is Not Shoujo? \n> Shoujo is NOT a type of art style, nor a type of story element. It is not\n> even neccessarily work by a specific creator. For example, the beloved team\n> CLAMP is responsible for outstanding examples of shoujo manga and anime, but\n> has also created shounen manga. What's the difference between the shounen\n> manga and the shoujo manga? The shounen series was serialized in a manga\n> magazine aimed at male readers.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-14T06:25:37.887", "id": "14453", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-12T17:21:27.270", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-12T17:21:27.270", "last_editor_user_id": "28456", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14429", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a mascot for the series. Subaru is a butler, and in Japanese, \"butler\"\n([shitsuji](http://jisho.org/search/shitsuji)) and \"sheep\"\n([hitsuji](http://jisho.org/search/hitsuji)) sound the same, making it a play\non words. The reason it is bleeding is itself a pun because a sheep bleats.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-29T15:50:18.097", "id": "22871", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-06T08:14:24.817", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-06T08:14:24.817", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "15358", "parent_id": "14433", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the original Japanese language of _Mayo Chiki!_ , **these sheep plushies\nare known as \"Silent Lamb\" (沈黙ヒツジ).**\n\n\n\nThe \"Silent Lamb\" card from _Precious Memories_ Trading Card Game\n\nNot much information known regarding this thing other than it is Subaru's\nfavorite sheep character.\n\nJudging from its name, fans theorized that it refers to [_The Silence of the\nLambs_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_\\(novel\\))\nwhich features a _cannibalistic_ character and a scene of _the protagonist's\nchildhood memory related to lambs_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-03-02T18:14:36.333", "id": "56919", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-02T18:14:36.333", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "14433", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs I was reading manga of _Mayo Chiki_ , I found the answer. I might have\nmissed it while watching anime.\n\nIn **Volume 3 Chapter 18 - Bayside Baby** , when Kureha and and others met\nthem at the beach, Kanade introduced Konoe as **Takanashi Punyuru** , a\nyounger cousin of Konoe, and same grade as Kureha. This explains why Konoe as\nTakanashi Punyuru appeared as transfer student in Kureha's class.\n\nBelow is the part of chapter where Kanade says\n\n> She's in the same grade as you, so you don't have to add the \"-san\"\n\nIn this context, **\"she\"** refers to Takanashi (Konoe) and **\"you\"** refers to\nKureha.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xxSfu.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-06T05:12:25.117", "id": "25664", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-06T06:22:48.887", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-06T06:22:48.887", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "14437", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#Non-\ntraditional_senses), pain **isn't** one of the _traditional senses_. It's\nmarked under _non-traditional senses_.\n\nI think that's the reason pain is NOT stolen together with tactile perception\n(well, I thought, before I looked deeper, pain is connected to the _touch_\nsense, but it seems not).\n\nTraditional senses:\n\n 1. Sight\n 2. Hearing\n 3. Taste\n 4. Smell\n 5. Touch\n\nThese are 5 base senses (for more info, view [this\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_wits#The_.22outward.22_wits)). As\nyou can see, _pain_ **is not** listed. But there are others like:\n\n 1. Balance and acceleration\n 2. Temperature\n 3. Kinesthetic sense\n 4. **Pain**\n 5. Other internal senses\n\nAs you write,\n\n> she can curse to increase Erza's sensitivity to pain\n\nbut then\n\n> she remove all 5 senses from her in **other curse**.\n\nPain is not a base sense.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-14T08:09:06.173", "id": "14457", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T15:10:23.870", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T15:10:23.870", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8697", "parent_id": "14438", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe romanized title is not meant to be an English translation at all. It is\nnot half Latin + half English; it is all Latin from start to finish: _Puella\nMagi Madoka Magica_. So we shouldn't read the \"Madoka Magica\" as if it were\nEnglish and then wonder at why \"Puella Magi\" is not English. \"Madoka\" is the\nmain character's name (鹿目 まどか), so that word is a native Japanese word.\n\"Magica\" is clearly not Japanese or English; [it is also\nLatin](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magica#Latin). So 3 out of the 4 words\nare Latin, and the Japanese word is a person's name, so it would naturally be\nwritten \"Madoka\" in romanized letters when in an all-Latin phrase.\n\n[According to the Puella Magi wiki,](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Madoka_Magica_Trivia#Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica) \"Puella Magi\" in\nLatin translates to \"girl [form] of the sorcerer\" in English. As this was the\ntranslation decided by the Japanese company, it is possible that they did not\nconsult anyone fluent in Latin in order to translate \"mahou shoujo\" as\naccurately as possible (we often see Engrish in anime [such as 「それでも世界は美しい」(\n_Soredemo Sekai ha Utsukushii_ ), which was officially written in English as\n\"Still world is Beautiful\" instead of a literal fluent translation like \"Even\nSo, The World is Beautiful\"]; there is no reason that they would necessarily\ndo better with Latin).\n\nThe wiki author makes an alternate hypothesis, saying \"If interpreted a\ndifferent way, 'the sorcerer's girl', it implies that the girls are being used\n- which they are, by Kyubey,\" but since we _do_ know the meaning of \"mahou\nshoujo\" due to its use in the many, many magical girls series that _Madoka_ is\nparodying, we can conclude that it does _not_ in this case have a unique\nmeaning of girls being used. The series is not a _mahou shoujo_ series proper\n(it is a parody of the genre and is targeted at male viewers, whereas real\n_mahou shoujo_ are a subset within _shoujo_ , meaning they are targeted at an\naudience of young girls and if there is a manga origin or adaption, it runs in\na _shoujo manga_ magazine), so for it to use the standard style and meaning of\na _mahou shoujo_ series best serves its intent at parody.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-14T05:50:39.710", "id": "14452", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-14T05:50:39.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis sounds like **Doomed Megalopolis**.\n\n\n\n(From Wikipedia):\n\n> Doomed Megalopolis (帝都物語 Teito Monogatari?) is a supernatural/dark fantasy\n> anime. It is an adaptation of the historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari\n> by Hiroshi Aramata. The anime is darker, more violent and sexualized than\n> any previous adaptations of the novel; an artistic decision probably\n> inspired by the financial success of the OVA Legend of the Overfiend. Like\n> its live-action predecessor, Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis, the anime is only\n> an adaptation of the first 1/3rd (the first four books) of the original\n> novel.\n>\n> It was released by Toei in 1991 as a 4-part OVA. In 1995, ADV Films gained\n> the rights to the anime and released it on a four-volume cassette series in\n> the US, under the title Doomed Megalopolis. In 2001, ADV re-released the\n> entire series on a 2-Disc DVD edition. However, this release did not have\n> the original Japanese soundtrack or any special features. Eventually, ADV\n> gathered the rights to the original Japanese voices, and in 2003, re-\n> released an enhanced version entitled Doomed Megalopolis: Special Edition,\n> wherein the Japanese language option was available and bonus features, such\n> as interviews and documentaries were added.[\n\nIt's around the right time frame, though it's not listed under the programs\nbroadcasted by Bravo.\n\nThe main antagonist is an evil wizard with white gloves with a pentagram on\nit, and in the beginning of the movie, he blocks the arrow:\n\n\n\nThe start of the movie has this old guy:\n\n\n\nThere's also this scene:\n\n\n\nMore info:\n\n * [My Anime List](http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=1148)\n * [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomed_Megalopolis)\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=304)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-14T03:34:13.920", "id": "14449", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-14T03:34:13.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "14447", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThese are the two I can find. The 1973 version did not adapt this story. Both\nare without subtitles though.\n\nAs for the summary you want, I was only able to find a Chinese version.\n\n[Chinese\nSummary](http://zh.doraemon.wikia.com/wiki/%E7%AB%B9%E7%BE%8E%E4%BA%BA%E6%A9%9F%E5%99%A8%E4%BA%BA)\n\n[1979 Version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrimYoIH1iE) in Chinese\n\n[2005 Version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y2iZsiRlCs) in Cantonese\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-19T13:15:02.737", "id": "21656", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-28T16:12:48.573", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-28T16:12:48.573", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "14121", "parent_id": "14462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nExpanding [Astral Sea's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/21656/2516),\nthe story described in the question is about \"Kaguya Robot\", originally from\nmanga volume 37 (under _Tentoumusi comics_ label). The theme is based on \"[The\nTale of Princess\nKaguya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter)\".\n\nThe 1979 version anime (episode 736) with the same title \"[Kaguya\nRobot](https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/168512-Kaguya-Robotto)\" adapted the story\nfaithfully. ( _This is the one that's described in the question_ )\n\nThe 2005 \"renewal\" version (episode 103B/195) titled \"[Nobita Raises Princess\nKaguya](http://doraemon.wikia.com/wiki/Nobita_Raises_Princess_Kaguya)\" has a\ndifferent story development while using the same \"Princess Kaguya\" theme.\n\nSome of the differences are:\n\n_Volume 37 \"Kaguya Robot\"_\n\n> \\- The 22nd-century department store mistakenly delivered \"Kaguya Robot\" \n> \\- Doraemon hid it, but Nobita used it \n> \\- Nobita hid the newly-born Princess Kaguya from his mom and everyone \n> \\- Doraemon was very angry when he saw Kaguya Robot. Even though Nobita\n> insisted to hide and raise her, Doraemon pointed his lack of plan cool-\n> headedly \n> \\- When a wealthy person saw her daytime, he said \"(she is) [as alike as\n> two melons](http://jisho.org/search/%E7%93%9C%E4%BA%8C%E3%81%A4) as her late\n> daughter. Please let her be adopted daughter.\" \n> \\- When Nobita bod farewell to Kaguya, he muttered: \"A welcome from the\n> moon came.\"\n\n_Anime \"Nobita Raises Princess Kaguya\"_\n\n> \\- The 22nd-century department store delivered a new product \"Experience\n> Folklore Set - Princess Kaguya Version\" \n> \\- Nobita hid it from Doraemon and used the tool \n> \\- A newly-born Princess Kaguya befriended with Nobita's parents, his\n> friends, and also Doraemon \n> \\- Princess Kaguya was making a sad face when she saw a full moon \n> \\- \"Messenger from the moon\" came and Nobita & co.'s repellance was in\n> vain, then Princess Kaguya had to return \n> \\- When Princess Kaguya bod farewell, the letter she passed was the bill\n> from the 22nd-century department store.\n\n* * *\n\nReferences:\n\n * 1979 version episode number: [Doraemon Wikia](http://doraemon.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Doraemon_\\(1979_anime\\)_episodes#1983), [gouda1973's FC2 Blog (Japanese)](http://gouda1973.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-580.html)\n * 2005 version episode number: [Doraemon Wikia](http://doraemon.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Doraemon_\\(2005_anime\\)_episodes#2007), [Japanese Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%81%88%E3%82%82%E3%82%93%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A8%E3%83%94%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7_\\(2005%E5%B9%B44%E6%9C%88_-_\\)#2007.E5.B9.B4)\n * The differences between each version: [Iseyan93's teacup Blog (Japanese)](http://star.ap.teacup.com/i-93/97.html)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-28T16:12:31.817", "id": "43044", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-28T16:17:53.400", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-28T16:17:53.400", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "14462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nYou're looking for Wolfgang Grimmer. (Can be found in [this list of\ncharacters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Monster_characters).)\n\n> First seen in chapter 78, Grimmer is a freelancing journalist researching\n> Kinderheim 511 who is drawn into the search for Johan when he helps Tenma.\n> Nearly always smiling, he is an apparently friendly, polite man who is good\n> with children.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hIeFb.jpg)\n\nJust a note for the future: I found his name just by searching \"monster anime\nsmiling character\" on Google.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-15T04:30:01.737", "id": "14480", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T21:22:29.860", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T21:22:29.860", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "14479", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost of the info is in the [Holo wikia\npage](http://spiceandwolf.wikia.com/wiki/Holo).\n\nShe was able to travel with Lawrence because she can \"jump\" between wheat, and\nshe left the wheat that was in the village's fields and to the wheat that\nLawrence bought, giving the reason that she longed for her snowy homeland and\neventually contracts Lawrence to take her there.\n\n> Holo is a wolf harvest deity that was bound to the town of Pasloe, ensuring\n> a bountiful harvest for the residents. As the villagers became more self-\n> reliant with time, however, Holo was neglected and, feeling unneeded,\n> skipped town with the traveling merchant, named Lawrence, by 'jumping' from\n> the villagers' wheat to Lawrence's wheat in his wagon. She longs to return\n> to Yoitsu, her snowy homeland, and makes a contract with Lawrence to\n> accompany her there.\n\nSince Lawrence makes a living being a trader, he can't keep carrying wheat\naround so Holo keeps some in a pouch. But eating wheat isn't the only way she\ncan transform:\n\n> Holo has the power to transform into a massive wolf (bigger than an\n> elephant) in this form she uses this to move at high speeds much faster than\n> another known creature. She also uses her huge jaws in order to defend\n> herself and Lawrence (as well as scare the crap out of her enemies). To\n> activate this form she must either consume **wheat** or **human blood**.\n\nAs far as \"dwelling\" in the wheat, it also says:\n\n> Holo has lived for many centuries and is not visibly aged past 17 years old\n> (at least in her human form). She credits her wisdom from the experiences\n> her long life has given her. However she is not immortal, she explains that\n> if the wheat she dwells in is destroyed, **she would disappear**.\n\nSo it's unlikely she'd eat all the wheat knowing she'd disappear if there was\nno more wheat to \"dwell\" in. I don't recall much explanation at all about the\nwheat aside from the initial bullet points, but I imagine it wouldn't be out\nof the question to occasionally replenish some of the wheat in her pouch\nthrough their travels.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-15T06:00:11.797", "id": "14485", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-15T06:00:11.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "14483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's from the [**_Sailor Moon R_**](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=2152) movie.\n\n\n\n> The fragrance of a flower at the botanical gardens reminds Mamoru of a long\n> forgotten memory from his childhood when he met Fiore, an alien boy who was\n> travelling the galaxy on his own. Before Fiore left, he made a promise to\n> Mamoru to bring him flowers.\n>\n> Once banned from society to a far away galaxy, the Kisenian flower, a plant\n> that grows by consuming the energy of living beings, awaits to be found by\n> someone with doubtful heart and weak will on whom to prey, since it is\n> harmless without a proper host — to then transform the host's weakness and\n> fear into dark power.\n>\n> What will happen when lonely Fiore finds Kisenian during his journey? How\n> will he react to finding out about the passionate relationship between\n> Mamoru and Usagi? Will Sailor Moon be able to save Earth and the ones she\n> loves from Fiore's jealousy powered by the accumulated hatred of the\n> Kisenian against people?\n\n[_YouTube link of that particular\nscene_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiGc5VLTg9M&t=11m54s)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-15T15:19:13.073", "id": "14494", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-15T15:19:13.073", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7884", "parent_id": "14488", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHow to use XXXIV\n\n 1. The owner of the Death Note cannot be killed by a god of death who is living in the world of the gods of death.\n 2. Also, a god of death who comes to the human world, in the objective to kill the owner of the Death Note, will not be able to do so.\n 3. Only a god of death that has passed on their Death Note to a human is able to kill the owner of the Death Note.\n\nAs the rules are grouped together, it seems they are related. In context, they\nimply that gods of death cannot kill Death Note owners with the exception of\nthe original owner. Keep in mind that the rules seem to be a collection of\nobservations; not the \"programming language\" of the Death Note. This means\nsome wording may not be perfect. In practice, Light was able to kill Death\nNote owners whose original owners were not shown to also write down their\nnames.\n\nAlso, note that everyone already has an expiration date so they are never\nimmortal from non-Death Note related deaths.\n\nThat being said, that interpretation sounds as if an owner who found Misa's\nold notebook after the Shinigami was dead would effectively be immortal or at\nleast immune to all Death Note users. This seems unlikely.\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-15T20:38:41.637", "id": "14500", "last_activity_date": "2019-06-17T20:06:08.707", "last_edit_date": "2019-06-17T20:06:08.707", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "14497", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis appears to be an animation error from an earlyish episode when that was\nmore frequent. Specifically it comes from [Episode\n226](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeXKZ01z5aQ) which is part of the Foxy\nPirate Crew Arc.\n\nIn this scene Zoro is fighting Foxy the Silver Fox in (a bad) disguise to the\nleft hand side of the screen and also (apparenly) calmly standing there\nwatching the silly fight.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-16T19:29:53.637", "id": "14520", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-16T19:48:36.423", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-16T19:48:36.423", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "14505", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIn Naruto \"Ch.440: A Conversation with the 4th\" it is stated that the third\nHokage wanted as little information about the Kyuubi out in public as possible\nand that's why nobody, not even Naruto should know that Minato was his father.\nThus he was given the name Uzumaki instead of Namikaze.\n\nPage 5: \"If anyone knew you were my son, you'd have been in constant danger\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-19T15:42:09.347", "id": "14562", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-19T15:42:09.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8778", "parent_id": "14509", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI imagine the most significant of your mentioned connections is that they are\ncreated by the same developer - **Success**.\n\nHaving similar themes and a similar art style is definitely enough to warrant\nthe title of _sister_ games.\n\nAs a Western example, Bastion and Transistor are also sister games - They\nshare no common story, but are similar in artistic style, development company,\nmusician and artist.\n\nThe term _sister_ in sister-game is broad and stems from sister cities &\nsister companies. The latter of which shares no more than the same parent\ncompany. Sister cities are broad, officially approved, long-term partnerships\nbetween two communities - but they do not have to be culturally alike or share\nmany traits.\n\nThe requirements for shows to have an implicit connection is low, and can be\njustified by being in the same broad universe, parallel universe, etc. It's\nmainly a production choice.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-16T08:58:41.920", "id": "14512", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-07T13:32:35.997", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-07T13:32:35.997", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14510", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe lyrics of the song give some clue as to what this could mean. Here are the\noriginal lyrics in Japanese. I've cut out all the verses except the choral\nones which mention apples. The others are slightly relevant but not necessary.\n\n> あまくて切ない わたしのココロ \n> 齧って逃げた子 だーれだ \n> ゆらゆら揺れてる わたしのココロ \n> 恋する気持ちは 齧りかけの林檎\n>\n> 傷つきたくない わたしのココロ \n> 齧って逃げた子 だーれだ \n> ふるふる震える わたしのココロ \n> 恋する気持ちは 齧りかけの林檎\n>\n> 夢を見ていても 空を見てても \n> 想ってしまうの…君を \n> キラキラ ハジける 2人の季節 \n> 待ってる気持ちは 齧りかけの林檎\n>\n> ゆらゆら揺れてる わたしのココロ \n> 恋する気持ちは 齧りかけの林檎\n\nHere's an English translation of the above. I've prioritized literal accuracy\nin the translation, so it isn't particularly poetic and the lines are\nrearranged a bit to make them flow in English.\n\n> Who was it that took and then fled \n> a bite from my sweet, painful heart. \n> The feeling of love in my wavering heart \n> is like a half-eaten apple.\n>\n> Who was it that took and then fled \n> a bite from my fragile heart. \n> The feeling of love in my trembling heart \n> is like a half-eaten apple.\n>\n> Whether I'm dreaming, or looking up in the clouds, \n> I can't help but think... of you. \n> The sparkling, popping feeling of waiting for our season together \n> is like a half-eaten apple.\n>\n> The feeling of love in my wobbling heart \n> is like a half-eaten apple.\n\nFrom this, it's clear that, in the context of the lyrics of the song, the\napple is a metaphor for the singer's heart. It is half-bitten because a piece\nof it was bit off by someone. Exactly who among the characters the singer is\nsupposed to represent is unclear. The singer is Taketatsu Ayana, who is also\nthe seiyuu of Fu-girl, but it seems like the lyrics could apply equally well\nto most of the female characters in the series, and indeed based on the\nanimation it seems to be for all of them.\n\nIf we take this to apply to the scenes in the OP animation, the fact that the\ncharacters find apples seems to symbolize them discovering their love. The OP\nalso features the pairings between Umio and Sensei, Hio and Kantoku, and Fu-\ngirl and Sommelier, which seems to more-or-less reaffirm this interpretation.\nThe apples they have in the OP aren't half-eaten, but I'm not sure there's any\nreason to read into that very far.\n\nAs for why they chose an apple as the object of the metaphor, I don't know.\nThere could be a reference that I'm missing. This is perhaps a large part of\nthe question, so I'm not convinced this answer is complete.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T09:11:51.507", "id": "16923", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T09:11:51.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "14515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo Scared is the opening to Black Rock Shooter: The Game (on PSP).\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnATga1UdHg>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-17T21:18:03.617", "id": "14543", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-29T01:13:06.403", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-29T01:13:06.403", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "14526", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigun):\n\n> The story jumps forward two years with the start of Maximum, and takes on a\n> slightly more serious tone, perhaps due to the switch from a shōnen to a\n> seinen magazine.\n\nAlso:\n\n> The publishers were sympathetic, and the manga resumed in 1998 as Trigun\n> Maximum (トライガンマキシマム Toraigan Makishimamu?).\n\nAnd:\n\n> [The anime series] was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 1 to September 30,\n> 1998 . . .\n\nSo, Trigun Maximum was a continuation of Trigun. Trigun was ended before it\nwas intended because the magazine where it was published, Shōnen Captain, was\ncancelled. The anime is based on Trigun only, as its air date was the same\nyear that Trigun Maximum started publication. You'll notice the anime diverges\nfrom the manga quite a bit though.\n\nIf people say one or the other is a \"reimagining,\" this is most likely due to\nthe choice of the people making the anime to change the story in order to give\nit an actual ending. I would not really call this a \"reimagining,\" though: it\nis more like they came up with an alternate canon because the manga was not\nfinished. In other words, the anime started out based on the manga, but then\nit came up with its own story independently, and the manga author did what he\nplanned to do from the beginning, without being influenced by the anime. It's\npossible that people making the anime may have asked the manga author for\ninput on events that he had planned that he had not yet written, but I do not\nknow this for a fact.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-17T15:30:10.400", "id": "14538", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-25T02:09:42.963", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-25T02:09:42.963", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "3734", "parent_id": "14532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe death note cannot lengthen a person's life span by setting a date of death\nfor that person after their current date of death. In this case the person\nwould just die as they would if their name was not written. This is from \"How\nto Use LVII\".\n\nI was wrong on one account originially. If you write a person's name in the\ndeath note and do not edit it for 6 minutes and 40 seconds (400 seconds as\nthat is how long you can edit it), then he is immune from other death notes.\nThis is due to \"How to Use XV\" which states that if the same name is in two\ndeath notes, the first filled in will take effect. This can only protect for\n23 days as the person will die by then anyways. It appears that this can be\ncircumvented by editing it every 6 minutes and 40 seconds.\n\nYou can, however, do the following. If you know Dusk is trying to kill Dawn,\nyou can write Dusk will \"be killed by Dawn after failing to even scratch her\nwith his attacks\". This means he must die of either a heart attack because the\ncause of death could not happen (could not reasonably get to Dawn or Dawn\nkilling Dusk is impossible) or will be killed by Dawn with hurting her. In any\ncase you need Dusk's name and you are extending Dawn's life by killing Dusk\nwith the death note which humans (not Shinigami) can intentionally do.\n\n", "comment_count": 12, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-17T14:13:21.110", "id": "14537", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-17T14:55:50.473", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-17T14:55:50.473", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "14536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Manga\nUpdates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=40103), the first season\nof _Knights of Sidonia_ starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 and ends at Vol 6, Chap 26.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-18T17:40:14.080", "id": "14553", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-15T15:04:39.847", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-15T15:04:39.847", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "8205", "parent_id": "14539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Manga\nUpdates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=40103), the second season\nof _Knights of Sidonia_ seems to end at Chapter 43.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-04T01:51:46.990", "id": "28654", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-15T15:04:47.040", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-15T15:04:47.040", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "20191", "parent_id": "14539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's not actually that easy to answer. The Anime covers most of the source\nmaterial pretty closely but not all of it. Some events have been left out or\naltered. Several events have also been shifted around in the time line.\n\nA perfect example of this is the final battle against _Benisuzume_ ( _Crimson\nHawk Moth_ ). It's pretty much the end of Season 2 of the Anime but in the\nManga this fight happens in Volume 9.\n\nHowever, quite a lot of Volume 10 material also made it into the Anime. In the\nAnime these events, mostly some social interactions and the like, happen\nbefore the fight on Lem 9 while they happen afterwards in the Manga. Other\nstuff has been left out so the Anime doesn't cover all of Volume 10.\n\nIn conclusion the Anime (both seasons) roughly cover the first 10 volumes out\nof 15, with about 5 volumes per season.\n\nFor anyone interested in reading the Manga (as a third seasons has still to be\nannounced) I would definitely recommend reading from the start, even if you\nknow the Anime. It's what I did and you can spot the differences and what has\nbeen left out or changed in comparison.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-01T17:13:33.570", "id": "38728", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-01T17:13:33.570", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30683", "parent_id": "14539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe setting for Akatsuki no Yona is loosely based on the [Three Kingdoms of\nKorea](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms_of_Korea) period. The\n[Kouka Kingdom](http://akatsukinoyona.wikia.com/wiki/Kouka_Kingdom) is\ninspired by the Goguryeo Kingdom. Its neighbor Sei and Xing are based on\nBaekje and Silla respectively. You can also see that the three kingdoms are\nlocated in a peninsula in the manga and that they almost have the same layout\nas their real-life counterparts.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-18T16:37:11.830", "id": "14552", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-26T15:36:01.250", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-26T15:36:01.250", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "14551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\n_Yona of the Dawn_ is based on Chinese culture, Chinese hanfu, Chinese Manchu\nclothing, Chinese architecture, and Chinese landscapes. The background is a\nfictional Chinese-style country. _Yona of the Dawn_ uses a large number of\nChinese elements, the ED song even uses Chinese instruments and Chinese\nlyrics.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-10-21T03:37:41.947", "id": "68394", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-21T04:12:42.723", "last_edit_date": "2023-10-21T04:12:42.723", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "73719", "parent_id": "14551", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt should be possible. However most of the examples i can find are _non-\nhuman_.\n\nIn Fate/Apocrypha we learn that the entire Red faction, save Mordrid, is under\nShiro Kotomine's control since their Masters aren't in Trifas and he has been\nworking on taking control; I remember reading that he has their Command Seals.\nThe reason he can do this is probably because\n\n> He is the Ruler from the 3rd War as such a Servant with a connection to the\n> Grail\n\nAs [zibadawa timmy](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14559/is-it-\npossible-for-one-master-to-have-multiple-servants#comment18903_14559)\nmentioned, in Unlimited Blade Works Caster had Assassin, Archer and Saber as\nher own Servants. However with Assassin she was a Fake Master, but with the\nlatter two, she became a proper Master after using her Nobel Phantasm Rule\nBreaker to null their contracts with their Masters.\n\nThe only Human example is with Sakura in the Heaven's Feel Route. She has a\ncontract with Rider (from the beginning) but she also, when she accepts Angra\nMainyu, is the Master of Alter-Saber and Blind Beserker. However there is the\npossibility that Sakura was in fact a _Servant_ herself with Angra Mainyu as\nthe _Master_\n\nThe above three are evidence of how a _\"Master\"_ can have multiple Servants\nunder the Fuyuki system; there are examples outside that.\n\nIn the Moon Cell, the [Alter Egos](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Alter_Ego)\ncreated by BB are her Servants. However BB is an AI and the Moon Cell/SE.RA.PH\noperates differently than the Fuyuki Holy Grail which is supposedly what it\nused to develop the system to determine who was worthy to reach the Moon\nCell's core.\n\nThere is also [Manaka Sajyou](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Manaka_Sajyou)\nfrom Fate/Prototype. She not only is the Master of Beast but she also ends up\nsummoning the other 6 Servants. However\n\n> When she died eight years ago, she became something of a half-zombie due to\n> the power of the Holy Grail\n\nAs such, one can't really consider her a normal human.\n\n* * *\n\nWhen it comes to Command Spells, if a Master contracts with another Servant\nthey are granted a set. However this is only seen with Caster.\n\n> Upon using Rule Breaker to steal Saber's contract, she appears to be branded\n> with actual Command Spells.\n\nSource: [Special Command Spells - Imitation Command\nSpells](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Command_seal#Special_Command_Spells)\n\nWe can assume that it was the same happened with Archer and we can assume the\nreason is the same as if a Master-less Servant found a new Master (in the case\nof Caster).\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-19T22:04:42.460", "id": "14567", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-16T00:44:39.247", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14559", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n\"Shirou asks if she'll form a contract with another Master, and Saber says\nthat Archer's Master (Rin Tousaka) should be able to bring out her full power.\nUpon parting with Shirou, she goes into the church, presumably to form a\ncontract with Rin\"\n\nI didn't remember it happening this way so I reread it. I was right, it didn't\nhappen that way. First of all, when Shirou asks saber she says she will look\nfor a master but she doesn't mention Rin. Secondly, at the end Shirou says\nsaber disappears and goes away, he doesn't say anything about her going to the\nchurch. I am sure saber doesn't go to the church for 2 reasons:\n\nA) it is just a few meters away. If she had opened the door to enter the\nchurch Shirou wouldn't think: she disappeared.\n\nB) Saber doesn't want to go to the church (even with his master Shirou) as it\ngives off tremendously dark vibes. You'll know why later on.\n\nLast of all, I doubt Rin would take saber. She says in the VN having 2\nservants is a handicap (you weaken them a lot) and she never abandons archer.\nIf archer were to die then yeah, she would most likely take saber if she's\nstill available.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-25T20:41:39.853", "id": "36538", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-25T22:46:00.683", "last_edit_date": "2016-09-25T22:46:00.683", "last_editor_user_id": "28378", "owner_user_id": "28378", "parent_id": "14559", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]