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[ { "body": "\n\nI can't speak for the writers, but the decline of the series in general after\nthat point makes it so that the show is simply better in a technical sense\nwithout them.\n\nEspecially, given how one of the single biggest problems is the ending\nepisodes and the total break from Light's character, who would never have been\ncontent with only one backup plan. He was facing people he thought were almost\nas good as L, and so likely wouldn't have underestimated them by not changing\nhis plans at all to accommodate for the possibility of deception after Mello's\nappearance.\n\nGiven how adaptable he was against L, it seemed contrived for failure to lose\nbecause he suddenly didn't adapt.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-24T04:52:59.030", "id": "33915", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-30T13:06:03.213", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-30T13:06:03.213", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "25817", "parent_id": "14563", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the ending was poorly written and was rushed. I also didn't much care\nfor Near either. That's probably why everyone wanted it to end after L's\ndeath. The fight between L and Light was truly amazing and both of them were\nfighting for their beliefs and standards for what was right. I don't think\neither one was truly evil and I was beyond sad when L died (he was so young).\n\nI do think that plot and story-wise it was an amazing choice, but it\ndefinitely was not a stopping point by any means. Light was still a prime\nsuspect. There were many people that disagreed with Light's/Kira's actions,\nand he wasn't finished using the death note.\n\nLike I said before, L and Light's battle was amazing, but it still had flaws;\nnothing is perfect. Now Near/Mellow's ark was sloppy and almost wasn't worth\nfinishing, but I did just because I wanted to see Light's fate. L never did\npick Near or Mellow to be his successor, which I can tell why. Near treated\neverything like a game and Mellow didn't think with his head, and honestly, he\nwas more villainous then Kira himself. However, that didn't make them any less\nof a genius. I think at the point in the series when the duo joined that,\nLight was overconfident due to the fact that he defeated L and had years to\nhimself to do as he pleased. A rational person would have said he let his\nguard down.\n\nHowever, it was clearly shown that the writer wanted to end the series because\nit was missing his beloved character L. So honestly, I believe that Light\ncould have and should have beat Near, but that doesn't mean he should have\nwon. I think that he should have been taken down by a more superior detective.\nAnyone who thinks that Light should have won isn't stupid or wrong, but in my\nopinion, you're not 100% right either. Even if he did win it all, it would\nhave only been a temporary victory. When he chose the hand of Kira or (x Kira\nas Near stated) he chose the wrong person and that's not because his judgment\nwas bad but because there wasn't a good successor at the time. Plus, he was in\na rush because Near was hot on his tail. Someone would have messed it up after\nLight's passing or it would have been stolen or returned to the death gods\ncausing all crime to return after the fear of Kira was vanquished.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-30T12:32:27.560", "id": "42554", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-30T12:55:42.040", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-30T12:55:42.040", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35893", "parent_id": "14563", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Mayo clinic](http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-\nattack/basics/definition/con-20019520) defines heart attack as an obstruction\nof blood flow to the heart muscle, causing the body's natural blood pump to\nfail and/or die.\n\nSo a pacemaker won't save one from a heart failure once it happens, the device\navoids them from happening (the real function is more complex, gugure kokkuri-\nsan!).\n\nSince a heart attack is a failure of the blood pump, it is safe to assume that\na DN could make an artificial heart to fail as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-03T03:49:58.247", "id": "15437", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-03T03:49:58.247", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "14564", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\n### How to Use: I\n\n[code]\n\n 1. The human whose name is written in this note shall die. \n \n[/code]\n\n \nThis is the most fundamental rule of the death note. If a person's name is in\nthe death note, this person will die at the specified time or after the\nstandard times. Like Ryuk says: Shinigamis don't normally use the DN in this\nor that uncommon situation or way. It was Ryuk who wrote the rules (at best\ncopied a manual in the world of Shinigamis) so it is safe to say that the\nrules don't contain the whole truth.\n\nA Shinigami normally kills human that have several years left - someone who\nhas to use a pacemaker has low chances to live that long - so the Shinigamis\njust don't know what happens in this case (they are not interested in such\nthings after all) and assume that heart attack is the ultimate fallback but in\nthe end (at least in canon), the DN will never fail.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-30T11:58:15.513", "id": "41120", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-30T11:58:15.513", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33164", "parent_id": "14564", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAre you sure you don't mean \"Tama-ya!\" rather than \"Tagoya!\"? It is very\ncommon for Japanese onlookers at a festival to loudly cry out \"Tama-ya\" and\n\"Kagi-ya\" when they see fireworks, instead of applause for the show. The words\nrefer to [two of the oldest, largest and most famous fireworks factories from\nthe Meiji period](http://www.nicjapanese.com/english/e-cul-hanabi.html)\n(1868-1912).\n\nI believe the plan is to so distract Eve with the fireworks and their\nsurrounding customs that she'd be unaware of the changes being made behind her\nback.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-03T00:40:16.743", "id": "24578", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-03T00:40:16.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "14568", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, it won't. The reason Kayaba's admin account works in ALO is that ALO uses\nthe database of SAO. ALO is actually SAO with improvements here and there,\nchanging the textures, adding flight system, etc. That's why Asuna is there.\nThat's why when Kirito logged into ALO, he retrieved his stats and items,\nthough, due to the change in game resources, his items are mostly broken.\n\nSo, it is reasonable to say that a game created from the Seed would not have\nKayaba's admin account, since it doesn't have the same database. There is a\nchance that Kayaba would hard code his account into the Seed's program, but I\ndon't think it is likely since hard-coding is a bad practice.\n\n * StackOverflow: [What is your attitude towards hard coding?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/828207/what-is-your-attitude-towards-hard-coding)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-20T05:38:34.387", "id": "14574", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-20T07:03:26.167", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-23T12:37:12.590", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "14570", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're correct that there is no sufficient reason for anyone other than Minako\nto have eluded the energy drain in this episode. Good observation!\n\nIt is possible that the energy drain only applied to humans, which could\nexclude the cats. It's possible that the energy drain was localized, whereas\nonly the blackout was citywide. In that case, as long as the girls and Mamoru\nhad not happened to be standing within the range of where the civilians were\ndrained of energy, they could be excluded (along with all other civilians also\nout of range); it was not specifically stated that the energy drain happened\nto every single Tokyoite. But they did seem to be in rather close proximity to\npeople who'd collapsed. If the girls had been transformed into senshi form at\nthe time of the drain, we could hypothesize that as senshi they have a higher\nstrength tolerance than regular humans and thereby could retain some energy\neven if an equal amount had been drained from them, but 1) they were not in\ntransformed form at the time, and 2) even if they had been, in the _Crystal_\ncanon, Mamoru dresses up as Tuxedo Kamen but he does not transform into it\nmagically as an alter ego in the same way as the senshi do (which he had been\nable to do in the classic anime series), so Mamoru retaining consciousness\nwould still be unexplained. It cannot be on account of their transformation\nbrooches possessing a special power because Mamoru doesn't own any\ntransformation item.\n\nThis does not make sense as a trope of the _mahou shoujo_ genre. _Sailor Moon_\nwas the first _mahou shoujo_ series which combined _sentai_ (team fighting,\nsuch as _Power Rangers_ , usually involving saving the world and protecting\ncivilians from aliens/monsters) with _mahou shoujo_ (which previously had not\ncommonly involved any need to save the world; the classic magical girls used\ntheir powers for _nichijou_ [daily life] activities such as disguise, Good\nSamaritan action, or to carry on a secret career). If other _mahou shoujo_\nseries that involve team fighting, such as _Pretty Cure_ , jump the shark in\nthe same way as this episode, then it is following suit from the influence of\n_Sailor Moon_ , which pioneered the combined _sentai_ -with- _mahou-shoujo_\nstyle of _mahou shoujo_. In other words, this was not a trope in _mahou\nshoujo_ prior to _Sailor Moon_ , so _Sailor Moon_ needs to have an in-universe\nexplanation for this that cannot be chalked up to a trope.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-22T02:07:38.560", "id": "14608", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-22T02:07:38.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14571", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nRead from the chapter where Ikaros and Delta fought Chaos. It differs starting\nfrom there. Update the chapter number later.\n\nEDIT: Chapter 31. In the anime, Ikaros was thrown out from the water by her\nweaponry system. In the manga, she was saved by Astrea.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-20T05:27:48.497", "id": "14573", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-20T05:49:45.767", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-20T05:49:45.767", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "14572", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell in both cases you cited it relates to released energy that was somehow\nblocked because of the danger of its release. In Dragon Ball, I remember the\nscene near the end of the fight with Frieza where Goku tells Gohan something\nlike this: \"If the forces inside of me start unleashing, it will destroy this\nplanet. You have to get out\".\n\nIn Evangelion, we learn that the armor of the Evas are actually blockers to\nprevent them from going berserk, also hiding the true nature of the Evas, that\nthey are composed more as a human would be, with skin, flesh and organs, than\nas a robot.\n\n\n\nSo these two things are common: the released energy that comes from hard,\ncritical situations, near death experiences, and the revealing of the true\nnature of something, the dark forces inside all of us. I think it could be\nsymbolic of the awakening of the unconscious part of the self.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-20T13:06:00.477", "id": "14579", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T17:58:52.670", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T17:58:52.670", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8688", "parent_id": "14575", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIn real life, when your muscles get worn and slightly torn up from use, after\nyou rest and recover, they will have grown back stronger.\n\nThere's a word for the practice of purposefully wearing down your muscles to\ncause this phenomenon to happen. It's called _\"exercise\"_.\n\nWhat you're seeing(or at least in DBZ), is an exaggerated version of that.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-20T15:22:39.083", "id": "14581", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-20T15:22:39.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "14575", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA quick Google search led me to [this\npage](http://www.macross2.net/m3/m3.html), where you can find a full list of\nmechas from the [Macross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macross) franchise (a\nquick browse through some pages there showed me that not all mecha have\nschematics there). For example, [this\npage](http://www.macross2.net/m3/sdfmacross/destroid-spartan.htm) in\nparticular has all the details for the \"Centinental/Kransmann MBR-07-Mk II\nSpartan Main Battle Robot\", along with some perspectives and schematics. \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0gtXf.gif)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vh820.gif)\n\n[Searching Google for \"anime mecha\nschematics\"](https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&biw=1366&bih=629&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=anime+mecha+schematics&oq=anime+mecha+schematics&gs_l=img.3...0.0.0.460420.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..56.img..0.0.0.afD_v5kWQc0)\nalso shows a lot of results (many of them are from the website referred\nabove):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pFA0B.jpg)\n\nSome of them even seem to be rather detailed, like this one (despite its small\nsize): \n\n\nYou can always follow the images to their source, and possibly find some more\nresults that may interest you.\n\nI also found [this other site](http://www.mahq.net/) where you can find some\nother drawings of mecha from some series, including\n[Gundam](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam). In this one, p.e., you can find\nschematics for the cockpit (in the bottom): \n\n\nI also found [this forum](http://www.mechatalk.net/), where you may find\nsomething if you have some time and patience (I didn't). For instance, in\n[this thread](http://www.mechatalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=351&start=280) I\nfound [this\ndrawing](http://www.gearsonline.net/series/gunbuster/gunbuster/bw62.jpg) from\n[Gunbuster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunbuster).\n\nFor Escaflowne in particular, however, I was not able to find anything.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-20T19:28:19.620", "id": "14582", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-28T10:22:22.417", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-28T10:22:22.417", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "14576", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nSearch for the phrase「設定資料」in kanji and \" _settei_ \" in romaji instead of\n\"schematics\" and you will find more. \" _Settei_ \" means the reference\nmaterials for animators so that when each ones draws the animation cels, they\nare consistent with the design. Search for 「設定資料」plus the name of the series\nin Japanese (such as エスカフローネ).\n\nIf you want to support the production company in question, then buy an artbook\nthat contains the published _settei_.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-22T01:47:06.440", "id": "14607", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-22T01:47:06.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14576", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter watching the whole season of the series and reading some other viewers'\nopinions (namely on MAL fora), I've come to believe this and other (one in\nparticular I noticed, but others may have occurred) \"errors\" are actually\nintentional, because of the fact that the series makes use of different\ntimelines as a plot device.\n\nOn episode 10, for instance, we get to see the scene from the second episode\nonce again, but this time the bow-tie does not change colours any time, being\nconsistently orange:\n\n\n\nOn the scene shown on episode 2, the bow-tie colour change was actually\naccompanied by a rather \"robotic\" by the other characters. This was\nparticularly noticeable on the _exact_ moments the bow-tie changed colours.\n[This other\nviewer](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1286953&show=80#msg35113191)\nsuggests ([on two different\ninstances](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1286953&show=40#msg35081741))that\nthis was all done on purpose , so as to draw the viewer's attention to the\n\"error\" of the colour changing bow-tie (and of other particular scenes\ndescribed on that post).\n\nOn episode 10, there was another particularly noticeable \"error\":\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yP58I.gif)\n\nNotice how Yui's dress changes colours once she walks out the door. [This\nviewer](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1319867&show=20#msg36505671)\n(incidentally, the same one from the other posts, though apparently more\naggravated on this post) defends once again that this was all done on purpose,\nso as to show the viewer that several iterations have been made by Yui while\ntrying to save Kaori (capitalisation from the original post, not me):\n\n> (...)YUI IS NOT TIME TRAVELING, SHE IS TRAVELING THROUGH MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS\n> TRYING TO FIND THE COMBINATION THAT WILL SAVE KAORI. THE CHANGES IN DRESS\n> (ALSO THE CHANGES IN HER TIE FROM THE SECOND EPISODE) WERE BOTH DONE ON\n> PURPOSE TO SHOW THAT MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE. THEY ARE NOT\n> \"MISTAKES\" OR IN NEED OF QUALITY CONTROL. THEY ARE A CREATIVE WAY OF SHOWING\n> THE VIEWER THAT WE ARE SEEING THE SAME EVENT FOR YUI OCCURRING MULTIPLE\n> TIMES.\n\n**So, after all this, I've come to believe those \"errors\" are actually\nintentional, as explained in all of the above. However, I have no official\nword on this.**\n\n* * *\n\nThere were, in contrast, some minor inconsistencies on the animation/drawing\nquality sometimes, and these ones are (most certainly) not intentional. I\nrefer these only to have some comparison between what seem to be intentional\nand unintentional \"errors\". Here are some examples (the faces are poorly drawn\non the first one, and the distance between the hands and the body completely\noff on the second one):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nr3QB.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fnXZo.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T17:23:47.813", "id": "16998", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T18:51:34.273", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T18:51:34.273", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "14577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nYou make a reasonably convincing argument, JNat.\n\nBut, here's the problem - they fixed these things on the BDs (at least for\nepisode 2; episode 10 BDs aren't out yet). Which _strongly_ suggests they were\nanimation/coloring mistakes, not intentional artistic choices.\n\nTV on the left, BD on the right. As you can see, her bow is consistently\norange on the BDs.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWaremete wasn't exactly an exemplar of high-quality production. It's likely\nthat someone just screwed the pooch at the studio, thereby causing all these\ninconsistencies.\n\n(That said, I dropped the show after episode 2, so I'm not really in a\nposition to evaluate whether ALL CAPS GUY's arguments make sense.)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-02T01:15:12.213", "id": "20553", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-02T01:15:12.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "14577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/M8zhU.png)\nDiagram from [AniSearch](http://en.anisearch.com/anime/1931,higurashi-no-naku-\nkoro-ni/relations). Click to enlarge!\n\nIf I am not wrong now and I interpreted the diagram the right way the viewing\norder of the anime series should be like this. The bold text is the main\nstory!\n\n**Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (05.04.2006)**\n\n_Shared Universe_\n\n * Umineko no Naku Koro ni (02.06.2009)\n * Umineko no Naku Koro ni: Uraneko (23.10.2009)\n * Ookamikakushi (08.01.2010)\n\n_Side Story_\n\n * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira (21.06.2011)\n\n_Side Story_\n\n * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku: Outbreak (15.08.2013)\n\n**Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai (06.06.2007)**\n\n_Side Story_\n\n * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gaiden: Nekogoroshi-hen (02.08.2007)\n\n_Other_\n\n * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Ura Higu (21.09.2007)\n\n**Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei (25.02.2009)**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-20T23:02:14.357", "id": "14586", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-20T23:02:14.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "14583", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nOkay this is really it. From my own findings, i was able to conclude that\n**Kirino's birthday** is **September 4, 1997**. \n \nFrom the image provided by [**Oshino\nShinobu**](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2869/oshino-shinobu), I was\nable to get her birthday from her profile. It says **1997'4 生ま九**. This\nprobably means that she was born on the **4th day** of the month of **生ま九** in\nthe year **1997**. I tried translating it with google translate but it says \"\n**Raw or nine** \" in English. I think I have probably made a mistake in\nidentifying the first two characters correctly. But the important thing is the\nthird character, **九** , which translates to \" **Nine** \", probably the **9th\nmonth** of the year, **September**. So I deduced that Kirino Kousaka's\nbirthday is **September 4, 1997**. \n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T10:25:24.980", "id": "14881", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-08T12:06:36.743", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "14597", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI did some searching back when this question first appeared and came up with\nnothing. Given that Kirino is such a major character, I find it hard to\nbelieve that her canon birthday would be so hard to find, so if her birthday\nwas ever published, it was probably in a non-canon source. It also seems\nprobable that if her canon birthday had been published, the anime producers\nwould have used it in the image that Oshino Shinobu linked to, instead of just\nthe year of her birth.\n\nI tried a few different Google searches and found this same question\n(unanswered) on other sites. I used Ctrl-F to search the terms \"birthday\",\n\"birth\", and \"born\" in the novels, with pretty much no result. I was relying\non memory and wikia for the anime, but the anime generally doesn't include\nanything that wasn't in the novels. I haven't read the manga past Volume 1, or\nplayed the visual novels, so I didn't search them at all. However, I have\ndoubts about the value of a birthday that only appears in the manga or the\ncompletely non-canon visual novels.\n\nIt is possible that I missed it in the anime or that some guidebook published\nas a bonus gift for people who preordered the laserdiscs in Japan contains the\ndate.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-05T18:03:44.070", "id": "25657", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-05T18:03:44.070", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14597", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHer birthday is April 8. It can be seen in this [birthday\nplate](http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=GOODS-00103195) that was\nrevealed during [Tsukasa Fushimi's 10th\nanniversary](http://dengekibunko.jp/author/fushimitsukasa/) live streaming\n[event](http://live.nicovideo.jp/gate/lv268871612).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-25T13:37:32.110", "id": "36526", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-25T15:45:02.130", "last_edit_date": "2016-09-25T15:45:02.130", "last_editor_user_id": "18813", "owner_user_id": "18813", "parent_id": "14597", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOn chapter 5, Ryuk stated that the shinigami eye was a deal between the\nshinigami and the human owner of a certain note, so it will probably be\nassociated to that relationship, so the eye will be gone as soon as the\nshinigami leaves his side.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-23T14:21:38.640", "id": "14628", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-23T14:21:38.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7902", "parent_id": "14602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinoko_Nasu), he's a\nmale.\n\n> Kinoko Nasu (奈須 きのこ Nasu Kinoko?, male, born 28 November 1973) is a Japanese\n> author, best known for writing the novel Kara no Kyōkai and visual novels\n> Tsukihime and Fate/stay night.\n\nCiting a blog post from July 2004:\n<http://www.typemoon.org/bbb/diary/log/200407.html>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-22T02:11:40.367", "id": "14610", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-03T19:30:12.587", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-03T19:30:12.587", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "14609", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI normally use [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/) by\nsearching for a series i'm interested in and seeing if it has a licences for\nenglish, this can normally be found further down a page where it lists who\ndoes the translations and Voice Actors if it was dubbed. it would also list\ndistributors and internet streamers (like Crunchyroll).\n\nHowever there seems to be a list for upcoming home releases\n[here](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/releases.php?format=video),\ni can validate the Kill la Kill release with a recent Madman email advertising\nit's release in Australia. However credit should go to [this\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14615/list-of-official-\nanime-releases?noredirect=1#comment18999_14615) as i actually didn't know\nabout the list on Anime News Network.\n\nwith the list if you click on the DVD you want then scroll down to the\nencyclopedia link and scroll down the next page to \"English companies\" you can\nsee who the distributors are and to what context their releases where (if they\nare iternet streaming, subtitled, if it has an English cast then it's been\ndubbed)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-23T21:51:49.937", "id": "14635", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-23T21:51:49.937", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14615", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's no content \"past episode 25\", per se - the novel1 ends just where the\nanime does, with Saki putting Squealer out of his misery, and finishing with a\nmention of the sign in the academy that reads 「想像力こそが、すべてを変える」 (\"Imagination\ncan change everything\"). As such, there isn't any content on which one could\nbase a sequel.\n\nHowever, it isn't quite the case that the anime covered all the material in\nthe novel - clocking in at around 950 pages of dense prose2, the novel\ncontained many bits and pieces that didn't make it into the anime.\n\nSome of this is probably because of restrictions on the kinds of content that\ncan be shown on TV - e.g. somewhere around what would be episode 8, Saki\nwitnesses Satoru and Shun having sex, and this is described in the novel in\ngreat detail (though not in a salacious way).\n\nMost omissions, though, were probably just because of constraints on the\namount of time available to the anime - _Shinsekai Yori_ is an incredibly\ndetail-rich story, and translating all that detail to the screen would require\nfar more than just 25 episodes of anime. Remember how we got nearly a full\nepisode of infodump from the false minoshiro in episode 4? That's the cut-\ndown-for-TV version of that scene. In the novel, the false minoshiro speaks\nfor around twice as long.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Do note that _Shinsekai Yori_ is an actual novel, not a light novel.\n\n2 In the one-volume edition, anyway.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-29T01:05:02.577", "id": "14722", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-29T01:05:02.577", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "14620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst of all, the novel version of \"From the new world\" is not a light novel.\nI think it's a hard SF novel, instead of a light novel.\n\nYes, the 25 episodes of the anime covered the whole novel.\n\nBut there is a new series \"New world zero year\" that is running in a novel\nmagazine. It has not been turned into a book yet. This series talks about the\nstory before \"From the new world\".\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-29T07:02:00.323", "id": "14728", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-29T18:46:43.813", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-29T18:46:43.813", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "14620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is widely believed that Julius is in fact Lelouch. He bares a striking\nresemblance to Lelouch, wears an eye patch to cover his Geass, and he is a\nmaster tactician. Unfortunately, no official information is out yet because ep\n3 is still in production but it is assumed that when Suzaku brought Lelouch\nbefore Emperor Charles, Charles used his Geass to alter Lelouch's memories\ntemporarily so that he thought that he was a Britannian tactician. The water\npart still has not been explained, at least not that I know of. It possably\nwas just a technique used by the writers too show Lelouch's current\ninteractions with Suzaku and how they feel towards each other but that is just\nspeculation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-24T01:57:01.960", "id": "14637", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-24T01:57:01.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "14626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn episode 3 of the OVA series it's revealed that Julius Kingsley is infact a\nbrainwashed Lelouch. the brainwashing however is somewhat unstable as when\nJulius is seen on the train cluching his eye this is a sign that the\nbrainwashing hasn't fully worked and \"Lelouch\" is trying to come back. he\nreappears briefly later on showing also that his Geass has yet to be sealed as\nit is at the start of R2\n\n> \n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-24T02:31:26.757", "id": "14638", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T22:21:45.473", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-24T22:21:45.473", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nJun Fukuyama voices both Lelouch and Julius. As for the clone theory, I expect\nit might be morally wrong to clone people, the same as it is in the real\nworld. Charles could have changed Lelouch's memories multiple times too. As\nfor the unnamed child's geass, according to the wiki, it was most likely given\nto him by V.V.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-09T18:18:41.553", "id": "20741", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-09T18:35:10.947", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-09T18:35:10.947", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "13826", "parent_id": "14626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nJulius Kingsley is really in fact Lelouch because Xin Hyuga Shaing also\nsuspect it and Suzaku says \"He is Zero\" . And there is also a pic that Julius\nKingsley is really in fact Lelouch [enter link description\nhere](https://vk.com/photo278017489_366517888)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-20T09:13:11.120", "id": "21689", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-20T09:13:11.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14563", "parent_id": "14626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nJulius is actually Lelouch. In the 3rd OVA, his memories has been rewritten\nand brainwashed. His eye that was covered was actually infact a Geass. While\nShinn, says to Suzaku that his purpose was just like his, it is heard that he\nsaid Nunnally, also fragments of his memories started to Return with Charles\nRewriting his memory. This Confirms he is actually Lelouch.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-20T23:55:33.950", "id": "23412", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-20T23:55:33.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15788", "parent_id": "14626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my belief this is Lelouch but brainwashed from his precious memory's like\nNunnally and more and rewriten as a tactician for the royal family Julius has\nan amazing resemblance to lelouch and exclusively during the fight between\nSuzaku and Xin Hyuga Shaing Suzaku admits it and as thefightgoes on Julius \"\nLelouch \" gets bad and start remembering thing and especially on wikipedia it\nexplains that he was in akito the exiled\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-26T23:49:29.713", "id": "26200", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-26T23:49:29.713", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18169", "parent_id": "14626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Lelouch's entry in\nWikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lelouch_Lamperouge), Julius Kingsley\nis **Zero (Lelouch)**.\n\n> **Akito The Exiled**\n>\n> After Suzaku brings Lelouch to Charles, he offers to hand him over on the\n> condition he be inducted into the Knights of the Round, much to Lelouch's\n> dismay. Charles agrees, and uses his Geass to alter Lelouch's mind. With\n> this, Lelouch becomes the empire's slave, Julius Kingsley, wearing an\n> eyepatch over his Geass.\n>\n> Lelouch makes a few appearances in the miniseries, first seen in Suzaku's\n> custody as **he clutches his right eye while begging his friend for water,\n> only to be silently turned down**. In his second appearance upon arriving in\n> St. Petersburg, Kingsley proudly declares that the Emperor has placed him in\n> charge of all the Eastern front operational planning for Britannia's\n> military.\n>\n> In the third episode, Lelouch encounters Shin Hyuga Shaing and others for a\n> meeting. In which he tries to arrest the others in his plan. **Lelouch\n> showcases a clip to create fear and havoc within the city**. Later on, he\n> plays chess along Hyuga, but starts hallucinating Kingsley and past memories\n> from Rebellion. Later on **Hyuga figures out that he was both Zero and\n> Lelouch** and calls his squad. **Suzaku, in an attempt to defend the secret,\n> kills most of the squad whilst Lelouch rips off his eye-patch**. Eventually,\n> both are captured, with Hyuga later declaring Kingsley executed and\n> **revealing that he is Zero**.\n\nThis entry summarizes the episodes in _Akito The Exiled_ where Julius Kingsley\n(Zero) is seen.\n\nAlso, Lelouch's character profile includes Julius Kingsley as one of his\n**aliases**.\n\n> > **Nickname(s)**\n>\n> Lulu, The Black Prince\n>\n\n>> **Aliases**\n\n>\n> Lelouch Lamperouge\n>\n> Zero\n>\n> **_Julius Kingsley**_\n>\n\n>> **Title**\n\n>\n> 11th Prince of Britannia\n>\n> 99th Emperor of Britannia\n>\n\n>> **Relatives**\n\n>\n> Charles zi Britannia (father)\n>\n> Marianne vi Britannia (mother)\n>\n> Nunnally vi Britannia (sister)\n>\n> Rolo Lamperouge (adopted brother)\n>\n> Clara Lamperouge (adopted sister)\n>\n\n>> **Nationality**\n\n>\n> Britannian\n\nWith the third episode revealed, it is stated that Zero and Kingsley are the\nsame person, and he is but a brainwashed Lelouch serving the Emperor of\nBritannia.\n\nAccording to [Julius Kingsley's\nentry](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Julius_Kingsley) in Code Geass Wikia,\n\n> A young man with a striking resemblance to Lelouch vi Britannia whose left\n> eye is covered with an eye-patch for unknown reasons.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lkuF1.png)\n\n> In episode 3 of Akito the Exiled, Julius was **revealed to indeed be a\n> brainwashed Lelouch** who is completely loyal to the Emperor of Britannia.\n> His eye-patch hides his Geass. There are multiple scenes throughout the OVA\n> series that suggest his state is relatively unstable, with his original\n> personality briefly resurfacing, as indicated by **Kingsley muttering\n> Nunnally's name** , and even going so far as to **calling Julius Kingsley\n> another being all together**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-13T08:15:45.820", "id": "31376", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-10T13:41:49.150", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-10T13:41:49.150", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "15276", "parent_id": "14626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo sum it up pretty simply,\n\n> Kaiki lived from his attack. How he lived, and what he's been up to after\n> that point, we don't really know.\n\nChronologically, Hanamonogatari is the last story in the entire Monogatari\nseries. So, what we see there is about all we get, unfortunately.\n\nEdit (7 April 2016): It seems there is now a \"fourth season\" of Monogatari\nnovels. I don't personally know yet where these novels fall chronologically,\nbut it's possible that more information about what happened to Kaiki could be\ncontained in these novels.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-21T08:07:09.783", "id": "28192", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-07T07:19:44.320", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-07T07:19:44.320", "last_editor_user_id": "16539", "owner_user_id": "16539", "parent_id": "14627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime covers the encounter with the water spirit in episode nine of season\none.\n\nWhile asking the spirit about getting the ingredient (a part of her body),\nMontmorency informs Saito that the spirit is immortal, and so has a different\nperception of time. After later learning that she is seeking the ring of\nAndvari, Saito immediately promises to find and return the ring.\n\nGuiche mocks him, saying a spirit won't trust some non-mage commoner it's\nnever met. The spirit immediately agrees, saying that Gandalfr has kept his\npromises before, so he can be trusted. She hands over the ingredient in the\nsame action.\n\nAt this stage they do not know what \"Gandalfr\" really is, but the mission is\naccomplished. When Montmorency questions him why he would so casually agree to\nit, saying how he'll find it one day, he points out that since the spirit is\nimmortal it won't really mind if it takes years for him to complete the quest.\n\nThe ring remains unreturned in the novels. You can expect it to remain that\nway forevermore:\n\n> We regret to report that Zero no Tsukaima's creator has passed away from his\n> long battle with cancer. May he find rest in Halkeginia.\n>\n> Noboru Yamaguchi R.I.P\n>\n> 11/2/72-4/4/13\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-29T21:41:26.390", "id": "14737", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-29T21:41:26.390", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "14629", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPeople and items cross over all the time.\n\nSiesta is a descendant of a Japanese person who wound up there. She actively\nuses this in her attempts to win Saito over.\n\nThere's a Japanese girl's school uniform he gets a hold of (which he has the\nPrincess put on, I think, since it fits her). There's a naughty magazine, as\nwell. The girl who gave it to him thought it was some powerful, forbidden\ntome.\n\nSaito tries to use the plane to cross over during an eclipse, but turns back\nto help Louise. The plane probably came through on a similar link between\nworlds. I vaguely recall the anime suggesting it was probably the exact same\nevent, which occurred periodically every few decades.\n\nIn other words, the worlds are intrinsically linked by their nature, and the\nsummoning spell just created a particular forced link. These crossed over\nrelics are used to connect Saito to his old home, let him use Gandalfr powers\non exotic (to the others) weapons, and comedic relief (forbidden tome = dirty\nmagazine).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-24T09:40:59.860", "id": "14641", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-24T09:40:59.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "14632", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile of course the word \"moe\" is Japanese slang with a particular meaning\nthat doesn't really translate to English, it's for a very specific type of\ncute, and the entire phrase is supposed to sound sort of like cutesy nonsense\n(which as far as I know, not really grammatical at least according to Japanese\ntextbook). However, _Moe moe kyun_ has also become somewhat of a meme - a\nsound to indicate something is sooooo cute. Sort of like baby talk I guess.\nAccording to Urban Dictionary, [_Moe moe kyun_ was used in the anime\nK-On!](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Moe+moe%2C+kyun!&defid=4756336)\n\nI don't recall whether _Moe Moe Kyun_ was literally used in the Japanese\ndialog for Disgaea 3 or not, but I _do_ know that in general, the translators\nfor the Disgaea series have been known to insert direct anime and video game\nreferences even when they weren't there in the original Japanese script. For\nexample, in Disgaea 4, Fuuka yells \"Objection!\" in the English translation\n(reference to Phoenix Wright), but I'm pretty sure she did not say the\nequivalent in Japanese (「異議あり」 \"Igiari!\"). But, anyways, I would not be\nsurprised if it were inserted in the English as an actual reference to K-On!,\nor perhaps it was even there in the Japanese as a K-On! reference.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-24T15:45:14.100", "id": "14646", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-26T14:30:35.230", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-26T14:30:35.230", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3734", "parent_id": "14634", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIt means \"abracadabra\" essentially. It's a spell they recite in maid cafes\nwhen they serve food to customers in order to \"make it taste better.\" Kind of\nlike abracadabra, it doesn't really mean anything as a phrase or do anything\nphysically to the food, but it signifies an incantation and is part of the\nritual and attention giving aspects of maid cafes. -Source: worked in a maid\ncafe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-10-11T23:59:01.743", "id": "55537", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-11T23:59:01.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50298", "parent_id": "14634", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Fate/hollow ataraxia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/hollow_ataraxia) is\nthe official sequel to Fate/stay night. It has radically different feeling to\nit, bringing more comical relief and tongue-in-cheek references, but it's as\nclose to \"canon\" as we can get. It doesn't follow any particular route from\nF/SN.\n\nI didn't read F/HA, but here's how TYPE-MOON Wiki\n[references](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Matou#Fate.2Fhollow_ataraxia)\nSakura's development:\n\n> In [Fate/hollow\n> ataraxia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/hollow_ataraxia), Sakura lives\n> a peaceful life in Fuyuki City, which Rin has left in Sakura's care while\n> she is at the Mage's Association, and Rider comments that Sakura is now the\n> popular new captain of the school archery club. Sakura's dark side still\n> exists, but appears only for comic relief. Shinji reveals to Shirou that\n> Sakura assumed control of the Matou household, and both he and Zouken are\n> terrified of her.\n>\n> In the eclipse story The backside of Kibisis Rider and Sakura seem to work\n> together to seduce Shirou and engage in a threesome with him. Actually this\n> is all Rider's doing, trying to get Shirou to pursue Sakura more\n> aggressively. Yet in the middle, Shirou realizes the truth and reverses her\n> spell on her, in the end revealing to viewers that Rider herself has deep\n> feelings for Shirou. Sakura appearing in this episode is only a conjecture\n> by Rider's spell, a representation of Rider's true intentions of her\n> actions.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be any canonical explanation beyond this. Personally, I\nthink it's part of why people like Heaven's Feel so much: the thought of\nSakura undergoing torments under Zouken until she dies just doesn't feel\nright.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-24T13:51:52.247", "id": "14644", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-24T13:51:52.247", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3188", "parent_id": "14636", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nZouken Matou never meant for Sakura to take a part in any Holy Grail War. His\ninitial plan was to train Sakura into a tough mage. He would then let her give\nbirth to (probably with Shinji) the next heir of the Matous, who would fight\nin the next war. As Kiritsugu did not make a wish in the fourth war, the\nenergy was almost unconsumed. As a result, the Greater Grail only spent only\n10 years restoring the energy for the fifth war instead of the expected 60\nyears, which neither Kiritsugu (who planned to destroy the Greater Grail in\naround 20 years) nor Zouken had foreseen.\n\nZouken thought it would be a waste to not summon a Servant if they had the\nchance. He thus made Sakura do her summoning, although he did not take it\nseriously: he still wanted to keep his original plan. Zouken did not care\nabout the fifth war or about the actions of his grandchildren. As a result,\neager to prove his own ability, Shinji participated in the war since Sakura\nherself didn't want to participate, by forcing Sakura to give him the Book of\nFalse Attendant and Rider.\n\n * In the _Fate_ route, Sakura was depressed when her brother disappeared from the town, as he had been killed during the 5th Holy Grail War (something Sakura herself may have been aware of). (Although Shinji was a complete jerk, Sakura held some strange feelings for him; she actually pitied him not being a mage and thought she somehow had to \"protect\" her \"poor\" brother.). But since Illya was alive and stayed at Taiga's house, visiting Shirou very often in this route, they became good friends and Illya always cheered her up, making Sakura regain her energy quickly.\n\n * In the _Unlimited Blade Works_ route, Shinji was still alive, and stayed in the hospital for a couple of days after Rin saved him. Sakura insisted on taking care of him during his hospitalisation, and they seemed to \"get along better than before\" from Shirou's view. It was stated that after this lesson, Shinji gave up on being a mage, so he would treat Sakura a little better than before, although his arrogance did not change and he had a happy life from then on. Since Sakura still didn't want to stop pitying on and looking after her poor big brother, she would likely live the rest of her life in Matou residence with Shinji.\n\nAlthough Sakura loved Shirou more than anybody else in the world, she thought\nherself too \"filthy\" for someone as good as him (which is another reason she\ncares about Shinji, as she thought they were both kids \"abandoned\" in the\ndark). As a result, she always stayed away and wished a girl good enough for\nShirou appear. She let Shirou love Saber for the rest of his life in the\n_Fate_ route and Rin take Shirou away to London in _Unlimited Blade Works_ ,\nwhich is really cruel as she had always envied her for living a happy, perfect\nlife.\n\nMoreover, no one in the Matou household ever cared about Sakura, other than\nShinji, when he still thought Sakura was forced to leave her family and unlike\nhim, had no chance to learn magic. He occasionally looked after her out of\npity until he found out that in fact Sakura was the one who was going to\ninherit the Matou line and who always took pity on him. But even Shinji only\nabused his sister later on, this was the only kind of attention Sakura could\nget from the whole Matou family. Thus, she did somehow cherish Shinji as her\nbig brother. She thought him to be pitiable enough that even when he beat her\nshe had to beg Shirou not to blame him, as Shirou was Shinji's only friend.\n\nAside from the _Heaven's Feel_ route, where he activated another of his plans\nfor Sakura and the Grail, Zouken would have had to accept that his wish for\nimmortality could never come true. Rin and Waver dismantled the Greater Grail\na decade later, and Zouken would be weak enough at the point in Fate/hollow\nataraxia (though kind of a joke, that's still canon in the Type Moon universe)\nthat Sakura viewed him as a old man who was nearly dead. (So yes, in F/HA,\nSakura _did_ take over the household and rule over Shinji and Zouken, who were\nfrightened to death.)\n\nEven in the original story, in the two routes, _Fate_ and _Unlimited Blade\nWorks_ , Zouken would die soon and so Sakura would be free, and the only\nproblem would be whether she would still follow Zouken's wish to have children\nwith Shinji.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-18T13:33:02.433", "id": "26682", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-18T18:33:49.693", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-18T18:33:49.693", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "18580", "parent_id": "14636", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile forums are still great places to find such conversations, mailing lists\nare bit old in today's age. Personally, I think one of the best forums to\nbrowse is [MyAnimeList (MAL)](http://myanimelist.net/).\n\nIn addition, there are largely three categories of places that anime\naficionados frequent when discussing new merchandise to buy (as well as buying\nit). They are as follows:\n\n 1. **Local Stores** \\- Granted, most people do not have the luxury of living in Japan to take advantage of these resources. However, if you do, the best place to find anything anime related in Japan is [Akihabara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara). Of the many I've visited, my personal favorite is the Akiba Culture Zone. Their website is not in English, but it can be found [here](http://www.akibacultureszone.com/). Also, here's a picture of the inside:\n\n [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9dWYY.jpg)\n\n 2. **Conventions and Events** \\- The next best place to find merchandise is at events that are specifically for the anime/manga you are trying to find merchandise for. In America, common events like this are things like [Comic-Con](http://www.comic-con.org/). You should peruse your local listings to see if anything nearby your location interests you.\n\n 3. **Online Stores** \\- This is the most common place for anime merchandise to be bought and sold. Here's a list of the best online anime stores, with descriptions:\n\n * [Right Stuf](http://www.rightstufanime.com/) \\- One of the best sites if you would like to buy actual DVD/BluRay copies of anime or print copies of manga. It's not always the cheapest resource, but it often has the widest selection. In addition, if you time your purchase correctly and know what to look for, you can get massive savings (like 50-90% off).\n * [AmiAmi](http://www.amiami.com/) \\- This is one (if not the best, but that is subjective) resources for basically any merchandise relating to anime, from posters and wall art to keychains and figurines. \n * [Tokyo Otaku Mode](http://otakumode.com/) \\- A great place for beginners. Sometimes it's rather daunting to browse other sites, but I recommend Tokyo Otaku Mode for beginners, because it has a relatively wide selection of well-known animes/mangas, and is not too expensive. However, I think that other sites will offer better deals and wider selections, but you might have to dig.\n * [Mandarake](https://www.mandarake.co.jp/en/shop/) \\- Mandarake is one of the most well-known otaku centers in Akihabara. I don't recommend this for beginners, but you can find great deals here (as well as great rip-offs).\n * [Crunchyroll Store](https://www.mandarake.co.jp/en/shop/) \\- I'm assuming most users of this site know what Crunchyroll is, but for those who don't, it's a great manga and anime streaming website. Their store sometimes has great deals, but you can _almost_ always find all the merchandise in the Crunchyroll Store on the other online stores listed here. Sometimes it is easier to read for beginners, because the website is entirely in English.\n * [JBox](https://jbox.com/) \\- Another great site that is more well-known for their novelty items for around the house. If you are looking for adult merchandise, try their 18+ counterpart, [J-List](http://www.jlist.com/home).\n * [akadot](http://www.akadot.com/) \\- More for manga in Japanese only, but great if you speak Japanese.\n * [Hobby Link Japan (HLJ)](http://hlj.com/) \\- Great if you're into figurine collecting or if you like models (especially mecha).\n * [Yesasia](http://www.yesasia.com/us/en/home.html) \\- Great for more serious collectors, and they also sell Chinese and Korean goods. You can use this site to find harder to obtain merchandise, but it tends to be a little more expensive.\n * [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/) \\- A bit generic, but excellent prices if you can find what you want (good luck).\n * [Ebay](http://www.ebay.com/) \\- When in doubt, there's always a chance that someone is selling your desired item used on Ebay, but similar to Amazon, it's a bit generic and has a lesser selection. Don't be afraid to dig, you may find a few diamonds in the rough!\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-11T08:24:10.077", "id": "35732", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-11T08:34:37.760", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-11T08:34:37.760", "last_editor_user_id": "26439", "owner_user_id": "26439", "parent_id": "14652", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs kuwaly said, it is the infamous \"picture\" of the [Loch Ness\nMonster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster). I'm sure there is no\nreal meaning to it, simply that it is a long-running joke in the anime. The\nreason they used the Loch Ness monster is likely because in real life many\npeople visit the Scottish Highlands, specifically lake Loch Ness to try and\nfind/prove the Loch Ness Monster. The reason they have continued to re-use the\nrequest is because, just like in real life no one has \"found\" the Loch Ness\nMonster, and because it's just a funny Easter egg that you would only notice\nif you payed very close attention.\n\nAlthough the infamous hoax image seems to be backwards/flipped in the anime.\n\nSimilar Easter Eggs using the Loch Ness monster can be seen in these examples:\n\n * The video game Hitman: Absolution \n\n * [Google Maps](http://searchengineland.com/google-maps-travel-loch-ness-monster-easter-egg-193243)\n\nHope this helps!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-26T01:37:35.087", "id": "14662", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-26T03:59:40.860", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-26T03:59:40.860", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "8864", "parent_id": "14653", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe whole cause of the battle was that Nora wanted Yato to use her again and\nbe the god of calamity; he refused to go back to those times and that led to\nNora kidnapping Hiyori.\n\nEven if it would disarm his opponent, it would make him a hypocrite because he\nwanted to prove that he was no longer a god of calamity.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-11T22:38:21.750", "id": "35747", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-11T22:38:21.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27693", "parent_id": "14661", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a reasonable question (see _Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo_ ), but\nI think the answer is **no**. Note that I also have not read either work, but\nfrom looking at the Wikipedia articles for the manga\n[_Emma_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_%28manga%29) by Kaoru Mori and the\nnovel [_Emma_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_%28novel%29) by Jane Austen:\n\n * The manga _Emma_ is set in 1895 in the Victorian Era. This is much later than the novel _Emma_ , which was published during the [Regency Era](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency_era) in 1815.\n * One of the defining features of the title character in Jane Austen's novel is that, unlike the heroines of earlier Austen work, she is independently wealthy and runs her own household. The anime's Emma is a commoner, kidnapped as a child for a brothel, who escaped to the streets and was taken in and brought up as a maid by a wealthy family. She is a diligent and hard worker, whereas Austen's Emma was described by Austen as \"a heroine whom no one but myself will much like\" and is said on the Wikipedia article to have \"a strong sense of class\".\n * Anime's Emma lives in London, whereas Jane Austen's Emma lives in a small country estate in Surrey.\n\nIt is possible that the manga's author, Kaoru Mori, incorporated some\ninfluence from Austen's work, since she's a self-declared Anglophile,\n\n> The author and illustrator of the manga, Kaoru Mori, is a self-professed\n> Anglophile, [...]\n>\n> ([Overview](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_%28manga%29#Overview) \\- 2nd\n> sentence)\n\nBut overall, it doesn't look like a direct adaptation of Jane Austen's _Emma_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T01:08:05.213", "id": "15000", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-10T13:43:46.713", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThey are not the same at all.\n\nI have read the novel and I watched the first 2 or 3 episodes of _Emma_. It's\nlike saying Michael Jordan and Michael J. Fox are the same because they have\nthe same name.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-20T19:17:39.213", "id": "37967", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-10T13:23:43.997", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-10T13:23:43.997", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "29864", "parent_id": "14665", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nIf there is any relation between the two, it is scarce at best. While I didn’t\nread Austen’s novel, I watched the anime adaption of _Emma,_ the manga. A\npretty long scene (I would almost call it a key scene) is set in [the Crystal\nPalace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace) which was built for\nthe [1851 Great\nExposition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition). Austen’s\nnovel was published in 1815; way before anybody even thought of the palace.\n\nIt would be conceivable that some other publicly accessable exhibition site\nhoused a similar scene in Austen’s novel, but then why go such great lengths\ntransferring the entire scene and thus the entire work to a point in time\ndecades later? I think it’s just way too unlikely; that’s not really the kind\nof thing you do when adapting a story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-21T00:32:06.963", "id": "37976", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-21T00:32:06.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13532", "parent_id": "14665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, there is a manga named [_Emma_](https://www.amazon.co.uk/YOKO-\nHANABUSA-EMMA-HA/dp/8897349897) and which is based on Jane Austen's novel, and\nit's from an artist Yoko Hanabusa.\n\nI think you're confused because there are two mangas and animes with the same\ntitle and pretty much nearly everything else but the role of the major\ncharacter.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-17T18:54:25.830", "id": "38999", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-10T13:23:48.193", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-10T13:23:48.193", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "31006", "parent_id": "14665", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThat's a [yes](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1927925355) but\n**also** a [no](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0316302236). Very\ninteresting that both are set in England in the 19th Century.\n\nOn the side of yes, there is a manga that is a direct adaption called _Emma:\nManga Classics_ by Stacy King (who performed the adaption), Jane Austin (who\nof course wrote the original story, and Tse (who was the illustrator)\n\nBy contrast, the series of manga simply titled _Emma_ by Kaoru Mori is a\ncompletely different English tale from a similar time period but about 50\nyears removed.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-27T08:39:49.973", "id": "48948", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-10T13:23:41.870", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-10T13:23:41.870", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42663", "parent_id": "14665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\na Shinigami dropping it's eyeballs is just something Mello thought of\n\n> It is unknown how he could have possibly been \"born\" with the eyes, though\n> Mello wonders if a Shinigami dropped its eyeballs to Earth (instead of a\n> Death Note)\n\n[Source](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Beyond_Birthday#Character) \\-\nCharacter, 3rd Paragraph, 3rd Sentence\n\nand since Beyond Birthday only appeared in [Death Note: Another\nNote](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note:_Another_Note) which occurs\nbefore the manga (L's first encounter with Naomi Misora during the Los Angeles\n\"BB Serial Murder Case\" mentioned in volume 2 of the manga) i can really only\nanswer this from logical evidence, absent of any official statement and\nassuming that Mello is correct.\n\nI would suspect but rather than a Shinigami taking it's eyes out on it's own\n(which are used to allow Shinigami to work out how much life they will gain\nfrom taking a life), we can make the assumption that a Shinigami died.\n\nHow we know of 2 ways a Shinigami can die\n\n * they fail to extend their own life by taking names\n * they save the life of a human who's death date had arrived\n\nWhen a Shinigami dies they turn to sand/dust however this isn't instantaneous,\n\n * [Rem's Death: Death Note - The Last Name](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmwo32RDd04&t=1m44s)\n * [Gelus Death: Death Note Anime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6md42qs14k&t=2m56s)\n\nas we can see from the links above, Rem began to crumble first however Gelus's\neye disappeared first\n\nwe also know that there is a\n[Portal](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Portal_to_the_Human_World) which\nallows travel between the Shinigami Realm and earth. i theorize 2 ways that\nthe Shinigami Beyond Birthday got the eyes from died\n\n 1. said Shinigami saved a human which would explain why they were at the portal\n\n 2. said Shinigami was sooo lazy that it waited to the last minute to take a name to add more life and couldn't take a life quick enough before it died\n\nnow while we are told that Shinigami are lazy i don't think they are that lazy\nnot to write names (though Ryuk does note this to Light) so i'm going to\nassume 1)\n\nregardless, the Shinigami's eyes could have dropped out of it's head and\nrolled out of the portal which could explain why the eyeballs were dropped and\nnot the Death Note (as we see in The Last Name Gelus's Death Note fell to\nearth however in the anime it didn't).\n\nSo then how did Beyond Birthday get the eyeballs? well it was either by\ncoincidence or since Beyond Birthday was at [Wammy's\nHouse](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Wammy%27s_House) said Shinigami saved\nBeyond Birthday at birth by saving his mother who may have been pregnant and\nwas about to be murdered.\n\n> Also, if a human touched the eyes of a Shinigami, would he then also get\n> Shinigami eyes?\n\nthis i can't answer, i would assume the timeframe is very small because the\neyeballs would have turned into sand/dust and Beyond Birthday was just very\nlucky to have gotten them before hand because if it was a living Shinigami's\neyes, well the sight of Light running around with a bag of apples trying to\nget Ryuk top allow him to poke his eyes, or Misa looking all cute and asking\nRyuk if she can doesn't quite match the tone of the series\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-27T03:45:16.923", "id": "14681", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-27T03:45:16.923", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14669", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nAnother interpretation: Mello was just embellishing, and B didn't really have\nthe Shinigami Eyes.\n\nThere's an analysis about _Another Note_ in [this blog\npost](http://casuistor.tumblr.com/post/148952957111/thoughts-on-another-note)\nthat touches on this subject. The analysis doesn't particularly argue for or\nagainst the position of whether B really had the Shinigami Eyes (both are\ncanon compliant), but it should be noted:\n\n> As a narrator, Mello is unreliable. He states opinions as though they are\n> fact – incidentally I think this is IC for him based on his characterization\n> in the manga – which is what leads to a lot of confusion that we, the\n> readers, have to sort through.\n\nSome observations from that analysis:\n\n * If B didn't have the Shinigami Eyes, that wouldn't change a single objective fact about the LABB case.\n * Details like B practicing laughing in a mirror or him experimenting with internal hemorrhage are something that Mello could only know from speaking to B himself. But, it's doubtful that Mello personally interviewed B or Naomi given the canon timeline. So, it's more likely that Mello just took a lot of creative license when writing the characters for this story.\n * Given that Shinigami are not allowed to interfere with human lives except by Death Note, and given that the Shinigami were shown to be extremely apathetic and indifferent to the human world, it's seems unlikely that Shinigami would feel inclined to (somehow) give some human on Earth the Shinigami Eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-29T07:22:09.770", "id": "48591", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-29T07:29:46.110", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-29T07:29:46.110", "last_editor_user_id": "18352", "owner_user_id": "18352", "parent_id": "14669", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's looks like [Mariah Wong](http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/Mariah_Wong) from\nBeyblade \n(金李, Japanese: Chou Mao, Chinese Pinyin: Wīng Maou) \n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-26T18:25:48.030", "id": "14672", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-26T18:25:48.030", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "14671", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are some differences between the manga and anime. This is some of the\nchapters that do not appear in the anime:\n\n * **Chapter 7: Handmade.** This chapter tells about Raku and other girls bake a cake together.\n * **Chapter 19: Visiting the Ill.** This chapter tells about Raku that got sick and all the girls went to visit him at home.\n * **Chapter 26: Detour.** This chapter tells about Tsugumi that got a love letter.\n * **Chapter 40: Liar.** This chapter tells about Tsugumi and her lie detector.\n * **Chapter 41: Stray Dog.** This chapter tells about Chitoge found a stray dog.\n\nAll of those chapter are just filler. You still be able to follow the story\nwithout reading it. The anime, however, ends in **Chapter 50: Leading Actor**.\n\nSo, if you want to continue the story from season 1 of the anime, you should\nread **Chapter 51: From Here on Out.** But I suggest you also read chapter 50\nto get the right feeling.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-29T11:20:56.823", "id": "14731", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-20T14:35:05.823", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-20T14:35:05.823", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "14676", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt has been implied that the **chakra reservoirs of a ninja** increases as\nthey proceed to adulthood. When Hashirama implied that the current Naruto has\nalmost the same amount of chakra **(Naruto + Kurama)** , he was in fact\ncomparing to the chakra reservoirs of Hashirama when he was in his\n_adulthood/most powerful_.\n\nSince Naruto has a way more to go to adulthood, it is possible that he might\nsurpass Hashirama's chakra, _but only in conjunction with the Tailed Beast's\nchakra inside of him._\n\nHowever, Hashirama's chakra is all his and it was never shown that he\n\"borrowed\" chakra from the Tailed Beasts. _But, Naruto has the power from the\n**Sage of Six Paths**. But, in the series it has never been implied that the\npower received from the Sage increases Naruto's chakra reservoir._\n\nHence,\n\n * **Adult Naruto's + Tailed Beast's chakra > Harshirama's chakra in his Adulthood.**\n * **Adult Naruto without Tailed Beast's chakra MAY BE (very likely) < Hashirama's chakra in his adulthood.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-27T04:00:40.590", "id": "14682", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T14:52:50.857", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T14:52:50.857", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3793", "parent_id": "14680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTaiYang Xiao Long is both Yang & Ruby's father.\n\nYang's mother is unnamed as of Season 2. Ruby's mother is _Summer Rose_ , who\nis Yang's step-mother.\n\nI have two theories as to why Ruby is Ruby Rose not Ruby Xiao Long.\n\n**Theory 1**\n\nSummer Rose was insistent that her name be carried on, and so Ruby was given\nthe surname Rose. As [Memor-X has said in the\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14685/who-is-ruby-roses-\nfather/44727#comment19084_14685), a husband taking a wife's surname isn't all\nthat rare nowadays.\n\n**Theory 2**\n\nIt was a convenient choice for the writers - _Ruby_ and _Rose_ are both very\nvividly red items, whereas Yang Xiao Long can be translated as _Small Dragon\nof the Sunshine_ or _Little Sun-Dragon_ , reflecting Yang's powerful, fiery\npersonality & battle ability quite well.\n\nTheming the characters with their colour seems to be quite important in _RWBY_\n\\- For instance, check out their pajamas below - Yang has a fiery heart on her\ntank top, whilst Ruby has rose-patterned bottoms.\n\n\n\nI suspect we may find out more if/when Yang's mother's identity is revealed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T09:08:09.253", "id": "16750", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-25T15:58:28.740", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-25T15:58:28.740", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's possible that Neo can be part of Yang's family.\n\nIn Volume 2, pay attention to the neck of Neo and the mystery red girl. People\nsay that the mystery red girl could be Yang's mom. And both the mystery red\ngirl and Neo has the exact same necklace on.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-26T14:51:37.500", "id": "26190", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-25T16:00:45.027", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-25T16:00:45.027", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "18164", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI have a theory that Summer Rose is Ruby Roses's mother and Raven (last\nname:??) is Yang's mother (obviously!). I believe when Raven went on that\nmission so long ago (after she gave birth to Yang, of course), something came\nup and caused Raven to stay out on her mission for years to come. That lead\nTaiYang to believe that Raven had disappeared or died. Then, he took his old\nteammate Summer Rose and married her and got Ruby,\n\nWhen Summer died, I think he thought he was a lone man raising two children\nand his brother (Uncle Qrow) to help, so he didn't want to marry again because\nhe didn't want his heart to be broken once more. And I don't feel like Neo\nwould be part of the family. It may be a coincidence that somehow they both\nbought the same necklace, but no one knows for sure. Thus, leading up to my\nTheory. Again, this is a theory and I may be wrong.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-30T03:18:57.793", "id": "32424", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-03T14:30:01.103", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-03T14:30:01.103", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "24378", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn later seasons, it is stated that Raven Branwen, Qrow's twin sister, is\nYang's mother.\n\nStill, it's the top result when you ask Google about Ruby's lineage.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-09T18:00:40.290", "id": "38876", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-25T15:59:15.747", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-25T15:59:15.747", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "30838", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm thinking maybe last names aren't that important in Remnant. Like it\ndoesn't matter if the child takes the mother's last name, if the wife doesn't\nchange hers, or if the husband takes the wife's name.\n\nWeiss's father took her mother's last name, so they might not follow the same\ntraditions we do. Or perhaps the last name Rose has special significance, so\nthey decided to pass it down to Ruby.\n\nSince _RWBY_ is meant to be (mostly) family friendly, I'm not sure why the\nwriters would include characters having premarital sex so openly. I know\nRooster Teeth has made the show a little dark and more mature recently, but\nwith the exception of a couple innuendos here and there, they've stayed away\nfrom the topic of sex.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-23T05:46:09.940", "id": "39541", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-25T16:04:49.077", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-25T16:04:49.077", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "31592", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Qrow is Ruby's father.\n\nMaybe he doesn't want Ruby to know because he is on a dangerous mission, and\nif Ruby know, she will obviously go. Maybe Qrow left Ruby for that reason and\ntherefore, Qrow is probably Ruby's father.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-15T11:36:14.673", "id": "40383", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-25T16:03:34.977", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-25T16:03:34.977", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "32543", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nRuby Rose is Qrow's (crow, Raven's brother Ruby's aka uncle...) and Summer\nRose's daughter.\n\nShe was adopted by Taiyang Xiao Long because of his semblance to bad luck,\nwhich causes bad luck to people he cares about but also bad luck to people he\nfaces in battle, making him the ultimate undercover agent.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-18T07:43:47.057", "id": "42878", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-25T16:02:27.607", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-25T16:02:27.607", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36191", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Qrow being Ruby's dad has been debunked by RT. And besides, it'd be an\nunnecessary plot twist.\n\nThey confirmed that Tai and Summer had Ruby. Qrow was just her teacher and\nmentor.\n\nEven though RWBY takes place in a fictional world called Remnant, it's\nbasically a more awesome Earth, with the same calendar type, and possibly the\nsame legal systems as Earth. It's possible that if it follows domestic laws,\nthat the parents may choose the last name for their child, and the wife\ndoesn't have to take the husband's name after marriage. It's possible that\nthey loved the name 'Rose' for their daughter Ruby, due to it sounding a bit\nbetter than 'Ruby Xiao Long' (and Yang Xiao Long translates to 'Sunny Little\nDragon', and 'Ruby' doesn't fit the chinese theme, lol).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-15T19:31:36.650", "id": "44724", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-15T19:31:36.650", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "38174", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't have a direct source, but Miles and Monty stated that the \"Qrowdaddy\"\ntheory is false. First time was in an RTX panel (forgot the date, but it was\nbefore Monty passed, because Monty said so himself that Qrow isn't the\nfather), and second I know was in a Reddit post by Miles.\n\nAs for the domestic laws in real life (at least in America where I live), even\nthough it's the norm, the wife after marriage doesn't have to take the\nhusband's name. They can keep their names, and in some cases the husband may\ntake the wife's name, but those are somewhat rare.\n\nAnd for the child's last name, they can choose whether they want the child's\nsurname to be the husband's or the wife's. So, if the countries of Remnant\nhave the same laws and policies as our world, my speculation is that Tai and\nSummer may have named her 'Rose' because of this, as well as 'Rose'\ncomplimenting the name 'Ruby' quite well (Just a theory on that one). And as\nI've stated before, 'Ruby' doesn't really fit the Xiao Long name.\n\nI learned these laws from my history teacher, who used to go to law school (he\ncould be a lawyer, but instead he chose to be a teacher. lol)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-16T00:53:53.750", "id": "44727", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-16T00:53:53.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "38177", "parent_id": "14685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# Instant Transmission\n\n**Goku** learned [_instant\ntransmission_](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Instant_Transmission) on the\nremote planet [Yardrat](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Yardrat). Many others\nwere capable of performing this technique, none of which were relevant to the\nshow and thus not shown.\n\nThe only one, other than Goku, that was shown using the technique was\n**Cell**. Since Cell was partly made out of Goku's cells, he could sense how\nit needed to be performed by seeing Goku do so.\n\nFor the others, nobody just bothered to go to all the way to Yardrat to learn\nthe technique. Why they didn't ask Goku is beyond me though. I guess it wasn't\nneeded for the story and Akira didn't want anyone else to look as bad-ass as\nGoku.\n\n# [Instantaneous\nMovement](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Instantaneous_Movement)\n\nOther forms of instant transmission were seen though.\n\n> **Fortuneteller Baba and Kami** only use this technique to transport people\n> from the Other World to the living world. **Mr. Popo** , assistant to the\n> Guardian of Earth, can use a version of this technique while sitting on his\n> Magic Carpet.\n>\n> **Kibito** uses this technique after being resurrected to find Supreme Kai\n> and Gohan, and take them to the Sacred World of the Kais. He uses it again\n> to take Gohan back to Earth after the latter had his full potential unlocked\n> by Old Kai.\n>\n> **Kibito Kai** , who gathered this technique from Kibito when Kibito and\n> Supreme Kai fused, uses this technique on many occasions: he used it to save\n> Goku, Vegeta, Dende, Mr. Satan and Bee from being killed when Kid Buu blew\n> up Earth, and later, in Dragon Ball GT, to save the whole population of\n> Earth from the planet's explosion.\n>\n> **Kid Buu** using Instantaneous Movement Kid Buu learns this technique by\n> watching Kibito Kai perform it. In the anime, his technique is referred to\n> using the generic name Instant Transmission.\n\n# (Non-)Canon user list\n\nFor a full (non-)canon list, see the full list\n[here](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Instant_Transmission#Known_users)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-27T12:36:22.637", "id": "14690", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-27T13:05:18.943", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "14686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI do not know if this was covered in Brotherhood, but in the manga the name\nVan Hohenheim was given to slave 23 by\n\n> the homunculus Dwarf in the Flask (that later become known as Father) when\n> they first met. Also, the naming didn't have any grand significance. The\n> Dwarf in the Flask just didn't want to keep calling him by a number, so it\n> gifted him a name as thanks for being part of his birth. (His blood was used\n> to bring it to life.)\n\nThis happened in episode 40, or chapter 74 in the manga.\n\nFun fact, Hohenheim was first going to be called Theophrastus Bombastus Van\nHohenheim, but the name was too long for him to remember, so a shorter version\nwas chosen.\n\nAs I understand it (and as confirmed by the comments), Brotherhood did not\nchange or omit this part compared to the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-27T07:29:03.250", "id": "14688", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-14T01:57:09.190", "last_edit_date": "2017-03-14T01:57:09.190", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "8182", "parent_id": "14687", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI believe the octopus plushie wasn't in the novels, so I don't think it has\nmuch significance. It seems to be something that was added as a visual\nleitmotif for Kirino in the anime, like her whale slippers, which were often\nused to identify Kirino in shots focusing on the feet. (Apparently she likes\nsea creatures.) When you see that octopus plushie, you know the scene is\ntaking place in Kirino's room, just like when you see those whale slippers,\nyou know those legs are Kirino's legs. The plushie is used like this in the\nopening animation a few times too.\n\nIn-universe, the novel describes Kirino's room like this:\n\n> The interior wasn't much different from my [Kyousuke's] room, except with a\n> more reddish coloring.\n>\n> However, the big difference is that it has a computer desk.\n>\n> It suits my image of Kirino well, not being the individualist, but quite\n> modern.\n\nIt sounds extremely boring, and that's probably the point—all of Kirino's\nunique possessions are hidden in her otaku closet. But since so many scenes of\nthe anime take place in her room, the animators probably wanted to decorate it\na little, while keeping the decorations consistent with Kirino's character.\nMany teenage girls have stuffed animals, so it makes sense that Kirino would\nhave some, since she tries to portray herself as normal except better. Having\nthem lets her keep \"not being the individualist\" because they keep the room\nfrom looking abnormally dull while she keeps the dangerous stuff sealed in the\notaku closet.\n\nAs for why the animators chose that very specific-looking octopus design (or\nthose very specific-looking whale slippers), they probably just wanted a\nunique-looking design that would fit with the image they built of Kirino's\naesthetic tastes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-28T22:05:46.153", "id": "14721", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-28T22:05:46.153", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14701", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe octopus has actually made it into a figure of miku, so it has to mean\nsomething. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PFcSr.jpg)\nsee? some people think the octopus is kanzaki hiro, the illustrator and\ndesigner of oreimo (not the writer). he also animates, so he might have\nanimated the plush in, but i'm not sure if he animated oreimo- though it looks\nreally close to his style.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-13T08:42:16.013", "id": "30471", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-13T08:42:16.013", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22670", "parent_id": "14701", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's an outfit worn by Panty from [Panty & Stocking with\nGarterbelt](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=7529)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-27T23:42:51.680", "id": "14705", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-27T23:42:51.680", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7884", "parent_id": "14703", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGood places to search are Japanese shops that sell new or used cosplay items\n(or shops that import official cosplay items from Japan to whatever country\nyou live in); the websites of people who make and sell handmade cosplay items;\nHalloween costume websites; and sites with many sellers such as Cosplay.com's\n[Marketplace](http://www.cosplay.com/marketplace/index.php), Yahoo Japan\nAuctions, Etsy, Amazon Marketplace sellers, and eBay.\n\nNagisa's hair is almost identical to that of Kinomoto Sakura of Cardcaptor\nSakura, which is an extremely popular character, so if you search for Sakura\nwigs, you will find ones that can work.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-28T02:06:14.107", "id": "14711", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-28T02:32:52.113", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-28T02:32:52.113", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14704", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## Unmarked spoilers.\n\nYes. Norma can only be female.\n\nThe survivors of the pre-mana world, like Tusk and his parents also cannot use\nmana (because the mana-wielders were genetically engineered by Embyro), and\nTusk were incorrectly identified as a Male Norma by Hilde.\n\nThis gene rejects DRAGON-based powers. Thus norma are immune to mana, and to\nthe dragon's roars (this being the main reason they pilot the para-mails).\n\nIf we play a little with genetics, we can say that the norma gene is a\nrecessive gene situated in the [homologous portion](http://www.biology-\nquestions-and-answers.com/sex-chromosomes.html) of the sexual chromosomes:\n\n> Homologous portion is that in which there are genes having alleles in both Y\n> and X sex chromosomes. The homologous portions are situated more in the\n> central part of the sex chromosomes, near the centromere.\n\nThe recessive allele appears only on the X chromosome, with the dominant\nallele appearing on both X and Y. The recessive characteristic grants\n**immunity to DRAGON based powers**.\n\nSince there is little recombination between X and Y chomosomes during meiosis\n(and this recombination takes place only near the telomeres), there is no way\nthis gene can cross over to the [Y\nchromosomes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome).\n\n> The human Y chromosome is normally unable to recombine with the X\n> chromosome, except for small pieces of pseudoautosomal regions at the\n> telomeres\n\nSo only females could be norma. Males would be carriers only at most.\n\nNow, this is viewed as a genetic flaw by the mana society (including several\ncharacters) but I boldfaced the immunity text above for a reason:\n\n * Embyro designed the mana-wielding humanity. It would be very unlikely he would let \"an old gene\" slip by a mistake.\n\nThe mana society needs Aura as its Draconium reactor. It means the dragons\ncame into existance before Embyro designed them. Since Embyro knew the dragons\nwould go to any length to rescue Aura (even going on suicide missions), he\nwould need troops immune to the dragon powers.\n\nSo he engineered the Norma. They were not an \"accident\" or a \"mistake\".\n\nWhy engineer his soldiers as female only? Because Embyro is a womanizer at the\nvery core. He has no interest in males.\n\nAlso, he views the mana wielders as mere puppets. Since it is shown that he at\nseveral times seduced and enthralled the norma to satisfy his urges, he would\nexpect some thrill out of breaking them.\n\nHe can dominate any mana wielder at will, so we can infer from his personality\nthat he would have no interest in having a woman he can control with a flick\nof his finger.\n\nSo it was Embyro that designed the norma to be his anti-DRAGON soldiers,\nfemale only. So he would have some girls to toy with.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-13T02:45:34.113", "id": "20010", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-14T00:35:10.450", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-14T00:35:10.450", "last_editor_user_id": "2808", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "14712", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDubbing is expensive; subbing is much cheaper to do. Anime translation\ncompanies usually want to dub because they have no shot at getting it aired on\nTV outside of Japan if there is no dub, so they usually sell the subbed DVDs\netc. for about the same amount of money as the dubbed ones, in order for the\nsales of the subs to to offset the larger cost of dubbing. Neither dubbing nor\nsubbing requires editing/adding to the artwork (dubs are an audio track; subs\nare a separate text file that can be overlaid over the art).\n\nIn contrast, usually text messages and other text shown in the artwork itself\noften moves as the \"camera\" pans; it is not usually static and flat on the\nscreen. Covering it up would require the company to overlay art that moves:\nessentially, **to animate over** the Japanese text with text that can move\nalong with the \"camera\" panning motion, to avoid scrolling the overlay over\nthe character's fingers, to tilt at the same angle as the cell phone screen is\nbeing held at, etc. In other words, it is a different endeavor than either\nrecording audio or typing up subtitles: one that requires more work which is a\ndifferent type of work.\n\nIf the company has managed to land the series airing on TV in the country\nthey're licensed for release in, the amount of money they expect to make off\nof it would cause them to be willing to re-animate those text messages. They\nwould not have a large motivation to add that animating work on top of their\ndubbing expenses if they do not expect to make a lot of money from the series.\nIf the text message is read aloud in either the voice of the sender or the\nvoice of the recipient, it does not require the re-animating work for the\nviewer to understand (assuming the dub script is accurate, which is a whole\ndifferent can of worms). Using the dub voice actor they've already hired to\norally take care of the viewer getting the gist of the message saves money.\n\nAn alternative would be to add a subtitle track which subtitles only the on-\nscreen text messages, book covers, signage, etc. which would be inexpensive to\ndo. However, when you compare the dub script with the subtitle script from the\nsame company, there are often differences because the dub is 1) attempting to\nmatch animated mouth movements and 2) attempting to sound more colloquial\n(i.e., \"What would this character say if this character were talking naturally\nin English/Chinese/whatever language is being dubbed?\" rather than repeating\nawkwardly in said language a translated phrase that a Japanese person would\nsay in this situation but which a native speaker of said language would never\nthink to say in this situation) as compared to the sub which is more concerned\nwith 1) fitting in the physical space of 1~2 lines of text on the screen at\nonce and 2) just translating more simply (what the character said). So when\nthe dub and sub scripts do not match, it would cause more confusion to add\nthat sub script they already made into the dub copy, because then the dub\nactor's voice reading the Japanese text message and the sub at the bottom of\nthe screen would not match. It is likely that the company doesn't want to make\na separate subtitle file for the dub copy unless it is necessary, again to\nsave on costs.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-30T09:36:31.510", "id": "14743", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-30T09:36:31.510", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI honestly doubt Naruto can die due to the fact he has a bijuu in him.\nThough...the question that arises to that, if kyuubi has no chakra then that\nmeans Naruto has a possible chance of seeing death.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-30T20:40:32.020", "id": "14749", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-30T20:40:32.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8942", "parent_id": "14734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke gave up on killing the tailed beasts.\n\n * Sasuke - returned to hidden leaf village, and then went to explore the world.\n * Kurama - returned to Naruto, presumably now Naruto has a whole Kurama (as opposed to just Yin or just Yang)\n * Gyuki - returned to Killer Bee.\n * Rest of the bijuu, undetermined, presumably they were sent free. All of them can still converge and speak to each other due to all of them giving Naruto a portion of their chakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-13T10:52:38.237", "id": "15066", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-13T10:52:38.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "14734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe rest of the beast is set free. their wish was to roam free. after so long\nbeing traped and used by humans. but they sure will give naruto a hand if he\nneeds them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T07:15:40.553", "id": "15202", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T07:15:40.553", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "14734", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNote: I'm not sure if anything had come up by October, since I haven't really\nfollowed Sailor Moon beyond watching the biweekly episodes and I don't know\nJapanese. But some announcement (referred to\n[here](http://www.themarysue.com/sailor-moon-crystal-r/)) seems to have been\nmade in early November at an anime convention in Tokyo. The fact that there\napparently was speculation before this suggests that no announcement had been\nmade before the anime convention. (I found out about this mostly since I'd\nread about a newly released trailer, and wanted to find some details about\nit.)\n\n* * *\n\nLooking from some recent news sources (e.g [this\none](http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/sailor-moon/241109/sailor-moon-crystal-to-\nadapt-black-moon-arc) from November 8), it seems that the second half of SMC\nwill cover the Black Moon arc.\n\nA [official trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q-rU8s9HCY) was\napparently recently released (December 27), and from\n[ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-27/sailor-moon-crystal-\nblack-moon-arc-trailer-previews-chibi-usa-sailor-pluto/.82667), we have:\n\n> The anime premiered on July 5 and airs on the first and third Saturdays\n> every month. Starting on January 17, the second season includes the story\n> from the original manga's \"Black Moon\" arc and features Chibi Usa. The Comic\n> Natalie website posted more images from the upcoming episodes.\n\nInitially I was sceptical as to whether this new \"season\" mentioned in some\nsources was referring to part of the current SMC or to an altogether new\nproduction after this one finishes, but the date given (January 17 next year)\nimplies that it should be within the current production.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T04:04:08.270", "id": "17114", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T20:17:33.617", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-28T20:17:33.617", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "14744", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell the sponsors of the anime were Geneon Entertainment, Shogakukan , P&G,\nJun Planning Co., INC. and KONAMI. So it could be one of those, but why and\nwhen? I don't know. Looks like the manga magazine covered the whole thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-05T06:27:20.323", "id": "14858", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-05T06:27:20.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9015", "parent_id": "14753", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nProbably Konami. The censor had 3 *'s which means three hiragana, and if it\nwas an anime sponsor, Konami fits the bill. They did do a lot of Konami jokes,\nso it would be a possibility.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T16:00:46.420", "id": "14885", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-06T16:00:46.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9044", "parent_id": "14753", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI am not finding any reputable source, but according to both uncyclopedia (\n_caveat emptor_ ) and [a Japanese quiz site about\nanime](http://quizken.jp/quiz/!/eyJkIjoibk5NUGQwdzMrSG89In0), Hata Kenjiro,\nthe author of Hayate no Gotoku was sued by KONAMI.\n\nThis is the quote from the quiz site, which is asking whether the fact is true\nor false (and true was the answer according to the quiz):\n\n> 漫画家の畑健二郎は「疾風のごとく!」についてKONAMIから訴えられたことがある\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T01:36:03.080", "id": "14907", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-07T11:37:42.343", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-07T11:37:42.343", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9052", "parent_id": "14753", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nA simple googling of the terms \"anime glass staircase\" brought me to a\ndiscussion page on:\n\n**Video Girl Ai** (1992)\n\nThe scene is from [Episode\n6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqWn9pNbmc&t=20m0s), the last episode of\nthe OVA, and the only thing not matching your descriptions is that the\nstaircase is not spiral: it is straight.\n\n\n\nSynopsis (ANN):\n\n> Because Youta worried for another instead of dwelling on his own broken\n> heart, he happened upon a very special video store that only the pure of\n> heart can see. There, he buys what he thinks is a normal erotic video -\n> until a girl climbs out of his television set. Her name is Ai, and thanks to\n> a broken VCR, her personality is a little glitchy. Still, it's her job to\n> help Youta feel better, and perhaps even help him get the girl of his\n> dreams, even if Ai herself might be falling for him as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T04:54:56.577", "id": "14759", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-31T09:45:42.600", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-31T09:45:42.600", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "14758", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBoth of the words \"Elohim\" and \"Essaim\" could be meaning a variety of things.\nBut my speculation goes as follows:\n\nFrom this [Reddit\nthread](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2kt3tl/spoilers_shigatsu_wa_kimi_no_uso_episode_4/cloo8fg):\n\n> A similar phrase occurs in the [Book of Black\n> Magic](http://books.google.com/books?id=HMrV-\n> BPe5h8C&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=Eloim,%20Essaim,%20frugativi%20et%20appellavi&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Eloim%2C%20Essaim%2C%20frugativi%20et%20appellavi&f=false)\n> and in the Italian [Il Grand\n> Grimoire](http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/Il_Grand_Grimoire.pdf). A\n> couple translations and transcriptions later, we end up with this.\n>\n> \"Eloim\" is \"[God](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim)\" or \"Powers\",\n> \"Essaim\" might be \"Locusts\" or \"Swarm\". \n> I'm thinking that she's offering her soul to the devil/the angels/god in\n> exchange for being able to captivate her audience.\n>\n> This isn't Faust; it's not a serious treatment of pacts. The Japanese adore\n> Christian mythology, similar to how the West adores Eastern mythology. In\n> effect, she's doing the same thing as someone in a Western work invoking his\n> \"chi\" or whatever. (It's shōnen; teenage boys love foreign mysticism.)\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T08:42:43.730", "id": "14764", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-03T15:21:26.560", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "14760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\n[Elohim](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim)(אֱלֹהִים) is a Hebrew word that\nmeans either 1) \"gods\" in the plural, or 2) \"God.\" \"El\" (אֵלִי) and \"Eloi\"\n(אֶלֹהִי) are \"God,\" and the \"-him\" suffix (הִים) makes it plural. So it would\nliterally mean \"gods\" in the plural; _however_ , it is also used in the\nspecific case of referring to the monotheistic Judeo-Christian God. It is\nfound [2602 times](http://www.hebrew-streams.org/works/monotheism/context-\nelohim.html) in the Hebrew Bible.\n\nIt does _not_ mean \"powers\" as Hashirama Senju wrote.\n\n\"[Essaim](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essaim)\" is French for \"swarm.\" This\nword does not occur in Hebrew.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T11:50:29.433", "id": "14769", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-03T12:53:43.357", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-03T12:53:43.357", "last_editor_user_id": "8134", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "14760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAs mentioned in other answers, Elohim is Hebrew for gods and Essaim is for\nswarm. I believe it could be interpreted to mean that she believes the swarm\nof music notes should be as powerful as gods and that she is asking that they\nlisten to her plea.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-03T02:08:26.807", "id": "14809", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-03T02:08:26.807", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8983", "parent_id": "14760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a chant common in anime and manga (For example, it occurs in Gugure!\nKokkuri-san ep12 this season), if recited 3 times can give good luck or summon\ndemons. Its origin comes from The Grand Grimoire, it's \"The secret of the\nBlack hen, a secret without which one can not count on the success of any\ncabala\". Elohim as mentioned is Hebrew for God, Essaim could be french for\nswarm, or a way of writing Jesse; Jesse -> Esse + im (hebrew plural). You can\nread more here: <http://moto-neta.com/anime/eloim-essaim/> (Japanese)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-24T08:37:33.487", "id": "17044", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-24T08:37:33.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10831", "parent_id": "14760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPerhaps [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoSnwZ7dGAk) will help\nyou.\n\nIf this is indeed the song you are looking for I'm afraid I can't help further\nthan this. I tried to find the original song but I failed.\n\nIt seems that the name given to the song in this particular video is not its\noriginal name, as the description points out:\n\n> I decided to give a name for this BGM, as the title would've gone over 100\n> characters if I had used \"Composed by Masaru Yokoyama\". So I named it\n> Spring's Melody. I don't know if there is an actual name for this BGM...if\n> there is, would you please tell me :3?\n\n* * *\n\nEDIT: The song is called **_Yuujin A-kun wo Watashi no Bansousha ni\nNinmeishimasu_** and you can find it\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcYJHojTsFg) .\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-12T12:58:08.130", "id": "16667", "last_activity_date": "2020-04-27T16:35:26.887", "last_edit_date": "2020-04-27T16:35:26.887", "last_editor_user_id": "10602", "owner_user_id": "10602", "parent_id": "14761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAdding to [my previous comment on the\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14761/what-is-the-name-of-\nthe-background-music-before-the-performance/18728#comment19205_14761), the\nofficial website now has [a page for the **\"Your Lie in April original song &\nsoundtrack\"** (「四月は君の嘘 ORIGINAL SONG &\nSOUNDTRACK」)](http://www.kimiuso.jp/music/soundtrack2.html). They have a full\nlisting of the soundtrack there, but you cannot listen to it, nor even preview\nit. \nSo I did a quick search, and found [this Amazon.co.jp page for the\ncd](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%9B%9B%E6%9C%88%E3%81%AF%E5%90%9B%E3%81%AE%E5%98%98-ORIGINAL-\nSONG-SOUNDTRACK-TV%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9/dp/B00PB88GH0), where\nyou can actually listen to a preview of every song.\n\nThree songs seem to fit the one you want, given that two of them are only\nvariations on the same theme. The one that does seem to be the exact match is\ncalled **友人A君を私の伴奏者に任命します** (something in the lines of \"I appoint Friend-A-kun\nas my accompanist\"), and is the 18th track on the first cd. You can buy it\nindividually\n[here](http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00S1QQ1U8/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk18). The\nfirst variation is the 12th track on the first cd, called **今日のことは忘れられないよ**\n(something like \"I cannot forget that day\"), which, once again, can be bought\nindividually\n[here](http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00S1QPSMU/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk12). And\nthe last one is 7th track on the second cd (or the 40th if you count them\ncontinuously, like Amazon does), called **分かりやすいヤツ** (something like \"Easy-to-\nunderstand guy\"), which can also be bought individually,\n[here](http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00S1QQYVO/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk40)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-21T11:48:19.217", "id": "18728", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-28T14:39:52.633", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "14761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe first result in a Google search for \"anime post apocalyptic kill human\namnesia\" is:\n\n## [A Wind Named Amnesia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wind_Named_Amnesia)\n(1990)\n\n\n\n> The Apocalypse didn't come with a bang, but with a whimper. Silently, the\n> amnesia wind swept away all of mankind's knowledge. Thousands of years of\n> human civilization vanished overnight as people forgot how to use the tools\n> of modern civilization: who they were, how to speak—everything. Technology\n> decayed as mankind was reduced to the level of cavemen.\n>\n> Two years later, a young man—miraculously re-educated after the\n> cataclysm—explores this barbaric world while pursued by a relentless killing\n> machine. He is accompanied by a young mysterious woman who is somehow spared\n> the devastating effects of the amnesia wind.\n\n * Post-apocalyptic world where it looked like machines were killing humans — Check.\n * Main character had amnesia — Check.\n * Main character looked in a mirror and punched it and bled — [Check](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZArbMgc72M&t=9m50s).\n * Near the end there was a woman and they were basically having sex — [Check](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZArbMgc72M&t=74m12s).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T09:18:31.447", "id": "14765", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T13:32:17.047", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "14763", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nActually the software is mostly independent of the style. The style depent on\nhow the artist is drawing it...\n\nAnyway it is not always possible to redraw a image because the software is not\nsupporting some functions! The style from the website you linked is pretty\nsimple so you do not need something special.\n\n\n\nIt would be possible to draw the image above with the standard paint of\nwindows except the cheeks (if you look closely a special brush was used to\ndraw this). But this is absolutely not suggested if you really want to redraw\nit.\n\nThe image is very likly drawn with a tablet that supports pressure/speed\nrecognition (recognizable at the fading outlines) and a software that supports\npaint application modes (recognizable at the shadows/lightning) and also layer\nsupport (the green/yellow background is one layer and the girl with the table\nand the chair is at least one layer).\n\nSuch things are mostly supported on a reasonably good painting software:\n\n * [Adobe Photoshop](http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html) (monthly payment)\n * [GIMP](http://www.gimp.org/) (open source)\n * [PaintTool SAI](http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/) (pay once)\n * [Anime/Manga Studio](http://manga.smithmicro.com/) (pay once)\n * [Paint.NET](http://www.getpaint.net/index.html) (free to use) I am not sure if everything is possible in this software I listed above!\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T11:46:58.063", "id": "14768", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-31T11:52:52.803", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-31T11:52:52.803", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "14766", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you are remembering [Hataraku Maou-\nsama!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Is_a_Part-Timer!) (The Devil is\na Part-Timer!).\n\n> The Demon Lord and one of his generals, Alciel, escape Ente Isla through a\n> portal to modern Tokyo, Japan after being confronted by the Hero Emilia\n> Justina and her companions.\n\nOn the wikia page about [Ente Isla](http://hataraku.wikia.com/wiki/Ente_Isla):\n\n> Ente Isla is a world that lies on the Ocean of Ignoria, consisting of one\n> large central island with four smaller islands to the north, south, east,\n> and west. It is laid out in the shape of a cross.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T12:53:39.593", "id": "14770", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-31T18:13:14.810", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-31T18:13:14.810", "last_editor_user_id": "8446", "owner_user_id": "8446", "parent_id": "14767", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI believe you're looking for _[Colorful](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8142)_.\n\n> \"I\" died and was kicked out of the cycle of reincarnation because of the sin\n> \"I\" committed. An angel told me that \"I\" won a lottery and he gave me a\n> chance to remember the sin. My spirit possessed the body of the 14-year-old\n> boy Makoto, who committed suicide and \"I\" tried to recollect my memory. \"I\"\n> felt distressed by the terrible circumstances of Makoto and the fact that\n> \"I\" was borrowing his body. \"I\" have started to realize that people are\n> hurting each other because the world is too colorful to distinguish the true\n> color of themselves from others.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-31T22:09:56.760", "id": "14779", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-31T22:09:56.760", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "14775", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPupa's OST was composed by [KONISHI Kayo](http://vgmdb.net/artist/9157) and\n[KONDO Yukio](http://vgmdb.net/artist/9158) (who, together, make up the\nmusical unit [MOKA☆](http://vgmdb.net/artist/9159)). Unfortunately, I think\nthat's as good an answer as you're going to get, given that the soundtrack\nhasn't been (and, I'm guessing, never will be) released.\n\nIf you liked the music in Pupa, perhaps you would like to listen to [the\nsoundtrack of Elfen Lied](http://vgmdb.net/album/37057), which was also\ncomposed by Konishi and Kondo.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-02T01:33:13.270", "id": "14790", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-02T01:33:13.270", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "14782", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Guilty Crown\nWikia](http://guiltycrown.wikia.com/wiki/Arisa_Kuhouin), she is still alive,\nand I believe the scene of her being outside of the building is near the end\nof the last episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-01T19:30:03.610", "id": "14788", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-01T22:28:29.633", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-01T22:28:29.633", "last_editor_user_id": "8959", "owner_user_id": "8959", "parent_id": "14786", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nArisa can be seen outside of the collapsing GHQ building at around 20:23 of\nepisode 22.\n\n\n\nScreenshot courtesy of\n[Hakase](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/191/hakase)\n\nIt is not known how she got out of the collapsing GHQ building with the bullet\nwound she got from the UN Military Forces at 18:15, though. My guess is that\nshe got rescued by the UN Forces, probably as an act of humanity.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-02T19:13:11.473", "id": "19775", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-02T19:13:11.473", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "14786", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the Visual Novel (not sure about the anime), there is a scene in which\nMichiru and Makina start a conversation with Yuuji. Specifically, Michiru\ncomplains to Yuuji that he is hard to talk to because he gives off a certain\naura. She then suggests that they give him a nickname to make him easier to\ntalk to, similar to how Makina calls Michiru \"Chiruchiru\". Yuuji says that\nthey're free to call him whatever name they like, though he doesn't see any\nneed for a nickname.\n\nMichiru then makes her first proposal for a nickname 「ザ・近寄り難い人」, which\nliterally means \"The person who is difficult to approach\", or as the fan-\ntranslation says, \"Mr. Standoffish man\". Neither Makina nor Yuuji is very\nhappy with this name, because it's not exactly easy to say.\n\nThey go back to brainstorming, and Makina comes up with the second suggestion:\n\"Juicy-Yuuji\". Michiru isn't happy with this; she agrees that it sounds nice,\nbut doesn't see what part of Yuuji is \"Juicy\".\n\nAfter this, Yumiko comes by asking them to be quiet. She ends up getting roped\ninto the conversation, and Michiru asks her to come up with more names. She\nfirst agrees with \"Juicy Yuuji\", but then offers as an alternative \"Yujiyuji\".\nAfter Michiru laughs at this, she exits the conversation.\n\nIn the VN, Michiru then forces the decision on Yuuji as to which nickname he\nwants. You have the choice of any of those three.\n\n\n\nAfter that, for the rest of the scene you're referred to by that name.\nHowever, Yuuji decides to get back at Michiru by giving her an equally\nterrible nickname. Eventually he ends up selecting \"Mitcher\", which Michiru\nfinds to be very unpleasant. He continues on a rampage, giving Sachi, Amane,\nand Makina the nicknames \"Satcher\", \"Atcher\", and \"Matcher\", until Michiru\napologizes and pledges not to use the nickname you chose.\n\nThe choice never has any impact on future events in the VN, and none of the\nmain events from that scene come up again in the future as far as I can\nremember, but I guess this nickname became popular in the fan community.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-02T05:31:57.430", "id": "14794", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-02T05:31:57.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "14792", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have compared the animation and dialogue in the English and Japanese\nversions of the first episode of RWBY (\"Ruby Rose\"). The dialogue and voices\nhave been set to match the flaps of the character's mouths rather than the\nother way round.\n\nThe dub is purely audio, no animation changes were made. This is typical of\nmost localisation dubs both in the western world and in Japan also.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T19:11:37.540", "id": "17029", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-31T13:51:37.400", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-31T13:51:37.400", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14795", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's true that Grand Elder Guru was not **directly** killed by Freeza's hands,\nbut his death was someway caused by Freeza, according to [Dragon Ball\nWiki](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Grand_Elder_Guru):\n\n> He dies before Frieza is defeated, of a combination of a broken heart and\n> stress (both brought on from repeatedly sensing his children's deaths at the\n> hands of Frieza's minions).\n\nSo the way Freeza and his minions decimated his race caused his death. So the\nwish \"Bring back everyone who had been killed by Freeza\" involves a lot more\ncases than only the ones that died from Freeza's hands. It also involves the\nones killed **indirectly** by his acts.\n\nTo confirm this, the Wiki also says:\n\n> King Kai chooses to revive him and all the other victims of Frieza's army\n> with the Earth's Dragon Balls so the Namekian dragon, Porunga, would be\n> brought back. The wish revives Elder Guru because Frieza's murder of the\n> Namekians caused Guru to die of grief.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-02T22:54:20.623", "id": "14808", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-02T22:54:20.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "14805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is all explained by King Kai during the Freeza Saga in **chapter 321**.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmRTU.png)\n\nKing Kai asks Kami whether people that had died from old age could be revived,\nto which the answer was negative. So then he asks whether people that had\nindirectly died by an evil person could be revived, to which the answer was\npositive.\n\nKami replied positive, saying that even though it'd be a first-time case, he'd\nbelieve it would be possible to revive those that indirectly died. They would\nthen remain alive for the duration of time their life was shortened by.\n\n> King Kai: What if they were confronted by an evil person, and, indirectly\n> though it may be, their death was hastened, even a little bit...? \n> Kami: I believe they would remain alive for the duration of time their life\n> was shortened by...\n\nKnowing this, King Kai asked not only to bring back those killed by Freeza\nhimself, but also by his henchman (Eg: which would include Vegeta).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-03T22:59:58.987", "id": "14827", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-03T22:59:58.987", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "14805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThey actually address this in the anime. Guru died from a broken heart due to\nFrieza's genocide of his people and utter destruction of his home planet. So\ntechnically, Frieza did kill guru, even though it wasn't directly, he was\nstill responsible.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-19T20:47:10.937", "id": "15186", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-19T20:47:10.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9257", "parent_id": "14805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's because the sword was overburdening Kirito and since he can't put it into\nhis inventory, he had to make a choice of either letting it go so he can make\nthe jump onto Tonkii or going down with it:\n\nFrom the (previously translated) light novel ( _Sword Art Online_ Volume 8,\nEarly and Late, Caliber, page 308):\n\n> At that point, I noticed one terrible fact.\n>\n> I couldn't jump.\n>\n> To be more exact, in my arms was a heavy load the «Holy Sword Excaliber», so\n> jumping five meters wouldn't be possible. Just by standing, my boots already\n> bit into the ice.\n\n", "comment_count": 11, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-02T22:30:05.313", "id": "14807", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-02T22:30:05.313", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "14806", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason why kirito through the holy sword was because if he were to take it\nhe would have to throw away the other items in his iventory. Though it had\nseemed that he was able to get it in season 2 mother's rosario he was\neventually able to get the holy sword because in the first episode of mother's\nrosario he had a chest if you were paying attention. He was rewareded with the\nsword as well as a hammer at the of the episode excalibur.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-21T16:29:06.883", "id": "26748", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-21T16:29:06.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18637", "parent_id": "14806", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt could be that he was still bearing the fact that he first met the sword\nduring his first days in ALO when to him it was still not just a game but a\nreality so when he had the sword in hand during the 17th episode he began to\nremember certain unpleasant memories and thought to himself the weight of it\nall is still to heavy for him to bear its quite possible Sinon saw this (from\nthe sideline) and retrieved the sword for him as a form of gratitude for\nhelping to deal with her traumatic past once again possible kirito saw this in\nher eyes and accepted the sword as a gift from Sinon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-31T20:29:09.643", "id": "29425", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-31T20:29:09.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20825", "parent_id": "14806", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is a very simple answer. He has no ability to use the sword unless he\ncarries it forever because he cannot claim it. He cannot claim until\nJötunheimr is restored, hence the end of the quest. Also he cannot jump with\nit because he would fall like a rock. He blames the Cardinal system because it\nwill not let him have it because he has not completed the quest at hand. He\nhas no ability to claim the sword therefore he throws it away because he\ncannot jump with it. Once on Tonky, sinon retrieves the sword with an arrow,\nbut since Kirito is on Tonky and his handed the sword he can find out what he\nhas to do to claim it without having to jump and fall to his death.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-12T04:14:54.297", "id": "38911", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-12T04:14:54.297", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30878", "parent_id": "14806", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNonoka was humming it as a child, it was her mother's song. Nonoka promised\nNoel to bring her mother to sing it for her but then moved away after\nreturning home.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-04T19:49:24.833", "id": "14842", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-04T19:49:24.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9005", "parent_id": "14812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI got it. The title of the OST is **Hoshi no kakera**. Hoshi no kakera is 2nd\nending theme by fhana. It is the ending theme of Episode 7.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-17T01:41:34.147", "id": "15138", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-17T01:41:34.147", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "14812", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBoth definitions, the key holder and the promised girl are the same, whomever\nshe is. Any of them, all of them or another girl. The manga is not yet\nfinished, so another late entrant could claim to be it (Love Hina again-\nesque). If you take only the anime into account, then it is left wide open.\nHeck, his locket is in repairs as of the final episode. Who knows if the lock\nhad to be changed.\n\nProbably it will only be revealed in the end of the series (or the end of the\nmanga, if the anime doesn't show any closure). It is the big plot mistery\nanyway. So getting to who is the promised girl at this point would be getting\nto the climax too soon.\n\nWorth of note, he could well have made more than one promise.\n\nSo the answer is: **as of October 2014, undefined.**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-05T05:44:18.877", "id": "14856", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-06T21:21:23.523", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-06T21:21:23.523", "last_editor_user_id": "2808", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "14815", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nDon't forget about Yui onee-chan. She is also one of the girls who made\npromise with Raku in their childhood, and she also has a key, just like\nOnodera, Marika and Chitoge. In the new chapter of Nisekoi manga, when Ryuu\nasks Raku which girl Raku actually loves for now, he says Onodera, but Ryuu\ndoubts it and then Raku starts thinking about Chitoge. My point is that maybe\nRaku will choose Chitoge.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-01T08:56:38.063", "id": "19750", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-01T12:25:15.110", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-01T12:25:15.110", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "12957", "parent_id": "14815", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nI haven't got a chance to read the manga yet but I have finished watching the\nanime and if I remembered correctly, when Chitoge told raku about the promise\nshe had made with a boy 10 years ago, she also said the phrase \"forever in\nlove\" which in the pilot episode, that phrase was said by raku and the girl he\nmade a promise with.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-19T14:35:51.683", "id": "20186", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-19T14:35:51.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13307", "parent_id": "14815", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nSpoiler! Do not read if you haven't gotten to Yui's arc yet!\n\n> I've read 163 chapters so far - since the manga's still on going and all,\n> and I think that the keys all fit the lock, but not in the way that we think\n> they do. My theory is that the keys are supposed to be inserted in a\n> specific sequence. Remember when Yui said that the lock won't open the way\n> it is? I think that she was referring to my theory. And if you'd refer to\n> the storybook about the prince and the princess, it would make sense. The\n> prince had some help with (allegedly) three other girls who each had keys\n> that helped him with his journey in finding the princess. So if you'd\n> compare it to my speculation, then the three other keys are just tools for\n> the lock to reach the last key. \n> \n> This is what I think the sequence is: \n> \n> 1st - Kosaki Onodera | Bronze \n> 2nd - Marika Tachibana | Silver \n> 3rd - Chitoge Kirisaki | Golden \n> \n> Idk what material Yui's key is made of, so I can't assume anything yet. \n> \n> And the reason that I think Chitoge is the promised girl is because her key\n> is made out of the same material as Raku's lock. Sure, the lock had silver\n> etchings at the side, but its dominant material is gold.\n\nAND TEAM CHITOGE! I'd love to state the reasons of bias but that's for another\ntime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-27T13:50:40.173", "id": "20390", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-27T14:49:18.290", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-27T14:49:18.290", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "13453", "parent_id": "14815", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs the manga has ended, we have a winner. And the promised girl is\n\n(click to enlarge picture, pictures taken from chapter 221)\n\n> Chitoge\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uPrYw.jpg)\n\nBut wait, there is more\n\n> Chitoge overheard that Raku actually like Onodera\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x5Xcg.jpg)\n\n> So Chitoge gave the key to Onodera\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cDwdF.jpg)\n\nSo, in the end, the promised girl is\n\n> Onodera\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8kGM7.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3CgIo.jpg)\n\nSo to answer your question, the girl with the key to the locket is the girl\nwhom he promised to love\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-08T12:45:04.147", "id": "35671", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-08T14:37:12.713", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-08T14:37:12.713", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "14815", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nShaman Warrior was abruptly canceled at that point in the story. The story was\nnever finished and as a result, we are left at that eternal cliff hanger\nwithout knowing what happens of Yaki and others.\n\nEven though the series had a great story and terrific art, this is the nature\nof the manhwa business. I have seen more abrupt ends to Manhwa than Manga or\nComics.\n\nThe author and artist of Shaman Warrior, Park Joong Gi has moved on to another\nproject called: The Arms Peddler, as the main artist. Which is ongoing and\npublished by Square Enix. So if you would like to enjoy his work still,\nperhaps you should check it out. I personally like it.\n\nHope this helped and you'll continue to enjoy Manhwa.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-08T05:54:56.617", "id": "14937", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-08T05:54:56.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9073", "parent_id": "14826", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Although this payment can be delayed, especially in the midst of combat, it\n> is ultimately unavoidable. It is unknown what happens to a Contractor that\n> fails to pay his obeisance, although Amagiri has stated that Contractors who\n> fail to do so seemingly 'melt like butter' when depriving a captured\n> November 11 of his remuneration.\n\nTaken from: <http://darkerthanblack.wikia.com/wiki/Obeisance>\n\n(It was also a pretty easy google search)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-04T11:30:55.817", "id": "14835", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-04T14:02:53.717", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-04T14:02:53.717", "last_editor_user_id": "2251", "owner_user_id": "6481", "parent_id": "14834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n<http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Dream_Zanarkand>\n\nAs far as I know, this is left somewhat ambiguous. Dream Zanarkand is based\nupon the memories of people that lived there, yet it is clearly also different\nfrom the actual Zanarkand.\n\nBut we can also consider that Yu Yevon was supposed to be contemporary with\nthe true Zanarkand. He does not seem to be known in the idealized dream\nZanarkand. And yet the Fayth, who were also contemporary with true Zanarkand,\nmust know of the sign, in order to have dreamed it. But furthermore, at that\ntime, Yu Yevon was not really a religious figure I don't think, though he may\nhave been the object of a cult of personality. Therefore, I think it's safe to\nguess that the Yevon Prayer did not begin as a prayer exactly. Perhaps it was\na sign for Blitzball victory, or I think more likely, some sort of general\nsalute that people would have done in support of Yu Yevon, and perhaps also\nfor victory in blitzball.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-05T16:58:18.687", "id": "14867", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-05T16:58:18.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3734", "parent_id": "14843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs @Kai has mentioned, it is ambiguous and you'll have to make your own\njudgement call. I've written down a good chunk of information that may\nconvince you either way.\n\n**Disclaimer** : I believe it is blitzball which came first, but I have tried\nto make this balanced\n\nTimeline:\n\n * **1000 Years Ago:** Machina War, Destroyal of Old Zanarkand\n * **End of Machina War** : Creation of Dream Zanarkand, Sin\n * **In-game Present Day:** Tidus leaves his home, Dream Zanarkand\n\nWhen the Machina war neared the end, it was clear that it was being dominated\nby Bevelle thanks to the help of their machina\n[Vegnagun](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Vegnagun). Yu Yevon was on the\nside of Zanarkand (Anti-Machina) who were slowly being destroyed.\n\nIn order to preserve the city, Yu Yevon turned the remaining citizens of old\nZanarkand into the Fayth. The Fayth then created Dream Zanarkand, based off of\nmemories of their life in the old city. To protect this place of peace, Yu\nYevon created Sin to defend Dream Zanarkand and rid the world of traces of\nmachina. Yu Yevon may not have been a symbol of religion at this stage, but he\nhad a large following. It would not be strange for a community of a united\ncause to have a symbol of respect and unity while he lived.\n\nThe dream Zanarkand is composed merely of the Fayths memories of the old city\nand their lives. It also resides in a space distinct from the rest of the\nworld. These two facts combined give us evidence that the Fayth must have\nknown of the symbol before Dream Zanarkand was constructed.\n\nThe point of Dream Zanarkand was to restore Old Zanarkand to it's pre-war\nstate and to preserve it for eternity. Since Dream Zanarkand was pre-war -\nthere would have been no large following of Yu Yevon as the powerful summoner\ndefence against the machina. Even if this symbol _was_ in use, it is much less\nlikely that an already established sport would take on the idealisms and\nsymbolisms of one man's following, than it is to believe that Yu Yevon adopted\nthe symbols as they were already representative of victory and strength.\n\nIn the first moments of Final Fantasy X, we follow Tidus in Dream Zanarkand,\nmany traditions have been forgotten as years have gone by. Souls no longer\nneed to be sent, there is no evidence of the existance of aeons, and the Hymn\nof the Fayth no longer holds any meaning. This is the main point of contention\n- Does the fact that the Hymn exists mean that the Hymn originate from the\nfayths' subconsciousnesses as they reside in the world (Not related to Yevon)?\nor was the dream city created to represent the city whilst Yu Yevons still had\nits following (Originates from Yevon, Possibility the symbol does also)?\n\nThe [Hymn of the Faith](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Hymn_of_the_Fayth)\nroughly translates to (after some puzzle solving seen in the link):\n\n> Pray to Yu Yevon\n>\n> Dream, Fayth\n>\n> Forever and ever\n>\n> Grant us prosperity\n\nThe lyrics indicate the acknowledgement of the Fayth's creation by Yu Yevon\nand how they are to reside there forever and ever in a dreamlike peace. This\nmakes the song even more important in assessing the timeline of the symbol.\n\nThe wikia and other sites claim that blitzball came first, but none cite any\nsolid articles or go into more detail than passing mentions. Therefore, you\nmust decide yourself which possiblity you believe is more plausible.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T00:34:08.770", "id": "14905", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-09T19:38:46.667", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a little tenuous, but the kanji in Minori's name seem to have kind of\na plant theme to them. In Japanese, her name is written 櫛枝 実乃梨 ( _Kushieda\nMinori_ ). The kanji 枝, read _eda_ , has the meanings \"bough\", \"branch\",\n\"twig\". The kanji 梨, read as _ri_ , means \"pear tree\". That could be why they\nchose to symbolize her with a flower.\n\n[Denshi Jisho\npage](http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E6%AB%9B%E6%9E%9D%20%E5%AE%9F%E4%B9%83%E6%A2%A8)\non the kanji in Minori's name.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-08T20:42:09.480", "id": "14951", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-08T20:42:09.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14845", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt might be readable if there was some difference between the minims and\ncrotchets and quavers, but due to the lack of time signature and bar lines, I\nwould say that the design on these discs is just that, a design. Also, as\nsenshin commented, it doesn't seem to resemble anything from the Madoka\nsoundtrack anyway.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T04:18:10.943", "id": "14875", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-06T04:18:10.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7723", "parent_id": "14847", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis would be [**Dream Eater Merry** ( _Yumekui Merry_\n)](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=11765)\n\nThe scene you are talking about is the first scene of the anime where Yumeji\nFujiwara, the main character, is running away from cats in a nightmare he is\nhaving. The next time he has the dream, he encounters the leader called\n\"Chaser\" John Doe who wields a chainsaw.\n\n\n\nAfter trying to escape, Fujiwara encounters a girl called Merry Nightmare who\nends up fighting John.\n\n.\n\nBoth Merry and John are Dream Demons from another world, and Dream Demons can\npossess people's bodies to enter the real world. However, Merry has no\nmemories and she doesn't need to possess a body.\n\nAs for Merry's powers sourcing from her hat, I don't think this is the case.\nRather, I think she just really, really, really loves her had. (I haven't seen\nthe series in a while, but I think I remember her being able to fight without\nher hat).\n\nAs for the dimension of the nightmares, these are actually just people's\ndreams which Merry can enter and drag Fujiwara into. Other humans who appear\nin dreams are either possessed by a Dream Demon who has entered the dream\n(i.e. \"Garden\" Engi Threepiece) or own the dream themselves.\n\n[This video](http://youtu.be/rPWpM54atXQ?t=13m0s) shows the scene of Fujiwara\nmeeting John Doe.\n\nWhile what I describe is from the anime, there is a manga (the original\nmaterial) and I believe the beginning of the manga would be the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-05T05:10:43.023", "id": "14850", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-05T16:55:58.060", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-05T16:55:58.060", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "14849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nAnime/Mange: Golden Time.\n\n> Banri Tada is a newly admitted male student at a private law school in\n> Tokyo. Due to the after-effects of a fall from a bridge shortly after his\n> high school graduation, he has lost all of his memories prior to the\n> accident ( anesia )\n\nIt sort of relates to nightmares, its a drama/romance.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-05T15:36:02.557", "id": "14866", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-05T15:46:53.207", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-05T15:46:53.207", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "9022", "parent_id": "14849", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think he left because the tent is gone and i thought he went into his room\nnot his tent after that touko heard kakeru called her name and they mentioned\nthey want to meet each other so they can see the same thing like calling each\nother name in the first and last episode\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-15T07:37:58.870", "id": "29816", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-15T07:37:58.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22112", "parent_id": "14851", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not entirely sure about the meaning behind the name, but I'm pretty sure\nit is pronounced Glass + lip, mainly due to this image:\n\n\n\nSource: <http://animeinspirations.com/threads/is-there-some-hidden-meaning-to-\nthe-title-glasslip.378/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T03:57:02.940", "id": "14874", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-06T13:33:06.523", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-06T13:33:06.523", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7723", "parent_id": "14852", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nGlasslip is presented as a single word, and it is logical to suppose that\n\"glass lip\" is what the anime was going for. This makes sense, since here,\n“lip” can mean “a projecting edge on a container or other hollow object”.\nThen, \"Glass lip” can describe to the edges of glass surface, such as a bead,\nwhere the glass bends around and causes light passing through to bend in\nstrange ways, distorting the image [1].\n\n**Sources**\n\n 1. <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": "2020-09-25T19:30:12.247", "id": "59665", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-25T19:30:12.247", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56405", "parent_id": "14852", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGenshiken Second Generation is actually a direct sequel to the original\nGenshiken. There's also a manga version which is available in English from\nKodansha USA. The story follows the club under Ogiue's presidency after\neveryone else graduates other than Ogiue, Ohno, and Kuchiki. Susannah moves to\nJapan and joins, and they also recruit three new candidates: fujoshi Rika\nYoshitake and Mirai Yajima, and crossdresser Kenjiro Hato. The other original\nGenshiken members also appear occasionally. There's a pretty big subplot about\nHato and Madarame.\n\n[Genshiken 2 on Anime News\nNetwork.](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15288)\n\n[The Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshiken#Characters), which\ndiscusses the new characters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T23:07:35.847", "id": "14899", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-06T23:07:35.847", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14855", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not that familiar with Nisekoi, but I don't find any of the similarities\nyou mention very striking.\n\n * Childhood marriage promises are very common in anime.\n * The first four things you mention that make Naru and Chitoge similar are all pretty standard tsundere traits. Tsundere as varied as Asuka Langley Soryu, Nagi Sanzenin, and Kirino Kousaka all share those traits with Naru and Chitoge. I acknowledge there is some visual similarity even beyond the hair antennae, but Chitoge also looks pretty similar to [MM's Mio Isurugi](https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/isurugi-mio), aside from the difference in build. Mio is even somewhat of a tsundere, to boot. And it's just a natural part of a story about a childhood marriage promise that the main heroine is probably the one who made the promise.\n * You acknowledge that all male shounen heroes are the same person.\n\nAll of these are standard cliches for shounen romantic comedy. Some of them\nwere popularized by Love Hina, and some have been around since Urusei Yatsura\nor even earlier. The reviews quoted\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisekoi#Reception) all call out Nisekoi\nfor being full cliches, bolstering my case that the similarities are just part\nof the genre.\n\nAlso, in [this interview](https://shonenjump.viz.com/blog/posts/interview-\nnaoshi-komi-1743), Nisekoi's creator, Naoshi Komi, says his biggest influence\nis not Love Hina, but One Piece.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T00:23:08.807", "id": "14998", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-14T07:14:28.240", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-14T07:14:28.240", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "14857", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think this is really [Dragon\nDrive](http://myanimelist.net/manga/935/Dragon_Drive).\n\n\n\n**Dragon Drive** is a manga by Kenishi Sakura which finished publishing in the\n**year 2006**.\n\n> The story follows a boy named **Reiji Oozora** who's a total loser at\n> school. One day, his friend takes to hidden place and forces him to play a\n> **virtual game** called **Dragon Drive**. When he joins the game, he\n> receives his own dragon. But the worst thing is that his **dragon is so\n> small and weak that it can't possibly do anything** and so he names it\n> [Chibi](http://doragondoraibu.wikia.com/wiki/Chibisuke).\n\nAs stated from the [wiki](http://doragondoraibu.wikia.com/wiki/Chibisuke):\n\n> _As Chibi, he appears to be the weakest dragon, but in his true form, known\n> as Senkoukura, he is the most powerful of all dragons, and worshipped as a\n> deity by some._\n\n**Chibi in his original and weak form:**\n\n> \n\n**Chibi in his true form, Senkoukura:**\n\n> \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T01:06:42.923", "id": "14871", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-14T05:19:42.290", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-14T05:19:42.290", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "14870", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe story goes from 1966 to 1977. Here's a breakdown for every episode with\nsome exemplary screenshots for every period. This doesn't detail every single\nevent since many episode span a larger time, but it should be easy to\nextrapolate from this:\n\n 1. 1966, start of the first year in high-school. I found no mention of 1966 in the anime, but it's in the manga. At the latest we can infer this later on, when we hear about Coltrane's death in ep7.\n 2. Still summer 1966 \n 3. End of summer 1966 \n 4. Christmas 1966 \n 5. January 1967 (first day of school after winter vacation) \n 6. April 1967, start of the second school year \n 7. Summer 1967  Since they have the festival afterwards and festivals tend to be held in autumn afaik, the episode might span a few months.\n 8. Winter 1967 (plans for Christmas)  Since Jun came back this summer and wasn't disowned yet when he last appeared, the flashbacks must be referring to the very beginning of the Anpo protests, which [according to Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_activism#Japan) started only in 1968.\n 9. Christmas 1967 \n 10. Starts (probably) after winter vacation, so it's January 1968. Continues until summer 1968 (by now they are in their third and final year). \n 11. ~Autumn 1968, last school festival \n 12. ~March 1969. Graduation from high school.  \"Eight years later\", so probably 1977 \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T00:01:15.553", "id": "14901", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-07T01:09:25.567", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-07T01:09:25.567", "last_editor_user_id": "34", "owner_user_id": "34", "parent_id": "14873", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion, the fact that he's blasted and not disintegrated like Cell for\nexample is the proof that the sun burned him to ashes.\n\nWould he have survived if the sun weren't there ? Well you can't be very close\nto the sun without dying anyway (radiations, burning~~) so the distance he\nmade to reach the sun should have been enough to disintegrate him if the\nKamehameha was enough to kill him. Conclusion: it was powerful but only enough\nto restrict his movements and push him into the sun.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T16:38:13.687", "id": "14887", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-06T16:48:47.600", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-06T16:48:47.600", "last_editor_user_id": "8788", "owner_user_id": "8788", "parent_id": "14884", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**There is no way you can kill a Death God with the Death Note.**\n\nIn the first example, the human got scared of the Death God and died. The\nDeath God did not do anything. He just stood there and then the human died, so\nwhy would he be held responsible for just being and not doing anything?\n\nIn the second example, you write that the Death God pushes him down the\nstairs. This situation is impossible, therefore only the cause of death will\ntake effect (see rule LV below). The situation is impossible, because the\nDeath God will never kill a human being without the Death Note, because it\nwould result in their death.\n\n>\n> [LV](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LV):\n> In the occasion where the cause of death is possible but the situation is\n> not, only the cause of death will take effect for that victim. If both the\n> cause and the situation are impossible, that victim will die of heart\n> attack. )\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T22:33:23.960", "id": "14897", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-28T12:58:33.630", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-28T12:58:33.630", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "14888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nA god of death can only die if he falls in love with a human or he intercepts\nwith a humans life span. Or anyone can die if they interfere with another\npersons life span.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-30T00:46:04.453", "id": "31771", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-30T00:46:04.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23777", "parent_id": "14888", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nA shinigami(god of death) can die if he/she falls in love with human and kill\nsomewone who was to be responsible for humans death. Any shinigami can die if\nhe interfeares with other shinigamis lifespan.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-30T18:43:20.253", "id": "31796", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-30T18:43:20.253", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23794", "parent_id": "14888", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThat's not possible. as stated in the series, they die from using a death note\nto prolong a humans life out of love, and they just crumble to dust. Where did\nyou even get the new rule that they can't kill a human without a death note or\nthey die too? that's not in the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-27T14:59:14.663", "id": "46272", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-27T14:59:14.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "39760", "parent_id": "14888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNaruto and Hinata - [Bolt\n(Boruto)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Boruto_Uzumaki) and\n[Himawari](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Himawari_Uzumaki) \nSasuke and Sakura - [Salad\n(Sarada)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sarada_Uchiha) \nShikamaru and Temari - [Shikadai](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shikadai_Nara) \nChouji and Karui -\n[Chouchou](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dch%C5%8D_Akimichi) \nIno and Sai - [Inojin](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Inojin_Yamanaka) \nKurenai and Asuma - [Mirai\nSarutobi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mirai_Sarutobi)\n\nKiba is shown with [Tamaki, but we don't even know if there's anything going\non between them](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tamaki#Epilogue).\n\nRock Lee is shown training with a kid that looks like him, and Tenten is shown\nright after that, so maybe that's their kid, or maybe some kid who emulated\nLee like he had emulated Guy before.\n\nHere's an image that summarises all the characters seen in the 700th chapter,\nincluding the pairings and their children:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bbcy3.jpg) \nClick to enlarge. Source:\n[reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/2lj571/today_naruto_ended_so_i_made_a_chart_of_all_the/)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T18:41:49.087", "id": "14891", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-31T05:20:45.650", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-31T05:20:45.650", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "14890", "post_type": "answer", "score": 35 }, { "body": "\n\n**I found a good picture showing all the relationships. Here it is.**\n\n\n\n**This is yet another picture depicting the family tree.**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3iyIf.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T17:38:11.470", "id": "14924", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-11T23:50:55.073", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-11T23:50:55.073", "last_editor_user_id": "3793", "owner_user_id": "3793", "parent_id": "14890", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nAs for the kid training with Rock Lee, I think that Rock Lee’s wife and baby\nmama is going to end up being Hanabi Hyuuga.\n\nHere are my reasons:\n\n 1. Hanabi is about to play a much bigger role in the anime – the final movie is about her getting kidnapped and a bunch of Konoha shinobi having to go on a rescue mission. She even has a super cute new character design to match her new significance. HOWEVER… the movie is supposed to come between chapter 699 and the full-color epilogue, and we were given NOTHING about Hanabi in that epilogue. So that would either mean that she went from suddenly super relevant to irrelevant in a few chapters… OR that Kishimoto-sensei left Hanabi’s fate open-ended for a reason.\n\n 2. Speaking of the full-color epilogue, take a good look at Lee’s nameless protégé (presumably son – and son according to Narutopedia Wiki). Focus on his eyes for a second, and tell me they don’t look more like Neji’s than they do Lee’s.\n\n 3. Hanabi and Lee are both taijutsu experts, and that means they automatically have something in common. The fact that Hyuugas always focus heavily on taijutsu matches the image of Lee’s son studying taijutsu intently with his father.\n\n 4. We already know that Naruto and Hinata end up together and have children. If Lee and Hanabi ended up together, this would mean that Naruto and Lee’s children are first cousins. That could be a considered a nod to the relationship between Kakashi and Gai (Naruto and Lee’s senseis).\n\n 5. Hyuugas have always married their cousins to keep their bloodline pure. Since Hinata ended up with Naruto, this would have meant that Hanabi would have been the match for Neji. However, as we know, Neji dies. It seems fitting that Neji’s male teammate would step up to fill that role.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T04:58:56.863", "id": "15319", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-23T15:09:26.537", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-23T15:09:26.537", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "9357", "parent_id": "14890", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOda also made a reference to Naruto in the latest chapter (766): \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sXkG8.jpg) \nNotice Nami's dress with Konoha's symbol on it, and how there's a fox eating\nramen with a whirlpool on its back.\n\nIt's just a way for them to acknowledge each other's work.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T18:55:32.767", "id": "14893", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-06T18:55:32.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "14892", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nBolt draw a pirate skull with a hat, a reference to the One Piece series,\n**part of a wink between authors** of both sleeves on the cover of Chapter 766\nof the manga several references appear to Naruto series:\n\nLuffy and back with a fox Uzumaki clan symbol eat ramen and Nami wearing an\noutfit with the symbol of Konoha, covering with a plate at the same Naruto\neating next to Luffy. Besides the logo of the series has been changed and the\nskull that forms the O has been changed by the leaf symbol, the E has a\nshuriken, and figure that usually is Monkey D. Luffy (star of One Piece) has\nbeen replaced by a silhouette of Naruto.\n\nAnd yes, it's just a way for them to acknowledge each other's work.\n\nReference: [Bolt Uzumaki](http://es.naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Bolt_Uzumaki)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T03:34:41.803", "id": "14909", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-07T03:34:41.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "14892", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\n[Source - deviantart](http://i-am-a-mellow-drama.deviantart.com/art/Why-I-\nsaid-Anko-is-Fat-60424887)\n\nThis may be the reason... too many dangos.\n\nAs seen in the image above, during the Chunin Exam, Anko consumed four times\nthe amount of calories an adult female needs in one day. If this is typical in\nher diet she would likely be unable to burn all those calories every day,\nwhich would lead to weight gain.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T02:03:02.087", "id": "14908", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-04T19:57:44.440", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-04T19:57:44.440", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "9053", "parent_id": "14894", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nAs a ninja I assume that you burn a lot more calories and fat much more easily\nand quickly than regular individuals. So Anko having a slim figure at the time\ndespite eating like this is no big deal. However, when peace came along and\nshe became an instructor I am guessing she spent a lot less time training and\ntaking missions and more time eating therefor the weight began to pack on and\nshe got fat.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-26T17:02:32.487", "id": "18877", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-26T17:02:32.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11389", "parent_id": "14894", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThough it is not explicitly mentioned, that **new emblem** is most likely the\ncombination of Hyūga and Uzumaki/Namikaze Clan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T03:48:56.050", "id": "14911", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-29T02:56:34.247", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-29T02:56:34.247", "last_editor_user_id": "1709", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "14895", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, it isn't just Kihara who calls him \"Maruo\" - many of the girls at school\ncall him that. In the light novel, it's pointed out early in volume 1 that\nvarious girls call him \"Maruo\" to be cutesy. In the anime, we see someone (I\ncan't tell who) calling him \"Maruo\" in episode 14 near 4:40; and later, around\n15:15, NANAKO Kashii refers to him as \"Maruo\" during a conversation with\nKawashima and Kihara\n\nAnyway: the reason he's nicknamed \"Maruo\" is that he bears a striking(?)\nresemblance (as Kihara notes in episode 2, around 5:00) to the character MARUO\nSueo from the 90s-era show [_Chibi Maruko-\nchan_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/951/Chibi_Maruko-chan):\n\n \n\nThe resemblance apparently extends beyond the visual - I haven't read/watched\n_Chibi Maruko-chan_ , but [Japanese\nWikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%A1%E3%81%B3%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8B%E5%AD%90%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%82%93%E3%81%AE%E7%99%BB%E5%A0%B4%E4%BA%BA%E7%89%A9\n\"whose articles about anime are always a perfect target for wikigroaning\")\nstates that Maruo, like Kitamura, is one of those do-gooder class-president\ntypes.\n\nThere's no explicit mention of this in the light novel (unsurprising, given\nhow weird Japanese media is about referencing other media - whence cometh\nMgRonald's), but some scouring of the Japanese internet suggests that the\nreference is fairly obvious to those who grew up while _Chibi Maruko-chan_ was\na popular thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-08T06:07:19.870", "id": "14938", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-08T06:07:19.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "14906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> ## `/!\\` Spoiler Warning\n>\n> This answer contains spoilers from the end of the manga. Read it at your own\n> risk.\n\nThis is just an educated guess, based on information from various point in\nNaruto's series timeline.\n\nFrom [Naruto's biography](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki):\n\n * In Naruto first season, his age is about 12-13\n * In Naruto Shippuden, his age is about 15-17\n\nWe also know that he has two children, and his eldest son Bolt (Boruto) is\ncurrently a student in the Ninja Academy.\n\nAdditional information:\n\n * In Bolt's current character design, Bolt's physical appearance ranges from 10 to 12 years old, probably the same age as his father when Naruto was studying at the Ninja Academy.\n * Let's assume 13 is the average age of the students when they graduate from Ninja Academy.\n * There is a 2 year time skip in the _The Last: Naruto the Movie_.\n * Let's give 1-3 years margin of error for Naruto and Hinata to have bonded.\n * Naruto's current age in Shippuden is about 17.\n * Kakashi just stepped down from his position as Hokage. Since he was about 31 in Shippuden, and he became the 6th Hokage after the two year time skip, so he is about 33 at that time.\n\nSolution would be:\n\n[code]\n\n a = 10,11,12 = +-2\n b = 13\n c = 2\n d = 1,2,3 = +-2\n e = 17\n \n Naruto_Age = a + b + c + d + e\n Naruto_Age = (+-2) + 13 + 2 + (+-2) + 17\n \n Minima Naruto's Age = 28\n Maxima Naruto's Age = 36\n \n[/code]\n\nGetting the average of minima and maxima, as the two margins of error (which\ncome from Bolt's current age and the time needed for Naruto and Hinata to get\ntogether) are pretty much assumed.\n\n**Naruto's age when he became Hokage is estimated to be 32.**\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T05:54:53.533", "id": "14916", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-28T16:20:21.300", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "9013", "parent_id": "14910", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey **do not** cover their eyes. They use sunglasses/dim glasses for\nprotection.\n\nSince they are known for having the characteristics of insects, we can assume\nthat they have crepuscular vision and some have nocturnal traits - meaning\nthat they are most active in twilight/low light/night. Their eyes are highly\nadapted on low light.\n\nTherefore, using their naked eyes are like humans using Night Vision goggles.\nJust imagine the amount of light they will receive during daylight.\n\nSource: [Insect Vision](http://cronodon.com/BioTech/Insect_Vision.html)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T08:39:07.523", "id": "14919", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-07T08:46:19.587", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-07T08:46:19.587", "last_editor_user_id": "1709", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "14918", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nFor me personally, I think it's because they have bug eyes.\n\nCheck out season 3 episode 47, 7 min 35 sec into the episode. You'll see what\nI'm talking about looking at Shino's eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-06T09:24:09.950", "id": "46903", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-06T09:36:08.457", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-06T09:36:08.457", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "40493", "parent_id": "14918", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's most likely that it's simply to look cool.\n\nIt's also entirely possible to just be a visual cue to help viewers to\nimmediately identify a member of the Aburame clan. You can almost always tell\nwhat clan the character is in based on how they look.\n\n * Uchiha have black hair, dark or blue clothes, and the Sharingan, \n * the Hyuga clan have black hair, white or light colored clothes, and the Byakugan. \n * the Akimichi clan are usually rotund, have markings on their cheeks, have the kanji for 'food' (食, shoku) on their armor, and have some shade of brown or red for their hair. \n\nMy best guess is that the Aburame clan is shown with some form of shades, a\nheavy coat or jacket, and bugs that fly from their sleeves, which is why you\nrarely see their eyes.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S0Kbn.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-06-22T03:57:57.120", "id": "53323", "last_activity_date": "2019-06-22T11:14:52.417", "last_edit_date": "2019-06-22T11:14:52.417", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "47771", "parent_id": "14918", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's so that insects don't crawl into their eyes, Maybe most abarume\nclan people don't totally _love_ bugs in their eyes and wear goggles, but the\nmore passive ones wear shades just to fit in.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-06-22T04:41:09.607", "id": "53324", "last_activity_date": "2019-06-22T04:41:09.607", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47772", "parent_id": "14918", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere's all I found.\n\n**Nakano Otoha** (中野乙羽) first appears in the anime in episode 12 as part of\nthe audience.\n\n\n\nShe is one of the [credited\ncharacters](http://d-game.dengeki.com/sakurasou/home/chara.html) in the\nPSP/Vita game (presumably with a bigger role). Her seiyū is Yuka Ōtsubo (大坪\n由佳).\n\n\n\nTranslation of her profile:\n\n> Suimei Art University Associated High School (a.k.a. Suikou) first year\n> student. Although she is not a resident of Sakurasou, impressed by Sorata\n> and co. performance, she told Sorata \"I want to help\". She is also the one\n> who invites everyone to participate in \"Super Creator Scouting Contest\" this\n> time around. Her favorite are vinegar kelp, which she always brings along\n> and according to her would \"blow away any fatigue\", and making snacks for\n> members of Sakurasou who are tired from making game from time to time.\n\n[Wikia](http://sakurasounopetnakanojo.wikia.com/wiki/Nakano_Otoha) says about\nher personality:\n\n> Nakano is an optimistic girl, her hair is tied into two ponytails. She was\n> born in Montreal, Quebec. She moveｄ to Japan when she was 8. She stops going\n> to school at the age of 12 because an incident occurred where she was\n> stabbed by a guy. She goes back to her school at the age of 17, starts her\n> 5th year of junior high school. She finishes and graduates her junior high\n> school at the age of 18. After she graduates, she goes to Suimei and she\n> starts her 1st year of senior high school at the age of 19. 3 year later\n> when the story is started, she is twenty-two years old now and she is a 1st\n> year student.\n\nShe doesn't seem to be on [any of the drama\nCDs](http://vgmdb.net/search?q=pet+kanojo). At least, her seiyū isn't credited\non any of them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T18:41:03.287", "id": "14926", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-08T04:17:49.880", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-08T04:17:49.880", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "34", "parent_id": "14920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've only watched the anime, but it's very clear that Himeka is delusional.\nShe calls herself the \"Burning Princess Saint Dragon Lady of Dawn\"... and she\ncame up with the story of Eita and her being lovers in a past life herself.\nIt's obviously just a fabrication that she uses to support her advances on\nEita.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-01-12T21:51:44.117", "id": "50412", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-12T21:51:44.117", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35449", "parent_id": "14921", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOne example is Studio Gainax, who are famous for their ['Gainax\nEnding'](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GainaxEnding), which\noriginal stems from the Ending of the Neon Genesis Evangellion series.\n\n> An ending that doesn't make any sense, or does make sense but is hidden\n> under enough Mind Screw to not have an easy explanation. This is usually a\n> deliberate form of Mind Screw or intended as a Sequel Hook to a sequel that\n> was never made. For whatever reason, after watching a Gainax Ending, you\n> won't have any idea what happened.\n>\n> After rewatching it, rewatching the entire series, discussing it with other\n> fans, looking up the meaning of the symbolism, and subjecting the entire\n> thing to a comprehensive literary analysis, you still might not have any\n> idea what happened. If you're lucky, then there will be some kind of\n> emotional or symbolic resolution even if it doesn't actually explain what\n> happened to the characters, and you'll be left with the sense that the\n> series as a whole was more deeply thought out than it seemed before.\n>\n> If you're unlucky, then you'll be left with more questions than when you\n> started and the sense that the series as a whole has been voided of the\n> meaning you once read in it.\n\nYou can see this in Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, He Is My\nMaster, Monchromatic, and many other series made by Gainax.\n\nMore recently however, Kill la Kill (by Studio Trigger - where many of the\nemployees are ex-Gainax ones) has one of the protaganists hoping that \"Gainax\ndoesn't screw up the ending\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-07T11:49:36.880", "id": "14923", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-07T12:00:01.757", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "14922", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure I found what you're describing, in the quest to figure out\nwhat's the horror anime from late 80s/early 90s that I'm looking for.\n\nFrom: <http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8211>\n\nThe Curse of Kazuo Umezu 楳図かずおの呪い (Japanese)\n\nPlot Summary: Two separate stories. In \"What Will the Video Camera Reveal\", a\ntransfer student arrives from Mexico causing great agitation into the life of\na classmate named Masami. In \"The Haunted Mansion\", four girls adventure into\na sinister house on their neighborhood.\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipIppmeQwf0>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-06T03:58:11.513", "id": "15515", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-06T03:58:11.513", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9500", "parent_id": "14929", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Naruto universe, Kakashi is a very famous shinobi and known far and wide.\nHowever, it would be wrong to say that he has surpassed everyone. It depends\non the timing and circumstances.\n\n * In the first bell test, Kakashi defeated Naruto, but in the second bell test, Naruto defeated Kakashi, so it all depends upon the circumstances.\n\n * If we were to have a direct match between Jiraiya and Kakashi, Kakashi would be defeated. How? Well, Jiraiya faced pain in his full glory in Amegakure, i.e. the opponent's territory, while Kakashi could not defeat just one of Pain's Paths when Konoha was attacked.\n\n * Next up is Tsunade. Jiraiya himself admitted that Tsunade once drew him near to death, and therefore she is more powerful than him. Thus, Kakashi can't defeat Tsunade either.\n\n * Now comes up Orochimaru. During _Search for Tsunade_ arc, we see a hell of a battle -- Tsunade and Jiraiya vs. Orochimaru, still Orochimaru was able to escape in the end. Thus, Kakashi can't defeat Orochimaru either.\n\n * Now it's time for Itachi. In the very first days of Itachi's first premier in the series, Kakashi fought him and had to be admitted to the hospital for a very long time. Even in the Shippuden version, Itachi is just too powerful to be taken down.\n\n * Then we have Obito. Well, I only watch the anime, and up until now, Kakashi has just been losing to Obito.\n\nThose are the reasons why I say that Kakashi is not the most powerful one.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-08T09:21:23.123", "id": "14942", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-13T05:38:11.203", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-13T05:38:11.203", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9079", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**Taijutsu**\n\nJiraiya got the Frog Kumite, Tsunade has brutal strength, so it is clear here\nthat in terms of Taijutsu, Kakashi is not as strong as those two. As for\nOrochimaru and Itachi, they don't use taijutsu much so it can be said that\nKakashi could be on the same level or better.\n\n**Ninjutsu**\n\nKakashi is the renowned Copy Ninja, the one who has copied over 1.000 jutsus.\nIn term of Jutsu knowledge, it can be said he is on par with Orochimaru if not\ngreater. Tsunade is not that great in ninjutsu other that ninjutsu for healing\npurposes. Jiraiya has great ninjutsus but if we talk about the jutsu element,\nKakashi can perform 4 basic elements (Katon: Goukaku, Suiton: Suiryuudan,\nDoton: Doryuuheki, Raiton: Raikiri). He was also able to learn Rasengan, which\nwas rated as an A rank jutsu. Meaning that it is very hard to learn. Itachi,\nbeing an Uchiha, would be able to copy jutsu the same way Kakashi did. So they\ncan be said on the same level. However, it is not known whether Itachi can use\n4 elements like Kakashi did. Itachi for sure can use fire jutsus as\ndemonstrated during his fight against Sasuke. Kakashi learned to use Susano'o\nafter Obito transferred his remaining chakra to him upon his death. So here,\nKakashi can be said has surpassed the other 4 in this.\n\n**Chakra**\n\nKakashi is very well known as having a low reserves of chakra. He commented\nthat Naruto has about 4 times of his. And considering that Naruto-Sasuke-\nSakura was like the new Sannin of Konoha, it can be said that Jiraiya has\nabout the same or greater level of chakra than Naruto. Orochimaru as we know\nis a chakra monster, same with Tsunade. Itachi is pretty much on the same\nlevel as Kakashi in term of chakra reserves, except that being an Uchiha, he\ngets less strain than Kakashi in using the Sharingan.\n\n**Genjutsu**\n\nKakashi is better in Genjutsu than Jiraiya, except of course, when Jiraiya\nused the help of Fukasaku and his wife (the frog sennins) to cast sound\ngenjutsu. He should be better than Tsunade and Orochimaru too since he has the\nSharingan. He, however, is far weaker than Itachi.\n\nBased on this, we can say that overall, Kakashi hasn't surpassed the other 4.\nHe's just pretty much on the same level, or a bit under the other 4.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-09T10:24:32.877", "id": "14966", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-07T05:54:02.290", "last_edit_date": "2016-03-07T05:54:02.290", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter reading all the answers, I think I can now make my own conclusion about\nthe question.\n\n## Kakashi vs. Itachi\n\nIn the anime, Itachi is certainly one of the most powerful shinobi. It has\nbeen observed that Kakashi was defeated by Itachi by the Tsukuyomi. This is\none of the strongest jutsu that he could use. But as has been remarked\nearlier, Sharingan user can't protect himself from a Genjutsu cast by Mangekyo\nSharingan. To remain immune, the opponent should at least use Mangekyo\nSharingan (other than the method that Jiraiya said to Naruto, which applies\nmostly to the people with an immense amount of Chakra). Kakashi was seemingly\nunaware of his Mangekyo Sharingan at the time he fought Itachi, so he failed\nto defeat Itachi.\n\nIt should also be noted that the Amaterasu would have no effect on Kakashi,\nbecause he could simply warp away the flame or move into the Kamui dimension.\nAs for the Tsukuyomi, Kakashi's Susanoo would perfectly counter it.\n\nBesides, as [**Sakurai Tomoki** noted in his\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14966/), Kakashi can perform all 5\nbasic elements, which is a feat Itachi is not known to have. In this aspect,\nKakashi is also ahead of Itachi. Itachi also noted that fighting Kakashi alone\nwas dangerous with a high chance of injuries.\n\n## Kakashi vs. Jiraya\n\nWhile comparing between Jiraiya and Kakashi, it should be noted that in the\nanime, Kakashi was in a developing stage, meaning that his power was\nincreasing whereas Jiraiya's power showed no notable development.\n\nIn terms of Taijutsu, Kakashi is surely ahead of Jiraiya, in contrary to\n[**Sakurai Tomoki** 's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14966/). Let\nme quote the relevant paragraphs from\n[Jiraiya](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jiraiya#Taijutsu)'s article on Naruto\nWiki:\n\n> While not being his preferred combat method, Jiraiya was still very\n> proficient with taijutsu, capable of stopping some of the individual dogs\n> that split from the Giant Multi-Headed Dog just using his legs. His natural\n> strength, while nowhere close to his team-mate Tsunade, was very impressive.\n> In the anime, there is one such occasion where this is shown, when Jiraiya\n> intervened in a fight between a young Gamabunta (who was still bigger than\n> himself) and an unknown snake of equal size where Jiraiya grabbed and tossed\n> the snake a great distance away with ease. Also in the anime, Jiraiya, as a\n> child, was able to lift a large boulder several times his size. Jiraiya has\n> showcased a high level of durability over the course of his life; taking a\n> direct kick to the face from Might Guy, as well as surviving a direct blow\n> from Nagato's Giant Ox, which ploughed him through several steel pipes,\n> without getting injured. Even at the brink of death he still managed to\n> figure out Pain's secret and engrave it on Fukasaku's back, so he could\n> deliver the intel to Konoha.\n\nThis is all about Jiraiya. Now for\n[Kakashi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake#Taijutsu):\n\n> Kakashi is very adept in taijutsu. In the anime, as a child, he was skilled\n> enough to hold his own against his sensei, Minato Namikaze, in his bell\n> test, managing to touch one of the bells during the test. As an adult, his\n> skills improved considerably, able to easily defeat hundreds of enemies\n> using well-coordinated attack patterns to handle the multiple enemy strikes.\n> Kakashi can also fight on par with Might Guy, a taijutsu master, ever since\n> childhood. Likewise, from his various challenges against and mission with\n> Guy, Kakashi has copied and developed considerable skill in his friend's\n> Strong Fist-style and several of its techniques, enough to train others in\n> its usage. He is also noted to have impressive speed; able to intercept an\n> opponent faster than unfocused eyes could follow even from a distance.His\n> speed allows him to effectively catch his opponents off-guard to quickly\n> strike them down and easily evade attacks. Even against highly experienced\n> assassins, Kakashi can silently sneak-up on them, making him prime to\n> strike. His speed increased considerably in Part II; before the timeskip he\n> had difficulty keeping up with Itachi Uchiha, but he out-manoeuvred him\n> after the timeskip. Kakashi has also shown remarkable reflexes, able to\n> instantly react and effectively manoeuvre out of surreal danger.\n>\n> Kakashi's speed is further seen during the Fourth Shinobi World War, able to\n> enough to outmanoeuvre a Version 2 jinchūriki despite its enhanced and\n> multiple fields of vision, and even keep pace with Might Guy using six of\n> the Eight Gates. Kakashi was even able to blitz, and nearly sever Kaguya\n> Ōtsutsuki's arm in one move, despite having her multiple dōjutsu active.\n> Likewise, his hand seal prowess is very great, able to perform them at\n> highly difficult speeds to follow. He can also open at least one of the\n> Eight Gates, a feat that very few shinobi can achieve and, in the anime,\n> utilise advanced techniques derived from it while showing no signs of\n> fatigue afterwards. His raw strength is also noticeably high, able to clash\n> with a physically strong opponent like Zabuza Momochi, who was wielding the\n> rather heavy Kubikiribōchō, simultaneously throw Naruto and Sasuke a large\n> distance, snap one of Nagato's chakra receivers with his bare hand, and\n> later easily wield Kubikiribōchō himself with a single hand for extended\n> periods of time. He's shown a rather impressive level of durability and\n> endurance, able to survive Nagato's building busting Shinra Tensei from\n> upclose with minimum damage and continue fighting afterwards.\n\n[**user3275697** remarked](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14942) that\nJiraiya fought Pain in his full glory, while Kakashi wasn't able to defeat\neven one Path of Pain. True. But the difference in Jiraiya and Kakashi's\nsituation is that Jiraiya fought with the Paths with Gamaken and defeated them\nin his Sage Mode, while Kakashi fought the two Paths of Pain without even\nusing his Mangekyo Sharingan. Therefore, no conclusion can be drawn from this\nfact.\n\nExcept for Jiraiya's Genjutsu, it should be noted that Kakashi has the ability\nto encounter all of Jiraiya's attack. For example, he can easily warp away\nJiraiya's Rasengan, which he used in his battle against Pain.\n\nBesides, I personally think that if Kakashi were to fight with the Paths of\nPain whom Jiraiya fought against, he would be at an advantage because of his\nwarping ability. He could simply warp the summoned animals into Kamui\ndimension, while Jiraiya could not.\n\nAlso, Kakashi is certainly ahead of Jiraiya in terms of Ninjutsu. _**He is\nsaid to copy about 1000 jutsus.**_\n\n## Kakashi vs. Orochimaru\n\nIt is really very hard to compare them. However, Kakashi has improved a lot\nsince their first fight (note that he didn't know how to use the Mangekyo\nSharingan at the time of their first fight) and nothing can be said with\ncertainty. However, one thing that is worthy (perhaps) to note is that in the\nstatistics between Orochimaru and Kakashi,\n[Orochimaru](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Orochimaru#Stats) stands at 35,\nwhile [Kakashi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi#Stats) is at 34.5\n\n## Kakashi vs. Tsunade\n\nIn this case, I think that Kakashi can easily surpass Tsunade in every other\ncases, except for reserves of chakra. But nothing authentic can be concluded,\nso I go with [**user3275697** 's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14942).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-10T13:08:39.353", "id": "14995", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-16T18:51:47.023", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSimple analysis (from Madara):\n\n> Think rock paper scissors. Just because rock beats scissors, that doesn't\n> mean rock also beats paper. Also, I doubt Obito would have won against\n> Itachi.\n\nNow to answer the first question: **Kakashi defeated Obito. Had he surpassed\nall of Tsunade, Jiraya, Orochimaru and Itachi?**\n\n**Partially no.** With regards to strength (chakra and ninjutsu), defeating\nsomeone with such strength like Obito doesn't mean he surpasses the others\nthat he already defeated. This scenario always happens in real life.\n\n**Partially yes.** What made Kakashi special is his tactics. He is known to be\na genius because of his strategies in combat. Given his limited reserve of\nchakra, he can analyze fully the situation, come up with a possible solution,\nand utilize all the resources he has (chakra, techniques, etc) and maximize\nthem all to execute it. Winning a battle is always his goal. Focus is the key.\n\n**Is there any reference in the manga itself from which a definite answer can\nbe given, either in the affirmative or in the negative?**\n\nThis would be tricky. I can cite all the battles of Kakashi in manga/anime,\nbut that requires a lot of space. Just watching/reading all his battles, you\ncan tell that he is indeed a genius because he always thinks and analyzes\neverything before he makes a move.\n\nJust an example: when Kakashi and Guy rescue Naruto against Obito, they were\npatiently waiting for Obito to materialize. That alone can tell how skilled\nKakashi is. He used the element of surprise.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T00:46:09.967", "id": "14999", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T13:37:31.020", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-29T13:37:31.020", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion, Kakashi did surpass them all, **momentarily** that is. I don't\nsee Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade taking on Kakashi with his double Mangekyō\nSharingan (Complete Body Susanoo, plus both variants of Kamui).\n\nItachi, on the other hand, just might have a chance against him. Since\nItachi's Susanoo is equipped with Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror, which was\nstated to be **essentially invincible** by Zetsu, he might have a chance\nagainst Kakashi's Susanoo.\n\nDouble Mangekyō Sharingan Kakashi surpassed the Legendary Sannin and Itachi\npossibly, but then again, he lost his Sharingan power ups.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nYes, he did surpass them when he got the Double Mangekyō Sharingan boost.\nHowever, the \"Hokage Kakashi\" is way behind Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Itachi. He\nstill might be able to win against Tsunade.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-12T03:41:52.557", "id": "19991", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-15T17:36:28.937", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-15T17:36:28.937", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13190", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nKakashi can't spam his Kamui abilities so even if he could use it against\npain, he probably only use it 1-2 times till he gets drained. Also, Kakashi is\nno where near the Sannins level. Unless you count Kakashi with the boosted\npower ups from Obito which I really don't give because he had the power for\nonly 1-2 chapters ._. Itachi slays Kakashi, how much more proof you need to\nbelieve this ?! Orochimaru slays Kakashi... Kakashi fears the man as seen on\nmany episodes. Tsunade & Kakashi is the only reasonable fight seeing that\ntsunade is a medic ninja that has great strength & power. But even then\nKakashi would have his hands full. Kamui spams is a bad reason for Kakashi to\nget the edge. Kakashi is my favorite character but this is too easy. & yes,\nHokage Kakashi still loses. Hokage Kakashi is the weakest Kakashi since he has\nno sharingan & he probably can't use the jutsus he copied due to that. & you\nguys bring up the 1000 Jutsus he's copied yet we don't know what the jutsus\nare. Kakashi loses.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-25T07:19:57.740", "id": "21824", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-25T07:19:57.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14658", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nthe answer is yes!! an those are my reasons: kakshi vs tsunade: kakahi can do\nbetter ninjutsu with his 2 eyes sharingan he can do perfect form susano and\nkamui kakashi can also do better genjustsu than her with his sharingan and\nfinaly taijutsu tsunade is phisiqly stronger than kakashi but much slower so\nshe wont be able to hurt him and even if she will he can use the kamui to\ndisappear so kakashi won this fight: kakashi vs jiriya: kakashi can do better\nninjutsu than jiraiya and im not sure about taujutsu or genjutsu but kakashi\nis so strong with his susano that i cant realy see him losing to jiraiya and i\nalso cant see jiraiya realy doing anithing against kakashi so kakashi won this\nfight: kakashi vs orochimaru : so orochimaru basicly is a very tough oponent\nto everione but his taijutsu ang genjutsu are much weacker than kakashis and\neven his ninjutsu is not the atckung type like kakashi orochimaru do ninjutsu\nthat can hurt you diefferntly like reanimation but if this two will face each\nother rendomaly kakashi will win for sure i know that in the early childhood\nand even in part one kakashi fear orochimaru but now with his power level and\nthe 2 eyes sharingan he can destroy orochimaru: so kakashi won this fight:\nkakashi vs itachi: so i will begin i in the backround... in part one kakshi\nwas defeated by his genjutsu that surpraisdhim but back then kakashi didnt\nhave the mangekyo shrungan an definatly not 2 eyes mangekyo sharingan...\nitachi can do the uncomplete susano while kakashi can do the perfect for and\nit even can fly itachi can do realy good genjutsu even better tahn kakashi but\nwith the mangekyo shruingan can see through his genjutsu just like sasuke\ndidto him in thei big fight taht sasuke won and here is one of itachis\nweaknesses hes low stamina... and now moving to taijutsu itachi is pretty good\nin taijutsu but also kakasi but kakashi can do kamui and i know some pepole\nwill say that kakashi can do the kamui more than 2-3 times but now he can\npretty much do it as much as he want becasu he has 2 eyes sharingan so i think\nif they both will clash and itachi will fight the same as he fought against\nsasuke or even better he will still lose to kakasi itachi and kakashi are both\nvery smart but kakashi is stronger than itachi so kakshi won this fight: and\nthose are the reasons why kakshi is stronger than orochimaru jiraiya tsunade\nand itachi\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-27T11:12:22.903", "id": "27639", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-27T11:12:22.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19365", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHere is a fact for you. Itachi died when Kakashi was still evolving and\ngetting better. Itachi was considered superior to all of the genjutsu users\nexcept madara of course. If Itachi was alive, he would have been stronger. If\nhe would have taken shisui's eyes, his eternal mangekyou would have far\nsurpassed anyone else's because shisui and itachi were considered to be on the\nsame level. Itachi did not take his eyes by choice. And none of kakashi's\nattacks can go through yata mirror. And the totsuka blade seals susanoo. Which\ncan be resurrected again but on casting the jutsu again. And people forget\nabout yasaka magatama. One long range attack that cannot be blocked and is\nconsidered as strong as the tailed beast chakra infused rasen shuriken. Now\nimagine amaterasu around the yasaka magatama. And please, never forget\nizanami. Sage mode counters genjustsu. Yet kabuto being the perfect sage\ncouldnt escape izanami. Who knows what more he would have learned if he was\nalive. So I believe Kakashi was far from competing against Itachi. Remember\nOrochimaru didnt even dare fight Itachi. He was willing to fight tsunade and\njirayia at the same time but not Itachi. The answer is clear.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-04T11:40:30.403", "id": "30210", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-04T11:40:30.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22467", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI feel there are way too many misconceptions on this topic. I don't understand\nwhere half these answers are coming from, as a naruto fan for over 11 years\nnow.\n\n**Tsunade:**\n\nI saw someone speak of Tsunade's strong taijutsu. Tsunade is a horribly weak\nfighter. The reason she's can punch so hard is because of her chakra control,\nwhich she fully explained to Sakura in the training flashbacks. Mind you, that\nshe was _losing to Kabuto_. It was often stated that Kabuto was _\"Just on\nKakashi's level\"_. Meanwhile, Kabuto was one of the strongest people in the\nseries. Don't forget that Tsunade is a medic and not a fighter. She's\nexceptional as a medic, not as a fighter. As a fighter she's just your\neveryday jounin level.\n\n**Jiraiya:** I saw someone answer about his taijutsu as well, stating it's so\nstrong because of his Frog Kimute. Well, he can only use that in sage mode.\nEither way, I do believe Jiraiya was the strongest of the sannin and would\nindeed quite easily beat Kakashi. There is simply no doubt about this... or is\nthere? The fact is that these people know each other well. If Jiraiya wouldn't\nknow about Kakashi's sharingan, specifically his \"I'm gonna shoot you into\nanother dimension!\" trick, He'd probably lose by surprise. Kakashi is an\nassassin type ninja and would almost always win a fight when it came to\ntrickery.\n\n**Orochimaru:**\n\nI'm quite sure Orochimaru would win, simply because he's pretty much immortal.\nHe has a lot of very dirty tricks and Kakashi wouldn't have the chakra/stamina\nto keep up the fight. Without that, Kakashi would probably win, though.\n\n**Obito:**\n\nObito would probably kick Kakashi's ass, but he would also kick the asses of\nthe Sannin. People like Orochimaru posed no threat to him at all. Obito is\nsuper OP. besides this, his Sharingan is way stronger than Kakashi's.\n\n**Itachi:**\n\nKakashi would simply lose to Itachi. Itachi is possibly the strongest\ncharacter to have ever existed. A lot of people tend to say \"Aside from\nObito/Madara\", but I disagree. Itachi was the most genius ninja ever known to\nanyone, as far as we know. All we have seen from Itachi was a display of power\nwhile he was dying. We have, not once, seen Itachi go full power. His\nSusanoo's was so strong for a reason, though. Although Madara is sickeningly\nOP, I wouldn't be so sure that Obito is stronger than Itachi, let alone\nKakashi.\n\n**Kakashi himself:**\n\nIt should be noted that Kakashi's power hasn't been extremely stable\nthroughout the series. Kakashi is known for having a laughably small chakra\npool. Pretty much every genin we've seen has had a bigger chakra pool than\nKakashi, especially when he uses his Sharingan. Having said that, Kakashi is\nknown for being a tactical genius. He's an assassin-type ninja, and would kill\nnearly anyone if he, for once, was the ambusher. He analyses every situation\nperfectly and always finds a great plan to deal with it. That being said,\nabsurdly OP people like orochimaru and Itachi wouldn't be bothered by it, as\norochimaru immortal and Itachi is just as much a genius as Kakashi is, if not\neven more so. Basically, Kakashi would win almost any fight if he was the one\nto initiate it and his opponent would actually die from having their hearts\ndeleted... :P\n\n\\-- my final conlusion is: No, Kakashi did not surpass them in the sense of\nall-round power, but he did surpass them in a strategical sense. Basically,\nyou'd want Kakashi as your team-leader, where as Jiraiya should be the one\nhe's bossing around. Kakashi is basically the boogeyman. He's most dangerous\nwhen you don't see him :)\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-02T01:29:17.363", "id": "32488", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-02T01:29:17.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6289", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYou must note that Kakashi did NOT defeat Obito. I say this because Obito knew\nabout Madara's seal (chapter 675) and wanted to undo it to become the Ten-\nTails Jinchuuriki. Also, he wasn't even trying to kill Kakashi. So he LET\nKakashi STAB HIM IN THE CHEST. We all know that he could use his Rinnegan\n(because he used Edo Tensei) but he didn't use it in his fight with Kakashi.\nKakashi couldn't even survive two Paths of Pain and Obito can use all of them\nand also Izanagi. Kakashi himself accepted that Orochimaru and Jiraiya\n(because Jiraiya fought all Six Paths of Pain BY HIMSELF) are better than him.\nI don't know about Tsunade, but Kakashi would be easily defeated by Jiraiya or\nOrochimaru.\n\nWell, about Itachi, we all saw Itachi defeated Kakashi with his genjutsu in\nthe original Naruto series when Itachi didn't even use Susanoo (his Susanoo\nhad the Totsuka blade which could seal literally anything) or Amaterasu. Also,\nKakashi, without Obito's Sharingan, is nothing in front of any of the above\nmentioned since Obito's eye allowed him to see his opponent's moves (he\nwould've been defeated by Zabuza if he didn't have Obito's eye). Kakashi also\nagreed that the Chidori would've remained as an incomplete jutsu if he hadn't\ngot Obito's Sharingan. It would also feel like you are cheating when only\nKakashi's abilities are unknown and not Jiraiya's. One can escape from Kamui\nwith good speed (as Minato did). Also, Kakashi exhausts almost all of his\nchakra if he uses Kamui twice and Jiraiya won't let him do that. Even if\nKakashi uses Kamui on Jiraiya and Jiraiya got teleported into another\ndimension, he could easily summon himself back to Mount Myouboku by summoning\none of the toads and then summon himself back to the real world. This would\nmake Kakashi's Kamui useless and also would exhaust his chakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-11T06:30:00.270", "id": "37804", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-11T11:17:45.477", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-11T11:17:45.477", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "29705", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYou're all wrong. Kakashi definitely surpassed the sannin, maybe not jiraiya\nor on the same part as jiraiya. But itachi, hell no. With his mastery in\ntaijutsu, kenjutsu, dojutsu, genjutsu, and ninjutsu, kakashi even with a full\nbody Susanoo would never stand a chance. Like zetsu said, with itachis yata\nmirror and totsuka blade, he's basically invincible.\n\nHe was a genius with kage level thinking as a child as stated in the Manga and\nanime. Kakashi didn't have kage level thinking until he was kage.\n\nKishimoto, the creator himself said itachi was the strongest of all naruto\ncharacters and that he had to give him the illness to kill him off because\nitachi would have wiped the floor with madara and then there'd be no story.\nI'd go so far to say itachi could quite possible stand a chance against sasuke\nin his prime as an adult (possibly)\n\nBut no way kakashi surpassed Itachi.\n\nItachi>Madara>Obito=Kakashi>jiraiya>orichimaru>tsunami\n\nItachu wipes floor with every single person above. Hands down. His totsuka\nblade and yata mirror alone. Not to mention his mastery of every type of juts\n(ninja, Gen, ken, do, Tai, etc.\n\nSo no, itachI still beats kakashi in prime.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-07T19:52:00.510", "id": "38320", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-07T19:52:00.510", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30202", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nLOOOOOL. You people are insane...need I remind anyone how Itachi was the only\nUchiha (in a time where maaaaany Uchiha still existed) that sensed Tobi/Madara\nand basically told him, \"I'll give you a chance to bounce, or else...\" Kakashi\nis defo a powerhouse, but nothing near Itachi. There HASN'T been anyone to\ndefeat Itachi that we know of. The guy was a genius to the end, only perishing\nto a gay illness given to him to further the story line and the only way\nsomeone so OP could ever be defeated. Itachi never lost his cool, he never\nseemed cornered, it's like EVERYTHING he did was perfectly calculated. There\nis no way in hell Kakashi could defeat Itachi. Not with one sharingan, not\nwith two... How many times have we seen Kakashi defeated? How about cornered?\nMany... I cannot believe anyone is seriously considering Kakashi defeating\nOrochimaru. Orochimaru is the epitome of a cockroach; the son of a bitch is\nindestructable. He has been researching his whole life prohibited\njutsus...ugh, I honestly don't want to write all the things he can do, not to\nmention the Tsunade-Jiraiya fight against him, where he wasn't even able to\nuse HIS ARMS OR JUTSUS. Come on people....Jiraiya? The guy is much wiser than\nKakashi, who couldn't defeat one Pain while Jiraiya fought them all. The guy\nwas a freaking old man and still was a powerhouse. He can tap into Sage mode\nand we all know that Sage mode is what the First used to counter Madara's\nsharingan... Why count a boost in power given by a dying Obito that lasted a\nmere 2 chapters? If that's the case then why not make him fight against Itachi\nwithout an illness or Jiraiya in his prime? It's like people look for reasons\nto make Kakashi stronger than the rest, when he clearly isn't. He can use all\n5 styles...buuuuuhuuuuuu! He can use Kamui....buuuuuhuuuuu! Let's see how much\nkamui is useful when he uses it twice and finds himself with less than a third\nof his chakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-29T08:16:49.067", "id": "40570", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-29T08:16:49.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32796", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis question is not even that complicated a much as you guys make it\nseems...So let's break down and compare the skills of the four to Kakashi's\nskills...i be starting from the weakest to the strongest.\n\nFirst, the weaker of the four would obviously be Tsunade...Taijutsu, well in\nthis department Kakashi outclasses Tsunade by a long shot...Strength, Tsunade\nwould make Kakashi look like childs, Offensive capabilities Kakashi takes this\naswell, Ninjutsu, Kakashi has more than her and with both Mangekyou Sharingan\nkakashi would stomp her completely...So its pretty much Kakashi is stronger.\n\nThe second weakest I would say is Orochimaru...Orochimaru is on a different\nlevel when it comes to Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, and Genjutsu...Plus its impossible\nto killed the without sealing him...Remember his fight with the naruto's four\ntails...he got cut in two about a hundred (not literally) but he just shed his\nskin and he's good as knew...Sasuke tried to kill him, Itachi tried to kill\nhim...crying out loud the entire Narutoverse tried to kill him...and he's\nstill alive to date...he's impossible to kill...the dude has impure world\nresurrection, immortality to a huge extent, eight head serpent jutsu, a\nmillion and one jutsu, large chakra reserve.\n\nThird weakest of the four would be Itachi...just like how Orochimaru wasnt\ndebatable this is the same...Itachi wins...Itachi has Izanami, Susanoo'o\n(Sword of Totsuka and Yata Mirror), Amateratsu, Tsukuyoumi...so there is no\nchance of winning.\n\nLast Jiraiya...I just got one word for you sage mode...the man can summon a\nmillion and one toad to fight along side him...he has sage mode...that sealing\njustsu that can seal away anything (the one he use to seal Itachi's black\nflames), he has a wide range of jutsu aswell.\n\nSo from my observation of reading every single manga and watching all anime\nepisode (Cannon and filler)...i can completely say the Kakashi is stronger\nthan Tsunade with or without both Mangekyou...However the other three is just\nout of his league, they all have jutsu's and abilities that makes him look\nlike child's play\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-19T19:44:11.733", "id": "43846", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-19T19:44:11.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37233", "parent_id": "14933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThere is slight nuance here. Walpurgisnight is a natural phenomenon that\nhappens all the time. Just like places where hurricanes happen occasionally,\nyou are going to encounter one sooner or later if you start living there. Mami\nknew Walpurgisnight will come sooner or later. She just didn't know when and\nwhere. It might have been next week or next year.\n\nHomura on the other hand knew exactly when and where it will come.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-08T20:49:47.197", "id": "14953", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-08T20:49:47.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "14944", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs a matter of fact, Kyoko asked Homura the same question regarding\nWalpurgisnacht's appearance, to which Homura responds with a single word:\n\n> ## Statistics.\n\nWell... I think you can take Akemi Homura's word for it. She has experienced\n**_so many_** timelines, planning and fighting the Walpurgisnacht witch,\ngradually learning more and more about it every time.\n\nI suppose she's done a lot of data analytics about the witch with all the\ninformation she has collected throughout the timelines! Graphs, annotated\nsketches of the Walpurgisnacht witch and maps of Mitakihara city feature at\nHomura's residence. Also note that among the timelines shown, all of them\nplace the fight scene of magical girls vs the Walpurgisnacht witch in one of\nthe lakes/water bodies of Mitakihara city.\n\nHere's Homura indicating the location of the witch...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RnDsF.jpg)\n\n## Edit:\n\nI would suggest that Mami knew about Walpurgis in the first timeline of\nepisode 10 **only because** Kyubey said so. After all, _the Incubators do\nplant grief seeds across the city_ , which hatch into witches. In fact, I\nwouldn't be surprised if the Walpurgisnacht was the work of the Incubators. In\nall their advanced technology and magic, the Incubators may even fabricate\ngrief seeds which has the essence of an agglomerate of regular witches...\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-21T20:27:06.887", "id": "40472", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-23T08:11:57.883", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-23T08:11:57.883", "last_editor_user_id": "30867", "owner_user_id": "30867", "parent_id": "14944", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe [top answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/40472) has effectively\nanswered your question about how Walpurgisnacht's appearance is predicted in\nlater timelines. However, its appearance is still known in advance without\nHomura's intervention.\n\n * In Madoka Magica episode 10, Mami is actively preparing for Walpurgisnacht's arrival.\n * In Kazumi Magica chapter 22, Kyubey briefly mistakes Kanna's amalgamate witch for Walpurgisnacht, implying that it could suddenly appear in a similar manner.\n * In The Different Story chapter 2, Kyouko tells Mami rumors she's heard about a superdreadnought witch called Walpurgisnacht, which is notable since this long predates Walpurgisnacht's arrival in the anime.\n * In Magia Record, the Magius' plan revolves around luring Walpurgisnacht to Kamihama as the power source needed for the Automatic Purification System to extend around the globe.\n\nMost notably, however, **Walpurgisnacht does not drop a grief seed.** In the\ntimeline where it is defeated by Madoka and Homura alone, the only grief seed\nthey have access to is Oktavia's.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lIfDV.jpg)\n\nThis can't be attributed to the annihilation of its soul as in _Magia Record_\n, as neither Madoka nor Homura have a power capable of such like Ren does. And\n_Portable_ does confirm it has a Grief Seed.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hYf4h.png)\n\nSo where does its Grief Seed go, if it has one but never drops it even when\nseemingly defeated? Well, what if it doesn't die when it's killed? This would\nreadily explain how it's well-known in advance; it's never truly killed, but\nsimply exits reality and waits. It has been defeated before, by magical girls\nwho would warn their younger teammates of the witch that tears open the day,\nand it would be defeated again if the timeline hadn't consistently been reset\nafter its appearance in the anime.\n\nFurther supporting evidence, which is less reliable due to being pulled from\nunreleased materials:\n\n * The _Rebellion_ sequel's title, _Walpurgis Revolution_ , implies that the witch is somehow capable of persisting past two true resets, even though logically the Law of Cycles should immediately destroy it once it appears.\n\n * A witch exclusive to _Portable_ , Itzli, is specifically noted in the lore as only appearing _after_ Walpurgisnacht's defeat. Like the character introduced by _Scene/Zero_ , Aki Mabayu, Itzli has a film-splicing motif, and could thus potentially have powers over editing herself into reality if she is in fact a part of the Walpurgisnacht amalgamate. Supporting this is Mabayu's suspiciously Walpurgisnacht-like appearance:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U9e6h.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-15T05:49:17.533", "id": "65921", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-15T06:43:51.787", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-15T06:43:51.787", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "63239", "parent_id": "14944", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nActually it's not only Kyoto. Depending on the manga's theme, the field trip\ncould be anywhere, but yes, most of the time it'd be Okinawa, Hokkaido, Kyoto\nand Osaka. As a side note, most of the manga I read has the school trip to\nOkinawa and Hokkaido instead of Kyoto like yours.\n\n[Okinawa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island) is usually visited\nduring winter because due to its geographical location, it is warmer than the\nrest of Japan. Example for manga that has summer in Okinawa is Great Teacher\nOnizuka.\n\n[Hokkaido](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido) is the other way around. It\nis usually visited during summer for the students to enjoy cool summer holiday\nswimming and all.\n\nWell, Okinawa and Hokkaido is usually interchangeable, depending on the\nauthor. Okinawa is also visited during summer if the author wants a hot summer\nholiday theme. Hokkaido if s/he wants skiing during winter.\n\nNow, for Kyoto, they are visited for the obvious reason.\n[Kyoto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto) was the old capital of Japan. It\nwas referred like a holy city, much like Vatican is to the Catholics, while\nalso was the central for administrations and home to the Emperor. It also\nhosts the famous Honnoji temple, albeit the location is not the same as the\n[Honnoji](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honn%C5%8D-ji) where Nobunaga met his\ndemise.\n\nOsaka is also sometimes visited, thanks to its culture.\n[Osaka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka) is famous for its [Kansai-\nben](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_dialect) (Kansai dialect) and the\n[Osaka castle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_Castle), of course. Osaka is\nalso home for many famous Japanese artists and bands, like\n[L'Arc~en~Ciel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arc-en-Ciel) and\n[SCANDAL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandal_%28Japanese_band%29).\n[Ranker](http://www.ranker.com/list/osaka-bands-and-musical-artists-from-\nhere/reference) listed at least 25 of them.So, that could be one of the\nreasons too.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-09T09:49:22.247", "id": "14964", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-20T19:08:33.070", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-20T19:08:33.070", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "14948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nI asked a Japanese friend and apparently, depending on where in Japan kids go\nto school, they indeed often have a field trip to Kyoto at one point in their\nschool life. So it is not just a trope.\n\nOkinawa does not seem to be such a common destination though, as it is not as\nconveniently reachable.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-21T08:00:40.663", "id": "21000", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T18:12:45.260", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T18:12:45.260", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14033", "parent_id": "14948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt doesn't seem to be revealed anywhere officially, but based on fans' theory: \n**The \"N\" should be a word (that has similar pronunciation with) \"Now\"**.\n\nJapanese fans found that all* characters in Hanayamata are related to Kamakura\ncity in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.\n\nFrom [an anon user id 900RcZoqa on post no. 960 on\n2channel](http://raptor.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/livejupiter/1475301406/l50),\n\n> 全部地名\n>\n> 『ハナヤマタ』 \n> 関谷なる → 鎌倉市関谷 \n> 笹目ヤヤ → 鎌倉市笹目 \n> 常盤マチ → 鎌倉市常盤 \n> 西御門多美 → 鎌倉市西御門\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> All of them are name of places\n>\n> \"Hanayamata\" \n> Naru Sekiya → Kamakura city, Sekiya \n> Yaya Sasame → Kamakura city, Sasame \n> Machi Tokiwa → Kamakura city, Tokiwa \n> Tami Nishimikado → Kamakura city, Nishimikado\n\nthat leaves Hana N. Fountainstand.\n\nTurns out there's also a place in Kamakura city called Imaizumidai.\nImaizumidai in Japanese is 今泉台. If each character is translated to English,\n\n * 今 = **N** ow\n * 泉 = **Fountain**\n * 台 = **Stand**\n\nthey match with \"N. Fountainstand\".\n\n> ハナ・N・フォンテーンスタンド → 鎌倉市今泉台（Now→今 fountain→泉 stand→台）\n\nAs for what does the \"N\" stand for, we can't really know, since as it's been\nmentioned, フォンテーンスタンド might be read as _Fountainstand_ , _Fontaine-Stand_ ,\n_Fonteyn-Stand_ , _Founteyne-Stand_ , etc. Thus, the \"N\" might be _Now_ ,\n_Nau_ , _Naw_ , etc.\n\n* * *\n\n*Except Sachiko Yamanoshita. There's no Yama-no-shita in Kamakura city, but there's **Yama** -no-uchi and Saka-no- **shita**. (From [Japanese Yahoo! Answers](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11135749451))\n\nAlso, there's someone who travelled around Kamakura to find these places.\n([1](http://imatre.exblog.jp/22635076/),\n[2](http://imatre.exblog.jp/22906649/))\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-28T14:42:39.483", "id": "38646", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-29T00:38:45.203", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-29T00:38:45.203", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "14952", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPossible spoilers for future episodes:\n\n> Well, in the light novel, Asuna's mum keeps on trying to arrange her a\n> marriage (yes, even after the Sugou incident) to a rich guy, and not someone\n> like Kazuto. She wants Asuna to be the high class girl she was born as, and\n> to stay that way. \n> \n> So those were probably the random rich guys her mum wanted to introduce,\n> there was also a scene where she was talking at a table... that might have\n> been her cousin that her mum also tried setting her up with. \n> \n> But it's alright, Asuna ends up showing her mum her log cabin on ALO, and\n> it happens to look like the home her mum had lived in as a child (as the mum\n> was born to a middle class family), blah blah blah, emotional moment,\n> Asuna's mum relents and tells Asuna to try her hardest to get the person she\n> loves, and she readily agrees. \n> \n> And Asuna x Kirito fans lived happily ever after.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T19:25:24.847", "id": "15026", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-11T20:43:02.667", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-11T20:43:02.667", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "9133", "parent_id": "14960", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe survived. In 699 you see him emerge from the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Spiral\nzetsu is near him and tries to grab him again, but the zetsu quickly falls\napart (presumably it died).\n\nYou don't see him anywhere in 700, though. So it's unknown if he lived to that\npoint or what he did after the IT was dispelled.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-09T11:40:52.103", "id": "14969", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-09T11:40:52.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "14967", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nhe survived.. naruto gaiden the seventh hokage episode 7 page 8 \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-11T23:02:31.410", "id": "22362", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T23:02:31.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15006", "parent_id": "14967", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI found out that Fuuka is born on the same day as Yuu. If you ask about\nAkitsuki Fuuka.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-20T20:20:13.917", "id": "38515", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-20T20:20:13.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30437", "parent_id": "14977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is probably not explained in the manga, because [the manga is... well,\nnot great](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6373/1908).\n\nKaburagi Shisei's eyes are mentioned in the novel, though. On page 666 of the\none-volume edition (book V, chapter 3; right before Hino Koufuu is slain), we\nhave:\n\n> 切れ長の非常に大きな目は、澄みきっていた。顔の造作も整っており、ハンサムと言ってもいいくらいだ。その異様な眼球を別にすればだが。\n>\n>\n> 鏑木康星氏には、片目に二つずつ、合わせて四つの虹彩があり、薄闇の中で、ぎらぎらと琥珀色に輝いていた。これは鏑木家に代々伝わる特異な遺伝的特徴で、一般人とは隔絶した呪力の証なのだという。\n\nRoughly translated,\n\n> His unusually-large, almond-shaped eyes were limpid. His face was so well-\n> sculpted, I might even have called him handsome - save for his bizarre eyes.\n>\n> Kaburagi Shisei had four irises - two in each eye. They shone through the\n> darkness, glowing the color of amber. That peculiarity was genetic in\n> origin, and had been passed down the Kaburagi lineage for generations. They\n> were a testament to the fact that his cantus was on an entirely different\n> level than that of the common people.\n\nSo I guess it's just some sort of genetic weirdness in his family, probably a\nbenign phenotypic side effect to whatever mutation makes people of his family\nparticularly powerful PK users.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-10T01:58:20.503", "id": "14981", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-10T01:58:20.503", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "14980", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nNo, it's not an extra reference to anything but a (possibly figurative)\nmorgue.\n\nIn the first bit you mentioned, Taiga is doing the \"evil overlord\" character\nthat Ami wrote for her, and the reference is pretty much a bowdlerized way to\nsay they're killing Yuri-sensei. The second time is just a callback to the\nfirst -- Taiga's character as \"student council president who will destroy your\nhappy school life\" is very clearly just her going back to the character that\nAmi had written for her; since the Palmtop Tiger and Delinquent Ryuji were\npretty much sticking with the characters that'd been established, she uses a\nlot of references to the wrestling act. (Plus I think it was fun for her to\nsay \"morgue\".)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-18T08:07:06.530", "id": "59609", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-18T08:07:06.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51733", "parent_id": "14983", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHisoka is a psycho that only seek for strong opponents to fight.\n\nHe saw a real potential in Gon since they met (Killua too , Leorio and\nKurapika too) and just want him not to die until he becomes a monster worth to\nconfront.\n\nAnd yes , for psychos , the pleasure they find in their... \"activities\" are\norgasms-like.\n\nRemember just what Hisoka had to do only to \"fight\" Kuroro , he likes to take\nhis time but in the same time when he fought Gon he could hardly prevent\nhimself from killing him ^^\n\nSo we can't say he's a rival , he's just another \"toy\" for Hisoka , but a\nspecial one as he really has the potential to become a monster.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-10T10:26:06.187", "id": "14991", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-15T12:39:34.883", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-15T12:39:34.883", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8788", "parent_id": "14984", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nNeither a rival nor a toy. I believe Hisoka has mixed feelings. His stated\ngoal is to allow Gon to \"ripen\" (achieve his full potential), then defeat him,\nbody and soul. Yet he also has high respect for Gon and will protect him, at\nleast until that \"harvest\". We even see him as an ally during the Yorknew City\nand Greed Island arcs.\n\nBeing a psycho is complicated. In a very warped way, Hisoka may even love Gon\n(in addition to a possible sexual attraction). But it is not a love which is\nlikely to end well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-28T00:45:11.650", "id": "28425", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-28T00:45:11.650", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19670", "parent_id": "14984", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHisoka is a maniac, addicted to pleasure derived from fighting strong\nopponents and killing them. The pleasure is often depicted in the anime and\nmanga similar to a sexual orgasm. He even makes moaning sounds. Lol. This\npleasure seeking is a never ending ladder. The next one must be greater than\nthe previous. He sees Gon as the one who can give him this satisfaction when\nthe right time comes. Killing Gon now would be a huge waste. Gon is his boy\ntoy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-08-22T15:42:01.053", "id": "59400", "last_activity_date": "2020-08-22T15:42:01.053", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48246", "parent_id": "14984", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]