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[ { "body": "\n\nGenjutsu was defined by Jiraiya as \"an advanced form of Ninjutsu\". It affects\nthe chakra currents in the opponent's brain.\n\nChakra disturbances can be caused through any of the senses, sight, hearing,\nsmell, taste or touch. Additionally, apparently, Yin type Genjutsu (genjutsu\nthat involves creating things from nothing, like Kurenai's) can be cast on an\nopponent without apparent connection to the senses.\n\nThe Second Mizukage's Yin genjutsu used chakra infused steam to mess with the\nopponent's sense of distance, over a wide area (so lots of opponents affected\nat the same time).\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-10T08:44:33.810", "id": "14988", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-10T08:44:33.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "14986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere was an interview with Anno on Youtube (which has unfortunately been\ntaken down) where he mentions a few relevant things:\n\n 1. He had to audition for the part\n 2. Miyazaki joked that he'd give the part to Toshio Suzuki (ex-Ghibli) if Anno didn't get the part\n\nHe also said:\n\n> It's my first time voicing a main character, so I figured it wasn't going to\n> be easy. At first Miya-san told me that the character was quiet one and that\n> there aren't lots of lines and I believed that. But after seeing the\n> storyboard, I was surprised. There were ton of lines, songs, French, German.\n> I felt like I was fooled.\n\nIn another interview (which was also taken down from Youtube) Miyazaki\nmentions during a meeting he got the idea of casting Anno and Suzuki seemed\non-board with the idea, but the others weren't too keen. He said that when him\nand Suzuki were bouncing ideas off each other, Anno's name \"just came up\".\nIt's no secret that [Anno and Miyazaki go way\nback](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Statements_by_Evangelion_Staff#Hideaki_Anno:_Ghibli_ga_Ippai_Liner_Notes),\nso when he was asked to come in for an audition, Anno couldn't refused and he\nturned out to be perfect.\n\nThe youtube interviews were both taken down but there's more info:\n\n * [In this thread](http://forum.evageeks.org/thread/14383/Anno-voicing-the-main-character-in-Miyazakis-upcoming-film/)\n * [Asahi English article](http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/anime_news/AJ201305200071)\n * [Nausicaa.net](http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Latest_News#First_Shots_from_Live-Action_Kiki.2C_Kaze_Tachinu_Voice_Recording)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T02:10:25.617", "id": "15003", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-11T02:10:25.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "14989", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think recommendation to become Jōnin ninja are send by villagers and the\nhokage has the final decision of a making a one.\n\nI'm not sure about this but I think that the candidate has to create a new\njutsu in order to become a Jōnin (like Kakashi with Chidori, Minato with\nRasengan).\n\nWe don't get any other details other than this. Same for the exam. I think\nthat the created jutsu will be examined.\n\nMy answer is based on the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T15:32:27.947", "id": "15024", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-10T16:24:26.603", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-10T16:24:26.603", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8350", "parent_id": "14990", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/J%C5%8Dnin)\n\n> Jonin are generally highly-experienced shinobi with great individual skill\n> who serve as military captains. They are often sent on A-rank missions, and\n> experienced jōnin may even be sent on S-rank missions (which are considered\n> to be the greatest difficulty). It is not unusual for jōnin to go on\n> missions alone. Jōnin are generally able to use at least two types of\n> elemental chakra, proficient genjutsu, and decent taijutsu skills.\n\nWe can deduce that to become Jounin a ninja needs to meet certain requirement\nsuch as:\n\n1) Must be highly experienced and skillful\n\n2) Able to participate in multiple [A- Rank\nMission](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/A-rank) and some [S-Rank\nmissions](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/S-rank)\n\n3) Capable of handling at least two types of elemental chakra, proficient\ngenjutsu, and decent taijutsu skills\n\nOnce this criteria is met:\n\n> The villagers may send their recommendations for a jōnin appointment. The\n> Kage reads said recommendations and may consider appointing an individual a\n> jōnin if his or her qualities are recognized as adequate by enough people\n> and himself.\n\nAbout the exam, I'm not sure since I don't follow well the anime. About\ncreating a new jutsu, I have found out that each technique is well classified\naccording to their rank. The\n[link](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Special:BrowseData/Jutsu?Jutsu_rank=A)\nshows list of A-rank Techniques. This may support a theory that a Jonin is\nrequired to have at least a few A-rank jutsu's and may be S-rank Jutsu's.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-11T00:51:27.180", "id": "19278", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-11T00:51:27.180", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "14990", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom an [answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19371/is-it-\npossible-for-a-genin-to-become-a-jonin/19479#19479) to a similar question :\n\nIn the **Road to Ninja** movie, Naruto tried to get a recommendation from\nIruka for promotion to Jōnin, but was refused. Iruka said that Naruto had to\nbecome a Chūnin before he could become a Jōnin.\n\n> Iruka: so, what did you want to talk about?\n>\n> Naruto: Um, Iruka-sensei, uh, listen, you think you can submit a Jonin\n> application for me?\n>\n> Iruka: What?\n>\n> Naruto: It's just that all of my other classmates are going to have their\n> parents fill out applications for them, and, well, I, uh...\n>\n> Iruka: Nope, sorry. I won't.\n>\n> Naruto: But why not?\n>\n> Iruka: **Because that step is supposed to come after you become a chunin.**\n> Sure you saved us from Pain, and everyone calls you the \"Hero of the Hidden\n> Leaf\", but **I can't give you special treatment.** I mean, even your Dad\n> worked his way up through the ranks - from Genin, to Chunin, to Jonin, to\n> become Hokage. Then he went on to became a Hero.\n>\n> Naruto: hmm, to become just a face carved into a rock.\n\nCredits to Remy Lebeau.\n\nSo we know that being a Chunin is essential , combined with the other factors\nfrom the other answers given here.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-13T03:59:25.990", "id": "20012", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-13T03:59:25.990", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11083", "parent_id": "14990", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nReal late replying to this, but wanted to throw in my two cents and just point\nout that it’s difficult to be specific due to retcons and not really being\ndiscussed outside of filler episodes. That being said I agree with most of\nwhat’s already been said however, I don’t think creating a new Jutsu is that\nstrange of a requirement.\n\nLike “Pi” mentioned all Jutsu are ranked. It isn’t until Shippuden that an\nemphasis is put on how difficult/rare it is for a new Jutsu to be created.\nEven then it’s really only mentioned when regarding the Rasengan and the\ncreation of S rank or higher Jutsu. Prior to that you had Naruto, Kabuto,\nTsunade, Orochimaru, and to an extent Neji all creating new Jutsu. Sexy Jutsu,\nCell Activation Jutsu, Hundred Healings Jutsu, Immortality Jutsu, and\ntechnically Rotation respectively.\n\nIf the requirement is simply to create any new Jutsu then it’s an easy\nrequirement however, that seems unlikely. So, going based off what we’ve\nalready talked about and what’s been seen in the cannon episodes, I would\nguess that part of the Jonin exam requires you to create a new Jutsu which\nmust then receive a rank of B or higher to pass. The reason I think it’s B or\nhigher and not C or A is because B rank contains not only the Shadow Clone\nJutsu, but several release Jutsu and it’s the catagory with the most Jutsu\noverall. This would explain why the B rank has the most Jutsu because there’s\na 51.6% chance that a new Jutsu will be given that rank every time there’s a\nJonin promotion.\n\nNow going off of the previously discussed criteria and using the Chunin exams\nas a base here is how I believe the Jonin exam would be conducted/laid out:\n\nEntrance: In order to be allowed to take the Jonin exam you must first be a\nChunin level Ninja and be recommended for the exam by at least one member of\nthe village.\n\nStage 1: Record Review\n\nDuring this stage the Hokage conducts a review of the Ninja’s record looking\nat things like the number of successfully completed missions, how many of each\nrank there are, why certain missions failed, and whether or not the Ninja in\nquestion has been a successful leader. This stage concludes with the Ninja\nbeing given a small number of basic knowledge questions and the opportunity if\nnecessary to answer any questions put to them by the Hokage.\n\nStage 2: Demonstration of Skills\n\nDuring this stage the Ninja must demonstrate a certain amount of proficiency\nin a series of specific skills. The Ninja must be capable of using at least\ntwo or more chakra natures, be able to break a genjutsu without any outside\ninterference, and demonstrate Taijutsu skills at a level above most Chunin. It\nmay be required to demonstrate these skills against an already Jonin class\nNinja.\n\nStage 3: A New Jutsu\n\nFor the final stage of the exam the Ninja must demonstrate a new Jutsu and\nreceive a Jutsu rank of B or higher from the Hokage.\n\nResults: As with the Chunin exam, passing each stage does not guarantee the\nNinja’s promotion. After the completion of each stage the Hokage will review\nthe results and make a final decision on whether or not to promote the Ninja\nto Jonin class.\n\nLastly just to clarify a few things:\n\nI laid out the Jonin exam as a solo/as requested exam because as leaders\nChunin have more variables in their schedules causing them to progress at\ndifferent rates. I found it unlikely that you would have multiple Chunin all\nreaching the same specific skill level and getting villager recommendations at\nthe same time. So a group exam didn’t make much sense since you could have one\nexaminee one year and five the next.\n\nI included the knowledge questions in Stage 1 because Kakashi told Naruto that\nwhile he had skills beyond a Jonin he lacked the required knowledge. I also\nmade Stage 1 a review because Chunin typically lead their own squads and so\nthe Hokage would probably want to ask them questions about what they had\nlearned.\n\nAs for why the Genjutsu requirement isn’t higher I believe Jiraiya told Naruto\nsomething along the lines of not everyone can use Genjutsu and it’s not worth\nteaching him but all Jonin and most Chunin can break Genjutsu. I also included\nthe possibility of demonstrating against a Jonin because while most of the\nskills can be shown without an opponent the Hokage would probably want to\ncompare the skill level.\n\nFinally I put showing off the new Jutsu as the last stage because it has the\npotential to be the biggest demonstration of skill which is the same as the\nthird stage of the Chunin exams.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-10-16T08:02:27.653", "id": "55582", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-16T08:02:27.653", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50359", "parent_id": "14990", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile exactly what Yevon did to the Al Bhed was never revealed in Final\nFantasy X, this information was eventually revealed in [Final Fantasy\nX-2.5](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_X-2.5_%7EEien_no_Daish%C5%8D%7E).\n\n> Final Fantasy X-2.5 is a novel sequel to Final Fantasy X-2 written by\n> Kazushige Nojima who had written the scenario for Final Fantasy X and Final\n> Fantasy X-2. It was released on December 26th, 2013 to commemorate the\n> release of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster.\n\nYevon essentially blamed the [Al\nBhed](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Al_Bhed) for Sin's appearance,\nperformed a mass execution, followed by outcasting them.\n\n> **Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~**\n>\n> The origins of the Al Bhed are revealed in the sequel novel to Final Fantasy\n> X-2. There was once a mechanic called Alb who created a race called Bedohls,\n> humans who could not use magic but excelled at wielding machina, and used\n> them to combat a Zanarkandian mage. Their weapons were so powerful they were\n> kept under surveillance at all times. It's speculated that their power might\n> have been the catalyst for the Machina War. **After the Yevon religion was\n> established, the Bedohls were blamed for the emergence of Sin and executed\n> in numbers, thereby casting them out of society. The surviving Bedohls were\n> later renamed the Al Bhed, a corrupted mesh of their original name and their\n> creator's name.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-22T17:36:48.623", "id": "40482", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-22T17:36:48.623", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "20275", "parent_id": "15004", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**It's _probably_ \"Ajanouha ihtan!\", which means \"Everyone under!\"**\n\nThere's [a forum thread on GameFAQs about this particular\nquestion](https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/197344-final-fantasy-x/60747335).\n\nPost #8 by erict1628,\n\n> It's \"Ajanouha ihtan!\", which means \"Everyone under!\" in Al Bhed.\n>\n> Cid is telling everyone to get to the Airship because he's going to level\n> Home.\n\nbut Post #10 by Fallacia (an Al Bhed expert),\n\n> This is actually one bit of Al Bhed I've never been able to fully get. I've\n> never fully agreed with the \"everyone under\" interpretation. That may have\n> been what was in the script, but the VA's pronunciation changes it a little\n> bit. There's no pronunciation at all of the \"uha\" for \"one\" at the end of\n> everyone. Instead, what he's saying is actually much closer to \"ajano\n> ihtan,\" with the spacing making it sound like \"Ajanoiht-an.\" It tripped me\n> up for a long time, because I had thought that he was saying something that\n> sounded more like, \"anmanoehk,\" \"ammanoehk,\" \"or amanoeh,\" all of which are\n> nonsense when translated. With those, you get erlering, ellerying, and\n> eleryin.\n>\n> I'm willing to believe that it was supposed to have been \"everyone under,\"\n> but instead it comes out as \"Every Under\" thanks to poor pronunciation of a\n> language that none of the voice actors were actually supposed to have known.\n> The same thing happens when people try to speak other languages for which\n> they haven't developed an ear or just aren't native speakers. Even if the\n> pronunciation isn't entirely too bad, it could still be completely\n> unintelligible to a native speaker thanks to intonation, pausing between\n> syllables, manufactured sounds, muted sounds, and a general sense that the\n> person themselves hasn't created an association for the words they're\n> saying, almost as if they are reading instead of speaking.\n\n* * *\n\nThere's [a same question posted on Yahoo! Chiebukuro\n(Japanese)](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1484822974),\nwith the answer,\n\n> 「ヒアシリハンヘモ！」と繰り返し言ってるやつのことかな？（聞き取りにくいですが。） \n> ヒアシリハンヘモはアルベド語で、「地下に避難せよ」という意味です。\n>\n> 《補足より》 \n> 「ヒアっ（ｼﾘ）ハンっ（ﾍﾓ）」みたいに喋ってるんだと。アルティマニア情報だった気が。あとＦＦの用語辞典Wikiの、アルベドホームの欄に載ってました。\n>\n> Is it the guy who was repeating \"Hiasiri hanhemo!\" (it's difficult to be\n> heard though)? \n> In Al Bhed, \"Hiasiri hanhemo\" means \"Evacuate to the basement\".\n>\n> (Addendum) \n> It's spoken like \"Hia(siri) han(hemo)\". \n> I think Ultimania (guidebook) has this info. Also it's mentioned on [Al\n> Bhed Home's page on Japanese FF\n> Wiki](http://ffdic.wikiwiki.jp/?%C3%CF%CC%BE%A1%A6%C3%CF%B7%C1%2F%A1%DA%A5%A2%A5%EB%A5%D9%A5%C9%A4%CE%A5%DB%A1%BC%A5%E0%A1%DB).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-18T00:51:59.933", "id": "39920", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-18T01:22:38.250", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-18T01:22:38.250", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "15005", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere's a quote from the manga wikia on Vita's list of attacks:\n\n> Nachladen — Not a real attack, just Graf Eisen reloading cartridges.\n>\n> Explosion — Also not an attack; Graf Eisen says this when using cartridges,\n> analogous to the English-speaking devices' \"Load cartridge.\"\n\nSource: [Vita (Nanoha) Manga Wikia\npage](http://manga.wikia.com/wiki/Vita_%28Nanoha%29)\n\nNachladen is also the term listed on the [Signum manga wikia\npage](http://manga.wikia.com/wiki/Signum_%28Nanoha%29), a German word which\ntranslates to \"Reload\".\n\nDespite what the manga wikia says, I always thought that the Belken devices\nuse \"Reload\" in the same way that the Mid-Children Devices use \"Load\nCartridge\", and \"Explosion\" is when they're being used, particularly multiple\ncartridges. (Passing reference of this on the [Nanoha wikia Vita\npage](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Vita#Powers)).\n\nI admit that I have not watch/read/listened to all of the anime, manga, drama\nCD, etc. and my understanding is that there may be minor differences.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T20:29:43.930", "id": "15027", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-14T17:36:57.760", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8676", "parent_id": "15006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Girls Und Panzer wiki](http://gup.wikia.com/wiki/Sensha-\ndou), Panzerfahren (Sensha-do) is:\n\n> a martial arts that involves tanks as weapons. This martial arts are just\n> exclusive for high school girls to develop their self-esteem as young women.\n\nLike you mentioned, all the participating schools are all-girls schools. The\n[rules](http://gup.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_Sensha-do) themselves don't seem to\nlimit the competitions to only girls, but the martial art itself seems to be\nonly for girls.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T09:43:01.930", "id": "15014", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-11T09:43:01.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "15013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the all-girl schools, it is compulsory that all students select a\nparticular extracurricular activity to do.\n\nThese activities that are offered to the girls are ones that are symbols of\nfemininity and lady-likeness. At the start of the series, the girls have to\nchoose between flower arranging, tea ceremonies and tankery. All equally\nfeminine subjects (>_> in the Girls Und Panzer universe at least)\n\nBecause tankery is seen as a feminine sport, there are not many male players.\nThere are possibly some, but the overwhelming majority is female as many areas\nwould not have enough interested guys to form a team.\n\nIf you tried to form a flower arranging club in an all male school, you would\nprobably find there would be few members - This is the case with tankery also.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T09:43:40.907", "id": "15015", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-11T09:43:40.907", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a snippet of conversation, background chatter. Someone says, \"I can't\nimagine boys doing tankery. That would be weird.\" Or something to that effect\n(from memory). This directly implies that Tankery is girls only.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T00:19:58.390", "id": "17051", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T00:19:58.390", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10838", "parent_id": "15013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nEpisode 1, Tankery, Here It Comes!\n\nAt 17 minutes (17:05 to 17:10) after the 'Introduction to Tankery' film has\nbeen shown. Miho Nishizumi, Saori Takebe & Hana Isuzu are in the cafeteria.\nUnknown students are chatting in the background, about Tankery.\n\nOne says, \"They say its perfect training for women.\"\n\nAnother student excitedly says, \"I never heard of men doing Tankery. Guys and\ntanks seem kind of mismatched to me.\"\n\n(I only noticed this revealing bit of background info on my 4th rewatch!)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-26T06:11:32.350", "id": "17072", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-26T06:11:32.350", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10839", "parent_id": "15013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKorra more or less could bend the metal on Kuvira's uniform, as long as she\nknows the exact type of metal. However, it would be pointless to do such\nthing. An example would be: If Toph was an earthbender and so as Dai Li's\nforce, then Toph should have subdued them through earthbending like enclosing\nthem in a rock or in a statue, which of course Dai Li can always fight easily\nbeing the earthbender itself. The same is applicable for both Korra and Kuvira\n- both can bend metal, so neither can really overpower the other just by\nchaining.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-08T17:57:32.957", "id": "19914", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-09T19:03:08.607", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-09T19:03:08.607", "last_editor_user_id": "13126", "owner_user_id": "13126", "parent_id": "15019", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think there's a canonical explanation of how bending works, but the\nway Earthbenders fight suggests that they have much more control over soil\nthat's near them, and that they work best with sudden, abrupt movements. For\ninstance, it's common for earthbenders to stop large slabs of rock, but they\nalways wait for it to get close rather than slowing it gradually from a\ndistance. Most attacks originate from the bender, and when they act on distant\nearth it's usually to throw their opponent off balance rather than injure them\ndirectly. There's almost no instances of earthbenders pulling rocks as a form\nof attack.\n\nIt's also shown throughout the series that bending heavy loads is not unlike\nphysically lifting them; it's usually done much more slowly and the weight of\nthe rocks causes resistance against the bender's movements.\n\nIt's likely that Korra could bend Kuvira's armor, but it would be impractical\nto do so from the distance they kept from each other while fighting. This\nseems to be supported by the fact that in the season finale, after slamming\nKorra against a wall, Kuvira pulls out three chunks of metal from it and\nbrings them close. She then launches small bits of the chunks at Korra very\nquickly.\n\nIt appears Kuvira felt she couldn't have attacked Korra directly using the\nmetal in the wall, or using larger chunks of metal, without a high chance of\nKorra dodging or using a quicker attack in response. By that same token, I\nimagine if Korra tried to throw Kuvira from a distance, Kuvira would easily\nhit her with a small piece of metal before Korra completed the throw. And\nconsidering they can both react to small projectiles traveling at high speeds,\nI doubt Korra would've been able to bend a large amount of metal and surround\nKuvira with it quickly enough to actually trap her either.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-12T03:36:10.713", "id": "19990", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-12T03:44:00.127", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-12T03:44:00.127", "last_editor_user_id": "13179", "owner_user_id": "13179", "parent_id": "15019", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI recommend that you wait until the anime explains it all.\n\nAnyway, **_spoiler alert!_**\n\nWell it's not just one power, it's a set of powers combined together.\n\n 1. Master all five basic nature transformations and the capacity to use any technique.\n 2. The Rinnegan allows the user to see chakra.\n 3. Rinnegan's field of vision can be multiple due to animated body's or summons.\n 4. Grants the ability to summon and control the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.\n 5. Creating corporeal shadows which are only visible to the Rinnegan.\n 6. Shift spaces within a certain range.\n 7. Control over life and death.\n 8. Transmit their chakra to black receivers as well as manifest the chakra chains (to control Tailed Beast or use a dead body as a host).\n 9. Planet creation.\n 10. Six Paths Technique.\n\nSix Paths Technique can be divided into 6 (just like its name lol :) )\n\n 1. Deva Path—can be used to attract and repel targets.\n 2. Asura Path—can clad the user in mechanised armour and grant them various weapons.\n 3. Human Path—can read minds, at the cost of ripping out the victim's soul.\n 4. Animal Path—can summon various creatures.\n 5. Preta Path—can absorb any chakra-based ninjutsu and even from a person's body.\n 6. Naraka Path—can summon the King of Hell, which can be used for interrogation and restoration.\n\nAnswer is based on Anime & Manga and the naruto.wikia.com. For more info, see\n[naruto.wikia.com](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T14:11:04.107", "id": "15023", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T12:31:11.493", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-29T12:31:11.493", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8350", "parent_id": "15021", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn this case, the manga and anime really weren't very close at all. The most\nreasonable place to say that the anime ended is at the end of chapter 12 (i.e.\nthe end of volume 2). The manga volume 2 ends with Yumeji learning about Engi\nand Yui. Almost everything after that in the anime is original. Even before\nthat, there are several very significant changes, so I recommend rather than\nstarting at volume 3, read from the beginning if you want to read the manga,\nor else you'll probably end up confused.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T08:37:10.173", "id": "17019", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T08:37:10.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "15028", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[various](http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%91%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9)\n[sources](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A2%E5%96%B0%E3%81%84%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC#.E3.81.9D.E3.81.AE.E4.BB.96.E3.81.AE.E5.A4.A2.E9.AD.94),\nshe shares the same sobriquet as her sister, 双月花（ガーデン）\"Garden.\" The name\nreflects the duality of the two sisters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T02:50:28.313", "id": "15033", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-12T02:50:28.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "15029", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Ao Nanami](http://myanimelist.net/character/14945/Ao_Nanami) from\n[Yozakura Quartet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yozakura_Quartet)\n\n\n\nYou can find this by using\n[IQDB](http://iqdb.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.stack.imgur.com%2FCyVXO.gif) and\nthen going to a result (some sites may not be SFW) and look at the image tags.\nYou can see that the gif is tagged as \"Yozakura Quartet\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T02:57:19.727", "id": "15035", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-19T15:10:47.227", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-19T15:10:47.227", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "15034", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere is a guess, it doesn't fit exactly - but hopefully the fuzziness is to\nblame for that.\n\nI looked through all the old Ghibli works, but didn't find anything that\nseemed to match up. However, there was one show that some of the larger names\nfrom Ghibli worked on before Ghibli was created. This show was _Chie The Brat_\nor _Jarinko Chie_. This was back in 1981, but it could have taken a while to\nbe translated and localised for English speakers - placing it roughly mid 80s.\n\n\n\nChie is a hardworker at home, but she's not without her brattiness - Flicking\nthrough the first few minutes of the show, she takes a cut of the family's\nearning and keeps it for herself:\n\n\n\nShe eventually leaves on an adventure after her school-life is disrupted by\nher relatives, who barge in and embarrass both the teacher and herself.\n\n\n\nShe then takes the money she has stored away and travels into the city. There\nshe finds a woman she treats like her mother (whom she embraces occasionally)\nand rides rollercoasters, paddles boats, and other adventure-y things.\n\n\n\nAnd as for the spirit/animal - there are some talking cats which maybe are\nwhat you remembered. The two cats are both from Chie's home village and have a\nlarge fight in a graveyard near the conclusion of the show.\n\n\n\nAgain, this only loosely fits the description you've offered - but it's the\nbest I could find.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T21:09:17.917", "id": "15051", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-12T21:09:17.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI disagree with [Grimlock77X\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15042/what-happens-when-a-\nhuman-saves-another-one-with-a-death-note#comment19646_15042). It's stated in\nthe rules and by Ryuk that the fundamental difference between Humans and\nShinigami using the Death Note is that humans don't gain lifespans.\n\n[In How to Use:\nXLII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XLII)\n\n> The use of the Death Note in the human world sometimes affects other humans'\n> lives _or_ shortens their original life span, even though their names are\n> not actually written in the Death Note itself. In these cases, no matter the\n> cause, the god of death sees only the original lifespan and not the\n> shortened lifespan.\n\n^ emphasis added by me\n\nsince the rule says it that the use of the Death Note can affect lives _or_\nshorten the original life span we can assume that the Death Note can\nindirectly give a human more life.\n\nthink about rape victims who are denied justice (like [Yonegoro\nNusumi's](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Yonegoro_Nusumi) victim), if cop\ndrama's like Law and Oder: SVU is anything to go by, without counseling their\nlife deteriorates. with Light killed Yonegoro Nusumi or anyone like him the\nvictims feel justice have been served and improve their lives (and there are\nno future victims for serial offenders) or wont commit suicide from the denied\njustice.\n\nAs for the lifespans, according to [this\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/15079/1587) Mr X's lifespan would be\njust wasted so this isn't distributed. there is also no way guarantee the lady\nwould've lived longer or even shorter because of his death, I dare say also\nthat even with Shinigami Eyes you won't see if the lady lives longer since\nShinigami will only ever see the original lifespan so likewise a human with\nthe eye deal will see the same, the only way is if you were like Beyond\nBirthday or L and had worked out how to read Lifespans and knew when the lady\nwould die\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T21:27:48.610", "id": "15053", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-15T11:16:43.930", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "15042", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nHow to use LIX:\n\n> A human death caused by Death Note will indirectly lengthen some other\n> human's original life even without a specific intention to lengthen a\n> particular person's original life span in the human world.\n\nThe lady's life will be lengthened to a new time\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T21:28:47.777", "id": "15054", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-12T21:28:47.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15042", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Both \"Ilya\" and \"Illya\" are official spellings of her nickname. \"Ilya\" is\n> used on the TYPE-MOON's official website and in the fan translation of the\n> game, but \"Illya\" tends to be used elsewhere, especially in merchandise.\n\n[Illyasviel von Einzbern Wikia Page: Citation\n3](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Illyasviel_von_Einzbern#cite_note-2)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T15:40:42.517", "id": "15047", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-12T21:35:15.850", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-12T21:35:15.850", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "4487", "parent_id": "15044", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Sora Iro no Tane_ was a TV spot made for [Nippon\nTV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_TV#History_of_Nippon_Television) in\n1993 to commemorate its 40th anniversary.\n\nThe creature is called\n\"[Nandarou](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_films_by_Studio_Ghibli#Nandar.C5.8D)\"\n(lit. What is it?) and designed by Hayao Miyazaki himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-12T20:44:10.367", "id": "15049", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-12T20:44:10.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "15048", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSakaki Ichiro (aka the author) used a distinctive naming scheme in his other\nwork _Scrapped Princess_ as well, but there the characters were named after\nfirearms / guns instead ([its wiki page even has a section about\nthat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapped_Princess#Names_and_firearm_references)).\n\nSo it may very well just be that he likes to have his character names be a\nreference to something. :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-21T10:38:54.153", "id": "15221", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-21T10:38:54.153", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9274", "parent_id": "15055", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAs Memor-X said\n\n> i don't think it's stated, the [wikia's](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Rukia)\n> earliest point in Rukia's history is her and Hisana arriving in Rukon 150\n> ago which would mean they died together, since it doesn't state that they\n> came with their parents (given Hisana was finding it hard to care for Rukia\n> and live in Rukon) chnaces are their parents died long before and during the\n> Soul Society Arc Horiuchi Hironari says it's rare to be reunited with family\n> members who died earlier which tends to generate family groups by those who\n> die later\n\nRukia being an orphan is an integral point of her (and Renji's) back story,\nfitting into the general desperation and poverty of the Rukon district.\n\nAs such, her parents have never been identified and most likely never will.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-13T21:06:07.357", "id": "15076", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-13T21:06:07.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "15061", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe balls were meant to be golden. In Japanese, \"golden ball\" is _kintama_ ,\nwhich is also slang for testicles [according to Urban\nDictionary](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kintama). That's\nwhy the girls were so uncomfortable with this metaphor.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-13T13:15:15.660", "id": "15070", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-13T19:07:16.770", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-13T19:07:16.770", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "9155", "parent_id": "15064", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know, the TV broadcast and the DVD have the same version of \"Suki\nnan da mon\", sung by Ayana Taketatsu.\n\nThe video you linked is a cover of the song by an amateur artist named Misaki\nArima. Her name is printed in the info under the video, as well as on the\nbackground pic in the video itself; the line 歌：有馬美咲 means \"Singer: Arima\nMisaki\". As senshin pointed out, the line 「歌：有馬美咲 ★本編は竹達彩菜さん★」 in the details\nsays \"this is sung by Arima Misaki, but the original is by ★Taketatsu Ayana★\".\nArima's [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/misaki.arima.5) (which was\nall I turned up in a Google search of her name) lists Ore Imo as a favorite\nnovel and has the same profile picture as her Youtube profile, which you can\nsee on the video page.\n\nThe video itself just claims to be the \"Full version\", which it is (not the\nedited TV version of the song). I'm not sure where that commenter got the idea\nthat this was the original version, but, well, you know how commenters can\nbe...\n\n(Actually, I think the commenter probably meant \"original-length version\".)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-13T19:27:46.707", "id": "15073", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-14T22:46:24.917", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-14T22:46:24.917", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "15069", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is actually covered by the [Rules of the Death\nNote](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note):\n\n> **How to Use: LIX**\n>\n> A human death caused by Death Note will indirectly lengthen some other\n> human's original life even without a specific intention to lengthen a\n> particular person's original life span in the human world.\n\nIt is likely that this simply means that the person killed \"prematurely\" has\nextended other people's lives as they go about their lives differently than if\nthe person was there, thus events leading to their deaths may change.\n\nNo other rules of the Death Note cover what you are looking for. Glancing at a\nfew likely places in the manga and reading over the wiki, I cannot find\nanything specifically stating if anything happens.\n\nDue to Misa's death shortly after the series, we can assume that she gained no\nextra life span from her efforts. Even when she reduced her life span to a\nquarter by trading for the shinigami eyes twice, she should have still lived a\nlong time if killing someone influenced her life since it would have been\nadded afterwards.\n\nAdditionally, we know that the shinigami owner of the death note does not gain\nthe life span because they did not write the name themselves.\n\nBased on this, I would say that the left-over time is wasted. Other people's\nlives will be influenced due to the rule above, but the \"remaining\" time is\nnot distributed in any means.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-14T02:14:25.473", "id": "15079", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-14T16:51:55.633", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-14T16:51:55.633", "last_editor_user_id": "6174", "owner_user_id": "6174", "parent_id": "15077", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAmusingly, there is an \"anime collaboration cafe\" in Tokyo called\n[SHIROBACO](http://shirobaco.com/) (no direct relation to the anime\nShirobako). They have [a page explaining the origin of their\nname](http://shirobaco.com/concept/):\n\n> ## What's SHIROBACO\n>\n> \"SHIROBACO\" = \"white box\"\n>\n> In the anime industry, this refers to a video recording that is distributed\n> to members of the production staff prior to airing. Though technology has\n> advanced and it has become easier to receive video in digital formats, the\n> video is still referred to as a \"white box\", just as it was when VHS was in\n> use.\n\nHere is an image of one such white box that I found on [some dude's\nblog](http://odcanime.blog40.fc2.com/blog-entry-2357.html):\n\n\n\nSites on the internet are saying that Shirobako had a scene early on where\noptical discs (which would count as _shirobako_ these days) were being\ndistributed to the people at Musashino Animation. I assume they're right; I\ndon't remember there being a scene like that off the top of my head, but\nthat's probably because I was distracted by Miyamori being cute.\n\n* * *\n\nAt the end of episode 12, once they have sent the last episode of Exodus to\nthe station, NabeP brings a _shirobako_ (in this case, a white optical disc)\nof the last episode to the show-completion party.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-14T08:00:02.650", "id": "15082", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-12T07:29:32.913", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15080", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nif anything, it reminds me of \"captain earth\" that came out during the summer.\nin that there was infinite energy and the strength of hope as well and other\nsimilarities but obviusly the name is way off\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-14T13:19:53.433", "id": "15084", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-14T13:19:53.433", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9165", "parent_id": "15081", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a reference to Space Runaway Ideon.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-15T05:23:28.847", "id": "15093", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-15T05:23:28.847", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9177", "parent_id": "15081", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a reference to an Anime of the early Real Robot genre called _Space\nRunaway Ideon_.\n\n> _**Space Runaway Ideon**_ (伝説巨神イデオン _Densetsu Kyojin Ideon_ , lit.\n> _Legendary Giant Ideon_ , also _The Ideon_ ) is a 1980 anime television\n> series produced by Sunrise, created and directed by [Yoshiyuki\n> Tomino](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Tomino), produced immediately\n> following his most famous work, [_Mobile Suit\n> Gundam_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam).\n>\n> [...] At one time it was rated #10 among the greatest anime series as\n> compiled by famous anime magazine Animage (counting popularity, influence,\n> and opinion). On the other hand, the series has never been very popular,\n> even among Japanese mecha fans.\n>\n> Space Runaway Ideon is a predecessor-of-sorts to Hideaki Anno's _**Neon\n> Genesis Evangelion**_ and deals with many of the same issues.\n>\n> [...] Space Runaway Ideon shares a number of similarities to Tomino's Mobile\n> Suit Gundam series. As well as similar initial fates for both series\n> (cancellation followed by films – though Ideon never became a long-running\n> franchise as Gundam did), there are several broad similarities in the make-\n> up of the characters and some reused plot devices. [...]\n>\n> Wikipedia: [Space Runaway\n> Ideon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Runaway_Ideon)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-14T10:32:35.030", "id": "18527", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-14T10:48:12.230", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2590", "parent_id": "15081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe title you're looking for is probably Ore Monogatari. Your description of\nthe story is quite close to the synopsis of the manga, with both the big guy\npremise and the popular friend.\n\nFrom [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/manga/36933/Ore_Monogatari!!)\n\n> Tsuyoshi Takeo is a freshman in high school. (Both estimates) Weight: 120kg,\n> Height: 2 meters. He spends his days peacefully with his super-popular-with-\n> girls, yet insensitive childhood friend, Sunagawa. One morning, on the train\n> to school, Takeo saves a girl, Yamato, from being molested by a pervert.\n> Could this be the beginning of spring for Takeo?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eHaP2.jpg)\n\n## References\n\n * [MAL](http://myanimelist.net/manga/36933/Ore_Monogatari!!)\n * [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Love_Story!!)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T11:40:39.843", "id": "15123", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-16T15:11:51.370", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-16T15:11:51.370", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8464", "parent_id": "15083", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## I'm wondering if there's an imbalance in Japanese society as there is in\nAmerican society. Or if anyone has come across a survey that found the percent\nof female vs. male protagonists in anime and manga?\n\nBy \"imbalance . . . in American society,\" I'm going to guess that you mean the\nnumber of male protagonists within American comics, rather than sexism in\nsociety at large (though sexism is far more rampant in Japanese society than\nin American society).\n\nI strongly believe that such a survey does not exist, since the sheer number\nof anime titles that have been produced since the dawn of the medium, and the\neven more monstrous number of manga titles, would not be able to be researched\nand distilled into such a graph, even with a team of paid researchers.\n\n## Have the Japanese created genres to meet the interests of those who consume\nanime and manga (which if I'm not mistaken, is a far larger amount than\nAmericans who consume comics and cartoons)?\n\n * American cartoons come in many varieties, which have differing demographics, such as Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks theatrical films; Saturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons for kids; _The Simpsons_ , _Family Guy_ , and _South Park_ satirical cartoons for adults, etc.\n * The demographics of readers of American comics has drastically changed within the past decade. In previous generations, adults and children read comic strips in the newspaper, children read comics like _Archie_ or _Barbie_ , young men read fanboy superhero titles like Marvel and _Star Wars_. Nowadays, though a large bulk of American comics are still super hero serials that appeal to fanboys, 1) the advent of American comics that have expanded into other genres such as [_Maus_](https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Maus), [_Bone_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_\\(comics\\)), and [_American Born Chinese_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Born_Chinese), and importing/translating serious comics from other languages (such as [_Persepolis_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_\\(comics\\)), [_A Jew in Communist Prague_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Jew_in_Communist_Prague), and [_Kozure Ookami_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_and_Cub)) has gained comics a recent recognition of contributing to quality literature by American libraries and teachers (for example, see the [Eisner Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisner_Award) and [Harvey Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Award) winners, [Good Comics for Kids](http://blogs.slj.com/goodcomicsforkids/) from School Library Journal, and [No Flying No Tights](http://noflyingnotights.com/)), 2) fangirls and niche reader demographics have increased, and 3) being a nerd/geek/otaku has become more respected in society at large, as evidenced in the popularity of _The Big Bang Theory_ sitcom.\n * Aside from Studio Ghibli films, of which nearly everyone in Japan has seen some, the demographics who consume anime and manga in Japan are 1) children who buy the toys, 2) casual viewers, such as families who tune into anime when it airs on TV but are not particular fans, 3) families/teens/adults who only purchase _tankouban_ (graphic novels) of the specific series they care for, and 4) otaku, who are a minority of the population. There are also Japanese who casually read manga such as _Jump_ when the magazine issues come out, but most read it _tachi-mi_ (stand and read) in the convenience store or bookstore without purchasing anything, so they cannot be counted as consumers.\n * Unlike in many parts of the world where manga and anime are considered esteemed art forms, in Japan most parents consider manga to be junk and discourage their kids 1) from reading manga, since they should be reading literary novels instead, and 2) from becoming a _mangaka_ when they grow up. So most Japanese do not read manga as adults, and most who had a dream of being a _mangaka_ gave up on it. Teens and adults who are involved in subculture are generally viewed negatively by the general populace, and many are socially-awkward or [_hikikomori_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori) (a consumer demographic which is uncommon in the U.S.). Even though many Japanese have read manga and/or watched anime at some point in their life, it is not considered a mainstream thing to have as your interest or hobby.\n * The population of the United States is estimated at 316.5 million, whereas the population of Japan is 127.3 million, as of 2014 (the U.S. has a constant influx of immigration, which is not common in Japan, and Japan has a falling birthrate, so the difference in number is probably more pronounced by 2015). It is very possible that more Americans are cartoon and/or comics consumers than how many Japanese people are anime and manga consumers (many Americans have bought a ticket to watch an animated film at a movie theater, bought the VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray release, bought _Dora the Explorer_ -themed school supplies or Christmas presents, etc.).\n * It is true that manga and anime boast a wider range of genres and subject matter than comics in other countries, as pretty much any literary genre you can think of has been explored in manga.\n\nManga scholar at [Kyoto Seika University](http://www.kyoto-\nseika.ac.jp/eng/edu/manga/), Matt Thorn, [explains](http://www.matt-\nthorn.com/shoujo_manga/japan_quarterly/index.html),\n\n> Another trend in the way shôjo manga were published was also **intimately\n> linked to the nature of the genre**. Because readers looked for works that\n> clicked with them personally, they were not happy to simply read what\n> everyone else was reading. As a result, shôjo manga became increasingly\n> niche oriented. The number of magazines increased, but the circulation of\n> each slipped as the pool of readers became dispersed. For example, the top-\n> selling teen magazine, _Bessatsu Maagaretto_ (\"Special Edition Margaret\")\n> stuck rigidly to the school-based hetersexual romance. _Juné_ and other\n> magazines, on the other hand, focused exclusively on the theme of boys'\n> love. _Wings_ was created for fans of science fiction and fantasy. By\n> contrast, the bulk of young male readers gravitated to just three weekly\n> magazines: _Jump_ , _Magazine_ , and _Sunday_. **Boys were concentrated in a\n> vertical column, all reading virtually the same manga, whereas girls were\n> spread out horizontally** , each seeking a manga world suited to her own\n> identity.\n\n## For boys, they have shounen, and for girls, shoujo. For more matured\ntastes, seinen and josei could arguably still be divided into men and women?\n\nThorn [reports](http://www.matt-\nthorn.com/shoujo_manga/japan_quarterly/index.html) that the origin of the\nsegregation of _shounen_ and _shoujo_ happened in 1902:\n\n> The **roots of both shôjo and boys'manga can be traced to early magazines\n> for children** —boys and girls alike—which began to appear in the late 19th\n> century, reflecting the Meiji era effort to encourage literacy. **In 1902**\n> , _Shôjo kai_ (\"Girls' World\") was first published, and **children's\n> magazines began to be segregated, as was the education system itself, along\n> gender lines.**\n\nbut [that](http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/whatisandisnt.php)\n\n> To be honest, though, things are complicated by differences in target age\n> groups. Although male manga are easily classified as shônen (\"boys'\") or\n> _seinen_ (\"men's\"), female-oriented manga **are not so neatly divided**.\n> This is probably because the first successful manga targeting adult women\n> were labeled as \"ladies' comics,\" and these comics quickly acquired a stigma\n> that fans of shôjo manga did not want to be associated with. . . . _josei-\n> muke_ (\"woman-oriented\") or _josei_ (\"women's\") manga, but such terms never\n> really caught on with mainstream readers. To those readers, such works are\n> still shôjo manga, or else just plain manga. But readers have no doubt, in\n> most cases, about whom the target audience is. To make things even more\n> complicated, there are many manga today that are created by female artists,\n> and deal with themes of interest to women, but which are published in\n> \"gender-neutral\" magazines, and **have many male readers as well as female\n> readers**. Think of these as \"indy\" or \"underground\" manga, even though many\n> are published by huge publishing houses.\n\n_Seinen_ is the Japanese word for \"young man\" and _josei_ is the Japanese word\nfor \"young woman\" or \"women\" in general (such as _joseikan_ , which means\n\"view of women\"), so yes, they are explicitly marketed toward men or to women\njust as _shounen_ is marketed toward boys and _shoujo_ is marketed toward\ngirls. Likewise, the words _seinen_ and _josei_ contain no indication of what\nsort of content is included (they are not genres such as sci-fi or history\nwhich are grouped based on the content). The sections in a Japanese bookstore\nare clearly delineated as to what the target market is.\n\n## In shounen, the protagonist is predominantly male, and in shoujo, the\nprotagonist is usually female?\n\nCorrect. Of course there are exceptions, such as the massive corpus of BL\n(boy's love) titles within _shoujo_ , which have been produced ever since the\n70s.\n\nThorn [points out](http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/colloque/index.php),\n\n> while it may be difficult to imagine now, heterosexual romance was rare--\n> indeed, almost taboo--until the 1960s. **In the prewar period, readers of\n> manga were small children** who had not yet learned the pleasure of reading\n> text-only fiction and non-fiction. Even after the war, when Tezuka had\n> launched a boom in thematically sophisticated “story manga,” it was assumed\n> throughout the 1950s that **children would “graduate” from manga by the time\n> they were thirteen or fourteen**. And since the heroines of shōjo manga were\n> **almost always girls between the ages of ten and twelve** , romance\n> occurred only between older supporting characters, such as elder siblings.\n> Whereas manga for boys have always been about action and humor. . . . Prewar\n> shōjo manga were short humor strips, usually set in the home, neighborhood,\n> or school.\n\nFemale protagonists are not as uncommon in _seinen_ as male protagonists are\nin _josei_ , because _seinen_ includes many _bishoujo_ titles, not all of\nwhich are harems in which there is an ordinary male who all the females center\naround.\n\n## Should I instead be looking at which genre is produced more for my answer?\n\nYes.\n\nBut that is also hard to pinpoint. Since _shounen_ is far more financially-\nviable than _shoujo_ , we might conclude that most manga published are\n_shounen_. Under that conclusion, if most _shounen_ series have male\nprotagonists, we would say that most manga and anime protagonists have\nstatistically been male.\n\nHowever, Thorn's claim that \"the bulk of young male readers gravitated to just\nthree weekly magazines: _Jump_ , _Magazine_ , and _Sunday_. Boys were\nconcentrated in a vertical column, all reading virtually the same manga,\nwhereas girls were spread out horizontally\" throws a wrench into that\nhypothesis. Going by this fact, one would conclude that perhaps more _shoujo_\nseries have been published in recent decades than _shounen_ series, since\n_Jump_ \\+ _Magazine_ \\+ _Sunday_ only run about 20 series per magazine at a\ntime (about 60 series published in a given week), whereas a larger number of\n_shoujo_ magazines each putting out 20 series an issue would outnumber 60\ncontemporaneous _shounen_ series.\n\nBut that also fails to take into account that _shounen_ magazines are usually\npublished weekly whereas _shoujo_ magazines come out monthly, and the fact\nthat both types of manga magazines are ruthless in canceling any series which\ndrops in the monthly reader survey. So we would need to consider which tend to\nget cut after a shorter number of chapters: _shounen_ or _shoujo_ titles? If,\nfor example, _shounen_ series die more frequently than _shoujo_ ones since all\nthe _shounen_ series are duking it out in cutthroat competition within only 3\nmain magazines, it could be that the number of short-lived _shounen_ series\noutweighs the number of _shoujo_ series.\n\nFor more details on the financial situation, see [Thorn](http://www.matt-\nthorn.com/shoujo_manga/colloque/index.php) as well:\n\n> Since 1995, sales of manga magazines, along with sales of all magazines,\n> have steadily declined. Sales of manga paperbacks have fluctuated, but have\n> so far managed to escape the fate of magazines. Why have sales of magazines\n> declined? We can identify several factors, such as: the growth of the\n> Internet in Japan; the increasing sophistication of video games; a lengthy\n> recession that forced consumers to be more frugal; the rise of massive used\n> bookstore chains, not to mention twenty-four hour manga cafes, that do not\n> pay royalties to publishers. But the biggest single factor in the decline of\n> magazines in Japan is this: the cell phone. Fifteen years ago, you would\n> board a train in Japan and see dozens of people reading magazines, including\n> manga magazines. Today you board a train and see everyone hunched over their\n> cellphones, reading or writing e-mail, surfing the Internet, buying concert\n> tickets--almost anything you can do on a personal computer. For more than\n> thirty years, . . . manga is then serialized in cheap magazines with few\n> advertisements that are essentially sold at cost. Serials that prove\n> unpopular are cut short. Those that prove even marginally popular are\n> republished in paperbacks. Ten percent of the cover price of each copy sold\n> is paid to the artist as royalties, and the rest of the profit goes to the\n> publisher. The magazines, in other words, are extravagant advertisements for\n> the paperbacks, which are the primary source of profit. The quandary for\n> publishers is that, in this digital age, Japanese consumers are no longer\n> inclined to buy a large paper object that they will eventually discard\n> anyway. . . . The extinction of the printed magazine is inevitable: not a\n> matter of “if” but “when.” . . . Even those who work in the giant manga\n> publishing houses--Shueisha, Shogakukan, Kodansha--acknowledge that those\n> corporations are dinosaurs, massive and slow, unable to turn quickly or\n> adapt to sudden changes in environment. That is why the glass ceiling\n> against which female employees bump their heads remains firmly in place, and\n> that is why these publishers will follow the printed magazine to extinction.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-20T06:40:59.317", "id": "22612", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-20T06:50:59.480", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "15088", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Armitage III: Dual-Matrix](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armitage_III) maybe?\n\nDoesn't quite match everything you said as it is a bit backwards from what you\ndescribed.\n\nIt is about an artificial human who holds the secret to how the artificial\nhumans can procreate and the people in charge are chasing her to get a hold of\nit.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-21T22:03:54.480", "id": "15236", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-21T22:03:54.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9291", "parent_id": "15089", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n[Toward the Terra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_the_Terra) 2007 remake:\n_\"Under the rule of Superior Dominance all humans are born in vitro and given\nto carefully selected parents\"_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-27T12:55:28.887", "id": "20388", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-27T12:55:28.887", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13451", "parent_id": "15089", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI guess I should post this as answer. As a father, you would want your\ndaughter to have a good husband who has a proper job so she won't be having a\nhard time to word in order to sustain their needs. So Kaoru's father thinks\nthat Hajime is not worthy of being her husband and that makes him very\ndisappointed of Hajime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T08:07:32.210", "id": "15115", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-16T08:07:32.210", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "15099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe title _Barakamon_ , as stated from\n[ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-07-03/barakamon-mijikamon-\nshort-anime-episode-0-posted/.76261), means \" **energetic one** \". The \"\n**energetic one** \" must be referring to Naru Kotoishi. Naru is one of the\nmajor characters in the story. She is a hyperactive and cheerful kid whom\nHanda meets in the beginning of the story. Everyday, Naru comes over the Handa\nhouse and learns new things from him. Naru tells him the wonders of living a\ncountry life, the things she love about the islands. Eventually, Handa begins\nto appreciate the country and learns the value of friendship, thanks to Naru.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T02:09:27.600", "id": "15110", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-16T02:09:27.600", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "15100", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe title \"Barakamon\" means \"cheerful/energetic person\" (元気者) in the local\nprovincial Gotou Island dialect (this seems to be the case with just about all\nthe episode titles), where most of the series takes place, on one of the\nislands off the western coast of Kyushu.\n\nThe first episode of the anime is titled \"ばらかこどん\" (Baraka kodon, meaning \"[a]\ncheerful/energetic kid\"), which is obviously referring to Naru.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T05:32:12.757", "id": "15114", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T05:32:26.983", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-22T05:32:26.983", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "15100", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMouri was left on a gas station. At the beginning of this arc, Mouri, Ran, and\nConan went to a gas station and asked for the direction. That's when Kid\nreplaced Mouri.\n\n> \n>\n> Last page of chapter 302\n>\n> Ran: Hey, I still have one question. Where is the real dad~?\n>\n> Mouri: A~~choo! ( _sneeze_ ) \n> Mouri: Fwa.. ( _wake up from sleep_ )\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T00:41:05.020", "id": "15106", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-29T18:11:15.273", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "15102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst, there is no \"history\" to speak of, as the tale of Arthur and Excalibur\nis fictional.\n\nOtherwise, after looking at the [Excalibur\narticle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur) on wikipedia, it appears\nthat:\n\n * The Sword in the Stone is the sword that proves Arthur's right to rule after Uther Pendragon;\n * Caliburn is always an alternate name for Excalibur;\n * According to the [Vulgate Cycle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot-Grail) (A 13th-century set of poems in french), Excalibur is explicitly identified as the Sword in the Stone;\n * According to the [Post-Vulgate Cycle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Vulgate_Cycle) (A revision of the Vulgate Cycle, with a lot of changes), Excalibur is the sword given by the Lady of the Lake, and was returned to her after Arthur's passing;\n * Thomas Malory later compiled a number of Arthurian legends in his 1485 compilation called [Le Morte D'Arthur](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Morte_d%27Arthur). In it, he mentions both versions of Excalibur's origin. Thomas Malory's work has been the main source for many modern Arthurian authors;\n\nIn the end, Excalibur is the Sword in the Stone in some versions of the story,\nand in other versions it is not. In Fate/Stay Night, the latter option was\nchosen.\n\nHowever, the act of using the name \"Caliburn\" for a sword distinct from\n\"Excalibur\" seems uncommon. I suspect however that it is done so that it can\nbe referred to by name instead of always having to call it \"The Sword in the\nStone\".\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T09:34:44.640", "id": "15118", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-16T09:34:44.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8446", "parent_id": "15105", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe light novel ended a little differently than the anime. The main light\nnovel ends at Ryuuji beginning his third year of high school and meeting Taiga\nalong his way to school, while the anime ends at their high school graduation,\nand then meeting Taiga in one of the classroom. In the light novel, she moved\nto a different, but nearby apartment block and her mother cancelled her drop\nout application from school. The manga has not been finished yet, so we don't\nknow the ending of it per-se. I wouldn't call it the furthest in terms of\nplot, as it doesn't really cover their third-year high school life or beyond.\n\nHowever, there is the Toradora visual novel that does cover what happens after\ntheir high school graduation. The Taiga ending reveals her to be with Ryuuji\nand pregnant.\n\nTaiga's VN ending: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odOpaby7Fpk>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T16:47:58.833", "id": "15128", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-16T16:47:58.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "15108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHer first three lie about her cooking skill, allergies, and the fact that she\nis married was intended from her to test Mouri whether he noticed it or not,\nnot to hide her real identity as Heiji's mother. But her third lie came\nunintentionally from her when she was about to say cold coffee. Maybe she did\nit accidentally and has to cover it with saying \"Reiko\".\n\nSo she lied to test Mouri, not to hide her real identity.\n\nAnother possibility is maybe she didn't know whether Heiji told his friend\nabout her hobby and others or not, and she did that because she didn't want to\nknow that she is Heiji's mother and make all her lies vain.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T08:30:41.033", "id": "15116", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-28T18:39:37.510", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-28T18:39:37.510", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "15112", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is what I currently know about the term _Trinity Seven_ and _Trinity_ in\nthe context of this manga.\n\nThe accuracy of this post depends largely on the fan translation of the manga\nseries.\n\nWhen writing this answer, I confirmed all the facts by checking back on the\nmanga. However, I didn't check out the whole series from start to end. I only\npicked out the chapters which I remembered to have the relevant content and\ncited from it.\n\n## Trinity Seven\n\n_Trinity Seven_ refers to the 7 strongest mage in a world (there can be many\nparallel worlds).\n\nIn Arata's world, the _Trinity Seven_ are the 7 girls: Asami Lilith, Kannazuki\nArin, Kazama Levi, Yamana Mira, Fudou Akio, Kurata Yui and Lieselotte\nSherlock.\n\nAccording to Liese in chapter 17, to be a member of the Trinity Seven means\nthat\n\n> one has acquired the _Lost Technica_ in one's archive. In Liese's case, it\n> was \"Last Crest\".\n\nAs explained in chapter 36 of the manga, the magic king is closely related to\nthe _Trinity Seven_. Below is the summarized definition, based on the fan\ntranslation by VISCANS:\n\n> There exists an infinite number of worlds, with each world connecting to\n> each other by causality. Worlds begin and end, are born and destroyed over\n> and over again. Magic king exists for such system, and his mission, his fate\n> is to reduce his world to nothingness. A magic king is born human, a baby\n> with the secret of unlimited magic power. Regardless of the circumstances of\n> the magic king, he will encounter the Trinity Seven and begin his\n> transformation into a proper magic king.\n\n## Trinity\n\nIn chapter 36 of the manga,\n\n> ... after Arata copied Lieselotte's Logos Arts in Acedia archive, along with\n> Lilith's Outer Alchemy in Luxuria archive and Akio's Matra Enchantment in\n> Gula archive, he was confirmed by the sword Judecca to have attained\n> _Trinity_.\n\nHowever, the condition for _Trinity_ is quite ambiguous. At the beginning of\nchapter 35,\n\n> ... Arata found the Black Imperial Sword Judecca. The sword identified\n> Arata's Magic King element and confirmed his Superbia archive and Impero\n> thema, then it went on to recognize Outer Alchemy in Luxuria archive and\n> Matra Enchantment in Gula archive. However, the sword concluded that Arata\n> did not meet the _Trinity_ requirement, and it started to initiate Magic\n> King Berserk Mode.\n\nIt was quite clear from chapter 5 of the manga that there are many _thema_\n(research topic) in an _archive_. **From my personal impression** , it seems\nthat different mages working on the same _thema_ may study and master\ndifferent _magics_.\n\n> And along that line of reasoning, I speculate that Arata had yet to come up\n> with or mastered any magic under Imperium thema, so it was not counted\n> towards the Trinity requirement.\n\nApart from the likely direction of Arata eventually copying the magic from all\nmembers of Trinity Seven, and thus in control of magics from all 7 archives\nnamed after the 7 deadly sins, it is not clear how the _Trinity_ requirement\nworks. We know \"trinity\", from Christian doctrine, has **tri-** meaning\n**three** in it. However, it is not clear three of **what** ( _archive_ alone\nis incorrect, as seen above), and whether it requires the mage to have certain\nlevel of mastery.\n\nTo make the matter more confusing, according to chapter 37 of the manga,\n\n> Arata attained power of a _Trinity_ when Akio, Liese and **Arata himself**\n> connected to their archives.\n\nAnd at the end of the chapter,\n\n> Abyss Trinity, Lilith's father and antagonist in the arc, was surprised by\n> the fact that Arata exceeded Trinity after Lilith reconnected to her\n> archive, which means Arata had 4 archives executed at the same time.\n\nSo there seems to be a further distinction between achieving the _Trinity_\nstatus and actually performing magic in _Trinity_ mode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T16:18:12.827", "id": "15127", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T19:52:29.473", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-20T19:52:29.473", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "15120", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Trinity might refer to the mastery of _three thema_ because in episode 10\nof the anime, we see Hijiri using a mode ,which is in a way, similar to\n_Arata's Astral Trinity form_. Hijiri says that this form is stronger than\n_Magus Mode_ and she also adds that this is the quintessence of her archive\nand is the result of her mastering three thema proper to the _Ira archive_.\nHowever in the film _Heavens library & Crimson Lord_, Lilith is said to\npossess the quintessence of Luxuria archive in her body without achieving\n_Trinity_ through the mastery of three thema.\n\nBut for Arata, the _Trinity form_ is more difficult to achieve because he has\nsome some conditions to clear in order to do that. Still in the film _Heavens\nLibrary_ , Liese explains that there is _three conditions_ to fulfill if Arata\nwants to copy another magic or _thema_ coming from _Archives_ other than his\nown :\n\n-First condition: he needs to understand what is the magic he is using (the name) and how it must be activated.\n\n-Second condition : he needs to know the origin and the creator of the magic \n\n-Third condition : he needs to decompose the magic \n\nArata already achieved _Trinity_ in the whole sense of the term when he used\n_Mentra Enchanted_ from the _Gula Archive_. This means the conditions are\ndifferent for _candidates_ and _Demon Lord_ or it depends on the _Archive_\nthey chose or Arata did not use conventional means to achieve _Trinity_.\nJudging by the actions of Judecca in chapter 35, it seems Arata **must\nmaster** three _themas_ from three differents _Archives_ excluding _Superbia_\nwhich leads to : _Gula Archive_ : _Fides_ , _Acedia Archive_ : _Stagna_ ,\n_Luxuria Archive_ : _Abies_ needed for Arata to be recognized by Judecca. In\n_Heavens Library_ , a clue may be introduced to us as to why Judecca wanted\nhim to go berserk when Arata says he **controls** 4 four archives and four\nthemas. **Mastering** and **Controlling** are two differents things, one is\nachieved through efforts and the other through sheer force.\n\nThis leeds me to believe that Arata will be different from the other _Demon\nLords_ by the theme he chosed. The other _Demon Lords_ always wanted to\ndestroy the world even _Abyss Trinity_ even though he went against his own\n_Archive_ to give birth to Lilith, he still followed the mission given to the\n_Demon Lords_ which was to destroy the world for it to be reborn. Arata chose\nto follow another route and decided to _control_ the world to stop its\ndestruction in other words went _against_ his mission.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-21T13:58:15.767", "id": "57645", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-21T13:58:15.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53445", "parent_id": "15120", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAkame ga KILL! Zero is a sort of prequel which tells the story of Akame when\nshe was a part of the government's army, how she was trained and so on. The\nanime is following the Akame ga KILL! (non zero) manga and from what I can\nrecall is close to chapter 48 of the manga as of episode 18.\n\nSo, if you want to follow the story of the anime read the first title you\nposted, the Zero version is a prequel which introduces some characters which\nmay or may not be met again in the principal storyline.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T15:07:24.623", "id": "15125", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-16T15:07:24.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8464", "parent_id": "15124", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\n[_Akame ga KILL!_](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=52028) is the\nmain series, while [_Akame ga KILL!\nZero_](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=102282) is a complementary\nseries which tells the story of the characters before timeline of the main\nseries.\n\nYou should read _Akame ga KILL!_ if you want to continue from the anime.\n\n* * *\n\nThe story is generally the same up to episode 17/chapter 33. However, the\nanime begins to have minor deviations from the manga from episode 18/chapter\n34. After chapter 38, which corresponds to episode 19, the anime totally skips\nmore than 10 chapters starting from chapter 39, except for this plot point in\nchapter 43, where\n\n> Susanoo died fighting Esdeath to let the rest of the Night Raid escape.\n> Originally, this happened during the mission to assassinate Borick, which\n> spans from chapter 40 to chapter 43. In the anime, Susanoo's death is moved\n> to episode 21 instead, and Borick's assassination is trivialized at the end\n> of episode 19.\n\nEpisode 20 restarts from second half of chapter 50, but doesn't follow the\nmanga too closely, since the manga introduces many new characters during the\nWild Hunt arc (from chapter 44 to 48), and several of them affect the story\nbeyond Wild Hunt arc.\n\nMost of the differences between manga and anime adaptation come from this\n10-chapter gap.\n\nIf you have time, I suggest that you scan through the manga from the\nbeginning, so that you won't miss any details that might have been omitted\nfrom the anime adaptation. Otherwise, **chapter 39 is a good place to pick up\nthe manga**.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T18:52:25.753", "id": "15129", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-06T19:33:05.673", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-06T19:33:05.673", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "15124", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## The Elfen Lied OP Code\n\nThis original analysis is built on previous works by [Anime\nAfterglow](http://animeafterglow.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/its-the-arts/),\n[莉露兜](http://www.keyfc.net/bbs/showtopic-41583.aspx) and\n[知日部屋](http://www.cuhkacs.org/~benng/Bo-Blog/read.php?686). For the meaning of\nKaede's hand gesture that was [once popular in\nmanga](http://zombiebi.web.fc2.com/yubinokotonitsuite.html), see [What's the\nsignificance of the 'w' finger position in Elfen\nLied](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5472/whats-the-significance-\nof-the-w-finger-position-in-elfen-lied) and [In the opening of the Elfen Lied\nanime why does Nyu/Lucy have her fingers positioned in a certain\nway?](http://elfen-\nlied.wikia.com/wiki/Elfen_Lied_Frequently_Asked_Questions#In_the_opening_of_the_Elfen_Lied_anime_why_does_Nyu.2FLucy_have_her_fingers_positioned_in_a_certain_way.3F)\nAll names and dates of Klimt's artworks are taken from the [Klimt\nMuseum](http://www.klimt.com/).\n\nThe Elfen Lied OP animation is sequential storytelling beginning _[in medias\nres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res)_ :\n\n> Kaede sheds her tears as she and Kouta embraces. (Episode 13)\n\n\n\n> os iusti meditabitur sapientiam et lingua eius loquetur iudicium — [Psalmi\n> 36:30](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalmi%2036&version=VULGATE)\n>\n> The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of\n> judgment. — [Psalms\n> 37:30](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2037&version=KJV)\n\nAs the vocal sets in, we have a zoom out shot of Kaede hugging a mannequin\n(dummy). A close-up view reveals an uncomfortable suggestion that it is a\nheadless dummy. If you still don't know what to make of the headless dummy,\ntake a look at the surrounding black ravens: they signify death.\n\n> Lucy killed Kouta's father and sister, thereby killing his feelings for her.\n> Now, only death awaits her as the armed forces are soon approaching.\n\nIn the background, we can see ripe cereals ears, which are ubiquitous in\nKlimt's artworks presumably as phallic symbols, decorating the Tree of Life.\nThe Tree of Life grows through reproduction and evolution, and bears its\nfruits, the ravens (deaths), that rest on its branches. Is the human race at\nthe end of one of those branches? Or is it the Diclonius?\n\n \n`Stoclet Frieze — The Fulfillment (1905)`\n\n> beatus vir qui suffert temptationem quia cum probatus fuerit accipiet\n> coronam vitae — [Iacobi\n> 1:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Iacobi%201&version=VULGATE)\n>\n> Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall\n> receive the crown of life. — [James\n> 1:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=KJV&search=James%201)\n\nFrom here on is a flashback to the very beginning of the story of Elfen Lied,\nwhen Kaede was first conceived as a child. The first appearance of the title\ncan be seen behind the rustling ripe cereal ears.\n\n\n\nNotice here the horns on the female dummy whom we may identify as Kaede's\nmother. Despite being a human, she gave birth to the 'Queen' Diclonius and\ntherefore is the true originator of the virus. The mysterious 'blemish' on the\nmother's abdomen may be tied to a manga-only plot:\n\n> After Kaede's mother committed suicide, her abdomen was cut open and her\n> ovaries and womb taken by Chief Kakuzawa.\n\nHowever, this is not certain as the information was only revealed almost a\nyear after the airing of the last episode of the anime, in Volume 11 of the\nmanga, which was released on August 19, 2005.\n\nThe phallic symbols (which almost lit up completely before dimming again)\naround the private area of both the unconscious Nyu and Lucy, the Eve of the\nDiclonius race, allude to\n\n> Professor Kakuzawa's unsuccessful attempt at raping Lucy/Nyu.\n\nWe can make one-to-one correspondences between the females in _The Three Ages\nof Woman_ and Kaede, Lucy and Nyu. Out of the three, only the cuddling one is\nmaking the hand gesture, so she is Kaede, as she is the only one out of the\nthree asking for forgiveness. Then the unconscious one is Nyu, and the\nfacepalming one is Lucy.\n\nAnother possibility is that the baby girl is Nyu, the young woman is Lucy, the\nfertile Queen of the Diclonius, and the old woman is Kaede, who lost her favor\nwith Kouta.\n\nOn a related note: Gustav Klimt uses circles, triangles and squares in his\nartworks, as does the famous [Sengai\nGibon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengai), who might have had an indirect\ninfluence on him because Klimt also studied Japanese art profusely, but I\ndon't have a source to cite for this. Sengai is well-known for his [_Circle,\nTriangle, and Square_ painting](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FQw4o.jpg), the base\nof design for the [Circle-Triangle-Square\nGarden](http://www.kenninji.jp/english/) at Kenninji, the oldest Zen temple in\nKyoto.\n\n> In Zen Buddhist philosophy, the Circle, Square and Triangle represent these\n> three elements [ten-chi-jin 天地人] and their relationship to each other: the\n> square signifies Earth, the circle refers to Heaven, and the triangle is\n> man, or the potential of humankind to stand on the Earth and reach toward\n> Heaven – both physically and metaphorically. — [Spirit of the Man: Mario\n> Uribe](http://www.thespiritoftheman.com/mario-uribe/)\n\n> Sengai left the painting without a title or inscription (save for his\n> signature), however the painting is often called \"The Universe\" when\n> referred to in English.\n\nWhile we don't know what Klimt had in mind when he drew those circles,\ntriangles and squares, the workings of the universe do seem to be personified\nby _The Three Ages of Woman_ and also Nyu, Kaede and Lucy. Isn't it\ninteresting that the [Fates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moirai) also come\nin threes?\n\n \nBottom: `The Three Ages of Woman (1905)` \nTop: `Adam and Eve (1917)`, altered to look also like `Medicine (1897)`\n([image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S1zIz.jpg))\n\nThen comes an interesting sequence of introductions to three important\ncharacters in the series: Yuka, Mayu and Nana, of ages approximately 19, 13\nand 7 respectively (according to Wikia). In other words, from elder to\nyounger, from least unfortunate to most unfortunate, and in the order of first\nappearance in the anime. It is curious to see **three females** of different\n**ages** (adulthood, adolescence and childhood), each getting their own\nportrait shots, make their appearances in _The **Three Ages** of **Woman_**\nscene, out of all scenes. Is this incidental or intentional?\n\n \n`Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907)`\n\nThe origin for Mayu's portrait is not without much contention. It had been\nsuggested to be _Lady with Fan (1917)_ , _Portrait of Ria Munk III (1918)_ and\n_Portrait of Serena Lederer (1899)_ , but I concur only with the suggestion\nthat is _The Girlfriends_. The two women, possibly lesbians, in _The\nGirlfriends_ are close to each other just as Mayu is close to Nana whose\nportrait appears immediately after hers. The fact that Mayu prefers to be with\ngirls lends more evidence to Mayu's artwork being based on _The Girlfriends_.\nHowever, instead of a naked Nana, we have the recurring phallic symbols in the\nbackground, which tell us some backgrounds about Mayu:\n\n> She was subject to rape and sodomy by her stepfather.\n\n \n`The Girlfriends (1916)`\n\n> Mäda Primavesi was, by her own account, an independent, assertive young\n> girl, qualities amply captured in this portrait of her at about nine years\n> old. — [The Metropolitan Museum of\n> Art](http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-\n> online/search/436819)\n\nThe age and personality of Mäda Primavesi indeed fit Nana's. It is the\ndirector's sympathetic portrait of a very real and willful little girl.\n\nThe lyrics sung just before Yuka's portrait, _\"beatus vir qui (blessed is the\nman)\"_ , refers to her good luck, while the lyrics before Mayu's and Nana's,\n_\"suffert temptationem (that endures temptation)\"_ , signals the pass in\nMayu's and Nana's life challenges and in their resisting the temptation to\ngive up and die.\n\n \n`Portrait of Mäda Primavesi (1912)`\n\n> kyrie _ignis divine_ eleison — [ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ\n> 20:30–31](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20%CE%9A%CE%91%CE%A4%CE%91%20%CE%9C%CE%91%CE%A4%CE%98%CE%91%CE%99%CE%9F%CE%9D%2020&version=SBLGNT)\n>\n> O Lord, _Fire Divine_ , have mercy on us. — [Matthew\n> 20:30–31](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2020&version=KJV)\n\n[Kyrie eleison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrie) is a common name of an\nimportant prayer of Christian liturgy. The _\"ignis divine (Fire Divine)\"_ line\nis added as a [trope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trope_%28literature%29)\nbecause [_\"kyrie eleison\"_ is too short](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/lilium).\n\n> A specialized use [of a trope] is the medieval amplification of texts from\n> the liturgy, such as in the Kyrie Eleison (Kyrie, / magnae Deus potentia, /\n> liberator hominis, / transgressoris mandati, / eleison).\n\nThe prolonged singing of a single syllable of text while moving between\nseveral different notes in succession is called\n[melisma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melisma). As a side note, _quoniam_ is\nused in the song in favor of _quia_ because it means the same and sounds\nbetter.\n\nThis is the only artwork with moving characters: Kouta turns his face away\nfrom the viewer and kisses a dummy. Take notice of the human-like dummy Kouta\nis kissing: judging by her height and bust size, she is around 10 years old,\nclearly someone from his childhood memories. Is she child Yuka? Or is she\nchild Kaede whom child Kouta treated as a human being?\n\nThe third and last scene of Kaede forgoing the hand gesture, and this time she\nis Kaede herself, not Lucy or Nyu. Ironically, Kaede finds her own fulfillment\n(not) in the event of _The Fulfillment_ where she still had the hand gesture\nand where Lucy fulfilled her own desire and duty to kill humans, but in that\nof _The Kiss_. You could imagine the dummy kissing Kaede is God or the\nhypothetical Kouta who loves her / would have loved her in a different\nuniverse.\n\n \n`The Kiss (1908)`\n\n> Kaede's realization that Kouta had cheated on her by going out with Yuka\n> drove her into a deep pit of sadness and madness.\n\n \n`The Three Ages of Woman (1905)`\n\nFire Divine! Kaede was engulfed in a burning rage for revenge! The background\nis the same as Mayu's. This scene, the only other that looks like the one\nwhere the title is first shown, also marks the end of the flashback.\n\n\n\nThis and the first scene (tear drops) are the only two non-filler scenes\nwithout any known reference to an artwork. The two scenes both serve as\nsection stops (almost perfectly at the 0:00 and 1:00 marks in the 1:30 long\nOP) that fade to black in similar ways, and therefore this is the end of the\nstory of Elfen Lied.\n\n\n\n> Oh, quam sancta, quam serena, quam benigna, quam amoena! Oh, castitatis\n> lilium.\n>\n> O how holy, how serene, how kind, how pleasant! O, lily of chastity.\n>\n> — [Ave Mundi Spes Maria](http://sanctus.marketproductions.com/?p=762)\n\nFrom here on, the scenes are all about depicting Elfen Lied the work. The\nlyrics in this last section may also be a praise of the series.\n\nOriginally, Klimt named his work _Water Serpents I_ as a pretext to show the\nfeminine body in an erotic context without fearing censorship. The anime is\ncertainly challenging and pushing the boundaries of censorship with its gore\nand nudity.\n\n \n`Water Serpents I (1904)`\n\nThe last scene may have borrowed ideas from _Water Serpents II (1904)_ , but\nultimately this is just a 90 degree rotation of _The Fulfillment_ , with a\nslight change in Kaede's head and hands.\n\n \n`Stoclet Frieze — The Fulfillment (1905)`, altered to look like `Water\nSerpents II (1904)`\n\nIf you count the number of unique dummies that have appeared in the OP, and\nthe number of artworks referenced or the number of appearances of Kaede, Lucy\nand Nyu, you get [these\nnumbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_superstitions#Numbers).\n\n[Walter De Maria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_De_Maria) once said,\n\n> \"Every good work should have at least ten meanings.\"\n\nIn this regard, Elfen Lied is a good work of art.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-16T20:54:01.487", "id": "15131", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-15T15:49:08.620", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-15T15:49:08.620", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15130", "post_type": "answer", "score": 40 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [article that senshin\nfound](http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TV+made+Saban+rich,+selling+falafels+makes+him+secure.-a012251839)\nindicates that Saban Entertainment, the infamous anime mutilator and \"creator\"\nof Power Rangers, co-produced Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi, Socchi, so it\nseems incomprehensible that they wouldn't have produced an English dub. I also\nfound an [English-dubbed video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9cts_P1H0I) of\nThree Little Ghosts which I am quite sure is the show I saw. The [Anime News\nNetwork page](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1042)\ngives the three ghosts' English names as Sally, Bumper, and Cutter, which is\nexactly what I remember their names being in the show I saw. The ANN page\ndoesn't list any English voice actors, but [this TV Tropes\npage](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NowWhichOneWasThatVoice)\nmentions that Saban and other dubbing studios around this time frequently\ndidn't credit the voice actors, so it's possible that the compilers of the ANN\npage couldn't find any information on the English voice actors and decided to\nleave it blank.\n\nGiven all that, I'm quite satisfied that Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi, Socchi\nwas released in the US and that it was the show I saw.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-25T19:33:30.583", "id": "20340", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-25T19:33:30.583", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "15133", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI come with an answer from Polymanga 2015 in Switzerland when the author was\nthere. You can verify it here: [Polymanga\n2015](http://www.polymanga.com/?lang=fr)\n\nThe following question was asked and the author answered:\n\n> At the beginning of the anime, the manga was already written but in the end\n> the anime exceeded the manga. That's the reason why I want to change the\n> story because the people who had already seen the anime know the end and\n> they will find the manga boring.\n\nIt's not his words exactly (I don't remember exactly) but it's the general\nidea of what he wanted to say.\n\nAnd after that, he adds:\n\n> The end of the anime was fantastic. But the end of the manga will be more\n> fantastic.\n\nFor the ones who didn't see the end, let's go see it;)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-19T12:25:48.727", "id": "21652", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-18T15:03:16.550", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-18T15:03:16.550", "last_editor_user_id": "14599", "owner_user_id": "8730", "parent_id": "15136", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen it comes to a fight between Nen users, pure power doesn't mean\neverything. One may have an ability than can overpower a type of opponent (for\ninstance: Kurapika vs. Uvogin).\n\nIn terms of pure power, Meruem is far stronger than Hisoka (probably stronger\nthan any living being). I'd say Hisoka is about the same level as a Royal\nGuard (mainly because Hisoka has a lot of battle experience).\n\nThat being said, Hisoka doesn't seek for anyone weaker than him when he wants\nto fight. So the fact that he thought to challenge Ging doesn't mean he's able\nto gauge his power and think he can beat him.\n\nI can't give you any reference, personally I think the 2011 anime (didn't read\nthe scans) shows that Meruem is the strongest being we ever saw by far. There\nis something else though. Before the final battle between Hunters and Ants,\nNetero says that someone will have to be sacrificed. I think he simply knew\nthat nobody could beat the Ant King in a fight and already thought about using\na bomb.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-18T09:08:21.193", "id": "15157", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T13:58:32.243", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-29T13:58:32.243", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8788", "parent_id": "15151", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nMeruem is actually the strongest living being in term of Nen Aura. This is\nalso due to his Nen consumption ability, as seen in [his wiki\narticle](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Meruem):\n\n> Meruem's initial ability gives him strength through consumption. Meruem's\n> aura grows every time he devours a user of Nen, with their aura synthesizing\n> to his own.\n\nAdditionally, [Netero](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac_Netero), who\nwas one of the strongest characters in Hunter X Hunter, couldn't really beat\nMeruem. Don't forget what he said to Meruem when he met him:\n\n> When? When did I start waiting for my opponent to make the first move? When,\n> indeed? It became a routine. The loser held out his hands in gratitude for\n> the lesson and I graciously accepted without skipping a beat. As if that was\n> what I wanted!! That's not how it should be!! For so long, I sought the\n> height of perfection. I dreamed of giving my heart and soul to battle an\n> unstoppable adversary!! I'm a lucky man. I'm thankful for everything that\n> led me to this point...that led me to you!!\n\nSo considering this, Hisoka has to be weaker than Netero, who is indeed weaker\nthan Meruem.\n\nBut as already said in [Kalilz's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/15157/1398):\n\n> When it comes to a fight between Nen users, pure power doesn't mean\n> everything. One may have an ability than can overpower a type of opponent.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-16T18:39:37.813", "id": "19411", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-16T18:56:02.147", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11608", "parent_id": "15151", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the beginning of the anime, Hisoka point blank tells Netero he wants to\nfight him, but Netero ignores him. This is significant because as stated\nduring the fight with Meruem, Netero has been bored for a long time and is\ngrateful to have a chance to fight someone that could kill him. Again, he\nignored Hisoka, not because Hisoka was hiding his bloodlust or aura (the\nexaminers felt it and so did the other applicants; also, he almost killed an\nexaminer the last time he took the test, so it would be odd if Netero wasn't\naware of him.)\n\nYet, did Netero fight him? Nope. He just ignored him. So Netero clearly\ndoesn't find Hisoka to be worth fighting. And why should he? We have seen\nHisoka go all out already in his fight with Chrollo and he showed no other\nability than his gum... and while a flexible use of nen, it provides him with\nno way of hurting someone like Netero. Netero's fight with the King dealt\nthousands of punches in the blink of an eye. Hisoka has shown no such speed or\nendurance to tank attacks of that caliber. Sun and Moon, the attack Chrollo\nuses to kill Hisoka, explodes Heaven Arena, sure, but Netero's Zero Hand\nmelted stone! There would be nothing left from Hisoka. And yet, Meruem tanked\nall those attacks from Netero.\n\nSo yes, I would put him way above Hisoka. What can Hisoka do? Throw a card?\nWon't damage the King's skin. Hold him down with gum? Hisoka couldn't move\nRazor's puppet and had to release the nen gum. I seriously doubt he could stop\nMeruem from moving. One slap from the King's tail and Hisoka is dead. Hisoka\nis not fast enough to dodge an attack from the Ant King.\n\nNow Hisoka wanting to fight Ging... his bloodlust clouds his vision. He wanted\nto fight Netero, and he could never win that fight. He wanted to fight Chrollo\nand Chrollo killed him. I would also like to point out Killua thought he could\nkill Netero during the exam... so clearly rankings by Killua or Hisoka are not\nto be relied on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-29T01:27:49.297", "id": "36581", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-16T14:38:36.970", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-16T14:38:36.970", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "28481", "parent_id": "15151", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis can be answered by using the only quantitative source of strength we have\nfor HxH. I've said it before however,\n\n> When it comes to a fight between Nen users, pure power doesn't mean\n> everything. One may have an ability than can overpower a type of opponent.\n\nHowever the below data points conclusively prove that Meruem is WAY more\npowerful than Hisoka and he can only beat him under extraordinary\ncircumstances.\n\nAccording to the \"Hunter × Hunter Manual\" section found in the Yu ☆ Yu ☆\nHakusho official character book (Shueisha Jump remix), Hisoka's stats are:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wG0rS.png)\n\nComparing them to Meruem\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Ffln.png)\n\nSources: Read The Trivia Section at the page's bottom \n[Meruem: HxH Wikia](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Meruem) \n[Hisoka: HxH Wikia](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Hisoka_Morow)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-29T08:30:10.243", "id": "36587", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-29T08:30:10.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6368", "parent_id": "15151", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nHisoka died from an explosion in the Heaven's Arena, Compare that with Meruem\nwho survived a Nuke. Even the calamities (except may be Bryon and Ai) are\nprobably weaker than him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-11T08:20:05.087", "id": "38904", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-11T08:20:05.087", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30862", "parent_id": "15151", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it depends more of production than if is an anime or a TV show. But is\ntrue that in anime sometimes the time between seasons is more than one year.\nThat's because some anime are quickly than manga and anime need stopping for\ndon't reach the manga.\n\nIs possible that the reason is only the business model un US about manga, but\nI think is for the reason I comment. For be sure you can consult the time\nbetween season in Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-18T22:37:20.077", "id": "15169", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-18T22:37:20.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9236", "parent_id": "15159", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are _sooo_ many anime series (and manga for that matter), that\nbroadcasting companies don't know which will be hits and which won't be at the\ntime of establishing a contract with a studio.\n\nThe fact is, when a studio gets the green light to do a series, it is\ntypically one season; that is, with the exception of some of the _Jump_ comics\nthat have long-running series (e.g. Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, and so on).\n\nSo when the studio gets the green light to start production, the number of\nepisodes is already decided. For some, this is enough to do a full story arc\nand have a clean ending. Others end more openly or on a cliffhanger. This can\ndrive the audience to pick up the manga to see how the story continues, or to\nthe hopes of the studio, the popularity will be high enough that the audience\nwill request or demand a second season. This is evident in the recent\n_Shingeki no Kyojin_ ( _Attack on Titan_ ) boom.\n\nThis is also true for Japanese dramas. Typically, they are all one season. And\n**if** there is a second season, it comes much later because the studio and\nthe TV broadcasting company weren't originally planning to make a second or\nthird season from the get-go. This means you also have to account for\nproduction time between the seasons too.\n\nHope that helps. (My only reference is that I lived in Japan for over 5 years\nand saw this happening _a lot_ and heard about it in the news.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-19T16:50:29.583", "id": "15182", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-23T04:13:06.797", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-23T04:13:06.797", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "9251", "parent_id": "15159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nOne reason may be that anime takes longer to produce than a normal show (as in\nones with actors such as supernatural), however I have no idea wether this is\ntrue or not.\n\nThe other reason I know of is that most (if not all) anime is based off of\nmanga, and also usually advance much faster than it story-wise. Thus it needs\nto pause for a while to allow the manga to beat it. I do know for certain\nthat, that is the reason Attack on Titan hasn't aired in a couple years.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-25T06:30:45.323", "id": "23551", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-25T06:30:45.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15879", "parent_id": "15159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nJust to clarify my main reference is family, namely my brothers and father who\nhave all lived in Japan for years at one time or another time for various\nreasons.\n\nOne of the biggest reasons is their expense. Animes are expensive to make.\nAnime and video games are the most expensive form of advertising there is for\nmanga, which is the real moneymaker. A single episode can cost anywhere\nbetween $100,000-200,000. That's the equivalent, in the current market, to\n¥1,0072,000-2,0144,000. This is also an average as it isn't always a set\namount, and some anime get more funding than others if they are popular or\nraised it somehow. So that means for a single 24 episode season you just spent\n$2,400,000-4,800,000 (which is a lot of yen, you can do the math yourself) on\nwhat may be a boom or bust for the company.\n\nNow with the anime out you have to give it time to market your manga for you.\nIf sales don't pick up much or at all after the anime comes out it isn't\nlikely the anime will continue. Like KiaiFighter pointed out the only ones\nthat get a really longstanding season are the ones who have an incredibly long\nand popular manga, probably through JUMP or one of their competitors. Like he\nsaid you have anime like One Piece, Gingtama -- or Fairy Tale through Weekly\nShōnen Magazine -- which all feature hundreds of episodes because they were\npopular and established before the anime even got started and can afford to be\ngiven longer seasons. The ones that don't have that kind of backing must wait\npotentially years for the anime to market the manga and paraphernalia before\nthere is even consideration for a new season.\n\nThen there is also the problem it takes time to make a manga and storyline.\nLesser known mangas that don't have the advantage of JUMP or other forms to\neffectively distribute their manga probably don't have a whole lot of arcs\ncovered. Basically a single 13 episode season can catch up on the whole series\neffectively. So even if it is popular, the funds are available, and the\npopulace is waiting, it is likely it might very well be delayed anyway for\nseveral years simply so the author can get ahead a few arcs. Look at the anime\nTsukaima no Zero which had between two to four years between each 12 episode\nseason so that the light novels could get ahead enough (didn't really matter\nthough because the author passed before he could finish but I digress). If\nthey don't then you just have a huge number of filler episodes, like with\nNaruto and the Hunter x Hunter from the 1990's (I can't get over how the\nnickname for Hunter x Hunter is Hiatus x Hiatus because the author constantly\nputs off continuing the manga which was only recently started again. Its been\naround for almost 20 years but they only have about 150 episodes worth of\nanime, as opposed to One Piece which started a year before, and even GinTama.\nBut again I digress).\n\nLastly, like KiaiFighter also pointed out, Dramas are a whole other ballpark\nand shouldn't be touched with another season because they generally leave\neverything wrapped up nice and tightly so there shouldn't be any complaints\nother than the tears of joy a the happy ending or shock and denial for the\ndepressing ending.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-07T23:50:35.370", "id": "34153", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-07T23:50:35.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26065", "parent_id": "15159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe DVDs will be uncensored.\n\nThey are not fully released yet (Volume 3 is coming out on the 28th of\nNovember, Volume 4 December 26th ), nor released in English speaking\nterritories.\n\nI expect it may take another few months before it is picked up by English\nlicencors (streaming rights have been purchased, but DVD rights aren't up for\ngrabs just yet).\n\n[Ref](http://www.fandompost.com/2014/09/13/tokyo-ghoul-japanese-anime-dvdbd-\nreleases-get-commercial-collection/)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-18T12:26:57.540", "id": "15162", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-18T12:32:02.070", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-18T12:32:02.070", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15161", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nApparently, it's a parody from a popular Monty Python sketch titled \"Spam\".\nIt's about two customers who order a breakfast from a menu that includes Spam\nin almost every dish.\n\nAs usual, a lot of other shows also have to censored some brand or replace it\nwith similar names to the real-life brand, so that the producers can avoid\ncopyright issues. Some other show also tend to censored part of the show if\nit's a parody to other show for same reason.\n\nThis is a video from [Girls und Panzer OVA\n2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlsvLZvAkOg) and [Monty Python -\nSpam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE)\n\nAnd this is a picture for comparison in case if the video is removed:\n\n\n\nSpam is actually used as military food in World War II.\n\n> Spam is a brand of several canned precooked meat products made by the Hormel\n> Foods Corporation. It was first introduced in 1937 and gained popularity\n> worldwide after its use during World War II.(1)\n\n\n\nSpam was used by U.S. military occupation after World War II into Guam,\nHawaii, Okinawa, the Philippine Islands, and other islands in the Pacific as\none of their military food.\n\n> The term spam in the context of electronic communications is derived from\n> this sketch.(2)\n\nSources:\n\n * [(1) - Wikipedia: \"Spam (food)\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_\\(food\\))\n * [(2) - Wikipedia: \"Spam (Monty Python)\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_\\(Monty_Python\\))\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-19T12:29:20.053", "id": "15180", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T04:11:31.520", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-20T04:11:31.520", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "15179", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nSPAM® is [a registered trademark by the Hormel Foods\nCorporation](http://www.hormelfoods.com/Brands/BrandWall/SPAM-Family-of-\nProducts).\n\nAs you might have noticed from other productions, Anime usually change or\ncensor any real-world trademarks which appear.\n\nThey do this:\n\n 1. to avoid legal trouble with trademark owners should they consider their brand misrepresented\n 2. to not give something away for free [which they might get paid for](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ProductPlacement/AnimeAndManga)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-19T18:57:42.890", "id": "15185", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-19T19:11:54.707", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-19T19:11:54.707", "last_editor_user_id": "9256", "owner_user_id": "9256", "parent_id": "15179", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAfter being 'mixed' with Shinichi, Shinichi became more parasyte-like, while\nmigi became more human-like. This caused him to enter in 'deep sleep mode'.\nWhen he's in this mode, he won't only be able to locate other parasytes, he\nwon't even be able to help Shinichi if he's in dangerous situation\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T09:29:05.697", "id": "15328", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-27T09:33:57.203", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-27T09:33:57.203", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "6", "parent_id": "15191", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI suppose you know this already, but to be clear, Migi does not just lose the\nability to locate other parasites when he is asleep, he is completely dormant\nand unable to wake up and react to danger during the sleep. The information\nabout his weaknesses is given by Migi himself on Page 190 in Volume 2:\n\n\n\n> Interestingly, a 70% Migi could still sense other parasites within a 300m\n> radius after the incident (for example, in Volume 3, he detected the\n> presence of the parasite murderer 300m away) and a 30% Migi inside Shinichi\n> likewise enables Shinichi to see 300m far, so I see no loss in either power\n> or ability by Migi after his \"injury\".\n\nThe conclusion is Shinichi's parasite Migi does not suffer from a lack of\npower because of his \"injury\" other than the weakness mentioned by Migi in the\npicture above.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T10:53:42.727", "id": "15331", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-27T13:41:26.787", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-27T13:41:26.787", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15191", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere was no mention of them. Not by manga nor by databook.\n\nWe might get a glimpse of them in The Last: Naruto the Movie, but we don't\nknow, and likely never will. (Unless, of course, Kishimoto-sensei decides to\nreveal those details somehow).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T07:25:23.203", "id": "15205", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T07:25:23.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "15200", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the new release of [Naruto Gaiden manga chapter\n7](http://www.mangahere.co/manga/naruto_gaiden_the_seventh_hokage/c007/8.html)\n(or Naruto manga chapter 707), Sasuke split up with team Taka and Orochimaru\nwent back to his hideout with the rest of team Taka (Suigetsu, Juugo, and\nKarin).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-11T16:31:17.860", "id": "22349", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-11T16:31:17.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4559", "parent_id": "15200", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs mentioned by Anastasiya-Romanova, Sasuke left Taka and Orochimaru. Rest,\ncharacter by character status is below:\n\n# From [Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet\nSpring](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Gaiden:_The_Seventh_Hokage_and_the_Scarlet_Spring)\n\n**[Karin](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Karin)**\n\nAfter the war, Karin resumed her work for Orochimaru at one of his hideouts.\n\n> She helped Sakura, by delivering her and Sasuke's daughter, Sarada at\n> Orochimaru's hideout — as Sakura, while pregnant, had refused to leave\n> Sasuke's side while he was traveling. She also became friends with Sakura,\n> at some point.\n\n**[Suigetsu& Jugo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Suigetsu_H%C5%8Dzuki)**\n\nSuigetsu and Jugo also joined Orochimaru's hideout. They even greeted the\nNaruto and next generation when they came to the hideout for\n\n> Information about [Shin Uchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shin_Uchiha)\n\nSuigetsu even increased the confusion of Sarada.\n\n> Sarada requested for Suigetsu's assistance in checking whether Karin is her\n> birth mother or not. Suigetsu found a strand of Karin's DNA in her desk (not\n> knowing that it was Sarada's umbilical cord) and used it to run a test with\n> that of Sarada's, which revealed a perfect match. Some time after Shin's\n> defeat, Karin scolded Suigetsu for touching her belongings, explaining to\n> him that he had used Sakura and Sarada's umbilical cord in the DNA test.\n\n**[Kabuto](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kabuto_Yakushi)**\n\nHe runs Konoha Orphanage in the next generation era.\n\n> He happily became a father to all remaining Shin clones and intended to name\n> every single clone.\n\n**[Orochimaru](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Orochimaru)**\n\nOrochimaru even helped to break the [secret about Shin\nUchiha](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/21513/who-is-the-person-in-\nthe-akatsuki-cloak-in-chapter-702/22161#22161).\n\n# From [Boruto: Naruto the\nMovie](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Boruto:_Naruto_the_Movie)\n\nOrochimaru has a cameo appearance in the film with one secret revelation\n\n> Boruto and Sarada ask Mitsuki who his parents are and after he tells them\n> it's Orochimaru, Sarada asks if he's the mother or the father. Mitsuki\n> answers that either one is fine, while Boruto loudly asks who Orochimaru is.\n> He's then shown standing on top of a house, looking at the three genin.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-08T11:02:29.900", "id": "28767", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-19T15:14:27.137", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1527", "parent_id": "15200", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nIt's from [Dragon Ball\nH](http://thedragonballblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/dragon-ball-h-volume-2-goku-\nx-chichi.html) (link may be little NSFW, it's mostly censored). It's a doujin\ndrawn by a circle called \"Garland\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T08:05:57.710", "id": "15206", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T08:05:57.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "15201", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPair is the pair of testicles of a Ballboon.\n\nMonkey King Bambina's Pair is the hardest to get, and also the most delicious\nbecause it is fresh off the monkey. The Ballboons hang their Pairs from the\nBirth Cry Tree as a mating ritual.\n\nRetrieving Pair from the Birth Cry Tree can be accomplished with 2 means:\nEating someone of similar power to yourself, or having a Ballboon pluck them\noff the tree.\n\nOriginally, Pair's capture method was much much different, but one of\nBambina's ancestors ate the original source of Pair, and this drastically\naltered its obtaining method\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-28T08:49:38.077", "id": "43568", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-28T08:49:38.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36342", "parent_id": "15209", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to Wikipedia user\n[Doceirias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AParasyte#Parasyte_vs_Parasite)\nwho translated the Del Rey version of the manga:\n\n> Essentially, the word kiseiju1 is consistently translated as Parasyte, while\n> the word kiseichu2 is translated literally as parasite. The creatures\n> themselves are referred to either as kiseichu or parasaito. The word kiseiju\n> only appears one time (if memory serves) and is used to refer to human\n> beings. I decided the distinction was an important one, and that the word\n> Parasyte actually referred to mankind.\n\nAs with writing [byte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History) instead of\nbite, Parasyte is a deliberate respelling of parasite for distinction\npurposes.\n\n* * *\n\n1 kiseijuu `寄生獣`: parasite beasts \n2 kiseichuu `寄生虫`: parasite bugs\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T14:55:18.043", "id": "15211", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-12T10:58:55.390", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-12T10:58:55.390", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nParasyte is more like parasite-scythe. Scythe is the weapon of the parasites\nin this anime/manga, so it's that kind of a pun. Parasyte is because the\nweapon of the parasites are scythes.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-24T05:08:35.877", "id": "15272", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-24T05:08:35.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "15210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe it is intentional. \nBecause there's no \"Kiseijuu\" word in Japanese. \nI mean the Japanese original title, \"Kiseijuu,\" itself is a coined word;\nparasitized + beast.\n\nJapanese people know well about the word \"Kiseichu\", that means parasite.\n\nHere, \"Juu\" means animals especially something dangerous or beasts, and \"Chu\"\nis bugs. I think this is why \"Parasite\" won't suit for English title.\n\nAnd the below is a spoiler for this topic.\n\n> In this series, the word \"Kiseijuu\" will be used or appeared only once. And\n> that is not refer the parasitic monsters like Migi, Tamiya, Shimada, etc. \n> One of the key person in this series says \"Human-being is the \"Kiseijuu\n> (parasyte)\" who destroy the Earth!\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-02T10:47:04.010", "id": "15421", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-02T11:01:03.647", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-02T11:01:03.647", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "9440", "parent_id": "15210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nLast i checked it was extra little bit of protection against copy-right claims\nas part of the localization, that turned out to not be required, but was kept\nanyway.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-02T00:34:35.927", "id": "19039", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-02T00:34:35.927", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4966", "parent_id": "15210", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nActually the likely reason it's titled as Parasyte with a Y instead of an I is\nlikely a play on words having to do with a physiological reference to the\nblood brain barrier (which protects the brain against toxins/pathogens). There\nare cells called \"pericytes\" that regulate blood flow through capillaries. So\nthe name Parasyte is likely a clever combination (and way to avoid copyright\nissues) of the parasite taking over the host in the anime and pericytes that\nhelp with brain function. I should note I'm a med student so this came to me\nwhile I was doing an assignment lol I'm sure other people have thought of this\ntoo though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-04-14T00:02:58.077", "id": "57253", "last_activity_date": "2020-04-14T00:02:58.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "52764", "parent_id": "15210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThere are no such numeric formulae; at least, not in the official materials.\nNumeric rankings are rarely mentioned in the show; one of the rare such\nexamples occurs in an episode of the original series, where Nanoha's magic\npower is estimated as 1.27 million, while Fate's is 1.43 million. (They were\nboth of AAA rank at the time.) \"Plus\" and \"minus\" are not modifiers that can\nbe applied multiple times to a rank, either; \"A+\" is simply a rank higher than\n\"A\" and lower than \"AA-\".\n\nMage ranks are qualitative; they do not just measure amount of magic power,\nbut also skill. They are usually granted by a test by TSAB; when this is not\npossible, i.e. in case of antagonists, they can be estimated. A spell rank\npresumedly signifies the rank of a mage who should be able to cast the spell,\nbut this isn't a hard and fast rule: \"Eternal Coffin\" is a S+ rank spell, but\nChrono (ranked AAA+) was able to use it thanks to his device's specialization\nfor freezing magic; for another example, Teana (ranked B at the time) was able\nto use an AA-rank technique during a training to combine her projectiles with\na barrier in order to protect them from an anti-magic field.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-26T16:22:12.323", "id": "21145", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-26T16:22:12.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14139", "parent_id": "15215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe's [Midoriya Izuku](http://bokunoheroacademia.wikia.com/wiki/Izuku_Midoriya)\nfrom new manga [Boku no Hero\nAcademia](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=112459)\n\n\n\nThe beginning of the story is kinda like Naruto but set in the modern day\nschool with bunch of people with special powers, but this boy has no special\npower.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-21T02:56:17.683", "id": "15217", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-21T02:56:17.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "15216", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the Japanese version of sailor moon, Sailor Mercury's name was Ami Mizuno.\nSailor Mercury is reputed for being highly intelligent and outside of crime\nfighting, she's very studious.\n\nAs to why Taiga is jealous of that - She's complaining about her own height\nand \"weird name\" (It's not very common, and spurs her nickname of the \"palmtop\ntiger\"), and envies Ami's tallness and name, which she shares with a well-\nknown and respected role model for many young girls.\n\nI think this is mostly for comparisons sake, rather than Ami being a\nparticularly honourable name.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-21T07:17:45.740", "id": "15220", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-21T07:17:45.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nKawashima Ami, introduced in the 5th episode of _Toradora!_ , has the same\ngiven name (first name) as Sailor Mercury's civilian form; not only is the\nname the same pronunciation, but they share the same _kanji_ (Chinese\ncharacters).\n\n川嶋 亜美 (Kawashima Ami)\n\n水野 亜美 (Mizuno Ami)\n\n「川嶋」means \"river\" + \"island,\" and「水野」means \"water\" + \"field,\" so both have a\nwater theme and sound refreshing. 「亜美」is harder to translate, since「亜」is never\nused alone (it can have a meaning of \"sub-\" but that is not the intended\nmeaning here). 「美」means beautiful, so it is a very well-liked _kanji_ for\ngirls' names and is highly-respected.\n\n逢坂 大河 (Aisaka Taiga), in contrast, does not connote lovely images in the same\nway.「逢」means \"meeting\" or \"rendezvous\" and 「坂」 means \"slope\" or \"hill.\"\n「大河」does have a water image, since it means \"large river,\" but it also has\ngeneral associations in Japanse culture which do not conjure up the image of\nrefreshing water, such as [「大河ドラマ」](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga_drama)(\n_taiga dorama_ ), which are dramatic TV series set in a historical period, and\nthe phrase「大河小説」( _taiga shosetsu_ ), meaning a sequence of novels that carry\nover a theme, a.k.a. [roman-\nfleuve](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel_sequence). 「大」is not a terribly\ncommon _kanji_ for girls' names since it means \"big\" or \"large\" (it does have\npositive meanings, like in combinations for \"great\" or \"serious\"). Although\nthe main Japanese word for \"tiger\" is 「トラ」( _tora_ ),「タイガー」( _taigaa_ ) is\nalso possible (especially for names of sports teams such as the\n[「阪神タイガース」](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanshin_Tigers) [ _Hanshin Taigaasu_\n]), so her nickname may be a play on words.\n\nMizuno Ami and Sailor Mercury (ranked separately) have consistently [placed\nhigh in character popularity\npolls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Mercury#Reception_and_influence).\nShe beat all other female anime characters for the #1 spot in _Animage_\nmagazine's May 1993 poll, so she is well-known for being intelligent (with a\n[genius IQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Mercury#Profile)), enduringly\npopular with male otaku, and generally well-liked. She is not considered tall\n(among the original five sailor soldiers, Sailor Jupiter is known as being the\ntall one, but she is later shorter comparatively to some of the outer solar\nsystem soldiers and Starlights).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-04T03:07:44.193", "id": "21337", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-04T03:07:44.193", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "15219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [original uncropped\nimage](http://luscious.net/c/hentai_manga/pictures/album/dorei-\nkishi-1_63019/id/2611336/@_dorei_kishi_1___59) is from **Dorei Kishi 1\n「奴隷騎士Ⅰ」** , a Fate/stay night hentai manga by the doujinshi circle KUSARI. On\na [prior page](http://luscious.net/c/hentai_manga/pictures/album/dorei-\nkishi-1_63019/id/2611115/@_dorei_kishi_1___52) is printed\n\n> 陵辱連鎖シリーズ＋オリジナルイラスト集\n\nwhich translates to:\n\n> Ryoujoku Rensa Series + Original Illustration Collection\n\nRyoujoku Rensa is another hentai manga by KUSARI, based on the 2005 eroge\nnovel of the same title. It is clear that **the image is an original\nillustration**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T22:37:35.620", "id": "16938", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-21T05:15:39.100", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-21T05:15:39.100", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15222", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEsdeath's near-broken ice-making abilities come from the fact that she drank\nthe whole goblet of demon extract. If she hadn't drunk the whole thing, her\npowers would probably not be so profound.\n\nShe would probably have to be near external supplies of water like her snake-\nring-wielding partner to make ice and use it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-09T22:29:10.480", "id": "23935", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-10T05:17:00.987", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-10T05:17:00.987", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "16180", "parent_id": "15224", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's likely to be [yuzu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu), a sour, tart,\ngraperuit-like citrus fruit that have a very distinctive fragrance. In\nJapanese cuisine, their juices are often used as seasoning, and their rind as\na garnish. It's tradition to a take [a hot bath with\nyuzu](http://www.yuzupassion.com/all-about-yuzu) during the [winter\nsolstice](http://www.iromegane.com/japan/culture/2212-is-touji-in-japan/), for\nthe fragrance and various [health\nbenefits](http://rawketscience.blogspot.com/2009/12/winter-solstice-yuzu-\nbath.html).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-21T15:14:31.787", "id": "15227", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-21T15:14:31.787", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "15225", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems this <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolin_Showdown>. Although it's 3\nseasons long.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T13:58:17.863", "id": "15402", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-01T13:58:17.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9426", "parent_id": "15230", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is indeed Xiaolin Showdown.\n\n\n\nIt was broadcast between 2003 and 2006 consisting of 3 season. Each character\nwas master of an element:\n\n * Big dude (Clay) - Earth\n * Girl (Kimiko) - Fire\n * Dot-Head (Omi) - Water\n * Remaining Boy (Raimundo) - Wind\n\nIt's actually an American production, but set in Asia. They protect the _Shen\nGong Wu_ from the evils that desire the treasure.\n\nThe first season ends with their failure and they need to travel back in time\nand create an alternate future resulting in their success. This is what the\nsecond season mostly deals with. In the third and final season the warriors\ntravel to the Ying-Yang world to retrieve Omi's good chi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-01T12:13:30.947", "id": "20531", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-01T12:13:30.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15230", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBy searching for the phrase that the husband is saying\n私【わたし｝は一向{いっこう】に構｛かま｝わん. This image turns up in the search:\n\n\n\nFrom\n<http://diarynote.jp/data/blogs/l/20081228/75450_200812280302078062_1.jpg>\n\nThe striking resemblance in the style of jaw muscles is enough to confirm the\nreference.\n\nThese entries on [Japanese Wikipedia\narticle](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%83%88%E6%B5%B7%E7%8E%8B) and [Nico\nNico Pedia](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E7%83%88%E6%B5%B7%E7%8E%8B) confirms\nthat he is Retsu Kaioh （烈海王） from [Baki the\nGrappler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baki_the_Grappler)\n（[グラップラー刃牙](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E5%88%83%E7%89%99)）.\n\nRegarding his habit of saying \"I don't mind at all!\" (わたしは一向にかまわんッッ), from the\n[Japanese Wikipedia\narticle](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%83%88%E6%B5%B7%E7%8E%8B):\n\n>\n> 劇中の登場人物の中でも、自己鍛錬や強敵との戦いに対する執念の度合いは屈指のレベルを有し、傍目には無謀な挑戦を持ちかけられても「わたしは一向に構わん」と返答するのが口癖と化しているが、これは彼自身の性格や性情のみならず、まだ「海王」の称号を頂く以前に起こった出来事にも起因している節がある。\n\nRough translation:\n\n> Even among the characters in the story, he possesses an extreme obsession\n> for self-training and fighting against formidable opponent. Although it has\n> become a habit for him to recklessly reply with \"I don't mind at all\" when\n> approached with a challenge, objectively speaking, this does not only comes\n> from his own personality and nature, but also comes from a principle he\n> started before he got his Kaioh (海王 _Sea King_ ) title.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T17:41:33.503", "id": "15407", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T11:02:44.710", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T11:02:44.710", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "15232", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMadara had a huge stockpile of Sharingan, presumably collected from the bodies\nof various Uchihas over the many years he has been alive.\n\nI would expect he used one of these, and that the reason he collected so many\nis so that he can use Izanagi and other techniques that cost the user an eye\nquite freely.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-22T23:48:33.597", "id": "15247", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-22T23:48:33.597", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "15233", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara's original eyes get blinded after using mangekyo sharingan too much.\nThen he get the eyes of his his brother Izuna from izunas corpse. Then eternal\nmangekyo sharingan activated. When he was defeated by hashirama, he uses the\nizanagi in exchange of his right eye to bring him back to life. Before\nhashirama killed him, he bite on hashirama's arm, he uses the flesh of\nhashirama to heal his wound, hashirama's dna activated the rinnegan. (Madara\nis reincarnation of Indra and hashirama is reincarnation of asura. sons of\nhagoromo otsusuki.) The combination of their dna awakens the rinnegan. After\nmadara gave his eyes to nagato. He told obito that his right eye is from\nsomeone. But he didnt mention who it is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-15T20:23:13.383", "id": "48363", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-15T20:23:13.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42045", "parent_id": "15233", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst to dispell some misconceptions:\n\n * I don't think that dragon slayers have any rules. Anyone can become a dragon slayer provided that he has a dragon to teach him, or he has dragon slayer lacrima to put in his body. Both are rare, thus there are not that many dragon slayers.\n * I speculate that Lucy could learn to use Cana's cards. (Personally I think that a monkey could use them, but that's just my opinion.) But not because card magic and celestial spirit magic is both \"object magic\". Celestial spirit magic is a summoning type of magic.\n * In my opinion (sorry for the speculation again) Urano Metria is not a caster spell. When Lucy used it she actually summoned the power of the stars themselves. (Note that [some stellar objects actually appeared](http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120320203930/fairytail/images/1/1c/Lucy_calling_the_stars.jpg).)\n\nAnd now to actually answer the question:\n\nWe saw people using different types of magic. Like mentioned before Makarov\nuses titan, but we also saw him to cast fire. But he also used Fairy Law and\nother energy type attacks against Jose of the Phantom Lord. We also saw Luxus\nusing Fairy Law while he usually uses dragon slayer magic. Hades used various\nkinds of dark magic, while in his old days as Purehito he probably had a less\ndark repertoire. We know that Zeref can use at least two kinds of magic:\nliving magic that created the demons and that black thing that brings instant\ndeath. Mirajane has both transformation magic and Satan Soul. But my\nfavourites are Ultear and Jellal. Ultear used both time magic and ice make.\nAnd Jellal basically learned Mistogan's magic to add to his repertoire on the\ntournament.\n\nWith all of that in mind, no, nothing dictates what magic people learn.\nActually a lot of them learn different types of magic. It's probably just that\nthey are better in one field so they don't really use the other most of the\ntime (Like Luxus.) Or they have personal reasons to not use the other type\n(Like Ultear.) Or they are so good with one type that they don't even bother\nlearning others. (Like Natsu.) Other than that only [the competence of a mage\ndefines if they can use a magic or\nnot](http://mangafox.me/manga/fairy_tail/v28/c233/8.html).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-27T09:28:24.443", "id": "17097", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-27T09:28:24.443", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "15235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nI think magic has to be learned. It is like studying I guess. When Erza was\nstill a child, she was able to learn magic without actually practicing it. If\nyou have knowledge of how to use a certain magic, you can use it. I guess it\nmay depend on the user's willpower, or it may actually be inside them all\nalong. By the way, there are a few characters who can use more than one type\nof magic like Ultear, Jellal, Zero/Brain, and Hades.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-08T07:18:16.803", "id": "19212", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-08T07:28:36.367", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-08T07:28:36.367", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11613", "parent_id": "15235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think to be able to use a type of magic, one has to learn it. There are no\nrequirements as to who can learn which magic.\n\nIn one particular episode, Mirajane teaches Natsu, Lucy and Happy the\ntransformation magic and Natsu was able to transform into Lucy (even though\nthat was not perfect, but that shows that you need to practice a particular\ntype of magic).\n\nAnd as have been mentioned in other answers that many characters are able to\nuse more than one kind of magic.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-02T10:26:39.420", "id": "22066", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-02T11:42:42.610", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-02T11:42:42.610", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "14562", "parent_id": "15235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAll mages choose their magic out of pure personal preference. For example;\nJuvia is a water wizard, the rain always followed her as a child, so she\nchoose to use water magic, eventually becoming so good at it her body became\nwater itself. But, if she wanted, she could have chosen and learned any other\ntype of magic she wanted. It is simply a matter of personal strengths, and\nLOTS OF STUDY AND PRACTICE. Any Mage can learn any form of magic, you just\nneed to dedicate yourself to study and practice until u get it right. Also,\nhaving someone to yeah you helps. (Like Grey and Leone.) Perfecting one magic\nskill takes years. For example; Cana began to learn card magic as a child. It\ntook her a VERY long time to build up her skill to where it is now. While one\nwizard COULD learn another form. They most likely won't so they can focus on\nthe magic they know. Learning magic is like learning anything else. Study and\npractice till u know it. If u begin to study another form, u may baton to\nforget the one you just perfected. So you would have to study and practice\nBOTH on a regular basis. It's easier for most mages to just become amazing in\none rather then okay in two.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-06T21:37:46.590", "id": "28734", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-06T21:37:46.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20279", "parent_id": "15235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nits simply preference. a mage focuses on a specific form of magic and once\nthey get good they could choose to learn any form. for example when natsu\nfound out about romeo learning different types of fire magic he wanted to go\nlearn as well. it also comes down to how much magic you have. a mage who is\ngood in telepathy but doesn't have alot of magic wouldn't want to focus on\nother forms until he or she has atleast gained a good deal of magical volume.\nif a mage developed magic on a volume comparable to Erza he or she might\ndecide to learn multiple forms of magic the very act of learning new forms\nwould also increase magical volume because of rapid use of magic IE like when\nlucy meditated to increase magic practicing magic would be the equivalent of\npractical meditation\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-07T16:01:31.530", "id": "29594", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-07T16:01:31.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4902", "parent_id": "15235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWizards may learn a magic that compliments their personality, for instance\nElfman and his obsession with physical strength and what it takes to be a\n\"man\" is shown in a literal sense when he transforms into a physically\npowerful beast. Because of this, the type of magic learned is most likely\nchosen. Also, Healing Magic is considered a Lost Magic (as stated in episode\n54 by the red-headed \"love\" girl), so not many people would know it, if anyone\nknew it at all. Wendy is a special case because of her Dragon Slayer Magic,\nwhich is also a Lost Magic.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-29T02:36:44.060", "id": "34010", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-29T02:36:44.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25846", "parent_id": "15235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't believe anyone can use any kind of magic. In episode 19 several people\nswap bodies and according to the Master they also \"switched magics\" if anyone\ncould do all kinds of magic at any level then this wouldn't be a problem since\nthey could just use their own magic no matter what body they were in. I also\ndon't think that everyone has just one kind of magic that they can use because\notherwise it would be really random for people to just find a master of that\nkind of magic to train them since there are so many different kinds of magic.\nFor these reasons I believe that anyone who has potential for magic (according\nto the wiki only around 10% of people in the fairy tail world can use magic)\nstarts out being able to use any or almost any kind of magic but then once\nthey get more advanced in their kind of magic it physically changes them (like\ndragon slayers being able eat their element) which can prevent them from using\nother advanced magic that would also cause a physical change. Despite being\nable to use any kind of magic everyone has some kind of magic that they have\nan affinity for example in Fairy Tail Zero Warrod is trying to learn one kind\nof magic and Zeref tells him that this kind of magic doesn't suit him and that\nthe nature/support magic he try's afterword matches the color of his soul and\nlearns it quickly. This special affinity is probably hereditary considering\nhow many relatives use the same kind of magic as each other(Lucy and her mom,\nthe Strauss siblings, Gray and his dad, Ur and Ultear) but this isn't\nspecified so it could just be that they just wanted to use the same thing as\neach other.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-05T17:47:37.617", "id": "40729", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-05T22:04:37.277", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-05T22:04:37.277", "last_editor_user_id": "30104", "owner_user_id": "30104", "parent_id": "15235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe manga & anime starts with the fall of wall Maria's southern district\n(manga chapter 1 & 2). \nThe story in the novel starts with Wall Maria being pierced [Reference\nhere](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_on_Titan:_Queen_of_the_Isolated_City). \nThe manga stated that it has been a hundred years of peace within the walls\n(again chapter 1). \nMeaning that the wall has never been breached before. \nSo this means that the start of the story on the novel is around the time the\nmanga is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T04:41:16.417", "id": "15284", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-25T13:40:13.133", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-25T13:40:13.133", "last_editor_user_id": "85", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "15246", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe spin-off light novel [**Attack on Titan: Queen of the Isolated\nCity**](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_on_Titan:_Queen_of_the_Isolated_City),\nsubtitled _The Harsh Mistress of the City_ , is set in the year of 845, a few\ndays after the appearance of the Colossal Titan in the main series\n[[source](http://shingeki-kyojin.com/archives/39591537.html)]. After the\nbreach of Wall Maria, Titans appeared in the [Quinta\nDistrict](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Quinta_District) and chaos\nensued in this isolated city. So far, only the first volume has been released,\non August 1, 2014. There is a legal [free\nsample](http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784063752960) in Japanese.\n\n\n\nTwo volumes in total were planned for this spin-off. The info was given on a\nflier included in Volume 12 of the main series.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T08:30:00.407", "id": "15326", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-13T17:20:23.473", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-13T17:20:23.473", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15246", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIntressting result I got here... The image, called _Coordinator Angel_ , is\ndrawn by _masterbimo_ and can be found on his [DeviantART\nchannel](http://masterbimo.deviantart.com/art/coordinator-angel-142665718).\n\nThis is a character from a trading card game called **Aquarian Age**\n(アクエリアンエイジ). It is a Japanese collectible card game similar to Magic.\n\n> In the game, the player takes the role of a \"Mindbreaker\", who can control\n> and unlock the powers of the game characters. The goal is to defeat other\n> Mindbreakers (players) and to grow stronger. The game continues until the\n> player has defeated all of their opponents, or has been stripped of their\n> powers; thus being knocked out of the game.\n>\n> Unlike similar TCG, the player fields game characters instead of spells.\n> They must gain control over each character before it can be used in a game.\n> If a player is unable to control a character properly, it may turn on them.\n\nInformation from [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarian_Age).\n\nNotice that the game was adapted into an anime series called **Aquarian Age:\nSign for Evolution**.\n\n\n\n * **Status** : Finished Airing\n * **Aired** : Jan 11, 2002 to Mar 29, 2002\n * **Genres** : Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power, Supernatural\n * **Episodes** : 13\n * **Duration** : 24 min. per episode\n * **Rating** : 13+\n\n> Five supernatural factions have been fighting against each other for who\n> knows how many centuries, with the beginning of Aquarian Age always in mind.\n> Kyouta, soon begins to see visions of mystical girls fighting, except they\n> do exist. Soon he and his girlfriend Yoriko become involved and the battle\n> for Earth and Aquarian Age lies in their hands.\n\nImage from gzchunfeng. Information from\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1224/Aquarian_Age:_Sign_for_Evolution).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-23T01:31:25.210", "id": "15250", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-23T01:31:25.210", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "15248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThese are just the different cover release versions. At one point, Yen Press\nwas printing these with a slipcover case on them that shows a more \"appealing\ncover\" for the Americanized audience. However, not everyone liked this.\nThey're not available anymore and were a limited print only, so the versions\nAmazon has listed are the normal and slip covered version (plus the one they\nfulfill, the none slip cover one.)\n\n[You can find the original press release\nhere.](http://www.yenpress.com/2009/11/spice-and-wolf-the-solution/)\n\nI actually own some of these, although I usually display the original Japanese\ncovers as I prefer them. I've attached some photos so you can get a good idea\nof how they look in real life.\n\nI hope this helps.\n\n \n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-23T02:17:56.267", "id": "15252", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-23T02:17:56.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "15249", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Is is just for fan service (showing boobs and bikinis)?\n\nMostly yes. Occasionally there are plot points or setting circumstances that\nrequire a scene be on a beach (legitimate reasons that is, like a romantic\nbeach walk with an imprtant conversation, rather than poor excuses for bikini\nparades)\n\nFor example, the Pretty Cure franchise has one _Beach Episode_ per season,\nbut, it's not for fanservice. The girls never wear swimsuits and they don't\nswim at all.\n[[TvTropes]](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeachEpisode)\n\nSometimes it is used as a '[breather\nepisode'](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreatherEpisode) to let\nthe audience take a break from the intricacies of the plot.\n\n> Is it related to a strong cultural interest?\n\nMany Japanese will travel to the beach on a trip during the summer. This is\ncommon in many modern cultures. However, the Japanese have their own beach\ntraditions too, like smashing watermelons at the beach, which is not common in\nthe West.\n\n> Or, is this because of a psychological project of the Japanese government\n> for encouraging Japanese youth for swimming? (This reminds me of USA TV\n> series: In almost all shows, it is a must that at least one episode must be\n> dedicated to a gay character, one episode for a Jewish character, and all\n> good working computers are Apple (except for the ones which get hacked or\n> broken).)\n\nI think you're over thinking this a little :P If the Japanese government\nwanted to encourage youth to swim - they wouldn't be targetting the otaku\ndemographic, which are stereotypically stubborn basement dwellers who don't go\noutside much\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-23T18:56:18.577", "id": "15258", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-08T12:15:55.313", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-08T12:15:55.313", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15257", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\n**Your premise is false.** It is not the case that \"almost all anime series\nhave a 'going to the beach episode'\".\n\nThe gist of the argument below is as follows: most non-short TV anime of\nreasonable length (1 or a few cours) do not have beach episodes. However, very\nlong anime will often have beach episodes simply by virtue of being long. OVAs\nmay also incorporate beach episodes, but not so frequently that it would make\nsense to say \"almost all\".\n\nIf it seems like every show has a beach episode, that's because you\npreferentially watch the kinds of shows that tend to include beach episodes,\nand says more about your tastes than it does about anime.\n\n* * *\n\n# Let's look at some one-cour shows\n\nFor an illustrative example, let's just look at the full-length one-cour anime\nfrom Summer 2014 that I watched in their entirety. Those that do contain a\n\"going to the beach episode\" have their titles bolded.\n\n * Free! Eternal Summer. Despite this being an anime about swimming set near a seashore, the longest segment on a beach is few minutes in length, and is not the fan-servicey type of thing you're talking about (other than the show having lots of half-naked men in general).\n * Aldnoah.Zero\n * Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun\n * Sabagebu!. I don't remember any beach segments in this one, but I could be wrong.\n * Tokyo ESP. There is a fairly long segment where one character happens to be on a beach, but this still isn't a \"beach episode\" in the sense you're talking about.\n * Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei. They do talk about going to the beach, but they never actually go there.\n * Futsuu no Joshikousei ga Locodol Yatte mita\n * **Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!**\n * Glasslip\n\nSo that's 1/9. Certainly not \"almost all\". But there are systematic biases in\nthe things I included in that sample, so let's examine those.\n\nFor one, I probably have an inclination not to watch shows that have beach\nepisodes. There were 29 one-cour full-length anime in Summer 2014, and if it\nwere the case that all the other 20 had a beach episode, then the figure would\ncome out to 21/29, which is sort of \"almost all\" \\- but a cursory examination\nof episode synopses for the other shows suggests the following breakdown. I\nwelcome corrections.\n\n * Definitely a beach episode: Rail Wars; Majimoji Rurumo; Persona 4 The Golden Animation\n * Maybe a beach episode: Bakumatsu Rock; Shounen Hollywood; Barakamon; Jinsei; Momo Kyun Sword; Seireitsukai no Blade Dance\n * No beach episode: Tokyo Ghoul; Sengoku Basara Judge End; Space Dandy 2; DRAMAtical Murder; Ao Haru Ride; Hanayamata; Re:Hamatora; Love Stage; Kuroshitsuji: Book of Circus; Nobunaga Concerto\n\nSo it looks like we have between 3 and 9 of these with beach episodes; let's\nassume that all the ones where I was uncertain do indeed have beach episodes,\nso that we have a total of 10/29. That's certainly not \"almost all\".\n\n# But what about longer shows?\n\nBut what about shows that are longer than one cour? What if those shows are\nmore likely to have beach episodes? Well, they probably are. The longer a show\ngets, the greater the odds that it's going to spend an episode sending its\ncharacters to a beach. After all, there's only so many different settings you\ncan use for your episodes. For things that run particularly long, there may\neven be _multiple_ beach episodes! I would definitely be surprised if a show\nwith more than 100 episodes or so _didn't_ have a beach episode.\n\nBut I don't think there's anything special about beach episodes here - any\nshow that runs sufficiently long is also likely to have an episode where the\ncharacters partake of some other anime staple like going to the hot springs or\nplaying a game of baseball or participating in a school cultural festival, or\nwhatnot.\n\nAnd keep in mind, these long-running shows only make up a small fraction of\nanime (in terms of number of shows, not total amount of footage).\n\n# And what of OVAs?\n\nAnd what about OVAs? What if the reason that the TV series don't have a beach\nepisode is because the beach episode is shunted off to an OVA? This argument\nalso has merit. Let's look at the numbers: which of the OVAs released during\nSummer 2014 contain at least one episode (20 minutes) worth of beach? For a\nlist of OVAs, I consulted Anichart for [Summer\n2014](http://anichart.net/summer-14), and only included OVAs of at least half-\nlength (10 minutes or more) that were associated with a TV series. Only those\nthat have a beach episode are listed below.\n\n * Definitely a beach episode: zilch.\n * Maybe a beach episode: Hayate no Gotoku OVAs\n * No beach episode: Tamayura S2 OVA; ImoCho OVA; Girls Und Panzer OVA; Non Non Biyori OVA; Ano Natsu OVA; Kill la Kill OVA; Chuu2 S2 OVA; Suisei no Gargantia OVA; D-Frag OVA\n\nNope. Beach episodes in OVAs certainly do exist, but they aren't all _that_\ncommon, and I'd be surprised to find any season in which beach-episode OVAs\nmade up the majority.\n\n# Notes\n\nIt's possible that Summer 2014 is non-representative for some reason, but I\ncan't be arsed to spend time gathering more data from other seasons. I've seen\nmy fair share of anime and am pretty sure the conclusions I draw above are\ncorrect.\n\nWe have also ignored shows that aren't full-length (such as 4-minute shorts).\nI don't think this is much of an issue, since that's precisely the kind of\nshow people typically talk about when they talk about anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-24T06:28:09.227", "id": "15273", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-17T00:53:38.713", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15257", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is, most of the time, suppose to give the watchers a break from the\nfighting plots. And to see the chill side of most serious characters. It's\nalso for a highly humorous episode. It's kind of like that episode of a 90s or\n80s show where a child sneaks out to go to a party or sleep over with their\nfriends.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-03-29T16:51:15.740", "id": "62321", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-29T16:51:15.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59316", "parent_id": "15257", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Ninomiya Rui](http://gatchaman.wikia.com/wiki/Rui_Ninomiya) is a **boy**\n\n> who disguises himself as a girl most of the time/crossdresses so that he\n> could easily observe people without being notice.\n\n\n\nHe acts so manly while dressing like this \n\nBut sometimes it's so suspicious because of this \n\nAnd this \n\nBut to answer your question : He IS A BOY. definitely.\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T11:30:58.783", "id": "16811", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T21:12:08.710", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-17T21:12:08.710", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "9351", "parent_id": "15260", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you watch episode 9, you'll see that he's a boy! Senpai also points this\nout in the kindergarden.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-15T20:07:05.883", "id": "35818", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-15T20:39:17.597", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-15T20:39:17.597", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "27757", "parent_id": "15260", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nOne of the main visual points of Crowds' characters design and attitude is \"be\nyourself\". That is why Utsutsu is wearing ~~underwear~~ _a swimsuit_ all the\ntime, OD is perfectly confortable being that flashy, and yes, Rui goes\ncrossdressing as if it were another ordinary monday. One exception might be\nSugane.\n\nWhat struck me the most was Hajime's ability to take everyone at face value:\nnot once she does any judgement of character, not even with the main villain.\nIMO this is one of the messages Crowds try to send through: don't form\npreconceptions of people, instead learn who they are.\n\nIt might be that Rui went into crossdressing to better hide is identity as\ncreator of the Crowds system. But it was never explained as such, so it falls\ninto fan theory.\n\nThe fact that he kept crossdressing even after coming public shows that it\nmight not be that, or that he grew into his costumes and kept wearing them.\n\nI don't have the reference here, but there is one scene when Sugane is shocked\nto learn Rui's gender and Hajime states something to the effect of \"I always\nknew\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-15T20:25:34.957", "id": "35821", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-15T20:25:34.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "15260", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe LRIGs came first.\n\nIn Season 2 episode 8 \"This World is My Property\" it is revealed that:\n\n> The first LRIGs, Tama and Iona (then known as Shiro and Kuro) were created\n> by Mayu to begin the LRIG and Selector system. These LRIGs are suggested to\n> have special powers, compared to normal LRIGs. Mayu created more original\n> LRIGs past the first two. Whenever one of these LRIGs loses three battles,\n> they are not simply returned to the system to find another Selector;\n> instead, they disappear. Tama and Iona are the only remaining original\n> LRIGs.\n\n[Quoted from the Selector WIXOSS wikia](http://selector-\nwixoss.wikia.com/wiki/LRIG) & confirmed from viewing the episode in question.\n\nAlso, from [another Wikia entry:](http://selector-wixoss.wikia.com/wiki/Mayu)\n\n> Mayu created two imaginary friends, Shiro and Kuro, in order to play the\n> game with them, then proceeded to conjure up the idea of the Selector Games\n> in her mind strictly for her own amusement, creating yet more imaginary\n> friends which served as the first Selectors and LRIGs. Eventually, Mayu's\n> make-belief games became so realistic that the imaginary friends took a life\n> of their own. Mayu proceeded to send them out to WIXOSS players in the\n> outside world, effectively \"infecting\" the game with her own, selfish\n> desires.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T20:46:08.953", "id": "15483", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-04T20:46:08.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15263", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nGirls und Panzer is an original anime and the GuP manga is an adaptation of\nthe anime. Though the manga came out earlier in June 2012 as promition to the\nanime while the anime came out in october 2012. Both GuP anime and manga are\npractically the same except for some differences in perspective and events.\nThe anime focused on Miho Nishizumi's perspective while the manga focused on\nYukari Akiyama's.\n\nGirls und Panzer: Little Army is a prequel manga for the anime and manga that\ncame out in August 2012 about Miho's past.\n\nGirls und Panzer: Lovey Dovey Panzer is a fan-made 4-koma web manga series\ndone by Nii Marco about the GuP characters and it focuses on comedy. From\nthat, eventually Nii Marco was hired by the GuP staff to make an official\nmanga 4-koma series titled Girls und Panzer: Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu,\nsort of sequel to Lovey Dovey Panzer. Though it's still focuses on comedy.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-24T18:25:57.990", "id": "15276", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-24T18:25:57.990", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9322", "parent_id": "15275", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI watched the entire series again at 15-second interval. _No differences_ was\nunused, not even a short part was played.\n\nI later [found\nout](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AwesomeMusic/AldnoahZero) that _No\ndifferences_ and _AL℃-@_ were cut songs. As mentioned further in their\n[link](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CutSong), it is not to be\nconfused with \"Long Song, Short Scene\" - songs played but with _very_ minimal\nplaytime, in which case I can attest no background music of this song was\nplayed anywhere in the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T13:56:57.750", "id": "18411", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-09T13:56:57.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11038", "parent_id": "15283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt looks like \"No differences\" shows up for the first time in episode 2 of the\nsecond cour (episode 14 overall) at around 19 minutes in. My ears explode with\ndelight.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-18T07:06:53.877", "id": "18626", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-18T07:06:53.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know if you're asking this question without the knowledge that Oedipus\nis originally from a Greek mythology or not. He is a tragic hero and a king in\nThebes and his name translates to the Ancient Greek \"Swollen Foot\". Here's the\n[wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus) for that.\n\nTo answer your question: No, I don't think a manga version of Oedipus the King\nexists. Although there may be an English comic about it somewhere. The\nreference in Zankyou no Terror was most likely for plot rather than an actual\ncameo.\n\nAs a disclaimer, I haven't finished it either and stopped at episode 9 or 10.\nAlso, this is my first shot an answering a question here @stack-sites, I hope\nI did good :)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T09:25:17.543", "id": "15287", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-25T09:25:17.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9330", "parent_id": "15285", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't know if it's the same manga you mean, but there is a manga about the\nstory of King Oedipus. [Manga of the Greek Myths: Volume 4, Tragic King\nOedipus](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4122043344), by Machiko Satonaka, released\n25th February 2004 by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T15:29:00.690", "id": "15291", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-25T15:33:46.947", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-25T15:33:46.947", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9335", "parent_id": "15285", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSimply put: **Yes, you will need to license your content.**\n\nWhether it is for-profit or free of charge, you are still dealing with\n**copyrighted** content. If you want to distribute this copyrighted content\nlegally, you will need to license it. When doing this, make sure the license\nterms actually allow this kind of distribution. Otherwise you are operating no\ndifferently than other illegal distribution websites.\n\nYou may see plenty of websites similar to yours that don't seem to get\nmentioned. Take this with a grain of salt, a lot of similar operations employ\nvarious \"tricks\" to get around the law. Such tricks can involve hosting in a\ncountry with more lax copyright laws. Just because you see such operations\ndoesn't mean your plans will go just as fine.\n\nOf course, anything in the public domain is fine. There may be older shows\nwhere the copyright has expired, so you can get away with publishing those.\n\nHowever what you **don't** want to do is solely trust some random dude from\nthe internet. If you are seriously considering this kind of operation, then\n**consult with a copyright lawyer**.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T17:42:08.500", "id": "15295", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-25T17:42:08.500", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6174", "parent_id": "15294", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's the same way [in the\noriginal](http://www.liar.co.jp/shar_novel0301.html). The line about\n\"Metacreatures\" is:\n\n> 黒い塊は、それら **《怪異》** と同じように思えた。\n\nSo in this case, it's probably just a matter of the translators using the\noriginal punctuation (you will notice that they do the same thing with\ndialogue, using 「」 as in the original rather than “”, which is standard in\nEnglish).\n\nAs for why the original itself uses 《》:\n[Logan](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15299/why-would-and-be-used-\nin-a-translation#comment20020_15299) is right that these are not typically\nused in Japanese:\n\n> These are Guillemet marks, which are used as quotation marks in some\n> languages like French and Greek (notably not typically in Japanese though,\n> which uses 「．．．」, though they can be used sometimes and are referred to as\n> either 二重山がた [ _ni-juu-yama-gata_ \"double mountain-shaped [brackets]\"] or\n> 二重ギュメ [ _ni-juu-gyume_ \"double guillemet\"]).\n\n《》 are basically used however the author wishes to use them (e.g. [this\nanswer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14084/3437) on Japanese.SE shows\none way that 《》 is used in a Japanese dictionary). I'm not familiar with\nShikkoku no Sharnoth, but a quick skim of the web novel suggests that the\nauthor is using 《》 to surround proper nouns with a specific in-universe\nmeaning, like 怪異 (\"Metacreature\"?) and 大消失 (\"Vanishing\"). Kind of like how we\nwould (and the translators do) use capital letters to identify proper nouns in\nEnglish. Japanese doesn't have capital letters, so the 《》 is an alternate way\nof achieving the same effect.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-26T03:45:38.287", "id": "15301", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-26T03:45:38.287", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15299", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt appears that the food was noted as \"lamb stomach\"\n([haggis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis) or similar) at the [Studio\nGhibli Layout Designs](https://www.ntv.co.jp/layout/index.html) exhibitions.\n\n\n\nThe \"fins\" are where the haggis is sewn or tied.\n\nOn page 220 of the exhibition catalogue, the following description is given\nabout the food in question:\n\n> 中に汁気たっぷりの \n> 具がつまっている \n> 外の皮はやわらかく \n> まるでトロトロの小羊の \n> 胃袋のよう\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lE5ky.jpg)\n\nWhile the description doesn't tell us the name of the food, it likens it to,\nand probably is, a lamb stomach.\n\nThen on September 19, 2020, Spirited Away's key animator, Hiromasa\nYonebayashi,\n[tweeted](https://twitter.com/MaroYonebayashi/status/1307128080725684224) that\nthe food as written in the storyboard was\n[Coelacanth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth)'s stomach (thanks to\n[кяαzєя](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15302/what-is-chihiros-\nfather-eating/21743#comment73204_21743) for bringing this to my attention).\nHowever, in the responses to the tweet, people pointed out that this\ninformation was never published in _Studio Ghibli Storyboards Volume 13:\nSpirited Away_ , and what was published, in the aforementioned _Studio Ghibli\nLayout Designs_ , contradicts his answer. Considering that in the [anime\nproduction process](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/2517/8486), the layout\ndesigns come after the storyboards, Yonebayashi's answer recited from memory\nmight have been revised later on. In light of the observations made above, and\nof the available images of haggis and a hypothetical dish of Coelacanth's\nstomach, I am more inclined to believe that the food Chihiro's father was\neating was lamb stomach.\n\nBy the way, you can see the reconstructed food on display at the [Ghibli\nPark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghibli_Park).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/imxJP.jpg)\n\n* * *\n\n### Addendum\n\nPerhaps you've been told that the food is [ba-\nwan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba-wan), a Taiwanese street food. Perhaps\nyou've been told that the town from Spirited Away is modeled after\n[Jiufen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiufen), a tourist attraction in\nTaiwan. They are at best misinformation and at worst disinformation propagated\nby travel agencies and shopkeepers to increase sales. Hayao Miyazaki has\ndenied twice, once in the [TVBS news\ninterview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9BnbkRzOg&t=3m20s), and once more\nin the [CTi news\ninterview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i6_h3A6QaM&t=1m15s) that Jiufen\nwas an inspiration for the film's settings. What were really the inspirations\nand/or models for the settings are listed in this well-researched\n[article](https://web.archive.org/web/20150523055156/https://note.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/detail/n164416):\nthe [Dougo Onsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dgo_Onsen), the [Edo-\nTokyo Open Air Architectural Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo-\nTokyo_Open_Air_Architectural_Museum) and [Meguro\nGajoen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meguro_Gajoen) being the **officially\nconfirmed** places.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-23T07:09:44.173", "id": "21743", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-23T15:07:21.543", "last_edit_date": "2023-06-23T15:07:21.543", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15302", "post_type": "answer", "score": 32 }, { "body": "\n\nNo it's called Ba-wan. That's what it is.. There are tons of links that will\ntell you. <https://www.buzzfeed.com/christinalan/heres-how-to-eat-everything-\nyouve-ever-wanted-fr>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-21T05:40:43.953", "id": "37980", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-21T05:40:43.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29875", "parent_id": "15302", "post_type": "answer", "score": -6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPrincess Hitei released Togame from her burdens and sent Shichika to thank\nHitei for that. Hitei also confessed that she didn't dislike Togame. Hitei\nalso was going along with the motives of her ancestor, not her own volition.\nSo in a way, she killed Togame for two reasons, to alter the future and to\nrelease her from burdens/responsibilities. She semi-respects Togame in the end\nby cutting her long hair as short as Togame's. Even Shichika has a shred of\nhumanity to realize that any needless killing is well, needless.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-27T08:23:50.140", "id": "38083", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-27T08:23:50.140", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29982", "parent_id": "15307", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAnd also because she does all the paperwork and provides with money. Stuff\nShichika can't really do (he mentions it in ep 12).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-14T13:30:23.953", "id": "38413", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-14T13:30:23.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30311", "parent_id": "15307", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer is Gintama episode 9\n\nYou can search for Gintama episode 9 on a video site.\n\nReference [Gintama Wikia](http://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Trivia)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T03:15:13.147", "id": "15318", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-27T03:15:13.147", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9013", "parent_id": "15315", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Obito had his Right eye Kamui Sharingan and Madaras Rinnegan in his left\n> socket. Madara snatched Kakashis Kamui Sharingan and used it to enter Kamui\n> Dimension and retrieve his Rinnegan. He was successful and Black Zetsu\n> possessed Obitos right body half, which was eyeless until Madara popped\n> Kakashis Sharingan in. Obito got both his eyes back in that moment, but B\n> Zetsu was using the Obitos right half and used Kakashis eye to get himself\n> and Madara out of the dimension.. It was mentioned, but it was easyly\n> possible to miss.. I thought for quite a while that Obito didn't have both\n> of his eyes until it was cleared up to me, that the Obitos right eye was\n> never touched by madara.. thus giving him both eyes. Why did Madara pop\n> Kakashis Kamui eye back? I don't know... Lets just say for plot, because he\n> could have just crushed it. I'd assume he didn't consider Obito a threat\n> anymore and wanted the MS Sharingan as backup for whatever reason.. It\n> really caused a stir here when those chapters came around\n>\n> The \"unmentioned\" situation you're looking for spans from chapter 674 to\n> 676.\n\n-KuramaErricson\n\nThis is the answer given by that person, you can refer to his post here.\n<http://forums.mangafox.me/threads/511150-How-did-Obito-get-his-left-eye-back>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T07:34:12.600", "id": "15325", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-27T07:34:12.600", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9361", "parent_id": "15321", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n**TL;DR:** \nBecause Madara gave him the Sharingan he had taken from Kakashi back when he\ntook the Rinnegan Obito had in his left eye socket.\n\n**Long version:** \nIn chapter 674, page 14, Madara takes Kakashi's Sharingan eye (Obito's left\neye):\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2qwGI.png)\n\nIn chapter 675, page 10, Madara switches his left eye - currently holding\nObito's left eye - for the Rinnegan Obito has in his left eye socket:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Mp6O.png)\n\nIn that same chapter, he lets Black Zetsu take control of Obito's left side.\nIn chapter 676, page 2, we see that Obito now has both of his Sharingan,\nthough he is not in control of his body:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RzKwx.png)\n\nIn chapter 679, page 6, Black Zetsu leaves Obito's body to join Kaguya:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k5GWd.png)\n\nLeaving him finally in control of both of his Sharingan when Naruto revives\nhim and he regains consciousness in chapter 683, page 6:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m88Fo.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T11:50:10.090", "id": "15333", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-27T11:50:10.090", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "15321", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nHe gave it black zetsu to use madara and himself to get out of the dimension\nmadara basically madara put his rennigan on while he was in the other\ndimension and only way to get out is with obitos sharingan capish\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-27T21:46:54.410", "id": "48084", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-27T21:46:54.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41755", "parent_id": "15321", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think he has to make them weaker and break their mind psychologically before\nhe can control them, like he does with Bellamy.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T09:33:12.473", "id": "15329", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-27T09:33:12.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9364", "parent_id": "15327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Doflamingo can only control those who are weaker than him with his\nstrings.\n\nThe most powerful man he has been shown affecting with his strings by far is\nJozu, but he didn't control him in the same way he did Bellamy, he just froze\nhim still. Jozu couldn't move, but Doflamingo didn't move him around like a\npuppet either, whether because he couldn't or just didn't bother isn't clear.\n\nI suspect that for people far weaker than Doffy, like Bellamy or Riku, he is\nable to completely control their movements, for those weaker than himself he\nis able to stop their movement, but not move them like a puppet, and that\nthose stronger than him, like presumably Kaido, are able to move freely even\nwhen he's trying to control them.\n\nAlmost no-one in One Piece has any absolute powers, I don't think Doflamingo's\npuppet ability is magic, I think he is just able to exert a great deal of his\nstrength through his strings. I think Luffy and Law are at the level that\nDoflamingo could perhaps stop their movements, but he wouldn't be able to\npuppet them around like Bellamy.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-27T11:38:21.453", "id": "15332", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-14T17:16:21.630", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-14T17:16:21.630", "last_editor_user_id": "4515", "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "15327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion, Doflamingo is only able to control opponents stronger or\nequally strong as him in a limited amount of time, while the latter still\ndon't figure out yet what Doflamingo's power is about.\n\nAfter they realize his strings Devil fruit power, they can use Haki to break\nfree. However, their Haki must be strong enough to free themselves from\nDoflamingo's non-Haki strings, and stronger than Doflamingo's Haki in order to\novercome his Haki-imbued strings.\n\n> Like when Luffy very recently did it with Gear fourth.\n\nI hope I made sense in the comment above :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-12T20:14:29.640", "id": "23221", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-13T09:57:45.803", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-13T09:57:45.803", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "15638", "parent_id": "15327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen they got married, Kaoru's hair was black. After a while, Kaoru dyed her\nhair blonde.\n\nIn the [web comic version](http://ilovecool.web.fc2.com/vippperdays/top.html),\n[chapter 6](http://ilovecool.web.fc2.com/vippperdays/6/6.html) has the story\nexplaining the reason why Kaoru dyed her hair blonde:\n\n\n\nTitle: [Sadako](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Yamamura)\n\n * 1st frame: (With impersonations of [Sadako](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Yamamura)) I—am—Sa—da—ko—\n * 2nd frame: Hajime: Uwah~~~ Sadako-tan so moe~~~ I want to lick you all over~~~\n * 3rd frame: (Kaoru is angry)\n * 4th frame: Hajime: Oh? You dyed your hair? (Kaoru is sulking)\n\nI think, Kaoru did a (light) cosplay of Sadako to get Hajime's attention, but\nhe called her Sadako instead of Kaoru, so she got angry and dyed her hair\nblonde.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T06:48:11.920", "id": "16807", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T17:30:26.520", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-17T17:30:26.520", "last_editor_user_id": "3557", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "15330", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI can offer some details on Xxxholic, as I'm more familiar with that one than\nothers, though I've also read all of Cardcaptor Sakura and the majority of\nTsubasa REservoir Chronicle.\n\n### Spoilers ahead if you haven't read CCS, TRC or Xxxholic\n\nClow, who is deceased at the time of TRC and Xxxholic, is an ancestor of\nSakura's (with no indication of how far back that is). Clow is sort of\nreincarnated in two characters in CCS, one of whom is Eriol (little kid with\nglasses who looks like a chibi Clow). The \"original\" Sakura and Syaoran, from\nCCS, grew up and married and apparently felt their son (I haven't seen any\nconclusive name, but he's a boy) was in danger, so they split him into\n\"clones\" (could be a bad translation) and sent each into different universes.\nTwo that I know of are named Syaoran, and both show up in TRC. Watanuki from\nXxxholic is a third. I don't know of any more, but I haven't read the entire\nCLAMPiverse and they're still writing. I can't draw a family tree here but if\nit were tipped on its side:\n\n[code]\n\n Clow\n |\n (unknown generations)\n |\n Sakura = Syaoran\n |\n |--------------------\n | |\n Watanuki \"Other Syaorans\" \n \n[/code]\n\nIt's highly unlikely Clow and Yuuko had a child together. I get the impression\nshe's quite old (her clothing, pipe and furnishings suggest late 19th century\nat the latest) but she seems not nearly as old and certainly not as powerful\nas Clow. Yuuko and Clow made Mokona (both of them) foreseeing they'd be needed\nfor communication between Yuuko and the TSC main characters.\n\nI hope this helps a bit.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T02:37:17.213", "id": "17172", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T14:45:41.003", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-30T14:45:41.003", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10923", "parent_id": "15334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n## Short Answer (Here's the Chart You're Looking For!)\n\nThe other answer is wrong; the Sakura and Syaoran from _Cardcaptor Sakura_ are\nnot prominent characters in _Tsubasa_ (though Sakura makes a cameo). Here's a\npicture to illustrate the familial relationships in _Tsubasa_ and _xxxHolic_\nbetween the three Sakuras and four Syaorans who _do_ appear:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KlZHP.png)\n\nBlack lines are the obvious familial relationships, dotted blue lines are the\nclones, and the arrow green lines show reincarnation. Special note: I've used\na normal black line to show Fujitaka adopting Fake Syaoran. This allows me to\ncover up the fact that I don't understand Fake Sakura's relationships, as I\nwouldn't know whether to use an adoption notation for her or not. As of right\nnow, I am also uncertain whether the altered Clow Kingdom characters are\nactually the same as the original Clow Kingdom ones (There's complicated time\ntravel stuff going on). See below for an explanation on the different Sakuras\nand Syaorans.\n\n## Long Answer (Some Complicated Explanations)\n\nThe Sakura and Syaoran from _Cardcaptor Sakura_ are not the same as any of the\nSakuras and Syaorans who appear in _Tsubasa_. I know this for two reasons.\n\n 1. _Cardcaptor Sakura_ Sakura does actually make a brief appearance in chapter 217, in which she gave up her staff to help her alternate reality counterpart (in the anime, she also appears as a phantom/hallucination in the Tokyo Revelations OVAs).\n 2. Backstory elements of the characters not matching up:\n\n> The real Syaoran of _Tsubasa_ is the son of the reincarnated fake Syaoran\n> and fake Sakura. Fei-Wang Reed uses real Syaoran and real Sakura to create\n> the fakes, the fakes die and are reincarnated in the past, creating a cycle.\n> Real Sakura has the right parentage as her _Cardcaptor Sakura_ counterpart,\n> but she lives her life in the alternate reality of the Kingdom of Clow. This\n> precludes the fakes or the real ones from being the Sakura and Syaoran from\n> _Cardcaptor Sakura_ due to their parentage not matching up in Syaoran's\n> case, or world in Sakura's. The reincarnated fake Sakura and fake Syaoran\n> might be stronger contenders, having lived their lives in a world very\n> similar to _Cardcaptor Sakura_ (a modern Tokyo and Hong Kong), but they are\n> shown to have met later in life than their _Cardcaptor Sakura_ counterparts,\n> when Sakura takes a school class trip to Hong Kong. Their physical\n> appearance matches what they usually look like in _Tsubasa_ , which means\n> when they meet their age is around the same as we see them for most of the\n> series; Fandom sites list this age as fourteen. In contrast, Syaoran and\n> Sakura meet in grade school in _Cardcaptor Sakura_.\n\nHaving firmly established that the two main Sakuras and Syaorans of _Tsubasa_\nare alternate reality versions, I can also tell you that most of the\ncharacters from other series who appear are alternate reality versions (in\nfact, I'm 90% convinced Clamp never let the _Tsubasa_ cast into any canonical\nversion of their worlds, excluding _xxxHolic_ , of course). I'll try to go\nthrough some characters and explain their place in the multiverse, but I can't\ngo through them all, especially those from series I am not familiar with.\nSpoilers ahead. Since I think the Sakuras and Syaorans are where most of the\nconfusion is going to be, I'm focusing on them, and I'm using some name\ndesignations I think will help.\n\n**_Cardcaptor Sakura_ Sakura**: Has only a minor role in _Tsubasa_ , and no\nrelation to the Sakuras in the story. Her parents are Fujitaka and Nadeshiko,\nshe has a brother named Toya, and she lives in Tokyo.\n\n**Real Sakura** : Daughter of Fujitaka and Nadeshiko in the Kingdom of Clow,\nsister to Toya. Her real name is Tsubasa (Don't ask me what that means. If it\nconfuses you, you're better off with the more descriptive designation I've\ngiven her of \"Real Sakura\").\n\n**Fake Sakura** : An image/clone Fei-Wang Reed created from Real Sakura. She\nlives in an altered Kingdom of Clow where Clow Reed is her father. She also\nhas her brother Toya.\n\n**Reincarnated Fake Sakura** : After Fake Sakura dies, she is reincarnated in\nthe past, where she becomes the mother of Real Syaoran. In volume 24, Real\nSyaoran states that Real Sakura's mother looks just like his grandmother; thus\nwe can be fairly certain Reincarnated Fake Sakura's parents are also Fujitaka\nand Nadeshiko, albeit alternate reality versions.\n\n**_Cardcaptor Sakura_ Syaoran**: Has no role in _Tsubasa_ , as far as I'm\naware.\n\n**Real Syaoran** : He is the son of the Reincarnated Fake Syaoran and\nReincarnated Fake Sakura. He lives in a modern world, but his parents send him\nto the Kingdom of Clow to meet Real Sakura. His real name is Tsubasa, but his\nfather tells him to take his name when he sends him to the Kingdom of Clow\n(Unlike with Real Sakura, Real Syaoran's name being Tsubasa actually makes\nsense, given his father is already named Syaoran).\n\n**Watanuki** (from _xxxHolic_ ): When Real Syaoran makes a wish to turn back\ntime in order to save Real Sakura, Watanuki is born to take Real Syaoran's\nplace as the son of Reincarnated Fake Sakura and Reincarnated Fake Syaoran,\nbecause that's apparently a consequence of messing with time. He is \"another\nSyaoran\". He resembles Clow Reed. And by the end of the series, due to all the\nwishing and time meddling, it is stated that he and Syaoran become two\nseparate entities.\n\n**Fake Syaoran** : An image created by Fei-Wang Reed from Real Syaoran. He is\nthrown into the altered Kingdom of Clow, where he meets Fake Sakura. He is\ninitially adopted by Fujitaka, who is _not_ Sakura's father in this Kingdom of\nClow, since Clow Reed is.\n\n**Reincarnated Fake Syaoran** : After Fake Syaoran dies, he is reincarnated in\na more modern world, where he lives in Hong Kong. He meets Reincarnated Fake\nSakura while she is on a class trip, and eventually the two of them become\nparents to the Real Syaoran.\n\n* * *\n\n**Princess Tomoyo and President Tomoyo** : Neither of these is the Tomoyo from\n_Cardcaptor Sakura_. One is a princess in feudal Japan, and the other is the\npresident of a company in Piffle World, a futuristic world.\n\n**Clow Reed** : A version of him appears as the father of Fake Sakura in the\npast, however he is deceased when the story begins. I have no clue if any or\nall of the Clows are actually the same Clow Reed mentioned in _Cardcaptor\nSakura_ , and I don't think anyone else does either. There's nothing but a lot\nof speculation on that subject.\n\n**Yuko** ( _xxxHolic_ ): She is implied to be deeply connected to Clow Reed.\nWhen she was about to die, Clow made a wish to stop her from dying, and ended\nup stopping her time. Again, no idea if the Clow referred to in _Tsubasa_ is\nthe same as _Cardcaptor Sakura_.\n\n**Fei-Wang Reed** : He is an image born as a personification of the wish Clow\nmade to save Yuko.\n\n**King Ashura** : Given that an alternate reality version of Chi from\n_Chobits_ and Fai, an original character, are in his world, I suspect this is\nnot the same King Ashura from _RG Vega_ , though I have not read any of the\nseries.\n\n**Piffle World Characters** : Piffle world is unique, in the characters we see\nare all alternate reality counterparts to ones we've seen before (and those\nones themselves mostly being alternate reality versions of real Clamp\ncharacters). Only the world-hopping Kyle turns out to be the one we saw\nbefore. I think Piffle World highlights the idea that, yes, these are all\nalternate reality characters, and not the actual characters from the original\nClamp stories.\n\n**Fuu, Hikaru, and Umi** : These are the classmates of Reincarnated Fake\nSakura, who go on the class trip to Hong Kong with her. _Magic Knight\nRayearth_ takes place while they are in middle school, and Fandom sites list\ntheir ages as fourteen in Rayearth. Sicne Sakura supposedly is fourteen here,\nthey are also fourteen, making their ages match that of _Magic Knight\nRayearth_. In _Magic Knight Rayearth_ they all attend different schools, but\nthey're all on the same class trip here, so it is likely that these are\nalternate reality incarnations.\n\n**_X_ Characters**: _X_ characters are featured prominently, often with\nmultiple versions of the same characters appearing in other worlds, such as\nPiffle World, Oto, and the ruined Tokyo. **Update** : Having watched the _X_\nanime series, I am convinced that none of these characters are the originals.\nIn _X_ , Subaru and Kamui are not brothers, nor are they vampires, and\nSeishiro and Fuma are not brothers either.\n\nTranslator's notes in volume 15:\n\n> Clamp fans will recognize nearly all of [...] the Dragons of Heaven and\n> Dragons of Earth from [...] _X_ ( _X/1999_ ). However, fans will notice that\n> the teams Kamui and Fuma are leading are reversed.\n\nThe other _X_ characters don't seem to say anything about this development, so\neven though the apocalyptic setting is similar to _X_ , these are all probably\nalternate reality versions.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-07T19:52:56.033", "id": "67610", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-01T02:35:26.093", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-01T02:35:26.093", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "15334", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Avalon](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Avalon) is\n\n> the domain of fairies... the unreachable utopia that Arthur dreamed of and\n> was said to have gone to after her death.\n\nIn the [Fate Route](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Arturia#Fate), after Saber\nvanished and returned to her own time, we see a shot of Arturia and Bedivere.\nIt's assumed that from Arturia's line\n\n> I think I will sleep much longer this time...\n\nthat this occurs after Bedivere third and final attempt to return Excalibur to\nthe Lady of the Lake, as in the previous two attempts, when he was ordered to\nreturn the sword, he lied about returning it, knowing that by doing so Arturia\nwould have died. So Arturia died and went to Avalon. Given it's a utopia I\ndon't think Saber would be suffering.\n\nNow Shiro is shown at the end of _-Last Episode-_ to be hugging Arturia and he\nwa wearing the shroud Archer wore (though now in a different style), so they\ndid meet up. This is why _-Last Episode-_ is seen as the True End of the Fate\nRoute, because Shiro and Arturia are finally together in the end. However,\nbecause Avalon transcends all magic, including the 5 Magics, of which [The\nFifth's](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Magic#The_Fifth_Magic) domain is\nsuspected to be time travel (but Touko says [The\nSecond](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Magic#The_Second_Magic) governs time\ntravel, so I am assuming that Avalon transcends time, or at least out\nconception of time), so despite the fact that Arturia died long in the past\nbefore Shiro was even born, we can't be totally sure that she waited the same\nequivalent amount of time for Shirou to even be born.\n\nShiro may have died to before being reunited, or he may have extended his life\nas [some Magi do](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Souren_Araya) (without\nbecoming a Dead Apostle). There's a series of H Dojinshin (fan made) which\nwould assume that little time has passed since the time Shiro went to bring\nArturia back. (One set has him and Arturia have sex in Avalon when they\nreunited, while in the next set, they are back in Fuyuki living together with\nRin and Sakura visiting).\n\nTo my knowledge, it's not indicated how Shiro got to Avalon since we only know\nthe conditions of the Miracle Shiro and Arturia achieved. I used eternity as a\nmeans to indicate an immeasurable amount of time, since given Shiro's\nMagecraft abilities, had he developed something to allow him to reach Avalon,\nit would have taken him a hell lot of time. After all, the ultimate ambition\nof every Magi is to reach the root, which can take generations to complete,\nsince it took that long for the Tohsaka's to get close to properly using the\nSecond Magic.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-28T00:38:13.033", "id": "15336", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-29T03:21:31.553", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-29T03:21:31.553", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "15335", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWe know that warriors can recognize someone's aura by feeling it.\n\nIn Chapter 519, Goku asks Buu to use his magic to fight Uub. But we all know\nGoku isn't the smart type, he just has this feeling. Goku is the one who\nfought the most with Buu, its probably normal he's the one who's able to\nrecognize him.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-28T10:36:15.507", "id": "15345", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-06T03:50:39.200", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-06T03:50:39.200", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "8788", "parent_id": "15344", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nUub is the reincarnation of Kid Buu\n\n> He is the Human reincarnation of Kid Buu. Due to being the positive\n> reincarnation of the completely evil Kid Buu, his name is a result of\n> reversing \"Buu\".\n\nsource: <http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Uub>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-29T16:04:17.967", "id": "15354", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-29T16:04:17.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6", "parent_id": "15344", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAs [Eric notes in the\ncomments](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15352/steinsgate-easter-\negg-divergence-numbers-in-logo#comment20090_15352), 0.571024 (the number down\nthe side of the \"i\") is the divergence number of the worldline Okabe is in at\nthe very beginning of the show.\n\nThe numbers hidden in the letters (0 in i / 4 in n / 8 in s / 5 in G / 9 in t\n/ 6 in e) form \"048596\". I bet there's a \"1\" hidden somewhere I'm not seeing\n(maybe in the first \"t\"?), since 1.048596 is also an important divergence\nnumber: that's the divergence number of the Steins;Gate.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-29T21:00:58.177", "id": "15357", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-29T21:08:52.520", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15352", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKang-Sung took some \"deadly\" hits during his fight with Goomonryong.\n\nHe couldn't always use his reflection technique to counter the attacks, first\nexample in chapt 142 by kicking him in the air.\n\nAfter that he took a huge amount of hits, Goomonryong is strong enough to\ndestroy a building so.. imagine the effect on a human :)\n\nImo the final hit chapt 143 is the one that caused the more damages.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-29T16:58:43.777", "id": "15355", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-29T20:16:04.253", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-29T20:16:04.253", "last_editor_user_id": "8788", "owner_user_id": "8788", "parent_id": "15353", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was revealed because of Misa in chapter 48. Higuchi promised to stop\nkilling criminals, so he could marry Misa, the second _killer_ and he did. But\nbecause he had written down lots of criminals already, the deaths kept on\ncontinuing for 23 days until they stopped. From this they could deduce the\nkillings could only be manipulated until 23 days in the future.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-27T21:14:36.580", "id": "21896", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-27T21:14:36.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "15364", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe death note that was dropped by Ryuk contained all the known rules\nincluding the 23 days rule. After Light made the Shinigamis switch the books,\nYotsuba got the one with the rules that later came to the investigators.\n\nThe \"fact\" that the deaths stopped after 23 days is wrong btw. They explicitly\nstopped immediately because he never wrote a date of death for criminals.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-20T16:41:52.093", "id": "40975", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-20T16:41:52.093", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33164", "parent_id": "15364", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe fourth Kill la Kill drama CD (bundled with the eighth BD volume) narrates\nhow everyone escapes Honnouji Academy after Satsuki blows the place up. It is\ntruly a riveting tale of discomilfery and nudity.\n\nIn short: the Divine Generals split into two groups in order to lead the\npeople of Honnouji away from the COVERS, which are in hot pursuit. Sanageyama\nand Nonon lead one group away by helicopter, while Inumuta and Gamagoori lead\nthe other group away by truck. They plan to rendezvous at Rinne-do Middle\n(i.e. where Satsuki and Gamagoori went to middle school).\n\nSanageyama and Nonon's group proceed by helicopter - but as they approach\nRinne-do, they see that it has already been overrun by a group of COVERS.\nNonon goes forth in her Symphony Regalia (which can fly, keep in mind) to\ndispatch the COVERS. Before long, her uniform experiences too much strain,\nresulting in its nexus thread snapping. She falls out of the sky, whereupon\nSanageyama activates his Sword Regalia to go forth and save her - but it so\nhappens that Iori and Soroi arrive just in time on another helicopter to catch\nher. Iori then deploys some sort of instant-freeze weapon to dispatch the\nCOVERS. They decide to rendezvous with the truck convoy ASAP.\n\nUpon hearing from Sanageyama that Rinne-do had been overrun, Inumuta and\nGamagoori decide to divert to the Nudist Beach base in Osaka (under advice\nfrom Mikisugi, who has Ryuuko and Senketsu in tow and is following them in his\nDTR - yet another amusing incident) and have the helicopter group do the same.\n\nTo protect their convoy, Inumuta and Gamagoori hatch a plan. While Inumuta\nextends his Probe Regalia's active-camouflage feature over the entire convoy\nto conceal it from the COVERS, Gamagoori waits behind with his Shackle/Scourge\nRegalia to destroy the COVERS that are in pursuit, to ensure that they cannot\ndestroy the bridge connecting Honnouji to the mainland and sink the convoy as\nit crosses. They both succeed; alas, the strain on their uniforms is too\nstrong, and both of their nexus threads snap. Tsumugu happens by and picks up\nGamagoori (who is in the nude, having lost his uniform, and thus _of course_\nearns Tsumugu's trust) on his way to join up with the convoy.\n\nAfter that, both groups successfully arrive at the Nudist Beach base in Osaka,\nand the rest is history. Sanageyama's uniform was saved from terminal damage\nat the hands of the COVERS by Iori's timely intervention; the other three were\nnot so lucky.\n\n* * *\n\nIn long: you should definitely listen to the drama CD. Even if you don't know\nJapanese, it's worth it, if only to hear more of Gamagoori and Mikisugi\nyelling.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-30T05:43:28.253", "id": "15367", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-30T05:43:28.253", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15366", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think I know which song you're talking about. Looking through the OST for\nseason two helped me. I found out that maybe track 6 is the one you're looking\nfor? It's called, \" Shunjun suru Kimochi.\"\n\nYou can check for yourself\n[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmeZQPyud38&list=PL4D947035A6EAC0C7&index=6).\n\nAlthough I didn't think that scene has a piano.\n\nBut if my suggestion is wrong, the link I provided has the full OST on the\nplaylist. Also, the person's channel has other Sekaiichi Hatsukoi OSTs, you\ncan try your luck there ^^\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-27T12:58:15.587", "id": "26210", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-27T13:05:25.317", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-27T13:05:25.317", "last_editor_user_id": "16200", "owner_user_id": "16200", "parent_id": "15371", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis only partially answers the question. However, in both of their Wikia\npages, under **Appearance** it states that Leysritt and Sella are in fact 2\nyears old.\n\n> Despite her appearance, she is only about two years old.\n\nSources:\n[Leysritt](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Leysritt#Appearance)/[Sella](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sella#Appearance)\n\\- Appearance *exact same wording on both pages\n\nGiven there is no mention on either of their pages, of them being in Fate/Zero\nI would assume this would be referring to their appearance in Fate/Stay Night\nwhich would make it impossible for them to have appeared in Fate/Zero which is\nset 10 years prior to Fate/Stay Night.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-14T23:23:56.887", "id": "20839", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T11:02:38.800", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T11:02:38.800", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "15376", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTL;DR: Berg Katze's note (and himself) was absorbed into Hajime. He is\ncurrently trapped and powerless inside her \"chest\". Your confusion stems from\nthe fact that the scene never made it to the TV series.\n\n* * *\n\nEpisode 12 has two versions. There is a \"director's cut\" version that was\nshipped as an OVA, showing the confrontation between Hajime and Katze, when\nshe gains control of Katze's golden note (I did not watch it).\n\nFrom\n[wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gatchaman_Crowds_episodes):\n\n> `OVA \"Embrace\" January 22, 2014` \n> Director's cut of episode 12. Scenes about the civilians and the Crowds are\n> expanded on, while the battle between Katze and OD is cut. An added segment\n> shows Hajime's face-off with Katze, with her fusing herself with them by\n> absorbing their NOTE into her body.\n\nAlas, Katze is not that powerless, since it seems he can take over Hajime's\nGatchaman form:\n\nAgain [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatchaman_Crowds#Characters):\n\n> Her original NOTE and Gatchaman form takes on red accents after fusing with\n> Katze, and her Gatchaman form's face switches from blue eyes to a red smile\n> when Katze is in command.\n\nIMO, it was a bad choice to leave Hajime's showdown to the OVA (even if it was\nfinancially good for them), since it is important to the Crowds-Insight plot.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-17T21:02:50.503", "id": "23336", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-17T21:02:50.503", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "15377", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you watch the [OVA\nepisode](http://myanimelist.net/anime/23703/Gatchaman_Crowds:_Embrace/)\n(director's cut of episode 12, released with the BD/DVD box release), you will\nknow that\n\n> OD is alive, since he was healed by Utsutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-02T08:54:58.513", "id": "15417", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-02T11:08:36.380", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-02T11:08:36.380", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "9420", "parent_id": "15378", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Aion](http://na.aiononline.com/en/) cosplay, those wings she wearing\nare [Hyperion Wings](http://aiondatabase.net/us/item/187000121/).\n\nShe's (Of') part of a French cosplay group called \"[Les Cosplayeuses\nEmplumées](https://www.facebook.com/VicNyophelieEtNanouCosplay).\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T05:42:39.240", "id": "15389", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-01T12:31:25.873", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-01T12:31:25.873", "last_editor_user_id": "1383", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "15379", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not very sure about this, I saw this a long time ago so just as the memory\nof it is somewhat vague in your mind it is also vague in mine, but your\ndescription is reminding me about [Flame of\nRecca](http://myanimelist.net/anime/238/Rekka_no_Honoo).\n\nIt doesn't match your description exactly but seeing how you're not sure\nyou're describing a single series I thought this might be one of them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T22:07:09.540", "id": "18963", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-29T22:07:09.540", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11458", "parent_id": "15391", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's probably [**Threads of\nTime**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_of_Time), a Korean manhwa.\n\nIt has been a few years since I read it, so my memory is fuzzy about the fine\ndetails, but it has enough similarities to be a match.\n\nI definitely remember these details you wrote in the question:\n\n> * It was Korean manhwa\n> * Martial arts was common.\n> * He time traveled back to a younger body.\n> * His parents were suspicious of him for being \"different than usual\".\n> * The female helper who was taking care of the main character got\n> kidnapped and raped.\n> * He later tracked the guy who attacked them and was about to kill him,\n> when suddenly a girl stopped him from doing so. It turned out to be the\n> helper; she was pregnant and in love with her captor. He left through the\n> window\n> * The main character was scared of the main enemy.\n>\n\nThe last 2 details (reproduced below) might be from a different manga if\nyou're completely certain about it.\n\n> * Near the end, he found out that the enemy was him from the future (or\n> alternate outcome of his choices)\n> * They fought in the courtyard and both died I think, or just his future\n> self.\n>\n\nHowever, I think you might have gotten those details wrong, since the MC time\ntraveled back into the brother of one of the villain's victim in order to\nuntangle or sever the Threads of Time (Fate?). Near the end, he realized that\nthe villain was his past self and he defeated him, but he also died soon after\nand returned to his present time. Though this time around, he is no longer\ntied down by fate/destiny because he broke the cycle.\n\nSource: Years of reading manga.\n\nAnyway, I hope this is the right one.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-04T06:26:35.343", "id": "20620", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-04T09:03:47.157", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-04T09:03:47.157", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13731", "parent_id": "15391", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI think one of them sounds a lot like \"Rikudo\".\n\nRiku experienced a lot of pain and tragedy in his early life. After his\nfather's death, a former-boxer Yakuza man taught him how to do a basic punch,\nand that punch saved his life when he had to defend himself from his mom's\ndrug dealer. He ended up taking the drug dealer's life, marking him as a\nkiller. Criminals continued to come after him, leading to more tragedy for the\npeople who attempted to care for him. All of this drove him to ask that same\nformer boxer to teach him to become stronger, which led him to a rundown gym,\nhis door to the world of pro boxing!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-15T16:19:43.997", "id": "26631", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-15T16:49:40.707", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-15T16:49:40.707", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "18531", "parent_id": "15391", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was Minato. The Fourth Hokage invented in from seeing the Bijuu-dama.\nJiraiya learned it from Minato and then taught Naruto about it. See\n[Rasengan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rasengan) article on Naruto Wiki.\n\nEdit: While it wasn't mentioned which Bijuu Minato based his Rasengan from, it\nis presumably the Kyuubi as the Kyuubi was the only Bijuu in possession of\nKonoha at that time and the Jinchuuriki is his wife.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T08:17:16.537", "id": "15393", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-21T10:01:23.567", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-21T10:01:23.567", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "15392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\n> The [Rasengan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rasengan) is an A-rank technique\n> created by the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, by observing the Tailed Beast\n> Ball. Minato spent three years developing the Rasengan.\n\nJiraiya taught Naruto how to create and use Rasengan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T08:17:20.797", "id": "15394", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-01T08:50:27.097", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-01T08:50:27.097", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "15392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 24 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, it wasn't Minato or Jiraiya who invented Rasengan. If you watch Naruto\nfrom the beginning to the last (Naruto Shippuden), Rasengan was made by\nAshura, one of Hagoromo's sons. It means Rasengan has been invented a long\ntime ago, even before Minato was born.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-11T23:44:42.317", "id": "40325", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-13T08:42:06.017", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-13T08:42:06.017", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "32478", "parent_id": "15392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe true inventer is Ashura. Yes, Minato worked so hard to make it but he was\nsadly not the person who invented it. Around episodes 400-500 there is an\nepisode where Ashura and Indra fight; Indra has the full Susanoo and Ashura\nhas the Truth Seeker Orbs. After about 7 minutes, Ashura makes a Rasangan with\nlike 4-5 mini Rasangans in it. So the part that Minato \"invented\" it is false,\nhe just happens to have revived a really old ninjutsu. So in his way he\n\"invented\" it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-13T04:51:28.780", "id": "43302", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-13T08:38:51.133", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-13T08:38:51.133", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "36592", "parent_id": "15392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is true Ashura made the first Rasengan, but as far as who did it first\nbetween Jiraiya or Minato, Jiraiya did tell Naruto that the 4th Hokage\ninvented it.\n\nThere's an episode, I believe 33 of season 1 _Shippuden_ , showing that\nJiraiya mastered that jutsu in way less time.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-29T17:37:51.217", "id": "47603", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-29T17:58:50.410", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-29T17:58:50.410", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "41325", "parent_id": "15392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDirections with respect to Yuri's perspective, where the front is facing the\nentrance. For the sake of completeness, I also include the paintings that are\nfixed across episodes.\n\n* * *\n\n## All episodes\n\n\n\n**Front:** School song of the Heaven Academy. The song lyrics reproduced below\nreference [this yahoo\nanswer](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1043642110)\nand [this wiki page](http://www29.atwiki.jp/angelbeats/pages/70.html).\n\n> 校歌\n>\n> 緑豊かに広がる丘に \n> 光輝く我らが母校 \n> 大いなる大地と \n> 天のかけ橋 \n> 真実を知る時天に登らん\n>\n> 心のままに戒めなくは \n> かけ[●●●●●●●●●]【し希望にひるがえる】 \n> 千里離れた空を思へば \n> 遠く忘れし思いはいづこ \n> 真実を知る時天に登らん\n>\n> 光あふれる月の夜 \n> 耳をすまして聞き入れば \n> 天使の歌声高らかに \n> 思いを胸に登る[●]【時】 \n> 真実を知る時天に登らん\n>\n> 天上学園\n\n**Back:** Portraits of all past principals of the Heaven Academy. The portrait\nof the current principal has been replaced by Yuri's.\n\n**Left:** During the operation meetings, the banner of the SSS Brigade is\nhanged on this side of the wall.\n\n**Right:** Smiley face painting. Unknown artist.\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 1\n\n\n\n**Front:** [危]【き】 — Danger.\n\n**Left:** テトラポット —\n[Tetrapod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod_%28structure%29), a\ntetrahedral concrete structure used as armour unit on breakwaters.\n\n**Right:**\n[[南紀]【なんき】みかん](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E9%87%8D%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89#.E5.8D.97.E7.B4.80.E3.81.BF.E3.81.8B.E3.82.93)\n— Tangerine from Nanki, Mie Prefecture.\n\nNote: Jun Maeda, the original creator of _Angel Beats!_ , is from Mie.\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 2\n\n\n\n**Front:** [毒]【どく】 — Poison. I believe it's intended to invoke the expression\n「お気の毒に」, meaning \"my condolences\", as said by Angel about Hinata in episode 5.\nBy Jun's arrangement or by coincidence, Hinata was forced into sacrifice in an\narithmetic progression of episode number 2, 5 and 8.\n\n**Left:** [悦]【えつ】 — Rejoicing.\n\n**Right:** [松阪牛]【まつさかうし】 — [Matsusaka\nbeef](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsusaka_beef), another food product from\nMie.\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 3\n\n\n\n**Front:** [嫁]【よめ】 — Wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law. Don't know if this\nhas anything to do with [_俺の嫁 〜あなただけの花嫁〜_](https://vndb.org/v11174) or not.\n_俺の嫁_ is a love adventure game released in the same year as _Angel Beats!_ and\nsharing some of the voice actors (Emiri Katou, Kana Asumi, Eri Kitamura and\nKana Hanazawa).\n\n**Left:** [諭吉]【ゆきち】 — [Yukichi\nFukuzawa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi), the guy on the\n10,000 yen banknote. Yukichi is the nickname of Yuuki Hashimoto from the 2010\neroge [_恋色空模様_](https://vndb.org/v1740) who is also voiced by Harumi Sakurai\n(Yurippe's voice actor). Moreover, \"Farewell, Yukichi\" (「さらば諭吉」) is the\ndefining quote of Kyousuke Natsume from [_Little\nBusters!_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Busters!), another visual\nnovel written by Jun Maeda.\n\n**Right:** マニア — Mania, i.e. Takeyama.\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 4\n\n\n\n**Right (OP):** [鎮魂歌]【ちんこんか】 — Requiem. Its significance has already been\nexplained in the question.\n\n**Front:** [脇]【わき】 — Supporting role; the second stanza of a\n[renga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renga). Yui changed her role in the band\nfrom support to lead after Iwasawa left the Afterlife World. At this point in\ntime, the story has also entered its second phase in the\nhokku→waki→daisan→ageku renga structure or the\nintroduction→development→twist→conclusion\n[Kishoutenketsu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5%8Dtenketsu) structure.\n\n**Left:** (Not shown).\n\n**Right:** [[逆鱗]【げきりん】](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%86%E9%B1%97) — A\nscale grown upside-down below the chin of a dragon that will anger the dragon\nwhen touched; imperial wrath. Yuri's underlings incurred her wrath by failing\ntheir mission of defeating Angel's team in the baseball tournament. There is\nalso the angered dragon conjured up in Otonashi's mind in episode 7.\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 5\n\n\n\n**Front:** [謎]【なぞ】 — Enigma; mystery, i.e. Ayato Naoi in this episode. If you\nturn up the volume just after Yuri throws her second tantrum, you can also\nhear a 'mysterious' voice saying \"what's with her?\" (「なんだこいつ」). This is\ndocumented under the 謎の声 section\n[here](http://www29.atwiki.jp/angelbeats/pages/60.html#id_77947f35).\n\n**Left:** コテンパン — Black and blue (e.g. beaten ...), i.e. Angel and Hinata in\nthis episode.\n\n**Right:** バミューダ — [Bermuda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda).\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 6\n\n\n\n**Front:** [乙]【おつ】 — Second; the latter; strange. Describes Ayato Naoi well in\nthis episode.\n\n**Left:** (Not shown).\n\n**Right:** [猫大陸]【ねこたいりく】 — Continent of cats. Presumably the same painting\nappears again in the second panel on page 4, chapter 30 of _[Angel Beats! The\n4-koma: Our War Front March\nSong](http://angelbeats.wikia.com/wiki/Angel_Beats!_The_4-koma:_Our_War_Front_March_Song)_\n:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/g1Kp5.jpg)\n\nIn this panel, Yusa is explaining the term \"marriage hunting\"\n([婚活](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B5%90%E5%A9%9A%E6%B4%BB%E5%8B%95)) to\nHinata. The true meaning of 猫大陸 still eludes me, but if I were to fashion a\nguess, it would at least be somewhat related to marriage hunting, which\nreminds me of the missed opportunity in this episode for Otonashi to do, I\nmean, to become closer to Kanade, and the fact that the 'marriage hunting' was\ninitiated by Naoi on behalf of Otonashi, too!\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 7\n\n\n\n**Front:** プラ — [Recycling symbol used in Japan for\nplastic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_in_Japan#Symbols).\n\n**Left:** [濃厚]【のうこう】 — Rich (in flavor, color, smell, etc.) and strong; very\nlikely; passionate and hot.\n\n**Right:** ●(●)ック? (Not legible).\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 8\n\n**Front:** (Not shown).\n\n**Left:** (Not shown).\n\n**Right:** (Not shown).\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 9\n\n\n\n**Front:** ♨ — Icon for [hot springs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onsen).\n\n**Left:** [部族]【ぶぞく】 — Tribe; clan.\n\n**Right:** マグロ? (Not fully shown) —\n[Tuna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunnus).\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 10\n\n\n\n**Front:** (Not shown).\n\n**Left:** ●ロス? (Not legible).\n\n**Right:** [赤福]【あかふく】 —\n[[赤福餅]【あかふくもち】](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E7%A6%8F%E9%A4%85),\n[wagashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagashi) of Akafuku shop, Ise City,\nMie Prefecture.\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 11\n\n\n\n**Front:** (Not shown).\n\n**Left:** (Not fully shown).\n\n**Right:** [極上]【ごくじょう】 — First-rate; best.\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 12\n\n\n\n**Front:** [心]【こころ】 — Heart. Lots and lots of hearts on the computer screens.\n\n**Left:** (Not shown).\n\n**Right:** [土]【ど】● (Not fully shown).\n\n* * *\n\n## Episode 13\n\n\n\n**Front:** [魂友]【こんゆう】 — Spiritual friend.\n\n**Left:** (Not shown).\n\n**Right:** (Not shown).\n\n* * *\n\n## Special: Another Epilogue\n\n\n\n**Front:** (Not shown).\n\n**Left:** (Not legible).\n\n**Right:** [東]【とう】●? (Not legible). It would make more sense if the character\nis [転]【てん】, though, as that means \"altering pronunciation or meaning\".\n\n* * *\n\n## OVA 1: Stairway to Heaven\n\n\n\n**Front:** (Happy face).\n\n**Left:** (Teeth-gritting face).\n\n**Right:** (Happy face).\n\n* * *\n\n## OVA 2: Hell's Kitchen\n\n\n\n**Front:** [再]【さい】 — Again.\n\n**Left:** ボンレス — Boneless.\n\n**Right:** [久々]【ひさびさ】 — (in a) long time; long time (ago). It's been almost 5\nyears since the last _Angel Beats!_ episode was released.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-26T16:12:07.650", "id": "18875", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-27T19:57:47.210", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-27T19:57:47.210", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15395", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt wasn't mentioned anywhere in the anime, I think. I just chalked that up to\n\"trying to live a normal life, devoid of delusions and thus avoiding\nencounters with other Chuuni practitioners\" by changing her image, like\ncreating a _new self_ \\- so to say. In addition to that she also arranged her\nhair in a more lady-like manner, adapted a long skirt and changed her normal\nblack socks to white (gasp!), truly sporting an image change.\n\n\n\nIt sounds superstitious of Shinka and if you ask me, it was still actually a\nbit of a Chuuni thing, what she did. And it turns out I was mostly right, it\nsays in the [Wikia ](http://chuunibyou-demo-koi-ga-\nshitai.wikia.com/wiki/Shinka_Nibutani) that:\n\n> In the second season, Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren, first episode,\n> Shinka dyes her hair black as she doesn't want to be recognized by other\n> students.\n\n**EDIT:** Sorry about that, I didn't what I was writing. It wasn't explained\nin the anime, as far as I can recall (maybe in the LN, but they're stories are\ntoo different anyway). Again this is pure speculation in my part, but I guess\nafter realizing her futile attempt at it and the fact that she's already\nattached to the other characters in one way or the other, she just changed it\nback.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T14:14:26.053", "id": "15403", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-02T12:42:29.797", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-02T12:42:29.797", "last_editor_user_id": "9330", "owner_user_id": "9330", "parent_id": "15396", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMy understanding of the phrase is that he means:\n\n> People who are killed should remain dead.\n\nThis is in reference to servants - he doesn't like that servants are\nresurrected souls. They should remain dead.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T12:00:00.717", "id": "15399", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-29T07:47:31.687", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-29T07:47:31.687", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "15398", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nContext is needed for this. From the visual novel, the line is from Shiro,\nabout surviving wounds that would otherwise be fatal if Avalon had not been\ninside of him. So when Avalon is removed Shiro remarks that things are the way\nthe should be now (people dying, when you kill them.).\n\nIn this context, the phrase makes sense. When made out of context, it does\nseem silly.\n\nFurthermore, following said phrase, Shiro says \"それが当たり前なんだ\", which more or\nless means, \"that's only natural.\"\n\nOfficial dub goes with something like: \"when people are hurt badly enough,\nthey die.\"\n\nFurthermore in Japanese, there are two ways to describe death, one for body\nand one for soul. So you may kill one's body, but their spirit wouldn't may\nstill persist. This is where the phrases like \"he won't die, even if he is\nkilled\" probably originated from.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T19:15:23.767", "id": "18488", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-11T17:25:43.127", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-11T17:25:43.127", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "15398", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOk can't ask this question without expecting spoilers.\n\nPer Armored/Sentient titans attacking in the show, it was revealed why they're\ncurrently attacking (in the manga). Which is basically to get back the\ncontroller from Eren/Historia.\n\nAs for why the war is even happening and what causes non-sentient Titans to\nattack, that has not yet been revealed.\n\n**Side note a predominant current theory: It was mentioned the controller used\nto belong to armored titan's side of the war. If that is true, non-sentient\ntitans attacking humans on sight maybe a command from previous controllers\ninstead of biological need. Also augmented by instances where titans ignored\nhumans and attacked other titans.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T19:13:28.540", "id": "15409", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-01T19:13:28.540", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "15405", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's categorized as a [Jockey](https://www.amazon.co.jp/EnzeruFashion-\nNARUTO%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88-%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E5%A4%89%E8%A3%85-%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0-CSP0007-XXXL/dp/B01DZHPHEI/ref=sr_1_28?s=hobby&ie=UTF8&qid=1481001715&sr=1-28)\nor\n[Vest](https://www.amazon.co.jp/CosplayHut-%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E5%8F%AF%E8%83%BD/dp/B00G3BRY2C/ref=sr_1_39?s=hobby&ie=UTF8&qid=1481001715&sr=1-39),\naccording to their respective sales listing on Amazon. However, [a Google\nsearch](https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E6%9A%97%E9%83%A8%E3%83%99%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj82Njg697QAhXGvbwKHV3bDfUQ_AUICCgB&biw=1536&bih=758)\nreturns more relevant results when searching for '暗部ベスト'. Also, [on\nChiebukuro](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1254408687),\nJapan's Yahoo Answers, it is referred to as a 'vest'.\n\nYou can get it from Amazon Japan\n[here](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E5%93%81-cos-\nhyrz-12-%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89-cos-\nhyrz-12-%E6%9A%97%E9%83%A8%E3%82%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B7-%E3%81%AF%E3%81%9F%E3%81%91%E3%82%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B7-%E3%82%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B7-%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E8%A1%A3%E8%A3%85-XXL/dp/B01N3Q6WGS/ref=sr_1_13?s=hobby&ie=UTF8&qid=1481001388&sr=1-13&th=1).\nUse a shipping forwarding service like [Tenso](http://www.tenso.com/en/) if\nyou live outside Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-06T05:35:38.170", "id": "37712", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T05:35:38.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13934", "parent_id": "15408", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nVery near the beginning1 of Fate/hollow ataraxia (the sequel VN to Fate/stay\nnight), Mitsuzuri tells a ghost story to an audience including Makidera Kaede,\nSageusa Yukika, Rin, Sakura, Issei, and Shirou.2\n\nThe gist of the story is basically what the Type-Moon wikia says on the page\nfor [Mr. A](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._A) \\- some dude named \"A\" lives\nnext to a little red-hooded girl whose parents are abusive. One day, the\ngirl's parents are found murdered, and the girl herself is nowhere to be\nfound. Later on, a spoopy apparition of the little girl appears before him,\nand drives him mad.\n\nThis little girl is also alluded to in Fate/strange fake - F/sf's \"player\"\ncharacter is explicitly named \"A\" at one point, and his backstory matches up\nwith the story told by Mitsuzuri in F/ha. The text indicates that the player\ncharacter will sometimes see visions of a bloodstained little girl, who is\npresumably this little red-hooded girl.\n\nI'm not sure where that picture comes from, though. The PS Vita release of\nFate/hollow ataraxia just came out last week; maybe it's one of the CGs from\nthat.\n\n* * *\n\n1 I haven't played F/ha, but I have had the pleasure(?) of looking at the .po\nfiles for it; this particular scene occurs in `真・冒頭-08`, which I would\nestimate is about 20 minutes from the beginning or thereabouts.\n\n2 Mitsuzuri, Makidera, and Saegusa appear a lot more frequently in F/ha than\nthey do in F/sn (where they're basically background characters that vanish\nafter day 3-ish of the VN).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-02T22:31:07.330", "id": "15428", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-03T02:36:01.250", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-03T02:36:01.250", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15411", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]