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[ { "body": "\n\nTouka definitely isn't a chuunibyou. It's obvious that she is really bothered\nby Rikka's behavior in the first season and asks Togashi to tell her to snap\nout of it. It is easy to tell those suffering from chunnibyou from those who\nare not. Touka never makes any weird statements or gets lost in her\nimagination.\n\nAs for all the battles that go on between Rikka and Touka, they are all just a\nmanifestation of Rikka's own imagination. Touka probably only swings that big\nspoon around a bit which turns into all those fancy moves inside Rikka's head.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-23T17:06:23.303", "id": "24303", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-23T17:06:23.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13228", "parent_id": "15415", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe joke here, I think, is that before this conversation, Hinata showed up in\nfront of Yuri and behaved very differently from yesterday (before Yuri dreamed\nabout him), so Otonashi said that the warning came true: Hinata really\nchanged. Since Hinata said, \"don't think that the me from today and tomorrow\nwill be the same\", tomorrow, he might change again, making Kanade say that\nthere could be more than three of him.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-02T10:13:57.080", "id": "15420", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-05T15:18:59.657", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-05T15:18:59.657", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "15416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe conversation actually foreshadows a future event where Angel makes an\naggressive clone of herself using Guard Skills: Harmonics.\n\n> Are there two Hinata-kun's? Is there a chance that there's more than three\n> of him?\n\nIn episode 8, Hinata reciprocated this saying to Angel, which is in itself a\ngag.\n\n\n\n> Don't think that the me from today and tomorrow will be the same. Watch out.\n\nThis is what the SSS members were worrying about in episode 9: which \"Angel\"\nwould wake up from the coma after Kanade had absorbed all her clones?\n\n\n\n> I'm sorry to hear that. (お気の毒に)\n\nThe second kanji character used in Angel's expression of pity, 毒 (\"poison\"),\nwas actually shown right at Hinata's face in episode 2, the last time he was\nmade to be sacrificed by Yurippe. In episode 5, he had to make his sacrifices\nagain at the coercion of Yurippe, but don't worry, the maxim \"people die if\nthey are killed\" doesn't apply in the Afterlife World.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-26T02:07:41.680", "id": "18853", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-01T12:49:57.967", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-01T12:49:57.967", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n> Angel: Is there a chance that there's more than three of him?\n>\n> Otonashi: Huh? Oh, uh... it's possible.\n>\n> Angel: I'm sorry to hear that.\n\nThe humour here is that Angel's basically saying _having one Hinata is bad\nenough_ and she is sad to hear there is more of him.\n\n> Hinata: Don't think that the me from today and tomorrow will be the same.\n> Watch out.\n>\n> Angel: Are there two Hinata-kun's?\n\nThere's a misunderstanding here where Hinata is saying that how is personality\nis one day is different to how it is another day. Angel has mistaken this as\nbeing two distinctly different Hinatas .\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-04T15:43:49.953", "id": "26395", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-04T17:33:47.567", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was a filler episode which is not taken from source material (i.e. manga).\nThe fillers are just to extend time for the anime so that it does not catch up\nto the manga.\n\nThis happens in Naruto quite a lot and One Piece has only three filler arcs,\nso don't think too much about that episode, as it is there only to extend time\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-02T11:31:00.027", "id": "15423", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-02T11:47:44.947", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-02T11:47:44.947", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "9443", "parent_id": "15418", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n**He was waiting for the right time**. He was waiting until he got enough\nintel on the enemy before making his final move. If he spoiled the surprise\nearly on, Breed could have counter-acted accordingly and might even have been\nable to re-attach the collars and order Law to never use his Devil Fruit\nagain. Law didn't know Breed's full power yet at that time and just playing\nalong. Remember how he only pretended to attack Luffy. Law was wearing ear-\nplugs and he wasn't under Breed's control at that time. He willingly attacked\nLuffy pretending to obey.\n\nLaw did the same thing on Punk Hazard, where he waited to remove the handcuffs\nwhen everyone was caged by Caesar. He didn't want to let his enemy know he was\nfree to move about. He waited until he was out of sight, letting the enemy\n(Caesar) think he was defeated, giving him a lot of space and time to freely\nmove about preparing his final counter attack.\n\nFinally, I think Law is incapable of actually removing the collars, since he\ndidn't actually removed them himself, even when he shambled to the submarine\nand had plenty of time to do so.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-11T09:40:59.807", "id": "18453", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-11T09:40:59.807", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "15418", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe text of the note is:\n\n> 竜児へ\n>\n> 竜児___ね…ずっとずっと自分なんかが \n> ___愛されるはずないと思ってた。 \n> でもそれは逃げてただけなのかも知れない。 \n> 自身がもてないのを親のせいに…周りのせいにして… \n> でも、竜児は私をそのまま愛してくれた…。 \n> 自分に誇りをもって…\n>\n> 竜児を愛したいから。\n>\n> 相坂大河\n\nThere are two blanks (on the first two lines of the body) that cannot be made\nout because of the pen in the way. However, this turns out to be pretty much\nthe same as the narration that Taiga does starting around 10:28, so we can\nfill in the blanks: the first blank is 私 and the second blank is 誰かに. Now, a\nrough translation:\n\n> Ryuuji,\n>\n> Ryuuji, I... always thought that there was no way anybody would ever love\n> me. But maybe I was just running away [from my problems?]. I blamed my lack\n> of confidence on my parents... on my situation. But even so, you loved me\n> the way I was. I'll be proud of myself...\n>\n> Because I want to love you, Ryuuji.\n>\n> Aisaka Taiga\n\nThe letter omits the lines to the effect of \"I won't run away anymore; I'll\nchange; I'll accept myself\" which are present in her narration.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-03T04:12:46.887", "id": "15440", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-03T04:23:48.760", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-03T04:23:48.760", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15436", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat doesn't seem right.\n\nCoppelion are sterile because their reproductive cells experience high doses\nof radiation, not because the rest of their cells are immune to radiation.\n\nIt's not Aether itself that causes the sterility - it's the radioactivity.\nBut, in general, Aether is administered to treat short exposures to radiation\n(if you've suffered a long exposure, you're probably dead), which might not be\nlong enough to cause sterility.\n\nOf course, if a human were to spend a long time exposed to radiation after\nbeing treated with Aether, then yes, I imagine they would become sterile.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-03T04:53:33.383", "id": "15442", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-03T04:53:33.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15438", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs mentioned before, it's a fingerprint.\n\nUsually the spiral only appears when the character's finger/thumb is close to\nthe screen. The reason for this is simply to add detail to something which is\ntaking up a lot of the screen. Look at the image without the spiral:\n\n \n\nBecause the finger takes up a lot of the screen it's harder to focus on when\nit's all the same colour. The inclusion of the fingerprint helps break up that\nspace - even if it is a basic design.\n\nThe reason it's a spiral is for simplicity's sake. Fingerprints are very\nintricate and are more trouble that it's worth, unless perhaps the entire\nanimation is ridiculously detailed - otherwise you would get a sharp jarring\ncontrast between the foreground and background:\n\n\n\nObviously, this is exaggerated, but I imagine half-hearted attempts would also\nlook out of place.\n\n> If there's a spiral on her finger when she points at you, she's being\n> triumphant or prideful.\n\nI don't think there's any real evidence to suggest this. This design is used\nin many situations, often when a character is angry.\n\n**TL;DR** \\- It's to break up the area on the finger without going into much\ndetail\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-09T18:51:00.150", "id": "15604", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-09T18:51:00.150", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15446", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs Krazer said, the recipes can be found on the Japanese tankobon versions as\nextras. The English version, however, also have the same recipes. At the time\nof this writing, 6 volumes have been released in English and this [Imgur\nalbum](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kexm3.jpg) contains the English version of\nthe recipes up to the 6th volume. It doesn't contain all of the recipes, as\nyou guessed yourself, but it contains most of the meals that the main cast\ncooked.\n\nYou can also find partial recipes in the [Shokugeki no Soma\nwiki](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/Shokugeki_no_Soma_Wiki) by looking\nup the names of the food. They usually only contain the ingredients and not\nstep-by-step instructions on how to prepare the food.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-09T01:32:34.800", "id": "23133", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-09T01:32:34.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "15447", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to the extras in the tankobon mentioned in [Frosteeze's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/23133/2516), there's also an\nofficial recipe book titled _Tōtsuki Academy Challenge Plate: Shokugeki no\nSoma Official Recipe Book_ which is currently only available in Japanese.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vdg7q.jpg)\n\nAccording to\n[Wikia](http://shokugekinosoma.wikia.com/wiki/T%C5%8Dtsuki_Academy_Challenge_Plate:_Shokugeki_no_Soma_Official_Recipe_Book),\nit contains 27 recipes from\n\n> the manga as well as new ones that were either featured in JUMP magazine or\n> inspired by _Shokugeki_ characters' cooking style.\n\nOther than that, there doesn't seem any other official recipes published\nanywhere else.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-11T09:15:02.587", "id": "46980", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-11T09:15:02.587", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "15447", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI also want to cook the recipes, as I have cooking as one of my hobbies that I\nwould like to get decent at.\n\nWhat I do is I go to the wikia and find the EXACT list of all ingredients for\nmost recipes, and then for specific directions I try to adapt with both my\nknowledge and the food descriptions. Example: I cooked the Hachis Parmentier\nthey did on the train trip to the final exam (season 3) team Doujima version.\n\nI needed mashed potatoes, sauce espagnole, the meat sauce and the anchoiade\nsauce.\n\nSo I either know how to make some of those things, or I dont and I google, so\nfor example: \"how to cook fast mashed potatoes\", \"how to make sauce\nespagnole\", and in multiple scattered websites I go from ingredients to\npreparation of everything and then i use my cooking skills to get a finished\nproduct.\n\nThis is my Hachis Parmentier. Without the green sauce, used only basil and\nwhite vineager.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oq0Xz.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-21T09:27:51.827", "id": "49780", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-21T09:27:51.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43518", "parent_id": "15447", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes it would, and he have done so on multiple occasions.\n\n> (For instance, on Schneizel, \"Obey zero\")\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-03T12:40:27.960", "id": "15449", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-03T12:40:27.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "15448", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nLelouch has done so several times. One of it is like Madara said. Here's\nanother examples:\n\n 1. To Kururugi Suzaku, \"Live!\"\n 2. To Gilford, \"Whenever you see Zero putting his hand on his collar, you will see him as Princess Cornelia.\"\n\nThe limitations is of course the physical limitations of the subject of the\nGeass power. For example if he ordered someone to go to the Moon on foot, then\nit will not happen.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T07:05:36.710", "id": "15465", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-04T07:05:36.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "15448", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs the comments say, this is a somewhat subjective question. I'll give my own\nreason, which I think is a big part of the reason this is common, but perhaps\nnot the only reason.\n\nJapanese society is more regimented than one might believe just from watching\nanime. By middle school age, and even to some degree in primary school,\nchildren are expected to interact with their peers in a relatively\nprofessional way. This is especially true of relationships between students of\nopposite sexes. Such requirements aren't held for family or close friends, but\nfor everyone else one is expected to be polite and not share their true\nfeelings or say things too directly. This concept of dividing people into an\nin-group and an out-group ([内外, _uchi-\nsoto_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchi-soto)) is somewhat hard for non-\nJapanese people to understand, but is central to interactions between people\nin Japanese culture. In fact, you can find plenty of examples of this and of\nthe related concepts of [_honne_ and\n_tatemae_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae) in anime if you\nlook, but if you aren't looking for them specifically it's easy to miss.\n\nIt's difficult for a person in the out-group to enter the in-group. While not\nimpossible, generally this takes time and effort. The groups aren't a simple\ndichotomy either; they change depending on the situation. It's especially\ndifficult for close friendships between members of the opposite sex to form.\nOne way for this to happen is for the two to enter into a relationship, but\nthis is obviously not ideal if you want to make a romantic comedy where the\ncharacters aren't already in relationships. Another way is for one person to\nact closer to the other than they really are, as a way of testing the\nboundaries, but that person is being somewhat rude in doing so and it can\nbackfire.\n\nThe most realistic way for a character to have a close friend is for them to\nbe long-time friends. Specifically, if their friendship goes back all the way\nto childhood, when they didn't have to follow these strict rules, a friendship\ncould develop without much issue. Having a childhood friend character is one\nway to get a character who is already part of the protagonist's in-group. From\na writer's standpoint, this is an attractive proposition, since it gives\nsomeone that the protagonist can have relatively serious conversations with,\nbut who can also be a potential romantic interest. In (reverse) harem shows,\nit's especially attractive to diversify the female (male) cast of romantic\ninterests.\n\nThat said, I think we have been seeing something of a decline in recent years\nin this archetype, at least among harem shows. Probably writers have realized\nthat it's overused and that a generic _osananajimi_ character without any\nunique personality traits isn't a very interesting character. Opposite-sex\nchildhood friends are also far less common in real life than in anime, making\nthe prevalence of this somewhat unrealistic. 10 years ago, nearly every\nharem/romcom show had a character like this, but the proportion seems to have\ndropped to less than half of them today. Partly, this can be attributed to\nother archetypes increasing in popularity (notably, the little sister/\n_imouto_ character, who can be even closer to the protagonist than a childhood\nfriend). When they do show up in shows today, it's often as a dual archetype\ncharacter, e.g. a _tsundere osananajimi_.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T09:10:28.323", "id": "16922", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T09:10:28.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "15452", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI can't imagine why the publishers would not allow that. Historically, it has\nbeen done by many writer circles − they publish their works under one pen-\nname, something the readers can remember easily than the actual names of\nseveral people involved. It's a good reason to use a pen-name and publishers\ngenerally don't protest if the artist want to use one.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-03T20:22:01.180", "id": "15457", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-03T20:22:01.180", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "15455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOne Piece - Music & Song Collection 1\n\nTrack 22 - Duel!!\n\nThe track contains 2 songs (little pause at 1:03, your song begins at 1:05)\n\nEnjoy :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T09:06:34.040", "id": "15467", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-04T09:06:34.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8788", "parent_id": "15456", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThis [link](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Tsukuyomi) would give you\nthe answer.\n\n> Despite the seemingly inescapable nature of this technique, the Infinite\n> Tsukuyomi can be countered through specific means:\n>\n> 1. The user's Rinne Sharingan only reflects off of the moon for a limited\n> period of time after the technique has been activated, allowing those who\n> avoid its light to avoid being trapped within the genjutsu. Using his\n> Rinnegan, Sasuke Uchiha was able to shield himself and his team by covering\n> them with his Susanoo.\n>\n> 2. Believing that this genjutsu was cast using a Rinnegan, Sasuke\n> hypothesised that it can be cancelled by another Rinnegan. Hagoromo\n> Ōtsutsuki confirmed this, but revealed that the chakra of the nine tailed\n> beasts is also required, and that a person with said chakra and a Rinnegan\n> user must form the rat hand seal together, though Sasuke claimed he would be\n> able to cancel the technique alone using the tailed beasts under his\n> control. Upon the technique's cancellation, the roots used to bind the\n> victims wither, as do all remaining White Zetsu.\n>\n>\n\n\"The user's Rinne Sharingan only reflects off of the moon for a limited period\nof time after the technique has been activated, allowing those who avoid its\nlight to avoid being trapped within the genjutsu. Using his Rinnegan, Sasuke\nUchiha was able to shield himself and his team by covering them with his\nSusanoo.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T06:57:04.907", "id": "15464", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-04T07:13:07.060", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "15463", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt was indeed the defence of the Susanoo. It is said that not even light can\npenetrate it's defence. This is by far the only way of defending against the\nInfinite Tskuyoumi while its cast.\n\nThe Susanoo is just high density chakra, but in Boruto\n\n> Jigen penetrated through it like butter!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-24T16:59:01.083", "id": "64065", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-24T16:59:01.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61264", "parent_id": "15463", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's [Tooru Oikawa](http://haikyuu.wikia.com/wiki/Oikawa_Tooru),\noccasionally called the \"Grand King\" (as opposed to Kageyama, the King of the\ncourt)\n\n\n\nHe is also a prodigy setter and Seijou's best player\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T09:17:00.780", "id": "15468", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-04T09:17:00.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15466", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHis name is Toru Oikawa, commonly referred by the girls as Oikawa-senpai. They\nboth went to Kitagawa Daichi middle school and were in the volleyball club.\nHe's currently the captain of Aoba Jousai High School. He was the one who\ntaught Kageyama his killer serve and how to block and spike. However, their\ntosses are of their own invention as he didn't teach Kageyama how to do\nit.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T09:21:41.303", "id": "15469", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-04T09:21:41.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9330", "parent_id": "15466", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Season 1 episode 11 around 04.31\n\n\n\n[Wikia also mention this\ncameo](http://haganai.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_11#Trivia)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T14:56:23.037", "id": "15477", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-18T00:38:47.163", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-18T00:38:47.163", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "15474", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems to be [Kurama's Yin half within Minato noted that Naruto's actions\nand speech about his father was touching enough to move this half of\nit](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kurama). This allowed the fourth to use\nKurama's chakra. There was no need of tug war since Kurama willingly\ncooperated. It was not planing to take over anybody body or break free.\n\nRe quote from the link above from the first paragraph of Birth of the Ten-\nTails' Jinchūriki:\n\n> Meanwhile, as their battle strategy unfolded, Kurama's Yin half within\n> Minato noted that Naruto's actions and speech about his father was touching\n> enough to move this half of it. Yin-Kurama also told Minato to disregard\n> Obito's words as he was not responsible for any of those tragedies and that\n> instead of leaving his son to do it, he should also act. Later, when Naruto\n> and Minato bumped fists, Yin and Yang-Kurama came in contact with each\n> other, with Yang-Kurama greeting its other half casually and asking it to\n> share its chakra, which led Yin-Kurama to note that asking itself for chakra\n> was an odd situation. Nonetheless, when the father-son duo prepared to deal\n> with Obito, the two halves of Kurama also bumped fists as they prepared to\n> initiate their strategy. As their chakra begin to meld, the two halves\n> conversed about Minato and Naruto, leading Yin-Kurama to comment that Naruto\n> must have had some upbringing to treat a tailed beast as a comrade.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-09T00:34:22.057", "id": "15584", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-23T06:11:29.510", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-23T06:11:29.510", "last_editor_user_id": "9260", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "15475", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nMinato learned it when he entered in the midst of war to help Naruto. Of\ncourse, we all knew he's one of the most talented shinobi who ever lived. He\nused to seal the Nine-Tails into Naruto, which would allow small amounts of\nthe Nine-Tails' chakra to leak out and naturally mix with Naruto's own.\n\nMinato learned it when he was reincarnated. Unlike most Tailed Beasts, the\nNine-Tails offers no resistance to cooperating with Minato, granting him\nimmediate access to Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, which Naruto is impressed by.\nMinato's is slightly darker than Naruto's but is otherwise identical in\nappearance and abilities; he can use chakra arms, enter a Tailed Beast Mode,\nand create Tailed Beast Balls!\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T10:52:28.403", "id": "16887", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T14:06:50.883", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-29T14:06:50.883", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "10708", "parent_id": "15475", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my opinion minato learned to do it when his soul and the other half of\nkurama where sealed using minato's death seal . The third did mention\nsomething like both him and orochimaru fighting for eternity inside some realm\nwhen he used the death seal on orochimaru. Maybe minato learned to control\nthat half of kurama during their \"fight\" in that realm.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-30T15:05:08.877", "id": "38168", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-30T15:05:08.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30023", "parent_id": "15475", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo one killed her. Alice committed suicide\n\n> When Jack was trying to get Oz (B-Rabbit) to destroy the world\n\nFrom the [Alice/History\nPage](http://pandorahearts.wikia.com/wiki/Alice/History) of the wikia:\n\n> Alice worried as she could feel the danger of the situation sinking in, and\n> so she grabbed a pair of scissors off of the table nearby ... Suddenly Alice\n> plunges the scissors into her chest, commiting suicide to prevent the\n> Intention from being able to take over her body and give [B-Rabbit] more\n> power to destroy the world.\n\nOf course this is only stated in the manga as the anime only really goes into\ndetail with the connection between Alice and the Intention of the Abyss and\ndoes not show what truly happened during the Tragedy of Sablier or the real\nperpetrator.\n\nIn [Vincent's\nHistory](http://pandorahearts.wikia.com/wiki/Vincent_Nightray/History), during\nthe Tragedy of Sablier it states that he arrived after Alice died before\nrunning to find Gilbert. The part in the anime where Break is with the\nIntention and she is breaking down when Vincent showed up is after Sablier had\nfallen into the Abyss and Alice was already dead.\n\nThe pages listed will contain heavy spoilers as the anime only stops part-way\nand I think the last two episodes actually deviate from the manga -- at least\nthe Wikia says in the trivia for [_Episode 24 -\nKyrie_](http://pandorahearts.wikia.com/wiki/Kyrie) that it is filler.\n\n> This epsisode is to say that this is a filler. This never happen in the\n> manga thus making it a filler.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T21:36:35.130", "id": "15485", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-17T06:30:27.540", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-17T06:30:27.540", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "15476", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, the garbled up text is the result of\n[mojibake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake), where the original text in\nJapanese, encoded in [Shift-JIS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS)\nencoding, is decoded by\n[Windows-1256](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1256) encoding.\n\nIf you ever open up a Japanese web page or text file encoded in Shift-JIS\nencoding (2-byte character set) under some Western encoding in Windows (1-byte\ncharacter set), you will see high frequency of `ƒ` paired up with some other\ncharacter in the resulting view. Since I observe that there are Arabic\ncharacters in the image, I used one of my existing text file which is encoded\nin Shift-JIS and tried opening it with Arabic (Windows) encoding in the\nbrowser, and I found out that Arabic (Windows) or Western encoding has the\nsame mapping for `ƒ` and `Œ` (which is another common character in the garbled\nup text).\n\nAfter comparing to the [properly rendered location status\nwindow](https://i.stack.imgur.com/F0QeJ.jpg) and some guesswork, I managed to\ndecode the garbled up text into proper Japanese text (the brackets 〈 and 〉 are\nadded for clarity and not decoded from garbled up text):\n\n[code]\n\n 〈サーバー〉\n 月サーバー\n 〈ゾーン〉\n 月サーバー\n 〈区分〉\n 個別ゾーン/モンスター出現なし\n 〈その他〉\n 戦闘行為可能区域\n 　全特技使用可能\n 　進入許可/制限あり\n 　退出許可/制限あり\n \n[/code]\n\nTranslation:\n\n[code]\n\n <Server>\n Moon Server\n <Zone>\n Moon Server\n <Classification>\n Isolated zone/No monster\n <Other>\n PVP allowed\n Special skills allowed\n Entry restriction/Restricted\n Exit restriction/Restricted\n \n[/code]\n\n# Appendix\n\nTo cross-check the result, you can use the following piece of Python 3 code:\n\n[code]\n\n garbled = 'ƒTپ[ƒoپ[\\nŒژƒTپ[ƒoپ[\\nƒ]پ[ƒ“\\nŒژƒTپ[ƒoپ[\\n‹و•ھ\\nŒآ•تƒ]پ[ƒ“/ƒ‚ƒ“ƒXƒ^پ[ڈoŒ»‚ب‚µ\\n‚»‚ج‘¼\\nگي“¬چsˆ×‰آ”\\\\‹وˆو\\nپ@‘S“ء‹Zژg—p‰آ”\\\\\\nپ@گi“ü‹–‰آ/گ§Œہ‚\\xa0‚è\\nپ@‘قڈo‹–‰آ/گ§Œہ‚\\xa0‚è'\n print(garbled.encode('Windows-1256').decode('Shift-JIS'))\n \n[/code]\n\nBelow is the **view-only** source1 of the mojibake for comparison with the\nimage:\n\n1 The text below contains U+200E Left-to-Right Mark to prevent Arabic\ncharacters from rendering right-to-left and changing their shapes based on\ntheir position. Another problem that prevents straight copying is due to the\npresence of U+00A0 No-Break Space, which is converted to space when copied\nfrom browser.\n\n[code]\n\n ƒ‎T‎پ‎[‎ƒ‎o‎پ‎[‎\n Œ‎ژ‎ƒ‎T‎پ‎[‎ƒ‎o‎پ‎[‎\n ƒ‎]‎پ‎[‎ƒ‎“‎\n Œ‎ژ‎ƒ‎T‎پ‎[‎ƒ‎o‎پ‎[‎\n ‹‎و‎•‎ھ‎\n Œ‎آ‎•‎ت‎ƒ‎]‎پ‎[‎ƒ‎“‎/‎ƒ‎‚‎ƒ‎“‎ƒ‎X‎ƒ‎^‎پ‎[‎ڈ‎o‎Œ‎»‎‚‎ب‎‚‎µ‎\n ‚‎»‎‚‎ج‎‘‎¼‎\n گ‎ي‎“‎¬‎چ‎s‎ˆ‎×‎‰‎آ‎”‎\\‎‹‎و‎ˆ‎و‎\n پ‎@‎‘‎S‎“‎ء‎‹‎Z‎ژ‎g‎—‎p‎‰‎آ‎”‎\\‎\n پ‎@‎گ‎i‎“‎ü‎‹‎–‎‰‎آ‎/‎گ‎§‎Œ‎ہ‎‚‎ ‎‚‎è‎\n پ‎@‎‘‎ق‎ڈ‎o‎‹‎–‎‰‎آ‎/‎گ‎§‎Œ‎ہ‎‚‎ ‎‚‎è‎\n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-04T19:13:27.510", "id": "15480", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-08T04:40:00.523", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-08T04:40:00.523", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "15479", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe implication is that, upon her death, Mayu's ghost was what made her\nimagined Eternal Girl system into a reality. (In the flashbacks, we see her\norchestrating it from her room with the implication that at that point it was\nall in her warped imagination.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-01T20:13:56.850", "id": "38740", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-01T20:13:56.850", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30687", "parent_id": "15484", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe reason are most likely similar to Kakashi's Mangekyou Sharingan case. He\njust simply doesn't realize it. Nagato \"awakens\" his Rinnegan when his parents\nare murdered by the mistaken Konoha shinobi. But actually it was Uchiha Madara\nimplanting it to him, not him awakening the Rinnegan. So, while he can use\nRinnegan to great extend, he simply doesn't know that it was originated from\nthe Sharingan and that he can revert it back to Sharingan.\n\nThis is the same as Kakashi. Although he has awakened his Mangekyou when he\n\"killed\" Rin, he simply doesn't realize that until years even though he was\ndubbed as a genius ninja.\n\nAlso it needs to be noted that the ones who knows about the Sharingan can be\nupgraded into Rinnegan are those who has awakened the Eternal Mangekyou\nSharingan and read the stone tablet in the Uchiha underground hideout using\nSharingan, Mangekyou Sharingan and Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan in order.\nNagato, being a non-Uchiha and lived far away from Konoha, would have no\nknowledge of this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-09T10:46:06.727", "id": "15594", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-09T10:46:06.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "15488", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Rinnegan is extremely rare and is considered as the most powerful among\nthe [Three](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sharingan)\n[Great](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Byakugan)\n[Dojutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan). Before I get to my answer,\nit is necessary to look into other cases of dojutsu transplantation.\n\n### Kakashi Hatake\n\nKakashi received the Sharingan at a young age. He had years of experience with\nit and was considered a genius at the usage of Sharingan. He was even\nappointed to train Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha with their Sharingan development.\nEven with the amount of knowledge and power of the Sharingan, he couldn't\nrevert the Sharingan back to its normal state. That was because of a simple\nreason: the eye wasn't his. It originally belonged to Obito Uchiha. Since\nKakashi wasn't the original owner of the eye, he is unable to revert the eye\nback to normal.\n\nFrom [Kakashi Hatake wikia\narticle](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake):\n\n> Because he is not an Uchiha, Kakashi was unable to deactivate this dōjutsu.\n\nThe article tells us that, in order to deactivate the Sharingan, the person\nneeds to be an Uchiha. This can also be related with Danzo Shimura and his\narsenal of eyes.\n\n### Obito Uchiha\n\nObito \"borrowed\" the Rinnegan from Nagato, who originally got them from Madara\nUchiha. There were many reasons why Obito implanted only one Rinnegan eye even\nafter having obtained both. However, one of the main reasons was:\n\n> Under the guise of Madara and inheriting the former's work, Obito Uchiha\n> claimed that he was entitled to take the Rinnegan from Nagato's body after\n> his death. He then implanted the left Rinnegan into himself and hid the\n> right Rinnegan, **unable to handle the power of both eyes**.\n\nSince Obito wasn't the original owner of the eyes,\n\n 1. He did not have complete mastery over it.\n 2. He couldn't handle its overwhelming power.\n\nObito, being an Uchiha, lacked control over the Rinnegan. This kind of proves\nthat an Uchiha cannot simply control the Rinnegan if he isn't the original\nowner. Keep in mind that Obito was trained by Madara himself.\n\n### Nagato\n\nNagato received the eyes at a very young age. He did not know that the\nRinnegan were transplanted into him, and nor did he know that it evolved from\na pair of Sharingan eyes. Nevertheless, he had _almost_ complete mastery over\nthem because:\n\n 1. He was an Uzumaki and thus had huge chakra reserves.\n 2. The eyes were implanted at a very young age, giving him time to perfect his Rinnegan skills by adulthood.\n\n[Sakurai Tomoki's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15488/why-\ncant-nagato-revert-his-rinnegan-to-sharingan/15594#15594) is logical and makes\nsense. However, if we were to look at similarity between the Rinnegan (evolved\nfrom Sharingan) and the Sharingan itself, it seems that answer could be\ndifferent.\n\nWe know from Kakashi's case that he couldn't deactivate the Sharingan because\nof its origins. We also know that Obito lacked control over the Rinnegan,\nwhich implies that he couldn't deactivate and revert it into a Sharingan.\nCombining these two factors, we can derive an explanation to the original\nquestion: Nagato couldn't revert the Rinnegan to Sharingan because he wasn't\nthe eyes' original owner.\n\nMadara displayed certain new and powerful\n[techniques](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo:_Border_Jail) when he received\nhis original eyes.\n\n> Because Madara was the eyes' original owner, only he could use them to their\n> fullest power.\n\nIn many situations when the power of a borrowed dojutsu is questioned, the\nfull potential of the eyes is always attained by the original owner. So it's\nlogical to conclude that the Rinnegan to Sharingan swap was exclusive to\nMadara and not to the other two.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-31T11:23:00.973", "id": "20501", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-31T15:04:19.803", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11083", "parent_id": "15488", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is a \"second stage\" of the Byakugan, called\n[**Tenseigan**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tenseigan). And it has its own\nChakra Mode, which is said to be on par with the Naruto's Nine-Tails Chakra\nMode.\n\nWhen the Byakugan is combined with the chakra of an Ōtsutsuki clan member, it\nevolves into the Tenseigan. The only known wielders are:\n\n * Hamura Ōtsutsuki\n * Toneri Ōtsutsuki\n\n\n\nThe Tenseigan has abilities similar to the Rinnegan.\n\n> The Tenseigan allows the user to control both attractive and repulsive\n> forces, similar to the Rinnegan. Additionally, it also grants the wielder\n> Tenseigan Chakra Mode, which in turn gives the user an increase in speed,\n> power, strength, durability, and reflexes. It also grants its user Truth-\n> Seeking Balls, thus granting the user all five nature transformations and\n> Yin–Yang Release.\n>\n> source: [Naruto Wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tenseigan)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-17T12:38:57.050", "id": "18603", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-07T12:31:54.720", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11083", "parent_id": "15494", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the anime, before the events of Naruto the last movie, the byakugan were\nthe origional eyes of the otsutski clan: the precursors to all supernatural\npowers in the narutoverse. Kaguya was able to obtain the rnnesharingan, which\nsimultaneously gave her both the rinnegan and sharingan, as a third eye while\nher natural white eyes mutated into the byakugan. The byakugan, at least by my\nstandards before the conception of the tenseigan, were evolved from the\notsutski clans natural white eyes while the sharingan and rinnegan were\nmutations caused by consuming the chakra fruit which most likely gave the\nwilder greater power than they already possessed. This probrobly evolved their\nnatural physicality, eyes, but also gave them greater ocular power only\nobtainable by eating the shinju fruit: sharingan and rennegan. also, the\ntenseigan was most likely added post the events of the main story line to\nelevate the powers of Hamura to be on par with his brother so they would be\ndeamed with the same amount of power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-13T04:38:59.450", "id": "33709", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-13T04:38:59.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25639", "parent_id": "15494", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nWell, both Naruto and Hashirama Senju are reincarnations of Asura. Apart from\nthat, Hashirama could not be Naruto's direct descendant as marrying to Mito\nUzumaki does not mean Mito Uzumaki is directly related to Kushina. There might\nbe a slight chance, but the possibilities are endless, assuming the Uzumaki\nclan is a big clan.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T06:39:49.293", "id": "15565", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T07:19:39.367", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-08T07:19:39.367", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "15498", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nPerhaps, since they belong to same clan, Naruto could have some resemblance\nwith Mito Uzumaki because of blood line. Considering a scientific fact that\nDNA structure does contain some memory from its predecessors. You can\ngenerally call someone who is old, grand mother or grand father, but it does\nnot mean that they are in relation. Your assumption to say that Hashirama\ncould be great great grandfather is likely a gesture but less likely to be a\ntrue relation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-10T17:01:49.123", "id": "15625", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T17:01:49.123", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8988", "parent_id": "15498", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, the Sage of Six Paths had two sons, one was Uchiha and the other was\nSenju. However, the Senju son was also an ancestor to the Uzumaki clan, so if\nyou think hard and research deep, you'll find out that the two clans are\nrelated. So the Uzumaki and Senju clans are closely related. So, yes, Naruto\nis related to Hashirama, as well as Tobirama and Tsunade. Naruto is also\nrelated to the Hyuuga clan (the Sage's brother was the ancestor) as well as\nthe Uchiha clan.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-14T21:08:34.773", "id": "20834", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-15T00:44:32.107", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-15T00:44:32.107", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "13901", "parent_id": "15498", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIs Naruto related to Hashirama? Technically everyone is related, how closely\nrelated they are depends on how interbred the Uzumaki and Senju Clans were.\n\nIs Hashirama Naruto's grandfather (I think any farther back the timeline goes\nout of whack)? No, Kushina would have to be his daughter and the flashbacks\nmake this very unlikely.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-15T01:53:46.347", "id": "20840", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-15T01:53:46.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13902", "parent_id": "15498", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the family tree is\n\n[code]\n\n Tobirama Unknown girl\n Senju Namikaze\n Minato \n \n \n[/code]\n\nHe gets gifted his sensory by his grandfather. He is intelligent and has fast\ndecisions. He is fast as teleportation. The one-finger sensory. They do want\nto be Hokage for protecting his village.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-12T03:48:36.440", "id": "28887", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-26T06:00:54.973", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-26T06:00:54.973", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "20385", "parent_id": "15498", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't know anything when it comes to user20385's answer since absolutely\nnothing is known on Minato ' s ancestry as to where his blonde hair came from,\nbut in relation to the actual question, yes Naruto is technically - if\ndistantly - related to Hashirama. No, he's not Naruto ' s great great\ngrandfather (Which would be the line up considering Tsunade is his\ngranddaughter and about 50 years old) as Tsunade and Nawaki are the only two\ngrandchildren known, (though we've no idea if they had cousins) of whom only\nTsunade survived to an age to bear children which it doesn't look like she did\nsince Dan died early in one of the Ninja wars.\n\nIn the episode \"The orange spark\" and its following episode explaining Kushina\n' s past, Kushina notes that the Senju and Uzumaki clans are distant cousins\nwhich is heavily implied to be because the Rikudou Sennin is their common\nancestor by some colored art of the manga showing Hagoromo with the Uzumaki '\ns famous red hair. (Though I've no idea if these are Kishimoto's renditions or\nfan made) Whether this is true or not is unexplained.They could just as likely\nbe descended from a second child born to Hagoromo's brother whose story is\nnever explained outside their fight on the Juubi . This would still make them\ndistant cousins regardless of if Homura or Asura is the clan's father.\n\nShe also explains she was brought from Uzu to be the next vessel since Mito\nwas up in age and weakening, but it seemed still had a few good years left\nsince she's seen helping Kushina adapt to and prepare for life as a\njinchuuriki. We do not know as to where in the clan Kushina or Mito fall in\nwith their births. (i.e. people like to speculate in fanfics that they're both\ndirectly born from the head family and as such are equivalent to Uzu royalty)\nIf we were to believe that is the case, then at most it means Mito had a\nsibling whom had children and one of them gave birth to Kushina, making Mito\nher great Aunt. That would make Naruto the great great grand nephew to Mito\nbut no closer than that in relation.\n\nIn conclusion, Naruto is related to 4 out of the 5 Hokage's in the series. At\nleast as distant cousins as the clan's were very distantly related, and\npossibly through Mito's marriage to Hashirama Senju as well, though maybe\nstill fairly distantly. Though knowing Naruto, if he knew of this relation and\nmet Hashirama or Tobirama he'd probably still call them both jiji\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-14T10:11:03.490", "id": "28942", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-14T10:11:03.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19126", "parent_id": "15498", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNaruto is the reincarnation of Hashirama, and Hashirama is the reincarnation\nof Asura Ōtsutsuki, the creator of the Senju and Uzumaki clans. Basically,\nNaruto is the reincarnation of Asura Ōtsutsuki who created the Uzumaki clan\nand the Senju clan, making Hashirama and Naruto Uzumaki from the same clan.\n\nAlso, its trait between reincarnations to fight the Uchiha, just like Asura\nŌtsutsuki fought his brother who created the Uchiha clan Indra Ōtsutsuki the\nolder son of Hagoromo, making Asura Hagoromo's son as well and grandson of\nKaguya. Anyway, the two brothers fought because Indra was possessed by Black\nZetsu, and when they died, Asura reincarnated into Hashirama and Indra into\nMadara who was a friend of Hashirama but then was possessed by Black Zetsu\ntoo, forcing them to fight, and then they died.\n\nHashirama reincarnated into Naruto of the Uzumaki clan which was also created\nby Asura, and Madara reincarnated into Sasuke. That is why Naruto and Sasuke\nfight even though Sasuke is not possessed by Black Zetsu, the other son of\nKaguya. Anyway, guess that makes Naruto Tsunade's grandpa.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-06T17:51:06.600", "id": "31216", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-27T18:50:14.870", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-27T18:50:14.870", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "23261", "parent_id": "15498", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**In short, he can do it at the same scale, but not the same range.**\n\nHe can do it at the same scale, however it would be suicide. Magic, according\nto the novels, requires setting a target to overwrite its current state, which\nbreaks down to being able to see the object or have acute awareness of its\nexistence and state. Since Material Burst uses Einsteins formula to convert\nmatter to energy, even the smallest thing would set off a massive explosion.\nKnowing that, it is then safe to assume that without Third Eye, activating\nMaterial Burst on pretty much anything within the range of naked eye would\ncause him to be caught in the ensuing inferno.\n\nThird Eye is not required to activate Material Burst, it is essentially a tool\nthat allows him to use Material Burst at a strategic scale without\nannihilating himself in the process. Third Eye connects to a satellite that\nthen relays images to Third Eye, allowing Tatsuya to then activate his magic.\n\n_The information here is from reading the fan translation on Baka Tsuki, which\ndoes better at explaining things than the anime._\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-05T16:14:24.057", "id": "15508", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-06T18:32:01.510", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-06T18:32:01.510", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9477", "parent_id": "15500", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**Yes, he can maintain strategic class levels of range and potency, even\nwithout the _Third Eye_.**\n\n* * *\n\nThere are two parts to strategic level magic - range, and strength.\n\nTatsuya can successfully cast [_Decomposition_](http://mahouka-koukou-no-\nrettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Decomposition) on objects with the size and mass of\n[Armoured Personnel Carriers\n(APC's)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_personnel_carrier), and\nmaterial burst is merely an differentiation of that (the conversion of matter\nto energy, rather than base elements). A flag of 1kg is the cause of the\ndestruction in Zhènhai Naval Port, so while he would find no trouble in\ncasting [_Material Burst_](http://mahouka-koukou-no-\nrettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Material_Burst) on something like a car, the\ndestruction caused would be far greater.\n\nBeing near the activation point of such a cast would be, as mentioned in\nSaphiric's answer, suicide. But, this is just hypothetical - Tatsuya has the\n_potential_ to cast that kind of magic if he wanted to, and that's all that\nmatters for the question.\n\n**So his scale, naturally, is still of strategic class even without the _Third\nEye_**.\n\n* * *\n\nRange is a more awkward matter. \nWhile it's more difficult for him to activate magic on a strategic scale\nwithout the _Third Eye_ CAD - mostly due to the necessity of finding a\nsuitable target - it is still possible for him.\n\nIt's important to remember that magic isn't bound to the physical plane,\ninstead using a separate dimension where trivialities like distance aren't\nissues. Since magic is simply a phenomenon rewriting the data of a specific\n[Eidos](http://mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Eidos) (information\nbody) that exists in the real world, as long an information body's coordinates\nare known, it can be targeted. \nOnly a very small number of spells (such as [_Gram\nDemolition_](http://mahouka-koukou-no-\nrettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Gram_Dispersion#Gram_Demolition)) physically travel\nthrough the real world, and therefore only those spells are restricted by\nphysical distance.\n\nMost magicians can't perceive a target more than several hundred meters away,\nsimply due to the limits of the human body. \nBut, this is Tatsuya. With his [_Elemental Sight_ ,](http://mahouka-koukou-no-\nrettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Elemental_Sight) he can perceive things in the\ninformation dimension, or the dimension of magic, where distance is no issue:\n\n> This was not looking down from a bird’s eye view, he was looking at things\n> from the point of view of the information dimension. It was not an\n> elliptical sphere around the double focal points, it had nothing to do with\n> physical distance[...]\n>\n> _Volume 10 - Visitor II, Chapter 12_\n\nEven so, he can't just pick a random target to cast _Material Burst_ on - he\nhas to know the coordinates of the Eidos. This is the main purpose of _Third\nEye_ , to pick targets at huge physical distances, so Tatsuya can easily\nmanipulate them in the information dimension. However, this isn't the only way\nhe can find a target. If he picks out an information body he can perceive at\nclose range and follow it as it travels, he can cast magic on it at any\ndistance:\n\n> By his own hands, using the magic he alone could wield, he had decomposed\n> then rebuilt the bullets. However far away they flew, he would not lose\n> sight of their information structure.\n>\n> _Volume 8 - Reminiscence,Chapter 16_\n\nAs proof of this, the first time Tatsuya uses _Material Burst_ is without any\nsort of CAD, and he casts it at a target 20km away, one of the aforementioned\nbullets:\n\n> Tatsuya stretched out his right hand towards the west, and forcibly\n> unclenched his palm.\n>\n> The bullet broke down into energy.\n>\n> In that moment, the mass conversion magic ‘Material Burst’ was used in anger\n> for the first time.\n>\n> _Volume 8 - Reminiscence,Chapter 16_\n\nGranted, it's not quite as far as the distance he casts it in Episode 26 of\nthe anime, but it's still a considerable distance that's far beyond the realm\nof normal human perception. Furthermore, he states that he could cast it at a\ngreater range, but in this instance, he is limited by the range of the sniper\nrifle's bullets he uses as a medium to cast _Material Burst_ on:\n\n> Sanada’s murmur was drowned out by the boom of the sniper rifle.\n>\n> Tatsuya’s eyes seemed to chase that supersonic bullet which should never\n> have been seen.\n>\n> At length he shook his head, disappointed.\n>\n> \"……It’s no good. It could only reach 20 km.\"\n>\n> _Volume 8 - Reminiscence, Chapter 16_\n\nSo although _practically_ very difficult to recreate without proper planning\nand requirements, it is _theoretically_ possible in the right circumstances,\n**meaning his range too, is still that of strategic class without _Third\nEye._**\n\n* * *\n\nIn conclusion, yes, Tatsuya _can_ cast Material Burst unassisted at a range\nand scale similar to that which he achieves in Episode 26 with the _Third Eye_\n, but he would require a very specific set of circumstances, and would need to\nrely solely on _Elemental Sight_ for targeting. That's the main reason for\nthat CAD - to make _Material Burst_ far more practical to cast.\n\nWith or without _Third Eye_ , he's still very much [_\"Strategic\nClass\"_](http://mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Strategic-\nClass_Magician)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-18T08:29:49.920", "id": "22548", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-18T14:40:42.613", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-18T14:40:42.613", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "10654", "parent_id": "15500", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI would like to add on to the previous answers and make a small correction\nabout the purpose of Third Eye.\n\nThe purpose of Third Eye is **pinpoint targetting**. It does not allow Tatsuya\nto cast at a greater range, in many sense. Rather, it allows Tatsuya to target\na small object accurately from a long distance away. Presumably, Tatsuya can,\nwithout the aid of Third Eye, target the sun (and probably fail because the\nSun is too big for decomposition).\n\nSanada, in his evaluation of Third Eye, noted how it was able to target a drop\nof water many miles away.\n\nUnfortunately, much of the implications of magic and how sight works is not\nwell understood, so the following is just conjecture.\n\nHowever, it is plausible that he could set a random, far away object as his\ntarget. However, he would not be able to know exactly where is the thing he\nhas targeted, or whether or not it actually is far away.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-08T09:58:58.143", "id": "38332", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-08T09:58:58.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30114", "parent_id": "15500", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nTatsuya did use material burst without the Third Eye.\n\nThat scene at the very start of the first episode, was shortly after Tatsuya\nused Regrowth on Miyuki and co. They even beat his ass for killing people who\nsurrendered or were retreating after he was told to not do so prior. In that\ncase, without the third eye. Material Burst was theoretical, just like\nregrowth was when he used it for the first time to save Miyuki's life. When he\nreassembles an object or person he gains an intimate knowledge of it and it's\nlocation. During that first battle, he was attempting to disassemble enemy\nshells from the warships and use them as a way to use Material Burst. Because\nthe sniper rifle they had on hand wasn't enough to give him the correct\naccuracy and originally he wanted to use the bullets of said gun. Tatsuya also\nmade mention that if he wanted to, he could make his own Third Eye and even\nimprove upon it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-09T02:17:42.020", "id": "48269", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-09T02:17:42.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41932", "parent_id": "15500", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe easiest solution to this would be if the light novels gave us a concise\nanswer, but of course, nothing in life is that easy.\n\nBut while the light novels don't give us an accurate size of the crater, they\n_do_ give us the equivalent energy - 20 megatons (20,000 kilotons) of TNT:\n\n> Repeating Kazama's order, Tatsuya pulled the trigger on Third Eye.From\n> within Tsushima Base, across the strait, directly into Zhènhai Naval Port.\n> Tatsuya's magic transformed 1 kg of matter directly into energy.\n>\n> In accordance with Einstein's Formula, the heat energy equated to\n> approximately 20,000,000 tons of TNT.\n>\n> – _Volume 7 - Yokohoma Disturbance II_ , Chapter 13\n\nNow using this, we can approximately calculate a blast radius.\n\nTo get my results, I used this simulation here -\n<http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/>. First off, I ran a couple of tests by\nplugging in the data from real-life detonations to see how accurate it was:\n\n * Test 1: [_Ivy Mike_ Test](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike) \\- Actual crater diameter: **1900m** Result from simulation: [**1680m**](http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=10400&lat=53.4624326&lng=-1.8402328&airburst=0&hob_ft=0&crater=1&zm=10) \\- 88% accurate\n\n * Test 2: [_Castle Bravo_ Test](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo) \\- Actual crater diameter: **2000m** Result from simulation: [**1900m**](http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=15000&lat=53.4624326&lng=-1.8402328&airburst=0&hob_ft=0&crater=1&zm=9) \\- 95% accurate\n\n * Test 3: [_Sedan_ Test](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_\\(nuclear_test\\)) \\- Actual crater diameter: **390m** Result from simulation: [**360m**](http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=104&lat=53.4624326&lng=-1.8402328&airburst=0&hob_ft=0&crater=1&zm=13) \\- 92% accurate\n\nGiven this information, we can assume that the simulation is roughly 90%\naccurate, giving an error margin of ±10%.\n\nSetting the yield as 20,000 kilotons, with an airburst of 17m (the beam height\nof a [typical modern Chinese\nship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_052C_destroyer), or the height at\nwhich the flag would be flying) leaves us with a\n[result](http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=20000&lat=30.0090526&lng=121.7565488&hob_opt=2&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=56&crater=1&zm=10)\nof a crater diameter of **2100m** , which, accounting for error, could be\nanywhere between **1890m** and **2310m**.\n\nAs for the blast itself, the simulation lists the fireball as having a\ndiameter of **6400m** , which following the previous error margins could be\nbetween **5760m** and **7040m**. These and other statistics are all from the\nsimulation and are viewable upon following [this\nlink](http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=20000&lat=30.0090526&lng=121.7565488&hob_opt=2&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=56&crater=1&zm=10).\n\nIn the picture below, the blast is still only just beginning, and if we assume\nthe ships in the shot are the same length as a [typical modern Chinese\nship](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_052C_destroyer) (~155m), these numbers\nseem definitely feasible.\n\n\n\nTL;DR: The _crater_ would be approximately 2.1km across.\n\nGranted, this simulation is for a nuclear blast and not a mass of pure energy,\nbut since the energy released is the same, the results should be more or less\nequivalent.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-19T22:32:41.067", "id": "21676", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-01T20:01:22.120", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-01T20:01:22.120", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "10654", "parent_id": "15501", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA reverse trap, also known as a Bifauxnen (a portmanteau of Bishōnen and faux,\nmeaning false in French), is simply a girl who resembles a boy. Conversely,\nwhat is commonly referred to as a \"trap\" by the English speaking audience\nsimply refers to a boy who has the qualities of a girl, or otherwise known as\na Bishōnen.\n\nCharolotte Dunois would be a reverse trap using these definitions.\n\nSources:\n\n<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bifauxnen?from=Main.ReverseTrap>\n<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bishonen>\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-05T15:25:44.447", "id": "15503", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-05T15:25:44.447", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "15502", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nA traditional 'trap' is a boy disguised as a female. Note that this is\n**_not_** simply boys who look feminine, but characters who are pretending to\nbe the opposite sex or who are presumed to be by the narrative of the medium.\n\n**Example 'traditional' trap:**\n\nMaria from Maria✝Holic\n\n\n\n& Steins;Gate's Ruka Urushibara (as you mentioned earlier)\n\n**Not a trap:** Ryuunosuke Akasaka (The Pet Girl of Sakurasou)\n\n\n\nA 'reverse trap' is simply the opposite - A female character pretending to be\na male one. This is why Charlotte falls under this category. (Until she is\nouted to be a female). Similar to above, characters who are masculine are not\nstrictly reverse traps.\n\n**Example 'reverse' trap:**\n\nHaruhi Fujioka - Ouran Highschool Host Club\n\n\n\n**Not a reverse trap:** Yū Kashima from Nozaki-Kun\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-05T16:05:08.143", "id": "15507", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-05T17:37:30.680", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-05T17:37:30.680", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15502", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI will refer to the first eyecatch of each episode by the number of that\nepisode suffixed by the letter _a_ , and to the second by appending the suffix\n_b_. \nI have considered the names displayed along the images for this count. Thus,\nsome characters may appear more than once referred to by different names, like\nKing Bradley and Wrath (since these may be regarded as alter-egos), and some\nmay only have reference to the fact that the name appear shortened or\nsomething similar, like Winry and Winry Rockbell. The only debatable choice is\nthat I differentiated between Greed in his first body and in Ling Yao's body.\nBut then again, you just need to add one to your count if you'd rather count\nthem as only one character (since Greed only appears once in his first body). \nThe list follows the order of first appearance, appending the number of the\nepisode a character may have been re-featured after the name.\n\n * **Edward Elric** \\- 1a, 2b (as Edward Elric 11 years old), 20b, 26a, 35a, 41b, 44b, 45b, 63a, 64a (as Edward) \n * **Alphonse Elric** \\- 1b, 2a (as Alphonse Elric 10 years old), 20a, 26b, 35b, 51b, 64a (as Alphonse) \n * **Cornello** \\- 3a \n * **Rose** \\- 3b \n * **Nina** \\- 4a \n * **Alexander** \\- 4a \n * **Shou Tucker** \\- 4b \n * **Roy Mustang** \\- 5a, 10b, 17b, 29a, 31a, 53b, 62a (as Mustang) \n * **Scar** \\- 5b, 21b, 22b, 59b, 61b \n * **Tim Marcoh** \\- 6a, 29b, 43a \n * **Winry Rockbell** \\- 6b, 9b, 22a (as Winry), 23b (as Winry), 39a, 44a, 46a, 60b, 64a (as Winry) \n * **Sheska** \\- 7a \n * **Maria Ross** \\- 7b, 18b, 50a \n * **Denny Brosh** \\- 7b \n * **Slicer** \\- 8a \n * **Barry The Chopper** \\- 8b \n * **Hughes Family** \\- 9a \n * **Maes Hughes** \\- 10a \n * **Paninya** \\- 11a \n * **Dominic** \\- 11b \n * **Sig Curtis** \\- 12a, 12b (without name) \n * **Izumi Curtis** \\- 12a, 12b (without name) \n * **Roa** \\- 13a, 14a \n * **Bido** \\- 13a \n * **Martel** \\- 13a, 14b \n * **Dolcetto** \\- 13a, 14a \n * **Greed (first)** \\- 13b \n * **May Chang** \\- 15a, 25a, 60a \n * **Shao May** \\- 15a, 25a, 60a \n * **Ling Yao** \\- 15b, 28a \n * **Focker** \\- 16a \n * **Gracia Hughes** \\- 16b \n * **Henry Douglas** \\- 17a \n * **Alex Louis Armstrong** \\- 18a, 43b (as Alex), 45a (as Alex), 52b, 55a (as Alex) \n * **Jean Havoc** \\- 19a, 21a, 50a \n * **Lust** \\- 19b, 25b \n * **Lan Fan** \\- 23a, 24a, 48a \n * **Envy** \\- 24b, 53a, 54a \n * **Van Hohenheim** \\- 27a, 42b, 50b (as Hohenheim), 63b \n * **Pinako Rockbell** \\- 27b \n * **Greed (Lin Yao)** \\- 28b, 45a, 47a, 56b \n * **Riza Hawkeye** \\- 30a, 30b, 58b, 59a (as Hawkeye), 62a (as Hawkeye) \n * **Solf J. Kimbley** \\- 31b, 33a, 41a, 49b (as Kimblee) \n * **Grumman** \\- 32a (as Mrs.(?) Grumman), 47b \n * **Selim Bradley** \\- 32b, 37a \n * **Olivier Mira Armstrong** \\- 33b, 36b, 43b (as Olivier), 45a (as Olivier), 55a (as Olivier) \n * **Miles** \\- 34a \n * **Sloth** \\- 34b, 54b \n * **Raven** \\- 36a \n * **Pride** \\- 37b, 42a, 49a \n * **Yoki** \\- 38a \n * **Zampano** \\- 38b, 39b \n * **Jerso** \\- 38b, 39b \n * **Slave Number 23** \\- 40a \n * **The Little One Inside the Flask** \\- 40b \n * **Wrath** \\- 45a \n * **King Bradley** \\- 46b, 56a, 61a \n * **Gluttony** \\- 48b \n * **Mannequin Soldiers** \\- 51a \n * **Heinkel** \\- 52a \n * **Karley** \\- 55b \n * **Fu** \\- 57a \n * **Gold-Toothed Doctor** \\- 57b \n * **Buccaneer** \\- 58a \n * **Darius** \\- 59a \n * **Scar's Brother** \\- 61b \n * **Our Father** \\- 62b \n * **Trisha Elric** \\- 63b \n * **Roy's Team** \\- 64b \n\nThe number of times each character that is featured more than once appears, in\ndecreasing order: \n**Edward Elric** is featured 10 times, **Winry Rockbell** 9 times, **Alphonse\nElric** 7 times, **Roy Mustang** 7 times, **Scar** 5 times, **Alex Louis\nArmstrong** 5 times, **Olivier Mira Armstrong** 5 times, **Van Hohenheim** 4\ntimes, **Greed** (in Lin Yao's body) 4 times, **Riza Hawkeye** 4 times, **Solf\nJ. Kimbley** 4 times, **Tim Marcoh** 3 times, **Maria Ross** 3 times, **May\nChang** 3 times, **Shao May** 3 times, **Jean Havoc** 3 times, **Lan Fan** 3\ntimes, **Envy** 3 times, **Pride** 3 times, **King Bradley** 3 times, **Sig\nCurtis** 2 times, **Izumi Curtis** 2 times, **Roa** 2 times, **Martel** 2\ntimes, **Dolcetto** 2 times, **Ling Yao** 2 times, **Lust** 2 times,\n**Grumman** 2 times, **Selim Bradley** 2 times, **Sloth** 2 times, **Zampano**\n2 times, **Jerso** 2 times, and every other featured character appears only\nonce.\n\nThis count may differ if one decided to count the number of times a character\nis seen, since some characters appear without being referenced by their name,\nlike in the case of Roy's Team in the last eyecatch. If one decides to count\nthose, one should add: 2 to the count of **Maes Hughes** (9a as Hughes Family,\n10b back facing camera), 1 to **Gracia Hughes** (9a as Hughes Family), 1 to\n**Elicia Hughes** (9a as Hughes Family), 2 to **Roy Mustang** (10a back facing\ncamera, 64b as Roy's Team), 1 to **Envy** (16a shadow can be seen behind\nFocker), 1 to **Riza Hawkeye** (64b as Roy's Team), 1 to **Jean Havoc** (64b\nas Roy's Team), 1 to **Kain Fuery** (64b as Roy's Team), 1 to **Vato Falman**\n(64b as Roy's Team), 1 to **Heymans Breda** (64b as Roy's Team) and 1 to\n**Black Hayate** (64b as Roy's Team).\n\nAll the image files are contained in [this Google Drive\nfolder](https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3Au5fzkVRQvfjlHams1OGdJZzdzRTkzNjY4SjAtUGhWSmxOQWtZTFQ2VktnbHo5SUJCSVk&usp=drive_web#grid)\n(it contains a full-sized and a thumbnail for each of them, 'cause it's the\nsame folder I used to upload the pics to\n[Taisho](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1166/49)).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-05T16:01:34.053", "id": "15506", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-19T17:39:01.330", "last_edit_date": "2017-03-16T15:51:26.357", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "15505", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis\n[pose](https://www.google.com/search?q=gendo%20ikari%20pose&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=1085&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=KN6BVM98xPNS5ZeB4A8&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ)\nis typical for [Gendo\nIkari](http://myanimelist.net/character/1257/Gendou_Ikari) from the Evangelion\nseries. It even has a page on\n[knowyourmeme](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-gendo-pose) and is also\nfeatured as an example for 'Finger Tenting' on\n[tvtropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FingerTenting?from=Main.ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive).\n\n\n\nIn the series he has a son named Shinji and daughter (sort of) named Rei. (The\nreference right afterwards is also to Evangelion's\n[Kaworu](http://myanimelist.net/character/1261/Kaworu_Nagisa))\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-05T16:39:06.813", "id": "15510", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-05T17:08:33.547", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-05T17:08:33.547", "last_editor_user_id": "34", "owner_user_id": "34", "parent_id": "15509", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nWrath's goal was to be more human, like the other Homunculi. However with\nWrath, he wanted to take Ed's life, in other words making everything that Ed\nowns his own. He already had two limbs that Ed \"gave up\" so why not take the\nrest?\n\nI'm quite sure he even says that he wants to take \"everything\" from Ed during\ntheir fight under Liore when Sloth and Wrath appear (where Ed first discovers\nSloth is his mother and we find out Wrath's weakness).\n\nThis can also be seen during the fight against Sloth in the weapons factory.\nWrath takes the box in which Ed stored bone of his mother's and fused it into\nhimself, taking something Ed owned for himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-07T01:19:26.890", "id": "15537", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-18T14:52:30.287", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-18T14:52:30.287", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "15523", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDepending on where you're at, you'll need to find your local licensor. In\nNorth America, it's currently licensed by FUnimation, and you can watch it\nonline at Crunchyroll or ANN Video, but I think those are both subtitled. If\nyou want the English dub you'll have to find the DVD's. I know at least\n[Amazon](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000787ZP8) still lists the\nEnglish dub DVD's.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-06T15:48:35.960", "id": "15528", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-06T15:48:35.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "15525", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe original canon Light Novel on which the anime is supposedly based on tells\nthat Ryuuji let Taiga go so that she could be with her mom, and her new father\nand her brother. Taiga drops out from school and transfers to a new school.\nInitially all their friends are extremely angry on Ryuuji, about how he could\nlet her go and not stop her, but they then accept his and her feelings.\n\nThough, unlike the anime, Taiga returns back the next school year(Third Year\nof High School) in the LN\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-08T15:02:35.550", "id": "27888", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-08T15:02:35.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3849", "parent_id": "15530", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nI found a perfect answer to this question on\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2ctgvy/spoilers_can_someone_explain_to_me_the_ending_of/)\n(edited to make it a bit more presentable):\n\n> It's for two reasons I know of:\n>\n> * **It completes her character arc. The entire reason she was such a mess\n> at the beginning of the show and the whole reason she needed to learn\n> through Ryuuji how to have basic interactions with other people without\n> being a rude, condescending, violent bitch is because of her wrecked home\n> life and broken upbringing.** By the end of the show, she's matured a lot.\n> When Ryuuji inadvertently damages his own home life in the last 2 episodes,\n> Taiga watches him get up and fix it in a matter of days. **It only makes\n> sense for Taiga to decide at this point that she has to come full circle:\n> She has to go face the issues that started all of her problems now that\n> she's mature enough to do so. She has to go home and mend her relationship\n> with her mother and step-siblings, and she does.**\n> * **Two, because it symbolizes equality in her relationship with Ryuuji.\n> Throughout the show, their relationship is actually rather unhealthy, as Ami\n> points out a number of times in the later episodes. Ryuuji is doting on\n> Taiga and doing a lot of things for her that she should be doing for\n> herself**. Their relationship is more of a father/daughter relationship than\n> one of equals (Ami also says this directly once). This is unhealthy for\n> Ryuuji, too, as it feeds into his \"I have to take care of everything and\n> everyone\" mindset, one he got from his own home life. **Taiga leaves to fix\n> her own shit, demonstrating her independence from Ryuuji as a capable person\n> of her own, and Ryuuji accepts and respects her decision despite it hurting\n> him, demonstrating that he acknowledges Taiga is an equal to him and not\n> someone he needs to do everything for.** The scene after the end credits,\n> which you've hopefully watched by now, is almost between two new people.\n> It's one of mature, equal people who truly understand each other.\n>\n\n* * *\n\nIt is never explicitly mentioned in the Light Novel or the anime as to what\nexactly she did during this time period. However, her note to Ryuuji:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hi9Kl.png)\n\nAs translated in [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/15440/18431)\nreads:\n\n> Ryuuji, I... always thought that there was no way anybody would ever love\n> me. But maybe I was just running away [from my problems?]. I blamed my lack\n> of confidence on my parents... on my situation. But even so, you loved me\n> the way I was. I'll be proud of myself...\n>\n> Because I want to love you, Ryuuji.\n>\n> Aisaka Taiga\"\n\nWhich does imply that she went to spend time with her family to change herself\nand become a self-dependent person as stated on Reddit.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-08T16:34:15.897", "id": "27890", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-09T05:30:17.387", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "18431", "parent_id": "15530", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe light novel _Washio Sumi wa Yūsha de Aru_ , which is set in the same\nuniverse 2 years prior and is the prequel of the anime, targets the _seinen_\ndemographic. The _seinen_ demographic includes males from 17 years of age and\nabove. It can be safe to assume that the anime _Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru_ is\nfor the same demographic as the light novel.\n\nThe show is also broadcast at late night on the primary channel MBS and other\nchannels, at as early as 22:00 and as late as 03:00 late night. The late night\nshowing of the anime implies that it is at least for young adults and not for\ntween girls as the introduction might have suggests.\n\nSources:\n\n * [Wikipedia - Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABki_Y%C5%ABna_wa_Y%C5%ABsha_de_Aru): _Washio Sumi wa Yūsha de Aru_ 's target demographic\n * Seinen definition: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinen_manga>\n * TV schedule: <http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv195090725>\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-06T20:10:03.733", "id": "15534", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-07T14:18:31.083", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-07T14:18:31.083", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "15533", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the Anime, Hange is clearly female. In the manga, it's left for the reader\nto interpret.\n\n[Source](http://kodanshacomics.tumblr.com/post/79565073216/you-publish-attack-\non-titan-right-a-friend) and\n[Source](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Hange_Zo%C3%AB)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-07T10:06:29.373", "id": "15543", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-07T10:06:29.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "15542", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey don't do it because of the fail rate. The scan according to the light\nnovels has an extremely small rate of success, and the scan almost certainly\nfries the brain.\n\nQuoted from _Sword Art Online Volume 4 - Fairy Dance, Chapter 9_ (translation\ncourtesy of Baka-Tsuki):\n\n> It seemed Kayaba had decided to die with the collapse of the world of SAO\n> before the incident even occurred. But it was an unusual way to die. It\n> seems he remodeled a FullDive machine to perform a super-high-power scan of\n> his brain, where it burned out his brain and killed him.\n>\n> The probability of the scan being successful wasn’t even 1 in 1000 \\- and,\n> although it was baseless, she told me that in her heart she had the feeling\n> that he somehow had succeeded.\n>\n> If it worked as Kayaba intended, his own memories and thoughts, all of the\n> electrical signals in his brain should have became digital code and should\n> exist in the network as a real electronic brain.\n\nIt is safe to assume that it's for the above reason they don't do it.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-11T00:24:33.847", "id": "15631", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-11T13:37:48.177", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-11T13:37:48.177", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9477", "parent_id": "15545", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThat answer will contain spoilers from Alicization arc, which has not been\nanimated yet.\n\n> Firstly, what Kayaba Akihiko uploaded onto [**The\n> Seed**](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/World_Seed) wasn't his brain,\n> not exactly — it was a copy of his \"soul\". As explained in the light novel:\n> We have copied the\n> [_Fluctlight_](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Fluctlight) of a number\n> of test subject, and the Fluctlight is what passes through our neurons, so\n> it's basically our soul. However, even though the process of copying\n> somebody's soul is not risky for the real person, it is the case for the\n> copies, because they will just \"think\" they were the real one and not just a\n> copy. Most of the copies will simply cease to exist as they realize they\n> aren't the original. Kayaba Akihiko's case was an exception, because his\n> real self had already prepared to leave the real world to live in his own\n> creation. So that's the major problem. Once Konno Yuuki realizes that she\n> isn't real but just a copy, she would cease to exist. \n> \n> The second problem is that the machine to perform the operation isn't\n> public nor medical, and no one (except Kirito and a few others) knows of its\n> existence, let alone where and how to do it.\n\nIn the Alicization arc of the light novels (especially the first two volumes\nof the arc), the details are much better explained than what I have here (they\nactually exaggerate with the explanation of pseudo-science, but well...), so I\nwould recommend you to pick them up if you are into reading, as the\nAlicization arc is the best up to now in my opinion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-21T10:09:33.803", "id": "18727", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-21T11:55:07.680", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-21T11:55:07.680", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11313", "parent_id": "15545", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Lion reference can be dated back to her childhood. it's not mentioned on\nher page but [Sir Kay's section](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sir_Kay#Kay).\nSir Kay is the son of Sir Ector who Merlin left Arturia in the care of, that\nmakes him Arturia's step brother though she had thought of him as her real\nbrother (despite knowing the truth).\n\n> Once while attending to her while she was sick, she told him that she would\n> like to have a dream of a lion running on a grass field. He fashioned a\n> poorly carved wooden lion that looked like a combination between a dog and a\n> cat, and left it by her bedside. When she thanked him and told him that she\n> had a pleasant dream of a young lion, Kay was shocked as he intended to make\n> a decrepit old lion that would have been unable to hurt a rat. He had been\n> worried that the lion might pounce on her in her dreams.\n\nso while she is linked to Dragons, Lions was apart of her upbringing as the\nbrother she loved carved her a lion when she was sick which most likely became\na very cherished possession of hers and it's probably a subconscious thing of\nArturia's extending from this. not entirely sure as to why she wanted to dream\nabout a lion in the first place\n\nI'm not sure as to how much of an impact this trait of Arturia's is on the\nstory. [Saber Lion](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Saber_Lion) is a parody\nmuch like how [Magical Amber](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Magical_Amber)\nand other Magical Girls in the Nasuverse is a parody of Magical Girls. as far\nas i know it's not stated if the _original_ Arthurian Legend depicts lions in\nthe context of a connection with Arthur (the Pendragon Coat of arms normally\ndepicts, as one would expect, dragons. According to\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attributed_arms#Arthurian_heraldry)\nSir Tristran's earliest attributed coat of arms had lions however Kay's Lion\nwould predate this) or if any derived works do or even which legend Kinoko\nNasu may have used as a basis for Arturia\n\nIf i was to fashion a guess it is probably to make a more unique Arthurian\nLegend. [Mordred](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mordred) is practically\nIncest from the most bizarre method,\n[Nero](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Playable_Saber_\\(Fate/Extra\\)),\n[Frankenstien](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Frankenstein) and Great Holy\nGrail War [Jack](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin_of_Black) are all\nwomen and most of the [Hassan-i-\nSabbah](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin) are described as not having\nfaces at all so quite possibly while they all have a base real life legend\nKinoko Nasu alters them slightly to have a bit for freedom in developing their\nbackgrounds and legends to suit his needs.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-07T21:29:21.373", "id": "15552", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T03:26:37.407", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-08T03:26:37.407", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "15548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nTo the best of my knowledge, it's never mentioned again (not even later in\nFate/Zero), aside from a throwaway reference on [the Fake/states night\nwebpage](http://www2.tba.t-com.ne.jp/taoru/resistance/fake/system.htm), which\ndescribes it (魔力針) as an item you could find in-game and which has Rin's name\nengraved on the back of it.\n\nFrom an out-of-universe perspective, the obvious reason why we don't know what\nhappened to it is that it was invented by Urobuchi for Fate/Zero, which was\nwritten after Fate/stay night, and it's not so important an object that its\nwhereabouts in Fate/stay night would need to be explained.\n\nFrom an in-universe perspective, I think the best explanation is that by the\ntime of the Fifth War, Rin no longer needed the device - skilled mages can\nalready sense magic to some extent. During the Fourth War, though, when she\nwas just 5 or 6, she probably wasn't experienced enough to be able to detect\nmana all that effectively, and so the compass was somewhat useful to her back\nthen.\n\nBy the way,\n\n> Rin doesn't get the pendant during Fate/Zero. It's only at the beginning of\n> F/SN (the day before she summons Archer) that she finds it with her father's\n> effects. Rin does happen to show up at the end of Fate/Zero (for Tokiomi's\n> funeral); that's when she receives the Azoth sword from Kirei.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T01:23:23.673", "id": "15563", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T01:29:49.483", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-08T01:29:49.483", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15554", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nShirou could feel the presence of Medusa/Rider in the 5th Episode of Unlimited\nBlade Works.\n\nI would say, if a third rate novice Magus could feel the presence of a\nServant, a Genius like Rin wouldn't need her Mana-Compass anymore during the\n5th Grail War.\n\nAlso, if I remember correctly. Command Seals vaguely \"ping\" Servants or strong\nMysteries? Rin's Seals react in the Fuyuki Park in Episode 0 of UBW and she\nlater feels the presence of Riders Blood Fort Andromeda, also during Episode\n0.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-30T08:24:33.783", "id": "59700", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-30T08:24:33.783", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56471", "parent_id": "15554", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is probably no canon answer, but we can speculate.\n\n> and both him and his Master didn't operate like proper participants in the\n> Holy Grail War\n\nThis is actually one of the reasons why he could track Saber. Normal servant\nwould focus on all other masters equally. Caster on the other hand single-\nmindedly focused on Saber. He could invest all of his time and energy looking\nfor her and following her. This is probably why Rider was able to enter his\nworkshop without being noticed.\n\nAs for Einzbern's bounded field. I think it was designed against humans and\nlow-level mages. For something like Caster, it would be child's play to break\nit or to ignore it. And even if it did pose problem for him, he just needed to\nsee Saber entering the area. He doesn't need to know where exactly she is in\nthe area. That's probably why he lured her out and not approached her\ndirectly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-03T09:40:29.183", "id": "20585", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-03T09:40:29.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "15555", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWaver does say in Episode 7 that he'll buy Rider some pants as a reward for\ntaking out Caster. In the novel he tells Rider in Volume 2, Act 5, -140:41:54,\nthat he'll buy him a pair of pants if he can defeat even one of the other\nServants.\n\n> [Waver] “Your majestic achievements and your trousers are two completely\n> irrelevant things! Before you go out to enjoy yourself, show me what you\n> can! Kill at least one of the opponents’ Servants!”\n>\n> [Rider] “Eh? You are quite an impatient fellow. You can engage a Servant in\n> a combat anytime you want, you know.”\n>\n> [Waver] “So do it now! Kill at least one of them! If you do that, I’ll buy\n> you trousers or anything you want.”\n\nLater, in Episode 9 of the anime, we find out that Waver caved and bought the\npants for Rider so he would be able to go outside and get the water samples\nthat would let Waver isolate the location of Caster's workshop. In the novels,\nthis occurs in Volume 2, Act 8, -108:27:55.\n\n> [Rider] “No no. He is the one who has been of help to me. These trousers,\n> even he had chosen and bought it for me. Looks great on me, doesn't it!”\n>\n> At the time when he was entrusted with external businesses, Waver got stuck\n> with buying stuff for him, and bought an XL-size washed-jeans for Rider,\n> which he proudly showed off.\n\nSo Waver ended up having to buy the pants for Rider early so that Rider could\ngo out and gather water samples without looking strange or attracting\nattention.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-09T07:27:07.603", "id": "23145", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-09T07:27:07.603", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "15556", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJoan is just the English version of the French name Jeanne, both of which are\nfemale forms of the Biblical name John.\n\nIn the original Japanese, Caster refers to Saber as ジャンヌ _jannu_ , which is\nthe Japanese pronunciation of French \"Jeanne\". English \"Joan\" would be ジョーン\n_jōn_. I haven't seen the English dub, but I imagine that Caster is using the\nFrench version there, too.\n\nGiven that Caster is Bluebeard (i.e. Gilles de Rais, who was a French person),\nit makes sense that he would use the French version of the name rather than\nthe English version.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T00:51:55.717", "id": "15561", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T00:51:55.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15557", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSpoilers for the second half of Fate/Zero:\n\n> After the defeat of Caster in episode 15, Kayneth goes to the church (in\n> episode 16) and asks Kirei's dad for a Command Spell as a reward for having\n> helped defeat Caster (not that he did a damn thing; that was all Lancer).\n> Kirei's dad agrees and gives him a Command Spell. At more or less the same\n> time, Maiya abducts Sola-Ui and also cuts off her arm with the Command\n> Spells. Lancer returns to Kayneth at this point, no longer able to locate\n> Sola-Ui now that her Command Spells have been severed. \n> \n> Saber (with Irisviel) happens upon Lancer at this point and they start\n> dueling. Meanwhile, a bit away from the duel, Kiritsugu shows up with Sola-\n> Ui's body and proposes a geis to Kayneth - Kiritsugu will leave Sola-Ui with\n> Kayneth and shall nevermore harm either of them, provided that Kayneth uses\n> up all his Command Spells and orders Lancer to commit suicide. Kayneth\n> agrees, since that appears to be the only way out of the situation, and\n> compels Lancer to kill himself. Kayneth breathes a sigh of relief, since he\n> and Sola-Ui are now safe from Kiritsugu and Saber. \n> \n> Of course, Maiya is lying in wait with a sniper rifle, and kills Kayneth\n> and Sola-Ui immediately thereafter. She wasn't bound by the geis, after all.\n> Sucks to be Kayneth. \n> \n> In any case, only a few minutes at most pass between the geis taking effect\n> and Kayneth/Sola-Ui being assassinated by Maiya (which renders the geis\n> moot). The geis emphatically _was not_ in effect at any time before that,\n> and as such did not impact Kiritsugu/Saber's previous fights with\n> Kayneth/Lancer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T01:02:00.010", "id": "15562", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T18:44:09.327", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-08T18:44:09.327", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15558", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe first thing you need to realize is that there is no gravity in space, so\nthe formation doesn't make any difference in terms of balance. What the\nformation does is allowing all the guard ships to see each other and use\nminimal energy to reach a much higher propulsion. When you take gravity and\nair resistance out of the equation, such formation is one that makes the most\nsense in the series. Plus, in my own opinion, even though it's never mentioned\nin the manga or anime, I believe when the [clasp formation](http://sidonia-no-\nkishi.wikia.com/wiki/Clasp_Formation) is completed, one or two primary pilots\ncontrol the thruster output of all connected ships. It's not to far-fetched to\nbelieve so with their technology, as they probably have a computer auto-\npiloting.\n\nQuote from [Sidonia - Sidonia no Kishi Wiki :](http://sidonia-no-\nkishi.wikia.com/wiki/Sidonia)\n\n> Guardians are immensely fast and can multiply their speed by gathering in a\n> clasp formation. By linking their Heigus engines together, they can reach\n> significant fractions of the speed of light, as shown when Sidonia is\n> engaging the Gauna around the Lem system.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-24T07:21:27.937", "id": "19631", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-24T08:59:21.960", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-24T08:59:21.960", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "12905", "parent_id": "15560", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nHaving studied orbital dynamics and aerospace engineering, I can simplify your\nanswer down for you.\n\nLet's just say 1 mech exhibits a mass of about 5 units. However, the engine\ncan lift up to 10 units, so in a 2-mech clasp formation:\n\n( **2** x **10** )-( **2** x **5** )= **10** **units**\n\nThis means that they effectively double the output of their engines. So, the\nthrust of a 256-unit clasp formation, and let's also include the weight of one\nbroken mech:\n\n( **256** x **10** )-( **257** x **5** )= **1275** **units**\n\nThis would give them an extremely long range compared to the distance only 2\nor 4 mechs could fly.\n\nTo answer your question as to how they would balance it, simply cut the engine\nof 1 or 2 other mechs in strategic locations\n\nThis may just sound like I'm saying they can lift more, but the point is the\namount of thrust generated exceeds the thrust needed to lift all of the units'\nmass, thus translating to more speed and range\n\n**Hope this clears it up for ya!**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-30T04:52:51.973", "id": "23657", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-30T11:55:11.863", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-30T11:55:11.863", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "15960", "parent_id": "15560", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThere appears to be a lot of confusion in the answers provided thus far...\n\nWhat we care about here is rate of acceleration.\n\nAcceleration = force / mass (AKA thrust to mass ratio)\n\nThe thrust to mass ratio for 1 unit is identical to n number of combined units\n(256 or otherwise).\n\nTherefore there is no acceleration advantage to combining units.\n\nExample: Assuming a single guard has a thrust of 10 and a mass of 1 then:\n\n10 units of thrust divided by 1 unit of mass gives a 10/1 thrust/mass ratio.\n2560 units of thrust divided by 256 units of mass gives the same 10/1\nthrust/mass ratio.\n\nThere simply is no advantage with regards to raw acceleration performance nor\nmaximum speed (assuming the vacuum of space of course).\n\nThere are also no special relativistic considerations since the units do not\never accelerate to anywhere near the speed of light.\n\nOn the flip side, combining multiple units together would have major\nstructural disadvantages with regards to high-rate manoeuvring outside the\naxial line of thrust - that is, the circle would want to tear itself apart in\nturns...\n\nAdditionally, from a tactical perspective, it makes no sense to maintain tight\nformation if the potential of a surprise attack is a possibility.\n\nw/ regards to carrying a wounded or damaged mech home, that would be\nadvantageous as the broken mech would just be extra mass for the formation to\ncarry - which would limit the acceleration of the group as a whole but might\nget the broken unit home...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-31T19:37:21.243", "id": "28545", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-31T19:37:21.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20112", "parent_id": "15560", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm not 100% sure about the intent of the original question. I know what mine\nwas and what caused me to go looking for an answer, is \"within the framework\nof K.o.S., what are the advantages of the large clasp formations?\". Clearly,\nusing classical physics there is no particular reason why a 256 clasp\nformation would have any benefit for speed or range other than some of the\nminor items touched on in this thread (ie communalization of resources,\ndistribution of tow loads, possibly control, distribution of weaknesses,\netc.). So if the original question was about how realistic physics applies to\nthe situation, there's your answer. Also, for whoever answered that balance\ndoesn't matter in space, that's not true at all. Any unbalanced load would\nquickly cause rotations on all unbalanced axes, which would immediately cause\neither a need for a course correction or an extreme error in course. Clearly\nwhat would be required would be a course correction and that requires thrust,\nwhich would significantly reduce their range. An unbalanced thrust (load) in\nspace is extremely inefficient and a lot of work is done to ensure symmetry of\nthrust in realistic physical situations. As for my original question, it\nappears that within the physics of K.o.S., there are these fictional particles\ncalled Heigus particles which have different properties than described for any\nparticle in normal physics. According to the description above from the wiki,\nthe Heigus engines work much better when used together, clearly balance is\nstill of primary concern, but equally clear is that the physics of K.o.S. Can\nnot be adequately described using our rudimentary knowledge of Heigus physics\n:-) The next question for me is, \"is it described in more detail in further or\nother K.o.S. Episodes or manga?\" Would be very interested to know the answer\nto that if anyone has input as I have not read the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-12T17:34:50.773", "id": "33704", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-12T17:34:50.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25632", "parent_id": "15560", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nOnly thing i could think up to justify it, was if the individual units burned\na lot of energy by stabilizing their flight pattern. With the placement of the\npropulsion unit high on the back and a bit backward, the main source of\npropulsion is way behind the center of mass, which makes for a rather erratic\nflight pattern without having a lot of stabilization thrust. So assuming that\na lot of energy is burned for the sake of stabilization via other thrusters,\nthen having units join together spreads out the sources of propulsion, and\nalso stabilization, while the center of mass would stay in the center of the\nformation (depending on how tightly they’re holding hands, which i assume is\nmeant to be rigidly locked)\n\nIf that’s the case, then virtually all if the energy that was previously being\nused to stabilize the flight is now being used purely for thrust.\n\nAlthough, If that’s the case, i don’t see how a 256 unit formation would have\nmuch advantage over a 48 unit formation, any difference would be slight.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-06-01T07:16:46.520", "id": "57771", "last_activity_date": "2020-06-01T07:16:46.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53606", "parent_id": "15560", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's also an OP sung in Mandarin, but it looks like my old link to that has\nbeen removed from Youtube by Bandai.\n\nThere's this [Spanish Full\nOpening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwZF7SpG5rM) that I believe is sung\nby Jessica Toledo.\n\nAnd this appears to be (the song at least) a [Korean version of the short\nOP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciUQc_7qR5o).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T22:45:25.470", "id": "15583", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T22:45:25.470", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "15564", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n# Basically:\n\nFundamentally, all anime today is produced at a rate of 24 frames per second.\nThis is the same framerate used for most (all?) film today (e.g. in Hollywood\nmovies). For a filmmaker with a camera, this just means setting your camera to\nexpose 24 frames of film each second. But for an animator, this means drawing\n24 images for each second of animation. This can be time-consuming.\n\nTo reduce the amount of drawing that needs to be done, many animations _reuse_\nimages for multiple frames - rather than drawing 24 images for each second,\nthey might draw just 12 or 8 images for each second, and then repeat each\nimage for two or three consecutive frames. That is, one second of animation\nwould look like the \"twos\" or \"threes\" row on the following schematic, in\nwhich each letter represents a different image and each column represents one\nframe:\n\n[code]\n\n frame# 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24\n \n ones A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X \n twos A--A C--C E--E G--G I--I K--K M--M O--O Q--Q S--S U--U W--W \n threes A--A--A D--D--D G--G--G J--J--J M--M--M P--P--P S--S--S V--V--V \n \n[/code]\n\nAs the schematic suggests, using 12 distinct images per second is called\n\"shooting on twos\" or \"animating on twos\", and likewise, using 8 distinct\nimages per second is called \"shooting on threes\". Drawing a distinct image for\neach frame is \"shooting on ones\", and is akin to what happens in film.\n\n# But note that:\n\nMind you, it is not necessarily the case that all the pieces that go together\nto form a particular segment of animation will be shot at the same rate. For\nexample, if you have some people walking in the foreground with a pan over a\nstatic backdrop in the background, the foreground might be animated on threes\n(since the walking animation doesn't need to be all that fluid), while the\nbackground might be animated on ones (since it takes very little extra effort\nto shoot more frames on a pan).\n\nMost animation in anime is done on ones, twos, or threes - anything slower\nwill look decidedly jerky. Nonetheless, you can speak of shooting on fours (6\nimages per second) or fives (24 images per 5 seconds) or higher numbers as\nwell. Rates that are effectively non-integral are also possible, e.g.\n\"shooting on two-point-fives\", as below, is not uncommon:\n\n[code]\n\n frame# 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24\n \n 2.5s A--A C--C--C F--F H--H--H K--K M--M--M P--P R--R--R U--U W--W--\n \n[/code]\n\nBut I don't know if there is an actual name for doing that. If there is one,\nthough, I'd bet that \"shooting on two-point-fives\" isn't it.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T07:51:44.313", "id": "15568", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T07:51:44.313", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15567", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is Lychee Light Club. On the cover you can see the black star, the symbol\nyou mentioned , on the leader's glove. He was indeed told by a fortune teller\nthat he would be more evil than Hitler - and he takes pride in it.\n\n\n\nThe Frankenstein monster you're thinking of is Litchi. He's powered by lychee\nfruits. He was created so that he could capture beautiful girls for the club.\nHe discovers love from one of his captive females and betrays the club whilst\ndefending her.\n\n\n\nThe anime is significantly less dark than the manga and the characters are in\na chibi art style\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T14:27:37.130", "id": "15573", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T14:27:37.130", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "15570", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n> _**What's the meaning of 1412?**_\n\n\n\nRead **1412** as **KID.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T15:16:03.720", "id": "15575", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T15:16:03.720", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "4559", "parent_id": "15574", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's quite a number of differences from that the new series differs from\nKID's the older series (OVAs and _Conan_ anime appearances). The older series\nwas more faithful to the manga, while the new series take certain liberties\nwith it's adaptation, including modernizing outdated technologies. The events\nfrom the series still pan out like they did, but some of the results happen\ndifferently. For the most part, the movies are considered separate from the TV\nseries in terms of continuity.\n\nLike the main series. _Detective Conan/Case Closed_ there isn't much\nconsistency in terms of real-time chronology.\n\n[This gallery](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZE44m.jpg) offers a side to side\ncomparison of the two series.\n\nAs for KID's name \"1412,\" it's mentioned that 1412 is the case incident file\nnumber, Yusaku Kudo (Shinichi/Conan's father) saw a reporter's hastily\nscribbled \"1412\" on a piece of paper and purposely misread it as \"KID.\" Thus,\nYusaku unintentionally named the Kaitou Kid his name. This is mention in File\n6, Volume 16 of the _Conan_ manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-07T22:01:07.957", "id": "18367", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-07T22:01:07.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "15574", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo idea where you got the idea that she vanished.\n\nRecent manga certainly feature her, up and fighting.\n\nYou say you haven't watched Bleach for a while - it has been off the air for a\nlong time now. No idea when it will come back, if at all.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T19:25:05.350", "id": "15578", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T19:25:05.350", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "15577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe last time she appeared was at **manga chapter 604 - REVITALIZE** (until\nnow).\n\nAs the manga is still ongoing (currently it is at **chapter 608** ), she will\nkeep on appearing at the following chapters.\n\nYou heard she vanished because of the **final episode of Fake Karakura Town\narc: episode 342 \"Thank You\"**. Where Ichigo loses his shinigami's power, so\nhe lost the ability to see her in shinigami form, so she \"vanishes\" from\nIchigo's sight.\n\nFrom [this wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Rukia_Kuchiki), this is the\nmoment where she \"vanish\":\n\n> As it becomes harder for Ichigo to see her, Rukia knows this is farewell.\n> Mocking Ichigo's sad face, she states she will still be able to see him,\n> much to his displeasure. Rukia, disappearing from Ichigo's sight completely,\n> leaves through a Senkaimon as Ichigo, bidding farewell, thanks her.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-10T13:05:43.157", "id": "15622", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-20T17:21:46.087", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-20T17:21:46.087", "last_editor_user_id": "2251", "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "15577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs is almost always the case with anime music, Lilium was composed just for\nElfen Lied. KONISHI Kayo and KONDO Yukio collectively handled the composition,\narrangement, and lyricwriting (and also did [the rest of the\nsoundtrack](http://vgmdb.net/album/19050)).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T20:00:11.180", "id": "15581", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T20:00:11.180", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "15579", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer is yes.\n\nAccording to the pamphlet included in the Elfen Lied OST, the melody of Lilium\njust surfaced to MOKA, the two-person musician group who was appointed the\nmusic producer staff of the Elfen Lied anime TV production team, when they\nlooked at Elfen Lied from a certain perspective: it's not that Lucy wants to\nbe born special — what she desires, the mundane happiness, that which appears\nto be easily obtainable is in fact obtainable by only a small handful of\npeople.\n\n>\n> 望んで特別に生まれたわけじゃない、欲しいものは簡単に手に入りそうでほんの一握りの人しか手に入れられないであろう、ありふれた幸せ……そんな角度からこの『エルフェンリート』を感じた時に、メインテーマである「LILIUM」の祈るような旋律が浮かびました。\n\nMOKA later included rearrangements of Lilium in [Ryugu Genka](http://moka-\nsong.com/discography/index.cgi?no=3), [Shinra Soloist](http://moka-\nsong.com/discography/index.cgi?no=4), [Felix Culpa](http://moka-\nsong.com/discography/index.cgi?no=46) and [LILIUM MOKA☆ Produce Mixed\nChorus](http://moka-song.com/lilium/).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-09T06:53:50.443", "id": "15590", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-17T03:01:52.470", "last_edit_date": "2016-09-17T03:01:52.470", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "15579", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nLilium was inspired by the poem 'Elfenlied' which is in the Manga, written by\nEduard Mörike, and later adapted to a Lied by Hugo Wolf.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-16T18:10:56.963", "id": "38982", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-16T18:10:56.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30989", "parent_id": "15579", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNope I don't think so guys.. maybe the music was composed solely for Elfen\nlied but the words (lyrics) are taken from the bible and other catholic\nprayers.. Like chapters of the bible Psalms and James and a prayer of the Holy\nMary.. as the peeps before me have said yes the two yukio and kayo composed it\nbut they themselves have said they have taken the words from the places which\nI mentioned above..\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-23T00:52:42.387", "id": "39534", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-23T00:52:42.387", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31585", "parent_id": "15579", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn short: **Yes**.\n\nThere are several instances where Naruto will create several Shadow Clones,\nwhich in turn create more Shadow Clones.\n\nAs far as why he doesn't create any more, this is speculative. I can think of\na few reasons:\n\n * Naruto doesn't possess the skill to do so. The useful part of a clone creating a clone right before \"death\" would be to gain tactical advantage. Naruto's strategy is generally to \"charge right in\", while this kind of strategy would rely on the clones \"dying\" so as to be the bait for a new clone coming right in.\n\n * There simply isn't enough reaction time. Naruto has demonstrated that it takes time to create clones, even if the amount of time is relatively small. Rather than take the time to mold chakra and perform the technique, why not actually fight?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-09T00:56:31.770", "id": "15586", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-09T00:56:31.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6174", "parent_id": "15585", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI see two questions here\n\n 1. why didn't clones create another clone before they die?\n\nA. As we know that clones dispel when they are hit by a force enough to\nseverely hurt them. Image this very thin instance where the clone realizes he\nis about to die, what amount of chakra does a clone have in that instance,\nlikely very minimal. If he tries to make a clone then, he actually has to\ndivide his chakra, which will further diminish his chakra resource. In this\ncase, he might actually quicken his death, or miraculously if he succeeds in\nmaking a clone with such minimal amount of chakra, I don't think the clone is\nof any use in the fight.\n\n 2. Does Naruto tend to let clones die on purpose to gain knowledge ?\n\nA. More or less **YES** , because clones act on their own, they have their own\nconscience and they can use full abilities of his caster(who made the clones).\nThey go head on with their opponent. It's a better strategy to learn opponent\nabilities quickly. Answering you question, its depends on the situation, not\nevery time Naruto purposefully let's clones dispel, even though users have\nability to control their clone chakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-12T05:55:56.540", "id": "16663", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-12T06:19:04.937", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-12T06:19:04.937", "last_editor_user_id": "8988", "owner_user_id": "8988", "parent_id": "15585", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, it can. Kage Bunshin making Kage Bunshin is called Tajuu Kage Bunshin.\nyou can see it from the interval and placement of the new clones.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-01T07:21:12.050", "id": "26309", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-01T07:21:12.050", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16720", "parent_id": "15585", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI am not really sure but I think that episode in which Zoro makes the\nstatement is non-canon. I tried checking up the manga chapters of the Arabasta\narc and was unable to find it. Thus I think it was just one of those cool\nthings that Zoro said that isn't actually official.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-01T18:05:21.217", "id": "41135", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-01T18:05:21.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32863", "parent_id": "15592", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI haven't come across a solid answer yet, but\n<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Capsule> might have an explanation.\n\nIn the article, they mention that a capsule can't be stored within another\ncapsule (as \"the results were catastrophic\") so in that regard it is possible\nfor an object to impact a capsule, at least negatively. I then wonder if\nstoring a Dragon ball would negatively impact it, as Colonel Silver in\nDragonball said that the balls were unbreakable (and by unbreakable, perhaps\nunmodifiable and therefore unable to be stored)\n\nIt also mentions that \"organic corpses\" were stored in capsules, but no\nsapient creatures. To me, this sounds like no \"animal testing\" has occurred\n(possibly because a lot of the universe's inhabitants are talking animals and\nit would be morally / ethically wrong) but I don't know.\n\nSo this may be a partial answer, but it'd be nice to have \"official\"\nconfirmation of why these things haven't taken place before.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-09T23:56:23.683", "id": "15608", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-09T23:56:23.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9547", "parent_id": "15595", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is probably [**Monster Farm: Enbanseki no\nHimitsu**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1469/Monster_Farm:_Enbanseki_no_Himitsu),\nknown in America as Monster Rancher.\n\n\n\n> Genki is a boy who loves playing video games. One day he's zapped into the\n> world of Monster Rancher and meets the girl Holly and the monsters Mochi,\n> Suezo, Golem, Tiger and Hare. Together, they are searching for a way to\n> revive the Phoenix, which is the only monster capable of stopping the evil\n> Moo.\n\nThe wolf is _Tiger of the Wind \"Rygar\"_\n\n\n\n> A blue, wolf-like monster with horns on his head. He is a feared thief and\n> bandit known as \"Tiger of the Wind\". He was the leader of a pack of rogue\n> mixed-breed Tigers that were isolated from all humans. Eventually, he met up\n> with Genki. At first, he looked down upon Genki's optimistic and caring\n> nature. Tiger had a rough past that changed him forever, giving him a jaded\n> and cold view of life. However, after listening to Genki, he has learned to\n> care more for others. A clan of Dinos commanded by Moo killed off Tiger's\n> pack, so he joined up with Genki's team in hopes of finding and defeating\n> Moo. Tiger is extremely fast and powerful in battle. He uses an array of\n> swift attacks, as well as firing electricity from his horns and using ice-\n> based attacks. Tiger once had a younger brother named Gray Wolf. They lived\n> together as orphaned pups. Eventually, they built a pack of mixed-breed\n> Tigers. When Tiger first met Moo, the giant monster killed every last member\n> of Tiger's pack, and kidnapped Gray Wolf, leaving Tiger to die. Tiger would\n> later find out the cold, harsh truth of what happened to his brother. Tiger\n> was the Phoenix's anger. {Wikipedia}\n\nThe eye on a leg is _Suezo_\n\n\n\n> A simple monster with only a mouth, a huge singular eye, and an upright\n> tail. He is Holly's loyal monster retainer. Suezo serves as comic relief in\n> many instances and he can be a little obnoxious and loud-mouthed. He has\n> amazing Telescopic vision and can teleport himself and other objects from\n> one location to another in mere seconds, though it took a bit of practice to\n> perfect this. Thus, eventually a very useful asset to the team. Suezo was\n> the Phoenix's pride.\n\n### Reference\n\n * [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1469/Monster_Farm:_Enbanseki_no_Himitsu)\n * [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Rancher_%28anime%29)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-09T15:48:04.033", "id": "15601", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-09T22:28:44.310", "last_edit_date": "2017-03-10T09:42:45.373", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8464", "parent_id": "15600", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn short not possible. When madara was called by endo tensei he had his\nsharingan, even he showed the five kages the power of rinnegan . When he was\nbrought back to alive by Obito, he was blind as his original eyes were given\nto Pain. This proves that you can't simply use endo tensei to manipulate body\nparts. Releasing a person from endo tensei simply means he/she is free to move\non their own will, just like madara when he managed to release himself from\nkabuto's control.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-11T06:34:44.743", "id": "16637", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-11T22:04:40.293", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-11T22:04:40.293", "last_editor_user_id": "2251", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "15603", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's \"run rabbit junk\" by Yoko Kanno from the first OST.\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSgnsnu8ro>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-10T04:57:19.563", "id": "15617", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T04:57:19.563", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "15616", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**SPOILER UP AHEAD!!!!!**\n\n> It is the symbol of the demon clan. Meliodas is a demon. This advancement is\n> explained in the Manga. Although it is hinted throughout the series, but it\n> is never really explicitly shown that he really isn't human until after the\n> Kingdom Infiltration arc has ended. The Ten Commandments, a group of the\n> most fearsome demons are revived. They were sealed 3000 years ago, yet\n> Meliodas knows them all by their names. King confronted him claiming he was\n> a demon. Although he didn't answer, it is obvious from the situation. That\n> also accounts for his never aging body.The Ten Commandments know him well\n> too. And Meliodas actually calls them his brothers in chapter 135. So, yeah,\n> he is a demon. Later on in the manga, his past and identity is explicitly\n> revealed to be one of the Ten Commandments.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-23T17:15:32.877", "id": "24304", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-04T12:30:28.297", "last_edit_date": "2016-07-04T12:30:28.297", "last_editor_user_id": "13228", "owner_user_id": "13228", "parent_id": "15623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nMeliodas is the demon king's unholy knight. He violated demon law by\ndeveloping an interest in humans and for this betrayal was banished to the\nhuman world to live as a normal human. \nSomething went wrong and deeply weakened the seal that contains his ultimate\npowers. Little by little his demon powers return. Although he has only a\nfraction of his power back and it will take millenia for his powers to return\nin full, it has to make you wonder how strong the demon king would be unless\nMeliodas IS the demon king himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-01T01:17:09.007", "id": "27732", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-18T19:01:27.330", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-18T19:01:27.330", "last_editor_user_id": "19803", "owner_user_id": "19436", "parent_id": "15623", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\n> It is the [symbol of the Demon Clan](http://nanatsu-no-\n> taizai.wikia.com/wiki/Demon_Clan). \n> Meliodas is a demon. When he uses his demon powers, his eyes turn black and\n> the Mark of the Beast, the symbol of the Demon Clan, appears on his\n> forehead.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-18T18:58:49.230", "id": "28120", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-18T18:58:49.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19803", "parent_id": "15623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMeliodas is a full demon, and the eldest son of the demon king. He can be\nkilled (Estarossa stabbed all his hearts) but will come back to life about a\nmonth later. I'm guessing each family of demons has a different mark, so\nZeldris, Estarossa, and Meliodas have the same thing. Say, Derriere has a\ndifferent one than them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-30T03:41:11.813", "id": "40106", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-30T03:41:11.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32253", "parent_id": "15623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe mark signifies that Meliodas and his brothers are from the ruling class as\nthe demon king has the same seal or you could say it’s because he’s the demon\nKing’s son. The marks on the others is a representation of their commandments.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-29T20:05:07.817", "id": "48601", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-29T20:05:07.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42257", "parent_id": "15623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Final Battle aired [on 2002 May 2nd](http://epguides.com/Zoids/) and\nalmost a year later The Ancient Memory (1) aired on 2003 January 4th with the\nother three episodes. It is possible that Cartoon Network did air the last\nfour episodes, or that it was Network 10/TV3 in Australia/New Zealand,\nrespectively.\n\nThere was definitely some sort of discrepancy that prevented Zoids: Chaotic\nCentury from being shown from start to finish. Sadly, the only people who can\nanswer this question are those that worked at Cartoon Network at the time.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-19T15:35:11.567", "id": "35900", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-19T15:35:11.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2492", "parent_id": "15626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThey actually did air the final four episodes. I remember watching it on\nToonami. Usually the show ran in the mourning but Toonami for the last 4\nepsiodes made it a special event. It took over the block for 2 hours I believe\nand they showed the last 4 episodes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-09-08T06:51:31.560", "id": "65572", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-08T06:51:31.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "62345", "parent_id": "15626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think Zeff was just a great pirate in the East Blue, because as far as we\nknow, he was one of the few pirates who made it to the Grand Line. From an\nactual point of view, he would be a weak pirate in my opinion. (No offense\nagainst Zeff fans ;)\n\nAfter all, he was on the Grand Line for just an year.\n\n> Zeff originally made a name for himself as captain on a pirate ship. He\n> became both great at being a chef and a pirate. His dream of finding the\n> \"All Blue\" led him to the Grand Line. After one year of traveling around the\n> Grand Line, he left that sea.\n\nFurther reading: <http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zeff>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-11T10:15:07.510", "id": "16642", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-29T04:25:07.430", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-29T04:25:07.430", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4957", "parent_id": "15627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAll we know about Zeff is that he was strong enough to sail his crew around\nthe Grand Line for a year.\n\nThis was a big deal in the East Blue, where even Don Krieg couldn't last a\nweek in the Grand Line, but doesn't tell us that much about his power.\n\nBefore the timeskip, Luffy and Zoro had been in the Grand Line for less than a\nyear, and had both become pretty strong, so he could potentially be even much\nstronger than they were, but also pirates like Foxy and fake Luffy seemed to\nbe quite relaxed in the Grand Line and weren't anywhere near as powerful, so\nthere's a pretty big range in what strength a year in the Grand Line might get\nyou.\n\nIt was ten years ago that Zeff travelled the Grand Line, and the only two\nthings that really bought the Strawhats fame were defeating Rob Lucci and\nLuffy's actions in the Whitebeard War. Zeff might have done some impressive\nthings, but wouldn't necessarily become super famous, and ten years is quite a\nwhile for people to forget him.\n\nAlso, having lost a leg and gotten older, it's pretty sure that he's a lot\nweaker than he was, and it's unlikely at best that he would be as strong as\nthe Strawhats these days.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-11T10:23:41.497", "id": "16644", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-11T10:23:41.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "15627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWith two cubes, you don't have enough sides (total 12) to give both cubes\nnumbers 0-9.\n\nInstead, each cube has its own numbers (there may be other permutations that\nwork, too):\n\n * One cube (A) will have **0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6**.\n * The other (B) will have **0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8**.\n\nThen each date is represented by how the cubes are used:\n\n * 01-03: Cube A is 0, followed by cube B.\n * 04-06: Cube B is 0, followed by cube A.\n * 07-08: Cube A is 0, followed by cube B.\n * 09: Cube B is 0, followed by cube A, on 6, upside-down.\n * 10-13: Cube A is 1, followed by cube B.\n * 14-16: Cube B is 1, followed by cube A.\n * 17-18: Cube A is 1, followed by cube B.\n * 19: Cube B is 1, followed by cube A, on 6, upside-down.\n * 20-23: Cube A is 2, followed by cube B.\n * 24-26: Cube B is 2, followed by cube A.\n * 27-28: Cube A is 2, followed by cube B.\n * 29: Cube B is 2, followed by cube A, on 6, upside-down.\n * 30-31: Cube B is 3, followed by cube A.\n\nAnd before you ask, no, I've never seen one of these, and thus I really have\nno citation. But given the fact that the cubes look like they can go in either\norder (since they have numbers on the side, they should come completely free),\nthis seems like the most logical solution.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-10T22:00:11.860", "id": "15629", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T22:00:11.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "15628", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nAre you sure they are cubes? If they are individual panels that 'flip', that 6\nwould be a 9 and it would make sense. Calendars that fip over like this do\nexist, so maybe it works like that and it's just not clear that it's supposed\nto flip.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-11T09:47:17.340", "id": "16641", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-11T09:47:17.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10584", "parent_id": "15628", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom episode 16 - The Gates Of Judgement (at around 16:10), Shogo Makishima\nsaid:\n\n> Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not\n> disputed. So we cannot give might to justice,\n\nIn return, Shinya Kogami replied:\n\n> I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on\n> guard when anyone quotes **Pascal**.\n\nSo the answer is Blaise Pascal.\n\nBy the way, Kogami's reply is actually a quote from [_Toward a Philosophy of\nHistory_](https://books.google.com.vn/books?id=6U4naz5DfsgC&lpg=PA71&ots=RH0VoGXejm&pg=PA71)\nby José Ortega y Gasset.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-27T03:25:05.233", "id": "19711", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-27T07:13:10.830", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-27T07:13:10.830", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "12910", "parent_id": "15630", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt's never shown, last time you see Aladdin he's planning on joining a caravan\nthat's headed in the same direction as him, and then he's not seen again until\nMorgiana finds him captured.\n\nHe explains that some rocks fell on the caravans, he blacked out and when he\nwoke up him and his friends were captured. Presumably the bandits just dragged\nhis unconscious body away and cuffed him.\n\nHe didn't seem particularly stressed about the situation, and was probably\nwaiting for an opportunity to escape.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T22:04:38.943", "id": "17191", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T22:04:38.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "16638", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKaitou Kid isn't really a rival character, he's somewhat of an antagonist.\n\nOther than Heiji, there's only Sera Masumi who is a recurring character and a\ndetective. \nShe first appears in episode 646.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-01T18:48:36.490", "id": "65839", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-01T18:48:36.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "16640", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirstly,\n\n> Is it some sort of made-up substitute for transforming witch energy like\n> Kyuubey did by eating the grief seeds, but with Bebe Witch instead\n\nRemember that the world we see at the beginning is a false world and we later\nlearn that it's\n\n> Homura's Witch Labyrinth contained in an Incubator Isolation Field\n\nas such, we can probably assume that any and all reason for Magical Girls to\nexist (to balance entropy for the Incubators) won't apply here, and the\nNightmares are just a way to explain (to the girls at least) why they are\nMagical Girls: probably as a means to stabilize the realism.\n\n> Since we see Homura's Familiars acting as some of the populace and when\n> Homura begins to realize the truth as she is taken further away from her\n> Soul Gem the Labyrinth's reality begins to become unstable like with the\n> airships plummeting.\n\nThe [Wikia](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Cake_Song) seems to call the song a\nnursery rhyme game which would play into the playful nature of the Nightmares.\nAs for the purpose, we see see with Hitomi's Nightmare it seems to be used to\nturn the Nightmares into something Bebe would eat to then revert the Nightmare\nback to their original form (as after the Girl's Soul Gems are purified,\nHitomi reappears in her bed). Bebe being able to revert them must extend from\nthe powers Madoka gave her when, along with Sayaka, the 3 of them first\nentered the fake world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-12T01:07:30.157", "id": "16660", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-19T16:19:40.327", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T16:19:40.327", "last_editor_user_id": "14883", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "16643", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this\narticle](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-07-03/d-gray-man-manga-\nrelaunches-in-new-jump-square-crown-magazine/.90043) dated July 4th, 2015 on\nAnime News Network (which I believe is a reliable source):\n\n> Jump Square Crown will launch on July 17. The new magazine will publish\n> Katsura Hoshino's D.Gray-man and Yasuhiro Nightow's Blood Blockade\n> Battlefront Back 2 Back.\n\nSo D. Gray-Man is going to be serialized again, but it is going to be\nserialized as a quarterly manga, so it will be something like 4 chapters a\nyear of about 100 pages each\n\nEdit:- D Gray Man Chapter 219 has been released, 53 pages of content excluding\nthe announcement, Color page etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-10T03:24:28.940", "id": "23168", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-17T14:00:10.363", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-17T14:00:10.363", "last_editor_user_id": "3997", "owner_user_id": "3997", "parent_id": "16650", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLooks like **Ao Haru Ride** aka **Blue Spring Ride** [(MyAnimeList\npage)](http://myanimelist.net/anime/21995/Ao_Haru_Ride).\n\nDescription from [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Spring_Ride):\n\n> Futaba Yoshioka wants to \"reset\" her life. In junior high, girls ostracized\n> Futaba because too many junior high boys liked her. The only boy Futaba\n> liked, Kou Tanaka, moved away before she could tell him how she felt. Now in\n> high school, Futaba is determined to be unladylike so her new friends will\n> not become jealous of her. While living her new life contentedly, she meets\n> Kou again, but he now uses the name Kou Mabuchi and has a cold attitude. He\n> tells her that he liked her too in junior high, but feels differently now.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-11T17:56:50.410", "id": "16652", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-11T18:07:22.763", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-11T18:07:22.763", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "16651", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm going to guess [**Seitokai\nYakuindomo**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8675/Seitokai_Yakuindomo).\n\n 1. School anime \n * Yes. \n 2. Not harem \n * Well, harems are in the eye of the beholder, but pretty much yes.\n 3. Funny \n * Allegedly.\n 4. Centers on small group of students, both male and female \n * One guy and three girls in the student council\n 5. Normal yellow/white uniforms \n *  \n(their shirts are white beneath the blazers)\n\n 6. Short, blonde, flat-chested female \n * See above (Hagimura Suzu)\n 7. Crude humor \n * [Oh good lord yes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDD40_1LRUg). \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-12T02:57:35.927", "id": "16662", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-12T03:17:08.837", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-12T03:17:08.837", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "16661", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nObito was trying to revive all the people he killed in battle, the way same\nway as Nagato did.From\n[here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha_Arises)\n\n> Obito attempts to amend his mistakes by using the Samsara of Heavenly Life\n> Technique to revive those he killed, noting he had finally understand why\n> Nagato betrayed him.\n\nFor your question why Nagato didn't revive Jiraiya... My guess is the dead\npeople will be revived from where their dead body is,\n\n> Since Jiraiya's body was far too deep in ocean that even Kabuto can't reach\n> to collect his DNA, it would be waste to revive him. Even after reviving he\n> will die because of water pressure. So Nagato didn't try to revive Jiraiya.\n\nIt is also mentioned in\n[Jiraiya](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jiraiya#Legacy)'s wikia page\n\n> Later on, Kabuto revealed that he attempted to retrieve Jiraiya's body to\n> bring him back through Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation, but it was far\n> too deep in the ocean for him to reach without being crushed by the water\n> pressure.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T12:26:23.260", "id": "16850", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T06:21:53.337", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-19T06:21:53.337", "last_editor_user_id": "4163", "owner_user_id": "4163", "parent_id": "16664", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNot possible, Sasuke didn't awaken his Mangekyou Sharingan after being\nbattered by Itachi's Genjutsu. Itachi kept on replaying how he killed both\nSasuke's parents. The Mangekyou can only be awaken when the user suffer from\ntrauma after witnessing the death of someone close to them. With the user\nnormally having to witness or experience this first hand not by Genjutsu. For\nfurther details please refer to [Mangekyo\nSharingan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T09:17:37.313", "id": "16752", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-11T16:05:45.657", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-11T16:05:45.657", "last_editor_user_id": "20270", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "16665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nTo be fair, the way Sarada awakened her Sharingan proves that awakening the\nMangekyou Sharingan through Genjutsu could be possible. Sarada was under the\nimpression that Sakura wasn't her real mother even though she was and it was\nall just in her head. I could also point out that Mangekyou Sharingan awakens\nduring the death of a loved one because of the severity of the trauma and it\nis not the death alone that awakens it.\n\nSasuke was probably too young and couldn't handle the Mangekyou Sharingan\nwhich is why he didn't awaken it after death of his parents. Also reliving a\ntraumatic event isn't as traumatic as the first time it happened which is why\nsasuke didn't awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan under Itachi's genjutsu.\n\nIn other words, awakening of Sharingan and so forth is caused the variation in\ntrauma severity, not a death. The Mangekyou Sharingan would certainly awaken\neven if someone didn't die as long as the severity of that specific trauma is\nthe same or exceeds the death of a loved one.\n\nIn conclusion awakening the Mangekyou Sharingan with genjutsu is possible if\nthe individual under the genjutsu is not able to discern reality with the\ngenjutsu\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-10-26T12:32:10.407", "id": "60907", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-26T20:19:51.423", "last_edit_date": "2020-10-26T20:19:51.423", "last_editor_user_id": "20275", "owner_user_id": "56867", "parent_id": "16665", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe the range is as far as the user of Amaterasu can see.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-12T18:32:30.820", "id": "16673", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-12T18:32:30.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4967", "parent_id": "16666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nJust like what @Minato Sensei is telling, the Amaterasu is based on the user\nvision. By focusing their vision upon an object the user is able to ignite the\nflames, the object ignites at the focus of the user's vision. Thus the\ndistance of Amaterasu really depends on the user's vision, from a certain\ndistance the user can't focus anymore. Bear in mind that this technique puts a\ngreat deal of strain on the user, usually causing their eyes to bleed. Thus\nfocusing from moon to earth is not possible.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T09:09:33.877", "id": "16751", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-15T09:09:33.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "16666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are correct that it is about a rush of timing during the initial broadcast\nof the series. The [_Sailor Moon Crystal_\nFailures](http://sailormooncrystalfailures.tumblr.com/tagged/compbr) website\nis maintaining a log of Toei's initial run screenshots with their Blu-Ray\nrevisions. Toei was running behind from the beginning (it originally announced\nthat _Sailor Moon Crystal_ would start in summer of 2013, but the release date\nwas pushed back twice: to early 2014, and then it finally did start \"airing\"\nin July of 2014).\n\nIn the past, anime was made with hand-painted cels, so of course the\nproduction companies were careful to paint each one the way they wanted it the\nfirst time. Nowadays, most anime is made with CG, so the idea of getting\nsomething rough out by the deadline and then going back and tweaking it later\nhas only quite recently emerged (another production change is that anime is\nnow largely not animated by Japanese animators within Japan; it is often\nanimated by Koreans in South Korea. Another is that anime is less profitable\nwithin Japan than it used to be, so cutting corners more visibly in order to\ncut down costs was not previously common). _Sailor Moon Crystal_ was [not\nconsidered profitable\nenough](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9709/why-is-sailor-\nmoon-2014-not-airing-on-tv/13849#13849) for TV broadcast (indeed its viewer\nnumbers have [sharply\ncrashed](http://ellephedre.tumblr.com/post/107146770770/crystals-ratings-on-\nniconico-japan) [a drop of 70%] from the number of viewers of the first\nepisode). This could be another factor in Toei's decision to decrease the\nartwork quality for subsequent episodes of the initial run and thereby give\nthemselves more time to touch it up afterward.\n\nI agree with you that this is not a common practice in Western media. American\ncartoon viewers are very particular about the quality. My friend who is a key-\nframes animator for _The Simpsons_ told me that there is one animator whose\nentire job is just to animate the mouth movements, because if the mouth\nmovement does not perfectly match the voice actor's words, the fans generally\nfeel that they cannot suspend disbelief. In contrast, anime in Japanese does\nnot always bother to record the voice actors' voices first before animating,\nsince Japanese fans do not care much whether the mouth movements exactly\nmatch. English dubs of anime can sound strange precisely because the script\ntranslator, instead of choosing the most natural-sounding English translation\nfor the original sentence, often chooses what he/she thinks the American voice\nactor can say that will match the animated mouth movements. The dub voice\nactors then try to make their syllables match as closely as possible, even to\nthe point of the sentence sounding unnatural in English. The reason is that\nAmerican viewers are used to watching mouth movements like in _The Simpsons_\nand Disney films which are perfectly aligned. Along these lines, if a Western\ncompany released a cartoon that was not high-quality at first, it would be\nvery ill-received and ill-reviewed, the show could be abruptly cancelled, and\nthey wouldn't be able to make as much money.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T02:25:38.017", "id": "18560", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T02:25:38.017", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "16668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis episode was [done\nentirely](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16247) by\none person, [Itsuki\nImazaki](http://myanimelist.net/people/30623/Imazaki_Itsuki), whose style you\nmight recognize from [Ai Mai\nMi](http://myanimelist.net/anime/16169/Ai_Mai_Mi).\n\nEverything involves storyboard, [mise-en-\nscene](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_sc%C3%A8ne), directing, and key\nanimation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-12T18:14:44.500", "id": "16672", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-12T18:14:44.500", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "16670", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n **The entire 11th episode is Kaoru's flashback.** Often in Anime (and even\nCartoons), flashbacks are usually done in slightly different style or with\nsome effect to differentiate them. Same is the case here.\n\nEven the last scene is a flashback. I say this because **[her hair is dark\nblue](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15330/why-did-kaorus-hair-\ncolor-change)** in this scene.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-14T04:46:58.847", "id": "16712", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-14T04:46:58.847", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10613", "parent_id": "16670", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not completely sure if my answer is any good, but I feel like it was worth\nputting this out.\n\nWe do indeed see that being blind would have prevented Roy from staying in the\nmilitary (according to the manga), and that in theory he could have regained\nhis sight by giving up his gate. But as pointed out in the question he would\n\"have no way back\". This doesn't seem to be related to the fact that his\nresponsibilities as a state alchemist might be affected if he took that route,\nparticularly when we see Grumman, who isn't a state alchemist, become the\nFuhrer (although he admittedly is a lot more experienced). Rather, I\ninterpreted it as follows:\n\n * Ed's gate has some sort of connection to Al's. We see this when Ed ends up in front of Al's gate (after he is swallowed by Gluttony) and sees Al's body. It's thus possible to conclude that Ed can \"exit\" via Al's path, instead of his own. This was stated to probably be related to the fact that they both put in blood into the mix of ingredients used in their human transmutation attempt, somewhere probably midway through the seres.\n\n * Consequently, Ed can give up his alchemy without being unable to escape the realm of the gate, as he has two possible exits (Al's gate, and his own) prior to giving up alchemy, and giving up alchemy only means giving up one of them.\n\n * Comparatively, Mustang hasn't had an experience akin to Ed and Al's - he does not \"share\" a gate with anyone. He can only enter and exit the realm of Truth through one means, but since it seems that entering (and presumably exiting) rely on there being a Gate, he would be unable to leave that place if he gave up alchemy (and consequently, his gate).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-12T20:53:25.763", "id": "16675", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-12T21:02:21.103", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-12T21:02:21.103", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "16671", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is just a supplement to [Maroon's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/16675/274) which is far too long to\nbe a comment.\n\nIn the raw manga, the original text is not akin to the English phrase \"to go\nback\" (as in, to return to the way things used to be; the metaphorical sense).\nIt actually is a literal remark that he will be unable to return [to the real\nworld] after destroying his gate.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tqUqA.jpg)\n\n> 「鋼のがやったように自分の扉を通行料にできれば良いのだが帰りの通路が無くなる」\n\nWhich translates somewhat more literally like,\n\n> If I could, I would do what Fullmetal did, and use my gate as the toll; but\n> then, the path for me to return home would disappear.\n\nAdditionally, the reason Edward was able to give up his gate is, as Maroon\nsaid, because Ed and Al's gates are somehow connected. After Edward destroys\nhis gate, he turns around and Truth points him toward Alphonse's gate, where\nAl is sitting. The two boys return through that to the real world.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4egRa.jpg)\n\nSince Mustang could have done no such thing, it makes sense he would have\nconcluded there to be no way to return once he had destroyed his gate.\n\n_Note: Please don't accept this answer; it's just here to\nsupport[Maroon's](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/16675/274); if you agree\nwith it, please accept that one instead.~_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T02:13:43.720", "id": "16682", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-26T02:39:32.470", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-26T02:39:32.470", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "16671", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is _[Sad\nBrothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-8kTRHiyoM&app=desktop)_ from Saint\nSeiya OST I, played from the middle. Thanks to @hkBattousai for the clue.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T19:45:14.547", "id": "16698", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-16T13:39:51.743", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-16T13:39:51.743", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "16680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure how much further the anime series but he looks like this guy, \n\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nyuxu.jpg) \n> He's [Gotoh (link contain\n> spoiler)](http://kiseijuu.wikia.com/wiki/Got%C5%8D), he's the mayor's\n> confidant and the most powerful parasite of the series\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T09:42:17.140", "id": "16687", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-13T09:42:17.140", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "16681", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAn exact solution is not traceable... The closest katana is a **Nodachi**\n(大太刀) without a Tsuba 鍔 (Handguard) and with a blue/light yellow decorated\nTsuka 柄 (Hilt).\n\n Image from [Sakura no\nkuni](http://sakura-no-kuni.weebly.com/nodachi.html).\n\nAs you mentioned in your question it could also be a shirasaya 白鞘.\n\nA Shirasaya actually contains two plain wooden parts. The Saya さや (Scabbard)\nand the Tsuka. These parts are used to store a katana blade and prevent it\nfrom corroding.\n\nThe Shirasaya Tsuka is actually not made to be used in combat because of the\nmissing Tsuba 鍔 (Hand guard). I also do not think that a storage tsuba is\nfixed strong enough to the blade to use it for fighting.\n\n Image ( _Sakura Shirasaya_ )\nby **Bahr3DCG** from [DeviantART](http://bahr3dcg.deviantart.com/art/Sakura-\nShirasaya-322056624).\n\nFurthermore there is also a Shikomizue 仕込み杖 that general also do not have a\ntsuba.\n\nA Shikomizue is actually a sword hidden in a stick. Propose of such a stick is\nto hide the sword from the public because it was not allowed to openly carry a\nsword.\n\n Image ( _Shikomizue Katana_\n) by **bernardfokke** from\n[DeviantART](http://bernardfokke.deviantart.com/art/Shikomizue-\nKatana-98252136).\n\nIn addition they are mostly decorated because it should look nice and\nunobtrusively like the tsuka of _Monohoshizao_.\n\nAnyway it is rather be a Nodachi because of length and it is also slightly\ncurved. Just without a hand guard.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T13:08:46.970", "id": "16692", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-13T19:51:37.487", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-13T19:51:37.487", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "16684", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is only vaguely an answer to my question, but: [the second\nOST](http://vgmdb.net/album/50322) included the piece \"Harmonious\" (also used\nas the ED for episode 23), which is a vocal piece to roughly the same melody\nas \"AL℃-@\" (this is a standard Sawano trick, as with \"MKAlieZ\" vs. \"aLIEz\";\n\"アZ-Kat\" vs. \"A/Z\"; and so forth). Like \"AL℃-@\", it has [a 16-bar vocal\nintroduction from 0:19 to 0:35](https://clyp.it/22xlf40w) (albeit in 3/4\nrather than 4/4), but with actual comprehensible lyrics:\n\n> 煌めく欠片 \n> 降り注ぐ空に \n> 未来繋ぐドア \n> 隠した\n\nRoughly,\n\n> The shining fragments, falling through the sky, concealed the door to the\n> future.\n\nNow, this clearly _isn't_ what Cyua is singing in AL℃-@, but as [mivilar\nnoticed in the comments on Cole's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/16686/what-is-cyua-singing-\nat-the-beginning-of-al%E2%84%83/18413#comment26814_18413), Cyua distinctly\nappears to be singing the word 未来 _mirai_ \"future\", and it lines up with what\nthe singer (Amamiya Sora / Asseylum) is singing in the third four-bar segment\nof the introduction to \"Harmonious\". Unfortunately, I have difficulty\nidentifying any other correspondences between the known lyrics in the\nintroduction to \"Harmonious\" and the unknown lyrics in the introduction to\n\"AL℃-@\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-22T01:22:43.590", "id": "20233", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-27T17:00:38.263", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "16686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSounds like \"Mirai Dorama, Aldnoah\" vocally stylized as \"Mi-Rai Du-Ra-Ma, Ald-\nNo-Ah\", Or, \"Meer-Haii Doo-Rah-Mah, Aald-Noh-Ahh\".\n\nOr, in English, maybe something like: \"Future Drama Aldnoah\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-09T07:06:00.447", "id": "44594", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-09T07:51:40.883", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-09T07:51:40.883", "last_editor_user_id": "38058", "owner_user_id": "38058", "parent_id": "16686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou often see these type of\n[bubbles](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SnotBubble) coming from\ncharacters' noses while they are asleep. It is highly unusual to see one while\na character is awake.\n\nIs it possible that he was chewing bubblegum in this scene?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T01:54:01.770", "id": "18557", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T01:54:01.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "16688", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI can only see three possible things causing this as it's an anime.\n\nIt's common for small bubbles like that to be in mangas to express a sigh,\nsometimes it occurs in animes too, but it's more common for that to happen\nwhen characters enter a more comedic and less serious stage (it tends to be\nfairly obvious).\n\nAnother reason is the above mentioned bubble-gum bubble, no further\nexplanation required (you will know by observing the context if he put\nsomething in his mouth).\n\nThe third possibility (that I can see) is that it's a part of his soul. In\nJapanese culture the soul can exit through your mouth, normally through great\nshock or near death experiences. It is also fairly common that some characters\nhave special powers that lets part of the soul slip out through their mouths\nfor various reasons.\n\n**I haven't watched this anime** so I can't tell for sure since I don't know\nthe context. My answer could however be of use to anyone else wondering in\ngeneral about bubbles from the mouth. Just by looking I'd place it more likely\nthat it's a gum-bubble.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-15T16:20:50.297", "id": "19378", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-15T16:20:50.297", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11735", "parent_id": "16688", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure it is **not** an \"emotion bubble\" like @seijitsu suggests:\n\n * In this particular scene, there is no trigger/reason to show one. These bubbles are shown in anime usually when a character is disappointed or tired. But Marcos is actually joyful for the medicine.\n * This anime has never used this type of artifact in any other episode.\n * The bubble is moving up & down as Marcos speaks. However, the traditional \"emotion bubble\" either remains static OR moves in a direction opposite to the mouth while it fades away.\n\nThe fact that it moves up & down as he speaks suggests that it is something\nthat exists physically (unlike \"emotion bubbles\", which are more abstract) -\ngiven the above, and the fact that Marcos had **just eaten a small candy-like\nmedicine** , it is most likely just some sort of bubble made out of the\nmedicine's gum.\n\nI know it looks odd (a gum bubble should probably be smaller) - but that's\nprobably attributed to the artists' drawing style.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-23T08:09:00.127", "id": "20266", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-23T08:09:00.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "261", "parent_id": "16688", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nLike AnimatedLime and Omega said, that is his medicine. For Arachnids [M.O.\nOrgan](http://terraformars.wikia.com/wiki/M.O._Operation) holders, their\nmedicine is consumed in the form of bubble gum. That is Marcos blowing a\nbubble from his medicine.\n\nFor what it is worth, the bubble looks a little better in the manga. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hurkz.png)\n\n> Taking a type of drug will bring out the abilities gained through the Mosaic\n> Organ to make the individual capable of facing against the Terraformar race\n> on Mars. The drug varies between an injection, biting a vial with a\n> substance inside, consuming a type of tablet, or sniffing a type of powder.\n\nDifferent bases have [different medicines](http://alien-versus-\nyakuza.tumblr.com/post/139670457928/hi-do-you-know-if-they-have-different-\nkind-of).\n\nPlants: Capsules\n\nInsects: Injections\n\nCrustaceans: Smoke, cigars like [Sylvester\nAsimov](http://terraformars.wikia.com/wiki/Sylvester_Asimov) or opium pipes\nlike Onizuka Keiji.\n\nFishes: Powder, Adolf snorts the powder\n\nThis image covers the above 4 types. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RUVMO.png)\n\nArachnids: Bubble Gum (Bubble gum image for comparison)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/v4gAt.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pqRiz.jpg)\n\nBirds: Vials of Liquid [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YaOKO.png)\n\nCephalopods: Liquid absorbed by the large intestine\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/glKuR.png)\n\nMammals/Cetaceans: A Patch [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZEDNX.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-26T14:25:10.823", "id": "31682", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-26T14:50:21.227", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-26T14:50:21.227", "last_editor_user_id": "14121", "owner_user_id": "14121", "parent_id": "16688", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**tl;dr: there is no exact point where the stories go \"different ways\".\nDepending on how strict you are with the plot divergence, there are several\ncandidates.**\n\n# Minor differences\n\n**There are differences even at the beginning.** For instance:\n\n> In the Lior arc, we see an failed \"resurrection\" of Rose's boyfriend in 2003\n> that was created from some birds, whereas this never shows up in the manga.\n> Al never even attempts the state alchemist qualifying exam in the manga, and\n> the train and Shou Tucker incidents happen _after_ Ed becomes a state\n> alchemist. Roy finds the brothers because of reports of there having been\n> skilled alchemists, not because of a letter.\n\nThere are also slight differences in character details (e.g. being a minority,\nRose is darker in 2003). 2003 also has some blatantly non-manga content at the\nbeginning (e.g. episode 4).\n\n# When do major differences start to appear?\n\nLooking at the Wikipedia\n[chapter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist_chapters)\nand 2003\n[episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist_episodes),\nwe have several candidates:\n\n * Ep. 7 (chapter 6, or ep. 5 of Brotherhood)\n\n> In the manga continuity, it is specifically stated that Shou Tucker is\n> killed. He is arrested, _not_ killed in the original anime, and he shows up\n> later.\n\n * Ep. 11:\n\n> The Tringhams appear later in the anime so they can't just be regarded as\n> \"filler\" material. But they're not in the manga continuity.\n\n * Ep. 14, 15 (thus, ch. 8/vol. 2, or ep. 4-5 of FMA:B)\n\n> Grand is killed very early on in the manga, and only appears in Ishval\n> flashbacks. Moreover the details about Ishval (which isn't discussed until\n> chapter 58) and Scar are different.\n\n * Episode 21 (thus, ch. 11, or ep. 7 of FMA:B)\n\n> Scar makes no such appearance in the manga, and the role of his brother is\n> different. The events at Laboratory 5 are different.\n\n * **Ep. 25, where the 2003 plot completely diverges (so ep. 10 of FMA:B or ch. 15).**\n\n> The details of Hughes' death are different. The homunculi are different in\n> the manga continuity.\n\n**FMA:B and the manga plots seem unrecognisable from a 2003 perspective by\naround ep. 12-14 or vol. 8.** However, important differences will have come up\nbefore that even though most of the events might be recognisable to someone\nwho saw 2003. **There's no single point before which everything is identical\nand everything afterwards is not.** Moreover, some details in later chapters\n(e.g. the Elrics' childhood, in ep. 3 vs. part of vol. 5) are covered\nrelatively early on in 2003, so there's going to be some duplication unless\nyou specifically avoid those chapters.\n\n# Recommendations\n\n**If you want to be aware of all small deviations, starting from the first\nchapter/episode of the respective adaptation is best. If small differences\naren't much issue and you want to reduce the amount you read/watch, vol. 2,\nep. 4 (FMA:B), or ep. 10 (2003) seems like a decent points, although opinions\nwill vary.** Keep in mind that later plot will still be similar or even\nidentical. If you skip stuff, it may be useful to read summaries and make sure\nyou know the chronology of the adaptation in question.\n\nIncidentally, _The Sacred Star of Milos_ should not require much manga\nknowledge. I did not watch _Conqueror of Shamballa_ closely, but my impression\nof it was that it required knowledge of the 2003 ending (ep. 48 onwards).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T12:15:59.643", "id": "16691", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-04T10:21:15.703", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "16689", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI know this anime. It's [**Baby\nBaachan**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2732/Baby_Baachan).\n\n\n\nThe main girl is Amika, who fights to save the forest which her grandmother\nhas protected. The other girls are other granddaughters of the grandmother.\nThe grandmother possesses her baby brother's body and tries to teach Amika how\nto win. She hates it till the end. The rounds go exactly as you say. In\nbetween, the grandmother/baby offers useful tips like cutting onions without\ncrying, etc.\n\nI will never forget this anime because the tips in this series helped me a lot\nin life when I was young. Hope this helped :D\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-28T18:29:20.977", "id": "21207", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-03T17:56:08.500", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-03T17:56:08.500", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14161", "parent_id": "16690", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are many other official artwork for the series. That is the cover of the\nDVD box set and like you said, the other image where Kyoko is not included is\nthe cover for the first volume of the manga.\n\n\n\nThis is probably also the reason why Netflix used that artwork as its listing.\n\nI think iconic is subjective in this case. Someone more familiar with the\nmovies will think differently, as you'll see later, but there are a lot of\nother official artwork where only two magical girls are featured at a time:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bRqvX.jpg)\n\nI do think that the reason why she's not included in that artwork is because\nshe's not involved in the first three episodes (there's 12 episodes and the\nset contains 3 discs, assuming the first disc only contains the first three\nepisodes). At least Sayaka is introduced in the first episode, which is\npresumably the first episode the viewer will watch after purchasing the discs\nset. Bear in mind that the cover for the discs set differs from region to\nregion.\n\nFinally, the artwork for the disc for the first movie, as well as the movie\nposters, includes all of the magical girls:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2lTgj.jpg)\n\nIn the first movie all of the five characters are introduced and played\nsignificant roles. So this theory is not that far-fetched.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T18:12:44.357", "id": "16694", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-13T18:24:22.713", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-13T18:24:22.713", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "16693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKeep in mind that **it isn't the strawhats that are trying to take down\nSugar** , but the dwarves are, together with Kyros (although he wouldn't stick\naround to deal with Sugar as his main goal is surprise-killing Doflamingo).\nRobin and Usopp just got mixed up in the situation, but they aren't leading\nthe operation. Additionally **Robin and Usopp were never the fighting types**\nto begin with. If Luffy would have been there, it would have been a totally\ndifferent situation. To this date (chapter 787), there is no other Straw Hat\nthat even knows about Sugar and her ability.\n\nAdditionally **the dwarves are known as great cultivators** as they stated\nthat they can cultivate any plant, as evidenced by the abundance of plant life\non Green Bit ([wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dwarves#Abilities)).\nTherefore it makes more sense to take down their enemy with spices than by\nforce. It's their speciality and what they are famous for, despite their\ninhumane strength. (chapter 726)\n\n\n\nLastly, this is probably the main reason, without them actually ever stating\nthis obvious fact. They know **they aren't strong enough to take Trebol\ndown**. So a frontal attack would never work as they know Trebol will always\nbe by Sugar's side and unless they go about sneaking around with spices they\nwould suffer a horrible defeat. In the end, this was exactly how it went down.\n\nAdditionally as pointed out by\n[Wouter](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/14599/wouter), even if the\nTontatta would be physically stronger than Sugar, **they need to take her\ndown, before she can touch them** , or they would be turned into a toy,\nexactly as what happened in the end. They underestimated her, because she was\n_only a little girl_. So without using ranged attacks, it would be unwise to\nattack her. I'm not completely sure why Usopp did not just snipe her though\n(at that time). He would have been the perfect match as we saw later in the\nstory.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T21:33:19.627", "id": "16699", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-17T12:01:37.343", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "16695", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf my understanding was correct, he was afraid that she would discover his\nunique constitution (the extremely high psion count he had) which allowed him\nto use some of his really overpowered and rarely seen spells such as Gram\nDemolition. Knowing that he has this specific constitution would make him a\nsuspect when spells that require this constitution are cast.\n\nTatsuya tried (and failed miserably) to keep a low profile and avoid divulging\nany information about his powers, as some of these were national secrets (due\nto him being a special member of the JSDF 101 Independent Magic-Equipped\nBattalion) and the Yotsuba wanted his and Miyuki's identity as members of the\nfamily to remain secret.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T23:49:43.733", "id": "18967", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-01T05:13:58.490", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-01T05:13:58.490", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11458", "parent_id": "16700", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n2 things:\n\nfirst - high psion count\n\nsecond - use of \"Pledge\" to limit his powers (including psion count)\n\n**Mental Interference Magic - \"Pledge\"** is an Outer Systematic Magic. Outer\nSystematic Magic does not deal with physical objects but spirits or to be more\nprecise pushions.\n\nMental Interference Magic though not directly deals with spirits (information\nbodies with pushion core) but there is a high chance that it involves dealing\nwith pushions ( _In Visitors' Arc - it was Miyuki's magic - Cocytus - which\ncould destroy the parasites. Tatsuya's \"Far Strike\" could only strip the\nparasite's outer psion body and force them to enter hibernation._ )\n\n**P.S. - Cocytus is a form of Mental Interference Magic.**\n\nMizuki has a special pair of eyes which can see pushions. This made Tatsuya\nafraid of Mizuki. Even among magicians who are sensitive to pushions, Mizuki\nis a special case. Her eye is known as **\"Crystal Eyes\"** (Eyes that can see\nGod). This allows her to see even different shades in spirit's colors.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-28T05:59:04.550", "id": "38114", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T05:59:04.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30005", "parent_id": "16700", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOne of the most obvious reasons is that it's because of the target audience.\nThe majority of anime titles are aimed at school kids, so there are school\nkids in it. Of course there are small important distinctions between the sorts\nof teenagers and young people, but in general they can all be described as\nschool kids.\n\nBooks, movies, tv shows and other works of popular art depict the stories of\nthe sorts of people they are aimed at most of the time. Nothing else is as\neffective at helping the consumers connect with the characters on screen/page.\nThis is marketing 101 in all its glorious action.\n\nAside from that, school is a unique time in the lives of most people. It's\nwhen you get to be emotional, meet with new friends and enemies, join various\nclubs and do fun stuff, try out new things and have a chance to turn your life\naround completely. Later on in life it's usually a lot more stable for most,\nso it's not as rich a setting as a school. You probably wouldn't believe that\nadults could have any fun adventures or be as irresponsible as kids in their\nthirties, too.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-13T23:44:43.063", "id": "16703", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-14T03:39:28.827", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-14T03:39:28.827", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "16701", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nMy feeling is that [Hakase's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/16703)\nis half-correct. I agree that characters are generally chosen so that the\ntarget audience can relate to them. However, I disagree that means that\nthey're necessarily the _same_ age as the target audience. That is to say,\npeople don't necessarily relate best (as a group) to people who are of the\nsame age as them. What people do relate well to are characters who are in a\nsituation that is at least somewhat similar to what they have experienced, but\nthis generally only means that the characters need to be _younger than_ the\ntarget audience, not the same age.\n\n* * *\n\nTo understand this in more depth, we need to know a bit about anime/manga\ndemographics. You may already know this, but I'll write it here for\ncompleteness. There are five key demographic groups. The youngest group is\ncalled \"kodomo\", literally meaning \"child\". The target age range is something\nlike 3-7 years old. It is not typically segregated by gender. The most famous\nshow targeting this group is probably\n[Doraemon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon), but there are actually a\nlarge number of shows aimed at this group. You probably don't watch many of\nthem, though, so I'll ignore it. Next, there are shounen and shoujo, for\n(respectively) boys and girls. These target school-age children in the range\nof 8-17 years old or so. Most of the most famous anime are shounen, including\n[Dragon Ball](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball), [One\nPiece](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece), and\n[Naruto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto). There are some famous shoujo\nseries like [Sailor Moon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon), but fewer\nthan shounen. Above that, there are the seinen and josei groups, targeting\n(respectively) men and women in the 18-34 age range. By volume, seinen is\nprobably the largest demographic group, but certainly not by viewership. You\ncan probably find more information here in a number of other questions about\nthe relative sizes of these and what counts as what. All the ages quoted are\napproximate, but they're at least moderately accurate.\n\nThese demographic groups aren't as flexible as you might think. Most anime is\npigeonholed into one of them. Children's anime typically airs during the\ndaytime and is sponsored by the station directly. Most of these aim to be at\nleast marginally educational. Shounen and shoujo anime mostly airs during\nprimetime hours or in the mornings, when they aren't at school. The successful\nones are able to secure some external sponsorship and rely on this as their\nprimary source of revenue. Adult anime usually airs in late night time slots\n(or on special anime stations), when broadcast restrictions are lessened and\nstations are willing to sell out their airtime. These are usually not\nsponsored in any way, and actually have to buy their airtime. They rely on\nmerchandise sales, including DVDs and increased manga sales, to break even,\nand hence are forced into targeting consumers with enough money to purchase\nthe expensive DVDs (typically approximately 6000 - 8000 yen for 2 or 3\nepisodes) and merchandise. While it's possible for a show to air at a\ndifferent time than this would indicate (e.g. shounen shows airing in late\nnight slots), it is much harder for various reasons, so it's not that common.\n\n* * *\n\nFor now, I'll restrict to the male audiences, which are significantly larger\nthan their female counterparts (and with which I have significantly more\nexperience). Among shounen shows, it's actually rather easy to find examples\nwhere school is nowhere to be found or irrelevant. All the famous examples I\nlisted above don't have school settings. On the other hand, many seinen shows\nare set in schools. My personal feeling is that it's probably more common for\nseinen shows than shounen to be set in a school. I don't claim to have\nanything like a representative sample, and it may be that the two rates are\nactually about equal. But even still, the fact that _any_ seinen shows are set\nin schools casts doubt on the theory that the characters are meant to be the\nsame age as the viewers, since very few members of the seinen target audience\nare still in high school (and none would be in middle school or lower). By my\nvery cursory counting of my own (not at all representative list), of 16 seinen\nshows I'm watching this season 11 are set at least partially in schools, which\nis far more than can be explained by the age of the target audience alone.\n\nInstead, I think the driving force here is _nostalgia_. Shounen shows\ngenerally try to appeal to younger kids desire to be older and more mature\n(for which they may use physical strength as a proxy). Hence you see a lot of\n\"adult\" characters. By contrast, seinen shows aim to appeal to the desire of\nadults to return to a more carefree and easy-going lifestyle which they\nexperienced when they were younger. Such shows typically present an idealized\ndepiction of school life. It's a school life very few people actually\nexperienced, but it's at least close enough that it serves the purposes of\ncreating a nostalgic setting on top of which the story and characters can be\ndeveloped. Of course, making the characters younger means they have more room\nto develop as well, at least if they are realistic.\n\nThere's a second, related reason. It's much easier to appeal to the lowest\ncommon denominator than to aim for the middle of the road. Putting the\ncharacters in high school is not going to demoralize anyone or make them feel\ninferior. Most Japanese people go to (and graduate) high school; the\ngraduation rate is approximately 95%, [tied for third place\nworldwide](https://www.aneki.com/oecd_countries_high_school_graduation_rates.html).\nThere's little worry that setting an anime in high school will alienate\nviewers. On the other hand, Japan's college graduation rate is only about 53%;\nwhile that's still very high compared to most other countries, anime producers\noften won't risk alienating 47% of their audience by setting shows in college.\nLikewise, setting shows in a workplace environment risks alienating\n[NEETs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET) who are, at least stereotypically,\noften anime fans, as well as people working in very different kinds of jobs.\nWhile some series drop this entirely and aim for a completely unfamiliar\nsetting, this is somewhat more common in shounen series that aim to appeal to\nthe viewer's sense of adventure. Incidentally, for much the same reasons,\n[shounen protagonists aren't the brightest\nlot](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2178/why-are-the-shounen-lead-\nprotagonists-usually-shown-to-be-stupid) either. This is absolutely not to say\nthat anime are never set in workplaces or in colleges (see, for instance,\n[Servant x Service](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_x_Service) or [Golden\nTime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Time_\\(novel_series\\))), but it's\nfar less common.\n\n* * *\n\nLet's take a case study. One of the most successful anime in history is\n[K-On!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-On!), a seinen slice of life series\nabout girls in a high school light music club. The 2009 anime was highly\nsuccessful and drew a number of readers to the manga, which before that point\nwas relatively unknown. The 2010 sequel concluded the series with four of the\nfive main girls graduating high school and going off to college, while the\nfifth entered her final year of high school.\n\nAt the conclusion of the anime, the manga was basically at the same point.\nHowever, as something of a surprise, the manga author did not decide to\nconclude the manga there. Rather, he decided to continue it with two series.\nOne would focus on the main four girls in college. The other continued the\nstory of the remaining high school student in her last year and promoted two\npreviously minor characters to members of the club.\n\nThe reaction to this was almost altogether negative. Most die-hard fans did\nnot want a continuation in college. On various internet fora, comments were\nmade. Some people said things like \"I don't want to read about a bunch of\ncollege girls when I didn't graduate college\". Others said \"there is no way\nthis can continue to be believable, as now that they're in college, they'll\nhave to get boyfriends, and would not have the time to be in a band together\".\nPeople just didn't want to read about a bunch of college-aged adult women\nsitting around and eating cakes, even when they were quite happy with it when\nthe girls were just a year younger. The high-school part wasn't plagued with\nthe same level of negative commentary, but it didn't do particularly well on\nits own, having lost many of the good characters. Readership dropped\ndrastically, and the manga concluded just a year later, the mangaka apparently\nhaving decided too that continuing any further wasn't worth it.\n\n* * *\n\nI'm returning to the female demographics because they provide some interesting\ncontrast. At least stereotypically, many shoujo series are romances, set in\nschool. This is perhaps understandable. In fantasy, action/adventure genre\nshows which are common among shounen series, the unusual setting is a large\npart of the appeal. However, for a romance show, the appeal is in the\ncharacters, and as a result setting it in a familiar place like a school is\nprobably the best option. Indeed, for most viewers in the target audience, the\nmajority of all of their social interactions would take place at school. As a\nresult, many (probably more than for shounen) shoujo series are set in\nschools.\n\nHowever, an interesting thing happens with josei anime. Josei is significantly\nsmaller than any of the other three demographics I've talked about here. It's\nactually quite difficult for josei shows to be successful. But as a result,\njosei series are, in many cases, forced to be more experimental. These series\noften feature adults in the workforce or college students, sometimes in\nunusual or difficult situations. Josei is known for being particularly drama-\nbased; romance is present, but often just to emphasize the interpersonal\nconflicts. Some examples of successful josei anime which do this are [Usagi\nDrop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Drop) and [Hachimitsu to\nClover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_and_Clover). One can find even more\nexperimental works in manga, though very few make it to anime. Thus, if you\nwant to find some anime that is really broadly different from the mainstream\nshounen/seinen/shoujo stuff, you can probably find josei works which will\nappeal to you.\n\n* * *\n\nSo, at the end of the day, yes, school settings are chosen because viewers can\nrelate to them. However, that is _not_ because the viewers are expected to be\nin school themselves, at least not always. Rather, in many cases, it's because\nthe viewers are expected to _have been in_ schools at some point, and hence\ncan relate. There are few options as broadly applicable as primary/secondary\neducation for that purpose. Such settings also often are chosen to invoke some\nnostalgic feelings, and because they won't alienate most viewers. While one\ncan find anime which are not set in schools, they're necessarily more\nexperimental as such settings are not as well developed and appeal to smaller\nviewerships. If course most anime is not meant to be experimental, and even\nmost experimental shows don't experiment with everything, so the majority of\nshows nowadays are set in schools, but there are exceptions if you look for\nthem.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T04:36:20.413", "id": "16773", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T04:36:20.413", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "16701", "post_type": "answer", "score": 24 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think so, although it's never revealed - the name Platty (and in Japanese\nKamo - short for Kamonohashi [platypus] ) and his appearance is pretty\nindicative of it.\n\nIf we use the [Duck Test](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test):\n\n> if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it\n> probably is a duck.\n\nPlatty:\n\n * Looks like a platypus\n * We don't really get to see Platty swim, but he does enjoy a hotspring - where platypuses can reside. [article about an investigation of Platypuses in Lake Kinrin hotspring water](http://www.ed.oita-u.ac.jp/kykenkyu/bulletin/kiyou/takahama32-1.pdf)\n\n\n\n * He sorta sounds like a platypus <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsd7ZfdZcNU> , but it's more of a quack noise.\n\n**Conclusion:** Maybe? (I don't think we're supposed to know)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-31T00:09:09.663", "id": "21991", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-31T00:09:09.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "16702", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMomoka's skill is possibly hereditary. Kazue Sonokawa (her mother) possibly\nhas a natural affinity with weapons just as Momoka does. She's possibly seen a\nbit of action when she was younger too and has the lessons of experience as an\nadvantage.\n\nAnother contributing factor is that Kazue is an adult. Adults in Japan are\nallowed weild more powerful weapons than juveniles' airsoft guns. Adolescents\ncan only use guns which are limited to a kinetic energy of 0.135 Joules.\nHowever, adults can use guns with 1 Joule - which could be why her bullets\nseemingly shot through the floor and also gave her an advantage over Momoka\n\n[Reference.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_in_airsoft#Japan)\n\n(It was probably just the mangaka's decision though)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-30T23:57:07.720", "id": "21989", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-30T23:57:07.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "16704", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nPersonally, I wouldn't exactly look into considering it was a one-off moment\nexpressed comedically. So in all honesty, as BADASS as that paints her (and\nI'm all on board for more badass moms in media in general), I still firmly\nbelieve it's just for laughs that'll probably be left forgotten.\n\nI could be wrong though, guess we'll see if the show actually goes to address\nit.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-31T12:19:50.287", "id": "48632", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-31T13:08:04.613", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-31T13:08:04.613", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42281", "parent_id": "16704", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nArmin is a boy.\n\nThere are some reasons worth consideration:\n\n 1. His appearance is male. This isn't always telltale, due to [traps](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3520/274).\n 2. Armin uses distinctly male language in Japanese. (He refers to himself as 僕【ぼく】 ( _boku_ ), which is a male pronoun, fairly rarely used by females unless they are traps.)\n 3. The [_Shingeki no Kyojin_](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Armin_Arlert) Wiki refers to him as male.\n 4. Armin is a boy's name. ([One source](http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Armin), but there's many.)\n 5. He is voiced by a male in the English dub. Though he is voiced by a female in Japanese, this is common for young or weak boys (Shinji Ikari, Edward Elric, etc.). However, a male voicing a female character is exceedingly rare, and I doubt the mangaka would have allowed it.\n\nIn [the article you are referring\nto](http://zakitakubu.com/2014/10/09/shingeki-no-kyojin-armin-is-a-girl/), the\nanswers to the questions are actually just for humorous purposes, and should\n_not_ be regarded canonically. For example:\n\n> Q: Mike smells all kinds of stuff, how does a titan smell? \n> A: They smell like a spa-town.\n\nAfter this article, Armin was later **confirmed to be male** by the mangaka\nhimself at a public event found in [this Japanese\nvideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guuyZxqGNi8) at 3:09 (thanks\n[@OshinoShinobu](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2869/oshino-shinobu)):\n\n> Q: アルミンの性別はどっちですか？ \n> What is Armin's sex?\n>\n> A: 男です。 \n> Male.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-14T00:29:41.417", "id": "16707", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T11:04:47.940", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "16706", "post_type": "answer", "score": 25 }, { "body": "\n\nArmin is a boy because of his physical appearance. Although a woman plays\nArmin in the Japanese version of Attack of Titan, the voice actor is a guy in\nthe English version.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T07:18:37.563", "id": "17178", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T18:11:25.290", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T18:11:25.290", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10902", "parent_id": "16706", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nArmin is confirmed to be a boy in story when:\n\n> He is kidnapped while pretending to be Krista/Historia. While the kidnappers\n> originally think him to be female, they are... shocked... when they find out\n> he is male.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-24T19:34:53.853", "id": "20316", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-24T19:34:53.853", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "16706", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nArmin is male. It was joked that the girl Mikasa got along with best was\nArmin. This is kind of a joke on the fact that Mikasa doesn't seem to have any\nfemale companion that she likes and also because of Armin's more feminine\nbuild and behavior as opposed to Eren or any other distinctively male\ncharacter.\n\nIt is common practice in Japanese production that mild, gentle and physically\nweaker males are voiced by women as well as young boys. Armin is all of these\nas a 15 year old intellectual who has been thrust into the position of a\nsoldier because he was alone and scared.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-08T14:58:09.607", "id": "23116", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-08T15:12:14.437", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-08T15:12:14.437", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "15550", "parent_id": "16706", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThats most probably Ai Yori Aoshi.\n\n\n\n> Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but\n> bewildered girl dressed in a kimono at a train station. He volunteered to\n> guide her way to the address she was looking for, which happened to be in\n> his neighborhood, but turned out to be an empty lot. Not knowing what to do\n> next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for any\n> additional clues to her destination. She supplied him with a photo of two\n> children whom Kauru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his\n> childhood friend. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi\n> Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancee who came all the way to Tokyo to\n> marry him. Her revelation was not only surprising but also reminded the\n> deepest part of Kaoru's memory for why he left the Hanabishi family in the\n> first place.\n\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/53/Ai_Yori_Aoshi#ukLuKTs2pDyWy1MB.99)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-14T13:24:35.677", "id": "16721", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-14T13:24:35.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6344", "parent_id": "16715", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere was a specific reason why they were using the car:\n\n17 and 18 weren't that emotionally invested in killing Goku, and they were\njust killing time.\n\nThey knew that taking a car was impractical, but they took one anyway because\nandroid 17 felt like it\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-14T17:30:39.910", "id": "16724", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-30T18:06:42.633", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-30T18:06:42.633", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "16722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOVA stands for Original Video Animation, this means these episodes are much\nlike \"Beta-tests.\" Or they can be anything that isn't related to the Anime\nitself, for example; In the Anime \"Clannad\" there is an OVA episode where\nTomoyo /Spoilers/ and Tomoya have a romantic relationship, however in the\nactual series this relationship does not exist, but it does within the OVA.\nThe OVA's are separate from the series, and are usually just a little bonus\nfrom the producers, however it should be noted that they are non-canonical and\nshould be treated as such. I hope this can help.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-14T22:35:29.833", "id": "16729", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-14T22:35:29.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10634", "parent_id": "16728", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBroadly, the two terms could be interchanged, although there are a few points\nof (almost) difference:\n\n 1. OVAs are generally released for home video (be that VHS, DVD, or whatever), whereas it's possible for a Special to be released as a television broadcast that is just separate from the rest of the show.\n 2. OVAs are often shorter than a normal episode of the show, while Specials are often as long or longer, although this definitely doesn't always hold.\n 3. Some OVAs are not associated with a show, so they aren't a \"special episode\" of anything. For example, the series _Video Girl Ai_ was only ever released as a 6 episode straight-to-video OVA.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-14T23:00:25.927", "id": "16730", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-14T23:00:25.927", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8843", "parent_id": "16728", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nTo describe \"Special\" and OVA, we need to describe what's \"normal\" anime. \nUsually anime (TV series anime) is broad-casted weekly. It will continue 13 or\nmore weeks. It's usually free with Television advertisement (and has eye-catch\nat center of episode). TV station have their code: no pantsu scene, no\nviolence scene. The DVD (or BD) will be release later.\n\nSpecial (aka [TV Special](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_special)) is\nnot weekly. Usually yearly or one shot. It's have only one episode but it's\nhave longer length (ex 2 hours). It's still intended for broadcast. Need to\nmeet broadcast code.\n\nOVA is created for selling (by Video or DVD). It's intended to the small\nnumber of viewer without advertisement. It means more otaku friendly theme. No\nneed to follow broadcast code. It's OK to have hard violence scene.\n\nBut, in recent time, some OVA was broadcasting with censorship. On the other\nhand, some TV series is on air with censorship, and selling DVD (or BD)\nwithout censorship version. The boundary became ambiguous.\n\nOther category is anime movie which is intended to show in theater. Anime\nmovie is between special and OVA.\n\nThe anime [Lupin the Third](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_III) has all TV\nseries version, OVA, Anime movie and TV Special. In this case, special version\nis yearly release.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T07:39:21.190", "id": "16808", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T07:39:21.190", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "16728", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nOVAs are not special episodes, as its own name states: Original Video\nAnimation (OVA) they were made for video consumption and had no limitations\n(censorship) with the intention to expand the market to a more mature\naudience. There's also ONA (Original Net Animation) which has been conceived\nto premiere in the Internet.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-09T08:28:47.567", "id": "46940", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-09T08:28:47.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "40552", "parent_id": "16728", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nOVA is a fickle idea, and changes it purpose from title to title. The one\nthing that seems to hold in most all of them is that OVA is much closer to\nwhat the original writer invisioned. Some series originally release with OVA\nbecause the writer can produce a quality high enough for public release.\nOthers release OVA afterwards, when the project gets more funding, so it can\nbe completed as they wanted to originally, but couldn't afford. Take it as you\nwill.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-11T08:20:12.220", "id": "46977", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-11T08:20:12.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "40573", "parent_id": "16728", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe name of this anime is [Yosuga no\nSora](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosuga_no_Sora):\n\n\n\n> Yosuga no Sora (ヨスガノソラ?, lit. Sky of Connection) is a Japanese romance/drama\n> adult visual novel developed by CUFFS (\"Sphere\"). The game was originally\n> released for Windows PC on December 5, 2008. It was adapted into a\n> serialized manga and an anime TV series. A sequel/fan disk titled Haruka na\n> Sora was released later on October 24, 2009, which contains new and expanded\n> scenarios for several characters from the original game.\n\n# Plot\n\n> Haruka Kasugano and his twin sister Sora have lost both their parents in an\n> accident, and with them all their support. They decide to move out of the\n> city to the rural town where they once spent summers with their late\n> grandfather. At first everything seems familiar and peaceful, but changes\n> come as Haruka starts to remember things from his youth.\n\nRead more\n[here.](http://myanimelist.net/anime/8861/Yosuga_no_Sora:_In_Solitude_Where_We_Are_Least_Alone.#iduXmOt3Klom1Zdv.99)\n\nThe guy in the image is [Haruka\nKasugano](http://myanimelist.net/character/33225/Haruka_Kasugano):\n\n\n\nThis image is larger comparing to the one you post in you question:\n\n\n\nTheir hair look the same in both pictures, so I think this is the anime you\nare looking for.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-14T23:23:47.253", "id": "16733", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-14T23:49:23.070", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "16731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNaruto only used this jutsu one time in normal form (against Kakuzu, and got\nmany side effects, like you said), the other times he was at [Sage\nmode](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Mode), at this state he didn't damage\nhimself.\n\nAccording to [Naruto\nWiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Release:_Rasenshuriken):\n\n> Naruto later improved the Rasenshuriken with Sage Mode. This allows him to\n> throw it at his opponents, and removes the threat of damaging himself with\n> the technique.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T01:23:34.437", "id": "16738", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T15:55:30.540", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-19T15:55:30.540", "last_editor_user_id": "2251", "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "16735", "post_type": "answer", "score": 27 }, { "body": "\n\nTo expand on Rikkin's answer, the damage is only done on impact.\n\nWhen Naruto first tried to use it on Kakuzu, his arm was at the very center of\nthe damage radius when it impacted, which caused the damage.\n\nWhile training for Sage Mode, Naruto learnt to throw the Rasenshuriken, which\nallowed him to only damage his opponent and not himself by staying out of the\ndamage radius.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T01:46:30.920", "id": "16739", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-15T01:46:30.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10641", "parent_id": "16735", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nNaruto is able to use the Rasenshuriken freely basically because he enters\nsage mode which allows him to throw the Rasenshuriken because of the nature\nenergy and his own Charkra combined granting him the ability to throw it, in\nhis base form he couldn't he had to attack Kakuzu up close like an regular\nrasengan, which damages both the user because he had to get up close, and the\nvictim.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-25T01:20:11.243", "id": "36512", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-25T01:20:11.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28415", "parent_id": "16735", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen Naruto first created the Rasen-Shuriken, the technique was only half-\ncompleted. It wasn't stable enough to be thrown, so Naruto has to use it as a\nmelee attack like the standard Rasengan. However, the kickback of the jutsu is\nextremely dangerous.\n\nThe when the Rasen-Shuriken strikes, it dissolves into a veritable armada of\nmicroscopic wind blades that attack every cell in the opponent's body,\nsevering the the victim's Chakra network. However, due to his close proximity\nto the point of impact, Naruto experiences similar aftereffects in the arm\nthat wielded the technique. While the damage to his Chakra network wasn't\nnearly as severe, if overused, it would render Naruto permanently incapable of\nmolding Chakra.\n\nHowever, after Naruto learns to enter Sage Mode, he can use the Sage Chakra to\nstabilize the Jutsu's form, allowing it to be thrown like a real shuriken.\nThis is also true for when Naruto gains control over the Nine Tails' Chakra.\n\nAs a long range technique, the Rasen-Shuriken no long poses any danger to\nNaruto.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-18T20:24:04.973", "id": "38483", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-18T20:24:04.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29866", "parent_id": "16735", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## Difference between the anime and manga of _Akame ga KILL!_\n\nI have listed out some of the differences between the anime and manga of\n_Akame ga KILL!_ [in this\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/15124/what-akame-ga-kill-\nmanga-should-i-read-if-i-want-to-continue-the-story-line-of/15129#15129). Let\nme reproduce it here for posterity.\n\n> The story is generally the same up to episode 17/chapter 33. However, the\n> anime begins to have minor deviations from the manga from episode 18/chapter\n> 34. After chapter 38, which corresponds to episode 19, the anime totally\n> skips more than 10 chapters starting from chapter 39, except for this plot\n> point in chapter 43, where\n>\n\n>> ... Susanoo died fighting Esdeath to let the rest of the Night Raid escape.\nOriginally, this happened during the mission to assassinate Borick, which\nspans from chapter 40 to chapter 43. In the anime, Susanoo's death is moved to\nepisode 21 during the rescue for Tatsumi instead, and Borick's assassination\nis trivialized at the end of episode 19.\n\n>\n> Episode 20 restarts from second half of chapter 50, but doesn't follow the\n> manga too closely, since the manga introduces many new characters during the\n> Wild Hunt arc (from chapter 44 to 48), and several of them affect the story\n> beyond Wild Hunt arc.\n>\n> Most of the differences between manga and anime adaptation come from this\n> 10-chapter gap.\n\n## Possibility of a remake ending\n\nIt's not unprecedented and even common for the anime to have an original\nending, when the anime runs out of source material. Heck, for the case of\n_Fullmetal Alchemist_ , the 2003 anime branched off from the manga half-way\nand followed its own original storyline.\n\nFor the case of _Akame ga KILL!_ , it is extremely unlikely that it gets a\nremake. Unlike the case of _Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)_ anime where the plot\nin the manga was still developing, _Akame ga KILL!_ manga is currently on its\nway to the ending. The anime's ending also prohibits any logical extension to\nthe story, and an anime continuation would require a completely new arc in the\nmanga, plus great demand from fans.\n\nSince the manga is currently on-going, only time will tell whether the manga\nhas the same ending as the anime or not, or whether there is any extension to\nthe story of the characters who survives.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T01:49:07.920", "id": "16740", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-02T06:25:44.883", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "16737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are also several exclusions of the story of several side characters. For\nexample the anime completely leaves out the Wild Hunt without which viewers\nnever find out Run's story (it's touched on in the anime but never developed).\nBecause the anime ended early, people will never know the story of people like\nWave.\n\nSpoiler:\n\n> Lubbock gets killed by Budo after escaping being tortured in prison by\n> Syura.\n\nAnd there will probably never be a remake - it's just too brutal...\n\nBut you should definitely read the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-01T23:35:31.873", "id": "20548", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-01T23:37:37.463", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-01T23:37:37.463", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "13673", "parent_id": "16737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAnd the elite team by Shura is skipped so much even the connection between\nRan's past and one of the member. In the end Ran did his revenge but death in\nthe end...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-21T16:34:19.403", "id": "37447", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-21T16:34:19.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29361", "parent_id": "16737", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's the same from episode 1 to 18, but after that, they did many shortcuts:\n\n * Borik's assassination became \"easy np\"\n * They skipped the Wild Hunt Arc\n * Transformed many awesome combats and just ruined it. Most of them are short silly combats, removing most of the meaning et deap of some characters.\n\nThe adaptation was quite disappointing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-27T21:55:10.283", "id": "43031", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-28T01:44:27.480", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-28T01:44:27.480", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36344", "parent_id": "16737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Koshien Stadium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshien_Stadium) is the site of\nthe finals of two national baseball tournaments for high schoolers in Japan\n(referred to as \"Spring Koshien\" and \"Summer Koshien\"). Making it to Koshien\nmeans that your team is extremely successful, one of the best in the country.\nMaking it to either of these is a dream for many Japanese high schoolers who\nplay baseball. Players who make it to Koshien often have successful\nprofessional careers after high school. In addition the sand from Koshien is\nliterally a sacred object in Shintoism (there is a shrine outside the\nstadium). Losing teams at Koshien are allowed to take a bag of the sand home\nas a souvenir, which is to teach them the value of earnest effort even in\ndefeat and supposedly holds life lessons.\n\nAs such, for many Japanese high schoolers, Koshien (and anything associated to\nit, especially the sand) is something of a dream. Baseball is one of the most\npopular sports in Japan, and these tournaments are famous enough that almost\nevery Japanese person would know them and understand this reference.\n\nFor a sports-fan like Ikumi, this seems like a perfect present. The fake\nKoshien sand is actually quite cheap, but it _seems_ valuable given the\nhistory and tradition.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T03:35:51.583", "id": "16742", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-15T03:35:51.583", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "16741", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to japanvisitor.com, the sand at Koshien Stadium is considered\nsacred:\n\n> One of the enduring images of any day at Koshien is the winning team\n> bounding over to their cheering section to celebrate while the losers cry\n> bitter tears of defeat, beating the walls and falling to their knees,\n> **digging the sacred Koshien sand to remember their day by**. As long as\n> there are boys who dream of glory there will always be Koshien.\n\n[Source](http://www.japanvisitor.com/japanese-culture/baseball/baseball-\nkoshien)\n\nAnd according to this [Reddit\nPost](http://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/2ei0og/game_thread_mie_vs_osaka_toin_august_25_2014/cjzp92x):\n\n> The sand at Koshien is sacred. I mean that literally; the ballpark is\n> considered sacred ground under the Shinto religion, and there's a shrine\n> outside the ballpark to that effect. Losing teams are allowed to take a bag\n> of the sand home as a souvenir. After the game, look for shots of the losing\n> team emotionally gathering earth up.\n\nAlso baseball represents the best qualities found in Japanese sports like a\nself-disciplined work ethic, teamwork and resilience. These qualities are also\nvalued not only in sports but in life too. Since Koshien Stadium is host to a\ncouple of nationwide events in baseball, being a member of the team who is on\nthe grounds and plays would be a great honor and if you don't win first place,\nthe sand or dirt would be proof of your time there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-15T03:37:38.363", "id": "16743", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T12:54:31.630", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-16T12:54:31.630", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "16741", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI could be completely off base here, but honestly I think it's because\n\n> she is the one of the only ones who survive.\n\nI think she is very central to the story, though. She just isn't your\nstereotypical front and center protagonist. She does have the most backstory,\nand they did create _Akame ga KILL! Zero_ to further develop her character.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-05T23:16:47.333", "id": "19839", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-26T17:14:43.047", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-26T17:14:43.047", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13080", "parent_id": "16761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAkame, like all other Night Raid members, had a reason for joining. However,\nunlike the others,\n\n> she had to leave an actual **relative** behind on the government's side,\n\nso she's already different from everyone else right off the bat, not to\nmention the fact that her sister (pretty much her past) came back later on in\nthe series.\n\nShe had the most character development. Sure the author could've used any\ncharacter to zero in on, but he chose Akame. As to why she was the center of\nattention, well, she was really the strongest one,\n\n> not to mention the only one who survived of nightraid.\n\nSo it's only natural that she was the center of attention.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-07T07:30:49.423", "id": "19870", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-07T13:59:35.973", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-07T13:59:35.973", "last_editor_user_id": "14599", "owner_user_id": "13102", "parent_id": "16761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAkame is the centre of attention because her role in the anime is to kill the\nminister or esdeath either so the story follows all of night raid however it\nshows akame more due to the her experiences as a imperial spy and being\nseperated from her sister. although tatsumi is the main protagonist and the\nmain character its akame who has the main role of \"assassin of the empire\"\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-23T08:44:03.257", "id": "21061", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-23T08:44:03.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11036", "parent_id": "16761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nVery late to the party here, but as a writer, I can say that the \"POV\" and the\n\"protagonist\" are not the same thing, even though ~99% of the time in stories,\nshows, or films the POV character is in fact the protagonist.\n\nIt's hard to say for certain if it was intentional, but this makes it even\nmore emotionally impactful when Tatsumi dies.\n\nGave this show additional rewatch value for me knowing that Akame is, in fact,\nthe main character. Besides Tatsumi, she has the most character growth.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-15T19:16:37.893", "id": "53989", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-24T00:07:19.840", "last_edit_date": "2020-03-24T00:07:19.840", "last_editor_user_id": "48556", "owner_user_id": "48556", "parent_id": "16761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA possible explanation would be Adolf's ability himself. Adolf's ability was\nthat of an electric eel. He can shoot electricity around with the help of his\nthrowing knives. By fighting alone he won't have to worry about friendly fire\nor accidentally injures his subordinates from the spark. That's why his squad\nrequires only a few combatants.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-11T09:26:11.203", "id": "19287", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-11T10:02:55.763", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-11T10:02:55.763", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "16762", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]