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[ { "body": "\n\nOne cause was [Darnic Prestone\nYggdmillennia](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Darnic_Prestone_Yggdmillennia),\nwho aided the Nazi's during the Third Holy Grail War by locating the greater\nGrail and stealing it.\n\n> Seventy years ago, he participated in Fuyuki's Third Holy Grail War in an\n> unknown capacity, aiding the Nazis to supposedly help them further their own\n> goals. He found the location of the Greater Grail, and with the power of the\n> Nazi army behind him, plundered it. He betrayed the Nazis as it was being\n> transported to Germany without their knowledge, leading to the only details\n> being known that the Grail disappeared without a trace and the magus aiding\n> them also vanished.\n\nHowever, there is also another deviance which dates back earlier than Darnic.\n\nIn the original timeline that Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night follow from, the\nEinzberns summoned a new [Avenger](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Avenger)\nClass for Angra Mainyu. However, its early defeat and storage in the Greater\nGrail corrupted it, causing the abnormalities we see in future wars (non-\nHeroic Spirits being summoned, wishes becoming destruction).\n\nIn Fate/Apocrypha however, the Einzberns summoned\n[Ruler](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Ruler), which in the Great Holy Grail\nWar is Joan of Arc, but in the Third War, it was [Shirou Tokisada\nAmakusa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amakusa_Shir%C5%8D) who we know in\nApocrypha as [Shirou Kotomine](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shirou_Kotomine)\n\n> As the third war drew to a close, the Einzberns clearly stood closer than\n> any other to the Greater Grail. However Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia\n> successfully stolen the Greater Grail, the only survivors in Fuyuki City\n> were Shirou and Risei Kotomine. While his Master was killed in action,\n> Shirou remained materialized due to Shirou came in contact with the Greater\n> Grail and he managed to receive flesh.\n\nSo we can assume that what caused the timeline to split is when the Einzberns\nchose to Summon Ruler instead of Avenger.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T00:38:52.817", "id": "16764", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T13:32:22.420", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-16T13:32:22.420", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "16763", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no such thing as a Devil's Fruit that automatically beats a Haki\nuser. The use of Haki is to be able to make contact with a Logia type fruit\nuser. This allows for a \"fair\" fight (in the sense that one person isn't\ninherently untouchable). However, there is no fruit that negates the power of\nHaki (or at least among the fruits that have been revealed).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T02:25:14.877", "id": "16768", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T19:00:07.950", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T19:00:07.950", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9200", "parent_id": "16767", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the other perspective, having Haki only allows for Haki user to make\ncontact (or touch) the Logia. It does not give them any anti-Logia super-\neffective skills.\n\nIn other words, any Logia can beat any Haki user, as the fight essentially\ncomes down to better skills (unless we go and look for specific combinations)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T08:08:36.103", "id": "16777", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T19:00:52.477", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T19:00:52.477", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10674", "parent_id": "16767", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe only Logia ability that has a proven record of defeating - nay KO'ing Haki\nusers is the _Gas-Gas no Mi_ , provided it is used with an element of\nsurprise. You would recollect that Ceaser KO'ed both Luffy and Smoker by\ndepriving them of oxygen.\n\nIn the future, we could probably see Logia abilities like hot plasma or gamma\nray, which could possibly penetrate Haki.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-31T02:22:50.340", "id": "18995", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-21T19:01:59.057", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-21T19:01:59.057", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11479", "parent_id": "16767", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn a sense, Soru Soru no Mi. It's not logia, but paramecia.\n\nOther answer already provide how logia can beat haki user but this devil fruit\npower can make haki useless against them.\n\nThe devil fruit user them self aren't automatically immune to haki but the\nobjects with soul fragments inside them are immune to haki attack. Surely\nhomies (objects and animals that have been anthropomorphized by the Soru Soru\nno Mi) like King Baum can be cut easily with simple sword attack. But with\npowerful enough soul like Prometheus, a mass of compressed flames, is\ncompletely immune to Luffy's busoshoku haki attack\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fOWTl.jpg)\n\nPowerful as it seems, even Prometheus can get injured by Brook. Supposedly,\nnot because of his haki but because of devil fruit incompatibility. Brook, a\nsoul king, can attack soul directly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-14T15:21:59.183", "id": "44707", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-14T15:21:59.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "16767", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou're thinking of _[Flint the Time\nDetective](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_the_Time_Detective)_.\n\n> The series is centered around the adventures of Flint Hammerhead, the \"Time\n> Detective\", a boy from the prehistoric era who was resurrected from a fossil\n> and became a Time Detective, although his competency as a detective is\n> dubious. Much like Inspector Gadget, much of the heavy thinking is done by\n> Flint's friends, Sarah and Tony Goodman, who accompany him on his\n> adventures. Flint, however, pulled his weight in battle, when he would fight\n> with the aid of his father Rocky Hammerhead, whose partial resurrection left\n> him a sentient, talking rock with a face. Rocky, fashioned into a hammer for\n> Flint, served Flint as both sturdy weapon and adviser, the latter both in\n> and out of battle. Flint's job as a Time Detective was to go back in time\n> and convince time-shifters- cute, collectible creatures - to ally with him\n> to protect the timeline.\n>\n> In the US, _Flint the Time Detective_ aired from March 5, 2000 until\n> November 5, 2000. The series also aired in the Philippines via GMA 7 and\n> dubbed in Filipino language which rans from late 2000 until mid-2001.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T02:41:42.193", "id": "16770", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T02:46:59.793", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "16769", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's probably [Genma\nWars](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1705/Genma_Taisen:_Shinwa_Zenya_no_Shou),\nwhich is based on the manga called [Genma\nTaisen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genma_Taisen). It seems to fit your\ndescription of the plot and characters (twin brothers, wizard father,\nkidnapped mother, etc) perfectly. Cheers!\n\n\n\n> In the distant future, monsters and inhumans roam the land, and the ruling\n> Evil King seeks a human woman to bear him powerful, force-adept heirs. Non\n> offers herself to the Evil King in order to save her village from Ape Clan\n> raiders, and gives him twin sons, Loof and Jin. She and her sons are exiled\n> by the ungrateful villagers, however, and Non's companion Nue (a Demon Clan\n> member changed into a wolf for disobedience) takes Loof to be raised by his\n> father, the Evil King. The Evil One's Queen Parome despises humans, however,\n> and her malevolence towards Loof deepens...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-23T22:12:56.100", "id": "20281", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-23T22:35:36.060", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-23T22:35:36.060", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "13388", "parent_id": "16771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is only speculation, but: In one sense, one could say that the Taisha and\nShinju-sama (sorry if that's misspelled, I watched the series dubbed) granted\na \"general pardon\" to humanity by protecting them from the apparently-endless\nmaelstrom of destruction outside the... sorry, I'm blanking on the name for\nthe barrier.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-01T19:52:09.067", "id": "38737", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-01T19:52:09.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30687", "parent_id": "16774", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n**Originally, it was called 大社 (Grand Shrine), but later it's revised to 大赦\n(Amnesty).**\n\nIn _Nogi Wakaba wa Yuusha de Aru_ (Nogi Wakaba is a Hero), the prequel to\n_Washio Sumi wa Yuusha de Aru_ (Washio Sumi is a Hero) and _Yuuki Yuuna wa\nYuusha de Aru_ (Yuki Yuna is a Hero), the organization was originally named 大社\n(Grand Shrine).\n\nFrom ch. 3, pg. 5,\n\n> **The counter-Vertex organization known as the Taisha (Grand Shrine)** had\n> researched the Shinju's power and discovered a scientific and magic method\n> of utilizing it. The outfit was a result of that research. It was the\n> culmination of the Shinju's blessing and the knowledge of mankind.\n>\n> (Emphasis mine)\n\nFrom ch. 19 (final chapter), pg. 23,\n\n> Hinata already seemed to have a plan in mind as she answered Wakaba's\n> question without any hesitation.\n>\n> * \"First, **we will rename the Taisha from 'grand shrine' to 'amnesty' as\n> a self-conscious reminder that we have been granted amnesty and live\n> modestly as human beings**.\"\n>\n\n>\n> (Emphasis mine, couldn't quote more than that to avoid heavy spoiler)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-22T16:50:14.150", "id": "39999", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-22T16:50:14.150", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "16774", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEpisode 12 in brotherhood is where the story changes from the original series.\n\nit a bit later in the original series, episode 17 or 18.\n\nThe key point is the death of hughes, that's where the story's split.\n\nthe original series stretches the backstory a bit compared to brotherhood so\nits worth watching from the beginning but you wont miss anything important if\nyou start at hughes death.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T14:25:37.433", "id": "16787", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T14:25:37.433", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "250", "parent_id": "16775", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI found the answer on some forum. I was looking for **[Madou King\nGranzort](http://myanimelist.net/anime/2818/Madou_King_Granzort)**.\n\n\n\n> In the future, the moon is a habitable place with atmosphere and gravity and\n> also a famous tourist attraction. There are also stories about a \"long ears\"\n> creature like rabbits on the moon who can use magic. Haruka Daichi heads off\n> to the moon during a summer holiday alone because he likes to see the long\n> ears creature by himself.\n>\n> However, he get himself dragged into an acient conflict between two acient\n> moon racess: the \"long ears\" race and Jado race. Jado race wanted to conquer\n> the universe and resurrect ancient evil powers to seize control of the\n> Earth. Now the \"long ears\" race and Daichi must seek three warriors who\n> could use magic to release Mado King to fight Jado race and to release \"long\n> ears\" race`s kingdom, Rabiluna, from Jado race.\n\nThe descriptions in the question contain some minor error. According to\nWikipedia:\n\n> Soon, Daichi, V-Mei and Guri Guri meet two other **boys** – Gus and Rabi.\n> Gus receives a magic bow that summons Winzart – the Madou King of Wind,\n> while Rabi receives a magic **top** that summons Aquabeat – the Madou King\n> of Water.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T13:49:40.103", "id": "16784", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T14:24:37.010", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10673", "parent_id": "16776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou might be looking for\n**[Ayakashi](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8567)**\n(2007, 12 episodes).\n\n> Adapted from the 2005 adults-only superhuman battle action visual novel game\n> Ayakashi. Ayakashi is a parasite life force that gives superpowers to its\n> host, taking in return the host's entire life force. Kusaka Yuu is a student\n> that lost his will to live after the death of a dear childhood friend, until\n> the day a mysterious girl, named Yoake Eimu, appears. From that moment on,\n> his life would never be the same again. Hunted by Ayakashi and their hosts,\n> the power within Yuu awakens and a never ending battle begins.\n\n\n\n**Yuu KUSAKA in his OP mode.**\n\nIn episode 2, an evil guy killed many random people in a park and harmed Yuu's\nclassmate in order to provoke him and awaken his powers. He got totally pwned\nby the enraged protagonist.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T09:38:38.613", "id": "16780", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T03:28:39.337", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-01T03:28:39.337", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "16778", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt sounds like blood c to me, if the girl mainly wears red and black with\nrounded glasses as well as long black hair in pig tails then yes it is Blood\nc.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T14:42:02.997", "id": "16789", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T14:42:02.997", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10682", "parent_id": "16779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYakuza girl\n\n> Senguu Fumihiro is a young boy that made a promise to his dying grandmother\n> to find a good wife for himself. With this intention he enrolls in a\n> prestigious school but on the first day his world turns upside down when all\n> the students begin to kill each other and one of them even turns into a\n> monster. He is saved by a girl named \"Akari\", sent to protect him by one of\n> the factions that rule the school.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T20:41:17.710", "id": "16907", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T20:41:17.710", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4281", "parent_id": "16779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nCould it be [Agent\nAika](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=102)? It\nfeatures the main character (older woman) Aika and her partner Rion. There's a\n**lot** of fan service, especially panty shots and bra shots. It was released\nas an OVA in 1997 but was aired on several German TV channels.\n\nThe [character designs practically make it impossible not to see\npanties](https://i.stack.imgur.com/s1Zvm.jpg)\n\nMore info:\n\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=102)\n * [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Aika)\n * [MyAnime List](http://myanimelist.net/anime/366/Agent_Aika)\n * [Agent Aika Wikia](http://agentaika.wikia.com/wiki/Agent_Aika)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T15:11:18.547", "id": "16791", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T15:11:18.547", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "16783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nI also find Aika to be the most likely candidate as it is the epitome of the\npanty shot anime.\n\nHowever, there is also another candidate which fits the description: Aika's\nspiritual successor _Najica Blitz Tactics_ which ran on the other German music\nTV station Viva in 2004.\n\n\n\nProduced by the same studio (Fantasia) under the same director (Katsuhiko\nNishijima) as Aika, it also features an older and a younger female agent and\nlots and lots of panty shots. However, the most memorable difference is that\nthe younger character is an android (gynoid?) whose character development gets\nmuch story focus (not as much as her underwear, though).\n\nMore info:\n\n * [Anime News Network](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=420)\n * [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/321/Najica_Dengeki_Sakusen)\n * [TV Tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics)\n * [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najica_Blitz_Tactics)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T20:10:03.673", "id": "16794", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T20:36:54.890", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-16T20:36:54.890", "last_editor_user_id": "9256", "owner_user_id": "9256", "parent_id": "16783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\n_Aika_ and _Najica_ are the most likely answers -- _Noir_ has handguns, short\nskirts and occasional fanservice, but zero panty shots -- but I have a third\nguess:\n\n# Kiddy Grade\n\n\n\n_Kiddy Grade_ is a 2002 science fiction series about two superpowered\ninterstellar secret agents for the Galactic Organization for Trade and\nTariffs, Éclair and Lumière. It's pretty heavy on the fanservice early on, and\nthey largely fight with handguns -- along with super-lipstick, robots and a\nspaceship, anyway.\n\n * [Anime News Network](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=891)\n * [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/274/Kiddy_Grade)\n * [TV Tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/KiddyGrade)\n * [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddy_Grade)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T20:24:26.977", "id": "16795", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T20:24:26.977", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4192", "parent_id": "16783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt indeed is very confusing.\n\nIn episode 4 of the anime, Akame tells this to Tatsumi in the alley:\n\n> Maintaining it is nerve-raking\n\nreferring to her sword. She continues and says\n\n> If you accidentally cut your finger, you die instantly\n\nKeeping the above in mind, I think there are three possibilities:\n\n 1. She was not aware of the hidden power of the sword at that moment (in episode 4) and later on found that she can cut herself to get the cursed power for a short period. This behavior of an imperials arm has been seen at other places too, where Esdeath did not initially know that she can stop time, but she learned that after Tatsumi escaped her.\n 2. She knew that if she cuts herself with her sword, she would get the cursed powers, but at that moment in episode 4, she wanted to signify that even an invincible looking imperial arms can have weaknesses.\n 3. The last possibility is that the hidden ability of the sword cannot be simply invoked. So when she actually does not want to use the hidden ability and she gets cut by the sword, she might die.\n\nFurthermore, in the last episode, while using the hidden ability, Akame thinks\n\n> Even if this consumes me\n\nwhich indicates that prolonged/over use of the ability might lead the user to\nget consumed by the curse itself.\n\nIn any of three scenarios, I think the anime overall was really nice and it\njust left some open ended questions to the imagination of the viewers.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T10:30:35.160", "id": "17059", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T10:30:35.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8841", "parent_id": "16790", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nMany teigu (Imperial Arms) have demonstrated a deep connection with their\nuser, and they have shown to be very adaptable. Many teigu have a hidden\nability based on an extension of the teigu's root power:\n\n * [Incursio](http://akamegakill.wikia.com/wiki/Incursio)'s invisibility is derived from the Danger Beast, [Tyrant](http://akamegakill.wikia.com/wiki/Tyrant) that the armor was made from.\n * [Susanoo](http://akamegakill.wikia.com/wiki/Susanoo)'s power increases significantly by borrowing the power from its user's life force.\n * [Pumpkin](http://akamegakill.wikia.com/wiki/Pumpkin)'s power increases based on the user's emotional energy.\n * [Demon's Extract](http://akamegakill.wikia.com/wiki/Demon%27s_Extract) extends the power to freeze time and space.\n\nBased on this, we can derive that a given teigu's \"trump card\" is an extension\nof the original power.\n\nIt was previously stated by Lubbock that Akame couldn't use Murasame's hidden\nability for an unknown reason (chapter 52). There is no information that\nalludes as to what this might be, though we can take a guess:\n\n * A prerequisite.\n\n * Killing her sister would be a likely one, as that was one big emotional hurdle for Akame.\n * Another possible prerequisite would be Akame's acceptance of those that she killed.\n * A risk.\n\n * Akame states \"Even if this consumes me, I'll kill you.\" She must be aware of some risk that either drains life force (such as Susanoo) or causes some form of strain or harm to the user.\n * We also see that Akame is initially affected by the curse, but then the curse disappears. This could mean that Akame must overcome the curse in order to gain its power, whether it be a one-time event or once for each time that she activates this ability.\n\nUntil it is explained in the manga, we cannot be 100% certain the exact reason\nshe does not die. We already know that the poison is the key to activating\nthis trump card, and that she had to push back the effects of the poison to do\nso. However there is no information stating why she couldn't use this ability\nbefore, or how she is capable of using it now. However regardless of what\nprocess she uses, she is nullifying the poison's effect and therefore won't\ndie from it.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T10:30:56.250", "id": "17060", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T10:30:56.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6174", "parent_id": "16790", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nMurasame recognizes Akame as its true wielder, Murasame remembers all the\npeople Akame killed, and cutting herself knowing poison will go into her body\nis taking responsibility for all the people Akame killed. The sword is\nconscious, it can tell good from bad, you can piss it off too(the time an\nenemy insulted the sword then tried to use it against Akame). Anyways,\nresisting the poison, the sword gave her major power and speed boosts, fast\nenough to leave an afterimage caused by Esdeaths bloodlust when she froze\ntime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-23T23:35:06.063", "id": "23508", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-23T23:35:06.063", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15856", "parent_id": "16790", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nSPOILER FROM MANGA!\n\n> Whoever read the manga knows that Kurome is still alive, so how is Kurome's\n> death the prerequisite to use the trump card? I think that is because the\n> blade consumes the humanity of the user (I remember that Akame said that\n> before) and, because of the risk and that the curse gave her a nice tattoo,\n> the trump card can be only use once. So if she used that before, how she is\n> supposed to face the world's strongest women?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-13T08:34:32.657", "id": "32074", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-13T08:53:43.660", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-13T08:53:43.660", "last_editor_user_id": "17814", "owner_user_id": "24031", "parent_id": "16790", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI had assumed it's because she has an affinity with the blade. And like\nEsdeath, she overcame its curse. The reason why she mentions maintaining it is\nnerve-wracking could be out of fear of harming others around her, or because\nthe power of cutting herself with the blade is so draining that it would\neventually kill her. So naturally she'd only ever want to do that in a life or\ndeath situation, like the final battle.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-15T20:52:43.020", "id": "53992", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-15T20:52:43.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48556", "parent_id": "16790", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAkame already knew about the trump card when she first got murasame and what\nwill happen to her if she uses the trump card. Her father told her before she\nkilled him and took murasame. He said that you have to discard your own\nhumanity to use the trump card meaning she has to kill the person she loved\nthe most. The curse is slowly killing her. she will die at a young age. but\nthe main reason why she didn't get killed by murasame when she cut herself is\nbecause she will carry all the lives that she took with murasame with her. you\nhave to kill the person you love the most and accept all the lives you took\nwith murasame and bring out your inner demon. thats why she didn't die. i hope\nthis helps you\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-03-01T16:37:03.250", "id": "62064", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-01T16:37:03.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59178", "parent_id": "16790", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs i explained in [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13915/1587)\n(Under Kiritsugu's Plan), it was because there was a build up of Prana in the\nGreater Grail.\n\nNormal Procedure would be that by the end of a War the Prana (particularly\nMana) in the Greater Grail would have been spent and thus take 60 years to\nnaturally replenish. Under [Fuyuki -\nProcedure](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fuyuki_Holy_Grail_War#Procedure)\n\n> The Great Grail requires sixty years in order to amass enough mana to summon\n> Servants, making the planning period span over generations. If the Grail is\n> unable to utilize its energy, that which is leftover can reduce the time to\n> as little as a decade, such as in the case of the period between the Fourth\n> and Fifth Wars.\n\nAs for where it was mentioned, the citation reference of the section on the\nWikia Pages points to Fate/complete material III: World material - FAQ with\nNasu\n\n> **Q: Even though it should only happen every 60 years, was the 10 year gap\n> between the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail Wars as short as it was because the\n> Lesser Grail was destroyed before the Greater Grail could direct the\n> accumulated mana to establish its pathway trapped some unused mana in the\n> Grail?** \n> \n>\n>\n> A: That’s true. In fact, you could say that the function of the Greater\n> Grail was already muddled when when it was impregnated with Avenger in the\n> Third War.\n\nSo from this there are 2 causes for the Mana not having been spent.\n\n 1. Lesser Grail was destroyed before the Greater Grail could direct the accumulated mana\n 2. Avenger, possibly self-aware, perverting the system by withholding Mana as there was still a 60 year gap between the 3rd and 4th Wars (as Avenger was killed early in the 3rd war)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-16T22:38:56.010", "id": "16799", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-16T22:38:56.010", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "16797", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is the first track on Disc 1 of [Akame ga Kill! Original Soundtrack\n1](http://vgmdb.net/album/49690): Le chant de Roma (虐げられた者達の為に), a.k.a.\n[Fallen Heroes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmUnLtZ3_I).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-24T12:51:01.523", "id": "19638", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-24T12:51:01.523", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "16798", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure if this has been confirmed, but it's most likely that Takahiro\nSakurai enjoyed playing Makishima Shogo in Psycho Pass. With all the praise he\ngot, I think he enjoyed the project (Psycho Pass) so much that he wanted to\nget back in the action even if it was a role he wouldn't normally take on.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T12:34:05.203", "id": "17323", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T12:34:05.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11037", "parent_id": "16800", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n### Satan Soul\n\n\n\n### Demon: Halphas\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kvm2h.jpg)\n\n### Demon: Sitri\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/58n11.png)\n\nI've read some information about the Mirajane's [Take\nOver](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Mirajane_Strauss) magic:\n\n> Macro (命令, マクロ Makuro): Unable to fully take over an Etherious, Mirajane\n> took over Sayla's Curse, allowing her absolute control over something, from\n> inanimate objects to even people. She uses this to command Elfman to come to\n> where she and Lisanna are.\n\nFor now, she had 3 demon take over. She wasn't able to take over an Etherios\nwhere she fought Layla. This is where Layla's true form reveal.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/azsvd.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T13:00:44.743", "id": "16814", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T13:48:51.977", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-17T13:48:51.977", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9351", "parent_id": "16813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to Mashima, says that there are 72 demon forms of Mirajane, but It\nwas not yet revealed in manga and anime,\n\nMashima has went an interesting way with Mira's powers. \nThough if you know about demons from the Goetia list or other animes you\nprobably already sort of know.\n\nLisanna has things like Animal Soul: Rabbit, Animal Soul: Tigress \nElfman has Beast Soul: Weretiger, Beast Soul: Lizardman\n\nAnimals and Beasts. \nThough in Mira's case of course she'll have demons for her forms, and Mashima\nhas decided to get them from the Ars Goetia list. \nSo it'd look like for her, Satan Soul: Sitri, Satan Soul: Eligos etc.\n\nHere's the list of demons:\n\n * King Baal (bael)\n\n * Duke Agares\n\n * Prince Vassago\n\n * Marquis Samigina\n\n * President Barbas\n\n * Duke Valefor\n\n * Marquis Amon\n\n * Duke Barbatos\n\n * King Paimon\n\n * President Buer\n\n * Duke Gusion\n\n * Prince Sitri-Shown\n\n * King Beleth\n\n * Marquis Leraje\n\n * Duke Eligos\n\n * Duke Zepar\n\n * Count/President Botis\n\n * Duke Bathin\n\n * Duke Sallos\n\n * King Purson\n\n * Count/President Marax\n\n * Count/Prince Ipos\n\n * Duke Aim\n\n * Marquis Naberius\n\n * Count/President Glasya-Labolas\n\n * Duke Buné\n\n * Marquis/Count Ronové\n\n * Duke Berith\n\n * Duke Astaroth\n\n * Marquis Forneus\n\n * President Foras\n\n * King Asmodeus\n\n * Prince/President Gäap\n\n * Count Furfur\n\n * Marquis Marchosias\n\n * Prince Stolas\n\n * Marquis Phenex\n\n * Count Halphas\n\n * President Malphas\n\n * Count Räum\n\n * Duke Focalor\n\n * Duke Vepar\n\n * Marquis Sabnock\n\n * Marquis Shax\n\n * King/Count Viné\n\n * Count Bifrons\n\n * Duke Vual\n\n * President Häagenti\n\n[72 Demons](http://www.fairytailbase.com/threads/mirajane-has-72-takeover-\nforms.3090/)\n\nlink to list:\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia#Prince_Sitri>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T14:46:57.030", "id": "16899", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-17T07:50:22.500", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-17T07:50:22.500", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "10747", "parent_id": "16813", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's because Shiryu gave them the antidote before joining their crew.\n\n\n\nIt happen in episode 452 of the anime and in chapter\n[549](http://www.mangapanda.com/103-2656-1/one-piece/chapter-549.html) of the\nmanga.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T18:36:40.760", "id": "16822", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-17T19:40:39.677", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-17T19:40:39.677", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "16821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nSara had lost her memories but the few fragments of her former self who loved\nMasahiro created a body. So the child form of Sara is the feeling she had for\nMasahiro.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T02:13:46.907", "id": "17223", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T04:46:20.610", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-01T04:46:20.610", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10959", "parent_id": "16827", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt's \"Plain Asia\" in [Touhou\nEiyashou](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperishable_Night).\n\nBut I think this is not original version. I'm not sure which arrange version\nit is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T04:14:14.427", "id": "16837", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-18T04:14:14.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "16834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is a _Plain Asia_ arrangement by **Dark PHOENiX** for their album _Arrow\nRain_. In your video, the song starts at 27:53. You can verify that it is the\nsong [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzRakY0oli0).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T06:48:01.813", "id": "16839", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-18T06:55:02.137", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-18T06:55:02.137", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "16834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe fight has never been shown: it happened in the 2 years gap and at the\nmoment we just know it was on Punk Hazard and that Akainu won after 10 days of\nfighting (I hope there will be a flashback at some point showing the fight).\n\n[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Qan-zatao) is a video taken from\nepisode 570 in which Jimbei explains the situation. The fact that they fought\non Punk Hazard is explained in episode 582.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T08:58:24.620", "id": "16842", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-13T14:33:42.747", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-13T14:33:42.747", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "16841", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe fight is shown in Episode 583, when it was told by Smoker-san in the midst\nof the Punk Hazard Arc.\n\n> According to Smoker, the battle between these two was so ferocious that it\n> literally changed the weather of Punk Hazard Island. Akainu ended up as the\n> winner, but had sympathy enough to spare Aokiji's life in spite of it being\n> meant as a battle to the death. Unfortunately, Aokiji did not escape\n> unscathed. He parted from the battle with a staggering level of scars and\n> with his left leg reduced to a stump. Though crippled, Kuzan used his Devil\n> Fruit powers to generate a replacement limb out of ice.\n\nFrom\n[Kuzan](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kuzan#A_Fierce.C2.A0Duel_and_Resignation)\narticle on One Piece Wiki\n\n[Episode 583 preview on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRk8b6bnJ6A)\nshowing the scene.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T09:16:57.010", "id": "16843", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-22T12:55:42.027", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-22T12:55:42.027", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10708", "parent_id": "16841", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBoa Hancock and her sisters were enslaved and branded as slaves by the\nCelestial Dragons (Tenryuubito), this was a secret to everyone in Amazon Lily.\n\nShe loves Luffy because when Luffy was fighting her sisters (Marigold and\nSandersonia) he kept the slave mark from being exposed to all people of the\nisland.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T09:55:25.803", "id": "16845", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-18T09:55:25.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10716", "parent_id": "16844", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe hate comes from her enslavement by the Celestial dragons. So far we have\nseen only two female Celestial dragons (from the human shop and Doffy's mom)\nso it's safe to assume that the majority of Celestial dragons who we got\nintroduced to so far are male. Being surrounded by males who abused her and\nbeing raised by women who cherished her, as a child or teen she came to a\nconclusion that males are evil detestable creatures that only care about their\nsatisfaction. Luffy on the other hand has no evil intentions as proven when he\nsaw Hancock's naked body. Most males would have dirty thoughts but he didn't.\nNext, as Luffy was fighting the sisters he kept requesting the safety of\nMargaret and her friends who helped him. Also let's not forget the fact that\nhe hid (well protect/cover) the sisters slave mark. As Luffy was still being\ntested to show his detestable male side, he was given only one choice: save\nthe girls or given a boat. He must chose one and must abandon the other. Luffy\ndid the unexpected and requested Margaret's safety. As the last trial (not\nreally), Hancock told Luffy their story behind their slave mark (which he\nconfused for the sun pirates mark). Hancock expected Luffy to detest her since\nshe was once a slave but Luffy being he is says that he only hates the\nCelestial dragons. From then on, Hancock's heart was moved.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-14T06:51:40.227", "id": "32098", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-14T06:51:40.227", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "16844", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think so, I've searched Fairy Tail Wiki and found this:\n\n> Tale of Fairy Tail: Ice Trail (氷の軌跡, アイストレイル, Aisu Toreiru) is a Japanese\n> manga series by Yusuke Shirato and a spin-off of Hiro Mashima's manga series\n> Fairy Tail.\n\nIf it's a spin-off I don't think it's canon\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T12:25:48.733", "id": "16849", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-18T12:25:48.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10716", "parent_id": "16847", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDaedalus is a scientist from Synapse, considered as the greatest mind in all\nof Synapse. Their relationship was not revealed until nearing the end of the\nstory.\n\n> She was the one who created RULE, a device to fulfill anything one wishes.\n> Because of this, everyone on Synapse got bored. Seeing that humans, though\n> far inferior but enjoyed their lives through hard work, the inhabitants of\n> Synapse decided to go into a dream like state to live as humans. \n> \n> So Daedalus created the device so that Synapse people can sleep and have\n> dream living as humans. Daedalus did that too in form of Mitsuki Sohara,\n> Sakurai Tomoki's childhood friend. \n> \n> However, Sohara had weak constitution and died very young. Daedalus then\n> decided to create another Sohara and placed her on Earth. She also later set\n> the Uranus Queen, Ikaros, free from her seal and sent her to Tomoki. \n> \n> She is also the one behind the creation of the first generation Angeloid\n> namely, Alpha (Ikaros), Beta (Nymph), and Delta (Astrea). The latter two\n> also joined Tomoki's group later in the story after they were ordered to\n> kill him by Master of Synapse. She's also the one who created Pandora Box\n> system in the first generation Angeloid which allowed them to evolve. \n> \n> Daedalus was also the one who fixed Chaos, a second generation Angeloid\n> created by Master of Synapse.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T06:08:21.057", "id": "16876", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T14:27:44.623", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-19T14:27:44.623", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "16855", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to some of Kira's tests, if a person can't fulfill his/hers cause of\ndeath, he/she will die of a heart attack when the time comes.\n\nIf someone write his own name to die of a heart attack in 20 days and then\nmake the shinigami eye deal. It will only have 10 days of lifespan. Therefore\nthat person will die from a heart attack in 10 days because he can't be alive\nin 20 days.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T15:38:01.160", "id": "16861", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-18T15:38:01.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10716", "parent_id": "16859", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n(Note this answer is now outdated.)\n\nThe anime seems to make a serious point about not revealing who the seventh\none is. I doubt it has been revealed yet in the manga. That means the answer\nis we don't and can't know yet.\n\nThat being said the current \"shichibukai\" are:\n\n * Law\n * Mihawk\n * Doflamingo\n * Kuma\n * Hancock\n * Buggy\n\nBlackbeard left the warlords and is now much more powerful.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T17:57:14.653", "id": "16864", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-06T16:00:07.373", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-06T16:00:07.373", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "16863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t4hQZ.png)\n\n * law \n * mihawk\n * doflamingo\n * kuma\n * hancock\n * buggy\n * shiki the golden lion\n\n`but since doflamingo is defeated and marines arrest him for his evil deeds\nand law is in alliance with the strawhats. 2 positions for warlords will be\nvaccant ^__^. i think that was an ressemblance to shiki :)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-06T06:20:03.500", "id": "27112", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-06T06:50:10.203", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-06T06:50:10.203", "last_editor_user_id": "18933", "owner_user_id": "18933", "parent_id": "16863", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe missing Shichibukai is [**Edward\nWeevil**](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Edward_Weevil), who is introduced in\n[chapter 802](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_802).\n\n> Edward Weevil, or \"Whitebeard Jr.\" is the self-proclaimed son of Edward\n> Newgate and one of the Shichibukai. His mother is Miss Bakkin, the self-\n> proclaimed lover of Newgate.He was first mentioned by Commodore Brannew in a\n> discussion of the current Shichibukai ranks to several high-ranking Marine\n> officers, but was not explicitly named until after Donquixote Doflamingo's\n> defeat.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yjw4g.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-06T06:35:37.033", "id": "27115", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-06T06:35:37.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "16863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was not officially said but it was implied that Charles had actually been\nusing his Geass on Anya for years to erase her memories. If you remember\nJeremiah activated his Geass Canceler right after Anya revealed that she had\nno memories. Presumably, the memory erasing was to prevent her from\ndiscovering Marianne's presence or some similar event. Throughout the series\nCharles is the only one was is able to erase or delete memories and he is also\nin a key position to be erasing them and he would want to keep Marianne\nexistence hidden.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T04:21:02.397", "id": "16983", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T04:21:02.397", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "16867", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is Yagami Light's [infamous\nscene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkT4vAJnJls#t=7s) from _Death Note._\n\n \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T23:51:36.787", "id": "16869", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-18T23:51:36.787", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "16868", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJust found out who he should be!\n\nIt's Agent Phillip \" **Phil** \" **Coulson** being pierced by Loki\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vK0FPtYTvY#t=16>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T00:00:50.827", "id": "16871", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T00:00:50.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "222", "parent_id": "16870", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\" _Who will be facing me ? Is it you or END ?_ \" \n.\n\n[Igneel Knows about Natsu\n.](http://ladymoonstache.tumblr.com/post/78321997830/end-theory-dragon-\nslayers-age-mysrery) He knows something but he could'nt about it.\n\nthis [article](http://ladymoonstache.tumblr.com/post/92247609213/full-natsu-\ndragneel-is-e-n-d-theory-more) says about Natsu where Makarov hint about\nNatsu's Ability . \n[this](http://forums.mangafox.me/archive/index.php/t-266949-p-5.html) \n \n\nThat moment when Atlas meet Natsu.\n\nE: Etherious \nN: Natsu \nD: Dragneel\n\nAbout the [Prediction](http://www.fairytailbase.com/threads/e-n-d-and-natsus-\nparents.14267/)\n\nChapter 373 - Death or Live \n\n> _Natsu : The Guy Igneel to wanted_ \n> Zeref : _to be precise the one he could'nt kill_ . Natsu : *I 'll defeat\n> him *  \n> Zeref : You can do it .However remember one thing _Igneel could'nt kill\n> him._ \n> \n> \n>\n> _Only You and End will be able get to me ._ \\- _Zeref_\n\n \n**Fan Art of Natsu Dragneel Becoming END .** \n\n", "comment_count": 18, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T06:16:43.543", "id": "16877", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-24T16:57:31.483", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-24T16:57:31.483", "last_editor_user_id": "20610", "owner_user_id": "9351", "parent_id": "16872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nChapter 416 pretty much confirmed that Natsu is E.N.D, but there is always the\nchance that E.N.D is some sort of clone of Natsu and Zeref was calling the\nclone Natsu (I'm just looking on the bright side...). Although the guild is\nnow disbanded (Assuming they don't start it up again) I PERSONALLY believe\nthat the ex-guild members can save Natsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-20T05:35:59.570", "id": "18694", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-20T05:35:59.570", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11290", "parent_id": "16872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nCH 416 blatantly told us that Natsu is E.N.D, I think the book contains\nNatsu's demonic powers, it would make sense, though I'm wondering why we're\nstill discussing this. Natsu is Zerefs strongest demon\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-23T01:02:21.077", "id": "19591", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-23T01:02:21.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "12884", "parent_id": "16872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis answer contains knowledge from different parts of the series, especially\nchapter 416, and up to the current chapter 421. Read it at your own risk.\n\n> It has been revealed that Natsu, or another being inside of Natsu which may\n> be dormant, is in fact END. It stands for Etherias Natsu Dragoneel. Crazy\n> connection right? Though after Hiro Mashima tossed that bombshell, he sent\n> the story into another adventure with a disbanded Fairy Tail: guild master\n> gone missing, guild mates scattered across the continent, Natsu just\n> returning from a two year long training by himself in the wilderness\n> (basically pulled a Naruto) and teaming up with a semi-depressed Lucy, who\n> was a reporter by that time, and had been keeping tabs on everyone in the\n> hopes of the guild reforming. \n> \n> The only thing I can connect Natsu and END is his Dragon Force, but even\n> that's far-fetched since the other Dragon Slayers can also enter Dragon\n> Force. However, from what we have seen so far, none of the other Dragon\n> Slayers have been able to stomach other Dragon Slayers' powers and combine\n> them with their own, except for Natsu, which is where his END part comes in.\n> That's the only connection that I can come up with so far. Gajeel had done\n> it too, so maybe he has something to do with Zeref's demons as well. It\n> would make sense why there are the three dragons that talk together, about\n> the three dragonslayers meeting and them forging their own path from now on. \n> \n> That and when the series first starts jogging in the \"Erza Arc\", we can see\n> Natsu ate a rock of Etherias (hint hint) which should have killed him (hint\n> hint) but it didn't. Instead, it just gave him a power up and a massive\n> stomachache (hint hint) in the fight against Jellal who was possessed by a\n> demon of Zeref. The story is now at chapter 421, and those stuffs in the\n> first, second and third arcs are starting to make sense. But as there have\n> been a plethora of arcs since then, you kinda need to go back and re-read\n> it.\n\nAnyway, this is just based off of my observations and what I have connected.\nIf you'd like the refute my findings and opinions in a mature rebuttal you\nmay.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-24T04:32:44.287", "id": "19628", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-03T06:16:09.850", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-03T06:16:09.850", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "12904", "parent_id": "16872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn chapter 436 it is revealed that, ...\n\n> Natsu (Dragneel) is the younger brother of Zeref (Dragneel). Zeref's younger\n> brother died a few years after birth. Unable to let go, Zeref researched\n> everything he could find about bringing back the death\n> ([R-system](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Tower_of_Heaven)), travelling\n> through time ([Eclipse Gate](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Eclipse_Gate))\n> and creating magical beings\n> ([Etherious](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Etherious)). In the end (pun\n> not intended), he combined all of his knowledge and created an Etherious\n> version of his younger brother, using the original body of that younger\n> brother, named E(therious) N(atsu) D(ragneel). \n> \n>  \n> \n> On a side note. This does not yet explain why Zeref was holding the book of\n> E.N.D. in chapter 413. By holding the book, it would give the impression\n> that E.N.D. is not yet summoned, which imho contradicts the above.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-18T16:54:06.970", "id": "21626", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-18T19:15:26.497", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-18T19:15:26.497", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "16872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nWell as far as we know, Natsu is Zeref's brother revived with a forbidden\ncurse. I think that we can say that inside Natsu there is something he is not\naware of. No matter how badly he is beaten up, he doesn't die and his body\nstays intact, which shows that he is most likely indeed a demon.\n\nI think Natsu is unaware because E.N.D. (the book) hasn't opened yet and so\nthe etherious power inside Natsu is present and protects him while he himself\ndoesn't have to do a thing. Also I think that as soon as E.N.D. awakens he\nwill take over Natsu's body, and I think that was what Zeref meant by \"Will it\nbe you or E.N.D. who kills me?\" So when E.N.D. awakens and takes over Nastu,\nNatsu could defeat him with his willpower or he could succumb to him, which\nwould probably mean the end of the world they know and the death of all of\nNatsu's guildmates by his own hands or something.\n\nThis is just a guess though.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-01T14:35:39.737", "id": "24537", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-18T18:33:53.417", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-18T18:33:53.417", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "16673", "parent_id": "16872", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Kuro has a crush on Keita, proving so in Episode 22, though she never\nconfessed how she felt to Keita_ . in [Black\nGod](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_God_\\(manga\\)#Main_characters)\nreferred to Anime Version .\n\n[This](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130123155944AAAHsVa) and\nread [this](https://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=12636) maybe you\ncould find the answer , it has the discussion.(Anime)\n\nIn Anime : _No, they do not fall in love . \n_ In Manga : _They do._\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T06:00:38.153", "id": "16875", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T06:07:49.627", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-19T06:07:49.627", "last_editor_user_id": "9351", "owner_user_id": "9351", "parent_id": "16874", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nObito Uchiha's ultimate goal was to place everybody in the **Infinite\nTsukuyomi** and lead people to peace through genjutsu, where one can achieve\nhis/her dreams and wishes. That being said, Obito joined Madara because greed\nhad driven people to achieve ultimate power. In the course, his beloved Rin\ndied. Given this, Obito was to trying make sure the greed gets completely\neliminated.\n\nWhereas Orochimaru is driven by the greed to master all the jutsu in the\nworld. Obito would not let that happen in the world of **Tsukuyomi**.\nTherefore he had to participate in the war to keep his greed alive, with this\nhe was not only helping Sasuke but also himself.\n\n_One can also question why Orochimaru took this decision just after Sasuke\ndecided to join war with the will to save._\n\nPossibly Orochimaru still wants to take Sasuke's body, maybe this was an\nattempt to win back his trust. Think about it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T09:25:42.597", "id": "16881", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T16:57:24.397", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-18T16:57:24.397", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "8988", "parent_id": "16880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime is [Gate Keepers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_Keepers)\n\nYou can find the list of characters with pictures\n[here](http://gatekeeperaegis.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Gatekeeper_characters).\nThey are in order from left to right:\n\nShun Ukiya - Ruriko Ikusawa - Misao Sakimori - Reiko Asagiri - Kaoru Konoe\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T10:11:02.083", "id": "16883", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T10:11:02.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "16882", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThat's from the anime [Gate\nKeepers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_Keepers)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T10:11:09.423", "id": "16884", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T10:11:09.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10716", "parent_id": "16882", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJapan does not have any rating system for normal television. Some satellite\ntelevision requires an 18+ age check to contract some channels.\n\nDVD/BD and movies have a rating system similar to North America\n(G/PG12/R15+/R18+).\n\nMost such censorship in anime is \"self-censorship\". Each TV station has a\ndifferent code, and the code is different for different airing time slots.\nMorning anime and evening anime have more restrictions. Late night anime have\nless restrictions.\n\nTV stations do not explicitly state what the code is, but the director of\n[Bokurano](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokurano:_Ours) wrote [a blog\npost](http://blog.goo.ne.jp/moriphy/e/e9298e3448666bcdc83acd3c2e92fc11) that\nsays that he was asked not to show blood in the anime.\n\nThey have restrictions on blinking the screen (which can cause epileptic\nseizures), drinking alcohol, tobacco, violence and fanservice (ecchi) scenes.\n\nOne important group about censorship is [BPO](http://www.bpo.gr.jp/)\n(Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization). BPO is an\norganization concerned with ethics of broadcasting for all TV stations.\nSometimes, they ask TV stations to remove shows which were deemed bad for\nchildren.\n\nAnother reason is the shift in animation business models. The old model got\nmost of its profit from commercials. In that time, anime production removed\nentire non-compliant scenes instead of adding lighting. But recently, anime\nproduction gets more profit from DVD/BD than from commercials. They find that\nbroadcasting a censored version and selling an uncensored version on DVD/BD is\na better strategy to increase sales.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T06:34:14.623", "id": "16916", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T09:12:31.040", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-20T09:12:31.040", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "16885", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n[kumagoro's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/16916) is relatively\ngood when it comes to _mandated_ censorship, but there's another common case\nof voluntary \"censorship\" which is done voluntarily by production studios. For\n_ecchi_ anime like the ones listed in the OP I think this is likely at least\nas common as any other reason for censorship.\n\nThe majority of television anime which get this treatment are late night\nshows. These late night shows operate in a very different way from traditional\nshows; they have to buy their own airtime from stations and rely on some\ncombination of DVD sales and revenue sharing with the original source\nmaterial. Because of the time slot and the fact that they are purchasing the\nairtime themselves, most of the broadcast guidelines simply don't apply. There\nis some more information on this at [Why does anime usually air at night in\nJapan?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4013/why-does-anime-usually-\nair-at-night-in-japan). In any case, at the end of the day, most series need\nto sell DVDs to make a profit. The TV-aired version is essentially an\nexpensive, high-quality advertisement for the DVDs and the source material.\n\nThe trend we've started to see with the rise of late-night anime is an\nincrease in self-censorship. Most commonly, this is just airbrushing over\nshots with fanservice or with various other techniques. These are\ncharacteristic of the TV versions; such censorship is removed for the final\nDVD releases. Among the examples you listed, I'm quite sure that the DVDs of\nboth _Gokukoku no Brynhildr_ and _Infinite Stratos_ have uncensored nudity.\n_Trinity Seven_ possibly will as well, but I haven't seen any of the DVDs yet\n(the first just came out yesterday) so I can't confirm this. By censoring the\nTV release, this makes consumers more likely to spend the (rather large amount\nof) money required to purchase the full version. There's also been a rise in\nDVD bonus features and DVD-only episodes for similar reasons. So, to first\napproximation, the reason such censorship exists is because _studios stand to\nmake money from it_.\n\n* * *\n\nNowadays, the unusual cases are the ones where the TV broadcast is uncensored,\nlike _High School DxD_. In most cases like this, only the broadcast on certain\nstations is uncensored or with reduced censorship. The most notable such\nstation is probably [AT-X](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT-X_\\(company\\)), a\npremium channel which airs anime. They're known for having lower censorship,\npartly because of the premium status. In many cases, these shows air both on\nregular stations (in a fully censored form) and on a premium channel like AT-X\nin a partially- or fully-uncensored form. It's generally assumed that in such\ncases some agreement is made between such stations and the producers which is\nmutually beneficial, though the details of such agreements are private. Also\nnote that even in the case of shows like _High School DxD_ which aired on TV\nwith essentially no censorship, there were modifications made to the final DVD\nproduct and short specials added to boost sales.\n\nInterestingly, overseas simulcast companies like Crunchyroll also make\nagreements with producers to air their content outside Japan. Since DVD sales\noverseas aren't such a concern, the version they give to these streaming\ncompanies is sometimes less censored than the Japanese TV version. One recent\ncase of this was _Rail Wars!_ , for which the Crunchyroll version had far more\nuncensored underwear shots than the Japanese broadcast versions (but still no\nnudity, which was present in the DVD releases). This drew the ire of many\nJapanese commenters on various internet message boards.\n\n* * *\n\nI should state that this really only applies to TV anime, which is pretty much\nthe only place you see this anyway. It doesn't apply to _hentai_ series, which\nalmost always release directly to DVD. Such shows are basically always\nuncensored, except insofar as they are required to be censored by the law.\nLikewise, OVAs and specials aren't typically censored in the way I described\nabove, since those are finished products. If you see censorship in other\nplaces, it's probably for other reasons, but for the series you're talking\nabout this is the explanation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T09:09:22.627", "id": "16921", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T09:09:22.627", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "16885", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, there will be no second season. There is no more story than the one which\nwas released.\n\nList of all the episodes and one OVA\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Angel_Beats!_episodes)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T12:04:06.807", "id": "16890", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-26T12:54:19.853", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-26T12:54:19.853", "last_editor_user_id": "20681", "owner_user_id": "10716", "parent_id": "16888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nKey are planning a game based on Angel Beats series. This doesn't mean they\nare going to do a second season, but, it's possible in a far future.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T18:11:25.533", "id": "18956", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-29T20:52:49.063", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-29T20:52:49.063", "last_editor_user_id": "2251", "owner_user_id": "11451", "parent_id": "16888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nKazamatsuri.org [recently Posted](https://kazamatsuri.org/angel-beats-\nseason-2-confirmed-2/) last April that there will be a second season to the\nanime.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MdKzj.jpg)\n\n> Yes.\n>\n> You didn't read that wrong.\n>\n> After many years of want with no new content in the Angel Beats! universe,\n> the fans can finally get more of that wonderful Yui-nyan they so desire.\n> Ignored no longer, tried and true fans of this magnificent series are set to\n> be blessed with another dose of magical Key feels!\n>\n> Key has taken into consideration many things that they learned from the\n> production of the first season and are looking to make various improvements\n> going forward. In interview, Key stated that many fans found themselves,\n> \"despite finding the series perfect, feeling like the length and pacing of\n> the show was in question.\" To counteract this major issue, Key have promised\n> not to let things drag on this time around and are shooting for a seven\n> episode anime. Furthermore, critiques seemed to mention the title's lack of\n> character development- So, to balance things out, Key will be adding three\n> times the cast with new characters designed by Itaru Hinoni's moe.\n>\n> The last bit of information we've gotten in this news release is that due to\n> wishes for Key to work with its older animation studios, Toei Animation will\n> be handling this next season. Concept art can be seen below.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/suvJ5.png)\n\n* * *\n\nBut, to many readers' dismay **It was an April fool's joke**.\n\nAlthought this site was considered a reliable one, an admin happilly posted:\n\n> We have a valid excuse to lessen our own reliability on only one day every\n> year. Live a little :wink:\n\n* * *\n\nHere is a screetshot of a magazine talking about AngelBeats! Season 2\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JvCbZ.jpg)\n\nThe picture is probably from MEGAMI magazine as well, and it basically has\nHinata, Yuri and Kanade in a conversation, talking about mapo tofu. Hinata\n(the one in blue text) asks if anyone has any last words to say before the\nend, and Yuri (The text to the left of the red lines):\n\n> > Look out for the Angel Beats! Second Season where I’ll return as the\n> heroine!\n>\n> A WHATT????!?!?!?!\n>\n> I’m also a few days late in reporting this, so it might have turned out to\n> be a practical joke.\n>\n> Take this with a grain of salt, but I personally don’t want a second season\n> – it ended fine, as is.\n\n**UPDATE:**\n\nSo In your question:\n\n> **_Is there a second season?_**\n\nthe answer [as of the time this post] is typically **NO** , there is no Second\nSeason of Angel Beats!\n\nQ: **_what's the sense of this post?_**\n\nThis Post is just to **Clarify** things.\n\nAnything you find in the Web, pertaining to the second season would either be\njust a joke (like what the post with yui did) or an just April Fools (like\nKazamatsuri.org posted last April).\n\nThank You for reading :)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-15T08:33:13.813", "id": "33752", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-16T00:19:53.333", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-16T00:19:53.333", "last_editor_user_id": "15276", "owner_user_id": "15276", "parent_id": "16888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe the lie was that Kaori lied about being in love with Watari.\n\n> On page 13 of Chapter 44. She says in her letter \"This lie was that Miyazono\n> Kaori had feelings for Watari Ryouta\". She was secretly in love with Arima\n> but didn't want to break the relationships between Arima and Tsubaki. \n> \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-15T04:17:36.980", "id": "20069", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-15T22:19:51.360", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-15T22:19:51.360", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "11637", "parent_id": "16889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are two \"lies\" that I can see in the last parts:\n\n> 1\\. The lie is the promise between Kousei and Kaori \"Let's play again\n> together\" \n> 2\\. Kaori lied that she liked Watari at the beginning of the series\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-26T18:45:12.697", "id": "21149", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-03T17:59:56.193", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-03T17:59:56.193", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14143", "parent_id": "16889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe real lie is that she never got to play with him again. As a child, she\nfell in love with him when she saw him play, and her dream was to one day\nstand by his side and play along with him. She managed to achieve her dream\nand play on the same stage along with him. After that she promised to do it\nagain with him, but she died before it could happen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-31T12:19:41.540", "id": "23698", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-01T02:22:25.587", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-01T02:22:25.587", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "15996", "parent_id": "16889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI guess he accepts him as captain because of his kindness, when he was about\nto be executed, the soldiers hold up their rifles and open fire, and Zoro\nthinks how he cannot die, and remembers Kuina. However, before the bullets can\nreach them, Luffy leaps from the Marine base and uses his rubber body to block\nthe bullets and send them flying. When Zoro is shocked and asks who he is,\nLuffy responds that he is Monkey D. Luffy, and that he will become the Pirate\nKing.\n\n_He wants to help Luffy to become Pirate King not because he asked him to join\nthe crew but he was willing to help and to meet Dracule Mihawk while they're\nsailing ._\n\nClick Here: [First Meet](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_2)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T13:47:21.423", "id": "16894", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T13:52:23.657", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-19T13:52:23.657", "last_editor_user_id": "10708", "owner_user_id": "10708", "parent_id": "16891", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI just rewatched the beginning and it makes is surprising clear. At that time\neveryone knows who Zoro is, it is implied Zoro could kick Luffy's ass, and\neveryone looks down on Luffy until they get confused by his devil fruit power.\n\nZoro is a demon.\n\nZoro is however a very honorable demon. He signs (figuratively) a contract to\ntorture himself to protect someone he views as innocent from someone he views\nas completely dishonorable. He follows that contract twice: once to honor the\nefforts of the girl he was protecting after the vermin mistreated her; once\nwhen the vermin clearly broke their contract.\n\nHe, while powerless, signs a contract with Luffy. As long as Luffy frees him\nand supports (or more accurately does not get in the way of), Zoro's dream to\nbecome the worlds greatest swordsman, Zoro will be part of Luffy's crew. Even\nwhen Zoro finds out that Luffy doesn't really have a crew at all, he shows a\nting of apprehension but no willingness to break his contract.\n\nAs time continues, Zoro increasingly grows to respect Luffy above and beyond\nthe requirements of his contract. He will not leave Luffy, however, unless his\ncontract is broken. This would have likely occured if Luffy was not strong\nenough to proceed into the New World and provide Zoro the opponents he needed.\n\nI guess when you make a contract with a straight shooting demon, expect him to\nfollow through in incredible ways.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T22:01:06.357", "id": "16908", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-27T19:13:30.903", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-27T19:13:30.903", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "16891", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe fact that Zoro cannot bear Luffy's pain (as depicted above) is why he will\nnever be the Captain. Besides, why would he want himself as the Captain, if he\nis the one who joined Luffy's team? By so doing, I think he is fully aware\nthat the Captain of Luffy's crew is Luffy himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T04:46:41.437", "id": "18372", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-14T06:46:07.840", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-14T06:46:07.840", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2309", "parent_id": "16891", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is his trust in Luffy and Luffy's dedication to his dream. He believes\nLuffy has what it takes to be a Captain.\n\nZoro believes in Luffy, he believes that Luffy would go to any length to keep\nhis word. He sees this quality the first time they met each other. He said\nthat Zoro was his comrade and he fought for him, honoring his word. He also\nsees that Luffy has a big dream, and he was serious about it. Plus, he\nbelieves in Luffy to be Captain.\n\nThis can be seen when Luffy fights Usopp. Luffy had to beat Usopp and leave\nhim, which was very hard for Luffy to do, but Luffy does it as a Captain. Zoro\nremarks that it's the burden of the Captain, and the rest of the crew relies\non him to bear it (read more about it on the\n[wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_236)).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T04:07:07.907", "id": "18399", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-14T06:44:16.987", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-14T06:44:16.987", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "11096", "parent_id": "16891", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is revealed in **Chapter 70.5 - Extra Chapter: Upon That Back** of the\nmanga and in the OVA **Akatsuki no Yona - Sono Se niwa**.\n\n> It was caused by the previous White dragon, who was also Ki-ja's father, at\n> the moment of his birth as a _mark of desperation_. \n> \n> \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-05T10:19:07.877", "id": "19828", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-28T06:06:04.070", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-28T06:06:04.070", "last_editor_user_id": "10644", "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "16892", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPirates are pirates. If they see a chance, they will take it. Also Kaido could\nhave gained much with Whitebeard's death.\n\nAccording to [the Wikia article about the\nYonkou](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yonko) (sorry, I couldn't find the\nchapter where they actually say this):\n\n> [...] the Yonko stuck in a deadlock situation [...]\n\nIdeally Whitebeard's death would have given Kaido the advantage he needed to\nadvance in the New World and eventually become the Pirate King. He just didn't\nexpect Shanks to help out Whitebeard, or Blackbeard to be so swift taking his\nplace and becoming a Yonkou maintaining their deadlock.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-19T15:48:25.507", "id": "16901", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-19T15:48:25.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "16900", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAdditionally:\n\n> From what is shown, Kaido is a merciless and confident warrior who never\n> lets an opportunity slip by, as evidenced by his plan to attack Whitebeard\n> during the latter's attempt to save Portgas D. Ace from execution.\n>\n> He is also **pitiless and not open to negotiations and excuses** , which\n> makes it seemingly unwise to provoke or underestimate him. This is enforced\n> dramatically when Donquixote Doflamingo, a Shichibukai and World Noble known\n> for his fearless and confident attitude...\n\nSo he's very rash like Ruffy and doesn't think very much, if he sees an\nopportunity to get a step closer to the title \"Pirate King\", he takes it.\n\n_You find more information about him on<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kaido>_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T01:34:40.423", "id": "17012", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T01:34:40.423", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "4957", "parent_id": "16900", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nRem intended to kill L and Watari to save Misa, L did not expect Rem to also\nkill Watari so he was only able to save his life from Rem.\n\nSo Rem did kill Watari to save Misa.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T01:23:25.530", "id": "16910", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T01:23:25.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "16902", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn that movie, Rem died due to the rule where a shinigami will die if he\nexplicitly tries to extend someone's life by killing another using the death\nnote. This happened because Kira guided L towards Misa as the second Kira.\nOnce L has proven that she is, she will be executed. That's why Rem killed L.\nAnd since Rem extended Misa's life by killing L, Rem died (Rule XVII:1).\n\nL didn't die because before Rem did that, L had already written his own name\nin the death note that they confiscated from the news announcer. By the rules\nof Death Note, the first one written takes effect while the latter is ignored\n(Rule XV:1). So since L had already written his own name, when Rem wrote L's\nname, it did not take effect.\n\nSee [Death Note\nRules](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T07:38:41.863", "id": "16987", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-15T23:47:29.840", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-15T23:47:29.840", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "16902", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn theory, Dita was manufactured for that purpose.\n\nYou need to know about OS on Chi to get these response. The problem aren't if\nChi are on Trans mode or not, the problem are if their OS have some backdoor\nfor access. If these backdoor are present, there isn't important the trans\nmode, it's only the difference between ability of the attacker and the\ndefender.\n\nOn real terms, think on that scene as two hacker working. One are attacking\nand another one defending. Probably the most important question here are the\ncomputer power itself, because Dita and Chi are AIs, the better processor can\nreact before and do better.\n\nAlso, you need to think about the methods. Taking into account the above,\nprobably Dita have more processing power than Chi (Because if you made a\npersocon for defeating another one, you need more power on them), but, Dita\nonly have a basic AI and programming routines for doing their work, but Chi\nhave some knowledge (Because have their learning program), and some feelings.\n\nProbably no, Dita cannot defeat Chi, because Chi can learn about the attack,\nand use these knowledge for doing something.\n\nBut, there isn't any fact about this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-26T13:15:34.850", "id": "19695", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-26T13:15:34.850", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11451", "parent_id": "16904", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHunter X Hunter Anime is not yet done. According to Togashi, he says he's on\nhiatus and that he's eventually continuing but the demand from the manga\ncompany is too much stress for him and he doesn't want to continue. The quota\nhe has to fill is a chapter a week which is a lot for anyone in the manga\nindustry.\n\nFrom [a blog post by\nAlyZoldyck](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:AlyZoldyck/Rumors_about_Hunter_x_Hunter_manga_has_already_end.)\non Hunter X Hunter Wikia.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T06:58:51.120", "id": "16917", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-20T09:24:04.557", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-20T09:24:04.557", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10708", "parent_id": "16915", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nAs what Miramiel stated, the mangaka of Hunter X Hunter, Togashi Yoshihiro is\non an _indefinite_ hiatus but will be back eventually.\n\nHowever, it is worth nothing that the reason behind this hiatus is the\nmangaka's **illness**. Togashi has been experiencing serious back problems\n(sources: [FANDOM](http://www.fandompost.com/2014/09/05/yoshihiro-togashi-\nextends-hunter-x-hunter-manga-hiatus/),\n[ANN-1](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-09-04/hunter-hunter-manga-\nhiatus-continues-until-further-notice/.78384),\n[ANN-2](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-08-28/hunter-x-hunter-manga-\nextends-hiatus-at-least-1-more-week/.78119)) which have caused him numerous\n_short_ breaks over the years. This illness (along with chest pains and sleep\nloss) has been with him for a quite a while and may have started back when he\nwas still doing [Yuyu Hakusho](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YuYu_Hakusho)\n\nThese back problems, particularly in the lower back area - makes it hard for a\nmangaka to deliver weekly chapters. When this condition worsened this year, he\nwas forced to take a hiatus. The **anime** will not progress with the\nmangaka's storyline nor will it be filled with _fillers_ because Togashi would\nnot allow it (and frankly, it would be a waste). It is also\n[rumored](http://www.reddit.com/r/HunterXHunter/comments/2hdxi8/why_cant_yoshihiro_togashi_dictate_what_happens/)\nthat Togashi could just ask an assistant/s to draw Hunter X Hunter with his\nstoryline but chooses not to for various reasons.\n\nYou can read this related (old) question here for more links: [Why did the\nHunter x Hunter manga go on\nhiatus?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4751/why-did-the-hunter-x-\nhunter-manga-go-on-hiatus)?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-20T09:56:03.050", "id": "16926", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-21T02:17:01.930", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "9330", "parent_id": "16915", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHer name is Honoka. She's a part of Kazuki's circle of friends. In episode 6\nof the first season she and a couple of other girls confront Yuzuki about her\nrelationship with her brother. In episode 8 she leads Kazuki out from the card\nshop where they're playing together in order to confesses her feelings to him.\nWhen she's rejected, she tells him what people have been saying behind his\nback.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-22T03:10:51.297", "id": "21031", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-22T03:10:51.297", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4414", "parent_id": "16918", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n\"-desushi\" mean \"becase\" and \"and\".\n\nLet's take a look at a few quotes from episode 5 for example.\n\n> ふぉぉぉ！燃える展開です!! ちよりはバーニングチョリソー **ですしー**!!\n\nWow! This is a burning development!! **Because** Chiyori is Burning Chorizo!!\n\n> るぅ子さんがやらないなら私がやります ちよりがやりたい **ですしー** ！\n\nIf Ruuko doesn't play, I'll play. **Because** Chiyori want to play!\n\nThe word \"-desushi\" itself is normal Japanese. But the overusing \"-desushi\" is\npart of slang of young people.\n\nIn this anime, \"-desushi\" is used for accent of character like \"-nyo\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T04:46:36.737", "id": "16951", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-21T06:57:02.693", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-21T06:57:02.693", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "16940", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou could base it on\n[this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akazukin_Chacha#Main_characters).\n\nIf I remember correctly, they don't have any HUMAN MAGICAL TRANSFORMATION,\nunlike Chacha.\n\nRiiya transforms into a strong wolf that is sometimes mistaken as a DOG. He\ndoesn't have any human magical transformation.\n\n\n\nAnd for Shine, a fellow wizard apprentice who is adept at casting spells and\nbarriers, as well as transformations, his power is better than Chacha's. But I\ndon't remember him being transformed into someone like Chacha's magical human\nform, the Magical Princess.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T03:04:40.993", "id": "16945", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T14:32:42.880", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-29T14:32:42.880", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "9351", "parent_id": "16941", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBrotherhood more or less follows the manga. I don't remember if we get a\nmontage of events in the brothers' childhoods with their ages (a quick search\nthrough volume 6 doesn't give me anything), but we _do_ see Mustang arrive at\nResembool presumably shortly after their human transmutation attempt, so we\ncan get some information from there.\n\n\n\nSo Edward is at most 11, and Alphonse 10, when human transmutation is\nattempted. This matches up more or less with the ages I remember possibly\nhaving seen from 2003 and Brotherhood. (Keep in mind that some chronology -\nsuch as the death of Winry's parents - might have occurred at a different\npoint in the manga continuity compared to that of 2003, and that there is the\nadditional half year before Ed takes the State Alchemist exams.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T03:59:45.940", "id": "16948", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-21T06:02:00.513", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-21T06:02:00.513", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "16943", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Episode 2, the past was shown which was **10 years ago**.\n\n**Let's start when his mother was still alive**.\n\nEdward was 7 years old and Al was 6 years old.\n\n**Research and training** (4 years)\n\nWhen their mother died, Edward and Al agreed to revive their mother again by\nusing the taboo which is the human transmutation, but before that, they\nsearched about the human transmutation and improved their alchemy by training\nwith the alchemy master in order to revive their mother...it took many years.\nAfter the training, they've completed the ingredients and performed the human\ntransmutation.\n\n_Then that dark incident happens..._\n\nIt took **4 years** of preparation and then their bodies were the\nsacrificed...\n\n**When Edward became a state alchemist / test part** (1 year)\n\nAfter that _\"dark incident\"_ , Roy Mustang came to their town hearing that\nthere is a talented alchemist which is referred to as Edward (knowing what\nEdward have done), then he offered Edward to become a state alchemist and told\nhim about the Philosopher Stone that could bring back their body, which Edward\ngrabs that.\n\nEdward had his surgery and rehab which took only _one year_.\n\n_He was twelve years old then, and Al was 11 years old._\n\nTo shorten my answer, Edward Elric was 11 years old and Al Elric was 10 years\nold when they've done the human transmutation. (Refer to Brotherhood series;\nhis present is 17 years old in Episode 2.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T16:21:35.200", "id": "17325", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-01T13:05:15.397", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-01T13:05:15.397", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "9351", "parent_id": "16943", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn part 1, episode 6, Alphonse says that he is 14 and Edward is 15.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-01T19:08:48.687", "id": "47635", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-01T19:08:48.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41356", "parent_id": "16943", "post_type": "answer", "score": -4 }, { "body": "\n\nEd was born in 1899 Al was born in 1900 Trisha died when in 1904 at the age of\n26 So Ed and Al were 5 and 4 respectfully when Trisha died So if Ed was made a\nstate alchemist at the age of 12, he had to be fitted with his automail, which\nsupposedly takes at least 7 months to fully atune to. So when Ed and Al\npreform the human transmutation, Ed had to be 11 or at least early 12 years\nold, while Al would be 9 or 10.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-06-11T07:07:32.410", "id": "57863", "last_activity_date": "2020-06-11T07:07:32.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53803", "parent_id": "16943", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a reference to Ghibli Studio's [Whisper of the\nHeart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_of_the_Heart). The BGM sounds like\n[Country Roads](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads)\nwhich also happens to be the theme song of the film.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ln9pI.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sGFdL.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T21:27:17.757", "id": "16969", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T04:13:10.203", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-22T04:13:10.203", "last_editor_user_id": "10613", "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "16947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShawn, you are good. That is the one! I was off on a few details such as the\nyear (early 2000's) and the terminology (torches) but you were able to give\nthe correct answer. Shakugan no Shana!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T06:34:22.850", "id": "16953", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-21T06:34:22.850", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10774", "parent_id": "16949", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is [**Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful\nDreamer**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1921/Urusei_Yatsura_Movie_2:_Beautiful_Dreamer).\nI highly recommend **Urusei Yatsura** , but I would urge you to watch the TV\nseries before even beginning to think about enjoying this movie... or not.\nThis movie kinda stands on its own, but not knowing the characters is kinda\nsad.\n\nThe most convincing proof is [this Youtube\nvideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8CWV0ki-A&t=2935), it starts right\nwhere the group lifts off the planet and they see what you described.\n\nHere is part of [the synopsis from\nIMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088334/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_sa_2):\n\n> However, when they get a ways above the city, everyone is shocked to see\n> that the province of Tomobiki-cho is on a circular disc on the back of a\n> turtle, floating through space. The group also zooms in under the disc,\n> noting that there are two giant statues holding it up on the turtle's back:\n> one of Onnsen-Mark, the other of Sakurambo, Sakura's uncle (who she noted\n> had seemed to disappear recently).\n\nHere is the fat dream man.\n\n\n\nHere is the oddly shaped world and a statue.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aGJaH.jpg)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-05T02:06:34.997", "id": "19819", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-05T06:00:56.330", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-05T06:00:56.330", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4241", "parent_id": "16956", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nZoro decides to use Usopp as sword in episode 289: if you are referring to\n[this](http://youtu.be/wlm11O6nPYU?t=3m15s) moment the music is called\n[**Luffy's Fierce Attack!**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLdFWj4R5zo).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T09:12:27.417", "id": "16989", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T09:12:27.417", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "16957", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOkay, I was a bit confused as well, but I think I know what happened at the\nend. So that Pion and Oyage could stay on Earth instead of going back into\nspace, the main character (Watashi) destroys the electric generator, their\nonly source of power. Near the end, Pion and Oyage are at about 15% power. So,\nWatashi converts their batteries into wind-up batteries to get past the\nelectricity problem. As said on the sign, 1 hour of winding= 1 minute. They're\nstill okay. :)\n\nAnd, if it helps, Chris Seibenmann on\n<https://cks.mef.org/space/rtblog/anime/JinruiChronologicalOrder> provided an\nexplanation on the timeline of Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, and the episodes\ngo: 12, 7-8, 5-6, 1-2, 9, and ending with 3-4. This explains why you don't see\nthem anymore, because the later episodes are flashbacks, albeit episode 9.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-07T14:34:45.313", "id": "18359", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-07T14:34:45.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11073", "parent_id": "16958", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat is correct. Edo Tensei was designed to be used as a weapon. Edo Tensei\nhas several uses:\n\n * Using your Enemies' allies against them has a deep impact on morale (Imagine having to fight to the death against your best friend/brother/father)\n * Regenerating soldiers can use suicidal moves repeatedly (Although it does seem like some techniques leave a permanent damage, even on an Edo Tensei'd body, like Itachi's Izanami).\n * Increasing your numbers is always a good thing.\n\nTobirama created this technique to battle in the wars between clans/villages\nduring his time alive.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T13:51:12.130", "id": "16962", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-21T13:51:12.130", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "16961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think Ghost hunt is good mystery story instead of horror story.\n\nWarn: I wrote follow part based on novel which anime version doesn't covered\nand contains spoiler.\n\n> Naru has psychic power.\n\nThe scene that naru describe the trick is mislead.\n\nThe story is:\n\n 1. Naru cuts the spoon, Mai see it.\n 2. Mai talk about (1) to lin, monk and other member.\n 3. Lin is angry and mock asked how to do it to naru.\n 4. Naru bents the spoon by using trick.\n 5. Naru apologize to lin.\n\n> The point is the difference between 1 and 4. Naru cuts the spoon at 1. but\n> in 4, Naru just bets. The trick which naru describe in 4, naru can't cut the\n> spoon.\n\nThe real story is different:\n\n> 1\\. Naru cuts spoon by psychic power. \n> 2\\. Mai talk naru **cuts**. \n> 3\\. Lin is angry because naru uses psychic power. \n> 4\\. Naru try to cheat monk using trick, because he'd like to hide his\n> psychic power. \n> 5\\. Naru success to convince monk and mai. \n> But lin know that trick doesn't work for cut which mai talked in 2, and\n> naru know he can't convince lin by this story. Then he apologize to lin\n> about use psychic power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T21:44:52.363", "id": "16970", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-21T21:44:52.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3557", "parent_id": "16964", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this wiki](http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Xemnas) its was\nXemnas\n\n> A few days later, for reasons unknown, Xemnas arrived at Hollow Bastion.\n> Being told by the Princesses of Heart of the power that they sensed while on\n> his way to seal the world's Keyhole, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Beast go to\n> the abandoned area where they fought Maleficent to investigate, and soon\n> encounter Xemnas. Intangible at first, Xemnas passes through Sora, causing\n> him to experience many of his memories in rapid succession, before fully\n> manifesting. Sora asks who the man is, and Goofy wonders if it is Ansem, and\n> though Xemnas says he is familiar with the name, he refuses to clarify his\n> identity. He then launches an energy attack at Sora, who manages to deflect\n> it (with some difficulty). Xemnas remarks how Sora looks like \"him\" and thus\n> an incomplete being, his words only confusing Sora. Xemnas then attacks the\n> Keyblade wielder, intending to test his power.\n\nThat scene was also include in _Kingdom Hearts Final Mix_ which was originally\nreleased in japan. \nYou can also see identify its Xemnas by the same weapon he wield. \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T23:00:41.143", "id": "16975", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-21T23:00:41.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "85", "parent_id": "16971", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to _Newtype_ magazine, _Sword Art Online II Volume I Blu-Ray DVD_\nsales ranks 5th in the charts. Volume II sales are still ongoing. In total and\nas of this post, the average sales ranks 4th when compared to other anime\nDVDs/BDs sales with a total of about 20,000 sales.\n\nSource for Newtype (bottom-middle column):\n<https://i.stack.imgur.com/wYRUq.jpg>\n\nAverage sales:\n<https://web.archive.org/web/20140825012552/http://www.someanithing.com/1045>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T08:46:13.603", "id": "16988", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-25T13:09:35.213", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-25T13:09:35.213", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "16981", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMadara can't use Kamui, because that was Obito Uchiha's Mangekyou Sharingan\nability, used by Kakashi after the transplant (after part I). He could only\nuse it because he took Kakashi's Sharingan and used it to access Obito's\npocket dimension to retrieve the Rinnegan.\n\n * Itachi - Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, Susanoo\n * Sasuke - Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi, Amaterasu, Susanoo\n * Obito - Kamui, Susanoo\n * Madara - Susanoo\n * Izuna - Not mentioned in the series\n * Shisui - Kotoamatsukami, Susanoo\n * Indra - Susanoo, Amaterasu\n\nMadara can't use Amaterasu, because in my opinion, it's an ability that only\nruns in Sasuke and Itachi's family, seeing as they were the only ones to show\nthis ability in the series.\n\nAll Mangekyou Sharingan users can use the Izanagi and Izanami ability.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T16:19:42.723", "id": "16996", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-24T13:25:54.797", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-24T13:25:54.797", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10805", "parent_id": "16982", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara cant use Amaterasu nor can Kamui since his eyes do not grant that\nability. Kamui is Obito's ability (in both eyes) and Amaterasu is Itachi's\n(left eye) and Sasuke could use it only because Itachi gave it to him just\nbefore he died (Sasuke left eye also). In both eyes Itachi has Tsukiyomi.\n\nSusanoo is accessible for all Mangekyou Sharingan users who possess two of the\neyes (so Obito didnt have it and neither did Kakashi - for most of the time\nanyway).\n\nIzanagi and Izanami are accessible for ALL SHARINGANS not just Mangekyou\n(Obito used Izanagi on his left eye while fighting Konan, which was an eye\ntransplanted from some random no-name Uchiha corpse and also Danzou had 10\nSharingans for Izanagi and none of them was Mangekyou)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-13T18:56:54.997", "id": "24059", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-19T07:56:11.213", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-19T07:56:11.213", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "16284", "parent_id": "16982", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe song is \"Pure Feelings\", Track 18 in the second OST for R2.\n\nthe particular piece that plays in the scene you point to begins roughly at\n1:34 of the song\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T12:54:17.590", "id": "16992", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T21:31:16.550", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-22T21:31:16.550", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1348", "parent_id": "16985", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLooking around in Google Maps, I have determined two likely locations for\nMihama Academy. Starting in Mishima, because of the name of Mishima Cape in\nthe VN and anime, I found a lake on the south end of the city, just north of\nthe Kano river. It is also conveniently right on the border of Ohira, whose\nborder looks kind of like a cape. This would make the \"Mishima Cape\" a\ngeographical name, not a city or town name, or perhaps a district name.\nHowever, being a lake, I don't see why it might have a lighthouse as in the\nanime (I don't think there is a lighthouse in the VN).\n\nThe other place I have found is on the north end of the city, around the\nAshinoko Country Club. Google Maps shows the area around the club to be quite\nbarren of infrastructure and \"civilisation\", though I do not know quite how\naccurate this is. My reasoning behind this place is because Mihama Academy is\nmentioned to be quite a ways away from the city itself, on the outskirts,\nwhich would make the sparsely populated area up north an ideal place for it.\nAlso, Lake Ashi is just to the north, and while it is not in Mishima City (it\nis located within Hakone in the Kanegawa Prefecture), there are plenty of\nprotrusions of land for there to be the cliff that we see Michiru visit\nmultiple times, and the lake is a closed cruise destination (the cruises only\ngo around the lake because there is no sea or ocean access), which would\nprovide a need for light houses so the cruise ships don't run aground. It is\nnever mentioned that the cliff Michiru frequents is in the same city as Mihama\nAcademy, and we know Yuuji runs 15(?)km every morning, so this is well within\nthe realm of possibility. The only thing missing from this location is the\nriver Sakaki gets attacked by, but since it appears to be a man-made river\n(because of how straight and \"square\" it is), that could possibly be forgiven,\nespecially since it appears to be a fictional river.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-06T04:13:27.347", "id": "43679", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-06T04:13:27.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37039", "parent_id": "17000", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI know I'm a couple years late, but this was the closest I could find. Just in\ncase anyone was still looking like I was.\n\nArai, Itō, Shizuoka 414-0043, Japan\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ynBqi.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghKFm.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-02-08T17:58:22.820", "id": "61864", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-08T17:58:22.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58723", "parent_id": "17000", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is not uncommon - a number of shows will have a first episode with no\nsong at the beginning, and with the OP at the end of the episode. I'll pull in\nsome examples of this later.\n\nThere are also somewhat more unusual cases like Madoka (as Memor-X points out\nin the comments), in which \"Connect\" (usually the opening) was used as the\nending song in episode 10.\n\n* * *\n\nBut, for a particularly amusing example of this, look at **Hanamonogatari**.\nIn the Monogatari series, OPs are always sung by the voice actors, and EDs are\nsung by other singers. Hanamonogatari's OP was \"the last day of my\nadolescence\" (by Kanbaru Suruga / Sawashiro Miyuki), and the ED was \"Hanaato\n-shirushi-\" (by Kawano Marina).\n\nSince Hanamonogatari was broadcast as a continuous ~2-hour long special, the\nOP and ED each only ran once - but the ED was played at the beginning, and the\nOP was played at the end! Imagine that!\n\n(I think this is because the OP visuals and lyrics are spoilery for\nHanamonogatari, whereas the ED visuals/lyrics aren't? But I'm not sure about\nthat.)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T22:14:38.180", "id": "17005", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T22:20:28.933", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-22T22:20:28.933", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "17003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThis questions seems answered to me, but since it isn't accepted yet, maybe I\ncan add some more info.\n\nFrom [this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/8194/what-was-the-first-\nanime-that-uses-different-ending-opening-songs-in-every-episo/18823#18823)\nquestion I have a local copy of the database powering [ANN's\nencyclopedia](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/). So with this in\nhand I looked for titles, that had the same songs as both OP and ED (at some\npoint, not necessarily the same episode).\n\nAll title comparisons are done case insensitive to catch annotation\ninconsistencies. There are no checks for episodes - as long as an OP becomes\nand ED or vice versa at some point during the anime, it counts (once). The\ncode can be found\n[here](https://gist.github.com/JonasR/9680bd90ac681a49ef28#file-calc2-py).\n\n### Results\n\nIf we only take the song's title independent of the artists performing it,\nthere are 233 cases from 216 animes. You can see the full list of titles\n[here](https://gist.github.com/JonasR/9680bd90ac681a49ef28#file-same_title-\nmarkdown). If we only consider cases where not only the title was swapped, but\nit was also performed by the same artist, there are still 210 cases from 194\nanimes (full list\n[here](https://gist.github.com/JonasR/9680bd90ac681a49ef28#file-\nsame_title_and_artist-markdown)). In other words, there are 23 titles that not\nonly swapped positions, but at the same time also got a new artist. Then\nagain, upon manual inspection only 14 of these cases turned out to be true,\nthe rest can be attributed to some kind of inconsistent annotation by ANN.\n\nIt is probably safe to assume there are more errors, but the numbers should at\nleast be roughly correct. I did my best catch all of the systematic\ninconsistencies. (The results also confirm the three cases mentioned in\nsenshin's answer)\n\n**Most swaps:** The only title to have three songs swapped is\n[_Major_](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4115). The\nopenings [Saraba Aoki Omokage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipucDn3k0DQ),\n[Play the Game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFSPwpt3idI) and [Kokoro\ne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5oSlDgGD4) were used as endings in 4\nepisodes in total, even with the same artists. The full lists for the number\nof swaps per anime is here ([including same\nartist](https://gist.github.com/JonasR/9680bd90ac681a49ef28#file-\nswaps_per_anime-markdown), [title\nonly](https://gist.github.com/JonasR/9680bd90ac681a49ef28#file-\nswaps_per_anime_title_only-markdown)).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-27T17:14:51.947", "id": "18896", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-27T17:14:51.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34", "parent_id": "17003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhat this comes down to is essentially the following: \nAside from instant brain destruction you mentioned, or instant entire-body\ndestruction (which is essentially the same thing), Tatsuya can repair whatever\ndamage has been dealt to him and survive.\n\n* * *\n\nThe only sure way to take him down is to hit him with something that there's\ndefinitely no recovery from, such as Ichijou Masaki's\n[_Rupture_](http://mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Rupture). An\nattack like this would all but annihilate the body (including the brain, and\ntherefore magic calculation area), meaning Tatsuya would certainly die.\nHowever, this is far easier said than done, as we know he is especially\nskilled at using counter-magic derived from his Decomposition ability.\n\nHaving said that, he isn't impervious to assault - he's struck by a sniper's\nbullet in episode 19 of the anime, and is overwhelmed by Masaki's uncontrolled\n[_Air Bullet_](http://mahouka-koukou-no-rettousei.wikia.com/wiki/Air_Bullet)\n(albeit while being under limitations) in the Monolith Code final, meaning it\nis potentially possible to land a lethal attack. And if the right kind of\nattack does hit, he's just as mortal as the next guy.\n\n* * *\n\nTatsuya's _Regrowth_ can heal major and minor wounds alike in a fraction of a\nsecond, meaning that he can maintain combat effectiveness through almost any\ninjury he sustains. Lacerations, broken bones, and even the removal of one of\nhis arms can be repaired without diverting his full magic calculation area to\nthe matter at hand:\n\n> \"A thin ray of light was squeezed out and grazed Tatsuya’s right arm.\n>\n> Despite it only being grazed - Tatsuya’s right arm from the elbow down was\n> carbonized and blown away.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Into that gun barrel, Tatsuya thrust his gun shaped CAD, the custom Silver\n> Horn, Trident. \n> With the right arm that was supposed to be blown away.\n>\n> “That arm!?” Lina shrieked.\"\n>\n> _Volume 11 - Visitor III, Chapter 13_\n\nHe does, however, _reflexively_ heal any would-be fatal wounds that occur -\nand that can be exploited: \nWhen used intentionally, as in the above quote, Tatsuya can control the magic\nhe's wielding. When used reflexively on major wounds, that control is lost and\nthe casting of _Regrowth_ uses his entire magic calculation area, meaning he's\nleft in a vulnerable state during the regeneration process. While only a short\nperiod, during this time he's completely open to attacks. Those mentioned in\nthe first half of the answer would have no resistance, and even conventional\nattacks that strike the brain would be enough to kill him.\n\nThis essentially amounts to the point that Tatsuya has only two major weak\nspots - his brain, and his heart. This is proven during his fight with the\nParasite Dolls in volume 12, where he only focuses on protecting those two\npoints from any attacks.\n\n> \"Amid the incoming superpower [...] attacks coming from all directions,\n> Tatsuya charged forward while only protecting the vital areas of the head\n> and heart and swiftly came into contact with the first Parasite doll.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Utilizing a full backup of _Restoration_ could block the pain, but under\n> those circumstances, _Restoration_ would temporarily monopolize the entire\n> Magic Calculation Area, crucially delaying any counterattack.\n>\n> It was precisely for this reason why Tatsuya shielded the vitals that\n> impacted life and death. So long as his _Psions_ were not exhausted, he\n> wouldn’t die even if suffered a fatal injury. However, if he did suffer a\n> life threatening blow, then his survival instincts would automatically\n> initiate a full backup and put every other magic ability on hold.\n>\n> _Volume 13 - Steeplechase, Chapter 7_\n\nIf you can destroy the brain, that's enough to put him out permanently. If you\ncan severely damage his heart, that would force him into automatic\nregeneration and therefore potentially provide enough of an opening to perform\nthe first action.\n\n* * *\n\nThe only other way to take down Tatsuya is mentioned briefly in that previous\nquote:\n\n> \"So long as his _Psions_ were not exhausted, he wouldn’t die even if\n> suffered a fatal injury.\"\n\nAs all magic requires _Psions_ to cast, if his supply was empty, he would be\nunable to restore himself, reflexively or otherwise. Therefore, if it was\npossible to completely drain Tatsuya's supply of _Psions_ , a fatal wound\n(even one not targeting the brain) would be enough to kill him.\n\nOf course, this is practically nearly impossible, as he has such a huge\n_Psion_ count - even Mayumi Saegusa comments on this after he uses _Gram\nDemolition_ during the Nine Schools Competition:\n\n> \"But there are very few people capable of performing this feat. I cannot do\n> it either. Since this isn't an interference ability but a true dispersion, I\n> am unable to create that kind of force with my psion count.\n>\n> In summation, it's a super heavyweight!\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> There were at least ten overlapping Magic Sequences during the incident, but\n> they were all dispelled instantly... Exactly how high is his psion count..?\"\n>\n> _Volume 4 - Nine Schools Competition II, Chapter 10_\n\n* * *\n\nIf nothing else, you could always wait for him to die from old age. While he\ncan repair any injury, he still ages, and will therefore die like anyone else\nafter so long.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-01T12:36:45.183", "id": "21279", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T21:26:58.350", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-16T21:26:58.350", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "10654", "parent_id": "17006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nTaking consideration of Tatsuya's counter magic and his \"Regrowth\" execution\nspeed (stated that it is now beyond human eye perception rate - taking\nperception rate to be 60fps then about 16ms) -\n\nMiyuki's Cocytus: However there is a catch - although it is stated that\nMiyuki's execution speed of Cocytus is much faster than any other magic she\ncan wield and her execution speed in school practical lab was 235ms (which was\nactually much slower than her normal execution speed from her specialized CAD)\nbut the actual execution speed of neither Miyuki's Cocytus not Tatsuya's\nRegrowth has been stated in the series.\n\nLina's Heavy Metal Burst (Assuming Tatsuya's Regrowth execution speed remains\nthe same): Her execution speed is greater than Miyuki's (except for Miyuki's\nCocytus).If her execution speed increases further, then maybe.\n\nIchijou's Rupture - Nope, will be cancelled before it can be used\n\nMaya's Night - same\n\nTatsuya's Material Burst - I always thought, what if Tatsuya uses Material\nBurst at an object near him (or that he is in the range of the blast). He\ncannot create a proper shield (his other magics have low potency) to\ncompletely protect him or has freezing magic\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-28T06:21:05.623", "id": "38115", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T06:21:05.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30005", "parent_id": "17006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI would like to address this question by first asking if brain damage can kill\nhim.\n\nIt is important to understand that the series emphasizes a difference between\nthe brain and the mind. There is also a psion body, and a spectral form (which\nmay be the same thing as a psion body), and the idea of life force.\n\nThese concepts are related to the mind, and the body, but the author has\nraised a distinction between them. The exact distinction is unclear, since\nmind and brain are often used interchangeably. The mind is also called the\n\"soul\" at times. For a Western viewer, the soul is probably closer to what\nthis concept represent than the word \"mind\".\n\nHowever, A USNA scientist in the visitor arc suggests that the mind is the\nthinking device, and the brain is simply a communication device.\n\nWhat seems to be true, however, is that the brain exists in the physical\nrealm, while the mind/spectral body/psion body kind of don't. The latter 3\nalso in some senses is an existence different from whatever spells are.\nTatsuya can only affect spells and the physical realm.\n\nLet me raise some examples of this. Sakurai Honami died because she used up\nher psions. Tatsuya was not able to heal her because psion exhaustion is not a\nphysical attribute.\n\nWhen the female vampire/parasite attacked Leo in the visitor arc, she drained\nLeo's life force; Mikihiko was able to see this by looking at his spectral\nbody.\n\nThe pure force of a parasite is a information body, which I assume is\nsomething like a mind. Tatsuya cannot affect this with Mist dispersal because\nit is not a physical thing.\n\nWe can conjecture that magic is done with the mind instead of the brain. I am\npretty sure we know that Tatsuya can suffer minor brain injury and still\nregrowth himself. Furthermore, the pure parasite can cast spells.\n\nWe can also assume that death occurs with the death of the mind. I offer this\nconjecture because Tatsuya cannot revive the deads. I believe the reason for\nthis is that he cannot influence the mind. He can create an identical brain,\nbut without the mind, the person is dead, despite being fine physically.\n\nSo we have a question of whether or not total brain destruction is enough to\nkill off Tatsuya. Since we don't know how long the mind can survive without\nthe brain, we are not sure of this answer.\n\nSo, what can kill Tatsuya through regrowth? Ignoring his counter magic,\nbasically that falls under 2 categories.\n\n**1) Mental Interference Magic/Other things that affects the Mind**\n\nThe obvious answer here is Miyuki's Cocytus. Miyuki's magic affects the mind,\nnot the brain, which is how she was able to kill the pure form of the\nparasite. It will freeze his mind, rendering him incapable of casting further\nmagic. Even if he could cast magic, he couldn't restore his mind.\n\nA less obvious answer is Miya's ability to change the mind. She could simply\nchange the structure of the mind to no longer be able to regrowth. Miya's gate\ncould also temporarily shut off Tatsuya's regrowth, allowing any method to\nkill off Tatsuya. Presumably, possibly with minor variations of the Pledge\nspell, Miyuki could also seal away his ability to Regrowth.\n\nIn any case, any mental attack could either damage/kill off the mind directly,\nor control the mind to not use Regrowth, allowing conventional means to kill\noff Tatsuya.\n\n**2) Psion Exhaustion/Uninhabitable enivronment**\n\nDropping him in the middle of the sun will kill him. Even if his mind can\nrevive him once, his regrowth cannot maintain his body in the sun. As such,\nhis brain cannot be regenerated, and his mind will eventually die. If that\ndoes not happen, psion exhaustion will eventually set in and kill him.\n\nIn short, anything which creates a persistent lethal environment will kill\nhim. Furthermore, if you can force him to cast a self restoration in a\npersistent lethal environment (say, a fire), he will not be able to defend\nhimself. When his body is healed, it will immediately be destroyed again,\nforcing his self restoration to activate ad infinitum until he dies of psion\nexhaustion.\n\nA continuous attack after he is forced to use self restoration does the same\nthing.\n\nTl:dr\n\n**1)MI Magic** **2)Put him in a bonfire, or continue shooting him with a\nmachine gun.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-08T09:44:50.473", "id": "38331", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-08T09:44:50.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30114", "parent_id": "17006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n\"Can Tatsuya Shiba be killed?\" \\- This question is asked a lot in various\nforums and more than a few people say \"Yes with the use of the Spell Rupture\".\nExcept there is a general problem with this answer that no one seems to\nrealize.\n\nHe can see the activation sequence and uses Gram Demolition (spell\ndismantlement). However both Gram Demolition and Rupture have the same flaw of\nbeing short range. they can't cast them long distances but Gram Demolition has\na slightly wider rage then Rupture due to Tatsuyas monstrous amount of Edios.\n\nTatsuya can be killed with Meteor Beam as long as he does not see it coming.\nIt’s true activation speed is near the speed of light, but he can hold his own\nagainst it (Maya fears Tatsuya because of this fact in addition to the\nextremely wide range casting of Material Burst) unlike Jumanji Katsuto (next\nhead of the number 10 master clan) and his Phalanx which stands no chance\nagainst Meteor Beam, Material Burst, or Lunar Magic.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-12-19T01:38:23.567", "id": "61324", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-19T02:27:50.600", "last_edit_date": "2020-12-19T02:27:50.600", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "57759", "parent_id": "17006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly, they were [going to live with Ryuji's\ngrandparents](http://tora-dora.wikia.com/wiki/Taiga_Aisaka) -(Wikia Article\n-Valentine's Day Arc third paragraph) - who would then act as legal guardians\nfor them.\n\n> Ryuuji and Taiga pack for a long trip; but when Ryuuji spies Yasuko's note\n> he realizes she had run away, like a child, and he convinces Taiga that they\n> should visit his grandparents\n\nSupposing the laws are similar here, parental consent could be substituted by\nconsent of a legal guardian.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-24T23:10:27.377", "id": "23535", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-10T05:55:19.647", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-10T05:55:19.647", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "15874", "parent_id": "17009", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSo I'll admit it's taken a long time to research this question, but my\nconclusion is thus:\n\n## They were teenagers in love, unaware that they couldn't _just_ elope.\n\nMy believe is that they could **not** have directly eloped, and would have to\nbe on the run for an additional two years to satisfy Japanese law.\n\nNot just _that_ , but the reality of figuring out how to survive while living\nlike that - a subject touched on towards the end of the series, but not really\nfully fleshed out - would've likely proven too hard for them to survive.\nWithout any steady source of income, and even with a place to stay, their\nchances of surviving without a larger support network (yes, besides their\nfriends) would've been very, very small.\n\nHowever, there are loopholes to this scenario. That is, there are reasonable\nscenarios which could have occurred that would've cleared these hurdles.\n\nPlease note: **these are conjectural, and based _only_ on the evidence we have\nat hand.** I wouldn't say at all that this would occur; I wanted to explore\nthe possibility.\n\n* * *\n\nStarting with Taiga, we can see that there are cracks in her relationships\nwith her parents. At this point, we know this because\n\n> Taiga initially stormed off because her mother is pregnant, and will be\n> introducing a new child into her family. Taiga takes umbrage to this, and\n> would rather not be in her mother's family. Her father has already left town\n> and would not be in a position to be a \"parent\" of any kind to her.\n\nGiven that, and how their relationship had progressed at that point, it\n_could_ be seen that Taiga could have received approval from her mother to get\nmarried.\n\n> Note that in the last episode, a voice mail left by Taiga's mom which\n> sounded like furious resignation could've cleared the path to her becoming\n> emancipated (as I as an American understand it), and would've been the start\n> of her being able to get married before 20.\n\nFrom Ryuuji's side, his perspective is a lot less clear due to his familial\ncircumstances, but there is an angle that could have been exploited.\n\n> After he ran off with Taiga, Yasuko had started to see Ryuuji as more of an\n> independent man. Even though her burning wish was to see her son succeed\n> academically - a part in which she failed and genuinely wanted her son _not_\n> to fail - after his brief but sharp rebuke, she could be seen as respecting\n> Ryuuji just a bit more.\n\nEven though Yasuko was heartbroken, it could be conjectured that Ryuuji\ncould've asked her for her approval...after she was found.\n\n> Note that Yasuko cut off all communication with the world, essentially,\n> after Ryuuji ran off. The only way that anyone got in touch with her was by\n> telling her that Ryuuji was with her parents.\n\nThat would've opened up the dialogue somewhat, and _could_ have allowed Ryuuji\nto gain his mother's permission to marry.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-13T02:35:38.340", "id": "39386", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-13T02:35:38.340", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "17009", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIndeed Orochimaru could not reanimate the Hokages while their soul were not in\nthe \"Pure World\", in other words, while they are sealed inside the Shinigami's\nstomach.\n\nBut at **chapter 618** , Orochimaru summoned and controled the Shinigami with\nthe help of [Shinigami's mask](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shinigami_Mask):\n\n\n\nSo he was able to remove the seal if he cuts his on stomach, using the\ntechnique: **Dead Demon Consuming Seal: Release.**\n\n\n\nWith the Hokage's souls relesead, he could reanimate them.\n\nAt [Naruto\nWiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal:_Release), this\ntechnique is well explained:\n\n> This technique involves invoking the Shinigami using a mask from the Uzumaki\n> Clan's Mask Storage Temple. From there, the summoner is possessed by the\n> Shinigami allowing them control over it, they can then force it to cut its\n> own stomach resulting in the release of the souls sealed inside. Due to the\n> possession however, the same damage will reflect on the invoker's own body.\n>\n> After the souls are released, however, persons are free to do as they please\n> with the souls. **Orochimaru used this technique to free the** **souls of\n> the Hokage along with that of his arms and then reincarnate** **them.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T03:25:35.033", "id": "17015", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T03:39:41.313", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-23T03:39:41.313", "last_editor_user_id": "2251", "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "17013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nI think you're referring to the fight between Sarutobi Hiruzen and Orochimaru,\nwhen Orochimaru resurrected 3 figures and Hiruzen stopped the summoning in\nNaruto episode 69 at around 15 minutes, and in page 18 and 19 of manga #117.\n\nI think the story was alluding to the Yondaime Hokage, and it's probably\nanother plot-hole. An alternative idea could be that it was some other\ncharacter that we'll never uncover.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-22T00:35:24.773", "id": "48869", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-22T00:35:24.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "42583", "parent_id": "17013", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst of all, you are mistaken about Mikako sending Ikaros from the sky. It\nwas Daedalus who freed the sealed Ikaros and sent her down to Tomoki.\n\nSecondly, based on what Ikaros said during the reminiscence, what Mikako did\nat that time was making Ikaros malfunctioning so that she would accept orders\nfrom humans. For reference, Ikaros said, \"after I reduced the ground to\nnothing, suddenly I malfunctioned.\" Mikako also possibly sealed Ikaros' memory\nso that she wouldn't remember what caused her to malfunction until Mikako\nherself removed the seal by touching her forehead as she said, \"please grant\nEi-kun's wish.\" As for the reason why Mikako did that, it is purely\nspeculation, but it might be because she dislikes the way Master of Synapse\nordered Ikaros to kill people mercilessly or she pitied Ikaros for having to\nkill even when she doesn't want to.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T03:58:17.827", "id": "17144", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-29T03:58:17.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "17016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLaw didn't just use his power to cut Vergo, he also cut him with his sword as\npart of that. The combination of Law's power, his sword, and the Haki he used\nthrough his sword, were enough to overwhelm Vergo's full body Haki and slice\nhim in two.\n\nHaki is not a binary quality. Depending on the willpower and the strength of\nthe person, they can have stronger or weaker Haki. If Law's Haki had been too\nweak, he wouldn't have been able to cut Vergo. However, if he used as much\nHaki for his attack as Vergo used for his defense, then it would just become a\ncontest between Law's sword and Vergo's abs.\n\nIn One Piece, there are very few absolute powers. Luffy was able to punch\nthrough the Snake Sisters' Haki by putting enough forces into his punch. No\none is immune to Haki, but Haki is not infallible either. Haki can be beaten\nby Haki, and weak Haki can even be beaten by excessive force.\n\nIn this case, I believe it was a combination of Law's Haki and strength that\ndefeated Vergo's Haki and toughness.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T14:03:53.203", "id": "17022", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T11:23:27.957", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-18T11:23:27.957", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "17021", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\n**Haki isn't almighty.** Pure strength can still overcome even Haki. The best\nexample we have seen so far is when Luffy was able to punch harder than Boa\nMarigold could coat herself in armament Haki in chapter 520. This was at the\ntime when Luffy didn't even know how to use Haki yet.\n\nFrom this example, we can see that one doesn't need Haki to overcome Haki. The\nsame goes for Law. The combination of Law's power and his slash _were_ more\npowerful than the power Vergo could ever summon to defend himself with.\n\nOda added this scene to prove how strong Law had become. He wasn't the weak\npsycho child he once was. He had grown to be pretty strong and was determined\nto defeat Doflamingo, and he showed us by defeating Vergo, who supposedly had\na pretty strong Haki.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T23:31:38.267", "id": "17037", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-18T19:18:27.177", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-18T19:18:27.177", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "17021", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ntOms.jpg)\n\nImage from shuushuu. Click to enlarge!\n\nThis image is from the video game **Soul Worker Online**. Your image is\nmirrord and the _Soulworker Lion Games_ watermark is removed.\n\n\n\n> Soul Worker is an anime action MMORPG which takes place in the Cloudrealm, a\n> now vacant city which only harbors the psychics and a horde of monsters.\n> Players will learn about the fate of the city and the reason for the\n> disappearance of all inhabitants through the course of the game, as well as\n> possibly finding a way to reverse this catastrophe.\n\nImage from [liongames](http://www.liongames.co.kr/Front/?url=game).\nInformation from [freemmostation](http://www.freemmostation.com/games/soul-\nworker/).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T15:03:40.147", "id": "17024", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T15:25:20.920", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-23T15:25:20.920", "last_editor_user_id": "7817", "owner_user_id": "7817", "parent_id": "17023", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFound it thanks to this: [What are these three references from episode\n9?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5467/what-are-these-three-\nreferences-from-episode-9)\n\n> [Kenshiro](http://hokuto.wikia.com/wiki/Kenshiro) is the main protagonist of\n> **[Fist of the North\n> Star](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star)** Manga/Anime\n> series.\n\n* * *\n\nThe [Big Dipper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper) asterism in the\nbackground is a reference to the seven scars on his chest that look like it\n(where as the Big Dipper is also directly above the North Star in the sky):\n\n> Kenshiro is also known as the Man With Seven Scars (七つの傷の男 Nanatsu no kizu\n> no otoko?), due to the seven scars engraved on his chest patterned after the\n> shape of the Big Dipper (the symbol of the Hokuto school), as well as the\n> Savior of Century's End\n>\n> _Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenshiro)_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T20:24:08.480", "id": "17031", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T20:24:08.480", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10613", "parent_id": "17030", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nConsidering that [there's a version on\nYoutube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtkbo2QJ7Y) floating around of that\nvery opening...I doubt that.\n\nWhile I don't speak fluent Japanese, it's pretty clear that the word \"stress\"\nas well as the word for \"stomach\" are said, so the above video is likely\ncloser to reality.\n\nBut that picture? Not a chance. It was probably a liberty taken on part of the\ntranslator to include some emphasis of the situation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T21:50:09.857", "id": "17033", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T21:50:09.857", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "17032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Japanese is:\n\n> ニ学期ずっとこの席だと？ストレスで胃が蜂の巣になる！\n\nMore or less literally,\n\n> I have to sit here for all of second term? The stress will turn my stomach\n> into a beehive [i.e. thing with many holes]!\n\nThe subtitles you have there are from [Commie]; their subtitles for Watamote\nwere edited by one of their more, um, liberal editors.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-23T23:13:22.463", "id": "17035", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T23:13:22.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "17032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMadoka only had 1 wish, to erase all witches no matter where they are. 1 and 2\nare the extent of the wish, 3 is her reason for her wish, 4 is her\ndetermination and 5 is just her telling the Incubator to grant her wish.\n\nin the new universe, witches still exists, they will always exists so long as\nthere are magical Girls, however thanks to the Law of Cycles Madoka will\narrive and save the Magical Girl before they transform so on the outside it\nlooks like they don't exists and all that happens is the Magical Girl is\nclaimed by the Law of Cycles.\n\nAs for your comment about the Magical Girls not smiling:\n\n> as we later clearly see that magical girls are not constantly smiling\n\nthis is because they know they'll become witches but after Madoka assures them\nthey won't, that she'll stop it before it happens, they begin to smile.\n\n* * *\n\nWith Homura, she didn't become a witch when the Incubators first kidnapped\nher. Her Soul Gem was progressing to that point and the Incubators would have\nobserved and theorized at what point the Law of Cycles will occur and thanks\nto Homura explaining the original system, know there's a stage after this.\nThey created the Isolation Field that blocks out all external influence.\n\n> Kyubey places Homura's Soul Gem in an Isolation Field - a space that blocks\n> out all external influence, including the Law of Cycles. However, the\n> Isolation Field prevents Homura from being born as a witch, meaning that\n> Madoka's wish is not invalidated. (Although not directly stated, it's\n> implied that by creating a space where the Law of Cycles cannot enter,\n> Kyubey blocks Madoka's omniscience.) Ultimately, a witch barrier forms\n> inside Homura's Soul Gem. Kyubey allows the barrier to draw in victims,\n> including Mami, Kyoko, and Madoka's family. Kyubey believes that this will\n> eventually cause the Law of Cycles to materialize in the barrier. Kyubey's\n> goal is to observe the Law of Cycles, which would ultimately allow him to\n> interfere with and control it.\n\nSource - [Madoka Kaname - Madoka in The Rebellion Story](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Madoka_Kaname#Madoka_in_The_Rebellion_Story)\n\nNow remember the Incubators are incredibly advanced and through Homura they\nare aware of the existence of the Law of Cycles but just don't understand it,\njust like how they don't understand how Magical Girls exist in the first place\n(yet can still create them).\n\nNow when Homura transforms into Homulily the Law of Cycles (Madoka) has\nalready been trapped in the Isolation Field but the Incubators are unable to\ndo anything in terms of manipulating Madoka as she gave up her memories and\npowers to Sayaka and Nagisa. For the time Madoka, Sayaka, and Nagisa were in\nHomura's Labyrinth, the law of Cycles was missing from the universe.\n\n> However, Madoka is aware of Kyubey's plan. She enters Homura's barrier with\n> Sayaka and Nagisa Momoe (the magical girl who became Charlotte) ... Madoka\n> entrusts them with her memories and powers in order to fool Kyubey, and\n> allows Homura's barrier to alter her memories and suppress her powers.\n\nand it's only after the field is destroyed does the Law of Cycles return and\nMadoka descends down to claim Homura.\n\n* * *\n\nNow for Homura splitting Madoka, after being released from the Isolation Field\nMadoka is still in her human form (though she looks like her goddess form).\nThis is demonstrated by the fact Mami and Kyoko can see her when in the past\nwhen Sayaka was claimed by the Madoka, Mami only assumed she was taken and\nthey didn't even know about her. This is most likely due to the fact she is\nstill just recovering her original form, having given up all her powers to\nNagisa and Sayaka. In this form Homura could interfere with the Law of Cycles\nand stop her from purifying her soul gem which now fills with something else.\n\n> As she comes down to take Homura's Soul Gem into the Law of Cycles, Homura\n> grabs Madoka's hands before her Soul Gem can be purified. Homura's Soul Gem\n> turns black, and then fills with a new color. (It's unclear if this color\n> was something that had already existed in Homura's Soul Gem, or if it is the\n> result of Homura grabbing Madoka and interfering with the Law of Cycles).\n> Homura's actions causes reality to crack. Madoka is then separated from\n> Ultimate Madoka (it is unclear if Homura deliberately caused this, or if it\n> is the result of Homura's interference). The colors inside Homura's Soul Gem\n> explode outward. The cracks perpetuate throughout reality, followed by the\n> colors of Homura's Soul Gem, which engulfs the universe.\n\nHomura then ascends to becomes a new goddess/demon and rewrites the universe\nwith new laws to facilitate her existence and how own control over the\nuniverse (as we see where she can suppress Sayaka's powers and memories),\nparticularity allowing Madoka's existence as a person before she became the\nLaw of Cycles. It's not made clear how the Law of Cycles is working now but we\ncan assume it's fundamentally broken as Sayaka asks Homura if she is planning\non destroying the universe. We know that if Madoka remembers who she is she'll\nreturn to be the Law of Cycles (which Homura actively tries to stop) but\nregardless Homura is not a witch so even if the Law of Cycles was working she\nwould be immune.\n\nNow I should point out that we don't know the full extent of Homura's actions\nas one of the things Homura did was force the Incubators to manage all the\ncurses. We can not be sure if they have the opportunity or were even able to\ncreate new magical girls. Since witches come from Magical Girls, if the\nIncubators can not make any more then there's no more witches thus leading the\nLaw of Cycles to no longer be needed.\n\n", "comment_count": 11, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-24T01:22:59.850", "id": "17040", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-24T12:06:28.460", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-24T12:06:28.460", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "17036", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYasuko's profession is simply being a hostess and an entertainer at a bar\nnamed Bishamontengoku. You are correct in that she is not a sex worker. Think\nof them as modern Geishas. Their main duties are to entertain customers, like\nsinging karaoke with them or cajoling with men. They interact heavily with the\ncustomers, unlike the servers or waitress at a normal bar.\n\n> In Japan, two types of bars are hostess clubs and kyabakura (キャバクラ?), a\n> portmanteau of kyabarē (キャバレー?, lit. \"cabaret\") and kurabu (クラブ?, lit.\n> \"club\"). Hostesses who work at kyabakura are known as kyabajō (キャバ嬢?),\n> literally cabaret girl, and many of them use professional names called\n> \"genji name\" (源氏名 genji-na?). Hostesses light cigarettes, pour drinks, offer\n> flirtatious conversation, and sing karaoke to entertain customers. Hostesses\n> can be seen as the modern counterpart of geishas, providing entertainment to\n> the likes of groups of salarymen after work. A club will often also employ a\n> female bartender, who is usually well-trained in mixology, and may also be\n> the manager or mamasan. Hostess clubs are distinguished from strip clubs in\n> that there is no dancing or nudity.\n>\n> Hostesses often drink with customers each night, and alcohol problems are\n> not uncommon. Most bars run on a commission system in which hostesses\n> receive a percentage of sales. For example, a patron purchases a $20 drink\n> for the hostess, most of the time which are non-alcoholic concoctions like\n> orange juice and ginger ale, and the patron has purchased the hostess's\n> undivided attention for the subsequent 30-45 minutes. The hostess then\n> splits the proceeds of the sale with the bar 50/50. The light or no alcohol\n> content of the drinks purchased allows the maximum profits and assures the\n> hostess does not become intoxicated after only a short time at work.\n\nSource: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_and_hostess_clubs>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-24T00:59:06.243", "id": "17039", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-24T02:17:20.273", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-24T02:17:20.273", "last_editor_user_id": "293", "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "17038", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is all based on Scar's train of thought, and own decisions. However, I\nrespect his decision:\n\n> The fighting continued to spread until the entire East Area of Amestris had\n> become a war zone. In 1908, a full seven years after the conflict had begun,\n> Amestrian Führer King Bradley issued Order 3066, sending State Alchemists in\n> to the front lines to act as human weapons. [Ishval Civil War - Fullmetal\n> Alchemist Wiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Ishval_Civil_War)\n\nSo, as we are told in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (throughout the series,\nno specific episode(s)) - it was the State Alchemists that were taking part in\nthe war, therefore it was the **State** Alchemists which the Ishvalans should\nhold their grudge against - the **State** Alchemists who murdered them, fought\nwith them, and harmed them.\n\nAs I said, however, it is based on Scar's decision. It makes sense as you'd\nwant to avenge your friends by harming the person who harmed them. In this\ncase, he went a step further as to attack those who hold the title of State\nAlchemist, even if they didn't participate in the war. Why he went a step\nfurther in that direction and not attack _all_ Alchemists, is just be how his\nrage works.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-24T02:40:42.423", "id": "17042", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-24T02:40:42.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "17041", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the Santa Company Twitter account (@santa_company), for a limited\ntime (not sure why), it can be purchased from this website.\n\n<http://santa-company.jugemcart.com/>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-03T00:30:38.023", "id": "17266", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-03T00:30:38.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10989", "parent_id": "17046", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to my understanding, the Silver Knight's armor follows similar rules\nto the Golden Knight's. Note: I've heard it said a couple times that the third\nseries Yami wo Terasu Mono was retroactively declared non-canon, which would\nget rid of the sole instance in which a Golden Armor was inherited by a\nrandom. Further note: YWTM was utterly disappointing making it the sole entry\ninto the franchise I didn't watch completely.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T11:00:10.847", "id": "17126", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T23:50:13.880", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-05T23:50:13.880", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "10889", "parent_id": "17050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've watched the original (now pulled) and the edited version (currently on\nCrunchyRoll). The only change I noticed was with regards to the dialogue in\nthe play which Shizuka attends, about 11 minutes into the episode. The\noriginal dialogue was clearly taken from Samuel Beckett's famous play\n[_Waiting for Godot_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot). This\nplay is still copyrighted. To make things worse, as is described in the\nWikipedia article linked, Beckett was strongly opposed to having female actors\ncast in the play, which the episode has. While the amount of the original it\nused was quite small (there's only about 15 seconds of dialogue), Japanese\ncopyright law has no [fair use policy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use),\nand so this could still be an issue.\n\nThe modified version only changed the dialogue during the play. Rather than\ntaking lines from the original, the new dialogue is a noticeable reference to\n_Waiting for Godot_ , but not taken directly from the play. The animation did\nnot seem to have been modified, so the characters' lips didn't exactly match\nthe new dialogue; this will likely be fixed in the final DVD version.\n\nThe references to [_Space Runaway\nIdeon_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Runaway_Ideon) seem to be\nunchanged. Both the original and new version called it \"Ide _p_ on\". While\nmany initially suspected that these were the source of trouble, the _Godot_\nreferences seem to have been the bigger problem.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T02:15:30.273", "id": "17054", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T03:39:32.750", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-25T03:39:32.750", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "17053", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think she mentioned it about it being a tv show she sayed it used to be\npopular, it's mentioned in episode 2, it's kinda after half of the episode,\nit's when they are making a poster to recruit members, and then he says the\nposter is missing something and he says she can put anything on the poster and\nthen she asks if she could put her favorite picture and he said yes that's\nwhen she starts singing the Dango song after that then she starts talking\nabout it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T09:08:58.073", "id": "17058", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-27T00:40:20.250", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-27T00:40:20.250", "last_editor_user_id": "10744", "owner_user_id": "10744", "parent_id": "17057", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nA dango is \"a Japanese dumpling and sweet made from _mochiko_ \" according to\nShawn Balestracci's Wikipedia link. _Mochiko_ is _mochi_ flour, which is made\nfrom pounded rice. The Wikipedia page lists several varieties; some of these\nare mentioned in the song, such as the \"peaceful an dango\"\n[source](http://clannad.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Dango_Family#).\n\nThe Clannad anime is kind of unclear about where the song and characters come\nfrom, but within the world of Clannad, it seems to be some kind of mascot\nmerchandising franchise similar to Hello Kitty. Nagisa has a dango daikazoku\npillow, for instance. IIRC, Tomoya mentions early on that the dango daikazoku\nis old and unfashionable, but Nagisa herself is somewhat unfashionable, so it\nfits her.\n\nDango are somewhat commonly mentioned in anime and are even part of a saying,\n_hana yori dango_ , which means \"dango over flowers\" (i.e., put food over\naesthetic pleasures like flowers) and was punned on as [the title of a shoujo\nmanga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana_yori_dango). (The manga title uses\ndifferent kanji to write \"dango\" that can also be read as \"otokonoko\" or\n\"boy\"). The sense I get from other anime is that dango are a common snack\namong Japanese young people, so they would be attractive as a mascot character\nfor children and teenagers, leading to the idea of the Dango Daikazoku.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-27T06:55:01.743", "id": "17093", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-29T02:18:35.027", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-29T02:18:35.027", "last_editor_user_id": "2213", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "17057", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n * I. Xemnas = ~~[Ansem](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Ansem,_Seeker_of_Darkness)~~ [Xehanort](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Xehanort)\n * II. Xigbar = [Braig](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Braig) (Bleig, in the NA version of KH2)\n * III. Xaldin = [Dilan](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Dilan) (Dilin; Ibid)\n * IV. Vexen = [Even](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Even)\n * V. Lexaeus = [Aeleus](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Aeleus) (Eleus; Ibid)\n * VI. Zexion = [Ienzo](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Ienzo)\n * VII. Saïx = [Isa](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Isa)\n * VIII. Axel = [Lea](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Lea)\n * IX. Demyx = ??? \n * X. Luxord = ???\n * XI. Marluxia = [Lauriam](https://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Lauriam)\n * XII. Larxene = [Elrena](https://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Elrena)\n * XIII. Roxas = [Sora](http://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Sora)\n\n> XIV. Xion = \"nobody,\" Sora's (imperfect) replica with Kairi's memories. \n> From the Tomoko Tanemaki, one of the scenario writers and writer of the KH\n> novel: Xion's name contains the Japanese words for \"tide\" (潮, shio), fitting\n> the oceanic naming theme of Kairi, Naminé, and [Aster\n> tataricus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aster_tataricus) (紫苑, shion), which\n> according to [Japanese\n> floriography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanakotoba), means \"I won't\n> forget you\" or \"remembrance.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-26T04:48:00.643", "id": "17071", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-07T14:31:25.120", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-07T14:31:25.120", "last_editor_user_id": "20275", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "17062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't have sources to cite for all of these, I can maybe come back later and\nadd them if I find them.\n\n 1. The reasons songs aren't dubbed are because of the cost of a singer and the additional costs of licensing the rights to re-record the song. There's licensing the rights to simply translate the lyrics but redubbing the vocals would be a completely different recording. Re-recording often happens when the localized dubbed version is intended to be released, so people can buy the localized dub opening theme music (full length versions, etc).\n\n 2. As for the katakana missing from the title screen, this is probably entirely an artistic decision. The original 3 katakana fits nicely between the 4 western letters, but in the Korean version, there are only 3 Korean characters which only provides 2 slots for the dots inbetween the characters. They probably decided to make all the dots the same for both the English and Korean for consistency, instead of making the dots in the English word filled in with katakana and have them changed to just dots when the title screen transitioned to Korean. Additionally, they probably didn't want to people to think the katakana was really tiny Korean characters.\n\n 3. The director credits for localized versions usually mean the director of the acting. There's a director for the voice acting for a localized dub, just like there's a director for the voice acting in the original Japanese. And just like the recorded acting needs to be edited, mixed, engineered, etc into the final sound tracks in the original Japanese, the same thing needs to happen for a localized dub. I'm guessing that's what the director and editor credits are for.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T16:28:45.067", "id": "17064", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-02T01:10:45.550", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-02T01:10:45.550", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "17063", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMadara's eyes were the first to awaken the Rinnegan. He then transplanted them\ninto Nagato. Obito took one of the Rinnegan eyes and transplanted into\nhimself.\n\n> The Rinnegan offers a vast array of\n> [techniques](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan#Abilities):\n[code]\n\n Absorption Soul Technique\n Amenotejikara\n Animal Path\n Asura Attack\n Asura Path\n Banshō Ten'in\n Blocking Technique Absorption Seal\n Chakra Receiver Manifestation\n Chibaku Tensei\n Demonic Statue Chains\n Deva Path\n Flaming Arrow of Amazing Ability\n Genjutsu: Rinnegan \n Human Path\n Indra's Arrow \n Limbo: Border Jail\n Naraka Path\n Outer Path\n Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique\n Preta Path\n Shinra Tensei\n Six Paths Technique\n Six Paths Ten-Tails Coffin Seal\n Six Paths of Pain\n Six Paths — Chibaku Tensei \n Six Red Yang Formation\n Summoning Rinnegan\n Summoning: Demonic Statue of the Outer Path\n Tengai Shinsei \n \n[/code]\n\nFirst we look at [Nagato's](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nagato) case.\n\nNagato inherited both the eyes through transplantation. Meaning: _those\nweren't his original eyes_. He was capable of using several of the above\nmentioned techniques.But not all. From\n[Nagato's](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nagato#Rinnegan) wiki article\n(emphasis by me):\n\n> Though he was **not the eyes' original owner** , being an Uzumaki allowed\n> him to use the Rinnegan to their full potential\n\nObito took **one** of Nagato's eyes as a replacement. He was seen using\nseveral techniques too. From [Obito\nUchiha's](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Obito_Uchiha) wiki article (emphasis by\nme):\n\n> Although he used only one eye and was **not its original owner** , Obito\n> nevertheless gained a great deal of power from it. He is capable performing\n> all of the Six Paths Techniques with the Rinnegan, but he is only ever seen\n> using abilities of the Outer Path: he can summon the Demonic Statue of the\n> Outer Path, create chakra chains to restrain targets, and use Outer Path —\n> Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive the dead in exchange for his\n> life.\n\nObito and Nagato were seen to have _almost_ the same set of Rinnegan skills\n(Rinne-Rebirth, Six Paths of Pain Techniques, etc.), although Nagato was\nbetter experienced with their use. From the above, it is safe to presume that\nthe Rinnegan's abilities don't have different set of Rinnegan-based skills.\nSince Nagato and Obito aren't the original owner(s) of the eyes, there is a\ncertain degree of extent to which they can use the Rinnegan eyes.\n\nFrom [the Rinnegan wiki article](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan):\n\n> The various abilities of the Rinnegan remain intact upon being transplanted\n> into another individual, but only when both eyes are wielded by the original\n> owner can their full power be accessed.\n\nHence [Madara](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha#Rinnegan)\\-\n\n> Because Madara was the eyes' original owner, only he could use them to their\n> fullest power.\n\nThis also explains how he was able to use\n[Limbo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo:_Border_Jail), as he was the real\nowner and knows techniques of the Rinnegan better.\n\nComing to [Sasuke's\nRinnegan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sasuke_Uchiha#Rinnegan), it is\npractically the same as the standard Rinnegan .\n\n**Conclusion** : The Rinnegan abilities **don't** differ from shinobi to\nshinobi. It is kinda like, the original owner has the complete mastery over it\nwhereas the ones who borrow it have a piece of the action.\n\n**Note** : Rinnegan and Rinne-Sharingan are not the same.\n\n[Sume-mase's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/17073/49) is wrong\nbecause :\n\n 1. Kaguya and Sasuke's dojutsu aren't the same. Kaguya has the Rinne-Sharingan while Sasuke has a Rinnegan (evolved from a Sharingan). \n 2. Sasuke having the tomoe pattern on his Rinnegan has nothing to do with Kaguya. If it had been like that , Madara's **Rinnegan** would also have the tomoe pattern.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-11T15:45:18.697", "id": "19291", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-17T11:16:12.520", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11083", "parent_id": "17070", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke has a unique Rinnegan from my own point of view. I think Sasuke's\nRinnegan is somehow between the usual Rinnegan and the Rinne-Sharigan. Here\nare my reasons:\n\nFirst the person that ever awakened the Rinnegan was Hagoromo Otsustuki which\nis basically a mutation of Rinne-Sharigan and Byakugan which are his mothers\noriginal Doujutsu and Madara obtaining power from the combination of Indra and\nAsura's Chakra created Hagoromo's Chakra thus giving him the Rinnegan. The\nRinnegan when awakened manifests in both eyes, if you recall after the battle\nbetween Madara and Hashirama, Madara died but he already foresaw his losing to\nHashirama and made a time activating Izanagi at the cost of losing the sight\nin one eye but when he manifested the Rinnegan he regained sight in both eyes,\ntherefore the eyes Sasuke has is not a Rinnegan and also not a Rinne-Sharigan\nbut a mutation because he activates it in one eye and it looks like Rinne-\nSharigan which has just one eye and he has six Tomoe in his Rinnegan while the\nRinne-Sharingan has 9 tomoe i think the reason why sasuke does not have the\nfull Rinnegan is because Hagoromo shared his power between him and Naruto and\nsince he did not get Naruto's DNA or cells into him but a much tinkered cell\nof Hashirama perhaps that is why his Rinnegan mutated.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-30T11:31:09.897", "id": "24497", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-30T11:41:19.877", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-30T11:41:19.877", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "16644", "parent_id": "17070", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe manga is normally published in the _Shonen Jump_ magazine in black and\nwhite format, like the others, but the magazine has a new website called\n[Shonen Jump+](http://plus.shonenjump.com/) where you can buy the official\ncolor chapter to view online.\n\nOnly _One Piece_ and _Naruto_ eventually also have chapters in color on the\nweb, and it's because _Shokugeki no Souma_ is quite popular and as an extra\nfor the final arc autumn election.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T09:03:58.653", "id": "17123", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-26T19:37:56.180", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-26T19:37:56.180", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "10887", "parent_id": "17074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime is [Sacred\nSeven](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=12393).\n\n> Seventeen years ago, several meteorites carrying seven types of alien\n> crystals landed on Earth. Given the name of Sacred Seven, these crystals\n> withhold the power to alter DNA and cause mutations. Inheritor of\n> overwhelming abilities from this enigmatic legacy, Alma Tandoji is an\n> unsociable 17-year-old student feared by his schoolmates due to several\n> rumors of his violent behavior. He is contacted by Ruri Aiba, a rich teenage\n> girl and CEO of the powerful Aiba Foundation, who pleads him to help her\n> fight a mysterious enemy that very recently started causing massive havoc\n> through the land.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-26T22:36:06.413", "id": "17082", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-26T22:36:06.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "17078", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe anime is likely to be [**Sacred\nSeven**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Seven), since it is one of the\nfew series with \"Seven\" in the title and it was aired in Japan in 2011. It is\nanimated by [Sunrise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_\\(company\\)) (a\nsubsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings) and has no relation to Blue Exorcist's\nstudio [A-1 Pictures](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-1_Pictures) (a subsidiary\nof Aniplex).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-27T03:54:07.073", "id": "17089", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-27T03:54:07.073", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "17078", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere's [an official press\nrelease](http://web.archive.org/web/20070501034516/http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/info.html)\nabout him being replaced from KyoAni. The reason for it is described in it as\nfollows (emphasis mine):\n\n> [...] 「らき☆すた」監督の山本寛は、監督において、まだ、 **その域に達していない** [...]\n\nIt's hard to translate this since it's in (probably intentionally) vague\nwords, but it says something along the lines of \"he has not yet reached a\nlevel required of a director.\"\n\nThe phrase (in bold) used to condemn him is well known among fans. Yamamoto\nhimself often quoted the phrase in his works, including _Kannagi_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T10:17:05.693", "id": "17124", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T10:23:36.077", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-28T10:23:36.077", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3134", "parent_id": "17080", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe official reason given has been a very vague \"He has not yet reached a\nlevel required of a director.\"\n\n> 「らき☆すた」監督の山本寛は、監督において、まだ、その域に達していない\n\nBecause of that, people assume because the 4 episodes he produced for _Lucky\nStar_ were of such poor quality, he was sacked. That said, no one else has\nbeen fired from KyoAni or AniDo in this manner ever since, so the situation\nleft many puzzled.\n\nShortly after his firing, people speculated he was fired for sexual harassment\ninstead, especially after an anonymous person claiming to be staff posted that\nhe had stalked her several times. Nothing was directly confirmed, but his\nbehavior after getting fired didn't help in this either. During production for\n_Wake Up, Girls!_ , he harassed the female seiyuu (who were of high-school age\nat the time) to the point she had to tell him to cut it out. He's also\ncriticized the #MeToo movement, claiming he would proudly continue to\ntease/harass women.\n\nJust recently, an anime adaption of a light novel got canceled for racism\nagainst Chinese being prominent in the story. Yamakan complained it was the\nend of anime and stated in his blog that he also has racist views.\n\nGenerally, bad director or not, he's consistently proven himself to not be a\ngood person, and it's highly likely that him \"not being ready to be a\ndirector\" was just the nicest way KyoAni could put it as their reason for\nfiring him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-07T09:02:52.500", "id": "47345", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-07T11:05:11.240", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-07T11:05:11.240", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "41006", "parent_id": "17080", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## [Final Fantasy: The Spirits\nWithin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within)\n\n\n\n> A planet is overrun by a mysterious group of creatures that infect and\n> destroy all life on Earth. Only the determination of a single woman to find\n> a cure will prevent the world from slowly being eaten away. Yet there are\n> those from within who are impatient for results and will do anything to win\n> this war.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-27T01:03:11.633", "id": "17086", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-27T01:03:11.633", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "17084", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is revealed in the third part _Grisaia no Rakuen_ that:\n\n> Locked away in the basement was Yuuji's sister Kazuki Kazami, but it was her\n> brain that was left and functioning. Ichigaya was the one who retrieved her\n> body and built a super computer with her brain.\n\nIn the anime, the corresponding scene is at the end of episode 5, and further\nelaborated in episode 6 of _Grisaia no Rakuen_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-04T13:28:42.837", "id": "21342", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-26T03:39:17.077", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-26T03:39:17.077", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14273", "parent_id": "17088", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThough this one sounds like a dubstep version, I think it's\n[Hypnotik](https://soundcloud.com/parasyte-the-maxim-ost/hypnotik).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-10T01:57:50.873", "id": "18422", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-17T04:16:09.363", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-17T04:16:09.363", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "11112", "parent_id": "17100", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, this does mirror how Japan marks the test papers of students. Let's see\nan example each of a marked test paper in anime and in real life Japan:\n\n\n\n\n\n[Circles and crosses](http://jisho.org/word/%E3%80%87%C3%97) indicate right\nand wrong answers, but you'll often see check marks used in place of crosses\nto save time and effort. Check marks are sometimes called _reten_ for bearing\nresemblance to the katakana _re_ , but should not be confused with the return\nmarker _[reten](http://jisho.org/word/%E3%83%AC%E7%82%B9)_ that\n[annotate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanbun) Classical Chinese. Check\nmarks call forth the attention of students to incorrect answers, which they\nshould **_check_** again.\n\nThe check mark as an error mark also sees usage in countries like Korea and\nSweden, but as you can gather from the discussions on\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1f3ron/why_is_o_yes_an_x_no_in_japanese_playstation/)\nand\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Check_mark#Ticks_in_various_cultures_.2F_Yes_vs._No),\nthere really is no _universal_ standard for marking right and wrong answers\neven within a country. The graders may choose whatever the mark they want. My\nteachers in school thought that ticking off wrong answers wastes too much ink,\nso they just cheaply impressed a dot by the wrong answers.\n\nOccasionally, you might also encounter the [flower\ncircle](http://jisho.org/word/%E8%8A%B1%E4%B8%B8), [double\ncircle](http://jisho.org/word/%E4%BA%8C%E9%87%8D%E4%B8%B8) and\n[triangle](http://jisho.org/word/%E2%96%B3) marks, which denote, respectively,\nperfect, good and average (poor) work done by the students.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-27T13:06:40.177", "id": "17105", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-08T19:51:37.137", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-08T19:51:37.137", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "17101", "post_type": "answer", "score": 24 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure if it's a plot hole but it's definitely a bit dubious. Yukio's\nbody wasn't strong enough for Satan's powers, so they rejected him leaving him\na pure human.\n\nBut Satan is still his dad, so I guess he might still have inherited stuff\nother than demonic powers. Maybe that includes Satan's blood type, assuming\nSatan has blood.\n\nThere aren't really any answers in the manga, because the anime goes in its\nown direction after episode 16 or so, but to answer the question, yes\nMephistopheles definitely knew he was the son of Satan but that he had no\ndemonic powers, no he almost certainly wasn't talking about him when he said\nour youngest brother.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-27T11:20:50.597", "id": "17104", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-27T11:20:50.597", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "17102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYukio's body was born to be too weak to control Satan's blue flames. But he is\nstill the son of Satan so of course he will always inherit the blood of satan,\njust not his power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-25T18:55:50.477", "id": "18838", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-25T18:55:50.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11374", "parent_id": "17102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMephisto knew Yukio and Rin were twins and Satan was their father, Yukio just\ncouldn’t handle it and proved too weak to show any signs of being a demon. So\nyes Mephisto knew Satan was Yukio’s kin.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-17T23:46:37.690", "id": "43383", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-18T00:04:19.213", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-18T00:04:19.213", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "36666", "parent_id": "17102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo be honest, I feel as if being a dragoon, Cavalier is much more efficient\nwhereas now he can't die unless the brain is killed and as we see he becomes\nmuch more powerful being able to take on Shin as if he was on a whole\ndifferent level than him. He also gets Fredirika to constantly follow his\ncommands which Fredirika was more powerful than his old self so he really just\nbecomes so much more powerful, but he didn't do it in the first place for his\npride and honor and stuff like that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-10T10:42:32.763", "id": "47384", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-10T10:45:47.520", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-10T10:45:47.520", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "41058", "parent_id": "17106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThis sounds a lot like a scene in [Ghost in the Shell 2:\nInnocence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence).\nPonytail-san would be [Batou](http://www.animegalleries.net/img/23518). Those\nare his cyborg eyes, not glasses.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T11:36:31.040", "id": "17129", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T11:36:31.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10888", "parent_id": "17108", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Gin's era, the Hero System wasn't fully developed yet. The girls didn't\nhave fairies to protect them, so they could and often did get hurt. They also\ndidn't have the sealing ritual or Mankai at first either, so in the early\nbattles they had no way to kill a vertex; the best possible outcome was to\ndrive it off without any of them sustaining any serious injuries, but they\nweren't always that lucky. Gin died protecting the other two girls after they\nhad both been injured in a battle, but for the full story (which is both\nheroic and sad) you really should read the light novel - it's a good book, and\nanswers several questions that were left open by the anime. All of the\nchapters have been fan-translated into English and posted online.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T06:51:33.623", "id": "17117", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T06:51:33.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10884", "parent_id": "17110", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs you have guessed, Naotsugu was about to say おパンツ, or panties. However, he\nwas kicked by Akatsuki (who went through the trouble of leaving the kitchen\nmomentarily just to kick him) before he managed to finish his sentence.\n\nThis also matches the running gag where he would be kicked by Akatsuki, or\nwhen she is not around, he would have to dodge some natural phenomenon\nconveniently occurs before he manages to finish saying anything pervert. The\nfirst case frequently occurs in the first few episodes of the first season\n(among other occurences here and there), and the second case can be seen 8\nminutes into episode 2 of the second season.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T05:51:41.097", "id": "17115", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T06:14:41.203", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-28T06:14:41.203", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "17112", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAs [nhahtdh's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/17115/49) states, he\nwas about to say おパンツ, or panties. \nThis doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what kind of girls Naotsugu\nlikes, since Akatsuki explains at around 19:19 on the same episode that the\neffects of the fruit aren't limited to romantic love:\n\n\n\nAs such, Naotsugu was just gonna express his love for panties, and not\nnecessarily answer Marielle's question. Much like Shiroe had expressed his\nlove for curry before, not answering directly any question addressed to him,\nand as Rudy had just expressed his love for the whole group, without even\nbeing asked anything.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T11:14:53.773", "id": "17128", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T11:14:53.773", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "17112", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe song is titled **キミと見た花 キミと見た空** ( _The flower I saw with you. The sky I\nsaw with you_ ), according to the credit roll of the episode:\n\n\n\nAccording to [the official website of Ai Tenchi Muyo](http://www.ai-\ntenchi.jp/bd_dvd_music/index.html), the full version of the song is included\nin the BD/DVD Volume 1, which is set to released on January 21st, 2015.\n\n> ## 封入特典\n>\n> ## キャラクターソングCD壱\n>\n> * 愛してるって叫びましょ!! -full ver.- \n> 歌:川流もも(CV:東山奈央)\n>\n> * キミのままで! -full ver.- \n> 歌:ハチ子(CV:優木かな)、沙流葉七(CV:M・A・O)、笛山塔里(CV:深田愛衣)\n>\n> * キミと見た花 キミと見た空 -full ver.- \n> 歌:川流もも(CV:東山奈央)、鬼ノ城紅(CV:大地葉)\n>\n>\n\nCurrently, the album **愛・天地無用エンディングテーマShort ver.集 Vol.1** [which includes the\nshort version of the song](http://www.ai-tenchi.jp/bd_dvd_music/music.html)\ncan be bought from\n[Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%84%9B%E3%83%BB%E5%A4%A9%E5%9C%B0%E7%84%A1%E7%94%A8%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%86%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9EShort-\nver-%E9%9B%86-Vol-1-%E5%B7%9D%E6%B5%81%E3%82%82%E3%82%82-%E9%AC%BC%E3%83%8E%E5%9F%8E%E7%B4%85/dp/B00OTWWUK8/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1414718747&sr=1-1&keywords=%E6%84%9B%E3%83%BB%E5%A4%A9%E5%9C%B0%E7%84%A1%E7%94%A8),\n[iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/ai-tian-wu-\nyongendingutemashort/id930455509), among others.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T15:25:27.960", "id": "17134", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T15:34:33.160", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-28T15:34:33.160", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "17132", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn episode 4 of [Fate/Zero anime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/Zero),\nwhen Lancer identifies Saber as King of Knights, he says:\n\n> No Heroic Spirit summoned by the Holy Grail could ever mistake that golden\n> blade.\n\nThat's the only indicator I can think of that somewhat points to the answer\nfor your question.\n\nFurthermore, Lancer's true identity,\n\n> [Diarmuid Ua Duibhne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarmuid_Ua_Duibhne),\n\nis hero of a myth in the period between II and IV century, while Saber's true\nidentity is\n\n> [King Arthur](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur),\n\nwhose legend took place between late V and early VI century, which means that\nLancer couldn't have known Saber's legend when he was alive.\n\nAfter writing above, I looked at TYPE-MOON Wiki and found\n[this](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Knowledge):\n\n> They [Servants] are not granted knowledge on other Heroes through the Grail,\n> but rather from knowledge gained within the Throne of Heroes. Witnessing\n> traits of other Servants can allow them to deduce their true names with the\n> knowledge even if they are from incompatible eras.\n\n* * *\n\n> Aberrations like Saber, who is not part of the Throne of Heroes due to her\n> circumstances, are able to identify those whose legends would have been\n> known to them in life, such as Cú Chulainn, but cannot identify the legends\n> of later Heroic Spirits like Gilles de Rais even after being directly named.\n\nNo source is offered for the first part, and if that's true, it would indeed\ncontradict with Fate/stay night's Archer's case, since he is a complete heroic\nspirit who properly entered Throne of Heroes, yet other heroic spirits have no\nknowledge of him.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T17:25:36.553", "id": "17159", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-29T17:42:00.320", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-29T17:42:00.320", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3188", "parent_id": "17138", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCaster is the only viable person to be able to use such an underhanded method,\nvia her Far Sight (i.e., her crystal ball).\n\nShinji is incompetent to the point where he can't even provide his servant\nwith prana, much less do basic magecraft.\n\nBazett is no longer in the picture by this time do to a certain priest.\n\nIllya has no reason to, because she has Berserker.\n\nIt's not Kirei because he is the mediator, so the identities of all the\nmasters would be known to him sooner or later, because all the masters are\nexpected to report in to him.\n\nOnly assasin is capable of spying, but the Assassin of this Grail War is\nconfined to a shrine on a mountain...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-03T13:47:04.980", "id": "36657", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-03T13:47:04.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "17139", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere was attempted rape, and description of rape in past tense, but no\nactually rape scene in the original game. All of that, including H-scenes are\nremoved in the newer Realta Nua version.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-30T22:32:04.910", "id": "36617", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-30T22:32:04.910", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28378", "parent_id": "17140", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think she looks like Shana from Shakugan no Shana\n\n\n\nAll of them has similar trait, small stature, and tsundere. All of them also\nhas same seiyuu, she's [Rie Kugimiya](http://www.anime-planet.com/people/rie-\nkugimiya). And all of them also produced by J.C. Staff.\n\nThe reason of why they look similar probably because (as\n[@LoganM](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/24/logan-m) says) J.C. Staff\nis rather lazy with this kind of thing. They also have similar art and\nanimation style among their series even when they have different Character\nDesigner.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T03:07:36.997", "id": "17143", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-29T05:43:16.460", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "17142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nTo expand on [Shinobu's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/17143/1587):\n\nThese three (Shana, Taiga, and Louise, in that order) are commonly referred to\nas the \"big three\" tsundere characters. They each take a different perspective\non what \"tsundere\" implies, but are the \"guideline\" characters when creating a\ntsundere.\n\nThese characters were all voiced by [Rie\nKugimiya](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rie_Kugimiya), who has probably voiced\nthe most tsundere characters of any voice actor.\n\nSometimes, due to fan's personal opinion, the \"big three\" is stated with other\ncharacters, often from [Rie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rie_Kugimiya)'s\nportfolio. Common replacements are Nagi (Hayate the Combat Butler), and Aria\n(Aria the Scarlet Ammo).\n\nHowever, it is generally accepted that the three listed earlier are the \"big\nthree\", irreplaceable even with the passage of time. (Since fans have decided\nthat \"tsundere\" is defined by the three's combined personality, and not the\nother way around.)\n\nTo dive into the strange side of anime for a moment; the \"fans\" I have been\nreferring to are mostly those gathered around the [TsunDere GiRlS\nRuLeS](https://www.facebook.com/TsundereGirlsRules) facebook page, and the\ncorresponding wiki, <http://tsunderegirlsrules.wikia.com>.\n\n(As a side note, Shakugan no Shana is well worth watching. (My favorite\nanime.))\n\nReference(s):\n\n * <http://tsunderegirlsrules.wikia.com/wiki/Tsundere_Girls>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T14:52:24.653", "id": "17157", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-29T21:08:33.933", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3713", "parent_id": "17142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]