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[ { "body": "\n\nPartial answer - I'm not sure about Studio Canaan.\n\n * G.I. Staff → Production I.G (the \"G\" and \"I\" on the in-show logo are lifted directly from the actual logo), possibly with an admixture of J.C.Staff\n * Barmedéa → Diomedéa (formerly known as Studio Barcelona; the logos are similar)\n * The Born → probably Bones (the logos don't really match, but the president of The Born [Inami Masahiko] looks like the president of Bones [Minami Masahiko] - [comparison picture](https://i.stack.imgur.com/L9HYW.png) courtesy [/u/TheVict on reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2pp0cb/spoilers_shirobako_episode_11_discussion/cmyvhgn))\n * I doubt that Musashino Animation, being the focus of the show, is a parody of any existing studio. If it were, the obvious choice would be P.A. Works (which is the company producing Shirobako), but P.A. Works doesn't really map onto Musashino Animation well. P.A. Works is a lot more successful, for one.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T08:29:19.867", "id": "17150", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-27T02:31:38.500", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-27T02:31:38.500", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "17149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nA friend of mine theorizes Musashino is a parody of Shaft.\n\nUp until _Madoka_ , Shaft had not produced original work in years. Just like\nMusashino did with _Exodus!_ , Shaft was the same with _Madoka_. But that's\naccording to him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-27T06:09:48.943", "id": "27630", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-08T16:57:15.610", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-08T16:57:15.610", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "19362", "parent_id": "17149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMusashino Animation is most likely Mushi Production.\n\nMasato Marukawa, the owner of MusAni, is based on real-life producer and\nanimator Masao Maruyama, who did animation work as MushiPro.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-18T14:54:27.677", "id": "34329", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-08T16:57:52.183", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-08T16:57:52.183", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "26238", "parent_id": "17149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI am pretty sure Musashino Animation is [Tatsunoko\nProduction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsunoko_Production).\n\nFrom the anime, there is a poster parodying the anime _The Adventures of Hutch\nthe Honeybee_ which is the anime produced by Tatsunoko. Tatsunoko itself\nresides in Musashino, Tokyo.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-15T13:26:49.653", "id": "44228", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-08T16:23:26.160", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-08T16:23:26.160", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37647", "parent_id": "17149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> ... had the power to do what he want...\n\nActually, this is not true. You're suggesting that he has the things he wants\nalready (control of the country, great alchemical power, and so on). But the\nreality is, Father wants much more than this.\n\nFather's true motive is, in fact, to be free from the laws of the universe.\nBecause of his upbringing being sealed in the flask, he grew a need to\nconstantly free himself from things he perceived as bounds.\n\nThis motive is stated on [the _Fullmetal Alchemist\nWiki_](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Father):\n\n> When confronted by Hohenheim about this, Father reveals that the seven\n> Homunculi were only created so he would become a perfect being. Ultimately,\n> in his final moments, Father's motivation is revealed to be freedom from the\n> laws of the universe itself.\n\nAnd is backed by various quotes from the series, including the following:\n\n> 何ものにも縛られず自由に広い世界に\n>\n> [I wanted to live] in this vast world without anything being able to hold\n> [me] back!\n>\n> — Father, _Brotherhood_ episode 63, 6:20\n\nIn his mind, not only were the people of Amestris (and the world) holding him\nback, but the physical laws of the world were binding him. Just as he formed\nhis inferiority complex while restricted to the flask, he also felt that the\nworld was restricting him from obtaining the freedom he wanted.\n\nIn order for him to feel this freedom, he had to discard and surpass the laws\nof the universe; in turn, he had to absorb and control that which created him:\n'God'. _This_ is why he wanted to become the \"perfect being\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T04:24:55.150", "id": "17175", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T04:24:55.150", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "17151", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# The two continuities\n\nAs you may know, there are essentially two versions of the Fullmetal Alchemist\nanime - the 2003 version, called simply \"Fullmetal Alchemist\", and the 2009\nversion, called \"Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood\". The 2003 version deviates\nfrom the manga part-way through, while the 2009 version sticks to the manga\nall the way to the end. For more details, see [What's the difference between\nthe FMA and FMA Brotherhood\nseries?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/55/1908).\n\nThese two versions are unrelated to each other in the sense that it's not the\ncase that one is a sequel to the other, or anything like that. They're just\ntwo separate continuities that happen to start in the same place.\n\nThis being the case, it's up to you which one you want to watch first. Some\npeople believe you should watch the 2003 version and then the 2009 version;\nsome people believe the opposite; and yet others believe that you should only\nwatch one and not the other. All these positions have their merits and\ndemerits; perhaps the most typical order is 2003 followed by 2009, if only\nbecause that's the order in which they were made.\n\n* * *\n\nWithin each continuity there are multiple entries. There _is_ a specific order\nin which these entries within a single continuity should be watched.\n\n# Within the 2003 continuity\n\nYou should watch in the following order:\n\n 1. _Fullmetal Alchemist_ (the 51-episode 2003 TV series)\n 2. _Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa_ (a 2005 movie)\n\n_The Conqueror of Shamballa_ is a sequel to the 2003 TV series, so it makes no\nsense to watch it at any time before finishing the show.\n\nThere is also something in the 2003 continuity called _Fullmetal Alchemist:\nPremium Collection_. I have never managed to locate a copy of this, but it\nprobably makes the most sense to watch it only after you've completed the 2003\nTV series.\n\n# Within the 2009 continuity\n\nYou should watch in the following order:\n\n 1. _Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_ (the 64-episode 2009 TV series)\n 2. _Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos_ (a 2011 movie)\n\nUnlike _The Conqueror of Shamballa_ , _The Sacred Star of Milos_ isn't a\nsequel - rather, it's a side-story taking place somewhere around episode 20 of\n_Brotherhood_. You could, in principle, watch it at any time after episode 24\nof _Brotherhood_ , but I would recommend leaving it until the end of the\nseries anyway.\n\nThere are also four half-episode-length specials that accompany _Brotherhood_.\nYou should watch these after you have finished _Brotherhood_.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T14:28:55.427", "id": "17155", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-06T04:39:24.677", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "17153", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nHaving seen the anime and read some of the manga (I own the first volume), I\nwould have to say that the differences are minor. The only real exception is\nthat Nano starts going to school for the first time in Vol.1 and then later I\nthink it shifts the focus back in time to before she went.\n\nThe anime simply re-arranged this and some other events for convenience's\nsake.\n\nI would still suggest reading it though, as while I am pretty sure most of the\nanime comes from scenes in the manga, the manga naturally has more content and\nas it is still running at time of writing, more will be added.\n\nOnly a few scenes were taken from Helvetica Standard though, so I would also\nsuggest reading that too. Some of them are less random and could fit in\nNichijou as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-24T20:19:42.590", "id": "21803", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T21:11:12.930", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-24T21:11:12.930", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "14644", "parent_id": "17160", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no green-lit at the moment for a sequel of Shingeki no Bahamut:\nGenesis. It's based on a card battle game for iOS and Android, so there's an\nendless stretch of coverage to adapt here.\n\nThe best we could assume is that it's \"prophetic\" for anything Shingeki no\nBahamut-related since it is peculiar enough there are no _explicit_ green-lit\nannouncements yet. Anime usually do make the green-lit announcement after the\nseries ended with a hint for a sequel. I take it they meant for something\ncoming, but that's the best everyone (I've searched around) can count on. It\ncould be a sequel, a spin-off (since it's wrapped up), movie, or OVA.\n\nI'm confident, however, that in no way would they be making a senseless \"I'll\nbe back\" hint without actually following up anything. Not once, in the\nhundreds of anime I've watched, would that happen. They could, however,\nannounce a termination of whatever project they originally intended to\ncontinue the Bahamut hype.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T13:08:06.377", "id": "18406", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-09T13:08:06.377", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11038", "parent_id": "17166", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nMy best guess is this is a tool used by the animators to ensure a connection\nwhether (or not) they'd still get a second season. I see this in many series,\nthey almost always put a cliffhanger or at least a promise of a next season\njust in case the show becomes successful enough to earn its season 2. fingers\ncrossed for Shingeki no Bahamut: Season 2.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-03T11:33:29.660", "id": "24591", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-03T11:33:29.660", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16721", "parent_id": "17166", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe lower image shows a low-definition scene. The shading is very basic. See\nhow few strokes there are drawn forming the general shapes of the objects? In\nsuch scenes, every line counts and you don't want to draw anything too complex\nthat would steal the viewer's attention. On the contrary, in detailed scenes,\nyou can see even the tiniest details.\n\nCan't really say what the anime director thought when he decided to drop\nnipples from the top image, but I think it was something along the lines of\n\"Huh, nipples look weird in this scene. Let's remove them\". The contrast\nbetween sunlit skin and shadow is very high, so nipples would really stand out\nin this particular lighting.\n\nIt's worth mentioning that there is a whole erotic genre of manga and anime,\nwhere nipples and much more are explicitly drawn and expected to be seen. A\nreason not to draw them is to reduce sexualization to a minimum.\n\nAlso, I'd like to explicitly mention one of the most obvious reasons:\n\n# Nobody wants to see men's nipples in regular anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T23:02:13.407", "id": "17168", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-06T14:26:23.173", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-06T14:26:23.173", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "17167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAnimated male nipples are not a matter of legal Japanese censorship (or\ncopyright law). It is fine to air them on TV in prime time. As\n[Ray](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/12879/ray) noted in a deleted\nanswer, _Dragonball_ , viewed as a most-typical shounen anime aimed at\nchildren, features male characters whose nipples are easily visible. Although\nthe series garnered many adult and female fans, the characters are not\nparticularly intended to look comely or provocative to the target audience.\nThe **innocuous** nipples in _Dragonball_ can be there **because they are not\nintended to be viewed as attractive**.\n\nIn contrast, mainstream **character designs that aim to captivate the viewer\nin a romantic or sensual way** are more likely to be nipple-free, because a\nwell-known aspect of creating fantasy is to paint a rosy picture and subtly\nremove pesky details that can snap a viewer out of the lovely reverie back to\nstark reality (the old adage “less is more”). Nipples are not considered to\ncontribute toward this end, in the same way that Japanese people do not\ngenerally shave or wax _(since this site is 13+ I'm not going to provide\ncitation links but you could Google that)_ but we are never shown body hair in\nregular manga and anime: in real-life, we know these anatomically exist, but\ndrawing them does not help the audience escape into daydream. ( _Hentai_\ntitles and _hentai doujinshi_ have a different goal, so that is why you are\nmore likely to see male nipples there than in mainstream titles.)\n\n_Free!_ is a _bishounen_ (pretty boy) title, so the characters are\nintentionally **drawn to be eye candy**. Even more so than the earlier\n_bishounen_ anime series, _Free!_ and other more recent titles such as _Binan\nKoukou Chikyuu Bouei Bu Love!, Uta no Prince-sama, Harukanaru Toki no Naka de,\nKiniro no Corda, Dance with Devils, Diabolik Lovers, Brothers Conflict, K,\nKamigami no Asobi, Starry Sky, Shounen Hollywood: Holly Stage for 49_ , etc.\nfocus heavily on the eye candy aspect, such as including stages of undress,\ncharacters striking sensual poses, “camera” angles and lingering shots that\naccentuate their figures, etc. The character design is intended to garner fans\nwho crush on the characters and buy all manner of **merchandise** sporting\nthose characters.\n\n_Bishounen_ characters are not as prevalent in shounen titles as in shoujo,\nbut they are now widespread (f you look at the bulk of shounen series from the\n80s, 70s, and 60s, you will find far fewer _bishounen_ characters there,\nespecially as primary protagonists), partly based on changing cultural\npreferences (something along the lines of metrosexual) and partly on expanding\n_otaku_ demographics (pulling in the potential female audience can be more\nfinancially-viable than it was in the past). _Noragami_ is not marketed toward\nwomen, but it follows in the current trend within shounen series of those that\ntry to appeal to readers/viewers beyond the target demographic.\n\nHistorically, the naked body was not considered to be attractive in Japanese\nculture. The classic Heian era (11th century) novel _The Tale of Genji_\nillustrates how people wore layers and layers of clothes (women wore 12\nlayers), and had sex while (nearly) fully dressed and in the dark (see pages\n30-32 of _[The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu: A Reader's\nGuide](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0804818797)_ by William J.\nPuette). Some consider the [origin of\n_bishounen_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bish%C5%8Dnen#Origin) to date as\nfar back in Japanese literature as the protagonist of _The Tale of Genji_\n(i.e. Hikaru Genji as the proto- _bishounen_ ). Genji was the era's ideal man.\nHe considered imagining his lover without looking closely as preferable to\nviewing the unattractive details of her actual body.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-14T04:09:39.950", "id": "22422", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-14T04:09:39.950", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "17167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't really think it's about toning up or down per se.\nSensualization/sexualization of both genders in anime is part of the goal for\nsales, they even throw in fanservice (obvious enticement scenes) at times. But\nperhaps it's about the nipples themselves, even of males, that are seen in a\n[particular light](http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/07/23/man-nipples-become-\ntools-of-sexual-harassment-during-summer-complain-japanese-women/) which\ndoesn't translate the same across cultures.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-01T08:44:10.180", "id": "38198", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-01T13:11:46.853", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-01T13:11:46.853", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "30074", "parent_id": "17167", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nPerhaps what is kind of opposite of not showing nipples in Japanese\nanime/manga is actually having anatomically correct nipples on Batman's\ncostume starting in the Tim Burton movie era and later. Ask yourself, why are\nthere nipples on Batman's costume? Maybe the intention here is to go more for\nthe sexual \"eye candy\" appeal in the character even though no clothes or\ncostumes that I know have either have nipples or have a need for nipples.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-18T21:48:33.617", "id": "43838", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-18T21:48:33.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37222", "parent_id": "17167", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen the Three Musketeers arrived at the scene, standing in front of\nShiraishi's dead body, Kirishima observed that\n\n> Not many people believe in divine retribution. That's because God is a lazy\n> fellow. However, he does a good job every once in a while.\n\nTherefore, it was clear that the truck turned away from Juuzawa and crushed\nthe nearby Shiraishi into a bloody pulp. Juuzawa was left intact (or not\nfatally wounded) after the accident.\n\nThe anime explicitly stated at the conclusion of the second episode that\nOchibana knew Juuzawa was in danger only because of their bond from their\nprevious lives.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-02T16:28:19.250", "id": "23758", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-02T16:28:19.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "17176", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe truck diverts in the end, thus running over Shirashi senpai.\n\nIt is shown in the end with her hand filled with blood crushed in the truck,\nthus by pushing Juu on the road, she actually saved him (unintentionally) as\nthe driver tries to avoid hitting Juuzawa and loses control over the truck and\nrams it into the girl.\n\nThats the divine retribution talked about in the end.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-17T18:52:52.570", "id": "44763", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-17T19:05:04.403", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-17T19:05:04.403", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "38210", "parent_id": "17176", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis sounds just like [**Sakurasou no Pet na\nKanojo**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pet_Girl_of_Sakurasou) (The Pet\nGirl of Sakurasou).\n\nSome points that matches your description:\n\n * They all attend Suimei University of the Arts, which is divided into 2 divisions: Arts Division and Regular Division.\n * They all live in Sakurasou, where they do not fit in any other dorms because they are unique.\n * The main character, Sorata, had to take care of Shiina as the latter is incapable of doing anything by herself. She is a world renowned painter and is working to be a mangaka.\n * Nanami later moves to Sakurasou because she couldn't afford her rent. Her dream is to be a **seiyuu** , but her family opposes her decision and doesn't provide any support, so she had to word part-time for expenses.\n * There is an avatar called Maid-chan, an A.I developed by the hikikomori Ryuunosuke.\n\nThere are of course some things that doesn't match your description, but it\nmight have been a mistake.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T08:18:40.417", "id": "17181", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T14:36:52.043", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-30T14:36:52.043", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "17180", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have reverse googled the bottom right corner of the picture to see if I got\nany results with the dude there. Closest I'm getting to the answer is the\nwebsite of [Shounen Sunday](http://websunday.net/jigou/) [[archive.org on\n2014-12-30]](http://web.archive.org/web/20141230133848/http://websunday.net/jigou/)\n\nIf you scroll down a bit, you can see him sitting there. Searching for the\ntitle **闘獣士** on mangaupdates reveals that it is\n[**Toujuushi**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=63645).\n\nThe cover says that it is the serialization of the 3rd episode of the story,\nwhich matches the description on mangaupdates.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T11:17:28.067", "id": "17184", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T13:49:11.803", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-30T13:49:11.803", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10931", "parent_id": "17183", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on an [AniDB search](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?type.web=1&type.unknown=1&type.tvspecial=1&type.tvseries=1&type.ova=1&type.other=1&type.musicvideo=1&type.movie=1&type=2&show=animelist&orderby.name=1.1&orderby.airdate=0.1&noalias=0&langid=2&eps.min=10&eps.max=28&do.search=Search&adb.search=%28%20%29&page=0)\n(details below), I'd wage that first such series was\n[**Fate/Zero**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fate/Zero_episodes). It\nstarted airing on 02.10.2011, had 1 cour break after episode 13 on 25.12.2011,\nresumed on 06.04.2012 and finished on 24.06.2012.\n\nI ran an advanced search based on following criteria:\n\n * ( ) characters in title (AniDB marks cours by putting year date in parentheses)\n * must be a TV Series\n * between 10 and 28 episodes (your definition, as I understand it, requires \"regular\" cour formats)\n * first episode already aired\n\nBecause of deficiencies in AniDB search engine, I could not specify several\nuseful indicators, such as sequel-prequel relation. So I sorted results by air\ndate and examined each individually.\n\nThere are older series that aired with a split, but you requested it to be\nexactly 1 cour (3 months) long. Notably, [Mobile Suit Gundam\n00](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_00) is described by\nWikipedia as having been planned from start to end before airing:\n\n> The staff, consisting of over 300 people, spent roughly two years planning\n> the series.\n\nHowever, the split took 2 cours, from 29.03.2008 to 05.10.2008. If not for the\n3 months condition, I'd say that this was indeed first series to air in split-\ncour format.\n\nAnother case is\n[Major](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_%28manga%29#Episode_list), which\nalso had longer split (from 10.06.2006 to 06.01.2007) yet aired before Gundam\n00. However, at the time of airing, it was not a \"finished product\" but\nongoing adaptation of still unfinished manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T13:29:08.247", "id": "17187", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T13:29:08.247", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3188", "parent_id": "17186", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nWhite Album was technically a split cour, way back in 2009\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-11T06:16:05.457", "id": "37803", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-11T06:16:05.457", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29706", "parent_id": "17186", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are referring to the 2001 film \"[Millennium\nActress](http://letterboxd.com/film/millennium-actress/)\" (Sennen Joyû) by\ndirector Satoshi Kon.\n\n> A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has\n> tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse\n> since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her,\n> and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she's telling the story,\n> Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn in.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T16:16:58.980", "id": "17189", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T16:16:58.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34", "parent_id": "17188", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**TL;DR** : It is possible, though the manga is never conclusive about that.\n\n@senshin I think Migi is able to tell one parasite from another, at least that\nis the case for a certain parasite. The proof is given on Page 194 in Volume 9\nof the manga:\n\n> \n\nSo if Kana can reach the level of Migi in detecting and differentiating the\nsignals emitted by the parasites, then she would probably be able to tell\nShinichi and Migi from the other parasites. Kana demonstrated her potential\nwith her incredible sensing ability on Page 75 in Volume 5 of the manga:\n\n> \n\nAnd on Pages 115 and 120 in Volume 5 of the manga, we saw that her powers have\nevolved.\n\n> \n\nThen there is her dream, in which Shinichi is clearly distinguishable from the\nother parasites. Conclusion: it does seem promising that Kana might eventually\nbe able to tell Shinichi and Migi from the other parasites had she not rushed\nto her death at the hands of a parasite when her powers were still immature.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-31T02:45:26.277", "id": "17207", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-31T09:04:34.670", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-31T09:04:34.670", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "17198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI strongly doupt that she would ever be able to tell apart two regular\nparasistes like Uragami never found differences beween them - with one\nexception:\n\n> Gotou is different because he contains several parasites and for this reason\n> has a ways stronger signal. Sleeping Migi is different too, he has a weaker\n> signal, but still Kana couldn't tell that Migi was sleeping when Shinichi\n> told her everything.\n\nBut: Getting stronge, her powers could reach the point when she even sence\nhuman's brain waves and than she'd become able to tell apart Migi/Shinichi\nfrom regular parasytes and maby even tell apart Shinichi from other human ...\n\n> because of the parasite cells in his body and brain\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-19T11:36:02.620", "id": "40937", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-19T11:50:56.980", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-19T11:50:56.980", "last_editor_user_id": "33164", "owner_user_id": "33164", "parent_id": "17198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's no apparent relation between the Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru and\nNatsu no Arashi manga series--they were published in different magazines and\nhave different authors (Natsu no Arashi is by Jin Kobayashi, the author of\nSchool Rumble). From what I can tell, the stories are completely different\ntoo. (I've only seen one episode of Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru, and never\nanything of Natsu no Arashi.) But the anime versions of both shows are\nproduced by Shaft and directed by Akiyuki Shinbou, as their Wikipedia pages\npoint out. That's probably what the TVTropes page was referring to.\n\nI'm not really sure how that makes Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru a spiritual\nsuccessor to Natsu no Arashi--look at [Shinbou's\nfilmography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyuki_Shinbo#Director) and you\ncould claim that, say, The Soul Taker was the spiritual successor to Twilight\nof the Dark Master, or Denpa Onna was the spiritual successor to Arakawa Under\nthe Bridge, on the basis that Shinbou directed one and then later directed the\nother. On the other hand, the otherwise unrelated Pani Poni Dash and Negima?!\ndo share a lot of stylistic similarities, so perhaps it's something like that.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-02T07:23:06.917", "id": "17260", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-02T07:23:06.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "17199", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIts not clearly stated but from [Shisui\nUchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shisui_Uchiha) article it states that\nDanzo have stolen an eye. Possibility him killing Kagami is very slim as,\nDanzo owes Kagami many times his life.\n\nQuote from [Naruto Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shisui_Uchiha):\n\n> \"Later, as Shisui prepared to make his move, Danzō Shimura, believing that\n> simply manipulating the Uchiha's leader wouldn't end the conflict, chose to\n> take Shisui's eyes for himself in the desire to protect the village in his\n> own way. While Shisui effortlessly subdued Danzō at first, the ruthless\n> elder caught Shisui off guard by using the forbidden Izanagi with another\n> Sharingan already in his possession to break free and steal Shisui's right\n> eye. As Danzō and his men surrounded Shisui to take the left eye, Shisui\n> managed to escape.\"\n\nI would say that Danzo have obtain the eye from somewhere else since in manga\nthere was no shisui and danzo fight scripture. It was more towards fillers in\nshipudden. We all could only speculate, because in manga we just know that\nDanzo stole an eye from Shisui and that is the source of Danzo's sharingan\nwhen he fought with Sasuke. The part where and how Danzo obtained the eye from\nShisui was not explained.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-31T08:37:13.413", "id": "17211", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-26T13:32:46.743", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-26T13:32:46.743", "last_editor_user_id": "3849", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "17200", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen Lord Third said those words, he meant that instead of the soul going into\nits rightful place, it is being trapped inside a demon for eternity. So the\nsoul is never rested peacefully when it is inside the demon. If that is\ntorture, I think all the previous hokage have gone through it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-03T07:21:07.770", "id": "17274", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-03T07:21:07.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10996", "parent_id": "17203", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the manga chapter 124, Sarutobi tells Orochimaru what happens to the souls\nwho are sealed by the Shiki Fujin.\n\n> With this jutsu, the one whose soul is sealed will suffer for all eternity\n> in the belly of death, never gaining release. The one who is sealed and the\n> one who performed the seal, their souls will mingle, **hating each other and\n> battling the other for all eternity.**\n>\n> \n\nThis would happen in the _normal_ case, which is when a shinobi uses the Shiki\nFujin to seal his enemy's soul along with his own. Naturally, their souls\nwould continue to fight after being sealed inside the Shinigami's stomach.\n\nHowever, Sarutobi used it to seal his former teachers, Hashirama and Tobirama,\nwho were only fighting him because they were under Orochimaru's Edo Tensei\ncontrol. After being sealed, there was no reason for them to continue\nfighting, and hence, when they were released, they don't look like they were\nsuffering or exhausted from battle.\n\nThe Fourth Hokage was sealed with the Yin-Kyuubi, and he presumably ended his\nbattle long ago, as described\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/21313/99), so he had no reason to be\nsuffering either.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-03T06:08:21.810", "id": "21314", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-03T06:08:21.810", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "17203", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I can tell, it was never announced officially. While she is shown to\nhave some main skills--medical ninjutsu and strong resistance to genjutsu--her\nchakra element isn't mentioned.\n\nEverything that I have found\n([NarutoHurricane.com](http://www.narutohurricane.com/character-bios/leaf-\nsakura-haruno.shtml), [Naruto\nWikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Haruno), etc.) either lists it as a\n? or doesn't list it at all. Naruto Wikia lists her chakra transformations\n(Earth Release, Water Release, Yin Release and Yang Release) but doesn't give\nher element.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-31T02:04:42.780", "id": "17206", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-31T02:04:42.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "17205", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the Naruto Fourth Databook: \"Although she doesn't usually use\nstandard ninjutsu, Sakura's natures include Earth, Water, Yin, and Yang\nRelease.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-18T01:26:34.720", "id": "29054", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-18T01:26:34.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20510", "parent_id": "17205", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJust the same as Eric the titan body falls dead at her comand and she foracess\nher way out through the back of the neck. It gross but awesome.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T01:23:06.480", "id": "17220", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T01:23:06.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10959", "parent_id": "17210", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\n# The answer contains heavy spoilers to anime watchers. You have been warned!\n\nIt's been heavily hinted (almost confirmed, really) that titans are created by\ntransforming humans in some way. Ymir was transformed to a mindless titan over\n60 years ago, and was unable to return to her human form for a very long time.\n\nWe already know that several powers (such as titan shifter powers, titan\ncontrol powers, and \"The Memories\") can be transferred by eating. This\nconclusion was reached by Hanji in chapter 57.\n\nWhen Ymir ate Reiner's and Berthold's friend (who was also a titan shifter),\nshe gained his titan shifting abilities, and was able to return to human form.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T11:40:16.937", "id": "17232", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-02T16:38:44.750", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-02T16:38:44.750", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "17210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI wanted to update this question because the answers are outdated, and all of\nthis information has been revealed in Chapter 89.\n\nPlease note, spoilers ahead, read at your own risk.\n\nIn Chapter 89, pages 8-18, we see a summary of Ymir's life in chronological\norder.\n\n> Ymir was originally an Eldian begger in the Marleyan internment zone for\n> Eldians. As a child, she was caught associating herself with Ymir Fritz\n> cultists, and she took the punishment for the cultists. As a result, she was\n> sentenced to life as a mindless titan, taken to the penal colony Island\n> Paradis, injected with titan serum in her spinal fluid, and shoved off the\n> wall into the territory. This results in her roaming the titan territory of\n> the penal colony for 60 years as a mindless titan. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NwQvA.jpg)\n\nAt some point Ymir\n\n> hibernates in the earth under dirt and brush until 845 when Reiner, Marcel,\n> Bertholdt, and Annie accidentally stumble upon her in hibernation. Marcel,\n> seeking to save Reiner, sacrifices himself when Ymir tries to eat Reiner.\n> Since Marcel was a titan-shifter he passed on his powers to Ymir, and Ymir\n> regained the ability to shift back to human form. So, in essence, Ymir was\n> only able to return to her human form because she ate a titan-shifter and\n> then became one. All of this was entirely by accident and never meant to\n> occur. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9isps.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T16:33:33.657", "id": "41186", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T16:33:33.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32833", "parent_id": "17210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nSo how did Ymir turn to a titan\n\nMajor spoilers\n\n> So she was in Marley,Marley is a place beyond the walls. Eldians found her\n> and called her Ymir after Ymir Fritz. She was worshipped. She was caught by\n> Marleyians and was sent to Utopia. Utopia is a place that turns people into\n> mindless pure titans by injecting titan serum. She roamed the earth for over\n> 60 years. She was hibernating under the ground. Reiner and Bertholdt’s\n> friend saved Reiner from being eaten and got eaten instead. **So she turned\n> to a Human for eating a Titan shifter and got his powers.** So That is It.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-02-24T23:41:50.670", "id": "50963", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-25T00:25:51.217", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-25T00:25:51.217", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "45139", "parent_id": "17210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt really sounds like **[Yuki wa Jigoku ni Ochiru no\nka](http://myanimelist.net/manga/66509/Yuki_wa_Jigoku_ni_Ochiru_no_ka)**\n(Fujiwara Hiro)\n\n> The \"military history story concerning boys and girls\" revolves around Yuki,\n> a girl who has lived in the rural area of Kyoto with her six childhood\n> friends who all share a secret that they cannot tell anyone. On her 16th\n> birthday, Yuki's fate begins to change.\n\nThe story begins with the main girl and boy (the one with dark hair), their\nfriends are not present at the beginning, then the light hair boy comes back\nand argues with the dark hair boy.\n\nEach child has specific kind of the power, and the girl power...\n\n> comes from Hell\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T23:31:10.413", "id": "18393", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-09T05:57:27.697", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-09T05:57:27.697", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9563", "parent_id": "17215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no licensed English translation of the _Sunday Without God_ light\nnovels. There probably never will be, since the show and the light novels are\nat best moderately popular in Japan.\n\nSite policy is to not link to fan translations, so I'm just going to wink in\nthe general direction of Google. (But you're not going to find much - the fans\ndon't appear to be interested enough to translate the novels either.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T03:12:44.263", "id": "17226", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T03:12:44.263", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "17216", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nConsidering the vast possibility of Goku eating a sensu bean after that, we\ncan assume he regrew anything that was damaged. We also know that Goku is an\nalien. Although he looks human, he might not have balls there. Or balls at\nall. But if he does, like young Goku sometimes shown, he doesn't really use\nthem that much :D\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-02T01:05:30.937", "id": "17253", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-02T01:05:30.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9265", "parent_id": "17225", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe name of the manga is the same title as the OVA. It is called Oresama\nKingdom (オレ様キングダム, _Kings of My Love_ ). There is currently no English\ndistributor for the manga nor is there an official English translation of it\nand the Japanese magazines publishing the series are _Chuchu_ and _Ciao_.\n\nSource: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_My_Love>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T05:18:13.997", "id": "17228", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T05:18:13.997", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "17227", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't understand Japanese and relevant part of light novel is not\ntranslated, so I'm assuming that the anime translations is correct.\n\n[Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of\nYouths](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Ordinance_Regarding_the_Healthy_Development_of_Youths)\nis a prefectural law, that simply says that any material, which is \"considered\nharmful\" must be marked as so (adult-only or 18+) and can only be placed in\nadult-only sections of stores. In 2010, the \"considered harmful\" was supposed\nto be expanded with \"sexually provocative depictions of fictional characters\nwho appear to be under 18 years of age\"(aka. _\"Nonexistent youth\" bill_ ), but\nwas never passed due to heavy opposition from industry.\n\nThe meta-joke here is that Tsukihi is both canonically and visually under age\nof 18, is striking suggestive pose and her privates are barely covered.\nAraragi is scared, because if said bill was actually in effect, it would\nimmediately make the episode into 18+ material and would be handled as any\nkind of pornography. And thats something Araragi obviously wouldn't want. This\nis less obvious in anime, but it would definitely feel like real meta-joke\nwhen in written form. And considering NisiOisiN's streak with meta-4th wall\nbreaking naratives, I wouldn't be surprised he written this exactly to make\nlife of animators harder.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T21:36:05.837", "id": "17246", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T21:36:05.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "17229", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYeah, what Tsukihi said was 都条例 _tojourei_ , which is the short name of the\n[\"Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of\nYouths\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Ordinance_Regarding_the_Healthy_Development_of_Youths)\n(also called \"Bill 156\"). This ordinance [underwent a major revision in\n2010](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-15/full-tokyo-assembly-\npasses-youth-ordinance-bill) that substantially expanded its scope. In\nparticular, it required publishers located in Tokyo Metropolis to self-\nregulate and prevent the publication of [\"manga, anime, and other images\n(except for real-life photography)\" that \"unjustifiably glorify or exaggerate\"\ncertain sexual or pseudo sexual\nacts](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-13/tokyo-youth-ordinance-\nbill-approved-by-committee).\n\nThis bill was obviously targeted at the anime/manga/etc. industry (given the\nexemption for real-life photography). And, of course, the industry (which is\nlargely based in Tokyo) was not a fan of this - this ordinance has been a hot-\nbutton topic for some time now. I'm pretty sure that the whole ending of the\nKenzen Robo Daimidaler anime was a reaction to it.\n\nIn practice, the law has not been very strongly enforced. [As of mid-2012, no\nworks had been actually deemed\n\"harmful\"](https://dankanemitsu.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/the-uneasy-ceasefire-\nof-2012-revised-tokyo-ordinances-current-status/), though I believe a small\nnumber (single digits) were deemed \"harmful\" in 2013. But anyway:\n\n> **What is the meaning of Tsukihi's pose here?**\n\nGlorifying a pseudo-sexual act, I guess. The pose isn't a reference to\nanything in particular; the only previous examples of it I was able to find\nwere a few things on pixiv\n([one](http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=36386978),\n[two](http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=30580433);\nNSFW) doing drawings based on the description in the light novel (chapter 004;\nkeep in mind that the light novel was written in Sept 2012, nearly two years\nafter the revised ordinance was passed). More generally, this is a pretty\nprototypical example of the kind of thing that could have been subject to\nscrutiny or outright banned had the \"non-existent youths\" provision of the\nbill gone through.\n\n> **And why did Koyomi freak out like that?**\n\nWell, here is his internal monologue immediately after Tsukihi does her pose:\n\n> Don't poke fun at it!\n>\n> Panicking, I dumped the washbowl on her. The soap was washed away. I think\n> that made it worse, at least as far as the Metropolitan Ordinance is\n> concerned. But still, I was of the opinion that covering up bits and pieces\n> was far less wholesome.\n>\n> Nudity is healthful and artistic.\n\nI don't really know what to extract from that. Perhaps he was breaking the\nfourth wall and was worried that the government's censors would shut them\ndown?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T22:10:07.960", "id": "17247", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T22:15:40.923", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-01T22:15:40.923", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "17229", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhy would she?\n\nAnnie, at least in her mind, is not a villain. She may be an antagonist to the\nmain characters in the Anime, but she does not think of herself as a villain.\nShe does not think of herself as evil.\n\nShe would not benefit in the least from killing Armin. The only members of the\nexpedition she killed were the ones that threatened her titan form. She\ntrained alongside them, and even had formed bonds of friendship with some of\nthem. Even the explorer corps members were at a discomfort dealing with her,\nafter learning what she did.\n\nHer main goal was to get Eren and deliver him to her masters/employers (it is\nstill unclear who charged her with the kidnapping in the manga - as of chapter\n66).\n\nSo, her reasons for not killing Armin may be:\n\n * Armin was harmless. His vertical maneuvering skills were poor, and even if he were to attack her titan form, she would easily squat him.\n * **She does not think of herself as a monster** , or even that she is evil, so she has zero motivation for random killing.\n * More on her self-image, she is clearly a human that can change into titan (in contrast to Ymir who was a titan for 60 years before gaining the power of shifting). She has a good life with the MP Brigade. She is not a psychopath.\n * She may have some feelings of friendship or camaraderie towards Armin. Remember Armin has a very likeable personality. He gets along well with everyone.\n\nRegarding [her\npersonality](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Annie_Leonhart), Shingeki\nno Kyojin Wiki says:\n\n> Yet, she somehow does seem to hold a strange fascination and even feelings\n> of respect towards people that have a deep sense of duty and righteousness\n\nAnd it seems to me that Armin falls under that category.\n\n * Maybe killing Armin at that time would take more time than just confirming he is not Eren, and she is in a hurry to complete her goal.\n\n * Armin was not alone. Killing him (remember that people actually LIKE Armin) could usher the other explorer corps around into a battle-frenzy to avenge his companion (maybe not likely, but who knows).\n\nReasons for killing Armin at that moment? Can't think of any.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-26T12:47:40.313", "id": "19694", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-26T13:07:09.670", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-26T13:07:09.670", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "17230", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nShe is not a ruthless killing machine. She has a goal in mind along with\n\n> Berthold and Reiner, which is not yet fully revealed.\n\nSPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE MANGA:\n\n> Reiner was present with Armin. If she killed Armin she would have to kill\n> Reiner as well because it would look extremely suspicious that Reiner got\n> out of the fight alive while Armin died (since Reiner is physically superior\n> and he would have to fight until the end if one of his companions is being\n> attacked) BTW, Reiner is the Armored Titan.\n\nBesides the above point: _she does have compassion for her friends (as long as\nthat does not conflict with her ultimate goal)_. When looking into Armin's\nscared face, she hesitated.\n\n**However** , I do not think Annie spared his life **because Armin was weak**.\nShe has killed a lot of other weak members. The only two reasons that **I\nstrongly believe** she did not kill Armin are the above.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-20T10:11:28.743", "id": "35909", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-20T10:11:28.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18769", "parent_id": "17230", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis topic seems to be deliberately not clarified by the manga writer and has\nbeen the subject of discussion on several forums for years. Based on that, the\nfollowing is not an exact answer, but more like a theory about one of the\nreasons she didn't kill Armin other than friendship reasons and such.\n\n> I think it was related to her mission. As we know that several personnel had\n> different information regarding Eren's position, and Annie and her teams\n> already know that Armin is a smart and clever person based on their\n> observations as well as his experiences on Battle of Trost, and might be\n> able to help them locate Eren. Knowing Eren is not on the right wing as\n> informed to Reiner, they improvise and ended up with Reiner indirectly\n> making Armin to think about Eren's whereabouts\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-12-17T13:18:52.450", "id": "61307", "last_activity_date": "2020-12-17T13:18:52.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17865", "parent_id": "17230", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAt the time the first season of the anime was developed, there was not enough\npublished manga content to fill a season.\n\nThe first episode of the Black Butler anime [aired on Oct 2\n2008](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1316554/episodes?year=2008&ref_=tt_eps_yr_2008).\n(IMDB) At that time, the last completed arc was the Curry arc. The first\nchapter of the Circus arc [was not published until August 18,\n2008](http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/That_Butler,_On_a_Stage).\n(Kuroshitsuji Wikia)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-09T19:19:37.773", "id": "23163", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-09T19:19:37.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7686", "parent_id": "17237", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost of the short-form Anime that I've seen are comedies that have little to\nno character development. So it would be quite difficult to find enough\ncontent to \"fill up\" an entire full-length episode. It's the sort of thing\nwhere you sit down laugh for a few minutes and leave.\n\nFrom another angle, the cost reduction of producing short form Anime is\nprobably even lower than you'd expect.\n\nA lot of short form Anime retain the [standard 90-second OP and\nED](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2597/when-and-why-did-the-trend-\nof-130-long-openings-and-endings-begin). Since each episode is already short\nto begin with, 3 minutes becomes a significant portion of the episode to get\n\"for free\" - thus even less content needs to be produced.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T20:38:14.427", "id": "17240", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T20:38:14.427", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "17239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nAnime festivals have some restrictions regarding the length of the animation.\nThere are usually multiple short films shown, so to fit in more works in a 2-3\nhour event schedule, in case of [Tokyo Anime Awards Festival\n2015](http://animefestival.jp/en/festival/competition/short/) it has to be\nunder 30 minutes.\n\n> The work applied must be a 30 min. Or shorter animation film unreleased in\n> Japan whose copyright is owned by the director, producer or applicant. Note\n> short animation films produced mainly for the purpose of advertisement or\n> promotion of any corporation or organization are not accepted. Also note\n> short animation films having already been commercially released in Japan for\n> a certain continuing period are not accepted; however, those submitted just\n> to film festivals or screened only at graduation shows are not deemed as\n> “commercially released”.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T20:38:30.650", "id": "17241", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T20:38:30.650", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "17239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nShort form anime has several advantages for creators and studios\n\n * They allow writers to be more \"daring\" with their story, short forms can contain stories and ideas that will not work on full episodes.\n * Short forms generally do operate on a lower budgets than their \"full-fledged\" big brothers. While it's true that there are some costs that don't scale, there are also many of those who do.\n * Short forms allows for potentially higher quality episode due to its short length.\n * Short forms can squeeze between the larger shows, allowing studios and channels to fill in gaps in precious air time.\n\nBottom line, it probably does pay off. Studios wouldn't have done it if it\ndidn't. Short forms led to many great works that gained a lot of popularity\nand views.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T20:38:38.757", "id": "17242", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T20:38:38.757", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "17239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt can allow a studio a more relaxed production schedule, for a full-length\nproduction, like for example Yama no Susume S2 or Kurmajo-san. This could\nactually result in similar or increased quality, while keeping additional\ncosts down. Production of a 20-minute episode every 2 weeks rather than every\nweek seems to be a more natural pace, as is apparent in the growing number of\nsplit-cour series (series that are spread over multiple seasons) and some\nseries, like Sailor Moon, which broadcast on 2-week intervals. Having half-\nlength or shorter episodes serves a similar purpose.\n\nSome examples of shows that have not been able to keep the animation quality\nup throughout, are \"Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu\" and \"Rail Wars!\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T20:41:08.367", "id": "17243", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T20:41:08.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6446", "parent_id": "17239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nOne reason that shows may be very short is so that studios can try some\nexperimental works that production companies would be hesitant to release as a\nfull series. One example of this is Lychee Light Club which took a vastly\ndifferent approach to the anime than they did with the manga. Characters were\nchibified and humourous rather than the disturbing horror depicted in the\nmanga. Such a change was likely to spark various backlashes from hardcore fans\nif it were a full length show\n\n\n\nOften shows like this have a much lower production quality and would be\nignored by the viewers if they ran the full length of a show: like Line\nOffline Salaryman or Naked Wolves which are very low budget.\n\n \n\nThe short time slot gives a lot of opportunity to be largely non-committal to\nplot and shows tend to be more episodic than sequential. Take for example\nTonari no Seki Kun which simply takes place solely at the back of a classroom\nwith a similar plot each episode\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T20:43:34.503", "id": "17244", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T20:43:34.503", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "17239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile the actual reasons and circumstances my vary, usually short-length anime\nseries are created for the following reasons (or combination of them):\n\n * The adapted content does not have enough content to be adapted to a full length season\n\n * The studio is pretty new to the industry (even if it's founded and made by industry vets, they've yet to prove themselves to the mass). This can be seen with series like Studio Trigger's _Inferno Cop_.\n\n * A studio is trying something new or drastically different from their norm\n\nShorts have also been a way for the industry to showcase their work like manga\nauthors and light novel writers to do with oneshots and short stories,\nrespectively.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-01T20:43:56.720", "id": "17245", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-01T20:43:56.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "17239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n * Short anime usually aren't very popular and since they aren't very popular the budget tends to be smaller. Even though I said the budget tends to be smaller, that might be part of the producers plan, the smaller the budget is, the more profit they'll make of it.\n\n * Another circumstance might be because there isn't enough material for a normal length season. [This one is rare. Short anime are most of the times kept as short anime, and full length anime are most of the times kept as full length anime]\n\n * Short anime are also used to promote certain entities, like train stations, cities, Japanese \"idols\", shops, etc.\n\n * The most common case might be that the producers realized that the story being used isn't going to make profit (or not enough profit) and decided to use a short anime adaptation, managing the story to get adapted while still making enough profit off it.\n\n * Another circumstance is when the studio is new to the industry and doesn't have much money or sponsors. They usually make an adaptation in order to promote their studio as well, just using a small budget, affordable to the studio.\n\n * Shorts are a good opportunity to promote a manga story.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-10T15:22:34.020", "id": "18435", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-10T15:22:34.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11121", "parent_id": "17239", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis answer is going to be a huge disappointment, in all sorts of ways. I\ngenuinely hope that someone comes along and proves this answer wrong somehow.\n\nI don't think the other four girls are references to anything; I think they're\njust generic middle school girls from Koyomi's hometown.\n\nLook at the two girls on the right:\n\n\n\nThey seem to be wearing the same school uniform as Nadeko:\n\n\n\nAnd look at the two girls on the left:\n\n\n\nThey appear to be wearing the uniform of Tsuganoki No. 2 Middle School, Karen-\nchan and Tsukihi-chan's school:\n\n\n\nThis seems to suggest that the other four girls are just hypothetical middle\nschool girls of the Fire Sisters' acquaintance, since they attend school in\nKoyomi's hometown alongside Nadeko, Karen-chan, and Tsukihi-chan. In other\nwords, the thinking behind the scene was not, \"Hey, let's fill up this scene\nwith characters from our other works\"; it was, \"Hey, we've got this scene full\nof middle school girls, how about we shove in Madoka, Homura, Kyouko, and\nSayaka?\" (Poor Mami got left out again.)\n\nHowever, the Madoka girls aren't actually wearing their regular uniforms\neither. Below we see the Mitakihara Middle School uniform, modeled by the\nlovely Homura, Sayaka, and Madoka:\n\n\n\nThough the ribbon is similar, their regular uniforms clearly don't have a\nsailor collar. Since the Madoka girls are in different uniforms, the other\nfour girls might still be from other shows, and were put into uniforms from\nthe Monogatari series. As a counter-argument to this, the Mitakihara uniform\nlooks very different from Nadeko's and the Fire Sisters' uniforms; the scene\nwould look unbalanced if the Madoka girls were put into such different-looking\nuniforms. Also, in the Madoka series, Kyouko doesn't attend school with the\nothers, so it wouldn't have made sense to put her in the Mitakihara uniform.\n(Mami attends Mitakihara, but she got left out again.) For those reasons, the\nanimators may have decided to give just the Madoka girls different uniforms.\n\nNone of these arguments is iron-clad, so it is still possible that the four\nnon-magical girls are from other shows and were put into uniforms from the\nMonogatari series for this scene. I genuinely hope that there is some more\ninteresting answer than this one.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-27T16:51:07.863", "id": "21170", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-27T16:51:07.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "17248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure this is just supposed to be Tsukihi's schtick from her OP in\nNisemonogatari (Platinum Disco).\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-02T00:05:14.267", "id": "17251", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-02T00:05:14.267", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "17249", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOugi is reading Franz Kafka's **_The Metamorphosis_** (in the original German,\n_Die Verwandlung_ ; in Japanese, 「変身」). She's at the very end of the story.\nThe portion displayed on screen is the equivalent of the following (from the\ntranslation by Ian Johnston [available on\nWikibooks](http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis)) (spoiler alert!):\n\n> ...which was extremely favorable and with especially promising prospects.\n> The greatest improvement in their situation at this moment, of course, had\n> to come from a change of dwelling. Now they wanted to rent an apartment\n> smaller and cheaper but better situated and generally more practical than\n> the present one, which Gregor had found. While they amused themselves in\n> this way, it struck Mr. and Mrs. Samsa almost at the same moment how their\n> daughter, who was getting more animated all the time, had blossomed\n> recently, in spite of all the troubles which had made her cheeks pale, into\n> a beautiful and voluptuous young woman. Growing more silent and almost\n> unconsciously understanding each other in their glances, they thought that\n> the time was now at hand to seek out a good honest man for her. And it was\n> something of a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when at\n> the end of their journey the daughter first lifted herself up and stretched\n> her young body.\n\nWhy specifically _The Metamorphosis_? Beats me. Perhaps it's that Ougi\nidentifies with Samsa, being a monstrous and verminous creature\nhim/her/itself.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-02T01:59:27.557", "id": "17256", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-02T01:59:27.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "17255", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nMy guess is the author is making a reference to the [Maneki-\nNeko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko) or the fortune cat with the\nwhiskers. It is a tradition that these ornaments brings forth good luck or\nfortune. Back in the old days, copper, silvers and gold were used as part of\nthe currency exchange, that is why the Maneki Neko is sometimes coated in gold\nlike color.\n\nTowards the end before the Gold and Silver brothers were completely sealed\naway, Darui did mention something about if a bunch of copper work together, it\nis worth more than a lump of gold or silver.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T01:22:37.913", "id": "17285", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-06T14:31:48.060", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-06T14:31:48.060", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11004", "parent_id": "17264", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAside from the episode 14 \"Weaving of a Story\" where there is a quick recap of\nthe show up to that point (up to the 11th Angel, although Ireul's name wasn't\ngiven in episode 14), and the proper names of the Angels are listed in the\neye-catch text, there is also episode 23 where there's a recap of all the\nangels up to that point, including a picture of the Angel, the number, and\nname. It occurs right after the halfway point, see:\n<https://wiki.evageeks.org/FGC:Episode_23_Cut_198> for the entire sequence.\n\nThis appeared during the original airing of the series on TV, and would be the\nfirst time the names are given for all the Angels to the viewer. Note that\n\"Lilith\"'s second Angel designation never appears in the TV series, \"Kaworu\"\ndoesn't appear until episode 24, and the name \"Tabris\" never appears in the TV\nseries either.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-03T07:48:45.267", "id": "17275", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T07:56:07.130", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-05T07:56:07.130", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "17267", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe reason why Hanamonogatari was all aired on one day was because it kept\nbeing delayed because of production issues, it was supposed to come out the\nSpring season but ended up airing at the very end of Summer season (basically\nthe Fall season). The studio decided to delay it no longer and release it all\nat once.\n\n[See this ANN\npost](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-13/monogatari-series-\nhanamonogatari-delayed-until-august-16)\n\nI'm not sure of the exact reason for Tsukimonogatari's bulk airing, but it\ncould be a related reason.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-03T20:13:35.770", "id": "17282", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-08T12:22:50.660", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-08T12:22:50.660", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "17272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis would not work, because you can only manipulate a person for a maximum of\n23 days with the Death Note. This is therefore straightforwardly called the\n**23 day rule**.\n\nAs the [27th rule of the Death\nNote](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXVII)\nstates:\n\n> The Death Note can only operate within 23 days (in the human calendar). This\n> is called the 23 day rule.\n\nAs mentioned by Laiseran in the comments, **there is indeed one exception to\nthis rule**. Although not directly relevant to your example, the 23 day rule\ncan indeed be bypassed. If you write down a specific disease as the cause of\ndeath, but do not specify a specific time of death, the time of death will be\nunknown to the writer. The time of death will never be after the day that the\nvictim's lifespan would run out, but if enough time remained, the Death Note\nwill give the disease time to take effect. Since it might take more than 23\ndays for the specific disease to take effect, the human might thus be\ncontrolled longer than 23 days.\n\nAs the [28th rule of the Death\nNote](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXVIII)\nstates:\n\n> If you write die of disease like before with a specific disease's name, but\n> without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days for the human to die\n> the 23 day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an adequate\n> time depending on the disease.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-25T13:15:20.310", "id": "21835", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-26T18:47:46.230", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-26T18:47:46.230", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "17280", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis [happens with a lot of other\ntitles](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LuckyCharmsTitle), and it's\nneither limited to Anime/Manga, nor is it limited to stars.\n\nA partial list:\n\n * .hack//SIGN (read \"dot-hack sign\", leaving the slashes unread)\n * Yotsuba& (the ampersand provides a more accurate transliteration of よつばと！)\n * The iDOLM@STER (at-sign is pronounced like the letter \"A\")\n * ∀ Gundam (contains the [universal quantification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_quantification) symbol, but is read \"turn-A Gundam\")\n * Saiki Kusuo no Ψ Nan (the Greek letter Ψ (psi) is used for both phonetic purposes and for deeper meaning; this particular letter has roots in [psychology](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology) and related fields)\n\nFrom what I've observed, the context used for those titles is generally\nemphasis, tone, or for stylistic purposes. You're likely correct in that a\nsymbol like this is meant to be there to look cool. But, if you come across a\nsymbol stranger than a star, there _might_ be more to it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T00:39:16.910", "id": "17284", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T00:39:16.910", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "17281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nTVTropes calls adding non-pronounceable characters to a works title a \"[Lucky\nCharms Title](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LuckyCharmsTitle)\"\nand as you can see from the example list, it is not a purely Japanese\nphenomenon. However, the Japanese are generally more adventurous with this. An\nexplanation could be that because of the huge amount of Kanji the Japanese\nwritten language contains, being suddenly confronted with a character you can\nnot immediately identify is not as jarring for a Japanese reader as it is for\na Western reader.\n\nWhy is the Unicode character WHITE STAR (☆) so popular? Because it is a\nnatural eye-catcher. When looking at a list of works, like a TV program for\nexample, the ☆ character immediately stands out, even among the huge number of\ncharacters the Japanese language is using.\n\nBy the way: Official releases in English often drop the lucky charms from the\ntitle. Amazon sells\n[Lucky☆Star](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B002M2T21C) and [Puni\nPuni☆Poemy](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000924BV8) sans ☆'s\n(although the star usually still appears as a decorative element in the\nlettering on the cover to reproduce the original typography as faithfully as\npossible).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T01:23:04.570", "id": "17286", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T12:21:09.907", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-04T12:21:09.907", "last_editor_user_id": "9256", "owner_user_id": "9256", "parent_id": "17281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nInitially, Kotori wrote in her _tanzaku_\n\n> 士道と結婚．．．\n\nI don't know what lies beyond the cut off part, but it can be inferred that\nshe wants to get married (結婚) with Shidou.\n\n* * *\n\nAs for Kurumi's _tanzaku_ , it reads\n\n> 士道さんとまたいつか会えますように\n\nwhich translates to\n\n> I hope to meet Shidou-san again some day.\n\nIf you are wondering, the last 3 characters on the bottom left corner is her\nname [時崎]{ときさき} 狂{くるみ} (Tokisaki Kurumi).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T04:51:26.137", "id": "17291", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T11:21:06.487", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-04T11:21:06.487", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "17287", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's extremely difficult to determine its origin/source. The best I could find\nis [this image](http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/ihatelolicon/images/), which\ncan be traced back to at least as early as April 10, 2009:\n\n\n\nShe sure does look like [Marisa\nKirisame](http://myanimelist.net/character/5458/Marisa_Kirisame) from the\n[Touhou Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project), even though\nher eye color in canon is either red (in the PC-95 era) or the more popular\nyellow. I include two images of Marisa for comparison:\n\n\n\n[Original artwork of\nMarisa](http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=683729)\nby Mokku (cropped).\n\n\n\nBlue-eyed Marisa in [_Labyrinth of Touhou\n2_](http://www.geocities.jp/aaa_3peso/THL2/top.htm), drawn by\n[Juugoichie](http://eho971.web.fc2.com/).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T04:10:16.757", "id": "17316", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-22T11:12:56.887", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-22T11:12:56.887", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "17290", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI am aware this post is old, but people looking for this same image is going\nto stumble upon this so I might as well just end the frustrating search.\n\n[Here you go :)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HL4yO.jpg)\n\nThe picture is from the cover page of [Magicians Don’t Turn\nBack!](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=92212), a Touhou doujinshi\nby Saku Saku Tei.\n\nI spent so many hours I don't even want to say how man.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-04T21:59:30.483", "id": "26406", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-08T09:23:22.220", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-08T09:23:22.220", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "18333", "parent_id": "17290", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is a small amount of officially-released statistical data in English\n[here](http://www.comiket.co.jp/index_e.html). The \"History of Comic Market\"\nsection of the \"What is Comic Market\" PDF shows a chronology chart of the\nnumber of participating circles (32 in the first Comiket, up to 550,000 in a\nrecent Comiket), and the following pages of the PDF list more specifics.\n\nIn terms of volumes of doujinshi sold and the types of them, I do not beleive\nthat the specific info you seek has been collected. Comiket is massive and\nwhen I sold doujinshi there last year, all of the booths in my area just\nstarted closing up shop near the end of the day, without (as far as I know)\nbeing required to keep track of how many volumes we sold nor needing to report\nthat number to the organizers of Comiket.\n\nThe best way to attempt to measure which series are represented would be to\nget ahold of the massive phonebook-sized program booklet from each year and\ncount the number of circles that used a particular series as its sole\nillustration in the book to advertise its work. For example, how many picked\nto use Cardcaptor Sakura, how many picked to draw Evangelion, etc. However,\nthis would only give you a general sense, since of course one circle might\ndraw doujinshi for more than one series, and might even not choose as its one\nillustration entry in the guidebook whichever series that it sells the most\nvolumes of. From what I saw when I was there, and from looking through the\nprogram book of that year, Nanoha, PreCure, and Gundam were not big\nrepresentations (Nanoha and PreCure are not long-running, anyway, as far as\nComiket is concerned - they're pretty new series when you consider everything\nthat's been produced since 1975). The ones I saw represented a lot were more\nold-school ones like Evangelion and series from that era; this also makes\nsense since the original otaku of such series would largely be in their 30s\nand 40s, even early 50s now. It should be noted that about 90% of the\ndoujinshi I saw for sale was all hentai (not the tasteful, romantic sort, but\nthe explicit sort), so the target demographic would reasonably have some\nbearing on which types of series are represented (i.e., what kind of series do\nthe people who like hardcore hentai tend to like?). Comiket would not attract\nmany of your average Japanese anime-watching demographics for that reason (I\nended up not finding anything to buy). People who like sweet fluff or sci-fi\naction stories or any number of interesting genres that the realm of anime\noffers us would not necessarily be interested in the very specific subset of\ndoujinshi that you can find at Comiket. Of newer series, Madoka Magica had\nsome representation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T01:32:16.610", "id": "18556", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T01:32:16.610", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "17296", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn general, **yes** , the **Mystic Eyes of Death Perception** (直死の魔眼,\n_Chokushi no Magan_ , _Mystic Eyes of Direct Death_ ) can kill Servants\n\n> Beings will have different amounts of lines depending on their complexity.\n> Humans will have a countable amount in geometric patterns. The Dead have\n> numerous lines all over their bodies that make their appearance hard to\n> discern. Members of the Phantasmal Species will have very few \"parts\n> vulnerable to death.\" **Those without physical bodies like Servants are also\n> able to be killed**.\n\nSource - [Mystic Eyes of Death Perception:\nLines](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mystic_Eyes_of_Death_Perception#Lines)\n\nThis comes from the TYPE-MOON Fes. Official Pamphlet 10th Anniversary Q & A\nBooklet which is citation 14 in the section I linked to\n\n> **Q: Since Saber and Gilgamesh have physical bodies in Fate/Stay Night, can\n> Shiki see lines on them? (@LestatDusk)** \n> \n> A: Not just when they have a physical body, the Mystic Eyes of Death\n> Perception are effective even when they're in spiritual bodies. For Shiki\n> [Ryougi], if the opponent can be recognized as \"living\" (not \"life\", but\n> \"live\"), she can see the lines of death. For example, the ghosts in\n> Overlooking View were dead, but they were \"living\" in the sense that they\n> can interfere with the current world. Also, why she didn't succeed against\n> the Sarira in Araya's arm is because it belonged to an enlightened one who\n> achieved \"becoming extinguished, alive.\" To kill it by the lines of death\n> means she has to decipher advanced \"lines of death\" levels higher than the\n> normal concept of death. But what's sad about bones is that rather than\n> having to do that, they'll turn into ash if you burn them. If you have time\n> to be using Death spells, level up and beat it physically.\n\nSource - [Citation Note\n14](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mystic_Eyes_of_Death_Perception#cite_note-\nServant-13)\n\nOf course, whether the user can do it is another thing. In the Q & A quoted\nabove, the answer seems to assume that \"Shiki\" refers to [Ryougi\nShiki](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Ryougi_Shiki). If we are talking in\nterms of [Tohno Shiki](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shiki_Tohno), then it'll\nbe a bit more difficult due to the migraine he suffers from when he takes off\nthe Mystic Eye Killers glasses Aoko gave him.\n\n> The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception are not infallible. The human mind was\n> not meant to perceive death in such a way, and using it is highly taxing on\n> the human brain, causing headaches. In addition, there are multiple levels\n> of perception; in the beginning, Shiki could only see lines on people and\n> objects, then progressed to seeing dots on living things, then dots on\n> inanimate objects. Each step takes the mind further from natural perception,\n> and each step is more damaging to the brain; eventually the stress leads the\n> brain's blood vessels to burst and death for the user.\n\nSoruce - [Tohno Shiki: Abilities 5th\nParagraph](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shiki_Tohno#Abilities)\n\nRyougi Shiki is not shown to have migraines from the use of her eyes. Also,\n\n> Lastly, the ability to perceive and trace lines or pierce dots does not give\n> the user any added physical capacity to perform the task itself, especially\n> against an unwilling target. [Tohno] Shiki must still get in range, aim, and\n> move his hand by himself, which is not a trivial task against the kind of\n> enemies he faces.\n\nso even with his Mystic Eyes, Tohno Shiki must still be able to stand against\na Servant and as mentioned in Ryougi Shiki's page:\n\n> **[Ryougi Shiki's] combat ability is only possibly around the level of Ciel,\n> allowing her to manage a defensive fight against a being on the level of a\n> Servant. While still much stronger than [Tohno] Shiki, who holds no hope in\n> even competing with a Servant defensively** , it is unknown how her\n> abilities work and the speed with which they take effect should she choose\n> to utilize them. She is noted to be the second strongest being in the\n> Nasuverse when not including Servants, under Arcueid Brunestud and above\n> Primordial Demons.\n\nSource - [Ryougi Shiki: Third\nPersonality](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Ryougi_Shiki#Third_personality)\n\nTohno SHIKI/Michael Roa Valdamjong on the other hand, while he has Mystic\nEyes, they are not the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception (though he believed\nthey were the same) and he is only cutting the \"life\" of a person and not the\n\"death\", which is what Ryougi and Tohno do.\n\nI should also point out that while the Mystic Eyes can kill a Servant (given\nthe user's own physical skill), not everything can be killed with them.\n\n> The only entity [Tohno] has failed to kill is Night of Wallachia, since it\n> does not exist as an actual being, but instead as a phenomenon that does not\n> \"exist\" until it occurs. Nasu has also stated that beings such as ORT are\n> immune to Shiki's Eyes, having no concept of \"death\" in the first place.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T21:47:03.967", "id": "17308", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T13:19:13.290", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-05T13:19:13.290", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "17305", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe scene itself is a parody from Death Note when Light is writing in the\nDeath Note.\n\n[Comparative Video on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_UTG05S5Ak)\n\nThe idea of the exaggerated movement of the mouse is that it's supposed to\nmimic what Light did with his pen as he was writing the name of criminals in\nthe Death Note.\n\nAlso you'll notice all the shots of criminals dying in Death Note, in Watamote\nthey are replaced with the sites Tomoko found, in a sense her \"targets\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T03:49:28.613", "id": "17315", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T03:49:28.613", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "17314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have read from the beginning. From what I remember, the anime didn't leave\nmuch out if anything at all. It just stopped at a really bad point. The main\ndifference is that the manga did not progress linearly and employed a lot of\nflashbacks.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T18:58:45.763", "id": "17329", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T19:18:18.723", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-05T19:18:18.723", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11040", "parent_id": "17318", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer follows when Yano entered the train:\n\n> \"Because I met Takahashi. I lived to meet Takahashi.\" \n> \n> In the end, the positive side is that at last Yano admitted he doesn't feel\n> lonely anymore because he has Nanami.\n\nHere is the original dialog in Japanese\n\n> 七美 「どこにいてもどんなにさみしくてもつらくても \n> ここで七美が想ってることを忘れないでね。 \n> 矢野は絶対、ひとりじゃないから」 \n> **矢野 「プラマイゼロ？** 」 \n> 七美 「え？」 \n> 七美 『矢野のすごくすごく好きな人はもういないのかもしれないけど \n> それはさみしいことなのかもしれないけど、 \n> でも矢野のことをすっごくすっごく好きな人間がいるってことはそれって \n> プラマイゼロじゃないかなあ。だからひとりだと思わないでね』 \n> 矢野 「そうじゃなかった」 \n> **矢野 「ゼロじゃなくてプラマイプラスだったよ** 」 \n> **矢野 『高橋と出遭ってから、俺は高橋と出遭うために生きてきた』**\n>\n> Dialog source: [Happy☆Lucky's blog entry\n> (Japanese)](http://mirumo.serika.ciao.jp/?eid=622539)\n\nIn the original Japanese scene, Nanami used the term \"[plus-minus\nzero](https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/plus-minus-zero.2680854/)\", in\nwhich Yano replied with \"plus-minus plus\".\n\nAlso, the main point of Nanami's quote is more about\n\n> loneliness, deeper than just \"someone who likes/is liked by another\". Nanami\n> felt that Yano was feeling lonely after his previous girlfriend had left\n> him, but since Nanami liked Yano, he shouldn't be feeling lonely anymore,\n> hence \"it all equals out\". But Yano couldn't move on despite that.\n\nHowever, after having gone through all of this, Yano finally realized that he\nwas wrong, hence \"it ended up [...] on the positive side\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-03T16:04:28.393", "id": "49495", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-03T16:10:25.267", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "17322", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's rather simple, actually − the electronic controller must have experienced\na failure and the memory module ended up with unexpected remaining electrical\ncharge when it started working again, but the clock was not designed to\ncounter this possible error, so it does not reset the memory, which results in\nimpossible time, like in this Russian Elektronika-6 clock:\n\n\n\nYou could probably get more technically correct answers at\n[Electronics.SE](http://electronics.stackexchange.com)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-05T17:45:24.657", "id": "17328", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T17:45:24.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "17327", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nExpanding on my extra well received comment…\n\nCheck out the [TVTropes article called \"Smoking is\ncool\"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmokingIsCool) where Spike\nis featured as _the_ cool smoker.\n\n\n\n> There's no denying that nine times out of ten a fictional smoker is a\n> Badass.\n\nWe've kinda gotten used to that fact. Cowbow Bebop, among many, many other\nworks, uses smoking to show that the character is likely not a person you want\nto mess with. Otherwise, you'll have a bad time, like those bandits and\ncriminals Spike and his fellow crew members hunt for government bounties. In\naddition to Spike, Jet and Fey also smoke, but not as much. Guess the coolest\nguys smoke the most. There's even a running gag with Spike trying to light up\na cig and being told he's in a non-smoking area.\n\nThere is a TV show called _Big Shot_ that the crew of Bebop likes to watch for\nthe news about biggest bounties. The show has wild west decorations and\nfeatures desert background, guns, cactuses, tumbleweeds, a saloon door,\neverything that says \"this is Wild West\". And of course the image of that\ncannot be full without some smoking cowboys, which our bounty hunters\nrepresent.\n\nAside from all that, the series was produced in the end of the 90's when\nsmoking was still considered kinda cool, although not as much as before. If\nyou look for anime produced around the same time you'll surely find some other\nexamples where main characters are both cool and smokers. Like for example\n[Hellsing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellsing) where Integra smokes\ncogarillos and is a scary-powerful sir.\n[Trigun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigun), for the most part set in a\ndesert, where Wolfwood lights up a lot.\n\nSo this smoking thing isn't at all unique to Cowboy Bebop and doesn't have any\nsophisticated reasons beyond the fact that it is generally regarded as a sign\nthat the smoking character is a badass.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T13:45:57.760", "id": "18408", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-22T20:50:35.283", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-22T20:50:35.283", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "17331", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nI just want to throw it out there that Cowboy Bebop doesn't just use\ncigarettes as a 'coolness indicator.' There is a lot of really clever uses of\ncigarettes in the show. For example in the first episode a cigarette is used\nto show the passage of time that Spike was unconcious after being choked by\nAzimov. In a later episode they are used to showcase spikes ability to swallow\nand regurgitate things, which he then uses on the poker chip. Jet uses a\ncigarette to plant a listening device on the higher ups when tracking\nChessmaster Hex. There are plenty more examples, really cool stuff in my\nopinion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-11-12T04:54:37.940", "id": "61033", "last_activity_date": "2020-11-12T04:54:37.940", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "57126", "parent_id": "17331", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to the already very good answers here I will refer to this essay:\n<http://web.archive.org/web/20080306021509/http://www.absolutetrouble.com/bebopmusings/?page_id=17>\n\nTalks about symbolism of smoking including\n\n * personal imprfections\n * loss of innocence\n * coping with the past\n\nFor me it also symbolizes a comfort and congizance of death.\n\nThe esay and comments below are very good so I'll refer you to them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-02-27T05:59:05.830", "id": "66455", "last_activity_date": "2022-02-27T05:59:05.830", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "65540", "parent_id": "17331", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFound the answer in the Wikia article on\n[Samehada](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Samehada). The ownership is actually\nbased on Samehada's personality. It seem to have its own conscious (emphasis\nmine):\n\n> Samehada is unique for being a sentient weapon that gains nourishment from\n> the chakra of others and as such, the blade is at its happiest when engorged\n> with chakra that possesses both a distinctive and pleasant flavour. It\n> apparently greatly enjoys Killer B's chakra since, according to Kisame, it\n> tastes like octopus. However, it has shown displeasure towards fire-natured\n> chakra, stating that — according to B — it's far too hot. **Being capable of\n> conscious thought, Samehada chooses its own user, an exclusive process that\n> has often resulted in it being thought of as notoriously picky. If someone\n> it disapproves of attempts to wield it, spikes protrude from the handle in\n> order to force them to release their grasp, at which point Samehada will\n> make efforts to return to its chosen owner. Even if it did betray its former\n> owner for a more powerful wielder like Killer B, the blade was at least\n> close enough to Kisame to mourn his death.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-06T01:46:25.757", "id": "17337", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-16T02:15:32.937", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-16T02:15:32.937", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "17336", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis sounds like \"[Origin: Spirits of the\nPast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin:_Spirits_of_the_Past)\" (or Gin-iro\nno kami no Agito).\n\n\n\nFrom the Wikipedia Link\n\n> Genetic engineering on trees was conducted at a research facility on the\n> Moon to produce trees capable of growing in harsh, arid conditions. The\n> trees gain consciousness, obliterating Earth's civilizations and destroying\n> the Moon. Three hundred years later, Japan is a dystopia covered by the\n> Forest, a huge expanse of sapient trees, and ruled by the tree-like Zruids,\n> which inhabit the planet and control the water supply of both trees and\n> humans. Agito, a geeky young boy, and his father Agashi, as well as his\n> friends Cain and Minka, live in Neutral City, a city carved out of the\n> ruined skyscrapers which acts as both a buffer and a bridge between the\n> Forest and the militaristic nation of Ragna. While the people of Neutral\n> City co-exist peacefully with the trees of the forest, the nation of Ragna\n> aims to destroy the Forest to restore the Earth.\n\nI wasn't aware that it aired on the Discovery channel but it was made in 2006\nand licensed by Funimation, and would definitely of have fit the 2012 airing\ntime frame. The description of the movie pretty much matches.\n\nFor more info:\n\n * [Anime News Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5488)\n * [Funimation page](http://www.funimation.com/origin-spirits-of-the-past)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-06T05:21:45.473", "id": "17339", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-06T05:21:45.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "17338", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe shots from the episode 25 preview seem to be shots from the\n[storyboard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard), an artifact created in\nan early phase of animation production.\n\nAfter writing the script for a scene, the next step in the production of an\nanimated work (and sometimes also in live-action movies) is the creation of a\nstoryboard. A storyboard shows the scene similar to a comic. The purpose is to\ngive the animators instructions how the individual shots of the scene are\ngoing to be arranged (during this line close-up on character A, this line\nreaction-shot from character B, this showing both in a wide-angle shot etc).\nFor dialog scenes it is not uncommon to add speech bubbles so the animators\nknow which line from the script corresponds to each shot (although it is more\ncommon to place the dialog below the panel and focus more on the visual\narangement).\n\nThe \"barely animated\" pictures from the episode 24 preview seemed to be from\none step further in the animation production process: The\n[keyframing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_frame) phase. During this phase\nthe animators only draw the most important frames of the animations in a very\nrough manner.\n\nWhat follows then is the inbetweening phase where animators draw the frames\nbetween the keyframes to create fluent animations, and then the inking and\ncoloring where the rough scetches are redrawn properly to production quality.\n\nDuring the last episodes of EVA, the production drastically fell behind their\nschedule. When the last episodes finished, some WIP artifacts seemed to be the\nonly parts of the next episode which were ready to be shown.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-30T08:44:27.713", "id": "21250", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-30T08:58:34.330", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-30T08:58:34.330", "last_editor_user_id": "9256", "owner_user_id": "9256", "parent_id": "17342", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's never explained but I imagine that Akira transferred him some large\namount of money from his phone. The man is clearly elated at whatever Akira\noffered him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-01T19:47:06.827", "id": "38736", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-01T19:47:06.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30687", "parent_id": "18352", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nThe Japanese label is `油彩剥離剤`, which translates to [paint\nstripper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_stripper).\n\n> The principal active ingredient in historically common solvent paint\n> strippers is\n> [dichloromethane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloromethane), also\n> called methylene chloride, which has serious health risks including death.\n\n> Symptoms of acute overexposure to dichloromethane via inhalation include:\n> difficulty concentrating, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, headaches, numbness,\n> weakness, and irritation of the upper respiratory tract and eyes.\n\n> DCM is also metabolized by the body to carbon monoxide potentially leading\n> to carbon monoxide poisoning.\n\n> Prolonged skin contact can result in DCM dissolving some of the fatty\n> tissues in skin, resulting in skin irritation or chemical burns.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-07T05:52:53.420", "id": "18355", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-22T09:01:03.857", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-22T09:01:03.857", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "18354", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough the manga hasn't actually confirmed this, but here's a theory.\n\nHonestly, don't read the manga spoiler if you don't want it. You will regret\nit.\n\n> As we already know, Eren and Annie are humans who can turn into Titans. In\n> the manga, Ymir, Reiner and Bertolt are revealed to be able to do the same.\n> There is also this Beast Titan, who is very intelligent and can speak. It is\n> also able to turn humans to titans through some unknown means and give them\n> orders. The manga also reveals that there are titans inside the walls. Maybe\n> that would explain the last scene after the ending in the anime (the\n> Colossal Titan inside the wall Sina). \n> \n> So my theory is that the Beast Titan can convert humans into titans. Most\n> are stuck in this form, and their human bodies eventually merge with the\n> titan's and they become full titan, thus become unable to return to human\n> forever. Some are able to break free, and they become Titan Shifters\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T00:45:11.733", "id": "18369", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-08T13:22:12.470", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-08T13:22:12.470", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "7957", "parent_id": "18358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis was explained titans were humans at one point. The ones from the Ymir's\nvillage were turned into them against their will.\n<http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Titans>\n\nIt was also hinted at by experiments with Eren that the more he uses shifting\nwithout resting the more he merges with the titan.\n\nYmir also wandered aimlessy as a titan without ability to shift or control her\nactions for a while, indicating most titans are in the same situation as her.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T16:32:52.050", "id": "18384", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-08T16:32:52.050", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "18358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nRegular titans have had their weak area cut into. The visible result was that\nthere was no human in that or any other part of the body. The weak area does,\nhowever, correspond with the size of the person's spinal cord but that isn't\ntheir either. The ability to transform back into human is a special power\nspecial titans have... they can obtain it by eating other transforming\nhuman/titans.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-24T19:31:18.503", "id": "20315", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-24T19:31:18.503", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "18358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe most reasonable explanation is that the Beast Titan turns them into full\ntitans. If you read the manga, it says the Beast Titan can turn humans into\ntitans without a serum. They revealed that a SERUM turns humans into titans.\nThey cannot break out of this form, unless eating one of the nine titan\nshifters. Only 9 can change form, no more than that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-07T18:07:12.600", "id": "41253", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-07T18:07:12.600", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33498", "parent_id": "18358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, because titans can't absorb people when they eat them because they don't\nhave a digestive system. They just vomit the people back up.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-18T07:43:58.713", "id": "43386", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-18T08:43:06.920", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-18T08:43:06.920", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36672", "parent_id": "18358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, the regular titans, not the titan shifters, were humans who were injected\nin the back of their nape with some sort of liquid, most presumably titan\nspine fluid, by the nation of Marley. It's kind of like a punishment, for\nexample Ymir was taken in by a religious group and got turned into a mindless\ntitan as a punishment due to the religion going against certain things that\nare classed illegal. However, the beast titan can turn people into mindless\ntitans so he also plays a role in this.\n\nTitans don't weight that much because technically they're a fabrication of the\nnormal human anatomy, meaning they only use what they have, the human body, to\nmake a titan out of it, so as the human body doesn't weight as much as a titan\nwould look to weight, they don't look their weight.\n\nMy guess would be that when you would be turned into a titan, your body will\nchange and become something new, a titan, and this is reversible due to the\nfact that if a titan eats a human who possesses one of the (now 8) titan\nabilities, it will turn back into a human but it will possess that titan\nability. The only reason titans eat humans is because all they know is that\neating humans is the only way to pretty much end what they're going through.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-04T19:49:16.767", "id": "44525", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-05T02:38:21.093", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-05T02:38:21.093", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37997", "parent_id": "18358", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe main weakness is the back part on the neck that what I want to say.\nUnderground is not exactly weakness. How I want to compare is\n[Levi](http://myanimelist.net/character/45627/Levi) fighting with Titan on\nplain ground without tree and building.\n\nWhy lead Titan to forest or underground ? Because they loose their power. No\nThe main reason is full utilization of 3D maneuver gear. They are confined and\nthey can't use their full potential and give benefit to Scouting Legion to use\ntheir 3D maneuver gear.\n\nIf you read [answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13885/6345) and all the\n[comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13880/how-would-annies-\ngoing-underground-prove-anything#comment17752_13883) you would get the\nknowledge why Annie refused to go underground.\n\nFor the case of sunlight I can't confirm that sunlight give extra power or not\nbut night means less visibility which apply for both human and titan. In\n**Chapter 38 Castle Utgard** there is night scene and Titan attack castle at\nnight. But in **Chapter 34 Warriors Dance** face of Titan inside wall is\ncovered so that daylight won't reach the titan.\n\n> [Ymir](http://myanimelist.net/character/71479/Ymir) turn into Titan at night\n> to protect her friend from other Titan and to fulfill the promised made with\n> [Krista](http://myanimelist.net/character/62481/Krista_Lenz)\n\nAnd for underground colonization, it is bad idea the reason is as [キルア says in\nthe comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/18360/are-titans-other-\nweakness-the-underground#comment23384_18360).\n\n> Would you want to live underground when a group of Titans could walk\n> overhead and demolish your entire city with one jump?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T07:27:51.150", "id": "18373", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-08T11:49:14.377", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "18360", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that being underground/confined spaces can\nactually be a weakness for Titans. However there isn't any evidence supporting\nthe contrary as well.\n\nA definite **strategic disadvantage** of underground transformation is obvious\n(due to the restricted space for movement and the lack of visibility).\n\nHowever in the corresponding chapter, you would do well to **notice** that the\nTitan smashes the tunnel from outside, all too easily. So underground\ncolonization is a definite **NO**.\n\nThere is also no hard evidence on whether sunlight is a primary source of\npower for Titans. If that were the case, then Annie's transformation in the\nforest would have degenerated (no/minimal sunlight there).\n\nAlso (as suggested by\n[@mirroroftruth](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/18373/11643)), the use of\nforests is mainly because of the better 3D maneuver environment. However from\nmy perception, undergrounds are just as _bad_ an environment for 3D maneuvers,\nas they **may be** for Titans.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-09T10:45:33.123", "id": "19232", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-09T10:45:33.123", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11643", "parent_id": "18360", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the titans choose not to move around at night because if you read\nattack on titan before the fall recent chapters you'll see how when kuklo went\nto test the prototype for the 3-D maneuver gear he was still attacked by 3\ntitans they probably can only see when they're right on you but I think in the\ndark they can actually rely on smell and hearing which is how they attacked\nkuklo\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-15T03:52:40.957", "id": "34270", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-15T03:52:40.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26189", "parent_id": "18360", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe exact answer has not been revealed, but some conclusion can be drawn from\ndifferent episodes and chapters of anime and manga.\n\nThe prelude of several episodes of Attack on Titan stated that:\n\n> Over a hundred years ago, humanity suddenly found itself faced with a new\n> predator. They were more powerful than humans. Humanity was immediately\n> pushed to the brink of extinction. The survivors built three walls: Maria,\n> Rose, and Sina.\n\nFrom the anime and manga:\n\n> * The Female Titan spared Armin's life several times.\n> * [The walls were built with the exoskeletons of\n> titans.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7561/6345)\n> * Colossal Titan, Armored Titan, Female Titan (i.e. Bertolt Hoover, Reiner\n> Braun, Annie Leonhart respectively) and other Titan Shifters actually lived\n> among humans.\n> * Ymir turned into titan and protected her friends from other titans.\n> * Rich people and the top brass who mainly lived inside Wall Sina knew a\n> lot about the titans, the walls and the titan inside the walls.\n> * The titans who broke through the wall and led other titans inside were\n> mainly the Colossal Titan and Armored Titan, and their objective was to\n> search for the mysterious power known as the \"Coordinate\".\n>\n\nThese points lead me to conclude that their main intention is not to destroy\nhumanity, but to find the **Coordinate** ability for which they may destroy\nhumanity. The relation of the Titan Shifters with human, and their willingness\nto sacrifice their lives for their friends shows that their main intention was\nnot to destroy humanity. And humans are not as weak as they seem to be; titans\nneed to make some effort to destroy all humans, and those titans with brain\nknow that.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T08:33:51.043", "id": "18374", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-07T19:07:20.000", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "18362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis has no answer yet, and probably will not for a while. The author has\nstated the publication will run for at least another three years from the date\nof the linked article ([September\n2014](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-09-22/attack-on-titan-creator-\nisayama-manga-to-end-in-about-3-years/.79025)).\n\nBelow is what has been revealed so far:\n\n 1. > The reason seems to be that the Coordinate, which has the power to control Titans, is \"lost\". Mindless titans can't be controlled without it.\n\n 2. > It could be said that Colossal Titan only emerged recently to take down the wall since a Titan of that size and power has never been available before. \n\n 3. > Titans are actually used to enslave/control the population (since the royal family seemed to have had the Coordinate power for several generations). They never attempted to use it against the \"enemy\" before Eren took control of it, which is odd. Bertolt, Reiner, Annie could actually be working for the king, since the royal family \"lost\" the Coordinate to Eren's father. \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T16:53:32.877", "id": "18385", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-29T01:23:44.320", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-29T01:23:44.320", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "18362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n 1. The Titans can't wipe out the human race by themselves. They couldn't break through the wall for over 100 years, and still required the help of the intelligent [Titan Shifter](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_Shifter) to break through the wall at all.\n\n 2. I think certain Titan Shifters are on a kind of a mission — maybe they want to show the human race that they can't sit around and do nothing? Or perhaps they have an even bigger goal?\n\n 3. I read somewhere (sadly I can't remember where) that the Titans stopped their mission of attacking because they are afraid of the new Titan Eren. He could be a problem if he finds out the truth behind the Titans.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-21T08:54:51.727", "id": "21702", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-02T19:47:57.127", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-02T19:47:57.127", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "4957", "parent_id": "18362", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Spoiler alert!**\n\n> The classes are just sizes and nothing more. However, the 60 m class is not\n> really a class but is classified as _special_ or _abnormal_ much like Eren\n> and Annie. These specials are basically one of a kind titan that have\n> different abilities like jumping and running. We see them several times in\n> the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T00:49:20.923", "id": "18370", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-07T03:43:06.453", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-07T03:43:06.453", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "11079", "parent_id": "18363", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI forget which chapter when it happened. Spoiler alert.\n\n> When the Marleyan army went to Paradis Island to turn the members of Eldian\n> Restoration Movement into mindless titan, I thought they said that the serum\n> can determine which class of titan they will be.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-09T11:11:44.700", "id": "42242", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-09T11:11:44.700", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35539", "parent_id": "18363", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe _Weapon_ ability in Soul Eater is basically determined at birth. You\neither can transform into a weapon or you can't. There's no confusion about\nthat. But the _Meisters_ are a bit different.\n\nTo be a _Meister_ basically means to be able to perform well in pair with a\n_Weapon_. Not everybody can do that, but even among the _Meisters_ , not all\nof them can perform well enough to be considered a serious threat or a great\ncombo. You could say that a successful combo can do the Soul Resonance thing\nand unleash their full battle potential. And it doesn't really matter if\nthere's more than one _Weapon_ in a combo or no _Meisters_ (non- _Weapon_ ) at\nall. Thompson sisters show that they can do just fine both in the role of a\n_Meister_ and a _Weapon_.\n\nSo all members of a combo can be _Weapons_ , but the Soul Resonance best\noccurs when there is a specialist non- _Weapon_ _Meister_ in it. At least\nthat's what can be concluded from the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-07T21:48:23.647", "id": "18365", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-07T21:48:23.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "18364", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure it is explicit in the show, but here is my long-winded\nexplanation based on extrapolating from present-day technologies and trends:\n\nToday, \"certificates\" are used to verify the identity of (trust) computers you\ncommunicate with; a website that _looks_ like your bank's, isn't your bank's.\nBy installing/using your OS, you've already consented to trusting whoever\nthey've added to the default list. VeriSign is an example; the company has a\nprocess for new websites to establish trust with them, and they have trust\nwith your OS manufacturer, and you have already consented to trust them.\n\nToday, this is all done with >128-bit keys, however, in the time of GITS, it's\nreasonable to assume they are able to use massively long keys, possibly >128-\n**M** bit. It would take a PC from our time, working non-stop, _until the time\nof GITS_ to crack one.\n\nYou could Google extensively about encryption, but for simplicity's sake: \nSomeone can create a certificate to \"verify\" anything they want. Ultimately,\nyou will have to either explicitly trust them, or defer to a third-party to\nevaluate their claims on your behalf. We don't background check and explicitly\ntrust every single merchant with a credit card reader; instead, we trust a\nselect few companies, Visa, Mastercard, etc. to not associate with\ndisreputable merchants and unconditionally handle any problems that arise, if\nthey do.\n\nIn the time of GITS, cyber-brains are evidently secured by, at a minimum, a\nvery-strong private key, approximately unique to each. Additional security\nfeatures can be added/upgraded such as \"attack barriers\", \"dummy barriers\",\netc. As governments usually go, it is extremely likely that the government has\ninterfered heavily in cyberization matters, enacting legislation to ensure\nminimum-this', maximum-thats, etc. Another typical feature of governments both\nin today's time, and in GITS time, is reliance on a self-preserving model of\n\"buying \"security\"\" with liberty. In other words, we cannot be 100% safe and\n100% free at the same time. In order to do their job, we must **trust the\ngovernment**. The result of that implied trust are (many) laws allowing them\nto legally spy on and/or indefinitely detain you. If you are deemed a \"threat\nto national security\", your liberty is administratively revoked, your\ncommunications are monitored, you are no longer innocent until proven guilty,\netc. Consider that, today, your cell phone's microphone, camera, GPS, etc. are\nall controlled by software and can all be enabled and activated remotely.\n\nNotice that in GITS, although technically a \"police force\", we are never given\nany indication that any member of Section 9 has **EVER** applied for a search\nwarrant. Many times, while in their own country, Section 9 shows no regard\n(and sometimes contempt) for security/local police or their instructions,\npreferring to knock them down or disable them to gain (technically-illegal)\nentry to private properties, usually by kicking in a few doors/walls/faces.\nSection 9 goes and does, almost unilaterally, wherever and whatever they want.\n\n**Regarding the GIK:**\n\n 1. I suspect that it is not a single entity. It is more likely to be a set of private keys from a very-high-level certification authority (CA). These keys have long, but not indefinite, lifetimes and today's computers already check for both revoked and expired certificates.\n 2. When folks get \"back-hacked\", minor systems are affected and the intrusion is not necessarily obvious. A few examples are: Batou being \"encouraged\" to punch himself out by The Major, Batou's eyes being hacked by Aoi, Batou hacking an arm suit operator's eyes to appear dead, etc. These were all basically \"subliminal suggestions\" to lower-level systems. After convincing Batou's eyes that he was no longer there, Aoi casually walks off. Batou is very sharp, but even he took a few seconds to realize/remember that lists of vaccine recipients do not usually materialize out of thin air and hand themselves to people. In contrast, the recruits initially failed the entrance exam because they **never** figured out they had been implanted with false memories.\n 3. [I think] \"Ghost\" refers to hacking an individual with the intent to directly harm, disable, and/or control the human (override their ghost/spirit/soul), rather than to just subvert their free will by obfuscating reality (eye hacking) or misdirecting them (implanting false memories).\n 4. Using \"the GIK\" is not so much, more-invasive, as it is **final**. The implied super-extra-high-level nature of these keys makes overriding their use impossible; the prosthetic body, cyber-brain, any barriers, and all other related systems and functions will deliberately **ignore** input from the human brain-cells they are intended to support in favor of the trust implied by a GIK.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-18T00:12:25.980", "id": "19450", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-18T04:02:57.410", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-18T04:02:57.410", "last_editor_user_id": "11588", "owner_user_id": "11588", "parent_id": "18371", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's no doubt to the popularity of the Monogatari series that fans are\nclamoring for Kizu, but since it was delayed by production AND the immense\npopularity of Madoka Magika, what's probably happening now is that\nKizumonogatari is likely being planned to be released towards the end of the\nfranchises finale, as a reflective issue.\n\nNo source for info, just an observation and estimation. Tsukimonogatari marks\nthe beginning of the end of the series, the final arc so it should be within\nthis year that we hear news about it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T17:07:28.343", "id": "18386", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-08T17:07:28.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11085", "parent_id": "18377", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNaruto could obtain the Rinnegan by means of transplanting. The only option\nwould be taking the eyes from uchiha madara whom already awaken the Rinnegan.\nOn the other hand he could not awaken a Rinnegan by just mixing uchiha cell to\nhis body. The best option would be like what Danzo did, with his uzumaki\nchakra he might able to handle the sharingan's chakra drainage issue. For\nsasuke part he may awaken the Rinnegan using the same technique Madara used.\nBut all this is a speculation answer, by means in theory sake based on the\nwhole manga series. Only Kishi Sensei could tell otherwise.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T01:45:27.760", "id": "18473", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-12T01:45:27.760", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "18379", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI guess, if you combine Ashura's and Indra's chakra, you will obtain the\nultimate dojutsu (Rinnegan). Since Naruto is a rebirth of Ashura and if he can\nimplant Sasuke's chakra (since Sasuke is a rebirth of Indra), Naruto probably\nwill obtain the rinnegan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T10:44:44.003", "id": "18478", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-12T10:44:44.003", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11065", "parent_id": "18379", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nthe most likely idea is naruto needs sasuke's eyes because naruto doesn't have\nany chakra coils in his eyes like a person with a doujutsu does which would\nmean that naruto would need indra's eyes meaning taking sasuke's sharingan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-07T04:59:57.407", "id": "40757", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-07T04:59:57.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32954", "parent_id": "18379", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm sure there's two ways for one to achieve the Rinnegan. One, obviously\nthrough the means of transplantation from someone who doesn't want a Rinnegan\n(which is freaking NOBODY), or the Indra Ashura reincarnation process. For an\nIndra reincarnate to achieve Rinnegan, they must have Sharingan, take chakra\nfrom the reincarnation of the current Ashura reincarnate; thus reforming\nHagoromo's chakra, and a Rinnegan awakens. If Naruto, who possesses no Visual\nJutsu, took Sasuke's chakra, I'd assume he'd achieve Rikudou Senjutsu? But\nmaybe, just MAYBE, if he took a Sharingan, then Sasuke's chakra, he just MAYBE\ncould awaken a Rinnegan. Not completely certain.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-03-31T19:51:46.610", "id": "62345", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-31T19:51:46.610", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "18379", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is more to it than this but the main reason he was considered the\nstrongest was that his Wood Style allowed him to control the Tailed Beasts.\nBefore he did this there was no Jinchuuriki System. The system only came after\nhe passed them out to other Nations in good faith. He potentially had all the\nNine fighting for him at one point along with his own abilities.\n\nI think Wood Release was basically a Blood Release version of Senjutsu which\ncould explain a lot of the shared attributes between the two (like extra\ndamage, rapid healing, growing nature, etc) and was so overpowered. Imagine\nsomeone having access to massive nature chakra reserves at all time.\n\nI wish they explained Wood Style more and why the release was only unique to\nhim and not his whole family (since it is considered a Kekkei Genkai).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T16:19:32.347", "id": "18383", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-15T17:51:00.583", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-15T17:51:00.583", "last_editor_user_id": "18431", "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "18380", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason that Hashirama is the only shinobi to don the wood release is\npurely due to genetics and that alone. Don't quote me exactly on this, however\nthere is a 0.0000001% change of genetically developing mokuton and Yamato was\nlucky enough to get it through experimentation.\n\nAs for why he's considered the strongest, I'd assume it's due to the nature of\nthe wood release, it's classed as a kekkei genkei and is extremely rare, it\ncan suppress the tailed beasts (as shown in episodes such as Naruto's training\nwith Yamato and Kakashi), however it's not just that alone, I'd assume it's\nalso due to his good nature, his determination and the sheer fact he genuinely\nworked extremely hard to get to the position he was in.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-10T02:08:27.893", "id": "18423", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-10T02:08:27.893", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11111", "parent_id": "18380", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the Heaven's Feel route, yes, as she says she is in the True End:\n\n> After Shirou kills Kotomine and is about to sacrifice himself to stop the\n> Greater Grail, Ilya appears wearing the Dress of Heaven planning to shut it\n> down herself. Here she tells Shirou that it's her duty as his older sister\n> to protect him.\n\nIn the Unlimited Blade Works route, however, she doesn't\n\n> as when Shirou and Rin go to recruit her to help fight Caster, Gilgamesh has\n> already arrived before them, defeated Berserker, and ripped out Ilya's\n> heart, killing her.\n\nI am unsure about the Fate Route; to my recollection, Shirou doesn't find out\n(am currently replaying) and I have yet to play Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. However,\nbecause it also has hints of all the Fate/Stay Night routes in it, I would\nassume the knowledge of Ilya and Shirou being adopted siblings is assumed.\n\n> Of course, Ilya won't admit this to Shirou anyway in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia as\n> the Shirou in it is not actually Shirou but Avenger assuming Shirou's form\n> and Ilya seems to be aware of the False Grail War.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-08T21:29:59.837", "id": "18390", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-08T23:47:43.500", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-08T23:47:43.500", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "18389", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell it's a bit simple because it's a bit like books turned into films and\nhave always a different ending. Possibly,the director of the anime wanted to\nshow the audience how it would be like if kaneki turned to Aogiri. It is\npossible doe that the director just didn't want to copy the manga because\nsometimes it does happen when directors want to put there own ideas into it\nrather than copying the actual thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-02T18:19:19.690", "id": "19059", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-02T18:19:19.690", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11517", "parent_id": "18391", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause season 1 was changed rather dramatically from what it should have\nbeen, so when the author (who is on record stating how disappointed they were\nwith the adaptation) took over creative control of writing for the 2nd season,\nthey decided to write it as an original story and try to fix the mess\nsomewhat, so when/if there's a _TG:Re_ anime, manga and anime fans alike will\nbe able to pick it up immediately without having to check the other's\nmaterial.\n\nQuoted from [a translation to Ishida Sui's comment on the anime's 2nd\nseason](https://web.archive.org/web/20150413001802/https://lightinvasions.tumblr.com/post/116045009295):\n\n> Mikasano-san, who wrote the screenplay, really enjoys the original. \n> After he reads _Ghoul_ in the magazine, he excitedly shares his thoughts on\n> the chapter over Skype with me, and personally, I really like him. \n> But being in charge of the screenplay, he was required to edit a lot of the\n> original story for the anime, so I really thought that it was a little\n> ironic that he had to suffer so much in writing. \n> He’s a really passionate and loveable person.\n>\n> I think I wrote about 300 pages of storyboards for the 2nd season. \n> But I can’t be sure of the number because there were a lot of detailed\n> ones, and I reused some for the parts that were the same as the original. \n> I mostly worked on them around July of 2014. \n> Of course, this was a project alongside serialization, so writing both a\n> present storyline as well as an “if” storyline set in the past at the same\n> time made my brain feel like it was about to explode; but I learned a lot\n> from the experience. \n> There were some really interesting parts that couldn’t fit into the anime\n> (like a scene where Ayato and Tsukiyama have a conversation…) \n> I hope that someday, there will be a chance for everyone to see them. \n> (But it might be interesting if it never sees the light of day, like the\n> one-shot version of _Ghoul_ …)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-06T03:55:08.737", "id": "19845", "last_activity_date": "2020-04-16T01:27:28.850", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "4966", "parent_id": "18391", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's inaccurate to say it _completely_ deviated from the manga. I read the\nmanga first until the end as Tokyo Ghoul aired. Spoilers ahead.\n\n> The season 2 would seem to deviate from the manga because of the \"main\n> difference\" people constantly point out: Kaneki joined Aogiri in the anime\n> while he created his own group in the manga.\n\nThere are two points to note here.\n\n**First: Kaneki, both in the manga and anime, looked for the same thing: the\nstrength to protect his comrades.**\n\n> In the manga, we later found out he did this through character development\n> and explicitly stating this. In the anime, it was only explicitly stated why\n> he joined Aogiri. It would always be better when in accompaniment with other\n> developments to support this rather than plainly stating it. The anime\n> riddled itself with Kaneki's identity; the manga thoroughly went through his\n> identity mixed with progression of the story.\n\n**Second: This makes most sense when taking into account the impressive and\nrisky compression of over 100 chapters into around 20 episodes.**\n\n> You will notice differences in the manga and anime, but they always ended up\n> with the same conclusion. The anime makes impressive compression, most\n> especially in the first season, then it started crumbling and destroyed\n> itself by the end of the second season. The anime made thorough emphasis on\n> different things, like Rize's appearance and later crucial catalyst to\n> Kaneki's power & identity. The manga, most of the time, would contribute at\n> a normal pace to the story development and the CCG's side.\n\nIn spite of all that, Tokyo Ghoul always wound up with the same conclusion and\nsame point. Fights are compressed to one scene; multiple events occurring at\ndifferent times are made into one event.\n\nIn conclusion, it never mattered at all if Kaneki would join Aogiri (anime-\nonly) or form his own group (manga). This may be my only speculation, but this\nwas a nice move by the director, writer, producer, or anyone who handled it\nbecause this meant the manga followers/fans would be baited to watch the\nsecond season if there were any developments that would lead to a different\nending when it was as close as the manga, except:\n\n> showing Hide flat-out dead in the anime.\n\nI, myself, was caught with the hype after reading the manga with the sudden\nturn of events at the end of the first season, even though I expected they\nwould use the same formula (minor changes and compression of events to make\nthe same conclusion as in the manga).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-05T13:01:46.087", "id": "20643", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-05T13:01:46.087", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11038", "parent_id": "18391", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think what separates _Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun_ and _Shigatsu wa Kimi no\nUso (Your Lie in April)_ is the intent. _Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun_ , as\nsenshin [commented](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/18392/are-manga-\nartists-really-pressured-by-the-editors-not-to-put-dangerous-or-\nillega/18405#comment23431_18392), was most likely comedic exaggeration. On the\nother hand, _Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso_ used that vehicle law as an opportunity\nto show the strength of the protagonist and the recurring characters'\nfriendship (that they would even have to break the law to get their friend\nwhere he needs to be, and even cut classes).\n\nIn relation to this, Japan also has a peculiar (to foreigners) culture of\nindependence. Their family makes them take the public transportation rather\nthan drop them off with the family cars. It's a huge no-no to personally drop\nthem off. This, as believed, helps them grow in independence; yet, while only\na culture, anime usually portrays a wealthy kid (usually a young lady) dropped\noff with(out) butlers. This leads to two diverging meanings in the anime:\n\n 1. the pride of the wealthy kid, or\n 2. the embarrassment for not being \"independent.\"\n\nShowing this delivers, as mentioned, differing _intents_.\n\n(Although the comparison between a _law_ and a _culture_ is different, their\nvalue seems similar, so you can take it with value.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T12:38:08.517", "id": "18405", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-30T09:34:04.547", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-30T09:34:04.547", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "11038", "parent_id": "18392", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe Berserk movies cover up to Chapter 102. I don't know what \"000a\" and\n\"000b\" but you probably should read them because here's the content percentage\nin each format: Manga = 100% Anime = 60-65% Movies = 40%\n\nI've read and watched them all up to said chapters so I was able to make this\ncomparison.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T05:43:05.627", "id": "18942", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-29T05:43:05.627", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11423", "parent_id": "18397", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Golden Age arc covers volume 3 to 14, starting with \"Golden Age\" and\nending on \"He who hunts Dragons.\"\n\n[Chapter 0](http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_00) is the \"draft\" of what\nis now the main series, that the author did in college and is considered\n**non-canon**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T18:49:52.217", "id": "18958", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-02T16:54:35.730", "last_edit_date": "2018-11-02T16:54:35.730", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "18397", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt really is Wabun Code. The telegraph sequence at the start of the song was\nwidely known and had been discussed on Japanese website, all of them says\n「集｛しゅう｝ 愛｛あい｝してる」 (Shu-u, ai-shi-te-ru) is the encoded message.\n[[1]](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1194560156)\n[[2]](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q14111229784)\n[[3]](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q10107806360)\n[[4]](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm18938537)\n[[5]](http://d.hatena.ne.jp/altair_u51/20120923/1348329699)\n[[6]](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2134797121958660201/2134857251616086703)\n\nIf you take a look at the Wikipedia page you cited, the small ゃ ya, ゅ yu, ょ yo\nin the digraphs are encoded the same as regular や ya, ゆ yu, よ yo.\n\nSo we can comparing your attempt at decoding:\n\n[code]\n\n -•-• -••-- •--\n \n[/code]\n\nand the supposed coding of the message (shi-yu-u):\n\n[code]\n\n --•-• -••-- ••-\n \n[/code]\n\nListening to the telegraph sequence again to cross-check, while I can agree\nwith Japanese fans' transcription of the 3rd mora `••-`, I could only hear 1\ndash at the beginning for the first mora `--•-•`. And apparently, [the author\nof answer\n[1]](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1194560156) on\nYahoo also encountered the same problem:\n\n> ネタバレになってしまいますが、 \n> 「しゅう あいしてる」 \n> だそうです。桜満集のことですね。\n>\n> ただ、最初の音(？)が微妙に「にゅ」と解読されるようですが、「にゅう あいしてる」だと意味が通じないので「しゅう あいしてる」で間違いないとおもいます。\n\nTranslation:\n\n> This is going to be a spoiler, \n> but it seems to be \"Shuu, I love you\". \n> \"Shuu\" here is referring to Ouma Shuu.\n>\n> However, although the first sound somewhat decodes to \"nyuu\", \"nyuu\n> aishiteru\" doesn't really make sense, so I think it is definitely \"Shuu\n> aishiteru\".\n\nThere is [this\nquestion](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11137077736)\non Yahoo Answer which says that apart from the Morse code at the beginning and\nat the end _(which I myself also confirm, but I don't bother to decode it)_ ,\nthe asker feels that there are also Morse code playing in the background\nthrough out the song _(which I also feel there is something, but listening\nclosely reveals nothing)_.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T14:02:01.847", "id": "18412", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-09T21:44:16.277", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "18403", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nI tried decoding it by looking at its length through soundwave graphs\n(Audacity, or Audition) and it definitely looks like \"Ni-yu-u A-i-shi-te-ru\"\n(Nyuu Aishiteru) as the original author said.\n\nThe problem with \"Shuu, Aishiteru\" is that Planetes was never a song from the\noriginal Guilty Crown, it was part of the Lost Christmas OVA which Shuu was\nnever part of. Either EGOiST and their manager decided not to put it in the\noriginal and use what they have for Lost Christmas, or it is a whole different\nmeaning.\n\nI have also seen other people theorize that it is Riyu Aishiteru meaning\n\"reason I love you\" which is better, but \"ri\" is never in the code.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-14T04:32:40.943", "id": "23251", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-14T13:56:36.360", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-14T13:56:36.360", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "15669", "parent_id": "18403", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe song that plays at the end of episode 12 is the same as the opening theme\nsong. It is called \"Unravel\", and is by TK.\n\n\n\nLyrics and more information can be found [on the _Tokyo Ghoul_\nWiki](http://tokyoghoul.wikia.com/wiki/Unravel).\n\nThe full version of the song can be heard [on\nYouTube](http://youtu.be/uMBT5IHlC6k?t=5s).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T20:03:53.447", "id": "18417", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-09T20:19:41.180", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-09T20:19:41.180", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "18416", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe song that plays at the end of [Tokyo Ghoul](https://tokyoghoulmask.com)\nepisode 12 is \"Unravel by TK\". I remember getting hooked to this song when I\nlast saw it.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lLKiy.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-13T18:05:00.307", "id": "50084", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-13T18:05:00.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43886", "parent_id": "18416", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have not seen the anime, but I know of a couple big-leaved plants that grow\nin Japan. Here are three genera with links to Google’s image search:\n\n * [_Farfugium_ sp.](http://www.google.com/search?q=farfugium%20japan&tbm=isch) (ツワブキ tsuwabuki), especially [_F. japonicum_](http://www.google.com/search?q=farfugium%20japonicum%20japan&tbm=isch)\n * [_Hosta_ sp.](http://www.google.com/search?q=hosta%20japan&tbm=isch) (ギボウシ gibōshi), several big-leaved species native to Japan\n * [_Petasites_ sp.](http://www.google.com/search?q=petasites%20japan&tbm=isch) (フキ fuki), especially [_P. japonicum_](http://www.google.com/search?q=petasites%20japonicum%20japan&tbm=isch)\n\nAnd then—of course—there exist many more species with big leaves similar to\nthe one depicted in the question. It all comes down to whether the designer\nbased the ‘umbrella’ on real-life plants or just relied on our perceived\nperception of an umbrella-like plant.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-11T06:16:08.550", "id": "18448", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-11T06:16:08.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2625", "parent_id": "18418", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLelouch obtains eye contacts for his geass eye from CC in episode 3 of R2. It\ndepends on the video, but it happens around the 12-13 minute mark in a\nflashback.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-10T03:30:57.850", "id": "18425", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-10T03:30:57.850", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4164", "parent_id": "18421", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe you are looking for [**Rave Master**](http://www.anime-\nplanet.com/manga/rave-master).\n\nI have not read the manga, but the description really sounds like the story in\nits [anime](http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/groove-adventure-rave) adaption.\n\n> Fifty years ago, the Demon Stone and RAVE (two powerful artifacts) are\n> broken and scattered throughout the world. The story follows the journey of\n> Haru Glory; during his travels he meets many new friends and allies, and\n> also enemies known as the Daemon Card. He will have to use the powers given\n> to him by RAVE to defeat the Daemon Card and find the other pieces of RAVE.\n\nAs for the death of the father:\n\n> However they stop as Elie is almost crushed by a blouder [ _sic!_ ] and\n> saved by Let who helps them escape. In the end, Gale [ _the protagonist’s\n> father_ ] falls down a hole and Haru tries to save him but they both become\n> trapped, doomed to be crushed by the tower. However, after explaining to\n> Haru the meaning of being a man and a father, Gale covers Haru’s body to\n> protect him despite Haru’s pleas. After the tower collapes, Haru is\n> horrified to find his father died protecting him. — [Rave Master\n> Wiki](http://ravemaster.wikia.com/wiki/Haru#Tower_of_Din_arc)\n\n### Reference\n\n * [Rave Master - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave_Master)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-11T06:44:18.433", "id": "18449", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-11T09:50:00.850", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-11T09:50:00.850", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2625", "parent_id": "18442", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOtonashi did pass on, although he was the last to pass on. He is assumed to\nhave reincarnated at the end of episode 13, the final episode of _Angel Beats_\n, and it is heavily implied he meets the reincarnated version of Angel.\n\nThe reason why he couldn't pass on just yet was not fully explained, but we\ncan try to form a conclusion from it, so it is not entirely speculative.\nFirst, he lost all of his memories and so he has to regain it to truly\nunderstand what he regretted. He did not end up in the afterlife normally like\nthe other students had, so it's highly possible that he did not have a regret\nin the first place. It could be that he was in that afterlife in order to have\nAngel move on with her life, as she regrets not being able to give thanks to\nthe person who gave her heart. Kanade, the Angel, was there before him and\nthat normally wouldn't make sense since he died before her.\n\nAnother explanation is that he simply regrets not being able to achieve his\ndream of becoming a doctor or more specifically, to help people. He wanted to\nhelp people after his sister's death and because he died before he was able to\nreach his goal, it's understandable that he regrets not being able to see for\nhimself that he saved a life. Once he sees that Kanade was able to live her\nlife, that she was content with the life he gave her, he was able to move on\nshortly after.\n\nI don't think all organ donors would necessarily have regrets. If they lived a\nfull life, they would not be stuck in this afterlife school in the first\nplace. Remember that you will only be in this afterlife if you have regrets.\nOtherwise, you would presumably just be reincarnated. Just because you donated\nyour heart doesn't mean you get to be stuck in that limbo.\n\n* * *\n\nSources:\n\n * [How is it possible that Kanade has Otonashi's heart?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/5153)\n * [Wikia: Yuzuru Otonashi - _Another Epilogue_](http://angelbeats.wikia.com/wiki/Yuzuru_Otonashi#Another_Epilogue)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-11T05:38:20.950", "id": "18445", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-26T15:09:16.283", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-26T15:09:16.283", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "18444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nOtonashi actually was not supposed to be in that world, but due to him losing\nhis memory, he stumbled into that world accidentally as stated in the anime.\nBut even after regaining his memory, he did not disappear. That's because\nalthough he did not have any regret in his previous life, he gained something\nthat was necessary to be accomplished in this world - which was helping\neverybody to pass on. So in the anime, it doesn't show the exact moment of\nOtonashi passing on, but after the ending song, it shows reincarnated Kanade\n(Angel) with short hair humming to \"My Song\" and reincarnated Otonashi with\nhis hat on walking pass her. Moments after he passed by Kanade, Kanade started\nto walk away, and Otonashi then turned around and extended his hand toward her\nback as if he was trying to tap her shoulder.\n\nIn _Another Epilogue_ , it actually shows Otonashi not passing on. It's only\nlike 2 ~ 3 minutes long and it shows a boy in the Battlefront world who\nfinally figured out that something was wrong in the middle of a test. He\ncaused a riot and the student council president walked into the classroom, and\nyou can see that the student council president was Otonashi. Otonashi then\ntold the boy what he should do (sort of, he kinda gave hints) and told him to\ncome to the student council room if he had any questions. After Otonashi left\nthe classroom, the NPCs murmured about how cool he was and if he had a\ngirlfriend. Then one NPC said that there was a rumor that Otonashi was\nactually waiting for someone and you can kind of make a relation to the\nsituation of the creator of Angel Player and Otonashi, who both found love in\nthe Battlefront world although they were not supposed to.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-23T05:09:06.773", "id": "19598", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-26T15:12:41.763", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-26T15:12:41.763", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "12891", "parent_id": "18444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [_Angel Beats!_ Interview with Maeda Jun, Second\nSeason??](https://worldomonation.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/angel-beats-\ninterview-with-maeda-jun-second-season/), the writer confirmed that he was\nable to move on, reincarnated, and meeting Kanade's reincarnation. He will\nlive a happy life.\n\n> Maeda was asked what happened to Otonashi after the last scene that moved\n> many.\n>\n> His response:\n>\n\n>> It was no use being there by himself, so I believe he also left the world\nafter that. Besides, he was rewarded. It wasn’t a bad life. It wouldn’t be\nlike Otonashi for him to stay. He’s a forward-thinker…looking towards his next\nlife.\n\n>>\n\n>> In the 3 days [between EP12 and EP13] there were probably a lot of drama\ntoo, but in the end, all other members left for their next life after a\nsatisfactory persuasion from Otonashi.\n\n>\n> **So, for the TL;DR people:**\n>\n\n>> Otonashi left the world soon after. In the 3 days he also convinced other\nSSS members to leave the world as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-02T05:05:48.680", "id": "27757", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-26T15:18:54.873", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-26T15:18:54.873", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "19461", "parent_id": "18444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the ending scene of the final episode of _Angel Beats_ , Otonashi is seen\nbut reincarnated. This does specify that he did pass on. Otonashi was the\nfinal person to pass on and stayed for a little while before finally\ndisappearing. In _Another Epilogue_ , it states that he was waiting for\nsomeone, but that 'someone' already passed. More information on this includes\nthat he was able to 'meet back up' with the SSS, but in a heaven or\nreincarnated.\n\nAnother thing is that he didn't specifically fulfill his regrets, but\ndisappeared anyway. Some people can make up ideas for what really happened. We\nall know, based on the ending scene in episode 13, that he _did_ pass on, but\nfor reasons we don't fully understand.\n\nThe main reason why he may have disappeared is that he finally realized that\nhe did all he could, and he did save Angel's life, gaining a 'thank you' from\nher at the end when she passes. He may have stayed behind long enough to\nrealize he needed to leave.\n\nAnother way we know he passed on is that in the ending scenes when everyone is\ndisappearing from the picture, in the end, we can see Otonashi disappearing\ntoo. Signalling he did pass on to either become reincarnated with everyone\nelse or to go to heaven. The final ending isn't as sad as we all think for\n_Angel beats_ , considering everyone passes to the afterlife, potentially\nmeets up again, and they all live happy lives.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-05T20:20:57.890", "id": "30229", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-26T15:14:55.110", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-26T15:14:55.110", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "22488", "parent_id": "18444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nYou are confused on this matter. Kanade says that he would be able to stay at\nthe afterlife school because he came there without regrets. His organ donation\nhas nothing to do with this.\n\nAs far as we know, the afterlife school is designed to give people the chance\nto come over their regrets and when they reach a state of peace and happiness,\nthey move on. Otonashi came without regrets and that's why the school can't\nhelp him make peace. That is why there will be nothing like Hinata's baseball\nmatch or Iwasama's \"My Song\" debut that makes him disappear. The only way for\nhim to move on at this point is to find this state of peace and happiness on\nhis own - but he has the choice not to seek it and stay helping people\ninstead.\n\nEventually, he will regret that he has not moved on together with Kanade and\nlater makes peace with this or he becomes the programmer or he just is\npresident for some time and then decides to move on for some reason. The\nscenes where the characters meet in another reality may be the next life, or\nmaybe they are just their own imagination. If they are real, then at some\npoint Otonashi moves on and meets Kanade again.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-20T08:09:51.950", "id": "40961", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-26T15:16:12.837", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-26T15:16:12.837", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33164", "parent_id": "18444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs I would like to say, Otonashi did pass on, there is an evidence when he was\nabout to go after the boy that can control people with his eyes. That means\nthat he can pass on but there was just no scene of him passing on.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-18T13:06:32.220", "id": "42880", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-18T13:06:32.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36193", "parent_id": "18444", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a theory that Otonashi is actually the creator, so _Another Epilogue_\ncould actually be a prologue and the ending was that shortly after Kanade\nleaves, Otonashi leaves as well as his final regret was not meeting her again.\nShortly after he was reincarnated and hears reincarnated Kanade humming the\nsong she created and Otonashi realists and taps her on the shoulder. The end.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-16T18:41:05.680", "id": "44742", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-26T15:23:36.173", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-26T15:23:36.173", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "38192", "parent_id": "18444", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as we know Itachi was right. There is no jutsu in the Naruto universe\nthat we know of which doesn't have limits that can be used against it. The\nonly thing that could accomplish that would be the combined divine ability of\nan actual god of that universe but no such thing was ever named. The closest\nthing we know was Kaguya but even she had her limitations, for example she had\nto take a physical form that could be sealed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-11T10:49:56.583", "id": "18455", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-11T10:49:56.583", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "18450", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThose images does not mean Kidd is using Thriller Bark ship.\n\nThe message it wants to imply is that Absalom is the one that leaked the\ninformation about the pirate alliance Kidd is forming. The name Absa and the\nThrillerbark ship hints that it really is Absalom that leaked the information.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T01:43:57.223", "id": "18472", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-12T01:43:57.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "18454", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you are looking for [**Tao Tie\nJie**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/19246/Tao_Tie_Jie) . The image you posted\nis from volume 1 chapter 2.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/e7jou.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-02T10:08:36.233", "id": "24560", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-02T10:12:34.787", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-02T10:12:34.787", "last_editor_user_id": "10644", "owner_user_id": "15824", "parent_id": "18463", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have not attended previous meetings of this convention, but I can tell from\nmy professional knowledge that:\n\n 1. It is the largest in all Europe.\n 2. Many of the guests come from Japan.\n 3. This convention is considered a professional meeting point in the world of manga/anime, and as far as I know from my colleagues who have attended, all the meetings are in English.\n\nTherefore, I think I can state with relative certainty that a significant\nportion will be in English or bilingual.\n\nThe people at the booths will probably attend you in English and French.\n\nHowever, you might not find many English manga on sale. As far as I know, the\nmanga they sell, except for some imported material in Japanese, are mostly\nlicensed in France and edited by the respective publishers.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-26T10:04:09.647", "id": "19689", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-26T13:27:37.230", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-26T13:27:37.230", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11451", "parent_id": "18464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nBeen numerous times to this convention (as a pro and as a visitor).\n\nMost of the publisher booths are from French publishers. Panels, activities\nare in French and speakers are in French. Some panels don't really require to\nunderstand French though (cosplay).\n\nSome video projections are in English but it is rare.\n\nMost of the booths will speak English, but it will mostly be approximate\nEnglish.\n\nDocumentations (map and planning) and information booths are available in\nEnglish.\n\nThe professional part (license market) is in English, but I don't think you\nwill attend as a pro.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-03T16:56:18.693", "id": "19795", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-03T17:00:34.630", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-03T17:00:34.630", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "2630", "parent_id": "18464", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKiritsugu didn't return to his old profession, but rather he was trying to see\nIlya again and his trips were him going back to the old Einzbern castle.\n\nAt the end of Fate/Zero, when he was killing the illusions of Iris and Ilya\nwhich Angra Mainyu used to speak to Kiritsugu, Angra Mainyu cursed him (what\nAngra Mainyu was saying as Kiritsugu was strangling it wasn't just spiteful\nwords, it was literally cursing him)\n\nThe Type Moon Wiki describes the effects of the curse:\n\n> Angra Mainyu's curse eventually cost his life, as his limbs were lame, his\n> sight failed, and most of his circuits became useless.\n\nSource: [Kiritsugu - Fate/Zero (Second last\nparagraph)](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kiritsugu_Emiya#Fate.2FZero)\n\nDue to the curse, he lost most of his Magecraft abilities which would allow\nhim to pass the bounded fields that protected the old Einzbern castle.\n\nTo add insult to injury, Jubstacheit von Einzbern never allowed Kiritsugu to\npass either and raised Ilya to believe she was abandoned by him. Before Ilya\nset off for Fuyuki, he had also ordered her to kill Kiritsugu and Emiya.\n\n> Jubstacheit is not mentioned by name, but Ilya, referring to him as\n> grandfather, mentions being taught details about the Holy Grail War by him.\n> He described Japanese people to her as a \"neck-cutting tribe who die by\n> having their necks cut off while sitting Japanese-style.\" **Another mission\n> that she is given is to slay both Kiritsugu and his adopted son, Shirou\n> Emiya**.\n\nSource: [Jubstacheit von Einzbern - Fate/Stay\nNight](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Jubstacheit_von_Einzbern#Fate.2Fstay_night)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-11T21:37:51.300", "id": "18467", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-12T06:05:53.167", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-12T06:05:53.167", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "18466", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> My question is: why does Satsuki Kiryuin use \"kisama\" to address the Elite\n> Four? They should, at least, be worthy of a bit more of respect.\n\nWell, for the one thing, this is anime. Typical conventions governing the use\nof honorifics in actual spoken Japanese frequently go out the window in anime.\n\n> [...] or is there a different meaning for \"kisama\" I'm not aware of?\n\nIt so happens that the \"bad guys\" that use _kisama_ frequently are precisely\nthose who typically speak in a mildly archaic-sounding register of Japanese\n(from memory: Satsuki, Gamagoori, Sanageyama, and Ragyou - but _not_ Inumuta,\nNonon, or Nui). The use of _kisama_ in an archaic register of Japanese is not\nharsh as its use in a modern register would be - historically, _kisama_ was in\nfact a polite word (roughly \"honorable person\"); cf.\n[here](https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-\nbin/wa?A3=ind1209a&L=CONLANG&E=quoted-\nprintable&P=222433&B=--&T=text%2Fplain;%20charset=UTF-8&header=1) or\n[here](http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=14412#comment-1279849) for what\nlittle English-language reading about this I was able to find.\n\nEven in modern registers of Japanese, I feel that _kisama_ is a smidge less\nharsh than its typical (shoddy) English translation \"you bastard\", though I\ndon't know if other people would agree.\n\n> Was it a stylistic choice that Satsuki would address virtually everyone\n> (with few exceptions such as the butler and Iori, for example) in such a\n> disrespectful way [...]\n\nI imagine the reason that Satsuki addresses Soroi (her butler) using a\ndifferent pronoun ( _kimi_ ) is that _kimi_ is a more familiar term of address\nthan _kisama_ , and she feels that she can open up to Soroi more than anyone\nelse.\n\nBut really, I think this is mostly down to characters using more \"powerful\"\nlanguage for dramatic effect (e.g. to express Satsuki's general disdain for\nmost people) since this is an anime rather than real life. You'll see this\nhappening in many an anime; _Kill la Kill_ is by no means unique in this\nrespect.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-11T23:17:24.713", "id": "18469", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-11T01:44:58.140", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-11T01:44:58.140", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "18468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe name of this meme is [**Obi\nspin**](https://danbooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/9992), from the Japanese term\n帯回し _obi-mawashi_.\n\n> An old jidaigeki-related meme wherein someone (usually a middle-aged man)\n> pulls on the obi of a young woman wearing a kimono, causing her to spin\n> around as it unravels. Usually accompanied by the tugger saying \"It's fine,\n> isn't it? (よいではないか、よいではないか)\" in a sexually suggestive tone, while the young\n> woman says \"ohhh myyyy~! (あ～れ～)\" as she spins.\n>\n> This is, of course, an inherently voluntary game the two are playing, as\n> simply putting her arms down would stop the young woman's obi from\n> unraveling.\n\nIn the samurai movies and TV shows, the tugger is usually an 悪代官 _aku-daikan_\n, an evil governor, hence Midori's addressing Seiji as \"governor\". There is\neven a whole series of video games based on the premise, conveniently named\n[Akudaikan](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%82%AA%E4%BB%A3%E5%AE%98_%28%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%29).\n\n[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radar/AnimeAndManga) has more\nto say (and more examples) about this meme:\n\n> A little-known gesture of implied rape in Japanese culture involves the\n> Shogun grabbing the waistband of his consort and ripping it off so hard that\n> she spins several circles and falls on the bed with her clothes splayed\n> open.\n\nIn some rare cases, the obi spinning is done to a male.\n\n\n\nWhile [this guy](http://www.brickmcburly.com/mcburlymonogatari8) calls the obi\nspin an \" _ozashiki-asobi_ technique\", I am not too sure if he meant it as a\nsatire or a deformation of a [Geisha\nentertainment](http://mitene.or.jp/%7Ehoukan/2002/e02.html) activity. Obi spin\nis even featured in shows by the famous comedian [Ken\nShimura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shimura).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T06:53:24.583", "id": "18477", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-12T07:09:03.417", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "18476", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nSpoilers ahead...\n\n> TL;DR: Nanami is a direct descendant of Yukiji. So the eye mystically passed\n> from parent to child until it ended up inside Nanami. \n> After a girl of Yukiji's lineage gets pregnant (and they can only have\n> girls) The eye passes on to the child, leaving the mother's system. Since\n> Yukiji's bloodline is very weak, this means the mother dies soon after\n> childbirth, but the child becomes quite healthy due to the eye's properties.\n\nThere is a deeper backstory in the Manga, and I will quit here in order to\nspoil the least possible.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T19:40:46.307", "id": "18490", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-01T12:54:26.337", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-01T12:54:26.337", "last_editor_user_id": "2808", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "18480", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nPerhaps Yukiji is Nanami's ancestor so maybe the Dragon King's Eye went\nthrough her when she was born.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-01T07:40:16.390", "id": "42103", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-01T07:51:16.183", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-01T07:51:16.183", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "35426", "parent_id": "18480", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYukiji is Nanami's ancestor. When she had a kid, the dragon's eye was passed\ndown to her daughter and so on till Nanami\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-17T20:43:54.917", "id": "43381", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-21T14:13:13.193", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-21T14:13:13.193", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "36662", "parent_id": "18480", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's not shortening B's lifespan, you had to write B's name in the death note\nto make that happen.\n\nThe way you can accidentally shorten someone's lifespan is, for example,\nkilling the police officer that stopped B from getting shot, thus B's lifespan\nis implicitly shortened to the time where he gets shot.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T13:40:17.367", "id": "18484", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-12T13:40:17.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "18481", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, to the extent of how can you manipulate a person's actions with the DN.\n[(1)](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/17280/how-long-can-you-\nmanipulate-a-person-with-a-death-note?rq=1)\n[(2)](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7415/can-writing-in-the-death-\nnote-influence-others?rq=1). But care must be taken not to break the other\nrules:\n\nIn your example, B will die in at most 23 days because A has written B's name\nin his DN.\n\nBut let's assume C wants B dead BEFORE that timeframe.\n\nThere is a conflict in the writing C did in the DN:\n\n> Y, Car accident. Dies at 12:30, after he produces a deadly poison, which he\n> injects into the food the person he knows as ''B'' eats. After he did this,\n> he will die 9 days later in a car accident.\n\nC's writing may be in conflict with this rule:\n\n> If the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will\n> simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not\n> influenced. Even though only one name is written in the Death Note, if it\n> influences and causes other humans that are not written in it to die, the\n> victim’s cause of death will be a heart attack\n\nSo it can either be considered as a violation of the rule above (and Y will\ndie of heart attack) or work as intended by C.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T17:17:18.227", "id": "18486", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-12T17:17:18.227", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "18481", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe calculation takes into effect the power of the actual gun of each tank.\nThe Type 89 the volleyball team used has terrible gun that can't even\npenetrate the ass of a British Matilda. The StuG III Ausf G that the Hippo\nteam uses a gun that has better penetration.\n\nFor the Carro Veloce, their reasoning is that the tankettes are only flipped\nbecause of their small size and the computer that does the calculating doesn't\nregister it as a penetrating shot.\n\nAs for the Maus, it's the same reasoning as question number 1. The Maus has\nvery thick armor and regular hits from Ooarai's tanks will never penetrate.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-22T12:07:47.197", "id": "20246", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-22T12:07:47.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13364", "parent_id": "18482", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPossibly [YAKUZA GIRL](http://myanimelist.net/manga/10347/Yakuza_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 by one of the factions\n> that rule the school to protect him.\n\nBelow is a picture of him getting said mole:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-19T07:13:18.790", "id": "18657", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-19T09:08:03.167", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-19T09:08:03.167", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "11222", "parent_id": "18485", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSince Crunchyroll has a license from the copyright owner, the content\n(including cuts / edited video, subtitles, translations, overlay text,\ndubbing) available is considered official.\n\nEven though Crunchyroll does the translation, the translation is owned by the\nanime studio. Also, sometimes the studio chooses how some terms are\ntranslated.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-13T04:11:00.040", "id": "18495", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-06T14:54:18.207", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-06T14:54:18.207", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "18491", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTippy is an [Angora rabbit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angora_rabbit). A\npopular pet amongst French royalty in the mid-18th century and in Europe in\nthe later part of the century.\n\nA picture of a White English Angora rabbit from Wikipedia:\n\n\n\nIt was also officially confirmed from [this magazine\nillustration](https://i.stack.imgur.com/keqQ4.jpg) (Japanese) in the Q&A in\nthe lower left corner.\n\n> **Is rabbit actually an item on the shop's menu?**\n>\n> Although _Tippy_ , **an Angora rabbit** , is kept as a pet at _Rabbit House_\n> , and in episode 1, Cocoa ordered for a rabbit out of ignorance, there is no\n> such thing on the menu, since Tippy is obviously not for sale (lol). [...]\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-12T21:30:38.190", "id": "18493", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-30T19:18:11.297", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "18492", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nChapter 700 of the manga takes place **15 years** after the 4th SWW. During\nthe 4th SWW, Naruto is 17 and Hinata is 16.\n\nSo at present, they're 32 and 31 respectively.\n\nBoruto's age is revealed to be 12. There's a confirmed two year age difference\nbetween Himawari and Boruto. Therefore Hima is 10 years old.\n\nSince Hinata is 31 years old currently. Therefore, she was 19 when she had\nBoruto and 21 when she had Himawari.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-17T11:18:18.590", "id": "18599", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-21T14:44:51.123", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-21T14:44:51.123", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "11083", "parent_id": "18494", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThey would be in their 30's with Naruto at 31-32 and Hinata at 29-30.\n\nAt the end of the war, they were 17 and 16. Skip two years to the last movie\nand they are 19-20 and 18-19. Twelve more years where Boruto is 12, that would\nmake them 32 for Naruto and 30 for Hinata.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-15T00:02:29.793", "id": "43783", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-15T00:57:28.017", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-15T00:57:28.017", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37169", "parent_id": "18494", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, there are other people who could use Conqueror's Haki at that moment. On\nrescue team, they're Shirohige and Hancock. But only Shirohige knows about\nAce's situation and Hancock was fighting somewhere else. However, Shirohige\nwasn't in good condition to use Conqueror's Haki. He was sick and badly\ninjured by some attack by Marine just before Ace's execution order.\n\n\n\nSome other source said Conqueror's Haki needs heart to use it and Shirohige\ncouldn't use Conqueror's Haki because his heart was injured. But at this\npoint, I can't find any canon source to endorse the statement.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-13T11:35:37.783", "id": "18501", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-13T13:33:48.183", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-13T13:33:48.183", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "18500", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nwhitebeard not use Conqueror's Haki because it effect on all peoples without\npowerful will so his man also effected with that. It's king personality i\nthink\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-17T07:42:26.863", "id": "19432", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-17T07:42:26.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11774", "parent_id": "18500", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's simple, you need extensive training to use Conqueror's Haki. Only certain\npeople like Luffy, Rayleigh, Shanks, and Doffy trained their Conqueror's Haki.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-10T00:51:57.487", "id": "43727", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-10T01:46:34.763", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-10T01:46:34.763", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37094", "parent_id": "18500", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n * 4 is [Mahoro Ando](http://myanimelist.net/character/1314/Mahoro_Ando) from Mahoromatic\n * 6, [Anna Kurauchi](http://myanimelist.net/character/1815/Anna_Kurauchi) (He is my Master) is the only prominent GAINAX character I know with that color hair and hairstyle\n * 7 is [Aki](http://myanimelist.net/character/265/Aki) from Abenobashi\n * 8 is [Reiko Kashiwara](http://myanimelist.net/character/15946/Reiko_Kashiwara) from Gunbuster\n * 10 ???\n * 12 possibly the \"Owner\" from Ebichu or [Yukino](http://myanimelist.net/character/357/Yukino_Miyazawa) from His and Her Circumstances because she sometimes wears her hair that way\n * 14 possibly [Sakura Miyuki](http://ami.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/chars/thumbs/200/9180-2064304184.jpg) from Mahoromatic?\n\nMost likely they're just random girls as there's really nothing that can\naccurately identify them like clothing or eye color.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-13T23:07:13.800", "id": "18516", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-13T23:07:13.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "18510", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems to be [**Saiyuki**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiyuki_\\(manga\\))\n\n\n\n> Saiyuki is the story of four anti-heroes: the monk Genjyo Sanzo (or just\n> \"Sanzo\"), the monkey king Son Goku, the half-demon Sha Gojyo, and the man\n> who turned into a demon Cho Hakkai (formerly known as Cho Gonou). They have\n> been dispatched by the Sanbutsushin (the Three Aspects of Buddha, who relay\n> the orders of heaven) to travel to India to stop the possible resurrection\n> of the Ox-Demon-King, Gyumaoh. Along the way they are beset by inept\n> assassins, bad weather, and their own tragic personal pasts. Meanwhile, the\n> villains, two unlikely confidants, Gyokumen Koushou (Gyumaoh's concubine, a\n> demon) and a mad scientist, Dr. Nii Jianyi (a human), continue their\n> attempts to restore the long-dead king. These experiments, a forbidden\n> mixture of science and magic, spawn the \"Minus Wave\", infecting all of the\n> demons in Shangri-La with madness, shattering the fragile peace that once\n> existed between humans and demons.\n\nIn particular the episodes you are referring to are from the series **Saiyuki\nReload**\n\n * [**Episode 5:**](http://www.tv.com/shows/saiyuki-reload/slumbering-memories-401269/)\n\n> A peaceful demon, Suika, who cooks wonderful meals allows the Sanzo Party to\n> stay at their village overnight. During the night, she sings and visits all\n> of their dreams, extracting their painful memories from them and making them\n> \"happy.\" The next day, Sanzo and the others, except Goku, are all acting\n> funny and lifeless. When confronted by Lirin on the road, Sanzo tosses the\n> Maten Scripture at her when she demands it and goes back to Suika's village\n> with Hakkai and Gojyo. Yaone tells Goku a story about a demon that extracts\n> painful memories. Goku and the others head back to the village to try and\n> free the others\n\n * [**Episode 8:**](http://www.tv.com/shows/saiyuki-reload/tasty-cooking-401272/)\n\n> The Sanzo party meet a woman who cooks so terribly, people actually use her\n> food as weapons against demons! Goku tries her food and gets sick, though.\n> Hakkai realizes, however, that she really wants to be a good cook for her\n> boyfriend, even though her horirble-tasting food makes for a handy weapon.\n> Hakkai gives her cooking lessons, but when he tries her food, he passes out!\n> Her boyfriend is horrified to hear they're eating her food, and Hakkai tries\n> to explain that she wants to cook well. Her boyfriend decides he'll try her\n> food for himself, as horrible as it may be. As she makes a dish, a demon\n> attacks. She throws the soup on the demon and he disentrigrates. Her\n> boyfriend tries her food, though, and finds it delicious. Sanzo decides that\n> her food kills demons, similar to the way the banishing gun bullets kill\n> them. As thanks for helping her, she gives them all a plate of meat buns,\n> but Hakkai, Gojyo, and Goku don't want to eat them. On their way out,\n> though, they run into a bunch of demons...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-13T23:26:33.063", "id": "18518", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-01T10:01:52.507", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-01T10:01:52.507", "last_editor_user_id": "10644", "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "18517", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWe know that the final result is that the husband gets sent to heaven and the\nwife to hell:\n\n> Takashi gets reincarnated and Machiko gets sent to the void.\n> [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Billiards#Episode_list)\n\nThe bartender also states that the husband goes to \"heaven\" and the wife to\n\"hell\". This is in the scene after the end credits for the first episode. I\nbelieve you may have missed it or Funimation could have neglected to include\nit.\n\nAs you mentioned, the Funimation subs say Heaven and Hell instead of\nReincarnated and Void. I believe that this is due to localization, since most\nEnglish speakers are going to be more familiar with the concept of \"heaven and\nhell\" after death, rather than \"reincarnation and void\".\n\nThe mask indicates where the people in the elevator go.\n\nMy reasoning is that the husband arrives in the hell elevator because he\nkilled the couple to begin with. Then when it's revealed that the wife\ncheated, she gets sent to hell.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-14T06:16:34.147", "id": "18525", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-17T07:48:52.230", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-17T07:48:52.230", "last_editor_user_id": "3387", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "18521", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nThe man was sent for reincarnation, whereas the wife was sent to the void. In\nepisode 2 Deciem confims this.\n\nHeaven/Hell doesn't exist in the Shinto religion, the concepts referred to in\nthe original script are Reincarnation and Void.\n\nThe masks above the door are [**Noh**\nMasks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh#Masks). These masks come in all\ndifferent forms, but the ones above the door are a pale female and an oni\n(demon).\n\n\n\n\nAs the bar is an area for assessing the candidates who arrive (see\n[Purgatory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatory) or\n[Naraka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_\\(Buddhism\\))), we know that\nthey are not fully good - as they would have immediately entered Nirvana . In\nfact, the test is to see which person is beyond saving and who should be given\na second shot at life.\n\nThe demonic mask is instantly recognizable as 'evil', and as such it's fairly\nsafe to assume that it leads to the _void_ \\- which, must not be confused with\nhell. Void is simply emptiness. the redness of the mask is also associated\nwith rage, or feelings of intense anger.\n\nThe pale female mask is human based, and white - giving a sense of calm. It's\nsignificantly less intimidating than the oni mask. We can take from this that\nit is representative of reincarnation (forgiveness).\n\nEpisode 2 also confirms that winning doesn't matter - which makes sense. The\nlife-death situation has been created to test the true natures of the people\nbeing judged.\n\nI believe in episode one, the mask switch was an animation mistake, as it was\ncorrect in the following episode:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T13:04:44.377", "id": "18576", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-20T18:04:55.090", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-20T18:04:55.090", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "18521", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIn actuality there is no \"heaven\" or \"hell,\" just \"reincarnation\" or the\n\"void.\"\n\nFrom a Christian perspective, reincarnation (not a Christian concept) could be\nconsidered \"heaven\" and the void, \"hell.\"\n\nLooking at this from an outside perspective, the only reason the \"Heaven\" and\n\"Hell\" terms were brought up is to make it the situation simpler and clear-cut\n(i.e., black vs. white) and relatable to the people who undergo this trial.\nHowever, the reality of what is portrayed, is that there is no actual reward\nor punishment (or even a afterlife). The end result simply seems that you\neither go back to living or you stop existing entirely.\n\nIn Noh theater, the Female mask (white one) represents the divine, and the Oni\n(and animal) masks (red one) represent the demonic.\n[[1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CPwc9.jpg)]([http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781891640322?redirected=true&gclid=CNGP77rXvMMCFYiVfgodI7IATw](http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781891640322?redirected=true&gclid=CNGP77rXvMMCFYiVfgodI7IATw))\n\nBased on the analysis of the four anime episode and the _Death Billiards_ OVA,\none can conclude that the **White one is \"Heaven\" and the Red one is \"Hell.\"**\n\n## Episode 1\n\n**Reincarnation:**\n\n> \n\n**Void:**\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xRu9V.jpg)\n\n**Result:** Female | Oni\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sFIyn.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9NuSz.jpg)\n\n## Episode 2\n\n(Ibid)\n\n## Episode 3\n\n**Reincarnation:**\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KLfGn.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lINMu.jpg)\n\n**Void:**\n\n> (none)\n\n**Result:** Female | Female\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7U8qG.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/seJic.jpg)\n\n## Episode 4\n\n**Reincarnation:**\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x1p7X.jpg)\n\n**Void:**\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uy2fY.jpg)\n\n**Result:** Female | Oni\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/blRi7.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gHAnk.jpg)\n\n## _Death Billiards_\n\n**Reincarnation:**\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JcGjx.jpg)\n\n**Void:**\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IN6fK.jpg)\n\n**Result:** Oni | Female\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oh81H.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-30T21:55:35.197", "id": "18991", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T18:17:51.623", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T18:17:51.623", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "18521", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nGuys I saw this page and it said that the Takashi went to hell basically & his\nwife went to heaven. But in Buddhism, reincarnation is what's considered to be\nbad. Someone who is reincarnated is someone who is still ignorant and has yet\nto reach enlightenment. So they go through the sufferings and trials of living\nin an endless cycle to eventually achieve it. Also, To go into the void is to\nreach enlightenment.\n\n\"When ignorance is uprooted, rebirth is ceased.\"\n\nSomeone who reaches the void achieves nirvana. Being enlightened is to be\nridden of all worldly desires and enter a state of \"emptiness\" or existential\nfreedom or transcendence. (Cease to exist)\n\nSo the issue at hand isn't whether or not these people go up or downstairs,\nbut whether they reach enlightenment or accept and acknowledge their sins...I\nwould say.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-22T05:32:09.240", "id": "19556", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-22T05:32:09.240", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "12865", "parent_id": "18521", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn _Death Billiards_ , the fates of the man and the old geezer were weakly\nimplied by the billiard balls Decim was holding at the end of the movie: the\nblue ball linked to the man's heart was up and above the red ball linked to\nthe old geezer's heart, hinting that the man had gone up to Heaven and the old\ngeezer to Hell.\n\n\n\nBut what really settles the debate is the [glossary\nsection](https://web.archive.org/web/20151009054546/http://www.deathparade.jp/introduction/words.html)\nof the official website of _Death Parade_ , in which it is explicitly stated\nthat the masks indicate whether the souls of the dead are sent for\nReincarnation or banished into the Void.\n\n>\n> 様々なゲームによって裁定を下された死者たちは、2つのドアが並んだ客用のエレベーターに乗せられ、転生か虚無のどちらかに送られる。その行き先はエレベーター上部にある「白い能面」と「般若の面」が表しており、死者の身体は魂が送られた後、ただの人形と化す。\n\nThe [white Noh mask (Koomote)](https://nohmask21.com/koomote1.html) and\n[Hannya mask](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannya) designate Heaven and Hell,\nrespectively. To clarify, the Void is more like Hell than Nirvana. Ginti gave\na description of the Void in episode 11:\n\n> It amounts to a space containing nothing — a graveyard for souls. Your mind\n> is all that remains. Terror, regret, despair — it's the sensation of falling\n> forever while embracing all your negative feelings.\n\nI have created a table showing all the outcomes of the games and the decisions\nmade by the Arbiters:\n\n>\n[code]\n\n>\n> ╭─────────╥─────────────┬─────────────────┬───────────┬─────────────┬─────────────────╮\n> │ Episode ║ Game │ Winner │ Loser │ Heaven │\n> Hell │\n>\n> ╞═════════╬═════════════╪═════════════════╪═══════════╪═════════════╪═════════════════╡\n> │ 1,2 ║ Darts │ Machiko │ Takashi │ Takashi │\n> Machiko │\n> │ 3 ║ Bowling │ Shigeru │ Mai │ Shigeru,Mai │\n> (None) |\n> │ 4 ║ Arcade Game │ (Tied) │ (Tied) │ Yousuke │\n> Misaki |\n> │ 6 ║ Twister │ Harada │ Mayu │ (None) │\n> Harada │\n> | OVA ║ Billiards │ Man │ Old Man │ Man │\n> Old Man |\n> | 7 ║ Billiards | Woman | Man | Woman |\n> Man |\n> | 8,9 ║ Air Hockey | Shimada | Tatsumi | (None) |\n> Shimada,Tatsumi |\n> | 10 ║ Old Maid | Sachiko(,Decim) | (Chiyuki) | Sachiko |\n> (None) │\n>\n> └─────────╨─────────────┴─────────────────┴───────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────┘\n[/code]\n\n>\n> Note: We didn't actually get to see the \"customers\" leave by the elevators\n> in episodes 6 and 9. But even without the reliable indicator of judgment\n> that is the masks, there is little doubt that all the \"customers\" in those\n> two episodes got sent to Hell.\n\nAs you can see, the outcome of the games does not seem to have any bearing on\nwhether the winner or loser is sent to Heaven or Hell. In fact, **each of\npretty much all possible outcomes is covered in exactly one of the seven types\nof games**. It's unclear whether the winners and losers of a particular type\nof game will always receive the same judgment, but it's unlikely to be the\ncase that they do.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-29T09:31:49.440", "id": "20418", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-05T12:24:58.233", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-05T12:24:58.233", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "18521", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe animal model the Cursed Girls is representing, what kind of animal gene\nthe initiator possesses. As far as I have understood it by reading the wikia\nand reading the manga, a gastrea possesses DNA of animals, even though they\nare actually humans. They got infected with the _[Gastrea\nVirus](http://blackbullet.wikia.com/wiki/Gastrea_Virus)_ which suddenly\nappeared around 2021. So, based on that I can assume that the animal factor is\nalready inside the virus, even though I can not explain how exactly that\nhappened.\n\nSo, to come back to your question, I do think that the model the Civil\nSecurity gave the initiator is a classification to sum up their abilities.\nLike the gastrea the cursed girls have the animal factor of the Gastrea Virus\nas well. But unlike becoming monsters in animal form, they just _have the\nabilities and sometimes even the look of the animal_ , which would explain\nMidori's cat ears.\n\nTo read more about the gastrea, you should check out the wikia page about them\nby clicking right [here](http://blackbullet.wikia.com/wiki/Gastrea).\n\nI hope I helped you somehow. :)\n\nGood day.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-14T11:44:16.347", "id": "18528", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-14T11:44:16.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "18522", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nEach version of the Gastrea virus is representative of a different type of\nanimal, and that dictates the 'model' of that particular Gastrea. For example,\nthe first human we see succumb to the virus in episode one transforms into a\nspider, and as such is a spider model:\n\n> \"The yellow and black spotted pattern of his body would certainy raise a\n> visceral aversion in any human. It was a huge spider.\n>\n> But the little girl neither ran away, not screamed - she just calmly got\n> ready. Suddenly, she heard a voice coming from out of nowhere.\n>\n> 'Gastrea confirmed - model: spider, stage I. Engaging in battle!'\"\n>\n> Black Bullet Light Novel, Volume 1\n\nAs all Initiators are cursed children, by definition they carry a particular\nstrain of the Gastrea virus with it's own animal DNA, providing them with an\nanimal model. While each model is named solely from the animal DNA their\nversion of the Gastrea virus contains, that DNA often affects the abilities of\nthe initiator, providing unique bonus affects alongside the usual cursed\nchildren abilities of extreme agility and regeneration. These bonus affects\nare in line with the animal of their particular model.\n\nFor example:\n\n * Enju Aihara - Rabbit model: \nMuch like a rabbit, the majority of her strength is concentrated in her legs,\nand she fights with mostly kicks.\n\n * Yuzuki Katagiri - Spider model: \nShe has the ability to release a very thin spider web string from her\nfingertip, invisible to the naked eye. These webs can stick to several\nsurfaces.\n\n * Tina Sprout - Owl model: \nShe can see incredibly well, both at long distances and in the dark, shown in\nboth her fight with Rentaro and her assassination attempt on Seitenshi.\n\n * Midori Fuse - Cat model: \nMidori has the ability to extend her nails to form prominent claws, which are\nkeen enough to slice though solid objects, including the metal in rifles.\n\nAs for Midori's cat ears, this is explained as an unusual reaction where the\nGastrea virus affects the host body more readily, causing a partial\ntransformation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-25T14:50:24.093", "id": "23557", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-25T14:50:24.093", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10654", "parent_id": "18522", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI imagine this is somehow related to the common schoolprank of placing\nbasins/buckets of water on top of door frames and waiting for people to come\nin and get soaked\n\n\n\nAs is mentioned in @Vogel612's link, it's sortof the Eastern equivilant of an\nanvil being dropped on someone's head. A bit more realistic perhaps though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T15:05:56.393", "id": "18578", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T15:05:56.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "18532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> “I have promised to protect Mikoto and her around.”\n\nWhen Touma helped Kuroko, he said so, in Volume 8 of the original novel. And\nperhaps in Volume 11 of the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-30T08:26:02.267", "id": "18978", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-21T01:55:50.587", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-21T01:55:50.587", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "11336", "parent_id": "18534", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dbEZx.jpg)\n\nManga volume 11, chapter 64, page 15\n\nThe full quote was:\n\n> \"That’s right, it's a promise. This promise is to protect Misaka Mikoto and\n> the world around her. This is my agreement with a certain nameless person\n> who fell in love with her so quickly.\"\n\nHe explains this to Shirai Kuroko regarding his promise with Etzali from\n_Toaru Majutsu no Index_ light novel volume 08.\n\nSource: [Touma's quotes on Toaru Majutsu no Index\nWikia](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Kamijou_Touma/Quotes)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-20T10:38:17.887", "id": "26723", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-22T05:29:58.613", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-22T05:29:58.613", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "18598", "parent_id": "18534", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI haven't been able to find a satisfying answer explaining Etzali's and\nMisaka's reactions yet, so...\n\nWhatever he said, it obviously confirmed the promise Etzali asked for, but it\nwasn't what he had wanted to hear.\n\n**Combined with Misaka's reaction, I have two theories. I'll start with the\none that's less likely:**\n\nIn _A Certain Magical Index II_ episode 23, Kamijo says to Kazakiri that he'd\nrather chop his hand off than lose one of his friends. I am mentioning this\nbecause it shows that he would make a statement essentially comparing the\nvalue of body parts and people, even though it specifically makes sense in\nthat context because his right hand can literally kill Kazikiri.\n\n**The idea is that maybe he said something along the lines of _\" I'll protect\nher like my right hand\"_ or _\" I'd chop off my right hand for her\"_.**\n\nThe reactions would then basically be a masturbation joke. I honestly don't\nfind this theory very satisfying.\n\nLuckily, there is evidence to contradict it. Here is the excerpt from the\nlight novel, copied from Reddit:\n\n> Mikoto and the boy were the only ones in the alley.\n>\n> The words that had come out of his mouth shook her more than she let on. But\n> what rocked her very core—that she did not realize. Nevertheless, she\n> unconsciously understood that she’d be better off not letting it show. Or\n> rather, she possessed a compelling force telling her that she mustn’t do so.\n>\n> However, without care, it would erupt within her. She was desperately\n> holding it back, like a raging vortex of steam trying to escape her body.\n>\n> It was strange.\n>\n> She didn’t want to let it show on the surface, but she felt pained trying to\n> hold it back.\n>\n> Would that not mean that deep down she wanted to let it show? But that\n> wasn’t the case.\n>\n> Just thinking about letting it show nearly made her red in the face.\n>\n> And she didn’t even know what the essential thing was.\n>\n> She held everything in her throat, not understanding why.\n>\n> One way or another, she’d realized it.\n>\n> **Mikoto had always kind of thought she was a unique existence. She had\n> thought that even her distance to this boy had shrunken just a little bit\n> compared to everyone else. Like if he was browsing a list of a thousand\n> names and saw the name Misaka, he’d at least stop for a moment.**\n>\n> **But no—she’d been wrong.**\n>\n> And that fact by itself had a big effect on her. She didn’t even understand\n> why something as insignificant as this had caused her so much damage, so she\n> of course couldn’t think of a way to deal with it. She wanted to run away\n> right now if she could—from this unidentified pain.\n>\n> But she couldn’t.\n>\n> She didn’t want to turn tail and run away from him.\n>\n> It would hurt him.\n>\n> The pain would be much more than what she was feeling now.\n>\n> (…Man, I really am an idiot, if I do say so myself.)\n\nIn my opinion, the marked part sums up the meaning behind her reaction. She\nrealizes that to him, she's more or less just another person.\n\n**This makes me think that he said something along the lines of _\" I'll\nprotect her like everyone else\"_ or _\" I will protect everybody I can\"_.**\n\nThe idea is that this would be the worst possible answer because Etzali wanted\nhim to commit specifically to protecting Misaka, but it still gives the\npromise because it includes him protecting her.\n\nNow, in the anime, Misaka also says that she is taking what he said the wrong\nway and that he made it very misleading. The idea with that is that Kamijo is\nthe kind of guy who protects people wherever he can, but this doesn't actually\nmean he cares about everyone equally. He still likes some people more than\nothers, but he protects everyone.\n\nIt should also be noted that, in the light novel, he actually realized Misaka\nwas close because he is so unlucky that he wouldn't have survived otherwise:\n\n> A steel girder had fallen into the ground right between his legs as he sat\n> on his butt. That wasn’t all. All around him, more of them were sticking out\n> of the ground, covering them up, like a badly made hut with tons of holes in\n> the roof. There was a precarious balance here that seemed so weak a breeze\n> would cause the whole thing to come crashing down, but for now, at least,\n> Kamijou hadn’t been buried alive.\n>\n> (That was lucky…wait, that’s impossible. I’m unlucky, after all. Which\n> means…oh, I see. That Level 5 can use the power of electricity to manipulate\n> magnetism, too, can’t she?)\n\nHowever, this doesn't seem to affect what he says to Etzali at all, he either\ndidn't think about it much or simply didn't care if Misaka heard his answer in\nthe way he gave it. I do feel like this is in line with his character.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-21T21:27:56.853", "id": "65965", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-22T05:30:03.150", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-22T05:30:03.150", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63352", "parent_id": "18534", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\"If one shoots enough arrows at the target, one is sure to hit the bull's\neye.\" So true.\n\n\n\nTaken from [**MuseScore**](http://musescore.com/user/38921/scores/71613), CC\nZero license.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T10:45:29.207", "id": "18571", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T10:57:07.430", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-16T10:57:07.430", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "18536", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOkay, so a bit of a Japanese lesson: \n_'B-gata'_ would normally refer to the blood type. The Japanese are pretty\nfond of associating blood types with certain personality traits; and a B-type\nperson is considered to be a bit impulsive, passionate, but their actions\n'don't come across clearly' to others. (That seems to describe Yamada's\ncharacter rather well, doesn't it?) \nOn the other hand, _'H-kei'_ normally has to do with 'ecchi' (the Japanese\nword for 'sex' that came from the pronunciation of the letter 'H' that is an\nabbreviation for the word 'Hentai'. Phew.) and _'kei'_ refers to a type (or\neven a lineage) of something. \nGenerally put, 'kei' (系) is a classifier for objects (living or non-living)\nthat comes from a tree kind of structure, while 'gata' (型) literally means\n'mold' or 'model' and looks at a classification of objects into categories.\n\nAll this being said, the **official** meaning of B-gata H-kei is that the 'B'\nstands for _'Bousou'_ (暴走), which can be translated to a 'rampage'; and the\n'H' stands for _'Hentai'_ (変態), which we know is the word for perverted\nbehavior. So the title refers to how Yamada is a rampaging sex-crazy pervert.\n\nI tell you all these pieces of information because they form a sort of pun.\nThe second explanation is the 'correct' one of sorts (in that it's official),\nbut that does not negate the pun that exists in the title - whether it was\nintentional or not. There is reason to believe the 'B' could also refer to\nbra-size, as many people have pointed out. That adds to the pun as well,\nperhaps.\n\nAnyway, I hope this sheds some light on the meaning of 'B型H系'. I can't post\ntoo many links here, but check out beta.jisho.org to look up the meanings for\nthe Japanese words I used. Also, this is where I got the 'official'\nexplanation of the title: \n<http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1040891740> \nIt's all in Japanese. The person who had answered that question wrote that\nthis explanation wasn't mentioned in the manga, but in a weekly magazine\ncalled Young Jump.\n\nAlso, this link:\n<http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1139264431> \nThe answer there talks about how the blood types of all characters in the\nstory are actually never mentioned (as of the time of that answer), though the\nfact that Yamada is a B-cup is known. It also mentions that Yamada as a\ncharacter is modeled after Sanri Youko (the mangaka) themselves and so\nspeculates that Yamada's blood type could be the same as Sanri-sensei's.\n(Unfortunately, their blood type is also unknown.)\n\nI'm not a native Japanese speaker (just an enthusiastic learner!) so I might\nnot be entirely correct. But I hope this answer helps, somewhat. Anime titles\noften have many hidden meanings in them, and it's fun to look for all their\npossible interpretations.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-15T16:25:48.690", "id": "18545", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-15T16:25:48.690", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11193", "parent_id": "18537", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nI always assumed the translation was B-Cupped Slut, as that is what she calls\nherself, B Gata referring to her boobs, and H Kei, being like hentai style,\nwhich is simular to Slut. I still think this is what is intended by this name,\nthough honestly they probably didn't consider translation when creating the\nname, but I imagine Japaense people would read this the same as if we read\n\"The B Cupped Slut\" as the title.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-06T22:21:34.110", "id": "30270", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-06T22:21:34.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22515", "parent_id": "18537", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter reading all the comments so far, one obvious interpretation not\nmentioned by anybody is contained in the title of the 11th episode, \"Year 2\nClass H`s Christmas Eve!\" and on the signs above the door to Yamada's homeroom\nat school, which appear at various points in the show. The characters of the\nshow are all in \"B Class\" (second year HS students) and \"H Group\" (homeroom\nH).\n\nThat said, it is also obvious that the title is intended by the mangaka as a\nvery profound pun, with multiple layers of meaning. So, all the other\ninterpretations offered in this thread are right too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-30T15:45:54.723", "id": "31001", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-30T15:45:54.723", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23095", "parent_id": "18537", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [**Kidou Tenshi Angelic\nLayer**](http://myanimelist.net/anime/52/Kidou_Tenshi_Angelic_Layer)\n\n> 12-year-old Misaki Suzuhara has just gotten involved in Angelic Layer, a\n> battling game using electronic dolls called angels. Even as a newbie, Misaki\n> shows advanced skills as she meets new friends and enters Angelic Layer\n> tournaments to fight the greatest Angelic Layer champions of the nation.\n\nBelow is are 2 pages from chapter 3 of the manga showing the head set and how\nthe doll can be controlled when the player wears the headset:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-15T07:40:04.933", "id": "18540", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-15T14:31:08.253", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-15T14:31:08.253", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1348", "parent_id": "18539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's likely referring to the [BPO](http://www.bpo.gr.jp/?page_id=1092), the\n(Japanese) Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization:\n\n> A non-profit, non-governmental organization that serves to improve the\n> quality of broadcasting and promote higher ethical standards while ensuring\n> freedom of speech and expression.\n>\n> BPO deals with complaints and ethical issues by conducting investigations\n> into problematic programs and giving recommendations and/or opinions to\n> either all broadcasters or to the particular broadcaster concerned.\n\nThis is one of many meta jokes from this episode.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rDeZR.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-27T06:49:06.570", "id": "26206", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-27T06:49:06.570", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "18543", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOkita Souji is an extremely well-known and well-liked historical figure in the\nminds of Japanese people, who generally know that he died of tuberculosis at\nabout age 25. \nHe died on [July 19, 1868](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okita_S%C5%8Dji). The\nMeiji era started on [September 8,\n1868](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_period). In _Rurouni Kenshin_ ,\nKenshin arrives in Tokyo in\n[1878](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin#Plot).\n\nIn the same way that a historical fiction about Abraham Lincoln doesn't need\nto explicitly include the fact that Lincoln was assassinated since everyone\nalready knows that, Watsuki-sensei did not need to give this detail about the\ntiming of Okita's death within the series itself because the average Japanese\nperson knows he was already dead long before Kenshin arrives in Tokyo.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T01:00:39.183", "id": "18555", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T01:00:39.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "18547", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's to get viewers hyped up to see the next episode.\n\nIf they do it right, they don't give all of it away, and they leave the viewer\nwith a sense that's there's more to see, and that they need to watch the next\nepisode to figure out what happens or even how it happened.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-15T17:57:32.290", "id": "18549", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-15T17:57:32.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "18548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen anime was first produced, it was very expensive to make and a very time\nconsuming process.\n\nWhen Osamu Tezuka first created the animated Astroboy, he sold each episode\nfor 750,000 ¥ , even though his estimated cost was 2,500,000¥ per episode. In\nlight of this, anime had to adapt clever ways of saving money.\n\nTesuka pioneered several cost-saving measures, some of which are still around\ntoday. Animating _'on threes'_ (each celsheet is shown for 3 frames each),\nrecycling cels on other scenes, characters talking but their mouths are not\nshown and several other items.\n\nAfter Astroboy's success other companies realised that an anime series _was\nindeed possible_ despite the seemingly infeasible costs.\n\nAstroboy contained both opening and closing songs, which meant that the studio\nonly had to animate them once, saving roughly 7 minutes per episode. Other\nstudios started to extend these savings with 'Previously On X...' and 'In the\nnext episode of X...'.\n\nSo, this is where the origins of 'next on X' lie.\n\n* * *\n\nAside from saving money, The purpose of these scene is to also get the viewers\nexcited to watch the next episode (as @Sam I am has said in his answer).\n\nThe problem is, often when shows end on cliffhangers - the entire next episode\nis how that plot point resolves. Moreso if the studio has reduced animation\ntime per episode to its max, then there isn't much content to pick from for\nthe preview. As previews are sections of already animated material, some parts\nmay not be ready for viewing yet and also likely won't have gone through the\nrigorous storyboarding and preparatory work that the main feature has.\n\nYou can see this in several studios where they've actually made a good effort\nto not show anything explicitly plot revealing, but the soundtrack has (from\nbeing associated with a character).\n\nSomething which studios do also is use their animation budget to emphasize key\nscenes - More attention to detail will be made for a character's death, than\nwhen the character has a casual stroll along a pavement. This is a sensible\ndecision by the studios - viewers will remember the amazing transformation\nscenes that the main character's robot performed, but not so much the\nanimation of a heavy dialogue scene - It will seem to be of an overall higher\nstandard.\n\nOn the preview side of this, in order to attract repeat viewers, studios want\nto pick the most attractive scenes - and yes, they're often the ones that are\nmost important.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-23T20:52:45.090", "id": "21073", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-23T20:52:45.090", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "18548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think this is probably [Future Boy Conan](http://www.anime-\nplanet.com/anime/future-boy-conan). It's pretty old, with its first airing in\n1978. It was fairly popular, so I wouldn't be surprised to find that it had\nbeen translated into several languages.\n\n\n\nObviously, his name is Conan, but the wife you are thinking of might be Lana,\na girl he rescues who is a significant character in the show.\n\n\n\nAs the name suggests, it's a time travel show, so many eras are mashed\ntogether and at several points Conan swings out of trees like Tarzan and\nencounters primitive people.\n\nPlot Synopsis:\n\n> In AD 2008, mankind developed deadly weapons and eradicated most of the\n> Earth and its people. 20 years later, a young boy named Conan and his\n> 'grandpa', one of the last survivors of the devastation, live a peaceful\n> life on Remnant Island. One day Conan rescues a girl on the beach named Lana\n> and learns the true nature of the rest of the world. After Lana is\n> kidnapped, Conan's good nature propels him into the biggest adventure of his\n> life: to find Lana, High Harbor, Dr. Lao, and a way to crush the evil and\n> oppressive city of Industria.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-15T23:28:11.700", "id": "18553", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-15T23:28:11.700", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "18550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIsn't it [**Rahan**](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahan)? I know it's a pretty\nold french comic, even [the animation\nadaptation](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahan,_fils_des_%C3%A2ges_farouches)\nmade out of it is quite old (1986).\n\nIt's a blond guy with a loin cloth, the action is set in prehistoric times.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T15:47:00.733", "id": "18581", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T21:12:15.000", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-16T21:12:15.000", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11211", "parent_id": "18550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]