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[ { "body": "\n\nLuffy doesn't have the ability to heal himself immediately, we can see him\nwrapped up in bandages pretty much after every hard fight he gets into. So he\ncan only heal like a normal person\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-22T16:31:04.250", "id": "64050", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-22T16:31:04.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61264", "parent_id": "62448", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs terrible of an idea it would be for him to heal like rubber since it\ndoesn't heal at all, Luffy heals like a human. Remember, Luffy is like rubber,\nHe isn't rubber though. He's still skin and bones. If he was like rubber,\nLuffy would not sink in water. But he still has the density of a human. Or\nmaybe it's the fact that he turns completely human when touched by rubber.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-05-16T17:27:31.750", "id": "66808", "last_activity_date": "2022-05-16T17:27:31.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59316", "parent_id": "62448", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSPOILER ALERT!\n\nNot actually rubber. Luffy's devil fruit is not really the Gum-Gum Fruit, but\n\n> the Hito-Hito (i.e. Human-Human) fruit model Nika, which gives him the\n> ability to manipulate his body however he can imagine, and upon awakening,\n> also the surroundings.\n\nSo, this question is no longer valid.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-13T10:43:14.947", "id": "67644", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-13T11:05:00.427", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-13T11:05:00.427", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "66936", "parent_id": "62448", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think he could with the help from:\n\n> Mansherry, who ate the Chiyu Chiyu no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that\n> gives her the ability to instantly heal any living being's injury.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-16T21:56:20.337", "id": "67667", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-16T21:56:20.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48303", "parent_id": "62448", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt depends on who is using the Rasengan.\n\nSomeone like Naruto or Minato can make the Rasengan of its normal size would\ngenerally have a stronger one, but someone like Boruto who doesn't have the\nchakra to make it's size correct may make a weaker one. It's safe to assume\nthat someone who has completely mastered Rasengan and can make it of normal\nsize would have a stronger Rasengan than Boruto's Vanishing Rasengan.\n\nIn Chapter 54 of Boruto, Borushiki stated that Vanishing Rasengan is too weak\nto be a mortal blow, but is very painful when hitting the vitals. A mastered\nRegular Rasengan is strong enough to be a mortal blow, and even stronger when\nhitting the vitals. Because of that, Regular Rasengan is probably stronger\nthan Boruto's Vanishing Rasengan.\n\nIt's just a problem of Boruto's chakra compared to people who have mastered a\nnormal Rasengan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-13T15:01:20.177", "id": "62450", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-03T15:27:00.307", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-03T15:27:00.307", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62449", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIt really just depends on how much energy(chakra) the user has, as the\nvanishing rasengan is an \"invisible\" rasengan, considering the user Boruto\nisn't as \"strong\" as naruto or minato or Jiraiya. But if Naruto could use the\nvanishing Rasengan it will surely be stronger than the rasengan\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-04T13:06:46.310", "id": "63915", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-04T13:06:46.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60973", "parent_id": "62449", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOne of the ways to do it will be by asking the owner of the copyright of the\nanime Boruto: Naruto Next Generations which is “d-rights Inc”. You can find\nthat by searching up on google, “Who owns the copyright of Boruto: Naruto Next\nGenerations”. You can search up other anime copyright owners to ask them, but\ntake note that sometimes when you want to use someone’s work they may ask you\nfor money like for some google images you need to buy them in order to use\nthem for money.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-15T16:31:06.007", "id": "62493", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-15T16:31:06.007", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59885", "parent_id": "62455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is not a plot hole or something other than it. It is based on that she is\nstill a child and has to mature in order to learn the techniques and the\nhidden agendas. Maybe in the future we might see her as a sage with powers\ncomparing to that of Naruto and might even unlock the hidden potential inside\nof her because her grandpa is a byakugan user and he very much loves his\ngrandchildren. So, we might be in for a treat to witness her greatness and she\nmight spar with her brother in the future since you know, they are siblings\nwith overwhelming powers\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-20T07:40:43.013", "id": "62561", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-20T07:40:43.013", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60040", "parent_id": "62460", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you felt like you were being punched in the stomach, I don't think you\nwould be able to run. Simply, the answer is no, because you would be in pain.\n\nIt is similar to stands, as stands are a physical manifestation of the soul,\nand they're practically just 'another body'.\n\nAlso removing your stand in the middle of a fight would be suicide.\n\nFor example, Hanged Man and Emperor did damage to people's actual bodies\nwithout touching their stands.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-15T23:04:50.533", "id": "62497", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-30T05:28:52.610", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-30T05:28:52.610", "last_editor_user_id": "56835", "owner_user_id": "60078", "parent_id": "62478", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYou could, but in a fight, it may feel extra painful to do so.\n\nMaybe if a stand has hold of another stand, I do not believe it can be taken\nback.\n\nExample 1: Kakyoin's Hierophant Green stuck in Strength in Part 3.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-04T14:48:38.417", "id": "62672", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-30T05:28:27.807", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-30T05:28:27.807", "last_editor_user_id": "56835", "owner_user_id": "60403", "parent_id": "62478", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThey can't de-summon it mid-combat for, well, y'know, reasons. I don't think\nyou'd be able to just 'abracadabra' something connected to your body for\nspiritual reasons.\n\nIt's like stand users using their stand abilities, they have to consciously\nuse it without being distracted.\n\nTLDR: no because funny brain\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-08-29T18:14:18.450", "id": "65514", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-29T18:14:18.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56835", "parent_id": "62478", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n### The user must bring their Stand near their body and can't just\ndematerialize it.\n\nFirst, I disagree with the premise that a Stand user would want to de-summon\ntheir Stand in response to it taking a hit, [for the same reasons that Palkia\nCatcher already covered](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/62497/73965). One\ncomment I'll add: if the Stand's reaction time is fast enough to notice an\nattack about to land, the Stand could probably dodge or block instead.\n\nWhile I can't point to any explicit rule that a Stand must return to its user\nbefore disappearing, I can think of several situations where being able to\ninstantly recall a Stand would be extremely useful to the user but they don't\ndo it, implying that **Stands don't work that way** :\n\n * **Hanged Man** ( _Stardust Crusaders_ manga chapter 32 & anime episode 11): Once Polnareff and Kakyoin work out that Hanged Man moves between reflective surfaces, they're able to trap the Stand by ensuring there's only one surface for it to move to and then intercepting it. The audience even gets to see J. Geil look on in horror just before the trap is sprung, suggesting he's powerless to stop his Stand from exposing itself to harm.\n * **Lovers** ( _Stardust Crusaders_ manga chapter 52 & anime episode 17): Kakyoin and Polnareff find a way to reach Lovers inside of Joseph's brain, so Lovers retreats. However, Steely Dan knows he has to wait for Lovers to come back to him, so he buys time by groveling at Jotaro's feet. When Dan tries to attack again, he's foiled because Hierophant Green secretly ensnared Lovers with a tentacle while in Joseph's brain. If Dan could simply dematerialize Lovers from inside of Joseph, Kakyoin's tactic wouldn't have worked.\n * **Echoes vs. Sheer Heart Attack** ( _Diamond is Unbreakable_ manga chapters 91-92 & anime episode 23): After Koichi and Jotaro discover Sheer Heart Attack, Koichi assumes the user is nearby and sends Echoes out to try to find them. Echoes reaches the limit of its effective range to find the user is even further away than that, and at the same time SHA changes targets to Koichi. Jotaro tells Koichi to recall Echoes and defend himself, but Koichi protests that Echoes is too far away (and this is on top of Koichi acknowledging Echoes' speed when ACT2 was first revealed).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-11-18T02:25:37.277", "id": "68445", "last_activity_date": "2023-11-18T02:25:37.277", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "73965", "parent_id": "62478", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nRyuk explains it clearly. There are 2 main differences related to the death\nnote between humans and shinigami. The first is that shinigami can take a\nhuman's remaining life force and add it to their own. The second is that\nshinigami eyes can see name and lifespan.\n\nRem also explains clearly that the only way to give a human additional life is\nif a shinigami falls in love with that human and prevents their death with his\ndeath note.\n\nAlso, even if the scenario with Lucas could play out with the death note, he\nstill has 60 seconds after your death before his; however, it could be\npossible, if you knew Lucas was planning to kill you at a certain time, to\nwrite his name and prevent him from succeeding.\n\nSo, in summary, it is not possible to extend your life with a death note\nwithout prior knowledge of the future, and also just having a death note means\nthat even if someone made the eye deal, they wouldn't see your lifespan as\nthat is how Misa Amane knew that Light Yagami was Kira.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-15T22:48:57.440", "id": "62494", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-16T13:24:15.680", "last_edit_date": "2021-04-16T13:24:15.680", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "60078", "parent_id": "62491", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn my belief, I don't think you can. The only way to actually do that is to\ndestroy the paper before the person dies because the death note kills, it\ndoesn't help stay alive.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-12T23:52:01.603", "id": "67897", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-19T02:04:19.447", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-19T02:04:19.447", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "71832", "parent_id": "62491", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm assuming you're asking if one creates a Rasengan with a Scientific Ninja\nTool, can they amplify it with their own chakra?\n\nWell, before I answer the question, let's start with the facts.\n\n * First off, as stated by [Konohamaru Sarutobi](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Konohamaru_Sarutobi), jutsu casted by the Scientific Ninja Tool is not tied to ones own chakra, and thus can easily go astray and cause mass destruction.\n\n * Secondly, the Scientific Ninja Tools are a work in progress and more variants of it continue to be invented, as shown by [Ao](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Ao) when he utilized the chakra saber.\n\n * Third, jutsu can only synchronize when the two casters are on the same chakra level, as shown when Sasuke matched up to Naruto's chakra level using the Sharingan during the Fourth Great Ninja War to make an Inferno Style Rasen-Shuriken.\n\nThere are actually multiple answers to your question, completely depending on\nthe situation at hand.\n\n> Minato once stated that when similar chakra signatures try to use a jutsu\n> together, the chakra synchronizes and forms the ultimate technique. (in\n> Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Lost Tower)\n\nIf you seal your own Rasengan into the Ninja Tool Scroll, cast it, and try to\namplify it with your own chakra, this could possibly work. However, this is\nmost likely because the same chakra are attempting the same jutsu.\n\nLet's assume one with uncontrollable chakra started a Rasengan and sealed it\ninto a Ninja Tool Scroll. Then an entirely different person with \"calmer\"\nchakra uses the Ninja Tool and tries to amplify this Rasengan. This most\nlikely would not work. First of all, the chakra is not tied to him, and also\nisn't similar in any way, shape, or form. The Rasengan most likely wouldn't\nhave been amplified and completely release and explode. It always depends on\nthe situation at hand.\n\nOne would most likely be able to strengthen their Rasengan if the chakra is\nsimilar, but remember, if the chakra is different and lightly tied to the\ncasters influence, this most likely would not work. We can only assume this\nbased off the current facts given on Scientific Ninja Tools.\n\n* * *\n\nFor more information on the Scientific Ninja Tool, please check out these\nlinks:\n\n[_Naruto wiki article on the Shinobi\nGauntlet_](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Shinobi_Gauntlet)\n\n[_Naruto wiki artice on Scientific Ninja\nTools_](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Scientific_Ninja_Tools)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-28T20:28:07.197", "id": "62638", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-13T19:48:43.093", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-13T19:48:43.093", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62492", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNowadays, seems like that style has just been hardwired into KyoAni since the\ncharacter designer for K-On! and Tamako Market, Horiguchi Yukiko, has already\nleft the studio.\n\nGoing through a brief history of KyoAni's character designers:\n\nDISCLAIMER: I'll be skipping the Munto movie series and the anime it spawned\nas it's pretty much the same deal as AIR in terms of staff. Also, many more\npeople than those I'll be mentioning have formed part of the animation\ndepartment of KyoAni, but I'll be focusing on those that got at any point in\ntime credited as Character Designer or Chief Animation Director.\n\nTheir first big solo anime seems to be Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (2003),\ninheriting the franchise from GONZO, bringing back the first season Character\nDesigner and Animation Director Horiuchi Osamu. He'd reprise these roles for\nFMP Season 2 in 2005, but that's the last of him with KyoAni. He's just here\nfor historic reference, I don't think he had that much influence in the KyoAni\nstyle.\n\nIn between the FMP seasons, they made AIR (2005), an adaptation of a KEY\nVisual Novel (get used to this), by the hand of Character Designer and Chief\nAnimation Director Aratani Tomoe. Of note here are Ikeda Kazumi and Ikeda\nShoko taking over as Animation Directors for certain episodes; and also being\nKey Animators alongside Nishiya Futoshi and Horiguchi Yukiko. You could call\nthis the early stage of KyoAni's style.\n\nIn comes 2006 with The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, now with Ikeda Shoko as\nCharacter Designer and Animation Director. This time, Nishiya and Horiguchi\ngot to direct some episodes themselves along Aratani and Ikeda Kazumi, they\nall worked in Key Animation as well.\n\nLater that year, they all worked on Kanon (2006), a new adaptation of yet\nanother Key VN, this time with Ikeda Kazumi as Character Designer and Chief\nAnimation Director (CAD). The rest of the team mentioned earlier also worked\nas individual episodes Animation Directors and on Key Animation.\n\nSpring 2007 brings us our star. Horiguchi Yukiko gets to be Character Designer\nand CAD for Lucky Star. Same as before, we get all our familiar faces working\non Animation Direction or Key Animation, with a new addition: Kadowaki Miku on\nKey Animation. Lucky Star (and the first season of Haruhi to some extent)\nseems to me to be the middle point between the KEY adaptation style and the\nlater KyoAni style, I believe working on this, adapting the 4-koma chibi style\nof the manga, helped cement Horiguchi's style for later works.\n\nLater that year, Ikeda Kazumi is back helming Clannad, again with a KEY\nadaptation. The regular team is at it again, but this is the second to last\nwork with KyoAni for Aratani, and since her last work was the finale for the\nMunto series which I said I won't be expanding upon, this is the last we'll\nsee of her in this overview. I believe she had an important role in nurturing\nthe talents in KyoAni through her work in AIR and Munto. Clannad After Story\nin 2008 continued with the same staff sans Aratani and is to this day the most\nbeautifully crafted of any KEY VN adaptation ever made.\n\n2009 was a big year for KyoAni. First with 2 Haruhi ONA series with Nishiya at\nthe helm, followed by K-On! with designs by Horiguchi Yukiko (and Kadowaki\ngets a role as Assistant Animation Director for ep 12) with her style now in\nits full glory, and Haruhi Season 2 with Ikeda back as Character Designer but\nwith Nishiya as CAD (and Kadowaki as a full-on Animation Director herself for\nepisodes 7 and 13). This is the year that pretty much set in stone the\nartstyle that you're looking for. It can be clearly seen how Horiguchi's style\nhad permeated into the rest of the team with Haruhi S2, where you could see in\nsome episodes more similarities between it and K-On! than with the first\nseason, same deal with the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie in 2010\n(Also, K-On! S2 also aired on 2010).\n\nIn 2011, Nishiya is back as Character Designer and CAD for Nichijou, and then\nback to Horiguchi with the K-On! Movie. The Ikeda siblings seemingly left\ntemporarily, as they had no participation in the K-On! Movie.\n\nNow, it's 2012, we start with Hyouka, with Nishiya back at the head, with a\nmore... let's say elegant (?) style, while still resembling Horiguchi's, this\nis what will become what I like to call late KyoAni style. Later that year,\nIkeda Kazumi is back leading Chuu2Koi, and here is where you can see how much\nof an impact Horiguchi had made. Despite her not having any role as Key\nAnimator, nor directing animation in any episodes, you can clearly see that\nher style from K-On! is all over the place.\n\nHoriguchi is finally back in 2013 with Tamako Market, her last TV anime with\nKyoAni. That same year, Free (Nishiya) and Kyoukai no Kanata (Kadowaki's debut\nas Character Designer and CAD, and also Takase Akiko joined as Key Animator)\nfurther develop the late KyoAni style into what we see nowadays. Chuu2Koi S2\nbrings back the softer style even without Horiguchi, and the last we see of\nthis pure Horiguchi style from KyoAni will be 2014's Tamako Love Story.\n\nAfter her leaving KyoAni, seems like she's been working on the mixed media\nidol project \"22/7\" which had an anime last year (the idol project seems to\nhave started on 2016 tho), and the Graphinica movie \"Hello World\" from 2019.\nShe was also the illustrator for the Kokoro Connect light novels. Those would\nbe closest chances if you want more of her undiluted style.\n\nKyoAni on the other hand went on to develop its style with Amagi Brilliant\nPark in 2014 (Kadowaki). The Ikeda siblings seem to be the ones that were most\ninfluenced by Horiguchi, Hibike! Euphonium in 2015 (Ikeda Shoko's comeback)\nand Musaigen Phantom World in 2016 (Ikeda Kazumi) have a much closer style to\nTamako Market than other later works of KyoAni. But Nishiya clears the way to\nthe late style with 2016's masterpiece Koe no Katachi and culminating with\nTakase Akiko's debut as Character Designer in 2018's Violet Evergarden (in\nbetween these 2 it was mostly sequels and spin-offs from Free and Euphonium).\n\nWhat was the point of this overly long explanation instead of just saying\n\"Horiguchi Yukiko\"? Because I believe that the style in KyoAni's work is not\nsimply one person's work. Even though the biggest influence comes from\nHoriguchi Yukiko, the current state of the style was made possible through\nKyoAni's own work ethos and a lot of work from Nishiya and Kadowaki who\ndeveloped the style after Horiguchi's departure. Them alternating character\ndesigners and animation directors helped nurture new talent and create a style\nof their own that wasn't just a single person's but the studio's as a whole.\n\nAnd about the arson incident, unfortunately it took the live of Nishiya\nFutoshi, may he rest in peace.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-18T19:25:02.067", "id": "62538", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-18T19:25:02.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33307", "parent_id": "62506", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nYour premise of Mr. Mime being Ash's Pokemon because it so happens to obey\nDelia Ketchum is _false_.\n\nFirst and foremost, Mr. Mime **was never captured** as a Pokemon. It simply\ndecided to hang around Delia and help her out around the house.\n\nBy extension, because Mr. Mime is not a captured Pokemon, it does not belong\nto any specific trainer, and can choose to obey whomever it wishes.\n\nLastly, Mr. Mime **only** stays around Delia, and because Delia isn't out\nbattling any gyms, Mr. Mime isn't being used in gym battles.\n\nThere _are_ examples of uncaptured Pokemon, like Mimikyu and Jessie, which do\nget used in battles. I would say only recently did Mimikyu start to actually\nobey Jessie, but up until that point, it was Mimikyu's decision to obey or\nnot.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-16T16:14:28.960", "id": "62512", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-16T16:14:28.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "62509", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell about that those races of dragonewt's can sense powers if they focused on\nthey're surroundings so he just found that there was a majin and was thinking\nmaybe that she might be related to the other majin's in the vincity and he saw\nher confused but not as a threat that would destroy the magic in the\nsurrounding.\n\nFor example take the dragonewts leader's sister she wanted to join as an\nassassin with a majin.\n\nSo they might be used to they're vibe and saw her with the same vibe.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-17T11:13:59.953", "id": "62523", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-17T11:13:59.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60040", "parent_id": "62515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKitanai rōjin is what I have found about from your question.\n\nIt means dirty old man too if you want to translate.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-17T11:09:55.657", "id": "62522", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-17T11:09:55.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60040", "parent_id": "62519", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell based on the above facts I could say maybe since most of the time the\nsharingan users are bound to control a power based on emotions. On his case,\ntrue he has the power of Six paths Chakra but when he uses the rinnegan you\ncan witness that he needs to charge it to it's full capacity which is why you\ncould see the **Tomoe** those dots represents the charged state. So I guess he\ncan bring out the rinnegan in his left eye but will he be able to use it for\nthat I would say it might take time.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-19T07:36:56.013", "id": "62545", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-19T07:36:56.013", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60040", "parent_id": "62526", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSince you asked about **Kurama** I'll say about the past and present of it\n\n**Nine Tails**\n\n**Past:**\n\n 1. Controlled by one of the badass ninja named \"Uchiha Madara\".\n\n 2. Forcefully placed into Naruto by his parents cause they don't want the village to be destroyed and sacrificed him.\n\n 3. When Naruto used the power it wasn't compatible with his puny body so it tends to go berserk many a times. (You might have watched the anime so I'm just saying stay with me here)\n\n 4. Kumara is a prided beast so it just accepted to work along with him rather than get controlled.\n\n**Present:**\n\n 1. He still is prideful and loves the journey with Naruto more like nakama (Friends).\n\nSo to answer your question, kurama still has it's pride as the strongest one\namong every others. So, it would think if by using those combined powers only\nthey could survive it would rather try and die than get help.\n\nSo to conclude on this it is it's pride that kills it. And well you know the\ntailed beasts can reincarnate after they die.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-19T17:13:07.133", "id": "62550", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-19T17:19:12.553", "last_edit_date": "2021-04-19T17:19:12.553", "last_editor_user_id": "60040", "owner_user_id": "60040", "parent_id": "62526", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBefore answering the question, I will need to discuss some of the flaws in\nyour assumptions. Firstly, the sum of the first eighth tailed beasts chakra\ndoes not equate to the Kurama (nine tails) chakra. Although kurama is the most\npowerful of them all, the tailed beast power equivalency is not exactly like a\nrussian doll stack up. All of the [tailed\nbeasts](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Tailed_Beast) are unique sentient\nmasses of chakra that were gotten from splitting up the ten tails, hence,\ncombining their chakra together can only if ever, reproduce the original ([ten\ntails](https://narutobijuu.fandom.com/wiki/Juubi)).\n\nSecondly, although we were never explicitly told why sasuke was only able to\nawaken one Rinnegan, I agree with Madara's Ghosts\n[answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/8848/why-does-sasuke-have-\nonly-one-rinnegan) that this was more likely as a result of insufficient\nchakra from Hagoromo to completely awaken a complete set.\n\nThirdly, whether Sasuke still possesses SO6P's chakra is unknown. However, we\ncan kinda assume that neither he nor Naruto still do. I firmly believe that\nthey both exhausted that Chakra during their final battle, cause when you\nthink about it, both of them have not displayed even close to the level of\nstrength that they both used during thier final battle (not even against\nIsshiki who wrecked them big time. why would they choose not to use SO6P's\nchakra in such a life-death situation?? hint: cause they don't have it).\n\nNow to answer the question, taking a piece of all the tailed beasts would not\nrecreate the Kyuubi. However, it is possible for someone with a god-like\nunderstanding of ying-yang release to actually use the [creation of all things\ntechnique](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Creation_of_All_Things_Technique) to\nsplit up a ten tailed Juubi into a new set of tailed beasts. But then again,\nno such individual capable of such a feat currently exists.\n\nWith regards to Sasuke's Rinnegan, it's fair to say its gone forever. Unless\nmaybe there are some spare Rinnegans chilling in some \"filler-fanservice\nexcuse of a lab\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-22T18:16:47.913", "id": "65976", "last_activity_date": "2022-03-14T20:11:38.030", "last_edit_date": "2022-03-14T20:11:38.030", "last_editor_user_id": "42685", "owner_user_id": "42685", "parent_id": "62526", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you didn’t watch the captain Yami and Asta fighting with Dante (one of the\nmost powerful out of the Dark Triad), don’t read this becuse this has some\nspoilers. This also has spoilers about The queen of the heart kingdom, Noelle,\nand the bird on astas head vs Megicula (the weakest one of Dark Triad)\n\nAlright so,\n\nAsta and captain yami are both arcane stage (the highest level). The queen of\nthe heart kingdom is arcane stage, as well as Noelle and Secre (the bird that\nis always on Astas head) Noelle, The bird, and the queen of the heart kingdom\nall lost the battle against Megicula even when Megicula was one of the weakest\none of the dark triad since she can only go up to 70%\n\nAsta and Captain Yami won the battle against Dante. As I have said before,\nDante is one of the strongest of the dark triad because him and Zenon can go\nup to 80%. I don’t know how much Astas devil possessed hand him, but remember\nthat even when Noelle, the queen of of the heart kingdom, and the bird were\nall arcane stage which means that they have the equal power of asta and\ncaptain Yami, they all still lost to Migicula which in turn was one of the\nweakest of the dark triad. Which leads me to think that Asta is clearly\nstronger than Noelle.\n\nYou can see all of this in the black clover Manga/anime. Source where you can\nget the manga: <https://www.viz.com/black-clover>\n\nIf you are a big anime fan go here so that you can see the black clover anime.\nYou just need to tap on a website you would like to watch it in. Then when you\nget into the website search up black clover and then you can enjoy the black\nclover anime: <https://www.viz.com/watch/streaming>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-22T22:10:15.980", "id": "62583", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-22T22:10:15.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59885", "parent_id": "62531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the BNHA wiki for [Season\n1](https://myheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/My_Hero_Academia_Season_1) of the\nanime and [Chapter 21](https://myheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_21) of\nthe manga, since Season 1 has 13 episodes, Season 2 starts with episode 14,\nand Page 18 of Chapter 21 is where episode 14 starts from.\n\nTherefore, you should probably start reading from Chapter 21, or if you don't\ncare about skipping the one page, you can just start at Chapter 22.\n\nVolume 3 starts with Chapter 18, so you can start there too.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-18T19:24:58.333", "id": "62537", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-18T19:24:58.333", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56562", "parent_id": "62532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs described in [this answer on the Japanese Language\nSE](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14309/16022), there is a phenomenon\nknown as \"ateji\" where the kanji and associated ruby* are not 100% aligned,\neither in reading or in meaning. This particular style is especially used in\nlight novels and manga as a way to provide a double message - the ruby is the\nactual word spoken, but the kanji gives a clearer understanding of the desired\nmeaning.\n\n*A [Ruby character](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character) is any smaller writing placed above the main writing, technically it's only furigana if it actually provides a guide to the reading of the kanji but that's a distinction that is frequently ignored.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-18T23:40:30.170", "id": "62541", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-18T23:40:30.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8843", "parent_id": "62533", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[As confirmed by MyAnimeList](https://myanimelist.net/anime/21/One_Piece),\n_One Piece_ is still known as _One Piece_ in Japanese.\n\nWhile you've provided plenty of examples of anime whose English names are\ntranslated from the original Japanese, _One Piece_ is not the only anime whose\nJapanese name is in English. _Black Lagoon_ , _Angel Beats_ , _Death Note_ ,\nand _Summer Wars_ are other prominent examples.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-20T13:35:07.127", "id": "62569", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-20T13:35:07.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35679", "parent_id": "62568", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe origins of her powers are presently unknown, so in that sense that's all\nthat can be said about your question. She's known to have had them since a\nyoung age, if not since birth. Her sister also has exceptional power, but\nTatsumaki's is just so ridiculous that she puts it to shame. So possibly she\nis just the winner of the psychic genetic lottery. We do know there is some\norganization that was trying to engineer and refine psychics, ultimately\nincluding Tatsumaki, but to date Tatsumaki's connections to them are not known\nto predate her childhood.\n\nAs a storytelling matter, the entire character and power level of Orochi (and\nOrochi-Psykos) were specifically designed to challenge Tatsumaki. In the\noriginal webcomic, Tatsumaki is never really challenged at her full power\nduring the MA arc, and she still pulls the entire base up from underground\nwith barely any effort and tries to take everyone on by herself. Instead she\ngets hit with a cleverly orchestrated sneak attack that gives her a\nconcussion, which significantly dampens her power. At the very least,\nTatsumaki herself blames everything on it, rather than anyone actually having\nadequate power to oppose her.\n\nFor the manga version, Murata and One decided that Tatsumaki needed a more\nproper challenge and a more breathtaking display of her power. Hence the\nOrochi-Psykos fight and all the ridiculous stuff Tatsumaki does during it.\nThis also serves to help them introduce a number of elements about Tatsumaki's\nbackstory and motivations earlier than they are given in the webcomic. It also\nelevates the concept of a \"God\" level threat from unrealistic bluster and\nexaggeration to plausible. As a matter of storytelling tautology, a \"God\"\nlevel threat must necessitate the world be able to sustain and produce heroes\nof great power to oppose it, and so a Tatsumaki like entity is an\ninevitability.\n\nBack to the in-story reasons, the best we can do is conjecture, as there are\nquite a lot of questions about Blast, the nature and origins of his power, and\nwhat exactly these cubes are he's collected and who the \"him\" he says it\nconnects to actually is. These mysteries seem to be going down into the very\nroots of the nature of this world, and may be near cosmic in profundity (and\nso make the idea of a \"God\" level threat potentially more than just bluster\nand exaggeration), so any further revelations about them may similarly reveal\nthe reason that certain heroes, Tatsumaki and Blast in particular, exist and\nhave so much power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-23T16:31:04.307", "id": "62589", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-23T16:31:04.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "62577", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSakuya Togane:\n\n> was a failed experiment. His mother, Misako Togane, wanted to create an\n> artificial criminally asymptomatic person. As an experiment Sakuya did show\n> very good positive results, such as when he demonstrated sadistic acts\n> towards defenseless pups repeatedly, and that having no negative impact on\n> his Psycho pass. Similar conclusions reached from repeated observations of\n> Sakuya's acts led his mother to _prematurely_ conclude that Sakuya turned\n> out to be a successful experiment, and that as a criminally asymptomatic\n> person Sakuya is worthy of joining Sibyl system, much like Misako herself.\n\n> However, Sakuya's failure as an experiment came to light when he failed to\n> kill his mother, and her brain was scooped out of her body much to his\n> horror. He tried to kill his mother because he could not stand the thought\n> that her mother was leaving him for something/somebody else (in this case,\n> she voluntarily agreed to be subsumed by Sibyl system). He was fixated on\n> this thought that if he could not have his mother, then nobody else should\n> be able to either. In order to ensure that he attempted to murder his mother\n> but failed eventually.\n\n> The combination of his stark failure to achieve the desirable outcome and\n> the consequence of his failure he witnessed that ultimately darkened his hue\n> to pitch black. This pitch black hue, an extreme end of hue spectrum, was\n> not recorded for any other human being in the Psycho pass universe that\n> existed up to Season 2. So whether the related crime coefficient is shown to\n> be 799 or 2000 or any number, it is not the point of focus. It is an\n> arbitrary number to show the audience something that should stand out among\n> all the recorded Psycho passes. The focus should be on the pitch black hue\n> he ended up with, as opposed to clear white hue he was supposed to have as a\n> successful experiment.\n\n> To make things clear, Sakuya turned out to be an exact opposite of a\n> criminally asymptomatic person. And his mother was _not murdered_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-09-07T20:33:42.767", "id": "67243", "last_activity_date": "2022-09-09T15:21:25.957", "last_edit_date": "2022-09-09T15:21:25.957", "last_editor_user_id": "13126", "owner_user_id": "13126", "parent_id": "62580", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe track is called Bisky's theme. It is an unreleased track btu you can find\nit on youtube. <https://youtu.be/pMDtI7oi8Mo>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-07-07T19:44:37.490", "id": "64167", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-07T19:44:37.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61483", "parent_id": "62582", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCheck out any manga of your choosing on YouTube for reference.\n\nMost people making these kinds of videos tend to sort of slowly go over each\nof the pages, lingering on the individual panels for varying amounts of time,\nbased on the content.\n\nYou could try to do a video following something like this.\n\n * Dialogue-heavy panels get more time so the viewer can read it without having to pause\n * Visually heavy panels get more time so the viewer can take his time looking at the artwork\n * ect.\n\nThis way you could potentially create something \"somewhat enjoyable\".\n\nUltimately, the easiest way would probably be to go over each panel long\nenough so the viewer can feasibly pause the video and get a clear view.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-26T12:51:11.363", "id": "62609", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-26T12:51:11.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60265", "parent_id": "62592", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSomething being _canon_ essentially means it's true to the _primary_ 1\nstoryline. A good example of this would be when talking about fanfiction - if\na fanfiction has two people dating in it, it would be _canon_ if those two\ncharacters are actually dating in the storyline of whatever the fan-made work\nis based on. It would be _non-canon_ if that's not true.\n\nThis isn't just limited to anime or manga; this refers to any fictional story\nwhen talking about artwork, literature, discussions, etc produced by fans or\nnon-official sources.\n\nFor example, when talking about \"ships\" between characters, it's canon if they\nare actually in a relationship. If they aren't and it's just what fans like to\nspeculate about, it's non-canonical. Of course, it's not always this binary;\nsome things are heavily based on real parts of the story but the speculation\nitself is either false or might be unconfirmed.\n\n1As Pablo pointed out in the comments, I originally had \"official\" here, but\nthere is an important distinction to make - a company that owns the rights to\nthis media may produce official additional media that may not canon because\nthe author of the original work didn't have any contribution or say in it, but\nit is still official because it is produced by the company with the copyright.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-24T21:57:05.733", "id": "62599", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-24T14:57:30.363", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-24T14:57:30.363", "last_editor_user_id": "56562", "owner_user_id": "56562", "parent_id": "62598", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nIn layman's terms, \"canon\" refers to the _original_ storyline regardless of\nthe author/producer/etc.\n\nFor example, the _Halloween_ series of movies. The entire _Halloween_ series\nrevolves around Michael Meyers going on _insane_ killing sprees. _Halloween 3_\nhas absolutely _nothing_ to do with the rest of the series. Not even a mention\nof Michael Meyers. Hence, _Halloween 3_ is _not canon_ to the _Halloween_\nseries.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-04T01:58:43.217", "id": "67966", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-04T02:43:39.250", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-04T02:43:39.250", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "71987", "parent_id": "62598", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\n## Simple Definition\n\nWhat canon is, essentially, is a descriptor for describing whether an event,\narc, or some other part of a story actually happened in that story. When we're\ntalking about anime/manga, we often get different versions of the same story\ndue to it being present in three main mediums: anime, manga, and light novels\n(other forms can exist, such as live-action adaptations and movies).\nDiscrepancies/differences can exist between these different versions. The\nanime might add new story arcs, as in _Naruto_. So one might ask, \"Is this arc\ncanon?\". And people will probably point you to the manga as the most\nauthoritative for _Naruto_ , since this is the source material, and will\ninform you that because these events and characters are not in the manga, they\nare non-canonical. Therefore, none of that actually happened.\n\nWe see this pattern often: the original work (usually the manga or light\nnovels, but it can be the anime as well, as in the case of various _Gundam_\nseries) is considered to be the most authoritative. The most canonical. Or in\nsimpler words, the truest and most accurate version of events.\n\n## Not So Simple (With Examples)\n\nIn reality, canon isn't nearly so clear cut. You can, for instance, talk about\nan arc being canonical to the anime but not the manga. All of the filler arcs\nin _Naruto_ are officially licensed episodes whether or not Kishimoto had a\nhand in making them. And actually, the original mangaka is sometimes involved\nin filler. Toriyama is alleged to have helped with filler episodes in the\n_Dragon Ball_ animes, including with the design of\n[Gregory](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Gregory#Trivia), a filler\ncharacter on King Kai's planet.\n\nIt isn't even the case that anime exclusive events are always non-canonical to\nthe manga. For instance, in _A Certain Scientific Railgun_ , some anime\nexclusive characters get brief cameos in the manga, which suggests that the\narc in the anime (or some unknown variation of the arc) is actually canonical\nto the manga as well. Read my question and answer\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/67693/are-the-second-halves-\nof-the-first-two-seasons-of-a-certain-scientific-railgun-c) for more on that.\n\nAnd since we've gotten into _A Certain Scientific Railgun_ , it should be\nnoted that this series is itself a spin-off manga derived from the light novel\nseries _A Certain Magical Index_. With _Index_ the light novels are the source\nmaterial and most authoritative, but there is no _Railgun_ light novel series,\nso it is the manga that is most authoritative, and is on the same level of\ncanon as the _Index_ light novels. There are various other manga series as\nwell ( _A Certain Scientific Accelerator_ , _A Scientific Railgun: Astral\nBuddy_ , etc.). This collection of works is all canonical to what is referred\nto as the [Raildex\nUniverse](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjq99OpxN7-AhW7j4kEHWqOC4QQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftoarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com%2Fwiki%2FRaildex&usg=AOvVaw2t26UlIK8eQEalFcq8Tnou).\n\nLet us also consider the example of _Fullmetal Alchemist_. This is a manga\nseries that spawned two anime series: _Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)_ and\n_Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_. The latter follows the original manga more\nclosely, while the former diverges in the middle and gets a different story\nand ending than the manga. One could say that the original anime is simply\nnon-canonical, but I would suggest that it is more useful (and makes more\nsense) to say the 2003 anime follows a different canon. One could then say\nthings such as, \"This character is only canonical to the 2003 series\", or\n\"This event is shared in both canons\". The manga and _Brotherhood_ anime can\ncertainly be said to be more authoritative, since they follow the story the\nmangaka created, but one needs to be flexible with this terminology so as to\nnot make it impossible to discuss the canon of the 2003 series.\n\nGetting back into spin-offs again, let's look at the series _Isekai Quartet_.\nThis is a comedic take on several Isekai series (namely, _KonoSuba_ ,\n_Re:Zero_ , _Overlord_ , and _The Saga of Tanya the Evil_ ). While I haven't\nactually looked up whether the license holders have put out any statements, we\ncan guess that _Isekai Quartet_ is non-canonical to all four series. The\nabsurd events therein are merely for the sake of comedy, and the tone clashes\nwith the events in the main stories of each.\n\nSuch crossovers are often non-canonical (or at least of very dubious canon\nstatus). I recall, for instance, in the _Star Wars_ crossover episode of\n_Phineas and Ferb_ , Phineas does a meta-commentary and says something like,\n\"Don't worry, it's all non-canon, so just have fun!\"\n\nLooking at a similar example, _Nyoron! Churuya-san_ is a spin-off manga/anime\nseries of the _Haruhi Suzumiya_ franchise. It is a series of short comedic\nsketches with chibi style characters (as in _Isekai Quartet_. This type of\nwork can often be easily labeled as non-canon to the main work. Indeed, the\ncharacters in _Nyoron! Churuya-san_ act out of character, and other elements\nare quite absurd and strange and don't really fit into the framework of the\nmain story, but are rather played up for comedy.\n\nNot all such spin-offs/sidestories can necessarily be offhandedly dismissed as\nnon-canonical, however. If the events _can_ fit into the main story, sometimes\nall you can say is \"maybe it's canonical\" or \"maybe it's not\", using your best\njudgement. Chibi character designs, a heavy focus on comedy and/or parody, and\nmeta-humor are often giveaways to the events being non-canonical (but again,\nthis isn't true for all cases). For example, the events of _Love, Chunibyo &\nOther Delusions! Lite_ are usually not so over-the-top that they couldn't\nexist in the actual canon. The self-referential parts of the shorts for the\n_Chunibyo_ movies, however (the characters tell the audience to take a\npicture), certainly does lead one to suspect these particular shorts are non-\ncanon. (Sidenote: these shorts aren't chibi-styled, but I was struggling to\nfind a better example).\n\n## Headcanon\n\nWhich brings us to another important term: headcanon. From\n<https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-headcanon-\nfanon>:\n\n> Headcanon generally refers to ideas held by fans of series that are not\n> explicitly supported by sanctioned text or other media. Fans maintain the\n> ideas in their heads, outside of the accepted canon.\n\nHeadcanon is the canon you personally accept for a story, and has nothing to\ndo with the license holders. To use an extreme example: if you really liked a\nfanfiction you read, you might decide that's part of your headcanon. This type\nof canon can be useful for your personal enjoyment of a series, in order to\nfill gaps or ambiguities in the story (for example, if the story ends without\nlove triangles being resolved), but should not be used when debating aspects\nof the story with others. Since everyone will likely have their own headcanon,\nthe actual canon (as decided by the license holders) is useful for having\ncommon ground to discuss a story with other people.\n\n## Word of God\n\nAnother phrase one should be aware of with regards to canon is \"Word of God\".\n[Urban\nDictionary](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=word%20of%20god)\ndefines it as follows:\n\n> A statement regarding some ambiguous or undefined aspect of a work, the Word\n> of God comes from someone considered to be the ultimate authority, such as\n> the creator, director, writer or producer of a TV show / video game / film /\n> etc.\n\nIn other words, Word of God is usually when the author of a manga makes\nstatements about their work outside of the story. It doesn't necessarily have\nto be outside of the manga itself. Oda's SBS corners in _One Piece_ come to\nmind.\n\nAs some other answers state, the canon is often determined as what the license\nholder decides is canon. In other words, Word of God decides what is canon.\n\nI personally don't subscribe to the notion of Word of God as being\nauthoritative, instead preferring the text of a work to be the primary\nauthority, superseding random statements by the author. Most people do\nsubscribe to the Word of God, however, which is why when I write answers on\nthis site, for instance, I try to find such statements and use them when\navailable.\n\n## Wrap Up\n\nOthers define canon as what the license holders decide is part of the story.\nThat's correct, but only really a useful definition if the license holders are\nactually putting out statements on what is canonical (and to me, this\ndefinition belies how the term canonical is typically used in conversation).\nGranted, there are some franchises for which license holders have historically\nbeen very particular and diligent ( _Star Wars_ comes to mind, which currently\nhas different canon categorizations for works. See also my question\n[here](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152961/is-the-mandalorian-\nwar-canonical-again).). This definition also seems insufficient for an answer\nto this question, particularly since what is wanted is an easy to understand\nexplanation of canon, with particular attention to how it relates to anime.\nThis is why I have given particular attention to topics such as filler\nepisodes and how stories may vary across the different mediums (anime, manga,\nlight novel), and provided several examples.\n\n## Addendum (More Examples)\n\nWith the case of _Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!_, there are some further\ninteresting points with regard to canon. Namely, that several of the\ncharacters are anime exclusive (see this\n[question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3559/how-much-does-the-\nchuunibyou-anime-differ-from-the-light-novels)). These characters go beyond\nmere filler characters: the story of the light novels has been rewritten to a\nvery large degree to incorporate these characters. These characters form such\nan important part of the anime, I'd say it doesn't really make sense to refer\nto events of the anime as being non-canonical; rather, the anime and light\nnovels each have their own canon.\n\nPerhaps a better example of comedic skits being unable to offhandedly be\ndismissed as non-canon are the 4-Koma comics that occasionally appear in _A\nCertain Scientific Railgun_. There is, for instance, one in volume 7 where\nKuroko has a plush doll and body pillow of her Oneesama. Though the tone is\nundoubtedly comical, Uiharu and Kuroko don't act terribly out of character\nhere, and it's possible that some version of this conversation could actually\nbe canonical. It would likely depend on whether or not Kuroko has some means\nof obtaining products with Mikoto Misaka's face on them. My favorite 4-Koma in\nvolume 7 would have to be _A Certain Misaka's No Work_. This one actually\ntacks additional lines onto a conversation in the manga proper. One could\neasily imagine Misaka 10032's proclamation of \"Working is for suckers\" being\ncanonical, but simply left out of the main story so as to not destroy the tone\nof the scene. For such an instance of an event being omitted from a scene for\nthe sake of tone, see the last two pictures on my answer [here for a _Fruits\nBasket_ question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/60925/19307). And\nregardless of whether Misaka's statements in this 4-Koma are literally canon,\nthey are definitely part of my headcanon.\n\n## Further Reading\n\nIf interested in learning more, I recommend perusing the [Wikipedia\narticle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_\\(fiction\\)) and this [Dragon\nBall Wiki article](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Filler).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-05T16:35:46.350", "id": "67969", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-05T20:39:34.747", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-05T20:39:34.747", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "62598", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n> What does the word canon mean and how does it refer to anime or manga?\n\n[Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canon) can help.\nSpecifically, definition **#3b** :\n\n> 3 [Middle English, from Late Latin, _from Latin_ , **standard** ]\n>\n> a: an authoritative list of books accepted as Holy Scripture\n>\n> b: **the authentic works of a writer**\n>\n\n>> the Chaucer _canon_\n\n>\n> c: a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works\n>\n\n>> the _canon_ of great literature\n\nThus, if the author or creator writes something in a published(1) story, it's\n_canon_.\n\nThis is subtly different from [Word of\nGod](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod), which are\nstatements made by the creator(s)/writer(s) that clarify or override canon.\n\n(1) This does not only mean _printed_. TV shows, movies, etc are all included\nin this definition.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-05T20:46:25.423", "id": "67970", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-06T05:10:31.830", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-06T05:10:31.830", "last_editor_user_id": "72000", "owner_user_id": "72000", "parent_id": "62598", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSince Boruto doesn't yet have the ability to activate Karma at will so, he\ncan't control its activation or deactivation. The only way for Boruto to\nactivate Karma is with resonance, for now that is and he needs to be close to\nKawaki as well.\n\nThe resonance is not only limited to Kawaki's karma,\n\n> we can see that when Jigen comes to the leaf to take Kawaki back, but this\n> time Boruto's karma resonates with Jigen's from further away.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-23T03:20:54.797", "id": "64054", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-23T03:20:54.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61264", "parent_id": "62600", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Because _Rock Symphony BLUE SONNET_ is actually an _image album_ , not a\nsoundtrack album.** They are not related to the OVA.\n\nThe [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%85%E3%81%84%E7%89%99#%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%A0)\ncategorized it as an image album.\n\n> ### Image Album\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> * Rock Symphony BLUE SONNET (1982)\n> * Rock Symphony BLUE SONNET II\n> * BLUE SONNET III Ballade\n> * BLUE SONNET IV DESERT CITY\n>\n\nAccording to [a Japanese blog article by\njoelover](https://joelover.hateblo.jp/entry/isd), for image albums, quoting a\nbook by Joe Hisashi,\n\n> > The image album precedes the soundtrack. The clues are the illustrations\n> and words that convey the image of the work. The image album is created\n> based on these images.\n>>\n\n>> (Quoted from _I am - Faraway Music Road -_ by Joe Hisaishi, 1992, p. 37)\n\nCompared to the soundtrack,\n\n> A soundtrack often refers to the actual music used in a play. Recently, the\n> term OST (Original Sound Track) is also used to indicate that it is the\n> music accompanying a play.\n\nSo, _Rock Symphony BLUE SONNET_ and its subsequent image albums are original\naudio works made specifically to capture the image of the world of _Blue\nSonnet_ series.\n\nIn conclusion, the OVA was made to adapt the manga series, but the image\nalbums were made to expand the story instead. They are not related to each\nother, both production-wise and purpose-wise.\n\n* * *\n\nFor direct comparison, taken from Joe Hisashi's own works for Ghibli\nproduction, _Princess Mononoke_ has both image album and soundtrack album:\n\n * [_Princess Mononoke_ Image Album](https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002RN9BI)\n * [_Princess Mononoke_ Soundtrack](https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000058A7J)\n\n* * *\n\nSee also:\n\n * [Wikipedia - Image song](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_song)\n\n* * *\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-13T08:12:32.243", "id": "62757", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-14T05:31:57.250", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-14T05:31:57.250", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "62603", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAll we know is that in Chapter 10, Professor Agasa \"processed all the forms\",\nprobably claiming that Conan is his relative as he told Ran in Chapter 2.\n\nBeing a genius for science and engineering, he may have forged Conan's birth\ncertificate.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-09-07T14:05:32.317", "id": "68295", "last_activity_date": "2023-09-07T14:05:32.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18706", "parent_id": "62606", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst of all the [Gum Gum\nFruit](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Gomu_Gomu_no_Mi) that Luffy ate is not\na Logia, its a Paramecia type. Logia fruit cannot make infinite amount of\nelement and it is directly proportional to the eaters energy level.\n\nA Logia fruit eater can produce element instantly even on their first try.\n\n> We can see that when Sabo eat the [Flare-\n> Flare](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Mera_Mera_no_Mi) fruit in Dressrosa\n> arc.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-21T16:25:27.513", "id": "64038", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-21T16:25:27.513", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61264", "parent_id": "62615", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI might be wrong but I believe not, as Naruto and Sasuke are the\nreincarnations, their blood is still very much Uzumaki and Uchiha, but it is\nalso said that Uzumaki and Uchiha are descendants from the Otsutsuki's, so it\nwon't be known until she tries it on Naruto and Sasuke.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-03T03:08:39.497", "id": "62907", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-03T03:08:39.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60948", "parent_id": "62621", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer is - Yes, the Pokemon movies do occur in the series timeline, and\nthere's clear evidence for some of the movies in the series.\n\n[NOTE: contains major spoilers; only for those who watched most of the Pokemon\nanime and movies]\n\n**1st Movie - Mewtwo strikes back**\n\nThis movie not only has a direct connection to the series timeline, but it\nseems that the studio meant to create this story only in the form of a movie\nafter being shadowed in the anime.\n\nLet's start with ep63, where Gary battles with Giovanni. Giovanni chooses to\nfight with Mewtwo, though it wasn't revealed at the time, only in the movie\nyou realise that. It seems clearly that the studio wanted you to ask - \"Who's\nthat Pokemon?\"; the answer for that is only in the movie.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Ztoc.png)\n\n_In the battle against Gary_\n\nAnd it continues for a couple of episodes after that in ep65, with Team Rocket\nseeing their HQ destroyed by a mysterious force, aka Mewtwo as revealed in the\nmovie, as the movie takes place after the events in this episode.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Siz15.png)\n\n_Blasting off in the Anime_\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zqc5V.png)\n\n_Blasting off in the Movie_\n\nYou can see clearly in that episode that the anime were foreshadowing not only\nMewtwo, but his relationship with Giovanni, that being revealed only in the\nmovie after the anime made hints to it. So the movie clearly takes place in\nthe timeline of the anime.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HlL67.png)\n\nSome may come and say - the 1st movie was exceptional, first movie and all.\nHere's more evidences.\n\n**The Power Of One**\n\nThis one actually have direct reference in the Anime. in ep222 (Japanese\ncount. 220 in the international count) where Team Rocket and Ash are seeing\nLugia, they are declaring that they saw one on the Orange Islands, in other\nwords, in the movie.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zlmFD.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KIpUl.png)\n\n**Destiny Deoxys**\n\nThis one was actually pretty hard to find, but with kinda simple observation,\nthis is clearly a reference to the movie.\n\nThe movie takes place in a city called LaRousse city, where Deoxys starts\nattacking it. In the Battle Frontier season ep448 (444 in international count)\nSolana is telling the gang about Deoxys appearing in the past in LaRousse\ncity, clearly referring to the movie.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRRQU.png)[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ImxBn.png)\n\n_Movie\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nAnime_\n\nThere's actually another referring to the movie - mentioning Prof. Lund, which\nis another addition for this evidence.\n\nThis is actually my most hard evidence that though the movies are offering big\nand mighty events, they won't be mentioned in the anime. Probably from the\nobvious reason that though the movie occurring in the anime storyline, they\nare still considered extra, and besides the 1st movie that actually have\nstrong basis in the anime, the other movies are not must-see, and those who\nhaven't watched them will probably get confused, especially new audience.\n\nAnd that actually will answer the immediate question that burst once claiming\nthe movies taking place in the anime storyline, that it seems that the\ncharacters not remembering events from the movies such as legendaries\nencounters, like in the above example.\n\nBut it's quite clearly as we saw, on one occasion or another, that there's\nsome references to the movies, and might be even more references to them in\nthe anime that I haven't observed yet and may help this answer.\n\nWith that being say, it is still possible that **not all movies took place** ,\nso if there's more references and evidences it might help this answer to say\nthat indeed **all** movies taking place in the series timeline. But since I\nhaven't saw in the anime some contradictions to the movies I believe that\nthose evidences took the point.\n\nLinked: [When do the Pokemon Movies occur chronologically to the\nplot?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/35757/when-do-the-pokemon-\nmovies-occur-chronologically-to-the-plot)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-28T11:50:35.233", "id": "62630", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-29T18:21:57.373", "last_edit_date": "2021-04-29T18:21:57.373", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "51620", "parent_id": "62629", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**The confusion is possibly caused by non-standardized use of season\nnumbering.**\n\nThe _Naruto_ anime consists of 220 episodes.\n\nIn Japan, the anime is divided into [5\nseasons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Naruto_episodes#Series_overview):\n\n 1. Season 1: 57 episodes\n 2. Season 2: 43 episodes\n 3. Season 3: 41 episodes\n 4. Season 4: 42 episodes\n 5. Season 5: 37 episodes\n\nOn the other hand, Netflix seems dividing each season into 26 episodes,\nresulting in a total of 9 seasons. This is the same as the series numbering\nused by UK's DVD Box, [Naruto\nUnleashed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Naruto_episodes#DVD).\n\nSo, all-in-all, both are possibly referring to the whole 220 episodes.\n\n* * *\n\nThough, perhaps coincidentally, Netflix's Season 5 ends on episode 130. As per\n[Can I start watching Naruto Shippuden after Naruto Ep 135 and not miss\nanything? (Story wise)](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/48314/2516), almost\nall episodes after episode 135 are considered fillers, so it might be okay to\nskip Season 6-9 and continue to _Naruto Shippuden_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-30T02:42:14.310", "id": "62650", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-30T02:42:14.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "62643", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime and Fate all take place in the same universe.\n\nAozaki Touko from Kara no Kyoukai is the sister of Aozaki Aoko from Tsukihime.\nCiel from Tsukihime and Kotomine Kirei from Fate are part of the same\norganization. In Fate/Zero there's a part about Kiritsugus past relating to\nDead Apostles (Vampires), that are the same as the ones from Tsukihime.\n\nRyougi Shiki from Kara no Kyoukai and Tohno Shiki from Tsukihime have the same\ntype of mystic eyes.\n\nIn Kara no Kyoukai there's a magus trying to reach the origin/root by using a\nspiral of sorts. It's described as the main pursuit of all magi. In Fate, the\nHoly Grail War was designed to reach exactly this origin/root, too.\n\nHere's an even more comprehensive relations chart: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MSIfi.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-29T20:52:34.900", "id": "62647", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-30T09:58:02.743", "last_edit_date": "2021-04-30T09:58:02.743", "last_editor_user_id": "22562", "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "62645", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n### Stone Free actually is copying something here.\n\nEmporio's sheet of binary numbers isn't a coded message in the way that, say,\n[Bacon's cipher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher) uses \"00000\"\nto represent the letter \"A\", \"00100\" to represent the letter \"E\", and so on.\nIt's literally binary in the sense that there are two possible values: 0 or 1;\non or off; white or black.\n\nSay the numbers written on the sheet looked like this:\n\n[code]\n\n 000000\n 010010\n 000000\n 100001\n 011110\n 000000\n \n[/code]\n\nIf I told you to replace each \"0\" with a period and each \"1\" with a pound/hash\nsymbol, you'd get:\n\n[code]\n\n ......\n .#..#.\n ......\n #....#\n .####.\n ......\n \n[/code]\n\nSee the smiley? :)\n\nThis is basically how Jolyne turns the binary numbers into an image with Stone\nFree: replace each \"0\" with one shape, and each \"1\" with a second shape, and a\npattern emerges. You can see in your second image that the shaded areas have a\nwhite \"1\" superimposed while the unshaded areas have a black \"0\" superimposed;\nI'd say the numbers are a visual aid for the reader's benefit, while Jolyne\nmight be forming her string into shapes that have a high contrast between\nlight and dark.\n\n[The anime adaptation of this\nscene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVjCM2_dIYI) uses a more digital\nrepresentation, with Jolyne making her string travel underneath each \"0\" and\nabove each \"1\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-11-18T03:44:33.407", "id": "68447", "last_activity_date": "2023-11-18T03:44:33.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "73965", "parent_id": "62653", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIf you've been watching anime-only for years now, I suggest that you look at\nthe manga.\n\nIn the title, you refer to the anime XYZ as famous, and as most anime are\nadaptations of the manga, if they have reached fame, the manga version is most\nlikely going to be just as good. For someone who has been looking at Japanese\nart for years now, yet only anime-only, I suggest that you read the manga,\nsimply to try out new things. This answer is purely on my experience with\nJapanese publishing (e.g. manga or anime), and all the good anime I watch have\nmanga just as good. So I'd suggest if you've been watching a famous anime, you\ncheck out the manga version as well.\n\nThis is just based off my experience, but if you wanna ask me, you should read\nthe manga of anime XYZ as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-01T19:05:29.757", "id": "62658", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-01T19:05:29.757", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62656", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**NO** , just like what you said, they only need a **Senju DNA** and a\n**Uchiha DNA** , plus a **Sharingan** which means genetic traits of the Sage\nof the Six Paths. The Uchiha, descended from the Sage, are able to perform\nIzanagi with their Sharingan.\n\nYou could check [HERE](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Izanagi) about Izanagi.\n\nFor Madara case, his Sharingan already upgraded to another level. So he have\nto use his MS(Mangekyo Sharingan) for the activation. But still, MS is from\nSharingan. I see no error here.\n\nHowever, could you list out who used Izanagi without about these condition?\n\n> However, it is seen that many people used Izanagi without Senju and Uchiha\n> DNA, as well as no Mangekyo Sharingan\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-03T13:21:48.487", "id": "62665", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-03T13:39:04.560", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-03T13:39:04.560", "last_editor_user_id": "43770", "owner_user_id": "43770", "parent_id": "62663", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, Rasengan being an incomplete jutsu, had no elemental chakra nature until\namplified by Naruto Uzumaki.\n\nAs you've said, Chidori being of Raiton (Lightning Release) electrecutes the\nuser upon hitting them. If hit with a Fire-Style jutsu, you'd burn. The damage\nreceived goes along with the elemental chakra nature the jutsu is of. But as\nI've already said, Rasengan is an incomplete jutsu and had no chakra nature,\nsimply a spiral ball of chakra.\n\nBut because Rasengan is chakra compressed in a ball, spinning and/or rotating\nat incredibly high speeds, upon being hit with it, a wound that is sprial\nappears wherever the enemy was hit. This was shown when Naruto hit Kabuto with\na Rasengan. On other cases, the enemy is sent flying.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-03T16:05:09.330", "id": "62669", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-03T16:05:09.330", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nwhen naruto uses his wind style rasen-shuriken Tsunade described it as once it\nhits something it cannot slice it produces a vortex of wind in the immediate\narea creating countless microscopic wind blades, so many that even the\nSharingan can't count them all. The wind blades pierce every cell in the body,\ndisconnecting them from the Chakra circulatory system and so preventing them\nfrom providing their physical energy to the chakra-creation process. Because\nof this, the target loses their ability to create and mould chakra, damage\nwhich cannot be healed by medical ninjutsu.Tsunade likens the damage to\npoison, and warns that if the damage is great enough, those affected by it\nwon't be able to use jutsu again.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-22T00:37:16.217", "id": "62828", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-22T00:37:16.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60746", "parent_id": "62668", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey are separate things.\n\nToppo was able to use the [God of Destruction\nMode](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Destroyer_Form) due to being the\ncandidate to be the next God of Destruction.\n\nBut you don’t need to be a candidate to use Hakai, as [demonstrated by Goku\nagainst Zamasu](https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Hakai#Overview):\n\n> After achieving Perfected Super Saiyan Blue, Goku is able to perform the\n> Hakai to a limited degree, however, it's much slower than Beerus',\n> destroying Fused Zamasu progressively and requiring concentration throughout\n> - thus Fused Zamasu takes advantage of the weakness by using Future Mai as a\n> human shield, stopping the technique.\n\nBut yes, Vegeta can use the transformation, as demonstrated at the end of\nDragon Ball Super #74:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1TAT.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-04T19:15:23.143", "id": "63917", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-02T16:30:14.497", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-02T16:30:14.497", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "40456", "parent_id": "62670", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUnfortunately, Boruto has stopped being produced in English-dub due to the\nongoing [COVID-19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19) pandemic, however,\nEnglish-dub episodes were still being produced while the pandemic hadn't\nspread as much.\n\nBoruto has about 53 episodes in English, with the rest being in Japanese, and\nthe sites that have Boruto in English are:\n\n 1. Hulu. Streams all 53 English Boruto episodes.\n 2. Amazon Prime.\n 3. Crunchyroll\n 4. Funimation.\n\nThis is about all I could find, but please note there are only 52-53 episodes\nin English, and was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, most\nsites do offer it in Japanese with subtitles.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-05T12:39:24.470", "id": "62676", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-05T13:21:16.670", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-05T13:21:16.670", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62675", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe song you refer to is called \"Sasuke's Ninja Way\" (サスケの忍道, Sasuke no\nNindō).\n\nListen here: <https://youtu.be/AastZeIJJDA>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-20T20:33:54.263", "id": "62819", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-20T21:00:10.983", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-20T21:00:10.983", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62683", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe trend began when the anime called, “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a\nSlime” started serialization. This show started in 2018. I don’t know if\nsomeone already had an anime that was about powerful slimes before the anime\n“That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime”, but I am sure that they were not as\npopular as this anime. There are a bunch of anime’s that are about slimes that\nstarted after the anime “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime”.\n\nIf you want more info, here’s a website that I got all of this info from:\n<https://www.cbr.com/slimes-taking-over-manga-anime/>.\n\nI hope this helped\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-08T01:01:10.237", "id": "62707", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-08T14:44:40.247", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-08T14:44:40.247", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "59885", "parent_id": "62705", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, your listed examples are all from worlds with [RPG\nMechanics](https://tvtropes.org/Main/RPGMechanicsVerse), and most of them are\ncentral to the plot, so they are usually literally high-level.\n\nThey also all have humanoid forms, which is a measure of power, instead of\nthem just being blobs.\n\nWhile slimes are treated as weak in the _Dragon Quest_ games, in tabletop\nRPGs, they usually have some liquid durability and acidic powers that make\nthem formidable.\n\nAnd monsters need monstrous traits like that, so, when reasoning it out, a\ndurable, sentient, blob of acid is very dangerous.\n\nThen there's the ability of sapients to learn magic... And gain levels, etc...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-08T03:32:06.323", "id": "63942", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-08T03:32:06.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14229", "parent_id": "62705", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you mean reducing the number of frames you have to draw, one method is that\nyou can have a computer interpolate in between some of the frames. Most\nanimation softwares have this feature, including free ones like Blender.\n\nAnother tip is to keep the background static and only reanimate the\ncharacters. Also, Partial Animation is a great technique to reduce how much\nyou have to redraw. For example, if a character is speaking, only move the\nmouth, eyes, and maybe one or two body parts of that character, while keeping\nthe other characters static until the speaker is finished talking. Most\nanimation studios use Partial Animation. You can also reuse previously\nanimated chunks of non-flashy things that people wouldn't notice, such as the\nwaves flowing in the background of a beach scene or maybe the clouds blowing\nin the sky.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-10T00:04:33.667", "id": "62724", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-10T00:04:33.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60501", "parent_id": "62706", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs shown below, its the same symbol that hangs in the royal hall. I believe it\nwas also the same symbol on the royal selection badge but I can't find any\nphotos online of that so don't trust me on that.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nQreq.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-09T23:55:47.027", "id": "62723", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-09T23:55:47.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60501", "parent_id": "62709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's the same symbol as the one on Emilia's outfit. Was this when Subaru was\nwearing Emilia's cloak?\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r2YNO.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-10T12:15:51.567", "id": "62730", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-10T12:15:51.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60501", "parent_id": "62709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs **[Aki Tanaka](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2516/aki-tanaka)** has\nsaid in the comments, this is most likely the **[Spit\nTake](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpitTake)** trope.\n\n> **A Reaction Shot to an unexpected event that involves spraying food or,\n> more commonly, a drink from a character's mouth.** ... A common Lampshade\n> Hanging for this trope is when a character pauses to take a drink just so he\n> has something to spit out in reaction. (emphasis mine)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Uj8b.png)\n\nThis trope is also used for comedic purposes, as seen in the image of Ryuuji\nTakasu above. This trope is also used when someone is surprised or excited,\nsimilar to the [**nose\nbleed**](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nosebleed) trope that is\ncommonly found within anime and manga. You've said that Nasa Yuzaki reacts\nthat way whenever Tsukasa does something he sees as cute. It is possible that\nthis spit take trope is being applied the same way a nose bleed is.\n\n[**Source**](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpitTake)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-08T23:46:03.213", "id": "62713", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-09T13:01:38.703", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-09T13:01:38.703", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62710", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat song is Sakusen Kaishi!(作戦開始!) from Yuki Hayashi(林ゆうき), this song was\nalso used in the movie \"My hero academia The Movie Heroes:Rising\".\n\n[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95wfzvJovSk) is the YouTube video from\nthe original YouTube Channel\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-11T22:53:10.670", "id": "62745", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-11T22:53:10.670", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60543", "parent_id": "62718", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nWhile it is difficult to prove this with any certainty, we can try to analyse\nthe facts around it to make an educated guess.\n\nFirst, as far as I can find, the author of the manga has never said anything\nproving or disproving this relation, which unfortunately does rule out any\ndefinitive answer in either direction. Do note that she has mentioned that the\ntitle of Honey and Clover comes from the album titles of the musicians Shikao\nSuga and Spitz, which can be seen as indication that she does make references.\n\nHowever, the name Hagumi, and in turn the nickname Hagu, is common enough that\ninferring any significance from this alone is difficult.\n\nA prime example from anime would be Hagumi Kitazawa from Bang Dream!, who is\nreferred quite frequently as Hagu externally (and within the source material\nIIRC)\n\nThis is personal opinion, but if the author wanted to make a reference via\ncharacter name, it seems much more likely that she would have used the name of\na famous artist (perhaps a Japanese one, to avoid any finagling to form a\nplausible Japanese name) than The Hague, whose claim to international fame as\nan artistic city is frankly debatable.\n\nThe combination of a commonplace Japanese name and a tenuous artistic\nassociation to \"reference\" makes it, in my view, much more likely that this is\na simple coincidence due to the sheer volume of names with some artistic\nsignificance.\n\nOf course, without a clear statement from the author, all this is necessarily\nmere speculation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-25T06:28:35.360", "id": "62847", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-25T06:36:09.823", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-25T06:36:09.823", "last_editor_user_id": "57846", "owner_user_id": "57846", "parent_id": "62751", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n(Based on my own memory and understanding of the episode, YMMV.)\n\nIt's strongly hinted in the flashbacks and lines dropped by both the other Ai\nand her Wonder Killer that many key events _other_ than getting involved with\nthe Wonder Eggs still happened, in particular:\n\n * Ai developed a crush on Sawaki-sensei;\n\n * Koito Nagase killed herself after having some kind of involvement with Sawaki-sensei;\n\n * Sawaki-sensei became romantically involved with Ai's mother, and they discussed getting married.\n\nAs a result, that universe's Ai suspected that Sawaki-sensei was somehow\ninvolved in Koito's death, and that he was using Ai's mother as a means to get\nto Ai, possibly to molest her. This is why she developed an image of him in\nher head as a monster.\n\nNote that the main Ai _also_ had these same suspicions, but because she had\nformed friendships with the other girls (one of whom was related to Sawaki-\nsensei) _and_ had confronted her fears and anxieties about Sawaki-sensei (and\nconfronted him about it), _and_ had learned more about the nature of the\nWonder Killers from her experiences and from Ura-Acca's backstory, she was\nbetter able to dismiss her paranoia about Sawaki-sensei.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-12T23:45:48.647", "id": "62756", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-12T23:45:48.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8843", "parent_id": "62755", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFollowing the release of the special, this hasn't been addressed, however it\n_has_ been revealed that\n\n> Neiru is actually an artificial human similar to Frill, and that her\n> \"sister\" was actually her creator, Airu.\n\nIt's _possible_ that Neiru therefore required more Wonder Eggs, by virtue of\n\n> not being fully human.\n\nThis is speculation, but it's the only logical explanation I can come up with.\n\n(Considering that the special raises more questions than it answers, my honest\nopinion is that the writers just didn't think it through, but I wasn't\noriginally looking for an out-of-universe answer so I'm keeping that opinion\nas a footnote.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-07-02T22:41:43.370", "id": "64137", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-02T22:41:43.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35679", "parent_id": "62758", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst, lets start off with the facts.\n\n * Naruto was only named Uzumaki because if he was named Namikaze, that would've put him in great danger.\n * Upon marriage, the wife will usually take the husbands name, for instance, Hinata Uzumaki.\n * On a few rare cases, Sai for example, they will take the wife's name since at no point were they given a last name in the series, like Sai Yamanaka.\n\nAs for the naming system, they typically get the fathers name. But as I have\nmentioned, Naruto being named Namikaze would have put him in great danger as\nMinato had many enemies who sought his life.\n\n> Hiruzen(the third Hokage) Decided to put Naruto's Surname as Uzumaki because\n> the Uzumaki was a clan which has Split after the village was destroyed,which\n> meant that Most of the Uzumakis were refugees, **which meant that it would\n> be harder to confirm that Naruto was Minato's child.** (emphasis mine)\n\nWell, that's quite all there is to it. It wasn't wanted for anybody to know\nNaruto was Minato's son. This was to protect Naruto. And as I have previously\nmentioned, the wife will usually take the fathers name and undoubtedly get the\nlast name of the father, such as Himawari and Boruto Uzumaki.\n\nAlthough it usually depends on the situation at hand, Naruto/Boruto characters\nwill usually get their fathers name, with a few rare cases, as explained\nabove.\n\n* * *\n\n[Source](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2587/why-does-naruto-use-\nhis-mothers-family-\nname#:%7E:text=Hiruzen\\(the%20third%20Hokage\\)%20Decided,has%20yellow%20hair%20instead%20of)\n\nFurther reading: [Uzumaki Clan](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Uzumaki_Clan)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-13T20:41:19.870", "id": "62761", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-14T11:43:58.883", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-14T11:43:58.883", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe characters mentioned are all based on Japanese folklore. The original\nnames of the folklore characters are Momotaro, Kintaro, Urashima Taro, and\nIssun Kotaro. -Taro is just a common way to end boy's names, similar to -maru.\nIn Naruto, the characters were named by taking the first two syllables and add\n-shiki to the end. The exact significance of -shiki in Naruto is still\nunknown, if there is any ([There are several meanings of -shiki in Japanese\ndepending on context](https://www.quora.com/In-Japanese-what-is-the-meaning-\nof-shiki), but I don't what is the context in Naruto). Some of the Otsutsuki\nmythological references are pretty obscure, so it is hard to know.\n\nAlso, there is also a theory proposed by a redditor that the -shiki suffix us\ngiven _only to the main members_ of the Otsutsuki clan.\n\nSource:\n\n 1. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Boruto/comments/ich72h/why_does_almost_every_otsusuki_has_shiki_in_their/>\n 2. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/e0an6d/theory_the_shiki_names_are_only_given_to_members/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-18T09:56:32.340", "id": "62798", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-18T09:56:32.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "62764", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAmong other reasons:\n\n 1. The story is too long to fit in the number of shows they have\n 2. Scenes or other elements are not cinematic. (This is less a problem than with novels, since manga's a visual medium. Still the change in media may mean that some scenes don't work.)\n 3. Censorship, whether legal or corporate. Some things may just not be allowed.\n 4. Changing or broadening the audience. A manga can be niche but an anime needs a broad audience for the expense. Also, whoever's in charge of the adaption may be sure they can bring in new fans with changes, and not alienate the base.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-15T15:04:17.497", "id": "62771", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-15T15:04:17.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "57843", "parent_id": "62770", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough never explained in the film, the guidebooks released with the\nJapanese version of the film reveal that she was hospitalised before the\nevents of the film as per\n[Bulbapedia](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Molly_Hale).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-17T02:39:22.960", "id": "62784", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-17T02:39:22.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59446", "parent_id": "62783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom [Pegasus Meteor Fist | Seiyapedia |\nFandom](https://saintseiya.fandom.com/wiki/Pegasus_Meteor_Fist):\n\n> **Pegasus Meteor Fist** (ペガサス流星拳 _Pegasasu Ryūsei Ken_ ) is the main\n> technique of the Pegasus saint. It consists in a very rapid discharge of\n> punches in mid-short distance.\n\nHe punches really fast, the speed in which he punches even increases later on\nspecially after the fight with Leo Aiolia where is is able to unleash as many\npunches as Aiolia's lightning bolts.\n\nI wouldn't take Netflix Saint Seiya as a reference to judge wether they are\npunches or projectiles since that series is not really loyal to the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-09-22T17:48:34.170", "id": "67273", "last_activity_date": "2022-10-01T13:49:38.083", "last_edit_date": "2022-10-01T13:49:38.083", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "70106", "parent_id": "62785", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe Evil Super Saiyan form is a level of Super Saiyan is a form used by\nSaiyans who's hearts have been tainted by darkness. Any Saiyan to achieve this\nform immediantly gains access to its other five levels. The first known Saiyan\nto achieve this form of Super Saiyan was Turles The form increases a Saiyan's\npower by five times as much as the regular Super Saiyan form would. This goes\nfor the other levels of Evil Super Saiyan as well. (For example, if one were\nto use Evil Super Saiyan 2, it would increase the user's power by fives times\nthat of a regular Super Saiyan 2.) Credits :\n<https://ultradragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Super_Saiyan>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-22T10:28:09.330", "id": "62831", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-22T10:28:09.330", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60723", "parent_id": "62800", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMostly because the villains in the show are more powerful, and if they use\nmore power while in fusion like against Zamasu, they ran out of time.\n\nEven with Buu, Vegito was stronger, but being stronger than someone and\nbeating them are two entirely different things. If both Buu and Vegito were to\nfight, the battle would initially be lopsided in Vegito’s favour with Vegito\neasily overpowering Kid Buu. However, the problem arises when the battle is\nprolonged. The problem with Buu is that he is extremely resilient. You just\ncan’t take him down easily and the biggest flaw of Vegito is that he likes to\ntoy with the opponents.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-22T10:25:01.450", "id": "62830", "last_activity_date": "2022-06-22T14:08:14.153", "last_edit_date": "2022-06-22T14:08:14.153", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "60723", "parent_id": "62801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNot sure if you are talking about the fusions of saiyans only, because you\nmention Zamasu, who is the fusion of a saiyan body with a supreme kai. If you\nare talking about fusions in general, Buu fusions have won battles (the\noriginal fusion against Vegeta, super buu against Gotenks Buutenks against\nGohan, etc.). Piccolo is a fusion and he has won battles (against Android 20\nfor example). Cell is a fusion and he has won battles.\n\nRegarding saiyan only fusions, Vegito had totally the upper hand against\nBuutenks, he just let be absorbed for trying to save Gohan and the others. I\nthink, and this is only my opinion, that they don't let saiyan fusion win for\nnarrative purposes, because if they do, the original non fused characters\nwould be useless I guess.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-06-23T12:28:53.717", "id": "66941", "last_activity_date": "2022-06-23T12:28:53.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "62801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nだ is really just [there for emphasis](https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-\ngrammar/da/), and would likely be there for emphasis in any other media or\nshow.\n\nFrom the article:\n\n> The most basic functions of だ are to mark nouns and な-adjectives as positive\n> (true), and present tense (relevant to now or the future). だ is not used\n> with word types that have their own way of telling us their tense or whether\n> or not they’re true, such as verbs and い-adjectives.\n\nSo if you heard someone say \"嘘{うそ}だ！\", _phonetically_ it's no different than\nif someone said, \"You liar!\"\n\nAs with natural speech, there is always nuance in how people speak certain\nphrases. This example is no different, and the real answer as to why this form\nis used over others is a bit beyond my completely non-native understanding to\nassist you with.\n\nI do hope that this can give you some enlightenment as to why it is the way it\nis, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-18T21:24:14.237", "id": "62805", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-18T21:24:14.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "62804", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\n**\" _Uso da!_ \" is not only used in _Higurashi_ but also appeared in other\nanime & manga.**\n\nBefore the original _Higurashi_ VN was released in 2002, the same phrase was\nused in\n\n * _YuYu Hakusho_ manga ( _Weekly Shonen Jump_ , 1993), volume 13, chapter 112:\n\n> 幻海「 **嘘だ！！** 」([source](https://matome.usachannel.info/?p=104118)) \n> Genkai: **You're lying!!** (scanlation)\n\n * _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ (TV anime, 1996), episode 24, 16:55~ :\n\n> 碇シンジ「 **嘘だ嘘だ嘘だ！** カヲル君が、彼が使徒だったなんて、そんなの **嘘だ！**\n> 」([source](https://twitter.com/tokyo3_bot/status/1255427435417436160)) \n> Shinji: **No, no, no! It's impossible!** I won't believe that Kaoru is an\n> Angel. **It's a lie!** ([dub](https://archive.org/details/neon-genesis-\n> evangelion-1x-24-dc-the-beginning-and-the-end-or-knockin-on-heavens-\n> door-1080px-265bk))\n\n* * *\n\nLiterally, the meaning of \" _[uso](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%98%98) da!_\" is\n\"(it's a) lie!\", while \"liar\" is \"\n_[usotsuki](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%98%98%E3%81%A4%E3%81%8D)_ \". Though,\nthe implication of \" _uso da!_ \" being \"liar!\" or \"(you're) lying!\" is also\nvalid. Here is some comparison for various versions of _Higurashi_\n([Twitter](https://twitter.com/kamil198811/status/1317080322689978370),\n[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Higurashinonakakoroni/comments/jbqxcq/renas_uso_da_comparison/),\n[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwKLcXyhGDE)):\n\n * _Higurashi Hou_ (original VN, 2002, unofficial translation): LIES!/THAT'S A LIE!\n * _Higurashi_ (anime, 2006): Liar!\n * _Higurashi_ (manga, 2008): LIAR!\n * _Higurashi Hou_ (Steam VN, 2015): LIES!\n * _Higurashi Gou_ (anime, 2020): You're lying!\n\nAs for why it seems \"exclusive\", possibly it is because the impact of that\nparticular scene in _Higurashi_ is so memorable until it reaches a level of\n[meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/uso-da-%E5%98%98%E3%81%A0).\n\n* * *\n\nReference: [the comment thread about _Uso da!!!_ on _Nico Nico Pedia_\n(Japanese)](https://dic.nicovideo.jp/b/a/%E5%98%98%E3%81%A0%E3%83%83%21%21%21/1-)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-05-30T17:45:54.557", "id": "66858", "last_activity_date": "2022-05-30T17:45:54.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "62804", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirstly liebe didnt had any magic not even anti magic so he couldn't do\nanything. He got anti magic after lictha (Asta Mom) sealed him in the five\nleaf grimoire (<https://i.stack.imgur.com/0S5Ti.jpg>) he cursed the other\ndevils until he got his anti magic (<https://i.stack.imgur.com/PtQXT.png>)\n(<https://i.stack.imgur.com/j4ipM.png>) I think since he has anti magic\nlucefero couldn't posses him.since he was canceling all magic around him\n(<https://i.stack.imgur.com/cA3KD.png>)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-20T11:18:20.990", "id": "62815", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-20T11:18:20.990", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60723", "parent_id": "62814", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nLiebe does not have the power of antimagic. He has no magic at all. Therefore\nhe cannot be controlled by the Demon Lord.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-23T16:42:13.480", "id": "62837", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-23T16:42:13.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60768", "parent_id": "62814", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nItachi saying Sasuke would be the third to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan would\nimply he was talking about the _Uchiha_ _**that are living**_.\n\nThe only living Uchiha in the time of _Naruto Shippuden_ were Itachi Uchiha,\nObito Uchiha, and Sasuke Uchiha (the real Madara was later resurrected),\nalthough Itachi believed Obito was Madara. In the order of awakening their\nMangekyō Sharingan, it would be Obito, Itachi, and Sasuke.\n\n**Obito** :\n\n> Obito Uchiha awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after the death of Rin Nohara\n> during the Third Shinobi World War; Obito himself only had his right eye at\n> the time, but the event caused his Mangekyō to simultaneously awaken in\n> Kakashi Hatake, who wielded Obito's left eye.\n> ([source](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan))\n\n**Itachi:**\n\n> Itachi Uchiha awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after witnessing the suicide\n> of his best friend, Shisui Uchiha, shortly before the Uchiha Clan Downfall.\n> With his left Mangekyō he can use Tsukuyomi, an extremely powerful genjutsu\n> that distorts the victim's perception of time.\n> ([source](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan#:%7E:text=Itachi%20Uchiha%20awakened%20his%20Mangeky%C5%8D,the%20victim%27s%20perception%20of%20time.))\n\n**Sasuke** : Is believed to have awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan either\nbecause of Itachi's death, or because of learning the truth about Itachi.\n\nSo, we can conclude that Itachi was saying he would be the third **living\nUchiha** to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan out of the 3 Uchiha that were\ncurrently alive. Counting all the others, Sasuke _definetely was not the\nthird._ Also note that the _Naruto wiki_ isn't always correct.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-24T13:27:16.427", "id": "62844", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-13T17:03:01.387", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-13T17:03:01.387", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62826", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nNot sure but maybe Itachi was unaware of the rest of the wielders. This might\nalso be a possibility if you think about it\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-13T15:57:53.900", "id": "63977", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-13T15:57:53.900", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61121", "parent_id": "62826", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOf course she is a mermaid but, unlike her husband and daughter, Otohime was a\nnormal human-sized mermaid. Others (half-fish) mermaids need bubbles since\nthey can't walk on the Sabaody Archipelago.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-22T16:27:02.143", "id": "64049", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-22T16:27:02.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61264", "parent_id": "62833", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nA mermaid's tail splits into fully functional legs at the age of 30. This has\nbeen first established by Kokoro (the mermaid who lives in Water 7 disguised\nas a human) in chapter 424, and it was repeated in chapter 610. Mermen do not\nshare this biological feature, as Neptune shows. Otohime, who is a mermaid,\nruns, walks and climbs the stairs normally because we only see her when she's\nolder than 30. This can be estimated as such:\n\n * Neptune is 70 at the time of Fish-Man Island Arc, and he's 24 years older than Otohime (6th databook, _Vivre Card - One Piece Visual Dictionary_ ).\n * The flashback of chapters 620-627 starts 15 years before Fish-Man Island Arc.\n * Otohime's funeral happens at the same time that Shiraoshi's seclusion starts (see chapters 613, 619 and 627), which was 10 years before Fish-Man Island Arc.\n\nTherefore we can estimate that the flashback starts when Otohime was\n70-24-15=31 years old and that it ends with her death at the age of 36.\n\nA few things about merfolk locomotion on solid ground should be noted:\n\n 1. Camie (chapter 491) shows the ability to stand on her tail fin and have some mobility without a bubble, although it's probably not her cup of tea. In fact, later on she has Hatchan carry her aroud the Sabaody Arcipelago.\n 2. Aladine (chapter 623) is shown moving on land in upright position while carrying considerable weight and propelling himself with his tail (possibly by _inching_ ).\n 3. It seems that the Minister of the Left (chapter 627) can do something similar to what Aladine does, but it's hard to tell for sure because he rarely appears outside of water while standing. Also, for some reason, at the time of his introduction he uses a walking stick.\n 4. Hyouzou, who's a blue-ringed octopus merman, walks on his tentacles.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-15T00:53:09.547", "id": "67825", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-16T22:13:52.797", "last_edit_date": "2023-03-16T22:13:52.797", "last_editor_user_id": "71302", "owner_user_id": "71302", "parent_id": "62833", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[According to Narutopedia](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Kurama), the anime\nversion specifies both fire and wind natures.\n\nThe reality is that the Bijuu are just a _**huge**_ mass of chakra, and\nspecific elemental natures don't really matter when you're dealing with chakra\nat that magnitude.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-25T17:04:48.527", "id": "62851", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-25T17:04:48.527", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "62850", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUnfortunately **no**.\n\nThe mark that the **Straw Hats** made at the end of **Alabasta** arc has\nprobably washed off by now as we haven't seen it in the following arcs. There\nis no subsequent reason for the new members to make them as the meaning was\nrelated with the events in that arc (at least that is how I personally saw\nit).\n\nThis does not mean that at any time, Oda could show that they still have the\nmark barely visible and the new crew members (after **Alabasta** ) will have\ntheir own too.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-02T14:37:35.033", "id": "62901", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-02T14:37:35.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51857", "parent_id": "62853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nBefore Itadori's apparent death, Sukuna consumed 3 fingers:\n\n 1. 1 eaten in school in introduction arc\n 2. 1 eaten after given from Gojo in introduction arc\n 3. 1 taken by Sukuna after killing finger spirit in cursed womb arc\n\nWhen Itadori apparently died and Sukuna took over, they made a pact between\nthem. Sukuna calls it \"enchaning\". According to the pact, Sukuna can only take\ncontrol of Itadori’s body only for a minute and can't kill or hurt during that\nminute. However, Itadori doesn't remember he agreed to that and this option\nhasn't been used.\n\n> So, can Sukuna take over his body permanently?\n\nSukuna has 20 fingers. If Yuji were to eat all 20 fingers, Sukuna won't be\nunleashed (currenly there are 147 chapters in manga, so the reason is still\nyet to be known). Itadori can supress him, and the only way to unleash Sukuna\nfor a little while would be to consume several fingers at once, but after a\ncertain amount of time Itadori would take control again.\n\nCurrent status:\n\n> [Yuji has consumed 15 fingers as of chapter\n> 147](https://animehunch.com/2021/05/02/sukunas-fingers-everything-you-need-\n> to-know-about-them-in-jujutsu-kaisen/)\n\nSources (Warning: spoiler links):\n\n 1. <https://www.quora.com/In-Jujutsu-Kaisen-if-Itadori-consumes-all-20-fingers-will-Sukuna-be-unleashed-having-taken-over-Itadori-s-body-completely>\n 2. <https://www.reddit.com/r/JuJutsuKaisen/comments/hk981f/sukunas_fingers_status/>\n 3. <https://jujutsu-kaisen.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000023463>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-27T10:32:41.613", "id": "62858", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-01T07:06:36.257", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-01T07:06:36.257", "last_editor_user_id": "48011", "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "62855", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey only bleed under special circumstances, a more notable one being when\nItachi started bleeding from the use of _Amaterasu._\n\nFrom the wiki:\n\n> Reincarnated bodies do not bleed, **except in those cases where blood is\n> needed to perform the Summoning Technique.** (emphasis mine)\n\nReanimated shinobi do indeed bleed when under certain circumstances, such as\nwhen the second Mizukage summoned a giant clam:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4KNDv.png)\n\nAs we all know, with the exception of those who can access the Rinnegan's\n_Animal Path_ , a blood contract is needed in order to perform the Summoning\nJutsu. However, reanimated Hiruzen Sarutobi and the second Mizukage are able\nto perform this technique while using a blood contract. This is because\nreanimated are able to attain it (their blood) in certain cases, like the ones\nmentioned above.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-29T18:06:59.853", "id": "62872", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-29T18:15:23.420", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-29T18:15:23.420", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62856", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> The primary reason for doing this was to draw the reader's eye up towards\n> the sky, towards the billboard. A side-effect is that it also looks more\n> visually interesting than a single unbroken scene would have. The blank\n> space between the panels gives your brain something to do, as it mentally\n> fills in the gap.\n\nSo, we can assume this is done in order to make the manga more visually\nappealing and interesting to look at. Other times, this could be a random or\nartistic choice.\n\nIn other cases, this can be done to show things that are in a close/similar\narea. Otherwise, they are split as an artistic choice, although they might be\nconnected, such as the tree in your second image.\n\n([source](https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/visual-trademark-broken-into-\npanels/#:%7E:text=The%20primary%20reason%20for%20doing,mentally%20fills%20in%20the%20gap.))\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-27T21:49:02.467", "id": "62862", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-30T18:42:49.547", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-30T18:42:49.547", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62861", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter a quick search, I actually found this, though it does not not answer the\nquestion directly, it kinda has a nice direction.\n\n> Manga is known for its **cinematic feel**. Every panel is like an action\n> movie, where the camera cuts from a close-up of eyes, to a two-shot profile\n> of a conversation, to a bird’s-eye view of the characters, then a low-to-\n> high angle as a stiletto heel clicks onto the floor. Really make an effort\n> to showcase different camera angles and zooms in your story.\n\n[Source](https://www.creativebloq.com/how-to/how-to-create-a-manga-comic-\nstrip)\n\nWhen I think about it this is kind of like ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟッ's answer, but the\n\"cinematic\" word touch gives it more \"meat\" \\- Those cuts are supposed to make\nyour imagine the camera as it's closing in, moving from side to side, exactly\nlike in anime or movies, kind of like you see drawn screenplay.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-30T18:13:47.247", "id": "62879", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-30T19:14:03.263", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-30T19:14:03.263", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "51620", "parent_id": "62861", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Rinne-Sharingan is a dōjutsu [kekkei\nmōra](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Kekkei_M%C5%8Dra) (advanced branch of\njutsu unique to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and her direct bloodline). Rinne-Sharingan\ncan't be transplanted onto non-Otsutsuki members, but there are ways to wield\nit, and the exact instructions are written on the Uchiha stone tablet:\n\n 1. You need to have the Rinnegan in both eyes.\n 2. You need to the Jinchuriki of Ten-Tails.\n\nMadara Uchiha, as the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki, was able to manifest this dōjutsu\nin his own forehead after regaining both of his Rinnegan. As a result of Black\nZetsu's actions, Madara's body then served as a vessel to resurrect Kaguya.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-29T06:43:04.693", "id": "62866", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-31T01:19:12.063", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-31T01:19:12.063", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "62864", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt isn't stated, but he is killed by EVA-01 so he died before he could be sent\ninto the Human Instrumentality Project, or his soul could of been taken into\nEVA-01 when he was killed, there just isn't enough information to go off.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-03T03:12:13.263", "id": "62908", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-03T03:12:13.263", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60948", "parent_id": "62871", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nYes both are the same person.\n\nYour confusion comes because in episode 20 there is a shift in time that is\nnot super obvious. There was a short transition scene after Kumoko talked to\nherself about what she was going to do regarding the army heading to Keran\nCounty of the Sariella Country. After she made up her mind and left the Tree,\nit showed the same tree several times but as time passed, going from a\nthriving tree full of leaves to a seemingly dead tree with no leaves\nindicating that time had passed. This transition is easily missed. The Army\nwith Sophia, Hugo, and the Demon lord is heading towards the Elf village.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-02T05:11:20.043", "id": "62897", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-02T05:11:20.043", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20610", "parent_id": "62880", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis was done in order to make sure the Divine Tree was planted and the Chakra\nFruit bore. And despite how crazy some Otsutsuki can be, I highly doubt that\nthey would allow one to do something that could wipe out an entire planet\nwithout consulting the clan's leader. In fact, the main reason Otsutsuki\noperated in pairs (e.g Momoshiki-Kinshiki, Isshiki-Kaguya) was in order to\nsacrifice the lesser rank, in this case, Kinshiki and Kaguya, as shown in\n_Boruto Chapter 51:_\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GjZg.jpg)\n\nAs previously mentioned, the Divine Tree isn't a toy and isn't something\nanybody could be entrusted with--which would make it illogical for this to be\ndone without consulting the leader. The superior (Momoshiki, Isshiki) devours\nthe Chakra Fruit, and the subordinate (Kinshiki, Kaguya) is sacrificed for the\ntree to be harbored.\n\nAs explained by Amado, they have the Karma seal to give onto someone. So if\nall goes well, both Otsutsuki are alive and the plan to eat the chakra fruit\nis completed. The leader (yet to be shown) would obviously know this process\nto plant the Divine Tree, giving more reason they would know the sacrifice\nneeded, which grants permission for the subordinate to be killed.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yF1ts.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-31T03:56:16.437", "id": "62883", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-02T02:36:18.913", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-02T02:36:18.913", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62882", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA fire inside by Yasuharu Takanashi. \nAll complement to shazam. \nDidn't find it on youtube but [this](https://ai-ringtones.com/ringtones/75778)\nmight help\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-03T08:41:47.750", "id": "62909", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-03T08:41:47.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60590", "parent_id": "62885", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn a way, theres two answers. Chronologically, the first one is because he\n_couldn't_ , or wasn't allowed, and afterwards, there would be no need to.\n\nFrom the _Naruto Wiki_ on Rasen-Shuriken:\n\n> After travelling a certain distance or colliding with a target that it can't\n> slice through, the central sphere of the Rasenshuriken detonates, producing\n> a vortex of wind in the immediate area. Within this vortex, countless\n> microscopic wind blades are created, so many that even the Sharingan can't\n> count them all.The wind blades pierce every cell in the body, disconnecting\n> them from the Chakra circulatory system and so preventing them from\n> providing their physical energy to the chakra-creation process. Because of\n> this, the target loses their ability to create and mould chakra, damage\n> which cannot be healed by medical ninjutsu. **Tsunade likens the damage to\n> poison, and warns that if the damage is great enough, those affected by it\n> won't be able to use jutsu again.** (emphasis mine)\n\nBecause the jutsu damaged the user itself, Tsunade marked it as forbidden,\nwhich is why he wouldn't be able to do that, as I previously mentioned. It was\nforbidden. So, he wouldn't be able to do this because the jutsu was marked\nforbidden. Most jutsu, such as the Shadow Clone Technique, are made forbidden\nbecause they can severely damage or kill the user. Rasen-Shuriken was an\nexample of that. So of course, he wouldn't do it with a clone. Naruto didn't\neven have permission to use it.\n\nAnd as to why there would later be no need:\n\n> **Naruto is able to overcome these flaws by learning senjutsu. By infusing\n> the Rasenshuriken with senjutsu chakra, its shape is maintained after\n> formation** , meaning that he can use it as a projectile and, as a result,\n> that he no longer needs to worry about damaging himself. (emphasis mine)\n\nSo, one he couldn't do that because it was marked forbidden, and later, when\nhe mastered Sage Mode, he wouldn't need to because he himself can throw and\nmaintain its shape upon entering it.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-31T14:36:09.753", "id": "62889", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-31T14:36:09.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "62888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause this would kill the clone completely, as mentioned in the _[duplicate\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/37482/when-tsunade-told-\nnaruto-to-not-use-the-rasenshuriken-couldnt-he-have-just-use)_ that @ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟッ\nmentioned.\n\nTaken from that post,\n\n> The reason that a clone could not work in this scenario would be due to the\n> fact that clones are dispelled once sufficiently high physical damage is\n> inflicted to it. It would be my belief that a clone could never sustain its\n> form long enough to sustain a hit with the Rasenshuriken before it - and the\n> jutsu - were dispelled.\n\n_Naruto_ did not use Rasen-Shuriken with his clones because of the damage that\nit inflicted to him, which would make the clone dissipate entirely. This would\nmake it unnecessary. But as @ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟッ mentioned in _his own_ answer, this\ndisadvantage would later be bypassed because he learned how to _throw_ the\nclone upon gaining access to [_Sage\nMode._](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Sage_Mode)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-09-27T20:03:08.903", "id": "65661", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-27T20:03:08.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "62622", "parent_id": "62888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUltra Instinct in Dragon ball super is like another form from super saiyyan so\nthe powers won't stack up. When Goku first achieved Ultra Instinct Reiss\nstated that Goku's attacks are weak because he is still thinking while in\nUltra Instinct.So, it doesn't matter which form he is in his powers varies\naccording to his mind set.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-21T16:30:55.933", "id": "64039", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-21T16:30:55.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61264", "parent_id": "62912", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWhis said that Ultra Instinct is an ability only the gods are capable of\nlearning and that Goku is now getting a grasp of how to use it and that he is\nthinking of his moves instead of actually doing it instantly. Ultra Instinct\nis not a dodge ability, it enable the user to instantly attack, evade or\ndefend without thought in the most perfect way possible. It's not a power up\nin the sense that it makes the user stronger, but it allows them to react\nperfectly in any senario. And no, it does not stack with the Super Saiyan God\nmode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-24T22:52:08.413", "id": "64069", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-24T22:52:08.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61303", "parent_id": "62912", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, there is.\n\nThis is called a _**henshin shiin**_ (変身シーン), which means \"transformation\nscene.\"\n\nThe magical devices that characters use to accomplish them, such as Sailor\nMoon's brooches or the other sailor senshi's pens or sticks, are all called\n_henshin aitemu_ (変身アイテム), meaning \"transformation items.\"\n\nA few related terms are _henshin poozu_ (変身ポーズ), meaning \"transformation pose\"\n\\- that is, the final pose the character strikes when the transformation\nsequence is finished - and _henshin no BGM_ (返信のBGM) or _henshin kyoku_ (変身曲),\nmeaning \"transformation background music\" or \"transformation song\" (although\neach of these musical pieces have their own title, such\nas『ムーン・プリズム・パワー・メイクアップ！』( _Moon Prism Power, Make Up!_ ), 『ウラヌス、そして、ネプチューン』(\n_Uranus, and also, Neptune_ ), or 『スターパワーメイクアップ！』( _Star Power, Make Up!_ ).\n\nThis style of transformation scene existed in **the long-standing _mahou\nshoujo_ (魔法少女: magical girl) genre** that falls within the broader [shoujo\n(targeted at the demographic of young girls)\ngenre](https://shoujo.tripod.com/intro.html) **long before** _Bishoujo Senshi\nSailor Moon_ came into existence in the 1990s. Magical girl manga dating from\nbefore _Sailor Moon_ include panels representing it as well, but the primary\nreason for these extended scenes in traditional cel animation was to use up a\ngood amount of time in each episode of higher quality, reusable cels that\ncould reduce the amount of other cels needing to be hand-drawn to come out to\nabout a 22-minute-long run time. Arrival scenes (where characters recite a\ntrademark phrase) and attack scenes serve the same purpose. After the switch\nto computer animation, this time-saving repetition became less necessary from\nan animation company's production standpoint but, because such scenes had\nbecome iconic over the past decades' worth of magical girl series, they are\nstill used in fully-computer animated series, such as _Pretty Cure_ \\- and\nthey still continue to serve the same purpose (to reduce the workload of the\nanimators per episode), albeit if less crucial. Ironically, in many cases,\nthese more recent scenes have stretched out considerably longer than they had\never been in the classic magical girl series (perhaps to poke fun at the\ngenre, perhaps to show off what computer animation can do... perhaps both),\neven as the practical need for them has largely decreased.\n\nWhat _Sailor Moon_ **did** innovate was combining that decades-old genre with\nthe _sentai_ (戦隊: team-fighting) genre - after _Sailor Moon_ , many other\nseries copied this, leading many people without knowledge of the classic\nmagical girls to assume that the genre is usually comprised of teams of\nsuperhero girls, but that was not the original style, in which either a) a\nsingle girl from another magical world came to this world, or b) a single\nordinary girl in our world suddenly received magical powers (in most cases, to\nuse for _nichijo_ [日常: daily life] situations rather than for saving the world\nfrom monster or alien villains). Nor have all magical girls since _Sailor\nMoon_ employed teams and extended transformation sequences.\n\nFor more details, see [\"Have the creators of Tokyo Mew Mew or Sailor Moon\ncommented on the\nsimilarities?\"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/3646/have-the-\ncreators-of-tokyo-mew-mew-or-sailor-moon-commented-on-the-\nsimilarities/14489#14489), [\"Why is “Puella Magi” equivalent to “Mahou\nShoujo”?\"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14444/why-is-puella-magi-\nequivalent-to-mahou-shoujo/14452#14452) and [\"Why do the senshi get a manicure\nbefore they get gloves?\"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/238/why-\ndo-the-senshi-get-a-manicure-before-they-get-gloves/13852#13852)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-04T10:19:16.243", "id": "63913", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-04T10:19:16.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "62913", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n**TL;DR:** No, real-life student councils do not have **absolute** powers and\naren't as powerful as depicted in anime or manga.\n\n**Long answer**\n\nJapanese school life tends to be much more hierarchical and organized, with\nstudents being put in charge of far more of how things operate and thus the\nconcept of student council comes. So first, let's define student council in\nJapanese schools. According to\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_council):\n\n> [...] student councils were added to Japanese schools after World War II. In\n> Japanese schools, students in a class stay together as a cohesive set in the\n> same homeroom for most of the day. Each class has one or more elected\n> representatives who reports to student council. The student council consists\n> of members who are elected by the student body. The council is often\n> responsible for organizing events such as the culture festival, sports day,\n> and class field trips. _The council also oversees the school clubs, and has\n> absolute influence on school and club policies._\n\nNote that it says it can influence school policies and rules but that doesn't\nmean that they have the absolute power to set and govern school rules. Those\nare done by schools administrations. To be more precise1:\n\n> In anime no one is cooler or more highly revered in high school than the\n> student council. They are are held at a higher prestige, respect, and hold\n> actual authority over other students. **While in reality this is just not\n> true at all. The student council does not have authority to make decisions\n> when it comes to school rules or how the school operates. The school\n> administration is held at higher regards than the student council,** and age\n> is just as important in regards to authority. One of the pole participants\n> who was part of the student council in high school chimed in on the\n> situation, “I was a member of the student council, and we didn’t have much\n> actual authority.”\n\nSo, despite student council being depicted as the absolute power-wielding\nentities who can revolutionize the world, in real-life they have, more or\nless, very little power. But don't get me wrong! They are still very strict\nand disciplined, and at least hold powers to control club activities/policies\nand set all sorts of classroom rules. In some schools, they are given the\npower to set and run events like field day or cultural festival and organize\nclass trips. Please read ref. 3 and ref. 4 for an exhaustive discussion.\n\n**References**\n\n 1. [Japanese Students Reveal Differences Between Anime High school And Real Life](https://comicbook.com/anime/news/japanese-students-reveal-four-differences-between-anime-high-sch/#2)\n 2. [4 ways anime high schools differ to real-life Japanese high schools](https://www.sbs.com.au/popasia/blog/2017/04/11/4-ways-anime-high-schools-differ-real-life-japanese-high-schools)\n 3. [What Are Japanese Student Councils REALLY Like?](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2016-01-20/.97769) (Here, it points out how Japanese student council works differently from American schools. It also notes that _[Only Yesterday](https://myanimelist.net/anime/1029/Omoide_Poroporo?q=only%20yes&cat=anime)_ and _[His and her Circumstances](https://myanimelist.net/anime/145/Kareshi_Kanojo_no_Jijou?q=his%20and%20her%20circums&cat=anime)_ have depicted student council accurately)\n 4. [Japanese Student Council: Differences between Anime and Real Life](https://learnjapaneseanime.com/culture-custom/school/japanese-student-council-authority/) (You can find an exhaustive explanation, discussing every differences by pointing out every depiction shown in anime and differentiating them from real life portrayal).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-05T04:06:07.407", "id": "63921", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-06T00:28:55.550", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-06T00:28:55.550", "last_editor_user_id": "43199", "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "63920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nKind of a weird question at least as of the current revision because I had the\nexact same question earlier this year and checked that tvtropes article for\nthe answer and it's exactly there\n\n> Note that in Japanese schools, this is an exaggeration of Truth in\n> Television, as the Student Councils actually _do_ have power over the\n> approval and funding of student clubs. School Clubs Are Serious Business is\n> a real thing in Japan, as they're meant to prepare students for the high-\n> pressure work environment into which they'll eventually be dumped, and\n> students are strongly encouraged to join at least one club. And just like in\n> their future jobs, students are expected to show utmost loyalty to their\n> club: once you join, you're there until you graduate. Likewise, in private\n> schools in the United Kingdom, prefect councils often perform the same\n> functions that an honour council fulfills at a university, and any year's\n> prefects are assigned to keep order in the teacher's absence. Are you\n> starting to see the clout Student Council can hold? (More details in the\n> Real Life section below.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-06-28T22:59:39.893", "id": "66968", "last_activity_date": "2022-06-28T22:59:39.893", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "63920", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nItachi knew the only way Sasuke would obtain the Mangekyō Sharignan would be\nby killing his best friend which would make Sasuke about 10-20 times stronger\nthan he already is. Itachi wanted Sasuke to be strong enough to face any\nchallenge in the cruel shinobi world they live in and he knew having the\nMangekyō would give Sasuke a huge advantage which it obviously did. Shortly\nafter attaining Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan, Sasuke was even strong enough to\ntake on the Raikage at such a young age.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-07T07:39:24.407", "id": "63928", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-07T07:39:24.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58856", "parent_id": "63926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs I mentioned in the comments:\n\n> Maybe **so Sasuke could get the power he wanted to kill Itachi?** Not sure.\n> Will have to research. **Itachi pretty much lived to die at Sasuke's hand.**\n> (emphasis mine)\n\nTaken from the [_Naruto wiki article_ on the Mangekyo\nSharingan](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Mangeky%25C5%258D_Sharingan%23:%7E:text%3DA%2520Mangeky%25C5%258D%2520Sharingan%2520is%2520distinguished,someone%2520close%2520to%2520the%2520user.&ved=2ahUKEwj6s5mZzobxAhVEVs0KHVkRDe4QFjACegQIBBAF&usg=AOvVaw1owmvsrF7XlRQrRkevZMUs):\n\n> A Mangekyō Sharingan is distinguished from a normal Sharingan by its\n> appearance, which changes the form of the tomoe seal. While the exact design\n> differs for each user, they all resemble pinwheels. It is initially awakened\n> by the trauma suffered from witnessing the death of someone close to the\n> user.\n\nI also pointed out in the comments that this can also be awakened by killing a\nclose friend. Many Uchiha during Madara's era purposely did this after hearing\nhow this eye was awakened in order to see if they could get it themselves.\nThis process was succesful, which proves the Mangekyo Sharingan can _also_ be\nawakened by **killing** a close friend, aside from having to see them die.\n\n> This fact is quite popular already, but it's getting spoiler tagged because\n> it is far-ish in the series. Sasuke figured out that Itachi killed the\n> Uchiha alongside Obito on the order of Konoha's elders. **This was not\n> intended.**\n\nItachi wanted to die by Sasuke's hand. He said himself he deserved to be dealt\nwith by another Uchiha. Even if he wanted the best for Sasuke, he still wanted\nhim to kill his friend in order to give him the power of the Mangekyo, so\nSasuke would be strong enough to kill him, _as he always wanted to._ This\nwould fulfill Sasuke's long goal of revenge, _with hopes_ of him not finding\nout about the Uchiha incident. To answer the question, although Itachi always\nwanted the best for Sasuke, he wanted him to kill his best friend to:\n\n * Inform him about the Mangekyo Sharingan and how to awaken it\n * Give him the power needed in order to get revenge, with Itachi intending for Sasuke not to learn about the Uchiha incident\n\nYet another example of Itachi being selfish to \"help\" Sasuke :D\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-07T23:02:06.327", "id": "63939", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-07T23:15:10.553", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-07T23:15:10.553", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "63926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n## First Theory\n\nConsidering the end result was Sasuke rejecting Mangekyō, Itachi may have told\nSasuke how to get the Mangekyō Sharingan in an attempt to bias Sasuke\n_against_ it. Itachi has been shown to be a very perceptive and conniving\nperson. Examples of this are abundant:\n\n 1. He sets a trap inside of Naruto to use Shisui's Sharingan to reprogram Sasuke to defend the Leaf Village. He ultimately ended up using it to reprogram himself while reanimated.\n 2. He set a trap inside of Sasuke's eye to incinerate Tobi should the two cross paths.\n 3. His interaction with Sasuke after slaughtering the Uchiha Clan was done to manipulate Sasuke into eventually killing him, with the goal of making Sasuke a hero of the Leaf Village.\n 4. In the fight with Kabuto, Itachi was quick to discern how Kabuto's nature as a spy was similar to his own. And then he set a trap by manipulating Kabuto into performing certain actions, so he could use the Izanami, which ensnared Kabuto in a time loop until he became the person Itachi wanted him to be.\n 5. He threatened Danzo in order to ensure Sasuke's safety. He obviously understood Danzo well enough to know this would keep Sasuke safe. After the Third Hokage's death, he specifically made an appearance to remind Danzo of their arrangement.\n\nSeeing all this, it isn't entirely far-fetched to suppose Itachi may have\nforeseen the outcome of telling Sasuke about the Mangekyō Sharingan. And the\noutcome was indeed that Sasuke rebelled, disgusted by the idea of gaining\npower the same way as his brother, ultimately choosing to leave Naruto alive.\n\nBut why might Itachi do this instead of, for instance, just leaving Sasuke in\nthe dark about this secret? He may have seen it as an inevitability that\nSasuke would find the Uchiha Clan's secret stone tablet, in which case he had\nto do something to make Sasuke not want to try and get the Mangekyō. Well,\nwhen someone you hate tells you to do something, it tends to make you not want\nto do it.\n\nThis is just some speculation, and I don't necessarily believe it myself, but\nI thought it was worth delving into as an alternative to the other answers.\n\n## Alternate Theory\n\nAs an alternative to what I said, I'd first like to point out that not\neverything Itachi did was motivated by his desire to help Sasuke. If that were\nthe case, he never would have slaughtered the Uchiha clan, which was a\nseriously traumatic event that Sasuke was never going to get over (and indeed,\nthis one event basically colored Sasuke's entire life experience).\n\nIn that case, it is prudent to note that Itachi was also motivated by a desire\nfor stability in the Leaf Village. In order to do that, for there to be no\nrepercussions against the Leaf Village when he carries out his mission, he had\nto be the bad guy. And in that case, he has to make his motives seem\nbelievable. Thus, he tells Sasuke about Mangekyō not for Sasuke's benefit, but\nas a clever cover, as if to say, \"By the way, do you want to know why I killed\nShisui?\"\n\nItachi's stated goal was to make himself the villain, and Sasuke the hero for\ndefeating him. Sasuke's not going to be a hero in the Leaf Village if he kills\nhis best friend (who would presumably be a Leaf Shinobi). This further\nsuggests my first theory might be correct (these two theories aren't mutually\nexclusive, as Itachi may have multiple motives for doing things).\n\nAgain, Itachi had to be the villain. Thus, Itachi and the Leaf higher ups left\na lot of evidence that he was the bad guy, for the other Shinobi, and for\nSasuke. Danzo, for instance, upon arriving at the scene of the massacre,\nimmediately declared that Itachi secretly harbored a deep hatred for his clan.\nAnd they did a good job because the result was that no one ever suspected a\nthing. Even Anbu like Kakashi, who'd been helping spy on the Uchiha and knew\nabout their discontent, and who personally knew Itachi, never thought that\nItachi was under orders. A shocked Kakashi instead concluded that even after\nall that time working together, he'd never really known Itachi.\n\nAdditionally, we have to remember Itachi is playing a role. If we're thinking\non the role of villain Itachi, with his motives, it makes sense for him to\ntell Sasuke about Mangekyō. This though it seems it isn't necessary for\nEternal Mangekyō, it still seems like it would have been preferable. In which\ncase, Itachi, acting out his role, wants Sasuke to get Mangekyō. And I'll note\nthat having a secret motive adds plausibility for everything Itachi did, so\nit's good he didn't just tell Sasuke, \"Hey, I want you to get Mangekyō so I\ncan take your eyes and make myself more powerful,\" but instead, revealed it to\nhim later. Because at that point, Sasuke would be like, \"I'm older now, and I\nhave questions about the Uchiha massacre.\" But hearing Itachi wants his eyes,\nhe'd be like, \"Oh, now I get it.\"\n\n## Third Theory\n\nIt's possible that Itachi wished for Sasuke to become stronger. Perhaps\nbecause of the danger Danzo posed, he wanted Sasuke to have the Mangekyō. He\nmay have felt it was necessary for Sasuke to have Mangekyō to defend himself.\nOr more likely in my opinion, he simply wanted Sasuke to be informed of the\npossibility. Being a spy and confused about what's right, Itachi may have been\nuncertain whether or not Sasuke should get Mangekyō. He wanted Sasuke to\ndecide for himself. In which case, he told Sasuke while thinking something\nlike this, \"Well, Sasuke, I don't know what you should do, but if you want\npower, here's how to get it.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-08T19:14:42.077", "id": "63945", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-27T15:52:56.153", "last_edit_date": "2021-09-27T15:52:56.153", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "63926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nYou cannot assume Itachi wanted Sasuke to kill his best friend. All we know is\nthat he told Sasuke how to get the MS and that is by experience the intense\nemotion of seeing someone you love die. This is ultimately how he did obtain\nit after watching Itachi die.\n\nItachi knew that a strong Sasuke was important for the future of Konaha. He\nalso knew that there was literally no one else who could teach this to him.\nSeeing as when Kakashi shows Itachi that he also has an MS (although an\nincomplete one) Itachi is shocked and astounded. Noting that this is to be\nexpected from a Konaha shinobi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-08-16T11:34:05.277", "id": "65417", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-16T11:34:05.277", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18618", "parent_id": "63926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Since the question has picked up steam, I am going to construct the answer by\nincluding both historical and modern viewpoint and then the depiction of women\nin anime and manga_\n\n* * *\n\n## Part I: Historical viewpoint\n\nThe proper name for the trope is **Yamato Nadeshiko**. \"Yamato\" is one of the\nolder, fancier and more poetic name for Japan and the Japanese people.\n\"Nadeshiko\" is the Japanese name for _[Dianthus\nsuperbus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus_superbus)_ , a wildflower\nfound in the Japanese highlands that is related to the\n[carnation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus_caryophyllus) ( _Dianthus\ncaryophyllus_ ). So, taken together, \"Yamado Nadeshiko\" is used to mean\n\"flower of Nipponese womanhood\".\n\nThis trope is quite important in anime because housewives had its place in\nJapanese History especially during the [neo-Confucian\nJapan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_neo-Confucianism). From\ntvtropes.org1:\n\n> The term was generally ascribed to noble women with traditional upbringings,\n> but after the formal abolishment of the caste system it passed into wider\n> use among the new \"middle classes\". Being a yamato nadeshiko revolved around\n> the Confucian concepts of Feudal Loyalty and Filial Piety, which in the\n> latest wave of Confucian revival meant acting for the benefit of one's\n> family and obeying and assisting authority figures (father, husband,\n> sometimes father-in-law or older brothers, as well as older and/or more\n> respected females). Virtues include loyalty, domestic ability, wisdom,\n> maturity, and humility.\n\nThese virtues stayed among Japanese women for generations and thus they are\nportrayed in anime medium as a way to show that Japanese women are very keen\nto get married and take care of her loved ones and be a housewife.\n\n## Part II: Modern Viewpoint\n\nGender inequality has been a huge problem in Asian countries typically in\nChina and Japan. At work, it is reported that women are the last to be hired\nand the first to be fired. Many college-educated women simply aren't hired,\neven if they're qualified. There is still an expectation that a married woman\nwill quit her job to stay at home. Sexual harassment, though technically\nillegal, is apparently common at the workplace and women had to quit because\nof that.\n\nMoreover, the conflict between marriage and career is also one of the salient\nproblems. In 2005, 59 % of Japanese women in their late 20s and 20 % of\nJapanese women in their 30s were not married. So, staying single for Japanese\nwomen is still seen as nontraditional or abnormal. Most of them are combined\nwith negative meanings, such as _urenokori_ (“left unsold”, refers to older\nthan 25 year-old single Japanese women like the Christmas cake after 25th\nDecember, no one wants it), _parasaito singuru_ (parasite single, describe\nadult children live with parents like dependents), and _makeinu_ (“loser dog”,\nas opposed to a “winner” who is a married mother). Traditional _ie_ or the\n_ie_ system is the most prominent concept concerning Japanese families, which\ndetermines that women were valued and accorded status only as it related to\ntheir role as mothers. Although the _ie_ concept was formally abolished in\n1947, the core value of gender stereotypes still persists in every stage of\nJapanese society.\n\n## Part III: Female depiction in Anime and Manga (Shonen vs Shoujo)\n\nBoth historical and modern viewpoints played a role in the portrayal of\nfemales in anime and manga. The adherence of above said \"yamato nadeshiko\" is\nmore prevelant in shonen manga. In shoujo manga, the raw emotions of females\nare depicted with issues like long-distance relationships (where the woman\nwork in a company and can hardly maintain her love life), love-triangles etc:\n\n * **Shonen (male-audience) anime/manga** : In Shonen anime, the male is the protagonist. All the stories go with the development of male protagonists’ abilities, skills, maturity, self-perfection, and honorable service to society, community, family, and friends. The heroic journey is always the pattern of Shonen manga and anime . Women often play roles as mothers, sisters, and girlfriends in a secondary position portraying yamato nadeshiko. Most long-time popular shonen series follow this rule, such as _Dragon Ball, Slam Dunk,_ and _Saint Seiya_. Within the Shonen genre, there is a sub-genre called harem. Many times, the harem manga and anime have overly-sexualized multi-female characters that pursue the main male protagonist, who is considered a social defect (i.e. shy, less-then-masculine physical features, and emotionally “sensitive”) E.g. _Ah! My Goddess, Tenchi Muyō_ , and _Video Girl Ai._\n * **Shoujo (female audience) anime/manga** : The female protagonists in shoujo manga are highly appreciated, or recognized by the boy of-their-dream when they accept and embrace the more private side of these males. The storylines in shoujo manga usually revolve around issues of love and friendship, and is filled with unrequited love, love triangles, friendships forged through the trials and tribulations of high school life. The drama of emotions, attachments, and inner feelings is always central to shoujo manga.\n\n## References\n\n 1. [tvtropes: Yamato Nadeshiko](https://tvtropes.org/Main/YamatoNadeshiko)\n 2. [Gender and Gender Relations in Manga and Anime](https://www.mit.edu/%7Erei/manga-gender.html)\n 3. JAPANESE ANIME AND WOMAN’S GENDER-ROLE CHANGING by Shunyao Yu, 2015\n 4. SAITO, KUMIKO. “Magic, ‘Shōjo’, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society.” The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 73, no. 1, 2014, pp. 143–164. JSTOR, [www.jstor.org/stable/43553398](https://www.jstor.org/stable/43553398?seq=1).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-07T08:16:36.410", "id": "63929", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-08T06:03:31.707", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-08T06:03:31.707", "last_editor_user_id": "48011", "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "63927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 27 }, { "body": "\n\n**TLDR: The premise of the question is only true for male-oriented works.**\n\nThe main bulk of the question (the reason for women in anime being portrayed\nmainly as housewives) has been answered by Fumikage Tokoyami quite\ncomprehensively, so this is more of a frame challenge to the question than a\nstraight answer.\n\nThere is significant gap between the portrayal of women in anime/manga between\nmale- and female- oriented works. In male-oriented works, female characters do\nindeed frequently end up as full-time housewives or at least dream of becoming\none – however, this really is not the case in shoujo (works targeting girls)\nor josei (works targeting adult women).\n\n> Even in romantic comedies, girls dream to be a good housewife after they\n> marry their boyfriends. Very few are shown to be working, and even if they\n> are shown, they are portrayed as poor mothers, e.g. Nisekoi.\n\nNote that _Nisekoi_ is shounen (and a harem comedy, the most male-wish-\nfulfillment style of romantic comedy at that). In shoujo, if the future beyond\nschool/university is mentioned at all, female characters will very frequently\n(if not almost always) have concrete career goals, and will be shown achieving\nthem if the story does progress that far (e.g. Yukino becoming a plastic\nsurgeon in _Karekano_ , Shizuku passing the bar exam in _Tonari no Kaibutsu-\nkun_ , Koizumi Lisa wanting to become a stylist in _Lovely Complex_ )\n\nIn Josei (targeting adult women), this is even more apparent – very rarely\nwill the main female lead not have a career (see _Nodame Cantabile_ , any of\nNishi Keiko’s works, _Natsuyuki Rendezvous_ and so on) In fact, the\nstereotypical Josei romance plot could be summed up as: Careerwoman tired of\nher job and life in general meets handsome man romantically interested in her\n– hijinks ensue.\n\nThe example of Hinata Hyuga (as given by Fumikage Tokoyami in their answer\nbefore their edit) and the ending of _Naruto_ in general is interesting,\nbecause the major female characters, with veritable abilities and merits, end\nup as domestic supporters for the male characters, rather than holding\nsignificant positions of their own. This kind of “sudden housewife” shift (or\nas the OP put it, \"become submissive towards the end of the story”, is almost\nexclusive to shounen or seinen.\n\nIn shoujo or josei, characters who appear mainly as housewives or in an\notherwise domestic role will generally start out enjoying or showing interest\nin such roles (e.g. _Love So Life_ – the female lead of which does dream of\nbecoming a nursery teacher), at least disillusionment or a lack of interest in\nher career (e,g, side characters in Nishi Keiko’s works, _Nigeru wa haji daga,\nyaku ni tatsu_ – the female lead here does end up working again, IIRC) or as a\nmother of a main character.\n\nIn short, the idea that most women in anime are housewives (or aim to be\nhousewives) is for the most part a phenomenon limited to male-oriented works.\nThe situation for female characters in female-oriented works is much more\ncomplex.\n\nSidenote: That said, many shoujo and josei works DO end up in marriage – While\nthere certainly are exceptions like _&_ (that’s the title), it can be deduced\nthat marriage is still considered important, as Fumikage Tokoyami has stated.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-08T00:19:32.213", "id": "63940", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-08T06:40:27.750", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-08T06:40:27.750", "last_editor_user_id": "57846", "owner_user_id": "57846", "parent_id": "63927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nMost women in anime are either students, nobles, or an overworked corporate\nemployee.\n\nProbably the near complete abscensce of housewifes in western media makes you\nover estimate the amount that appear in non western media. That or you are\nreading a narrow set of genres.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-09T12:42:47.730", "id": "63947", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-09T12:42:47.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61071", "parent_id": "63927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSimple answer based on real-world science. Kinetic energy cannot destroy\nthings neither can it destroy itself\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-10-26T15:42:47.960", "id": "65805", "last_activity_date": "2021-10-26T15:42:47.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "62980", "parent_id": "63930", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is unknown. This jutsu has never canonically been applied against\nAmaterasu, so there is no way to either affirm or rebut claims on either side.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-07T16:47:21.307", "id": "63935", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-07T16:47:21.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "63933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAs\n@[Rumpelstiltskin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/42685/rumpelstiltskin)\nmentioned in the comments,\n\n> any technique capable of absorbing chakra can ideally extinguish the\n> Amaterasu cause the jutsu itself is a form of chakra.\n\nAmaterasu can practically only be stopped, if one, sealed, as Jiraiya did. Or,\nif absorbed. It will also extinguish if it passes its time limit of seven days\nand seven nights.\n\n> Amaterasu cannot be extinguished but sealed.\n\nTaken from Quora page: [What would Jiraiya do if Amaterasu hit\nhim?](https://www.quora.com/What-would-Jiraiya-do-if-Amaterasu-hit-him-Would-\nhe-have-enough-time-to-take-out-his-scroll-perform-seals-and-seal-the-flames)\n\nAnd, Amaterasu can also be defeated by absorbing jutsu, as Madara has shown\nwhen Sasuke cast Amaterasu on him. Although most of the flames were\nconcentrated to his armor, he managed to remove it by taking his armor off and\nabsorbing the rest of the Amaterasu with the Rinnegan's [_Preta\nPath._](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Preta_Path)\n\nThe wiki also explains that:\n\n> The Preta Path (餓鬼道, Gakidō) **grants the user the ability to absorb chakra\n> in any form**. ... This ability is primarily defensive in nature as it is\n> capable of absorbing chakra from an individual through physical contact.\n> (emphasis my own)\n\nAny jutsu that can absorb jutsu ideally can absorb jutsu / dissolve any justu\nshould be able to absorb Amaterasu, whether the technique used to dissolve the\njutsu is made of water would not be much of relevance, as it can still absorb\njutsu. Thus, it is likely that the [Secret Technique: Mist\nRain](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Technique:_Mist_Rain) can\nabsorb/dissolve Amaterasu.\n\nBut as @[Makoto](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/102/makoto) mentioned\nin _his own answer,_ this jutsu has never been applied to Amaterasu\ncanonically, but in theory this should be possible.\n\n* * *\n\nSources:\n\n * [What would Jiraiya do if Amaterasu hit him?](https://www.quora.com/What-would-Jiraiya-do-if-Amaterasu-hit-him-Would-he-have-enough-time-to-take-out-his-scroll-perform-seals-and-seal-the-flames)\n\n * [Naruto wiki article on _Preta Path_](https://www.quora.com/What-would-Jiraiya-do-if-Amaterasu-hit-him-Would-he-have-enough-time-to-take-out-his-scroll-perform-seals-and-seal-the-flames)\n\n * [Naruto wiki article on _Secret Technique: Mist Rain_](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Technique:_Mist_Rain)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-09-09T12:41:43.810", "id": "65576", "last_activity_date": "2022-07-04T05:41:29.010", "last_edit_date": "2022-07-04T05:41:29.010", "last_editor_user_id": "14883", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "63933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou can find an organized list at [wikipedia: List of Crayon Shin-chan\nepisodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayon_Shin-chan_episodes)\n\nJudging by the mention of the big dice I assume you are looking for episode\nSPECIAL 16c (japanese episode numbering) with the title of\n\n\"Hey, This Game... Is True To Life!\" \nすごろく勝負で盛り上がるゾ (Sugo ro ku shōbu de moriagaru zo)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-09T14:37:56.373", "id": "63950", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-09T14:37:56.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "63946", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBasically because it would be against what the brother's promised one another.\n\nOriginally they sought to get the Philosopher's Stone to restore their bodies\nbut after Lab 5 and learning it was made from Human Souls they promised to\nrestore their bodies **without taking lives**. even if Van Hohenheim was going\nto die and was offering himself up it was still a life being traded for Al\nwhich to them would be no better than sacrificing people to make the\nPhilosopher's Stone and using that to fix themselves\n\n> It is just depressing to see Edward sacrificing his alchemy.\n\non the contrary it showed his growth. at the end Ed accepted his limitations\nand that he had been relying on something that was never really his (The\nTruth). when Truth asked if he would be alright without Alchemy, Ed responded\nthat he had his friends implying he would be able to overcome his limitations\nwith the help of his friends\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AnU9g.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wF1nV.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-09T14:27:50.983", "id": "63949", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-09T14:27:50.983", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "63948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFlashbacks are pretty common [literary devices](https://literary-\ndevices.com/content/flashback/) that can accomplish several things:\n\n * Provide context into the mindset of the character as they encounter a situation\n * Provide often-valuable [character development](https://literary-devices.com/content/characterization/)\n * Explain in context why a character would have an unconventional (insofar as what the audience has seen) reaction to a big event\n\nDepending on the work, the purpose and the scope of the flashback depends with\nwhat the author wanted to convey.\n\n * In _Bleach_ , there were [negatively-numbered chapters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bleach_volumes) to indicate events that happened in the older Soul Society. This would often be invoked by a flashback or be used as way of explaining what happened in the past to catch the reader/watcher up with current events (e.g. the Visored + Fake Karakura Town arc).\n * In _Naruto_ , flashbacks were used to explain the events of the past, and color in details about the entire world of Naruto, from the last great Shinobi war, to interpersonal details about each character (some event coloring their past), and as a means to explain the story (e.g. the eternal cycle of Indra and Asuka's chakra being reborn and their rivalry playing out over and over again).\n\nSomething to note is that these aren't _meant_ to be random, but their\nplacement during the pacing of a story can make it _seem_ random.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-09T16:26:29.287", "id": "63952", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-09T16:26:29.287", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "63951", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe song is \"Battle in the Colosseum\" (コロシアムでの戦闘 ). It's track#21 from Album\nOriginal Soundtrack \"New World\", released on 2016-07-20\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9feq908XxTM>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-13T22:16:01.933", "id": "63981", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-13T22:16:01.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61154", "parent_id": "63959", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf Kaneki had eaten another part, I believe the damage to Hide would be much\ngreater, possibly leading to his death. Maybe the mouth was the best option\n\n\"Hide lets Kaneki eat his face to get back his strength. While it appeared at\nfirst that Hide had died in the process, he reappeared later as Scarecrow, an\nally of Kaneki and the ghoul hunters.\"\n\n\"Kaneki had eaten the lower part of Hide's face and that's why his voice box\nwas also eaten. He wasn't able to speak properly but he found an alternative\nfor his voice box and you can see that on his throat.\"\n\nI get these quotes from: <https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Hides-face-\nin-Tokyo-Ghoul-re-season-2>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-08-19T11:13:52.090", "id": "65454", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-19T14:19:12.597", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-19T14:19:12.597", "last_editor_user_id": "62047", "owner_user_id": "62047", "parent_id": "63962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n心「こころ」(romaji: kokoro), according to\n[jisho](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%BF%83), means \"mind; heart; spirit\". So,\nit's not so much the physical heart as the methaphorical meaning.\n\nThe anatomical term is 心臓「しんぞう」(romaji: shinzou), for the record.\n\nSo I don't think it's really meant to be the physical heart but the conceptual\n\"core of one's feelings and emotions\" \\- sort of like when someone says\nsomeone is \"heartless\", it's not to mean that they literally lack the physical\nblood-pumping organ.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-12T17:00:12.793", "id": "63972", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-12T17:00:12.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56562", "parent_id": "63971", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you're misunderstanding something--men _can_ join the Blue Rose\nKnights. It's just very uncommon.\n\nFrom the _Black Clover wiki:_\n\n> The squad is mostly women, having the sharp motto of refusing the notion of\n> worshiping or idealizing men. ... **The few male squad members** serve as\n> errand boys. (emphasis mine)\n\nI think that's where the mistake is. Men can indeed join the Blue Rose\nKnights, but the squad is primarily based and filled with women, and the men\nare just used as servants/errand boys. Explained above in the wiki, they do\nnot like the idea of praising men. This does not mean they can't join the Blue\nRose Knights. There's a few male members that just serve as errand boys for\nthe women in the group.\n\nSo, Captain Charlotte raised her hand for Yuno because men _can_ indeed join\nthe Blue Rose Knights. It's just very uncommon, and that's why explained in\nthe wiki quote that _**few**_ men are in it, but they're just errand boys.\n\n* * *\n\n(Someone asked a similar question on the fandom, you can check\n[_**here**_](https://blackclover.fandom.com/f/p/3238260495089945546) for more\ninfo.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-13T20:05:48.580", "id": "63979", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-13T20:13:41.347", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-13T20:13:41.347", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "63978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI haven't read the manga either, but from my point of view The bird is just a\nmessenger assigned by the HQ to a demon slayer so, the will probably get\ntransferred to a new slayer if the existing keeper dies.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-21T16:50:58.337", "id": "64041", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-21T16:50:58.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61264", "parent_id": "63984", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Which transformation is supposed to be more powerful…?\n\nThe stacked transformation.\n\nIf you put SSJ on UI it's going to be stronger, since we know that SSJ is a\n50x multiplier. So, we know that Great Ape is 10 times stronger than base form\nsaiyans, and that Super Saiyan is a 50 times multiplier of base power level.\nThen, SSJ 2 is a 100 times multiplier (or 2 times stronger than SSJ), and SSJ\n3 is 400 times stronger than base (or 8 times SSJ).\n\nHowever, if UI causes Goku to lose stamina **heavily** , that means if he\nstacks a transformation on top, that will be overkill and he would lose his\nstamina in the snap of a finger.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-18T13:59:38.040", "id": "64018", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-16T01:13:45.343", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-16T01:13:45.343", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "61221", "parent_id": "63987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs you mentioned, they didn't recognize him at the time being if Isshin is\nover 200+ years old, that's a lot of years to remember.\n\nAlso, in the Aizen arc, before Dangai Ichigo came about, he was around 18\n(Human years). Soul reapers age slow, that's why Isshin looks about 40 years\nor 50 even though he's about 200+ soul reaper years, stating that he wasn't\nthat friendly towards other captains and stuck to himself. Regarding maybe\nRukia and the others, they never met him.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-18T13:37:55.830", "id": "64015", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-22T05:03:27.793", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-22T05:03:27.793", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "61221", "parent_id": "63991", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI feel that Toshiro and Rangiku didn't know about Ichigo's father Isshin as\nthey didn't meet face to face at Karakura Town. Also, at that time Isshin was\njust a normal human being without any powers, so Toshiro, Rangiku or any other\nmembers of Soul Society didn't sense him or meet him by face. So, it's obvious\nthey didn't know about Isshin.\n\nOnly Rukia meet Ichigo's father face to face. But, she didn't recognise him.\nMaybe its a plot hole, or she didn't know about Isshin at that time by face,\nthat's why she didn't recognise him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-22T07:05:57.260", "id": "65970", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-22T09:14:58.323", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-22T09:14:58.323", "last_editor_user_id": "60264", "owner_user_id": "63363", "parent_id": "63991", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the Karakura Town arc, they actually never came face to face, and there was\nat least the difference of 15 years during the past and the start of the\nseries, and when we see Rukia's past, we see that she was with Kaien Shiba who\nwas head of Shiba clan.\n\nBut as we know, a captain is generally the head of a clan in his duty period,\nso that means Kaien inherited his role as head of the Shiba clan from Isshin\nin absence of him, which means that even Rukia didn't know about Isshin from\nstart, only Urahara and Yoruichi knew about him, but I think they acknowledged\nthe presence of Isshin during the Fullbringer arc because he was there when\nRukia stabbed Ichigo with Reishi blade.\n\nAnd as to why he didn't return during the Blood War arc, he was outcasted by\nSoul Society because he gave his power to humans, which is a crime as we know\nfrom the prelude of Soul Society. And as for punishment, he was banished from\nSoul Society and never contacted for anything because there was no way for\nGotei 13 to find him because of his weakened reaitus and probably because of\nUraghar.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-01-16T15:25:07.133", "id": "66227", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-17T02:17:55.903", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-17T02:17:55.903", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "65068", "parent_id": "63991", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**The Russian song does not seem to really exist.**\n\nHowever, according to some Japanese fans, the most popular theory is that the\nsong resembles [Betty Neels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Neels)'\nromance novel [_Dearest Mary\nJane_](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933264.Dearest_Mary_Jane) (also\nknown as\n[二人のティータイム](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BA%8C%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AE%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E2%80%95%E6%81%8B%E4%BA%BA%E3%81%AF%E3%83%89%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC-%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-%E3%83%99%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3-%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA/dp/4596762481)\n/ _Tea Time for Two_ in Japan).\n\nThe story is about the protagonist Mary Jane and her sister Felicity both\nmeeting and falling in love with a surgeon, Sir Thomas Latimer.\n\nThis coincides with the composition of Reze and Makima's fight for Pochita and\nDenji's attraction to them. Also, Jane, who runs the cafe, might be Reze, and\nFelicity, who is blessed with good looks, might be Makima.\n\n* * *\n\nReferences (all in Japanese):\n\n * [Michau! - What is Reze's Russian song about? Including the meaning of the lyric (Chainsaw Man)](https://mitaiyomitai.com/manga/post-24134/)\n * [Manga Comic Netabare - (Chainsaw Man) Reze singing in Russian became a hot topic! Is it not a merciless lyric? The reason why Reze sings in Russian?](https://manga-comic-netabare.com/archives/19974/%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AC%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E8%AA%9E%E6%AD%8C%E3%81%86%E6%AE%8B%E9%85%B7%E6%AD%8C%E8%A9%9E%E7%90%86%E7%94%B1/#i-4)\n * [Shonen Create - (Chainsaw Man) Translating Reze's song! Introducing the meaning of the Russian song and its origin](https://www.kurieisha.com/chainsawman-reze-song#index_id3)\n * [Twitter - a tweet by @karin5858 on Jan 15, 2020](https://twitter.com/karin5858/status/1217448986027548673)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-17T17:34:34.643", "id": "64009", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-17T17:34:34.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "63999", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm from Russia and I've never heard of this one, also Google did not bring me\nany answers, so it doesn't exist. (besides, it is quite intriguing why the\nauthor composed a song in Russian)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-08-25T21:45:40.233", "id": "65483", "last_activity_date": "2022-11-01T12:09:59.647", "last_edit_date": "2022-11-01T12:09:59.647", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "62139", "parent_id": "63999", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey don't.\n\nIt's sort of a running joke in the anime community that holding hands is a\nlewd and explicit act, and this in turn has spawned jokes about how hand-\nholding should be censored. I'm unsure how and why this joke evolved, but\n[this r/OutOfTheLoop thread from\n2015](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3i33lv/why_is_holding_hands_lewd/)\nindicates that it's been around for quite some time. Those liking and replying\nto the original comment are presumably in on the joke and going along with it.\n\nI'm unaware of anyone who actually, sincerely believes that hand-holding\nshould be censored.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-16T18:13:02.643", "id": "64002", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-16T18:13:02.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35679", "parent_id": "64000", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\n**Warning: Text under spoiler tab contains NSFW terms**\n\n* * *\n\nIt's **satire** to the whole absurd censorship rules in the anime industry\n(see [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5meKq6X2RgI) to know more on\nthese absurd rules). I did some digging and found exactly what I needed:\n\n> Hand Holding is another act that is used in a similar manner to Consensual\n> Sex in the Missionary Position. Threads with hand holding as the topic will\n> often receive satirical replies usually criticizing how the original poster\n> is sick or lewd. Related images of this at time feature anime characters\n> with unnecessary censorship photoshopped over the hands to add further\n> lewdness. ([source](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/consensual-sex-in-the-\n> missionary-position))\n\nThere are many reddit post discussing this meme (see refs.) all agreeing on\nthe satirical take but sometimes there are some specific but very absurd\nreasons:\n\n 1. Many \"child-friendly\" books explained baby-making as \"when your parents love each other very much by holding hands and/or hugging very tight, mommy gets pregnant\". This, however was considered too lewd for children and hence had to censor them. (See [Naisho no Tsubomi](https://myanimelist.net/manga/1122))\n\n 2. > It's a mix between a generalized joke about the Japanese censoring genitalia in doujins as well as the fact that Romance series often end on hand holding and often without even a kiss, people started joking that handholding was too lewd for network TV. This joke was taken so seriously that even handholding was censored in hentai and borderline hentai giving up a notion that if you want to censor anything, censor everything (e.g. Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai). Therefore, holding hands which is one of the purest acts of a romantic relationship is censored as if it's a filthy act just like censoring porn/guro making it somewhat hilarious.\n\n**References** :\n\n 1. [What is this censored hand holding thing in Anime? -reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/ism232/what_is_this_censored_hand_holding_thing_in_anime/)\n 2. [Why would they pixel that? - reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2cimva/why_would_they_pixel_that/)\n 3. [What started the censored holding hands meme? -reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/4mo2i1/what_started_the_censored_holding_hands_meme/)\n\n* * *\n\n**Bonus** : Not only holding hands were censored as a joke, even the thoughts\nof holding hands and cuddling were satirized to be impure. This is a scene\nfrom _Oremonogatari_ :\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hiZ8y.png)\n\nThis image is actually a part of [Tumblr\npost](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xI7Ig.jpg) where the poster made a cheeky\nremark ( _Warning: Strong language_ ).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-17T03:53:34.637", "id": "64006", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-18T05:01:03.793", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-18T05:01:03.793", "last_editor_user_id": "48011", "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "64000", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a meme that originated on /d/, 4chan's EXTREME hentai board. The people\non there really don't view any sex stuff as weird, because they have seen it\nall so often, but do get all squeamish about normal non sexual romantic\nactions because they rarely if ever see those kinda things.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-17T20:22:28.957", "id": "64010", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-17T21:20:24.280", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-17T21:20:24.280", "last_editor_user_id": "61208", "owner_user_id": "61208", "parent_id": "64000", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Japanese anime and manga has developed its own visual language or\niconography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_iconography) for expressing\nemotion and other internal character states. This drawing style is very\ndistinctive with unique facial features and character traits which are very\nvery different from real life and explaining each of them elaborately will\nmake the answer very long. So, let's stick to only \"mouth\" as per the\nquestion. _Mouths are often depicted as small, usually rendered with one line\non the face._\n\n> So, why single line?\n\nThis is kind of a generalized explanation. There are several factors come into\nplay:\n\n 1. **Tangible economic reasons** : Animation is shockingly labor intensive and expensive, meaning if there's a way to skip some detail without alienating the audience, animators will go for it. So, not drawing defined lips is a very real time and money saver for the studios. Even if you move tiny amount of pixel, the whole emotion of the character changes saving a lot of time for the animators.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8XCZ.png)\n\n 2. **No Makeup** : Female makeup on average is significantly less pronounced in Japan (but that doesn't mean that Japanese women or girls wouldn't wear any). But the general preference leans strongly towards subdued, non-eye-catching hues, even for actresses or models and even for younger women/girls in everyday settings (many school regulations straight-out forbid lipstick entirely). This of course had an effect on anime character designs in turn, after all a big part of female anime characters is supposed to be in or close to that age range. So, in anime as soon as you can see any hint of the lips at all, it's usually supposed to mean that the character is either wearing fairly conspicuous lip gloss - or even colored lipstick.\n\n 3. **Psychological advantage:** our brains are biologically hard-wired to subconsciously categorize certain physical features as non-threatening, and will inevitably respond with feelings of affection or protectiveness. So \"big eyes, small mouth\" is a part of this. See [moe-culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_\\(slang\\)) for more information.\n\nSo, bottom line is these types of faces [are not typical Asian-\nlooking](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7539/why-are-most-people-\nin-anime-white-or-european-looking-instead-of-japanese) but are so popular and\nvisually appealing to viewers that [they recycle\nit.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22624/why-do-anime-and-manga-\nuse-the-same-faces) [Making realistic faces in anime is somewhat\nexpensive.](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/27812/why-is-it-\nexpensive-to-create-realistic-faces-in-the-anime-industry) Animators pertains\nto a distinct anime art style (which is different for different studious).\nThis distinction is very important and if every studio tries to make real life\nfaces, then the distinction would be lost and it won't be visually appealing\nto viewers. That's why they intentionally let the facial features quite\ndifferent from real life and also from other studies. (see [this\nvideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ScR1_zWdY) to see different art\nstyles of studios).\n\n**References** :\n\n 1. [Why does anime characters have no lips? -Quora post](https://www.quora.com/Why-does-it-often-seem-like-anime-characters-have-no-lips)\n 2. [The DISTURBING Truth Behind Why Anime Characters Don’t Look Japanese](https://animemotivation.com/why-anime-characters-dont-look-japanese/)\n 3. [Anime Faces how real are they?](https://www.animescience101.com/anime-faces/)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-17T04:55:51.613", "id": "64007", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-17T04:55:51.613", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "64003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHope and despair is just the set theme in general. as far as I'm aware theres\nno real reason its just what danganronppa is set around. If junko wants\ndespair than someone will want hope, Its just what makes it interesting. same\nwith how **spoilers?** V3 is set around lies and truth.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-01-25T01:11:08.697", "id": "66263", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-25T01:11:08.697", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "65186", "parent_id": "64011", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGen Urobuchi didn't think of the mechanics of it too much however we can infer\nfrom what he said and what we see is that Homura is reversing time as opposed\nto traveling back\n\n> The weapon that looks like Homura's shield is actually a sand timer. When\n> the flow of the sand is blocked, time is stopped. And when there is no sand\n> on the upper part of the sand timer and then the timer is reverted, **one\n> month's worth of time is turned back**. But before that stage is reached,\n> only time stopping is possible. This means the special power of Homura is\n> the ability to manipulate one month's time's worth of sand in the sand\n> timer. As for the time passed and then turned back, since it was not the\n> focus in this work, **I did not think it through very thoroughly.**\n\nSource: [Homura Akemi > Powers and Abilities (2nd dot\npoint)](https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Homura_Akemi#Powers_and_Abilities)\n\nwhen she reverses time we see she wakes up in the same hospital bed where she\nwoke up in Episode 10 before she became a Magical Girl looking like Moemura\nagain as if she hit rewind on the entire universe, but she retains her powers\nand memories as we see after making her wish she wake up and find the Sand\nTimer on her arm\n\nPossibly due to her karmic fate compiling, Madoka starts retaining some\nmemories as well as at start of the series she \"dreams\" of the previous\ntimeline before waking up\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-06-18T14:24:29.220", "id": "64019", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-18T14:24:29.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "64013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]