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[ { "body": "\n\nI've only watched the _Da Capo III_ anime (which apparently only adapts the\nprologue of the original visual novel's story), but that features the\ncharacters\n\n> Sakura Yoshino and Minatsu Amakase\n\nfrom _Da Capo II_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T17:48:31.370", "id": "6995", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T17:48:31.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3377", "parent_id": "4804", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt started at least 2000 years ago with works like Homer's Illiad and Odyessy,\nand lost works, Hesiod's Theogony, and later, Virgil's Aeneid, among other\nthings.\n\nMost notably, the Illiad showcased the seige of Troy, focusing mostly on\nAchilles's role and his dispute with Agamemnon.\n\nThe Aeneid focused on Aineas, who fought in the Trojan War, and escaped Troy\nto found Alba Longa, where the founders of Rome were from (they presumably\ndescended from Aeneas).\n\nIt is also known that there are lost works about the Trojan War, which\ndescribe other parts of the war such as the sack of Troy.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-20T19:13:32.880", "id": "5967", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T03:36:08.913", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T03:36:08.913", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "4806", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are very likely looking for [Shura no Toki](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=1663).\n\n> Legends tell of an invincible martial art known as Mutsu Enmei-Ryu, an\n> **unarmed style** that allows the user to defeat any number of armed\n> opponents using incredible speed and strength. This is the story of three\n> generations of those who bear the name **Mutsu** , and their encounters and\n> battles with the strongest fighters of their era.\n\nThe AniDB entry is tagged with _Shinsengumi_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-14T07:23:58.643", "id": "4808", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-14T07:23:58.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "4807", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe this is a reference to the novel [\"I am a\nCat\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Cat) (吾輩は猫である, _Wagahai wa neko\ndearu_ ) by author [Natsume\nSouseki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_S%C5%8Dseki). It's opening\nsentences are the following:\n\n> 吾輩は猫である。名前はまだ無い。\n\nwhich, translated into English, is:\n\n> I am a cat. I don't yet have a name.\n\nThe reference is more apparent if we compare the two in Japanese. The\ngrammatical structure of the sentences is very similar:\n\nTWGOK:\n\n> **吾輩は** 女装男 **である。名前は** 桂木\n\nI am a cat:\n\n> **吾輩は** 猫 **である。名前は** まだ無い。\n\nAll the words other than the nouns are the same. The use of 吾輩 ( _wagahai_ )\nfor \"I\", である ( _dearu_ ) as a sentence-ending phrase would both be strange in\nmodern writing. In addition, the general structure of the two sentences are\nsimilar enough that this is almost certainly not a coincidence.\n\nThe novel is very popular in Japan, being Natsume's first major literary work\nand one of his top three most read (the other two are\n[Kokoro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokoro) and\n[Botchan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botchan)), and Natsume himself being in\nall likelihood the most important writer in Japanese history. It would not be\nstrange at all for it to be referenced here.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-14T18:22:38.283", "id": "4812", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-14T19:50:24.443", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-14T19:50:24.443", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4811", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> **What does a.t.b. stand for?**\n\nIt stands for \"Ascension Throne Britannia\", named after the \"date the first\nCeltic super-king, Eowyn, was elected by the united British tribes to battle\nRome, becoming the first member of the modern Britannian imperial\nfamily.\"[{1}](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/World_History) 55\n[B.C.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini) is equivalent to 1 a.t.b.\n\n* * *\n\n> **How can we convert between a.t.b. and R.Y.?**\n\nThe Revolution Year system (used by the EU in _Code Geass_ ) is based on the\nFrench Revolution (start date) of 1789\nA.D.[{2}](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution)[{3}](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/European_Union#Akito_Worldview_Columns)\nSince 55 B.C. is 1 a.t.b., we can figure out the actual conversion formula:\n\n> 0 R.Y. = 1789 A.D. = 1845 a.t.b.\n\nIf you want a simple conversion between a.t.b. and R.Y., just some simple\nmath:\n\n> R.Y. = a.t.b. - 1845\n\n* * *\n\n> **Which Revolution Year would 2010 a.t.b. be?**\n\nBased on the conversion above, a.t.b. 2010 is equivalent to R.Y 165.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-15T01:26:46.593", "id": "4815", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-15T01:32:01.020", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-15T01:32:01.020", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "4814", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nAt the beginning of the second episode of Akito the Exiled, the following is\nsaid:\n\n> Revolution Year 228. It has been seven years since the Empire of Britannia\n> invaded Japan and renamed it Area 11.\n\nBecause the invasion of Japan happened in 2010 a.t.b, it can be deduced that\nthe offset, at least in the time frame of the series, between a.t.b and R.T\nis:\n\n[code]\n\n 2010 + 7 - 228 = 1789\n \n[/code]\n\nSo it appears that R.Y. 0 would correspond to 1789 a.t.b.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T12:44:43.017", "id": "6744", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T12:44:43.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1362", "parent_id": "4814", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Sage of Six Paths has passed away and the whereabouts of the remains are\nunknown. There is actually no substantiating proof that he actually existed,\nwhich is why a lot of people also think it is just a myth.\n\nAnd you can't revive him with Edo Tensei unless you have his DNA.\n\nOf course, it is pretty safe to assume he did exist though. While the shinobi\nmight not believe of his existence, the people reading/watching Naruto have\nmore insight about the history of shinobi.\n\nAs for why his remains are unknown, he probably made this intentional so he\nwouldn't be revived in the future.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-15T02:18:07.747", "id": "4817", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-15T03:29:08.007", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-15T03:29:08.007", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "4816", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHaving the chakra of kyuubi and hachibi will suffice, but the Juubi is\nconsiderably weaker. Having the full kyuubi and hachibi will essentially\ncreate the juubi in its perfect form. For each bijuu that juubi doesn't have,\nthe monster gets weakened.\n\nIt's basically like comparing a fraction of the kyuubi's chakra vs an entire\nkyuubi with his full chakra at your service. The amount of power is\nsignificant.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-15T03:24:12.363", "id": "4819", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-15T03:24:12.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "4818", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause the Juubi will not be revive in its full form and make the juubi\nweaker for every tailed beasts that has been extracted only by parts.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-15T05:01:05.023", "id": "4820", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-15T05:01:05.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1757", "parent_id": "4818", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nArlong was released earlier on Jinbes request.\n\nSource: <http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Arlong#After_Tiger.27s_Death> \n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Impel_Down#Prisoners>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-15T06:13:30.677", "id": "4822", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-15T06:13:30.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "4821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nWe currently have the following timeline of things happening to Arlong:\n\n 1. Arlong gets beaten by Borsalino (Kizaru) and sent to Impel Down.\n 2. Arlong is released from Impel Down when Jinbe became a Shichibukai.\n 3. Arlong had a fight with Jinbe and started the [Arlong Pirates](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Arlong_Pirates) and went to East Blue and settled on [Cocoyasi Island](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Conomi_Islands).\n 4. Luffy and crew follow Nami to Cocoyasi Island where Luffy beats up Arlong.\n 5. All of Arlong's crew get arrested (exception: [Hatchan](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hatchan)) by marines.\n\nI skipped a large chunk between points 3 and 4 because it's irrelevant. You\ncan find all of Arlong's history\n[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Arlong#History).\n\nAt point 5 when they got arrested you would assume that he would have been\nsent to Impel Down again, but it is futher unknown what has happened to Arlong\nas it hasn't been shown or told in the anime or manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-15T08:00:00.063", "id": "4823", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T18:12:50.003", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T18:12:50.003", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "4821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure what happened to Arlong, but according to Hodi Jones he was\nkilled by humans...\n\n\n\nFrom chapter 634\n\nAnd from the Anime Episode #554:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8gi5l.jpg) \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FEN41.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T21:37:44.730", "id": "18419", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-27T02:07:59.240", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-27T02:07:59.240", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "11108", "parent_id": "4821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nthe implication (that will never be confirmed or denied because either way\nraises plot holes) is that he was killed during his battle with Luffy. That's\nwhat Hordy is referencing, I believe.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-10-10T23:08:52.827", "id": "59781", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-10T23:08:52.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56625", "parent_id": "4821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, in the same Elfenlied (Elf Song) article it says:\n\n> A sung version of **\"Elfenlied\" appears in the manga**. Also, the term\n> **\"Silpelit\" is used in the series to describe a category of Diclonius** ,\n> which refers to an evolved subspecies of humans to which the main character\n> belongs.\n\nThe \"Silpelit\" is part of the poem:\n\n> And he thinks that the nightingale \n> must have called him by name from the valley, \n> or Silpelit might have sent for him.\n\nAdditionally, this song is taught to Nyu by the manga-only protagonist Nozomi.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-15T23:54:11.020", "id": "4826", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-15T23:54:11.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "4825", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe sign says ようじや ( _youjiya_ ) but because it's written in hiragana the\nmeaning is a bit ambiguous. The や suffix in the name of a store would always\nbe 屋, which just means store, or it can also refer to the head of such a store\n(e.g. 魚屋 can mean either a fish store or the dealer selling you the fish). So\nthis is a store for ようじ ( _youji_ ), but the meaning of that is still\nambiguous because ようじ written in hiragana is a homophone that could have\nseveral meanings.\n\nThe meaning that Aoi interpreted is 幼児, which means infants and young\nchildren. So Aoi thought it was a store to buy children, hence the second\nscreenshot you've given. This is the most common somewhat sensical\ninterpretation of ようじ when written in hiragana in this context. It could also\nmean 用事 (errands) in other contexts, but that doesn't fit here.\n\nBut ようじ can also mean toothpick written as 楊子 (or 揚枝 less commonly). Usually\none uses 爪楊枝 ( _tsumayouji_ ) to describe the toothpicks themselves but the 爪\n(here _tsuma_ , meaning claw or nail) can be omitted in principle. This is the\nmeaning here, so the shop is literally a store for toothpicks (and likely some\nrelated merchandise).\n\nI think that many Japanese people would not know how to interpret the sign\nようじや, so Aoi's misunderstanding is understandable. However, I don't think very\nmany people would think that it was a store for 幼児 (children) either, so Aoi's\nleap of reasoning there is somewhat comical.\n\nAs a cultural note, there actually is a toothpick specialty shop in Japan.\nIt's called [Saruya](http://blog.japantwo.com/2012/05/10/4984) and located in\nTokyo (link to a blog post about the store). As far as I know this is the only\nstore of its kind in Japan, so the shop in Ro-kyu-bu is fictional (being in\nKyoto). In any case, Japanese culture takes toothpicks more seriously than\nmost other cultures, so the existence of such a store is not entirely\nimpossible, but it's still quite implausible.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-17T03:10:07.477", "id": "4841", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-17T03:10:07.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to Logan's already ample explanation, there's another layer of\ncomplexity to this wordplay.\n\nThere is a famous brand of cosmetic items in Kyoto, called [よーじや\n_Yojiya_](http://www.yojiya.co.jp/english/), pronounced the same way. They're\nespecially famous for their facial oil removing paper ([あぶらとり紙\n_aburatorigami_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aburatorigami)), a popular\nsouvenir in Kyoto.\n\nTheir name comes from the toothbrush they sold early on in their business,\nwhich was called 楊枝 _yōji_ back then. Nowadays toothbrushes are called 歯ブラシ\n_ha-burashi_ (a literal translation of the English word), so people use the\nword 楊枝 to mean 爪楊枝 _tsumayōji_ (toothpick).\n\nSo when a tourist comes to Kyoto for the first time and sees Yojiya, they\nthink of it as a specialty store in toothpicks. They would walk into the store\nexpecting to find out what a high-end toothpick would be like, only to find\nout otherwise.\n\nSo, the scene in question could be considered as a gag that plays upon this\npopular joke.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T00:01:25.947", "id": "4871", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T00:01:25.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "4839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis triangle-shaped headband is called a _tenkan_ (天冠, lit. \"heaven crown\").\nIn some parts of Japan, it may also be called a _zukin_ (頭巾, lit. \"hood\" and\nalso used as a generic term), a _hitai-eboshi_ (額烏帽子, lit. \"forehead\nheadpiece\"), or a _kami-kakushi_ (髪隠し, lit. \"hair-hider\")2.\n\nTraditionally, the _tenkan_ was one component of a traditional burial garment\n( _shini-shouzoku_ / 死に装束). The garment also typically included a white\nkimono, [these glove-things](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kDBze.png) ( _tekkou_ /\n手甲), and a particular style of boots called _kyahan_ (脚絆) that I'm having\ntrouble finding a good picture of.\n\nThere are a number of explanations of the purpose of the _tenkan_ , including:\n\n * It must be worn to avoid offending Enma (a judge of the dead in Japanese Buddhist mythology; he's actually a derivative of the Hindu deity Yama)\n * It allows the dead to escape from hell\n * It functions as a signal that one was of high standing in life.\n\nIn anime today, I get the feeling that the _tenkan_ basically serves as a\nsignal to viewers that whoever is wearing it has something to do with death\n(or, more generally, with non-humanness, I guess).\n\n## Notes\n\n 1. This answer is mostly a translation of the following article: [What's the triangular piece of cloth that ghosts wear on their heads?](http://allabout.co.jp/gm/gc/67450/) (Japanese)\n 2. This seems like it may be a pun on 神隠し, or \"spiriting away\" (as in the Ghibli film 千と千尋の神隠し, or \"Spirited Away\"). See also [this question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/12569/3437) at Japanese.SE.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-17T12:49:36.903", "id": "4843", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-25T23:52:50.150", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-25T23:52:50.150", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "4842", "post_type": "answer", "score": 26 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is no specific word for it. It's basically a headband, and can be\ngenerally referred to as a _boshi_ (hat) or _nuno_ (cloth). It's typically\nassociated with the white burial kimono, called a _kyoukatabira_.\n\nThis triangle-shaped white cloth item can go by multiple names, depending on\nthe region and religion. They have grandiose names such as _tenkan/tengan_\n(heaven's crown) mundane is _zukin_ (hood or kerchief). Several of terms are\nsimple and descriptive, like _hitai-eboshi_ (forehead hat), or _hitai-kakushi_\n(forehead-hider), _kami-kakushi_ (hair-hider), _houkan_ (diadem, only\nBuddhists use this word) and _kami-kaburi_ (hair headdress). The most basic\nterm of all is probably _sankaku no (shiroi) nuno_ (triangular [white] cloth).\n\nThere have been two popular theories on it's purpose/origin, both are\nspeculative. Some say that the dead have or need to ascended to a higher\nlevel, and thus the cloth item is placed upon their heads to show their new\nstatus, or to help them ascend. Another theory suggests that that the sharp\npoint of the triangle shape are a ward to deter evil spirits/demons from\nentering the corpse and resurrecting the it or preventing the soul from\npassing on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-17T12:52:31.623", "id": "4844", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-17T12:52:31.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4842", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIn anime and manga it has been known to symbolize the dead, including zombies,\nvampires, and ghosts. When you see this in anime or manga you know that the\ncharacter isn't alive.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-26T09:14:05.100", "id": "9929", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-26T10:33:39.603", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-26T10:33:39.603", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "5022", "parent_id": "4842", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe was able to accomplish this through her stored mana. She's like Sakura,\nand Avenger, a (Psudo)Holy Grail to put it simply\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-25T07:57:53.307", "id": "4956", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-25T20:04:56.310", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-25T20:04:56.310", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "2282", "parent_id": "4846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt would appear that Archerko Illya traced Excalibur and overloaded it with\nprana turning it into a [Broken\nPhantasm](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Noble_Phantasm). Which raises the\nweapon's rank by one.\n\nOne would assume that the two Excaliburs would cancel each other out, but\nSaber Alter, unlike the typical Saber only has an Magic Resistance of [Rank\nB](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Saber_%28Fate/stay_night%29#Magic_Resistance)\nsince her Alignment is Lawful Evil, which might make her more vulnerable to\nthe effects of Excalibur.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-18T16:48:56.203", "id": "6414", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-03T01:24:20.063", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-03T01:24:20.063", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a mixture of all 3 points you mentioned:\n\nDeus's time for the game was running out as his lifespan was ending, So when\nhe saved her, it counted as a death (as she would be dead if he didn't\nintervene).\n\n[Scene of Deus's intervention](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSmOwudO4Ns)\n\nIf you think of Deus's intervention as a revival rather than avoidance of the\ndeath it might be clearer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-18T09:28:59.880", "id": "4848", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-18T09:28:59.880", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "4847", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n> When Deus saved Ninth, maybe he kind of disqualified her from the game, so\n> she's not a player anymore and doesn't have to die. \n> I don't remember if this was mentioned or implied. Was it?\n\nActually, the rules aren't \"The last survivor wins\" but \"The last diary owner\nwins\". When Ninth came back, she had no diary anymore, because she already\ndestroyed it to kill herself in the save. So after Yuno's death, Yukiteru was\nthe last diary owner.\n\nBesides that, Murmur doesn't seem to care about the winning conditions as she\nnearly made Yuno the new god even though Yukiteru was still alive.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-21T06:09:41.063", "id": "4896", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-11T01:41:32.423", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-11T01:41:32.423", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "4847", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMuch like [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/12935/why-\nmarika-didnt-wear-same-uniform-with-others), this is most likely to be part of\nthe _Transfer Student Uniform_ trope that features in a few anime.\n\n[TVTropes\npage](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransferStudentUniforms)\n\n> New Transfer Students in places where school uniforms are a cultural default\n> setting often wear their old ones until the school can provide them with a\n> new one. In fiction, this shows the newcomer or outsider. When they get the\n> current school uniform, this indicates they've been assimilated. If the\n> student is meant to be a Fish out of Water, they will keep their old uniform\n> throughout the series. In Japanese media, even rebels don't choose to\n> abandon uniforms entirely; in American media they will do this even if the\n> new school doesn't have uniforms. Compare the Non-Uniform Uniform.\n\nThanks to @Jon_Lin\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-12T16:41:01.017", "id": "14407", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-12T16:41:01.017", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "4849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter a devoted search all around the interwebz, I have come to a sad\nconclusion that I could not find anything specific about Sala Powell at all.\n\nWhat I did find during my searching is some potential connections that might\nhelp others search, and some speculation.\n\n**Potential connections**\n\n 1. This might be a reference to [Nate Powell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Powell) ( _not very likely_ ). As seen on the linked page, Nate used to be a cartoonist/writer, and also brought out a CD with W A I T called \" _All The Days Are Numbered So_ \"; this could be a far-fetched connection.\n 2. This might be a reference to Chella Powell. After some research, I found out that \"Sala\" in some languages can be pronounced as \"Chella\". For Chella Powell, I found the following information quite interesting, but shamefully ended in a dead end.\n\n> Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #196 by Antonio Chella: The\n> challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind\n> ... \n> -- [source](http://powells.com/biblio/9783642342738)\n\nThis may be far-fetched as well.\n\n**Online speculation**\n\nAfter asking quite some HotD addicts about their opinions, and looking around\nonline myself, I found:\n\n 1. Sala Powell might be the cause of the zombie apocalypse\n 2. Sala Powell probably has some sort of connection to the apocalypse\n 3. The writer doesent even know \n 4. This is a plot point to be revealed\n\nPoints 1 and 2 speak for themselves. She might have been a scientist on some\nsort of military project. In one of the first episodes, the self defense force\nof Japan flies over the school, seemingly ignoring all the people flying to a\nspecific point, picking up Sala Powell? Does she have the answer to the\napocalypse? Does she have a cure? These points just give more questions than\nreal answers and can't be really proven 'til more of the manga is released.\n\nThe 3rd point: Daisuke Satō doesn't even know himself. Satō is a writer known\nto go on hiatus for a long time due to having no inspiration or just writing\nhimself into a corner not knowing how to get out of it.\n\nAnd my 4th point, which seems to be most likely for now, is that this is a\nplot point yet to be revealed. We don't really know much about the apocalypse:\nnot how it started, not what caused it. This might be revealed at a later\npoint in the story. So, until Daisuke Satō makes more manga chapters to\nharvest information from, I don't think we can have a definite answer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-18T19:07:01.593", "id": "4856", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-18T19:35:23.833", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-18T19:35:23.833", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "4854", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nhave you thought that since Japanese people tend to say L as R and R as L, it\ncould be that the creator intentionally named her Sala Powell instead of Sarah\nPower. Sarah Power is a Canadian actress and she resembles the drawing present\nin the missing poster.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-29T18:36:41.307", "id": "47228", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-29T18:36:41.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "40887", "parent_id": "4854", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime you're talking about is **Zetsuen no Tempest** (or [**Blast of\nTempest**](http://www.crunchyroll.com/blast-of-tempest), as Crunchyroll\ntranslates it).\n\nIt begins with TAKIGAWA Yoshino meeting his long-time friend FUWA Mahiro, who\nhas gained magic powers from KUSARIBE Hakaze (a magician stranded on an island\nin the middle of nowhere) as part of a deal in which Hakaze will help Mahiro\nfigure out who killed his sister, FUWA Aika. Unbeknownst to Mahiro, Yoshino\nand Aika were lovers. Drama unfolds thereafter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-18T20:54:03.190", "id": "4858", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-19T18:12:05.967", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-19T18:12:05.967", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "4857", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJapanese can be written either [horizontally or\nvertically](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts).\nVertical writing is known as _tategaki_ (縦書き) and is notably used in manga.\nWhen writing vertically, columns of text are read top-to-bottom, right-to-\nleft, which is why manga panels are also read this way. Horizontal writing is\ncalled _yokogaki_ (横書き) and is written left-to-right, top-to-bottom exactly as\nEnglish text is. There's also an obsolete form, _migi yokogaki_ (右横書き), which\nis read horizontally but right-to-left; this is only used in a couple of\nseries for stylistic reasons. The orientation of the characters in all of\nthese styles of writing is the same.\n\nBoth styles can be found in anime. I think it is probably true that horizontal\nwriting is more common than vertical writing, but it depends on the format of\nthe writing. In general, horizontal writing is the more modern style, which\nwas adopted during the Meiji era to conform to western styles of writing.\nTraditionally Japanese is written vertically (this tradition originates in\nChina as do most Japanese linguistic traditions). The Meiji era is also when\nthe Japanese language was really standardized (before that it was basically a\ncollection of regional dialects), so naturally this was a time when a lot of\nchanges were made to the language and partial adoption of horizontal writing\nis just one of them.\n\nIn terms of usage, vertical writing is used in newspapers, novels,\ncalligraphy, and manga, while horizontal writing is used for academic writing,\ncomputer text, and many other everyday tasks. The text you see in anime is\nusually fairly representative of what direction it would typically be written\nin Japan. Likewise, in manga, text other than dialogue (e.g. on signs) often\nappears both horizontally and vertically. For anime, when there is flashing\ntext on the screen not part of any signs (e.g. in Bakemonogatari), these are\nmore frequently horizontal, probably because television screens are oriented\nhorizontally (landscape), but there are examples of vertical writing in such\ncases as well.\n\nHere's an example from Monogatari Series Second Season (episode 7) with both\ntategaki and migi yokogaki writing. The sign on the left is written\nvertically, while the ones on the right is horizontal but right-to-left.\n\n\n\nHere's an example of flashing text from the same episode, written with\nordinary yokogaki (left-to-right) writing:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 12, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-19T04:08:01.747", "id": "4861", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-19T04:30:37.917", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-19T04:30:37.917", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4860", "post_type": "answer", "score": 25 }, { "body": "\n\n> I was originally thinking of text that appeared in credits, titles, and non-\n> in-show elements.\n\nVery well. Credits and titles.\n\nYokogaki (horizontal) titles are more common in anime, most likely due to the\nfact that TV screens are horizontal. For the case of _Oreimo_ , the title on\nthe light novel cover was tategaki (because the book is in tategaki writing)\nbut was changed to yokogaki in the anime while retaining the font.\n\n\n\nNothing prevents anybody from opting for a tategaki anime title, however. An\nexample can be seen in _The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_ , but you can see\nthat the layout is pretty tight.\n\n\n\nSame thing with credits. Yokogaki is more common, but you can find tategaki\ncredits from time to time. For example, ED of _Nichijou_ as seen below. It's\nall a matter of layout and aesthetics.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T05:13:35.410", "id": "4878", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T05:13:35.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "4860", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe _Bleach_ manga is being published in _Weekly Shōnen Jump_ , which belongs\nto Shueisha Inc. - a major Japanese publisher.\n\nIn the case of MangaFox, Shueisha requested the removal of _Bleach_ , _Naruto_\nand _One Piece_ from the site (you can read more\n[here](http://forums.mangafox.me/threads/360895-ANNOUNCEMENT-Removal-of-the-\nBig-3-Manga)), so I would assume something similar had happened to it as well.\nFor the reference, the holder of the rights to publish _Bleach_ in the USA\nbelongs to Viz Media, which has also requested the removal of the series from\nsome of the websites before.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-19T05:21:53.883", "id": "4864", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-26T19:26:19.347", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-26T19:26:19.347", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "4862", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nAn alternative to the local library would be the local corporate bookstore.\nI've seen kids and teenagers sit around the coffee shop if there is seating,\nright in front of the shelves if there is not, reading the volumes.\n\nThe smaller stores won't let you do this, but I think the bigger ones have a\nPR reason for letting you do this. I'd imagine the reason being they want you\nto get used to going to their store. That way when you _do_ have some\ndisposable income, you're more likely to buy it from them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-19T05:40:33.100", "id": "4865", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-19T05:40:33.100", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "4862", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI found [a page](http://gabrielarobin.com/1738/ghost-in-the-shellsac-blu-ray-\nbox-release) that lists Blu-Ray sets you can buy for SAC, and those contain\naudio commentaries. That indicates that there are audio commentaries, but I'm\nnot sure if they can be gotten not on the Blu-Ray set. As far as I can tell,\nthere is no audio commentary for _Arise_ , but considering that it hasn't been\nreleased on any sort of disc form, that might change.\n\nOn [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28film%29), it\nsays about the original Ghost in the Shell film that:\n\n> Manga Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray on November 24, 2009; this\n> version contains the original film and the remastering, but omits the audio\n> commentary and face-to-face interview with Oshii which was listed on its\n> box.\n\nBut from what I can tell, the 2004 DVD release and the 2007 Blu-Ray releases\nhave the commentary, and the 2004 special edition also included things like\ncharacter dossiers and a creator's biography.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-19T16:26:08.727", "id": "4868", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-19T16:26:08.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "4866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis [blogpost](http://stevegilham.blogspot.com/2009/07/anime-eden-of-\neast.html) has a transcript of all of the text from the opening. Not all of\nthem are famous quotes.\n\n> \" _I saw you in Heaven and heard of your glory You saved our world from the\n> fallen angels I saw Messiah standing Standing before me with no words\n> Nothing but \"Hope\" When we lost dread, a Demon was laughing But now you are\n> showing us wonder Giving your love With awe, down on my knees again I've got\n> to know you're the one The only one reveals the world_ \"\n\nThis is repeated multiple times throughout the OP and seems to be part of the\nsong [東のエデン挿入歌「Reveal The World」](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO28pvdkyJI)\n\n> \" _The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power._ \"\n\nAs you've noted, it's [Brutus from Julius Caesar, by William\nShakespeare](http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17932/).\n\n> \" _Mail \n> Own date \n> Media tool \n> Appli \n> Camera \n> Phone book \n> Iseg \n> Music \n> Service \n> Setting \n> You've got mail \n> Calling \n> Talking_\" \n>\n\nThese seem to be options (partially obscured) of the phone.\n\n> \" _Let me walk with you when I'm lost in the wild I know you always lead me\n> to another Eden Let me bless your name, O Lord, O Lord Your words will never\n> fade away Since we believe you're the light on earth Reveals the world_ \"\n\nAlso from the \"Reveal the world\" song lyrics.\n\nThe rest seems to be proper names and instances from the show itself, like \"\n_noblesse oblige_ \", and \" _Juiz_ \", and \" _Selecao system 12 persons selected\nin Japan_ \". So the only real quote I guess is from the Julius Caesar play.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-19T18:58:53.920", "id": "4870", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-19T18:58:53.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "4869", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nTaken from this case noblesse oblige means, \"I nobly oblige myself\". Otherwise\nit means the obligations of nobility.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-24T16:34:20.110", "id": "38032", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-24T16:34:20.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29933", "parent_id": "4869", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt doesn't apply to all manga. For instance there's manga that are adaptations\nof other works (anime, video games, light novels) which don't start off as\none-shots and have, at the very least, a contractual run. Additionally, there\nare also manga that are used originally as promotional, as advertisement for a\nstore or an upcoming anime.\n\nThe Evangelion manga is an odd-ball, where it was supposed to be an adaptation\nof the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series, and start a month or two before\nits TV run as a promotion for the anime, but the TV run was delayed and didn't\nactually air until a year's worth of manga chapters. Additionally, there's\nseveral recent spin-off manga loosely based on the series.\n\nThere's a bunch of Gundam manga that were adapted from anime that were never\none-shots. Slayers has several manga series that were adapted from the anime\nand light novels. Cowboy Bebop, Blade of the Immortal, etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T16:26:36.573", "id": "4887", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T16:26:36.573", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "4872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to an [article in Japanese\nWikipedia](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE#.E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E3.81.AE.E3.82.AA.E3.82.BF.E3.82.AF.E6.96.87.E5.8C.96.E3.81.AB.E3.81.8A.E3.81.91.E3.82.8B.E3.83.AB.E3.83.BC.E3.83.97.E3.82.82.E3.81.AE),\ncritics like Hiroki Azuma and Masachi Osawa have cited [_Urusei Yatsura 2:\nBeautiful\nDreamer_](http://urusei.wikia.com/wiki/Urusei_Yatsura_2%3a_Beautiful_Dreamer)\n(1984) as the \"pioneering work\" or \"classical work\" featuring this structure\nin the Japanese anime/manga field. After this movie, the otaku industry\nexperienced a surge in the use of this plot device.\n\nArguably, the [Chapter of Strange\nBeings](http://tezukaosamu.net/en/manga/392.html) (1981) in Osamu Tezuka's\nmasterpiece _Phoenix_ has a similar structure, but in this case:\n\n> the protagonist herself does not experience the loop, but is endlessly\n> replaced by younger incarnation of herself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T02:33:36.113", "id": "4875", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T02:43:38.900", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-20T02:43:38.900", "last_editor_user_id": "2248", "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "4873", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know, 『アイドルコミックス・実録まんが岡田有希子』 _[Idol Comics: Documentary Manga\nYukiko Okada](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4051007073)_ (published by Gakken in\n1984) featuring the story of Yukiko Okada's early life until her debut could\nbe the first of its kind.\n\n**Update** : _Idol Comics_ was a series of manga based on the real lives of\nnot only idols, but also famous baseball players and pro wrestlers (\"idol\" in\na wider sense). As far as I can find on Amazon.co.jp, it appears that the\nfirst volumes came out in January, 1983. One of the volumes featured [堀ちえみ\nChiemi Hori](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4051005305) (idol born in 1967, debut\n1982), so that would make this the earliest one I can find. The other three\nvolumes that came out in the same month featured Tatsunori Hara (baseball\nplayer), Daisuke Araki (baseball player), and Tiger Mask (pro wrestler).\n\nAs for the anime, [『ピンク・レディー物語 栄光の天使たち』 _Pink Lady Monogatari: Eiko no\nTenshitachi_](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1416)\n(TV anime aired from 1978 to 1979) featuring Pink Lady would most likely be\nthe first. There seems to be some made-up episodes inserted (like intensive\ntraining to dance with their limbs bound), but most of what was depicted was\nbased on real-life stories.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T02:59:08.257", "id": "4876", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-15T01:51:24.970", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-15T01:51:24.970", "last_editor_user_id": "15276", "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "4874", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI may be wrong on this one, but I think the answer is \"no\". Let's take a look\nat how chakra works in a human body.\n\nChakra system is much like the circulatory system of a human:\n\n> Contained in the \"chakra coils\" that mainly surround and connect to each\n> chakra-producing organ, the energy circulates throughout the body in a\n> network called the \"chakra circulatory system\" (similar to the\n> cardiovascular system). [(1)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra)\n\nThe chakra circulatory system, itself\n\n> is enmeshed into the body and like blood vessels it touches and interacts\n> with every single living cell and passes through every\n> organ.[(2)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra_Pathway_System)\n\nMuch like with blood vessels, chakra vessels not equally distributed in the\nbody. There are more of them in some places, and less of them in others, which\nmeans the flow of chakra is more intense in some body parts, and is less\nintense in others.\n\nNow, we don't know much about the Tailed Beasts' body structure , but if we\nassume that their physical bodies work in a similar way, we can say that the\namount of chakra is also different for their body parts.\n\nAlso, obviously, the Tailed Beasts can regenerate their chakra (otherwise\nthey'd have a limited amount of it), and for some reason I doubt that the cut\npart of the tail is capable of regenerating chakra on it's own.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T11:54:05.733", "id": "4880", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T11:54:05.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "4879", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\"This story has a proper ending\"\n\n**Sarcasm**\n\nIt's more or less a running-gag of the show that it has no real ending.\n\n> Actually, the ending repeats the first scene of the anime, where the three\n> friends go to school again (just weirder), although their school-time (and\n> story) should be over.\n\nI think you should watch the 12 normal episodes and then the specials. I can't\nremember them, however, but the main anime works without them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T16:13:07.193", "id": "4886", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T16:13:07.193", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "4881", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMiddle names are not in Japanese culture. Japanese people at birth are given a\nfirst and last name (or a surname and forename). In the rare occasions that\nyou see someone with a middle name, it is usually one of the following two\nthings. They are either of mixed descent, or a woman marrying a man, and using\nboth her original surname as well as the spouse's surname.\n\nWith that said, double forenames don't exist in Japan and most other Pacific\nAsian countries. And because Japan doesn't use double forenames, Japanese\nanime are also inclined not to use double forenames.\n\nThere are some series that have used double surnames though, but they were\nnever full Japanese characters. The characters would be of foreign ethnicity\nand names would be English names written in kata kana.\n\nCheck this out for more detailed and historical information on [Japanese\nNames](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-20T19:38:05.973", "id": "4890", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-20T20:52:45.517", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-20T20:52:45.517", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "4889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a double pun on the pronunciation and game mechanics, \"ruuto\" (ルート) and\n\"ruupu\" (ループ) sounds similar.\n\nIn VN/galges, you have to do a playthrough (loop) to unlock certain routes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-22T15:15:00.497", "id": "4925", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-22T15:15:00.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4894", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI doubt Yasaburou was insinuating that he was from the traditional Czech\nlands. Instead he meant\n[Bohemianism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemianism), which is used to\ndescribe people of unconventional lifestyles.\n\nAlso see: [Urban\ndictionary](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bohemian), [Merriam\nWebster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bohemian),\n[Dictionary.com](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bohemian).\n\n * a person (as a writer or an artist) living an unconventional life usually in a colony with others\n * pertaining to or characteristic of the unconventional life of a bohemian.\n * living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy. \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-21T06:42:48.883", "id": "4897", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-21T06:42:48.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "4895", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn [an interview](http://blog.livedoor.jp/geek/archives/51398941.html),\nFUSHIMI Tsukasa (the author of the light novels) was asked for his comments on\nthe following:\n\n> 12巻は全体的に美少女ゲーム（ギャルゲー）を意識した構成になっていて、原点に帰った印象を受けます。\n>\n> I felt that volume 12 [the last volume] was written in a manner informed by\n> [galges](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bish%C5%8Djo_game). It felt like a\n> return to the way it originally was.\n\nFushimi responded:\n\n>\n> そうですね。狙って１巻っぽいシーンを書いています。すべてに決着をつけて禁断の道に突っ込むという痛快な物語は、電撃文庫で、直接描くのは、とても難しいですし、桐乃を幸せにするエンドにしようと決めた以上、彼女の今後には、可能な限り良いレールを敷いてやらなくてはいけないし……非常に悩みました。結果は、読んでいただいたとおりなのですが、再読する方向けに、蛇足ながらコメントさせていただくと、\n>\n> **・「完全なる桐乃エンド」**\n>\n> **・「最初の人生相談と同じように、兄妹は、二人だけの秘密を抱えて終わる」**\n>\n> １２巻は、そんなお話です。\n>\n> I guess so. I wrote so that it would have scenes that felt like those in\n> volume 1. With Dengeki Bunko [Fushimi's publisher], it was very difficult to\n> write a thrilling story in which they settle everything and head down a\n> forbidden path. I was sure I would give Kirino a happy ending, so I did my\n> best to set up as good a situation for her as possible, for the sake of her\n> future. I found it very difficult to do so. It ended up the way you read it\n> [in volume 12], but if I were to add a few unnecessary comments for those\n> readers who are reading it for a second time, I would say:\n>\n> \"A Completely Kirino Ending\"\n>\n> \"The story ends with the two siblings sharing a secret, the same way their\n> first life-advice-talk [ _jinsei soudan_ ] began.\"\n>\n> That's basically what volume 12 was about.\n\n* * *\n\nIn [another\ninterview](http://ebook.itmedia.co.jp/ebook/articles/1306/20/news020.html),\nFushimi was asked:\n\n> すでに最終巻を読まれた読者には既知の結末になるんですが、エンディングに向けての展開はどういう風に決めていったんですか？\n>\n> The ending [of the anime] will probably come as a bit of deja vu to those\n> who have already read the novel. How did you decide how the story would\n> reach its end?\n\nExcerpted from Fushimi's reply:\n\n>\n> [...]桐乃の想いが完全に報われる結末が[...]ひとつもなかったんです。普段表には出さないし、いろいろな事情があって、分かりやすい形で書いてあげることもできないけれど、彼女がとても主人公のことを想っているのを、僕は知っていたので、何とかしてやりたかった。[...]\n>\n> In the main story [as contrasted with the PSP game], I couldn't write an\n> ending where Kirino's affection is truly and entirely rewarded. Various\n> circumstances prevented me from plainly writing that sort of ending.\n> Nonetheless, I realized that she cared deeply for [Kyousuke], and so I felt\n> I had to do something for her.\n\n* * *\n\nFushimi's comments strongly suggest that he wanted to write a different ending\n- presumably a more \"taboo\" one in which Kirino and Kyousuke remain in a\nrelationship - but was prevented from doing so by his publishers. Hence the\n\"until we graduate\" provision.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-21T14:50:38.153", "id": "4902", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-21T14:50:38.153", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "4901", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think there can be a canon answer to this because it is not something\nshown/talked about in either the manga or anime. However, when you were young\nwhat did your crushes do to get you to have a crush on them? I know in my\ncase, almost nothing. They just had to be attractive. My guess that is true\nfor Naruto as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-21T16:03:38.513", "id": "4904", "last_activity_date": "2020-07-15T07:54:43.503", "last_edit_date": "2020-07-15T07:54:43.503", "last_editor_user_id": "50617", "owner_user_id": "2067", "parent_id": "4903", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nHe liked Sakura for years, she wasn't a bad girl or anything and she'd be\nwilling to die for Naruto as well. How many people fall for others just\nbecause they liked you? While Hinata liked him, she really wasn't that close\nto him. She was willing to die for him, but so were most of the Leaf. He\nreally seemed to love Sakura even though she might not like him, so if he\nreally cared for her, then it'd make no sense for him to quickly get over her.\nNaruto isn't fickle, and Hinata wasn't really his type (he seems to like the\ntsundere and girl with back bone; if Hinata did have that back bone in the\nbeginning, then she wouldn't have fallen for Naruto because the only reason\nshe fell for Naruto was cause he was a fellow loser, except unlike her, he\nnever gave up).\n\nAlso as a child, Sakura was ostracized (like Naruto but not to nearly the same\nextent) for something outside of her power and then was rescued by one person\nshowing kindness to her and befriending her.\n\nAnother reason for Naruto to still like Sakura is because she will try almost\nanything to protect him. While her fake confession was mean, she did it to\nprotect him, and she was willing to try and kill Sasuke when he joined\nAkatsuki (an organization that wanted to kill Naruto).\n\nWhile she couldn't kill Sasuke, it didn't exactly have to mean that she still\nliked him; it could just be because she liked him for 5 years and then he\nbecame a part of her family (Team 7) so she couldn't kill him because of who\nhe used to be (before Itachi mind raped him a 2nd time, he was actually a\npretty good kid, though he was anti-social). So Naruto might feel that he\nstill has a chance.\n\nThere could be a lot of reasons for Naruto to like Sakura and pick her over\nHinata. These are a few I could think of. It's not like anything I'm shipping\nis possible anyways.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-03T05:31:08.130", "id": "5089", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T13:46:54.100", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T13:46:54.100", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "2333", "parent_id": "4903", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nNaruto loves and desires Sakura because she is an average ninja girl. Naruto\nwants all the leaf village to look up to him and select him as Hokage one day\nfor one reason--- so that he will be accepted and respected by the leaf\nvillage. Everyone must accept the Hokage, and most will respect the Hokage.\n\nTherefore, a goal/milestone along that path of becoming Hokage is to get the\nmost average ninja in his grade to \"believe in him\". If he can convince the\naverage leaf ninja to accept him, he will have achieved his life long goal of\nbeing accepted by the leaf village, rather than ostracised. This is the\noriginal drive behind his crush on Sakura and his desire for her to love him.\n\nAfterward, there is all the mutual experiences and mutual bonding from being\nin the same teams together through so much stress and trying times.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-29T03:01:27.823", "id": "6069", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-24T19:49:00.117", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-24T19:49:00.117", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "1578", "parent_id": "4903", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn this particular case, anime is not different from any TV-series (if you\nwant an example, take\n[caprica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_%28TV_series%29), which was\ncanceled mid-season due to low ratings). Let's start with some simple points:\n\n * The production of anime episodes costs money.\n * To get your work aired on TV, you need even more money.\n\nActually, you could check [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4175/how-much-does-a-\ntypical-anime-episode-or-series-cost-to-make) which approximately shows how\nmuch does it cost. It's _a lot of money_.\n\nSo, obviously, when you make an anime, you want your incomes to be larger than\nyour expenses. How can you achieve that? Commercials. And, of course, the more\npopular is your show, the more people will see it. The more people will see\nit, the more people will see the commercials. So, basically, the more popular\nyour show is, the more money you make from ads.\n\nThe second way is to sell different merchandise like t-shirts, figurines, and\nstuff. Once again, the more popular the anime is, the more people will want to\nbuy this.\n\nThe above explains how things go if everything is fine. Sometimes everything\nis not fine. If your show is not popular enough, and the incomes do not cover\nthe expenses, you bear losses. So, if you ended up loosing money after making\nthe first season of an anime that was supposed to have 2 seasons, will you\nrisk making the second one? I doubt that.\n\nNow, as for the point on how the story is divided into seasons, it may also\nmatter. For example, if a manga is very popular, then you might expect the\nanime based on it being popular as well, and plan X seasons in advance. On the\nother hand, if you are not sure, you may plan the first season only (with\nenough episodes for the story to reach some point where it can be stoped), and\nsee how things go.\n\nIt also depends on the genre and the plot itself. For example, if each episode\ntells a small story which is not-so-strongly connected with the previous and\nthe subsequent episodes, you may end a season at any time. But if episodes are\nclosely connected story-wise, you may only stop when the plot comes to some\nkind of a logical conclusion (note, that doesn't mean \"the plot ends\", it just\nmeans that there is a point in the plot when you can end one season, and start\nanother one without breaking the story and without losing viewer's interest,\ne.g. Code Geass).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-22T06:27:46.037", "id": "4916", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-22T06:34:32.140", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "4905", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs of this answer, Yen Press has not released the redone release of the series\nin either the UK or the US. They did however release the Omnibus, but that was\nbefore the 10th Anniversary of the series (and release of the manga, also why\nYotsuba& went on hiatus).\n\nThe entire series was [re-released as 3\nvolumes](http://gekkansunday.net/henshu_nikki.html) (one for each year), The\nauthor redrew a couple more chapters (16 pages of new content in each volume)\nto go at the start/end of the new volumes (these are the Supplemental\nlessons).\n\n\n\nThe author also redrew a lot of the content. Sakaki and a lot of her\nfanservice shots are redone. Some of the punchlines were also changed or\ncompletely redone (e.g. Kimura doesn't appear at the end of the Christmas\nchapter).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-21T21:20:17.217", "id": "4907", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-21T21:20:17.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey're talking about:\n\n\n\n[Alexander Gaidar](http://kenichi.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Gaidar) and\n\n\n\n[Diego Carlo](http://kenichi.wikia.com/wiki/Diego_Carlo), both members of the\nOne Shadow Nine Fists and incarcerated at the [\"Big\nLock\"](http://kenichi.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Lock). Alexander was defeated in\n[Battle 304](http://kenichi.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_304) and Diego was defeated\nin [Battle 333](http://kenichi.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_333).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-22T01:03:45.650", "id": "4909", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-22T01:22:01.610", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-22T01:22:01.610", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "4908", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, there is. According\n[MAL](http://myanimelist.net/manga/50169/Suisei_no_Gargantia), it seems like\nit started publishing on Jan 10, 2013.\n\n> A manga adaptation began serialization in the January issue of the Newtype\n> Ace magazine. It is produced by the Oceanos team and drawn by Wataru\n> Mitogawa.\n> ([Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargantia_on_the_Verdurous_Planet))\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-22T01:17:55.533", "id": "4912", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-22T01:24:39.323", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-22T01:24:39.323", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "2185", "parent_id": "4910", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's implied to be Iron Maiden Jeanne, based on the (silver) hair and (red)\neye color.\n\n \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-22T04:16:22.410", "id": "4914", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-22T04:16:22.410", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4913", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe four are loosely defined as follows:\n\n * A [_visual novel_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel) is an interactive game which is primarily a narration that uses still images to convey a scene or character; these two components make up the parts of the name, \"novel\" and \"visual\" respectively.\n * The word [_eroge_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroge) is the Japanese term for any erotic (or, I believe, hentai) game; I believe the name comes from _erochikku_ (ero-) and _geimu_ (-ge).\n * A [_galge_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bish%C5%8Djo_game) (gal game or bishoujo game) is a game which focuses on relationships or interactions with pretty girls (bishoujo). It need not involve sexual or erotic scenarios.\n * Lastly, a [_dating sim_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_sim) is any game, though usually Japanese, which focuses on romance and dating (a simulation of these things, as the name would suggest).\n\nThese terms are quite similar but carry distinct differences, as above, and\nthere are times when they are incorrectly substituted for one another (dating\nsims are often referred to incorrectly as visual novels).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-22T18:03:38.900", "id": "4927", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-22T18:03:38.900", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "4926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nAll of these are closely related and many games would fall into more than one\ncategory. However, which word you choose places the emphasis on different\naspects of the game. In any case, when it isn't important to be precise, these\nterms are often used interchangeably.\n\n * _Eroge_ (エロゲ) is a Japanese shortening of \"erotic game\". These can also be called H-games. Native Japanese speakers sometimes use the term to describe games without any sexual content (e.g. [_Clannad_](http://vndb.org/v4)), but in English this isn't really a correct use of the term. Eroge can be any game with sex scenes (also called H-scenes). This includes some games that are not traditionally included as visual novels or dating sims. For example, [_Kamidori Alchemy Meister_](http://vndb.org/v5652) is an example of a game without a great deal of visual novel content but which still qualifies as an eroge.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QnKknm.png)\n\n * _Visual Novel_ (ビジュアルノベル), often shortened to VN, is a general type of game with a lot of dialogue and minimal gameplay (usually the gameplay is reduced to just making choices at a few plot points to determine what route one enters). It may or may not involve any romance or sexual encounters. For example, [_Danganronpa_](http://vndb.org/v7014) could qualify as a visual novel, but probably not for any of the other categories here. A more canonical example would be [_Higurashi no Naku Koro ni_](http://vndb.org/v67), though purists will sometimes insist on calling it a \"Sound Novel\" as this is the official description. More on this in the related terms section. Calling something a visual novel emphasizes the \"novel\" aspect and suggests that there is at least some semblance of a story. It would not usually be used to describe eroge which are solely sex scenes.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TjPmnm.png)\n\n * Visual novel can also be used in a more technical way to describe games where the text is overlayed over the background as opposed to being presented in dialogue boxes. This distinction is more common among Japanese speakers than English speakers. In English usually people will abbreviate this as NVL, and games where the dialogue is in a box at the bottom of the screen are called ADV. [_Fate/Stay Night_](http://vndb.org/v11) is an example of this style.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5qaiAm.png)\n\n * _Dating Sims_ are a different category of game from Visual Novels. These games do feature gameplay, but the object of the gameplay is to get into a romantic relationship with a character from the game. The most familiar example is probably the [_Tokimeki Memorial_](http://vndb.org/v19) series, though there are many other highly successful examples such as [_Love Plus_](http://vndb.org/v2099). Unlike visual novels, the gameplay here can be fairly complex.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rdsy8m.png)\n\n * A _galge_ (ギャルゲーム) or _bishoujo game_ (美少女ゲーム, lit. \"beautiful girl game\") can be used to describe any game where a major part of the game is getting into and being in a relationship with one or more of the female characters (usually not at the same time). These are marketed at heterosexual males. It includes a lot of games that would be classified as dating simulators and a lot that would be classified as visual novels. Most games that would fit into this category would also fit into one of the other categories, though there are examples like [Gal*Gun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal*Gun) which probably can only fit as galge.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EGMJym.png)\n\n* * *\n\nThere are a lot of other closely related terms that could be used to describe\nthese kinds of games. I'll describe these briefly here:\n\n * A _Sound Novel_ is a type of visual novel. The term is a trademark by [Chunsoft](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunsoft) and emphasizes the sound aspects as opposed to visual aspects. Sound novels are actually older than visual novels but because of the trademark the term \"visual novel\" is the one that's stuck in the long term. For older games the distinction between the two is somewhat notable, but for most modern games there's basically no difference between the meaning of the two terms.\n\n * A _Kinetic Novel_ is a type of visual novel without any gameplay at all. That includes things like making decisions for the protagonist. Because of the lack of any player input, the story is entirely preset and the player just reads through it without any input. These are quite close to ordinary novels with added graphics, sound, and typically more focus on dialogue. [Planetarian](http://vndb.org/v34) would be an example of such a game. Kinetic novels are usually shorter than other visual novels, though there are exceptions to this like _Higurashi_.\n\n * An _Otome Game_ (乙女ゲーム) is a game marketed to females. It is roughly synonymous with the term _Bishounen game_ (美少年ゲーム), which is of course directly analagous to bishoujo game except now the characters are males rather than females. A well-known example is [_Hakuoki_](http://vndb.org/v1715).\n\n * A _nakige_ (泣きゲー, literally \"crying game\") is a type of visual novel where the story is designed to have an emotional impact on the player. Most games by studio [Key](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_\\(company\\)) are nakige (e.g. _Clannad_ ). A related but distinct term is _utsuge_ (鬱ゲー, literally \"depressing game\"). Unlike nakige, which usually have happy endings (though they may be only after significant hardships), utsuge are usually not as positive. The distinction is difficult to explain, but after playing a couple of games in each genre you'll definitely know. Some notable examples of utsuge would be [Saya's Song](http://vndb.org/v97) or recent Key work [_Rewrite_](http://vndb.org/v751).\n\n * A _nukige_ (抜きゲー, literally \"masturbation game\") is a type of eroge which is almost solely focused on sexual content. As the name suggests, they're intended as pornographic material. It would be unusual to describe such games as visual novels. These are the large majority of all eroge produced because they're easy to produce and still tend to sell well.\n\nThere are other terms but these are the ones that everyone should know when it\ncomes to categorizing these sorts of games.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-22T18:57:24.037", "id": "4928", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-13T05:39:58.640", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-13T05:39:58.640", "last_editor_user_id": "35019", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 45 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Japanese, the panel reads:\n\n> ありがとねぇ ジャマな枝 切ってくれて\n>\n> それにしても 君達えらく 身軽だね～\n>\n> いえいえ\n>\n> **待ち伏せ** …いや 木登り特訓 してるので\n\nThe translation in the OP post is a little bit off; a better translation of\nthe last speech bubble is \"It's because we were preparing an ambu-... er,\npracticing climbing trees.\" That is, they weren't doing \"ambush training\";\nthey were just lying in wait to ambush someone. (In other words, it's not\n待ち伏せの特訓 that was elided - just 待ち伏せ.)\n\nAnyway, the word in question is **ambush**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-24T23:42:24.237", "id": "4949", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-24T23:42:24.237", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "4930", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis behavior is straight from the novel and is described by the Minoshiro in\nepisode 4. The answer will be revealed through the course of the story, but a\nquick witted watcher and/or reader will have his/her answer at episode 5.\n\n> As the Minoshiro explains, necessity dictates that the human society on the\n> brink of destruction must be reformed into a society of love, like the\n> bonobos (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo>). It is assumed that the\n> grafting of bonobo DNA into the human genome causes certain attributes to be\n> transferred. One of the explained behaviors is the relieving of stress\n> through sexual activities (as observed in episode 5, when captured, Saki and\n> Satoru engage in such activities to reduce their axiety and fear).\n\nCombining this information with real-world information can then be\nextrapolated as:\n\n> One of the other observed behaviors in the bonobo, is the bi-sexual nature,\n> which is present in apes\n> (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#Bonobo_and_other_apes>).\n> To form a society of love as the intention was, it can be assumed that the\n> effect is already present in the human genome and may have been strengthened\n> by the DNA grafting. Saki and Maria have a similar relationship.\n\nSo, why did they include these scenes?\n\n> That's the background of the humans and thus a critical part of the story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-23T18:52:34.403", "id": "4934", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-23T19:10:49.887", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-23T19:10:49.887", "last_editor_user_id": "2031", "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "4933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure about if the relationship between Satoru and Shun is in the\noriginal source material, but an anime/manga does not necessarily have to be a\nyaoi/shounen ai for it to have a gay couple in it. Yaoi and shonen ai have the\nrelationship at the core of the story, making it a romance anime/manga, while\nShinsekai Yori has this relationship in it to supplement the plot, rather than\nbeing the focus of the entire story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-03T01:07:10.647", "id": "41155", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-03T01:07:10.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33397", "parent_id": "4933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe didn't necessarily know all of the techniques the original had learnt.\n\nBut even if he didn't, the moment he absorbed his power back from Kabuto, he\nrelearned everything (since the cells in Kabuto were from the time Sasuke\n\"killed\" him).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-24T03:41:06.947", "id": "4936", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-24T03:41:06.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "4935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nOrochimaru can go toe to toe with madara In the manga he can be killed now\nOrochimaru can use all the past hokage And now that he has all kabuto's\nmemory's He can use itachi Nagto and 3rd rikage And all of the dead akasuki\nand he can Also go in sage mode and \nOrochimaru has sinjuu DNA he can use wood Style look it up and now that he has\nsage Mode genjutsu cant work on him unless madara Wants to lose a eye I'm\nsorry and for everyone That is saying he can just drop a comet well Than they\nboth die now that madara's dum ass Made him self living again he would kill\nhim self doing and now Orochimaru can use he's hand with out them he fucking\npunched the 4 tails In the face and that was with no jutsu so But Orochimaru\nwins\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-13T07:26:28.097", "id": "6288", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-13T07:26:28.097", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2959", "parent_id": "4935", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe herself claims that she is going to be the wife of the Shaman King, and\nthat would not be possible if she entered, right? That reasoning would be\ntypical for her. And I personally think that she's got a strong sense of what\na woman must and mustn't do(even though I don't agree with her) and that also\nis why she didn't enter. Hope this is enough. :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T14:20:57.033", "id": "9724", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-14T14:20:57.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4889", "parent_id": "4937", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the manga and _Brotherhood_ , there are two things within the Gate of\nTruth: God, and all alchemical knowledge that has ever existed or will ever\nexist. The [_Fullmetal Alchemist_ Wiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gate)\nsays it best:\n\n> It is the source of alchemical knowledge and the entrance to God's domain,\n> where no mortals are meant to tread.\n\nAs is stated in [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3209/274),\nthis is where mortals end up when they attempt human transmutation. They pay a\ntoll, and are granted access to all alchemical knowledge within.\n\n\n\nWhile an alchemist is within this realm (the realm of non-reality), they will\ninevitably learn something about alchemy, and in fact anyone in the series who\nrecalls this information gains the ability to perform transmutation without a\ncircle.\n\nIn the 2003 anime, there are some differences. Notably, the realm itself is\nthe source of alchemical energy (rather than knowledge), and the Gate acts as\na portal between that energy and the _FMA_ universe. You can read more about\nthe differences on [the _FMA_\nWiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gate#In_the_2003_Anime).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-24T17:50:45.540", "id": "4942", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-24T17:50:45.540", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "4938", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen truth announces who he is he is one or all or also known as god the\nuniverse or truth behind the door is nothing but not nothing it is what you\nthink it is a fragment of your missing mind... Presented in one of the\nepisodes the door leads to many things presented in a cross over of Hitler and\nthe Nazi war Edward Elric entered the portal or gate way what ever you wanna\ncall it and entered our world when the Nazi War happened. Regarding the gate\nway to truth that is truth the gate way takes different forms if you ever\nfollowed the story correctly it specifically states that Gate Way is a kinda\ndoor or portal to what ever your dreams can imagine. The professor from the\nGermany side of the door talks among parallel worlds that are connected\ninvisibally and can't be seen and in different dimensions there is another\ntype of you that has it's own personality. Clearly though you can only do this\nby being in the Full Metal Alchemist world specifically the gate way can lead\nto many places. ^^' That's why there is no point to the universe because\neverything is infinite just read the Manga and watch the show and decode what\nit is trying to say... ALSO An edit even though you have different yous in\ndifferent dimensions supposedly the real you is in the Full Metal Alchemist\nWorld since other dimensions logically don't exist... Who ever you are is not\nwhat you are but what you are is in the FMA world... Truthfully the show talks\nif you play god it back fires but also we already know everything because the\nanswer to everything is clearly NOTHING.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-22T07:50:58.263", "id": "7107", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-22T07:50:58.263", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3441", "parent_id": "4938", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Gateway of Truth is the meeting point of infinity, which was theorized\nwhen the being inside of it describes himself as God, The Truth, and yourself.\nEdward comes to discover that the gateway you see is actually your perception\nof the truth, explaining why Alphonse's and Izumi's gates look different. You\ncan also see all of Edward's memories when he was inside the truth. However in\nthe original Fullmetal Alchemist anime, the gateway is access to all universal\nknowledge, explaining why you can see John F. Kennedy and moments from World\nWar II.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-23T14:15:22.220", "id": "44361", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-23T14:15:22.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37790", "parent_id": "4938", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGluttony was created for the sole purpose of being a portal of Truth. Father\nwas attempting to create a way to access the so-called \"non-reality\" (beyond\nthe Gate) without paying a toll; essentially, he wanted to entirely bypass\nTruth so that he could access [all alchemical knowledge within the\nGate](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/4938/274).\n\n\n\nHowever, Father is not omnipotent; he was unable to create a portal which was\nable to do what he hoped for. Instead, what you see of Gluttony was the\nresult: A portal, attached to a homunculus, that serves as a gateway to a\ndifferent world, one that is neither reality nor non-reality (that is, it is\nsomewhere between the universe and the realm of Truth).\n\n\n\nIt probably goes without saying at this point that the difference between this\nGate and the real one is that, well, this one is useless. Basically, it's just\n[its own dimension](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/2336/274) that serves as\nnothing but a place for Gluttony's consumptions to go. It contains no\nalchemical knowledge, no God (which would be in the real Gate), and no way\nout.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-24T17:33:45.560", "id": "4941", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-24T17:58:17.743", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "4939", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe law that most people cite as the reason for Japanese censorship is Article\n175 of the Criminal Code of Japan (passed in 1907). Interestingly, Article 21\nof the Japanese constitution prohibits censorship, so legally Article 175\nisn't actually censorship, though it's pretty hard to argue this in practical\nterms. The translation of Article 175 of the Criminal Code given in [this\narticle (via the Internet Archive Wayback\nMachine)](https://web.archive.org/web/20130912024335/http://redsiglo21.com/eiga9/articulos/obscenity.html)\n(potentially **NSFW** for obvious reasons) is the following:\n\n> Any person who distributes, sells or publicly displays an obscene writing,\n> picture or other materials shall be punished with penal servitude for not\n> more than two years or be fined not more than two million and a half yen or\n> minor fine. The same shall apply to any person who possesses the same with\n> the intention of selling it.\n\nThis law doesn't specify any differences between anime and other materials, so\nstrictly speaking anime is treated no differently at least according to the\nletter of the law. The big question is \"what defines 'obscene'\", which the law\ndoesn't answer. For this reason, the law is rather vague, and the definition\nof what exactly is \"obscene\" is impossible to give. At the very least, it\nseems to only include the material itself, and not the sorts of acts that are\ndepicted, so things like bestiality or incest aren't covered by this law.\n\nNowadays the law is usually interpreted as banning depiction of adult genitals\nand (often) pubic hair unless they are obscured. However, this is not strictly\nthe legal interpretation of \"obscene\", which is vague and in some sense up to\nthe police enforcing the law and the judges ruling on the case. Rather, this\nis a self-censorship guideline that almost every producer in the industry\nfollows. Most producers of both animated and regular pornography partner with\none of a few independent quasi-legal organizations which inspect these videos\nto check that the material is not \"obscene\". The most famous one of these was\nthe [Nihon Ethics of Video\nAssociation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Ethics_of_Video_Association),\nwhich was itself the subject of an obscenity trial in 2008 because the mosaics\nthey were using were too revealing. There is no legal requirement to have\npornographic works inspected, but it reduces the risk of accidentally\nviolating this law. In the case of anime, it's more common to sidestep these\nrestrictions by drawing the scenes differently or using things like tentacles\nrather than genitalia, but there are some hentai anime which do use these\nsorts of inspections.\n\nDespite all of that, the laws are very rarely enforced. A fairly recent\nconviction was in 2004 for hentai manga\n[Misshitsu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misshitsu). Before that there was a\nperiod for over 20 years with no convictions under this law. Since 2004 there\nhave been a few other cases, most notably the one mentioned above. Partly this\nis because self-censorship has been very effective at removing things that\nwould potentially violate this law, and partly it's because it remains unclear\nexactly what is supposed to be banned.\n\n* * *\n\nThere are some other laws which are sometimes framed as \"censorship\" laws,\nsuch as the infamous Tokyo manga ban (which, as of 2012, [had not banned\nanything at all](http://www.japanprobe.com/2012/07/03/tokyo-authorities-not-\nenforcing-infamous-ban-of-harmful-manga/)). Strictly speaking these are not\ncensorship laws. Rather, they put legally enforced age restrictions on certain\ntypes of content. The restrictions themselves are pretty severe and can result\nin a [chilling effect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect) whereby\npublishers will deliberately avoid titles that could be affected. This is\nespecially true for magazines, as a single title being banned could lead to\nthe whole magazine being relegated to 18+ corners of stores and consequently\nlosing a significant number of sales. These are usually done at the prefecture\nlevel or more local levels and so don't impact national policy, but the Tokyo\none is significant since Tokyo is a very large market for anime and manga.\n\nThe only other laws that are sometimes discussed in the context of censorship\nin Japan are child pornography laws. These ban distribution and creation of\nchild pornography. They don't currently apply to simulated or artistic\ndepictions of children, so anime is excluded. However, there have been recent\nefforts by the\n[LDP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_\\(Japan\\)) to\nstrengthen the existing laws, which could then apply to materials such as\nanime and manga. In their current form the proposed law is pretty broad\n(applying to any depictions of underage characters which could be sexually\narousing, whether or not they contain nudity). This is being lobbied against\nby a number of publishers and producers, mostly represented by mangaka\n[Akamatsu Ken](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamatsu_Ken). We really don't\nknow at this point what will be the fate of this proposal, though there will\nprobably be more information in coming months.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-24T20:03:14.050", "id": "4944", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-04T16:20:46.410", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-04T16:20:46.410", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "4940", "post_type": "answer", "score": 22 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo. Up until now Japanese anime have never been in the popular spotlight\ncompared to works for Western animation. Anime can be described as a [\"pulpy\"\nformat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine), often cheaply made,\nheavily-formulated, low critical respect and scrutiny. Though what makes anime\nunique is it's meta-genre. There are a lot of ideas in it's story templates\nthe that are not typically seen or are non-existent in Western media culture.\n\n## Animation in the West\n\nA lot of Western animation companies, like Disney for an example, don't just\ntreat their works as a product, but as a brand. The better their brand looks\nto consumers, the better marketability the company will have with related\nworks and products (they spend a lot on PR, marketing, lawyers, focus groups,\netc, to ensure this). There's a lot of oversight involved is western\nanimation, in order to ensure a better quality product, which typically drives\nup the cost of production. Of course, this all to ensure that their product is\na successful as possible, in order to make obscene amounts of cash.\n\n## Animation in the East\n\nWhile there is a ever growing community of anime fans out there, who like\nanime for one reason or another (e.g., characters vs. story), but few people\ntypically care about the specifics of anime. In anime, the stakeholders are\nmore concerned about the overall final product than any given piece of it, the\nproduct hits the main selling points of the formula (e.g., fighting, boobs,\nrobot, X-dere character, harem cast, etc.), it's good to go. With anime\nthere's a general lack of oversight, which typically leads to low expectations\nof the audience and from them as well. However the pulpy aspect of Anime\nallows authors a much higher level of freedom as they are free to explored new\nideas, as long as they meet the initial criteria of the stakeholders.\n\n## On Popular Culture\n\nThis pulpiness is the same as what webcomics (modern comic book heroes starred\nin this pulpy format) and indie games are to us in these modern times. There\nare tons of these all around, most of it is forgettable, but occasionally\nthere's that polished gem that can really good interesting, funny, charming\nand/or inventive stuff (e.g. _Azumanga Daioh, Serial Experiments Lain,\nBaccano!_ ). There's a lot of opportunities to fail, learn, and innovate, but\nat the same time the barriers for entry are lower and turnover is usually\nhigher compared to similar works of western animation.\n\nViewership and revenue are often a by-product of the popularity of a given\nbrand. Just like really popular mainstream movies or games will always make a\nprofit, no matter how good or bad it might be (e.g., the _Call of Duty_\nseries, the new _Transformers_ movies). Western animation has built a brand\nimage and following through it's popularity, and in order to sustain it's\noverwhelming popularity, there's a lot of scrutiny from both the audience and\nstakeholder to maintain a certain image and status within popular culture. We\ndon't typically see this with anime, so it gives us an idea that anime\nspecifically is not really up there in the mainstream.\n\nNowadays we see a lot of people on TV and the Internet proclaiming themselves\nto be \"geeks\" openly (whether they are or not is another thing), so there's\nnot a whole lot to be said about anime and the otaku subculture. One can say\nthey are a gamer (\"I'm a huge gamer\") or a TV show/movie (\"I'm a big\nDisney/Pixar/Spongebob/Avatar fan\"), but there are very few people come out\nabout anime. This leads us to believe that anime hasn't reach the tipping\npoint where it can be considered acceptable, like the other forms of western\nanimation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T19:26:10.487", "id": "4995", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T19:43:50.797", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4943", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nDisney's _Wreck-It Ralph_ \\- $471,222,889 (worldwide revenue)\n\nGhibli's last two movies ( _The Secret World of Arrietty_ , _Ponyo on the\nCliff by the Sea_ ) - $202,614,288 + $145,570,827 = $348,185,115 (worldwide\nrevenue)\n\nSo, based on a very small sample (not statistically valid), I'd say western\nanimated movies make a whole lot more money than Japanese anime.\n\nHowever, as Logan and Krazer pointed out, it's probably an apples and oranges\ncomparison. Disney spends a whole lot more money on their movies than Ghibli\ndoes.\n\nI'm not even going to attempt to do a comparison on Cartoon Network vs ATX or\nanything like that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T19:42:56.297", "id": "4997", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-08T05:58:56.507", "last_edit_date": "2018-04-08T05:58:56.507", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "4943", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think no one will understand the hypocrisy in this, we talk about\nanimes being comparatively less popular to American cartoons.\n\nThere is a very deep reason for that state of liking, this is because most of\nthe viewers are from the western part of the world (except the anime producing\ncountry; Japan). In Asia, it doesn't go alike for both adults and kids. So,\ncomparatively the viewership is high enough in most of the western countries.\n\nThis makes the judgment not fair and obviously, it goes in the favour of\nAmerican cartoons even though there is a huge fanship for animes globally. An\nanime is a must-watch piece of art, people should go for it, but an American\ncartoon is given to you when you were kids. It's like some hit channels in\nmost of the countries are highly likely to show American cartoons than many of\nthe animes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-04-08T05:28:10.813", "id": "46466", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-08T05:41:27.967", "last_edit_date": "2018-04-08T05:41:27.967", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "40035", "parent_id": "4943", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSix can be written as 六「む (mu), むう, ろく (roku)」 and 陸「おか, りく (riku)」.\n\nSo he could have mistaken \"roku\" or \"riku\" for \"ra\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-24T23:00:36.910", "id": "4948", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-24T23:00:36.910", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2280", "parent_id": "4945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nJapanese speakers may remember numbers by taking the prominent syllable from\nhow they read numbers (語呂合わせ goroawase). There are more than one way on how to\ncount: one that descended from Old Japanese (大和言葉 Yamato kotoba) and one\nborrowed from Chinese (漢語 kango). In the order of Yamato / Kango:\n\n 1. ひとつ hitotsu / いち ichi\n 2. ふたつ futatsu / に ni\n 3. みっつ mittsu / さん san\n 4. よっつ yottsu / し shi\n 5. いつつ itsutsu / ご go\n 6. むっつ muttsu / ろく roku\n 7. ななつ nanatsu / しち shichi\n 8. やっつ yattsu / はち hachi\n 9. ここのつ kokonotsu / きゅう kyū or く ku\n 10. とお tō / じゅう jyū\n\nand so forth. Therefore, a syllable that corresponds to 3 can be either み mi,\nさ sa, or ざ za (the last being the voiced variation of sa).\n\nFor 3661,\n\n * 3 = sa from san\n * 6 = mu from muttsu\n * 1 = i from ichi\n\nThe second 6 requires explanation. Notice that in the list above, \"ra\" does\nnot appear. In fact, most of the syllables do not have a direct corresponding\nnumber, given that there are 48 basic syllables (plus 25 voiced variants and\n21 digraphs). To force any given syllable into a number, people use various\ntechniques.\n\n * Use English. つ tsu = 2, せ se = 7, え e = 8\n * Use modern Chinese. す su = 4 (written sì in pinyin but sounds like su), り ri = liù = 6\n * Swap vowels. This is what happened to the second 6 in 3661. Of all the syllables in the ra-line (ra, ri, ru, re, ro), only re (0 from rei) and ro (6 from roku) are defined. The Chinese technique also suggests 6 for ri. Therefore, 6 may be extended to ra and ru also. (The same thing happens in the ko/go-line where 5 fills in for ka/ga and ke/ge; and in the ma-line where 6 fills in for me and mo.)\n\nAn example of this extended list can be found at\n<http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~b-jack/kouza/s-3.html>\n\nWith these techniques in play, people might remember the first 30 digits of pi\nas follows:\n\n[code]\n\n San ishi ikoku ni mukau. Sango yaku naku, \n 3 . 1 4 15 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9\n Obstetrician goes to a foreign country. No misfortune after birth,\n \n sanpu miyashiro ni. Mushi sanzan yami ni naku.\n 3 6 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 8 3 2 7 9\n the new mother heads to a shrine. Insects chirp in the darkness severely.\n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-25T04:38:47.440", "id": "4952", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T19:04:16.520", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-29T19:04:16.520", "last_editor_user_id": "2248", "owner_user_id": "2248", "parent_id": "4945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nThe interpretation for the second 6 is probably a special case. The only\nreasoning that makes sense to me is:\n\n * ら is the 6th note in the [Fixed Do](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge#Fixed_do_solf.C3.A8ge) key notation (C, D, E, F, G, A, B / Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti).\n\nIn hiragana, ら, also resembles the \"5\" or \"6\" number.\n\nPlease note that since it's a play on words, there're [many\nways](http://seoi.net/goro/data_2_6.shtml) to make the [numbers\nwork](http://seoi.net/goro/data_1_6.shtml), just like trying to get certain\nwords to fit in an acronym. E.g. C.I.A can mean \"Central Intelligence Agency\"\nor \"Chinese Igloo Appraisers\".\n\nThere is really no right or wrong way to do 語呂合わせ【ごろあわせ】 (basically a pun/play\non words) with numbers.\n\nTypically when doing word play with numbers 0-9, the [following\ncombinations](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AA%9E%E5%91%82%E5%90%88%E3%82%8F%E3%81%9B#.E6.95.B0.E5.AD.97.E3.81.AE.E6.9A.97.E8.A8.98)\nare used:\n\n * 1: ichi, i, hitotsu, hito \n * 2: ni, futatsu, futa, fu, tsu (\"two\"), ji (kan'on reading) \n * 3: san, sa, mittsu, mitsu, mi\n * 4: yon, yo, yottsu, shi, fo (\"four\"), ho \n * 5: go, ko, i, itsutsu, itsu \n * 6: roku, ro, muttsu, mutsu, mu \n * 7: shichi, nanatsu, nana, na \n * 8: hachi, ha, paa, yattsu, yatsu, ya, yaa \n * 9: kyuu, kyu, ku, kokonotsu, kokono, ko\n * 0: rei, re, zero, nai, wa (based on shape of the kana, わ), ru (circle, also shape), oo (based on resemblance to the letter \"O\")\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-25T18:26:50.867", "id": "4961", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-24T02:36:15.710", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-24T02:36:15.710", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "4945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA pretty clear answer is given\n[here](http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9_Ball).\n\nTo summarize it,\n\nThe Pokemon is absorbed into the Poke Ball, and will try to fight back unless\nit likes the trainer. That is why the Pokemon needs to be weakened: if it is\ntoo strong, it will break free. If the Pokemon does break free, the Poke Ball\nwill break and become unusable.\n\nIt was programmed to not catch humans, though it sometimes might accidentally\ncatch other things it is thrown at, such as the rice ball Ash throws a Poke\nBall at once.\n\nThe Pokemon becomes loyal to the trainer once they are caught, and they will\ngenerally follow the orders of the trainer.\n\nTo quote the page:\n\n> The inside of a Poké Ball is \"designed to be as comfortable for the Pokémon\n> residing within\", although this is not necessarily true. The Pokémon inside\n> may simply be sleeping, or completely unaware of its own existence. Pokémon\n> are, however aware when inside their Poké Ball — by calling their name, the\n> Pokémon will emerge from its Poké Ball almost immediately.\n\nEdit:\n\nNot all Pokemon will stay in their Poke Ball, however. Pikachu refuses to stay\nin the Poke Ball, and in the game Pokemon Yellow, Pikachu follows behind the\nplayer. Pokémon Soul Silver/Heart Gold let the first Pokemon in a party follow\nthe player.\n\nThe Pokemon are shown to be transferred on data chips when being moved to the\nPokebox, and only one Pokemon can be stored in each Poke Ball.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-25T02:40:45.817", "id": "4950", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T00:37:18.160", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-26T00:37:18.160", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "4947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nThe mechanics in _Pokémon Legends: Arceus_ give us an explicit explanation for\nhow a Poké Ball works, so a new answer to this question is necessary. In this\ngame, rudimentary Poké Balls are made from only a tumblestone and an apricorn.\nThe [apricorn](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Apricorn) is simply a\ntough fruit that is hollowed out, though what the\n[tumblestone](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Tumblestone) is and what\nit does is a bit of a mystery. The tumblestone is presumably used to make the\nlatch, the air hole on top of the ball, and all other mechanical-looking\ncomponents. As far as I can tell, apricorns have appeared in previous games,\nbut tumblestones have not.\n\nThe real wonder of this new game, though, is what it tells us about the\nPokémon themselves. Early on in the game, it is stated that Pokémon have the\nmysterious power of being able to become smaller. Knowing this, we can\ndetermine that Poké Balls need not be some kind of wonder technology, because\nthe tough part (the shrinking) is done by the Pokémon! And since presumably\nhumans do not have this ability to shrink, that explains why they can't be\ncaught by Poké Balls.\n\nThe quote from Professor Laventon is as follows:\n\n> You'll recall, of course, that Pokémon possess the strange power to shrink\n> themselves down. With the Poké Balls we craft, we can make use of that power\n> to catch them!\n\nThere's still some question of how it works exactly. Do the Pokémon simply\nshrink into the ball because they're surprised, or does the tumblestone or\napricorn stimulate them to do so somehow? How do the Poké Balls open and close\nlike that?\n\nBut even with all these questions, this would seem to be the most complete\nexplanation for how Poké Balls work, as far as I'm aware. There's the capture\nnet thing in the _Adventures_ manga, but that doesn't really explain much.\n\nSome fans are kind of partial to the theory that Pokémon get turned into\nenergy or data or something, because of the bright light when Pokémon get hit\nby Poké Balls (I never liked this theory, to be honest). Under this new\nexplanation, I would presume all the light seen when a Pokémon is hit and\ncaptured is due to light and heat being released during the miniaturization\ntransformation.\n\nAnother cool thing about this new explanation from _Pokémon Legends: Arceus_\nis that it can be used to neatly explain why you can't capture a fainted\nPokémon. If turning small is a conscious process, then a Pokémon would need to\nbe conscious to be put into a Poké Ball. Alternatively, when knocked out, the\nPokémon might turn small so that a trainer is unable to find them. It doesn't\nseem an incorrect notion, as some Pokémon in _Pokémon Legends: Arceus_ such as\nChancey run away from the player and eventually disappear, and this is\npresumably because they're shrinking to get away.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-04-01T19:54:29.943", "id": "66565", "last_activity_date": "2022-04-01T20:05:22.823", "last_edit_date": "2022-04-01T20:05:22.823", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "4947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBecause Orochimaru was never dead. He was just sealed. Well, maybe \"sealed\" is\nnot the right term. Every curse mark holds some a part of Orochimaru's chakra.\nAnd Sasuke reversed the cursed seal on Anko with the flesh from Kabuto to\nbring him back -\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is from chapter 593.\n\nPS: Almost same thing happened when Sasuke fought Itachi.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-25T15:36:40.443", "id": "4958", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-25T16:17:01.590", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-25T16:17:01.590", "last_editor_user_id": "2168", "owner_user_id": "2168", "parent_id": "4955", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nKabuto had Anko for a reason. He knew Orochimaru was inside her and he wanted\nto absorb his remaining chakra into himself. This is why he led Anko to the\ngraveyard to ambush.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-29T20:23:32.690", "id": "14229", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-01T04:29:35.657", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-01T04:29:35.657", "last_editor_user_id": "18352", "owner_user_id": "8533", "parent_id": "4955", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey're about the same, but the anime doesn't always follow the manga's plot.\n\nIf you're new to the series and want to know where to start, go with the manga\nfirst, then watch the anime, because the anime is based on the manga.\n\nIf you want to know the differences, I have spotted a few changes in season 1\nthat differ from the manga. The examples below are from chapter 120:\n\n> In the anime, Alibaba became a Dark Metal Vessel user or Dark Djinn Equip\n> near the end of season 1, which isn't part of the manga. \n> \n> Another change is that Hakuryuu got his arm **cut off** in a sword fight\n> trying to protect Alibaba, instead of falling off after the Zagan arc in the\n> manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-05T08:34:29.073", "id": "20636", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-05T10:59:32.137", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-05T10:59:32.137", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13746", "parent_id": "4957", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt depends on the culture, status of life (family) and the flow of the story.\nFor example, the anime series of \"Ikoku Meiro No Croisee\" is used to have most\ncharacter's blonde hair because the main story is that people lived in Paris.\n\nSome of the authors preferred to reflect it in the reality.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-09T19:41:52.473", "id": "5813", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-09T19:41:52.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2703", "parent_id": "4962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nHonestly, Asian people just have a fascination with blond hair.\n\nI once went on group trip that visited China, Japan, and Korea. We had this\none blond haired girl in our group and she was basically the center of\nattention. Everywhere we went, everyone wanted to take pictures with her.\nNatives of their respective countries would randomly come up and ask for a\npicture together with her.\n\nIt was interesting because they didn't ask to take any pictures with the\nbrunette. And by seeing their lifestyles, one could see that they also try\nvery hard to understand and imitate western culture.\n\nThey probably see or even sterotype blond hair people as the best of the\nwestern pop culture. This is also probably why dying their hair blond is the\nsecond most popular dye (after orange).\n\nGiven that Asian people seem to adore blond hair, it would also make sense for\nblond hair to be common in Anime, as Anime is a reflection on the author's\nideal story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T01:49:13.660", "id": "6256", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T01:49:13.660", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "4962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nJapanese with albinism actually have blonde hair and blue eyes. Unlike the\nwest where people are considered better looking who have a tan; in Japan\nwhiter skin is considered pretty. Due to this Albino people are considered a\nrare beauty by most. Because they are such a rarity and the cultural\nassociation with the idea of \"Karma,\" it has been suggested that if you are\nAlbino, you must have very good Karma. Anime just takes this concept to a new\nlevel. Due some research and you'll find some information on the subject. It\nis hard though to find good sites in English.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T00:28:25.237", "id": "15381", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-01T00:28:25.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9411", "parent_id": "4962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nA lot of Japanese find blond hair exotic and attractive. Because of this, many\ncharacters will have bleached hair (like the japanese sometimes do) or have\nfully blonde sets of hair.\n\n\n\n(Haikyuu!!)\n\nBlondes however, are usually exchange students, foreigners or imbued with\npower - much like DBZ. It's usually to make them stand out from the other\ncharacters\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T15:37:38.553", "id": "18580", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T15:37:38.553", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "4962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes and no, much like any other blue-ray content (e.g., movies).\n\nWhen releasing the blue-ray version, the publishers will always want as many\npeople as possible to buy it. To do it (especially if the Blue-ray release\nfollows a TV release and a DVD release which means a lot of potential\ncustomers have already bought something), they need to somehow raise your\ninterest to the blue ray. Since a Blue-ray disc provides much more space than,\nsay, a DVD disk, that gives them a chance to interest you:\n\n * Higher quality video\n * Higher quality audio (e.g. lossless audio formats)\n * More audio tracks (original audio, dubbed audio, maybe an audio commentary from the authors, etc. etc.)\n * Additional bonus content (interviews, films about \"how this was made\", soundtrack, and so on)\n * Bonus scenes/director's cut.\n * Other merchandise (posters/books/artbooks/anything-else-you-can-imagine-just-pay-for-it).\n\nFor example, [here](http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showthread.php?t=109275) is the\nFate/Zero Blue-ray box, which costs a hell lot, and includes, among other\nstuff,\n\n> * Extras: New bonus animation (written by Kinoko Nasu), Trailers, TV\n> Spots, Textless Opening and Ending\n> * Episodes: Episodes 1-13 with unaired new footage\n>\n\nHowever, I wouldn't say that \"most of\", or at least \"a lot of\" Blue-ray\nreleases contain bonus scenes, but unfortunately I can't prove myself with any\nfacts, because apparently there's no such statistics in the Internet.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-26T11:24:51.863", "id": "4971", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T11:24:51.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "4966", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDana appears in the comics _Robotech: Love and War_ and _Robotech: Prelude to\nthe Shadow Chronicles_ so it would seem that she survived the destruction of\nthe 15th Armored Battalion and may have continued the war against the Invid in\nsome capacity, but after that her fate in unknown.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-26T08:56:30.413", "id": "4969", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-26T08:56:30.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "parent_id": "4968", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nNow, there is a recently new movie called _Robotech: Love Live Alive_ (2013)\n(adaptation of _Mospeada Love Live Alive_ (1983) with some new animation)\nwhere you see Dana from the 15th squadron leaving Earth.\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9txrDGHWnc>\n\nDana heading to a Garfish spaceship to leave Earth.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZxL8x.jpg)\n\nIn the movie _Robotech The Shadow Chronicles_ it's confirmed they actually\nleft with no problems because Louie from the 15th squadron is a secondary\ncharacter.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/leoqY.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-15T19:44:55.343", "id": "37879", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-22T14:08:26.897", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-22T14:08:26.897", "last_editor_user_id": "3028", "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "4968", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Avatar Wan](http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Wan) was the first Avatar, and he\nlived about 10 thousand years before Korra. He was succeeded by a firebender,\nimplying that he was an earthbender originally, but as far as I know, it\nhasn't been specifically said if the cycle followed perfectly from the first\nAvatar to the second.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-27T01:10:01.987", "id": "4974", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-27T01:10:01.987", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "4973", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's several components to the 3D gear that are separate and operate\nindependently. Not all aspects of the mechanics have been revealed in\nintricate detail, but there is a pretty good idea of the overall operation.\n\nThe short answer is that, yes, it is essentially all gas-powered. The trigger\ncauses the gas to shoot the wire out, and a gas compression is also what\nshortens the wire to pull the device's user forward.\n\n# Operating device\n\nThe operating device is what the user holds (where the triggers are located).\nThe mechanics of this are not known, and are described as being a [black\nbox](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackBox).[{2}](http://images.wikia.com/shingekinokyojin/images/5/5d/Three-\nDimensional_Maneuver_Device_Mechanics_pt2.jpg) Use of this component is what\nallows the others to function.\n\n# Grapple piston\n\nOnce the user pulls a trigger, it activates a\npiston[{4}](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piston) within the main device. This\npiston uses a quick spurt of compressed gas to fire forward the grapple hook\ntoward its target.{nt.1} No other power source is necessary for this to happen\ndue to the intense compression release from the piston.\n\n# Propulsion\n\nThe user's grapple hooks fire from a\ncoil[{1}](http://images.wikia.com/shingekinokyojin/images/a/a1/Three-\nDimensional_Maneuver_Device_Mechanics_pt1.jpg) which is located in the device\nitself. When the user wishes to move forward, their gear must quickly pull the\ncable back into the device. This is done via a fan\nmechanism[{3}](http://images.wikia.com/shingekinokyojin/images/7/71/Three-\nDimensional_Maneuver_Gear_pt3.jpg) that is also gas-powered. Basically, when\nthe user wants to wind back up, the compressed gas blows into the fan,\nspinning it rapidly and coiling the wire back up, pulling the user forward.\n\n[](http://images.wikia.com/shingekinokyojin/images/5/5d/Three-\nDimensional_Maneuver_Device_Mechanics_pt2.jpg)\n\n# References and reading\n\n 1. [Episode 8, card 1](http://images.wikia.com/shingekinokyojin/images/a/a1/Three-Dimensional_Maneuver_Device_Mechanics_pt1.jpg)\n 2. [Episode 8, card 2](http://images.wikia.com/shingekinokyojin/images/5/5d/Three-Dimensional_Maneuver_Device_Mechanics_pt2.jpg)\n 3. [Episode 9, card 1](http://images.wikia.com/shingekinokyojin/images/7/71/Three-Dimensional_Maneuver_Gear_pt3.jpg)\n 4. [Piston at Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piston)\n 5. [3D maneuver gear at the _Shingeki no Kyojin_ Wiki](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Three_Dimensional_Maneuver_Gear)\n 6. Note 1: Episode 8's second _currently disclosable information_ states that the gas is \"compressed ... and injected\"[{2}](http://images.wikia.com/shingekinokyojin/images/5/5d/Three-Dimensional_Maneuver_Device_Mechanics_pt2.jpg), but this appears to be a grammatical error; see comments below.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-27T02:13:43.120", "id": "4976", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T01:09:04.987", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "4975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nI have a good idea on how the black box works. The top trigger is used for the\nhook and the bottom trigger is used to activate the gas with the one fan on\nthat side therefore turning the operator. The two switches on the side are\nused to extend and reel in the operator on the wire that is attached to the\nhooks. If you have any other ideas please let me know, I saw Levi do this in\none of the OVA's that is how I figured it out. If you want the link just let\nme know. <http://watchsnk.net/2014/09/shingeki-no-kyojin-ova-gaiden-kuinaki-\nsentaku-no-regret/> This is a simple theory since it was only for aprox. 10\nseconds, it starts at 17:47\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-25T16:27:06.050", "id": "22762", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-26T15:56:34.870", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-26T15:56:34.870", "last_editor_user_id": "15288", "owner_user_id": "15288", "parent_id": "4975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI've been looking into this and I do consider it feasible. The retraction\nsystem checks out but some issues I have thought of (and are pretty obvious)\nare that it would be very heavy with the compressed gas on you, (practical use\nyou wouldn't need the sheath or the blades cause titans don't exist).\n\nTo shoot a hook out with just compressed gas you wouldn't get very far\nespecially if it's steel you would have to use something a lot lighter like\ncarbon fiber. (I hadn't thought of pistons till I read one of these answers\nthough). How much gas you can release out of the pressure tanks at once is\npretty small with current technology so you couldn't get much of a boost from\nit but if you found a way to release gas faster without blowing yourself up\nthen that would solve a lot of problems.\n\nThat all I really have on the subject, I really want to build some 3DMG but it\nwill be a very drawn out project because it will cost a lot. I don't have and\nlinks that really would help describe any of this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-07T11:31:57.670", "id": "33584", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-31T17:12:01.280", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-31T17:12:01.280", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25528", "parent_id": "4975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFor the Black Box mechanism (grips) the curved trigger (shaped like a brake\nlever on a bicycle) located on the outside of the grip is used to fire the\ngrappling hooks towards the target. The top trigger within the grip is used to\nrelease the grappling hooks or to reel them back towards the user pulling the\nuser towards the target. The bottom trigger within the grip is used to\nactivate the gas propulsion system that helps the user move around with speed\non the ground or in the air. The sliders placed near the top of the grip are\nused to change the angle and position the shooters on the users hips are\nfacing letting them target where to fire a grappling hook. SOURCES: NO REGRETS\nOVA- Levi using ODM Gear.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-08T19:03:15.903", "id": "38858", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-08T19:03:15.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30822", "parent_id": "4975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nYes. It was mentioned briefly in a set of episodes. Though it's not\nconsolidated though.\n\nMy take on this: Kagome is the reincarnated kikiyo carrying the sacred jewel.\nThe Jewel secretly looks for its admirers which was the demons/humans and\nothers in the Sengoku period. So, the jewel opened the portal for Kagome to\ncome to Sengoku period. As long as the Jewel is there with the user, they can\ntravel back and forth Sengoku and modern period.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-27T09:47:13.143", "id": "4980", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-27T09:47:13.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2260", "parent_id": "4978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFor what I have seen/read, it is never clearly explained how the well actually\ntransports people from the modern age to the Feudal Era. However, the Inuyasha\nWikia page on it has a consolidation of observations in regards to who can\npass through the well in either direction.\n\n> * The only human that is able to travel through the well is Kagome.\n>\n> * Inuyasha can travel through without any need of the Shikon Jewel; it is\n> mostly because of his connection to Kagome that allows him to move between\n> the two eras of time.\n>\n> * Neither Sōta nor Shippō are able to pass through the well; however,\n> Sōta's voice could reach Inuyasha for unknown means while Shippō no success\n> what so ever.\n>\n> * Mistress Centipede was killed and sent to the present era without any\n> need of the jewel; it is suggested that demon's bones can pass through the\n> well. In this case, Mistress Centipede was revived because she was near the\n> Shikon no Tama (which was still in Kagome's body, unbeknownst to her).\n>\n> * Yura was able to send her hair to wreak havoc in the future; most likely\n> because of the jewel shard she stole.\n>\n> * Both Sō'unga and Saya were able to pass through without the need of the\n> jewel.\n>\n> * It can be presumed that only certain beings may pass through the well; a\n> number of objects have the ability to as well.\n>\n>\n\nKagome is originally pulled through the well/portal into the Feudal Era by\nMistress Centipede.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-27T20:43:49.297", "id": "4982", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-27T20:43:49.297", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "4978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it's mainly because Bouya never claimed the title of Boss or even\nfought for the title, whereas Hana fought to become the Boss.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-10T01:11:32.400", "id": "23937", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-10T01:11:32.400", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16183", "parent_id": "4983", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe differences between them did not lie in their strength as a fighter. Most\nagree that both of them were strong, some would even argue that Harumachi was\nstronger.\n\nThe differences were all about what they did outside of fighting itself. Where\neven their intent of fighting have a nuanced difference.\n\n * This would be a recurring theme and an important point, Harumachi's attitude was to care for a group of friends (which he didn't really admit to either). Tsukishima's was to care for everyone (which basically is the crux of everything). To do that, he set out to be the boss of Suzuran.\n\n * One of the most important differences was that Tsukishima set out to be Suzuran's boss, but Harumachi didn't, in fact the opposite, in that he knew that he was the strongest there but steadfastly refused to be called a boss. While that may seem trivial, it is the very essence of the question you posed - that Hana wanted to be a boss and became one while Harumachi rejected the title.\n\n * Another difference was the makeup of the school while they were considered to be \"boss\" (Using it loosely as Harumachi wasn't a \"boss\"). While Harumachi was there, there were many competing factions (\"gumi\") that were there and they had their issues with each other, fights, etc. They weren't united. They might fight together for a common cause, like the time Harumachi managed to mobilise the school, but when they came back, it went back to normal.\n\n * Compare this to when it was the Hana-Gumi. All \"Gumi\"s were either absorbed or \"beaten\" such that they were following the Hana-Gumi. Consider the FBI, were even though they didn't merge, they formed a shadow force that followed the Hana-Gumi's will.\n\n * Tsukishima probably had more charisma, in the way he carried himself and was some sort of moral compass for everyone. He naturally was well liked and drew people to him, and he welcomed them and always helped everyone out, even strangers. Compare this to Harumachi just trying to get his way with his fist. No doubt both succeeded, but perhaps, the way it was done was one of those differences people look for in a leader, a boss, in the self declared hell-hole of the area.\n\nPerhaps there are many more differences, but I think I tried to cover the most\nmajor points that would shed light on why. Technically, there was no explicit\nreason given by the author, but that was because I think he was trying to\n**show** the difference and have you make up your own mind.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-25T11:31:53.943", "id": "24349", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-25T11:31:53.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6481", "parent_id": "4983", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWe don't have any proof for the moment that it would work or not against\nObito.\n\nBut I would say that _Kirin_ wouldn't work. It's categorized as a _Raiton\njutsu_. So it's still _ninjutsu_ and Obito should not be damaged.\n\nAlso, to use this _jutsu_ , Sasuke needs to use a _Katon jutsu_ to create the\nclouds. So, when the clouds are charged with thunders, it may still have some\nenergy of the previous, meaning that it's not really natural lightning.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T07:53:56.027", "id": "4988", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T07:53:56.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2064", "parent_id": "4984", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom the [Doraemon Wikia](http://doraemon.wikia.com/wiki/Nobi_Nobita):\n\n> Nobita's eyes are never drawn consistently. **Sometimes they look like the\n> number 3** , sometimes they're black beaded, and sometimes, like in the case\n> of the recent movies, they're normal eyes.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T07:19:02.613", "id": "4987", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T13:12:39.197", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-28T13:12:39.197", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "4985", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is conjecture on my part, but it probably has to do with the differences\nin the Western and Eastern Calendars. The western Gregorian calendar is solar\nbased, whereas the eastern calendar is lunar based.\n\nThis is important, and answers your question because the lunar calendar is\nbased on the phases of the moon. The 15th of the lunar calendar is when the\nmoon is full.\n\nSo based on that, she was probably saying that the moon is full, but going by\nthe western calendar, its not the 15th.\n\nIts either that, or they _are_ going by the lunar calendar, and so going by\nthe calendar, the moon is not completely full, yet. Another explanation would\nbe there is something significant about the 15th in the anime, but I have no\nidea what that might be.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T14:09:16.697", "id": "4991", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T14:09:16.697", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "4986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe dialogue here goes:\n\n> で、窓硝子はどこだい？ \n> So, where are the windows?\n>\n> なぜ？ \n> Why do you ask?\n>\n> 壊して回るんだよ。 \n> I'm going to go around breaking them.\n>\n> 魔梨威さん、十五夜と十五の夜は違うから。 \n> Marii, it might be a full moon night, but it's not the fifteenth.\n\nThe last quoted line is the one depicted in your screenshot. There's a\ndifficult-to-capture joke in this sequence, which I will nonetheless try to\ncapture below.\n\nHere, 十五夜【じゅうごや】 (character-by-character \"fifteen-night\") is translated as\n\"full moon night\". It literally just means \"full moon\". This originated as a\nreference to the lunar calendar, but now is just an ordinary synonym for \"full\nmoon\".\n\n十五【じゅうご】の夜【よる】 (the same thing with the genitive particle の interposed) is\ntranslated as \"the fifteenth\". A more direct interpretation of this, however,\nwould be \"a night at the age of fifteen\" (an age when people are prone to\n[\"Yankee\"](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JapaneseDelinquents)\nantics).1 The joke, then, originates from the fact that 十五の夜 ( _Juugo no Yoru_\n) is also the name of [an 80s\nsong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pshjQzqGynE), the debut single of popular\nsinger OZAKI Yutaka, and one that has great affection for the Yankee\nideology/ethos. The song's chorus reads:\n\n> 盗んだバイクで走り出す 行き先も解らぬまま \n> 暗い夜の帳りの中へ \n> 誰にも縛られたくないと 逃げ込んだこの夜に \n> 自由になれた気がした 15の夜\n\nTranslated loosely as prose:\n\n> Riding the bike I stole, I dash off into the curtains of the dark night,\n> knowing not where I'm headed. I don't want anyone to chain me down as I run\n> off into the night, feeling free at last - the night of the fifteenth.\n\nThis is why Tetora's backdrop changes from a full moon (十五夜) to a guy riding a\nbike when she says 十五の夜.\n\n* * *\n\nAlternate possibility (and probably a more likely one): Marii's lines could be\na reference to a _different_ Ozaki Yutaka song: 卒業【そつぎょう】 ( _sotsugyou_ ,\n\"Graduation\"; [lyrics](http://j-lyric.net/artist/a000ee6/l004f70.html)), which\ncontains the following line:\n\n> 夜の校舎 窓ガラス壊してまわった \n> I went around the school building, breaking all the windows.\n\n* * *\n\nNote also that Gankyou's line a few seconds later may be related:\n\n> つまらない大人にはなりたくないね。 \n> I don't want to become a boring adult.\n\nThis is an almost-direct quotation of the penultimate line from the song\nガラスのジェネレーション (\"Glass Generation\"), by [SANO\nMotoharu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoharu_Sano), on his album \"Heart\nBeat\" ([lyrics](https://www.moto.co.jp/works/songs/HeartBeat.html)).\n\n> つまらない大人には なりたくない \n> (same as above, but without the concluding interjectory particle ね)\n\n* * *\n\n# Notes\n\nFor more information about Joshiraku obscurata, see [vale's translation\nnotes](http://notredrevie.ws/2012/08/09/joshiraku-04-notes-and-the-like/).\n\n1 This is probably an elision of the construction 十五歳【じゅうごさい】の夜【よる】, and is\nliterary or poetic in nature.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T22:27:48.743", "id": "5005", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-24T02:49:11.323", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "4986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell I don´t think they actually classify the quality of each voice. Why do I\nthink so?\n\nMost seiyuu are picked after they either send in some records or do a vocal\naudition, or they have done voice overs/acting before and are scouted this\nway.\n\nWhen a company wants some voice acting done, they usually keep in mind the\ncharacters that have to be voiced. Most of the time characters have a specific\npersonality and they want a voice to best represent this personality. For\nexample, let's look at Mizuhara Kaoru, the seiyuu who voiced Kusakabe Misao in\n_Lucky Star_. She has a melodic yet playful voice which can represent the\ncharacter as one of the best. To even better grasp this concept, think of\nNaruto being voiced with Kusakabe Misao's voice. This would not match the\npersonality the character has to represent.\n\nSo if there were to be a classification for seiyuu, it would differ per\ncharacter. So there are no known \"standard classifications\" for seiyuu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-27T12:05:50.880", "id": "5329", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-20T05:03:21.413", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-20T05:03:21.413", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "4993", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe key I think is 'to master'. Both Aang and Korra knew how to bend all four\nbasic elements from since they were born, but required training to get control\nover such powers (that's why they are avatars; they know how to bend all\nelements).\n\n> She was born in the water tribe, so, isn't she supposed to know only how to\n> bend water?\n\nSo, I would answer no to that. She, just like Aang knows how to bend all the\nfour basic elements.\n\nOne possible 'proof' is that Aang used his water bending skills (although\nnever being trained by any water bender) when he got lost in the storm and\nthat was how he got into the iceberg in episode 1 in the first place.\n\nAs for why Korra has greater mastery over bending than Aang, there was no\nspecific reason mentioned as far as I remember, but I would say that it's just\na talent, just like it can be a talent for someone to know how to play piano\nwithout actually getting someone teach them while one can say that other\npeople need a push so they can develop certain skills.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T19:38:20.413", "id": "4996", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T19:46:48.413", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-28T19:46:48.413", "last_editor_user_id": "1772", "owner_user_id": "1772", "parent_id": "4994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nKorra was designed to be Aangs polar opposite. He is calm, peaceful, and\nprefers to solve things without a fight, he prefers to avoid the enemy rather\nthan counter or bide.\n\nKorra on the other hand, is hot-headed, a fighter, prefers to pulverize an\nenemy rather than avoid a battle.\n\nAirbending is considered to be a very \"spiritual\" type of bending, it requires\none to be connected to his inner spirit. All airbenders were monks, meditated\na lot, etc.\n\nThe rest of the bendings are more \"physical\" bendings.\n\nAs part of Aang being the exact opposite of Korra, he was familiar with\nairbending at the beginning of the series, and she was familiar with\neverything _but_ airbending.\n\nAs to **_why_** she was able to bend 3 elements at the age of 4-5, that wasn't\nexplained, but we can assume it has to do with pure talent. (She is very good\nwith the \"physical\" world, but has no talent with the \"spiritual\" world. An\navatar needs both to be \"complete\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-31T12:48:41.707", "id": "5058", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-31T12:48:41.707", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "4994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is possible that she had some masters over at the South Pole to teach her.\nAfter all, Katara commands quite some respect.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-01T10:00:28.857", "id": "9345", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-01T10:00:28.857", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4731", "parent_id": "4994", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nI just think they didn't want a montage of Korra learning each individual\nelement so they essentially push the skip button. We, as an audience who seen\nATLA, seen fire water and earth training in the show. But we never fully seen\nwhat air training is. So I think the writers just gave the other elements so\nwe go straight to AIRbending\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-10-22T15:19:05.610", "id": "60865", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-22T15:19:05.610", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56814", "parent_id": "4994", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn a few interviews:\n\n[Hiroyuki Yamaga: May 1998 issue of\n\"Evangelion\"](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Statements_by_Evangelion_Staff#Hiroyuki_Yamaga:_May_1998_issue_of_.22Evangelion.22):\n\n> **On the reasons for use of Judeo-Christian symbology in Eva**\n>\n> **YAMAGA:** I don’t know exactly why. **I suspect that Mr. Anno may have\n> read some book on it, and there was some thoughts he wanted to express on\n> it**. I personally am glad that, rather than Christianity, he didn’t express\n> some obscure Buddhist theme, because then it would have been linked more\n> with Aum Shinri Kyo. [LAUGHS]\n\n[Kazuya Tsurumaki: Q&A from \"Amusing Himself to\nDeath\"](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Statements_by_Evangelion_Staff#Kazuya_Tsurumaki:_Q.26A_from_.22Amusing_Himself_to_Death.22):\n\n> **Can you explain the symbolism of the cross in Evangelion?**\n>\n> **Kazuya Tsurumaki** : There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we\n> did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because\n> Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be\n> mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. **There is\n> no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols\n> of Christianity look cool.** If we had known the show would get distributed\n> in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.\n\nand from an NHK special \"[Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki\nAnno](http://www.evageeks.org/2010/10/extra-curricular-lesson-with-hideaki-\nanno/)\", a student asks:\n\n> \"Why is that robot-looking thing called an Evangelion\"?\n>\n> **Anno** : \"It is a Christian word meaning _Fukuin_ or Gospel and it's\n> supposed to bring blessings. Actually, it's a Greek word. I used it because\n> it sounds complicated\"\n\nSo it seems the creators didn't mean for there to be any deeper religious\nmeaning from all the religious symbolism. That doesn't mean that there isn't\nin-universe meaning to the show. For example, the name of the Angels\ncorrespond to their features (e.g. \"Gaghiel\" = \"Fish\", \"Israfel\" = \"Music\",\n\"Sahaquiel\" = \"Sky\", etc), and the symbols themselves aren't haphazardly\nplaced. There could very well be an in-universe explanation for why the\nsymbolism is there at all, possibly inherited from the Angels themselves or\ncreated by Seele.\n\nAdditionally, there could be meaning derived from the symbolism beyond what\nthe creators originally intended.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T21:23:10.697", "id": "5001", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T21:23:10.697", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "5000", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe television rating system in Japan is the same as the [movie rating\nsystem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirin).\n\nTheir regulations are as follows:\n\n**Unrestricted**\n\n * G: General audiences\n\n * PG12: Parental guidance suggested. Some content may be unsuitable for children under the age of 12.\n\n**Restricted**\n\nThese are regulated, and all movie theaters are required to check for ID.\nAllowing in an underage child is a criminal offense.\n\n * R15+: Restricted to teenagers 15 and over only.\n\n * R18+: Restricted to teenagers 18 and over only.\n\nIt is a lot more difficult to regulate television watching than to regulate\nmovie-watching, so just because a rating is given for a television show, it\ndoesn't mean that it is being followed, whereas in a movie theater, at least,\nit can be regulated. Frequently, in America, for TV-MA, a warning will be\ngiven that the show may not be appropriate for children under the age of 17.\n\nDarker than Black was actually rated TV-MA in America, not R. R is only used\nfor movies, and Darker than Black is a TV series. The rating is given\n[here](http://www.funimation.com/darker-than-black).\n\nI cannot (at the moment) find what the Japanese rating is for Darker than\nBlack, but presumably it was either R15+ or R18+.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T22:55:55.887", "id": "5012", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-26T07:16:01.103", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-26T07:16:01.103", "last_editor_user_id": "18352", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "5003", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Robotech Saga\nwikia](http://robotech.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Dimensional_Fortress), \"SDF\" in\nthe \"SDF-#\" stands for **Super Dimensional Fortress**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T22:42:09.120", "id": "5009", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T22:42:09.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "5004", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [Robotech Wikia](http://robotech.wikia.com/wiki/SDF) has a list for SDF-1,\nSDF-2, SDF-3, SDF-4 and SDF-7. It includes a listing for SDF-M, but I don't\nthink that was in the TV series (it's mentioned in the Robotech comics).\nWikipedia also has a list of [Robotech\nvehicles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Robotech_vehicles) that has a\nlot of detailed information of 1-4.\n\n * **SDF-1** : Robotech TV series\n * **SDF-2 Megalord** : Robotech TV series (starting from episode 26)\n * **SDF-3 Pioneer** : First appeared in [\"Crystal Dreams\" promo](http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120820223908/robotech/images/f/f6/Incomplete_SDF3.jpg) and in the Robotech II: The Sentinels series\n * **SDF-4 Izumo/Liberator** : Last episode of the original series\n * **SDF-7** : Robotech II: The Sentinels novels \n * **SDF-M** : Invid War: Aftermath comics\n\nThe SDF-7 was a Horizon Class T ship, so it's not like SDF-1.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T23:08:36.677", "id": "5015", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T23:29:53.630", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-28T23:29:53.630", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "5006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat is canon and what is non canon in Robotech is a mess, but basically the\nRobotech series, and the Robotech Shadow Chronicles and Robotech Love Live\nAlive movies are canon and the rest of movies (Robotech The Sentinels and\nRobotech the Untold Story) and novels and most comics are not\n\n**There are 4 canon SDF that you could count as \"real\". There are more in\nnovels and such but they are non canon versions.**\n\nThe canon SDFs are SDF-1 and SDF2 which appears in the canon Robotech series\n(well sort of, the SDF-2 is mentioned but never seen in the series) . The\nSDF-3 appears in the non canon Robotech The Sentinels movie so because of this\nit shouldnt count, but it also appears in the canon SDF-3 Shadow Chronicles\nmovie, so you could count it as \"real\" because of this. The SDF-4 appears in\nthe canon Robotech series and in the canon Robotech Shadow Chronicles movie.\n\nAlso what is canon might change over the years, the first 2 Robotech movies\nwhen they were made were meant to be canon (and they had its creator involved)\nbut they were de-canonized later.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-27T19:23:45.943", "id": "38093", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-27T19:23:45.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "5006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no definitive answer as to what exactly Homura's wings are, at this\ntime. It is possible that the third movie will reveal new information about\nthe nature of her wings, but for now, there is no real answer to this\nquestion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T23:00:29.360", "id": "5013", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-28T23:00:29.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5007", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIf the 3rd movie is anything to go by, these are demon wings. When Madoka is\ngrasped and pulled in by Homura at the end of Rebellion, Homura rewrites the\nuniverse once again. Here, she dons a pair of black wings. When Kyubey asks\nwho she is, Homura replies she is a demon. Thus, it is probably safe to\nconclude these are demon wings.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-11T19:47:26.083", "id": "6253", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-11T19:47:26.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "5007", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Rebellion movie seems to hint that\n\n> Homura's wings in this scene were indeed witch wings, or rather, the\n> beginning of Homura's transformation into a witch.\n\nThe biggest clue is the landscape. The last time we see Homura in the series\nshe is about to confront a bunch of wraiths in a desert landscape. The\nRebellion movie reveals\n\n> that the Incubators tried to trap Homura and interrupt her witch\n> transformation in order to draw out Madoka. When the Incubators' barrier is\n> broken, Homura is still in the desert.\n\nIf you assume the two deserted landscapes are one and the same,\n\n> you would conclude that Homura was about to turn into a witch at the end of\n> the series. Presumably, that's where her transformation began before it was\n> interrupted, setting the events of the Rebellion movie in motion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-26T03:32:19.957", "id": "7169", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-26T03:53:46.570", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-26T03:53:46.570", "last_editor_user_id": "3488", "owner_user_id": "3488", "parent_id": "5007", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are, definitionally, no witches in the post-Madoka universe. As such, it\nis not possible that Kyouko fought Sayaka's witch.\n\nBesides, Mami says:\n\n> 行ってしまったわ。円環の理に導かれて。 \n> ミキさん、さっきのあの一撃にすべての力を使ってしまったのね。\n>\n> She's gone. Taken away by the Law of Cycles. \n> Miki used up all her energy in that last attack, didn't she?\n\nAnd furthermore, we see that they have just set a wraith/demon/魔獣 on fire. It\nis very clear from this that Sayaka just disappeared after running out of\nenergy in a fight with a wraith/demon/魔獣.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T22:47:12.903", "id": "5011", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-06T02:35:34.497", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5008", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no information about who it was that became Walpurgisnacht. All we\nreally know is that Walpurgisnacht is, in some sense, a fusion of multiple\nwitches (or magical girls, I guess).\n\nOfficial description from July 2011 Megami interview with Urobuchi:\n\n> _In the last episode we saw the \"Walpurgisnacht\", but what kind of witch is\n> it specifically?_\n>\n> It has the destructive power to bring about natural disasters powerful\n> enough to blow away an entire town, but originally it was a single witch.\n> It's a witch that has grown from the combination of countless other witches.\n> Walpurgisnacht combines with other witches in the same way two powerful\n> tornadoes are able to combine and become larger. It's essentially a\n> \"conglomeration\"-type witch. Because it's so powerful, it rarely shows\n> itself.\n\nSee the Madoka wiki for [more details](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Walpurgis_Night).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-28T23:03:45.533", "id": "5014", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-15T16:53:05.350", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI'd assume it was someone who had a lot of ties of fate, maybe one of the\nqueens of England, since her outfit would fit their attire. I'd also assume it\ncould have been the same situation that Madoka and Homura had, or she could\nhave wished to be the most powerful magical girl of all time, and turned to\nWalpurgisnacht.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-11T19:35:12.323", "id": "5453", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-15T13:08:13.897", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-15T13:08:13.897", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2535", "parent_id": "5010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI did a bit of research, and found that Walpurgisnacht is the conglomeration\nof many witches into one. Akemi Homura may be a key element in Walpurgisnacht\nsince Walpurgisnacht appears out of nowhere. This could possibly be time\ntravel, and the witch that Homura turns into could have eaten/absorbed other\nwitches until she became Walpurgisnacht.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-19T17:22:40.530", "id": "6435", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-19T23:09:22.343", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-19T23:09:22.343", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3031", "parent_id": "5010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAll of the imagery associated with Walpurgisnacht is the same imagery\nassociated with Homura specifically.\n\n * When Homura turns into a witch and fights Kyubey, the images of her upside-down smiling is exactly the same as Walpurgisnacht's entrance.\n * Walpurgis is a fusion of two gears with two magical concentric circles surrounding her. Homura is always surrounded by gears, clocks, etc. because she is a machinist and a time traveler.\n * Walpurgisnacht appears in every timeline at the exact moment that Homura gives up on her quest to save Madoka. Bearing in mind that Sayaka's imagery was the same as a magical girl and witch (trains, music, swords, capes, mermaid transformation sequence, etc.), it would be logical that Walpurgis is either Homura **or** that Homura contributes the vast majority of Walpurgis' power with the inverse of her wish to change fate.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-15T11:30:03.037", "id": "13991", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-15T13:07:13.137", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-15T13:07:13.137", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8352", "parent_id": "5010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWitch form of Homura (Homulilly) was presented in the PSP game and it looks\nnothing like her witch form from Rebellion. One can say that this means that\ndepending on the circumstances witch form can change. Plus, Madoka's witch\nform (Kriemhild Gretchen) also looks slightly different in different\ntimelines.\n\nNutcracker Homulilly lacks top of the head and on the concept art for\nWalpurgis Night you can see that Walpurgis also does not have a top of the\nhead. Nutcracker Homulilly also has oldee-european style dress similar to\ndress that Walpurgis has. Gears/clock theme that Walpurgis and Homura share,\nsimilar conical silhouette, two streak hair (braid on PSP Homililly, just\nstreaks on Nutcracker and two-hat thing on Walpurgis), plus production notes\nthat say that \"Walpurgisnacht's and Kriemhild Gretchen's silhouettes are\nsupposed to make a pair and they are meant to look like an hourglass\". All\nthis pretty much cements Homura as Walpurgis. Regular designs of Homura and\nMadoka are also make pair, with Homura being black and purple and Madoka white\nand pink (purple being basically pink with a lot black and gray added to it).\n\nAlso, facts aside, thematically there is no reason for Walpurgis to be anyone\nelse beside Homura. If Walpurgis is Homura it creates dramatic irony of Homura\nfighting with herself and more she grows stronger the stronger her enemy\nbecomes. And trying to save Madoka from her dark side Homura more and more\ncorners Madoka into basically suicide. From the literary stance Homura being\nWalpurgis makes perfect sense, especially after \"Akumura\" is created. \"Trying\nto fix everything you only make it worse and probably things would be better\nif you leave them alone\" seems to be a theme with the series in general and\nespecially Homura.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-19T15:47:10.563", "id": "19498", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-19T15:47:10.563", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "12817", "parent_id": "5010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBasically, Walpurgisnacht is a Witch that is to be blunt like a Cluster of\nWitches and it came to be from a single witch that was just either left to its\nown devices until no solitary Magical Girl could handle it.\n\nThat is to say she appears and at that point she also attracts Magical Girls\nto kill her as she is a reference to the gathering of witches. She is never\nreally explained but we know she isn't Homura nor has she been seen as a\nMagical Girl. We do know that she could be like Madoka and have made a wish so\nselfless it made a wish with a curse equally as big as her wish. For example,\na queen wishing for her countries prosperity and then she is hung or beheaded\nby the very people she made a wish for.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-15T06:47:08.813", "id": "24091", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-15T07:53:37.313", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-15T07:53:37.313", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "16315", "parent_id": "5010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAn interesting question... a late answer...\n\nI strongly disagree with the interpretation of _Homura Akemi_ herself being\nthe Walpurgisnacht witch. The circumstances during her wish themselves prove\nthat _Homura's_ not the witch.\n\n_Homura_ wished to re-live the time period when she met _Madoka_ for the first\ntime and protect her, instead of it being the other way around. She wished for\nthis, **only after** _Madoka_ (in the original timeline) died fighting the\nWalpurgisnacht witch. So, it is evident that _Homura_ was **not even a magical\ngirl** at that point, so forget the possibility of her being the\nWalpurgisnacht witch.\n\nAlso note that the Walpurgisnacht witch cannot be _Homura_ from the _\"future\"_\neither, because each of the altered timeline universes created by virtue of\n_Homura's_ wish are independent of each other.\n\n> In actuality, the Walpurgisnacht witch is an amalgamation/(coalesced form)\n> of multiple witches/familiars. _This can be supported by the scene where the\n> witch disintegrates after Madoka's wish. It seems to suggest that it had\n> resulted from 32 individual magical girls/witches..._\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eV43U.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-19T12:10:46.450", "id": "39032", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-19T12:10:46.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30867", "parent_id": "5010", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know whether you have read the manga, so the following may be somewhat\nof a spoiler, because it reveals Vash's true identity.\n\nVash is\n\n> a Plant. Plants are inter-dimensional beings that are tapped as a source of\n> power and energy for the planet Gunsmoke. They are beings that can generate\n> energy and even food and water based on environmental conditions. Plants\n> were invented by humans, and are usually kept alive in light bulb shaped\n> containers and used as a power source. Vash and Knives are independent\n> Plants, meaning they can survive independently (other plants depend on being\n> kept in a special environment in their containers) and even use their powers\n> of their own conscious will. [(1)](http://trigun.wikia.com/wiki/Plants)\n\nThe ability to transform his arm is called Angel Arm, and it is a\n\n> natural ability of all Plants. It may take various forms, but is most known\n> for it's usage by Knives and Vash in a form of a cannon. However, in order\n> to activate the ability, they need a catalyst (such as the pistols in the\n> anime).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-29T05:32:45.977", "id": "5021", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T05:32:45.977", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "5016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMinato used the Death Reaper Seal to seal the Yin half the Kyuubi in him, then\nhe used the Eight Trigram Seal combined with the 4 Element Seal to seal the\nYang Half of the Kyuubi in Naruto.\n\nFrom [Naruto Wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kurama)\n\n> During its attack on Konoha, Minato Namikaze sacrificed his life by\n> splitting the fox's chakra into two: sealing the Yang half within his son\n> and sealing the Yin half within himself.\n\n* * *\n\nLower down in the page:\n\n> Since Kurama's chakra was too immense to be sealed within an infant like\n> Naruto, Minato first used the Dead Demon Consuming Seal to separate and seal\n> its Yin half within himself and then prepared the Eight Trigrams Seal to\n> imprison the Yang half within Naruto\n\nThe 4 Element Seal was used so that the chakra of the Nine Tailed Fox would\nslowly leak out from the Eight Trigrams Seal and merge with Naruto's own\nchakra.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-29T03:05:02.037", "id": "5019", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T04:52:55.750", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-29T04:52:55.750", "last_editor_user_id": "2077", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "5018", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n(All below links are possibly NSFW.)\n\nA larger version of this image can be [found on\nDanbooru](http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1450053?tags=hayami_shizuku).\nApparently, this image is just a drawing by [an artist named\nNaomi](http://naomi703703703.blog112.fc2.com/) as part of her 世界の果ての喫茶店 (Cafe\nat the End of the World) series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-29T06:10:33.290", "id": "5022", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T06:10:33.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5020", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThis isn't from an anime. It's original art by [this Pixiv\nuser](http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=970058) (warning, may be a bit NSFW)\nfor her [FC2 blog](http://naomi703703703.blog112.fc2.com/) (also maybe not\nsafe for work).\n\nThe characters in the image are:\n\n * Hayami Shizuku (white hair, green eyes)\n * Hutaba Akane (blonde hair, red eyes)\n * Hutaba Aoi (blonde hair, blue eyes)\n * Neko (brown hair)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-29T06:10:43.870", "id": "5023", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T06:10:43.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "5020", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no official word one way or another on this, as far as I can tell.\n\nThat said, there is significant evidence that the alchemists outside of the\nmilitary are not as talented as the ones we've seen. In general, the military\ntends to pick up extraordinarily talented alchemists for their own purposes.\n(You can see scenes such as Al fixing the radio, Ed's little parade around\ntown fixing everything, and even Ed fixing up the town after alchemy stopped\nworking for a while; in each of these scenarios, the townspeople are astounded\nat their skill level.) Alchemists who do not join the military (Izumi,\nHawkeye's father) tend to live more secluded lives and devote their time to\nresearch or other science.\n\nFrom this, we can conclude that there are probably few alchemists who are\nwilling to take their time and contribute to an industry (transportation\nmanufacturing) that does not take advantage of their scientific understanding\nor level of skill the same way being in the military would. Not only that, but\nthe military grants _lots_ of time for personal research as well as _huge_\ngrants to State Alchemists.\n\nGiven all that, it's tough to say that any alchemists would find themselves in\nthe manufacturing industry; this doesn't mean there aren't any able to,\nthough. We've seen Ed able to completely transform the exterior of a car.\n\n\n\nHowever, as I said, since there is no official word on this, we can only\nassume that the alchemists outside of the military likely do not have the\nskill nor motivation to participate in the manufacturing of transport\nvehicles.\n\nIn terms of alchemy actually being _used_ for transportation, this is\nessentially unheard of. The only time this actually happens is when people\nmove between reality and non-reality. (This happens when they are\ndeconstructed and taken into the Gate, or when Ed and Ling escape from\nGluttony.)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-29T21:19:43.193", "id": "5027", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T22:37:36.573", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-29T22:37:36.573", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "5025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Short answer:** Amestris is a military state which has a [parliamentary\nrepublic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_republic) form of\ngovernment. Xing is a [monarchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy) which\nhas a clan structure beneath the monarch (emperor). Ishval, when it was a\ncountry of its own, had an unknown government structure but was probably split\ninto communes; it is now under Amestris's government.\n\n* * *\n\nThere is a **long answer** , too, of course...\n\n# Amestris\n\n> Amestris is a Unitary State, with a population of about 50 million and a\n> Parliamentary Republic type of Government. The Head of State is the\n> Commander-in-Chief of the Military who holds the title of \"Führer\" (大総統,\n> Daisōtō in Japanese, a form of \"Generalissimo\") and who concentrates the\n> ranks of Head of State and Head of Government. — [Amestris, _Fullmetal\n> Alchemist_ Wiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Amestris)\n\nAmestris is a military state ruled by Führer King Bradley. As mentioned above,\nit is a [unitary state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_state) (one in\nwhich there is one central government which decides what smaller branches\nhandle) with a parliamentary republic government. So, yes; there is a\nparliament, but it is more-or-less just a cover for the central military\ncontrol body that we see running the country for the entirety of the show.\n\nIt is mentioned that Amestris did not used to be a military state; it is not\nmentioned what type of government it had prior to becoming one.\n\n# Ishval\n\nIshval is implied to have once been a country, but is no longer a sovereign\nnation. Following the fall of Xerxes, many countries were assimilated into\nwhat is seen as Amestris in 1914 and onward. There is no given record of the\ngovernment in Ishval at the time, though it is implied that it was a tribal\nland, not so much run by a government, but more likely small communes that\nworked on their own and were united by connections between them.\n\nThe man pictured below is a high-ranking monk, and who is most likely\nimportant in uniting the Ishval community (even prior to the War of\nExtermination).\n\n\n\n# Xing\n\n> Xing is a Monarchy, whose monarch holds the title of Emperor. It's composed\n> by fifty hereditary clans all under the rule of a single Emperor, who\n> cements his rule by taking the daughter of each clan's chief to be his\n> concubine and bear him a single heir for each clan. — [Xing, _Fullmetal\n> Alchemist_ Wiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Xing)\n\nThe country of Xing is, as stated above, a monarchy ruled by an emperor (part\nof which makes it an [empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire)). Beneath\nthe (unnamed) emperor are approximately fifty clans, most of which have an\nheir (about forty-three have heirs, the others do not). Two of the clans we\nare briefly told about are the Yao and Chang clans.\n\n\n\nWhen Ling says he is a prince, this is basically a technicality; he is the\nleader of the Yao clan and an heir to the emperor's throne (the twelfth heir,\nI think). He has no special privileges above being the leader of his clan, so\nhis rank as \"prince\" solely has to do with his position as heir.\n\n# Others\n\nDrachma, the large and arctic country to the north, is not told to have any\nspecific kind of government. However, given how it is the largest country\naround and is an arctic country, as well as the types of wars it fights, it is\nimplied that it is an equivalent of Russia. Russia was, at the time, the\nRussian Empire, which I believe was also ruled by an emperor or tsar. Further\nreading: ([Russian Empire: Government and administration,\nWikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire#Government_and_administration))\n\nCreta, to the southwest, is a smaller country which is composed of tribes in a\nfederation-like manner. (Further reading: [Creta, _Fullmetal Alchemist_\nWiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Creta))\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-29T23:29:07.970", "id": "5028", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-29T23:29:07.970", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "5026", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis seems to me to be a reference to Tanabata festival.\n\nTanabata is a traditional star festival, celebrating the meeting of the\ndeities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and ALtair).\n\nAccording to legend,\n\n> the Milky Way separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once\n> a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar\n> calendar. [(1)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata)\n\nThere is a tradition to write wishes on small pieces of paper and hang them on\na bamboo tree:\n\n\n\nSo I would way Naruto is holding a small wishing tree with wishes from his\nfriends.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T05:48:10.983", "id": "5042", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-30T05:48:10.983", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "5029", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI stumbled across this on a\n[forum](http://narutobase.net/forums/showthread.php?t=353407).. I could find\nno other references but for the most part, it makes sense somewhat.\n\n> 1. Gaara is the young buffalo with keen instincts and promise.\n>\n> 2. Tsunade is the rampant moose that charges without hesitation.\n>\n> 3. Raikage is the bear that holds dominance and power on top of everyone.\n>\n> 4. Mei is the whale that protects the sea (her village)\n>\n> 5. Tsuchikage is the ancient scripture, the scripture that possesses much\n> knowledge and experience.\n>\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-03T13:50:15.260", "id": "5091", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-03T22:21:57.667", "last_edit_date": "2013-09-03T22:21:57.667", "last_editor_user_id": "1528", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "5030", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nHaven't you been thinking that this could be a random thing? Because on the\nfirst answer, the animals doesn't seem to reflect much of the person even if\nthey make some sense. But in this case, why isn't Tuschikage's picture here,\ntoo?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-30T13:17:38.373", "id": "7223", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T11:46:06.480", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T11:46:06.480", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "5030", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSo far as the manga goes, only Madara was seen to activate the Rinnegan. Even\nNagato's rinnegan was given to him by Madara before his death.\n\nAnd so all the rinnegan shown belongs to Madara.\n\nSasuke will only be able to activate rinnegan if he has Hashirama's cells with\nhim. And i guess he currently don't have it.\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T03:11:28.810", "id": "5035", "last_activity_date": "2019-06-27T05:53:17.200", "last_edit_date": "2019-06-27T05:53:17.200", "last_editor_user_id": "1677", "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "5031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI just realized that the correct answer may be potentially wrong.\n\nAs we have seen thus far, Madara and Obito are the only 2 Uchiha to have used\nthe Rinnegan. Aside from them, Sasuke is the only other Uchiha clan member\nthat is still alive, whom hasn't awaken the Rinnegan yet.\n\nWith that said, Sasuke is potentially capable of awakening the Rinnegan any\nsecond now. Sasuke has bitten Karin many times. Karin is an Uzumaki, which is\na distant relative of the Senju. That means Sasuke has Senju cells inside of\nhim!\n\nWith the DNA requirements fulfilled, Sasuke can pull a quick one and activate\nRinnegan stunning Madara, the Shinobi alliance, and all of us readers :)\n\n**Updated with known Rinnegan users: Madara, Obito, Sasuke, Sage of 6 Paths,\nKaguya**\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-13T05:24:18.063", "id": "6286", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-06T08:43:51.393", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-06T08:43:51.393", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "5031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAs an updated answer, It turns out it was not as simple as we thought, though\nit took the Sage himself to explain it.\n\nBased on the Musings of Hagoromo (the Sage of Six paths) He inherited His\nrinnegan from his mother, which was then split to each of his children, Indra\nand Ashura. It is the combination of their chakras that result in the rinnegan\n(Indra + Asura = Hagoromo). The brothers however had a Feud, which somehow\ncaused their Unique chakras to reincarnate into their decedents.\nCoincidentally, they happen to be Uchiha and Senju respectively, which is\nwhere the initial confusion happened with only need Uchiha and Senju DNA. This\nis shown best with Danzo, who had Uchiha and Senju DNA for Years, possibly\naround the time of Narutos birth, but does not have any Rinnegan eyes in that\ncollection. Eventually, the Chakras reincarnated into Madara and Hashirama.\nMadara obtained the Rinnegan because he was Indras reincarnation and therefor\nhad Indras charkra, and then he took on Asuras chakra from Hashirama, who was\nAsuras Reincarnation. This mix (Asura and Indra) becomes the Sage of Six\npaths, with the Rinnegan.\n\nMadara then gave both of his eyes to Nagato, since Nagato could not naturally\nobtain them. Rinnegan appear to work like all other Dojutsu in that the eyes\nthemselves retain their form even after transplanting, as Nagato could never\nundo them, they were permanently rinnegan. After Nagatos death, Obito took his\neyes. Obito is unable to awaken the Rinnegan naturally because he is not\nIndras reincarnation, and so is still missing Indras chakra despite having\nUchiha and Asura's charkas. he had to implant the Rinnegan, which he could\nonly implant one of due to their power.\n\nThis boils down to meaning that Only Madara and Hashirama could obtain the\nRinnegan from the older characters, And the current generation of\nReincarnations, Naruto and Sasuke as well. Of course, if someone could implant\nSasukes eyes and implement Narutos DNA, they could also obtain the rinnegan\neventually.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-13T06:55:48.543", "id": "30469", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-13T06:55:48.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20610", "parent_id": "5031", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is, since during Madara and 5 kages fight, Madara is able to cast genjutsu\nto raikage after looking into his eyes, though his eyes is seen as a\nsharinggan.\n\nAnd he can still use Susanoo which is a Mangekyo ability.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T03:20:28.360", "id": "5036", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-30T03:20:28.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "5032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nA Rinnegan user can use the Mangekyō Sharingan abilities, if the user\n\n 1. Has one eye with a _Mangekyō Sharingan_ and one with a _Rinnegan_ (as seen with Tobi).\n 2. Naturally awakened the Rinnegan after awakening the _Mangekyō Sharingan_. (as seen with Madara).\n\nIf you look at the wiki page of\n[Rinnegan](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinnegan)(emphasis mine, not\noriginally there in the wiki).\n\n> When Madara was reincarnated by Kabuto Yakushi to fight the Allied Shinobi\n> Forces, Madara once again gained access to the dōjutsu **(Rinnegan)** ; his\n> Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan was able to transform into the Rinnegan at will\n> **(Madara awakened Rinnegan during the last days of his life)**. Based on\n> data collected over the years, Kabuto Yakushi and Orochimaru theorised that\n> because the Sharingan originated from the Rinnegan, it was possible for the\n> dōjutsu to change into the Rinnegan as part of a \"natural evolution\". This\n> is supported by the fact he maintains his Susanoo while having his Rinnegan\n> activated. Upon reincarnation, Nagato also retained the Rinnegan.\n\nSince Madara had awakened both the _Mangekyō_ and _Rinnegan_ in his life, he\ncould switch between the two and use the abilities of both the _dōjutsu's_.\nBut in the case of Nagato, as he was implanted with the _Rinnegan_ itself, he\ncould not switch between them and hence, was never able to use those\nabilities. This wiki excerpt should confirm it.\n\n> While the powers of the Rinnegan remain intact upon implanting them in a new\n> person, like Nagato and Obito Uchiha, only one who \"naturally\" manifests the\n> Rinnegan, as in Madara Uchiha's case, is able to switch between the Rinnegan\n> and Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan; otherwise, the Rinnegan is always activated.\n\nTobi had 2 different eyes, one with the _Mangekyō_ (his own eye) and the other\nwith the _Rinnegan_ (which he took it from Nagato's body after his death), and\nthat's the reason why he could use the abilities of both but only with one eye\nfor each of it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-27T08:28:22.590", "id": "6046", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-12T05:21:45.613", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-12T05:21:45.613", "last_editor_user_id": "1604", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "5032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile the powers of the Rinnegan remain intact upon implanting them in a new\nperson, like Nagato and Obito Uchiha, only one who \"naturally\" manifests the\nRinnegan, as in Madara Uchiha's case, is able to switch between the Rinnegan\nand Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan; otherwise, the Rinnegan is always activated.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-03T11:11:07.743", "id": "6714", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-12T01:48:24.047", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-12T01:48:24.047", "last_editor_user_id": "1709", "owner_user_id": "3206", "parent_id": "5032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nTo put it bluntly, no, the rinnegan cannot use mangekyou abilities. As you can\nwatch in the anime, Madara can switch between Rinnegan and Sharingan because\nhe awakened both. Nagato only had the Rinnegan.\n\nBasically, the Rinnegan isn't an upgraded Sharingan, it's what comes next, but\nit's a completely different eye.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-30T17:56:13.373", "id": "7230", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-06T05:59:37.750", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-06T05:59:37.750", "last_editor_user_id": "1709", "owner_user_id": "3548", "parent_id": "5032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Rinnegan and Mangekyo Sharingan are two different eyes. Completely\ndifferent. The Sage of Six Paths had the Rinnegan and divided his power to\ncreate the Senju and the Uchiha. The Uchiha got the Sharingan and the Senju\ngot really strong chakra and life force (chakra basically). The only reason\nwhy Madara got the Rinnegan was because he put some of Hashirama Senju's cells\nin himself. Thus bringing together the power that the sage had divided. He\nthen would attain the sage's eyes (Rinnegan). He is able to switch between\nthem. The Rinnegan cannot use Mangekyo techniques and vice versa.\n\nThe reason why Nagato cannot switch between the different eyes is that they\nwere transplanted into him in the Rinnegan form, and since they aren't his\nnatural eyes, his control over them is limited. A good example of this is\nKakashi: he cannot change the Sharingan Obito gave him into a normal eye. That\nis why he covers it up when he isn't using it. The one absolute thing I can\ntell you is that the Rinnegan and the Mangekyo Sharingan are two different\neyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-29T16:32:56.393", "id": "8355", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-07T13:28:55.583", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-07T13:28:55.583", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "4321", "parent_id": "5032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nGiven that the Rinnengan is the pen-ultimate version of the Sharigan, they can\nuse its power without the need for the eye form itself.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-29T17:24:13.033", "id": "8356", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-29T17:24:13.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4320", "parent_id": "5032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, it is possible **_however_** only if the rinnegan is with the original\nperson for whom it is awakened. But for him too he has to revert back to\nEternal Mangekyo Sharingan to use its abilities, and if he wants to use\nabilities of sharingan then he has to revert back to sharingan.\n\nAn uchiha who has awakened his rinnegan has 5 types of eyes..\n\n * normal Black pupils\n\n * sharingan\n\n * Mangekyou Sharingan\n\n * Eternal mangekyo Sharingan\n\n * Rinnegan\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T08:04:06.287", "id": "12899", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-17T08:12:58.857", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-17T08:12:58.857", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "7628", "parent_id": "5032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Rinnengan User Can Use The Mangekyo Techniques.. But Only If its the user\nwho has awakened the Rinnengan .. As You see in **Madara's** And **Sasuke's**\nCase.. As Sasuke Awakened his Rinnengan (In Left Eye) By taking chakra from\nHogoromo he could use his Amateratsu from his left eye ..\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-05T10:35:34.903", "id": "14861", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-05T10:35:34.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9019", "parent_id": "5032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no specific sealing technique for each tailed beast. In the battle\nwith killer B, B stated that the Iron Fist seal is of a lower quality that the\nFour Element seal. B was simply questioning the quality of Naruto's seal. B\nalso stated that Naruto's seal was a lot more durable when compared to the\nIron Fist seal.\n\nB's seal is of a lower quality and is therefor easier to break. In the anime\nit appeared that the Five Element Unseal was strong enough to break B's seal.\nNaruto's seal is of a higher quality so it is harder to break but it is also\nmuch harder to create.\n\nIt does not really matter which seal you use as long as it is strong enough to\nseal the Tailed Beast.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-02T05:05:52.170", "id": "5078", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-02T05:05:52.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1996", "parent_id": "5034", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis answer is based upon events up to Chapter 644.\n\nFollowing techniques have been used for sealing Tailed Beasts.\n\n * **Hakke no Fūin Shiki (Eight Trigrams Sealing Style)** used by Namikaze Minato to seal yang-Kurama (Kyuubi) into infant Naruto (and yin-Kurama into himself).\n * **Tekkō Fūin (Iron Armour Seal)** used to seal Gyūki (Hachibi) into Bee (and Fukai, the previous Hachibi jinchuriki).\n * **Fūinjutsu: Genryū Kyūfūjin (Sealing Technique: Phantom Dragons Nine Consuming Seals)** used by Akatsuki members to (extract and) seal their captured bijū into the Gedō Mazō.\n * _**Unnamed Fūinjutsu_** used by Chiyo to attach Shukaku (Ichibi) to Gaara's unborn body. The same technique was presumably used to attach Shukaku to the previous two jinchuriki.\n * **Ten-tails sealing technique** used by Uchiha Obito to seal the Juubi into himself. \n * _**Undisclosed Fūinjutsu_** used by Uchiha Obito to reseal various bijū into their resurrected former jinchuriki.\n * **Kohaku no Jōhei bijū fūin (Amber Purifying Pot Tailed-beast sealing)** used by the Third Raikage to seal Hachibi into the Kohaku no Jōhei. \n\nOther jinchurikis probably got their bijūs through one of the above\ntechniques, or other as yet undisclosed techniques.\n\nThere is not much evidence, direct or circumstantial, to suggest any kind of\n\"compatibility requirement\" between a bijū and its sealing technique, or in\nother words, it sounds plausible that a bijū could be sealed using more than\none technique, and the same sealing technique could be used to seal various\nbijū (as seen in the above examples).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-02T17:02:55.053", "id": "5079", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-02T17:02:55.053", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5034", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, Hei is alive, that's for certain; however, what happens to Yin isn't\nentirely mentioned.\n\nOne thing that could prove that Yin is dead is because on near the end of the\nanime, Yin appears (the one in the white suit) and asks Hei to kill her, in\nwhich he agrees. In the OVA, she also says her final goodbye and confesses her\nfeeling for Hei.\n\nHowever, in the OVA, Izanagi does say that he'll grant Yin's wish which would\nbe to be with Hei, and Izanagi did grant July's wish to be with Suou.\n\nAlso, Bai's power allows for molecular manipulation. It is how Hei is a\nContractor since she fused with him near the end of Heaven's War and how the\nplan to destroy all Contractors by destroying Hell's Gate failed and how\nHeaven's Gate cannot be touched.\n\nAt the end, Bai's star which disappeared because Bai was trapped in the Meteor\nCore began to shine again because she was released. If Hei got Bai's power\nback, then he could have fused with Yin as well and (if a third season is\nmade) is now trying to find a way to reverse the fusion so that Yin can return\nto her body (maybe also to allow Bai to come back). However, that is\nspeculation, one thing I've read that while Hei is holding her body, it's\nglowing, which could mean she's alive, though I didn't actually notice.\n\nI should point out that what we see is a light growing brighter when he puts\nhis hand on Yin at the end. While he could be killing her here, the light\ncould be the same that Hei emitted when he made Anti-Gate Particles\nnonexistent at the end of the first season.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T04:35:59.990", "id": "5039", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:38.337", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:38.337", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "5037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nHei is alive, and so is Bai, who is fused with him.\n\nNow there are two explanations:\n\n 1. The first and the best one is Hei was not able to use his powers as Bai fused with the core, and not only that but at the end, the core is destroyed, bringing Bai back to Hei. Bai had a matter-changing power that could allow Hei to remove Izanami from Yin, as she glows, there is also the answer by Memor-X talking about the Anti-Gate Particles, but I don't believe it. His star also shines brightly, which happens when the false star is in action, so _Darker than Black_ is uncovered.\n\n 2. Another thing is, he could be shocking the spirit or whatever, and as he is doing it, Yin is dying. He is carrying the body at the end to her grave and Shion must've tried to satisfy all by making the boy at the end, as you know, when he was trying to make himself it became, Suou. No Suue or Suo, or just Shion's sister, male to female, so when he tried to make Yin, the reverse process took place, and it was touched with Izanagi. So it tried to kill everyone, emotionless, it was like a doll. She can die like Huang.\n\nSo at the end, Shion must've made a clone of Yin which is Izanagi and Yin\nherself is Izanami, the white one, so when those dudes are gone and their\nglowing hair and they become Yin and the mysterious boy, Hei will try to kill\nhim in the third season, or Yin is alive and became into the heartless doll,\nor just became into two.\n\nWell, just wait for _Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T14:11:23.567", "id": "9694", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:40.517", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:40.517", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4873", "parent_id": "5037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Hei did kill Yin, and I believe Izanagi was never revealed in the\nAnime. If he didn't kill Yin, then he's hiding her somewhere. Izanami is an\nanti-contractor weapon with Yin inside, and Izanagi is never truly revealed\nexcept for that little extra bit at the end of the episode.\n\nWe do not know for sure if Hei did or did not kill Yin, and if that boy is in\nfact, Izanagi, I'm assuming Hei will come back, or the new \"Syndicate\" will\ntry and kill him. He's probably and Anti-contractor weapon as well from what I\nsee. But anyway, I think Hei killed Yin, and if he didn't, she's probably more\nhuman than a doll now, since she changed a lot in the OVA's.\n\nBut since nothing is proven yet, all we have is this picture:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-20T00:54:29.930", "id": "39041", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-15T05:04:03.643", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-15T05:04:03.643", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "31055", "parent_id": "5037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAnother explanation could be that during the OVA, Yin told Hei that one way\nthey could be together is when they become one, while she hugged him in the\nwhite form, which could be referred to his particle manipulation ability which\ncould be used to fuse them together just like Bai and Hei did.\n\nRegarding Izanagi's words where he said (in last OVA's last 10 minutes) that\nhe would grant Yin a wish when Hei arrives, I suspect it could be that he\nmakes Yin's body human so that one day Hei could reverse the process of the\nabove-mentioned fusion and bring Yin to her now converted Human body,\n\n\\--or--\n\nhe granted a wish by giving a human body to Yin but instead, it turned out to\nbe a boy (which is due to Shion's ability's flaw that the copy he creates has\none major difference) and now Yin is forever fused with Hei as the bright\nlight of Hei's particle manipulating power indicated at the end of season 2.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-01T21:24:30.663", "id": "43106", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:44.103", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:44.103", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36420", "parent_id": "5037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHei didn't kill Yin, he used his power to separate Izanami and Yin. In the\npicture where Hei is carrying Yin, she just faints.\n\nHe chose to save Yin instead of killing her, so the person who we saw in the\n\"coffin\" is who will bring destruction according to the documents written by\nAmber.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-04T15:28:19.037", "id": "44073", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:58.050", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:58.050", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37468", "parent_id": "5037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMy opinion is simpler. The main topic of the second season is \"copies\" or,\nbetter, \"clones\". Copies of sex and character opposed to the original, but\nwith the same power and memories.\n\nYin is the most striking example. Yang is inside her. She represents Ying and\nYang, the two opposite eternal and primary, without which world wouldn't\nexist. The last scene shows Hei carrying Yin's body, that body which is now an\nempty shell. Hei looks at a star falling from the sky. A contractor is dead. I\nbelieve the dead contractor is Hei. He lost his power, those he loved, and if\nwe exclude Yin's research, he is forced to work for others without being\nmotivated. In the end, he must also kill Yin, the woman he loves. Why should\nhe still be around? I think he dies together with Yin.\n\nIn my opinion, copies of Yin and Hei were created with same powers. Basically,\nin the end, we witness the birth of a new syndicate, with \"old\" faces. So, for\nme, it makes sense there are clones of Hei and Yin. Mao also has a new body.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-26T23:52:17.147", "id": "44874", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-27T02:33:51.937", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-27T02:33:51.937", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "38354", "parent_id": "5037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n_If you want, skip to the **Conclusion** below._\n\n* * *\n\nSo it was the prophecy to which if Izanami and Izanagi met, they will give\nbirth to a new being, a one which represents the two gates: hell and heaven.\nThat creature at the end is the same being I was talking about.\n\nThrough the series, it is known that Yin had become Izanagi (which the OVA was\nabout). So at the end of the OVAs, Yin fulfils her job and transform into\nIzanagi. Thus, the organization Hei works for (a.k.a \"syndicate\") is doing all\nit can to prevent Izanami meeting Izanagi and simultaneously trying to find\nanother solution in case they meet: that solution is the brother in the\nwheelchair (Sue's brother) which he can basically copy-paste anything he\nwants; he is a contractor. So, he is producing more beings like him so they\ncould copy Earth faster.\n\nHowever, there is one problem, the ME which is a device meant to erase or\nadapt memories into beings can only \"tape\" a memory that will stay within the\nbeing for 3 days at its maximum. Therefore, they use a meteor fragment (found\nat season 1 in one of the episodes which Hei took under the syndicate's\norders. I believe it was used in season 2) which can contain the being's\nmemories until the fragment is cracked or broken. To test their theory, they\ncreate Sue (the girl in season 2) which was the sister of the wheelchair\ncontractor and creates memories for her into the meteor fragment, which is\nbelieved he will make sure her memories will bond to her till it cracked. Near\nthe end of season 2, it seems the theory is correct that the meteor fragment\nwill contain the memories.\n\nSo by multiplying the wheelchair contractor, they recreate Earth: a new world\nwithout any contractors or dolls, and save all the humans' memories in a big\nfragment (that orange thing you see in the end, that thing has at the same\nroom all the wheelchair copies). So, in case something will happen to the real\nworld, they make sure humankind will survive.\n\nWith that all discussed, what happened with Hei? In case you didn't know, Hei\nlost his power, and with the meteor fragment of Sue, he basically delivered\nhis contract power to her (that's why she became a contractor). Hei doesn't\nhave his power until the end when he meets Yin as Izanami which returns Hei's\npowers (the scene where Sue dies) and Yin gave Hei two option:\n\n 1. To kill Yin and prevent the birth of the alien which might erase all humans and contractors as one; saving the earth, or\n 2. To use his power once again to separate Yin from Izanagi; by doing so he makes sure Izanami and Izanagi will meet and will bring birth to the demonic child we see in the end, the one sucking souls from anyone; using Hei's power, he will be able to get Yin and to live with her till death will be shown upon them, which might happen in the next future.\n\nHei chooses the second option, he gets Yin and the real Earth isn't safe\nanymore. So when you see Hei holding Yin and going with her, you should know\nshe is alive and he is as well. Meanwhile, the demonic child is on earth,\nAmericans conquer Japan, the syndicate continues his affords to prevent from\neveryone dying and there is another planet earth with humans only on it.\n\n**Conclusion:** Hei uses his power to separate Yin from Izanagi and by that,\nhe gets Yin alive. Earth is being duplicated but without all this messed crap.\nSyndicate continues to save humanity on the fucked up Earth - the policewoman\nis working for the syndicate.\n\nBtw, Sue was only an experiment tool to see if the fragment can hold the\ndull's memory.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-09-14T23:02:23.193", "id": "48794", "last_activity_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:50.820", "last_edit_date": "2018-09-15T05:03:50.820", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42487", "parent_id": "5037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is something that occurs everywhere and in all media. Just look at\n[Lolita](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita), which was published in 1955 and\nfeatures a relationship as you describe it.\n\nI think need to be a bit clearer in your definition of \"younger female\" and\n\"older male\" though. A 16 year old girl falling in love with a 18 year old boy\nwould fit your criteria too.\n\nI take it you mean something more along the line of CardCaptor Sakura's\nYoshiyuki Terada and Rika Sasaki, where she is a primary school student and he\nher teacher?\n\nThings like this actually happen in real life too. Though most people in that\nkind of situation wouldn't want their relationship to be know for legal and\nsocial reasons.\n\nThe difference between Japanese and American (as an example) media coverage of\ntopics like this is that in Japan, as long as no real child is harmed it's\na-okay (at least as far as I know), and if there were problems they could just\nas well say it's a 800 year old god just looking like a child. But in America\na lot of people see it as catering to pedophiles and forbid it. Just look at\nall the interesting discussions about the freshly licensed and heavily\ncensored \"Monster Monpiece\".\n\nSo even if it is an innocent relationship with no intimate contact it would be\nhighly frowned upon in the US, while in Japan they'd just shrug their\nshoulders because no harm was done to anyone.\n\nMore generally speaking though: some people just like a more mature partner.\nJust look at Hugh Hefner and his girls (let's just all innocently assume\nthey're not all after his money).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-24T15:09:14.647", "id": "7153", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-24T15:09:14.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3472", "parent_id": "5038", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI suppose she's really gone. According to the wiki (spoiler for 2nd season),\n\n> In Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor, Misaki discovers a reversed\n> message left by her on a disc, which informs her of what lies ahead. Another\n> message left by her also informs Misaki of the true nature of Izanami and\n> Izanagi, and Amber's goal, once again, appears to be preventing the end of\n> the known world. She also briefly appears behind Misaki, seemingly in\n> physical form, as Misaki turns around to see her, as if registering her\n> presence, but finds nothing. This is most likely Amber prior to her death,\n> traveling into the future depicted in the second season to observe it.\n\nSo I believe that what she did in the end of the first season was what it\nseemed to be: a noble sacrifice in order to help Hei realize what he had to\ndo. Too bad, as she was a really interesting character.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T05:55:30.260", "id": "5043", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-30T05:55:30.260", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "111", "parent_id": "5040", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost of this answer is speculation as there is currently no answer to this\nquestion.\n\nI think that the possibility of the \"Mizu Mizu no Mi\" existing somewhere in\nthe One Piece universe is highly possible, since we have already seen multiple\nstates of water being Devil Fruits:\n\n * [Moku Moku no Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Moku_Moku_no_Mi) (Smoke - Gas state)*\n * [Hie Hie no Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hie_Hie_no_Mi) (Ice - Solid state)\n * [Yuki Yuki no Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yuki_Yuki_no_Mi) (Snow - Solid state)\n\n* I know this one is disputable\n\nThe only problem with the \"Mizu Mizu no Mi\" is that it will create a paradox.\nSince Devil Fruit users are weak to water, if a Devil Fruit user transforms\ninto water, he would be rendered powerless and transform back to his normal\nform.\n\nBut all in all, I don't think the person using this Devil Fruit will be able\nto circumvent the \"curse\" Devil Fruit users get from eating them.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T21:09:42.987", "id": "5053", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-20T17:47:27.893", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-20T17:47:27.893", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "5041", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nNo. The second he touched water or became wet, he would lose the ability to\ncontrol it, allowing him to drown and die. If he controlled water from a\ndistance without touching it, then he could retain his devil fruit powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-27T19:55:58.257", "id": "7740", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-27T19:55:58.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3922", "parent_id": "5041", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Devil Fruit Users are weak to the sea energy (think seastone), because the\nsea hates them. If a \"Mizu Mizu no Mi\" exists, then it would most likely be\nfresh water ability. This would allow them to use water, without being\nweakened.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-23T10:47:47.540", "id": "11423", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-23T10:47:47.540", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6346", "parent_id": "5041", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe thing is that the Devil Fruit users only lose their powers through SEA\nwater. drinking water, fresh water and any other type of water would have no\neffect. So it would be possible to have the ability and swim, if you are not\nin Sea water. This was displayed in the Crocodile ARC. Luffy dowses himself\nwith regular water to fight Crocodile for the fact that the Sand gets clumpy\nand is not able to disperse.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-20T15:58:51.890", "id": "24231", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-20T15:58:51.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16424", "parent_id": "5041", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nTL;DR **YES, they can swim**\n\nAssuming the fruit eater cannot control the sea water (which otherwise would\nclearly goes against all the plot), he'd have to use tricks to enable him\nswimming.\n\n> [Devil Fruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit) users are\n> susceptible to all types of water, not just seawater\n\nI'll assume this Devil Fruit will not be susceptible to fresh water. This can\nbe possible since the wiki always states the word \"sea\" as the weakness. It\nhas nothing to do with water. For example, it's \"seastone\", not \"waterstone\".\nWe can say susceptibility of fresh water is a side effect which can be\nneutralized with the power of the fruit.\n\n> Logia Devil Fruits allow a person to **create** , control, and transform\n> into a natural element or force of nature, depending on the fruit.\n\nLet us also assume the fruit is [Logia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Logia)\ntype. If the fruit has the ability to create water, the fruit user could\nsurround themself with newly created fresh water which is not their own body.\nThis way, there will be no direct interaction with the sea water and the Devil\nFruit user.\n\nWith these assumptions, yes, a fruit user with such power will have the\nability to swim in salty water.\n\nCheck [this](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/23344/why-can-devil-\nfruit-users-use-their-abilities-while-wet/23369#23369) answer for further\ndetails.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-21T22:40:27.933", "id": "24264", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-09T17:34:59.890", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11077", "parent_id": "5041", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe instruments are called [Maracas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraca)\nwhich are similar to shaker. Similar to how some singers use tambourines,\nother use maracas when they are singing often dancing while playing in rhythm\nto the shake.\n\nYou can often see backing vocalists use such instruments to appear busy when\nthey are not required.\n\nHere's [how to dance with Maracas](http://www.ehow.com/how_8578637_dance-\nmaracas.html).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T13:29:37.120", "id": "5046", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-30T13:38:22.033", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-30T13:38:22.033", "last_editor_user_id": "247", "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "5044", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a parody of [Ryoma\nSakamoto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakamoto_Ry%C5%8Dma) (坂本健太), a\nprominent figure and force behind the overthrowing of the Tokugawa Shogunate\n(during the Bakumatsu period) which led to the Meiji Restoration, and one of\nhis quotations:\n\n> 人間、好きな道によって世界を切り拓いてゆく\n>\n> People make their way in life by following their hearts\n\nAs a side note, the Underdog Scans translation is rife with inaccuracies GIA,\nwhich is Gesu (not \"guess,\" which can mean anything from lowlife to humble\nperson, the ambiguity here seems intentional) Intelligence Agency. his is the\nsame kind of \"gesu\" as the \"Gesu-ling Club\" from _Sket Dance_.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T16:05:45.907", "id": "5048", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-30T16:05:45.907", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5045", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is probably not the answer you are looking for. But having seen the first\nepisode of the series, I can say that the divergence begins in Chapter\n1/episode 1 as Keita's character is completely changed. In the manga he\nprograms video games while in the anime he is a high-schooler. In the manga he\nis an arrogant prick; no such attributes to the anime character.\n\nSince the anime was produced when the manga was still being written, the anime\nhad to _completely_ diverge from the manga's plot at one point. This, I'm\ntold, happened in episode 12. I'm not entirely sure which chapter or volume\nthis represents. The ending is completely different from the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-31T20:23:57.020", "id": "5062", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-31T20:23:57.020", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "5047", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is probably the case of [Transfer Student\nUniforms](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransferStudentUniforms)\nas described on Tv Tropes:\n\n> New Transfer Students in places where school uniforms are a cultural default\n> setting often wear their old ones until the school can provide them with a\n> new one. **In fiction, this shows the newcomer or outsider**. When they get\n> the current school uniform, this indicates they've been assimilated. If the\n> student is meant to be a Fish out of Water, they will keep their old uniform\n> throughout the series. In Japanese media, even rebels don't choose to\n> abandon uniforms entirely; in American media they will do this even if the\n> new school doesn't have uniforms. Compare the Non-Uniform Uniform.\n\nAnd on that same page, it describes the incident in Yu Yu Hakusho (note\nKuwabara's case):\n\n> Yusuke from YuYu Hakusho distinct green uniform annoys the faculty, since\n> while technically acceptable he wears it just to stand out. Even Kuwabara\n> wears a slightly different shade of blue than the standard uniform. **This\n> is anime-only, though; manga color images usually have Kuwabara and Yusuke's\n> uniforms matching** , even if the colors aren't always consistent, unless\n> the artist was color-coding them. Keiko calls Yusuke on his green uniform in\n> the dub, but the original doesn't really mention it.\n\nIt happens in a lot of other anime/manga as well, commonly enough to be\nconsidered a well known trope.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-30T18:20:01.423", "id": "5050", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-30T18:25:02.663", "last_edit_date": "2013-08-30T18:25:02.663", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "5049", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've read the first ten novels from the series and I'd say the content is\npretty much the same, i.e. the anime follows the novels pretty well, but of\ncourse, the novels are much more detailed, for example more explanations\nduring the fights, small additional scenes or more detailed explanations on\ncertain (pseudo-scientific) concepts regarding the story. Also, in the novel\nyou can often read what the character is thinking at the moment, which gives\ncertain scenes a different feel than in the anime.\n\nPersonally, I found some parts of the novel rather streched-out, but on the\nother side, some other scenes were really fun to read. If you have time and\nyou really like the anime, you should check out the novels, but don't expect a\nblast.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-19T04:54:54.933", "id": "14558", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-19T04:54:54.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8260", "parent_id": "5051", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is symbolic. In this scene, he is cleaning his weapons. In Gusseppie's\nmind, Ein is not human, she is a weapon. An inanimate object, and in the same\nway he cares for is ruger, he cares for Ein. While I don't think he was\nliterally rubbing her down in weapons lubricant or copper solvent, I believe\nthe intent was the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-12T20:34:26.530", "id": "40842", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-12T20:34:26.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "33050", "parent_id": "5052", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom the text alone, it would seem that this is an orignal short story, titled\n\"何を忘れたか覚えてますか？ ―Don't Forget to Forget!―\", from the first [Kino's Journey\nArtbook](http://dengekibunko.dengeki.com/newreleases/978-4-8402-2525-0/),\n_Country of Memories -Their Memories-_ ( _記憶の国 -Their Memories- Kioku no Kuni\n-Their Memories-_ ).\n\nYou can read the full version [here](http://pastebin.com/nsK8p8nx).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-20T03:18:39.740", "id": "6450", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-20T03:18:39.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5054", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe pages shown in the picture are exactly pages 12 and 13 of the _Kino's\nJourney_ picture book mentioned in [the other answer](/a/6450). Here are some\nphotos of my own copy:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gO0Ox.jpg) \n_[キノの旅 -the Beautiful World- 「記憶の国」 -Their\nMemories-](http://dengekibunko.dengeki.com/newreleases/978-4-8402-2525-0/)_ ,\nPages 12-13\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pE8JU.jpg) \nCover and _[obi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi_\\(publishing\\))_\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OHtHQ.jpg) \nPages 0-1\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dVuP.jpg) \nPages 2-3\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yP3Ku.jpg) \nPages 4-5\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-20T19:29:09.937", "id": "6468", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-21T11:19:59.730", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-21T11:19:59.730", "last_editor_user_id": "151", "owner_user_id": "151", "parent_id": "5054", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey seem to be bundled with the limited edition Blu-Ray releases.\n\nFor example, Season 2 Volume 6 limited edition Blu-Ray comes with all these\ngoodies, picture courtesy of [the official anime\nsite](http://kaminomi.jp/dvd/index.html):\n\n\n\nOn the middle right, you can see two postcards. These are the endcards from\nepisodes 11 and 12 (the episodes published on this volume) free from any text\nobstructions. I found screenshots of the original episode 11 and 12 endcards\non [a Japanese blogpost](http://ruce.blog5.fc2.com/blog-entry-3299.html) to\nconfirm.\n\nThe limited edition Blu-Rays have a suggested sale price of 6800 yen (about 68\nUSD) each, and it will probably cost more to import it to another country.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-31T14:20:10.357", "id": "5059", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-31T14:20:10.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "107", "parent_id": "5057", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Aiki](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=1802).\n\n> Kunitoshi Joukyuu is a lazy ass, good for nothing pervert. **Who also\n> happens to be a supposed genius master of Aikido, the strongest in the\n> world, if not because his father sealed away most of his abilities before\n> dying.**\n>\n> So now he's stuck trying to find a way to rid himself of the \"curse\" that\n> had been put on him all the while getting involved in fights with beautiful\n> high-school girls who are a part of a power-struggle over a school.\n>\n> But none ever suspected the true sadistic monster that hides underneath the\n> calm and bored face he usually wears.\n>\n> Who will be in greater trouble? The girls, or Joukyuu?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-08-31T20:15:18.060", "id": "5061", "last_activity_date": "2013-08-31T20:15:18.060", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "247", "parent_id": "5060", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt is a cultural thing, but parallells can be drawn with other cultures of\ncourse. Some consider(ed) characters with more strokes to be more classy and\naristocratic. Which goes back in history, peasants had shorter and more simple\nnames—often practical in their nature. While the rich could have several\nnames, with rich symbolism, more abstract meaning and sometimes exotic\npronunciation.\n\nSome of the really aristocratic families in olden times actually created their\nown characters so they could be really unique (often by adding a stroke or two\nto an existing character or by combining two or more existing characters into\none). This is actually referenced in many Japanese/Chinese dramas where a name\ncan be “taken” from someone by removing a stroke or character, as well as\nadding a stroke to the (real/adopting) father’s given name so that the\nrelation father–son could well be seen, as well as adding rich philosophical\nideas to the relationship. For example, consider the anime movie _Spirited\nAway_ where the protagonist Chihiro has part of her name taken away by a\nwitch, which then becomes Sen (while the pronunciation differ, the character 千\n_sen_ is actually the same as _chi-_ in 千尋 Chihiro).\n\nBut back to the number of strokes. There is one Japanese belief (not sure how\nwidespread) that it is good fortune to have the same number of strokes in your\ngiven name and the family name (not seldom combined with similar meaning\nand/or pronunciation). That, and that some numbers in themselves are\nconsidered either auspicious or inauspicious are additional aspects on the\nstroke count. (For example the number four is considered ill-lucky as it can\nbe pronounced the same as 死 _shi_ “death”, while the number eight is one of\nthe more lucky, a heirloom from the Chinese culture.)\n\n**八木本一大 (YAGIMOTO Kazuhiro)**\n\n * 八 _hachi_ (here _ya-_ ), the number eight (2 strokes)\n * 木 _ki_ (here _-gi-_ ), a tree (4 strokes)\n * 本 _hon_ (here _-moto_ ), a book (5 strokes)\n * 一 _ichi_ (here _kazu-_ ), the number one (1 stroke)\n * 大 _ōki_ (here _-hiro_ ), something large (3 strokes)\n\nThat is 11 strokes in the surname and 4 strokes in the given name (15 strokes\ntotal). Ordinary characters, low stroke count, common pronunciation and very\nconcrete, everyday meanings. It’s hard to get more low profile than this,\nnaming-wise!\n\n**羊飼桃乃 (HITSUJIKAI Momono)**\n\n * 羊 _hitsuji_ , a sheep (6 strokes)\n * 飼 _kau_ (here _-kai_ ), to keep animals (13 strokes)\n * 桃 _momo_ , a peach or peach tree (10 strokes)\n * 乃 _no_ , an older form of the possessive marker の (2 strokes)\n\nThat is 19 strokes in the surname and 12 strokes in the given name (31 strokes\ntotal). The double of Kazuhiro’s. When it comes to the meaning and\npronunciation of Momono’s characters they are somewhat more “refined” than\nKazuhiro’s. It adds to the feeling of a name belonging to someone more\nimportant. Which I guess is what the mangaka is trying to achieve, name-wise.\nOf course, a childish game, but yet an important one if you are insecure in\nyour own place.\n\nHe he, I was only going to write a sentence or two. And still, there is much\nmore to be said. If you wish to know more, take a look at Japanese folktales\nand history.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-10-27T22:00:20.043", "id": "5615", "last_activity_date": "2013-10-27T22:00:20.043", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2625", "parent_id": "5067", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Hellsing\n(2001)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hellsing_episodes#Hellsing) was\nbased on the manga but contained significant differences, though the character\ndesign was similar and the names were the same. The setting was the same as\nthe setting in the manga, but the plot was entirely different.\n\n[Hellsing\n(2006)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hellsing_episodes#Hellsing_Ultimate)\nor Hellsing Ultimate was an OVA that shared the same plot as the manga,\nfollowing it much more closely than Hellsing (2001) did. Animated entries of\n[_The Dawn_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellsing#Hellsing%3a_The_Dawn), the\nprequel series to Hellsing, were released with the 8th, 9th, and 10th episodes\nof Hellsing (2006).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-01T17:49:44.007", "id": "5072", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-01T17:49:44.007", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "5071", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> When Naruto returned to Konoha, Tsunade ordered one of its smaller clones to\n> stay in Naruto's pocket and keep him informed of Pain's abilities. [naruto\n> wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Katsuyu)\n\nFirst and foremost, Tsunade didn't intend to heal Pain from the start but just\nwanted to located naruto instead. Even if Katsuyu implied to do, I think\nsmaller clone are smaller in ability like healing and other. Probably, the\nKatsuyu in Naruto's pocket can't have enough chakra to heal Pain.\n\n> Furthermore, Katsuyu's clones are extremely resistant to high amounts of\n> damage, as seen during Invasion of Pain Arc. Katsuyu is also able to absorb\n> people into its body, thus protecting them from physical impacts like the\n> large-scale Shinra Tensei using its own high durability. [naruto\n> wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Katsuyu)\n\nAside from that , Katsuyu seem to absorb physical impacts only and it can't do\nnothing to chakra overexertion from as far as I watched.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-01T23:41:28.887", "id": "5075", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-02T21:40:14.660", "last_edit_date": "2013-09-02T21:40:14.660", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "2185", "parent_id": "5074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs revealed by later chapters, _Gedo: Rinne Tensei_ is a **Tensei Ninjutsu** ,\nmeaning, it transfers the life-force of the user onto another (or others).\n\n> This was confirmed by Obito by saying that to revive Madara, he would need\n> to throw his life away.\n\nNo amount of chakra in the world could have saved Nagato, just like Naruto's\nchakra didn't save Chiyo back then (only helped her complete the technique).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-02T21:42:49.923", "id": "5085", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-02T21:42:49.923", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "5074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n1st, Chakra IS Life Force\n\n2nd Nagato didn't have enough chakra at the time to revive the whole village\nas stated in Chapter 449\n\nWhile Nagato died, it should be noted that it was when he revived a whole\nbunch of people, and when Obito said he die if used it on Madara (chapter 614)\nwho was dead for over 17 yrs, both were extreme cases..... it can be assumed\nthat if you don't have enough chakra, then you'd die if you used Rinne Tensei\nand the more extreme the case but you could survive if you had enough\nchakra....\n\ngoing there, that could mean that the longer the person is dead, the more\nchakra it'll take to revive them, so if he took time to rest, then it'd have\ntaken even more chakra to revive each person\n\nthen Nagato did his jutsu before Naruto knew what was going on so once the\njutsu was done and all, then Naruto couldn't help him\n\nwhile Naruto was able to help Chiyo, Pein's revival jutsu seemed to be even\nshorter than Chiyo's and Naruto didn't have much of Katsuya and Tsunade used\nup almost all her chakra so she couldn't transfer chakra to Nagato even if she\nwanted to...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-03T05:37:50.303", "id": "5090", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-03T05:37:50.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2333", "parent_id": "5074", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe outfit is almost identical to one of the outfits of Meruru (or, more\nproperly, Princess Merururinsu Rede Arls), the titular character of the\npopular JRPG [Atelier\nMeruru](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelier_Meruru:_The_Apprentice_of_Arland).\nHere's a comparison of the two.\n\nSue (ignore the fact that the background is stitched together):\n\n\n\nMeruru in her Alchemist costume:\n\n\n\nI don't think I need to point out the similarities, but in particular the\ndesign of the skirt, the straps on the front of the dress, the wand, the bow\non the neck, the crown, the hair style, and the flowers on the outfit are all\nthe same.\n\nIn addition, it seems that Sue's dialogue of the episode references Meruru, so\nthere's no doubt that this is who Sue was cosplaying as.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-02T04:43:13.857", "id": "5077", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-03T22:22:38.053", "last_edit_date": "2013-09-03T22:22:38.053", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "5076", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWe know that it was very difficult for A- and S-class demons to reach the\nhuman world. So the lords definitely weren't harvesting humans for themselves.\n\nBut it seems that it isn't that hard for demons of lower classes to reach the\nhuman world. Hiei and his gang managed to get through early in the series. The\ndemon Rando gets through and enters Genkai's disciple selection tournament.\nThe Four Saint Beasts send lower-level demons to scout in the human world, and\nprobably could have come themselves if they weren't sealed inside their\ncastle, since [according to the\nwiki](http://yuyuhakusho.wikia.com/wiki/The_Four_Saint_Beasts) they were all\nC-class or lower. Hiei's sister Yukina manages to get into the human world,\nwhere she is captured by Gonzo Tarukane and then rescued by Yusuke and\nKuwabara. Several demon teams compete in the Dark Tournament, which is in the\nhuman world, IIRC.\n\nSo I think we can assume that lower-ranked demons were coming into the human\nworld and harvesting humans to bring back to the Demon World for the A- and\nS-class demons to feast on. This is similar to what the Saint Beasts were\ndoing with their scouts.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-02T23:05:36.950", "id": "13216", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-02T23:05:36.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "5081", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey don't share the same mother. **[Sesshoumaru's mother is a dog-type Dai-\nYoukai](http://inuyasha.wikia.com/wiki/Sessh%C5%8Dmaru%27s_mother)** , while\nInuyasha's mother was a human.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-02T20:23:41.023", "id": "5084", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-02T20:23:41.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "5082", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn-universe, Fort Briggs exists because of Drachma; they are the only line of\ndefense keeping the Drachmans from breaking the non-aggression pact.\n\nOut-of-universe, it's the exact opposite: Drachma was added so that Fort\nBriggs had a reason to exist and to house one the toughest army around.\nConsidering the allusion to Russia (Drachma shares many similarities), it is\nlikely that it was to be seen as a powerful force. In order to have a powerful\nAmestrian army which was still isolated from Central, they had to be given\ntheir power from an outside, independent source: Drachma.\n\n\n\nDrachma does play a further role, though. Starting at the end of episode 42 (\n_Brotherhood_ ), they launch an attack against Fort Briggs.\n\n> Kimblee, doing what he does best, leads the Drachman army into a trap,\n> claiming that Fort Briggs is weakened by the absence of General Armstrong\n> and that he has men inside who will bring down the army from within. \n> \n> The latter is a lie and the former is not a weakness, and Kimblee knows\n> this; Kimblee, assisting Father indirectly, is creating a blood seal as one\n> of the main components of the Nationwide Transmutation Circle. In this way,\n> Drachma is necessary; the soldiers that die here are crucial for creating\n> the blood seal, just as they were in the other major wartime conflicts that\n> Falman explains to Ed.\n\nAside from justifying the Briggs fortress and army, and creating this wartime\nconflict, Drachma has no direct role in the events of _Fullmetal Alchemist_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-02T22:09:00.377", "id": "5086", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-02T22:09:00.377", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "5083", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nwell drachma is said to be the largest country in FMAB (Bigger than xing if\nyou extended the map.) The only way they would have expanded so far is if they\nhad a strong military. The Non aggression pact wouldn't exist if father felt\nthey were no match for Amestris. BUT, it since father is the true leader of\nAmestris he must have felt Drachma would have been a threat to the Amestrian\nmilitary. so it can be believed they are one of if not the strongest nation in\nthe FMAB Universe. However no the only major part they play in the Anime or\nmanga was to forge the blood crest in the north.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-05T03:05:05.507", "id": "23810", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-05T03:05:05.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16077", "parent_id": "5083", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis looks like a shot of the [**Palais des\nNations**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Nations) in Switzerland,\nformerly the headquarters of the League of Nations, and now the home of the\nUnited Nations' Geneva branch.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-09-03T01:37:09.417", "id": "5088", "last_activity_date": "2013-09-03T01:37:09.417", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5087", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 } ]