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[ { "body": "\n\nRed is known to be a strong/intense color and so when the character power\nupgrades, the eye color changes to red meaning implying them having a strong\ncharacteristic in the form of bravery and not fearing anything. It follows the\ncharacter going into a berserk-state and display of huge burst of power.\n\nLet's take the example of Sharingan. Sharingan activates when a characters\ngoes through a sense of overpowering hatred or rage on the loss of their\ndearest person and the most obvious color for indicating it is red (the most\nfitting display is Obito Uchiha activating Mangekyo Sharingan). It is also\nnoted that fire-wielders or the person who can control fire should have red\neyes, matching their destructive ability and Uchiha clan have a natural\naffinity for the fire nature transformation. Uchiha are not truly considered\nadults until they can successfully perform the Fire Release: Great Fireball\nTechnique strong enough to overcome Water Release.\n\nNot only red indicates a fictional powerbuildup, but a normal human being can\nsometimes rage and the animators change the eye color to red. E.g. Levi from\nAttack on Titan was fighting the Female Titan. Canonically his eyes are a dull\ngray color, but the directors had him change his eye color for that specific\nscene to highlight his mental and physical state he was in.\n\n**Reference** : Anime And Manga Eye Color By Hrvoje Milakovic\n\n * [2021 article](https://fictionhorizon.com/anime-and-manga-eye-color/)\n * [2022 article](https://voicefilm.com/anime-and-manga-eye-color-meaning/)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-11T05:09:20.327", "id": "67626", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-11T10:58:15.650", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-11T10:58:15.650", "last_editor_user_id": "48011", "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "67624", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nHentai (R18) has been always censored in Japan, but _how much_ seems to have\nbeen a decision on publishers' side.\n\nFrom what I see from a brief web search:\n\n * According to [this blog post](https://www.menscyzo.com/2013/10/post_6591.html), some editors of hentai magazines were arrested because they did not put enough cover (pixelation or black stripes) on genitals etc. This happened in July 2013.\n * [Another blog post](https://wappaku.hatenablog.com/entry/2020/03/15/191503) says, regarding Doujinshi, the organizing body of Comic Market started requiring stricter censoring (bolder stripes on or whiting out the genitals) starting from Summer 2017.\n\nSo over these 10 years, censorship has actually been increasing, which is\nprobably consistent with your impression.\n\n* * *\n\n(added)\n\n[Ken Akamatsu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Akamatsu), mangaka known for\n[Love Hina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Hina) and\n[Negima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negima!_Magister_Negi_Magi), won a seat\nin the House of Councillors (equivalent of Senate in the US) last year,\nadvocating the freedom of expression. According to [the\ndescription](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Akamatsu#Advocacy_and_politics),\nit seems that issues stemmed from (talk of) Trans-Pacific Partnership, because\nof which Japan needs to adjust publications towards international/American\nstandards. I'm not clear about this, but probably the concern is related to\nchild pornography (The first blog link above mentions that a Swedish\ntranslator of Japanese manga was arrested in 2010 because some images were\nregared as child pornography, and then\n[acquitted](https://cbldf.org/2012/06/manga-translator-acquitted-of-child-\npornography-charges-in-swedish-supreme-court-ruling/) in the Supreme Court in\n2012).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-12T22:52:58.567", "id": "67634", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-14T02:04:14.397", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-14T02:04:14.397", "last_editor_user_id": "61507", "owner_user_id": "61507", "parent_id": "67632", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nAs to why the uncensored version became extinct, there's [a\nblog](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2016-07-13/.104191) on this.\nIt's quoted below for reference. Long story short, the producers released\nuncensored version outside of Japan originally. But after domestic fans found\nthis out, they no longer bought those sold in Japan, reducing the industry\nprofits. So, producers then decided not to release uncensored version even\noverseas.\n\n> Many people don't realize that hentai is censored in Japan. The naughty bits\n> are always obscured with a mosaic filter (or something similar) when you buy\n> hentai (or any other adult video) over there. But hentai is always animated\n> in its full glory to begin with.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> Those uncensored versions are kept for sale to overseas areas, which don't\n> have those censorship laws on the books. The fans don't want that\n> censorship, so the US publishers always request the uncensored versions.\n>\n> I've seen some hentai titles where the animators got lazy and didn't draw\n> any detail where they knew censorship would take place, but the majority of\n> hentai has quite a bit of detail down there. (Sometimes, quite horrifying\n> detail.)\n>\n> In recent years, web savvy fans in Japan realized that they were getting a\n> bum deal compared to fans overseas, who didn't have to deal with the\n> censorship. They started importing uncensored American hentai DVDs, and not\n> buying or renting the super-expensive Japanese discs. So the hentai\n> producers decided not to allow the uncensored masters to be published\n> overseas anymore. Most publishers balk at this, and don't want to proceed\n> with licensing it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-13T02:10:54.160", "id": "67637", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-13T12:26:19.810", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-13T12:26:19.810", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "71072", "parent_id": "67632", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nMost likely they are combining classes. See Houjou's class photo at the start\nof the episode. There are 30 students consisting of, I think, 13 boys and 17\ngirls. (Even if I mistook some boys for girls, I think there are still more\ngirls.)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2wYRV.jpg)\n\nBut later Tanabe-sensei says there are more boys than girls.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1KFV7.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-13T08:52:17.487", "id": "67641", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-13T08:52:17.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "67639", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor S03E02 yes. From [fandom](https://karakai-jouzu-no-takagi-\nsan.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_2/Season_3):\n\n> The librarian was change into Sanae's sister in the anime.\n\nBut I didn't see any mention in [S03E06 fandom](https://karakai-jouzu-no-\ntakagi-san.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_6/Season_3) that Tsukimoto-sensei is in\nS03E06.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-13T09:28:34.747", "id": "67643", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-13T09:28:34.747", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "67642", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nJust finished original series manga. Yes that's her. Tsukimoto-sensei is Sanae\nTsukimoto's big sis.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-20T04:35:46.537", "id": "67838", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-20T04:35:46.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "71624", "parent_id": "67642", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the original R18+ PC game, the route order was restricted, so the play\norder is enforced:\n\n 1. Fate\n 2. Unlimited Blade Works (complete Fate)\n 3. Heavens Feel (complete Unlimited Blade Works Good or True Ending)\n\nThere was also a way to enter the Unlimited Blade Works route without\ncompleting Fate from Day 4. However, it locks you into a Bad End for Unlimited\nBlade Works Day 5 and Bad Ends don't unlock routes.\n\nSource: [Full Image of the Mirror-\nMoon.pdf](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EDOLj.jpg)\n\nBecause Realta Nua PC is 3 separate games, each being each route, there is\nreally no restriction. However, from my understanding, the plot is not\nchanged, so some reveals such as characters and abilities are glossed over\nwhen they appear again in a new route e.g. Rider's identity is revealed in\nFate but from my recollection is glossed over in Heaven's Feel because of the\noriginal assumption that the player had already completed Fate. Not to mention\nthe impact of certain events in Heaven's Feel does not hold the same weight if\nit was played first.\n\nWhile there is nothing stopping you from playing any order you want, my\npersonal suggestion would be to follow the original game's enforced play\norder: **Fate > Unlimited Blade Works > Heaven's Feel**.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-13T14:26:45.203", "id": "67646", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-14T03:04:56.560", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-14T03:04:56.560", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "67645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nYou should follow this order not only because it is not possible to deviate\nfrom it without a cleared save state, but also because each new route expands\nmore upon the world and various characters.\n\nUBW contains spoilers for Fate, but not the other way around. \nHeaven's Feel contains spoilers for UBW and Fate, but not the other way\naround.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-13T14:32:00.763", "id": "67647", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-13T14:32:00.763", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "67645", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a self-answer. I spent some time thinking, did some googling, and then\nsome more thinking.\n\n### If her only magnetic ability was to attract, then no, she couldn't\n\nAn electromagnet (or any kind of magnet- for that matter) can only attract and\ncannot repel a magnetic metal.\n\nI'm not sure how I didn't realize this when I first thought of the question,\nsince I played with magnets quite a bit when I was a kid. Somehow that\nexperiential intuition failed me. In my defense, I don't have a _lot_ of\nscience/physics background, and I thought that electromagnets could possibly\nbe a special case in interactions with magnetic metals. They aren't.\n\n### Attraction between objects and herself isn't her only magnetic ability\n\nAt the time that I first wondered-up what is now the above question post, I\nwas very fixated on the logic of the magnetic attraction ability shown in the\nclip that is the subject of the question. I had somehow \"forgotten\" about\nthis.\n\nAs stated in the question post (referencing the steel plating in Railgun S ep8\nat 7:29), Misaka can also move objects around magnetically without there being\nany \"equal and opposite force\" exerted upon herself. There's also the stairs\nat 10:32, the _entire floor_ at 13:17, and an army of dolls in ep10 at 5:30.\n\nAdditionally, Misaka seems to be able to choose which steel object she\nattracts herself to (or to herself) in her vicinity. That facility she was in\nhad a lot of steel in it (she hints toward that herself during the same battle\nwith Frenda at 10:23: \" _If you wanted to make me fall, you'd have to rebuild\nthis entire facility and this time, leave out the steel!_ \"), presumably\nenough that the specific steel cage she used to escape to wasn't the only\nsteel object nearby. In that same clip, there were some pipes to her left, and\nshe had just shielded herself opposite to the steel she escaped to with some\nsteel plating, which looked to be much closer to herself than the steel cage.\nIf she could only create \"mutual\" attraction between objects and herself, she\nprobably would have only been able to draw herself to the ground (the closest\nthing to herself) in that scenario.\n\nWhen she moves the Gekota finger puppet with the hairclip inside it to stand\nup in her hand and twirl around, that probably wouldn't be possible if her\nonly magnetic ability were to attract objects to herself if the hairclip\ndoesn't have a permanent magnetic field. But if it actually had a permanent\nmagnetic field, _maybe_ that would be possible?\n\nYou can read more about her electromagnetic abilities [on the Toaru\nwiki](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Misaka_Mikoto/Abilities#Electromagnetism).\n\nThere's also the possibility of usage of [magnetic (eddy current)\nbraking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current_brake).\n\n### So maybe, [yes, but also no](https://i.kym-\ncdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/596/dsmGaKWMeHXe9QuJtq_ys30PNfTGnMsRuHuo_MUzGCg.jpg).\n\nTo my memory, she is never shown using such a \"magnetic repel\" ability (which-\nas already mentioned- would be scientifically bunk) in the anime's three\nseasons. I don't know about the manga or the light novels.\n\nShe _is_ shown using her ability to create magnetic attraction between herself\nand other magnetic metals plenty of times in the anime: season 1 ep8 at 16:58,\nseason 2 ep1 at 17:08, ep9 at 5:15, and ep12 at 12:20- just to name a few, and\nparticularly with this cage escape clip and ep9 at 5:15, it's apparant that\nshe can choose what she attracts herself to- even if other magnetic metal\nobjects are closer by.\n\nSo she probably could have softened the impact to the cage by attracting\nherself to something opposite to her direction of movement before impact.\n\nBut that would kind of defeat the story, making it less satisfying.\n\nIn that scene, the damage done to herself serves a storytelling purpose: she's\nin a pinch against Frenda, and eventually the rest of the members of\n[ITEM](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/ITEM) by herself, and\n_having very hard time handling it_. She was trying to solve everything\nindependently. That's in stark contrast to the situation in ep23-34 after her\ncharacter growth in ep21.\n\n### It's science _fiction_\n\nHer ability to create magnetic attraction between objects and herself\ncertainly seems more believable to me than the other magnetic abilities she\nhas (a force acting between herself and another object rather than a force\nacting between an object and seemingly nothing), but I guess that at that\npoint it's a bit pointless to question it too deeply, and one should just\naccept that it's science _fiction_ created for entertainment value, and to\njust enjoy the entertainment value. It's the mixture of believable-enough\nabilities _and limitations_ (like the self-damage of hitting a steel cage)\nthat makes the story interesting and enjoyable. It's probably better to just\nlet the story work its magic (no pun intended) to bring about immersion and\nsome suspension of disbelief.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-14T04:58:45.747", "id": "67652", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-10T10:12:38.173", "last_edit_date": "2023-03-10T10:12:38.173", "last_editor_user_id": "70615", "owner_user_id": "70615", "parent_id": "67651", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Why did Itsuki only get 4 subject scores? Did she literally skip one? If so,\n> why? Is it possible to tell which one based on Japan's rule for listing\n> scores?\n\nMost probably literally skipped one. In Japan, the actual test is (mostly)\nprepared by each university. That is, different tests for different\nuniversities. Which subjects to be included is also a decision on the\nuniversity side. So, when a student applies to a university requiring fewer\nsubjects, s/he will take those practice tests with fewer subjects.\n\n> According to Futaro's card, you need an above 54.8 deviation to be graded D.\n> Itsuki's is 48.7. How did she get a D? Maybe she should get F?\n\nAs indicated above (and commented), it depends on the university. From the\nscene, you can tell the university Itsuki is going to apply is easier to get\nin. (Roughly, you can think this way: if the university on Futaro's card is\nHarvard, the university on Itsuki's card is a lower-ranked one)\n\n> How are their deviations calculated? What statistics can be deduced using\n> those on their cards? (Just for your convenience, Itsuki's ranking is\n> 176598/234516.)\n\nIt is called\n[Hensachi](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%A6%E5%8A%9B%E5%81%8F%E5%B7%AE%E5%80%A4).\nAccording to the article, it is calculated with:\n\n * A x { (Score - Average Score) / Standard deviation } + B,\n\nwhere A=10 and B=50 (In SAT, A=100 and B=500). Hensachi/deviation-score 50\nmeans one got the average score, so Itsuki is slightly less.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-19T10:24:32.463", "id": "67684", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-21T00:06:25.680", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-21T00:06:25.680", "last_editor_user_id": "61507", "owner_user_id": "61507", "parent_id": "67653", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nPerhaps A,B,C,D,E,F are different depending on the university or the programme\napplied to.\n\nEg University of Educational Psychology has lower standards compared to\nNinomiya University.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-19T11:25:10.107", "id": "67686", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-19T11:25:10.107", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "67653", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDisclaimer: I have a very limited knowledge and understanding of physics and\nthe Toaru universe. If you are equipped to give a better answer, please\nconsider doing so.\n\nThe following calculation is based on modeling Misaka as a voltage source\ninstead of a current source. I have no idea if that's consistent with canon.\n\nThe above formulae can be arranged to give `delta_T/delta_t = V^2 / (R m c)`,\nwhere\n\n * `delta_T` is change in temperature\n * `delta_t` is change in time\n * `V` is 1 billion volts\n * `R` is a reasonable resistance value for the human body (I'll use the 500Ω value that occurs when human skin breaks down due to high voltage)\n * `m` is an estimate of Misaka's body mass, which can be calculated by her height and the Devine formula to be `53.6kg`\n * `c` is a reasonable estimate for the human body's specific heat, which is `3.3 kJ/(kg K)`\n\nThat would be (unless I've made any stupid errors) `(10^9 V)^2 / (500 Ω * 53.6\nkg * 3.3*10^3 J/(kg K))`, which equals 11307100859.33966531 Kelvin/second (or\nalternatively, degrees Celcius per second).\n\nIn scientific notation, that's **1.13071 x 10 10 Kelvin/second**.\n\nJust multiply that by one second to get the change in temperature after one\nsecond.\n\nFor reference ([from wikipedia, the temperature of the sun\nis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun)):\n\n> Center (modeled): 1.57×10^7 K \n> Photosphere (effective): 5,772 K\n\nSo if the physical matter of the poor hypothetical soul whose similar-in-\nbuild-to-Misaka, shocked-by-Misaka-at-maximum-output body could somehow remain\nintact for 1.388508 milliseconds, that's how long it would take for it to\nreach the (modeled) temperature of the center of the sun.\n\nThe above calculations do not take into account that [a material's specific\nheat can vary with\ntemperature](https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/706723/351695) (although at\nhigh temperatures, the variation is minimal, so that may not have any dramatic\neffect here), and of course, the already-stated (from the wikipedia quote)\nfact that the electrical resistance of the human body varies with temperature-\nespecially at extremes. If we were considering the material to get incinerated\n(as it would in reality, instead of magically staying intact), then we'd want\nto account for which materials burn away first (Ex. I'm guessing fat and\nmuscle would go before the bones).\n\nBut regardless, if you're planning to make Misaka angry, you'd better bring a\nTouma with you.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-15T23:43:02.303", "id": "67662", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-16T23:15:47.447", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-16T23:15:47.447", "last_editor_user_id": "70615", "owner_user_id": "70615", "parent_id": "67661", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe world of _A Certain Magical Index_ and _A Certain Scientific Railgun_ is a\nworld where magic and science collide. As far as the science side goes, there\nare still wonky forces in play. Namely, esper powers come from an individual\ncultivating a [personal\nreality](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Personal_Reality).\n\nThus, this is not purely a physics question.\n\nFrom the wiki:\n\n> The concept of Personal Reality is related to quantum theory. It enables its\n> user to ignore the Uncertainty Principle, and with regards to the\n> Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, will allow them to interfere with and\n> distort the microscopic world using different laws.\n\nSince I have the first few volumes of _A Certain Magical Index_ , I can get\nthe actual quote from the section referenced (though the wiki does a good\nsummary, so I won't quote the whole thing). From volume 3, chapter 2, section\n8:\n\n> \"What we call _espers_ are those people whose power to see the reality of\n> this fifty percent hard candy has been _shifted away_ from that of normal\n> people. RSPK Syndrome--in layman's terms, some children lose the ability to\n> perceive reality as it is because of poltergeists, or via trauma or\n> excessive stress. Also, the Gantzfeldt Experiment used in Ability\n> Development purposely shuts down your five senses and essentially cuts you\n> off from normal reality.[...] An 'esper' who has been cut off from the usual\n> reality can acquire a personal reality that differs from the rest of us. As\n> a result, they alter the microscopic world using laws different from regular\n> people.... They can acquire 'powers' like breaking things without touching\n> them or seeing the future a year from now just by closing their eyes. [...]\n> The 'Mnemonics' we carry out refers to artificially creating one of these\n> personal realities. To put it more simply, we help cause certain kinds of\n> disorders in their brains by using things like medicine and suggestion.\"\n\nA personal reality might be called a delusion that becomes real, precisely\nbecause one believes it is real. Misaka's powers exist in her own personal\nreality. Thus, she does not need to comply to the physics of the real world.\nIt doesn't make sense that her powers would incinerate her in her own personal\nreality, in her own delusion.\n\nThe magic/religion side can't be discounted either, just because we're talking\nabout the science side. For instance, continuing in the dialogue I quoted, we\nget this from Miss Komoe:\n\n> \"[System] refers to one who arrives at heaven's intent in an ungodly body.\n> Our objective is to see what lies beyond Level Five, after all. We humans\n> don't understand the truth of the universe. So it's simple. If there were\n> someone with a status above human, they should obviously be able to\n> understand god's answer.\"\n\nAdditionally, the entire world of _A Certain Magical Index_ has multiple\nlayers of reality, so it's not just personal realities that distort laws of\nthe world. See <https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Phase> for details\n(spoilers). From the wiki:\n\n> The many religions (Christian, Buddhist, Celtic, Indian, Shinto, Incan,\n> Aztec, Greek, Roman, Norse etc) which have arisen throughout history have\n> had the effect of applying various phases to the world. The world is said to\n> contain as many phases are there are divine legends and religions. Extremely\n> powerful beings, such as Magic Gods, are also capable of applying new phases\n> and manipulating existing ones.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-17T17:51:34.403", "id": "67676", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-17T17:51:34.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe short version is because the people involved in paying to have the anime\nmade benefit more from doing TV shows, since\n\n 1. they use anime as ads for the things they sell and\n\n 2. an unknown title will reach more people as a TV show.\n\nIf you want the long version, keep reading.\n\n**Context about the industry**\n\nThe anime \"industry\" uses a production committee system. This means that\nvarious company come together to each fund a little bit of the anime. And each\ncompany gets some value out of this. This way the risk is spread around a\nbunch of companies.\n\nAs a consequence a few anime not selling very well or being poorly received\nisn't an existential threat to anyone. On the other hand, if you strike gold\neveryone wins.\n\nThere are exceptions to this approach, like Studio Ghibli swimming in money\nand just doing their own thing. Or KyoAni being part of the production\ncommittee to have more freedom, risk and reward.\n\nBut generally it is the production committee who takes all the financial risk,\nso they are the ones deciding what anime they want made, how to make it and\nwho is going to make it.\n\nThe anime studio itself is just receiving a fixed amount of money to make the\nanime. Whether the project fails or not is not really their concern in this\nscenario.\n\n**Why TV shows are more common**\n\nA big participant on the production committee is usually the publisher of the\nmanga or Light Novel. Their biggest interest in this whole thing is to market\nthe source material. They want you to get hooked with the anime and they want\nanime to not really resolve the story, so that you will then go out and also\npay for the source material. \nFrom their point of view they want as many people as possible to see this\nanime.\n\nMovies have a larger barrier to entry. You have to visit a cinema and pay a\nticket fee. You also need to advertise that your movie even exists. TV Shows\non the other hand just get a TV slot. Anime fans will naturally get to know\nabout this new anime and can watch it relatively frictionless.\n\nOther participants on the production committee might be more interested in\nselling figurines or the soundtrack. Most of them have in common that they\ndon't actually care that much about selling the anime itself. The anime is an\nad that people need to see to become interested in the things they actually\nwant to sell you.\n\n**Why anime movies exist at all nowadays**\n\nYou might have noticed the trend that most anime movies in the past decade\n(the 2010s) are either the\n[continuation](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/66540/whats-up-with-\nanime-movies-that-are-really-sequels-to-series-instead-of-adaptat/66544#66544)\nor [summary](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13887/why-change-an-\nanime-series-into-a-recap-movie) of an already popular franchise or made by a\nstudio specialized in making family friendly content or trying to become\nsomething like that.\n\nThere's no such thing as an Akira or Ghost in the Shell of the 2010s.\n\nThe reason is the same as what I outlined above. The production committee has\nno problem milking a popular franchise. It makes the franchise stay relevant\nand will therefore keep people interested in purchasing what they are actually\ntrying to sell.\n\nAt this point the continuation movie doesn't need to convince people to see\nit. There are already enough fans interested. They can also later be shown on\nTV! If the franchise is generating enough money this is simply win-win.\nEspecially if you are short on source material for a popular franchise. A\nmovie won't eat as much available story and keep everyone interested while\nstalling for time to get more source material.\n\nBut taking the risk of making a movie out of an unknown franchise and\nadvertising it seems like a bad idea when you could go for the cheaper\nalternative instead.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-21T20:25:12.540", "id": "67698", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-28T11:02:19.477", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-28T11:02:19.477", "last_editor_user_id": "4484", "owner_user_id": "22562", "parent_id": "67672", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAlternative albeit indirect answer:\n\nIt's been pointed out to me that this happens in Western animation too\nactually.\n\nSo I guess my initial assumption is kinda wrong:\n\n> There are lot of Western live movies, Western live series, Western animated\n> movies and Western animated series. I don't see any particular bias to\n> certain categories.\n\nI have a feeling the animated series : animated movies ratio is much larger in\nWestern compared to anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-27T19:08:45.097", "id": "67727", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-27T19:08:45.097", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "67672", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nRin's romantic interests are not explored in-depth in canon media, and as\nsuch, the answer to this is simply, \"we do not know\".\n\nIt's clear that she held feelings for both of her squadmates, but it's unclear\nif those feelings were more than that of camaraderie or romance.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-17T16:59:33.700", "id": "67674", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-17T16:59:33.700", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "67673", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI will be primarily writing this answer based on the manga, simply because it\nis easier to reference.\n\n## Zeno is a Plot Device\n\nI will get to answering properly, but this is worth pointing out. Zeno's main\npurpose so far does not seem to extend to being a character. His primary usage\nis as a Deus Ex Machina in the fight against Zamasu, and as a way to make the\nTournament of Power happen, as well as give the tournament dire stakes.\n\nWhen Goku actually suggests playing the friend angle to stop Zeno from erasing\neveryone, Whis immediately cuts the idea down. From volume 6, page 68:\n\n> **Goku** : Yeah... Maybe I'll ask the Lord of Everything to call off this\n> whole erasure thing.\n>\n> **Whis** : I wouldn't do that if I were you. The Lord of Everything and the\n> Grand Priest decided this. If you offend them, you'll just be erased.\n\nIf Zeno were going to mean anything as a character, then we would expect his\nrelationship with Goku to mean something. But the story doesn't want to do\nthat, because it would get the tournament cancelled.\n\nFurthermore, rather than see any character development from Zeno, at the end\nof the tournament arc, the Grand Priest just puts words in Zeno's mouth and\nsays he was going to wipe out all of existence if the Super Dragon Balls were\nused for a selfish wish. It's kind of baffling, and it's hard to know what to\nmake of this.\n\nZeno is also portrayed as insurmountable, which also points to him being more\na plot device than character. From volume 5, page 67:\n\n> **Supreme Kai** : The Lord of Everything? I'm certain he is [still around in\n> Trunks's timeline]. No one can defeat the Lord of Everything.\n\n## Morality in _Dragon Ball Super_\n\nNeither Zeno nor the Grand Priest are depicted as evil. _Dragon Ball_ and\n_Dragon Ball Z_ tended to have more clear cut villains, and take the stance\nthat massacring people and blowing up planets was bad and should be stopped.\n_Dragon Ball Super_ though, introduces the Destroyers, while also having a\nless serious tone at times than _Dragon Ball Z_. The Destroyers are deities\nwhose job it is to destroy planets and the civilizations on them. The Supreme\nKais were also given the designation of being gods of creation. This duality\nintroduces to _Dragon Ball Super_ the theme that the universe goes through\ncycles of creation and destruction. This is not seen as a bad thing in\ngeneral. Though of course, when Beerus is trying to destroy earth, he becomes\nthe antagonist for a time. And yet, as the story continues on, Goku and\neveryone else become friends with Beerus in spite of him not reforming (he is\nstill a Destroyer God).\n\nWhat we conclude from this is that Zeno destroying planets is not considered\nto be an evil act. It's just his job as the highest level destroyer god.\n\nIf we look at the case of Zamasu, the god characters are careful in their\nwords so as to not condemn him for destroying, but rather for disrupting\nbalance.\n\nFrom volume 2, page 210:\n\n> **Whis** : Well, in terms of destruction, I don't see anything different\n> between him and you.\n>\n> **Beerus** : Hey! This jerk is just messing with whoever he doesn't like\n> without thinking about the balance of the universe! I've got a whole\n> different level of wisdom, dignity, and history!!\n>\n> **Whis** : Ha ha ha... You are right.\n\nFrom volume 3 page 44:\n\n> **Gowasu** : How absurd! Listen, Zamas! You learned this earlier. Such\n> judgement is to be passed only by the God of Destruction.\n\nFrom volume 3 page 63:\n\n> **Gowasu** : Our purpose, of course, is to maintain peace. If there is a\n> planet that becomes devoid of peace and disturbs the balance, we must think\n> of a way they can fix it themselves.\n>\n> **Zamas** : Can you not see how easy you are on them? We must be more\n> actively involved and crush evil in its tracks! [...]\n>\n> **Gowasu** : I told you before. That is the work of the God of Destruction!\n> Listen well, Zamas. Although I acknowledge your sense of justice, having too\n> much of it is no different from fastidiousness, and it will bring you\n> nothing but frailty. [...] It is not combat skills that make you a Lord of\n> Lords, but a calm mind and a gentle soul.\n\n## Grand Zeno has a Pure Heart?\n\nGood news. This is supported directly by the text of the work. From volume 5,\npage 142:\n\n> **Beerus** : Zeno-sama is surely pure of heart. But his pureness is what\n> makes him so scary!\n\n## Grand Minister is Evil Theory?\n\nWhile I myself initially was suspicious of the Grand Minister from watching\nthe anime, reading the manga has led me to a different conclusion. He truly\ndoes seem to be just trying to interpret (and sometimes guess) what Grand Zeno\nwants. He definitely tacks some things on at times. I'm pretty confident Grand\nZeno didn't tell him to offer the Super Dragon Balls as a reward for the best\nfighter in the tournament. And he seems pretty gung-ho at other times. For\ninstance, when Zeno says managing the universes is a pain, we would want the\nGrand Priest to talk him down, but instead he suggests destroying some. What\nwe have to consider is that the Grand Priest's concerns do not align with our\nown. Why would he talk Zeno down? And the conversation could be interpreted as\nhim just trying to figure out what Grand Zeno wants. From volume 5, pages\n146-148:\n\n> **Zeno 1** : Isn't this too many?\n>\n> **Zeno 2** : It is...\n>\n> **Zeno 1** : Why don't we get rid of a few?\n>\n> **Zeno 2** : Let's do that.\n>\n> **Zeno 1** : Hey, Grand Priest, how are the mortals in the 12 universes\n> doing lately?\n>\n> [Grand Priest gives report]\n>\n> **Zeno 1** : So, they're not developing at all. It's pointless to keep all\n> 12 of them.\n>\n> **Zeno 2** : It is.\n>\n> **Zeno 1** : I'm losing interest in observing them all.\n>\n> **Zeno 2** : So am I.\n>\n> **Grand Priest** : Would you like to get rid of a few?\n>\n> **Zeno 1** : You're right. I guess four is good enough.\n>\n> **Zeno 2** : Let's erase the eight universes that are lower than the others.\n>\n> **Grand Priest** : Very well, my lord. Then let the guides in the designated\n> universes withdraw.\n\n## Grand Zeno as Naive?\n\nAs far as I saw reading up to volume 6, there is no evidence for Grand Zeno\nnot fully understanding the consequences of his actions when erasing the\nuniverses. At best, it is ambiguous. He always wears a fathomless expression.\nHis mannerisms are childish, but that doesn't automatically make him naive.\n\nWhen Goku summons Grand Zeno to defeat Zamasu, it's unclear how effective\nGoku's attempts to manipulate him were. The problem is that in the end he\ndecides to wipe out all of existence instead of just Zamasu, which is not what\nGoku wanted him to do.\n\nFrom volume 5 pages 70-72:\n\n> **Zeno** : What's this? It's all messed up.\n>\n> **Goku** : Th-Those guys did all this...\n>\n> **Zeno** : So many of them. Is this their fault?\n>\n> **Goku** : Y-Yes. They are bad guys.\n>\n> **Zeno** : How annoying.\n>\n> **Goku** : Right? Don't you want to erase all of them?\n>\n> **Zeno** : Yes, I think so. A world like this...\n>\n> **Goku** : W...World?!!\n\nIt is unclear how much of the decision to do this is Zeno and how much Goku,\nand thus it doesn't give a clear picture of how much Zeno understands the\nconsequences of his actions. Though the fact that he asks if Zamasu is\nresponsible does somewhat indicate a lack of agency. It's just hard to say\nwith that fathomless face what's going on inside Zeno's mind.\n\nIn the anime, we see Zeno hesitate destroying Universe 7, which does at least\nimply he knows that if he does that, he won't be seeing Goku again.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nZeno is primarily a plot device, he is pure of heart, and his actions are not\ndepicted as evil. This is because it's not about good and evil--it's about\nbalance between creation and destruction.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-07-09T19:48:59.427", "id": "68131", "last_activity_date": "2023-07-09T23:10:05.053", "last_edit_date": "2023-07-09T23:10:05.053", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67677", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a nuance of context here. Saten uses's Uiharu's given name as a sign\nof their closeness. She adds -kun here a bit partially in jest and partially\nto show respect, ironically. The -chan honorific here can be seen as too\nchildish or cute to be used in this context.\n\nThis might be a parody of sorts, to certain series like Detective Conan, where\ndespite Conan being a child physically, he's able to solve difficult cases, in\na way calling him kun, treats him as a colleague of equal or lower standing vs\njust a child.\n\nSo in a sense, yes, it is like a conversation between a detective talking to\ntheir assistant, it has an air if closeness and formality at the same time.\nImagine a group of close friends getting ready to play some friendly yet\ncompetitive game, and one saying \"gentlemen, the game is a foot\", signalling\nthe start of the game. You're all buddies and the formality here is just used\nin jest.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-24T12:03:30.283", "id": "67716", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-25T12:32:16.080", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-25T12:32:16.080", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "67679", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor an example :\n\nWhen Ace was being executed at Marineford, the Fleet Admiral, the 3 Admirals,\nthe Vice-Admirals etc. were placed at strategic locations for the upcoming war\nwith the Whitebeard Pirates. The Navy knew Whitebeard was gonna make a\nfantastic entry into the battlefield(not HOW he would enter Marineford). So,\nit was necessary for all the high-ranking Marines to be ever-ready for war.\nNaturally, the task of executing Ace was given to the weaker Marines.\n\nThis policy is followed in all the Navy executions to be prepared for a fight\nwith the Criminal's NAKAMAS\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-07-30T16:44:33.447", "id": "68192", "last_activity_date": "2023-07-30T16:45:32.873", "last_edit_date": "2023-07-30T16:45:32.873", "last_editor_user_id": "72891", "owner_user_id": "72891", "parent_id": "67680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n## Nonsense?\n\nThis questions begs another: is power scaling in _One Piece_ nonsense? In\nparticular, in the navy?\n\nI believe we can answer this by examining the character of Koby. At the\nbeginning of the series, he is a weakling. Yet, in a very short time, he\nlearns the same superhuman speed technique CP9 was using.\n\nThis in turn begs the question of why the rest of the navy doesn't at the very\nleast learn this technique. There are only two possible reasons as to why they\ndon't: the first is that it's kept secret and the second is that they're all\njust too lazy to do the training. Both of these are nonsensical. The first\nbecause the threat of the pirates is so dire that it would be an incredulous\nthing for the higher-ups to not to be teaching this to everyone. The second is\nnonsense because these are all men who volunteered to fight pirates. They're\ndedicated to that cause, and so are the people training them. Granted, there\nwill be a few slackers, but it would be ridiculous if the majority of the\nmarines were too lazy to do training. We should definitely be seeing a lot\nmore navy soldiers using these techniques if Koby can learn it so quickly.\nEven accounting for Garp being a great teacher or something, and Koby's\ntimetable being accelerated, the other navy soldiers have had years to hone\ntheir skills, which should be plenty of time.\n\nAnd yet, we rarely see marines using these techniques.\n\nSo yes, the power scaling in _One Piece_ is nonsense, and that's the reason\nthe executioners are so weak. I would argue the same thing for any series that\nfollows the [Sorting Algorithm of\nEvil](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SortingAlgorithmOfEvil)\ntrope.\n\nThe world is inherently broken. That being said, we can still answer this\nquestion with canonical information, which I will do in the following\nsections.\n\n## In General\n\nThey call the executioners to execute pirates because that's the executioners'\njob. The executioners even wear special uniforms, so it's obvious they've been\nseparated from the rest of the marines for this function. It is also important\nto note that it is _not_ the job of the highest ranking officers to execute\ncaptured pirates.\n\nWhat separates the navy and the pirates (in the navy's mind, at least) is that\nthey carry out justice in a fair and orderly manner. This includes using\nexecutioners wearing the proper ceremonial attire and doing things by the\nbook.\n\nThe navy wants to project strength and reinforce the idea that they're the\ngood guys in the eyes of the whole world. To do that, it doesn't make sense to\nhave the admirals execute captured pirates. These are the pillars of justice\nthat everyone should look up to. Instead, the dirty job of execution should be\nleft to those specifically appointed to do it.\n\nExecutioner Uniform:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DYO56m.jpg)\n\nNormal Uniform:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YUqftm.png)\n\n## Ace's Execution\n\nIn terms of strategy during White Beard's attack, it also doesn't make sense\nto have the admirals execute Ace. Ace is completely subdued, so that's a job\nthat can be done by anyone with the arm strength to swing a halberd. The\nadmirals can instead participate in the battle and defend the scaffold so the\nexecution is not interrupted.\n\nAdditionally, it's bad optics for the admirals to do the job instead of the\npeople who are supposed to do it--in other words, by being unable to do things\nthe right way, it would be a sign that the World Government and justice\nslipped up, which would stain their credibility.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-08-02T18:43:10.697", "id": "68202", "last_activity_date": "2023-11-02T00:27:17.627", "last_edit_date": "2023-11-02T00:27:17.627", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67680", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt looks like the [Chudon Pose\n(ちゅどーんポーズ)](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%81%A1%E3%82%85%E3%81%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%93%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA),\nwhich is commonly used in [Rumiko\nTakahashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumiko_Takahashi)'s manga/anime\n(probably Inuyasha is best known abroad).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TVKsU.png)\n\nIn [the linked\narticle](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%81%A1%E3%82%85%E3%81%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%93%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA),\nit says something like 'the gesture is often used when the character is blown\naway (physically or mentally)', which would fit the scene where Kuroko is\nelectric-shocked.\n\nIt also mentions that the pose is used by many manga artists. While the pose\nitself has no meaning, it is instantly recognizable in the manga/anime world.\nArtists today may even be using it without realizing its roots.\n\nI don't know the timeline of Railgun, but Takahashi's Chudon pose is used\nalready in Urusei Yatsura or Ranma 1/2, which were made in 1970s/1980s.\nRegarding the Railgun light novels and manga adaptation, I can't personally\ncheck, but most probably, it's homage by animators.\n\n* * *\n\nTo be clear, the gesture means nothing in Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-19T10:34:07.087", "id": "67685", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-20T14:04:11.920", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-20T14:04:11.920", "last_editor_user_id": "70615", "owner_user_id": "61507", "parent_id": "67683", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n## What can we learn from the _Index_ light novels and _Railgun_ manga about\nthis scene?\n\nIn short: nothing.\n\nThis appears to be a scene that only appears in _A Certain Scientific\nRailgun_. Both the light novels and manga for _A Certain Magical Index_\nconclude the arc after the hospital scenes (with the last one being with\nIndex). This is volume 3 of the light novel and volume 4 of the manga.\n\nThinking on it closely, it shouldn't have surprised me that the scene is not\nin the light novels. Mikoto Misaka is only able to make the homemade cookies\nwith Saten's help, and Saten is a character not found in the light novels, but\nwas made for the _Railgun_ manga.\n\nThus, we move on to the manga for _A Certain Scientific Railgun_ , which is,\nas we'd expect, the source material for the anime. The corresponding volume is\n7, and the chapter is 39, at the very end in the section labeled \"An Iron\nBridge Is A Signal For Romance\" (this might denote a special chapter,\nparticularly as it does seem separate from the rest of the chapter).\n\nA windmill is not shown at any point during this scene in the manga. During\nthe moment in question when Touma calls Misaka by name, the panels show the\nsky and the bridge without any buildings in the background. This windmill\ncomponent of the scene must have been made for the anime.\n\n## In the scene in question, is the windmill actually just being moved by\nwind?\n\nGiven the timing of the windmill moving, and all the electromagnetic induced\nwindmill turning that's happened in this arc, it isn't unreasonable to think a\nchange in Misaka's emotions is what causes the windmill to move. However,\ncould it be this isn't what the anime is trying to imply, and the windmill\nturning is actually just for visual appeal?\n\nAccording to user [starball](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/70615/),\n\n> It turns out the volume I watch at is too low for me to be able to hear the\n> ambient environment noise. With volume turned up, at 19:20, I can hear what\n> sounds like water and/or light wind. At 20:14, all ambient noise is silenced\n> (probably for artistic effect to complement Misaka's feelings at that moment\n> like-\"everything else went quiet\"), and in the zoomed-out scene showing the\n> turbine (20:54), once the volume is high enough, I can easily and definitely\n> hear the sound of wind. In fact, I can even hear some clear wind sounds at\n> 20:50.\n\nI rewatched it myself, and I did indeed hear some wind noises too. It is\nhighly likely that the windmill is being moved by wind, not Misaka's\nelectricity.\n\n## Is moving the windmills something Misaka can actually do at a distance?\n\nMisaka has actually caused wind turbines to spin without touching them.\n[starball](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/70615/) tipped me off again\nsince in the anime Touma is able to find Misaka in the first place by\nfollowing wind turbines. This is also in the third light novel in chapter 2,\npart 9:\n\n> A wind generator's propellers were spinning in the distance. _I can't feel\n> any wind right now,_ thought Kamijou, when suddenly he slammed on the\n> brakes.\n>\n> Its propellers were rotating in the abscence of wind.\n>\n> Just that one turbine, about a hundred meters away, was slowly gyrating.\n> [...]\n>\n> The word _turbine_ or _generator_ really just refers to a motor. [...] In\n> addition, a person can get the motor to turn by pouring specific\n> electromagnetic waves into it. That's how the microwave generators on the\n> cutting edge of Academy City tech worked.\n>\n> The propeller--the motor-- [...] was reacting to invisible electromagnetic\n> waves. [...]\n>\n> He didn't even know whether it was spinning in the first place. The wind's\n> generator's propeller had only been swaying very slightly. [...] Beyond this\n> spinning propeller was another propeller, turning just a teensy bit faster\n> than the first, and beyond that one was a propeller spinning faster still.\n>\n> It was like he was steadily drawing closer to some invisible explosive\n> epicenter.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-20T16:47:53.383", "id": "67691", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-28T17:41:35.750", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-28T17:41:35.750", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67688", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe game ALfheim Online (ALO), which was the focus of the second half of S1,\nwas developed based on the server and code from Sword Art Online (SAO).\n\n> After Argus went bankrupt due to the Sword Art Online incident, its servers\n> and data were acquired by RECT Progress Inc. and used to create the VRMMORPG\n> ALfheim Online.\n\n> As ALO is based on the core programming of SAO as a complete virtual reality\n> MMORPG, the ALO system is capable of rendering the entire ALfheim\n> environment with incredible realism, extremely similarly to the level of\n> SAO.\n\n[ALfheim Online](https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/ALfheim_Online)\n\nAt the end of S1, the so-called _Seed_ was released, which was basically the\ndeveloper toolkit for SAO, allowing everyone to create their own FullDive\ngames (for example, Gun Gale Online, which was the focus of the first half of\nS2, or Underworld).\n\n> The Seed is a free, preset series of program packages that can be used for\n> creating Virtual Reality (VR) worlds as well as control the input and output\n> of the five senses of the players, allowing players to FullDive into the\n> created world.\n\n> «The Seed» includes the basic programs needed to create a VR world, such as\n> the audio and video system, as well as a downsized version of the Cardinal\n> System, which was used in Sword Art Online to help in the development and to\n> maintain control of the game.\n\n[World Seed](https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/World_Seed)\n\n> Is anyone still playing (safe versions of) SAO?\n\nYes. At the end of S1 they added a copy of Aincrad (the world of SAO) to ALO\nallowing the players to play through it (creatively named [New\nAincrad](https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/Aincrad#New_Aincrad_\\(ALO_Version\\))).\nFor example, the [Mother's\nRosario](https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/Mother%27s_Rosario) arc takes\nplace in New Aincrad. On a side note, the original SAO itself was\ntheoretically safe to play. The dangerous part was the hardware in form of the\n[NerveGear](https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/NerveGear). Playing it with\nthe newer [AmuSphere](https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/AmuSphere) should\nbe fine, except that you can't log out (but if someone else removes the\ndevice, it should work).\n\n> What references are there to SAO s.t. SAO is still 'indirectly' involved in\n> the actual series?\n\nSince, as far as I know, every FullDive game is at least indirectly based on\nSAO's code, you could say that the original game is still indirectly very\nrelevant to the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-20T21:33:56.667", "id": "67692", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-20T21:33:56.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27875", "parent_id": "67690", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst, let me say I am personally not inclined to offhandedly label anime only\ncontent as non-canonical. That being said, I do believe these two arcs\nintroduce some problematic elements.\n\nOne problem I see is the theme of the power of friendship in these arcs, which\nis much more prevalent than in arcs from the manga. Namely, Mikoto Misaka\nteams up with all her friends to try and solve the problem. This is\nproblematic because this \"lesson\" Misaka seemingly learns here that she should\ntrust her friends... she doesn't actually learn it. Elsewhere, she maintains\nher prerogative to go solo and keep her friends out of it. This is\nparticularly true after the Poltergeist Arc, since it is followed immediately\nby the Sisters Arc. But even after the Sister Arc, rather than with her\nfriends, Misaka seems more willing to team up with\n\n> Shokuhou, a fellow level 5 esper.\n\nparticularly when the dark side of Academy City is involved, to keep her real\nfriends out of danger. Also, as a side note, the ending of the Silent Tea\nParty Arc might be more than a little surprising to anyone not already aware\nof this relationship. And Misaka seems a bit resistant to and also remorseful\nabout involving Kongou in the next arc, saying in volume 8:\n\n> Whatever you do, don't get too involved. I don't think you'd be in any\n> **real** danger, but I also don't fully know what she's capable of.\n\nand later:\n\n> Be careful, Kongou-san... This isn't your problem, so **please** don't get\n> hurt.\n\n## Evidence For Being Canonical\n\nMoving on, we can get into actual evidence for and against. As far as the\n[Poltergeist Arc](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Poltergeist_Arc)\ngoes, Haruue Erii does make cameos in the manga, thus proving her existence\nand relationship to the main characters. Uiharu is talking to her on the phone\nin Chapter 31. She says:\n\n> Haruue-san said she'd meet us after she visits the hospital.\n\nErii again appears in Chapter 32, in a picture on Misaka's phone. The picture\nseems to be from an event in the anime, according to the trivia section on\n[Erii's wiki page](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Haruue_Erii).\n\n## Evidence Against (Timeline Inconsistencies)\n\nA lot of the argument against the [Silent Party\nArc](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Silent_Party_Arc) being non-\ncanonical stems from Kongou and her two friends being involved in the arc.\nKongou is actually introduced in the arc after the Sisters Arc, and she has\njust transferred in to Tokiwadai. However, from what I recall, this\ninconsistency seems to be a problem with the entire first two seasons of the\nanime. I'd have to verify what differences there are in the third season and\nthe manga events.\n\nI'm also seeing\n[claims](https://www.reddit.com/r/toarumajutsunoindex/comments/if50tu/is_there_any_proof_that_silent_party_is_canonnot/)\nthat someone on the Railgun anime team disavowed the Silent Party Arc in a\ntweet as a \"mistake\", though I have yet to track this tweet down.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nAnyway, draw your own conclusions about whether these arcs are canon from the\ninformation available. I'm not going to say it is or isn't canonical, because\nthat's subjective.\n\n## Addendum\n\nNote also that the two episode [Big Spider\nArc](https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Spider_Arc) is also anime\nexclusive, though it's wiki page states it is considered canon (without any\nexplanation). I'm not going to go into it, but it's obviously relevant here.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-20T22:26:50.277", "id": "67694", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-05T15:31:27.113", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-05T15:31:27.113", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think Misaka tells him, but Touma does indeed use his best reasoning\nand intuition figure out that Misaka is not a collaborator in the experiment\nbefore their confrontation in episode 14, which is why he doesn't take\nMisaka's bait when she says he must see her as a collaborator.\n\nIn _Volume 3, Chapter 3, Part 1_ (pages 123-127) we get Misaka's perspective,\nand a bit of flashing back to how she gave her DNA map because the researchers\nsaid they'd use it to treat muscular dystrophy. Touma is not privy to this\ninternal dialogue, but he does come into the scene immediately in _Chapter 3,\nPart 2_.\n\nGoing back to _Chapter 2, Part 8_ , we see Touma's reasoning process after\nacquiring the reports on the project from inside Misaka's bear. He does\ninitially believe Misaka is a collaborator and is furious about the Sisters'\nlives being used this way, but then he notices that the report, which is\nclassified at A rank, was printed from a terminal with a C rank (a lower\nsecurity clearance), and this is when he begins suspecting something is amiss.\nUsing his phone, he starts tracing the red X marks on the map in Misaka's\ndocuments, and traces one to a particular place: a muscular dystrophy research\ncenter\n\n> **Kansaki University Muscular Dystrophy Research Center**\n>\n> _Muscular dystrophy_...? he puzzled. Muscular dystrophy was an incurable\n> disease. In simple terms, it was a sickness where you were unable to send\n> signals to your muscles, and since they no longer moved at all, they would\n> steadily atrophy.\n>\n> But what did an institution researching muscular dystrophy have to do with\n> this report? His head tilted to one side, he looked up the names of the\n> other buildings with the _X_ marks on them.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Kamijou wasn't very familiar with the institutions' names themselves, but he\n> recalled something: the news dripping out of the big screen on the blimp.\n> There had been three cases of research establishments related to muscular\n> dystrophy announcing their retirement of operations, one after another\n> [...]. What Had Mikoto said about that news?\n>\n> \\---- _I really hate that blimp, you know_.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Kamijou had already arrived at the conclusion that this report hadn't been\n> acquired legally.\n>\n> He had then speculated that Mikoto might not have been a collaborator with\n> the experiment at all.\n>\n> What if Mikoto had refused to cooperate with the researchers...\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> If [her actions] were taken in order to stop the experiment, then...\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> He didn't know what Mikoto wanted to do. But at least there was something he\n> could say for sure.\n>\n> Mikoto Misaka certainly hadn't thought nothing of the experiment.\n\nIn his conversation with Misaka in _Chapter 3, Part 2_ , Touma brings up that\nthe facilities with kill marks on the map were researching sickness, but that\none comment is pretty much where that line of thought dies, so the previous\npart I've quoted is as close as it gets to confirming whether Touma knows\nabout the muscular dystrophy aspect of the story.\n\n> \"[...] They all seem like institutes researching sicknesses, but what are\n> those red _X_ marks drawn on it? It's almost like...\"\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> \"...Like they're kill marks, I presume?\"\n\nWhether or not he knows the particulars, it is clear though, that Touma\nbelieves Misaka was tricked or coerced, and that she's not a collaborator.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-28T16:46:41.243", "id": "67729", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-28T16:46:41.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67695", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nApparently all this comes from a series of misconceptions.\n\nFirst, the effects water has on Devil Fruit users does not come from \"salt\",\nnor by the \"water\" itself (as a mere liquid). \"Salt\" is a specific weakness\ntied to Moria (in popular culture salt has a purify effect on demons and\nundead, see for example the common \"a circle of salt can be used to protect\nyou from a demon\"), while Crocodile is weak to any form of \"water\", including\nrain or water someone could spray on him (and that is WHY he worked so hard to\nbe sure it would never rain).\n\nThe specific weakness Devil Fruit have is not just \"water\". It is what Oda\ncalled \"standing\" water.\n\n> D: Odacchi! Here's a question for you! Crocodile can't fight water because\n> he's \"sand,\" right? Then how does he bathe?! Does he at all?! That's\n> filthy!! Do you bathe, Odacchi? by Crocodile's Mother\n>\n> O: First of all, let's discuss the problem of Devil Fruit users bathing\n> themselves. People who have eaten a Devil Fruit are \"hated\" by the sea, and\n> cannot swim. The \"sea\" here can refer to anything from rivers, pools and\n> baths to any kind of _**standing water**_. On a worldwide level, they are\n> all the \"sea.\" When these people enter the water, _**not only can they not\n> use their powers, they have trouble moving their bodies at all**_. They\n> might be able to struggle a bit, but it wouldn't do much good. That's if\n> their entire bodies are submerged in the \"sea.\" With less than half the body\n> or just the limbs, it gets easier. Also, rain and _**dripping water have no\n> effect at all**_. Therefore, hip baths or showers are the most common\n> choice. Now, in Crocodile's case, \"water\" is the weakness of his very\n> powers, so his abilities are robbed even in the shower. But it's not like\n> there are enemies around when you take a shower, so I'd bet he would take\n> them even with his powers being blocked. Don't you think? ---And to answer\n> your final question, about myself bathing. As it happens, I do bathe. Twice!\n> In a year!\n\nSo, basically, the weakness to the \"standing water\" is caused by the fact that\n\"standing water\" is considered part of the \"sea\", and the _**will**_ of the\nsea \"hates\" the Devil Fruit users. Coincidentally, the water also contains\n---midiclorian--- Pyrobloin so Sea Prism Stone (which is made from Pyrobloin)\nstill somehow carries the will of the sea.\n\nIt is also important to notice that based on Oda's answer, the sea hates the\nDevil Fruit user, not simply their power. Therefore the effect of the fruit is\non the _**user**_ , not on their power.\n\nThe difference could seem very subtle but there are enough evidences in the\nmanga to prove that \"standing water\" actually works by making the victim weak\nto a point they can't no longer use their power _**willing**_. This does not\nmean that the powers are negated in any way, so any \"permanent\" effect that\ndoes not require active sustain will continue to exist.\n\nLet's see some examples that should prove this.\n\n## Case #1: Arlong Park\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GJonZ.jpg)\n\nLuffy falls in the water and while this is enough to make him basically faint\nGenzo and Nojiko are still able to save him by _forcefully_ stretching his\nneck. So, while Luffy was rendered too weak to even move by the water his body\nkept all his \"rubber like\" properties even when submerged.\n\n## Case 2: Water Luffy\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4XBmy.png)\n\nLuffy was able to use \"moving\" water without any effect during his fights with\nCrocodile. Crocodile was instead affected since his fruit is _specifically_\nweak to _any form of water_.\n\n## Case 3: any bath scene with a Devil Fruit user\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ytiIz.png)\n\nIf we compare different scenes involving fruit users it becomes quite evident\nthat the effects scale with how much of the body is actually submerged. In the\npicture above Luffy and Brook are weakened since about half their body is\nsubmerged, but they don't seem to feel any effect nor does Yamato in the Wano\nending onsen scene (where they are standing in the water and only their feet\nare submerged - see it [here - warning: very fanservice and also contains\nspoilers](https://i.stack.imgur.com/As3gU.jpg) ). Another blatant example is\nthe old artwork with Nami and Robin in an onsen with the three monkeys.\n\n## Case 4: Luffy underwater fight\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EDADQ.png)\n\nLuffy body wasn't actually touching the water so he was not weakened. Notice\nthat this scene will also prove something else soon afterward.\n\n## Case 5: Zushi Zushi affecting a Marine battle ship ##[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JgTLb.jpg)\n\nFujitora's powers were shown to be able to make a Marine's battle ship\nlevitate. Remember: the hull of most Marine's ships is made from Sea\nPrimstone, so it is very possible that in this scene Fujitora powers were\naffecting Primstone too. If this is not enough please refer to point six.\n\n## Case 6: Law swapping Sea Primstone shackles and cutting them\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ocCsL.png)\n\nIn this scene Law is able to remove his shackles because he actually swapped\nthe Seastone ones with regular ones before. While one could claim that he\ndidn't use his power to do so the fact he says \"so I can swap them **at any\ntime** \" seems to clearly point in that direction.\n\n## Case 7: Mr 3 key and the Primstone shackles\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hF6x.jpg)\nThe key Mr 3 created is clearly a product of his power. Yet said key was used\nto open a Primstone shackle and did NOT dissipate when touching it. This is\nsimilar to Aokiji being able to actually turn sea water into ice.\n\n## Case 8: Smoker's Sea Prism sword\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hqvTg.jpg)\nWith enough training and will, a Devil Fruit user can resist the effect of\nmoving water.\n\n## Case 9: chained Big Mom\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/23mWe.jpg)\nApparently Big Mom chains were made from Sea Prism Stone, yet she didn't seem\nvery effected by that.\n\n## Case 10: imprisoned Smoker and Tashigi\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDsU6.png) \nAt that time Tashigi and Smoker were under the swapping effect of Law's fruit.\nThe effect was not negated when they came in contact with the Sea Prism stone\nchains.\n\n* * *\n\nNow we can draw some conclusions from all this examples (notice: anytime water\nis mentioned we are actually referring to moving water or Sea Prism stone\nunless otherwise noticed):\n\n * Passive \"always on\" effects are NOT nullified if the user comes in contact with water.\n * Only standing water counts, rain or any form of moving water has no effect.\n * The effect scale with how much of your body is submerged.\n * The effect only comes from direct contact with the water.\n * Devil Fruit users powers can actually affect Primstone and water.\n * Any product of a Devil Fruit power can touch water with no effect, it is only the user that is effected.\n * The will of the user can negate the effect of the will of the sea\n * when under the effect of moving water a Devil Fruit user won't be able to create any new effect but **PERMANENT** effects already in place aren't negated\n\nTo summarize this in one simple line: moving water does not act on the Fruit\npowers. It acts by making the user weak to the point they can no longer\nsustain new effect of their powers (or any effect that requires constant\napplication).\n\nTherefore we can conclude that in most cases the effect of a Devil Fruit user\npower are NOT negated by contact with moving water. So, anyone turned in a toy\nby Sugar can't simply be tossed in the water to revert the transformation.\n\nThe effect of a fruit can be permanent (example: Luffy's rubber like body) or\nsustained (Sugar's power). There is no clear rule on whether a power is\npermanent or sustained but the difference should be clear: if a \"permanent\"\npower user is disabled (killed, fainted, submerged in water) the effects of\nhis power stay while in the case of \"sustained\" power the effect dissipate.\n\nBased on her claims, Boa petrification power is a permament effect: after you\nare turned to stone you would remain in that state even if she faints or is\nkilled (or if she bathes, would be fun if Margaret simply had to wait next\ntime Boa went to her bath pool). Sugar power instead is sustained and that is\nwhy making her faint is sufficient to make any toy turn back to their original\nself. Another sustained power is for example Vander Decken's (as soon as he\nfaints the ship falls).\n\nNotice that the distinction is not always intuitive: there is no reason Boa\npetrification should be permanent while Sugar power isn't. Zoan powers are\nalso \"permanent\" since while moving water neutralizes the user strength they\nremain in whatever form they were at the moment (Chopper does NOT turn in a\nregular reindeer when he falls in the sea in multiple chapters, but his\nstrength is neutralized to the point he can't no longer sustain Monster\nPoint).\n\nThere is also another Odd-Ball worth mentioning:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CbB2F.jpg)\n\nFor some weird reason Gild Tesoro creations are actually vulnerable to water.\nHe shares Crocodile weakness but in his case there doesn't seem to be a\n\"logical\" reasoning behind this (like \"water pokemon beats sand\").\n\nIt is also worth noticing that all the evidence so far collected open a\ndifferent question...\n\nWhen Luffy falls in Boa's bath she is surprised that he didn't turn into\nstone. But she is submerged in water , so she should not be able to use her\npower at that time. \nThis can be explained if we assume that her power is not an active power she\nhas to use directly (like Sugar's) but instead a permanent state of her\n\"body\". This should also explain why her power has permanent effects while\nSugar's one can be nullified if she faints.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-20T11:14:26.997", "id": "67922", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-20T13:45:13.420", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-20T13:45:13.420", "last_editor_user_id": "70838", "owner_user_id": "70838", "parent_id": "67700", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs the poll in the linked answer shows, using a nick name and first name-san\nare both common (although Mine-kun is a bit mix of these).\n\n> Q.家の中で、ご主人のことをどのように呼んでいますか？ (How do you call Husband)\n>\n> * ニックネーム 39.0％（649名）\n> * 名前にさん・くんなどを付ける 34.8％（579名）\n>\n\nSo, I would say it is simply a variation of Yuni's calling her husband. That\nis, Yuni uses either way from time to time, without much reason. I suppose\nsomething similar happens in English, like the same person calling _John_ by\n_Johnny_ etc. (Not sure it applies particularly to John/Johnny, but I mean,\npeople do call each other by different versions of the name sometimes)\n\nIf anything, when they are talking about a serious topic, first name-san would\nbe used; nick name sounds more casual.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-23T02:30:10.653", "id": "67707", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-23T02:30:10.653", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61507", "parent_id": "67701", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShort answer is, calling a woman _obasan_ is getting uncommon these days\nunless she is a real aunt, mostly because _obasan_ implies the woman is old\n(and maybe Japanese soceity is aging fast?).\n\nOne factor is that Mizuto is mature enough not to need a mother really. If he\nis a child, calling Yuni okaa-san/mama just after remarriage may be possible,\nbut the relationship between Mizuto as a teenager and Yuni as step-mother does\nnot look so close yet. This means, Yuni is essentially just a woman much older\nthan himself, whom Mizuto would call with honorific alone (i.e., step-mother-\nness does not really play a role in their relationship).\n\n_Ojisan_ has the same issue as _obasan_ , but using _ojisan_ is avoided less.\nThough _ojisan_ can be used for any male, in this case _Mineaki ojisan_ may\nsound more like they are family.\n\nYou could perhaps think this way: to some extent, using Yuni obasan and\nMineaki ojisan could have been the default in Japan of dozens of years ago,\nbut due to the increase of age sensitivity on women's side, just _oba_ came to\nbe dropped.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-23T02:58:28.523", "id": "67708", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-23T03:31:27.063", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-23T03:31:27.063", "last_editor_user_id": "61507", "owner_user_id": "61507", "parent_id": "67702", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIs likely her signature iron sand.\n\nIn chapter 52 of the Railgun manga, which is anime is adapted from, for the\nmost part, we see her gathering what looks to be iron sand (second panel).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OcjR0.jpg).\n\nOn the next page we see a stoke of black, reminiscent of a veil of black iron\nsand.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VESK2.jpg)\n\nThe second attack is clearly a lighting spear strike and more of a severing\nattack than a slicing one.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Pj6n.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-24T11:19:23.913", "id": "67715", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-31T11:13:48.787", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-31T11:13:48.787", "last_editor_user_id": "70615", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "67710", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Update:** Just finished s1. Don't really get it except maybe they don't have\nthe luxury of staying in the room forever because eventually they gotta escape\nand save the world.\n\nI guess Keyaru calculated 'Hmmm...I got time for only 1 orgasm and 10 broken\nfingers. After that I think the guards will come.'\n\nAlso... (spoiler for the rest of s1)\n\n> I think there is an on/off just like how Keyaru can switch between Keyaru\n> and Keyaruga and Keara. Then again that's just physical appearance not\n> actual personality.\n\nBut...\n\n(spoiler for manga / novel)\n\n> Based on what I've skimmed in the manga and what I read in forums, I think\n> Keyaru, now Keyaruga, does sorta have an on/off switch for Freia / Flare and\n> Ellen / Norn. But idk I don't think Keyaruga used this switch in s1. I think\n> Keyaruga currently doesn't have such power but can eventually obtain such\n> power.\n\nAnd\n\n> Ultimately, if there isn't a switch, then I think Keyaru thinks like 'Eh\n> sucks, but at least what I did before changing Flare to Freia is pretty good\n> revenge / justice anyway.'\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-31T13:27:56.997", "id": "67738", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-31T13:27:56.997", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "67713", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeems very likely, even if there are no concrete examples of that happening. \nYou say \" **only** be used to telepathically knock people unconscious or make\nyour attacks stronger\" but apparently Haki is capable of applying actual\npressure on objects too.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fndfu.jpg)\n\nWhen Shanks boars the Mobydick you see that many members of the crew almost\nfaint even if he is still kinda restraining himself. But more importantly ou\ncan also notice that Conqueror Haki applies **physical pressure** on\n**inanimate** nearby objects, causing actual damage to a ship that had\ntraveled in the Grand Line for years and therefore is probably build to be\nmore resistant than average. It is true that somehow a tired Law managed to\nwithstand Fujitora tremendous gravity powers, but I doubt your \"average Joe\"\ncould do the same and withstand Yonko level of Haki pressure. I expect that a\nrandom passerby could and would be crushed if the Haki user intent was to\ncause damage.\n\nTo put that into context, here are some feats of Conqueror Haki clashing\n(notice: do not confuse Armament Haki infusion and Conqueror Infusion - the\nsecond one is the one with the black lighting effect).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tgHet.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XzKL0.png)\n\nRemember Kaido henchmen fearing that he would simply destroy the whole\nfortress (and the whole island) if his fight with Big Mom would go on for too\nmuch. I totally expect that it would be reasonable that such force could crush\nan untrained background character to death.\n\nAnyway it is worth noticing that most of the extreme example of Haki\n\"explosions\" were caused by **two** users clashing. Yet, Shanks example above\nseems to indicate that an extremely skilled user could at least cause a\nserious amount of physical pain on a weak, untrained person.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-30T10:39:04.573", "id": "67737", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-31T08:37:30.003", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-31T08:37:30.003", "last_editor_user_id": "70838", "owner_user_id": "70838", "parent_id": "67731", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nChapter 67:\n\n> They devise a plan to get back to Earth Land with the help of a dimension-\n> travelling Elentearean Exceed (Elentear is another parallel dimension, a\n> magical one, unlike Edolas) and by consuming the last of the X-Balls in\n> Edolas ([X-Ball](https://fairytail.fandom.com/wiki/X-Balls) is a medicine\n> that allows denizens of magical dimensions to retain their natural ability\n> to produce magic while in Edolas, see Fairy Tail chapter 180).\n\nChapter 68:\n\n> The plan is disrupted by Dragon Goddess Selene, who decides to teleport them\n> to Elentear for her own amusement.\n\nChapter 89:\n\n> Eventually they'll come back to Earth Land from Elentear with the help of\n> the local mages.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-07T13:26:58.587", "id": "67762", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-07T16:16:37.443", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-07T16:16:37.443", "last_editor_user_id": "71302", "owner_user_id": "71302", "parent_id": "67733", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOr wait if it's warrior ritual, then maybe it's Black Luster Soldier, and\nindeed 'soldier' is close to 'sergeant.' Black Luster Soldier DEF = 2500 = ATK\nof Sergeant Kuroha.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mu3kcl.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-01-31T14:07:57.597", "id": "67740", "last_activity_date": "2023-01-31T19:46:30.243", "last_edit_date": "2023-01-31T19:46:30.243", "last_editor_user_id": "20275", "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "67739", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Transponder Snails have the ability of telepathy. They know about the\nthoughts of each other. And there power of telepathy likely extends all over\nthe world, so a person with a Transponder Snail can readily contact another\nperson on the another side of the world.\n\nPerson 1 says something to the Snail 1. The Snail 1 sends the message via\nTELEPATHY to Snail 2. Snail 2 then interprets the message just like the voice\nof Person 1 and vice-versa\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-08-02T06:18:34.633", "id": "68195", "last_activity_date": "2023-08-02T06:18:34.633", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "72891", "parent_id": "67741", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n * Luffy: the Pirate King\n\n 1. Zoro: greatest swordsman\n 2. Ussop: a great warrior\n 3. Nami: draw a map of the whole world\n 4. Sanji: get to see the All Blue\n 5. Robin: learn all about the history of the world\n 6. Chopper: be able to cure every disease\n 7. Franky: make the best ship in all seas\n 8. Brook: meet Laboon again\n 9. Jinbei: have Fish-Men live with humans\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-22T21:17:26.913", "id": "68005", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-23T00:38:46.867", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-23T00:38:46.867", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "72159", "parent_id": "67742", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nHere is what I think about the dreams of all the members. All Straw Hat\ndreams:-\n\n * **Luffy** \\- Secret dream (needs to become Pirate King).\n\n 1. Zoro - World's no. 1 swordsman (to let his name reach the heavens).\n 2. Nami - Draw the true map of the whole world.\n 3. Ussop - A brave warrior of the sea (to be able to do things he lies about).\n 4. Sanji - Find the \"All Blue\". (maybe, to be able to cook anything anytime).\n 5. Chopper - To be able to cure any disease in the world.\n 6. Robin - Find the true history of the world (fulfill Ohara's legacy).\n 7. Franky - Make a ship capable of going anywhere in the world and see it do that.\n 8. Brook - Meet Labbon at the end of Grand Line (the whale nakama of Rumbar Pirates).\n 9. Jinbei - Bring the Fishmen above the sea and abolish their discrimination.\n 10. ??? -- ??? (mysterious 10th member).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-23T08:49:35.840", "id": "68009", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-23T08:49:35.840", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66936", "parent_id": "67742", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe dreams of the current members of the Straw Hat Pirates are :\n\n 1. Luffy - Become The Pirate King\n 2. Zoro - Become The Greatest Swordsman In The World\n 3. Nami - Draw A World Map\n 4. Sanji - Find The All Blue\n 5. Robin - Learn All The History Of The World\n 6. Chopper - Be Able To Cure Every Disease\n 7. Usopp - Be A Great Warrior Of The Sea\n 8. Jimbei - FishMen and Humans Live Together\n 9. Franky - Build A Ship Capable Of Going Anywhere In The World\n 10. Brook - Meet Laboon\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-07-30T07:56:40.803", "id": "68191", "last_activity_date": "2023-07-30T07:56:40.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "72891", "parent_id": "67742", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI think, it is because he's the only user of the all for one who is still\nalive. He already gave the power to Midoriya, so he is no longer a user. But\nas all the users manifest as a part of the One for All, Allmight does aswell,\nbut partially. Once he dies (if he dies) we will see him \"full\" inside the one\nfor all.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-07-20T10:28:06.540", "id": "68160", "last_activity_date": "2023-07-20T10:28:06.540", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "72778", "parent_id": "67751", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> since One for All can't be transferred now to people with quirks\n\nThis isn't entirely true. Even with One For All becoming extremely powerful,\nthere is no hard limitation against giving it to someone with an existing\nQuirk that we know so far.\n\nThe rationale behind preferring quirkless people is noted by the [Weaknesses\nsection](https://myheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/One_For_All#Weaknesses) of the\nwiki as follows (emphasis mine). I'm putting everything under a spoiler just\nto be safe, because Mirio regaining his quirk is Chapter 293 and most of this\ninformation is discussed in Chapter 304, though it is foreshadowed in Chapter\n284. If the anime has some episodes left this season, it might get covered.\n\n> Following the research conducted by All Might, as well as the discourse of\n> the One For All vestiges, it is revealed that **One For All can affect the\n> user's lifespan**. If a person who already has a Quirk receives One For All,\n> the extra Quirk places an enormous burden on their body, depleting the\n> user's life force and shortening their lifespan. It is analogous to adding\n> water to an already-full cup, causing it to overflow and breakdown. The rate\n> at which the person's life decays is unknown, but Hikage, the fourth user,\n> received One For All at the age of twenty-two and died of \"old age\" eighteen\n> years later, at the age of forty. **This weakness can be circumvented if an\n> inheritor does not already have a Quirk** , since the Quirkless user would\n> be an \"empty cup\" that is filled by One For All.\n\nWhile past users have all had existing quirks, it seems that All Might's\nresearch is what made them aware about this side effect. Whether they would\nstill pass it on to someone with this knowledge is speculation, but nothing is\npreventing it and I'm not sure if any of their approval is needed beyond the\ncurrent wielder who has to willingly pass it to a successor.\n\nIf the quirk removal was permanent, then\n\n> by the water analogy the cup has been emptied\n\nand the user should be able to use One For All without the side effect.\n\nAgain, the caveat is that there might be more factors that nobody knows about,\nlike whether the mere possession of an original Quirk alters the body in a way\nthat the removal doesn't change. We know Quirks are genetic and there's an in-\nuniverse theory about their singularity, so a lot can change by the end of the\nseries.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-04T19:33:27.143", "id": "67753", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-04T19:33:27.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27657", "parent_id": "67752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nA few facts are stated clearly in the source material (chapters 63 and 121).\nOn the night right after the attack on Wall Maria, Frieda Reiss, her parents\nand her four legitimate siblings secluded themselves inside the secret cave\nunder the chapel in their family estate. There they were reached by Grisha\nYaeger, who murdered everybody except Frieda's father Rod and took the\nFounding Titan's power, later to pass it to his son Eren by having the latter\neat him. According to\n[wiki](https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Frieda_Reiss), this happened in\nyear 845, which was the third year of Frieda's reign. The time limit to pass\ndown the power of the Founder is 13 years (chapter 88), so it was too early.\n\nTo my knowledge, the only frontal assessment of a reason behind the Reiss\nfamily being in the cave is in an intelligence report that Hange Zoë reads in\nchapter 62, according to which they had gathered there to pray for deliverance\nfrom the disaster. The intel itself was collected by Erwin Smith's spies in\nthe Reiss estate, and it was most likely a cover-up story by Rod Reiss, as\nrecollected by the staff working in the mansion. As those events touch several\nlayers of secrecy, it's clear that the account is generally unreliable (in\nfact, the same story is untrue in attributing the massacre to \"bandits\"),\nhowever there isn't, to my knowledge, any upfront textual challenge to the\nclaim that they were gathered there in prayer. Obviously we could argue that\ncontext might imply that they were hiding in response to an unforseen crisis\nand, possibly, unknown threats.\n\nAs for Frieda's mastery of the Founding Titan, she was reported (chapter 63)\nto alter Historia's memories, but Rod indeed claims that she was too\nunexperienced to draw its full power. There aren't many textual evidences that\ncan clarify what \"power level\" a successor of the first King of the Walls\n(Karl Fritz) would have in a titan-on-titan fight, nor is it clear how much\ncomes from legends about feats of the past (like building the Walls) and how\nmuch comes from actual experience of Rod observing his father and brother.\nThere are textual evidences of the Kings of the Walls having limited access to\nthe Founder's powers, and we could argue that Rod's claim is unclear or\nquestionable due to him not having a full understanding of the Founder's\npower. More details in spoiler.\n\n> It is stated by the Tyburs (chapter 99), that no royal _could_ draw the full\n> power of the Founder Titan in self-defense or in defense of his subjects,\n> due to Karl Fritz's Vow. Due to the Kings never disclosing the truth about\n> the World or their motives, Rod somewhat understands (chapter 66) that Karl\n> Fritz's will prevents the Kings from acting against catastrophes that may\n> befall their subjects (which he believes to be the entirety of humanity),\n> but he still believes that Karl Fritz's will is for the Founder to rule over\n> humanity, which is inaccurate. So it isn't clear if he expected Frieda to\n> draw from some of the legendary powers that the Vow would have prevented her\n> to use, or if he had experience from Uri or his father of a purported\n> \"intermediate level\" of power that she might have access to and that would\n> have allowed her to beat the Attack Titan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-11T20:43:57.077", "id": "67776", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-11T20:43:57.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "71302", "parent_id": "67770", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSometime in the far future on the planet _No Man's Land_ or _Gunsmoke_. The\nplanet is located in the binary star system [Delta\nTrianguli](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Trianguli). The story takes\nplace around 150 years after humans arrived there.\n\n> Project SEEDS is a deep space colonization mission in the anime and manga\n> Trigun. The project's principal objective in the Trigun anime is the\n> preservation of the human race after the original Earth's resources had been\n> consumed while in the manga it is hinted that plant usage became widespread\n> so that such catastrophe never took place. The project consists of a fleet\n> of ships intent on the delivery of cold sleeping human populations to\n> planets befitting the existence of life.\n\n[Project SEEDS](https://trigun.fandom.com/wiki/Project_SEEDS)\n\n> Not much is known about No Man's Land before the Project SEEDS starships\n> crash-landed on its surface. However, several species of alien animals\n> including sandworms and a group of sentient hive-minded insects lived on the\n> desolate planet before \"The Big Fall.\"\n\n> For the next 150 years humanity would struggle to survive in the planet's\n> desolate environment, utilizing plants found in the ruins of the crashed\n> ships for food and water while building cities and towns around them. Over\n> time what would become known as the Seven Cities would be built, making them\n> the cultural and political hubs of the planet.\n\n[Gunsmoke](https://trigun.fandom.com/wiki/Gunsmoke)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-12T17:34:28.597", "id": "67779", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-12T17:34:28.597", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27875", "parent_id": "67778", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI suppose that she literally just sat there for billions of years as her only\npurpose was to ooze out life... Until SEELE came along and crucified her :⁠-⁠P\n\nJust read the wiki-\n\n> The Black Moon is the vessel that carried Lilith, one of the members of the\n> Seeds of Life sent out into the universe by the First Ancestral Race.\n\nI assume from the above that Lilith is a programmed artificial organism, and\nonce it had fulfilled its role it went into a pre-programmed stasis.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-20T13:28:26.677", "id": "67796", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-21T00:21:41.000", "last_edit_date": "2023-02-21T00:21:41.000", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "67783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe original [seems to\nbe](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1436058024):\n\n> カク:パウリーか…。そうか…困ったわい…。殺し屋という仕事は **潰しがきかん** というのに…\n\n潰しがきく essentially means that (the job) involves transferrable skills, or easy\nto switch jobs/workplace. Here it is negated and the part literally means\n\"Being an assassin does not train you for other jobs (than assassins)\" or\n\"Working as an assassin, I don't have skills for other jobs\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-15T04:28:32.247", "id": "67787", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-15T04:28:32.247", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61507", "parent_id": "67785", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's a real possibility that people did \"get in\" but never got out. And i\ncan assume that the tracks are there for the purpose of Sloth getting faster\nin a part that needs repair or if he has to surface in specific places.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-15T07:53:22.917", "id": "67789", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-15T07:53:22.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "71380", "parent_id": "67786", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe same reason that not every live-action movie gets dubbed into other\nlanguages: **it's not always profitable.**\n\nDubbing is an expensive, time-consuming process. It's not just a matter of\nhiring voice actors and getting them to record the lines; you have to adjust\nthe animation so that the mouth movements sync up to the re-recorded dialogue,\nand in some cases you have to localise the dialogue because it doesn't\ntranslate well into English.\n\nOn top of this, anime dubs have something of a shaky reputation, with many\nanime fans deeming them to be inferior to the original Japanese. As such, the\nmarket for dubbed anime is considerably smaller than the market for anime in\ngeneral. Unless an anime (and/or its source material) is already popular\nenough, a dub simply isn't worth it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-02-25T19:49:35.150", "id": "67806", "last_activity_date": "2023-02-25T19:49:35.150", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35679", "parent_id": "67805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThere are some possibilities to consider.\n\n## Time could have passed, but the footprints could still remain because it is\nnot snowing\n\nConsider for a moment why footprints in the snow disappear. More snow falls\nand covers them up, or the wind blows more snow onto them. Or the sun melts\nthe snow. If none of these are happening, then the footprints could remain\nthere indefinitely. Initially, I thought this theory was sunk as soon as I saw\nthe cover and with Chito and Yuuri covered in snow, but this is clearly the\nresult of their snowball fight in the last chapter, as it is only after that\npoint that they are shown to have snow on them. During the last chapter, I had\nsome difficulty figuring out if the pictures were showing snow or stars, but\non pages 136-137, where the sun is rising and Yuuri and Chito are looking out\nat what's below them, we can see it is not snowing, so it is indeed stars.\nThere are wispy clouds, but no snow. Also, though the picture is kind of\ndifficult to decipher, Yuuri and Chito say they're going to the edge, so I\nthink many of the clouds are actually below them, and they're looking at the\nlayers beneath them.\n\nSo, it is not snowing on the top layer at any point during which we observe.\nAdditionally, even though the sun comes up, it does not melt the snow. What\npossibilities can we infer from these things? Let us remember for a moment how\nhigh up the two of them are. Any atmosphere or weather up here might be\nartificial. And given the decaying state of the whole world, it wouldn't be\nstrange if the weather was broken, and thus it isn't going to snow anymore.\nWould it be completely unreasonable to think that footprints would last for a\nvery long time?\n\nNow, one problem I have with this theory is that some of the footprints\nactually do seem to have disappeared. There should be some that go all the way\nback to the stairs, since that was their arrival point. To defend the theory,\nI would suggest wind and the sun may have removed some footprints, but that\nthe cube is shielding the remaining footprints we see.\n\nOn the other hand, the cover picture of volume 6 does not show footprints to\nthe staircase, even though it appears to be just after their snowball fight,\nso perhaps we don't need to go to such lengths to explain why those ones\ndisappeared. The two may just not have left any noticeable footprints in the\nsnow until they got closer to the cube.\n\n## Some amount of time passed, but it wasn't as long as we expect\n\nWe suspect a very long amount of time has passed because the degradation of\nthe cube has increased by a large amount. But why? All of that could have\nhappened at once, as it simply reached its breaking point and just fell away.\nChito and Yuuri may even have purposely chipped away at it or used their last\nexplosive on it (it is quite conspicuous that Chito mention their last\nexplosive, but we don't see them use it). On the page after what you've shown\nin your question, we see a close up of the damaged spot, and there are some\nsymbols on the black part. Maybe they wanted to see that. Or if it is a hole\nas everyone seems to believe, maybe they wanted to go inside to have a little\nbit of shelter from the cold. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T8Pbz.jpg)\n\nWe cannot determine how much time has actually passed just from the damage to\nthe cube, and we cannot conclude whether it is unreasonable that the\nfootprints would still be there (especially when you take the previous theory\ninto consideration).\n\nAs far as Chito and Yuuri causing the damage, there is a fan theory that the\ncube transported them to the world of _Shimeji Simulation_. Not having read\nthat manga, I can't speak much to it, but here's what\n[tvtropes.org](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/ShimejiSimulation)\nsays:\n\n> Call-Back: Shimeji Simulation, being a work created by Tsukumizu, features a\n> few references from Girls' Last Tour:\n>\n> The first page of Chapter 1 features what looked like a wheat farm, and with\n> Shijima's neighbours, who turn out to be identical to Chito and Yuuri,\n> sitting at a bench on the top-right corner. This was almost identical to the\n> final page of Girls' Last Tour's Volume 6, where Chito and Yuuri were\n> standing at what looked like a wheat farm, as well.\n>\n> Both Shijima and Majime later encounter a mysterious black cube on Chapter\n> 8, when Majime comments about it having a modern feel. This is a reference\n> to the almost identical black cube that Chito and Yuuri encountered after\n> reaching the highest layer of the megacity in Girls' Last Tour's Grand\n> Finale.\n>\n> In Chapter 13, Shijima's neighbours look like Chito and Yuuri, as seen in\n> Chapter 1's first page. There were many speculations and fan theories in\n> regards to both of them being alive in Girls' Last Tour after their Big\n> Sleep, and somehow got transported into this world through the mysterious\n> black cube.\n>\n> Chapter 42 has both Shijima and Majime wearing what appeared to be\n> suspiciously identical helmets that Chito and Yuuri wore.\n\nThough none of this is very relevant here, it is interesting that the cube is\nalso in that story. Thus, if you want to see more of this cube, you can try\nreading _Shimeji Simulation_ , and see if that helps with figuring out its\nsecrets. Regardless of _Shimeji Simulation_ , it is possible Chito and Yuuri\nused their explosive to damage the cube for some reason.\n\n## _Scrapped Theories_\n\nWhile thinking things through, I came up with some alternate explanations, but\ndecided against them for one reason or another. Since it's very unlikely we'll\nget any sort of canonical explanation, I'll include them anyway, since they\nmight be of interest regardless of their faults.\n\n## This could be a different side of the cube\n\nI'm fairly confident we do not see all sides of the cube, but for instance on\npage 138, we see a different side, and it has some different damage.So could\nwe just be looking at a side of the cube we haven't seen?\n\nProbably not, actually. I do not think this possibility is very likely,\nbecause we see Chito and Yuuri's stuff is still there. They could have moved\nit, but continuing from the preceding scene, it is very likely the intent is\nto convey a continuity of the same space. The staircase is also shown, the\npositioning of which should help us determine whether it is the same face of\nthe cube.\n\n## The Cube Is Covered in Snow/Sleet\n\nThis theory requires a reinterpretation of the picture above. My first\nimpression was actually that the black part was a material, due to the odd\ntexture, rather than shadows showing the inside of the cube, and that's what\nled me to this theory. The cube is described as \"black slate\" by Yuuri and\nChito, so it struck me as odd that the cube is simply depicted as white in a\nblack-and-white manga when it's described as black. Thus, I wondered if the\nwhite parts were sleet or snow covering the actual cube, and that's what came\napart. I furthermore noticed that in the picture I've included, the white\npieces that fell off the cube are actually melding into the snow. And I should\nprobably mention I interpreted the symbols as being drawn on top of the black\npart, rather than being glowing symbols inside the darkness.\n\nIn the case that this were the true interpretation, snow is obviously more\nfragile than slate, and thus it wouldn't require a whole lot of time to pass\nfor the degredation we see to happen. Yuuri and Chito may have even just\nchiseled it off themselves (perhaps in order to see the slate and symbols\nunderneath).\n\nWith regards to this theory, however, I trust everyone else's interpretation\nof the cube more than my own initial one, so I suspect that the black part\nbeing shadow is probably correct. Furthermore, looking up pictures of slate\ndid actually show me some odd light black colors in some cases.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hX4a8.jpg)\n\nAs can be seen, the shininess could lead one to depict this as white. I don't\nknow much about shading a manga or about slate, so I'll leave it at that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-10T22:41:17.443", "id": "67820", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-03T17:46:52.433", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-03T17:46:52.433", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67815", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIn addition to their extreme weight literally flattening everything, the titan\nrelease a lot of hot steam that burns and causes fires with the sheer heat\nreleased.\n\nSo even if the basement somehow survived the weight, the titan's heat would\nbake the inhabitants alive.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-27T18:15:18.067", "id": "67941", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-27T18:15:18.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4293", "parent_id": "67818", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's no direct answer here but a couple of points to consider\n\n 1. There are three walls, not one. And those three walls contain **millions** of colossal titans. At least according to Willie Tybur in chapter 100 of the Manga\n\n> Wall Sheena. Wall Rose. Wall Maria. His three walls, named after the three\n> daughters of Ymir, the Founder ...are made of what must be millions of\n> Colossus Titans.\n\n 2. The Titans don't need to keep a tight ring. The goal is for them to march over the surface of the planet, exterminating any humans. With 70% of the world covered by water, that's not as big a feat as you might think. The Titans need only sweep themselves over the land masses. They need not maintain themselves in a circle to do this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-07-18T15:35:09.300", "id": "68155", "last_activity_date": "2023-07-18T15:35:09.300", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48808", "parent_id": "67821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Hollywood Reporter did an\n[interview](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/makoto-\nshinkai-interview-suzume-anime-berlin-2023-1235329404/) with Makoto Shinkai on\nthis very topic.\n\n> Tell us about how the decision to have the character Sōta get stuck embodied\n> in Suzume’s broken, three-legged children’s chair (...)\n\n> As for what the three-legged chair symbolizes, Suzume is a victim of this\n> massive disaster and there’s profound loss in what she has experienced. And\n> even though it’s not depicted in the film itself, I imagine that this chair\n> that she has carried with her was probably swept up in the tsunami and lost\n> one of its legs in the destruction, so it’s reflective of Suzume’s state of\n> mind after everything she’s been through. Even though it’s lost one of its\n> legs, it’s still persevered, and in many ways, it’s still able to fulfill\n> the functions that it’s intended to have as a chair.\n\nThe chair was made by Suzume's mother, likely representing the highlight of\nher past childhood and the only thing that remained after the disaster... The\nlost leg likely represents a pillar in her life being lost in the disaster.\n\nHe also mentions:\n\n> Another metaphor behind the chair has to do with how this film, in many\n> ways, has a very unique backdrop, because we were working on it during COVID\n> and there were many lockdowns and restrictions across the entire country\n> then (...)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-22T08:03:06.430", "id": "67841", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-22T08:03:06.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "67826", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe that the biggest difference between the 2 is that Dazai was turned\ninto the way he was while Fyodor just had a god complex since he was born.\n\nIf you didn't know yet, Dazai was molded into the way he was in the PM by Mori\nwho had seen his intelligence and wanted Dazai to work for him, so he was\ntrained at a very young age. But because he was molded the way he was, he\nstill had shreds of feeling left and it could be seen by his 2 friends during\nthe PM: Ango and Oda, and those two were the ones that really mattered to him.\nSo when he lost them, he would have normally just completely gone crazy like\nFyodor. But because Oda knew that and didn't want him to turn out that way,\nhis dying last words were for him to be a good person. And because Dazai cared\nabout them above anything else, he immediately quit the PM and was picked up\nby Fukuzawa. And since then, he has tried to surround himself with friends;\nfriends like Ango and Oda were once to him and that had a major change to his\nmentality. And having experienced both sides of the world and with the request\nof Oda, he started to protect the good in the world by any means possible,\nwhich was why he took in Atsushi.\n\nOn the other hand, Fyodor was born the way he was. And because of his ability\n\"Crime and Punishment\" which can kill anyone with a touch, he was most likely\nisolated from his peers and thus never had a connection as Dazai did. And\nFyodor becomes much more self-centered and his personality just keeps becoming\nworse with no one to keep him in check. And his ideals become much darker as\nhe sees anyone that isn't as smart as him as worthless and isn't worth\nprotecting. And with no guidance, he sought power above anything else;\nabsolute power with no one to oppose him, and that naturally made Dazai his\nnatural enemy. Not only is Dazai just as smart as him, but also his ability\n\"No Longer Human\" was the very thing standing in his way.\n\n(This is just my theory as we don't completely know Fyodor's ability or his\npast yet)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-11T12:38:24.927", "id": "67889", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-12T13:50:48.230", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-12T13:50:48.230", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "71818", "parent_id": "67834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe short answer seems to be no, you don't have to think Usagi's family is\n(overly) rich.\n\nSummarizing from [here](https://tokyo-calendar.jp/article/12332?page=2):\n\n * Azabu juuban at that time was kind of middle of nowhere (considering the central location) because the metro lines [Namboku line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metro_Namboku_Line) or [Oedo line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toei_%C5%8Cedo_Line) didn't exist yet.\n * The choice is mainly because the author lived there once.\n * During [Japanese bubble from late 80s to early 90s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble), it flourished by the proximity to Roppongi (which is also in Minato-ku).\n\nAlthough it's uncertain when exactly the author lived there, most probably it\nwas before the bubble (or at least before the bubble inflating too much), so\nthe place was most probably a 'normal' (enough) place as imagined by the\nauthor.\n\nAt the same time, it is known that [the\nauthor](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E5%86%85%E7%9B%B4%E5%AD%90) is\nfrom a rich family (she had a Porsche when _Sailor Moon_ **began** ), so\nprobably there's some influence of that.\n\n* * *\n\nI don't know too well, but even in those fancy areas (you are correct about\nthat in 2020s), there should be houses lived by people who have been living\nthere since (perhaps) before the war, but to buy a new one would be\nridiculously expensive (if it's possible at all).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-30T10:01:21.730", "id": "67855", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-30T10:01:21.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61507", "parent_id": "67844", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAbout **Shinichirō Kobayashi** , he has been working as a 3D animation\nproducer for [Image Logic](https://image-logic.co.jp/) and a creative producer\nfor [Mangrove](https://man-grove.co.jp/).\n\nAccording to [CGWORLD.jP - 「まずストーリーありき」。 リアルタイムカットシーンで魅せたイメージ・ロジックのディレクターズに聞く、\n制作スタイルとは。](https://cgworld.jp/interview/imagelogic-202201.html),\n\n>\n> そんなイメージ・ロジックがゼロから\"物語\"をクリエイトする心強い味方が、関連会社のマン・グローブだ。クリエイティブ・プロデューサーを務める小林真一郎氏は、アニメオリジナル企画のプロデューサーとして数々の作品を手がけてきた。「…」\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> Image Logic's reassuring ally in creating \"stories\" from scratch is its\n> affiliated company, Mangrove. Mr. Shinichiro Kobayashi, a creative producer,\n> has worked on numerous original anime projects as a producer. [...]\n\nAccording to his profile on [アニメーション学科\n講師紹介](https://www.amgakuin.co.jp/contents/p=14893),\n\n> [PROFILE] \n> 株式会社イメージ・ロジック／3Dアニメーションプロデューサー、株式会社マン・グローブ／クリエイティブプロデューサー \n> 主な企画・プロデュース作品は『勇者王ガオガイガー』シリーズ\n> 『無限のリヴァイアス』『サムライチャンプルー』『デッドマン・ワンダーランド』『ハヤテのごとく！』シリーズなど。\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> [PROFILE] \n> Image Logic Inc. / 3D Animation Producer, Mangrove Inc. / Creative Producer \n> Major planning and producing works include \"The King of Braves GaoGaiGar\"\n> series, \"Infinite Ryvius,\" \"Samurai Champloo,\" \"Deadman Wonderland,\" \"Hayate\n> the Combat Butler\" series, etc.\n\n* * *\n\nAs for **Takashi Kochiyama** , he has been working as an animation producer\nfor [Asahi Production](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Production),\nincluding [_Santa Company: The Secret of\nChristmas_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Company) (2019), [_Heaven's\nDesign Team_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Design_Team) (2021),\nand [_Giant Beasts of Ars_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Beasts_of_Ars)\n(2023).\n\nAccording to [アニメ「天地創造デザイン部」が、釜山映画祭内アジアコンテンツアワードでBest Asian\nAnimationを受賞しました！](https://tendebu.jp/news/detail.php?id=1094943),\n\n> 作品を代表してリモートで受賞式に参加していたのは、本作の監督・増井壮一とアニメーションプロデューサー・河内山隆。「…」\n>\n> * * *\n>\n> Remotely representing the film at the award ceremony were the film's\n> director, Soichi Masui, and animation producer, Takashi Kochiyama. [...]\n\nThe Japanese Wikipedia article about the series\n([1](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC),\n[2](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E5%9C%B0%E5%89%B5%E9%80%A0%E3%83%87%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E9%83%A8#%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%83%95),\n[3](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E7%8D%A3))\nalso mentions him as the animation producer.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-26T16:23:01.360", "id": "67847", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-26T16:39:57.450", "last_edit_date": "2023-03-26T16:39:57.450", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "67846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPlease find the list of all characters from Full Metal Alchemist franchise\n[here](https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Fullmetal_Alchemist_characters).\nThey also highlighted the characters based on adaptation/movie/manga-only.\nBased on my rough counting, the series has around 200 characters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-29T04:42:17.823", "id": "67852", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-29T04:42:17.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "67849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAsh caught his Tauros in [Episode\n35](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/EP035), however the episode was\nbanned in many countries\n\n> This episode was banned due to the prevalent usage of handguns throughout\n> the episode. Kaiser, the Safari Zone warden, points a gun at Ash's head a\n> couple times, and even shoots the gun at Team Rocket at one point. **The\n> banning of this episode left a major plot hole and a continuity error in the\n> English dub, as this was the episode where Ash captured all 30 of his\n> Tauros**. As this is the Safari Zone episode, it also makes the Safari Zone\n> unseen in the English anime, though it is mentioned in the two episodes that\n> took place before it.\n>\n>\n> [Source](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Banned_episodes#List_of_banned_episodes_2)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-03T15:35:25.047", "id": "67864", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-03T15:35:25.047", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20275", "parent_id": "67863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are right that it probably isn't the one you have listed; that one was\nreleased in 2017, which is much later than the 2013 publishing of the book.\nThis is likely referring to the [New Super Mario Bros. Wii Nokonoko Air\nHockey](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9D%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-EPOCH-\nKTEC-cTOTC-\nds-1106671-New%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BAWii-%E3%83%8E%E3%82%B3%E3%83%8E%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9B%E3%83%83%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC/dp/B005L9ZZGY)\ntoy, which was released in 2011. This version uses a Koopa shell that can\nslide on any surface, so you [play without a\ntable](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGRx6zBBoy8).\n\nThat reference really is a bit hard to get IMO; maybe it was a hit for the\nauthor, who thought the toy would catch on more than it actually did.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-04T07:12:40.957", "id": "67869", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-04T07:12:40.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23565", "parent_id": "67866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nJimmy's answer actually makes a lot of sense, particularly as Shimamura seems\npuzzled that her past experience with some type of air hockey isn't carrying\nover to the current match. It would be strange (and kind of dumb, if we're\nbeing honest) if she thought playing a video game would help her with actual\nair hockey.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x3NiJ.png)\n\n(The translation here would further seem to support that she has a miniature\nair hockey set. However, the translation I got in the official English release\nwas the quote as seen in my question, mentioning \"the Mario one\", so that is\nwhat I will be focusing on.)\n\nHowever, considering the expression on her face, and that she taps the mallet\nagainst her head, the point may just be that she _is_ being dumb. Though the\nstory doesn't justify it much (in my opinion), the summaries on the back and\non some of the colored images often describe Shimamura as a \"slightly ditzy\ngirl\". Additionally, as was pointed out to me in the comments by Aki Tanaka♦,\nthe anime's English subtitles and English dub definitely say \"video game\".\nThus, with this in mind, I decided to look into the video game angle.\n\nFirstly, I think we can confirm we're looking for a Wii game, from these\nquotes from the book:\n\n> [Little Shimamura] sat on the floor playing a video game, her randoseru\n> backpack lying forgotten in one corner. Specifically, she was playing one of\n> those motion control games where you swing the controller around. Ping-pong,\n> by the looks of it. Onscreen, a little cartoon character jumped for joy; her\n> \"opponent\" had scored on her while she was distracted.\n\nFrom _Adachi, Questioning_ in volume 1, on page 155\n\n> Once [my sister] confirmed that Adachi was nowhere to be seen, she plopped\n> down in front of the TV in the corner and grabbed a Wii controller.\n\nFrom _The Isosceles Triangle_ in volume 1, on page 158\n\nSo the Shimamura sisters are confirmed to have a Wii, and in any event, motion\ncontrols would probably be necessary for Shimamura to believe playing the game\nwould make her better at actual air hockey. Going by Wikipedia, _Adachi and\nShimamura_ was released in Japan on March 10, 2013 (the year matches what is\nwritten in the copyright section of my library's copy), so the game in\nquestion will have to have come out before then.\n\n## Mario Party\n\nI first looked through the minigames in _Mario Party 8_ and _9_.\n\n<https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Mario_Party_8_minigames>\n\n<https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Mario_Party_9_minigames>\n\nHowever, nothing stuck out to me as looking like air hockey (closest thing was\n[Shell Soccer](https://www.mariowiki.com/Shell_Soccer)). I had to go back to\n_Mario Party 2_ with [Speed Hockey](https://www.mariowiki.com/Speed_Hockey)\nand _Mario Party 7_ 's [Ice Moves](https://www.mariowiki.com/Ice_Moves) to\nfind something actually resembling air hockey.\n\n## Any Mario Game\n\nSo next I checked [_Mario Sports\nMix_](https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario_Sports_Mix#Hockey_3), released in 2010\nin Japan. This has actual hockey in it. So it's a possibility, but not a\nlikely one, since we'd prefer to find an actual air hockey video game.\n\nThere's _[Bowser's Lair\nHockey](https://www.mariowiki.com/Bowser%27s_Lair_Hockey)_ , which, hey, is\nactually an air hockey video game! But, problem: it's a flash game used to\npromote _Mario Party 7_ , so it's not a Wii game and is not really something\nShimamura could _have_ , but is rather something she could have _played_ on\nNintendo's website.\n\n## Any Wii Game\n\nAt this point, I gave up on the whole Mario angle. Anything for the Wii will\nbe sufficient! I wouldn't find it odd at all if someone referred to some\nrandom Wii game as a Mario game, particularly if that person is not especially\nvideo game savvy (okay, it might be a stretch).\n\nFirst up is _Okiraku Air Hockey Wii_ (JP)/ _Family Glide Air Hockey_ which was\nreleased in 10/21/2008 in Japan. This game actually fits pretty well. It has\nmotion controls and it is air hockey. Additionally, IGN supposedly said this\ngame is \"[a dull, awkwardly controlling air hockey\ngame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Glide_Hockey#cite_note-ign-3)\", so\nthere's no way Shimamura would get any actual air hockey XP out of this\n(though notably, the link on Wikipedia goes to the review for the Table Tennis\nversion of this game, and I can't find this actual quote).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YpVm2m.png)\n\nNext is [_Game Party_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Party), which does\nhave air hockey, but did not seem to have a Japanese release. Which is\nhonestly a shame, because it would be a good contender in spite of it having a\nside view. See this video, around the 45 minute mark, for some air hockey:\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEPvQTR2IBo>\n\nThe only other thing that seemed almost reasonable was _Wii Play_ , released\nin 2006 in Japan, with its [Laser\nHockey](https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Laser_Hockey_\\(Wii_Play\\)). I've\nactually played this one. It's a side view and is honestly more like _Pong_\nthan air hockey. It would be really weird if Shimamura thought these skills\nwould transfer to air hockey. Thus, not a good candidate.\n\n## And What Game is Little Shimamura Playing?\n\nThough not related to the actual question, it should come as no surprise that,\nafter finding those passages about the Shimamuras' Wii again, I also tried to\nfigure out what ping-pong video game Little Shimamura was playing. And I\nthought I may as well share what I found out.\n\nThere are three candidates: _Wii Play_ , _Wii Sports Resort_ , and _Mario and\nSonic at the Olympic Games_ , which were all released pre-2013.\n\nAfter reviewing footage of gameplay, I found some problems with _Wii Play_ and\n_Wii Sports Resort_. In _Wii Play_ , you play as disembodied hands, so the\ncharacters do not \"jump around\" after you score a point. The winner does jump\nand down at the end, however. In _Wii Sports Resort_ , you play as cartoon\ncharacters (Miis) as in the passage, but they do not jump up and down when\nthey score a point either. I did notice a bystander doing so, however.\n\nIn the Dream Tennis mode of _Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games_ , the\ncharacters do jump a bit when they score a point, so it technically does fit\nthe description (kind of a weak match, if you ask me, because its more like a\ncouple of hops). As of right now, I haven't actually been able to find a video\nwith someone being scored on, however, so I can't actually say if the\n_opponent_ jumps up and down.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-27T16:55:57.570", "id": "67939", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-27T22:34:34.623", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-27T22:34:34.623", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAs of right now it seems that the English Dub of One Piece is not on\nCrunchyroll and it only has the Sub but this should change eventually since\nFunimation has merged with it but we have no idea when since Sony doesn't like\ngiving us updates.\n\nSo funimation has all the English dub episodes with subtitles available\nbut..... only some are free which means you have to pay for their service to\nget them. All English Sub episodes are available for free on Crunchyrull and\nFuniamtion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-04T22:14:45.010", "id": "67876", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-04T22:14:45.010", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "71754", "parent_id": "67874", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nVRV. This is a free Crunchyroll service. It's free and legal, but you need to\nwatch ads.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-10T15:25:31.333", "id": "67881", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-10T17:33:40.107", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-10T17:33:40.107", "last_editor_user_id": "71738", "owner_user_id": "71738", "parent_id": "67874", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Fandom Wiki](https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Mei_Chang), Mei is\n11-12 years old, being 14 by the end of the manga\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LPDw6.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-11T05:42:54.327", "id": "67887", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-11T05:42:54.327", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "67885", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThere are two types of suits, popularized by Bruce Lee and Ip Man, the\ndepicted \"Tangzhuang\" or \"Tang suit\".\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UAmtR.jpg)\n\nand the longer robe-like \"Changshan'.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bz1bX.jpg)\n\nToriyama mentioned that he admired Bruce Lee, and the film _Enter The Dragon_\nhad a profound impact on the _Dragonball_ series.\n\nTrivia: During the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, all things related to China\nwere referred to as \"Tang\", both as a proxy for the country and it's people\".\nChinatowns are referred to as \"Tangren Jie\" (唐人街, Tang People Street). Despite\nthe costume being from the Qing dynasty and derived from the Manchurian horses\njacket \"magua\", it evolved to be one a symbol of the Han people and Chinese\ndiaspora oversea, being known as the called \"Tang suit\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-15T11:07:49.323", "id": "67909", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-15T11:07:49.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "67906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEdward was not _given_ a choice. He _made_ a choice.\n\nWith the case of transmuting their mother, the ingredients and the blood they\noffered was not worth enough to get their mother's soul back. There was no\nequivalent exchange. Thus, the alchemy rebounded on them. This is why what was\nlost was random.\n\nIn the case of getting Alphonse back, Edward went to the Truth with the\nintention of giving up his gate (his alchemy) in exchange for Alphonse. The\nexchange was equivalent, so that's what happened. No rebound, no random loss\nof body members.\n\nIt should also be noted that many of the rebound losses do not actually seem\nrandom. Izumi and Mustang's losses are laced with irony. Izumi is unable to\nhave a child after having her organs messed up, and Mustang (who had a\n\"vision\" for the country) is blinded. To my recollection, both characters\ncomment on the irony.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-16T00:22:04.870", "id": "67911", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-16T00:22:04.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67910", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nTo add onto what Shaymin Gratitude answered, even Ed's and Al's losses are\nlaced with irony, as pointed out by father. Ed lost the only family he still\nhad and the leg on which he stood and Al was condemned to a cold metal body\nthat could not feel the warmth of love when he wanted to feel his mother's\nembrace again.\n\nI actually have a hypothesis on why Ed's arm was taken from him. He says Truth\ncan take his leg, his arm, or his heart in exchange for his brother (in this\ncase, his brother's soul). I think when Truth took Ed's arm, Truth was trying\nto give him a hint at the answer. Right after Ed loses his leg, he gains the\nability to transmute without a circle. Immediately after, he gives something\nelse up for his brother and Truth takes his arm, thus taking away his ability\n(in that moment) to perform transmutations with his bare hands in exchange for\nhis brother. I think Truth, who it perhaps pitied since he and his brother\nwere literal children, was trying to help Ed understand the lesson Ed learns\nby the end. That he can't fix everything with alchemy. It just took a few\nyears for Ed to figure it out.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-01T01:12:18.013", "id": "67953", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-01T01:12:18.013", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "71960", "parent_id": "67910", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n(I don't know if this is an exhaustive list, but I tried).\n\n### Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!\n\n * ep4 at 12:52 read by Togashi from the Mabinogion (some page in the middle of the book) in the scene where Nibutani visits Togashi's house to retrieve it:\n\n> I may have lost my memories, but I, a true magician, have walked this sphere\n> of existence for five centuries.\n\n * ep6 at 9:50 from the Mabinogion's Rainbow Manuscript, chapter three verse one, quoted based off memory by Dekomori in the scene where Isshiki drops in on her and Nibutani fighting about an earlier slide-kick:\n\n> I, who have been watching over this world for more than four centuries,\n> alone understand.\n\n * ep10 at 15:58 from Suzuki presumably based off memory (one of Nibutani's classmates from her previous school) during a school festival:\n\n> Hey! Haven't seen you since junior high! How old are you this year? 716?\n\n### Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren!\n\n * ep4 at 9:29 from Shichimiya based off memory when she reunites with Nibutani in a fast food restaurant:\n\n> Long time no see! So you're in the same school as the Hero? And you're 1,216\n> years old now, right?\n\n * ep4 at 15:00 from Dekomori based off memory when asked when she and Nibutani started getting along so well:\n\n> Mori Summer-sama and I have been joined by the holy ribbon for over three\n> centuries!\n\n * ep4 at 17:42 from Nibutani as Mori Summer to Dekomori when Dekomori visits her house:\n\n> I am Mori Summer, a mage who has lived for over four hundred years.\n\n * ep4 at 19:59 by Dekomori from the Mabinogion chapter one, verse three, in the scene where she gives her student-council campaign speech on behalf of Nibutani:\n\n> For four hundred years, I have observed the hearts of men through the tides\n> of time.\n\n * ep6 at 13:02 from one of Nibutani's classmates based off memory after Nibutani was asked if she had ever dated anyone before, and she answered \" _in middle school, maybe?_ \":\n\n> But, Nibu, back then you said you were 1,200 years old, right?\n\n * ep8 at 14:55 from Togashi (no citation) in the scene where the gang is being prepared to battle the fake Mori Summer:\n\n> Away with your shame! You are the Great Mage Mori Summer! You have lived for\n> 1,200 years!\n\n * ep8 at 16:20 by Nibutani as Mori Summer in the opening of her battle with the fake Mori Summer:\n\n> Though I may have lost my memories, I am a true mage who has lived for the\n> last 1,500 years.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-20T02:07:58.293", "id": "67920", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-20T02:07:58.293", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "70615", "parent_id": "67919", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI can't answer anything about how \"moving family register\" didn't change the\ntwins' names, or if this would even be expected under Japanese law, but to\nanswer your question about how it pertains to hiding their parentage:\n\n# It's _Ai_ whose family name is secret.\n\n> Ai's last name was never made public.\n\n\\-- Kurokawa Akane, chapter 51\n\nThere was never a celebrity \"Hoshino Ai\", only \"B-Komachi's Ai\". Although this\nis only directly stated once, textual support throughout the manga is\nconsistent:\n\nIn chapter 1/episode 1, Gorou, a diehard fan for four years, doesn't bat an\neye at the name Hoshino until he sees her face.\n\nDoing a full-text search of (a fan translation of) the first 94 chapters, the\nonly characters to mention \"Hoshino Ai\" are Aqua, Ruby, Ryousuke (the\nstalker), and the omniscient narrator that can be considered responsible for\nthose little notes at the ends of chapters. Ichigo and Miyako also clearly\nknow, and the information definitely exists somewhere in government records\nthat have likely been accessed by law enforcement.\n\nIn chapter 20,\n\n> Kana notes that something about Ruby reminds her of Ai, but has no idea what\n> --when she's inviting her to join the new B-Komachi, under the same agency!\n> If Ai's family name were known, it would be hard not to draw conclusions.\n\nand what's more, in chapter 28,\n\n> when Akane researches Ai in depth in order to flawlessly imitate her, she\n> goes so far as to deduce that she likely had sex during puberty and \"maybe\n> met someone nice\" at the age of 15, but never noted her family name as\n> something she discovered, and despite doing this as a favor for Aqua doesn't\n> even begin to suspect they could be connected until observing his reaction\n> the next chapter.\n\nIn chapter 106,\n\n> after Ai's identity as the twins' mother is revealed: Several fans and other\n> background characters are shown reacting to the news. Not one remarks on a\n> shared family name making it obvious in retrospect. Furthermore, there are\n> several instances (news broadcasts, Twitter trending) of one or the other\n> twin being referred to by full name, and Ai by given name alone, in the\n> exact same circumstances--implying that even _with_ her identity as the\n> mother of the Hoshino twins revealed, nobody's accustomed to referring to\n> her by full name. Hell, that's not even adequate to infer that her own name\n> was Hoshino, since the father's identity as Kamiki Hikaru (as opposed to a\n> hypothetical other Hoshino) has not yet been revealed, and for all the\n> public knows the twins could have changed their names anyways.\n\nIn short, changing the twins' names would have been wholly unnecessary for\nhiding their parentage.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-22T00:23:29.397", "id": "67925", "last_activity_date": "2023-11-21T17:12:47.353", "last_edit_date": "2023-11-21T17:12:47.353", "last_editor_user_id": "66722", "owner_user_id": "66722", "parent_id": "67924", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOne thing to consider are [South\nBirds](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/South_Bird). It was a big deal during\nthe Jaya arc that the Straw Hats needed to head due South from Jaya to the\nKnock Up Stream. They couldn't use their log pose because the log pose only\npoints directly at the next island (Skypiea) with no reference to the compass\ndirections. Nor normal compasses which don't work in the Grand Line due to the\nmagnetic fields of the individual islands causing the needle to go crazy.\nThey're told to wrangle a South Bird and leverage its inexplicable ability to\nalways point South.\n\nSouth Birds clearly have some mechanism which allows them to determine compass\ndirections unaffected by the magnetic fields of the islands of the Grand Line\nand would be invaluable for navigating the GL without log/eternal poses (E.G.\nsailing towards an arbitrary set of coordinates) which honestly beggars the\nquestion why they aren't more widely used.\n\nGranted just having a working compass is only half the solution, knowing which\nway is South is well and good but doesn't tell you where you are. This would\nrequire tools like\n[astrolabes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner%27s_astrolabe) or\n[sextants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant) which can determine Latitude\nand Longitude. As far as I recall, we've never seen anyone ever use such tools\neven though they should work (you only really need it, the sun and the\nhorizon) and they'd be needed to navigate even outside the Grand Line (maps\nand a compass aren't very useful if you're out at sea and don't know where you\nare and therefore what direction your destination is). Although, since sailors\ncan navigate the Blues just fine we can probably assume they have some way of\nknowing where they are, which, supplemented by maps and a compass should be\ngood enough to find a specific spot in the oceans\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-23T22:20:55.700", "id": "67931", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-23T22:20:55.700", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51043", "parent_id": "67927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n> Am I missing some obvious caveat that could explain this?\n\nYes, [Maps / Sea Charts](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Map). This is what\nmakes [Navigators](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Navigator) so important to\ncrews even with the existence of Log Poses.\n\nTo quote the most relevant parts of the wiki (emphasis mine):\n\n> In the world of One Piece, **maps are an essential tool for navigation** ,\n> as they often depict the geography of an individual island, a group of\n> islands or even an entire ocean (in which case, they are sometimes referred\n> as sea charts). In sailing, **it is usually the duty of navigators to read\n> and interpret maps during voyages, in order to establish safe navigation\n> routes and avoid natural hazards or getting lost.**\n>\n> The first relevant map shown in the series was one of the Grand Line, which\n> belonged to Buggy, but was stolen by Nami and subsequently used by the Straw\n> Hat Pirates to enter the Grand Line through Reverse Mountain. Another\n> important map was of Skypiea's, which Luffy managed to find in the old\n> remains of the St. Briss and allowed the Straw Hats to consider the idea of\n> Sky Islands.\n\nNami's entire arc revolves around maps - her dream is to make a map of the\nentire world, and she was exploited by Arlong due to her great ability to\nunderstand and create them.\n\nThere may not be any \"arbitrary coordinates\" in the One Piece world since they\ndon't have GPS, but to reach Laugh Tale based on descriptions from the 4 Road\nPoneglyphs is exactly what a Navigator is skilled at doing.\n\nThis would also explain how Roger's crew backtracked. We don't have\nconfirmation about who on the crew was a Navigator, but since they were the\nfirst to circumnavigate the world and find Laugh Tale, it should have been\neasy to go back the way they came.\n\n[Eternal Poses](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Eternal_Pose) are said to\ncost a fortune to purchase, so it is probably not used by most crews. Vivre\ncards do remain a last ditch option, but they only tell you the direction and\nnot anything about distance or obstacles. So it is likely they too would be\ninsufficient / dangerous without some kind of Navigator.\n\n* * *\n\nIn the anime, there seems to be a filler arc on the way from Zou to Whole Cake\nIsland which explicitly mentions Nami plotting the route using a map ([Episode\n775](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_775)). Not included in the main\nanswer since this isn't 100% canon, but it's certainly believable (though one\ncould argue that Nami was in possession of Big Mom's vivre card).\n\nIn case you are wondering how no one just came across Laugh Tale (given enough\ntime) if people can simply traverse the sea using maps, I would **speculate**\nthis is due to 2 reasons:\n\n 1. It is in an unmapped area that has very low traffic\n 2. It is hidden by some means that can only be countered with information from the Road Poneglyphs\n\nIt shouldn't be very hard for someone like Kizaru to just go across the entire\nsea grid by grid since his [Pika Pika No\nMi](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Pika_Pika_no_Mi) allows him to travel at\n\"the speed of light\". Others like Aokiji (who can freeze the water surface) or\nBrook (who runs on top of water) might take an impossibly long time, but that\nisn't a concern for Kizaru. Thus, it is likely the island is hidden somehow\nbeyond an unknown location.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-29T04:52:24.397", "id": "67947", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-29T04:52:24.397", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27657", "parent_id": "67927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFour eternal poses should do it. You can use the vectors of the four poses as\na low-tech combined GPS system locally from between the four islands. If you\ncan get to at least one of the islands (which having even one eternal pose can\nhelp you do) then you can find the one piece if you know the location between\nthe four points on the map. The way you calculate where you are is taking all\nof the eternal pose vectors and drawing lines from their islands on a map at\nregular intervals until your four vectors align at the target point.\nTechnically this should be possible even with only three poses. The challenge\nis that if you need to know the height (or depth) you need a fourth vector to\npredict a 3D location.\n\nFor similar reasons, if they can make use of birds or flying machines they\ncould avoid needing to do any of this and just fly high enough that they can\nlocalize the point they're looking for from the sky.\n\nAnother way, which you might not have considered is making use of the\nstillness of the calm belts. If you reach the calm belt and can assess which\nside of the grand line you are on, you can simply travel straight along the\ncalm belt by using an external force instead of the wind and waves. Presumably\nthen any log pose or compass or other method of navigation should get you back\non track regardless of where you end up but there would be no way to know how\nfar you've gotten without some serious engineering work and traditional\nnavigation methods would fail as soon as you entered the grand line again) -\nanother way to localize yourself, a vivre card, or an eternal pose is highly\npreferable. It is known that various individuals have multiple ways to cross\nthe calm belt from lining ships with seastone to just being incredibly\npowerful (and able to defeat sea kings). Given the Sunny's ability to launch\nitself through the air, among other various feats, with some improvements, I\nsuspect it could survive this method.\n\nI should also mention that four vivre cards for four members of the Strawhats\nor their allies would be sufficient for them to use in place of eternal poses\nshould those individuals head to the four islands. Not sure how this would\nwork for someone like Buggy who can split themselves into multiple pieces.\nMaybe he could somehow use a vivre card in another way with four parts of\nhimself to find the one piece? Probably easier to use eternal poses though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-09-05T08:57:35.270", "id": "68289", "last_activity_date": "2023-09-05T09:20:23.633", "last_edit_date": "2023-09-05T09:20:23.633", "last_editor_user_id": "55878", "owner_user_id": "55878", "parent_id": "67927", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it is itadakimasu.\n\nI have checked my copy of the Japanese version, and it is indeed the standard\nitadakimasu. I understand the wanting to localize things to make it easier for\nnon-Japanese to understand, but changing religion is a bit overreaching. Also,\nit changes the timing of things, since this scene is supposed to show how\nspeedy the mother started eating the food, and saying grace takes much longer\nthan an itadakimasu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-25T03:07:52.103", "id": "67934", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-25T03:07:52.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23565", "parent_id": "67933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe star in the eyes is not an actual physical thing characters in story can\nsee. It displays Ai's star power, and how her two children each inherited some\nof her star power.\n\nIt's a narrative device to display the character's internal emotions without\nhaving to state them out loud.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-27T18:51:55.590", "id": "67943", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-27T18:51:55.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4293", "parent_id": "67936", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey did, but that was all brushed away when they realised the Hidden Sand was\nbeing played by Orochimaru (who had killed the 3rd Kazekage and taken his\nplace), presumably the peace treaty with Konoha settled all disputed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-27T18:11:33.920", "id": "67940", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-27T18:11:33.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4293", "parent_id": "67937", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [his Naruto Wiki\narticle](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Sakumo_Hatake#Abilities), he was\n\n> ...proficient in kenjutsu, his reputation as \"Konoha's White Fang\" stemming\n> from his extensive use of the White Light Chakra Sabre, which emitted a\n> streak of white chakra when swung.\n\nThe citation for this is Chapter 242, page 12.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-06-05T11:35:47.080", "id": "68036", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-05T11:54:08.247", "last_edit_date": "2023-06-05T11:54:08.247", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "72295", "parent_id": "67955", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough not explained explicitly, it is implied that she became upset when\nher best friend died when she was a student in Yomiama high school and she\nwanted to know the root cause of the curse. Later when her sister died (whom\nshe idolized the most), she held the idea that the death is related to the\ncurse ([atleast this is what was implied in the\nshow](https://another.fandom.com/wiki/Ritsuko_Sakakibara)) and thus she became\na teacher in that school.\n\n> She seemed to get very upset whenever someone talked about the incident 15\n> years ago, when she was in the 9th grade in class 3. Also, at that time she\n> didn't believe in the curse until her best friend, Ryoko, died. When she saw\n> that day by day, more classmates and their relatives are dying, _she wanted\n> to find out how to stop the calamity, asking Mr. Chibiki about it. Reiko\n> claimed that her eldest sister, Ritsuko, was the woman she admired the most\n> and also her idol and that she was very happy when she came to Yomiyama._\n> She loved her very much, and Reiko frequently visited her at the hospital\n> after she gave birth to Kouichi. Also, before Kouichi came to live with her\n> she claimed the fact that she would protect him, as Ritsuko said that she\n> will protect him shortly before she died\n>\n> https://another.fandom.com/wiki/Reiko_Mikami\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-03T03:08:10.383", "id": "67964", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-03T11:54:36.697", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-03T11:54:36.697", "last_editor_user_id": "48011", "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "67962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nUnfortunately, this is not something that is fully explained in great detail\nin any of the Final Fantasy XV media, which can result in a plot hole at face\nvalue.\n[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXV/comments/7k9axm/spoiler_how_did_ignis_know_about/)\nReddit thread may shine some light on it though. According to the comments in\nthe thread, this plot-hole might be the result a difference between the\nEnglish dialog and the Japanese dialog.\n\nThe English dialog says\n\n> I may not be of royal blood, but if a Glaive can harness its power, then so\n> can I!\n\nThe Japanese dialog says\n\n> I heard that a Kingsglaive sacrificed himself to use the power of the ring\n\nHowever, it is not explained _how_ Ignis heard about Nyx's usage of the Ring.\nAdditional users from the Reddit thread say it may have been scratched\ncontent, oversight, or apart of the news channels that were covering the fall\nof Insomnia\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-08T14:27:17.317", "id": "67974", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-08T14:27:17.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20275", "parent_id": "67973", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI watched all of _Slayers_ sometime in the last four years, but unfortunately,\nI do not currently have access to the episodes. Thus, I have been making do by\nreading the Fandom Wiki pages for synopsis of episodes and other concepts in\norder to come up with an answer.\n\n## Answer to the Question\n\nThe answer to why people outside of the barrier are able to not use magic is\nactually the same reason people inside the barrier are able to not use magic.\nThere is no compulsion to use magic. In order to use magic, one has to cast a\nspell. So it's obviously a choice whether one uses it or not.\n\n## Analysis\n\nI will now address other points brought up in the body of the question.\n\nAccording to [this](https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/Mazoku_barrier), the\nMazoku Barrier was a barrier that was created by the mazoku (beings who are\ninvoked when casting some types of magic), and it completely sealed off the\nworld we saw in _Slayers_ from the outside world, up until Lina killed\nHellmaster Fibrizo (this is explained in [episode\n1](https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/EP01_\\(Slayers_TRY\\)) of _Try_ ).\n\nIt is further stated in these articles that Holy Magic could not be cast while\ninside of the barrier, but could be outside. The article on [Holy\nMagic](https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/Holy_magic) states:\n\n> However, it is assumed that it will take some time for humans to rediscover\n> the traditions and spells that were lost 1,000 years ago.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> In order for humans to use holy magic again, they would need to translate\n> the spells, now in dragon language, into literal human terms.\n\nWe will see why this is relevant soon.\n\nThe synopsis for [episode\n3](https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/EP03_\\(Slayers_TRY\\)) states the following:\n\n> When Gourry asks how they got into such a ruckus by simply walking around\n> town, Zelgadiss and Amelia mused that the townspeople seem to be surprised\n> by magic. Filia replies that of course they are, since the high\n> concentration of magic within the Mazoku barrier doesn't happen without; the\n> sorcerers in the outer world can only cast Lighting and Sleeping spells at\n> most.\n\nFirst of all, the world inside the Mazoku Barrier was completely sealed off\nfrom the outside world. There is no reason to believe the outside world would\nhave the same knowledge of magic, including of Shamanistic Magic. Secondly, it\nis stated there is a higher concentration of magic inside the barrier, and\nthis may have made people inside more attuned to it, and thus magic may have\ndeveloped more swiftly inside the barrier while it stagnated outside. And\nthird, the statements about Holy Magic gives us some insight into how spells\ncan be lost and how long it could take to recover them. In spite of Holy Magic\nnow working again, it doesn't mean everyone is going to be instantly using it.\nThe same is true for all the other types of magic.\n\nIn short, just because Shamanistic Magic would work, doesn't mean the people\noutside have a good understanding of it. They seem to only use a little White\nMagic at most (which is the type of magic Amelia mainly uses).\n\n## Further Reading/Sources\n\n<https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/EP01_(Slayers_TRY)>\n\n<https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/EP03_(Slayers_TRY)>\n\n<https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/Mazoku_barrier>\n\n<https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/Holy_magic>\n\n<https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/White_magic>\n\n<https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/Black_magic>\n\n<https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/Shamanistic_magic>\n\n<https://kanzaka.fandom.com/wiki/Amelia_Wil_Tesla_Saillune>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-10T17:33:43.117", "id": "67982", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-10T19:39:07.193", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-10T19:39:07.193", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI noticed Sotoka's name is usually spelled with a dot in the middle, like so:\nソトカ・ラキター\n\nSo I started by checking Tom Cruise's Wikipedia page:\n<https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA>\n\nSure enough, the dot was present in this name too, as well as all the names on\nthe page. And further research led me to this Stackexchange question:\n<https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/18069/middle-\ndot-%E4%B8%AD%E9%BB%92-in-non-japanese-names>\n\nIt would seem this dot is used to denote a foreign name, and it would seem\nwestern name order is usually preserved for western names (as\n[Makoto](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/102/makoto) says in the\ncomments). Which means Rakita is Sotoka's surname, and it was possibly easily\ninferred by anyone who understood the Japanese.\n\nOne caveat. The site [jisho.org](https://jisho.org/search/%E4%B8%AD%E9%BB%92)\nstates the symbol is used to separate names spelled in Katakana, and Sotoka's\nname is spelled entirely in Katakana (which one would expect from a foreign\nname). But when we consider that it is Rakita on both her gym clothes and\nschool swimsuit, and everyone else has their surname written on those, and all\nthe other info, I believe it is still reasonable to conclude that her surname\nis Rakita.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-10T19:36:52.960", "id": "67984", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-10T19:36:52.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "67980", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThis is from the last episode of the series. See\n[here](https://gurrenlagann.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_27) for a recap of this\nepisode (obviously with spoilers!), with the depicted scene described such:\n\n> Nia smiles and thirteen drills crash down in front of Gurren Lagann in two\n> columns containing Yoko, Viral, Gimmy, ...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-20T08:07:39.380", "id": "67998", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-20T08:15:50.563", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-20T08:15:50.563", "last_editor_user_id": "4187", "owner_user_id": "4187", "parent_id": "67994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n**It was from[ _Neko to Neko no Owaranai\nYoru_](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/zw2ki2a/neko-to-neko-no-owaranai-\nyoru)** , which was 1 of 2 works published in 2017.\n\nConveniently, the sample page from Baka-Updates Manga shows the relevant\npanel, with its bigger version shown on [the author's\ntweet](https://twitter.com/mkw_bkn2/status/852540554411778049) (warning: mild\nNSFW image). The original panel mentioned\n\n> 前略お互いネコでした\n\nwith the term \"neko\" equivalent to the term \"uke\" / \"bottom\".\n\nFurther reading: [What is the equivalent of \"seme\" and \"uke\" in yuri\nculture?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/28319/2516)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-23T06:12:19.373", "id": "68007", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-23T17:07:13.220", "last_edit_date": "2023-06-23T17:07:13.220", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "68006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**It is _Charumera_ tune, famously known to indicate the presence of _ramen_\nfood car(t)**.\n\n_Charumera_ is a double-reeded musical instrument that originated from China,\nknown as [_sunoa_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suona), similar to the oboe.\n(Not to be confused with a ramen brand with the same name by Myojo/Nissin and\na PS1 game with the same name). The name _charumera_ itself was derived from\nthe Portuguese word [_charamela_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawm), a\nsimilar but different musical instrument brought by them when they visited\nJapan during the beginning of the Edo period.\n\nAccording to [Yamaha - Trivia : The charumera was the oboe's\ncousin](https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/oboe/trivia/trivia005.html)\n\n> The charumera was a woodwind instrument that was played by people running\n> ramen stands in the not-too-distant past.\n\nAccording to [Archive.org - Charumera (PS1\nGame)](https://archive.org/details/charumera_202002)\n\n> the word “charumera” is actually derived from the Portuguese “charamela”, a\n> type of flute that was brought to Japan around 400 years ago. This flute has\n> traditionally been used by yatai (ramen mobile food stalls, [...]\n\nAccording to [J A P A N o F I L E S # 8 – Chronicle of Starting a Shina Soba\nShop](https://easternmind.tumblr.com/post/694414075295350784/charumera),\n\n> The name ‘charumera’ refers to a double-reed woodwind instrument that is\n> said to have derived from ‘charamela’ – Portuguese for shawm -, hinting at a\n> possible introduction to the Japanese by way of Christian missionaries from\n> that provenance sometime during the 16th century. The simplicity of the\n> instrument made it popular among pushcart owners, not only because its sound\n> signalled their impending arrival, but also due to the clever employment of\n> signature melodies in what can only be described as a primordial\n> manifestation of brand awareness. All these practices are exquisitely\n> demonstrated in a [scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_jpPi4ltQ) from\n> Yasujirō Ozu’s 1936 film Hitori Musuko (The Only Son). Needless to say, a\n> viewing of the entire picture is most advised.\n\nSome videos demonstrating the action:\n\n * [リヤカー屋台ラーメン大統領 チャルメラの音](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9dgsjsg_LI): a traditional ramen food cart with the real instrument (warning: loud sound)\n * [Old Style Ramen Stall - Ramen Cart - Japanese Street Food](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqCz5u4U9M4): a traditional ramen food cart with recorded sound (warning: loud sound at the beginning)\n * [【チャルメラ】突然聞こえてきた懐かしのメロディー「屋台ラーメンが家の前を通りがかったよ」](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_-qNhHXdnY): a modern ramen food car with recorded sound\n\n* * *\n\nAdditional references:\n\n * [Japanese Wikipedia - Charumera](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A9)\n * [Yahoo! Chiebukuro](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1135435371) (Japanese)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-27T07:10:52.150", "id": "68014", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-27T07:19:01.760", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-27T07:19:01.760", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "68013", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis moment occurs around the 11:10 to 11:14 mark in the first episode,\n_Asteroid Blues_. For the time reference, I was using the English dub episode\non Crunchyroll.\n\nThe scene: Jet walks into a ransacked saloon, takes a bottle of alcohol, but\nhides when two men enter. After listening to the two talk about the guy using\nRed Eye drug, Jet assaults the two and puts one in the choke hold with the\nbroken bottle to his throat, and says, \"Tell me some more.\"\n\nI also seemed to recall this moment being used in promotional material by\nToonami, and this compilation video would seem to indicate my recollection was\ncorrect: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYX401Ubjc>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-06-01T17:43:09.597", "id": "68031", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-01T17:43:09.597", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "68015", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are not needed to kill a upper demon to become a Hashira if you can\nfulfill the other condition.\n\n> To be a member of the Hashira, a Demon Slayer must be among the strongest\n> combatants in the entirety of the Demon Slayer Corps. There are two known\n> methods (both extremely difficult) that allow one to prove that they are\n> worthy of becoming a Hashira: **the first method is to accumulate a demon\n> kill count of at least 50 as a Kinoe-ranked Demon Slayer** , or slay a\n> member of the Twelve Kizuki. The second method is being a Tsuguko of a\n> Hashira, which requires immense talent.\n>\n> https://kimetsu-no-yaiba.fandom.com/wiki/Hashira\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-29T03:34:58.677", "id": "68019", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-29T03:34:58.677", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "68016", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI was initially looking for an English meaning behind these letters since they\nwere given as English letters. However, most likely the meaning is in\nJapanese.\n\n## だんこうが\n\nDoing some searches on jisho.org gets us to the word\n[断行](https://jisho.org/word/%E6%96%AD%E8%A1%8C) (dankou). This word means\ndecisive action. Thematically for the story, this makes a lot of sense,\nbecause Adachi needs to take decisive action with Shimamura. It also makes\nsense canonically, because the fortune telling show is about love and such,\nand it is around the time of Valentine's Day, so advising its viewers to take\ndecisive action makes sense. As for the remaining \"ga\" in the letters, this\ncould be the subject-marking particle.\n\nI would be remiss if I did not mention that it is a bit odd to use a \"c\"\ninstead of a \"k\". Japanese, however, uses a phonetic lettering system, so the\n\"c\" and \"k\" sounds are equivalent. I would also be remiss if I didn't mention\nI don't know nearly enough about Japanese to be evaluating how strange or not\nstrange the usage of \"c\" instead of \"k\" is.\n\nAs for the \"ga\", it might indicate this is an incomplete sentence. ~~Perhaps\nthere are more letters of the day and Adachi simply didn't see them because\nshe stopped watching the show.~~ As per page 106 of volume 4, it is stated\nthat the \"A\" is the final letter. One might still imagine that there is more\nto the message, however, even if it is only the beginning of a sentence. For\nexample, something like, \"Fill in the blank yourselves, viewers!\"\n\nIt should also be noted that Adachi also could have missed letters from the\nbeginning. Assuming we still have だんこうが, I have seen sentences end on the\ntopic-marking particle は (possibly very informal sentences, though I can't say\nI understand the grammar very well). For example: 好きな食べ物は. Assuming this could\nalso be done with が, the rest of the message could effectively just be at the\nbeginning even though the sentence is kind of out of typical subject-object-\nverb order, and maybe incomplete.\n\nThe passage on pages 54-55 for the first letter shown say that the contest is\nongoing, and gives us little clue as to whether this is actually the first\nletter or not:\n\n> \"Our Valentine's promotion is ongoing! During the promotion, listen for the\n> clue at the end of each episode. Collect them all for a very special prize!\n> Today's clue is 'D'!\"\n\nFor reference, this part of the chapter takes place on Wednesday, February 5.\n\nIt's difficult to say what the nuances of this word are, and whether I'm\nproperly understanding the meaning of it, so I did at least a little bit of\nresearch.\n\nThe example sentence here: <https://www.japandict.com/%E6%96%AD%E8%A1%8C> is\n\n> 彼は即時断行を強調した。\n\nAnd this means\n\n> He put emphasis on the necessity for immediate action.\n\n断行 is a noun, and we see it used here with the direct object-marking particle\nを. Thus, it most likely can also be used with が.\n\nI tried an internet search to find example sentences, and got these (emphasis\nmine):\n\n> 世間に不評でも利上げ **断行が** 責務\n\n> **断行が** スムーズにいく時間帯\n\n## _Dancouga: Super Beast Machine God_\n\nThat's one explanation. Though doing an internet search reveals there's an old\ngiant mech anime called\n[Dancouga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancouga_%E2%80%93_Super_Beast_Machine_God).\nThis doesn't really make sense in-universe as the answer. However, Hitoma\nIruma talks about video games and anime in the afterwards quite a bit. I've\nnever seen this one specifically mentioned, but it's possible the letters\ncould be a reference to it.\n\nI cannot find any definitive proof, such as an author comment, but in the\ncomments, [Aki Tanaka](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2516/aki-tanaka)\nhas shown a [review](http://xxusodakedo.blog83.fc2.com/blog-entry-588.html) by\na Japanese reader on their blog, where they make the connection to this anime.\n[tvtropes.org](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AdachiAndShimamura)\nalso seems to think that this was a reference to the _Dancouga_ anime. It\nwould seem the \"couga\" part in _Dancouga_ is the English word cougar. See\n[here](https://jisho.org/word/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC) for the\nloanword and note the similarity to the Japanese spelling on the\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancouga_%E2%80%93_Super_Beast_Machine_God)\npage, as well as that it states the mech can transform into a cougar. I also\nsuspect that the English spelling \"Dancouga\" was used in the Japanese version,\nwhich would mean Japanese watchers would recognize Dancouga when spelled with\nEnglish letters. For this assumption, I am mostly just going off of the\npicture on Wikipedia though, which shows the English \"Dancouga\" in the\nbackground, while the Katakana spelling \"ダンクーガ\" is used for the title under\nthe picture.\n\nRight now, I'm leaning very heavily towards this being what the author meant\nto invoke.\n\n## In-Universe Answer\n\nOne might question whether it makes sense for a fortune show to reference the\n_Dancouga_ anime. There might be reasons it would; for instance, if it was on\nthe same network or if a producer happened to be a big fan of the anime. But\nif we're still suspicious about that, I again point back to my initial answer\nof 断行. The in-universe answer is that the fortune telling program is telling\nits viewers decisive action is important. We do a bit of hand-waving with the\n\"c instead of k\" thing, because for the purposes of the author writing the\nbook, it has to also serve as a reference to the _Dancouga_ anime.\n\n## Textual Evidence\n\nSkimming just now, I found a passage describing how the Shaman on the show\nexplained exactly how she'd come up with the secret message, on page 106.\nUnfortunately, that's basically all the text stated: that she explained it. It\ndoesn't actually give the explanation.\n\n> Tonight's episode featured the final clue, which was \"A\". Then the Shaman\n> revealed how she'd chosen the secret word herself. She went on and on (and\n> on and on) about her decision process until some staff members ran out from\n> backstage and attempted to haul her offscreen.\n\nThere is also mention of a special prize, but Adachi doesn't listen to that\neither. She says she forgot the first few letters, so she doesn't really care\nsince she couldn't call in anyway.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-31T16:55:06.777", "id": "68026", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-06T14:32:41.693", "last_edit_date": "2023-06-06T14:32:41.693", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "68025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile it has yet to become any kind of Chekov's gun at the point I've read to\n(volume 10), it does get explained much later, and elaborates on and connects\nto some points about Adachi's personality.\n\nBefore getting to that, there is an early partial explanation from Adachi that\nI may have initially glossed over. It is in the first volume on page 133:\n\n> When we sat down, the first thing I did was take a sip of my water. It was\n> room temperature and tasted faintly of metal. Same with the tap water back\n> home. That was why I generally preferred mineral water.\n\nThe importance of the mineral water and what it says about Adachi comes much\nlater, with the volume 10 chapter _The Moon Cradle_ giving a good picture.\nSpoilers ahead, particularly on the last quote. However, it is necessary for\nfully understanding the answer to the question.\n\n> It would seem the main point is to establish that Adachi does not care much\n> about food or eating. This complements her previous state, reminding us of\n> how before she met Shimamura, her life was empty and she was apathetic to\n> everything. There are relevant quotes on pages 135, 146, and 156.\n\nPage 135:\n\n> \"You really don't care about food, huh?\" \n> \"That's not true... Well, maybe kinda...\" _Only when I have to eat\n> something I don't like. Wait, what food don't I like? I don't remember._ \n> \"Eh, that's okay. Some people _only_ care about food, so I'm sure it\n> balances out.\" [...] \n> Were the two of us balanced, her with a normal interest in food and me with\n> none at all? [..] \n> \"So you have no interest in food. I get it now,\" she murmured.\n\nPages 146-147:\n\n> \"So, what do you want to get?\" \n> \"Huh? Oh, uh... bread?\" \n> \"Right, gotta have bread. Anything else?\" \n> \"Uh, water...?\" \n> \"I _knew_ you'd say that!\" she exclaimed. [...] \"You're like a plant that\n> eats bread,\" she giggled. \n> \"What?\" Apparently, I talked about water too much. \n>\n\nPage 157:\n\n> \"You can be so incredibly passionate, and yet you sound so _bored_\n> describing food.\" \n> [...] \n> \"[That's because] I... I'm only interested in _you_ , Shimamura.\" \n>\n\nAs I suspected, we get an explanation earlier in volume 8 in the chapter\ntitled _Our First Trip, Part 1_ , and when pressed, Adachi does claim water to\nbe her favorite food. As it is from Shimamura's perspective, as one would\nexpect, the explanation is less complete than the one in volume 10, but one\nneed only read between the lines a bit to reach the same conclusions.\n\nPage 109:\n\n> Likewise, Adachi ate her noodles in silence. Was she physically capable of\n> enjoying food at all?\n\nPage 122:\n\n> Once again, she showed literally no interest in her meal. Had she ever\n> openly enjoyed eating something? I thought back over my memories of her, but\n> nothing stood out to me. _The only thing she seems to take interest in... is\n> me_ , I realized bashfully.\n\nPage 123:\n\n> \"Do you have any favorite foods? Sorry if I asked this before, but I really\n> don't remember!\" I asked in a light tone of voice.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> She started to say, \"Not really,\" then fixed me with a suspicious look,\n> silently asking me to explain myself.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Her expression softened, and she began to mull it over. \"Favorite foods...\n> Water, I guess?\"\n>\n> \"What are you, a plant?\"\n\nIn addition to claiming water as her favorite food, Adachi also asks Shimamura\nwhat her favorite foods are. And upon learning what they are, she silently\nsurrenders them from her own plate and gives them to Shimamura. This is\nfurther evidence pointing to our earlier conclusion about what Adachi liking\nwater means. Basically,\n\n> that she has no interest in food, and her only interest is in Shimamura.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-31T19:16:59.993", "id": "68028", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-01T17:16:09.180", "last_edit_date": "2023-06-01T17:16:09.180", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "68027", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Tl;DR:** Yes. But the author doesn't view it as a \"sequel\" to _Mushoku\nTensei_.\n\n**Long Answer:**\n\nRifujin na Magonote, the author of _Mushoku Tensei_ revealed to have plans of\nwriting a sequel that will be set eighty years after the Mushoku Tensei\nevents. Magonoto won’t be writing the sequel story right away. As revealed in\nhis Tweet, the author will wait for the whole Mushoku Tensei story to be\nanimated, which will take around 3 to 8 years, before starting to write again.\nThe new story won’t be focusing on Rudeus, but it will be set in the Mushoku\nTensei fantasy world. Characters from the Greyrat family will play an\nimportant role in the sequel, but it is not known if they will be the main\ncharacters of the new story.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rz50J.png)\n\n> It would be the story of “Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation” eighty\n> years after the end. It will depend on how long until the end of the anime\n> adaptation and serialization of the “Orc Eiyuu Monogatari: Sontaku Retsuden”\n> light novels, maybe 3-8 years from now? Also, I do not intend to write this\n> story as a sequel to “Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation”\n\n**References** :\n\n 1. <https://www.animesenpai.net/mushoku-tensei-author-plans-to-write-a-sequel-story/>\n 2. <https://animehunch.com/mushoku-tensei-light-novels-will-not-be-getting-a-sequel-author-says/>\n 3. <https://animecorner.me/rifujin-na-magonote-plans-on-writing-a-new-story-set-in-mushoku-tensei-universe-but-not-as-a-sequel/>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-06-02T03:10:12.000", "id": "68033", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-02T03:10:12.000", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48011", "parent_id": "68030", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nYou are correct to say that Kakashi invented Chidori prior to Obito's death,\nbut his age is never officially stated. However, there are some details from\nthe _Boruto_ series (take with a grain of salt) where we can deduce that\nKakashi would have been roughly 11 or 12 years old.\n\n> Minato was needed on the front lines at the time, leaving Kakashi,\n> **recently promoted to jōnin at age 12 [Boruto episode 36]** in charge.\n> [...] Shortly after entering Kusa, they encountered an Iwa-scout, Mahiru.\n> Kakashi tried to eliminate him with his **new jutsu, Chidori** , but the\n> attack speed left him vulnerable to counter-attack\n>\n> [Source](https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-06-15T16:58:51.427", "id": "68052", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-16T12:26:17.943", "last_edit_date": "2023-06-16T12:26:17.943", "last_editor_user_id": "20275", "owner_user_id": "20275", "parent_id": "68038", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]