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[ { "body": "\n\nThe loss of memory applies to the existence of the extra person. Teshigawara\nand Mochizuki forgot about Reiko's existence, but they didn't forget the\n**fact** that they were working alongside Sakakibara and Mei to repel the\ncurse looking for the extra.\n\nSince everyone realised that the curse stopped (because people stopped dying),\nthey should have concluded that the Extra died, whoever that was.\n\nIt's just reasonable that, after Sakakibara and Mei killed Reiko, they\nexplained the situation to Teshigawara and Mochizuki, who of course believed\nthem despite the lack of memory. At this point, it wouldn't be surprising that\nTeshigawara would be capable of making a recording with the warning.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T11:57:55.300", "id": "6263", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T21:45:21.780", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-12T21:45:21.780", "last_editor_user_id": "261", "owner_user_id": "261", "parent_id": "5693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is true for many East Asian cultures, because, as you pointed out, 4\nsounds like \"Death\". You can read about it\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia). It's the same as the idea\nthat many western hotels skip the 13th floor and instead label it the 14th\nfloor because 13 is a superstitious number.\n\nJapanese hotels sometimes also skip the 13th floor.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-03T21:44:34.453", "id": "5698", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-03T21:44:34.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "5694", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\n[@kuwaly's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/5698/1908) is essentially\ncorrect.\n\nI'd just like to add that I've never heard of the 7th floor being excluded\nfrom a building. The major numerical superstitions in Japanese (and probably\nChinese, etc.) surround the numbers 4 (四 _yon_ or _shi_ ) and 9 (九 _ku_ or\n_kyuu_ ), since they sound like \"death\" (死, _shi_ ) and \"suffering\" (苦 _ku_ ).\nTo the best of my knowledge, there are no similar superstitions surrounding\nthe number 7 (despite the fact that, as you correctly point out, 7 can be read\n_shichi_ ).\n\nAlso, just to make this clear - the presence of \"alternate\" readings like\n_yon_ and _nana_ (for 4 and 7 respectively) isn't purely because of\nsuperstition. Rather, it's because there are two parallel schemes for counting\nin Japanese, one of which uses native Japanese words ( _hito_ , _futa_ , _mi_\n, _yo_ , _itsu_ , ...), and one of which uses Chinese imports ( _itsu_ /\n_ichi_ , _ni_ / _ji_ , _san_ , _shi_ , _go_ , ...). This is vaguely similar to\nhow English has native words (one, two, three, four, five...) and Greek/Latin\nimports (mono / uni, di / bi, tri, tetra / quad, pent / quint, ...). If you're\ninterested in learning more, consider asking a question on\n[**Japanese.SE**](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-03T23:13:09.133", "id": "5699", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-03T23:13:09.133", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5694", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe two people that Kazami killed were apparently named **KANEKI Kyouko** and\n**MATSUI Aki**. Here's a picture of them together:\n\n\n\nRight after the above shot, Kyouko (left) falls to the floor, apparently\nstabbed in the back by Kazami. He then chased after Aki (right), which is why\nshe was running when she bumped into Sakakibara. Here, we see Sakakibara\ncoming across Kyouko's body:\n\n\n\nShortly thereafter, Aki runs into Sakakibara's arms.\n\n\n\nThen, Kazami stabs her in the neck, raising his kill count to 2.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-03T23:28:04.300", "id": "5700", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-03T23:28:04.300", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5695", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt would be fair to assume that her background is generally the same. All\nevents leading up to and beyond the point you are referring to suggest the\nsame woeful tale. Maybe it was an accident that occurred in one of her insane\nfits, or maybe they are scars of a previous attempt to contain her.\n\nOne thing is for certain, if you don't want to live anymore, and you want to\nmake a very big mess, bite off your tongue.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T05:51:40.750", "id": "8715", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-19T16:00:31.740", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-19T16:00:31.740", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4529", "parent_id": "5697", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a good question.\n\nI think the class just see her ghost. In fact, the ghost of Misaki felt\nherself loved and so she stayed all the schoolar year. But this fact created a\ncurse, death people (extras) came to the class the next years to feel like\nMisaki and when the natural numerical balance of student broke, people started\nto dying.\n\nThat's what I understood when I saw the anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-25T15:41:35.067", "id": "7698", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T15:41:35.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3891", "parent_id": "5701", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nConsidering that seeing the dead girl gradually started to affect all of the\nclass not at once, it was her ghost other wise any one can see a physical body\nas soon as it appears.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-08T14:18:22.307", "id": "38333", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-08T14:18:22.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25695", "parent_id": "5701", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Reiko Mikami](http://another.wikia.com/wiki/Reiko_Mikami) is the younger\nsister of Ritsuko Sakakibara (mother of Kouichi), so she really is his\nrelative.\n\n> She is the extra because she died once before, which pretty much proves she\n> existed.\n\nAnother proof of her being Kouichi's aunt is\n\n> Rei, the parrot she hates, was bought by her father after her death and was\n> named after her.\n\nYou can also see her flashbacks from when she was a student in the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-16T02:07:20.427", "id": "5894", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-19T16:33:30.987", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-19T16:33:30.987", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "5702", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion** is almost the same as the anime\nhowever there are no Knightmares and it's a lot more shorter\n\n**Code Geass: Suzaku of the Counterattack** is based off the anime but in\nSuzaku's point of view\n\n**Code Geass: Jet Black Renya** is a prequel to the anime set during Japan's\nEdo Period\n\n**Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally** is a different story where Lelouch\ndisappears after making a contract with C.C and Nunnally makes a Geass\nContract herself\n\nso in answer to your question, Suzaku of the Counter Attack is a different\nperspective to the anime, Jet Black Renya is set in Japan but in a different\ntime, Nightmare of Nunnally is totally different\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T01:28:57.240", "id": "5704", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T01:28:57.240", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "5703", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n[**Code Geass: Lelouch of the\nRebellion**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/1528/Code_Geass%3a_Hangyaku_no_Lelouch)\nis a retelling of the anime. It's been ages since I read this, but I don't\nrecall there being any major differences in terms of plot. (It wasn't a shot-\nfor-shot adaptation, though; there were minor changes here and there.\n\n[**Code Geass: Suzaku of the\nCounterattack**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/1530/Code_Geass%3a_Hankou_no_Suzaku)\nstarts out as a retelling of the anime from Suzaku's perspective, but diverges\nfairly quickly into an alternate-universe story. Suzaku and Lelouch end up\njoining forces to fight Schneizel\n\n[**Code Geass: Nightmare of\nNunnally**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/1547/Code_Geass%3a_Nightmare_of_Nunnally)\nis an alternate-universe story featuring mostly the same characters and some\nof the same historical background but otherwise wildly different. As the title\nsuggests, Nunnally is the main character, and Lelouch is mostly out of the\npicture. Nunnally makes a contract with a being called Nemo, which allows her\nto control an unusual Knightmare, things unfold from there.\n\n[**Code Geass: Tales of an Alternate\nShogunate**](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Code_Geass%3a_Tales_of_an_Alternate_Shogunate)\nis an alternate-universe story featuring alternate versions of many of the\ncharacters, back in the year 1853. In this story, \"Geass\" is actually the\npower to summon and control Knightmares. The characters use this power to fend\noff Perry's Black Ships (except that this time, Perry is Brittanian, not\nAmerican). Stuff happens thereafter.\n\n[**Code Geass: Renya of the\nDarkness**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/17311/Code_Geass%3a_Shikkoku_no_Renya)\nis supposedly set in the main continuity (back in the 1800s), but is basically\nan alternate-universe story. I've only read part of this, but basically none\nof the main characters from the main story appear besides C.C., and the name\n\"Knightmare\" is given to weird human-sized beings that cause trouble for the\nmain characters.\n\n[**Code Geass: Oz, the\nReflection**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/42381/Code_Geass%3a_Soubou_no_Oz)\nis an alternate-universe story supposedly set between the two seasons of the\nanime. I haven't read this, so I don't know much about it.\n\nThere is also apparently a 4koma manga called [**Barcode Geass: Lelouch of the\nSales**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/25854/Barcode_Geass%3a_Hanbai_no_Lelouch).\nI haven't read it, but it appears to be a parody manga about Lelouch working\nas a store clerk, and as such is clearly an alternate-universe story.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T01:35:28.930", "id": "5705", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T01:35:28.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5703", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeason 1 of _Sword Art Online_ involved two arcs.\n\nThere is the Aincrad arc, which spans the first 14 episodes and then there is\nthe Alfheim Online which follows and makes up the remaining episodes to 25.\nThese all aired sequentially, with no real \"break\" from the studio.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T02:49:23.397", "id": "5708", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-03T02:39:07.350", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-03T02:39:07.350", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2636", "parent_id": "5706", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nACTUALLY, in order to properly answer the posters question, it goes like this:\n\nthe JAP version of SAO had 2 seasons containing exactly 55 episodes (25 in\nseason 1 and 30 in season 2), but for the NA dubbed version, all 55 eps were\ncondensed down to 25 only for North American audiences.\n\nTHEN, there is \"Sword Art Online 2\", which, in Japan, also ran for 1 season\ncontaining 24 episodes...and this, too has been dubbed for NA and, somehow, is\n25 dubbed episodes for North American audiences. (1 more than Japan this time)\n\nALSO, there was a \"special\" episode that aired xmas of 2013 titled \"Sword Art\nOnline Extra Edition\", which is 101 mins long so is actually more of a movie\nthan an episode\n\nALSO, there is a \"Sword Art Online Offline 1 & 2\", which were companion series\ndeveloped for the special edition Blu-Ray versions of SAO\n\nand last, but definitely not least we have the movie that came out in 2017,\n\"Sword Art Online The Movie Ordinal Scale\"...and if you're a fan like myself,\ntrust me, you NEED to see that movie!!\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-02T22:27:52.453", "id": "44051", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-02T22:27:52.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37435", "parent_id": "5706", "post_type": "answer", "score": -5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nActually, Accel World the anime 1st season covers Volume 1-4 + two short\nhistories from Volume 10. (possible spoilers at the end)\n\n> * Volume 1: episodes from 1 through 5\n> * Volume 10 1st Short history: episode 6 and 7\n> * Volume 2: episodes from 8 through 12\n> * Volume 3: episodes from 13 through 17\n> * Volume 10 2nd Short history: episode 18 and 19\n> * Volume 4: episodes from 20 through 24\n>\n\nIs important to notice that the two OVA's are not part of the main Light Novel\nseries.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T03:52:11.510", "id": "5711", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T03:52:11.510", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "5709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirstly Kairoseki is not solid form of sea \n\"It was stated by Vice Admiral Smoker that Seastone \"gives off a wavelength\nthat is the same as the sea itself\" making him refer to it as a solid form of\nthe sea\". \nSmoker was just referring kairoseki as solid form of the sea \n\nIt is a naturally occurring substance in the sea which was modified by Vega\nPunk and was used to make the handcuffs and other materials. (As per the\nwiki). \n\nSomething more from the wiki - \nWeakness of devil fruit users \n\n> Devil Fruit users are susceptible to all types of water, not just seawater.\n> This includes the white sea surrounding Skypiea. He elaborated on this,\n> saying that \"moving\" water, like rain or waves, does not weaken Devil Fruit\n> users, while standing water does. Oda also said in SBS that it is not until\n> a Devil Fruit user is knee deep in water that they become immobilized, this\n> is seen with the Gorgon sisters and Luffy in Boa Hancock's bath.\n\nWhy kairoseki affects so much? \n\n> Kairoseki, a special substance that emits the same energies of the sea, can\n> also cancel out Devil Fruit powers through physical contact with the user.\n> Depending on how much physical contact the users has with the Seastone, the\n> more their movement is weakened.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T08:55:30.167", "id": "5951", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-19T08:55:30.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "5713", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nTo begin with. Kairoseki is a natural existent stone in the one piece world\nAlthough it is pretty rare quiet allot has been used in the form of handcuffs.\n\nKairoseki has been said to have the same effect as the sea but this is a bit\ndependent. Unlike the sea kairoseki is known to come in different desitys and\ncompositions there for the effect of the handcufs might or might not be\nstronger then the say depending on the composition.\n\nJust like the sea Kairoseki does not totaly negate a devil fruit user. It\ndrains their energy slowly but surely they will be unable to do anything.\nThere for it is possible for a devil fruit user to use his powers underwater\naslong as he has some strenght remaining in his body and willpower might also\nhave a bit of a effect on this. Although it still is a bit questionable there\nwhere some other exceptions where the user was still able to use powers in\nsome situation.\n\n> However, it has been shown that though a Devil Fruit user loses his powers\n> when in contact with the Kairoseki, said powers can still be used on the\n> Kairoseki, as shown seen when Mr. 3's candle wax key could open Kairoseki\n> cuffs and cell doors, though this may be because the locks themselves are\n> not made of Kairoseki or because the wax has no Devil Fruit powers inside it\n> as shown when he unlocked Ace's Kairoseki handcuffs. Another example is when\n> Shiki levitated battleships in Marineford, despite the hulls being lined\n> with Kairoseki. Trafalgar Law was also able to switch Kairoseki chains with\n> regular ones, using his abilities.\n\nHope this covers most of your questions. Source [Onepiece\nwiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kairoseki)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-19T21:42:50.797", "id": "6443", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-19T21:42:50.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "5713", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nKairoseki, as stated, \"gives off a wavelength that is the same as the sea\nitself\" (not the solid form of sea) and is used to somehow disable the devil\nfruit powers of the users (only when it is in direct contact with them). As\nfor the story, it only stated that the devil fruit uses are completely\nrejected by the sea and just drown, nothing is mentioned about cancelling out\nthe devil fruit powers.\n\nSimply put, devil fruit users are afraid of the sea (immobilizes them), and\nkairoseki (cancels out their powers), and they emit almost same wavelengths.\n\nAs for the origin, nothing is mentioned in the story. Same is the case is with\nthe Devil Fruits. They just exist in the One Piece's world like a natural\nthing.\n\nAs asked in the question, the effect only seems more effective because the\nuser becomes incapable of using devil fruit powers, making the user completely\nnormal human.\n\nThis however raises another question whether the devil fruit user will drown\nin sea while in contact with kairoseki, to which I would like to know myself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-21T14:15:04.237", "id": "6483", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-21T14:15:04.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "5713", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n> Q. It is said that the Kairoseki is just a solid form of the sea and have\n> the same effect as the sea.\n\nKairoseki is a naturally occurring (though apparently rare) substance that can\ncancel out Devil Fruit powers and weaken Devil Fruit users. It _gives off a\nwavelength that is the same as the sea itself_.\n\n* * *\n\n> Q. But why does Kairoseki weaken and negate devil fruit's power, like when a\n> DF user is handcuffed or touched by it, it drains their energy and they lose\n> their ability (Logias can't transform when handcuffed).\n>\n> In case of sea water, I think it just drains their energy but never negates\n> their ability (e.g. Luffy can still stretch to use elephant gun to knock out\n> Kraken).\n\nWhen comparing two different things, the comparisons should be based on the\n**same terms**.\n\nFor example, you mentioned that Logia users can't transform when they are\nhandcuffed with Kairoseki, but then, _they can't transform when they are in\nsea either_. So this example does not prove that Kairoseki is more powerful\nthan sea.\n\nNext, coming to the Luffy example _(Paramecia type)_.\n\nWe know that both Kairoseki and sea weaken Luffy's strength, but we have seen\nthat they do not cancel off his power, i.e. Luffy doesn't have enough strength\nto use his powers on his own. That is why the strength of his punch weakens\nwhen he uses the Elephant gun on Kraken as it goes out of the bubble and makes\ncontact with the sea.\n\nTo make it even more clear, I'll give a better example.\n\nWhen in Arlong park, as Luffy was about to drown in the water, _Nojiko_ had to\nstretch Luffy's head out in the surface, to try to get him to breathe again.\nFrom this it is clear that a DF user (Paramecia type at least) only loses his\nstrength and not his abilities even when under water.\n\nThe same way, when handcuffed with Kairoseki, Luffy loses all his strength and\nis unable to use his abilities by himself. We have not seen any case where\nsomeone tried to pull Luffy and was unable to because he was tied to\nKairoseki. Thus, there is still a chance that even with the Kairoseki in\ndirect contact with the user, their abilities can be made use of, but by\nsomebody else, and not by the user themselves as they are totally drained out\nof energy.\n\n**Conclusion:** This answer doesn't answer the question _Why is Kairoseki's\neffect more powerful than the sea?_ directly, but rather provides some\nevidence to show why Kairoseki's effect wouldn't exactly be greater than the\neffect of sea on a DF user. I used two examples, that of a Logia and a\nParamecia type DF user to compare and show the same. Thus the answer would\nhave to be, **No** , _Kairoseki's effect is not more powerful than the sea_ as\nwe do not have any proper evidence to support such a claim. They both emit the\nsame wavelength and thus, quite fittingly, have the same effect on the DF\nusers.\n\n_Update:_ To support my answer even further, I found an interesting piece of\ninformation on the wiki page of [Yami Yami no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yami_Yami_no_Mi). You can see that\n(emphasis mine)\n\n> The most unique and frightening advantage of the fruit is that the user also\n> has the ability to nullify the powers of other Devil Fruits by simply\n> touching the user and draining them of their abilities. All types of Devil\n> Fruit, be it a Paramecia, Zoan or Logia, are affected by this, though Logias\n> are most affected as they can no longer become intangible by transforming\n> into their respective element. **This nullification truly seems absolute, as\n> though the Devil Fruit users had never gained their powers at all. This was\n> shown when Luffy's stretching powers were canceled on touch, unlike the\n> effect of a body of water or seastone, both of which just inhibit a person\n> from controlling their powers. It was shown earlier when Luffy was stuck\n> underwater that his neck could still be stretched above the water's surface,\n> and that Busoushoku Haki would simply nullify the defensive aspects of a\n> Devil Fruit such as intangibility and the malleability of rubber.**\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-22T11:46:32.967", "id": "6509", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-01T04:49:13.257", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "5713", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, I don't think that has ever occurred or will occur in future.\n\nTailed beast are dependent on the Jinchuuriki for existence and lend\nJinchuuriki's chakra whenever required, Its never the other way around.\n\n> [If the tailed beast is removed from its jinchūriki's body, the jinchūriki\n> will die. Similarly, if the jinchūriki dies with the tailed beast still\n> sealed within them, the beast will die too. Because of this, the tailed\n> beasts tend to be very protective of their jinchūriki, and will take any\n> action whenever their lives are in\n> danger.](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jinch%C5%ABriki#cite_ref-12)\n\nThey are not good at controlling their own chakra, so I dont think they will\nbe able to control or manipulate any Jinchuuriki's chakra.\n\n> [Although the Ten-Tails possesses great power, much like the other tailed\n> beasts it is unable to use it effectively due to not having enough\n> intelligence to focus its power without being under someone else's\n> control.](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shinju#cite_ref-19)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T10:59:38.253", "id": "5719", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T10:59:38.253", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2587", "parent_id": "5714", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe it has some sort of influence, but is not absolute:\n\n## Example pro:\n\n * Roshi, Son Goku's Jinchuuriki, uses lava similarly to the bijuu.\n * Gaara, Shukaku's Jinchuuriki uses sand much like Shukaku himself (although it was later revealed to be Gaara's mother).\n\n## Example against:\n\n * Naruto, Kurama's Jinchuuriki, has Wind as his main element, but Kurama has not shown using Wind at all.\n\nI do believe the bijuu has some sort of influence on the Jinchuuriki's chakra\ndevelopment, especially if they're sealed in them when they are very young.\n(Naruto's chakra alone was said to be at least 4 times in amount that of\nKakashi).\n\nAs for whether the Jinchuuriki's chakra is the same the bijuu, I don't think\nso. It's more dependant on genes, etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T14:12:40.367", "id": "5722", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T14:12:40.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "5714", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer should be plain and simple : Yes, the jinchuuriki gains the nature\nof his or her bijuu. It doesn't change the jinchuuriki's nature, instead it\njust adds another affinity. If you had the water affinity, and you have a fire\nbijuu, then now you can use water and fire as well as the combination of\nwater+fire together in a technique.\n\nNaruto is naturally a wind element shinobi. With the kyuubi inside of him, he\ncan use kyuubi attacks (yin/yang).\n\nIt seems like a general rule that once you have something (chakra or body\npart) of a different nature inside your body, you are able to use attacks of\nthat different nature too. Take Kakuzu as an example. He has multiple\naffinities due to the fact he stole other people's hearts and stuffed them in\nhis own body.\n\nHaving multiple affinities does not necessarily mean they will mix and you\ncan't use them separately. Take Yamato for example, as his affinity is water\nand earth, which also turns into wood. He can use wood techniques (the\ncombination of the 2), but then also use them individually as he once\ndemonstrated by raising the earth and then creating a waterfall.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T02:10:51.027", "id": "5744", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-05T02:20:33.563", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-05T02:20:33.563", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "5714", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor **What is the relationship of the Yin-yang to the 5 Chakra nature\nelements?**\n\nBase from [here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yin%E2%80%93Yang_Release):\n\n> Yin relates to one's spiritual energy and Yang relates to one's physical\n> energy and it's necessary to utilise both of these in order to mould chakra\n> for ninjutsu.\n>\n> According to Yamato, the manipulation of Yin and Yang is the source of non-\n> elemental techniques such as the Shadow Imitation Technique, Multi-Size\n> Technique, medical ninjutsu, genjutsu, etc.\n\nSo in relation to 5 nature elements, I think it is the 6th type, having the\ntechniques classified in this type as non-elemental techniques.\n\nAnd about **Does it has something to do with the Chinese Zodiac or principles\nof Taoism?**\n\nIt is stated [here](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nature_Transformation) that:\n\n> The concept of nature transformation parallels the real-life art,\n> [Onmyōdō](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onmy%C5%8Dd%C5%8D) (陰陽道; Literally\n> meaning \"The Way of Yin and Yang\"), which is a mixture of natural sciences\n> and occultism. It largely features Wu Xing and Yin and Yang.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T09:37:22.720", "id": "5718", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-13T06:53:41.000", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "5716", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nYin relates to one's spiritual energy and Yang relates to one's physical\nenergy.\n\nMixing some yin and yang gives you chakra,\n\n[code]\n\n Chakra = Yin + Yang\n \n[/code]\n\n> Chakra is the resulting form of energy when two other forms of energy are\n> mixed together. The two energies are referred to as \"physical energy\" and\n> \"spiritual energy\". Physical energy is collected from the body's cells and\n> can be increased through training, stimulants, and exercise. Spiritual\n> energy is derived from the mind's consciousness (i.e. the soul) and can be\n> increased through studying, meditation, and experience.\n\nChakra Control in 2 ways: Shape Control: Changes the shape of chakra\n\n[code]\n\n Eg. Rassengan\n \n[/code]\n\nNature Control: Changes the behavior, type and properties of the chakra.\n\n[code]\n\n Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth and Water and there combos like Lava, Ice etc.\n \n[/code]\n\nOther chakra types:\n\n[code]\n\n Tailed Beast Chakra, Senjutsu Chakra (Nature energy when Naruto in Sage mode) etc.\n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T14:27:33.910", "id": "5724", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T14:27:33.910", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2587", "parent_id": "5716", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBijuu are living beings, same as humans and animals. They were _created_ by\nthe Sage of Six Paths, using the Creation of All Things technique.\n\nThe sage created the vessels with Yin, breathed life into them with Yang, then\npoured the Ten Tails' chakra into them.\n\nChakra is merely energy. It cannot take complex physical form (With the\nexception of the Creation of All Things, which uses chakra to create form).\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T14:14:43.640", "id": "5723", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T14:14:43.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "5721", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAs per what has been revealed. \n\nJuubi (Shinju) was initially a Tree before taking the beast form. \nThis tree produced one single fruit every 1000 years. And it was considered as\na forbidden fruit and should not be consumed by anyone. \nHowever, this law was broken by a princess name Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and she\ngained unbelievable amount of power, which she used to end all the wars and\nclear lands. \nThen, Kaguya gave birth to the first human with chakra. He was called\nHagoromo. \nThen came the awakening of the Ten Tails due to the mistake made by Kaguya. \nThe Ten Tails went on rampage and started destroying everything. \nHagoromo somehow managed to defeat it and sealed it within himself. This made\nhim the Sage of Six Paths. \nHagoromo separated the monster's chakra from its body before using Chibaku\nTensei to seal the husk in what would become the moon. \nThen he used his Creation of All Things ability to divide the chakra into the\nnine Tailed Beasts.\n\nSo in short, this is basically chakra which is stored in a vessel. Here the\nTailed Beasts are just vessels. You can even consider it as 9 different beasts\nwhich were originally normal animals, but they got their powers when the Sage\ngave them chakra. That can be a reason why every Tailed Beast resembles a\nparticular animal.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T04:52:03.223", "id": "5749", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-05T16:30:47.580", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-05T16:30:47.580", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "5721", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beasts): _The\ntailed beasts are living forms of chakra, sometimes referred to as \" **Chakra\nMonsters** \"_ giving them immense reserves of especially strong chakra that\nfar outmatches most shinobi\n\nThe bodies you are seeing is not actually a 'physical body'. They are just a\n**representation of that immense chakra** which are based on the number of\ntheir tails.\n\nThat is why, if the chakra of the tailed beasts you are talking about get\nsucked, that means their whole or part of their 'chakra body' get sucked.\n\nOn the other hand, on the last part, it is not necessary to get the whole\nchakra body of the tailed beasts to form the Jūbi. But when it does absorb\nonly a part, anime/manga makers like Kishimoto is showing that it has already\nhas that beasts' chakra. Please check this question for deeper explanation:\n\n[Is the amount of chakra extracted equal to the size of the part that is cut\noff from the Bijuu?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4879/is-the-\namount-of-chakra-extracted-equal-to-the-size-of-the-part-that-is-cut-off)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T22:26:05.313", "id": "5730", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-04T22:26:05.313", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "5725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it was a mistake (and yes, [I noticed it before you\ndid](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/10728598#10728598), ask\nthe regulars at chat =P), nice job spotting it!\n\nIn the manga, that specific scene doesn't exist (the part where he looks up at\nthe Rasengan), so apparently the animators or the editors simply made him with\nthe Rinnegan for some reason.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T19:40:27.317", "id": "5729", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-05T14:34:41.563", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-05T14:34:41.563", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "5726", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you may be looking for [He is My\nMaster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Is_My_Master) (aka _Kore ga Watashi no\nGoshujin-sama_ ) (it's a bit hard to tell because you haven't given a lot of\ninformation). It follows Yoshitaka, a 14-year-old orphan who inherited a large\nestate from his parents. He hires sisters Izumi and Mizuki as maids. They also\nbring their pet alligator Pochi, who often attacks Izumi. A third girl, Anna,\nappears later in the story as a maid.\n\nThe anime aired in 2005, while the manga ran from 2002 to 2009, so it fits\nyour time frame.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-04T19:34:06.963", "id": "5728", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-05T02:25:25.273", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-05T02:25:25.273", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "5727", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[From Naruto\nWiki:](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning%3a_Impure_World_Reincarnation)\n\n> The Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation is a forbidden technique where,\n> using a living person as a vessel, a deceased person's soul can be called\n> back to the world of the living and bound to it. **The vessel will then take\n> on the form that person had in life** , thereby reincarnating them to do\n> their summoner's bidding.\n\nOn reincarnation the shinobi is brought back to the living world with the same\nabilities that they had during their actual life course. With Kabuto's better\nhold over the Impure World Reincarnation jutsu, he could even enhance the\nabilities of the resurrected shinobis as he did with Madara\n\nSince the eyes are a part of the body, the reincarnated shinobi has them.\n\nHowever incase of ninja tools like the swords of the 7 ninja swordsmen, since\nthese are not a part of the body, they were not with the ninja swordsmen on\nreincarnation. They had to summon them using a scroll.. and the swords that\nwere being used by others were not summoned back to the ninja swordsmen\n(Chojuro had Hiramekarei with him)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T04:28:19.453", "id": "5747", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-05T04:28:19.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "5745", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you look at the wiki on how to combat a genjutsu, you can see the very\nfirst method which explains it:\n\n> The ninja needs to stop the flow of chakra in their body, and then apply an\n> even stronger power to disrupt the flow of the caster's chakra; this is\n> called Genjutsu Dissipation (幻術解, Genjutsu Kai). This can also be done by an\n> unaffected ninja by applying a sudden surge of chakra into the affected\n> person. **In addition, tailed beasts can break their jinchūriki out of\n> genjutsu in a similar fashion if they have a good enough cooperation, as\n> seen in Killer B's case.**\n\nIf you look at the bold part of it, you get your answer. Bee's relation with\nthe Eight Tails is very good and thus, the Eight Tails will help him out\nanyways. In case of Naruto, we've seen the recent episodes, that he's formed a\nbond with Naruto and even otherwise, Kurama would have helped him out (like so\nmany times before, as always).\n\nAs far as Kakashi is concerned, he's a highly skilled shinobi, with a\nSharingan (and he has even activated the Mangekyo Sharingan), which, as you\nmentioned in your question, may cancel out each other. As for Guy is\nconcerned, since another person can inject a chakra flow in your body to break\nthe genjutsu, Kakashi could have helped out Guy in that case.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T04:44:02.810", "id": "5748", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T12:57:36.887", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T12:57:36.887", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "5746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nUsing genjutsu on an enemy is futile, if they have allies nearby, who can\ninfuse chakra to take them out of it. Genjutsu would not work on Bee, since\nhis bijuu Gyuki would easily bring him out of it, as he did when Bee was\nmomentarily trapped in Sasuke's genjutsu.\n\nIf Tobi were to use it on Naruto, Bee would easily bring him out of it.\nMoreover, during the Kazekage Rescue arc, Naruto already demonstrated that he\nknows how to cancel genjutsu (although it didn't work). Now he was much\nstronger, having learned Sage Mode and Bijuu Mode. In short, the chances of a\nGenjutsu on Naruto succeeding are very small.\n\nMoreover, Tobi now had a Rinnegan, which he considered much more powerful, and\nwanted to try it out in battle, which he did with the so-called \"Jinchuriki of\nSix Paths\" technique.\n\nAs for Madara, his reincarnation did not go according to his plan. He wasn't\nmeant to capture the tailed beasts, but even if he did, he did not have the\nGedo Mazo to seal them in.\n\nFurther, ever since he had been reincarnated, Madara has spent more time\nshowing off his powers, and complaining that the current generation of ninja\nis so weak compared to Hashirama and him than actually fighting. Casting a\nGenjutsu on \"weak\" ninja is probably not as satisfying for his pride as\ndropping meteors, using Mokuton techniques, Susanoo, and the like. :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-05T04:56:42.273", "id": "5750", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T05:18:15.660", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-06T05:18:15.660", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nWell casting a genjutsu does depend on the ability of the enemy, if you recall\nRaikage was under a genjutsu when he fought Madara. But genjutsu against the\nlikes of Madara and other Kage's would be futile. They are just too strong for\nanyone to cast a genjutsu on them. The level of the fights was high that's why\neven Itachi never used his Genjutsu yet he had to use Izanagi. One can get the\nidea why Genjutsu wasn't an option in this battle royal.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-22T03:57:05.087", "id": "28222", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-22T03:57:05.087", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19571", "parent_id": "5746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe argument of why Genjutsu was not used on Guy is an easy one to talk about.\nIn short, guy was the perfect fighter against Genjutsu. He did not look at his\nenemies eyes nor hands while he fought, the two ways to activate the Genjutsu.\nHe was arguably the most perfect fighter against the Uchiha. Naruto never once\ntries to evade Genjutsu and as he advances and builds a stronger relationship\nwith his tailed beast, he doesn't have to. Plus, he was considerable chakra\nlevels possibly surpassing all shinobi so canceling it becomes easier for him.\nKakashi to be such a formidable user of the sharigan has proven to be the\nworst to stop it taking it head on. Obviously they do cancel each other out\nbut one eye does not cancel two. This part is totally my opinion, but I do\nbelieve a Genjutsu takes a lot of effort. It is almost like a ceremony where\nthe caster has to be extremely focussed. It's probably impossible to fight a\nfight while also keeping a person under your spell. Genjutsu is a good one on\none tactic possibly one on two. But it's probably not best for more.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-03T18:26:11.530", "id": "30195", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-03T18:26:11.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22454", "parent_id": "5746", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey know Naruto is the Jinchuuriki. What the Third Hokage hid from the rest\nof the villagers is his relation to Minato and the fact that the village was\nattacked by Tobi. Many people did not know the kyuubi disaster was because\nTobi had attacked and caused it. Instead, they thought the kyuubi had just\ngone loose.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T03:25:53.540", "id": "5756", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T03:25:53.540", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "5755", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis might not really satisfy you. \nBut when naruto was trying to get control of kurama's charka kushina popped\nout. \nThat time kushina told naruto what had happened during the sealing. \nMinato had made a barrier like structure which blocked others from entering\nit. \nThey showed that sarutobi and some other shinobi from the leaf were there,\nwatching minato die :( \n\n\n\nNow as you can see that there had been many other people who witnessed the\nscene of sealing the kyuubi. \nThere can be a possibility that someone else could have leaked the information\nthat the kyuubi was sealed in naruto. \nIt could also have been that sarutobi himself told them to do so, to protect\nnaruto in some way. \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T04:56:19.313", "id": "5758", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T04:56:19.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "5755", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe villagers know that Naruto is the Kyuubi's Jinchuriki because Sarutobi\nHiruzen told them!\n\nHere's why: In one of the earliest chapters, Hiruzen tells Iruka that the\nFourth Hokage had died hoping the villagers would see Naruto as a hero, who\nsealed the Kyuubi. The only way Hiruzen could make it happen is by telling the\nvillagers that Naruto was the kid that the Fourth Hokage sealed the Kyuubi\ninto.\n\nHowever, he decided not to reveal Naruto's relation to the Fourth Hokage. Note\nalso that Kushina's pregnancy was a highly classified information, known only\nto Hiruzen, Biwako, Minato, a few ANBU members and some others. Hiruzen could\nhave made up a story that Naruto was a random kid that Minato picked to seal\nthe Kyuubi (or something like that), and few would have suspected or\nquestioned him.\n\nPS: A little plot hole there is that on growing up, Naruto's close resemblance\nto Minato, along with the Kyuubi story, should have raised a few eyebrows, but\nKishimoto probably decided it was not important enough for the \"plot\" to\nrequire an explanation.\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T05:39:27.160", "id": "5759", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T05:47:23.090", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-06T05:47:23.090", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5755", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason to y narutos parentage was hidden was so that the fourth hokages\nememies wouldn't target him, as he is his child. They didn't hide the part\nwhere he was a jinchuriki was so that, Naruto would be more protected while he\nwas sent on missions and given more importance. Every hidden village in the\nfive great nations has a tailed beast which holds a lot of power. Since every\ntailed beast is an important part in their villages military they have to be\nprotected and given more importance at times. When Naruto goes on missions, he\nhas to be given more importance , if a situation where someone has to be left\nbehind to let the others escape. Now they can't let an important part of their\nvillages military strength sacrificed or let it get captured by the other\nvillages shinobi. A jinchuriki might face a lot of ill treatment but is given\nmore protection and importance in matters of military purposes\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-14T16:21:53.317", "id": "26607", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-14T16:21:53.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18518", "parent_id": "5755", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I've seen from a video discussing the Itachi novels, there was a\nretcon where Naruto actually had a normal life at first, but his Jinchuriki\nstatus was leaked by Danzo. The reason why Naruto can't recall this, is\nbecause he was too young to the remember that there was a time that he wasn't\nhated.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-19T02:08:35.243", "id": "52994", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-19T02:08:35.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47328", "parent_id": "5755", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEpisode 20 of **[Planetes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes)** features\nan isolation test and they have to build a model of the ship that will take\nthem to Jupiter:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditionally, during that episode, in order to test the isolation adaptability\nof the candidates, they turned off the oxygen and watched as team after team\nhit their emergency buttons without having a way to cope\n\n\n\nAnd the way the main character's team dealt with the issue was turn down the\ntemperature so that they use less oxygen:\n\n\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T09:02:01.350", "id": "5763", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T15:24:20.483", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-06T15:24:20.483", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "5760", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHachibi actually lost that tooth earlier in the battle against the Juubi.\n(Chapter 615)\n\nAt that time, Bee launched himself at the Juubi in his Hachibi form, and aimed\na Bijuu Dama (Tailed Beast Bomb) at the Juubi's mouth. He exploded the Bijuu\nDama inside the Juubi's mouth causing it great pain, but the Hachibi also took\nsome damage, losing a tooth and yet another horn.\n\n * **Hachibi about to attack the Juubi, still has its tooth intact** \n * **Hachibi enters the Juubi's mouth with a Bijuu Dama** \n * **Hachibi has lost a tooth and a horn after the attack** \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-08T12:52:01.667", "id": "5799", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-08T12:52:01.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOkay, so as you know that Shanks was once a crew mate of Gol D Roger mentioned\nby Rayleigh himself when Luffy meets him. According to what was shown in\nflashback, Shanks tells Rayleigh about Luffy when he accidentally meets him on\nthe Sabondy Archipelago.\n\n\n\nShanks had great respect towards Gol D Roger, and hearing the same words from\nLuffy and with the same enthusiasm, he could see a part of Roger in Luffy. The\nfeeling what Shanks would have got can be proved by what was shown in\nLoguetown where Luffy said the same thing sitting in the bar. Even Raoul (the\nman who owns the bar) thought that Gol D Roger was back when he heard those\nwords from Luffy. That could be one of the reasons.\n\n\n\nAnother reason is that he considered Luffy as a friend and he always said\nthis:\n\n> _Listen up… You can pour drinks on me, you can throw food at me… You can\n> even spit on me. I’ll just laugh that stuff off. But… Good reason or not…\n> Nobody hurts a friend of mine._\n\nSo he could not withstand Luffy getting killed in front of his eyes. This was\nthe answer for your question in the heading.\n\nNow the reason for not using haki was that Luffy is a hammer, hence cannot\nswim in water. Luffy was already drowning and it would be late if he went and\nused haki to send the sea king away and then go and save Luffy!\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 12, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T09:16:22.100", "id": "5764", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T12:55:02.677", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T12:55:02.677", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "5762", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\n> Shanks bet his arm on the new Era. He gave it up to drill into Luffy's head\n> the man that a Pirate King should be.\n>\n> Shanks saw the old captain in Luffy when Luffy said word for word what his\n> old captain used to say about not backing down from a fight and how shameful\n> it is. Additionally, he was super interested in Shanks hat, not just\n> interested, but kind of obsessed.\n>\n> **So in a quick decision he decided to bet on the new era. Shanks taught\n> Luffy self control and humility and it only cost him his arm.**\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Why Shanks bet paid off. Its pretty obvious that Luffy is very much like\n> Roger, and most likely the person who inherited his will. So, Shanks made\n> the right call about this kid being his captain decedent.\n>\n> But what about the bet? What was the bet? The bet was to make this version\n> of the pirate king not a complete moron/douchebag like the previous one. Who\n> Shanks/Garp describe as a hot headed child that over escalates every\n> situation because he can't walk away from a fight.\n>\n> Remember the first pirate meeting? With Bellamy? That was a huge moment in\n> the show. Arguably one of the most important episodes in the show as of yet.\n> When Bellamy insulted Luffy/Zoro/Nami and Luffy kept his cool and did not\n> break his promise to Nami.\n>\n> Not only did was he insulted, he was also beat. Luffy and Zoro not\n> destroying the place is a direct consequence of Shank's bet. If Shanks never\n> met Luffy and Ace was Luffy's only major influence then he would of made a\n> giant commotion and caught the attention of BlackBeard.\n\nSource: [/u/FailosoRaptor](http://www.reddit.com/user/FailosoRaptor) comments\non [Why shanks lost his arm against that weak sea-\nmonster?](http://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1dsqki/why_shanks_lost_his_arm_against_that_weak/c9ti5v8)\n(emphasis added)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-29T09:34:56.397", "id": "8347", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-24T23:42:38.200", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-24T23:42:38.200", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "5762", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you think about it Luffy acts the same way before he headed off to sky\nisland. When in the bar or restauraunt I dont recall. He was recieving the\nsame treatment and Nami acted the same way that luffy did as he witnessed\nshanks being treated the same way by the bandits. My point is that shanks\ndesires to make Luffy the pirate king and \"bet on the new era.\" But he wont\nallow him to accomplish all this that easily. I'm bearly on the episode where\nLuffy defeats CP9's Leader, Lucci a.k.a. the pidgeon guy. But i have witnessed\nbattles involving Kizaro, fugitor, black beard, do flamengo and the list goes\non. The point is one piece needs to be seen by all viewers of manga, anime\netc. By the way Sanji is a character I like, romantic, funny, pervy yet\nintellegent. He always shows the character of a strategist yet releases a\nperverted side that is funny and dillusional at times but he is who he is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-08T10:36:52.713", "id": "36726", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-08T10:36:52.713", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28622", "parent_id": "5762", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHe sacrificed his arm because a sea monster was going to eat luffy. Then it\nwas scared of him, so it slunk back into the sea like a coward. Eating higuma\nsatisfied him any way, I guess.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-02T06:10:06.493", "id": "39678", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-02T06:10:06.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31762", "parent_id": "5762", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you look at the [wiki page](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dracule_Mihawk)\nof _Mihawk_\n\n> Dracule Mihawk is a member of the Shichibukai and the first one to be\n> revealed. **He is also the current holder of the title, \"Greatest Swordsman\n> in the World**.\n\nThis should answer the title question.\n\nAs for the relationship with _Shanks_ (it is listed under the [**Friends**\nlist](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Dracule_Mihawk#Shanks)),\n\n> In the past, Mihawk was a rival to one of the most powerful pirates in One\n> Piece, Shanks. However, Mihawk lost interest in him after Shanks lost his\n> left arm. He retains a neutral, though somewhat friendly relationship with\n> Shanks, and is able to track him down if the need arises. He and Shanks do\n> manage to get along, regardless of the fact that the two are opposites in\n> personalities. Shanks is also able to get Mihawk to join in when he threw a\n> party to celebrate Luffy's coming, even when moments beforehand Mihawk had\n> scorned how laid-back Shanks was.\n>\n> Mihawk even mused out an apology to Shanks during the battle at Marineford,\n> where he declares that he will not be holding anything back against Luffy\n> right before going after him. When Shanks showed up during the Whitebeard\n> War, Mihawk left the battle, stating that battling Shanks was beyond the\n> scope of the World Government's agreement.\n\nSo its not that he's really scared of _Shanks_ , but just that he relishes the\n**Frenemy** kind-of relationship with him, and that's why moves out of the\nbattle, when _Shanks_ enters the scene.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T10:50:12.963", "id": "5767", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-04T05:39:02.360", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-04T05:39:02.360", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "5765", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost probably it's because otherwise his name would raise too much suspicion\nand intervene with his life. Many people in real life carry their mother's\nmaiden name for similar reasons, so it's not surprising.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-06T14:51:43.723", "id": "8522", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-06T14:51:43.723", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "5766", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause his father was demoted and became an enforcer, Nobuchika was ashamed,\nso he picked his mother's last name instead. His mother is Akiho Ginoza.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-15T06:39:28.430", "id": "15095", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-29T19:44:55.990", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-29T19:44:55.990", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "9178", "parent_id": "5766", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeeing as there are mentions of a royal family being inside Wall Sina, it's\nsafe to assume that the government is monarchical in nature. However, I am\nleaning towards a monarchical-parliamentary style, rather than just pure\nmonarchical or parliament. Reason being, even with hints at a king being the\nhead, the actions alone of the various commanders belie an amazing level of\nindependence. In addition, it's been seen a couple of times that they can be\nsummoned and tried in a public court, a trait that is definitely not purely\nmonarchical in nature (as kings alone judge in that event). The voting system\nto approve a course of action mirrors a parliamentary set-up as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-07T20:53:59.187", "id": "5791", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-07T21:02:08.433", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-07T21:02:08.433", "last_editor_user_id": "2627", "owner_user_id": "2627", "parent_id": "5768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is monarchy because they are protecting not only the citizens (by its\nlevel) but also the current king of each designated wall. You can see it as\nCommander Pixis is used to play with the king but generally leave after he\nheard the attacked of titans in their region.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-09T19:03:30.470", "id": "5808", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-09T19:03:30.470", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2703", "parent_id": "5768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe's trained in martial art by his master, Izumi Curtis. So he's definitely\nconfident in his close combat ability. As to why he uses it over alchemy, you\ndon't think he's just going to rely on alchemy all the time do you? He can\nadapt to different combat situation, and be more unpredictable if he can\nswitch fighting style. Also his automail blade looks cool.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T17:12:35.827", "id": "5771", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T17:12:35.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2680", "parent_id": "5769", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nEd uses his martial abilities to create openings for him to use alchemy. If he\noutright use alchemy, the enemy would have already known what to do with him.\nBesides, alchemy is a really loud fighting style when used straight\noffensively and Ed, most of the time, don't want wanton destruction as much as\npossible. Ed uses alchemy discretely in some cases too (brittling Greed's\narmor) but even then alchemy still creates those flashy lights.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-26T08:06:33.503", "id": "6568", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-26T08:06:33.503", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1725", "parent_id": "5769", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it might be[Cannon God\nExaxxion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_God_Exaxxion)\n\n> Hōichi Kano, the Grandson (revealed in stage three to be son) of world\n> famous inventor Hōsuke Kano, is a student at Howa High School in Musashino\n> City, Japan. At the tenth anniversary of first contact with the Leopoldians,\n> an alien race, the unveiling of an Elevator Ship, designed for orbital\n> transport to and from the Leopoldian home world and Earth, is about to take\n> place. However, this was just a ploy to take control of the Earth, using\n> their advanced technology and large Leopoldian work force on Earth to their\n> advantage. It is now up to Hōichi, with the help of his grandfather, his\n> school friend Akane, and Isaka, who recently transferred to Howa High\n> School, to stop them and save Earth. And makes use off allot of obscure\n> jokes like the one mentioned in your question.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-23T01:06:17.973", "id": "8191", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-23T01:06:17.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "5770", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt may be the [Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong\nCannon](http://gintama.wikia.com/wiki/Neo_Armstrong_Cyclone_Jet_Armstrong_Cannon)\nfrom [Gintama](http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=918).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-23T08:59:15.260", "id": "8200", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-23T08:59:15.260", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18", "parent_id": "5770", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt could also be the \"Kaien\" robot from Gintama, here is a picture of it\nfiring from episode 235, and the dirty humor definitely fits the series,\nalthough I didn't hear that exact quote in the episode.\n\n\n\nand here is the same scene from the manga \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-26T18:11:15.283", "id": "18880", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-26T18:26:02.923", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-26T18:26:02.923", "last_editor_user_id": "9096", "owner_user_id": "9096", "parent_id": "5770", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is compiled/arranged from\n[here](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/State_Alchemist) and\n[here](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Military_Ranks).\n\n * Fuehrer General \n * Bradley\n * Grumman (Chapter 108)\n * General \n * Roy Mustang - Flame Alchemist (epilogue)\n * Lieutenant General \n * Grumman\n * Raven\n * Gardner\n * Major General \n * Olivier Mira Armstrong\n * Hakuro\n * Brigadier General \n * Basque Grand - Iron-Blood Alchemist\n * Roy Mustang - Flame Alchemist (ep. 45 2003 anime, chapter 108)\n * Maes Hughes (posthumous)\n * Clemin\n * Edison\n * Fessler\n * Colonel \n * Roy Mustang - Flame Alchemist\n * Frank Archer\n * Henry Douglas\n * Lieutenant Colonel \n * Alex Louis Armstrong - Strong Arm Alchemist (2003 anime)\n * Solf J. Kimblee - Crimson Alchemist/Red Lotus Alchemist (2003 anime)\n * Maes Hughes\n * Roy Mustang - Flame Alchemist (2003 anime)\n * Major (automatic rank given to a State Alchemist) \n * Alex Louis Armstrong - Strong Arm Alchemist\n * Giolio Comanche - Silver Alchemist\n * Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist\n * Solf J. Kimblee - Crimson Alchemist/Red Lotus Alchemist\n * Tim Marcoh - Crystal Alchemist\n * Isaac McDougal - Freezing Alchemist\n * Shou Tucker - Sewing-Life Alchemist\n * Miles\n * Maes Hughes (before ep. 13 2003 anime)\n * Roy Mustang (during war in Ishval)\n * Captain \n * Juliet Douglas\n * Fokker\n * Buccaneer\n * Vato Falman (Chapter 108)\n * Maes Hughes (during the war in Ishval)\n * First Lieutenant \n * Riza Hawkeye\n * Yoki\n * Second Lieutenant \n * Maria Ross\n * Jean Havoc\n * Heymans Breda\n * Vato Falman (Chapter 65)\n * Henschel\n * Rebecca Catalina\n * Darius\n * Heinkel\n * Jerso\n * Zampano\n * Riza Hawkeye (at Eastern Headquarters)\n * Warrant Officer \n * Vato Falman\n * Riza Hawkeye (after the war)\n * Sergeant Major \n * Kain Fuery\n * Sergeant \n * Denny Brosh\n * Corporal (no named characters)\n * Lance Corporal (no named characters)\n * Private \n * Sheska\n * Military Police (no named characters)\n\nAt the end of the 2003 anime, the rank of Fuhrer was removed, and in the Viz\nManga version, the title used was President instead of Fuhrer.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T19:45:18.727", "id": "5774", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-06T23:59:22.513", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-06T23:59:22.513", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "5773", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n[This link](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Military_Ranks) is to the same wiki but\nto a page with all the ranks and people of those ranks including outside the\nstate alchemists, it is noted that State Alchemists are an equivalent rank to\nMajor, also the highest rank (Führer) is at the top.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-06T21:29:17.547", "id": "5775", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-07T01:39:33.090", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-07T01:39:33.090", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "5773", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA brief search into some of the text displayed in the screenshot reveals that\nthis page contains part of the text of \" **Eiketsu no Asa** \" (永訣の朝; roughly\n\"The Morning of a Final Farewell\";\n[text](http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~takam/bungaku/eiketu.htm); [a\nreading](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkjJm_w_WpM)), a poem by [Kenji\nMIYAZAWA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Miyazawa)1. \"Eiketsu no Asa\" is\npart of his first published collection, _Haru to Shura_ (春と修羅; _Spring and\nAsura_ ).\n\nIn what may prove to be a bit of foreshadowing, \"Eiketsu no Asa\" was written\non the occasion of the untimely death of Kenji's younger sister, Toshi.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Miyazawa may be better-known to Western audiences for his novel [_Night on\nthe Galactic\nRailroad_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_on_the_Galactic_Railroad), which\nwas made into [an anime\nfilm](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1441/Night_on_the_Galactic_Railroad) back\nin 1985.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-07T01:55:24.663", "id": "5777", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-07T01:55:24.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are several reasons to that:\n\n * It's a TV show, you wouldn't watch a TV show where the hero is absolutely the strongest and no one has a chance of defeating him, right? Think of what would happen should Ash have caught Dialga, Palkia or Arceus.\n * It disrupts \"the balance\", it was portrayed in the anime that most legendary pokemon serve a role as some sort of \"god\" of a force of nature, (Kyogre of the Rain, Palkia of space, etc). If you capture them, you might disrupt the balance by \"not letting them do their jobs\".\n\nThose are the two excuses I know.\n\n", "comment_count": 12, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-07T13:07:39.740", "id": "5789", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-07T13:07:39.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "5778", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nLook what happens in the movies when a legendary leaves its post. Mass chaos\nand destruction would happen (though I suppose that is debatable. I've counted\ntwo legend trainers that I can remember, so it might just be the ORIGINAL\nlegends and their young are safe to catch).\n\nThough I do agree somewhat: it would be nice if Ash could at least capture\nthem and call on their aid while generally leaving them alone.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-16T22:18:04.310", "id": "9759", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-09T11:53:18.060", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-09T11:53:18.060", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "4919", "parent_id": "5778", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMoral quandries aside,\n\nHe has yet to get a lasting grip on a master ball, and except in the Safari\nzone, you'll notice he's never been good at capturing pokemon (his pokemon-\nper-badge ratio is pretty low). He also very rarely buys or gets anything\nbetter than the most basic pokeballs if you notice. And if you've ever played\nthe games, you'll know how important those better balls are for better\ncaptures.\n\nSo, in short... shoddy equipment.\n\nAlso, second reason... if you notice, he rarely captures, period (again, with\nthe exception of the safari zone). He's more like the coach that focuses on\ntraining his team rather than the coach who trades for better players. (Also,\nremember his experience with Charizard... he knows too powerful pokemon types\ncan be hard for him to handle, and later on he just kept in the habit as far\nas I can tell. I mean, think how often he had to get skin grafts.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-29T15:36:44.973", "id": "26261", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-29T15:36:44.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18217", "parent_id": "5778", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm going to answer this question with a bit more respect for the show and Ash\nas a character than most people give it credit for. I think there are some\nreasons Ash doesn't catch legendary pokemon.\n\n## Ash only obtains a pokemon when it is natural - it's never forced\n\nAsh's pokemon are not an \"arsenal\". Ash's stated goal is indeed to become the\nbest pokemon trainer of all time. There is an implication that this means\ncatching \"them all\", but in the context of the show, and Ash's character, this\nis considered to a long-term goal. There is no panic of missed opportunity\nwhen an encounter with a legendary pokemon does not lead to a capture.\n\nTo Ash, being a \"master Pokemon trainer\" means, first and foremost, treating\nhis captured pokemon with respect and maintaining a friendship with them. He\nalways does what he thinks is best for them. As such, any time he obtains a\npokemon, it it's a natural thing; not forced. If it doesn't happen, then it\ndoesn't happen.\n\nLastly, the anime often contrasts Ash's personality against those who would\nweigh and measure a pokemon's stats. Ash is no scientist - I think we would\nall agree he isn't very smart. He bases almost all his decisions on instinct -\nhe cares not for statistics and min/maxing, which would realistically be\nrequired to become a Pokemon Master. The show does this on purpose - it\nconsiders getting out there to experience life a superior way of learning than\nsitting at home reading stats (this is probably most exemplified by May's\nbrother Max). For this reason, Ash will never freak out about the potential\nlost by failing to capture a legendary pokemon.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-20T06:19:49.797", "id": "39491", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-20T06:19:49.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15693", "parent_id": "5778", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOnizuka can be considered a strongman. This is not the \"strength athlete\"\nvariant of the strongman, though he might qualify, but more of the natural\ntype. As detailed\n[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongman_%28strength_athlete%29), a\nstrongman is not necessarily someone who actively participates in\nbodybuilding. It can also be someone of perfect symmetry or size, or those who\nhave explosive power and powerful grip strength.\n\nIn Onizuka's case, while not really huge, is a former biker who has devoted\n(as of timeline of GTO) almost half of his life into fighting. His experience\nis almost akin to a full-time MMA welterweight or middleweight fighter in that\nhe fights and gets exposed to brutal physical activity almost every day. This\nmakes him, at the very least, much stronger than a good percentage of the\ngeneral population.\n\nWhile obviously his feats are a bit over the top in that he survives them\nalmost unscathed (this obviously needs some suspension of disbelief), humanity\nhas shown over the top endurance and strength feats as well.\n[Falling](http://www.oddee.com/item_96967.aspx) and [point blank shots to the\nhead](http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41046340/#.UoxX68Try6M) have been overcome by\nsome, but the resultant damage of course has been of varying degrees.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-20T06:39:17.373", "id": "5963", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-20T06:39:17.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2627", "parent_id": "5779", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHashirama Senju has the Forest Sage Mode. It says in the wikia, that his Sage\nMode is a special type that only he can use. Thats fitting since he would need\nthe Forest Style to increase the effect of his Wood Style.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-30T18:14:48.717", "id": "6089", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-25T03:45:38.823", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-25T03:45:38.823", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2829", "parent_id": "5780", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI Think Hashirama enters into \"Bull Sage Mode\", as the Bull Sage was one of\nthe original 5 Sages which were\n\n 1. The Eagle-Owl Sage, \n 2. The Scorpion Sage, \n 3. The Bull Sage,\n 4. The Salamander Sage \n 5. The Toad Sage \n\nAnd it happens the Bull Sage specialises at Wood release which was Hashirama's\nspecialty\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T13:43:19.250", "id": "7992", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-13T06:16:23.317", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-13T06:16:23.317", "last_editor_user_id": "3343", "owner_user_id": "4087", "parent_id": "5780", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBefore I deliver my answer, we must ask ourselves what **Sage Mode** is.\n\n## What is Sage Mode?\n\nFrom [Sage Mode article](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Mode):\n\n> Sage Mode is the **empowered** state humans enter when they **learn to\n> draw** natural energy inside them and blending it with their chakra. By\n> doing so, the human creates **new senjutsu chakra** that allows them to\n> enter Sage Mode.\n\nThe next question is: Where do shinobi learn it from?\n\n> Thus far, Sage Mode has been shown to be **taught** in two places: at Mount\n> Myōboku by the toads, and Ryūchi Cave by the snakes.\n\nThe articles clearly states that Sage Mode is achieved when the user\n**learns** to draw natural energy and mixes it with their chakra, **and**\nMount Myoboku and Ryuchi Cave are two known places where they can **learn to\ndo so**.\n\nNow, the requirements for learning Sage Mode:\n\n> According to Fukasaku, only those who already possess \" **extreme chakra\n> levels** \" can utilise natural energy to **invoke** senjutsu.\n\n## Hashirama Senju's Sage Mode\n\nLet us move onto [Hashirama\nSenju](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hashirama_Senju).\n\n> Because of his large chakra reserves, Hashirama is able to use senjutsu by\n> entering Sage Mode, a feat he could perform instantaneously; it is not known\n> where he learned it.\n\nIf we look at his [abilities\nsection](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hashirama_Senju#Abilities):\n\n> He is similarly knowledgeable of skills he has no training in, being able to\n> recognize the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.\n\nTaking into consideration the aforementioned details, **in conclusion** , it\nis _possible_ that Hashirama learned Sage Mode by himself. Since it is self-\ntaught, it is not animal-influenced. Hence it would be something-like a\n\"Normal-Without-Animal-Influence-Sage-Mode\".\n\n## What led me to this conclusion?\n\n> Learning Sage Mode at Mount Myōboku or Ryūchi Cave grants the user with a\n> **toad** and **snake-influenced** Sage Mode respectively,\n\nThat is the explanation for the toad/snake techniques used by Jiraiya/Naruto\nand Orochimaru/Kabuto.\n\nHowever, Hashirama's Sage Mode hasn't shown what animal-influence it possesses\nso far. Therefore, he couldn't have learned his Sage Mode from Mount Myōboku\nor Ryūchi Cave.\n\n* * *\n\nHis **Sage Mode** strengthens his Wood-Release techniques and his overall\nperformance drastically.\n\nFrom Naruto manga, Chapter 657, Page 08:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EbBFp.jpg)\n\nMadara-sama's line: \" **Only this much power... This will be easy to handle.**\n\", shows that an experienced and powerful\n[shinobi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha) can use Senjutsu within\nmere moments.\n\n## Wrapping up\n\nSince there is no official details about what Sage Mode Hashirama uses, my\nconclusion is classified as a possibility.\n\nAnother possible conclusion is detailed in this answer: [Is there a slug based\nSage Mode?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/11736/sage-mode-for-\nslugs/11746#11746)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-11T06:49:48.657", "id": "19283", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-02T18:43:30.387", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11083", "parent_id": "5780", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, they are somewhat connected. As you can see in these pages in [Naruto\nManga Episode 597](http://www.mangareader.net/naruto/597/12):\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThen they realized that he is Uchiha Obito when they prove that their eyes\n(from Kakashi and _The Masked Man_ that time) are really connected.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-07T10:05:45.330", "id": "5784", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-07T10:05:45.330", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "5783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Kamui's alternate dimension is one and the same for both Kakashi and\nObito. This has been seen a number of times during their fight in the 4th\nNinja War.\n\n * Kakashi teleported Gedo Mazo's neck using Kamui, only for Obito to promptly bring it back using _his_ Kamui\n * Kakashi got a clue to Tobi's identity because a kunai he teleported left a scratch on Tobi's mask who had teleported himself at the same time to avoid Naruto's Rasengan.\n * Kakashi then teleports Naruto's Rasengan so that it can hit Tobi in the alternate dimension where he just teleported his arm.\n\nHowever, the first clue to this fact was given much earlier when Tobi came to\ntalk to Naruto. Kakashi tried to use Kamui on him, only for Tobi to remark,\n\"Don't bother with that Kakashi. It won't work on me.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-07T12:24:55.280", "id": "5788", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-07T12:24:55.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5783", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nItachi gave Shisui's eye to Naruto during the Itachi Pursuit arc. This eye was\nstuffed in the form of a crow, when Naruto was under Itachi's genjutsu.\n\nSee below image from Chapter 403, when Naruto is sitting in his room and\nhaving a flashback about his encounter with Itachi.\n\n\n\n**Background** Eight Konoha shinobi went on a mission to find, and if possible\ncapture, Itachi, since they hoped it would give some clues to Sasuke's\nwhereabouts. At the same time, Sasuke with his Team Taka started moving to\nItachi's hideout because he wanted to kill Itachi. Itachi knew his end was\nnear, and it was part of his plan to die at Sasuke's hands.\n\nBefore he died, he wanted to talk to Naruto, presumably because he was still\nworried about what Sasuke would do after his death. He sent a shadow clone to\ntalk to Naruto. This clone encountered one of the thousands of shadow clones\nthat Naruto previously created to search for Sasuke.\n\nNaruto was angered on seeing Itachi and unwilling to listen to anything Itachi\nhad to say, so Itachi was forced to cast a genjutsu to make him listen. On\nhearing Naruto's determination to save Sasuke at all costs, Itachi decided to\ngive him Shisui's eye, which would help him in case he had to take Sasuke back\nby force.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-07T11:48:46.740", "id": "5786", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-07T12:11:49.150", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-07T12:11:49.150", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5785", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nItachi stores the crow inside Naruto in chapter 403, during the Itachi Pursuit\narc. \nItachi used a shadow clone to talk to Naruto, who wasn't willing to listen. As\nsuch, Itachi was forced to use a Genjutsu in order to make him listen.\n\nHe uses a Genjutsu as a distraction: \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/osTVT.jpg)\n\nAnd then the crow is stored (physically, I think) inside of Naruto: \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5IpiX.jpg)\n\nThis is corroborated by [this Naruto Wiki\npage](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Itachi%27s_Crow).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-07T11:56:03.273", "id": "5787", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T21:54:34.830", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T21:54:34.830", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "5785", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nStrictly speaking, the canonical color of the Rasengan should be yellow,\nbecause Naruto's chakra is yellow in the manga. (Chapter 91) \n\nThe anime changed the chakra color to blue for some reason, probably because\nthey felt blue looked better in the animation. Games are often made to\nresemble the anime, not the manga, so that could be the reason they picked\nblue.\n\nThe yellow image in the anime that you mention is an inconsistency. They may\nhave used the color from the manga for that image because it wasn't important\nfor the plot.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-08T05:01:58.287", "id": "5797", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-08T05:01:58.287", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nThe rasengan is blue because pure chakra appears blue to the human eye.\nDespite naruto's nine tail chakra being orange he does not utilize this chakra\nwhen using the jutsu hence the rasengan takes the form of a blue rotating orb.\n\nHowever it has taken multiple colors before in the anime and manga and this is\nbecause of what chakra is used to create the jutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-19T05:24:49.920", "id": "8764", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-19T05:24:49.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4553", "parent_id": "5793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nEveryone's chakra is meant to be a different colour and it only depends on how\nthick it is. Naruto's is meant to be yellow, Sakura's green and Sasuke's\nblack, but they decided to make all of them blue.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-18T17:11:05.560", "id": "16862", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-18T18:29:30.680", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-18T18:29:30.680", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "10734", "parent_id": "5793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIts supposed to be yellow/orange like we see in the last,like it was\npreviously stated everyone was meant to have a unique color chakra\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-26T03:25:35.213", "id": "33942", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-26T10:36:05.167", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-26T10:36:05.167", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "25845", "parent_id": "5793", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDisregard my comment on the OP; this song is on the first OST. It is called\n_Kyojin Shinkou_ (track 9, also titled as \"凸】♀】♂】←巨人\"), and the part you asked\nabout starts around 0:50 into the song.\n\nUnfortunately, I cannot find a YouTube video or any other legal source of the\ntrack, and [the OST itself is very\nexpensive](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00CAL4LEI).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-08T04:40:58.703", "id": "5796", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-08T04:40:58.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "5794", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt turns out that the runes in this segment actually represent romaji\n(transliterated Japanese), rather than German (which is more commonly the\nlanguage represented by the runes). [Jon Lin's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5800/what-do-the-rune-\ncredits-that-play-during-connect-near-the-end-of-the-\nsecond-m#comment5636_5800) links to [a Japanese\nblogpost](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2135111135283389801) that has done the\ngruntwork of converting from runes to Japanese.3 I trust they're right; I only\ndouble-checked the first few lines of the runes myself.\n\nThe structure of the text here is as follows: everything that isn't in white\nrunes is a line said by someone other than Homura at some point in the series.\nPink is Madoka; yellow is Mami; blue is Sayaka; red is Kyouko. The text in\nwhite, however, is original (i.e. not spoken at any earlier [or later] point\nin the series), and is \"spoken\" by Homura (addressed to post-wish Madoka).\nThere does not appear to be any relationship between the positions of the\nHomura and non-Homura lines.\n\nHere are the non-Homura lines in order from top to bottom and left to right\n(translations taken from the official subs on the movie BDs), with annotations\nindicating where in the series they're from.\n\n> **Madoka:** I'm the Nurse's Aide in our class. \n> [ep 10, timeline 1 / 32:37 in movie 2]1\n>\n> **Madoka:** Homura... I'm really glad I became friends with you. \n> [ep 10, timeline 1 / 37:45 in movie 2]\n>\n> **Mami:** I'm not afraid of anything anymore. \n> [ep 3 / 45:17 in movie 1; ep title quote]\n>\n> **Sayaka:** Give that back! That― That belongs to Mami...! \n> [ep 3 / 48:24 in movie 1]\n>\n> **Kyouko:** How do you even call yourself human?! \n> [ep 9 / 8:13 in movie 2]\n>\n> **Madoka:** Even now, the fact that we were in time to save you from that\n> witch... It's one of my proudest accomplishments. \n> [ep 10, timeline 1 / 37:51 in movie 2]\n>\n> **Kyouko:** Want some? \n> [various; ep 6 / 81:54 in movie 1]\n>\n> **Madoka:** Don't talk about Mami that way! \n> [ep 5]2\n>\n> **Madoka:** You too― I swear I'll never forget you either! I'll never\n> forget... the way you saved us yesterday! \n> [ep 4 / 56:00 in movie 1]\n>\n> **Mami:** You don't read between the lines very well, do you? I'm telling\n> you I'll overlook what you did this time. \n> [ep 1 / 18:01 in movie 1]\n>\n> **Madoka:** ...why are you always so cold? \n> [ep 7 / 94:10 in movie 1]\n>\n> **Mami:** Will you really stand and fight with me from now on? Will you\n> really stay with me? \n> [ep 3 / 43:05 in movie 1]\n>\n> **Sayaka:** There's no way I'll ever regret it. \n> [ep 5 / 69:40 in movie 1; ep title quote]\n>\n> **Sayaka:** Miracles... and magic... are real! \n> [ep 4 / 58:30 in movie 1; ep title quote]\n>\n> **Kyouko:** I know you don't want to be alone. \n> [ep 9 / 26:18 in movie 2]\n>\n> **Kyouko:** ...on the one thing that means most to you... \n> [ep 9 / 25:40 in movie 2]\n>\n> **Madoka:** So, is it okay if I call you Homura, too? \n> [ep 10, timeline 1 / 33:19 in movie 2]\n>\n> **Madoka:** You... finally called me... by my first name... I'm... happy... \n> [ep 10, timeline 3 / 49:01 in movie 2]\n\nAnd here are the Homura lines, roughly translated by me. It's kind of\nlyrical/songy, and I don't really get what some of the lines mean (like the\none about \"a day of blue\" [うつろいゆくこの全ては青の日の希望の比喩に過ぎません, guessing at the\nkanji]), so this is not a good translation. I welcome improvements.\n\n> Even if I can't hear what you say, \n> your words touch me deep within.\n>\n> You take on the forms of all sorts of things \n> and shower sparkling dust.\n>\n> Whether above the city or beneath the waves, \n> you are my only friend.\n>\n> Though you never call for me, \n> you are always there.\n>\n> All these impermanent things are \n> but a metaphor for hope on a day of blue.\n>\n> All that came before \n> is now fulfilled.\n>\n> Even the magic I could not put into words \n> can reach this place.\n>\n> One day, your eternal wish \n> will come to take us away.\n\n* * *\n\n# Notes\n\n1 There's a slight oddity in this line - in the movie, Madoka says 「私、保健係なんだ」\nwhile in the runes, she says 「わたし ほけんいいん なんだ」. They mean pretty much the same\nthing, though.\n\n2 The scene where this line is said (Homura and Madoka at the restaurant, with\nHomura telling Madoka to give up on Sayaka) is omitted from the movie, but\nwould start near 71:06 had it been present. This translation is taken from the\nCrunchyroll subtitles at 11:50 of episode 5.\n\n3 Twitter user @Fau3 did [a very nice re-\nrendering](http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2135111135283389801/2135419880446186203)\nof the credits with the runes replaced with their corresponding kana ([lower-\nres stack.imgur mirror](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yPieL.jpg)), which may be of\ninterest to readers.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-29T23:04:38.553", "id": "15360", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-02T23:45:36.240", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5800", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNot really.\n\nIt is part of the clothes theme in Kill la Kill (even the school building is a\nschool uniform!). So the scissors alone are not following some trend.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-15T23:31:15.273", "id": "5888", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-15T23:31:15.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "5801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNot necessarily a trend, perhaps, but it's worth noting that there's more than\nenough anime with swords\n(<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KatanasAreJustBetter>), even\nguns, that when a unique, less-frequent choice of weaponry comes around, it\nmay catch the attention of a frequent anime viewer.\n\nExample: Would Bakemonogatari episode 1 would have been more interesting if\nSenjougahara used a sword instead of a stapler? _Probably_ not, unless you had\nsome philia regarding swords.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-16T07:40:24.177", "id": "8072", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-16T07:40:24.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4031", "parent_id": "5801", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere was never any real hole in Obito's chest. It was a genjutsu, as shown in\nChapter 636.\n\nThe genjutsu was activated right from the moment Obito pierced himself into\nKakashi's Raikiri. Kakashi realises the genjutsu after a while, asks Obito to\ndrop the act and fight for real.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-13T07:41:29.243", "id": "5849", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T17:11:23.013", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-24T17:11:23.013", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "1537", "parent_id": "5804", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nIt was actually a genjutsu but after the \"real fight\", he got a real wound on\nhis chest(a deliberate attempt by Obito to undo Madara's Seal and become the\nTen Tails Jinchuuriki)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-11T18:11:30.343", "id": "37818", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-11T18:11:30.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29705", "parent_id": "5804", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis might explain the sequence of events:\n\nOn [Naruto Manga Chapter\n555:\"Contradiction\"](http://www.mangareader.net/naruto/555/14), Naruto used\nthe Sage Mode to defeat the third Raikage. After talking to the Eight Tails,\n**Naruto realized that the pierce in his chest was made by his own technique\n([The Hell Stab](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hell_Stab)) thus making his\nweapon more powerful than his armor.**\n\nSee picture below:\n\n\n\nNaruto on sage mode can react on split seconds and he was aiming for his arm\nto redirect the attack towards himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-10T02:12:49.760", "id": "5814", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-10T02:34:23.937", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-10T02:34:23.937", "last_editor_user_id": "1709", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "5807", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter talking to Gyuki (Hachibi), Naruto guessed that the scar on the Third\nRaikage chest may have been made by his own Jigokuzuki (Hell Stab). Based on\nthat, he prepared a plan to make the Raikage stab his own chest.\n\nHe went into Sage Mode, prepared a Rasengan, and ran towards the Raikage as if\nto hit him head on with the Rasengan. The Raikage too ran towards Naruto\naiming to stab him with his One-Finger Nukite.\n\nNaruto's Sage Mode allows him to better sense the enemy, so he could dodge the\nRaikage's finger at the last moment. It also give him better speed, so he\ncould quickly redirect his Rasengan to aim at the Raikage's elbow, before the\nRaikage could dodge it. This impact bent his elbow causing his attack to\npierce his own chest.\n\n  \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-10T02:18:55.083", "id": "5815", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-10T02:18:55.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5807", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_**Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu**_ is a series of Japanese novels written by a\nJapanese person, and is not, to the best of my knowledge, materially based on\nany previously-existing work.\n\n* * *\n\nThe 110-episode OVA series (which is probably what most viewers are familiar\nwith) was given the alternate title \"Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel\". I don't\nspeak German, but various discussions on the internet suggest that\n\"Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel\" is not valid German. A look at\n[de.wiktionary.org](http://de.wiktionary.org/) suggests that \"Kosmosinsel\" is\nnot even a word, or perhaps is a compound noun meaning \"cosmos island\" (which\nis not idiomatic for \"galaxy\"; that would be \"Galaxie\").\n\nGiven this, it looks like the producers of the OVA figured that it would look\ncool to have a faux-German title ([in Gothic font,\ntoo!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xm3Bv.png)), ran \"銀河英雄伝説\" through Babelfish\n(or maybe through some dude who'd had a year of German at university), and got\nout \"Heldensagen von Kosmosinsel\". It's probably the case that the translation\nwent Jap -> Ger (badly) and Jap -> Eng, rather than Ger -> Jap -> Eng.\n\n* * *\n\nI'm not sure why you've been hearing that that \"Legend of the Galactic Heroes\"\nis an \"interesting\" translation of 銀河英雄伝説 ( _ginga eiyuu densetsu_ ), though.\n銀河 _ginga_ means \"galaxy\"; 英雄 _eiyuu_ means \"hero\"; and 伝説 _densetsu_ means\n\"legend\".\n\nIt's a bit contracted to omit particles, as titles often are, but the meaning\nis clear - this is a _densetsu_ about the _ginga eiyuu_ s, i.e. a _legend_\nabout _galaxy heroes_. Hence, **_Legend of the Galactic Heroes_**.\n\n* * *\n\nNote: in the comments, [@Krazer correctly points\nout](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5816/what-is-a-more-accurate-\ntranslation-of-the-title-of-legend-of-the-galactic-\nheroe/5817#comment6666_5817) that an alternate parse of _ginga eiyuu densetsu_\nis as \" _eiyuu densetsu_ about the _ginga_ \", i.e. \"Heroic Legends from the\nGalaxy\". Now that I think about it, I'm not really sure which parse is\nactually better, in terms of the show.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-10T10:09:13.280", "id": "5817", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T04:36:35.083", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T04:36:35.083", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5816", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUnfortunately, there are no official English-language localizations of the\n_Inazuma Eleven_ manga in existence, in print or online.\n\nYou can easily verify this by:\n\n * checking the Wikipedia page for [_Inazuma Eleven (manga)_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inazuma_Eleven_%28manga%29), which does not list any English-language localizations. \n * looking at the [AnimeNewsNetwork encyclopedia page for _Inazuma Eleven_](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=10235) and seeing that this page also does not list any English-language localizations.\n * searching Amazon for \"inazuma eleven manga\" and seeing that you get no hits that are actually manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-10T16:24:57.463", "id": "5822", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-10T16:24:57.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "5818", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Weiß\nSchwarz](http://bushiroad.fm/post/en/28/Introduction+to+Wei+Schwarz.html) is a\nJapanese two-player dueling collectible card game created by\n[Bushiroad](http://bushiroad.fm/), based around (and in collaboration) with\nvarious anime series.\n\nThe game is separated into two factions Weiß-side and Schwarz-side, which are\nGerman for \"white\" and \"black,\" respectively.\n\nHere is a better video on how to play the game:\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXzMtFp_ZN0>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-11T00:00:21.403", "id": "5825", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-29T00:18:42.107", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-29T00:18:42.107", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5824", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nApparently not as the Coco Ending has another scene between Angelina and Belle\nwhich can not be covered in their ending because\n\n> Cero goes with Light to find Wakaba's script and Sylvia stay's with the\n> girls so it's the guys who are left behind in the White Capital, this leads\n> to Sylvia learning about Coco's ability to hide and retrieve her memories\n> which leads to Coco remembering that Efa had entrusted her Memory Drop and\n> the Dorn Memories with Coco (seen in the secret Kurohane chapter) and giving\n> Efa's Memory Drop to Belle leading to Belle becoming confused in her\n> identity and Angelina admitting her feelings to Belle and ensuring her that\n> she loves Belle because Belle is Belle and not Efa\n\nbecause of that and how the events seem to be unique to the Coco Ending i very\nmuch doubt that the Angelina Ending can cover these even if the walk-through\nwas changed\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-03T21:27:52.237", "id": "6121", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-03T21:27:52.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "5829", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen Mustang comments to Hawkeye that he made her do through something\ndreadful again, he uses \"kimi.\"\n\nKimi is the subjective pronoun of \"you\" and is used informally, typically when\ntalking to close friends, younger siblings, but not to parents, older\nrelatives, superiors, etc.\n\nNormally, they have a typical superior-subordinate relationship (noted by\nHawkeye herself that Mustang doesn't call her \"Riza\" even when they're alone)\nwhere they talk to or address one another formally, but here Mustang is being\nfrank with Hawkeye as a close friend rather than a subordinate.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-12T02:32:09.227", "id": "5833", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-12T02:32:09.227", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5830", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the context of anime/manga or JRPG's, it's like \"Bonus Material\". TV Tropes\nhas a page for \"Omake\" that's labelled [Bonus\nMaterial](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BonusMaterial?from=Main.Omake):\n\n> A bonus that is added to, but separate from, a particular work. The practice\n> of adding such a bonus to one's work has been around for a long, long time:\n> Charles Dickens, for example, was a regular practitioner of it, back when he\n> wrote his stories for newspapers and magazines.\n>\n> If this extra material is another story in the universe, it generally\n> doesn't interact with the primary plot of the work, and is seen as \"stand-\n> alone\" material. Some times that extra material isn't even considered canon,\n> though such additions can add depth and insight to the primary characters if\n> the writer makes an effort to connect the \"extra\" to the main material.\n>\n> Other kinds of extras are making-ofs, outtakes, deleted scenes, concept art,\n> feelies and others.\n\nWikipedia also has an entry for [Omake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omake):\n\n> Omake often include comedy sketches where the characters behave out of\n> character, break the fourth wall, or subtly address opinions of the fandom\n> known to the writers. Sometimes scenes from the TV show or OVA are\n> humorously re-dubbed. One example, included on the Video Girl Ai DVD,\n> replays scenes from the OVA series with new voice-acting in a rural accent.\n> Other times, the same actors voice a new script that is more sexually\n> suggestive, often ludicrously so. Omake can also consist of non-canonical,\n> and often comedic crossover clips that sometimes occur at the end of\n> episodes of two shows airing concurrently from the same studio, such as\n> recent Kamen Rider and Super Sentai programs. A screenshot of an anime\n> omake, taken from Gunbuster. Here, chibi versions of the main characters\n> attempt to explain the concept of \"Ice II\".\n>\n> For anime, these are often presented in super deformed style, in the same\n> way manga omake often is. For example, Gunbuster features super deformed\n> characters trying to explain what the writers know to be mostly pseudo-\n> science, or talking about their relationships with each other in a way they\n> do not in the series itself, or in the popular anime series Reborn!, after a\n> couple of episodes one of the characters named Haru Miura has an interview\n> called \"Haru-Haru's dangerous interview corner\" with each of the characters\n> of the anime in chibi forms, the characters' answers to the questions are\n> often something they would never say in the anime or the manga. For live\n> action programs, although not animated, the expressions and sound effects\n> used for comedic purposes can often be inspired by the omake found in the\n> animated mediums.\n>\n> The term Omake has use also in video games; the Sega game Shenmue II for the\n> Dreamcast had a hidden folder on the game disc labelled \"Omake\", found by\n> placing the disc into a computer, containing exclusive wallpapers and\n> conception art.\n>\n> Another example of an omake in popular culture is related to Square's Final\n> Fantasy IX. The secret \"Blackjack\" minigame after completion of the game is\n> accessed by means of a button combination. The Final Fantasy \"Playonline\"\n> site has a secrets section for Final Fantasy IX, which requires passwords\n> given in the official Piggyback guide to enter. The password needed to\n> reveal the button combination for the Blackjack minigame is E-OMAKE. The\n> minigame itself is, of course, an omake.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-12T01:36:14.567", "id": "5832", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-12T01:36:14.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "5831", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs usual, Oda Eiichiro has a \"creative\" explanation for that too! Oda\nblatantly disobeys the Laws of our world in One Piece.\n\nIn SBS Volume 44, when asked how Sanji could beat Jabra by heating his leg,\nwithout burning it, Oda's response was:\n\n> Sanji's leg is not hot!! His heart was burning so much hotter!!\n\nIf asked your question, he would _probably_ say something like:\n\n> Learning Haki, spending 2 years chased by Okamas, and being separated from\n> ladies, especially Nami-san and Robin-chan, has made his heart burn much\n> hotter!!! Even water cannot extinguish his burning heart!!!\n\nI know, it doesn't feel satisfying, but this is how Oda-sensei's\n\"explanations\" usually are!\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-12T09:37:16.980", "id": "5835", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-12T09:37:16.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nWell I feel like Sanji uses Haki to incinerate his leg just like Luffy used\nHaki to use the Red Hawk attack. If you remember Luffy's fight vs Hordy, Luffy\nuses the Red Hawk attack (which uses Armorment Haki to make his arms catch on\nfire) under water. Maybe Sanji uses that on his leg to attack. Just a theory.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-03T22:29:29.897", "id": "9495", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-03T23:57:31.960", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-03T23:57:31.960", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "4753", "parent_id": "5834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs we all know, Sanji has acquired Haki and Sky Walk. If Sky Walk (also Blue\nWalk, but underwater) can serve as a foundation for friction, and Haki as an\nincinerator, then we get fire underwater. We know that Luffy can generate fire\nthanks to this logic... Haki and speed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-27T19:49:46.257", "id": "21179", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-27T20:18:56.190", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-27T20:18:56.190", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "14163", "parent_id": "5834", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is my own theory but his flames could be from the power he was supposed\nto get at birth. All his siblings had powers but he was considered a dud. If I\nam wrong he could get powers later on or he might never get them.\n\nJust realized no one has commented in over a year and you guys didn't have\nthis info, that I am basing my theory off of, when it was originally posted.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-08T07:36:20.780", "id": "38851", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-08T07:42:17.673", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-08T07:42:17.673", "last_editor_user_id": "30813", "owner_user_id": "30813", "parent_id": "5834", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile it's conceivable that ecchi can be used to drive the story in a way, It\nalmost never does add to the story.\n\nThe reason it's added is to draw people manga/anime, and some people do like\nthe ecchi itself.\n\nI find that ecchi doesn't really harm the story either. A good series with\necchi added is still a good series, and a bad series with ecchi is still a bad\nseries.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-12T15:39:19.060", "id": "5839", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-12T15:39:19.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "5836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n(Note: I don't have any evidence or sources to back up these claims.)\n\nThe most straight-forward reason there is ecchi in some shows is simply\nbecause the animators like to draw scantily clad (or naked) girls. You see\nthis in a lot of fan-art or random sketches by some directors, who were once\nanimators (for example: Imaishi).\n\nBut a possible added value for ecchi scenes is sort of two fold. These are\nshows that are usually in the late-late-night time slots and are sometimes on\nsatellite stations, where they can get away with a bit more. This is usually\nthe time slot for some of the more \"enthusiastic\" fans of anime, the ones who\nspend lots of money on merchandise and physical media (DVD/BD).\n\nHaving this kind of customer base, although much smaller than some of the non-\nlate-night popular shows, means studios are likely to hit certain sales\nminimums just by pandering to this demographic. Figures (often scantily clad,\nor with explicit nudity) are sold and the DVD/BD's with promised uncensoring\n(or even _more_ graphic nudity) are bought up. So it's more or less \"Sex\nSells\".\n\nThe added value to the viewer is probably more a matter of taste. If you don't\nlike that kind of stuff, you're probably not going to watch these kinds of\nshows. Some of these kinds of shows is pure fan service, with none of the\necchi actually playing any role at all in the story or plot (e.g. \"Najica\",\n\"Agent Aika\", \"Green Green\", etc), and more recently, eventhough it can be\nargued whether the ecchi really does have to do with story or not, it's tied\nmore closely to the show, where removing it actually devalues the show itself\n(e.g. \"Queen's Blade\").\n\nThere has even been quite a bit of backlash for these late-night time slot\necchi shows because a lot of them aren't very popular and it can seem that a\nlot of studios (at least between 2000-2010) sacrificed quality and writing to\nsimply have ecchi and pander toward a small demographic who happens to spend a\nlot of money.\n\nJust to be clear [\"fan service\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_service)\ndoesn't necessarily have to be ecchi, and it's almost always inconsequential\nto the story or plot. It's just there to please the viewer (assuming the\nviewer is into the show). It doesn't add much value to the story/plot and\nisn't necessarily supposed to.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-12T16:42:53.190", "id": "5842", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-27T06:52:42.180", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-27T06:52:42.180", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "5836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nGuess I was beating around the bush, so here comes the straight answer:\n\nIt's so viewers can engage in acts of onanism, treat their bodies like an\namusement park, crown the king, play pocket pool, do arm aerobics, strum the\nbanjo, stir the yogurt, charm the cobra, walk the dog, be lord of your manor,\nking of the castle, the master of your domain.\n\nThere.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-16T00:09:30.623", "id": "5892", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-16T00:09:30.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "5836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHis [work chronology](http://www.shirowledge.com/index_enu.html#comic) listed\non his official website, shows some of his recent works, and plans for near\nfuture. He doesn't seem to have any plans for the series you mentioned.\n\n[code]\n\n 2013/09/11 SEVEN TRAPS : Auto fighter-bomber SUZUMEBACHI (Hornet) (Monthly YOUNG MAGAZINE)\n 2013/09/20 INTRON DEPOT 6 BARB WIRE 01 (Art Book)\n 2013/09/27 W-TAILS CAT - A STRANGE PRESENCE - Episode 06 (Stream)\n 2013/10/09 SEVEN TRAPS : Multipurpose multi-legged tank unit HONOOARI (Flame Ant) (Monthly YOUNG MAGAZINE)\n 2013/10/10 Cover Girl Fragments Vol.7 (comic Anthurium 007) \n 2013/10/25 W-TAILS CAT - A STRANGE PRESENCE - Episode 07 (Stream)\n 2013/11/09 Cover Girl Fragments Vol.8 (comic Anthurium 008)\n 2013/11/xx INTRON DEPOT 7 BARB WIRE 02 (Art Book)\n 2013/11/30 Ghost In The Shell ARISE border:2 Ghost Whispers (Movie)\n 2013/11/30 Shirow Masamune Calendar SABER TOOTH CATS 6 (Calendar)\n 2014/01/xx GREASE BERRIES 1 (Art Book)\n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-12T16:00:53.917", "id": "5841", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-12T16:10:45.193", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-12T16:10:45.193", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5840", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Before we begin an answer:**\n\nI prefer honestly saying that there is no answer for this (or I personally\nnever saw something that answers that on the web), but we can use some\ndeductions from what we know and experienced from the long series of the\nanime.\n\nAs we already know from Dragon Ball, the trademark characteristic of the\ntransformation is the user's hair, it goes golden yellow at the Super Saiyan 2\nlevel as a representation of achieving a higher level of energy.\n\n**I guess you could also ask:**\n\nwhy does his hair goes golden yellow at the first place ?\n\nFor me I know no reason of getting hair color changed when rising the\nenergetic level, but by assuming that saiyans are a different race than\nhumans, we could explain it as a result of the rise in Ki consumption, for\nexample in SS3 :\n\n> The rigid hair of the Super Saiyan 2 state becomes flowing and smooth again,\n> and grows down to or sometimes passes the user's waist. The eyebrows vanish\n> completely, making the forehead and eye ridges appear larger and revealing a\n> more prominent brow ridge. A small increase in muscle mass is evident, and\n> muscle tone is sharply defined. Energy radiation is so great that the aura\n> pulses at an extremely high frequency, almost to the point where it seems\n> static; the sound of the aura is also pitched even higher than that of Super\n> Saiyan 2. Bio-electricity, like in the Super Saiyan 2 form, is again\n> constant, and may reach further outward from the body than before. The\n> Saiyan's voice may become slightly deeper, though this is obviously a\n> feature only found in the anime. If the user of the Super Saiyan 3 form has\n> a tail, it turns yellowish gold.\n\n[Source](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_3#Appearance)\n\n**So as a personal explanation:**\n\nI can say that just like when you eat a lot you get fat (as a human), when you\nopen your body for a perfect Ki consumption (as in SS3 level) your hair will\ngrow as long golden yellow (as a Saiyan).\n\n**And as a remark:**\n\nThe body must change the morphological shape to achieve a higher efficiency in\nusing the current level of energy for combat (for example largest muscles in\nSS3, tallest in SS4 .. etc), and as one can deduce: hair has no effect on the\ncombat course, but personally again, I think the complete opposite: the hair\nstyle may cause more effect than muscles, it have an impact on the moral and\npsychic state of the enemy, to make it even clear:\n\nJust like the lion is scary with large hair, so is the saiyan in SS3, he looks\nstronger sometimes more than what he really is. Unlike what was the small evil\nBoo, his physical appearance didn't show his strength therefore it had no\nimpact on his enemies (Goku and Vegeta).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-13T20:22:52.880", "id": "5858", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-24T16:24:34.240", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-24T16:24:34.240", "last_editor_user_id": "2668", "owner_user_id": "2668", "parent_id": "5850", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nI have to say that the bulleted answer that I just read was incredible, and a\nlot can be taken away from that to understand the Saiyan race. In my eyes, the\nSaiyan's hair is a very key part of their ki control, their physical stature,\nand their own understanding of themselves. I believe it was Vegeta who said to\nBulma that a Saiyan's hair never grows, it never changes (to paraphrase, of\ncourse).\n\n**Saiyan's hairstyles and strengths**\n\nIt does not seem that the length of a Saiyan's hair is immediately related to\nthe base power of the Saiyan. The Saiyan saga made it quite clear that Raditz\nis weaker than Nappa is weaker than Vegeta, and the lengths of hair do not\ngrow shorter or longer in that sequence, as Nappa is bald and is stronger than\nRaditz (according to Team Four Star, Nappa is 5Raditz, lol). It's possible\nthat I'm wrong, and Raditz had unrealized potential to be unrelentingly strong\nbut was too mentally weak to achieve it. However, I don't believe this to be\nthe case.\n\n**Supers and their hair**\n\nNow onto the relationship between the hairstyle and Super Saiyan abilities. To\nmake a note, all the Saiyans we know to have achieved a true Super Saiyan\nform, had hair. This is minor, but makes the analysis a whole lot easier. Goku\nand Bardock were the first two Saiyans in known history to transform and they\nhad the same fairly short, spiky hairstyle. Vegeta's early SS form was a bit\ninvalid in my opinion, as he forced his way in, like achieving full meditation\nwith help from drugs. However, his hairstyle is in many ways very similar to\nGoku's, which I will comment on in my next point. Goten, same hairstyle as\nBardock and Goku, and as far as Trunks, that's just a different story, I'll\nmake a side point in the end for that.\n\n**Goku vs. Vegeta**\n\nSo what is the difference between Goku's hairstyle and Vegeta's (in base\nform)? If you look closely, their hairs are actually quite identical. I've\nnever counted the spikes, however. If Goku's hair was forced upward I feel\nthat they would be the same length and style. This opens up to my real idea of\nwhat the hair represents. On Earth, martial artists have the ability to\nsuppress their power, not hide, but suppress. Vegeta learns this, proving he\nnever had this ability before coming to Earth. So while Goku spent his life\nonly bursting his power at the moment he needs it, Vegeta has always pushed\nhimself to the limits at all time. I believe their hairstyles resemble this.\nGoku is always at peace and relaxed, so I believe his hair is relaxed and does\nnot flow as much ki. When Goku uses the Kaio-ken, his hair rushes up for just\na moment.\n\n**A channel for ki**\n\nSo all in all, my theory is that a Saiyan's hair has no cosmetic value, and is\na direct representation of their average ki consumption. When Goku and Vegeta\ntransform, their hair is passing far more ki than normal, and this causes it\nto stand up and resemble their aura. For all known Super Saiyans, there is a\ngold aura, however we do not know that this is always the case. Perhaps the SS\nof legends, thousands of years ago, had a green or red aura. However, Goku and\nBardock have a golden spirit aura and Vegeta learned to transform by watching\nGoku, resembling his technique and passing it to his son Trunks (again, not\ngetting into that little bastard). Broly's final transformation had more of a\ngreen aura as well, but I'm not an expert on the movies.\n\n**SSJ1-SSJ2-SSJ3**\n\nThe typical first transformation involves the hair turning from black to gold,\nand the eyes turning bluish-green. The next transformation involves the hair\nto flow even more forcefully upward, the aura to grow sometimes with\nlightning, and muscle growth. Then the transformation to SSJ3, which I have\nonly seen done by Goku in the greatest scene ever, involves the obvious growth\nof hair, more muscle growth, and some major facial changes.\n\n**SSJ3 analysis**\n\nNow I think I'll get to my opinion on the question that was asked. In the SSJ3\nform, not only do the eyebrows disappear, but the entire forehead grows\nseverely. It seems to me that the top of the head and base of the hair is the\nlast biological point in the body which passes ki, and the growth of his\ncranium is no doubt to accommodate the intense flow of ki. The eyebrows may\nserve as an auxiliary port for key to enhance vision and the senses, or even\njust to project ki in different directions. However, when the body must focus\nenough energy to reach such a high level, such accessories are pointless,\ntherefore they vanish into the flow of ki. When I watch Goku transform for the\nfirst time on Earth, I see him not only intensify his own energy, but taking\nit in from the world, like a slowly expanding spirit bomb in a way. The clouds\nfly towards him, the grasses bend his way and all the trees shake immensely.\nHis body is at that point holding far too much energy to handle and he must\nadapt his physical body to survive and use that energy. This is where the hair\nreacts and becomes much larger to allow him to hold the energy a little longer\nand direct his power much more finely. _This doesn't answer the question how\nhair could just grow and shrink, but the idea is, maybe instead of calcium and\nproteins, a Saiyan's hair is made of raw ki._\n\n**Trunks**\n\nI promised to make a side note on how Trunks' hair works, so here it is.\nTrunks can go screw because I don't want to think about the one hole in my\nentire theory. Bulma is ruining it YET AGAIN and I'm sick of her s**t. SICK OF\nIT!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T03:32:39.783", "id": "8709", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T12:42:20.437", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-08T12:42:20.437", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "4529", "parent_id": "5850", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nMaybe it is because a saiyan's eyebrows disappear due to the increase of\nmuscle around the eyes, there for increasing their sight ability furthermore.\n\nThe hair length though. I'd say it's half cosmetic just for intimidating\npurposes but also because it has a deeper meaning. The hair styles with\nsaiyan's personally, going off human hair, means nothing. But the increase of\nhair length of a Saiyan hair being that it increases in length through base\nform - SSJ3 (yes it does increase slightly). This maybe a way of cooling the\nbody down or an outlet for excess energy that the body needs to exile or does\nnaturally. I don't believe it to be an energy channeler as there isn't any\nevidence and it make no sense, but that's clearly my opinion.\n\nAs to the original question as to why the hair increases and why this change\nis not permanent maybe due to the fact that the body undergoes mass physical\nchanges to adapt to the physical and physiological needs to the present form,\nor even just a simple side effect of the transformation in which the changing\nof the hair could all just be a coincidence and an unintentional\nargumentation.\n\nWhen the user \"retreats\" (and I use that term loosely) the side effects or the\naugmentations due to the transformation are reversed due to the transformation\n\"retreating\" and no longer in effect.\n\nI.e. Like when a smoker starts after a while their lungs get worse but as they\nstart to quit, their lungs become better. Same theory applies. Not being in\nthat state returns the body back to its original form.\n\nHope that solves your question and others as well, I hope someone finds my\ntheory to be interesting.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-19T05:48:24.367", "id": "8767", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-21T10:13:21.787", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-21T10:13:21.787", "last_editor_user_id": "4555", "owner_user_id": "4555", "parent_id": "5850", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis isn't an answer, but rather a theory:\n\nJust like when your hair becomes charged from static buildup and begins to\nrise, when a Saiyan goes Super Saiyan, their hair becomes super charged with\nKi energy to such an extent that it literally begins to glow, resulting in a\nblond appearance.\n\nAs this charge is pushed to greater extents, the focused charge pulsing from\nroot to tip not only glows outward from the shaft, but also fires a visible\nlaser like beam of light from the tip, resulting in the apparent lengthening\nof the hair.\n\nAs this charge is pushed to EVEN greater extents, the visible distance of this\nlight is amplified, and the space around the hair begins to distort, further\n\"lengthening\" the hair, as well as amplifying it's volume.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-29T01:33:02.273", "id": "21216", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-29T01:33:02.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14188", "parent_id": "5850", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeems to be the [Sprouting\nears](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SproutingEars) trope.\n\n> A symptom of a Super-Deformed Art Shift, where occasionally a character will\n> sprout Unusual Ears or other animal features (paws, tails, etc.) during\n> certain moments to accentuate certain aspects of their personality. What\n> ears symbolize what varies from culture to culture, but generally they break\n> down into three groups:\n>\n> 1. Cats: Genkiness, excitability, occasionally irritation. Usually\n> accompanied by a Cat Smile.\n> 2. Dogs: Hyperness, clumsiness, affection. Generally done to a character\n> who is loving, but not all there in the head.\n> 3. Foxes: Mischief, wisdom, slyness. May be either friendly or malevolent.\n>\n\nAnother form it might be used (did not watch little busters so not sure its\nthe case) is when the character hears something special hes not supposed to\nknow. This is often used to show that they have heard this secret information.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T22:07:01.570", "id": "5880", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T22:07:01.570", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "5853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPresumably it's to fit into the standard 30 minute time slot allocated for the\nshow.\n\n * 20 min. episode\n * [3 min. OP + ED (90 seconds each)](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2597/when-and-why-did-the-trend-of-130-long-openings-and-endings-begin)\n * Commercials\n\nAnd it's about 30 minutes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-13T19:36:28.397", "id": "5856", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-13T19:36:28.397", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "5855", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe first two Nanoha movies are retellings of the first and second seasons of\nthe anime respectively. That is to say that \"Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The\nMovie 1st\" covers the same story as the original \"Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha\"\nand \"Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's\" covers the same part of\nthe story as \"Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's\". The not-yet-aired third movie\nis supposedly going to be an original story which will be set between A's and\nStrikerS on the timeline.\n\nThere are some minor differences between the anime and the movies.\nTechnically, the movies form their own continuity. However, these differences\nare all minor as far as I remember. With that in mind, there are many possible\norders to watch the series, and so long as you respect the internal chronology\nany viewing order seems reasonable. If you want to watch all the anime in\nchronological order by release date (which is what I'd personally recommend),\nit would be:\n\n 1. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha\n 2. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's\n 3. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS\n 4. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st\n 5. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A's\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T03:53:16.440", "id": "5863", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T03:53:16.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "5862", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to the excellent response provided by Logan M, these are the anime\nand manga series in a chronological order. The _Vivid_ and _Force_ manga\nseries continue the story from the anime, while the other manga entries are\nnothing more than additional background content for the die-hard fan\n\n * **Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha** or **Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st**\n * _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha MOVIE 1st THE COMICS (Manga)_\n * **Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's** or **Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd**\n * _Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (Manga)_\n * **Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS**\n * _Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS THE COMICS (Manga)_\n * _Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid (Manga)_\n * _Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Force (Manga)_\n\nPlease do note that the movies are alternate retellings that are not 100%\nstory-wise compatible with the original series. In **StrikerS** there are a\nnumber of background references to story from A's which has been scrapped in\nthe movie retelling. I would recommend going through the original series\n(Nanoha, A's and StrikerS) prior to watching the movie retelling and/or\nreading the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T18:46:06.490", "id": "5879", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T18:46:06.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "5862", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst, I just want to make clear that Mr. 3's ability is wax and not clay. =)\n\nAfter freeing Ace, he had been taken by other pirates and was ordered to free\nMarco as well with his ability (since Marco was also handcuffed by Kairoseki).\n\nAfter the war, he was seen together with Buggy while reading a letter from\nWorld Government.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T07:02:29.087", "id": "5867", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-12T18:30:05.450", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-12T18:30:05.450", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "5866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIssue#1 is the Weekly Shonen Jump issue to be released in the week of Nov. 25,\n2013.1 Naruto Chapter 656 would be available in that week, which I guess, is\nthe main motivation for your question.\n\nA literal translation, with absence of context, such as the one below may have\nled to a misinterpretation that Naruto is taking a break till end of 2013. It\nis actually taking only a one week break.\n\n\n\nWeekly Shonen Jump, as the name suggests, numbers its issues by weeks, from 1\nto 52. The issue which carried Naruto Chapter 655 was issue #51, released in\nthe week of Nov. 11, 2013.\n\n* * *\n\n1\\. Due to time zone difference and other reasons, different readers may get\nchapter translations on different days of the week. Hence, referring to the\nweek by its Monday date to avoid confusion.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T09:28:35.260", "id": "5869", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T09:37:38.117", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-14T09:37:38.117", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5868", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBon Clay did not get killed. He somehow survived the fight against Magellan,\nand escaped to the Level 5.5 (Newkamaland), where he has become the new\n\"Queen\". Many of the Newkama prisoners who escaped during the Impel Down arc\nhave reoccupied it.\n\nThe canonical evidence is on the cover page of Chapter 666. It is not yet\nknown how Bon Clay escaped from Magellan, or how and why the Newkama prisoners\nreturned to Impel Down.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T13:22:24.173", "id": "5871", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T13:22:24.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5870", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat looks to be cel shading which is \"designed to make 3-D computer graphics\nappear to be flat\". - [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T15:02:55.133", "id": "5875", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T15:29:31.307", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-14T15:29:31.307", "last_editor_user_id": "2044", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "5872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe series uses CGI, notably a combination of 3d objects with 2d illustrations\n(more so in the Second season then in the first). This has been common\npractice in the industry for a while (both to improve quality and save on\nlabor). Most production use cel shaders or rotoscoping the model to mask the\ndisconnect between the two dimensions.\n\nA notable examples with less distinctions in recent anime are Berserker from\nFate/Zero:\n\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7OYPb3fTP0>\n\nand the new Code Geass series:\n\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOYerOT_Wpc#t=48>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T15:19:38.813", "id": "5876", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T15:19:38.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe manga doesn't explicitly state what Mayuri did, and Uryuu makes the same\nremark.\n\n\n\nHowever, it seems very likely that Mayuri fiddled with Nemu's _\"reset button\"_\n1, based on her moaning (see screenshot below), and his remark:\n\n> You can't even understand something that simple by looking at it?\n\n\n\nHe later derides Uryuu and Renji for reaching wrong conclusions, and calls\nthem laymen who do not understand his technology. This suggests that he might\nhave given Nemu something _like_ a Tantric Massage. Laymen watching it in our\nworld would reach exactly the same wrong conclusion.\n\n\n\nI know the above theory is a speculation, but this is as much evidence I can\nprovide to support it. I guess we won't know any more of what he did for the\nreason Uryuu mentions.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Sorry, I cannot be more explicit than that. I hope you know what I mean.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-14T16:40:38.250", "id": "5878", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-14T16:40:38.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5877", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEdo Tensei needs the DNA of the person to be reincarnated. (Chapter 520)\n\n\n\nKabuto could not bring back the Uchiha clan because he could not get their\nDNA.\n\nDanzo, who commissioned the Uchiha clan massacre, must have had their bodies\nthoroughly destroyed to prevent enemies from misusing the Sharingan. Given\nDanzo's character and principles, we can be certain he would take such\nmeasures. For instance, he was very upset on knowing that Kirigakure's Ao had\ntaken Konoha's Byakugan.\n\nKakashi also makes a mention of this rule in Chapter 16.\n\n\n\nMadara's death was independent of the Uchiha Clan massacre, and Konoha thought\nhe was dead anyway, so the possibility of Danzo destroying his body does not\narise at all.\n\nAfter Madara's death, Tobi must have taken great efforts to make his body\ninaccessible, because otherwise it would ruin the plan of him falsely assuming\nMadara's identity. However, he probably did not destroy it completely, and\nKabuto (or Orochimaru) may have found the body or its parts somehow. Tobi was\nunderstandably shocked when Kabuto showed him the Edo Tensei Madara in the\nsixth coffin, since it meant his plan was ruined.\n\nItachi's dead body was easier to obtain, since he died just a few weeks before\nin his own hideout.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-15T02:07:39.407", "id": "5882", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-15T08:16:43.970", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-15T08:16:43.970", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5881", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the uchiha would have brought great strength in battle...how ever\nsauske would not have the courage to kill his fellow clans men it's better\nthan the gedo statue,but sauske did not plan on turning on obito at the time\nso it would have been a \"just in case plan\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-03T02:30:29.387", "id": "39693", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-03T02:30:29.387", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31778", "parent_id": "5881", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are _several_ types of fusion. For the majority of these, the more\ndominant/stronger individual controls the mind and body.\n\nFor Piccolo and Nail, they did the _Namekian Fusion_ , Piccolo was the more\ndominant. There was also Cell and the Androids. Cell fused with them by a type\nof fusion called [_Absorption_](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Absorption).\nThere was also the permanent fusion of Supreme Kai and his servant Kibito by\nusing _The Potara Earrings_. Supreme Kai's personality was the one that stood\nout after that. For Dragon Ball Super we also see Kale and Caulifla fuse into\nKefla who actually only seems to inherit Caulifla's personality.\n\nIn the normal fusion, the one you are more than likely asking about, the one\nthat comes after initiating the [_Fusion\nDance_](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Fusion_Dance). A new being is created\nfrom both individuals. [This being\nwill..](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Fusion)\n\n> combine both their attributes, from strength and speed to reflexes,\n> intelligence and wisdom. When properly fused, the single being created has\n> an astounding level of power, far beyond what either fusees would have had\n> individually.\n\nSo, none of the fusees control the mind after the normal fusion. The being\ncreated after is a combination of both of their individual attributes and as\nsuch can think for itself.\n\n", "comment_count": 10, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-15T17:32:13.800", "id": "5885", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-19T20:18:58.280", "last_edit_date": "2018-03-19T20:18:58.280", "last_editor_user_id": "1528", "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "5883", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a totally different person, e.g. x + y = z.\n\nSo it's not either one. Once they are fused, a new superpower being is formed.\n\nIf you remember what Trunks says to Pam when Goku and Vegeta are fused, he'll\nsay that they both are not two different entity. They are one being :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-13T09:50:31.750", "id": "8021", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-15T14:51:26.480", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-15T14:51:26.480", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4095", "parent_id": "5883", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFusion dance = an entirely new being. And as far as the earrings go, it\ndepends.\n\nIf one person is far more dominant in power and personality, then they remain\nwho they are and are in complete control of the new form (old Kai and Kabito\nKai), but if both fusee's are equal in power and dominance of personality,\nthen similar to the dance, a new being completely will be created. You can\ntell if this occurs if you can hear both fusee's voices (Vegito).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-13T02:19:50.897", "id": "34239", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-15T14:51:24.127", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-15T14:51:24.127", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "26156", "parent_id": "5883", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNo one, once fused. He or she is an _entirely_ different person, with a brand\nnew personality and everything.\n\nAn exception _would_ be the Namekian fusion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-10-15T14:03:50.467", "id": "49199", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-15T14:51:19.930", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-15T14:51:19.930", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42916", "parent_id": "5883", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n\"Steel Alchemist\" is in fact the literal translation of Edward Elric's title.\nThe term \"Fullmetal\" is most likely a reference to Stanley Kubrick classic\nwar-is-hell film _Full Metal Jacket_.\n\nThe \"jacket\" of a full metal jacketed bullet is usually made of steel.\nSometimes you hear these bullets called _steel jacketed_ in English, and in\nmany other languages, a translation of this second name is much more common.\nIn many countries outside the US, FMJ was retitled to reflect the most common\nlocal name for the bullets, in order to preserve that reference. I don't know\nif Japan did this: IMDB doesn't list the Japanese title for some reason.\n\nBut if Japan did retitle the movie, then the title \"Steel Alchemist\" may have\nbeen intended all along to reflect the title of the \"Steel Jacketed\" movie.\nMany translations of FMA actually do use a title that reflects the way FMJ was\ntitled in the translation's own language, and so it's possible that \"Fullmetal\nAlchemist\" is just another application of that practice.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-15T19:01:58.653", "id": "5887", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-15T19:01:58.653", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2403", "parent_id": "5886", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhat I found from\n[here](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Myths_and_legends_involving_legendary_Pok%C3%A9mon)\nis:\n\n> 火の神、雷の神、氷の神に触れずべからず。 \n> されば、天地怒り世界は破滅に向かう。 \n> 海の神、破滅を救わんと現れん。 \n> されど、世界の破滅を防ぐことならず。 \n> すぐれたるあやつり人現れ、神々の怒り静めん限り…。\n>\n> The god of fire, god of lightning, and god of ice must not be touched. \n> Else, heaven and earth will be angered and the world will face destruction. \n> The god of the sea will appear to stop the destruction. \n> But, it will not prevent the world's destruction. \n> Unless an exceptional trainer appears to calm the wrath of the gods....\n\nIf this is accurate, then there is no mention of Ash, but instead just that of\na trainer in general.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-15T23:58:42.547", "id": "5891", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-26T04:29:05.200", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-26T04:29:05.200", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "5889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's a fortunate play on words made possible by the English translation, since\nAsh's name in Japanese is Satoshi.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-16T00:10:13.463", "id": "5893", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-16T00:10:13.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1850", "parent_id": "5889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n> So what, exactly, did the legend say about Ash being the \"chosen hero\" at\n> that point in the story?\n\nIn my translation for the audio Japanese the legend at the start says:\n\n> The flame god, The lightning god, and the ice gold must not be disturb.\n> should you do so, nature shall be angered, and the world shall face\n> destruction. the ocean god shall arise try to stop the disaster but will\n> fail to prevent the world's devastation. A great controller shall come forth\n> to calm the wrath of the gods.\n\nthis is the dialogue you referring to in the Japanese ver.:\n\nSlowking: \"Unless we find the great controller the god's anger won't be\ncalmed.\"\n\nFuruura: \"The great controller?\"\n\nSlowking (speaking to ash): \"We only have two treasures\"\n\nFuruura: \"If the great controller appears, can the world be saved?\"\n\nMisty: \"Wait, that means... no way! Satoshi?\"\n\nTracy: \"I see, so that what's about\"\n\nAsh: \"Me? it is really me?\"\n\nPikachu: \"Pikachu\" (nodding for yes)\n\nIn other words, since ash considered in the festival \"the great controller,\"\nhe considered being the real one, as Ash mentioned: \"But wasn't that festival\nthing supposed to be really easy?\".\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TfyAe.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/r4IOI.png)\n\nSo while in the Eng dub ver. the chosen is Ash as written in the legend \"Turn\nto ash\" in the Jap dub ver. it is based on the festival.\n\nIt fits with Japan conception about festivals and such. While they changed it\nin the DUB version so it will be more realisable with out-of-Japan people.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-01-21T02:31:22.300", "id": "56553", "last_activity_date": "2022-03-03T18:13:22.800", "last_edit_date": "2022-03-03T18:13:22.800", "last_editor_user_id": "51620", "owner_user_id": "51620", "parent_id": "5889", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom the One Piece wiki page on [Mero Mero no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mero_Mero_no_Mi) (Hancock's Devil's Fruit):\n\n> The Mero Mero no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows a range of\n> attacks which **use emotions of lust or perversion** to transform opponents\n> into stone.\n\nLuffy did not have any lustful feelings towards Hancock, so her Mero Mero\nMellow attack had no effect on him.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-16T04:05:02.290", "id": "5897", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-16T04:05:02.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5896", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nThe way Boa Hancock's powers work is by turning those who feel lust in their\nheart to stone. This works pretty well for her, as the most beautiful woman in\nthe world, so her classic attack is to strike a pose which inspires lust, then\nuse her powers. This fruit only has an effect on anyone because they lust for\nHancock, if Lola, or some other less attractive character had eaten this fruit\nit would be far less effective.\n\nIn theory, Luffy was immune because he felt no lust in his heart, so the Mero\nMero Mellow attack which turns the lustful to stone simply passed through him\nwithout any effect. Although it gets pretty dodgy when you consider that she\ncan turn other women, Pacifistas and even cannon balls to stone, so apparently\nLuffy actually feels less lust than a typical inanimate object.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T22:11:07.797", "id": "8682", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T22:11:07.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "5896", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's very simple. Actually, Luffy is innocent-minded, so he has no interest in\nfalling in love or getting married. In my opinion it's because it would slow\nhim down.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-15T23:04:31.940", "id": "13445", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-29T19:35:29.010", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-29T19:35:29.010", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "8012", "parent_id": "5896", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThough Oda did mention in an SBS that Luffy is interested in her looks (though\nUsopp is a bad influence on his part), the real reason Luffy is immune is that\nhe has a pure heart. With a pure heart, he has no evil or vile thoughts inside\nhim.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-24T18:47:17.957", "id": "17048", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-24T19:29:40.730", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-24T19:29:40.730", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "10835", "parent_id": "5896", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is not clear whether this woman is someone whom the viewers have met.\nHowever, with the flow of the episode around this point, _it is not\nunthinkable_ that this is someone whom we know; if it were not, I might expect\nthis scene to be structured differently. (For instance, it might make more\nsense for Hatchin to hear someone yelling for help, _along_ with the\nsilhouette.)\n\nIf it is indeed someone we know, the most likely answer then is that this is\nAnastacia. There are only two women who appear in this episode: Michiko and\nAnastacia. Michiko's hair extends far beyond shoulder-length, and in this part\nof the episode, she is wearing trousers.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wIPC3.jpg)\n\nMeanwhile, Anastacia is wearing a skirt in this part of the episode, and her\nhair is a lot closer to shoulder-length.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VogJk.jpg)\n\nAnastacia's appearance thus matches that of the silhouette a lot better:\nnotice that there is no space between its legs, so the woman in question is\nprobably wearing a skirt or a dress. The hair-length also matches that of the\nsilhouette, which has something like a bob, somewhat. (It is less important\nthat the hair-length of the silhouette and of the character match up entirely.\nHatchin could well be seeing the silhouette of someone bent over, looking into\nthe water. When someone bends over, a good portion of her hair may shift\ndownwards, if her hair is both long enough to fall forward and short enough\nthat it will not stay on her back. This would lead to a silhouette with\nshorter hair than that of the woman to which it corresponds.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-02T02:42:51.543", "id": "42578", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-02T02:42:51.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "5899", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to[ this academic\nsite](http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/05/river-kawa.html), while it is\nnot a kigo (season word), the mogami river is well known in Japanese haiku.\n\nI imagine Yuuko has trouble thinking of an entire 5-7-5 poem, and so she just\nreuses this famous line for that reason.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T18:35:53.033", "id": "7969", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T18:35:53.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2567", "parent_id": "5904", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe pronunciation of the hiragana character ろ is the correct way to pronounce\nthe `ro` in Roronoa Zoro's name. This pronunciation lies somewhere in between\nthe English pronunciations of `Ro` and `Lo` (though closer to `Ro`). You can\nfind an audio file with the pronunciation on [this\npage](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/hiragana) at\nguidetojapanese.org.\n\nThe canonical Roman spelling for his name is `Roronoa Zoro`, since this is the\nspelling used on his bounty poster. In the English dub, 4kids changed his name\nto `Zolo` for some reason.\n\n\n\nHis first name is Zoro, and last name is Roronoa. The Japanese place their\nfamily name before their first name.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-17T02:36:51.670", "id": "5909", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-21T05:02:59.040", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-21T05:02:59.040", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nRoar-oh-know-ah is the pronunciation of Roronoa\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-17T04:48:33.360", "id": "5911", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-17T04:48:33.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2739", "parent_id": "5906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGenerally, with Funimation, subbed episodes can be streamed for free; some\nother shows will also have the first couple dubbed episodes free for\nstreaming, but this isn't the case with Guilty Crown.\n\nIt seems that the links on the main page of a number of shows aren't quite\nplaced right - the \"elite\" and \"watch free\" links go to the same page. You can\nwatch any subbed episodes without being a subscriber by going to the \"Videos\"\ntab on the main page and then mousing over the thumbnail for the episode and\nselecting \"watch sub\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-16T21:49:02.857", "id": "5908", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-17T04:12:28.767", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-17T04:12:28.767", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "5907", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's \"I'm Here With You, Too,\" the same as Track #23 from [Sixth Movie's\nOST](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Movie_6_OST_-_Omatsuri-\ndanshaku_to_Himitsu_no_Shima)\n\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov9LMCtTgqo>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-17T06:18:14.080", "id": "5914", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-17T06:18:14.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5913", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe powers of Gasu Gasu no Mi would certainly allow Caesar Clown to control\nSmoker when he transforms into smoke using Moku Moku no Mi's powers, provided\nthe smoke is within Caesar's range.\n\nHowever, Smoker would not be totally helpless if they fought one-on-one since\nhe can fight without using his Moku Moku no Mi powers at all. He can use Haki,\nand carries the Kairoseki Jitte, both of which would be effective against\nCaesar.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-17T17:12:33.590", "id": "5918", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-17T17:12:33.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5917", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nSmoke is **not** just a gas.\n\nWhat is smoke?\n\n> Smoke is a collection of airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases...\n> - wikipedia\n\nBefore this question can be answered we need to know more about both devil\nfruit abilities. Like what kind of gas(es) can Caesar (originally) transform\ninto.\n\n> As stated by Caesar himself, he altered his own Devil Fruit with his\n> chemical expertise, adding many of its offensive abilities, thus, the\n> original abilities of the Gasu Gasu no Mi remain uncertain -One Piece Wikia\n\nUnfortunately we don't know enough for example about the types of smoke and\ngases they can use to really answer the question.\n\nThey both can also make there element have a high density to do things like\ngrabbing objects.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-07T01:16:26.197", "id": "38309", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-07T01:16:26.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30190", "parent_id": "5917", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are a number of ways to know the abilities of a Devil's Fruit.\n\n * There's a Devil's Fruit book in the Grand Line, which lists several Devil's Fruits. Sanji mentions this book in Chapter 464. Spandam and Teach also make a mention of it.\n\n\n\n * For Devil's Fruits whose ability is not known before, it can only be found out after actually eating it. In Chapter 385, when Kalifa and Kaku eat unknown Devil's Fruits, Lucci tells them that they will begin to sense the changes in due time.\n\n\n\n * When a Devil's Fruit user dies, their Devil's Fruit will respawn, and hence its abilities would be known. \n\nIn SBS Volume 48, the author Oda Eiichiro promises that a certain professor\nwill _eventually_ appear in the story, and explain what Devil's Fruits really\nare. We can expect to know more about identification of Devil's Fruits when\nthat happens.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-17T19:21:03.717", "id": "5922", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-17T19:21:03.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5919", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's simple, the Punk Hazard Arc explains it all. Devil Fruits respawn,\notherwise there is no way of telling which fruit has which power without\neating it.\n\nFor eg :- If you were to eat a banana shaped Devil Fruit and die, the fruit\nwould regenerate into the nearest banana, like the Salamander Devil Fruit\nregenerated into an apple.\n\nOvertime, people have noted down these fruit types, and that's how they know.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-31T15:59:21.403", "id": "6675", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-17T16:55:32.937", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-17T16:55:32.937", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3176", "parent_id": "5919", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have to say NO.\n\nMy reasoning is based on the time when Tobi is hunting for the Rinnegan after\nthe death of Nagato. After he kills Konan, he finds the corpses of Yahiko (who\nwas also the Tendo's body) and Nagato, and pulls only the body of Nagato to\nhis dimension and leaves the body of Yahiko in the same place. If he would\nhave been able to use Yahiko's eyes, I reckon Tobi would've picked that body\nas well. Seeing how he chooses to ignore Yahiko's body would suggest that only\nNagato's eye truly matters and it's the real Rinnegan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-18T18:10:12.513", "id": "5939", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T12:50:10.713", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T12:50:10.713", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "104", "parent_id": "5920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\n**NO** , transplantation of the Rinnegan eyes from one of Pain's paths would\nnot work. As soon as the eyes are detached from the corpse, they lose contact\nwith the chakra receiver rods, and turn back into ordinary eyes that the\ncorpse originally had. In Chapter 565, Naruto and Bee discuss this when they\nare fighting against Tobi's Six Paths of Pain.\n\n\n\nThe Chikoshodo Pain's corpse in Konoha's possession still had the Rinnegan\nactivated, but it also had about 20 chakra rods when Shizune is shown\nexamining it in Chapter 406.1 We were never shown the corpse's eyes with all\nthe chakra rods removed.\n\n \n\n* * *\n\n1 We have to make an assumption that although the chakra reception weakens\nover distance, it will not completely die down. Without this, the corpse still\nhaving the Rinnegan activated becomes a plot inconsistency, if not a plot\nhole.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T02:19:23.560", "id": "5943", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-19T03:03:02.247", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-19T03:03:02.247", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n**Yes, there's another Black Neuroi Hive that was destroyed at the beginning\nof _Strike Witches 2._**\n\nAccording to a more general question asking the total number of hives on\n[Yahoo! Chiebukuro\n(Japanese)](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q12100997307),\nwhich was answered by mr_hungry01:\n\n> The new hive that occurred at the beginning of season 2, episode 1 is right\n> above Venezia facing the Adriatic Sea.\n>\n> At the same time, the destroyed hive was displayed on the screen as if it\n> was on the city facing the sea, **but in setting it is said to be \"Hive of\n> the South Karlsland\"**. Together with the fact that the 504th use this\n> strategy against Neuroi crossing the Alps mountains until it was destroyed,\n> **it seems it's around in the inland north of the Alps mountains**.\n>\n> (partial answer focusing on the 2nd season only, emphasis mine)\n\nThe [Wikia](http://strikewitches.wikia.com/wiki/Neuroi) also mentions this:\n\n> As of 1945, Neuroi hives have been confirmed in the following regions.\n>\n> * [...]\n> * **South Karlsland** \\- apparently located near the Rhine river,\n> destroyed by a stronger hive that later established itself in Venezia;\n> * [...]\n>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-09T06:18:00.590", "id": "42727", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-09T06:58:29.163", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "5925", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter watching Rebellion on the weekend i've edited my answer account for the\nnew knowledge i have.\n\n> I have a doubt about the fact that although Madoka wish in the second movie,\n> which prevented the birth of any witch, both in the past and in the future.\n> Why then Homura becomes a Witch?\n\nMagical girls still turn into Witches even with the Law of Cycles however\nMadoka would appear before the Soul Gem became a Grief Seed. the Incubators\ncaptured Homura and put her tainted Soul Gem in an isolation field which would\nprevent it from being affected by the law of Cycles.\n\nThe Isolation Field was one way allowing people to enter but not escape so\nwhen Madoka along with Sayaka and Bebe came for Homura they became trapped as\nwell and Madoka's memories were altered as well, it wasn't until after the\nfield was destroyed could Madoka escape and treat Homura's Soul Gem.\n\n> In the ending we see Homura feeding QB with her soul gem. Does this mean\n> that all the curses of the universe are now contained in Homura's soul gem?\n\nThe result of Madoka's Wish prevents the creation of Witches however the\ncurses on Earth still existed and became Wraiths, also what Homura is feeding\nQuebe is Cubes left behind by Wraiths when they die, just like what Grief\nSeeds were, however Soul Gems still become darkened with despair and in time\nwill turn a Magical Girl into a Witch however Madoka's Wish allows the Soul\nGem to be purified and allow the Magical Girl to die without becoming a Witch,\nMami notes this by saying how no one knows why Soul Gems shatter like they do,\nofcause Homura knows as she's the only one to know Madoka and her Wish.\n\n> feeding QB with them is a way to stop entropy?\n\nThese cubes seems to have the same effect but somewhat limited as Quebe does\nnote that the current system with the Wraiths doesn't prevent entropy but\nslows it down considerably.\n\n> When Homura says to Sayaka and Madoka that one day they will be enemies, is\n> she referring to the fact that without suffering sooner or later the\n> universe will run out of energy and Madoka and Sayaka will have to stop her?\n\nHomura only actually says this to Madoka as Homura asked Madoka if she valued\norder and Madoka replied that it was wrong to break the rules. Homura broke\nthe Law of Cycles making herself exempt from it by becoming something else.\nthere's also the matter about Madoka who doesn't remember that she's a Goddess\nwhich could mean that the Law of Cycles will not be upheld. Homura _believes_\nthat if Madoka regains her memories they may end up becoming enemies. Also\nHomura didn't give back Madoka's ribbon because they could one day be enemies,\nHomura says that it looked better on Madoka and to Homura the ribbon was a\nreminder Madoka existed.\n\nFor Sayaka, after she was taken by the Law of Cycles in the previous universe\nshe was made into Madoka's Secretary and existed the same as Madoka however\nhaving control over her witch form. Sayaka knows of the implications Homura's\nnew Law of Cycles and thinks it's going to spell tragedy for the rest of the\nuniverse however when asked if Homura was out to destroy it all Homura replied\n\"maybe, once all the Wraiths' have been destroyed\".\n\nAs for the universe running out of energy, that was going to happen in the\nprevious universe as well because before the countermeasure for entropy was to\nharvest the energy from when Magical Girls became Witches which thanks to the\nLaw of Cycles could not be done anymore.\n\nShould be noted however that \"counteracting entropy\" was the Incubators goal,\napart from Homura the other Magical Girls were mostly unaware of this in the\noriginal universe as Madoka was told this when she was in her room after\nSayaka was killed. only Madoka and Homura would remember this system and the\nIncubators would have deduced the effects from talking with Homura.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-18T00:41:16.257", "id": "5927", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-21T22:55:17.540", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-21T22:55:17.540", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "5926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nOk, let me try to answer this the best I can. I've watched the movie twice: in\na theatre in Paris and the subbed camrip that's been going around.\n\n**although Madoka wish in the second movie, which prevented the birth of any\nwitch, both in the past and in the future. Why then Homura becomes a Witch?**\n\nMadoka's wish wasn't **exactly** that. She wished to erase all the witches,\npast, present and future **with her own hands**. The bolded part being the\ninteresting one. Not only did it mean the wish couldn't have any unfortunate\nfulfilling that wasn't what she wanted, it meant she would have to do the work\nherself. Which is also the only reason it invokes a paradox that forces her\nexistence into a concept. Either way, the point is, Madoka takes the despair\nout of the Soul Gems of Magical Girls as they are about to become witches. The\nnatural tainting process of the Soul Gem still exists and the girls would\nstill become witches if she wasn't there to take their souls to wherever and\nlet them have a dignified death. Only in Homura's case this time, she wasn't\nthere. To expand upon it, what the Incubators do is use their super advanced\nalien science to freeze Homura's Soul Gem at a borderline state. She's about\nto become a witch, but she's still a magical girl. Let's say for the sake of\nan analogy that her Soul Gem was 99.99% tainted. That's where they froze her\nat. Because that's the point at which Madoka would come in and save her from\nbecoming a witch as she did to everyone throughout the series and they wanted\nto capture Madoka. So, frozen at this state, the Soul Gem couldn't break and\nimpose a witch barrier over some part of this world (which is still a separate\ndimension of its own), so it created a barrier of sorts inside itself.\nBasically, the first part of the movie was spent inside Homura's Soul Gem.\nNote that at this point, the world they're in may be akin to a witch barrier,\nbut Homura **isn't** a witch, as the barrier was created by what is still her\nSoul Gem. After the whole ordeal that culminates with her realizing she's the\none who created the barrier, Homura is confronted by Kyubey, who tells her\nabout what exactly had happened with her and what their plans for Madoka were.\nThere, she decides to become a witch inside the barrier so she can be killed\nby Mami and Kyouko there and ensuring Madoka will never come for her. Note\nthat this Homura inside the Soul Gem is basically her soul, so being killed\ninside it is the same as destroying her Soul Gem. Now she purposely brings\nupon her more despair and suffering by accepting she won't be able to meet\nMadoka again and successfully becomes a witch **inside** the Soul Gem. This is\na separate world of its own, one that Madoka can't see nor reach (which is\nstill kinda of a moot point anyway since Madoka is trapped inside it without\nany memories of who she even is), which is why it was possible for that to\nhappen. The Homura in the outside world, her physical body, is not yet a\nwitch, since any developments in the inside won't affect the outside thanks to\nKyubey's filter. TL;DR - Homura doesn't become a witch in the outside world,\nshe becomes one inside her own Soul Gem, which is a separate dimension from\nthe one Madoka can see and interact with.\n\n**I get an idea, but I'm not pretty sure about it. In the ending we see Homura\nfeeding QB with her soul gem.**\n\nWe do? I'm pretty sure that's not what happens so... By ending, are you\nreferring to the post-ending credits? Since that's the only thing I think\ncould have been mistaken by that. But we never see that. All we see is Kyubey\nappearing, Homura bringing up her Soul Gem, _perspective change_ , her legs\ndoing some sort of dance, _perspective change_ , her dancing with a beaten-up\nKyubey in the background. If what you're saying does happen at any point,\nplease specify.\n\n**When Homura says to Sayaka and Madoka that one day they will be enemies, is\nshe referring to the fact that without suffering sooner or later the universe\nwill run out of energy and Madoka and Sayaka will have to stop her?**\n\nThat point is pretty much up in the air, specially her words toward Sayaka.\nWhat she says to Madoka is easier to interpret, though. She asks her about her\nideals, if she thinks the world is more important than the happiness of one\npeople. Basically \"selflessness vs selfishness\". And Madoka answers with the\nformer. What this conversation shows is that Homura is fully aware her actions\nwere selfish ones, but won't back down on them since it's what she's always\nwished for. Madoka's answer, though, goes against the very thing she won't\nback down from, which means their ideals at the moment are complete opposites,\nso if Madoka ever understands the situation and comes to want to realize her\nideal, it'd only be natural they would become enemies. Which will eventually\nhappen, since it's very doubtful Homura will be able to keep the world as is\nwithout either Madoka or Sayaka getting at least part of their memories back.\nHeck, things were already turning out that way with Madoka and would have if\nHomura didn't hug her into submission.\n\n_Before proceeding, please have in mind that while everything before this\nparagraph are things I'm nearly certain of having interpreted correctly, this\nisn't but a theory of mine:_\n\nBack to the Sayaka conversation, that's one of the issues I have with this\nmovie, in that Sayaka's question regarding destroying the world came out of\nabsolute nowhere and Homura's answer made no sense at all, considering she\nsays \"Once all wraiths are defeated\". And since we know from the series the\nwraiths are the new embodiment of grief and despair in a witch-less world, and\nthat hope and despair can never triumph over one another since the Madoka\nworld is a zero sum game, that makes absolutely no sense at all. So I've\nthought a lot about that until now and I think a possible (even if not obvious\nas the one for the Madoka conversation) interpretation is that Homura implying\nthe wraiths will eventually be eliminated means she is, herself, trying to\nbecome the embodiment of despair. That way, she'd become a true counterpart to\nMadoka, who's the embodiment of hope, and the balance would be restored.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-29T03:47:37.667", "id": "6070", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-29T05:35:34.643", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-29T05:35:34.643", "last_editor_user_id": "2816", "owner_user_id": "2816", "parent_id": "5926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with rezark except for the end Houmura became a demon thru Madoka's\npower as a god therefore when Houmura took Madoka's power she then gained the\npower to rewrite the world as she seen fit which then refers back to the\nconversation with Sayaka. When Sayaka asked her question and Houmura responded\nwith \"when all wraiths are defeated\" she gained the power to throw them back\ninto the world and use them as a source occupation for all the magical girls\nsuch as Sayaka Mami BeBe and so on in the time of occupation giving Houmura\nthe time to know there attacks and then keep the world at a stasis with just\nher and Madoka\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-04T05:52:54.080", "id": "22129", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-04T05:52:54.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14843", "parent_id": "5926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [Dragon Ball\nWiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragon_Ball_Z_episodes)\n\n * Season 1 has 39 Episodes\n * Season 2 has 35 episodes\n * Season 3 has 33 episodes\n * Season 4 has 32 episodes\n * Season 5 has 26 episodes\n * Season 6 has 29 episodes\n * Season 7 has 25 episodes\n * Season 8 has 34 episodes\n * Season 9 has 38 episodes\n\nTotal number of episodes are 291\n\nHowever, the above count of episodes is based on the original episode\nnumbering. The dubbed episode numbering difers from the original numbering.\n\nSo, based on the original episode numbering there are 291 episodes and based\non dubbed episode numbering there are 276 episodes in Dragon Ball Z.\n\nQuoting from the wiki\n\n> ... lasting 291 episodes in Japan, and 276 episodes in the United States\n> originally, although all 291 episodes were later broadcast when content from\n> the first 67 episodes was restored.\n\n* * *\n\n[From another\nsource](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Dragon_Ball_Z_episodes)\n\n> In Japan it ran from 1989-1996, and was an extremely popular show, spanning\n> a total of 291 episodes.\n\nFew lines later,\n\n> When Dragon Ball Z was first produced in the US, FUNimation Entertainment\n> collaborated with Saban Entertainment to finance and distribute the series\n> to television, sub-licensed home video distribution to Pioneer Entertainment\n> (later known as Geneon Universal Entertainment), contracted Ocean\n> Productions to dub the anime into English, and hired Shuki Levy to compose\n> an alternate musical score. **_This dub of Dragon Ball Z was heavily edited\n> for content, as well as length; reducing the first 67 episodes into 53_** ,\n> and is often referred to as the Ocean Dub. It aired in 1996 for two seasons\n> on the WB, but was canceled in 1998.\n\nAnother few paragraphs later,\n\n> After acquiring the license for the first two seasons of the show,\n> FUNimation began redubbing it with their cast in order to keep the series's\n> dubbing consistent, **_and redubbed the original uncut 67 episodes of the\n> series. FUNimation then announced that they would release these 67 uncut\n> episodes_** in the Ultimate Uncut Special Edition DVD line, releasing the\n> first DVD on April 12th, 2005. However this DVD set was canceled before\n> every episode was released, in favor of the soon-to-come FUNimation\n> Remastered Box Sets.\n>\n> But **_all 67 uncut episodes of Dragon Ball Z were later aired on Cartoon\n> Network, beginning on June 14th, 2005 and continuing throughout the\n> Summer_**.\n\nSo basically in the initial dubbing (Ocean Dub), few episodes were \"trimmed\"\nand combined together, thereby reducing the total number of episodes in the\nseries from 291 to 276. The episodes were not deleted, but parts of a few\nepisodes were edited, removed and combined with other episodes.\n\nHowever, later in the FUNimation uncut dub all 291 episodes were aired.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-18T11:25:54.873", "id": "5934", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-14T16:55:39.583", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-14T16:55:39.583", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "5933", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor celebrating the start of Toriko anime, a Special Collaboration with One\nPiece was made. A 1 hour special serving as [Episode\n1](http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_1) of Toriko and [Episode\n492](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_492) for One Piece.\n\nYear later at the 1st anniversary of Toriko and because of the success of the\nfirst collaboration, a second Toriko x One Piece Collaboration Special was\nannounced. A 1 hour special serving as [Episode\n51](http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_51) of Toriko and [Episode\n542](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_542) of One Piece.\n\nA third collaboration special crossover was aired on April 7th, 2013, titled\nDream 9 Toriko x One Piece x Dragon Ball Z Super Collaboration Special. A 1\nhour special featuring characters from Toriko, [One\nPiece](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) and [Dragon Ball\nZ](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) and serving as [Episode\n99](http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_99) of Toriko and [Episode\n590](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_590) of One Piece.\n\nSource: [Here](http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Toriko_Collaboration_Specials)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-18T17:58:58.117", "id": "5937", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-18T17:58:58.117", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "5935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSome possible reasons:\n\n * The manga each is based on are run in the same magazine.\n * The anime are aired on the same TV channel in Japan on the same day.\n * The anime are made by the same company.\n\nSources: \nanime info: <http://www.mahou.org/Showtime/?o=ET> \nmanga info: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Shounen_Jump#Series>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T21:02:02.560", "id": "5960", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-19T21:02:02.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2760", "parent_id": "5935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are so many collaborations between Toriko and One Piece because both\nmanga-ka, Eechiro Oda and Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro are very good friends and\nrivals and they decided to make a crossover seens both manga are serialized on\nthe Shonen Jump :D\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-24T16:10:41.690", "id": "7154", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-24T16:10:41.690", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3475", "parent_id": "5935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLight Novels are indeed harder to translate, but that isn't the real cause for\ntheir delay. The market for LN is really small outside Japan for a number of\nreasons so companies aren't interested in publishing them unless they are for\nvery famous franchises (like Haruhi), and even then it's very risky.\n\nAs I said, translations and edition arent the reason _per se_ , but that also\naffects. Translations in sites like Baka-Tsuki, while being done with lots of\neffort and having lots of stages for correction and quality check, doesn't\nquite fit the quality expected for a commercial release. Even in Baka-Tsuki\nthe translations takes lots of time to be published, corrected and polished,\nso you can imagine how long that would take for a commercial-quality release.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T10:08:47.507", "id": "5953", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-19T10:08:47.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31", "parent_id": "5936", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn short, They sell them for that much because that's how they've determined\nthat they will make the most money.\n\n * **the net marginal cost of producing the CDs is high** Sometimes they don't expect to sell very many copies of the dvd in the first place, and they have to sell them at a higher price to cover the overhead. The more dvds that they produce and sell, the lower the net marginal cost of producing them.\n\n * **People who do want to buy the dvds will pay that much for them** Sometimes the fanbase is strong enough and small enough such that those who will buy the dvds will pay any amount for them, and the number of people who would pay $20 for the dvd, but not $50, is relatively low. in this case, it makes sense to sell the dvd for $50.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T18:17:58.453", "id": "5958", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-19T18:17:58.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "5938", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime is [_Shirokuma Cafe_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirokuma_Cafe),\nabout animals and humans in a cafe run by a polar bear named Shirokuma (シロクマ);\nthis penguin character is aptly named \"Penguin\".\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-18T18:44:56.170", "id": "5941", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-18T18:44:56.170", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "5940", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is \"Penguin\" from _Shirokuma Cafe_ , episode 9.\n\nPenguin has an obvious crush on a female penguin named \"Penko,\"Shirokuma\nusually tries to helps him prepare for encounters with her... but Penguin\nalways seems to chicken out at the very last moment.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-18T18:46:02.130", "id": "5942", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-18T18:54:10.683", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-18T18:54:10.683", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5940", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's been confirmed by\n[multiple](http://archive.foolz.us/a/search/image/4fSjjtKHolpH-Rz0isv4Qg/)\nsources (from the movie and game) that it says:\n\n> HOMU\n>\n> LILLY\n>\n> HOMULILLY\n\nWhich matches up with the PSP game:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T14:23:24.187", "id": "5955", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-19T14:23:24.187", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5944", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI remember in Digimon Adventure 2 there being a gate between the Digital World\nand the Real World which has a \"corridor\" where anything is possible.\n\nBlackWarGreymon sacrificed himself to protect the Gate which when Mytoismon\ntried to break though it from the Real World ended up getting trapped in this\ncorridor because of the seal BlackWarGreymon made, this is were we see the\nDigidestined able to have their partners assume every evolution form at the\nsame time, as the battle continued Mytoismon was pushed back into the Digital\nWorld and the multiple forms disappear when they enter the Digital World\nprobably because of Data Limits in the Digital World.\n\nI would assume all travel between the 2 worlds is done though this Gate and\n\"corridor\" where the \"corridor\" is used to make digimon real and turn people\ninto data and some objects into digimon (as seen in Frontier with the trains),\nthe Gate itself probably doesn't have a fixed point.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T00:21:05.963", "id": "7075", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T00:21:05.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "5947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nWell there is no telling for sure how they can because in Digimon Adventures\nor Digital Monsters season 2, there is a gate to enter into the digital world\nand back. And in Digimon Tamers, the Digimon monster that you see Growlmon\nfight with comes through a vortex somehow, so they probably have many ways.\nBut we will never know for sure if Digimon are real so we do not know if they\ncan come or not.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-05T22:58:45.603", "id": "13271", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-05T23:09:14.370", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-05T23:09:14.370", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "7876", "parent_id": "5947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is explained in Digimon Tamers:\n\nWhen a digimon materializes in the real world, it creates protein and other\ncomponents from the air and nearby matter (exactly how, if it involves nuclear\nfusion or not, is unclear) to create a body using energy and data from the\ndigital world.\n\nThe same is true when humans travel to the digital world. Their bodies are\nconverted to digital \"energy\" and this energy is recombined into real bodies.\nAs seen in s2, the clothing can be changed by the mindset of the children.\n\nThere is some effort to cross to and from, so usually digimon and children\nonly use gates, places where the boundaries are thinner. Only special digimon\nlike Grani can freely move to and from the digial world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-23T03:51:18.293", "id": "20257", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-23T03:51:18.293", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "5947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNagato was not born with the Rinnegan. It was implanted into him by the _real_\nUchiha Madara before his (Madara's) death.\n\nUchiha Madara activated his Rinnegan at an old age, so he made a plan by which\nhe could be revived using the Rinnegan's Rinne Tensei jutsu after Akatsuki\ncaptured all the Bijuu into the Gedo Mazo. He could then proceed with the\nMoon's Eye Plan.\n\nHe implanted his Rinnegan into Nagato, without Nagato realising it, and then\nmade Uchiha Obito assume his identity as the fake Madara, so that Obito could\nboth collect the Bijuus using the Akatsuki, and control Nagato to use the\nRinne Tensei to revive Madara.\n\n* * *\n\n**Source:** Naruto Manga Chapter 606. I don't want to paste screenshots here,\nsince the entire story is described fully in that single chapter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T08:23:42.447", "id": "5949", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-19T08:30:37.480", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-19T08:30:37.480", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, he wasn't born with the Rinnegan. According to the\n[wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nagato)(emphasis mine),\n\n> **When Nagato was a child, Madara Uchiha transplanted his own eyes into the\n> young boy without his knowledge**\n>\n> One day, during the Second Shinobi World War, two Konoha shinobi attempted\n> to find some rest and food in their thought-to-be-abandoned home. Believing\n> that the shinobi were there to kill them, his parents died during the\n> ensuing chaos in their effort to protect Nagato, as confused and shocked,\n> the Konoha ninja mistook them for enemy shinobi. After witnessing his\n> parents death, Nagato in his grief used the Rinnegan for the first time and\n> killed the assailants. Nagato would eventually come to regard this as the\n> first of two great sources of pain in his life, only later realising that it\n> was him who had killed the two shinobi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T08:24:28.253", "id": "5950", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-19T08:28:46.290", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-19T08:28:46.290", "last_editor_user_id": "1604", "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "5948", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, they are the same character. You get the same name suggestions for them\nin the red/blue games themselves.\n\nNintendo Power use to refer to your rival as \"Gary\", and it would probably\nhave referred to you as \"Ash\" if it ever talked about \"you\" in the third\nperson, and it did so as long as I've owned the magazine (late 90s early\n2000s).\n\nBoth \"Blue\" and \"Gary\" were the grandson of professor Oak, too, so they\ndefinitely are the same character, and to that point, their rivals (Red/Ash)\nare the same character too.\n\n* * *\n\n*One point of interest: if you played the \"cold\" version of the game (Blue), then your character would be suggested as \"Gary\", and your rival would be suggested as \"Ash\".\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T17:05:11.267", "id": "5957", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T03:33:22.080", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T03:33:22.080", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "5956", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe different versions of Pokemon (anime, manga, games) are mostly\ninconsistent with each other, and aren't directly comparable. Here are the\nversions of this character:\n\n * [Blue Oak from the games](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Blue_%28game%29) is the rival of [Red](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Red_%28game%29) in Generation I (as well as [Leaf](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Leaf_%28game%29) in the Generation III remakes), and is the gym leader of the Viridian Gym in Generation II and the Generation IV remake. In the games in which he is the rival, you have the choice of his name, and \"Gary\" is one prerecorded choice that you could make. His Japanese name is \"Okaido Green\" (オーキド・グリーン).\n * [Blue Oak from the Pokemon Adventures Manga](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Blue_%28Adventures%29) is a main character and [Red](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Red_%28Adventures%29)'s rival. He is based on Blue from the game. Being a manga, he obviously isn't nameable. His Japanese name is \"Okaido Green\" (オーキド・グリーン).\n * [Gary Oak from the original anime](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gary) is one of [Ash](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ash_Ketchum)'s rivals for the first few seasons of the anime. He is also based on Blue from the game. Again, since it's an anime he isn't nameable. His Japanese name is \"Okaido Shigeru\" (オーキド・シゲル)\n\nThere are definite similarities between all three of these characters. For\ninstance, all of them are the grandsons of the respective Professor Oaks. All\nthree are the rivals to the protagonist. All three are respectable trainers,\nand in many cases they have some of the same pokemon.\n\nHowever, there are quite a few differences as well. For instance, Gary\ncompetes in the Pokemon League in 3 regions before going to work as a\nresearcher. Blue from the game becomes the League champion, only to lose to\nRed, after which he becomes a Gym Leader. Blue from the manga doesn't even\ncollect gym badges; he's only acquired one. The Bulbapedia pages above contain\nmuch more detail, but the point is that these three characters are quite\ndifferent in personality, style, and story, so you really have to regard all\nof them as different characters who just all happen to have similar design and\noccupy similar positions in the stories.\n\nIncidentally, there are other characters named Blue as well (taken from [this\nBulbapedia disambiguation page](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Blue)):\n\n * [Blue from the Pokemon Origins Anime](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Blue_%28Origins%29) is based off of Blue from the original games. This series seems to be following the game story reasonably closely and the characters are quite similar. His Japanese name (at least so far) is just \"Green\" (グリーン).\n * [Blue from the Pokemon Pocket Monsters Manga](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Blue_%28Pocket_Monsters%29) is again a rival of Red, but clearly a different character, as evidenced by the fact that his Japanese name \"Blue\" (ブルー) doesn't match the others. The character based on Blue in this version is [Green](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Green_%28Pocket_Monsters%29) (グリーン), whose full name is \"Midorikawa Kai\" (緑川 開)\n * [Blue from the Pocket Monsters Ruby-Sapphire Manga](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Blue_%28Ruby-Sapphire%29) is based on Leaf, not Blue. She is still a rival of Red. She doesn't seem to have any relation to the original Blue, and her Japanese name Midori (みどり) is different from the other characters, though it could be translated as \"Green\".\n * [Green from the Pokemon Adventures manga](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Green_%28Adventures%29) is based on an unused female character design from the first game, which was also the basis for Leaf in the remakes. I've included her only because her Japanese name is \"Blue\" (ブルー); she and Blue switched names in the English version of the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-19T19:19:16.443", "id": "5959", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-22T08:13:29.240", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-22T08:13:29.240", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "5956", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, considering that one would be talking about Blue from either Pokémon\nSpecial, the games, or Pokémon Origin. Gary is also a name you can choose for\nyour rival in the games, making the gameverse Blue/Gary comparison irrelevant,\ndue to the fact that it is one's own choice. Gary is mainly known from\noriginating from the anime as Ash's arrogant rival, accompanied by fangirls\nand cheerleaders. Blue, or Green in Japan, from Pokémon Special/Adventures is\nthe more mature, and serious counterpart to Gary and Blue from the anime and\ngames respectfully. He is Red's rival in the manga, and is considered by Red\nhimself to be a rather powerful trainer. Blue from Pokémon Origins would also\nbe rather irrelevant, since Pokémon Origins is based strictly off of the\nevents in the games.\n\nBasically, there are three arrogant rivals (One maturing a little in their\nrespective series((Gary)), and a serious one.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-10T11:17:53.027", "id": "33658", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-10T11:17:53.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25595", "parent_id": "5956", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBlue is another guy who received Squirtle as starter and Gary another guy who\nreceived Eevee and baby Squirtle from Vermilion city. Ash has a rival called\nGary and Red has a rival named Blue, but the thing is both are grandsons of\nOak. That means the two of them are from different anime stories.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-12T05:38:54.247", "id": "46992", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-12T07:27:39.610", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-12T07:27:39.610", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "40590", "parent_id": "5956", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is not true. It has been confirmed that Blue is Gary's father, and Red is\nAsh's uncle.\n\nNote that Gary is trying to become a Pokémon Professor. That means Blue could\nbe training to become a Pokémon professor and take Oak's place, then Gary\ntakes Blue's place, because Professor Oak could not be the same person as Blue\nand then as Gary.\n\nIn conclusion, there is a lot more than you think.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-07-13T15:37:02.447", "id": "67023", "last_activity_date": "2022-07-15T02:18:32.880", "last_edit_date": "2022-07-15T02:18:32.880", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "67227", "parent_id": "5956", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe only explanation that makes sense is that she used up the stone before\ncompleting the process of bringing her brother back.\n\nFrom the [FMA Wikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Philosopher%27s_Stone):\n\n> Due to the absolute law of alchemy being equivalent exchange, the stone\n> gives the illusion that someone is able to override that law. Being that it\n> is an illusion, the powers of the stone itself are not unlimited, and only\n> appears to allow an alchemist to bypass equivalent exchange as long as the\n> stone retains its power.\n\nFrom what can be seen in the movie, virtually as soon as she finishes, she\ncoughs the stone back up and the stone disintegrates. Throughout the show, the\nstone disintegrating is used as a sign that the stone has run out of power\n(like with Father Cornelio's stone in the early episodes). This means that the\nstone ran out of power no later than her finishing her process. It would be\nincredibly improbably that it would run out perfectly when she finished,\nespecially given the amount of power that she used previously, so that most\nlogical explanation is that she ran out partway through and paid with her leg\nfor the rest.\n\nThis is never explained in the movie, so this is only an educated guess based\non information from the show and from the movie.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T04:23:56.773", "id": "6736", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T04:23:56.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "5966", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWith lots of quoting from [World history code\ngeass](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/World_History)\n\nNote: the world history of code geass mainly resolves around big changes such\nas wars and arrival of mysterious things such as C.C. a.t.b stands for\n\"Ascension Throne Britannia\"\n\n> **55 B.C. or 1 a.t.b.** Julius Caesar attempts to invade Britain, but is met\n> with strong resistance from the local tribes, who elect a super-leader: the\n> Celtic King Eowyn, who summarily becomes the first member of the Britannian\n> Imperial Family. The Julian Calendar is devised ten years later and the Anno\n> Domini Calendar 470 years later. Either the two might be used by other\n> countries aside from Britannia and its colonies.\n>\n> **Unknown years - Middle Ages** Sakuradite (known as the \"Philosopher's\n> Stone\" at the time) is discovered near Stonehenge. The scarcity of\n> sakuradite impedes the research to turn it into a viable energy source.\n> However, in his travels, Marco Polo journeys further into the East, reaching\n> Japan and discovering the nation's large deposit of sakuradite.\n>\n> **17th Century a.t.b.** Elizabeth I, who remained single throughout her\n> life, bears a son, Henry IX. The potential fathers — Sir Robert Dudley, 1st\n> Earl of Leicester; Sir Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; and Sir Carl,\n> Duke of Britannia — gain influence and power with this knowledge. Henry IX\n> ascends to the throne after the death of his mother in 1603 A.D. or 1657\n> a.t.b., starting the Golden Age of the Tudor Dynasty.\n>\n> **1820s a.t.b. / 1760s - 70s A.D.** The American Revolution (also known as\n> Washington's Rebellion) occurs. The Duke of Britannia bribes Benjamin\n> Franklin with promises of titles and territories in the colonies, who was\n> charged with appealing to Louis XVI for assistance in the American colonies'\n> war for independence. Thereafter, Benjamin Franklin is given the title of\n> Earl. As a result, the Continental Army suffers a decisive defeat during the\n> Siege of Yorktown with the death of George Washington, marking a severe blow\n> to the American movement for independence.\n>\n> **Middle of the 19th Century a.t.b.** The western world enters the Age of\n> Revolution, with numerous national revolutions taking place, except in the\n> British Isles, under the rule of King Henry X, who continues to hold\n> absolute monarchy. This leads to the formation of the European Union. After\n> French revolutionary Napoleon Bonaparte emerges, he wins the Battle of\n> Trafalgar, invades Great Britain, and occupies London. The British Isles are\n> conquered and become a part of the E.U. In 1807 A.D./ 1861 a.t.b., Queen\n> Elizabeth III retreats to Edinburgh, where a revolutionary militia arrests\n> her and forces her to abdicate, ending the monarchy. This event becomes\n> known as The Humiliation of Edinburgh. However, Sir Ricardo von Britannia,\n> Duke of Britannia, and his friend and subordinate, Sir Richard Hector,\n> Knight of One, bring Elizabeth III and her followers to the New World and\n> establish a capital on the east coast of North America. The British Isles is\n> now under control of the EU and a new government established.\n>\n> **1867 a.t.b. / 1812 A.D.** Elizabeth III nominates her lover, Sir Ricardo\n> von Britannia, as her successor upon her death. She ends her reign for being\n> \"the Queen who loved throughout her stormy life\". The Britannian calendar,\n> Ascension Throne Britannia (a.t.b.), is established, with the origin year\n> set to the ascendancy of the first Celtic king, though the calendar's months\n> and days are adopted from the Gregorian Calendar.\n>\n> **1874 a.t.b. / 1819 A.D.** Napoleon Bonaparte dies on his way back to\n> France, after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo; although it was never\n> proven, it is rumored that assassins poisoned his food in accordance to\n> Elizabeth III's will. Her last words included the famous line, \"I do not\n> forget slights to my honour.\"\n>\n> **Unknown years - Late 19th to Early 20th Century a.t.b.** A war featuring\n> tanks and trenches is fought as seen in C.C.'s flashbacks in Episode 25 of\n> R1, which was probably fought in the EU. Also in the flashback, C.C. was\n> shot by possibly a German soldier (considering the silhouette).\n>\n> **1944 a.t.b. / 1889 A.D.** Japan loses a major war (described in 2010 a.t.b\n> as having taken place 65 years earlier) embracing democracy as a result\n> (Mamoru Iwasa, Code Geass Stage-0-Entrance Light Novel, p.120-121).\n>\n> **1984 a.t.b. / 1929 A.D.** 1st Prince Odysseus eu Britannia is born.\n>\n> **1986 a.t.b. / 1931 A.D.** 1st Princess Guinevere su Britannia is born.\n>\n> **1990 a.t.b. / 1935 A.D.** 2nd Prince Schneizel el Britannia is born.\n>\n> **1991 a.t.b. / 1936 A.D.** 2nd Princess Cornelia li Britannia is born.\n>\n> **1992 a.t.b. / 1937 A.D.** 3rd Prince Clovis la Britannia is born.\n>\n> **1998 a.t.b. / 1943 A.D.** The 97th Emperor of Britannia is overthrown, and\n> Charles zi Britannia ascends to the Britannian throne. Charles also marries\n> Marianne vi Britannia. With V.V. they plan to build a weapon to destroy the\n> Gods.\n>\n> **2000 a.t.b. / 1945 A.D.** 11th Prince Lelouch vi Britannia is born Suzaku\n> Kururugi, son of Japanese Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi and future Knight of\n> Seven, Knight of Zero, and second Zero, is born.\n>\n> **2001 a.t.b. / 1946 A.D.** 3rd Princess Euphemia li Britannia is born.\n>\n> **2003 a.t.b. / 1948 A.D.** 4th Princess Nunnally vi Britannia is born. 5th\n> Princess Carine ne Britannia is born.\n>\n> **2009 a.t.b. / 1954 A.D.** Marianne vi Britannia is killed by V.V. Her\n> children, Lelouch vi Britannia and Nunnally vi Britannia, are sent to Japan\n> as political hostages.\n>\n> **2010 a.t.b / 1955 A.D.** After the Indochinese Peninsula was conquered by\n> Britannia and named Area 10, Japan, which was originally neutral, decided to\n> align its policy with Chinese Federation and EU's politics and apply\n> economic pressure upon Britannia -- an event referred to as the Oriental\n> Incident. Both the Chinese Federation, the EU and their allies blockade the\n> ports of Britannia in an effort to come to negotiations.\n>\n> **August 10th, 2010 a.t.b / 1955 A.D.** The Second Pacific War erupts; the\n> one-month war results in the conquering of Japan by Britannia. The end of\n> the war signifies Japan as a formal colony of Britannia, renamed Area 11 and\n> its citizens \"Elevens\".\n>\n> **2017 a.t.b. / 1962 A.D.** Viceroy and Third Prince Clovis la Britannia is\n> killed by Zero. Second Princess Cornelia li Britannia is appointed Viceroy\n> of Area 11, naming Third Princess Euphemia li Britannia as sub-viceroy.\n> Cornelia immediately begins her campaign to bring Zero to justice. Zero\n> forms the Order of the Black Knights. Its membership expands with each\n> victory. All attempts to destroy the Black Knights end in failure. Using her\n> power, Euphemia li Britannia tries to create a Special Administrative Zone\n> of Japan. It is \"revealed\" to be a plot to massacre the Elevens, and she is\n> killed by Zero. The Black Rebellion breaks out. The Black Knights ignite\n> riots across the country as they continue to push towards the Area 11\n> Viceroy Palace. The rebellion is eventually pushed back and crushed, with\n> most of the Black Knights killed or captured. Area 11 is demoted to a\n> correctional sub-area. Second Princess Cornelia li Britannia is gone missing\n> during the Black Rebellion. Her position as Viceroy of Area 11 later is\n> taken by Calares.\n>\n> **2018 a.t.b. / 1963 A.D.** The remaining members of the Black Knights\n> incite riots in Babel Tower which kill Calares. Within the Chinese\n> Federation Consulate of Area 11, Zero reappears and redeclares the United\n> States of Japan. The former Knight of Princess Cornelia, Gilbert G. P.\n> Guilford, declares himself as new Viceroy. He then announces to execute\n> Black Knights' members, although it's failed thanks to Zero's crafty\n> strategy. Princess Nunnally vi Britannia becomes Viceroy of Area 11, and\n> reestablishes the Special Administration Zone of Japan. Zero gives his\n> support on the condition that he be exiled. Zero, along with over a million\n> of his supporters dressed like him, are exiled from Area 11 and seek asylum\n> on Penglai Island located within the political borders of the Chinese\n> Federation. Li Xingke and Zero disrupt the arranged political wedding\n> between First Prince Odysseus eu Britannia and Empress Tianzi of the Chinese\n> Federation. The High Eunuchs are summarily executed for lèse majesté against\n> the Empress. An alliance between the Black Knights and the Chinese\n> Federation is forged. After the fragmentation of the Chinese Federation,\n> Second Prince Schneizel el Britannia prepares to annex many of its\n> territories through a combination of diplomatic means, which results in\n> failure. Ratification of United Federation of Nations is completed, with the\n> Order of the Black Knights to serve as its chief military branch. Its first\n> resolution is to take action against the occupying Britannian forces in\n> Japan, which leads to a declaration of war between the U.F.N. and the Holy\n> Britannian Empire. The U.F.N. initiates the Second Battle of Tokyo to\n> reclaim Area 11. The first use of F.L.E.I.J.A. by the Britannians results in\n> massive damages to the concession area of the Tokyo Settlement. Zero is\n> reported to be killed during the Second Battle of Tokyo. However, there are\n> rumors that this is falsified information for reasons unknown. In light of\n> the alleged death of Zero, a truce is negotiated between U.F.N. and\n> Britannia, with a peace treaty being drafted. The treaty results in the\n> neutrality of Japan. A coup d'etat is enacted by Second Prince Schneizel and\n> the Knight of Seven, Suzaku Kururugi. Meanwhile, Lelouch vi Britannia\n> instigates his own rebellion, forcing his followers to his will with the\n> power of Geass. 98th Emperor, Charles zi Britannia is killed by Lelouch, the\n> former 11th Prince. One month after the Second Battle of Tokyo, Lelouch vi\n> Britannia coronates himself as the 99th Emperor of the Holy Britannian\n> Empire and appoints the title of \"Knight of Zero\" to Suzaku Kururugi\n> (heretofore the Knight of Seven). With his ascension come many changes in\n> Britannian policies, including the destruction of the Imperial Mausoleum and\n> the abolishment of privileges to nobles. This leads to many attempts of\n> rebellion (one of which is led by the Knight of One, Bismarck Waldstein),\n> each of them futile against the \"Emperor of Justice\". Britannia attempts to\n> join the U.F.N., and negotiation takes place in Japan, now a neutral zone.\n> However, the leaders of the U.F.N. and the Black Knights attempt to convince\n> Emperor Lelouch to lower Britannia's voting rights as a balance for the\n> U.F.N.. The attempt fails, and in response Britannia launches an invasion\n> against Japan, capturing the leadership of the U.F.N.. F.L.E.I.J.A. bomb is\n> dropped on the Britannian capital of Pendragon from the Aerial Fortress\n> Damocles, created by the Toromo institute, by Former 2nd Prince Schneizel\n> resulting in the complete decimation of the capital. The battle of Mount\n> Fuji begins. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but eventually Emperor Lelouch\n> is able to take control of Damocles and ends the battle, as well as the war\n> between Britannia and the U.F.N., with a display of power from the Damocles.\n> Two months after the battle, using U.F.N. as political tool for forcing E.U.\n> to raficate, Emperor Lelouch vi Britannia declares himself world leader.\n> During a supervision of executions of the Black Knights and U.F.N. leaders,\n> Zero reappears and assassinates Lelouch to complete the Zero Requiem.\n> Nunnally vi Britannia succeeds her elder brother as the 100th Empress of\n> Britannia and begins to work in cooperation with the U.F.N. to achieve\n> peace.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-20T20:45:05.280", "id": "5969", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-20T20:45:05.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "5968", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe best way to do convince distributors this works reliably is to make sure\nthat it does by backing similar projects whenever you see them. As noted above\nthere are a number of projects that have been successful like LWA2 and kick-\nheart. If someone like Trigger keeps running kickstarters and making upwards\nof half a million dollars, well, the rest of them will catch on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-19T17:08:08.077", "id": "7588", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-19T17:08:08.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2110", "parent_id": "5970", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs of now, yes! Some **Visual Novels** (these count as novels in my book) have\nbeen successfully crowd funded out here. A few examples of that are mostly\ndone by the _Sekai Project_.\n\nFor example, **World End Economica** was already funded and has been\ntranslated and released. [The original KickStarter can be found\nhere.](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/world-end-economica-\ncomplete) Sekai Project is working on a few others, too. These include:\n\n * [Clannad (already funded)](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/world-end-economica-complete)\n * [Grisaia](http://prefundia.com/projects/view/lets-bring-the-grisaia-trilogy-to-the-west/2814/)\n * [WAS](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/bring-was-the-hourglass-of-lepidoptera-to-the-west)\n * [fault Milestone One](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/fault-milestone-one-directors-cut)\n\nSo, the answer is a resounding YES now! With Clannad on the horizon, we might\nsee even more of these reach out into the English tongue.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-12T21:10:01.687", "id": "16676", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-12T21:10:01.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "5970", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere hasn't been any official announcement related to the end of the manga or\nthe anime, but here's an interview with [Aoyama Gosho](http://detective-conan-\nnews.blogspot.ca/2011/05/2011-aoyama-gosho-interview.html) which took place in\n2011.\n\n> I really didn't expect it to last this long. I thought it might end after\n> the first volume. Also, about the name \"Conan,\" initially the editor-in-\n> chief told me to change it to Detective Doyle because there was already an\n> anime called Conan, The Boy in Future (directed by Miyazaki Hayao), but I\n> said “I'd overtake The Boy in Future!” and it finally got through. But the\n> new serialization's announcement said Tantei Shonen Conan/Detective Boy\n> Conan, and I thought no way, this is pretty bad (laughs). However, about 10\n> years ago, someone from Ghibli* said to me, “when you talk about Conan now\n> you'd be referring to the detective,” and I thought “Yes, I did it!”\n\nThis should clear most of your questions.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-21T14:54:18.323", "id": "5980", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-03T15:21:09.093", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-03T15:21:09.093", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "5975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, it doesn't really offer him great power. \nHe just uses it as a holder for his sword. Normally all the swordsmen have a\nrope around their waist to keep their swords. \n\nAccording to the Wiki -\n\n> He was first shown wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, similar in appearance\n> to the lavender long-sleeved shirt worn by Kimimaro and which was open at\n> the torso, with a smaller version of the Uchiha crest on his collar. He wore\n> dark blue pants with a blue cloth hanging from halfway up his stomach to his\n> knees. He also wore black arm guards that covered his forearms and stretched\n> up to reach his upper biceps. _ **He also wore a purple rope belt around his\n> waist, tied in a bow, in which he carries his sword._**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-21T11:45:56.173", "id": "5978", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-21T11:45:56.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "5977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe purple rope is like an [Obi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi_%28sash%29),\na garment worn with the traditional Japanese kimono. Besides that, and holding\nhis clothes together, the only real purpose it serves is to hold his sword.\nYou don't want to be always carrying a sword in one hand, especially during\nfights. Sasuke started carrying a sword after the timeskip, so that might\nexplain why he changed his attire to include that purple rope.\n\nOrochimaru used to carry the Kusanagi sword, and the other characters might be\ndoing it to show their loyalty to Orochimaru.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-21T11:49:14.663", "id": "5979", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-21T11:49:14.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile the belt maybe refered to as an \"obi,\" (sash) the style of the belt\nholds a greater significance in Shinto culture. The particular style of obi is\nprobably what's referred to as a\n[obijime](http://www.immortalgeisha.com/wiki/index.php?title=Obijime), which\nbasically is a decorated rope sash in order to tie an obi firmly. The braided\nrope is what you would call a\n[shimenawa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimenawa).\n\nMuch like how trees are considered sacred have a shimenawa tied around their\ntrunk. The Yokozuna (grand champions in sumo) wear a shimenawa around their\nwaist, designating them to be of special quality (if they have a\n[gohei](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gohei) attached, there is a sacred\nbearing to it).\n\nPerhaps the idea of the author wanted to give for Sasuke with his clothes was\nthat he's special and or someone to be revered. The rope sash is probably\nthere to keep that skirt/kilt/cloak thing he has over his pants in place.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-21T21:43:11.667", "id": "5984", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-21T22:04:14.950", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-21T22:04:14.950", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "5977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThe purple \"rope\" is called an obi (type of sash/belt for kimonos). I think\nthey just wear it just to represent that they are all in clan, or as a symbol\nto represent Orochimaru. Just like how all the Akatsuki wear black coats, but\nit really doesn't offer any power and one thing is that orochimaru's followers\nare usually swordsmen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-23T20:59:06.037", "id": "6013", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-24T11:46:09.190", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-24T11:46:09.190", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "2787", "parent_id": "5977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nOkay. the other answers offer good info except ONE thing: the Buddhist tale of\nthe snake and the rope. It is an analogy about the fear you have before\nlearning you have no set or stone \"self\" that the \"self\" is everchanging.\nLetting go of the concept of \"self\" is to become enlightened. Almost all\npeople in Japan are Shinto Buddhists (predominantly Zen ). So they would have\nbeen raised knowing the famous story. When you think of this story applied to\nthe characters Uchiha Sasuke and his shisho Orichimaru it becomes a brilliant\naddition as an obi. Orichimaru wanted to find immortality and remain in his\ncurrent incarnation then of course Orochimaru abd snakes are intertwined both\nvisually and litteraly. I am glad that the anime did show that snakes are not\nseen as evil and in fact they are a good sign outside christianity. Sasuke\nwore it when he was much to full of himself and was stuck seeing himself only\none way as one part of who he actually is which led him to darkness: an\nadvenger. Plus they are both aloof and can be thought selfish though that is\nnot necessarily the truth. For them and for the others wearing a rope obi one\nmore noticeable symbolism connection to the snake and the rope story is that\nthey are always caught in the fear the instant you glance at a rope in the\nwoods by your feet and think it a snake. When you realize it's just a rope\nthat is the same as the feeling of being free of self- laughing at the fact we\nwere so scared for that second: enlightened. All except Sasuke wore it so it\nstuck up behind them which would cause these glimpses of it. And it was AWAYS\nwith them which is why I think it doesn't just symbolize a snake (because of\nOrichimaru). The story itself was written not by any Buddha but The Buddha,\nShakyamuni Buddha (originally Sidartha Guatama) and is found in one of\nBuddhism's sacred scrolls or Sutras. I'm a symbolist painter as well as a\nBuddhist and I instantly made this connection when watching the Naruto\nseries's and movies. It got me thinking that Western watchers of Anime (me\nincluded) should read more of the common knowledge stories and mythology that\nfar eastern kids grow up with because Anime is rife with symbolism and motifs\nderived from them. In fact, Japanese culture is incredibly full of visual\nsymbolism. The western world has nothing I know like it. One other (among\nmany) examples of the symbolism in anime is The Third Hokage's summoning\nanimal which is a monkey with an amazing growing staff. This is based directly\non one of the most well known myths in the Far East: Journey to the west. The\nanime Saiyuki is based entirely on it and I believe that \"saiyuki\" is the\nactual or similar title of the HUGE myth. On a side note check out the book\n\"Monkey\" which takes excerpts from Journey to the west and combines them into\na wonderful and easily accessible book that gives you a good understanding of\nwhat the whole thing is all about and tells some of the stories the author\nand/or editor and/or translator (name to be added) thought most poignant. I'm\nactually very tired right now and will come back and edit this so that it has\nmore info and the name of the author. The book itself is about the same thing\nas the full version: the story of a journey to bring Sacred Scrolls (Sutras)\nlike the one with The Snake and The Rope in it back from India (to China where\nthe myth originated). Monkey is not long and has a red cover with spirals on\nit I believe which, along with the sutra reference, brings me full circle back\nto Naruto (you know what that name means... At least I hope you do!)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-06T07:10:26.653", "id": "27116", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-06T09:05:24.887", "last_edit_date": "2015-11-06T09:05:24.887", "last_editor_user_id": "18938", "owner_user_id": "18938", "parent_id": "5977", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nFirstly, the size of the belt means that the author wants the viewers to\nnotice it.don't quote me on this but I think that in Japanese martial arts, it\nis said to control or rather 'subdue' the strength of its user If you ever\nplayed street fighter,you will notice that akuma who wields great strength\nwears the same belt(much thinner).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-19T03:41:43.483", "id": "28141", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-19T03:41:43.483", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19815", "parent_id": "5977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI know that Red is a color that can repel bad stuff(like magic and evil\nforces) ''Vermilion red is considered an amulet against evil forces, and is\nused in many ancient palaces, shrines and temples.'' (source:\n<http://inari.jp/en/faq/> )\n\nSo I thought I just googled if the color Purple had any meaning behind it. And\nwhen I googled it this is what I found: Purple, the color of the upper class,\nruling people Apparently the color purple was kinda rare during the Nara\nera(710-784)and only the important people like high-level officials and the\nImperial family could wear purple clothing and back then they made it so that\npurple clothing was really expensive and only rich people were able to afford\nit. (source: <http://tadaimajp.com/2015/05/purple/> )\n\nSorry that I replied on a very old thread, but I was curious about this topic\nand when I found the answer I thought I should share it with you guys ;P\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-02T13:08:35.013", "id": "47653", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-02T13:08:35.013", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41370", "parent_id": "5977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo reliable site lists what that syringe is (or could be) and it never\nappeared again. Misty asumes that an other of these syringes was used to\nevolve a gyarados (seen earlier).\n\nTeam Rocket tried to create ways to force an evolution (like the experiments\nat the lake of rage), so it's most likely another experiment to force the\nevolution of a pokémon and to make it stronger.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-22T14:10:19.250", "id": "5992", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-22T14:10:19.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "5983", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe kanji for Oil 油 【あぶら】( _Abura_ ) is the symbol of Myobokuzan. Jiraiya\nwearing it on his forehead protector represents his affiliation to it. The\nsymbol probably comes from their special sacred oil, which allows people to\nfeel natural energy more easily, and evaporates outside Myobokuzan's\natmosphere.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-22T09:01:14.763", "id": "5990", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-12T15:33:26.463", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-12T15:33:26.463", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5989", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNot sure if this is considered canon, as I stopped reading the manga and am\nnot sure if further details were revealed, but...\n\nOn episode 3 of the anime, when Touta and Kuromaru meet Jinbei Shishido, he\ntells 'em he's number 2, and Kuromaru says:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mpgk6.jpg)\n\nAgain, not sure if this is canon. Also not sure if Kuromaru is just making an\nassumption, or if this is a given in the anime — there are some different\nthings in the adaptation, and I don't remember this bit of conversation from\nthe manga. But, if this is not an assumption, then the numbers are attributed\naccording to how powerful the characters are.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-03T11:07:28.507", "id": "43134", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-03T11:07:28.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "5993", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it‘s related to their potential, and not to their power, because when\nthey are ranked, Kuroumaru is even with Touta, and Ikuu (the current number\n10) is definitely stronger than Touta (at least I think so).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-02-17T20:28:19.307", "id": "50874", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-18T14:56:33.197", "last_edit_date": "2019-02-18T14:56:33.197", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "45025", "parent_id": "5993", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs of Chapter 655, Katsuyu is the only slug to have been seen summoned using\nKuchiyose no Jutsu, by Tsunade and Sakura.1 The only other character known\nthat _could_ count as a slug is Saiken, also known as Rokubi (Six Tails).\n\n\n\nKishimoto has also drawn three other slugs on the cover pages of Chapter 4,\nChapter 153, and Chapter 162.\n\n  \n\n* * *\n\n1 While we have seen toads at Myoboku Mountain, and the White Snake Sage at\nRyuchi Cave, the Shikkotsu Forest where slugs reside has not been shown yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-22T14:45:47.603", "id": "5995", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-22T14:45:47.603", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "5994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe image represents a [transmutation\narray](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Alchemy#Transmutation_Array), the [Grand\nArcanum](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Grand_Arcanum). \nA transmutation array is similar to a [transmutation\ncircle](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Alchemy#Transmutation_Circle), and also has\nthe function of allowing for the energy to circulate during a transmutation.\nThey differ, however, in the fact that the runes (drawings) that compose the\narray may exceed the limits of the circle.\n\nThis array is exclusive to the 2003 anime, and is used by Scar to make a\nphilosopher's stone using the souls of the people of Reole.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-22T21:42:59.493", "id": "6000", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-22T21:48:06.850", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-22T21:48:06.850", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "5999", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**She was turned by an unnamed _jinrou_ (werewolf).**\n\nAccording to her backstory in episode 16, when she was still a normal human,\nher father's friend brought a guess to visit her house. He was a\nforeigner/westerner and turns out to be a _jinrou_. In the end, she was bitten\nand her blood was sucked by him and she died. However, after she was put into\na coffin and buried, she woke up and came back to life, as a _shiki_.\n\nResearching further about her attacker, there's no more insight other than \"a\nwesterner _jinrou_ \", as shown on Wikia:\n\n * [Sunako Kirishiki](http://shiki.wikia.com/wiki/Sunako_Kirishiki#History)\n\n> He was a Jinrou.\n\n * [Jinrou](http://shiki.wikia.com/wiki/Jinrou#Creation)\n\n> There are of course jinrou overseas as well, such as the one that turned\n> Sunako.\n\nand other sources:\n\n * [pixiv dictionary (Japanese)](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E6%A1%90%E6%95%B7%E6%B2%99%E5%AD%90)\n\n> その正体は幼少期に西洋人の人狼に襲われ、蘇生した起き上がり。\n>\n> Her real form is that she came back to life after she was attacked by a\n> westerner _jinrou_ when she was in her early childhood.\n\n * [Yahoo! Chiebukuro (Japanese)](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1046870225), asking the difference between the novel, manga and anime:\n\n> 沙子は元々は人間で、（おそらく明治、大正時代と思われる）必ずしも火葬されない時代に異国から来た人狼に襲われ屍鬼になりました。\n>\n> Sunako was originally a human (probably since Meiji, Taisho period),\n> certainly not from an era with cremation, and was turned into _shiki_ by a\n> _jinrou_ coming from a foreign country.\n\nHowever, it's certainly not Seishirou because he is a human, even though the\nattacker looks really similar to him, as noted in [antiotaku's\nreview](https://antiotaku.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/shiki-\nepisode-16-%E2%80%93-family-matters/):\n\n> The vampire who killed Sunako all those years ago bears a striking\n> resemblance to Seishirou Kirishiki. They even dress alike. I'm guessing this\n> isn't a coincidence.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-14T04:03:39.987", "id": "42810", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-14T09:35:16.850", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-14T09:35:16.850", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "6002", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs shown by [Amazon](http://www.amazon.ca/Death-Note-Volume-Box-\nSet/dp/B001R8B5TO), Box Set 2 is reprinted. However, [Box Set\n1](http://www.amazon.ca/Death-Note-1-Box-\nSet/dp/B001CZJP0S/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1418199871&sr=1-1&keywords=Death%20Note%20Box%20Set%201)\nhas not been. In fact, Box Set 2 isn't \"reprinted\" persay as the new edition\nwith a different cover art was released.\n\nThat's case closed on this one.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-10T08:25:11.917", "id": "15620", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T08:25:11.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "6008", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSince there are multiple questions, I will divide the answer also into\nmultiple sections.\n\n**Why doesn't the thickness of the Death Note increase?**\n\nThe rule quoted in the question seems to contradict a statement that Sidoh\nmakes in one manga chapter. He says that to get his Death Note back, he has to\nwait until the current owner dies or **till the all the pages are filled up**.\nSince both the manga and the _How to Read_ sections are canon, I would call\nthis an author mistake. However, an interpretation is possible wherein both\nstatements could be correct, without causing contradiction. Let us consider\nthe three cases.\n\n * _How to Read_ version of the rule is correct. \nIf the pages in the Death Note never run out, we can assume that new pages\nwill grow somehow once all pages have been used up. The most plausible\nexplanation for why the book doesn't become thick is that Light tore away and\ndestroyed some or all old pages after the new pages grew. \n \nL or Near only verified that the people whose names were then present in the\nDeath Note had indeed been killed. They did not, and could not, verify that\nthere were _other_ people killed whose names are _not_ in the Death Note.\n\n * Sidoh's statement in manga is correct. \nIn the manga pilot, the Death Note consisted of 60 pages with 38 lines per\npage. Once you ran out of space, you could ask your Shinigami for a new one.1\nThe pilot chapter is usually considered non-canon, but it is possible that the\nauthors planned for the Death Note in the manga to behave similarly and simply\nforgot about it when they wrote the _How to Read_.\n\n * Both versions are correct. \nWe could interpret the statements as the following. When Sidoh said that the\nDeath Note's pages are filled up, he was referring to the _physical_ Death\nNote. The _How to Read_ section refers to the _logical_ or _conceptual_ Death\nNote. The new notebook that the Shinigami gives could be seen as the\n\"continuation\" of the earlier book. Since there's no limit to the number of\ntimes you can ask the Shinigami for a new book, the pages never run out\nlogically.\n\n**How is tearing the last page interpreted?**\n\nThis is an easy one, since a torn page from the Death Note is still\ntechnically a part of the same Death Note. This can be seen from the following\ncanon events, both of which Light puts to good use for his plan.\n\n * Someone touching the torn piece will see the Shinigami associated with that Death Note.\n * Someone who has lost memories of the Death Note, will remember them, after touching that torn piece. \n\nThis implies that until that last page is filled up, the book is still\nconsidered to be not filled up.\n\n**Could Light rip-off pages and distribute them to create a Kira army?**\n\nTechnically, he could do it, but there are a number of reasons this would not\nbe a good idea.\n\n * From the explanations in the first two sections, it follows that unless all pages are used up, Light won't be getting any more pages. (Until all pages are filled up, new pages won't grow, or the Shinigami won't give you a new book, depending on which version is correct.)\n\n * Distributing the Death Note pages increases Kira's chances of getting caught. Even if he chooses people with a \"high sense of justice\" as he wants, not many would be as smart or careful as him in covering their tracks. There's a good chance someone would spill the beans, over a glass of alcohol, for example. Moreover, if the pages fall into the hands of Police, they could serve as evidence, which would eventually be backtracked to him. \n \nEven if Light has their names and faces, he cannot possibly keep track on\ntheir every activity, and killing them after they have committed a mistake\nwould not help him much. In particular, note that: \n \n\n> what eventually contributed to Light getting caught was Teru Mikami acting\n> on his own, without waiting for Light's orders.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Death Note Manga Pilot, Chapter 0, page 26.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-24T06:58:23.167", "id": "6015", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-24T06:58:23.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "6009", "post_type": "answer", "score": 36 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile it's definitely vague, it could be assumed that the Death Note rule\nabout Infinite pages only applies to Death notes in Possession of a Death God\n(i.e., full pages simply disappear and are replaced with new at the end of the\nbook, since Death God's have no real reason why they need to keep the pages),\nwhere as Death Notes in possession of Humans have a finite number of pages (as\nis specifically stated by a Death God), but can be erased and reused as needed\n(If they think to do so before the pages are all used up).\n\nWhich is really the only way IMO that Near's trick could've worked.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-06T02:12:08.657", "id": "19842", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-06T02:12:08.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4966", "parent_id": "6009", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nSome rules have been changed in How to Read from what was mentioned in the\nmanga. For instance, Sidoh states in the manga that for him to get his\nnotebook back, he would have to wait for the owner to die or use up all of the\npages, whereas in How to Read, it is stated that there are an unlimited amount\nof pages in the Death Note. In contrast, the rules listed in the manga pilot\nchapter, included in How to Read, state that the notebook has 60 pages with 38\nlines per page, and that when the owner runs out of space to write in the\nnotebook, they \"may ask the original Shinigami owner for another.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-28T18:20:01.867", "id": "42524", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-28T18:20:01.867", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35871", "parent_id": "6009", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell in the pilot manga, it states,\n\n> There is 60 pages and 36 lines on each page, if you write small you can\n> write as many names as you want.\n\nMeaning eventually it would run out. But! It also says you can ask the\nshinigami for a new Death Note. However, this doesn't happen in the anime,\nmeaning the pages must regenerate, somehow.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-31T04:49:23.523", "id": "44014", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-31T05:02:59.577", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-31T05:02:59.577", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37383", "parent_id": "6009", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe reason is simple: they are no longer under the World Government, and have\nbeen declared as fugitives. The side story _CP9's Independent Report_ covers\nwhat the CP9 members did after the Enies Lobby arc. This side story was\ncarried as a mini-series on cover pages of One Piece manga chapters 491 to\n528.\n\nBruno used his Air Door to save the CP9 members from the Buster Call. On\nreturning to the destroyed island after the Marine attack, Bruno and Jabra\nnotice the Government forces are looking for them. Suspecting that Spandam\nplans to capture them, they flee the island to St. Poplar.\n\nRob Lucci sustained severe injuries in the fight against Luffy, so the other\nCP9 members work in St. Poplar to pay for his treatment. After Lucci's\ntreatment, they defeat the Candy Pirates who attacked St. Poplar, and return\nto their hometown.\n\nIn the meantime, Spandam presumably blamed them for the Enies Lobby debacle\nand got them declared as fugitives. He sent Marine pursuers, led by Captain\nVery Good, to capture them. CP9 defeat the pursuers and set sail to high seas,\nafter Rob Lucci tells Spandam over a Den Den Mushi that they would return.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-24T13:13:17.720", "id": "6018", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-24T14:12:27.220", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-24T14:12:27.220", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "6017", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere seem to be three main anime script awards, at least in Japan.\n\n**[Tokyo Anime Award](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Anime_Award)**\nincludes a wide variety of anime and categories, including two for\nscreenplays. One is for screenplays and one is for original adaptation\nscreenplays. These seem to be all professional/aired screenwriters/anime.\nThese categories were created in 2014, though the Award is from 2002.\n\n**[Animax Taishō](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animax_Taish%C5%8D)** is for\nsubmitted rather than already aired anime, and the winners are produced and\naired on Animax. It's not clear if this has been run after 2008.\n\n**[Kyoto Animation\nAwards](http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/kyoani_award/outline/)** is also for\nunpublished work, though oddly they seem to not have winners every year. In\nthe last cycle, for example, there were no winners. This is run by Kyoto\nAnimation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-16T16:47:59.827", "id": "39435", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-16T16:47:59.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "6021", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]