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[ { "body": "\n\n(I know you asked for digital, but at least it's available in some form...)\n\nRightStuf started re-printing Berserk: [Berserk Manga Gets\nReprinting](http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/main/news/individual/?ForumThreadName=FT0000005631).\n\nYou can now buy it form their website: [Browse All Berserk Graphic\nNovels](http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/facetedSearch/?search=berserk%20graphic%20novel#/?s=berserk%20graphic%20novel).\n\n> **NOTE:** The volumes don't display in proper numerical order, make sure to\n> page through the results to find volume #1.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-03T22:41:08.383", "id": "6727", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T16:53:25.157", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-04T16:53:25.157", "last_editor_user_id": "1433", "owner_user_id": "1433", "parent_id": "6022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs of July 18, 2017, Dark Horse released the manga digitally!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-18T16:59:49.720", "id": "41449", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-18T16:59:49.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2514", "parent_id": "6022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe wiki page you referenced for Naotsugu has been updated saying that he has\nthe [Border Patrol](http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Border_Patrol) Subclass.\n\nOn a side note if Elder Tale is anything like most MMORPGs a subclass is not\nchosen until you have gained a couple levels and there is no advantage for not\nhaving one. So it would make sense that most players would pick a subclass to\nstart leveling it right away.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T00:01:35.643", "id": "11237", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-30T18:50:07.323", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-30T18:50:07.323", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6219", "parent_id": "6024", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's a few subtleties that aren't easy to pick up. Which is normal. From\nthe New World is a very deep show and it isn't easy to get everything - even\nafter rewatching it multiple times.\n\n> As far as I know Ogres and Karmic demons are regular humans who (explained\n> in conventional terms) have suffered and become full blown Sociopaths and\n> heavily depressed individuals, respectively, who use all their might in\n> throwing and restraining, again respectively, all their power at those\n> surrounding them, but one way (consciously) or another (unconsciously) it\n> goes out and hurts others.\n\nCorrect so far.\n\n> My first question is: Does this affect anybody or just a few? If just a few,\n> then who? Talented/powerful people?\n\nIt's fair to say that everybody could become an Ogre. The determining factor\nseems to be the person's mental and psychological state of the person.\n\nPower is not a factor. But depending on how you define \"talent\", it can be.\nFor example, if you can't control your Canti, then you may turn into a Karma\nDemon.\n\n> If everybody, then does that mean that the world was filled with Ogres and\n> Karmic Demons before the current order came in to place?\n\nIt wasn't filled with them. Ogres were rare. It was mentioned at one point\nthat there only like 20 recorded events of them over several hundred years.\n\nIt's only in case where a person is going through extreme stress and or innate\ndesire to hurt do that have any chance of becoming an Ogre.\n\n> But the one thing that bothers me the most, which is basically based off all\n> the previous questions is my third and last question: Why the hell are Ogres\n> so goddamn powerful?\n\nSee my answer to this question: [Where do \"fiends\" get their abnormal\nstrength?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3097/17)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-26T03:53:10.160", "id": "6026", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-26T03:53:10.160", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "6025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is my understanding of it.\n\nAll humans in the world of Shinsekai Yori are strong. Their power itself is\nunimaginably strong, but serves only as an offense, not a defense.\n\nThus because of this an Ogre is someone who is unaffected by the genetic\nimprint that makes humans in SSY die after they murder. That's why Ogres are\nso dangerous. They aren't especially strong, but they can use their power to\nkill, and there is no way to defend against it. Humans can't try to kill an\nOgre because then they'd die.\n\nA Karmic Demon is very different. A Karmic Demon is a perfectly normal person\npsychologically, but their power leaks into the world and harms the world.\nBasically, it is someone who can no longer control their power, but they are\nstill sane.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-01T21:03:22.497", "id": "6685", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-27T16:46:04.020", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-27T16:46:04.020", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3185", "parent_id": "6025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**Contains spoilers**\n\n> As far as I know Ogres and Karmic demons are regular humans who (explained\n> in conventional terms) have suffered and become full blown Sociopaths and\n> heavily depressed individuals, respectively, who use all their might in\n> throwing and restraining, again respectively, all their power at those\n> surrounding them, but one way (consciously) or another (unconsciously) it\n> goes out and hurts others.\n>\n> My first question is: Does this affect anybody or just a few? The Second\n> question is more a set of questions than anything: If just a few, then who?\n> Talented/powerful people? If everybody, then does that mean that the world\n> was filled with Ogres and Karmic Demons before the current order came in to\n> place? If so, when why did the false Minoshiro (whatever that means) forgot\n> to mention it? Or did I forget to watch it in the 3 times I watched the\n> episode?\n\nBefore the current order, power users had no in-built restraints on their\npower. So ordinary people could, and did, cause tremendous damage. Basically\nevery time someone lost their temper there was a risk of nuclear war.... To\nprevent this, humanity re-engineered themselves and their society with heavy\nconstraints on power. They put in place a multi-layered defense against using\npower against other humans:\n\n**Genetic engineering:**\n\n * Attack Control from wolves - A strong aversion to hurting their own species\n * Sex and affection from bonobos - An inclination to resolve stress and conflict with sex rather than violence\n * Death feedback - The ultimate control. A physiological response to the guilt of hurting people which would kill the perpetrator. My understanding is that the death feedback kicks in, at a modest level, even when contemplating hurting someone. Therefore it actually prevents attacks. If for some reason you accidentally or unwittingly hurt someone, the consequent guilt is lethal. So it also punishes harm.\n\nTaken together these mechanisms mean that a human CANNOT volunatarily harm\nanother. In particular it is not possible even to decide to suicide-attack\nanother person - you just can't bring yourself to attack in the first place at\nall.\n\n**Social conditioning:** From birth the people are raised with stories,\nconditioning, and hypnotism to control their behaviour. The biological\ncontrols are strenghthened with this process. In addition there is a huge\nemphasis on obedience and harmony. Because it is impossible to control people\nwith violence in the new society, you can't have normal policing and\npunishment. Instead the control is psychological.\n\n**Selection:** Children are closely monitored as they develop. If they don't\ndevelop properly they are weeded out. The show portrays the selection as very\nheavy handed, because they would rather kill many innocents than let one\nfailure slip through.\n\nOgres and karmic demons occur when these methods fail. Karmic demons lose\nconscious control of their power. Shun says that in fact a little power leaks\nout of everyone, but in most cases it does little harm. Karmic demons leak a\nlot of power from their unconscious. They are potentially extremely dangerous\nas a consequence. However they near no malice. The karmic demons we see retain\ntheir human morality and voluntarily kill themselves to prevent harm to the\nworld around them. They are dangerous, but not excessively so, for this\nreason.\n\nOgres/Fiends are a nightmare. They are humans for whom the safeguards have\nutterly failed. They are psychopaths. The Death feedback relies on guilt\nemotions to function. Psychopaths lack such guilt, and the other emphathetic\nemotions that control Power. They are able and willing to use their Power\nagainst other humans.\n\nPrecisely because of the various safeguards, other humans are unable to\ncounter-attack, making ogres capable of causing essentially unlimited harm. A\nsingle ogre could destroy the entire planet. Hence the excessive selection\nabove: you can't afford to run any risks.\n\nOgres Power is no stronger than anyone else's. Although there are degrees of\ncontrol over Power, the idea is that any normal adult has almost unlimited\npower. They can do almost anything. There is no practical upper limit to what\nthey can do. So even a weak person, if they become an ogre, has civilization\nending capabilities. Normal folks around them may have equivalent or even\nmaterially stronger Power, but their self-imposed constraints prevent them\nfrom deploying it.\n\n> But the one thing that bothers me the most, which is basically based off all\n> the previous questions is my third and last question: Why the hell are Ogres\n> so goddamn powerful?\n>\n> I mean, look at the Messiah, child of Maria and Mamoru, taken off them by\n> Yakomaru. The first and only human kid the rats get in their hands on, breed\n> to adolescence (which is when they get their powers) and turns out to be a\n> killing sociopath with powers as immense as the most powerful dude in the\n> village. This case essentially brings up all the previous questions I asked,\n> which if you didn't notice, is driving me mad.\n>\n> So, does anyone have any answers?\n\nThe Messiah is not an ogre. All the constraint mechanisms work great in them.\nBut the constraints work for monster rats, not humans, because they believe\nthey are a monster rat.\n\nThey are not a sociopath. They kill humans as lightly as humans kill monster\nrats, because they don't see them as fellow creatures.\n\nThe Messiah is probably a rather weak human, because they wouldn't have had\nthe sophisticated education in manipulating their Power. But they can deploy\n100% of their (relatively) weak power, whereas others cannot deploy any of\ntheir far stronger power.\n\nThe reason the Messiah whips the most powerful guy (Shisei) is due to an\nadditional piece of information we are given:\n\nYou can't make two Powers interact. If they come into contact, space time is\nwarped and you get a rainbow iridescence effect.\n\nThis makes it very hard to use Power defensively. Basically, the Messiah\nattacks Shisei directly. If he does nothing, he dies. If he tries to\ncounteract the Power with his own, they interact. This is what we see: we see\nthe rainbow and he gets warped as space-time bends. This kills him. Power is\nuseless defensively.\n\nIn the last arc, Saki figures out that the Ogre is no ogre. She and Satoru try\nto show it that it is really a human, using Satoru's mirror skill. This\ndoesn't work - the Messiah just seems confused. They defeat it by using\nKiroumaru. Once Saki understands they are not really dealing with an Ogre, it\nbecomes rather easy to defeat.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-04T10:26:09.927", "id": "39716", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-06T07:03:33.197", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-06T07:03:33.197", "last_editor_user_id": "2793", "owner_user_id": "31792", "parent_id": "6025", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe effect of using Izanami is that you lose **use** of an eye - that is, the\nuser becomes blind.\n\nThe eye is there - it has not been lost. Itachi is simply now blind in that\neye.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-26T09:37:20.763", "id": "6030", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-26T09:37:20.763", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "6029", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n> Q. _Any physical part of a reanimated person cannot be destroyed._\n\nThe eye was not destroyed at all. It just lost its light forever. As stated in\nthe [wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Izanami) (emphasis mine)\n\n> It is a genjutsu which affects the target through physical sensations shared\n> between them and the user. Like its counterpart, in exchange for the\n> temporary ability that it grants the user, **the Sharingan with which\n> Izanami is cast is rendered blind and loses its light forever.**\n\n* * *\n\n> Q. _It will be regenerated automatically within a short time._\n\nSince the eye was never destroyed, it did not regenerate.\n\n* * *\n\n> Q. _He could've damaged his own eye with a kunai, so that he would get a\n> fresh Mangekyo Sharingan._\n\nThe light of the eye was already lost. Even if Itachi were to destroy it with\nhis own kunai, the regenerated eye would still have been the one without its\nlight.\n\nAlso, it should be noted that Itachi did not want to stay in the living world\nanymore, as he had no more attachments with the living (after telling the\ntruth to Sasuke). Therefore, Itachi would never have tried it at all in the\nfirst place.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-26T09:39:19.677", "id": "6031", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-12T12:50:46.193", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-12T12:50:46.193", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "6029", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe girl is Charles Bonaparte and the song is called: Vent Debout - Masaru\nYokoyama\n\nThe song is found on Freezing Vibration OST volume 2 track 17. As found on\n[wikipedia page](http://freezing.wikia.com/wiki/Freezing:_Vibration) \nAnd the actual song: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtbKHkvK_Oo>\n\nIt is first heard in freezing vibration episode 4, when Charles debut's her\ncombat skills in the fighting form that she calls \"Typhon Tempest\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-19T07:15:37.843", "id": "26700", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-20T09:36:02.797", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-20T09:36:02.797", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "18598", "parent_id": "6032", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo. After the original US publisher, Del Ray, [ceased\npublishing](http://www.siliconera.com/2010/10/09/del-rey-to-cease-publishing-\nmanga-restore-licenses-to-kodansha-usa/) manga, Kodansha USA took up all\nKodansha licenses, but they\n[mentioned](http://kodanshacomics.tumblr.com/post/49378524386/is-there-any-\nchance-to-see-suzuka-get-completed) that it [did not have any\nplans](http://kodanshacomics.tumblr.com/post/49386683538/so-not-continuing-\nany-del-rey-series-at-all-thats) to resuce any other titles.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-26T18:15:04.367", "id": "6036", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-26T18:15:04.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "6033", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, that's becasue you also need to be competent enough to master both these\npowers.\n\nMadara was strong enough, and was able to awaken it. Danzo however, was not.\n\nDanzo's DNA originates from experiments and body modifications. He wasn't a\n\"Natural\", while Madara had natural mastery over the Uchiha powers, and after\nbeing defeated by Hashirama, mastery over the Senju powers.\n\nIt was also implied that you need to be very close to the end of your lifespan\nto awaken the Rinnegan.\n\n* * *\n\n## Edit - Spoilers!\n\n> Based on the recent chapters, it is implied that it isn't Senju + Uchiha\n> which is needed to awaken the Rinnegan, but Indra's and Ashura's (Sage of\n> Six Paths' sons) chakras. That is why Madara (the incarnation of Indra) was\n> able to awaken them after implanting Hashirama's (the incarnation of Ashura)\n> cells into his wounds.\n\n", "comment_count": 15, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-26T17:53:34.887", "id": "6035", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-19T20:51:40.310", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-19T20:51:40.310", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "6034", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nDanzo was not able to awaken the rinnegan because he had senju DNA and Uchiha\neyes but had neither enough chakra to effectively utilize either ability\n(hashirama' s wood style or the sharingan in his arms). While madara was an\nUchiha who implanted hashirama's DNA throughout his whole body he did not\nawaken the rinnegan until he was near death. It would not be expected for\nsomeone like Danzo to be capable of manifesting the rinnegan, at least at the\npoint in time that he was living.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-19T05:13:47.163", "id": "8763", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-19T05:13:47.163", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4553", "parent_id": "6034", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nLike many said, you kinda need the \"blood\" or \"chakra\" of the Uchiha and Senju\nto awakened, which many stated to be implied at the end of one's life. Danzo\ndoesn't have any, only body modifications. Danzo had the Sharingan because he\nSTOLE them, he ripped them out of the Uchiha who had them, therefore he will\nnever awaken the Rinnegan. That's why he was bandaged, so it doesn't drain his\nchakra. It's not that Madara was strong enough, he basically had the\nrequirements to do so, just at the end of his life did it awakened.\n\nNagato was implanted the Rinnegan at a early age by Madara before he died, and\nNagato is of the Uzumaki, hence how he could easily handle the Rinnegan (I am\nsure if he had both Rinnegan or just the one).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-11-15T00:27:14.540", "id": "61053", "last_activity_date": "2020-11-15T02:20:48.897", "last_edit_date": "2020-11-15T02:20:48.897", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "57160", "parent_id": "6034", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nDanzo didn't awaken a Rinnegan because he is not a reincarnation of Indra.\nEven if he did, he only has the chakra reserves for like one or two moves. The\nmanga and anime state that in order to awaken the Rinnegan without means of\ntransplantation, one must possess a Sharingan, be Indra's reincarnate, take\nchakra from Ashura's reincarnate ( **these are Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths\ntwo sons)** thus reforming Hagoromo's chakra, leading to the Rinnegan\nawakening. If a non-Indra reincarnate does what Danzo did, all he would get is\nIzanagi-spam, lesser cooldown on Kotoamatsukami wait, and Mokuton (wood\nstyle.)\n\nPut simply, Danzo didn't awaken a Rinnegan because he isn't an Indra\nreincarnate.\n\nJust in case you still don't understand, here's an image from the manga when\n**Hagoromo himself** explains how Madara awakened the Rinnegan.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xuHsW.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-05T14:17:47.343", "id": "62374", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-05T14:17:47.343", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59761", "parent_id": "6034", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAlso, you need an EMS to evolve into the rinnegan unless you were born with\nit, which hagoromo was.We all know that even if you have senju and uchiha\nblood, you need the EMS to evolve into rinnegan. If hashirama wanted the\nrinnegan, he would have to transplant madara's sharingan to get it. If someone\nwas the descendant of an incarnate of indra and also an incarnate of asura, he\nwould be able to awaken the Sharingan, just the sharingan unless he was an\nincarnate of Asura.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-19T17:59:33.950", "id": "62557", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-19T17:59:33.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "60146", "parent_id": "6034", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou don't really have to watch the first part of Naruto before the Shippuden\npart, but I strongly recommend you to watch it.\n\nThere are several reasons of why you should watch the first part (or at least\nread the manga):\n\n**\\- Character development:**\n\nYou will start by following the characters since their first days in the\nacademy, and you will start to watch them grow every episode, you will know\ntheir life, their personalities, love some, and hate some, you will understand\nthem and how they feel toward each other, and witness every single piece of\nevent that made them arrive to what they are in the Shipudden part.\n\n**\\- Grow in strength:**\n\nStarting by the first Naruto part will make you start by seeing the beginners\nninja techniques, you will start by seeing that creating a clone is a huge\nachievement ! And after long episodes and long days of training/fighting, you\nwill start to see the development of each ones techniques and feel the value\nof it even if it's still small, and that's the most important part in every\nanime: character development, precisely for this part: the growth in strength\n(physical and mental). By starting with Shippuden you will start already by\nlarge techniques, strong characters, big fights.. and that's not that cool as\na start.\n\n**\\- The Story:**\n\nOf course if you skip a part of the anime, you will skip a part of the story,\nprecisely the childhood of the famous characters (and it was the fun part of\nthe story, since Shippuden is a part of war).\n\nThere are several other points that you can miss by skipping the first part,\nbut as I said first, it's not that you can't watch Shippuden directly, it's\nthat it's better for you to grow with the characters since their first days.\n\n**There are many people who wish to lose their Naruto-memory so they can watch\nit again, you still didn't watch it ! don't waste this chance : )**\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-26T21:08:23.567", "id": "6041", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-26T21:08:23.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2668", "parent_id": "6037", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe switched life forces with Obito. That's why he said: \"Let's switch\". Obito\nis _probably_ still alive because of the Kyuubi foreshadowing that the\nJinchuuriki of the Ten Tails has bigger life force than other Jinchuuriki's.\n\nMadara is revived by Black Zetsu controlling Obito using Gedo: Rinne Tensei!\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-27T09:38:38.783", "id": "6047", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-27T19:19:04.773", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-27T19:19:04.773", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "2766", "parent_id": "6043", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIts probably never mentioned that Danzo knew about the existence of rinnegan. \nBut, if he knew, there are various reasons why he didn't have it on his arms. \n\nOne reason could be - \nAccording to the wiki: \n\n> The first person to possess the Rinnegan was the Sage of the Six Paths.\n> Because of the Sage's mythical status, many people believed the Rinnegan was\n> only a legend or a mutation\n\nSecondly, In the whole series only Nagato (not to forget all other pain) was\nshown with Rinnegan and they were always hidden in their village so no one\never found out till they actually fought against jiraiya when the frogs who\nwere with him found out. \nThat means there was least chance of Danzo knowing about Nagato. \nThis is not a perfect answer but I guess this is the only detail revealed.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-27T09:59:49.813", "id": "6048", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-27T09:59:49.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "6044", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHe should have known before the Konoha-attack. Years before, he worked\ntogether with Hanzo, who was attacked by Nagato using his Rinnegan. Back then,\nDanzo most likely came to know about the reason why his men got killed.\n\nSource: Chapter 447\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-27T10:11:09.160", "id": "6049", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-27T10:11:09.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "6044", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you go through the `Tailed Beast Mode` section of the [Jinchūriki\nForms](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jinch%C5%ABriki_Forms#Tailed_Beast_Mode),\nyou can see that (emphasis mine)\n\n> **Naruto has not been able to fully recreate Kurama's form.** At first, this\n> was because the fox would not cooperate with him, causing all attempts to\n> turn into it to result in a miniature, comical version of the beast that\n> could not be maintained for very long. **Since then he has been able to earn\n> Kurama's cooperation, but the Tailed Beast Mode he enters, though accurate\n> in size, is unique as he does not as closely resemble the beast as the other\n> jinchūriki do their own.**\n\nFurther looking into the `Tailed Beast Mode` section in [Nine-Tails Chakra\nMode](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nine-Tails_Chakra_Mode#Tailed_Beast_Mode),\nyou can see that (emphasis mine)\n\n> All jinchūriki can enter Tailed Beast Mode, which grants them all the\n> strength and abilities of their corresponding tailed beast. **However, where\n> other jinchūriki become full-scale replicas of their tailed beast, Naruto\n> and Minato enter a form very visually similar to the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.\n> For Naruto, the shroud parts down the middle and opens up into a full-length\n> cloak (haori), revealing a black undergarment with three magatama on each\n> side of his high collar. His seal's numerous swirl-patterns, which were\n> located all over his body, open out into complete, dark circles. His eyes\n> become red and slitted and his whisker-markings become much thicker, as they\n> do in his early transformations.**\n\nThis is what you're seeing when Naruto transforms for the first time along\nwith Kurama, when fighting against Tobi.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-27T10:27:23.847", "id": "6052", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-04T03:40:04.553", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-04T03:40:04.553", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "6050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAs the power of Saints is based on the Idol Theory (humans are replicas of God\nso they can reproduce a fraction of his power - Saints are just humans who are\n\"better replicas\" in this sense), it seems to be something innate and defined\nat birth. Brunhild's backstory in the Kanzaki SS also confirms the Saint\nstatus is something one is born with.\n\n> It's actually a core plot point in her story since she suffered heavy\n> discrimination for it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-29T02:45:36.230", "id": "6068", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-29T02:45:36.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2816", "parent_id": "6057", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Q. Is that even possible?\n\n~~No, Izanagi cannot be used/casted on others. It's a _genjutsu_ which is cast\nupon themselves by the users. It is stated in the wiki page of\n[Izanagi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Izanagi).\n\n> Izanagi is a genjutsu that is cast on the user instead of others and is the\n> most powerful amongst this type of genjutsu.~~\n\nAfter referring to [Happy](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6064/1604)'s\nanswer, the answer is **Yes** , it is _possible_.\n\n* * *\n\n> Q. I feel as if I saw an Uchiha member use Izanagi to revive a bunch of\n> other Uchiha members.\n\nBut then, as for your doubt regarding an Uchiha member saving/reviving many\nother Uchiha members by using Izanagi, it is _Wrong_ and it is also mentioned\nin the 3rd bullet point of the\n[`Trivia`](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Izanagi) section of Izanagi (emphasis\nmine).\n\n> The anime makes several mistakes on what Izanagi actually does and is\n> capable of. For example when used by Danzō, every hit would cause one of his\n> Sharingan eyes to close when using Izanagi instead of closing when the time\n> limit ended. **And during Itachi's history of Izanagi and Izanami to Sasuke,\n> Izanagi was used beyond the personal reality of the user to bring a whole\n> swath of people back to life even though they weren't using Izanagi\n> themselves.** Similarly, unlike Danzō and Obito's usage, where their used\n> eye is closed after passing their time limit, in the anime-exclusive\n> flashback, the user's eye instead turns blank like the usage of Izanami.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-28T10:21:21.280", "id": "6063", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T13:40:35.580", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "6062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn general, **YES** , Izanagi can be used on others. In Chapter 510, while\nexplaining the history of Izanagi to Konan, Tobi himself states that the Sage\nof Six Paths used it to create things, such as the nine Bijuu.\n\n_However_ , is it possible for a random filler flashback Uchiha to use Izanagi\non others? Probably not, because he did not have the Senju bloodline and is\ncertainly not comparable to the Sage of Six Paths.\n\n> Izanagi was originally a jutsu used by the Sage of Six Paths to \"create\".\n> The Sage, who was the Uchiha and the Senju bloodlines in one person, used it\n> to create many things.\n>\n> He would create shape and form from nothingness, using imagination and\n> spiritual energy which forms basis of the Yin power, and then breathe life\n> into that form using vitality and physical energy, which forms basis of the\n> Yang power.\n>\n> **He also created the nine Bijuu from the Juubi's chakra.** A technique with\n> the power to turn imagination into reality is the Izanagi.\n\n   \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-28T11:51:32.690", "id": "6064", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-28T12:06:40.190", "last_edit_date": "2013-11-28T12:06:40.190", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "6062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI would say it can twist one point in reality to fit your needs. danzo only\nused it for himself cause he is selfish lol.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-29T00:25:51.730", "id": "6067", "last_activity_date": "2013-11-29T00:25:51.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2799", "parent_id": "6062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt doesn't seem like Obito has much a future left, so let's get cracking.\n\nTobi uses Izanagi against Konan (Page 10) Tobi's Izanagi lasted for 10 minutes\n(Page 3)\n\nTobi was definitely referring to himself using the complete form of Izanagi.\nRecall that Danzou had 10 eyes and each eye had a 1 minute duration of\nIzanagi. Tobi is able to use at least 10 minutes worth for an eye sacrifice.\n\nWe also know that with each eye Danzou used, his chakra dropped significantly\naccording to Karin. His huge chakra loss is due to the fact that he is not an\nUchiha. While this was not specifically stated in chapters 510 or 479, we know\nthat a non-Uchiha using Sharingan consumes a lot of chakra (ie Kakashi).\n\nNow Tobi stated that Danzou didn't have full control over Hashirama's powers\n(Page 12), so this is why his Izanagi had a time restriction (of 1 minute).\nTobi goes on to explain how Orochimaru realized this as well, thus implanting\n10 eyes to lengthen the duration of Izanagi for Danzou.\n\nThe complete form of Izanagi requires full control over both the Uchiha DNA\n(Sharingan) and the Senju DNA (Hashirama cells). With this, one can use\nIzanagi without a timelimit per se, but rather a chakra limit. Tobi needs to\nuse chakra to use Izanagi, so the duration of the doujutsu is directly\nproportional to the amount of chakra that he uses. Once Tobi runs out of\nchakra, he can no longer use Izanagi.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T17:16:57.670", "id": "6154", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T17:16:57.670", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6065", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not positive exactly what part you're talking about because it's been a\nwhile since I watched that part of the show, and your question is a bit vague.\n\nHere's what happens:\n\nSebastian doesn't want to consume Ciel's soul as it is (as of the start of\n_Kuroshitsuji II_ ) because he doesn't remember taking his revenge, so his\nsoul is incomplete. As such, Sebastian and Claude make a bargain to allow Ciel\nto take a second revenge, this time on Alois. Both think that, after the\nsecond revenge will happen, they will be able to get Ciel and consume his\nsoul.\n\nClaude then kills Alois and puts his soul in a ring.\n\nFollowing that, from\n[this](http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/Claude_Faustus):\n\n> It is shown that [Claude] is keeping a close eye on Sebastian and Ciel as\n> they embark in another assignment from the Queen when Sebastian becomes\n> occupied in a fight with William T. Spears, Ciel is arrested by the police\n> who believe he's Alois Trancy and is identified by Hannah as Alois. Ciel is\n> then tortured, which Claude and Hannah override. While Ciel is in a weak\n> state after heavy and severe treatment Claude begins hypnotizing him and\n> then places Alois's ring on Ciel's finger causing Alois's memories to mix in\n> with Ciel's memories; this causes Ciel to believe that Sebastian was the\n> cause for the death of his parents and his \"brother,\" Luka Macken. When\n> Sebastian finally reaches Ciel, Ciel pushes him away and refers to Claude as\n> his butler. Claude then whispers to Ciel to order Sebastian to leave his\n> sight, which Ciel does willfully. Claude then takes the weak and tired Ciel\n> back to the Trancy mansion where he is warmly welcomed.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-11-30T06:22:16.863", "id": "6082", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-22T07:10:32.060", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-22T07:10:32.060", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "6073", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think that moment is in the last episode of season 1 when there was a crow\nstaring at them while Sebastian was going to take Ciel's soul. Then in season\n2 episode 6, in the flashback of what happened that day, the said crow flew\noff with the spider on his face.\n\nIt's just my theory after re-watching _Kuroshitsuji_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-10-22T05:59:40.723", "id": "49313", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-22T07:10:38.047", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-22T07:10:38.047", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "43030", "parent_id": "6073", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSebatian's contract with Ciel are cut-off because Sebastian lost his arm with\nthe contract on, I think The contract are lost during the battle between\nSebastian and Ash/Angela. So since the contract are lost, I guess other demons\ncan steal Ciel's soul, and eat it.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-01-04T19:39:06.530", "id": "50312", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-04T19:39:06.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44212", "parent_id": "6073", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost colors can be found in one form or another in image search results from\nGoogle (query `color 8888`). They seem to correspond to knitting yarn color\ncodes. Some colors are in DMC chart, I couldn't find out where others are\nfrom.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-29T23:58:03.393", "id": "7218", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-29T23:58:03.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "6080", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn episode 9, we get a better look at the soldiers: \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GVcoM.jpg)\n\nHere, besides the B on their forehead, we can see a T on their belts. \nAlso, earlier that episode (around minute 2), the Branding Piranha calls out\nthe soldiers by yelling \"Come on, Torture Boys!\": \n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kvfls.jpg)\n\nSo, **the B most likely stands for Boy(s), as in Torture Boy(s).**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-06T23:22:09.670", "id": "6179", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-01T21:23:19.000", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-01T21:23:19.000", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "6087", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think to understand this its important to recognize that the show is all\nabout celebrating [Tokusatsu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu) tropes\n(think Power Rangers). This is why, as in most Tokusatsu shows, all the bosses\nexplode. Now, in most Tokusatsu shows, the minions are just beaten up and then\nignored. Frequently they just seem to disappear between shots. There is no\nparticular \"canon\" explanation of what happens to them for the genre as a\nwhole. Since Samurai Flamenco is emulating these shows, it also ignores the\nquestion of what happens to the minions.\n\nSo the answer is that they probably do the same thing that minions do in every\nother show, but nobody knows what that is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-06T21:51:16.917", "id": "6177", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-06T21:51:16.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2110", "parent_id": "6088", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Gedo Mazo is just a recipient. The body of Ten Tails is on the moon,\nRikudou sent his body there.\n\nI think Madara and Obito plans to take the chakra of the Juubi in the Gedo\nMazo, the recipient, and put it back into the real body of Ten tails.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-19T05:17:28.080", "id": "6423", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-07T09:37:06.533", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-07T09:37:06.533", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3022", "parent_id": "6094", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe gedo statue doesn't possess any tails because it serves as a \"husk\" or\nvessel for all the tailed beasts to reform into their original entity: the Ten\nTails. Instead of tails, the gedo statue possesses 9 featureless white eyes\nthat gain pupils for each tailed beast the statue reassimilates. This would\nmake sense since the ten tails eye possesses 9 tomoe that could symbolize each\ntailed beast assimilated in its base form's eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-13T04:45:04.690", "id": "33710", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-30T12:19:16.117", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-30T12:19:16.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "25639", "parent_id": "6094", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**YES** , a new Sharingan could be transplanted into the eye socket replacing\nthe eye which used Izanagi. Use of Izanagi or Izanami causes the eye to\npermanently lose its light, but it does not damage the optic nerve that\nconnects to the eye. If it did, Tobi should not have been able to transplant\neven a Rinnegan there. For that matter, he could have transplanted a Byakugan\nor an ordinary eye there.\n\nTobi wanted the Rinnegan for its own sake, not because he had to somehow\nreplace \"permanently closed\" Sharingan eye. In fact, he wouldn't have known\nbeforehand that he would be forced to use Izanagi in the fight with Konan.\nHypothetically, if Konan had simply handed over Nagato's Rinnegan to him, he\nwould have taken out the left eye anyway and replaced it with the Rinnegan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-01T05:43:39.280", "id": "6097", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-01T05:43:39.280", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "6096", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough Tobi is a habitual liar1, his account of the Bijuu's origins,\npresumably written in the Uchiha shrine, can be relied upon.\n\n> The Sage of Six Paths would create shape and form from nothingness, using\n> **imagination** and spiritual energy, which forms basis of the Yin power,\n> and then breathe life into that form using vitality and physical energy,\n> which forms basis of the Yang power. He also created the nine Bijuu from the\n> Juubi's chakra, using a technique with the power to **turn imagination into\n> reality** , which is the Izanagi.2\n\nHence, the Juubi was separated into the nine Bijuu as we know, because that's\nthe form Hagoromo Otsutsuki imagined the separated entities to take. If he had\nimagined a different form of separation, he would have ended with a different\nresult. For instance, he could have created 100 beasts instead of 9, or given\nthe same number of tails to each beast, or maybe even given them a human form.\nAs such, the sum of the number of tails is not relevant.\n\n* * *\n\n1 His most famous and significant lie, being responsible for driving pretty\nmuch the entire plot:\n\n> \"I am Uchiha Madara.\"\n\n2 Tobi's explanation of Bijuu's origins (Chapter 510)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-01T15:38:12.903", "id": "6100", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-02T04:42:37.450", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-02T04:42:37.450", "last_editor_user_id": "99", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "6099", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you are looking for _[Baoh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baoh)_.\n\n_Baoh_ is originally a [manga\nseries](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=2781) by\n[Hirohiko Araki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohiko_Araki), who is best\nknown as the creator of _[JoJo's Bizarre\nAdventure](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoJo%27s_Bizarre_Adventure)_. It was\nserialized in _[Weekly Shonen\nJump](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Jump)_ from 1984 to 1985\nand was adapted into a [50-minute\nOVA](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=259) in 1989.\n\n> **Plot Summary:** Ikurou Hashizawa was a normal boy until he is captured by\n> evil scientists who create the ultimate fighter by attaching a parasite,\n> named Baoh, to his brain. The mysterious girl Sumire, who has psychic\n> powers, frees him and together they work to avoiding being captured by those\n> who want to use their powers.\n>\n> [BAOH (OAV) - Anime News\n> Network](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=259)\n\n \n[Amazon.com: Baoh (DVD)](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00005B8U7)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-02T13:03:10.783", "id": "6111", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-03T23:03:09.683", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-03T23:03:09.683", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "151", "parent_id": "6101", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's the same universe - just some 10 years later.\n\n * Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate are all grown up. (teenagers as opposed to kids)\n * Signum, Vita, Zafira, and Shamal don't age at all because they are bound to the Book of Darkness (they're not human).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-01T21:34:48.773", "id": "6105", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-01T21:34:48.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "6103", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nTo clarify, it is the same universe, the same continuity. But _StrikerS_ does\ntake place (mostly) on a different **planet**.\n\nNanoha and Hayate were born on Earth, which the Administration calls Non-\nAdministered World #97. The setting of _StrikerS_ (and _Vivid_ ) is mostly the\ncapital of the Space-Time Administration, Midchilda, which is where Fate and\nYuuno are originally from. The epilogue of _A's_ was in the last year of the\ngirls' middle school education, on Earth; as seen in the _A's to Strikers_\nchapters of the _StrikerS_ manga, after the end of their compulsory education,\nthe girls all intended to move to full-time service with the Administration,\nand the three spent the next four years pursuing their careers there, before\nthey were reunited under Hayate's command in Riot Force 6.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-19T01:41:44.890", "id": "59614", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-19T01:41:44.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51733", "parent_id": "6103", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nConverting my comment into an answer, thanks to textual support from\n[Dusk252's comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6104/how-is-\nreinforces-name-supposed-to-be-said#comment7099_6104)...\n\nThe character's name in Japanese is リインフォース _riinfoosu_ , which is basically\nhow the English word \"reinforce\" would be rendered into Japanese. So, if you\nwere talking about Nanoha while speaking in English, you should pronounce the\ncharacter's name like the English word\n\"[reinforce](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reinforce)\"; that is, \"ree-in-\nFOHRS\", not \"RAHYN-fohrs\" or anything else like that.\n\nAs seen in the topmost speech bubble in [this excerpt from chapter 2 of Mahou\nSenki Lyrical Nanoha Force](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vwbaK.jpg), Reinforce's\nname is abbreviated as リイン _riin_. Thus, you should pronounce the abbreviated\nform of her name as you would pronounce the correspondingly-abbreviated form\nof the English word \"reinforce\": as \" **ree-in** \".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T01:40:09.490", "id": "6131", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T01:40:09.490", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6104", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA _Lost Logia_ is a piece of technology from an ancient world.\n\nWe have seen _Lost Logia_ from _Ancient Belka_ (Book of Darkness, Bible of\nSilver Cross) and _Al Hazard_ (Jewel Seed, Relic, Saints Cradle).\n\nNanoha lives in _Mid-Childa_ , and for them _Ancient Belka_ is a lost world.\nFor the inhabitants of _Ancient Belka_ during the _Belkan War_ , _Al Hazard_\nwas a lost world to them as well. Due to the _Belkan War_ you can see a lot of\ninfluences from _Al Hazard_ as they tried to harness the immeasurable power of\nthe _Lost Logia_ of _Al Hazard_.\n\nOn the collapse of _Ancient Belka_ , they tried to rebuild their empire using\nthe _Al Hazard Lost Logia_ , the _Saint's Cradle_. That was the _Saint King\nUnification War_ with the lovable _Olivie Sägebrecht_. So that is a bit of\nhistory of the _Lost Logia_ , a technology which has been lost.\n\nRemember the 'magic' that Nanoha uses is technology as well, except that it is\nnot mass-based (like a Nuclear Bomb), but magic-based (an energy coming from\nliving beings, apparently) and was chosen technology for the _Time Space\nAdministration_ due to it being clean and relatively safe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-04T10:57:51.967", "id": "6123", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-04T19:30:30.913", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-04T19:30:30.913", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "6106", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> It says that when you run out of room to write you can ask your Shinigami to\n> bring you another Death Note.\n\nThe manga pilot is non-canon. However, nothing is explicitly stated about it\nin the main series, so this rule may or may not be valid for the main series.\n\n * Rule is **not valid** in the main series.\n\nIn this case, the Death Note somehow \"grows\" more pages once you use up all\nthe pages, as described in [this\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6015/99).\n\n> * _How does the Shinigami tell that the Note is filled or not?_\n> * _When do we say that the Death Note had run out?_\n> * _What if I fill my Note, ask the Shinigami for another one, then erase\n> what was on my first Note again, will I have made two Death Notes for my\n> self?_\n> * _Why didn't Yagami Light do that to get six Death Notes?_\n\nUnder this assumption, these questions are not applicable.\n\n * Rule is **valid** in the main series.\n\n> * _How does the Shinigami tell that the Note is filled or not?_\n> * _When do we say that the Death Note had run out?_\n\nJust like how we, in real life, tell if a notebook is filled or not! If the\nowner tells the Shinigami that the notebook is filled, they would probably\nglance over the pages to see if all pages _appear_ to be filled up, or maybe,\nthey won't even bother doing that, and just hand over a new notebook.\n\nIt has been explicitly stated and seen that the Shinigami are generally lazy\nand not very smart. I cannot picture them telling the owner, \"Hey look,\nthere's a little space here in the corner, why don't you write there for now?\"\n\n> * _What if I fill my Note, ask the Shinigami for another one, then erase\n> what was on my first Note again, will I have made two Death Notes for my\n> self?_\n> * _Why didn't Yagami Light do that to get six Death Notes?_\n\nThe assumption here is that either the owner hands over their used notebook\nand then gets a new one, or the used notebook becomes ineffective and is\nexcluded from the count. This is a reasonable assumption because otherwise\nthere would be a contradiction when Light asks Ryuk for a _7th_ notebook.\n\n> _Can you kill people after writing on an erased page?_\n\nThere's a Death Note rule regarding erasing names:\n\n> How to Use: XLII\n>\n> 1\\. It is useless trying to erase names written in the Death Note with\n> erasers or white-out.\n\nThe word _useless_ in the above rule could be interpreted to mean either of\ntwo things:\n\n 1. Don't bother trying to erase a name in the hope of saving the person whose name you just wrote because that isn't going to work.\n 2. Erasing _itself_ isn't going to work. Anything written in the Death Note cannot be _physically_ erased. \n\nIf the interpretation 2 is correct, end of discussion, obviously. If\ninterpretation 1 is correct, you could theoretically keep reusing the pages by\nwriting with pencil and erasing with an eraser, or writing with ink and\nwashing it with water, etc. However, it is probably not worth the trouble\nbecause you have endless pages anyway.\n\nLastly, to answer the title question:\n\n> Why there is an entire Death Note while only one page is enough?\n\nFor convenience, that is all. With more pages, you can avoid the hassles of\nhaving to erase every few days, erasing with care to prevent damage to the\npage, etc. Moreover, the Death Note was not \"designed for humans\", it was\n\"designed for Shinigami\". The product design generally caters to the\npreferences of its primary customer base. :-)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-03T03:02:57.750", "id": "6117", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-03T03:02:57.750", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "99", "parent_id": "6113", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n`号` or the `-go` suffix is normally used to name naval (aka war) ships in\nJapan. If you want get the equivalent in English, is the same as _S.S. Name of\nthe Ship_ used by the US. One Piece is just following the same naming\nconvencion.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-03T16:55:44.967", "id": "6119", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-03T16:55:44.967", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "6118", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNagato did not need to awaken the Rinnegan. Madara already did that part for\nhim (waiting for the Senju DNA to manifest and combine with the Uchiha DNA in\norder to awaken the Rinnegan). Since Nagato is an Uzumaki, which makes him a\ndistant relative of the Senju, he can control the Rinnegan. All Nagato needed\nto do was activate the Rinnegan. (Senju relative + evolved Uchiha eye = Able\nto use Rinnegan)\n\nThe important part is Madara had the awakened Rinnegan and gave it to Nagato.\nNote that since Nagato received the Rinnegan and activated it, he never\nreverted back to normal eye form or Sharingan form. The best explanation for\nthis is simply because Rinnegan does not cause eyestrain like the Sharingan\nand Byakugan. Rinnegan is the perfect eye form, and thus does not take a toll\non Pain's body.\n\nAs for activation, we know that Nagato activated it upon the death of his\nparents. Keep in mind that these are Uchiha eyes and Uchiha has been known to\nhave a stronger passion for love than Senju. Thus the activation of his eyes\nwere out of love for his parents as he watched them die.\n\nFor control, the only requirements for Rinnegan is both Uchiha DNA and Senju\nDNA(the uzumaki clan were infact relatives of the Senju, sole holders of\nSealing jutsu, to smoothen further ties and relations to the senju, and this\npoint konoha, the 1st hokage married Uzumaki Mito, to further strengthen blood\nties) which Nagato had. In general, mastering control comes with practice,\njust like with every other jutsu.\n\nWe know that Pain did not have full mastery of the Rinnegan as he didn't\nmaster the Outer Path. In order to use the Outer Path, Pain had to sacrifice\nhis life when he revived everyone in Konoha.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-09T14:10:00.027", "id": "6214", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-16T19:28:29.680", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-16T19:28:29.680", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6125", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nMushiking was pretty much a large advertisement for a game and didn't get a\ngreat following - That isn't to say that anime based on games can't be popular\n(see Pokémon & Yugioh) , but more often than not efforts to make a company's\nnew product the new \"thing\" end in failure.\n\nIt didn't disappear, rather it faded away in time. A thing that happens to all\nmedia, unless it is significantly loved by consumers.\n\nThat being said, you can still find the DVDs in some places (Japanese):\n\n[Wow HD](http://www.ie.wowhd.com/DVD/mushiking-the-king-of-beetless-super-\nbattle-movie/dp/22451531)\n\n[Amazon Japan](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0009OAW0A) (Thanks @senshin)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-22T14:15:10.977", "id": "16993", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T14:15:10.977", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "6128", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKurumi is a girl, she told the main character that she used to be a boy, but\nit turned out she was just messing with him.\n\nWe can be fairly certain that there was no more to the joke as whilst the main\ncharacter was stressing out and trying to judge his feelings on the matter,\nKurumi had forgotten all about it by the time he approached her again about\nit.\n\nThe claim about sharing a father was similarly false\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T09:23:54.887", "id": "6140", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-07T03:41:13.033", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-07T03:41:13.033", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "6133", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThose were just jokes to prevent him from cumming/masterbating. Even if you\ndid not understand her jokes, there is other evidence.\n\nBoth the doctor and her wife regarded her as a female. She was an actual\nlittle girl on the swing set when the doctor first found her.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-04-05T05:36:04.077", "id": "46393", "last_activity_date": "2018-04-05T05:36:04.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "39974", "parent_id": "6133", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI figure two possible solutions:\n\n 1. Zetsu told him\n 2. When absorbing Hashirama's chakra and gaining access to Sage Mode, he can identify people's chakras further allowing him to determine if any of the shinobi in the vicinity are Uchiha\n\nKeep in mind, Madara basically made Sage Mode look like a joke in almost every\naspect possible :)\n\nEDIT : Or perhaps we can call this a plothole :S I should also add that maybe\nMadara doesn't know about the Uchiha massacre, but rather just knows that he\nand Sasuke are the only Uchiha alive (excluding Obito because of his\nsituation).\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T05:33:21.820", "id": "6135", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T05:47:01.353", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-05T05:47:01.353", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6134", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn pages 11, 12 and 13 of chapter 657, it is clear that Madara and Black Zetsu\n(Madara's will) are able to communicate with each other:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RzIR1.png)\n\nBlack Zetsu adds (in page 11) that both him and Madara were underestimated.\nAnd in the two pages that follow, he 'shows us' flashbacks in which him and\nMadara have been communicating during the war.\n\nGiven this, **I'd say it's safe to assume that Madara got the information from\nBlack Zetsu** : \nEither because he told him everything directly; or Madara may have gotten the\ninformation 'instantly' as soon as he was revived, since Madara and Black\nZetsu share a deeper bond, since the latter is the former's will.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T10:20:36.137", "id": "6144", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-25T23:52:55.860", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-25T23:52:55.860", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "6134", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara is a sensory type. He can feel a person's chakra from a continent away\neven before sage mode. The second was able to tell Karin's clan not only by\nher red hair but also by her chakra type. So Madara being a sensory type, once\nrevived, came to his own conclusion of why he couldn't sense his clan's\nenergy/chakra and like most of the time was right about their untimely demise.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-02T22:33:31.967", "id": "31118", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-02T23:46:28.200", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-02T23:46:28.200", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "20532", "parent_id": "6134", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I can remember and can find on-line the naruto anime does not/barely\ndeviate from the manga. The main differences between the anime and manga is\nthat the anime uses a occasional filler\n\n> They added many small details in the stories which really supports the plot\n> and makes it more interesting. However, like almost all manga-turned-anime\n> series, there are filler episodes, though thankfully not too many, and not\n> all bad.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T12:51:09.720", "id": "6147", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T12:51:09.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6136", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe aim was to revive the Ten-Tails in its prime and that is why they wanted\nto seal both _Kyuubi_ and _Gyuuki_ completely too. But after the _Edo Tensei_\nwas released by _Itachi_ , _Obito_ lost all the revived Jinchuuriki's of the\nother 7 tailed beasts. Though he had them sealed, he couldn't use them in the\nbattle anymore and facing both Naruto and Killer B alone would have been\ndifficult for him.\n\nThus he decided to revive the Ten-Tails with just the 7 beasts and the little\nchakra samples of Kyuubi and Gyuuki he already had(sealed Kinkaku, Ginkaku and\na piece of the tail of Gyuuki) so that he could become its Jinchuuriki and\ncomplete the _Eye of the Moon plan._\n\nHere is a sequence of images from the Manga, which will help you understand\nthe whole thing better. Most of it is from the [Manga Episode\n594](http://www.mangahit.com/naruto/594/7), and is finally out in the anime\ntoo, Naruto Shippuden Episode 341.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T08:11:33.480", "id": "6139", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-07T17:17:51.743", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-07T17:17:51.743", "last_editor_user_id": "1604", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "6137", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs we now know Black Zetsu had the will of Kaguya in him. Just as Naruto\nwasn't able to sense the Ten Tails (episode 363 of the anime) , Kaguya's\npowers are even greater than the Ten Tails - she stopped the Infinite\nTsukuyomi easily. So sensing Kaguya (or Black Zetsu) is out of the question.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-09T05:04:02.753", "id": "11171", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-09T05:25:19.153", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-09T05:25:19.153", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "6170", "parent_id": "6141", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Naruto could sense BZ evil intent, but maybe not his physical body\nbecause the Zetsu army and BZ are as close to nature as beings can be. White\nZetsu was able to sneak into the Kage summit ffs, even with the Raikage's\nsenser-nin (C) with him. The Zetsu's are all made from the Juubi/Tree, the\norigins of chakra so I'm assuming they'd be overlooked even if Naruto was in\nSage mode because they're purely artificial/organic humanoids.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-02T08:53:39.250", "id": "14272", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-02T08:53:39.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8558", "parent_id": "6141", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nOne might be able to look at it from the philosophical point of view that\nthere was no evil to sense.\n\nThe rest of this answer may include spoilers\n\n> Black Zetsu is essentially Kaguya's will incarnate. That being said,\n> Kaguya's goals were not inherently evil. Technically, her goal was peace.\n> While it may have been a peace forced upon the entire world, in a manner\n> they did not agree with, in her mind, it was still an act of good. It's true\n> that she did want the power of her chakra back from all those it had been\n> sewn into throughout the centuries. Even still, it is difficult for mere\n> mortals to understand what drives a being that could be consider god-like.\n> Good and Evil being matters of perception, maybe Kaguya truly believed in\n> the good of her actions. Of course, this is all speculation, but one has to\n> wonder, I mean when Kaguya initially thought that Naruto and Sasuke were\n> Hagoromo and Hamura, she wept, so she can't be all bad. \n> \n> All that considered, and Black Zetsu being an extension of Kaguya himself,\n> maybe the whole \"sensing evil\" didn't work because there was no evil intent.\n> But this all hinges on the philosophy of good and evil, and deciding if\n> there is a difference between knowing something is evil and not caring, or\n> not believing something is evil because of the eventual good, it will do.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-19T11:48:29.007", "id": "18666", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-20T17:45:59.447", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-20T17:45:59.447", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11261", "parent_id": "6141", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[From Naruto-wiki:](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Might_Guy)\n\n> Unlike Lee, who specialises in taijutsu because he cannot use ninjutsu and\n> genjutsu, Guy is fully capable of using the other two forms of ninja\n> abilities, as he is proficient enough to dispel a high-level genjutsu.\n\nactually he summons this turtle multiple times in the manga\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T10:14:28.847", "id": "6143", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-04T04:03:43.380", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-04T04:03:43.380", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1751", "parent_id": "6142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nI've seen Gai using the Summoning technique in both manga and anime:\n\n 1. Rock Lee Vs Sasuke fight\n 2. Gai Vs. Kisame fight\n 3. in Voyage to the Turtle island\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-07T09:12:43.700", "id": "6187", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-03T18:40:04.563", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-03T18:40:04.563", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2875", "parent_id": "6142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI did a little bit of digging through multiple posts, official and not so\nmuch; to see if this was true for Guy. Sure enough, he has mastered two nature\ntypes. These two are made clear to be fire and lightning release.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-17T08:57:55.830", "id": "22511", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-08T14:17:46.243", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-08T14:17:46.243", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "15119", "parent_id": "6142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nEarly in the series we see him do turtle summons and dispel genjutsu, and no\none makes any explicit or implicit suggestions that taijutsu is the only thing\nhe has competence in. His most powerful abilities were certainly in taijutsu,\nthe gate releases in particular. After approximately the Chunin exams\n(excluding movies, which are typically non-canon and I'm not familiar with)\nGai uses exclusively taijutsu (which is probably why you were thinking he'd\nnever used anything else before), and the only skill any of his opponents ever\nexhibit caution about is his taijutsu.\n\nPossibly Kishimoto regretted giving Gai other skills. The sudden disappearance\nof his other skills seems to be a silent, implicit retcon to make the Lee-Guy\nrelationship deeper and more meaningful, or to at least stop said skills from\ndriving a wedge between them in the reader's mind.\n\nNote that we end up seeing Guy's father, aka The Eternal Gennin (not to be\nconfused with a similarly named filler character), and he also has no skills\nat all beyond the gate releases. We are also shown, during his first meeting\nwith Kakashi, that Guy failed the ninja school entrance exams because he could\nonly do taijutsu. Guy does not become aware of his father's one amazing\ntechnique until later, and watches his father sacrifice his life to hold off\nthe entire cadre of the swordsmen of the village hidden in the mists using it.\nHe is thus made into a very strong mirror of Lee--intensely dedicated to\nperfection of the one ninja skill they can naturally use--deepening their\nconnection.\n\nSo while Guy officially has non-taijutsu abilities, they seem to be low-tier,\nmostly functional abilities that we don't see outside of the early parts of\nthe story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-04T01:39:35.463", "id": "22996", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-04T01:39:35.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "6142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAs shown in Naruto Shippuden episode 418, he can‘t use ninjutsu as a child,\nbut as shown in different episodes, he can summon a turtle. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vvqx6.jpg)\n\n\n\nI‘m not sure, if he can use other ninjutsus than the summoning jutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-08T13:32:44.233", "id": "48264", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-08T14:29:22.493", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-08T14:29:22.493", "last_editor_user_id": "41807", "owner_user_id": "41807", "parent_id": "6142", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'd say because they aren't his strengths - clearly **Taijutsu** is so why\nshould he use something that he isn't great at?\n\nIt could also be that he has used them in the past and it, unfortunately, got\nhim into some difficulty so he had to fall back on the tried and tested\ntechniques of his **Taijutsu** :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T14:43:52.447", "id": "6148", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T14:43:52.447", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2392", "parent_id": "6146", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nGai is based off of Bruce Lee, and Bruce Lee was known for his extraordinary\nfighting skills (taijutsu in this case). Furthermore, Gai is known as the best\ntaijutsu shinobi in Konoha.\n\nThus, it would only make sense to accentuate Gai's physical prowess and focus\nless on genjutsu / ninjutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T15:49:29.157", "id": "6152", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-07T11:09:05.337", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-07T11:09:05.337", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6146", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is from my understanding with music for game development. However, most\nare practically the same with anime as they are both mediums that use music to\nhelp engage the audience.\n\nEach track costs so much and the price varies due to the length of a track and\nthe number of revisions of that track. It would cost a while lot to create new\ntracks every time\n\nLike with video games, music can help identify situations. As such, if one\nfirst sees some romantic scene where two characters go to kiss but don't, when\none hears that same score again when the two characters are just talking, one\ncan start to think \"oh my god, they might confess to each other this time.\"\nLikewise in a fight, some anime have different tracks for fighting music based\non how intense the battle will be so, when you start to hear that same music\nyou can expect how epic a battle might be (just like with boss music in video\ngames).\n\nMusic can set the mood to make you feel for the characters and what they are\nfeeling, e.g.\n\n> in Fate Stay/Night anime when Rin, regardless on how much she got hurt,\n> embraced Sakura and regretted how she wasn't much of a big sister by not\n> doing anything to stop Sakura from being adopted out by the Matous (more of\n> an impact for those who know what Sakura went though and that Rin was also\n> blaming herself for Sakura's abuse)\n\nBy changing these more often you tend to lose the immersion and impact in some\nkey scenes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T21:19:15.227", "id": "6158", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-09T07:49:56.060", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-09T07:49:56.060", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nDifferent tracks evoke themes, you have a sad track, a we're in deep trouble\ntrack, a \"The Main character is starting to win track\" it helps with emotional\nengagement, and builds emotion.\n\nMuch in the same way that the Final Fantasy Fanfare at the end of a battle\nevokes a sense of \"HELL YEAH I WON\" regardless of whether you beat a slime or\na Boss. And the distinctive boss music from a game evokes stress that might\nnot be there, it doesn't matter how hard the boss is, that music makes you\nstressed. The same applies for anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-04T10:53:42.403", "id": "7318", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-04T10:53:42.403", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3555", "parent_id": "6149", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n@Memor-X and @Omar Kooheji tell you why this exist.\n\nThis is my two cents:\n\nMost of the time, this is intentional, and it is not exclusive of _Anime\nseries_.\n\nThis is know as **Leitmotif** or **musical motif** and it is a musical tool\nused in audiovisual media mostly characterized by short/repetitive/catchies\nmelodies in certain situations in a media (which can be a movie, game or tv-\nserie, etc.) with the solely propose of let audience recognize, familiarize\nand empathize with an specific event.\n\nThere are tons of examples, like the [_Imperial\nMarch_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8) which is easy related to\nDarth Vader, or the [_Sound of The\nShire_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLZQtCold8) to Frodo, Sam or the\nFellowship in general, or a [_battle in Dragon Ball\nZ_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8YdwCVZSc).\n\nAnd even when is used the same theme, most of the time it'll have sublime\nchanges in order to fit the situation.\n\nI can't think in a anime example, but [here, in the introduction\nsong](https://youtu.be/zAf-Kfq5UlA?t=1m7s) of the Disney's Movie _The\nHunchback of Notre Dame_ you can see how the theme for Quasimodo is being sung\nby Frollo in the middle of another song pointing the future misfortune of the\nbaby and the omnipresence of Notre Dame. A moment after, you can see how [this\nsame melody/song](https://youtu.be/ZxFD7Tk8Kps?t=1m14s) is being sung again by\nQuasimodo inside Notre Dame in full emotion; you can easily see how this both\nsituations share how `cruel life threat Quasi` or how `this church bind this\ntwo characters` just by one simple melody.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-09T22:34:01.633", "id": "38353", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-10T00:54:43.530", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-10T00:54:43.530", "last_editor_user_id": "18287", "owner_user_id": "18287", "parent_id": "6149", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere will not be a sequel. Ane Doki was a cancelled series due to being\nbottom five for weeks in WSJ (Weekly Shounen Jump). When a series gets\ncancelled due to low ratings, there will never be a sequel unless another\nmagazine picks it up right away (which hardly ever happens).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T15:54:23.877", "id": "6153", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T15:54:23.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6150", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSometimes production houses tend to adapt the story line a bit or go in a\ncompletely other direction. Why? I don't know exactly, there could be multiple\nreasons. but fr instance Hellsing made it's TV adaptation, which wasn't all\nthat bad. However the readers of the manga found a lot of differences, and\nwere not happy about the animated version. Later a new version labeled as an\nOVA (Official Video Animation) was produced, which had it's story based and\ncontinued like it went in the manga. A pretty much similar thing happened with\nFull Metal Alchemist, where the story very deviated from the original manga\nconcept( which was later reproduced as Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood).\n\nReason mostly vary but it's mostly because production houses do stuff on their\nown and then mutate the storyline.\n\n> During the development of the anime, Arakawa allowed the anime staff to work\n> independently from her, and requested having a different ending from the one\n> in the manga. She said that she would not like to repeat the same ending in\n> both media, as well as to make the manga longer to work more in the\n> development of the characters. When watching the ending of the anime, she\n> was amazed about how different the Homunculi creatures were from the manga\n> and enjoyed how the staff speculated about the origins of the villains.\n\nFor instance...\n([source](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist_%28franchise%29))\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T23:44:53.047", "id": "7072", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T23:44:53.047", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3421", "parent_id": "6155", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nI've only read a bit of the manga, but as far as I can tell, the manga was\nmore of a focused satire on the state of Japan's economy and politics in the\n'90s and early 2000s (a bit more like the later, similar series _Nerima Daikon\nBrothers_ ). It didn't have as much genre parody as the anime did. It also had\nthe character of Elgala, a third ACROSS agent who works alongside Excel and\nHyatt.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-13T18:24:26.147", "id": "12831", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-13T18:24:26.147", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "6155", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, they do. In Episode 4, we see a soul of a boy trapped in a parakeet.\nLater in the series, when Ichigo, Chad, Uryuu and Inoue enter Soul Society,\nthey meet with him again (in human form), and he remembers them.\n\nIt is unclear whether or not they lose their memory after long spans of time\nspent on Soul Society.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-05T22:26:28.340", "id": "6160", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-05T22:26:28.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "6159", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is a high likely hood that this is indeed a reference to Yoshihiro\nTogashi playing dragon quest. But it has never really been confirmed.\n\nIt seems the original picture comes from\n[CapsuleComputers](http://www.capsulecomputers.com.au/2013/04/hunter-x-hunter-\nreturning-from-hiatus-togashi-checks-out-of-rehab/) with the following quote.\n\n> After a long an arduous battle with addiction, Yoshihiro Togashi, the man\n> behind the popular manga series Hunter x Hunter has finally checked out of a\n> Dragon Quest rehabilitation facility and has made clear that he plans to\n> resume his Hunter x Hunter manga after more than a year on hiatus.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-03T00:09:10.703", "id": "13218", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-03T00:09:10.703", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6162", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nRiddim is a band in Korea with Yoo Mi as the lead singer. They don't seem to\nbe very popular as Google hardly returns any English results for them. And\nafter doing a quick search of Korea's Billboard top 100, I don't see them\nanywhere meaning they aren't the mainstream, radio type of band.\n\nRiddim is the band that performs Orange Marmalade's OST. If you read Orange\nMarmalade from the Naver site, the music starts playing as you read some pages\nof certain chapters.\n\n[Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loMf-PX2EJA) is a live video of them\nperforming Kara's song Mister.\n\nLastly, this is one of the cool\n[songs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMYTrMCFhG8) Ma Ri sings in chapter 60\n:D\n\n[www.myspace.com/bandriddim](http://www.myspace.com/bandriddim) \n[club.cyworld.com/bandriddim](http://club.cyworld.com/bandriddim)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-06T02:39:59.530", "id": "6164", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-06T02:39:59.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6163", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Opening and Ending tracks are normally shorter for anime, as the songs\nwere usually originals developed before the anime and the artist was paid for\na portion of it to be used in the anime, not to mention that the songs also\nneed to fit in broadcast time. On the other hand, there are also Opening and\nEnding tracks which were purposely made for the anime (or the other way around\nlike the case of _Black Rock Shooter_ ).\n\n> Some songs are even from full albums by the bands or singers in the anime,\n> but they also didn’t appear in the anime either.\n\nThese are probably the singles where Opening and Ending tracks come from, like\nwith a lot of ALI PROJECT's album, as I said above, sometimes an artist is\npaid for just a portion. Of course, there's nothing stopping an artist\nbuilding an album around that song as well.\n\nCertain BGMs are sometimes actually a number of BGMs from an anime which were\nsplit, which is why sometimes there seems to be some songs missing.\n\nThere are also _Character CDs_ , which have audio dramas of a character who\nhad an identifiable theme in the anime, plus extra songs. These can normally\nbe identified with the album art focusing on the characters alone.\n\nThen there are _Audio Episodes_ , I haven't heard to many (and I only know of\nthe Code Geass ones). They use some tracks from the anime, but they also use\nmusic unique to the audio episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-06T05:25:43.050", "id": "6166", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-01T17:08:13.803", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-01T17:08:13.803", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6165", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIt turns out that the song _Mata Ashita_ from **Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica**\nare in episode 1 and 2 on the Bluray version which I don't have. I only have\nthe regular version, so I haven't heard that song in the anime. After doing\nsome research, I discovered that the other songs are also like that. They are\nused in the extra episode, or Bluray version, etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-07T00:36:28.690", "id": "6181", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-01T16:48:07.247", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-01T16:48:07.247", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "6165", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIn some franchises they have insert songs which are generally originals which\nare shortened and can be bought separately. Some like _Love Live_ are based\naround CD singles and the anime comes afterward.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-19T13:34:51.730", "id": "40940", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-19T16:05:18.060", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-19T16:05:18.060", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "33168", "parent_id": "6165", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n**My post primarily answers the titled question such that the answer works for\npeople that have read and have not read Mahou Sensei Negima (MSN).**\n\n**Part 1 (For people who have read MSN. If you have not read MSN, skip to part\n2)**\n\nRemember [Eva](http://negima.wikia.com/wiki/Evangeline_A.K._McDowell) from\nMSN? She is the same person as Yukihime-sensei. Over the years, Eva figured\nout a way to change her appearance so she could live life more normally - as\nan adult. Basically, everyone from MSN presumably died (since ~100 years have\npassed) except for Eva since she is an immortal vampire.\n\nChapter 1:\n\n * Page 1 - Eva gives her introduction \n * Page 2 - She shows how the people from MSN are gone now \n * Page 5 - Shows her current UQ team \n * Page 70 - Eva reveals her true identity to Touta \n\nChapter 2:\n\n * Page 16 - Eva reverts back to her 10 year old true form. She stays this way until page 38, where she returns back to her older fabricated form.\n\n**Part 2**\n\nBoth UQ and MSN are related through Eva, although MSN followed Negi's journey\n(main character of MSN). UQ's story is being told by Eva, who is reflecting on\nthe past. Eva plays an important character in both series, as her role is to\ntrain the main characters, Negi and Touta.\n\nAlso note that Touta Konoe is Negi Springfield's grandson (Ch 1 Pg 18). Given\nthat his surname is Konoe, we can also assume he is related to Konoka Konoe\nfrom MSN as well.\n\nWhile UQ Holder is the sequel to MSN, there is nothing critical that you have\nmissed. In other words, you can read and understand UQ Holder perfectly fine\nwithout reading its prequel. There are the occasional references to MSN\nthough, but they do not affect the plot in any way.\n\nA good analogy for this would be the difference between Dragon Ball and Dragon\nBall Z. You can pick up Dragon Ball Z and fully understand everything without\nwatching Dragon Ball. And in this case, UQ Holder and MSN have a time skip of\n3 generations later, so every character except Yukihime is presumed dead now.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-06T12:34:18.443", "id": "6171", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-29T14:23:55.490", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-29T14:23:55.490", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6169", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is another more more more obvious link:\n\nChapter 1 pg 19: Touta Konoe, the main hero, is the grand-son of Negi\nSpringfield, somehow related to Konoka Konoe (his surname is Konoe).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-26T21:58:43.573", "id": "9934", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-26T21:58:43.573", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5028", "parent_id": "6169", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst not all of the characters are dead and like said above they relate\nthrough Eva(who is Yuki). Personally I would read negima because characters\nfrom it reaqure in UQ Holder. Plus you need to know most of the background in\nthe manga to experience a more exciting storyline. Especially when previous\ncharacters return in this manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-29T02:21:51.160", "id": "18931", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-29T02:21:51.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11428", "parent_id": "6169", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe good thing about UQ Holder is that even if you didn't read MSN, you will\nstill understand the story. Yes there are some MSN references which UQ Holder\ndialogues explain thoroughly especially Negi's \"Thunder in Heaven, Great\nVigor\" was explained in the latter chapters.\n\nAs for the other characters, some are not yet dead since not all of them are\nhuman like Mana, Eva, and Fate. There are also characters claiming to know and\nmet Negi such as the Demon with many arms (i forgot the name) Touta fought in\nthe Mahora Martial Arts Tournament, Shion Nagumo a blind swordsman that stated\nNegi's superhuman magic Magia Erebea fighting the demons of the Lifemaker, and\nRuin Ishkur.\n\nBasically, go read UQ Holder and you'll still understand everything but it is\nan advantage if you have a bit background (most especially on the characterns)\nin MSN.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-02T04:33:54.720", "id": "24553", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-02T04:33:54.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16698", "parent_id": "6169", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBesides using Haki, some elements seem weak or inferior to other elements, as\nshown when Ace fought against Smoker and when Ace fought against Akainu.\n\n**When Ace fought against Smoker**\n\n\n\n**When Ace fought against Akainu**\n\n\n\nThis fact is also mentioned on [One Piece\nWikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit#About):\n\n> A Devil Fruit user who normally dominates all other powers can sometimes be\n> brought down by a power considered \"weak\" in comparison; one such example is\n> the Gomu Gomu no Mi unexpectedly withstanding the Goro Goro no Mi's powers,\n> the Doru Doru no Mi unexpectedly holding back the Doku Doku no Mi's powers\n> and Akainu's Magu Magu no Mi dealing a fatal blow to Ace despite his Mera\n> Mera no Mi due to an order of superiority. Another surprise also came when\n> the Mera Mera no Mi clashed against the Moku Moku no Mi, equalizing with\n> each other, and then later against the Hie Hie no Mi with the same results.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-07T00:44:46.563", "id": "6182", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T06:08:04.120", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T06:08:04.120", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "6170", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nThe accepted answer describes well the effects of haki and the difference in\npower between some DF, but there are other ways :\n\n * use a weapon with kairoseki (sea stone) in order to neutralise the opponent logia ;\n * use material which is strong against your opponent logia, e.g. against Eneru you can prepare lots of rubber and use it to your advantage. This require careful planning of course ;\n * destroy the boat your opponent is using from far away with your biggest attack, hopefully while he is asleep. By the time he wakes up, you will hopefully be far away enough and he won't be able to survive in the sea.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-16T12:47:15.393", "id": "34297", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-16T12:47:15.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26213", "parent_id": "6170", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt has been a while since I watched it so forgive me if this is not entirely\naccurate, but here is a general idea:\n\nAt the start of the episode we have realised that Ukyo has a split personality\nbetween wanting to protect Heroine by letting himself die or kill Heroine in\norder for him to live.\n\nIt was either in this episode or the one before that it was revealed that Ukyo\nwas being transported between dimensions by the spirit king (or equivalent\nindividual, I can't remember their name anyway) but was no longer able to do\nso, hence Ukyo had to decide if Heroine in this dimension will live or die\nwith Ukyo having the opposite fate.\n\nIn the end Ukyo either stabbed himself or didn't kill Heroine in time (I think\nshe had to be killed by a certain time as her original fate was being killed\ndue to an explosion), she was then saved from the building by aforementioned\nspirit king who explain the whole situation and transported her back to her\noriginal dimension, in which she gets to choose to be with based on whichever\ndoor/card she chooses.\n\nI hope that helps, if I'm still missing something let me know.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-27T17:10:00.000", "id": "6598", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-27T17:10:00.000", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "6180", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I remember (although I don't know enough Japanese to confirm this),\nhe was trying every possible different spelling for the name of the victim. \nThe [Death Note wiki page on the first\nepisode](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rebirth) also states this as a fact\n(in the sixth paragraph in the synopsis.\n\nNow, if you've already watched the series and are currently re-watching it,\nyou're already familiarised with the\n[rules](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_I).\nThe one that is significant in this particular case is rule #2 (highlight by\nme):\n\n> This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person’s face in\n> their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, **people sharing the same\n> name will not be affected**.\n\nThis means that Light was trying every possible spelling of the name, because\nat least one of them would match with the face pictured when he wrote the\nnames. This also means that no collateral casualties would occur, as that\nparticular person's face was being pictured in his mind. \nIf I'm correct on this, **the first column are different spellings for\nShibuimaru, the second for Takuo, and the third column refers to the death**\n(\"accidental death\" (事故死) is what it says).\n\nHe did not have to try this out with his first victim because he got both his\nface and name from TV.\n\nLong story short, **he was trying to match a name for that face by going\nthrough every possible spelling**.\n\n* * *\n\n**Editing in some info from the below comments:** \nThis does not appear to violate the rule on rendering the Death Note void if\nthe user misspells a person's name more than 4 times, if one of the first four\nspellings was correct (which seems to be the case).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-07T14:28:14.560", "id": "6188", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-11T13:01:29.733", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-11T13:01:29.733", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "6185", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\n[JNat's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6188/1908) is correct. Just\nto add a bit of info:\n\n* * *\n\nThe variants of \"Shibuimaru\" that he tries are:\n\n[code]\n\n 渋井丸\n 渋伊丸\n \n[/code]\n\nNote the differences in the middle character.\n\nThe variants of \"Takuo\" that he tries are:\n\n[code]\n\n 拓男\n 拓夫\n 拓雄\n 卓男\n \n[/code]\n\nI think we encounter another minor plot hole here (at least as shown in the\nanime) - Light stops writing after iterating over all 8 combinations of those\nnames (the first of which, `渋井丸 拓男`, turns out to be correct), when there are\nactually _at least_ 2 more spellings of \"Takuo\" (`卓夫` and `卓雄`) that should've\nbeen possible.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-08T07:23:47.987", "id": "6205", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-27T17:42:54.643", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6185", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nHe wrote down the man's name 8 times, the first of which was correct. The next\n7 attempts were other guesses at the spelling of Takuo.\n\nThere is, however, a rule in the death note stating that if a person\nintentionally writes a name incorrectly four times, that person will die.\n\nHowever, just like in \"Death Note Onison\", the intent to misspell is a key\nfactor. In \"Onison,\" L has Misa write his and his companions name's down four\ntimes. They do not die, however, because L knew Misa was illiterate, (at least\nin this version of Death Note) and she tried her best to spell the names\ncorrectly. Because she tried with intent to spell correctly, she did not die;\nLight Yagami did not die for the exact same reason.\n\nLight Yagami has found the perfect murder weapon, and unknowing almost killed\nhimself in the process of trying it out. Had Takuo's name been written\nincorrectly over 4 times first by Light, and then one of the next four\nspelling been correct, Light may have been killed first, then Takuo. Light\nwould die since he got the spelling wrong 4 times in a row before getting it\nright. Takuo would die because Light still got it right once, and a name\nwritten in a Death Note can never be prevented.\n\nEven though I have already stated that intent is required for the Death Note\nto be effective, evidence is only seen for this in \"Onison,\" which was only a\nskit, and the word \"intent\" in the rule on the Death Note page describing that\nthe person would die if it was written incorrectly four times.\n\nEven though Light did truely intend to spell it correctly, he did know he\nwould potentially misspell it as well. As we see in the Manga and the Series,\nthe rules of the Death Note can be somewhat loose. If you figure out a\nparticular rule by testing it, you can utilize it how Light did. However, we\nnever see somebody incorrecly spell a name 4 times in a row to see what would\nhappen to them, since Light got his very first guess right.\n\nThe truth is, nobody knows what would have happened had Light been wrong more\nthan 4 times before getting it right, since we never see what the Death Note\nwould do in a situation like that. How the Shinigami killings occur is a very\ninteresting speculation, but impossible to comprehend.\n\nLuckily Light did not intend to misspell the names, and he also spelled the\nvery first one correct. This means that one of these factors prevented Light\nfrom dying, and continuing to utilize the power of the Death Note. Unlocking\nthis secret could have cost Light his life, (if that sounds melodramatic, an\nearly death) but his spelling abilities allowed him to almost rule the entire\nworld.\n\n_skit_\n\nBoy handed death note and bored Shinigami encounter.\n\nBoy: \"What's that?\"\n\nShinigami: \"It's a Death Note. You just write a person you know's name in it.\"\n\nBoy: \"I can't spell yet.\"\n\nShinigami: \"That's fine.\" _smirks_\n\nNote: The previous skit at the end is based on the assumption that the result\nof writing a name 4 times consecutively with the intent of being correct will\nnot prevent the death of the Death Note user. However, this is not proven in\nthe series and is merely speciation at this point.\n\nCredit: The line, \"If that sounds melodramatic, an early death\" is taken from\nthe light novel \"L Change The World,\" which features an alternative ending\nthat L defeats Light.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-07T08:31:05.747", "id": "22219", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-07T08:36:12.077", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-07T08:36:12.077", "last_editor_user_id": "14907", "owner_user_id": "14907", "parent_id": "6185", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**This answer is outdated. See[Senshins\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/26405/122).**\n\nThere is currently no release date for Kizumonogatari. It was listed for Fall\n2013, but was removed, so there's no official release date yet.\n\nSource: [ANN - Kizumonogatari Film Briefly Listed for\nFall](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-07-30/kizumonogatari-film-\nbriefly-listed-for-fall) (dated 2013-07-31)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-07T21:44:31.830", "id": "6194", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-05T10:24:06.607", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "6189", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\n[It's #happening!](http://www.kizumonogatari-movie.com/)\n\nOn October 4, 2015, [Shaft\nannounced](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-10-03/kizumonogatari-\nconfirmed-as-3-films-starting-on-january-8/.93757) that Kizumonogatari will be\nreleased - not as a single film, but as a 3-film series: _Tekketsu_ ,\n_Nekketsu_ , and _Reiketsu_. These are the three adjectives that Koyomi uses\nto describe Kiss-Shot, meaning \"iron and blood\" (as in\n[Bismarck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_Iron_\\(speech\\))), \"hot-\nblooded\" (emotional, impassioned), and \"cold-blooded\" (cold, calculating),\nrespectively.\n\nThe first movie, _Tekketsu_ , premieres on January 8, 2016. There's [a new\nPV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdtWrE9bF8) out for it, distinct from\n[the old PV from back in 2011](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0uCAwLnjA).\nPremiere dates for the second and third parts are as yet unknown.\n\nThere is actually [a list of theaters in\nJapan](http://www.toho.co.jp/theater/ve/kizumonogatari/) that will be airing\n_Tekketsu_ , so I think we can rest assured that this is not an elaborate\nShaftian trolling effort.\n\nAt the time _Tekketsu_ was announced, no information about outside-Japan\nairings of the film was made available. However, Aniplex, which is the\nproducer for the _Monogatari_ series, has been fairly good about securing\noutside-Japan airings for its past films, most notably the three _Madoka_\nmovies. So there is hope.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-04T21:12:37.063", "id": "26405", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-04T21:17:59.850", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-04T21:17:59.850", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6189", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is covered later in the LNs (which are being translated and are available\n[here](http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Log_Horizon)):\n\n * Adventurers lose EXP while NPCs die for real.\n * However, there is an additional penalty that is not obvious: when an adventurer dies they lose some of their memories.\n\nMajor spoiler:\n\n> If the cathedral is destroyed, adventurers cannot respawn and die for real.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-07T20:32:29.207", "id": "6192", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-04T13:18:25.807", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-04T13:18:25.807", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "2110", "parent_id": "6190", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe newest episode states: resurrection will cause a loss of EXP.\n\nMy guess for dying:\n\n * (the same)\n * people can take your stuff\n * takes time to \"come back to life\"\n * you lose part of your equipment\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-06T00:51:35.973", "id": "6770", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-06T03:51:07.983", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-06T03:51:07.983", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3237", "parent_id": "6190", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAnime is a Japanese loanword used to refer to any sort of animation. Outside\nof Japan, in other countries, anime is generally considered to be a type of a\ncartoon.\n\nYou can make a cartoon in a style similar to anime, but it can't truly be\nconsidered an anime. Why not, you ask? Animation differs by region. This can\nbe because of the different techniques used, ideologies present, and resources\navailable to each production or studio.\n\nSure, anime can have various different styles and also emulate styles of other\ncountries, and lines might sometimes be blurred when there are collaborations\nbetween studios from different countries. What makes them unique is the\nefforts of people, the people that come together to make them. Anime is what\nit is today thanks to the efforts made in Japan for the sake of the genre.\n\nIt's just like having your ethnic food in a foreign country. Some times it\ngets close but most of the time it'll have to acknowledge that it's not the\nsame as if you had it in your home country. This may be due to a variety of\nreasons, like the availability of ingredients, skill of the chef, or even the\nrecipe. While you can say it's ethnic food, it's just not the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-07T23:01:05.093", "id": "6199", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-10T18:04:11.093", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-10T18:04:11.093", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "6198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nTo the Japanese, it's still considered anime. This is because, for Japanese,\n[anime refers to any work that is\nanimated.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#Definition_and_usage)\n\nTo anyone outside of Japan, it gets murkier. Americans specifically use the\nnoun to mean \"animation created within Japan\". So, since it wasn't created in\nJapan, it's not an anime as Americans would recognize it.\n\nThere are certainly [other schools of\nthought](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#cite_note-ae-7) on it being more\nan art form than a genre, but that's a different matter.\n\nUltimately, the answer depends on what dictionary you're looking at, but if\nseparate the actual meaning of the word from the use, then yes, a work can be\ncalled anime even if it wasn't made in Japan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-08T00:08:56.013", "id": "6200", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-08T00:08:56.013", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "6198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nStrictly speaking, 'anime' is just animations produced within Japan, as it's\nthe Japanese word for cartoons/animations, but their distinctive style\nsometimes dictates how people define them term 'anime'.\n\nFor example, Avatar:The Last Airbender is produced in America, but takes on a\nlot of the distinctive characteristics of anime: \n\nConversely, Panty & Stocking looks a lot like some western animation and is\nproduced in Japan. \n\nThe definition of anime is a topic that is frequently debated, so there seems\nto be no finalized answer. It's probably best to describe shows outside Japan\nas 'anime-styled' rather than as 'anime'.\n\nAlso, this question might be of interest: [What differentiates anime from\nregular cartoons?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/69/what-\ndifferentiates-anime-from-regular-cartoons)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-10T14:21:19.820", "id": "6230", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-14T22:25:50.143", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "6198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\n\"Anime\" was actually ORIGINALLY meant to describe animation, but that used a\nparticular number of frames per second, before becoming a term just for\nanimations in general. Anime doesn't HAVE to be strictly Japanese, but some\nrules have to be followed for this (the same applies to \"manga,\" the comic\nbook version of anime).\n\nIf an anime is made in Japan (especially if the original language of creation\nis Japanese) then it is free to be called anime. Same goes for manga. However,\nif it has the same or a similar enough style to anime or manga but is made\nOUTSIDE of Japan (for a good example, see the Korean-made \"[March\nStory](http://myanimelist.net/manga/13387/March_Story)\" series) then two\nactions could be taken; calling it either a \"cartoon\" or \"graphic novel\"\ndepending on the medium, to differentiate it; OR, you may call it anime or\nmanga, if the country or origin/main release is SPECIFIED (so March Story\nwould be Korean Manga, and Avatar would be American Anime). This implies that\nit looks like anime, maybe even has similar themes or stereotypes as anime, or\nmanga, but that it ISN'T because of the country of origin. This appeases\neverybody, and makes sense.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-08T16:50:53.750", "id": "19217", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-08T18:41:54.950", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-08T18:41:54.950", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "11629", "parent_id": "6198", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**The short concise answer:**\n\nIf Shisui knew about Izanami, then yes he can use it. If not, he can easily\nlearn it by reading the Uchiha stone tablet with his Mangekyou Sharingan.\n\nConsidering all events leading up to his death, he probably never learned\nabout Izami (reasoning below).\n\n**The nice long juicy explanation:**\n\nBecause the Uchiha had a past history where people started abusing the Izanagi\nand Izanami, they became labeled as kinjutsu or forbidden techniques. Kinjutsu\nis not taught to shinobi on a general basis.\n\nThat means one can only learn of Izanami either through the stone tablet or\nanother Uchiha that knows how to use this technique. From what it appears,\nShisui had considerably the best pair of eyes amongst the Uchiha clan. With\nthat said, Shisui is definitely capable of using Izanami as so should any\nother Uchiha member that awakens their mangekyou.\n\nHowever, it only makes sense that Shisui did not know about Izanami before the\nUchiha coup d'etat. Recall Shisui trying to use his special technique\nKotoamatsukami on Danzou prior to the event. If he knew about Izanami, I am\nsure he would have used it, because it only requires the eye sacrifice, which\nis better than having Danzou stealing his eye.\n\nIn order to protect his last eye, Shisui sacrifices his life and entrusts his\neye to Itachi. Therefore we can determine that Shisui did not know of Izanami.\n\n**EDIT: Addressing R.J's comments** \\- (This really doesn't add to the answer\nof the titled question, but explains the fundamentals of Izanagi / Izanami).\n\n> I think any Uchiha can use Izanami or Izanagi provided they know about the\n> jutsu.\n\nAnyone (not just Uchiha) can use Izanagi / Izanami provided that they know\nabout it and have a Sharingan (ie Danzou).\n\n> There is no pre-condition of them having awakened the Mangekyou because if\n> that was the case, then Danzo couldn't have used it so many times.\n\nFor a person to use Mangekyou techniques in the past (amaterasu, tsukiyomi,\nsusanoo), it required him to use his Mangekyou Sharingan. The only other type\nof eye that can use the above 3 jutsus is the Rinnegan, and that is because it\nis the evolved form of the Mangekyou.\n\nWhen Danzou used Izanagi 10 times, 10 normal sharingan were sacrificed. This\nmeans that Izanagi is not a Mangekyou technique, and does not require\nMangekyou to use.\n\n> All you need is an activated Sharingan and the knowledge about the jutsu.\n\nBefore I begin, we know that you also need Senju DNA in order to use Izanagi.\nThis was explicitly stated by Tobi when Danzou was fighting against Sasuke.\n\nIn Danzou's situation, we can assume that Danzou needed the Mangekyou\nSharingan in order to learn about the technique. Who is going to teach Danzou\nIzanagi? The possible options are Madara, Obito, Shisui, and Itachi, except\nnone of these people have motive to teach him Izanagi. Therefore it is only\nlogical to assume that he needed to read Uchiha stone tablet with MS.\n\n**The possible plot hole:** \nTobi stated that you need both Sharingan and Senju DNA to use Izanagi. Keep in\nmind that both Tobi and Danzou had both DNA when using that jutsu. Naturally,\nI'd assume the same prerequisites hold true for Izanami, however it was never\nmentioned that Itachi has Senju DNA. That means Izanami and Izanagi have\ndifferent requirements, or Itachi has some Senju DNA, or this is one big\nplothole mess.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-08T03:51:46.770", "id": "6204", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-09T06:25:35.440", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-09T06:25:35.440", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6201", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no official answer to the reason for speaking a different language.\nBut, the language is tied into the magic system that the device uses.\n\nThere are:\n\n * English for _Mid-Childa_ devices \n * German for the _Ancient-Belkan_ devices \n * Japanese for _[Unison](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Unison_Device)_ devices\n\n_Unison_ devices are the devices that merge with their master to increase the\ncombat capabilities, such as\n_[Reinforce](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Reinforce)_ and\n_[Agito](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Agito)_. The devices that are up for the\ndebate are the _Modern-Belkan_ devices, such as\n_[Strada](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Strada) (Erio)_ using German, while\n_[Mach Caliber](http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Mach_Caliber) (Subaru)_ uses\nEnglish.\n\nMy personal opinion would be that _Modern-Belkan_ devices capable of\ntransforming form would use German ( _Strada_ ), while others do not ( _Mach\nCaliber_ ).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-08T22:58:54.083", "id": "6209", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-09T15:31:06.773", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-09T15:31:06.773", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "6208", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nQuote from the 8th volume of the Sword Art Online Light Novel (translation\nfrom baka-tsuki):\n\n> Shocked, I turn to look behind, and what was in front of my eyes—— \n> [...] it's impossible for supernatural phenomenon to happen.\n>\n> So is this a bug in the server I see? Or is it an illusion in my breath? \n> Not far away, [...] there...was a translucent female player giving off a\n> slightly golden light.\n>\n> [...] However, after a while, she extends her right hand over to us to\n> seemingly hand something over.\n>\n> Asuna and I reached our right hands out, and as we felt the warmth, we\n> clasped onto it tightly. This warmth entered our bodies, lighting the fire\n> within our chest. We opened our mouths and said out the words the form\n> within us.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Asuna's words rode through the night wind and reached the female swordsman.\n> The transparent face showed a large smile——\n>\n> And in that instant, nobody was there.\n>\n> We put our hands down and remained spaced out over there for quite some\n> time.\n\nIt was described pretty clear that Grimlock killed Griselda. Why she was still\nvisible wasn't explained, but because she disappeared without a trace, it was\nmost likely just an illusion or some kind of hidden feature. She's\ndefinitively dead ;).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-09T09:09:07.083", "id": "6212", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-09T09:09:07.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "6210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's something similar to when Kirito died against Kayaba and came back to\nlife. It's the incarnate system, something that was added into the game but\nnobody was aware of it, only becoming more of a common knowledge in Accel\nWorld. Even then, only a few people know of it.\n\nIn the novels of _SAO_ , it's being mentioned, since it's a soul dive that's\nbeing used, not the mind. It's the manifestation of the will, to make them\nstronger. Kayaba's idea, that was fully completed later on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-03T19:47:32.397", "id": "13232", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-02T03:05:23.333", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-02T03:05:23.333", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "7851", "parent_id": "6210", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I understand, this scene is supposed to show\n\n> that Homura has begun transforming into a witch at the end of the series.\n> This explains why the wings look like something out of a witch labyrinth. It\n> would also explains her ribbon: it still takes place in the universe with\n> adjusted laws that Madoka created. Additionally, it would explain why she\n> was able to hear Madoka - it was because Madoka would be coming to claim her\n> soon.\n\nIf you go by this, then it can be assumed\n\n> that the Incubators trapped Homura in their barrier pretty much immediately\n> after this scene, and then the plot of Rebellion takes place.\n\nSo the wings would actually be\n\n> witch wings, not demon wings. However, there seem to be some similarities\n> between the powers of a witch and Demon-Homura. For example, in her redone\n> universe, she is shown to have bird familiars that look suspiciously like\n> witch familiars. We could also see that Homura also had her soul gem\n> transformed into something - not a grief seed though, because it wasn't\n> despair that transformed her, but love - or so Homura says.\n\nSo it would make sense that\n\n> her witch wings look similar to her demon wings at the end of the Rebellion\n> movie.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-26T04:12:32.300", "id": "7170", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-26T04:12:32.300", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3488", "parent_id": "6217", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, she did (Yaya is a banned doll, as Charlotte discovers `Manga, anime`).\nBanned Dolls are created using living parts or a whole living organism, human\nor otherwise (like Frey's dogs). The best banned dolls use human parts, and\nthe machine dolls (Yaya supposedly is one) are made from living humans\naltogether.\n\n`Anime episode 12, talk between Magnus and the teacher.`\n\nShouko is shown in a flashback bargaining for Raishin's body (part of the\nreason she left Yaya with him to begin with) so she could make more automata\n`also episode 12`.\n\nSo all Magnus' dolls, Elf Speeder's butler `ep12`, Setsugestuka, and probably\ncannibal candy`she could use magic independently inside the vault.` were once\nliving people (or parts of) turned into automata.\n\nLet's not even go into the ethics discussion... XD\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-26T11:49:51.690", "id": "6573", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-26T19:06:38.230", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-26T19:06:38.230", "last_editor_user_id": "2808", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "6219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI know this question is almost a decade old, but I'm going to give you the\ncorrect answer. The answers given by Mindwin Remember Monica are completely\nwrong.\n\nIt's true that Shouko used human bodies to create Banned Doll, but that's only\ntrue for creating Oborofuji. Shouko didn't use human bodies to make the\nSetsugetsuka. If you remember the scene in episode 3, she said: “That thing\nwas a failure. It wasn’t beautiful at all.”. Shouko didn't like the Oborofuji.\nIt was because of the way it was created. The Oborofuji was made from the body\nof death row inmates. She was forced to create it by Sakaki and the Japanese\narmy. It went against her feelings. I'm sure that Shouko didn't kill the\ninmates on death row, but Sakaki did the killing blow. You don't have to kill\na person to create a Banned Doll, it can be created by using a living object,\nas in the case of the Garm. The same goes for the Maschinensoldat such as\nShin. The part where Charlotte saw Yaya's body was more human-like than\nSigmund's was because it was made out of Shouko's Sell.\n\nLet me clear something up about what Mindwin Remember Monica answered.\n\n> Shouko is shown in a flashback bargaining for Raishin's body (part of the\n> reason she left Yaya with him to begin with) so she could make more automata\n> also episode 12.\n\nShe didn't choose Yaya for Raishin in order to create more automatons. She\nwants to create a Machine Doll, and Raishin is one of the keys to creating it,\nusing the Kuretsuba's Blood to make it happen.\n\n> So all Magnus' dolls, Elf Speeder's butler ep12, Setsugestuka, and probably\n> cannibal candyshe could use magic independently inside the vault. were once\n> living people (or parts of) turned into automata.\n\nMagnus' Squadron is made up of Nadeshiko's organs. Shin is a Maschinensoldat\nmade from a real, living human being. The Setsugetsuka is made from Shouko's\nSell. There is no information as to how Eliza was created, except that she was\ncreated during the Renaissance period.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-11-01T16:11:51.800", "id": "68407", "last_activity_date": "2023-11-01T16:11:51.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "73811", "parent_id": "6219", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_acting_in_Japan>\n\nThe Term **Character Voice(CV)** has been commonly used since the 1980s by\nsuch Japanese anime magazines as Animec and Newtype, for a voice actor\nassociated with a particular anime or game character.\n\nAnd also\n\n> \"Some voice actors — especially certain voice actresses — often have devoted\n> international fan-clubs. Some fans may watch a show merely to hear a\n> particular voice actor.\"\n\nSo your theory that says:\n\n> \"Was it more common back in, say, the 80s or thereabouts for voice actors to\n> be credited in anime opening credits\"\n\nMay be true. But I didn't found anything to confirm it.\n\nBut in the particular case of that opening I think that it was just some kind\nof joke, if I remember well on that opening the main characters that appeared\nwere Hitagi and Kaiki, but not Koyomi. Also the opening itself just don't fit\nwith the anime style.\n\nI hope my answer was useful to you.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-24T12:56:13.383", "id": "8214", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-24T12:56:13.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2999", "parent_id": "6220", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\n**It's uncommon, but it's not that rare.**\n\nAccording to the [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB):\n\n> It's often to have 2 credits scene for movies, TV programs, etc.: opening &\n> ending. The general rule is, opening credits the studio, main performers,\n> producer, supervisor, writer, etc., and ending credits all of the staffs.\n>\n> In Japanese TV dramas, it's common to have the opening shown all the credit\n> and omitted the ending in the 60's. However, in 70's and 80's, the credits\n> started to split to opening with important credits, and ending with the\n> rest. In 90's and later, it became common for the opening to only show the\n> title, and the ending plays the theme song while listing all the credits.\n\nHowever, most of [60's & 70's anime\nOPs](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUGG2ThXypqJGUSdQ-ZX47Eus76jipHSp)\ndidn't even list any credit, only showing animation & song, sometimes with\nlyric (unless I was apparently watching the non-telop version...). Even if\nthey list the credit, it's similar to the current trend (production-related\ncredits), but there were some which included the voice actors (out of around\n25 anime OPs that I watched):\n\n * ビッグX ( _Big X_ , 1964): [YouTube video](https://youtu.be/UNa_cJA7wN8?t=27s)\n\n\n\n * 夕やけ番長 ( _Yuuyake Bancho_ , 1968): [YouTube video](https://youtu.be/Bm581sbjqdQ?t=41s)\n\n\n\n * もーれつア太郎 ( _Moretsu Ataro_ , 1969): [B/W OP (YouTube video)](https://youtu.be/aRuIUOAzekY?t=33s), [Color OP (YouTube video](https://youtu.be/gPnqi9_3JMA?t=32s)\n\n \n\n * 男一匹 ガキ大将 ( _Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou_ , 1969): [YouTube video](https://youtu.be/NDmdhYZ6yTc?t=45s)\n\n\n\n_Note: 声の出演 is the same as CV (Character Voice)._\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-11T09:32:39.340", "id": "39803", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-11T09:32:39.340", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "6220", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe it is called [Otome x\nRanbu](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=61836)\n\n\n\n> She is your stereotypical airhead school girl, with one exception, she has\n> amnesia. She recently transferred into a new school where things work\n> different, mainly magic. She is Mochiduki Tsubomi, and she doesn’t remember\n> anything before she transferred. Enter yet another transfer student – the\n> beautiful yet arrogant bishojo, Izayoi Yukiji. She’s after Tsubomi, but why?\n> What does Yukiji want? What mystery does Tsubomi hold?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-10T17:26:43.923", "id": "6231", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-23T23:43:42.500", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-23T23:43:42.500", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "2925", "parent_id": "6222", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI've been looking for this exact story as well.Well some of what you said was\nlike the one I was looking for. It's called Tail of the moon. Check it out.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T03:04:55.813", "id": "13694", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T03:04:55.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8181", "parent_id": "6222", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAt the same time Planet Plant (AKA Planet Vegeta) was being destroyed, Goku\nwas being sent to a planet called Earth in order to kill all of it's\ninhabitants and then sell it to Frieza. Vegeta and Nappa were on another\nplanet and Frieza told them that a huge meteor fell on their planet and\ndestroyed it. That's how Goku and Vegeta survived. So that's make the\nsurvivors\n\n * Goku\n * Vegeta\n * Nappa\n * Raditz, Goku's older brother. It wasn't revealed how he survived.\n\nAnd from the movies:\n\n * Broly\n * Paragus\n * Turles\n * Tarble, Vegeta's younger brother.\n\nFor more information read this page on Dragon Ball Wiki: [Genicode of the\nSaiyans](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Genocide_of_the_Saiyans)\n\nHow they ended up in Earth\n\n 1. Raditz goes to Earth to make Goku join them.\n 2. Goku disagrees but Raditz enforces him by taking his son, Gohan as a hostage\n 3. Goku and Piccolo kill Raditz\n 4. Vegeta hear about the dragon balls\n 5. Vegeta goes to Earth to find the Dragon Balls and then to destroy the Earth, he ends up fighting Goku\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-10T11:17:12.437", "id": "6227", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-10T18:45:21.923", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-10T18:45:21.923", "last_editor_user_id": "2656", "owner_user_id": "2656", "parent_id": "6223", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nPlanet Vegeta was destroyed by Frieza, yes. Goku and Vegeta are from the same\nplanet, Goku was sent to earth as a child to destroy it. When Planet Vegeta\nwas destroyed, Vegeta wasn't on the planet, he was away on an assignment at\nthe time and Vegeta comes to Earth when he receives Raditz's dying report of\nseven magic objects known as the Dragon Balls which will grant wishes.\n\nOther saiyans who made it to earth were Nappa and Raditz who were both killed.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-10T11:17:50.800", "id": "6228", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-10T11:17:50.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "6223", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think that it is of japanese origin though.\n\n_Teehee_ is just a cute giggle, pretty common internet slang. More on it can\nbe found at the [Urban\nDictionary](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Teehee&defid=788143),\nmainly\n\n> The sound of a giggle. Used by (1) schoolgirls and (2) old geezers\n> pretending to be schoolgirls.\n\nand\n\n> Defintion: 1)The act of joyful giggling. 2)A noise made to convey happiness\n> 3)Presented to imply innocence\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-10T08:34:33.687", "id": "6225", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-10T08:34:33.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "261", "parent_id": "6224", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe head punching and tongue sticking out makes me think the \"teehee\" is a\ntranslation of てへぺろ (\"tehepero\"), which has a literal meaning of \"teehee\ntongue-sticking-out\". It actually has a recent history as a word in its own\nright: [this blog\npost](http://bangin.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/%E3%81%A6%E3%81%B8%E3%81%BA%E3%82%8D-tehepero%E0%B9%91%E2%89%A7%E0%B1%AA%E2%89%A6%E3%81%A6%E3%81%B8%E3%81%BA%E3%82%8D/)\nand [this crunchyroll news article](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-\nnews/2012/03/03-1/vocab-lesson-strange-yet-cute-tehepero-teaser-website-\nappears) have some information about it.\n\nBasically, it's the word that goes with teehee+punching head+tongue sticking\nout, and the meaning is primarily focused on definition 3) that Omega posted -\nit sweeps under the rug a mistake or ignorance of the speaker with a playful\ngesture. A Japanese source for this meaning is [this scan of an article about\ntehepero being Japanese neologism of the\nyear](http://blog.livedoor.jp/seiyumemo/archives/7022095.html), although the\nexpression is likely related to peko-chan (see [What is the origin of this\nfacial expression with one's tongue sticking\nout?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2995/)).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-15T04:59:08.087", "id": "6313", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-16T02:50:05.890", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2567", "parent_id": "6224", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs Yuuko explains, people see her how they believe she'll look, it could be\nthat Okonogi believes ghosts exist but can't be seen unless they're using a\nmedium like with the doll Teiichi exorcised which would be backed up when the\n\"evil spirit\" disappeared.\n\nGiven that since Teiichi to her is a spirit medium she is probably expecting\nYuuko to be invisible and use Teiichi to speak to everyone which would explain\nwhy she can't even hear her.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T23:56:06.007", "id": "7048", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-19T23:56:06.007", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6226", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know how game presents it, but I think it is pretty obvious from\nanime.\n\nThe scene with the fossil is in our present.\n\n> The scientists find the fossil and believe it is missing link between man\n> and ape. Proto-Hakuoro finds it and wants to show it to the world. But\n> another scientist, tells him that humanity is not yet ready for such\n> revelation and shoots him. His blood gets on the fossil, which awakens\n> Utawarerumono. It then asks the dying scientists if he wants to live. He\n> agrees and gives his body as vessel to the Utawarerumono, thus gaining the\n> mask and practically becoming Utawarerumono.\n\nFast forward few (hundreds) years\n\n> and Proto-Hakuoro is found as Iceman.\n\nNeither game nor anime explains where the Utawarerumono actually came from and\nhow it became a fossil.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T22:19:37.800", "id": "6276", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-23T20:58:15.613", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-23T20:58:15.613", "last_editor_user_id": "42166", "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "6232", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nMy best guess would be the preceding events before Hakuoro's transformation.\nI'm going to go with the game's depiction of the scene for the most part.\n\nThe game shows more happening to Kuuya mostly due to the fact that she's awake\nthrough the whole event, rather than lying there unconscious which the anime\nshows. She learns of Hien and Hauenkua's betrayal and their allegiance with\nDii, causing her to attack them after Dii kills Genjimaru. What the anime\ndoesn't show is that she's still in her Avu Kamuu during the time of the\nattack, rather than having it damaged beyond repair during her fight with\nHakuoro. Also, she is attacked directly by Hauenkua and Dii (in his\ntransformed state)\n\nBefore she sees what's left of Genji, Hakuoro, in his transformed state, tries\nto console her and make her calm down. However, seeing what Dii was at the\ntime and Hakuoro directly mimicking his appearance, Kuuya screams at him to\nget away, thinking that he's the same one who attacked her. She tries to\nescape by falling out of the Avu Kamuu, but unfortunately ends up landing\nright next to the remains of Genji, finally realizing what happened.\n\nTo bring up the anime, Kuuya sees what happens to Genji, causing her to react\nthe same way. While she does see Hakuoro fighting in his transformed state it\nisn't as overt as the game's depiction of the same scene and that she doesn't\nsee most of it. I think the biggest impact on her was Genji being murdered\nright in front of her.\n\nSo, I think while Hakuoro may have had some hand at it, it was more of a\ncombination of events. Hope this helps!\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T23:47:15.930", "id": "6278", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T23:47:15.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2954", "parent_id": "6234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is possible that Kuuya or some random NPC helped her to get outside.\nHowever, since there is literally no additional information given about Kuuya\nor Sakuya after the events of Utawarerumono (or the amount of time that passes\nby after the final battle), it is quite difficult to say. I would say that she\nhasn't healed because of a few reasons:\n\n 1. Her field sprite depicts her sitting down. Though she may be merely looking over Kuuya as she plays in the field, I think Sakuya would have been right next to her if she was able to walk. I think the sprite designers would have made her standing if she was healed.\n\n 2. Tendon injuries take a long time to heal. Genjimaru outright cut them and given the limited amount of medical research and prowess that is shown in the Utawarerumono universe, I doubt that it would be enough to have her healed any time soon. The time factor I mentioned earlier also comes into play, because it isn't directly stated how much time has passed.\n\n 3. I need to bring up the anime for this one, even though they decided not to mention her tendons being cut at all. In every scene after Genjimaru and Sakuya joined Hakuoro, she is sitting. Every scene after that shows her sitting and she is never seen walking or standing again. Even in the ending scene, Sakuya remains seated. \n\nSadly, I doubt she would be able to walk again...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T22:57:46.073", "id": "6277", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T22:57:46.073", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2954", "parent_id": "6235", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe clones are never mentioned again in the series. One possible explanation\nis that they were supposed to trigger in case of Jail Scaglietti's death; but\nhe is still alive, in a maximum security orbital prison.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-26T14:46:21.370", "id": "21142", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-26T14:46:21.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14139", "parent_id": "6237", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe two familiars that you mentioned, Aria Liese and Lotte Liese, were helping\nat the explicit request of Yuuno. They did not work in the Infinite Library at\nany given time, other than that moment. Due to Yuuno's extreme effectiveness\nat organizing documents in a pile of organized junk, he was invited to become\nthe head librarian.\n\nArf was no working at TSAB during the StrikerS period, as mentioned in the\nsound stages. According to that, she primarily spends time at Earth\nbabysitting. I do not know of a reference that links her to the Infinite\nLibrary, other than appearing once in StrikerS. She might have been there to\nvisit for all we know, but it might be something part-time as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-12T22:48:09.287", "id": "6871", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-12T22:48:09.287", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "6238", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKairoseki is as hard as diamond, as stated in Chapter 400 p 11, so it is\nunlikely for Law to have cut it. However, it is a chain and nobody said that\nthe chain consists just of Kairoseki. It is highly likely that at most every\nsecond chain link is effectively Kairoseki, since it is as hard as Diamond,\nyou could barely made it into a chain without any other material and after all\nit is a rare material.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-11T07:58:45.747", "id": "6246", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-11T07:58:45.747", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47", "parent_id": "6242", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nLaw can control everything in his _room_. He can even extract toxins from\nsomeone's blood, so I guess he can also break chains with his mind/power even\nwithout actually having to cut them. Law and admiral Fujitora just use their\nswords for show anyway. They don't really need to cut something to activate\ntheir powers as can be seen when he removed his own cuffs or when admiral\nFujitora was sending a meteor towards the straw hats while eating noodles.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-02T12:05:32.883", "id": "11609", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-02T12:05:32.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "6242", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAny answer to this question would be pure speculation:\n\nIf it were that the entire chain is not made of seastone, any rational being\nwould make the cuffs portion of the chains seastone and, therefore, he would\nnot be able to cut the chains off without cutting seastone. This answer,\nthough already accepted, could be rationally excluded.\n\nWhether it makes sense that his devil fruit power could have been used to cut\nthe chains is dependant on whether non-contact devil fruit abilities can\nmanipulate seastone. I don't believe they can but the way to determine that is\nto look at smoker. Can smoker-san turn his entire jutte into smoke? If he can,\nthen this is how the chains were removed. If he cannot, he must have done it\nby his own skill.\n\nIf a swordsman (combined with the strength of his sword/swords) is rated by\nwhat he is able to cut, Law may have been able to cut the chains by his own\nstrength. His blade would touch the stones, not him. The seastone being as\nhard as diamond does not mean it cannot be broken; hardness is not the same as\ntoughness. In other placed I would give better examples but for an anime site:\nthe blades used in Attack on Titan are a super hard metal yet fracture/dull\neasily. Almost all very hard materials (especially stones and ceramics) have\nfracture planes between grain boundaries along which the material can be\nshattered or split with sufficient force. How did you think diamonds are cut?\nWhy could Law do this and not Zoro? Law at that point in the story was a\nbetter swordsman by this rating criteria then Zoro was at the time when he\nconsidered cutting his hand (or his leg, or his chest, or throwing himself\ninto a floating paw of pain... what is up with this guy?)\n\nFinally please note that none of these explanations matter. One Piece is (and\nI love this) governed by the \"rule of awesome\" and the \"rule of funny\". What\nis possible and what the chains are made of is all what is fun for the\naudience. Both referenced scenes were badass and awesome. Why could Law cut\nthe seastone and Zoro couldn't? Because it was a better show that way!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-02T14:12:04.113", "id": "11613", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-02T14:12:04.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "6242", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNone of the other answers actually answer the question. OP asked\n\n> So why didn't Zoro cut his [seastone cuffs], was it because he not strong\n> enough?\n\nand not\n\n> How could Law break the seastone chains?\n\nIf it really is just as hard as diamond, then Zoro should be able to cut the\nseastone. He has cut metal before and clearly stated that diamond wouldn't be\nany different.\n\nBut for this technique, he needs free hands. He has to slice in the right\nangle, with the right amount of power to do it. The seastone on his arms is\nsimply to close to exercise any technique. But cutting flesh and bone on the\nother hand, is an relatively easy task with a sharp sword. Besides what some\npeople may think, One Piece doesn't open plot holes for the Rule of Cool.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-11T21:56:47.360", "id": "46991", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-11T21:56:47.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "40566", "parent_id": "6242", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Track 21 - Kouchaku ( Stalemate\n)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yo5SoZcAUg) from the [Naruto Shippūden:\nOriginal Soundtrack (2007)](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Music).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-11T09:43:34.730", "id": "6247", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-11T09:43:34.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1528", "parent_id": "6244", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> She got her weapon from Madoka.\n\nThis is a question for [Gen\nUrobuchi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Urobuchi) (Puella Magi Madoka\nMagica writer) at a [Nitro+ Q&A Panel](http://wiki.puella-\nmagi.net/Nitro+_Q&A_Panels_at_Animagic_2013)\n\nQ: Did Homura get her weapon from Madoka?\n\n> A: The weapon Homura got filled the hole that Madoka left when she couldn't\n> use the bow anymore. [Note: I'm not sure if I got this right, maybe someone\n> who still remembers the details of Madoka's ending properly could fill me in\n> with the details of this]\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-27T06:47:47.760", "id": "6594", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-27T06:47:47.760", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "6245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's because in the new universe, Homura didn't have to use her wish\nfor the sake of saving Madoka. She had no need for time manipulation, so\ninstead of that device, she now has a bow. In the Q&A answer section (as cited\nin the other answer), it's said the bow was to fill in the hole, being that\nthere is no cause that would have Homura gain the Time Manipulation ability in\nthe new universe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-31T04:53:13.177", "id": "23691", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-31T06:08:04.017", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-31T06:08:04.017", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "15987", "parent_id": "6245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nBy searching about this it makes me think, She probably didn't get this from\nMadoka or whoever it is, She got the bow through her wish as she said \"Those\nare my feelings towards Madoka! That's why, once more, lend me power! Not as\nthe shield that protects Madoka but as the power that smites anyone who\nthreatens her!\" since her shield was obtained by wraith.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-17T07:55:14.980", "id": "42368", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-17T07:55:14.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35676", "parent_id": "6245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is resolved by _Wraith Arc_ : She arrived in the new universe with her\nold powers intact, however due to the same miracle that allowed her to retain\nmemories of the old universe (her mutual love for Madoka), she was able to\nobtain a second wish:\n\n> \"Those are my feelings towards Madoka! That's why, once more, lend me power!\n> Not as the shield that protects Madoka but as the power that smites anyone\n> who threatens her!\"\n\nAs such, she was given an appropriate weapon, the bow of memory manipulation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-15T00:20:32.487", "id": "65920", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-15T00:20:32.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63239", "parent_id": "6245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**The Anime does not always pay attention and replicate the same details from\nthe manga.**\n\nThe wiki is based on all Manga information whereas the pictures are generally\nfrom the Anime.\n\nThe author of Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto, primarily focuses on his manga while\nhe let's other people create the Anime. From time to time, the makers of the\nAnime don't follow every little meticulous detail that Kishimoto has\nillustrated in his manga. In this case, the Anime Rock Lee starts glowing\ngreen early as a graphic effect even though he isn't supposed to yet.\n\nAnother example of this is when Danzou uses Izanagi. In the manga, he can\nsacrifice an eye for a 1 minute duration of the skill. In the anime, each blow\nhe receives from Sasuke requires an eye sacrifice.\n\nAs you can see, the Anime isn't very diligent in their Naruto facts.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-11T10:04:34.033", "id": "6249", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-11T11:08:22.953", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-11T11:08:22.953", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFirst of all. Nunnally most likely did not see Lelouch memories.\n\nOne of the abilities Nunnaly has is her extreme perceptiveness and\nintelligence\n\n> Nunnally has shown to be not only perceptive, but also intelligent by coming\n> up with a similar plan as Lelouch (using the Damocles as an object of\n> hatred). [source](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Nunnally_vi_Britannia)\n\nWith this information given and the fact she had a similar plan to begin with\nshe might have seen through Lelouch motives the moment he fell down right next\nto her\n\n> being taken to witness the execution of the U.F.N. leaders. When Suzaku, in\n> the guise of Zero, appears and impales Lelouch on his sword, Nunnally can\n> only watch in shock. When Lelouch falls near her, she takes his hand and\n> realizes that he has sacrificed himself on purpose\n\nTherefore it is more plausible that Nunnally grasped Lelouch's intentions at\nthe moment of his death, instead of finding out what actually happened through\na direct memory transfer.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-15T22:36:10.627", "id": "6326", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-27T11:07:55.017", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-27T11:07:55.017", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6250", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI am not that sure if there is any official explanation about this. But from\nwhat I understand and have answered\n[here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/116/was-lelouch-the-person-\ndriving-the-cart-in-the-last-scene-of-code-geass-r2/147#147),\n\n> Lelouch got his dad's code. He beckoned the World of C to lend him its\n> powers, and he took Charles's code before Charles passed on. The reason why\n> Lelouch still has his Geass is because he didn't take the Code from the same\n> person who gave him his Geass: he took his Geass from CC, and he took his\n> Code from Charles. Thus, he now possesses both immortality and a Geass.\n>\n> To further corroborate this, however, **remember that when Nunnally held\n> Lelouch's hand he transferred his memories to her. CC also did it when\n> Lelouch touched her accidentally back then, so it could be assumed that\n> people with Codes are indeliberate telepaths.** This leaves us with both\n> immortals traversing the world for the rest of eternity.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-27T08:10:58.583", "id": "6596", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-27T08:10:58.583", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "6250", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nSince Lelouch had activated the Code, Nunnally could see his memories when she\ntouched him, exactly like what would happen if you touch C.C. **Lelouch is\nalive**. In fact, he is now _immortal_\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-14T19:47:03.193", "id": "8666", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-05T19:17:45.223", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-05T19:17:45.223", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4503", "parent_id": "6250", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nNunnally is able to see a person's intentions by touching their hand. This is\nstated early on in the show, and she is shown using it on Alicia Lohmeyer when\nthey were discussing the plans for redeveloping the ghettos. Alicia said that\nit wouldn't be a big deal for the Japanese citizens, but Nunnally asked Alice\nto touch her hand and saw that she was lying, which prompted her to demand\nthat the plans be rewritten so as not to hurt the Japanese anymore. (Season 2\nEpisode 8, I believe)\n\nThe flashback could have been for the viewers rather than something Nunnally\nactually saw directly.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-05T17:28:38.970", "id": "22173", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-05T19:30:21.203", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-05T19:30:21.203", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14869", "parent_id": "6250", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNunnally did **NOT** see any memories or code visions, this was explicitly\ndenied by the creators of the show.\n\n(The following is taken from the [compilation\npost](https://www.reddit.com/user/GeassedbyLelouch/comments/8hklfr/evaluating_code_theory_main_body_index/)\nwhich gathers all of the official statements regarding Code Geass and\n\n> Lelouch's officially confirmed death.)\n\nFor a full overview, follow the link.\n\nIn [Mook Animedia](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOBK-65848) (28 January\n2009, p.89-90) there was an interview (see 2 pictures below) which explicitly\ndenied that Nunnally was seeing visions or that those images had anything to\ndo with codes or geasses.\n\n> Q: _\" How did Nunnally managed to realize Lelouch true intention, when she\n> touched his hand at the end?\"_\n>\n> Staff member K: _\" The way Nunnally can tell that someone is lying, just\n> like she was able to tell that Lohmeyer was lying to her, is that she can\n> feel the hand of the person she is talking to is sweating or lightly\n> trembling. It's nothing like Geass or some special ability like that.\"_\n>\n> Staff member Y: _\" Yes. So, she simply came to conclusion [Lelouch was\n> lying] by herself, because of this ability.\"_\n>\n> Staff member K: _\" She is Marianne's daughter and Lelouch's little sister.\n> Two months have passed since that defeat of Schneizel and for this two\n> months she's been wondering constantly about what had happened, like \"why it\n> happened?\" and so on. So when she touched Lelouch's hand at the end she felt\n> that he is calm, she put the two and two together and realized the truth. Of\n> course, we know that in anime, it's hard to explain things like that, but\n> yeah, please accept it like this kind of romantic idea we had.\"_\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4yGAH.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uewU8.jpg)\n\nThe anime itself also makes it clear that Nunnally did not see anything: \nIn [R1 episode\n11](https://codegeassepisodetranscripts.wordpress.com/11-battle-for-narita/),\nwhen C.C. is feeding shock images to Suzaku she says:\n\n> C.C.: _\" I'm just feeding him some shock images, I can't tell what he's\n> seeing, though.\"_\n\nIn [R2 episode 21](https://codegeassepisodetranscripts.wordpress.com/21-the-\nragnarok-connection/) C.C. and Suzaku have the following conversation:\n\n> Suzaku: _\" Was that what I saw when we met at Narita?\"_\n>\n> C.C: _\" There, it was mixed with your personal consciousness. I'm merely\n> guessing as I don't know what it was you saw.\"_\n\nThus, the anime tells us twice that C.C. had no idea what Suzaku was seeing.\nThat means she did not choose the images she was sending. If code bearers\ncan't choose what the recipient of their visions is seeing, than neither can\nLelouch, thus Nunnally seeing exactly THOSE images is highly suspicious.\n\nBut the real nail in the coffin of this argument is what exactly is shown\nduring these visions: the recipient's own memories mixed with random shock\nimages.\n\nNot only do the images which Nunnally allegedly sees not contain any shock\nimages and is the tone and stability of her images entirely different from\nwhat Suzaku sees (no [bright lights](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GR76O.jpg), no\n[nerves tunnel vision](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Qh8d.jpg)), but the images\nwhich she allegedly sees are NOT her memories because she was not present\nduring the shown scenes. Therefore it is entirely impossible for those images\nto be code visions.\n\nC.C.'s words are confirmed when Lelouch touches her when she's feeding visions\nto Suzaku, she loses control and shortcircuits, making all three people\nrecipients and as a result all three see a mix of shock images and memories of\nSuzaku, Lelouch and C.C. This is evidenced by the following images: we see\n[Lelouch inside the vision](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vpYaB.jpg), and a\nfraction of a second later we see both [Lelouch and Suzaku together inside the\nsame vision](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRUKA.jpg). Lelouch is right there,\nwith Suzaku in a shared vision. Fortunately for Lelouch, Suzaku is too busy\nhaving the freak out of his life to be aware of anything. (Or maybe this was\nSuzaku's first clue on Zero's identity? Who knows?)\n\nOn top of C.C.'s words we also have audio and visual cues. Nunnally's alleged\nvision doesn't sound at all like the visions C.C. gave to her targets, and the\nanimation style is completely different too.\n\nLastly, the chronology of the events just doesn't allow the images to be a\nvision she reacts to. Putting the events in chronological order we get:\nNunnally touches a dying Lelouch, Nunnally acts shocked and gasps audibly,\nimages are shown, Nunnally starts crying. It is clear that Nunnally's reaction\nstarted BEFORE the images are shown. How can she react to something she hasn't\nseen yet? Obviously she can't. And if she saw the images before her shocked\nreaction and her gasp, then why did they put the images after it? It's fully\nwithin the animators' power to show the images first, but they CHOSE not to.\nThe only conclusion we can draw is that Nunnally's realization and shock do\nnot stem from the images.\n\nSo, what does Nunnally see when she touches Lelouch?\n\nThe answer is simple, she sees nothing. If she truly would suddenly begin\nhallucinating because someone gave her visions, she'd freak out (like people\ndid when C.C. gave them visions), but she didn't react AT ALL. If characters\ndon't react to information, that means the information is non-diegetic.\n\nTo quote [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis): _\" Diegetic\nelements are part of the fictional world (\"part of the story\"), as opposed to\nnon-diegetic elements which are stylistic elements of how the narrator tells\nthe story (\"part of the storytelling\")._\n\nSimply put, non-diegetic information is information for the audience only, it\ndoes not exist in the fictional universe. All fiction make liberal use of this\ntechnique, the examples are legio. Non-diegetic information can be auditive\n(e.g. background music which tells the audience when a scene is\nsad/romantic/...) or visual (e.g. people's excessive grinning when they lie so\nthat the audience knows it's a lie, but the victim doesn't)\n\nCode Geass, too, uses loads of non-diegetic information. Examples are the red\nrings around people's eyes when they are geassed, Rolo's locket swinging which\nsymbolically shows he is using his geass, the red sphere in which Rolo \"stops\ntime\", etc.\n\nLikewise is Nunnally's \"vision\" non-diegetic. She sees nothing, the creators\nwant to make clear we understand that she finally understood her brother's\nintentions.\n\nIt is no coincidence that they show this \"vision\" when Nunnally touches his\nhand, it fits thematically with Nunnally's ability to know when people are\nlying by touching their hand. She does this several times in the show, for\nexample with Suzaku and Alicia Lohmeyer. Here are screenshots of these scenes\nfrom R2 episode 7, R2 episode 15 (2 screenshots), and R2 episode 15 again.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GBSeD.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ha6VQ.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7K6ne.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Drvmb.png)\n\nWe can even add the commentary track from the actors themselves. They were\ntalking about Nunnally understanding her brother, but they never mentioned any\nform of vision or memory transfer.\n\nIn short, the anime itself fully contradicts the interpretation that Lelouch\nwas sending his sister code visions, because it violates everything the show\nhas told us about these visions.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-20T03:27:59.720", "id": "47941", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-20T06:16:20.477", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "41600", "parent_id": "6250", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCheck [this](http://kenichi.wikia.com/wiki/Martial_Arts_Styles) for a list of\nthe martial arts used in Kenichi.\n\nSome of the martial arts are of course just fictional **or** adapted, like\n_Nyakwondo_ (a combination of cat moves and _Tae Kwon Do_ ) and even Furinji's\nown style. However, majority of the martial arts in the manga/anime is still\nlegitimate and--based on personal experience as a former wrestling competitor\nin university days--relatively accurate.\n\nAlso, I won't rightly consider \"fake\" some of the variations, as martial arts\nin real life are mostly just variation of one another. _Kung Fu_ alone is\ncredited for inspiring at least a couple of major styles, and die-hard\npractitioners and fans alike will call fake on these other inspired arts.\nHowever, I must admit that Kenichi deserves an amazing suspension of disbelief\nwith some of them.\n\nAlso, a bit out-of-topic:\n\n> I personally find it amusing that you're a karate practitioner and you don't\n> know prior to Kenichi about Pencak Silat when it's one of the most murderous\n> martial arts in the world. While most martial arts are developed in defense,\n> the likes of _Muay Thai_ , _Muay Boran_ , and _Pencak Silat_ are meant to\n> utterly disable, maim, and outright kill opponents. \n> \n> Granted, _Silat_ is a huge discipline, but the _Pencak_ variant is the\n> recognized national martial art of Indonesia and it's been shown to be\n> highly effective (a\n> [movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raid:_Redemption) even had tons of\n> people using it, including the \"regular\" street mook), not to mention Hayato\n> Furinji himself had some issues with the art's complexity.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T02:52:00.573", "id": "6257", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-13T05:46:41.170", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-13T05:46:41.170", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2627", "parent_id": "6251", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI have only read a little into the manga, but finished the anime, and I'd say\nballpark 80%-90% of it is a legit martial art. My background includes karate,\nmuay thai, krav maga, and gracie jiu jitsu.\n\nIt just occasionally hollywoods the living hell out of it - like the saikuken\n(in the anime, the 1st fist uses it) being some magical wall of defense. The\nreal equivalent in probably just knowing your range and understanding just how\nlittle you have to move to dodge sometimes - a boxer/kickboxer's slip of a\npunch is a good example of real \"saikuken\". You only have to move your head 4\ninches to dodge a straight punch to the face.\n\nThe whole Ki-attack thing and Siegfried just using an innate, musical\nunderstanding of rhythm as an un-trained fighting method are ridiculous.\n\nThe 2nd fist and some long haired dude who worked for Kisara and whose name I\ndon't remember are also legit, but pretty out there - for a fighter to perform\nwell from pure talent (2nd Fist) or to only learn by getting in fights\nfrequently over and over again (forgotten name) are both possible but\nextraordinarily unlikely.\n\nIn short, most of it, at least where the anime covers is legit, and the\nportion that isn't legit is usually vaguely based on something real, and just\nhollywooded up for aesthetics or variety.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-12T19:19:06.153", "id": "30449", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-12T19:19:06.153", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22651", "parent_id": "6251", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nPencak Silat is real, I believe they use it in the Middle East. Penetration\nand command sumo are real styles too, I believe. Lucha libre obviously is\nreal, but some of the moves are somewhat unrealistic, but that's just like\ntheir personal fighting style or adaptation.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-15T04:13:46.513", "id": "34271", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-15T04:13:46.513", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26190", "parent_id": "6251", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nPencak silat is a Malaysian martial art (Featured in the The Raid movie).\nLucha Libre is Mexican wrestling (best reference is Rey Mysterio IRL).\n\nAs to the anime, I have to agree that 80-90% of it is based on real life\nmartial arts. Judging how Kenichi performed and trained, he is equivalent to\nour MMA fighters following the rule of Krav Maga (survival)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-07T05:34:39.693", "id": "43192", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-07T05:34:39.693", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36495", "parent_id": "6251", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell from my understanding of the anime, the Calamity is only stopped for that\nyear. It will occur again, so the figure could be who will become the next\nExtra in the class.\n\nApart from that, my only other basis is the top left frame, if the seating\npositions are the same in the manga then figure where is sitting in Mei's seat\nwhich the class uses as a counter measure to make someone non existent and, I\nthink it is also the same seat of the first student who died, but was allowed\nto graduate which caused the Calamity to begin the year after.\n\nof course take this with a grain of salt since\n\n> the anime ends with 2 people of the class re-recording the message in how to\n> stop the calamity as a means to prevent the insanity that engulfed the class\n> when the original recording was made public\n\ni've no idea how different the anime is from the manga or the Light Novel\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-11T21:13:27.467", "id": "6254", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T09:09:04.777", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-12T09:09:04.777", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIt could also be **Misaki, the student who was forever stuck in Yomiyama.**\n\n_From the[Wiki](http://another.wikia.com/wiki/Misaki_Yomiyama#Manga):_\n\n> Misaki's final appearance in the manga was in the final chapter, walking\n> around the school, suggesting he is still stuck on earth.\n\nMeaning that he is the reason that the calamity would continue to occur, since\nhe is trapped on earth.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-07T19:20:41.680", "id": "33596", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-07T19:44:03.153", "last_edit_date": "2016-06-07T19:44:03.153", "last_editor_user_id": "18582", "owner_user_id": "18582", "parent_id": "6252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nActually there's a prequel to this in manga. Before dying, Ritsuko (Kouichi's\nmother) saw the same shadow as this one and calls out 'Misaki-kun'. So the\nshadow is in fact MISAKI.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-07-19T14:12:23.603", "id": "53667", "last_activity_date": "2019-07-19T15:16:34.390", "last_edit_date": "2019-07-19T15:16:34.390", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "48165", "parent_id": "6252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMadara did in fact give his eyes to Nagato. (Chapter 606 Page 16 ~)\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T04:43:09.003", "id": "6259", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T05:12:18.723", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-12T05:12:18.723", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6258", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIn chapter 658, it's said that \"Right eye returns to rightful owner\". Which\nproves it was transplanted to nagato. Although doesn't specify when/how.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T04:54:25.707", "id": "6260", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-29T13:30:05.120", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-29T13:30:05.120", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "338", "parent_id": "6258", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYup, Sort of, U see, Nagato is an Uzumaki, and they are connected to Senju,\nand Madara has Uchiha blood circulated to his Rinnegan Which he got from\nimplanting Hashirama cells) and then, he gave his right eye (Which had Uchiha\nblood) to Nagato, who had Senju blood, thus awakening 2 Rinnegans for Nagato\nand Madara is left with his left Sharingan/Rinnegan. U may be wondering, how\ndoes Obito have his right eye, that's because he unconsciously transported the\nright side of his face to Kamui, then unconsciously got it back, also, Obito's\nleft face is scarred bcz of the amateur eye transplanting by Rin (DUH SHE LIKE\n12 YRS OLD)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-03-27T12:34:41.370", "id": "57093", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-27T12:34:41.370", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "52477", "parent_id": "6258", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAt the _very_ beginning, right after he got his powers, Lelouch may not have\nbeen sure that it was possible to give such powerful orders. This is why, for\nexample, Lelouch ordered a female student from the academy to engrave a cross-\nmark on a wall every day forever: to determine how long a geass would last.\nPresumably, he was performing similar experiments that weren't shown to the\nviewer.\n\nIn some cases, Lelouch could be morally conflicted about geassing people. In\nthe last episode of R2, we see him wavering on whether or not to use a geass\nto command Nunnally to give him the FLEIJA control device. It's possible that\nhe felt the same way about using his geass on other people as well. (Then\nagain, that might just be a special thing for Nunnally.)\n\nRecall now that people are able to reject a geass (at least temporarily) if it\nis in strong conflict with their morals. Guilford, for example, would probably\nhave found the idea of obeying Zero to be utterly repugnant, and may have\nresisted the geass to a degree, which could have thrown a wrench in Lelouch's\nplans. This could be why Lelouch instead geassed Guilford to view him as if he\nwere Cornelia - to circumvent that issue.\n\nThere are probably a few other reasons, too, which hopefully other people will\nbe able to come up with in their answers.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T17:29:19.473", "id": "6269", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T17:29:19.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6262", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nI like to think of them as purely moral choices, not at ALL for practicality.\n\nIn the beginning of R2, Kallen asked if she was geassed into obeying Zero, or\nsomething to that effect. Lelouch makes it clear that she followed under her\nown will, which presumably, he wanted for all of the Black Knights.\n\nNote that he only ordered \"Obey Me!!!\" after the Black Knights betray him*,\nleaving him with no troops to command.\n\nThe others I see as lack of choices. For example, he didn't geass Suzaku the\nmoment he realized he was working for the enemy (he could have very well said\n\"Follow Zero\" at that point on, and C.C. even chastises him for **not doing**\nit) but he only geasses him in a very precarious situation (when both of them\nwere about to get killed).\n\n*EDIT: Actually, there's another reason: (Lelouch thinks) **NUNNALY's DEAD!**. Remember he did everything for Nunnaly. With Nunnaly, Shirley, Rolo, and the Black knights gone, he has nothing left basically. So this point is pretty much a \"Well, Fuck My Moral Compass\", And does things more pragmatically.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-16T06:35:46.130", "id": "6344", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-28T05:53:58.473", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-28T05:53:58.473", "last_editor_user_id": "2988", "owner_user_id": "2988", "parent_id": "6262", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nProduction-wise, it would probably be because of addition to drama. I think\nthe production thought (and I believe us as well) would be boring to have\nLelouch command \"Obey me\" everytime. And of course, to add limitation to the\norder, thus, adding an opening for conflicts in the stories. If the order\n\"Obey me\" will always be used, then Lelouch will mostly be invincible and that\nwill prevent twists on the stories - which makes the anime more enjoyable.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-27T07:53:13.473", "id": "6595", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-27T07:53:13.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "6262", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with the [answer posed by\nSecret](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6344/2516). But there's another\naddition/modification I would like to make to it.\n\nHis initial motives were in line to end Charles' Hegemony and he had people in\nsupport for it, that's how he gained the support of the Black Knights. But\nafter the incidents in the thought chamber when he stopped Charles and\nMarianne, he had made a different plan with Suzaku and CC. In order to execute\nthis plan he required an army which he could gain neither by motivating them\nby his motives nor by the virtue of his emperor post(since he was a usurper).\nHence the Geass.\n\nIn summary: He had a moral compass which he later compromised for the greater\ngood (Instead of his morality being lost after Nunnaly's death)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-20T06:56:02.267", "id": "22614", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-08T06:33:55.373", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-08T06:33:55.373", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "15181", "parent_id": "6262", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nLelouch's geass power increased over time. Perhaps it was not powerful enough\nmake someone his full-time slave until his power got to full strength. Lelouch\ndid experiments in the beginning to test the limitations and capabilities of\nhis geass. Surely he must have wondered what would happen if he tried the\ncommand \"obey me\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-17T09:09:26.747", "id": "32159", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-17T09:09:26.747", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24111", "parent_id": "6262", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the reason is much easier than what all you guys have just said. It is\nlikely that the obey order could not be issued because all the other people\nnot affected by geass would have started to suspect something weird going on\nand they would have investigated on geass. However, this conclusion cannot be\npossible if the order issued was like \"from now onward obey me but never tell\nor make any reference to who is giving you orders\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-27T19:19:41.330", "id": "38092", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-27T20:00:12.840", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-27T20:00:12.840", "last_editor_user_id": "1527", "owner_user_id": "29995", "parent_id": "6262", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n[user15181's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/22614/2516) was the\nbest answer. His Geass wasn't yet powerful enough to do so as the Geass grow\nmore powerful with each usage. Remember, that Lelouch thinks that other people\naside from the ones he knows personally are mere pawns; he thinks that the\nworld revolves around him and the people he wants to protect that's why he'll\nforsake an entire army just for Nunnally which he did both seasons. For him,\nwho cares if all of my soldiers die, I must save Nunnally. Japan's freedom was\njust an excuse for him to create his ideal world. Another sign of his Narcism\nis thinking that he could take down Britannia even before he got Geass, and\nalso the fact he was born royalty.\n\nThe clearest evidence why it's not because of his moral standards is when he\nmade a gang at the alley act like animals for eternity just because he is sad.\nSo that argument is refuted. The reason is that his Geass is still not yet in\nboth of his eyes unlike after he defeated Charles. After he defeated Charles,\nhis geass is in both of his eyes so he was able to simply say \"follow me\" by\nthen to become emperor.\n\nNotice how his commands become more complicated as the story progresses. But\nthe most complicated was only \"do this when this happens\" before his Geass\nspread to both eyes. However, the whole dealing with Suzaku is something I\ncan't relate to, I don't do bromance, ask Naruto instead.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-06T13:59:47.483", "id": "65865", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-08T06:32:49.910", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-08T06:32:49.910", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63131", "parent_id": "6262", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSee below for some comparison screenshots from episode 2, at the beginning of\nthe first scene on the school roof (the one where Homura comes and gives a\nmysterious warning to Madoka and Sayaka).\n\nJudging from the railings surrounding the roof area and the floor tiles,\nCrunchyroll is using the **Blu-Ray/DVD** version of _Madoka Magica_. Not the\nTV version.\n\n* * *\n\n**TV**\n\n\n\n**Blu-Ray**\n\n\n\n**Crunchyroll**\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T17:00:18.317", "id": "6268", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T17:00:18.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6266", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's basically all of it - the 11-episode TV series, and then the two\nmovies. There's also a recap movie for the TV series called [_Air\nCommunication_](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6927/Higashi_no_Eden_Soushuuhen%3a_Air_Communication),\nbut there's no sense in watching it if you already watched the TV series.\n\nIn general, when you have questions about what anime exist for a given\nfranchise, a good approach is to search for one of the anime on\n[AniDB](http://anidb.net) (e.g. [AniDB's page for Eden of the\nEast](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=6238)), and look at\nthe \"relation graph\" for that anime ([here's the one for Eden of the\nEast](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=rel&aid=6238)). This shows all\nanime that are related in some way or another to the anime you were looking\nat. The relation graphs get kind of messy for huge universes like Gundam ([see\ngraph](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=rel&aid=715)), but for most\nfranchises, the relation graphs are quite useful.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-12T21:20:57.477", "id": "6275", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-12T21:28:38.353", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-12T21:28:38.353", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI haven't seen the entire series or read the manga, but from what he said\nbefore he fleed the Soul Society, it was apparently absolute hypnosis. Take\nthis as an example:\n\nWhen Ichigo attacked Aizen, he had already seen Aizen's sword, so Aizen's\nZanpakuto could use the hypnosis \"Aizen blocks Ichigo's attack instantly with\none finger, and no one sees Aizen's counter attack\"\n\nAs for how he could use hypnosis like that, maybe Aizen's Zanpakuto warped\nspace (like how Touzen's Zanpakuto did when he was fighting Kenpachi) and\ncreated a space that robbed all senses, but because of the hypnosis, no one\nactually saw it, as Ohana even commented that Aizen previously showed everyone\nthat his Zanpakuto was a water-based one, and she was shocked when Aizen\nrevealed that he did it on purpose to fool everyone and to make them victims\nof his Zanpakuto.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-13T03:01:18.670", "id": "6280", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-06T17:06:02.543", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-06T17:06:02.543", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6279", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst off, Aizen is a genius of nearly unmatched brilliance for most of his\nentire plan. One can say that he made some bad choices later in his plan\nconcerning his treatment of underlings, the showdown with the Soul Society,\nand giving Ichigo a chance. However, that's more of an issue of character\nflaws than him not being a genius.\n\nThe ability that Aizen uses is not his Bankai, but rather his Shikai, all\naccording to him of course. One falls under the hypnosis when one sees his\nsword as he releases its Shikai by speaking its name. The hypnosis apparently\nlasts forever after you have seen it once, given the fact that it lasted 100\nyears on several other Soul Reapers.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-16T02:27:44.110", "id": "9753", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-08T17:56:51.247", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-08T17:56:51.247", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4913", "parent_id": "6279", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n> The special ability of Kyōka Suigetsu is Kanzen Saimin (完全催眠, Complete\n> Hypnosis).\n\nIt controls the five senses to the point where it can make the target\nmisinterpret another person's form, shape, mass, feel, and smell to be an\nenemy's. The initiation condition for the hypnosis is to show the enemy the\nrelease of Kyōka Suigetsu. After seeing it just once, this person will\ncompletely succumb to the hypnosis. Afterwards, every time it is released,\nthis person will fall under the thrall of the hypnosis. The hypnosis is long\nlasting; the Visored are still affected by Kyōka Suigetsu even though they\nwere hypnotized at least 110 years ago. Because the spell works when one see\nthe ritual, those who cannot see are consequently immune to the hypnosis.\n\nWhen Aizen turns off the hypnosis by force of will, the image shown melts away\nor shatters. The complete hypnosis of Kyōka Suigetsu is absolutely flawless;\neven if the target is aware of being under the hypnosis, they cannot resist\nits influence. The hypnotic abilities of Kyōka Suigetsu make it a highly\nuseful tool in combat, for Aizen can create simple or complex illusions to\ndeceive his opponents.\n\nFor example, by creating a decoy of himself, or other illusions to distract\nhis opponents, Aizen can hide his own movements and attack with impunity. His\nopponent will remain focused on the illusion until it is too late to\nreact.While the illusions Kyōka Suigetsu creates are quite powerful, those\nwith considerable power and skill themselves may be able to note slight\ndifferences in the illusions compared to the real thing, even if they are not\nable to determine what exactly is different.\n\n4th Division Captain Retsu Unohana detected something was amiss with Aizen's\nfake corpse, even though she did not realize what it was until seeing Aizen\nalive.The Reiatsu of Kyōka Suigetsu gives it away to those keen enough to\nsense its actual presence past the illusions created by its complete\nhypnosis.The sole way to escape the ability of Kyōka Suigetsu is to touch the\nblade itself before complete hypnosis is activated.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-17T06:04:50.317", "id": "9766", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-17T06:04:50.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "6279", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is mentioned that this method only worked once before. Hence, it is a\ntested but not used method. As for the training, the user was supposed to\nfight the personification of the Zanpakto, or Zangetsu for Ichigo, since for\nthe Bankai one needs the 'materialization and submission of the Soul Cutter'.\n\n\n\nIt was mentioned beforehand that the sword around represent the weakness in\nhis heart and with each broken sword he will get stronger. However, he has to\nsurvive the complete training first.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-19T11:59:46.640", "id": "6429", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-03T22:57:10.413", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-03T22:57:10.413", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "6282", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it depend on Baby Beel maturity. As long as Beel world's is wider, The\nRange become larger either. In Baby Driver Chapter, It extended to 15 meter\nand 8 centimeter and more.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-13T23:33:21.503", "id": "6297", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-13T23:33:21.503", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2185", "parent_id": "6283", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile there isn't an explanation in Naruto for why a person is able to use\nSusanoo without his MS or Rinnegan, it has been done in the past.\n\nThe only logical conclusion is that after someone uses Susanoo, they can use\nit again without the Mangekyou Sharingan. The manga never explicitly stated\nthat Susanoo required the _usage_ of the MS. Rather it stated that Susanoo is\nthe third technique MS users obtain after Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu.\n\nWhen incorporating Japanese Mythology into the equation, we can reason that\nSusanoo does not require any eye techniques (and the below picture was not an\naccident). This is taken directly from the [Susanoo Wikipedia\nPage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanoo):\n\n_All three were born from Izanagi, when he washed his face clean of the\npollutants of Yomi, the underworld. Amaterasu was born when Izanagi washed out\nhis left eye, Tsukuyomi was born from the washing of the right eye, and\nSusanoo from the washing of the nose._\n\n**Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu comes from the eyes, whereas Susanoo comes from the\nnose, so one does not need eyes to use Susanoo.**\n\nSource: Ch 577 \nNote: Itachi doesn't have MS activated. In the Chapter 578, Itachi activates\nMS when he needs to use it. Thus MS isn't required to use Susanoo. Also, when\nMadara fights the five Kages and has both Rinnegan, he is also able to use\nSusanoo.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-13T04:44:01.573", "id": "6285", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-14T13:39:05.003", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-14T13:39:05.003", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6284", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nIt clearly states in the manga and anime that both Mangekyou Sharingan eyes\nare needed to use Susanoo (where the left and right eye when activated\ntogether produce Susanoo). Madara had no eyes at all and used Susanoo (just\nbecause he is Madara??). Oh come on that's because they need to cut it out\nalready (stay true to the manga and not this crap).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-18T15:00:16.167", "id": "6410", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-14T13:43:29.970", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-14T13:43:29.970", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3015", "parent_id": "6284", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe manga is the original production. The anime equivalent was loosely based\non that manga, until the production caught up with the manga. At that point,\nthe anime took its own initiative and came up with a story. Brotherhood is a\nre-make of the entire completed manga, and is pretty much the same as the\nmanga is.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-13T23:20:18.000", "id": "6295", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-13T23:20:18.000", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "6292", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n * 2001 to 2010 - the manga is published.\n\n * Fall 2003 to Fall 2004 - the first anime is aired.\n\n * Spring 2009 to Summer 2010 - the second anime (Brotherhood) is aired. \n\nAs you can see, the ending of the manga was timed to coincide with the end of\nBrotherhood.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-13T23:20:55.760", "id": "6296", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-13T23:20:55.760", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6292", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Sword Art Online_ started as a [light novel\nseries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online#Light_novels) (in 2009),\nand spawned [five manga\nadaptations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online#Manga) (starting in\n2010) and [an anime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online#Anime) (in\n2012). However, to my knowledge, the anime is based entirely on the first four\nvolumes of the light novels and does not borrow from the manga material at\nall.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-13T23:18:39.237", "id": "6294", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-13T23:18:39.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "6293", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nAt the time of writing (July 2014), there are currently [8 manga\nadaptations](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3#.E6.BC.AB.E7.94.BB)\nof the series, all written by [Kawahara\nReki](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=107067), the\noriginal author of [Sword Art\nOnline](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online) light novel series.\n\n * _Sword Art Online: Aincrad_ 『ソードアート・オンライン アインクラッド』\n\nIllustrated by [中村]{Nakamura} [貯子]{Tamako}. Serialized from September 2010 to\nMay 2012.\n\nAdapt the Aincrad arc (volume 1 and 2 of the light novel series).\n\n * _Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance_ 『ソードアート・オンライン フェアリィ・ダンス』\n\nIllustrated by [葉月]{Hazuki} [翼]{Tsubasa}. Serialized from May 2012 to May\n2014.\n\nAdapt Fairy Dance arc (volume 3 and 4 of the light novel series).\n\n * _Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet_ 『ソードアート・オンライン ファントム・バレット』\n\nIllustrated by [山田]{Yamada} [孝太郎]{Koutarou}. Serialize from May 2014.\n\nAdapt the Phantom Bullet arc (volume 5 and 6 of the light novel series).\n\n * _Sword Art Online: Caliber_ 『ソードアート・オンライン キャリバー』\n\nIllustrated by [木谷]{Kiya} [椎]{Shii}. Serialize from September 2014.\n\nAdapt the Caliber arc, a chapter from volume 8 _Sword Art Online: Early and\nLate_ of the light novel series.\n\n * _Sword Art Online: Mother's Rosario_ 『ソードアート・オンライン マザーズ・ロザリオ』\n\nIllustrated by [葉月]{Hazuki} [翼]{Tsubasa}. Serialize from July 2014.\n\nAdapt the Mother's Rosario arc (volume 7 of the light novel series).\n\n * _Sword Art Online: Girls Ops_ 『ソードアート・オンライン ガールズ・オプス』\n\nIllustrated by [猫猫]{Nekobyou} [猫]{Neko}. Serialize from July 2013.\n\nAn original story starring Leafa, Silica, Lizbeth with ALO as the stage.\n\n * _Sword Art Online: Progressive_ 『ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ』\n\nIllustrated by [比村]{Himura} [奇石]{Kiseki}. Serialize from August 2013.\n\nAdapt _Sword Art Online: Progressive_ light novels, but from Asuna's point of\nview.\n\n * _Sword Art☆Online_ 『そーどあーと☆おんらいん。』\n\nIllustrated by 南十字星. Serialize from September 2010.\n\nA comedy 4-panel manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-31T08:00:58.040", "id": "13180", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-31T08:00:58.040", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "6293", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe name of the card game is _Old Maid_.\n\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_maid_(card_game)>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-14T03:25:04.813", "id": "6299", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-14T03:25:04.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6298", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n### Short version\n\nIt probably takes place between episode 19 and 20.\n\n### Long version (spoilers)\n\n> I was wondering about this as well. It clearly takes place after episode 15\n> when Rin reveals his powers, and after Konekomaru begins to accept him as a\n> friend after episode 18 or 19. So I'd say it takes place before episode 20,\n> because the next few episodes seem to happen concurrently and all are more\n> serialized leading up to the finale. Also, Yukio doesn't have his pointy\n> demon ears in the movie like he does in the after credits scenes of episode\n> 25, so I don't think the movie takes place after the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T20:03:49.147", "id": "17306", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-05T13:05:30.953", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-05T13:05:30.953", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11023", "parent_id": "6301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIt can't be after the series as Yukio isn't like he was at the end like how\nRin is but Rin is known as the son of Satan now so I say anywhere from 19-20\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-03T14:08:02.607", "id": "40682", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-03T14:08:02.607", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32895", "parent_id": "6301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it was revealed in the manga. The scroll is a Jutsu Scroll for [`Shiki\nFuujin:\nKai`](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Demon_Consuming_Seal%3a_Release), the\nmethod to unseal the Dead Reaper Seal.\n\nIt was thanks to this that Orochimaru was able to revive the 4 previous Kages,\nwhose souls were originally sealed within the Death God.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-14T08:35:33.213", "id": "6303", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-14T08:35:33.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "6302", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's not only by hair.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hwQPK.jpg)\n\nAs you can see, the eyebrows and eye color changes as well. So you'll be able\nto tell.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-14T12:18:31.717", "id": "6306", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-14T12:18:31.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "6305", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nWell if you remember what Freiza comments on seeing Trunk is not about the\nhair but its those saiyan eyes.\n\nApparently the pupil becomes green on the transformation.\n\nCheers!!!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-13T09:47:47.817", "id": "8020", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-13T09:47:47.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4095", "parent_id": "6305", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBy looking at his eye brows and mustache if it is gold or if u see yellow\nsuper saiyn energy flair around nappa.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-15T00:57:19.740", "id": "8064", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-15T00:57:19.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3760", "parent_id": "6305", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nBy that time, there was no ''yellow hair'' yet so it probably wasn't a wild\nthought. Nappa has a small role in the DBZ series compared to Vegeta who is\nhis companion but hey maybe Nappa has hair on other places. E.g. eyebrows.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-16T19:28:42.163", "id": "8083", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-14T00:51:14.153", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-14T00:51:14.153", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4141", "parent_id": "6305", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs anime watchers, it's difficult for us to fully grasp how a character sees\nanother character, and we have to understand how some react to others. When\nFreiza returns with his father and faces Trunks, he watches him become a Super\nSaiyan and shouts, \"Those eyes! They have the same eyes!\". This leads me to\nbelieve that the intensity of Ki energy seen through a transformed Saiyan's\neyes is much more incredible than the solid blue-green circles that we see.\n\nThere is also the matter of aura, which is difficult to consider. We see a\nyellow, 2D arc over the character, but I can only imagine that to see one's\naura intensify to a visible level, must be like watching them enveloped by\nfast moving, controlled flames.\n\nThese characteristics would surely be noticeable enough to see that he has\ntransformed, but there is the playful idea that he could grow hair, much like\nGoku's SSJ3 form. However, I don't believe that with those gigantic muscles,\nNappa could ever flow enough Ki through his entire body, without losing it at\nevery nerve, to force his body to grow more hair. I see the Saiyan's hair\nserve only one purpose as a direct channel of Ki, and it grows when there is\ntoo much Ki for it to contain. With that said, I think Nappa's body doesn't\nallow efficient enough usage of Ki for him to need such a channel of Ki,\nnonetheless transform into the ultimate warrior form.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T04:04:53.907", "id": "8711", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-21T20:39:52.580", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-21T20:39:52.580", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4529", "parent_id": "6305", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've been searching for official answers, as you said, this is probably new,\nstarted on 2012 (or at most, 2011). All what I could find are some personal\nposts.\n\nI have searched Google for similar images of the one below (the one below is\nused to advertise for OtakuDay):\n\n\n\nAnd so, I found the original drawing\n[here](http://delishbooru.com/post/show/6616/coffee-kizoku-shibuya_rin-\nthe_idolm-ster-the_idolm) with title \"coffee-kizoku-shibuya_rin-the_idolm-\nster-the_idolm\", which is a fan-art of an anime/manga character, but it has\nnothing to do with the OtakuDay.\n\nI've searched twitter for\n[#OtakuDay](https://twitter.com/search?q=#OtakuDay&src=hash), there is really\nnothing official even on that hash tag, all I found is personal posts again\n(and it is probably started on 2011).\n\nSo far, the only official (non-personal) thing is actually what you posted\nfrom the AnimeNewsNetwork.com:\n\n[2nd Annual International Otaku Day](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-\nrelease/2012-08-15/2nd-annual-international-otaku-day) = 3rd Saturday of\nAugust = \"August 18, 2012\"\n\n[3rd Annual International Otaku Day](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-\nrelease/2013-08-06/3rd-annual-international-otaku-day) = 3rd Saturday of\nAugust = \"August 17, 2013\"\n\nSo, the **1st Annual International Otaku Day** = 3rd Saturday of August =\n\"August 20, 2011\"\n\nAs for the **Dec 15** it's made up in **2010** and it has been spreading since\nthen. I finally could find the source, the oldest and very first one is this:\n[**here**](http://kagene.tumblr.com/post/13628693735/all-otakus-listen-up) in\ntumblr posted on **14th Jul 2010**\n\n**EDIT:**\n\nSo, the **1st Annual International Otaku Day - 3rd Saturday of August =\n\"August 20, 2011\"** is by the ANN. And the **December 15th is World Day of\nOtaku** is made by anime/manga fans.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-15T10:42:28.687", "id": "6319", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-15T10:42:28.687", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2978", "parent_id": "6308", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's an old manga series called [**_Cat's\nEye_**](http://myanimelist.net/manga/1932/CATS_EYE), which is about a trio of\nsisters who are art thieves, and hence presumably skillful enough to break\ninto secured places and steal things, or leave things behind, as may be their\nwont. I assume this is what Kaiki was referencing.\n\nIn the manga, \"Cat's Eye\" is the name by which the sisters collectively\nidentify themselves (as well as the name of the cafe they operate, among other\nthings).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-15T08:41:06.293", "id": "6316", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-15T08:41:06.293", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6315", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think there's anything unusual about it. You're right that in real\nlife, omitting honorific suffixes (i.e. _yobisute_ ) when first meeting\nsomeone would be unusual, and may even be considered downright rude. When it\ncomes to anime characters, on the other hand, that just isn't so. Characters\nwill often refer to others in ways that would be considered inappropriate in\nreal life.1\n\nKaiki, in particular, never uses honorifics, except for _senpai_ for Gaen\nIzuko (and that, too, is inconsistent). Consider the first time Kaiki refers\nto Karen by name (in episode 5 of Nisemonogatari; also their first meeting):\n\n> KAIKI: どうした？震えているぞ、阿良々木。 \n> KAIKI: What's the matter? You're shaking, Araragi. [no honorific]\n\nAnd later, when Kaiki first refers to Koyomi by name (in episode 7 of\nNisemonogatari; only their second meeting):\n\n> KAIKI: …あの元気のいいお嬢さん、お前の妹のことなら、心配することはない、阿良々木。 \n> KAIKI: ...As for that lively girl, your sister - you needn't worry,\n> Araragi. [no honorific]\n\nAll said and done, Kaiki's failure to use honorifics when addressing Hanekawa\ndoesn't really mean anything. That's just how Kaiki speaks, and more generally\nspeaking, is how a lot of anime characters speak.\n\n* * *\n\n# Notes\n\n1 This is why people who learn how to speak Japanese by watching anime often\nhave a skewed sense of what is considered polite in Japanese society - anime\ncharacters are often pretty darned rude by real-life standards. [This\nquestion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/215/3437) on Japanese.SE has a\nbit to say on that topic.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-15T09:18:04.280", "id": "6318", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-15T09:18:04.280", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6317", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI assume you are referring to Obito's Kamui and Minato's Flying Thunder God.\n\nThe basics of both Jutsu's is kind of similar. In both the Jutsu, the user can\ntransport himself from one place to another (normally known as teleportation).\n\nLet's begin with Minato's Jutsu. According to [Flying Thunder God\nTechnique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Flying_Thunder_God_Technique) article\non the wiki:\n\n> The Flying Thunder God Technique is a technique created by the Second\n> Hokage, Tobirama Senju, which allows the user to transport themselves to a\n> given marked location instantaneously. To activate this technique, the user\n> places a special seal or \"technique formula\" (術式, jutsu-shiki) to mark an\n> intended destination. After this is done, they can enter a dimensional void\n> at will that instantaneously transports them to the location of the seal.\n\nNow we come to Obito's Jutsu. According to\n[Kamui](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kamui) article on the wiki:\n\n> Kamui allows the user to transfer anything to another dimension. Once a\n> target is sent to this dimension, it is unable to escape. This technique,\n> when used through Obito's right eye, is also able to make the user\n> \"intangible\" by transporting portions of their body to the same pocket\n> dimension.\n\nDifferences:\n\n * Kamui doesn't need any Mark or special seal for it to work.\n * Kamui can only be performed if the user is using MangeKyou Sharingan, whereas Flying Thunder God doesn't need Mangekyou Sharingan.\n * Kamui creates space in different dimensions where the user can transfer objects or himself and can stay in that dimension for as much time as the user wants to, but in Minato's technique, the user is immediately transported to a marked location.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-16T11:05:48.517", "id": "6349", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-11T16:09:28.753", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-11T16:09:28.753", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "6320", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis panel is from [_Silver\nSpoon_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spoon_\\(manga\\)), chapter 92, page\n13. Okawa is at a graduation ceremony and is refusing to accept the diploma,\ncausing others to force him into taking it.\n\n \n _Image credit: MangaReader_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-15T23:22:19.933", "id": "6327", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-15T23:22:19.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "6323", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Commanding Officer**\n\nMinna-Dietlinde Wilcke - Gray Wolf\n\n**Commanding Officer in battle**\n\nSakamoto Mio - Doberman\n\n**Members**\n\nGertrud Barkhorn - German Pointer\n\nErica Hartmann - Dachshund\n\nPerrine H. Clostermann - Chartreux\n\nFrancesca Lucchini - Black panther\n\nEila Ilmatar Juutilainen - Black Fox\n\nCharlotte E. Yeager - White Rabbit\n\nSanya V. Litvyak - Black cat\n\nLynette Bishop - Scottish Fold\n\nMiyafuji Yoshika - Mameshiba\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-17T12:21:14.580", "id": "6378", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-17T12:21:14.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3006", "parent_id": "6324", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, here's an album of all the cast credits from the first 9 episodes of Non\nNon Biyori: [**link**](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LmPKP.jpg). None of them list\nSuguru.\n\nAt minimum, then, we know that he hasn't had any lines so far. Maybe we'll\nhave a big reveal in the final episode or something that Suguru actually does\nspeak, but for the time being, I think it's safe to say that he doesn't have a\nvoice actor.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-16T02:13:52.617", "id": "6331", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-16T02:13:52.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6328", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, the anime does take some liberties between the two. The visual novel and\nanime do follow more or less the same path in the end and do converge but\nthere are some differences.\n\nHowever, note that the plots remain fairly similar despite this. I haven't\nlooked at the next Visual Novel after _Introductory Chapter_ yet but since\nthey both end fairly similar one can imagine that the differences aren't large\nenough that you couldn't skip Introductory Chapter and go straight to the next\nchapter after watching the anime.\n\n[The differences are large enough that the Baka Tsuki project does not want\nanyone translating purely off the anime:](http://www.baka-\ntsuki.org/project/index.php?title=White_Album_2)\n\n> **Can I use stuff based on what I've seen in the anime?**\n>\n> Not really... the anime takes its liberties with the adaptation, even though\n> it's done very well. There are some aspects that are shared between the game\n> and anime, but please don't try a 1:1 copy of anything in-between.\n\n**It's worth noting White Album 2's Introductory Chapter (the arc in which the\nanime covers is kinetic.** This means there will not be choices to make and it\nwill be fairly linear. So, divergence will not be massive.\n\nThat said, I'll leave this as it is and keep spoilers out. If so desired, I\ncan add more information under a spoiler tag listing some major differences.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T03:16:44.343", "id": "15197", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T03:41:28.320", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "6329", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]