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[ { "body": "\n\nQuite possibly Mello and Near didn't reveal their real names to their groups\nand you couldn't use \"Kill Near/Mello before dying of a heart attack\"\notherwise Light would have been able to kill L much sooner by controlling\nsomeone in the taskforce\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-31T03:46:18.120", "id": "6660", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-31T03:46:18.120", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6659", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is a rule indicating that someone's death must not cause another's:\n\n> Whether the cause of the individual’s death is either a suicide or accident.\n> If the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will\n> simply die of a heart attack. This is to ensure that other lives are not\n> influenced.\n\nFrom <http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-31T04:01:35.993", "id": "6661", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-31T04:01:35.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "261", "parent_id": "6659", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> I've just watched Coppelion. Was curious about the manga, and according to\n> the Wikipedia page... it is still going on? Apparently it has nearly 200\n> chapters, so I guess that the anime doesn't cover a large portion of the\n> story.\n\nThe Coppelion manga is broken down into \"arcs\" (部). As of this writing, the\nmanga is part-way through the fourth arc, while the anime finished up at the\nend of the second arc. So the anime covers roughly half-ish of the manga\nreleased so far.\n\n> How faithful is the anime, so far?\n\nThe anime was generally very faithful to the manga. There are minor\ndifferences in the order in which things are presented, and there's a\nflashback featuring Naruse and Haruto in Mission.40 which I don't think\nappears in the anime, and some of the stuff towards the end of the second arc\nare kind of rushed, but all things considered, there aren't really many\ndifferences.\n\n* * *\n\nIf you want to verify for yourself that the anime is highly faithful, see\nbelow for a table indicating which chapters corresponded to which episodes.\nNote that Coppelion has a strange chapter naming scheme, in which:\n\n * The first arc has 21 chapters, numbered \"#1\", ..., \"#21\", and not given names.\n * The second arc has 60 chapters, numbered \"Mission.1\", ..., \"Mission.60\", and given names.\n * The third arc has 99 chapters, numbered \"Phase.1\", ..., \"Phase.99\", and given names.\n * The fourth arc (in progress) has 12 chapters (as of volume 20), numbered \"Act.1\", ..., \"Act.12\", and given names.\n\n[code]\n\n Episode Chapters\n 1 # 1-# 3\n 2 # 4-#11\n 3 #11-#16\n 4 #17-#21\n 5 Mission. 1-Mission. 5\n 6 Mission. 6-Mission.11\n 7 Mission.12-Mission.15\n 8 Mission.16-Mission.21\n 9 Mission.22-Mission.25\n 10 Mission.26-Mission.34\n 11 Mission.35-Mission.47\n 12 Mission.47-Mission.53\n 13 Mission.54-Mission.61\n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-03T22:59:56.473", "id": "6728", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-03T22:59:56.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6663", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> a) Jikukan kekkai similar to Flying Thunder God Technique?\n\nYes, it is derived from \"Flying Thunder God Technique\", [Space–Time\nBarrier](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Space%E2%80%93Time_Barrier).\n\n* * *\n\n> b) Is it used to transport things using Teleportation Technique?\n\nThis barrier technique incorporates the use of the \"Flying Thunder God\"\nformula as well as a unique set of hand seals to erect a barrier capable of\nwarping away **anything which comes in contact with it.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-31T10:24:12.743", "id": "6671", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-02T05:31:17.190", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-02T05:31:17.190", "last_editor_user_id": "1604", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "6670", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems to be depicting a character from Soul Eater.\n\nIt is the main antagonist, Asura, towards the end of the manga.\n\nFrom the [Soul Eater wiki page for\nAsura](http://souleater.wikia.com/wiki/Asura):\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-31T13:53:31.997", "id": "6674", "last_activity_date": "2013-12-31T14:01:04.373", "last_edit_date": "2013-12-31T14:01:04.373", "last_editor_user_id": "1649", "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "6673", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nthe second photo is Gajeel Redfox from Fairy Tail, which is a manga about\nwizards. Gajeel is known as the metal dragon slayer who uses metal to combat\nhis opponents!\n\n[](http://jennux3.deviantart.com/art/Gajeel-\nRedfox-Fairy-Tail-385109582)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2013-12-31T22:08:39.667", "id": "6678", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-03T20:45:33.740", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-03T20:45:33.740", "last_editor_user_id": "1651", "owner_user_id": "3178", "parent_id": "6673", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't know what you mean by sealing the demon, but recent chapters showed\nthat\n\n> Mirajane is able to control any demons or demonic things at Tartaros except\n> of the Etherious. Including the demon they wanted to turn her into or the\n> device they used to turn her into a demon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-29T17:33:36.053", "id": "9227", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-29T17:33:36.053", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1377", "parent_id": "6680", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt doesen't really matter if she will or she will not be able to control all\nher inner demons, as long as there are enemies powerful enough, that might not\nbe a problem... and for the sake of the show, she shouldn't controll all her\ninner demons... because she will always have enough dangerous demons inside\nher... not sure if there will be enough enemies for them all...\n\nOh, and I'm curious what kind of creatures will Lisana take over? Maybe a\ndragon?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-29T19:28:18.270", "id": "10002", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-29T19:28:18.270", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5060", "parent_id": "6680", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is probably a reference to one of the most famous episodes involving\n[Amaterasu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaterasu), the sun deity of Shinto\nmyth.\n\nIn the beginning, the world (or maybe just Japan) was created by\n[Izanagi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izanagi) and\n[Izanami](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izanami). As a byproduct of this, the\nthree sibling gods Amaterasu, [Susanoo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanoo),\nand [Tsukuyomi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto) came into\nbeing (the latter two having domain over the seas and the moon, respectively).\n\nAmaterasu and Susanoo had a long-standing rivalry/conflict. As part of this,\none day, Susanoo threw a flayed (i.e. skinless) horse at Amaterasu and\nperformed some other crude acts. Amaterasu, very angered by this, entered the\n[Ama-no-Iwato](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama-no-Iwato), a cave. There she\nremained for a very long time. During this time, it is said that the sun did\nnot rise, and this was widely considered to be a bad thing.\n\n* * *\n\nAs such, the character being referred to in your quote is displaying\nAmaterasu-like-behavior - holing himself up in some secluded place, just like\nAmaterasu did when Susanoo angered her.\n\nAddendum: this is a very well-known tale in Japan, and probably would have\nbeen about as obvious to Japanese viewers as a well-known Biblical parable\nwould have been to American audiences (or something like that).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-01T18:43:18.133", "id": "6683", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-24T07:10:27.723", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-24T07:10:27.723", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6681", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nHe's indeed referring to the Japanese goddess of the Sun,\n[Amaterasu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaterasu). He's referring to the\nstory of the sun goddess and the [\"Heavenly\nRock\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama-no-Iwato) (Ama no Iwato).\n\n> literally means \"The cave of the sun god\" or \"heavenly rock cave\". In\n> Japanese mythology, Susanoo, the Japanese god of the seas, was the one who\n> drove Amaterasu into Ame-no-Iwato. This caused the sun to hide for a long\n> period of time.\n>\n> In order to get Amaterasu out of the cave the other gods threw a party\n> outside. When she heard the noise she got curious and peeked but got blinded\n> by the mirror Yata no Kagami and so she thought they were celebrating the\n> arrival of an even greater and brighter goddess than herself. Though in\n> reality it was her own mirror image. Then Tajikarao forced the cave to open\n> up the rest and the world was bathed in light once again. As Amaterasu\n> stepped out of the cave a holy seal was applied to it so that she couldn't\n> go back into hiding.\n\nAdditionally, Tatsuo Saeki says to Makoto right after: _You know how she hid\nin the \"Ama no Iwato\"?_\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-01T18:43:32.377", "id": "6684", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-01T18:43:32.377", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "6681", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nPreface: I am unaware of any \"official position\" about how to read the split-\nsecond text screens that occur in the Monogatari Series. I would be surprised\nif such a thing existed.\n\nIt isn't always possible to read all of the text while the anime is rolling by\nat 24 frames per second. Sometimes, sure, you can pull it off because there\nisn't very much text, but some of them - like the ones in the first minute or\nso of ep01 of Bakemonogatari, or the synopses that accompany the titlecard in\neach episode of Nisemonogatari ([example](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rsrMP.jpg\n\"from episode 7\")) - literally cannot be read in the time that they are on\nscreen.\n\nAnd us English readers have it easy, compared to people who have to read the\noriginal Japanese! It turns out that all the kanji are written using\n[_kyuujitai_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyuujitai) (\"old character forms\"),\nwhich were displaced by [_shinjitai_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai)\n(\"new character forms\") well over 50 years ago. Most Japanese people will have\nsome reading knowledge of _kyuujitai_ because of it use in literary contexts,\nbut I'm guessing they wouldn't be able to read them as fast as they would be\nable to read _shinjitai_ , since _kyuujitai_ just aren't used very much\nanymore.1\n\nLuckily for the people who watch it on TV, they aren't really missing out, in\na sense. Certainly, the text screens often give us more information about a\ncharacter's internal monologue or state of mind, or some background exposition\nlifted directly from the novels, or whatnot. Nonetheless, there is not (as far\nas I know) a single case in the series where things don't make sense unless\nyou read the text screens. While the text screens do enhance the viewing\nexperience, Monogatari is still a coherent story without them. And plus, even\nif you can't read every word of every screen, you can still read some words of\nsome of the screens, and that's often good enough to get a good idea of what's\ngoing on in the text screens.\n\nIf you ever find yourself watching Monogatari without a pause button, you may\nas well sit back, relax, and let the text screens wash over you. Read what you\ncan, ignore what you can't, and enjoy the show.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Also, all the hiragana is replaced by katakana, but I don't know if this\nwould slow down a Japanese reader all that much.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-02T03:35:13.233", "id": "6693", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-02T03:35:13.233", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6682", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Troy's profile from the official site's character\nintroduction.](http://www.trifolium-garden.net/amaranto/chara/11.html)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SQle8.png)\n\nAlthough Troy's appearance is like a boy, Troy is a **she**. From the last\nparagraph of Troy's description:\n\n> 口数が少なく、常に行動を共にする双子も \n> **彼女** のことはよく知らない。\n>\n> Does not talk much, and even the twins whom Troy usually act together with \n> do not know much about **her**.\n\nWhile [VNDB](http://vndb.org/c11438) claims that she is also a transgender, I\ndon't have any proof to support or counter it. However, from the sample dialog\non the image,\n\n> 「そんなの、 **ボク** には関係ない。 \n> 君たちの好きにすればいいだろ」\n\nshe refers to herself as **ボク ( _boku_ )** which defines her personality as a\n[_bokukko_](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bokukko) ( **Warning:\nTV Tropes link** )\n\n> A Bokukko is, literally, a girl who uses the first-person Japanese Pronoun\n> _boku_ , primarily used by boys and young men. [...]\n>\n> Most bokukko are tomboys, but not all; sometimes it just indicates that the\n> user is a Plucky Girl or unaware of social norms. [...] Although none of\n> this has to be reflected in her appearance, bokukko are usually either flat-\n> chested or extremely well-endowed.\n>\n> This speech pattern can also be used to keep a character's gender\n> obscured—is she a boyish girl, or a girlish boy?\n\nLast but not least, Kisaki Kotori ― the voice-actor herself ― [listed her role\non her official site](http://littleconcert0.web.fc2.com/work.htm) as female\nfor Troy.\n\n> トロイア役 (Troy) ♀\n\n* * *\n\nRegarding the name トロイア ( _toroia_ ) as Troy, most possibly it refers to\n[Troy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy), a city used as the setting of the\nfamous Trojan War. [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B9)\nlists トロイア ( _toroia_ ), トロイ ( _toroi_ ) and トロイアー ( _toroia-_ ) as the\npossible pronunciations.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-05T08:22:10.697", "id": "43155", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-05T08:22:10.697", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "6686", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe script itself was not written by Hiromu Arakawa (nor did she have any\nstaff involvement at all), and she has not endorsed it as part of canon\n(though she has said that she \"[looked] forward to it\"). Additionally, it was\nwritten after the main series had concluded, and intentionally placed in the\ntimeline so that it would not interfere with the canon story.\n\n> **Was it difficult to create a story that didn't mess up the plot-line of\n> the show, since the show was already over?**\n>\n> Since the film happened in a country that the characters had never gone to\n> and didn't go back to for the rest of the series, it was difficult to\n> conclude it in a way that didn't affect the rest of the existing story. But,\n> having it in such a locale let us concentrate on the story without worrying\n> about the affects on the rest of the series. Also, I had to be careful with\n> how much Al fell for Julia because it could seriously affect what happens in\n> the future.\n>\n> **Why did you put the story where you did in the timeline?**\n>\n> At this time, Ed has come to the realization that he was certain Al's body\n> existed somewhere, and he was ready to jump on the next train to wherever he\n> could go to make that happen. So, in that time period, it was the best time\n> for them to travel to another location if they could find a clue to the\n> recovery of their bodies.\n>\n> — _Source:[AnimeNewsNetwork Q&A with director Kazuya\n> Murata](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2011/otakon/20)_\n\nAmong fans, I've never found any that regard this movie as canon. As it was\nnot the original creator's intent, nor created by her, it really has no reason\nto exist in canon (except that it's written in a way that doesn't _interfere_\nwith canon).\n\nGiven all this, I think we can safely say that _Sacred Star of Milos_ is not\nofficially part of the _Fullmetal Alchemist_ canon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-02T01:53:41.417", "id": "6691", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-02T01:53:41.417", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "6688", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI know this answer comes late. But i still hope my answer can help you. Well\nin the manga he is as cold as in the anime. However, in the manga, Near is\nsmarter than in the Anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-30T20:39:33.637", "id": "14246", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-30T20:39:33.637", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6399", "parent_id": "6690", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\n# Appearance\n\nIn the manga, Near is only ever seen wearing white pajamas, while in the\nanime, his pants are light blue.\n\nIn [L: Change the\nWorLd](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/L:_Change_the_WorLd_%28live_action_film%29),\nNear is a Thai boy and the sole survivor of a village ravaged by disease. In\nthe live action film, he has black hair, while in the\n[novel](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/L:_Change_the_WorLd_%28novel%29) he is\ndescribed as the original Near in the series (while I haven't read the novel I\nwould assume this means he has white hair).\n\n# Personality\n\nNear shows much more emotion in the manga than he does in the anime,\nparticularly his facial expressions. A quote from the wiki shows an example of\nthis:\n\n> When the SPK members were killed in the anime Near has a very stern look,\n> but in the manga he is visibly upset.\n\nHis facial expressions were probably more towards his smiling when he got\nthings right, which was used to foreshadow the end where he smiles after\nseeing Ryuk, confirming to himself that Light is Kira.\n\n* * *\n\nSource: [Death Note Wikia site](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Near)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-30T23:35:24.547", "id": "14250", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-01T12:43:18.513", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-01T12:43:18.513", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6690", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nContractors don't lose their emotion, they just become more logical which\nconflicts with emotion, there is evidence to support this but obvious one is\nwith Mina whose sexual preference is towards women however her obeisance is\nsexual contact, such as kissing, with men only yet she will kiss women, while\nmost of the time it's to \"get rid of the taste\" from kissing a guy she has\nfeeling towards Yoko.\n\nWith Suou, later in the series when her, Hei and July are in the hotel, when\nshe and July are in bed and July has fallen asleep she admits to Hei that\ndespite being a contractor she hates him.\n\nAlso Hei and Suou is that they're not proper Contractors as both obtain their\npowers from Bai who first merges with Hei during Heaven's War using her\ncontractor powers and is then drawn into the Meteor Core around Suou's neck\nwhen Hei was caught in that trap and Hei has always been rational since before\nbecoming a Contractor so he could support Bai so his personality isn't the\nresult of Bai\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-02T21:33:46.190", "id": "6705", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-19T23:43:59.630", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-19T23:43:59.630", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6696", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, Belammy is alive. \n\nIn the pre-Skyisland arc when Luffy goes to retrieve the gold from him, he\njust knocks him down and doesn't kill him. \n\nThe proof:-\n\n 1. In the CP9 saga, it is shown that Doflamingo was forcing Bellamy to fight. \n\n\n 2. Next is the Pirate Alliance Arc. \n\n> Bellamy entered the Corrida Colosseum to compete for a leadership position\n> in the Donquixote Family and was assigned to Block B. He is first seen\n> somewhere in the Colosseum crushing someone's skull.\n\n \nBelammy vs Abdullah and Jeet.\n\nThese are just two of a few events that prove that Bellamy wasn't killed by\nLuffy. There has been some more events with appearance of Bellamy. \nLuffy hasnt really killed anyone in the whole series except for a few Sea\nKings :P\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-02T16:00:01.450", "id": "6701", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-12T19:03:16.563", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-12T19:03:16.563", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "6700", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThere are quite a few manga magazines that started before Shonen Jump. Going\noff of [this list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_magazines), the\nearliest published manga magazine was Monthly Manga Shounen (Gekkan Manga\nShounen), which started in 1947.\n\nThere are manga magazine publishing companies that predate 1947, such as\n[Shogakukan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogakukan), which was founded in\n1922; [Kodansha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodansha), which was formally\nfounded in 1938; and [Kadokawa\nShoten](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadokawa_Shoten), which was founded in\n1945. As far as I can tell, though, none of these companies published manga\nmagazines before 1947.\n\n[Toward the Terra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_the_terra) was one\nmanga published in Monthly Manga Shounen.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-03T01:15:38.067", "id": "6709", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-03T01:15:38.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "6708", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nStill, nothing has been revealed if Zoro has some special power in his eye due\nto which he's keeping it closed. All that's been shown till now is that the\nscar has greatly injured his eye due to which he cannot open it. [The\nwiki](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Roronoa_Zoro#After_the_Timeskip) says\nthe same thing:\n\n> During and after the two-year timeskip, Zoro gains a new scar running down\n> over his left eye, which is now implied to be critically injured as it is\n> always closed.\n\nYet, Eichiiro sensei hasn't really revealed all of the Strawhat Crew's power,\nso we can't say anything. So for now, we have only this much information about\nhis eye. Nothing has been shown on how he got it.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-03T12:55:20.150", "id": "6718", "last_activity_date": "2021-01-31T12:30:15.193", "last_edit_date": "2021-01-31T12:30:15.193", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "6715", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nZoro hasn't shown a MASSIVE change in power after the time skip, at least not\nas much a Sanji, so he might have something powerful he is gonna use from his\neye but it's most likely just a scar from training!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T23:08:10.217", "id": "7549", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T23:08:10.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3780", "parent_id": "6715", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nGathering the info I could collect with my observation so far in One Piece\nanime:\n\nMost of the famous swordsmen have injuries on their eyes. Ex: Admiral Ishou,\nDark King Silver Rayleigh,\n\nPerhaps It looks like it's considered as an ability of Swordsman to sense the\nthings/people around. Zoro always thrived to learn this technique and\nsucceeded too.\n\nOn the otherhand it looks like it's (Kenbunshoku Haki) considered an ultimate\nability of swordsman to fight without using Sight sense. So losing sight might\nbe A KEY to AWAKEN ultimate Swordsman powers. Zoro might have intentionally\ncut his left eye to awake this ability. \nOr he might be still training with his left eye closed. Might open when time\ncomes.\n\nBut like other OP fans, I wish to see something special out this.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-11T15:15:45.240", "id": "26561", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-11T15:15:45.240", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "338", "parent_id": "6715", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\ntl;dr they're probably not singing any humanly-intelligible words at all.\n\n* * *\n\nYou have run into the fascinating phenomenon known as **Kajiuran** (梶浦語\n_kajiura-go_ ), a pseudo-language/non-language, named for [Yuki\nKAJIURA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_Kajiura), who is the composer for\nFictionJunction (among other things). One very common quirk of Kajiura's\ncompositions is that they feature lyrics written in \"Kajiuran\", which is not\nreally a language at all, but rather Kajiura's own term for non-linguistic\nvocalizations that feature in her compositions.1\n\nThe example you cited - the first five seconds of _Toki no Mukou Maboroshi no\nSora_ \\- is almost certainly an example of this. The fact that you can't find\nany written lyrics for that part is a clue - official transcriptions of the\nKajiuran bits of her songs are typically never released, and so they often go\nuntranscribed.\n\nYou can find more extensive examples of Kajiuran, too:\n\n * [_Sis Puella Magica_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKtfwubz9OY), track #1 from the Madoka Magica OST 1, sung entirely in Kajiuran. Don't be fooled by the Latin track name - it's a ruse! This is a rare case where the lyrics were actually provided with the CD on which the track came ([check them out](http://canta-per-me.net/lyrics/sis-puella-magica/)). It's pretty darned clear that this is no language known to man. \n * [_M23_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMx9FW5qps), the last track from the Kara no Kyoukai 5 (Mujun Rasen / Paradox Spiral) OST, where all the lyrics are in Kajiuran. This one is more typical in that there aren't any transcriptions of the lyrics, as far as I'm aware.\n * [_Nowhere_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ij1moi1AkA) (live version), a FictionJunction song used as an insert song for Madlax. The main body of the song is in Japanese, but it has little Kajiuran bits and pieces, like at the very beginning and in the chorus.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Kajiura has, I believe, stated that Kajiuran is inpired by Latin, though I\ncan't find a source for this at the moment. If I find one, I'll add it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-03T21:40:32.500", "id": "6723", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-03T21:40:32.500", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6716", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Baka-Updates](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=45115):\n\n[code]\n\n Starts at Volume 1, Chapter 1\n Ends at Chapter 44 with some differences \n \n[/code]\n\nManga has 50 chapters **and** additional materials (Guidebook)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-03T22:00:42.807", "id": "6724", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-03T23:16:34.537", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-03T23:16:34.537", "last_editor_user_id": "3082", "owner_user_id": "3082", "parent_id": "6722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHard to tell really - a lot of MMOs have custom housing, in depth crafting -\ncooking - random enjoyment, including a couple titles from NCSoft (well, in\nAion, players have the ability to own houses and some form of [very annoying]\ncrafting).\n\nThough not a fantasy MMO - Eve online thrives on the idea that just about\neverything ( ships, fuels, space stations , some random commodies ) can be\ncrafted. Just about every ship, gun, module, ammo , Nullsec POS, etc was made\nby somebody - somewhere - probably in some territory were thousands of ships\nwere destroyed in a war between two alliances of player run corporations in\nwhich the wreckage ended up recycled into other crap etc etc etc.\n\nIn terms of fantasy MMOs, I don't think there was really any title that did it\nall with that much depth. I could be wrong though.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T01:24:41.707", "id": "6731", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-23T03:14:57.090", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-23T03:14:57.090", "last_editor_user_id": "293", "owner_user_id": "2239", "parent_id": "6725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nHis main inspirations would be\n\n * Ultima Online\n * Ragnarok Online\n\n> Reki Kawahara was in the Manga Studies Club. He drew manga and illustrations\n> during his time there. Kawahara would often head to the arcade with his\n> fellow members to play fighting games . He also started playing online games\n> in 1998, starting with Ultima Online. Kawahara also played Ragnarok Online,\n> his most played game (although he stated World of Warcraft during Sakura-Con\n> 2013)\n>\n> _He felt it would be more natural to write about net games._\n\nFor some more of his inspirations and why he decided to write you can read a\n[brief biography](http://www.t-ono.net/biographies/REKI-\nKAWAHARA-%E5%B7%9D%E5%8E%9F-%E7%A4%AB-Biography.html) about him\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T01:39:24.960", "id": "6735", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T01:39:24.960", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm going to guess a bit on this one and say that Everquest should be thrown\nin the mix of potential influences.\n\nSome parallels that fit with this are:\n\n 1. When Regan explains the World Fraction spell, and Shiroe reverse engineers the time line to coincide the beginning of its first use to the start of the open beta. I don't recall if EQ had an open beta, but it did release in '99. The screen show indicated '98, so this is plausible.\n\n 2. The most powerful guild in Akihabara is D.D.D. Their legendary exploits coincide with the early and buggy release of Kyrafrim after the defeat of Ventani.\n\nAre there other events, probably. I can't recall them off the top of my head.\nCould those events coincide with other game changers from other MMO's? Likely.\nBut EQ was my first.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-16T22:22:17.497", "id": "6960", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-16T22:22:17.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3371", "parent_id": "6725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSAO and LH are not based on any existing MMO. Depending on which MMORPG's you\nhave played you will likely find certain aspects of the world to be incredibly\nconsistent with it.\n\nThe grand-daddy of all MMORPG's as they play right now is [Ultima\nOnline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online) (which I played during\nbeta) as the crafting and \"loss of experience upon death\" both originated\nhere, and it even predates\n[EverQuest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest), as you could craft in\nprevious Ultima games since at least Ultima 4 (magic spells), 6 and 7 (food).\nLikewise, player-owned housing originates in Ultima Online.\n\nAs far as Asian MMORPG's influence, LH's world is a bit more consistent with\nFinal Fantasy XIV (and likely XI), while SAO is very consistent with Mabinogi.\nIn game, marriage is something that was introduced in a Nexon game that\npredates Mabinogi (called NexusTK:Kingdom of the Winds, which is a game I also\nplayed during beta).\n\nDungeon Raids, as they are in SAO and LH, are shown as a type of instancing\nsystem which is fairly consistent with the advent of 3D modern MMORPG's,\nthough based on the explicit references to roles (eg Tank) and menu driven\ncombat with cooldown's, this might have its origins in EverQuest, but this is\nfairly consistent with FFXI/FFXIV at present.\n\nThe respawn rules, how monsters respawn in the same area, which is something\nthat both Ultima Online and NexusTK did in 1998.\n\nGuilds is a strange aspect. The original 2D MMORPG's never had guilds (it may\nhave originated in Lineage) and it was just something people started doing, so\nlater games actually introduced it as a game mechanic (and indeed the entire\npoint of Guild Wars). Likewise, the PK elements were also something that\nexisted originally in UO, but EverQuest was probably the first to see abuse of\nit, as in SAO.\n\nTake for example the pets and mounts. In LH the pet griffon mount is also a\nflying mount that is available in Mabonogi. Likewise in SAO, Silica has a\ncombat pet. Combat pets have been in MMORPG's for quite a while. However,\nvirtual pets actually originated with Tamagotchi's, which actually die if you\ndon't take care of them. So again depending on your point of view.\n\nAs for the races and classes, SAO was primarily humans, while SAO:Alfhiem is\nactually based on Lore from \"A Midsummer Night's Dream\" which is Shakespeare.\nThe races in LH are the standard human-like characters from Tolkien (LOTR)\nwith the were-animal races (which the current game out there that has these is\nTERA).\n\nAnd to round this out, the \"Fighter, Wizard, Thief, Cleric\" type of roles\noriginate in tabletop D&D games, but the way they are used (Tank, DPS, Healer)\noriginates in Wizardry, which was more popular in Japan than it was in the\nWest. Permadeath (SAO) also originates in Wizardry.\n\nIn respect to LH, since there is a specific reference to 1998.10.22 and the\ncharacter in episode 14 specifically mentions 8 levels of magic which is also\nsomething that Ultima has. Like if you want to use the date as a piece of\nproof, that means the game in question would have been in open beta on or\nafter 1998.10.22, which chronologically can only be EverQuest. I've personally\nplayed the EverQuest Beta in 1998.\n\nIn one of the most recent episodes of LH (you need to pay close attention)\nyou'll also realize that they are partied with an NPC. Most MMORPG's don't let\nyou adhoc have any NPC join, they either are temporary for a quest (escort\nmissions), or summonable partners/pets.\n\nSo as you see, it depends on which games you've played. When I talked to\nfriends about SAO, they can find individual aspects of it that they related to\ntheir MMORPG of choice. Over time (at least since WoW) most games have\nborrowed ideas from each other enough that they're all becoming exactly the\nsame game. They're only differing by environment (Fantasy like SAO),\nrace/monster names (many are derived from Tolkien/D&D) and cost to play.\n\nSo there is no one right answer, as no single game introduced everything seen\nin SAO and LH at launch. You can read comics/manga like 1/2 Prince or Yureka\nthat also deal with virtual worlds and you'll see much of the same elements\nthere as well.\n\nThe interesting moral question that comes up again in all of these stories\nbased on MMORPG's is \"are we losing our humanity\" by when we treat AI's as\ntools.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T14:55:01.640", "id": "7039", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T17:43:17.930", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T17:43:17.930", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3402", "parent_id": "6725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nJeez people are silly. SAO's writer says it himself, Wizardry inspired it.\n\nJust check out [Wizardry Online](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry_Online)\nsometime. It's straight up an SAO MMO, with the possibility of perma-death.\n\nThe main character in the story is the only one who can dual wield, but never\ndoes *cough* Kirito *cough*. Minor crimes make you yellow for a short amount\nof time, while heavier crimes like PK-ing, or looting a player makes you red\nfor like 24+ hours.\n\nThe game has a totally open PvP combat system that requires skill instead of\ngood gear, cash, or level.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-16T11:07:45.047", "id": "18572", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-25T19:23:04.693", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-25T19:23:04.693", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11207", "parent_id": "6725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNo doubt that it is mainly influenced by Ragnarok Online. Music, mood,\natmosphere, character and art are very similar. Even the naming and boss\nmonsters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-24T19:56:29.557", "id": "20318", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-24T19:56:29.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13410", "parent_id": "6725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn a [Q&A session between the author Kawahara Reki and Heathcliff (Kayaba\nAkihiko)](http://www.taptaptaptaptap.net/sao-qna-heathcliff-kunori/) in 2005\n(during the web novel period, to give some background of the characters),\nKayaba Akihiko said that he \"acquired a lot of inspiration from [Wizardry]\".\n\n> **Q. If I were to ask for you to mention one of the games you like best,\n> which would it be?**\n>\n> A. If you mean aside from SAO, it would be\n> [Wizardry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry), a game from long ago. I\n> acquired a lot of inspiration from it.\n\nWe can take this as the author indirectly borrowing Kayaba Akihiko's position\nas the man behind the design and development of Sword Art Online VRMMORPG to\nconfirm the source of his inspiration.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-25T19:19:24.973", "id": "20339", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-25T19:37:22.353", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "6725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems there is no direct connection between any of the 7 Genius party\nmovies, besides their high standard of quality and inspiration, as said by\n[Rupert Bottenberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Bottenberg):\n\n> The seven short films making up **GENIUS PARTY** couldn’t be more diverse,\n> linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko\n> Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes.\n> Masaaki Yuasa, of **MIND GAME** and **CAT SOUP** fame, brings his\n> distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to\n> the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji\n> Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier\n> corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights.\n> Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality,\n> while Yuji Fukuyama’s \"Doorbell\" and \"Baby Blue\" by Shinichiro Watanabe use\n> understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with\n> “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out\n> for very fun joyride. —Rupert Bottenberg\n\nSource: [Fantasia Festival](http://www.fantasiafestival.com/)'s [2008\nprogram](http://issuu.com/fantasiafestival/docs/fantasia2008) (see p. 119)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T01:32:18.663", "id": "6733", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-08T18:53:38.530", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-08T18:53:38.530", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6729", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTechnically speaking, Kakashi should be able to obtain the Eternal Mangekyou\nSharingan. But the chances of this happening are very slim.\n\nTo obtain an Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, one needs to transplant a Mangekyou\nSharingan, preferable from somebody close to them such as a sibling. Just a\nnormal transplant should only restore ones eyes sight with its Visual Prowess.\n\nYet, Kakashi may also be an exception in this case as he does not/barely seem\nto lose any of his eyesight when he is using his Sharingan. This might also be\ndue to the lack of use, and the lack of powerful eye powers besides his Kamui.\n\n> Over time, use of the Mangekyō Sharingan's techniques deteriorates the\n> user's eyesight to the point of blindness, a harsh fate for those that have\n> grown accustomed to the power and visual acuity it affords. Only by\n> transplanting the eyes of another Uchiha can they hope to regain their sight\n> and ocular powers. If the transplanted eyes happen to be the Mangekyō\n> Sharingan of an Uchiha with strong blood ties with the recipient — ideally a\n> sibling — the likelihood of compatibility is increased, resulting in the\n> creation of an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan\n> [source](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T01:26:30.547", "id": "6732", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-06T22:33:44.310", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-06T22:33:44.310", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe answer to your question is yes, **Kakashi can obtain Eternal Mangekyou\nSharingan**.\n\nBut the problem is that his Sharingan consumes a lot of his chakra. At some\nstages, his overuse of Kamui made him exhausted, too. In this\n**[source](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kamui)** , it does say that:\n\n> \"Repeated use of the technique puts a great deal of strain on the user,\n> causing his left eye to bleed if overused\"\n\nAs a result, **using Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan could result in a life-\nthreatening situation for him**. And as per the previous answer, you need to\ntransplant a Mangekyou Sharingan, preferably from somebody close, such as a\nsibling.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-05T06:48:04.787", "id": "6760", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-07T12:44:57.557", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-07T12:44:57.557", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "6730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, Kakashi can obtain **Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan**. I would have to\ndisagree with [kakashi's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6730/is-it-possible-for-\nkakashi-to-obtain-an-eternal-mangekyo-sharingan/6760#6760) though. **EMS**\nconsumes **_lesser chakra_** and puts **_lesser stress_** on the user casting\nit. Kakashi has to possess a Mangekyou Sharingan eye, assuming it's compatible\nto him, since it's not possible to obtain EMS just by implanting another set\nof MS.\n\nSo **using EMS would be less life threatening** to him than using MS, since,\nthere is no risk of blindness after obtaining EMS.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-20T09:57:39.830", "id": "7603", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-07T12:42:46.233", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-07T12:42:46.233", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3793", "parent_id": "6730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nRealistically speaking, **Kakashi cannot gain the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan\n(EMS)**.\n\nReread this section from Chapter 386\n\n\n\nThere are multiple reasons why Kakashi cannot gain EMS. First, the exchange\nmust be done between clansmen. Kakashi doesn't fit in this category. Further\nmore, the manga states \"simply gaining another's eyes didn't equate to gaining\nthis power\". This is implying that you need to gain your brother's eyes as\nwell as a new set of eyes.\n\nOne can argue that Kakashi and Obito are like brothers, however Kakashi isn't\ngaining a new eye if he swaps with Obito.\n\nIn the end, it is impossible for Kakashi to achieve EMS.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-20T15:23:24.713", "id": "7607", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-20T15:23:24.713", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Kakashi's sharingan is already a mangekyou sharingan since mangekyou\nsharingan users lose their sight for overusing their mangekyou sharingan but\nkakashi has been using it for a while. However, he has chakra problems given\nthat he is not from the Uchiha clan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-01T19:10:15.130", "id": "8416", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-19T22:54:23.033", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-19T22:54:23.033", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "4354", "parent_id": "6730", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nSince we're stuck, let's sum up what we know:\n\n 1. YES - but: his Sharingan uses too much chakra, therefore he would be fully exhausted/maybe dead using the EMS, or he wouldn't be able to use it at its full power.\n\n 2. NO - because: Kakashi doesn't belong to the Uchiha clan, plus he doesn't have brothers or close ones to him with the same ability; even if he had someone, that someone must possess an MS, but we don't know about other people, except Sasuke.\n\nSo we could say that the odds are even, but it just hit me... Do we realize\nthat we are talking about the same eyes??? As much as I would like to see him\nequipped with an EMS, if he could gain this eye by simply fusing his one with\nObito's one, it would be the same as Madara would've fused his own eyes into\none (we can argue that he would lose one eye, but the other would be an EMS),\nso practically every Uchiha member could've possessed an EMS just by fusing\ntheir own eyes.\n\nSo if we must make a conclusion, even if he isn't an Uchiha, nor he has\nsiblings, therefore he doesn't got a chance to obtain a new set of eyes, I\nthink the best answer and reason why Kakashi CAN'T obtain an Eternal Mangekyo\nSharingan (but I'm eagerly waiting for \"can answers\") is because fusing your\nown eyes wouldn't result in EMS.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-06T22:22:07.670", "id": "8528", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T14:17:32.123", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-08T14:17:32.123", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "6730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nKakashi is able to obtain EMS from another MS if obtained. He can't transplant\nObitos MS that's stupid each MS eye left, right have there own powers, besides\nthis they are the same exact MS so there won't be any difference. When someone\nhas MS and wants a EMS needs another MS from another person (Clanmate) to\nobtain EMS by combining those 2 MS they both combine their forms to make a mix\nlike form for the new EMS.\n\nOne thing I'm curious we saw Madara with his brother when he got his eyes they\nmixed and became a new form,same thing with Sasuke with Itachi eyes. But I\ncan't understand when Sasuke fought with Itachi, Itachi wanted Sasuke's eyes\neven though they weren't MS. I thought to obtain EMS you need both users' eyes\nto be MS with different form to make a new form which would be the EMS, but\nthe way Itachi was going its like transplanting normal Sharingan with a MS to\nmake an EMS if that was so and would work what would the new EMS form would\nlook like?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T15:28:12.177", "id": "8731", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-28T22:08:25.363", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-28T22:08:25.363", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4536", "parent_id": "6730", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, this isn't generally the case.\n\n * **Greed** (both pre- and post-\"death\") has the ability to modify the carbon in his body to be rock-hard. This is not reflected in the fourth circle of _Dante's Inferno_ nor in the Bible as far as I can tell.\n * **Pride** has the power of the shadows and of omnipresence. As far as I know, pride is generally represented Biblically as a giant, so there's little correlation here.\n\nWrath and Sloth could potentially be connected.\n\n * **Wrath** has the all-seeing eye. Though there is nothing about this in _Dante's Inferno_ , this _could_ be a reference to the potentially wrathful statement in the Bible, \"an eye for an eye\". However, I'd consider this a bit of a stretch.\n * **Lust** has the ability to make longer fingernails. I suppose this could be seen as a use of her beauty to kill others, but again, a bit of a stretch. She also seems to have no correlation to the second circle of the Inferno.\n * **Sloth** possesses great power and skill, and yet wastes it; this isn't really his _ability_ per se, but he does use it in a slothful manner.\n\nI believe, though, that Gluttony and Envy are the only ones who share a\nstrong-ish connection.\n\n * **Gluttony** , as you mentioned, wants to (and is able to) eat essentially infinitely.\n * **Envy** has the ability to appear however he likes; as his jealousy later reveals, his envy of humans causes him to use his ability to take the human form.\n\nIt's worth noting that most of the homunculi have some form of their story\nconnected to their sin. Wrath, for example, loses his arms, as in _Dante's\nInferno_ ; Lust's death by fire and wind is also a reference to how the\nlustful are killed in the second circle; and in the Bible, it states that \"the\nslothful will be put to forced labor.\" A few of the sins have some aspect of\ntheir appearance related to their sin as well.\n\nHowever, despite all this, it does not seem that most of their abilities\nrelate to their sins, or the stories that accompany them. \n _Disclaimer: I am not an expert on the Bible or Christianity._\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T05:57:18.353", "id": "6738", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T05:57:18.353", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "6737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nI think they are, though it's not always clear how. I can find strong or weak\nreasons to link the abilities of all the homunculi to their sins except for\nWrath.\n\nLet's start with my favorite, **Pride** : Pride is considered to be the worst\nof the sins; Tommaso D'Aquino, one of most important, if not the most\nimportant, Christian philosophers who had actually categorized all the vices\nand virtues of human being, stated that \"pride is the worst of the sins,\nbecause it meanders through the good actions\".\n\nThe fact is that the other sins are clearly recognized as bad, and one who is\na sinner is clearly doing bad things. However, pride doesn't work this way:\nthe more you act in a good way, the more pride tries to tempt and pervert you.\n\nThe symbolism here is about light and shadows of the homunculus: light is the\ngood, and shadows are the true form of Pride: so, he can actually exist and be\nharmful only if there is light ( = good). The more there is light, the more he\ngets strong. If there is no light, if one has no good, has nothing to be proud\nof, pride as sin can do nothing; likewise to this, Pride is totally helpless\nif there's no light surrounding him. He is just a little child.\n\n* * *\n\n**Greed** : I am not sure about this, but I think it could be true. Before\ndying he says that he tried to gain women, power and money to fulfill the\nhollow, the emptiness inside him, but all what he really wanted was sincere\nfriendship.\n\nHow does this resemble us? Greed is that vice that happens when you, human\nbeing with the same human nature as everyone else, deny your real needs (of\nGod, of friendship, etc, but the essence is: of NON material, of spiritual\ngoods) and compulsively deceive yourself seeking for material, fleeting,\npseudo goods: power, money and sex.\n\nGreed's power was similar to this: he wanted, at the end, just to be human, to\nbe loved and to befriend (spiritual goods); but he acted greedily, surrounding\nhimself with material goods that prevented him from fulfilling his true and\nhidden good desire: a material perfect shield that was in fact what rendered\nhim as non human, as homunculus, as sinner.\n\n(False material goods = deceive yourself protecting you from accepting the\ntruth, the fact that you need spiritual goods = sex power money = perfect\nshield).\n\n* * *\n\n**Gluttony** and **Envy** are very clear : Gluttony eats everything while\nEnvy, who desire the other's goods, can become whatever he wants. Still, it is\nimportant to notice that the tradition of the 7 deadly sins states that Envy\nis NOT primarily the desire to be what the others are; it is, instead, the\npain for what other people have of good, linked with the thought \"if I have\nnone of those things, neither I nor them can have them, so I will destroy the\nothers good\". And at the end of his life, Envy decided not to leave his life,\nhis body, his entire being to Ed, Mustang, etc (they could have killed him or\ndone everything). He decided instead to commit suicide: \"You will never have\nmy life; if I can't have it anymore, I will destroy it; I won't give you the\npossibility to decide what to do with me\" (I don't know if this was his\nreasoning but it's a perfectly envious behavior).\n\n* * *\n\n**Lust** : well, long nails remind me of feline elegance which is linked to\nluxury, and she can kill at distance while actually staying elegant,\nbeautiful, calm and so on. Maybe there are also some more perverted links,\nlike penetration (of sexual activities and of the nails in others bodies).\n\n* * *\n\n**Sloth** : as said by the other user, in the Bible is said that \"the slothful\nwill be put to forced labor.\" Sloth is the sin that prevents you from doing\nthe good despite your abilities to do it. So it is best represented by someone\nwho is really strong, but that doesn't use this strength to his complete\npower.\n\n* * *\n\nAnd at the end comes **Wrath** : it has really put me in difficulty. I am not\nsure I have understood his power and the link between it and the wrath...\nanyway I'll try: Wrath, Rage, Vengeance means that you have to persecute, kill\nwhat causes your anger. And what can help you more to do this than the\nabilities to find everywhere your enemy, to not lose his position, to seek,\nreach and destroy him to assuage your wrath? (He has the perfect eye)\n\nI hope this was helpful :)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T10:30:44.153", "id": "6930", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T15:43:03.443", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-04T15:43:03.443", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3342", "parent_id": "6737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Wrath has the eye power because in order to hate so many people\nconstantly you need to be aware of why you hate them. Naive people (blind)\nusually get along with everybody. Wrath has the eye that allows him to see\npeople's motives and movements. If you can constantly see everything you will\nbegin to distrust people and hate them as you can always see the traits that\npiss you off. Wrath saw everything in a person. Their ugliest traits, annoying\nbehaviour and flaws. The message of this is that everyone has their good side\nand even the people you hate must be considred from an unbiased perspective\nand not with a prying eye.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-30T11:15:22.440", "id": "39632", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-30T11:15:22.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31709", "parent_id": "6737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nTheir abilities are not related to anything biblical, but to the concept of\nthe sin.\n\n * **Gluttony** 's power is eating things. Fairly simple.\n * **Sloth** is immensely strong and fast, but he does almost nothing with it. Thus showing the \"waste of potential\" of sloth. It also correlates to simply powering through obstacles and opponents instead of using skill.\n * **Envy** has the power of shapeshifting. Envy (the emotion) is wanting what someone else has, and Envy can _become_ someone else.\n * **Lust** 's power is to extend her fingernails into blades. This is the odd one out, actually. Lust inspires lust in others, but her own lust is bloodlust, which her blade-fingers help with.\n * **Greed** 's power is to harden his body into a shield. Greed does not just try to acquire more things, but also wants to keep what he has. His shield keeps his life and his Philosopher's Stone safe.\n * **Wrath** 's power is the ultimate eye, which lets him see and predict enemies' movements and tells him the ideal move to make. This is a rather \"intellectual\" power, but he's Wrath, not _rage_. His is a cold and calculating fury, and his power lets him quickly and easily destroy his foes and cause maximum damage.\n * **Pride** 's shadow power is not related to pride in general, but it is within context of the story. Father's original form was a shadowy black ball in a flash which had an eye and a mouth and limited shapeshifting. Pride's shadow form resembles this form taken to an extreme and made into a weapon. Thus showing Father's arrogance and pride in himself, as his greatest creation resembles himself.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T05:06:36.137", "id": "41173", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T09:37:57.800", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-04T09:37:57.800", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "33418", "parent_id": "6737", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLike you say, the AI follows whats best from machine's point of view. Chamber\neven recommends multiple times that taking over Gargantia and becoming a\nleader is best way to achieve his goals of survival and getting back to\nAlliance. But Ledo stops him. This is reason why there is still pilot. Leaving\ncritical decisions on a machine can result in really bad situations.\n\nThere is also OVA that explains how things happened on Kugel's side. Simply\nsaid, Kugel starts in similar position as Ledo, yet circumstances and\nmisunderstanding lead him to what we saw in anime. Striker just continues what\nKugel started.\n\nAs for Chamber vs. Striker at the end, it is easily explained by AIs being\nable to learn. Chamber learned, that while Gargantia does things inefficiently\nfrom Aliance's standard, it leads to much higher satisfaction and lives of\npeople, along with Ledo's happiness. What is what Chamber looks out for most.\nStriker on the other side got confirmed it's way of thinking, so it tries to\ndefend that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T22:30:49.533", "id": "6753", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T22:30:49.533", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "6747", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have not played the visual novels and have not seen any other MuvLuv\ncontent, so I can only judge from the anime series. In this series, the two\nfirst episodes focus on the background of Yui. You basically witness what she\nhas experienced when she was younger, and then the shift focuses on the\n'current day' situation, where Yui is one of the two lead protagonists.\nFurther down the series she reveals some of her background which is consistent\nwith the first two episodes.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T17:33:57.957", "id": "6750", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T17:33:57.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "6748", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe first few episodes are flashback of Yui's past. It basically shown what\nkind of enemy humanity is facing directly and how front lines of humanity's\nwar look. But rest of the show happens in research&development facility far\nbehind enemy lines with team of people who are not concerned with fighting\nreal enemy. The protagonist is actually concerned that he never fought real\nenemy and all he ever fought were either other humans or simulations. So the\ndissonance between those two parts actually makes sense.\n\nIf you want to experience the full thing, you should read the VNs: \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-04T22:43:43.463", "id": "6754", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-04T22:43:43.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "6748", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou could say it is a plot hole. At that point, I don't know why he didn't\nkill them right there and then.\n\nYou could look at it as a typical case of \"Bond Villain\" where the baddie has\nto set a challenge/trap for the protagonist without actually killing the girl\nbecause it allows the story to continue, and without it your cast of\ncharacters thins out, thus ending the story.\n\n**Most importantly** \\- _in my opinion_ \\- The original author was also\nbuilding that underlying Taira\n\n> betrayal\n\nstory so he can't have him dying just yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-19T10:55:14.417", "id": "18665", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-19T10:55:14.417", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11206", "parent_id": "6751", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the bath scene in episode 9, at 12:01, Diana confessess to Keima (Diana\nlikes Keima). Tenri asks why she is there at 13:00. At 13:40, Diana encourages\nTenri to confess.\n\n**Tenri PROBABLY doesn't love Keima as much as Diana thought she did. Tenri\nmight have said she doesn't like Keima.**\n\nWith Tenri's confession to Diana in episode 12, Diana grew her wings.\n\nFrom a common viewer.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-05T15:41:39.967", "id": "6764", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T13:59:10.497", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T13:59:10.497", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3232", "parent_id": "6752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nPosting as answer because can't use spoilers in comments, still just a\nspeculation...\n\nWith the recent development in the manga, it seems it might be something along\nthe lines of:\n\n> Keima is the one that chose me to be your host\n\nAlso, remember Diana grew her wings once before (although they didn't notice),\nin manga Chapter 139 (can't remember which episode), after Keima apologizes to\nher in his library.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-19T12:52:11.937", "id": "8138", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-19T12:52:11.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2138", "parent_id": "6752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm going to keep the spoiler at minimum. This is from Heart of Jupiter Arc,\nthe last arc of the series.\n\nWhat she said to Diana is... [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YVRRr.jpg)\nFrom TWGOK Chapter 191 A Girl. Page 13\n\n> This arc tells about Keima being sent to the past. Tenri probably explained\n> Diana about the event that happen 10 years ago, about how Tenri and Keima\n> got involved with the mass escape of the runaway spirits, and how it will\n> affect the future.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-31T10:41:42.797", "id": "23696", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-31T10:41:42.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "6752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt wasn't really explained. We still don't know about the full extent of Haki\nor Kairōseki. Plus episode 627 is a filler so I wouldn't take what happens in\nthere seriously, it is not canon. The anime is notorious for contradicting\nitself. Oda might explain Haki and Kairōseki more in the manga later on.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-05T15:37:36.237", "id": "6763", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T13:42:10.463", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T13:42:10.463", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3231", "parent_id": "6759", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nKairoseki has no effect on haki. Rayleigh could use Haki while being chained\nin the auction house ( during the sabaody archipelago arc).Also haki is inborn\nquality in every living thing in one piece world as said by Rayleigh. And\nkairoseki only affects devil fruit users. Non devil fruit users are not\naffected by kairoseki. So they can use haki however they like still being\nchained.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T04:54:50.810", "id": "7010", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-18T04:54:50.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "6759", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs i see it, the Kairoseki (sea stone was a translation i once memorized)\nmakes the devil-fruit user physically weak, unable to move. And as you know,\nLuffy's ability is pretty much physical in any aspect, meaning when he feels\nweakened in his body, he also starts to feel helpless in his mind (until\nemotions tend to make him go berserk). Apparently that's just enough to make\nhim lose his inner cool and not be able to use haki as he wished to.\n\nJust my 2 cents...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T22:11:37.877", "id": "7067", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T22:11:37.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3421", "parent_id": "6759", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n[According to Smoker](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_169),\n[Kairoseki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Seastone#Effects_on_Devil_Fruit_Users)\nworks to incapacitate devil fruit eaters because it gives off the same\nwavelength as the sea. In addition, [Shanks used Haoshoku no\nHaki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3iSqsrEsDI) on the sea monster that\ntook his arm while swimming. That means Haki is unaffected by the sea's\nwavelength and therefore unaffected by Kairoseki.\n\nThere are many situations where Luffy could use Haoshoku no Haki and chooses\nnot to, especially on Whole Cake Island. So I think it is fair to assume he\ncannot use it in every situation. Because we cannot yet know exactly what\nsituations he can use it in, we should look at the situations in which he does\nand compare. [Everytime Luffy uses his Haoshoku no\nHaki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o8ARK0AgcU), he is in one of two\nstates: either in a totally desperate situation or in perfect health while\ncalm and collected. In episode 627, however, he is not in a totally desperate\nsituation (although Chopper is being beaten, he is not in danger of dying) and\nLuffy is not perfectly calm and collected.\n\nIt may be fair, then, to assume Luffy could not use his Haoshoku no Haki in\nthis particular instance.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-13T10:21:52.183", "id": "47812", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-13T10:54:50.330", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-13T10:54:50.330", "last_editor_user_id": "41439", "owner_user_id": "41439", "parent_id": "6759", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've been thinking about this question, and I've found a theory, which would\nexplain a few things:\n\nI'm almost 100% sure that the Amaterasu had hit Obito, as in the anime we can\nhear the damage being received. As from that moment, we can't talk about the\nTransportation Technique, because the Amaterasu lasts until his target is\ncompletely gone.\n\nSo that would reach the 5 minute limit and Obito would have been dead, just as\nit would've been the same result in the fight with Konan: those paper bombs\nkept coming, and they would've reach the 5 minutes limit, IF, and here it\ncomes my theory. Obito escaped with the same technique both times, the\nIzanagi.\n\nSince he had a lot of Sharingan eyes in reserve, he could have easily replaced\nthe eye he had just used, just as he did after fighting Konan. AND he could\nhave implied this, by the lines (if I recall well), \"Even Itachi didn't know\neverything about me\". That he could use Izanagi, or that he has those\nSharingan reserves (since Itachi never knew about the eyes collected by Tobi,\nor Tobi's expertise in using this rare and forbidden jutsu).\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-05T12:21:54.203", "id": "7338", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-28T04:07:52.480", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-28T04:07:52.480", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "6761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think zetsu had anything to do with it. And personally, I don't think\nhe used the izanagi either. I think he used the same thing he uses to make\nthings pass through him to escape it. Yes, the Amaterasu flames don't burn out\nuntil their target it burnt to a crisp, but think about it. Fire is energy, no\nmatter what how it is formed, and chakra is basically energy as well. The\nrasengan is made of chakra(energy), and it passed right through him to. So to\nthe flames, it would be like their target was already gone, so they burn out.\nThat's just what I think about this topic.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-30T22:24:24.487", "id": "13173", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-30T22:24:24.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7801", "parent_id": "6761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAt that time, Obito/Tobi doesn't have Rinnegan. The Rinnegan was in Nagato's\npossession. At that time the only Sharingan that had evolved into the Rinnegan\nwas that of Uchiha Madara. Obito's was just a Mangekyou Sharingan. Therefore\nit definitely was not Shinra Tensei.\n\nA possible explanation to how he get rid of the Amaterasu is that he used\nIzanagi using one of the Sharingans he collected. But it can't be said for\n100% as it was never revealed in manga nor anime.\n\nSince the Amaterasu hit him on his whole bod, \n\nhe surely didn't do the same thing he did when he fought Danzo's bodyguard Fuu\nand Torune (pulling off his arm that is). Therefore I can say for 95% that it\nwas Izanagi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T10:43:34.050", "id": "13300", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-28T04:14:48.177", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-28T04:14:48.177", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "6761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nOne of the reason can be\n\n> [the flames burn fairly slowly, sometimes allowing anyone struck by\n> Amaterasu an opportunity to remove whatever clothing or body parts have been\n> caught ablaze.](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Amaterasu#Overview)\n\nThis gave time Obito to separate him from his clothes. And for the part\n**Amaterasu** burn anything caught by it to ash or destroyed. Dress he was\nwearing will be destroyed by **Amaterasu**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-07T11:30:01.867", "id": "13302", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-07T11:30:01.867", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "6761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYou guys seem to not know that Obito's power is using the Kamui which the\nright eye can only be used if he is touching them where as the left eye is for\nlong distance which is why Kakashi can only do it at distances but anyway the\nflame was touching Obito meaning he can transport it to the other dimension so\nthere u go maybe u should look up his power before discussing\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-20T01:05:37.690", "id": "13531", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-20T01:05:37.690", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8060", "parent_id": "6761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nhe used Kamui. the third databook brought up the question of how he survived\nand talked about his ability to slip through things\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-12-01T00:47:11.043", "id": "55999", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-01T00:47:11.043", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4902", "parent_id": "6761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKadath is another world loosely based on the Dream-world from a series of HP\nLovecraft short stories. It's the world in which Souten no Celenaria, Sekien\nno Inganock, and Hikari no Valusia take place and the origin of the steam-\nbased technologies seen within the series.\n\nI don't know the specifics as I have not played Celenaria, but from what I\nunderstand it's a parallel world that is connected to Earth/Seikyou via a\nportal in the North Pole, hence only being accessible by airships, and being\nan apparently dangerous journey.\n\nAs for the level of technology, I don't believe they have space travel, but\nKadath is where airships were invented, and they do have floating fortresses\nand other higher technology marvels, especially after the Infinite Mist around\nInganock cleared, and the breakthoughs of the Phenomenon Equation Experiment\nwere shared, allowing development of crack engines and other technologies\nbased on the Equation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-03T20:48:23.390", "id": "19098", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-31T02:43:52.390", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-31T02:43:52.390", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "11532", "parent_id": "6766", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, and this is a spoiler\n\n> Kadath (in the original story that the city is first mentioned in : The\n> Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath) is actually Boston. This is revealed at the\n> end of the Lovecraft work the above poster is talking about.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-31T01:22:21.370", "id": "28528", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-31T02:10:27.847", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-31T02:10:27.847", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "20095", "parent_id": "6766", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n_Gamerz heaven_\n\nFrom wikipedia:\n\n> Soon after starting the game, Kaito is attacked by the class president,\n> Ogura. Ogura falls to Kaito and vanishes from the Second Zone. Now no one\n> believes that Ogura ever existed except for Kaito's best friend Kawashima,\n> who loves video games just as much as Kaito. Later Kaito eventually\n> convinces other friends Rio, and Ren, who didn't believe him until a\n> \"meteor\" hits the center of Tokyo, which was actually the work of the first\n> area boss of Gamerz Heaven, Rush.\n\nRegarding the mysterious girl:\n\n> Upon reaching this strange new world, Kaito discovers a _boy_ known as the\n> \"navigator\", aptly dubbed \"Nata\". In Gamerz Heaven the real world is\n> referred to as the \"Second Zone\". All enemies in Gamerz Heaven are after\n> Nata and Kaito can only beat the game by saving him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-27T00:50:05.293", "id": "8295", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-27T00:50:05.293", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4281", "parent_id": "6769", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Noragami, Yato refers to himself as a god. 神, which is the kanji for god,\ncan be pronounced \"gami\", so he is probably referring to himself literally as\n\"Yato God\".\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-06T04:19:00.373", "id": "6773", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-06T04:19:00.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "6772", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nHis name in Kanji is 夜卜\n\n> Yato is neither, but rather an alias. The 卜 is actually a kanji and not the\n> katakana \"to\" that he makes people believe it is by calling himself Yato.\n> His name is actually Yaboku.\n\nGami, one of the pronunciations of 神 would be his title, since it means god.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-01T04:19:50.080", "id": "28558", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-01T13:52:06.953", "last_edit_date": "2016-07-01T13:52:06.953", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "20121", "parent_id": "6772", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShenron actually does not have the power to grant all wishes. He can't bring\nyou back from the dead twice, he can't wish the Saiyans away in the first\nsaga.\n\nHe can do things that no one else is able to do, but he's not actually all\npowerful.\n\nAnd apparently he's less powerful than Bills, and he knows it.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-06T23:29:54.077", "id": "6777", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-06T23:29:54.077", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "6775", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you don't recall the Dragons that are created by the Dragonballs are only\nas powerful as the person who created them. This means that Shenron is not all\npowerful and cannot grant a wish outside of the power of their creator, an\nexample would be wishing to destroy Freiza when Kami was the creator. Dragons\nfrom the Dragonballs can grant any wish as long as it's within their creator's\npower... this means a being more powerful than the creator of them cannot be\ndestroyed by the Dragon and the Dragon can be destroyed by that being.\n\nDragonball Wiki Excerpt:\n\n> Shenron can bestow any wish as long as it does not exceed the power of his\n> creator, who must be still alive (i.e. Kami/Piccolo or Dende).\n\nDuring Battle of the Gods this means that Dende is the current creator of the\nDragonballs, which means that any being more powerful than Dende could defeat\nShenron...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-13T20:55:13.357", "id": "6890", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-13T20:55:13.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3317", "parent_id": "6775", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Dragon Ball, Shenron was once killed by King Piccolo. If someone evil but\nway less stronger than Beerus can kill Shenron, it makes sense Shenron to be\nafraid of Bills the god of destruction and most powerful being in the universe\nafter Wiss\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-06T18:43:38.173", "id": "35631", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-06T18:43:38.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3028", "parent_id": "6775", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime you're looking for is [The Law of\nUeki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_of_Ueki).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-07T00:03:04.273", "id": "6779", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-07T00:03:04.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "6778", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo. His name is a portmanteau of his real first and last name, カール (kaaru) and\nイール (iiru), respectively. In actuality, he is the first Prince of a certain\nEmpire...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-08T04:01:34.093", "id": "6794", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-08T04:01:34.093", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "6780", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe link in the comment was correct.\n\nNumber four in Japan is considered bad luck. \nThis is because both four and death are pronounced the same way - _shi_.\n([source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia#In_Japan))\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-07T02:57:18.160", "id": "6782", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-07T05:02:29.420", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-07T05:02:29.420", "last_editor_user_id": "2044", "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "6781", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIn both Chinese and Japanese language, the pronunciation of \"death\" and the\nnumber \"four\" are so close:\n\n * Mandarin: si4 (four) and si3 (death)\n * Cantonese: si2 or sei2 (both \"death\" or \"four\")\n * Japanese: shi (both \"four\" and \"death\")\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-26T09:29:04.693", "id": "48065", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-26T10:14:40.490", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-26T10:14:40.490", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "41734", "parent_id": "6781", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe you are looking for Chrno Crusade.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-07T21:42:10.330", "id": "6786", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-07T21:42:10.330", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2925", "parent_id": "6785", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n\n\nIt might be [Juuhime - Sincerely\nNight](http://myanimelist.net/manga/8237/Juuhime_~Sincerely_Night~). It\nfeatures a main character that duel wields guns and was sentenced to 500 years\nof prison by the church. Here's MAL's synopsis:\n\n> Luca Athrason has been sentenced with 500 years of imprisonment – such is\n> the price to pay for his sins. The only way for him to shorten his sentence\n> is to accomplish his missions as the Church’s vanguard or as some might call\n> it... The Church's Dog!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-07T22:25:49.440", "id": "6788", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-07T22:25:49.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "6785", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is one particular style of traditional Japanese comedy called\n[_manzai_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai) (漫才), which is a type of two-\nman act. One man is called the\n[_boke_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_owarai_terms#boke), who is\nthe buffoon; the jokester; the funny guy. The _boke_ will make jokes, many of\nwhich (to American audiences at least) are groan comedy. The other member of\nthe pair is called the\n[**_tsukkomi_**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukkomi#tsukkomi), and his job\nis to react to the _boke_ 's jokes (often critically), taking on a role very\nmuch like \"the straight man\" in Western comedic practice.\n\nThe usage of _tsukkomi_ in the description you quoted is derived from this. It\ndoes not mean that the Vice President is _literally_ the straight man of a\ncomedy duo, but rather that the Vice President is sort of the uptight kind of\nguy who doesn't laugh at jokes and always shoots down other people's jokes.\nIt's a sort of character archetype that translates only somewhat well into\nEnglish as \"straight man\", so you will sometimes see it floating around\nuntranslated.\n\nThe _tsukkomi_ is a very common archetype in modern anime and related media\n(irritatingly common, if you ask me, especially in schlocky light novels).\nWell-known examples off the top of my head include:\n\n * Kyon from _The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_ (often playing off of Haruhi and sometimes Koizumi's _boke_ )\n * Koyomi from the _Monogatari_ series (playing off against most of the girls at some point or another)\n * Basically everybody in _Gintama_ (against everybody else)\n * Chiaki from _Nodame Cantabile_ (mostly against Nodame herself)\n\nYou can see more about this trope at the TVTropes entry [Boke And Tsukkomi\nRoutine](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-07T23:32:07.363", "id": "6791", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-07T23:32:07.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "6787", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\n\"Tsukkomi\" has [multiple\ndefinitions](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%AA%81%E3%81%A3%E8%BE%BC%E3%81%BF-5876\n\"Japanese dictionary entry\"). In its comedic sense, which is probably the only\ncase where you may see it untranslated, it can mean one of two things:\n\n 1. **The act of pointing out that something is ridiculous / very silly.**\n\nUsually this happens between two people, who in that case are referred to as\nthe 'tsukkomi' (who does the tsukkomi) and the 'boke', who says or does\nsomething funny or strange (the act of which is also called a 'boke'). The\ntsukkomi then points out or otherwise reacts to the boke in some way, e.g. by\nhitting the boke with a fan in some old-style / anime manzai.\n\nA 'self-tsukkomi' is also somewhat common. Here, a person says something silly\n(a 'boke') and then, after realizing their mistake, promptly corrects\nhimself/herself. The most common version of this is the nori-tsukkomi, where a\nperson agrees with a boke, only to add a tsukkomi right afterwards. For\nexample,\n\n> Boke: \"Could you give me access to your bank account? I need to borrow 5\n> bucks.\"\n>\n> Tsukkomi (in a friendly tone): \"Oh, sure, I use 2FA, let me just grab my\n> phone...\"\n>\n> Tsukkomi (angrily): \"... as if!\"\n\nIt is also known as a 'tsukkomi' when someone points out something absurd,\neven if no actual 'boke' occurs. Such as:\n\n> _A cloud falls from the sky, dropping in front of Tsukkomi._\n>\n> Tsukkomi: \"... oh come on, that's just not realistic.\"\n\n 2. **The person who does the tsukkomi. This is often translated as 'the straight man'.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-28T12:10:23.227", "id": "49889", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-01T07:48:18.063", "last_edit_date": "2018-12-01T07:48:18.063", "last_editor_user_id": "18352", "owner_user_id": "43648", "parent_id": "6787", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeasons has to do with the broadcast of a show, it doesn't necessarily always\nequate to 12 episode per season, sometimes a show can only be 10 episodes.\nSee: [What defines one \"season\" of\nanime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/1971/what-defines-one-\nseason-of-anime)\n\nArcs has to do with the story. Wikipedia [defines a story arc\nas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_arc):\n\n> A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling\n> media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video\n> games, and in some cases, films. On a television program, for example, the\n> story would unfold over many episodes. In television, the use of the story\n> arc is much more common in dramas than in comedies, especially in soap\n> operas. Webcomics are more likely to use story arcs than newspaper comics,\n> as most web comics have readable archives online that a newcomer to the\n> strip can read in order to understand what is going on. Although story arcs\n> have existed for decades, the term \"story arc\" was coined in 1988 in\n> relation to the television series Wiseguy, and was quickly adapted for other\n> uses.\n\nThe way to tell the difference between the two is how they are broadcast and\nhow the story continuity flows from episode to episode. There could be many\nstory arcs in a single season of an anime, or there could be many seasons in\nan anime that only has one overarching story arc.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-07T23:17:25.150", "id": "6790", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-07T23:17:25.150", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "6789", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo understand why she speaks like this, we need to understand the grammatical\nrule for \"wa\" in Japanese. I'll admit that I do not understand Japanese\nfluently and I am a beginner, if anything, but let's take a look at what it\ncan mean. For reference:\n\n<http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa051301a.htm>\n\nThe first one implies that the \"wa\" is a subject marker and she using herself\nas the subject. She has emotions unlike her sister clones and her having\nemotions mean that she can feel a variety of human characteristics. What I'm\nsaying is that it is possible she repeats her name in this manner to draw\nattention to herself, to show that childish selfish characteristic. And we can\nsee that she sometimes has no consideration about what other people feel, like\nhow she (seemingly) unintentionally refers to Yomikawa as an old woman in one\nthe bathroom/shower scene. Although this can be explained as her being\nplayful, but I believe this still reflects her childish selfish nature, not\nthat she's actually incapable of feeling empathy.\n\n\"Wa\" can apparently be used as emphasis for the subject at hand, so this gives\nmore credence to my theory. From my reference:\n\n\"Beside being a topic marker, \"wa\" is used to show contrast or to emphasize\nthe subject.\"\n\nAlthough I can be wrong on this one.\n\n\"Wa\" as a contrast does not work well as it does not explain much.\n\nSo it may be that she repeats herself in this manner to grab and draw\nattention to herself much like a child would. Aside from her being just a\nchild, perhaps she does this to distinguish herself from the other clones.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-14T05:35:56.253", "id": "8050", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-14T05:35:56.253", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "293", "parent_id": "6798", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI would say it is definitely a character trait or characteristic rather than a\nlanguage rule or regional dialect.\n\n@Frosteeze is on the right track with Last Order. I think it is a reflection\nof either her eccentricity or her childish behavior. There is a long history\nin anime/manga for eccentric and mischievous 2nd line characters to have some\nunique and often cute verbal tic.\n\nIn Shakugan no Shana, Wilhelmina ends nearly every sentence with \"de arimasu\".\n\nIn Saki, you have Yuuki's habit of ending her sentences with \"d'jey\" and\nsometimes slipping into a 'hick' accent (i.e. Hokkaido or Okinawa). In fact,\nhalf the cast seems to have some sort of distinctive catchphrase.\n\nYou get the idea. 'Tis is a common trope.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-21T09:20:13.017", "id": "12961", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-21T09:20:13.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7668", "parent_id": "6798", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nLast Order isn't just saying her name twice. She narrates herself, like all\nthe SISTERS, but she is doubling her dialogue tags (quoting herself twice) in\nher narration. This isn't just simple _yakuwarigo_ but rather due to in-\nuniverse lore reasons.\n\nThe normal SISTERS narrate everything they say because they are always logging\neverything they do to the MISAKA Network and the narration is there to provide\ncontext so the others can understand their situation better. The MISAKA\nNetwork is also why they speak and think in third-person: because 10000\ndifferent streams of data that are like _\" I did this thing.\"_ floating around\nin the Network at the same time is confusing.\n\n_As a side note, the SISTERS are fully capable of speaking normally. In fact,\nthey do not narrate themselves if they are doing something which they don't\nwant the rest of the Network to know about. This is why Last Order sometimes\ndrops her speech pattern during intimate moments with Accelerator, she wants\nto keep those events to herself._\n\nAnyway, back on topic, Last Order is unique in that she is also the system\nadministrator. As such, anything she broadcasts to the Network could\npotentially be interpreted as a command to the rest of the Network. In order\nto differentiate the messages she logs to the network where she is simply\n**transcribing her own activities as an individual** from messages where she\nis **communicating directions to the rest of the Network** , she puts the\nformer type of message inside a quotation, with the implication being\nsomething like \"this is Last Order uploading as an individual node and not as\nthe Admin of the Network\". Thus when she is logging her own speech, she ends\nup having double quotations.\n\nBasically, \"MISAKA wa MISAKA wa\" \\+ \"mitari\" appears to function as what in\nprogramming terms is called an escape sequence.\n\nNow let's demonstrate this with an example.\n<https://youtu.be/401oSrxp33c?t=82>\n\nLast Order's dialogue is as follows: **Anata no heya tte doko** _tte_ `MISAKA\nwa` _MISAKA wa shitsumon shite_ `mitari`\n\nThere are three components to this line of dialogue:\n\n * **The thing she actually wants to say**\n * _The narration providing context on her speech_\n * `The escape sequence`\n\nTranslated in such a way as to preserve the distinctness of all three\ncomponents without bothering with making it flow well, it would be something\nlike: `MISAKA appears to express` **Where is your room** _questions MISAKA_\n\nThe dialogue of normal SISTERS lacks the third component, the escape sequence.\nIf a normal SISTER were to ask this question, it would be something like:\n**Anata no heya wa doko** _to MISAKA wa shitsumon suru_\n\nTranslation: **Where is your room** _questions MISAKA_\n\n* * *\n\nAddendum: There is a third speech pattern among the MISAKA SISTERS, which is\nthat of MISAKA Worst.\n\nMISAKA Worst does not narrate her dialogue but she still speaks and thinks in\nthird-person. This is because she is only partially connected the MISAKA\nNetwork. Worst is something like an Observer, she receives information from\nthe Network but she cannot upload anything (therefore she does not need to\nnarrate herself) nor is she subject to commands from the Admin.\n\nIf Worst were to ask the above question her dialogue would be no different\nfrom normal speech: **Where is your room?**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-12-22T18:57:58.747", "id": "66122", "last_activity_date": "2021-12-22T19:26:59.697", "last_edit_date": "2021-12-22T19:26:59.697", "last_editor_user_id": "64750", "owner_user_id": "64750", "parent_id": "6798", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCrows are serious—and seriously creepy—wherever they show up. In most of their\nfictional appearances, they are the go-to scary bird, and are traditionally\nassociated with death in many mythologies and cultures.\n\nOn the other hand, crows are also very clever. They may feature a crow as:\n\n * the **\"Deadpan Snarker\"** \\- A character given to gnomic, sarcastic, sometimes bitter, occasionally whimsical asides. \n\nThe Deadpan Snarker exists to deflate pomposity, point out the unlikelihood of\ncertain plans, and deliver funny lines. Typically the most cynical supporting\ncharacter. In most cases, it is implied that the snarker would make a good\nleader, strategist, or consultant given their ability to instantly see the\nflaws in a constructed plan;\n\n * the **\"Trickster Mentor\"** A Trickster whose actions, while seemingly pointless, selfish, antagonistic, or just plain random that contains a valuable lesson.\n\nIn more fantastic settings, a Trickster Mentor educates their proteges by\nsubjecting them to various transformations, body-swaps, literal wishes, and\nfaked tests of character. Trickster Mentors love it when someone who first\nmeets them doesn't realize who they are. They get to assess the \"true\ncharacter\" of someone, then beat their sense of superiority out of them with\nit after the revelation. Or, rarely, give them a small break if they reveal\nhonesty and good intentions.\n\n * or the **\"Zen Survivor\"** A character who has been through utter hell, and came out sad, cynical, and wise beyond their years. Part of their wisdom is knowing that it is wasted on most people, so they don't go around babbling it to everybody. Instead, they wait until they see somebody who is worthy, and serve as the worthy one's mentor.\n\nAs for Uchiha Itachi, his summoning technique best suited for what happened in\nhis life. Itachi with his _symbolic crow_ can be related to the \"Zen Survivor\"\nof his clansmen who is wise beyond their years (technically because of his\nage) and serves as a worthy one's mentor (both Sasuke and Naruto). On the\nother hand, the \"Trickster Mentor\" part also include _faked tests of\ncharacter_ also for both Naruto and Sasuke.\n\nPlease comment if you want to clarify something.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-08T07:41:42.810", "id": "6800", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-08T07:41:42.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "6799", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, crows can symbolise death as crows are known to pick at human corpses,\nit's not just that the crow is a dark bird, it is quite predatory in that\nsense. It could be that the writer liked the film The Crow (!) (The lead\nactor- Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee died during that film creepy, suspicious\nand sad)... Also there is **\"The Madara Rider\"** which is a World Heritage\nSite carving. Madara is the name of the horse (a horse universally represents\npower) that has a snake, a crow and a dog at it's feet, I wondered if the crow\ncould represent Itachi, the Snake Sasuke (he works with it later) or\nOrochimaru, and Madara's dog seems to be Tobi (don't want to give anything\naway there though). Also it's clear that that site must have been carved by\nNinja's as it was carved up a straight 100 metre wall quite far down and\npeople aren't sure how it could have been made, so there's your answer to that\none:- IT WAS NINJA'S! (joking :D )\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-11T21:52:01.213", "id": "12800", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-11T21:52:01.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7567", "parent_id": "6799", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nLet me express my theory as well then... Western cultures usually connect a\ncrow with bad, evil and unlucky phenomena. However, among Ainu, indigenous\ntribes of Japanese islands, crow is a bird which sacrificed itself so that\nevil could not destroy the Sun, and with it the whole world. I believe that\nKishimoto used this concept when he chose a crow as a symbol for Itachi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-06T10:28:43.977", "id": "40743", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-06T10:28:43.977", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32942", "parent_id": "6799", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have played the game, and yet I can tell you the answer isn't the most clear\nthere either. All I got from there is that the incident started on Hope's Peak\nAcademy and propagated an extreme state of unrest to the outside world.\nHowever, I've heard things are explain further in the sequel, which I haven't\nplayed nor followed a Let's Play of just yet. Taking a look at the Danganronpa\nwiki, they explain it quite well there:\n\n> \"The biggest and most despair inducing incident in all of Hope's Peak\n> Academy ’s history\" was only the beginning to what would be the world's end.\n> The biggest and most despair inducing incident in all of Hope's Peak\n> Academy’s history caused the reserve course students to rebel…\n>\n> At first, it was optimistically thought that everything would calm down\n> soon, but the situation worsened and quickened its pace. The movement\n> happened on the Internet, and formed a community of its own.\n>\n> Soon, not just students were involved, but came to include people of various\n> races and nationalities in its development and spread off the internet and\n> into real life.\n>\n> At the beginning of the movement, it involved demonstrations regarding\n> social issues, but as it spread through the world, its abnormality began to\n> show. At some point in time, the motives and modus operandi changed, and\n> left behind only meaningless destruction and violence.\n>\n> Strong people killed weak people…\n>\n> Weak people murdered even weaker people…\n>\n> Weak people formed factions and lynched strong people\n>\n> As the violence and death spread, people became desensitized. As if time had\n> gone backwards, people took death to become a certainty. The media reports\n> overflowed with death, and people ate as they watched. By the time the world\n> had noticed the abnormality, it was already too late.\n>\n> The overpowering “despair” became a huge wave that swallowed up the world in\n> the blink of one’s eye…\n>\n> Soon, terrorists and coup d’etats sprang up and caused the despair that is\n> war. It wasn’t war that happened due to the clash of ideals, religion or\n> profits…It was just war.\n>\n> Pure war.\n>\n> Therefore, no way to solve the problem was found. However…how did what was\n> originally a students’ movement develop into such a despair-worthy\n> situation? This was because of…the existence of “a certain group of people”.\n>\n> It revolved around the “certain student” who led Hope's Peak Academy to its\n> destruction; a group called “Super High School Level Despair”.\n>\n> Their talents, recognized by Hope's Peak Academy, were used not “for the\n> sake of causing hope for humanity”…They used their talents “for the sake of\n> causing despair for humanity”. Those who held great power brainwashed\n> ordinary citizens to spread despair…\n>\n> Those who had talent with computers created software to spread despair…\n>\n> Those who had great influence over people created new ideals to spread\n> despair.\n>\n> This is how “the biggest and most despair inducing incident in all human\n> history” was produced. Indeed, as long as “Super High School Level Despair”\n> exists, this despair will not end…\n>\n> “The biggest and most despair inducing incident in all human history” will\n> not end…\n\nAnd that's apparently the in-game description, though being as I don't\nremember reading through that, it's probably from Super Danganronpa 2.\n\nTo read more just check the source where I took that from:\n<http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/The_World%27s_Most_Despair-\nInducing_Incident>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-08T20:46:14.893", "id": "6810", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-08T20:46:14.893", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2816", "parent_id": "6802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom my understanding, there is a group (who is controlling Monokuma) who's\ngoal is to have the world in a perpetual state of chaos by inciting despair\nand havoc through any means, but most seemed to be centered around subtle\nmanipulation of people through influencing society.\n\nAlso, i think i read somewhere that the \"murder\" who everyone has to figure\nout the identity of is also a member of this group and faked her death early\non to remain hidden.\n\nThis is from what little research i did into the game before i committed to\npre-order it from NISA\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-09T00:04:45.560", "id": "6812", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-09T00:04:45.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Super Danganronpa 2, there is a huge school building that looks exactly as\nthe one in Danganronpa the animation. I think they where in the school\nbuilding, and when they opened the door and go outside they will be on the\nsame island as the students in Danganronpa 2. But maybe I think when the\nstudents of DR1 also will meet the students of DR2 and that they will have to\nsurvive with both group of students, maybe it will be a new game that will\ncome out, I hope so.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-03T10:46:27.493", "id": "8444", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T14:20:36.547", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-08T14:20:36.547", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "4376", "parent_id": "6802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis answer contains spoilers from the second game.\n\n> Hinata, the protagonist of the second game, killed the 13 members of the\n> student council. Hinata was a project of the school and a compilation of\n> everyone's talents. If people found out they would expel him. The school\n> tried to cover it up, but Junko took advantage and spread the rumour. \n> \n> The school started to have riots and became out of order. Because of this,\n> the despair of the students began to be felt outside the school. Despair was\n> a concept and not a disease and it became world-wide. Wars broke out.\n> Untalented students from the reserve group of the schools committed mass\n> suicide. What happened after that is not known, except that the person seen\n> at the start of the anime was the principal.\n\nHope that helps.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-04T07:18:43.407", "id": "9504", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-04T08:00:16.073", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-04T08:00:16.073", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4760", "parent_id": "6802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAt the end of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, it is revealed that the\n'mastermind' behind the whole thing was Junko Enoshima. The reason she was\nstill alive was because she switched positions with her twin sister Mukuro\nIkusaba, but unfortunately, Mukuro met her end shortly. The last trial was to\nfind out who killed Mukuro... but the remaining students find out the truth\nthrough this. Junko reveals herself and explains why this was even happening\nin the first place, the reason being because she wanted to spread despair to\nthe entire world. Upon showing them the outside world, she shows them that her\nplans have worked, and that the world is meeting its end. Why? The whole world\nwas watching what the students were doing in Hope's Peak. When they saw that\nthe killing game had begun, they were influenced...\n\nThat's my best summary of the end of the game. I'm currently playing\nDanganronpa 2.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-02-21T21:54:03.467", "id": "44810", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-21T21:54:03.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "38278", "parent_id": "6802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMy guess is that influencers, politicians, and corrupt people in general\ncreated “despair” without knowing and Junko (bored with life) wanted to\nsomewhat, broadcast despair on television. She’s rich and definitely has a lot\nof connections with influencers, politicians and corrupt people she used said\nconnections to feel true despair loathing and anything at all. The students\nthat were chosen by her were elites which is why some were influencers and\npoliticians and corrupt people, Junko wanted to control despair and depression\nitself and just had to, ruin the world and more than 6 billion people’s lives\nto do that\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-09-18T03:11:56.113", "id": "65620", "last_activity_date": "2021-09-18T03:11:56.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "62459", "parent_id": "6802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this page](https://web.archive.org/web/20101126114115/cupped-\nexpressions.net/air/info-moreexplanations.php), which cited [a study of _Air_\n's ending](http://air-the1000thsummer.com/indexnew0.html):\n\n> From: [\"Colourful Pure Girl\" in the March\n> edition](https://web.archive.org/web/20100520000017/http://akirunoneko.at.infoseek.co.jp/archive/text/AIR_interview.htm).\n>\n> \"The author declared that those two kids were not the reincarnation of any\n> of the characters and he doesn't want people think of air like that.\"\n>\n> The author also says that those two kids were more of outsider view point.\n> It's like themselves (KEY) are watching the story.\n\nHow to get to the study's page:\n\n\n\n(The text is taken from [Key Fans\nClub](http://www.keyfc.net/bbs/showtopic-14041.aspx).)\n\nIn more detail: the study said there were three curses that were cast on\nKanna:\n\n 1. **Restriction on reincarnation**. This was the direct result of the sealing a thousand years ago, and the effect was that in a set period of time, Kanna's soul could not be reincarnated. This curse was automatically lifted after about a hundred years when the power of the seal had weakened.\n\n 2. **Solitude**. This curse was an indirect effect of the sealing of Kanna, caused by Kanna's sadness and guilt over Ryuuya's death such that she became unable to form a close relationship with anyone lest she suffered great pain. This curse was lifted by the development of a close bond between Misuzu and her aunt, Haruko, made possible because of Yukito's sacrifice, which prolonged Misuzu's life by temporarily saving her from dying by the third curse.\n\n 3. **Dreams**. Dreams were the manifestation of the memories of the winged beings in their reincarnated bodies. Both the vastness and accumulated sadness of the memories of the winged beings could damage a human's body. Yukito offered his mental storage capacity to Misuzu so that she would be able to live long enough to break the second curse, which prompted his own memories to be transferred to Sora. With the second curse gone, Sora flew to the heavens to bring the last happy memories of Misuzu to Kanna so that she could be released from Ryuuya's shadow and returned to Earth, and blend the memories of the winged beings with the Earth's. From then on, no one needed to bear the memories of the winged beings alone anymore, so the third curse was also lifted.\n\nThe children playing on the beach at the end should not be seen as the\nreincarnations of Misuzu-Kanna/Yukito-Ryuuya, but as the [all-\nknowing](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOmniscient) [Key\nstaff](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WriterOnBoard) and you, the\nviewers.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-11T14:52:02.623", "id": "19981", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-30T22:04:50.813", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "6803", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs stated on the wiki\n\n> Aside from the Roger Pirates and Whitebeard, before their death, no one\n> actually knows where the great treasure is.\n> [source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/One_Piece)\n\nThis would mean both Shanks and Buggy would know the location of the One\nPiece. According to the information the most likely also know what the one\npiece is _Sort of a spoiler_\n\n> Given the recurring theme of treasure being something of great personal\n> value (for example Luffy's hat), One Piece may simply be an item that Gol D.\n> Roger valued. In Buggy's flashback to his days as a member of the Roger\n> Pirates, he discussed with Shanks the meaning of a treasure, and he found\n> that all the crew shared the same views regarding personal value [Vol. 3\n> Chapter 19 (p. 8)](http://www.mangapark.com/manga/One-Piece/v3/c19/all)\n\nAs to the location they described\n\n> It is said that it was hidden somewhere deep in the Grand Line, presumably\n> in the last island, Raftel, by its deceased owner, the Pirate King Gol D.\n> Roger\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-08T21:25:28.360", "id": "6811", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-08T21:25:28.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6809", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nwe don't know what exactly is one piece. odachi said it is some tangible\nthing. gol d roger is the only other person to use voice of all thins aside\nfrom luffy. although it hasn't been shown till now, maybe to reach and find\none piece, the ability to hear voice of all things is required. shanks and\nbuggy don't have this ability so they don't know what and where is one piece\nand are searching in new world.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T09:36:17.207", "id": "7197", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-28T09:36:17.207", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "6809", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nOnly Gol D. Roger and Rayleigh are the ones who know about the One Piece. Do\nyou remember the scene when Roger had a chit chat with Whitebeard? He offered\nto give information about One Piece to Whitebeard, but he rejected it, because\nhe doesn't want the One Piece. Also, when Usopp asked Rayleigh about the\nlocation of One Piece, he said he knew.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-26T18:25:39.997", "id": "19703", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-12T08:20:42.850", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-12T08:20:42.850", "last_editor_user_id": "6368", "owner_user_id": "12957", "parent_id": "6809", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI know that Shanks and Buggy can't use the Voice of All Things but they were\nrookies on Gol. D Roger's ship which means that they travelled around with\nhim, possibly even to Raftel and they could have found the One Piece together.\nBut that begs the questions of \"did Gol. D Roger go to Raftel and find the One\nPiece before Shanks and Buggy joined their crew?\" which means that if\nWhitebeard doesn't want to title of King of Pirates, then everyone is\nbasically helping Luffy obtain it with the help of Rayleigh and Whitebeard\nsince they know about Raftel and One Piece...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-19T16:47:45.487", "id": "37951", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-19T16:47:45.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29845", "parent_id": "6809", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is called the **Kruschtya Equation** which unlike the Phenomenon Equation,\nwas developed by himself. It is used to bind his original form so he has the\nappearance of a human, When he \"unties\" the Equation, his body begins to shape\nshift back to it's original form\n\n\n\nThe above image is the most commonly seen form as his final form only appears\nfor a breif moment, there is a hybrid from where just he's head is shown, this\nis shown in 2 places\n\n * In the Shikkoku no Sharnoth Visual Novel when he encounters Bram Stoker at around the same time Troll has been consumed (this may however be his other side who poses as Baron Münchausen as the CG of M laughing shows he has a human face at this moment)\n\n * In the Shikkoku no Sharnoth Web Novel where he removes the water spray the fake Metacreature splash on Mary's neck, he does this by changing his head head to it's original form and merging his shadows into Mary's neck to remove the spray that was infecting her body (Sebas mentions just before that it has \"permeated below the skin, and is eroding her bodily functions\"), however because of the spray's effect on her body Mary does not notice any Equation use\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-09T04:36:05.873", "id": "6817", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-09T04:36:05.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6816", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI tried to find about it and it took me a while but I got it, it's an\ninteresting story presented\n[here](http://www.mangahere.com/manga/one_piece_databook/c002/). As a summery:\n\n * Jango wakes up, chased after by 'Usopp Police Squad'.\n * Takes a small boat, passed 'Captain Morgan', both asleep.\n * New island, marines searching for him.\n * Takes a disguise, enters a dancing contest.\n * Jango is the winner, Fullbody is first runner-up.\n * Island attacked by 'Caption Yurikaa' leading 'Tulip Pirates'.\n * Jango runs, Fullbody fights.\n * A girl is taken hostage, Fullbody is defeated.\n * Jango returns to save his 'Brother', both defeat those pirates.\n * Fullbody captures Jango, degree 'Death by Hanging', Fullbody objects.\n * Decision overturned, Fullbody got a demotion.\n * Both agree to be hypnotized, to forget about their friendship.\n * Hina appears, decision changes, they decide to follow her.\n * Both enlist into Marine HQ with 'Mop in hand'.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-09T09:29:23.627", "id": "6825", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-09T09:29:23.627", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "6824", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is all explained in a Cover Arc named Jango's Dance Paradise, from chapter\n126 to chapter 172.\n\nBasically he meets up with Fullbody, compete in a dance competition, fight\nsome pirates and become friends in the process. Fullbody refusing to arrest\nJango he gets demoted but then they see Hina, fall in love with her then\ndecide to enlist under her, Jango becoming a marine and Fullbody getting\ndemoted from lieutenant to seaman recruit.\n\nIf you don't want to go check the chapter you can see them all here [One Piece\nWiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Jango%27s_Dance_Paradise)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-10T08:40:55.423", "id": "6840", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-10T08:40:55.423", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3231", "parent_id": "6824", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAizen wanted to merge the power of Hollows and Soul Reapers because he wanted\nto gain more power as he reached his saturation point of Soul Reaper powers.\nFor this, he needed the Hogyoku. And he wanted to go to the Soul King Palace.\nBut Ichigo even surpassed him and failed him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-09T20:14:05.783", "id": "6831", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T14:25:48.827", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T14:25:48.827", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3274", "parent_id": "6830", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nYea he used the vicerds (can't spell it) to test the hollowfication and then\nhis comrades such as kaname tozen. When it was perfected on tozen he used it\non himself because a mere human can't handle the power of the hogyku so he has\nto be the best of both worlds or something\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T02:26:38.843", "id": "7191", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-28T02:26:38.843", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3508", "parent_id": "6830", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAizen wanted to create the Ouken, the key that opens the door to the Soul King\nwho rules Soul Society. In order to be able to keep increasing his power he\nwanted to merge the powers of Hollows and Soul Reapers, this was his\nexperiment with the Visoreds. Aizen had made his own version of the Hogyoku to\ndo this but it was incomplete, he merged it with the one Urahara made and with\nthat he had the finished one that allowed him to increase his power and become\nthe ultimate being. Aizen said himself that only Urahara was the only\nintellectual challenge he might have had.\n\nRemember though that Aizen had his hypnotic power that allowed him to control\nmany of those within Soul Society, those he did not control he tricked. He was\nable to get many to do his bidding, knowingly or not, only Ichigo was not\nunder his control since he had never seen the sword release.\n\nIchigo made a statement after killing Aizen that Aizen was so powerful that\nhaving no equal he felt there was no one to challenge him and was somewhat\nlonely; the part about crossing swords where all Ichigo felt was lonliness.\nIt's possible to look at this as the only one who could be a challenge to\nAizen was the Soul King, so creating the Ouken using Karkura Town would allow\nhim to open the gateway to where the Soul King lived and possibly fight him\nand find an equal.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T18:20:25.820", "id": "7201", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-01T13:25:33.310", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-01T13:25:33.310", "last_editor_user_id": "3520", "owner_user_id": "3520", "parent_id": "6830", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe eye was James. Hence the part where it says the \"red eye warped/as if\nlooking at something bright\" hearkening back to the many times it mentions\nJames doing the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-03T20:42:02.447", "id": "19097", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-03T20:42:02.447", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11532", "parent_id": "6833", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a sample of the [Giving Up the Ghost\ntropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GivingUpTheGhost) The term\nitself actually originates from the [King James Version of the\nBible](http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/)\n\n> when Jesus was on the cross, His last words were \"Father, into your hands I\n> commit my spirit.\" When he had said this, he breathed his last.\" (New\n> International Version) The King James Version of 1611, however, gave it the\n> contemporary wording \"... and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.\"\n> [source](http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/785830)\n\nThe trope is a spinoff version of the western version [Winged Soul Flies Off\nAt\nDeath](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath).\nThe western version got first used in 1948 in a western animation\n\n> The 1948 short \"Back Alley Oproar\" with Sylvester and Elmer Fudd. Sylvester\n> insists on singing when Fudd wants to sleep, and Sylvester eventually ends\n> up on a cloud, complete with halo and wings.\n\nas for the giving up the Ghost trope I am not certain when it first occured.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-10T14:57:11.683", "id": "6845", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-10T14:57:11.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to chinese traditional medicine, when a person dies, the soul\nescapes the body from one of its orifices (any). These beliefs passed to the\nother asian cultures. So, the soul leaving the body from the mouth is a\nfamiliar image that would need no explanation for asian people.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-16T01:13:38.413", "id": "6942", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-16T01:13:38.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1589", "parent_id": "6836", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKuroko no Basuke (manga) never references any actual NBA pro by explicitly\nstating a name, but they have shown panels of professional basket ball players\ninsinuating that they are from the NBA. The characters depicted don't actually\nresemble any specific pro, but rather a generic player - tall, built, and\nAfrican-American.\n\nIt does seem like the Generation of Miracles could beat real life NBA teams,\nbut the manga does indirectly explain how the Generation of Miracles will not\nprevail.\n\nTake Kise's copying ability for example. He can only copy people's techniques\nthat he is capable of executing, but because NBA players are so much bigger,\nfaster, and better, his copying won't work.\n\nOr in Midorima's case, he might have the insane accuracy as usual, but an NBA\nplayer can easily block his shot.\n\nIn the end, however, I don't think Kuroko no Basket will ever mention and\ncompare with top NBA pros. There are certain things that are completely\nimpossible, like Kuroko's phantom shot. It doesn't even theoretically work in\nreal life because NBA plays man to man defense, where each member playing has\nto always follow their assigned opponent. You can't just misdirect someone\nfollowing you and not see you shooting.\n\nAnd don't even get me started on eagle vision...\n\n**UPDATE** : In one of the latest chapters (242) that I haven't read yet, [Ray\nAllen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Allen) of the Boston Celtics is shown\nas the first NBA player in Kuroko. This is somewhat inaccurate though, as Ray\nAllen has been part of the Miami Heat for 2 years now.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-10T11:11:49.453", "id": "6842", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T14:38:15.140", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-17T14:38:15.140", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6841", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, they only did it once. When they compared Ray Allen to the SG of\nRakuzan.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T09:32:07.160", "id": "6976", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T09:32:07.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3360", "parent_id": "6841", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nthey do mention shaq during the anime as well as tiger woods saying they\ninfluenced rule changes on there professions\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T12:48:38.130", "id": "7670", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-24T12:48:38.130", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3877", "parent_id": "6841", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou had a pretty close guess there.\n\n> Using Noland's Log book as a guide, it is possible to work out that the\n> current storyline of One Piece takes place in the sixteenth century with the\n> Kaienreki reference.\n\nA pretty accurate world time line has also been made on [the One piece\nwiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/World_Timeline) although only updated\ntill November last year ('13). For more info and their sources of the years\nmentioned you can check out their chat/change logs\n[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Talk%3aWorld_Timeline)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-10T14:26:57.497", "id": "6844", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-10T14:26:57.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, actually! One Piece doesn't even take place on earth. It's pretty\nobvious when you take a glance at the planet's geography:\n\n\n\nNot even during earth's theorized pangaea phase did it ever look like this. So\nOne Piece is either very, very, very far into the future, or more likely\nsimply not on earth at all.\n\nA lot of ideas in OP are gathered from the eras you've mentioned, certainly,\nas a thematic thing, but they don't actually take place in those points of\nhuman history.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-16T10:14:14.423", "id": "11301", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T10:14:14.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6260", "parent_id": "6843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nOne Piece takes place in an alternate world and within an alternate timeline.\n\nThere is at least one calendar named\n[Kaienreki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/World_Timeline). Noland Montblanc\nvisits Jaya during Kaienreki 1120s. That being said to happen around 400 years\nbefore current time, we can say the main story happens during Kaienreki 15XXs\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-24T09:04:17.147", "id": "26114", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-24T09:04:17.147", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18102", "parent_id": "6843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's far into the future on Earth and information about the past is\nmisconstrued and only some things were carried on throughout the years like\ntechnological ideas, values, traditions, myths, phrases, etc. I also think\nthat there was some sort of apocalypse hence the devil fruits, Giants,\nfishmen, angels on sky island, and the part about Cerberus during thriller\nbark.\n\nThe events leading up to the blank era were basically the rebuilding of\nhumanity but much was forgotten after the apocalypse, and a group of people\nworked to recover that lost history and were successful. The government that\nwas created soon after covered up those 100 years of revival because of fear\nthat humanity would have to endure another apocalypse due to unknown reasons.\nThe people who found out about the past before the apocalypse created the\nponeglyph to be indestructible using information found in the past in hopes of\na full recovery for humanity.\n\nMy hunch also grew when Sanji asked Brooke if he ever heard of TMI, which is\nan acronym typically used in texting. Plus the Earth looks like it does due to\ngeographical changes and the water between heaven and hell.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-11T09:24:19.737", "id": "44172", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-11T09:45:36.607", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-11T09:45:36.607", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37579", "parent_id": "6843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe it takes place during the 19th century, seeing as how the ships\nmatch up to those during the 1800s, the first gas operated stove was made\nduring the 1820s and Sanji smokes cigarettes, which were invented in 1865 and\nmass produced across the world in 1881. This is saying IF one piece took place\non Earth.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-11T15:19:42.303", "id": "45038", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-11T15:19:42.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "38549", "parent_id": "6843", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Episode 184, one of the Shandorans says \"What on Earth is going on? Those\ndark clouds.. What happened?\" It also doesn't hurt that the dirt is called\nVearth.\n\nIts the Hulu translation, so I don't know how correct this\nis...(<https://i.stack.imgur.com/wW9fZ.jpg>)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-02-04T16:02:42.867", "id": "50711", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-04T16:02:42.867", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "44791", "parent_id": "6843", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nOk, for one, no, it does not take place in the 19th century. It doesn't take\nplace anywhere in time. Because coby wears modern converses, (which were made\nin 1949) and the witch refers to trash bags and toilet paper, trash bags were\ninvented in 1950. And toilet paper was made in the early 19th century. So\nthere is no actual answer to the question that you are asking.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-25T17:21:06.793", "id": "57692", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-25T17:21:06.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "53509", "parent_id": "6843", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'll try to answer this as a whole since no episode or season has been\nspecified.\n\nTouya feels bad throughout the entire series and knows he's not really up to\nmuch good. In fact, he pushes away the girls who has committed some form of\n\"adultery\" with away many times. For this reason, we can conclude there is at\nleast some feeling of guilt brooded within him.\n\nHowever, the most plausible explanation (note, we can only speculate as the\nseries never says) is Touya has feelings for **Rina** and does not want\n**Yuki** to know they talk outside of business. Touya spends a lot of time\nwith Rina on the job a few times during the season but it was supposed to be\nstrictly that.\n\nOne can only assume out of guilt and uneasiness, the natural reaction was to\nhide personal relations with Rina so that Yuki would not think less of him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-20T03:22:42.913", "id": "15198", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-20T03:22:42.913", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "6846", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nActually the animation is superior in many cases for 90s shows. So your\nargument is not valid.\n\nEvangelion should be watched in the order released (Series => EoE => Rebulids)\nas Rebulids are clearly not remakes.\n\nOn the other hand if you don't feel like watching the series why would you do\nso? Just because it's a classic? Worthless.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-11T08:10:26.160", "id": "6850", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-11T08:10:26.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3082", "parent_id": "6849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nYou could watch the evangellion rebuild movies, but some plot points change,\nsome things are left out and the third movie is seemingly (I havent seen it\nyet) quite different altogether.\n\nAgain, I would recommend that you should watch the series first, but you could\njust watch the films, they don't nessicarily require any knowledge about the\nseries to watch.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-11T10:33:52.727", "id": "6852", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-11T10:33:52.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "6849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis might be completely wrong, but I think this face/trope is more about the\nwide-mouthed grin rather than the curling tongue.\n\nCompare it to the emoticon \":V\", which is usually used online after saying\nsomething that will annoy the reader. Which is what is also happening in the\npanel given in the question.\n\nExample:\n\n**Person A:** You should watch Avatar, It's one of my favourite anime second\nonly to Lucky Star.\n\n**Person B:** I'll check it out, but technically Avatar is a cartoon :V\n\nThey seem similar enough both in what they represent and how they look to be\nconnected.\n\n[Urban Dictionary entry for\n\":V\"](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%3AV)\n\n\n\nYou'll often see the smiley referred to as the 'pacman smiley', but this term\nhas risen from Facebook's popularity - The smiley has been around on forums\nand other community groups (albeit less mainstream) for many years and tracing\nits origins is near impossible due to the vast nature of the internet.\n\nThe wide mouthed grin is also a noticeable feature of the famous troll face,\nalbeit at a different angle. Its usage is similar to the above.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-24T12:22:00.143", "id": "21087", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-27T12:49:55.450", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-27T12:49:55.450", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "6853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe creator of Pokemon wanted children watching the show to be able to relate\nto the main protagonist, Ash/Satoshi (personally I believe the protagonist is\nPikachu). Keeping the character around the age of ten is a good way to get\nkids that will be this age (ten) soon to watch the show.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-13T00:48:52.707", "id": "6872", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-13T08:30:18.743", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-13T08:30:18.743", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "3308", "parent_id": "6854", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nA possibility is that the time leap between episodes is short. In Pokemon's\ncase, there are about 887 episodes, but the time span between the episodes is\nnever revealed. If each episode occurred back to back, only about 2.43 years\nhas passed since the first episode occurred, which is a short time for some\npeople to physically change. Another example is Detective Conan, which\ncurrently has 787 episodes. If each episode occurred back to back, about 2.15\nyears has passed. This is relatively short, especially for grade-schoolers, to\nchange physically.\n\nThere are a couple exception, and one of them is Doraemon. Doraemon has more\nthan 2000 episodes and even if each episode occurred back to back, more than 6\nyears has passed. For ones like these, the only probable explanation is that\nthe author wanted to keep the characters young to appeal to younger audiences.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-12T03:06:02.893", "id": "24005", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-12T03:06:02.893", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16185", "parent_id": "6854", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIMDb is mistaken in that Alison Viktorin is \"known for\" _Fullmetal Alchemist:\nBrotherhood_. As was stated in the comments. IMDb simply sees that Viktorin\ndid voice work for _Brotherhood_ , sees that _Brotherhood_ is a very famous\ntitle, and assumes that she is well-known for her work in it.\n\nThis is quite contrary to the truth, though. Viktorin is credited only as\n\"additional voices\" in one episode: episode 43. I've seen the episode a few\ntimes, and can confirm that there are only four places where a non-credited\nvoice (i.e. one outside the named cast in the credits) is heard (excluding\nobviously male voices):\n\n * Two children laughing and playing (2:35)\n * Child grabbing Yoki's hair (3:03)\n * Baby tugging on sleeve (10:14)\n * Unintelligible chattering and whispering (11:01)\n\nThough I can't tell which one of these four instances Viktorin actually\nvoices, all four are very minor roles that are hardly worthy of mention.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T04:18:35.300", "id": "6972", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T04:18:35.300", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "6859", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe novel takes place at the same time as the manga does and covers the same\ncontent. However, the novel covers all of the story, whereas the manga stops\nabout 2/3rds way through.\n\nThe manga also has characters from the 3 schools, but the primary characters\nin both mediums are from St. Miator's.\n\nThere may be a couple of characters that differ between the mediums, but they\nwill be minor characters and the cast is mostly the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T06:39:36.620", "id": "7057", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T08:47:56.903", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-20T08:47:56.903", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "6866", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNothing! The aforementioned manga provides minor additional background for\nfans. This includes:\n\n * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha MOVIE 1st THE COMICS\n * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's\n * Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS THE COMICS\n\nThe remaining manga continues with an unique story:\n\n * Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha ViVid\n * Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Force\n\nThe former is a carefree spin-off focusing on Vivio (but fun!), while the\nlatter continues Nanoha's story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-12T22:34:50.943", "id": "6870", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-12T22:34:50.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "6867", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI would have to check, but I seem to remember that the trigger was 1 million\ntotal - it does not matter whether the humans are on the surface or\nunderground, they still count. Keeping humans underground, and under constant\nattacks from beastmen, had the effect of capping that number.\n\nAnd as far as I remember, the thinking was that people underground hampered\nthe census efforts, thus preventing Rossiu from estimating correctly how far\nthey were from the limit.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-13T02:07:12.367", "id": "6873", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-13T02:07:12.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1362", "parent_id": "6868", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe illustrator Peko, along with the other staffs who created the visual\nnovels, published several [dojinshis (not safe for\nwork)](http://lumino.sakura.ne.jp/doujin.html) that contained novels and\nillustrations (one copy of which I have). These might be considered official\nadaptation. Note that the visual novels themselves used to be distributed much\nlike dojinshis (e.g., at comiket), and not like typical commercial VNs.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-13T13:37:00.407", "id": "6881", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-13T13:37:00.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3134", "parent_id": "6869", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Steins;Gate World Line is not in the Beta Attractor Field.\n\nWhile the final result of the Beta Attractor Field (World Lines 1% to 1.99%)\nconvergence is WW3 which is fought over Makise Kurisu's time travel thesis,\nSteins;Gate (1.048596%) is the only exception because the thesis is destroyed\n(and thus time travel doesn't exist in that World Line).\n\nAt the beginning of the final chapter of the VN and episode 23 of the anime,\nSuzuha herself had told Okabe that the Steins;Gate World Line is not bounded\nby any attractor field.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-13T08:10:27.800", "id": "6877", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-17T14:32:09.377", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-17T14:32:09.377", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "6876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThey used thread as an example for world lines, all are slightly different.\n\nAttractor Field Example: <http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Attractor_Field>\n\nBut when thread frays and unravels strands can get separated, thus creating a\ndivergent would line.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-22T10:47:13.437", "id": "42437", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-22T10:52:34.817", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-22T10:52:34.817", "last_editor_user_id": "35771", "owner_user_id": "35771", "parent_id": "6876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough the Steins;Gate world line has a divergence number 1.048596, the\nSteins;Gate world line is between the 2 attractor fields - the alpha and the\nbeta.\n\nThis allows it to not converge to either of the converging points of the alpha\nand beta attractor fields, in this case, Mayuri dying/SERN dystopia or WW3,\nand therefore the Steins;Gate world line can have a different future than\neither of them, i.e, a peaceful one.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-16T10:30:02.677", "id": "45099", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-17T14:38:40.963", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-17T14:38:40.963", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33127", "parent_id": "6876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt isn't in the Beta Attractor Field. It's being separated from any attractor\nfield (maybe has its own, since there are few world lines too close to the\nSteins Gate and repeating its events, for example, 1.048599, the alternate\nstory of _Robotics;Notes_ from manga Legacy Revival, or the \"R\" line from the\nmovie).\n\nAccording to the official documentation for the world lines in Amadeus'\nScript, released after _Steins;Gate 0_ , 1.048596 is in \"Steins Gate\" section.\nAn interesting thing, that there is 1.049326 world line, which belongs to\nmysterious X Attractor Field.\n\nSource: [Imgur gallery of translated official documentation to all\n_Steins;Gate_ VNs](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oJb4Y.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-03-12T06:49:21.370", "id": "51128", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-17T14:38:48.107", "last_edit_date": "2019-05-17T14:38:48.107", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "44759", "parent_id": "6876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Moeka was **incredibly desperate** and she didn't really have a lot of leads\n> for the IBN5100. It would have been highly possible she checked it\n> regardless. I believe Okabe says the same thing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-14T07:40:33.710", "id": "6898", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-14T14:18:38.223", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-14T14:18:38.223", "last_editor_user_id": "2988", "owner_user_id": "2988", "parent_id": "6878", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf I get your question correctly, then the answer is NO. Those **do not**\ncontradict each other because\n\n> the events you described above (first half of episode 1) happen in **the\n> Beta Worldline**. In the Beta Worldline, the time machine is complete -\n> hence there was no coordinate error and the machine did not crash. The time\n> machine only crashed on **the Alpha Worldline**.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-14T07:34:35.827", "id": "6897", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-30T14:37:24.190", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-30T14:37:24.190", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2988", "parent_id": "6879", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYou probably forgot since it was all the way back in episode 1, but Okabe\n_does_ see the machine on the roof... not crashed, and hence he hears the\nscream. It's only after he leaves the building and sends the first D-Mail that\nhe sees the crashed \"satellite\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-23T07:45:24.160", "id": "8198", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-30T14:37:25.743", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-30T14:37:25.743", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4217", "parent_id": "6879", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI just finished the anime last night. I also rewatched the last episodes\n(22,23,24). The last time I watched an episode of the anime, I noticed that\nthere's a relation between the events that happened in ep 24 and 1. Here's\nwhat I think. Okabe saved Kurisu by piercing himself for the blood pool so\nthat the present Okabe (talking about the ep 1) will see/mistake her as dead\nin the first episode.(re watch from ep 24 to 1 to see the connection) The\nscream in episode 1 was definitely Okabe's (the Okabe from ep 24 when he\npierced himself). Although it also doesn't really make sense to me on how the\nD-mail was sent to Daru in episode 1. Causing Kurisu not to remember meeting\nOkabe. And herself being alive (refering to ep 2)\n\nAfter thinking about stuff regarding the REAL plot of the whole anime series,\nI realized that in the first episode, Kurisu wasn't really dead. Okabe in the\nfirst episode mistook her as dead, which is exactly what Okabe in the episode\n24 wanted. The first D-mail which Okabe ( 1st ep ) sent to Daru: \"Seems\nsomeone stabbed Makise Kurisu.\" ( I forgot the exact words)\n\nThat caused the \"misunderstanding\", wherein, if Okabe went back to the time\nwhere the D-mail/Phone Microwave didn't exist, Kurisu would be dead, which\nwasn't.\n\nIt's a pretty interesting topic, and I'd love to hear and see your opinions\nregarding this discussion. Especially those who just finished the one of the\ngreatest anime ever, welcome to the fandom ^^\n\nNote: If anyone have corrections for my post/theory and stuff , feel free to\nreply\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-01T21:05:09.773", "id": "22037", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-30T14:29:07.017", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-30T14:29:07.017", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "14794", "parent_id": "6879", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n> The scream you mentioned was BEFORE Okabe sent a text message. \n> The crash you mentioned was seen AFTER Okabe sent a text message. (and for\n> clarification, the time machine didn't crash into the wall, it appeared\n> there. It wasn't this \"crash\" which damaged the time machine either, it was\n> the later rain storm)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-22T16:32:32.003", "id": "47998", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-22T16:32:32.003", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41600", "parent_id": "6879", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe problem I see is that you are using the logic of our history versus logic\nof _One Piece_.\n\nIn the 16th century, they did not have ships that could travel in the air nor\nin space for that matter.\n\n 1. According to the [Wikia - Enel](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Enel),\n\n> His mini-series suggests he does not need to breathe and can survive outside\n> of the atmosphere. However, his electricity-based powers have no effect on\n> certain substances such as rubber, making Luffy a formidable enemy, as he is\n> immune to Enel's powers.\n\n 2. You're using the logic of our history vs _One Piece_. The ship they used was the Ark Maxim which is a flying ship, stuff that we did not have in the 16th century. Also, Enel used his electricity powers to power the ship itself so it's possible to say that the ship could possibly reach very high speeds in space, there's nothing to slow down the ship. All they would need is a powerful thrust force to move in space, which can most likely be done using the chemical vats on the ship.\n\nAs the [Wikia - Ark Maxim](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ark_Maxim) states,\n\n> The Maxim is capable of flight, even in space. Enel's electrical energy is\n> her main power supply, while two hundred Jet Dials are used as a backup\n> power supply to keep the ark in the air for an hour if something were to\n> happen to the Ark's mechanism. Enel used the gold from the Shandora ruins as\n> a conductor for his electricity.\n\nThe Wikia states this about the vats\n\n> Enel can use Maxim to create massive lightning storms via a combination of\n> chemical vats that produce storms clouds and his own lightning abilities.\n> One of these thunderbolts is enough to burn down an entire village, and Enel\n> can create a giant thundercloud that can destroy an entire island.\n\n 3. I don't believe he can reach the moon just by his own power, wouldn't that imply that he could fly or teleport with his lightning powers. He does use his powers as previously stated only to fly the Ark Maxim to the moon though.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-13T15:33:24.347", "id": "6884", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-07T15:54:26.077", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-07T15:54:26.077", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "3317", "parent_id": "6882", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWe never see the ship running at its full speed as Enel was trying to get the\ngolden bell or wanted the extra gold before leaving Skypiea. Therefore, we\ndon't know its true speed, he also designed the ship showing a high level of\nintellect.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-03T16:52:56.463", "id": "14290", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-07T15:54:28.733", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-07T15:54:28.733", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "8578", "parent_id": "6882", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe breath dials. They blow out air enough to keep it in the air on earth for\na whole hour, that's a tremendous amount of force with which one can propel\nthemselves in space where there are minimal drag forces, allowing for that\nforce to make the ship go very very fast.\n\nConsidering how un-aerodynamic it is and how much metal is likely in it\n(almost an entire city of gold's worth), it would likely have around as much\nor more force than our spaceflights use to blast off into space. Also,\nconsidering that's a whole hour of constant use, it's quite possible it's more\n\"fuel\" that our spaceships have, thus allowing for the actual speed issue to\nbe resolved.\n\nAs for the why he can't use lightning, lightning cannot travel through the\nvacuum of space due to a lack of any \"medium\" with which to flow through, like\nEnel does through the air, metal, or otherwise, since to varying degrees, they\nallow for a flow of electrons. However, it is difficult to expect electrons to\nflow through, what is to my knowledge, emptiness.\n\nAssuming Enel isn't an exception in the no-air, no-food, etc. and that he\nintended to bring people with him, there must have either been a legitimate\nreason for not only him but also even him intending to bring Nami into space.\nOtherwise, it is just \"plot armor\" and they just don't want real-world logic\nto apply for some stuff.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-11T04:59:23.557", "id": "39799", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-07T15:54:38.663", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-07T15:54:38.663", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "31908", "parent_id": "6882", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt has been theorized that the moon is within the planet's atmosphere. I\nbelieve I heard it from a YouTuber and don't know if it is plausible. It would\nhave many problems with physics and such, but considering it is a manga and\nthey got to the moon with balloons, it goes against logic either way.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-04-14T04:20:17.033", "id": "46557", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-07T15:54:34.450", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-07T15:54:34.450", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "30814", "parent_id": "6882", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEnel becomes the ruler of the moon according the wikia\n<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Enel>\n\n> Originally, Enel met a few more recent ones who came from the planet below\n> to avenge their fallen creator on Machine Island. First Lieutenant Spacey\n> was the first automaton that Enel encountered on the moon. He survived his\n> encounter with the Space Pirates who came there to dig up the ancient city\n> located on the moon. After meeting Enel, he considered him his savior. After\n> finding his true roots, Enel established a new empire on the moon with the\n> automata as his followers.\n\nHe stays on the moon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-14T15:16:28.533", "id": "6902", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-14T15:16:28.533", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3317", "parent_id": "6883", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs [@Krazer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/63/krazer) pointed out,\nyour description matches that of the Korean manhwa series [_PhD: Phantasy\nDegree_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhD:_Phantasy_Degree), wherein the\nfemale protagonist changes genders each time a ring is removed from her\nfinger, as well as each ring having its own \"personality.\"\n\nFrom the link above:\n\n> A young, spunky, fearless girl named Sang is searching for the Demon School\n> Hades. She runs into a group of misfit monsters who are all ditching classes\n> from the same school. Sang convinces them to take her to the school ... and,\n> since only monsters are allowed in, she 'monsterizes' herself by letting one\n> of the misfits - a vampire - bite her. After the destruction of the Demon\n> School Hades at the hands of the Madosa Guild in volume 3, she moves on to\n> search for more of \"Satan's Rings\". She meets Chun-Lang, a young swordsman,\n> who also has a Ring, and like Sang, can change genders.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-13T22:28:58.740", "id": "6892", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-13T22:38:17.273", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "6887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you'd notice, not only Madara, but also Hashirama, Tobirama and other\nShinobi's from the past have worn this kind of attire. The outfit which he is\nwearing is not exactly the samurai's outfit, but it is the standard outfit of\nthat time. It's just fit for combat.\n\nAccording to the Wiki:\n\n> Hashirama's attire took the form of the standard shinobi dress of his era,\n> consisting of dark red traditional armour — similar to that of samurai —\n> worn over a simple black suit. This armour was constructed from numerous\n> metal plates, formed into multiple protective guards along his body, in\n> particular: chest, shoulders, thighs and forearms.\n\nMadara accepted this and followed Hashirama's attire, says the Wiki:\n\n> After accepting Hashirama's truce, Madara's attire consisted of maroon\n> armour with numerous metal plates, forming protective guards along his\n> chest, waist, shoulders and thighs. This clothing under the armour was a\n> indigo long-sleeved shirt with a knee-length mantle, pants, open-toed boots,\n> gloves.\n\nSo basically, this doesn't really symbolise anything or any mystery with it.\nIt's just the attire of their era and it's fit for combat due to the heavy\narmour which protects the person wearing it. This attire is derived from the\n[Japanese\nArmor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_armour#Individual_armour_parts)'s\ntradition.\n\nThis is what I personally feel: Kishimoto is trying to give a feel of Madara's\ntimeline which means that in the past, Japanese warriors (which mainly\nconsisted of samurai's) wore this kind of outfit. So he might be trying to\nmatch the timeline of Madara with Japanese history and show how the generation\nhas advanced by changing the attire of the current Shinobi's.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-14T07:19:19.640", "id": "6896", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T17:51:26.407", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T17:51:26.407", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "6895", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara doesn't wear the armor until later on after his final battle with\nHashirama. This leads me to believe that Madara took Hashirama's armor. I\ndon't know why, but they're identical besides the Senju crest.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-15T22:33:43.747", "id": "20870", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-15T23:58:00.023", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-15T23:58:00.023", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "13928", "parent_id": "6895", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat really depends on the pokemon....\n\nFor instance bug pokemon do not really have blood, but some form of juices and\nsuch...\n\nAnother example of a Pokemon that has something similar to blood is\nCacturne...\n\nFrom the Pokemon Wikia :\n\n> Cacturne is a nocturnal Pokémon that rarely moves during the day, which\n> allows it to hold moisture. At night, it searches for prey or follows\n> travelers until they become exhausted. It has lived in deserts for so long\n> that its blood has transformed into sand. With its thorny arms, it is able\n> to use its former signature move, Needle Arm.\n\nIt's also worth it to note that quite a number of Pokemon are similar to\nanimals in the real world so the make up of the inner body would be similar...\n\nFor instance some Pokedex entries include stuff about the heart, like Spoink.\n\n> Spoink is a gray, pig-like Pokémon. It has dark, circular eyes, a large gray\n> nose, and small ears. It has stubby arms and possesses no hind legs. Motion\n> is achieved by bouncing on its spring-like tail. The bouncing has a vital\n> function, in that it keeps its heart beating.\n\nThe only types of Pokemon that would never really have blood and such are the\nones that are Ghost-type Pokemon and a few others like Rock Type. Though\nperhaps the Ghost Type pokemon would be ectoplasm, which isn't really blood,\nbut it's hard to say considering in the game you can't hit them with normal\nphysical attacks...\n\nAlso there's no blood in the anime because it's a Children's show.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-14T14:53:13.417", "id": "6901", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-14T14:53:13.417", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3317", "parent_id": "6899", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs you stated they both contracted the disease when the research lab exploded\nthis got covered in Episode 10 \"Suitengu Cometh\"\n\nLater on in episode 17\n\n> Suitengu listens to the melody of his music box and utters the name \"Yui.\"\n> He begins to reminisce about his childhood with his sister, Yui. On that\n> fateful day, he discovers his parents hung and a man arrives to collect the\n> debt they owe. Yui attempts to pay with money from a child's game, but the\n> man discards the money and takes her captive and sends Suitengu off to army\n> training. Suitengu always keeps his music box and survives the battles for\n> seven years. **On his last mission, he is sent to attack a research\n> laboratory, but when the rest of his squad is defeated, he ends up becoming\n> a test subject. He is healed and given an Euphoric power which allows him to\n> defeat the army when they attack again.** After arriving in Japan, he saves\n> the lives of Tsujido, Makabe, and Niihari, and they become his followers.\n> Then, he entices Shinsen into his plan for dominance and sets his plan into\n> motion.\n\nWith that knowledge there are several possibility that could lead to more\npower users. The 2 most likely would be\n\n 1. The virus had already been used for testing purposes or militairy purposes\n 2. There is more than just 1 laboratory that is developing this virus\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T11:29:18.600", "id": "6934", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-15T11:29:18.600", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI believe she was happy to be free from her life as a prostitute - When\nSuitengu enters, she treats him like another _client_ , begging for money and\ninitiating intimacy by sucking on his fingers.\n\nYui's life was a wreck and you can see in the scene that she has been reduced\nto a weak state of survival, having been badly treated for (presumably) years.\nShe was most likely glad to be free of the living hell she was in.\n\nHer smile could be interpreted as a final recognition of her brother, but\npersonally I doubt it - she is confused and dismissive of both the music box\nand when Suitengu hugs her, it's only moments before we see her hand drop that\nshe smiles.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-08T17:22:08.217", "id": "23901", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-08T17:22:08.217", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "6908", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'd say that rather than capture life in general, Saiga's desire as a war\nphotographer was to capture life in its final moments or right before\ndestruction. There was a flashback that showed some of the scenes Saiga shot\nwith his camera which changed drastically moments later. This explains why not\nonly people die, but also inanimate objects explode after being photographed\nby euphoric Saiga.\n\nFather Kanda probably wanted to personally issue holy retribution, much like\ngod can strike sinners with lightning. As for Ran, we don't really know what\nhe thought \"perfect skin\" means, after all, these guys were pretty twisted\neven before gaining euphoric powers.\n\nThose are all guesses btw, and I don't think there is too much depth to the\ncharacters to guess incorrectly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-26T08:06:44.250", "id": "7174", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-26T08:06:44.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "6909", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs @Hakase has mentioned, Father Kanada's power is likely to be based on his\nreligious beliefs. A lot of religious texts - biblical or no, mention\n_smiting_ which is usually portrayed as lightning.\n\nAs for Ran Yurigaoka's power, A common phrase among tattoo artists is that\n_skin is a canvas_ . With his obsession with skin, he probably considers it\nart in a way also - and tattoos a further extension of that.\n\nMost likely though, the character designers simply thought that these powers\nwould be the most impressive for the personas they had, and there wasn't\nsignificant deliberating on the preciseness of the connections.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-08T17:29:32.523", "id": "23903", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-08T17:29:32.523", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "6909", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nWent back, watched the scenes in question. I thought it was the ballet dancer\nfrom the 4th episode, would explain why you don't recognize him and why he\ndoesn't play the prominent role you'd expect going forward. If I'm right that\nmakes him [Katsuya\nShirogane](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Speed_Grapher_characters#Katsuya_Shirogane):\n\n> One of the Euphorics sent by Suitengu to retrieve Kagura from Saiga, Katsuya\n> Shirogane possesses the ability to stretch his body into any imaginable form\n> (making it at least seem as if his body is made of rubber). Known as the\n> Rubber Gimp, he was a ballet dancer who was completely obsessed with the\n> flexibility of rubber to the point of breaking a young girl's arm for 'being\n> too stiff'. His head was blown off by Saiga using a piece of mirror to\n> reflect his camera shot. His Japanese voice actor is Takehito Koyasu and his\n> English voice actor is J. Michael Tatum. - Wikipedia\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-16T08:24:53.763", "id": "14005", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-16T14:58:50.750", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-16T14:58:50.750", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8192", "parent_id": "6911", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> _I want to know from which chapter should I continue reading the manga to\n> pick up where the anime left off._\n\nThe anime ends with Guts having lost his right eye and Casca being thrown\naside after being sexually assaulted by Femto. After a complete blank scene, a\nnew scene showed up where Guts left Godo's house.\n\n> This last part didn't occur in the same fashion as in the manga. One must be\n> baffled and would want to know how Guts actually survived the eclipse and\n> managed to meet Godo again. Besides, considering the last scene with Femto,\n> one should start reading manga from **Episode 88: Escape** to know how Guts\n> survived.\n\n* * *\n\n> _Are there any differences in the plot in anime and manga that I should know\n> about?_\n\nYes, there are some.\n\n 1. In episode 1 of the anime, the girl inadvertently rescued by Guts in the bar was an elf in manga, who followed him later almost everywhere in the story.\n 2. Certain characters like Skull Knight, Wyald, Apostle Count, Bakiraka Clan _et al_ , were omitted from the anime.\n 3. Certain scenes were also omitted from, as well as added into the anime. \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-15T02:19:45.623", "id": "20841", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-15T16:28:27.887", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-15T16:28:27.887", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13126", "parent_id": "6913", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe origin of this is actually in real life.\n\nIn Japan, melons are considered to be a rather expensive fruit, and after\noften given as gifts, specifically when visiting someone in a hospital. I'm\nnot really sure _how_ this particular notion was started, just that it is a\ncommon thing nowadays.\n\n\n\nIn fact, here is a 21,000-yen (~$210) melon:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Nw5r.jpg)\n\nIt would seem that the anime and manga that feature this idea are simply\ndrawing from this part of Japanese culture.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T01:02:54.827", "id": "6916", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-15T01:02:54.827", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "6914", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was explained in the StrikerS soundstages that she can turn into human\nsize, but that cost her more magical power, which makes it not practical for\ncombat. And Agito can do the same.\n\nSource\n\n<http://nanoha.wikia.com/wiki/Reinforce_Zwei>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-14T15:28:36.467", "id": "13422", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-14T15:28:36.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8000", "parent_id": "6918", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime does not make this clear; fusing with a unison device simply\nincreases the mage's offensive and defensive powers, and provides other\neffects, such as setting Signum's sword on fire when she unisoned with Agito.\n\nWhile originally Hayate and Reinforce Zwei both used the Book of the Night\nSky, later Reinforce got her own storage device - the Book of the Azure Sky.\n\n(To provide a more specific answer would be to engage in speculation.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-09T11:41:55.957", "id": "41281", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-09T11:41:55.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14139", "parent_id": "6919", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey have not yet indicated in the anime or manga exactly what happened at\nYear 0.\n\nHowever, please note that the link to the \"question close to yours\" is almost\n6 months outdated, and there is quite a bit of confusion and speculation there\nwhich was shown to be erroneous by the manga volumes released since then.\n\nThere has been a significant amount of evidence to suggest that Shingeki no\nKyojin actually does take place in our universe, in the distant future. Every\nquestion of \"how could X be like that in our future?\" has been explained at\nthis point.\n\n_Spoilers from the manga:_\n\n> The method used to create the walls involved having sentient colossal titans\n> stand shoulder-to-shoulder and encase themselves in a hard crystalline\n> material which they're capable of producing on the outside of their bodies.\n> This explains how they were able to build the walls fast enough to protect\n> themselves from the titan outbreak, and offers one of several explanations\n> as to why much of the technology in their day-to-day lives seems medieval\n> (never mind the certainty of government involvement). The world seen inside\n> the walls is not in any way representative of the outside world which\n> existed before that, since the government has outlawed all information\n> regarding the outside world and its history. \n> \n> It has also been demonstrated that the titans are all transformed human\n> beings, with one titan being seen later appearing to be a transformed monkey\n> (potentially one of the first experimental subjects). It's also been\n> indicated that Eren's ability to transform into a titan at will was\n> catalyzed by an injection of some chemical from his father. These are a few\n> of the things which show that the titans are almost certainly a result of\n> our own creation, developed through some advanced future technology.\n\nWhat very few historical facts have managed to be preserved (through the rare\ninformative book which has been successfully hidden from the government) match\nup perfectly with our own history. Their legends are our legends, their\nhistory is our history, and their world is our world.\n\nAs for when this takes place, the earliest it could hypothetically be (at the\ntime Eren is in training) is 2116 AD, since the manga was released in 2009,\nand it was stated when Eren was in training that the titans were created 107\nyears earlier. This naturally assumes that the government hasn't used their\n\"world history blackout\" to fabricate the details of the titan's appearance.\n\n_(Writing it out, I just noticed this setting has a few similarities to The\nVillage.)_\n\nContinuing that line of thought, where we assume the new government didn't\narbitrarily change the dating system just because they could, the \"Year 850\"\nwould mean that we began using a new dating system at some point in the\nfuture, starting at 0 or 1. Maybe another World War? (that's just pure\nspeculation, but it's yet another of the many possible explanations as to why\nthe technology of the common peasants is so underwhelming).\n\nSince that would make this at least 850 years from some unknown point in the\nfuture, and \"the future\" is any time after the manga began releasing in 2009,\nthat would mean the earliest that Year 850 could be is 2859 AD.\n\nHowever, one last thing to consider is that the first chapter of the manga is\ntitled \"To you, 2000 years from now.\" This shows that a 2000 year gap of time\nis relevant to the storyline somehow. There are a few interpretations about\nwhat this could be referencing, but one of the more popular ones is that this\nchapter title is addressed to the reader, meaning the storyline starts 2000\nyears from now.\n\nThat would put the beginning of the series in the year 4009 AD. It also means\nthat the new world's dating system would begin in 3164 AD.\n\nConsidering the advanced level of technology it's suggested was used to\nengineer the titans, this appears to have a significant chance of being\ncorrect.\n\nIt would also give the author an infinite number of ways to explain every\naspect of the setting, since literally anything could happen over 2000 years.\nEspecially when something so significant happened halfway through that they\nfelt the need to reset the calendar back to Year 0.\n\nAt any rate, I hope this up-to-date information was useful to you.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T04:12:59.933", "id": "7007", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-18T04:12:59.933", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3387", "parent_id": "6920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nso this is my deducted timeline from the given information in the manga:\n\n1150 before X - royal family Fritz uprise\n\n1050 before x- Ymir the first titan\n\n1037 before x- Ymir dies/ the 9 titans come\n\n957 before x- start of the titan war\n\n0 x- maybe the birth of a titan (important for the eldians in marley and on\nthe isle paradi, since its their point of view /their history)\n\n743 after x- end of the titan war\n\n830 after x- grisha enters wall maria\n\n835 after x- eren/mikasa/ armin born\n\n845 after x- breach of wall maria by colossus titan/eren turns into\ntitan/grisha dies\n\n850 after x- battle of trost\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n853/4 after x- present\n\nhow do I know that on year x a titan was born.Well,the death cyclus of a titan\nis 13. If you devide 1037 (birth of the 9 titans) with 13 you will see that on\nyear 0 its the birth of a titan.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-11T17:10:03.953", "id": "37816", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-11T17:10:03.953", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29715", "parent_id": "6920", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough I can't find a source stating this, I presume this might be based on\nthe Jewish religion. In the Jewish religion there is the Kotel. This is a old\nwall located in Jerusalem which is used for prayer.\n\n> The Western Wall, Wailing Wall or Kotel is located in the Old City of\n> Jerusalem at the foot of the western side of the Temple Mount. It is a\n> remnant of the ancient wall that surrounded the Jewish Temple's courtyard,\n> and is arguably the most sacred site recognized by the Jewish faith outside\n> of the Temple Mount itself.\n> [source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Wall)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T11:10:44.153", "id": "6932", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-21T05:02:48.060", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-21T05:02:48.060", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6921", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI feel like they refer to all real life religions. Since AoT people have no\nreal history of our time, they slowly created their own religion to explain\nthe walls and humanity (like Adam and eve).\n\nI don't tend to Wikipedia every answer. In this case this is a personal\nopinion with which I back up with Armin when he is called a heretic for his\nbeliefs, like in Assassins Creed where they always go on about their gods.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-11T00:37:17.043", "id": "7450", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-23T06:28:25.217", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-23T06:28:25.217", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3508", "parent_id": "6921", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough it is not revealed whether Yamato is dead or not, or will he be\nrescued or not, it did mention that he is suspended opposite to Hashirama's\nclone for future use. We still have to wait. I am optimistic that he would\ncome back, since he is one of the major supporting characters of the series.\nFrom [**Yamato's wiki page**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yamato):\n\n> Kabuto escapes to the Mountains' Graveyard where he and Tobi gather\n> information from Yamato about the Allied Shinobi Forces. Kabuto also studies\n> Hashirama's DNA within Yamato to strengthen the White Zetsu Army. Rather\n> than kill Yamato when he has fulfilled his usefulness, they suspend him\n> opposite Hashirama's clone for future use.\n>\n> At some point during the war, his body was encased within Tobi, seemingly\n> using Yamato's altered DNA to strengthen its own Wood Release. After Madara\n> Uchiha activated his Infinite Tsukuyomi, Yamato was freed from within Tobi's\n> body in an unconscious state, as he had no further use for Tobi. He was then\n> immediately caught in the genjutsu.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T06:33:35.057", "id": "6923", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-14T12:43:29.373", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-14T12:43:29.373", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "6922", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYamato was controlled by spiral zetsu (tobi) just before the infinite\ntsukuyomi. Since Yamato and zetsu both know wood release, their powers\ncombined was enough to stop the Third Hokage with \"Sage Art Wood Release: True\nSeveral Thousand Hands\".\n\nChapter 677 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wxn6e.png) \nEpisode 426 [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DYjmi.jpg) \n \n**Edit** \n**From the final episode of the Naruto canon storyline, 479, we see that\nYamato was released from the Infinite Tsukuyomi by Naruto and Sasuke.\nAfterwards, the God Tree was cut down, so the spiral zetsu that was\ncontrolling Yamato decomposed.**\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ohwVN.jpg)\n\nYay he's alive!\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-05T12:21:24.100", "id": "34109", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-14T20:44:11.207", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-14T20:44:11.207", "last_editor_user_id": "25864", "owner_user_id": "25864", "parent_id": "6922", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYamatos alive because on boruto he is seen spying on Orochimaru when Naruto\nand Sasuke go to confront Orochimaru about Shin\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-08T00:31:49.433", "id": "36718", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-08T00:31:49.433", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28611", "parent_id": "6922", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe Sasuke did use Tsukuyomi while he fought against Hachibi. **Bee was\nimmobilized for a moment**\n\n\n\nAs per the definition of Tsukuyomi in wiki it states that:\n\n> Tsukuyomi is noted to be one of the most powerful genjutsu in existence.It\n> is unique to the Uchiha clan and only those who have awakened the Mangekyō\n> Sharingan can perform it. It is said to represent the \"Spiritual World and\n> Darkness\" (精神界と闇, Seishinkai to Yami), the antipode to Amaterasu — a\n> ninjutsu of similar power.\n\nThe wiki also states the disadvantages of the technique:\n\n> Such a powerful technique is not without its disadvantages however. Due to\n> the complexity of the illusion and the quickness with which it is executed,\n> an enormous amount of chakra is necessary and an added amount of stress is\n> placed on the left eye, leaving Itachi's vision more blurred. Before using\n> it on Kakashi in Part I, Itachi stated that Tsukuyomi can only be broken by\n> a Sharingan user that shares the same blood as him; as demonstrated when\n> Sasuke overcame Itachi's Tsukuyomi in their battle.\n\n**Itachi casting Tsukuyomi on Kakashi**\n\n\n\n**Both Sasuke and Itachi had to go through a lot of pain while casting it. It\nconsumed a lot of their chakra. Obvious disadvantages were blurred vision\nafter use.**\n\nAnd last but not the least, the wiki also states that:\n\n> **Sasuke can also perform Tsukuyomi with his right eye** , though his\n> illusion is considered inferior to Itachi's Tsukuyomi since it does not\n> alter the opponent's perception of time indicating he has yet to master it\n\nIn the wiki page, it also states that **the users who can cast Tsukuyomi are**\n:\n\n 1. Uchiha Itachi\n 2. Uchiha Sasuke\n 3. Uchiha Madara\n 4. Uchiha Obito [in movie]\n\n## Reference\n\n * [**Tsukuyomi**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsukuyomi?file=Tsukuyomi-sharingan-genjutzu.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T09:46:12.873", "id": "6927", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-16T20:57:10.083", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-16T20:57:10.083", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "6926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nEDIT: It's really simple to be quite honest. Sasuke has Itachi's eyes.\nItachi's eyes are capable of using of Tsukuyomi. Therefore Sasuke can use\nTsukuyomi.\n\nThis stays consistent with the rest of the manga, for example how people can\ntake the Rinnegan and use it for themselves like Tobi x Pain. Danzou took\nShisui's eyes and then used Shisui's MS power for himself as well.\n\n* * *\n\nHere is the proof that Sasuke actually used Tsukuyomi.\n\nRecall the fight versus Danzou. Sasuke casted Tsukuyomi on Danzou and Danzou\nproceeds to comment on it. \n\nAs for your theory, there is one easy criteria you can use for confirmation.\nTechniques like Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi cause excessive eye strain, which\nleads into bleeding. When Sasuke used Amaterasu on Madara, his eyes also bled.\nWhen Sasuke stabbed the sword through Madara, there were no signs of bleeding,\nand therefore we can determine he did not use Tsukuyomi there.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T16:27:11.667", "id": "6938", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-08T08:11:09.367", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T08:11:09.367", "last_editor_user_id": "2178", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI can't remember exactly, but when Itachi (Edo Tensei) and Sasuke battled\nKabuto in the cave, they were trapped at the same time in a genjutsu. They\nundid it by using genjutsu on each other. I'm sure that Itachi used Tsukuyomi,\nbut I'm not sure if Sasuke's genjutsu was a normal one or a Tsukuyomi.\nHowever, I'm sure that Itachi used Tsukuyomi at least once when he fought\nDanzo...\n\nBy the way, it's a fact that you must be able to use Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi\nto achieve Susano'o, so the answer for your question is yes, Sasuke can use\nTsukuyomi for sure.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T19:52:12.010", "id": "6941", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-08T15:19:10.660", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T15:19:10.660", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "6926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke definitely CAN'T use Tsukuyomi!\n\nIt's a manga/anime! That means it follows some rules. If Sasuke were able to\nuse Tsukuyomi, then the technique would be introduced properly, like when they\nintroduced Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi.\n\nHowever, Sasuke didn't say \"Tsukuyomi\" even once (!!!) in the whole manga! Why\ndid he always scream \"Amaterasu\" and \"Kagutsuchi\", but not \"Tsukuyomi\" even\nonce?! It doesn't make any sense!\n\nFurthermore, every Uchiha has one technique in each eye. It's clearly said\nthat one of his eyes has Amaterasu, and the other one has Enton: Kagutsuchi.\nThere is no place for Tsukuyomi!\n\n(For Susanoo you need both eyes' powers, but it doesn't matter if it's\nAmaterasu and Enton Kagutsuchi or Tsukuyomi)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-06T23:52:42.820", "id": "11679", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-08T15:16:14.970", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T15:16:14.970", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "6508", "parent_id": "6926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n# Short answer\n\nSasuke can not use Tsukuyomi.\n\n 1. When fighting Kabuto, Sasuke used a regular Sharingan genjutsu on Itachi.\n 2. Sasuke's left eye creates Amaterasu, and his right eye manipulates the flames. There is no place for Tsukuyomi.\n\n# Long answer\n\nMostly from a reddit\n[post](http://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/2i6hgr/why_sasuke_does_not_have_the_tsukuyomi/):\n\nSasuke does not have the Tsukuyomi. **What Sasuke uses is the Sharingan's\nstandard ability to cast genjutsu through eye contact with its \"eye of\nhypnosis\"**. In the past, Sasuke had personally it used on Sai, Orochimaru and\nDeidara, and we've seen it used by Itachi, Kakashi, Obito and Madara on\ndifferent occasions. What Sasuke had been doing since Itachi's death was\nchanneling these Sharingan Genjutsu through his Mangekyou Sharingan, which\napparently had the effect of amplifying its strength, rendering him capable of\ninstantly incapacitating his opponents.\n\nSasuke was shown casting genjutsu with one eye of his Mangekyou, like how\nItachi cast Tsukuyomi with his left eye (and Amaterasu with his right). But\nwhilst Sasuke typically cast it with his right eye, he had also done it with\nhis left eye. Against C too since he appeared to be holding his left eye, and\na third time, if you count his domination of the bijuu.\n\nAnd even regular Sharingan Genjutsu had been used through a single eye, as\ndemonstrated by Madara and Itachi. Itachi himself used Sharingan Genjutsu with\nthe Mangekyou after his Tsukuyomi eye had been blinded. Madara had done the\nsame.\n\n**Sasuke has never once called his genjutsu, Tsukuyomi.** Both Danzo and Tobi\ncompared it to Itachi's Tsukuyomi - which was understandable since they're\nbrothers and both had used Amaterasu and Susanoo - but neither of them\nactually called it Tsukuyomi. Only twice had Sasuke \"named\" it where he called\nit \"Sharingan\" and \"Genjutsu - Sharingan\" respectively (just like Madara).\nWhen he called it \"Genjutsu - Sharingan\", the difference is also made explicit\nby showing it side-by-side with Itachi's Tsukuyomi.\n\nTobi implied that Sasuke had received Itachi's eye techniques, but Itachi had\nonly sealed a single use of the Amaterasu inside Sasuke with the Transcription\nSeal: Amaterasu which Sasuke had no actual control over. From what I've heard,\nit came from a misunderstanding over how the Japanese language doesn't\ndifferentiate between singular and plural. And when the jutsu was unsealed,\nhis eye transformed into Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan temporarily. So if\nSasuke used a Tsukuyomi (or another Amaterasu) from Itachi, his eyes would\nhave changed to show it.\n\nThe genjutsu Sasuke used against B (when he still had to implant Itachi's\neyes) resembles the Tsukuyomi with its inverted colours, but this was also the\nonly time it happened. Every other time we saw the genjutsu itself, it didn't\nhave that visual effect. It was also said by Itachi and the second databook\nthat the **Tsukuyomi can only be broken by his own blood** (presumably someone\nof the Uchiha bloodline with a powerful Sharingan), which we later saw proven\nand explained. **Yet B was essentially freed with just a genjutsu dispel.**\n\nUltimately, Sasuke only has Amaterasu, Kagutsuchi and Susanoo with his\nMangekyou Sharingan. Amaterasu was first used with his left eye against Killer\nB. Kagutsuchi was used to quell the flames and then used and named it against\nthe Raikage where he shaped the black flames and dubbed it \"Enton:\nKagutsuchi\". **The most blatant evidence of these two being his Mangekyou\njutsu is when he fought Kaguya and freed himself from ice using both of his\neyes.**\n\nEven after Sasuke took Itachi's eyes to awaken the Eternal Mangekyou\nSharingan, he has never revealed the Tsukuyomi. You can implant the Mangekyou\nSharingan and use the abilities of the original holder (e.g. Kakashi using\nKamui or Danzo using Kotoamatsukami), but when those eyes are used to evolve\nto the next stage, it instead empowers their own abilities from what we've\nseen. Or at least removes the drawbacks.\n\nOnce the third databook stated that you would need Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi to\nawaken the Susanoo, but the above tells us that this is outdated information.\nIf anything, I'd believe that Kishimoto had originally intended to give Sasuke\nthe same jutsu as his brother (with different preferences, perhaps) but\ndecided otherwise at crunch time. As far as we know, the only character with\nthe Tsukuyomi is Uchiha Itachi.\n\nAlso, the current revision of\n[Tsukuyomi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsukuyomi) from Naruto Wiki shows\nonly Itachi Uchiha under the list of users.\n\n", "comment_count": 11, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T11:09:57.060", "id": "15018", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-19T11:01:09.113", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-19T11:01:09.113", "last_editor_user_id": "9123", "owner_user_id": "9123", "parent_id": "6926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\n**Yes, he can.**\n\nBesides everything else that has been pointed out on other answers here trying\nto prove that Sasuke can use the Tsukuyomi, I'd just like to point out a piece\nof **information that comes straight from[ _Naruto: The Official Character\nDatabook_](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Naruto-Official-Character-Data-\nBook/dp/1421541254/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362417911&sr=8-1)** , pointed out\nin [this answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/13336/49) and in [this\none](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/2784/49) before it:\n\n * Amaterasu, \"representing the light of the material world\", is performed with the right eye.\n * Tsukuyomi, \"the nightmare realm, representing the world of the mind and darkness\", is performed with the left eye.\n * **Susano'o** is \"the strength of the tempestuous force that **resides only within those of have mastered\" both of the above techniques**. \n\nNotice that you have to master _both_ Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi in order to be\nable to perform Susano'o. This means that Indra, Itachi, Madara, Kakashi and\n**Sasuke** must be able to perform both Amaterasu _and_ Tsukuyomi - even if we\nhaven't seen them doing it ever - since they all can use Susano'o.\n\nEither that, or the official databook has incorrect data. [Aman Singh's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/15018/49) is also very compelling,\nand makes some good points.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-11T12:57:44.590", "id": "15020", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-11T12:57:44.590", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "6926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke can't use Tsukuyomi, it's just a manga and anime fact.\n\nThe user of the MS must awaken the abilities of both eyes to achieve the\nSusano'o, it isn't specifically Amaterasu or Tsukuyomi. Also, Sasuke can use\ngenjutsu..but not the Tsukuyomi. With his left eye, Sasuke can cast Amaterasu,\nwith his right he can shape and manipulate the flames. Those are his two\nabilities, Tsukuyomi has no spot.\n\nIn the Manga, Sasuke states that Susano'o can only be awakened when someone\nawakens both powers in their eyes, Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu belong to Itachi\nonly. As a parting gift, Itachi gave Sasuke the Amaterasu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-25T04:33:40.780", "id": "32321", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-25T04:33:40.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24281", "parent_id": "6926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke can't use it, and if he had used it on Danzo and Killer Bee, they\nwouldn't have been able to escape it without Sasuke releasing them from it.\n\nItachi states that only someone with Uchiha genetics and the Sharingan can\nundo the Tsukuyomi. This is a manga fact, meaning Sasuke never used Tsukuyomi.\nSasuke may have Itachi's eyes, but it's never been stated that the abilities\nof the eyes are transferred through the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Seeing as\nthough Madara is the only other person with the EMS, and the fact that he has\nno unique Mangekyo abilities, proves that abilities really aren't transferred\nthrough the EMS.\n\nThe Tsukuyomi is only used by Itachi, stop making up theories because it\n_seems_ possible.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-08T01:07:53.817", "id": "37750", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T01:07:53.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29596", "parent_id": "6926", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile people do regenerate under Edo Tensei, the process of regeneration can\nbe slow and tedious. Madara has reached new heights and can attack at any\ngiven moment. Hashirama knows his chakra circulation is obstructed and it\ncould take a while for him to heal fully. Thus, he is giving Sasuke this\nprecaution along with a jutsu.\n\nRefer to Minato's statement below. Also recall how Minato lost his arm and\nstill hasn't regenerated yet. Hashirama knows that if Madara acts quickly, he\nwon't be able to stop Madara. \n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T15:35:07.253", "id": "6936", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-15T15:35:07.253", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "6935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFillers are parts of the series that are designed to give the manga time to\nget a larger distance from the anime.\n\nGenerally, less experienced (and less paid) writers do these fillers, not the\noriginal mangaka.\n\nThis results in inconsistencies with the general storyline, and sometimes,\neven inside the episodes themselves (due to the writer's lesser experience).\n\nNow I haven't checked the credits for that specific episode, to see who was\nthe script writer for it, but my educated guess is that this is the case. A\nplot hole, and nothing more.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-15T19:15:32.517", "id": "6940", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-15T19:15:32.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "6937", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere is a [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLZ6uk2Wwug) from the\nMarineFord War which shows that he lost his arm to Aokiji. \nWhile fighting Aokiji, his attention goes towards Marco and Aokiji takes\nadvantage of this and uses his devil fruit power to make him freeze. \n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-16T07:59:35.363", "id": "6953", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-16T07:59:35.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "6945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nHe lost his arms during the Payback war, a clash between the remnants of the\nWhitebeard Pirates — under Marco's leadership — and the Blackbeard Pirates\nabout a year after the Battle of Marineford.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-20T08:56:52.693", "id": "32223", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-20T08:56:52.693", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24178", "parent_id": "6945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure what happen in anime but on manga it was pretty clear that Aokiji\nfreeze him and broke his arm.\n\nOn The Marineford Arc chapter 568 and 569, when Shirohige down because of his\nsickness, most of his crew are getting distracted and the marine took an\nadvantage and attack both Marco and Jozu.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CWplP.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-20T11:11:32.640", "id": "32224", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-20T11:11:32.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "6945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere's an answer to such a question on\n[Yahoo](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110309170733AALLR0e):\n\n> First off One Piece started as a manga in 97 in weekly shonen jump. A new\n> chapter is updated every week and they're currently on chapter 617. The\n> anime started a couple years later owing to the success of the manga and is\n> now on episode 489.\n>\n> NOTE: One Piece is not 'a couple of episodes to get into' type of anime.\n> While you can be hooked from the get go most agree that a big alienater is\n> that the show takes a bit to get into. The first saga of One Piece is The\n> East Blue Saga (east blue is 1 of 4 'lesser' seas where the Strawhats start\n> before making their way to The Grand Line (the big league sea). The East\n> Blue Saga is a divided up into a few arc with a few filler. I'd say once you\n> come to The Baratie arc (~ep.18) the show will really start to hit its\n> stride. If not Baratie then definitely by the end of The Arlong Arc (arc\n> after Baratie). You see The East Blue Saga is about 61 episodes and pretty\n> much sets the groundwork for the series. The Baroque Works Saga afterwords\n> is the real beginning of the world of One Piece because the crew is in The\n> Grand Line and you can see just how insignificant the world was in the east\n> blue. The East Blue Saga though, while less exciting is still fun and\n> interesting with some cool battles and quick development of the characters\n> and recruitment of the crew.\n>\n> What really makes One Piece shine is the idea of dreams that's prevalent\n> through the series and the bonds of friendship and loyalty amongst the crew.\n> You only really see Luffy as a lovable idiot who has a freakish rubber body\n> through the first dozen episodes. It's not until The Captain Kuro Arc\n> (ep.9-17) that you start realizing that the reason he's considered a monster\n> is not because of his rubber powers but, because he's just unbelievably\n> strong. Zoro, the 3 sword style swordsman and unofficial first mate is also\n> ridiculously strong too and is often confused as the captain. Zoro's tough\n> as nails and often serious but like Luffy he's pretty much an idiot. Nami is\n> the brains and while definitely a b!+\n>\n> The crew is tight nit and willing to do whatever for each other. That's\n> actually my favorite thing about One Piece. You just seem to care about the\n> characters in One Piece more so than other animes. Maybe it's because you're\n> following the small crew everywhere while other animes just keep introducing\n> more and more characters so because the anime is stretched the characters\n> tend not to get as much attention. That aside, there are plenty of laughs\n> but some tears as well and it only gets darker later on. Many of the crew\n> have some sad pasts as well. However, no matter how dark and serious things\n> get in One Piece, there's always the sense of balance with humor and action.\n> All in all I don't want to say too much more because every time I write a\n> sentence I realize it has too much spoiler and end up erasing it. So just go\n> ahead and watch the show. Even if it moves a bit slow for you in the\n> beginning since your best friend loves the show it'll be easier to get\n> through that but, chances are you'll end up loving it before you know it.\n>\n> A few warnings though. 1) If you watch the anime you only have 2 choices and\n> both involve funimation.com. DO NOT WATCH THE 4KIDS DUB NO MATTER WHAT!!! It\n> was so bad I don't want to even talk about it. However, if you prefer dubbed\n> versions you are more than welcome to watch the funimation dub because\n> funimation actually has a pretty good dub of One Piece. That horrible 4kids\n> dub really, really hurt One Piece when it first came over to the U.S. The\n> other option is to watch the subbed version. Either way you'll have to watch\n> the subbed version from (as of this writing) ep.193 onward since they\n> haven't dubbed all the episodes yet. In any case, funimation subs the new\n> episode in japan within a day of it coming out which makes One Piece the\n> most up-to-date of all animes. 2) Be careful looking stuff up on the\n> internet because the manga is further ahead than the anime and you may get\n> spoilers. 3) In general, anime fans do not like filler. Filler are episodes\n> added to the anime which weren't in the manga for the purpose of delaying\n> the anime from catching up with the manga since 1 episode is usually\n> equivalent to 2 chapters. One Piece, according to most fans, tends to have\n> better filler than most other animes and suffers from less filler as well.\n> That being said if you want to skip the boring fillers you can find a yahoo\n> answer question about which ones should be skipped.\n\nIt was written 3 years ago but is actually a pretty good summary. For more\ninformation you can check out the: [One Piece\nWiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) for any specifics, but it's\nnot going to give you a couple of paragraph summary to get you started on the\nshow.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-16T07:38:43.070", "id": "6952", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-16T07:38:43.070", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "6951", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe being a doctor, must have found some medicine which she drinks from her\nbeer bottle. Also she was the first one to mention the will of D and she knows\nthe actual name of Gol D Roger, shows that she actually must be around 140\nyears of age.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T05:08:11.330", "id": "6974", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T08:03:02.100", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-17T08:03:02.100", "last_editor_user_id": "122", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "6955", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is an interesting theory about this.\n\n * In an interview Oda said that normal human can only live for 140 years in One Piece.\n\n * How old is Dr. Kureha? In a scene before the timeskip, she said that she is just 139. That means that after the time skip, she must be 141. Beyond what Oda said is the limit of a normal human!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MLdD6.png)\n\n * Now let's remember this moment, when the \"Ope Ope no Mi\" fruit is introduced. Here it was stated that he with the powers of this devil fruit could perform the \"Eternal life operation\", which would provide eternal life to the patient, in exchange for the doctor's life.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2PLKT.png)\n\nSo, the hypothesis emerges...\n\n> ## What if someone performed the \"Eternal life operation\" on Dr. Kureha in\n> the past?\n\nAs you have seen, in multiple places during the manga, she asks \"You want to\nknow the secret to my youth?\"\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fg13x.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JJDZb.png)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tcGvo.png)\n\nThis was always thought to be a recurring joke, a comical relief, but... what\nif there was more behind it that it seems? Oda uses to make this kind of\nthings A LOT.\n\nOnly time will tell... ;)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-04-18T13:43:52.857", "id": "51564", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-18T13:51:56.347", "last_edit_date": "2019-04-18T13:51:56.347", "last_editor_user_id": "40978", "owner_user_id": "40978", "parent_id": "6955", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMaybe this?\n\nOn Chapter 356, when Spandam use Franky's ship to attack Shihousen:\n\n\n\nthere's a little bit difference on translate, as state on\n[wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Tom#Trivia):\n\n> Tom's favorite phrase to say was \"Do it with a Don!\" (\"with a Boom\" in the\n> Viz manga and \"with Gusto\" in the FUNimation dub)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-16T14:46:55.933", "id": "6958", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-16T14:57:35.307", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-16T14:57:35.307", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "6956", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\"You can purchase the the hardcover versions\n[here](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1616550740) and\n[here](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1616552263), respectively\" -\nKrazer\n\nAfter you purchase the comics and they have been delivered to you, you can\nthen read the comics.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T03:02:23.600", "id": "7006", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-18T08:43:02.587", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-18T08:43:02.587", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "6959", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Angels NERV fought were the Children of Adam, who sort to instigate the\nThird Impact to reclaim earth back from the Children of Lilith, the Lilin\n(Humans).\n\nNERV's goal all along was the preservation of humanity so stopping the Angels\nfalls along their goals, the Human Instrumentality Project was SEELE's secret\ngoal to force the evolution of man though creating their own Third Impact that\nthey could control, because the Human Instrumentality Committee oversaw NERV\nit was also NERV's Secret Goal.\n\nSEELE couldn't let Adam's children instigate the Third Impact because then\nthey couldn't control it themselves so destroying the angels as they appeared\nwas needed to ensure that SEELE's could execute their plans without\ninterference.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T01:49:35.683", "id": "6965", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T02:19:38.103", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-17T02:19:38.103", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNote that, like many things in _Evangelion_ , this answer would fall under the\ncategory of educated speculation.\n\nThe point of the Angels largely seems to be to drive other points of the plot.\nIt seems that the plot of Instrumentality itself does not really need the\nAngels--and I think you're right in this respect. The Angels themselves are a\n[Monster of the Week\ntrope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterOfTheWeek)\nembodiment, but you'll notice that each one (except perhaps Matarael) has a\nlarge influence on the events of each episode (and often the whole series).\n\nConsider Leliel, Arael, Armisael, and Kaworu. Each of these caused a great\npsychological trauma in the characters. Leliel was really the first to probe\nShinji's mind and break him down to nothing; Arael and Armisael followed suit\nand brought forth even more trauma and, along with it, character development.\nKaworu, the pinnacle of all of this, essentially brought Shinji to the verge\nof suicide, but then made his choices in _The End of Evangelion_ all the more\nhuman and relatable.\n\nThe Angels also achieve one of Anno's goals of telling us that, well, [humans\nare _even\nworse_](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreTheRealMonsters).\nThe fact that the Angels are actually just acting on instinct--the instinct to\nreturn to Lilith--and not actually destructive (with a couple exceptions)\nshows us that humans are really the strongest villains in the series. (A nice\nbit of [grey\narea](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreyAndGrayMorality) there.)\n\nSo, to answer your question: No, the Angels weren't strictly necessary. But\nthe plot points they drove and the scenarios they created were **critically\nimportant** parts of the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T01:56:50.593", "id": "6966", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T01:56:50.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "6961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to the above two answers, Ner/Seele had to wait until they\ndiscovered the lost Lance of Longinus in the Antartic Ocean before they could\nbegin Instrumentality. This did not occur until after the Angels began\nappearing, so they were obliged to battle at least _some_ of them!\n\nThere was clearly some need to delay enacting [Third\nImpact](http://wiki.evageeks.org/Third_Impact) and Instrumentality until after\nthe final Angel was dispatched, probably at the order of the Dead Sea Scrolls\n(which is never explained), otherwise Nerv/Seele would have simply commenced\nit as soon as they had the Lance (Adam, Lilith and Rei were already in their\npossession). For some reason, Instrumentality was only likely to work if there\nwere no other Angels alive to prevent it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-16T14:55:07.770", "id": "24136", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-16T14:55:07.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "16253", "parent_id": "6961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think Rin's teeth are depicted as sharp to give off Rin's attitude towards\nhis former teamates Haruka, Makoto and Nagisa. If you remember during the\nseries Rin had went to Australia to become stronger and faster in swimming.\nBut a couple years later even though he put so much effort in whilst in\nAustralia he still couldn't beat Haruka.\n\nThis is probably the most accurate time to say when Rin became more aggressive\nand serious. I think his sharp teeth are suppose to tell the viewer that he is\nserious and gives off his more aggressive personality and persona.\n\nThis is just my impression though. I dont actually think they made his teeth\nsharp for an actual purpose rather than to display his change from when he was\na kid to when he lost and decided he had, had enough of losing to Haruka.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T04:21:52.037", "id": "9154", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T04:21:52.037", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "6962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI personally just think that it's supposed to represent that Rin is the shark\nto Haru's dolphin. They're yin and yang, it's just a metaphor.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-14T00:44:09.800", "id": "9704", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-01T04:40:14.470", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-01T04:40:14.470", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4880", "parent_id": "6962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGendo's own scenario for the Third Impact was \"the forbidden fusion of Adam\nand Lilith\", his goal was to be reunited with his dead wife Yui who died\nduring the Contact experiment which lead to the Second Impact, for this he\nrequired 2 things, Adam and Lilith.\n\nIn the aftermath of the Second Impact, Adam's Soul was separated from it's\nbody which had been reduced to an embryonic state, Adam's Soul was recovered\nand stored in the 17th Angel Tabris (Kaworu Nagisa) which SEELE sort to use in\ninstigate their Third Impact by having him make contact with Lilith, if it had\nworked the result would be an Adam Dominated Third Impact under the control of\nSEELE.\n\nOne reason why SEELE couldn't send Tabris quite possible because he wasn't\nready to be used yet but the other main reason was the Lance of Longinus, so\nlong as it was in Lilith the Third Impact couldn't start (it was placed there\nto stop it but in a way that they could remove it one all the components for\ntheir plan were prepared), it wasn't removed until it was used as the last\nditch effort to kill an Angel which no EVA could reach, it's not known how\nSEELE would have acted had Gendo not ordered the lance to be used.\n\nRei's purpose was all Gendo's Third Impact Scenario, not SEELE's. Gendo made\nSEELE think he was on their side however he was working on his own plans to be\nreunited with Yui, who Rei is a clone of. much like with SEELE's plan, Gendo\ncouldn't act while the lnace was in Lilith however when it was removed and he\ncould confrim that SEELE couldn't interfere with another Adam he executed his\nplan (which we don't see until End of Evangelion). Gendo's plan was to control\nRei in a Lilith Dominated Third Impact but Rei rejected Gendo and took the\nembryo of Adam from him and fused with Lilith.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T02:52:24.080", "id": "6969", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T02:52:24.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "6964", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's complicated.\n\nFirst adam: Adam was found in the South Pole, impaled with the Lance of\nLonginus, which puts the sources of life (Adam and Lilith) into some sort of\nstatis: \n\nDuring the Katsuragi expedition, the experiment went haywire ([episode 21,\nDirector's cut](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Episode_21)). The aftermath\nresulting in Adam blowing up and Adam's soul being lost. Seele collected the\nsoul and put it in an artificial body,\n[Kaworu](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Kaworu). The assumption is that Kaworu,\nhaving a birthday on Second Impact, was artificially created that day, which\nwould seem to indicate that Seele was at least prepared for such an outcome.\n\nThe reason why Seele didn't want to bring an Angel close to Adam is believed\nthat part of the prerequisite of their version of Instrumentality is that all\nof the Angels need to be killed. The final step in accomplishing that was\nSeele sending Kaworu, the 17th and last Angel, to Nerv to be killed by Shinji\nand Evangelion Unit-01. Why Kaworu would agree to this is a mystery.\n\nRei, on the other hand, is similar to Kaworu ([Episode\n24](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Episode_24)) in that she was artificially\ncreated ([Episode 23](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Episode_23)) to hold Lilith's\nsoul. Rei was created by Gendo in order to complete his version of\nInstrumentality, in which Gendo would be reunited with his wife Yui. How this\nwas supposed to work, is also a mystery. At the end, Rei betrayed Gendo in\norder to put control of Instrumentality in Shinji's hand ([End of\nEvangelion](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Episode_26%27)).\n\nMore Info: <https://wiki.evageeks.org/Classified_Information_(Translation)>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T02:55:01.973", "id": "6970", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T02:55:01.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "6964", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey didn't mention anything like this in manga but lets just assume that he\nhas more than one camera. At the first time Sengoku found Eiken's camera\ninside the plane, it was white.\n\n**First camera**\n\n\n\nAnd the second camera, when Sengoku met Eiken, it was black.\n\n**Second camera**\n\n\n\nSo I think the one that Eiken left on the plane is the first camera, later on\nhe only use the second camera for the rest of manga.\n\nThey also mentioned it on\n[wiki](http://edennoori.wikia.com/wiki/Makoto_Morita#Trivia)\n\n> Considering his first camera was blown up during the plane which he left\n> behind, it is suggested he has more than one camera, as well as numerous\n> batteries on hand.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T11:45:28.577", "id": "7015", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-18T11:55:37.743", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-18T11:55:37.743", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "6967", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe bounties on all Shichibukai are in effect always. The World Government\ndoesn't end the bounty on selection as Shichibukai but just avoids its\nimplementation. The Shichibukai have to pay certain amount of their piracy\nearnings to WG as tax and they have to work for WG in subduing other pirates.\nThey get caught only when\n\n 1. they act against WG or WG affiliated countries (e.g. Crocodile against Alabasta);\n 2. they don't follow WG's orders (e.g. Jimbei).\n\nWhen someone defeats and hands them over to WG, they are\n\n 1. put in jail, if they acted against WG (e.g. Crocodile);\n 2. not put in jail, if they didn't act against WG (e.g. Gecko Moria).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T11:20:41.340", "id": "6982", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T16:58:36.347", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T16:58:36.347", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "6977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nShichibukai are famous pirates with large bounties who have joined with the\nmarines. They help marines in tough situations and eliminate weak pirates. In\nreturn the World Government ignore their actions, business, etc.\n\nAs for the specific rules:\n\n * They have to pay specific amount (1/10) of their profit to the World Government regularly.\n * They will not indulge in any activity that will affect the peace of a country.\n * They will have to answer the call of the marines in tough situations.\n\nIn any case if any of the above rules is broken, the contract will be\ndissolved and their bounty will be re-activated.\n\nFor the second question, as long as the Shichibukai has not yet broken those\nrules, they will remain bonded with the World Government, thus the Marines\nwill go after the group who defeated them.\n\nFurther information can be obtained from\n[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Shichibukai).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T11:49:09.790", "id": "6985", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T11:49:09.790", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "6977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen a Shichibukai place is vacant, WG trys to fill it asking a pirate to fill\nit (as they did with Jinbe). Alternatively a pirate can openly offer himself\n(as Blackbeard did). The new Shichibukai has to have kind of a strong\nreputation (this was a pre-requirement for Blackbeard).\n\nThe deal:\n\n**The Shichibukai and their subordinates bounties get frozen.** They get a\npardon for their past crimes (e.g. Jinbe). Official protocol for WG forces are\nnot to pursue Shichibukai, despite some marines despising them, like Smoker or\nFujitora.\n\nThey are allowed to live on piracy as long as they don´t attack WG allies.\n\nIn exchange:\n\nThey must hand a part of their profit to WG (This rule is probably\naccomplished loosely due to WG not knowing all of Shichibukai activities).\n\nThey shall not act against WG nations or organizations (e.g. Crocodile). They\ncan´t either ally another pirate crew, only add them to their own (Clearly\nexplained at the Fujitora/Doflamingo/Law encounter at Green Bit).\n\nThey have to look strong, so they can´t afford a public defeat (as at first\nMoria´s defeat was not publicly known, he didn´t lose the title until the\nbroadcasted War at Marineford).\n\nThey have to fight for WG under some circunstances not fully specified.\n\nSo if this rules are broken the Shichibukai title is revoked with all its\nprivileges. The bounties are unfrozen (or even raised like Jinbe´s did) and\nthey are treated mostly like any other pirate will be.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-09-25T17:01:19.317", "id": "26161", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-25T17:01:19.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18102", "parent_id": "6977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe deliberately got caught in order to save the little girl who was threatened\nby Helmeppo with a gun.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T11:26:47.630", "id": "6983", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-12T18:58:06.373", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-12T18:58:06.373", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "6978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI think nothing is mentioned in the manga about this. According to the anime\n([second episode](http://watchonepiece.us/one-piece-episode-2-english-sub/)),\nZoro was blackmailed by Helmeppo to surrender for 1 month otherwise he will\nask his father to execute the family. Zoro agrees on the condition that the\nfamily will not be harmed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T11:29:22.190", "id": "6984", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T11:29:22.190", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "6978", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is art made by [Akio\nWatanabe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Watanabe) based on Vofan's\noriginal concept arts. The same staff have been used for all current series so\nfar.\n\n> The anime adaptation of Bakemonogatari aired between July 3 and September\n> 25, 2009 on Tokyo MX. The series is part of Kodansha's Nisio Isin Anime\n> Project and is produced by Shaft, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo with assistance\n> from Tatsuya Oishi, written by Fuyashi Tō and featuring a character designs\n> by Akio Watanabe based on Vofan's original concepts\n> [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogatari_%28series%29)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T11:19:11.080", "id": "6981", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T11:19:11.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6979", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell if you managed to find the myanimelist page you should also have noticed\nthat the review states\n\n> this anime is based of a doujin manga (im pretty sure its a doujin hentai\n> manga but im not 100% percent sure) called mahou shoujo written by Raita its\n> is currently about 10 volumes long and about 25-30 pages per volume. you\n> wont find it on MAL because it was not written and published by a real\n> writer (in other words because its a complete doujin).\n> [source](http://myanimelist.net/anime/16656/Zettai_Junpaku%3a_Mahou_Shoujo/reviews)\n\nIt pretty much states that this is a Full doujin written by raita, There is\nonly a ova so far. The chances of it getting a real anime are considerd really\nlow. The ova also did not go through a producer so is most likely home/fan\nmade\n\nIf you wish to read the doujin the review provided many links to sources where\nto read.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T13:59:09.177", "id": "6988", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T13:59:09.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "6987", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'd say the late opening is to grab attention and open the viewers mind as to\nwhat's going to follow in the rest of the episode without showing an opening\nwhich some people may immediately skip if it doesn't seem like their kind of\nshow.\n\nAs to the show having more after the ending, I believe its put there as scheme\nor reward for sticking through the credits, and give people a bit more of the\nshow to finish off.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T10:10:39.427", "id": "7033", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-19T10:10:39.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3399", "parent_id": "6991", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]