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[ { "body": "\n\nI assume you are looking for this. \nIt is called as the Shapeshifting technique used by pain. \nAccording to the Wiki:- \n\n> This technique allows Pain to allocate a portion of an individual's chakra\n> and transfers it into a living human sacrifice, allowing the original to\n> fight via an elaborate \"copy\". The appearance of the person on whom the\n> Shapeshifting Technique is performed is completely identical to the original\n> person. The technique will imitate any weapons, tools or kekkei genkai held\n> by the original person, allowing the copy to fight with them. The power of\n> the copy is in proportion to the volume of allocated chakra, which is\n> decided by Pain.\n\nIf you want some more info then you can check [Kazekage Rescue\nArc](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Itachi_Uchiha) on this page and some more\nabout the [jutsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shapeshifting_Technique).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T15:31:09.507", "id": "6993", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T15:31:09.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "6992", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat would be V Lila F in Yozakura Quartet: hana no uta\n\n> In a town where humans and demons co-exist, it takes more than a normal\n> police force to maintain the peace. Enter the Hiizumi Life Counseling\n> Office, a fantastic foursome of unique teenagers, each gifted with an\n> amazing super power! Read more at\n> <http://myanimelist.net/anime/18497/Yozakura_Quartet:_Hana_no_Uta#Mjd5m0HjSkT8qkkb.99>\n\nYou can tell its Lila because of that flower on her cheek\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T22:35:57.557", "id": "7000", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T22:48:45.953", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-17T22:48:45.953", "last_editor_user_id": "2044", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "6998", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell if you watch further on you will see **Spoiler**\n\n> After Zoro swiftly dealt a finishing blow to the two brothers with his\n> regained three swords, Buchi barely survived and was hypnotized by Jango for\n> Super-Human Strength and recovery, to duel against Zoro once again. Zoro\n> quickly defeated Buchi once again.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-17T23:27:36.263", "id": "7003", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-17T23:27:36.263", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7002", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nBoth the nyaban brother's attack zoro and fight on par with him. Some time\nlater when Captain Kuro comes to the slope to see why they haven't attacked\nthe village, both of them try to attack Kuro saying that they don't recognize\nhim as their captain anymore as he was away or 3 yrs. After that captain Kuro\nwears his cat gloves and scaes both of them using shakushi and orders them to\nkill Zoro in 5 min otherwise he would kill everyone. They attack Zoro, but\nSham does not survive the 'Tiger Hunting Prey'.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T04:21:30.107", "id": "7008", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-18T05:24:59.623", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-18T05:24:59.623", "last_editor_user_id": "3009", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7002", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the story, both Nyaban brother's attack Zoro and Zoro fights with\nonly one sword. Some time later when Captain Kuro comes to the slope, Nyaban\nbrothers attack Kuro saying that they don't recognize him as their captain\nanymore. Captain Kuro then wears his cat gloves, scares both of them using\nShakushi and orders them to kill Zoro in 5 min otherwise he would kill\neveryone. They attack Zoro, but Sham does not survive the 'Tiger Hunting\nPrey'.\n\nBut as your question suggests, Sham's body just disappears later in the\n[episode](http://watchonepiece.us/one-piece-episode-14-english-sub/).\n\n * Here we can see Zoro attacking both of them.\n * Sham, as seen falling through Jango's glasses.\n * Sham not visible, can be behind Zoro's head.\n * However, we cannot see Sham's body in this pic.\n\nThe only explanation I can think of right now is that he slid further down\nthan Buchi (because of really slim body and less weight). Since he was\nunconscious and seriously injured, some of Caption Kuro's crew members took\nhim someplace else, to provide First Aid or something (a lot of time passes in\nbetween image 3 & 4). Sham brothers are their aces, and they wouldn't want\nlosing him.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-23T11:26:20.750", "id": "7128", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-23T11:44:31.930", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-23T11:44:31.930", "last_editor_user_id": "3009", "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "7002", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhat you listed cover many of the major differences, though there are others.\n\n**Manga**\n\n * From Japan\n * Multi-panel\n * Almost always black and white\n * Right-to-left\n\n**Manhua**\n\n * From China\n * Full color with some panels rendered entirely in painting (1)\n * Single issue format (1)\n\n**Manhwa**\n\n * From South Korea\n * Usually horizontal, left-to-right\n * Can be vertical, right-to-left, top-to-bottom (2)\n\n[(1)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhua)\n\n[(2)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhwa)\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T00:19:45.130", "id": "7005", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-18T03:04:17.517", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-18T03:04:17.517", "last_editor_user_id": "93", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "7004", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nThe difference between manga, manhwa and manhua would be like the difference\nbetween amour, amor and amore. French, Spanish and Italian are all romance\nlanguages, so since love would be amor in Latin, you can see how the word\nstayed relatively the same in all three languages, but evolved to something\nthat would fit more natural in the respective language. The same goes for\ncomics in the south east.\n\nBoth Japanese and Korean is heavily influenced by the Chinese language. Their\nword for comic all stems from the same 漫畫. In countries where traditional\nchinese is still used, like Taiwan and Hongkong, you can still see the usage\nof 漫畫, this had become more simplified to 漫画, which you can see in Japan and\nmainland China. Korean differs from Japan, in the sense that they completely\nstopped using Chinese characters since King Sejong had created Hangeul for the\npoor and illiterate in the 1440s, so they started writing comics as 만화, but it\nwas still based on the chinese 漫畫.\n\nSo as with French, Spanish and Italian slightly evolving the pronunciation,\nthe same happened with Japanese and Korean, pronouncing mànhuà as manga and\nmanhwa respectively.\n\nDue to cultural difference, the read direction and such are obviously\ndifferent. You can read more about this in [kuwaly's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7005/6166).\n\n* * *\n\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga> \n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhwa> \n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhua>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-15T11:25:27.603", "id": "13438", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-15T11:25:27.603", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "7004", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAll are from Asia, and the art style is totally different.\n\nChinese Manhua uses more slender characters: mostly for males it's the big\nmuscles, large chest with a narrow waist, but female characters are slender\nand slightly thicker than Japanese Manga women characters and no overly large\nbreasts or hips. But yet, all the characters in Manhua are simple, beautiful\nmodel type.\n\nJapanese Manga, on the other hand, is more slender: no big, overgrown muscle\ntypes. Pretty much everything is stylized; from hairstyle, to clothes, and\neven facial expression. That's what keeps it funny but yet serious at the same\ntime. Characters vary in shapes and sizes which gives variety, but more than\nmost are built on the same platform.\n\nSouth Korea Manhwa is a combo of the two, it uses all aspects of Manhua &\nManga. The male characters look more feminine and sometimes drawn almost to\nlook like the female, but its raw power of telling a story with pictures is\nbeautiful.\n\nSo, what I'm trying to say here is if you're ever looking for a break for the\nsoap opera America comics (such as Marvel and DC Comics) and looking for an\nintense genre of stories and art, check out Manhua, Manhwa, or Manga. They\nwon't disappoint.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-23T19:58:35.597", "id": "14633", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-18T09:07:22.990", "last_edit_date": "2019-04-18T09:07:22.990", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "8840", "parent_id": "7004", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFor me:\n\n * Manga: multi-panel and can be read from left-to-right or right-to-left\n * Manhua: full-colored multi-panel and can be read from left-to-right or right-to-left too\n * Manhwa: full-colored single-panel and read from top-to-bottom, I don't think manhwa can be read from left-to-right or right-to-left\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-28T16:27:30.880", "id": "24451", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-21T10:01:47.163", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-21T10:01:47.163", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "16603", "parent_id": "7004", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nRegarding Chinese manhua, I wouldn't really rely on Wikipedia too much. Having\nlooked at the wiki page, I can notice errors with what was written there by\nwhoever wrote it. So, here's a Chinese view on it from someone who has lived\nin China and reads manhua.\n\nI think what's also ignored is the fact that Hong Kong manhua is mostly\noriented towards street-fighter style themes than most Japanese manga which is\nmore diverse.\n\nPeople seem to not pay attention to certain Taiwanese contributions as well,\nwhich are more talked about here: <http://www.chinese-\nforums.com/index.php?/topic/36203-chinesese-comicsmanhua-taiwan-and-hong-\nkong/>\n\nManhua can be:\n\n * Read from left-to-right or right-to-left\n * Black and White or full color (Mostly Hong Kong)\n * Weekly or Monthly releases\n\nManhua has distinct storylines from manga and manhwa, which is due to cultural\ndifferences. (Yes, they're not \"all the same\" as you would like to think and,\nhonestly, it is quite offensive to say that they are the same)\n\nIf you read a few manhua, manhwa, and manga that deal with cultural aspects,\nyou will notice the differences. For instance, try to compare:\n\n * _Tales of Demons and Gods_ (manhua)\n * _The Breaker: New Waves_ (manhwa), and\n * _Chivalry of a Failed Knight_ or maybe _Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri_ (I tried to pick something comparable, yet, most Japanese manga seem to focus around overdramatic school life or just plain scifi, thus why I put 2 recommendations for Japanese manga since the later is written by a former JSDF officer).\n\nYou will notice subtle differences brought forward by the distinct cultures of\nall three regions.\n\nAll-in-all, if you're not sure about something, I wouldn't suggest looking it\nup on Wikipedia.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-27T22:14:10.227", "id": "34471", "last_activity_date": "2021-06-21T09:47:40.030", "last_edit_date": "2021-06-21T09:47:40.030", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "26401", "parent_id": "7004", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nReally, I think the biggest difference is in cultural references and\ninfluence. While there are similarities, they aren't the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-22T03:54:17.473", "id": "36463", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-22T03:54:17.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28374", "parent_id": "7004", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nManhua and Manhwa are versions of manga. But each has distinct differences.\n\nMain **Types** Difference:\n\n * **Made in different countries.** Manga is made in Japan, Manhua is made (for the most part) in China, Manhwa is made in Korea.\n * **Different art styles.**\n * **Different ways of publishing.**\n * **Different storytelling trends.**\n * **Different types and amount of types.** (By types I mean like Shonen, Seinen…) And many more! If you want to know more, this is an in-depth article and probably the best on the topic, but its a bit of a hard read.\n * [Difference and Origin of Manga, Manhua, and Manhwa | GodAnimeReviews](https://godanimereviews.com/difference-origin-manga-manhua-manhwa/)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-13T21:19:33.093", "id": "49661", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-13T21:19:33.093", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43400", "parent_id": "7004", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is not impossible, but it is rather difficult to do so. All Jounin level\nninjas have to master more than two elements. Kakashi can perform 3 different\nelement jutsu: Lightning, Fire, Earth. Yamato can do Earth and Water. Sasuke\ncan do Lightning and Fire.\n\nEven if someone has a natural inclination towards one element (Sasuke towards\nFire), they can still perform other elemental jutsu (Sasuke can perform\nChidori, a Lightning Release).\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T05:04:48.633", "id": "7011", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-16T17:39:14.040", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-16T17:39:14.040", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7009", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nTo answer your question, I do have to say that it is possible for ninjas of\nhigher rank to master a jutsu that lies outside their own alignment.\n\nFor example:\n\n 1. **Sasuke** → Fire Release, Lightning Release. \n\n\n\n\n\n 2. **Onoki (Third Tsuchikage)** → Dust Release, Earth Release, Wind Release, Fire Release\n\n\n\n 3. **Sarutobi Asuma** → Wind Release, Fire Release. \n\n**He even got injured by his own attack while he was batting with Akatsuki\nmembers Hidan and Kakuzu**\n\n\n\n 4. **Kakuzu** → Earth Release, Wind Release, Lightning Release, Fire Release, Water Release (anime only).\n\n\n\nI won't be considering Kakashi and Yamato for different reason, as Kakashi had\nSharingan and Yamato was one of the guinea pigs of Orochimaru's experiment.\nBut yes, since they are ninjas and based on your question, they do satisfy the\ncondition:\n\n**Kakashi** → Fire Release, Earth Release, Water Release, Lightning Release.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T15:21:11.430", "id": "7018", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-16T17:58:22.087", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-16T17:58:22.087", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7009", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYeah it can be true according in naruto it is 29% because chakra heals our\nbody. from the 7 chakras in the body. It maybe possible that you can perform\njutsu but only God have powers, think about that we cannot fly like superman,\nWe cannot float waters, We cannot fight with magic and punch like superman\nthat is 2 meters. What about jutsu did you think they are real? When I rotate\nmy chakra and I perform hand seals and I say Shadow Clone Jutsu and in the\nnext one Kage Bunshin no jutsu, but what? It didn't work, but you didn't have\nto say that, shadow clone jutsu , I tried that too but nothing happened I only\nreduced my strength and chakra, yeah I can perform but it's difficult to learn\nso difficult Don't believe that in Japan ninjas it can perform jutsus that is\nonly a myth. I can only perform jutsu to heal my body, it is not in sakura's\nhealing jutsu. If you believe in jutsus you are addicted in anime with powers\nincluding: naruto,dragonball etc. Check this it might be helpful search:7\nchakras in body. I know there's somethings you cannot understand because I am\na Filipino. There are chakras in our body but cannot perform jutsus\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-19T16:06:01.633", "id": "32211", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-19T16:06:01.633", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24165", "parent_id": "7009", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI would say yes people subconsciously remember the command that has been given\nto them.\n\nI one of the first episodes of the first season Lelouch orders a girl at his\nschool to go to a certain point and carve a line. This in order to see how\nlong his commands would last. As you stated there is a blank spot in their\nmind after being commanded by the geass this would mean that they do\nsubconsciously remember the event. And most likely also could be manipulated\nin such a way that if he snaps his fingers they will 'remember' where they hid\nit, Tell Lelouch, and forget about it again.\n\n> \"Kabeko\" or \"Carve-tan\" - The girl who Lelouch Geassed into carving a wall\n> at Ashford Academy every day\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T11:45:54.780", "id": "7016", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-18T11:45:54.780", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7014", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Memory Gap depends on the order that was given mainly if the order strips\naway the free will of the target, and example of this is when we see Mao\nordered to\n\n> Never speak again!\n\nMao is unable top speak yet his will remains otherwise his memory would be a\nmess because of the constant order, however with Lelouch commanding Villetta\nto hand over her Knightmare it stripped her of her free will so she did not\nremember after the geass dispelled. With the girl doing the crosses on the\nwall the order was\n\n> Make a cross-shaped mark on the wall every day at a specific time.\n\nThis would mean that the Geass lays in the subconscious for the specific time\nwhere it will activate and the girl would make her way to the wall, only after\nshe made the cross and returned would she regain control but not remember what\nshe did due to her free will being taken away.\n\nWith Euphemia's accidental order to \"...kill the Japanese...\" we see that she\nremembers the order when she fights against it as when she is dying the Geass\nactivates again when she remembers Suzaku is Japanese however after she shakes\nit and remembering that she was thinking of killing Suzaku however she does\nnot remember ruining the ceremony which see moment after when she asks Suzaku\nhow it went, this hows that the free will have to be totally stripped from the\ntarget for the memory gap to occur (Euphies free will was stripped before she\nwas shot but not stripped when she was thinking of killing Suzaku)\n\nWe have seen people ordered to forget, the first instance is with a unnamed\nmale artificer who made the Zero Costume, the order was\n\n> To make the Zero costume, destroy the evidence and forget everything about\n> it.\n\nThis would indicate that there is a chance that one can find evidence and help\nthem remember as we see when Suzaku listen to what was recorded from the\nLancelot's com radio after Lelouch ordered him to Live. We also see Lelouch\nordering Shirley to forget about him after her emotional breakdown caused by\nMao so it stands to reason that if Lelouch can make someone forget he can make\nthem remember, an implementation of this is seen with Mao when Lelouch uses\nGeass on himself to to forget his plan with Suzaku to prevent Mao reading his\nminds and remembering it when he looks at himself in a reflection\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T22:51:13.337", "id": "7046", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-19T22:51:13.337", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7014", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell if you think of it in a real life standpoint, the air is full of water\nparticles, gather tons of it together and I suppose you can do something like\nthat xD. That's my suggestion, hope it helps.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-18T18:42:10.087", "id": "7023", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T13:46:31.057", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T13:46:31.057", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3390", "parent_id": "7017", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nAs state on\n[wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hody_Jones#Abilities_and_Powers), Hody's\nbody under the influence of Energy Steroids can produce water, so he can make\na drip of water even when he wasn't soaked\n\n> After overdosing on Energy Steroids, Hody appeared to drip with water even\n> though he wasn't soaked, suggesting that he'd been secreting it.\n\nSo I think it's just like sweat, but with greater amount of water\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T01:24:52.193", "id": "7026", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-19T01:45:42.920", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-19T01:45:42.920", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "7017", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nFishman Karate Allow you to control water within a certain vicinity, so\ncontrolling water particles in the air is possible, and even controlling and\nusing the water within one's body, and one's body almost purely consist of\nwater.\n\nJinbe also explains Fishman Karate in Chapter 629.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-25T01:59:45.173", "id": "7683", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T01:59:45.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3887", "parent_id": "7017", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt wasn't mentioned anywhere. Kabuto never talked about Sakumo when showing\noff or discussing his reanimations.\n\nWe can only assume:\n\n * They never found a body, or it was so well guarded that Kabuto couldn't get a DNA sample.\n * Kabuto was sure of his victory even without Sakumo's DNA, or waited for a right moment to pull him out as a trump card.\n * Kabuto is an idiot. (He is, what the hell did he think was going to happen when he revived Madara?!).\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-28T09:36:25.430", "id": "7749", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-28T09:36:25.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7021", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nSakumo's body was never found like uchiha shisui who committed sucide thats\nthe reason why kabuto coudn't revive sakumo and shisui.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-06T09:33:23.727", "id": "13276", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-06T09:33:23.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7883", "parent_id": "7021", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nSakumo's body might not have been found by Kabuto, we also know he killed\nhimself so his body could have been damaged badly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-30T21:21:29.473", "id": "13751", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-30T23:27:12.597", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-30T23:27:12.597", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "8199", "parent_id": "7021", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe theory that Sakumo's body was well-guarded in Konoha doesn't hold merit.\nKabuto was able to obtain Sarutobi Asuma and Dan's DNA to resurrect them, what\nmakes you think he couldn't have gotten Sakumo's?\n\nAlso, to the one who said Sakumo was not skilled enough... let's not forget\nthat he was on Sannin level. Unlike Kakashi, he did not need a borrowed\nSharingan to kick butt.\n\nMy guess is Kichi forgot about Sakumo.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-03T20:41:29.497", "id": "13794", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-03T20:41:29.497", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8243", "parent_id": "7021", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you are talking about the \"ears\", they're literally called \"ears\". As for\nthe function, there's different ports that are part of the ear assembly, and\nfor most persocoms, that's where the on/off switch is (Chi's on/off switch is\nelsewhere). For persocoms that don't charge through solar power, the charging\noutlet is also part of the ear assembly.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T18:57:02.493", "id": "7043", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-19T18:57:02.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7022", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's Anime because it's made in Japan, and (generally) made for Japanese\npeople.\n\nCartoons are animations in a broader sense, and as such, Anime is a form of\nCartoon. Made in Japan.\n\n<http://myanimelist.net/anime/4936/Ninja_Hattori-kun>\n\nIt lies in the rating of the show and its targeted audience to determine what\ncan be shown to viewers, low violence doesn't make something a Cartoon if\nthat's what you mean.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T09:50:51.307", "id": "7032", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-19T10:02:00.930", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-19T10:02:00.930", "last_editor_user_id": "3399", "owner_user_id": "3399", "parent_id": "7030", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, Ninja Hattori is an Anime series because it's Japanese series adopted\nfrom the Manga. Anime comes from manga, and this is one reason that Anime\nusers like to watch anime than cartoons. Ninja Hattori specialized to\nrepresent Ninja cultures and techniques using weapons things like swords and\nothers.\n\nNinja Hattori also airing in several Asian countries like India, it's a\npopular show airing in English and other languages on Disney Channel.\n\nReference: <https://ninjahattori.fandom.com/wiki/Ninja_Hattori-kun_(anime)>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-15T09:02:15.147", "id": "65922", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-16T07:15:24.033", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-16T07:15:24.033", "last_editor_user_id": "60188", "owner_user_id": "60188", "parent_id": "7030", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTypically the OP and ED are handled separately (sometimes by different\nstudio). The studio/team that created the OP/ED are [usually\ncredited](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KttpUvA4eoA#t=76).\n\nThe animated content in the OP and ED are usually done exclusively for their\nrespective themes. Sometimes you'll notice stylistic differences between the\nanimated content of the OP/ED and that of the actual show.\n\nWhen anime is localized sometimes the licensor doesn't have access tp (or\nchooses not to pay for) the original creditless OP/ED themes so they remix the\nopening and add their own soundtracks to it. Sometimes to better fit their\ntarget audience (in regards to the language) and probably at same time not\nhave to pay to license the songs and/or edited to fit within their\nbroadcasting lot (i.e. more commercial time).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T08:09:49.243", "id": "7086", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T08:09:49.243", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7038", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOnee-sama is commonly used in an idol-follower relationship between women,\nusually signifying extreme adoration on the part of the follower so on the\nsurface it can look like Kuroko idolized Misaka because she's a Level 5.\n\nHowever, we see that Kuroko sees Misaka as something than an Idol ie. groping\nher in the showers, getting jealous of any man being with her or wanting to\nsee her, stealing her underwear,\n\n> she has obviously done this before as she knew that the real Misaka would\n> attack her if she stole her underwear using her Esper powers proving the one\n> she was with was the real Misaka\n\nthis would indicate that Kuroko has feelings for Misaka which are ignored by\nMisaka possibly passing it off as just Kuroko's personality.\n\nThis would be a subset of the idol-follower type of relationship, signalling a\nlesbian relationship with the youngest of the couple referring to the oldest\none as \"Onee-sama\", this is common in Shoujo Ai/Yuri where the youngest adores\nher older partner and the term is used to demonstrate how strong they feel as\nwanting to be a family with them.\n\nHowever there are times where the oldest in the couple find this as a sort of\n\"turn on\", in the first Sono Hanabira game Yuuna gets Nanami to call her Onee-\nsama and the moment Nanami does we can see the euphoria in Yuuna as Yuuna\nkeeps requesting Nanami to \"say it again\" and tries to get her to use it in\nconjunction with some lewd talk (to which Nanami releaises what she is about\nto say and stops it), Yuuna also tried to get Sara in the second game call\nKaede Onee-sama but after a couple of uses Sara chooses not to.\n\nNow as for the second part to your question, while i have yet to read the\nlight novels, given Kuroko's personality it may have started when Misaka and\nher first met being \"love at first sight\", i remember Kuroko mentioning she\nhad to \"pull some strings\" to get her and Misaka to share the same room and\ngiven how Misaka is used to Kuroko actions and how Kuroko is used to being\n\"punished\" it would indicate it's been going on for quite a while\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-19T22:28:40.513", "id": "7045", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-19T22:41:38.137", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-19T22:41:38.137", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7042", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn traditional Asian countries (like in Southeast Asia, China, Japan, etc.),\nyou can address someone close to you as \"older sibling\" or \"younger sibling\"\nif their age is not far from yours, but if they are much older than you,\nsometimes you can address them as \"Uncle\" or \"Aunt\" even if they are not\nactually your family.\n\nThis applies to many anime due to Japanese tradition. Kuroko gives respect to\nMisaka as someone older than her, but calling such people \"X-sama\" primarily\nonly happens in fiction. However, sometimes this term of address is actually\nused in family that have a perspective based in ancient tradition (like yakuza\nfamilies, etc.), but this is not too common.\n\nNote that calling someone \"Uncle\"/\"Aunt\" sometimes may not be polite\n(especially if the age difference is not substantial), because it makes it\nseem as you are treating them as old. Most of the time, in Asian tradition, we\nuse just a word meaning \"older/younger sibling\" instead.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-02-28T21:46:28.680", "id": "56900", "last_activity_date": "2020-02-29T21:46:09.720", "last_edit_date": "2020-02-29T21:46:09.720", "last_editor_user_id": "2266", "owner_user_id": "52127", "parent_id": "7042", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think your hint goes in the right direction, Madara had counted on Nagato to\nresurrect him, he didn't expect Nagato to betray their plan. And then Madara,\nwith Obito and Nagato's help, could have taken care of the five nations.\n\nFrom wiki:\n\n> Tobi was surprised by news of Nagato's death and, more so, his \"betrayal\",\n> having wanted Nagato to save the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique for him.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T00:21:54.463", "id": "7049", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T00:40:46.867", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-20T00:40:46.867", "last_editor_user_id": "3230", "owner_user_id": "3230", "parent_id": "7044", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI guess Obito will lose the war.\n\nObito seems to have underestimated the 5 nations. Maybe because he thought\nthat he can take advantage of their previous wars and conflicts and never\nexpected that the alliance will truly go in war as one allied shinobi rather\nthan fighting for their own nation.\n\nAs for plans on resurrecting Madara, I don't think he still plans to do so\nsince he said that he wants Nagato to use the 7th path on him and his current\nactions shows that he wants to be the Juubi's jinchuriki himself and the one\nto cast infinite tsukoyomi and I think he underestimated Madara on that one\ntoo.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T04:01:20.473", "id": "7082", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T04:01:20.473", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "7044", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nWith the rinnegan, he can defeat the five kage. Also he had gedo statue and 7\ntailed beasts at his disposal. If you consider that kabuto never met him, then\nthere would be no itachi and no previous hokage and sasuke would have been on\nhis side. With an EMS sasuke, he can easily win the war. Even if sasuke never\njoined the battle, he was able to take on kcm2 naruto, bee, kakashi and guy.\nHe would have found a way to retrieve some part of 8 tails and 9 tails chakra\neither by using white zetsu or by his chakra absorption and gone for an\nimperfect transformation again by making kakashi force him break the seal by a\nchidori.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-24T23:34:12.057", "id": "49835", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-24T23:34:12.057", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41394", "parent_id": "7044", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTrying to factor how the Soul works in physics is a very hard thing to do\nsince currently there is no way to confirm or deign it's existence of weight,\nthere is a believe that all senses connect to the soul.\n\nWhen we touch, taste, smell, hear or see, our mind translates this so that our\nsoul can understand it,\n\n * for touch and taste we need nerves to collect the information, since Al has no nerves he can't use these, he can however feel his Soul being scratched at only when someone is scratching at the blood seal\n\n * for smell we need a nose, since Al has no nose he can't smell\n\n * for hearing and seeing, the soul can understand what it hears/sees however it can recognize which is why Al is unable to remember key arts of his memory\n\nthis is all just speculation however and will change based off belief, as i\nsaid, trying to factor how the Soul works in physics is a very hard.\n\nAs for what you mentioned about Al's vision not colliding with his real body's\nvision, the Gate can only be access via special methods, remember at first Ed\nand Al believed Al's body to be lost however then started to believe that his\nbody may still be at or in the Gate, it could be that when Al Body and Soul\nwere separated so too was the connection between them thus disallowing Al to\ntell if his body still existed or not, this would too explain why in\nBotherhood Barry was surprised to see his body.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T03:00:53.580", "id": "7051", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T03:00:53.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's a bit of speculation here, since there is no blatant in-universe\nexplanation nor [Word of\nGod](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod) to fully\ndemonstrate the reason for this.\n\nYou may want to take a look at the answer to [why a soul bonded to a suit of\narmor can move](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3865/274), because the\nexplanation here is pretty similar. Essentially, keeping in line with the\nseries' representation of [eyes being windows to the\nsoul](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3939/274) (a [common\ntrope](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3547/274)), basically: Sight is not\nnecessarily handled biologically.\n\nHere's basically how this works: If an average person loses his sight (as does\nhappen in the series), he cannot see, because there is no channel of vision\nconnected to his soul (for either eye). However, Alphonse, Barry, and the\nother soul-bound armors do have this channel of vision, just as there is the\nability for them to move their steel fingers (with, of course, the channel\nbeing in opposite direction).\n\nThe reason what he sees does not collide with what his body sees is because\nhis body is not transmitting its sight to a soul. It has no conscious mind to\nconnect to its sight. As for his sleep, because he has no biological\nmechanisms, they do not need to rest, but his conscious mind still remains\nactive because it is affixed to his soul (imagine the way we dream).\n\nYou're probably thinking, \"Oh, hurr hurr, mister clever, there's still no\nphysical organ to transmit the vision data!\" And you'd be absolutely right!\nThere is _nothing which suggests that there is a physical entity able to\ntransmit visual data from the real world to the armor seal_ , whereas there is\na physical entity able to move his limbs. It's not even known that only armor\nwith helmets can see; in fact, when Barry is reduced to a single plate of\narmor, he appears to be able to see his body standing over him.\n\nSo to put it simply, your answer is: **Alphonse and other soul-bound armors\nsee because it's necessary for the story.** We can loosely explain it, as I\ndid above, but there still is no legitimate, solid reason why this should be\npossible.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T03:05:51.810", "id": "7052", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T03:05:51.810", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7050", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\ntl;dr - They share what literary types call \"themes\". Angel Beats and Haruhi\nare both \"school anime\", so they will more than likely share themes.\n\nSchool anime is a theme, the \"school club\" and \"strong female lead\" are also\nthemes. You will find these themes in many anime as you watch more of them.\nAnother example of a \"school anime\" with a \"strong female lead\" that's\npresident of a \"school club\" is Medaka Box.\n\nI wouldn't say Medaka Box copied Haruhi or Angel Beats, though. Just as I\nwouldn't say Angel Beats copied Haruhi.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T14:38:30.107", "id": "7061", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T14:38:30.107", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "7059", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nProbably, since the main girl in Angel Beats (can't remember her name) is\npretty much just as annoying and bossy as Haruhi. Both animes also take place\nin high school and have loads of weird situations, so that makes them similar.\nI watched both shows a while back, but from memory, I don't think Angel Beats\nstraight up copied Melancholy, but it probably took a lot of inspiration from\nit. The author might have been like, \"Well, Melancholy is really popular, and\nespecially the main character, Haruhi, so I might want to make my story a\nlittle bit like that so it'll sell...\"\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-22T03:23:39.223", "id": "11404", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-22T03:23:39.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6334", "parent_id": "7059", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what I understood it's not that he can't use his power. It's just that\nthe amount he can use is limited because his calculations ability is\ndecreased. So he should still have enough to do some stuff. But if he wants to\nfight with it he needs the collar to help him calculate.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T12:50:58.790", "id": "15400", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-01T13:06:52.073", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-01T13:06:52.073", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "9422", "parent_id": "7062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt wasn't explicitly stated, but the collar has three states: Active, Passive\nand Dead Battery.\n\nIn Active mode, Accelerator can use his vector transformation powers. In Dead\nBattery mode, Accelerator can't walk or talk, he can barely think logically,\nuntil the battery is recharged or the source of electromagnetic disruption is\nremoved.\n\nIn Passive mode, Accelerator can think, talk and walk (although with a cane),\nso it isn't a stretch to think that he also has a weak enough reflection\nshield to keep protecting him from UV light.\n\n* * *\n\nAlso, another possibility is that the author never thought about it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-01T12:57:20.663", "id": "15401", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-01T12:57:20.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7062", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI believe this is an example of the [Never\nBareheaded](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverBareheaded) trope\nin combination with the [Nice\nHat](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceHat) trope.\n\n> **Never Bareheaded:** A character always appears wearing a headdress of some\n> kind, and never, ever takes it off. It doesn't have to be a hat, any kind of\n> headgear is fine. Furthermore, it doesn't always have to be the same\n> headgear, the point is that this character is never seen bare-headed. This\n> gives him a certain mystique, since while it might just be that he wears the\n> hat because he feels like it, the fact remains that we never learn what his\n> hatless head looks like.\n>\n> **Nice Hat:** To show that you mean business, it's important to have style.\n> Enter: the nice hat. It may actually have utility — even conveying special\n> powers — but more often than not it just looks cool, **or even just sexy.**\n\nConsidering that Super Sonic is pretty much a half-naked model for Nitroplus,\nthe Nice Hat trope _\" sexy\"_ part does most certainly fit this description.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T23:40:51.627", "id": "7071", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-26T08:21:01.217", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7064", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n 1. Character design distinction. Remove the headphones and she'll be any anime character with pink long hair and yeah, large oppai.\n\n 2. Conceal ears. Idk, I haven't probably seen an ear of a long haired female character.\n\n 3. Her headphones can be also sold as a character product so yeah, more $$$.\n\nThis is just my opinion though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-22T09:29:06.457", "id": "7108", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-30T11:20:12.643", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-30T11:20:12.643", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3442", "parent_id": "7064", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nShe could be deaf and those headphones serve to help her hear, I mean if it is\nnever addressed then it should be assumed that the information is common\nknowledge in that universe, maybe they serve to let her hear\n\nI see them in a similar way as a blind man's shades, only with the augmenting\nability that they let her hear\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-26T08:13:14.980", "id": "21135", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-26T08:13:14.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14136", "parent_id": "7064", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nI discovered an interesting piece of information to add to Dimitri mx's answer\nwhile I was researching my answer to [Why is Super Sonico\nfamous?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/23711/7579). It turns out that\nSuper Sonico was originally designed as the mascot for Nitroplus's music\nfestival, Nitro Super Sonico, as documented on [Super Sonico\nWiki](http://super-sonico.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Sonico_Wiki) and\n[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplus). Nitroplus, though\nprimarily a visual novel company, had apparently held this music festival for\nseveral years before they introduced Super Sonico as its mascot in 2006. In-\nuniverse, Super Sonico is a singer (and gravure model, of course); she had\nsome very out-of-universe albums and singles released, which may have set off\nthe tidal rush of Super Sonico love that resulted in the manga, visual novel,\nand anime.\n\nSo it made sense, when Super Sonico was first designed, to give her a pair of\nheadphones: she was the mascot for a music festival, after all, and a singer\nherself. Dimitri mx's answer explains why she almost never takes them off.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-06T09:09:27.733", "id": "23836", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-06T09:09:27.733", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "7064", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nSonico is a robot, pretty much. If you take the headphones off, she breaks.\nSee this link:\n\n<http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/01/22-1/super-sonico-child-\nversion-figure-previewed>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-31T19:17:49.600", "id": "28544", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-31T19:17:49.600", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20113", "parent_id": "7064", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the game Sonicomi, there is a secret ending (ending 18), where if you touch\nSonico's headphones she will say \"- the demonic signal will be released and\nsomething terrible will happen! Everyone will die! So you can't touch them!\".\nTouching them will result in a zombie apocalypse\n(<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROcp5DJQBu4>). Not sure if this answers the\nquestion though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-15T12:36:03.880", "id": "38424", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-15T12:36:03.880", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30328", "parent_id": "7064", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMaybe Super Sonico has hearing problems and the headphones are hearing aids.\nIn the anime she uses 4 alarm clocks to wake up.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-10T06:59:44.833", "id": "39329", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-10T06:59:44.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31362", "parent_id": "7064", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBefore the events of _StrikerS_ , although Jail Scaglietti's existence was a\nsecret known only to the top tiers of the TSAB, his activities were already\nknown, albeit the identity of its perpetrator remained unknown. In fact, said\nactivities are one of the main points Hayate used during his exposition when\nforming Riot Force 6.\n\nWe can only deduce that Nanoha's incident happened in one encounter with\nScaglietti's activities. Still, as there was no \"Jail Scaglietti\nInvestigation\" back then, she must have been investigating a case of improper\nuse of Lost Logia or usage of magical technology in an underdeveloped world\n(not specified, as far as I know)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-03T10:53:31.360", "id": "23780", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-03T17:38:39.110", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-03T17:38:39.110", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "16054", "parent_id": "7068", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs I remembered he stated in one of his interviews that this word has no real\nmeaning. I haven't been able to find the original interview, but it has also\nbeen quoted on Urban dictionary On the second example.\n\n> Directly derived from an actual interview with the creator himself, Masashi\n> kishimoto. (Quote) \\- Is Naruto's favorite phrase, \"dattebayo\" modeled on\n> anything?\n>\n> K: That isn't really modeled on anything either. When I thought of childlike\n> speech, \"dattebayo\" instantly came to mind. It's like it's become a part of\n> Naruto, and even now it brings out his \"mischievousness\".\n> [Source](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dattebayo)\n\nSomething along similar lines is also posted on the Wiki about Naruto\n\n> In the original Japanese versions of Naruto, Naruto often ends his sentences\n> with the addendum \"-ttebayo\" (which achieves an effect similar to ending a\n> sentence with \"you know?\" in English). Kishimoto wanted to give Naruto a\n> childlike catchphrase, and \"dattebayo\" came to mind; the creator believed\n> that the phrase complements Naruto's character, and serves as a verbal tic\n> that portrays him in a brat-ish manner.Throughout the first episodes of the\n> English dub version, \"dattebayo\" and \"-ttebayo\" were replaced with the\n> phrase \"Believe it!\", both to mirror the effect and to match the character's\n> lip movements. [source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-20T23:31:00.480", "id": "7070", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-20T23:31:00.480", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7069", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n_Dattebayo_ (だってばよ) is not really proper Japanese, but you can sort of see how\nit would come about linguistically as a sentence-ending phrase. It's very\nimpolite, somewhat childish, and basically just combines different ways of\nputting emphasis on the statement in a not terribly meaningful way.\n\nFirst, the _da_ (だ) is a standard way to end a sentence (copula) in Japanese.\nDepending on the construction of the sentence, some sentences will end with\n_da_ while others end with a dictionary form verb. It should be emphasized\nthat using this would not be considered polite. The polite version of _da_ is\n_desu_ (です).\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language#Inflection_and_conjugation)\nhas some more information on copula verbs and verb conjugations in Japanese.\n\nNext, _tteba_ (ってば) is sort of a set expression/phrase which adds emphasis.\nThis is a shortened (and hence less polite) version of _tteieba_ (っていえば). It\ncan be attached to a noun, in which case it would be translated roughly as\n\"speaking of\" in many contexts. In other contexts it could be interpreted\n(somewhat rudely) as \"I'm talking to you\" or \"listen to me\". You might use it\nwith a person's name to attract their attention in this way. It's roughly\nequivalent to _ttara_ (ったら) but this latter one is more commonly used by\nfemales. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_particles#tteba)\ncalls it a \"strong emphasis marker\" which is probably about as close as you\ncan get to an accurate English description.\n\nNaruto adds it to the _da_ above. _Datteba_ is something you might hear\noccasionally in other contexts. To me, this more often sounds frustrated than\nemphatic, but it could be used either way.\n\nFinally, the _yo_ (よ) is a sentence-ending particle. It can be appended to the\nend of a sentence when the speaker is informing the listener of something or\nmaking an assertion. It might be translated in some contexts as \"you see\" or\n\"you know\". It's not necessarily impolite but it could be used in impolite\nspeech. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_particles#yo) has\nsome other contexts where this could be used.\n\nPutting all these together gives _dattebayo_. It's meaningless and not\nentirely grammatical, but it puts a lot of emphasis on what he is saying. One\nmight compare it qualitatively in English to using multiple superlatives, e.g.\n\"I'm the most bestest ninja ever\" in terms of how it would come across. It\nisn't actually equivalent to this, but Japanese speakers hearing it would get\na similar impression in terms of the manner of speech.\n\nI'll note that while _dattebayo_ is most definitely invented for this\ncharacter, it's somewhat equivalent to _dazo_ (だぞ). _Dazo_ is not childish-\nsounding (compared to _dattebayo_ ), and is mostly used by men. However, it is\nstill quite impolite, all things considered, and puts a strong emphasis on a\nstatement. There's also the more forceful _daze_ (だぜ), but _dazo_ has somewhat\nof a more positive tone.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T00:45:25.960", "id": "7076", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T00:45:25.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "7069", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nThe show you are looking for is called \"[Monster\nRancher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Rancher_\\(anime\\))\".\n\nThe name of the wolf you are probably referring to is \"Tiger\" and the rabbit's\nname is \"Hare\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T03:07:46.270", "id": "7080", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T03:07:46.270", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7079", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJintan still has romantic feelings toward her, as do the other male\ncharacters. There are also some scenes (at least one, and I think more) where\nMenma is sitting on Jintan's crotch and moving around, which naturally gives\nhim nosebleeds and at least once causes him to pass out. The implication is\nthat she has no clue what kind of effect this has on him because she died\nbefore learning about such things.\n\nIt seems likely that the creators did not want to show that kind of scene with\nMenma looking like a child. _Kodomo no Jikan_ ended up not being adapted for\nthe US market because of such content. The late-teen male characters having\nromantic feelings toward such a young-looking character would also tend to\nsquick people out.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-30T01:13:52.870", "id": "17171", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-30T01:13:52.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10888", "parent_id": "7089", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are two routes here:\n\nIf Menma was a ghost or spirit:\n\n * We know that she doesn't have any memory of the gap in between her death and her reappearance\n * Thus she was likely in some sort of stasis or limbo, but still aged\n * The major likelihood is that her soul was stuck in the human world because her wish wasn't fulfilled, so she kept aging\n * Alternatively, it's possible spirits can control their appearance and it just seemed natural to be at the age of her friends\n * As to explaining the memory gap, I like to think that she was unconsciously waiting for the Super Peace Busters to get back together, and when it didn't happen, she didn't have a choice but to wake up in the human world and put everyone's longing to rest herself.\n\nIf Menma was a collective hallucination:\n\n * She was grown up in their hallucinations for a reason.\n * The reason could be speculated as: \n * Everyone wanted Menma to grow up as well, still not wanting to let go of her death.\n * Subconsciously, it just seemed natural for Menma to grow up as well, because she wasn't dead in the characters' hearts\n\nPersonally I would like it better if Menma were a hallucination because seeing\npeople resolve their own emotional traumas without any divine intervention (a\nspirit coming to make things better by meeting with their loved ones, etc.) is\na lot more moving.\n\nAbsolutely none of this is canon but it can be in our hearts.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-10T20:33:52.450", "id": "35721", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-10T20:33:52.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25814", "parent_id": "7089", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI would also say, that Menmas reappearance was already told to happen. I\nunderstand the outro song as something that Menma thinks or sings. And he\nsings that she wanted to see Jinta in August after 10 years again and, I\nthink, that other then just seeing Jin-tan again, she also saw that the Super\nPeace Busters aren't real friends anymore which kept here \"here\". She wanted\nher friends to get together again, be friends. Nobody should give themself the\nresponsi\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-24T10:40:38.460", "id": "37494", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-24T10:40:38.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29425", "parent_id": "7089", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think she appeared as a teenager because there were reasons behind it as\nsuch:\n\n 1. I think that she reappeared as a teenager because Jintan still likes her, and so do other male characters, even though she is dead.\n\n 2. She reappeared as an adult because it would seem a bit weird for older teenagers to like a 7-10 year old girl.\n\nPlus, if you understand the outro song fully, you'd think it along the lines\nof it as something Menma would think/sing to Jintan.\n\nMaybe, she also wanted to get the \"Super Peace Busters\" back together again,\nas her death made them all split apart.\n\n 3. People, including her mum (or mom, however you want to say it), didn't want her to die that day, and they wished she had grown up to live a lovely life.\n\n(There's meh bein' smart ヾ(●ε●)ノ ;^; )\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-07-20T14:59:08.967", "id": "53675", "last_activity_date": "2019-07-20T15:19:40.093", "last_edit_date": "2019-07-20T15:19:40.093", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "48175", "parent_id": "7089", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe exact placement of the Rebellion movie with respect to the series is still\nnot entirely clear. This is what we know, though:\n\n * The movie is set in the final timeline - that is, the one depicted in episode 12, in which Madoka exists as a force of nature that eliminates all witches. \n * The movie occurs a while after the last pre-credits scene of episode 12 (the one where Homura tells Kyuubey about the previous timelines, in which witches existed, and in which magical girls had a more adversarial relationship with Kyuubey). The movie starts an indeterminate amount of time after this scene, though Kyouko, Mami, and Homura all look essentially the same, so it's unlikely more than a year or two has passed.\n * The movie is to be taken as the canonical continuation of the TV series (and, equivalently, the first two movies), so that it is _the_ ending of the series (for now), not an alternate ending or a spin-off. \n\nWhat is not clear:\n\n * We don't know how the events of the movie relate to the post-credits scene of episode 12 (果てしなき戦い / \"The Endless War\", discussed in [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5007/are-homuras-wings-witch-wings-in-the-end)), in which Homura sprouts witch-looking wings as she battles a number of wraiths in a wasteland. This scene could occur before or after the events of the movie - there just isn't enough information to tell at this point. \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T14:07:24.913", "id": "7092", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T14:07:24.913", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7090", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere aren't any substantive connections between the two series, in terms of\ncontent.\n\nFrom a production perspective, though, there is a lot of overlap between them.\nFirst, as you noted, they're both produced by Shaft, which means they share a\nlot of staff, most notable among them director [SHINBO\nAkiyuki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyuki_Shinbo), whose directorial\nflourishes are easily seen in both series. IWAKAMI Atsuhiro is also the\nproducer for both of them, though I'm not sure how much influence he has\nrelative to Shinbo.\n\nThe short intro animations you mentioned are primarily amusing because the\nvoice casts of the two series have a lot of people in common:\n\n * SAITOU Chiwa, who voices both AKEMI Homura and SENJOUGAHARA Hitagi\n * KITAMURA Eri, who voices both MIKI Sayaka and ARARAGI Karen\n * EMIRI Katou, who voices both HACHIKUJI Mayoi and Kyuubey\n * MIZUHASHI Kaori, who voices both TOMOE Mami and OSHINO Ougi\n\nHence, the four different intro animations, each of which features one of\nthese four voice actors.\n\nGenerally speaking, Shaft does tend to hire a lot of the same voice actors for\ntheir shows, as you can see in [this\nchart](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xbXfg.jpg \"Shaft VA chart, Summer 2013\nedition\"). Especially Saitou Chiwa - she's all over the place in Shaft\nproductions.\n\nOh, one more interesting connection between the two series - Bakemonogatari\nand Madoka are the first- and second-top-selling late-night anime of all time\nin terms of discs sold.1 Shaft is clearly doing something right.\n\n* * *\n\n1\n[source](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1tpvev/alltime_tv_anime_bestsellers_rankings_update/)\n\\- note that Evangelion was not a late-night anime, nor was The World of\nGolden Eggs (which was, in my opinion, [really\ndumb](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm53BgUvYok) anyway).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T14:25:50.110", "id": "7095", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T15:04:10.133", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-21T15:04:10.133", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7091", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> [...] the high-tech school and everything were no longer during the finale\n> of the series.\n\nI don't think this is actually the case. You're right that we weren't _shown_\nthe school at any point after Madoka made her wish, but we still have very\ngood reason to believe that humanity still reaped all the benefits from its\nrelationship with the Incubators.\n\nRecall the events of episode 11, following Sayaka's funeral, when Kyuubey\nexplains to Madoka everything about the long relationship between mankind and\nthe Incubators.\n\n> MADOKA: もしもあなたたちがこの星に来ていなかったら… \n> KYUUBEY: 君たちは今でも裸で洞穴で住んでたんじゃないかな。\n>\n> MADOKA: If you had never come to this planet... \n> KYUUBEY: You'd probably still be naked, living in caves.\n\nClearly, the people of Mitakihara aren't living in the Stone Age after Madoka\nmade her wish - and so I think it is best to conclude that mankind still\nbenefited from their relationship with the Incubators in the final timeline\njust as much as they did in previous timelines.\n\n* * *\n\nOf course, if you look at the mechanics of the way the Incubators operate, I\nthink this should be obvious, too - the way the Incubators help mankind\nadvance is by allowing people to make wishes and use magic. This is true both\nbefore and after Madoka's wish. While some girls certainly would wish for\nmundane things like healing some dude's arm and do little of wider\nconsequence, others would wish for and do things on a grander scale.\n\nSome, like Madoka, would literally change the universe. Others would do great\nthings to move mankind forward. During Kyuubey's episode 11 explanation, we\nsee images of magical girls, some of which look very much like real-life\nfigures, e.g. Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, etc., who indeed are known to have done\ngreat things. In fact, Kyuubey explicitly states:\n\n> KYUUBEY: 中には歴史に転機をもたらし、社会を新しいステージへと導いた子もいた。 \n> KYUUBEY: Among them were those who changed history, and brought human\n> society to a higher level.\n\nThe implication being, of course, that they were only able to do that thanks\nto the wish and the power of magic they were granted by the Incubators. In\nsum, yes - the world is only so technologically advanced thanks to Kyuubey's\nrace.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T14:56:37.997", "id": "7096", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T14:56:37.997", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7094", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Japanese schools, typically they have set of outdoor street shoes and\nindoor shoes called \"[Uwabaki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwabaki).\" Inside,\nthere are typically individual shelves or lockers for everyone's shoes. These\nshelves/lockers will occasionally have a space for students to put and swap\ntheir outdoor shoes for their indoor shoes. This is typically done to keep the\nfloor from being marred by outside elements and maintain its polish for a\nlonger period of time.\n\nThe general idea (depicted in anime and manga) of bullying is to either steal\nthem (and toss them away or place them in an inconvenient place) or fill them\nwith tacks or garbage (sometimes also defacing them). The purpose is usually\nhumiliate them and/or cause them distress without actual confrontation. The\nsandals she wears are probably her indoor shoes, and the idea is probably to\ntake enjoyment in humiliating her by making her walk home without shoes or in\nher indoor shoes. In essence, the idea of this is to shame the bullied victim\n(who typically react passively), who loses dignity/\"face\", which elevates the\nego/status of the bully or bullies.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T16:53:07.263", "id": "7099", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T16:53:07.263", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7097", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nкяαzєя♦'s answer, while good in most regards, seems to be missing the\nconvenience aspect. In anime, and possibly in real Japanese schools, these\nshoe lockers are often not locked, and sometimes are just open shelves as seen\nin the second image below.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wmzY4m.jpg)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h4HqSm.jpg)\n\nsource: <https://gowithguide.com/blog/welcome-to-the-japanese-school-visiting-\nis-believing-shoe-lockers-3496>\n\nThough I can't speak much to real Japanese schools, in anime, these lockers\nare almost always not locked, thus making the shoes inside an easy and\nconvenient target for bullies.\n\nSee also:\n\n<https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/InsideShoes>\n\n<https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StockShoujoBullyingTactics>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-04-27T15:53:38.240", "id": "67938", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-27T15:53:38.240", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "7097", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> **What language is it?**\n\nThat's Japanese. It's not ordinary contemporary Japanese, though, but rather\n_Buddhist_ Japanese, which has some unusual qualities that make it rather\nunlike contemporary spoken Japanese.\n\n* * *\n\n> **Why isn't it translated?**\n\nBuddhist texts in Japanese are strange things. As the informed reader is\naware, Buddhism originated in India, and as such, many of the foundational\ntexts of Buddhism were originally written in Sanskrit. When Buddhism moved\ninto China, those Sanskrit texts were translated into whatever the\ncontemporary form of Classical Chinese was. Eventually, those texts made their\nway from China into Japan.\n\nI'm glossing over a lot of details here to get to the important point: most\nJapanese Buddhist terminology was first introduced around the 6th century CE.\nSince these were loanwords from Chinese (many of which were in turn loans from\nSanskrit), they used Sino-Japanese pronunciations (that is, [_on_\nreadings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyomi#On.27yomi_.28Sino-\nJapanese_reading.29), and in particular, [_go-on_\nreadings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-on)). Buddhist terminology has\nchanged relatively little since.\n\nModern Japanese consists primarily of 1.) native words (e.g. _kun_ readings);\n2.) non-Sinitic loanwords (e.g. borrowings from English); or 3.) Sinitic\nloanwords that _postdate_ the 6th century (that is, the _kan-on_ and _tō-on_\nreadings). _go-on_ vocabulary (like Buddhist words) are relatively scarce in\nthe contemporary Japanese language, and the average speaker is unlikely to be\nparticularly familiar with many _go-on_ words.\n\nMaking things more difficult still is the fact that Japanese Buddhist texts\nare often straight-up Chinese texts simply being read in Japanese\npronunciations, making it difficult for someone without training in reading\nBuddhist texts to understand what is being spoken.\n\nSo that's probably why it wasn't translated - it was too difficult for whoever\nwas on hand. It's certainly _possible_ to translate whatever was said (see\nbelow), but I guess it wasn't worth the trouble for the people at NISA. See\nalso footnote4. Anyway, that's enough of that digression.\n\n* * *\n\n> **What is he actually saying?**\n\nIf my ears are working today, what Hattori Hanzo says in episode 2 is:\n\n> オン ソンバ ニソンバ ウン バザラ ウン パッタ \n> on sonba nisonba un bazara un patta\n\nNow, what does this mean? Heck if I know - I certainly don't know how to read\nJapanese Buddhist texts. Luckily, the internet has answers for us. This is\napparently the mantra1 (in Japanese, _shingon_ ) for a being called\n[降三世明王](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%8D%E4%B8%89%E4%B8%96%E6%98%8E%E7%8E%8B)\n( _Gouzanze Myouou_ ; Skt. Trailokyavijaya)2, one of the five [Wisdom\nKings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_King).\n\nThe Sanskrit equivalent of this chant appears to be:3\n\n> om sumbha nisumbha hum vajra hum phat4\n\nI'm not going to attempt to translate this, because my Sanskrit is far too\nweak for that, but some of the relevant things to know are:\n[Sumbha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumbha_and_Nisumbha) is an alternate\nname (or epithet or something like that) for _Gouzanze Myouou_ , as is\nVajrahumkara, here contracted to Vajra. Nisumbha is the name of the other\nasura that appears in stories detailing the exploits of Sumbha. \"Om\" is of\ncourse the sacred syllable [Om](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om). The rest I'm\nhonestly not sure about, but I'm sure a better-educated person would be able\nto translate this.\n\n* * *\n\n# Notes\n\n* If you find this sort of thing interesting, take a look at the [Buddhism proposal](http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/45110/buddhism?referrer=lddPQFmsNQbyJ6AWfccLUw2) over at Area51! They need more committers!\n\n1 Full text for the mantrams of the other Wisdom Kings\n[here](http://www3.plala.or.jp/zbh421331/page017.html), I think.\n\n2 See also [this JAANUS\narticle](http://www.aisf.or.jp/%7Ejaanus/deta/g/gouzanzemyouou.htm).\n\n3 According to [this guy](http://youkaimura.freeforums.org/gonzanze-myo-\no-t142.html#p1219) and also the article on\n[_shingon_](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9C%9F%E8%A8%80#.E6.98.8E.E7.8E.8B)\non Japanese Wikipedia.\n\n4 The astute reader will observe the startling similarity of the Sanskrit\nversion of the mantra to the Japanese version, this despite Sanskrit and\nJapanese having no genetic relationship to one another. This is another reason\nwhy Buddhist mantras in particular are difficult to understand - they are\noften just plain Sanskrit processed through Chinese without translation and\nthen readapted to fit Japanese phonology, and as such are often devoid of any\nactual Japanese words.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-21T23:59:57.580", "id": "7103", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-21T23:59:57.580", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7101", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFraud managed to use many types of Burst Hearts. Braviary, Reshiram, Bisharp,\nGolurk, and the list goes on for a while. So I think it may be like regular\npokemon training, where all pokemon are available so long as you can use a\nBurst Heart. But I haven't read ReBurst yet so I'm not sure if his case can be\nconsidered normal.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-07T05:35:47.890", "id": "29583", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-07T05:35:47.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20946", "parent_id": "7102", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWith what I have seen in the anime, this should sum up all the rules and\nfactors.\n\n * The objective is to capture the king.\n * The game is played on a single color 9x9 board.\n * The game starts with a empty board\n * The players take turns placing stones, limited to the first 3 rows of the board on your side of the field\n * After all the pieces are placed, the players take turns moving a piece.\n * The pieces can be stacked on top of each other (the 3rd dimension) up to 3 pieces.\n * Certain pieces are stronger than others. Therefore, not all setups can beat certain counters.\n * Each player has 24 pieces in total.\n\nThe pieces used in this game are as following\n\n * Pawn\n * Spy \n * Cannon \n * Fortress \n * Musketeer \n * Knight \n * General\n\nThe exact conditions for victory are too blurry to confirm, but the rules for\nvictory seem pretty similar to chess, which would equal to trying to checkmate\nthe king. The placement and tactics used in the game are pretty similar to\nshogi. As for the initial placement, it's pretty similar to checkers. For the\ncombat side of the game, it also seems to have a slide of\n[Stratego](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratego) in it, as some pieces are\nstronger than others, and there potentially are pieces that can only be beaten\nby certain other pieces.\n\nThis is all I managed to find out.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-22T18:20:45.677", "id": "7111", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-28T06:09:30.803", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-28T06:09:30.803", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7110", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nThe game appears to be a blend of shogi, othello, checkers, chess, and as\nmentioned earlier stratego. The objective is to put your opponent into\ncheckmate by capturing the king. The set up is closest to checkers, while\nmovement is like chess, and the evolution of pieces is similar to checkers\n\"king\" creation. Shogi is in the overall patterns and formations that can be\nmade on the board and in the variations of strength regarding pieces.\n\nSome of the pieces being taken after certain placements were shown in the\nanime during a few of the matches more complicated maneuvers. This is what\nleads me to think of Othello, though this may have no real bearing at all in\nthe true gameplay.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-28T01:59:04.753", "id": "21906", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-28T01:59:04.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14703", "parent_id": "7110", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [Wikia](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/State_Alchemist) pages indicates it is a\n**silver pocketwatch**.\n\nLooking up Brotherhood's [differences from the\nmanga](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood#Differences_From_the_Manga),\nwhile Brotherhood follows the manga more faithfully than the 2003 series, most\nof the changes are omission of the scenes which are covered in the 2003\nseries, with some slight changes in other scenes due to the aforementioned\nomissions.\n\nFor example, May Chang's first appearance was in Youswell in the Manga, but\nsince this was omitted in Brotherhood as the main points of the events (Yoki\nbeing tricked, people of Youswell gaining ownership to the deed of their town,\nand the start of Ed's fame as \"Hero of the people\") were already covered in\nthe 2003 anime, the dialogue during her second visit was changed to avoid\nconfusion.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be any mention of either the 2003 series of Brotherhood\nchanging the pocketwatch's composition, but instead only the change in the\nhexagram presumably as to not invoke Judaism. However, I have yet to read the\nmanga and just looking at the covers, the most we can ever see is the silver\nchain which the watch is connected to.\n\n \n\nI also want to point out that, Gold in Japanese is _Kin_ (金), while Silver is\n_Gin_ (銀). It could be quite possible that the translation may have made a\nmistake. However, without seeing the pages myself, this part is just\nspeculation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-22T22:37:43.513", "id": "7116", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T05:42:06.340", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-04T05:42:06.340", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7112", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe pocket watch is in fact gold according to the English translation of the\nmanga. Yoki mentions this in chapter 3 of volume 1 saying: \"A gold watch with\nthe president's crest and the hexagram!! GAH!\" After Ed introduces himself in\nthe Inn by showing them the watch. It would be very interesting to find out\nwhich side the mistake was made on, translation or the anime and all colored\nartwork. :) I was wondering about this too for some time but couldn't find\nanything on it online.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T04:22:20.420", "id": "17289", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-04T04:22:20.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11008", "parent_id": "7112", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\n**The correct color of the watch is silver.**\n\nA popular fan scanlation of the manga (volume 1, chapter 3, page 19)\n**incorrectly** states that the pocket watch is gold in color.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CGNJo.jpg) \nThird panel down on the left: \"The president's crest! The hexagram gold\nwatch!\"\n\nThe correct color is in fact silver, according to the raw version. Here is the\nsame panel, taken from the raw manga (volume 1, page 117).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9TRZJ.jpg)\n\nThe same panel as above reads:\n\n> 大総統｛だいそうとう｝紋章｛もんしょう｝に六芒星｛ろくぼうせい｝の銀時計｛ぎんとけい｝！！\n\nSpecifically here, the term 銀時計｛ぎんとけい｝ ( _gintokē_ , lit. \"silver watch\")\nrefers explicitly to **銀｛ぎん｝ ( _gin_ , lit. \"silver\")**; as\n[@Memor-X](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1587/memor-x)\n[mentioned](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7116/274), it is similar to\n金｛きん｝ ( _kin_ , lit. \"gold\"), which most likely led to the confusion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-04T05:57:56.983", "id": "17295", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T18:27:23.303", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T18:27:23.303", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7112", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTheres are allot of story pieces involved. But one of the easyest ways to\ndecide in which order to watch would be by [checking out this\nwebsite](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=rel&aid=409). It has the\nstorys and their time settings layed down in detail (this might be a good\naddition to the [How are tenchi timelines\nrelated](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2089/how-are-the-tenchi-\ntimelines-related))\n\nFor a casual viewing order you should watch it in this order\n\n * Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki (1992-1993)\n * Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki Omatsuri Zen `y.... (1993)\n * Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki (1994)\n * Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki (2003)\n\nThen you can follow this up by the side story about his parents\n\n * Tenchi Muyou! Bangaihen: Galaxy Police (1994)\n * Mahou Shoujo Pretty Sammy (1995- 1997)\n\nAnd from here on out you can either go check out alternative settings\n\n * Shin Tenchi Muyou! (1997)\n * Tenchi Muyou! Manatsu no Eve (1997)\n * Tenchi Muyou! (1995)\n\nOr even the alternative version of the side story\n\n * Mahou Shoujo Pretty sammy (1996)\n\nAnd the alternative version settings variant of this\n\n * Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club (2006)\n * Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club 2 (2006-2007)\n\nAnd finally you can check out the Same setting story\n\n * Tenchi Muyou! GXP (2002)\n * Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari ( 2009-2010)\n * Dual! Parallel Runrun Monogatari\n\nWith this info it is pretty much up to yourself how to actually watch it. But\nfor story purposes I would advice at least watching the first 4 I stated in\nthat order.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-23T11:57:00.403", "id": "7129", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-23T11:57:00.403", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7117", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the story, Meruem's initial ability gives him strength through\nconsumption. His aura grows every time he devours a user of Nen, with their\naura synthesizing to his own. This ability (Aura Synthesis) doesn't belong to\nany of the 5 basic categories, thus falls in the 6th category, making him a\nspecialist. After absorbing large parts of Shaiapouf and Menthuthuyoupi, he\nwas able to use their abilities too, making them his own. Further details\nabout his new abilities can be found\n[here](https://hunterxhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Meruem#Nen).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-23T08:29:37.677", "id": "7124", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-19T09:26:17.820", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-19T09:26:17.820", "last_editor_user_id": "1987", "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "7118", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLike Eric mentioned, \"[シンワハウス (Shinwa House)](http://www.shinwahouse.co.jp/)\"\nis a real estate company in [Iwate\nPrefecture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwate_Prefecture) and the subtitles\nis referring to \"RE/MAX\", which is [famous for the iconic\nballoon](http://www.remax.com/c/corporate/the-balloon). The localization\ndecided to use \"WE/MAX\" since they can't use the trademarked name \"RE/MAX\" and\nusing \"Shinwa House\" pretty much has no meaning in English speaking countries.\nThe combination of the balloon and \"WE/MAX\" was a localization compromise.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-23T06:49:47.940", "id": "7121", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-23T06:49:47.940", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7119", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you look at the wiki page of [Monet](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monet),\nthe fight is very clearly explained in there (emphasis mine).\n\n> Sanji, Tashigi, and the G-5 Marines suddenly arrive at the Biscuits Room\n> while Monet and Zoro are dueling. The Marines compliment on Monet's beauty,\n> causing her to blush, and hiding her blush with her wings, and buckling her\n> legs, despite the serious situation. **After realizing that they are also\n> attempting to get the children, Monet transforms into her demonic body again\n> and attacks the Marines out of fury, biting off a Marine's shoulder. Tashigi\n> then slices her with a Haki-imbued attack, injuring her. She then declares\n> that she will stay and fight Monet.**\n>\n> While Tashigi and Zoro argue, Monet tries to use a sneak attack on Tashigi\n> and gets the upper hand due to her speed. After Tashigi easily dodges her\n> \"Snow Rabbits\" attack using Soru, Monet opts to blind her with her blizzard\n> and then sinks her teeth into Tashigi's shoulder, trying to tear it off as\n> she did to one of the Marines. However, Tashigi gets a hold of her, making\n> her unable to tear her shoulder off. **As Monet starts to bite harder on\n> Tashigi's shoulder, Zoro cuts the harpy in the cheek, making her let go of\n> Tashigi. She is surprised at first because she assumed Zoro would never\n> attack women, but gets outright frozen in fear as she sees the swordsman\n> rush towards her. Monet is then sliced vertically in half by Zoro. However,\n> Zoro did not imbue Haki into his attack, allowing Monet to survive. Due to\n> realizing what would have happened had he used Haki however, she is left\n> terrified to the point where she can hardly put her body back together. As\n> Zoro walks away, Monet manages to partially reform and attempts to stab him\n> in the back with her ice picks, but Tashigi quickly deals the finishing\n> blow. Monet then falls to the ground, defeated.**\n\nThus to answer your question, _How exactly did Zoro defeat Monet using this\nnew ability of his?_ , there is no new ability/technique which Zoro used\nagainst Monet. It was just that Monet was under the belief that Zoro would not\nattack women (as he was just defending against her and not attacking when\ntrying to save Nami, Robin, and Chopper). But suddenly, when she sees him\nattack, she's stunned that she was wrong and what would have happened had\n_Zoro used Haki_ in that attack. That leaves her in a terrified state so much\nso that she is not able to get a grip of herself for a while.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-23T08:54:51.737", "id": "7125", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-30T05:30:46.530", "last_edit_date": "2021-04-30T05:30:46.530", "last_editor_user_id": "1604", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "7120", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nZoro did not defeat Monet. The attack involved no haki.\n\nAcoording to the [story](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Monet), Monet is first\nsliced vertically in half by Zoro. However, Zoro did not imbue Haki into his\nattack, allowing Monet to survive. Realizing what would have happened had Zoro\nused Haki, she is left terrified to the point where she could hardly put her\nbody back together.\n\n\nAs Zoro walks away, Monet manages to partially reform and attempts to stab him\nin the back with her ice picks, but Tashigi quickly deals the finishing blow.\nMonet then falls to the ground, defeated. When the poisonous gas starts\nflowing into the Biscuits Room, Zoro and Tashigi flee and Monet is left\nbehind.\n\nLater we see that she manages to escape to a different section of the\nfacility. While amongst the crumbling rubble of the lab, she contacts Joker\nand apologizes for her failure and came to the decision to set off the\nremaining weapon to destroy the entire island and kill everyone on it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-23T09:10:12.507", "id": "7126", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-23T09:10:12.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "7120", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI found it!!! It's Nerawareta Gakuen. Man, did I get the summary wrong,\nhaha...\n\n* * *\n\n# [Nerawareta Gakuen](http://myanimelist.net/anime/14293/Nerawareta_Gakuen)\n\n\n\n# Synopsis\n\nSpring marks the start of another new school year at a junior high school in\nKamakura. A new transfer student, Ryoichi Kyogoku joins the 8th grade. Kyogoku\nhas a very special proficiency in telepathy and has been ordered by his father\nto use this ability to scan other people's minds and take over the school.\n\nHe instantly gains popularity at school from his good looks and charisma and\nhe sets about taking control of the school. As people begin to fall under\nKyogoku's spell, he covertly manipulates his followers and pushes aside anyone\nwho gets in his way.\n\nWith the school almost completely under the control of Kyogoku, only one boy\nseems unaffected—Seki. Does Seki have what it takes to save everyone from the\nclutches of mind control?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T08:26:06.827", "id": "7195", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-28T21:06:29.437", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3456", "parent_id": "7123", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was indeed a bluff made by light\n\n> He had Rem write in the death note before the following fake rules that were\n> going to prove that Light and Misa were innocent under any accusations as\n> being Kira, \"If the owner of a Death Note does not use the notebook after 13\n> days time, he or she will die\" and \" **If the Death Note is burned, torn up,\n> or otherwise rendered useless, any people who have touched the Death Note\n> will die** \". With Light and Misa having no contact with the death note for\n> more than 13 days, since they were both confined, and neither of them had\n> died, that would prove to L that neither of them were Kira. L agreed and he\n> finally took the handcuffs off of Light.\n\nFollowing this info it would mean as long as Light is bound to L he could not\nuse the notebook. Meaning he would die after 13 days, this would render the\nbook useless so L would die as well as he touched the book before hand.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-23T12:30:42.347", "id": "7130", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-23T12:30:42.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7127", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat L said wasn't a bluff. He was just repeating what he said just before\nLight and Misa were confined.\n\n**In chapter 32** , he said\n\n> Light: Didn't you say that it's scary to appear in public? Is this really\n> okay?\n>\n> L: I realized that if Yagami-kun isn't the killer, I should be fine... Since\n> only Yagami-kun knows who I am.\n>\n> L: So if I die in the next few days...\n>\n> L: Yagami-san will take over the investigation and every L will know that\n> Yagami Light is the killer.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZSMix.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/or4Y6.png)\n\nYagami presumed this to be a bluff, that there were no other L around and\ncalled that bluff later by using Rem.\n\n> But we see later that this is exactly how it went down. The other L being\n> Mello and Nero. N almost knew from the start the new L was the killer.\n\n**In chapter 33-36** , Misa is confined. Light makes preparations for later\nand turns himself in. Both Misa and Light were confined for more than 13 days\nand are finally released again.\n\n**In chapter 37** , L handcuffs Light, because at this point L still believes\nLight to be the killer. He just can't prove it due to their long confinement\nand the continuation of murders. So he still believes what he had said in\nchapter 32 and thus to repeat this in front of everybody he says that they\nwill both share the same faith.\n\nLater when L actually dies, Light can escape imprisonment, because of the fake\nrules he had put up. If the 13 day rule wouldn't have been in the Death Note\nhe would have been captures by the NPA and L's prediction would have come\ntrue.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-19T10:32:12.353", "id": "11357", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-19T10:32:12.353", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "7127", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMadara didn't know he was going to awaken the Rinnegan. He knew about the\nstory with the Sage of Six Paths and the Juubi, he also probably knew about\nthe existence of the Eternal Tsukuyomi. But without the Rinnegan, his plan\ncouldn't have succeeded at all (because the Rinnegan is needed for the Gedo\nMazo).\n\nSince Madara didn't know he was going to awaken the Rinnegan, or what the\nrequirements were, he couldn't have started his plan.\n\nSure, in retrospect, if he had known he would awaken the Rinnegan at a later\npoint, starting to collect the Bijuu early might have been a clever move.\n\n* * *\n\nNote that even his current plan had flaws in it:\n\n * Obito never planned to resurrect Madara. It was Kabuto who made the fatal mistake of reanimating him (having been tempted by Black Zetsu with Madara's corpse), and thinking he could control him. Obito's plan was to complete the Infinite Tsukuyomi himself, and create a world in which Rin lives.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-23T18:54:58.397", "id": "7136", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-24T04:30:02.477", "last_edit_date": "2016-07-24T04:30:02.477", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7135", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\n> It was never Madara's plan to begin with. He was manipulated by Black Zetsu.\n>\n\n>> **\" Seeing them, Madara announces himself the world's saviour, one who has\nsaved the world from itself by replacing the hells of reality with the heavens\nof dreams. While he is proselytising, Black Zetsu stabs him in the back. Black\nZetsu reveals that it has never served Madara, but rather Kaguya Ōtsutsuki,\nand that it has manipulated him for decades in order to bring about her\nrevival.\"** \\--- Quoted from [Kaguya Ōtsutsuki\nStrikes](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha#Kaguya_.C5.8Ctsutsuki_Strikes).\n\n>\n> Black Zetsu is the person who delayed the plan.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-09T03:06:52.153", "id": "18398", "last_activity_date": "2021-10-13T07:42:13.310", "last_edit_date": "2021-10-13T07:42:13.310", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "9260", "parent_id": "7135", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe is alive, she is around in Shippuden as she is just as shy around Naruto\nduring the moment Naruto is seeing everyone together for the first time in\nyears.\n\nshe does show up again multiple times during the fillers of the original\nseries, especially when she unveils her own 8 Tri-gram ability like what Neji\nhas in a small arc after the exams\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-24T03:31:52.413", "id": "7139", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-24T03:31:52.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7138", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's no actual reason given. It was stated that \"Madara managed to save his\neye\".\n\nIt was also half-implied that his Mangekyo was awakened for a brief moment and\nallowed him to slip through the rocks (Madara said something similar to that\nwhen Obito awoke for the first time).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-24T11:13:22.490", "id": "7146", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-24T11:13:22.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think it's a plot hole. If you think that the Mangekyo was awakened for a\nmoment, since we saw when he really awakened the Mangekyo, it may be a healing\ntechnique that he used to save just Obito's right eye, not his entire body.\nBut I can't imagine his Sharingan being the savior because in that case Obito\ncould have managed to slip through the rock with his entire right part of his\nbody.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T09:41:21.107", "id": "7364", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T13:14:03.507", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T13:14:03.507", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3624", "parent_id": "7144", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt looks like the OP of the Portuguese dub of Kaiketsu Zorro is the\ninstrumental (i.e. no lyrics) version of the [original Japanese\nOP](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yc6RPXiftM).\n\nThe original Japanese OP was presumably made specifically for the series,\nseeing as it is titled \"ZORRO\" (cf. [the ANN entry for Kaiketsu\nZorro](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1744)). The\npiece was sung by [MASAAKI\nEndoh](http://myanimelist.net/people/6528/Masaaki_Endoh) (probably better\nknown for his involvement in [JAM\nProject](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAM_Project)); composed and arranged by\n[TOBISAWA\nHiromoto](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=10820),\nwho also did the music for Kaiketsu Zorro; and featured lyrics by [ARIMORI\nSatomi](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=8153)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-24T19:44:27.383", "id": "7156", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-24T19:44:27.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7145", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think when a person is brought back by Edo Tensei, that person is revived\nfrom the last \"checkpoint\" of his life, when they were at their strongest.\nEven if originally Nagato's eyes weren't the Rinnegan, when he died he\npossessed it, similar to Itachi having a full potential Mangekyo Sharingan,\nyet he was blinded prior to his death in the last moment of his fight with\nSasuke.\n\nSince no other Uchiha was resurrected, nor other Rinnegan user was revived,\nthis could be the only possible conclusion you can deduct from these shinobi\n(if you don't calculate to be a plot hole), that you're coming back from the\ntime when you had your full strength. For example, look at Madara: he is in\nhis younger ages, not an old grandpa who was shown in the cave with Obito.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-24T15:07:24.260", "id": "7152", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T14:31:36.127", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T14:31:36.127", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "7147", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is actually just **HEIWAJIMA Shizuo** when he was younger. There's a\nflashback in episode 7, lasting from roughly 06:48 to 11:12, that shows how\nShizuo got to be so strong in the first place. Your screencap occurs around\n07:55.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-24T23:39:43.063", "id": "7158", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-24T23:39:43.063", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7157", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCrunchyroll has a small number of shows with English dubs. These are listed on\ntheir forums [here](http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-788825/crs-english-\ndubbed-anime). I could not find a way to search for them, so I have no way of\nknowing if the list is complete or not, but in any event there probably aren't\na lot more than what is listed there. There have been others in the past, but\nnever a huge number. CR is still primarily concerned with subtitled anime,\nwhich are typically cheaper and more abundant.\n\nThere are some other legal streaming sites which have larger collections of\ndubbed anime. What's available tends to vary significantly from country to\ncountry. In North America the biggest sources for legal dub streams are\nprobably [The Anime Network](http://www.theanimenetwork.com/) and\n[Funimation](http://www.funimation.com/). I unfortunately don't know whether\nthese are available to the rest of the world or what the popular alternatives\nare in other places.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-25T02:55:26.980", "id": "7162", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-25T02:55:26.980", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "7160", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn 1934 in the novels Isaac gets arrested and sent to Alcatraz.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-12T11:16:57.890", "id": "9665", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-12T11:16:57.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4856", "parent_id": "7161", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the eighth novel (year 1934), Firo is sent to Alcatraz by Victor Talbot and\nmeets both Isaac and Ladd Russo there. Isaac was imprisoned for various thefts\nbut is released in the same year.\n\nThis is the only known sentence and it's not known _which_ thefts, but I\nrecall from the anime that the police knew most of their criminal actions. I\ndon't know why he was released the same year or why Miria wasn't in prison,\nthough.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T15:28:51.203", "id": "9695", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-13T15:28:51.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "7161", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nSome undercover cops over hear Issac talking in the Alvaere about their\nvarious crimes (in 1934) and asks him and Miria to come see a show at a nearby\nbuilding. Issac asks Miria to go fetch his wallet, and then tells the police\nofficer to go ahead and arrest him. Due to being in the middle of Martillo\nterritory with a lot of the gang glaring at them, they decide to only arrest\nIssac instead of making a scene trying to capture Miria, who is then sent to\nstay with Jacuzzi's crew at the Genoard vacation manor to lay low until the\ncharges against her are dropped, where she remains until she goes to meet\nIssac after his release.\n\nVictor pulls some strings and agrees to drop the charges against Miria and\ngive Issac a reduced sentence if he'll help them with Huey at Alcatraz. Since\nFiro agreed to go to prison in exchange for Victor not pursuing his vendetta\nagainst Ennis for devouring his friend (and being involved with Szilard's\nschemes), they decided not to use Issac and he simply did his time (3 1/2\nmonths), and was released, and then he and Miria had a clean slate.\n\nDue to the ridiculousness of all the crimes, the only crime Issac was actually\ncharged with was robbing the Genoard mansion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T17:43:22.063", "id": "9835", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-05T08:31:09.027", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-05T08:31:09.027", "last_editor_user_id": "4966", "owner_user_id": "4966", "parent_id": "7161", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCompare these two images:\n\n(Click image to enlarge)\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fBo94.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tOkkY.png)\n\n * The first image is from the scene at 18:31 (before the flashback of Johan's memories)\n * The last image is from the scene at 21:12 (after the flashback of Johan's memories)\n\nOnce you're done comparing them, in the second image, you would notice that\nnot even a single hair is out of place. Johan's face shows virtually no\nexpressions different from the first image. The wrinkles shown over the pillow\nare identical.\n\nIt is **simply impossible** for a person to take care of all of these things\nin a time of split-second, specially when somebody is sitting beside.\n\nJohan certainly had masonic charisma, but that doesn't imply that every action\nof him was perfect. In the words of Hans Georg Schuwald and Julius Reichwein\n(Episode 36: The Monster of Chaos):\n\nSchuwald:\n\n> How any person could ever be that, perfect? I imagine having one sight just\n> confuses the matter. But I can always sense it. Yes, the presence of\n> something so unerringly precise, like Johan. I feel as though he is not of\n> this world at all. I do.\n\nReichwein:\n\n> Oh he's very much of this world, I assure you. And he has left a paper\n> trail, just like the rest of us. And here it is.\n\nIf you also compare the scene at 20:51 and 20:59 of that episode, then you\nwould notice that at 20:59 Tenma's chin and eyes were in the position similar\nto where they were before the scene of Johan being awake was showed. But in\nthe scene at 20:51 (during the conversation) the situation was rather\ndifferent where Tenma had his chin and eyes oriented very differently.\n\nThe images are sufficient evidence for me to consider that the ending was an\nimitation of the state of Johan in Episode 2, where Tenma was talking to him\nor rather himself but once Tenma left the room, Johan was shown to came back\nto his senses and was listening the entire conversation of Tenma.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7mZkn.png)\n\nIn short, Johan listened to what Tenma said, but didn't respond and left the\nroom later, which means the conversation between Tenma and Johan was\nhallucination of Tenma.\n\n* * *\n\nI noticed a bit of conflicting evidence which challenges my proposition. I'm\nnot certain whether it's a design fault or deliberate information introduced\nin the story. In any case, take a look at the following images.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ag0F1.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/A3BqK.png)\n\n * The first image is from the scene at 21:02 (Tenma was done talking to Johan or rather himself) \n * The last image is from the scene at 18:24 (Tenma came and started telling about his meeting with Johan's mother)\n\nAnyhow, I'm done!\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-04T15:56:14.240", "id": "26396", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-04T15:56:14.240", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13126", "parent_id": "7167", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen they were on a mission in the Hidden Mist, the Hidden Mist ninja captured\nRin and made her into the 3 tails' Jinchuuriki. Their purpose was for Rin to\nreturn to the village, where they'll undo the seal, kill Rin and have the 3\ntails rampage on the Hidden Leaf.\n\nKnowing that, Rin jumped in front of Kakashi's Chidori as he charged on a\nhidden Mist ninja to kill herself and foil their plans.\n\nObito came a second too late and only saw Rin getting impaled, but later on he\ntoo learned the whole story.\n\nThe Hidden Mist shinobi were manipulated by Madara. He was the one who set\nthat plan up then told Obito so it could have awaken his power. Rin had a\ncurse on her heart placed by Madara.\n\n**Source** : Naruto Manga - Chapter 675.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-26T09:53:27.277", "id": "7176", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-07T07:11:13.967", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-07T07:11:13.967", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7175", "post_type": "answer", "score": 23 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are a few more indeed.\n\n> * Rule #04. \"A shinobi must always put the mission first.\"\n> * Rule #25. \"A shinobi must never show their tears.\n> * Rule #??. \"A shinobi must see the hidden meanings within the hidden\n> meanings.\"\n> * Rule #??. \"A shinobi must follow their commander's instructions.\"\n> * Rule #??. \"A shinobi must prepare before it is too late to.\"\n> * Rule #??. \"A shinobi must never show any weakness.\"\n>\n\nThere also seem to be war-specific rules\n\n> During the Warring States Period, one of the rules forbade shinobi from\n> revealing their surnames for fear of retaliation outside of combat.\n\nas seen in the [Wikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shinobi_Rules).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-27T21:46:36.490", "id": "7181", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-12T13:59:33.263", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-12T13:59:33.263", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7180", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nDon't forget the rule that supersedes all rules: protect your comrades!\n\n> ・・・確かに忍者の世界でルールや掟を破る奴はクズ呼ばわりされる・・・ けどな・・・ 「仲間を大切にしない奴はそれ以上のクズだ」\n>\n> \" _...Tashika ni ninja no sekai de rūru ya okite o yaburu yatsu wa kuzu\n> yobawari sareru... kedo na... nakama o taisetsu ni shinai yatsu wa sore ijou\n> no kuzu da_ \"\n\nwhich can be translated as\n\n> \"...Certainly, those in the ninja world who break the rules are called\n> trash... but you know... those who don't value their comrades are even worse\n> trash then that.\"\n\nor\n\n> \"It may be true that in the ninja world, those who break the rules are\n> called trash, but... Those who don't treasure their friends are even worse\n> than trash!!\"\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T02:08:55.850", "id": "7190", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-12T14:00:04.627", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-12T14:00:04.627", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "3230", "parent_id": "7180", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nRule 1. Shinobi must always show allegiance to their Kage.\n\nRule 2. A Shinobi must not value himself but rather adhere to his village's\nideals.\n\nRule 3. hone your reflexes, they often react without you realising it.\n\nRule 4. A Shinobi must always put the mission first.\n\nRule 5. A Shinobi must always put his village before himself.\n\nRule 6. Misdirection is the sharpest blade.\n\nRule 7. A Shinobi should be able to prevail without fighting, only if there is\nno other choice but to do so.\n\nRule 8. A Shinobi must abstain from overindulging in the three vices: sex,\nalcohol and money.\n\nRule 9. A Shinobi must always carry out the mission assigned.\n\nRule 10. There are times when information is more important than lives.\n\nRule 11. A Shinobi must see the underneath under the underneath.\n\nRule 12. A Shinobi world is a world of shadows.\n\nRule 13. Hesitation is death.\n\nRule 14. When in danger you must not reveal anything involuntarily.\n\nRule 15. Only through experiencing the confrontation of danger, the\ntranscendence of fear or injury or death can you acknowledge individual\npersonal powers and limitations.\n\nRule 16. Turn your weaknesses into strengths.\n\nRule 17. Death to traitors.\n\nRule 18. A Shinobi must prepare before it is too late to.\n\nRule 19. Shinobi have no honour, they take their village's honour as their\nown.\n\nRule 20. A Shinobi must never question their commander.\n\nRule 21. The failures or successes of one affect the whole.\n\nRule 22. A Shinobi must never show attachment.\n\nRule 23. A Shinobi must endure.\n\nRule 24. Forgiveness is a luxury.\n\nRule 25. A Shinobi must never show emotion.\n\nNot sure if these are the actual rules but they seem pretty realistic, so\nyeah. Here is the source if you wanna check it out:\n<https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10924400/1/Shinobi-Rules-Book>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-12T13:46:37.400", "id": "43296", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-13T00:32:57.217", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-13T00:32:57.217", "last_editor_user_id": "36585", "owner_user_id": "36585", "parent_id": "7180", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is caused by one of the techniques pain Nagato uses the [Rain tiger at\nwill technique](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rain_Tiger_at_Will_Technique).\nThis technique infused with chakra causes the user to sense outsiders chakra\n\n> when guarding Amegakure Nagato was able to use the **Rain Tiger at Will\n> Technique** to make it rain. This rain was infused with his chakra and as\n> such, served as a large-scale sensory technique for him in his village.\n\nThe description of this technique would be\n\n> A perception ninjutsu, allowing one to freely manipulate rain infused with\n> the user's own chakra. The rain falls from rain clouds, formed with Pain's\n> own chakra. During this technique, the falling raindrops are closely linked\n> to Pain's senses. When the rain is obstructed by a chakra belonging to\n> someone not of the village, the existence of the intruder can be detected.\n> The rain will keep on falling until Pain uses the seal to cancel it. Pain\n> made it rain every Sunday in Amegakure, or whenever he had to leave the\n> village.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T00:33:19.293", "id": "7189", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-28T00:33:19.293", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7184", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis technique is called the Hidden Lotus, where the user opens the eight\nchakra gates present in the body. Each gate is a special point in the body\nthat limits the flow of chakra in order for the body to live longer. Opening a\ngate lets chakra flow freely through it, giving the user a boost in his/her\npowers, but as a price the body suffers greatly.\n\nThere are no specific requirements; however, opening the gates is very\ndangerous by itself and becomes more dangerous as more gates are opened\nsimultaneously. The reason for that is that the body itself can't stand the\nchakra flow and gets damaged because of it. That's why it's hard to open the\ngates and requires a lot of training to master it.\n\nThis technique is an advanced version of Taijustu, and requires a lot of\ntraining with serious side effects even for trained users like Guy.\n\n\n\nSo anyone will choose to train for his/her Ninjustu or Genjutsu instead of\nworking for this technique. Hence Kakashi, Guy, and Lee were the only ones\nusing this technique.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T00:06:41.893", "id": "7188", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-03T22:42:36.543", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-03T22:42:36.543", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "7185", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis can't be possible since Tobi must materialize and touch his opponent in\ncase he wants to absorb him. This is a mistake that was made by the animators.\nSee the quote below from narutopedia:\n\n> Occasionally, in the anime, when Tobi goes to absorb his opponent he does\n> not touch them, this is a mistake that the animators made as in the manga\n> there is always bodily contact. A notable occasion of this is when Tobi\n> fights Danzō's bodyguards, he does not have any physical contact with Fū\n> when he absorbs him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-28T22:13:41.497", "id": "7203", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-05T15:20:32.833", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-05T15:20:32.833", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "7194", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nI haven't found a proper answer, it seems to me that this one is unanswered,\nyet Nagato stated this before the sealing was over:\n\n> Bidding them farewell as the sword seals him, Nagato remarked that he was\n> going to rejoin his teacher in the afterlife. With Nagato sealed, Kabuto\n> cursed the fact that Nagato's mobility was hampered.\n\nSo it appears to me that Nagato knew that he'll be released and he would meet\nJiraiya in the afterlife. Btw, don't forget that every sealed reanimation body\nwas released (e.g all the Kages), so we could assume that along with them,\nNagato was freed from the jutsu, too.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-29T12:31:42.723", "id": "7210", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T11:53:28.160", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T11:53:28.160", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "7208", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNagato was released from Itachi's seal when Itachi undid the Edo-Tensei,\nNagato knew he would rejoin Jiraiya, because he had no doubt that Itachi would\nbe able to stop kabuto and undo the Jutsu, when Itachi sealed him, it was\nbecause he was the link to the Totsuka blade, when Itachi released (Killed)\nhimself by undo-ing the Jutsu, there was no more link, thus freeing Nagato to\nthe afterlife with Jiraiya again.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-18T03:05:53.430", "id": "39460", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-18T03:05:53.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31502", "parent_id": "7208", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA bijuu can indeed die, in a way.\n\nA bijuu is purely made up of chakra, some times the are even referenced to as\n[Chakra Monsters](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tailed_Beasts). The same rules\napply to the bijuu as to all the normal humans in the world. If your chakra\nruns out, you die.\n\n> quoted in naruto episode 50-60, or when ever it was that the chunin exams\n> went on and the sand attacked the leaf, sasuke and kakashi were off training\n> when kakashi told sasuke \"well your about good for 2 blast\", refering to\n> chidori. then sasuke said, \"what would happen if i tried a third?\" kakashi\n> then said \"in the turn that you try to force a jutsu, not only will it not\n> work, you use up all your chakra, worst case scenerio, you die\" so if you do\n> lose all your chakra, you do die. [as quoted\n> from](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110102124403AAFmHpq)\n\nThis means that if a bijuu runs out of chakra he dies. If the jinchuuriki dies\nwith the bijuu still inside of him the bijuu will die.\n\nin this last case there has also been stated that if the jinchuuriki die's\nwith the bijuu inside of him he we revive\n\n> in chapter 503. On page 14 Kushina tells Minato her plan to reseal the\n> Kyuubi within herself and then commit suicide. That was she says that the\n> Kyuubi's resurrection will be delayed.\n\nso upon the death of the jinchuuriki the tailed beast will disappear for a\nwhile. But it'll reappear again after some time. It is also said that this\nreappearance is on a random location. If the bijuu retains his original memory\nis also not known.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-29T12:36:05.667", "id": "7211", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-29T12:36:05.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7209", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nA Bijuu can die. I remember when Kurama threatened Sasuke, he said \"Don't kill\nNaruto\", maybe because he was scared that if Sasuke kills Naruto, he would\ndie, too.\n\nAbout the chakra level, I can't imagine a Bijuu running out from chakra and\ndie.\n\nManga episode 309:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fEoAp.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T09:34:41.347", "id": "7363", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-26T01:43:33.623", "last_edit_date": "2019-08-26T01:43:33.623", "last_editor_user_id": "43770", "owner_user_id": "3624", "parent_id": "7209", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, from what I have seen in Naruto Shippuden. A bijuu can \"die.\" In\nthis circumstance it's chakra gets dispersed. However, over time the chakra\nrecombines to form the tailed beast\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-24T14:45:18.723", "id": "38592", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-24T14:45:18.723", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30510", "parent_id": "7209", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nA bijuu is simply a being made purely out of a hell of a lot of Chakra. Chakra\nlike any type of energy can't be created or destroyed. Hence if a bijuu is\n'killed' it's chakra will disperse and then it will reform as its chakra comes\nback together. This also applies for if its host is killed, the bijuu's chakra\nwill disperse before it eventually reforms. This is why the Alatsuki were told\nto weaken and not kill the jinchuuriki because if they did it would take time\nfor the bijuu to reform which would be very inconvenient for their plans as\nthey would have to wait possibly years for the bijuu to reform during which\ntime the hidden villages could mount some form of offensive against them to\nget their bijuu back.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-18T21:57:00.817", "id": "39946", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-18T21:57:00.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32059", "parent_id": "7209", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn order to answer your question, whether a freed soul from ET may be\nresurrected again or not, I will those points which has been aired on telly so\nfar.\n\nYes, you can resurrect it.\n\nBefore I answer this question, you need to understand how ET works. For this,\nplease refer [**here**](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6537/does-\nthe-edo-tensei-caster-need-to-know-all-the-hand-seals-to-use-the-\nreanimated/6539#6539). Since you specifically said not to use any spoilers,\nyou can visit the link which I shared.\n\nFor more proof, visit [Edo Tensei wiki\npage](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Summoning:_Impure_World_Reincarnation).\nThey did mention that:\n\n> It is possible for a reincarnated shinobi to be revived into a real living\n> body again. Madara, however, was resurrected without his original eyes,\n> having died without them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-30T04:42:26.327", "id": "7221", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T11:49:35.627", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7212", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSome amount of time has passed after \"CODE-E\". The main change in the\nbackground story is that they've discovered that there are other people like\nChinami, or other _TYPE-E_ 's in the world. This discovery (prompted by events\nfrom \"CODE-E\") lead to discrimination and persecution of TYPE-E's. This lead\nto Chinami, her friends, and some of the people she had confrontations with\nfrom CODE-E forming an organization called \"OZ\" which tries to help other\npeople with the same abilities as Chinami, or other TYPE-E's. And that's where\nthe story starts in MISSION-E.\n\nThere is an ongoing manga called \"CODE-EX\" and a light novel series also\ncalled \"CODE-E\" (which, I believe, was an adaptation of the anime series), but\nI'm not sure how much they fill in the missing time between the \"CODE-E\" and\n\"MISSION-E\" anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-29T15:41:55.773", "id": "7214", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-29T15:41:55.773", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7213", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe [Introduction to Yakuza\nJapanese](https://web.archive.org/web/20140719033839/http://www.jingai.com/yakuza/introduction.html)\nhas a list of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary (and even lessons!).\n\nThere's also this Japanese Stack Exchange has a question: [What are the\nstereotypical characteristics of yakuza\nspeech?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/941/what-are-the-\nstereotypical-characteristics-of-yakuza-speech)\n\nAnd [Japan Subculture's terminology\npage](http://www.japansubculture.com/resources/yakuza-terminology/).\n\nWhile Yakuza these days are mostly semi-legitimate, they still\n[extort](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokaiya) and is the largest criminal\norganization in the world. Just like how there's a taboo with tattoos in Japan\nbecause they're associated with Yakuza, the same connotations come with\nspeaking like the way Yakuza do.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-29T18:28:22.237", "id": "7217", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-18T17:21:50.613", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:43:49.183", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7215", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no YGOTAS season 4 yet, so \"these guys from season 4\" are from the\nactual show when it starts getting all trippy and Egyptian.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-01T19:02:51.593", "id": "20539", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-01T19:02:51.593", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13653", "parent_id": "7216", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure this is just another one of those cases where everyone was\nsupposed to forget a certain character (Hiyori), but because someone (Tomoki)\ncared for them so much they were not fully affected.\n\nThe headaches are because he is not supposed to remember, but he remembers\n_something_. And because he remembers, everyone else does too.\n\nSo simply said he didn't forget because he cared too much. (Which makes it\nsound as though everyone else didn't care enough, but that's simply how these\nthings work. The main character has to be the special chosen one.)\n\n \nFirst thing similar I can think of would be **Time Stranger Kyoko**.\n\n> Kyoko is erased from everyone's memories and it is like she never existed.\n> But after her bodyguard and lover finds a photograph of her he remembers and\n> gets everyone else to remember her too.\n\n \nPlease also refer to TV Tropes - [Ret\nGone](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetGone) and [Un-\nPerson](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Unperson).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-30T14:06:44.300", "id": "7225", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-30T14:22:17.223", "last_edit_date": "2014-01-30T14:22:17.223", "last_editor_user_id": "3472", "owner_user_id": "3472", "parent_id": "7224", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is the 1988 OAV \"[Ultimate\nTeacher](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=727)\".\n\n\n\n> **Plot Summary:** At a run down school the \"Ultimate Teacher\" Ganpachi is\n> sent to get things back on track and prepare the delinquent students for the\n> real world. But the students don't want Ganpachi ruining the gang they got\n> going so their boss, Hinako, fights back Ganpachi aided by her secret\n> power...her lucky kitty underwear. Things get more interesting when we find\n> out Ganpachi is the result of genetic experiments.\n\nSuper weird anime as only the 80's could produce. You can find the whole thing\non YouTube [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF5NHl0ydT0).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-08T05:27:16.467", "id": "7408", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-08T05:27:16.467", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "parent_id": "7226", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems that the prime minister had acquired a modest amount of military\nbacking and/or created task forces that the governing body (and section 9)\nwere unaware of.\n\nSimilar to the clone army in Star Wars, Sifo-Dyas believed he had commissioned\nthe secret army \"for the Republic\" to be held in reserve for the coming\nconflict. Neither the ruling party nor the Jedi council were aware of \"their\"\narmy.\n\n[Exerpt from\nwiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell_characters):\n\n> \"During the refugee crisis, she is arrested under charges of treason for\n> requesting United Nations intervention in the crisis, though this action on\n> the part of the Ruling Party chairman was **not** sanctioned by either\n> party, or electorate - her escape from custody and the aid of Section 9\n> prevented this **secret** coup d'état from becoming a reality, and also then\n> sent a clear signal to the American Empire that Japan prefers a Stand-alone\n> status within the international community.\n>\n> This demonstration of capability, and the calling in of favours owed at the\n> height of the crisis increased her ability to control Japan in the wake\n> thereof. **She also demonstrated that she held clout from a military stand-\n> point: The JASDF was her tool of choice for reminding the contending land\n> and sea force commanders where Japan's true military prowess was to be\n> found, from both a domestic and military stand-point.** Kayabuki displayed\n> great wisdom by selecting Daisuke Aramaki and Major Kusanagi as personal\n> advisors that prevented potentially cataclysmic events during the beginning\n> of her premiership.\"\n\nThe bottom line is that she used the state's military forces (the two jets\nthat buzzed the American sub), to protect the state, from the state, all\nwithout the state even knowing. Refusing to contribute to genocide against the\nrefugees (and possible future citizens), the JASDF branch she called was\nobviously led by a patriot* who backed the State, rather than the Leadership.\n\nEdit: *Actually, it is unclear as to whether or not the JASDF commander knew\nthat Kayabuki had been arrested and was being fired. I like to believe in\n\"true patriots\" standing up for what's right, but it's also possible that the\nJASDF commander was simply not aware of Takakura's actions and would have\nrefused Kayabuki's order, if he'd known. Since Kayabuki was **being** fired\nbut wasn't fired **yet** (publicly), he also may have just been \"following\norders\". The JASDF excercise is called a \"favor\", which leans toward the\ncommander knowing the details of the situation and voluntarily following\nKayabuki's order.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-06T08:37:33.863", "id": "19167", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-06T21:38:53.650", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-06T21:38:53.650", "last_editor_user_id": "11588", "owner_user_id": "11588", "parent_id": "7231", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think\n\n> that was \"ReAl Proxy\". Daedalus's purpose was to create proxy.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-20T17:01:03.350", "id": "8157", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-20T17:01:03.350", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4093", "parent_id": "7232", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nHer name is written in katakana as リル・メイヤ (Riru Meiya), leaves her romanized\nname up to interpretation... but it's speculated that there seems to be a some\nparallel between the her ID number (124C41+) and the episode title:\nリル124C41+/RE-l124c41+ and Re-L as a character. The code is based off of a sci-\nfi novel by Hugo Gernsback, titled [_Ralph 124C\n41+_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_124C_41%2B). The title in itself, is\na play on words meaning \"one to foresee for one another (1 2 4C 4 1 +)\".\n\nIt's assumed that the significance of her name is based on the protagonist of\nthe book, who saves the heroine by directing energy at an avalanche, and then\ncontinues to do on about about modern technology and the wonders which\nactually proved as successful predictions in regards of the technology we have\ntoday. E.g., solar power, transcontinental air travel, synthetic foods, tape\nrecorders, etc.\n\nI assume that like most (if not all) of the characters in the series, she's\nnamed after historical figures, philosophers, and/or fictional characters.\n\nThere's speculation in the fan community that Re-L may be an imperfect clone\nof Monad Proxy and her name is a reflection on that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-20T20:46:36.053", "id": "8160", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-20T21:07:17.643", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-20T21:07:17.643", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7232", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**HEAVY SPOILERS AHEAD.**\n\nThis anime is rife with Gnostic symbolism and themes. The meaning of Re-l's\nname is actually very critical to understanding the point of the entire show.\nBefore I can tell you the meaning of Re-l's name, you need to understand a bit\nabout the Gnostic themes expressed in Ergo Proxy.\n\nThe main thing you need to know about Gnosticism to understand the meaning\nbehind the names Re-l and Real is that Gnostics endeavor to achieve union with\nGod, where a human can truly touch the Divine.\n\nThis steps beyond the dogmatism of monotheistic religious beliefs. What\nGnostics seek is a realization of \"true reality.\" For the Gnostics, who were\nvery much influenced by\n[Neoplatonism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism) and Plato's idea\nthat this true reality exists beyond the physical, material world. In this\nphysical world, we are condemned to suffering and repetition of all our\nmistakes. Plato believed true _Reality_ exists in the _Mind_. For Plato, that\nwhich is real is an _idea_. This most well-known articulation of this\nconception of our place in the world is expressed through Plato's famous\nallegory of [The Cave](https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf). To\nsome extent, we can think of the life of illusion that \"everything is okay\"\nexperienced by the \"fellow citizens\" in the dome cities is a parallel to the\npeople tied up in Plato's Cave. When Re-l and Vincent begin their journey\noutside of the dome, they soon begin to see things as they really are, thus\nserving as a parallel for the person who escaped their bonds and ventures\noutside the cave. When Re-l and Vincent encounter the deformed, sluggish and\nsickly people in an actual cave filled with noxious poison gas, Re-l reflects\non her experience in the Romdo. She notes that these people, in their effort\nto hide from the real world of suffering and pain, have stunted their\ndevelopment as beings. She realizes that they are not so different from the\npeople in Romdo. This further serves to solidify that this theme in Ergo Proxy\nrefers to Plato's Cave.\n\nThe Gnostics take this idea one step further by claiming that dogmatic\nreligion up to this point has lied to us and kept us apart from the true\n_Reality_. Ergo Proxy does a good job of representing this lie told to us by\nsociety with the way the government of Romdo lies to its people, claiming it\nis for their own good. Plato believes we can find truth in the world outside\nthe cave, while the Gnostics seek to become _one_ with this truth. Ultimately,\nthe meaning of the Gnostic ideal of _union with God_ is something that has\nbeen interpreted in different ways by many different scholars. I have my own\nopinion about what this union with God looks like, but I am not going to go\ninto that here. Here I am just going to answer the question, \"What is the\nmeaning behind Re-l's name?\"\n\nWhat Ergo Proxy offers us is an interpretation of the Gnostic ideal of union\nwith God and the true _Reality_. Through their quest for knowledge, Re-l and\nVincent learn about how the Proxies created the Domes so that people could\ncontinue their lives on this apocalyptic husk of a planet. At this point we\nlearn the Real, an apparent clone of Re-l, is actually a reincarnation of\nMonad Proxy. Real urges Vincent to fly to the sky with her and abandon the\nworld of suffering and pain below. However, Daedalus tells us that when\nProxies are exposed to the sun, they die. The blue sky and sun above the\nclouds represents the true Gnostic _Reality_ , and this interpretation is\nfurther supported by Plato's use of _Light_ as a symbol for the Mind and the\ntruth of _ideas_. The world of Earth, below the clouds, is dark and full of\npain and suffering, but it is also the place where Vincent, as a Proxy, can\nlive as a physical being with desires, pleasure, pain, and everything else\nentailed by living here. What this reveals is that Ergo Proxy is presenting\nthe Gnostic _Reality_ as bliss, complete unity with all of creation, and thus,\n_oblivion_. Yes--freedom from the physical form means relinquishing this\nphysical form. To become part of the infinite is to relinquish the finite, and\nthus relinquish mortality, and indeed, life. To unite with God is to die, but\nalso to stop suffering. We see this when Real flies to the clouds and\ndisintegrates as a blur, merging with the greater cosmos.\n\nVincent, as a Proxy, occupies a space between this physical reality and the\ntrue _Reality_. Perhaps he is like the man who ventures outside of the cave in\nPlato's allegory. But Vincent was very much attached to the world of humanity,\nthe imperfect, painful, dark and desolate world, but also the world full of\nbeauty, innocence, and freedom to choose who you are among the finite. But\nwhat I do know is that at the very end, Vincent faced a choice, and this is\nultimately where we come to the meaning behind the names Re-l and Real.\n\n**Real, the Proxy, offers Vincent a choice to join with the true _Reality_ ,\nif he would only fly up with her into oblivion. Re-l, the human, offers\nVincent a choice to stay with humanity and be one of the mortals. They are\nindeed clones of each other, and their names are so close together yet\nsignificantly different. \"Re-l\" is fragmented, it is almost the full name\n\"Real\" but it is missing a letter--it an incomplete name--just like the\nincomplete physical reality that she represents. \"Real\" is the full name and\nshe represents this true _Reality_ , the implications of which I have\ndiscussed above. Real cannot stay in the physical world because she is\ndestined to fly to the sky and become one with God, a realization which, in\nErgo Proxy's interpretation, is oblivion.**\n\nAt the end, Vincent made his choice. He chose the imperfect Re-l because he\nloved her. He chose this imperfect reality because he loved it. He abandoned\nhis chance at unity with _Reality_ because he saw this world as a world worth\nliving in. He could never abandon this world.\n\nThis is just my interpretation of the meaning behind the names \"Re-l\" and\n\"Real\". Perhaps my interpretation is not what the creators of Ergo Proxy had\nin mind, but it makes sense to me. I also know there are so many other details\nand philosophical concepts explored in this anime, that I did not visit in\nthis response. Really this is just my effort to answer the one question at the\ntop of this page.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-11-18T04:28:26.993", "id": "61070", "last_activity_date": "2020-11-18T04:28:26.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "57216", "parent_id": "7232", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are indeed close to 0 jigsaw puzzles for FLCL available.\n\nI did find a digital one\n\n<http://www.jigidi.com/solve.php?id=WHBI5J3Y>\n\nand there might be some other digital on this site. But i did not directly\nfind it.\n\n<http://www.onlinejigsawpuzzles.net/anime.htm>\n\nAs for your other jigsaw puzzle needs you should checkout one of the following\nsites. They offer the broadest variety of anime jigsaws. The might not have\nFLCL but do have loads of others.\n\n<http://shop.animepagoda.com/Jigsaw-Puzzles>\n\n<http://jzool.com/en/c/444-anime-jigsaw-puzzles#>\n\nand might also run into a FLCL one on here, but that is mainly based on luck.\nThey do usually offer a variety of other anime related jigsaw puzzles though.\n\n<http://www.ebay.com/bhp/anime-puzzle>\n\n<http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A166363011%2Cp_n_feature_browse-\nbin%3A3233064011>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-31T03:42:37.910", "id": "7239", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-31T03:42:37.910", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are many websites that allow you to create your own jigsaws, like\n[JigScenes.com](http://www.jigscenes.com/) ,\n[CreateJigsawPuzzles.com](http://www.createjigsawpuzzles.com/promotional/photo-\ninto-puzzle.html) or [Jessops.com](http://photo.jessops.com/gifts/baby-\ntoys/jigsaw-puzzle-1000.html) (This last one supports 1000 piece jigsaws)\n\nIf you have anime/manga artwork you could use this service to create your own\n- Although this way, the people who made the work won't see any of the money\nfrom the purchase.\n\nYou'd also want to make sure you'd have the rights to making something like\nthat, so this is a better solution for fan works and similar which may have\nmore lenient licensing.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T20:33:38.530", "id": "9844", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T20:33:38.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI found a shop in Akibahara that sells anime themed jigsaw puzzles -\nYodobashi.\n\n\n\nThey have an online store which returns around 370 results for ['jigsaw\npuzzle'](http://www.yodobashi.com/ec/category/index.html?cate=&word=%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B0%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%82%BA%E3%83%AB&ginput=%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B0%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%82%BA%E3%83%AB).\n\nFLCL is a good 15 years old now, so it's unlikely that there are any currently\ninstock jigsaws for the series - Japanese anime stores only tend to cover the\nmost popular old series (Ghibli, Evangellion, Kon) and current season shows.\n\nYour best bet is to probably monitor auction sites such as Yahoo and Ebay.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-04T06:23:28.863", "id": "22131", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-02T21:35:32.467", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-02T21:35:32.467", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nImaginatorium shop have some anime jigsaw puzzles (Naruto, One Piece,\nGhibli...) <http://imaginatorium.org/shop/shop.htm>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-06T01:23:00.417", "id": "22185", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-06T01:23:00.417", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13736", "parent_id": "7234", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe knows that Sakura is \"the other grail\" besides Illya, thus he approach/come\nto her and said \"Die\" to Sakura, because she is the \"fake\" grail. And,\nGilgamesh can't be tainted because of his high ego\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-29T09:56:00.197", "id": "13703", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-29T09:56:00.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8185", "parent_id": "7236", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nTo complement Anon153's answer, here's a [relevant\nquotation](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gilgamesh#Fate.2Fstay_night) from\nTYPE-MOON Wiki:\n\n> Gilgamesh is one of the antagonists in each scenario of Fate/stay night. He\n> first appears before the start of the Fifth Holy Grail War around\n> [Sakura](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura)'s house. He identifies her\n> as “the other Grail” and comes to tell her “Go die right now.” It is just a\n> suggestion rather than a command, as he believes that the matter will\n> develop into some sort of entertainment regardless of the situation. When\n> questioned about the encounter, Sakura just claims that he was asking for\n> directions and that “It was English” in order to hide the truth.\n\nAnd source referenced is as follows ([Citation Note\n14](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gilgamesh#cite_note-13)):\n\n> [Fate/complete material\n> III](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/complete_material#Volume_III_-\n> _World_material) World material - FAQ with Nasu: General Questions about\n> Fate, p.130 \n> **Q: Prior to the start of the Holy Grail War, what was Gilgamesh doing\n> around Sakura’s house?** \n> \n> A: Yes. He came to tell Sakura to “Go die right now”. It is rather a\n> suggestion than command. Regardless the situation, from the King’s\n> perspective, this matter will develop into some sort of entertainment. As a\n> result, what Gilgamesh said was not a command. Sakura’s reply “It was\n> English” was a convenient excuse to hide the truth.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-28T10:52:46.163", "id": "17125", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T21:15:19.813", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-28T21:15:19.813", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "3188", "parent_id": "7236", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI never play _Fate/stay night_ until the end but know a little, I think it's\nmore like \"he has anything in his vault and willing to wear casual clothes, so\nlet's make him stylish\" sort kind of thing. Because as I know, other servants\ndon't even wear \"normal casual\" clothes as much as Gilgamesh, they pretty much\nalways use their astral dress/clothes which is very(?) strong/sturdy (in the\ncase with Saber's dress that can block certain magical attacks).\n\nAs for the reason why Gilgamesh wear casual clothes much, I think it's to\nemphasize his arrogance, I mean he is a king and think himself the most\npowerful entity in their universe, and mostly because he is ranged-type\nbecause most of the time he just throw whatever in his vault, even his\nstrongest weapon Ea isn't melee-type weapon like Lancer's noble phantasm Gae\nBolg: barbed spear that pierces with death or even Caster's Rule Breaker or\nAssassin's Tsubame Gaeshi.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-07-02T11:24:57.603", "id": "47649", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-02T11:47:18.373", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-02T11:47:18.373", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "41369", "parent_id": "7237", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n## Gil likes to keep up with the latest fashions, and has a number of casual\noutfits\n\nFrom a real-world perspective, my guess is just that they wanted to give him a\nfew different looks, instead of making him look identical in every scene.\n\nIn-universe, though, the golden armor is his proper battle outfit when he\ntakes a fight seriously. He owns quite a number of casual outfits, as the\n[Type-Moon Wikia entry on\nhim](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gilgamesh#Appearance) notes:\n\n> He normally wears golden armor that makes a heavy first impression on those\n> he encounters. [...]\n>\n> He likes to wear casual clothes, \"playing attire\" to ward off boredom from\n> being in spirit form, when not in battle, later becoming knowledgeable on\n> the latest fashion trends after living in modern society for ten years. He\n> has collected a number of casual outfits.\n>\n> * Fate/Zero: The clothing he wears in during the Fourth Holy Grail War is\n> a fashionable white v-neck with three quarter sleeves, and python print\n> pants.\n> * Fate route: During Fate, he wears a white jacket with a fur collar, a\n> black shirt, and black pants.\n> * Biker outfit: The \"biker outfit\" worn at the beginning of the game and\n> in the Unlimited Blade Works route and Heaven's Feel route is his favorite\n> outfit, liking it enough to ignore Shirou's group when presented with the\n> possibility of the ashes from the burning Einzbern Castle dirtying it. It\n> can be said Shirou's life is worth less to him than his coat. He dons this\n> clothing in the first Fate/stay night Manga adaptation of both the Fate\n> route and Unlimited Blade Works route.\n>\n\n(And that's not even including _Fate/hollow ataraxia_.)\n\nThe article cites the entry on Gilgamesh in the _Fate/side material_ book, p.\n59 ([translated by Mcjon01 on p. 39-40 of this\nPDF](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B49crU71miHObWRvV2tDUllYTjQ/edit?pli=1)):\n\n> Perhaps because he has been living in human society for the past ten years,\n> he seems to be hip on the latest fashions. He owns various casual clothes,\n> but his favorite is the biker outfit he wore in the Rin route.\n>\n> Well, he liked it enough to overlook Shirou's group and leave instead of\n> letting it get dirty, at any rate. I can't believe the protagonist's life\n> was worth less to Gil than his coat…! [...]\n\nThe entry also explains the out-of-universe reason why Gilgamesh wears golden\narmor:\n\n> Also, during the design stage, I selfishly insisted that \"Gil absolutely has\n> to wear full golden plate armor\".\n>\n> Why, you ask? Well, it might be because I was repeatedly challenging a\n> certain 60 story tower at the time…\n\n(This is an apparent reference to the character of Gilgamesh in the game [_The\nTower of Druaga_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_of_Druaga).)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-01-01T23:40:58.723", "id": "50282", "last_activity_date": "2019-01-01T23:40:58.723", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2266", "parent_id": "7237", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I know there is no official ranking site for anime/manga.\n\nThe closest thing you could get to an official ranking would be ranking them\naccording to their sales, which gets featured on a lot of sites. An example\nwould be this [MyAnimeList\npost](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=759719). More info and sites can\nbe found on the post [Where can one learn about viewership ratings for\nanime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/5095/1458), where some nice sites\nhave been listed.\n\nMost other rating sites are, as\n[hungerartist](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2604/hungerartist)\nmentioned, user rated and therefore not official.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-31T13:35:02.237", "id": "7242", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-23T19:03:21.130", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7240", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, there's nothing official, as there's nothing official that regulates anime\nindustry or something. You can try Dimitri's solution, but I would recommend\nsticking to Anime News Network and looking at their sales reports instead of\nseeing what's popular.\n\nSales charts are more useful, popularity often has a multiplier effect.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-10T14:41:18.320", "id": "9622", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-10T14:41:18.320", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4831", "parent_id": "7240", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n**OP please read this, I took the time to write it for you**\n\nI write this hoping to rid you of some misconceptions you seem to have. Even\nthough it's been almost 2 years, I took the time to help you.\n\nVery few things can/should get an official rating or ranking. Art, like movies\nand anime, definitely SHOULD NOT! (or cannot, depending how you see it)\n\n**The rating in IMDB is the average of the scores given by random people who\ntook the time to rate in that site. The same could be said of most\nmovie/TV/anime sites that have ratings.** IMDB is such a big reference because\nit has a gigantic amount of users who rate. And that's why it is a good\nreference and people point you to it. But it isn't an official rating site and\nit cannot be one.\n\nPeople are not forced to rate, so any rating you see anywhere is either by a\nsingle person or a selection of people. In sites like IMDB that selection is\npeople who have watched that piece, out of everyone in the world, who also:\n\n 1. Know of and use that site,\n 2. Take the time to rate (publicly),\n 3. Happen to have rated that particular piece.\n\nSo ratings/scores are a reference, and you should use them keeping in mind who\ngave them.\n\nIf a website has become the _de facto_ \"go to place\" for rates/ranks, like\nIMDB has for movies, then it's a very valuable reference, but not an official\nconsensus of the viewers.\n\nThe only numbers you can get that may be \"official\" are stuff like manga or\nDVD sales (factual numbers).\n\n**For anime, the website that seems to be the big reference in ratings\nis[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/) (MAL).**\n\nMy only problem with it is it has no input from Japanese viewers, since\n(probably) almost no Japanese use it. You only get the input of avid western\nwatchers, and Japanese viewers obviously have a very different context. (I'm\nlooking for a Japanese equivalent to MAL for an extra reference, which was why\nI found your post).\n\nI recommend you use MAL: not only to see ratings and other information, but to\nmake a list for yourself, even if you normally don't care about doing your own\nlists and ratings. You can use the list to keep track of what you're\nwatching/have watched, which episode you're on, etc. You can have your own\nratings of anime for future reference (influencing the average score by doing\nso). It's super useful, really, otherwise I wouldn't give them this free\npublicity.\n\nHope this wasn't a total waste. All the best.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-13T03:56:45.823", "id": "26591", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-13T04:19:38.473", "last_edit_date": "2015-10-13T04:19:38.473", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "18486", "parent_id": "7240", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is a reason behind this. Gosho Aoyama stated that there is a reason\nbehind all the names of the, as we call it, Black Organization. He also said,\nthat if we would knew the real name of the Organization, we would know the\nboss.\n\nNow, we just have to wait until Mr. Aoyama reveals the real name. And it\nbetter be something better than \"Bar\", \"Club\" or \"Organization of Alcoholic\nDrinks\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-06T09:26:39.657", "id": "10128", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-06T09:26:39.657", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "7241", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI think that there code names are base on there roles in the organization\nbecause sherry is made of grape that is good for medicine and her role is to\nmake poison or medicament Vodka is made of potato and there are trades for\npoor peoples like the alcohol to so he do the trades like tequila that is also\nlike vodka Another exemple calvados is a sniper and you all know the game\nshoot an apple on the head... So with those codes names the contact by\ntelephones are at a minimum number because the phone number is the proof that\nshe is a women that want to avenge her 7 child with the poison made by ai And\nbecause of her known that she can be a bar woman And because she called ai\nsherry and not xeres like in other languages we can know she is from england\nor america but the suspect number 1 if I am right is Yuzuki from the BAR POOL\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-16T11:33:22.963", "id": "21588", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-16T11:33:22.963", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14490", "parent_id": "7241", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAlso, another useful information to note, Ano Kata chooses hard/distilled\nalcoholic codenames for male members (e.g. Rum and Gin) and sweet alcohols for\nfemales (e.g. Vermouth and Sherry), the boss is a person with very malevolent\nintents, he might have a keen interest in alcohols, so he might have chosen\nalcoholic codenamed for members.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-05-13T18:03:32.623", "id": "62759", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-13T18:03:32.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "59420", "parent_id": "7241", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTake a look at [this article at Anime News Network entitle \"The Law of\nAnime\"](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/the-law-of-\nanime/2013-02-15/2), it mentions copyrights on characters:\n\n> Fanart and doujinshi of actual characters can be considered a derivative\n> work under the copyright holders’ rights. As a result, the production of\n> artwork using copyrighted characters can be considered an infringement. This\n> includes work depicting multiple characters from different works as several\n> infringements. Thus crossover doujinshi or fanart infringe on multiple\n> copyrights, once for each work involved in the crossover, and the artist can\n> be sued by any of the creators. This is not just limited to having the\n> actual characters (i.e. drawing fanart of Transformers and My Little Pony on\n> the same image) but includes even more subtle references (i.e. drawing the\n> cast of Tiger & Bunny in the costumes of the Avengers) as infringing on more\n> than one copyright.\n>\n> ...\n>\n> Parody and satire are uniquely protected elements under United States law.\n> The two are not interchangeable however. Parody and satire are unique from\n> each other in what they use a copyrighted work for and how much of the\n> copyrighted work they use. Consequently, each is afforded a different level\n> of protection under United States law.\n\nSo, as should be obvious. Using the likeness of an anime character for a\nmobile game is copyright infringement, it's cut and dry and leaves little room\nfor interpretation. You can maybe get away with it if you can prove that it's\neither Fair Use, a Parody, or a Satire.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-01-31T17:06:24.863", "id": "7246", "last_activity_date": "2014-01-31T17:06:24.863", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7245", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's more than likely that this so-called mysterious \"weakness syndrome\" is\nreally just as a plot device to drive the story/characters along. This\nparticular aim to draw sympathies to the particular character and is more\noften than not, a popular way to have character die before their time, if\nthat's what the story demands.\n\nSo why is this mysterious weakness trope so popular, you ask? Why not always\nusing a real illness? Typically it's because this \"weakness\" is a \"clean\" and\n\"cute\" illness, when compared to actual chronic medical conditions. Even in\nits lethal form the symptoms are: you are weak, you're getting weaker, you\ndie. (coughing up blood every now and then is optional)\n\nIn contrast, an actual conditions like stomach cancer on the other hand is not\n\"cute\" at all. As soon as you specify a real-life disease/conditions a lot of\nquestions pop up, something that might shift the perspective away from the\ntragic fate of a character.\n\nAdditionally, there might be some actual conditions that inspired the\n\"weakness syndrome\" since Japanese did have a lot of sick people for a long\ntime in certain areas. Having been a country that's been devastated twice by\nan atomic bomb, the effects of radiation exposure was not well researched or\ndocumented back then by scientists, so a lot of the long-term from direct and\nindirect radiation exposure side-effects like birth defects, leukemia, anemia,\ncancers, thyroid disease, liver and bone marrow degeneration, and overall\nseverely compromised immune systems, might have been attributed to other\nthings.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-01T01:47:25.510", "id": "7251", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-01T01:47:25.510", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7248", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[This is pretty\ninteresting](http://kaihanp.doorblog.jp/archives/36078944.html) \\- the blog\npost contains a bunch of foreign (non-Japanese) reactions to the phenomenon of\n_mikan_ boxes in anime (translated into Japanese), and the comments section\nbelow contains a bunch of presumably Japanese people reacting to the foreign\nreactions.\n\nIt looks like nobody in Japan is really entirely sure why _mikan_ boxes are so\nprevalent in anime. However, the following conjectures were made:\n\n * Mikans are the prototypical example of a household product that is purchased in boxes. Since boxes of mikans are frequently available in homes, they are repurposed for things like storage, moving, etc. Thus, people see mikan boxes often. This makes them a good choice for depiction in anime. (comment #30) \n * As an extension of this, one commenter (#73) writes that the only boxed product he has in his house is a box of mikans.\n * During the Showa period, the mikan box was emblematic of poverty (and in particular, poverty among manga artists in general). Many failed manga artists would live in a tiny apartment and use a mikan box as a desk. Their prevalence in anime is a consequence of the impact they had on artists from that period (or perhaps a sort of self-referential joke by the people in the anime/manga industry). (comments #33, #36, #50, lots of others)\n * Mikan boxes are tough and sturdy (as they have to be to prevent the fruit from being smushed in transport), and are easy to come across. They are also available for free at some grocery stores. (comments #43, #47)\n * Why mikan as opposed to apple? You can eat a whole box of mikans, but probably not a whole box of apples. (comment #53)\n * During election-time, politicians stand on mikan boxes and beer cases and give speeches. (comment #68) [I don't see the connection this commenter is drawing.]\n\nIt looks like the most common explanations were 1.) they are one of the few\neveryday things you buy in boxes; and 2.) as a result of this, many struggling\nartists, some of whom made it big, spent quite some time drawing using a mikan\nbox as a desk.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-02T03:20:26.423", "id": "7267", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-02T03:20:26.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7252", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFocusing on Edward, he does alchemy (at least) on metal, binds souls to armor,\nattempts human transmutation, repairs machines, changes carbon structure (in\nGreed), etc.\n\nI believe that he does alchemy on what he feels useful. Everyone else is only\nlimited by what circles they have already drawn (as they need transmutation\ncircles to do alchemy) and their knowledge. In other words, they need to know\nthe characteristics and how to draw the circles for what they are transmuting\nand what they are transmuting it from. For instance Mustang handles fire as\nthat is what transmutation circle is on his gloves.\n\nTLDR: No, they are not (usually) only limited to one type of transmutation but\nthey have to have the circle and knowledge for any transmutation they are\ndoing.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-01T16:34:24.087", "id": "7263", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-12T09:53:16.300", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-12T09:53:16.300", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "7258", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n**Yes!** Absolutely, characters can learn more than one kind of alchemy. It's\njust that, as in real life, people tend to specialize in something very\nspecific and get _very_ good at it.\n\nBut let's take a look at a few examples:\n\n * **Edward Elric:** Like Alphonse, he takes after Izumi Curtis's style (including the big fists and such), but was able to attempt Human Transmutation, soul binding, modification of object structures (such as what he did in Youswell or in Greed), and even weird, quirky things like transforming a military vehicle into a clown car.\n * **Roy Mustang:** Specializes in flame alchemy, but is seen, most obviously at the end of the series, to be able to modify structures of objects (when he makes a wall out of the ground). To do this prior to his \"accident\", he would have had to draw the transmutation circle, which is obviously less effective.\n * **Tim Marcoh:** Specializes in medicinal alchemy, but did so even before he began to specialize in the creation and destruction of Philosopher's Stones.\n * **Scar:** Is able to perform both destruction and creation alchemy through different transmutation arrays.\n\nThen there's a few oddballs, but the rule can still apply to them:\n\n * **Van Hohenheim:** Specializes in medicinal alchemy, but is also seen modifying object structures including metal and stone.\n * **Father:** Can do pretty much everything, even before the climax; he is able to make homunculi, reshape metal, etc.\n\nKeep in mind that, similar to what\n[@kaine](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/3561/kaine) said, transmutation\ncircles come into play. Not just in knowledge, though; the person actually has\nto either have that transmutation circle with them or draw it on the spot,\nwhich is not feasible in combat. So, someone like Armstrong would not thrive\nat the same things as Basque Grand, because they both use different\ntransmutation circles. This is clear with Mustang who broadens his use of\nalchemy after his \"accident\".\n\nSo from this, we can tell that it's possible for alchemists to learn more than\none type of alchemy, but it's difficult for them to always apply it under\npressure (for multiple reasons); given cases like Ed, who doesn't need\ntransmutation circles, we can see a broader range of alchemy used.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-01T16:43:10.820", "id": "7264", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-01T17:18:44.400", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7258", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's [**Rurouni Kenshin**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin)\n\n\n\nand the character you talking about is [Shinomori\nAoshi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinomori_Aoshi).\n\n> Kanryū betrays Aoshi and kills his four subordinates with a Gatling gun\n> while they die one after the other protecting Aoshi.\n\nSource - [Wikipedia article for _Shinomori\nAoshi_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinomori_Aoshi#Plot_overview)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-01T16:12:51.773", "id": "7262", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-03T22:40:20.560", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-03T22:40:20.560", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "7259", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHOMRA (吠舞羅, _homura_ ). It's not 炎, the spelling is different.\n\nThe Arabic word \"حمرة\" which means \"redness\" must be the origin, it is the red\nclan after all, and the spelling is identical. (try the speaker button on\nGoogle Translate for the pronunciation)\n\nIn season 2 episode 3, Kismet is from an Arabic origin as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-30T14:49:11.773", "id": "26947", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-06T17:23:23.883", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-06T17:23:23.883", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "18798", "parent_id": "7269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n\"No blood, no bone, no ash\" is the saying that the red king's clan yell out\nbefore battle. It is to say that they will leave no blood, no bone nor any ash\nbehind. It is related to their burning power.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-13T21:17:26.057", "id": "34247", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-06T14:18:14.737", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-06T14:18:14.737", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "26167", "parent_id": "7269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe saying **_\"No Blood! No Bone! No Ash!\"_** can mean a few things like the\npower that the red clansmen have or just the sheer strength that they have,\nbut I think it means that they leave nothing when they pass or that they have\nno regrets (I have no idea if any of these are correct)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-06T13:13:48.630", "id": "44106", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-06T13:22:20.177", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-06T13:22:20.177", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37498", "parent_id": "7269", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe creator of RahXephon, Yutaka Izubuchi, admits to having heavily used Brave\nRaideen as the influence for RahXephon. There's a [**really** great interview\nof both Izubuchi and Anno (creator of\nEvangelion)](http://forum.evageeks.org/post/492098/Anno-interview-about-\nRahXephon/#492098) that's really revealing about the influences between the\ntwo. Relevant quote:\n\n> Mr. Izubuchi said before that \"Eva\" was _Combattler_ [ _Chōdenji Robo\n> Combattler V_ ] and _RahXephon_ was _Brave Raideen_ , didn't you?\n\nIf you read the entire interview, it never insinuates that there was any\ncopying of Evangelion in Rahxephon. Instead, these are two contemporaries who\nbelieve they are equals that have both been influenced _by the same shows_ ,\nlike Mazinger, Combattler V, Tokusatsu, Gowapper 5, etc.\n\nEventhough they never directly admit it, I'm sure there's some amount of\ninfluence that Evangelion had on Rahxephon, intended or not, simply because\nEvangelion was _an incredibly influential show_ , at a time when it seemed\nanime in general was stagnating. So everything that came after that, for\nbetter or worse, could have had some influence from Evangelion.\n\nWith Rahxephon in particular, your mileage may vary on how similar the shows\nreally are. If you've seen Brave Raideen, you'll instantly realize that the\nshow is pretty much a modern spin of that old show, while a lot of that spin\ncould be argued to be influenced by Evangelion. There's some people who\nbelieve it's a blatant rip-off, but Izubuchi doesn't say that it is, and Anno\ndoesn't seem to think the similarities are even worth mentioning.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-02T06:22:03.173", "id": "7271", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-02T06:22:03.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7270", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAbout the best source I can find on the matter indicates that it means\n[\"Turtle Destruction Wave\"](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Kamehameha). But\nI can't derive that from the provided hiragana alone.\n\nIt makes sense if you break it down:\n\n * Turtle = Kame = 亀\n * Wave = Ha/Nami = 波\n\n...which is essentially \"turtle ___ wave\", which is a nod to Master Roshi (the\nTurtle Hermit).\n\nIf I fiddle a bit in Google Translate, I get something closer to 亀羽目波, which\nis literally \"turtle wind-up wave\" - and that sounds close phonetically.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-02T09:23:46.590", "id": "7273", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-02T09:23:46.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "7272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Dragon Ball Wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page):\n\n> Akira Toriyama actually tried a number of poses when he was alone in order\n> to decide the coolest pose for the Kamehameha. After much contemplation, he\n> could not decide on a name for his \"Kame\" attack, so he asked his wife who\n> came up with the name. She told Akira that it would be easy to remember the\n> name of the attack if he uses the name of the cultural Hawaiian king named\n> Kamehameha (lit. \"the very lonely one\" or \"the one set apart\" in Hawaiian\n> language). Also, Kamehameha means \"Turtle Destruction Wave\" in Japanese.\n\nSo, despite the literal translation in Japanese \"Turtle Destruction Wave\",\nKamehameha is also a name of a [Hawaiian\nking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_I):\n\n> Kamehameha I (Hawaiian pronunciation: [kəmehəˈmɛhə]; c. 1758 – May 8, 1819),\n> also known as Kamehameha the Great, conquered the Hawaiian Islands and\n> formally established the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810. By developing alliances\n> with the major Pacific colonial powers, Kamehameha preserved Hawaiʻi's\n> independence under his rule. Kamehameha is remembered for the Kānāwai\n> Māmalahoe, the \"Law of the Splintered Paddle\", which protects human rights\n> of non-combatants in times of battle. Kamehameha's full Hawaiian name is\n> Kalani Paiʻea Wohi o Kaleikini Kealiʻikui Kamehameha o ʻIolani i Kaiwikapu\n> kauʻi Ka Liholiho Kūnuiākea.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-02T13:06:39.390", "id": "7275", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-02T05:22:31.430", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-02T05:22:31.430", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "7272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nThe term Kamehameha seems to come from the king of Hawaii, King Kamehameha.\nHowever this is not the case: Kamehameha is a term for something along the\nlines of \"Turtle Destruction Wave\", or のカメの破壊の波 (No kame no hakai no nam).\nThat is as close as I could possibly get it to Kamehameha, which is what\nKamehameha stands for: Turtle ____ Wave. But because it destroys anything in\nits path, I would assume that it would be \"Turtle Destruction Wave\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-18T02:16:55.257", "id": "26673", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-31T03:19:15.303", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-31T03:19:15.303", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "18569", "parent_id": "7272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n[code]\n\n 亀 Kame Turtle\n 破滅 Hame(tsu) Destruction, Ruin\n 波 Ha, Nami Wave\n \n[/code]\n\nTurtle for Roshi's Turtle school. (It's the kanji on all their gi) Then hame\nand ha for what the ability is. (A destruction wave.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-17T12:09:07.723", "id": "45110", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-17T12:33:00.837", "last_edit_date": "2018-03-17T12:33:00.837", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "38643", "parent_id": "7272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nJapanese Wikipedia says it comes from the Hawaiian king, recommended by the\ncreator's wife. The \"kame\" part is a bit of a pun because it can also mean\nturtle. \"Hame\" has no meaning. \"Ha\" means wave. On the whole, it just sounds a\nbit silly, which is on purpose. \"Turtle destruction wave\" is fake news and\nthere is absolutely zero support for that interpretation. 破滅（はめつ）would never\nin 100 years be abbreviated \"hame\" in Japanese. Source: Japanese speaker.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-05-15T17:26:50.260", "id": "47044", "last_activity_date": "2018-05-15T17:32:04.353", "last_edit_date": "2018-05-15T17:32:04.353", "last_editor_user_id": "40658", "owner_user_id": "40658", "parent_id": "7272", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to Washi's blog post from 2011 titled [\"Anime Production – Detailed\nGuide to How Anime is Made and the Talent Behind\nit!\"](http://washiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/anime-production-detailed-\nguide-to-how-anime-is-made-and-the-talent-behind-it/), all of the voice work\nand sound recording happens in post production. These processes are compiled\nfrom studios like Sunrise, Production I.G., AIC, etc.\n\n\n\nI've read about certain productions where some animatics (simplified mock-up\nanimation of storyboards) are used with voice acting. Not sure if they\nactually do recording there or whether it's used as part of the creative\nprocess. However, Wikipedia's [Voice Acting in\nJapan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_acting_in_Japan#Anime) notes that:\n\n> A voice actor's role in anime consists of reading the lines before the\n> production is finished. In Japan, the lines are usually performed before the\n> anime has completed. The artist then draws in every expression to the key of\n> the voice actors reading it off. This is the most common way of prerecording\n> in Japan.\n\nBut the passage lacks any citation.\n\nAdditionally, [voice actors are paid for a chunk of work, regardless of the\nnumber of lines or how long the session takes](http://www.riuva.com/?p=111),\nso it's logistically easier to do it all in one go as opposed to being linked\ncloser to the production of the actual animation. When the animation is\n(mostly) done, the voice acting and sound engineering can all be done in one\ngo.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-02T21:02:41.550", "id": "7279", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-02T21:02:41.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7276", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes and no.\n\nBasically, both Eva and Mimellia (Mimel's true name) have the same backstory\nand both resemble Varna a great deal.\n\nSo far, Agarest 2 has no tie with Agarest 1 and Zero since I believe Agarest 2\nis an alternate version.\n\nBut you could say Eva is Agarest 2 Mimelia.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-21T23:18:45.983", "id": "9845", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-21T23:20:35.903", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-21T23:20:35.903", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4969", "parent_id": "7280", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis Woman is actually Varna, the High Goddess.\n\nThe Scenes that have her in it, most from what i remember are linked to Fiona\nor Eva Singing. The song they both sing is a song Varna song to Chaos which\nChaos hummed to Eva, Fiona knen the song because she is related to Varna as\nshe remembers being sung that song and remembering a mother's embrace and\nFiona has Varna's Appearance.\n\nThe reason why Weiss, Schwarz and Grey saw this vision was because Weiss died\nat Mobius's hand and after killing Chaos used Weiss's body to house Chaos.\nWeiss, Schwarz and Grey from that point are facets of Chaos so they have his\nMemories (which explains the \"Who am i\" scenes), once in the True End Route\nChaos allows Weiss, Schwarz and Grey to exists independently from him.\n\nIn the True End after opening the door to the True Agarest, there is a\ncutscene where we see the 3 flashback scenes of Varna, during the scene she is\ntalking to someone who is revealed to be Chaos at the very end. We know this\nis Varna because\n\n 1. She express her feelings for Chaos who she always loved deep down\n\n 2. She expresses the same views Chaos had in regards to the Gods rule over Mortals\n\nThe partial scenes come from this one scene as Varna asks that when the door\nto the True Agarest if her and Chaos can be together indicating that the\nscenes occurs before Chaos was sealed.\n\nNOTE: i'm not 100% sure if Fiona is Varna's daughter but the High Elves are\nthe creation of Lenion who Varna married, however does not mean Varna gave\nbirth to them as Chaos created their counterparts the Syrium and the only\nwomen on the Dark Gods side is Deeth and Nemesis. Deeth has been known to\ncreate races on her own but this might be because she is a hermaphrodite\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-02T22:54:26.903", "id": "7282", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-02T22:54:26.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7281", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is one of his Santoryuu/Iitoryuu techniques. \nAccording to the [wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Santoryu/Ittoryu): -\n\n> Hiryu: Kaen (飛竜火焔 Hiryū: Kaen?, literally meaning \"Flying Dragon: Blaze\"):\n> Using one sword wielded in his left hand with his right hand gripping his\n> left wrist for support (or vice-versa), Zoro jumps high up into the air and\n> slashes his opponent. After slashing them, Zoro's opponent then bursts into\n> flames (in the anime, the color of the fire is blue instead) from where they\n> were slashed. This was first seen being used against Ryuma. The animal or\n> creature that usually accompanies Zoro in the background when performing\n> powerful techniques is an occidental dragon. The dragon bares an uncanny\n> resemblance to the dragon killed by Ryuma the King from Oda's earlier work,\n> Monsters. The scene where Zoro slashes Ryuma with this technique also\n> resembles the scene from Monsters, in which Ryuma slays the dragon.\n\nZoro has used this technique only once. There are many techniques which he has\nused only once! \nPlus the name of his techniques are pretty complicated so its hard to remember\n:P \nFor further references, you can check the\n[wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Santoryu/Ittoryu)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-03T14:09:02.220", "id": "7290", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-03T14:09:02.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "7287", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is the sword technique that causes the flame, although not properly\nexplained how it is assumed that this technique uses [Friction\nBurn](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrictionBurn) to set the\nenemy ablaze.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-03T14:13:34.487", "id": "7291", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-03T14:13:34.487", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7287", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere isn't any meaning or any special scene related to his headband. \nAccording to the Wiki :- \n\n> Zoro normally keeps a black bandanna tied around his left bicep and ties it\n> around his head when he is fighting seriously against an opponent.\n\nAtleast till now, nothing has been revealed about his headband. If it\nresembles something important, Oda Sensei will mention something about it in\nthe future. \nFor now, we could just consider it as his style of dressing. \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-03T13:57:46.290", "id": "7289", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-03T13:57:46.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "7288", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nQuoted from [a post on\nFacebook](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=577033532348809&id=119168144802019).\nThe post explains why the authors release chapter 30 after so many gap, all\nthe reasons for delay and whether they will release more chapters or not:\n\n> Alright folks, after WEEKS of intense investigation, convincing, pleading,\n> smooth talking, and talking to \"people who know people\" in Japan... I'd like\n> to clear things up about the situation of H.O.T.D. from the past 2 years,\n> now, and the foreseeable future:\n>\n> * The reason for the manga's 2 year hiatus was for 2 reasons:\n>\n> 1. Writer Daisuke Sato had a heart disease that required a lot of\n> treatment, surgery, and recovery.\n> 2. Because of the earthquake that happened in Japan, he didn't think an\n> apocalypse story was appropriate to continue at the time until Japan\n> recovered from it.\n> * During those 2 years, Daisuke and Shouji were VERY surprised to find out\n> that H.O.T.D. had become so popular worldwide.\n>\n> * The purpose to release Chapter 30 was for multiple reasons: to get the\n> Satos back to work on the story, to see if the manga was still popular, and\n> finally to let fans know that they haven't forgotten about it.\n>\n> * In May, Daisuke started preparing rough drafts for chapters 31 and\n> beyond and throughout this summer he will be working on finalizing on where\n> the story will go, and research in terms of locations, military, weapons,\n> and vehicles... as stated last year at the anime convention in Germany.\n>\n> * Shouji went back to work on Fire Fire Fire: Black Sword to make himself\n> get used to working on multiple stories. Plus he had a desire to go back to\n> that story anyway.\n>\n> * Sales for Chapter 30 when it was released digitally were going\n> \"surprisingly well for a single chapter\" and that future chapters WILL be\n> released on the same day in both the US and Japan.\n>\n> * The Japanese Publisher Kadokawa is currently deciding if they want to\n> release a chapter of Triage X and H.O.T.D. at the same time or a bi-monthly\n> pattern.\n>\n> * The next chapters of H.O.T.D. are VERY crucial on deciding if the series\n> will end with an 8th volume or continue when they go on sale. If you\n> American H.O.T.D. fans don't buy digital copies, they'll take it as a sign\n> of losing interest and the series will end prematurely... So don't go\n> bitching and whining if that does happen. It'll be your fault for not\n> supporting the creators.\n>\n>\n\n>\n> So there you have it, a lot of hard work and contacting the righ[t people]\n>\n> Credit to Joey Senna McRae for gathering all this info.\n\n* * *\n\n**EDIT** : As comment above by\n[Darjeeling](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2869/darjeeling) the\nmangaka [**Daisuke Satou passed\naway**](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-03-26/high-school-of-the-\ndead-manga-creator-daisuke-sato-passes-away-at-52/.113968), so we probably\nwill never see the continuation of the story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T17:34:04.053", "id": "13032", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-23T13:04:30.337", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-23T13:04:30.337", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "7292", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Pokemon could die in multiple ways, some of which are listed here:\n>\n> 1. **By Over Exertion** : In the Movie, Celebi: Voice of the Forest, it is\n> shown that a celebi goes out of control, wreaking havoc in the forest. It\n> exerts itself so much that when it calms down it simply disintegrates and\n> dies.\n>\n> 2. **By Sacrificing Themselves** : It is seen in the movie, Pokemon\n> Heroes, that a Latios sacrifices itself to protect the city of Alto Mare.\n> How exactly does he die is unknown.\n>\n> 3. **By Getting Eaten** : The pokedex entry for Wurmple states that it has\n> to defend against Starly to prevent being eaten. We can assume that the same\n> applies for Caterpie and other worms.\n>\n> 4. **Some Special Condition** : Like Charmander, who will die if the flame\n> on his tail goes out. This is also valid for its evolutions.\n>\n> 5. **Aging** : Pokemon who do not die from the above causes can be assumed\n> to die from aging. This assumption is validated by the existence of pokemon\n> graveyards with the people visiting it remarking on the long companionship\n> provided by pokemon.\n>\n>\n\n>\n> Some anomalies which are unexplained:\n>\n> 1. **Existence of Legendary Pokemon** : It is probable that legendary\n> pokemon live forever. Pokemon like Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza are referred to\n> as \"super ancient pokemon\" implying that they live forever. Same may be the\n> case with other legendaries.\n>\n> 2. **Ghost Pokemon** : Deaths of pokemon do not explain ghost-type\n> pokemon. It is possible that they are born as ghosts. Pokemon after dying\n> may become spirits, like the Marowak killed by team rocket.\n>\n>\n\n>\n> In essence, the aspect of pokemon death may have been avoided in the\n> franchise because it was designed primarily for children.\n\n**REFERENCE:** [How do Pokemon die?](http://www.quora.com/Pok%C3%A9mon/How-do-\nPokemon-die) on Quora\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-04T01:04:02.200", "id": "7306", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-04T14:47:54.577", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-04T14:47:54.577", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3360", "parent_id": "7293", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGa-Rei: Zero was released in 2008-10-05. If the marketing and industry people\nwant to work on a 6 month lead time, this puts decision time at 2008-4-01. At\nthat time, the most recent tankōbon release was volume 5 back in 2007-10-26.\nAlso, the mangaka took longer to publish material as the series progressed.\nSee below:\n\n[code]\n\n 1 05/26/06 days\n 2 07/26/06 61\n 3 11/25/06 122\n 4 04/26/07 152\n 5 10/26/07 183\n 6 04/26/08 183\n \n[/code]\n\nMaybe the manga was popular and they wanted to get that target audience but\ndidn't have a lot confidence in how the current story arc which was still\nbeing written would adapt to a 13 episode series they decided to hijack the\nplot and audience and make their own version of it. It's just speculation\nthough. I did like this series. The first episode had me totally lost after\nhaving read the manga though :/\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T04:12:55.723", "id": "7356", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-06T14:54:14.447", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-06T14:54:14.447", "last_editor_user_id": "2044", "owner_user_id": "3620", "parent_id": "7296", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGoing off the assumption that you are actually asking about Emiya **Shirou**\n(i.e. the guy who is the protagonist of Fate/stay night) - see below for\nspoilers concerning the visual novel (and hence also the UBW movie).\n\n> The answer is **yes, sort of**. The first thing you need to know is that\n> Archer (the red man, not Gilgamesh) is actually Shirou. I don't think you\n> are told this in the TV series, but you do learn this if you watch the UBW\n> movie. \n> \n> Now, in the visual novel there are three routes, with a total of five non-\n> bad endings between them. Once you have achieved each of the five endings\n> (that is, Fate, UBW Good, UBW True, HF Normal, and HF True), you gain access\n> to a bonus ending called **Last Episode** (this might only occur in Realta\n> Nua; I'm not sure). \n> \n> What basically happens there is that you get a short recap/sampling of the\n> events of the Fate route, mostly focused on things Saber did, plus a few\n> flashbacks to her childhood, when she first pulled the sword from the stone.\n> Eventually, you get to the scene where Saber tells Shirou she loves him, and\n> then disappears. \n> \n> And then after that, we get some internal monologue from Shirou-turned-\n> Archer, bemoaning the worthlessness of his existence, followe by some\n> internal monologue from Saber, longing for Shirou. Merlin (I think) pops in\n> and monologues at Saber for a while. \n> \n> Finally, after an undetermined length of time, Shirou/Archer and\n> [Saber](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GHFRq.png) meet again in some sort of\n> afterlife-y place that most people agree is Avalon. Hooray! \n> \n> So why is the answer to your question \"sort of\"? This is because the Type-\n> Moon universe has this notion of parallel worlds in which basically\n> everything that is shown to happen actually happens in one parallel world or\n> another. So, Last Episode presumably happens at least in some variants of\n> the Fate timeline, but doesn't happen in all timelines.\n\n* * *\n\nIf, for some reason, you actually want to know if Kiritsugu and Saber ever\nmeet again, the answer is no. Kiritsugu dies a few years after the fourth war,\nand that's the end of that.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-03T21:09:06.670", "id": "7299", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-03T21:09:06.670", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7297", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nYes they do.\n\nIn the Visual Novel of Fate Stay/Night Realta Nua, once you have seen all five\nendings, a new ending appears accessible from the title screen called -Last\nEpisode-. This is in two parts: a monologue of the Fate Route and a second\npart where Arturia is hearing from Merlin about a miracle achievable by two\npeople, one who \"wait endlessly\" and one who \"pursue endlessly\", and\neventually the pursuer will stop when they reach the waiter.\n\nWhat Merlin is referring to is Arturia waiting and Shirou pursuing. Eventually\nShirou reaches [Avalon](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUpgo.png) where Arturia is\nsleeping and the two finally reunite. It's not entirely certain how long it\ntook Shirou to reach Avalon however, considering that Avalon transcends all\nmagic including the 5 Magics it must have taken an eternity for Shirou to\nreach.\n\nIn Unlimited Blade Works, because Caster canceled the contract between Saber\nand Shirou, Rin is able to from a contract with Saber. In the Good Ending of\nUnlimited Blade Works, we see that Rin is able to maintain Saber's Prana\nSupply but complains she finds it hard supplying her with energy without\nsomething like the Holy Grail. You can see this has Shirou being able to stay\nwith Saber. However in Unlimited Blade Works, Rin is Shirou's love interest so\nwith the True Ending for Unlimited Blade Works where Saber does disappear at\nthe destruction of the Grail, it can be assumed that Shirou loves Rin more and\ndoes not go to find Saber so -Last Episode- won't occur.\n\nIn Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, Arturia comes back thanks to Rin's and Ilya's\nexperiment to make the Jewel Sword into a pendant to allow easier use of the\n2nd Magic. This allows Fuyuki City to becomes a place where \"any and all\nevents are possible\", so all the Servants are brought back including Saber. In\nAvanger's design to recreate the 3rd Holy Grail War, because in the 3rd war\nthe Edelfelt Sisters used their Sorcery Trait to summon 2 Sabers, this is\nmimicked in this new war with Arturia having a second personality in the form\nof Saber-Alter which is her dark corrupted self from the Heaven's Feel Route\nof the visual Novel.\n\nI should point out that Fate/Hollow Ataraxia occurs in a parallel timeline\nwhere at least the Fate and Heaven's Feel routes occurred at the same time as\nSakura is shown wearing a sleeve reminiscent from when she had a contract with\nAvanger, Alter-Saber cannot exist unless she was corrupted in the Grail\n(Heaven's Feel), Ilya is alive and well (Fate), the Vessel of the Holy Grail\nwas destroyed (Fate), and the Greater Grail is thought to still be operational\njust without any purpose for all the prana it has collected from two wars, so\n-Last Episode- may still occur after Fate/Hollow Ataraxia.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-03T21:10:19.583", "id": "7300", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T04:36:57.217", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T04:36:57.217", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7297", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nMemor's answer is very good. I'm gonna work on it and explain why I think\nthere is a fourth ending in which we have Saber X Shirou.\n\nLet's begin with the basics. There is a common belief that states Shirou gets\nRin as a love partner more times than any other girl. I'm gonna explain why I\nbelieve Saber is the girl Shirou gets more times, not Rin.\n\n 1. As Memor stated the ending of the very first route of Fate Stay Night (Fate route) is \"the Last Episode\", where Shirou and Saber live happily ever after in Avalon, a magical paradise where it will be just the 2 of them as a couple. \n\n 2. In UBW if you give points to Saber she will feel cherished by Shirou and will decide to stay with him in the real world (in the visual novel she even says her only reason to stay is to watch over him. Later Rin gets angry and tells her not to flirt). In this ending Shirou gets both Rin and Saber, who will train Shirou in magic and Martial arts and guide him to his happiness as Rin promised.\n\n 3. Fate Hollow Atarxia's true ending: Shirou has the ultimate harem. He has Saber, Rin, Sakura, Caren, Ayako, Bazett... and all of them fight between themselves for his love.\n\n 4. Nasu said: \n\n\"Nasu said:\n\n\"I personally wrote “Reunion”, the introductory portion of Fate/hollow\nataraxia with the intention of it being the ending of a certain route in\nFate/stay night and the ending of “hollow ataraxia”\"\n\nThis Reunion was confirmed as the scene \"Reopening\"\n\n<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ShPOZvbFLA>\n\nSo basically we have another ending that was meant to happen in the original\ngame. After that it was meant to happen at the end of its sequel Ataraxia.\n\nWhatever the situation just keep in mind that Nasu wrote that scene as an\nending and can therefore be considered as such. It's no mere headcanon. The\nway it is done it seems to be similar to UBW good ending, so I guess it could\nalso be its future once Rin goes to Clock Tower considering that Saber says:\n\"\"with Rin gone, it is my duty to supervise you\". But maybe it's better to\njust consider it another ending in which Rin leaves to study magic and Shirou\nand Saber live happily in this world. Basically they choose different paths as\nShirou and Saber don't follow her (as Shirou does in UBW true ending) The\nSaber eclipse scene shows in Fate Hollow a Saber that comes from UWB and that\nloves Shirou and has sex with him, so Saber X Shirou in UBW is there in my\nopinion.\n\nSo, what does it mean? It means Shirou gets saber in every possible way: A\nhappily ever after in paradise, a harem with Rin, a harem with everyone and a\nhappily ever after in this world just the 2 of them.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-16T17:27:52.923", "id": "37357", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-16T17:52:35.007", "last_edit_date": "2016-11-16T17:52:35.007", "last_editor_user_id": "28378", "owner_user_id": "28378", "parent_id": "7297", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm going to mainly focus on the Last Episode, stating a few things that\nweren't said in other answers.\n\nMain point: The answer is YES as you're referring to the Fate route's true\nending (as it is its canon epilogue). But the Fate route has many endings, and\nso do other routes/timelines. In this case, regarding the rest of the\ntimelines, the answer is Maybe, sort of. Because of how Nasu made it, it can\nalso happen in the rest of the timelines.\n\nBefore continuing, the 100% canon endings written by Nasu where Shirou and\nArturia live together happily are:\n\n * Last episode\n * Unlimited Blade Works good ending: In the VN, if Shirou appoints love points to Saber, the good ending will happen and Saber will say she stays for him.\n * Ataraxia's true ending outside of the loop once 100% of the game is completed: Shirou gets Saber as his servant and they live happily.\n\n\"Last episode\" can also happen in different timelines/routes but it is sure to\nhappen after Fate's true ending. The reason is that it is done as an epilogue\nfor such ending (it actually says epilogue).\n\nNasu has made epilogues for all 3 true endings. In the original game, he did\nHeaven's Feel true ending epilogue. After some time he did Fate's true ending\nepilogue \"last episode\" and recently he's made UBW's true ending epilogue (an\n11-page script that was handed to Ufotable in order to make the epilogue\nepisode).\n\n* * *\n\nIt isn't questioned but I'm gonna address a few doubts the OP may have. You\nmay think that even though it's the canon epilogue written by Nasu, it is also\nfanservice because of how happy it is.\n\nActually, the reality is that all happy endings if you reach the end of the\ngame are strongly criticised by the VN community as fanservice.\n\nThe last episode makes a lot of sense as Fate's true ending epilogue (as Nasu\nhas created it) because:\n\n 1. Nasu has stated that in every route, the chances of Shirou becoming Archer are so close to zero they are not worth mentioning. When asked if Archer comes from the Fate route in interviews, he has denied it. Archer comes from a timeline where Rin didn’t summon him.\n\nIf he doesn’t become Archer in any final ending from each route, it is because\nthe heroine saves her. It makes perfect sense for Shirou to look for Saber and\nfor Saber, who loves him deeply, to suffer waiting for him (risking suffering\nfor all eternity). After that, they reach their happily ever after. Otherwise,\nShirou would become Archer, which is something Nasu has told us doesn’t\nhappen.\n\n 2. Saber loves Shirou a lot. After the H-scene in the Fate route, Saber’s mind is 100% set on Shirou. She was also very proud saying things like “Shirou knows my body best” and stuff like that. It was clear she loved him, but after that, she’s so lovestruck she can’t even spar with him. Her attitude towards the rest of the people remains the same though. She also sacrifices her Holy Grail dream for him.\n\nIn UBW, Rin says Saber is way too dedicated to Shirou. Before the final fight,\nSaber tells Shirou “Shirou, you are still my master”, and before dying in the\ntrue ending, she says it’s normal because “Shirou already has Rin”. In UBW's\ngood ending, Saber flirts with Shirou as Rin states and she says she stays\njust for him.\n\nThe only difference between the good and true endings is that in the good\nending, Shirou gives love points to Saber, so she wishes to stay. So we have a\nSaber class servant that willingly states “Shirou, you are still my master”\nwhile having another master, and in the visual novel after Rin saves her, she\nflirts with her master’s boyfriend. As I said, the only difference between\nUBW's true and good endings is that in the Good ending, Shirou gives points to\nSaber. That’s the reason she wishes to stay, she feels Shirou really cares for\nhim in the good ending because of the increased affection that Shirou has for\nher.\n\nAfter knowing this, it makes perfect sense for Arturia to wait for Shirou\n(risking suffering for all eternity as Merlin says).\n\n 3. The rest of the endings are just as fanservice as this one.\n\n * Heaven’s Feel true ending: This is the first epilogue Nasu wrote. You can find people everywhere saying it is a nonsensical happy ending. The rational ending after everything that happened should be the normal ending. Sakura should be a deranged girl, not a mentally healthy happy girl.\n\n * Fate’s true ending “last episode”: Because of their deep love, both Saber and Shirou forge their own happy ending in Avalon. It is the same as Heaven’s Feel true ending where Sakura and Shirou work really hard to get that ending.\n\n * UBW true ending epilogue: Nasu wrote the epilogue for UBW true ending recently and people complain it’s too happy (even though it’s based on a manuscript written by him which is actually much happier that the episode itself).\n\n * UBW good ending: This is the most attacked by far. People say that the fanservice reached new heights and that it’s impossible to happen. I’ve read HUNDREDS of comments saying UBW's good ending is just mere wish-fulfillment and that Saber shouldn’t be able to be maintained in this world no matter how much Shirou bangs both girls to help.\n\n * Ataraxia’s ending outside of the time loop once 100% of the game has been completed: This ending is just too perfect if you happen to be Shirou.\n\nAt the end of the day, FSN is mostly good and does more thing right than\nwrong, but it’s still deeply, deeply flawed, and the endings, in particular,\nis not its strong side.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-23T17:00:38.787", "id": "38563", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T06:35:29.390", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T06:35:29.390", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "28412", "parent_id": "7297", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think she wanted to say: \"Shu I give you my heart\". After all she did\nentrust Shu with her void before, and she wanted to show that her heart\nbelonged to him, because she loved him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T18:53:38.647", "id": "8981", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T23:55:34.977", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-27T23:55:34.977", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "4670", "parent_id": "7298", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nJust as user4670 said, she would probably say, \"Shu, I'll give you my heart,\"\nthat is the most practical answer.\n\nHowever, since the sentence does go unfinished, it's really up to the\nimagination of the watcher what she would say, even if the answer can be quite\nobvious.\n\nAnother few possibilities are \"...my soul.\" as well as \"...my love.\" However\nthese are probably the least likely answers of the three possibilities,\ndespite all three representing a similar meaning.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-27T08:09:35.080", "id": "13071", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-27T08:09:35.080", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "7298", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording a [press release](http://collider.com/the-wind-rises-release-date-\nus/) to Disney dated September 11, 2013:\n\n> The film is slated for limited release in North American theaters on Feb.\n> 21, 2014, and expanded release on Feb. 28, 2014, under the Touchstone\n> Pictures banner. The Wind Rises will also open for Academy Award\n> qualification engagements in New York and Los Angeles Nov. 8-14, 2013,\n> showcasing the original film in Japanese with English subtitles.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-04T20:53:33.633", "id": "7327", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-04T20:53:33.633", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7301", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn [One Piece](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Laughter_Style), the laughters\nare very unique and can be based on personalities or appearances of the said\ncharacters.\n\nBy giving them different laughs, IMO, gives a sense of their aura and keeps\nthe character entertaining.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-08T04:10:32.780", "id": "11720", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-12T18:55:35.350", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-12T18:55:35.350", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "2956", "parent_id": "7302", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Frankie\narticle](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_Frankies/BF-37) on One Piece\nWiki that is actually meant to be a **flame-shaped plate**.\n\n> **Strong Right** (ストロング右（ライト） Sutorongu Raito?): A new version of the\n> original Strong Right, Franky launches his much bigger right fist at his\n> opponent akin to a rocket, with a chain to retract it. The fist also has\n> flame-shaped plates on the sides with \"STRONG\" written on them that seem to\n> be purely for aesthetic design. His fist also seems to have an electrical\n> charge. This was first seen used against the attackers on Punk Hazard.\n\nThis indeed make much more sense than a rollercoaster car and is more fitting\nwith Franky robot style.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-21T12:15:22.400", "id": "19534", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-21T12:15:22.400", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10644", "parent_id": "7303", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe's referring to Kaien Shiba, the former lieutenant of Jūshirō Ukitake's\nsquad.\n\nIn the anime, his wife Miyako who was the 3rd Seat was possessed and devoured\nfrom the inside by one of Sōsuke Aizen's Hollows Metastacia. Kaien decided to\ntrack her down and kill her. However, Rukia followed him and saw him becoming\npossessed by the Hollow which leads to her having to reluctantly kill him and\nthen deliver his body to the Shiba clan.\n\nThis begins Ganju's hatred for Soul Reapers as Kaien was his brother and he\nknew a Soul Reaper killed him because of the sword wounds on his body.\nHowever, Kūkaku knew full well it was Rukia who killed him and knew why she\ndid and vowed that should she confront her about Kaien and apologize she would\nforgive Rukia.\n\nNow, what Jūshirō Ukitake talking about is Ichigo's appearance in relation to\nKaien's as they both look similar which in some cases may explain Rukia's\nactions as she's always felt guilty having been the one to kill Kaien, one of\nthe 2 people who didn't treat her differently because she was Byakuya sister,\nthe other was Miyako.\n\n**Ichigo**\n\n\n\n**Kaien**\n\n\n\nI should point out that this is from the Anime. From my understanding, apart\nfrom fillers, the anime is faithful to the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-03T23:29:07.073", "id": "7305", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-19T05:31:26.350", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-19T05:31:26.350", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7304", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI have been through this and I have to say I have a different take. They make\nmention (I can't remember which episode) a red haired person from eons ago who\nIchigo reminds them of. Ive read all of the Kaien references but I haven't\nread anywhere about the red haired guy they dont full speak about.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-11-04T11:16:46.583", "id": "55773", "last_activity_date": "2019-11-04T11:16:46.583", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50635", "parent_id": "7304", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Brock's comment is possibly correct. I believe that Captain Ukitake\nwas remembering the spiky red hair from Ashido Kanō, a soul reaper trapped in\nhueco mundo. Although, I am partial to The Kaien Theory™ and reading about\nIchigo's dad being a Shiba clan member has me on the fence.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-03-02T22:48:07.503", "id": "66475", "last_activity_date": "2022-03-02T22:48:07.503", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "65711", "parent_id": "7304", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure Majokko Mirakurun is just a parody of the magical girl genre\naltogether.\n\nThere's often jokes where Mirakurun acts very atypically of a magical-girl as\npresented in the genre:\n\nMirakurun blasts Rivalrun into the distance with her 10T \"Mirakurun Super\nHammer\". Which is a trope more commonly seen in shonen anime - a high contrast\nwith shoujo works.\n\n\n\nAs for gags that may be referencing shows, there's one about the lengthy\ntransformation sequences that we would see in many magical girl shows such as\nSailor Moon or Puella Magi Madoka Magica:\n\n \n\nMirakurun also says various lines mid battle that are very typical of these\ntype of shows. This one is remarkably similar to sailor moon's phrase:\n\n \n\nIt's possible that the writer was inspired by Sailor Moon or similar series,\nbut the gags are too generic to say for certain, and I'm of the opinion that\nit's just of the genre in general\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-04T09:24:29.540", "id": "7312", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-04T19:42:08.360", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-04T19:42:08.360", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7309", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Bounties for Yonkos haven't been shown till\nnow](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yonko). And IMO, for someone as powerful\nas a Yonko, bounties doesn't matter much. Bounties are set so that some bounty\nhunter would be tempted to capture them. But yonkos being one of the most\npowerful forces in OP, no one would dare to capture a Yonko.\n\nWhiteBeard- Not revealed.\n\nShanks- Not revealed.\n\nBig Mam- Not revealed.\n\nKaido- Not revealed.\n\nBlackbeard- Not given any bounty.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-04T07:16:42.633", "id": "7311", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-04T07:32:15.797", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-04T07:32:15.797", "last_editor_user_id": "3343", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7310", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nNone of the Youkou Bounties have been shown so far.\n\nBut Since Charlotte Katakuri's bounty is 1057 million bellies, You can expect\nBig Mom's bounty to be in the range of 1.5 Billion to 2.5 Billion.\n\nAssuming BM's is close to 2 Billion, Shanks and Kaidou might have a bounty\nclose to 2.5 to 3 Billion.\n\nSince Black Beard is still new, we can expect his Bounty to be close to Big\nMom at around 2 Billion. But expect his bounty to surpass Kaidou and Shanks\nonce both are defeated.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-05T05:08:19.730", "id": "42658", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-05T05:08:19.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35756", "parent_id": "7310", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYes! Their bounties have been revealed as of [chapter\n957](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_957).\n\nThe amounts are as follow:\n\n**Kaido:**\n\n> B. 4,611,100,000\n\n**Charlotte Linlin:**\n\n> B. 4,388,000,000\n\n**Shanks:**\n\n> B. 4,048,900,000\n\n**Marshall D. Teach:**\n\n> B. 2,247,600,000\n\n**Whitebeard:**\n\n> B. 5,046,000,000\n\n**Gol D. Roger:**\n\n> B. 5,564,800,000\n\n[Color comment](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Ope_Ope_no_Mi): The marines\nformerly made an offer of **B. 5,000,000,000** for the Ope-Ope no mi.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-02-06T17:26:40.517", "id": "56734", "last_activity_date": "2020-02-06T17:35:53.930", "last_edit_date": "2020-02-06T17:35:53.930", "last_editor_user_id": "50594", "owner_user_id": "50594", "parent_id": "7310", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo answer your question, this is a rather a technique based off of\nmisdirection called **Vanishing Drive**.\n\n> Kuroko developed this after being soundly defeated by Daiki Aomine. As said\n> on the wikia Kuroko trains himself to evolve his play style. Given the\n> absolute presence and importance of the ball in play, it had been previously\n> thought impossible for Kuroko to maintain his misdirection while in\n> possession of the ball; as such the time he spends handling the ball on\n> court is extremely minimal.\n\nHowever\n\n> He has overcome this previous limitation, and has developed the ability to\n> imperceptibly move past players while dribbling the ball, creating his own\n> 'vanishing' drive. The ability is effective enough to pass through the\n> defenses of Shintarō Midorima, a member of the Generation of Miracles, and\n> can also pass Takao's Hawk's Eye\n\nVanishing drive does not follow the simple rules of misdirection exactly, but\nrather does this:\n\n> The skill is basically a cross-diagonal move (a duck-in) to where the\n> opponent's eye field can't see. Kuroko bends over in a specific angle at\n> drives following a specific route, that the opponent has it very difficult\n> to follow. But the real Vanishing Drive is a collaboration with Kagami.\n> Similar to Kuroko's misdirection, Kagami draws the attention of the opponent\n> to him, just for a second, and that makes it possible for Kuroko to pass his\n> opponent successfully.\n\nThis would also explain why Momoi was affected due to the fact it heavily\nrely's on where you opponent can't see which was why she was affected.\n\nBibliography for reference to information:\n\n 1. <http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Tetsuya_Kuroko>\n 2. <http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Tetsuya_Kuroko#Vanishing_Drive>\n\nThe relevant information that I have in my answer can be found by heading to\nthe hyperlink [here](http://kurokonobasuke.wikia.com/wiki/Tetsuya_Kuroko) or\nabove and going to abilities.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T01:17:23.483", "id": "8953", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T02:02:22.993", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-27T02:02:22.993", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "7313", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe way the vanishing drive works is that he diverts their attention for a\nsplit second, and is then past them by the time they realise what he's done.\nAgainst skilled players in a proper game, he needs something with a huge\npresence, such as Kagami or Aomine to make them forget about him, and that's\nthe real trick, distracting someone when they're completely focused on you.\n\nHowever Momoi is not a competitive basketball player and they were not playing\nin an actual game, so my best guess is that he was able to use something with\nfar less presence than he would normally need, like a street lamp or a car or\nwhatever was nearby.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-27T16:26:50.067", "id": "8964", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T16:26:50.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "7313", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWhen Kuroko went up against Midorima, with the intention of doing the\nvanishing drive, it shows what Midorima is looking at in his glasses. Before\nhe finished perfecting the drive, Kuroko used the thing which has the most\npresence in the entire game, the ball. He slowly lowers the ball into a\ndribble, and as soon as Midorima's attention is completely on the ball, Kuroko\nducks in at a very difficult angle to follow. The reason it works even against\nMidorima is that Kuroko can do it almost instantly after Midorima's attention\nis on the ball. Kuroko later perfects it with the addition of adding Kagami\nin.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-12-18T01:06:01.750", "id": "56174", "last_activity_date": "2019-12-22T19:10:22.093", "last_edit_date": "2019-12-22T19:10:22.093", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "51205", "parent_id": "7313", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNaruto's father was Namikaze Minato, who had been Jiraiya's pupil. \nAs we know, Jiraiya wrote, and the main character of his first book was named\nNaruto.\n\n> Because he enjoyed the book so much, Minato chose to name his then-unborn\n> son after the character of Naruto in the story, in the hopes that his son\n> would too grow up to be just like the protagonist. Even though Naruto was\n> not aware of this until sixteen years after his birth, he nevertheless is\n> just like the protagonist.\n\nFrom [Naruto\nWikia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Utterly_Gutsy_Shinobi).\n\n**So Naruto got his name from a character Jiraiya created in one of his\nbooks.**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-04T10:44:58.557", "id": "7315", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-04T10:44:58.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "7314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\n\nAs you may know, [Jiraiya](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jiraiya) was an\nauthor, as well as the teacher of Minato, Naruto's father.\n\nHis first book, [The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy\nShinobi](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Utterly_Gutsy_Shinobi)\nfeatured a protagonist who held the ideals of Jiraiya and was called - Naruto\n(possibly named so after the food).\n\nMinato liked the book very much and decided to name his son after this\ncharacter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-04T10:45:18.920", "id": "7317", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-04T10:45:18.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "7314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nIn addition to the accepted answer, which is correct.. Jiraiya got the name\n'Naruto' for that character while he was eating ramen. One of ramen's toppings\nis called 'narutomaki', and that's where Jiraiya got that character's name,\n'Naruto'.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T02:04:16.623", "id": "7353", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-06T02:04:16.623", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "7314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Kishimoto gave naruto his name because it fit the theme of his\nmother's maiden village: the village hidden in whirlpools. Since Naruto\nroughly translates from Japanese to mean maelstrom or whirlpool, it is very\nlikely Kishimoto bequeathed the protagonist name to be this since he already\nhad his mother's last name, uzumaki, which means spirals or whirlpools.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-06-13T04:17:30.863", "id": "33708", "last_activity_date": "2016-06-13T04:17:30.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "25639", "parent_id": "7314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNagato was one of Jirayaya's students. Nagato inspired the hero of the story,\nand so the character was named Naruto, after him. Naruto's father then named\nhis son after the character of the story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-24T08:08:07.310", "id": "42454", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-24T08:08:07.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35796", "parent_id": "7314", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe was there to support players and keep their psych in top condition. The\nmoment the game kept people inside, Kayaba most likely forced her to stop for\nhis \"sick game of death\".\n\n> After regaining her memories, she tells her in-game parents that she had\n> become melancholic when the death game began, as she wasn't allowed to\n> comfort players and was forced to continue monitoring their psychological\n> parameters, but, after nearly 2 years of only seeing insanity, misery and\n> anger, she finally noticed a couple that showed happiness and joy and wanted\n> to be close to the two to experience their emotions, even though she was not\n> allowed to interact with players.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-04T12:55:30.267", "id": "7322", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-07T10:39:30.760", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-07T10:39:30.760", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7319", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI just searched for the part in the novels - It's the third part of the second\nnovel. But I'm sorry to disappoint you, there's not much explained:\n\n(Source: Baka-Tsuki)\n\n> \"Although I am unaware of the complete details of what exactly happened as\n> well, Cardinal handed down an unplanned order to me. A complete prohibition\n> from interfering with all players[...]\"\n>\n> Asuna reacted reflexively; she guessed that \"unplanned order\" was due to the\n> manipulation done by the only GM of SAO, Kayaba Akihiko.\n\nI guess it was developed by many people who planned to add this feature but\nKayaba just decided to disable her without letting the other developers know.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-08T22:02:10.627", "id": "7925", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-08T22:02:10.627", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "7319", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think Kayaba worked on SAO alone. This is never explicitly stated.\nIt's likely he had a large part in it, and created most of the core, and\ndesigned most of the elements of the game, but I can't see one guy creating\neverything alone.\n\nYui was possibly created by someone else who worked on the game (Or possibly\neven Cardinal). SAO was the first real VR Game, so the effects of being inside\na VR world for long periods of time weren't really known. The Cardinal System\nwas created with the intention of being self-managing, so that humans were\nnever needed, to manage to game, or even to update/patch the game. A program\nto take care of a player's mental health (to possibly avoid law-suits?) was\nprobably part of the plan for that.\n\nHere's a [link to a translation](http://www.taptaptaptaptap.net/sao-qna-\nheathcliff-kunori/) of a sort of \"Q&A\" that the author had with fans, and\ncharacters of the story, back in 2005 (when SAO was still a web-novel.)\n\n> **Q. Did you know about Yui’s existence?** \n> A. I didn’t spare it any attention at all, a great opportunity gone by.\n\nFrom that, you can infer that Kayaba himself didn't create Yui.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T06:05:38.630", "id": "7983", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-12T06:05:38.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4071", "parent_id": "7319", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nAnother option, are, even if all system are programmed by one or multiple\npersons, Yui are here as a part of Cardinal System, and The Seed. All the\nsystem are programmed not only for SAO, it's ready for creating more worlds\n(end of ALO words of Kayaba).\n\nIt's the same as the link between The Seed created games. These system are\npresent on SAO too (probably), but, you cannot view it because there isn't\nmore games, or, these system are explicit disabled.\n\nAnother option are, Cardinal disabled Yui itself, because Yui have GM\nprivileges and can logout players if they're in too bad mod (something stupid\nin a game without logout button).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-11T20:19:21.527", "id": "19302", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-11T20:19:21.527", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11451", "parent_id": "7319", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBesides the fact hat Kakshi is Hailed as a prodigy, because of his great\nintelligence, skill, and aptitude.\n\nThis is due Kakashi training in his area of weaknesses. It is not that he did\nnot already master the Sharingan ( Itachi Uchiha even stated that Kakashi was\nfar more proficient of a eye user then most of the natural eye users)\n\nKakashi's primary weakness was his average reserves of chakra and stamina, As\nstated on the wiki the usage of the eye requires allot of chakra.To counter\nthat Kakashi possesses very refined chakra control, allowing him to use\nmultiple techniques quickly with the minimum necessary chakra and to their\nhighest level. Kakashi's control also allows him to perform various\ntechniques, usually lightning-based, with few to no hand seals.\n\nOn the wiki it is also said\n\n> Over the course of the series, his reserves improved considerably to extend\n> his timespan and versatility to fight multiple high-level opponents.\n\nWith this information we can conclude that he has increased his chakra pool/\nefficieny during combat/training to the point that he can maintain several eye\nuses and can combat many high level enemys before depleting his chakra pool.\n\n> For a side note. During the war Kakashi also could use near to infinite eye\n> attacks when he had Naruto's bijuu chakra attached to him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-05T04:07:30.237", "id": "7330", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-05T04:07:30.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7326", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKarin and Kushina both belonged to Uzumaki Clan.It's a type of Hiden Ninjustu.\n\nAlthough the name of the jutsu is not mentioned clearly but when I explored\nmore I came to know that:-\n\n> Kushina also possessed a powerful and special form of chakra, which made her\n> well-suited for becoming the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki. With her chakra,\n> Kushina was able to materialise chakra chains with which she was able to\n> restrain and subdue the Nine-Tails, both in the real world as well as in her\n> subconscious\n\n1. **What is this technique and how does this work** \nTo know more about **chakra chains** visit\n[**here**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra_Chains)\n\n> Known by members of the Uzumaki Clan, this technique moulds the user's\n> chakra into chains which, after materialising, can be used for various\n> purposes such as physically restraining targets, fight them directly or be\n> used as a means of transportation.\n\nPlease do visit here too:-[ **Chakra Chains\nclassification**](http://naruto.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Ask&offset=0&limit=500&q=%5B%5BConcept:Jutsu%5D%5D%5B%5BUser%20tech::Karin%5D%5D&po=?Appears%20in=Media%0A?Jutsu%20classification=Classification%0A?Chakra%20Nature%0A?Jutsu%20class%20type=Class%0A?Jutsu%20range=Range)\n\n* * *\n\n2. **Can Naruto use this technique?** \nNaruto **did use this technique** during his training under Bee \n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-05T10:47:49.727", "id": "7334", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-05T11:18:11.993", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-05T11:18:11.993", "last_editor_user_id": "3081", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7333", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not entirely sure as I haven't read all of the manga as of yet but\neveryone who has recommended the OVAs to me has assured me that it follows the\nmanga a lot better than the original anime.\n\nI know they've also got a long way to go with the OVAs though, it's a while\noff reaching the end of the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-05T11:42:33.783", "id": "7336", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-05T11:42:33.783", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3602", "parent_id": "7335", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nYou should read the manga. The anime series just cover about 120 chapters out\nof 333 chapters of the original manga! and the anime is with less details. The\nmanga is still ongoing, it is not finished and has been postponed for some\nyears cause the writer was busy with another manga. I don't know if he starts\nwriting berserk again or not!\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-08T11:27:55.043", "id": "7410", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-08T11:27:55.043", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3648", "parent_id": "7335", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAs @rellz and @Saman Hakimzadeh Abyan explained about the anime, it is not not\ncovering the whole manga. As for OVA, I am not sure if there is an actual OVA.\n\nHowever, there is a 3 part 3D animated movies(showed in Japanese cinemas) just\nrecently released (2012-2013) and it was summarising the anime itself with\nmaybe 5-10 minutes extra details at the end of the last part.\n\n[Animenewsnetwork](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/search/name?q=berserk)\nlink for listing related productions Berserk.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-11T10:02:46.000", "id": "7452", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-11T10:02:46.000", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3540", "parent_id": "7335", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe first anime series (1997) covers _Black Swordsman_ arc (volume 1-3) until\n**just before the end** of _Golden Age_ arc (volume 3- **13** ). However, it\nincludes original episodes and some modifications to the original story.\n(Source: [Yahoo! Chiebukuro\n(Japanese)](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1226339822))\n\nThe OVA (or 3-part movies) covers the whole _Golden Age_ arc, which is volume\n3-14, hence the name _Berserk: The Golden Age Arc_.\n\nThe second anime series (2016) covers the beginning of _Black Swordsman_ arc\n(chapter 1&2), **omits** the whole _Golden Age_ arc, then continues on\n_Conviction_ arc (volume 14/chapter 115 - volume 21) until _Falcon of the\nMillenium Empire_ arc (volume 22~)\n\nThe third anime series, _Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition_ is\nbased on the remastered version of the OVA, edited for TV broadcast, and added\nnew scenes. It also covers the whole _Golden Age_ arc.\n\n* * *\n\nFor additional reference, the manga is still on-going (volume 39) as of now.\nThe story arcs:\n\n * _Black Swordsman_ : Volume 1-3\n * _Golden Age_ : Volume 3-14\n * _Conviction_ : Volume 14-21\n * _Falcon of the Millennium Empire_ : Volume 22-35\n * _Phantom World (Fantasia)_ : Volume 35~\n\n* * *\n\nReferences:\n\n * [Japanese Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AF_\\(%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB\\))\n * [English Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk_\\(manga\\)#Adaptations)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-10T08:17:53.833", "id": "41298", "last_activity_date": "2023-07-05T03:04:40.767", "last_edit_date": "2023-07-05T03:04:40.767", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "7335", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes there are engine's such as that. A good sample would if you are a owner of\na filled in [Myanimelist](http://myanimelist.net/). If you have that can go to\nmal graph mal.oku.im and see recommended. I attached my own recommended as a\nsample for this. <http://mal.oko.im/d3ullist/recs,anime>\n\nThen again in the end it all depends on your own taste´s.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-05T12:42:28.683", "id": "7340", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-05T12:42:28.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n[Anime-Planet](http://www.anime-planet.com/) and\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/) have user submitted suggestions for\nshows on a \"if you liked X, you might like Y\" setup.\n\nAs a developer myself, this is something I've wanted to look into making, and\nMyAnimeList seems to be the most common site to be used for an engine as they\nprovide an API to programmers.\n\n**Anime-Planet Recommendations:**\n\n_Per-show Recommendations:_ \n\n**Update:** Anime-Planet now have version 1 of a _personalized recommendation\nengine_ that works off what you have already seen\n\n\n\n**MyAnimeList Recommendations:**\n\n_Per show recommendations_\n\n\n\nThere are a couple of engines based off of MyAnimeList that people have made\nsuch as [AnimeRecs](http://www.animerecs.com/) (which is down at the moment)\nor [mal.oko.im](http://mal.oko.im/)\n\nThere's also a new anime cataloguer [Hummingbird](http://hummingbird.me/)\nwhich gives you a range of recommendations based on what you've watched, what\ngenres you like, which are your favourites. It seems to be the easiest to\naccess and isn't soley show-specific.\n\n**Hummingbird Suggestions:**\n\n\n\n**Other Sources** Other websites which provide anime have recommendations\nengine built in, Usually these are based off of what similarly interested\npeople have enjoyed also.\n\nCrunchyroll (Thanks @David_Starkey ):\n\n\n\nAmazon:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-05T12:47:29.127", "id": "7341", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-25T15:53:26.157", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-25T15:53:26.157", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 30 }, { "body": "\n\nThere aren't really dedicated \"suggestion engines\" for anime. your best bet is\nlooking through places like [MyAnimeList] or [AnimePlanet]. Otherwise, you can\ngo through something like [this](http://thatanimesite.tv/anime-list/), scroll\nthrough to something that has genres you like, and look for whether or not it\nis highly rated.\n\nIn the end, there are plenty of websites you can go to that will give you info\nabout series, recommendations, suggestions, etc., but nothing with a dedicated\nsystem. Just use a bunch'a different sites, and you won't go wrong.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-28T00:36:06.857", "id": "13673", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-31T09:49:00.080", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-31T09:49:00.080", "last_editor_user_id": "8163", "owner_user_id": "8163", "parent_id": "7337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nJust to add to the list, there's also [anidb](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=main) which will also provide related, similar, and random\nanime recommendations\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-13T00:49:14.427", "id": "14419", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-13T00:49:14.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8676", "parent_id": "7337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI love this site: <http://animesuggestions.com/>\n\nYou just type any anime you like, _e.g. \"One Piece\" or \"Hunter x Hunter\"_ ,\nand it shows you a bunch of similar animes from which you can choose whatever\ncatches your eyes, I guess.\n\n(I only tried it once and I searched \"Nagi no Asukara\" and found \"Elfen Lied\",\nand I really liked it, okay?)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T17:36:27.783", "id": "17065", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T15:20:43.550", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-29T15:20:43.550", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "10847", "parent_id": "7337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n[AniDB](http://anidb.net) also has a recommendation feature. To use it, you\nneed to add the series and episodes you watched to your AniDB MyList. Most\nimportantly, you also need to _rate_ the series from 1 to 10 (10 being best).\n\nThe system then uses some hidden algorithm based on what you voted and what\nothers voted and thereby predicts your votes for series you have not yet\nwatched. You can even remove recommendations from the prediction list if you\nsay ‘I’m not going to watch that, stop telling me I’m going to rate it with a\n9’.\n\nNote that for recommendations to work best, you should attempt to vote in a\nway that puts your median at 5.5 and resembles a standard distribution. While\nthe system ‘corrects’ votes for overall series ratings, if you use exaggerated\nvotes you will also receive exaggerated vote predictions (such as 13, which is\nobviously larger than 10).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-30T01:21:31.363", "id": "38160", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-30T01:21:31.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13532", "parent_id": "7337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n[graph.anime.plus](http://graph.anime.plus) is a great analyser for your\nmyanimelist profile. \nOn top of giving you a great deal of information on your habits and breakdowns\non what you've listed it appears to just trawls through your favs and pulls\nthe mal recommendations ( ~~it'd be damn cool if it~~ _[I've found a damn cool\ntool that](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/39574/23554)_ finds similar-\nminded people and recommend things you haven't seen that they liked).\n\n\n\nAnother thing it does in the same tab is show you related items that you\nhaven't seen yet, which may yield a sequel or cool OVA you missed\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n* * *\n\n[AniPlan](https://www.anime-planet.com/forum/threads/new-feature-personal-\nanime-suggestions-for-you.225602/) does both of these too\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-12T04:19:59.130", "id": "39360", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-01T20:54:56.057", "last_edit_date": "2023-05-01T20:54:56.057", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "23554", "parent_id": "7337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nadding another answer since this is a drastically different way to go about it\n\nYou can use [affinity.animesos.net](http://affinity.animesos.net/) to search\nfor other people that share your tastes (based on mal's affinity).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/twWbM.png)\n\nWow, someone with >95% affinity! Click their name to see their profile, then\nsimply click the \"~ shared\" link.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mfTfJ.png)\n\nI recommend sorting by score and first looking at what you two agreed on and\nwhat you didn't to be able to gauge where their tastes will apply to you, then\njust scroll down to the \"Unique to [them]\" section to add some of their\nfavourites to your plan-to-watch!\n\n* * *\n\nDisclosure though; see how the affinity search said we only shared 11, yet mal\nsays we share 79? Mal includes the unscored entries as items able to be common\nbetween people.\n\n[Here's a link to the comparison\npage](https://myanimelist.net/shared.php?u1=_Arris_&u2=Hashbrown777&type=anime&o=2),\nwe might not be a great pair to extrapolate our opinions to each other. \nSo I bumped the search requirements to only use people with 50 shared titles,\nand that dropped my closest match to 69% affinity, [but have a look at our\ncomparisons\npage](https://myanimelist.net/shared.php?u1=Oliver255&u2=Hashbrown777&type=anime&o=2).\n\nThis should be a much more useful match to find new anime, especially if I\nwork my way down the result list and see any titles that continue to pop up in\na lot of peoples lists. Good luck!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-26T13:37:55.717", "id": "39574", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-26T13:37:55.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23554", "parent_id": "7337", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are indeed allot of manga/novel/manwha adaptions of Final fantasy\ngames,anime and movies and there are indeed some with alternate content to the\nalready known storys or even totaly new storys. [As found on final fantasy\nreleased media wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Final_Fantasy_media)\n\n> Many Final Fantasy games have been adapted as novels and manga series. With\n> the advent of the Internet, web novels and digital publishing have also\n> become common. These stories act as companion pieces, offering an\n> interpretation of the game's events or expanding the plot of the games by\n> depicting additional scenarios.\n\n# Based on stuff\n\n * **Final Fantasy II Mumu no Meikyu** , Is the Novelization of Final Fantasy II written by Kenji Terada \n\n * **Yūkyū no Kaze Densetsu Final Fantasy III** , Manga adaptation of Final Fantasy III by Yū Kinutani (art) and Kenji Terada (story)\n\n * **Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within** , Novelization of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within by John Vornhol\n\n * **Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles ~Hatenaki Sora no Mukō ni~** , Manga adaptation of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles by Ryunosuke Ichikawa (three volumes)\n\n * **Final Fantasy IV** , Two-volume novelization of Final Fantasy IV\n\n * **Final Fantasy IV: The After** , Novelization of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years\n\n * **Adventure Log** , Official Final Fantasy XI webcomic\n\n * **Final Fantasy XII** , Manga adaptation of Final Fantasy XII by Gin Amou\n\n * **Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Ring of Fates 4 Komaansoroji Komikku** , Manga adaptation of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (2 volumes)\n\n * **Final Fantasy XIII Episode Zero: Promise** , Series of web novels written by Jun Eishima and first published on the official Japanese Final Fantasy XIII website, depicting the thirteen days leading up to the events of the game\n\n# Unique content\n\n * **Sō no Kizuna** , A side story to Final Fantasy: Unlimited\n\n * **Final Fantasy: Unlimited After** , A series of web novels published on the official Japanese Final Fantasy: Unlimited website, which continue the story of the anime\n\n * **On the Way to a Smile** , Collection of two novellas, \"Case of Denzel\" and \"Case of Tifa\", set in Final Fantasy VII's continuity, written by Kazushige Nojima and published in the book Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Prologue\n\n * **Final Fantasy XI ~The Out of Orders~** , Manhwa set in the Final Fantasy XI continuity, by Kim Byung Jin (art) and Kim Sungjae (story)\n\n * **Final Fantasy XI** , Series of novels set in the Final Fantasy XI continuity, written by Miyabi Hasegawa\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-05T18:19:17.813", "id": "7344", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-28T21:26:59.300", "last_edit_date": "2015-07-28T21:26:59.300", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7343", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe word is likely to be an abbreviation for Wizard (ウィザード), but there is a\nbit of allusion behind the name.\n\nIt is a tricky one to explain and requires a bit of exploration into the\nJapanese language.\n\nThere exists [an expression](http://kotowaza-allguide.com/u/udonotaiboku.html)\nthere, \"[うどの大木](http://kakuyasu-eigo.com/greattreesaregoodfor/):\"\n\n> \"Great trees are good for nothing but shade.\"\n>\n> 大きな木々は、日陰以外には役にたたない\n\nThis refers to the [Japanese spikenard (known as 独活, \"udo\"), or \"mountain\nasparagus,\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aralia_cordata) referring to how\nthe older, larger plant being of no use, except when it is young (and tender),\nwhere it is typically [used for\nconsumption](https://scottishforestgarden.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/growing-\nand-eating-udo-aralia-cordata/) in cuisine)\n\nIt's likely that the creator used the expression to allude to the state of\nWizards in the series' universe, useless (good for nothing) fellows (as\nmentioned by certain character within the series).\n\nThere is speculation that there might be even more uses of allusion, but there\nare no solid sources to corroborate it:\n\n> オズ (o-zu, as in _Wizard of Oz_ ) → オヅ (o-du, or o-zu, depending on\n> romanization) → ウド (u-do, translated as \"Wud\")\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-26T21:46:14.953", "id": "32361", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-27T01:41:07.827", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-27T01:41:07.827", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7345", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]