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[ { "body": "\n\nThis answer only applies to the TV series proper. Additional information is\ngiven in _Mirai-hen_ ; see Amir's answer.\n\n* * *\n\nThere isn't really much to be said about the exact function of her ring. It\nisn't discussed in the novel (though she is shown wearing the ring, [cf.\np004-005 of LN 1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEzRh.jpg)), so the best I have as\nfar as a textual citation is [this magazine\nscan](https://yande.re/post/show/264440) (SFW image; NSFW site), which reads:\n\n> 自分の血を剣に変えて戦う未来。普段は包帯と小指の指輪でその能力を抑えている \n> [...] For the most part, she wears a bandage as well as a ring on her\n> little finger in order to keep her powers in check.\n\nThere isn't really any verbalized explanation of how the ring works in the\nshow either - the best we can do is infer its function from its depiction in\nthe show.\n\nSo, basically, it's probably just what you thought it was - a power limiter of\nsorts.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T00:20:15.633", "id": "7349", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-20T23:25:07.620", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-20T23:25:07.620", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7346", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the events in the anime, it can be inferred that the ring is in fact an\nobject to keep her powers in check. The ring was a gift from the family that\ntook her in, and she accidentally killed one of the daughters in said family.\nThe ring serves as a reminder just how dangerous her abilities can be, and the\nmistake she had made. In the anime, Mirai's blood becomes more acidic whenever\nthe ring is taken off. This can be seen when she gets into more serious\nfights. So, technically speaking, the ring helps her keep that acidity away\nfrom hurting her friends because she is reminded of what she did to the\nfamily.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-08T00:59:26.120", "id": "19895", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-08T03:31:39.280", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-08T03:31:39.280", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "13115", "parent_id": "7346", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is a late answer, but in the sequel movie \"Mirai-hen\" it was revealed\nthat Akihito's mother made the ring from Mirai's mother's body after Mirai's\nmother died. Mirai's mother said she would supress Mirai's powers and protect\neverything that she held dear.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-11-25T19:11:11.733", "id": "27589", "last_activity_date": "2015-11-25T19:11:11.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19325", "parent_id": "7346", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n_Puella Magi Oriko Magica_ is licensed in the US by Yen Press. The two volumes\nwere released on [July and October 2013](http://www.yenpress.com/puella-magi-\noriko-magica/). The continuation chapters: \"Noisy Citrine,\" \"Symmetry\nDiamond,\" and \"The Last Agate\" are collected in _Mahou Shoujo Oriko Magica:\nBetsu Hen (Another Story)_ , and the newest continuation, \"Sadness Prayer\"\nhave not yet been licensed.\n\nAdditionally, _Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Different Story_ has been\n[licensed](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-08-23/yen-press-adds-\nsword-art-online-accel-world-light-novels-more-madoka-magica-manga) by [Yen\nPress](http://www.yenpress.com/madoka-magica-different-story/). Three volumes\nare expected to be released March, June, and October 2014.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-05T22:27:35.050", "id": "7348", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-05T22:27:35.050", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7347", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLets compile what we know.\n\nEren up until now has show none of the signs of an immortal ability but only\nhigh regenerative abilities. He has been capable of replacing/regenerating\nlost limbs and recover his formal facial features. Eren hasn't been hit with\nany critical injury that would cause any normal human dead.\n\nEren is only a _die hard_ character due his regenerative abilities but it's\nsafe to assume that if his head is blown off or his heart is screwed over he\n_could_ die.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T03:09:55.737", "id": "7355", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T12:33:07.200", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-17T12:33:07.200", "last_editor_user_id": "27", "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "7352", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nIt has yet to be determined, however information for Season 2 assuming they\nfollow the manga suggest that Titan Shifters may be considerably long lived or\nage differently after reaching maturity. Eren at present has only demonstrated\nthe ability to regenerate and Annie showed some signs of fearing death, so its\nunlikely that Titan Shifters are outright Immortal. Plus the Colossal Titan\nchose to shift and escape suggesting Eren could have killed him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-02T23:42:09.277", "id": "8433", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-02T23:42:09.277", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4320", "parent_id": "7352", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**No** , Eren is not immortal and can be killed. **Eren isn't different from\nother Titan Shifter**. If anything he is actually weaker than most of the\nTitan Shifter we have seen, yet some have died. Out of the seven introduced\nTitan Shifter, two were killed so far, so it is safe to say that Eren has the\nsame weakness as they had and that he can be killed.\n\n**Eren is a Titan** and will always be a Titan. Titans can all regenerate\nquickly, but the only weaknesses known so far is **destroying their necks**\nbeyond repair. We know that not only regular Titans have this weakness, but\nTitan Shifter also have this weakness as we can see Annie protect her neck by\nall means.\n\nIf anything, I'd say **the Armored Titan might be immortal** as we haven't\nseen a way to pierce the armored skin so far. He can be killed in human form,\nbut if he can transform fast enough for it to happen, we have yet to find a\nway to stop him.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-07T08:59:08.643", "id": "19872", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-07T08:59:08.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "7352", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nEren is not immortal. In Chapter 65: Dreams and Curses, Krista Lenz's\n(Historia Reiss') father tells her\n\n> to turn into Titan and eat Eren.\n\nAnd below is the part of manga from Chapter 66: Wish:\n\n> \n\nI think this will explain that Eren is not immortal and can be killed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-07T16:22:18.050", "id": "19876", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-11T11:06:44.387", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-11T11:06:44.387", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "7352", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, he is not.\n\n> Because he will die if his spinal cord is badly damaged. He could also die\n> if he was eaten by another titan. And also a titan shifter could only live\n> 13 years after becoming a shifter. This is called The Curse of Ymir.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-10T05:14:39.737", "id": "42253", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-10T05:14:39.737", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "35539", "parent_id": "7352", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think yes, just think about it,when Naruto fought Yahiko(Pain),just look at\nthe magnitude of that fight...the Nine-tails fought him almost! at full\npower,yet he resisted...Pain was totally crushed with a high power,yet he\nwithstood, and after he was slammed with that gigantic rock,and he questioned\nNaruto whether **he felt the pain now**.\n\n\n\nSo I think,because Nagato loved Yahiko so much,for which he made him **more\nstronger,faster and resistant to damage** [by sending him more chakra]...\n\nAnd as second thought, he might had more chakra rods than the others, so his\nbody can deal with high level of damage, making Nagato's work easier.In that\nway he controlled Yahiko with less problems,and making him stronger at the\nsame time\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T10:07:04.627", "id": "7367", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-06T10:42:59.267", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-06T10:42:59.267", "last_editor_user_id": "3081", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "7366", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nTo be honest, I felt that the way a ninja uses and handles his/her power makes\nthem stronger. I really can't comment whether there were any difference of\npower among the six Rinnegan users.\n\nWhy do I say this?\n\nRecall the incident between Sasuke and Itachi's fight. Sasuke used his\nSharingan very efficiently when he fought against Itachi.\n\nSo bottom line: **it totally depends on how a wielder wields the weapon.**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T10:19:20.167", "id": "7369", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T11:55:55.893", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T11:55:55.893", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7366", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nOn contrary to @Rinneg4n's answer, I think there are no difference between\nthem. The six paths of pain are created by rinnegan user. Nagato simply used\ndifferent bodies to cast different jutsus. And Tendo being yahiko's body,\nnagato gave more chakra to it than other bodies. Later we see that Edo-Nagato\ncould use all the six paths's power from his own body. There might be\ndifference in the physical prowess of each body as each type took different\nkind of damage from similar attacks. But seeing as Nagato could easily replace\nbodies in his six paths, physical constraints don't matter much.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T10:23:09.147", "id": "7370", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-06T10:23:09.147", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7366", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nRemember, each one of the \"Pains\" as said, were at one time individual ninja\nthat learned from Jiraiya just like Nagato who at that point was using chakara\nrods along with that jitsu to control the remaining chakara left within the\nindividual ninja's body. So to simply answer your question, absolutely their\nabilities were different as well as the chakara level of each individual\nninja. Of course, how it is used with make a huge difference.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-03T05:57:58.423", "id": "26361", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-03T05:57:58.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18259", "parent_id": "7366", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, not every summoned animal can speak.\n\nFor example when Naruto learned summoning the toads, he first summoned a\ntadpole, which was not able to talk. Now you could say it was just too young\nto speak, but it didn't make any vocal sound at all, like crying etc.\n\nAs far as I know none of the Inazuka's clan's dogs are able to talk either,\nnor do I think that Itachi's crows were able to speak.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T10:50:22.577", "id": "7373", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-06T11:18:46.867", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-06T11:18:46.867", "last_editor_user_id": "3472", "owner_user_id": "3472", "parent_id": "7372", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAlthough they didn't explicitly show whether they can talk or not, but one\nthing is for sure: that Pakkun can talk.\n\nKiba's Akamaru can't talk, so we can assume that other dogs of Kakashi also\ncan't talk (since there is no evidence in the manga or anime).\n\nSo in order to answer your question: **\"Is there a rule that every animal can\ntalk, or something like this?\"** I would say **\"No, it is not mandatory for\nanimals to talk.\"**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T10:52:38.150", "id": "7374", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T12:03:17.837", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T12:03:17.837", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7372", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Naruto Wikia [article on Obito\nUchiha](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Obito_Uchiha) states:\n\n> Obito grew up not knowing who his parents were, leaving him alone and forced\n> to fend for himself. This sad upbringing led Obito to dream of one day\n> becoming the Hokage so that the people of the village would acknowledge his\n> existence.\n\nSo I think no, he didn't have any parents, siblings or friends, until he met\nRin and Kakashi. That is why he was obsessed with the Eye of the Moon plan. On\nsecond thought, I think Obito was rejected even by the other Uchiha, so he was\ntotally alone.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T10:57:19.710", "id": "7376", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-07T06:56:51.700", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-07T06:56:51.700", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "7375", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nExpanding on Rinneg4n's answer. There was a picture of Obito's parents. The\nphoto is aged and has tears, while also being fastened to the wall, instead of\ntacked. It's probably leading to the assumption that it is very old, and that\nhis parents had died when he was a young age, perhaps during the Second or\nThird Great Shinobi Wars. Uchiha are a clan built on feelings, and Obito's\nfeeling of loneliness are what fueled his goals with his teammates and his\nhope of being Hokage.\n\nOf course this by theory, and other people have made assumptions such as them\nbeing Rin's parents, alluding to Obito being a stalker, or that Kagami Uchiha\n(Shisui's dad) is really Obito's dad, since the age difference is not all too\nimpossible, considering Hiruzen had Asuma, and Asuma was Obito's classmate,\nwhile Hiruzen was in the same class as Kagami. This leads to fan-theories of\nObito being Shisui's brother. Of course nothing is set in fact, as Kishi\nhasn't released any further information pertaining to Obito's parents.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T23:33:32.563", "id": "7404", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-07T23:33:32.563", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3590", "parent_id": "7375", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [BakaUpdates](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=27467):\n\n> Anime Start/End Chapter \n> Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 \n> Ends at Vol 19, Chap 189\n\nSo you should read from chapter 189 onward if you don't want to read what has\nalso been aired. \nThough personally I always advice to read the full manga too, so that you\ndon't miss out on interactions that did not appear in the Anime etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T12:26:48.843", "id": "7378", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-06T12:26:48.843", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3472", "parent_id": "7377", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe identity of the director is revealed within the first season, so if you\nhaven't finished it, just keep watching. However, given your comment, it seems\nyou have finished it so the explanation is below.\n\nThe \"director\" is one of the ways the children in the show refer to the head\nof the medical clinic, Irie Kyōsuke. Since he is the coach of the baseball\nteam, he is often referred to as \"Kantoku\" which translates to \"manager,\"\n\"director,\" \"coach,\" etc.\n\nI've watched the show with several different sets of subtitles, and I've seen\nall of those translations at least once.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-06T21:51:21.803", "id": "7382", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-06T21:51:21.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3636", "parent_id": "7379", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is all we know about him being a human :-\n\n> Moriah is a gargantuan person with very distinct devil-like features.\n> Standing at 22' 7'' in height, he is the tallest among the Shichibukai. His\n> animal theme is that of a gecko based off his name, general appearance and\n> the collar of his shirt bearing a resemblance to a lizard's frilled neck.\n> His overall design resembles a giant leek\n\nWiki [Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gekko_Moriah)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T17:21:46.823", "id": "7395", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-07T17:21:46.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2416", "parent_id": "7381", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI've yet to see an interview or article from Oda's words about Gekko Moriah\nconcerning his race unless it was noted by Oda somewhere on the Japanese side\nof the fandom and it was overlooked and never translated...\n\nHowever, the manga's latest arc is going to be dealing with Kaido, Moriah's\ngreatest enemy, and I expect him to pop up soon. Hopefully, Oda will give us\nmore detail on Moriah's background and make a side story explaining how\nexactly did his old crew get massacred (which I hope for cause I really wanna\nsee Moriah back when he was young and badass.)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-07T17:41:41.943", "id": "9563", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-07T17:41:41.943", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4800", "parent_id": "7381", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt seems some of their names have parts which relate to their nature:\n\n * **Weisslogia** : Weiss or Weiß is German for \"white\". Sting performs White Dragon Slayer to produce beams of sacred light, so we can see how White factors into Weisslogia's name.\n\n * **Metalicana** : Obviously, the use of Metal in its name reflects the Iron Dragon Slayer Magic Gajeel uses\n\n * **Skiadrum** : Skia or \"σκιά\" is Greek for shadow, and Skiadrum is the Shadow Dragon.\n\n * **Atlas Flame** : Atlas is the name of a Greek god, but I do not know how it would relate to the character. Images I have seen of this dragon show that it's totally wrapped in flames, and its title is also the Flame Dragon\n\n * **Motherglare** : This may be related to its [Egg Magic](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Egg_Magic). In most cases, mothers use a form of egg to give birth to children. In a lot of fictional works, Dragons lay eggs to give birth.\n\n * **Scissor Runner** : May be a reference to the two huge spines coming out of the top of its head and its chin\n\n * **Rock/Dark Dragons** : Obviously for their appearance. However, those aren't their names, but how they are referred to due to their appearance.\n\n * ( **Revire** has a somewhat aquatic appearance, and its name is pronounced as \"Rivaia\", which kinda sounds like river. However, that is a long shot.)\n\n * **Igneel** In Latin the word Igne means fire which reflects the fact that he is the fire dragon king.\n\n * **Acnologia** : \"Acno\" is a Greek word used to reference aging. The word \"Logia\" is a Greek word that translates roughly as \"sayings, utterances, oracles\". Thus you could interpret his name as the Ender of Eras or The Prophet of the End.\n\n**Grandeeney** In Japanese Grandeeney’s name is Grandine, which is a Italian\nword that means \"hail.\"\n\nI should point out that I have not read the manga nor watched enough of the\nanime (I have seen like 50 episodes), and I found out all of these by google\nsearching for images, picking apart their names and looking up Wikipedia\narticles. Someone else may have a more accurate answer. These are just my\nobservations and may help others fill in holes in their own research.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T00:38:49.303", "id": "7384", "last_activity_date": "2023-09-28T12:09:13.373", "last_edit_date": "2023-09-28T12:09:13.373", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7383", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe **Igneel** comes from [igneous\nrock](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igneous_rock), which refers to rocks formed\nthrough the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.\n\nThe other two kinds of rocks are sedimentary and metamorphic. Sedimentary\nrocks form from once-living things (examples are fossils and coal).\nMetamorphic rocks are igneous rocks that were reheated after they were formed.\n\nTherefore, seeing as igneous rocks are the only ones formed by magma/lava,\nthat's where I figured it came from.\n\nThe name probably also comes from \"ignite\", but I might be overthinking about\nit.\n\nSource(s): Science teacher\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-16T22:22:56.200", "id": "20889", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T10:10:38.407", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-18T10:10:38.407", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13952", "parent_id": "7383", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nTo add to the list,\n\n**Igneel** : most likely derived from Ignis, which means fire.\n\n**Grandeeney** : She's the skydragon, named Grandine in Japanese. This\ntranslates to _hail_ from Italian, which might explain the relationship\n\n**Acnologia** : \"Acno\" is a Greek word used to reference aging. The word\n\"Logia\" is a Greek word from New Testament scholarship that translates roughly\nas \"sayings, utterances, oracles\". His name could thus be translated as \"The\nProphet of The End,\" as well as \"Ender of Eras\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-20T10:28:35.670", "id": "20972", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-20T11:38:02.233", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-20T11:38:02.233", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "13835", "parent_id": "7383", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think you should see chakra similar to heat. If it is 20 degrees celsius you\ndont see heat. Now if its 40 degrees celsius you can see the air\nvibrating/moving.\n\nFirst of, people with visual prowesses can see chakra.\n\n> Although chakra is usually invisible, those with certain dōjutsu, like the\n> Sharingan, Rinnegan or Byakugan, can see the colour of someone's chakra.\n> Each person's chakra apparently has a different colour.\n\nThe second point comes closer to my heat theory\n\n> It is also interesting to note the fact that sufficiently immense amounts of\n> chakra are visible to the naked eye.\n\nHere comes the intersting part \" When does chakra count as immense ?\"\n\nWe know that in naruto there is a system simalar to our blood veins, [the\nchakra pathway system](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Chakra_Pathway_System).\nAllong these paths there are special points called\n[Tenketsu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tenketsu).\n\n> Though ninja use chakra regularly, very few ninja possess any great control\n> over their tenketsu. Even of jōnin, the vast majority are only capable of\n> releasing a small amount of chakra through their hands or feet to increase\n> the power of punches, jumps, or kicks\n\nThe Hyuga clan's main attack focus on closing those Tenketsu. The The Eight\nTrigrams Sixty-Four Palms closes sixty-four tenketsu.\n\n> Though not explicitly stated, it is logical to say that the Hyūga clan (and\n> Neji independently) calculated the exact tenketsu that would be required to\n> shut down an opponent's combat ability.\n\nWith this information we can conclude that people whom can still function with\n64 tenketsu shut are considerd above normal.\n\n> Neji Hyūga was shocked that Naruto Uzumaki was still able to stand after\n> being hit with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms as his body should have been\n> in a virtually quadriplegic state.\n\nWe can also assume that the chakra a bijuu transmits to the user surpases the\n64 tenketsu limiter, also the chakra from a bijuu is considerd more\npure/powerfull then a normal chakra user\n\n> The tailed beasts (尾獣, bijū) are the nine titanic behemoths within the\n> Naruto series. They are living forms of chakra, sometimes referred to as\n> \"Chakra Monsters\" giving them immense reserves of especially strong chakra\n> that far outmatches most shinobi. The tailed beasts' chakra is coloured red\n\nThere are still some mystery's regarding chakra. But as we slowly find out\nmore in the manga/anime a beter answer might pop up.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T03:44:29.420", "id": "7386", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-07T03:44:29.420", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7385", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHigurashi and Umineko take place in the same story universe as far as I'm\naware, but there is no character overlap. As for Umineko, there is an entirely\nnew cast of characters. That said, events in Umineko may shed some light on\nthe workings of the Higurashi / Umineko universe, and it references Higurashi\nquite a bit.\n\nWhile it is not strictly necessary, I think you would get more out of Umineko\nif you watched Higurashi first, even though the cast and story are entirely\ndifferent. Also, if you can manage, I'd recommend reading the Visual Novels\nfor Umineko instead of watching the anime. The anime is poorly done and ends\nprematurely, leaving you with far too many questions unanswered and no real\nresolution.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T21:31:36.057", "id": "7402", "last_activity_date": "2020-10-27T06:03:35.247", "last_edit_date": "2020-10-27T06:03:35.247", "last_editor_user_id": "55782", "owner_user_id": "3636", "parent_id": "7387", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think Umineko takes place in the same universe. Higurashi is\nreferenced as a novel during the first arc.\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-11-04T11:15:06.003", "id": "60976", "last_activity_date": "2020-11-04T11:15:06.003", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56993", "parent_id": "7387", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWith the new Higurashi series arcs (Gou and Sotsu) there appear to be more\nconnections between the two- without too many spoilers, some of the witches in\nUmineko may be versions of Higurashi characters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-01-31T07:21:01.917", "id": "66292", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-31T07:21:01.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "65270", "parent_id": "7387", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is indeed a common trope, and not even a Manga specific one, generally\nreferred to as [Breaking the Fourth\nWall](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakingTheFourthWall).\n\nFor example the Marvel character Deadpool is a well-known for doing this in an\neven more extreme fashion. You can find a lot of Manga/Anime examples\n[here](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BreakingTheFourthWall/AnimeAndManga).\n\nTo learn more about the different versions of Fourth Wall Breakage visit this\narticle on the [Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall\nHardness](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness).\n\nTo my knowledge, in this case it would count as [Fourth Wall\nObserver](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourthWallObserver).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T08:41:01.487", "id": "7392", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-07T08:49:21.287", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-07T08:49:21.287", "last_editor_user_id": "3472", "owner_user_id": "3472", "parent_id": "7390", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFor the most part, yes, but there are some exceptions. I assume you haven't\nread the Fate/stay night visual novel, which answers your question. As such,\nspoilers for that below.\n\n> Some of the heroes are basically just reinterpretations of people known to\n> have actually existed in the historical record. These are F/z's Rider\n> (Alexander the Great), Caster (Gilles de Rais), Archer (Gilgamesh), Assassin\n> (Hassan-i Sabbah); and F/sn's Assassin (Sasaki Kojirou; or at least, I think\n> the consensus is that he was real) and True Assassin (Hassan-i Sabbah). \n> \n> Other heroes are reinterpretations of fictional heroes, or of people of\n> dubious historicity. In the world of Fate, these people are treated as\n> having been actual historical figures who just happen to be known in the\n> modern day through fictional writings. These include F/z's Saber (King\n> Arthur), Lancer (Diarmuid Ua Duibhne), Berserker (Lancelot); and F/sn's\n> Rider (Medusa), Saber (King Arthur again), Lancer (Cú Chulainn), Caster\n> (Medea), and Berserker (Heracles) \n> \n> And then you have the one huge exception, which is F/sn's Archer (that is,\n> Rin's servant, not Gilgamesh). F/sn's Archer is actually Emiya Shirou, who\n> is fictional. \n> \n> There's also a delicate issue surrounding the various Hassans who are\n> summoned as Assassins - the idea there is that all ordinary Assassins (not\n> including weird exceptions like Sasaki Kojirou) correspond to a leader of\n> the historical Assassin cult. The issue there is that there are basically no\n> records (in the real world) of what the leaders of the cult were like, so\n> their personalities and abilities in the world of Fate are entirely an\n> invention of the authors (Urobuchi Gen and Nasu Kinoko for F/z and F/sn\n> respectively).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T09:19:42.447", "id": "7393", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-11T18:05:54.333", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-11T18:05:54.333", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7391", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Tohsaka Family in the beginning provided the necessary land and called\nforth the Servants. The original design was to summon only heroes from history\nand legend. In the Nasuverse, there are a lot of our legends of heroes such as\nHercules, King Arthur and Siegfried which actually did happen. However, their\nlegends are changed in parts, such as King Arthur having actually been a woman\nwho was made into a pseudo-male by Merlin (considering that Guinevere knew\nArturia was a woman, Merlin's actions may have been on his own whims as a\nprankster).\n\nReal life \"heroes\" such as Alexander the Great, Jeanne d'Arc and Gilles de\nRais have their histories change to suit the fact that magic exists. Their\nNobel Phantasms, the symbols of their heroic deeds, are also more magically\nbased.\n\nServants such as Medea and Medusa should not have been able to be summoned as\nthey aren't heroes. However, during the 3rd Holy Grail War, the Einzbern,\nhaving lost the first 2 wanted to win at all costs and created a new Servant\nAvenger who was [Angra Mainyu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angra_Mainyu).\nHowever, this Avenger class was very weak and was killed early in the war.\nHowever, Avenger was accepted into the grail and corrupted it. This allowed\nalmost anything to be summoned, as the original rules of the Holy Grail had\nbecome distorted by Angra Mainyu's corruption. This may have happened before\nSaber was summoned during the third war as the Edelfelt sister's sorcery trait\nallowed 2 Sabers to be summoned, one aligned to good and one aligned to evil\nas in the fake Holy Grail War in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. Arturia summoned with\nher Alter from as a second personality to duplicate the Edelfelt sister's\nSaber (the fake 5th war was based off of the 3rd war).\n\nOriginally, the Holy Grail required that those summoned under the Assassin\nclass had to be one of the nineteen individuals known as Hassan-i Sabbah, the\npseudonym for the leaders of a medial Islamic sect called Hashshashin.\nHashshashin is the etymological root of the word \"assassin\". However, due to\nthe corruption of the grail, Sasaki Kojirou could be summoned. Sasaki Kojirou\ndoes not actually exists in the Nasuverse at all. He was a nameless martial\nartist with some relation to the Ryuudouji Temple, and Medea used the temple\ngrounds itself as catalyst to summon him. Of course, when Zouken got involved\nhe was able to turn Sasaki into one of the Hassan-i Sabbah.\n\nWith King Arthur, King Arthur is a real hero. However, the commonly known\nArthurian legend is mainly fiction based on Arthur's legend. However, in the\nNasuverse, they did actually happen, i.e. Merlin, Morgan Le Fay, Arthur's\nFate.\n\nNow that's just the Fuyuki Holy Grail War. There are other Holy Grail Wars\nthat occur outside Fuyuki and have different rules, like the case with the\nMoon Cell Holy Grail War. Because the Moon Cell have observed all of human\nhistory, any hero is summoned as their true self and not affected by how their\nlegends/history has been perceived over time. This is why Nero Claudius Caesar\nAugustus Germanicus is summoned as a woman and looking a lot like Arturia\nbecause King Arthur was said to be a fusion between two individuals, one of\nwhom was a Roman general. Vlad III is different from his Great Holy Grail War\ncounterpart. The one summoned in the Moon Cell is more blood thirsty and mad\nin relation to who he was (in the Nasuverse), while the Great Holy Grail War\nversion of him gives off a more of a vampire feel as due to how Dracula's\nlegend was born from Vlad's actions.\n\nThe Great Holy Grail War occurs after the Greater Grail had been stolen after\nthe 3rd Holy Grail War. It's not known if the 3rd war is the same as the one\nAvenger was summoned in or a different one in a parallel universe where he is\nnot summoned. However, much like the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars, the Great Holy\nGrail War summons heroes from both real history and from legends that occur in\nthe Nasuverse such as Siegfried and Mordred. However, other Servants who\nwouldn't normally be classified as heroes are summoned such as Frankenstein's\nmonster, Shakespeare and Jack the Ripper. Also, it seems Assassin doesn't have\nto be Hassan-i Sabbah.\n\nOn the [this Type-Moon Wikia\npage](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Known_Servants), you can see a\nlist of every known servant summoned in all the different wars, their know\nheroes and links to Wikipedia articles for most. Links in the Servant column\ngo to that Servant's profile within the Nasuverse while the Identity Column\nnormally goes to the Wikipedia articles if they have a known history/legend\n(one exception is of course EMYIA).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-09T22:28:03.840", "id": "7433", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-11T21:03:30.950", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-11T21:03:30.950", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7391", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are abridged versions available online though I can't guarantee you\ntheir ingenuity. I'd suggest reading the manga and from personal experience I\ncan tell you that I finish at least about 7 chapters (that's like about 10\nepisodes on an average considering fillers) in the time it takes me to watch\none episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-25T17:05:23.450", "id": "13050", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-25T17:05:23.450", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7728", "parent_id": "7394", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe seven-volume Dragon Half manga was never licensed or officially localized\nin English. The OVA only consisted of two episodes (previously by [ADV\nFilms](http://www.mania.com/dragon-half_article_74723.html), now currently by\n[DiscoTek Media](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-11-10/discotek-\nadds-dna2-1st-lupin-iii-tv-special-dragon-half-ova-fatal-fury-specials)).\nThose two episodes persist as the only animated versions of the series.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T18:06:42.640", "id": "7397", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-07T18:06:42.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7396", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt depends. Based on Krazer's answer, the series has never been officially\ntranslated, but unofficially it has been scanslated online and can be read at\nmany manga reading sites. So, yes and no, it has been and has not been\ntranslated. A group of volunteers, who earn no profit, did work on it, but\nprofessional manga producers did not work on it for distribution.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T23:47:17.877", "id": "7405", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-07T23:47:17.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3590", "parent_id": "7396", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe manga had not previously been licensed for English release, but it was\nfully translated by fans years ago. Now, in 2017, Seven Seas Entertainment has\nlicensed the manga and will release all 7 volumes in a 3-volume omnibus\nedition, with the first one coming out this December.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-30T23:08:21.673", "id": "40598", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-30T23:08:21.673", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32837", "parent_id": "7396", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# Although this is never confirmed it does fit the plot in a way\n\nLucy's name closely resembles Lucifer considering that Lucy is the evil alter-\nego it would be one of the most fitting.\n\nAnother possibility would be that the name is related to St. Lucy/Lucia, but\nthis is a pretty far fetched theory.\n\n> They threatened to drag her off to a brothel if she did not renounce her\n> Christian beliefs, but were unable to move her, even with a thousand men and\n> fifty oxen pulling. So they stacked materials for a fire around her instead\n> and set light to it, but she would not stop speaking, insisting that her\n> death would lessen the fear of it for other Christians and bring grief to\n> non-believers. One of the soldiers stuck a spear through her throat to stop\n> these denouncements, but to no effect. Soon afterwards, the Roman consulate\n> in charge was hauled off to Rome on charges of theft from the state and\n> beheaded. Saint Lucy was able to die only when she was given the Christian\n> sacrament [source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day)\n\n**Edit** Re-reading the related question [What's the significance of the 'w'\nfinger position in Elfen\nLied?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/5472/whats-the-significance-\nof-the-w-finger-position-in-elfen-lied?rq=1) I think the st Lucy/Lucia theory\nis less far fetched then I thought myself. Elfen Lied seems to be pretty\nChristian influenced.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T19:37:19.683", "id": "7399", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-07T20:00:45.663", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7398", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nOne other interpretation is that Lucy is a reference to [the\nhominid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%28Australopithecus%29), as\nmentioned by [ninjalj](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/3652/ninjalj).\nThis would seem to make sense given the role of Lucy within the plot as a\nmitochondrial Eve for the researchers. However, the manga itself doesn't seem\nto explicitly explain why Kaede is designated as Lucy by the researchers, and\nso it isn't clear what the \"correct\" interpretation of Lucy's name (if there\nis even any) is.\n\nThe same appears to go for many of the other characters, beyond very obvious\ncases such as Nana.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T22:17:22.303", "id": "7902", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-07T22:17:22.303", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "7398", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's most likely a sign of her clan. Kiba has the red stripes, as does the\nrest of his family to symbolize clan members. But, it could be just a symbol\nof her personality or being, as many characters, such as Chouji, Chouza,\nHiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Itachi Uchiha, Kankurou, Gaara, etc.\nhave their own, which are shown not to be associated with any of the other\nmembers of their clan. So take it two ways, it's either a clan symbol, or just\na way of having their own style or their beliefs.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-07T23:06:24.873", "id": "7403", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-07T23:06:24.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3590", "parent_id": "7400", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nUsually, it is a tradition passed down from clan members or affiliations. For\nexample, Jiraya has red markings because of his toad affiliation. Kiba and\nother Inuzuka clan members before him had markings, resembling/identifying\ntheir dog user capabilities.\n\nRin has them probably because the Nohara clan puts on the purple striped, or\nit is either because of her use of medical ninjutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-25T02:08:44.237", "id": "40035", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-25T02:08:44.237", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31773", "parent_id": "7400", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBesides the fact that one can trade half his lifespan for improved usage of\nthe Death Note,\n\n> The human who becomes the owner of the Death Note can, in exchange of half\n> his/her remaining life, get the eyeballs of the god of death which will\n> enable him/her to see a human’s name and remaining life span when looking\n> through them.\n\nA user also can write down their own name in the Death Note. This will cause\nthe user to die early due to their own described causes. Of course the rules\nof the book still apply, meaning that the user's death as written in the note\nwont take effect if this occurs after his already stated point of death.\nTherefore, one can shorten his life using the note.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-08T13:55:36.360", "id": "7413", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-16T18:09:29.310", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-16T18:09:29.310", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7412", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere's the so called WebToon, which is most likely the one you refer to (and\nyou are reading). Frankly speaking, printed color pages are not cheap. They\ncost a lot more than B&W page and are difficult to print correctly. With\nwebtoons there's no such thing as \"printing\", everything is done digitally.\n\nManwha that is done in B&W completely due its distribution method (printed)\nwhich you will not see color pages (like Chevalier of the Absis, or ID which\nhas some color pages as bonus), there's also webtoons that could be printed\nlater on (like The Breaker/NW) and there are those that are not printed\n(almost all webtoons).\n\nIs difficult to see a Manwha (or any printed media) in full color. The only\ncase I know of is To Love る which is released later on after the black and\nwhite pages are released.\n\nIs a matter of cost of distribution of the media, which is cheap for webtoons\nso artist can offer color pages.\n\n* * *\n\nIn the example you gave, \"Magician\" by Kim Sarae, this is an original webtoon\nthat is published using\n[Naver](http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=24965).\n\n * [A list of manwha that are in full color (MU)](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?perpage=50&category=Full%2bColor&type=manhwa&orderby=rating): ~250 titles\n * [All kind of manwha (full color and B&W) (MU)](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?page=5&orderby=rating&perpage=50&type=manhwa): ~1500 titles\n\nThere are lots of black and white Manwha, just that are more difficult to find\nsince they are distributed physically.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-08T15:29:41.873", "id": "7417", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-08T15:29:41.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "7414", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nLong time ago before when there was no internet yet in this world, I always\nfound Chinese comics (maybe weekly comics because they were thin) in full\ncolour. I don't know why, but probably it's because of tradition.\n\nIn contrast, manga have no colours probably because of the Japanese mentality\n- they don't like to waste money etc. I'm saying this because, in national\nuniversities, even the copy paper there uses recycle papers. Not to mention\nthe shounen magazines etc, that one's quality of paper is terrible, that's why\nthey can sell a thick shounen magazines considerably cheap.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-15T12:35:47.767", "id": "26627", "last_activity_date": "2015-10-15T12:35:47.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "18529", "parent_id": "7414", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, most manhwa aren't colored either. Along with some webtoons, only a\nfew manhwa are colored.\n\n* * *\n\nThe reason they aren't colored is because it takes a long time to create manga\nand manhwa, and it's a lot more expensive if each page is colored. Most of the\ncreators start working alone without any financial support, thus making\ncolored pages very difficult. Western comics are mostly made by large\ncompanies like DC or Marvel, and these companies have enough resources to make\ncolored comics quickly.\n\n**Additional Resources:** \nIf you'd like to confirm that manhwa is usually black and white,\n[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/topmanga.php?type=manhwa.) has a list of\nmanhwas for reference.\n\n[MyOtakuWay](http://www.myotakuway.com/t208-diferenca-entre-manhwa-mangas-e-\nmanhua.) explains the difference between manga and manwa.\n\nSearching for manga on [MyAnimeList.net](http://myanimelist.net/manga.php)\nwill let you see that most have just one author, not a campany or a staff.\n\nFinally, [ComicList](http://www.comiclist.com/index.php) is a list of comics\nwhere you can see that they are made by a company.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-01T16:42:09.180", "id": "29448", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-09T19:17:55.037", "last_edit_date": "2016-03-09T19:17:55.037", "last_editor_user_id": "17758", "owner_user_id": "20471", "parent_id": "7414", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe rules aren't contradicting. Both say that you cannot use the death note to\nkill other people whose names aren't written in it. For example, you can't\nwrite\n\n> John Doe went to the mall, took out a rifle, shot everyone in the moll dead,\n> then had an heart attack\n\nBecause that would mean other people would die.\n\nAs for your specific examples, you cannot write passenger plane crash as the\ncause of death for a pilot, because that would kill other passengers too. If\nyou wanted, you could write \"The pilot disabled the auto-pilot, then had an\nheart attack\". That way, the plane crash has nothing to do with his death, and\nthe plane would still (probably) crash.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-08T15:04:56.340", "id": "7416", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-08T15:04:56.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7415", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\n_People who name is not written in the note shall not die due someone else\nthat will die due his name being in the Death Note_ , both rules can be boiled\ndown to that. That is what the _If the death leads to the death of more than\nthe intended_ means. As long as the death of the person leads to someone else\ndead, or the conditions prior death can cause death to others, they will die\nof a heart attack.\n\nThere's no contradiction, both rules says the same just in different ways.\n\nIn the example you made: both will die in such way that nobody else dies. The\nsurgeon will step back of the table and die, the pilot will die when he's not\npiloting. Of course, this is mere supposition and details could escape.\n\nLight made some experiments trying to kill in such impossible ways (like a\nJapanese prisoner died in front of Eiffel Tower), those died on hearts\nattacks.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-08T15:37:35.493", "id": "7418", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-08T15:48:55.580", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-08T15:48:55.580", "last_editor_user_id": "2159", "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "7415", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nGoing by the letter of the law,\n\n> If the death leads to the death of more than the intended, the person will\n> simply die of a heart attack.”\n\nlogically implies that the surgeon and pilot will die of heart attacks.\n\nThis probably makes the most sense. Were it otherwise, people who know the\nrules could make themselves (nearly) invincible to the Death Note by having a\nsystem by which, if they die, someone else is killed (or kills themself). I\nsay “nearly” because the cause of death could be made to say “die at midnight”\nfor both people, and that might kill them. Obviously, the Death Note user\nwould have to know both people involved, which could be made near-impossible\nquite easily[1].\n\nThough, there is the further question of whether “die at midnight” would work.\nOne person's name has to be written first, and at the time at which it is\nwritten, it is not allowed. However, writing the other person's name after\nthen makes it allowed again. When are the rules evaluated, and by what means?\nDeath Note has the power to predict the future of its victims, but can it\npredict the future of its own use? This is into the realm of time paradoxes!\n\nOr, you could just say that they die of a heart attack. ;-)\n\n_Edit:_ [1]For example, if L wanted to make himself invincible to the Death\nNote, he could have some system by which someone from Wammy's House is killed\nif he dies. Then, to kill L, a Death Note user needs both L's name and the\nname and face of that person who gets killed. Even for someone with shinigami\neyes, that's virtually impossible to work out.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-08T21:28:21.380", "id": "7422", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-27T14:20:40.457", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-27T14:20:40.457", "last_editor_user_id": "3655", "owner_user_id": "3655", "parent_id": "7415", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is likely to be a Sakazuki, which are small to medium-sized ceremonial\ncups during a celebration, most commonly used at weddings and other special\noccasions such as tea ceremonies. The Yakuza are know for their particular\ninitiation ceremony where the initiate exchanges Sakazuki with the Oyabun\n(Boss) as a vow of loyalty.\n\n\n\nAs for the underage drinking, the legal drinking and smoking age is 20 in\nJapan. Typically it's socially acceptable to drink a little for celebrations.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-09T01:04:37.863", "id": "7426", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-09T01:04:37.863", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7424", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nI heard that was water. I thought that was sake, too.\n\nThat is called Mizu-Sakazuki (Hai). It means final water in life. Breaking cup\nmeans that, too.\n\nBefore battle against strong enemy (Kiryuin's mother), they did that.\n\nThe scene was talked about in Japan, too.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-13T03:31:12.147", "id": "8015", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-07T12:54:20.113", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-07T12:54:20.113", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "4093", "parent_id": "7424", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI doubt the \"Death Eraser\" exist (I actually haven't found references in any\nplot of the official manga/anime), since the Shikigami, who are the original\nowners of the notes, gets the remaining human life span and adds it to\nthemself. Something that could revive humans would alter fundamentally the\npropose of the Death Note, and such thing was not devisable by the mangaka.\n\nI remember you that wikia is a fan-made site and references and claims are not\nofficial nor accurate.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-09T05:20:49.520", "id": "7428", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-09T05:20:49.520", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "7425", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nFirst of all, [The Death Eraser](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Eraser)\nis a plot device exclusive to [the manga\npilot.](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Note_Manga_Pilot)\n\n> Death Note includes a rule stating that if the owner of the notebook uses\n> the Death Eraser to erase names in the Death Note, the victims come back to\n> life if they have not been cremated.\n\nWith this said we know atleast a body is needed for this\n\n> Taro Kagami is offered the Death Eraser by Ryuk, and is told that he can\n> erase the names in the Death Note and the victims will miraculously come\n> back to life\n\nUsing the description Miraculously make's it quiet easy for them to get away\nwith just about anything. They are miraculously healed, or the miraculously\nlive on as just a severed head.\n\nSimply said, It all comes down to the fact its a miracle.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-09T18:42:36.733", "id": "7430", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-09T18:42:36.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7425", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThe \"death eraser\" only made it as far as the pilot manga. This is\nunderstandable considering that if it would have made it into the actual\nseries it would have caused major contradictions. The fact that the death note\never exists would contradict the existence of the \"death eraser\" If the death\nnote was made to add life to a Shinigami than would the death eraser take away\nfrom the Shinigami's lifespan? That's probably the reason that the \"death\neraser\" never made it to the official series: it would cause too many problems\nthat would have to be worked out and explained. By the time that everything\nwas explained we would already be about 2 episodes in. Nobody would want to\nwatch that content. So in the long run, taking the \"death eraser\" out of the\nseries completely would be the best solution.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-11-12T18:56:40.377", "id": "55849", "last_activity_date": "2019-11-12T18:56:40.377", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50738", "parent_id": "7425", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAren't you overestimating the God Cards at this point? The Egyptian Gods were\ncreated before concepts of Synchro, Contact Fusion, or XYZ were even thought\nof. There's a Number card that can declare that you win the duel after three\nturns. <http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Number_88:_Gimmick_Puppet_of_Leo> I mean\ndoesn't the Seal of Orichalcos basically make the gods pointless? I don't know\nmuch about Zexal, but I do know that if you know they're going to be trying\nfor the summoning of an Eygptian god, you should make all efforts to destroy\ntheir field and block their monster zones, so they cannot tribute. Dark hole,\ncard destruction, an Ojama deck can work nicely.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-10T12:13:22.893", "id": "7440", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-10T12:13:22.893", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3590", "parent_id": "7435", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThis question is just silly like the previous person there is no comparison\nbetween the God Cards being stronger than the other types of cards that came\nout later on, each card has it's strengths and weaknesses...\n\nIn fact there is a God card that is like Exodia as well...\n\n<http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/The_Creator_God_of_Light,_Horakhty>\n\nThis card states\n\n> Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by\n> Tributing 3 monsters whose original names are \"Slifer the Sky Dragon\",\n> \"Obelisk the Tormentor\", and \"The Winged Dragon of Ra\", and cannot be\n> Special Summoned by other ways. This card's Special Summon cannot be\n> negated. The player that Special Summons this card wins the Duel.\n\nAs far as being stronger / less powerful than XYZ / Synchro....\n\nYes and No.\n\nOf course they are more powerful than the weaker cards in those types, but the\npower of the god cards / abilities are usually actually not that good.\n\nIn current Meta nobody even uses the God Cards.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-10T19:16:21.167", "id": "7446", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-10T19:16:21.167", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3317", "parent_id": "7435", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn terms of the anime, the God Cards have been made weaker due to new\nmechanics added to the game. At the end of the original series, Yugi was able\nto defeat all 3 at once. I should also point out that Exodia under the rules\nof the anime, if assembled will win even if the opponent has 2 of Obelisk and\nSlifer, one of Ra and has infinite hand in play. Also, Exodia Necross is about\nas strong as a god card as well.\n\nAlso in the anime, at the times where a good guy had the God Cards and could\nuse them to defeat an arch enemy, the God Cards had always been stolen. In the\nOrichalcos Arc, they were stolen and only come back at the very end while Yami\nBakura's \"Shadow Game\" was not what we was expecting as the final fight\nbetween him and Atem\n\nHowever, in terms of the real life game, the first versions of the cards are\nillegal and can not be played. Legal versions have been released however are\nstill banned from all sanctioned tournaments. One can duel with the legal god\ncards, however, most players will have strict conditions and I very much doubt\nthat even if a player allowed to have all 3, they won't be allowed Horakhty.\n\nThat being said they can be stopped, none of them can be special summoned so\nyou can aim to stop the tributes.\n\n * Slither's attack depends on the number of cards in a users hand, which means it can be 0 if the hand is empty, so you just need a monster with at least 2001 ATK to kill it.\n * Obelisk can destroy all monsters but requires tributes of a set ATK and DEF of 4k, which means it can be killed by monsters like Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.\n * Ra's power comes from the user's life points so it can be destroyed if the user is low on them or a direct attack on the user if they use Ra's full power will win.\n\nAlso each of the God Cards have been defeated in the anime despite strategies\nbeing implemented to make them all powerful. The means to defeat them was\ncreated with pre-GX, 5Ds and Zexal cards in mind so they can probably be\ndefeated much more easily now. If the God Cards were to make an appearance\nwithin an anime again and becomes all powerful, they will be used a tributes\nfor new stronger versions (kinda like Horakhty). However, given predictable\nplot they can still be defeated, and by understanding a character's strategy\nthese can be done in real life.\n\nIn Yu-Gi-Oh or Dual Monsters in general, there is no such thing as a card\nalways being powerful. Each card is strong but has it's weaknesses and can be\ndefeated with a proper strategy. Anything that is \"all powerful\" in the anime\nwill never be used in sanctioned tournaments, and most players will disallow\nopponents to use them as well, especially if one is playing with a tournament\nrule deck.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-10T22:01:09.623", "id": "7449", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-21T10:24:28.317", "last_edit_date": "2020-05-21T10:24:28.317", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7435", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe God Cards are incredible, but against Number Cards might I add could only\nbe destroyed by another Number. Because of this the God Cards are virtually\nuseless. Anime wise: Egyptian God Cards win. Reality wise: Hell no.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-11T21:42:05.980", "id": "11227", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-11T23:18:35.467", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-11T23:18:35.467", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "6205", "parent_id": "7435", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI will have to disagree with the statement that the Egyptian God cards are the\nmost powerful. If you had Obelisk the Tormentor and I had Number C39: Utopia\nRay and I had 1000 or less life points, I could use all three overlaying units\nto bring Utopia Ray's attack points up to 4000 and at the same time direct the\nattack at Obelisk, which, with the special effect of Utopia Ray, will reduce\nObelisk's attack points down to 1000, thus Obelisk would be done for. Look up\nNumber C39: Utopia Ray and you will see why Utopia Ray's special effect raises\nits own attack while at the same time reduces the attack points of the monster\nit attacks.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-21T17:48:44.647", "id": "11396", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-21T17:48:44.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6329", "parent_id": "7435", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, winged dragon of Ra is the strongest god card and if you have them\nlook close to the bottom of the card it says banned from battle\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-30T05:12:06.447", "id": "14235", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-30T06:18:55.827", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-30T06:18:55.827", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "8537", "parent_id": "7435", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the anime, it is implied that the god cards are the strongest creatures in\nthe game because their effects are over the top strong and they have limitless\npotential in terms of ATK power. I will explain how and why this is the case.\n\n**SLIFER THE SKY DRAGON:**\n\n**Slifer gains 1000 ATK and DEF multiplied by the numbers of cards the\ncontroller holds in his hands.** Meaning that as long as you find a way to add\nmore cards in your hand there is no limit to how strong slifer can get. Yes I\nknow that the limit is the number of cards the player has in his deck, but\nthere are ways to steal cards from your opponent and add them to your hand,\nimplying that as long as you find ways to add more cards in your hand,\nslifer's attack points can exceed the limit that are set from the number of\ncards that you have in your deck). **Depending on the position that a monster\nis summoned or set on the opponent's side of the field, SLifer has the ability\nto lower that monster's ATK or DEF and then if the monster's ATK or DEF\nreaches 0, it is automatically destroyed.** Meaning that your opponent will be\nunable to gather any monsters to do anything since anything that would be\nsummoned would probably die before it could be used for the summon of a\nstronger monsters. And even if you do protect your monsters and manage to\nsummon something stronger, that monster will also get weakened by the effect\nof slifer. Making it almost impossible to summon a monster that will be\npowerful enough to fight slifer.\n\n**OBELISK THE TORMENTOR:**\n\nObelisk has 2 abilities that where shown throughout the series. **(1): Tribute\n2 monsters and destroy all monsters your opponent controls with ATK equal or\nless to Obelisk, then attack all opponents in the game. If they still control\na monster, attack them directly.** This effect was used when Kaiba and Atem\ndueled for the first time against Lumis and Umbra. Kaiba used this ability to\ndestroy the monsters that Lumis and Ubra had set on the field, after which he\nproceeded to attack both players directly, implying that Obelisk can attack 2\nplayers at once when this ability is activated. Umbra tried to defend with\nmirror force, however traps don't work on Obelisk which resulted in the\ncontinuation of the attack anyway. This effect was also used in the duel\nbetween Kaiba and Atem. However, since Slifer was stronger than Obelisk at\nthat moment, Kaiba was unable to destroy Slifer with this ability, but he\ncould still declare a direct attack on Atem, which resulted in Atem using\nKuriboh to protect his life points from the battle damage.\n\n**(2): Tribute 2 monsters so Obelisk could gain infinite ATK.** When this\neffect is used, Obelisk's body becomes crimson pinks, implying that the god is\ncharging itself with infinite power. Surprisingly, this effect was actually\nused during the duel between Kaiba and the Duel robot, back when Kaiba wanted\nto test the power of Obelisk after he received the card from Ishizu. Even\nthough Obelisk doesn't turn crimson red (probably because the animators came\nup with that idea later on in the series) the scientist who where spectating\nthe duel with Mokuba, point out that the attack counter of Obelisk is rising\nway too fast, implying that Obelisk's attack power was becoming infinite. This\neffect was also used when Atem dueled against Yami Maryk.\n\n**THE WINGED DRAGON OF RA**\n\n**1: This card gains ATK equal to the combined ATK points of the monsters\ntributed for it' summon and DEF equal to the combined DEF points of the\nmonsters tributed for it's summon.** Meaning that this card doesn't have a\nlimit of how strong it could be in terms of ATK, it all depends on the\nmonsters you tribute for it.Meaning that if you tribute a monster with\ninfinite ATK,Ra will have infinite ATK.\n\n**2: You can tribute any number of monsters you control to add their ATK\npoints to RA.** This is the second option you have to give Ra ATK power.\nMeaning that if you have a way to constantly spam monsters on the field you\ncan increase RA's ATK power as much as you want.\n\n**3: You can pay all your life points but 1 to increase Ra's ATK power equal\nto the ammount of life points you paid.**\n\n**4: Phoenix mode. You can make this card unaffected by the effect of other\ncards, even by the effect of other gods. Then, you can pay 1000 life points to\ndestroy all monsters on your opponent's side of the field. After this effect\nresolves, phoenix mode is deactivated.** It is not stated whether this effect\ncan be activated again or if it's a once per turn ability.\n\n**5: If this card is revived from the graveyard, it can declare an attack,\neven if there are cards that prevent it from doing so. Then this turn, this\ncard can attack all monsters on your opponent's side of the field.**\n\n**COMMON EFFECTS THAT ALL GOD CARDS SHARE**\n\n**If this card is special summoned from the graveyard, it will return to the\ngraveyard at the end of the turn.**\n\n**When they are brought from the graveyard, they can redirect and absorb the\nattacks or effects of the opponent's monsters into themselves**.\n\nExamples of this happening is during the duel between Atem and Kaiba, when\nAtem attacks Kaiba's monsters and Kaiba revives Obelisk, which automatically\nredirects the attack towards Obelisk. And in the duel between Atem and Yami\nMaryk, when Maryk tries to use Phoenix mode to destroy all monsters on Atem's\nside of the field, Atem revives Slifer the sky Dragon, which protects Obelisk\nand all monsters on the field from Ra's ability, after which it get's\ndestroyed.\n\n**Traps cannot directly affect gods** (Look for a detailed info in\nweaknesses). **Spells work for 1 turn. Unaffected by monster effects, unless\nit's a god.**\n\n**Tho never shown in the anime, the summon of a god could not be negated.**\n\n(For more detailed explanation about that part, read about it in the\nweaknesses)\n\n**WEAKNESSES**\n\nMonster effects don't work **unless they are a god card as well** and they\nwork only for 1 turn, as shown between the fight against Kaiba and Atem, when\nKaiba summoned Obelisk, and Slifer lowered it's ATK for only 1 turn. **If a\ngod destroys another god with it's effect, that god won't return**. As it was\nshown when Ra destroyed Slifer during the duel between Maryk and Atem. And\nduring the ceremonial battle, when **the effect of slifer was used to destroy\nall 3 god cards on the field**.\n\nIt is important to note that if Slifer had lower atk than Obelisk, Kaiba\nwould've been able to destroy slifer with Obelisk's first effect during his\nduel with Atem.\n\n**Ra is the only god that is unaffected by all cards, including the other two\ngods, while it is in it's Phoenix Mode.**\n\n**Spells are said to have effect on gods for only 1 turn** , however **if a\ngod is destroyed by a spell, they do not return on the field** , as shown in\nthe final face off between Atem and Maryk, when Atem used the **Ragnarok**\nspell to destroy the winged dragon of Ra. I also want to add that during the\nsame duel, Atem had the opportunity to tribute RA with the effect of the spell\ncard **Soul Taker**. Whether this would've succeeded was never shown because\nAtem decided to tribute the **Egyptian god slime** instead of Ra, to activate\nthe ability of Obelisk to make it's ATK infinite. However if we stick to the\nknowledge that spells affect gods for 1 turn, then there is no reason why Soul\nTaker wouldn't have worked on Ra.\n\nThe anime doesn't give a very good explanation as to why some trap cards don't\nwork on the god cards but others do. Soo I will try my best to break it down\nfor you guys. I wanna add how some people pointed out that trap cards **Magic\nCylinder** and **Spellbinding Circle** worked on Slifer the Sky Dragon in the\nanime. I wish to point out that in the anime, **both cards where spell cards**\n, which is the reason they worked in the anime. After all one is a **Spell**\nbinding circle and the other is a **MAGIC** cylinder soo I guess it made more\nsense for these cards to be spells in the anime. However in the official TCG\nand OCG version of the game, **these cards are traps**.\n\nLet's talk about the trap cards which where used throughout the series against\nthe gods and why some worked while others didn't. The traps I will be talking\nabout are:\n\n**Mirror force** , **Blast held by a tribute** , **Ground Erosion** , **Magnet\nForce** and **Pyramid of light.**\n\nFirst off is *Mirror Force** When an opponent's monster declares an attack:\nDestroy all Attack Position monsters your opponent controls.\n\nMeaning that this is used by the player to directly affect the opponent's\nmonsters. Traps don't work **directly** on the gods themselves, which is why\nObelisk was not destroyed when Mirror Force was used against it. Now keep this\nin mind because it is very important for you to be able to understand this\nnext part.\n\nBlast Held by a Tribute is a trap that also destroys monsters. However in the\nanime it works a bit differently. In the anime, it was shown during a vision\nthat Ishizu Ishtar had,that during her duel against Kaiba, Obelisk was gonna\nbe destroyed if Kaiba declared an attack, die to the Blast Held by a Tribute\ntrap. To explain why that was going to happen, lets start by reviewing the\nanime effect of the card. It goes as follows:\n\n**Plant a bomb in one monster on the field. A monster that was Summoned using\nthat monster as a Tribute is destroyed the moment it attacks. Its ATK is dealt\nas damage to its player**\n\nSoo in other words, if the trap forces the game itself to do something, it\nwill work. Because even tho traps don't work on gods, the rules of the game\ndo.\n\nKaiba tributed Ishizu's monsters with **Soul Exchange** , not knowing that one\nof those monsters was infected with the effect of the trap. The part where it\nstates that **A monster that was Summoned using the infected monster as a\nTribute is destroyed the moment it attacks** implies that **the game** must\ndestroy the monster the moment it attacks, since the trap has resolved it's\nown part of the effect. Soo Obelisk was not gonna be destroyed directly by the\ntrap itself, but by the effect of the trap which forces **THE GAME** to\ndestroy obelisk the moment he attacks.\n\n**Ground Erosion**\n\nAnother example of a trap that works indirectly on a god card. This happened\nduring the ceremonial duel between Yugi and Atem, when Yugi used **Ground\nErosion** to lower the attack of Obelisk. Even though Atem stated that **traps\ndon't work on god cards** , Yugi implied that it was **not working on obelisk,\nbut on the field he was standing on**.\n\nThe effect goes as follows:\n\n**Select 1 Monster Card Zone on your opponent's side of the field that is\ncurrently used by a Monster Card. You can send this face-up card to the\nGraveyard to negate the effect of the monster in the selected Monster Card\nZone and decrease its ATK by the number of your Standby Phases this card has\nbeen face-up on the field x 500.** You can see here that this card, affects\nthe field on which the gods are standing on. The field is part of the game,\nand the gods are bound to the rules of the game. Soo Yugi was using the field,\nagainst the gods.\n\nNow let's talk about the effect of **Magnet Force**\n\nUntil the End Phase, if any of your face-up Rock or Machine-Type monsters are\ntargeted by an opponent's card effect, switch the target(s) to an appropriate\nmonster(s) your opponent controls.\n\nEach time slifer would use it's effect on any of Yugi's magnet warriros, Yugi\nwould use this card to switch the target back to one of the gods. This trap\nwas not doing anything directly to the gods themselves, it simply redirected\ntheir effects towards themselves, and since the only monster type that can use\nit's effects on a god, is another god, Yugi successfully redirected slifer's\neffect to hit itself and the other gods.\n\nAnd last but not least, **Pyramid of Light**\n\nAll God Cards on the field are removed from play.\n\nAnother example of a card that forces the game to work for it.\n\n**Bonus information : Since back when this card came out for the OCG/TCG, the\ngods where not released with official effects for legal play, KONAMI created a\ndifferent effect for this trap. Which focuses on the SPHINX archetype that\nAnubis used.**\n\n**If this face-up card is removed from your side of the field, destroy \"Andro\nSphinx\" and \"Sphinx Teleia\" on your side of the field and remove them from\nplay.**\n\nThis allows the effect of Theinen the Great Sphinx to summon itself once both\nAndro and Teleia are destroyed at the same time.\n\nSoo in short, **Traps don't work on gods, unless they force the game itself to\ndo something on those gods**.\n\nSpeaking of indirect ways to deal with the gods.While they are not on the\nfield, any card can be used to get rid of them. For example, **if you play\nSoul release to remove a god in the grave from the game, that god won't return\nback in the grave at the end of the turn**. **While they are in the hand or\ndeck, any card can discard or send them to the grave or remove them out of the\ngame**.\n\nYou can also steal them with card effects. May Valentine used the effect of\nher **Amazoness Chain Master** , to take the winged dragon of Ra from Maryk's\ndeck, while Kaiba on the other hand, used **Lullaby of Obedience** to take\nSlifer the Sky dragon from Atem's deck. And right after that, Atem used **Card\nexchange** to take Slifer back from Kaiba's hand.\n\nAs long as you prevent your opponent from gathering monsters that he can\ntribute for a god, deny him the ability to tribute or special summon a god, or\nsteal the god card with a card effect, a player will not have to worry about\nplaying against these cards.\n\nYou can also use cards like **Kaiju** to tribute an egyptian god on your\nopponent's side of the field. This will work because the summoning condition\nrequires you to tribute an opponent's monster. The gods do not have an effect\nthat protects them from being tributed.\n\n**Fun fact** \\- Maryk used **Lava Golem* in his deck. Tho he never managed to\nused it to tribute any god cards on his opponent's side of the field.\n\n**The only weakness that was never confirmed in the anime was, if you can\nnegate the summon of a god card with cards like Solemn Judgment. We came to\nthe conclusion that all cards can work on gods as long as the gods are not on\nthe field. The rules of the game state that negating the summon of a monster,\nmeans that that monster never entered the field. So this implies that a card\nlike Solemn Judgment SHOULD work on a god. However when Konami created the\ncards for official play, an effect was revealed in which when one is Normal\nSummoned, cards and effects cannot be activated. Soo we can assume that the\ngod cards in the anime, had a similar effect that prevented the opponent from\nnegating their summon, but cards could still be activated in response to their\nsummon. As shown when Kaiba summoned Obelisk and Slifer's effect still\nactivated.**\n\nI can only think of 2 moments where a god has been stopped from being\nsummoned. One was when Kaiba tried to summon Obelisk against Atem and was\nstopped with Lightforce Sword. However this didn't negate the summon of the\ncard, it simply removed it before it could be played. The other example is\nwhen Atem tried to bring back Slifer the sky dragon with monster reborn during\nthe ceremonial battle against Yugi, however Yugi negated the effect of monster\nreborn with the Gold Sarcophagus. And since the effect of monster reborn was\nnegated, slifer remained in the graveyard.\n\nOther effective ways to prevent your opponent from playing with the god cards\nare to **actually steal them**. (Tho I don't recommend you do this in the real\nworld because it's a felony and you can get in trouble) Examples of this\nhappening was when Raphael, Alister and Valon decided to steal the cards\ndirectly from the hands of Solomon Mutou, so that Atem would not be able to\nuse them in any of his duels. Atem managed to find and retrieved those cards\nafter he defeated Dartz in a duel.\n\nWeevil Underwood and REx Raptor also decided to steal the cards, so they sneak\ninside Yugi's house and stole the cards along with the millennium items that\nYugi managed to gather throughout the series. Thanks to Yami Bakura tho, Yugi\ngot those back.\n\n**BONUS INFORMATION FOR THE TCG/OCG PLAYERS**\n\nKonami made sure to nerf the effects of the god cards when they created them\nto be legally played in the TCG and OCG version of the game. And now their\neffects are like this.\n\n**SLIFER THE SKY DRAGON**\n\nRequires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's\nNormal Summon cannot be negated. When Normal Summoned, cards and effects\ncannot be activated. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was\nSpecial Summoned: Send it to the GY. Gains 1000 ATK and DEF for each card in\nyour hand. If a monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned to your opponent's\nfield in Attack Position: That monster(s) loses 2000 ATK, then if its ATK has\nbeen reduced to 0 as a result, destroy it.\n\n**OBELISK THE TORMENTOR**\n\nRequires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be Normal Set). This card's\nNormal Summon cannot be negated. When Normal Summoned, cards and effects\ncannot be activated. Cannot be targeted by Spells, Traps, or card effects.\nOnce per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was Special Summoned: Send\nit to the Graveyard. You can Tribute 2 monsters; destroy all monsters your\nopponent controls. This card cannot declare an attack the turn this effect is\nactivated.\n\nand finally the one konami made sure to shit the most on.\n\n**THE WINGED DRAGON OF RA**\n\nCannot be Special Summoned. Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon (cannot be\nNormal Set). This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated. When Normal\nSummoned, other cards and effects cannot be activated. When this card is\nNormal Summoned: You can pay LP so that you only have 100 left; this card\ngains ATK and DEF equal to the amount of LP paid. You can pay 1000 LP, then\ntarget 1 monster on the field; destroy that target.\n\n**Obelisk the tormentor is the only one out of the 3, that has protection\nagainst targeting.** While **The winged dragon of ra is the only one out of\nthe 3 that cannot be special summoned**. In time, Konami realized that no one\nwould play Ra, so they made 2 additional versions of that card so that Ra\nwould be more playable. Those 2 different versions are the Sphere mode and\nPhoenix mode.\n\n**The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode**\n\nCannot be Special Summoned. Requires 3 Tributes from either side of the field\nto Normal Summon to that side of the field (cannot be Normal Set), then shift\ncontrol to this card's owner during the End Phase of the next turn. Cannot\nattack. Your opponent cannot target this card for attacks or by card effects.\nYou can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 \"The Winged Dragon of Ra\" from\nyour hand or Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions, and if you do, its\nATK/DEF become 4000.\n\n**The Winged Dragon of Ra - Immortal Phoenix**\n\nCannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by its own effect. If\n\"The Winged Dragon of Ra\" is sent from the field to your GY while this card is\nin your GY: Special Summon this card. Cards and effects cannot be activated in\nresponse to this effect's activation. This card is unaffected by other cards'\neffects. You can pay 1000 LP; send 1 monster on the field to the GY. Once per\nturn, during the End Phase: Send this card to the GY, and if you do, Special\nSummon 1 \"The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode\" from your hand, Deck, or GY,\nignoring its Summoning conditions.\n\nSo the god cards are not only weak in their TCG and OCG versions, they could\neasily lose to most, if not all of the number cards. Simply because their\neffects are not as powerful as their anime counterpart, and **Obelisk is the\nonly one from the 3 that has a protection effect**. (excluding the Sphere and\nPhoenix modes of RA)\n\nAnd I almost forgot the mention about the existence of Holactie the Creator of\nLight. Which in the time I am writing this answer, it is still only playable\nin the OCG.\n\n**Holactie the Creator of Light**\n\nCannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by\nTributing 3 monsters whose original names are \"Slifer the Sky Dragon\",\n\"Obelisk the Tormentor\", and \"The Winged Dragon of Ra\". This card's Special\nSummon cannot be negated. The player that Special Summons this card wins the\nDuel.\n\nIf you summon this, it won't matter what Number your opponent has on the\nfield.\n\nAnyway,with all of the information I presented to you, I hope that you all\nhave a better understanding as to why the god cards where considered to be the\nstrongest cards in the game ( **at least in the anime** ) and are more than\ncapable of handling each and every one of the Number monsters. Or in other\nwords, from where I look at it, the gods are stronger than any of the number\nmonsters.\n\nI hope that my answer was helpful and fun to read. I am sorry that it was this\nlong but I felt that it would be better if I didn't miss any details. With all\nof the information I presented, people would have a better understanding as to\nhow strong those cards are in the anime. I did this because most people only\nknow these cards and their effects in the TCG and OCG version of the game. I\nalso edited this comment multiple times because I remembered about many little\ndetails I forgot to mention and figured out many things about the way traps\nwork along the way of writing this. Also re-reading the comment, I rearranged\nthe information so it would not sound repetitive at some places.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-05-20T18:17:09.370", "id": "57636", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-23T01:17:34.913", "last_edit_date": "2020-05-23T01:17:34.913", "last_editor_user_id": "53369", "owner_user_id": "53369", "parent_id": "7435", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, now that the BD is out, I went back and checked. Here's how it goes\ndown:\n\n> 生まれ変わったら、何になろう？ \n> If I get reincarnated, what could I be?\n>\n> お花になろう。蝶々になろう。蟻ん子になろう。お芋になろう。 \n> I could be a flower, or a butterfly, or an ant, or a potato.\n>\n> 何になっても大丈夫だよ。だってね。 \n> No matter what I become, I'll be okay. You know why?\n>\n> 超平和バスターズはずーっと仲良しだから！ \n> Because the Super Peace Busters are friends forever!\n\nTranslation mine because I don't have access to the subs that were shown in\ntheaters (I don't know if they were even released anywhere).\n\n* * *\n\n[Album of after credits scene.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CBF6C.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-24T13:07:58.380", "id": "8215", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-17T07:38:39.280", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7437", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs of right now there is no information disclosed about the other two members\nof [Team Jiraiya](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Team_Jiraiya).\n\n> This was a genin team led by Jiraiya of the Legendary Sannin at some point\n> after he left the Ame Orphans and returned to Konohagakure. Its only known\n> member is Minato Namikaze, who Jiraiya took special interest in. Minato\n> would later become the Fourth Hokage. **The names of the other two members,\n> as well as their statuses, are unknown.**\n\nHowever we did actually see one according to the wiki:\n\n> In a flashback that Kushina Uzumaki had, one of Minato's black-haired\n> teammate can be seen sitting behind him at the Academy.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-10T14:34:11.390", "id": "7444", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-16T20:37:05.837", "last_edit_date": "2018-06-16T20:37:05.837", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7442", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe name and details of the rest of the team was never revealed in the\noriginal manga. However we may assume that they were very talented to be\ntaught by Jiraiya.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-13T02:21:39.423", "id": "32066", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-13T16:24:25.337", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-13T16:24:25.337", "last_editor_user_id": "23015", "owner_user_id": "23015", "parent_id": "7442", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo my knowledge, it is as someone already mentioned, [The Friendly\nWinter](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=82158).\n\n> A 19 year old girl with a rare growth disorder that leaves her in the body\n> of a small child meets a boy with a mental disorder, who has the mind of a\n> small boy in a 17 year old's body. A Friendly Winter shares with us the\n> endearing story of their day-to-day lives, joys and tribulations.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sbCkc.jpg)\n\nYou might have mistakenly remembered it as an anime because it is fully\ncoloured. It is actually a Korean Webtoon. Her hair is close enough to be\nmisremembered as pink.\n\nIn the end,\n\n> she is proven a capable business woman who runs a children's apparel fashion\n> line.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-04T10:27:30.633", "id": "11638", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-17T12:16:05.677", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-17T12:16:05.677", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "6481", "parent_id": "7451", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhile it's true that this manga lacks any dialogs, there are actually 2 pages\nat the end (pg. 196-197) that describe the whole scenes from the beginning\nuntil the end.\n\nFor page 30-31,\n\n\n\n> **30-31** 鞄の中にファクシミリ用感熱紙、コピー用紙、ファイルブックなどの文具又は書類が覗いている。\n>\n> **30-31** Thermal papers for facsimile, copy paper, filing book and other\n> stationaries or documents are peeking through the bag.\n\nResearching those things returned these images:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zyhr9.png)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xe56i.png)\n\nThermal papers for facsimile by Fujifilm | Copy papers by Super Echo\n\nThus, I believe [spiel's\ncomment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7455/what-are-\nthese-a2-and-a3-stickers#comment8858_7455) was actually right: **they are\nstandard paper size labels**. The A3 thermal papers are rolled into a\ncylinder, and the A2 copy papers are showing their shorter side. (Which means\nthat the filing book is also A2-size, [which also\nexists](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rr3tg.png))\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-14T17:28:10.887", "id": "44213", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-14T17:28:10.887", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "7455", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou might actually be referring to the [omuraisu (rice\nomelette)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omurice) that Tai cooked for himself,\nhis sister Kari, and Koromon in [Digimon Adventure Episode\n21](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Home_Away_From_Home), around the 8:38 mark.\nIt's possible that you mistook that scene for being a part of [the second part\nof Digimon: The\nMovie](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Digimon_Adventure:_Our_War_Game!) due to\nthe fact that it takes place in the real world and has a similar washed-out\ncolor scheme.\n\n[Here's an album of relevant screenshots from that\nepisode.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QYMfz.jpg)\n\nHowever, if you're actually referring to [Digimon: The\nMovie](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Digimon:_The_Movie), like Eric stated\nabove in the comments, Tai cooks an egg in the [first part of the\nmovie](http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Digimon_Adventure_%28Movie%29), around\nthe 7:33 mark. I don't believe there are any other scenes of him cooking\nanything else for the rest of Digimon: The Movie.\n\n[Here's an album of relevant screenshots from the\nmovie.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YN70R.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-13T00:03:14.077", "id": "7478", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-13T00:10:43.433", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-13T00:10:43.433", "last_editor_user_id": "140", "owner_user_id": "140", "parent_id": "7458", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Live Series cover the first arc of the manga (the \"First Witch War\" as it\nis called by a character in the second arc).\n\n> WARNING: SPOILER HEAVY.\n\nI won't bother into putting spoiler markings into the answer, or it will be\njust a wall of yellow strips.\n\nComparing the live action to the manga, we have the following differences, in\nno particular order:\n\n 1. The seventh witch (Rika Sayonji) is downplayed. Since the story will end just after the ritual, she is not developed, and strikes as mostly comic relief for her no-panties gag.\n 2. Kentaro Tsubaki is missing. \n 3. The old building is not mentioned. We never know where the sealed room is. Neither is the arson arc ever mentioned.\n 4. The ritual takes place in the sealed room, instead of the student council chapel.\n 5. Leona Myamura is Rika's \"Friend\". This means Haruma Yamazaki is demoted to a plain antagonist, his character development with Leona is ignored. Also, Leona had her memory wiped in the series, while in the manga she is shut-in as to not lose her memory (she eventually returns and is wiped for a short time).\n 6. Shinichi Tamaki is missing. The witch-stealing power is given to Yamazaki. He is replaced by Isobe in the series.\n 7. Mikoto Asuka still has her invisibility power, since She is hinted to be Yamazaki's lover to fill the void left by Leona\n 8. Ushio Igarashi remains Nene Odagiri's follower at the end of the series, instead of teaming with Asuka as he did in the second season.\n 9. The witches' wish is subverted in the series finale, into a gag. Rika wishes for panties, and then Yamada is forced to use the cancelling power to wipe the witches' powers. In the Manga, Yamada wishes to remove the power directly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-13T06:47:56.453", "id": "15063", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-13T06:47:56.453", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "7460", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIts a common Dutch bird called Reiger from the Ardeidae family also called\n[Grey Heron](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Heron) in english.\n\nTheir most common recognition points are\n\n * Blue/grayish back\n * White Belly\n * Long and sturdy beaks\n * A long neck that gets subtrackd in flight\n * From head to chest there is a long black stroke\n * Black strokes on the forehead of the bird\n * On his hind side there are some gracefull black feathers\n\n\n\n**EDIT**\n\nThe episode is called Grey Heron Rhapsody, considering the meaning of Rhapsody\n\n> an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling.\n\nIt would most likely mean the author expresses his feelings about the animal.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-12T04:00:33.733", "id": "7463", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-12T13:19:39.800", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7461", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Short answer:** There is little or no canonical love from either Killua or\nGon toward the other. If any kind of love is to be clearly deduced, it should\nbe regarded as platonic or brotherly.\n\n**Longer answer:** From childhood, Killua was deprived of the experience of\nhaving friends. He met Canary, a guardian of the Zoldyck estate, and wished to\nbe her friend, but she disciplined herself to not have any personal feelings\nfor her employers (Killua included).\n\nFast-forward to the Hunter Exam, and Killua meets Gon, quickly discovering\nthat he wants a friendly relationship with him (attempting to sever the ties\nto his former life as an assassin). In this case, you have to understand that\nKillua doesn't know how to behave around friends. He does his best to be\nhimself, but he doesn't want to push Gon away. Even in a relationship as\nsimple (to you and me) as friendship, Killua doesn't know how to manage his\nfeelings.\n\nAs a result, personally, I would say that Killua just shares a really,\n_really_ strong best-friend relationship with Gon, and feels a personal need\nto protect Gon, which can appear romantic at times. Gon, being the nutty lil'\nboy he is, also tends to express his friendship in odd ways...\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rif6L.jpg)\n\nNow, taking all this into consideration... It doesn't honestly seem like there\nis any romantic relationship between them (though the mangaka seems to have\nthrown in a few choice lines to tease fans with).\n\nIn the episodes mentioned in the question, Killua does have some very odd\nlines.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Emnuw.png)\n\nHe states that if he asks Gon what he means by \"Let's go!\", then he \"won't be\nable to go back.\" This sounds a bit lovey at first, but I think Killua is\nhonestly more worried about Gon, almost like a brother might be. He\nunderstands the rage Gon holds within, and is deeply worried that Gon might be\nheaded down a spiral of destruction. With good reason:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rmDay.png)\n\nSadly, though, asking about something like that could almost seem like a\nbetrayal; remember that Killua doesn't want to do anything that would endanger\nhis friendship with Gon.\n\nSo while I think it's important to recognize that there is no canonical love\nin play (at least in the anime, I haven't read past the manga's equivalent of\nepisode 115), I think their relationship is designed in such a way to make us\nask this kind of question. Their relationship is _far_ from simple, and that's\nprobably one of the things that makes it so compelling.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-12T05:08:05.510", "id": "7466", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-19T16:09:50.023", "last_edit_date": "2021-08-19T16:09:50.023", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\n\nOf course he does. They're two guys but that doesn't mean they don't love each\nother and the fact that they love each other is obvious if you're paying\nattention to the show. Gon mentions multiple times how he wants to travel the\nworld with Killua, something often said by eloping couples. Killua also\nmentions several times how embarrassing Gon's words are, precisely because\nthey imply a sort of love. At episode 87ish Killua says Gon was a light that\nis so bright sometimes that he has trouble looking at him, something a certain\nromantic Shakespeare Sonnet talks about.\n\nLove doesn't have to lead to sex and neither does gender matter when it comes\nto having a crush. Their bond is so strong and they like each other to the\npoint where love is a weak word to describe it. Japanese has a word for this\nkind of friend for life who is said to make your life complete and/or whole,\nand it doesn't mean a wife but someone more; soulmate basically best defines\nthat word.\n\nFyi, the Europeans supposedly imposed homophobia on Japan. Homosexuals were\nmore accepted before westernization, probably because such relationships were\ncommon among powerful men such as a samurai. It's a controversial concept in\nJapan I suspect, but not as much as it is here in America.\n\nGon and Killua's fighting style compliment each other and their characters\ngrow when they are together so they could very easily be classified as\nsoulmates. They obviously like each other and you would have no problem\ncalling it love if one of them wasn't male and if your definition of love\nisn't so exclusive to male/female relationships (which is dumb). Their\nrelationship is a precious thing not often seen in society, but it's the most\nnatural thing in the world. Everyone should pursue having what they have.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-07T06:20:42.323", "id": "10140", "last_activity_date": "2018-07-12T07:27:12.083", "last_edit_date": "2018-07-12T07:27:12.083", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "5149", "parent_id": "7462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt really is an interesting question.\n\nI'm doing some process and I think that the answer is a maybe. I'm starting to\nthink that there must be something that Killua didn't talk about with Gon.\nThat's one thing you might think about - are Gon and Killua are going to be a\ncouple? My answer is a no. Why you say? It is because I think Gon is starting\nto have feelings to someone else. Even though I haven't watch it yet, I know\nthat there's only one female character who is almost the same age (in\nappearance I mean) and that is Kairo in Chimera ant form.\n\nIt looks like that Gon is having a nice relationship with her (or his) past\nself. So in summary, your question leads to a dead end.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-22T12:39:14.513", "id": "14612", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-22T14:31:19.313", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-22T14:31:19.313", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "8816", "parent_id": "7462", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, we all know that:\n\n> Izanagi can be used only by those with the genetic traits of the Sage of the\n> Six Paths. The Uchiha, descended from the Sage, are able to perform Izanagi\n> with their Sharingan. In exchange for the brief control of reality that it\n> allows them, the Sharingan with which Izanagi is cast becomes blind.\n\nso by this, you have to be the descendant of the Sage Of Six Paths, but it\ndoesn't state that you must have both Senju's and Uchiha's DNA. As you've\nexplained the Itachi tale, those Uchihas were not Senju's, nor did they have\nDNA, so Obito lied (maybe he didn't know, since he possessed Senju's DNA +\nSharingan, so he just thought), more likely this one than a plot hole.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-12T10:15:50.953", "id": "7468", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T11:58:05.103", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T11:58:05.103", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "7467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSo as for your theory:\n\n 1. We know that when Itachi explained Izanami to Sasuke, he happened to mention why the Izanami was created: it was because the Uchiha folks back then used Izanagi for all the wrong reasons. And most of those Uchiha certainly did not have the Senju DNA. So if what Tobi said was true, this has to be false. **TRUE**\n\n> If Tobi was true, then Itachi statment (or his explanations) would be false.\n> But unfortunately Itachi statments are true; therefore Tobi's explanation\n> was wrong.\n\n 2. If what Itachi explained about Izanagi's misuse is true and that every Uchiha who knows the jutsu Izanagi can use it, then what Tobi mentioned to Konan was wrong. **TRUE**\n\n> Tobi did bluff Konan prior to her death. Tobi's explanation was wrong. He\n> did try to exaggerate himself.\n\n 3. Whether it is a plot hole by Kishimoto.\n\n> I wouldn't say that it was a plot hole as Tobi always had a tendency to\n> exaggerate himself. He does call himself Madara all the time ( **before the\n> actual Madara got reanimated** ).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-13T12:43:31.240", "id": "7488", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T12:41:14.160", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T12:41:14.160", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nOkay. Before answering, we have to consider the fact that Kishi sensei doesn't\nleave chances for plot holes.\n\nThe two instances where Izanagi is discussed formally are during :\n\n 1. Itachi and Sasuke's fight against Kabuto\n 2. the Konan vs Tobi fight\n\n[Itachi explains to\nSasuke](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/When_It_Turns_9_o%27clock) how the\nIzanagi and Izanami are very much related and what role they played in the\nUchiha history. However, Itachi mentions that the Uchihas were able to use\nIzanagi. This contradicts Obito's explanation. Well, not really.\n\nWhat Obito said was\n\n\n\nNotice how he said _incomplete_ form of Izanagi. In the fight between Obito\nand Konan, Obito was able to surprise Konan by escaping her _10 minutes of\npaper bomb explosion_ , using Izanagi. This was considered the complete form\nof Izanagi (Obito's thoughts) because Obito had control of Hashirama Senju's\nDNA. Whereas Danzo's Izanagi was considered incomplete because of the control\nhe lacked over Hashirama's DNA.\n\nSo there exists two types of Izanagi: the complete form and the incomplete\nform. To perform the complete form, you need full control of Senju DNA and of\ncourse, Sharingan. The incomplete form however, needs only the Sharingan and a\ngood amount of chakra.\n\nHence, both cases are TRUE, leaving no plot holes. Seems both Itachi and Obito\nwere right, but the entirety wasn't revealed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-28T18:00:33.857", "id": "21205", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-28T18:00:33.857", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "11083", "parent_id": "7467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nTobi/Madara was incorrect in many of his statements. Whether a\nplothole/lie/etc.\n\nThere was this example of the Izanagi... Then there was also the time where he\nswore to Sasuke that the 9-tails attack he himself perpetrated, was a natural\ndisaster and wasn't perpetrated by anybody, specifically Uchiha. Although he\nhimself is Uchiha...\n\nBut then again, so was Itachi. When he stated that Sasuke could be only the\n3rd to master the Mangekyo. Implying himself and Madara. But then, there were\nall of those in the Izanagi story, they all had Mangekyo. Let's assume he\ndidn't know that history at the time. There was still Madara's brother, who he\ntold Sasuke had achieved the Mangekyo, which was then stolen by Madara for the\nEMS (according to that story). Then let's assume he didn't know about THAT\nstory at the time either. Shisui GAVE HIM his Mangekyo (the only one with a\n4-sided design, and likely would have been the most powerful EMS pair if they\nwere able to be implanted into anyone. PLUS, Fugaku, who could control the\n9-tails with his. Though Fugaku could be considered filler and not cannon,\nShisui is DEFINITELY canon. So the whole Mangekyo, EMS, Izanagi/Izanami\nsituation is extremely confusing if you try to sort it out based on their\nstatements\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-20T10:16:09.563", "id": "34362", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-20T10:16:09.563", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "26277", "parent_id": "7467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n### Summary\n\nIzanagi is a technique available to all Uchiha members with the Sharingan, but\nit has various levels of effectiveness:\n\n> The Uchiha, descended from the Sage, are able to perform Izanagi with their\n> Sharingan ... To use Izanagi to its full potential, users must also have the\n> genetic traits of the Senju, who are also descended from the Sage.\n\nSo, Itachi didn't lie, Obito didn't lie, and it is not a plothole. You can see\nhow my answer clashes with the accepted answer.\n\n### Normal Izanagi\n\nFor normal Sharingan users, Izanagi can help you change reality for a brief\nmoment.\n\n### Incomplete Izanagi (it's better)\n\nFor Sharingan users with Hashirama's DNA, it extends the lifespan of the\njutsu. Since Danzo had Senju DNA in his right arm, he was able to extend\nIzanagi for each eye up to a minute.\n\n> Danzō had some of Hashirama Senju's DNA transplanted into his arm, which\n> extended the time span of each Sharingan's Izanagi to a minute. However,\n> because Danzō is not an Uchiha, his chakra levels drop substantially every\n> time a new Sharingan is used to activate the technique.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QKwb9m.png)\n\n### The Complete Form of Izanagi (the best)\n\nFinally, we have the Uchiha members who can control Hashirama's DNA — Obito\nand Madara. Obito's Izanagi can last much longer than Danzo's (surviving\nKonan's signature move), and he doesn't need to use any hand seals. As for\nMadara, he never uses Izanagi with Senju's DNA transplanted into him, although\nit is shown that Senju's DNA heals his right eye in the end.\n\n> Obito also makes use of Hashirama's DNA but, in contrast to Danzō, he claims\n> to have gained control over Hashirama's DNA and as such, boasts the\n> completed form of Izanagi. Showing evidence to this claim, Obito could\n> maintain this technique's power much longer with a single eye than Danzō and\n> could perform it with no hand seals at all.\n\n### Madara's Izanagi Trick\n\nMadara had the Izanagi activated after his death, and his blind eye was healed\nby Hashirama's DNA.\n\n> But Madara had planned ahead: he had scheduled an Izanagi to activate\n> sometime after his death, changing reality to bring him back to life in\n> exchange for his right eye's vision ... went into hiding with ... a mouthful\n> of Hashirama's flesh that he transplanted into his wounds .. in the process\n> restoring his right eye.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7V2MM.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-07-21T00:30:19.703", "id": "34365", "last_activity_date": "2016-07-21T00:42:43.200", "last_edit_date": "2016-07-21T00:42:43.200", "last_editor_user_id": "25864", "owner_user_id": "25864", "parent_id": "7467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nUchihas can only preform an incomplete Izanagi. That's why your above quite\nsays brief control of reality, although that really isn't too clear. But many\nprevious episodes, that people have shown here already, prove it's not a plot\nhold because Obito does know that a Uchiha's Izanagi isn't complete like one\nwho also possesses Senju's DNA.\n\nPeople seem to think a big difference is Obito creating much longer alternate\nrealities and he doesn't need hand signs. I'm not sure but I don't think Danzo\nusing hand signs has anything to do with it being incomplete. Most likely he\njust needs to sign to direct his chakra to those eyes because they are on his\narm, rather than a normal eye connected to ones brain.\n\nWe also don't know for sure that Obito's Izanagi is complete because it can\nlast 10 minutes. He would not have had to continuously change reality for 10\nminutes. He would just need to alter the event before he fell or use it for a\nsecond to get out of the pit. Surely not using it for 10 minutes. He would\nfall in the pit for 10 minutes. So he would transport body so he doesn't get\nhit by the bombs for his 5 minute maximum. And then 5 minutes of using Izanagi\nto change each result of every bomb explosion? Just doesn't sound like that's\nwhat he did\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-27T11:08:55.193", "id": "41589", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-27T11:45:59.713", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-27T11:45:59.713", "last_editor_user_id": "32156", "owner_user_id": "34843", "parent_id": "7467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nRinnegan only awakens in Indra reincarnation with Senju powers in Uchiha body,\nplus in point of death (Like Madara for old age or Sasuke vs Madara while\nKabuto saved him injecting Hashi cells) It's not a plot hole, but true facts,\nthat's why Obito didn't awakened Rinnegan while Sage path yep\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-07T18:19:53.153", "id": "49553", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-07T18:19:53.153", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43307", "parent_id": "7467", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes that is the ending of Rosario Vampire Season II. There are chapter 66.2 to\n66.6 but the picture your showing is indeed the last one story wise.\n\nThe chances of more chapters to come is very unlikely aswell as stated on\n[Funimation](http://www.funimation.com/forum/showthread.php?497-%2aDo-NOT-\nRequest-Rosario-Vampire-season-3-%2a)\n\n> Rosario+Vampire season 2 bombed in Japan. Hard. It did so poorly it almost\n> put GONZO out of business. Because of poor sales, there are no plans at this\n> time for a third season. That's not to say it's entirely impossible, but the\n> way things are going it is incredibly unlikely. \\- [See more\n> here](http://www.funimation.com/forum/showthread.php?497-%2aDo-NOT-Request-\n> Rosario-Vampire-season-3-%2a#sthash.xeovuCwe.dpuf)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-12T14:13:19.420", "id": "7472", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-12T14:13:19.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7471", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is going to be an epilogue released in _Jump SQ.19_ 's April 14th issue.\nAs to whether it's a season epilogue or for the manga as a whole is unknown.\nIf it's received well and doesn't write them into a hole as far as the story\ngoes, then I would say a 3rd manga season would be very likely to recoup the\nlosses from season 2 of the anime. After all the manga still did fairly well.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-18T15:45:55.477", "id": "8129", "last_activity_date": "2017-08-15T07:20:14.790", "last_edit_date": "2017-08-15T07:20:14.790", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4170", "parent_id": "7471", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nNo, there is an additional few chapters that show him fighting Alucard. It\nends at chapter 66.6 and apparently, there was an epilogue released recently .\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T00:43:13.730", "id": "8704", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-26T05:52:11.110", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-26T05:52:11.110", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4526", "parent_id": "7471", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I have read, this also includes the epilogue they may release more\nbut perhaps under a different name since the Rosario was destroyed and the\nname _Rosario + Vampire_ is no longer able to be referenced due to that simple\nfact, and Tsukune is a vampire now and the outer Moka is gone. Perhaps the\nname would be changed.\n\nIt also said that \"Yoshii Kiria took over fairy tail\" and then state \"but\nlet's save that story for another time\". At least from what I understand of\nthe wording, it is passable for a continuation of _Rosario + Vampire_ , but\nwould most likely no longer be called that anymore. This comes from \"Dawn of\nthe Dark\" arc of the manga as Tsukune is being trained by Moka's father,\nShuzen Issa in the after story.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-12-04T12:17:56.090", "id": "43660", "last_activity_date": "2017-12-04T14:20:42.907", "last_edit_date": "2017-12-04T14:20:42.907", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37009", "parent_id": "7471", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs an Enhancer, Youpi's ability \"Metamorphosis\" allows him to shape-shift at\nwill(1) (such as giving himself wings, as seen earlier in the series). This\nallows him to hide and reveal those eyes at will.\n\n\n\n1) [Menthuthuyoupi - Hunter x Hunter\nWiki](http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Menthuthuyoupi#Nen)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-12T15:57:46.927", "id": "7475", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-12T15:57:46.927", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7473", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's exactly as it states. The manga is on break in the _next issue_ (the one\nthat comes out the week after chapter 737) (WJ#12). One-Piece will continue\nthe following week (WJ#13), .\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-12T18:33:28.093", "id": "7477", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-12T18:33:28.093", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7476", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nNext chapter (738) will be out on February 18th. Scans will probably be up\nlater that day or by early morning of Wednesday the 19th.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-13T03:04:24.287", "id": "7483", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-13T03:04:24.287", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3712", "parent_id": "7476", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSounds like they are humming the special ED (ep.17)/Insert Song (ep.24) \"Snow\nMaiden\" by Aki Misato:\n\n<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TU7dq75L-s>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-13T18:03:23.010", "id": "7490", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-13T18:03:23.010", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7487", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTaking in to consideration that Blood Lad makes use of allot of parody (only\nin that one episode almost all of his finishing/attack moves are derived from\nother anime/games)\n\nFollowing the policy of FUNimation\n\n> **Legal**\n>\n> _May I create new content using FUNimation properties?_\n>\n> Taking an artwork into a new medium such as 3D animation and/or creating fan\n> fiction based on an existing artwork usually does not fall under Fair Use.\n> For more on fair use, please see this Wikipedia entry:\n> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use>\n>\n> Such works are generally considered “derivative works” and the right to\n> create such works is one of the exclusive rights of a copyright holder. 17\n> USC § 106(2)\n>\n> If someone creates a derivative work without authorization from the\n> copyright holder, they can be liable for copyright infringement. Whether we\n> will seek to go after them or not, is another story...\n>\n> **Fair use**\n>\n> Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by\n> copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States copyright\n> law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material\n> without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use\n> include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting,\n> research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the\n> legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in\n> another author's work under a four-factor balancing test.\n\nTaking these rules in to consideration it would most likely mean that if he\nfinished the Kamehameha he would indeed have gone beyond the point of fair\nuse, and into the area of copyright infrigment.\n\n**EDIT**\n\nAs for the Japanese copyrights. They indeed seem to be quiet different yet\ncomes down to pretty much the same in rough lines [(can read them\nhere)](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/list/?re=02&dn=1&x=66&y=18&x=0&y=0&ky=copyright&co=1&ia=03&yo=&gn=&sy=&ht=&no=&bu=&ta=)\nAnd a modifyd fair use law seems to be in place aswell, which is more similar\nthe Korean version then to the english version.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-13T20:16:26.143", "id": "7492", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-13T23:04:36.900", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-13T23:04:36.900", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7489", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThere is a reason why the runaway spirits hide in females. A runaway spirit\ncan be reborn as the child of a female host. For this reason, essentially all\nrunaway spirits have female hosts. As far as I know it has never been\nexplicitly addressed whether a runaway spirit is capable of possessing a male\nhost, but even if they could it wouldn't be of any benefit to them since the\nprimary goal of the spirits is to be reincarnated.\n\nThis was explained in chapter 3 of the manga (before the Mio conquest), but at\nleast according to @ShinobuOshino below in the comments, not in the anime. It\ndoes come up in some future arcs though (I'll avoid spoiling exactly when), so\nit may be mentioned later in the anime.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-14T04:44:07.137", "id": "7497", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-24T08:14:47.750", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-24T08:14:47.750", "last_editor_user_id": "24", "owner_user_id": "24", "parent_id": "7496", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on the information written in [Mangaupdates page of Tasogare Otome x\nAmnesia](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=41618 \"Mangaupdates\"), the\nanime started at chapter 1 (with different settings) and ended at at **chapter\n23**.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-27T12:50:53.203", "id": "7734", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-27T12:50:53.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "7498", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe technique Heian Hyakudan is non existing technique in karate.\n\nShio Sakaki claims to hold 100 dan in the arts of karate . So the move Heian\nHyakudan could be a word play on this with Hyaku meaning 100 (百).\n\nAs for his movements, with the rotation and forward moving speed he should\nhave fallen indeed. Although in the manga (don't remember the exact chapters)\nit is also shown that Sakaki can alter his central point of gravity by using\ncertain muscles. Which in this case would have helped him with maintaining\nbalance and allowing him to land in such manner.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-14T16:56:08.833", "id": "7502", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-14T16:56:08.833", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7499", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe \"Heian Hyakudan\" technique pictured resembles a real technique in the kata\nChatan Yara Kusanku. I'm sure it's a coincidence but it is interesting. You\ncan watch a video of it [here](http://youtu.be/iiiznDpoapQ).\n\nYou will see it in the 4th and 5th directions. It has a twisted stance with a\nchop like this, and is followed with a kick and then a drop to the ground. I\ndoubt if it would send multiple people flying through the air like they got\nhit with tornadoes, but maybe when one reaches 100th Dan...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-09T05:03:23.287", "id": "11170", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-09T09:49:38.360", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-09T09:49:38.360", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "6173", "parent_id": "7499", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat's\n[Tobari Durandal\nKumohira](http://nabarinoou.wikia.com/wiki/Tobari_Durandal_Kumohira) from\n[Nabari no\nOu](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9102).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-15T04:43:03.813", "id": "7513", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-15T04:43:03.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7512", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMirajane didn't exactly lose her powers. As Märmîk Šhâh said, Mirajane\nprobably lost the will to fight from being unable to protect her sister\ndespite being S-Class and being there. She probably stopped using magic\nbecause of this and thus her powers waned from not being used.\n\nDuring the final Arc of Season 1, when Freed defeats Elfman, Mirajane's\ndistress over her brother's suffering and being reminded of Lisanna's death\ncauses her to join the fight to avoid seeing her family suffer for the second\ntime. This is when she uses her Satan Soul, probably not as strong as it once\nwas but she was an S-Class Mage and she retained that rank since the accident.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-16T22:37:36.710", "id": "7528", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-30T03:27:10.807", "last_edit_date": "2017-10-30T03:27:10.807", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7514", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nVasto Lorde are the top of the Hollow species. However, they are Hollow, not\nArrancar.\n\nArrancars are Hollow which, using the power of the Hogyoku, removed the\nboundry between Hollow and Shinigami, and achieved a greater power, usually by\nremoving their masks and sealing most of their power into a sword.\n\nEspada, are by definition the top ten _Arrancar_. **They may or many not be\nVasto Lorde**.\n\nIt was heavily implied that of all the Espada, only the top four (Ulquiorra,\nHalibel, Barragan and Stark) were Vasto Lorde before they became Arrancars\n(and subsequently Espada).\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-15T21:23:07.423", "id": "7516", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-15T21:23:07.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7515", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nVasto Lorde are extremely powerful hollows. Hitsuguya suggested that if Aizen\nwere to get ten Arrancars on Vasto Lorde level, the Soul Society would be\ndoomed. For\n\n> Vasto lorde are weak ... Nnoitra(when he was 8 in espada ) was sent to\n> recruit vasto lorde but he killed him\n\n[user4640](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7515/how-are-vasto-lorde-\ndifferent-from-the-espada/37420#comment11054_7515) is mistelling the\ninformation. In episode 202, Nnoitra was talking to Nel, who asked him why he\ndestroyed an entire colony of hollows. He said he did it because he was not\ntold not to, as well he was looking for Vasto Lorde. The exact quote is,\n\n> If I could kill them(Hollows) off that easily, then they couldn't be Vasto\n> Lorde.\n\nEspada are extremely powerful Hollows made into Arrancars. Arrancars come from\nthe Hogyoku, where the Vasto Lorde cannot come from being an Arrancar.\nArrancars lose the evolutionary step because they are in between Soul reaper\nand hollows. Only hollows that do not become Arrancars can be become vasto\nLordes. However, Vasto Lordes can become Arrancars.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-11-20T03:27:16.710", "id": "37420", "last_activity_date": "2016-11-21T01:29:00.590", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "29340", "parent_id": "7515", "post_type": "answer", "score": -4 }, { "body": "\n\nHallows have 3 ranks apart from their basic form : 1st rank Gillian also\ncalled menos Grande 2nd rank Adjuchas 3rd rank Vasto Lorde these hollows keep\ntheir hallow forms.\n\nNow Hallows who attained powers like a soul reaper are called Arrancar (which\nmeans to rip/tear off) and do not have the hollow defining skull mask and look\nhuman like with only a fragment of their mask attached to their head. Espada\nare simply the top ten strongest Arrancar in Sousuke Aizen' s army of\nArrancar. Hope this was helpful\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-08-13T16:30:03.910", "id": "53964", "last_activity_date": "2019-08-13T16:30:03.910", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "48520", "parent_id": "7515", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBecause Rem threatened to kill him should anything happen to Misa Misa. If he\nplanned to use Misa Misa as a tool and perhaps sacrifice her eventually. He\nwould have to get Rem out of the way.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-16T09:07:24.200", "id": "7525", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-16T09:07:24.200", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7524", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nRem wanted to protect Misa and would kill Light if he let/caused Misa to die.\nMisa, however, was a good tool for Light and he could not kill her without\nraising suspicion towards himself.\n\nLight also wanted L to die, but he could not kill him without knowing his real\nname. Rem could see everyone's name with her shinigami eyes, but would not\nkill anyone unless Misa was in trouble. So, Light put Misa in trouble and\npressured Rem into killing L and Wastabi. As a result, Rem died and Light\nthought he had no more people in his way.\n\nIf Rem didn't kill L and Wastabi, Misa definitely would have been caught again\nand killed. There would have been a lot of suspicion towards Light, but he may\nhave been able to talk himself out of it. If he did not, he would have died\nalso. It was a gamble.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-16T16:00:16.707", "id": "7526", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-16T16:00:16.707", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2100", "parent_id": "7524", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nMisa Misa was a useful tool but, with Rem always wanting to protect her and\nbegan to really care for her Light couldn't use her in anyway that would put\nher endanger for Rem would kill him the first chance she got. In order to use\nMisa and kill L he got Misa taken in and \"endanger\" putting the blame on L\nthat he had done it. Doing that and edging Rem to kill him in order to save\nMisa since she was the only creature that could see L's real name doing this\nwas killing to birds with one stone that kept getting in the way of Light's\n\"good work.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T05:54:11.027", "id": "7556", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-18T05:54:11.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3785", "parent_id": "7524", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat could've happened if it went wrong:\n\nRem betrays Light to save Misa:\n\nSee this genius answer: [Why did Rem kill\nL?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/19123/why-did-rem-\nkill-l/21151#21151)\n\nRem can talk to L and give L 2 options:\n\n> Option 1 (what she partially did): I kill you, Watari and the whole task\n> force and you'll never catch Kira nor Misa, failing in every aspect of your\n> investigation.\n\n> Option 2 (what she could have done before going for Option 1): I tell him\n> that I can see who's the first Kira, and that the second Kira is Misa. But\n> that as a Shinigami who's involved with Misa, I will not let anything happen\n> to her, so I can either kill them all, or give them, in exchange for Misa's\n> innocence), the name for the first Kira. If they refuse this deal, then they\n> will have none (and go to Option 1).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-11-28T00:22:07.957", "id": "66002", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-28T00:22:07.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4484", "parent_id": "7524", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI cannot tell you who started it or where it comes from exactly, but it is\nbased on the fact that mushrooms grow in dark and dank places. Exactly the\nkind of environment depressed characters are visually and mentally put into. \n \nIt is mentioned in the [Corner of\nWoe](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CornerOfWoe) trope:\n\n> Bonus points if you manage to act gloomy enough to attract Ghost Lights or\n> grow mushrooms in your dark, damp corner of woe.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T09:42:25.017", "id": "7537", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T09:42:25.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3472", "parent_id": "7530", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Japanese, a gloomy/depressed person can be referred to as being \"damp\"\n(じめじめ, jimejime). What grows in dark (i.e. gloomy) and damp places? Mushrooms,\nof course.\n\nThe expression from Haruhi there about telling Tamaki to \"stop growing\nmushrooms in one's closet\" which means, more or less \"stop being depressed\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-03-11T06:42:17.847", "id": "56980", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-11T16:47:03.783", "last_edit_date": "2020-03-11T16:47:03.783", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7530", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTailed Beasts are not animals. They are large mass of chakra with there own\nconsciousness. In the first fight between Hashirama and Madara, Madara could\nuse Kyuubi like his summoning. That time Kyuubi was not bound within a\njinchuriki. So I think someone as powerful as Madara could easily control the\ntailed beasts by overwriting their consciousness. And since Obito now had\ncombined power of Uchiha as well as Senju, IMO he was strong enough to summon\nthe tailed beast and use them.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T11:02:37.930", "id": "7538", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T11:02:37.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the the battles of Minato vs Obito and Hashirama Vs Madara I can\nrecollect **three** important things:-\n\n 1. Both Sharingan users[Obito and Madara] casted genjutsu to Kurama[Kyuubi] and as a result they were able to control it.Kurama was bound to obey them\n 2. There was some contract seal between the caster and Kyuubi.\n 3. Both Minato and Hashirama used their contract seal.\n\nMore about **Contract Seal** is explained\n[**here**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Contract_Seal):-\n\n> Though the Contract Seal removes the summoner's ability to control its\n> summon, it does not give the user of the fūinjutsu the ability to control\n> the summon in turn.\n\nFrom what I can speculate Obito got some information about the contract seal\nfrom Uchiha tablet or directly from Madara.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T06:07:27.610", "id": "7557", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-18T11:52:20.030", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-18T11:52:20.030", "last_editor_user_id": "3081", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nOf course, Obito mastered the Summoning Jutsu.The great disaster in Konoha was\ncaused by Kurama and the one who summoned the Kyuubi was Obito Uchiha.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T13:52:40.123", "id": "7565", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-18T14:56:34.050", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-18T14:56:34.050", "last_editor_user_id": "3187", "owner_user_id": "3796", "parent_id": "7531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI am terrible at physiognomy but it looks like [Akira\nKurosawa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T09:14:26.220", "id": "7536", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T21:47:23.347", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-17T21:47:23.347", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "7532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe couldn't, as mentioned a number of times, Lights's ultimate plot to use Rem\nto kill L was a huge gamble, however things were more of less siding with him\n\n 1. L said to Light (with Rem present) that the Kira's will be executed\n\n 2. Misa was not present in the room when L said to Light that the Kira's would be executed, this means Rem could not see if Misa's life span had changed as a result of L's decision to see the Kira's executed or confirm if Light's actions caused the change (Rem had pointed out to Light before the switching of the Death Notes (i think when Misa first goes to Light's place) that Misa's lifespan was monitored )\n\n 3. L had explained to Light the physical evidence he had found indicating Misa as the 2nd Kira before her imprisonment, this would be enough for Misa to be imprisoned once again and now that L knew how Kira kills he would be able to find the Death Note much faster (Misa now had her original Death Note but now owned by Ryuk, because Rem would've explained its use to Misa the rules wouldn't have been written, before learning of the Death Note Light did plan on explaining that the Death Note was a log for the Kira Case which would then explain the people's names and times)\n\nAll Rem could do at the time was assume that L would cause Misa's death and\nbecause L had also noted that Misa was just about to be arrested Rem had no\ntime to investergate\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T06:02:40.497", "id": "7535", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T22:34:12.843", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-17T22:34:12.843", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7534", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHe realizes that with the info he has gained, L will eventually find Misa if\nshe continues passing judgment on criminals and therefore he knows that L will\neventually figure out that the one using the notebook is Misa using his\nnewfound knowledge of the Death note, and will apprehend and execute Misa.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-03-26T15:55:34.280", "id": "46237", "last_activity_date": "2018-03-26T16:35:36.643", "last_edit_date": "2018-03-26T16:35:36.643", "last_editor_user_id": "91", "owner_user_id": "39760", "parent_id": "7534", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJust like [@senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin)\nstated in his comment, for the Japanese people, their characters do look\nAsian.\n\nThere is a really nice article written about this on\n[thesocietypages](http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/08/30/guest-post-\nwhy-do-the-japanese-draw-themselves-as-white/) and as stated there:\n\n> Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white? You see that especially in\n> manga and anime.\n>\n> As it turns out, that is an American opinion, not a Japanese one. The\n> Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think\n> they are white. Why? Because to them white is the Default Human Being.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> Americans apply this thinking to Japanese drawings. **But to the Japanese\n> the Default Human Being is Japanese! So they feel no need to make their\n> characters “look Asian”**. They just have to make them look like people and\n> everyone in Japan will assume they are Japanese – no matter how improbable\n> their physical appearance.\n\nIn your question, you also said _\" Maybe it's the round eyes? And the non-\nblack hair in some cases?\"_\n\nThe article above also pointed out something about that:\n\n> [...] the Default Human Being thing is so strong that lacking other clear,\n> stereotyped signs of being either black or Asian she defaults to white.\n>\n> When you think about it there is **nothing particularly white about how\n> anime characters look** :\n>\n> * **huge round eyes** – no one looks like that, not even white people\n> (even though that style of drawing eyes does go back to Betty Boop).\n> * **yellow hair** – but they also have blue hair and green hair and all\n> the rest. Therefore, hair colour is not about being true to life.\n> * **small noses** – compared to the rest of the world whites have long\n> noses that stick out.\n> * **white skin** – but many Japanese have skin just as pale and white as\n> most White Americans.\n>\n\nOf course, there are also exceptions. A nice example is indeed [Dan\nEagleman](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AGJjJ.jpg), as stated by @senshin. The\nmoment they need to make somebody look non-Japanese, they will try to design\nthe character more to the American/European stereotype, i.e.\n\n * Bigger noses\n * Blond hair/blue eyes/white\n * Speaks fluent English\n\n", "comment_count": 12, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T13:47:19.893", "id": "7542", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T19:54:05.173", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T19:54:05.173", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 47 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree that in Aku no Hana they actually do look Japanese. Let's face it, we\nall know that Japanese, Chinese, and Korean have small, almost squinty eyes.\nWhite people don't necessarily have big eyes either, but they're bigger than\nthe ones a typical Asian would have. Some say that the Japanese are trying to\ntake over the world by drawing their characters as Caucasians. I have noticed\nthat in animes the major characters are always white. It's very rare to even\nhave an African character pop up every now and then as a on the side\ncharacter, but that's about the most culture variation you'll see.\n\nReligion doesn't pop up either in animes, with the exception of the monks, and\nstatues of Buddha that appear(only Japanese culture is allowed in JAPANESE\nanime and manga of course). And my point on religion and the appearances of\nthe characters is that not every one has the same way of life or is\ncomfortable wearing mini skirts. In a lot of religions they're not allowed to\ndo some of those things that people on animes do. Like dating, flirting, going\nall the way before marriage, or even as a girl showing your thighs to another\ngirl is not allowed. So, in the anime world every one is actually the same,\neven though the main character is usually some what different from the others,\nbut in a way that we can't relate to because it's usually impossible IRL. Like\nin the anime series Naruto, he (Naruto) starts out as an out cast because of\nthe fox demon sealed inside him. Therefore, treated differently by his peers\nin a negative way.\n\nThe thing about hair colour, well, Asians almost always have black hair. On\nthe other hand, Europeans are more often found with hair that is red. But, I\nread that that it is possible for Asian and African people to inherit the two\ncopies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a mutation in the\nMC1R protein(causes red hair). Considering the facts, most red heads have\nEuropean genes, which is why people on animes that have red hair or even blond\nhair with blue eyes AND white skin, look like white people. But when\ncharacters have randomly crazy, awesome and impossible IRL hair colours like\nBLUE, GREEN, PURPLE, PINK, TURQUOISE, etc. you know it's just part of the\nillustrators' design.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-30T22:11:24.250", "id": "8380", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-30T22:11:24.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4334", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nI disagree that anime are portraying causcasian/european, because they're\nportraying Japanese obviously if they have Japanese names... therefore I agree\nwith Senshin, and Dimitri mx\n\nIf you look at the Japanese subcultures, they like to dye their hair in\ndifferent colors to defy the norm, which are largely dark hair, not trying to\nlook caucasian. I hear people claim that anime looks caucasian/europe makes me\nsad, as it shows how limited their world view is... Not all Asian has small\nsquinty eyes, I've known a lot of friends who has round and big eyes, there\nare even more if you go to Asian countries. It's like saying those Causcasians\nwho like to tan their skin are trying to be African American, or those who\nlike to dance hip hop or rap are trying to be African American, but are they?\nMaybe some of them are, but most of them tan their skin because they think it\nlooks nice with their overall eyes and hair, just like Asian/Japanese dye\ntheir hair because they think it looks nice with their complexion, and that is\nreflected in anime with different hair colors etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-08T01:41:21.217", "id": "8544", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-08T01:47:03.540", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-08T01:47:03.540", "last_editor_user_id": "4421", "owner_user_id": "4421", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm Chinese, but I see white people when I watch anime too. It is incredibly\nobvious actually:\n\nWhite skin as opposed to Japanese toned. Round eyes as opposed to Japanese\nshaped, blonde/red/brown hair as opposed to black, and Caucasian face shape as\nopposed to Asian shaped.\n\nEven though I grew up in Canada, I still don't think \"white\" is the default\nhuman to me. I don't believe Japanese see Japanese people either, unless the\ncharacter is Tenchi or one of his friends or something.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-11T17:41:42.397", "id": "9654", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-11T17:41:42.397", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4846", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nUm, sorry but they don't look European to me...\n\nTheir facial structure looks Asian, and their hairstyles are more in the style\nof Asian fashions (well, most Asian can pull it off since they tend to have\nyounger looking faces). Their hair color comes in all ranges so that doesn't\ncount.\n\nWhen anime portrays Westerners, they tend to have bigger jaws (which is true)\nand you can distinctly see their nose is bigger/higher. (Look at Monsters for\nexample: those Germans look like Westerners to me, while Tenma certainly looks\nJapanese.)\n\nTo be honest, in most animated Western movies, characters don't look like the\naverage American to me; rather, it's their mannerisms that makes them look\nAmerican. I was watching Tangled and I noticed that her eyes are very big, to\nthe point where no one can have eyes that big, but minus the big eyes and her\nmannerisms, yes she comes across as western to me.\n\nThat applies to most anime, their eyes are impossibly big for a human being,\nbut minus their non-human eyes, I see lots of Asian features in there, and\ntheir mannerism makes it more obvious. Take Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children\nfor example. Most characters, like Cloud (minus blue eye and blond hair), look\nlike Gackt, who is Japanese, to me. And Tifa looks very Japanese. the first\ntime I ever saw a Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core/Advent Children cut scene, I\nthought they look very Japanese/anime aesthetic, and I haven't watched much\nanime at the time as well. You can argue that they look Eurasian more than\npure European.\n\nAnd anime looks out of this world, but with some Asian aesthetic. That's my\nconclusion. So I disagree; they don't look European. They look Japanese and I\naccept it as that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-18T22:25:13.013", "id": "12925", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T14:23:33.593", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T14:23:33.593", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "7649", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe the Japanese were/are highly influenced by western and American\nculture. So to avoid looking like someone or as a self-hating country as a\nwhole, they say they think that's how the average Japanese person looks\ninstead of 'I like the way whites look.' This is just my opinion, but I see\nthat it could also very much be a fact because if the Japanese see the\ncharacters as \"Japanese\" why just draw them the way we usually see them? Why\nnot with dark skin, or different features? Features we usually see in other\ncultures. Wanna know why that's usual? Because they don't like it, and don't.\nSee the beauty in it and don't want to be or look like it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T14:16:14.743", "id": "15572", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T14:16:14.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "9532", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's a huge diversity of faces among Japanese people. Cartoon characters\nare hugely simplified, such that you can only typically identify ethnicity of\na character if they're drawn to have stereotypical features. But why should\nJapanese people draw only stereotypical Asian features on characters in a show\n100% intended for a Japanese audience? Generally, it is intended for people to\nassume the characters are Japanese unless stated otherwise.\n\nThey only try to distinguish ethnicity in their character designs when the\ncharacter is _not_ Japanese, and then they tend to draw very stereotypical\nfeatures. From examples like that, you can also tell that Japanese people have\na very different idea of what a stereotypical caucasian looks like too. They\ntend to draw at least the men with clefted chins, square jaws, prominent\ncheekbones, wide mouths. Sort of like how we draw stereotypical superhero\nfaces, really.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-08T17:33:09.390", "id": "15576", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-08T17:42:25.340", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-08T17:42:25.340", "last_editor_user_id": "3734", "owner_user_id": "3734", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIf we look back to Astroboy, the first regularly broadcast tv-length animated\nseries, we can see that characters are still not necessarily Asian-looking\n\n\n\nAstroboy started off as a show targeted mostly towards the Japanese, but soon\nTezuka realised that it would not strike a profit on this alone. 52 episodes\nwere sold to NBC Enterprises (as opposed to NBC Network), who in turn\ndistributed the show to several places throughout America.\n\nBecause of the US's different perspective of what is and is not acceptable for\nbroadcasting on television, several episodes were not broadcast in the States\n- one of these includes a plot device where a message is held inside the\neyeball of a statue of Jesus. Because the US's involvement was critical for\nAstroboy's success, Osamu Tezuka & his company Tezuka Productions Ltd. had to\ntake this into consideration in later episodes that they produced.\n\nNow that the US were a recognised target audience of the show whom had\ninfluence on its production, Tezuka advised production to make the show\n_denationalized_ \\- that is, they started to include signs in English,\nremoving 'openly Japanese elements' and overall, making the show more\naccessible to both local and foreign sales.\n\n* * *\n\nAlso, in the early days of anime, smaller Japanese studios were always\ncompeting with the large US giants such as Disney. As a result, Japanese\nanimation was greatly influenced by them - Tezuka's style (along with many\nother mangaka's of this era) was quite Disney-like, subconsciously affected by\nthe studio's large successes.\n\nDisney's productions themselves were quite denationalized, some series more so\nthan others, but American viewers did not have to experience a large stylistic\nchange when watching Japanese cartoons - and for the most part, they usually\nassumed they were American.\n\nLadd with Deneroff 2009: 21 (on Astroboy in America)\n\n> \"We don't plan to advertise the fact that the series is being animated in\n> Japan. We're not going to deny it, if anybody asks, but we're not going to\n> publicize it, either. First of all, there are probably some buyers at\n> stations out there who still haven't gotten over the fact that Japan was our\n> enemy in World War Two. Second, if a buyer hears that the show is of\n> Japanese origin, he's going to think it must be cheap [...]\"\n\n\n\n(American shows are mostly denationalized too)\n\nThis isn't the only show to have these concerns however. Denationalization is\na significant part of anime history as Japanese studios were always competing\nwith their American counterparts, whose animation was higher quality and\ncheaper to import than produce locally.\n\n* * *\n\nTake a brief look at Scott McCloud's _Understanding Comics_ :\n\n\n\nThe more generic a character, the more one can associate with them, and by\nchoosing a neutral coloured skin tone, more of the audience will associate\nwith it.\n\n* * *\n\nAs a counter example, an animated movie in which Eastern traits were desired\nwas _The tale of the white serpent_. As you can see below, the design of the\ncharacters were more oriental. Anyway, denationalization has become the norm\nand only shows which seek to emphasize Eastern design include it.\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nAnime evolved with this feature in mind, and as other people have pointed out\n- audiences will always try to associate with characters in media, whether\nthat be books, anime, film, etc. So, what may look _European/American_ to you,\nmay look equally Asian to those residing there because of the general design\nof the characters.\n\n**References:**\n\n * Anime: A History by Jonathan Clements (p123,124)\n * Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-13T07:40:28.463", "id": "18497", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T08:35:53.893", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-24T08:35:53.893", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 26 }, { "body": "\n\nAs the top answers have already stated, the characters do look Asian from the\npoint of view of the artists, but I want to add that Japanese people (and\nother Asian nations) [have a fascination with white\nskin](http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china-and-its-neighbors/091123/asia-\nwhite-skin-treatments-risks).\n\nThe linked article gives an overview of the phenomenon. Pale skin is seen as\nan ideal trait that many young women strive for. Its origin is not in trying\nto appear more Western or European, but rather has a history in economic\nstatus, where field workers who were out in the sun all day would have much\ndarker skin than the aristocrats staying in the shade. Today, it is manifested\nas an unrealistic beauty standard for women, not unlike the ones in the United\nStates and other countries.\n\nHow this relates to anime is that artists typically enjoy drawing beautiful\npeople, unless they are concerned with realism (which, let's face it, most\nanime is not). In this case, that means having pale skin.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-29T15:53:01.083", "id": "21955", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-29T17:08:42.510", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-29T17:08:42.510", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14575", "parent_id": "7539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI haven't seen the anime yet, but in the game's version of events the\nsurvivors who are living in the outside world are the general public who have\nfallen into despair (and somehow gained monokuma heads)\n\n\n\nYou can see them rioting in the image above, and it wouldn't be a wild stretch\nof the imagination to say that they were probably looting stores also. [note\nthe broken window at the very right] which is where they could get themselves\nprovisions and other necessities.\n\nThe academy was sealed off by the students themselves so that they would not\nsuccumb to the miserable world outside.\n\n\n\nAt the end of the game, the students mention that there are people out there\nwho are still clinging onto remnants of hope, and that they will go out, meet\nthem and join forces. But as far as I can tell, it's just conjecture on their\npart.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-25T11:07:44.023", "id": "7690", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T11:07:44.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7540", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nStereotypical might not be the correct word to describe the masters, however,\nthey all do have common personalities compared to the millions of fighting\nmangas out there. I think it would be better to explain it as no one master\nhas a truly unique personality that doesn't exist in other series.\n\nHere are some of their following cliche personalities:\n\nKensei Ma (Kung Fu) - Perverted, Passive \nApachai Hopachai (Muy Thai) - Brainless brawn, yet soft on the inside \nShio Sakaki (Karate) - Boastful, tough, brawler \nKoetsuji Akisame (Judo) - Cool, calm, collected tactician \nShigure Kosaka (Weapons expert) - Quiet, deadly, mysterious \nHayato Furinji (Furinji style) - Superman\n\nAs you can see, their personalities are quite common in other characters from\nother series. There is nothing personality-wise that makes these characters\none of a kind.\n\nExtra side note: Contrary to how the manga describes Akisame's style as\nJujutsu, realistically it is Judo. Sakaki's style is also technically Karate-\ndo as opposed to Karate-jutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T17:41:45.883", "id": "7543", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T17:41:45.883", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "7541", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nYou're probably better off looking over [this TV Tropes\npage](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple)\nas there's a lot of common stereotypes/tropes that these characters are tied\nto.\n\nKenichi is kind of a gag show on top of shounen fighting so it's so chock full\nof stereotypes that it's hard to list them all.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-17T18:54:57.430", "id": "7544", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-17T18:54:57.430", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7541", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUnfortunately it is never explained why Shichika killed his father, however\nfrom episode 7, we can get a pretty good guess that it might have been to\nprotect Nanami.\n\nHere is the dialogue from the second fight at 35:00:\n\n> **Nanami:** Do you remember when you killed Father?\n>\n> **Shichika:** I guess I do...\n>\n> **Nanami:** I haven't thanked you for that yet. But I'm not particularly\n> grateful to you for that, so even now I don't intend to say so. Because I\n> would have been fine with being killed by Father back then. I would have\n> been fine with it. There's no point to me living after all.\n\nWhat we can gather from this implicitly is that Shichika killed their father\nin order to protect Nanami, without any request from Nanami, e.g. simply\nsibling affection. In this sense, this means their father either mentioned\nthat he would eventually have to kill Nanami and thus forced Shichika's hand\nor he attempted to kill Nanami and thus forced Shichika's hand. So whether or\nnot he mentioned it or attempted it we don't know, however I believe it's most\nlikely the latter due to Nanami's extreme potential.\n\nAs for the reason, what we know is that Nanami has the ability\n[Migeika](http://katanagatari.wikia.com/wiki/Nanami_Yasuri#Abilities). For\nthis reason in episode 4 Nanami recaps that her and Shichika's father\nneglected to make Nanami the Yasuri 7th generation family head, because this\nability made her too powerful. Since she was too powerful because she could\nsee any ability and learn it instantly, including the Kyotouryuu sword arts,\nthat their father deemed her to be too dangerous with her potential and thus\ndecided to eliminate her.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-24T14:14:13.310", "id": "19642", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-24T14:14:13.310", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "7546", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWikipedia\n[article](http://katanagatari.wikia.com/wiki/Nanami_Yasuri#Abilities):\n\n> Hidden technique: Migeika (見通し研修) - Nanami Yasuri was born with the eye of\n> gods, with this ability, she is able to see through any technique, any\n> movement, any weaknesses, thus mastering any ability with observation.\n\nThe clairvoyance Nanami is mentioning was Migeika, her special technique.\nNanami is literally saying that she can \"see everything.\"\n\nAround 8:20 Nanami says, \"I can see through any technique, any movement and\nany weakness.\" This is the closest in both fight scenes where she mentions any\nsort of clairvoyance implicitly. However, I didn't see her mention\nclairvoyance directly at all.\n\nAt 11:44 Nanami says, \"And I've absorbed all of them. With these eyes.\" She\ndoesn't say she has clairvoyance (which is a see all: \"he supposed faculty of\nperceiving things or events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.\"\nGoogle Definitions). Think of Migeika as more of an ability to take in every\nbit of visual information and process all of it and understand all of it as it\nis. In this sense, she can take in everything in battle, process that\ninformation and immediately understand and make use of it.\n\nThrough out the show it is explained though that Nanami has this technique,\nyou simply missed it. It's especially mentioned in episode 4 where she fights\nthe Insect Squad of the Maniwani.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-24T13:32:41.927", "id": "19640", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-24T14:10:25.583", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-24T14:10:25.583", "last_editor_user_id": "3034", "owner_user_id": "3034", "parent_id": "7547", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAniDB has a nice [releation graph](http://anidb.net/perl-\nbin/animedb.pl?show=rel&aid=715) regarding the different Gundam shows and\nmovies.\n\n# Universal Century and related timelines\n\nIf you are interested in the original story of the [Universal\nCentury](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Universal_Century) (UC) timeline and are\nwilling to invest a lot of time (about 74hrs), you can start off with _Mobile\nSuit Gundam_ (1979-1980) show and work your way through the sequels following\nthe red line in the graph till the latest _Gundam Unicorn_ OVA.\n\n_Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin_ is the OVA production following _Unicorn_ and\nas the name implies it tells the background story of some characters and how\nevents lead to the original series. You probably don't want to start with this\nif you intend to watch the original series and avoid spoilers.\n\n_Gundam F91_ and _Victory Gundam_ are also part of UC, but are of a new\ngeneration (referred as Late UC) with completely new characters and parties.\nWhile _F91_ features similar spaceship and mobile suit designs as well as\nsimilar uniforms, and rather falls in the category of a side story, _V_ seems\nto be completely unrelated from my point of view, this also applies to _Gundam\nReconguista in G_ which is set in [Regild\nCentury](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Regild_Century), a period 500 years\nafter _Turn A Gundam_.\n\nThe summary movies of the original show feature new scenes, but I don't\nrecommend watching them instead of the show, rather watch them when watching\nside stories.\n\n[code]\n\n 140 TV show episodes ((43+50+47)*25min)\n 13 OVA episodes (12*30min+25min)\n 1 film (120min)\n 7 OVA episodes (6*60min+90min)\n Total: 74hrs 15min\n \n[/code]\n\n# UC unrelated timelines\n\nA [page listing most Gundam series timelines and related\nworks](http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Gundam_Wiki:Series) is also available in\nGundam Wikia. Currently these timelines are in order of production dates:\nFuture Century, After Colony, After War, Cosmic Era, Anno Domini, Advanced\nGeneration and Post Disaster. Shows set in these timelines may share some\nGundam specific traits, but they were created to be aired on TV and watched\nindependently to attract new viewers or younger audiences, while loyal fans of\nthe original series are treated with OVAs set in UC.\n\n* * *\n\nIn the comments above\n[senshin](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/1908/senshin) found a guide\n(see below) that includes most of the shows (at least the various SD Gundam\nshows are missing, which benefits clarity) up until _Gundam AGE_ and _Gundam\nUnicorn_ , listing pros & cons for each show.\n\n**Spoiler warning:** I found spoilers in _V_ (con) and _00 S2_ (con), there\nmay be more.\n\nLink: [Gundam Series guide from /m/](http://i4.minus.com/ibqmrR7wH0gcDp.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T09:24:18.503", "id": "7559", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-22T20:28:05.053", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2590", "parent_id": "7548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nAs [LiveWireBT](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/2590/livewirebt) and\nthis [link](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/8717/60220) suggest, UC was the\nlongest Gundam timeline. And worth to be checked. I personally have watched\nand recommend Gundam Seed, Gundam 00, and Gundam Unicorn. As they shared a lot\nsimilarities about earthlings and spacenoids conflict.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-30T13:02:34.467", "id": "29408", "last_activity_date": "2019-04-22T05:09:16.357", "last_edit_date": "2019-04-22T05:09:16.357", "last_editor_user_id": "14883", "owner_user_id": "7736", "parent_id": "7548", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI would definately recommend 00 (sans movie- that may be canon but it was\noriginally supposed to be a seed movie till the lead writer had cancer so they\nshifted to 00 as that was the anime at the time), seed (destiny if you want to\nbut wouldnt really recommend) and iron-blooded orphans (tekketsu-no orphans -\nseason 2 out in october and s1 just finished).\n\nif your after just fights: try build fighters or build fighters try\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-28T21:56:41.493", "id": "30954", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-28T21:56:41.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23057", "parent_id": "7548", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYato, the god of calamity, is a minor deity apart from the Seven Lucky Gods.\n\nI am inclined to say that he doesn't accurately match up to any actual gods\nexisting in Japanese folklore for a few reasons.\n\nBefore all else, we know Yato as a god that does not even have his own grand\nshrine, indicating that he is relatively unknown. Yato's goal in this series\nit to become a popular god.\n\nNext, we know that this series does not exactly follow the Japanese folklore.\nWhile Bishamon is pretty accurate, Kofuku Ebisu does not represent the god of\nluck. Instead, she is nearly the opposite.\n\nLastly, the title of this series leads me to believe that Yato is a fictional\ngod. Nora is a stray shinki, which strongly suggests that the title Noragami\nmeans Stray God (with gami meaning god).\n\nBecause of the combination of fictional elements and indications that Yato is\nan unimportant god, he is most likely fictional or even partly fictional like\nin Ebisu's case.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T01:39:31.767", "id": "7552", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-18T01:39:31.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "7550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nKofuku is not the goddess of luck, and as explained in the series, she is the\ngoddess of misfortune. She is not a part of Seven Gods of Fortune. The Seven\ngods are Hotei, Jurōjin, Fukurokuju, Bishamonten, Benzaiten (Benten-sama),\nDaikokuten (Daikoku) and Ebisu. Her surname, Ebisu is shared with the god of\nfortune as he will appear later in the series or you can just read the manga\n(which are raws) to find out more.\n\nAs for Yato, well, I think it's obvious that he is a fictional character based\non the images of the gods of war in Japanese mythology.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T00:49:34.647", "id": "7704", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-26T00:49:34.647", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3902", "parent_id": "7550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with the general assumption that Yato is not meant to directly\nrepresent any god in particular, but be an inspiration from some minor deity\nof war, or perhaps even many. It goes with his character's back story, or at\nleast what we have seen of his back story up to this point in the anime. He is\nreferenced as the \"god of calamity\" and is shown fighting and slaying his\nopponents in the flash backs. As a side note, researching the term Yato or\nYato-kami does not appear to return anything very compelling, or related to\nany major deity. This further supports the idea that he is an inspired god,\nperhaps from a singular or several obscure tales.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-10T08:41:23.763", "id": "7938", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-10T08:41:23.763", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4060", "parent_id": "7550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom [Yato-no-kami](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yato-no-kami) on Wikipedia:\n\n> The Yato-no-kami (夜刀の神?, \"gods of the night-sword\") are snake deities in\n> Japanese folklore appearing in the Hitachi No Kuni Fudoki. They lived in\n> Namegata county, in fields near the government office. They were rumored to\n> bring familial extermination on anyone who saw them. Eventually, they were\n> killed by a man clearing the fields, enshrined, and banished to the\n> mountains.\n\nThis might explain why Yato does not have a shrine. Since Yato-no-kami\nexterminate people, this might also explain why he is considered a god of\ncalamity. It would also explain his snake eyes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-19T03:31:23.777", "id": "8759", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-19T04:14:22.427", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-19T04:14:22.427", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "4552", "parent_id": "7550", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt might be this ([Yato-no-kami](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yato-no-kami) on\nWikipedia):\n\n> The Yato-no-kami (夜刀の神?, \"gods of the night-sword\") are snake deities in\n> Japanese folklore appearing in the Hitachi No Kuni Fudoki. They lived in\n> Namegata county, in fields near the government office. They were rumored to\n> bring familial extermination on anyone who saw them. Eventually, they were\n> killed by a man clearing the fields, enshrined, and banished to the\n> mountains.\n\nThe fact that Yato doesn't have any shrine and in the article above it says\nthat Yato-no-kami is enshrined. And on the past of Yato in Noragami he is a\nGod that kills people and killed a regalia, in the article above it says that\nthe Yato-no-Kami exterminate people. Also the Yato-no-kami are also known as\nthe gods of the night sword and the last regalia that Yato handled in Noragami\nis Yuki which is a sword. And in the article it says that Yato-no-Kami is a\nsnake deity, if you look closely at Yato's eyes it looks like a snake's eyes\nbecause his pupils are thin that is the same with the snakes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-28T17:46:48.547", "id": "9170", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-05T07:20:16.927", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-05T07:20:16.927", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4687", "parent_id": "7550", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nRegarding Yato as the Yato-no-kami would be a mistake. Spoiler alert:\n\n> If you have read the manga, there is a deity Bishamonten reported to after\n> the incident in her abode. He referred to himself as Yato-no-kami and\n> mistakenly thought of Yato as an impersonator just like Kokufu.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-07T08:10:35.780", "id": "9552", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-07T12:36:56.650", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-07T12:36:56.650", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4795", "parent_id": "7550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYato is an amalgam of many folktales that formed around the Heian period in\nJapan. I cannot say for sure that he is based on one deity, and as others have\nstated before he is not a part of The Seven Gods of Fortune, like Bishamonten\nand other characters that appear later on in the manga (I suggest reading it\nif you haven't already) and as he does not have his own shrine he is an\nunknown entity.\n\nWe can conclude that he isn't in fact based on one single god. However, I find\nthe \"Yato-no-kami theory\" interesting and will investigate more about it.\nThere are similarities, but there is something that gets in the way of that.\nSpoiler alert:\n\n> Yato's real name is not Yato-no-Kami (it is actually Yaboku, Yato is an\n> alias), so that disproves the theory in my opinion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-07T02:44:19.873", "id": "11681", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-07T02:44:19.873", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6509", "parent_id": "7550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nYato is definitely not a 夜刀神 Spoiler alert:\n\n> Yato's name in kanji is 夜卜 which is pronounced yaboku. but the people in the\n> anime read the 卜 as the katakana ト (to) which looks very similar. It was\n> Hiyori that realised his name was two kanji and was able to call him out of\n> the underworld.\n\nI am sorry, but due to restricted internet, I cannot do more research on the\ntype of kami (Damn China internet).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-01T04:32:54.177", "id": "28559", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-01T04:32:54.177", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "20121", "parent_id": "7550", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf I remember correctly,\n\n> the walls were built with the hardening ability of Titans.\n\nAs a result, the walls are very tough to break and have sheltered human kinds\nfor decades.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T11:45:39.810", "id": "7561", "last_activity_date": "2020-02-12T23:23:24.947", "last_edit_date": "2020-02-12T23:23:24.947", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3793", "parent_id": "7551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nThe walls weren't exactly built by humans.\n\n> The walls are all made from 50 meter colossal titans. They are unable to\n> move because it is dark inside the walls and they become immobile in the\n> dark.\n\nThis is shown in the final episode of the anime after the credits.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-17T04:54:22.187", "id": "9765", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-05T20:49:26.923", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-05T20:49:26.923", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "4920", "parent_id": "7551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nJust adding on the rest of the answers here, but\n\n> \"the walls were built with the exoskeletons of titans\"\n\nseems to be somewhat different on the [Shingeki no Kyojin\nWikia](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Wall_Titan):\n\n> The Wall Titans (幻の巨人 Maboroshi no Kyojin?, Phantom Titans) are unusual kind\n> of Titans that make up the Walls that protect humanity. They are first\n> revealed when the Female Titan tried to climb Wall Sina to escape from Eren\n> and the Survey Corps. The lack of sunlight inside the Walls renders them\n> immobile. \n> \n> It is implied that the Wall Titans have the ability of using their\n> crystallizing powers to create massive walls, notably Wall Maria, Rose and\n> Sina. Their exact motives for doing this are unknown.\n\nThis seems to imply something completely different to what I was thinking. Of\ncourse you can't trust everything you read, but I like to think this\ninformation is pretty accurate.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-31T11:32:29.413", "id": "10041", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-05T20:48:27.063", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-05T20:48:27.063", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "7551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe walls are built by a special breed of titans that the colossal titan is\nand this is discovered when a piece of the wall is broken off \n\nIt is also stated [here](http://shingekinokyojin.wikia.com/wiki/Wall_Cult)\nthat a group of religious fanatics and the king know about the wall being made\nof titans.\n\nThough the reason for the wall titans to protect humans is not stated it is\npossible that titan shifters made up the wall it is also possible that not all\ntitans are against humanity considering the size of these titans they could\nhave preyed on other titans thus providing a motive they wished to prey on\ntitans and humans attract titans the humans might have trapped them and then\nthe titans went into hibernation\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-25T06:40:08.310", "id": "17055", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-25T09:36:50.000", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-25T09:36:50.000", "last_editor_user_id": "6345", "owner_user_id": "10841", "parent_id": "7551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nRod Reiss' ancestors, the first king, used his powers to create the walls (and\nTitans?) And wiped all memory of the word before the walls from the mind of\nhumanity.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-20T01:31:30.537", "id": "19512", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-20T01:31:30.537", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "12829", "parent_id": "7551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n## Spoilers from the manga.\n\nAfter the king's sanctum incident (ch50~65)\n\n> (when Rod Reiss tried to make Historia eat Eren),\n\nit is disclosed that\n\n> The First King used his Coordinate power (control over titans) to force\n> those titans to use their hardening power to shape up the walls, then used\n> his Memory power to wipe the memories from the pre-wall era from humanity.\n\nWhy did he\n\n> leave hibernating titans inside the walls\n\nis unknown.\n\n> he also created the Wallist Church to help him oversee the walls safety.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-13T02:57:07.603", "id": "20011", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-06T19:41:41.070", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-06T19:41:41.070", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "7551", "post_type": "answer", "score": 16 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe D-gray man manga has not finished yet. It is on hiatus once again for an\nindeterminate period of time. This most likely due to her illness, but there\nis no proof of this right now.\n\nAt the time of writing, on [Jump SQ\nsite](http://jumpsq.shueisha.co.jp/rensai/), the series' status is displayed\nas 「一時休載」 which means something along the lines of \"temporary non-appearance\nin print.\" and they will most likely announce the continuation there. In case\nyou are not a fluent Japanese reader (like myself) you might just want to\nfollow this forum thread by [manga\nhelpers](http://mangahelpers.com/forum/showthread.php/43942-The-DGM-Hiatus-\nThread/page47) They keep a close watch on sites such as Jump SQ and try to\nannounce it in English A.S.A.P.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-19T00:54:51.197", "id": "7576", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-09T16:38:33.673", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-09T16:38:33.673", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7555", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, there are no clues, at least not yet (in the anime).\n\nBut your second part of question/theory is obviously incorrect, since it's not\nenough to be related to an Uchiha, because it's not the DNA you need\n(directly, as is the case with the Senju part), but rather it's the eye\nitself. Since Naruto doesn't have a Sharingan, even if he's related to the\nSenju (distantly), he wouldn't be able to awaken the Rinnegan - not even if,\nby some miracle, Minato were to be related to the Uchihas (it seems pretty\nimpossible to me). So, if Naruto were to not get a Sharingan, e.g. from\nSasuke, in my opinion, he will never be able to awaken the Rinnegan.\n\nAs with the fight, I've no idea about the manga; the only thing I know is that\nhe will team up with Sasuke (from older posts, which made me crazy...), but\noff-topic, I think there is more in Naruto, even without a Rinnegan, which\ncould equal AND overpower Madara.\n\nRelated to your question, we don't know anything about Minato's parents.\n\"Namikaze\" could represent his association with a clan (as in most of the\ncases), or it could simply be his second name.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T17:14:02.163", "id": "7570", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-01T21:21:11.297", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-01T21:21:11.297", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "7568", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nWoah woah woah woah woah.... Naruto will never achieve Rinnegan....\n[**Rinnegan**](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/3187/rinneg4n) has given\na proper explanation for it.\n\nTo put your answer short:\n\n 1. No information about Minato's parents has been revealed. It isn't important, anyway.\n 2. \"Namikaze\" _could be a clan_ [don't know if it falls in Senju clan]. But it is definitely not associated with Uchiha since all members of the Uchiha clan had the \"Uchiha\" name. (most common observation has been taken into consideration here.)\n 3. The Uzumaki clan were the only ones who were associated with Minato for a while. First, it was his wife, Kushina, who belonged to the Uzumaki clan. Secondly, he learned many sealing techniques from the Uzumaki clan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T17:45:05.437", "id": "7571", "last_activity_date": "2019-09-10T01:19:42.277", "last_edit_date": "2019-09-10T01:19:42.277", "last_editor_user_id": "45696", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7568", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI agree with the existing answers. I do have a theory that the 4 Hokages'\nfather, Minato Namikaze's father is the Second Hokage.\n\nI also thought the same thing about what actually happened. He had an off\nrelationship with a woman with the last name of Namikaze. Now, one of these\nthree possibilities could happen and I know it's kind of unusual:\n\n * He died before he can be told about the baby, so she put the child up for adoption, or\n * She put a child up for adoption before he died, possibly to keep it send me from getting to it, or\n * She died in childbirth.\n\nIt would be interesting if we could get the creator of one of those opinions\non this.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-27T06:58:10.167", "id": "42501", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-27T10:59:14.037", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-27T10:59:14.037", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "35847", "parent_id": "7568", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nQuick google search reveals that\n\n> RWBY Vol 2 will premeire at RTX July 4-6 this year! Thank you all for your\n> support and contributions.\n> [source](https://twitter.com/montyoum/status/428969903883030528)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-18T18:54:35.617", "id": "7573", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-18T18:54:35.617", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "7572", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nCheck out these links:\n\n<http://www.399animeshop.com/anime/death-note/death-note-book-replica-\nsize.php> \n<http://www.ebay.com/bhp/death-note-notebook>\n\nThere are different types tho, one type with only the cover looking like the\ndeath note, the content is like a normal notebook. The other type is exact\nreplica, figure out which one you want.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-19T12:07:38.800", "id": "7583", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-19T12:07:38.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3771", "parent_id": "7582", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAnother way to get one might be going to a convention (gaming or anime). I\ndon't know where you're from but I got my Death Note replica at the GamesCom\n(Germany). As Death Note is a really popular anime, you'll find a lot of it on\nconventions, not only the notebook itself.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-10T12:05:28.930", "id": "22313", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-10T12:05:28.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13180", "parent_id": "7582", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAdditional to the other answers, they are also available at\n[Aliexpress](http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20150610144043&SearchText=death+note+notebook)\nor\n[Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/189-8457276-2810964?url=search-\nalias%3Daps&field-keywords=death+note+notebook). They even throw in a feather\npen for you to make it even more real.\n\nSo my guess would be, that you would be best off going to your favourite\nonline webshop and search for _death note notebook_ and you will find what you\nwere looking for.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-10T22:42:00.823", "id": "22322", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-10T22:42:00.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "7582", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are right, as we know:\n\n> While techniques may require a number of hand seals to work, a skilled ninja\n> can use less or even one to perform the same technique.\n\nSo if you are a master shinobi, you can use a jutsu without making seals or\nmaking just a few seals, instead of 5-10-20. BUT if you are novice, you can't\nperform jutsu without hand seals. The number of seals or the number of hands\nindicates the skills of the shinobi. The more skilled someone is, the less\neffort he needs to put on casting a jutsu.\n\n> An example of this is the Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique,\n> which requires a total of 44 hand seals to activate.Tobirama Senju, the\n> Second Hokage, only needed to use one hand seal to complete the technique, a\n> testament to his skill.Although rare, it is possible for a shinobi to be\n> able to do hand seals with just one hand. The only shinobi seen so far\n> capable of this are Haku, Minato Namikaze and Guren.\n\nThe seals are VERY important even if you're skilled. It's vital in the Shinobi\nWorld since a jutsu can't be performed without hand seals and just few of the\njutstu's are casted without hand seals (e.g Rasengan).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-19T16:29:42.083", "id": "7585", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-06T12:36:45.293", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-06T12:36:45.293", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "7584", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nActually, hand seals are used to help the caster manipulate and control their\nchakra levels to execute the jutsu. Hand seals indicate how a shinobi can\nmanipulate their chakra properly. However, a highly-skilled shinobi can\nperform a wide range of jutsu with one hand, or for some - no seals at all.\nThe reason why is because some shinobi can manipulate chakra without\nconcentrating it using hand seals at all. This can be particularly seen in\nSasuke after he loses his arm during the Fourth Shinobi World War.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-02T11:35:27.903", "id": "38217", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-02T11:35:27.903", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30095", "parent_id": "7584", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTo formalize what has been stated in the comments:\n\nThe anime series in question is Full Metal Panic, based on the light novel\nseries. Mech-specialist Sgt. Sagara Souske is tasked to protect Kaname Chidori\nwhen she is targeted by a terrorist organization. He is a skilled fighter, but\nfails to react normally in most social situations.\n\nIt features 3 seasons (as of 2014):\n\nFull Metal Panic - the first season is very plot driven.\n\nFull Metal Panic? Fummoffu - the second season takes a more comedic approach,\nwith many of the episodes being broken into 2 half-episodes.\n\nFull Metal Panic: The Second Raid - the third season is much like the first,\nwith more of a plot focus (13-episodes).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-21T20:31:29.493", "id": "7628", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-21T20:31:29.493", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1724", "parent_id": "7586", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOver time, use of the Mangekyō Sharingan's techniques deteriorates the user's\neyesight to the point of blindness. Only by taking and transplanting the eyes\nof another Uchiha clan member can the vision be restored, a process that\nresults in the creation of an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.\n\n> **The tighter the blood ties are between the \"donor\" and the receiver, the\n> better it is for compatibility, siblings for example.**\n\nThe time from fusing the donor's Mangekyō with the receiver's Mangekyō to the\npoint of full recovery is at least several days **in the case of Sasuke**.\n\nNot only does this process permanently restore one's eyesight, but it also\ngives the person even greater power. The Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan also\nchanges form from the original, with what appears to be a fusion of the\ncurrent owner's Mangekyō with the previous owner's.\n\nSource:-[\n**Source**](http://narutofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Eternal_Mangeky%C5%8D_Sharingan)\n\n**EDIT**\n\nFor better understanding let me give you an instance. MS happens when a person\nkills someone very close to him/her. So the 'tamui' of the Sharingan changes\non its own[ **how tamui changes it's pattern is still not explained** ].\n\nComing to EMS, a person can achieve it once he **discards his own eyes** and\nuses his sibling's ones. That is the mechanism of achieving EMS. Therefore if\nthe person is closely related to the one who he would take the eye from, then\nthere is a greater percentage of activating EMS. Hope I have answered your\nquestion now\n\n**IInd EDIT**\n\nThanks [Krazer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/users/63/krazer) for the\nupdating the title of the question.From the title,I can come to a conclusion\nthat no evidence as of now being cited related related to working of sharingan\nonce it is transplanted.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-19T19:10:31.530", "id": "7592", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-20T12:01:25.027", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter quite some searching I came to the sad conclusion there is barely any\ninformation available on how the 2 eyes get fused. Then again we can make some\neducated guesses thanks to some of the shown footage in the anime.\n\nIn episode 136 Itachi shows Sasuke how Madara got his Eternal Mangekyou\nSharingan (EMS). Showing the following picture\n\n\n\nWith this image we can deduce that the old eyes are not removed from the body,\nmeaning there are 2 pairs of eyes in the body from that moment on. The most\nplausible reason to pass would be that the 2 eyes fuse in a similar way as to\nan artificial limb getting attached to a body. This would also explain the\nreason for blood ties as your body might reject people who are not directly\nblood linked.\n\nThis would also answer your first point, as the eyes fuse it does not matter\nwhether the begin point was the blind eye or the still functioning eye as they\nwill become one after all\n\nHow do the eyes exactly fuse? and how do they put 2 pairs of eyes in a body to\nbegin with? Guess this is a sort of anime magic which is not really uncommon\nin Naruto to begin with (small sample **(careful contains spoilers if not up\nto date with manga)**\n\n> \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-20T03:58:44.183", "id": "7597", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-20T14:16:17.807", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-20T14:16:17.807", "last_editor_user_id": "3819", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThe eyes are completely swapped. Sasuke even says Itachi's eyes \"fit nicely\"\nat one point in the manga. The transplantee's eyes are removed and replaced\nwith eyes from the donor. Then some bullshit-no-jutsu happens and the eyes\ntake on properties of both their original owner and the person they've been\ntransplanted into. Perhaps because the blood of the recipient flows into the\nnew eyes causing the DNA to merge or something. But anyways the eyes are\nswapped not fused. That's how transplants work. You replace whatever you're\ntransplanting.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-13T06:16:29.993", "id": "28913", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-23T04:23:32.187", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-23T04:23:32.187", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "20408", "parent_id": "7587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the sharingan transplanted to the new user recognise the bloodties and\ntherefore grants the new user some new abilities like the perfect Susanoo\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-17T06:26:00.173", "id": "44250", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-17T06:26:00.173", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37675", "parent_id": "7587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYou are all wrong I'm sorry lol the mangekyo awakens a chakra in the brain\nafter a tragedy or loss of love ect that chakra is transferred to the ocular\nreceptors from the brain which is why the eyes change shape and color so\ntherefore when you transfer eyes the new eyes have the old host power engraved\nin the and you sharingan is written in your brain so it fuses with new eyes it\nwas all staed in old Naruto episodes not sure exactly one\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-06T13:29:00.513", "id": "49995", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-06T13:29:00.513", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43774", "parent_id": "7587", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAmazon Japan pre-orders for the new two-box \"complete\" premium BD box set for\n31,080 yen each (Amazon price as of this post).\n\n[The first BD box set, Vol .1](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00G93OE5Y) is\nscheduled to be released February 21th, 2014 and includes 6 BDs + 3 CDs,\nfeaturing:\n\n[code]\n\n #Initial D: First Stage (26 eps)\n #Initial D: Second Stage (13 eps)\n ---\n #CD: Radio Stage Part 1\n #CD: EXTRA-DRAMA CD Vol. 1 & 2\n \n[/code]\n\nNotes from [CD\nJapan](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVXA-74153):\n\n> First Premium Blu-ray Box release including complete first stage (26\n> episodes), second stage (13 episodes), special CD Vol1 \"Initial D Radio\n> Stage Part1\", special CD 2 \"EXTRA-DRAMA CD Vol.1&2\"(2 discs), special\n> original goods (2 kinds), and special manual book in a deluxe box.\n\n* * *\n\n[The second BD box set, Vol. 2](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00G93OE2W) is\nscheduled to be released March 21th and includes 7 BDs + 3 CDs\n\n[code]\n\n #Initial D: Third Stage (Movie)\n #Initial D: Fourth Stage (24 eps)\n #Initial D: Extra Stage (4 eps)\n #Initial D: Battle Stage (2 eps)\n #Initial D to the Next Stage - Project D e Mukete (1 eps)\n ---\n #CD: Radio Stage Part 2\n #CD: EXTRA-DRAMA CD Vol.3 & 4\n \n[/code]\n\nNotes from [CD\nJapan](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVXA-74159):\n\n> Second Premium Blu-ray Box release including third stage (movie), fourth\n> stage (24 episodes), extra stage (3 episodes), battle stage (2 episodes),\n> project episode, special CD Vol1 \"Initial D Radio Stage Part2\", special CD 2\n> \"EXTRA-DRAMA CD Vol.3&4\"(2 discs), special original goods (2 kinds), and\n> special manual book in a deluxe box.\n\n**NOTE:** The discs are **region-free** and contain **NO** subtitles.\n\nCurrently only the _Fifth Stage_ (14 eps), the upcoming movie (slated for\nsummer 2014) and \"Final Stage\" (not yet produced) are missing from the\ncollection.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-19T18:37:11.623", "id": "7591", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-19T18:43:07.960", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-19T18:43:07.960", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7590", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey are not related to sharingan in any way. The are simply because of their\ngenes. Like we have green eyes , brown eyes and stuff. There never has been\nany canonical opinion about it in anime or in manga. Even so, the manga is\ncoming to an end and still there is no hint of having any powers or any\naffiliation with the sharingan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-20T10:11:21.060", "id": "7605", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-20T10:11:21.060", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3793", "parent_id": "7593", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere is no canonical answer for this.\n\nNaruto lived alone as a child.\n\nAs for who took care of him while he was a baby, no one knows.\n\nThe people that took care of him in his childhood were people like the\nSandaime, Iruka, and the ramen guy. However, they did not fulfill the roles of\nparents. The closest person Naruto had as a parent was Jiraiya.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-20T05:35:39.090", "id": "7598", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-06T13:50:28.943", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-06T13:50:28.943", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "2178", "parent_id": "7596", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThird Hokage promised Kushina, when she was dying, that he would take care of\nNaruto, and he did.\n\nWhole villagers knew that a monster fox was inside Naruto. This news also\nspread to the other villages. If it weren't for the astute care of the Third\nHokage, other villages would have kidnapped Naruto and would have absconded\nhim out of Konoha.\n\nThe Third may not have sheltered him at home, but he did keep an eye for\nNaruto. That is what taking care means.\n\nBesides, Iruka and others were there too. However, the main role was still\nplayed by the Third.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-20T10:07:09.650", "id": "7604", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-15T04:34:25.393", "last_edit_date": "2016-02-15T04:34:25.393", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "3793", "parent_id": "7596", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nHe probably had a caretaker to take care of him. But she probably got\nirritated at his energy and left when the series started. Thus the we see\nNaruto has no caretakers. The third and Iruka did watch him and gave him money\nas we see in episode 350, the third says to Naruto:\"here is this months fee.\"\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-31T14:02:32.380", "id": "32455", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-31T14:02:32.380", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24402", "parent_id": "7596", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nWe've seen that the concept of orphanages and adoption exists in the Ninja\nworld. Case in point **Kabuto** who we know grew up in Konoha's Orphanage.\n\nFor further reading, <http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Konoha_Orphanage>\n\nSo in my opinion, though not supported by any canon information, it is\nreasonable to assume baby Naruto would've been taken cared of in the\norphanage. Unknown to him, he was guarded by Anbu from direct orders of third\nHokage who kept a personal eye on him.\n\nWe know for sure that once he was big enough he started living alone. Since I\nam speculating I'll go further and say this can also be because the adults in\nKonoha hated Naruto and no one was ready to adopt him as their own.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-07T09:02:02.017", "id": "39748", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-07T09:02:02.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6368", "parent_id": "7596", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe effect you are asking for is not yet known, just like how some of the\nothers in the chart are not confirmed or not complete (such as Blaze, Storm\nand Explosion).\n\nThe chart is set-up with the current knowledge we have of the techniques and\nfilling in the blanks by deducing what could be in the slot. Most of them\nmight actually prove to be accurate, but until this is confirmed in either the\nanime or manga we won't know for sure.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-20T07:17:19.283", "id": "7601", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-22T22:31:46.050", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-22T22:31:46.050", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is no known technique that can be derived from the combination of Earth\nand Wind release but what I have is a theory:\n\nThe combination of Wind and Earth **can be** the following:\n\n * **Swift Release** \\- an advanced nature Kekkei Genkai that can be used to move at virtually instantaneous speed, granting the user an advantage over opponents with more strength than speed, such as users of Chakra Enhanced Strength. This nature therefore renders the user invulnerable against most taijutsu.\n\n * **Steel Release** \\- an advanced nature Kekkei Genkai that can be used to make one's body virtually indestructible by turning it into black steel.\n\nI don't include Magnet release because I have a very minimal evidence that the\nuser of this style (Toroi and the two Kazekage) has Earth and Wind release. On\nthe other hand, since [Hiruko](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hiruko_\\(missing-\nnin\\)) is the only ninja I know that has a Earth and Wind type elements\nrelease, he can combine the two elements to form a new release like the two I\nmentioned. I also presume that the technique/release is also a Kekkei Genkai.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-21T02:08:08.127", "id": "7612", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-10T15:21:55.930", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-10T15:21:55.930", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "7599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI just read your question and saw your graph. Got to say, nice work.\n\nThough, I would make some changes:\n\n * Blaze Release: Should be an advance version of Fire release, not a combination of Fire and Lightning release. \n\n * Magnet Release: This is my own opinion, but I think this is more of an Earth and Lightning release. \n\nAs for your actual question, I would fill in the blank in the diagram with\nSand Release. Let me explain my choice:\n\nI know that Shukaku has the Magnet release, but the Mizukage proved that even\na regular shinobi can have more than one Kekkei Genkai, so why not a Tailed\nBeast? Also there's the fact that the Third and Fourth Kazekage used their\nMagnet release to mimic Shukaku's sand. Although sand does have _some_\nmagnetic minerals inside of it, these minerals will just slide past the rest\nwhen they come in contact of an actual magnet. So, in conclusion, my theory is\nthat the Kazekage couldn't manipulate sand because it's not a magnet type\nelement.\n\nOne may argue that the reason why the Kazekage didn't manipulate regular sand\nis because iron sand and gold dust is heavier. However, I would say that\nregular sand is more versatile and plentiful. There are oceans of sand, and\nthey are not completely made out of metal. Sand is a mixture of all types of\nminerals that have been broken down to the size of a grain. In fact, Gaara\nhimself once said that he uses his sand to dig underground, find the hardest\nminerals, crush them, and then mix them into the sand to make it stronger.\nSand release makes more sense for Wind and Earth combination, since it's a\nproduct of weathering and erosion. So instead of being a magnetic type\nelement, it's a deposition type element.\n\nThis doesn't mean that Gaara is weak compared to his predecessors. Since it's\nlighter, it's also quicker and more likely to be easier to control. Also, it's\neasier to produce, you can turn just about any kind of rock into sand. On the\nother hand, you can't turn sand or just any kind of rock into iron or gold\nwithout going through a molecular process. While his father used the gold dust\nto way Gaara down, Gaara could simply use his sand to gather the dust, take\nthe infected sand, and bury it before making more sand from his environment.\nOf course, this all depends on who's better with their ninjutsu.\n\nTherefore, I firmly believe that Earth + Wind = Sand.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-21T17:39:14.287", "id": "19544", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-10T16:05:05.217", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-10T16:05:05.217", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "12852", "parent_id": "7599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is just a pure speculation, but, if you have a chunk of Earth, and you\nseparate it into very small pieces and let it fly using Wind release, wouldn't\nthat end up as Sand? Or at least sand-like. So I think the combination of\nEarth and Wind is Sand Release.\n\nThis fits as Yamato explained before, that since he can use Wood Release, he\ncan also use Water and Earth release. Shukaku can use Wind Release too and\nsand is pretty much Earth, so for Sand Release he uses both Wind and Earth\nrelease.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-22T06:13:35.837", "id": "19558", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-22T06:13:35.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "7599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nMagnet Release is a combination of Earth and Wind. Gaara's father has Wind,\nWater and Earth natures. Wind and Water creates Ice. Water and Earth creates\nWood. Therefore, the only possible combination left for Magnet Release is Wind\nand Earth.\n\nBlaze Release is not a combination of Fire and Lightning. It's just Fire.\nSasuke creates the black flames of Amaterasu with his left eye and controls\nthem with his right eye, so it does not come from a combination of natures,\nbut just a Mangekyo ability.\n\nSwift Release is combination of Wind and Lightning, since both elements can be\nused to increase one's speed.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-10T14:02:36.467", "id": "23946", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-10T16:59:08.777", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-10T16:59:08.777", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "16197", "parent_id": "7599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nwouldnt it be crystal style? Since that's the only one not shown and sasuke\ndoesn't use fire or lightning for his blaze style he uses his left to shoot\nthe flames and the right to control them\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-20T13:07:50.957", "id": "31557", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-20T13:07:50.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23575", "parent_id": "7599", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\n**Wind Release** and **Earth Release** make **Magnet Release**. Take a look at\nthe [_combined nature transformation\nrelationships_](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nature_Transformation#Combined_Nature_Transformations)\nimage taken from wikia. The image is kinda small and blurry, don't mind if I\nmodify your image to match wikia's image.\n\n\n\nWell, the question has been answered, but I bet you still arguing about what's\nthe replacement of **Blaze Release** and the old **Magnet Release**.\n\n**[Blaze Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Blaze_release#Blaze_Release)**\nis a **Kekkei Genkai** , but it doesn't work with mixing one type of elemental\nchakra with another, like mixing **Fire Relase** and **Lightning Release**. In\nfact, it's a highest level **Fire Release** Ninjutsu, only acquired through\nwielding the _Mangekyō Sharingan_.\n\n**[Fire Release + Lightning Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Kirin)**\nwasn't an official combination of _Ninjutsu_ of forming a _Kekkei Genkai_ ,\nbut it can be used in conjunction with **Lightning Release** to alter weather\nconditions to create an extremely powerful **Lightning Release** , the\n**_Kirin_**.\n\n**[Wind Release + Lightning\nRelease](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_and_Lightning_Release:_Typhoon_Lightning_Spiral)**\nwasn't an official combination of _Ninjutsu_ of forming a _Kekkei Genkai_ ,\nbut it doesn't mean that the combination hasn't been used in _Naruto Shippuden\nFranchise_. In the game _Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution_ ,\nNaruto forms a wind-natured _Rasengan_ and Sasuke adds his _Chidori_ to the\nsphere, forming **_Wind Release Lightning Release: Typhoon Lightning Spiral_**\n, a type of _[Cooperation\nNinjustu](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Cooperation_Ninjutsu)_ , which means a\ncollaboration of two or more _Ninjutsu_ to create a new _Ninjutsu_ with a\ngreater strength.\n\n**[Crystal Release](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Crystal_Release)** though,\n**Earth Release** may be a presumed component element. For more information,\ngo click the hyperlink.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-20T16:11:49.250", "id": "31558", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-20T16:11:49.250", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17814", "parent_id": "7599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nEarth plus wind equals weathering swift and dark don’t come from weathing and\nneither does steel but Crystals can be a result of weathering so wind and\nearth is crystal\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-06-16T05:35:26.937", "id": "47450", "last_activity_date": "2018-06-16T05:35:26.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "41135", "parent_id": "7599", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**EDIT** : I have updated the answer to incorporate what was revealed in the\nsegment on dust in Season 2, Episode 4.5\n\nDust is a natural resource used as an energy source, much like coal or gas but\nmore potent. It comes in crystal and powdered forms that can vary in colour,\npotency and effect.\n\nIn episode 2, Weiss identifies _Fire_ , _Water_ and _Lightning_ attributed\nDust, each having different properties. I think it's safe to assume the last\nelement is _Air/Wind_.\n\n\n\nAccording to the [RWBY Wikia](http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/Dust):\n\n> Being a form of energy, people are able to use Dust in combat. The use of\n> Dust was how Humans originally defeated the Grimm. When combatants wielding\n> Dust channel large amounts of the energy, complex circles of luminous\n> energized Dust appear, with various shapes and runic incantations\n> manifesting within them. These glyphs focus the energy of the Dust in order\n> to cause large scale elemental phenomena or to defy natural laws.\n>\n> Dust can also be used in its raw form, which is described as being \"elegant,\n> yet destructive\" in nature and requiring a certain level of discipline to\n> maintain control over. More archaic uses for Dust as a weapon include\n> weaving it into clothes or directly implanting it into their bodies\n>\n> Crystalized Dust is also used as ammunition. A prominent example of this is\n> Lie Ren's dual pistols, the StormFlower, which use Schnee Dust Company\n> rounds. Ruby's weapon, Crescent Rose has also been mentioned to use rounds\n> with different kinds of Dust in them.\n\nSo Dust is kind of a quasi-realistic way that magic can exist in the RWBY\nuniverse, but it's more like fuel for augmenting weapons and existing skills.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-20T12:51:31.573", "id": "7606", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-24T15:58:27.817", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nAlso, there is a form of magic coming from the Maidens of the Seasons, as\ndescribed in Volume 3 and the World of Remnant: The Four Maidens. This is the\nonly confirmed magic in RWBY as of yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-12T18:10:00.223", "id": "37830", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-12T18:10:00.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29739", "parent_id": "7602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHonestly Nobody knows, there's dust and Semblances, but then there's Magic\n(with a capital M) which is what the Maiden powers are and supposedly what\nRaven and Qrow's bird powers are, which makes Magic sound lame\n\nThe only rule to what a Semblance can't be is transformations, which is an\narbitrary rule that we wasn't told\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-05-26T01:27:25.590", "id": "53057", "last_activity_date": "2019-05-26T01:27:25.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "47413", "parent_id": "7602", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's [Very, Very Sweet!](http://myanimelist.net/manga/5287/Very!_Very!_Sweet)\n\nOr, it is if I recall correctly.\n\nI actually had volume one, but lost it -- and I was looking it up [what you\nput] on google images and BAM-\n\n\n\nthe cover!\n\n> The Japanese boy, Tsuyoshi, is a restless troublemaker whose severely strict\n> grandfather has finally been given the reins to crack down on him. His\n> grandfather sends him on a quest to find the roots of their ancestry. The\n> family names' roots brings him to Korea where his taxi driver, a chatty\n> energetic girl named Very (Be-Ri), passes out on him. Despite an ugly first\n> encounter, the two later grow close and learn to respect each other's\n> differences...\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-30T13:09:27.847", "id": "13745", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-22T12:53:51.327", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-22T12:53:51.327", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8198", "parent_id": "7611", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is revealed that the woman was Cinder:\n\n\n\n> Cinder Fall is a character in the world of RWBY. She appears to be\n> affiliated with Roman Torchwick in some way, perhaps controlling, or at\n> least coercing, Roman rather than cooperating with him\n\nShe is definitely a main character, she is also the antagonist and was the\nexact same woman that the headmistress was fighting against.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-08T12:55:38.357", "id": "10156", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-08T12:55:38.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "7614", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nLet's take a look at some instances where Madara manifested his Susanoo's\npower:\n\n 1. It can summon 2 meteors simultaneously which resulted to complete chaos.\n 2. His clones can summon Susanoo with ease.\n 3. His Complete Body - Susanoo is gigantic.\n 4. It can take down 5 Kages easily.\n\n\n\n\n\n[**Tengai Shinsei**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tengai_Shinsei)\n\n### [Madara's\nSusanoo](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha#Mangeky.C5.8D_Sharingan)\non Narutopedia\n\n> Having awakened the power of both his Mangekyō, Madara could use Susanoo. He\n> did not need to fully manifest it to benefit from its use: with just its\n> ribcage he can withstand an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, and he could perform\n> attacks with only its upper half. [...] His Susanoo wielded up to two (four\n> in the anime) undulating blades that could be thrown, then maintained and\n> controlled remotely. Madara can also produce Yasaka Magatama of varying\n> sizes.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> According to Madara, the full power of his Complete Body — Susanoo was\n> comparable to that of the tailed beasts, and no one had lived to see it a\n> second time. Madara was able to shape his stabilised Susanoo as an armour\n> which he equipped unto the Nine-Tails in order to complement their\n> respective abilities.\n\n### So is there any way to break his extraordinary defense?\n\n> Yes. The increased defensive strength of Madara's final Susanoo's form can\n> only be destroyed or even pierced by powerful techniques like Hashirama's\n> Top Transformed Buddha [Ch. 626].\n\nQuoted from old version of [Madara Uchiha on\nNarutopedia](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha?oldid=894574#Mangeky.C5.8D_Sharingan)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-22T14:06:11.640", "id": "7638", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-30T19:04:03.020", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7618", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nMadara's tempestuous god of valor strength is comparable to that of the bijuu\nas it has very humongous chakra output.\n\none single swing of madara's susanoo can level or alter the continent.\n\nif his susanoo can level mountains in a single swing of his blade then what\nwould happen if madara put maximum power in his susanoo??\n\nWhat if his(madara)susanoo had gone fullburst or full on??! Give a thought on\nthat ..well ,\"comparable to that of a bijuu \"is too much but...\nOVERWHELMING*!!\n\nMadara's susanoo is destruction incarnate- indra otsutsuki had passed on his\ndescendants a very powerful ability to those who had achieved mangekyo\nsharingan and attained the EMS..the susanoo is an abilty based on the user's\nchakra control as well as one's emotion.. Hence it is a very powerful\ntechnique..sasuke's susanoo is also another incarnate of highly catastropic\ncalamity.. Every MS and EMS users who attaind and manifests susanoo is\noutright powerful..madara's susanoo is as strong as his chakra reserve & also\npowered by his emotions & battle experience-- that makes his susanoo stronger\nthan sasuke's in terms of battle exp...madara's susanoo power level points>\npower- 9, def -10 , durability-9 ,chakra usage- medium,destruction capability-\nextreme**\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-13T08:55:51.560", "id": "24045", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-13T17:22:35.127", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-13T17:22:35.127", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "16274", "parent_id": "7618", "post_type": "answer", "score": -4 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe madaras susanoo was strong but I also believe that when Sasuke\nobtained his, it was already past madaras level. Madaras may have leveled\nmountains but Sasuke took out multiple meteorites the size of mountains with\nease, and his could also fly. Not to mention his wasn't only manifested from\nan EMS but also a Sharinnegan. Which was SO6P powered. Sasukes susanoo wins by\na long shot. Madaras as of what we saw of him also couldn't use Amaterasu,\nwhich Sasuke is able to do as well as shape. Sasuke also could stream his\nchakra chidori through his susanoo and match the size of the chidori with his\nsusanoos hand. Which is a massive chidori. Not to mention he created two of\nthe most powerful techniques in naruto, his perfect tailed beast susanoo and\nIndras arrow, rivaled only by narutos giant tailed beast bomb rasenshuriken.\nSasuke as an adult we can only imagine is more developed and stronger. His\nsusanoo is much more refined.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-06T02:56:36.770", "id": "31200", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-06T02:56:36.770", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23248", "parent_id": "7618", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nWe didn't really get to see Madara's Perfect Susanoo's true power, as he only\nUsed it when the matter called for it... He never really pushed to use the\nperfect Susanoo, as seen when he said it'd be a shame to use it twice after\nbeing interrupted in the battle against the five kages, so we don't know\nMadara's full powers as yet, when it was crushed by the nine tailed beasts, he\nwasn't even in its perfect form so you can't really judge the power because\nMadara, was never really ushed to use it to that extent.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-07T00:08:41.220", "id": "31224", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-07T00:08:41.220", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23270", "parent_id": "7618", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAn Edo Tensei cannot be a jinchuuriki, and so, he couldn't complete his plan\nby becoming the Ten Tails' jinchuuriki. That is the main reason he wanted to\nbe revived.\n\nAlso, although very powerful, the power of a \"real\" Rinnegan is far superior\nto one of the reanimated \"fake\" Rinnegan. The \"real\" Rinnegan can summon and\ncontrol the Gedo Mazo, use the **[Rinbo:\nHengoku](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rinbo%3a_Hengoku)** technique etc.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-22T14:29:00.413", "id": "7639", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-22T14:29:00.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7619", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause he knew that remaining in such an unimportant inefficient state\ncouldn't accomplish anything remotely significant and it was kinda idiotic to\nstill be in such an extremely weakening state for him since Madara had such an\nimmensely glorious goal of the highest calibre to achieve. Also, actually in\nfact Madara himself is million times more vastly powerful in his fully-living\nbody than in his half-dead paper-maché-like like living corpse state.\n\nThe real/living-vital Rinnegan he received is extremely far beyond thousand\ntimes more extraordinary powerful/capable than the half-dead Edo Tensei\nextremely weakened one.\n\nIt was like literally comparing the important significance of rarest diamonds\nto paper mache which is in shape of a common diamond and has some real\nmicroscopic pieces of common and rare diamonds inside. There is a lot of\nastronomical universal-sized difference here, both between real Rinnegan and\nEdo-Tensei Rinnegan and between Fully-Vitally-Revived Madara and the Half-Dead\nWalking Corpse Madara respectively.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-27T16:28:39.283", "id": "21168", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-27T17:02:48.497", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-27T17:02:48.497", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "14162", "parent_id": "7619", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nAs [mentioned by Madara Uchiha](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7639), as an\nEdo Tensei he could not be a jinchuuriki of the Ten Tails wich was needed to\nactivate the Infinite Tsukoyomi.\n\nSecond is that he wasn't near his full power and his Rinnegan had some\nabilities but not as much and powerful as the Rinnegan while alive.\n\nWhile being an Edo Tensei, he released himself from any kind of control the\nemotions, adrenaline etc., became sustained like you don't give a crap about\nanything. Being an Edo Tensei you just cannot fight with full dedication and\nfighting spirit. It's like holding back is part of your nature.\n\nAlso the risk of being sealed while in his Edo Tensei state would always be a\nrisk.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-04-20T23:04:48.883", "id": "39976", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-31T15:08:48.883", "last_edit_date": "2017-05-31T15:08:48.883", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "32094", "parent_id": "7619", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUntil now, it was never explained properly in FT. \nFuture chapter might give a proof of the reason, or it stays a plothole.\n\nThere are some theories, like \"Dragons are extinct nowadays, Natsu was raised\nby Igneel hundreds of years ago and made a time travel (similar for Gajeel)\"\nor \"Dragon slayers are real dragon children (with longer lifespan than humans)\nwith some kind of transformation magic applied\" (this conflicts with Zirconis´\nstory, but it´s still possible he didn´t know or lied. Mashima likes trolling\nanyways)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-04T09:45:23.973", "id": "10103", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-04T09:59:07.153", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-04T09:59:07.153", "last_editor_user_id": "5098", "owner_user_id": "5098", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe the rules were not all stated. This is somewhat a trick from Laxus.\nLaxus told Freed to prohibit Dragon Slayers from entering the fight and to\ntrick them he told freed not to put the prohibition of the Dragon Slayers on\nthe rule list.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-06T13:48:26.743", "id": "10131", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-06T13:48:26.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5139", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThere have been many theories on this subject, in fact. Here are some that I\nbelieve are logical and ones that might help:\n\n 1. Natsu and Gajeel's Dragon Slayer Magic is very ancient, obviously over 80 years old. Maybe their magic's age prohibited them? (Personally, I feel that something's missing here.\n\n 2. Natsu and Gajeel (and Wendy as well) were raised by their dragons a long time ago- maybe over 80 years ago. Through the Eclipse Gate, they were transported to the future- July 7, year x777 by Layla Heartfilia (Lucy's mother), making it seem like their dragons disappeared as opposed to them leaving their dragons. (Of course, there are a lot of pieces missing in this explanation, but it seems logical if you think about it.)\n\n 3. Laxus knew that Natsu and Gajeel were incredibly powerful, or maybe he knew that the Dragon Slayer magic is very powerful. There's a chance that he didn't want them participating due to this and told Freed to incorporate this into the rules without telling anyone about it. (Maybe?)\n\nAnyhow, I hope this helped, and I hope that Mashima reveals this in the\nfuture!!\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-24T20:07:03.303", "id": "11451", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-24T21:00:43.617", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-24T21:00:43.617", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6359", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nI have a theory that you know how zeref is over 400 years old but if you look\nat the episode where natsu sees zeref zeref cries tears of joy saying saying\nyou`ve grown natsu and we meet again so I think that zeref might actually be\nrelated to natsu and since zeref is 400+ maybe natsu is 100 and over since ive\nheard that zeref had and army of dragons maybe igneel and the other dragons\nslowed down time to where natsu and gajeel may look 17 to 18 but is probaly\nolder than that but this is just a theory who knows im probaly right\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T23:14:57.397", "id": "13039", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-24T23:14:57.397", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7719", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nI would like to add on to Qynn's Answer:\n\nIn the most recent chapter of Fairy Tail, Chapter 400:\n\n> It was revealed that Igneel was residing inside Natsu, OR was using Natsu as\n> a portal from the place where he was residing to come to Earthland. If Natsu\n> had such magic imbued into him that could cause interference with the\n> barrier as logically speaking, the barrier prevents those of age 80+ to\n> leave and if it's a portal for someone of age 80+ to leave the barrier would\n> automatically stop that person from leaving OR Igneel was actually inside\n> Natsu not just using him as a medium and that would most definitely stop\n> Natsu and Gajeel from leaving the barrier because they have someone of at\n> least 300 Years of age in them. Since dragons are extinct, it would be safe\n> to say Igneel and the other dragons are at least that age.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-18T03:15:43.030", "id": "14038", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-18T19:57:14.613", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-18T19:57:14.613", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "8018", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nWhile this hasn't been explained exactly point for point, I do believe the\nanswer is revealed in one of the more recent chapters.\n\n> Igneel is somehow inside of Natsu, and Igneel is well older than the\n> required age to hold him back. Same with Gajeel.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-03T03:48:54.067", "id": "17271", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-03T04:25:57.513", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-03T04:25:57.513", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10993", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nBased on Fairy Tail chapter 436, it was somewhat explained why Natsu can't\npast the barrier.\n\n> Natsu's physical body is more than 80 years old. Zeref used the body of his\n> little brother to create Natsu and Zeref himself is about 400 years old.\n> This is the likely answer why he can't past Freed's rune.\n\nReason for why Gajeel can't too has not been explained as the current chapter.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-19T09:01:53.287", "id": "21649", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-19T09:01:53.287", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFor Natsu, on one episode Igneel did tell Natsu that he was always in Natsu's\nbody and that tell us that well Igneel is definitely older than 80 years old\nand if he is in Natsu's body, Natsu's age would definitely be Igneel's age and\nsame thing with Gajeel\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-26T02:14:36.017", "id": "43530", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-26T02:14:36.017", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36796", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason is that the dragons are sealed inside of hem. Their dragons are\nover 80 years old. The enchantment is not allowing the dragons to go through,\nnot Natsu and gajeel. But since they are combined, that’s why they can’t go\nthrough either.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-26T03:34:55.930", "id": "43532", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-26T03:34:55.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36798", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nnatsu like all of the other dragon slayers, aside from laxus and cobra were\nborn over 400 years before hand, but this isn't the reason natsu and gajeel\nwere not able to leave. its because they had dragons in them who were atleast\n80. dragons are immortal. so they don't age like humans. but natsu, gajeel and\nthe others are not chronologically 400 years old. as chronological refers to a\nmeasurement of ones existence inside a flow of time. since they time traveled\nthey are not 400 years old. the gate opened on one side and they entered it.\nwhile in the gate they were outside of time for 400 years. layla opened the\ngate in 777 which allowed them to leave. notice how zeref wasn't able to\ntravel backwards in time using the ellipse gate, its likely because its not\ntraditional time travel. its more like they left the flow of time and sat\noutside of time and space for those 400 years and when layla opened it they\nthey could enter the modern world. so its akin to a stasis field where they\nare literally outside of time. zeref needed not only fairy heart but the time\nrift to travel backwards in time. this also creates a plot hole with future\nlucy and rogue going backwards in time. but that could easily be explained a\nway by the fact that future rogue and lucy came from alternate timeliens where\nthe gate worked differently\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-02-18T04:32:32.463", "id": "56838", "last_activity_date": "2020-02-18T04:32:32.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4902", "parent_id": "7620", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes and no, some of the Fairy spells are distinctive to the guild, and the\nskills that can be used by outsiders are not easily learned/taught. This makes\nthe likelihood of Fairy spells being used outside of Fairy Tail very unlikely.\n\nAs for leaving members who know one or more of the 3 great spells, there is [a\nrule](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Tail_%28Guild%29#Leaving_Fairy_Tail)\nwhich states:\n\n> _1\\. You must never reveal sensitive information about Fairy Tail to others\n> for as long as you live._\n\n**Fairy Sphere, cannot be used by outsiders**\n\nFairy Sphere uses the Fairy Tail member mark (pair of wings mark) and the\nemotion of those who wield it to obtain magical power. Therefore, this spell\ncan not be used by outsiders.\n\n**Fairy Glitter, cannot be used by outsiders**\n\nAs it is a distinct spell of Fairy Tail, and the fact that it is sealed in the\ngrave of Mavis and needs the approval of Mavis herself to use, it makes it\nhighly unlikely that anybody outside of the guild members can/will ever be\nallowed to use this.\n\n**Fairy Law, most likely can be used by outsiders**\n\nIt is also a distinct spell of Fairy Tail, but most likely, it can be used by\noutsiders.\n\nWe know for a fact that there has been at least one instance where an\n_outsider_ knew how to use Fairy Law, since Laxus also knew how to use this\nskill. Another case is Precht, the second guild master of Fairy Tail, now\nknown as [Hades](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Hades), who left the guild\nbut could still use Fairy Law.\n\nThe likelihood of learning this skill outside of Fairy Tail is close to 0,\nmaking it not likely to ever happen.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-21T17:58:53.170", "id": "7625", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-14T20:13:03.290", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-14T20:13:03.290", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7622", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't know about the other two, but Fairy Law is actually based on the spell\n\"Law\" which Mavis used in _Fairy Tail Zero_ (the story about how Fairy Tail\nwas founded).\n\nThis is shown for the first time in chapter 10. Mavis learned \"Law\" from\nZeref, so if we say that \"Law\" and \"Fairy Law\" are the same, people who are\nnot in Fairy Tail can also learn this Spell (Zeref for example). If \"Fairy\nLaw\" is a development of \"Law\" created by Mavis, probably only members of her\nguild can use this spell because no member of Fairy Tail would tell this\nsecret to an outsider. \"Law\" on the other hand can be learned by people who\nare not in Fairy Tail too. The problem here is, that it takes ten years to\nmaster this spell (according to Zeref at least).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-14T12:14:34.910", "id": "21551", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-28T16:42:30.533", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-28T16:42:30.533", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "7622", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAny magic can be used by anyone, Fairy Sphere included. Mavis only required\nthe guild members' emotions because she was a spirit and had no magical\nenergy. All Three Grand Fairy Magics are simply uber-powerful light-based\nmagic.\n\nNot one part of the manga or anime does it say any form of magic is exclusive.\nThe Three Grand Fairy Spells are simply based around light magic. Mavis learnt\nLaw from Zeref in _Fairy Tail Zero_ , used it too early and was cursed. She\nthen altered and adjusted it (it was previously black magic) and created Fairy\nLaw.\n\nZeref taught Mavis Law, so there's also a possibility that he is able to use\nany of the three spells. Mavis's main magic is light-based, including her\nillusion magic. Mavis said that she used the bonds and emotions of the guild\nand converted it into magic to cast fairy spells.\n\nAfter that, it is clearly a light spell. Hence the reason when the spell was\nreleased, a butt tonne of light erupted from the water. With Fairy Glitter\ncollects and concentrates the light of the sun, the moon, and the stars.\n\nFairy Law converts the user's magic into light that envelops everything. Hades\nhad his own version that uses darkness as a countermeasure for Fairy Law since\nit's light.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-08T00:20:38.013", "id": "36248", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-28T16:42:28.297", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-28T16:42:28.297", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4902", "parent_id": "7622", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, after the \"Tenrou\" arc, most of the Fairy Tail members quit the guild,\nbut all the members who had screen time are still in Fairy Tail .\n\nMost of the important characters, or characters who had major or average\nscreen time and were at \"Tenrou\" island (Natsu, Ersa, Lucy, Gajil, etc.), and\neven the most minor characters who had less screen time (like Waren, Romeo,\nRomeo's father, etc.) are still in Fairy Tail. Even if some characters are\nmissing (I personally didn't notice any), all the important ones are still in\nFairy Tail even after \"Tenrou\" arc. On the plus side, we even get a new\ncharacter - Kinana.\n\nMy answer is based on only the anime, not the manga.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-16T13:14:07.250", "id": "14008", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-16T14:52:37.513", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-16T14:52:37.513", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8350", "parent_id": "7623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't think there is an exact number, but I know episode 96 would have been\nthe the last episode where you can see other characters that were in Fairy\nTail.\n\n<http://www.crunchyroll.com/fairy-tail/episode-96-he-who-erases-life-581682>\n\nIn 13:10 of the link above, I have not seen these characters after the 7 year\ngap.\n\nAlso there are other background characters throughout this episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-17T07:59:57.837", "id": "14024", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-17T07:59:57.837", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4164", "parent_id": "7623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI couldn't find the exact number right before they went to Tenrou Island but\nwe know how many member they have on Battle of Fairy Tail arc. When the battle\nof Fairy Tail begin there was 83 member battling each other\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IY1Ua.jpg)\n* Fairy Tail Chapter 108 KA-BO--NK!!\n\nThis excluding Makarov, Happy, Laxus, the Thunder God Tribe, the member who\nwere out on mission such as Gildarts, Mest and Mystogan (although Mystogan\njoined the battle latter) and the member inside the guild that turn into a\nstone such as Erza, Lucy, Cana, Juvia, Mirajane, Levi, and Visca. So if we\ncount those guys, there was 99 members of Fairy Tail that time (not counting\nunnamed member who were out on mission and those that joined after Battle of\nFairy Tail arc such as Wendy, Carla, and Pantherlily).\n\nBased on [Fairy Tail timeline](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline),\nbattle of Fairy Tail happened in October 15, X784, and S-Class Mage Promotion\nTrial happened in December 15, X784. So only two months has passed. In those\ntwo months, Laxus was excommunicated from the guild, and Mystogan went back to\nEdolas, Lissana also back to Fairy Tail while Wendy, Carla, and Pantherlily\njoined Fairy Tail. With that in mind, there was probably **around 100\nmembers** of Fairy Tail on Tenrou Island arc.\n\nSeven years later, we know Fairy Tail only have **35 members** , [20 of which\nwent missing on Tenrou Island](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/2763/2869).\n12 old member who stayed on guild, they were Makao, Wakaba, Bisca, Alzack,\nMax, Nab, Warren, Laki, Vijeeter, Jet, Droy, and Reedus. Two new member, Romeo\nand Kinana. And Mest. Excluding Laxus who were still excommunicated from the\nguild that time. So there was **around 60-70 members quit** Fairy Tail in 7\nyears\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-13T10:12:16.197", "id": "38924", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-13T10:12:16.197", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "7623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are no relevant differences between the manga and the first season of\nthe Gunslinger Girl anime, as far as I am aware. However, the manga chapters\nare ordered different in comparison to the anime. The last anime episode of\nthe first season matches the contents of chapter 8 of the manga, which is\nabout half in the first omnibus-format book release, but following chapters do\nmatch contents of earlier anime episodes.\n\nSince I haven't watched the second season of the Gunslinger Girl anime, I just\nlooked up the ending of the anime and compared it with the manga. Since the\nanime ends in the first confrontation with Pinocchio, it matches chapter 15 of\nthe manga, near the end of the first omnibus-format book release. I cannot say\nanything in regards to the other second season anime episodes.\n\nMy honest recommendation is to read the manga from the first chapter. The\norder might be a bit different, there might be a bit more background story,\nand certainly some manga scenes from these first chapters are referenced\nthroughout the progression of the series. All by all, around ~16 chapters will\nonly took you an hour or so, especially since you're familiar with the current\nsetting.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-21T19:44:48.277", "id": "7627", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-21T19:44:48.277", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "7626", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, what did you expect of the world of the Gods that govern the dead?\nHistorical speaking, the world of the dead and their gods live in a somber\nplace. The author itself seems to just picture it like that without a real\n\"motif\" of the why but simply because it should be do like that:\n\n> Obata said that he used \"no real design motif\" for the Shinigami Realm, and\n> that he never settled on any concrete appearance; Obata described the Realm\n> as changing appearance in each instance in Death Note, with it sometimes\n> appearing as a dry field and sometimes appearing as a room \"full of\n> cookies.\" Obata says that he likes to think of the Shinigami Realm as \"an\n> abandoned building with chunks of chocolate sitting around.\" Obata said that\n> he thought of the realm as being \"inside something\" and having a\n> \"claustrophobic feeling.\" Obata added that he would like to develop the\n> Shinigami Realm further if it was used as the setting for a story.\n\nI don't have the _\"Takeshi Obata Production Note: Characters.\" Death Note 13:\nHow to Read._ book to verify the [Wikipedia\nsource](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinigami_%28Death_Note%29#cite_ref-\ndrawing_design_140_2-1) but if you buy it it should tell the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-22T19:09:44.423", "id": "7642", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-22T19:09:44.423", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "7630", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's not that sound genjutsu is superior. Sound genjutsu operates on a\ndifferent sense, so that renders doujutsu (eye techniques) useless to escape\nfrom it, unlike with illusions that work on vision.\n\nThat makes sound based genjutsu more effective on Sharingan users, because\nthey rely on their improved vision powers to counter most genjutsu.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-22T10:37:20.227", "id": "7635", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-22T10:37:20.227", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7631", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nGoing off of Madara's answer, sound and smell, maybe taste genjutsu would be\nmost effective, since it doesn't affect the eyes but rather other senses, of\nwhich no doujutsu provides advantage to. If Madara were to be blinded, he\nwould still be able to use doujutsu, but his other senses would diminish. This\nis a time when Orochimaru would come with something useful as he is the Sound\nVillage's leader.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T13:08:56.667", "id": "7671", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-24T13:08:56.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3590", "parent_id": "7631", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe sound base genjutsu can be more effective than eye contact base genjutsu\ncause we have seen might guy fighting itachi without looking into his eyes and\nno eye contact means no genjutsu but if sound base genjutsu is being used even\na skilled opponents can not block or doge the sound waves completely plus its\na sound base genjutsu so it depends on the air so it covers most of the\neffective areas.\n\nSound base genjutsu are really powerful but some of them cannot be performed\nsimultaneously so this is disadvantage you have 1 shot if you miss that's all.\n\nSo in all manners and looking at the all points we can say that there are\nadvantages and disadvantages of eye contact base genjutsu and sound base\ngenjutsu.\n\nThat's what I think.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-15T05:16:00.210", "id": "31411", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-15T05:16:00.210", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "23457", "parent_id": "7631", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat would be the main character in Gold/Silver/Crystal. In Generation II he\nhad no official name (and so was unofficially known as **Gold** ), but was\ngiven a name in the Generation IV remakes to Gold/Silver, and was given the\nname **[Ethan](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ethan_%28game%29)**.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-22T10:28:15.347", "id": "7634", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-22T10:28:15.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThis character's name is Gold. Like Madara mentioned, he is the main character\nin Gold/Silver/Crystal. He is most likely from the Pokemon adventures manga\n(which I read).\n\nThe one facing him is most likely Red from the manga as well. I just do not\nremember him having a Lapras, but I do know that at the Deoxys arc of the\nmanga he used all 3 of the Kanto starters at some point.\n\nIn the manga, Gold's team would be Sudowoodo, Ambipom, Sunflora, Politoad,\nTogetic and Typhlosion (as of Volume 43). He has a Pichu called Pibu, but it's\nmore or less there for cute appeal.\n\nThis scene is most likely drawn to depict their training at Mt. Silver, or in\nthe game where Red is like the \"final boss\" of HG/SS.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-15T18:06:23.747", "id": "13998", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-16T15:04:00.937", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-16T15:04:00.937", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "8018", "parent_id": "7633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nHe could also be Jimmy from \"Pokemon and The Legend of Thunder!\" It was a\nthree part episode/movie in the Pokemon chronicle series. Jimmy did have a\nTyphlosion, he also was shown to have a beedrill. He came from newbark town in\nthe Johto region and chose a Cyndaquil as his partner.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-14T04:33:55.437", "id": "23252", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-14T04:33:55.437", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15673", "parent_id": "7633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nHe is the main character in Generation II Pokemon Gold/Silver and the male\ncharacter in Pokemon Crystal and their remakes in Generation IV HeartGold &\nSoulSilver, [Ethan](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ethan_\\(game\\)).\nIt's also known as Gold in Generation II.\n\nHe is also the main protagonist in [The Legend of\nThunder!](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/The_Legend_of_Thunder!),\nknown as [Jimmy](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Jimmy_\\(Johto\\)). Both\nJimmy and Ethan is from [New Bark\nTown](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/New_Bark_Town) in\n[Johto](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Johto).\n\nThe image is more like Ethan from the game, because he fight\n[Red](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Red_\\(game\\)) where the player\ncan fight him at the top of [Mt.\nSilver](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mt._Silver) after beating Elite\nFour and Champion and also have all 16 Badges from Johto and\n[Kanto](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Kanto).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-11T06:49:47.610", "id": "29697", "last_activity_date": "2016-02-11T06:49:47.610", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17975", "parent_id": "7633", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is the Dragon Quest 2 log in screen (hence the DQ2 password). The first\nthing she types in is a resurrection spell from the Dragon Quest series\n\n> The Spell of Restoration (復活の呪文, ふっかつのじゅもん, fukkatsu no jumon) is the name\n> of the password system used in the Famicom and MSX versions of Dragon Quest\n> and Dragon Quest II. Similar to other games of the time, the player's\n> accomplishments were converted into a password, which was then written down\n> and entered later to resume the game from the point at which the player left\n> off. With the advent of battery backup (first seen in the series in Dragon\n> Quest III), password systems became obsolete, and the Spell of Restoration\n> was never used again. **It differs from the passwords of other games in that\n> it is recognized by some characters as a convention of the game world and\n> not simply a means of resuming gameplay.**\n\n\"Kami nomi zo shiru sekai\" follows the same pattern used, which is 3-3-4:\n\n * Ka-mi-no\n * mi-zo-shi\n * ru-se-ka-i\n\n\n\n> Dragon Quest II\n>\n> Due its broader scope (three-member party, multiple flagged plot events, and\n> a wider array of equipment), Dragon Quest II employed a larger 52-character\n> Spell of Restoration: Four lines of 3-3-4, followed by a final line of\n> 3-3-4-2.\n\nAs to why she mistypes, it is most likely a reference to the fact you load a\nlife. A life only you know of, hence _The world god only knows_ , Keima's\nworld.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-22T17:50:45.690", "id": "7641", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-22T18:43:10.243", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7640", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n[Dimitri mx's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7641/25160) has\nexplained about the origin of the screen: it is _Dragon Quest 2_ 's password\ninput screen.\n\nAs to why she mistypes, the input was actually part of a real, valid _DQ2_\npassword that's famous for its effect (in short: [new game plus (Japanese\nYouTube link)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC4Yg85lU0o)):\n\n[code]\n\n ゆうて　いみや　おうきむ\n こうほ　りいゆ　うじとり\n やまあ　きらぺ　ぺぺぺぺ\n ぺぺぺ　ぺぺぺ　ぺぺぺぺ\n ぺぺぺ　ぺぺぺ　ぺぺぺぺ　ぺぺ\n \n YUUTE IMIYA OUKIMU\n KOUHO RIIYU UJITORI\n YAMAA KIRAPE PEPEPEPE\n PEPEPE PEPEPE PEPEPEPE\n PEPEPE PEPEPE PEPEPEPE PEPE\n \n[/code]\n\nIt needs proper spacing to understand the background of the password:\n\n[code]\n\n ゆうて　　い■みや　おう■きむ\n こう■ほ　りいゆ　　うじ■とり\n やまあ　　きら ...\n \n YUUTE I|MIYA OU|KIMU\n KOU|HO RIIYU UJI|TORI\n YAMAA KIRA ...\n \n[/code]\n\n 1. ゆうてい/ゆう帝 ( _yuu tei_ ): Pen name for one of _Weekly Shonen Sunday_ 's game introduction corner staff.\n 2. みやおう/ミヤ王 ( _miya ou_ ): (same as above)\n 3. きむこう/キム皇 ( _kimu kou_ ): (same as above)\n 4. ほりいゆうじ/堀井雄二 ( _horii yuuji_ ): Yuutei's real name\n 5. とりやまあきら/鳥山明 ( _toriyama akira_ ): _Dragon Quest_ 's character designer\n\nIt's also parodied in _Dragon Quest 11_ ([Japanese YouTube\nVideo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUw1dXaX8o)) and _Gamers!_ (light\nnovel, volume 2, chapter 6).\n\n* * *\n\nSource: [Dragon Quest wikiwiki\n(Japanese)](http://wikiwiki.jp/dqdic3rd/?%A1%DA%A4%E6%A4%A6%A4%C6%A4%A4%A4%DF%A4%E4%A4%AA%A4%A6%A4%AD%A4%E0%A4%B3%A4%A6%A1%C4%A1%DB)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-08T11:28:46.103", "id": "44130", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-08T11:45:43.347", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-08T11:45:43.347", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "7640", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMagatamas as you most likely found out as well are ceremonial and religious\nobjects and are well used objects in the Japanese Mythology.\n\nI have no ways to proof this is so but is one of the best guesses we have (\njust like with allot of Naruto related stuff)\n\nAs described in the part under here. The Magatamas have a direct connection\nwith Susanoo and Amaterasu. The sage of the six paths was also worshiped as\nthe Saviour of this World (この世の救世主, Kono Yo no Kyūseishu).\n\n> The Kojiki and Nihon shoki, completed in the 8th century, have numerous\n> references to magatama. They appear in the early in the first chapter of the\n> Nihon shoki, which largely describes the mythology of Japan. **Susanoo, god\n> of the sea and storms, received five hundred magatama from Tamanoya no\n> mikoto, or Ame-no-Autodidact-no-mikoto, the jewel-making deity. Susanoo went\n> to heaven and presented them to his sister, the sun goddess Amaterasu, who\n> bit off successive parts of the magatama, and blew them away to create other\n> deities.** Tamanoya no mikoto remains the kami god of magatama, glasses, and\n> cameras. In the legend Amaterasu later shuts herself in a cave. AMA-no-\n> Koyane-no-mikoto hung magatama, among other objects, on a five hundred-\n> branch sakaki tree, to successfully lure Amaterasu from the cave. In the\n> year 58, in the reign of the Emperor Suinin, the Nihon shoki records that a\n> dog kills and disembowels a mujina, a type of badger, and a magatama was\n> discovered in its stomach. This magatama was presented to Suinin, who\n> enshrined it at Isonokami Shrine, where it is said to presently reside. A\n> similar practice is described again in the Nihon shoki during the reign of\n> the Emperor Chūai. Chūai made an inspection trip to the Tsukushi, or Kyūshū,\n> and was presented with an enormous sakaki tree hung with magatama as well as\n> other sacred objects. [Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magatama)\n\nWith this information we can say that the Magatama are either\n\n * Just some jewelery\n * Usage as a religious object aka worshiping\n * or used as Reference to Japanese Mythology. Susanoo/Amaterasu.\n\nBut unless we get to know more about Hagoromo Otsutsuki we will never really\nknow a definitive answer to this question\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-23T00:34:15.860", "id": "7645", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-23T00:34:15.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7643", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are tons of reasons for animes to be discontinued. One of the most\ncommon ones would be lack of sales. A anime might become pretty popular, and\nwatched a lot. But if the sales do not match, no second season will be made\nnonetheless due to money issues.\n\n> Popularity ALSO plays a factor. If the first season is not popular enough\n> towards viewers than a second season is just a waste of cash. However, there\n> are SOME anime titles out there who produced a second season countless years\n> after the first season; so hope is not all lost for fans who wishes for a\n> second season (e.g. Inuyasha finished airing in 2004, however it's sequel\n> series Inuyasha: Final Act started in 2009-2010, completing the entire\n> series since the manga ended in 2008).\n\nThe loss of sponsors is not uncommon which can lead to huge budget cuts, which\nsometimes lead to debt which first has to be covered for.\n\nKeep in mind that studios use the Japanese sales numbers as reference point\nfor sales, which differ quite a lot from European/American sales\n\n> Yes, I'd assume the reason for this is because anime is naturally common in\n> Japan. In the US it's something different, something maybe a little rare, so\n> people can see it as a targeted interest. If you were in Japan and said \"I'm\n> a big fan of anime\" people would probably not notice, just as if a Japanese\n> person said \"I'm a fan of American sitcoms\" because it would be such a wide\n> genre that most everyone would find something that they like. Both people\n> would probably end up getting a response like \"oh... that's nice.... which\n> ones?\" etc.\n\nSometimes it might also just be a issue between the director and the mangaka.\n\n> Fruits Baskets case it was originally going to be longer, but the creator of\n> the manga didn't like the director or something (lol I can't remember\n> exactly) and she didn't allow them to continue the anime.\n\nSome other reasons although less common then money issues would be\n\n * No free time slot for broadcasting\n * Lack of material (but you're talking about ones with story left to tell so count this one out partially)\n * Lack of studios that want to take the job (happens more often then you think) \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-23T04:10:49.953", "id": "7648", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-23T06:28:39.040", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-23T06:28:39.040", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7647", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nMost anime series are produced to promote the source material (manga, light\nnovel, etc.). Thus for the producers its more important if the sales of the\nsource material were boosted by the anime adaption. So even if an anime is\nquite popular - it should be noted that even quite successful anime only sell\nbetween 3000 and less then 10000 (more than that is rare is considered a very\nsuccessful anime) discs per volume - there is often no point in producing\nanother season if the sales of the source material increased sufficiently.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-11T14:46:14.433", "id": "8600", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-11T14:46:14.433", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4459", "parent_id": "7647", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's likely a nod to how terrible of an artist she actually is. That is, when\nshe _tries_ to be good.\n\nEarlier in the same episode, she was reading off a picture book to the group.\nAt the very least, it freaked Yui and Kyouko out a _ton_.\n\n\n\nThe likely inference here is that her art sculpture is _so_ bad, that\ncensoring it is the only sane way to show it to the rest of the world.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-23T16:59:31.437", "id": "7652", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-21T04:43:13.150", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-21T04:43:13.150", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "102", "parent_id": "7650", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThat sounds almost exactly like **IRIA: Zeiram the Animation** to me.\n(<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107228>)\n\nI really loved Iria when it first came out, the action and character designs\nare excellent. Interestingly, this OVA is based on a live-action movie series\ncalled Zeiram (which I've never seen). I wish they had made sequels to this\nanime because I found Iria a pretty engaging character at the time (haven't\nseen it in forever). Her grappling hook thing was pretty slick and she kicked\nserious butt ;)\n\nThe alien (Zeiram) is pretty much unstoppable and has a creepy, extensible\nface (kind of like a Xenomorph). It can clone itself and absorb people. Here's\nthe description of the monster (from\n<http://myanimelist.net/character/21662/Zeiram#aJugBUYj0dqWceUH.99>):\n\n> \"Zeiram is the ultimate being and virtually indestructible. In addition to\n> being extremely powerful, Zeiram can generate imperfect clones of itself to\n> assist in battle. Zeiram also needs to assimilate other life forms in order\n> to sustain itself, but in doing so it is thought that Zeiram can learn\n> whatever is known by the organism being assimilated. Zeiram is not a unique\n> creature and other versions of itself are known to exist throughout the\n> universe. Later in the show Zeiram attempts to contact other Zeirams in\n> order to bring them to Myce.\"\n\nHope that helps!\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-24T20:44:29.427", "id": "19651", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-24T20:44:29.427", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "12920", "parent_id": "7651", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe anime and manga closely resemble one another.\n\nThis is mainly because the mangaka, Eiichiro Oda actually actively\nparticipates into the animation process. So whenever they want a filler\nepisode, they will contact Eiichiro Oda for confirmation, and he would either\napprove or reject it.\n\nI believe the only deviations there were was some part in the beginning of the\nanime that did not totally follow the manga, and ace's tattoo. Which later on\ngot adapted in the manga as well, so not sure how much that would count as a\ndifference.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T09:25:55.073", "id": "7667", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-16T11:09:10.670", "last_edit_date": "2015-12-16T11:09:10.670", "last_editor_user_id": "14582", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7655", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nWell the one piece manga is the skeleton of one piece anime so there are some\nadd ups in anime to make in more realistic and entertaining to the audience by\nmodifying some of the portions of manga and the main difference between them\nis the approach of conveying the story to the readers and anime watchers .\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T16:25:55.153", "id": "7719", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-26T16:25:55.153", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "7655", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nThe anime has lots of filler in between pages or they drag some parts out. The\nanime also has entire filler arcs that are not in the manga but they don't\naffect the overall story of one piece. I have not watched black butler or full\nmetal alchemist so I can't compare them to one piece. I do know that it is\nstill in the same place the manga is but just an arc behind. I know that the\nanime might leave false impressions in some places, for example when Luffy\nfought Doflamingo the anime made it look like king Kong gun had a hard time\nbeating Doflamingo but in the manga it crushed him. Not worth to being caught\nup and watching one episode a week in my opinion but it is worth watching for\nthe fights because animated fights are always better than looking at pictures.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-09T07:21:08.993", "id": "38867", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-09T07:21:08.993", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30814", "parent_id": "7655", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis sounded like the novel _A Little Princess_ to me, so I searched to see if\nthere was an anime based on that. Turns out there is one called [Princess\nSarah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Sarah), and apart from the green\ndress, it seems to match your description. (The protagonist does wear a green-\nish dress in some of the pictures I've seen from the anime while searching for\nthis, but she doesn't in a couple of them.) I am also not sure if the anime\nseries aired at around the right time.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-23T22:19:02.740", "id": "7659", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-23T22:19:02.740", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "7656", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nThis series is called [Little Princess\nSara](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=444) which is\nan anime adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel \"A Little Princess\". It\nis the 11th series in the [World Masterpiece\nTheater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Masterpiece_Theater) collection.\nWhen Sara becomes a maid she is always wearing a dark green dress.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-23T23:12:20.733", "id": "7660", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-23T23:12:20.733", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "66", "parent_id": "7656", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nOn the [Code Geass\nWikia](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Nina_Einstein#First_Season) it says\n\n> Nina is shown masturbating to her picture in episode 12.\n\n\"Her\" refers to Euphemia. Nina began to develop a crush for her back during\nthe Japanese Liberation Front Hotel Incident when Euphie revealed her identity\nto the JLF to save Nina from being attacked.\n\nNina's crush on Euphie is almost obsessive and even what she says sometimes\ncan be seen as innuendo to her wanting an intimate relationship. In one\nepisode, she attempts to meet Euphie but is pinned down by the guards and\nEuphie once again saves her. As they talk by the fireplace, Nina says she\nwants \"Euphie's goodness\" elaborating that she wants Euphie's bodily fluid\n(whether she means saliva or \"something else\" is up to the imagination).\n\nNow I haven't read anywhere which actually confirms what Nina is doing, but\nwhat the wiki says is widely accepted due to her obsession for Euphie, her\nbody movements during and after the scene (including how Nina adjusts her\nskirt when speaking to Nunnally) and the sound effects, and there is very\nlittle else a girl would do when they have images of the object of their\nobsession in the dark room like that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-25T06:06:19.403", "id": "7688", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-01T06:48:29.340", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-01T06:48:29.340", "last_editor_user_id": "13504", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7663", "post_type": "answer", "score": 19 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe isn't sleeping or unconscious as after Lelouch calls Ohgi we see C.C is\nawake (6:15), remember, this is C.C, she will usually lounge around the place\neating Pizza.\n\nLelouch learned moments before that his actions at the Battle of Narita caused\nthe death of Shirley's father\n\nConversation between Lelouch and Shirley:\n\n> Shirley: Lou Lou, tell me. Zero, he fights for the weak doesn't he?\n>\n> Lelouch: What? Yea, well that's what he says\n>\n> Shirley: Then why did he kill my father? You know my father, was so gentle.\n> He never ever hurt me. He didn't do anything wrong. But, he was buried\n> alive. He couldn't breathe. Why? Why did my father have to die?! I don't\n> want this! Please, Lou Lou. Help me.\n\nthis shakes Lelouch's resolve after he realizes his actions caused someone's\ndeath but the effects of that death didn't stop at that person dying, C.C\nreminds him of what he said to Taizo Kirihara in the Mt. Fuji Mines and also\nreminds him that he has already killed many times before, rebuking the way he\nis acting now after he truly understands what it means to be responsible for\ntaking lives.\n\nLelouch pins down C.C in anger because he didn't want to hear the truth,\nclaiming he was prepared for this the moment he killed his half brother\nClovis, yet C.C is saying he wasn't and he need to be now cause Shirley wont\nbe the only person close to Lelouch who will be effected by Zero's war against\nBritannia.\n\nJust as the scene cuts we hear a steel door, while there are no steel doors in\nthe estate this is more of a metaphor of Lelouch locking himself away as he\nreflects what he has done, this is why he is in the shower banging his fist\ninto the wall as the truth C.C said is something he still couldn't accept.\n\nAs for what happened just before the cut, well the steel door is also probably\nindicating Lelouch stormed out, but then why is C.C just laying there not\nmoving, well also remember she is an Immortal so she's probably kept herself\nat arms length to people and tried not to understand them, she probably didn't\nrealize that while she was trying to help Lelouch's shaken resolve she was\nhurting him as well and is probably thinking on weather she was too harsh\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T21:43:47.490", "id": "7681", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T03:49:49.253", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-25T03:49:49.253", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7664", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWe see later on when Suzaku is remembering what he did when Lelouch ordered\nhim to live what happened, Suzaku closed the cockpit of the Lancelot with\nLelouch with him and went to escape, while i can't remember it entirely, he\nprobably picked up Euphie on the way while Kallen chased after him knowing\nZero was inside.\n\nBecause the Hadron Cannon was unfocused, C.C must have used the confusion to\ndo something to the ruins remotely, possibly using the Thought Elevator, to\nsend them to the island, it might have been area of effect as she probably was\nonly targeting Lelouch but Suzaku, Euphie and Kallen was within the vicinity.\nC.C probably had planned that Lelouch would learn more of Geass, of Charles\nand V.V and of the Thought Elevator so that Lelouch would be prepared to grant\nher wish in the end.\n\nHow the Black Knight got out of the Avalon's attack, well as i said the Hadron\nCannon was unfocused, it was still a prototype and Lloyd expresses how annoyed\nhe is later on when Rakshata is able to perfect it by focusing the beams,\nbecause of the way the Hadron Cannon attacked and what we see it's assumed\nthat the Black Knights retreated.\n\nAs for how they couldn't get in contact with Lelouch or Kallen, i'm quite sure\nwhat ever C.C did separated Suzaku and Kallen from their Knightmares and\nobviously they at the time were relying on their comms within the Knightmares\nso didn't carry radios, this is proven by the fact that the playback of Suzaku\ndisobeying order was recorded in the Lancelot, the Britannian forces probably\nweren't aware of Suzaku or Euphie being on the island as they where there by\nchance on a separate mission investigating the ruins which Bartley suspects\nwas the reason why Japan (and a number of other nations) was invaded in the\nfirst place.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T21:59:19.997", "id": "7682", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T01:05:54.470", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-25T01:05:54.470", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIf you watch the end of the previous episode, and when Lelouch and Suzaku meet\nup, you'll note that there is a mysterious boy observing events, shown very\nbriefly. It is this boy, who you are not yet introduced to, who is\nresponsible.\n\nGiven what we know of him from later events, he probably sends them there to\nhave the events screw Lelouch and/or Euphemia's plans up without being too\nobvious, but probably benefited from Lelouch's interaction with the Thought\nElevator as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-28T18:32:37.927", "id": "37081", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-28T18:32:37.927", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28964", "parent_id": "7665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI think the implication was that V.V. needed a Geass user to open the Thought\nElevator and Lelouch was the closest one. Or he did for laughs, as C.C.\nassumed in Episode 19.\n\nAlthough less likely, I personally like that other theory that the \"impervious\nobserver\" C.C. was talking with is the [Caretaker of\nSpacetime](http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Caretaker_of_Spacetime) that\nappears in _Code Geass: Akito the Exiled_ OVAs.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-21T21:08:38.027", "id": "43460", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-21T21:08:38.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36727", "parent_id": "7665", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThose 3 girls are definitely blood related. Boa Hancock explains her tragedy\nin [episode 415](http://www.watchonepiece.us/one-piece-episode-415-english-\nsub/) in which we can see the 3 girls in their childhood and early teen years\nand they definitely look similar. Their different characteristics are probably\nbecause of,\n\n * just being different:- even in real life siblings have different traits which grow as they mature.\n * different devil fruits:- we know that Boa Hancock ate [Mero Mero No Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Mero_Mero_no_Mi) fruit (Paramecia type), and her sisters ate Hebi Hebi No Mi fruits (Zoan type), [Hebi Hebi No Mi, Model Anaconda](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hebi_Hebi_no_Mi,_Model%3a_Anaconda) (Boa Sandersonia) and [Hebi Hebi No Mi, Model King Cobra](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Hebi_Hebi_no_Mi,_Model%3a_King_Cobra) (Boa Marigold).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T19:25:51.023", "id": "7676", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-24T19:25:51.023", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "7666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThey are blood related. Proof found on the [One piece\nwiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gorgon_Sisters)\n\nI personally think Oda made them different from each other to make it more\ninteresting for the viewers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T19:39:30.390", "id": "7677", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T18:54:23.067", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-25T18:54:23.067", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "3879", "parent_id": "7666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe kuja go out and have sex with men, just to get pregnant. Then they come\nback and have the children. So the sisters probably have the same mom, but\ndifferent dads.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-12-08T15:21:51.973", "id": "50027", "last_activity_date": "2018-12-08T15:21:51.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43804", "parent_id": "7666", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUnless the one piece author/s clarify the existence and origin of the Kuja\ntribe, there would be no accurate answer for this question. It happens most of\nthe time in any anime and one piece is not an exception, let's just wait for\nany episodes where this tribe will be explain even more. For the meantime the\nsuccinct explanation of the Kuja tribe are as follows:\n\nThe Amazon Lily: <http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Amazon_Lily>\n\nThe Kuja Tribe: <http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Kuja>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-04T05:05:43.227", "id": "10100", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-04T05:05:43.227", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2309", "parent_id": "7668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nNo explanation is ever given beyond the word \"mysteriously\" but it isn't as\nridiculous as it sounds.\n\nIn the real world, environmental factors such as the temperature and diet of\nthe mother during pregnancy can affect the likelihood of a boy or a girl being\nborn. Of course it rarely gets above 55-45 one way or the other, but in the\nunique environment of Amazon Lily it is possible that the odds of having a\nbaby girl is completely overwhelming, to the point where no boy has ever been\nborn on the island.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-04T21:41:47.213", "id": "10110", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-04T21:41:47.213", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "7668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe most simple answer would of course be \"Magic\" or anime logic.\n\nHowever, when we look at the issue from a logical standpoint, we don't need to\nlook at the tribe, but at the foreign countries, since the gender of the\nnewborn is determined by the winning sperm, which either carries a female\nchromosome (X) or a male chromosome (Y).\n\nMaybe the males in the foreign country only produce female sperm. Sperm\nproduction is affected by enviromental factors but this is unlikely, there'd\nbe reports of that foreign country having female births (unless their females\ntravel and get impregnated somewhere else as well). Keep in mind it's entirely\npossible that those reports could exist but the reader never gets told of any\nof this.\n\nMost likely is that the tribe actually gets males born, but they are promptly\nkilled (and no record of them is kept), much like [real Amazon\ntribes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons) did it.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-05T01:11:20.840", "id": "10112", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-05T02:20:33.087", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-05T02:20:33.087", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "5123", "parent_id": "7668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nActually this might not be true. There may have kids being born as boys but\ndue to some reasons the boys did not lived. In short, the elders are trying to\nprevent from boys being alive. I believe this is somewhat similar to what\nhappened with Vincent(Hiei from Yu-yu Hakusho) wherein he was an outcast\nbecause of the tradition of having only female to live in their village.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-06T13:44:26.660", "id": "10130", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-06T13:44:26.660", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "5139", "parent_id": "7668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nOr maybe while they're out in the world, they did give birth to boys but was\nlike 'oop! You're a boy; orphanage for you' and just only took home the girls.\nRemember, them getting pregnant requires them to leave the island OF WOMEN to\ngo into the world OF MEN. So only people who left would know for sure. Who\nsays they have to tell anybody they had a boy? Or that they were pregnant at\nall?\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-14T05:31:14.910", "id": "42812", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-14T05:31:14.910", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36129", "parent_id": "7668", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe only way for them to know that someone is human is if they deviate from\nhow an NPC does stuff and if they don't recognize persons who have recently\narrived in the Afterlife.\n\nBasically if you live like an NPC then you must be an NPC. Hinata actually\nthought Ooyama was an NPC because Ooyama acted so normally that he was like an\nNPC which is why Hinata gave him a nickname of \"Villager A\" in their first\nmeeting (he only calls Ooyama by that name in his thoughts). However, when\nHinata had a good conversation with Ooyama, Ooyama said something about dying\nwhich showed that he was a human who died.\n\nYurippe knew Hinata was human because he would always go to the school roof\n(if memory serves right) which is not something an NPC does.\n\nWhen all hell breaks lose in the campus and a person dismisses it as something\nnormal, then that person is an NPC because anything weird that they see is\nsupposed to be normal (at least, they think it's normal).\n\ntl;dr\n\nThey act differently. Yes. They will still act differently (like by being\ncurious). They can't tell the difference if they can't observe or experiment\nif the person will act how a non NPC would act.\n\nFor more info, read the light novel.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T15:12:28.567", "id": "7674", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-24T15:12:28.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3872", "parent_id": "7672", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is one important dissimilarity the other answers didn't cover: the NPCs\nforget things they were told the next day, as revealed in volume 5 of the\n_Angel Beats! Heaven's Door_ manga.\n\n\n\nIt should be noted that the NPCs do retain a record of the past activities\ndone by the humans, as Yuri and her SSS comrades were denied participation in\nthe Christmas party because they were labelled as problem students for causing\na ruckus at the swimming competition. Also, the NPCs don't forget what they\nhave experienced, like the principal was aware that he had been held as a\nhostage many times in the past.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-14T16:52:56.603", "id": "19360", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-06T15:01:36.940", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-06T15:01:36.940", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "7672", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Sazae-san](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san) (still ongoing) holds the\n[Guinness World Record](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-\nrecords/1000/longest-running-animated-tv-series) for the longest running\nanimated television series at more than 7071 episodes. For a list of runner-\nups, check [this\nlist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episode_count).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-24T19:52:06.073", "id": "7679", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-24T19:52:06.073", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7678", "post_type": "answer", "score": 38 }, { "body": "\n\nThe longest series is 'Sazae-san'. It has 2255+7071+ episodes.\n\n(The number '2255' is actually more accurate although it was achieved through\nbad math. There are actually [according to more recent numbers from\n[this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episode_count)\nwiki list] around 2390+ episodes. However, each episode consists of three\nseparate stories/vignettes and can be counted as three separate episodes and\nthat is where the 7000+ number comes from {2390 x 3 = 7170}. Furthermore, the\n[Sazae-san wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san) states it has aired\nevery Sunday since 1969 so using your friend math you can see that 46 years x\n52 Sundays per year = 2392 episodes)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-26T12:53:24.583", "id": "17075", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-10T08:55:58.817", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-10T08:55:58.817", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "10855", "parent_id": "7678", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs the background story on [the wiki\nstates](http://gunslingergirl.wikia.com/wiki/Triela) (I believe this part is\nhandle further on in the manga so do consider this a spoiler)\n\n> Originally from Tunisia, Triela was kidnapped and smuggled to Amsterdam by\n> the Mafia, where she was drugged, tortured, and sexually assaulted during\n> the routine taping of a snuff film. Victor Hartmann and Rachelle Belleut,\n> acting on a lead from guilt-racked Camorra mafioso Mario Bossi, stormed the\n> warehouse where she was being held captive and subsequently rescued her,\n> just as she was succumbing to her injuries and to cardiac arrest.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-25T05:08:02.767", "id": "7687", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T05:08:02.767", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7684", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf we are to follow the images and information we are given. It should be\nsomewhere in between the [Lands of\niron](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Land_of_Iron) and an [island in the Land of\nLightning](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Island_Turtle) This is the current\nninja world map.  [source of\nimage](http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110114161253/naruto/images/3/3e/Naruto_World_Map.svg)\n\nBelow a piece of the tactic explanation showing a piece of map \n\nLooking at the 3 borders in the tactics. Taking the angle shape, and the\ninformation that it is between the lands of iron and the floating turtle.\n\n\n\nThis would be the most logically location for it to be occurring\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-25T05:00:38.067", "id": "7686", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T05:00:38.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7685", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Night on the Galactic\nRailroad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_on_the_Galactic_Railroad#Animated_film)\nis a classic Japanese novel from the 1920s that got an anime adaption in 1985\nwhich has such a scene:\n\n\n\nThe only thing that makes me doubt whether it's correct is that the\nprotagonist is in fact a cat (as are all other characters).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-13T00:38:50.230", "id": "8012", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-13T00:38:50.230", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4092", "parent_id": "7691", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe show uses a lot of traditional Japanese cultural imagery, including the\ncharacters' clothes. Wikipedia says the style is supposed to be taken from\nShowa period (most probably\n[1926~1989](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_period) years, less likely\n[1312~1317](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_%28Kamakura_period%29)).\n\nIt's a comedy and satire show, so naturally, the main protagonist would wear\nsomething noticeable as a traditional kimono. But because characters are\nusually seen in modern environment, things like this keep us from forgetting\nthe older-timey setting.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T17:58:16.580", "id": "7899", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-07T09:33:09.617", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-07T09:33:09.617", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "7694", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's one episode (can't recall the number off of my head) where Itoshiki-\nSensei exclaims that he's a \"Bona-fide Japanese\" (in one of the subbed\ntranslations I was watching) and it's possible he's not really fond of\nwesternized shirts/clothes that much.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-08T05:53:22.890", "id": "7915", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-08T05:53:22.890", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4031", "parent_id": "7694", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]