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[ { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure it's a foreign stereotype (mostly of the U.S.), that people\nover there will sue over anything.\n\nFrom [ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2013-05-23):\n\n> Kaere Kimura, a half-Japanese, half-foreign girl from abroad, who embodies\n> all stereotypes about foreigners.\n\nShe also has other stereotypical traits of foreigners and continually talks\nabout how things are done in her country, which seem to get stranger and\nstranger as the show goes on. It's never revealed which country she is from\nthough (and this is a running gag).\n\nHer boisterous personality is also designed to contrast with the other side of\nher split personality, who is shy and quiet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-25T14:44:21.667", "id": "7696", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-25T14:44:21.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7695", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nQuote from the 6th novel, Chapter 1 Part 8 (Credit for the translation goes to\nBaka-Tsuki):\n\n> All the students in Academy City had a scholarship they could claim, and the\n> money would be automatically banked into their accounts like a salary. On\n> first glance, it was a system that was worth being envious over, but\n> basically, it could be considered a contract for esper development. The more\n> prestigious the school, or the higher the Level of the esper, the greater\n> the reward. In contrast, the esper would have to take part in more research.\n> As for ordinary Level 0 school students like Kamijou, the reward they could\n> get was rather limited.\n\nAll Espers (even the Lv.0s) should have this scholarship for the _Power\nCurriculum Program_ , the program to develop Esper-powers.\n\nNot included here are non-students: Skill-Out most likely earns money with\ncrimes, Teachers are paid by the city (although they don't get money for being\na member of Anti-Skill), and foreigners (like Frenda) just live in the city\nand get paid for their jobs.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-27T16:03:34.023", "id": "7737", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-27T20:29:42.697", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-27T20:29:42.697", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "7697", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe final is an alternate ending/fragment, where Takano's parents don't die as\na result of the \"miracle\" born from the combinated wills of Rika and her\nfriends. In the original ending, the miracle occurs instead when Takano shoots\nat Hanyuu in the mountain forest and misses her shot.\n\nThe adult version of Rika is most likely Frederica Bernkastel. Her real\nnature/identity is often questioned and discussed by fans, most notably those\nwho know the series _Umineko no Naku Koro ni_ by the same author; however, a\ndirect and clear link between the Bernkastel from both series is not\nestablished.\n\nFrom a simple _Higurashi_ point of view, at least, Bernkastel is an entity\nborn from Rika's \"mature personality\" due to her many reincarnations. It is\nspeculated that while Rika is still in the fragment where she won with her\nfriends and live a peaceful life there, Bernkastel was able to become a\nseparate existence that can freely travel between the different fragments (=\nalternative realities).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-26T21:45:03.143", "id": "11492", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-11T08:16:48.133", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-11T08:16:48.133", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "6391", "parent_id": "7699", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAnother Jonin level shinobi that is missing from the 4th Great Shinobi War is\nKurenai (this maybe because of her pregnancy), Ebisu and Ibiki Morino too are\nmissing and he too is of Jounin level.\n\nSince nothing specifically has been stated about their absence we can only\ndeduce that either\n\n1> These shinobi have been dispatched on some special mission and that is not\nshown in the manga, or\n\n2> These shinobi have been given the duty to protect the civilians that are\nnot directly taking part in the war.\n\nMy two cent would be on the speculation that they are protecting the civilians\nthat are not directly taking part in the war. These civilians need to be\nprotected, and the generals need to dispatch a small group of quality fighters\nthat would be able to defend them or move them to safety.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T06:03:30.490", "id": "7705", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-05T17:09:12.983", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-05T17:09:12.983", "last_editor_user_id": "2077", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "7700", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the episode where the leaf village is attacked ebisu is shown to be in\ncharge of defending the village.\n\nBut I don't know where the rest are sadly.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-26T02:39:33.513", "id": "30846", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-26T02:39:33.513", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22975", "parent_id": "7700", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTechnically speaking, yes, the Sage of the Six Paths could be revived using\nthis technique.\n\n> the technique targets either all the individuals recently killed, or a\n> single person from long ago.\n>\n> This technique can also be used on people brought back to life using\n> Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation, transforming the debris and ash that\n> forms the corpse vessel into a real body of living flesh and blood; even if\n> they have been dead for many years.\n\nBut it seems to take a huge amount of chakra and be close to impossible to\nrevive people without giving up your own life.\n\n> This technique seemingly requires a massive amount of chakra, risking death\n> in the process, as Konan feared the worst for Nagato when he used it after\n> having previously expended so much chakra. After using the technique, Nagato\n> became severely weakened; his hair became white due to overexertion of his\n> chakra. **Obito's usage of the technique (even on a single target, as\n> opposed to Nagato's use on a village's population) brought him to his\n> inevitable death, as Black Zetsu noted.**\n> [source](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_Path:_Samsara_of_Heavenly_Life_Technique)\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-25T19:09:16.250", "id": "7702", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-26T21:04:23.603", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-26T21:04:23.603", "last_editor_user_id": "59761", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7701", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you're referring to the manga by Masamune Shirow, there are [3\nvolumes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28manga%29#Publication_history)\nthe first volume was initially published by Dark Horse in the US. Currently\nall 2 volumes of the main series and the 1 volume \"interquel (Vol. 1.5)\" have\nbeen republished by Kodansha Comics USA\n\n[Volume 1](http://www.randomhouse.com/book/166169/the-ghost-in-the-shell-\nvolume-1-by-shirow-masamune/9781935429012/) has:\n\n> Pages: 368 | ISBN: 978-1-935429-01-2\n\n[Volume 2](http://www.randomhouse.com/book/200115/the-ghost-in-the-shell-\nvolume-2-by-shirow-masamune/9781935429036/) has:\n\n> Pages: 312 | ISBN: 978-1-935429-03-6\n\n[Volume 1.5](http://www.randomhouse.com/book/213293/the-ghost-in-the-\nshell-15-by-shirow-masamune) has:\n\n> Pages: 176 | ISBN: 978-1-935429-96-8\n\nMost of these volumes are also available on Amazon.de (if not you can get them\non Amazon .com), if that's more convenient for you.\n\n[Vol. 1](http://www.amazon.de/The-Ghost-Shell-Volume-SAC/dp/1935429019), [Vol.\n2](http://www.amazon.de/The-Ghost-Shell-Volume-Man-Machine/dp/1935429035/),\n[Vol. 1.5](http://www.amazon.de/The-Ghost-Shell-1-5-SAC/dp/1935429965/)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T15:38:51.420", "id": "7718", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-26T15:38:51.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7703", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Uchiha are not a descendant clan of the Hyuuga. That was speculated by\nKakashi in the very early stages of the series.\n\nMuch more information was revealed afterwards ( ** _SPOILER!_ Hover to\nview**):\n\n> Both the Uchiha and the Senju (The clan of the First Hokage) are descendants\n> of the Sage of Six Paths, who created ninjutsu and had the powers of a god.\n\nAlso\n\n> A Rinnegan is the next stage of evolution after the Mangekyo Sharingan, so\n> you can't really use them both at once on the same eye. The Byakugan has\n> nothing to do with it and is a completely separate technique.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T12:36:04.607", "id": "7708", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-26T12:36:04.607", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7707", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't want to say that this is fact but here is a theory. Kaguya possesses\ntwo bloodline traits the byakugan and another sharingan/rinnegan trait. Upon\nhaving her two sons she could have passed the two traits down separately\n(seeing that we have not seen the sage's brother this is possible). This would\nmean that the sage obtained his mothers sharingan/rinnegan eye which\nmanifested as the rinnegan without the sharingan tomoe.\n\nUpon the sage having his two sons he passed down his visual ability, albeit a\nweakened version (the sharingan), to his eldest and his physical energy to his\nyoungest. It is, as we know, that only when senju and Uchiha blood mix do you\nacquire the rinnegan.\n\nPretty much what this theory states is that it is possible that the hyuuga\nclan originated from the sage's brother while the rinnegan and sharingan\noriginated from the sage himself. This would mean that the byakugan and\nsharingan exist as two separate dojutsu from two separate bloodlines.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-19T04:50:43.097", "id": "8762", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-19T04:50:43.097", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4553", "parent_id": "7707", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is theorized that the Uchiha and Hyuga clans are related. Kyuga was the\nfirst being to have all 3 dojutsu but it is unclear how she is related to the\nHyuga clan. Some people believe that the Hyuga clan also came from Indra just\nlike Uchiha did. For all we know Hyuga can be descended from Haruma as we\ndon't know much about him or Hyuga origins. I made a Otsutsuki Bloodline tree\njust click on the hyperlink to see. [Otsutsuki\nBloodline](http://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1TKzaEVwAVcmqedAr6P4SER_5pl6Dh7eR6-hr7-FQxO8/edit)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-15T14:37:03.950", "id": "11282", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-15T14:37:03.950", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6247", "parent_id": "7707", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nhamura his byakugan so its easy to say that he is indeed the hyuga ancestor.\nso this means that the hyuga are cousins to the uchiha, senju and uzumaki\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-02T00:32:10.357", "id": "11600", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-02T00:32:10.357", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6454", "parent_id": "7707", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAs evidenced by _The Last: Naruto the Movie_ , the Hyūga and Uchiha share a\ncommon ancestor: Kaguya Ōtsutsuki‎‎. The Uchiha are descended from the Sage of\nSix Paths and the Hyuga are descended from the sage's brother, Hamura\nŌtsutsuki. Given that the divergence happened before either clan was founded,\nit would be inaccurate to say that the Uchiha are descended from the Hyūga.\n\n> The evidence that the Hyūga are descended from Hamura is both stated and\n> implied by dialogue in the movie from Hinata; the ghost of Hamura; and\n> Toneri Ōtsutsuki, a descendent of Hamura. Furthermore, Toneri uses Byakugan,\n> as did the rest of his clan.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-27T01:24:41.607", "id": "32363", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-27T01:38:12.110", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-27T01:38:12.110", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "7707", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIf you have a look at the [Appearance section of Enel's wiki\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Enel#Appearance), you can see that\n(emphasis mine)\n\n> Enel is a tall, muscular man who has white/blond hair which was, in ancient\n> South American civilizations, considered godly..\n>\n> His nose has many lines running horizontally across it. His ear lobes are\n> extremely long, ending up to his torso. **He also holds four large Tomoe\n> drums attached via a large ring to his back, instead of the regular\n> Skypiean/Birkan wings, which gives him an appearance similar to a Raijin, a\n> similarity made even more prominent when using his \"200,000,000 Volt Amaru\"\n> transformation.**\n\nSo they are basically just external features of his attire and not really\nsomething which he has transplanted to his body.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T13:07:37.900", "id": "7711", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-07T12:49:48.493", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "7709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nI don't watch One Piece, so this may be completely off-base, but.\n\nGiven that Enel is a god of thunder, and given that he has that thing around\nhis head, it is plausible that his appearance is an allusion to some\ndepictions of\n[Taishakuten](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%9D%E9%87%88%E5%A4%A9 \"in\nJapanese\") (a.k.a.\n[Shakra/Sakka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Aakra_%28Buddhism%29), a.k.a.\n[Indra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra)). As Indra, he is a god of thunder\nin Hinduism (and in pre-Trimurti Vedic religion, the chief god of the\npantheon), and he was later loosely adopted into Buddhism as Shakra. As\nShakra, he is sometimes (not sure how often) depicted with a wheel behind his\nhead that looks similar to the thing behind Enel's head:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pQEld.jpg)\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uZoWr.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-11T20:08:10.443", "id": "11226", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-11T20:08:10.443", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThey're taiko drums, explicitly called such in the manga. Nami shouts in\nchapter 276 (first chapter of volume 30), \"The taiko drum is turning into a\nbird?!\" (Haha, that sounds silly without context.)\n\nThey appear to be transplanted into his body. There are some points where you\ncan see his back, and they just go into his back. The first frame of 276 is a\ngood reference, coincidentally.\n\n*Since the wiki pages are made by fans, I don't use them as hard reference, just starting points and a \"maybe this is correct\" guideline. The \"tomoe\" appears to be the design on the drums.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-02-22T23:36:57.920", "id": "39094", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-22T23:36:57.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31117", "parent_id": "7709", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI could not find a specific reason for them to use nicknames, guess it is just\nfor plot reasons. Or even just cause they can.\n\nAs to how correct the translation is:\n\n> “超高校級の” is something like “super/hyper/mega/ultra highschool level/class”.\n\nThere have been quite some discussion on how accurate this translation is, but\nit is said that even though Super Duper sounds really stupid, it is the\nclosest to the original translation.\n\nA pretty nice article about this can be [read\nhere](http://legendsoflocalization.com/qa-dangan-ronpa-fan-translations/)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T14:36:21.313", "id": "7716", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-13T14:18:16.967", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-13T14:18:16.967", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7710", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason they had these nicknames is to emphasize that Hope's Peak Academy\nis _really_ hard to get into. Hence the students there are extraordinarily\ntalented. It would seem that it's a requirement to have one outstanding\nfeature to qualify for enrolment in the school. Apart from Naegi, who gained\nentrance through a lottery (and is the Super Duper Highschool Luckster)\n\nSome liberties were taken in the translation much like other releases - for\nexample the directly translated \"Super High School Class Good Luck\" doesn't\nroll off the tongue as easily as \"Super Duper Highschool Luckster\". It conveys\nthe same message, but is perhaps not _exact_\n\nA couple of the other changes to the titles and the rationale behind them in\nthe fan translation are outlined here, similar reasons would apply to the\nofficial releases: <http://danganronpa.wordpress.com/dr1/tl-notes/general/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T14:58:37.723", "id": "7717", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-12T21:45:54.930", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-12T21:45:54.930", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7710", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is very possible that you have seen it several times in the anime ( even in\nthe game), it is a [gekota](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Gekota)\n\n> Gekota (ゲコ太 Gekota?) is a popular mascot found in merchandise marketed to\n> children in the Toaru Majutsu no Index universe. A Gekota fan is called a\n> Gekoer. Misaka Mikoto is a huge fan of the franchise it belongs to, and much\n> to her consternation gets her labeled as someone who is childish. \n\nAnd without a doubt there is also real life merchandise, and allot of look\nalike products, with a few samples bellow.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T14:12:16.407", "id": "7713", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-26T14:12:16.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7712", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe regular routes in the Visual Novel are with:\n\n * Fujibayashi Kyou\n * Fujibayashi Ryou\n * Furukawa Nagisa\n * Hiiragi Kappei\n * Ichinose Kotomi\n * Ibuki Fuko\n * Miyazawa Yukine\n * Sagare Misae\n * Sakagami Tomoyo\n * Sunohara Mei\n * Toshio Koumura\n\nThere are three additional endings for the after story of the original game\n(therefore, routes opening up after continuing to the after story of Furukawa\nNagisa). Another spin-off game is available that includes an after story for\nSakagami Tomoyo, and is called \"Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life\".\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T17:57:15.797", "id": "7721", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-26T17:57:15.797", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "7714", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nRoel van Uden's answer is pretty accurate. However concerning Fujibayashi\nRyou.\n\n> There is no good end except for her end in Hiiragi Kappei's route.\n\nI also found this a useful site:\n<http://soukyuu.emevas.net/CLANNAD_guide.html>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-22T00:21:30.027", "id": "22661", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-22T00:21:30.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15217", "parent_id": "7714", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere actually is somebody who try'd to get all the main characters a place in\none big family tree on [deviant\nart](http://ninawh94.deviantart.com/art/Naruto-quot-family-team-tree-\nquot-202765636) it is a bit outdated thou as it last updated in 2011. I advice\non downloading the picture as its really hard to read otherwise\n\nDue to some quotes through out the manga there is also a theory floating\naround that Naruto has some blood ties with the senju clan.\n\nWe know that the first Hokage's wife is Mito Uzumaki so this does make some\nsense. Some of those theorys can be read on\n[narutobase](http://narutobase.net/forums/showthread.php?t=149212)\n\n\n\nAnd one of the most commonly accept of them would be that all descend from the\nUzumaki clan to begin with.\n\n\n\nAlthough there are loads of theory's and tons of rumors going about, we cannot\nprovide a definite family tree of the people beyond Naruto's parents. As most\nof the theory's are still only based on small quotes such as above\n\nFor a proper time line to be set up we most likely need the parental details\nfrom either Karin or Nagatos parents, as they all descend from the Uzumaki\nclan\n\n**Edit: Warning contains content shown in the manga up to chapter 670. Read\nwith care as you might be spoiled**\n\nBreaking news on the family tree of naruto, in chapter 670 at page 11 the sage\nof the six says\n\n> You are my son Ashura's\n\nWith this and the up following pages we can confirm that Naruto is a\ndescendant of Ashura, which is the younger brother. The creator of the Senju\nclan. So Naruto is in fact of the senju blood line. And to be even more\naccurate, He is the reincarnation of Ashura.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T18:47:26.923", "id": "7723", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-30T01:42:32.010", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-30T01:42:32.010", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7720", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is just my interpretation but from the Sage of Six Paths, the Uchiha and\nSenju were born. And from the Senju, the Uzumaki split off. I would suggest\nthat the split happened very early on in the two clans' history because they\nshare many similar traits and the manga also states that, during the present,\nthe Uzumaki and Senju are very distantly related, meaning that the clans would\nhave had to split early in history. This would also support why the Uzumaki\nexpress similar if not the same traits of the Senju.\n\nThe First Hokage married Mito Uzumaki. Though it is not known who the First\nHokage's child is, it is clear that they (the First's child and her/his\nspouse) had another child, Tsunade.\n\nIf I had to guess, I would say that Kushina was no more than a cousin to Mito\nUzumaki but simply received Kurama from her. And Minato came from a different\nfamily altogether.\n\nAll of this would make the first distantly related to Naruto and would make\nNaruto very distantly related to the Sage of Six Paths.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-19T04:41:13.963", "id": "8761", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-26T02:32:47.857", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-26T02:32:47.857", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4553", "parent_id": "7720", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n * Hagoromo (Senju and Uchiha)\n * Hamura (Uzumaki and Hyuga)\n * Ashura (Senju)\n * Amaterasu (Uchiha)\n * Youngest son of Hamura (Uzumaki)\n * Oldest son of Hamura (Hyuga)\n * Naruto\n\nPossibility grandfather mother-side\n\n * Uzumaki (???)\n * Senju (???)\n\nFather-side\n\n * Namikaze\n * Senju\n\nGrandmother possibility\n\n * Uzumaki\n * Senju\n * Namikaze\n * Senju\n\nFor me, it is like Hashirama; Tobirama for grand-grandfather or grand-grand-\nuncle because Naruto and Hashirama haves some similarities. Each other passes\nHokage without being sensei. They are both reincarnations of Ashura. They like\ntaking care of plants. Tobirama said he feels his brother when Naruto team up\nwith him. Naruto's nature chakra is not determined because of Kurama.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-23T21:50:01.853", "id": "26784", "last_activity_date": "2021-11-26T02:11:09.203", "last_edit_date": "2021-11-26T02:11:09.203", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "18672", "parent_id": "7720", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is just from what I read but it may be a Sequel as I read that Evangelion\nis about cycles and that Rebuild takes place after End of Evangelion where\nShinji and Asuka somehow reverse everything to a new cycle. From what I read\nthe evidence to support this is that the red sea is actually all the LCL that\nwas seen at the end of End of Evangelion and that there are outlines of where\nthe Mass Produced Eva's fell\n\n/ End of Evangelion with the red LCL Sea and Mass Produced Eva's \n\n/ Evangellion 1.x where we see a red sea and a giant's outline \n\nHowever, as Eric said there seems to be no canon statement to this, and I read\nthis on the Madman Australia Forums (though I can't remember the exact post).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T21:23:28.813", "id": "7724", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-04T23:10:56.630", "last_edit_date": "2016-03-04T23:10:56.630", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's interpretation.\n\nThere's nothing official whether there is a sequel or not. Aside from Kaworu\nsaying weird stuff about \"next time\" or \"this time\" (and a weird translation\nof Kaworu's voice actor mentioning something about \"looping\" in an interview),\nall of the other instances (including the large chalk outline) of possible\n\"time looping\" or \"rebooting the universe\" have been explained in-universe or\nthrough story-boards in a way unrelated to any sort of sequel, \"time looping\"\nor \"rebooting\". This is not to say such images aren't _meant_ to make people\nthink that, or at the very least, as a reference or a nod to the original\nseries.\n\n * The seas are red as a result of second impact.\n * The chalk outline is from an accident before second impact.\n * The blood stain on the moon, also from second impact\n * Second impact in this universe occurs chronologically as the same Second impact in the original series (Antarctica expedition, Misato's dad dies, releases of Adam(s))\n * Kaworu saying stuff about \"next time\" and \"this time\", unexplained\n\nKaworu has always been saying weird stuff, even in the original series, or,\nperhaps he's the time-travelling wizard in this version of Evangelion. It's up\nto your interpretation, and there's a lot of ways to interpret things,\nespecially since we've been given such all encompassing world changing events\nlike Instrumentality, of which we know next to nothing when it comes to the\ndetails or mechanics.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-26T22:06:40.347", "id": "7725", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-26T22:06:40.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nOne of the reasons that make audiences believe it is a sequel and not a remake\nare the [giant stains on the moon made by collapsing\nLilith/Rei](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrpVutiqfiY) in End of Evangelion\nand present in the first Rebuild movie.\n\nI think you can find main other arguments in the evageeks's [counter-argument\npage](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Theory_and_Analysis:Sequel_Theory_Counter-\nEvidence) about a \"literal\" sequel theory.\n\nPersonally I believe to be large space to interpretation being many things in\nNGE really ill-defined and not so clearly explained.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-09-22T20:54:22.877", "id": "55370", "last_activity_date": "2019-09-22T20:54:22.877", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50037", "parent_id": "7722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI’m very late to this but the answer to the question ultimately is it’s a\nremake... i read that it’s just a different version of what happens in the\nshow.... think about it in this instance: The end of evangelion( show) ended\nwith merging with Lilith and giving Shinji the opportunity to choose the way\nthat the world will continue instead of his father because of that conclusion\nalthough he decided that he want everyone to die even decided that he wanted\nthings to stay as they were and I just ended up with Asuka and him in the end\n\nWith that being said A sequel would not make sense because if all of this is\nafter Shinji saves the world or whatever you wanna call it in the first place\neverything literally happens again And they fight damn near the same angels\njust with a few new people it wouldn’t make sense for it to be a continuation\njust for them to have to do everything all over again\n\nI also have a understanding that the movies are for those who didn’t watch the\nseries because it came out so long ago (1996 i think) and it’s just a better\nadaptation of the story\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-02-09T13:41:19.717", "id": "56771", "last_activity_date": "2020-02-09T13:41:19.717", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "51915", "parent_id": "7722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI've been hanging around the wiki.evageeks.org page, specially pages that talk\nabout the new four 'Adams' seen on the Second Impact flashback, and I'm\nstarting to let go of the idea that it is a sequel.\n\nThe chalk outline could be one of the Adams that died during Second Impact; as\nthe Key of Nebuchadnezzar that Kaji gives Gendo in the 2.22 takes the place of\nthe Adam Embryo from the Original Series, and Evangelion 13 (just '13', not\n'Unit-13') is called an 'Adams' Survivor' by Mari in one scene in 3.33,\nimplying that it was made from one of the four that appeared on during Second\nImpact. Same with Unit-01 (as opposed to being grown from Lilith) and Mark.06.\n\nWhat I'm trying to get to, is that the red seas might have been caused by the\nAdams during the Rebuilds' Second Impact, and the chalk outline by one of the\nAdams. The red line on the moon is not explained yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-03-03T02:23:50.307", "id": "56922", "last_activity_date": "2020-03-03T02:23:50.307", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50462", "parent_id": "7722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's clearly a sequel. The red sea, the stain on the moon, and what Kaworu\nsaid are not just coincidence.\n\nAfter _End of Evangelion_ , a second chance was given to Shinji by Lilith and\nhe chose that everyone should keep their separate form, therefore the AT field\nwas given back to every person to keep their souls and bodies apart. The story\nrepeats so that they can prevent what already happened.\n\nThis isn't my opinion, it's literally what happened.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-03-20T21:22:27.887", "id": "62248", "last_activity_date": "2021-03-21T04:36:02.867", "last_edit_date": "2021-03-21T04:36:02.867", "last_editor_user_id": "35679", "owner_user_id": "59559", "parent_id": "7722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI’m only on the second movie rn but I think Asuka knows it’s a time loop\nbecause even she said something along the lines of “They’re all the same as\nlast time. Nothing’s changed” so I’m saying it’s a sequel\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-08-08T03:59:20.823", "id": "65371", "last_activity_date": "2021-08-08T03:59:20.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "61889", "parent_id": "7722", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlchemy in the real world is recognized as a protoscience that contributed to\nthe development of modern chemistry and medicine.\n\nBoth Ed and Al say that Alchemy is a science and that the input must be equal\nto their output, equivalent exchange is this because for what you give up\n(your input) you will recive something of equal value (your equal output)\n\nThere are 2 parts to Equivalent Exchange which can be read up on the [Wikia\npage](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Alchemy#Equivalent_Exchange), The Law of\nConservation of Mass and The Law of Natural Providence. I should point out\nthat Scar is still following The Law of Conservation of Mass as what is he\ndoing is breaking objects apart but not reforming, when Ed goes to repair Al\nafter getting his arm back he checks that they did pick up every tiny fragment\nhinting at this.\n\nNow one can say that the Red Stones or Incomplete Philosopher's Stone can\nbypass however in a sense they don't, the Red Stones are created by combining\nmaterials and get used up over time thus they don't have a Rebound. the\nIncomplete Philosopher's Stones have the rebound because they are used to\nbypass Equivalent Exchange however it's unpredictable when the alchemical\nforces begin stabilize themselves, Marcoh and the State Alchemists during\nIshval War were just lucky it never occurred during the war and after it\nMarcoh seemed to reduce it's usage.\n\nThe Philosopher's Stone on the other hand may be the only exception, using it\none can bypass Equivalent Exchange however one needs to follow Equivalent\nExchange to make one in the first place by sacrificing lives. In Brotherhood,\nbecause the first known Philosopher's Stone came from knowledge from\n[Dwarf](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Dwarf) the Philosopher's Stone may be\nkeeping the alchemical process balanced by doing something that is beyond the\nrealm of human understanding which only\n[Truth](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Truth) understands\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-27T22:27:16.957", "id": "7745", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-27T22:27:16.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nOkay, so, there's a couple things in play here you need to be aware of. Keep\nin mind that some of this is slightly speculative.\n\nFirst, it is _only in the dub_ that Alphonse states it to be the \"one and\nonly\" truth. The original commentary states,\n\n> その頃【ころ】、ぼくらは、それが世界【せかい】の真実【しんじつ】だと信じて【しんじて】いた。\n>\n> \"When we were young, we believed that to be the truth of the world.\"\n\nSecond, though, I think there is an important reason that Alphonse brings this\nup. Starting at episode 43, the pre-OP commentary changes to the following:\n\n> He who obtains [the Philosopher's Stone] is exempt from the rule of\n> Equivalent Exchange and does not have to sacrifice anything to obtain\n> something.\n\n_(Note: This statement is somewhat wrong: During this unusual exchange, there\nis still something lost, but it's not apparent to whomever it is doing the\ntransmutation.)_\n\nIn their adventure, Ed and Al basically learned that human lives are given an\nalchemical value; since they both believe human life to be invaluable, this\nshakes the foundation of the principle of Equivalent Exchange that they grew\nup learning.\n\nThis seems to be the only reason that Alphonse used the past tense with\n\"believed\"; the Philosopher's Stone shattered what they believed Equivalent\nExchange truly meant. To him, Equivalent Exchange can no longer be the \"one\nand only\" truth.\n\nThis idea also holds true in _Brotherhood_. The Philosopher's Stone is\nessentially identical, and the brothers learn the same terrible details of it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-28T00:32:41.847", "id": "7746", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-24T02:53:39.820", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7730", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMissing-nins are not shinobi that got exiled from home. That does not happen.\n\nMissing-nins always are shinobi who went rouge and left their villages\nwillingly.\n\nNo village would want a shinobi of theirs going away and possibly to some\nother village spilling all their secrets? Especially not very powerful shinobi\nwho were probably high in the ranks in their respective villages.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-27T13:37:23.330", "id": "7736", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-27T13:37:23.330", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7735", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n-Pain and Konan aren't missing ninja(They were rebels that became leaders of Rain)\n\n-Zetsu isn't a missing ninja either, he's a creature of made matter.\n\n-Obito/Madara/Tobi aren't really missing ninja either, he's KIA (Kill in Action) Sure all four of them are S-Rank and in the Bingo Book(I Assume)\n\n-Deidara became a missing ninja because he stole a kinjutsu(Forbiddin)\n\n-Hidan ended up being blamed for a slaughter of a clan that had gone to the Valley of Hell, he believed that living there you were meant to kill(??) so he slaughtered his neighbours and joined the cult, Jashin.\n\n-Itachi Uchiha(Really? Everyone knows how he became a missing ninja) He slaughtered his clan(Even if he was ordered/manipulated into doing it)\n\n-Kakuzu failed in his mission of killing Hashirama Senju(The First Hokage) when he got back to his village he ended up being treated horribly (Kinda like what happened with Sakumo Hatake) he began to hate his village for being ungrateful for all he has done, he killed the elders, stole their hearts and fled with some kinjutsu.\n\n-Kisame Hoshigaki has a lot of background, his comrades were selling information and he killed the, the Mizukage praised him for his loyalties to the village, he became disillusioned and in that time Madara(Obito) convinced him to work for him. Kisame became known as a missing ninja mainly became of all the assassinations he did, (The Daimyo being one of them)\n\n-Sasori lost his parents young and when the puppets couldn't mimic the love he wanted/needed he became cold and aloof of human life.he begun to experiment about human puppets and guess just walked from the village. \n\n-Orochimaru...human experiments, got busted, and fled.\n\n-Juzo Biwa(No idea who he is, had to look him up)He is/was one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. He is/was especially known for his brutality. It doesn't say anything on why he left, only that after the Third Great Shonbi War he became a missing ninja.\n\nThere hope that's a bit helpful. Most of my research came from Fandom\nWiki...really just google the character, click on the fandom wiki and\noh...look at all that information.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-10-12T12:07:10.313", "id": "55540", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-12T12:07:10.313", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "50302", "parent_id": "7735", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm not sure if all your questions can be answered, but...\n\n[The wiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Greed) states that Envy sealed him in the\nbowels of the Fifth Laboratory, and the [lab's\npage](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fifth_Laboratory) states that it \"served as an\nalchemical prison and stasis field.\" This implies that something was used to\nlimit his movement or abilities, although we may never know exactly what may\nhave done that. I'm guessing it is technical alchemical knowledge that we did\nnot need to know, and so none of it was shown.\n\nOr perhaps the walls there were just too much for Greed to dig through, so he\ncould have simply been locked inside a room for 130+ years until Barry sets\noff the explosives that finally free him. It's an anime mystery that gives us\nfans a topic of conversation!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T18:17:33.690", "id": "7815", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T18:17:33.690", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3975", "parent_id": "7750", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nGreed was sealed by Evny under Dante's orders because of his namesake, he got\ntoo greedy and rebelled against her.\n\nHow he was sealed was that a Transmutation Array was drawn on the walls of his\ncell and the skull from the body of the human he once was is centered on one\nof the walls, i think the array is different to the one Dante uses to drain\nGreed of the Red Stones and more of an amplifier for the paralysis inducing\neffects of a Homonculi's remains has.\n\nWhen the array shuts down because of the damage to the lab (seen when the\narray isn't lit up) Greed is able to move around more freely and even takes\nhis skull with him so while me may have still been weakened from having his\nremains nearby he's not as weak as he was when the array was active.\n\nHowever that's speculation on my account of the array in the room, we do know\nin the 2003 anime Homonculi are weakened when they are in the presence of\ntheir remains (or in Wrath's case a reminder of when he died), Greed's skull\nis used to keep him trapped and that the array made him weaker when it was\nactive than what just the skull did.\n\nWe also know the array in lab 5 doesn't work in the same way as the one in\nDante's residence when Greed visits her as when it activates he vomits up the\nRed Stones, considering how long he was trapped he would have been near death\nif he had kept vomiting Red Stones as we see just how bad of a shape he is in\nwhen he was in Dante's trap for even a few minutes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T21:35:58.310", "id": "7817", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T21:50:38.370", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-03T21:50:38.370", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7750", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHajime Katoki done a boat load of Mecha design's for a ton of different\nseries. You should check out his wiki page [Hajime\nKatoki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajime_Katoki) where I believe all of his\ncredited works are listed, and the series for which he made them.\n\nJust to list a few he worked on\n\n * Master Grade \n * RX-78-2 Gundam Ver.Ka\n * XXXG-01W Wing Gundam Ver.Ka\n * RB-79 Ball Ver.Ka\n * XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1 Ver.Ka\n * RX-0 Unicorn Gundam Ver.Ka\n * MSN-06S Sinanju Ver. Ka\n * LM312V04 Victory Gundam Ver. Ka\n * RX-93 Nu Gundam Ver. Ka\n\n> Born in 1963, Katoki created designs for the graphic novel Gundam Sentinel.\n> He then worked in the OVA series Gundam 0083, where he designed the RX-78\n> GP03 Dendrobium Orchis mobile weaponHis next big work was V Gundam, where he\n> was the main mechanical designercreating the main mobile suits Victory\n> Gundam, V2 Gundam and the V2 Assault Buster Gundam. After that, he worked in\n> G Gundam, now in design of the evil mobile suits. He then worked in Gundam\n> Wing on some minor mobile suits, but in Gundam Wing Endless Waltz he\n> designed all of the mobile suits, and re-designed the Gundams with a more\n> fantastic style, creating the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero Custom. To\n> correspond with these new designs, he also redesigned the 5 original Gundams\n> from Gundam Wing.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-01T00:06:27.920", "id": "7760", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-01T00:06:27.920", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7751", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAssume you're looking for original designs and no redesigns.\n\nHe worked on the Gundam 0083 OVA series, where he designed the famous [RX-78\nGP03 Dendrobium Orchis](http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/0083/rx-78gp03.htm)\nmobile weapon.\n\nHe also did a lot of work in V Gundam, where he was the main mechanical\ndesigner, creating the main mobile suits:\n\n * [Victory Gundam](http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/v/lm312v04.htm)\n * [V2 Gundam](http://mahq.net/mecha/gundam/v/lm314v21.htm)\n * [V2 Assault Buster Gundam](http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/v/lm314v23-24.htm)\n\nAfter that, he worked on G Gundam, designing the evil mobile suits.\n\nHe also worked on _Gundam Wing_ , doing some some minor mobile suits, but his\nmostnotable contrtibution is to _Gundam Wing Endless Waltz_ , where he\ndesigned all of the mobile suits, and re-designed the Gundams in a more\nfantastic style, the most famous of which is the [XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero\nCustom](http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/endlesswaltz/xxxg-00w0.htm)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-30T20:11:22.477", "id": "13172", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-30T20:11:22.477", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7751", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA big change is related to openings and endings. There is no more endings,\nonly big openings with about 2 minutes. The animation canvas are bigger too:\nbefore it was in 4:3, now its widescreen\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-28T18:45:00.320", "id": "7753", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-28T18:45:00.320", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3935", "parent_id": "7752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe anime moved to Bandai Entertainment since Episode 205, and then it started\nto run in widescreen and not 4:3. Quality changes are just because this anime\nexists for about 15 years, so it's only natural for the video quality itself\nto improve over time. Edit: In the anime, the change between old One Piece and\nnew One Piece is alot more clear than in the manga. The quality of the\nanimation started being alot better after One Piece moved to Bandai\nEntertainment.\n\nYes there are big changes. Episodes 517+ happen in a time called \"post-\ntimeskip\" and in \"the new world\". Episodes 1-516 are referred as \"pre-\ntimeskip\", because after episode 400 alot of big things happen, and they\nchange the whole world of One Piece, but I'm not going to spoil your\nexperience, I can just tell you this: enjoy the East Blue saga, expect big\nthings and surprises, and have fun.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-28T22:01:25.400", "id": "7754", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-28T23:42:00.827", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-28T23:42:00.827", "last_editor_user_id": "3879", "owner_user_id": "3879", "parent_id": "7752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nThe One Piece anime started in 2002. For episode 1–204, screen size ratio =\n4:3. From episode 205 onward, it's widescreen 16:9. These points have already\nbeen mentioned in other answers. However, I'll add the following which might\nhave affected quality (my speculation):\n\n 1. Improved technology.\n 2. HD quality came much later, maybe around 2005.\n 3. Although the episode length is the same (23 minutes), the size has increased (60 MB and more), though it is because of HD quality.\n 4. Improved encoding of audio and video, again related to HD.\n 5. More processing capacity of screens.\n\nMostly, the quality improved because of technological advancement. For more\ndetails, maybe ask the Bandai team. ;)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-01T07:56:41.013", "id": "7763", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-07T14:03:35.033", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-07T14:03:35.033", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7752", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn _Brotherhood_ (this does not totally hold true for the 2003 anime, so the\nreason is somewhat different), in order to perform alchemy, one must have a\npersonal Gate of Truth. This is shown to be evident at the end of the series,\nwhen:\n\n> Edward Elric gives up his Gate of Truth in exchange for Alphonse, and can no\n> longer perform alchemy as a result of losing it.\n\n\n\nHowever, manufactured homunculi (i.e. not Wrath or the reborn Greed✝✝) are\nmade up of many souls, since:\n\n> The Philosopher's Stone that composes them is powered by thousands of\n> trapped, living souls. This power is what gives the homunculi their life\n> energy as well as permits use of their regenerative (and other) abilities.\n\nThese many souls (generally, there are some exceptions) cannot think or act on\ntheir own, and thus the homunculus does not have his own Gate of Truth. This\nbeing the case, they cannot perform alchemy.\n\n_✝✝ It is possible that Wrath and the reborn Greed, having been born human and\nlater becoming homunculi, could perform alchemy if they sought to do so.\nHowever, neither of them have any desire to learn it, and there is no official\nword one way or another._\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-28T22:54:59.933", "id": "7757", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-28T23:10:05.483", "last_edit_date": "2014-02-28T23:10:05.483", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7756", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThe reason why Homunculi cannot perform alchemy is because they do not have\ntheir own individual soul. They are all a part of Father's soul, they are his\n7 deadly sins (Wrath, Envy, Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Sloth, and Pride) and are a\npart of him. Because only human souls have gates (even if they are not\nalchemists) and Homunculi do not have their own souls, they cannot perform\nalchemy. However, at the end of FMA:B:\n\n> We see Father at the gate in his Dwarf form. This proves that Father is the\n> only true homunculus that is actually a human.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-31T05:11:57.983", "id": "24506", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-31T05:50:56.383", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-31T05:50:56.383", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "16652", "parent_id": "7756", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> I forget the reason about this, did he don't want to evolve?\n\nIt's pretty safe to guess that part of the selling point of the series is that\nPikachu is \"cute\". If you let him evolve into Raichu, you've lost this appeal.\n\nSo from the author's standpoint, there is no reason to evolve Pikachu. In the\nAnime, it was expressed as Pikachu simply not wanting to evolve. (Somewhere in\nthe episode where Ash takes on Lt. Surge.)\n\n> And is that mean evolve is an option? You can choose NOT to evolve your\n> pokemon?\n\nIn the games, evolution is almost always optional. In the Anime, it's a bit\nunclear. \nBut in this case Pikachu evolves by a Thunder Stone - which is completely\noptional. If you don't want to evolve, just don't use the stone.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-02-28T23:45:30.557", "id": "7759", "last_activity_date": "2014-02-28T23:45:30.557", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "7758", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'll take my shot at an answer. In the 2003 continuity, homunculi are created\nwhen alchemists attempt human transmutation, as you stated earlier. This more\nor less explains the origins of:\n\n * Wrath, who was created by Izumi\n * Sloth, who, as you stated, was created by the Elric brothers\n * Envy, who was Hohenheim's son\n * Lust, who was created by Scar's brother\n\nGiven this \"rule\" and the examples in the anime, it's at the very least\nimplied that the resulting homunculus from a human transmutation will\nresemble, at least to a degree, the original intended result of the\ntransmutation.\n\nI don't recall the series explaining the origins of Gluttony, Greed, or Pride,\nthough according to the fan-made Fullmetal Alchemist Wiki, they were all\ncreated by Dante. In [the case of\nGluttony](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Gluttony), this seems to have been done\nfor the purpose of creating philosopher's stones, at least according to the\nFMA Wiki (which may or may not be a reliable source). In the case of Pride, it\nwould make sense to a degree for the homunculus to have been created as a\nmeans to control the government for Dante's purposes, but it seems that\nneither the purpose of creating Pride nor his origins are ever explicitly\nstated in the 2003 series.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-01T05:01:28.390", "id": "7762", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-01T05:07:24.850", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-01T05:07:24.850", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "7761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I know is.....\n\n * Wrath was Izumi's child\n * Sloth was Ed and Al's mom\n * Envy was Hohenheim's son\n * Greed from what I can tell was Dante's second lover after Hohenheim\n * Lust was Scar's brother's wife\n\nAs far as Gluttony and Pride, I think Dante made them just to help her to\nobtain the philosophers stone.\n\nGluttony can create red stones (incomplete philosophers stones) which are\nneeded to make a complete philosophers stone and to keep the homunculi alive.\n\nPride infiltrates the military and start wars, which helps with the collecting\nof mass amounts of souls, and in pushing people to create a philosophers\nstones in self defense.\n\nAnswer was based off of the 2003 anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-30T22:11:38.163", "id": "11568", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-15T09:09:51.323", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-15T09:09:51.323", "last_editor_user_id": "2604", "owner_user_id": "6434", "parent_id": "7761", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nThe answer to this is hard to give, as the anime you are referring to did not\nfollow the source material. However, I believe based on the fact that it was a\n\"parallel\" world that one cannot exist without the other.\n\nIf no one transmutated in the alchemy world, then no one would die in the\nother world, if no one died in that world then the people would eventually\nstarve and suffer.\n\nThis is just speculation though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-10-26T10:28:32.277", "id": "26839", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-21T13:01:35.550", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-21T13:01:35.550", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "11648", "parent_id": "7765", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\n> Even when we fix a radio with alchemy . . . it takes a life or energy from\n> this world to do it\n\nThe explanation, as it is given to the viewer, isn't so much that this world\nexists for the purpose of alchemy. Rather, the other world is being \"tapped\ninto\". Alchemists think they are following the principle of Equivalent\nExchange; but there is a hidden cost that they are not aware of. This hidden\ncost is \"stolen\" from the other world.\n\nImagine running a cable from your neighbour's house to your house, so you can\nsteal their electricity. Every time you use an electrical device, you steal\nsome of your neighbour's electricity. That's basically what it is for alchemy\ntoo.\n\nYou put two slices of bread in your toaster. Two pieces of toast come out.\nThat's equivalent exchange, right? To you, living in your house, it may\n**seem** that way. But you're simply not aware of the additional cost (the\nelectricity bill) because you're not the one paying for it (your neighbor is\npaying the cost)\n\nThis does not mean that I _forced_ my neighbour to come live next to me so\nthat I could steal his electricity (which is what your question boils down\nto). Alchemy was simply constructed in a way that it takes the additional cost\nfrom another (pre-existing) world.\n\nAs far as I'm aware, **why** the other world exists is never discussed,\nbecause then you must also ask yourself **why** the original (alchemist) world\nexists, and ponder what existence truly means.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-01T15:47:54.543", "id": "42112", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-01T15:47:54.543", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "34778", "parent_id": "7765", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I can tell, it's because the series is based heavily on _The Divine\nComedy_ by real-world Dante who the show comments on through its antagonist.\nIn _The Divine Comedy_ , there is a pathway which goes through the Earth and\ncomes out the other end (Inferno and Purgatorio).\n\nThe reason the show focuses on this is that in 2003, the main theme is about\nthe dangers of blind belief. In real life, Dante's works pretty much make up\nthe foundation of modern-day Christianity as the church used his depictions of\nhell for the control of people. The same way _FMA_ Dante manipulates the\npeople of Liore through religion.\n\n[This YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShQ2rrKACg&t=713s) is\nwhere I got the information and expanded upon it:\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-08-21T06:10:33.727", "id": "48455", "last_activity_date": "2018-08-21T13:01:37.597", "last_edit_date": "2018-08-21T13:01:37.597", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "42118", "parent_id": "7765", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the manga and _Brotherhood_ , Pride does not have an Ouroboros tattoo. He\ninstead has only a small circular mark on his true form's body.\n\nBelow is an image of said mark, but definitely contains spoilers for anyone\nnot finished episode 37 of _Brotherhood_ (and perhaps could be considered\nspoiler material for anyone who has finished episode 64).\n\n> \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-01T22:54:21.523", "id": "7769", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-01T22:54:21.523", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nOn the FMA Wikia it states and from general knowledge on my part in the 2009 &\nManga...\n\n> Pride is the only Homunculus without an Ouroboros, instead having a circular\n> mark on his true form's forehead.\n\nOroborus meaning...\n\n> \"He Who eats his tail\"\n\nBut in the 2003 Anime from my memory, is that...\n\n> Prides Ouroborus is located on his left eye and in the 2009 Manga share a\n> similarity to another Homunculus, Wrath (Also his Father)\n\n \n\nJust pictures of what the Ouroborus looks like. On the left is in the Anime\nand on the right the Manga.\n\nMore information can be obtained [here](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Pride) and\n[here](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Ouroboros).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-01T22:56:06.623", "id": "7770", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-01T23:01:29.080", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-01T23:01:29.080", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "7768", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBecause Mew wasn't intended to be one of the 150 pokemon you can acquire\nthrough normal gameplay. It was the \"mystery\" Pokemon, no one was supposed to\nknow its existence. It was only attainable by\n\n * Nintendo events\n * Gameshark\n * Game glitch\n\nSo yeah it makes no sense, but, if Mewtwo had been #151, your Pokedex in Red\nand Blue would have a gaping hole in it at #150.\n\nMew was considered extinct when the Pokedex was made. But as Mewtwo was alive\nand known, he was placed first. Later, Mew's resurrection of his species in\nEmerald by a scientist meant they could now get his info for the Pokedex.\nMew's original form in the Pokedex was actually just \"???\" Pokemon, who could\nlearn any move.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-02T00:05:13.523", "id": "7773", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-18T09:32:08.740", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-18T09:32:08.740", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "3771", "parent_id": "7771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 35 }, { "body": "\n\nLet us be reminded that the Pokemon franchise started off from video game, and\nits initial release was [Pokemon Red and\nGreen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Blue) in Japan in\n1996. So Mew's very first appearance can only be in Japanese Pokemon Red and\nGreen.\n\nAccording to Bulbapedia, in the [Trivia section of\nMew](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29#Trivia):\n\n> * Mew was a little-known secret when Pokémon Red and Green were first\n> released in Japan. Even Nintendo was not initially aware that Shigeki\n> Morimoto had programmed it into the game.\n>\n> * In an interview with Game Freak and Creatures, Inc. in [Nintendo\n> Power](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Nintendo_Power) issue 134,\n> Shigeki Morimoto revealed that he created Mew two weeks before game\n> development was finished.\n>\n>\n\nQuoting from [the interview](http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-\nPokemon-HeartGold-Version-SoulSilver-Version/Iwata-Asks-Pokemon-HeartGold-\nVersion-SoulSilver-Version/1-Just-Making-The-Last-Train/1-Just-Making-The-\nLast-Train-225842.html) which is cited in the Bulbapedia page:\n\n> **Morimoto:** We put Mew in right at the very end. The cartridge was really\n> full and there wasn’t room for much more on there. Then the debug features\n> which weren't going to be included in the final version of the game were\n> removed, creating a miniscule 300 bytes of free space. So we thought that we\n> could slot Mew in there. What we did would be unthinkable nowadays!\n>\n> **Ishihara:** This is in spite of being told after debug ended that you\n> weren’t to tamper with even a single bit! (laughs wryly)\n>\n> **Iwata:** What’s the point of going through all the trouble of the debug\n> process if you’re going to go and fiddle with the game afterwards…? I’d\n> venture that this all came from Morimoto-san’s mischievous nature.\n>\n> **Morimoto:** Well, it was a prank that everyone right up to Tajiri-san was\n> in on. But even though Mew was in there…\n>\n> **Iwata:** …It wasn't actually supposed to appear in the game, right?\n>\n> **Morimoto:** Right. Unless we could think about any good opportunity to do\n> so, the existence of Mew wouldn’t have been revealed to the public. It was\n> left in there in case it was suitable for some post-launch activity. But if\n> there wasn’t anyone among ourselves who wanted to use it, I thought it would\n> be fine to just leave it as it was.\n>\n> **Iwata:** Mew could very well have ended up never appearing in the game.\n>\n> **Morimoto:** Right. But then due to an unforeseen bug, Mew ended up\n> appearing in some players’ games. It looked like we planned all of this, but\n> that wasn’t the case. So although it caused all sorts of problems to many\n> concerned, fortunately enough it ended up having a positive effect.\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> **Iwata:** That’s how the “Legendary Pokémon Offer”8 came about.\n>\n> 8 The “Legendary Pokémon Offer” was announced in the April 1996 edition of\n> CoroCoro Comic. Twenty winners would be selected who could send their game\n> cartridge in so that the Mew data would be uploaded onto it. There were\n> approximately 78,000 entrants.\n\nFrom the quotes above, it is evident that Mew was not supposed to appear in\nthe first generation. It was only programmed in at the last minute, occupying\nthe space of debug feature.\n\nThe interview hinted at the fact that Mew was added after the debug process\nhad ended, so swapping the number of Mewtwo and Mew at that point would have\nbeen disastrous, since Mewtwo had an event in the Cerulean Cave, and its\nstats, move set, flavor text, ... record would have to be swapped with Mew's.\nAppending a record at the end was safer, especially when the record was not\nsupposed to be used at all during the normal game play.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-09T04:29:36.513", "id": "14962", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-09T04:29:36.513", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "7771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 39 }, { "body": "\n\nMew was a Pokemon long forgotten (10,000 years ago in the series). So in this\nsense, when a Pokemon is found or discovered that is not in the records, it\nwill be added after its discovery. Mewtwo was created using Mew DNA, thus\nMewtwo came before Mew in the records\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T06:18:07.007", "id": "17147", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-29T08:30:37.693", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-29T08:30:37.693", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "10901", "parent_id": "7771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nOk aside from the what is stated in the video games, if I remember correctly,\nMew was more of a myth and thought to be at the very most extinct. Dr. Fugi,\nwho had already been working on cloning, went in search for any remains of\nMew. After having found what he thought to be fossilized Mew remains he began\nto clone it for the leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni (having to tweak the DNA a\nbit). The name Mewtwo comes from the way Dr. Fugi named all his clones\n(Bulbasaurtwo, Charmandertwo, etc) although Mewtwo was the only one to\nsurvive. It was only after Mewtwo escaped that the original Mew was discovered\nto not be extinct.\n\n* * *\n\n_Editor's note: I had to do some digging to get something more solid than my\nown and similar vague souvenir. I know the answer is a bit old but I figured\nI'd share my findings since the comment inquiries for sources._\n\nThe information above comes from comes from the first 2-3 minutes of the\n10-minutes long short _Myutsuu To Ai_ / _Mewtwo and Amber_ (Ai in Japanese),\nmore commonly known in English as _**The Birth of Mewtwo**_ , which was shown\non Japanese television the first time **Mewtwo Strikes Back** aired.\n\nThe whole short (specifically the last 7 minutes) was rated **PG-13** due to\nthe somewhat troubling/controversial topic(s) for children and thus, 4Kids\nEntertainment decided not to include more than the G-rated first 3 minutes\nintro (under the title **Mewtwo's Origin** ) in the theaters and DVD releases\nof **Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back** , which was enough to\ngrossly explain to the Western public about the origins of Mewtwo.\n\nThe full ten-minute short is now available in the DVD release of **Pokémon:\nMewtwo Returns**.\n\nThe entire short's transcript is available at multiple locations online, the\nspecific website that sent me on the right track was:\n<http://www.lchr.org/a/23/et/amberkins.html>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-01T12:22:55.047", "id": "36145", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-22T20:11:55.050", "last_edit_date": "2016-09-22T20:11:55.050", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "28063", "parent_id": "7771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI would say that Mewtwo is number 150 instead of 151 because Mew was said to\nbe extinct and forgotten, but that's just my answer. Plz don't sue me.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-21T22:08:57.027", "id": "39523", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-21T22:08:57.027", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "31549", "parent_id": "7771", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere were 3 cases when Hanekawa was possessed.\n\n> 1\\. During Golden week after the events of Kizumonogatari but before the\n> events of the first season. The events are animated in Nekomonogatari\n> (Black) / Tsubasa Family and there is a flashback to this in first season,\n> i.e. Tsubasa Cat arc (although slightly different, because Nekomonogatari\n> wasn't written yet). The cause was Hanekawa's stress from her family life.\n> It is also during this time the cat is buried. This is resolved by Shinobu\n> draining her energy. \n> \n> 2\\. After the events of Nadeko Snake, Black Hanekawa appears again as part\n> of the Tsubasa Cat arc in the first season. This time the stress is caused\n> by Hanekawa's unrequited love for Araragi. No cat burial happens. Again,\n> this is solved by having Shinobu drain her energy. \n> \n> 3\\. During Nekomonogatari (White) / Tsubasa Tiger, Black Hanekawa appears\n> for the last time, but this time not caused by stress but as an oddity\n> created as an ally for Hanekawa. This is after Tsukihi Phoenix and before\n> Mayoi Jiangshi. After those events, Black Hanekawa disappears by being\n> absorbed into Hanekawa.\n\nThe timeline is pretty clear, but I think the first season might be slightly\nconfusing, because there is flashback to the events of Golden Week, but those\nare slightly different because those events weren't fully written yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-02T22:06:33.937", "id": "7788", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T03:58:03.720", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-03T03:58:03.720", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "115", "parent_id": "7774", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKoyomi's thought processes are elucidated upon in the light novel.1\n\nThe events of this scene are ordered slightly differently in the light novel\nversus the anime. What happens in the light novel is that immediately after\nNadeko hands Kanbaru's swimsuit to Koyomi (08:09 on the BD), their\nconversation comes to a halt. Then, the events you're talking about occur. It\nwould probably be more instructive to just see the ensuing text rather than\nhave me describe it.2 Keep in mind that Koyomi is the narrator here. Editorial\ninclusions in square brackets.\n\n> I reached my hand out to touch Sengoku's bangs.\n>\n> \"...oh?\" [Koyomi]\n>\n> I missed.\n>\n> My hand swept through the air. Sengoku quickly moved her head to the side,\n> dodging my hand. So then, you know, I reached for her bangs again, but she\n> took a step away from me, thus evading my follow-on.\n>\n> \"W...what?\" [Nadeko]\n>\n> \"Uh, well...\" [Koyomi]\n>\n> Does it really bother you _that_ much?\n>\n> Her movements were surprisingly quick - nothing like what you'd expect from\n> a quiet girl like her. You'd think that the bangs would interfere with her\n> vision when they fell in front of her eyes, but she didn't seem to care.\n>\n> \"Hm.\" [Koyomi]\n>\n> Well, let's try _this_.\n>\n> I quickly extended my other hand and lightly lifted the hem of her dress.\n> Given the way she reacted to me trying to touch her bangs, I was expecting\n> her to respond like a little girl whose skirt had been flipped. Hence that\n> little experiment.\n>\n> But Sengoku didn't react to that at all. She looked at me a little curiously\n> and tilted her head to one side.\n>\n> It struck me yesterday, too, but....\n>\n> She's way too innocent for a middle schooler.\n>\n> She's worried about all the wrong things.3\n\nMy best interpretation of what's going on here is that Koyomi is just messing\nwith Nadeko, trying to get a rise out of her. At first, he goes for her bangs,\nand Nadeko recoils. Koyomi decides to take it one step further and lifts the\nhem of her dress, expecting a bigger reaction out of her - but she doesn't\nseem to care. From Koyomi's point of view, this is all backwards - why would\nshe be more bothered by someone touching her hair than by someone lifting her\nskirt? Hence his comment at the end of this bit - she's worried about all the\nwrong things.\n\nIt will probably be helpful to also look at this from _Nadeko's_ point of\nview, particularly in light of Otorimonogatari. As we learn, Nadeko really\nhates it when people touch her bangs - she's very self-conscious about her\nhair, hence that hat she often wears. The skirt-lifting, though, probably\ndoesn't bother her, seeing as the person _doing_ the lifting is Koyomi - and\nby this point, she's long since fallen in love with Koyomi.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Bakemonogatari chapter 5 [book 2], section 002. (i.e. 化物語（下） 第五話（つばさキャット）\n００２)\n\n2 Translation my own; any falsities in it are my fault.\n\n3 This is, I think, a better rendering of the line that appears on the sign in\nyour last image.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-17T21:52:36.867", "id": "8102", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-17T21:52:36.867", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7775", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHunch:\n\nCould of been a sponsor who wanted to utilize subliminal messaging:\n<http://kawakaviation.com/>\n\nAn animator (or maybe I should say setting designer) got drunk and wanted to\nincorporate his Mayan horoscope somehow:\n<http://weeklyhoroscope.com/features/asst/Mayan/Caunac.php?Haab=Mac>\n\nOr it could mean absolutely nothing and it was a design element that wasn't\ntotally intentional.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-08T04:22:59.373", "id": "7913", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-08T04:22:59.373", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4031", "parent_id": "7776", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\n[Japanese boards](http://n8chan.blog114.fc2.com/blog-entry-51.html) read\ninstead IICHIKO KAWAKITA and are not sure either, but the only trail they got\nthat quotes both words is Kawakita Hideya (河北秀也), an art director out of the\nTokyo University of Arts known for making beautiful art designs for a design\ncompany called \"iichiko\".\n\nAnother source: <http://www.logsoku.com/r/2ch.net/anime/1254234423/>\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-29T18:08:36.930", "id": "24480", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-05T01:39:17.303", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-05T01:39:17.303", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6391", "parent_id": "7776", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Destiny Deoxys](http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Destiny_Deoxys), which\nis the 2004 movie where Deoxys was one of the main Pokemon. The basic plot is\nthat Deoxys was in a meteorite that crashed in the North Pole. Four years\nlater, Deoxys takes control of a city, by shutting down all of the machines\nand taking everyone hostage. Ash and his friends need to save the city.\n\nAt least some of the screenshots appear in [this\ntrailer](http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi566231321).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-02T03:22:56.463", "id": "7778", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-02T03:22:56.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "7777", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Deltora Quest Wiki:](http://deltoraquest.wikia.com/wiki/Filli)\n\n> Filli is a Siskis and one of Jasmine's animal companions, along with Kree.\n\nTo know more about this [\"Siskis\"](http://deltoraquest.wikia.com/wiki/Siskis)\nspecies:\n\n> Siskis were described by Doran in his journal, during his travels. The\n> journal was later published as Secrets of Deltora by King Lief. In the book\n> he described them as bright-eyed, highly intelligent creatures found in Mid\n> Wood, in Topaz territory. However, he also wrote that the species were going\n> extinct.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-02T16:51:21.937", "id": "7784", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-02T16:51:21.937", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "7780", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs it has been mentioned by the author himself, the \"Malicious Trap\" is\nexposed in the solution arc, **_Meakashi-hen_**.\n\nA Japanese reader also [asked about this on Japanese Yahoo!\nAnswers](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1035713965),\nwith additional questions that might give you hints about it.\n\n> Shion and Mion are messing up my mind... whether \"Shion appearing as Mion\"\n> is a lie or not, it is very confusing. On the following cases, which girl:\n>\n> 1. was working at Angel Mort in the opening,\n> 2. tortured Keiichi,\n> 3. was being jailed,\n> 4. stabbed Keiichi,\n> 5. fell from the balcony?\n>\n\nIf your answer is\n\n> 1\\. Shion \n> 2\\. Shion \n> 3\\. Mion \n> 4\\. Shion \n> 5\\. Shion\n\nthen, \" _congratulations! You have enjoyed Watanagashi-hen to the fullest\n(LOL)._ \"\n\nWhich then, it's clear that the malicious trap in this arc is that\n\n> Shion and Mion were switching place.\n\n**Spoiler** for more details regarding the answer to above question (or as\nexplained in _Meakashi-hen_ ):\n\n> 1\\. The one who is working at Angel Mort is always Shion. \n> 2\\. The one who tortured Keiichi was Shion. Since Shion was impersonating\n> Mion, it's hard to know if you only see _Watanagashi-hen_. \n> 3\\. The one who was being jailed was Mion. After that, Mion fell into the\n> well and died because of Shion. \n> 4\\. The one who stabbed Keiichi was Shion. After she ran away from the\n> underground ritual place through the well and went back to her mansion, her\n> Hinamizawa Syndrome worsen and reached the end stage of level 5 (the worst\n> stage) making her insane. She climbed down the balcony, went to Keiichi's\n> house, then stabbed Keiichi when he went outside to meet her. \n> 5\\. The one who fell from the balcony was Shion. After she stabbed Keiichi,\n> she went back to her mansion through the same balcony. While she was\n> climbing up, her hands slipped and she fell down to her death.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-06T16:44:00.633", "id": "39283", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-06T16:44:00.633", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "7789", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt appears that in the Fullmetal Alchemist universe, those who are state\nalchemists are not necessarily in the military hierarchy per se, even if they\nhave a rank equivalent to major.\n\nYes, there are alchemists such as Mustang, Basque Gran, Armstrong, etc. who\nare active members of the military, but there are also other state alchemists\nwho, while involved in the military state alchemist program, are not involved\nin the military full-time as those I mentioned earlier are.\n\nAn example of this would be Shou Tucker, who we never see wearing a uniform,\nbut is a state alchemist. Given that Edward similarly seems to not be involved\nin the military as a soldier on a daily basis, it makes sense that he doesn't\nwear a uniform.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T04:33:36.750", "id": "7794", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T04:33:36.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "7791", "post_type": "answer", "score": 24 }, { "body": "\n\nThree theories:\n\n 1. The two alchemists in the picture, Mustang and Armstrong, were in the military when they became state alchemists during the war in Ishval as is the case with the vast majority of state alchemists we see in the series. it could be the case that after the war, state alchemist became a more broad term.\n 2. For some state alchemists, like Ed, not wearing a military uniform helps with more clandestine activities as there are many places Ed and Al go where the military is disliked.\n\n 3. It could also be the fact that Ed doesn't like the fact that he's beholden to the government and doesn't want to wear a reminder of that everywhere he goes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-28T01:23:00.110", "id": "32388", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-28T09:04:20.627", "last_edit_date": "2016-05-28T09:04:20.627", "last_editor_user_id": "22208", "owner_user_id": "24349", "parent_id": "7791", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's his Ignition Claws. As explained in the 2003 Anime Episode \"Fullmetal VS\nFlame\", they create a spark when he snaps his fingers and he uses alchemy to\nmanipulate the other elements to make explosions or fire. The claws have the\ntransmutation circle on them, so if it's removed he can't use it, which is\ndemonstrated during the fight and also later in the 2003 series when he fought\nPride.\n\nEd on the other hand claps his hands because he's been to the Gate of Truth\nand creates a full array with his own body, thus requiring no circles. It is\nsomething only those who have been to the Gate of Truth can do, like Izumi.\n\nWhile I refer to the 2003 anime, the fundamentals of Mustang's alchemy would\nbe the same as how alchemy works is the same.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T04:40:11.237", "id": "7795", "last_activity_date": "2017-02-26T13:37:50.017", "last_edit_date": "2017-02-26T13:37:50.017", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nThe clapping is only necessary if one does not use a transmutation circle. As\nstated by Scar, it is necessary to create a ring using the palms (in order to\ncreate the flow of energy properly). This is the case for Izumi Curtis and\nEdward Elric initially, being the only ones to recall their time within the\nGate of Truth. Later (spoilers up to episode 60 or so),\n\n> Alphonse Elric recalls his memories, gaining this ability; Roy Mustang is\n> also dragged through the Gate of Truth to gain this ability as well.\n\nThose using Philosopher's Stones are exempt from this rule for unknown\nreasons; it is perhaps such that the stone can provide the necessary flow\nwithout a circle.\n\nYou will notice that other alchemists who have transmutation circles need not\nclap: Major Armstrong, Basque Grand, and Giolio Comanche if I remember\ncorrectly. Even Al, after drawing a circle, does not clap:\n\n\n\nRoy Mustang's flame alchemy is done by the transmutation of air (compressing\nit very densely), then creating a spark with his gloves to ignite it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T04:45:05.490", "id": "7796", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T04:45:05.490", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nEdward claps to perform transmutations because he has seen the Gate when he\nattempted human transmutation. As a result, this, as explained by Izumi Curtis\n(at least in the manga and the Brotherhood anime) means that his body becomes\nan array, and so he can perform alchemy without a circle.\n\nMustang, as explained in the manga and 2003 anime, uses gloves that will\ncreate a spark when he snaps his fingers. Since the transmutation circle\nrequired is on the gloves he wears, he can perform the transmutation without\ndrawing out the array. There are also other alchemists in the series that\ndon't clap to perform alchemy: e.g. Armstrong, Kimblee, or Basque Gran (at\nleast in the manga), so Mustang isn't the only character who does this.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T04:45:35.823", "id": "7797", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T04:45:35.823", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "7793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThe Ignition Claw theory cannot be true, for during the fight with Lust in\nBrotherhood, Roy didn't have his gloves on. Rather, he snapped with his bare\nhands while sporting a Transformation Circle on his opisthenar.\n\nWhat it could be is the constant construction of H2O and deconstruction of H2O\nusing the oxygen and hydrogen already present in the air. By continuously\nreconstructing and deconstructing the hydrogen and oxygen withing the air, you\ncreate combustion within an initial energy source to start it. If you are\ninterested, please take a look at Oxygen and Hydrogen combustion.\n\nWe also note that he has difficulty using his ability during the rain, and it\ncan be said the humidity within the air may affect his proficiency at the\nconstruction and destruction of H2O; considering that the combustion involves\nthe CONSTRUCTION of H2O rather than the destruction of it, it would be\nconsiderably harder to get a response in wet environments.\n\nEDIT: Ah. Okay. I haven't finished the series, and I haven't picked up on an\nexplanation yet. I was Googling around for one but wasn't satisfied, so made\none up.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-06T05:41:26.123", "id": "14877", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-06T05:56:53.400", "last_edit_date": "2014-11-06T05:56:53.400", "last_editor_user_id": "9036", "owner_user_id": "9036", "parent_id": "7793", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nMustangs ignition glove is made from a material that produces a spark when\nrubbed together\n\nHis glove also has the Transmutation circle on it\n\nIf I remember correctly or have correct knowledge it has something to do with\nbreaking down of H2O in the air to make pure forms of hydrogen to ignite a\nline of flame and oxygen to keep the flame Alive long enough to reach his\ntarget My theory on It but it may be different\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-07-03T17:57:46.843", "id": "22990", "last_activity_date": "2015-07-03T17:57:46.843", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15440", "parent_id": "7793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nRoy's gloves are made of a special material called ignition cloth, when he\nsnaps it makes a spark. Then using the transmutation circle on the back of the\nglove,he uses alchemy to change oxygen density within the air molecules, then\nrapidly expands and contracts then by combusting hydrogen and then using the\nspark to ignite it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-04T19:53:23.407", "id": "30214", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-04T19:53:23.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22471", "parent_id": "7793", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe reason she couldn't is simply because of the risk. **Unmarked spoilers\nfollow.**\n\nRecall that, during their first attempt to create a Philosopher's Stone,\nHohenheim was nearly killed by the process. In order to keep Hohenheim from\ndying, Dante used alchemy to fix his soul to another body.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UrLTb.png)\n\nBecause of this risk, Dante knew that, in order to create another\nPhilosopher's Stone, she needed a way to survive the process. That meant that\nshe either needed someone else who would complete the process—so that she\nwould not die—or someone who could save her after the process was complete.\n\nSince alchemists of the aforementioned skill levels are rare, and those who\npossess such abilities would likely not have helped a suspicious old lady (or\nyoung lady, by the end of _FMA_ ), Dante needed (and trusted) only Hohenheim\nto help her complete the process.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T12:56:04.670", "id": "9692", "last_activity_date": "2023-04-28T04:37:07.030", "last_edit_date": "2023-04-28T04:37:07.030", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7799", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis occurs pretty often, it is called [Cultural\nstreamlining](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing_of_anime_in_American_distribution#Cultural_streamlining)\n\n> To accommodate American viewers, anime dubbed in the United States is\n> usually modified to suggest it occurs within the United States or a\n> fictional country thus resembling it. This is commonly achieved by\n> substituting Japanese elements in a series by elements drawn from American\n> popular culture, modifying food or other products to resemble their American\n> equivalents and by replacing Japanese writing with English writing.\n\nA very simple example as was given on the wiki is Ash from the Pokemon series\ncarrying a sandwich in the American version while in the Japanese version he\ncarries a onigiri\n\nThe same counts for the titles of those kind of series, aka the wandering\nsamurai instead of Rurouni Kenshin. Because most of their audience would not\neven know what a Rurouni is.\n\nChanges such as Samurai X usually are done for [audience\nstereotyping](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing_of_anime_in_American_distribution#Audience_stereotyping),\na series called Wandering samurai is less likely to be watched by a female\naudience. While the name Samurai X is also more attractive to the female\naudience, which broadens their audience for more income of the series.\n\nIn the end all Renaming of characters/titles is mainly for marketing purposes.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T17:26:59.790", "id": "7812", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T17:26:59.790", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7800", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou can read manga and watch anime with Crunchyroll on Android. The anime app\ncan be used by free members ad-supported, or by paid members ad-free. The\nmanga app however is exclusively for paid members\n\n[CR Manga\nApp](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crunchyroll.crmanga) ,\n[CR Anime/Drama\nApp](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crunchyroll.crunchyroid&hl=en)\n\nSimilarly for iOS:\n\n[CR Manga App](https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/manga-by-\ncrunchyroll/id617048063?mt=8) , [CR Anime/Drama\nApp](https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/crunchyroll-watch-anime-\ndrama/id329913454?mt=8)\n\nWindows Phone:\n\n(No Manga App) , [CR Anime/Drama App](http://www.windowsphone.com/en-\nie/store/app/crunchyroll/8ce587a5-3277-4e1f-a120-58eb220297d1)\n\nMost apps have anime and manga separate, presumably for development purposes\n(It's arguably easier to have them separate). I don't think there are any apps\n(for Android at least) that combine the two in one app.\n\nAs far as news apps for anime go, Crunchyroll have\n[one](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crunchyroll.crnews).\nBut I came across [Daily Anime\nNews](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=florian.baierl.daily_anime_news&hl=en),\nwhich compiles several different news sites in one place. (Both Android)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T11:47:16.450", "id": "7804", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-16T15:46:34.800", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-16T15:46:34.800", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nLegality is the key issue. You can find many legal anime-hosting sites:\nVizAnime, Crunchyroll, etc., but manga? Much of the time it is meant for print\nor through subscription-based digital viewing, not for free. That being said,\nthere are multitudes of manga reading apps, illegal though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T13:33:00.973", "id": "7807", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T13:33:00.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3590", "parent_id": "7802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nCrunchyroll has a number of apps available for streaming anime and reading\nmanga. It is legal, though you may have to be a \"Premium Member\" (monthly\nsubscription) to access content on the mobile apps. There are also some region\nrestrictions, but most of their catalog is available to users in the US.\n\nHere is a of platforms they have apps for.\n<http://www.crunchyroll.com/devices>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T17:39:14.860", "id": "7814", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-03T17:39:14.860", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3977", "parent_id": "7802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [this piece of news](http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/03/05/new-\nonline-manga-service-features-200-titles-three-selectable-languages-and-no-\nfees/), there will be a new service starting from March 22nd 2014 called\n[ComicWalker](http://comic-walker.com/).\n\nIt'll be completely free of charge, and will have around 200 manga titles\ninitially available, of which about 40 will be translated into English. \nThe full and official list will be available on the same day the service is\nlaunched.\n\nThe first link provides some more details about the availability of the\ncontent, as well as the languages available.\n\n### Update\n\nAs of April 29th 2014, the site features 163 titles in Japanese, 33 in English\nand 35 in Chinese. See the full list [here](http://comic-\nwalker.com/contents/list/) (switch between languages at the top right).\n\nAlso, besides the iOS and Android apps, you can also view the content on your\nPC browser.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-05T18:22:57.820", "id": "7855", "last_activity_date": "2015-02-03T15:03:14.160", "last_edit_date": "2015-02-03T15:03:14.160", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "49", "parent_id": "7802", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a kind of burning incense. Its spiral form is a nice design decision,\nbecause it is both cool-looking and takes up much less space on the table than\nthe more common stick form.\n\nThis form is also used for alletrine burning insecticides and repellents\n[1](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cIom8yBBku0/UhHfgef_uXI/AAAAAAAAAFM/ibGvDvkhgO4/s1600/R0026774.jpg),\n[2](http://luchudachi.ru/wp-\ncontent/uploads/2013/06/spiral_ot_komarov_iz_tesco_lotus-1293257453.jpg).\n\nAlso, because the characters of this series often use various magical tricks\nto affect apparitions, this spiral incense might be designed to repel them.\n\nInari, Konkon, Koi Iroha also shows one of these spirals:\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T12:27:29.683", "id": "7806", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-06T08:27:50.863", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-06T08:27:50.863", "last_editor_user_id": "191", "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "7805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nThis is what is commonly known as a \"[mosquito\ncoil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_coil).\" These are mosquito-\nrepelling incense, in spiral-shaped (this particular shape was popularized in\nJapan) and made up of a dried paste of pyrethrum powder. \nI japan it's called \"katori senkou\" and it's usually green-ish swirly incense-\nlike item, that you set on light and burn slowly. The smoke/smell that comes\nfrom it keeps the mosquito away.\n\nAs you may or may not know, just about all chemical repellents and\ninsecticides contain [pyrethroid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrethroid),\nwhich is a chemical imitation of\n[Pyrethrin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrethrin), found in\n[pyrethrum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrethrum#Insecticides).\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T16:09:17.087", "id": "7811", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-24T18:18:57.170", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-24T18:18:57.170", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7805", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI can only answer this question partially because of the information we\ncurrently have on One Piece.\n\nThe name of the Devil Fruit is: [Sara Sara no Mi, Model:\nAxolotl](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Sara_Sara_no_Mi,_Model:_Axolotl). If\nyou wanna look up the name, it can be found in chapter 673, page 12.\n\nAs for what happened to the Devil Fruit, I have no clue since neither the\nmanga nor the anime have shown/hinted at it being transported afterwards. So\nit might as well still be on Punk Hazard.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-03T22:24:06.790", "id": "7819", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-07T12:51:36.473", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-07T12:51:36.473", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1588", "parent_id": "7818", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nBecause Smiley died the fruit was re-circulated,\n\nyou know how vegapunk was able to give inanimate objects the powers of a devil\nfruit, Caesar Clown did the same for smiley\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-14T01:16:30.947", "id": "35788", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-14T01:16:30.947", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27728", "parent_id": "7818", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nDen den mushi are kind of snails used for visual and audio communication. They\nare just another type of random creature existing in OPverse which uses\ntelepathic abilities for communication within their own kind.\n\n[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Den_Den_Mushi)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-04T06:24:32.667", "id": "7829", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-04T06:24:32.667", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7820", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nQuite possibly one of the Homunculi was keeping an eye on Izumi at the time\nbeing an alchemist who could have wanted the Philosopher's Stone and saw the\nElricks learning Alchemy from her and reported back to Dante, given how much\nthey look like Hohenheim of Light Dante may have followed them back in hopes\nthat she might see Hohenheim.\n\nAnother reason could be the exact same as Mustang having received a letter\nfrom the Elricks asking about Hohenheim and came to look for Hohenheim, or\nsuspected that because Ed and Al was Hohenheim's sons they might also be\nfoolish enough to do Human Transmutation as she and Hohenheim did with their\nSon.\n\nThis is really just speculation though, the start of the 2003 anime plays out\nmuch like brotherhood yet they deviate because the Manga was on going and\nDante is a 2003 only character, as for which episode we see Dante meet Sloth\nfor the first time i don't remember but if i was to guess it might be around\nwhen Hohenheim faced Dante after seeing Ed and Al and first encounter Sloth,\nit would make sense for it to appear here as Dante would be showing off Sloth\nto Hohenheim.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-04T01:05:53.413", "id": "7822", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-04T01:05:53.413", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7821", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nEven though Jessie and James are pretty stupid, they are still a part of the\nlarger organization [Team\nRocket](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Team_Rocket) where they obtain\ntheir funds. I believe that in the 1st season with the original 150 Pokemon\nthey are also shown once meeting the boss for more funds, who gets pretty mad\nbut in the end still grants it to them. (I can't recall the exact episode; it\nis too long ago.)\n\nHow does the organization Team Rocket obtain money? Well, if it was not quite\nobvious yet, by Jessie and James trying to steal each and every Pokemon\nquoting \"they will make a nice buck\" once in a while.\n\n> While its main focus is stealing or capturing rare and strong Pokemon, and\n> subsequently selling them, it also funds and conducts cruel experimental\n> research on Pokemon. Their oath, as posted on the wall of one of their many\n> bases, is **\"Steal Pokemon for profit. Exploit Pokemon for profit. All\n> Pokemon exist for the glory of Team Rocket.\"** Their ultimate goal is to\n> take over the world using Pokemon.\n\nI have been using Jessie and James as an example due to your picture. There\nare more reliable Team Rocket members within their ranks which do manage to\nobtain Pokemon also managing to cover the failure of a member's cost.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-04T02:16:04.543", "id": "7825", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-19T15:04:16.803", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-19T15:04:16.803", "last_editor_user_id": "102", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7823", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI think they build it themselves, because they explain how the robots work and\nthey have a lot of mechanical equipment. I think Meowth builds most of the\nrobots because 1, a lot of them look like him, 2, he drives most of them, and\n3, he has the controls for the robots.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-02-13T05:22:57.363", "id": "61899", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-13T05:22:57.363", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "58823", "parent_id": "7823", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAre you talking about the\n[Tōryanse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dryanse)? A traditional\nchildren's song that's commonly used at street crossings to indicate that it's\nfree to cross the street.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-04T06:28:00.693", "id": "7830", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-04T06:28:00.693", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7824", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Fan service (ファンサービス fan sābisu?), fanservice, or service cut (サービスカット\n> sābisu katto?),[1][2] is a term originating from anime and manga fandom for\n> material in a series which is intentionally added to please the audience.[3]\n> It is about \"servicing\" the fan[4] - giving the fans \"exactly what they\n> want\".[5] Fan service usually refers to \"gratuitous titillation\", but can\n> also refer to intertextual references to other series -\n> [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_service)\n\nThat just about describes fan service... and to answer your question\n\n> Keith Russell regards the beginning of fan service as taking place in a\n> permissive context, when \"kids were just doing kids' stuff\", which he\n> believes allowed authors some latitude in regards to their subject\n> matter.[17]\n>\n> Beginning in the 1970s with Cutey Honey, and continuing later with other\n> magical girl shows, fan service became more risqué. By the 1980s full\n> frontal nudity and shower scenes became standard content for fan\n> service.[8][22] Later, Hideaki Anno who had promised Neon Genesis Evangelion\n> would give \"every episode...something for the fans to drool over\" began\n> removing the fan service imagery in later episodes. Those later episodes\n> that did contain fan service elements juxtaposed them with imagery of the\n> character in some kind of emotional trauma. Since then, fan service rarely\n> contains full nudity.[22]\n>\n> Excessive content is now usually considered gratuitous regardless of its\n> justification in relation to the narrative in which it takes place.\n\nTo expand -\n\n> Origination of Fan Service\n>\n> a/o 26 September 2003...\n>\n> The term \"fan service\" goes back to the late 80's at minimum. However, Dirty\n> Pair was done in 1985 and clearly had fan service in mind even if they\n> didn't expressly use the term then. The term \"Gainax Bounce\" has been\n> described as fan service since their title Top wo Nerae! came out in 1988\n> (1). Gainax's anime parody of their own rise called 1982 Otaku no Video and\n> 1985 Otaku no Video refers to fan service (2).\n>\n> **The first use of \"fan service\" on Usenet as refering to its current\n> meaning was in 1994 by Hitoshi Doi (3). The actual first use of the term\n> \"fan service\" on Usenet was done in 1991 by Tonghyun Kim and has a different\n> context (3).** _(emphasis added by me)_\n>\n> By the time Gainax released Shin Seiki Evangelion in 1995, the term \"fan\n> service\" was well known. This explains why on the previews for the next\n> episode, Misato often called for more \"service\" or promised more \"service\".\n> - [source](http://anime.mikomi.org/wiki/FanService)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-04T03:41:59.700", "id": "7827", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-04T03:53:11.697", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2044", "parent_id": "7826", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to Gen Urobuchi from his interview in Otona Anime Vol. 20:\n\n> The weapon that looks like Homura's shield is actually a sand timer. When\n> the flow of the sand is blocked, time is stopped. And when there is no sand\n> on the upper part of the sand timer and then the timer is reverted, one\n> month's worth of time is turned back. But before that stage is reached, only\n> time stopping is possible. This means the special power of Homura is the\n> ability to manipulate one month's time's worth of sand in the sand timer. As\n> for the time passed and then turned back, since it was not the focus in this\n> work I did not think it through very thoroughly. I think you can say that\n> the world split up and became parallel worlds there.\n\nTo sum it up:\n\n * Homura cannot rewind time until one month of time has passed after March 16th, the start of her time loop.\n * Before then, Homura can only stop time and the sand in her sand timer from falling.\n * Homura cannot rewind short periods of time or go forward in time at all.\n\nBesides time, her shield serves the purpose as a probably infinitely spacious\nstorage for all of her artillery. It should also be noted that her shield is\nquite fragile and clearly not a defensive tool. It can be broken as seen in\nRebellion Story when Sayaka stabs the gear mechanism and renders it unusable.\n(Then again, this is debatable, as the universe Homura created in her witch\nworld bended many laws of magic from the normal universe.)\n\nTo explain her constant time-stopping when she was chasing the truck in Ep. 6,\none could speculate that she was trying to conserve her magic by periodically\nstopping and starting time. Perhaps the truck was moving too quickly for the\nsmall (fixed?) period of time Homura had to move after stopping time. Note\nthat the average running speed of a human is 8 mph and the truck was probably\nmoving at about 60 mph, just at the speed limit for trucks on highways in\nJapan.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-21T03:32:02.820", "id": "8165", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-21T03:32:02.820", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4196", "parent_id": "7831", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nI personally love this question, since I've thought about it myself! The\ngradually evolving personality of Homura throughout the story(who becomes more\nstoic and condescending at each timeline) complements the strangeness of the\ntime manipulating \"shield\".\n\n> ## TL; DR version\n>\n> Homura can use her magical shield to:\n>\n> * reverse time ( _possibly_ constrained to certain rules)\n> * stop time (for a limited amount of time)\n> * store/retrieve anything (possibly in n-dimensional space)\n> * manipulate objects in space\n> * protect herself from anticipated attacks\n> * create a shock-wave of air around her\n> * make a fashion statement (I mean, just look at it, so fabulous!)\n>\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vUjyR.png)\n\nHomura's shield is undoubtedly the most mysterious \"weapon\" of all magical\ngirls. The shield allows Homura to travel through time repeatedly to relive\nher first meeting with Madoka. The nature of temporal manipulation or it's\nrange have not been clearly explained in the anime/Rebellion movie. However,\nit seems that it can be used only after a month of time has passed(as\ndescribed in @homura 's answer, derived from Urobuchi's interview).\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BWeRW.png)\n\n* * *\n\nHomura's uses her \"shield\" in multiple situations to stop time. This certainly\nimplies that the whole universe is at a stand-still(without which a lot of\nanomalies would surface at possible boundaries of time manipulation).\n\n\"It's powerful\" would be an **understatement** for such a device. Notice the\nairplane in the background!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/clJXB.png)\n\n* * *\n\nA detailed observation of the instances of Homura's usage of the shield would\nprove that it can do much more than just time manipulation(either reversing or\nstopping). Homura uses it as an (infinitely large?) storage space and brings\nout armaments when necessary.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VcnHl.png)\n\n* * *\n\nFurther, during her fight against the Walpurgisnacht, Homura controls and uses\na large truck in combat, which was enveloped in a purple gleam. As time and\nspace are connected, I think that this scene suggests **space-time\nmanipulation**.\n\nAnother similar space manipulation scene occurs when Homura blocks off\n**Walpurgisnacht's** flames with her shield. She protects herself by\ndeflecting the flames in a defensive move.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/x5kQL.png)\n\n* * *\n\nAlso, in _episode 1 of Madoka Magica_ (at 19 minutes 8 seconds), Homura clears\noff the fire extinguisher fumes by a blast of air using her shield...( _maybe\nshe set off an explosive charge to disperse the fumes, but this seems unlikely\nsince she stays in the same spot throughout the scene_ )\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YXUZl.gif)\n\n* * *\n\nI really love the `Madoka Magica` series. I hope I've covered all the unique\ninstances of Homura using her shield!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-21T15:47:43.303", "id": "40470", "last_activity_date": "2017-05-21T15:47:43.303", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30867", "parent_id": "7831", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe weapon that looks like Homura's shield is actually a sand timer. When the\nflow of the sand is blocked, time is stopped. And when there is no sand on the\nupper part of the sand timer and then the timer is reverted, one month's worth\nof time is turned back. But before that stage is reached, only time stopping\nis possible. This means the special power of Homura is the ability to\nmanipulate one month's time's worth of sand in the sand timer. I think you can\nsay that the world split up and became parallel worlds there.\" In episode 11,\nwe see Homura's sand run out in the middle of her fight with Walpurgisnacht,\nverifying this limitation of her time stop powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2019-02-26T00:36:07.420", "id": "50973", "last_activity_date": "2019-02-26T00:36:07.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "45160", "parent_id": "7831", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThere are a couple of cartoons/anime/movies where a boy transforms into a\ndragon.\n\n * [_American Dragon: Jake Long_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dragon:_Jake_Long), an American cartoon.\n\n * [_The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia:_The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader), a movie based on [the novel with same title](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader), which has [a boy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Scrubb) who turns to a dragon.\n\n * [_Legend of the Dragon_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Dragon_%28TV_series%29), another cartoon.\n\n * [Fafnir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafnir), a legend connected to the idea of a person turning into a dragon:\n\n> In Norse mythology, Fáfnir (Old Norse and Icelandic) or Frænir was a son of\n> the dwarf king Hreidmar and brother of Regin and Ótr. After being affected\n> by the curse of Andvari's ring and gold, Fafnir became a dragon and was\n> slain by Sigurd.\n\n * A Chinese legend of [carp turning into dragon after passing through the Dragon Gate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_carp#In_Chinese_culture).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-05T04:15:45.960", "id": "7846", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-10T06:00:23.533", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-10T06:00:23.533", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "7837", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn a sense, it does relate to the 2 seasons but not as a continuation of R2,\nAkito of the Exiled is set between the 2 seasons of Lelouch of the Rebellion\nduring the 1 year gap, in it Britannia is putting pressure on it's EU Front.\n\nNow I haven't watched the series yet however from screenshots we see C.C in\nthis wearing a white hood and a man who looks like Lelouch with Suzaku (having\nbeen made a Knight of the Round) going by a different name with one of his\neyes covered. In episode 3 of the OVA series it's revealed that Julius\nKingsley is infact a brainwashed Lelouch. The brainwashing however is somewhat\nunstable as \"Lelouch\" reappears briefly, also his Geass has yet to be sealed.\n\n> \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-04T21:54:05.953", "id": "7840", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-28T07:00:32.863", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-28T07:00:32.863", "last_editor_user_id": "1527", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\n**NOTE:** The answer is accurate at the time of posting. In it, we disregard\nfuture events, such as the producers deciding to make another season or\nsequel.\n\n* * *\n\nThe first part of your question was answered by Memor-X. \"Akito the Exiled\" is\nan intermission between the two seasons of the main show.\n\nThe second part?\n\n[The canon is that Lelouch is dead the end of\nR2](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/2438/2808), period.\n\nThere is some speculation that he was the cart driver, that he became\nimmortal, etc, but having [Word of\nGod](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod) that he is dead,\nall the rest is speculation even if they changed their minds after leaving\nlelouch's smiling at the cart bench in the cutting room's floor.\n\nSo,\n\n 1. Yes, Akito the Exiled is in the same world as Code Geass, happens in Europe, chronologically between the two seasons of the main show.\n 2. No, he (Lelouch) did not inherit his father's code.\n 3. No, Lelouch did not survive being stabbed by Suzaku.\n 4. No, he (Lelouch) is not the cart driver, even though many of us wished for that.\n 5. No, they did not continue the main storyline after the end of R2.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-16T12:12:43.063", "id": "14007", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-26T17:54:03.057", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-26T17:54:03.057", "last_editor_user_id": "2808", "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "7839", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs described in\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruhi_Suzumiya_%28character%29),\n**Haruhi possesses unconscious god-like abilities to change, destroy, and\nreshape reality to her desires.** In an interview, Tanigawa stated that the\nidea for the character came during a sleepless night at the beginning of the\n21st century.\n\nI think Koizumi also mentioned that Haruhi has a God-like power. I just don't\nremember what specific episode did he mention it. Along with Koizumi, Yuki and\nMikuru revealed to Kyon that that was the reason why they were sent to earth,\nto watch over Haruhi since she is unaware of her God-like powers.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-06T08:53:27.360", "id": "7870", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-06T08:53:27.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "88", "parent_id": "7841", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nYou're not meant to \"know\" what Haruhi's power is, but instead you're meant to\ndraw your own conclusion about what Haruhi \"is\"; which is one of greatest\ncharms of this show. Koizumi, Mikuru, and Yuki all have different conflicting\nviews on Haruhi, and the viewer is meant to have one of their own; whether\nthey can draw their own original view on Haruhi or side with\nGod/TimeParadox/SuperHumanEvolution theories the show offers is up to the\nviewer themselves.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-29T22:16:00.630", "id": "37096", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-29T22:16:00.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28992", "parent_id": "7841", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's not exactly clear, as Dante is about to use Alchemy on Gluttony in the\nelevator.\n\nIn the movie _Conqueror of Shamballa_ , Al and Wrath encounter a monster with\nthe Uroboros Tatoo in the underground city and Wrath says that it's Gluttony.\nWe can only assume that Gluttony devoured Dante just after she managed to do\nsomething to Gluttony causing him to mutate.\n\nAs for your final comment, she had little time left as she was complaining how\nthe stone she had was about ran out. This means that not only would she not be\nable to jump bodies anymore, but her rotting soul was also destroying new\nbodies much more quickly. Even if she wasn't eaten by Gluttony, with no\nHomunculi to serve her, the stone almost out of power and unable to manipulate\nthe State to create new Homunculi for her, Dante's existence would have ended\nnot long after. That's my speculation, though.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-05T01:44:36.967", "id": "7843", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-05T07:05:54.270", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-05T07:05:54.270", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7842", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMaybe he was an informant for Dragon but he was too honorable to betray the\ngovernment bluntly. We know that he was a man of reason when he let Zoro take\nup all the pain instead of Luffy.\n\nHim becoming Pacifista was entirely for different reasons which we still don't\nknow. He offered himself to be experimented upon but his last wish was to\nprotect thousand sunny which was honoured and his wish was fulfilled.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-25T14:16:06.840", "id": "8246", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-26T17:52:05.447", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-26T17:52:05.447", "last_editor_user_id": "4250", "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "7847", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe new girl is never shown in the novel, manga or anime. The new character is\nnot important either, it just goes to show that Saori found another person to\njoin their group and things are going well in the otaku circle. Also, they\nnever said that it was a girl, they just said a new member is joining. To your\nopinion of Ayase joining, it could be but it would be very unlikely because\n\n 1. Even though Ayase did say that she will allow Kirino to keep playing eroge, but to my memory, she did say that one day she will save Kirino from eroges and that she'll never play something as lewd as that. \n 2. If Ayase was joing the otaku circle, you would think that Kirino would know about it since they are really good friends. \n 3. Kuroneko's relationship isn't very good with Ayase.\n\nThose are just my opinions though and I can't comment them.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-01T06:20:52.800", "id": "31814", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-10T14:06:13.817", "last_edit_date": "2017-01-10T14:06:13.817", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "23346", "parent_id": "7848", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter reading the\n[relationship](http://oreimo.wikia.com/wiki/Saori_Makishima#Relationships)\nbetween Saori and Kyousuke there seem to be some feeling but its not shown\nexactly what type of feeling did Saori have with Kyousuke. Yes the feeling is\nmore toward love.\n\n> Overall their relationship with each other remained platonic at best.\n> Despite Kyousuke's shock after discovering Saori's ojou-sama side, the two\n> continued to act normally. In conclusion, Saori is only one of the few\n> female characters who hasn't shown any signs of romantic attraction towards\n> Kyousuke.\n\nWhich shows that they are more like friend but\n\n> In the game version, Happy End (PlayStation 3) and Tsuzuku Wake ga nai\n> (PlayStation Portable), they have their own route and in the nearly end, the\n> wedding day of Kyousuke and Saori appeared.\n\nI cannot confirm the exact feeling of Saori towards Kyousuke. And all most\nevery girls confessed Kyousuke, so why leave Saori alone.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-19T08:36:20.777", "id": "18660", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-19T08:36:20.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "7849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIIRC, in the light novel, Saori never confessed to Kyousuke, nor in the anime.\nSaori did insisted that she's the best to take care of Kyousuke like you\nmentioned. But this seems more like she did that so that she stays true to her\nSaori Bajeena character, rather than a real romantic feelings towards\nKyousuke.\n\nThe possible reason for this is that at that time, all the other girls\ninsisted on taking care of Kyousuke. It fits Saori Bajeena's cheerful persona\nmore if she were to also join the fray rather than staying quiet.\n\nAnother possibility for her behavior was that at that time there were Kuroneko\nand Kanako competing for the position. Saori surely knows who they are to\nKirino. Were Kirino to choose either one, the other is surely to be hurt.\nSaori proposed herself so that Kirino won't be troubled choosing between the\ntwo (three if you count Manami, but Kirino won't choose her anyway).\n\nIt should be noted that in the end Kirino chose Ayase instead of Saori.\nPossibly because Kiririn felt that Saori is also attracted to Kyousuke. This\nis not likely though, since Ayase actually has a feeling towards Kyousuke and\nshe still chose her.\n\nSource: I read the novel.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-20T08:24:44.607", "id": "20969", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-20T08:24:44.607", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "7849", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe later parts of Ore Imo contained all sorts of plot holes, dropped plots,\nand things that were just plain stupid. This was not the anime's fault--all of\nits plot holes and stupidity were copied straight from the light novel, but\nusually without the bloat that plagued the later novels.\n\nAnyway, the novels give no clear indication about whether the Kousaka parents\nknew their children were \"dating\", but as @nhahtdh says, it seems very\nunlikely that Kyousuke would be allowed to live in the house if their father\nknew, since their father is also very protective of Kirino and often critical\nof Kyousuke. Manami did threaten to tell their parents, but relented.\n\nAs @noko mentions, there was a scene in both the novels and anime where their\nmother seemed to be on to something. (This was before they were \"dating\",\nthough, so it actually was an unfounded accusation at that point.) This\noccurred in Chapter 1 of Volume 10 of the light novels. However, if we look at\nthe conversation, it doesn't seem like she actually thought they were\nromantically involved:\n\n> Then Mom started with a topic that made me yell in surprise -----\n>\n> \"…Kyousuke, you…have you done something strange to Kirino?\"\n>\n> \"Pfffff.\"\n>\n> \"Ha? Ha!?\"\n>\n> Hearing that totally unexpected topic, both Kirino and I were caught off\n> guard.\n>\n> \"Mom? What did you just say?\"\n>\n> \"I asked if you have done something strange to Kirino.\"\n>\n> \"What do you mean by 'strange'?\"\n>\n> \"Yes! Strange means strange things!!\"\n>\n> Give me a good answer! You really are Kirino's mother!\n>\n> \"That…in other words…You are thinking that I have done some erotic things to\n> Kirino?\"\n>\n> \"Cough cough cough!\"\n>\n> Next to me, Kirino choked.\n>\n> Well…her reaction is understandable.\n>\n> Seeing my reaction, Mom's eyes suddenly became sharper.\n>\n> \"I didn't mean it like that, but since that’s the first thing that came to\n> your mind, so it seems…..\"\n\nAll their mother does is ask if Kyousuke has done something strange to Kirino.\nKyousuke himself brings up \"erotic things\", and their mother jumps on the fact\nthat that was the first meaning he thought of for \"something strange.\" She\ndoes go on to mention all the lovey-dovey things they've been doing recently,\nincluding coming home in wedding clothes, but until Kyousuke opened his big\ndumb mouth, she probably just wondered why they were suddenly so close and\nengaging in such strange behavior.\n\nBy the way, their father already knows about Kirino's otaku hobbies and how\nKyousuke is in on it and covering for her. The novels remind us of that in\nthis piece of dialogue:\n\n> Dad made a 'don't pass the ball to me now' expression then sighed and said:\n>\n> \"I'm not worried about the situation that your mother just talked about. I'm\n> the one who understands what is going on between you and Kirino better than\n> anyone. For you to cherish each other so much is within my expectations.\"\n>\n> Dad, you are making it worse!\n>\n> My face was gradually getting redder, my throat seemed like it was blocked.\n>\n> \"……\"\n>\n> No, no, don't say something so embarrassing! I'm embarrassed!\n>\n> ….I didn't even know why Dad spoke so highly of me ----- no, it’s probably\n> because I was the one who brought Kirino back from America.\n>\n> It's natural for a doting elder brother to take care of his little sister.\n>\n> Now, I could say it without hesitation.\n>\n> Still, Dad wasn't the type to just praise someone that easily.\n>\n> \"Kyousuke. Think back to about a year ago.\"\n>\n> \"A year ago?\"\n>\n> \"Yes, about Kirino's - no, your hobby, we talked about it before.\"\n>\n> \"…..\"\n>\n> Kirino's hobby – you mean the 'little sister based eroge'? When you caught\n> her?\n>\n> At that time, I insisted that it was my hobby.\n\nThis is probably enough to explain their newly found closeness for their\nfather.\n\nTowards the end of the novel, in Chapter 4 of Volume 10, Kyousuke asks his\nmother about her suspicions, and his mother replies that she never really\nbelieved they were romantically involved, reinforcing what I claimed above:\n\n> \"Oh right, Mom. I got an A. So was your inexplicable misunderstanding\n> solved?\"\n>\n> \"What inexplicable misunderstanding are you talking about?\"\n>\n> \"That — the misunderstanding that I had a love affair with Kirino.\"\n>\n> Even now, I still don't understand. Mom suspected that I had an impure\n> relationship with Kirino, so she forced me to keep a distance with Kirino.\n> But why did she allow me to come back if I got an A? It had no effect on my\n> relationship with Kirino at all.\n>\n> \"Ah, you meant that.\"\n>\n> Mom burst out laughing.\n>\n> \"Actually, I never thought that you had done anything to your little\n> sister.\"\n>\n> \"— What?\"\n>\n> Did I just hear something unbelievable? I thought about what I just heard —\n>\n> \"What! What is going on!?\"\n>\n> I roared and stood up.\n>\n> \"Recently, your relationship with Kirino has improved. So under these\n> conditions, I separated you two. By doing that, you – the lazy brother would\n> do your best due to the power of your siscon nature. Looks like my plan\n> worked out in the end.\"\n>\n> Mom continued praising herself, \"I'm so smart.\"\n\nThe later novels don't ever suggest that their parents know anything, and it\nseems likely they don't. After all, as far as we can gather, not much changed\nin their relationship, at least externally. Maybe they're a little more lovey-\ndovey, but they were already pretty lovey-dovey by Volume 10. They were\nalready going to each others' rooms at night and going out together on\nweekends; the only real difference is that the weekend outings are \"dates\"\nnow. They do go around telling their friends that they're dating, but aside\nfrom Manami, none of their friends has any reason to rat them out, and Manami\ngave in, so it's probably just a sort of open secret among their circle of\nfriends. Also, they only \"dated\" for around three months, and were probably\nrather scrupulous about keeping the secret during this period--no more coming\nhome together in wedding clothes. So, all in all, it seems that the Kousaka\nparents didn't know anything.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-21T23:23:51.587", "id": "21719", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-21T23:23:51.587", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "7850", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI would assume the basis mangaka's use for witch incantations and the like\nwould come from [Mantras](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra). sometimes they\nare called Arias or incantations but the basic principle is that the words\nthat make them up hold value either to the actual spell or to the user.\n\nIn _Soul Eater_ the witches use Arias which flow from their themes. For Blair,\neven though she's \"a cat with a ridiculous amount of magic\", her attacks are\nthemed around Halloween and pumpkins are a symbol of Halloween eg. \" _Pumpkin\nPumpkin, Halloween Cannon!_ \".\n\nFor Medusa, her theme is Snakes, so when she says _\"Nake snake cobra cobubra\"_\n, it's a reference to snakes (\"Nake\" and \"cobubra\" may be deliberate\nmisspellings of Snake and cobra), and her Vector Magic seems to resemble\nsnakes in how they move.\n\nI haven't seen _Negima_ however from nhahtdh's comment it would work out the\nsame since the words \"feels comfortable and natural to the user\" the words\nwould have a psychological effect on the caster. so most likely a new mage\nwill have weaker/unstable spells in the beginning but as they practice they\nbuild up an Aria which will make them feel conformable.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-05T21:54:54.467", "id": "7858", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-01T03:31:50.397", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-01T03:31:50.397", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7853", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n(Edit) For [anime](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime):\n\n> In 2001, animation accounted for 7% of the Japanese film market, above the\n> 4.6% market share for live-action works. The popularity and success of anime\n> is seen through the profitability of the DVD market, contributing nearly 70%\n> of total sales.\n\nAlso,\n\n> The anime market for the United States was worth approximately $2.74 billion\n> in 2009.\n\nIn Japan in 2011, the DVD and Blu-Ray sales were approximately $250.6 million\nfor DVD and $381.7 million for Blu-Ray (according to\n[here](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-07-21/anime-makes-\nup-57-percent-of-blu-ray-sales-in-japan-in-1st-half-of-2011)).\n\nFrom [this](http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/23/national/to-survive-\nanime-must-adapt-but-not-too-much/#.UxzQoPldWQ4):\n\n> In 2006, overseas sales of Japanese anime hit ¥16.8 billion but that has\n> since plunged due to sluggish sales of DVDs — a direct result of pirated\n> videos online and video-on-demand services. In 2011, global sales were a\n> mere ¥8.55 billion. (¥16.8 billion=~$139 million, ¥8.55 billion=~$70\n> million)\n\nObviously, there are some discrepancies in these numbers, as the US market\ncannot be higher than the total overseas market. However, the US market number\nis likely accounting for television and possibly toys, while the overseas\nnumbers are likely just sales.\n\n[This](http://www.toonzone.net/forums/anime-forum/305386-jetro-north-american-\nanime-market-2012-report.html#.UxzM-vldWQ4) gives the North American sales\nnumbers.\n\nOverall, it will be nearly impossible to determine the distribution. The\nJapanese numbers are the highest, but because much of anime is watched (often\nillegally) online, it is difficult to determine where people are watching\nfrom.\n\nThe manga market may be a good representation of the anime market\ndistribution.\n\nJapan has the biggest market for manga.\n\nFrom [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_outside_Japan) and\n[this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga#International_markets):\n\nIn Europe, France used to consist of about 50% of the manga market, with 1/3\nof the comic market in France being made up of manga (2003 numbers). In 2011,\ntheir percentage of the European manga market dropped to about 40%.\n\n> According to the Japan External Trade Organization, sales of manga reached\n> $212.6 million within France and Germany alone in 2006.\n>\n> France represents about 50% of the European market and is the second\n> worldwide market, behind Japan.\n\nGermany's comic market is made up 70-75% of manga.\n\nManga is not very popular in Russia. In general, comics aren't very popular in\nRussia as a whole. The spread of anime has, however, helped to increase the\npopularity of manga.\n\nIn Thailand, there is manga, but it is primarily bootlegged.\n\nAccording to [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga#International_markets),\n\n> ...by 2008, the U.S. and Canadian manga market generated $175 million in\n> annual sales.\n\nYou can also look at the [list of manga\ndistributors](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_distributors#French)\nto see a general range of number of distributors, though that doesn't give the\namount of distribution in a country.\n\nFrom [this](http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/26/manga-in-the-heart-of-\neurope/):\n\n> Annual manga sales in Japan are about $5 billion, he said, whereas American\n> manga sales are $120 million and Europe and the Middle East combined make\n> $250 million.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-09T18:02:16.610", "id": "7930", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-26T10:39:09.557", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "7859", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, Angel Beats! was never supposed to become a 26-episode Anime (2 cours).\n\nDue to the lack of character building, a lot of people have assumed that it\nwas supposed to become a 26 episode anime, but so far all are false\nspeculations.\n\nI also remember reading the notes about it becoming an anime in either the LN\nor Manga where he stated something along the lines of not having enough space\nto tell the story. So they most likely decided on this setup to still give the\ncore points of the story, and getting you into reading the rest.\n\nOne of the sources that mainly instigate this kind of rumors includes small\nquotes on sites such as [TvTropes.org](http://tvtropes.org) where was said.\n\n> The reason for this is most likely that the show was originally planned for\n> 26 episodes but was then cut down to 13. [Angel beats\n> tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/AngelBeats)\n\nAlthough this might not be the exact starting point of the rumor, they usually\nstart from frequently visited anime related sites, where after they spread to\nYahoo, forums, SE.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-06T03:35:28.173", "id": "7865", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-06T09:59:13.540", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-06T09:59:13.540", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7860", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes and no. No Waifu wednesday is not a officially recognized day for waifu's.\nYes, it is a commonly used term in the Waifu-owning society.\n\nRight now, Waifu Wednesday is used by people that have a Waifu/Husbando and\nuse Waifu Wednesday as a mid week appreciation point for their Waifu. This is\nmostly done by spreading the love of their waifu's by posting Moe and or\nKawaii pictures of their Waifu/Husbando.\n\nFor those not familiar with the term Waifu Check out [\"where does the term\n\"waifu\" come from?\"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4754/where-\ndoes-the-term-waifu-come-from)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-06T01:20:36.640", "id": "7862", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-06T06:22:33.977", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7861", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs per your question lemme tell you something more about Unohana's katana.\n\n> Minazuki (肉雫唼, \"Flesh-Drops' Gorge\"): In sealed form, Minazuki is slightly\n> longer than an ordinary katana, and resembles a nodachi. The tsuba has an\n> oval shape, and the handle is red. Instead of tying it to her obi, Unohana\n> carries her Zanpakutō over her shoulder by a rope strap, or lets Isane carry\n> it for her.\n\n\n\n> Her shikai form is more like the image enclosed above. **It's release\n> command is unknown**. When released in Shikai form, Minazuki will start to\n> morph, turning into a green, gas-like substance before taking the solid\n> shape of a giant, green, one eyed manta ray-like creature with the ability\n> to fly. **Minazuki can be used for transportation** , and will change back\n> into the green gas substance before returning to its sword form when its\n> duty has been fulfilled\n\nHer Bankai special ability is still unknown.But these are the facts that I\ncame through\n\n> Bankai: Minazuki (皆尽, \"All Things' End\"): When released the blade of\n> Unohana's Zanpakutō liquifies into a thick, dark red substance able to\n> surround her vicinity. Once the majority of the liquid flows off the\n> Zanpakutō, it reveals the remainder has solidified into a shortened katana,\n> which then can be used for combat, strong and sturdy enough to clash against\n> Kenpachi Zaraki's blade.\n\n\n\nWe were totally oblivious about her bankai until Kenpachi fight.But her bankai\nis far more **gore** than Kenpachi.\n\nSources:-[ **Link**](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Retsu_Unohana)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-06T04:09:17.347", "id": "7866", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-06T04:09:17.347", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "7863", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAlthough I agree with you based on the size of the item in her palm that it\nlooks like the size of a smartphone, it makes most sense to assume this is\nsupposed to be a packet of white tissues (which should be drawn slightly\nsmaller than it is in the close-up shots) because 1) tissues are the most\ncommon of such items to be handed out in public places throughout Japan, 2)\nmany Japanese blatantly ignore and walk past the people giving out tissues\nwithout taking them, 3) they are often carried in a small plastic basket\n(though her basket visually looks like it might be wicker or some other\nmaterial I've never seen one of these workers use in real life), and 4) they\nare given out year-round. I have on a couple of occasions seen clear files or\nlotion samples given out, and of course flyers without a take-home goodie, but\nI have never seen something on offer that looked like a white cell phone\nslightly larger than a packet of tissue.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-05T09:01:33.683", "id": "13831", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-05T09:01:33.683", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8134", "parent_id": "7864", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, the old man was Madara. His Rinnegan was already given away (to Nagato)\nby the time he found Obito.\n\nAlso, since Kabuto used Edo Tensei to revive he, he was revived with his body\nat his prime.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-06T08:39:05.753", "id": "7869", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-06T08:39:05.753", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "7868", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs of right now there is no legal online source where you can watch Heidi girl\nof the alps.\n\nYour best bet would be to buy [the dvd\nbox](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B003WJD9XQ) like Alex-sama\nmentioned in his comment.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-06T15:33:39.227", "id": "7874", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-08T02:42:01.043", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-08T02:42:01.043", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nUnfortunately, this is such a classic, old-school anime that my mother adored\nand could not find any legal streaming sites that broadcasts it, as far as the\nones that I know of.\n\nThere's a brief mention of a VHS English dub release on Wikipedia and ANN\ndatabase, but I haven't came across it or heard of a current DVD distribution.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-08T04:42:27.580", "id": "7914", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-08T04:42:27.580", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4031", "parent_id": "7872", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's currently available with the Filmbox addon for Amazon Prime. Though, I'm\nnot sure which countries it's available in, as I can only check for the United\nStates. I'm also not sure if it's available in via Filmbox separatly from\nAmazon Prime. Here is the Amazon Prime page for it:\n<https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.8b3a9fa8-e146-42cf-\nafbb-c239775b83a4>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-05-23T07:59:54.567", "id": "68008", "last_activity_date": "2023-05-23T07:59:54.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "72161", "parent_id": "7872", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter rereading and rewatching it, I conclude that the animators just took a\nrandom chapter of the manga and put it on anime anywhere they like, there is\nno chronological sequence of the anime, you can watch it from the anime\nrandomly and will not lose the plot, unless for the last three episodes.\n\nHowever, there is some important event that can be sorted chronologically\nbased on manga chapter:\n\n 1. Manga chapter one and anime episode one when they're still kids and show how Ako and Riko save Keita from a dog.\n 2. Manga chapter five and the beginning of anime episode four (4 years ago) when Ako and Riko start to falling in love with Keita\n 3. End of anime episode nine when Ako and Riko made Keita a good luck charm\n 4. Anime episode 10 when Keita take an exam and after the exam\n 5. OVA episode four when Keita, Ako, and Riko go on a trip after the exam\n 6. Anime episode 11 when he receives an acceptance letter from the school from [Mikuni](http://www.anime-planet.com/images/characters/miharu_mikuni_8667.jpg) (unlike in anime, this is Keita's first meeting with her on manga)\n 7. Anime episode 12 when Keita get to the same school with Ako and Riko\n\nAnd from here, it only happens in manga and hasn't been told in anime,\n**BEWARE SPOILER**\n\n> Manga chapter 42 when all the characters go on a trip and manga chapter 67\n> when Keita starts dating [Kiryuu Sensei](http://www.anime-\n> planet.com/images/characters/yuuzuki_kiryuu_16663.jpg)\n\nSome of the OVA episodes happen before anime, and some chapters in the manga\ndidn't happen at all in anime or OVA.\n\nSo, with that being said, this anime doesn't really care about the plot and\nfocus only on the ecchi-almost-hentai theme. You can watch it however you like\nand just enjoy the show.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T00:10:06.157", "id": "7949", "last_activity_date": "2021-05-23T10:09:41.587", "last_edit_date": "2021-05-23T10:09:41.587", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "7875", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\nWell there's a lot of debate about that. I found that there's 'somewhat' of an\norder as it follows below, and by the way, that order is how the OVA's and\nanime's episodes were released as well:\n\n 1. Ova 00\n 2. Ova 01\n 3. Ova 02\n 4. Ep 01\n 5. Ep 02\n 6. Ep 03 \n 7. Ep 04\n 8. Ep 05\n 9. Ep 06 \n 10. Ep 07 \n 11. Ep 08\n 12. Ep 09\n 13. Ova 03\n 14. Ep 10 \n 15. Ova 04\n 16. Ep 11 \n 17. Ep 12\n 18. Ova 05\n 19. Ova 06\n 20. Ova 07\n 21. Ova 08\n 22. Ova 09\n 23. Ova 10\n 24. Ova 11\n\nNote that the OVA's list starts with '00'. It isn't a typo, it's how it was\nreleased, and is counted as that in the official list of released content of\nthe series overall. This list is for BD released / translated content.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-28T06:41:28.867", "id": "21191", "last_activity_date": "2019-10-13T19:52:14.817", "last_edit_date": "2019-10-13T19:52:14.817", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "14169", "parent_id": "7875", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it resembles a lot of [Cowboy\nBebop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Bebop).\n\n> Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ Kaubōi Bibappu?) is a 1998 Japanese anime series\n> developed by Sunrise. It featured a production team led by director\n> Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer\n> Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko\n> Kanno. The twenty-six episodes (sessions) of the series are set in the year\n> 2071. It follows the adventures, misadventures and tragedies of a bounty\n> hunter crew travelling on the Bebop, their starship. Cowboy Bebop explores\n> philosophical concepts including existentialism, existential ennui,\n> loneliness, and the past's influence.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-06T18:04:18.447", "id": "7877", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-06T18:04:18.447", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2251", "parent_id": "7876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's definitely Cowboy Bebop.\n\nThe background character is Spike Spiegel:\n\n\n\n\n\nThe phrase is taken from one of the ending credits:\n\n\n\nHowever, the song on that website doesn't match the song entitled [\"See you\nSpace Cowboy\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWkHeQy1WRAg) on the Original\nSoundtrack, but is in fact [\"Space\nLion\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRxPFRHwjcI).\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-06T18:24:03.597", "id": "7878", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-04T22:52:43.607", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-04T22:52:43.607", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "7876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nCowboy Bebop! at the end of every episode it says \"See you space Cowboy\" then\ngoes to the ending.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T02:06:26.663", "id": "7884", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-07T02:06:26.663", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4013", "parent_id": "7876", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGilgamesh could possibly be fit in any class mainly thanks to all the items he\nhas in the Gate of Babylon. He was quite possible chosen by the Holy Grail to\nfill the Archer Class as his personality would fit a very high level of\n[Independent\nAction](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Independent_Action#Independent_Action),\nthe [Wikia page](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Gilgamesh#Independent_Action)\nalso says:\n\n> He is able to easily ignore his Master's orders, making it possible to\n> stroll around without making his Master aware of his whereabouts. The only\n> way to command him is through the use of Command Spells, but his disposition\n> that does not even contain an ounce of respect for his Master makes\n> utilizing them idly a bad move.\n\nIt should be noted that the [Servant\nClasses](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Servant#Classification) except the\nspecial classes (like Ruler, Avenger, Funny Vamp) allows a hero to be\nclassified under more than 1 if they display the potential to be summoned as a\ndifferent class. With the [Archer\nClass](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Archer), Heracles and Lu Bu were both\nsummoned as Berserk but could be summoned as Archer, while Karna was summoned\nas a Lancer\n\nAnother example is [Archer](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/EMIYA#Close_combat)\nin the 5th Holy Grail War. The weapon he mainly uses in fact a pair of swords\n[Kanshou and Bakuya](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Kanshou_and_Bakuya), which\nwe see him use for the first time during the first night as he fought Lancer.\nThis annoys Lancer because he figured out Archer's Class but he was skilled\nwith sword. Archer’s Bow is mainly just a normal Bow he projects and uses\nweapons like [Caladbolg II](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Caladbolg_II) as\nammunition.\n\nThough with that said, after the 3rd Holy Grail War and Avenger's corruption\nof the Great Holy Grail - the main engine to the ritual, the system for\nassigning classes to heroes may have been damaged. Both the 4th and 5th War's\nArchers didn't clearly fit the Archer Class, and normally only the Hassan-i-\nSabbah should have been summoned as\n[Assassin](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin) in the Fuyuki System,\nhowever Caster was able to summon [Sasaki\nKojiro](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin_%28Fate/stay_night%29).\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T01:05:43.177", "id": "7882", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-14T22:07:49.227", "last_edit_date": "2017-03-14T22:07:49.227", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "7881", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nYou're being too literal. Archer as a label for a Servant class does not mean\n\"This guy was badass with bows\". It means \"this guy is versatile and has\npotent long distance attacks.\" Several of the other Servant classes aren't\nparticularly literal, either.\n\n * Saber just means they have potent close range melee weapons (usually swords) and great skill with them. None of the Sabers actually uses a Saber. They use longswords, greatswords, bastard swords, etc. A saber is a curved blade used by cavalry. \n\n * Lancer is potency in melee weapons with reach. None of the Lancers actually uses a lance. Mostly they use spears. And don't have horses with which to use a lance.\n\n * Casters are not required to literally cast anything. They simply have great facility in some fashion of magic. 5th war caster casts; 4th war caster uses a magical tome to summon; Cu Chulainn could have been a Caster thanks to his runes; Apocrypha Caster of Black fashions golems exclusively; Apocrypha Caster of Red writes stories in a book which makes them come true...\n\n * Assassin is normally very literal, though by system fiat rather than anything else. The grail was designed to only ever summon a Hassan of the Mountain, the head of the prototypical assassin's organization. But with sufficient manipulation of the grail anyone capable of stealthy or fast kills can be an Assassin. Fake Assassin is a Japanese Swordsman, summoned by a Caster whose magical talents were so great she could bend the rules of the grail to her will. In Apocrypha this restriction was lifted entirely. Apocrypha Assassin of Black was a serial killer that could summon an obscuring (and deadly) fog. Apocrypha Assassin of Red was typed as an Assassin because her history includes poisoning powerful people (and is a very bizarre Servant, in the technical sense of what the system usually does, for other reasons).\n\n * Rider need not have actually ridden the mounts they get as a Servant. They just need a strong connection to something that _could_ be ridden. 5th War Rider's legend doesn't normally include her actually riding Pegasus, just that it was spawned from her corpse's neck. It was Bellerophon and Perseus whose legends are associated with actually riding the Pegasus. But that's her mount all the same (and is summoned by stabbing herself in the neck). And she had a skill that let her ride most anything short of dragons, despite an absence of riding anything at all in life. Riders also don't have to have animals involved in what qualifies them for \"Rider\". One of the PSP games let a ship captain qualify as a Rider, with their ship as the \"mount\".\n\n * Berserker's reasonably literal in the sense that what you get pretty solidly embodies the emotion of \"berserk\". But it's not literally the Nordic berserker the word comes from. And it's also a fairly simple requirement: the hero must have \"gone berserk\" at least once in life. Lots of great heroes are said to have flown into a fit of rage over something or another; often the death of a loved one. Hercules qualified because the Gods forcefully afflicted him with an insane, murderous rage at one point, not because he usually fought with near mindless rage and passion. Hercules was normally considered a very intelligent and cunning warrior. At various points in the FSN LN it is remarked that Berserker is probably Hercules' worst class to be summoned as, as he loses access to most of his greatest Noble Phantasms and abilities, and he probably would have been at his most powerful as an Archer. One can also intentionally summon a hero as a Berserker (as was done in both the 4th and 5th wars), even if this moment of rage was a fairly minor part of their history.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-14T20:18:31.803", "id": "39411", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-14T20:18:31.803", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "8024", "parent_id": "7881", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe reason is simple and a little bit ridiculous. It explain on chapter 5:\n\n> Because Yuki said he want to stargaze with his family, but his parent broke\n> that promise to buy him a telescope because they got divorce. And then Yuno\n> said that she will become his bride (so she can become his family) to watch\n> a star with him. And Yuki (jokingly) answer that she have to wait until\n> they're grown up, and Yuno accept that statement seriously.\n\nthese are pages on chapter 5, click to enlarge picture, page order: left to\nright\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kiWPR.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iNfYW.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aky8Y.jpg)\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jbBY.jpg)\n\nIt's Yuno, she's yandere and crazy stalker. So I think it's reasonable for her\nto fall in love with Yuki because of such a reason like that\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T04:01:09.973", "id": "7886", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-10T03:52:34.547", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-10T03:52:34.547", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "7883", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nDarjeeling's [answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/7886) is right about\nthe things that made Yuno falls for Yuki, but as far as I remember, there's\ndeeper truth behind that:\n\n> Yuki wanted to go stargazing with his family, but his parent got divorced.\n> So Yuno answered that she will be his bride, his family, so that Yuki's wish\n> might come true. And to Yuno's answer, Yuki replied that they had to become\n> adult first. The important thing was, later it was told that, at that time,\n> Yuno's parents HAD already dies. She might seem OK, but she had actually\n> fallen deep into despair, thinking that there's no future for her. And that\n> was where the stargazing conversation happened, in which Yuki (kinda)\n> promised to take her as his bride. Thus, that event gave her a new hope, a\n> future as Yuki's wife.\n\nSo, without Yuki himself realizing, at that time, he saved Yuno with his\nwords, and that event became a life support for Yuno.\n\nI forgot the chapter of manga where that complete reason is revealed, but for\nsure it's not an early chapters, since a big, big secret\n\n> The story about how Yuno's parents death\n\nhas to be revealed first. Though I remember that when it was revealed, Yuki\nhimself realized that\n\n> \"So I've became her only moral support...\" or something along that line\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T15:23:35.890", "id": "7892", "last_activity_date": "2021-02-17T11:40:50.480", "last_edit_date": "2021-02-17T11:40:50.480", "last_editor_user_id": "50222", "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "7883", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 }, { "body": "\n\nThere's also the fact that we're dealing with 1st world Yuno here. That is,\nthe untold story of the 1st World Survival Game. The 1st world Yuki might have\nbeen \"cooler\" than the 2nd world as he might have not relied on Yuno that\nmuch. Her feelings from that stargazing even might me reinforced more by the\nevents of the 1st world Survival Game. And when she came to the Second World\nresulted to a \"crazed Yandere Queen\" Yuno for killing her beloved 1st world\nYuki and not being able to resurrect him with the godly powers she acquired.\n(The key is to know that we're dealing with a mentally unstable girl who\nkilled her adoptive parents and her lover.)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-06T13:03:23.807", "id": "23843", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-06T13:09:06.310", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-06T13:09:06.310", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "16100", "parent_id": "7883", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nWouldn't it be her mental illness called stockholm syndrome that she\nhas,definition-feelings of trust or affection felt in certain cases of\nkidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim toward a captor.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-11T11:09:02.067", "id": "37812", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-11T11:09:02.067", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29711", "parent_id": "7883", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSo I think this might answer a lot of questions. I guess its only one being\nand after his death will be the end of Noblesse. No one can take his place\n\n\"The True Noblesse is a title given to only one person and not the entire race\nas a whole.\"\n\n[Source Noblesse:wikia](http://noblesse.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Nobles)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-12-15T07:17:49.117", "id": "28033", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-15T07:17:49.117", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19723", "parent_id": "7885", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs mentioned by Frankenstein before, there is only one Noblesse. Also during\nthe entire manga up till today (2016-04-15), Noblesse is always mentioned as\n\"the\" Noblesse, never \"a\" Noblesse like is the case with Lord. For example, in\nchapter 389 where Raskreia was mentioned as \"a Lord\". This means that there is\nand was only one Noblesse, and that would be Rai.\n\nTherefore, we can't possibly tell who will be called as \"the Noblesse\" suppose\nthat Rai dies, since we currently has no information on the succession pattern\nof the \"Noblesse\" title like we had on the \"Lord\" title.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-04-15T05:51:10.387", "id": "31413", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-16T05:18:59.610", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-16T05:18:59.610", "last_editor_user_id": "7866", "owner_user_id": "7866", "parent_id": "7885", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTobi was the brain behind the plan. But he used Nagato to carry out his plan.\nHe exploited Nagato's hatred towards big countries. He was dead as obito for\nthe world. So he wanted to hide and work behind the scene so that he could\nkeep his identity hidden from all before he could collect all bijuus. Also,\nLand of Rain was always a secretive nation. And Akatsuki already had strong\nbase. It gave him a perfect place to hide himself. But towards the end as more\nand more akatsuki members died he was forced to come to limelight.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-10T11:37:32.610", "id": "7939", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-10T11:37:32.610", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7887", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom _Sword Art Online Volume 3 - Fairy Dance, Chapter 2_ (emphasis mine):\n\n> \"[...]. Yggdrasil...she seems to be there. That place, you know it?\"\n>\n> \"Ah, this I know. Eh, eh, it's generally to the northeast, but quite a ways\n> from here. If I were to convert it into real distance, it would be about\n> fifty kilometers away.\"\n>\n> \"Wow, that really is a long distance. That’s what, five times the diameter\n> of Aincrad. Actually, why was I brought to this forest anyway?\"\n>\n> Yui lowered her head for a moment at my question.\n>\n> \"I think that **your positional data was either damaged or confused with a\n> nearby player** , resulting in you ending up here. That’s just a guess,\n> though.\"\n\nIn the screenshot, the pyramid like structure is the signature building of the\nSpriggan hometown. The blocky void above it is the glitch that \"teleports\"\nKirito to the forest.\n\nYui raised two possibilities for the glitch:\n\n 1. **Kirito's positional data was damaged**\n\nSince Kirito and Asuna was teleported to the sky outside Aincrad in SAO\nmoments before the game shut down, and Kirito's character data from SAO was\nloaded in ALO, chances are that the positional data was also loaded, which\nsent him on a free fall nosediving trip into the forest 50 kilometers away\nfrom Yggdrasil.\n\nWhile this matches the fact that ALO's map is much bigger than SAO (as seen in\nthe above quote), it was quite a miracle that Kirito dropped right at the\nforest where Leafa was. As the map in ALO is much bigger, he might as well had\nended up elsewhere in ALO.\n\n 2. **Kirito's positional data was confused with a nearby player**\n\nSince Kirito and Suguha were accessing the game from the same IP address\n(which is quite common for IPv4 in real world), Kirito's positional data got\nglitched up and he was dropped in the forest where Suguha (Leafa) was, instead\nof the hometown of the Spriggan. The fact that he fell from the sky matches\nthe fact that Leafa was having a mid-air fight.\n\nI admit this is a bit stretching, but this is the closest I could relate a\nreal life concept with the theory above to explain the proximity of Kirito and\nLeafa's position in the game and the timing when the glitch happened.\n\n(Either way, I take it as an excuse for the story instead of general\nknowledge).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T10:27:37.930", "id": "7890", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-04T06:22:02.497", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-04T06:22:02.497", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "7888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 29 }, { "body": "\n\nThere was never an explanation in the novel, as far as I could remember.\nHowever, everything about SAO indicates that player data is saved locally\n(like how Kirito said he saved Yui to his NerveGear's storage, which somehow\nput her in his inventory when he got into ALO). Additionally, the fact that\nALO used SAO's source would explain why ALO might become confused, and load in\nKirito's previous data from SAO.\n\nTo some extent, this makes sense in the context of SAO. Saving the data on a\nremote database would possibly allow \"others\" to tamper with it, and possibly\nalter player stats, one way or another. My guess is, this means ALO's player\ndata is also saved client-side. You could reason that this is because ALO's\nprogrammers were stupid (Look at how ALO makes use of \"GM Pass cards\" and 12\ndigit (wut?) number pads, for things that are supposedly very important).\nHowever, I doubt Kawahara really thought that far ahead.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T05:34:22.663", "id": "7982", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-13T01:22:46.687", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-13T01:22:46.687", "last_editor_user_id": "4071", "owner_user_id": "4071", "parent_id": "7888", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe worlds work basically the same. So where he was in that SOA technically\nhis location mapped over to that worlds map location. that is why he dropped\nout of the sky that way and retained all his data. His local x,y position was\nwhere he started. He has special data since he has Yui's data written into his\nlocal. So that data overwrote the starting default for users.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T19:46:00.630", "id": "7998", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-12T19:46:00.630", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2890", "parent_id": "7888", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nSpeculation: Yui's item was in Asuna's sotrage, in that she was wearing it on\nher person in the final fight with 'Heathcliff'. We know that the storage\nbetween married characters is shared, so when her avatar dies in SAO Kirito\nwould gain all her storage and inventory items (also a possible reason why he\nuses her sword to fight with when his second breaks, it was in his inventory).\n\nSince we know that neither Kirito or Asuna die (IRL) and ALO's data was a\nmerger of SAO's client I think it would be possible that the data link between\nthem was having an effect on Kirito's inital spawn location, in that he was\nbeing spawned in her area, the Tree of Life. However, due to the admin rights\nand lock downs by RECT the system overrode this link and force spawned him out\nof the Tree of Life. Since the IP was linked with two VR devices (Leafa and\nKirito) his new spawn area was generated from her world position.\n\n(Sorry for the lack of references, my comptuer's restricted on some sites\nright now)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-09-16T16:00:14.517", "id": "36389", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-16T16:07:00.010", "last_edit_date": "2016-09-16T16:07:00.010", "last_editor_user_id": "28293", "owner_user_id": "28293", "parent_id": "7888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat I think happened is that since ALO is made off of SAO, and the place you\nlog off in ALO is the place you stay unless in a safe spot or a hut, and the\nSAO game ended with him in the boss room that maybe the place he got moved to\nis the same spot he was last in at SAO.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-11-08T19:25:00.470", "id": "43231", "last_activity_date": "2017-11-08T23:27:53.903", "last_edit_date": "2017-11-08T23:27:53.903", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "36511", "parent_id": "7888", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAfter some research myself I found there might be some Japanese in there. Take\nnote\n\n 1. I ain't natively Japanese so there might be some mistakes. \n 2. There have been no official lyric releases. Its current label stands on Ambient, this might be the reason for that. \n 3. As it is stated that it is chanting, it might even be a non-existent language or a combination of several, as is more often used in different forms of chanting. Example: repeating of the word \" _om_ \" during meditation. \n 4. The composer [Toshio Masuda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Masuda_%28composer%29) composed and synthesized the song, so it can also just be synthesized English.\n\nBesides those 4 points, I tried to get a Japanese lyrics out of it based on\nthe phonetic version you gave and some parts by ear using [this\nversion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThzDgZDQgcM) of the song and got to\nsomething along those lines\n\n[code]\n\n meh-shea-fu-ni coo-ma\n Me-ichi-fu-ni-ko-ma : 目 市 府 に 子 ま\n The top eye city office\n \n[/code]\n\nAs this seemed most similar to the original phonetic I found this to be most\nmatching. I also found the translation to be very fitting to Pain\n\nHad a bit more issues with the next part as I found several possibilities\n\n[code]\n\n mah-ni-kay-nah-bow-coo\n Nani-kai boku : 何 会 僕 : What I Association\n Nan-kai boku : (placeholder) : How many times I\n Nan-i- kaina boku- : なん-位-会 な 僕 : What - position - a meeting I : \n \n[/code]\n\nI myself found the second one most fitting, but it felt as if some part was\nmissing.\n\n[code]\n\n ee-ee-kay-nah for-gee\n Īe kata-nori : いいえ肩乗り \n No shoulder ride\n \n[/code]\n\nAlso the most fitting in context one I found\n\n[code]\n\n kor-ah-tay-boo troo- la or bah or ma\n Kore wa-bu Tsu ~a : これ 和 部 津 ァ \n This sum section §\n \n[/code]\n\nSo the lyrics would end up something along the lines of\n\n[code]\n\n The top eye city office\n What position I meet\n It is no shoulder ride\n This sum section\n \n[/code]\n\nThis is the best I could make of it.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T15:55:42.257", "id": "7894", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-19T13:29:22.560", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-19T13:29:22.560", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nLong shot, guys, but don't you think that if it's a chant it can be in\nChinese? For example like this:\n\n[code]\n\n 没师傅你哭吗 Méi shīfù nǐ kū ma\n 那你可那波苦 Nà nǐ kě nàbō kǔ\n \n[/code]\n\nFirst two lines can be then read as such:\n\n[code]\n\n Master didn't cry for you\n You can wave of that pain\n \n[/code]\n\nThen I'd go with Japanese/English line:\n\n[code]\n\n いけない FORGIVE Ikenai FORGIVE\n \n[/code]\n\nAnd that one means simply:\n\n[code]\n\n Don't forgive\n \n[/code]\n\nThe only thing I can't possibly get is the last line... It sounds Latin-ish,\nbut it can't be as there are no words fitting phonetically to these\nsyllables... It sounds between Japanese and some ancient European language...\n\nWhat do you think, guys?\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-23T18:21:07.223", "id": "22706", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-23T18:21:07.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "15246", "parent_id": "7889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI heard it as being poetic Japanese. Of course, I could be wrong.\n\n> \"Pein no Rikudo - OR - Me sei no Rikudo \n> Aniki no boku \n> Girei te no ronri \n> Kono te boku wa\"\n\nLoosely translated:\n\n> \"Pain of the six paths - OR - Logical eye of the six paths \n> Elder brother student to me \n> The crying god's hand of logic \n> This hand mine.\"\n\nRemember, in poetry, typical sentence structure and word use does not always\napply.\n\nMy translation fits well with the story of Naruto in the Pein arc. Pein had it\nall figured out supposedly, and Naruto, who had no answer to that logic yet\nknew that it was wrong, stood against him anyway.\n\nPein literally referred to himself as Naruto's \"Aniki\", and later on, Naruto\nrefers to him as such.\n\nIn any case, I hope that my take on this is helpful. I know that a lot of\npeople have wanted an alternative to the other interpretations out there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-05T00:12:16.453", "id": "30216", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-19T13:24:36.473", "last_edit_date": "2017-09-19T13:24:36.473", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "22474", "parent_id": "7889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n> But I'm still convinced that the song is definitely Japanese.\n\nContrary to the premise of the question, I'm doubting that the lyric is in\nJapanese.\n\nGoogling for combinations of 儀礼+歌詞 ( _Girei_ + _Lyric_ ) with ペイン, ナルト, and/or\n疾風伝 ( _Pain_ , _Naruto_ , and/or _Shippuden_ ) didn't return any convincing\nresult that the lyric is in Japanese.\n\nOne of the top results was [Yahoo! Chiebukuro\n(Japanese)](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q14160604139)\nasking the same question, which was answered with a link to [Yamura Life's FC2\nBlog (Japanese)](http://yamuralife.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-629.html) with the\nsame lyric mentioned on the question.\n\n[NicoNicoDouga (Japanese)](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm11831799) video\nalso doesn't contain commenter's lyric (not even 空耳/\"misheard lyric\" which is\nusually popular with song with unintelligible lyric)\n\n\"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence\", but seeing that Japanese\npeople didn't even notice if the lyric is in Japanese (in addition to it being\npoetic, or even archaic) could be a strong evidence that the lyric is not in\nJapanese.\n\nAs for the \"lyric\" itself... probably the only one who knows is the composer,\nToshio Masuda. Considering the song is like a chant/hymn, an unintelligible\nlyric is a possibility, or maybe it's actually a puzzle like [Final Fantasy\n10's Hymn of the\nFayth](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Hymn_of_the_Fayth_\\(song\\)#Lyrics).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-09-21T05:00:35.707", "id": "42416", "last_activity_date": "2017-09-21T05:00:35.707", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "7889", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is a common trope, not specific to anime. It can be seen in a lot of\nwestern cartoons.\n\nThe increased air pressure, that is created when blowing very hard, creates a\nforce pushing outwards from your breathing cavities and connected airways.\nTechnically, mouth, nose, ears and eyes share the same complicated pathway, so\nyou could blow your eyes out, if you try hard. The trope in question is just\nan exaggerated example of it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-07T18:07:12.367", "id": "7900", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-07T18:07:12.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "7897", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe town of Asahigaoka is not explicitly based on any single real location. Of\ncourse, some location scouting in the countryside was performed for the sake\nof realism.1 Most anime these days engage in this activity (called \"location\nhunting\" / ロケハン) when appropriate - e.g. when they are set in modern Japan or\nsomething that looks like it.2\n\nThat said, the school the students in Non Non Biyori attend _is_ apparently\nbased on a real school: Ogawa Elementary's Shimosato Branch School3 in [Ogawa,\nSaitama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogawa,_Saitama).4\n\n* * *\n\n1 See [this blog post](http://anicobin.ldblog.jp/archives/35098549.html) (JP),\nand in particular [this image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Es5wX.jpg) (JP),\ntaken from an interview with people on the production staff.\n\n2 Of course, some shows _do_ use full-on model cities, e.g. [Ano\nHana](http://otakumode.com/sp/visit_japan/seichi-junrei/s005) and [Ano Natsu\nde Matteru](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=497109).\n\n3 I believe I translated that well enough, but school nomenclature confuses me\nat times - the name in Japanese is 小川町立小川小学校 下里分校, lit. \"Ogawa-machi Municipal\nOgawa Elementary School, Shimosato Branch School\".\n\n4 For details and comparison shots, see e.g. [this blog\npost](http://tsurebashi.blog123.fc2.com/blog-entry-320.html).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-08T00:41:36.273", "id": "7907", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-08T00:41:36.273", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7905", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nProbably the only anime that I saw with 5.1 audio is Evangelion. However as\nyou've pointed out, most(if not all) TV-aired anime in Japan are in stereo\nunless it got released into special BD/DVD.\n\nThis issue is also under budget constraints, etc. It's not budget-wise to\napply one, just the same as what @Dmitri said about the average Japanese\nhousehold.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-10T15:54:16.507", "id": "9624", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-10T15:54:16.507", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3442", "parent_id": "7906", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nScar's brother's name is never revealed in the 2003 series, _Brotherhood_ , or\nthe manga. I remember reading somewhere that the creator had given names to\nboth Scar and his brother, but they were never revealed in any interview or\nthrough official media.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-08T03:45:10.103", "id": "7909", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-08T03:45:10.103", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "7908", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nThat is because there is no known name for him. Scar and his brother also\ndon't have a family name, as Scar himself never revealed his name:\n\n> Scar's brother (real name unknown)\n> [source](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Scar%27s_brother)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-08T03:45:14.337", "id": "7910", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-10T23:31:26.347", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-10T23:31:26.347", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7908", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it is explained and the reason is understandable. Ensure you have\nfinished the series:\n\n> She was rescued by the Ocean Agency once she surfaced in a life pod,\n> approximately 100 years after the Elpida catastrophe. She was resurrected,\n> and unsuccessfully treated by the Ocean Agency psychologists. Her memories\n> were altered with that of a different life, which was done to enable her to\n> function and live her life. Her brother, whom was the only other survivor,\n> surfaced ~60 years earlier and posed as her grandfather, and was not allowed\n> to tell her the truth due to the involved risks and agreements he made to\n> ensure her safety. She was rejected because she was a survivor of the city\n> of Elpida, and the entire catastrophe was covered up, therefore making her a\n> risk to the agency and government.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-08T19:04:09.233", "id": "7924", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-08T19:11:34.557", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-08T19:11:34.557", "last_editor_user_id": "2031", "owner_user_id": "2031", "parent_id": "7923", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs far as I can recall, we never actually see Sloth himself laying the rails.\nWith this in mind, it could technically have been anyone, be they homunculi or\nhumans working alongside them.\n\nPride seems like one of the more likely options, because we see very little of\nhim for most of the series and he would be up to that kind of task. However,\nsomeone would have had to come with him to provide light, otherwise he would\nnot be able to see what he was doing, as seen in the fight between him and\nEdward, where he devours Gluttony, gaining the ability to \"see\" with smells.\nI'm pretty sure that this fight takes place after the rails are shown so we\ncan rule him out as an option, at least him working on it solo.\n\nWrath would have to be running the government so he couldn't do it. Lust,\nGluttony, and Envy are seen too often to be able to do it efficiently, unless\nthey cycled out working, but they had other orders. The first Greed wouldn't\ndo anything to help out \"the old man\", and I'm pretty sure the second Greed\ncame after the rails were shown, but even if that's not the case, then that's\nstill not something he would do.\n\nFollowing this line of logic, it seem that we are down to three options:\n\n 1. Sloth is getting the materials from someone/somewhere and laying the rails himself\n 2. Pride is working with someone and laying the rails\n 3. There is no homunculus involved and it is regular humans working under \"Father's\" orders.\n\nOf the three, I think that the first is the most likely, but lacking any rock-\nsolid proof, I can not say for certain which one it is.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-21T07:58:59.737", "id": "16954", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-24T14:20:14.120", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-24T14:20:14.120", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2213", "parent_id": "7935", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI saw this picture on latest manga\n\n\n\nand based on this [wiki\npage](http://soranootoshimono.wikia.com/wiki/Heaven%27s_Lost_Property_Final:_Eternal_My_Master),\nit should be airing on 26th April 2014 in Japanese theaters.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-10T00:20:03.680", "id": "7937", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-10T00:20:03.680", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "7936", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe third season has indeed been cancelled; instead it was replaced with a\nmovie that has just recently come out. [This is described by this ANN news\narticle.](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-24/sora-no-\notoshimono/heaven-lost-property-new-anime-to-play-in-theaters-in-2014)\n\n**Sora no Otoshimono Final: Eternal My Maser**\n\n\n\n**Quick Plot Summary / Overview:** The scene opens with the Zeus' destruction\nabove Synapse, Tomoki calls for Nymph to return immediately; unfortunately\nIkaros responds that Nymph isn't coming. Tomoki commands Ikaros to take him\nstraight to Synapse as the Earth's surface deliberately vanishes. While flying\ntowards Synapse, Ikaros tells Tomoki a story how long ago due to malfunction\nshe was once ordered by a \"boy\" to attack Synapse out of desperation.\nRemarking a dying Sugata, Ikaros' body begins burning away because of a device\ninstalled within her whenever she approaches Synapse without permission.\nHaving second thoughts, Tomoki orders Ikaros to go back but cannot since there\nis nowhere else to go to.\n\n(Source:\n<http://soranootoshimono.wikia.com/wiki/Heaven%27s_Lost_Property_Final:_Eternal_My_Master>)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-10T07:59:28.777", "id": "15618", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T07:59:28.777", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "7936", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nJudging from episode 24...\n\n> When Senketsu transforms into Senketsu Kisaragi after absorbing everybody\n> else's life fibers, we witness his right eye _opening_ rather than becoming\n> _uncovered_ ([gif](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3vYUJ.gif)). This suggests that\n> Senketsu was, initially, \"blind\" in his right eye before receiving enough\n> life fibers to fix that, or something, and hence, that the eyepatch-like\n> element on Senketsu's right is probably in fact just Senketsu's eye scarred\n> shut. \n> \n> It's not clear to me at this point how this relates to the notion that\n> Senketsu is modeled after Matoi Isshin, given that Isshin wore an eyepatch\n> over his right eye, but was probably not blind in that eye (judging from his\n> face when he, as Souichirou, got out of the bodybag -\n> [screencap](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fqLKR.jpg)), unless whatever he did to\n> change his appearance (plastic surgery perhaps?) blinded him.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-10T14:03:43.193", "id": "7942", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-05T09:50:42.247", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-05T09:50:42.247", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7941", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn chapter 3, it is mentioned that Misaki was learning\n[Aikido](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido).\n\n\n\nThere are various scenes in the first few chapters that shows Misaki using\nAikido moves. For example:\n\n * In the middle of chapter 1, Misaki threw a sandbag over her head to clear the way.\n * At the beginning of chapter 2, Misaki used Aikido on a male student who was half-naked.\n * In the middle of chapter 3, Misaki used Aikido on the members of the student council who slacked off at the beginning of the chapter.\n * At the end of chapter 3, Misaki used Aikido on the 2 masochists.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-10T19:06:26.973", "id": "7946", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-10T19:06:26.973", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "7944", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI can't speak for every anime in the 00s, but the storyboard artist for the OP\nand the ED for Chocotto specifically are different, according to ANN:\n<http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6674> \\- So that\nmay have influenced the end result.\n\nAnd oftentimes you'll have studios working together, sometimes one influencing\nthe entire episode of a series or its opening and ending. ( Shaft does this a\nlot and Mad House has done some work with Ghibli:\n<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhouse_(company)#Collaborations> )\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T02:07:37.460", "id": "7950", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T02:07:37.460", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4031", "parent_id": "7945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nOpening and Ending animation sequences are supposed to attract viewers and so\nthe producers put more money into their making than in the same time length of\nthe main anime.\n\nUsually it's a minute and a half of lots of visual effects and alluring action\npacked together with cool music and you see that every episode. Imagine how\nquickly you'd be bored if it was animated in the same simpler technique as the\nmain part. Or how much less would be the probability of you staying for the\nmain part if you saw such OP or ED.\n\nIt has to take more human resources than drawing main part of the anime, so\nit's often done by more people and they may be different from those who do the\nmain animation. So it's natural the visual style is different.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-26T12:06:49.127", "id": "8276", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-26T12:06:49.127", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "7945", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSachi in particular hummed the story in the Japanese version as well. (Though,\nin the book, she actually sang \"Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer\". For whatever\nreason, they altered that scene in the Anime)\n\nIn general, what you're saying will vary from anime to anime, and it depends\non who is dubbing them. How much localization the studio wants, I'm sure is a\nbig thing when it comes to this. \"How much of the origin language's references\ndo we want to keep?\" Overall, it'd difficult to directly translate a song from\nJapanese to English, while keeping the flow and meaning intact.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T08:02:14.697", "id": "7958", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T08:29:01.023", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-11T08:29:01.023", "last_editor_user_id": "3081", "owner_user_id": "4071", "parent_id": "7947", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs stated on the wiki (under trivia)\n\n> The name of this power refers to its origin, as the Wretched Egg represents\n> the original sin or roots and the branches that later came from them. It\n> also refers to how insignificant amount of power one Branch possesses\n> compared to that of the Wretched Egg's.\n> [source](http://deadmanwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/Branch_of_Sin)\n\nWhat is the original sin it came from ?\n\n> The Wretched Egg refers to the original sin, which is the sin of Adam and\n> Eve in Christianity, resulting in the fall of man.\n> [source](http://deadmanwonderland.wikia.com/wiki/Wretched_Egg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T02:39:30.367", "id": "7954", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T02:39:30.367", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7952", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nTaken from\n[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A_Certain_Magical_Index_characters#Index)\n\n> Her mind has been implanted with the 103,000 magical texts of the Index-\n> Librorum-Prohibitorum as she possesses Photographic memory, which makes\n> magicians wonder if she really is human because just one grimoire is\n> poisonous to the mind, and one is more than enough to kill a person without\n> the proper preparative.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T02:46:33.113", "id": "7955", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T02:46:33.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4069", "parent_id": "7953", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's based of the real life list, \"[Index Librorum\nProhibitorum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum),\"\nwhich in English is literally a \"list of prohibited books.\" Index herself is,\nin other words, a literal embodiment of these books prohibited by the Roman\nCatholic Church by Pope Paul IV.\n\nThe list was created to protect the faith and morals of the faithful by\npreventing people from reading of immoral books or works there church thought\nwas heretical. Some of the works even included scientific works by leading\nastronomers, like Johannes Kepler, whose ideas were controversial at the time.\nThe list basically contained the rules set by the Roman Catholic Church\nrelating to the reading, selling, and censorship of books.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T14:24:29.457", "id": "7966", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T14:24:29.457", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "7953", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWith the current information given we **do not know** the reason of the\noutbreak.\n\nThis might be a potential plot point later on in the story as they do hint to\ntrying to find out the cause, but we wont know till the manga is updated once\nmore. Which might some while as it been on hiatus for quite some time. [Is\nHighschool of the Dead on hiatus\nagain?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7292/is-hotd-on-hiatus-\nagain)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T03:08:28.383", "id": "7957", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T03:08:28.383", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7956", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNot only Natsu, but every wizard having Dragon Slayer Magic is prone to motion\nsickness. During the Grand Magic Tournament, all four Dragon Slayers suffered\nfrom motion sickness, i.e. Natsu, Gajeel, Rouge, and Sting. It is also\nconfirmed in the anime that, Laxus suffers from motion sickness as well. The\nonly exception is Wendy, but considering that she has Magic to counter motion\nsickness, it might not be affecting her.\n\nIt has not been explained, but it is likely due to a side effect of the Dragon\nSlayer Magic.\n\nWendy's Magic does not affect Natsu because he built up immunity. This was\nspecifically stated by Wendy herself.\n\nAlso, Happy doesn't affect Natsu because Natsu doesn't consider Happy as a\nvehicle. This was also specifically mentioned by Natsu.\n\n**Edit as per the latest chapter:** The motion sickness is caused due to\ninability of dragon slayer magic holder to adjust with the dragon's enhanced\nvisual acuity which affects their semicircular canals.\n\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0dEEQ.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T09:31:08.513", "id": "7960", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-13T18:34:40.073", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-13T18:34:40.073", "last_editor_user_id": "6368", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7959", "post_type": "answer", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\n\nAs an addition to [Sp0T's\nanswer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7959/is-there-a-explanation-\nfor-natsus-motion-sickness/7960#7960), it seems like they have to be in a more\nadvanced level of Dragon Slayer Magic to experience motion sickness. Just like\nGajeel in Phantom Lord arc with their moving guild, and in Tenrou Island arc\nwhen they get to the Island by ship, he doesn't seems to have problem with\nmotion sickness. However, just after his three month training for Grand Magic\nTournament, he gets motion sickness.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-13T00:36:35.930", "id": "8011", "last_activity_date": "2015-12-04T17:37:59.260", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.523", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "7959", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nSting said that when you become a real dragon slayer, you start to suffer the\nmotion sickness. Maybe Wendy doesn't have it because she's not at that level\nyet, which means that Natsu has been a strong dragon slayer since the\nbeginning and was stronger than Gajeel up until the episode 161 _Chariot_.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-22T05:03:26.173", "id": "20236", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-02T14:36:41.540", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-02T14:36:41.540", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13359", "parent_id": "7959", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nIn real life, motion sickness is caused by mixed signals from your senses,\ni.e. your eyes tell you the train isn't moving, as you are moving with it,\nhowever, your sense of balance feels all the bumps and swaying and tells you\nthat you are moving. The result is confusion leading to nausea.\n\nPutting that into the context of Fairy Tail, Dragon Slayers are shown to have\nheightened senses, Natsu more so than the others, probably because he is\nstrong. So my guess is, stronger senses means stronger mixed signals and\nstronger motion sickness.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-24T02:50:02.657", "id": "20287", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-13T06:08:13.113", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-13T06:08:13.113", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "13392", "parent_id": "7959", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n~~Until now there's still no flash back about their relationship.~~\n\nFrom chapter 450 'The One And Only This World' it was confirmed that\n\n>  Mavis\n> and Zeref love each other, and because of Zeref's curse, Mavis died\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-21T01:43:19.407", "id": "8163", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-01T14:22:37.467", "last_edit_date": "2015-09-01T14:22:37.467", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "7961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Zeref and Mavis had a thing. You know how Zeref said one day, that he\nrealized the meaning of life and stopped all of his bad ways? Well, I think\nthat day was the day Mavis died. Possibly killed by Zeref himself. He may have\nfelt terrible and realized that he needed to be stopped. So as he awaits Natsu\nto get stronger, he stays near Mavis, enjoying her presences till the day\ncomes.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-25T06:12:44.803", "id": "11461", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-25T09:18:01.023", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-25T09:18:01.023", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6366", "parent_id": "7961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nYes. They know each other. In _Fairy Tail Zero_ chapter 7, they met at a lake\nin the forest.\n\n\n\nZeref taught Mavis, Zeira, Precht, Warrod, and Yuri Dreyar their magic. The\ntwo were friends and Zeref hinted that it was because of him (directly or\nindirectly) that Mavis died.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-22T07:54:17.530", "id": "18743", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-23T05:58:31.507", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-23T05:58:31.507", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11324", "parent_id": "7961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIn the latest chapter, number 448:\n\n> In the two last pages, Mavis appears and wants to tell everyone in the Guild\n> the truth about Lumen Histoire/Fairy Heart: It's about a cursed girl and the\n> cursed boy.\n\nIn the last few panels,\n\n> Zeref and she are shown - and she's about to lean against him.\n\nI think that's a quite clear hint on their relationship.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-17T06:27:53.600", "id": "24150", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-17T08:50:16.060", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-17T08:50:16.060", "last_editor_user_id": "10654", "owner_user_id": "16348", "parent_id": "7961", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nSounds like [Brave Police\nJ-Decker](http://gaogaigar.wikia.com/wiki/Brave_Police_J-Decker). Here's a\nsummary from the wiki:\n\n> Brave Police J-Decker was the fifth anime of the Brave Series and aired in\n> Japan during 1994 and 1995.\n>\n> Brave Police J-Decker returns the series to a subtly lighter tone, focusing\n> more on the concept of \"robot as human-built AI construct\" emphasized by the\n> previous season's series, Brave Express Might Gaine. Grade schooler Yuuta\n> Tominaga stumbles upon Deckerd, a humanoid robot under construction by the\n> Japanese police, built to fight advanced forms of crime. Yuuta's constant\n> contact with Deckerd gives the robot a \"heart\", or personality; when Yuuta\n> is recruited as the \"boss\" of the \"Brave Police\" as a result, a true\n> human/robot partnership occurs.\n\nIt's got mechas that are Police, Firetruck, and Ambulance themed.\n\n * **Deckerd:** The sentient police robot that transforms into a police cruiser.\n * **Duke:** A sentient robot that transforms into an ambulance.\n * **Fire Roader:** A massive firetruck that serves as Duke's support vehicle.\n\nThey combine in various combinations as well as the \" **Fire J-Decker Max\nCannon Mode** \", a combination of all the vehicles.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-11T14:42:04.083", "id": "7967", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-11T14:42:04.083", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "7962", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOkay from what I understand so far about the whole Magia Erebea is that _it\ncan be_ a way to become immortal. Now within the manga, UQ Holder, we find out\nthat there are varying degrees of immortality and what is suggested that they\nare not \"Complete\" because they still need to eat, they can become injured\nand, to some degree, die.\n\n**Spoilers** \n\nNegi, on the other hand, uses a Complete form of Magia Erebea, suggesting that\nhe is a complete immortal, having no need to eat, cannot be injured and cannot\ndie in any event and will continue to always exist.\n\n_Now I'm assuming that everyone knows how we eat is a necessity because that\nallows our bodies energy to do things._\n\nHow Magia Erebea could potentially, and this is only in theory, make someone\nimmortal is to continually \"flow life, energy or magic\" into the user. Now as\nexplained in Negima!, Magia Erebea is a techniques that allows the user to\nabsorb and take in magic. Now it is possible that the user of Magia Erebea can\nuse the magic to sustain their life and the complete version could do so\npassively without the need of incantation or commands.\n\nNow looking at Eva, she still needs to eat and feed, like all vampires, on\nblood or more accurately, explained in Negima!, that she feeds on a person's\nmana. She can still be injured and there is a possibility that she can still\ndie when the time arises. Due to this, it can be said that the Magia Erebea\nthat Eva wields is incomplete because the Magia Erebea has not granted her\n\"Complete\" immortality, also Eva still needs to activate it through commands\nmeaning that it's not passive.\n\nI hope that helps but you probably know all of that by now...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-03T05:12:08.197", "id": "19788", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-03T05:12:08.197", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "13032", "parent_id": "7968", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYour question appears to be premised on a bit of a misunderstanding of how\nanime in general (and Gurren Lagann in particular) is produced.\n\nThe two so-called \"seasons\" of Gurren Lagann (ep 1-15 vs. Lord Genome, and\nthen ep 17-27 vs. the Anti-Spiral) were not actually discrete seasons. They\nwere aired together as one continuous block of 27 episodes (with episode 16\nbeing a recap of the first arc), from April to September of 2007.1 As such,\nany changes in theme that you may have perceived immediately following the\ntime-skip cannot have anything to do with there being a break in the show -\nbecause there was no break! (Besides the one week for the recap episode,\nanyway.)\n\nFurthermore, it isn't really possible that any changes in theme could have\nresulted from public reaction to the first arc of the show (ratings/etc).\nAccording to folk wisdom,2 a typical 1-2 cour anime spends over a year in\nproduction before it airs, meaning that the vast majority of work\n(storyboarding, character design, art, etc.) is done by the time the show\nstarts airing. Given the timeframes in question, it isn't feasible for a\nstudio to make significant changes to an anime _during_ a season.\n\nBetween seasons, of course, anything is possible - the classic example of this\nis Code Geass, which saw some major changes in its second season, in part due\nto a change in its airing time slot. But during a single few-cour season,\nthere are serious limits on how much the studio can change on the fly.3\n\nIn sum, whatever changes you may have noticed after the time-skip were almost\ncertainly present because that's how the producers planned for it to be; not\nbecause of external factors like viewer opinion or high-level execs or\nwhatnot.\n\n* * *\n\n1 Note that a single [\"cour\"](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/7977/1908) of\nanime will almost never be 15 episodes in length, which is another tip-off\nthat the two \"seasons\" weren't separate.\n\n2 If you have something better than folk wisdom, please answer [this\nquestion](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/5599/1908)!\n\n3 Note that none of what I have said applies to super-long-running anime like\nthe big shounens (e.g. Naruto, One Piece, etc.). I don't know anything about\nwhat production cycles look like for them, but it's pretty obvious that they\nhave to be running all the phases of production in parallel, meaning that they\nshould be able to react to viewer opinion (though I have no idea whether or\nnot they do, in practice).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T02:17:18.590", "id": "7979", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-12T02:17:18.590", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7971", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nConsidering that his devil fruit is of Paramecia type, he cannot be on par\nwith admirals. Also it is unknown whether he can change his poison's\ncomposition like Coco from Toriko. If he can change then he can be considered\nsomewhat dangerous. If he cannot change then he seems pretty useless as Iva-\nsan had antidote for his poison. He could guard the prison because the prison\nhad many other supporting features to trap the convicts. But that also failed.\nSo he cannot be on same league as Admirals but much lower than them.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T11:42:10.047", "id": "7989", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-12T11:42:10.047", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7975", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nYou cannot go by status alone to indicate someone's actual power.\n\n> After the great breakout out of Impel Down, he was demoted to Vice-Warden.\n> Probably because of his pride. So based on status alone you would think\n> Hannyabal to be stronger than Magellan, which we know he is not. \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1QGyy.png) \n> Well he wasn't before the timeskip. We haven't seen either of them after\n> that, so it's hard to say where they stand now.\n\nIn the One Piece power system, it is actually hard to say who is stronger in\ngeneral, since it depends on lots of factors, like who you are up against. For\nexample, Crocodile was much stronger than Luffy, but Luffy still beat him by\nusing the water trick. In my opinion I think he wouldn't be far off the\nadmiral's level, since he beat Blackbeard's crew with just one hydro attack.\nActually Magellan's power and ability makes him the perfect guy for the job\nand wouldn't be a good admiral. He would have a hard time arresting someone\nwithout mortally poisoning him.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-10T15:23:38.133", "id": "11207", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-10T17:28:56.510", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-10T17:28:56.510", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "7975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n> Is he at par with the Admiral? Or maybe somewhere lower than that?\n\nPossibly around the levels of Vice admirals but then again some of the Vice\nadmirals are extremely strong like\n[Issho](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Issho); now an Admiral.\n\nAgain like @PeterRaeves mentioned, position alone doesn't determine the\nstrength. Its relative.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-19T03:34:20.157", "id": "12927", "last_activity_date": "2016-09-21T18:04:18.103", "last_edit_date": "2016-09-21T18:04:18.103", "last_editor_user_id": "2956", "owner_user_id": "2956", "parent_id": "7975", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nThere is no way to know as One Piece is relative, however there are a few\nfacts that help determine this better. Also here's a related post: [Haki\nvs.Venom Venom Fruit](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13315/haki-vs-\nvenom-venom-fruit/13350#13350)\n\nNo real way to train against being poisoned at Magellan's level of poisons,\nwhile some people like Mr. 3 and Ivankov seem to have counter measures. Even\nGold Roger died from disease which indicates Haki/fortitude doesn't help\nagainst physiological changes.\n\nHe jailed and kept in line the world's worst criminals:\n\n * Many of Blackbeard's crew including Shiryu, Logia users, and strong Haki users. \n\n * Blackbeard (Yonkou) and crew were completely defeated by him. It is also worth noting that Shank's scar was given by Blackbeard before he even got the Yami Yami fruit. 1 Yonkou = Marines + Piratelords per Government's assessment. \n\n * Positions are also based on intelligence, career drive and politics. \n\n * He spent most of the day in the bathroom as he ends up poisoning his own food which his stomach can't handle. This can be argued as a negative for a position like admiral which is publicly visible. \n\n * It was never established whether or not he can use Haki. A lot of fruit users, especially powerful ones, tend to rely more on their fruits like Ace and Kizaru. \n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-08-18T21:05:28.190", "id": "13503", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-19T14:15:41.157", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.090", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "7597", "parent_id": "7975", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n# Definition1\n\n> **cour** [koor] \n> _noun_\n>\n> 1. One of the four conventional three-month periods of television\n> broadcasting in Japan (January to March; April to June; July to September;\n> October to December): _\"Noragami\" aired during the first **cour** of 2014._\n> 2. A portion of a television program aired over the course of one cour1:\n> _The big reveal at the end of the first **cour** of \"Valvrave\" had me on the\n> edge of my seat!_\n>\n\n# Usage\n\nI'm really not sure how long \"cour\" has had currency in English. There are\nattestations from at least as early as 2007.2 I _think_ that's not too long\nafter the term began to see usage in English-speaking anime communities, but I\ncould very well be mistaken.\n\nThis term was probably quickly adopted because it provides an unambiguous way\nto refer to a roughly 13-episode block of episodes, by contrast with \"season\",\nwhich (as seen [here](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/1971/what-\ndefines-one-season-of-anime)) can mean many different things in different\ncontexts.\n\nA cour is not of precisely-defined duration, and can, in practice, last\nanywhere from 11 to 14 weeks (and hence, the same number of episodes), though\n12-13 weeks is most common, since a 52-week year cleanly divides into four\n13-week subunits (or perhaps 12-week subunits with a week off in between).\n\n# Etymology\n\nThis usage of the word \"cour\" in English is (perhaps surprisingly) a borrowing\nof the Japanese word [クール ( _kuuru_\n)](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB_%28%E6%94%BE%E9%80%81%29\n\"in Japanese\"), which means essentially the same thing as the English \"cour\".\n\nJapanese _kuuru_ is itself a borrowing, though the language of origin is not\nknown with certainty. The most popular hypothesis is that it derives from\nFrench [_cours_](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cours#French), cognate to\n\"course\" as in \"lecture\".3 Note that the English \"cour\" is effectively a back-\nformation from _cours_ (which is singular in French), and the singular/plural\ndistinction between \"cour\" and \"cours\" is an English innovation.\n\nIn any case, the path \"cour\" took on its way to English is decidedly opaque,\nand so it is no surprise that it doesn't show up in English dictionaries.\n\n# Derived jargon\n\n * A **split-cour** show is one which has a total duration of two cours, arranged such that the show airs for one cour, is on break for the next cour, and airs again in the following cour. Unlike ordinary multi-season shows, which typically incorporate a larger gap between airings and in which each season is produced separately, split-cour shows are produced as a single unit that just happens to have a 3-month break at the halfway point. \n * Split-cour shows are a relatively recent innovation in anime, [dating back only to 2011](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/17187/).\n * [Valvrave the Liberator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valvrave) and [Silver Spoon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_no_Saji) are recent examples of split-cour shows. \n * Split-cour shows with cour structures other than on-off-on do exist. For example, [_Ushio to Tora_ (2015-16)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushio_and_Tora#List_of_episodes) aired as on-on-off-on, for a total of 3 cours of anime over 4 cours of time.\n * The [\"second season\" of _Durarara!!_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Durarara!!%C3%972_episodes), subtitled _×2_ , is the first example of a \"triply-split-cour\" show, with cours airing in winter 2015, summer 2015, and winter 2016. No consensus has yet emerged as to what to call shows like _Durarara!!×2_ that have multiple splits.\n\n* * *\n\n1 The definition at top is my own creation, but I do believe it to be correct\nand reflective of the way the word \"cour\" is used in practice. I guess it's\n[good enough for Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cour#English)?\n\n2 [\"Kanon - 2006 - Episode 14 Discussion / Poll\" on\nAnimeSuki](http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=789520&highlight=cour#post789520)\n\n3 I'm not sure why this is the standard etymological theory - what does a\n\"course\" in the sense of \"lecture\" have to do with a block of television\nprogramming? - but there you have it.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T01:42:01.710", "id": "7978", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-17T07:37:27.550", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "7977", "post_type": "answer", "score": 38 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Shakespeare's _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ , Titania is the Queen of the\nfairies.\n\nSince Erza is widely known as the strongest female mage of _Fairy Tail_ , she\nhas been given the nickname Titania.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T09:13:58.577", "id": "7988", "last_activity_date": "2018-02-28T02:39:05.910", "last_edit_date": "2018-02-28T02:39:05.910", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4085", "parent_id": "7984", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n... Is this regarding Howl's Moving Castle?\n\nIt was based on a classic fantasy novel (by Diana Wynne Jones) so maybe some\npeople were actually referring it to a new take on a classic, or it was\nclassic in the sense that people knew it was going to be a classic because the\nquality of that film was on that tier. Kind of like how in the same way Disney\nmovies turn out to be classics even when a new film comes out because of it's\nrich history in making classic animated movies.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T07:35:03.550", "id": "7987", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-12T07:35:03.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4031", "parent_id": "7985", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n[Manga Video](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Video) is just the\ndistributor and co-producer of the anime _Ghost in the Shell_. The production\ncompany is, as hungerartist pointed out, [Production\nI.G.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_I.G). Manga Video only helped\nin production by contributing money.\n\nTo answer your question: Yes, Manga Video sill exists and yes, Production I.G.\nstill produces anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T11:53:48.143", "id": "7990", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-12T11:53:48.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "122", "parent_id": "7986", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYour question is why does he speak English in the Japanese version? Well, he\ndoes not.\n\nThe key sentence he says is\n\n> Lelouch Vi Britannia ga meijiru: [senshin's\n> comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7994/why-does-lelouch-\n> speak-english#comment9728_7994) states it's \"ga\" and not \"ha\"\n\nWhich means \"Lelouch Vi Britannia commands you\", in Japanese.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T18:03:42.310", "id": "7996", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-30T20:34:05.257", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "7994", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nHe's Britannian thats why he speaks in english and i think coz its more catchy\nto use the english version . just an opinion.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-30T17:58:01.310", "id": "18988", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-30T17:58:01.310", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11472", "parent_id": "7994", "post_type": "answer", "score": -4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYou are asking two questions. Number one is...\n\n> Why is being a Dragon Slayer a big deal?\n\nAnd Number Two is...\n\n> Why does being a Dragon Slayer seem to make the situation worse?\n\nDragon Slayers are a unique type of people who utilize a form of Lost Magic,\nDragon Slayer Magic. It was a big deal that Laxus was a dragon slayer\nbecause...\n\n> It is uncommon for someone to utilise a lost magic or to be a Dragon Slayer\n> and for Natsu it could have been a perfect opportunity to ask if he had been\n> raised by a dragon and if he knew where Igneel was.\n\nYour other question however why does a dragon slayer seem to make a situation\nworse. I am going to answer this question based on the Fighting Festival Arc.\nI am not sure what you mean but ill tack a guess at this...\n\nDragon Slayers did not make the situation worse, they simply could not help\ndue to Frieds [Jutsu Shiki](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Jutsu_Shiki) which\nprevented Natsu, Gajeel and The Master from participating in the carnival and\nfreeing the girls who were turned to stone by Ever Green.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-13T00:09:36.393", "id": "8010", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-13T00:09:36.393", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "7995", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nBefore the Laxus's entertainment arc, it was unknown what type of magic he\nhad. Normally all mages in fairy tail have a limit to how much magic they can\nuse.\n\nFor eg- Capricorn helps Lucy to increase her magic stamina.\n\nBut the only exception to this rule are the dragon slayers who learnt their\nmagic from dragons and gain their power by eating their element.\n\nFor eg- Natsu eats fire, Gazeel eats iron and Wendy eats air.\n\nNow during the fight with Laxus, Natsu an Gazeel are unable to fight him as he\nis too overpowered. But they must be hoping that Laxus will eventually lose\nhis magic stamina and then they can beat him. But then it was disclosed Laxus\nis a Lightening Dragon Slayer. That makes him completely invincible as he can\ngain his power by just eating his element and can battle continuously. And\nthat would make the situation worse.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-14T04:16:44.530", "id": "8049", "last_activity_date": "2017-06-19T23:35:18.730", "last_edit_date": "2017-06-19T23:35:18.730", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "7995", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm going to take a stab at your question. You asked...\n\n> Why is Plue always around?\n\nInitially Plue was only contracted to be around on Tuesdays and Thursdays as\nthat was when he was available. In the Fairy Tail Wikia it says this...\n\n> ...When Lucy first contracted Plue, he only agreed to be summoned on\n> Tuesdays and Thursdays. Later, however, Plue is available anytime, often\n> appearing at times other than his initial contracted days. Because he is not\n> designed for combat, he serves as a cute pet for his master instead.\n\nPlue cannot stay all the time, he uses his own magic to cross over from the\nCelestial World as displayed by Virgo and Loke. Also you could think of Plue\nas a pet in some way. He was not made for fighting and it is plausible to say\nthat he can stay in Earth World for as long as a month or even a year, just\nlike Loke has demonstrated in the past.\n\nPlue is always around because he loves Lucy and being around Family. That's my\nanswer. The Reason behind this is...\n\n> Plue enjoys sweets and shares a close friendship with Happy. Their good\n> relationship could be accounted for the fact that they are always together\n> during Team Natsu's missions, as well as their almost similar attitudes.\n> Happy and Plue often tease Lucy and Loke\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T20:19:45.267", "id": "8000", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-15T03:28:35.620", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-15T03:28:35.620", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "7997", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's a combination of cartoonish silliness and the fact that Luffy's really\nnot defending against them.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T21:15:43.943", "id": "8003", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-12T18:46:10.450", "last_edit_date": "2015-06-12T18:46:10.450", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "8001", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's most likely some kind of \"Fist of Love\" like when Luffy's crew met Garp\nfor the first time. Garp suddenly punch Luffy, and he's not using Haki, base\non [this SBS question](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_62)\n\n> D: In Volume 45 when Garp punched Luffy, why did it work? Was it Haki after\n> all? Or was it \"Love\"? P.N. Mori-san\n>\n> O: It is \"Love\" in this case.\n\n \n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T23:54:24.193", "id": "8009", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-12T18:45:35.963", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "8001", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nHere's another answer, also on\n[SBS](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_43)\n\n> D: Blows shouldn't hurt Luffy, so why does he get bruises and swelling when\n> Nami and the others beat the crap out of him?! Tell me!!! P.N. Zororin Love\n>\n> O: When the crew beats up on each other, it's always in admonishment with a\n> strong sense of purpose, which is why it works so well!! It works on his\n> spirit!! I bet Nami is thinking, \"It's his spirit that hurts deep down!!\"\n> ...right? I guess not.\n\nSo Nami and others didn't punch Luffy physically, but they hurt his spirit,\nand with doing so, his body also get hurts\n\n> right? I guess not.\n\nI think Oda doesn't really want to give any logical answer here\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-27T02:33:52.333", "id": "8297", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-12T18:45:03.850", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "8001", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nIn manga chapter 1058, we can see Nami is using Conqueror Haki while punishing\nLuffy.\n\n>\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AwhBv.png)\n\nI think that Luffy's Devil Fruit is full of imagination. Whatever he imagines,\nhe can do it, because the Sun God Nika DF's ability is the most ridiculous\npower in One Piece.\n\nSo, what I am telling is that if Luffy wants to imagine that Garp and Nami's\nfist hurts, so it hurts Luffy. And in the next panel in chapter 1058, Luffy\nimagines Nami using Conqueror Haki, so that's why she can even use Conqueror\nHaki even though Jimbei mentioned that's a king's Haki.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-06-28T16:14:17.030", "id": "68094", "last_activity_date": "2023-06-28T16:27:02.820", "last_edit_date": "2023-06-28T16:27:02.820", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "72528", "parent_id": "8001", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt was clear that Kirito was keeping his dual-wield ability a complete secret.\nNobody knew about it - not even Asuna. This was evidenced by the fact that\nAsuna questioned Kirito about why he isn't using Liz's sword and suggested\nthat he was \"hiding something\" from her.\n\nSo Kirito hesitated because be knew that using his dual wield in front of\neveryone would blow that secret wide open. But he had no choice. It was do or\ndie.\n\n* * *\n\nGetting back to the question, there is no evidence in the anime to suggest\nthat dual wielding drains HP. But you could infer other drawbacks such as\ntying up both hands thus preventing the use of a shield.\n\n", "comment_count": 6, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T21:16:45.817", "id": "8004", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-12T21:31:09.753", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-12T21:31:09.753", "last_editor_user_id": "17", "owner_user_id": "17", "parent_id": "8002", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\n**In the novel, there is no mention about life stealing or something like\nthat.**\n\nHere is all mentions about the Dual Blade skill\n\n* * *\n\n**During the fight with the 74th floor Boss - The Gleam Eyes**\n\n> With the sword in my right hand, I blocked the demon’s blade as it came down\n> from a flame-like trajectory. Then, I reached behind my back with my left\n> hand and grabbed the handle of the new sword. I drew it and struck in one\n> smooth movement.\n>\n> (...)\n>\n> This time, I crossed my two swords and blocked it completely. As its stance\n> became unbalanced, I decided to break free from my defending streak and\n> launched a combo attack.\n>\n> My right sword slashed horizontally towards the demon’s midsection.\n>\n> My left sword followed immediately to cut vertically into its body.\n>\n> (...)\n>\n> Right, left, then right again. I swung my swords as if the nerves in my\n> brain were going into overdrive.\n>\n> (...)\n>\n> This was the extra skill that I had been hiding, «Dual Blades», and the\n> technique I was using was its **high-class sword skill «Starburst Stream», a\n> sixteen-hit combo attack**.\n>\n> (...)\n>\n> Faster, faster. The rhythm of my swings already exceeded **twice the normal\n> speed** , but it still felt slow to my heightened senses. I continued my\n> attack at a pace that seemed to overtake even the system’s assistance.\n>\n> (...)\n>\n> Most of the ten-plus extra skills that had been found up until now, «Katana»\n> included, had at least ten people who used each of them. The only exceptions\n> were my «Dual Blades» and one other man’s extra skill. These two were most\n> likely limited to only one person, so they should be called «Unique Skill».\n>\n> (...)\n>\n> Since then, I only trained it when there was nobody around. Even after I\n> nearly mastered it, I rarely used it against monsters unless it was an\n> emergency.\n\n**Fight agaist Heathcliff (in the stadium)**\n\n> I twisted my body around right before reaching Heathcliff and swung the\n> sword in my right hand upwards to the left. It was blocked by the cross-\n> shaped shield and sent out a burst of sparks. But my attack was part of a\n> two hit combo. Point one second after the first strike, my left sword slid\n> in behind the shield. It was a **Dual Blades dash-type skill «Double\n> Circular»**.\n>\n> (...)\n>\n> I just managed to guard by crossing my two swords. The powerful impact\n> rattled my entire body and sent me flying back by several meters.\n\n**After defeating the Skull Reaper, the last fight**\n\n> Out of the ten unique skills, **«Dual Blades» is given to the player with\n> the fastest reaction speed** (...)\n>\n> (...)\n>\n> I changed my attack pattern and activated **«The Eclipse», the highest level\n> Dual Blades skill**. Like the tips of an enveloping corona, my swords sent\n> twenty-seven consecutive attacks towards Kayaba—\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-25T11:28:49.110", "id": "8242", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-25T11:28:49.110", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4233", "parent_id": "8002", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn the novel, after Lisbeth made the sword (and before Asuna barged in), she\ndid ask him what he needed it for:\n\n\"Speaking of which— In the beginning, you did say, a sword equal to this one,\ndidn't you. That white one certainly is a good sword, but I don't think\nthere's much difference with that monster dropped one. Why would you need two\nswords resembling each other?\" \"Aah...\" Kirito turned about, staring at me\nwith an expression that showed that he was hesitating over something. \"Well, I\ncan't explain everything. If you won't ask any further than that, I can tell\nyou.\" ....\n\nAnd then he showed his skill to Lisbeth. The anime skips this entirely.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-13T21:16:22.160", "id": "8034", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-13T21:16:22.160", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4109", "parent_id": "8005", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI remember in [Episode 2 -\nConfrontation](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Confrontation), Light and Ryuk\nare in a secluded area where Light explains to Ryuk how he will devise a way\nto prevent others from touching the death note, pouring flammable liquid on a\nbook and lighting it on fire.\n\nThe purpose of the experiment was for creating a trap for the Death Note\nbecause Ryuk warns Light that if Saya were to touch the Death Note when she\ncame in to get help on her homework, she would be able to see him. this blows\nLights original plan to claim to have been taking notes as practice for\nbecoming a detective should someone discover the death note.\n\nLater in the Episode light is explaining to Ryuk back in his room about how he\nhas hidden the Death Note, i can't be for sure what light says but he does say\nthe explosion from his booby trap will \"destroy the evidence\" so he may be\nhinting that the Death Note would be destroyed aswell.\n\nIn the [Rules](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note) it\nmakes references to the Death Note being destroyed, in How to use LXII, it\nsays\n\n> If the victim’s name has been written and then the Death Note is destroyed\n> in the middle of writing the cause of death, the victim will be killed by\n> heart attack in 40 seconds after writing the name.\n\nFinally the second live action film of Death Note \"The Last Name\" however,\nwhen Rem dies from killing Watabi, to prevent Light getting his hands on\nanother Death Note Rem destroys it aswell, however since the live action\nmovies play out differently to the anime i'm not sure how close they are to\nthe canon on how the Death Note works.\n\nWith all of this, it seems like the death note can be destroyed, however i'm\nunsure if How to Use: XXXI is still in effect if a page is ripped out before\nthe note is destroyed, it is after Light creates this booby trap he starts to\nrip out pages and use them instead like when he was being watched\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-03-12T22:03:33.170", "id": "8007", "last_activity_date": "2014-03-13T00:32:34.630", "last_edit_date": "2014-03-13T00:32:34.630", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "8006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nIn ep35 of the anime, it is clearly shown that a paper from the Death Note\nheld by Takada is burned in the flames when she and her body got burned by\nLight actions earlier. and every page of the Death Note is known to have the\npowers of the Death Note. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5BYuw.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-01-19T12:46:55.890", "id": "56530", "last_activity_date": "2020-01-19T23:06:42.993", "last_edit_date": "2020-01-19T23:06:42.993", "last_editor_user_id": "51620", "owner_user_id": "51620", "parent_id": "8006", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]