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[ { "body": "\n\nI highly guess they made that up to convert this scene into a less violent\ntype for the younger-age audience. In the actual manga chapter 5, this was\nwhat it looked like:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZuPo4.jpg)\n\nYou can see that the arm is chopped off but with no flower petals whatsoever\nand judging by the angle, the blood ought to be seen. They probably did not\nwant to reveal that part and instead took it from the side angle by\n\"magically\" making the arm disappear.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-03T05:18:33.457", "id": "8439", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-22T05:54:13.593", "last_edit_date": "2023-10-22T05:54:13.593", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "3364", "parent_id": "8404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nTo merge the censorship and canon together, I think Hisoka used his cards and\nhis super speedy hands to sashimi the guy's arms into petal-shaped flesh\nflakes, and that is why they are red!\n\nFor the fake Hisoka made from smoke that Gon whacks with his fishing pole; I\nsay Hisoka made the shape by using Bungee Gum to hold smoke/steam together and\ncovered it in texture surprise to look like himself.\n\nIf we believe it hard enough, it is true!\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-10-22T05:29:51.530", "id": "68396", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-22T05:54:16.923", "last_edit_date": "2023-10-22T05:54:16.923", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "73734", "parent_id": "8404", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Oniichan has nothing to do with who she is. Oniichan is the honorific used\nwhen addressing an older brother. If you'll see, it's listed as \"favorite big\nbrother\" before referring to him as \"oniichan\".\n\nYou can check out [this\npage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_honorifics) for a full list of\nJapanese honorifics.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-01T12:38:43.613", "id": "8408", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-01T12:38:43.613", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "8406", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe difference emphasizes the extent of her love towards Araragi: she loves\nAraragi as a big brother figure **as much as** she loves Araragi as a man.\n\n> Favorite big brother: Koyomi Oniichan\n\nThis is the love of a sister for her big brother. _Sibling love_.\n\nThe honorific _onii-chan_ shows that she holds Araragi very dear and sees him\nas if he were her real big brother.\n\n> In Love with: Araragi Koyomi\n\nThis is the love of a girl for a boy. _Boy-girl love_.\n\nThe absence of honorific, which is a stark contrast to the previous line,\nshows that she loves Araragi as a member of opposite sex, not just love\nbetween sibling.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-01T15:36:15.560", "id": "8411", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-01T15:36:15.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1398", "parent_id": "8406", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the [One Piece wiki page on\nGorosei](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gorosei), it seems that the names\nhaven't been revealed yet.\n\n> The Gorosei (literally meaning \"Five Elder Stars\") are the heads of the\n> World Government, and as such, they essentially rule the entire world. They\n> are the five men who rule above the Marines, Cipher Pol, and the ones who\n> made a pact with the Shichibukai. **So far, none of their names have been\n> revealed.**\n\nBut there is some other additional information given about their appearances\nand history and that can be read from the [wiki\npage](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Gorosei) as well.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-02T12:45:53.203", "id": "8428", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-02T12:45:53.203", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1604", "parent_id": "8427", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe's from [Hare+Guu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har%C3%A9%2BGuu), or \"The\nJungle Was Always Sunny, Then Came Guu\".\n\n\n\nIt was originally a serialized manga that was then adapted into a 26 episode\nanime TV series as well as several OVAs.\n\nShe's one of the main characters and her name is\n\"[Guu](http://myanimelist.net/character/716/Guu)\".\n\n\n\nHere's some more information about the characters, and specifically, [about\nGuu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Har%C3%A9%2BGuu_characters):\n\n> Guu's stomach is a world filled with buildings, hundred legged cats, and a\n> nice young couple of lovers that have been trapped there for ages (but\n> apparently don't mind their predicament). Other than Haré, no character\n> seems to be aware of Guu's strange nature (or for that matter the bizarre\n> circumstances surrounding everything else in the series). The weird events\n> that occur because of her are only ever acknowledged by Haré. Everyone who\n> is eaten by Guu, only to be spat out later (excluding Haré) dismisses what\n> happened as \"sleeping\" (occasionally, dreaming about Guu's Stomach world).\n> Haré even dismisses his first time in Guu's Stomach but is quickly proved\n> wrong. There are other strange things Guu can do, which defy the laws of\n> physics, logic, and reality, such as (but not limited to) teleport, time\n> travel, warp reality, superhuman strength, elongate her body parts, breathe\n> underwater, cause people to switch bodies, read minds, cause disco music to\n> play suddenly, switch her face (from a cute face to a completely plain\n> face), transform into a giant kaiju monster version of herself, and incite\n> mental breakdowns in Haré, though the latter is more of a talent than an\n> actual power. She apparently has more than one stomach and cares enough\n> about the people and creatures she swallows to keep dangerous things away\n> from the area she keeps her 'guests'. Despite all this, Guu actually cares\n> for some of Hare's personal problems, and often gives him advice with\n> profound sayings- a lot of her powers are used to make Hare learn a lesson.\n> At the end of the manga, Guu leads Hare to her birthplace in a dream (and\n> refuses to let him go further, saying it would be an one-way trip for him),\n> and it's strongly implied that Guu's birthplace is somewhere between life\n> and death, and that she's some kind of physical god. Guu disappears the next\n> morning, releasing the people in her stomach (who turn up in a TV shows\n> about missing people suddenly reappear) and erasing everybody's memories of\n> her, except Hare's. Six years later, Hare spots Guu's smirk on his newborn\n> daughter's face, and realizes she might be a reincarnation of Guu.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-02T13:52:06.183", "id": "8430", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-02T13:52:06.183", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "8429", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is [Cosmos](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Cosmos), who first appears in\nchapter 307 of the manga. She is one of the Garou Knights. The image that you\nhave is a colored image of her from\n[Deviantart](http://seireiart.deviantart.com/art/Fairy-Tail-308-Flower-\nExecutioner-338035257) by SeireiART.\n\nShe has plant magic, which is why the Deviantart picture of her refers to her\nas the Flower Executioner. In chapter 308 she creates a giant flower.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-03T02:04:18.463", "id": "8438", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-03T02:04:18.463", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "93", "parent_id": "8437", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, it isn't their \"soul\" which is reincarnated, it's their _chakra_.\n\nAs for how it splits between the two, it wasn't stated (and I doubt it will).\nMadara's current power is the power of the Sage of Six Paths, not Indra's or\nAshura's alone.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-03T09:49:46.407", "id": "8442", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-03T09:49:46.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "8441", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom what I understand, Indra and Ashura were transmigrated into Madara and\nHashirama respectively during their lifetime. After both Madara and Hashirama\ndied, their souls/chakra started looking for other hosts. We can say so\nbecause of what the Sage said,\n\n> Now that Indra's transmigration is over...\n\n\n\nNow that the new hosts are Sasuke and Naruto respectively, Indra need not be\npresent in Madara (since he has come back to life). Madara had already\nattained the chakra of The Sage of the Six Paths before he died, and since he\nwas brought back to life using the Edo Tensei, he retained the chakra of The\nSage of the Six Paths.\n\n\n\nAlso from the other things that were said in the chapter,\n\n\n\nIt is safe to consider that the souls of Indra and Ashura were not controlling\nthe host, rather used it as a container and helping the host. So we can say\nthat both the souls of the host and Indra/Ashura existed in the same body.\nAfter the death of the host, the soul/chakra of Indra/Ashura moved on to find\nanother host.\n\nNow that Madara is back to life, he has his own soul in him and lacks the soul\nof Indra as that is present within Sasuke.\n\nSo basically, Madara's soul is his own.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-03T10:22:23.763", "id": "8443", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-06T12:06:33.407", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-06T12:06:33.407", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "8441", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\n\nIt says in the anime, that Madara, having stolen the first Hokage's cells, and\ngaining both chakras, he's more like The Sage of Six Paths than the two sons.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-10T10:31:13.070", "id": "38360", "last_activity_date": "2018-10-06T12:06:36.483", "last_edit_date": "2018-10-06T12:06:36.483", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "30238", "parent_id": "8441", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think there are two Juubis, because in the final clash between Ten-\nTails and Kaguya's sons, Hagoromo and Hamura, they managed to defeat the beast\nand sealed it within Hagoromo. However, knowing that his death would unleash\nthe Ten-Tails back into the world where it would continue its rampage and\nreclaim the chakra that humanity now possesses, Hagoromo separated the\nmonster's chakra from its body and used his Creation of All Things ability to\ncreate the nine ,tailed beasts. Hagoromo then used Chibaku Tensei to seal the\nTen-Tails' husk, i.e the moon.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-24T08:33:24.080", "id": "14147", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-25T13:02:24.697", "last_edit_date": "2014-09-25T13:02:24.697", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "8445", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThere isn't a second Juubi.\n\nAfter they defeated the Juubi and Kaguya, Hagoromo sealed the Juubi within\nhimself.\n\nWhen he neared the end of his life, Hagoromo split the Juubi into 9 creatures,\nand sent the empty shell to the moon with Chibaku Tensei.\n\nBased on the fourth databook, Hamura's clan moved to the moon to safeguard the\nJuubi's empty shell (that worked out nicely for them, now did it?)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-25T15:57:29.443", "id": "15292", "last_activity_date": "2014-11-25T15:57:29.443", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "27", "parent_id": "8445", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nKishimoto is just a fan of Japanese culture and mythology. He's used loads of\nreferences, from Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susano'o, to Izanami, Izanagi and\nKotoamatsukami, to the trio of Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru, to the Sword\nof Totsuka and the Mirror of Yata, among many others.\n\nMany other mangaka have inspirations as well, not necessarily from Japanese\nculture, but from various other sources. A good example is One Piece, with\nmany references. An example would be Usopp - taken from the Japanese word for\nlie (uso), Aesop (whose fable about the Boy who cried Wolf is the exact\nsituation he's in when he's first introduced), and Pincocchio, as Usopp has a\nvery long nose, like Pinocchio's, which grows longer whenever he tells a lie.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-04T06:00:47.813", "id": "8462", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-04T06:00:47.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4085", "parent_id": "8449", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on Manga Chapter 744:\n\n\n\nSabo is shown to have eaten the Mera Mera No Mi, and now has the Mera Mera\nlogia-class power that can control fire.\n\nThus until chapter 744, Sabo did not have devil fruit powers.\n\nSince he is a part of the Revolutionary Army that is lead by Monkey D. Dragon,\nwho also happens to have saved Sabo from the evils of Goa Kingdom, so Sabo\ncould have named his attacks based on his training under Monkey D. Dragon.\n\nAs @Sp0t pointed out, Sabo has a strong haki that can be determined by the\ncolor of his body just before the attack that destroyed the arena ring in the\nDressrosa arc.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-09T09:10:23.050", "id": "8563", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T19:31:20.290", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-08T19:31:20.290", "last_editor_user_id": "18404", "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "8450", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nSabo ate the Mera Mera Fruit.\n\nFurthermore, you see his arms darken when he uses his \"dragons\"-style. This\nimplies that his fighting style is based on Haki. We now could guess that he\nuses elements of the fishmen Kumite or something else (I have this \"everything\nhas a core, Rebecca\" clause in mind).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-10T21:45:50.257", "id": "8581", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T13:52:45.927", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-08T13:52:45.927", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "4449", "parent_id": "8450", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe below height chart has been circulating around the internet:\n\n\n\nBut I don't think it's accurate, so I did some rough calculations using a\ndifferent source.\n\nThe circulated chart puts Gamagori at 2.69m or 8\" 8'\n\n[KillLaKill.com](http://www.killlakill.com/character/) have some character\nprofiles on their site of the different characters.\n\nIf we assume Ryuko has the average female Japanese height - 158 cm (5 ft 2\nin), then we could estimate Gamagori's height by resizing the images so that\nthe scale of the characters is more reasonable. I used head size for this, as\nthe differences should be smaller than if we compared other features:\n\n1.58m * 1.66 Ryukos = 2.6228m or 8\"7'. This is quite similar to the above\nimage\n\n\n\nThere are obviously lots of flaws in this calculation. Scaling was based off\nof visual inspection, Ryuko may not be the average female height, not using\nthe standard Nonon unit of measurement, etc. But it does give a certain range\nthat his height may fall in.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-12T18:00:22.993", "id": "9672", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-30T12:04:43.910", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-30T12:04:43.910", "last_editor_user_id": "1530", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "8451", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nWhile I ~~never~~ can't remember see Carla's guild mark, Happy have it behind\nhis back, Picture below is from Galuna Island arc when Gray met Lyon on Curse\nIsland, they (local villager) ask for Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Happy mark to\nprove it if they are Fairy Tail's Mage.\n\n\n\nSo if happy has it, it not weird that Carla also has it. But she usually\nwearing full clothes so maybe it's hidden behind her cloth\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-04T01:39:30.940", "id": "8455", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-04T01:45:50.840", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-04T01:45:50.840", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "8454", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nThey do have the Guild mark as they were also able to see Mavis who said she\ncan only be seen by those who has the emblem.\n\n**The guild mark is on their back.**\n\nHere are the pictures: \n\n\n\nIm not sure about Happy though, because I only googled it, but it says that\nits from episode 11 of the anime.\n\nBut for Carla, I saw it from chapter 378, shown in Wendy's flashback.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-04T01:39:40.913", "id": "8456", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-04T01:39:40.913", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1677", "parent_id": "8454", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe black box is the portion of The World's systems that Harold Hoerwick\ndesigned before his death. CC Corp is, for unstated reasons, unable to ever\nmodify or remove it without messing everything up (I'm being general on\npurpose). Every version of The World is built on this black box in some way.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-13T03:29:31.377", "id": "8630", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-13T03:29:31.377", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4480", "parent_id": "8457", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI'm pretty sure it the spirit of [Yulia\nJue](http://aselia.wikia.com/wiki/Yulia_Jue). It's also her her spirit\nfloating about the world in the opening scene.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-12T19:19:42.033", "id": "20799", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-12T19:19:42.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7861", "parent_id": "8459", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAkatsuki was formed by Yahiko, Konan and Nagato. They originally belonged to\nthe Village Hidden in the Rain (Amegakure), who were war orphans. Their\ncostume consisted of long dark cloaks with a red cloud, a red interior, and a\nchin-high collar. The Red cloud represents the rain of blood that fell in\nAmegakure during the wars and was seen as a symbol of justice by its original\nmembers.\n\n[Source.](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Akatsuki)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-04T09:02:36.590", "id": "8467", "last_activity_date": "2017-04-29T13:26:29.670", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-29T13:26:29.670", "last_editor_user_id": "31773", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "8466", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe Ofunehiki is an emulation of the original Ojoshi-sama sacrifice, in an\nattempt to quell the wrath of the Sea God.\n\nThe people of the Shioshishio and Oshiooshi used to take turns providing for\nthe Ofunehiki, but in recent years (pre-ep1) they stopped doing so because the\ngrowing animosity between the sea and surface people (evident when Hikari\ncalls a meeting and they end bickering).\n\nIn the anime things go out of control because the sea god is very wrathful-\nish. My guess is that when Uroko says the Ofunehiki is useless, it is not\nbecause it held no power, it is because a poorly-executed ofunehiki would do\nno effect on the sea god feelings dissolved in the ocean. (lets assume Uroko\nhad very little faith in Hikari).\n\nThe wooden maidens (more so the living ones) are very desired by the Sea God,\nin an attempt to fill the void left by the departing ojoshi-sama. He would\ngather the fallen wood figurine and guide it to the graveyard with the\ncurrents.\n\nThere are 16 sea villages around Japan (they also do not care to say what\nabout the rest of the world, but there is a lot of sea out there). It is said\nsomewhere near the end of S1 and the beginning of the S2. If they all hold\nOfunehiki or if they have their own version of Uroko-sama is not stated in the\nanime series.\n\nThere is also no reference as to how long Ofunehiki is being held. But you can\nexpect \"for centuries\" as a good measure. The Ojoshi-sama was a real person,\nand the sea people are all her descendants, so we can think of an adam-eve\nkind of timeframe, for her existance to fall into a (almost forgotten) legend.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-12T19:39:33.590", "id": "22393", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-12T19:39:33.590", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2808", "parent_id": "8468", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is still unclear in the anime. As of the time of writing, there are 11\nvolumes of light novel and the anime adaptation has covered up to volume 9\n(titled _to The DarkSky_ ).\n\nFrom [volume 9 chapter 5](http://www.baka-\ntsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Tokyo_Ravens:Volume9_Chapter5) (emphasis\nmine):\n\n> Was it a dream? She wasn't sure. Her fuzzy brain still wasn't working well.\n> The sheets completely covered Natsume, and everything was unclear, so she\n> couldn't make a normal judgment.\n>\n> Natsume softly touched her lips with her fingers. The sensation lingering\n> there was inexplicably fresh, clear, and **real**. Natsume's face reddened\n> and she buried her face in the covers again.\n\nHe is real. The incident did happen but we are not sure where. Resurrection\nwas successful but there may other thing needed to be done for Natsume to live\nin real world.\n\nThe _technical_ success Suzu was talking about is explained more clearly in\n[volume 10 chapter 3](http://www.baka-\ntsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Tokyo_Ravens:Volume10_Chapter3):\n\n> \"Yes. I won't hide it any longer. My name is Tsuchimikado Natsume. I was\n> adopted by the Tsuchimikado main family not long after birth and was raised\n> as the next family head. Tsuchimikado Harutora is my childhood friend.\"\n\n> \"Also...... It's true that I'm a dead person. Last summer, I was resurrected\n> from death. ......No, I was just awakened, and right now I'm still barely\n> maintaining my current state.\"\n\nIn the future, there may be an OVA for the remaining part of LN which may go\ninto detail on it.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-07T05:07:13.527", "id": "13860", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-07T17:33:44.470", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "6345", "parent_id": "8469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nWhat I personally think has happened... Since Harutora has now full control of\nthe raven cape and also knows that Kon has transformed into Hishamaru, and\nwhen she did transform into her, Harutora knew her name. This shows that he\nregained his memories of being Yakou.\n\nAs Yakou was a genius omnyoji and visionary, he was able to create the ritual\nof Taizan Fukun. He was able to reincarnate himself into Harutora, this is\nproven in the premise of the first paragraph. We can then conclude that when\nHarutora was in the white room with Natsume and he said \"I hope to see you\nagain\", in addition to Suzu Saotome's response of the ritual being\n\"technically successful\", we can infer that Natsume will be reincarnated.\nSince Harutora's memories of Yakou developed so have his skills and memories\nof his own Taizan Fukun ritual. Yakou is the only person capable of performing\nthis ritual, and it succeeds. The last season of episode 24 was Harutora and\nhis shikigami's walking away from the ritual after it has succeeded. Harutora\nwill meet Natsume again, her reincarnation that is.\n\n_Just a theory_. I really enjoyed this series and I hope to see a second\nseason, with proof of my assumption.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-09T15:33:08.163", "id": "14976", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-29T13:30:49.887", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-29T13:30:49.887", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "9097", "parent_id": "8469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nWell, it seems like Natsume has been reincarnated, but for some reason,\nHarutora had to leave her behind, right? The obvious answer is, he did\nsomething taboo, forbidden, and there seems to be some unfinished business\nwith the Taizan Fukun ritual, which makes it logical that he make his escape\nso that he could finish what he started.\n\nAlso, it seems logical for Natsume to be left behind like that...I mean if you\nthink about it, Harutora must have sacrificed something bigger than life to\ndabble on something as taboo as resurrecting the dead--which in any other\nanime I've seen--is more seriously labeled as evil magic.\n\nGiven Natsume's character, she wouldn't have allowed Harutora to do something\nlike that--in fact, she had already voiced her objections back when Suzuka\nattempted to use the same ritual. This reason alone puts Harutora in a\nprecarious situation where he must resurrect Natsume against her consent. Her\nobjecting to the process might only complicate things and distract him from\nhis--should we call it romantic or obsessive--goal of prolonging her life or\nresurrecting her completely as a normal human being.\n\nIf I were Harutora, it would be too frightening to face someone you love only\nto tell her that her life depends on certain `uncertainties' including the\nhelp of other-worldly gods, demons, or what-have-you and doing all that for\nwhat reason? For love that is pure and true? I don't think Harutora even has\nthe slightest understanding of what he truly feels for Natsume, though the\nfact that he does feel something profoundly and frighteningly deep is itself\nbeyond doubt...\n\nHaving said that, I'd probably put on my best sneakers and prepare to run, if\nonly to save myself from the embarrassingly disturbing explanations--and\nconfessions--I'd have to make to satisfy Natsume's excruciatingly probing\ncuriosity..\n\nFinally, if Harutora had to sacrifice himself eventually, as that could be the\nonly possibility left to complete the ritual, I'm sure he wouldn't want to do\nit right in front of her. He knew what that felt like, having witnessed\nNatsume's death first-hand, and being the cause of it too. I think he wouldn't\nhesitate to give up everything for her, but just so he didn't have to feel so\nbad about it, he could do that on his own, like some supreme, heroic sacrifice\nthat nobody should interfere with, especially Natsume, who might reject that\noffering--a rejection that to Harutora would be even more tragic because as is\nsurprisingly obvious, he's just that kind of guy who doesn't know when to give\nup. Or maybe it's just the case of stubborn true love?\n\nWhat's clear is that he is unwilling to go on with his own existence without\nNatsume, as is obvious when he touched the missing pentagram on his upper left\ncheek right after the death incident and mourned her loss crying out her name\nrepeatedly--something he was only able to do when he was imprisoned by\nKurahashi/Yashimaru in the Onmyou Agency headquarters.\n\nThe feeling that somebody has to die somewhere down the road towards Natsume's\nfinal resurrection depresses me as this seems ominous from the very start...\nThat Harutora might have to figuratively die to give way to Yakou's complete\nawakening as a means to perfecting the forbidden ritual is a strong\npossibility, then there's the more poignant possibility of Natsume giving up\nher life to free Harutora from the obligation he had set upon himself to\nresurrect her, especially when she realizes eventually the depth of his\nsacrifice... I don't know which way the story might go, but there's bound to\nbe something romantically tragic in the end... and it almost makes me\nreluctant to know how everything might really turn out... huh, talk about 50\nshades of reincarnation, right?\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-25T05:16:48.863", "id": "24337", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-25T05:44:06.187", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-25T05:44:06.187", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "16513", "parent_id": "8469", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to the light novel, Natsume is revived through the ritual but there\nwas a problem - she had to be fused with her dragon, Hokuto, or else she will\ndie. Her current situation is just like Toji (half ogre). The onmoyo agency\ndeclared Harutora as a most wanted criminal & he also acts like one. Harutora\nsuffers from memory conflicts from both his lives. Sometimes it's Harutora\ndominant & he cares about Natsume & others, while most of time its Yakou\ndominant......\n\nI can't wait for season 2.... Hope they release it soon...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-06T04:16:55.983", "id": "28710", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-06T04:32:43.220", "last_edit_date": "2016-01-06T04:32:43.220", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "20257", "parent_id": "8469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nAs of now more has been translated for us since to work with. Because of that\nI had to disagree on Senshin's statement that Harutora had to sacrifice\nsomething to save her.\n\nBecause from what I read and how I understood it the ritual was a success. But\nit was not the exact results they were trying for.\n\nRemember it was pointed out that the name of the ritual is actually the system\nthe ritual is based off of. It was also pointed out that there are many\ndifferent things this system is capable of.\n\nWe also know that Suzuka was forced to study the ritual further to either\nverify what all was known about it or to try and learn more about it. I'm\nleaning more towards the possibility that it was both.\n\nEither way we now know for sure that not everything is known about this\nritual. Soi would say when he revived Natsume he did the same thing the omniyo\nagency did when they performed it. Which means he revived her as a familiar.\nBut she doesn't have a master thus making her a rogue familiar and not a\nliving spirit like it is explained.\n\nNow before anyone says she is one and they say she is in the story let's\nremember a few things. Hokuto was a familiar. Hokuto was used to bind\nNatsume's spirit. Logically that would mean Natsume is now a familiar.\n\nFollowing this vein of thought I have the belief that because she is a\nfamiliar without a master her spirit is unstable and will be until she A. dies\nB.gets a master or C. Harutora finds a way to separate hokuto from Natsume's\nwithout destroying the bond that is keeping her alive.\n\nThat is what I came up with to explain how the ritual could \"kinda work\" when\nNatsume is now alive but having trouble staying stable enough to live.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-05-21T08:09:29.793", "id": "32241", "last_activity_date": "2016-05-21T08:09:29.793", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "24196", "parent_id": "8469", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nI think a hint was shown in the blonde-haired girl's star reading (I forgot\nher name). Being that there are many universes.... What if Harutora had to\nsacrifice his place in the current universe he is in (so he sacrificed his\nplace in the world for Natsume)? So to sum that up, the ritual \"kind of\"\nworked as Natsume has been placed into the universe she left, but Harutora\nsacrificed his position. Also, when she got kissed it was somewhat real? Like,\nbeing Yakou, he managed to travel to her universe for a period of time. When\nyou see him walk off with his familiars he is in another universe. When he\nsays \"I hope to see you again\" I'm guessing he meant \"hope to see you again in\nanother universe,\" like see her other self in another universe.\n\nI have no idea where this popped out from but this is my theory.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-08-28T03:10:01.920", "id": "36046", "last_activity_date": "2016-08-28T06:00:08.010", "last_edit_date": "2016-08-28T06:00:08.010", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "27985", "parent_id": "8469", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nIt's Sabo's Jolly Roger.\n\n> Ace had another tattoo on his upper left bicep that spells \"ASCE\"\n> vertically. The \"S\" crossed out is a tribute to Sabo as that's his jolly\n> roger.\n\n(Source: [_Portgas D. Ace_ on One Piece\nWiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Portgas_D._Ace))\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-04T10:50:53.107", "id": "8471", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-07T05:38:48.730", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-07T05:38:48.730", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4085", "parent_id": "8470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 21 }, { "body": "\n\nThe S is a tribute to Sabo. For a cover, once Oda drew Ace, Sabo, and Luffy in\ntheir late teens, if the ship incident had never happened, and Ace's tattoo\nread ACE.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T22:23:02.357", "id": "8685", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-28T20:30:14.960", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-28T20:30:14.960", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "8470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\n * The \"A\" stands for \"Ace\"\n * The \"S (with a cross over it)\" stands for \"Sabo\"\n * The \"C\" stands for \"Crybaby\" A.K.A Luffy\n * The \"E\" stands for \"Edward Newgate\" A.K.A. \"Whitebeard\"\n\nDressrosa Arc spoiler:\n\n> The reason for the cross over the \"S\" is because \"Sabo\" was thought to be\n> dead by everyone.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-18T02:25:16.287", "id": "29056", "last_activity_date": "2020-05-12T07:11:27.573", "last_edit_date": "2020-05-12T07:11:27.573", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "20512", "parent_id": "8470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAce has the S crossed out because it is a tribute to Sabo.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2016-02-29T18:36:21.230", "id": "30130", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-28T20:30:13.247", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-28T20:30:13.247", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "22388", "parent_id": "8470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI'm answering this because, while the other answers are compelling, I don't\nsee any sources being used here _definitively_ connecting the tattoo with the\nanswer. My answer is basically the same as the others: The crossed out S is a\nreference to Sabo.\n\nAce has a conversation with Thatch that confirms the S is a reference to Sabo.\nFrom the second volume of the light novel _Ace's Story_ , chapter 5, page 155:\n\n> \"By the way, Ace... what's with that joke of a tattoo you've got?\"\n>\n> [...]\n>\n> \"The X through the S is the symbol of my late brother. That's all.\"\n\nThis seems to indicate that there is an X through the S because it is Sabo's\nsymbol, rather than because Sabo died. Though the reason Ace has the symbol is\nbecause Sabo died, as a little homage\n([Rowan](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/30130/19307) and\n[Kenneth's](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/8471/19307) answers showcase\nwhere the symbol is used in a couple of places, and their answers are correct,\nso check them out). This seems to be confirmed on the what-if cover image of\nChapter 596, where Sabo is still alive and Ace does not have the S (as\n[Qiri](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/8685/19307) mentions in their answer,\nand as is mentioned on the wiki). See below:\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FIoT5.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-01-28T20:19:01.770", "id": "66285", "last_activity_date": "2022-01-28T20:30:06.053", "last_edit_date": "2022-01-28T20:30:06.053", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "19307", "parent_id": "8470", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBriefly: _manhwa_ is the Korean reading of the word 漫画, while _manga_ is the\nJapanese reading.1 In their respective languages, both words basically mean\nthe same thing - \"comics\". In English, we use the Korean reading _manhwa_ to\nrefer to Korean comics, and the Japanese reading _manga_ to refer to Japanese\ncomics.\n\nWhy do we have different words for these things? **Because manhwa and manga\nare _not_ the same thing.**\n\n* * *\n\nTo explain what I mean, let me backtrack a bit and talk about why we don't\njust call manga \"comics\". I know that these days there's something of a\nbacklash against the idea that \"manga\" is a distinct thing from \"comics\",\npresumably a reaction against '90s-era weeabooism and orientalism that\nidentifies Japanese art as some sort of elevated form that is beyond\ncomparison with the art of the West.\n\nThere is a kernel of truth in this backlash, but it's been taken too far.\nReasonable people today will probably agree that there isn't anything about\nmanga that makes them inherently _superior_ to Western comics - but it is\ncertainly the case that manga and Western comics are _different_. In fact,\naside from being of the same medium, manga and Western comics (for the most\npart) have essentially nothing in common! Art styles, typical plots / subject\nmatter, character archetypes, form factors, publication methodologies, etc.\nall differ between manga and Western comics.\n\nNow, manhwa and manga are more closely related than manga and Western comics,\nbut the same principle still applies - there are salient differences between\nthe two forms, which is why we often talk about them using two different\nwords. Foremost among the differences is the fact that they're largely written\nby two different groups of people, and thus tend to reflect the interests of\ntwo different cultures. (Try telling a Korean person that their culture is\nbasically Japanese, or vice versa - they probably won't be happy!)\n\nIn closing, I will reply to this claim of yours:\n\n> In the end they are both comics with usually (bit Dependant on the\n> artist/writer off course) same art/story building and the likes.\n\nThere's more to art than just medium. Medium matters, but so does content, and\nit would be a gross oversimplification to claim that content of manga and\nmanhwa are essentially the same.\n\n* * *\n\n### Notes\n\n1 More or less, anyway, modulo issues of character simplification.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-04T22:13:05.643", "id": "8485", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-04T22:13:05.643", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "8475", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nAs [senshin's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/8485/2516) said:\nthough the medium might be the same, many things like processes, styles, story\nwriting, country, etc. are different.\n\n**Conveying different art/writing styles**\n\nIn my opinion, it's not even just a matter of X artwork/writer coming from Y\ncountry, but about how to convey the styles when introducing it to different\npeople that may/may not know the works. It is because calling all of them\n\"comics\" would cause half the people to only get a vague idea about it if they\ndon't know the style & name of the works called in English & not\nJapanese/Korean even if they accept that all works can be called \"comics\" in\nEnglish, just like comics are called \"manhwa\", etc. in their language.\n\nBut if you use the word \"manga\"/\"manhwa\"/\"manhua\", people are more likely to\nbe instantly conveyed of what style it is. So, the precision of words can give\neither instant recognition or confusion. So, not calling everything (manga,\nmanhwa, manhua, chitra katha (Indian comics), webcomics/webtoons (webcomics on\nLine webtoons/other apps)) as \"comics\" may reduce some confusion.\n\n**Confusion due to generalization of comics**\n\nHalf people are going to be confused as to what people are talking about.\n\n**Personal experience** : I know a person who I had to handle really carefully\nbecause they thought I was talking about Marvel/DC (because they thought\nwebcomics = American comics (DC/Marvel) whose art styles they disliked.\n\n_Generalization process_ : In America, those styles were more popular because\na lot of people preferred a ratio of more action & less depth/psychological\nemotions back then, compared to mangas/manhwas. So, the same was more\npopularized & distributed around the world too, sadly generalizing its format.\n\nIt took me a good amount of explaining & showing the photos carefully to make\nthem understand that no, it might be the comics as a medium, but comics as\nAmerican comics & manhuwas/manhwas are very different things. So, they don't\nget totally averse to checking it out.\n\nWhile even if they didn't know what manhwas were, they wouldn't have\nautomatically presumed I was talking about comics & might have shown a bit of\ncuriosity as long as I didn't use the word comics.\n\n**Difference in contexts & perspectives**\n\nSo, we need to understand that the same word might mean something totally\ndifferent according to context & person's social conditioning.\n\n**Alternatives**\n\nThe other alternative is to call them \"American comics\", \"Korean comics\",\n\"Japanese comics\", \"Indian comics\", etc. But that's long & it's ok if you want\nto introduce it to different people that don't know the words\nmanhuas/manhwas/mangas. Otherwise, just using their original countries' names\nis easier even if you speak English.\n\n_Global bending in of writers_. Works' names are not about the writer's origin\nanymore as writers ―regardless of the country― make works of each other\ncountry's style, e.g. Japanese writers may make manhwa-style webtoons &\nAmerican writers may make Korean-style webtoons & vice versa.\n\nWe can convey hybrid blend styles by just saying it's a mix of manhwa & manhua\n(e.g. _The God of High School_ has a manhwa style artwork & anime/manga style\nwriting). That too doesn't need to be stated as much unless the work is too\ndifferent.\n\n_What each main/subcategory term instantly signifies_. Anyway, just know that\nwhen people say:\n\n * **Comics** , they think of DC/Marvel (with exception of webcomics/webtoon readers).\n * **Manga** reminds them of greyscale Japanese mangas.\n * **Manhwas** reminds them of older physical Korean manhwas (if speaking to Koreans) + webtoons/webcomics (for people that read them).\n * **Manhuas** reminds people of ancient Chinese historical kinds of webtoons/webcomics (literally historical Chinese drama turned into comics).\n * **Graphic novels** which are a bit different from comics as well.\n * **Light novels** in Japan are different from just novels in the west.\n\n_Other causes of fuss: misnaming_. Many make a fuss because that's what\nthey're used to hearing & acknowledging it as. So, it feels like misnaming\nsomething important they like/generalizing something unique.\n\n_Imagine human misnaming that feels similar_ : like when people are annoyed a\nbit when someone calls your name differently & that name is similar to someone\nelse's name once, then super annoyed when they keep hearing it as if that's\nyour real name.\n\nIt feels like misidentification/attack on your identity when another person\nhas no such intentions (usually unless someone's doing it deliberately for\nteasing purposes).\n\n_Generalized/over-simplified presumptions made about a work based on types of\nworks_. Imagine this conversation:\n\nA: Hey, wanna read manhwas/webtoons? \nB: (doesn't know what it is via experience/imagery so they presume) Oh, it's\njust comics, right? So, nah.\n\nIt hurts to hear that because American comics & mangas/hwas/huas may offer 4\ncompletely different experiences. For many, manga/manhwas have been life-\nchanging experiences. So, it hurts them to see people presume it's something\nthey know & not a big deal without giving it a chance, even if it's nothing\npersonal.\n\nE.g. people thinking some shounen anime is just superhero cartoons & if\nthey've already watched too many superhero movies/works, etc. they're tired of\nthat genre & ignoring it. When genre-wise they might be similar, _Bleach_ /\n_Naruto_ / _One Piece_ / _My Hero Academia_ are different from _Superman_ /\n_Batman_ / _Spiderman_ / _Green Arrow_. Some may like one more than the other,\nbut they can be substituted easily, though maybe some prefer _My Hero\nAcademia_ that's closest to superhero works.\n\n_Comparison of superiority (sometimes unfair), another reason for fuss_.\nBecause though now American comics are online webtoons too & offer a lot more\nthan just DC/Marvel like comics, sadly they aren't as popular.\n\nAs many like/prefer/consider manhwa/manga styles better & though sometimes\nit's true that manga/hwa/huas have better art style & diverse writing, it's\nnot always the case, and though unlike some people, I didn't look down\non/totally dislike American comics.\n\nI used to wonder if American comics only have generic superhero stuff in it\nwith similar storylines & I wished for something different in art\nstyles/storylines. Though I knew that maybe there's a minority of different\nworks that, I don't know. That is until I read some chapters of many\nunderrated comics like _Sithrah_ / _Space Boy_ , _The Strange Tales of Oscar\nZahn_ , _Brothers Bond_ , etc. on Line Webtoon. They may still have that\noriginal American messy, edgy styles which do suit them & make them unique\neven if I still like manga/hwa/hua styles better.\n\n_Diverse context-wise reasonings_. The point is, without context & asking the\nperson's reasoning for their beliefs/unless we know which of circumstances\nthey fit in, we can't fully presume just one reason as to know why they make a\nfuss about it. We can only guess a bit according to the circumstances I gave\n(whichever fits them better) & then ask their reasons.\n\n_Online aggresion_. Some people getting excessively hyper about it & getting\ntoo aggressive about it isn't ok.\n\n_Middle ground/nuances_ : because I'm stating the reasons, both sides\nunderstand each other's reasons & both change their approaches/find a middle\nground than insisting that they're right. People that want to call\nsubcategories by names have practical reasons apart from just\nmisnaming/respect/habit though. So, I personally prefer mentioning\nsubcategories. But it doesn't mean I'm going to be as fuming as some people if\nsomeone missed it. Just that it'd cause me to type extra sentences & ask them\nwhat kind of work they're talking about & it can be a confusing conversation\nif someone calls every subcategory \"comic\"/\"manga\" due to misnaming. I hope\nthat people that get extremely angry when it's misnamed can understand why\nother people say it too so they can strike a communication & explain why\nproper naming may reduce confusion.\n\n_Manga/anime are generalized too_ : yes, some people have a habit of calling\neverything \"picture story\"/\"animation related\" a \"manga\"/\"anime\" because\nsimilar to comics, that's a generalized word & because they don't know another\nword for it. And when they're introduced, they aren't habitual to it enough,\nso they forget.\n\ne.g. animation style of/in:\n\n * America = cartoon\n * Japan = anime\n * Korea = aeini\n * China = donghua\n\nBut since only anime is worldwide popular today, succeeding cartoons people\nuse the word \"anime\" for aeini/donghuas too (which aren't as different as\ncartoon & anime)\n\nHope I covered some other points other than which senshin made.\n\n* * *\n\n_Similar example of cartoon & anime_\n\n**_Avatar the Last Airbender_ debate**\n\nE.g. How there was a lot of debate over if _Avatar the Last Airbender_ is a\ncartoon or an anime when it's a mix of both style-wise, like a cartoon-anime\nhybrid, but there is no word for the blend, hence the confusion.\n\n_Word for anime & cartoon hybrid blends_. I too was confused about what to\ncall it, cartoonime/animetoon/carnime... none, except \"animetoon\" came\nnaturally because maybe I've heard that word before somewhere. But calling it\na blend/hybrid of both suffices to explain what it is too. But most people\nlean towards anime due to its style being so similar to anime. And I try to\nadd that it's a blend when I can so I don't discredit the cartoon side.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2023-03-24T13:48:19.733", "id": "67843", "last_activity_date": "2023-03-24T14:59:27.107", "last_edit_date": "2023-03-24T14:59:27.107", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "71667", "parent_id": "8475", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt is not that Kūgo Ginjō got kicked out. He left on his own accord after\nfeeling betrayed by the shinigami.\n\n> Some time ago, Kūgo became the first Substitute Shinigami and in recognition\n> of that was given a Substitute Shinigami badge by Captain Jūshirō Ukitake.\n> How he gained Shinigami powers is unknown, but according to Captain Suì-\n> Fēng, he murdered many Shinigami in order to steal their power. At some\n> point, Kūgo found out that his badge was a surveillance device used by Soul\n> Society to observe him and limit his power. After that discovery, **Kūgo\n> thought he had been betrayed and disappeared without a trace.** \\- [Bleach\n> wiki](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/K%C5%ABgo_Ginj%C5%8D)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-05T03:06:59.917", "id": "8487", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-05T03:06:59.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8478", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, so far Ichigo is the only one that has a **full-transform** Bankai. With\nthe [list of currently known achieved\nBankai](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Zanpakut%C5%8D#Bankai) we can conclude\nthat there are no other **Bankai** that include a full transformation.\n\nWe do know there are some that partially transform such as [Daiguren\nHyōrinmaru](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Daiguren_Hy%C5%8Drinmaru#Zanpakut.C5.8D),\nwhich causes wings and a tail to sprout. And so there are a few more Bankai\nthat either overlap quite a piece of body or add parts such as with Daiguren\nHyōrinmaru.\n\nThere is yet another known full body transformation. But it is not directly a\nBankai, and it would be the\n[Resurrección](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Resurrecci%C3%B3n).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-05T03:18:06.310", "id": "8488", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-09T13:52:21.500", "last_edit_date": "2016-04-09T13:52:21.500", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8479", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI found [Sode no Shirayuki (袖白雪) / Hakka no Togame\n(白霞罸)](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Hakka_no_Togame#Zanpakut.C5.8D) to be\nworthy of being called a full-transformation Bankai.\n\nDepending on argumentation, you could also classify the newly revealed Bankai\nof Zaraki Kenpachi as a full-transformation Bankai. Even though the specifics\nare unclear as of now, the artwork suggests it has a similar mechanism like\nIchigo's and Rukia's Bankais.\n\nAdditionally, there are a few that partly transform the user, as mentioned in\n[Dimitri's answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/8488/1751).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-05T11:08:22.290", "id": "8492", "last_activity_date": "2016-04-09T13:48:24.507", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1751", "parent_id": "8479", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHe wants to destroy the village that put his beloved brother in the position\nto choose between his family and his village.\n\nSasuke can legitimately be thinking that if given a command to kill all of\nyour relatives, the people who gave that command are evil and should be\ndestroyed.\n\nDon't forget that when it comes to family, very strong feelings can easily be\naffecting Sasuke.\n\nReally, Itachi choosing the village over his family was the abnormal decision.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-05T08:13:21.627", "id": "8490", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-16T16:54:51.057", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-16T16:54:51.057", "last_editor_user_id": "6218", "owner_user_id": "1649", "parent_id": "8481", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nBoth times, it was revenge.\n\nInitially, he wanted to avenge his clan's murder from his brother Itachi and\nlater, on knowing that the attack was ordered by the Leaf Village elders and,\nin order to protect Sasuke, Itachi had to kill the entire clan by his own\nhands, his revenge spirit was against the entire Leaf village as a whole.\n\nIn the manga, the Second Hokage has mentioned that the Uchihas love their\nfamily more than any other any ninja. In fact their Sharingan evolves when\nthey fight for their loved ones and also have this tendency to go evil and on\nan irrational blood feud when their loved ones are harmed or killed. The same\nhappened with Madara Uchiha when his brother was killed.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-06T04:33:54.643", "id": "8512", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-06T04:33:54.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1876", "parent_id": "8481", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nsasuke undersand that danzo force itachi to kill his clan becase there is no\none is stronger itachi so the use him say wepone and kill whole uchiha clan\nbut he could kill his own brother and sasuke hate him before he dnot know\nturth but toib told him all turth he lies so that why he tries to destroy leaf\nbut itachi told him and now try toprotect leaf\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-10T09:00:20.123", "id": "30386", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-10T09:00:20.123", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22600", "parent_id": "8481", "post_type": "answer", "score": -4 }, { "body": "\n\nIts Revenge for his family and his Clan. & He call him self avenger for same.\n\nHe chose to leave village and become student of Orochimaru because he wanted\nto become stronger than his brother and then Kill him(Itachi). & In order to\nKill Itachi he have to be powerful enough so he joined Orochimaru to gain\npower and learn new jutsu. So he can take revenge to Itachi.\n\nWhen Tobi(Obito) tell him false tale of How leaf village commanded Itachi to\nmurder whole Uchiha clan which turn Sasuke's feeling to avenge Whole Village\nfor forcing his Brother to do this cruel act. & decided to destroy leaf\nvillage.\n\nI think these two things make Sasuke Evil because first he was wanted to\nrevenge his brother for sake of his Clan & Family in any cost. & then Secound\nwhen he come to know about Itachi's sacrifice of whole Clan & family for sake\nof Village.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-03-10T11:58:14.750", "id": "30389", "last_activity_date": "2016-03-10T11:58:14.750", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "22157", "parent_id": "8481", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nFrom the first show Naruto in season 1, episode 29, the snake that bit sasuke\nin the neck made a mark of evil, soon he was gonna release or seal the snake\npower.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-10T12:41:48.407", "id": "36761", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-10T12:41:48.407", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28649", "parent_id": "8481", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nSasuke wanted to get revenge on itachi and restore his clan and family,in\norder to gain new Justu, he had to leave the village and team 7.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-10-10T12:46:29.317", "id": "36762", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-10T12:46:29.317", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "28649", "parent_id": "8481", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNnoitra's zanpakuto, Santa Maria, is unique in regards to what type of weapon\nit is.\n\nUnreleased, it resembles an axe with two crescents or a halberd, with it's\nedges rotated by 90 degrees.\n\n\n\nBut due to the placement of the blade edges, it resembles a scythe more so\nthan an axe.\n\nWhen released, it resembles a scythe:\n\n\n\nBut note that when he was the 8th-ranked Espada, his weapon resembled a staff\nwith a giant crescent:\n\n\n\nNote that it does a similar motif to the Chinese [monk's\nspade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_spade) (aka Crescent Moon Spade)\nweapon that's like a halberd.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-04T21:43:16.843", "id": "8484", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-04T21:48:18.790", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-04T21:48:18.790", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "8483", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think most Publishers dont, since most anime are aired for 3 months and\ncontain a timespan of way more Tome(like in most School Anime they contain a\nwhole school Year), but I think there are trends of Genres over the seasons,\nfor example, most 'Harem' Anime are started in winter/spring and most sport\nanime are aired in summer.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-12-20T21:02:25.440", "id": "37972", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-20T21:02:25.440", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "29865", "parent_id": "8497", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, producers do time their productions but for a variety of reasons.\n\nFirst of all, anime are released quarterly. This means you have a seasonal\nrelease beginning with winter in January, spring in April, and fall in\nOctober.\n\nTo resume it, I would say that usually the biggest blockbusters are released\neither in summer or fall, since after a big investment, producers would need\nto sell a lot or get big audiences, which is accomplished by releasing the\nmaterial during vacations when there would be more people available to consume\nthe product, as it's usually everywhere. However, this rule is not set in\nstone and there are many other factors that influence when exactly producers\ndecide to broadcast an anime or to release a light novel or a manga.\n\nRight off the bat, if a certain anime season takes place within a specific\nseason, then the producers will time the release of the production to the\nseason in question. For example, the second season of _Suzumiya Haruhi_ begins\nwith a summer festival episode about Tanabata. The next 8 episodes called\nEndless Eight are all about the main character being trapped in an endless\nsummer. The first episode of Endless Eight was broadcasted on June 19 all the\nway through August. Since the plot of the episodes revolves around the\nprotagonist being caught in a time loop because he hasn't done his summer\nvacation homework, the 8 endless summer episodes were broadcasted during the 8\nweeks of summer vacation.\n\nOn the other hand, an anime like _Yuri on Ice_ began broadcasting in the fall\nso that the climax of the season would be around Christmas which seems like\nsomething logical for an ice skating show.\n\nMany anime about high school will begin with the school term, that is in April\nwith spring since this is also the beginning of the Japanese school term.\nAlmost all high school animes are about club activities (like _Suzumiya\nHaruhi_ ). In this way, the first episode of spring coincides with the\nbeginning of school terms for kids in Japan when they will also, most\nprobably, join a sport or cultural club. Examples of this are _Hyoka_\n(Classics Club) or _Euphonium_ (Band). Spring anime is thus slanted toward SOL\nanime or school anime. This gives it in my opinion a more comfy vibe since you\nget more comedies.\n\nLikewise, sports anime will be broadcasted in the season when they are played.\nBaseball shows will tend to begin in spring or summer. But if you have a very\nlong story arc like in _Major_ , the show might begin in the fall, so the last\nepisodes are broadcasted around April when you will have the big tournament.\nIt makes sense to want to match your \"Koshien\" episode with the real Koshien.\n\nSince an anime, like a school anime, can span more than one year, the\nproducers will usually use either the first or last episode to time the\nrelease. Also, it depends on the motives. Beginning a show in spring is\nusually adequate to introduce new stories and new characters. Whereas\nbeginning broadcast in the fall means that the last episode will be\nbroadcasted during the end of the year, which is a good time to wrap up or\nfinish a story.\n\nSo if an anime covers a long time span but the last episode is set in\nChristmas or new year, it's very likely that for this reason alone it will be\nbroadcasted in fall, rather than spring or summer when you would expect bigger\naudiences, since you can still make use of the end of the year holiday.\n\nSo in conclusion, there are an infinite number of reasons why producers decide\nto release their content in any given season. This doesn't mean that there are\nfixed rules as to when an anime of a certain genre has to be released. In\nreality, it depends mostly on the story. However, you can see that animators\nare really careful to try to time their releases at the best possible time, so\nas to cause the best possible impression with the audience and thus drive\nhigher sales.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2022-12-23T04:02:16.247", "id": "67570", "last_activity_date": "2022-12-23T06:04:00.610", "last_edit_date": "2022-12-23T06:04:00.610", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "70911", "parent_id": "8497", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI heard a theory that Annie, Riener, and Bertoldt were trying to free the\nTitan Shifters inside Wall Maria, possibly other shifters from their homeland.\nAlso this would explain how surprised Riener was when Eren flipped out and\nattacked them when it was revealed they were also Titans, and thought it'd be\nokay for Eren to come with them. They may have known what the government\nwanted to do with a Titan Shifter's power. For example, switching Eren's\ncoordinate power to another Titan. So, they were saving the shifters from the\npeople.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-23T15:01:19.303", "id": "11425", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-23T18:43:32.647", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-23T18:43:32.647", "last_editor_user_id": "61", "owner_user_id": "6347", "parent_id": "8499", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAll of us know who are the titan shifters, which are Eren, Reiner, Bertoldt,\nAnnie, and Ymir. We already know what is Eren movtiation is saving humanity,\nhave a taste of the outside world and having his revenge on th titans after\nwhat happen to his mother. Annie her movtiation was getting Eren and take him\nback to Reiner and Bertoldt. Reiner and Berholdt are emotionally and\nphysically damage because they saw their friend get eaten. If Reiner and\nBertoldt wanted to free the people they shouldn't break the walls because 20%\npercent of the population died in Wall Maria it has to be something else. I\nwas doing research it said they destory the walls to get Eren but they failed\nmany times because it said that Eren is the coordinater but I don't know their\ntrue motivation on destoring the walls. Also they want to know what is in the\nbasment that Eren's dad was hiding. I dont spoil this for the fans of Attack\non Titan because I am a fan too. I hope this help a little.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-29T06:56:40.143", "id": "17148", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-29T06:56:40.143", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "10902", "parent_id": "8499", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nSince there isn't much revealed in the manga, this answer is going to be a\nspeculative one.\n\nIt's known that the royal family has been trying to wipe out the titans. They\nprepare someone to become the \"Carrier\" of the **Coordinate** , but each time\na new titan gets the power, they accede to the demands of the 1st king, that\nis to allow the titans to dominate human, i.e. Titan rule.\n\nThe primary motive of the Titan Shifters is to recover the Coordinate, unknown\nto the fact that only someone from the royal family can use it's powers\noptimally.\n\nThis leads me to think that\n\n * The ape titan, is somehow related to the royal family and wants to fulfill the 1st king's wish.\n * Or, he just wants to convert all humans to titans, thus creating an only titan nation and annihilating humanity.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2016-01-08T13:40:31.643", "id": "28777", "last_activity_date": "2016-01-08T13:40:31.643", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "19592", "parent_id": "8499", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nI thought I would update this question with information leading up to, and\nincluding, Chapter 94 of the Attack on Titan manga. I realize that these\nquestions are broad, and the answer will be long, but it’s worth having it all\nin a single place.\n\n**_Warning, severe spoilers take place in the answer below. I have done my\nbest to indicate where the spoilers come from, but read at your own risk._**\n\nI will address the questions in this format so that you can skip ahead if you\nneed to:\n\n * Why are the titan shifters trying to destroy humanity? \n * What are Ymir's, Annie's, Bertholdt's, Reiner's and Eren's backstories and motives?\n\nFirst, it is super important to talk about the regions involved in this\nconflict. From Chapter 93, page 6, we see a geographic representation of the\nworld at this time:\n\n> A great deal of the story up until Chapter 86 had occurred on the Island of\n> Paradis, within the three concentric walls - Maria, Rose, and Sina - all\n> located in the region circled in red. Then, in Volume 21, Chapter 86, page\n> 163, we are visually made aware of the mainland which is the landmass\n> referenced by the blue arrow. This landmass belongs to the Marleyan\n> government. Finally, in Chapter 93, we are made of aware of another\n> presence, the region now known as the Mid-East Allies which is indicated in\n> pink. There are other regions that we can see from this map, but they have\n> not been discussed so far in the manga. Keep all of this in mind as we move\n> forward because the political events get a little messy.[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jqzT5.jpg)\n\nNow, let’s talk about the historical conflict between the regions specified\nabove, specifically the blue and red regions. Each side has their own\nperspective, and we see some truth in both. We’ll start with the Marleyan\nperspective, because that’s what we’re presented with in Volume 21, Chapter\n86, Pages 160-162 when Grisha’s father is having a conversation with Grisha\nabout the history of the conflict between Marley and Eldia. In this Marleyan\nperspective we discover that\n\n> 1,820 years ago, the Eldians' ancestor Ymir Fritz made a contract with the\n> earth devil in exchange for the power of the titans. When Ymir died, her\n> soul was split nine ways into nine separate titans. Using the power of the\n> titans, Eldia conquered the nation of Marley, and started a phase described\n> by the Marleyan government as an ethnic cleansing that lasted 1,700 years.\n> But, the previously conquered nation of Marley was able to bring 7 of the 9\n> titans under their control, thus leading them to victory in the Great Titan\n> War against Eldia. King Fritz escaped to the Island of Paradis, built the\n> three walls - Maria, Rose, and Sina - and took refuge there with some of his\n> people. Unfortunately, not all Eldians escaped with King Fritz and some were\n> left behind; they lived in the internment zone for Eldians on the mainland.\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gPyso.jpg)\n\nIn Chapter 87, page 10, and also later in Chapter 89, our understanding of the\nIsland of Paradis is shattered when we discover that it is\n\n> a penal colony implemented by the Marleyans. In fact, the mindless titans\n> are created at the border of the Island of Paradis by the Marleyan\n> government through injecting the titan serum into the neck of Marleyan\n> traitors (Eldians from the internment zone). This is done not only to punish\n> the traitors by sentencing them to a life as a mindless titan but to keep\n> the remaining Eldians trapped within their three concentric walls, using the\n> newly created mindless titans as a source of cheap military labor that keeps\n> the Eldians caged in. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/grOYQ.jpg)\n\nIn Chapter 87, pages 38-40, we see a deep-rooted cultural divide emerge during\na conversation between Grisha and high-level Marleyan soldier when the soldier\n\n> Confirms a biological difference between the Marleys and the Eldians. That\n> is to say, only the Eldians, or the subjects of Ymir, are capable of turning\n> into titans. It is through this conversation that we learn that the\n> Marleyans protect themselves proactively by segregating and oppressing the\n> Eldians. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8uq2v.jpg)\n\nIn Chapter 87, pages 38-40, we also see that the original portrayal of\nhistorical events was not accurate when Grisha states\n\n> the original titan, Ymir Fritz, had implemented the titans to cultivate\n> land, establish roads, construct bridges, etc. for the benefit of humanity.\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/qOclD.jpg)\n\nOf course, we eventually see this is also not an accurate historical\nrepresentation of the creation of the titans, and the events that occurred\nafterwards. In Chapter 89, pages 28-31, the OWL tells Grisha that\n\n> that the Eldians were at fault as well in the historical conflict. They used\n> the mindless titans as a means of warfare and not simply for the benefit of\n> humanity. The OWL confirms the many theories of the Eldian/Marleyan history\n> and conflict, but in the end, the only amount of truth is in their reality.\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hTWcm.jpg)\n\nNow that we’ve covered our historical conflicts, and the players involved in\nthe current conflict, the only thing left to discuss on the first question is\nthe current conflict. The reason some of the titan-shifters are “trying to\ndestroy humanity” is because\n\n> The Marleyans require resources in the form of titan power (Chapter 92, Page\n> 47) and fossil fuels found on the Island of Paradis, home of the Eldians.\n> The first attempt to re-take Island Paradis was for natural resources, and\n> the second attempt to re-take Island Paradis will be because the Marleyans\n> almost lost in battle to the Mid-East allies and they need a show of force\n> in the form of reunification of all titans under the Marleyan banner.\n> However, because the Marleyans deployed so many mindless titans as a means\n> of originally securing the penal colony (Island of Paradis) they now have to\n> deal with those mindless titans before they can secure the needed resources\n> and titan power. And, the only way to do that is to find the founding titan,\n> so that they have a viable means of controlling the mindless titans. Thus,\n> they sent their arsenal of titan-shifters into the penal colony in an effort\n> to secure the founding titan and the co-ordinate.\n\nOkay, so we’ve got all that background story out of the way, let’s talk about\nthe titan-shifters and their backstories, allegiances, and motives. Some will\nbe shorter than others and this is because there’s very little remarkable\ninformation about their backstory, motives, and allegiances.\n\nFirst, let's talk a little about Ymir. Although her origin story was fleshed\nout previously, I will reference Chapter 89 because it presents her backstory\nin chronological order which is most helpful for us to keep things simple. In\nChapter 89, pages 8-18, we discover that\n\n> Ymir was once an Eldian beggar child who lived on the mainland under Marley\n> rule. She was adopted by cultists, proclaiming that she was Ymir Fritz, and\n> she was worshipped in secret by this cult for quite some time. She went\n> along with this role for the cultists in an effort to please them.\n> Eventually, however, the Marleyan government caught on to the cult, which\n> was performing illegal activities in the worship of Ymir Fritz, and Ymir\n> took on their punishment for them. She was sent to the Island of Paradis,\n> sat along the edge of the wall, injected with the titan serum, and thrown\n> down into titan territory to suffer her punishment as a mindless titan.\n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pbss6.jpg)\n\nIn Volume 12, Chapter 47, Page 18, it is revealed that\n\n> Ymir had spent 60 years as a mindless titan after she had been injected with\n> the titan serum. It was revealed prior to this chapter, and later confirmed\n> in subsequent chapters that after some time, she hibernated under brush and\n> dirt until, in the year 845, Marcel Galliard, Reiner Braun, and Bertholdt\n> Hoover were on their way to infiltrate Wall Maria and they happened to cross\n> paths with Ymir. She sprung out at Reiner, and Marcel pushed Reiner out of\n> the way in an effort to save him, but was eaten by Ymir in her mindless\n> titan form. Marcel, the Jaws titan-shifter, thus passed on his abilities to\n> Ymir and she became the Jaws titan-shifter. However, she did not join forces\n> with Reiner and Bertholdt. Instead, she re-joined civilization where she met\n> Krista (Historia Reiss) whom she became romantically interested in, and\n> remained by her side until later events. In the Survey Corps battle to get\n> Eren back from Reiner, Ymir chose to let Krista go back to the Survey Corps\n> and parted with Krista to save Reiner and Bertholdt. We don’t see her again\n> in the story until much later. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/45AIR.jpg)\n\nWarning, severe spoiler ahead. In Chapter 93, page 97, our worst fears are\nconfirmed when\n\n> Porco Galliard, the brother of Marcel - the titan-shifter Ymir had consumed\n> - stated that he had not yet been able to see his brother’s memories but was\n> able to learn a lot about Ymir after he had consumed her, even going as far\n> as insulting her. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dMDUF.jpg)\n\nUp until this point, it is apparent that Ymir’s allegiance is to\n\n> Krista all the way until death. Although Ymir was an Eldian, she did not\n> side with either the Eldians or the Marleyans.\n\nNext, let’s talk about the Female Titan who is\n\n> Annie Leonheart. Annie is an Eldian and was raised in the Eldian internment\n> zone on the mainland occupied by the Marleyan government. She enlisted in\n> training and demonstrated great fighting skills and was selected by the\n> Marleyan government to receive the power of the Female titan. She was part\n> of the operation in 845 to infiltrate Wall Maria with Reiner, Marcel, and\n> Bertholdt and they were all her comrades from training. When she\n> successfully infiltrated Wall Maria, she joined the 104th Training Corps.\n> Her allegiance is to the Marleyan government but with the help of the Attack\n> Titan, she was captured by the Eldians on the Island of Paradis and we\n> haven’t heard anything solid about her since.\n\nThat brings us to the Colossus Titan who is\n\n> Bertholdt Hoover. Not a lot of backstory for him. He grew up in the Eldian\n> internment zone in Marley. He enlisted in the training program to be\n> selected for a titan power and received the power of the Colossus Titan. Up\n> until his death, his allegiance was to the Marleyan government.\n\nNext up is the Armored Titan who as of Chapter 94 is\n\n> Reiner Braun, an Eldian raised in the internment zone within the nation of\n> Marley. Reiner, like Annie, Marcel, and Bertholdt, trained to be selected\n> for a titan power and he was selected to receive the Armored Titan. The\n> Marleyan government sent Reiner to infiltrate Wall Maria in 845. However,\n> after remaining undercover in the 104th Training Corps, he displayed some\n> residual psychological effects that caused him to forget he was working for\n> the Marleyan government and he had to be reminded on a few occasions, by\n> Bertholdt Hoover, of the true nature of his mission.\n\nWe see some insight on Reiner’s humanity in Chapter 93, page 37 when\n\n> After losing Marcel in 845, and being prevented by Zeke from saving Annie\n> from the Eldians on the Island of Paradis, and incapable of saving Bertholdt\n> when he was consumed by another mindless titan (the next Colossus Titan), we\n> see that Reiner suffers from grief and the loss of his friends when he\n> pictures them as he’s talking to a group of younger recruits. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MdfuI.jpg)\n\nThis sets the stage for a different Reiner, and influences his actions and\nallegiances as we see at the very end of Chapter 93, Page 47\n\n> Reiner has made a suggestion to a potential candidate for the Armored Titan\n> that he become the Armored Titan to save his peer, Gabi, from a \"dark fate\"\n> and the recruit then reflects back on the situation in a confusing manner,\n> wanting to both save his friend and free the Eldia people [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aROlx.jpg)\n\nIn Chapter 94, pages 22-27, we see Reiner at a family dinner. He is asked by\nmembers of his family about the “devils on Island Paradis” and without a\nsecond thought, Reiner portrays the Eldians there, especially those in the\n104th Training Corp as\n\n> a group of normal people, different than Reiner, Bertholdt, and Annie, each\n> with their own strengths and flaws that were seen in an entirely positive\n> light as he recalls the events. This perspective confuses the family, and\n> the family immediately covers up after Reiner, portraying everyone on the\n> Island of Paradis as monsters that built an empire off corpses. But his\n> perspective of his enemies at the dinner table calls Reiner’s allegiance\n> into question. That being said, his current allegiance is to the Marleyan\n> government. His only reason for enlisting as an Eldian in the Marleyan\n> military was so that his mother and father, one a Marleyan and the other an\n> Eldian, could be together again. But the relationship was forbidden, and\n> being an honorary Marleyan through selection for a titan power would allow\n> his family to be together. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/roKH3.jpg)\n\nAnd Eren, well, we know his allegiance is to\n\n> The Survey Corps, and after the re-taking of the Island, the Survey Corps &\n> the kingdom under Historia Reiss. His mother was devoured by a mindless\n> titan in the very beginning of the story and ever since he's been out for\n> revenge. More recently, his understanding through memories has altered his\n> perspective a bit, but it has yet to change his allegiance. We will have to\n> get further into the story to see if events change his loyalty to Historia\n> Reiss and the Survey Corps. [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5IFME.jpg)\n\nAlright, to sum it all up the conflict happening in Attack on Titan is\n\n * Due to the existing feud between the Marleyans and Eldians, established 1,700 years ago. The first attempt to take the Island of Paradis by the Marleyans was to secure the natural resources on the Island. The second attempt to take the Island of Paradis will be for the unification of titan power under the Marleyan government. \n\nThe following titan-shifters have these allegiances:\n\n * Ymir, allegiance to Krista\n * Annie Leonheart, allegiance to Marley, made to believe Eldians on the Island were evil\n * Bertholdt Hoover, allegiance to Marley, made to believe Eldians on the Island were evil\n * Reiner Braun, allegiance to Marley, made to believe Eldians on the Island were evil but appears to be recently questioning his allegiance in Chapter 94\n * Eren Yeager, allegiance to Island of Paradis, or the Eldians under Historia Reiss and the Survey Corps\n\n**_Please note: I will update this answer as things change._**\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-04T07:45:19.697", "id": "41177", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-04T16:17:42.753", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-04T16:17:42.753", "last_editor_user_id": "32833", "owner_user_id": "32833", "parent_id": "8499", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nONA and OVA are completely different in terms of their target markets.\n\nAn Original Net Animation (ONA) is an anime that is directly released onto the\nInternet(1) while an Original Video Animation (OVA) is an animated film or\nseries made specially for release in home-video formats.(2)\n\n> The term ONA was first coined by the creators of Lingerie Fighter Papillon\n> Rose and Anime News Network decided to adopt it for use in the encyclpedia\n> since\n>\n> 1. There was no other word to describe this new format of anime.\n> 2. We felt \"ONA\" was an original and appropriate denomination.(3)\n>\n\n> Many ONAs are designed as side stories to an existing franchise, or are\n> simply promotional vehicles. The ONA Hitotsubu ni Kawaranu Ai wo Komete, for\n> instance, was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Morinaga Milk\n> Caramel candy. HALO Legends tells several standalone stories in the universe\n> of the HALO video game.(4)\n\nSome examples of ONAs:\n\n * [Eve no Jikan](http://myanimelist.net/anime/3167/Eve_no_Jikan) (before it was made into a movie)\n * [Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Lite](http://myanimelist.net/anime/15687/Chuunibyou_demo_Koi_ga_Shitai!_Lite)\n * [Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo](http://myanimelist.net/anime/20359/Yamada-kun_to_7-nin_no_Majo)\n * [There She Is!!](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6505/There_She_Is!!)\n * [Kyousou Giga](http://myanimelist.net/anime/10893/Kyousou_Giga) (the first one)\n * [Hetalia Axis Powers](http://myanimelist.net/anime/5060/Hetalia_Axis_Powers)\n\n**NOTE:** Just a different name for the same show, some of anime site name it\nweb.\n\nSources:\n\n * [(1) - Wikipedia: \"Original net animation\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_net_animation)\n * [(2) - Wikipedia: \"Original video animation\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_video_animation)\n * [(3) - Anime News Network: \"Original Net Anime (ONA)\"](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=37)\n * [(4) - anime.about.com: \"ONA (Original Net Animation)\"](http://anime.about.com/od/animeglossary/g/Ona.htm)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-05T15:12:44.947", "id": "8501", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-08T09:19:09.573", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-08T09:19:09.573", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "8500", "post_type": "answer", "score": 17 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> Shinra's father stole Celty's head when she was asleep, and gave it to\n> Yagiri Pharmaceuticals. \n> \n> Celty wants her head back because it houses her memories.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-05T18:25:13.730", "id": "8506", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-05T18:25:13.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1348", "parent_id": "8502", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> How to Use: XLII (from Volume 08):\n>\n> 1. The use of the DEATH NOTE in the human world sometimes affects other\n> human’s lives or shortens their original life-span, even though their names\n> are not actually written in the DEATH NOTE itself. In these cases, no matter\n> the cause, the god of death sees only the original life-span and not the\n> shortened life-span.\n>\n\nWith this, I would say Soichiro had some time to live still, but the use of\nthe death note made his death unnatural.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-08T11:01:18.223", "id": "8551", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-08T11:01:18.223", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2988", "parent_id": "8503", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's really not uncommon for anime which appear in English to have puns\n\"translated\" from Japanese.\n\nOne example that comes to mind is _Persona_ (ペルソナ _Perusona_ ), which, when\ntranslated to English, ended up with the pun \"Bear-sona!\" said by the\ncharacter Teddie (yes, like teddy bear), whose original Japanese name was Kuma\n(literally \"bear\" in Japanese), clearly not having such a pun.\n\nAnother rather complex example is [this tongue\ntwister](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/3474/274), which is a very complex\npun in both Japanese and English, using completely different bodies of text.\n\nThe studios which produced [_Tensai\nBakabon_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensai_Bakabon) were [TMS\nEntertainment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Movie_Shinsha) and\n[Pierrot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Pierrot), both of which are\nrooted in Japan and produced the anime in Japanese. The original manga was\nwritten by [Fujio Akatsuka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujio_Akatsuka) (a\nnative Japanese) and published in various Japanese _shounen_ magazines by\n[Kodansha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodansha) and\n[Shogakukan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogakukan), both Japanese\npublishers.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-06T00:28:12.137", "id": "8509", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-10T15:19:10.513", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:48.953", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "8508", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nJust like Eric above has said it's not uncommon in anime, so is in the manga\nworld. The translator 'localized' the joke. Well 'localized' is just a word I\nchoose though.\n\nIn my country whose language ain't English, many mangas from Japan are\npublished, but as far as I remember, I can't remember a joke appeared in\nJapanese. Once I read Miiko (I forget it was in [Kocchi Muite!\nMiiko](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=10206) or [Miiko\nDesu!](http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=4014)). The setting was in\nthe bus, where one character named Mari have a car sickness. Then, Miiko\nengaged her classmates to play a chain-word game (where someone says a word\nand next person has to said a word started with the same last alphabet as the\nprevious word spoken) so that Mari would forget her sickness. Too bad though,\naccidentally, the words their classmate said all had relation to the sickness,\nlike food's name (imagine you're queasy and have to be reminded of food), even\none clearly said \"puke\" XD. Miiko manga is from Japan, so were the words I\nread in the chain-word game in Japanese? Nope. They're in my native language.\nBut the translator did a very good job in choosing the words, so the story\nain't disturbed even a little.\n\nAnother side is from manga scanlation world. Many scanlations have something\nlike \"TL's note\" (Translator's note). There, I often (not that often though)\nsee translator told how hard it is to translate the joke, since it's a\nwordplay like the tongue twister Eric gave as example. Some tried to\n'localized' it, some left it as it is, wrote the literal meaning, and later\ngave explanation about the joke.\n\nI didn't read Bakabon, but yeah comedy/gag manga usually will have many words-\nplay like that. I don't really know since I'm not a translator either, but\ntranslating joke must be very tough, because you have to keep the meaning\nintact, while keeping the joke itself.\n\nSo, yeah, Bakabon IS originally in Japanese, and all the puns you've seen is\noriginally in Japanese. IMHO, with Bakabon you read that made you even\nquestioning the origin of it, sounds its translator did a very good job with\n'localizing' the jokes :) We don't know whether the meaning is intact or not,\nbut I think as long as you read it and you don't feel something's lost, well\nwe could say it's very good :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-09T09:54:41.747", "id": "8565", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-09T16:40:55.997", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-09T16:40:55.997", "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "8508", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nWhen a person's criminal rating reaches a certain point (a high number,\nsomewhere in the range 200~400) and they are not yet considered criminal, it's\nstill counted as \"dangerous\" or \"very likely to become criminal soon\", and so\nthey are taken away for hospitalization and psychological treatment.\n\nIn the first episodes, a woman suffers a trauma caused by criminal actions\naround her. Her criminal rating spikes to a dangerously high value, at some\npoint she even holds a weapon in her hands, which is as close to becoming a\ncriminal as it gets. Naturally, she would fall into \"dangerous, but not yet\ncriminal\" category.\n\nSometimes people are shot on place if the risk is too high. Sometimes a\ndetective makes a different decision, like apprehend such a person and take\nthem into custody, or just leave them. You should see the rest of the series\nto find out more on that.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-06T14:47:09.597", "id": "8521", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-06T14:47:09.597", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "8516", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nCrime Coefficient is a measure of a target's probability/propensity to commit\na crime. The MWPSB uses it as a measurement to determine if a target is a\nlatent criminal or otherwise.\n\nIt is calculated and determined by the stress level (Hue), and other\nbiological readings of a person via cymatic scan through the Sibyl System.\n\n# Level of Crime Coefficient\n\n * Under 100 - Suspect is not a target for enforcement action. The trigger of Dominator will be locked.\n * 100 to 300 - Suspect is classified as a latent criminal and is a target for enforcement action. Dominator is set to Non-lethal Paralyzer mode. Suspect can then be knocked out using the Dominator.\n * Over 300 - Suspect poses a serious threat to the society. Lethal force is authorized. Dominator will automatically switch to Lethal Eliminator. Suspect that is hit by Lethal Eliminator will bloat and explode.\n\n[Source](http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Crime_Coefficient_%28Index%29)\n\n* * *\n\n# [Make sure to check your crime\ncoefficient!](http://en.shindanmaker.com/a/330490)\n\nUnhappily my coefficient is of 420 so I no longer belong to this world.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-06T15:33:30.873", "id": "8524", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-06T15:53:23.740", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2426", "parent_id": "8516", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA somewhat theoretical answer:\n\nLiving things display the _7 characteristics of life_ \\- which are:\n\n * Movement \n * Respiration \n * Sensitivity \n * Growth \n * Reproduction \n * Excretion \n * Nutrition\n\nThey definetly exhibit movement and respiration \n\nAnd they are sensitive to conditions of the atmosphere \n\nThey do not appear to grow, but this could be because they are adult.\n\nThey do not appear to reproduce.\n\nThey excrete light onto the world.\n\nThe moon _may_ be eating something.\n\n\n\nIf the sun and moon's reproduction properties are anything like our own, which\nthey are modelled off, they are non-existant. Stars and planets are _formed_\n\\- a non-biological formation without passing on any genetic information\n\nThis, combined with the fact that many of the other characteristics are\nassuming a lot, can bring us to the conclusion that they are not living,\n\nAlthough, having said that, there are a couple rare articles around the web\nthat claim stars are living.\n[Example](http://www.starlarvae.org/Star_Larvae_The_Stellar_Organism.html)\n\nSo I guess you can justify it to be either true or false, whichever you would\nprefer :)\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-20T23:29:50.033", "id": "9818", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-20T23:29:50.033", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "8517", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIt's how Japanese interpret phonetically the cries of foxes, the english\nequivalent to \"woof\". There's no special meaning in the title.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-06T16:52:03.340", "id": "8526", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-06T16:52:03.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "8518", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBecause Okumura was told by his grandpa that if they destroy \"the other\nworld\", he and his brother can turn back to human. And to open the gate, they\nneed a lot of blood of the devil, so he sacrifice Rin. This is revealed in\nepisode 22.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-13T10:01:05.937", "id": "9688", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-08T15:39:17.680", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T15:39:17.680", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4867", "parent_id": "8525", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nYukio didn't know that Rin was going to be sacrificed. As you can see in the\nsecond last episode of Season 1, Yukio was surprised that Rin's blood was\ngoing and he had said yes because he wanted to protect Rin by turning him back\ninto a human, but when he saw that Rin was going to die, he stepped in.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-10-24T07:26:35.727", "id": "42950", "last_activity_date": "2017-10-24T07:26:35.727", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "36278", "parent_id": "8525", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSimply said he could have, and Fukasaku even recommended Jiraiya to do this.\nBut Jiraiya decided not to since he already got too close to find out Pain's\nability and identity. Also there would be no second chance in finding out his\nability after this anymore, because Pain would be more careful afterwards.\n\n> When Jiraiya originally summoned the elder toad couple they also asked him\n> why he was fighting1. A few chapters after, when Jiraiya already got gravely\n> wounded2 and orders the elder couple to retreats he gives his reasoning for\n> staying\n\n\n\n1(chap 376 pag 3-5) \n2(chap 381 pag 10-11)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-07T09:49:08.997", "id": "8533", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-07T10:26:42.547", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-07T10:26:42.547", "last_editor_user_id": "4250", "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8531", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWait, I know what it is now based on Oded's comment. NaLu is the term fans use\nfor wanting Lucy + Natsu to get together and based off Wikipedia it is safe to\nsay that this is a Portmanteau.\n\nDefinition:\n\n> A combination of two (or more) words or morphemes, and their definitions,\n> into one new word.\n\nThanks, Oded. :)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-07T09:55:29.360", "id": "8534", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-07T09:55:29.360", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "8532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\n\n\"To ship\" or \"shipping,\" in fan communities is the act or pairing characters\nwithin a series together, in a romantic relationship. It's a fairly commonly\nused term through-out the internet, especially on fan-sites.\n\nOften times, a \"ship\" (fan-based pairing) is usually called by a combination\nof their names. Some communities even use a term, \"shipper\", to refer to\npeople who consistently \"ship\" a certain type of pairing (\"fujoshi-shippers\"\nbeing those who always ship male homosexual pairings and so one)\n\nAs has already been pointed out, \"NaLu\" would be the name of the \"ship\" of\nNatsu and Lucy, and people who say \"I ship NaLu\" basically are the part of the\nfandom that supports the idea of a relationship between the two.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-07T20:05:00.550", "id": "8538", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-07T20:05:00.550", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4071", "parent_id": "8532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\n\nA ship is a couple that you want to be together. Ships like Jerza, (Jellal and\nErza), Gruvia, (Gray and Juvia), and Nalu (Natsu and Lucy), are all fictitious\ncouples that fans choose. Shipping is like to make a couple out of two people,\nand you can make a name. Jerza, Nalu, are all ship names. Therefore, shipping\nNalu basically means that you want Natsu and Lucy to be together.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-07T21:15:58.530", "id": "8540", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-07T21:15:58.530", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4391", "parent_id": "8532", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe short answer is no. It is not based on the Islamic religion. It is based\non a several middle eastern originating stories and historical characters.\n\nThe main characters names such as Ali Baba and Cassim are from [1001\nNights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights) also known\nas the Arabian nights. [Sinbad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad) is also a\ncharacter from a series of arabian stories. Solomon was a real king back in\n970BC.\n\nBasically what they have done is pulled in several popular names from Arab\nstories and literature and Middle Eastern history and mixed it in with their\nstory. I'm too new to link more references, but you get the idea.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-07T16:54:32.810", "id": "8537", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-07T16:54:32.810", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4380", "parent_id": "8535", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 }, { "body": "\n\n## Precaution: The following may contain spoilers from Magi\n\nThis was too long to be posted in comments so I had to make it here and since\nit serves the purpose too, why not.\n\nSo I did a bit of research after the few pointers given out by Dimitri.\n\nOn the reference manga page given by Dimitri, I found this:\n\n\n\nAfter looking up the two names **David** and **Solomon** , I found the\ninteresting:\n\n> Solomōn), also called Jedidiah (Hebrew יְדִידְיָהּ), was, according to the\n> Book of Kings, the Book of Chronicles, Hidden Words and the Qur'an[2] a king\n> of Israel and the son of **David**. [1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NxtB2.png)\n\nBook of Chronicles are the final books of the Hebrew Bible.\n\nWhen you search about Solomon in Islam, the first line you see in wikipedia:\n\n> **Solomon** (Arabic سليمان Sulaymān) was, according to the Qur'an, a king of\n> ancient Israel as well as the son of **David**. 2\n\nSolomon in Islam is more usually called as _Sulaymān_ and David as _Daud or\nDawud_.\n\nThe name **Jehoahaz** also seems to have a reference in the\n[Bible](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=II%20Kings%2023:31-25:30),\nbut not the Quran. So judging from the names used in the anime, they might be\nrelating it more to Christianity.\n\nMore information about the names\n[here](http://magi.wikia.com/wiki/David_Jehoahaz_Abraham#Trivia)\n\nAnd about the **Ilah** :\n\nʾIlāh (Arabic: إله‎; plural: آلهة ʾālihah) is an Arabic term meaning \"deity\".\n, it simply means **deity** in Arabic. So you might be confusing it with Allah\nwho is the God of Muslims.\n\nSumming it up, we can say that Solomon's identity and his Father, David's\nidentity has been taken from religion (more like Christianity) but most part\nof Magi is derived from fictional characters.\n\n* * *\n\n### References\n\n1 [Solomon reference from Bible](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon)\n\n2 [Solomon reference from\nQuran](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_in_Islam)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-09T06:26:51.497", "id": "8562", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-09T12:50:17.213", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-09T12:50:17.213", "last_editor_user_id": "1458", "owner_user_id": "3364", "parent_id": "8535", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nI am Muslim and my answer is, no it's not based on Islam. The culture in Magi\nwas based on the Middle East before Islam.\n\nJenn, magic, and harem were very common at that time and thousand of stories\ntalked about jennies talking and serve people, and some people were practicing\nreal magic.\n\nThere are some events that have been taken from Qur'an as Solomon story and\nhow Allah gave him the power to control jennies and animals.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-02-24T16:34:00.427", "id": "19645", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T03:16:04.460", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-26T03:16:04.460", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "12915", "parent_id": "8535", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nMagi take place in the Middle East before Islam when the Middle Eastern\ncountries were either Christian countries or countries of Judaism.\n\nI'm guessing _Magi_ takes place in Iraq which used to be a Christian country.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-05-19T17:03:34.847", "id": "40447", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T03:18:53.317", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-26T03:18:53.317", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "32651", "parent_id": "8535", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n * First of all, Sinbad was a real Muslim explorer\n * Pricess Dunya: Dunya is the Arabic word for \"worldliness\"\n * Solomon and David are the main prophets in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism\n * Jinn are found in the Islam's Qur'an\n * Even Satan is a jinn in the Qur'an\n * Some say the three wise men of the bible were three Muslim (magi) scholars\n * They all take a pilgrimage during their adventures\n * A pillar and requirement in Islam if one can afford the trip\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-06-09T18:40:06.660", "id": "40798", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T03:18:22.600", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-26T03:18:22.600", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "33002", "parent_id": "8535", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\n_Magi_ takes place in Iraq.\n\nBalbadd is based on Baghdad, if it wasn't obvious enough. Sinbad, Morgiana,\nAlibaba, and Aladdin are all from Iraq according to the Arabian Nights story.\nAlso, the architecture is just like Iraq and what the background characters\nwear are based on traditional Iraqi clothes.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-25T22:48:01.833", "id": "41543", "last_activity_date": "2017-07-26T03:20:12.137", "last_edit_date": "2017-07-26T03:20:12.137", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "34808", "parent_id": "8535", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n\n\nPeople have come up with many theories of how Doflamingo was not killed by\nthis attack. Here are the theories from Youtube. Some of them say that either\nLaw used \"Room\", or maybe Doflamingo somehow reattached himself because of the\nIto Ito no Mi's power. But as your question asks \"Is Doflamingo really dead?\",\nI will try to answer that.\n\nWhenever a person is killed or dealt a severe blow, Oda always shows blood in\nthat panel. In this case, we can clearly see that no blood has been spilled.\nLooking at the expression of Doflamingo's expression on the bottom panel, it\ndoesn't look like he is dead. So we can assume that he is not dead.\n\nOn a sidenote, it would be very anti-climatic if Doflamingo died in just a\nsingle blow.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-08T04:17:37.547", "id": "8546", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-15T15:38:00.743", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-15T15:38:00.743", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "2892", "parent_id": "8539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt is now absolutely confirmed this attack didn't kill him, his head gives\norders to his subordinates in the next chapter while Luffy shouts in surprise\n\"Ah, Mingo is still alive!\"\n\nNo explanation as to how he's alive though, should find out eventually.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T22:17:03.353", "id": "8683", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T22:17:03.353", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "8539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's because his devil fruit [Ito Ito no\nMi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ito_Ito_no_Mi) can be used as a Marionette\nwhere he can create an exact clone of himself. I have just read the recent\nchapters, man, I love Oda!\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-08T09:19:06.840", "id": "9582", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-08T09:19:06.840", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4811", "parent_id": "8539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nDoflamingo-sama is alive and well, as expected.\n\nIn **chapter 744** , we can see his head saying\n\n> Fufufu... You guys really got me good. I'm head over heels in shock.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bIlPK.png)\n\nWhile in **chapter 745** , we can see that there are in fact two Doflamingos.\nThe left one is the headless Doflamingo whose head Kyros severed, while the\nright one is (probably) the real Doflamingo.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1rCEo.png)\n\nLater in **chapter 745** , we can see Violet explaining what was going on.\n\n> It appears to be a marionette made of string!\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1tdlo.png)\n\nBasically, since Doflamingo ate the [String\nFruit](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ito_Ito_no_Mi), he has become a string\nhuman. He can manipulate strings to the extent that he can create a marionette\nduplicate of himself and move it around as if it were him. It was this\nmarionette that Kyros had severed the head of, not Doflamingo's real head.\n**Therefore, he is still very much alive and completely unharmed**\n\n> at that point at least.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-28T20:14:08.137", "id": "14720", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-15T15:31:15.660", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-15T15:31:15.660", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "8539", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\ni'm not sure on watching the series online but you can buy\n[.hack//SIGN](http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/4619/-hack-sign-\ncollection-fatpack), [.hack//Legend of the\nTwilight](http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/11948/-hack-legend-of-the-\ntwilight-collection-slimpack) and\n[.hack//ROOTS](http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/8120/-hack-roots-\ncollection-fatpack) on Madman. [.hack//G.U.\nTrilogy](http://www.hanabee.com.au/index.php/store/hackgutrilogy-dvd.html) can\nbe brought from Hanabee but it pales in comparison to the game in my opinion.\nall of these are Australian so they are in Region 4 but you should be able to\nfind them on your local distribution site(s) but it wont be a problem if you\nhave a region free player.\n\n.hack//Terminal Disk is a special that came with .hack//G.U Pre-orders which\ndetails the events between the last episode of .hack//SIGN (After the Game)\nand the first episode of .hack//ROOTS (before the .hack//G.U games) but\nignores most of what happens in .hack//Legend of the Twilight, recapping the\noriginal games, Aura's disappearance, Project G.U, the R.A Program which\ndestroyed most of _The World_ and the start of _The World:R2_. i did have a\nplaylist of them on youtube but the videos have been deleted\n\n.hack//Liminality came with the original .hack Games but i didn't get the\nfinal episode when i got the last game so i had to download it, each episode\nfollows in line with the game it was released, the last episode being set\nduring the final battle (the server Helba set up to help combat Corbenik).\n\n.hack//Gift should be included with the .hack//Sign fatpack i linked to\nlikewise with .hack//G.U. Returner with .hack//ROOTS. gift is a weird OVA but\nReturner is like the last episode of SIGN where it concludes the games.\n\nthe .hack//G.U games have Online Jack in the game aswell along with a number\nof 4Koma episodes along with i think a couple of episode of .hack//ROOTS\n(never watched them since i had them on DVD)\n\ni have no information on .hack//The Movie or Thanatos Report however according\nto your wikipedia link both are with .hack//Versus game, the first one being\nhybrid with the game while the second one being unlocked from gameplay much\nlike Online Jack.\n\nSIGN, LotT and ROOTS are a bit old (over a decade) and quite sure was before\nthe concept of streaming videos so i'm not sure where you could view them.\n[VIZ Media](http://www.viz.com/anime/streaming) or\n[Aniplex](http://www.aniplexusa.com/watch/) might have them i'm not sure as i\ntend opt for owning the DVDs and wtahcing them in my own time.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-08T01:26:39.420", "id": "8543", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-08T01:34:40.737", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-08T01:34:40.737", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "8542", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWell, it turns out that Maaya Sakamoto doesn't like mixing her career as a\nsinger with her career as a voice actress, as she pointed out in [an interview\nwith director Masaaki Oosumi](http://osumi.air-\nnifty.com/blog/2008/02/vol3_b9ea.html)1:\n\n> **Sakamoto:** [laughter] [...] I'm old-fashioned - I don't want my work as a\n> voice actress to get mixed up with my singing.\n>\n> —What exactly do you mean by that?\n>\n> **Sakamoto:** To me, my job as a singer is not so much a job, as it is a way\n> of expressing myself - which is why I should write my own lyrics and sing\n> under my own name. That's why, as a rule, I don't sing character songs.\n\nOf course, all the OP songs for the _Monogatari_ series are character songs in\nthe usual sense (e.g. Nadeko, rather than Kana Hanazawa, is [listed as the\nsinger for \"Mousou Express\"](https://i.stack.imgur.com/22e5s.jpg)), and so it\nmakes sense that Maaya Sakamoto wouldn't sing an OP for Shinobu's arc.\n\nNote that there _are_ shows for which Maaya Sakamoto has both sung an OP/ED\nand voice-acted a character, e.g. _RahXephon_ \\- but in these cases, it\nappears that she is credited as herself, rather than as her character. (This\nis certainly the case for _RahXephon_ 's OP \"Hemisphere\"; I imagine it is also\nthe case for the other anime in which this occurs, but I haven't checked.)\n\n* * *\n\nAll that said, the Blu-ray version of _Second Season_ does, in fact, have a\nminute-long opening segment for Shinobu Time. But it's set to the song [\"white\nlies\"](http://vgmdb.net/album/42417), which is not sung by Maaya Sakamoto -\nit's a non-vocal piece, aside from some choral chanting. (Though I should like\nto mention that it's an incredible song in its own right, especially if you\nlisten to the full 3'23\" version.)\n\n* * *\n\n1 To find the bit I've translated here, Ctrl+F for _私も古い考え方_.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-08T10:33:38.683", "id": "8550", "last_activity_date": "2015-09-21T06:33:39.027", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "8549", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 }, { "body": "\n\nIn kizumonogatari we got a french song (Etoile Et Toi) at the end credits\nwhich was sung by an adult and later on by a child (3rd movie), which gives us\nthe overall journey of Kiss-shot (shinobu) from shrinking into a child and\ngrowing back into a fully grown adult (especially the melons).\n\nAlso, it is said that she came from a foreign country (but was not stated\nwhich country it was), and I guess that explains why her hair is blond in the\nfirst place. She also loves eating donuts-- I mean french people love\npastries, but dunno lol.\n\nOverall, even though we didn't get a song sung by her VA, it is still nice\nthat we got a wonderful french song that made kizumonogatari so beautiful. I\nguess shinobu herself can't sing japanese that's why she sung in french. ;-;\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2021-04-30T02:18:37.427", "id": "62649", "last_activity_date": "2021-04-30T02:35:55.510", "last_edit_date": "2021-04-30T02:35:55.510", "last_editor_user_id": "60338", "owner_user_id": "60338", "parent_id": "8549", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThey aren't just symbols for decoration, but **actual words**. You can see how\nWendy said she had made a mistake while writing a certain word, thinking it\nwas an offensive spell at first. Since Milky way isn't your average spell, it\nlooks like you need a very specific magic circle to use it. I couldn't find\nwhat language they were written in though.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/20AJq.png)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-01T09:17:24.340", "id": "11582", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-01T09:17:24.340", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "8552", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nWhen the song speaks of a river, it could be relating to the motif of a river\nin _Spirited Away_ such as how Chihiro dropped her shoe in a river and she\nhelped to bathe a polluted river spirit. Also, most importantly, Haku is a\nriver spirit. _Spirited Away_ is centered around rivers it seems. Other than\nthat, there doesn't seem to be any other connection between the song and the\nmovie. It could just be a coincidence that both involved a river.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-01-18T03:46:24.713", "id": "38471", "last_activity_date": "2017-01-18T03:46:24.713", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "30371", "parent_id": "8554", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nShe's one of Nobita's classmates that appears as a recurring character. The\n2005 series seems to have introduced more minor characters, most of whom are\nunnamed.\n\nFrom the episode 熱血！のび太の運動会, the general layout of the classroom looks\nsomething like this (only recurring characters are indicated):\n\n\n\nStudents: ~20\n\n[code]\n\n [ Girl A | Girl D ]\n [ × | Shizuka ] [ × | × ] [ × | × ]\n [ Gian | × ] [ Nobita | Dekisugi ] [ Boy C | Boy D ]\n [ × | Boy B ] [ Boy A | Boy E ] [ Suneo | Girl C ]\n [ × | × ] [ Girl B | Girl E ] [ Girl F | × ]\n \n[/code]\n\n\n\nAs for her name, I'm not so sure. She's neither named nor addressed directly\nin the Japanese subtitled version.\n\nAll of Nobita's classmates' names seem to be on here, from ためしにさようなら:\n\n\n\n * 田中○○子\n * 鈴木○夫\n * 大川○○夫\n * 大田○司\n * 佐○由美\n * 近藤○キ\n * 山田○介\n * 山川○男\n * 吉田○夫\n * 佐藤○美\n\n(Either they literally have ○s in their names, or it was intentional.)\n\nIt seems that not all of Nobita's classmates signed it.\n\nFrom watching other episodes, I have deduced the following:\n\nBoy A and B are the ever-popular recurring side characters Yasuo (安雄) and\nHaruo (はる夫).\n\nThe characters seem to refer to the girl as \"委員長 (class-rep),\" so I guess\nshe's the class rep... and it should make sense for her to sign it.\n\n * Boy A： 鈴木安雄 (see above)\n * Boy B： 大川春夫 (see above)\n * Boy C： Either 山川○男 or 吉田○夫?\n * Boy D： 山田○介\n * Boy E： 佐藤正美 (recurring character)\n * Girl A： 近藤○キ (It's the class-rep?)\n * Girl B： ???\n * Girl C： ???\n * Girl D： 田中悦子 (recurring character)\n * Girl E： 大田○司\n\nThe episode ツルリン！先生がとまらない mentions 4 more classmate names:\n\n * 吉満宏之\n * 水上由季\n * 竹腰康広\n * 吉藤彩子\n\nIt's possible that the two girls with missing names are named here... or they\ncould be some other classmates/people altogether.\n\n\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-25T19:36:40.050", "id": "8904", "last_activity_date": "2016-10-22T18:53:26.427", "last_edit_date": "2016-10-22T18:53:26.427", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "63", "parent_id": "8555", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNanoha A's takes place six months after the original series, on December of\nthe same year. The Book of Darkness was activated on midnight 3/4 July, as\nseen in the first episode of A's.\n\nThe conclusion is that the activation of the Book of Darkness and appearance\nof the Wolkenritter occurred just after the conclusion of the Jewel Seed\nincident.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-02T12:27:29.817", "id": "21296", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-02T12:27:29.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "14139", "parent_id": "8556", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI went back and saw this, check out the palms. \n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-09T23:16:48.560", "id": "8569", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-09T23:16:48.560", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4441", "parent_id": "8561", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 }, { "body": "\n\nAssuming that the symbols are **Moon and Sun** , it is very much related to\nthe Symbol Yin Yang.\n\n\n\nThe first character yin means: overcast weather; feminine; _**moon**_ ;\ncloudy; negative electrical charge; shady.\n\nThe second character yáng means: positive electrical charge; _**sun**_.\n\nThe simplified characters clearly show the moon/sun symbolism, since they can\nbe deconstructed to their elements moon and sun. The element is a variant of\nthe radical which means \"abundant\". So Yin Yang could represent the contrast\nbetween the moon and the sun.\n\nBut Yin Yang is much more than just a pair of opposites. It conveys the idea\nthat each of the opposites is dependent on the other, and how they\ncontinuously transform from one into the other.\n\nAnother thing, according to [First Principles: Symbolism of the Sun and\nMoon](http://www.snowcrest.net/sunrise/apolar1.htm):\n\nSun can be translated as fixidity, steadiness, firmness, and strength of\npurpose. The Sun rises day after day regardless of weather conditions, the\nbehavior of humanity or the placement of planets in the sky. It traverses its\nset path, always giving light and heat and asking nothing for itself in\nreturn. Very much like Naruto.\n\nMoon is said to rule the senses and emotions. Moon is said to be fickle and\nchangeable. Emotions change and fluctuate as our thoughts and attitudes\nchange. Synonymous to Sasuke.\n\n# Conclusion:\n\nNaruto and Sasuke (Reincarnation of Indra and Asura) is described to be\nopposite or contrary with each other but they are interconnected and\ninterdependent naturally; and they give rise to each other as they interrelate\nto one another.\n\nAs per the chakra, well, I think it is also connected (Naruto is Bright\nYellow/Light while Sasuke is Dark Violet?/Dark). The nature (wind and fire) is\ndifferent.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-11T03:17:41.667", "id": "8590", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-11T03:33:59.853", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1709", "parent_id": "8561", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\n[Gendou's Anime Music](http://www.gendou.com/amusic/) has ratings on the\nopening and ending songs and offers links to buy the songs.\n\nYou commented that you are looking for something for something rating the\nanimation as well as the music, and I don't know of anything like that, but\nGendou's Anime Music site is a good reference for finding opening music based\non anime title and for rating the songs themselves, so I figured it was worth\na mention at least.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-13T14:51:45.800", "id": "11246", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-13T14:51:45.800", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6218", "parent_id": "8567", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBased on various image search techniques such as Google & Bing and searching\nthrough numberous websites it seems you may be looking for Tsukimi Kurashita\nfrom (Princess Jellyfish).\n\n> Tsukimi is an otaku girl who lives in Tokyo and wants to be an illustrator.\n> Influenced by her late mother, she has a love for all kinds of jellyfish and\n> is quite knowledgeable about them. She is the only resident of Amamizukan\n> who knows Kuranosuke's true gender. Like the other Amars, she has a fear of\n> stylish people and will usually petrify in their presence.\n\n\n\nShe appears in episode 4 when she visits the aquarium.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-09T23:54:57.940", "id": "8571", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-10T01:52:52.747", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-10T01:52:52.747", "last_editor_user_id": "3650", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "8568", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nAs the answer in the previous question said, mangakas are ahead of 3-4\nchapters though this figure may vary in some cases. The credible source for\nthis is Eiichiro Oda, creator of One Piece manga, answers his fans questions\nat the [SBS Corner](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS), here's what he had\nsaid about this in particular:\n\n> **D:** When an artist is drawing for example, Chapter 10, what chapter is\n> being printed in the newest Weekly Jump?\n>\n> **O:** I see. I wondered about this myself, years ago. So I understand your\n> curiosity. At this EXACT moment, Issue 46 of Jump is hitting the stands. It\n> contains One Piece Chapter 60, \"Solution\". But I have finished the drafts up\n> through Chapter 63, \"I Ain't Gonna Die\". So a chapter comes out roughly 3\n> weeks after I finish it. But that's only my CURRENT schedule. Not all people\n> drawing weekly serials have the same system. I could change if need be.\n> There are various cases.\n> _[Source](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_6#Chapter_46.2C_Page_46)_\n\nAnd for your other question of how far ahead the mangaka develops the plot,\nHiro Mashima, the mangaka of Fairy Tail says:\n\n> **Q:** How far in advance do you create your stories (before they're\n> published in Shonen Magazine)?\n>\n> **Hiro Mashima:** Generally speaking, I tend to think of the next episode as\n> I'm creating the current one. Sometimes I get writers block. Sometimes\n> inspiration just comes when you're sitting down at the toilet. I like to\n> think of that as just an inspiration from heaven. (laughs)\n> _[Source](http://manga.about.com/od/mangaartistinterviews/a/HiroMashima_2.htm)_\n\nOther references:\n\n * [Yahoo answers](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100616163109AAa8QF7)\n * [Insight on how mangas are created and typical schedule of mangakas](http://prezi.com/rzguglly4gg8/what-is-the-process-of-how-manga-comics-are-made/)\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-10T10:31:03.727", "id": "8576", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-10T10:31:03.727", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "3364", "parent_id": "8574", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNo, the black orbs can not nullify the effects of genjutsu.\n\n> The chakra is highly malleable, able to be shaped into various forms for\n> different uses, such as a barriers, protective orbs, and most commonly, a\n> staff with an incomplete circle. With his complete control of the Ten-Tails'\n> power, Madara can also apply the Yin–Yang Release to nullify all ninjutsu it\n> comes in contact with - [Naruto\n> wiki](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madara_Uchiha)\n\nAs genjutsu is not 'touchable' it would be impossible to touch the genjutsu\nwith the orbs. Then again this is not necessary to begin with.\n\n> Members of the Uchiha clan can break or see through genjutsu using their\n> Sharingan\n\nKnowing that he even is a step beyond the regular Sharingan we can safely\nassume the he would just use his visual powers instead of the black orbs to\nblock/cancel genjutsu\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-10T12:41:32.720", "id": "8579", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-10T12:41:32.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8575", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIn the anime series? Who knows.\n\nBut in the manga:\n\n[code]\n\n Naruto chapter 1, page 1, 17, 37, 49\n Naruto chapter 2, pages 13-14\n Naruto chapter 2, page 5 \n Naruto chapter 2, pages 14-15\n Naruto chapter 500, pages 8-9\n Naruto chapter 500, pages 9-10, 12\n Naruto chapter 607, pages 6-7\n Naruto chapter 500, pages 13-17\n Naruto chapter 501, pages 1-6\n Naruto chapter 501, page 7\n Naruto chapter 501, pages 12-17\n Naruto chapter 502, pages 1-6\n Naruto chapter 502, pages 7-17\n Naruto chapter 503, pages 3-4, 8\n Naruto chapter 503, pages 5-7\n Naruto chapter 503, page 9\n Naruto chapter 503, pages 10-17\n Naruto chapter 503, pages 13-19\n Naruto chapter 504, pages 1-9\n Naruto chapter 504, pages 10-14\n Naruto chapter 440, page 15\n Naruto chapter 499, page 3\n Naruto chapter 440, page 5\n Naruto chapter 399, page 15\n Naruto chapters 399-401\n Naruto chapter 484, pages 8-9\n Naruto chapter 485, page 6\n Naruto chapter 399, page 16\n Naruto chapter 502, page 2\n \n[/code]\n\n**Naruto: Shippūden episode 68**\n\n[code]\n\n Naruto chapter 149, page 9\n Naruto chapter 370, pages 15-16\n Naruto chapter 386, page 11\n Naruto chapter 399, pages 14-15\n Naruto chapter 440, page 10\n Naruto chapter 500, page 7\n Naruto chapter 597, pages 20-21 \n \n[/code]\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T13:10:54.283", "id": "13023", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-24T13:10:54.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "7713", "parent_id": "8580", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have been searching for this manga too and I hope it's the same manga you\nwere searching for.\n\nThe name of the manga is [**Shuu\n7**](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=12781). The manga consists of\n4 one-shot stories and the story you are looking for is the third one.\n\n> 3) Koi no Kajitsu (Fruit of Love)\n>\n> Yuzuhara had to quit the track and field team due to an injury and is down\n> because of that...then one day Tooda Shuuhei pops in at the window where she\n> sits and asks her to date him...although shocked Yuzuhara agrees him to see\n> at her window seat for a month until her seat changes...but on the last day\n> before her seat changes Shuuhei doesn't turn up...\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-17T17:04:53.157", "id": "16818", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-28T14:19:18.540", "last_edit_date": "2014-12-28T14:19:18.540", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "10715", "parent_id": "8583", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGenerally, when it comes to anime, OPs are switched out every season (12-13\nepisodes/weeks) or so. This is also the reason why 2-season anime series\nmostly have 2 different OPs, and single-season anime(s) only have 1 OP.\n\nSince Naruto's 1st season has 35 episodes ([according to\nWikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Naruto_episodes_%28season_1%29)),\nit makes sense that there are 3 different openings: the 1st season of Naruto\nis a roughly-3-season show, meaning that there will be 3 different openings.\n\nIf you meant \"Why not forget about having different OPs in the first place?\"\nas your question, it's hard to answer. It could be that production studios\nmight want to inject some variety into the series, so that people don't get\nbored of watching the same opening 10, 20, or even 30 times.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-10T23:08:15.327", "id": "8587", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-10T23:08:15.327", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4403", "parent_id": "8585", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nGoing through [Wikipedia's list of Death Note voice actors for the live action\nmovie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_%28film%29#Cast), it seems\nthat there is not much overlap (if any) between the Japanese actors and the\n_Japanese_ voice actors for Death Note.\n\nHowever, going through the first couple entries of the list, it seems that at\nleast a number of the _English_ voice actors for the Death Note anime also\nfunctioned as voice actors for the dubs of the live action movies. While this\nisn't true for some characters (e.g. Naomi Misora) this definitely seems to\nhold for a number of the voice actors for the major anime characters.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-11T04:50:35.743", "id": "8593", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-11T04:50:35.743", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2604", "parent_id": "8591", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nOne way to explain this would be that it's impossible for the Rainy Devil\n(possessed Kanbaru) to kill Araragi, and so the contract is automatically\nimpossible to complete. Had the Rainy Devil known that, it wouldn't've agreed\nwith such condition. But because it seems too simple and there are many things\nhinting that this wasn't the deal breaker, here's another way to explain this:\n\nThe whole deal with the Rainy Devil is that it's a devious creature and will\ntry to fulfill its owner's wish as deviously as possible. Remember how the\nfirst time Kanbaru wished to be faster than her classmates? Rainy Devil beat\n'em up so they couldn't compete. Now guess what Kanbaru wished for concerning\nSenjougahara.\n\nBecause Kanbaru wished to be close friends with Hitagi and then suddenly\nAraragi appeared on the horizon, becoming Hitagi's boyfriend, the Rainy Devil\ndecided that in order to gain Senjougahara's love (and let's not forget\nexactly how much Kanbaru prefers girls over boys), Araragi would have to be\nremoved from the picture. By death, of course, because it's Rainy _Devil_.\n\nSo after Senjougahara waltzed in on Rainy Devil and Araragi's one-sided battle\nand explained that if Koyomi were to die, she'd never stop until Kanbaru, who\ncaused all this, was dead, which would make **Kanbaru's wish to become close\nfriends with Senjougahara impossible to be fullfilled by killing Koyomi**.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-11T11:19:28.957", "id": "8597", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-11T11:19:28.957", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "8592", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nAfter watching the episode, what I get is that there were 2 wishes:\n\n * Conscious one : Be with Senjougahara\n * Unconscious one : Kill Araragi\n\nThe plan was to make it such that the contract becomes void (meaning both of\nthe wishes cannot be fulfilled). They did it by making sure that,\n\n * unconscious wish doesn't come true by letting Araragi to be bitten by [Shinobu Oshino](http://bakemonogatari.wikia.com/wiki/Shinobu_Oshino). Shinobu sucks some of Araragi's blood, allowing him to make use of his vampire powers within a limited period of time. Her contribution barely helped him in subduing the Rainy Devil, but it was enough for him to survive for the entire ordeal before Senjougahara's intervention.\n\n * Senjougahara is involved in the act. After scolding Araragi for dealing with things without her knowledge, she confronts Kanbaru, telling her that she will not forgive anyone who would kill Araragi, making it impossible for the conscious wish too.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-12T12:51:10.813", "id": "8615", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-12T12:51:10.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3009", "parent_id": "8592", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHaki can be of three type. Conqueror's Haki, Color of Armament, Color of\nObservation.\n\nHaki is basically used during fights to one up the opponent where some\nopponents are powerful enough to avoid one's sight or are able to attack\nfaster.So there is no reason why it should be used at every time.Normally\none's other senses are enough for fight.\n\nConqueror's Haki- It cannot be used repeatedly (IMO). It is kind of mentally\nexhaustive.Also till now there have been only 4 character to be shown using\nthis type. Rayleigh, Luffy , Chinjao and Doflamingo. Of these only Rayleigh\ncan use it to affect selected targets as he did at auction house. Luffy is\ntill now unable to use this to its full potential. Maybe it can be used\ncontinuously but luffy can't use it continuous till now.\n\nColor of Observation- It can be used regularly as shown by Enel. He used it to\nspy on people's conversation. No other character till now have any situation\nto use it continuously.\n\nColor of Armament- It gives the user an external protective covering to\nminimize effects of physical attacks.But it does affect the person who is\nusing and also the person on whom it is used. Chinjao used it to counter\nluffy's punch but his was no match for luffy. so his physical appearance\nchanged. Also Vergo wasn't able to match up to Law. And sanji's leg cracked\nwhile attacking Vergo.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-11T13:34:45.347", "id": "8599", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-12T07:19:11.540", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-12T07:19:11.540", "last_editor_user_id": "3343", "owner_user_id": "3343", "parent_id": "8594", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n**Does it affect the user (physically or mentally) who is using the Haki in\nany way?**\n\n * No. I encourage anyone to point out otherwise, but my memory says Haki isn't proven to be exhausting. The conclusion I draw from that is that it's not a **powerup** (i.e. energy drawn from an inner pool of life force/chakra/ki/Namekian-hand-holding).\n\n**Does excessive usage of Haki take a toll on the user?**\n\n * N-- but yes. By nature, excessive activity will generate stress but in accordance with my above answer, _this is just an unlikely result_.\n\n**If it is so, how exactly does it affect the user since Haki isn't something\nlike a physical energy?**\n\n * Haki is akin to concentration to activate, which also makes it task-orientated. Things like Observation are always on, because these are your most basic senses. As long as the user is conscious, there will be a heightened sense of plot convenience—I mean, the ability to detect hostile presences like the \"wild beast\" in Fishmen Kingdom's Palace. For Armament, this is used only for strengthening, i.e. intensifying the muscles. This is like getting in the zone, turning on that killer instinct, you know what you're about to do and you're gonna do it. So while the user can turn it on at the tip of a hat, there's no point to stay amped up and flexed. That's like walking around with a balled up fist all the time. Haki isn't going anywhere else. Nor is it a get-out-of-Death-Flag card that activates when your enemy has gone too OP or you're a pummeled mess. \n\nMy train of thought: Haki users are just flexing and intensifying their basic\ncharacteristics of observation, density, and intimidation. So it is physical\nenergy if you take all the potential energy and turn it into kinetic energy\nfor battle. Since it's not a powerup but more of a concentrated assault\nmindset, the training makes more sense. It wasn't for the purpose of\ncontrolling the uncontrollable, but for developing this state that allows you\nto demonstrate more strength like knowing how to brace your forehead with\nhardening for a headbutt or tighten a fist to punch. Not to undersell it, I'm\nsure the power behind one Haki-shrouded punch will make the difference versus\nanother eventually, but it's never been the deciding climax to a fight.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-07T13:35:26.250", "id": "10151", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-09T12:19:58.887", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-09T12:19:58.887", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "2364", "parent_id": "8594", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\n\nHaki requires a certain amount of energy to use. Since Haki refers to the will\npower of the user, **it uses mainly mental power**. Though we all know that\nthinking too much for a long period or intensively thinking about things,\nmakes you tired and thus drains your energy.\n\nIt seems that **Observation Haki** cannot be turned off and is the odd one of\nthe three in that sense (Eg: Enel knows what everybody says at any time, Aisa\nand Cobi kept hearing people's, driving them insane at first). Here, it does\nnot costs you energy to turn the ability on, but rather to keep yourself sane\nhearing so much voices at the same time for all time. It must have been so\nintense, that it would have been impossible for Whitebeard (due to his\nillness) to concentrate on everybody around him during the Marineford War,\ngiving Squard the opening to stab him. As mentioned by Crocodile and Marco, he\nshould have been able to sense and avoid that attack.\n\nReleasing **Conqueror's Haki** requires concentration, making it a bad move to\nuse excessively. It would only drain precious energy and wouldn't really\neffect stronger opponent anyway, so unless you want to intimidate or maintain\na badass image like Shanks it wouldn't make much sense to continuously release\nit.\n\nFinally, **Armanent Haki** requires the most concentration and energy of all\nforms of Haki. Coating for a long time or coating large surfaces takes a major\ntoll on the mind and body. The user might get used to using such amounts of\nHaki over a long time, but it would drain their energy pretty rapidly.\n\n> Luffy fully coated his body but was completely worn out after doing so for\n> only 20 minutes. Additionally, using such amounts of Haki took such a huge\n> toll on his body, that Luffy was rendered unable to even stand and needs at\n> least 10 minutes to **regenerate his Haki** , before attempting to do\n> anything else again. \n> \n>  \n> \n> [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8jOyI.jpg)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-08T22:07:25.963", "id": "11164", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-14T15:24:24.580", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-14T15:24:24.580", "last_editor_user_id": "6166", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "8594", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\n> Due to the fact that [Haki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki#cite_note-\n> Transfer_Haki-6) originates from an individual's spirit and not their body,\n> even if the user's spirit is transferred into another body, they are still\n> capable of using Haki as if they were in their original body.\n\nThis tells me that Haki does not affect users Physical strength as such.\n\n> [Haoshoku_Haki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Haoshoku_Haki) is the\n> only one that is not used excessively since it might affect the innocent\n> people with weak will power or is not needed once you already knocked down\n> the opponents.\n>\n> [Kenbunshoku Haki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Kenbunshoku_Haki) and\n> [Busoshoku_Haki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Haki/Busoshoku_Haki) are\n> used as often as needed to keep on monitoring your opponents activities and\n> defending against their attacks.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-17T22:24:51.487", "id": "12914", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-17T22:24:51.487", "last_edit_date": "2020-06-17T09:17:53.303", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "2956", "parent_id": "8594", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nBasically as ʞɹɐzǝɹ has mentioned in the comments, the old man is the older\nversion of himself.\n\nThere's actually some really detailed discussion\n[here](https://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=643). Here are some\nquotes from that discussion that references Suzuki Amahiko as the old man.\n\nNoting the old man turns into a butterfly but calls him Suzuki:\n\n> Yeah, that's a great point about the same thing happening with Suzuki (and\n> note that Suzuki Amahiko the old guy turns into a butterfly at the end)!\n\nA reply to monkey-boy detailing Suzuki meeting his past selves:\n\n> > Quote from monkey-boy\n>>\n\n>>> p237: I take it that this is the butterfly saying goodbye, not K; which is\nto say that it is momma talking. It was also the butterfly talking, then, when\nK found Amahiko in the snow and said \"but here you are, still alive\" (p206);\nnote that old-Amahiko also comes in the form of a butterfly (see p292) when he\nsays essentially the same thing, \"yet, in the end, you always wake up, and\nit's just you\" (p008).\n\nA deeper analysis of its meaning was also written, here referencing Suzuki:\n\n> He is an old man who speaks to himself as a child, a child who hands the box\n> to himself as an adult, an adult who sees himself as an old man, and a\n> butterfly who appears before his myriad human selves.\n\nAnd a summary of events [here](http://forums.mangafox.me/threads/278357-For-\nthose-who-are-a-bit-confused-a-chronological-summery-*spoilers*), which lists\nthe events in order, explicitly stating that he was the older version of\nSuzuki Amahiko.\n\n> * At the same time Suzuki jumps off the roof of his school, Arie is pushed\n> down the well by her classmates.\n> * In the hospital he is given the tin box by an older version of himself.\n> He is then transferred.\n> * On Suzuki's first day there aare two empty desks. The he goes to first\n> would be Arie's desk.\n>\n\nIf you still are unsure you can read the discussion there.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-08-26T08:56:28.053", "id": "24378", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-27T04:48:27.123", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-27T04:48:27.123", "last_editor_user_id": "6481", "owner_user_id": "6481", "parent_id": "8603", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nIt's known as the 'Shaft head tilt' as the animation studio \"Shaft\" are well\nknown for including it in their shows:\n\n  \n\nAbove are other shaft shows; Puella Magi Madoka Magica ,Arakawa Under the\nBridge , Nisekoi.\n\nAnime director of Shaft since 2004, Akiyui Shinbo is responsible for this\nstudio trait.\n\n[knowyourmeme - Shaft Head Tilt](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shaft-head-\ntilt)\n\nThe tilt is merely artistic, with no special meaning. Along with this, Shaft\nhave other signature style traits such as large expansive empty rooms for\ndramatic effect and fast displaying text.\n\n  (who needs all\nthat space to brush their teeth or have a bath?)\n\n[TVTropes Shaft\nStudio](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/StudioShaft)\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-12T09:56:14.310", "id": "8611", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-12T11:04:04.887", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-12T11:04:04.887", "last_editor_user_id": "1348", "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "8608", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUltear controlled Jellal to build the R-System, so the Magic Council focuses\non him and not on the Grimoire Heart, who could then move in the shadows to\ncontinue their search for Zeref. (Tower of Heaven Arc)\n\nSo to answer your question, Yes, Grimoire was aware Zeref was alive and used\nJellal as a decoy to search for him. After finding him launching an attack on\nTenrou Island (Tenrou Arc)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-27T05:48:01.907", "id": "11500", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-27T05:48:01.907", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6368", "parent_id": "8610", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI do love a good Spice & Wolf question! The short answers are:\n\n * Eve was not trying to hurt the Church. The only revenge she desired was against the deceased merchant who had once bought her, which was the reason she was so motivated to earn profits. Her goal was to become wealthier than he had ever been, in order to prove he'd only been able to buy her due to luck, and that he could never afford her under normal circumstances. \n\n * The suicidal act which Lawrence was referring to was her plan to buy up a large number of furs before everyone else, because it was purposely interfering with the expectations of the Church, and the Church isn't shy about killing people who defy their authority or otherwise become a nuisance.\n\nNow for a bit of a longer explanation, specifically about the relationship\nbetween Eve's plan and the Church. While her plan wasn't a plot to get revenge\nagainst the Church, it might have seemed that way because she was determined\nto carry it out despite knowing it directly conflicted with the Church's\nplans. At the same time, the bishop of Lenos's unfair dismissal of Eve made\nthe Church well-deserving of any negative impact her plans would have on them.\n\nWhen the events are considered chronologically, it becomes clear that Eve\ndidn't devise the plan to buy furs in order to seek revenge against the\nChurch, since the way they wronged her in the first place was by abandoning\nher after she'd already shared this plan with them.\n\nBasically, Eve wasn't interested in hurting the Church, but she also continued\nher plan in spite of the fact she would be hurting the Church. After this\nclarification has been made, your first question requires a new answer.\n\n> The Church is somehow hurt by Eve buying a lot of furs and then sailing away\n> to make a big profit. How are these two things related?\n\nFor maximum clarity, I'll try to explain it with as much relevant background\ndetail as possible.\n\nEve and the Church had been working together, smuggling salt into Lenos.\nBefore this arrangement, the bishop of Lenos had been falling continually\nfurther into debt, until Eve approached him with the salt-smuggling plan.\nSince she's nobility within the kingdom of Winfiel, she also offered to put\nhim in contact with a powerful archbishop there.\n\nEve did all the work in coming up with the plan, initiating the setup, then\nactually transporting the salt, and the Church paid her for its delivery. This\narrangement was incredibly lucrative for the Church.\n\nHowever, the Church was forced to cancel their annual northern campaign due to\na falling out between them and the nation of Ploania, which is an area the\ncampaign would have needed to pass through. Since the northern campaign's\nentire purpose had always been to display the Church's power, this\ncancellation brought the Church's authority into question and made the threat\nof an uprising more serious, so they started focusing entirely on\nstrengthening their base of power and completely pulled out of salt-smuggling\nin the process.\n\nThis put Eve in a bad position, since she suddenly lost her sole source of\nincome.\n\nMeanwhile in the port town of Lenos, a freeze on all fur trading was put into\neffect.\n\n_(Note: The following section explains why a freeze was put on the fur trade,\nand why the Council of Fifty came to the decision that they did. If you fully\nunderstand this part already, feel free to skip it.)_\n\n* * *\n\nThe freeze on fur trading became necessary due to the northern campaign's\ncancellation. Lenos's craftsmen relied heavily on the northern campaign to\nsell their finished products, which would have normally flown off the shelves\nas souvenirs, since knights and mercenaries spent money quite freely. The\ncancellation of the campaign was an unthinkable economic blow to these\ncraftsmen.\n\nSince the campaign was not taking place, the town's economy would need to rely\non merchants, who were not coming to the town to spend money as consumers, but\nrather quite the opposite. While knights and mercenaries are especially free\nwith their coin, merchants are especially miserly. Their only purpose is to\nbuy items they can resell for a worthwhile profit, so they have zero interest\nin buying clothing at retail prices.\n\nInstead, the merchants would be interested in buying the furs themselves. As\nraw materials, they are cheap and can be easily sold for a good profit after\ntransporting them elsewhere.\n\nThis is where the conflict arises.\n\nWith Lenos's craftsmen being unable to sell their products like usual, they'd\nalso be unable to buy the vast quantities of fur like usual, which meant the\nmerchants would have an opportunity to buy up the ridiculously large fur\nsurplus that was suddenly available.\n\nAdditionally, the merchants could broker deals with the fur sellers, making\narrangements to buy all their furs in the future as well. This would be pretty\ntempting to the sellers, since a merchant would be guaranteed to buy their\nfurs every year, whereas the craftsmen of Lenos were now unreliable since the\nnorthern campaign might be cancelled again.\n\nThus, the Council of Fifty put a freeze on all fur trading, and convened to\ndecide if the fur trade should be banned altogether, since that would\nguarantee the supply of furs would remain available to the local craftsmen.\n\nThe craftsmen of clothing in Lenos, along with the people who supply them\ntheir tools and wares, would be faced with complete ruin if the entire fur\nsupply was bought out. At the same time, there was absolutely no guarantee\nthat the clothing would sell even if fur sales were banned, and having money\nno longer coming into the town would devastate the economy of Lenos. Even if\nthe craftsmen wanted to export the clothing, there were any number of other\ntowns with superior clothing craftsmanship, so paying to ship it somewhere\nelse would hardly be worth the trouble.\n\n* * *\n\nIn the end, the compromise the Council of Fifty made was to restrict all fur-\ntrading to cash-only transactions. By restricting fur trades to cash, they\nwould be able to sell some of the furs while preventing the entire town's\nsupply from being quickly bought out. After all, the larger a trading firm\nbecame, the more of its business took place on paper, in entries on ledgers,\nrather than with cash.\n\nThe Church heard of the decision well before it was going to be made public,\nand Eve found out through her contacts in the Church. She then approached the\nbishop of Lenos with a plan that would make both her and the Church a lot of\nmoney: Since the Church was sitting on a nearly unimaginable amount of cash\nfrom the tithes it collected, they could prepare to buy up all the furs in\nLenos immediately after the Council of Fifty's decision was made public, while\neveryone else would still be scrambling to get cash together, and then they\ncould move the furs downriver.\n\nThe bishop loved Eve's idea, except for the part where she was included in it.\nHe found a trading company to partner with instead, and used that as an excuse\nto cut his ties with Eve, saying it would be more advantageous to deal with a\ntrading company than with an individual merchant. It was a pretty harsh course\nof action, especially considering he owed a lot to her for the salt-smuggling\nopportunity. Although, the fact he owed her was exactly why he didn't want her\naround anymore, and got rid of her while he had a good opportunity.\n\nHowever, Eve refused to let the deal she'd proposed get away from her. She\nstarted gathering up cash of her own, intending to buy a large number of furs\nand then transporting them downriver before anyone else had the chance,\nincluding the trading company the Church had partnered with. Whoever could get\ntheir furs downriver first would earn the best return on their investment,\nsince people won't be willing to pay nearly as much for furs after they\nrealize that the market is being flooded with them.\n\nEve's plan would infringe on a considerable portion of the Church's intended\nrevenue, which is how it would hurt the Church.\n\n_Source: Spice & Wolf light novels (Volume 5)._\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-13T10:00:51.900", "id": "8636", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-13T10:00:51.900", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3387", "parent_id": "8614", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIzaya traded Celty's head from Namie Yagiri for a favor. Namie works in Yagiri\nPharmaceuticals where Celty's head was stored at that time. Namie had access\nto the storage room and didn't need the head that much, so she gave it to\nIzaya.\n\nAlso see this excerpt from [a Durarara\nwiki](http://durarara.wikia.com/wiki/Izaya_Orihara):\n\n> At his apartment, Izaya meets with Namie once again. He comments on her\n> situation, giving up all she had for her brother's love and having her\n> company being bought out by Nebula. He agrees to help keep her in hiding in\n> exchange for Celty's head.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-12T21:05:15.870", "id": "8622", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-12T21:05:15.870", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "8616", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeems like only the first 4 movies are out of chronological order.\n\nTo watch it in chronological order you would have to watch it like this:\n\n * Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Part 1) (1995-1996)\n * Kara no Kyoukai 4: Garan no Dou (June 1998)\n * Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu (July 1998)\n * Kara no Kyoukai 1: Fukan Fuukei (September 1998)\n * Kara no Kyoukai 5: Mujun Rasen (November 1998)\n * Kara no Kyoukai 6: Boukyaku Rokuon (January 1999)\n * Kara no Kyoukai 7: Satsujin Kousatsu (Part 2)\n * Kara no Kyoukai - Epilogue \n\nAl tough personally I enjoyed the story more watching it in release order\ninstead. I don't think watching it in chronological order will fix your\nexperience to much as said on\n[MaL](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=484111#heTjBH1AFyY3RkvM.99)\n\n> you won't gain any better understanding by viewing them in the chronological\n> order because each is first and foremost a story closed in itself.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-12T20:18:33.720", "id": "8620", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-12T20:18:33.720", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8619", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nThere are 7 anime movies of Kara no Kyoukai, in order of **release date**\n(which is the same as the order or the Light Novel's chapter/book): \n1\\. Fukan Fuukei - released May 21, 2008 \n2\\. Satsujin Kousatsu - released June 25, 2008 \n3\\. Tsuukaku Zanryuu - released July 23, 2008 \n4\\. Garan no Dou - released December 17, 2008 \n5\\. Mujun Rasen - released January 28, 2009 \n6\\. Boukyaku Rokuon - released July 29, 2009 \n7\\. Satsujin Kousatsu - released December 9, 2009 \nSource: [Wikipedia - Kara no\nKyoukai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_no_Ky%C5%8Dkai)\n\nBut if we're to order the movie based on **actual timeline of events**\nhappening in Kara no Kyoukai's it will be:\n\n> 1\\. Satsujin Kōsatsu (Zen) - August 1995 - March 1996 \n> 2\\. Garan no Dō - March 1996- June 1998 \n> 3\\. Tsūkaku Zanryū - July 1998 \n> 4\\. Fukan Fūkei - September 1998 \n> 5\\. Mujun Rasen - November 1998 \n> 6\\. Bōkyaku Rokuon - January 1999 \n> 7\\. Satsujin Kōsatsu (Go) - February 1999\n\nSource: [Wikipedia - List of kara no Kyoukai\nFilms](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kara_no_Ky%C5%8Dkai_films)\n\nI strongly suggest just watch it in order of its release to get the full\nexperience :)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-12T20:23:35.257", "id": "8621", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-12T20:23:35.257", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "8619", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nSince the other answers don't appear to address Mirai Fukuin, I will do that\nhere.\n\nFirst, you **must** watch Kara no Kyoukai in release order. That is, 1 through\n7 in numerical order, then the epilogue, followed by Mirai Fukuin, and finally\nMirai Fukuin: Extra Chorus (a half-hour bonus episode included with the BD/DVD\nrelease of Mirai Fukuin). To do otherwise is downright ridiculous - this isn't\none of those cases like Haruhi where both release and chronological order have\ntheir merits.\n\nSince Mirai Fukuin assumes knowledge of the rest of the series, it obviously\ndoesn't make any sense as a standalone anime. Luckily for you, the sort-of\ndisjointed, vignettish nature of Mirai Fukuin is such that you haven't really\nhad the rest of the series spoiled for you. If you knew what you were looking\nfor, perhaps, but the KnK storyline is sufficiently convoluted that you\nprobably weren't able to pick up on any of the aspects of Mirai Fukuin that\nspoil the earlier movies. Go ahead and pick up the first movie (Fukan Fuukei /\nOverlooking View) and start from there.\n\n> Later I discovered that [Mirai Fukuin] was a compilation of longer episodes\n> of a series.\n\nThis isn't actually the case. Mirai Fukuin is basically an extra, original\npair of short stories, not a compilation of the previous movies or anything\nlike that.\n\nNote that there _is_ a compilation movie for KnK, titled \"[Kara no Kyoukai\nRemix: Gate of Seventh\nHeaven](http://myanimelist.net/anime/6624/Kara_no_Kyoukai_Remix%3a_Gate_of_Seventh_Heaven)\",\nbut that's neither here nor there. If, after watching movies 1-6, you find\nyourself confused about how everything plays out chronologically, watch Remix,\nwhich contains short recaps of each episode, in chronological order.\n\n> ...the story seemed very incomplete.\n\nI should point out that even after watching everything in the right order,\nMirai Fukuin will probably still seem incomplete. This is partly because Mirai\nFukuin adapts only two out of five short stories in the original Mirai Fukuin\nnovel on which it is based. I haven't read the novel myself, but I hear that\nthe remaining three stories help make everything seem more complete.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-13T22:25:45.243", "id": "8643", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-13T22:34:21.347", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-13T22:34:21.347", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "8619", "post_type": "answer", "score": 15 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nUsing [this timeline](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/User%3aTimeel39/Timeline)\nand the following data\n\n[code]\n\n September 15 Birth day Kakashi\n Academy Grad. Age 5\n Chūnin Prom. Age 6 \n \n[/code]\n\nWe can tell that Kakashi was born 14 years before the 9-tails attack. Using\nthe information that the Akatsuki dead line was 18 years after the 9-tails\nattack. we can tell that Kakashi should be roughly 32 years old.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-12T22:29:33.917", "id": "8624", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-12T22:29:33.917", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1458", "parent_id": "8623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\n\nat the time of pain he was 30 so one year has passed in the forth great ninja\nwar so he is 31. mr.dimitri mx you were so so close by one year. and also have\nwe considered that kakashi died by pain and was revived so technically he\nrestarted his life when pain revived him so isnt he really one years old.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-09-21T13:28:26.487", "id": "14088", "last_activity_date": "2014-09-21T13:28:26.487", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "6439", "parent_id": "8623", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI may have the answer. It appears that this was never a scene that actually\noccurred in the movie at all in My Neighbour Totoro (The Movie). It was\nactually.....\n\n> A promotional art for the movie My Neighbour Totoro\n\nI came to the conclusion when I watched the movie myself three times for\nclarification and asked some of my friends who helped me research a bit.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-22T02:34:40.290", "id": "8825", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-22T02:34:40.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "8625", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThose are mere speculations. There were only two things that Ryuk said about\nthe usage of the Death Note by humans:\n\n 1. All of them die while being unhappy, in despair.\n 2. Their soul doesn't go to either hell or heaven.\n\nThis was said in both, the manga and the anime and none of the other Shinigami\nsaid about the matter.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-13T02:25:12.730", "id": "8628", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-13T02:25:12.730", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2159", "parent_id": "8627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\n> Ryuk once commented that users of the Death Note can neither go to heaven\n> nor hell. (Though one source claimed that this was only a fake rule that\n> Ryuk wrote/spoke.)\n\nNo, the claim/source is incorrect. Anyone who uses/writes in the Death Note\ncan neither go to heaven nor hell. This can be seen as Purgatory or 無\nMU/Nothingness\n\n> This suggests Light becomes a Shinigami.\n\nWrong. :) The rules of the Death Note have been explicitly stated in both the\nanime and manga as stated by Braiam which was...\n\n> The human who uses the notebook can neither go to Heaven nor Hell and die an\n> unfilling and unhappy life.\n\nFinally touching the Death Note does not make you a Shinigami, although\ntouching it allows you to see the Shinigami.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-13T03:02:52.097", "id": "8629", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-22T17:40:46.500", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-22T17:40:46.500", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "8627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\n\nShinigamis are not in heaven nor hell.\n\nThey are all bored and unhappy and do not lead fulfilling lives. Cased closed.\nLight is the unnamed Shinigami. Remember Light's tie or the bag he carried\nwith him in the beginning? Think of all the Shinigamis that were introduced.\nEven though Ryuk said all Shinigamis love apples, he was the only one we saw\neating any. The unnamed Shinigami in the 5 minute clip continuation threw him\nan apple as Light did when living, and he did not stay for the rest of Ryuk's\nstory as if he already knew how it ended.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-11-08T08:42:44.837", "id": "14941", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-22T17:52:26.340", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-22T17:52:26.340", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "9078", "parent_id": "8627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\nLight Yagami ultimately died as Ryuk himself took his life by writing his name\nin his Death Note just before Light suffered from a bullet wound. Ryuk had\npromised Light that if such a situation ever happened, he would set Light free\nby writing his name in his Death Note.\n\n`Update:` You can read about it in the first episode of Death Note where Ryuk\ntalks about killing Light using his death note at 14:50 into the episode.\n\nAnd regarding what happens to Light after he dies is probably the Shinigami\nrealm where his life span becomes equal to the number of lives he has taken\nusing the death note. You can read about it here <http://bit.ly/1xFOBns>\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-06T13:26:57.250", "id": "15527", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-23T00:31:08.760", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-23T00:31:08.760", "last_editor_user_id": "63", "owner_user_id": "9508", "parent_id": "8627", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 }, { "body": "\n\nI have done a ton of research and my conclusion is, how are shinigami created\nin the first place, then I thought something, maybe shinigamis are human who\ndied in possession of the death note but with no shinigami to take it from\nthem (they also don't remember being human). But light as we all know is one\nof the smartest beings alive so maybe he might've become a shinigami but found\na loop hole to be able to remember a bit of his previous life. Maybe he goes\nback down there to find out about everything or to continue his previous goal.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-22T17:13:34.113", "id": "18752", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-22T17:13:34.113", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11330", "parent_id": "8627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI believe I remember in the end of the manga, Ryuk said that Light would go to\nMU(Nothingness). This was immediately after Light died.\n\nI took that to mean that he simply ceased to exist.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-22T18:23:15.503", "id": "18754", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-22T18:41:31.557", "last_edit_date": "2015-01-22T18:41:31.557", "last_editor_user_id": "260", "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "8627", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI have no good references but:\n\nThe mini character was supposed to be the shipwright and was replaced by\nFranky.\n\nThe other one was meant to be a plant obsessed character who was replaced by\nRobin and largely incorporated into the post time skip Ussop.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T20:08:59.760", "id": "8735", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-22T17:16:20.770", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-22T17:16:20.770", "last_editor_user_id": "3561", "owner_user_id": "3561", "parent_id": "8631", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**_Chuunibyou_** describes teenagers around the age of fourteen that try to\nlook cool to impress people around their age and are _self-important_ trying\nto be unique.\n\nThis way of thinking, however, may continue even after the teen reaches\nadulthood, but it does not actually relate to any medical condition or mental\ndisorder.\n\nIt's more like a growth phase for some teenagers.\n\n* * *\n\nBased on \"Chuunibyou User Manual\" (中二病取扱説明書, Chuunibyou Toriatsukai Setsumei\nSho) by Saegami HYOUYA, there are 3 types of chuunibyou.\n\n 1. DQN-type pretends to be antisocial even though they aren't, or can't be and has made-up stories about antisocial behavior (gang fights/crime). \n\n 2. Subculture-type/Hipster prefers subculture or minor trends just to be different and have the \"cool\" factor. (obsessed with imitating idols/fictional characters)\n\n 3. Evil Eye-Type admires mystical powers and pretends to have one of their own, to the extent of establishing an alias just for that.1\n\n* * *\n\nAn example of DQN Chuunibyou:\n\n> \"Look at all those bandages wrapped around you! What happened?\"\n>\n> \"I had a bunch of gang fights.\"\n>\n> \"Come on, I know you're too kind to be a gangster.\"\n\nAn example of Subculture Chuunibyou:\n\n> \"When I collect Pokémon cards, I only collect ones that are imported from\n> Japan.\"\n>\n> \"Can you read all those?\"\n>\n> \"-_-; S-sure I can...\"\n\nAn example of Evil Eye Chuunibyou:\n\n> \"Don't take that bandana off my left wrist. It's sealing an evil spirit\n> inside me and if you take it off I may go berserk.\"\n>\n> \"Dude, calm down. You just have chuunibyou.\"2\n\n* * *\n\nReferences:\n\n1 [Animanga Wikia: \"Chuunibyou\"](http://animanga.wikia.com/wiki/Chuunibyou) \n2 [Urban Dictionary:\n\"Chuunibyou\"](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chuunibyou) \n3 [The Free Dictionary Language Forums: \"Japanese Slang--\nChuunibyou\"](http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst29720_Japanese-Slang--\nChuunibyou.aspx) \n4 _Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!_ :)\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-13T07:46:26.920", "id": "8634", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-23T20:31:28.743", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-23T20:31:28.743", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "4483", "parent_id": "8632", "post_type": "answer", "score": 28 }, { "body": "\n\nAs for medical term or more common term for chuunibyou, they actually show it\non first episode.\n\n[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DvZgf.jpg)\n\n> eight grader syndrome, pubescent crisis, fourteen sick, hebephrenic\n> schizophrenia, 8th grader syndrome. A decade ago it was still considered to\n> be part of the rebellious age of puberty.\n\nI couldn't find any reliable source of pubescent crisis or fourteen sick but\nthere are a lot explanation about hebephrenic schizophrenia and it seems like\nhebephrenic schizophrenia is more chronic mental disorders then the chuunibyou\nwe know\n\nFrom [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorganized_schizophrenia)\n(emphasis mine):\n\n> Disorganized schizophrenia, also known as hebephrenia or hebephrenic\n> schizophrenia, is thought to be an extreme expression of the disorganization\n> syndrome that has been hypothesized to be one aspect of a three-factor model\n> of symptoms in schizophrenia, the other factors being reality distortion (\n> **involving delusions and hallucinations** ) and psychomotor poverty (lack\n> of speech, lack of spontaneous movement and various aspects of blunting of\n> emotion).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2017-03-27T12:21:56.813", "id": "39593", "last_activity_date": "2017-03-27T12:21:56.813", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "8632", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n**Yes, it’s a real thing.**\n\nIn reality, **Chuunibyou is way more common than we usually think.** That’s\nbecause it isn’t just about pretending to have superpowers, but rather about\n**pretending** in general. And its categorized into 3 types by how people tend\nto pretend.\n\nHope I answered your question. If you’re still curious, try:\n\n * <https://godanimereviews.com/what-is-chuunibyou-is-it-real/>\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-11-15T18:37:19.283", "id": "49691", "last_activity_date": "2018-11-15T18:37:19.283", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "43400", "parent_id": "8632", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThis is off the top of my head, so I could be barking mad, but this is how I\nremember it. Spoilers for Kizumonogatari, Nekomonogatari Black, and\nNisemonogatari ahead.\n\nShinobu, in Kizu, tells Koyomi that head-patting is some kind of intimate act\nof subservience between a vampire servant and master. Koyomi thinks this is a\nlittle weird, but goes along with it.\n\nAt the end of Kizu, Tsubasa deduces that Shinobu wanted to die the whole time.\nKoyomi refuses to grant her this, and instead brings about the situation where\nhe's an asymptotically human pseudo vampire and Shinobu is a mostly powerless\nasymptotically vampiric pseudo human who has to suck Koyomi's blood to\nsurvive. Shinobu is furious, and doesn't talk to Koyomi until Karen Bee.\n\nIn Neko Black, Shinobu helps defeat Black Hanekawa. Afterwards, Koyomi goes to\npat her on the head as a reward, but finds that she's wearing that strange\npilot hat. She got the hat to show Koyomi that she was still pissed at him and\nwasn't going to let him pat her on the head.\n\nLater, in Tsubasa Cat, Shinobu stops being angry at Koyomi and starts living\nin his shadow. In Karen Bee, she even comes out to talk to him when he's in\nthe bath. Since she's not mad at him anymore, she stops wearing the hat, since\nshe doesn't need to stop him from patting her head.\n\nEdit: Now with actual evidence.\n\nKizumonogatari, Chapter 4 establishes that head-rubbing is regarded by Shinobu\nas a sign of obedience. Koyomi has just allowed Shinobu to turn him into a\nvampire, and Shinobu has asked him if he understands that he must be\nsubservient to her. The first to speak is Koyomi.\n\n> \"Ha, haa\"\n>\n> \"Huh, an ambiguous answer——do you really understand?\"\n>\n> \"Um, umm——I understand.\"\n>\n> \"Then as a sign of obedience to me, rub my head!\"\n>\n> She said majestically.\n>\n> ....\n>\n> Rub head.\n>\n> Uwa, her hair is really soft.\n>\n> Although there is a lot of hair, it‘s really smooth.\n>\n> \"That‘s enough.\"\n>\n> \"....That‘s the sign of obedience?\"\n>\n> \"You don't know that?\"\n>\n> She looked at me with contempt.\n>\n> Vampires use a different set of rules.\n\nHere's Nekomonogatari Black, Chapter 13, where Koyomi goes in to thank Shinobu\nfor her help and finds her wearing the hat. Oshino also tells Koyomi that he\ngave her the hat. I massaged out some of the grammar mistakes in the\ntranslation.\n\n> I even wanted to stroke her head.\n>\n> The sign of obedience--though I wouldn't call it that.\n>\n> Still, I thought she could let me do at least that--I thought she would\n> certainly let me thank her.\n>\n> \"............\"\n>\n> My expectation was largely unfulfilled.\n>\n> The sense of omnipotence of the look from above in epilogues didn't apply\n> here.\n>\n> As I arrived and met her in the classroom on the first floor, the little\n> vampire girl was wearing, of all things, an enigmatic helmet with goggles,\n> of the type you wear when riding a moped.\n>\n> I couldn't stroke her head like this.\n>\n> \"Ah, that? Vampire-chan badgered me about it. After all she is the one who\n> solved the whole cat thing, so I gave it to her as a prize\"\n>\n> Oshino explained.\n\nThe quotes don't explicitly say that Shinobu was wearing the hat to stop\nKoyomi from rubbing her head, but it seems pretty plain from the context. It\nwas her way of telling Koyomi, without deigning to speak to him, that she\nhadn't forgiven him.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-07-24T03:27:57.153", "id": "13014", "last_activity_date": "2014-07-24T19:55:08.560", "last_edit_date": "2014-07-24T19:55:08.560", "last_editor_user_id": "7579", "owner_user_id": "7579", "parent_id": "8635", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSo, after a while of researching this, it appears that someone had taken a\nsubtitle file and run it through [Gizoogle's\nTranslation](http://www.gizoogle.net/textilizer.php) site.\n\nGizoogle is a parody of Google based off of Snoop Dogg's lingo\n\nWhat this does is translates sentences such as:\n\n> Madoka and Homura are best witch friends forever.\n\ninto Gangsta slang:\n\n> Madoka n' Homura is dopest witch playaz forever n' shit.\n\nThe subtitles have not been published online, whoever created them merely\nposted screenshots. But if you had an original subtitle file, you could\nreplicate it easily enough by using the same process.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-18T12:03:04.567", "id": "8747", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-18T12:03:04.567", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1530", "parent_id": "8638", "post_type": "answer", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n> What are the basic and upgraded Weapons called?\n\nI'll start with this since i'll use these terms in my answers, in the Anime,\nweapons like Soul and Tsubaki are known as _Death Weapons_. After they collect\nthe 100 souls they are refereed to as _Death Scythes_ like Spirit and Justin,\nmost likely a reference to how Lord Death is the Grim Reaper and in most works\nthe Grim Reaper is portrayed to have a Scythe, these terms will be different\ndepending on which version but for simplicity i'll use the anime terms.\n\nIt seems in the manga the 2 forms are Demon Weapon and Death scythes (デスサイズス\ndesu saizusu) so I use the anime terms as Soul is refereed to as a demon\nscythe and using the anime terms avoid any confusion thinking Soul is\nsomewhere in between.\n\n> What does completing this 100-soul ritual do for Weapon and Meister?\n\nFirst things first, you ask about the effects of the ritual, to answer this\nyou need to know what does collecting souls do for the Death Weapon. When a\nDeath Weapon consumes a soul they get more powerful, the amount of power\ndepends on thew soul they consume, Bellow are the list from the weakest to the\nstrongest.\n\n 1. Kishin Eggs (Red with a forming Shell) are the weakest however since they can give birth to a Kishin the DWMA seeks these out. \n\n 2. Human souls (Normally Blue) are used to refer to the souls of humans who are innocent, ie. have done no wrong. They give quite a bit of power compared to Kishin Eggs however the DWMA looks down on this as you'll be murdering innocent people to get them and beginning down the road of becoming a Kishin.\n\n 3. Witch Souls (Normally Purple) give the most because of the magic Witches use however a witch is \"normally\" very hard to kill (exception may possible be Angela Leon due to her age)\n\nThe 99-Kishin/1-Witch Ritual is used to train both the Death Weapon and\nMeister so they can handle the power slowly growing without loosing control,\nit's probably that by collecting 99 Kishin Eggs gives a Weapon/Meister pair\nthe experience and power they need to tackle the witch, look at Blair who was\na handful to Maka and Soul but wasn't even a witch and then to Maka's\nexpression when she saw Medusa's soul for the first time in Italy.\n\nThe final Witch Soul must give enough power to the Death Weapon to rival a\nDeath Scythe as Death Normally chooses the target Witches not only comparing\nagainst the Weapon/Meister pair's skill but probably also the amount of power\nthe Death Weapon will need to be considered as a Death Scythe.\n\nDeath Scythes are then assigned an area to manage in Death's place (due to his\nsoul being anchored to Death City) probably to replace the Great Old Ones AKA\nDeath's Eight Guardians which were once commanded by Death himself (back when\nhe had the more monstrous look). We know the fate of 6 of the eight, Asura\nbecome a Kishin and killed 3 of them, one is in the Book of Eibon in the form\nof a black, amorphous blob and another is Eibon, the fate of the other 2 is\nunknown. Most likely before the DWMA Death's Eight Guardians managed the world\nso with their disappearance/fall Death created the DWMA (and became more funny\nlooking to not scare children) and started training Death Scythes to replace\nthem, so far there are 8:\n\n * Spirit Albarn - North America\n * Marie Mjolnir - Oceania\n * Azusa Yumi - Eastern Asia\n * Justin Law - Western Europe\n * Tezca Tlipoca - South America\n * Tsar Pushka - Eastern Europe\n * Deng Dinga and Djinn Galland - Africa and Western Asia (How Wikipedia list them, not sure which is which)\n\nIt's not sure what happens to new Death Scythes with all the regions now\nmanaged but in the manga Justin Law is killed so the Western Europe slot is\nopen and in the Manga Soul Becomes a Death Scythe.\n\nAs for what happens to the Meister that's not entirely know (at least to me),\nhopefully [this question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/6649/what-\nhappens-to-the-miester-when-they-complete-a-death-scythe) will give the answer\nto that (will edit this part when it is answered)\n\n> What about combos with 1 Weapon and >1 Meisters?\n\nThe Other way around (>1 Weapon and 1 Meisters) which is more common I only\nknow of 2\n\n * Death the Kid: His weapons are Elizabeth and Patricia Thompson, the 2 were already guns using each other to mug people in Brooklyn and originally join Kid to exploit his wealth and authority as a Grim Reaper, but grow closer to Kid over time and outgrow their greed. Kid took an interest in them because of his crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder for symmetry however Kid wasn't a normal student.\n\n * Kilik Rung: his is Pot of Fire and Pot of Thunder, twin brother and sister, respectively, who never speak but have the ability to communicate with nature and sense danger.\n\nI don't know of too many other Weapon/Meister pairs which have more that 1\nWeapon but it's probably assumed that if a weapon has a sibling who they are\nvery close too most likely the Meister will accept them as another weapon. I\nwould assume these kind of weapons can be worked together but i haven't read\nup on too many.\n\nAs for Weapon/Meister only groups that would be very rare, in the Anime, there\nis a kid called Hero who didn't have a Death Weapon and was able to put up\nwith Excalibur but ended up putting him back because of Excalibur's sniffling.\n\nMeisters who work by themselves can manipulate their Soul Wavelength like\nStein and Black Star however Stein originally was paired with Spirit, it's not\nknown if he had a second partner (sympathy to the poor soul if there was).\nIt's probably safe to assume that all students who do missions have a Death\nWeapon unless there is a very good reason for that, as it would go against one\nof the main reasons of the DWMA (Training Death Weapons to Death Scythes).\n\nDeath Weapons that work alone normally shapeshift part of their body into a\nweapon, almost every Death Weapon can do this, however Weapon duos like the\nPot Twins or the Thompson Sisters can use one another; likewise with the Death\nScythes.\n\nHowever, pairs are normally stronger. In the Anime, Death explains how a\nMeister can use their Soul Wavelength alone, but it's amplified when they\nwield a Death Weapon (shown as Maka playing an acoustic guitar alone then\nplugging up an electric guitar rocking out as Soul sits on the Amplifier) so\nthe stronger either are by themselves, the even stronger they are together −\nthis is why Spirit and Stein are so strong together as Stein is already very\npowerful on his own.\n\nAs for the other away around in the Anime, Death Scythes seem to be used by\nothers other than Lord Death; Spirit, Azusa Yumi and Marie Mjolnir mainly,\nhowever before becoming a Death Scythe Spirit was originally with Stein before\npartnering with Maka's mother Kami however Stein and Kami weren't his Meisters\nat the same time.\n\nThe other that i have heard of is Tsugumi Harudori from Not! however she\nbefriends 2 Meisters and is indecisive about which one of them to choose as\nher partner which means she doesn't actually have a partner just yet. You\nmight be able to count Excalibur having multiple Meisters, but you'd be hard\npress to find any who would actully admit to it.\n\nAlso there's Soul Wavelength Comparability to factor in, Black Star couldn't\neven wield Soul claiming he couldn't even pick him up. Tsubaki on the other\nhand is probably the only stated Death Weapon who could have multiple Meisters\ndue to her accepting nature which allows for such a strong resonance with\nBlack Star's seemingly polar opposite nature to Tsubaki, Stein mentions this\nwhen he is analyzing everyone's Soul Wavelengths during the 2nd part of the\nremedial class.\n\n> Soul Eater Not! just started airing, possibly shedding more light on the\n> mechanics of that world\n\nSoul Eater Not! follows the daily lives of Tsugumi and her friends as they\nlearn the ropes of the DWMA and have occasional encounters with the characters\nof the main series so it'll probably give more light on how the DWMA/Death\nCity works and possibly link it to how the rest of the world works, but I\nthink it'll mostly answer question about the DWMA.\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-13T23:10:32.250", "id": "8647", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-14T05:51:08.270", "last_edit_date": "2017-04-13T12:54:49.117", "last_editor_user_id": "-1", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "8640", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nIn Japan, a \"host\" (ホスト _hosuto_ ) is a male worker at a club whose job is to\nentertain a female clientele. The clubs at which hosts work are called \"host\nclubs\". Host clubs (and their cross-gender counterparts, hostess clubs) are\nnot really found outside Japan or places with a large Japanese diaspora as far\nas I know, so it isn't surprising that you wouldn't have heard of them. See\nthe Wikipedia article \"[Host and hostess\nclubs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_club)\" for more details.\n\nHaving never actually been to a host club, I'm not in the best position to\nevaluate the one depicted in Ouran, but based on my secondhand understanding,\nthe Ouran Host Club is sort of a less-seedy version of what you'd see at an\nactual host club.\n\nThat said, I'd bet you any amount of money that no actual high school in Japan\n(or anywhere else for that matter) has a host club. The very idea of a school\nallowing minors to do something of that sort is ludicrous, which is part of\nwhat makes Ouran so funny.\n\n", "comment_count": 8, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-13T23:22:51.987", "id": "8648", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-13T23:22:51.987", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "8646", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSince it is conventional for English-language anime-listing sites (e.g. MAL)\nto treat a break in airing as marking the end of one series and the start of\nanother, you need some way to differentiate between the series that ended\nbefore the break and the one that started after.\n\nIn the case of something like _Naruto_ , the second part had a different title\n(\"Shippuuden\"), which makes the task of naming the new season easy (i.e. just\ncall it what it is). Since _Fairy Tail_ was called \"Fairy Tail\" both before\nand after the break in airing, you need some way to distinguish between the\ntwo series on the anime-listing sites. Using the year in which the series\nstarted airing is as good a way as any.\n\nI should emphasize that this is purely an artefact of the way that sites like\nMAL name series. As far as the people producing _Fairy Tail_ are concerned,\nthe episodes that started airing this month are part of the same series as the\nepisodes that aired from 2009-2013. If, for example, you consult [the\ntimetable for TV Tokyo](http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/index/timetable/), which\nairs _Fairy Tail_ , you will see that this week's episode is listed as:\n\n> ＦＡＩＲＹ ＴＡＩＬ ～フェアリーテイル～「妖精軍師」\n\nThis is the same title that was used for the show before the break in airing\n(the last bit is the episode title \"Yousei Gunshi\", something like \"Fairy\nTactician\").\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-14T00:15:47.883", "id": "8651", "last_activity_date": "2014-05-14T04:25:11.037", "last_edit_date": "2014-05-14T04:25:11.037", "last_editor_user_id": "1908", "owner_user_id": "1908", "parent_id": "8649", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMystogan defeated the subdivisions of Phantom Lord during the [Phantom Lord\nArc.](http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Phantom_Lord_arc)\n\nManga chapters 47-69 and Anime episodes 21-30.\n\nThis is a snapshot from chapter 65 of the manga : Fairy Law. The anime should\ntoo have it in the same episode named Fairy Law.\n\n\n\nQuote from the wiki linked above:\n\n> Just then, she notices Mystogan sitting quietly not far from her, who asks\n> her for apples, and she realizes that the reason Makarov managed to heal so\n> quickly was because the mysterious S-Class Mage gathered his scattered Magic\n> power. **She proceeds to lecture him for not joining the battle and helping\n> out his comrades, but then the wind starts blowing and scatters numerous\n> flags with Phantom's emblem on them around. Porlyusica realizes Mystogan did\n> more than enough by taking out all of Phantom's subdivisions single-\n> handedly** , and the two remain still, discussing the situation\n> enigmatically.\n\nNote: Emphasis mine.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-14T03:09:32.817", "id": "8654", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-14T03:09:32.817", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "8652", "post_type": "answer", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nYes, there is a mention of such a ninja in the manga as well as in the earlier\nepisodes of the anime.\n\nThe ninja that you are referring to is [Ao](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ao).\n\n> He has clashed several times with Konoha shinobi. At one point he defeated\n> an unknown Hyūga, taking one of the Hyūga's Byakugan and implanting it into\n> his own right eye socket. Later, he had a confrontation with Shisui Uchiha,\n> which left enough of an impact on Ao for him to clearly remember Shisui's\n> abilities and his chakra colour long after the event.\n\nHe first appeared in the manga chapter 454 and Naruto Shippuden anime episode\n199 (the five kage summit arc)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-14T05:13:57.083", "id": "8658", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-14T05:13:57.083", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2077", "parent_id": "8657", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI was unable to find any in canon references from official sources but based\non general opinion here it appears to be used for general decoration and\nserves no exact purpose.\n\nThere are no exact references on the necklace, so this would be the most\nlikely answer at this time, since no new information has been released yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T22:22:16.290", "id": "8684", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T22:22:16.290", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "8659", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nI read somewhere that it represented her tears (after Lisanna \"died\") so that\nshe would be able to smile again as her sort of \"crutch\", and that it was\ngiven to her by Makarov. You'll also notice that Mira stops wearing it after\nLisanna comes back from Edolas, so I would say that's a pretty decent theory\nespecially given the particular shape of this accessory.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2020-09-15T14:05:10.640", "id": "59585", "last_activity_date": "2020-09-15T14:05:10.640", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "56247", "parent_id": "8659", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe picture you posted is actually a mistranslation, I have the official\nEnglish release from Viz manga where Madara says \"Of all those who have fought\nme over the years, there's no one who surpass you at taijutsu!\"\n\nMadara says that Gai is the strongest taijutsu user he has ever faced, and he\nhas faced Hashirama Senju repeatedly in the past in life or death fights,\nwhile the latter was in Sage Mode, which pretty much puts you out of everyone\nelse's league immediately.\n\nBefore he was resurrected people thought Hashirama and Madara's prowess were\njust legends, which makes sense when you think about how easily Madara\ndefeated all five kages, in theory the top shinobi of each village, in\npractice some of the top shinobi of each village.\n\nWhen you consider that Madara gets his powers from being the reincarnation of\nIndra, and having absorbed Ashura's chakra to awaken the Rinnegan, and since\nfighting the Kages he has become the jinchuriki of the ten tails, making him\nvastly more powerful again.\n\nBut even in this Godly state, Gai's kick is almost enough to kill him,\nshattering his ribs and arm on one side and making him cough up blood before\nhis healing steps in.\n\nGai is the strongest taijutsu user ever, almost without a doubt, his only\npotential rivals being Madara, Naruto and Sasuke, depending on what they can\ndo with the Sage's chakra. When you consider that Gai is just a normal ninja\nwho isn't a jinchuriki, or a reincarnation of the Sage's children, yet those\nare the only people who can compare to him, he really is incredibly\nimpressive.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T22:46:01.613", "id": "8687", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T22:46:01.613", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4515", "parent_id": "8660", "post_type": "answer", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nActually, yes. Throughout the series, it is mentioned that the reason humans\ncan actually live they way they can is because God has given them their\n\"wish\". The reason for the immortality (even if it is miserable) is because\nGod has given up on them and given the human beings what they desired. (Even\nif it's not a great idea...)\n\nSo, this whole thing became possible because of the humans wishes and what\nthey thought was best. So, since this happened before \"God\" vanished (or as\nGod did, that is) it's safe to assume that perhaps God was capable of\nfulfilling a few things here and there, too.\n\nThis is just speculation but perhaps God has not abandoned them completely\njust yet.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-12-10T08:09:56.420", "id": "15619", "last_activity_date": "2014-12-10T08:09:56.420", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2751", "parent_id": "8662", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "\n\nAccording to the Bleach Wiki:\n\n> A Substitute Shinigami (死神代行, shinigami daikō) is someone who became\n> Shinigami by obtaining another Shinigami's power, or by going through a much\n> harder and riskier process to transform him/herself into one.\n\nGinjo was the first Substitute Shinigami that was recognized as such by the\nGotei 13. The origin of his powers is unknown but according to Captain Soi-\nFong he murdered many shinigami to get his powers.\n\nIchigo, on the other hand, received his powers from Rukia Kuchiki when she\ngave him a portion of her power by the method of endowing her zanpakuto with\nsaid power and stabbing Ichigo with it, in order to protect his family.\n\n> If a Substitute Shinigami appears, Soul Society gives that Shinigami a\n> special badge which they use to monitor and restrict the Substitute.\n> However, the Substitute is told that it is a license which is given to\n> Substitutes that prove beneficial to Soul Society to allow them to do their\n> work and identify them as a Substitute. The badge alerts the user if Hollows\n> are nearby via an alarm sound which can only be heard by the owner and the\n> item itself is only visible to other spiritually aware beings. The Badge can\n> also allow the soul to leave the body.\n\nIchigo received his badge after he went to **_SPOILER_** invade the Seireitei\nto rescue Rukia from being murdered on account of her giving power to a Human.\nThe Gotei 13 saw the sheer power Ichigo possessed and recognized him as a\nSubstitute Shinigami so they make keep an eye on him and call on him in times\nin need ( _Personal opinion_ which preceded to be the spine of the rest of the\nseries's plot).\n\nGinjo received his badge for a similar reason, so that the Gotei 13 could\nwatch his actions (specifically so he would not murder more Shinigami to gain\npower) and to call on him in times of need. ** _SPOILER_** In time he realized\nthe real purpose of the badge and feeling betrayed he disappeared from the\nGotei 13's radar without a trace.\n\nSource:[Bleach Wikia](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Shinigami)\n\n", "comment_count": 4, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-14T21:57:39.173", "id": "8668", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T00:55:23.020", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-15T00:55:23.020", "last_editor_user_id": "2213", "owner_user_id": "2213", "parent_id": "8667", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nFrom what i remember of the Translation of the game Kiritsugu introduced\nhimself as a Sorcerer. to be a Sorcerer _recognized_ by the Magic Association\none need to have wielded one of the [True\nMagics](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/True_magic#Magics).\n\nIn Tsukihime, Aoko introduces herself as a Sorceress which she is because she\nwielded the 5th, however at the time of the original Fate/Stay Night release\nthe Nasuverse wasn't as defined as it was today. While the game explains\nThaumaturgy, Magecraft and True Magic (including the difference between\nMedea's and Rin's Magic) a lot of the information and inner workings of the\nNasuverse (along with terminology) comes from the Fate/Complete Works Books,\nso at the time a Sorcerer/Sorceress was probably just a term to make a Magus\nseem more important before a majority of the True Magics were defined.\n\nAlso, in the wiki on [Magecraft](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Magecraft) it\nsays:\n\n> However, modern Magecraft remains far inferior from that of the past, so\n> much that someone like Medea, who comes from the Age of Gods when Magecraft\n> was much more powerful, would seem like a sorcerer to the eyes of a modern\n> magus, even though what she can do is not really Magic.\n\nTaking that into example, Shirou, a child who knew nothing of Magecraft would\nsee Kiritsugu, who does use it, in the same way a modem Magus would see a\nMagus from the the Age of Gods.\n\nAlso, rather than having to explain the difference between Magic and Magecraft\nlater on Kiritsugu probably figured it be easier if he had just said he was a\nwizard, since both a sorcerer and a wizard are \"users of magic\" this probably\nin japanese would be _mahoutsukai_ either way. This is another reason why Rin\ndisliked how Kiritsugu trained Shirou (even though Kiritsugu didn't actually\ndo anything), because Shirou doesn't know the difference.\n\nAnother reason for all of this however as stated by Krazer in the comments is\nthat we see the scene of Shirou though Shirou remembering the events of when\nhe met Kiritsugu (we can tell this though the use of descriptive text of how\nShiro feels). Shiro's idealized concept of Kiritsugu may have influence the\nscene, this would ring true of Shiki in Tsukihime aswell when he first met\nAoko and he \"remembers\" Aoko refer to herself as a Sorceress when they first\nmet when he was a child (and in hospital much like Shirou) while in the\nEclipse Ending Shiki makes no mention of Aoko being a Sorceress.\n\n", "comment_count": 5, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T00:07:52.607", "id": "8670", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T06:38:23.627", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-15T06:38:23.627", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "1587", "parent_id": "8669", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nA lot of ONAs get released either through the [Bandai\nChannel](http://www.b-ch.com/) or on [Nico Nico\nDouga](http://www.nicovideo.jp/). Releases on the Bandai Channel are usually\nregion locked and sometimes, they're re-release them on their [Youtube\nchannel](https://www.youtube.com/user/BandaiChannel) (which, sometimes, is\nalso region locked). Nico has an English version of the site which makes it a\nlot more accessible.\n\nBoth sites are free, Nico requires registration to view most videos and there\nis also a \"Premium\" member access.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T01:22:53.610", "id": "8673", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T01:22:53.610", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "91", "parent_id": "8671", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nMost site, even Rave wiki always refer it as a nose due to its position that\nlike a nose. But actually it's not both, it looks like horn, and the position\nis more like nose but it's the weapon that only Plue has\n\n\n\nJust like that picture says, even Hiro Mashima not sure what it is. (or he\njust didn't want to tell us)\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T09:12:31.913", "id": "8675", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T09:43:25.113", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-15T09:43:25.113", "last_editor_user_id": "2869", "owner_user_id": "2869", "parent_id": "8674", "post_type": "answer", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI think it's not a bear, it's a tiger (Tora). And according to\n[wiki](http://hamatora.wikia.com/wiki/Tanker-Kun) his name is Tanker-kun.\n\nFor now it's some kind of mascot (no further details), because Hamatora (ハマトラ)\nmeans \"Beach Tiger\". And Tanker-kun always use sailor suit, so for now we can\nassume he's mascot of Hamatora.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-16T02:55:55.327", "id": "8689", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-16T08:33:01.620", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-16T08:33:01.620", "last_editor_user_id": "49", "owner_user_id": "4506", "parent_id": "8676", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI would have to say he was not a priest, although this may still be proven\nwrong since Season 2 has not come out. From Hamatora's wiki, I was only able\nto find out this much information...\n\n> He once planted a bomb to destroy his enemies in HQ which resulted in him\n> accidentally blowing up some of the orphans he looked over. With extreme\n> guilt, he felt that he should raise the kids to kill him.\n\nI believe the bible is meant to reflect on his guilt over the killings of the\norphans, based on the fact that...\n\n> Three has the power to unleash his inner beast by holding a Bible and asking\n> the Lord for forgiveness. By doing this, he becomes extremely strong.\n\nI believe the true intent of this is to show Three's guilt for his actions by\nusing the bible as a vector.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T10:23:50.847", "id": "8678", "last_activity_date": "2014-08-13T12:48:52.797", "last_edit_date": "2014-08-13T12:48:52.797", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "3650", "parent_id": "8677", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHere's an analogy for you\n\nSuppose you are cooking, and you're making a dish that uses a lot of expensive\ningredients.\n\nSuppose you royally screw up, and make something completely inedible.\n\nThe ingredients are still gone. Even though you've ended up with something\nunusable, the things that you've put into it don't come back.\n\nThat's what happened here. Just because they didn't end up with anything\nuseful didn't mean that it would cost them any less.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T21:32:20.517", "id": "8680", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T21:32:20.517", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "260", "parent_id": "8679", "post_type": "answer", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\n\n**_Unmarked spoilers for both_ Brotherhood _and the 2003 series follow._**\n\nYou're missing a key bit of information: they _did_ gain something for their\nloss[1], just as Izumi did.\n\nThe boys gained the knowledge of what was beyond the gate. Unparalleled truths\nof alchemy reside beyond the gate, and no mortals are ever allowed access to\nit--unless they commit the taboo.[2]\n\nBoth Edward and Alphonse were shoved through the gate and absorbed as much\nmaterial as they could from it, Edward even wanting to go back to get more. In\nthe 2003 series, Alphonse never recalls this, though in _Brotherhood_ , he\nrecalls it after having blood spilled on his seal. Ed remembers it from the\nbeginning, and this knowledge is what allows him (and later, Alphonse) to\ntransmute without a circle.\n\nThe reason they couldn't just transmute everything back is because they had\nalready committed the sin. If you steal something, and are caught, but then\ngive it back, do the police let you go? No; and this is also the way of The\nTruth. Performing the sin is the punishable act; transmuting it back would be\nfutile.\n\n**1** Keep in mind that by the end of the series (at least in _Brotherhood_\n's case, original _FMA_ was not as forgiving), much of what was lost is\nregained through further equivalent exchanges. \n**2** It's a bit more complicated than this, but it will suffice for this\nexplanation.\n\n", "comment_count": 9, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-15T22:06:05.603", "id": "8681", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-15T22:06:05.603", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "274", "parent_id": "8679", "post_type": "answer", "score": 18 }, { "body": "\n\nI think Ed was able to get Al's soul back because it was never taken by the\ngate. The gate took Al's body but not his mind and soul. Those where left\nstanding in front of the gate or the void. Ed learned from the gate that if he\nacted quick enough he could get them back. So he used his right arm as\nmaterial to summon the gate. At witch time he got Al's mind and soul back and\naffixed it to the aromor via the blood seal. Had the gate taken his soul Ed\nwouldn't have been able to get it back because there is nothing you can trade\nfor a soul not even another soul. Thats why you cant bring dead people back to\nlife. 2003 anime.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-30T18:13:06.333", "id": "11564", "last_activity_date": "2014-06-30T18:20:35.643", "last_edit_date": "2014-06-30T18:20:35.643", "last_editor_user_id": "6431", "owner_user_id": "6431", "parent_id": "8679", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 }, { "body": "\n\nLet me try to explain this better. Think of the gate as god. When you die the\ngate reclaimes your mind, body and soul.\n\nSince the mind and soul are completely unique, there's nothing you can trade\nfor them. So you can't bring someone who has died back to life.\n\nWhen Ed and Al tried to bring their mom back, they preformed human\ntransmutation which automatically summons the \"gate of god\". Since the human\nbody is composed of simple elements they got their mom's body back via the\npile of stuff they poured in the bowl, but it was a soulless and mindless body\nso it didn't take a human form.\n\nThat is, until Dante feeds it pieces of incomplete philosophers stone which\ncontain souls.\n\nThe gate also gave them knowledge of alchemy. Ed got a little for his left\nleg, and Al got a lot for his whole body. Al just can't remember any of it\nuntil much later. But the gate didn't take Al's soul or mind, it left those\nsitting in front of the gate.\n\nEd used the knowledge he got from the gate and his right arm \"human\ntransmutation\" as material to summon the gate, where for his arm he got a\nlittle more knowledge and since Al's mind and soul were not in the gate he got\nthose back for free in the process. Where he affixed it the the armour via the\nblood seal.\n\nOn a side note, Ed will never get his limbs back because the homunculus Wrath\ntook them for himself and left the gate with them. So unless Ed can get wrath\nto give them back to the gate, Ed will never get his true arm and leg back.\n\nThis is going off of the 2003 anime. Just my personal theory\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-30T18:56:37.750", "id": "11565", "last_activity_date": "2021-07-28T16:42:30.577", "last_edit_date": "2021-07-28T16:42:30.577", "last_editor_user_id": "19307", "owner_user_id": "6432", "parent_id": "8679", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThey did gain something, though it cost them a bit more. See while the\nmaterials were enough in theory to remake a human body, it might not have been\nenough to construct it. So it took their bodies to help with the construction.\n\nWhat you gotta remember is they did get what they wanted. Their mother, at\nleast in the 2003 version. In Brotherhood, it's never revealed who it was they\nreally brought back. So in either case, they did gain the body they tried to\nrevive. In the '03 version, Alphonse did not gain anything because he lost his\nbody, so Edward was the one to gain from the transmutation, and when he\ntransmutated his leg, he gained back Al's soul, since it was still being taken\nby the gate. Maybe souls take longer to breakdown, so he was able to pull it\nback, and anchor it to the armor. So, that's what Ed gained for that\ntransmutation.\n\nIn Brotherhood, it's the same, the boys did get something from the human\ntransmutation, but in this case, they got two things each. The creature from\nthe chemicals they'd used, and the Truth. But what they learned, probably\ncan't be measured in what they gave up. Since Alphonse was so young and eager\nto grow up, that could be why he lost his body. And since Edward was so proud\nof his Alchemy that he'd stand against life to gain back his mother, he lost\nhis leg, and maybe to be ironic, the truth took the last of his family since\nhe opposed Trisha's death so much. (those were just my thoughts there) In the\nend, both boys received the Truth as recompense for their bodies being lost,\nbut it's hard to say if Al gained more or not, since you can't really measure\nwhat he lost in measure to what he gained, which he didn't really get until\nlater on.\n\nOr maybe everything I said sounds like nonsense, either way, hoped this\nhelped.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-07T06:50:58.353", "id": "21372", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-07T06:51:50.667", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-07T06:51:50.667", "last_editor_user_id": "1587", "owner_user_id": "14314", "parent_id": "8679", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIn Brotherhood, it's alluded to in Episode 14 that Alphonse's soul was within\nthe body that he and Edward had created in an attempt to bring back their\nmother. Essentially, Alphonse lost his body to properly construct a new body\n(which was deformed because it didn't really have all the elements that make\nup a human) and Edward lost his leg in order to transmute Alphonse's soul into\nthat new body... and then Edward lost his arm to transmute Alphonse's soul\nbefore the deformed new body completely died, transferring it over to a suit\nof armor.\n\nNone of this is explained properly because you're meant to come to your own\nconclusions via context clues and theorycrafting. It's the mark of a good\nstory when people actually care so much about the protagonists' backstory.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-26T01:41:09.323", "id": "44399", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-26T01:41:09.323", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "37843", "parent_id": "8679", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThey did gain something. The fact remains the thing they get it was not in the\nexact form they wanted. \"Sometimes not everything is in our hands\", that is\nwhat the author's main idea was.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2018-01-26T14:08:48.800", "id": "44407", "last_activity_date": "2018-01-26T14:52:56.973", "last_edit_date": "2018-01-26T14:52:56.973", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "37847", "parent_id": "8679", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI don't think that Gintama, Pokemon and trope head mushrooms are related.\n\nThe reasons for each seem to be entirely different. Parasitic mushrooms exist\nin real world and that's where most of Pokemon character design inspiration\ncomes from. Gintama is an adventure where a \"parasite infection\" would be a\nnice plot point for a story to evolve around, and the \"sad mushroom\" trope\ndoesn't seem to be involved in either.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-16T14:36:17.930", "id": "8702", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-16T14:36:17.930", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "8688", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nThe parasitic mushroom comes from real life.\n[Cordyceps](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps)\n\n\n\nFrom <http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-\nimages/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/5/3/1336047375506/Zombie-ant-infected-with--\n001.jpg>\n\nThis fungus infects insect and uses them to breed. This is where Game Freak\ngot its inspiration for Parasect.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-04-09T18:58:36.923", "id": "20746", "last_activity_date": "2015-04-09T19:01:32.967", "last_edit_date": "2015-04-09T19:01:32.967", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "11760", "parent_id": "8688", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nno reason. it's a direction. \nThe measure is \"three-three-seven hand clap\"(san-san-nana-byoushi in\nJapanese). \nThere is no element that indicates the relevance of this direction in\n\"Seitokai Yakuindomo\".\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-01-23T08:05:06.960", "id": "18765", "last_activity_date": "2015-01-23T08:05:06.960", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "11336", "parent_id": "8690", "post_type": "answer", "score": -1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nArm bands in Japan, usually called as **red armband** , is worn as a method of\nidentification of team/group or organization (more on this at the end)\n\n> The red armband can have a very different connotation in Japanese culture\n> than in that of many other countries. The leader of any group might wear a\n> red armband, usually with the characters for the name of the organisation\n> written on it, as a symbol of his authority. Due to cultural diffusion, the\n> usage of the red armband by leftist political groups has spread to Japan as\n> well.\n\n_[Source](http://www.ehow.co.uk/facts_7431774_red-armband-significance.html)_\n\nThe link also has information on how it spread to Japan but that's out of the\nscope so I'm not including it here.\n\nKnown bands from the picture:\n\n\n\n1) Haruhi Suzumiya wears a band that reads [Brigade\nleader](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruhi_Suzumiya_\\(character\\)#Appearance)\n\n\n\n2) In Ousai (Private Academy featured in Seitokai Yakuindomo) [red\narmbands](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo)\nsignifies power, not leadership—students that enforces rules wear them.\n\n\n\n3) In Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, this band signifies the [Judgement\nCommittee](http://toarumajutsunoindex.wikia.com/wiki/Judgment)\n\nCouldn't find information regarding the fourth.\n\n* * *\n\nAlso, personally, in many Japanese Dramas I have seen working people wear such\nbands like the reporters, journalists, forensics and even the police officers\n(not red though, it's usually white in black text) so I'm guessing it's a way\nto tell who's from which organization.\n\n", "comment_count": 3, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-16T13:33:27.920", "id": "8701", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-24T04:26:32.407", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-24T04:26:32.407", "last_editor_user_id": "3364", "owner_user_id": "3364", "parent_id": "8691", "post_type": "answer", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nSeason 1 adapts volumes 1-6 while heavily omitting a lot of details,\ninteractions, and important scenes. Volume 6.5, bonus track excluded, is\ncondensed in episode 13. Presumably season 2 will adapt volumes 7-9.\n\nFrom: <https://kyakka.wordpress.com/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-24T16:09:35.200", "id": "21795", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-24T16:09:35.200", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "2376", "parent_id": "8693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nThe first season covers the first 6 volumes, and the second season will adapt\nvolumes 7-11.\n\nSource: <https://kyakka.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/oregairu-zoku-\nepisode-12-and-13-synopses/>\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-06-13T07:25:04.010", "id": "22399", "last_activity_date": "2015-06-13T07:25:04.010", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": "4164", "parent_id": "8693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to [Japanese\nWikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%82%84%E3%81%AF%E3%82%8A%E4%BF%BA%E3%81%AE%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A1%E3%81%AF%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A1%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82&oldid=74913452#%E5%90%84%E8%A9%B1%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88),\n**season 1 covers volume 1-6 + 6.5 + 7.5** and **season 2 covers 7-11 +\n10.5**. Note that the light novel has already passed over volume 12.\n\n> Season 1\n>\n> * Episode 1-3: Volume 1\n> * Episode 4-5: Volume 2\n> * Episode 6: Volume 3\n> * Episode 7-8: Volume 4\n> * Episode 9-10: Volume 5\n> * Episode 11-12: Volume 6\n> * Episode 13 (extra): Volume 6.5\n> * OVA: Volume 7.5\n>\n\n>\n> Season 2\n>\n> * Episode 1-2: Volume 7\n> * Episode 3-5: Volume 8\n> * Episode 6-10: Volume 9\n> * Episode 10-11: Volume 10\n> * Episode 12-13: Volume 11\n> * OVA: Volume 10.5\n>\n\n* * *\n\nAlso, consider reading [Did OreGairu anime adapt the Light Novel\nclosely?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/28489) for further information\nregarding the anime adaptation.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2018-04-16T15:42:23.233", "id": "46596", "last_activity_date": "2021-01-18T05:48:19.350", "last_edit_date": "2021-01-18T05:48:19.350", "last_editor_user_id": "2516", "owner_user_id": "2516", "parent_id": "8693", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nThe most significant difference is that the TV series includes, in episode 10,\nan important battle from the manga of Girge and the Spartans. Otherwise, the\nTV series is just a generally better edited version of the films with the\nfollowing (non-exhaustive) changes:\n\n * All audio is `2.0` channels rather than `5.1` like the movies.\n * The order of some scenes during the negotiation in the first film were rearranged for a better and more linear flow.\n * Scenes like a passer-by remarking on Sigyn's blushing face (first film) and the monologues of newly appointed [Mileni Team members](http://breakblade.wikia.com/wiki/Mileni_Team) (fourth film) were removed.\n * A short [TV special](https://myanimelist.net/anime/30573/Break_Blade__Virgins_War) (Virgin's War) is included in the Blu-ray Box release of the TV series, because Nike died differently than in the films. It's supposed to be watched after episode 10.\n * There are also [6 short voice-acted picture dramas](https://anidb.net/anime/10426#episodes) included in the Blu-ray Box release adding some filler-style stories.\n * Some scenes were played in like 1.25x speed, especially those from the sixth film.\n * Music was added, changed or delayed for the scenes after Cleo shot at Rygart (third film), when Cleo was changing clothes for the sleeping Sigyn (fourth film), and when Girge appeared on a cliff and smirked before diving off to attack Nike (fourth film), respectively.\n * New OP and ED songs and animations.\n\nOriginally, a spinoff OVA centering around the past of the Golem Delphine and\nits mysterious creation was\n[planned](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-02-02/broken-blade-films-\nupdated-for-tv-with-spinoff-ova-in-the-works), but sadly it had been\n[cancelled](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-12-28/broken-blade-\nrobot-original-video-anime-cancelled/.110414).\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creation_date": "2017-07-06T21:28:22.227", "id": "41233", "last_activity_date": "2023-10-18T09:02:43.230", "last_edit_date": "2023-10-18T09:02:43.230", "last_editor_user_id": "19699", "owner_user_id": "8486", "parent_id": "8694", "post_type": "answer", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nResurrections, a method of human transmutation, only has a problem with the\nsoul. Since it is gone, you cannot call it back. Think of it like a chemical\nchange, e.g. burning paper, you cannot restore it. The only real successful\nattempts of human transmutations are the homunculi though, but they still need\nsouls too. To make up for the lack thereof, they run on Philosopher's Stones,\nwhich incidentally is made from trapped souls.\n\nSo Human Transmutation is possible. Just not all methods will achieve desired\nintent.\n\nThis is really simplified from memory of the show but should get the point\nacross.\n\nEDIT: PS: Alchemy is still used medicinally. You could argue that without\nTruth punishing people attempting to reclaim souls that at best they would\njust craft human shells or fresh corpses (as weird as that sounds). Remember,\nthis is basically high-speed 3D printing.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-16T11:00:21.323", "id": "8700", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-16T11:05:40.480", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-16T11:05:40.480", "last_editor_user_id": "2364", "owner_user_id": "2364", "parent_id": "8699", "post_type": "answer", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n**Shinigami, or death gods, rule the world of Death Note. A shinigami's\npurpose in life is to kill humans to extend their own lifespan, through the\nuse of a death note.**\n\nWell, as you have already noticed, there are many different definitions of\nshinigami. The word is usually translated as **\"god of death\"** , so you can\nthink of them like grim reapers. And since the word **\"grim reaper\"** is also\nused for a variety of things, you can see how this can get interesting. There\nis no set definition for what a shinigami is, so the writers of different\nshows can just make things up. For your story, you get to decide whether you\nhave to die to become a shinigami, and you get to decide whether certain\npeople become shinigami.\n\nIn Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, the word Shinigami is used to refer to a character\nwhose friends and family kept dying. It's a really loose word.\n\nBut if you're asking specifically about Death Note.... In Death Note, the\nshinigami do not have to die and they are not people who have become\nshinigami. The manga doesn't really go into the history of the shinigami, but\nit is implied that they have been shinigami for the entirety of their\nexistence.\n\nOne of many stories about Shinigami coming to existence is :\n\n> > The Shinigamis become how they are because they commited suicide and as\n> punishment they have to collect souls. If a shinigami fully remembers his or\n> her past life before becoming a full shinigami, he or she disappears and\n> becomes a ghost. They become full shinigamis by collecting their first soul.\n> Personally, I think this is more easy to understand.\n\n", "comment_count": 7, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T15:41:49.893", "id": "8732", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-17T22:07:23.227", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-17T22:07:23.227", "last_editor_user_id": "2213", "owner_user_id": "4250", "parent_id": "8705", "post_type": "answer", "score": -2 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nHmmm maybe... **[Ninku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninku)**? \nThe protagonist is \"rather smaller ninja\". \nAnd in this pic he does \"make a \"ball\" using his palm\" and seems like he will\nthrow it. \n\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T03:59:09.383", "id": "8710", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-17T03:59:09.383", "last_edit_date": null, "last_editor_user_id": null, "owner_user_id": null, "parent_id": "8707", "post_type": "answer", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nNow it was a long time ago from when I watched the series but from what I\nremember, in the first episode Charmander appears in, Ash finds him injured\n(or at least very sick) in the middle of the road. Ash and his party then\nrescue him. After taking Charmander to Nurse Joy (I think, they take him to\nsomeone at least), they explain that the fire on Charmander's tale represents\nhis health. The stronger the flame, the more healthy and strong he is and\nvice-versa. And yes, I do remember that he does indeed die once the flame went\nout completely, which was explained in that episode as well.\n\nI'm sorry if the answer isn't 100% accurate but it has been about 15 years\nsince I seen this episode.\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T10:22:28.797", "id": "8724", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-27T18:31:59.710", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-27T18:31:59.710", "last_editor_user_id": "11083", "owner_user_id": "4186", "parent_id": "8708", "post_type": "answer", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's the other way around. Charmander is likely to be dead soon if his flame\nis about to go out on itself. As you may know already, the strength of the\nflame on his tail represents his health level.\n\nI've read about this subject many times before on the net, and I think there\nwas a bit about if you were to extinguish Charmander's tail fire while he's\nhealthy, it would simply light up again shortly afterwards. So his tail fire's\nkinda like a trick candle that doesn't go out (if you remember those from your\nchildhood).\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T21:10:51.633", "id": "8736", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-21T18:43:39.177", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-21T18:43:39.177", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "191", "parent_id": "8708", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nIt's possible that as a Fire type Pokemon, Charmander is cold blooded and\nneeds a high core temperature to live. As a result, if the flame goes out and\nisn't rekindled, its body cools at a rapid rate, eventually stopping its\nheart.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-05-16T22:32:01.997", "id": "9762", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-08T15:25:21.670", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T15:25:21.670", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "4919", "parent_id": "8708", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to\n[Charmander](http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Charmander_%28Pok%C3%A9mon%29)\narticle on Bulbapedia:\n\n> A fire burns at the tip of this Pokémon’s slender tail, and has blazed there\n> since Charmander’s birth. The flame can be used as an indication of\n> Charmander's health and mood, burning brightly when the Pokémon is strong,\n> weakly when it is exhausted, wavering when it is happy, and blazing when it\n> is enraged. It is said that Charmander dies if its flame goes out.\n\n**Charmander's flame is an indicator to his remaining life force.**\n\nSo, saying \"Charmander dies if its flame goes out\" would be like saying \"A\nhuman dies if he blows his last breath\". Dying and having no flame would\nbasically be equivalent statements. So even if Squirtle gets high, squirts all\nover Charmander's tail and the flame goes out for a second, Charmander\nwouldn't die and the flame would come out again if he was still healthy.\n\nHaving water on his tail will probably cause him a lot of pain and\ncontinuously being exposed to this torture could make him faint or die, but it\nwould be because his health would drop and thus the flame would become\nsmaller. Vice-versa, if you could somehow bind a lighter to its tail with\ninfinite gas, Charmander wouldn't become invincible, even though his flame\nwould never die out.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-06-09T15:41:30.777", "id": "11178", "last_activity_date": "2015-08-27T17:30:01.950", "last_edit_date": "2015-08-27T17:30:01.950", "last_editor_user_id": "274", "owner_user_id": "6166", "parent_id": "8708", "post_type": "answer", "score": 13 }, { "body": "\n\nAccording to \"The Science of Pokemon\" on Tumblr, a charizard's tail flame\nkeeps it warm. Without the flame, the charizard will basically freeze to\ndeath, because it has no other way to generate enough body heat to keep it\nalive. It's because the flame isn't just at the tip of charizard's tail. It\nburns inside of it's body, because of a stream of gas that passes through him.\nIt seem like the tail flame is the flame that keeps the rest of the gas lit,\nso if it goes out, the rest of the fire inside goes out, too. It does indicate\nthe health and emotions of charizard, too, but I think that's more of a side\neffect than something really important.\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-03-21T18:32:05.680", "id": "20226", "last_activity_date": "2015-03-21T18:37:21.583", "last_edit_date": "2015-03-21T18:37:21.583", "last_editor_user_id": "13349", "owner_user_id": "13349", "parent_id": "8708", "post_type": "answer", "score": -3 }, { "body": "\n\nGeneration one Pokedex entry.\n\n> Obviously prefers hot places. When it rains, steam is said to spout from the\n> tip of its tail.\n\nSo unless it's dying, it can lose its tail flame temporarily, which will later\ncome back.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2015-05-07T20:52:12.533", "id": "21383", "last_activity_date": "2015-05-08T15:34:57.153", "last_edit_date": "2015-05-08T15:34:57.153", "last_editor_user_id": "1398", "owner_user_id": "14323", "parent_id": "8708", "post_type": "answer", "score": 1 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\nI've been searching for this, all I could find was:\n\nIt's true: \"Jiraiya, who took a special interest in Minato and took him on as\nan apprentice, amongst other things teaching him the Summoning Technique and\nsenjutsu.\"\n\nAs more: \"In his youth, Jiraiya taught Minato how to use the Summoning\nTechnique to summon toads. He was able to summon Gamabunta, showing\nconsiderably proficiency in this technique as he was one of the few people\nthat Gamabunta would willingly cooperate without hesitation.\"\n\nWe also know that: \"Before an animal summoning can be performed, a prospective\nsummoner must first sign a contract with a given species.\"\n\nPlus: \"Not much is known about Minato's relationship with the toads but\napparently he was well-respected among them. His only known summons were\nGamabunta and Gerotora.\"\n\nFrom all of this I can deduce that, or it's something tricky, and since\nthere's no need for a contract (at the willingly cooperate part/well respected\nthing, or maybe just because Minato was a prodigy), or is a plot-hole, and the\nanimators or Kishi put an accent on Jiraiya and Naruto at the scroll scene and\nmaybe forgetting about Minato.\n\n", "comment_count": 0, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-17T15:54:06.630", "id": "8733", "last_activity_date": "2016-12-08T12:54:50.020", "last_edit_date": "2016-12-08T12:54:50.020", "last_editor_user_id": "8486", "owner_user_id": "3187", "parent_id": "8725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 2 }, { "body": "\n\nI would recommend you to refer to this\n[**site**](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Team_Jiraiya).It explains that Minato\nwas Jiraiya's student and Jiraiya took special interest in him.\n\n> This group was the genin team led by one of the Legendary Sannin: Jiraiya\n> some time after he left the Ame Orphans and returned to Konohagakure. Its\n> only known member is Minato Namikaze, who Jiraiya took special interest in.\n> Minato would later become the Fourth Hokage. The names of the other two\n> members, as well as their status, are unknown.\n\n\n\nFrom this I can speculate that Jiraiya taught him Frog summoning technique\n\n", "comment_count": 2, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-04-26T06:27:56.363", "id": "8910", "last_activity_date": "2014-04-27T12:43:33.133", "last_edit_date": "2014-04-27T12:43:33.133", "last_editor_user_id": "3081", "owner_user_id": "3081", "parent_id": "8725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 }, { "body": "\n\nYes, Jiraya taught the Summoning Jutsu to Minato Namikaze.\n\n[code]\n\n Jiraya was the sensei of Minato, and its observed in some episodes of the anime that Jiraya taught him many jutsu including the the Summoning Jutsu, though the training is not directly shown .\n Jiraya was used to be the carrier of the Scroll of Blood Contract, after he earned the \n \n[/code]\n\ntrust of the toads.\n\n[code]\n\n Since, Jiraya took special interest in his student, so he entrusted the Summoning Jutsu technique with minato to make him more powerful in combat. \n \n Also, the toads especially Fukusaku respect both Jiraya and Minato and once was quoted saying \" Naruto has surpassed both of 'em the Student(Minato) and his Master(Jiraya) \".\n \n[/code]\n\nSo maybe in training with toads, Jiraya may have helped Minato @Mount\nMiyoboku. Hence, he must've taught minato the technique.\n\n* * *\n\nAlso, the order in which their names appear on the script may not be known or\nquoted anywhere in the anime. Maybe that is due to the fact that if someone\ndies beyond the scope of reanimation jutsu, his( toad or human) name vanishes\nfrom the script\n\n(Ref- Anime episode when Pain attack Hidden Leaf Village, and Danzo kills the\nMessenger Frog. Other frog inform Ma Frog that the name of the Messenger frog\nhas vanished from the scroll.)\n\nHence, Minato's name would have been written in the blank space created so....\n\n", "comment_count": 1, "content_license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creation_date": "2014-10-25T07:36:35.173", "id": "14655", "last_activity_date": "2014-10-25T09:58:25.630", "last_edit_date": "2014-10-25T09:58:25.630", "last_editor_user_id": "8857", "owner_user_id": "8857", "parent_id": "8725", "post_type": "answer", "score": 0 } ]